Joe Rogan Experience #1434 - Trevor Thompson

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   ... Jamie. Three, two,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      ... Jamie. Three, two, one. Boom, and we're live. What's up, Trevor? How are you, brother?

   2. TTTrevor Thompson0:06

      Damn good. How are you, man?

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      I'm good, man. Uh, you're a coffee snob?

   4. TTTrevor Thompson0:08

      Uh, coffee addict.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      Ah. What's the difference? When do you become a snob, like when you go, "Ugh, I wanna drink at Starbucks"?

   6. TTTrevor Thompson0:15

      Hmm. Maybe when you can tell the difference between all the kinds of coffee.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      Can... Oh, yeah. Right. If you could tell, "Oh, this is an Ethiopian."

   8. TTTrevor Thompson0:23

      "This is this, this is that."

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:24

      I guess they're all Ethiopian, right?

   10. TTTrevor Thompson0:25

       Thanks, Joe.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Originally. I learned that from Peter Giuliani. That his name? Giuliano or Giuliani? I had a real coffee expert on here once who dropped the science on me. Cheers, sir.

   12. TTTrevor Thompson0:39

       Cheers. (glasses clinking)

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       Yeah, he dropped some coffee science on us. (slurping) Shout out to Black Rifle Coffee. Whoo.

   14. TTTrevor Thompson0:47

       That's hot.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       Um, yeah, it's good stuff. So what's up, man? How are... You went to the, you did the full comedy store-

   16. TTTrevor Thompson0:52

       I did.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       ... gauntlet last night.

   18. TTTrevor Thompson0:53

       I figured like, "You know, there's a chance he's gonna be there. Let me look it up. Take my buddies." Yeah. It was fun.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       Yeah, we're there all the time. That's, uh, like what I'm saying, it's like the gym, you know. That's where, that's where we train.

   20. TTTrevor Thompson1:06

       You know, and you can see it, and it's rad to see. It's fun to see that kinda training going on with that kinda creative art that you need other people to respond to.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:18

       Yeah, it's a weird art like that.

   22. TTTrevor Thompson1:19

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:20

       You really can't do it in a vacuum.

   24. TTTrevor Thompson1:22

       No, I mean, then you're just talking to yourself. (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:25

       Have y- how many c- have you been to comedy shows before?

   26. TTTrevor Thompson1:27

       A few. Um, actually I went to your show.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:30

       Oh, that was in San Diego, right?

   28. TTTrevor Thompson1:32

       With, with Dode and Fromm and, yeah, yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:32

       Right, right, right, at, uh, Temecula, right?

   30. TTTrevor Thompson1:34

       Yeah.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   (sighs) I don't know.…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      Is there any movie that you watch and you go, "That's pretty goddamn close"?

   2. TTTrevor Thompson15:03

      (sighs) I don't know. They're all, they're all close-ish, you know, but a lot of them are very Hollywoodized.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      Mm.

   4. TTTrevor Thompson15:12

      They have to be.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      Yeah.

   6. TTTrevor Thompson15:13

      I ge- I get it.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      Right.

   8. TTTrevor Thompson15:15

      You know, I understand. They're telling a story.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:17

      Right.

   10. TTTrevor Thompson15:17

       You know, unless they're doing a documentary, it's just a story. But, like, I, I can say that Saving Private Ryan was super close.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       Hmm.

   12. TTTrevor Thompson15:26

       Not, obviously, I wasn't for that. But my dad's dad said he had to step out of the theater when he went to go see that-

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:34

       Whoa.

   14. TTTrevor Thompson15:35

       ... because he could smell diesel. He remembered it. It was that strong of a memory for him.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:39

       Phew.

   16. TTTrevor Thompson15:40

       (laughs) Yeah. So-

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       Fuck. Was he at Normandy?

   18. TTTrevor Thompson15:44

       No, he, uh, he did combat landings in the South Pacific with the Marine Corps.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       (exhales) That fucking opening scene when they, when they're on the beach, like-

   20. TTTrevor Thompson15:52

       Yeah, it's, it's, it's tough.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       Fucking nuts, man.

   22. TTTrevor Thompson15:55

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       The idea that that was the only way that they could handle that situation, that they had to do it that way.

   24. TTTrevor Thompson16:00

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       I mean, imagine being one of those guys that has to get off those boats.

   26. TTTrevor Thompson16:03

       That was their, that was their good/better/best scenario.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       Yeah.

   28. TTTrevor Thompson16:06

       Like, "Yeah, this is, this is how this has to happen."

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       (exhales) How many people died that day?

   30. TTTrevor Thompson16:12

       Thousands. Uh, I'm not positive on that, but it was thousands of people perished that day.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   I feel so bad.…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      kind of human or-

   2. TTTrevor Thompson30:01

      I feel so bad.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      ... a different kind of, uh, intelligent creature that you're-

   4. TTTrevor Thompson30:04

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      ... keeping in a fucking swimming pool.

   6. TTTrevor Thompson30:06

      I, I feel so bad for all of them in not just, like, not just the aquariums, but, like, zoos too. It kills me.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:14

      Mm-hmm.

   8. TTTrevor Thompson30:14

      Like, you go somewhere and-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:16

      Yeah.

   10. TTTrevor Thompson30:17

       ... like, "Oh, there's a polar bear. That's really cool. They painted the whole-"... place like it's snow.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:21

       Yeah, meanwhile it's fucking 80 degrees outside in Santa Rosa.

   12. TTTrevor Thompson30:23

       65 degrees out, yeah. It's like, come on.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       Yeah.

   14. TTTrevor Thompson30:26

       Now, I understand they're doing a lot of good work in the back end, but-

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:28

       Yeah.

   16. TTTrevor Thompson30:28

       ... do we really need to put them on display, like-

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       I know, it's weird.

   18. TTTrevor Thompson30:31

       ... like a, a gift shop?

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       I went to this, uh, Wolf Connection recently, um, which is a, like a wolf sanctuary out near, uh, Palmdale and, um, these people are doing great work. They're really nice people. They're taking care of these wolves and, uh, it's mostly Black people get wolves and try to keep them as pets and they realize they can't.

   20. TTTrevor Thompson30:50

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       They can't control them at all.

   22. TTTrevor Thompson30:50

       The like quarter wolf or eighth wolf type of animal?

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       Some of them, but most of them are like seven-eighths wolf.

   24. TTTrevor Thompson30:56

       Okay.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       Like there's a lot of wolf in a lot of them. One of them was like all wolf.

   26. TTTrevor Thompson30:59

       Oh my God.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:59

       A couple of them were all wolf. But you feel bad when you're out there because you want those fucking things to be free.

   28. TTTrevor Thompson31:04

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:05

       Like you see them and you're like, I, I love the fact that you're taking care of them. I love the fact that you care.

   30. TTTrevor Thompson31:09

       But-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Mm. I saw that.…

   1. TTTrevor Thompson45:00

      doing, but I hit both of those bears right in the boilermaker.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      Mm. I saw that. I saw that. Yeah. I saw the video of it. And when you, when you were eating those bears, how weird did that feel?

   3. TTTrevor Thompson45:13

      It was, it was incredible. I... So, I didn't grow up in a h- in a family that hunted. Um, not out of moral or ethical. We just... You know, I grew up in LA, so... (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:22

      Mm-hmm.

   5. TTTrevor Thompson45:24

      What am I gonna hunt? House cats? Like-

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:25

      Right.

   7. TTTrevor Thompson45:26

      There's not a lot out here.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:27

      Pigeons?

   9. TTTrevor Thompson45:27

      Yeah. Pigeons. Um, so it w- it felt really cool, and for me, I immediately fell in love with the entire process. The amount of practice it takes, how difficult it is, what it's like to share that meat with other people.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:43

       Mm. That's a big one, right?

   11. TTTrevor Thompson45:44

       I- I- I've been giving away so much meat and I'm more than happy to. I, I really enjoy it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:51

       Yeah, I do too. I try to explain that to people. Like, some of my best enjoyable moments when I get, like, um, a, a text message from someone like my friend Michael Yeo.

   13. TTTrevor Thompson45:59

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:59

       I gave him a bunch of meat and he's like, "Dude, this is fucking delicious." Or my friend Tom Papa will send me photos of these, uh, like, elk roasts that he cooks.

   15. TTTrevor Thompson46:07

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:07

       It's nice.

   17. TTTrevor Thompson46:08

       It's phenomenal.

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       Yeah.

   19. TTTrevor Thompson46:10

       So to be able to do that, that feeling is so hard to describe to somebody, with something that start to finish, you're responsible for the entire thing.

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       Yeah. Yeah. Being a provider, it's a very underappreciated thing, like being able to provide for people-

   21. TTTrevor Thompson46:27

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:27

       ... and give them something that's like... It's, it's very intimate. When you give someone, like, a, a package of meat from something that you shot yourself, like-

   23. TTTrevor Thompson46:35

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:35

       ... "Hey, this is coming to you from Montana." Like, uh, "Cook it up well."

   25. TTTrevor Thompson46:38

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:39

       "Thank you."

   27. TTTrevor Thompson46:40

       Uh, you know-

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       "Send me pictures."

   29. TTTrevor Thompson46:42

       It feels so cool to do it.

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:43

       Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:10:35

   Dude. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      animal that people associate with cuddliness and warmness, and this mean little teddy bear.

   2. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:06

      Dude.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:07

      Like, "How could you kill a bear?"

   4. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:09

      And they are fucking tough and terrifying.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:11

      Yeah.

   6. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:12

      I got ... I shot a big boar this last spring, and when we got up to that thing, he had scars all over his face-

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

      Mm-hmm.

   8. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:19

      ... and bruises when we skinned him. I'm like, "Dude, this fucker was just in ... He just fought another bear."

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

      Yeah. They went to war.

   10. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:25

       Yeah. Like, a war. They're terrifying.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

       Did you find a photo of a black grizzly bear?

   12. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:31

       It's v- very hard for Google to understand what I'm looking for, looking for ... It just wants to give me black bear, over and over again.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:37

       Oh.

   14. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:38

       Uh-huh. Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       Oh, okay.

   16. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:38

       The American black bear look, looks like a grizzly bear but-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       Hmm. Okay.

   18. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:42

       Yeah. I mean, that's, I'll show you what I'm finding but-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

       But they do maybe color phase grizzly bear?

   20. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:45

       It's just a black bear, so.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       Yeah. Did you see that black bear that they shot in New Jersey that was 700 pounds last week?

   22. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:51

       What? The fuck?

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       Yeah, yeah.

   24. TTTrevor Thompson1:00:53

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

       700 pounds. Yeah, uh, the world record b- I, I might not have been last week, but the last week it was in the, in the stories. They were, were talking about this guy.

   26. TTTrevor Thompson1:01:00

       That's insane.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       They've established that it's a world record, world record black bear taken with a bow in New Jersey.

   28. TTTrevor Thompson1:01:06

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       New Jersey apparently has the highest population of black bears in the entire country, in the c- entire North America.

   30. TTTrevor Thompson1:01:11

       Well, there's nothing to jack with them.

Episode duration: 2:49:04