Joe Rogan on TV Personalities Trying to Copy Anthony Bourdain

I remember I tested for a reality show on Food Network and they had me on set for about an hour and they were like, yeah, this is not. I said I said like three things into the camera and they go, none of this will ever, this is not going to work. What did you say? Well, they were just basically like, it was called hot spots and they're like, tell us what you think a hot spot is. What's a real cool hot spot? And I was just like, a hot spot is when I try to get into it, the matri D tells me to kill myself. And then they go, okay, well, let's do the joke again, but let's not say kill yourself. I'm like, well, that's the joke, right? So they're like, just maybe say something like when I try to get in, they say no. And I'm like, but that's not funny. So then we just tried to work around it a bunch of different ways and I would just keep saying things and you could tell they were just getting frustrated. Networks like Food Network love the idea of comedians. They're like, we love the idea of having a comedian come in to spice it up. And then when they get a real comedian, they're like, we don't want that. Well, they want to come a comedian with like three tracks. Yeah, they want like a real down the middle, a lot of lane changing because I was making fun of like we had all the archetypes of the Food Network. People like we had the fat southern woman that was supposed to be Paula Deen and she came in. She's like, have you ever had a redneck real cheese? And I said, this woman's going to explode on set and I could stay said you can be playful with each other. So I said, this woman's going to explode on set and they go, what do I do? I'm like, you said we could be playful. We had the Asian woman who was like, she just talked about wellness. She was like, we just I want to be whole and I want to be one and I want to be wellness. And then so every you know, you had the guy Fieri like, you know, there's a million chefs that think they're Bourdain. They think they're profound, but in reality, they're just making fucking grilled cheese and they have tattoos. But other than that, you know, so we had a bunch of those chefs who were like, I'm a hard party. I've seen it all. I've seen it all. I've worked on the line. It's like, shut up. You've made gnocchi. Dane with with kitchen confidential. He changed what a chef is. He changed what a chef is. But most chefs are not that and and the reality is is like you hear people now that travel around the country and they think that they're like, and I love board board. They didn't have a relationship, but sometimes board board and show was interesting because like he'd be sitting with a family in Turkey and they'd be like, well, we haven't seen our daughter in two days and we don't really know where she is. Revolution and then they would it would be like and then he would like they would start talking about hummus and I'd be like, what happened to your daughter? Like what's going on? Like why are we talking about figs right now? There's a revolution happening. This whole idea that like food like I think Bourdain was a genius, but the people that have succeeded him haven't done it. Well, is anybody doing it that way where they're traveling around the Gordon Ramsey? They were talking about him doing something, but the backlash was immediately right and fear. Yeah, because people were thinking that he was going to try to replace Bourdain. Right. He stays in his wheelhouse, his Hell's Kitchen and doing all those shows that he did before everybody would have been fine with that. Right. But they were like, hey, fuck you. He's going to come and come. Yeah, you need to imagine doing no reservations now or what is the new show? What was it? Parts Unknown. Parts Unknown. Was imagine it's like Parts Unknown with new host Tim Dillon. No, it would not work. I would be fucked. They would come get you. Yeah, no, it'd be a problem. And it's also like he was a really brilliant guy that like most people that like you're like, oh, we're eating food and learning about the culture. It's like you're really not. You're just having dinner. He actually was. He was because he was curious and interested, but most people that are like that are it's just a lot of people pretentious. Yeah, and they think that they're learning about the culture through food. We're learning about the culture through dining. It's like you're not really you're eating in a resort. You're not going anywhere outside of the resort because you would get harpooned. So you're eating in a resort and then there's a black SUV that takes you back to the airport like bulletproof. It's bulletproof arm guards flanking you on each side. You know, the one time that you didn't have that I was on the impractical Joker's cruise, which they have a cruise. They do a cruise and they're great guys and a bunch of comics came on to entertain people that were waiting to see them. People waiting to see them, but we would come on and go hey and they would they would think it was them and they'd be like, okay, it's this guy and they were fun audiences and everything. But then the cruise would dock and you would go to this little town in Mexico that was like clearly didn't exist. It was just like, you know, yeah, all these cruise lines had bought just a certain amount of beachfront and made it a town. Yeah, and they do this. It was called Costa Maya. They they literally do this and you know, you would walk onto this beach and then literally they would like drive you to the little tourist area, but you would just see people running around with bare feet roosters. I mean, it was like you would drive through like literal in crazy poverty and you felt horrible because you were just on a boat that had 30 chefs. Right. You were just on this disgusting boat with a 24 hour buffet where people are gorging themselves and then you go to this island where like people's bones are protruding out of their body. So it's a it's a weird. It's a weird thing when you mix those worlds of like food travel and you know, education.