There’s One Thing Joe Rogan Won’t Do High

But do you see people at those mid-hill, mid-hill, like, lodges? Dude. Blit chugging beer. Yeah, no one stops you. Nope. No one stops you from that. No one stops you from taking mushrooms. My friend Aubrey takes mushrooms before he skis. That's crazy. Maybe he does better. I'll take mushrooms after we ski back at the house. Maybe take a little bit and you'll be better. Maybe a tiny bit. I'll take a little hit. I'll take, I'll get, I'll get a little high, but like, I can't get, I don't want to get fucked up and feel like I'm not in control. When I play pool, high, I'm better. I'm like one ball better. Yeah, do you think it's a performance enhancing drug? 100%. It is, huh? Yeah. So what do you think about its way in professional sports? Jiu-jitsu as well. It is for jiu-jitsu, too. What about, like, what about basketball and baseball and soccer? I don't play basketball, but I would imagine it's similar to pool and that it's a feel thing. Like, you're feeling where the ball goes. You have a certain sensitivity to jiu-jitsu. So you think it should be illegal for professional sports? No. No. I don't think it should be illegal because it's like, it doesn't make you faster or stronger. I think those are the things that should make you illegal. But I think you could be just as focused without it, but for certain people, it enhances your focus. It kind of gives you tunnel vision. So that's what I'm saying. That's the argument is they'd say that could be an advantage. I could see you would say that it's an advantage. It's a delicate. I am better at jiu-jitsu when I'm high. I really do believe that. Like, you perform better. Yes, I perform. I feel better. I feel like I'm more intuitive. I understand positions better. I understand where I'm going better. You ever lift weights high? Yes. I love it. You know what's funny? I hate running high. Really? Like, a lot of people like to get high and run. I love it. No, see, I can lift weights high, but running high, I don't. It's not my favorite. Really? Yeah. Yoga. Yoga high. Oh, my god. OK, so that makes more sense. It's the best. You feel like every fiber of your muscles, you feel things stretching. You feel where you're pushing too hard, like where things are starting to pop. You feel it. Yeah, your balance feels good. Like, the runners high I get from running alone, I just feel like it's its own kind of wonderful little drug. Right. But lifting, because I'm such an ADD guy, that lifting is easily distractable. You know, you're like, there's so much to do in the gym, and so many, you're like, what am I doing next? I feel it, man. I feel it. Like, when I'm doing chin-ups, when I'm high, it just feels. No, yeah. I know. I like it. I like lifting high. There it is. Just baked out of your fucking mind. What's the one thing you won't do high? What? Oh, commentate on the UFC. Have you done it before? Yes. And you were high, and you fucked up? I don't like it. I don't like it. Did you eat shit? No, I didn't. But this is my worry. I've never done it really high. My worry is that I wouldn't want to talk about the fights. I'd want to talk about other things. It just turned into this. It would just turn into a pocket. Yeah, it's a boring fight. First of all, it would be extremely disrespectful if all these people who have dedicated months of their life and years of their life training and preparing, and here they are in the UFC, and I barely paid attention to the fight. I'm subject to not pay attention if I'm high. I get that. If I'm high, I could pay attention to the fucking lighting. I'd be like, how weird is it that this lighting thing is above our head? It's like 1,000 pounds, and I never even thought about it. Yeah, and it could fall in the name and not an accident. How many people have died? I'd be like, how many people have died from lighting? They'd be like, Joe, there's a fight going on right now. I know, I know. But this fight's going on all the time. DC is like, thank you for the lighting tips, Joe. We're going to go right back to the fight. People would be angry at me. It's a dick move. That's like certain people can be really baked on stage. I can be a little high, but I can't get too high and get on stage. I don't like it. I just feel like my performance lacks. It's really weird. Writing, like the other side of it, is enjoyable high. Like I love creating and writing and making high, but performing high, not my favorite shit. Tell you where it's the best to be super high. That stand up on the spot show, Jeremiah Walken show. Oh, yeah. Well, yes. Well, let's create. Well, it's all improv. It's all right. Complete improvisation, high as a kite. But that's because it's almost like a win-win. That thing is like even if you're not really coming up with shit that you like, it's still in the moment of fun. All of it is in the mood of fun. But when you're in the main room, performing, fuck that. How about when you're doing a fucking arena? No, can't. No way. I mean, we've gotten a little high before big shows. Yes, we have. Yeah. It's fun. I can't get ripped. No. If I'm ripped, I'm not focused. I've gotten ripped. The most ripped I've ever gotten is before podcasts. In the early days of podcasting, we were talking about this the other day. And I would be in the middle of talking not knowing what the fuck I was talking about. Yeah. And I'd be like, wait a minute. That's not right. What? What am I saying? What am I even saying? There were so many podcasts that if I look back on these cringy moments of things that I said, I was like, I was so high, I barely knew what I was talking about. Right. It was the