The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1872 - Tony Hinchcliffe & Hans Kim
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150 min read · 30,028 words- 0:00 – 1:07
Warm-up: Jamie’s 10-year anniversary, getting “too high,” and recent hangouts
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- NANarrator
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Before we even get rolling, happy 10th year anniversary-
- HKHans Kim
Hey.
- JRJoe Rogan
... to young Jamie Vernon.
- HKHans Kim
Hey, that's when we met.
- JRJoe Rogan
I saw that on his, uh, Instagram today. 10 years ago, the kid took a fucking... what, you have a one way?
- HKHans Kim
One way flight, yeah, one way ticket.
- JRJoe Rogan
One way ticket to LA. Says, "Let's see what happens."
- HKHans Kim
That's awesome. What happened?
- JRJoe Rogan
Next thing you know...
- HKHans Kim
Unbelievable.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's young Jamie Vernon.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs) Still young.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
He's younger than me, he's always gonna be young in that way. Hans Kim, how are you?
- HKHans Kim
Hey Joe. Good.
- JRJoe Rogan
Feeling all right?
- HKHans Kim
Yeah, I feel great.
- JRJoe Rogan
Are you too high? Don't lie.
- HKHans Kim
No. I only took two puffs.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay, that's good.
- HKHans Kim
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Don't tell people about Detroit.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And Tony Hinchcliffe.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yes, hello.
- JRJoe Rogan
Good to see you, brother. We've had a, we had a fun few weeks.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. Like, the craziest.
- 1:07 – 3:03
Columbus arena show: Dave Chappelle surprise appearance and a massive ovation
- JRJoe Rogan
This past weekend was bananas though. So we do this show in Columbus, Ohio. Uh, Dave Chappelle comes, surprises the audience, goes on stage, and it's probably the greatest round of applause I've ever seen anyone get in my life. Not probably, definitely. 100%.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Ohio's own Dave Chappelle-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
... in the main arena of the main city of Ohio.
- JRJoe Rogan
In the shots, oh, play it on the big screen. Play it.
- NANarrator
... live here at WWE 2,007, ladies and gentlemen, the amazing Dave Chappelle!
- JRJoe Rogan
This is nuts.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
And the whole thing is so spontaneous.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Now listen how long this goes. And this is a standing ovation. The standing ovation literally goes on for a minute. (laughs) Whoo.
- NANarrator
Let's go. Make some noise for Ohio's own Tony Hinchcliffe.
- JRJoe Rogan
How wild was that? That was ama- that was amazing.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
It's so cool. And it's like the, uh, it's like, it almost, in a weird way, makes me happy that the lockdowns and all that happened 'cause it made something like that that much crazier. Like, it's like, you re- I feel like people really appreciate live spontaneous insanity now more than ever.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes, for sure. They, they, they... well, it was just an awesome moment, you know? It was just a, a great moment.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- 3:03 – 4:42
Combat-sports binge: ADCC, Canelo–GGG, and brutal UFC cuts (and why MMA ruins boxing)
- JRJoe Rogan
He just decides to roll in, come up. And then we all went to Vegas. So then we all went to see the Canelo Alvarez fight. You and I also saw Abu Dhabi, so we saw Gordon Ryan dominate at Abu Dhabi. And then we went to see two of the craziest fucking UFC fights I've ever seen.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Gregory Rodriguez and, uh, Chidi, uh, Njokuani, which was a crazy fight that went back and forth until Rodriguez caught him, and Rodriguez had the worst cut I've ever seen in my life. And then Song Yadong, the guy who fights after him against Cory Sandhagen, also has a horrific cut.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
And there was a massive cut in the fight just before that with, uh, Fili, and he had blood all over him just from having, choking out the other guy that was on top of him, bleeding. There was blood the whole, the whole time.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it was a wild three fights. That's right, we saw that fight too. We saw the last round of that fight live.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Whew.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
But that cut that Rodriguez had was absolutely insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
Insane. The thing about that experience, though, I think we did it in the wrong order. I think, uh, it should've... like, Abu Dhabi was amazing. Abu Dhabi you can kind of put anywhere, but you ki- you kinda have to put boxing before MMA or it ruins boxing for you.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Totally.
- JRJoe Rogan
It just doesn't feel the same.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's just... it's, it's great, don't get me wrong.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
It's like-
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm a boxing fan, I was super happy to be there, it was a wild fight, but it's just not, not the same.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah, it's like getting a hand job after a gang bang.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
It's like, I didn't really need that. Sorta had that earlier, but better.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
UFC is just so advanced now.
- 4:42 – 23:19
Canelo fight spectacle: anthems, Mexican Independence energy, mariachi, and ringside seat chaos
- JRJoe Rogan
The other thing that boxing does is they play the national anthems. They played three national anthems. And it's like, good Lord. So they play the Kazakhstan national anthem, and then the dude says, you know, "Go, Triple G." And everybody's like, "Fuck you."
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
This is Me- Mexican Independence Weekend, man.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then, um, then they play the, uh, Mexican national anthem, everybody goes crazy and they sing along, which was pretty dope. 'Cause like, when you're a place that's that big and it's all, like... I mean, it had to be at least half Mexicans, right?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs) Oh that's... yeah, at least 70%.
- JRJoe Rogan
At least.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Whatever the number was.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So when these songs were playing, like when Canelo has his Walkout song, which is also in Spanish, or when there's, they're singing the Mexican Independence Day song, they're singing this song, the Me- Mexican national anthem rather, they're singing this song in Spanish all together. So there's thousands of people singing along.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Before the fight started, I saw in the stands there was like 30 or 40 seats that were blocked off that were just completely empty in this sea of humans, and I'm like, the performer in me is like, "Well, why would they lose that many seats? Why would they possibly... where are those people? What bus didn't make it here?"
- JRJoe Rogan
I thought the exact same thing.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
You saw it?
- JRJoe Rogan
I thought that maybe-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... they could get burned by the fireworks.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
That was my first thought.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. And then it's Canelo's entrance, (laughs) and the lights go off, pop back on, and there's a whole mariachi band playing. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
A full band playing for Canelo as he comes out. I, I legitimately thought that that was probably where the fireworks were and people could get fucked up by those fireworks.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause, you know, people ha- have been fucked up by fireworks in, uh, fight entrances before, pretty bad, to the point where they got burns all over their body and they, they, they couldn't fight. I know that happened in Pride. In Pride, the dude got really cooked. He was a Brazilian guy. (inhales deeply) Mm. God, I don't remember his name, but he was an early, early pioneer of MMA. And he was fighting in, in Pride and he got torched by the fireworks. You outta here?
- NANarrator
I think this is from the fight we just saw.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah. This is the one from the fight we just saw. This is the, uh, that's the mariachi band. See, I thought those seats behind them were w- like, people could get hit with those fireworks.
- NANarrator
Yeah. Maybe.
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause you see how they blew him off? They blew off a lot of, all that shit. I was like, "You can't sit under that."
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah, it would've been an obstructed view from that screening.
- 23:19 – 28:24
Canelo’s wrist injury, recovery science, and why “real” injuries change how we view sports
- JRJoe Rogan
Watching all three of those things. Watching the UFC, watching, um, Abu Dhabi, watching the Canelo-Alvarez fight. They say Alvarez fucked his wrist up. He's gonna be out for as long as a year.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. There's something wrong with his wrist. See, see what the fuck that is. There's some... That was cool, though, being there while, uh, you know, it's Mexican Independence weekend. People are so fired up.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. He probably hurt his wrist counting all the money that he made.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"Okay. It hurts everywhere, everywhere." Canelo said. "I had the wrist issue since the Caleb Plant fight. I was like, it's okay. Later, later. Then it started really bad. I need surgery. It was really bad during the fight. It's not broken. It's a meniscus injury, a wrist injury, but it's not broken." Canelo's doctor spoke of the amount of rehabilitation time that Canelo will need. Uh, he has a TFCC tear, triangular fibrocartilage complex tear, which is a piece of cartilage in the wrist which affects the body's ability to mobilize that joint without feeling impingement and sharp pain. If he has surgery, depending on what the surgeon decides, probably six to eight to 12 weeks, depending on the rehabilitation if it's successful. If it's successful.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I don't know if I trust a doctor that says six to eight to 12 weeks.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Why wouldn't he just say six to 12? Why is that eight there?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, whatever is gonna happen, they're gonna get him on, like, the best stem cells possible, and they're gonna... I'm sure they're gonna-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... juice him up.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And they'll try to help it heal.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Heal him up with some of that-
- JRJoe Rogan
Heal that up. Some of that...
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Some of that Topo Chico.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs) Some of that sweet, sweet...
- JRJoe Rogan
Just because, I mean, that's...... the biggest boxer in the world. They're gonna take care of the, the thing he needs more than anything, it's his wrists.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? Your hands and your wrists.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Who does he even have left to fight?
- JRJoe Rogan
Benavidez. There's, there's a few guys. There's a few guys. And there's also a rematch with Bivol, if he wants to go back up. But if this wrist has been fucking with him since the Caleb Plant fight, that kind of makes a lot of sense. Wrist injus- injuries are really rough. I had a wrist injury once. W- it... I lasted, for like, two years, it hurt me. It was a really annoying one. And then, I finally got something called, uh... God, what do they call it? Prolotherapy, that's what it is. Where they, uh, they're injecting things into your tendons and ligaments that make them swell up, and it strengthens them. Very interesting stuff. I was like... Uh, uh, ih, geh- Uh, this was, like, 19... 98 or some shit like that.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's when I fi- finally got it done, and when I got it done, I finally fixed it. That was the only thing that ever fixed it. It would just keep coming back, you know. So if this guy's got that, way worse, it sounds like. He's got meniscus tears. Meniscus tears in your fucking wrist? Oh. And you have to punch people in the head?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- 28:24 – 30:05
Live sports vs TV: soccer’s stadium magic, basketball’s live drawbacks, and LeBron proximity stories
- JRJoe Rogan
(inhales deeply) It's just, when you see soccer live, it's like we were talking about jujitsu, we went to see, um, soccer live here in Austin. We went to the, uh, that stadium.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah, I've been to one. It's amazing.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's so fun.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's fun. And the sport is fun to watch. It's... And it's, it's very impressive. Like, these dudes are in phenomenal shape 'cause they are hauling ass-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... all over that field and then sprinting back the other way, then sprinting back this way. It's like, "Whoo." The cardio involved in being a soccer player is off the charts.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's got to be one of the most cardio-intensive sports. Right? You think?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
It's such a big field.
- JRJoe Rogan
Huge.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
It's like a football field. And they're cut-... There's no breaks.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, do they have any breaks at all?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do-... I mean, they have, like, little short moments where they, like, talk about shit and-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... blow a whistle or something.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I don't think they even have timeouts.
- NANarrator
Yeah (laughs) .
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Oh, when the ball goes out of bounds, then you can sub in players.
- JRJoe Rogan
We know so little about soccer.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
We got to get Ian Edwards on here to explain it.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
That's a sport that is a thousand times better live than it is on a TV.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
That, hockey, and then, the... Some of the other ones are backwards. It's like, basketball, in my opinion, kind of sucks live. Same sort of with football. You can't really... Depending on where you are in a stadium, you can't really see what's going on. The screens don't do any justice in football.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you say basketball sucks live?
- 30:05 – 35:09
Basketball feet, shoe culture, and the weird reality of blown-out sneakers
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I'm the same age and from the same area as LeBron James. Our high schools are rival schools.
- NANarrator
I knew we were gonna play them.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Goofball.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you play against LeBron James in high school? Is that what you just alluded to? (laughs)
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I wrestled... Wrestling and-
- NANarrator
I think so.
- JRJoe Rogan
I heard, but-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
... wrestling and basketball are both winter sports, so we went against each other in both. He's watched me wrestle and I've watched him play basketball. We're both the Fighting Irish, Akron, St. Vincent-St. Mary in Ursuline.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you remember him?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Oh, God, yes. He was the news story. He was literally on the local news at-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
... like, 15 every single night.
- JRJoe Rogan
He was on TV.
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- NANarrator
Sports Illustrated when we were in high school.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
When you were in high school?
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. And he was that good, by the way. He was, like, that good. He was exactly that good. It was crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
That dude spends over a million dollars a year just on, like, massage and therapy-
- NANarrator
(inhales deeply)
- JRJoe Rogan
... and taking care of his body.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
He needs to.
- JRJoe Rogan
Smart. Smart.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
His toes are so fucked up.
- 35:09 – 38:15
‘Make it in America’ meets toxic jobs: glue fumes, robots, and Michelangelo myths
- JRJoe Rogan
Poison-consuming people. You guys know the story of, uh, Michelangelo when he was painting the Sistine Chapel?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
He went blind.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause he's, he's painting lying on his back, and the droplets of blood are getting into his eyes.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
The paint.
- JRJoe Rogan
And he's, like, losing his vision.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. That's crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Isn't there, like, uh, some stories on it?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I just typed it in. It says he had, uh, problems with his vision, but he did not go blind.
- JRJoe Rogan
He did not go blind. Oh, I'm exaggerating. (laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
While Michelangelo was filming the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1512, he complained of problems with his vision that he thought to have been an, the eye disease transitory... How do you say that?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Transitory.
- JRJoe Rogan
Transitory nystagmus, nystagmus caused by, by prolonged eye strain. Huh. Why did I hear that he got paint dripped in his eyes, though?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Because it's like-
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause they're just talking about the strain. I can see the strain there. Michelangelo reluctantly accepted the commission, spending four years of his life perched on scaffolding with his brush in his hand. See what it says there.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah, I mean, it, it, I clicked on it, it said, "Who went by blind painting the Sistine Chapel?" But, uh, maybe it says that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm. Oh, contrary to popular belief, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel in a-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Standing position.
- JRJoe Rogan
... standing position. While they picture Michelangelo creating legendary, uh, frescoes, most people assume he was lying down. But, in fact, the artist and his assistants used wooden scaffolds that allowed them to stand upright and reach above their heads. Michelangelo himself designed the unique system of platforms which were attached to the walls with brackets. The impression that Michelangelo painted on his back might have come from si- uh, 1965 film, The Agony and the Ecstasy, in which Charlton Heston portrayed the genius behind the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Can you show a photo of the Sistine Chapel?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
The work that he did, the, like, the, just the, the overall beauty...... of these images that this dude just painted on the top of this church building over four years.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Oh my God.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, it's really incredible stuff. And it's incredible because it's like, you know that his hand touched that, and then all this time has gone by and you could still see it. It's like all that art that they have over there, it's so fascinating. Such a strange, strange thing that they have these enormous buildings that are just filled with art from, like, the 1500s and the 1600s and the 1700s. It makes you realize, like, how young America is. God, we're so young.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
We're so young.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
We're like-
- JRJoe Rogan
And we're, we're already on meth.
- 38:15 – 50:51
Puerto Rico, ‘indigenous’ timelines, and the Pangea reality check (plus dinosaur ‘mummy’ finds)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I went to Puerto Rico. It's beautiful over there. And that's an old school, very old school. They, uh, literally have, I think it's called... Old... Yeah, it's called Old San Juan 'cause they, like, left it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I mean, the brick in the streets is like crazy. You know, cars just (imitates engine revving) . It's like only... It's made out of potholes and, uh, the buildings and everything. It's so beautiful over there.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that place is... What... W- when was Puerto Rico first settled?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I have no idea.
(laughs)
I smoked pot the whole time I was there.
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
In Puerto Rico?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
What's the... Is there... Is it legal there?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
It... Dude, it's one of the... It's America. You can do anything.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I don't know what the actual laws are. They're too busy. There's literally, like, gunshots going off all the time. So they're not worried about anything.
- JRJoe Rogan
They have no power right now.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Yeah, you told me about it on the plane. Uh, Columbus laro- uh... Well, whatever the...
- THTony Hinchcliffe
They lost it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Lost it.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
1493.
Columbus.
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh, well, Columbus arrived in Puerto Rico during his second voyage in 1943. Or 1493, rather. Uh, the island inhabited by the Taíno, Taíno? They called it... Hmm. Borikén. Borikén. Spelled a variety of ways by different writers of the day. Columbus named his... What'd he name this what?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Uh, he named an island San Juan.
- JRJoe Rogan
San Juan Bautista in honor of Saint John the Baptist. Have reported also 'cause... So, so in the 1400s, it sounds like people started colonizing it.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I just... Have you ever heard of Corvo Island in the Pacific?
- JRJoe Rogan
No.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I just saw a video about this. Um, it looks like this.
- JRJoe Rogan
Were there people living on Puerto Rico before...
- 50:51 – 54:23
Humans vs Earth: pollution, burning rivers, and why environmental damage feels ‘normal’
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. If you, you compare us to any other animal on the planet, we do the worst damage.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
No one even comes close.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like people are talking about methane from cow farts. You know, because that's like an, it's actually an issue. It's from burps, right? Cow burps. But, so, that's something that's a fraction of the stuff we do.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
We pollute rivers.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
We just, when no one's looking, human beings just take their industrial waste and throw it in the water.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Fuck you. (laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Did you ever see that Teflon movie with, uh, Mark Ruffalo?
- JRJoe Rogan
No. What is it?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Man, I can't remember right now.
- HKHans Kim
Dark Waters?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
What is it?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
But it is very interesting.
- HKHans Kim
It's about, uh, the waters in the West Virginia or Ohio Valley.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah, the city where the Teflon, uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, they polluted the waters?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
... paint company. Oh, big time, and like, the rain and the-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
... everything.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh. Did you ever see that one river in China that's a dark blue because they make blue jeans there?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro.
- HKHans Kim
Oh, no.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, when you're getting all your sexy blue jeans on, Chiz, this is what you do to that river.
- 54:23 – 1:00:32
Media economics and tech habits: paywalls, creator platforms, iPhone tribalism, and translation earbuds
- JRJoe Rogan
You know what I think? I think if I was a writer right now, I would, I would want to get on something, some sort of independent publishing platform immediately. Because I think that those publishing platforms, people are gonna like develop followers to the, the same way you have followers on Instagram and followers on YouTube, people are gonna develop f- like big time follow, and already have on like Substack and stuff like that, but it's gonna be like podcasting.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Where it's gonna come to a point in time where there's too many of them. And if you're good, even if you're good, but if you're new, you're getting started out, it's like there's too many.
- HKHans Kim
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Now, 'cause it seems like that with podcasting now. Like I see people that are jumping into the podcast world, and it seems like there's too many choices. It's like if you were trying to start right now, it's like, I'm not saying you can't make it, but it's not like if you started three years ago.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
If you started three years ago, it was still like people were looking for funny new things to ... Now there's so much to pay attention to. It's hard to get people's attention.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. And the ones, even if you start now, the ones that started 10 years ago, uh, are, have been doing it 10 years and have gotten 10 years better at what they do.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's, that's definitely a factor too. But I think another factor is just an overwhelming amount of choices. It's just so many fucking choices.It's so hard to get people to, to... Like, try getting people to switch from an Apple phone to an Android phone.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I don't even-
- JRJoe Rogan
Try it, try it on 'em.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I don't even entertain the conversation.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Try to, try to get them to do that. You know how hard that-
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs) I like trying a bunch of different stuff. You give me a crazy food, I'll try it, but I will not even find out. People are like, "This one flips closed." I'm like, "I don't give a-"
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
"... anything."
- HKHans Kim
You get a number pad above the keyboard.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. Cool. Is it an iPhone yet? 'Cause that... I'd buy it if it was an iPhone.
- JRJoe Rogan
Isn't that wild? Like, how'd they figure that out?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
No one wants to be the guy with a green blob, right? Ruin a whole group text.
- JRJoe Rogan
Gordon does that.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Really?
- JRJoe Rogan
Gordon has a... Yeah, he has the Samsung.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I will straighten him out.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- 1:00:32 – 1:05:12
Roger Waters live show: spectacle, politics, and who gets ‘artistic permission’ to be extreme
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I'm going to see Roger Waters on October 6th.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I can say that for sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
Shit.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Have you ever seen him live? You know they invented, like, colors and curtains? Like, anything other than a black curtain was them, on top of all the music that they made. Lasers, inflatables, colors-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
... different colored lights. Like, there wasn't... That wasn't a thing.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's all him?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah. And so, what's cool about that is that he still has that type of mentality of like, what's next? What is... What's something entertaining visually that nobody's ever seen to go along with this diabolical music? And so, you know, the last time I saw him a few years ago, they had these 3D, uh, hologram things that, like... I don't... I can't even explain it with words. But another thing they have is inflatables that aren't inflatables. They're now drones with reflectors on them and things. Yeah, I guess I can't explain that either.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs) But it's, it's so crazy that I can't explain it.
- JRJoe Rogan
I've seen the imagery-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... 'cause, uh, you know, they did that CNN interview with him, where they showed the imagery that he, he always had this, uh, hilarious imagery of Trump, like Trump as a pig and like-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
He goes after everybody, though.
- JRJoe Rogan
Everybody. But he went after Biden.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's what CNN had took option with, and then they had-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... a little bit of a discussion.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.Yeah, it's interesting to hear a different, uh, perspective of a guy whose father actually died in World War II and, you know, has lived that life of being, you know, he's, they've been doing arenas for, like, 50 years or something crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I think he has a real problem with the hypocrisy of people never admitting what the United States has done, while talking about what other countries have done. And that, especially when they're talking about things like China, like how little... What is he wearing?
- NANarrator
It's his live concert.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Well, it's a-
- JRJoe Rogan
This is his live concert? He's just dressed-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Oh, my God. (laughs)
The wall is about World War II.
- JRJoe Rogan
And so he acts it out?
- 1:05:12 – 1:15:27
Election skepticism and ‘acceptable questions’: fraud, audits, IDs, and paper-ballot vulnerabilities
- JRJoe Rogan
Even if they did steal the election, what's really amazing, like, and I'm not saying anybody stole the election. What I am saying is that even if they did steal the election, what's really amazing is that people have figured a way to make it ridiculous to think that anybody would steal an election. And it's sh- it's like they have four-year memories.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like people forget.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Because they s- they always said that Bush stole it from Kerry. They-
- NANarrator
Or, uh, Gore.
- JRJoe Rogan
That was Gore. Oh, Gore, right. That Bush stole it from Gore. But that, um, Obama stole it from Kerry, right? Wasn't that one of 'em?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
I never heard of that.
- NANarrator
Yeah, I think you're right it was Bush-Kerry. That was right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Was it Bush? It was Bush-Kerry.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah, yeah.
- NANarrator
It was Hagen-Chad's thing was first, and then it was Bush-Kerry in '04.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, okay.
- NANarrator
They'll just get to that, too. There's gonna be, like, an issue with all of 'em.
- JRJoe Rogan
But the Bush-Kerry one, like, pe- people really wanted to look into that one.
- NANarrator
Yeah, there was, like, stuff. There's some evidence that said-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Really? Right.
- NANarrator
... in, in Iowa is where it happened, with the voting machines and all that shit.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay, and then there's 2016, where the White House press secretary in 2016 wrote that they stole the election.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
She wrote it. And do you ever see her confronted on it?
- NANarrator
No. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You gotta see this. It's hilarious. 'Cause that guy Peter Doocy from Fox News, who always asks the best questions. Like, if you want that show to be entertaining, you want that guy to ask questions.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
'Cause he always catches 'em. And so he brings up a tweet of hers from 2016, where she says the election is stolen, while she's talking about how important it is not entertaining any ideas of the 2020 election being stolen. Like, what?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
What?
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
First of all, what, what kind of audit have you done where you're so confident that the election has been stolen or has not been stolen? How much work are you doing before you're making these assertions?
- NANarrator
Yeah, they-
- 1:15:27 – 1:21:25
Moon crystals and sci-fi trajectories: fusion headlines, Lazar’s element talk, and future civilization leaps
- JRJoe Rogan
As time goes on, I become more suspicious.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
(laughs) Me too.
- JRJoe Rogan
They app- apparently have found some sort of crystal on the moon, um, that China has found that they're going to use for nuclear fusion. Have you seen that?
- HKHans Kim
Yeah. Energy source of some kind.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Some kinda energy source, so they're going to mine the moon, probably with robots.
- HKHans Kim
What color is there ever gonna be now?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
That sounds crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
China discovered... What?
- HKHans Kim
It just sounds like a wild headline-
- JRJoe Rogan
I know.
- HKHans Kim
... that doesn't make any sense.
- JRJoe Rogan
"China Discovered a New Type of Moon Crystal That Might Lead to Limitless Energy." But if you really think about it, these people that we think come here from other planets, all you would need is a few of these inventions over the next thousand years, and we have some sort of technology that's beyond our wildest imagination that can conquer spacetime, like instantaneously, shoot you into other spar- spots in the universe like instantly. These kind of things that people figure out, like that plus a thousand years time is time travel.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That plus a thousand years time is the ability to go to anywhere in the universe.
- HKHans Kim
Yeah.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Instantly, like a website. Imagine if going to the universe was just like going to a website.
- HKHans Kim
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You just type in the location, and you're there. If you have Wi-Fi and high, high bandwidth-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... instantly.
- THTony Hinchcliffe
A little bit clunky at first. You need a cord attached to you at first.
- HKHans Kim
Yeah. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- THTony Hinchcliffe
And then eventually you go wireless.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's probably 100% how it's gonna go down. It's gonna be-
- THTony Hinchcliffe
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's gonna get to a point where you literally ch- just, just can just go to spots instantly.
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