Joe Rogan Experience #1298 - Neal Brennan

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Let me sign my…

   1. NBNeal Brennan0:01

      Let me sign my waiver.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      Sign the waiver, dude, bre-

   3. NBNeal Brennan0:04

      Before I ...

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:05

      We're live.

   5. NBNeal Brennan0:06

      Great.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      While you sign that sound?

   7. NBNeal Brennan0:07

      Great, I'm glad that people are seeing me-

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      As Neal Brennan, sign there.

   9. NBNeal Brennan0:10

      ... as witne- ... Everyone will be a notary, notary public.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:13

       I wonder if they can li- ... If there's, uh, software that can listen to the sound your pen is making and figure out the lines you're drawing. You know, they have, um, technology now where when people are speaking in a room with a w- with a window, that it c-

   11. NBNeal Brennan0:28

       That they can get rid of the window noise?

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       They can ... No, they can tune into the vibrations of the window from the sound of your voice and pick up everything that's being said in the room.

   13. NBNeal Brennan0:38

       I heard that there's a Netfl- ... You ... Because before ... I mean-

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       (laughs)

   15. NBNeal Brennan0:43

       ... Netflix doesn't give people ratings, but there's a way that they're ... You can get s- ... They can gauge reflections off of wi- ... Some weird fuckin' technology where ... And it's fairly accurate.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       Reflections off of windows?

   17. NBNeal Brennan0:59

       Ref- ... Yes, I don't ... Someone ... It ... This is secondhand, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       In, like, cities or something?

   19. NBNeal Brennan1:02

       Like, secondhand. Not ... And it's, like, s- ... I believe it's sound waves.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       Hmm.

   21. NBNeal Brennan1:06

       Um ...

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:07

       Oh, wow.

   23. NBNeal Brennan1:08

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:08

       How the ... What are they monitoring? Jamie's got something.

   25. NBNeal Brennan1:10

       I have no idea. Jamie, what do you got, Jamie?

   26. JVJamie Vernon1:11

       We can buy this right now if you want.

   27. NBNeal Brennan1:12

       Jamie?

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:13

       Long-range laser listening device.

   29. NBNeal Brennan1:15

       (laughs)

   30. JVJamie Vernon1:16

       (laughs)
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah, they could be…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      two straight guys who have to make out.

   2. NBNeal Brennan15:03

      Yeah, they could be played by straight guys.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:05

      Yeah.

   4. NBNeal Brennan15:05

      Absolutely. Then we're re-... Now we're talking.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      Yeah.

   6. NBNeal Brennan15:07

      Now we're really talking.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Now you're talking. (laughs) And now you're talking commitment.

   8. NBNeal Brennan15:10

      Uh, 'cause I was thinking about do wom-... If Tom Cruise was gay, right? Uh, and he just came out, and there's a movie where he has to save his wife-

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      Mm-hmm.

   10. NBNeal Brennan15:19

       ... would women not believe it? Do you know what I mean? Like-

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:21

       Yes.

   12. NBNeal Brennan15:22

       ... like, so if you come out. So it's like, all right, so now i- in the next Mission Impossible, they just kidnap his husband.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       Yeah. Well, for sure you could do that with lesbians, if you had two hot lesbians.

   14. NBNeal Brennan15:34

       Uh, yeah, of course.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:34

       100%.

   16. NBNeal Brennan15:35

       Yeah. No, there's n- zero issues there.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Yeah, that would be no problem. You'd be-

   18. NBNeal Brennan15:40

       Uh-

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       (laughs) There'd be no resistance. And that's the difference between a lesbian actress. They can go. A woman who's a lesbian can play straight, gay-

   20. NBNeal Brennan15:46

       You know why that is, I believe.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       ... gay, straight.

   22. NBNeal Brennan15:48

       'Cause n-... Uh, there's a big portion of men who never f- truly believe a lesbian.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       I have a bit about it.

   24. NBNeal Brennan15:55

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       I had a bit about it from one of my old specials. It's like, "We believe that you believe you're a lesbian."

   26. NBNeal Brennan16:00

       Yeah. But, uh-

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       But you just ain't got a piece of this sweet dick yet.

   28. NBNeal Brennan16:03

       (laughs) You never spent a Saturday with me at fu- at, uh, fucking Applebee's. I hit you with an Applebee's and then a bar, corner bar. Forget it.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       Oh. Oh.

   30. NBNeal Brennan16:11

       The panty dropper.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   I- …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      of human interaction on this planet, uh, are largely dictated by our ability to discuss things, even if you disagree.

   2. NBNeal Brennan30:08

      I-

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      You have to be able to talk.

   4. NBNeal Brennan30:09

      I actually do agree with you that, that the, I think like deplatforming and silencing and he's a, uh ...

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      Dangerous.

   6. NBNeal Brennan30:15

      Like, I don't ... There are very few people-

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:18

      (laughs)

   8. NBNeal Brennan30:19

      ... that, well, there's no one that I agree with 100% of the time.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:22

      Right.

   10. NBNeal Brennan30:22

       Including-

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:23

       Even yourself.

   12. NBNeal Brennan30:23

       Yes.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:24

       Yeah.

   14. NBNeal Brennan30:24

       Including your joke about like, you don't agree with yourself.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:26

       Yeah.

   16. NBNeal Brennan30:26

       Like-

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:26

       I don't. Yeah.

   18. NBNeal Brennan30:27

       I don't, like-

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:28

       It's real.

   20. NBNeal Brennan30:28

       Yeah. Well, that's also, there's something Buddhist about it which is like, your thoughts are not-Correct.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       Right.

   22. NBNeal Brennan30:34

       They're not even your thoughts, they're just like noise.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:36

       And they're depended upon your emotions sometimes.

   24. NBNeal Brennan30:38

       Yes.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       They're depended upon- upon your stress levels.

   26. NBNeal Brennan30:40

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:41

       You know, sometimes you just like- you're- you just don't have it in you and you're like, "Stop!"

   28. NBNeal Brennan30:45

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       And then other times y- the same situation, you'd be super calm and reasonable and maybe you could turn it around.

   30. NBNeal Brennan30:50

       Yeah, if you've eaten.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   I have a, a…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      somewhere where there's a lot of animals and there's wildlife. And you have, you have cold, you have water, you have a lot... Like, cold is better than heat. Because cold you can make a fire. Like, if you have shelter and you can make a fire, in the cold you can live. With heat, you're fucked.

   2. NBNeal Brennan45:15

      I have a, a counterargument which is I don't, I th- the cold kills more people than heat.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:19

      Sure it does, hypothermia it does.

   4. NBNeal Brennan45:20

      Like, every year, yes.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:21

      But that's just because y- you know, people are unprepared for it. You can prepare for cold with clothing. You can't really prepare for heat with clothing. With heat, you need air conditioning and you need water. Those are two things that are critical.

   6. NBNeal Brennan45:34

      Or at least shade.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:35

      Yeah, you need something. If you live in, like there's, people that have lived in very cold climates, as long as they have a good house and they have a good supply of wood, they're fine. If you live in the desert, man, you're kinda fucked. You're kinda fucked if the power goes out.

   8. NBNeal Brennan45:48

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:48

      You don't really have anything to keep you cool. You have to stay in the shade and stay indoors, but it's not good enough when it's 110 degrees inside and it's 125, 130 outside.

   10. NBNeal Brennan45:55

       If you're hydrated though, I don't think you will just die from ex- from heat exposure.

   11. JRJoe Rogan46:00

       No, you won't, but you're not gonna find a lot of water. One of the problems with global warming is gonna be that things like lakes, lakes and streams are gonna, uh, there's gonna be less.

   12. NBNeal Brennan46:10

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       There's gonna be less water. There's gonna be less dribbling down to the creeks. Creeks are gonna dry up. L- streams will dry up. You're gonna have a hard time getting water if you're in a desert environment. But-

   14. NBNeal Brennan46:20

       If you have, by, by the same token, if you have enough wat- you have as much water as you have wood, obviously the, it's not a one-to-one analogy 'cause you-

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       Mm-hmm.

   16. NBNeal Brennan46:29

       ... can go get more wood easily.

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:31

       Yeah.

   18. NBNeal Brennan46:31

       But if you had a shit load of water, right?

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:33

       Yeah.

   20. NBNeal Brennan46:33

       If you just had like... I, I hear your thought about getting cold, but I don't know. If I had shade, I guess you don't, I guess with cold, you don't n- have to have electricity.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:45

       You don't have to have electricity with cold, and also you have more of an opportunity to find animals. You'll find more animals in cold climates than you're gonna find in hot climates.

   22. NBNeal Brennan46:54

       More delicious animals, for sure.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:55

       Yeah, yeah. More things to eat. But you might n- you could still eat a- easily starve to death. Like, the idea that it's easy to go out there and, and shoot a bunch of animals and eat them all the time, like, not most places. Most places you don't have an abundant enough s- supply of wildlife.

   24. NBNeal Brennan47:10

       You're also a guy who does archery, so fuckin'- (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan47:13

       Yeah, I know how to-

   26. NBNeal Brennan47:14

       Like, you have skills for this, for this.

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:15

       I would. Um, told me 10 years ago and it stuck with me, "Go to the marina." 'Cause I live in Venice. "Go to the marina and basically just get pa- " Basically, you gotta pay to get on a boat or just be like, "I will be..." The hard part is how do I qualify to, like, "I can help you." (laughs)

   28. NBNeal Brennan47:23

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:24

       Because I get seasick. Here's what I have going for me, seasick, queasy.

   30. NBNeal Brennan47:26

       Why, why a boat?
5. 1:00:00 – 1:04:10

   Yeah. …

   1. NBNeal Brennan1:00:00

      that are responsible for the... 'Cause the other thing is so many t- This is the first time like in, in certainly in media history where guys are in charge of their own everything.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:11

      Yeah.

   3. NBNeal Brennan1:00:12

      Like-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:12

      That's true.

   5. NBNeal Brennan1:00:13

      ... you own the lab- I mean, there's not even a label. It's just my thing. There... Artists tried. Like the Beatles had a record label, and they would bring people on, and then they would... It- they- it always got fucked up.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

      Mmm.

   7. NBNeal Brennan1:00:27

      Every single time. And this I feel like is the first time where it's like Segura's got like, you know, his umbrella now. He's got like his o- he's got his spinoffs. And, uh, it's fucking excellent.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

      Yeah.

   9. NBNeal Brennan1:00:41

      It's just excellent.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:43

       It's an amazing time.

   11. NBNeal Brennan1:00:43

       It's so great. I was talking to a, a guy who used to be in charge at, at, uh, Viacom, and we were talking about-... you know, when they- when people do shows now, like, you know, they'll pay, uh, Kenny Barris or they'll pay Shonda Rhimes or they'll pay Dave, Ellen, Chris, all these guys, like, 20 million. The writers get 100. Buddy of mine, Mike Schur, created Good Place and, um, Parks and Rec, and he's getting 25 mil a year for the next five years.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

       Jesus-

   13. NBNeal Brennan1:01:10

       Yeah, like-

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:11

       ... Christ.

   15. NBNeal Brennan1:01:11

       (laughs) And his shows aren't-

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:12

       Whoo!

   17. NBNeal Brennan1:01:13

       ... hits. His hard- his shows are picked up and successful, but they're not like Cheers, right?

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:19

       Wow.

   19. NBNeal Brennan1:01:20

       Um, and I said to Doug Herzog, the guy from Fu- I go, "How much were you fucking guys making before?" What were these, what were these companies making 20 years ago? Like, what was ABC making 20 years ago that they- and they- even Seinfeld said that he- he's like, "I was the first one to get 100, uh, uh, million an episode." And I go, "Which is a pittance compared to what they could have paid you." And he's like, "I know that now, but back then, $1 million in-" uh.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:51

       (laughs)

   21. NBNeal Brennan1:01:51

       What? What are you even gonna do with it? And now it's like, what are they gonna do with it?

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:57

       Right.

   23. NBNeal Brennan1:01:57

       What the fuck are- they were making- they were making 100 million an episode, but because it's a logo and a corporation, you go, "Well, that's what a corporation is supposed to make, $100 million an episode." Meanwhile, if a guy makes a million, you're like, "What are you gonna-" it's like this unfathomable thing. It's like where they get mad at basketball players and not the owners of the teams.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:02:16

       Yeah, and- and it's also that distribution model of, like, putting something on a network. It's- there's so much fat, there's so many people-

   25. NBNeal Brennan1:02:24

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:02:24

       ... there's so many things that you have to pay.

   27. NBNeal Brennan1:02:26

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:02:27

       There's so much- so many different places the money goes. It's almost like you have to make $100 million an episode for everybody to make out.

   29. NBNeal Brennan1:02:34

       Yeah, but also, no, they don't. But also-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:02:37

       Yeah.

Episode duration: 2:21:11