EVERY SPOKEN WORD
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(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…
- ACAdam Curry
(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) That's bullshit. I never got it-
- ACAdam Curry
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... 'til this year. But they, that's what they say.
- ACAdam Curry
That's what they say. You get it within a couple years you get it, and then, all of a sudden, you got it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't know who the fuck they are, but it's not bad.
- ACAdam Curry
I could hear it the other day. I, I heard it...
- JRJoe Rogan
Stuffiness?
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
I heard Joe moaning.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I had it for, like, four days, I've had stuffiness.
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
But the thing is, like, when I work out, I feel great. The way I can really tell, like, the way I judge whether or not I should even work out is when I get-
- ACAdam Curry
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... in the sauna, in the cold plunge. If I feel tired and weak when I'm in there-
- ACAdam Curry
Then you know.
- JRJoe Rogan
... then I know something's going on.
- ACAdam Curry
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's not as simple as allergies.
- ACAdam Curry
So I thought for 10 years I had the Austin allergy. For 10 years. It was so bad. I'd go out to dinner. Even when we moved out to Fredericksburg. We'd come into Austin. I thought it was Austin. Uh, ser-, I was like, "Ah, Austin has given me this." Uh, we'd go out to dinner, start eating, and then, oh, my nose, my eyes, everything just... And I have to always excuse myself, always have to have tissues in my back pocket. Then I got my teeth done, which we talked about, I think-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ACAdam Curry
... the last time I was here. And, uh, um, Maverick, my, uh, periodontist, he did one of these 360 MRIs. He says, "You know, man, you've got some low level infection here, and, uh, that could be responsible for a whole bunch of stuff." Now, I'd had hearing aids for five years, so when he did the initial extraction, uh, I think I took one or two shows off. And then I went back in the studio, put my headphones on, I'm like, "Whoa." I thought I'd hit something, uh, you know, a volume knob or something. Came back because-
- JRJoe Rogan
Your hearing came back?
- ACAdam Curry
... because this was infected, and it was basically clogging up my sinuses and that was affecting the, the, the hearing.
- JRJoe Rogan
Jesus.
- ACAdam Curry
(laughs) Yeah. And-
- 15:00 – 30:00
Yeah. …
- ACAdam Curry
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
They're in trouble.
- JRJoe Rogan
Now they have like a God-fearing-
- ACAdam Curry
Jesus is making a comeback, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
They're in trouble there.
- JRJoe Rogan
You gotta hide now. Go back into the basement-
- ACAdam Curry
And-
- JRJoe Rogan
... of Comet Pan- Pizza.
- ACAdam Curry
It's... (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Place that doesn't have a basement, by the way.
- ACAdam Curry
We're, we're reliably informed. Um, and I hadn't really watched network television a lot, and there's a lot of commercial breaks, but the first 10 all had a pharmaceutical product, which I'd never heard of, a name I can't remember, and side effects literally included death. I'm like, "What is going on with this?"
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- ACAdam Curry
I'm like, "Ask your doctor." I'm like, "Do I have this? Should I have this? Do I want this? I mean, is this going on with me?" And people are all happy in the commercials. They're like, "Look, my skin looks good, and I'm happy."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
"And I have a beautiful family." It's almost like we used to, you know, sell cars. Now they're just selling the pharmaceuticals.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that will be an interesting thing if RFK Jr. gets in place. If RFK Jr. gets in place and they stop this-
- ACAdam Curry
Advertising.
- JRJoe Rogan
... advertising on... We are one of two countries on Earth that allows-
- ACAdam Curry
New Zealand.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, New Zealand, and New Zealand's far more restrictive than us. We should be really restrictive about this because advertising works. You know? And there's advertising that doesn't bother me at all, like Chevrolet Corvette. Vroom, vroom. Uh, I don't want one of those.
- ACAdam Curry
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, it's okay.
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's fine. But when it can give you bloody diarrhea and suicidal ideology-
- ACAdam Curry
Anal leakage. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, and you, you're just fucked up in the head and you're depressed-
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and like you don't know why but now your zits are gone. Like, hey.
- 30:00 – 45:00
(clears throat) …
- JRJoe Rogan
hiding this-
- ACAdam Curry
(clears throat)
- JRJoe Rogan
... because, because of the sweeping Schedule I Drug Act of 1970 that was put in place directly by Nixon to go after his political opponents. It was directly put in place to demonize the anti-war movement and demonize the Civil Rights Party and the Black Panthers and anybody who was a problem with the government. So they just said, "Let's just make all these things that these people are taking on a regular basis completely illegal." Not only just... Schedule I, like with no medical use whatsoever, things that people have been using for thousands and thousands of years. And it's all the same shit. It's all psyops.
- ACAdam Curry
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
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- ACAdam Curry
Well, the number one thing that happened around that time, of course, during Kennedy, is we realized that television was a big force. Television and radio-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah. They got that handsome guy.
- ACAdam Curry
... and, and they got ha- w- he... And if you listen to some of the debates, like, uh, um, you know-
- JRJoe Rogan
(sniffs)
- ACAdam Curry
... it s- would sound on the radio like Nixon did better. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's amazing (clears throat) how this worked between radio and television, but then newspapers, uh, we know the intelligence agencies were all writing stories. I mean, you look at CNN, you still see ex, ex-CIA guy shows up. Uh, a little stor-... When I saw you sitting at the inauguration, and I think I texted you, I'm like, "Dude, I can't believe it. I see you sitting there." You were texting me American flag emojis-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ACAdam Curry
... and stuff, like, and then you w- you and, uh, and Trump, I'm like, "Oh, look at him, he's in a tuxedo." And I thought... (stutters) So my li-... In 1983, um, I was still a teenager and, um, I, I grew up in Amsterdam, socialist country, the airwaves were controlled by the government. It was horrible st-... It was almost like Russia. Your phone was a gray phone and that was your phone. You couldn't get a different phone. You could... It was illegal to unplug it from the wall. And I was doing pirate radio at a place called Radio Decibel in Amsterdam and we were playing-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. And klis-... You were Christian Slater.
- ACAdam Curry
I- in a way. In a way.
- JRJoe Rogan
You remember that movie? (laughs)
- ACAdam Curry
In, in a w-... Oh, yeah. Yeah. What was that cal-... What was that movie called? Uh...
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs) I don't remem-
- ACAdam Curry
Pire-... Uh, maybe it was called Pirate Radio?
- JRJoe Rogan
But it was crazy. They were trying to arrest him. Remember?
- ACAdam Curry
Well, so we all got arrested several times. And we were playing 12-inch imports from your Chicago warehouse.
- JRJoe Rogan
You got arrested several times-
- ACAdam Curry
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... for doing pirate radio?
- ACAdam Curry
Oh, oh, they would always get... They would always come and arrest us.
- JRJoe Rogan
How did they find you?
- ACAdam Curry
We, we literally had the station name on the door.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ACAdam Curry
People would come around. We'd be smoking weed or hanging out. You know, we weren't making any money. We were basically- (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ACAdam Curry
... paying to do it. You know, and we had this huge antenna on the roof.
- 45:00 – 1:00:00
(laughs) …
- JRJoe Rogan
fucking love it. It's, it's, fucking airport's a breeze."
- ACAdam Curry
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"No traffic. Everyone's nice. It's the middle of the country." Oh, fuck.
- ACAdam Curry
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And then the pandemic happened, and it just-
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... it was like it all pulled me to the spot. And then it had to be the Spotify thing, and then it had to be The Comedy Store shutting down for a year.
- ACAdam Curry
Yup, yup.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then it had to be all The Comedy Store employees that I loved were all unemployed. And so then it was like, "Okay, let's fucking do this."
- ACAdam Curry
Exactly what I'm seeing. I'm seeing that with every... That's why I started in 1983. I'm like, "I see where the path was."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, you see the path.
- ACAdam Curry
I've always been doing, been always been doing this stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's the thing about-
- ACAdam Curry
And it makes so much sense.
- JRJoe Rogan
... podcasting to me too. It's, it was oddly compelling. Like, it didn't make any sense. I was making no money and I was busy.
- ACAdam Curry
It was costing you money-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
... probably, and bandwidth and stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was definitely costing me some money.
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I had young kids, and it was just like, "Why am I, why am I spending my time doing this when I should be spending my time maybe doing something to make more money?"
- ACAdam Curry
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Because especially back then, (sniffs) it was like I, I wasn't doing Fear Factor anymore, so I wasn't really making the kind of money that I was making when I was on television, so I had to tour a lot. So I was doing standup, and I was doing, like, way too many dates with the UFC. The UFC, although I love it to death, it's w- I mean, that's the only job-job I still have.
- ACAdam Curry
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
I still work for somebody.
- ACAdam Curry
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's 'cause I've been there for so long, but it was like 22 dates a year. It's like, "Fuck."
- ACAdam Curry
Did they send you a W9?
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, I don't know.
- ACAdam Curry
(laughs)
- 1:00:00 – 1:06:44
Great interview, by the…
- JRJoe Rogan
always done it. So that's how I'm gonna always do it. Do I want... and i- if it happens to be Mel Gibson, you know, and he- happened-
- ACAdam Curry
Great interview, by the way.
- JRJoe Rogan
He was great.
- ACAdam Curry
By the way. He was f- I mean, I'm like, that's, for me, he's always Mad Max. When I was a kid-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
... you know, we, we'd play hooky from school. We'd go back. We'd, and someone would have a VHS, no a Betamax, he had a Betamax-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
And like, we're watching Mad Max and then Diana Ross in the round. I mean that (laughs) -
- JRJoe Rogan
Diana Ross in the round.
- ACAdam Curry
We love Diana Ross. You're like, "Oh, she's so awesome." But that Mad Max, man, that original. And he's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ACAdam Curry
... standing there with his boots in the desert in, at the beginning. It was just-
- JRJoe Rogan
Great fucking movie.
- ACAdam Curry
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
He had a bunch of bangers. But he just, he's an interesting-
- ACAdam Curry
There he is.
- JRJoe Rogan
... guy. You know.
- ACAdam Curry
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that-
- ACAdam Curry
And-
- JRJoe Rogan
... blower on top of the, the engine. I mean, the whole thing was just f- we just loved that. That was a fun movie.
- ACAdam Curry
And then later Lethal Weapon.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ACAdam Curry
And then, and I didn't realize, 'cause I'd seen The Passion, uh, which is, you know, a- as a, as a Jesus freak myself, was like, that was like, whoa, that was, yeah, a heavy movie to watch. And when he said, I didn't realize that, I fe- ah, the whole thing was in Aramaic.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- ACAdam Curry
And it was the subtitles that you were basically reading the subtitles.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ACAdam Curry
And his theory that it, you know, it, it penetrates you differently, the story, I think is so spot on.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think so too. I mean the-
- ACAdam Curry
Really, really interesting.
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