Josh Homme Was Once Stung By a Scorpion | Joe Rogan

Well then also like the different environments that people live in sort of dictate their personality. Like you're a desert guy right? Yeah. You're from the desert. Yeah. What is that? Scorpion. I'm one of the few people I know that's been bit by one. Have you really? Yeah and as I... I was going up to Joshua Tree to this studio that's really just a house and... Was that the one that you guys showed in the thing you did with Bourdain? Yeah. Yeah. Rancho de la Luna. Yeah. And... But it's magic is what's missing. And I mean everywhere. Every... But... And all that's left is like... What if you just... When the tide receded it was just the idiosyncratic and the previously thrown away. Like all in reborn. You know it's just got that sort of feeling to it. Right? So... And so I was driving up there and I know... I'm a desert boy. I know that you're not supposed to... At night times when everything comes out. Right. Because in the day everyone is like, Ugh, really? I mean everything that walks or crawls is like... And so at night everyone... Everything that walks or crawls goes, Alright, let's go. Right. And so you wear shoes. If you do not wear shoes... You have made a mistake for sure. And as soon as we pull up to the Rancho in the dirt parking lot... I open up... I open up the door. I'm on the passenger side and I step out. And I go in to reach for a 12 pack of beer. And something hit me on the foot and I was like... And I lift my foot and there's this black... Well, dark brownish. Like a root berry brown scorpion hanging from my foot. Going, Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! And I was like... I think... It was like... AHHHH! Like a really butch gal... Who's been terrified for the first time. Like what? And I slapped it. And I slapped it off my foot because that's my knee jerk reaction. And as I did that, that's when I screamed and jumped... Like, you know... Like a mouse or something. In the car and in the door light of this... In the door light... This scorpion hit the ground. Like, shuffled itself, turned and came right at me. Whoa! And was sort of like... Fuck you! Wait till you see... It scared me to death. Came back at you. You imagine being that little, wanting to fuck up something as big as you. Well, you'd have to, right? You'd have... It wouldn't be... There would be no bravado at all. It would be like... Get it over! Yeah. Yeah. Like it would be a true believer, right? In that moment, I'm like, Fuck this thing. And it is 100% sure that it's gonna fuck me up. And it was right because what am I gonna do? Like, I'm gonna hit this stinger with my hands. Right? I just know... What was the pain like? Well, at that time, my understanding of scorpions was in our desert, Mojave, there's two types. And one which is like, you know, 24 hours of central nervous system shut down, so they can't even give you anything for the pain. Because the thing that regulates that gets like, turned off. And so you're just like... For 24 hours, you're in pain. That was my knowledge at that time. And the other one is akin to a beast thing. Which one did you get? Well, I had to like track back... This was before the internet. And so I go inside. And the remedy at that time, as Fred Drake, who, rest in peace, told me, was to drink Jack Daniels and put your foot in a bucket of hot, like burning hot water. Which is a little bit like having a horse on each leg and they take off in a different direction. Because they get the hottest water you can take and continue the pain. Like, it's such a wives tale, it's almost like a divorcee's tale or something. Right. So I did that and waited because I didn't know which one it was. Turns out that the 24 hours one lives in another desert, more close to Arizona. And that it's not quite as I've described. I'm just telling you what I thought at the time. Oh, right, right. And it was much like a beast thing. But by the time I realized that, and it swole up immediate and looked like it was going to keep going. Because it got to this golf ball so fast that it was like, when will this stop? Right, right. But it was like a beast thing, but by the time I discovered that, I was so drunk that beast thing schmies thing, you know. So you're just sitting there with your foot in a bucket of hot water getting hammered. No scalding. Scalding water. It was like, the hotter it is, the better. And I was like, ah, don't dump it. Imagine if the fucking real injury was you got third degree burns in your foot from the water and there was nothing wrong with the beat. How mad would you be? My friend said, the real remedy is you grab a shark and you... Stick it up your ass. And you totally forget about it. A buddy of mine was in South America and he got bit by a bullet ant. He got hit by a bullet ant on his heel and he said the pain was so bad, but it was so bewildering that after the pain was over, he couldn't figure out which foot got bit. Because your brain's going, like static. He said it's so confusing. The pain's so confusing. For hours. Do you think that, because any time I've seen that online where it's like, you know, I'm dingo piles and I let a bullet ant bite me, we're like, Jesus man, don't hang out with this person. Who's the one when they put in the glove? Yeah, like a handful. Yeah, it's like a ritual that young men have to do to reach the coming of age. Right, yeah. That's like jumping off on how Bungie was invented with no bunch or no boing. No boing. It's just rope. Just thunk. To be a man who jump up this thing and it's like, I'm starting to identify as a... Yeah, I wonder what the bullet ant thinks of all this if it's like, no, I can never make any friends. I don't want to hear you. Or what the fuck. I think that just violence in insect form. Don't you think that that's, if there ever was an alien, that would be, it would be easy to assume this little bullet ant in space that's just like, and then pushes so hard that there's two of them.