Joe Rogan Experience #1321 - Robert Oberst

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   And... (clears throat) Boom, and…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      And... (clears throat) Boom, and we're live. What's happening, baby?

   2. RORobert Oberst0:06

      What's up, Joe?

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      How are you, brother?

   4. RORobert Oberst0:07

      I'm feeling great, man. Thanks for having me.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      You're looking great.

   6. RORobert Oberst0:10

      Thanks, brother.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      You're looking rather large.

   8. RORobert Oberst0:11

      I, I threatened Joe before the show, I said, "You need to start off and tell me how beautiful I am."

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Strong and pretty.

   10. RORobert Oberst0:16

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:17

       (laughs)

   12. RORobert Oberst0:18

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       What? Is that your T-shirt company?

   14. RORobert Oberst0:20

       Yeah, that's my clothing company. It's, uh, all through Bunker Branding, and basically that's, that's basically where it's been.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Ke- try to keep this like a, a fist from your face.

   16. RORobert Oberst0:27

       There we go.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       There we go.

   18. RORobert Oberst0:27

       I'm just afraid everyone's gonna hear me breathe like a fat guy, like (breathing heavily) .

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       (laughs)

   20. RORobert Oberst0:32

       You know?

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       How much... D- do you do any cardio?

   22. RORobert Oberst0:34

       I do. Most definitely.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Yeah?

   24. RORobert Oberst0:35

       Yeah, yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       Yeah?

   26. RORobert Oberst0:36

       The... If you watch Strongman on, on ESPN?

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Yeah.

   28. RORobert Oberst0:38

       So, like, when you pull a truck that's 70,000 pounds, you pull it for 100 feet-

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       Yeah.

   30. RORobert Oberst0:43

       ... with a harness restraining your chest, like a, like a... Not expulsion, but your chest expansion.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Seven foot tall? He'd…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

   2. RORobert Oberst15:00

      Seven foot tall? He'd be skinny at 300.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Yeah, but he was big, man. He had gigantitis or whatever it is-

   4. RORobert Oberst15:05

      Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      ... when you have a pituitary gland tumor.

   6. RORobert Oberst15:07

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      What is that? If... See if you can find that guy. Valuev?

   8. JVJamie Vernon15:11

      Oh, yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      W- I think he fought Holyfield. I think Holyfield beat him for the title, which is even crazier when you think that Holyfield started his career at 190. He started his career as a cruiserweight, 195 pounds.

   10. RORobert Oberst15:22

       Really? I didn't know that.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:23

       Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's it. Here's the guy. Look at this.

   12. RORobert Oberst15:26

       Jesus.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       Evander Holyfield and Valuev. And this is in 2008. Look at the size of that guy, man. I mean, get the fuck (laughs) out of here. He's so big, man. But I think when, uh, guys are that big, like with that g- giantitis or gigantitis-

   14. RORobert Oberst15:41

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       ... that they, they're always hurting.

   16. RORobert Oberst15:42

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:42

       Like everything hurts.

   18. RORobert Oberst15:43

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:43

       Your knees hurt, your elbows. It's like you can't really move that good, you know.

   20. RORobert Oberst15:48

       Yeah. I knew a lot of guys... Andre the Giant was my hero growing up.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Hmm.

   22. RORobert Oberst15:51

       Like, he was like my first real hero. And, um, I knew a lot of guys who had known him. I actually met, uh, Rowdy Roddy Piper like three weeks before he passed, and I was wearing-

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Oh, man.

   24. RORobert Oberst16:00

       ... an Andre the Giant shirt. And we, we got to sit in the VIP section at a, at a baseball game, and he was badass, man. He was so fucking cool.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       (sighs) I wanted to get that guy on the podcast. And he... T- Ho- Tony Hinchcliffe was actually trying to set it up, but then he died.

   26. RORobert Oberst16:12

       Yeah. He used to go to the Comic Store a lot.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:14

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   28. RORobert Oberst16:16

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:16

       Yeah, yeah. He even went on stage a couple times there.

   30. RORobert Oberst16:18

       Yeah.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      a place, uh, in, uh, the mountains above Boulder. And, uh, there's mountain lions in my neighborhood. Like, uh, when I was living up there, a mountain lion ate my fucking dog. And, uh, she, uh, she was like, "Well, I just set my intention when I go into the forest-"

   2. RORobert Oberst30:15

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      "... and I let the forest know, I embrace it, I'm here for you." She was a yoga instructor.

   4. RORobert Oberst30:20

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      She might be, she might be a little crazy.

   6. RORobert Oberst30:22

      Rest in peace. (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:23

      She's still alive, apparently. Still alive.

   8. RORobert Oberst30:26

      Yeah. (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      Satnam. Namaste, mountain lion.

   10. RORobert Oberst30:30

       Yeah. Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       Yeah.

   12. RORobert Oberst30:31

       That worked out great for Siegfried & Roy, right?

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       There's already c- Colorado already has some wolves that have been in Colorado. They, they're, they're entering in the fringes, um, from other areas where they're, they're present, like Wyoming, you know, and Idaho. There's, there's wolves that are neighboring Colorado that will eventually make their way into Colorado-

   14. RORobert Oberst30:50

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       ... if they give it enough time. The reintroduction of wolves, the issue with that is, like, it's abrupt, and the animals might not r- know what's going on. And they also make a lot of money off of their hunting, um, th- th- like, the, the tags and a- all the, the economy that comes from people that hunt there.

   16. RORobert Oberst31:08

       Right.

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       Colorado's a big hunting state.

   18. RORobert Oberst31:09

       Mm-hmm.

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:09

       So.

   20. RORobert Oberst31:10

       It was, uh... Last I heard, it was those, it was the big arctic wolves they were bringing in to Montana, right?

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       Yeah.

   22. RORobert Oberst31:16

       Like, the giant ones.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       They're bringing in from Canada into Montana. Yeah.

   24. RORobert Oberst31:20

       Right. Okay. So that's the same.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       But, but they're just wolves. Like, it's weird, it's weird. It's a gray wolf, or it's a gray wolf, you know? It's, it's just a wolf. It's like-

   26. RORobert Oberst31:27

       Wow.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:27

       But they are bigger when they live in colder climates, because it's a mammal thing. Like, mammals-

   28. RORobert Oberst31:32

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:32

       ... like deers... If you look at a deer in Texas-... South Texas, a deer, a big deer is, like, 100-plus pounds, 150 pounds.

   30. RORobert Oberst31:39

       Right.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Really? …

   1. RORobert Oberst45:00

      there's this place called The Catalyst, which is where I worked for, like, six years. It's a really cool bar/concert venue, so I was, like, spoiled. I got to hang out with Rob Zombie and Willie Nelson and shit.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:10

      Really?

   3. RORobert Oberst45:10

      Yeah, it was cool, man.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:11

      Wow.

   5. RORobert Oberst45:11

      I was spoiled. Rob Zombie, I geeked out really hard for.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      That's dope.

   7. RORobert Oberst45:14

      It was fun.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:15

      Yeah, we're working on getting him here.

   9. RORobert Oberst45:16

      Dude-

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:17

       Yeah.

   11. RORobert Oberst45:17

       ... he'd be awesome.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:18

       Yeah, I'm sure he would be.

   13. RORobert Oberst45:19

       He'd be awesome. Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:19

       Yeah, there weren't-

   15. RORobert Oberst45:19

       He was really cool.

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:21

       I'm, I'm sure he is.

   17. RORobert Oberst45:22

       Like-

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:22

       He's really into horror movies, man.

   19. RORobert Oberst45:23

       Dude, and he does the best ones.

   20. JRJoe Rogan45:25

       Yeah.

   21. RORobert Oberst45:25

       I love his horror movies, man.

   22. JRJoe Rogan45:27

       They're wild.

   23. RORobert Oberst45:28

       I'm a huge fan, huge fan. He's like the Quentin Tarantino of horror.

   24. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       Yeah.

   25. RORobert Oberst45:31

       It's awesome.

   26. JRJoe Rogan45:32

       But it's such a weird transition, you know?

   27. RORobert Oberst45:34

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan45:34

       You gotta go from being a rock star to a horror film director.

   29. RORobert Oberst45:37

       Yeah. He's just m- crazy in the head and his brother is actually the lead singer of Powerman 5000.

   30. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       Really?
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:53

   I know. (laughs) …

   1. RORobert Oberst1:00:00

      ... First, Joe comes out there and you can't even breathe.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:02

      I know. (laughs)

   3. RORobert Oberst1:00:02

      When Joe's going, you don't get a second. It's like, "Goddamn."

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      He's an animal. He's got some shit right now, like, if you get a chance while you're in town, you get ... He's got some new shit that, uh, we were falling on the ground crying the other night.

   5. RORobert Oberst1:00:14

      Oh, yeah. I'll come check him out. And-

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

      He's the best ever.

   7. RORobert Oberst1:00:16

      He crushes.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

      Yeah.

   9. RORobert Oberst1:00:17

      He crushes. I don't-

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

       No one ... No one's, like, funnier in bursts. You might get, you know, guys who are really good joke writers, guys who are really funny, guys who are like, they're, they're valid in terms of our culture. But no one's funnier than Joey Diaz.

   11. RORobert Oberst1:00:31

       Right.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

       No one.

   13. RORobert Oberst1:00:32

       No. No. The whole room. Like, it was like we were uncomfortable. We couldn't stop laughing.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       (laughs)

   15. RORobert Oberst1:00:36

       You know? He's so damn good. We were g- ... And then when you went up, it was like so ... It was ... It's a whole different style. But it's, like, super, like, along the way that I think about how, like, you're introspective and comparative with different things and stuff. And the way you make people, like, look at something in a different angle, and then you poke fun of the way that you originally thought about it, you know? (laughs) And that's at least how that set was. But it was ... I mean, I'd ... Being in a live audience is so different than watching a special on TV.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       Oh, yeah.

   17. RORobert Oberst1:01:04

       And stuff. It's-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:05

       It's way better. Well, I met you in the Belly Room, which is one of the best places to do standup.

   19. RORobert Oberst1:01:09

       Right.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

       Remember the last Tiny Room?

   21. RORobert Oberst1:01:10

       Yeah, yeah. I did a set in the Belly Room.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:11

       Did you really?

   23. RORobert Oberst1:01:12

       I've been, I've been on stage once. And I did ... No ... In the ... Yeah, the Belly Room. Yeah, yeah. I went up there and did the ... It was story time. And, um, uh, Tate Fletcher and, um ... Oh, man, I can't remember who else. A bunch of people just kept telling me, like ... Like, "Just go up there and tell a story. Just go tell a story." And I was like, "All right, there's no cameras in here, right?" (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       (laughs)

   25. RORobert Oberst1:01:31

       Like, I can tell a real story or what kind of story are we talking about?

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:35

       (laughs)

   27. RORobert Oberst1:01:35

       But, um, they got me up there and I, I did six minutes. They gave (laughs) , they gave me four and I ran on for six. I didn't know what the lights meant and I was just talking.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:43

       Oh.

   29. RORobert Oberst1:01:43

       You know? I didn't know. And, uh, I told a story about being in China and we thought we were gonna go to jail in China and stuff. And it was fucking hilarious.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:50

       What happened in China?

Episode duration: 2:55:43