Joe Rogan Experience #1522 - Rob Lowe

1. 0:00 – 2:02

   Lockdown life, masks, and restarting TV production safely

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      Oh. Oh, Rob Lowe. Here we go.

   2. RLRob Lowe0:02

      Here we are.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      What's up, man?

   4. RLRob Lowe0:04

      It's good to be ... I was just saying, it's good to be in, like, a proper studio and, uh ...

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:08

      Have you been completely locked down the entire time?

   6. RLRob Lowe0:10

      Completely.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      It's outrageous. We're five months in now.

   8. RLRob Lowe0:14

      Uh, when does it-

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Who would have ever thought this?

   10. RLRob Lowe0:16

       It r- and, and it, if you'd have said this is what 2020's gonna have, I mean, you wouldn't have left the New Year's party.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       You would've never believed it.

   12. RLRob Lowe0:23

       No.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       You would've gone, "How does this happen? Like, is there a war? Like, what, what happens? What takes place?"

   14. RLRob Lowe0:29

       And it's funny how easily, not easily, but like, that it's just, "Yeah, no, this is what we're dealing with." I mean, I guess everybody, y- one has to adapt, so that's the good news, I guess.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Have you been going to restaurants at all?

   16. RLRob Lowe0:39

       Um, I've been to probab- I've gone out to a restaurant maybe three times.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       It's, have you gone to the ones where they wear the mask and then the shield over their face as well?

   18. RLRob Lowe0:49

       Yeah, it's like they're gonna do welding in the kitchen.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       (laughs) It's so strange.

   20. RLRob Lowe0:52

       It's ...

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       But it's better than nothing, so you just sort of adapt.

   22. RLRob Lowe0:55

       I know. I mean, uh, I, who knows when it'll ... I mean, at least some people feel like they're going back to work. I mean ...

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       Yes.

   24. RLRob Lowe1:01

       I think we're gonna go back on my show, on, on 9-1-1 Lone Star, pre-production in, on the 17th.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:08

       Now, how will they do that?

   26. RLRob Lowe1:10

       Well, that's the thing, is that's a big show. I mean, it's n- it's not, you know, a game show.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:15

       Right.

   28. RLRob Lowe1:15

       It's like, you know, it's adventurers and rescues and pyrotechnics and stunt people. It's just huge in scope, so it, it really is the thing, if we can pull that off, that'll be, that'll be good. But I think the plan is ... Well, one thing that's interesting is just how you run a set is gonna change, they tell me. So you'll come in in the morning. Everybody will get tested. And then everybody's segregated, so i- you go to the set, and the director and the actors will rehearse. That's it, nobody else there. Then they leave, have to leave, and then the, the lighting crew will come in, and they light alone, just the lighting crew, and then they leave. And then the sort of, uh, you know, the, the w- all the production teams get their moment to do what they need to do, but they're doing it alone.

2. 2:02 – 5:14

   Testing logistics and the "we need fast tests" problem

   1. JRJoe Rogan2:02

      Well, they have a test now that the White House is using, and, uh, it takes 20 minutes. It's an actual test. You go there, so you, you could find instantaneously. See, what ... We're, we're doing one here, the one that you got, is an antibody test. That takes 10 minutes, and it shows active antibodies, which means you got the disease five, six days ago or whatever, and your body's fighting it off. It's currently in your system. And it also shows another indicator whether or not you've fought it off a long time ago.

   2. RLRob Lowe2:31

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan2:31

      And then there's the swab. The swab takes 24 to 48 hours, depending on the lab, and then there's real worry and concern, like are you contagious during that time? Like, if you just got it today, can you give it to someone today? They don't know. So until this thing happens with the White House, the 20-minute one that they have, until that's, like, nationwide, we're fucked, you know?

   4. RLRob Lowe2:57

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan2:57

      We're kinda, we're in a weird situation where everybody has to be really careful.

   6. RLRob Lowe3:01

      Yeah. And, you know, it's funny. I ... It's funny, uh, I have no issue wearing masks. I, I don't really get that, that, that thing that people ... I mean, I get the free- the, uh, the freedom.

   7. JRJoe Rogan3:12

      It's definitely better than not going out.

   8. RLRob Lowe3:14

      Yeah. And listen, I mean, I, I feel s- way safer wearing it, way safer. And, you know, celebrities should be thrilled to wear masks.

   9. JRJoe Rogan3:22

      Yeah, right. You can hide.

   10. RLRob Lowe3:23

       I mean, you know, listen, now Leonardo DiCaprio can go out completely, you know, with even better disguises.

   11. JRJoe Rogan3:29

       (laughs) You'd be amazed at how much people d- recognize you, though, even with a mask on, especially as soon as you start talking. They'll, they'll recognize you.

   12. RLRob Lowe3:36

       Well, in particular for you, your voice.

   13. JRJoe Rogan3:37

       Yeah.

   14. RLRob Lowe3:37

       Everybody knows your voice, so you can't get in an ele- you know.

   15. JRJoe Rogan3:40

       But I'm a fan of the bandana. I like feeling like a bandit.

   16. RLRob Lowe3:43

       But doesn't the, all the bad shit come underneath the bandana?

   17. JRJoe Rogan3:47

       I don't think-

   18. RLRob Lowe3:48

       You gonna be sealed at the bottom?

   19. JRJoe Rogan3:49

       ... a bandana, I do not think, is for you. I think it's for other people.

   20. RLRob Lowe3:52

       No.

   21. JRJoe Rogan3:53

       And then the droplets, if you're getting droplets, I don't th- think you're swooping them under. I think you are breathing it through. What am I, a doctor?

   22. RLRob Lowe3:59

       I know, but you're sounding good. You're like ... Y- and you know, you're, you're ...

   23. JRJoe Rogan4:02

       Thank you, thank you.

   24. RLRob Lowe4:02

       ... the Fauci of, uh, of The Ring.

   25. JRJoe Rogan4:04

       Thank you. Um ...

   26. RLRob Lowe4:05

       The Fauci of the Octagon.

   27. JRJoe Rogan4:06

       I don't have one of those N95 masks, though. Have you, do you?

   28. RLRob Lowe4:08

       I have hundreds of them.

   29. JRJoe Rogan4:09

       Do you? Oh, they're-

   30. RLRob Lowe4:10

       Hundreds.
3. 5:14 – 5:42

   Sports bubbles, fake crowd noise, and why authenticity matters

   1. RLRob Lowe5:14

      Here's what I don't understand. So the, uh, the, uh, NBA is doing the bubble thing, right?

   2. JRJoe Rogan5:18

      Right.

   3. RLRob Lowe5:18

      Where they all live, like, in, like, uh, like a c- like a commune, right?

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:22

      Right. (laughs)

   5. RLRob Lowe5:22

      A glorified, you know, Disney-esque commune.

   6. JRJoe Rogan5:25

      Right.

   7. RLRob Lowe5:25

      But the NFL isn't gonna do it, apparently.

   8. JRJoe Rogan5:27

      Mm. Yeah, it's too hard to get the hoes in there.

   9. RLRob Lowe5:30

      I was thinking, you know, chicken wing.

   10. JRJoe Rogan5:31

       True.

   11. RLRob Lowe5:31

       It's hard to g- you, when you want those ch- chicken wings-

   12. JRJoe Rogan5:34

       Yes.

   13. RLRob Lowe5:34

       ... and you've gotta go out to get them-

   14. JRJoe Rogan5:36

       Yes.

   15. RLRob Lowe5:36

       ... what are you gonna do?

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:37

       Yeah, you gotta, whatever you want, if you need something-

   17. RLRob Lowe5:40

       What ch- which, which one you wanna do?

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:42

       ... which is very difficult, are you keeping contact with other folks?

4. 5:42 – 9:21

   Car culture: fake engine noise, Teslas, and luxury upgrades

   1. RLRob Lowe5:42

      Are you, are you a fan of the b- of the baseball with the crowd noise?

   2. JRJoe Rogan5:46

      Um ...

   3. RLRob Lowe5:46

      Piped in crowd noise?

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:47

      N- no. I'm not a fan of fake noise. I, I hate that some cars do that. You know, some cars with turbocharge engines, they, they, uh, they put fake engine noise through the speakers.

   5. RLRob Lowe5:58

      Oh, Jesus.

   6. JRJoe Rogan5:59

      Exactly.

   7. RLRob Lowe6:00

      I never knew that.

   8. JRJoe Rogan6:00

      Yeah.

   9. RLRob Lowe6:00

      I'm so-

   10. JRJoe Rogan6:01

       Well ...

   11. RLRob Lowe6:01

       ... all my illusions are shattered.

   12. JRJoe Rogan6:03

       I think BMW does it.... yeah, I'm sorry to say.

   13. RLRob Lowe6:07

       No.

   14. JRJoe Rogan6:07

       Yeah.

   15. RLRob Lowe6:08

       W- w- w- w- what?

   16. JRJoe Rogan6:09

       (laughs)

   17. RLRob Lowe6:09

       Are the speakers on the outside of the car or are they on the inside?

   18. JRJoe Rogan6:12

       Oh, the speakers, it's through the stereo speakers.

   19. RLRob Lowe6:16

       Even if the speaker's turned off?

   20. JRJoe Rogan6:18

       Yeah. It's an option that you have to turn off. You have to go into the settings and turn off. See if you can find that. Um-

   21. RLRob Lowe6:24

       Oh, no.

   22. JRJoe Rogan6:25

       Yeah. It's like-

   23. RLRob Lowe6:25

       I have a BMW.

   24. JRJoe Rogan6:26

       I know.

   25. RLRob Lowe6:26

       And it's outside.

   26. JRJoe Rogan6:27

       That's why I said it. (laughs) It's like-

   27. RLRob Lowe6:28

       And-

   28. JRJoe Rogan6:28

       ... it's enhanced sound. Maybe it's not for your model. I'm pretty sure they do it for the M4, though.

   29. RLRob Lowe6:34

       (gasps)

   30. JRJoe Rogan6:34

       Yeah. It's one of the primary complaints of legitimate automo, uh, journalists. The, the r- the real automobile enthusiasts hate it.
5. 9:21 – 15:56

   EarthRoamers, apocalypse planning, and surviving disasters

   1. JRJoe Rogan9:21

      What I've been looking at lately is EarthRoamers. Do you know what an EarthRoamer is?

   2. RLRob Lowe9:24

      An EarthRoamer?

   3. JRJoe Rogan9:25

      Yes. I have been, uh ... I've been an apocalypse guy for quite a while. I've worried-

   4. RLRob Lowe9:32

      Oh, so you're, you're in your, all your glory.

   5. JRJoe Rogan9:34

      I have a, uh-

   6. RLRob Lowe9:34

      This is your I told you so moment.

   7. JRJoe Rogan9:36

      Y- ... Well, not necessarily. I'm not like a prepper or anything like that, but I'm like, "If the shit hits the fan-"

   8. RLRob Lowe9:40

      Wait, whoa, whoa. What's the difference between a prepper-

   9. JRJoe Rogan9:42

      I don't have enough food.

   10. RLRob Lowe9:44

       Okay, got it.

   11. JRJoe Rogan9:44

       But I do ... I have, I have a free- ... I have freezers filled with elk meat and stuff like that.

   12. RLRob Lowe9:48

       Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

   13. JRJoe Rogan9:48

       So I kind of have enough food, but if the power goes out, I'm kinda fucked. That's an EarthRoamer. Those motherfuckers you can live in, and they can drive like 1,000 miles plus, and-

   14. RLRob Lowe9:58

       Wow. Look at that.

   15. JRJoe Rogan9:59

       Yeah, and they do the interior at ... Well, there's different scales, but some of them go up to like $1.5 million, and the interior's insanity.

   16. RLRob Lowe10:08

       An EarthRoamer?

   17. JRJoe Rogan10:09

       Yes.

   18. RLRob Lowe10:10

       I have t- ... I'm taking n-

   19. JRJoe Rogan10:11

       EarthRoamer.

   20. RLRob Lowe10:11

       Okay, I'm taking notes.

   21. JRJoe Rogan10:12

       Yeah, the thing about these is-

   22. RLRob Lowe10:13

       I liter- ... I am literally taking notes.

   23. JRJoe Rogan10:15

       ... you can go anywhere with these. They also have, uh, an air suspension that will automatically level your vehicle. So like, say if you're on some fucked up, like, kind of terrain that's not level, it'll level it out so you can sleep well. The interior is like the interior of a really nice tour bus, television, satellite radio, audio, internet.

   24. RLRob Lowe10:38

       Who makes ... I mean-

   25. JRJoe Rogan10:39

       It's a company.

   26. RLRob Lowe10:40

       It's literally just EarthRoamer.

   27. JRJoe Rogan10:41

       They're called EarthRoamer, yeah.

   28. RLRob Lowe10:41

       They make the whole thing?

   29. JRJoe Rogan10:42

       They start ... The base is a very large Ford pickup truck. They take like a huge diesel pickup truck, and then they put this insane cabin in the back of it, and there's a bunch of different levels that they do it. You know, you have like a reasonable level for like one person-

   30. RLRob Lowe10:59

       Yeah.
6. 15:56 – 19:56

   Pandemic as a wake-up call: supervolcanoes, asteroids, and ancient cataclysms

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:56

      Well, one thing that this pandemic taught a lot of people is that what you think of as being static and unchanging, that, uh, the world that we live in is basically pretty stable, it's not. A s- a small event, and it's not small, but a virus that kills less than 1% of the population can completely obliterate the world as you know it. And that's minor in comparison to a solar flare or an asteroid impact or a super volcano. Like, if Yellowstone goes, that's the real concern.

   2. RLRob Lowe16:29

      And that's another thing. I used to think, "Ah, that's... Yeah, that's my, uh, that- that's the stuff I watch at night by the fireplace. It's my ancient alien shit. That's not really happening."

   3. JRJoe Rogan16:36

      (laughs)

   4. RLRob Lowe16:37

      And now, based on what I've- I've experienced, I... Anything could happen.

   5. JRJoe Rogan16:41

      Well, Yellowstone definitely could go. They say it goes every 6 to 800,000 years, and the last time it went was more than 600,000 years ago.

   6. RLRob Lowe16:49

      Can you imagine?

   7. JRJoe Rogan16:50

      It would obliterate everybody on the continent. There'd be no one left. The- the people in like maybe Africa, some in New Zealand, some people would survive, but they would experience nuclear winter. So, crops would die off. The temperature would radically reduce. The entire sky would be filled with ash. It's a super volcano. You know, those caldera super volcanoes, they've- they've exploded throughout history and killed massive, massive numbers of human beings. Like, they think that there was one in Indonesia somewhere around 60 to 70,000 years ago that killed off most of the population of the world and left as few as 7,000 human beings.

   8. RLRob Lowe17:28

      Really?

   9. JRJoe Rogan17:29

      Yeah. That's just 70,000 years ago.

   10. RLRob Lowe17:32

       Well, you've had like, like Graham Hitchcock and people on.

   11. JRJoe Rogan17:34

       Graham Hancock, yeah.

   12. RLRob Lowe17:34

       Hancock, right?

   13. JRJoe Rogan17:35

       Yeah, and- and Randall Carlson.

   14. RLRob Lowe17:37

       A- and that... Is that part-

   15. JRJoe Rogan17:37

       Yeah.

   16. RLRob Lowe17:37

       ... of that narrative, too?

   17. JRJoe Rogan17:39

       Well, cert- well, you know, they- they've concentrated on asteroid impacts and particularly the asteroid impacts that are proven now that they believe ended the Ice Age, and they also believe restarted civilization-

   18. RLRob Lowe17:51

       Right.

   19. JRJoe Rogan17:51

       ... because they think that there was some incredibly complex civilizations that we're not re- totally aware of, other than some of the structures they left behind.... like Gobekli Tepe and some of the ancient Egyptian structures. But there's a clear indication that something happened both from an archaeological perspective and also from, um, a geologist's perspective. When they do these core samples, they find that somewhere around between, you know, somewhere in the tw- 12,000 years ago range, there was a massive impact because ... And in all over the world. Because they find this tritan- tritanite, um, which is this nuclear glass everywhere. They also find iridium, which is really common in space but not, not very common on Earth.

   20. RLRob Lowe18:33

       And it's a level they see in the-

   21. JRJoe Rogan18:35

       Yeah.

   22. RLRob Lowe18:35

       ... in this core samples.

   23. JRJoe Rogan18:36

       Yeah, it's like ... It's a very s- it's a very, um, consistent level. And they find that nuclear glass. That's the same glass like when the Trinity project, when they, they first blew up the first nuclear bomb, that's the fir- one of the things that they found-

   24. RLRob Lowe18:48

       Hmm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan18:48

       ... was this nuclear glass. And it's just this incredible force causes the sand to turn into glass. And they find this all over the world at around 12,000 years. So it's ... And there's also, there's, you know, there, there's a, a lot of awareness today of all the near-Earth objects and when Earth in its, uh, in its orbit comes in contact with these consistent near-Earth objects, and that something probably hit Earth in m- multiple places m- like m- more than one object somewhere in that range and ended the Ice Age. They think it happened twice. The, the speculation is it happened somewhere around 12,000 and maybe again somewhere around 10,000 years ago.

   26. RLRob Lowe19:32

       That's a-

   27. JRJoe Rogan19:33

       It's crazy.

   28. RLRob Lowe19:34

       It is crazy. I love all that stuff. I, I live for that shit.

   29. JRJoe Rogan19:36

       I love it too. I'd live for it, but I don't because I don't want it to happen again.

   30. RLRob Lowe19:39

       No.
7. 19:56 – 22:37

   Aging, longevity, and Rob’s sobriety mindset

   1. JRJoe Rogan19:56

      Yeah, that's terrifying. It's just, we're so vulnerable. I mean, we're vulnerable period, right? I mean, I'm 52. How old are you now?

   2. RLRob Lowe20:04

      56.

   3. JRJoe Rogan20:05

      You'll look great.

   4. RLRob Lowe20:06

      Thank you. You too, Rob Lowe.

   5. JRJoe Rogan20:07

      You look great.

   6. RLRob Lowe20:07

      You too.

   7. JRJoe Rogan20:08

      Uh, but we're almost dead, let's be honest.

   8. RLRob Lowe20:10

      Let's ... I mean, how much time we got left if everything goes great? No, no, we're gonna live forever. We're gonna, we're gonna have that pill-

   9. JRJoe Rogan20:15

      (laughs)

   10. RLRob Lowe20:15

       ... that they're gonna, it's gonna be announced next week. That-

   11. JRJoe Rogan20:17

       That might be the worst thing that could happen, like you might wanna go qu- p- you know, quietly in your sleep rather than li- live for 500 years and see the, the horrors that humanity turns into.

   12. RLRob Lowe20:28

       I don't want- I ... That too. And I don't wanna, like, if my body breaks down, I'm not ... I'm so physical, I love, I love doing my stuff. I, I, I don't think I'd be one of those people like, "You know what? His mind is so sharp though."

   13. JRJoe Rogan20:39

       (laughs)

   14. RLRob Lowe20:40

       It's like, well, fuck. That's great. Meanwhile, like, I can't fucking walk.

   15. JRJoe Rogan20:43

       Yeah.

   16. RLRob Lowe20:43

       You can't, you know? It's like, I wanna be able to do my, my thang.

   17. JRJoe Rogan20:46

       Yes. Yes. Well, do you-

   18. RLRob Lowe20:48

       I mean, I want ... Listen, I want a sharp mind. Let's, let's-

   19. JRJoe Rogan20:49

       For sure.

   20. RLRob Lowe20:50

       ... stipulate that, but yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan20:51

       What do you, what do you do to maintain yourself? What do you do to keep the machine working?

   22. RLRob Lowe20:55

       Well, the number one thing was, you know, I, I s- I stopped drinking years and years and years ago. You know, I'm been-

   23. JRJoe Rogan21:00

       How many years?

   24. RLRob Lowe21:00

       30.

   25. JRJoe Rogan21:01

       Oh, so you got way ahead of the game.

   26. RLRob Lowe21:03

       So I'm way, I'm way ahead a- I'm way ahead. So I don't do any of that. Um ...

   27. JRJoe Rogan21:06

       Wow, that's, that's a, that's a lot of discipline.

   28. RLRob Lowe21:10

       It's ... But it's not though, because the minute-

   29. JRJoe Rogan21:12

       No?

   30. RLRob Lowe21:12

       ... you realize your discipline has nothing to do with it, that's the only way you can do it.
8. 22:37 – 26:05

   Fame, privacy, and the modern era of judgment and cancel culture

   1. JRJoe Rogan22:37

      Well, it had to be hard to be a young really famous, really good-looking guy during the age of no internet. And, you know, the world was a wild place. I mean, you were really famous in the '80s.

   2. RLRob Lowe22:53

      I wouldn't, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I mean, I, it, you know, all of the, look, all of the mistakes that I made, all the things that I learned got me to where I am today, and, and I'm ... could not be happier, and I needed, I needed some fucking comeuppance, and I needed some of that humbling and stuff. On the other side of it is like, what's the point of being fucking famous today?

   3. JRJoe Rogan23:12

      (laughs) It's true.

   4. RLRob Lowe23:13

      Really, I don't know if there's a point.

   5. JRJoe Rogan23:15

      It's not dangerous. (laughs) I know, right?

   6. RLRob Lowe23:17

      I, I, I don't know. I mean, forget the lack of privacy, the lack of like crazy fun, which you can't have.

   7. JRJoe Rogan23:24

      Right.

   8. RLRob Lowe23:25

      Um, everybody's lying in wait.

   9. JRJoe Rogan23:28

      I saw an article written about Leonardo DiCaprio, and it was just about how he dates young girls and how gross it is that he's dating girls 25. Like, 25's a woman, you fuck.

   10. RLRob Lowe23:39

       I ... Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan23:39

       Like, what, what is wrong? He's a good-looking man, he's f- wealthy and happy and successful. Oh my God, he dates someone who's young and vibrant. There must be something wrong with him. Meanwhile, if a woman does it, nobody gives a shit, they celebrate her. You go, Kate Beckinsale. You go take those 21-year-olds down.

   12. RLRob Lowe23:58

       That's right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan23:59

       Rope them, wrangle them, ride them.

   14. RLRob Lowe24:00

       Rope, rope them and go.

   15. JRJoe Rogan24:01

       And then send them off. Kick them in the ass and pack their lunch and send them o- send them off.

   16. RLRob Lowe24:05

       It should be, it should be equal opportunity everywhere.

   17. JRJoe Rogan24:08

       It's not though.

   18. RLRob Lowe24:09

       Right?

   19. JRJoe Rogan24:09

       They, they ... When, when it's a woman, they look at it like she's just, she's doing her thing, she's having a good time. But a man, it's like, he's abusing his power.

   20. RLRob Lowe24:18

       It's-

   21. JRJoe Rogan24:18

       That Leonardo has power over those young ladies.

   22. RLRob Lowe24:21

       I figure like if you're, if you're, you know, Leo or Bieber or any of those like young, like, you know, like th- this is like what you-

   23. JRJoe Rogan24:28

       Yeah.

   24. RLRob Lowe24:29

       ... part of coming of age.

   25. JRJoe Rogan24:30

       Yes.

   26. RLRob Lowe24:31

       ... is figuring, is figuring out what you want in life. And, you know, when you do that, you're gonna do weird shit, good shit, bad shit.

   27. JRJoe Rogan24:36

       Well, that's... You know, when ev- everybody would... If anybody would try to judge someone like that, like B- Bieber in particular, right? Because he was really, really young when he got famous. I mean, it's insane.

   28. RLRob Lowe24:47

       Yeah. And you know that whole thing that, that theory that, uh, whatever, however old you are when you get famous, that, that f- like, freezes you in carbonite, emotionally-

   29. JRJoe Rogan24:56

       Hmm.

   30. RLRob Lowe24:57

       ... and, and, and intellectually.
9. 26:05 – 32:09

   SNL behind the scenes: pressure, competition, and live-wire moments

   1. RLRob Lowe26:05

      (laughs)

   2. JRJoe Rogan26:05

      "I've seen you in movies." But I'm more normal with it than when I was young. When I was young and I would meet... Like, I remember the first time I was on the set of News Radio and I met Phil Hartman.

   3. RLRob Lowe26:14

      Oh.

   4. JRJoe Rogan26:15

      I was so weirded out. I was like, "He's right there. This is great." 'Cause I hadn't met a lot of famous people back then, only, like, a small handful. And so to be, like, working with him and sit- ... and he's sitting there. I'm like, "I've seen you on TV. I've seen you in the movies."

   5. RLRob Lowe26:26

      By the way, how, how great was Phil?

   6. JRJoe Rogan26:28

      He was amazing.

   7. RLRob Lowe26:29

      He was ... I had my scariest ... One of my scariest professional moments involved Phil Hartman. I was, uh, I was hosting the show on Saturday Night Live, and Phil in- ... Phil had a character called Mace that he did, reoccurring character. And Mace was a hard-bitten convict, uh, and he lived in a ... yeah, because he was serving life. And, uh, so whenever they had, like, you know, pretty boy hosts, they would throw, of course, me into a cell with Mace. "Hey, turn around there, chicken legs." (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan26:58

      (laughs)

   9. RLRob Lowe26:58

      You know, so that was, that was, like, the predicate of the ... Uh, and, and I r- ... I just remember, apropos of nothing, it was the week that the lambada dance was a big deal.

   10. JRJoe Rogan27:07

       Oh, Jesus.

   11. RLRob Lowe27:08

       That tells you how long ago it was.

   12. JRJoe Rogan27:09

       (laughs)

   13. RLRob Lowe27:10

       And so-

   14. JRJoe Rogan27:10

       I forgot about that.

   15. RLRob Lowe27:10

       Yeah. So, so Mace and I were doing the lambada in a prison cell. And, uh, the whole sketch built towards, um, a, a, uh, a, a punchline. And for whatever reason, I blew the setup line. Like, bl- like, blew, blew it. Like, there's no, there's now no end.

   16. JRJoe Rogan27:33

       There you go. There we go.

   17. RLRob Lowe27:33

       Oh, look. There we go.

   18. JRJoe Rogan27:34

       (laughs)

   19. RLRob Lowe27:35

       Look at him. "Hey, look at you, chicken legs."

   20. JRJoe Rogan27:38

       (laughs)

   21. RLRob Lowe27:39

       And, um, and so there was no ... So I had to ad lib something really, really, really, really quickly. It felt like time stretched out, and his eyes got huge. And I, I ad lips- libbed something and it worked, and it got a really big laugh. And I think that, um, that's when, what sort of sealed my relationship with Lorne Michaels, 'cause I was able to ... Uh, he came back backstage and was like, "Hmm, you're really Houdini, aren't you?"

   22. JRJoe Rogan28:03

       (laughs)

   23. RLRob Lowe28:04

       (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan28:04

       That's gotta be terrifying to do that show, to do it live.

   25. RLRob Lowe28:08

       It's the best.

   26. JRJoe Rogan28:09

       Oh.

   27. RLRob Lowe28:09

       If I coulda, if I could've been on Not Ready for PrimeTime Player, I would've. I mean, that would've been a d- the dream. I think that's the dream.

   28. JRJoe Rogan28:14

       How much preparation do you, do you have to do for that show? Like, how many times do you rehearse one of those sketches?

   29. RLRob Lowe28:20

       Well, being a h- ... What people f- don't really realize about being a host is it's y- the host's show. Like, you can take as much control over it as you want, and most people don't. Um, I, I f- just being stupid and naive, did, and always did, and sat in on the writers all, all night, write all night with all the different writers, going from room to room. It was like fucking heaven. What I-

   30. JRJoe Rogan28:39

       Oh, wow.
10. 32:09 – 40:23

    Early career reality: TV ratings then vs. now, and baffling network decisions

    1. RLRob Lowe32:09

       It's... I, um, I did a sitcom when I was little, like, when I was 15. It was, it was, um, it was so long ago that there were only 62 shows on television, period.

    2. JRJoe Rogan32:21

       Holy shit.

    3. RLRob Lowe32:23

       62. That was as... Not channel-

    4. JRJoe Rogan32:24

       So this is, like, 20 Fox.

    5. RLRob Lowe32:25

       Not, not 62 channels.

    6. JRJoe Rogan32:27

       62 shows.

    7. RLRob Lowe32:27

       62 shows. By the way, h- how do you think I remember that there were 6... 'Cause we were number 62.

    8. JRJoe Rogan32:34

       (laughs)

    9. RLRob Lowe32:34

       We were, we were literally the lowest-rated show on television.

    10. JRJoe Rogan32:40

        What was it called?

    11. RLRob Lowe32:41

        Uh, A New Kind of Family. Might've had something to do with that exciting title. That makes you just sit-

    12. JRJoe Rogan32:47

        (laughs)

    13. RLRob Lowe32:47

        I just sit up and take notice, don't you? A New Ki-... "W- what kind of family is it?" "It's a new kind." "Oh, well, I'm gonna watch then."

    14. JRJoe Rogan32:53

        What, what did they mean by it, "a new kind"?

    15. RLRob Lowe32:55

        It was a r- a revolutionary concept at the time, that it was two divorced women pooling their resources.

    16. JRJoe Rogan33:02

        There you go. Look at you.

    17. RLRob Lowe33:03

        And, uh, I-

    18. JRJoe Rogan33:05

        (coughs)

    19. RLRob Lowe33:05

        I'm sprouting a wonderful Karen Carpenter look.

    20. JRJoe Rogan33:08

        Look at that hair, bro.

    21. RLRob Lowe33:09

        It's Karen Carpenter.

    22. JRJoe Rogan33:10

        Look at the wings.

    23. RLRob Lowe33:11

        I know.

    24. JRJoe Rogan33:14

        (laughs)

    25. RLRob Lowe33:14

        Um-

    26. JRJoe Rogan33:15

        Was this your first acting project on television?

    27. RLRob Lowe33:17

        Yeah, I was 15.

    28. JRJoe Rogan33:18

        Wow.

    29. RLRob Lowe33:19

        And, um-

    30. JRJoe Rogan33:20

        So you were... You never had a normal life.
11. 40:23 – 53:42

    Tommy Boy memories: Farley’s talent, Bo Derek stories, and the cost of demons

    1. JRJoe Rogan40:23

       Massive. Mass- I just watched it. (coughs) I told you, um, my, me and my family watched Tommy Boy.

    2. RLRob Lowe40:28

       No.

    3. JRJoe Rogan40:28

       Yes, see we did.

    4. RLRob Lowe40:30

       (laughs)

    5. JRJoe Rogan40:30

       We went on, uh, we were doing family movie night because of the quarantine. We watched like almost every night we watched a new movie. I watched all the Adam Sandler movies, watched a shitload of Eddie Murphy movies. We watched The Mummy, wa- watched a couple of The Mummies, and we watched Tommy Boy.

    6. RLRob Lowe40:42

       How did ha- how did Tommy Boy sta- stand up?

    7. JRJoe Rogan40:44

       Fucking holds up.

    8. RLRob Lowe40:46

       Does it?

    9. JRJoe Rogan40:46

       Holds up. Funny movie, man. Funny movie.

    10. RLRob Lowe40:49

        Oh, that's awesome.

    11. JRJoe Rogan40:50

        Goddamn Chris Farley was good.

    12. RLRob Lowe40:52

        Oh, bro.

    13. JRJoe Rogan40:53

        (sighs)

    14. RLRob Lowe40:53

        He was an, and a great actor. My, my, uh, among all my regrets about Chris's passing was where he would have gone as a, as a, as a, as an actor, 'cause he was cu- And, and Spade, Spade's the same. Their acting in that movie, forget the funny, which is great, but like their like legitimate acting moments in that movie.

    15. JRJoe Rogan41:15

        Yes. Yeah.

    16. RLRob Lowe41:16

        And, and I think that's why it, it has the, the st- the staying power. But Chris was really gonna develop into a, into a real serious actor. A good, a good one I think.

    17. JRJoe Rogan41:25

        He was such a fucking powerhouse. When he would go ape shit, look at you guys.

    18. RLRob Lowe41:30

        Look at those two idiots.

    19. JRJoe Rogan41:31

        (laughs)

    20. RLRob Lowe41:32

        Just two... I like what in the, the part in the movie (laughs) where, where Spade looks at me and goes, "Hey, Lee Harvey," 'cause I do, my hair does look like Lee Harvey Oswald's.

    21. JRJoe Rogan41:39

        (laughs)

    22. RLRob Lowe41:40

        (laughs)

    23. JRJoe Rogan41:40

        He was awesome, man.

    24. RLRob Lowe41:42

        That's the cow tipping scene which, um, I was, uh, I pitched to the writers. They'd never heard of it, and it made it into the movie. It's a-

    25. JRJoe Rogan41:51

        Who was your mom/girlfriend again?

    26. RLRob Lowe41:53

        Bo Derek.

    27. JRJoe Rogan41:53

        That's right.

    28. RLRob Lowe41:55

        Well, that was a great thing 'cause we, we, um, you know, she had Bo Derek and her husband John, famous John Derek, was very protective of her. And she hadn't worked in a long time. And, um, he made her cut all her hair off the day before she showed up on the set of Tommy Boy, so-

    29. JRJoe Rogan42:12

        What?

    30. RLRob Lowe42:13

        We, we thought we were getting Bo Derek from, from 10 with the hair, and she showed up with hair that's basically my he- my length now 'cause, 'cause John made her do it.
12. 53:42 – 56:42

    SpaceX vs. the past, secret space program speculation, and cigar-fueled curiosity

    1. RLRob Lowe53:42

       And, um, one of the things I love about ... 'Cause I'm doing my own now and I'm learning from the best, and the best would be you, is it's just literally anything and everything that makes y- you, like you're curious about. And I love that. So I know, 'cause I've b- been paying attention. I know you're curious about space.

    2. JRJoe Rogan53:59

       Mm.

    3. RLRob Lowe54:00

       And I ... Let's talk for a minute, 'cause this week-

    4. JRJoe Rogan54:02

       Okay.

    5. RLRob Lowe54:02

       ... Elon Musk-

    6. JRJoe Rogan54:04

       Yeah.

    7. RLRob Lowe54:04

       ... he did the big th- ... And it was fun to watch. But isn't it funny how excited we all are that we just replicated something we did 50 years ago?

    8. JRJoe Rogan54:13

       Well, even better though. They replicated something in a much more improved way where it can actually come back and land and it's reusable. That's the difference.

    9. RLRob Lowe54:21

       How ... D- don't you think though, we have to have ... There has to be a secret space program. There has to be.

    10. JRJoe Rogan54:27

        Do you think so?

    11. RLRob Lowe54:29

        Well, here, here, here, here ... Okay. Let's just go through the logic of it.

    12. JRJoe Rogan54:32

        Okay. I like- (laughs)

    13. RLRob Lowe54:33

        This is, this is what happens when, uh, at nighttime when I have a cigar-

    14. JRJoe Rogan54:36

        Are you sure you don't do drugs?

    15. RLRob Lowe54:37

        I n- I know.

    16. JRJoe Rogan54:37

        Do you want a cigar? Do you smoke cigars?

    17. RLRob Lowe54:38

        I do smoke cigars.

    18. JRJoe Rogan54:39

        You want one?

    19. RLRob Lowe54:39

        I was gonna bring one and I forgot, but hell yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan54:41

        Oh, here we go. Beautiful. At least we can get some kind of drugs on set today.

    21. RLRob Lowe54:44

        I know. Let's go. Let's fucking go. By the way, don't-

    22. JRJoe Rogan54:46

        Jamie's gonna turn the fan on.

    23. RLRob Lowe54:47

        I enjoy watching people take drugs. I do.

    24. JRJoe Rogan54:51

        Do you?

    25. RLRob Lowe54:52

        Yeah, because-

    26. JRJoe Rogan54:53

        What do you enjoy about it?

    27. RLRob Lowe54:54

        I have a, I have a f- very expensive wine cellar. I don't drink.

    28. JRJoe Rogan54:57

        You don't drink at all? You just have the wine for other folks?

    29. RLRob Lowe55:00

        For, for guests.

    30. JRJoe Rogan55:01

        Wow.
13. 56:42 – 1:55:33

    Health routines: fasting, animal-based diets, fishing, and parenting pride

    1. JRJoe Rogan56:42

       Are you fasting right now?

    2. RLRob Lowe56:43

       Yeah.

    3. JRJoe Rogan56:44

       What do you do, the intermittent thing?

    4. RLRob Lowe56:45

       I do intermittent and then, and then I do, um, every other day, a 24-hour.

    5. JRJoe Rogan56:50

       Really?

    6. RLRob Lowe56:50

       Which I got from Kimmel. Like, wha- like, remember that moment when all of a sudden Kimmel, like didn't look like Kimmel anymore?

    7. JRJoe Rogan56:55

       Yeah. Lost like 80 pounds or something crazy.

    8. RLRob Lowe56:56

       Yeah, and I was like ... And I did, and like, you know, in the commercial breaks, the band's playing and people were screaming at you, "Hey, why do you look so good?" And he's like, "I don't eat every other day." I was like, "That's gotta be bo-" And went right back and I never got to like, finish the conversation with him. But, um, I've since learned about it and, and, uh, I did, I've done it and it's been great.

    9. JRJoe Rogan57:16

       What's the benefits?

    10. RLRob Lowe57:18

        Um, honestly, I think at the end of the day, the benefit is just, it's a, just an easy way to keep the calo- calories down. But I find, um, I'm more focused and I actually have more energy.

    11. JRJoe Rogan57:31

        That's crazy. If you think about taking a whole day off of eating-

    12. RLRob Lowe57:35

        But, here's the thing.

    13. JRJoe Rogan57:36

        ... every other day.

    14. RLRob Lowe57:36

        Here's the thing, is it's, it sounds worse than it is, 'cause you eat dinner. So, the day goes from dinner to dinner.

    15. JRJoe Rogan57:42

        Right.

    16. RLRob Lowe57:42

        So there's not a f- an active day that I'm not eating.

    17. JRJoe Rogan57:47

        Oh, okay.

    18. RLRob Lowe57:47

        Does that make ... So, right, but it's still 24 hours.

    19. JRJoe Rogan57:49

        It's like a meal a day.

    20. RLRob Lowe57:49

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan57:49

        Yeah. It's a meal. That's what Jack Dorsey does. Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter.

    22. RLRob Lowe57:53

        Mm-hmm.

    23. JRJoe Rogan57:53

        He, uh, he eats one meal a day. And he said he realizes that a lot of ... That, that lighter sucks, unfortunately.

    24. RLRob Lowe58:01

        Mm, mm.

    25. JRJoe Rogan58:02

        Do we have another lighter?

    26. RLRob Lowe58:02

        No, I'm, I'm good, right?

    27. JRJoe Rogan58:03

        Maybe, but I don't know if it's around.

    28. RLRob Lowe58:05

        Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm. No, I'm good. We're good to go.

    29. JRJoe Rogan58:09

        Okay, good.

    30. RLRob Lowe58:09

        This is good. I like this.

Episode duration: 2:52:10