Why Joe Turned Down a Cameo in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

You know, I've been in here in jumps and spurts. Right. And in those jumps and spurts, you have become like the most powerful fucking broadcaster on the planet. Like crazy, popular everywhere. You can crack a smile. You know I'm writing shit. Well, it's... Don't go hard on it. No, it's weird. Why? Because it's... Well... Can't you enjoy it? Come on, motherfucker. I wanted to... Like my whole life, I wanted to be at the top of something. Really? You are at it. I was at the top of podcasts for like a minute back when we started and shit back in the old Fleshlight days. But like you are now beyond, you've transcended the fucking medium. You gotta tell me... Don't wince. You gotta tell me it feels good. Otherwise, what am I striving for in my career? And to be honest, I don't really strive if you've seen the shit I do. But like there is an idea of like, you know, oh man, at the top it must be amazing. And like no bullshit, you're absolutely at the top. You're fucking Snowden on your podcast, dude. Everything feels exactly the same but different. Explain. It's still fun. I still enjoy talking to people like you and I had my friend Kyle Kalinsky on earlier. I've had some really interesting people on. I've always enjoyed talking to interesting people. So that's the same. Everything's the same in that regard. It's different in that it's very obvious when I go places that it's having more of an impact. Because you're the same person, right? But the world changes. Like the impact. You put out the signal and the world sort of changes and shifts. More lovers, more haters, more this, more that. Everything just increases. It becomes more. Yeah, it becomes more. It becomes weird. People want to interview you. People want to do things and I don't do any of those things. Can I tell a quick story? Because I never want to cut you off because I could listen to you. You're just a shame and you're a guru. I love coming here and I have loved coming here. But now there's this different onus to it because it's like I better use my time wisely. Fucking Bernie Sanders is next. You know what I'm saying? Like it's nice. But this is how authentic Rogan is. So we're making Jay and Silent Bob reboot. And I reach out to like everybody I know about being in the movie. And you know, even the people that are like, oh man, I don't want to go to New Orleans. That's far. I'm like, you do remember I almost died of a fucking heart attack. You're like, all right, I'm coming. I'm guilty to like everybody in the coming. So Jordan, who's our producer, Jason Muse's wife, she runs our company. She's like, I reached out to Joe's manager and he said he's not interested. I was like, you know what? Let me handle this. Like I'll reach out to Joe. I got Joe on direct. I don't need a manager, man. So 10% are fucking getting between me and my boy and shit. So I fucking emailed their text to Joe and I was like, hey man, we're making reboot. Do you want to come play and just flat out on Front Street as true as he can be? He goes, I hate that acting shit. That's what you wrote. And you were like, I'm flatter, but I don't want to do that. He's like, I'll talk to you about it when it's done. I was like, all right. That's how authentic you are. You know you're in a place right now where you're like, can't fucking ruin my credibility with shit like acting in the North. It's not a ruin the credibility thing. I don't like doing it. It takes too much time. I don't have a whole day. And that's not critical. That is not, and that was not me going, look, I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was adorable honestly. I'm trying to do less things. Fucking so on brand. Yeah. Why? Tell me why. Because I do too much. I'm doing, you know, between all the podcasts that I do, doing commentary for the UFC, doing stand up comedy. There's a lot of things. There's three things you've been doing for the last fucking decade, bro. There's a lot of things. They've all increased perhaps. I'm not in the fighting world, so I don't know if your jobs there have exponentially increased. I knew you were always a big part of it. No, I've actually cut that back a lot. And the more I've cut that back, the more I've cut things back, the happier I am. And then stand up has that increased? Stand up has not cut back at all. So this has increased. This has increased quite a bit, yeah. So the idea, like I'm doing six podcasts this week. And then I'm flying to New York on Thursday, and then I'm doing Artie Lang on Friday in New York. And on the seventh podcast, we're going to carry that one over to the next week. But that's just, that does not leave any room for trips to New Orleans to do a movie. It doesn't leave any room to do anything. I get all these weird requests to do things that just are not interesting. I don't want to do them. And yours is one of the most interesting things. I know. And believe me, I'm not bibooing on your spot going like, why didn't you come? I just don't have time. It was the most on-brand fucking response. And it was also a lesson in like, let me reach out. This manager knows nothing in the manager. Exactly. My manager is a rare thing. She knows exactly how I feel about everything. She doesn't, you know, I just, I say no to everything, man.