Joe Rogan Experience #1796 - Ali Siddiq

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. ASAli Siddiq0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (energetic music)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. What's happening?

   4. ASAli Siddiq0:13

      What's happening?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      How are you? Good to see you.

   6. ASAli Siddiq0:15

      Man, good to be seen, man.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      (laughs)

   8. ASAli Siddiq0:17

      Glad you here.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      You were telling me about the gauntlet you've been running with masks. (laughs)

   10. ASAli Siddiq0:21

       Oh, man. (laughs) They, they want a mask on you as soon as you finish delivering your lines, they want you to put that mask back on. Before you go to makeup, they want you to... Man, it's, it's insane.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       Is it standard though? Is that, like, every production?

   12. ASAli Siddiq0:45

       That's every production.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Really?

   14. ASAli Siddiq0:46

       They are masked up.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       But it doesn't have to be a good mask.

   16. ASAli Siddiq0:50

       No, it don't have to be a good mask.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       So it's just a gesture.

   18. ASAli Siddiq0:52

       You could use your sleeve, just cover your face.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       (laughs)

   20. ASAli Siddiq0:54

       Just long, (laughs) long as something's over your face, they don't-

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       Then you have a bandana, like a bandit. (laughs)

   22. ASAli Siddiq0:59

       Yeah, like, you could just pull up, just pull, you don't need... Your shirt, just pull your shirt over your face.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       (sighs) Oh, it's so stupid.

   24. ASAli Siddiq1:06

       Th- they, they need you to have the mask, and, and I understand, people catching. I don't know if people believe as much as they did. Like, I'm willing to cross a line a lot now, since I've...

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       (laughs)

   26. ASAli Siddiq1:19

       I, once I had, like, once I knew how COVID was, it's like, it's like, I had COVID in the beginning, like full-fledged.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       You had it longer than anybody I've ever known. I've never known anybody who l- tested positive as long as you did. It was like-

   28. ASAli Siddiq1:33

       Every.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:33

       ... 30, how many days?

   30. ASAli Siddiq1:34

       32 straight days.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Do you think Katt…

   1. ASAli Siddiq15:00

      money for this shit, and I'm like, "Huh, I'll go in and settle a dispute for 250,000." You know what I'm saying? Then, you know, what, what, what's the difference?

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:10

      Do you think Katt would do that?

   3. ASAli Siddiq15:11

      He said i- ... once you said you started celebrity boxing, that's what, that-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      But how could he say he did that? I mean-

   5. ASAli Siddiq15:16

      That's what-

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:17

      ... is he joking around?

   7. ASAli Siddiq15:18

      I don't know. He did it in a r- ... he said that shit for real in a real interview. "I started celebrity boxing." And I'm like, "Cool." That's the ticket. That's the ticket. You ... if you wanna settle a dispute and you got some problem with somebody, take that shit to Triller or some-

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:33

      (laughs)

   9. ASAli Siddiq15:34

      (laughs) ... or some-

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:34

       (laughs)

   11. ASAli Siddiq15:34

       ... whoever wanna buy it, you know what I'm saying, and boom, you make the money like that instead of you having to be in the street and the shit being violent. That's how I good ... that's, that's just how I see it. Get a bag for doing it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Well, that definitely makes more sense.

   13. ASAli Siddiq15:47

       Makes absolute perfect sense to me.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       But he's, he's a small fella. Like, he's not v- very large. He's quite a bit smaller than you, isn't he?

   15. ASAli Siddiq15:55

       I don't know.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       Katt?

   17. ASAli Siddiq15:56

       Maybe about 5'2", 5'4", 5' ... whatever he say.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:00

       Yeah. He's, he's-

   19. ASAli Siddiq16:01

       I'm 5'7".

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       He, but he's, like, m- more s- ... he, like, he's not athletic either, right? He's not a runner?

   21. ASAli Siddiq16:06

       I don't know if he-

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:06

       I don't think so.

   23. ASAli Siddiq16:07

       You know, he acts athletic. You know, and that's the thing, um, street dudes where I was from, you know, in my age group, all street dudes was athletic. Like, they did everything. Like, I don't know one street person that didn't do ... he played everything. Like, baseball, ba- ... like, he, like, he did ... if he couldn't do the shit well, he still knew how to do it.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:25

       Right.

   25. ASAli Siddiq16:25

       (laughs) But you can't be no street dude and be ... like I know cats who rap right now and is ... say they street dudes, but you can't catch. Like, what type motherfucker can't catch? (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:35

       (laughs)

   27. ASAli Siddiq16:35

       Like, like, a bat- ... um, like I wa- ... watch some of these new celebrity games, you be like, "Yo, what type of ..." I ... growing up watching Rock n Jock and ... like BVD could actually hoop.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:47

       Mm-hmm.

   29. ASAli Siddiq16:47

       Like, these are some actually basketball playing dudes. Like, now the new celebrity is, like, really not physical. Like, they don't play outside.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:56

       Do you remember they had that thing Battle of the Superstars?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      Like, way too high. Like, thinking, "Man, I mightbe, I might be too high to go on stage." Like, "This is crazy."

   2. ASAli Siddiq30:05

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      I went way too far 'cause I was with Joey Diaz.

   4. ASAli Siddiq30:08

      That, that ha- that happens.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:09

      That just happens. It happens. And I'm, I'm looking up, and there's a Joan Rivers TV show on. And, uh, Joan Rivers used to have, like, a reality show.

   6. ASAli Siddiq30:18

      Yes.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:18

      And this was... At the time-I mean, I don't know how, like, how far she went with plastic surgery, but at the t- I, I mean, I think she went back and forth with, like, with fillers and a bunch of different shit. But she had so much filler in her face that it looked like she was wearing, like, a rubber mask, and you could see when she's moving around and talking, it was, it was f- freaking me out. It was just ... 'Cause I was like, "Oh, no," like, "What have you done?"

   8. ASAli Siddiq30:43

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:43

      Like, "What are you do- that's not good."

   10. ASAli Siddiq30:44

       (sniffs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       "Don't do that." There's a thing about when you see them, their faces move. Like, in person, when you see someone who's got, like, fillers and shit in their face, it's like, it doesn't move right. It- it's frozen.

   12. ASAli Siddiq30:55

       'Cause it's not natural. It's like some shit, like some cemented putty shit in your face, and you-

   13. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       (laughs)

   14. ASAli Siddiq31:01

       It's like, Lil' ... Um, okay, Lil' Kim is not the ultimate. None of these people right now are the ultimate. To me, Michael Jackson was the fucking problem to me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       Yeah. That's, that's when you go too far.

   16. ASAli Siddiq31:18

       Like, it was no way for me not to be insecure growing up if Michael Jackson was fucking with his face. Like, this is who I'm, I'm like, "This is Michael Jackson."

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:31

       Right.

   18. ASAli Siddiq31:32

       And (clears throat) it, I think Michael Jackson looked better than me at this time, but I'm like, "Shit, I'm a young kid." You know? If Michael would've stayed regular Michael, then I probably would've been like, you know, "Oh, my shit is cool." And eventually I got there, but it was after years of thinking, "Nah, I'm not what I need to be." Then my daddy ... Seeing my dad when he got older, my dad was like, "Look, this is how a man's supposed to look. You're supposed to have character. All these wrinkles add character to your face. Y- y- everything's supposed to be right on your goddamn face." And so I stopped ... It's like going to get a edge-up from a barber and they constantly trying to make both the sides of your head even, and they keep pushing this side back-

   19. JRJoe Rogan32:17

       (laughs)

   20. ASAli Siddiq32:17

       ... to try to make it, make this side ... And eventually, both your shit is too wide and your ... You're like, "What the fuck is wrong with my forehead?" (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan32:25

       (laughs)

   22. ASAli Siddiq32:25

       'Cause, uh, somebody's trying to take something that's not even and tried to make it even. Like, no, just edge it like it goes. If the shit, if it slopes up and gets wider, cool. This, that's how my face works.

   23. JRJoe Rogan32:37

       (laughs)

   24. ASAli Siddiq32:37

       But I, I don't, I can't, you can't cut ... Like, your beard is n- wouldn't match, m- my beard wouldn't match your face. If they took my beard and put it on your face, you would have a huge open spot-

   25. JRJoe Rogan32:51

       (laughs)

   26. ASAli Siddiq32:52

       ... like I do. Like, my sh- my beard is like the goddamn Fijis. Like th-

   27. JRJoe Rogan32:56

       You see a lot of dudes who get, uh, beard transplants now?

   28. ASAli Siddiq32:59

       It ... So, I don't trust no person, if you would paint some shit on ... Have you seen James Brown that, that covers the sports on s- He has ... Like, the shit is not even natural, James. Like, it's like black paint on your goddamn skin-

   29. JRJoe Rogan33:14

       Oh.

   30. ASAli Siddiq33:14

       ... that you edged up. (laughs)
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Mm. …

   1. ASAli Siddiq45:00

      You want, um, dragonflies and you want, um, you want birds. You need birds to eat mosquitoes and flies to keep from around your garden. But then you got... Then they're gonna eat some of the ladybugs. They-

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      Mm.

   3. ASAli Siddiq45:17

      It's just a balance... This shit is a whole balance of nature, and then you gotta learn how things grow. Like, corn is a freaky, is a freaky vegetable. It's a freaky starch. Corn, you have to plant it close because it likes bumping up against... That's how it fertilizes, bump up against each other. Okra, not so much. You can plant okra separate because of the... how it grows. Cucumbers and squash, they, they bud, and then you gotta know, you can eat the flowers of... It's all type of shit with gardening, man.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:48

      How long you been doing this?

   5. ASAli Siddiq45:50

      Probably... I don't count as a kid because that was my grandmother's garden. So I've been gardening on my own for about, mm, we gonna say about eight years.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:59

      So is this a trial and error? Like you started off slow?

   7. ASAli Siddiq46:02

      Everything is trial and error when you garden, because you got to call people. See, this is another thing about, um, community. If everybody in your community is growing something, you're gonna talk to each other. You're going, you're going to talk to each other about growing. Like I, I can go to a place... Like, if I go to a nursery, I'm going to ask somebody what they're going to do with that. "Like what you, what you playing with that? Like how you grow that?" I'm, I'm gonna ask and they going, "Well, what you got going on?" I've seen people make relationships out of just trading vegetables. "Hey, you grow, you got enough room to grow sweet potatoes. I can grow purple hull peas. Let's, let's, let's switch that out. Let's, let's trade that and then we all can grow cucumbers and all these other things." But for some reason you the only one having success with the sweet potatoes. So I invest in you growing sweet potatoes. Like I grew watermelon one year and I thought I was doing pretty good. I had one good watermelon and like six bad ones that... Because I didn't know that you had to put hay up under them once they start growing or they, they can rot at the bottom.

   8. JRJoe Rogan47:20

      Oh.

   9. ASAli Siddiq47:20

      How I find that out? I called my boy Raphael, he lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. I call him, I say, "Man, I'm having a hard time with these watermelons." "What you doing? Talk to me." And then-

   10. JRJoe Rogan47:30

       (laughs)

   11. ASAli Siddiq47:31

       ... (laughs) and then we on FaceTime and he has a grocery store in the back of his, uh, like he's been growing for years. So his tomatoes are huge, like, he got a lot of stuff going. It's like... It's crazy.

   12. JRJoe Rogan47:42

       Tomatoes taste way better from a garden.

   13. ASAli Siddiq47:44

       Oh my god.

   14. JRJoe Rogan47:45

       They, they're not even the same thing.

   15. ASAli Siddiq47:47

       I, I guarantee you, if one day you had time and say, "Hey, let's go to, let's go to Shreveport and go to Raphael's backyard." You would just sit back there and just eat shit just out, just like, just, just-

   16. JRJoe Rogan48:00

       Right off the vine.

   17. ASAli Siddiq48:00

       Just let me wash it off.

   18. JRJoe Rogan48:01

       Yeah.

   19. ASAli Siddiq48:02

       Boom. And it's, it's, it's cr-... He... And I didn't even know how many types of tomatoes there were, even though I love tomatoes. And when you grow them, how they grow, these grow at this time, you... It, it's insane. But when you growing something, you care a lot about your soil, your... And what's in it and how it's growing and, and it tastes-

   20. JRJoe Rogan48:24

       Do you compost?

   21. ASAli Siddiq48:25

       Yes.

   22. JRJoe Rogan48:26

       Do you?

   23. ASAli Siddiq48:26

       Yeah. Well, and you gotta know that you don't want no, um, bull manure in there. You just want only cow manure, calf manure.

   24. JRJoe Rogan48:33

       Really?

   25. ASAli Siddiq48:33

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan48:34

       What's-

   27. ASAli Siddiq48:34

       Because it's, it's no, it's no nutrients in bullshit.

   28. JRJoe Rogan48:38

       What?Really?

   29. ASAli Siddiq48:39

       Mm-mm.

   30. JRJoe Rogan48:40

       Oh, is that why it's bullshit?
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      wonder how many of those are there, because you know there's a lot of sugar daddies and girls who get paid. There's a lot of that. There's a lot of rich guys have girls, they pay for their apartment, buy them a hot car. Remember that dude... who was the dude... fuck is his name, that owned the Clippers?

   2. ASAli Siddiq1:00:17

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:17

      He had a deal, right?

   4. ASAli Siddiq1:00:18

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

      Yes, that guy.

   6. ASAli Siddiq1:00:20

      Doctor Sterling. Mm-hmm.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:20

      He had a girl, he had that girl that, that all the shit went down with him.

   8. ASAli Siddiq1:00:25

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

      And he had a deal with her. He bought her a Ferrari, he got her a Bentley, he bought her a condo.

   10. ASAli Siddiq1:00:30

       It's... a lot of women got that deal.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

       Yeah, a lot of women got that deal, but not a lot of dudes got that deal.

   12. ASAli Siddiq1:00:34

       Nah, shit no.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

       A lot of dudes do not get their shit paid for by some rich lady that they fuck.

   14. ASAli Siddiq1:00:38

       I-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       That's rare.

   16. ASAli Siddiq1:00:40

       I just want some old white lady to come give me a Rolex-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:44

       (laughs)

   18. ASAli Siddiq1:00:44

       ... and say, "This is for your time." Eh, eh. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:49

       (laughs)

   20. ASAli Siddiq1:00:50

       (laughs) I think I have such ... I don't know. Maybe I would cr- I don't think I could be a gigolo. And you gotta have like the dude like-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:57

       It's hard, bro.

   22. ASAli Siddiq1:00:57

       ... where, like, you gotta touch everybody. Um, what are you very particular about sm- I had a, a lady who did porno and she told me that. She said, "Porno is not all people think it is. Like, that shit is different. Like, you gotta do things w- and sometimes these girls' body don't be fucking right. Like, they o- they be having odors and shit." And like, it's like me being in the strip club. I'm the person that's going to ... I go to the strip club to, in Houston only really, to pay homage to the streets. You know, just to, you know, throw a, do something for the streets. But I don't want you dancing on me. Like, you can dance where I can see you, but I don't want you actually on me.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:42

       Like sit on you.

   24. ASAli Siddiq1:01:42

       Like don't get on me.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:43

       Right.

   26. ASAli Siddiq1:01:44

       Yeah, like they, don't, don't sit on me.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:46

       Right.

   28. ASAli Siddiq1:01:46

       Like, don't, eh, this dance right there, eh, I'mma, I'm ... You gonna get the same money. I'mma throw as much money as I'mma throw, but I don't want you on me. And people are like, "Why?" Until I go, until I go to a strip club where there's a full shower area, like a f- like the Lakers locker room.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:02:06

       (laughs)

   30. ASAli Siddiq1:02:09

       'Cause that's what I would have. If I open up a strip club, you could best believe I'm gonna ... You're gonna be like the fucking Lakers 'cause you're the showtime. The people coming to see you, cool. In my, in my thing, yo, man, she has a place. She don't have a, a long-ass table with everybody. She has a booth. You have the makeup lady, you have the nutritionist back there. You have the, the, the mom that takes care, that cleans everybody's shit, and you have a shower area. You have a full-ass shower where you can go, get your musty ass in that shower, and then come back out to dance on people fresh. I don't want you dancing on me, you done been in this shit, baby wiping yourself. Like, get your ass off me.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:15:57

   Really? They don't do…

   1. ASAli Siddiq1:15:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:15:00

      Really? They don't do their nails over there?

   3. ASAli Siddiq1:15:03

      They don't go to the shop and do them. It's like, I grew up... But I understand it 'cause I grew up. My mother never went to the nail shop when I was growing up. She always did her own nails. That was something that women... That was a woman taking time to pamper themselves 'cause you, you... And this is, this was the thing that we heard growing up, and I still wanna hear it, and I've never heard this shit in my life outside of my mother saying it, my aunt saying it, and seeing this shit on a sitcom. "I cannot go out tonight because I'm washing my hair." Washing my hair. "I'm washing my hair. I'm getting ready to do it myself." Women don't do that shit no more.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:15:39

      They don't?

   5. ASAli Siddiq1:15:41

      Mm-mm.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:15:41

      They all go somewhere?

   7. ASAli Siddiq1:15:42

      They all go somewhere.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:15:44

      Imagine if women could no longer wear makeup, no women.

   9. ASAli Siddiq1:15:47

      Oh, my goodness. I would, I would have... It would be the best for me.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:15:50

       You like that?

   11. ASAli Siddiq1:15:51

       Because now, it's the, it's... Now, it takes away the tricks.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:15:55

       Yeah, no more trickery.

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