Joe Rogan - Opie and Anthony Got Me Into Podcasting

Like you almost have to have this where people can see it to do it. Mm-hmm. Because otherwise you'd check your phone, I'd check my phone, get up and go to the bathroom. It's like it would be a normal thing to do. But by putting these headphones on and by having this microphone in front of our face, we lock in. I know that how many million people are gonna be watching it. Oh, fuck those. And it's more every week. It's growing in a weird way like a fucking mold. It's amazing. Strange. But this is the only way we would have this conversation. And it's made me far better at talking to people and understanding conversations and understanding what they are. And also examining my own speech patterns and the way I communicate and getting better at it. I like how you said you started it just because you wanted to talk to people. Yeah. Like I think that's what it should be. It should just be that interest in having a conversation. Well, I used to like doing radio when I was a guest. Uncertain radio shows, like you do like if I was going to go to Phoenix or something like that, I would go do stand up there. I would have to promote it on the radio in the old days. And I would get there and I would get there early and smoke a joint beforehand, drink a cup of coffee, get in and start talking shit and having a good time and laughing. I'd be like, that'd be fun to have a radio show, man. You know, just go in there and just talk and have fun. But the problem was to me, it was like always a censorship. I was like, oh, you like you got to censor yourself. Then I started doing the Opie and Anthony show and Opie and Anthony had a show on, you know, was first it was exam, then it became serious and then they split up. But when I would do that, it was Opie and Anthony and Jim Norton. I was like, this is the best. This is so fun. And the way they did it credit to them, the way they did it was different than any radio show had ever been a part of because it was no structure at all. They would just bring comics in. It would just be me and Ari Shafir and Bill Burr and Joey Diaz and all these guys. They would just come in and hang out and talk shit. There was no structure at all. It was just Anthony is such a smart and funny guy and Opie would sort of run the thing and and Jim was there and they would just let everybody talk. And I'd be like, this would be amazing. You just come in and hang out and have fun. And then then I started doing a podcast after that. But it was because of that. And then Anthony did a thing called Live from the Compound. He calls his house the compound and he did like this thing in his basement where he had a green screen and he did his own show and he did karaoke while he was holding a machine guy. He's fucking crazy. Anthony's like a legit gun nut. But he had a studio that he built in his basement, like with like legitimate equipment. And I went, oh, and that inspired me. And that that is literally what started me off to do a podcast, a scene that he had set this up in his basement. And I was like, well, just fucking just start doing it.