Joe Rogan Experience #1481 - Adam Eget

Joe Rogan 0:00 Duh, duh, duh. (hand slaps) Adam motherfucking Egott.

Adam Eget 0:06 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 0:06 How are you, buddy?

Adam Eget 0:06 How are you, brother?

Joe Rogan 0:07 Good to see you, my friend.

Adam Eget 0:07 Good to see you. Thanks for having me on.

Joe Rogan 0:09 Please. I'm, I'm excited to see you.

Adam Eget 0:12 Dude, I'm-

Joe Rogan 0:12 It feels like a-

Adam Eget 0:12 ... I, I haven't seen anybody.

Joe Rogan 0:14 I know, it's like, uh, your long lost friend. Like-

Adam Eget 0:16 It, it feels that way.

Joe Rogan 0:17 Yeah.

Adam Eget 0:17 But it also feels like you're literally, like, the only person I've seen. I haven't s-

Joe Rogan 0:22 Oh, you haven't left the house?

Adam Eget 0:23 Not much. I go out on daily walks, but-

Joe Rogan 0:26 Oh, no.

Adam Eget 0:26 ... and I don't really see anybody.

Joe Rogan 0:27 That's not good for the mental health.

Adam Eget 0:28 It's not good at all.

Joe Rogan 0:29 How you feeling? You all right?

Adam Eget 0:30 Yeah, I'm okay.

Joe Rogan 0:31 Yeah?

Adam Eget 0:31 I'm watching a lot of Korean baseball and, uh-

Joe Rogan 0:34 (laughs) Why Korean baseball?

Adam Eget 0:36 'Cause it's the only live sport available.

Joe Rogan 0:38 Oh, they're playing in Korea already.

Adam Eget 0:39 Oh, it's wild. There's stands. The s- you know, stadiums are empty, but they have, like, cardboard cutouts. They have-

Joe Rogan 0:44 Oh, no, they don't.

Adam Eget 0:45 ... cheerleaders with masks and, like, DJs.

Joe Rogan 0:47 Really?

Adam Eget 0:47 It's hilarious.

Joe Rogan 0:49 Oh, wow.

Adam Eget 0:49 But it's great. It's fun.

Joe Rogan 0:51 Weird. That's so weird.

Adam Eget 0:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 0:52 So they use cardboard cutouts in the audience?

Adam Eget 0:54 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 0:55 Oh, that's so st- that's t-

Adam Eget 0:55 And just in, like, the front where the cameras are behind home plate.

Joe Rogan 0:58 Oh, that's too strange.

Adam Eget 0:59 Oh, it's hilarious.

Joe Rogan 1:00 I think I saw that in a movie once. There was a b- a baseball movie, and you could clearly see that there was cutouts.

Adam Eget 1:06 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:06 'Cause have you ever seen what happens when they take old movies and then they port them over to, like, Blu-ray?

Adam Eget 1:11 No.

Joe Rogan 1:12 Oh. One of the best example is Aliens, the second-

Adam Eget 1:17 That's my favorite action movie of all time.

Joe Rogan 1:19 It's a great fucking movie.

Adam Eget 1:20 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:20 It's a great fucking movie. I don't think it's as good a horror movie as the original one.

Adam Eget 1:24 No, it's not a horror movie.

Joe Rogan 1:25 'Cause the first one's a horror movie.

Adam Eget 1:26 Same with me. Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:26 Yeah, it's James Cameron. It's just fucking guns blazing. Ahh. Ta-ta-ta.

Adam Eget 1:29 It doesn't stop.

Joe Rogan 1:30 Never stops.

Adam Eget 1:31 It's the most adrenaline fueled movie I've ever seen from beginning to end. It just keeps progressively getting more intense and more intense.

Joe Rogan 1:37 And you know what's great about those movies? The hero is a woman, and no one gives a fuck-

Adam Eget 1:43 Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:43 ... 'cause they're so good, there's no, there's no, like, "Oh yeah, it's a diverse movie."

Adam Eget 1:48 Exactly.

Joe Rogan 1:48 "It's amazing for women."

Adam Eget 1:50 It's not Captain Marvel.

Joe Rogan 1:50 "It's a big moment for wo-" No.

Adam Eget 1:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:52 No, it's just Sigourney Weaver being a fucking badass fighting the most evil monster movies have ever created.

Adam Eget 2:00 (laughs) Yep.

Joe Rogan 2:01 Fuck yeah.

Adam Eget 2:02 That's the best.

Joe Rogan 2:03 You know? Yeah, but I love-

Adam Eget 2:04 I love it.

Joe Rogan 2:05 ... I love that kind of, like, gender equality when it's just equal-

Adam Eget 2:09 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 2:09 ... because it's awesome and nobody even brings it up.

Adam Eget 2:12 Exactly. Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2.

Joe Rogan 2:14 Yes! Perfect example.

Adam Eget 2:14 It's like, are you fucking kidding me?

Joe Rogan 2:16 Perfect.

Adam Eget 2:16 You don't need to bring it up.

Joe Rogan 2:17 Bro, when she's, when she's doing the chin-ups, (grunts) and you see her fucking back. (grunts)

Adam Eget 2:21 Just intense.

Joe Rogan 2:22 She's like, "I'm gonna fucking kill you." (grunts)

Adam Eget 2:24 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 2:25 It's amazing. Yeah, amazing. That's what I, I like how... Like, you, you watch Ozark?

Adam Eget 2:30 No. I tried.

Joe Rogan 2:31 Do it.

Adam Eget 2:31 I watched the first four episodes and then I didn't.

Joe Rogan 2:34 Oh, it's so good.

Adam Eget 2:34 Okay.

Joe Rogan 2:34 It's so good.

Adam Eget 2:34 I have to get back into Ozark.

Joe Rogan 2:35 The two scariest bitches are women. The two scariest ladies in the show.

Adam Eget 2:40 Okay.

Joe Rogan 2:40 The two scariest people on the show are two women.

Adam Eget 2:43 Not Laura Linney?

Joe Rogan 2:44 No.

Adam Eget 2:45 Okay.

Joe Rogan 2:45 No, but she's fucking great too. She's k-

Adam Eget 2:46 She's great in everything she's done.

Joe Rogan 2:47 She's kind of scary too.

Adam Eget 2:48 Oh, is she?

Joe Rogan 2:48 She's kind of scary too.

Adam Eget 2:50 All right.

Joe Rogan 2:50 And the, the, the decisions they're willing to make.

Adam Eget 2:52 That's funny.

Joe Rogan 2:52 Here's, here's Linda Hamilton doing chin-ups. Fucking run.

Adam Eget 2:54 Dude, she's intense.

Joe Rogan 2:54 This is pre-CrossFit, bitches.

Adam Eget 2:57 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 2:57 There was no CrossFit back then. She was a goddamn pioneer.

Adam Eget 3:00 Incredible. She's so-

Joe Rogan 3:01 She's like, "I'm not gonna fucking die."

Adam Eget 3:03 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 3:04 She's doing chin-ups.

Adam Eget 3:04 In the first one, I had a huge crush on her, and in the second one, she terrified me. She was-

Joe Rogan 3:08 Oh, yeah.

Adam Eget 3:08 ... so fucking awesome.

Joe Rogan 3:09 She's fierce.

Adam Eget 3:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 3:10 Well, she became more fierce, right? She adapted to the world of the Terminators, which doesn't seem that far off from where we're at right now.

Adam Eget 3:18 Not at all.

Joe Rogan 3:18 We're like closing in on Terminator time.

Adam Eget 3:20 Oh, definitely.

Joe Rogan 3:21 Dude, there's a working, uh, article I was reading today about a bionic eye that will be available in five years that will be superior to a biological eye.

Adam Eget 3:30 That's insane.

Joe Rogan 3:31 Insane. Within five years. And I was gonna send it to Michael Bisping.

Adam Eget 3:36 Yeah, that's like, how do they even make-

Joe Rogan 3:38 I'm gonna send it to him.

Adam Eget 3:38 How do they even make Black Mirror anymore? It's, we're already surpassed it.

Joe Rogan 3:41 It's, that's what the Black Mirror guy said.

Adam Eget 3:43 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 3:43 He's like, "I'm not even doing the season."

Adam Eget 3:44 No, it's, yeah.

Joe Rogan 3:44 "I can't do it. The world's too absurd."

Adam Eget 3:46 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 3:47 But, uh, my friend Michael Bisping-

Adam Eget 3:48 Wait, what was his-

Joe Rogan 3:48 ... he's a former UFC middleweight champion.

Adam Eget 3:50 Yeah, he's from, like, Manchester or something, right?

Joe Rogan 3:52 Yes, exactly.

Adam Eget 3:52 Okay.

Joe Rogan 3:53 His, his one eye is like super fucked up. He's had several detached retinas to the point where it's basically blind. He, he barely can see anything out of one eye.

Adam Eget 4:02 From fighting?

Joe Rogan 4:03 Mm-hmm, from fighting. He's a beast.

Adam Eget 4:04 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 4:04 Bionic eye could offer perfect sight, night vision within five years. Motherfucker.

Adam Eget 4:10 That's crazy.

Joe Rogan 4:11 Th- this is how they're gonna get us, man. Between Elon Musk and these eyeball people-

Adam Eget 4:15 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 4:15 ... you're gonna be half human, half human in five years. This is five years. 'Cause five fucking years from now, they're gonna have a human eye that you could p- like, if you lose your eye, like Dan Crenshaw, he's gonna be the first president with a vibra- a, a bionic eye. He's gonna have a bionic eye. He's gonna have a fucking artificial super eye.

Adam Eget 4:34 That's insane. Wait, what happened with the cardboard cutouts? You said that-

Joe Rogan 4:38 Oh.

Adam Eget 4:38 ... when they transferred to Blu-ray.

Joe Rogan 4:39 Yeah, what I was... (laughs) That's, that's marijuana talking for me.

Adam Eget 4:42 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 4:42 I had a long week. I got, I got-

Adam Eget 4:43 We got to... We went from-

Joe Rogan 4:44 ... lots of stuff to tell you.

Adam Eget 4:44 ... Korean baseball-

Joe Rogan 4:45 Yes.

Adam Eget 4:45 ... to bionic eye in like two minutes.

Joe Rogan 4:47 Um, so this is the cutouts. They're showing us the cutouts in Korean baseball.

Adam Eget 4:51 Oh wait, in soccer they, they got in trouble 'cause they used the sex dolls.

Joe Rogan 4:55 Oh, that's not good.

Adam Eget 4:57 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 4:58 Why is that... First of all, this, if this was in America everybody'd be triggered 'cause it's all white-

Adam Eget 5:03 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:03 ... lettering on red. Like, "No, MAGA. They're MAGA-ing."

Adam Eget 5:08 (laughs) They have robot drummers. It's inten- it's wild. It's like the XFL but baseball in Korea.

Joe Rogan 5:13 Yeah. It seems very strange.

Adam Eget 5:15 It's hilarious.

Joe Rogan 5:15 So anyway, um, I watched Aliens on Blu-ray.

Adam Eget 5:19 Okay.

Joe Rogan 5:20 And it's so terrible.

Adam Eget 5:22 Why?

Joe Rogan 5:22 Not the movie itself.

Adam Eget 5:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:23 But there's, there's one scene where the spaceship is in the, the foreground and in the background is supposed to be like, you know, some space type shit.

Adam Eget 5:32 Sure.

Joe Rogan 5:33 Right? It looks so bad-

Adam Eget 5:34 Oh, high def.

Joe Rogan 5:34 ... because it was just a painting.

Adam Eget 5:36 Right, it's a matte painting.

Joe Rogan 5:37 And, yeah, and because the way they were focusing you barely could see it. So it's fine in the film. When he was watching it in low def-

Adam Eget 5:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 5:44 ... on his monitor, he's like, "Perfect, looks great." But in high def it looks so fake.

Adam Eget 5:48 That makes so much sense.

Joe Rogan 5:49 Yeah.

Adam Eget 5:49 They created in, in, you know, based on the technology available at the time and the way they shot it.

Joe Rogan 5:53 Yeah, you shouldn't watch those movies enhanced.

Adam Eget 5:56 No.

Joe Rogan 5:56 They should just keep 'em at the original, the original resolution, how it was really shot as.

Adam Eget 5:59 I agree.

Joe Rogan 5:59 It's really kind of stupid to-

Adam Eget 6:01 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 6:01 ... to do that because there's stuff... They made decisions, man, back when special effects weren't the same thing. They made decisions.

Adam Eget 6:08 Exactly.

Joe Rogan 6:08 And they were good decisions.

Adam Eget 6:10 Yeah, it's hard to watch some of those in high def. It really...

Joe Rogan 6:12 Yeah, you're like ruining the movie.

Adam Eget 6:14 It takes me out of the movie. Yeah, it takes you out of the whole thing.

Joe Rogan 6:15 Yeah, it does. It's, there's, there's something about the... Also, like, there's something about when they colorize Gone With the Wind-

Adam Eget 6:21 Oh yeah.

Joe Rogan 6:21 ... stuff like, "Hey."

Adam Eget 6:22 Like, what are you doing?

Joe Rogan 6:23 You're not supposed to do that.

Adam Eget 6:24 I know.

Joe Rogan 6:25 You don't have to.

Adam Eget 6:25 Yeah, it's ridiculous. Like colorized Schindler's List. It's like, what are you doing?

Joe Rogan 6:29 Yeah, it's like you forgot what color a dress is. You forgot what a red dress looks like.

Adam Eget 6:33 Yes, like face-

Joe Rogan 6:33 Bitch, I know what a dress looks like.

Adam Eget 6:35 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 6:35 I'm, I'm... This is a time capsule.Right? That movie's a time capsule.

Adam Eget 6:39 (laughs) Exactly. Yeah, that's a bummer.

Joe Rogan 6:41 Twilight Zone's-

Adam Eget 6:42 Twilight Zone's my favorite television show of all time. I've seen every episode at least five times.

Joe Rogan 6:47 I would agree with you, and f- sp- uh, specifically because the fact that it came first, but I put b- I put Black Mirror in that league.

Adam Eget 6:56 Black Mirror was so good.

Joe Rogan 6:58 Black Mirror is so good. It's so good.

Adam Eget 6:58 Do you have a favorite Black Mirror episode?

Joe Rogan 7:00 Yes. The one that you and I watched when we were getting NAD'd. Uh, mm, the museum?

Narrator 7:06 Black Museum.

Joe Rogan 7:06 Black Museum.

Adam Eget 7:07 Oh, that was a fucking-

Joe Rogan 7:08 God damn.

Adam Eget 7:08 That was horrific. Terrifying.

Joe Rogan 7:10 God damn, that was good. So good. That and Crocodile. Crocodile d-

Adam Eget 7:13 Crocodile was very underrated.

Joe Rogan 7:15 Very underrated.

Adam Eget 7:15 That was a great one.

Joe Rogan 7:16 Very terrifying.

Adam Eget 7:17 Terrifying.

Joe Rogan 7:17 'Cause you could see, like, a good person making these choices, and then these choices-

Adam Eget 7:21 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:21 ... accelerate to the point where-

Adam Eget 7:22 She was great.

Joe Rogan 7:23 ... whew!

Adam Eget 7:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:24 That's such a good show.

Adam Eget 7:25 Yeah, that was a great one. I loved, I loved the Star Trek one. I know it was very popular-

Joe Rogan 7:29 Oh, the Star Trek one was very good.

Adam Eget 7:30 ... but that one was so well done.

Joe Rogan 7:31 Very good, very good.

Adam Eget 7:32 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:32 Creepy, man. Very-

Adam Eget 7:33 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 7:33 Very possible, right? Like, if-

Adam Eget 7:35 All of it. Look at the Trump one, there's so many. They had the ... It was a bad episode, but it was... It came true, basically, that-

Joe Rogan 7:42 I didn't see the Trump one.

Adam Eget 7:44 It was like Waldo. It was like this puppet ... It was like this cartoon ... There was, like, this mascot who became president and he was just saying-

Joe Rogan 7:52 Oh, I never seen that one.

Adam Eget 7:52 ... all this outlandish shit, like race and shit.

Joe Rogan 7:53 I haven't seen them all. I haven't seen them-

Adam Eget 7:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 7:56 He hardly even ... The problem is, he said outlandish shit over the course of X amount of years.

Adam Eget 8:02 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 8:03 And if you, like, dissect it, it's like he's just spouting it out all day long.

Adam Eget 8:06 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 8:06 The way they do it is they take you out of context and then they change what you are, right? 'Cause if- if you're a guy like Trump who does say ridiculous shit sometimes, particularly before he was ever president, so-

Adam Eget 8:16 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:17 But a lot of people do.

Adam Eget 8:18 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 8:18 You know, it's f- it's called talking shit.

Adam Eget 8:20 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:20 And it's what a lot of people do it, right? But you can't do that if you ever plan on being president.

Adam Eget 8:24 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 8:24 But if you just take all of those talking shit moments and condense 'em together and go, "This is him!" You're like, "Oh my God, this is a monster."

Adam Eget 8:32 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 8:32 But nobody's like that all day. Like, people vacillate, they vary, and that's-

Adam Eget 8:36 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There is someone... You know, sometimes the, the internet really does, does some great work, and, uh, yesterday I saw somebody splice together that great soundbite of him suggesting that they inject humans with, uh, with Clorox.

Joe Rogan 8:51 (laughs) Like Lysol.

Adam Eget 8:52 That whole ... Yeah, Lysol, or maybe ... I'm not a scientist, but maybe we do that. And then there's this great clip with Jim Downey and Billy Madison. I don't know if you remember that movie real well.

Joe Rogan 9:00 Yes! I saw that really recently.

Adam Eget 9:01 And so funny. So he's talking all this shit about, uh, "Maybe we can inject it into people. I'm not a scientist, but I don't know, maybe something there." And then it cuts to Jim Downey and he's like, he's like, "Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings have you said anything that makes any sort of sense."

Joe Rogan 9:17 Yes. (laughs)

Adam Eget 9:17 "I award you ... Like, everyone in this room is now infinitely dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points."

Joe Rogan 9:25 (laughs)

Adam Eget 9:25 "And may God have mercy on your soul." (laughs) It was well done.

Joe Rogan 9:29 That's one of those beautiful videos that people will post up in a r- as a response to things, and it's just like, you can't say shit when someone says that.

Adam Eget 9:35 Yeah. They had a great one with Hannah Gadsby cut with, like, a audience... I guess I shouldn't talk about that probably.

Joe Rogan 9:42 Oh, I know what you're talking about.

Adam Eget 9:43 With the ni- uh, the Apollo.

Joe Rogan 9:44 Night at the Apollo.

Adam Eget 9:45 Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan 9:45 Yeah, whoops.

Adam Eget 9:46 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 9:47 That one ... That's crazy.

Adam Eget 9:48 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 9:48 Yeah. Yeah. That video's hilarious.

Adam Eget 9:50 Ah, I missed The Comedy Store.

Joe Rogan 9:50 The internet's undefeated. Yeah, man, I miss The Comedy Store too. F- for people don't know, like, "Who's this Adam guy?" You, you are the man who got me to come back to The Comedy Store. You came to the Improv-

Adam Eget 10:00 I did, I did. I mean, I appreciate that, but-

Joe Rogan 10:01 That's true. You came to the Improv-

Adam Eget 10:02 ... it was my number one goal.

Joe Rogan 10:03 There was two things that happened. The first one was you coming to the Improv and talking to me and explaining to me things are different and, and all the old people-

Adam Eget 10:12 We know each other for a long time.

Joe Rogan 10:14 Yeah. Yeah, but we knew each other from Tempe.

Adam Eget 10:16 We knew each other from Tempe.

Joe Rogan 10:16 Yeah. And, um, then the second thing that got me to do it was Ari, when Ari was having his special there.

Adam Eget 10:21 Dude, that was the hardest I ever worked ... To get them to green light that special, it was so important to me, 'cause we love, we love Ari to death.

Joe Rogan 10:30 Yeah. Ari is, to me ... I mean, I've known Ari since he was a doorman at The Comedy Store.

Adam Eget 10:35 Yes.

Joe Rogan 10:36 We became friends when he was a doorman. He was just starting out. And, um, to see him go from being a doorman to filming his special at The Comedy Store, I was like, "I have to be there. Even if I have to swallow my pride, I g- I have to be there." So he was filming on a Wednesday, so I went on Tuesday, just so it wouldn't shock my system and I could just appreciate his filming.

Adam Eget 10:58 Nice.

Joe Rogan 10:59 So I came down Tuesday and it was Roast Battle, and I was like, "Holy shit." And Jeff Ross gave me this crazy introduction at Roast Battle and, you know, that I was ... That was the first time I was at The Comedy Store in seven years and, you know. And then I was, I was seeing how creative everybody was. Like, the Roast Battle thing was so, so different.

Adam Eget 11:18 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 11:18 Because it's obviously, like, jokes that these guys had to write about each other.

Adam Eget 11:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:24 So it's like it forces you into writing jokes. It- it takes away the ... The one thing that fucks most comedians is that they don't write. So when you're forced into a battle, like, you're gonna have to do battle next Tuesday with this girl, and this girl's vicious, like, you gotta come up with some mean shit to say about her-

Adam Eget 11:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 11:39 ... to make it really funny. And she's writing some mean shit about you.

Adam Eget 11:42 Yeah, yeah, you already know that she's gonna have some shit for you.

Joe Rogan 11:44 Dude, I ... It's not my style.

Adam Eget 11:46 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 11:46 I don't do comedy like that.

Adam Eget 11:47 It's a different muscle.

Joe Rogan 11:48 Yeah, it's a diff- it's a diff- just a different ... I'm too mean-

Adam Eget 11:50 It's more mean.

Joe Rogan 11:50 ... in real life.

Adam Eget 11:51 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 11:52 Like, I- I don't wanna turn that on for comedy.

Adam Eget 11:54 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 11:54 I don't like that part of me. (laughs) I like to keep that part locked away.

Adam Eget 11:58 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 11:58 So but I- you know, when people get real mean and nasty with each other, I'm like, "Jesus."

Adam Eget 12:02 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 12:02 Like, it makes me uncomfortable, but laugh at the same time. But it's just not a ... I don't have that thing in me.

Adam Eget 12:07 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 12:07 I'm not- I'm not interested in that. That ... But that style is, um, even though it's brutal and- and it's ... Everyone agrees. Like, everyone knows what they're doing to each other.

Adam Eget 12:15 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 12:16 And th- and then I love how Brian has everybody hug it out.

Adam Eget 12:18 That's great.

Joe Rogan 12:19 It's amazing. It is.

Adam Eget 12:20 And it's great.

Joe Rogan 12:20 And he's the perfect host for it too. You know, he's, uh, he's so friendly and-

Adam Eget 12:25 He's just so likable.

Joe Rogan 12:27 Yeah.

Adam Eget 12:27 He's charismatic. He's ... Yeah, he is the perfect host for that.

Joe Rogan 12:30 Yeah, and it's just like the whole thing was ... When I was there, I was like, "Man, this is just so different."

Adam Eget 12:36 It was ... It's a wildly different club when, when, when the old talent coordinator left, it was like-... it was just a complete 180. Everything just started ... You were the catalyst for the truly great years that we've, we, we were able to experience before this, this, this epidemic, but, or pandemic. Uh, but, uh, it was, uh, you could see everything starting to shift a little bit-

Joe Rogan 13:00 Mm-hmm.

Adam Eget 13:00 ... with Roast Battle and, and then when Tommy left it was like the floodgates opened and we were able to get rid of some of the old blood and some of-

Joe Rogan 13:09 Yeah.

Adam Eget 13:09 ... the people that were weighing the lineups down. But you coming back was everything. I mean, that was so baffling to me when I first came to The Comedy Store about 10 years ago, 'cause I remember hearing about the Mencia beef and everything, and then I'm like, "Where ... What happened?" And when I heard about what happened, I was like, "How is this allowed? How did this happen?" So I knew when I took over, I was like, "I don't care what I have to do." And, like, you made the decision all on your own. All I did was say, "Hey, give it a shot." You know, "Come down at least just to visit."

Joe Rogan 13:41 It just seemed like a different-

Adam Eget 13:41 And thank God for Art of Special.

Joe Rogan 13:42 It seemed like a different world back then, you know.

Adam Eget 13:44 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 13:44 It was just a different world. And then, you know, after the old guard was kicked out, it was like an exorcism. Like, when I ... The moment I came back to the place, I was like, "This is a different place." It's not even the old Comedy Store, 'cause in the seven years, it had kinda gone through a new rebirth.

Adam Eget 13:59 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 13:59 You know, I think that place goes through cycles. When I came there in the '90s, it was dog shit.

Adam Eget 14:04 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 14:04 It was terrible.

Adam Eget 14:06 Tell me about it. What was it like?

Joe Rogan 14:06 It was terrible. Oh my God, it was terrible. It was terrible. Except for when the greats would show up.

Adam Eget 14:11 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 14:11 Like every now and then, like, Martin Lawrence would show up.

Adam Eget 14:14 Right.

Joe Rogan 14:14 Every now and then Damon Wayans would show up. Every now and then-

Adam Eget 14:16 In their prime.

Joe Rogan 14:17 Yeah, yeah, yeah. In their prime.

Adam Eget 14:19 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:19 Murderers. Dude, I've never bombed harder in my life than following Marlon.

Adam Eget 14:24 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 14:24 Or, excuse me, following, um-

Adam Eget 14:26 Marlon.

Joe Rogan 14:26 M- Martin or following Damon.

Adam Eget 14:28 Damon.

Joe Rogan 14:28 Fo- following either one of them. Or Marlon.

Adam Eget 14:31 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:31 Shit. Or Tommy Davidson back then.

Adam Eget 14:33 Oh, he was great.

Joe Rogan 14:34 Oh my God, dude. Dude, Tommy Davidson used to murder. Everybody murdered.

Adam Eget 14:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 14:39 But there was only, like, a few and they wouldn't come that often. So it was like, when Martin would come, the main room would be flooded with people just falling out into the hallways. Like, people forgot how big Martin Lawrence was. In those days, this was the leather jumpsuit days.

Adam Eget 14:56 Sure.

Joe Rogan 14:56 The Uso crazy days.

Adam Eget 14:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 14:58 Bro, he was on top of the world.

Adam Eget 14:59 Yeah, he was the king of the world, for sure.

Joe Rogan 15:01 He was on top of the world. Like, people forgot, they forgot how hard he murdered too. He was so good.

Adam Eget 15:06 The hardest decision I ever had to make was, uh, one day Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock showed up at the same exact time and they both wanted to go up. And I had to decide who was gonna go on.

Joe Rogan 15:16 Oh my God.

Adam Eget 15:16 That was a tough one.

Joe Rogan 15:19 How long ago was this?

Adam Eget 15:20 This was about, uh, a year ago.

Joe Rogan 15:22 Yeah.

Adam Eget 15:23 A year and a half ago.

Joe Rogan 15:24 That's a hard one, you know.

Adam Eget 15:25 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 15:26 But they should work that out.

Adam Eget 15:27 Yeah, right?

Joe Rogan 15:28 That's not ... It shouldn't be on you.

Adam Eget 15:29 That shouldn't be me.

Joe Rogan 15:29 That's too hard for you.

Adam Eget 15:30 Yeah, that was a tough one.

Joe Rogan 15:31 If there's two of them, I, I mean, I would go, "Go ahead, man. I'll go after you. I want you to do."

Adam Eget 15:34 Exactly.

Joe Rogan 15:35 Yeah. I wanna ... I don't want any beef. And with those two guys, like, they're both legends.

Adam Eget 15:40 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 15:40 You know? They're both legends. When I used to follow Martin Lawrence, man, I, I got, I developed like this ability to accept the fact that I was gonna eat shit and not be so scared because I had gotten beaten down a bunch of times by those crowds. And that was the brilliance of, of Mitzi.

Adam Eget 15:57 Mitzi.

Joe Rogan 15:59 She knew that, you know, it was a tough spot. You know, she just put me on after Martin Lawrence every time, dude.

Adam Eget 16:05 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 16:05 If she was on the, if she was on the line-up, it'd be like Martin Lawrence, he'd do 45 minutes and then it'd be Joe Rogan. I'd be like, "Death."

Adam Eget 16:11 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 16:12 You ever seen that video online where there's these Nigerian guys or these African guys rather, and it's at a funeral. And, uh, when the music starts playing, they go to these guys and then there's a guy getting knocked out. And then when the guy gets knocked out, like, you go back to the, the guys dancing with the coffin. It's a funny meme in MMA circles.

Adam Eget 16:31 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 16:31 You know what I'm talking about?

Narrator 16:31 Okay. I just saw it. It's, I think Donald Trump's account posted it-

Joe Rogan 16:36 Oh my God.

Narrator 16:36 ... with the clip of Biden saying that stuff to Charlamagne.

Adam Eget 16:38 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 16:38 Oh no, it's like-

Narrator 16:39 So like there's the Biden account going into the pre- like coffin.

Joe Rogan 16:41 Oh please, please see if you can find that.

Adam Eget 16:43 (laughs)

Narrator 16:43 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 16:43 Please see if you can find that. Who posted it? Donald Trump himself?

Narrator 16:47 I think it was on his, Donald Trump's Snapchat. So whoever's controlling that.

Joe Rogan 16:50 Oh my God.

Narrator 16:50 And I don't think he's running his own Snapchat.

Adam Eget 16:51 So that's you in the coffin every time you had to do a set after Martin.

Joe Rogan 16:55 I would, I would eat shit. I would, I would eat shit. And everybody would leave.

Adam Eget 16:58 I love that about Mitzi. That she would do that and, and if you ever once said anything about having to do it, she would put you on 10 times more right after the same spot.

Joe Rogan 17:06 Oh, she'd put you on at 1:00 in the morning.

Adam Eget 17:08 People that, yeah.

Joe Rogan 17:08 She'd be like, "Oh, you don't want that spot?"

Adam Eget 17:09 Oh, that's awesome.

Joe Rogan 17:10 "Okay, I'll put you on at 1:00 in the morning, you fuck."

Adam Eget 17:12 I love that.

Joe Rogan 17:12 And she would yell at you too.

Adam Eget 17:13 And people that have beef, she would always put you one after the other.

Joe Rogan 17:16 Oh yeah, always. Yeah.

Adam Eget 17:16 Or, or people that are, were dating and break up.

Joe Rogan 17:19 Mm-hmm. Yep. (laughs)

Adam Eget 17:19 I love that about her. Fucking love that. What a legend.

Joe Rogan 17:23 That's how you treated as a real gym, 'cause like that's where you would get that real workout in is the emotional pangs. But it's also like as a comic, you gotta learn how to come out of the gate.

Adam Eget 17:34 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 17:34 When people don't know who you are and you have a lot to prove and you're going on after someone who is a legend, so it's like you, you have to develop that ability to follow those folks 'cause in a normal club, you would get a chance, right? You'd go on stage, it'd be easy.

Adam Eget 17:47 Right.

Joe Rogan 17:48 No one killed before you, you just, it's easy. You stroll out there, "How's everybody doing?"

Adam Eget 17:51 Right.

Joe Rogan 17:52 "Good looking crowd."

Adam Eget 17:53 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 17:53 "Let me tell you something about my day." And you could kinda go into it. Like, you know, ease into it. But after Martin Lawrence crushes, bro, you gotta come with some strong shit right outta the gate. Th- there's only like 25 people gonna stay no matter what you do.

Adam Eget 18:05 Exactly.

Joe Rogan 18:06 No matter what you do.

Adam Eget 18:07 Oh.

Joe Rogan 18:07 I would watch masses of people just lift off their chairs and leave the room, dude. Just no one stayed.

Adam Eget 18:13 Yeah, and I'll bet 50% of your set is just resetting the room.

Joe Rogan 18:17 Yeah.

Adam Eget 18:17 I mean, how do you even ... Good God, the first five minutes is ...

Joe Rogan 18:20 You learn how to eat shit. These, this is Donald Trump. This is actually Donald Trump's Snapchat and he put this.

Adam Eget 18:25 (laughs) Oh, boy.

Joe Rogan 18:25 This is, these, these guys right here, this, and it comes with this fucking music.

Adam Eget 18:30 I have-

Joe Rogan 18:31 Like, there's so many knockouts.

Narrator 18:32 We got more questions.

Joe Rogan 18:33 Here it is.

Narrator 18:34 Do you got more questions? But I tell you this, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't Black.

Joe Rogan 18:41 (laughs) And it's them carrying a coffin that says, "Biden for president" on the coffin. (laughs)

Adam Eget 18:47 The president tweeted that.

Joe Rogan 18:49 Yes, of course he did. Look, dude, he knows how to use the internet, man.

Adam Eget 18:53 He sure does.

Joe Rogan 18:54 And his so- his son knows how to use the internet. Donald Trump Jr., they use him for all the wild shit.

Adam Eget 18:58 Uh-

Joe Rogan 18:59 When, when they need to post something really wild, they go to D- Don Jr.'s-

Adam Eget 19:02 Oh.

Joe Rogan 19:02 ... Instagram.

Adam Eget 19:03 That's fucking great.

Joe Rogan 19:04 Listen, man. Th- They're playing dirty. Everybody's playing dirty.

Adam Eget 19:07 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 19:08 Everyone... The world's playing dirty.

Adam Eget 19:09 Different worlds.

Joe Rogan 19:09 They're all pretending you're someone you're not, lying about this. No one's gonna be honest. It's just about creating impressions and memes and getting these short attention span motherfuckers to-

Adam Eget 19:20 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:20 ... hold onto a narrative as hard as possible. Russia, Russiagate, Russia! Whatever it is. Peop- ask people, they're upset. They don't even know what happened. That's 90% (laughs) of the people out there, man.

Adam Eget 19:33 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 19:33 We live in the... And now it's gonna be even weirder because everybody's gonna be so stressed out because the economy's in this shit.

Adam Eget 19:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 19:38 And it's not gonna get outta there any quick, a- a- anytime soon. It's gonna take some time. And-

Adam Eget 19:43 What's gonna ha- I mean, this is like, is this gonna be class war? 'Cause, 'cause the people that can afford to stay home-

Joe Rogan 19:48 Mm-hmm. Yes.

Adam Eget 19:50 They want everyone to go out and get the economy going.

Joe Rogan 19:54 Yeah.

Adam Eget 19:54 Like their super rich.

Joe Rogan 19:55 Yeah.

Adam Eget 19:55 They don't give a fuck about people dying. They can stay in their mansions and-

Joe Rogan 19:58 There's that aspect of it. There's also the a- and those are the ones that I do- I don't think are looking at it correctly, in terms of like the actual danger of the virus. But then there's other people that are like, "Hey, I don't wanna lose my business."

Adam Eget 20:10 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 20:10 "Why don't you restart the economy so I could take a chance? I'd rather take a fucking chance. I'm losing everything. I'm 99.9999999% sure I'm gonna fucking survive this."

Adam Eget 20:19 Right.

Joe Rogan 20:19 You know? And I'm gonna, I'm gonna know it's coming. I'm gonna take a lot of vitamins. Like, let me do what I have to do. And I... Let's, let's quarantine the people that are in danger. Let's quarantine old people. Let's keep them away until it goes away.

Adam Eget 20:31 Yeah, let's reason.

Joe Rogan 20:31 Q- Q- Quarantine sick people. And, and this is what we need to do. This is what needs to be done, not lock the whole fucking country down. And once they do that, man, they don't wanna undo that.

Adam Eget 20:41 I don't know when reason left the world, but i- in so many different aspects-

Joe Rogan 20:45 Twitter.

Adam Eget 20:45 ... of the world. Is that what it was? Twitter? I mean, with... There's just no reason almost anywhere.

Joe Rogan 20:50 Well, I think the reason is to save lives. It's just not a... It's, doesn't make sense. Doesn't work right.

Adam Eget 20:54 'Cause, 'cause you balance-

Joe Rogan 20:55 'Cause you're losing lives.

Adam Eget 20:56 ... with everything.

Joe Rogan 20:57 Dude, there's an article that can't... Find out if this is true. There's an article that I was reading in, uh, The Washington Examiner. One, one of those is a weird newspaper.

Narrator 21:05 I think it's, uh...

Joe Rogan 21:06 Um, and it's like, it's, it's one of those ones like, what is... What kind of... Is this a biased? Like, what, what is the bias of The Washington Examiner? But it's basically saying that there's more people dead from suicide in Northern California than the war, from, uh, coronavirus deaths. 'Cause people are in the-

Adam Eget 21:22 Oh, during the-

Joe Rogan 21:23 Yes.

Adam Eget 21:23 ... like from the lockdown.

Joe Rogan 21:24 Yeah, 'cause people are fully in despair. They're losing everything, they're going bankrupt, and they all don't see any way out of it.

Adam Eget 21:30 Well, if it wasn't for Korean baseball, I would be fucking-

Joe Rogan 21:33 (laughs)

Adam Eget 21:34 ... blowing my fucking head off.

Joe Rogan 21:35 I've watched so many movies.

Adam Eget 21:37 Yeah. What, I mean-

Joe Rogan 21:39 I've watched everything.

Adam Eget 21:40 Just everything?

Joe Rogan 21:41 Everything. Not really everything. I still haven't seen the new Adam Sandler movie, the Diamond movie. It's supposed to be Uncut Gems.

Narrator 21:47 Oh, yeah.

Adam Eget 21:47 Oh, that was my favorite. That and, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood were my two favorites that year.

Joe Rogan 21:52 I have, uh, you know, two young girls, and I can't really watch fucked up movies with them.

Adam Eget 21:58 Sure.

Joe Rogan 21:58 So I got yelled at for watching Alien with one of them.

Adam Eget 22:01 Which, the first or second?

Joe Rogan 22:03 The first one.

Adam Eget 22:04 I could... Well, yeah, maybe.

Joe Rogan 22:07 (laughs)

Adam Eget 22:07 Maybe the first with John Hurt. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 22:09 I was like, "Come on."

Adam Eget 22:11 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 22:12 I'd watch it. My mo- my mother had me watch those movies when I was really little. Like, I, she watched scary movies with me.

Adam Eget 22:20 Ah, the first scary movie-

Joe Rogan 22:21 The scariest movies.

Adam Eget 22:21 ... I ever saw was, uh, the, the Shining.

Joe Rogan 22:23 So, it is a true statistic. Bay Area doctors seeing more suicides during coronavirus stay-at-home order.

Narrator 22:28 It's that one hospital, though.

Adam Eget 22:29 Oh.

Joe Rogan 22:30 Oh.

Narrator 22:30 So, they reported it and said it's the whole area, so...

Joe Rogan 22:33 Hmm. See? That... Good for you, Jamie. That's real news.

Narrator 22:36 Thank you, Jamie.

Joe Rogan 22:36 That's real news, folks. That's how you're supposed to do it.

Narrator 22:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 22:38 You're not supposed to lie.

Narrator 22:39 Good read, though.

Joe Rogan 22:40 And read the statistic all fucked up.

Adam Eget 22:43 (laughs) Right.

Joe Rogan 22:43 You know?

Adam Eget 22:44 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 22:45 Sometimes people do things like that and you're like, "Oh, you can't do that."

Adam Eget 22:50 I just saw... Um, I feel like maybe it was something you said. Ah, fuck, I can't remember. There's no weed in this?

Joe Rogan 22:59 No.

Adam Eget 22:59 Oh, okay. Fair enough.

Joe Rogan 23:00 Zero. This is just 25 milligrams-

Adam Eget 23:02 Oh.

Joe Rogan 23:03 ... of CBD and some delicious Kill Clif mango goodness.

Adam Eget 23:06 Well, then I'm just fucktarded.

Joe Rogan 23:07 Mm. It happens, bro. When do you think we'll be able to start up shows again?

Adam Eget 23:12 I'm really hoping in July.

Joe Rogan 23:14 Jesus Christ.

Adam Eget 23:14 I feel like-

Joe Rogan 23:15 July?

Adam Eget 23:15 ... I know, but it's, but, but realistically, I think July. I- I-

Joe Rogan 23:20 What would you think about opening up a comedy store in Austin, Texas?

Adam Eget 23:23 I mean, that would do really well.

Joe Rogan 23:26 I think it would do really well.

Adam Eget 23:27 I think it really would.

Joe Rogan 23:28 Yeah.

Adam Eget 23:28 Uh, I love that town.

Joe Rogan 23:29 The conversations I've been having on the phone lately.

Adam Eget 23:32 Ooh.

Joe Rogan 23:33 I did Reconnaissance this weekend.

Adam Eget 23:34 Did you?

Joe Rogan 23:34 Flew to Texas, yeah.

Adam Eget 23:36 Oh, shit.

Joe Rogan 23:36 Yeah.

Adam Eget 23:37 Um, do you know Charlie?

Joe Rogan 23:39 (laughs)

Adam Eget 23:39 Do you know the guy who runs... (laughs) Do you know Charlie, uh, the guy who runs, um, uh, South by Southwest Comedy Division?

Joe Rogan 23:46 No.

Adam Eget 23:46 He'd be a good guy to talk to, probably. Uh-

Joe Rogan 23:49 Well, I would just talk to comedians.

Adam Eget 23:50 That's great.

Joe Rogan 23:51 Yeah, I mean, I don't need to talk to anybody but the comics. I just feel like, um, there's a l- lot of people in Austin. There's a m- a million people. They have two good comedy clubs right now. Cap City is a great room. And then they have the Velveeta Room, which I've never done, but I hear really good things about. And, uh, I don't know if they have anything else. How many... I think that's it for-

Adam Eget 24:12 Every time... I've been in the South-

Joe Rogan 24:15 But it's interesting actually.

Adam Eget 24:15 ... West a couple different times for comedy week and it's just been insane.

Joe Rogan 24:18 It's a great town.

Adam Eget 24:19 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 24:20 I just think there's a real problem with, uh, first of all, the volume of humans here is unmanageable and there's a real problem with the government telling us what to do here.

Adam Eget 24:30 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 24:30 Doesn't... There's... Things don't make sense. And here's the, here's the best example. They recently decided to open it back up for movies, for movies and television production.

Adam Eget 24:38 Oh, okay.

Joe Rogan 24:39 But not for churches.

Adam Eget 24:41 Okay.

Joe Rogan 24:43 What? Like, wait a minute. What are you, what are you saying? Like, you, you can't be at a ch-... How about give a church 25% capacity, just like you, you would the other businesses?

Adam Eget 24:53 That makes sense. And that's what we were talking about.

Joe Rogan 24:54 Yeah.

Adam Eget 24:55 We need some reason, balance.

Joe Rogan 24:56 Have more than one service in the day. Like, you don't have to just... It doesn't, doesn't make sense if some things can do their job and you call them essential businesses and some can't. Like, if, if you're saying that film production is okay... Like, here's a good... Here's a weird one. You can't have Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but liquor stores are essential businesses.

Adam Eget 25:19 That's insane. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 25:20 It's so fucked up.

Adam Eget 25:21 That's fucking crazy.

Joe Rogan 25:22 It is so fucked up.

Adam Eget 25:23 This is a good point.

Joe Rogan 25:23 Adam Curry, Adam Curry told me that. And when, when I read it, I was like, "Oh, no." And there's logic to the essential business part of the liquor store thing because, look, man, people are freaked out. They need something to calm them down. If they can't get any booze at all, shit could get really bad. And the hospitals need the beds. So when people detox off alcohol, it's very dangerous.

Adam Eget 25:43 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:43 That's actually how Amy Winehouse died. She died from detoxing from alcohol. It's fu-... It's a hard fucking fall too.

Adam Eget 25:50 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 25:50 So they need the hospital beds. They can't have people detoxing while everybody's dying of COVID and then people get... So they, they-

Adam Eget 25:55 Makes sense to me.

Joe Rogan 25:56 They deemed it an essential business, but fucking Alcoholics Anonymous, man, you've got to keep that open.

Adam Eget 26:01 Yeah. I've done-

Joe Rogan 26:01 You got to keep that open.

Adam Eget 26:02 ... I, I do a, uh, an Alcoholics Anonymous Zoom call once a week and most of them are fucking terrible, man. You gotta have-

Joe Rogan 26:12 Yeah. You gotta be in person with people.

Adam Eget 26:13 Like, that doesn't make sense. That could really help.

Joe Rogan 26:15 It's the same as kid... You know, my kids are going to Zoom school. You gotta be in per-... It's n-... You know. It's not the way to do it. It's just-

Adam Eget 26:22 Oh, there's-

Joe Rogan 26:22 You gotta be in person with people.

Adam Eget 26:23 I'm telling you, it's the fucking worst.

Joe Rogan 26:25 Yeah.

Adam Eget 26:25 Oh, have, have you seen some of the standup Zooms?

Joe Rogan 26:27 Fuck them.

Adam Eget 26:28 Oh.

Joe Rogan 26:29 That is ridiculous.

Adam Eget 26:29 Oh, the worst thing ever.

Joe Rogan 26:30 That's like pretending you're in a swimming race in your living room.

Adam Eget 26:33 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:34 "I'm swimming. Look, I'm on the floor. I'm swimming." Bitch, you're not swimming. Fuck.

Adam Eget 26:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 26:39 You're not doing comedy. You're in a... You're fucking doing something weird, man, 'cause you wish you could do comedy.

Adam Eget 26:45 It's so bad. It's so painful to watch.

Joe Rogan 26:47 Yeah.

Adam Eget 26:47 Timing is everything, and it kills the timing. You have no, uh, energy, no audience reaction.

Joe Rogan 26:53 No.

Adam Eget 26:53 Like, it's just-

Joe Rogan 26:54 It's not, it's just no bueno.

Adam Eget 26:54 ... it's not standup.

Joe Rogan 26:55 No, it's not standup. Um-

Adam Eget 26:57 It's like watching.

Joe Rogan 26:57 ... Phoenix is holding shows again.

Adam Eget 26:59 Wow.

Joe Rogan 26:59 Phoenix has full nightclubs again.

Adam Eget 27:01 Jesus.

Joe Rogan 27:02 Yeah. Um, Floyd Mayweather was, uh, spotted at this Phoenix nightclub, no masks on in the whole place, bumper to bumper with people.

Adam Eget 27:10 Really?

Joe Rogan 27:10 Yeah.

Adam Eget 27:11 Again, balance.

Joe Rogan 27:11 Yeah.

Adam Eget 27:11 I feel like maybe-

Joe Rogan 27:13 Let them do it. Let them do it. That's what I say.

Adam Eget 27:15 All right.

Joe Rogan 27:15 Let them do it. Listen, man, this is not what we thought it was gonna be. It's not killing people at the rate we thought it was gonna. We would have never signed up for this if we thought it was really gonna kill 0.1% of the population-

Adam Eget 27:24 Right.

Joe Rogan 27:25 ... that are like, that catch it. And you realize how many people catch it and don't even know they had it, and then you look at the average age that people are dying from it, it's literally older than the average age people die.

Adam Eget 27:35 Oh, well then what the fuck?

Joe Rogan 27:36 The whole thing makes no sense.

Adam Eget 27:37 No.

Joe Rogan 27:37 This is not something you should shut the economy down for. We thought it was. We thought it was going to be a terrible thing that was going to wreck havoc. And they'll point out, like, individual cases of people that are hav-... That are really young or healthy and something goes wrong with them. 100%, yeah, that's terrible. But we should just be careful. It doesn't mean we should keep everything shut down. It's rare that these people exist. These, these young people that get sick that you hear about, this is not normal.

Adam Eget 28:02 Why aren't we assessing the situation then?

Joe Rogan 28:04 This is not right for many of them. Why? I don't know, man. I mean, we're gonna-

Adam Eget 28:07 We're gonna see how, how these other cities that have opened up do and, and how that goes and then, and then reevaluate?

Joe Rogan 28:12 But this is a very conservative state in that regard. I mean, it's very liberal-

Adam Eget 28:15 Oh.

Joe Rogan 28:15 ... but it's very conservative in the regard of like how they're approaching this-

Adam Eget 28:18 Right.

Joe Rogan 28:19 ... this thing. They're doing it very slowly and very deliberately.

Adam Eget 28:23 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 28:23 You know, I don't, I don't agree with it. I, I just think at a certain point in time, you have to adjust. We... It is not what we thought it was going to be. You thought there were going to be hundreds of thousands of people dead. In this state, there's only 2,000 people dead. But people are dying-

Adam Eget 28:36 Do you think it's-

Joe Rogan 28:36 ... from all kinds of shit all the time.

Adam Eget 28:38 Right.

Joe Rogan 28:38 We can't just focus on one thing.

Adam Eget 28:40 Of course.

Joe Rogan 28:41 While this is happening, people are dying in this state of tuberculosis, lung cancer, liver cancer.

Adam Eget 28:47 Right.

Joe Rogan 28:47 They're dying.

Adam Eget 28:48 So do you think this is a political thing?

Joe Rogan 28:50 I don't know, man.

Adam Eget 28:50 To try and keep the economy shitting and-

Joe Rogan 28:52 I could speculate. No, I don't think so.

Adam Eget 28:53 Oh, okay.

Joe Rogan 28:53 I don't think that. I've heard that crazy conspiracy theory. I don't think that.

Adam Eget 28:56 Right.

Joe Rogan 28:57 I think it's a matter of, first of all, there's a lot of people that are legitimately scared.

Adam Eget 29:00 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 29:01 I mean, I talk to kids' parents don't... That, you know, that, uh, don't want the kids going back to school in September. They're... These people are legitimately scared. They think it's gonna get worse. They think it's-

Adam Eget 29:10 Oh my God. If I had kids at home-

Joe Rogan 29:11 Bro.

Adam Eget 29:11 ... fuck it. Open, open it up. Open the fucking schools immediately.

Joe Rogan 29:15 Yeah. Look, for children, it's very rare that it's fatal. Very rare that it's fatal.

Adam Eget 29:19 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 29:20 But the flu is far more fatal. The flu is far more fater, fatal for children.

Adam Eget 29:24 Oh, Jesus.

Joe Rogan 29:24 And during flu season, we willingly let kids go to school and we don't even think about it.

Adam Eget 29:28 Yeah, right.

Joe Rogan 29:29 Yeah, you have to think about it. If you're, you're really worried about children, the flu is far more deadly. Now, this is not d- dismissing the deadliness of this disease. This is a terrible disease. Michael Yo got it and he almost died.

Adam Eget 29:40 Fuck.

Joe Rogan 29:40 But a lot of things happened to Michael Yo. He flew all the way to fucking New York with no sleep. He did radio. He did all this kinds of shit. He did shows there. No sleep, flies back, and then drives from his house to Vegas and then back-

Adam Eget 29:54 Oh, that's fucked up.

Joe Rogan 29:54 ... with his family in the same day. Then he has two days of auditions. Plus, he's vitamin D deficient.

Adam Eget 29:59 Oh, well, there you go.

Joe Rogan 29:59 So I was thinking all this. I was like, well, Michael Yo is a strong guy. He's healthy and, and, and vibrant. Like, if that guy got sick from it, oh my God, this is scary.

Adam Eget 30:07 But vitamin D... No vitamin D and all that-

Joe Rogan 30:09 Vitamin D deficiency is something that exists-

Adam Eget 30:11 And exhaustion.

Joe Rogan 30:12 ... in like 70% of the population. 70% of the people-

Adam Eget 30:15 That was me.

Joe Rogan 30:15 ... in this country are vitamin D deficient.

Adam Eget 30:18 First thing I did when I, when I saw that we, we were gonna be quarantined, I, I ordered a shit ton of vitamin D online. So I take some every day. I, I try and go out in the sun every day 'cause, uh, yeah, I don't want this fucking thing. I think I had it. I think I had it in January.

Joe Rogan 30:32 Everybody thinks they had it.

Adam Eget 30:33 I really did... I've never had a cough like this in my life where I was wheezing. I could barely breathe and the doctors were baffled. They took chest X-rays, had it for three weeks, but who fucking knows?

Joe Rogan 30:44 You mighta had it. I thought I had it too.

Adam Eget 30:45 I don't know. I'll, I'll get an antibody test and figure it out.

Joe Rogan 30:47 I thought I had it and didn't even feel it.

Adam Eget 30:49 ... that makes sense. If there's anybody I can think of-

Joe Rogan 30:52 (laughs)

Adam Eget 30:52 ... that would have it and not be able to feel it, it would be you, for sure.

Joe Rogan 30:54 No, I'm pretty sensitive to that kind of shit. But I also-

Adam Eget 30:56 Oh, congrats, by the way, on fucking Spotify.

Joe Rogan 30:59 Oh, thank you.

Adam Eget 30:59 Holy shit.

Joe Rogan 31:01 I know. Crazy, right?

Adam Eget 31:01 So well deserved, man.

Joe Rogan 31:03 Thank you. Very nice of you.

Adam Eget 31:03 Goddamn.

Joe Rogan 31:06 Um-

Adam Eget 31:07 Sorry, I didn't wanna forget.

Joe Rogan 31:08 No worries.

Adam Eget 31:08 I didn't wanna fucking forget.

Joe Rogan 31:10 Yeah, dude, I've been ultra paying attention to my health while this is all going on. That's one thing that's helped a lot. Like, while this is going on, I-

Adam Eget 31:17 You're almost paying attention to your health.

Joe Rogan 31:18 ... you have a really... Like, I'm in the sauna every day, 25 minutes every day, no excuses.

Adam Eget 31:23 (laughs) Fucking monster.

Joe Rogan 31:23 Like, super regular workout routine, super regular with my vitamins, super regular with everything. Just being really on ball. 'Cause, uh, it made me, uh... You can't take your health for granted. And that's a simple statement that sorta just bounces around a room like a beach ball, doesn't mean anything.

Adam Eget 31:42 This puts it in perspective.

Joe Rogan 31:43 Yes. This puts it in perspective.

Adam Eget 31:45 There's no doubt about it.

Joe Rogan 31:46 And in the beginning, people were less cunty too, I don't know if you noticed.

Adam Eget 31:49 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:50 'Cause they were really worried they were gonna die.

Adam Eget 31:51 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 31:51 And so things meant something.

Adam Eget 31:53 You know what it reminded me of?

Joe Rogan 31:54 (laughs)

Adam Eget 31:54 It was the, it was like the week after 9/11. Everyone was real friendly with each other.

Joe Rogan 31:59 Yes, exactly.

Adam Eget 31:59 Super neighborly.

Joe Rogan 32:01 Exactly.

Adam Eget 32:01 And now it's like, I go out in traffic, people are cutting each other off.

Joe Rogan 32:04 But it's worse than 9/11 because after 9/11, people went back to normal. Now they're gonna go back from all this niceness, they're gonna go back to being a cunt, and there's no work.

Adam Eget 32:15 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 32:16 And then they're angry, you know. And you were saying something important earlier. You said we could fall into some sort of a class warfare type situation.

Adam Eget 32:24 It's terrifying.

Joe Rogan 32:24 Yeah, it is terrifying. And I don't, I don't think it had to be this way.

Adam Eget 32:28 No.

Joe Rogan 32:28 And I don't think it has to stay this way. And they're talking about not even opening up LA until July 4th, 4th of July weekend.

Adam Eget 32:33 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 32:34 I'm like, "Hey, man, like why?" What's, what's... This is so arbitrary. And there's no talk whatsoever about strengthening your immune system. None.

Adam Eget 32:42 Yeah, what the fuck? Like, the most important things are just falling by the wayside. Like, I don't understand that.

Joe Rogan 32:47 It's poor government. It's just poor leadership. It's poor leadership. That's what it is. It's leading only looking at one perspective, and that's the perspective that enhances fear. This is wear a mask, wear your gloves, use hand sanitizer, don't touch anything, stay apart from each other. And then the other perspective is get out in the sun, get your vitamin D, drink lots of water, stop drinking soda.

Adam Eget 33:10 Right.

Joe Rogan 33:11 Check your vitamin levels if you can, but give yourself X amount of vitamin C a day, X amount of D. Take zinc. Zinc has been shown to have a very positive effect on people that... People with high zinc levels or sufficient zinc levels that, uh, have this virus also have a much better outcome.

Adam Eget 33:26 That's all I take every morning. I take one zinc, one vitamin D, and two Airbornes, so-

Joe Rogan 33:31 But you won't hear any of this shit.

Adam Eget 33:32 No.

Joe Rogan 33:32 That's what's so crazy.

Adam Eget 33:33 I had to look it up. I mean, people fucking... They should be, yeah, they should be pumping this into our fucking, uh, bloodstreams via the, via the news, but it's all bullshit.

Joe Rogan 33:41 It's all bullshit.

Adam Eget 33:42 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 33:42 When Rhonda Patrick was talking about the vitamin D levels in people that are in ICU, it's, it's like if you were a scientist, you'd be like, "Hold on, we found it."

Adam Eget 33:49 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 33:50 What?

Adam Eget 33:50 Right? Like-

Joe Rogan 33:50 Wait a minute. 86% of the-

Adam Eget 33:52 Where's the labs?

Joe Rogan 33:52 ... people in the ICU are deficient in vitamin D, and then 4% have sufficient levels of vitamin D. 4%.

Adam Eget 33:59 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 34:01 That's insane. It's 80 something percent versus 4%. Like, holy fuck.

Adam Eget 34:07 I-

Joe Rogan 34:07 Holy fuck.

Adam Eget 34:08 I don't understand where the labs-

Joe Rogan 34:09 Dude, it makes zero sense. It makes zero sense.

Adam Eget 34:13 I wish that we could open the store tomorrow.

Joe Rogan 34:16 Yes.

Adam Eget 34:17 Like, we should be able to open the original room at, at, at... Start out at 25% capacity, you know, and say, "Come on."

Joe Rogan 34:23 Yeah, we'll just-

Adam Eget 34:25 Just be smart.

Joe Rogan 34:25 What does it usually fit, 150 people?

Adam Eget 34:27 100, 150, about. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:28 Just 75 people. You fucks.

Adam Eget 34:30 Yeah. We can space it out.

Joe Rogan 34:32 How about just get everybody to sign a waiver?

Adam Eget 34:34 Right.

Joe Rogan 34:34 Just sign a fucking waiver. Let's do this.

Adam Eget 34:37 I mean, I-

Joe Rogan 34:38 And if you-

Adam Eget 34:38 ... don't know.

Joe Rogan 34:38 ... if you have a sick mom at home or if you have someone vulnerable at home, don't go out to these places. You're the one who should make sacrifice.

Adam Eget 34:45 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 34:45 Shouldn't be the whole world sacrificing.

Adam Eget 34:47 Exactly, but we can't rely on these fucking assholes.

Joe Rogan 34:49 Yo.

Adam Eget 34:49 So can you-

Joe Rogan 34:50 (laughs)

Adam Eget 34:50 ... take a temp? Can you... Is that, that's a-

Joe Rogan 34:53 Yes, they did it in the restaurant I went to in Texas. I went to a real restaurant.

Adam Eget 34:56 So we'll just get one of those fucking-

Joe Rogan 34:57 Shout-out to-

Adam Eget 34:58 ... floor head temps.

Joe Rogan 34:59 ... Lonesome Dove. I ate at this Lonesome Dove restaurant in, uh, Austin. They, they take a fucking thermostat, they put it to your forehead.

Adam Eget 35:05 Brrt.

Joe Rogan 35:06 And they read your, your... Like, "You're all good." And then you write on this thing: Have you been in contact with anybody who has COVID? Um, have you had a fever?

Adam Eget 35:13 Ugh.

Joe Rogan 35:13 If you have any cold-like symptoms. And as long as you're clear on all that stuff, we can-

Adam Eget 35:18 We, we should be doing that and call it a day.

Joe Rogan 35:20 They wear a mask, they stay away from you, I mean, mostly, except-

Adam Eget 35:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 35:23 ... when they're taking your meal or dropping off your meal.

Adam Eget 35:26 'Cause we've already gone over the game plan, uh, ad nauseam. We know exactly how we're gonna do it, you know, how to have a- access to the bathrooms, s- uh, s- social distancing in the room, where the comics can enter the stage so they're not fucking in, in the mi- the mi- the thick of it.

Joe Rogan 35:42 Yeah.

Adam Eget 35:42 Um, we're ready to go.

Joe Rogan 35:44 U-

Adam Eget 35:44 All we need is the green light.

Joe Rogan 35:46 I don't know how... The problem is they're never gonna wanna give that green light.

Adam Eget 35:50 I mean, they're gonna have to give the... I thi-

Joe Rogan 35:51 I think-

Adam Eget 35:52 ... I really feel like-

Joe Rogan 35:52 ... they're gonna give the green light, but I'm worried about-

Adam Eget 35:54 ... early July, we'll get a, we'll get a percentage green light for one of the rooms. I really think so.

Joe Rogan 35:59 They're gonna let you have half the belly room.

Adam Eget 36:01 I think... No.

Joe Rogan 36:01 (laughs)

Adam Eget 36:02 I think... Which room do you think?

Joe Rogan 36:03 30 people.

Adam Eget 36:03 I'll take whatever.

Joe Rogan 36:04 I know. I'll take two.

Adam Eget 36:05 I mean, goddamn, I did... Never thought I'd miss that place that much.

Joe Rogan 36:09 Yeah. Dude, I missed it bad.

Adam Eget 36:10 'Cause eventually, like, it got to a point where I'm like, "I, I just wanna fucking hide there."

Joe Rogan 36:15 Yeah.

Adam Eget 36:15 'Cause everybody wants something and I don't, I didn't have shit to give them.

Joe Rogan 36:18 Right, right.

Adam Eget 36:19 You know?

Joe Rogan 36:19 Yeah. That's a weird position, uh, th- as a talent coordinator for a comedy club where all the best comedians go to.

Adam Eget 36:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 36:27 So it's like everyone who's in town, whether it's Chappelle or Bill Burr or whoever, they're all there.

Adam Eget 36:32 They're all there.

Joe Rogan 36:32 So there's no spots.

Adam Eget 36:33 And then there's the one... And then there's you and Joey Diaz and, you know, everybody else and Whitney Cummings and all the A-plus, uh, level comics-

Joe Rogan 36:42 They're every week.

Adam Eget 36:43 ... are there every single night when they're in town.

Joe Rogan 36:44 Yeah.

Adam Eget 36:44 And they're in town.

Joe Rogan 36:46 Yeah.

Adam Eget 36:46 Um, and then that leaves you, you know... And then from 11:00 to, to 12:00, that's all the Andrew Santinos-

Joe Rogan 36:54 Mm-hmm.

Adam Eget 36:54 ... and the Eric Griffins and the Fahim Anwars and all these other beasts that aren't filling fucking arenas, but they're-

Joe Rogan 36:59 They're still killers.

Adam Eget 37:00 ... they're the next ones up, you know?

Joe Rogan 37:02 So if you're some new guy or gal-

Adam Eget 37:04 That leaves like-

Joe Rogan 37:04 ... that's coming up the line-

Adam Eget 37:05 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:05 Yeah.

Adam Eget 37:05 That leaves like five spots a night at the end of the lineup.

Joe Rogan 37:08 Yeah.

Adam Eget 37:08 And then you got 250 comics calling in every week just to fit into that paradigm.So, it's like, sorry, you know. It's not... Nothing personal.

Joe Rogan 37:18 Yeah. There's... There's no club like it.

Adam Eget 37:20 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 37:20 You know, and no club ever been like it either, where there's no shortage of people in the audience. I mean, those years that I... From when I came back to when the pandemic hit, were the, the craziest years I've ever seen in standup comedy at that place, by far. Like a... Like a whole new dimension. Like a whole world had, had shifted.

Adam Eget 37:40 It's... It's been so fucking cool to watch. You know? And to see that shift. There's some comics that are coming up right now, though. Some of the, the ones that I passed in the last year or two, I'm so excited about. Like this guy, uh, Brian Simpson, is... I... You gotta... Necc-... When we reopen again, I'm telling you, this guy's a beast. He, um... Segura. He, he opens up for Segura now.

Joe Rogan 38:02 Oh, nice.

Adam Eget 38:03 He's fantastic. Uh, Lara Bites, who you know, is fantastic.

Joe Rogan 38:07 Lara's hilarious.

Adam Eget 38:07 Rachel Knight. She's hol-

Joe Rogan 38:08 She's hilarious.

Adam Eget 38:10 ... a beast.

Joe Rogan 38:10 Kreischer and I were in the back of the room watching her on stage. Like, it was like the end of the night, there's maybe like (sighs) 20 people or something-

Adam Eget 38:19 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 38:19 ... in the crowd. And more people were in the crowd by the end of her set than were there in the beginning, 'cause people were coming in 'cause she was slaying.

Adam Eget 38:25 That's so cool.

Joe Rogan 38:26 Dude, she was really killing us.

Adam Eget 38:28 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 38:28 We had been around all night. We'd been hanging there all night, and it was late, man.

Adam Eget 38:32 Those are always the best sets. Holtzman-

Joe Rogan 38:35 (laughs)

Adam Eget 38:35 ... closing out the main room when it's like nine people in the audience-

Joe Rogan 38:39 Yeah.

Adam Eget 38:39 ... and 20 comics in the back of the room.

Joe Rogan 38:41 Well, that's where Kinison used to do-

Adam Eget 38:43 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 38:43 ... his spots. I mean, um, that's... Th- they used to say like people would come to see him. They would start showing up at 12 o'clock.

Adam Eget 38:50 Yep.

Joe Rogan 38:50 Yeah.

Adam Eget 38:50 And that's where I would put Brody.

Joe Rogan 38:52 Yeah.

Adam Eget 38:52 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 38:53 Yeah. Yeah.

Adam Eget 38:54 I still... My trunk is still filled with all of his shit.

Joe Rogan 38:57 Really? What do you got?

Adam Eget 38:58 I had to clean out his whole apartment.

Joe Rogan 39:00 Do you have his kettlebell?

Adam Eget 39:01 I might. You want it?

Joe Rogan 39:02 Yeah.

Adam Eget 39:03 All right. If I s-... If I have the kettlebell. I definitely have some drumsticks. Whatever you want.

Joe Rogan 39:06 Do what you want.

Adam Eget 39:06 We'll go out there afterwards.

Joe Rogan 39:07 We worked together in-

Adam Eget 39:08 We'll have a Brody garage sale.

Joe Rogan 39:09 We worked together in Tempe, and he was doing cleans and presses in the parking lot.

Adam Eget 39:13 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:13 Staying fit.

Adam Eget 39:15 I remember that. That's when he used to do it when he's like, "You might remember me-"

Joe Rogan 39:18 (laughs)

Adam Eget 39:18 ... "from the made for TV Vlade Divac movie."

Joe Rogan 39:21 Yes.

Adam Eget 39:21 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:21 (laughs)

Adam Eget 39:22 He was the best.

Joe Rogan 39:23 Push. Positive.

Adam Eget 39:25 You know, we went to, uh, little league together.

Joe Rogan 39:27 Did you really?

Adam Eget 39:28 I l-... I grew up in Tarzana, he grew up in Tarzana.

Joe Rogan 39:31 Wow.

Adam Eget 39:31 And, uh, he was one of the older students. But yeah, Joe Torre, little, uh, baseball camp.

Joe Rogan 39:35 Wow.

Adam Eget 39:36 Yeah. I miss that motherfucker every day.

Joe Rogan 39:38 I miss that motherfucker too. He was... He was another thing about that place, like the special-

Adam Eget 39:44 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 39:44 ... quality of that place. Like, you weren't gonna run into a Brody Stevens in any other walk of life.

Adam Eget 39:50 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 39:50 Like, you had to meet that kinda comedy bro, especially to get to know him like the way we got to know Brody.

Adam Eget 39:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 39:55 You know?

Adam Eget 39:56 Yeah. You take it for granted, you know?

Joe Rogan 39:58 Yeah.

Adam Eget 39:59 I really do.

Joe Rogan 39:59 Yeah. Well, you really do. And you really know you do now. Like, I kinda knew, I took it for granted too. I'd, I'd leave that place some nights and I'd be like, "How lucky are we that we have this place now?"

Adam Eget 40:08 Right.

Joe Rogan 40:08 "Because this place never existed." And for me, it was like, um, you know... We're talking about the pandemic and coming back from the pandemic. For me, it was like, when I was gone and then I came back, it made me realize like, oh, this is a very valuable thing for your comedy. Like, it's... You can't just go to like random comedy clubs and just jump in, do sets. Like, having a home base, and having a home base filled with like Jezeleck and-

Adam Eget 40:35 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 40:35 ... all these fucking assassins, it's like, you'd just be around murderers just all day long, slaying. And it just makes everybody's level higher. I felt like the level of comedy that I was experiencing there was higher than I'd ever seen it before. Like, n- you know, there, there was always the murderers like Martin Lawrence and Damon Wayans, but there was a lot of bullshit in there.

Adam Eget 40:55 Yep.

Joe Rogan 40:55 A lot of fucking Bodaks and a lot of dudes who were doing literally the same act, no bullshit, for 25 years.

Adam Eget 41:02 I know. I had to get rid of a lot of them.

Joe Rogan 41:03 There was... Dude, it was weird. Like, you would... You would see a guy and then you'd not see him for 10, 15 years, and you'd see the same act in the same order, verbatim, with old like Ronald Reagan as president references and shit.

Adam Eget 41:15 Yep.

Joe Rogan 41:15 I'm like, "Whoa."

Adam Eget 41:17 Uh-

Joe Rogan 41:17 So, that was when I came here in '94. There was a lot of that going on.

Adam Eget 41:20 I believe it. I believe it.

Joe Rogan 41:21 So, it was like nothing, murderers, and then nothing, and then the occasional murder. But it was like you'd get one murderer a night, maybe. It wasn't nothing like now.

Adam Eget 41:31 I mean, I'm so fortunate to have the people calling in every week that they could call in, because from 9 o'clock till literally 12:15, it's just Walla Walla killers.

Joe Rogan 41:42 Yeah. We need to get the president involved in this.

Adam Eget 41:45 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 41:45 Tell him that he'll get the support of all the comedians if he just has a federal mandate to open up all comedy clubs. We need it. It's an essential business.

Adam Eget 41:53 It really is, though. I mean, we need-

Joe Rogan 41:54 It is an essential business.

Adam Eget 41:55 ... we... That's gonna do wonders for, for everybody's mental health, for sure.

Joe Rogan 41:59 It will. And for all the mental patients that do standup. I mean, what are they doing right now? They're bouncing-

Adam Eget 42:03 I don't know.

Joe Rogan 42:03 ... off the walls.

Adam Eget 42:04 I-

Joe Rogan 42:04 All these fucking people, they're losing their mind so hard, they're doing Zoom comedy.

Adam Eget 42:08 Dude, I'm f-

Joe Rogan 42:08 Somebody talked them into it.

Adam Eget 42:09 I'm in my studio apartment. I'm, I'm Jack Torrance over there.

Joe Rogan 42:12 Yeah.

Adam Eget 42:12 That's like my little Overlook Hotel.

Joe Rogan 42:14 I don't think that's good for you.

Adam Eget 42:16 No, I'll figure it out.

Joe Rogan 42:16 You're a very social guy. I don't think that's a good thing-

Adam Eget 42:18 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 42:18 ... to be locked up like that for two months at a time.

Adam Eget 42:21 Right. Yeah, I can't wait to get out.

Joe Rogan 42:23 Just take a chance with the bug. Just go wander around.

Adam Eget 42:26 I-

Joe Rogan 42:26 Go to the beach.

Adam Eget 42:26 I still-

Joe Rogan 42:26 Lick some faces. (laughs)

Adam Eget 42:28 You know, I... (laughs) Go to the beach.

Joe Rogan 42:31 Hold some hands.

Adam Eget 42:31 You know, I, uh, I've been talking to Norm, uh, MacDonald a lot lately. We're gonna... I think we're gonna start the podcast up again.

Joe Rogan 42:38 Beautiful.

Adam Eget 42:38 So, thank God for that.

Joe Rogan 42:40 Get tested. Get tested.

Adam Eget 42:42 Yeah. We'll get tested.

Joe Rogan 42:42 You can bring him in here and get tested too.

Adam Eget 42:45 Yeah. You know what? Yeah, we're gonna ask. I think we, we, we would kill for you to be the first guest.

Joe Rogan 42:49 I would love to do it.

Adam Eget 42:50 All right, good.

Joe Rogan 42:50 I'm a... I'm 100% in.

Adam Eget 42:51 Oh, thank God.

Joe Rogan 42:53 100% in.

Adam Eget 42:53 Yeah, we have some good guests lined up. So, now we just... We're just gonna figure it out.

Joe Rogan 42:56 Yeah. So, you're all set to get tested today too.

Adam Eget 42:58 Oh, perfect.

Joe Rogan 42:59 I know you don't have it 'cause you haven't gone anywhere, but you-

Adam Eget 43:01 Yeah, exactly.

Joe Rogan 43:02 You... When you... When you sit in your house like that for like all those days at a time, how... That's gotta be so depressing.

Adam Eget 43:10 It's not great.... it's not great. It's really not. It's, uh, my... Yeah, my depression and anxiety is through the fucking roof.

Joe Rogan 43:18 Do you, um, do any kinda exercise video or something?

Adam Eget 43:20 Yeah, I got a rowing machine so I-

Joe Rogan 43:22 Oh, that's good.

Adam Eget 43:22 ... I do a lot of, uh, rowing and then I go on a long walk. I go on, like, a five-mile walk every day.

Joe Rogan 43:28 Oh, that's very good.

Adam Eget 43:29 But that's it. Yeah, but other than that-

Joe Rogan 43:30 But you're by yourself most of the time?

Adam Eget 43:31 But I'm by myself in my, in my apartment.

Joe Rogan 43:33 Yeah, shit, that ain't good. Being by yourself that often is not good.

Adam Eget 43:36 No, it certainly isn't.

Joe Rogan 43:37 All the single people, this is a fucking weird one for single people.

Adam Eget 43:40 Well, it's kinda choose your poison. I don't know how-

Joe Rogan 43:42 (laughs)

Adam Eget 43:42 ... I feel like I would fucking wanna kill somebody if I was stuck in a, in a single room.

Joe Rogan 43:47 Yeah, that can happen for sure.

Adam Eget 43:48 Oh, absolutely.

Joe Rogan 43:49 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that can happen for sure. It either brings you closer together or it drifts you further apart. Those are the, those are the-

Adam Eget 43:55 Yeah, if you have a strong foundation-

Joe Rogan 43:57 Yeah.

Adam Eget 43:57 ... and you truly like each o-... You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan 43:59 You get to know each other better.

Adam Eget 43:59 You already accepted each other for-

Joe Rogan 44:00 Yeah.

Adam Eget 44:00 ... everything, warts and all.

Joe Rogan 44:02 And also-

Adam Eget 44:03 Then yeah.

Joe Rogan 44:03 ... you, you both realize, like, uh, like you're saying you appreciate the store, you also appreciate your family, you appreciate your friends. I appreciate my friends and my family and, and just everybody in my life way more now than, uh, I guess I, I guess I always appreciated them, but there's, like, a, another 10% bump in all that stuff when the pandemic was happening. Because, like, when it started happening in the beginning, I was, like, genuinely scared. I was genuinely thinking this could be something that kills 10% of the people I know. I was genuinely thinking, like, "Oh my God, this could be way worse. China could be lying about how bad it is."

Adam Eget 44:38 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 44:38 "Could be way worse."

Adam Eget 44:39 I remember talking to you about it-

Joe Rogan 44:40 Mm-hmm.

Adam Eget 44:40 ... right when you were-

Joe Rogan 44:41 Yeah.

Adam Eget 44:41 ... in that state of mind.

Joe Rogan 44:42 Yeah.

Adam Eget 44:42 And it was terrifying.

Joe Rogan 44:44 But what made me, it made me think in that state of mind, like, I'm so thankful that I have such a, an amazing group of friends, so thankful that I have an amazing family, so thankful that I have friends that I love that we can fuck with each other and talk shit to each other. You know, it's like...

Adam Eget 45:01 That... My... It's someone of my... The greatest joys of my day com-... I'm in a, a group thread with a, with a bunch of comics.

Joe Rogan 45:06 (laughs) Yeah.

Adam Eget 45:06 And those are the, those are my favorite moments of the day.

Joe Rogan 45:09 Yeah.

Adam Eget 45:09 Just cracking each other up and-

Joe Rogan 45:10 I'm in this thread-

Adam Eget 45:11 ... talking shit.

Joe Rogan 45:12 ... with Whitney and Nick Schwartzman and D'Elia. It's the most ridiculous thread.

Adam Eget 45:16 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 45:16 It's been going on for years, man.

Adam Eget 45:18 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 45:18 For years.

Adam Eget 45:19 What's the-

Joe Rogan 45:19 I call it the Bi- the Bitch Group. Just bitching about shit. It's really funny, man.

Adam Eget 45:23 I'm in a great one with, with Spade and Whitney.

Joe Rogan 45:26 (laughs)

Adam Eget 45:26 There's... It's just the best.

Joe Rogan 45:27 I think Whitney's just in a bunch of group texts-

Adam Eget 45:30 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 45:30 ... all day long talking shit. It's funny, man. It's so fun.

Adam Eget 45:33 I love her with all of my heart.

Joe Rogan 45:34 Oh, she's a, she's a unique person.

Adam Eget 45:35 She's a great human being. She really is a special one.

Joe Rogan 45:38 Very, very unique.

Adam Eget 45:38 Schwartzman too.

Joe Rogan 45:39 Oh, yeah, he's amazing.

Adam Eget 45:40 D'Elia's grea-... Yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:41 And D'Elia too. It's just-

Adam Eget 45:42 We're so lucky.

Joe Rogan 45:42 ... we're, we're, we're, yeah. We're very, very, very lucky.

Adam Eget 45:46 There're so ma-

Joe Rogan 45:46 There's just a bunch of people that we know that are just some of the most fun people to be around.

Adam Eget 45:50 Yeah. And Ari Shaffir.

Joe Rogan 45:51 Yeah. That fucking idiot.

Adam Eget 45:52 No, I meant... (laughs) Yeah.

Joe Rogan 45:55 (laughs)

Adam Eget 45:55 We're, uh... (laughs) You know, Jerry Sloan just died. I ho- hopefully he learned his lesson and keeps his fucking mouth shut this time. You know Jerry Sloan?

Joe Rogan 46:02 No. Who's Jerry Sloan?

Adam Eget 46:03 The, uh, co- the coach of the Utah Jazz.

Joe Rogan 46:05 Don't even mention it to Ari.

Adam Eget 46:06 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:06 He probably doesn't know yet.

Adam Eget 46:08 Oh, he knows now.

Joe Rogan 46:09 That is, that sort of a prank, that prank, the idea of that prank, it's like, "Okay."

Adam Eget 46:13 Yeah. Yeah, he can't help himself.

Joe Rogan 46:15 He's just fully committed to being the wrestling heel-

Adam Eget 46:17 Exactly.

Joe Rogan 46:18 ... all the time.

Adam Eget 46:19 (laughs) He loves it.

Joe Rogan 46:20 Dude, I was reading that wrestling might go under.

Adam Eget 46:22 No-... How?

Joe Rogan 46:23 They're saying that wrestling is... They're firing wrestlers. I know they got rid of, uh, Cain Velasquez, and he only did, like, one match with them. They're releasing a bunch of people off their roster. They're, and they're hurting apparently-

Adam Eget 46:33 Really?

Joe Rogan 46:33 ... 'cause they're not getting any live gate. You gotta think, pro wrestling, when they tour around the country, the v-... I mean, they're doing hundreds of shows-

Adam Eget 46:42 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 46:42 ... in these giant places. Imagine the amount of money just from the live gate of all these places and then merch, all that different stuff, all that stuff's cut off. So they have the same amount of expenses, but then through no fault of their own, boom, profits stop.

Adam Eget 46:57 I'm, I'm genuinely ignorant about so many things in this world, except for maybe music, movies, and comedy. But here's what I don't understand. They've made a shit ton of money, haven't they?

Joe Rogan 47:08 Yeah, but they've been balling.

Adam Eget 47:10 Uh...

Joe Rogan 47:10 They're not saving. What are they, a Boy Scout?

Adam Eget 47:13 Well, I thought Vince McMahon-

Joe Rogan 47:14 Vince McMahon-

Adam Eget 47:14 ... was like a... Oh yeah.

Joe Rogan 47:15 He's on juice in his 90s.

Adam Eget 47:16 He, he's the guy who started the XFL.

Joe Rogan 47:17 Do you think he's saving money?

Adam Eget 47:18 (laughs) Yeah, no.

Joe Rogan 47:19 Come on, man.

Adam Eget 47:19 I just watched the 30 for 30 on the XFL. It was great.

Joe Rogan 47:22 That guy's doing squats and, and shooting fucking steroids and making billions of dollars. He's, he doesn't have any time for this nonsense.

Adam Eget 47:29 Yeah, I guess that's true. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 47:30 Come on, man. He's an animal. He's not saving any money.

Adam Eget 47:34 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 47:34 That guy probably has 50 bucks in the bank.

Adam Eget 47:36 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 47:38 He probably spends everything he makes, probably makes $100 million a year, spends it all like it's going out of style. He's a fucking animal. And you look at his business though, like, you've got, I believe, the way they have... You would be able to know this.

Narrator 47:53 Maybe.

Joe Rogan 47:53 Um, the app? Their app-

Narrator 47:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 47:55 ... you get everything through the app, right?

Narrator 47:57 Yeah, the WWE Network, I think is what it's called.

Joe Rogan 47:58 Right. So when you sign up, you pay a monthly fee.

Narrator 48:00 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 48:00 And you get all the events. There's no pay-per-view, right?

Narrator 48:03 Right, right.

Joe Rogan 48:03 Right. Whereas the UFC, not the case. The UFC, like, if you get ESPN+, you gotta pay for ESPN+, but when, like, Conor McGregor fights or Jon Jones fights, like, you gotta pay for that.

Adam Eget 48:14 Yeah, I found out the hard way-

Narrator 48:16 (laughs)

Adam Eget 48:16 ... uh, about a... What was that, like three weeks ago?

Joe Rogan 48:19 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's, uh, that's just how it is, man.

Adam Eget 48:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 48:23 That's just how it is. That's, that's how it... I mean, they don't, they don't have the same model and a lot of people... Like, WWE used to have that model. They used to have... You'd pay for pay-per-views. They have their regular shows and they have the big time pay-per-views.

Adam Eget 48:37 Yeah, I remember that with, like, SummerSlam-

Joe Rogan 48:39 Mm-hmm.

Adam Eget 48:40 ... and even the WWF days.

Joe Rogan 48:41 Yeah, I remember those days. Yeah, they used to advertise those all the time on cable.

Adam Eget 48:45 Mm-hmm.

Narrator 48:45 It's like if you could imagine though if, like, uh, Tuesday Night Rochester knew you were Conor McGregor, would just fight a championship fight and then you see him again on Saturday fighting again on pay-per-view, like-

Adam Eget 48:55 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 48:55 (laughs)

Narrator 48:55 That's a good point.

Adam Eget 48:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 48:56 Well, you heard what Ronda Rousey said about that, you know? She was like, "You fucking dorks. Listen, these, this is fake fighting and they do it 200 times a year." She goes, "You know what'd happen if you fought 200 times a year? You'd be dead." (laughs)

Adam Eget 49:08 (laughs)

Narrator 49:08 (laughs)

Adam Eget 49:08 I can't even-

Joe Rogan 49:09 Even though she's a star in the WWE, at the end of the day, she was like the original great famous women's mixed martial arts fighter.

Adam Eget 49:18 Yeah, right.

Joe Rogan 49:18 She's not taking your nonsense.

Adam Eget 49:20 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:20 She's not listening to any of that stupid shit. Shut the fuck up, you know? I mean, she got knocked out by Cyborg and Amanda Nu-... Or not Cy- not Cyborg, by, uh-

Adam Eget 49:29 Amanda Nunes and Holly Holm.

Joe Rogan 49:31 ... Amanda Nunes and Holly Holm back to back.

Adam Eget 49:32 Right.

Joe Rogan 49:33 The idea that she's gonna listen to some fucking-

Adam Eget 49:36 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:36 Wrestling dork, give or shit.

Adam Eget 49:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 49:39 That, uh, business though, what I was gonna say is, I think-

Adam Eget 49:42 Austin?

Joe Rogan 49:42 ... because of the, uh-

Adam Eget 49:43 Oh.

Joe Rogan 49:43 ... app, the WWE app-

Adam Eget 49:45 Oh, right.

Joe Rogan 49:45 ... because of the app, the way they have it set up, they don't have the live gate anymore. So, all that money from those ar- re- they do these giant arenas.

Adam Eget 49:54 Right.

Joe Rogan 49:54 They're selling out, right?

Adam Eget 49:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:55 Like crazy all over the country.

Adam Eget 49:56 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 49:56 200 plus a year. All that money's gone.

Adam Eget 49:59 They can't just hit the fucking pause button?

Joe Rogan 50:01 No, Vince McMahon's got bills, son.

Adam Eget 50:03 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 50:03 He's got like 80 jets and fucking a hundred houses. (laughs) He's got no time. He's, he's just f-... I don't know. I don't know what they do. I mean, I think when the business drops you gotta act accordingly, I guess.

Adam Eget 50:18 I guess so.

Joe Rogan 50:18 Or even when the business comes back, they'll rehire people. It's a hard time for everybody, man.

Adam Eget 50:23 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:23 But the, the people that I feel th- the most for, um, are people who are dying and people who lost people.

Adam Eget 50:30 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 50:30 But next, people who are losing their business and their family's falling apart because of this. And through no fault of their own.

Adam Eget 50:35 Yeah, and then the employees that are, are just forced to go out of work and-

Joe Rogan 50:39 Yeah.

Adam Eget 50:39 ... how do they... They have to go on food l... Like, I don't understand how they're supposed to just quarantine for months-

Joe Rogan 50:45 I don't know.

Adam Eget 50:45 ... with no money.

Joe Rogan 50:46 And again, no talk at all.

Adam Eget 50:47 $1,200.

Joe Rogan 50:48 And no talk at all about health, um, taking care of your health. No talk.

Adam Eget 50:52 That's just shocking.

Joe Rogan 50:53 No talk. Nothing.

Adam Eget 50:54 Yeah, that should be number one-

Joe Rogan 50:55 Two.

Adam Eget 50:55 ... two and three on the list.

Joe Rogan 50:57 Yeah. I mean, it's fucking... It's crazy.

Adam Eget 50:59 What is going on? I wonder if other countries... I'd be, I'd be fascinated to see how they're handling this in other countries on their news over there and, and seeing if they focus on-

Joe Rogan 51:08 Well, some countries aren't handling it badly at all. Like some countries are...

Adam Eget 51:12 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:12 Like Germany had a crazy low death rate.

Adam Eget 51:14 Right.

Joe Rogan 51:15 There's a bunch of countries that have really low death rates.

Adam Eget 51:15 It's like, I wonder if they're focused on that. I wonder if on their news programs they're focused on, "Here's what you need to do to protect yourself."

Joe Rogan 51:22 It's a good question.

Adam Eget 51:22 "Take a lot of vitamin D, take this, do this, get in the sun."

Joe Rogan 51:25 It's a good question.

Adam Eget 51:25 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 51:26 I think it's probably their healthcare system and it's probably-

Adam Eget 51:29 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 51:29 ... their diet. You know, there's a real issue in this country with sugar. And the, it's-

Adam Eget 51:34 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 51:35 ... it's a giant part of what's happening here. When you talk about, uh, people that are getting diabetes and, you know, people that are overweight, those are two big factors in this disease.

Adam Eget 51:44 Right.

Joe Rogan 51:44 And they're both connected, not the genetic form of diabetes, but, uh, type II, is connected to sugar consumption.

Adam Eget 51:50 Right.

Joe Rogan 51:50 And it's directly connected to your diet. You can-

Adam Eget 51:53 No this-

Joe Rogan 51:53 You can also look at... Ask Dean Del Rey. Dean Del Rey had fucking diabetes when he w... 'Cause he was eating sugar all day.

Adam Eget 51:58 Yeah, he was doing Jamba Juice once a day and like-

Joe Rogan 52:00 Yeah. He was eating candy.

Adam Eget 52:01 ... he was eating candy.

Joe Rogan 52:01 Yeah.

Adam Eget 52:02 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:02 He realized it when they gave him that wake-up call, that diabetes wake-up call.

Adam Eget 52:06 Yeah, that's what... (laughs) That was like a hell of a wake-up call.

Joe Rogan 52:08 But now you look at him, he's healthy and fit. He's-

Adam Eget 52:10 He looks better than he ever has.

Joe Rogan 52:12 ... he's never had... Lost, lost a ton of weight and he said he feels so good.

Adam Eget 52:14 He looks killer.

Joe Rogan 52:15 He looks great.

Adam Eget 52:16 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:16 Killer. And now, uh, like his Instagram posts, like you'll see qu- quite a few of them. Every now and then he'll talk about sugar and what, what he used to look like. He'll, he'll put up fat Dean pictures.

Adam Eget 52:27 Yeah, I love that.

Joe Rogan 52:27 To remind everybody. Yeah, like fat Dean.

Adam Eget 52:28 Dude, I got fat Adam. I got fat Adam photos.

Joe Rogan 52:31 Oh, no.

Adam Eget 52:31 Oh.

Joe Rogan 52:31 That's right, you showed me those.

Adam Eget 52:32 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those were solid.

Joe Rogan 52:33 That's right. I didn't know you then. You weren't fat then.

Adam Eget 52:35 No, I w- I was chubby at the improv. When was that?

Joe Rogan 52:38 I'm not judging.

Adam Eget 52:39 Around 2005.

Joe Rogan 52:39 I'm not judging.

Adam Eget 52:40 Oh, good to know.

Joe Rogan 52:40 I didn't even notice. (laughs)

Adam Eget 52:44 (laughs) No, you probably did know me when I was fat Adam.

Joe Rogan 52:46 Mm-hmm.

Adam Eget 52:47 Those were good days.

Joe Rogan 52:48 Maybe a little bit.

Adam Eget 52:48 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:49 But I let it go.

Adam Eget 52:50 Yeah. Good. Thank you. I appreciate that.

Joe Rogan 52:51 But Dean, um, he's the perfect example. I mean, he was, he had all sorts of health problems because of that sugar consumption. Look it, there's fat Dean with his name-

Adam Eget 52:58 Oh, yeah.

Joe Rogan 52:58 And he, he got his name on the store at the wall.

Adam Eget 53:00 At the wall-

Joe Rogan 53:01 Or the wall of the store, rather.

Adam Eget 53:02 ... of the store. Yeah.

Joe Rogan 53:02 Look at that. Fat Dean Tuesdays.

Adam Eget 53:04 He did. He used to... He looks like Bobby Hill. He used to do a bit about that.

Joe Rogan 53:07 Wow. That's crazy how fat he was.

Adam Eget 53:10 God damn.

Joe Rogan 53:11 And now he's healthy and young.

Adam Eget 53:12 Yeah, sugar's a killer, man.

Joe Rogan 53:13 He's going back in time.

Adam Eget 53:14 It's a killer. No- (laughs)

Joe Rogan 53:15 He's getting younger. He looks younger.

Adam Eget 53:17 He does look way younger now.

Joe Rogan 53:18 Way younger.

Adam Eget 53:19 He does.

Joe Rogan 53:19 He looks healthier. He looks so much better. And, uh-

Adam Eget 53:22 That's my problem, I eat too much ice cream.

Joe Rogan 53:24 Again, we're not hearing any of this stuff from people. We're not hearing any of this stuff from Fauci or a- all these health experts. We're not hearing any of it.

Adam Eget 53:32 No.

Joe Rogan 53:33 It's crazy.

Adam Eget 53:33 We're just hearing, "Inject yourself with fucking Clorox."

Joe Rogan 53:36 And if you talk to people, like, "Well, you don't wanna shame people for, you know, for having a poor diet or for being overweight." Like... Okay, do you care if people die or not?

Adam Eget 53:45 Yeah, right?

Joe Rogan 53:46 Like, what do you care about? Do you car- is it hurting people's feelings or saving their lives? Which-

Adam Eget 53:50 Yeah, this-

Joe Rogan 53:50 Everything's more important.

Adam Eget 53:51 ... everything's going backwards now. Everyone's too sensitive. They're worried about people's feelings too much.

Joe Rogan 53:56 It's gonna be real weird when we come back to doing comedy and you hear all the COVID jokes.

Adam Eget 54:00 It's gonna be-

Joe Rogan 54:00 The audience is gonna be exhausted.

Adam Eget 54:02 Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be the new airplane food.

Joe Rogan 54:04 Uh, I'm avoiding them. I'm not writing anything about it.

Adam Eget 54:06 Yeah, who's gonna build the wall? It's gonna be the new fucking-

Joe Rogan 54:09 Ha! Exactly.

Adam Eget 54:09 Yes, all right, we get it.

Joe Rogan 54:11 Exactly. They're like, "Exactly."

Adam Eget 54:12 Uh, but... Wait, fuck. You're sure there's no weed in this?

Joe Rogan 54:20 100%. You, you probably got contact hives from being in the room with me.

Adam Eget 54:23 (laughs) No, there was something specific I was gonna ask you.

Joe Rogan 54:26 You had, uh, it was over there. You had like 30 day... How many days? 90 days off?

Adam Eget 54:31 90 days. I, yeah, I got sober on March 1st.

Joe Rogan 54:33 You can't be in a room with someone like me while I'm smoking weed.

Adam Eget 54:36 (laughs) That's what I was gonna ask you, is, do you think... (laughs)

Joe Rogan 54:39 It's probably catching it.

Adam Eget 54:40 No, no, I don't think so.

Joe Rogan 54:41 Contact.

Adam Eget 54:41 Do you think that, uh-

Joe Rogan 54:43 Contact. Social distance from weed smoke.

Adam Eget 54:45 Do you think all the PC bullshit and the social justice warrior shit is going to, uh, be tempered after we, we, we-

Joe Rogan 54:53 No.

Adam Eget 54:54 No.

Joe Rogan 54:54 No, I think it was tempered because of the real danger. I think the real threat and the real fear tempered it, and now that that's gone away, um-

Adam Eget 55:00 It's gonna-

Joe Rogan 55:00 ... the real fear is gonna give way to a new level of anger because of this level of despair people are gonna be experiencing financially over the next few months. So there's b- gonna be a heightened... It's almost gonna be a, a, like it has a slingshot effect.

Adam Eget 55:14 Oh, fuck.

Joe Rogan 55:14 Like, people got less cunty and then they're gonna get more cunty and more self-righteous.

Adam Eget 55:19 Oh.

Joe Rogan 55:19 Yeah, more, more self-righteous, more people chastising and criticizing people. And on Twitter you really see it because people are literally forced to be at home. So if you're forced to be at home and you don't have the discipline to stay off Twitter and you happen to comment something and someone comments on your comment and then you start talking shit to each other, that's your day.

Adam Eget 55:38 (laughs) Yeah, always, not only is that your day, but you're, you're gonna be crazy. Like you're gonna be thinking about it in the middle of the night, "What the fuck did they write?" You get up to pee, "I'm not gonna check my phone. Let me check my phone real quick. Fuck!" (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:47 ... and they said something that's pretty good, and you're like, "Goddamn it. Now I gotta come up with something to say back."

Adam Eget 55:50 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:50 So you start googling statistics and-

Adam Eget 55:52 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 55:53 Yeah, man. I mean, this is what a lot of people are doing. It's making people sicker and sicker. I've, uh, almost completely avoided Twitter, other than I'll check my DMs occasionally. And, uh, occasionally I'll check what other people have posted that I'm friends with or that I follow, check a little bit, but I might give it, I might give it five minutes a day. I might-

Adam Eget 56:12 I deleted my Twitter icon about a year ago, and then I just reinstalled it-

Joe Rogan 56:16 Mm-hmm.

Adam Eget 56:16 ... maybe about a week or two ago.

Joe Rogan 56:19 Yeah, I have it-

Adam Eget 56:19 And I'm already starting to see, like, "What am I doing? Why am I even looking?" It's just getting me pissed off.

Joe Rogan 56:25 It's just, too many people are angry.

Adam Eget 56:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:28 It's just too many.

Adam Eget 56:28 About nonsense. (sighs)

Joe Rogan 56:30 Well, maybe it's, uh, it's, uh, to them it's important, right? It's like, when you post it, it's important. But when you're dealing with, whatever the fuck it is, 100 million people that are on Twitter or more, probably more, that are posting on a regular basis, and then most of what they want to say is anger. Most of what they have, want to say is negative. Most of it's complaining. It might be, like, 60% complaining.

Adam Eget 56:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 56:55 So when you tune into that, like, you're getting all the problems of all these people. It's just too many people. You're supposed to deal with the problems of the people that are around you. So if there's, like, 10 people around you and Tommy's got a problem, "What's wrong with Tommy? Let's go talk to Tommy." It's not supposed to be 10 million people.

Adam Eget 57:13 Right.

Joe Rogan 57:13 And then there's 100s of 1,000s of Tommys just flooding your fucking, your feed with bullshit, nonsense. "My fucking girl's lying about this and they say we can't vote in November. Fuck that. I say we sue." And-

Adam Eget 57:26 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 57:26 ... whoa, all this craziness. And it's like you, you just deal with the worst aspects of everyone's day or everyone's thoughts or everyone's opinions. You're just dealing with all this negativity, and it's so rare that... And it's really very much appreciated when you do find it, like a really well-structured conversation or disagreement about something where people don't get shitty at all. It's like, "Wow, that's beautiful. That's pleasant to see." Or there's people that want to dox people 'cause, you know, they, you know, they, they don't like this politician that they support or they don't like-

Adam Eget 57:56 Right.

Joe Rogan 57:56 ... they want you to not have to wear a mask, people want to dox you. Like, there's, there's so many people that are so fucking angry and weird online. And then you add this pandemic to it, and you just got this boiling pot of shitty thinking and anger and meanness, just mean. (growls) Like-

Adam Eget 58:15 Yeah, there's a lot of that.

Joe Rogan 58:16 Where's the love?

Adam Eget 58:17 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 58:18 Where's the love? Where's the camaraderie? Where's the hugs? Isn't that the best part of your day? Wouldn't you rather be friends with people? Like, I know you, you can have disagreements and not be shitty. It's possible.

Adam Eget 58:28 And that's what I loved about the Comedy Store is people that, you know, didn't disagree, but they fucking, you know, they, there, there's still that camaraderie and they're, they're, at the end of the day, they're in the same boat. Like, they love each other.

Joe Rogan 58:39 Pretty much.

Adam Eget 58:40 And yeah.

Joe Rogan 58:41 There's just a, there's a lack of, uh, conservative comedians, I would say. If there's anything that's odd, it's like-

Adam Eget 58:47 Yeah, that is... I mean, I think that's-

Joe Rogan 58:49 A few.

Adam Eget 58:49 ... that's very true.

Joe Rogan 58:50 There's a few, you know, that you know of. But it's pretty, it's pretty rare.

Adam Eget 58:55 I think there's probably more than we know that they're just, uh, just not on stage. They're, they're, they're avoiding it.

Joe Rogan 59:02 Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Um, in, um, acting, it's like fucking 99%.

Adam Eget 59:07 90%. (laughs) Exactly.

Joe Rogan 59:07 It's crazy.

Adam Eget 59:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 59:08 Which makes me think that can't be real. It makes me think that it's probably a lot of it is people shaping their opinions so that they're more accepted and loved by the community that they've chosen-

Adam Eget 59:20 It's all business.

Joe Rogan 59:20 ... to try to excel in. Yeah.

Adam Eget 59:21 Definitely. All business decisions.

Joe Rogan 59:22 Exactly. I remember I had this conversation with this dude once. I was on a TV set when I first started acting and-

Adam Eget 59:27 On NewsRadio?

Joe Rogan 59:28 Yeah. No, before that.

Adam Eget 59:29 Oh.

Joe Rogan 59:29 Hardball.

Adam Eget 59:30 Oh, okay.

Joe Rogan 59:31 Yeah. This is, uh, early in my acting career.

Adam Eget 59:34 Okay.

Joe Rogan 59:35 It was, it was quite crazy. And, uh, I was talking to this dude about, uh, a movie. Actually, it might have been NewsRadio days 'cause I think that's when this movie came out. It was, uh, As Good As It Gets.

Adam Eget 59:48 Sure. With Jack Nicholson?

Joe Rogan 59:50 Which I thought was the most fucking depressing movie.

Adam Eget 59:52 (laughs) That's pretty funny.

Joe Rogan 59:53 I'm like, here's this lady and she's, she's so nice and she keeps accepting this guy for fucking up-

Adam Eget 1:00:00 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:00 ... over and over again. And then at the end, the solution is he takes a pill and the pill keeps him from being an asshole?

Adam Eget 1:00:08 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:09 Like, what? There's no pill for that.

Adam Eget 1:00:11 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:11 Like, that's so crazy. He's an asshole.

Adam Eget 1:00:12 Sorry, he was a major asshole.

Joe Rogan 1:00:13 He's a fucking asshole. And we're s- we're supposed to think, "Oh, no, no, no. He just needed a pill." See, once he gets this non-asshole iminium inside of his body-

Adam Eget 1:00:23 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:23 ... it cancels out all the assholishness and he's actually a good guy. So she found a good guy.

Adam Eget 1:00:28 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:28 Oh, she's... Poor lady was a single mom-

Adam Eget 1:00:30 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:30 ... who's living with this fucking mean piece of shit.

Adam Eget 1:00:34 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:35 And a pill fixed it. And I was like, that movie depressed the fuck out of me.

Adam Eget 1:00:38 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:38 And I was talking to this actor and he goes, "Uh, actually, uh, I think he had a lot to offer her." I go, "What?"

Adam Eget 1:00:45 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:00:45 'Cause it was a popular movie.

Adam Eget 1:00:47 Yeah. Hell.

Joe Rogan 1:00:47 He was like-

Adam Eget 1:00:48 It was a film nois-

Joe Rogan 1:00:48 ... spouting off. I go, "It was a terrible movie." I go, "Wouldn't... If that la- lady was your sister, wouldn't you want to grab her and go, 'Helen, come on.'"

Adam Eget 1:00:55 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:55 "You're awesome.'"

Adam Eget 1:00:55 He's just a dickhead.

Joe Rogan 1:00:56 "This guy's so mean."

Adam Eget 1:00:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:00:57 "He's always mean. He says racist shit. He's mean."

Adam Eget 1:01:00 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:00 "He's cracking jokes." He's-

Adam Eget 1:01:02 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:01:02 He was yelling at people. He did a lot of, like, weird shit, right?

Adam Eget 1:01:04 Yeah. He said, uh, uh, how do you... He was a writer, right? They said-

Joe Rogan 1:01:07 Yeah.

Adam Eget 1:01:07 ... "How do you write women so well? I think of a, a regular woman and then I take away reason and accountability." And then like-

Joe Rogan 1:01:13 Well, it's not just that. It was like-

Adam Eget 1:01:15 No. He was misogynist. He was an-

Joe Rogan 1:01:16 Never nice.

Adam Eget 1:01:16 ... he was an asshole. Always a dick.

Joe Rogan 1:01:18 But there was, but there was no nice. There wasn't one of those-

Adam Eget 1:01:20 No. He had no-

Joe Rogan 1:01:21 ... balanced thoughts.

Adam Eget 1:01:21 ... redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Joe Rogan 1:01:22 Right.

Adam Eget 1:01:23 So he had crippling OCD.

Joe Rogan 1:01:25 Yeah.

Adam Eget 1:01:25 Yeah. There was... I haven't seen it in many years, but-

Joe Rogan 1:01:27 He didn't make any sense.

Adam Eget 1:01:27 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:01:27 Didn't make any sense. I'm like, "Oh, it's depressing." I go, I... But look, it's a work of art, right? It doesn't have to be-

Adam Eget 1:01:32 Right.

Joe Rogan 1:01:32 ... warm and fuzzy. I just... But it made me feel bad. But he was, like, sticking up for the relationship.

Adam Eget 1:01:37 Oh, that does... I can understand (claps) sticking up for the movie.

Joe Rogan 1:01:39 What the fuck are you talking about?

Adam Eget 1:01:39 But not... Yeah. That's insane. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:01:41 But I realized in the middle of the conversation, I'm like, "Oh. People do shit like that because they think they're supposed to like a movie."

Adam Eget 1:01:46 Oh, God yes.

Joe Rogan 1:01:47 So they say shit-

Adam Eget 1:01:48 Of course that's what he was doing.

Joe Rogan 1:01:49 Oh, it was 100%.

Adam Eget 1:01:50 Yes. Definitely.

Joe Rogan 1:01:51 'Cause, 'cause I was... Look.... I was du- dumb. Um, I mean, I'm dumb now, but back then I was-

Adam Eget 1:01:56 Yeah. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:01:56 ... I was, I was, like, four years removed from fighting. Like, I was-

Adam Eget 1:02:00 If you're fucking dumb now, then I'm fucked.

Joe Rogan 1:02:02 But I was, I was much dumber them. But it was my instincts were always to challenge people on things.

Adam Eget 1:02:08 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:02:08 Like, "What? What are you saying?" Like, it was-

Adam Eget 1:02:09 Love that.

Joe Rogan 1:02:10 I wanted to, I wanted to find out why he could ever possibly think that that was a good idea for that lady to date that fucking asshole, that mean guy who just needed a pill. (laughs)

Adam Eget 1:02:19 Right. (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:02:19 Like, it's so crazy. That's the craziest movie.

Adam Eget 1:02:22 I remember that. I remember when The English Patient came out and everybody was all over... Was like, "This is the best thing ever." And I was like, "That movie fucking sucked." But I wouldn't... Today, if it came out today, I would have no problem being like, "No, you're wrong." I-

Joe Rogan 1:02:35 Yeah.

Adam Eget 1:02:35 That movie bored the shit out of me.

Joe Rogan 1:02:37 It was weird. But the, my point was not that, you know, it was a good movie or a bad movie. He achieved his result.

Adam Eget 1:02:44 He was standing up for the relationship to...

Joe Rogan 1:02:44 He was just... This is what my point was. I could tell he wasn't really saying it because he thought it.

Adam Eget 1:02:50 Thought it.

Joe Rogan 1:02:50 He was saying it-

Adam Eget 1:02:51 'Cause he knew-

Joe Rogan 1:02:52 ... because he thought it was the thing that he should say.

Adam Eget 1:02:53 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:02:54 And in talking to this guy, I found this like, it was like one of those fake houses where they film a TV show-

Adam Eget 1:03:01 (laughs) Yeah. Right.

Joe Rogan 1:03:01 ... where there's nothing behind it.

Adam Eget 1:03:02 (laughs) Right.

Joe Rogan 1:03:02 It's propped up on sticks. And I'm looking at this guy, and it's like-

Adam Eget 1:03:05 That's a great analogy.

Joe Rogan 1:03:06 ... I look behind the sign. I was like, "You're a fake personality."

Adam Eget 1:03:09 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:09 "You don't even have a real personality." Like, "Who are you?" Like, "You're a, you fucking weirdo." And, uh, they, this is one, one way you could tell these people, they would always say, "Good to see you," even if they just met you. They'd say, "Good to see you."

Adam Eget 1:03:23 Oh, right.

Joe Rogan 1:03:24 It was like a, like, like, you're in a cult. Like, you're saying the things that everyone says. "And blessed be with you, and blessed be with you, brother."

Adam Eget 1:03:31 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:31 Like, you'd pass each other in the hallway. "Good to see you."

Adam Eget 1:03:33 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:33 "Good to see you." And everyone was full of shit. Like-

Adam Eget 1:03:35 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:36 ... this is the most disingenuous, "Good to see you."

Adam Eget 1:03:39 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:39 Instead of saying, "Hey, what's up? Nice to meet you."

Adam Eget 1:03:41 I never thought of it... That's such a perfect analogy. That is, 'cause I was in a cult. I know what it's like-

Joe Rogan 1:03:45 Yes.

Adam Eget 1:03:45 ... to fucking experience that.

Joe Rogan 1:03:47 Yes, that's why I'm bringing this up. I wanna get to that.

Adam Eget 1:03:50 (laughs)

Joe Rogan 1:03:51 'Cause I know your cult story.

Adam Eget 1:03:52 So that is 99% of the industry, man. That's, that's-

Joe Rogan 1:03:54 That's why it's such a sad place.

Adam Eget 1:03:57 Yeah.

Joe Rogan 1:03:57 That's why it's so sad.

Adam Eget 1:03:58 So lonely.

Joe Rogan 1:03:59 And you get all that attention, and believe me, that's what I wanted. That's why I came here. I mean, I just figured out along the way what was wrong. I figured out along the way, like, "Oh, this is a bad motivation."

Adam Eget 1:04:11 Mm-hmm.

Joe Rogan 1:04:12 "This is not a good motivation." Like, with the best... This is not gonna fix you. You have to fix you and then treat what you're doing as an art form and enjoy it, instead of treat what you're doing as, like, a, a, a method of extracting attention, 'cause that's the difference between someone who's an artist, right? Like a Gary Clark Jr. versus someone who's just doing a lot of dumb shit to try to get attention and doesn't really have any thought to it. You know what I mean?

Adam Eget 1:04:40 I know exactly what you mean, and there were a lot of comics that were like that at The Comedy Store that were doing it just to get women and ju- and, and they were, they didn't have any real love for the art form.

Joe Rogan 1:04:49 Right, they just wanted to be famous.

Adam Eget 1:04:51 They didn't really... They weren't working on their craft.

Joe Rogan 1:04:52 Yeah.

Adam Eget 1:04:52 They had the same set, like you talked about earlier, that they'd-

Joe Rogan 1:04:54 Yeah.

Adam Eget 1:04:54 ... been doing for a decade, and they were just doing it to try and get women. They were trying to get