Joe Rogan Experience #1814 - Radio Rahim

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. RRRadio Rahim0:00

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

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. RRRadio Rahim0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music) Oh, yeah, and last time, I guess I talk really loud, apparently.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      No, you don't. Oh, you read comments.

   5. RRRadio Rahim0:18

      Y- yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      Don't read comments. Don't read comments.

   7. RRRadio Rahim0:20

      U- they-

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:21

      Don't read comments.

   9. RRRadio Rahim0:22

      (laughs) He told me that last time, Joe. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       Never read comments. Never read c- I told it Don L. (laughs) When Don and L- when Don L. and I did a podcast with Ariza, uh, it was so much fun. After it was over, I gave him a big hug. I said, "That was fun. Don't read the comments."

   11. RRRadio Rahim0:34

       (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       And he went on, like, for weeks, for weeks, he was, like, on this, like, defensive campaign.

   13. RRRadio Rahim0:43

       But Don L. maybe, maybe should read a few of the comments. (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       (laughs)

   15. RRRadio Rahim0:47

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       I, I don't think so. I don't think so. I, I like him perfectly flawed.

   17. RRRadio Rahim0:52

       Y-

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       I like him-

   19. RRRadio Rahim0:53

       Yeah, that's a good way-

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       ... as he is.

   21. RRRadio Rahim0:54

       ... to describe it.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       Yeah. I don't want-

   23. RRRadio Rahim0:56

       That's a good way to describe him.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       I don't want him to change at all. I mean, I would like him to grow and get better as a human being, but that whole, like, interrupting thing that he does, like-

   25. RRRadio Rahim1:04

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       ... psh, that's great, man. That's him.

   27. RRRadio Rahim1:06

       I'm a very sensitive guy, though. I need to know what I've said, how that affects people.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:13

       You're in the wrong business.

   29. RRRadio Rahim1:14

       (sighs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:14

       If you're a sensitive guy-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. RRRadio Rahim15:00

      allowing yourself to smoke and giving yourself free range the rest of the time, and the more spots you remove, the less smoking you actually do.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      Mm-hmm.

   3. RRRadio Rahim15:07

      And you hold to that, and hold to that, and after a while, you've, you phase yourself out enough where then you can kick maybe six or seven cigarettes a day instead of 20.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      Mm.

   5. RRRadio Rahim15:18

      You know what I mean?

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:19

      And so when you got down to six or seven cigarettes a day, then you went cold turkey?

   7. RRRadio Rahim15:24

      Yeah. Then it's just like-

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:25

      Hmm.

   9. RRRadio Rahim15:25

      Then, then you got some discipline.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       That's smart. That's a smart way to do it because, uh, I think they say that that's the, the smartest way to do alcohol unless you do it in a medical setting, because, uh, alcohol is one of the rare, uh, drugs that, when you kick it, it can actually kill you. You become so dependent upon alcohol that your, your body... If you're an alcoholic, like a severe alcoholic, your body needs alcohol to function. Same as benzodiazepines. Benzodiazepines, uh, Xanax and the like.

   11. RRRadio Rahim15:50

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       If you have a severe addiction to those and then you kick it, you'll die. It's one of the rare drugs.

   13. RRRadio Rahim15:57

       Uh, I've drank a lot in my day. I've dabbled in other drugs. The only thing I still have cravings... I still drink, but not as heavily as I, I once did. I haven't had a cigarette in 14 years. I still get cravings.

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       Really?

   15. RRRadio Rahim16:12

       Uh-

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       Do you smoke weed?

   17. RRRadio Rahim16:13

       No.

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       No?

   19. RRRadio Rahim16:13

       No.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:14

       So you don't smoke weed, no cigarettes, no, no tobacco products at all, never dip.

   21. RRRadio Rahim16:20

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       Do you ever use those fucking... Brendan Schaub was here last week, he tried to get me to try those little pouches.

   23. RRRadio Rahim16:25

       (clears throat) Right, that's coffee.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:26

       They're so fi- Yeah, it's, it's the turmeric.

   25. RRRadio Rahim16:28

       (clears throat) Is that what it is?

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:29

       Yeah, like-

   27. RRRadio Rahim16:29

       Like someone's like down there tickling my throat.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:31

       Yeah, like (clears throat) it coats your throat. It's really annoying.

   29. RRRadio Rahim16:34

       Well-

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       I stopped doing it for a long time, and then, uh, Laird Hamilton sent me another one of those coffee machines and I used it here, and I'm like, "God dammit, now I got that, that (clears throat) again."
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      And that's why you have to be careful about... You know, people talk about your diet-

   2. RRRadio Rahim30:05

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      ... like, in terms of, like, what you eat. Well, you have to have a good diet in terms of what you take in mentally as well. It's very important.

   4. RRRadio Rahim30:12

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      And that's why you don't wanna read comments.

   6. RRRadio Rahim30:14

      (sighs) .

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:14

      'Cause you're taking in complaints, and you can only take in so many complaints before you start internalizing them and thinking like, "Man, maybe I do suck," or maybe, uh, m- you know, and you- you maybe get a little defensive. I've seen a lot of people get ultra-defensive and get really weird because of reading too many comments. It's like y- you should do your own personal auditing, you should be objective and introspective and think about yourself and your life and who you are and what you say and how- how it affects other people.

   8. RRRadio Rahim30:42

      Mm-hmm.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:42

      But you can't- you can't take all those negative things in too much. It's like- it's- it's like drinking too much alcohol or smoking too much cigarettes. It's not good for you.

   10. RRRadio Rahim30:52

       And you can't take for granted though the, the freedom of being able to express one's views and be authentic.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:59

       Yeah.

   12. RRRadio Rahim30:59

       I'm not trying to shut down the comment section by any stretch of the imagination. When it gets violent though-

   13. JRJoe Rogan31:05

       Yeah.

   14. RRRadio Rahim31:05

       ... when it gets to pointing out a individual for harm, which-

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       Right.

   16. RRRadio Rahim31:10

       ... uh, I mean, excuse me if I'm, uh, ill-informed, but I don't believe I've ever heard you do.

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       No. No.

   18. RRRadio Rahim31:16

       I've certainly never heard Dave do that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:18

       No, of course not.

   20. RRRadio Rahim31:18

       So, uh, you guys, to me, are models of what it is to be free men in society. Like to... You have to work hard to defend this space.

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:29

       Yes.

   22. RRRadio Rahim31:30

       And you have some responsibility to not abuse that space.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:34

       Yes.

   24. RRRadio Rahim31:35

       But it's The Joe Rogan Experience, and for people to, uh, put on you that anything you say (laughs) has to be, uh, according to the whole truth, and this space here where you get to talk about your experience and, and get from others, theirs, has to all of a sudden meet the standard of nightly news. Uh-

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:57

       Well, the nightly news doesn't hold up to its own standards.

   26. RRRadio Rahim32:00

       Right.

   27. JRJoe Rogan32:00

       I mean, th- they're- they're completely full of shit.

   28. RRRadio Rahim32:03

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan32:03

       And they're completely bought and paid for by advertising money.

   30. RRRadio Rahim32:06

       So no, it's in the absence of that, in the absence-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      a 38 under, including 11 holes in one-

   2. RRRadio Rahim45:03

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:03

      ... at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the very first golf round of his life-

   4. RRRadio Rahim45:12

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      ... according to the North Korean state media. It was 1994 when Kim was 52 years old. Even more impressive, Kim stood just 5'3", yet he was able to overpower a course as long as any ever played in major championship history.

   6. RRRadio Rahim45:28

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:29

      Who knows how good Kim could've been if he had taken up the sport earlier.

   8. RRRadio Rahim45:33

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:33

      Who knows how many times he bested 38 under in the 17 years since his first round? How crazy is that?

   10. RRRadio Rahim45:40

       I mean, come on, Joe. This has to remind you of Trump's first, like, health report. (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       (laughs) Oh.

   12. RRRadio Rahim45:50

       Oh, boy. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, to your previous point, like no, uh-

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       Tremendous, tremendous health.

   14. RRRadio Rahim45:55

       (laughs) Yeah, the gr- uh, the healthiest president ever.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:58

       Health, healthiest president they've ever had.

   16. RRRadio Rahim46:00

       (laughs) Yes.

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:00

       The, the thing that freaks me about him is he didn't age in the White House like everybody else does. Biden has aged so much in a year. Um-

   18. RRRadio Rahim46:07

       Yeah, I don't think he was worried about as much. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       I don't think he worried about shit.

   20. RRRadio Rahim46:10

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       I think he was watching Fox News, "They like me. They love me." You know?

   22. RRRadio Rahim46:15

       (laughs) Uh, yeah. I-

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       (clears throat)

   24. RRRadio Rahim46:16

       ... (laughs) I think, you know, uh, just on a finer point on your previous topic, maybe "I don't know" is an acceptable answer. I don't know what fracking is going to do-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:27

       Yeah.

   26. RRRadio Rahim46:27

       ... ultimately to the Earth, and-

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:29

       It is acceptable, right?

   28. RRRadio Rahim46:31

       Yeah, uh, you would think. But it doesn't seem to be an acceptable answer. Nobody wants to admit that, "You know, I don't know. I know some things. Oh, this seems to make sense. Oh, math supports that. That seems provable. We've had an experience here that we can point to that makes this information credible. But do I know enough to say for certainty-"

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:55

       Yeah.

   30. RRRadio Rahim46:55

       "... and game out what happens in 20 years if we take this process? No."
5. 1:00:00 – 1:13:33

   (laughs) …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      smoke weed.

   2. RRRadio Rahim1:00:01

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      (laughs) Yes. Of course they do.

   4. RRRadio Rahim1:00:03

      I mean, don't get me wrong. I don't smoke weed now, but there was a day, like, in my, you know, I used to smoke weed-... a lot a lot.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

      Yeah.

   6. RRRadio Rahim1:00:09

      I think I've hit my threshold, which is why I can't smoke anymore. One more joint, I'm a lunatic. Like, I'm gonna go, like I'm a-

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

      You're fine.

   8. RRRadio Rahim1:00:15

      ... basket case.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:16

      You're fine. I would hate to get you high right now and-

   10. RRRadio Rahim1:00:19

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

       ... and, and prove you wrong.

   12. RRRadio Rahim1:00:20

       It would be terrible.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:20

       I got Mike Tyson weed too. This is Mike Tyson weed.

   14. RRRadio Rahim1:00:22

       But when I did, which was for, you know, a, a, a decent amount of time, when I was just, you know, young and really able to train crazy, I could smoke after training and-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

       Yeah.

   16. RRRadio Rahim1:00:33

       ... it helped me with, like, the pain, the muscle pain, the joint pain-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       Mm-hmm.

   18. RRRadio Rahim1:00:36

       ... the swelling, all that shit, great. I'm having a hard time understanding how being THC high-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:45

       Yeah.

   20. RRRadio Rahim1:00:46

       ... helps a combat athlete. It didn't make my reflexes faster, uh, and my, I wasn't able to focus better.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:52

       I understand your experience.

   22. RRRadio Rahim1:00:55

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       But for me, when I hit the bag, when I'm, when I'm high, I feel better. I feel like I move better, I feel like my balance is better. I feel like there's maybe some little subtle things that I wasn't thinking about before that all of a sudden are at my f- the forefront, because it makes you focus on a single thing. It's really good for that. And when, um, that single thing is something like martial arts that I've been doing my whole life, there's something about being high that gives me, like, a new lens for it. A new lens where you, like, feel the way your body's moving. You, like, feel, like, your hips extending. You feel your abs contracting. You feel when it's the ti- like, what's the timing in it? You feel things more. Maybe my-

   24. RRRadio Rahim1:01:39

       Hmm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:39

       Maybe I should push off my toes more. Maybe I feel my toes more. Like, I feel things more.

   26. RRRadio Rahim1:01:44

       Wow.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:44

       Instead of just going on autopilot, 'cause I've done it my whole life, now all of a sudden I'm thinking and I'm feeling stuff.

   28. RRRadio Rahim1:01:50

       Interesting.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:51

       It's great for stretching. For stretching, it's the greatest thing of all time. You get super-duper high and just, you feel your fibers just extending. Ugh.

   30. RRRadio Rahim1:02:01

       Ugh. You know what?

Episode duration: 3:26:09