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Joe Rogan Experience #1449 Bryan Callen

#1449. Bryan Callen is an actor and stand-up comedian, and together with Brendan Schaub he also hosts “The Fighter & The Kid” podcast. @TheFighterAndTheKid

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Mar 27, 20202h 47mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:013:39

    Range day banter: “tactical shooter,” tiny targets, and Steven Seagal movie lore

    1. JR

      Yeehaw!

    2. BC

      Here we are. My, my, my-

    3. JR

      Are you a shooter?

    4. BC

      Well, dude, my ears are, are covered for the second time today. I'm just gonna say that.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. BC

      And I'm a, I'm a... Ask me like you... Ask me if... What'd you-

    7. JR

      Are you a shooter?

    8. BC

      That's funny. I'm a tactical-

    9. JR

      Are you an operator or something?

    10. BC

      I'm a tactical shooter, bro. I'm a tactical shooter.

    11. JR

      So you ever done... We did, we went to Tarrant Tactical today and, and, uh-

    12. BC

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      ... Brian Cowan learned the ins and outs.

    14. BC

      Learned how to lean forward.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. BC

      Had some Navy SEAL instruction as well.

    17. JR

      Yeah. How to hold the pistol correctly.

    18. BC

      By Bubba Corraler. Yeah.

    19. JR

      How'd you feel?

    20. BC

      I love it.

    21. JR

      Fun, right?

    22. BC

      I've been doing it in my head forever.

    23. JR

      Oh, in your head?

    24. BC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      That doesn't really work, does it?

    26. BC

      I've rehearsed, I've rehearsed killing a gang many times.

    27. JR

      Pfft. A whole gang?

    28. BC

      Being surrounded. Sure. Lean in, kikiki. And I go like this.

    29. JR

      Why don't you shoot them in the knee and rehabilitate them?

    30. BC

      Oh, that's such a good idea. I... Because they don't have knee targets. If they had just a bunch of knees-

  2. 3:396:48

    Horse fantasies to real wilderness inspiration: Dick Proenneke and living off-grid

    1. JR

      You should have, uh... Do, do you know about this guy, his name is Dick Proenneke? And, uh, he was a guy who lived in Alaska by himself in a cabin that he built for decades.

    2. BC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      And he moved out there when he's 50 years old. He got tired of life...

    4. BC

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... and just the, the way everything was, the fast pace of modern life. So this guy decided... This guy, amazing videos on YouTube.

    6. BC

      Hmm.

    7. JR

      This guy built his own house out there in Alaska. Uh, fashioned it out of logs.

    8. BC

      Wow.

    9. JR

      There's like a video of him doing the whole thing, filmed everything.

    10. BC

      Wow.

    11. JR

      Filmed all of his interactions with animals.

    12. BC

      Hmm.

    13. JR

      Birds would come and land on his hand and he would feed them.

    14. BC

      Really?

    15. JR

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    16. BC

      Wow.

    17. JR

      He was you.

    18. BC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      He literally is you.

    20. BC

      Splitting wood.

    21. JR

      Stoic.

    22. BC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      By himself and wrote.

    24. BC

      You know me. Stoic and real solitary.

    25. JR

      Oh, yeah. And s- you know, real c- measured with his words.

    26. BC

      Of course. (laughs)

    27. JR

      And, uh, it's everything you want to be.

    28. BC

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      And he would sit, and every night, he would write. And he would write about his experiences and, and the, the deep satisfaction that he got off of living that kind of a life.

    30. BC

      Right.

  3. 6:488:41

    Prepper cabin daydreams: gardens, chickens, anti-aging labs, and “splitting wood shirtless”

    1. BC

      'Cause I got ... This corona thing caught me with my pants down.

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. BC

      I want... Here's what I want. I want a... I want a substantial cabin made of thick logs or stone, and then I want it near a lake or a water source, maybe preferably a, a well-

    4. JR

      Yeah, there's-

    5. BC

      ... that I can irrigate my own crops.

    6. JR

      You gonna have crops?

    7. BC

      I'm gonna have chicken.

    8. JR

      Or a garden?

    9. BC

      I need chickens.

    10. JR

      You really only need a garden. You don't need crops.

    11. BC

      I, I, I ... Okay.

    12. JR

      It's just you.

    13. BC

      I need a garden.

    14. JR

      Is it just you?

    15. BC

      Yes. Well, it might be me and my, my ... several, several of my-

    16. JR

      Lady friends?

    17. BC

      My lady friends, because I'm gonna start my own colony so I have to breed.

    18. JR

      Hmm.

    19. BC

      You understand?

    20. JR

      Okay.

    21. BC

      And I need, I need a lot of hair and, uh, beard dye 'cause I wanna stay looking young.

    22. JR

      What if they come up with something that reverses you in age?

    23. BC

      Now you're talking my language.

    24. JR

      How old would you like to go back to?

    25. BC

      David Sinclair will actually have a cabin on the side.

    26. JR

      (laughs) He'd be right next to you doing experiments.

    27. BC

      Yeah. I'm gonna have his fucking lab and I'm gonna be his guinea pig.

    28. JR

      Yeah, you'd be the guy.

    29. BC

      Yeah. David, come out. Come on out. And I'll just entice him-

    30. JR

      He'd come ... Just hang out.

  4. 8:4111:52

    Working dogs, police K9 damage, and predator fights: mountain lions vs wolves

    1. BC

      Yeah. Yeah. They don't use ... The cops, I heard, don't use mastiffs or even Rottweilers-

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. BC

      ... 'cause they do too much damage.

    4. JR

      They don't let go.

    5. BC

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      They don't like to let go.

    7. BC

      Yeah. Then you got a major lawsuit on your hands.

    8. JR

      Yes.

    9. BC

      You can't have something bite your fucking hand off.

    10. JR

      Well, I was watching a fucking video of a guy in San Diego who got arrested by these cops, and the cops couldn't get the German shepherd off his arm.

    11. BC

      (exhales)

    12. JR

      The German shepherd's clamped on this guy's forearm and this guy's screaming-

    13. BC

      Ugh.

    14. JR

      ... and they're pulling on the dog and the dog's pulling on the meat of his arm.

    15. BC

      You gotta choke the dog. You don't pull on the dog.

    16. JR

      Bro, they weren't interested in choking the dog. Apparently, they thought this guy was a bad person-

    17. BC

      Oh.

    18. JR

      ... and they were letting this dog chew this guy's arm up. And you get permanent nerve damage.

    19. BC

      Oh, yeah.

    20. JR

      I mean, it's just-

    21. BC

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      ... devastating to the tissue in your forearm.

    23. BC

      I've seen video of it where I said ...

    24. JR

      Oh.

    25. BC

      ... I said to the cop who showed it to me, I said, "Why didn't that guy," who's this giant AWOL, he went AWOL, just giant, uh ... He used to be a special forces guy and he just went crazy. And they let that dog loose on ... 'Cause they had two cops that he was fighting off and they let this, this wolf, this fucking wolf loose-

    26. JR

      Ugh.

    27. BC

      ... and grabbed the dude on the top of his arm. He had huge arms, like Brennan Schaub, like big arms.

    28. JR

      (groans)

    29. BC

      Grabbed, grabbed the guy and the guy just ... I ... In the middle of his craze, he looked at the dog and then just went ... He froze and went down. And I said, "Why isn't he punching?" And he goes, "Because you shut down." Because when he bit that arm, that arm went numb. You can't use that arm. That's a fucking wolf.

    30. JR

      Well, it's not about the pain.

  5. 11:5214:46

    Wildlife management debates: Cecil the lion, elephant culls, and “birth control for deer”

    1. JR

      Well, that was an issue after the dentist-

    2. BC

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JR

      The dentist shot that lion with a name.

    4. BC

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Remember that lion with a name?

    6. BC

      Cecil.

    7. JR

      Cecil. And then, um, do you know that they were worried that Cecil's brother Jericho was killed? But no worries, it was a lion that didn't have a name. So ...

    8. BC

      (sighs) Oh, fuck.

    9. JR

      ... were so close. Literally, I read an article that were being serious about that.

    10. BC

      (laughs) So was I.

    11. JR

      They were being serious. There was a real concern that Cecil's brother, Jericho, had also been killed-

    12. BC

      (laughs)

    13. JR

      ... but turned out not to be true. Like-

    14. BC

      Try to be nuts.

    15. JR

      ... like, as if it's the real Lion King.

    16. BC

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      Anyway, when (laughs) -

    18. BC

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      ... when they killed that lion, uh, when that dentist killed that lion, well they then, after that, had, uh, this, this thing, this w- international outcry where n- nobody wanted to go there and hunt lions, 'cause they didn't want to be the next guy that gets targeted like that dentist. So because of that, they had to slaughter a large number of lions.

    20. BC

      I'm sure.

    21. JR

      Just find out how they-

    22. BC

      All the dudes-

    23. JR

      ... The posts-

    24. BC

      ... people who don't have any idea what, what it is to sustain-

    25. JR

      I'm just, just, the number was crazy. It was something like, it'd be, I don't remember if it was 50 or 500.

    26. BC

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      But it was like, they had to kill them, and instead of getting $50,000 per lion, like they're accustomed to getting when people-

    28. BC

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      ... 'cause they have all these lions, the lions had decimated the ungulate population.

    30. BC

      Of course.

  6. 14:4619:06

    Tiger King, anti-aging IVs, and Rogan’s old tiger bits: comedy craft and “becoming the thing”

    1. BC

      Well, w- after watching Tiger King, what is your take on-

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. BC

      ... keeping, uh-

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. BC

      ... tigers as pets?

    6. JR

      It's ridiculous. First of all, I only watched one half of one episode. I had to pause.

    7. BC

      Oh.

    8. JR

      I had to pause. Uh, Jamie and I were getting NAD, uh, IV drips.

    9. BC

      Oh.

    10. JR

      Which is pretty fucking amazing.

    11. BC

      What is NAD?

    12. JR

      Uh, that's the stuff that David Sinclair was talking about.

    13. BC

      Well, let's get-

    14. JR

      The anti-aging.

    15. BC

      Oh, Bri on the, on-

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. BC

      ... on the NAD train.

    18. JR

      Oh, Bri might be a little cheap. It's expensive.

    19. BC

      Oh, yeah?

    20. JR

      Yeah, it costs, it costs a pretty penny.

    21. BC

      I wanna live forever.

    22. JR

      Okay, well, we'll-

    23. BC

      What, what did it-

    24. JR

      We'll talk afterwards.

    25. BC

      Okay.

    26. JR

      I don't know. I've done two, and I feel pretty good. You feel any different, Jamie?

    27. GF

      Yeah, no, I, I can probably say I feel pretty good.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. GF

      Especially-

    30. JR

      Feel pretty good.

  7. 19:0621:35

    Acting psychology and “you can tell politics by shoes”: footwear, identity, and Schaub jokes

    1. BC

      Jeffrey Tambor, who's won a bunch of Emmys for, you know, Transparent and all that, he said that he, for him, it was about shoes. He'd have to figure out what kind of shoes. Like, he'd have to feel it first in his feet, which makes sense.

    2. JR

      Oh, wow.

    3. BC

      Like, when you wear sneakers and, or you wear, uh, leather-soled shoes, you feel different. You're not as secure in leather-soled shoes. You-

    4. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    5. BC

      You automatically become more formal when your toes are pushed together, you know, when you're constrained like that.

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. BC

      It's a weird thing to think, but it, it does change you.

    8. JR

      Yeah, you can't even move good in-

    9. BC

      No.

    10. JR

      ... leather-soled, soled shoes. They're slippery.

    11. BC

      Correct. So if you, that's why, if you see people... I can tell a lot about somebody by their footwear.

    12. JR

      Hmm.

    13. BC

      If they're wearing sandals-

    14. JR

      We-

    15. BC

      ... typically, I can tell you what their political bent is.

    16. JR

      (clears throat) What about me?

    17. BC

      Those are, those are, those are dad sneakers, I don't give a fuck, game over, and I do what I want, Joe Rogan shoes.

    18. JR

      You don't know Chuck's shit.

    19. BC

      No, I like them.

    20. JR

      These are trail runners.

    21. BC

      I know what they are.

    22. JR

      What are they?

    23. BC

      They're trail runners.

    24. JR

      These are Salomons.

    25. BC

      They're excellent shoes. I-

    26. JR

      SpeedCross.

    27. BC

      I know all about them 'cause I'm a barber for-

    28. JR

      You run hills with these. See that?

    29. BC

      ... when we're, when we were gonna go hunting with Ranella, I know all about those shoes.

    30. JR

      See traction? They're awesome. It says Tread.

  8. 21:3531:50

    Suppressors, loud rifles, archery triggers, and why crossbows are “a shitty gun”

    1. BC

      Andy Stumpf, Andy Stumpf, I did his, uh, podcast-

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. BC

      ... and he had me... He wanted to see what kind of a tactical asshole I am. (laughs)

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. BC

      And he had me watch vid, vid, you know, film-

    6. JR

      Oh, wearing a shirt.

    7. BC

      Oh, yeah.

    8. JR

      Cleared Hot.

    9. BC

      Cleared Hot. Great, great podcast.

    10. JR

      He was on last week. I love him.

    11. BC

      The best, the best. And, um, he, he had me, like, look at, like, different movie scenes and break down what was wrong. I was wrong all... (laughs) I was completely wrong about everything. I thought, I thought that when you shot a gun with a suppressor, it was like, "Pff, pff."

    12. JR

      No, it's pretty, pretty loud, pretty loud.

    13. BC

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      You've never shot a gun with a suppressor?

    15. BC

      I have, actually, uh, in Utah, but-

    16. JR

      It's loud.

    17. BC

      I was wearing earphones, ear, ear...

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. BC

      So I couldn't, you know?

    20. JR

      But it's nothing like a, like a rifle.

    21. BC

      No.

    22. JR

      Like, when we were hunting in, um, Prince of Wales, I had that gun with the muzzle break.

    23. BC

      (laughs) So loud. Oh, my God.

    24. JR

      Yeah, it's a seven millimeter Remington Ultramag. It's a very loud gun.

    25. BC

      Dude, that's so loud outside, it can hurt your ear. They say if you-

    26. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    27. BC

      They say if you're too close to that, it, you can di- damage your ears permanently.

    28. JR

      100%. Yeah.

    29. BC

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      My, one of my friends, um, there was a guy who, uh, shot near him, shot too close to his ear. So, he was a, he's a guide. And this guy apparently, like, went to swing, like the, the animal was close by, like he's here, the animal's close by, or something, something happened, where it shot really close to his head and blew his ears out.

  9. 31:5037:46

    Cars as tech black boxes: Porsche engine visibility, Tesla speed, and buying the ‘right’ vehicle

    1. JR

      You ever see what it looks like when they open up a brand new nine- like, 992, uh, 2020 Porsche?

    2. BC

      No.

    3. JR

      The hood? Pull up, opening up the hood on a 2020 Porsche. It's the most ridiculous thing ever.

    4. BC

      Really?

    5. JR

      E- you have no idea what anything is.

    6. BC

      God.

    7. JR

      You have no, no-

    8. BC

      Even someone like you who knows a lot about cars?

    9. JR

      I have no idea what's in there.

    10. BC

      (laughs)

    11. JR

      I have no idea.

    12. BC

      Technology. (laughs)

    13. JR

      You can't even see anything. You get, you get this much of a view-

    14. BC

      (laughs) What?

    15. JR

      ... to the engine. Oh, yeah. The, the view into, when you open up the back, because it's a rear engine car. A Porsche is most, probably one of the most sophisticated, technologically advanced cars ever built, right? Because they've been refining the design since the 1960s. Pop up the rear trunk and look inside at the engine. Or it's not a trunk, it's the hood. Whatever. Look inside at the engine. You don't know what the fuck that is. It's two fans. You see two fans.

    16. BC

      Jesus.

    17. JR

      That's what you see. You see two fans.

    18. BC

      Jesus.

    19. JR

      Yeah. What, what's, what's going on there? I don't know. I better take it to a place with computers to fucking get it-

    20. BC

      Well, you need software, right?

    21. JR

      Yeah. Yeah.

    22. BC

      You need software to tune it up and all that shit.

    23. JR

      Yeah. You have no idea. You have to l- it's, literally, you have to, they have to plug a machine into it with, which analyzes the system.

    24. BC

      God damn.

    25. JR

      And then the machine's going, "Hey, well, fucking, this is fucked and that's fucked and this is falling apart."

    26. BC

      When are they gonna do that with-

    27. JR

      People.

    28. BC

      ... yeah.

    29. JR

      Soon.

    30. BC

      Really?

  10. 37:4651:11

    Overlanding and escape planning: trucks, vans, buses, and buying land with water

    1. BC

      Yeah, but you know, I need something for the next pandemic.

    2. JR

      It drives so well.

    3. BC

      I need something for the next pandemic. I need something to get... I, I gotta... I wanna get an Airstream.

    4. JR

      You want a Land Cruiser like mine?

    5. BC

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      That's it. That...

    7. BC

      But I need, I need something I can kinda live in too. I'm gonna get a gol- an Airstream.

    8. JR

      There. Living. You want something you can get away from everybody in too.

    9. BC

      That's right.

    10. JR

      You can't get away in an Airstream. You gotta leave that thing there and then it becomes a liability.

    11. BC

      That's true.

    12. JR

      You want something you can overland in, son.

    13. BC

      Overland?

    14. JR

      Overland in.

    15. BC

      That's a good idea.

    16. JR

      It's a whole thing they do.

    17. BC

      I like the way that sounds.

    18. JR

      It's just overlanders. My, uh, Land Cruiser that was built by Icon, the rear seat comes out. So the rear seat has these p- uh, these... They made it for me. So there's this... You just pull these levers, click, click. Pull the rear seat out and you can sleep in that motherfucker if you had to.

    19. BC

      Yeah. Expensive.

    20. JR

      It costs money.

    21. BC

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      Things cost money.

    23. BC

      That's fine.

    24. JR

      You wanna hire artisans and craftsmen and-

    25. BC

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      ... and geniuses to design things-

    27. BC

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      ... and build things for you? It costs money.

    29. BC

      Maybe just regular-

    30. JR

      You wanna get paid too, right?

  11. 51:111:00:26

    Colorado dreams and predator politics: Evergreen, altitude realities, and wolves as a ‘balance’ fight

    1. JR

      (clicks tongue) These idiots are thinking about moving, uh, wolves into Colorado. They're talking about doing that.

    2. BC

      That's not a bad idea, right?

    3. JR

      Mm-mm.

    4. BC

      Didn't- didn't, uh, moving wolves into Yellowstone, uh, increase the population of everything?

    5. JR

      (clicks tongue) No. No, it did not.

    6. BC

      Is that a lie?

    7. JR

      No. Yes, it is.

    8. BC

      It is. I watched that video.

    9. JR

      Yes, yes. Oh yeah, the- the, "Wolves changed rivers"?

    10. BC

      Yes.

    11. JR

      Yeah. A lot of other factors-

    12. BC

      Okay.

    13. JR

      ... that that guy didn't take into con- consideration in terms of m- moving rivers. One of the things was beavers. They imported beavers-

    14. BC

      Oh.

    15. JR

      ... into, uh, Yellowstone. There's a, many, many factors.

    16. BC

      Okay.

    17. JR

      But they did reduce the ungulate population, which you could say was out of proportion.

    18. BC

      What's an ungulate?

    19. JR

      Ungulate is cows, elk, you know, uh-

    20. BC

      The ungulate.

    21. JR

      Cows. Yeah.

    22. BC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      Uh, uh, ruminants, you know, animals-

    24. BC

      Ruminants, ruminants.

    25. JR

      Ruminants. Yeah, animals that eat grass.

    26. BC

      Ruminants, ruminants.

    27. JR

      What- whatever it is.

    28. BC

      I like saying ruminant.

    29. JR

      Yeah. The- the animals that you hunt, the deer and elk.

    30. BC

      Yeah.

  12. 1:00:261:15:19

    From sex stores to porn taboo: why it’s judged yet universal, and the disease angle

    1. JR

      "Well, eeh, eeh, eeh." Well, it used to be DVDs. I remember it used to be, like... You remember when peos- people used to buy porn DVDs? There was a day... You fucking kids today are so spoiled.

    2. BC

      And VHS porn.

    3. JR

      Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember that.

    4. BC

      That was when I used to watch porn. You know, I, I never... And this is all bullshit aside. And I'm, not because I'm a good boy. I never watched porn... I never ever watched porn because it doesn't do a thing for me.

    5. JR

      Really?

    6. BC

      I, I don't know what it is. I just... No, I swear to God.

    7. JR

      'Cause you're tired from fucking all the time.

    8. BC

      I thought about... I thought about that the other day. I was like, "I haven't watched porn in-"

    9. JR

      Three days? (laughs)

    10. BC

      ... since I was 52. Uh-

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. BC

      ... I, I haven't watched porn in so many years.

    13. JR

      Because you're tired from all your fucking.

    14. BC

      Yeah, all my banging.

    15. JR

      Because you're fucking.

    16. BC

      'Cause I fuck. 'Cause I fuck.

    17. JR

      Porn is a, an oddly polarizing subject because every... It's a wei- it's one of the weirdest things ever, if you really stop and think about it, because mostly everyone who's healthy enjoys sex, whether it's straight sex or gay sex or what kind of sex you like. If you're healthy and you're young, even if you're not young, if you're healthy, your body works well-

    18. BC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      ... you like sex. But yet filming it-

    20. BC

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... is so taboo.

    22. BC

      I know. I think it's because-

    23. JR

      So taboo.

    24. BC

      I- i- it is taboo, and I've thought a lot about that. It's... I think it's because we inherently know typically that the person doing it-... putting themselves on camera, it is a form of suicide. And, and, and, and what I mean by that-

    25. JR

      Wow.

    26. BC

      ... is it's a form of, it's a way of ensuring that you keep yourself out of certain segments of society, right?

    27. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    28. BC

      And maybe it's residue from when, when sex was downright dangerous, pregnancy, disease that we didn't have cures for. I think sex had to have a lot of taboos.

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