Joe Rogan Experience #1400 - Tony Hinchcliffe

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Three, two, one. Boom.…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      Three, two, one. Boom. Check out this new Richard Pryor, Plastisel. Come on.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe0:07

      Yeah. Live on the Sunset Strip.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:08

      Iconic. That was, uh, really the first thing that I ever saw that made me truly understand the power of standup comedy. I was 13 years old, I think, maybe 14. My parents went m-... uh, took me to see it, and, uh, we were i- in the audience, and I remember thinking, "How is this guy so funny just talking? How is this possible?" I was thinking of all the movies that I'd seen that were really funny, like... I don't remember what was out back then. Maybe Stripes, like, which was a great movie that I loved. So funny, so funny. But this guy was way funnier, and all he was doing was talking, and I couldn't believe it. I remember there was a moment in the movie where he was killing, and I just turned and looked at the people in the audience, and people were just flailing up and down and, "Ah!" Like, they were just... Their whole body was laughing. Everything was like... They were throwing their bodies around. And I was like, "This is incredible. I've never seen anything like this."

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01

      Super powerful.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:02

      Dude, it hit me hard. It wasn't like I wanted to be a comic right then and there. I mean, I really didn't w- want to be a comic for another eight years. But fuck, that was crazy.

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe1:12

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:13

      That was it.

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe1:13

      What, what were those things on back in the day? I don't-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:16

      Movies, go to the movie theater.

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe1:18

       Oh, you saw that in a movie theater?

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       Yeah.

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe1:19

       Whoa.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:20

       Yeah, that's why there's so many people around.

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe1:21

       Wow.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       Yeah.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe1:23

       Man.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:24

       What'd you think, I just went to people's houses and there was a lot of people over there?

   18. THTony Hinchcliffe1:26

       Yeah, I thought maybe it was on HBO or something like that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:28

       No.

   20. THTony Hinchcliffe1:28

       I thought you were talking about the audience in, in-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:30

       No.

   22. THTony Hinchcliffe1:30

       ... that crowd, like the reaction shots.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:31

       Dude, in 1981, this, this movie must have come out in '80 or '81, if I'm guessing correctly. I think we might have looked this up before.

   24. JVJamie Vernon1:42

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:42

       Have we? Yeah. Is it '81? I think I was 14. Um, might have been '82.

   26. JVJamie Vernon1:49

       It was recorded, it was recorded during '81 and '82, so-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:53

       Oh, okay.

   28. JVJamie Vernon1:53

       ... released March 24th, 1982.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:55

       Okay, there you go. So, beginning of '82. So, I was probably 15 then. Fuck, man. I just... I'll never forget, never forget being in that audience, being a young kid, just looking around at all these people laughing so hard.

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe2:08

       That's so... Who took you to that?
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      s- scout camps and, you know, he plays football and he plays baseball, and he's got a bunch of friends that he grew up with, and, and they're all normal. And he's had a girlfriend for the past two years, but he doesn't know if he should make it serious when he goes to college, and ... Come on.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe15:14

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      Come on, man.

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe15:15

      Yeah, he's a whole different-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:16

      He's a different kinda person, man.

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe15:18

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      A kid who went to a normal high school and went to a normal college, and then became 22, versus poor fucking him.

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe15:26

      Right? Pulled outta school.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:27

      Yeah.

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe15:28

       So he don't have real, like, knowledge of-

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       Right.

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe15:30

       ... history, can probably barely read.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:33

       Justin Bieber's what, 23 or something? Probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and probably had girls just launch themselves at him, from the time that he was a little boy, in a way that no one who's not Justin Bieber's ever gonna understand.

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe15:50

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:50

       And yet we're like, "Look at this guy."

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe15:52

       (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:52

       "Such a loser."

   18. THTony Hinchcliffe15:53

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       "Get your shit together, loser." (laughs)

   20. THTony Hinchcliffe15:55

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       Instead of looking at it like a child abuse case.

   22. THTony Hinchcliffe15:58

       Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:59

       It's almost like child abuse. I mean, i- the best kind of abuse ever. Like, p- cry me a river. You got a couple hundred million dollars out of it. Buy a therapist, bro.

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe16:07

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:07

       But, (laughs) but I don't know if a therapist would work. The thing about something like that is, that's the kind of developmentl- ... I sound like a psychologist, someone who barely went to school.

   26. THTony Hinchcliffe16:18

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:19

       But the kinda deme- developmental damage that happens when you don't have to go through all the normal stuff that everyone else did. Like, here's the thing about ... Like, one thing that UFC fighters and comics, a lot of us have in common, is that we had shit lives growing up.

   28. THTony Hinchcliffe16:36

       Mm-hmm.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:37

       You were probably bullied, you felt insecure. I got into martial arts 100% 'cause I was scared people are gonna beat me up.

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe16:42

       Mm-hmm.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Crazy. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      certain amount of people on it, then they used it for something else. It's wild shit, man.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe30:03

      Crazy.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      And we're doing it too, guarantee. Guarantee some... There's some out contras- contracted out company that is doing that for whatever branches of the UF government, US government if not all of them.

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe30:19

      Oh, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:19

      Yeah. We don't know.

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe30:20

      Our government's so good, we're probably the ones that make it look like the Russians are doing it in the first place.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:24

      We're probably hiring Russians-

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe30:26

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:26

      ... and they don't even know they're working for us. They think they're working for Russia, like, "Why does Russia care about Black Lives Matter?" They do. They care. Sorry.

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe30:35

       Who pla- who pays the Internet Research Agency?

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       Exactly.

   12. ... it's Trump, all along. It's like a Scooby-Doo episode, he pulls the mask. (gasps) "It was you, all along."

   13. THTony Hinchcliffe30:44

       (laughs)

   14. (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       "Haha. I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids."

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe30:51

       (laughs)

   17. (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:51

       (laughs) How fucking stupid was that show? You could have, like, a, a little tiny girl, like an eight-year-old girl, you pull her mask off and she's an old man. Like, "Hey, (slaps desk) what the fuck?"

   19. THTony Hinchcliffe31:02

       I saw someone break down that it was really dumb that Shaggy and Scooby ran at the same speeds, because it's a dog and a human being.

   20. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       Oh, yeah.

   21. THTony Hinchcliffe31:09

       Like... (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:09

       And Shaggy was a stoner.

   23. THTony Hinchcliffe31:10

       Yeah. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:11

       He's not in shape.

   25. THTony Hinchcliffe31:12

       Well, I... But someone broke it down, which is also stoner-ish and ridiculous.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:16

       That's true though, but they're onto something. I mean, imagine being high, watch that, "Hey, man."

   27. THTony Hinchcliffe31:20

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       "How the fuck is that dude running as fast as that dog?" "Yeah, man! What the fuck? What the... " They just stand up in the middle of the living room. "What the fuck? How is that dude r-... This is bullshit."

   29. THTony Hinchcliffe31:33

       I think about that stuff a lot. The one that gets me is the Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:38

       That's incredible.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   I see them all…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      slimy and you get arrested and they bring you to... Get charged in Broward County, Florida, ooh, you're fucked, kid.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe45:05

      I see them all the time on, uh, Live PD Broward County. When, when they go to Broward County, it's a great one. You guys ever see that show?

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      No.

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe45:13

      It's unbelievable.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:13

      You love that show. You keep talking about it, you love it. (laughs)

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe45:15

      Oh, it's so great. It, it makes COPS look like fricking Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Like, it's just amped up and they, they just keep it moving. It's beautiful. We go now. They make everything seem super live even though sometimes I'll be watching a rerun, but I'll just pretend like it's live, you know.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:30

      That's funny.

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe45:30

      What's gonna happen next?

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:32

      It's weird how many cop shows there have been and how much we love watching, like, COPS. Like, those kind of shows, like, where, where someone's actually getting arrested.

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe45:39

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:40

       Those shows are captivating for us.

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe45:42

       Nowadays they've gotten famous, like, you know, these counties that they do it in. So sometimes someone will get pulled over or whatever, and like, they'll be all fucked up, like, "Oh, shit, is this Live PD? What's up?" (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:52

       No way.

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe45:52

       And it's always the best.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       That's funny.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe45:54

       Yeah.

   17. One guy I already saw, he's been on it twice. He's like, "I was on it last week." (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       (laughs)

   19. THTony Hinchcliffe45:58

       (laughs)

   20. (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:03

       Oh, that is hilarious.

   22. THTony Hinchcliffe46:06

       Oh.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       Oh my God, that's so stupid. (laughs)

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe46:08

       It could happen to us. I mean, technically it could happen to anybody. Next thing you know you have a camera in your face, and, I mean, what are you gonna do?

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:15

       Yeah, what are you gonna do?

   26. THTony Hinchcliffe46:17

       If you're in one of those areas and you... Get pulled over.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       Well, it's just the business of making rea- you know, air quote, "reality TV" so weird. It's so weird. That's the most reality reality TV, because it's not planned.

   28. THTony Hinchcliffe46:28

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       Like, you know for sure they're not talking to the perps and saying beforehand, "Okay, this is what I want you to do. I want you to pretend that you're taking off and then we follow you and then you hit the brakes." "I'm like, I'm just playing." Just say that.

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe46:41

       Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:12:14

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      Central just is smart enough, as, with all the silliness that they've been accused of, they're smart enough to leave those guys the fuck alone.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:08

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      Just let them keep doing it, you know?

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:11

      You've seen 6 Days to Air.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

      Yes, it's great.

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:14

      Yeah. Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

      Do you remember when they had Mohammed inside a bear costume inside a van with the van door closed, and p- still, people were still mad?

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:27

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

      Do you remember that?

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:32

       No, not exactly.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       Is that what actually Mohammed?

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:36

       I think they did, they went full, yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       Oh, no. Was this recently?

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:40

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       Mohammed getting knocked down by Lincoln? (sighs) Th- uh, no one takes it further than the Muslims though. Like if you even draw our guy.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:50

       Yeah, this is what-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       If you even draw our guy, death. Yes, right, he was in a bear costume too.

   18. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:55

       He's in a costume, yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       If you even draw our guy, death. He'll probably kill you.

   20. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:01

       I don't even know where to begin with that.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

       Well, how about, you know who Salman Rushdie is, right?

   22. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:06

       No, remind me.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:07

       Salman Rushdie was, uh, an author who, uh, wrote a book that wasn't even specifically about Islam.What was it called again? (clears throat)

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:17

       I only remember from that Seinfeld episode where George met him and he's like, "That's Salman Rushdie." And they're like ... Or Kramer did or something. So, I- I don't remember-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:25

       I don't know those name either.

   26. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:25

       ... I don't remember the book. No, I remember him. I don't remember the book. I think that was him.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       But s- ... Whatever the book was there, was a fatwa put out on him, uh, you know, an attack on his life so that he- he had to go into hiding. And he was- he was into hiding, like, forever. People were mad at him for years and years and years.

   28. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:44

       Satanic Verses?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:45

       That's it. Satanic Verses. And people were fu- ... But it d- ... I don't even think it mentions Muhammad in the book.

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:55

       Yeah, I don't get that.

Episode duration: 2:49:00