Joe Rogan Experience #1177 - Sober October 2

1. 0:02 – 2:05

   Backwoods blunts, quitting for October, and the “day back” binge

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      Five, four, three, two, one. (heart beating) Dude, it seemed like we just did this.

   2. BKBert Kreischer0:07

      It does feel like-

   3. TSTom Segura0:09

      (laughs)

   4. BKBert Kreischer0:09

      ... pretty recent.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      How was it a year ago?

   6. BKBert Kreischer0:10

      I don't know.

   7. TSTom Segura0:11

      I don't know.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      It's already October. I'm scared. Let's just fucking spark up a joint and bill right now.

   9. BKBert Kreischer0:17

      What?

   10. TSTom Segura0:18

       (laughs)

   11. BKBert Kreischer0:18

       No.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       With these fat blunts.

   13. BKBert Kreischer0:20

       One of them Backwoods.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       Smell one of these Backwoods. These are so good. Just smell it, just smell it.

   15. TSTom Segura0:25

       Whoa.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Yeah.

   17. TSTom Segura0:27

       You know everyone was commenting on your-

   18. BKBert Kreischer0:29

       Let me see that.

   19. TSTom Segura0:29

       ... blunt rolling technique after the Elon Musk thing?

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       Oh, I don't roll them.

   21. TSTom Segura0:33

       I know they were like... And I knew that. And they were like-

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Yeah.

   23. TSTom Segura0:35

       ... "Oh, what is he... He just, he can barely roll a blunt." And I was like, "It's professionally rolled. It's a pretty r- good blunt."

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       You can't read those comments.

   25. BKBert Kreischer0:40

       That does smell good, man.

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       That smells so good. They taste good too. Those are, those are phenomenal. The, I l- I'm a blunt man. You know, I know it's probably bad for your lungs, but there's something about the tobacco gets you a little high up and then the marijuana sort of like-

   27. BKBert Kreischer0:55

       Mm-hmm.

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       ... spreads you out and it puts you in like a new dimension.

   29. BKBert Kreischer0:59

       Yeah, that's-

   30. JRJoe Rogan0:59

       I like it.
2. 2:05 – 4:14

   Ari’s meltdown, rock-solid ethics, and what “counts” as hard training

   1. TSTom Segura2:05

      Do you remember when you texted the three of us? You were like, "Ari, I don't think you're doing the right classes." Do you remember the-

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:10

      You went crazy.

   3. TSTom Segura2:10

      ... meltdown he had? (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:11

      I, I said, "I think you're gonna have to do them again."

   5. TSTom Segura2:13

      (screams)

   6. BKBert Kreischer2:13

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan2:13

      Obviously, I'm fucking joking around.

   8. BKBert Kreischer2:16

      You gotta love it.

   9. TSTom Segura2:17

      You calling me a liar? Jesus, son of a liar. Son of a liar to my face.

   10. BKBert Kreischer2:20

       Didn't he, didn't he call?

   11. JRJoe Rogan2:20

       No, I meant, "I love you."

   12. BKBert Kreischer2:22

       He called you, right? He called you upset.

   13. JRJoe Rogan2:24

       Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was upset. I don't remember if we texted or called, but I go, "Ari."

   14. TSTom Segura2:29

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan2:29

       "I love you. I'm just joking. I'm sure you d-" But one thing about Ari is, this is one thing that you could say after all the, the welting talking, all the nonsense. Ari has rock solid ethics.

   16. BKBert Kreischer2:40

       Yeah, yeah.

   17. TSTom Segura2:40

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan2:40

       Like rock solid.

   19. BKBert Kreischer2:41

       Yes, he does.

   20. JRJoe Rogan2:42

       Like if Ari says he's gonna do something, he does it. Like so if I'm fucking with him and saying, "Uh, I don't think you're doing it."

   21. BKBert Kreischer2:48

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan2:48

       Like I don't really mean it.

   23. BKBert Kreischer2:49

       Right, right. You're just kind of... You're poking at him.

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:51

       Right. So if you're out there, Ari, and you hear this, I'm only fucking around. I know you're doing it.

   25. BKBert Kreischer2:57

       He came-

   26. JRJoe Rogan2:57

       But I'm not talking to you for the next 31 days.

   27. TSTom Segura2:59

       (laughs)

   28. BKBert Kreischer3:00

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan3:00

       It's too dangerous.

   30. TSTom Segura3:02

       (laughs)
3. 4:14 – 5:27

   CrossFit chaos, spin-class points, and chasing sustained heart rate

   1. TSTom Segura4:14

      I got in, I got in trouble at my CrossFit class 'cause I g- I was just getting pissed. I was throwing up every day. I was throwing up every single day.

   2. BKBert Kreischer4:21

      (laughs)

   3. TSTom Segura4:21

      I was also drinking a coffee right before it started, so I was throwing up coffee every single day. And one day I just snapped. I go, "Hey, the Black guy's not doing his burpees."

   4. BKBert Kreischer4:29

      The Black guy. Jesus.

   5. TSTom Segura4:30

      That's what they said, Joe. That's what they said.

   6. JRJoe Rogan4:31

      (laughs)

   7. TSTom Segura4:31

      They go, "Hey, man, we don't talk like that. He's got a name." I go, "I don't know it." But I'm pointing to him. "He's not doing his burpees." And then I goes-

   8. JRJoe Rogan4:38

      Why do you care?

   9. TSTom Segura4:38

      And then the joke I made out of it was, "Hey, uh, Wendall, the gay guy says I can't call you the Black guy, but you're not doing your fucking burpees."

   10. BKBert Kreischer4:44

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan4:46

       The gay guy. (laughs)

   12. TSTom Segura4:47

       I might go back to, uh, CrossFit. I like the idea that we're doing this in a general heart rate sense.

   13. JRJoe Rogan4:51

       Yeah.

   14. TSTom Segura4:51

       'Cause you can sprinkle it in. I wanna go to a spin class. I wanna go to-

   15. BKBert Kreischer4:54

       You definitely can.

   16. JRJoe Rogan4:55

       Yeah.

   17. BKBert Kreischer4:55

       And by the way, that is how... If you wanna like get a real bump in those points, it's about a bump in heart r- like sustained accelerated heart rate. So a spin class is gonna get you a bunch.

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:05

       Mm-hmm.

   19. BKBert Kreischer5:06

       That, that, you know what I mean?

   20. JRJoe Rogan5:07

       Right.

   21. BKBert Kreischer5:07

       It's g- it's not like... Joe, I don't know if you know this, he's like a way m- better athlete than you, but it doesn't mean that-

   22. TSTom Segura5:13

       Mm, I say we put a pin in that.

   23. JRJoe Rogan5:14

       (laughs)

   24. BKBert Kreischer5:14

       So it doesn't mean that-

   25. TSTom Segura5:15

       We have a month to find out.

   26. BKBert Kreischer5:16

       It doesn't mean that he'll, um, automatically beat us because he's in better physical condition. You can actually beat him if you're going to push it all the time.

4. 5:27 – 9:01

   Joe’s dark workout mindset: rage, protection fantasies, and martial-arts wiring

   1. TSTom Segura5:27

      What is it in your brain that makes you do that? 'Cause I g- we just looked at your MEPs.

   2. JRJoe Rogan5:30

      Mm-hmm.

   3. TSTom Segura5:30

      And you, that you burned 1,000 calories. Is there some sort of... I talked to Pat McAfee one time, he said it's about explosivity.

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:37

      It's about rape and murder.

   5. TSTom Segura5:38

      (laughs)

   6. BKBert Kreischer5:39

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan5:40

      My head's filled with it. Stopping rapists and stopping murderers and killing child molesters. That's what I think about, killing bad people.

   8. TSTom Segura5:48

      When you work out?

   9. JRJoe Rogan5:48

      Yeah, that's what I do when I get tired. If I get tired, I think about like saving someone I care about. I think about stopping someone who's trying to murder someone I love. That's what I think about.

   10. BKBert Kreischer6:00

       I love your face.

   11. TSTom Segura6:01

       (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan6:01

       I'm not kidding.

   13. BKBert Kreischer6:02

       Bert's face.

   14. TSTom Segura6:02

       I think about my second wife. (laughs)

   15. BKBert Kreischer6:04

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan6:04

       I think about protect, I think about protecting people I care about.

   17. BKBert Kreischer6:08

       Then you tell, you told me one time, um, you'll, if it's hard, you'll go, uh, uh, pretend like someone's trying to kill me.

   18. JRJoe Rogan6:13

       Yeah. Yeah.

   19. BKBert Kreischer6:14

       Yeah. So you're like pretending-

   20. JRJoe Rogan6:15

       Yeah. Yeah.

   21. TSTom Segura6:18

       I really don't have words for that.

   22. JRJoe Rogan6:19

       That's what you gotta do 'cause that's w- that's what ... If you g- think about worst case scenario, you're tired and someone's trying to kill someone you care about, and you don't have enough energy to stop them.

   23. TSTom Segura6:30

       But do you think you learned that switch in, like, uh, Tae- Taekwon- or not Taekwondo, uh, Kr- uh ...

   24. JRJoe Rogan6:35

       Uh, yeah. I learned it from martial arts for sure.

   25. TSTom Segura6:37

       Sh- yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan6:38

       Yeah.

   27. TSTom Segura6:38

       Jiu-Jitsu?

   28. JRJoe Rogan6:38

       For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's the scariest place you could ever be. Like, the scariest place you could be is life and death. So, like-

   29. TSTom Segura6:46

       (sighs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan6:46

       ... y- just putting yourself in, "Oh, I just wanna lose weight." Okay, good. Yeah. That's good. B- but that's not ... You're not gonna save yourself. Like, you got, you gotta put yourself in, like, animalistic fury. That's how you gotta, you gotta put yourself. You gotta put yourself in this, this state of just 100% effort. Yeah, I was pegged at like 180, 177 beats per minute for the last 35, 35 minutes.
5. 9:01 – 11:48

   Vanity motivation: “Skinny Bert,” Tom’s old shape, and spin-class inspiration

   1. TSTom Segura9:01

      This is so silly. The one ... The best shape I've ever been in is when I met my wife, I was 186 pounds.

   2. BKBert Kreischer9:06

      Damn.

   3. JRJoe Rogan9:07

      Ooh.

   4. TSTom Segura9:07

      Yeah, dude, I, I look ... You ... It's t-

   5. JRJoe Rogan9:09

      You must've shredded.

   6. TSTom Segura9:09

      Jamie, type in Skinny Bert.

   7. JRJoe Rogan9:10

      I've seen those pictures.

   8. TSTom Segura9:11

      I've shown ... Yeah, yeah. It's ... I don't even look-

   9. JRJoe Rogan9:12

      Yeah. You almost had a six pack.

   10. TSTom Segura9:13

       Almost.

   11. JRJoe Rogan9:13

       You had a three pack.

   12. TSTom Segura9:14

       And I had, like, side muscle.

   13. JRJoe Rogan9:15

       Yeah. Little s- little oblique.

   14. TSTom Segura9:17

       I'm going for that this year, this month.

   15. JRJoe Rogan9:18

       Damn.

   16. TSTom Segura9:18

       I'm really going hard.

   17. JRJoe Rogan9:19

       You can do it.

   18. TSTom Segura9:19

       I'm going hard this month. I've, I've gua- I said to J- Jamie, I made a b- deal with myself. Every day I'm gonna do 50 air squats and 50 pushups. I was gonna do 100.

   19. JRJoe Rogan9:27

       Look at that. Look at Skinny Bert. Damn, dude.

   20. BKBert Kreischer9:29

       Wow.

   21. TSTom Segura9:29

       In that ... By the way, I was joke pot posing.

   22. JRJoe Rogan9:31

       You fucking stud. But you were a fucking stud. Look at that.

   23. TSTom Segura9:33

       That was me. That was when I was in spin class.

   24. JRJoe Rogan9:34

       Look how skinny your face is.

   25. TSTom Segura9:36

       I know.

   26. JRJoe Rogan9:36

       Well, your s- your face was super skinny after last year's Sober October. That photo that we ... that you posted, that you sent to us.

   27. TSTom Segura9:42

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan9:42

       Like, "Look at my skinny face."

   29. TSTom Segura9:43

       I'm going back. I'm going hard this month. I really am. And I'm gonna ... 'cause I'm gonna enjoy it. Last month I think ... last time I did it was outta spite. I wanted to prove to everyone I could stop drinking. This month I'm going into it having not drank probably a, a third as much as last year. I mean, meaning like I've drank three quarters as much. Does that make sense?

   30. JRJoe Rogan10:01

       Mm-hmm.
6. 11:48 – 16:05

   Crafting stand-up specials: taglines after filming, new hours, and lazy comics

   1. TSTom Segura11:48

      I saw that ... Dude, that, that trailer's one of the best trailers I've seen for a special in a long time.

   2. JRJoe Rogan11:51

      I worked hard at it. I hope people like it. Some people are gonna hate it, but that's normal.

   3. BKBert Kreischer11:56

      That is normal.

   4. JRJoe Rogan11:56

      But I've, I've worked at it as hard as a- anything I've ever worked on, ever. For sure.

   5. BKBert Kreischer12:01

      This hour.

   6. JRJoe Rogan12:01

      Yeah.

   7. BKBert Kreischer12:02

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan12:02

      Yeah. I fucking went hard on this one.

   9. BKBert Kreischer12:03

      No, ..........................

   10. TSTom Segura12:03

       It's a good feeling to go ... to get done with something-

   11. JRJoe Rogan12:06

       Yeah.

   12. TSTom Segura12:06

       ... and go, "I did the best I could do."

   13. JRJoe Rogan12:07

       "I did the best I could do, for sure. A hundred percent. I couldn't have done any better." Because if I did any more ... The only thing that c- you could say is like, maybe a little more time, like maybe a month or two more time on some of the bits. Like, but you never know when that is.

   14. TSTom Segura12:20

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan12:20

       You know? It's like-... there's a, there's a, there's a sort of like a period where they're developing and then they mature and then they're solid. And then you never know, like, are they done or is there, like, one more tagline that I'm missing here? 'Cause you know how like s- (laughs) it's always the case, you, you film and then right after you're done you have a brand new tagline that makes the bit-

   16. BKBert Kreischer12:38

       Always.

   17. JRJoe Rogan12:38

       ... five times as good.

   18. BKBert Kreischer12:39

       Dude-

   19. It's always like the next Saturday, you're like, "You motherfucker."

   20. Dude, the next week-

   21. (laughs)

   22. ... I wrote that, did that special. The next week I'm in, I'm in, uh, Michigan doing some theater and, uh, I had that Alexa bit about, um, fucking t- uh, Alexa talking back. I talk to Alexa like I talk to women and whatever the bit is. And then next week I write the bit. I wish they had a fleshlight attachment for Alexa so I could shut her up the way I want to.

   23. JRJoe Rogan12:59

       (sighs)

   24. BKBert Kreischer13:00

       And fuck, and I'm like, "Goddammit, where the fuck was that?"

   25. It's always like that.

   26. JRJoe Rogan13:02

       Goddammit. That's how it always goes.

   27. BKBert Kreischer13:03

       Your mind doesn't open up, your mind doesn't open up all the way till it's like, doesn't have any pressure, you know.

   28. JRJoe Rogan13:09

       (laughs)

   29. BKBert Kreischer13:09

       So it's like the pressure's gone-

   30. JRJoe Rogan13:10

       Yeah.
7. 16:05 – 24:43

   Hecklers, “next subject” interruptions, and letting edgy bits play out

   1. BKBert Kreischer16:05

      I hosted a show as a favor one time and ended up snapping on a lady in the audience. (laughs)

   2. (laughs)

   3. And ruined the show. And they were like, "Thanks."

   4. JRJoe Rogan16:12

      (laughs)

   5. BKBert Kreischer16:12

      (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan16:12

      Why did you, uh-

   7. BKBert Kreischer16:13

      Dude, 'cause I arri- it was a showcase for Montreal and I arrived at the show before it, right? So there's like a seven o'clock thing and then the nine o'clock showcase. And they asked me to, to host it-

   8. (laughs)

   9. ... and the, and a lady at the seven o'clock show, at the earlier show is in, like, the front row just yelling out drunk. And she's older and she's like, "Yeah," like, tagging every comic's thing, commenting on it-

   10. (sighs)

   11. ... and I'm like, "Ugh." And I'm just like so irritated, but I'm like, "Well, at least, you know, this show's almost over." So the show ends, you know, people leave. We're getting ready to start a second show, I look, she's staying in her seat. And I was like, "You gotta be kidding me." So second show starts and I'm already, you're primed, you know, like if you watch something that, that gets you agitated and then-

   12. (laughs)

   13. ... you're like-

   14. JRJoe Rogan17:02

       You're overreacting.

   15. BKBert Kreischer17:03

       Yeah, you're overreacting 'cause you're like, you're primed for it.

   16. JRJoe Rogan17:05

       Yeah.

   17. BKBert Kreischer17:05

       So like, I started and it was like, I said like my first joke and she said... I go, "You fucking cunt, shut up!"

   18. (screams)

   19. Right? And then-

   20. And no one knows you have a history of that? (laughs)

   21. No, no, no, no. (laughs) So-

   22. It just looks like you lit her up for no reason.

   23. Oh, dude, people in the audience were like, "Don't talk to her like that." And I'm like, "You don't know what she's doing."

   24. (laughs)

   25. Like, so... And then it just went-

   26. (screams)

   27. ... really bad. And then I'm like, "Give it up for this guy who wants to go to Montreal." (laughs) Like-

   28. Oh, no.

   29. It was terrible. It was terrible.

   30. Oh, no.
8. 24:43 – 32:56

   Recording sets like a pro: Zoom gear, syncing video, and Joe’s phone obsession

   1. TSTom Segura24:43

      A lot.

   2. JRJoe Rogan24:44

      Hm.

   3. TSTom Segura24:44

      A lot now. I, uh, after that last special, I did it obsessively.

   4. JRJoe Rogan24:48

      Yeah.

   5. TSTom Segura24:48

      And then I got into it. I got into recording. And now what I do is I will bit out. I, if I don't have video, I like to have video because I think the video aspect really lets me know why things were... Like-

   6. JRJoe Rogan24:57

      Right.

   7. TSTom Segura24:57

      ... I had this bit where I, my, I do my eyes a little different and it was killing and I saw it on video and I went, "Oh, I gotta make sure to do that." But, um, I, for me it's that, I, I, it's almost like I'm always tr- trying to chase to get back to that first time I told it.

   8. JRJoe Rogan25:12

      Right, that feeling.

   9. TSTom Segura25:13

      Yeah. I like to clip it out and then put chunks of like, all right, here's where the Starbucks bit is, here's this is. And then look at the different ones and go, "Oh, why did that work better than this one?" But, um, but I'm also, I've gotten really into editing videos and stuff, so it's a lot easier for me than it was when I first started. Now I'm just like, oh, real quick, sync up audio and... 'Cause I'll do audio and video, different tracks, sync them up, and then just clip them out and put them in folders.

   10. JRJoe Rogan25:36

       Audio and video? What do you mean?

   11. TSTom Segura25:37

       I t- I do... I'm a, I got a little nerdy about it. I take a H46 and H-

   12. JRJoe Rogan25:43

       What is that?

   13. BKBert Kreischer25:43

       An audio recorder.

   14. TSTom Segura25:44

       It's a, it's a z- a Zoom recorder.

   15. JRJoe Rogan25:46

       Mm-hmm.

   16. TSTom Segura25:47

       Zoom H46. And then I'll take my camera, put it in the back, oh, if I can, or I'll have the club run, run video. But I like to sync up clean audio and clean video. That way if I do have something fun, like Hannibal got on stage with me the other night, and I was like, "Ah, cool, I got all this shit that's, I could d- definitely put online." If I... I don't know I'm gonna want to do that to Hannibal. I'd have to run it by him first. But I got real clean audio of it.

   17. JRJoe Rogan26:07

       Oh, that's interesting. So you are doing it through the soundboard?

   18. TSTom Segura26:10

       No, I do it through... The H46 is like the best. It's, it... And I have a, uh, basically a surround sound mic on that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan26:17

       Which one's it called again? What is it?

   20. TSTom Segura26:18

       H46. It's bigger.

   21. JRJoe Rogan26:19

       H46 Zoom?

   22. TSTom Segura26:20

       A Zoom H46. Right? Am I right on that? Or is it just the H6? Oh, it's the H6. It's the H6.

   23. JRJoe Rogan26:26

       H6. H6.

   24. TSTom Segura26:26

       H6. The other one's the H4N.

   25. JRJoe Rogan26:28

       And it's Zoom?

   26. BKBert Kreischer26:29

       Yeah.

   27. TSTom Segura26:29

       Zoom H6.

   28. JRJoe Rogan26:30

       Z-O-O-M?

   29. BKBert Kreischer26:30

       O-O-M. Yeah.

   30. TSTom Segura26:31

       Yeah.
9. 32:56 – 36:33

   Ride-or-die murder hypotheticals and how humans ‘stopped killing’ as much

   1. TSTom Segura32:56

      If you guys don't know, him and his wife have been doing this thing where, uh, you guys had like, "If you murdered somebody, would you turn me in to the cops?"

   2. JRJoe Rogan33:04

      Yeah.

   3. BKBert Kreischer33:05

      I was blown away by her answer.

   4. JRJoe Rogan33:06

      She said she would. She was like, "100%." And I was like, "Are you out of your fucking mind?" She goes, "Well, was it an accident?" I'm like, "No. I just told you that I killed somebody, and I got the body in the trunk and no one knows." She's like, "You're a psycho. I don't know what you're gonna do. You're gonna kill me next." I'm like, "Why would I kill you next?"

   5. TSTom Segura33:20

      (laughs)

   6. BKBert Kreischer33:20

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan33:20

      And she's like, "But why'd you kill this guy?" I'm like, "'Cause he pissed me off." It's like it's, you know-

   8. TSTom Segura33:24

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan33:24

      ... I killed somebody-

   10. TSTom Segura33:25

       It's a mistake.

   11. JRJoe Rogan33:25

       ... that I got ... Yeah.

   12. TSTom Segura33:26

       You fucked up-

   13. JRJoe Rogan33:26

       And I'm like, "I'm sorry."

   14. TSTom Segura33:27

       ... just like you called that lady a cunt.

   15. JRJoe Rogan33:28

       Right. Yeah.

   16. BKBert Kreischer33:28

       So-

   17. JRJoe Rogan33:29

       Like-

   18. TSTom Segura33:29

       Got out of hand. Shouldn't have to go to jail forever.

   19. JRJoe Rogan33:31

       You're my fucking ace, right?

   20. TSTom Segura33:32

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan33:32

       You're not gonna turn me in. She's like-

   22. TSTom Segura33:33

       Come on.

   23. JRJoe Rogan33:33

       ... "Oh, no, you're unpredictable."

   24. TSTom Segura33:35

       She says you ride or die.

   25. JRJoe Rogan33:36

       That's what I thought.

   26. BKBert Kreischer33:37

       Yeah. Don't worry-

   27. JRJoe Rogan33:37

       She does.

   28. BKBert Kreischer33:37

       ... I'm your ride or die. You call me if you kill someone.

   29. JRJoe Rogan33:40

       Yeah.

   30. BKBert Kreischer33:40

       I've got the shovel ready.
10. 36:33 – 42:37

    History detour: Mongol conquest stats, Dan Carlin, and Tom’s lucid dream story

    1. TSTom Segura36:33

       Yeah. Well, yeah. He- ... Well, I like history. I like anything history. That's why I like ... that, that guy you used to have on, Dan.

    2. JRJoe Rogan36:37

       Dan Carlin?

    3. TSTom Segura36:38

       Dude, I, I love history.

    4. JRJoe Rogan36:39

       He's awesome.

    5. TSTom Segura36:39

       And so, Marco Polo really knew Genghis Khan, apparently.

    6. JRJoe Rogan36:43

       ... yeah.

    7. TSTom Segura36:43

       And, and so-

    8. JRJoe Rogan36:44

       I think he knew Genghis Khan's son. I think it's Kublai Khan.

    9. TSTom Segura36:48

       Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

    10. JRJoe Rogan36:48

        Yeah.

    11. TSTom Segura36:48

        It's Kublai Khan. Yeah.

    12. JRJoe Rogan36:50

        Yeah.

    13. TSTom Segura36:50

        I like history, but I'm not a stickler for details though.

    14. JRJoe Rogan36:53

        (laughs) Well, the, the khans, you know, the, the reign was a long time. I mean, they, they ... During Genghis Khan's lifetime, they estimated that he killed, and his people killed, 10% of the world's population.

    15. TSTom Segura37:05

        God.

    16. JRJoe Rogan37:06

        They killed so many people, they changed the carbon footprint of the world. They literally changed how many people were burning things. They literally changed it in core samples. Like, when you do a core sample on the Earth, the carbon footprint of human beings is less while he was alive, because he killed one out of 10 human beings that lived.

    17. TSTom Segura37:25

        So, he was eco- it was eco-friendly for what he did?

    18. JRJoe Rogan37:27

        Yes. He was very green.

    19. TSTom Segura37:29

        Holy shit.

    20. JRJoe Rogan37:30

        That's a weird thing that Dan Carlin goes over in his Wrath of the Khan series, which is, like, one of the greatest hist- history series of all time.

    21. TSTom Segura37:36

        Oh.

    22. JRJoe Rogan37:36

        It's ... I can't recommend it enough.

    23. TSTom Segura37:38

        I wish I could go back-

    24. JRJoe Rogan37:38

        It's a life-changer.

    25. TSTom Segura37:39

        I wish I could go back to the day I found it.

    26. JRJoe Rogan37:41

        Yeah.

    27. TSTom Segura37:41

        And you- ... And I- ... It was, like, a seven-part series or whatever, and I'd play it laying in bed, fall asleep, wake up, and have to go find out where I left off.

    28. JRJoe Rogan37:47

        So good.

    29. TSTom Segura37:48

        And I'd have dreams of being a khan. I remember having a dream of learning how to shoot a wh- a, a, a pigeon in the air.

    30. JRJoe Rogan37:54

        A bow? Yeah.
11. 42:37 – 1:02:13

    Comedy’s arena era: Toronto crowd, the podcast effect, and new camaraderie

    1. BKBert Kreischer42:37

       (laughs) Hey, speaking of arenas, how was Toronto?

    2. JRJoe Rogan42:41

       Fucking insane.

    3. TSTom Segura42:42

       What is it like in the... when you're doing 10,000 people?

    4. BKBert Kreischer42:44

       Yeah.

    5. JRJoe Rogan42:44

       10,600 people at the Scotiabank arena. It was the Air Canada Center. The UFC is back there in December. I'm back there again for the UFC.

    6. BKBert Kreischer42:50

       Isn't that crazy though? You're gonna be like, "Oh, one time I was here alone, talking-"

    7. JRJoe Rogan42:54

       It's ridiculous.

    8. BKBert Kreischer42:54

       ... and then you see it f- like, filled for-... events like that. I mean, that's where the fucking Raptors play.

    9. JRJoe Rogan43:00

       It, it's, it's so ridiculous it doesn't seem real. But I gotta say, the show felt like as intimate as, uh, a set at the Storr.

    10. BKBert Kreischer43:09

        Really?

    11. JRJoe Rogan43:09

        I'm not bullshitting. Yeah. Yeah.

    12. TSTom Segura43:12

        Welcome to the set!

    13. JRJoe Rogan43:12

        Yeah. It was, it was fucking nuts. Like-

    14. BKBert Kreischer43:14

        For real?

    15. JRJoe Rogan43:14

        Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was fucking easy-peasy. It was fun. I mean, it was literally like any other set. I was, I was nervous that I wasn't nervous.

    16. BKBert Kreischer43:24

        Yeah.

    17. JRJoe Rogan43:24

        I, I was nervous that I was calm. I mean, I did a lot of sets leading up to it. Like, when, um, I did, I di-... You know, I wa-... I constantly do sets, but I did, like, I did four sets Thursday night. I did-

    18. BKBert Kreischer43:37

        Really?

    19. JRJoe Rogan43:38

        Yeah. I did the Icehouse Wednesday, so I did an hour-plus at the Icehouse. I did three sets on, um, on, uh, Tuesday night. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's... I think that's the key is you just gotta do-

    20. BKBert Kreischer43:50

        You gotta be sharp for it.

    21. JRJoe Rogan43:52

        ... so many. Yeah. You have to just do so many that you're, you're just... Just like working out. You can't have any doubt. You gotta be just in shape. I just sent you a video. This is, this is, shows you how ridiculous the crowd looked.

    22. BKBert Kreischer44:03

        But when you're, um... But you're s-... You're also getting used to arenas 'cause you've done-

    23. JRJoe Rogan44:06

        Yeah.

    24. BKBert Kreischer44:06

        ... a few now.

    25. JRJoe Rogan44:06

        It's weird.

    26. TSTom Segura44:07

        This is your fourth arena?

    27. JRJoe Rogan44:09

        Fourth? Yeah. Maybe fifth. I did, I did, um-

    28. TSTom Segura44:11

        Columbus.

    29. JRJoe Rogan44:12

        Vancouver. I did Columbus. I did Kansas City. Kansas City was weird 'cause it was outside. That was weird.

    30. BKBert Kreischer44:19

        That's like an amphitheater, right?

Episode duration: 3:07:36