Joe Rogan Experience #1621 - Jim Breuer

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. JBJim Breuer0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (drum roll) Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (drum roll)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      (upbeat music) Hello, Jim Breuer.

   4. JBJim Breuer0:16

      'Sup, Joe?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      We're doing it. It's happening.

   6. JBJim Breuer0:17

      Oh, it just started?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're rolling.

   8. JBJim Breuer0:19

      Oh, okay.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      Good to see you, brother.

   10. JBJim Breuer0:20

       Good to see you, too.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       Dude, you're like one of my long- longest term comedy friends. Like, we've known each other since the early years, man.

   12. JBJim Breuer0:28

       I want to say like '91?

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       Yeah, I think it's around '91.

   14. JBJim Breuer0:33

       And what a lot of people probably don't even know is, like, the way your TV career, your- Hardball.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Yeah, you were- (laughs) you were on Hardball. Jim, uh, and I did a, a pilot for a sitcom that was on Fox in like '93.

   16. JBJim Breuer0:49

       Yep.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Right?

   18. JBJim Breuer0:49

       Yep.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Like '93?

   20. JBJim Breuer0:50

       Yep.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       And Jim was, uh-

   22. JBJim Breuer0:52

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       (laughs) He was the mascot-

   24. JBJim Breuer0:54

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       ... for the opposing team.

   26. JBJim Breuer0:56

       Right.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       And it was fucking hilarious. Goddamn, we had fun. I have a photo of you and I, and we look like babies. I gotta find it. We look like babies.

   28. JBJim Breuer1:05

       I would love to see that photo.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Yeah, we were both like 26 and we're little cute face little babies.

   30. JBJim Breuer1:11

       And I remember, I remember watching the show so excited for you. And then, and then after Hardball, 'cause I'd always follow you, you then... Was it News Radio?
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Fives are nice. Those…

   1. JBJim Breuer15:00

      in the five little milligrams and the ten little mi-

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Fives are nice. Those little edibles.

   3. JBJim Breuer15:04

      Oh, my God.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:05

      Five's nice.

   5. JBJim Breuer15:06

      Yes.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      Gentle, gentle.

   7. JBJim Breuer15:06

      Just have that and go ... Yeah, and then have, like, a martini.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Mm, yeah.

   9. JBJim Breuer15:11

      And I'm set.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:11

       Yeah, martini. Extra dirty?

   11. JBJim Breuer15:14

       Not too dirty.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:14

       I like it dirty.

   13. JBJim Breuer15:15

       I like it, I like it not crazy dirty, but a little dirty.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:18

       A little dirty.

   15. JBJim Breuer15:19

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:20

       I like that olive juice. It's delicious.

   17. JBJim Breuer15:22

       I do too. So, here's what happened. My wife ... This is why, this is why my wife's a powerhouse. She ... When you find someone that don't give a shit about the industry, and they only care about you, it's very hard as, as an artist that's chasing a star ... 'Cause you're always chasing a star, and you're always chasing the mansion. She would go ... I'll never forget. She's like, "Why don't you just quit? Like, are y- seriously, are you stupid? You don't quit Saturday Night Live. What the hell is wr-" Sh- and she's like, "Look at you. You come home. You're miserable. They control everything. They steal your ideas. This one stole ... I saw her with my own two eyes how they treated you in this particular-"

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       How do they steal your ideas?

   19. JBJim Breuer16:10

       (clears throat)

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       Here we go.

   21. JBJim Breuer16:12

       I'll give you ... I-

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       You sure you don't wanna get high first?

   23. JBJim Breuer16:14

       No.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:15

       (laughs)

   25. JBJim Breuer16:15

       Let's go take a pee break.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:17

       (claps hands) Let's take a pee break.

   27. JBJim Breuer16:20

       No. Here's ... And again, I've released all this.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:23

       Okay.

   29. JBJim Breuer16:23

       You know? I got a strong moral backbone, I'm good. So, no, I don't have any bad feelings. So what happened was, and I'm not gonna put out any- I d- I don't wanna hash names and all that. But what would happen is something like this. You're writing a sketch, and then one of the head writers would come in, in the doorway, and go, "Hey, I see you're writing a sketch about blah, blah, blah," 'cause we have the main server and we check everyone's sketches. "I just wanna let you know I'm writing the same thing." He goes, "You can continue yours, but, you know, I'm in the room with Lorne. I'm just-"

   30. JRJoe Rogan17:03

       Whoa.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Y- you know who,…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      I was gay," he goes, "I'd be so happy to come out of the closet. I don't give a fuck."

   2. JBJim Breuer30:04

      Y- you know who, who I'd always tried was, was, uh, Meany. Kevin Meaney, I, I would ... He made me laugh so hard.I got stoned with Kevin. It was one of the hardest I ever laughed in my life. And anybody-

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:21

      So, this was before he came out?

   4. JBJim Breuer30:22

      Before he came out.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:23

      Did you know he was gay?

   6. JBJim Breuer30:25

      Not ... He didn't admit ... I knew.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      You knew something was going on?

   8. JBJim Breuer30:29

      Yeah, because when he'd come on my radio show, th- this is what they, what, what a lot of gay people, or if you're into drugs, like, I'll sit there, I'm like, "You know, it'd be great if I was high right now." And that's my, that's my cue. I'm putting it out there for someone to go-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:43

      Right.

   10. JBJim Breuer30:43

       ... "Oh, do you want to get high?" "Well, no, uh."

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       (laughs)

   12. JBJim Breuer30:47

       You're like, "You know, when it comes to penis." "Oh, are you ... " "No, I'm just ... Eh."

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       (laughs)

   14. JBJim Breuer30:53

       Just th- I just throw the joke out there. And so he would ... He, along with two other people I knew, would always put certain references out. I would, I would see this other person. This person would ... I remember spending time with them. We had a condo and they came out and they had their donkey hanging out. And I went, "Dude, what, what are you doing?" And he's like, "Is this intimidating?" I went, "No."

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:20

       Intimidating? (laughs)

   16. JBJim Breuer31:20

       But I've never ... I went, "I've never hung out with another male friend that walks around holding his donkey, showing it to another male." It's just, it's weird, dude. We don't ... Do girls do that? I don't know. Like, uh, it was just, it's just-

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:33

       I don't think they do.

   18. JBJim Breuer31:34

       N- No. So-

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:35

       Th- Then, if your pussy's hanging out, that's ... There's a lot of other issues.

   20. JBJim Breuer31:38

       There's issues. Something going on there.

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:40

       Something's happening.

   22. JBJim Breuer31:41

       You need a friend.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:42

       Yeah.

   24. JBJim Breuer31:43

       You need a friend. So, Kevin would ... He's talking about show tunes and he's talking about-

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:51

       He's wearing a bow tie.

   26. JBJim Breuer31:52

       He's wearing a bow tie. Enough said.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:56

       (laughs)

   28. JBJim Breuer31:57

       And like, "I love you, man." Just, and I said, "Is there something you want to say? Because I think the world is okay with it." He's like, "What do you mean?"

   29. JRJoe Rogan32:05

       Oh, yeah.

   30. JBJim Breuer32:06

       "Kev."
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Right. …

   1. JBJim Breuer45:00

      breathing. Went to the hospital, they gave me steroids and antibiotics and it cleared right up." So my question is, why do you have to test positive to wait to get antibiotics or steroids if neither one of them hurt you or kill you, while you're still waiting to see what this does? And she didn't have an answer. And she's like, "That's a great question." Like, it's a simple... It's just a question. So if I'm a doctor and Joe Rogan comes to me and says, "Hey man, my daughter's positive. I have sinus. I am..." No. Well, I can give you this because I know it's not gonna kill you and I know it's gonna... I'm gonna give you antibiotics and hopefully in two, three days it'll clear up. But it's not gonna... And if it gets worse, then we'll take care of it then, because clearly this is not gonna make you worse.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:52

      Right.

   3. JBJim Breuer45:53

      So why isn't that being done? And then my other question was, if that doctor, an infectious disease doctor, doesn't allow that test, how many people take that test and it counts as a number, but yet it doesn't count? So what is really going on is my question.

   4. JRJoe Rogan46:15

      There's a lot of confusion, a massive amount of people. There's a disease that kills some folks and there's a disease that we, in the beginning stages of this pandemic, thought was going to be far more severe than it turned out to be, and they never adjusted. That's the problem. The problem is it's still not good, you know, you don't want to catch COVID, but the vast majority of people who get it will be fine. 78% of the people that are hospitalized are obese.

   5. JBJim Breuer46:43

      Very. Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan46:44

      The ob- Obese people have a real hard time with it. There's 6% of the people who died from COVID only had COVID. The other 90-

   7. JBJim Breuer46:52

      Can you repeat that number?

   8. JRJoe Rogan46:54

      6%.

   9. JBJim Breuer46:54

      One more time.

   10. JRJoe Rogan46:55

       6% of the people who died from COVID only had COVID.

   11. JBJim Breuer46:58

       (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan46:58

       The other 94% had an average of 2.6 comorbidities. So almost three, more than two and a half comorbidities, meaning like obesity, you know, there's a bunch of different things that people have. Diabetes is a big one, um, you know, uh, Alzheimer's. There's a lot of, there's a lot of, like, comorbidities that are, that are very dangerous if you get COVID.

   13. JBJim Breuer47:24

       I'll tell you another one. So another one of our friends, his name is Rob. He's heavy... He's a mess, bro. Gout three times a year. He's a mess, he's totally heavy dude, blah, blah, blah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan47:34

       Yeah.

   15. JBJim Breuer47:35

       July, he says, "Don't come near me, I have a sinus infection." And we all went... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Rob's off limits, you know. Whoop, whoop, Rob's dying. We're laughing. Rob died, he's got it, he's done. We said, "You should really go check that out, Rob." We don't hear from Rob. Next time, next thing me and... Me and my wife went to Maine, went on a... Went on a mountain, we were on a... We were on a lake. It was one of the... I felt like I was in... If I die, that is where heaven's gonna be, is that trip with my wife. I come back. "Gio, what's going on with Rob?" "Well, he's in the hospital." "What?" "He's on the... He's on the, uh, the..."

   16. JRJoe Rogan48:16

       Ventilator.

   17. JBJim Breuer48:17

       The ventilator one. "What?" Now he was a crazy Trump guy. He was like, "Drop, drop..." Full blown. I would go there, I'm like, "Oh my god, these guys are talking politics again."

   18. JRJoe Rogan48:27

       Oh, no.

   19. JBJim Breuer48:29

       "Please get off..." Every morning it was...... liberals and Democrats... (babbles) It was, like, non-stop. Like, "Oh, my God, I just want to have a muffin and relax."

   20. JRJoe Rogan48:40

       (laughs)

   21. JBJim Breuer48:41

       (sighs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan48:42

       (laughs)

   23. JBJim Breuer48:43

       So (laughs) with that... And I... Dude, I got caught up too, right? I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't caught up in some stuff for a while. I was on the internet like, "Dude, my dude JFK is coming back!" I was, "Oh, my God, of course, it makes all the sense in the world." It was... I was, I, I was in, right? But this guy was like, "If I ever get it, I'm taking hydroxychloroquine," all right?

   24. JRJoe Rogan49:07

       Hm.

   25. JBJim Breuer49:07

       That was, that's... So now - and this is all still going by the way - he gets admitted to the hospital and here comes my next question, and there is an ending to this story. Um, he gets admitted, they say he's got brain damage from COVID. "It's brain damage." Well, this is the information we're getting, like, "What? I've never heard... What do you mean he's brain damage?" "Yeah, he's, he's not gonna, he's not gonna be able to walk."

   26. JRJoe Rogan49:34

       What?

   27. JBJim Breuer49:34

       "He's, he has brain damage." Then it turned out he had strokes. The COVID caused strokes.

   28. JRJoe Rogan49:39

       Mm.

   29. JBJim Breuer49:40

       Then it turned out, no, he asked for a specific drug, they said, "We can't give it to you in the state of Jersey, and we're gonna have to do testing before you could do stuff." Next thing you know, the guy's on high blood pressure pills and all that. Th- they didn't give him his meds, he stroked out.

   30. JRJoe Rogan50:01

       Oh.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   What? …

   1. JBJim Breuer1:00:00

      tour. We're sorry the US tour We're not gonna see you, but the European tour." I said, "Why?" The doctors for the first time ever said his brain is starting to heal itself, and they truly believe it's from going to the Metallica concerts.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

      What?

   3. JBJim Breuer1:00:19

      Maybe it's not the music. It's the community, the life, the people around him that's inspiring him, and they wanna hook him up and start doing this as a test, like perhaps this has the power of healing. Dude, how sick is that?

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:39

      That's pretty sick. You know, you know how when a song comes on and you get goosebumps?

   5. JBJim Breuer1:00:43

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

      That's a drug.

   7. JBJim Breuer1:00:45

      Of course it is.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

      It really is. There's, it's a medicine. It's, there's something to it.... like it when a good song comes on, you're like, "Fuck, yeah."

   9. JBJim Breuer1:00:52

      (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       Woo.

   11. JBJim Breuer1:00:52

       There's- there's songs in-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

       (singing) I'm getting- I'm getting goosebumps right now.

   13. JBJim Breuer1:00:56

       (singing)

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:57

       Dude, look at that. Look at that, goosebumps.

   15. JBJim Breuer1:01:05

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:05

       Those are legit.

   17. JBJim Breuer1:01:07

       (sighs) Woo. Absolutely.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:08

       Yeah, I mean, m- music does something to you physically.

   19. JBJim Breuer1:01:11

       Yes.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:12

       Yeah.

   21. JBJim Breuer1:01:12

       Absolutely.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:13

       And if this guy is, all of a sudden, around all these people, the music is doing something to him physically, and then he has this sense of community and all this fun and love and comradery, yeah, your- your fucking pistons start firing. Bang, bang, bang. Woo. (singing)

   23. JBJim Breuer1:01:31

       (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       (singing)

   25. JBJim Breuer1:01:31

       How'd you- how'd you like talking to James?

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:34

       I loved it.

   27. JBJim Breuer1:01:34

       He's a cool guy.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:35

       I loved it. He's a really cool guy. I mean, if you think about a guy that has been through so much craziness, like I- I think of fame as, like, redlining, like, redlining your personality, redlining your stress levels, redlining your life. And so for a guy that's been like, "Dude." And then, like, "Okay, I gotta get off this ride for a little bit." And then you talk to him, and he's- he's just aware that he redlined his life.

   29. JBJim Breuer1:02:01

       Mm-hmm.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:02:01

       You know, and he apparently redlined his life again, right? Started indulging again after that and had to stop again. But to be a man that is that famous, that is that universally loved, to have that much pressure and attention and to live that crazy life-
6. 1:15:00 – 1:19:29

   Wow! …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:15:00

      to try to put their name in a hat. They'll pull the name out of the hat, and then they bring them up on stage and they do one minute of comedy.

   2. JBJim Breuer1:15:05

      Wow!

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:15:06

      And sometimes it's great and sometimes it's terrible. When it's terrible, everybody makes fun of them.

   4. JBJim Breuer1:15:11

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:15:11

      And when it's great, everybody makes fun of them and appraises them and, and says, "Good luck." And it's a great jumping off point for young up-and-coming comics.

   6. JBJim Breuer1:15:19

      That's a cool idea.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:15:19

      It's a great idea. It's a great show. But it's also to be there and see these people at the beginning where they're trying to, like, figure it out and-

   8. JBJim Breuer1:15:28

      And they're like-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:15:29

      Yeah.

   10. JBJim Breuer1:15:29

       ... they're over trying.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:15:30

       Yeah.

   12. JBJim Breuer1:15:31

       And they-

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:15:31

       They don't know what they're doing.

   14. JBJim Breuer1:15:32

       I know.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:15:33

       The o-

   16. JBJim Breuer1:15:33

       It's cute. It's-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:15:34

       The-

   18. JBJim Breuer1:15:34

       Where, where's the cool areas? Like, I, I don't even know where the hell I'm playing tonight. I'm playing, like, uh, is it outdoors?

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:15:41

       I don't know. What place is th- your place?

   20. JBJim Breuer1:15:43

       The-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:15:43

       What's it called?

   22. JBJim Breuer1:15:46

       The-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:15:46

       You don't know where you're (laughs) going?

   24. JBJim Breuer1:15:49

       No.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:15:49

       Why don't you look at your phone?

   26. JBJim Breuer1:15:50

       It says-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:15:50

       Why don't you find out where you're at?

   28. JBJim Breuer1:15:53

       It's something-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:15:53

       Jimi, uh- It's a weird- Jimi'll find out. Jimi'll find out.

   30. JBJim Breuer1:15:55

       It's a weird name. It's like-

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