Joe Rogan Experience #2232 - Josh Brolin

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(drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…
1. NANarrator
  (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
2. The Joe Rogan Experience.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Hey, oh.
4. JBJosh Brolin
  Little Bo Peep, she needed the money.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
6. JBJosh Brolin
  Oh. How, remember how great that was, man?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah. When I first met him, it was like one of those weird things where, you know, you know, I mean, you've met a lot of famous people. Some of them you meet them and you're like, "Uh, fucking really you?"
8. JBJosh Brolin
  Bummer.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  It's weird.
10. JBJosh Brolin
  (laughs)
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, there's bummer too, yeah.
12. JBJosh Brolin
  Right, right, right.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  The bummer one's are... That sucks.
14. JBJosh Brolin
  That, that sucks.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  When you meet someone and they suck, and you're like, "Oh, no, you suck."
16. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Some people just should just not talk. They should only do what they do, act and sing.
18. JBJosh Brolin
  Mm-hmm.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Just stop talking.
20. JBJosh Brolin
  But then you get to know them. Like, I don't know, like, I'm pretty good at this now, where you don't, where you see people that you, like, looked up to, like Eddie Vedder, I had a pretty close relationship with Eddie Vedder.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, really?
22. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah. But I was drinking and then I would grab his balls and do shit like that.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
24. JBJosh Brolin
  And then it was like, "I don't want him around."
25. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
26. JBJosh Brolin
  "I don't want Josh around."
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
28. JBJosh Brolin
  "I don't like that anymore. I don't want my..." You know. And I think Sean Penn appreciated shit like that, like, "Wow, somebody has the balls."
29. JRJoe Rogan
  A little chaos?
30. JBJosh Brolin
  It's not even a little chaos, it's like somebody has the balls to, like, call me on my shit. Like not everybody is afraid of me.
15:00 – 30:00
Like just that alone.…
1. JBJosh Brolin
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Like just that alone.
3. JBJosh Brolin
  Just that alone.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Like you have to kind of keep people in the dark. You have to kind of like keep dancing and-
5. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  ... otherwise you're going to jail. (laughs)
7. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Like some- someone's gonna start investigating and they're gonna go, "Hey, what you did is not legal."
9. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  And you're gonna be in real trouble.
11. JBJosh Brolin
  How'd you... What's your relationship like with money?
12. JRJoe Rogan
  In what way?
13. JBJosh Brolin
  Just in what... You- you've made a certain amount of money for a long time.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't think about it.
15. JBJosh Brolin
  You don't think about it?
16. JRJoe Rogan
  I like... No, no, what I like about money is to not think about it. That's what I like.
17. JBJosh Brolin
  Do you like spending it?
18. JRJoe Rogan
  I like buying stuff.
19. JBJosh Brolin
  Me too.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  I have a nice car. Drove here.
21. JBJosh Brolin
  Do-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  I drove a '69, uh, Camaro once.
23. JBJosh Brolin
  See, but that's different.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  I like that. Yeah, I like that.
25. JBJosh Brolin
  That's fucking different.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. JBJosh Brolin
  That's character.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  I like fun stuff, but-
29. JBJosh Brolin
  Fun stuff.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  ... for the most part, I'm not interested in it like as a goal. You know, I just... I l- uh, what I like about money is not having to think about it.
30:00 – 45:00
Right. …
1. JBJosh Brolin
  your children-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
3. JBJosh Brolin
  ... with a potential poison-
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
5. JBJosh Brolin
  ... because everybody is different. If I take-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
7. JBJosh Brolin
  ... a bong hit, I might end up under the table.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
9. JBJosh Brolin
  If you take a bong hit, you actually may feel smarter and clearer. I remember Dean Potter, who was a climber, and he was like, "I stopped smoking pot for four months, but when I started smoking pot, I could feel the hold."
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
11. JBJosh Brolin
  "At 2,000 feet."
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah.
13. JBJosh Brolin
  "Sheer cliff, nothing underneath, no ropes, but I felt more confident." And for me, I go, "If I took a bong hit up there, I could be four feet up and be freaking out."
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Right. It's different for everybody.
15. JBJosh Brolin
  It's... 'Cause everybody has different brains, it's like psycho-pharmaceuticals.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
17. JBJosh Brolin
  Let's just give them all lithium, or let's give them all that. You have to experiment and the, the, the idea-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
19. JBJosh Brolin
  ... of experimenting with that shit is super scary.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  It is. It is super scary. And it's also super scary when you're not liable for any of the repercussions and you're just pushing it on people because you're a corporation.
21. JBJosh Brolin
  (clears throat)
22. JRJoe Rogan
  And corporations just wanna make money. Their, their thing is just, is just unlimited growth. They just have a, they have an obligation to their shareholders every...... quarter, they wanna make more money, and they just keep ramping it up.
23. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, we're doing really well this year.
25. JBJosh Brolin
  I remember Seinfeld, Seinfeld talking about that. He was like, "I remember back in the '70s and comedy, you know, green rooms and all that, and we'd all be fucking with each other. And it had, never had anything to do with money because nobody was really making money, like money, money, like, tons of money."
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
27. JBJosh Brolin
  It was just about, "What set are you gonna do?"
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
29. JBJosh Brolin
  "What are you trying out?"
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
45:00 – 1:00:00
That guy was fucking…
1. NANarrator
2. JRJoe Rogan
  That guy was fucking amazing.
3. JBJosh Brolin
  It's great. It's great. It's fucking amazing. What do you love about his writing, and what type ... Like fear and loathing?
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, I was just reading, uh, Hell's Angels recently actually. Re- reading it.
5. JBJosh Brolin
  That's the book that I go back to most.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well, that's really him when he was starting, right? That was the beginning of this sort of Gonzo journalism stuff, because he was kind of mixing in fiction with, uh, reality. That's one of the things that pissed off the Hell's Angels-
7. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  ... is that he took a lot of liberties with the truth to try to, like, paint a picture.
9. JBJosh Brolin
  Right, which was his deal-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
11. JBJosh Brolin
  ... which was his style later on, is like-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
13. JBJosh Brolin
  ... exaggerating and kind of romancing his own life.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, he was out of his fucking mind. I mean-
15. JBJosh Brolin
  Out of his mind, but he was also one of the most brilliant technical writers that ever was.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
17. JBJosh Brolin
  And that's what, that's what's forgotten. Like, even people talk about Kerouac. And Kerouac was like, you know, he wrote On The Road, and he was on the road, and it was the Hunter S. Thompson type of thing. And you're like, "You know he edited On The Road for seven years?"
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, wow.
19. JBJosh Brolin
  And nobody knows that because Kerouac kind of like, uh, you know ... He put forth this thing of, like, first thought, best thought, don't edit-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
21. JBJosh Brolin
  Don't ... It was, again, a whole-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  That's bullshit.
23. JBJosh Brolin
  Like, it's total horse shit.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, wow.
25. JBJosh Brolin
  That's why I say it goes back to writers. It's a labor.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. JBJosh Brolin
  You sit down and you write all the fucking time.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  My friend Ari-
29. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  ... on his, uh, laptop, he's got a little piece of paper above the keyboard that says, "The first draft of everything is shit."
1:00:00 – 1:06:40
Well, I mean, if…
1. JRJoe Rogan
  They still do fusions.
2. JBJosh Brolin
  Well, I mean, if it's a, if it's a massive break or something like that, maybe.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, I don't recommend it. There's other ways you can heal bulging discs, and one of them's there's uh, a process called Regenakene. And Regenakene is, uh, I had that done in LA.
4. JBJosh Brolin
  Mm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  In Santa Monica. They used to do it in Germany. You used to have to go to Germany to do it, and like Kobe Bryant went over there and Peyton Manning went over there.
6. JBJosh Brolin
  Mm-hmm.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  And what they do is they take your blood out, and it's like platelet rich plasma.
8. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah, which-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  But it's a more advanced-
10. JBJosh Brolin
  PRP? Right. Yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a more advanced version of it.
12. JBJosh Brolin
  Mm-hmm.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  And they spin your blood in this centrifuge and they add some stuff to it and it turns it into like one of the most potent anti-inflammatories. And then what they do is you lie down there and they inject it in your back.
14. JBJosh Brolin
  Hm.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  They have like these little needles. I think there's an Instagram post of me getting it done on my lower back. And so-
16. JBJosh Brolin
  Did you have a slipped disc in your lower back?
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Bulging.
18. JBJosh Brolin
  Bulging.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, it's, it's essentially a bulging disc, but it can go back.
20. JBJosh Brolin
  What did-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Bulging discs can go back.
22. JBJosh Brolin
  Well, that was my experience.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  And you al- you also have to have, uh, traction, like, uh, decompression.
24. JBJosh Brolin
  Yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  So there's a bunch... There it is. So that's my back.
26. JBJosh Brolin
  I had that done.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  So they take that and they stick all that shit, but all that-
28. JBJosh Brolin
  And they drill that, don't they?
29. JRJoe Rogan
  They just put holes-
30. JBJosh Brolin
  That's a dril-

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