Joe Rogan | The Truth About Living in Hawaii w/Gabrielle Reece

Well, I've been really fascinated by the life that you guys live in Hawaii. That you, it's because I've always had this like idealized, like one day, like move to the Big Island, just chill on the side of a mountain, stop fucking around, fly out to do gigs, but live out there where everything's just more relaxed. Yeah. You know, is it okay? You know, there's a lot going on and like the Big Island is obviously big. That's a city. Yeah, no, it's big. Not the Big Island. Oahu has, it's sort of like LA on the beach, but you know, there's a couple things. I think because it is a primal environment, like we live on Kauai, which is pretty heavy duty as far as it's quiet. There's not a lot of distraction. There's a really heavy duty nature. And so, and I grew up in St. Thomas on the Virgin Island, so I was used to kind of being on an island, but you're with yourself a lot. So if you have things to do that are, you know, productive, then it's perfect. But what you have to always calibrate is like the downtime or it like, it's been raining off and on for like over a year on Kauai. Whoa. Yeah. So after a while, it'd be like Seattle in that way where people, it starts getting heavy. But it's sunny too, right? It can be. The weirdest thing about the islands is that there's different climates on this island. The Big Island has desert. It has tropical rainforest. It has a volcano. It has all this shit. It has snow. It has every, I think it has every weather climate except Arctic. I believe at least Maui and the Big Island have sort of every type of climate. It's crazy that just a little bit further down, it'll be different. It'll be raining constantly. Yeah, exactly. You just go to the other side and it's completely dry or they have dwarf trees because they never see the sun, but then they're, you know, 200 feet in the places that it's sunny. It's pretty trippy. And you could drive around the whole thing. And like how many hours does it take you to drive around the Big Island? Oh, the Big Island? I don't know, like four hours or something like that? The whole thing. I think so. That's crazy. Maybe a little more. Yeah. You like the Big Island. Love it. Interesting. I like Maui. You do? That's my favorite. Every island's different. I've been in the beach for over 23 years when I met Laird. He was big waves sort of come in winter. So when low pressures bring snow, like to the rest of the mainland, that low pressure can also bring big waves. And then my season was summer, so we sort of went back and forth and that's a really good blend. Because you can come to California and be like, oh, it's a busy world. I can see a lot of people. I can learn stuff. I can do stuff. And then I also makes you appreciate. When you go back to Hawaii, you're like clean air, really clean water, very beautiful place. Some of the ways, the ideas about the way they live there, it's simple in a good way. I don't mean that in any way, like a derogatory. It's like they're not trying to, they're not angling and trying to get somewhere. It's like, no, we're living. Right. But it can be also a really hard place. A really hard place. How so? Well I think, and you're also talking about a warrior culture, right? Polynesians. So you have like this very intense love and when they talk about the aloha spirit, generosity, like this, and then they're very powerful people as well. And sometimes if they're not living in their most natural way that they were supposed to, then you couple it with, you know, there's not a ton of opportunities there. It's hard to live there. It's far away. It's expensive. And sometimes, you know, it sounds cliche, but it's like we really do as human organisms either need to be busy. So like, okay, working from sunup to sundown for our food, which is how it used to be. And then you're just so tired, you just go to bed and it's pretty simple and let's just survive it. Or in the world that we live in now, it's like, how do we get people doing things that are kind of productive? And you think, oh, I just would sit on the beach and look at the mountain. And it's like, yeah, and after a while you get bored. And if you're a warrior, you're either going to go, you know, do something with that that is good for you or you might not. So I think there's a lot of that there. I've learned a lot from that culture, but I mean, they're a pretty powerful group. And you know, it can go the other way pretty quick where it's, you know, if there's drugs and alcohol or, you know, beefing and like, it's all that. So it's... Yeah, that was really disturbing when I found out how much drug abuse there is on some of the islands. Yeah, crystal meth especially. Yeah, sad. Well, it's again, it goes back to boredom. Like think about when your kids have to stay home for one day. Yep. You know, it's just, and now we have all these, the internet and all this stuff. So now you sort of think, oh, the rest of the world has a perfect, they're all busy and doing fabulous, perfect things. And it's hard. Like you got to find people that you're like, let's do something. Let's go. I mean, can you train alone every single time? No. So you'd have to have a tribe of people that are like, let's go do this activity. And sometimes they don't, it's not that easy. Well, so there's, you say there's 70,000 people on the island? On Kauai. It's probably the least inhabited. It's the oldest island. So it has the most erosion, largest beaches. And that's where Lérie grew up. And it's a really... Well, now it's the least inhabited of the islands, isn't it? Well, yeah. I mean, it's not that I don't count it. Yeah. I mean, of the bigger islands. Right, right, right. Yeah, Molokai, man, you wouldn't, you don't mess with Molokai. No? No, that's like, that's like, you got to ask permission to go hang out over there. Really? Yeah, it's cool though. Because it's like, if they'd be like, no, you gotta, you're out, you gotta go. Really? Totally. It's great. So it's just the people that live there. You can't like move to Molokai. Yeah, I mean, like, Eddie Vedder has a place on Molokai. Does he? Yep. And it has had for many, many years, but I think he probably asked if that was going to be cool. Oh, wow. That's interesting. Yeah. And it's beautiful. Yeah, I have some friends that just went hunting there. Yeah, beautiful. Yeah, they hunted axis deer. On Molokai. Yeah, it's a beautiful place and the people are amazing, but you, it's not like, oh, I'm just going to buy a house there. Right. Or build a house. There's no way. No way? No way. Wow. That's interesting that they all, these different islands have their own like rules. Well, Nihi'au is, you can't even, you can't go there. You're not even allowed to go. No. I didn't even know that was an island. Yeah, it's off of Kauai. Can I say it again? Nihi'au? Nihi'au. Wow. Get rid of that? Jamie's a big fan of Nihi'au. Yeah. He looks like he's been to Nihi'au. Wow. No, they have, it's all like, they probably have the, you know, the largest percentage of pure, of Hawaiians there. Interesting. So it's cool. I mean, pretty cool. That's got to be a great view. Like I found that like there's a big difference between the culture of say Maui versus the culture of Lanai. Lanai is more islandy to me, whereas Maui seems like a little bit gentrified. Well, also the wind, because Maui's so windy. Yes. So you have Europeans in the 80s to windsurf. So you also have not only mainland US and then Japanese culture, you know, 80s, now you're talking about Europeans from wind and windsurfing. So it has a lot going on. I think Maui, it was almost like a surprise how quick it developed and they never had a chance to get on top of it. Oh, that's interesting. If that makes sense. That does make sense. Yeah.