Joe Rogan - Opie & Anthony Got Me Into Podcasting!

Pay on that. I had a similar idea. Anthony Kumeya, we're alive, sir. I love it. Joe Rogan. If it was not for you... Oh my god. This would not exist. Which is insane. That is a hundred percent actual fact. I was watching you doing live from the compound. Me and Brian Redband were sitting in my fucking living room. And we were watching you. You were fucking playing karaoke. You were singing karaoke with a machine gun in front of a green screen. I was like, this guy just set up his own studio. Like he already has Opie and Anthony's show. At the time you guys were on Sirius XM. And he just decided to do this thing in your basement just for a goof. Yeah, it was like a hobby. But it's like guys who don't have kids, who are not married, don't have kids, don't have anybody telling them what to do. And they also have disposable income. Then you get to see what guys really want to do. They want to sing karaoke with a machine gun in front of a green screen. Yeah, it was crazy gun guy karaoke. So I could do that. If I was married, I would have a wife that would lose her mind at my living room. Like my living room table that you're supposed to have a candle on and little chachkies and stuff is a widescreen computer monitor. And a gaming system right next to the table. I have a gaming computer that's just unbelievable. And I sit there and just play video games. So the table itself is a gaming monitor? Yeah, the whole table. Well, it's a touchscreen ones. No, it's a giant wide monitor. It's like 40 inches wide. So that's the table. No, it's on the table. Oh, on the table. The table is big heavy metal thing. But it's just everything. There's VR goggles up on the console by the TV. It's just sensors around the room for the VR. It's a playground. And you're absolutely right. Guys will spend their money on having fun if allowed to. That's what this place is. This place is insane. I can't do this in my house. You go to my house. It's my wife's house. See, that's how it works. I have one elk head on the wall. That's all I have. That's all you're allowed. I laugh at guys when they have the the man cave. Yeah, like dude, come on down to the man cave. The chicks aren't allowed down here. I got this the TV that and I'm like, no, you her place is the whole house. She relegated you to one room and go and you're happy about it. You're happy that you got one room. Happy wife. Happy life. That's apparently it. It didn't work. It didn't work for me. You know, the thorough quote that I say way too many times in this podcast, but I love the quote. Most men live lives of silent desperation. Wow. Yeah, that is true. It's a hundred percent true. It was I was married for a time and it was it was a nightmare. It was a living hell for me. The only thing that got me through as many years as I was married because I was married nine years and I don't remember one happy year out of those nine, but I had gotten into radio pretty early on in that marriage and that was my life. So I dedicated myself no matter how miserable anything else in my life was. I was doing radio. So I thought it was awesome. I have a theory about that. I really do. I think that a person needs a certain amount of suffering in their life. And if you look at some of the all-time great comics or even all-time great radio personalities like Howard Stern, Howard Stern during his heyday when he was the fucking man was miserable at home. Right. He would talk about it. He would hide in his basement. I love those stories. You realize like here's this guy. He's the you know, the biggest radio personality ever. He's huge and yet he's got to hide and he's just talking about masturbating and hiding from his wife and he can't get any sex and you're like, it didn't matter if he was huge. It didn't matter if he was famous. Didn't matter how rich he was. Didn't matter. Yeah, he's just hiding in the basement and that angst came out on the radio like you related to him. You understood it. Yeah. Yeah, I get that and it worked for me because there was a lot of misery like when I started doing really well, we moved back to New York from from Boston after we got fired. Opie and myself. You guys got fired for saying that the mayor died. Is that what happened? Yeah, it was April Fool's gag and because we always thought the the radio April Fool's jokes were so stupid and hokey and yeah, we change the format to all Elvis and it's like after 10 minutes, they say April Fool's. So we're like, let's just go balls out and say the mayor's dead and have a news guy come on and report it and everything and then it was supposed to subsequently get more outrageous as the the the show went on. So by the end of it, there was a Taiwan male hooker in the car with him and they crashed because he was getting a blowjob or so like it was going to get really ridiculous, but they stopped it early on and never allowed us to even mention it. So people really thought he died. Although it's kind of stupid. You go to the ONA show for your news. But back then the internet wasn't what it is now. Exactly. Yeah, the inner was it even it was barely a thing. It was barely a thing because that was 90 97 around there 98. What year did you get on? You probably earlier. I was on really early like the 80s. I was on bulletin board service and used to play trivia games with a 300 baud modem with people and I thought it was amazing even then and then in in the when we were up in Boston, I bought a digital camera that was just this giant thing and I had a laptop another giant thing and I would take pictures of what was going on in the studio and then post them that night on a website that I figured out I used to code the HTML myself and make a website just to post pictures and links and people thought it was amazing. Like you're seeing what we talked about that day. It wasn't instant, but it was pretty cool. And then I started doing videos. I was able to put video like maybe eight second clips of nude girls if they were in the studio and pop that up and people loved it and then I got a bill from the company for bandwidth and I didn't know bandwidth. It was a $12,000 bill for a month. Yeah, yeah, because I there was no there was no compression or anything. I'm pumping video out to thousands of people uncompressed and apparently they had that happen a couple of times. So they told me just don't do it again. They didn't make me pay, which was pretty cool. But at that point I had to learn about, you know, coding and a compression and things like that. So you just kept doing it and just just put them in some sort of a compressed format. Yeah. Yeah. What did you would you use your member back then? Oh God, I think it was like for audio. It was real audio, which was hilarious. That's right. The little player. Yeah, the little player. Real audio player would pop up and then for video. God, I can't even remember what it was, but it was terrible. It was all pixelated, you know, like 10 frames per minute. Kind of weird that things like real audio, which was everywhere. Just yeah, they just quit. Yeah, they gave up around still unless they changed into something else, you know, or got bought out by somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that happens to everything. But honestly, if it was not for you and your show live from the compound and for Opie and hilarious because Opie and Anthony was the first radio show that I would wear. I ever realized you don't really have to have a format.