Joe Rogan Experience #2161 - Tony Hinchcliffe

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) What's it like to be king of the world, Tony Hinchcliffe?

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      (laughs)

   5. THTony Hinchcliffe0:17

      (laughs) I got to talk some shit.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:19

      You're killing it, man. It's exciting. It's an exciting time for you.

   7. THTony Hinchcliffe0:24

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:25

      I hope you're enjoying it.

   9. THTony Hinchcliffe0:26

      (laughs) Oh, I'm having a blast.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Is it weird? Does it feel weird?

   11. THTony Hinchcliffe0:29

       (inhales deeply) Kind of, 'cause I wasn't expecting, like, a big, uh, a big m- moment, or, like, a different boom, a different outside thing, 'cause I'm just content right here.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Right.

   13. THTony Hinchcliffe0:39

       Chillin'. I had my Kill Tony stuff, and all of our stuff, and... But yeah, it's awesome.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       (laughs)

   15. THTony Hinchcliffe0:47

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       It's so interesting to watch. It was funny that Brian Simpson said that he was with you at the store, and he said he wa- he goes, "I watched Tony Hinchcliffe become real famous in real time."

   17. THTony Hinchcliffe0:57

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       Like, you could see, like, with the first show, when you're warming up, getting ready for the roast, then after the roast-

   19. THTony Hinchcliffe1:03

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       ... people just going crazy.

   21. THTony Hinchcliffe1:04

       Yeah. It was weird. I got bumped by another comedian my first night at the store, and then I was the special guest super treat the rest of the week. Like, it was like I was the secret weapon, kind of. So I was unbumpable.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       (laughs) Well, you should be bumped anyway.

   23. THTony Hinchcliffe1:21

       Right.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:21

       Bumping is horse shit.

   25. THTony Hinchcliffe1:23

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:23

       Bumping is a thing that it- it's b- it was around the store back in the old days, and they shoulda got rid of it a long time ago. You know, it's one thing if, like, some superstar, Dave Chappelle type, Chris Rock character wants to pop in, Louis CK's in town-

   27. THTony Hinchcliffe1:36

       Right.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:36

       ... and they wanna do 15 minutes, you know? That's all great. But what, what used to happen at the store is, you would get these comedians that were just doing it for an ego flex.

   29. THTony Hinchcliffe1:46

       Mm-hmm.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:47

       They were just doing it because they wanted to be able to bump other folks on the roster, and then they would do, like, a fucking 45-minute set and ruin the timeline of the show. Everybody's supposed to do 15 minutes. There's, like, fucking 16 people on the show. It's a long-ass show. What, how many people are on? Like, uh...
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. That's why I…

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      out, like, how to be who you are when you really like each other. Like, remember in the beginning? Isn't that fun? You appreciated each other? Figure out how to recapture that, 'cause that's still the same person. Just people get sick of each other. You ever get sick of a guy you work with and you quit the job and you're like, "I fucking miss that dude." You know, they, they become part of your little community.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe15:19

      Yeah. That's why I k- I keep working with Red Band.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      (laughs)

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe15:23

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:24

      I love that dude. He's a character. There's only one of those dudes.

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe15:27

      Mm-hmm.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:28

      You see his new tattoo?

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe15:30

      Yeah, he showed everybody. By the end of the night, I was going around going, "Hey, uh, did you see Red Band's new tattoo? Did you see Red..." 'Cause he was sh- just showing everyone wasted last night.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:39

      (laughs)

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe15:39

       We had another banger of an episode. It's a miracle that I'm awake right now.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:42

       Who was the guest?

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe15:43

       It was Luis J. Gomez and Sal Vulcano.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Oh, nice. Sal was on the podcast last week.

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe15:47

       He's-

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       He's great.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe15:48

       It was great.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       He's a good dude, man. He's fun.

   18. THTony Hinchcliffe15:51

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Real... Fucking super nice guy.

   20. THTony Hinchcliffe15:53

       Yep. The bucket was the story, though. We got some great new comedians out. A new golden Ticket winner, as of last night.

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:59

       I have to see Luis do standup. I haven't seen him in a while. I heard he's killing it. I heard he's doing really well. Duncan saw him at the Creek and he said, "Dude, he was so funny. He was really laughing hard." He goes, "I was really impressed." I'm like-

   22. THTony Hinchcliffe16:11

       He had to do-

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       ... "That's great."

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe16:12

       There was, uh... I can't remember who was headlining this weekend, but he was doing a clean set 'cause he's doing a special-

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       It was Myq, Myq Vecchione.

   26. THTony Hinchcliffe16:21

       That's right. And he's doing a clean hour 'cause, uh... I don't know why.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:26

       Why? Is Myq doing a clean hour?

   28. THTony Hinchcliffe16:27

       Yeah. But... So he asked Luis to be clean, and I... And me and Matt were in the green room and we're like, "Wait, Luis is up, and he's supposed to be clean. Let's see what he's doing."

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:38

       (laughs)

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe16:38

       The first thing we hear is, like, "Nice balls, you shithead."
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Oh, Jerry's d- Jerry's…

   1. THTony Hinchcliffe30:01

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      Oh, Jerry's d- Jerry's went under, the Studio City one went under too. Oh God.

   3. THTony Hinchcliffe30:05

      Mm-hmm.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:05

      They closed 'em all. The ... Are they all done?

   5. NANarrator30:07

      Mm-hmm.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      Yeah. Goddammit.

   7. THTony Hinchcliffe30:10

      Yeah, we were stuck going to Norm's when I was there a few weeks ago.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      How's Norm's?

   9. THTony Hinchcliffe30:14

      Eh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:15

       (laughs)

   11. THTony Hinchcliffe30:16

       (laughs) It does. If, if you're hungry enough to go to Norm's at 3:00 or 4:00 AM, then it's just fine.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:21

       My favorite is Canter's.

   13. THTony Hinchcliffe30:23

       Yeah, Canter's.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:23

       Can- Canter's is the shit.

   15. THTony Hinchcliffe30:24

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:24

       That is the quintessential Jewish deli.

   17. THTony Hinchcliffe30:27

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:27

       Like, their reuben, their pastrami reuben ...

   19. THTony Hinchcliffe30:29

       Mm-hmm.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:30

       ... off the charts.

   21. THTony Hinchcliffe30:31

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       Off the charts. They have the best pastrami in the city.

   23. THTony Hinchcliffe30:34

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       As, as far as I've had. Like, Jerry's was really good. Canter's is one level above it.

   25. THTony Hinchcliffe30:39

       Totally.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:40

       One level. You can make me feel the cholesterol-

   27. THTony Hinchcliffe30:42

       Ugh.

   28. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       ... like right in your veins.

   29. THTony Hinchcliffe30:45

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       And it's just the sauerkraut and the fucking-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      So, he made a lot of money.

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe45:02

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      Maybe he sold a book.

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe45:04

      Yep.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Hm. Maybe it was legit.

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe45:07

      Yeah, I saw something of him on my Twitter feed, him just playing victim.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:12

      Mm-hmm. You see like the guy behind him?

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe45:15

      Uh-uh.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:16

      He, this is a fucking amazing video. This guy behind him when Fauci's talking about the death threats, the other guy's like...

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe45:22

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:23

       The guy's making this face. Have you seen it, Jamie? I'll send it to you. It's hilarious. The dude's hilarious.

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe45:29

       But any time anybody does that, in my mind, the stuff that-

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:32

       Playing victim?

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe45:33

       Yeah, the stuff that I've been through, like, and seen, 'cause I had a lot of death threats during quite a few phases of my, uh, my jokes being out there. (laughs) That's hilarious.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:46

       There it is. That's it. Give me the volume.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe45:49

       I mean, it's such a joke. You probably- you-

   17. GUGuest45:51

       ... of two individuals and credible death threats means someone who clearly was on their way to kill me. Um, and it's required my having, uh, protective services, uh, essentially all the time. Uh, it is very troublesome to me. Um, it is much more troublesome-

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       (laughs)

   19. GUGuest46:11

       ... because they've involved my wife and my three daughters.

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       At this moment, how do you feel? Keep your mic on.

   21. GUGuest46:22

       Terrible.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:24

       Do you continue to receive threats today?

   23. GUGuest46:27

       Yes, I do. Every time someone gets up...

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe46:30

       Yeah. Well...

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:30

       Well, that was the other thing. They blame podcasters.

   26. THTony Hinchcliffe46:33

       Right.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:33

       They blame podcasters, and they said that we're responsible for 200 to 300,000 deaths.

   28. THTony Hinchcliffe46:38

       Yeah. That makes total sense.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:41

       Hey, man, you made it.

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe46:42

       Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:00

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      They gotta make drugs legal, as horrible as that sounds. But that's the only way. They should just make them legal, tax the shit out of them, and use the money for treatment centers and education.

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:13

      And testing.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:14

      Yeah, and, and testing. And you know-

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:16

      You know that, you know that it's illegal to have a, to, to, it's illegal to have or to give away fentanyl test strips in the state of Texas?

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

      It's illegal?

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:29

      Illegal. 'Cause-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

      Can you sell them?

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:32

       Me and my buddy are starting a water company. Here's how I know about this. Canned water, right? And the plan was to get them into all the bars in the city. Our idea was to literally just attach a, a 30¢, you know, fentanyl test strip and then we found out we can't do that. You can't give away fentanyl test strips. You can't...

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       ... can't give 'em away.

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe1:00:57

       You can't even order them in Texas.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:59

       Can you sell them?

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:00

       Uh, if you go to Amazon, you can get fentanyl test strips in specific states.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       Whoa.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:05

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       Why would they stop test strips?

   18. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:08

       (sighs) I don't know.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

       Th- you think it's encouraging people to do coke? Is that what that is?

   20. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:13

       I have no idea.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       That doesn't make any sense.

   22. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:15

       I know. It's very bizarre.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:19

       There's so many dumbass fucking laws.

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:21

       Yep.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:22

       'Cause there's so many goofy people on both the left and the right. Texas House passes bill decriminalizing fen- fentanyl s- test strips.

   26. GUGuest1:01:28

       Or maybe that's if you have 'em, I guess.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:30

       Oh, okay. Bill would take fentanyl test strips off the state's drug paraphernalia list, meaning it would no longer be a crime to carry them.

   28. GUGuest1:01:37

       Now it's probably hard to buy 'em.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:39

       Yeah. Maybe you just can't give 'em out?

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe1:01:41

       Yeah, which is crazy.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:17:15

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:15:00

      Get on LinkedIn and fucking try to get a new job? Start sending out your resume?

   2. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:04

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:15:04

      "I worked for the worst administration ever." (laughs)

   4. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:07

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:15:08

      (laughs) I was, I was one of the people. You know? I mean, the one thing you can do is get a job as, like, a political person, on like TV. You'll get one of those jobs. Like if you're a White House press secretary. You know? And there's like Huckabee, isn't she like a governor now?

   6. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:23

      Yeah. I think Arkansas or something.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:15:25

      That's a good one to start with. Want to run the world? Start with Arkansas.

   8. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:30

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:15:30

      Mm.

   10. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:31

       I was talking to-

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:15:32

       How much fucking...

   12. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:33

       ... Tulsi Gabbard the other night, and I went off on a rant to her about uh, um, mental health asylums.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:15:41

       Hm.

   14. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:42

       I'm like, that is... These people are everywhere on the streets now.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:15:47

       Yeah.

   16. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:47

       It's crazy people. And the- they, I mean, it's not a great thing to have them out. It's not good for them, and it's not good for everyone else.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:15:58

       No, terrible.

   18. THTony Hinchcliffe1:15:58

       They're used to be actual places. And the money that it would cost, I mean that's a cost that people would get behind.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:16:05

       Yeah.

   20. THTony Hinchcliffe1:16:06

       The things that we would pay for, instead of the things that we are paying for, insane.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:16:11

       I think that happened during the Reagan administration. I think they changed, like what it means to be a mentally ill person. They let a bunch of people out. Is that true?

   22. NANarrator1:16:20

       Mm-hmm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:16:21

       Yeah.

   24. THTony Hinchcliffe1:16:22

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:16:22

       Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was during the Re- You know, Reagan was one of those Republicans that made people want to be a Democrat (laughs) .

   26. THTony Hinchcliffe1:16:28

       Oh, you know who, you know who I heard actually was behind it? Was JFK, 'cause he didn't like what happened to his sister.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:16:34

       How so?

   28. THTony Hinchcliffe1:16:36

       They gave his sister the lobotomy.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:16:38

       Oh.

   30. THTony Hinchcliffe1:16:39

       Yeah. And he turned against mental health institutions. I can't remember if it was...

Episode duration: 2:44:17