Joe Rogan Experience #2149 - Sebastian Maniscalco

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (rock music)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. Hello, Sebastian.

   4. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:14

      Hello, Joe.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      (laughs)

   6. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:15

      (laughs) It's my first time here-

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      Yeah.

   8. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:20

      ... at the Austin property.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Yes.

   10. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:22

       Right? And (sighs) first of all, most comfortable chair I've ever sat in. I don't know.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       They're great, right?

   12. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:29

       I, I don't know. I feel like, uh, when I come here or when I come do this podcast, it's my third time on it, I feel like I'm in the future.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Mm. Mm.

   14. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:37

       All right? I feel like you got things that aren't even out yet, right? I just feel like this chair, the, the general public can't even have access to them yet.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       No, but they do. We've had these for years.

   16. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:48

       Well, whatever they are.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       These are great.

   18. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:50

       (laughs) They're beau-... Then, I feel like, I, I've never, I never drank water out of a-

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       Metal cup?

   20. SMSebastian Maniscalco0:58

       Yeah. And I feel like-

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:59

       We're sustainable here. (laughs)

   22. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:01

       (laughs) I feel like there's a reason for everything-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       Yeah.

   24. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:05

       ... that you do, right? Like-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       But there's definitely a reason for metal cups. You really shouldn't be drinking outta plastic.

   26. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:10

       Okay.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       Yeah.

   28. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:10

       Again...

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:11

       I mean, I do, I drink b- uh, plastic water bottles if someone gives me one, but I avoid them whenever I can.

   30. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:17

       Y- yeah. I mean, of course, we all, we all know, oh, the plastics, we're not-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Oh, those are great…

   1. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:00

      I've ever had a dog. It's a Labradoodle. And it's, uh-

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Oh, those are great dogs.

   3. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:04

      It's extremely intelligent.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:05

      Yeah.

   5. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:06

      But I don't think it likes me.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      What?

   7. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:08

      I don't know. He's looking at me like, um... Loves my wife, loves my kids.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      It doesn't like you.

   9. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:12

      I don't know. It just... it's, uh-

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:14

       Mm.

   11. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:15

       It's not as excited to see me as maybe my wife and kids.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:19

       Really? Mm.

   13. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:20

       And it's very perceptive on the, uh-

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:22

       Maybe he wants to meet the man. Is he the man of the house?

   15. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:25

       Uh, uh... well, he's becoming the man.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:27

       Does he have balls?

   17. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:28

       Uh, yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       Well, keep his balls.

   19. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:29

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       Don't, don't-

   21. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:31

       No. That's what, that's what, uh, one of... I think the dog trainer said, "Just keep e'm-"

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       Yeah, just-

   23. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:36

       "Keep his nuts intact."

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Yeah, the whole idea is you don't want unnecessary puppies. Right, I agree. Don't let your dog breed, but be with your fucking dog.

   25. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:44

       Mm-hmm.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       Like, but if you take your dog's balls off, now your dog doesn't have any testosterone anymore.

   27. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:48

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       And they develop hip problems and joint problems. They're, they're tired all the time. Just like a man, if you take his balls away, they become a eunuch. That's what you're doing to your dog.

   29. SMSebastian Maniscalco15:58

       Okay.

   30. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       And it's just... I've seen people do it and they're like, "Oh my Jesus, I wish I didn't do it." Like Andrew Huberman said that. He started giving his dog testosterone because he gave his dog... uh, uh, he got his dog fixed and then his dog was like listless all the time and so he's like... he felt terrible.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Okay. …

   1. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:00

      my feet at night and I put socks on.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      Okay.

   3. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:03

      You ever heard of that move?

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      No. Why do you do that?

   5. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:08

      Saw it online. Okay, let me try this. I'm a guy, I'm telling you right now, this is what I do.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      Okay.

   7. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:14

      I don't do research.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:15

      None?

   9. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:16

      None. I see that, I go, "Oh, this guy's spraying the magnesium on his feet, putting socks on. I'm gonna try that tonight." (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:24

       That's it?

   11. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:25

       That's it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:25

       No Google search?

   13. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:26

       No Google search. No nothing.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:28

       Okay.

   15. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:28

       It could be killing me for all I know.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:30

       I don't think it is.

   17. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:30

       But I'm doing magnesium feet sock-

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       Mm-hmm.

   19. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:33

       ... sleeps.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       Does it seem to have a change in the way you feel?

   21. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:37

       Again, haven't done it consistently enough-

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       (laughs)

   23. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:40

       ... to even find out if this is helping me. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       Right.

   25. SMSebastian Maniscalco30:43

       So I'm a guy that does, like, things kinda on the whim.... and there's really no consistency with it, right?

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       Let's look into it for you, 'cause the magnesium foot spray, that ... Uh, I'm, I'm ... Now, I'm interested. Like, what is the deal behind that?

   27. NANarrator30:57

       There's definitely multiple products being sold for ... as magnesium oil for your feet.

   28. SMSebastian Maniscalco31:01

       (laughs)

   29. NANarrator31:02

       I didn't see anything necessarily m- ... saying you need to keep socks on too.

   30. SMSebastian Maniscalco31:06

       Oh, I, I throw the socks on just because I don't-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   No, it wasn't even…

   1. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:00

      (laughs) That's not even, like... I thought it was something maybe sexual or-

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:01

      No, it wasn't even anything... That's why I'm nervous. Like, that's not even... That, I mean, that's not even anything crazy. That's nothing.

   3. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:09

      But your brand of humor, did you take that and did you ever do corporates and-

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      No. No.

   5. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:15

      That wasn't your style?

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:16

      No. No.

   7. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:17

      No?

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:17

      No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Everybody that I've ever known that's done a corporate, after they do them, they go, "Why did I do that?" Ron White just did one, he goes, "It was the worst fucking experience of my life. But they offered me a shitload of money and I said yes, then I kept saying no but they kept coming up with higher numbers. And eventually I said yes and it was fucking terrible." Tony Hinchcliffe just did one, he said it was "fucking terrible." They're always terrible. You like them?

   9. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:40

      Jo- I, I got, I got to be honest with you. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:42

       You like them?

   11. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:43

       I don't mind a corporate.

   12. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       Really?

   13. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:44

       I really don't mind a corporate, yeah. You have had those awful corporate gigs where, you know, but...

   14. JRJoe Rogan45:49

       What percentage of what... I just ran into Sandler, and he told me he ate dick at a corporate gig.

   15. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:53

       Yeah, I mean-

   16. JRJoe Rogan45:54

       San- Adam Sandler.

   17. SMSebastian Maniscalco45:55

       Yeah, they're not-

   18. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       They paid to see Adam Sandler, they knew Adam Sandler wasn't gonna be there and it still sucked.

   19. SMSebastian Maniscalco46:00

       It's the environment sometimes. It's like-

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:02

       Right.

   21. SMSebastian Maniscalco46:02

       ... y- you're walking into whatever. They just had their breakout meeting and then they're coming and then, oh, it's comedy.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       Right.

   23. SMSebastian Maniscalco46:09

       But it's just a different vibe. Uh-

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:12

       They're all scamming about their careers, they're all networking-

   25. SMSebastian Maniscalco46:15

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:15

       ... and fucking making their little backstabby moves.

   27. SMSebastian Maniscalco46:18

       But you call them-

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       You know?

   29. SMSebastian Maniscalco46:19

       ... you call them out on it, you know? You kind of like-

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:21

       Right.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:09:38

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      or while you're driving or while you're on the fucking treadmill and you're bored, you get to listen to some interesting shit. And, uh, I get a lot of messages from my friends that will tell me, "Oh, I was at the gym and I was listening to Shayne. It was hilarious. You guys were killing me." Like, that kind of stuff is ... or the, "Hey, there's this guy with that power plant, you, uh, Egyptian pyramid guy. You believe that? What do you think about that? I was in the gym." Yeah. "It was kind of freaking me out." So it gives you, like, this opportunity for entertainment that didn't exist before that's not ... it's not completely useless, right? Like, the scrolling for stuff and the, the guy catching marshmallows in his mouth, I'm not getting anything out of that. It's fun-

   2. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:00:35

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

      ... it's interesting, but it's kind of useless. But podcasts are not. You know, you, you do get to sit in on interesting conversations. You get to consider ideas that maybe you never considered before. So it wasn't available before and because of phones and because everybody ha- it's so easy to get a podcast, everybody has access to them.

   4. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:00:53

      Do you listen to podcasts?

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:54

      Yeah, all the time.

   6. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:00:56

      A- are you going to them for, uh, comedy or more informational podcasts? What's your, what's your forte?

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

      I listen to a lot of different podcasts. I listen to, uh, podcasts that are comedy podcasts. I listen to history podcasts. I listen to podcasts about science. I listen to podcasts about, you know, pretty much everything. Hunting podcasts, you know, which are very valuable. Hunting pod- because a l- hunting is, uh ... it seems easy. Like, the idea seems easy to people. It's not.

   8. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:01:23

      Mm-hmm.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:01:23

      It's really hard. And there's a lot of things that people learn along the way on, in their journey of hunting and they'll explain it to you, and so that if you encounter that, I'll say, "Oh, Remy Warren said when you do this, be careful of that." Now that's in my head, you know? So it's just, like, a cu- it's a way to ... you can accumulate information.

   10. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:01:43

       Yeah.Yeah, no, I, I, I, I listen to this Huberman.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:01:47

       Yeah, he's great.

   12. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:01:48

       And half of this stuff goes over my head, you know, like, there's-

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:01:51

       He's hard.

   14. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:01:51

       ... there's-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:01:51

       He's hard. You gotta make... Even when I do podcasts with him, I have to make notes. I make notes, and then I ask him afterwards and, you know. But he's very fact-based, and he's a great guy too.

   16. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:02

       I have-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:02:03

       Just-

   18. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:03

       I have to ask you this, talking about Huberman and you've-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:02:04

       Please.

   20. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:06

       ... interviewed him. Do you ever have somebody come on the show where you're nervous to have them? Like, "Oh, man, this is uh..."

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:02:12

       Oh, yeah, definitely.

   22. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:13

       G- like, who are you nervous to interview?

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:02:16

       Roger Penrose, uh, the Nobel Prize winner. He's a, a just, just a brilliant mind and older, you know. So I'm like, "How is this conversation gonna go? How do I engage him?" I don't want hi- him to, uh, feel like he's wasting his time here, so I wanna, I wanna be prepared-

   24. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:31

       Mm-hmm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:02:31

       ... have good questions. And yeah, I don't know how much of an experience those guys have on podcasts-

   26. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:36

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:02:36

       ... or how much of an experience they have at all with comedians, you know. I don't wanna fuck around too much. I just wanna just get the most out of him that I can get. Like, I just wanna try to, like, massage his wheels and, and ask the right questions and, and, and be curious about all the right things and be informed enough to, to know what the right questions are-

   28. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:02:55

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:02:55

       ... and what I'm actually... And also, very fascinated by his research. So I really, it's like having an opportunity to talk to such a brilliant person. You know, like 'cause he's done, uh, a lot of research in the Big Bang. He's got a very interesting thought about the Big Bang that he doesn't think the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe, and that's, uh, something that a lot of physicists are considering now. It's ver- it's very fascinating stuff, the idea that the universe is eternal or much older than we think it is.

   30. SMSebastian Maniscalco1:03:23

       Yeah, that's crazy.

Episode duration: 2:15:48