The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #2296 - Big Jay Oakerson
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Big Jay’s new piercings and the “fighting age” look
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- NANarrator
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music)
- JRJoe Rogan
Big J.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... over here, buddy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Rock and roll. What's happening?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Hell yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You went with the three nose rings now. You're getting crazy.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah. It's getting carried away. I went to go... I had a cold, and I think I blew my nose, one of them out.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
So then I went to go get it re-put back in, and then I was like, "Throw another one in there while you're at it."
- JRJoe Rogan
Fuck it.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Um, just me fighting age, I think.
- JRJoe Rogan
Is that what it is?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
There's something weird when you're fighting age. Like, you know you're doing it, but you can't help it. (laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Like, when people make fun of m- just the way I dress or whatever, coloring my hair, my piercings, t- And they're always like, it's like, "Is it gonna change at some point?" And I am hitting an age where I'm like, I can't just do a (laughs) hard shift one day. But it is funny to think, like, I can't see myself at 65-
- JRJoe Rogan
With painted nails.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... doing some of this stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Why not? Who gives a shit?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
You can't, but it's also like, I feel if I saw it, I'd have a million and one jokes about it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But it's still, at the end of the day, you're like... You know, I'd walk out, I'd go, "Oh, I forgot my pocket scarf. I gotta go back upstairs."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs) I forgot my Gouachemals.
- JRJoe Rogan
As long as you're still funny, you can pull it off. But when you're bombing with red hair and three nose rings-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Shit. That's true.
- JRJoe Rogan
... it becomes an issue.
- 1:26 – 2:46
Early standup “costumes” and the sitcom-era comedy mindset
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
That's why I think when I first started, I tried to blend in, whatever I was. I started in that black circuit, so like, I had so much Fubu shit on.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, there you go.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And just like, yeah, jerseys and stuff, so I definitely played it up. The funniest was having a big silver chain with a cross that I'm Jewish. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But I just really was like, "I think they'll like me more if I have a cross."
- JRJoe Rogan
When I first started, I thought you had to dress like those guys on Evening at the Improv, so I got a blazer-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... and I rolled the sleeves up. And I had like a wacky T-shirt that I wore.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs) The costume?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, the costume. They have a button on your blazer, some s- wacky button.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I watched all those shows growing up, Evening at the Improv, Caroline's Comedy Hour. It, the evolution of comedy is insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's pretty insane. Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
The evolution of, just like the fact that, uh, these guys... I've watched, uh, like We'll Always Laugh and go back, you know. Check out Bill Kirchenbauer. Do you know that? That was the guy-
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't remember him.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... he played, uh, he was the coach on a sitcom. He had a sitcom called Just the Ten of Us, where he had like eight kids-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... or something, and he was like a coach. It was a spinoff show of some sort. But he was just like a, a zany comic. You know, he just would go on stage, and he was just loud and weird and d- Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah. I remember him.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But these were the guys who made the rounds.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Uh, monologists.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Well, it's almost like their act just got them to a sitcom, like that was a, a real strategy back then. You had an act that could get you to a sitcom. That's all everybody wanted.
- 2:46 – 3:45
Montreal New Faces: forced polish, pressure rituals, and anticlimactic outcomes
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
When I did New Faces at Montreal, uh, (laughs) my manager, at the time terrible, uh, just gave me... I mean, he was just pushing the old advice. He was like, everything was like, "Don't be yourself at all." Like, "Write, write a set that's gonna be what's your sitcom, basically, and, uh, and dress, uh, you know, a certain kind of a... Dress like for stage." And I don't know what I was... I didn't know how to like, what he meant in nice clothes, so I had like black loafers and straight-leg, like, dark blue dungarees.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs) And like a, and like a short-sleeve, button-down shirt.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm just picturing you with black loafers on.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And, and, and a, and a short-sleeve, like blue, button-down shirt. It looked ridiculous.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And it was so dramatic. That's also funny too, doing it as long as I have now. 27 years, I think I'm doing it. Like, the, the hilarious, like, fake emotion you put into things. I remember having... My daughter was a baby when I did New Faces, and talking to the picture backstage (laughs) before I went on stage, like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, wow.
- 3:45 – 4:41
MTV2 talking-head gigs, censorship lines, and the Fiona Apple joke that stuck
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... "All right, we're gonna go do it," and then had a mediocre set. And all I got from New Faces was like a MTV2 Talking Head-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... one-off. Like, "What Were They Thinking?"
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Or something. Or, "What Were They Wearing? MTV2 Presents."
- JRJoe Rogan
You remember those things?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Where you would just start talking shit about people?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
That's it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, and they would, they'd just clip it up.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They took, uh, they wouldn't... I did a, a couple of them. They didn't air most of it. Uh, and the one I always remember, because when I would go back to MTV for anything, they would always be like, "We still pass the, like the segment around of you doing the What Were They Thinking?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And it was Fiona Apple on an award show years ago. To accept her award, she got there and started quoting. She said, "The great Maya Angelou," or something.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And I was like, "Maya Angelou?" I was like, "What is she talking about Maya Angelou for?" They're, "Look, we all loved her as Wheezy Jefferson, and I enjoyed her pancake syrup, but..."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And then they were like, "Yo." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Like, "You can't call Maya Angelou Aunt Jemima." I'm like, "But I'm kidding."
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'm like, "But I'm kidding, though. I know who Maya Angelou is."
- 4:41 – 6:21
Aunt Jemima, brand cleanups, and seeing the actual old racist ad copy
- JRJoe Rogan
Wasn't it funny that they, they took Aunt Jemima off of Aunt Jemima?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
But that was a actual lady who was an entrepreneur.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Wait, right, yeah, and they just could get rid of it because no one's paying attention to why?
- JRJoe Rogan
No.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They just go-
- JRJoe Rogan
They, they just decided it was racist.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
"Black people don't dress like that anymore."
- JRJoe Rogan
They just decided that Aunt Jemima was racist.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Uncle Ben?
- JRJoe Rogan
But, uh, but that's true, right? I mean, this, this is not a TikTok myth, is it? Make sure that's true.
- NANarrator
Brought to you by-
- JRJoe Rogan
Am I, I might've, uh, I got, my, might've got fooled by TikTok.
- NANarrator
Which part?
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, I should say Reels, 'cause I'm not really on TikTok.
- NANarrator
Which, which part though?
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh, whether or not Aunt Jemima was, uh, a real entrepreneur. I'm pretty sure it's true. I think, I think it's based on a real woman.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And I think she just was like an awesome cook, and put together some fucking pancake shit.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Some great pancakes?
- NANarrator
Yeah, there's a lady. The, the, Nancy Green, it says.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, so her name wasn't Jemima?
- NANarrator
Right there.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's the real lady?
- NANarrator
I mean, I, this is the first ads, I guess. So-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
You could tell me that's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, boy.
- NANarrator
... you could tell me that's a news feature.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
That looks like racist propaganda. (laughs)
- 6:21 – 8:14
Racist art in context: Dr. Seuss, R. Crumb, and ‘that was a different time’
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I was looking at an art gallery in Philly recently that had like a Dr. Seuss, uh, exhibit at it. And I forgot that Dr. Seuss had all those like crazy racist drawings and stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. What were they? What were they?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It was just like, you know, a, a hunter, like with like a savage-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... with like giant lips and stuff like that.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's right. You know what's like the most crazy racist shit that caught me off guard was R. Crumb.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know R. Crumb, the like '70s-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... sort of psychedelic comic book guy? Um, he was very popular when I was a kid living in San Francisco. Um, and when I was an artist, and I was like, I used to love his stuff 'cause they're like, "God, this guy is so weird." And then I saw some of the, like the super racist ones, and you're like, "Yo."
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"What the fuck?" Like-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's, it really is, the ex- explanation is like, "That was a different time." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
So he had some just weird shit, man. Like he liked riding on giant women. You ever see the, um, documentary they did on him?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No, but I know what it is. Yeah. No, I've never seen it though.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's very interesting. It's like-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... he, 'cause his brother is super weird, and his mother is super weird. And, you know, here's this guy like wearing a tie, and he's a real pervert. And he's like openly a pervert, but like a brilliant artist.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
That's great, yeah, R. Crumb.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really fascinating.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I've heard of it before. It is amazing though the st- I was, I went to a, uh, a musician, a musician's house for New Year's Eve when I first moved to New York, so 20 some years ago. And then he just invited me and Kurt Metzger, and we went to his, uh, apartment, and it was s- covered in like Sambo paintings, like real s-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, geez.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But there was like Black people at the party. It was just like, "Yeah, it's art." And I'm like, "F-"
- JRJoe Rogan
Kinda.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I don't know if I'd cover my house and something I had to explain every one of them to people. I go, "No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) yeah, you have a lot of choices. You could have puppies, flowers. (laughs)
- 8:14 – 9:42
Swastika tattoos, bad youthful choices, and the ‘wait…they still wear short sleeves?’ problem
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I just think it's so funny when someone makes, uh, strong decisions if they like change their ways. I, I used to drive, uh, strippers to bachelor parties to be the bouncer with zero skills to handle that whatsoever. I took the job as like fat kid that wanted to see naked girls for free.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And I ended up at a bachelor party with two brothers. It was one of the brother's thing, and he was covered in like swastika tattoos-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... and all kinds of crazy shit. And the, the strippers were not both white for sure, but there's also Black people at this party and stuff like that. And I don't know the explanation these guys have to give, but I talked to one of their Black friends and was like, "Hey, is it weird to ask? But like these guys are all covered in like swastika and racist tattoos." And they're like, "Oh yeah, they just got caught up in some bullshit when they were teenagers. They're good dudes."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'm like, "Wow. And they're still wearing short sleeve shirts, huh? That seems strange." (laughs) Like you think these guys would be in like, uh, wearing Terrell Owens body suits like to cover that up.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like one of the arguments why you shouldn't be able to get a tattoo until you're 25. Like when you're-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Is that when the brain's fully formed?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, when you're a boy your brain's f- women mature younger, but when you're a boy your brain is fully formed at 25 when you're able to make solid decisions.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What decisions do girls make for tattoos that are that great though?
- JRJoe Rogan
Very few swastikas.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Very few swastikas probably.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like what are the numbers of swastikas on girls versus on dudes.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Uh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like if we could Google that please. (laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
What percentage, like what percentage-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I think it's just that one girl, the character that Fairuza Balk played in American History X.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- 9:42 – 15:06
American History X and Higher Learning: extreme arcs, alternate endings, and 90s provocation
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Did you... I just read a thing recently, this made me laugh so hard. You know this movie American History X?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes. I remember that movie.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Uh, some-
- JRJoe Rogan
That movie was crazy.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Great movie, crazy movie. Ending is such a question mark on it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Um, and if you recall like, you know, he goes to prison, he reforms himself. He comes out, he tries to get his brother-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... out of that mindset of being a white supremacist. And then he succeeds basically in telling him the story of what happened to him in jail. And then the next day he walks his brother to school, the brother gets killed by a Black kid who shoots him in the chest, and he dies. And then, uh, he goes in to save him, or he goes in there and just cries, screaming like, "What have I done?" You know-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... his brother's dead now. And then they, they end the movie. The director, who apparently was a lunatic, him and Edward Norton like fought the whole time-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, really?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... over like how the movie should go. But the director's ending he wanted to do (laughs) was, uh, after the brother gets shot by the, by the Black kid, they were gonna show Edward Norton in the mirror and then with the big swastika tattoo on him, and then he was gonna smirk in the mirror and walk off. And I was like, "They should have played Back in Black after that."
- JRJoe Rogan
(singing) He's back.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'm back.
- JRJoe Rogan
And he's racister than ever.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I was almost gonna get it removed.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Just imagine being-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
He's smiling in a... Can you imagine?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Having a Schwarzenegger movie ending to American History X. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That is so crazy that he wanted to do that.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I mean, not the song, but that is-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, but the image.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... they, they should have played the song. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
The image of smirking.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) The, the song would've been... Everybody would've been so mad. Can you imagine if he cheesed it up just at the end? Like you have this brilliant movie and at the end just total cheese ball, curveball ending.
- 15:06 – 17:41
Modern ‘message’ TV vs. plausibility: Netflix’s Adolescence and radicalization narratives
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I just watched that Adolescence thing, which I thought was a-
- JRJoe Rogan
What is Adolescence?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's this, uh, new... It's a four-part, like, miniseries on Netflix. It's British. I'm like... I watch things so open-minded and just looking to be entertained that I miss messages a lot. But by the third episode, I realized w-... It's about a little boy gets immediately accused of, uh, that's how it starts, of killing a classmate and he's getting arrested. Each episode is one shot. To me it's like a play and the acting is unbelievable. But the... what it whittles down to, it's apparently like a, uh... from the, the videos I watched beyond, like, this show explained, 'cause I look at all those, and it was like an anti, like, toxic masculinity, like, message.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And the idea was just, like, the kid's watched porn and his dad's a tough guy, so that's why-
- JRJoe Rogan
So he thought about it-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... he thought he can kill a woman or why he can kill a girl.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And they shout out, uh... And, again, this... I don't know a lot of this guy's stuff other than the basic idea, but they shout out Andrew Tate in it. When I heard that name, I was like, "Oh, that's what this is." This is going back there.
- JRJoe Rogan
But here's the thing. There is... That could be a real guy. Like, that's less preposterous than the white power group on campus.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah, yeah, no doubt.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, like, there's kids that get radicalized. They get a, uh, an evil parent who, you know, who fucking-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But they, they didn't really make it that the dad was evil. They were making it more like the porn and, like, the idea that, like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that too.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... that mom should be in line and cooking.
- JRJoe Rogan
There's these guys who grow up without a mom. Those guys can def-... If they have a shitty dad and no mom, those guys could definitely be s-... And if you have psycho in your DNA.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I had too much mom. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) No, you didn't. No, you had the perfect amount to make you.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
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- 17:41 – 19:34
Nostalgia TV, celebrity glow, and the slippery slope of cosmetic surgery
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I had a... I had little dad, lots of mom, just tendencies when I... And my step-pop, man, he swooped in and saved my ass from really being as, as twirly as possible without being into cocks.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs) I mean, I was right-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's hilarious.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... there primed for the take and I'm sitting there laying on my tummy as a kid watching Falcon Crest in Dallas with my mom.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God. I can see it.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
That's what I know Lorenzo Lamas from-
- JRJoe Rogan
I can see it.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... Falcon Crest, not Renegade like everybody else.
- JRJoe Rogan
Was Renegade the one where he was the karate guy?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
He was the karate guy, uh, but he was, uh, sent... He was a bounty hunter-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... on a motorcycle.
- JRJoe Rogan
But wasn't he, like, a karate guy too?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Am I make... I'm not making that up, right?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Well, no, no. He would fight his fights with karate.
- JRJoe Rogan
That guy was so-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But Steven-
- JRJoe Rogan
... beautiful.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
He was gorgeous.
- JRJoe Rogan
So handsome.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I know. It really is the, the sadness of a guy that handsome 'cause he got a girl that was smoking hot and then, uh, was it Shauna Sand?
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at him.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... yeah. Look, he married-
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at that hair.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... I think he married Shauna Sands, who was like a Playboy girl, and then they break up and she gets crazy surgery. She looks like a lunatic.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, no.
- 19:34 – 28:01
BBLs, butt implants, and why dick surgery still isn’t ‘solved’
- JRJoe Rogan
That cr- surgery is a crazy way to go because you can't see what you look like, it's like anorexics or bodybuilders. You get dysmorphia. You, your brain starts playing tricks on you and you think your lips aren't big enough, and your tits aren't big enough, and your face is... You know, like there's some skin on the side of your ears. You could pull it back, and you tuck this and pull that-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and my ass would stick out more if they put the implants in, and that would probably get me a better, a better guy.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'd get a fat ass. I always say it-
- JRJoe Rogan
Would you?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... I'd crowd-source it. If the audience will pay for it, I'll get a fat ass. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Let's find out what they do 'cause I'm bewildered. So I know that there's an operation where they take fat out of other parts of your body and they stuff it in your ass, and then it l- your ass looks like a bag of cheese.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Which is... (laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
There's bad ones.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, maybe there's good ones. Maybe there's good ones. Maybe I'm being judgemental. There's probably a doctor out there, "Hey, I do it under the surface of the fat so that there's-"
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I know there is.
- JRJoe Rogan
"... always a smooth area on top." Some wizard with a BMW. Um, how do they do-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But at this point, there are good breast implants. At this point, there are.
- JRJoe Rogan
(clears throat)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They exist.
- JRJoe Rogan
The- yes. They feel real, but here's the-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But also, they look real, and they don't have like the, where you have like the, you know, you see ribcage between them?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes. But here's the thing, you are, um, putting something that s- similar to breast tissue where breast tissue would be. So with this, your butt is a muscle.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? It's like muscle and fat. A male? Why'd you say male, Jamie?
- NANarrator
He's a male.
- JRJoe Rogan
How dare you?
- NANarrator
What do you mean? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"Can expect to retain anywhere from 60 to 80% of the fat that is initially transferred into the butt." I like when they say butt like that, I really think they're, you know, professional. (laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
The fuck are you talking about surgery?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Into the glutes.
- JRJoe Rogan
You're calling s- butt surgery?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- 28:01 – 37:02
Can you trust professionals? Fertility-clinic scandals and undercover FBI realities
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I don't know. At this point, they expose so many people. Do you believe anybody's r- genuine goodness anymore?
- JRJoe Rogan
It's hard to believe. You know, I went down a deep dive looking at, uh, doctors who use their own sperm in, uh, fertility clinics.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Because I was, I was researching one, this one case. I was just, you know, I just wanted to find out, like, "God, how did this guy... How'd they catch him? What happened?" And then I found there's, like, hundreds of cases.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, it's... Yeah, it's got to.
- JRJoe Rogan
There's hundreds of cases. There's hundreds of cases of doctors doing this. There's doctors using their own sperm and then people finding out on 23andMe because there's like-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... fucking everybody in the neighborhood's related. They just want-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's just their kink just to, like, jerk off in the vials.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's just such a crazy thing. There's so many fucking psychos out there. I had this guy on yesterday-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What are they gonna giggle at while you're injecting a girl with your jizz? Like... (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I had this guy on yesterday that spent 25 years as an undercover, uh, FBI guy that infiltrated biker gangs and neo-Nazis. And bro, like, you talk to a guy like that and you start re- like, really wondering like, "What... Where, where's the good in the world?" Like, "How m- how many creeps are there?" Like, how many really fucking psychotic people are out there organizing right now in the world?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's a wild thing to go with, like, different groups undercover though too, if they ever overlap someday.
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Like... And you go, "Hey, you were a skinhead two months ago. When'd you become a biker?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, exactly. And this guy is... (clears throat) Look at him. Let me show you a picture of him. Just a big fucking giant dude-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... with a goatee and pulled back hair and tattoos all over his arms. So he, like, blended right in with all these psychos.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Thank God I used to have a... When I was young, I had a joke about the concept of, like, with the hookers where you have to... They go... Well, if you ask them if they're a cop-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They, they'll tell you.
- JRJoe Rogan
You have to tell you.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They tell you. They go, "They have to tell you or it's entrapment." And I was like, "Then what the fuck is undercover work?"
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
You guys are doing to sit through, like, five years with the mob. And then one day they go, "Hey, you know, I never even asked you. This is stupid, but are you a cop?" He's like, "Shit, man. Yeah."
- JRJoe Rogan
I, I think that was like a-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
"You were at my kid's christening."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
"Ah, I know, man. You never asked. I swore at this point, I thought you were never gonna ask."
- JRJoe Rogan
I think that was, like, a dumb thing they made up for TV shows.
- 37:02 – 39:36
Great directors, ‘movies with balls,’ and the appeal of disturbing cinema
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
You can't make a movie like that with a budget anymore.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, you can't make a movie-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Every, every movie with balls, it has to be an indie flick. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
100%, yeah. Or you have to be some beyond reproach director that they just let do whatever they want, like a Tarantino. Like, there's-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... no way, uh, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood went through some sort of an executive focus group.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
There's no fucking way. He's killing women, smashing their head on a-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... mantle. Spoiler alert. I mean-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... dogs are eating dicks, you know?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What a brilliant, what a brilliant ending, though.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that movie's great.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's so good.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's so good. I love that movie.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's... I don't know if I've seen that final scene where they flip history. Um, I've never had an audience in a movie theater, like, communally laugh like that since the Jackass movies.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right, right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Like, with Jackass 2. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It was a cheering moment, too. That was a fucking great movie. He's got all bangers. He's the only guy that I could say, as a dir-... Well, there's a few others that you probably could put in that argument that have zero movies where I'm like, "Eh."
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, that have no... Like, everything's good?
- JRJoe Rogan
Tarantino? There's not one that I can think of that wasn't-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I love David Lynch-
- JRJoe Rogan
... fucking awesome.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... but he's made some crap. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I like a movie that you have to try to figure out, but when you can't figure it out and other people can't figure it out, you're like, "This is just a hunk of shit then." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Like, you can't be so artistic that no- nothing makes sense.
- JRJoe Rogan
James Cameron done some fucking bangers.
- 39:36 – 42:16
Revenge-movie psychology: John Wick, Sisu, and aging action heroes
- JRJoe Rogan
Revenge movies are the fucking best. Why is that? We're so dumb. We like to just sit there and watch this guy kick everybody's ass. "Yeah, fuck him up." (laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah, it's RoboCop.
- JRJoe Rogan
Love it, yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
It's a fantasy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you ever see Sisu?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it's my fav-... It's next to John Wick. It's my fav-... It's probably right up there with John Wick as my favorite revenge movie of all time. It's about a guy... And the whole movie has no English in it. It's in World War II. Is it Finland?
- NANarrator
I think so.
- JRJoe Rogan
And this dude is a soldier who, uh, retired from the war and became a gold miner and g-... And made a little score and was trying to get to the town with his score, and he runs into the Nazis. And it's so fun. It's so fun because you could tell this guy does not wanna do this, but he's gotta kill everybody.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) And they all get cocky with him.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What do you think the mindset is-
- NANarrator
We got gold.
- NANarrator
(grunts) (head thuds)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Noice.
- NANarrator
Ah. (grunts) (head thuds)
- JRJoe Rogan
So, it turns out this guy was, like, famous in the war for being impossible to kill. He has scars all over his body. He's, like, the absolute worst guy, and they found him and he kills everybody. Spoiler alert.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And it's fucking great. It's just fun.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What do you think the mindset is between... bo-... behind, like, a Liam Neeson, who... I mean, there's... A movie comes out almost bimonthly-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... of him getting revenge for something.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey, it's a living.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I get... But Bruce Willis started-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's better than community theater.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... doing that towards the end. Bruce Willis at the end started doing that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did he?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah, just movies that were just, like, two words or something.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I think he was suffering from that, um, illness for quite a while. You know what it is? It's called aphasia.
- 42:16 – 45:58
AI fake casting rumors and Big Jay’s Rob Zombie ‘you’ll be fine’ disaster story
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) It's, um... What was that that you just pulled up, Jamie? That you were showing me?
- NANarrator
They're remaking The Naked Gun.
- JRJoe Rogan
They are? With Liam Neeson?
- NANarrator
I guess. I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They're remaking it?
- JRJoe Rogan
There's a few movies that they've... People have gotten a few AI things passed through and everyone takes as real. Like, I've seen a-...
- NANarrator
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- NANarrator
I can't even check who's (...)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I believe those every day.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I saw Keanu Reeves as Dracula. And I was like-
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... "Really?"
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
God, they stuck me right in. Like, "Keanu Reeves is gonna be Dracula now?" That's crazy because he was in the Dracula movie back in the day, and he was Dracula's girlfriend's boyfriend.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They always get me with, like, a, "Rob Zombie is remaking something you love."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
They're always listening.
- JRJoe Rogan
Rob Zombie's cool.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Have you had him on?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. He was a cool guy to talk to.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
He was... I toured with him.... I've met him a handful of times. He's good friends with Tom Papa. We've been introduced in that regard. And whenever I see him, it's the blank of, like, "Nope." (laughs) I went on stage right before him the entire tour, and he has no recollection.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
One time, um... This is a great story. I was, uh... We had tickets, uh, to go... Sorry, passes to go see Rob Zombie's, I think it was the Halloween, the original Halloween remake he did.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And, uh, comedian Julian McCullough had these passes, four of us. It was gonna be me, uh, Nate Bargatze. I'm trying to remember all... Dave Smith (laughs) . Yeah, it was Dave Smith and Julian McCullough. And I'd auditioned for a TV show the morning of that, and it was the first audition I ever did that it went well (laughs) , went really well. And I got it. I got the, uh, the part. It was on... The show was on for two years called Z Rock. But they go... And this is how much acting is not my passion. It was stuff like that. They go, uh, "We need you to come back in at, like, 4:00 for a table read we're gonna do." And all I thought was... I was like, "Shit, that Rob Zombie movie starts at, like, 6:00." I'm like, "How long are we gonna be here for?" They're like, "It should only take an hour or so if... When will you get back here?" And it was going... It was running late when we got back there. So I told Nate Bargatze to go... I'm like, "Hey, go down there and get in line, you know, to make sure we get into this thing. I don't know if they're overselling it or not." And he goes, "All right." So I get out of this thing, and we're... I'm rushing down. We're walking to this movie theater. And I call Nate. Uh, this is (laughs) so defeating. I go, "Hey, are you down there?" He goes, "I don't know if I'm at the right theater." And I went, "Well, what do you mean?" He goes, "I mean, there's a big line for something." And I was like, (sighs) "Go get in that line, Nate." (laughs) And he was like, "Oh, that's it?"
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
So we get there. We're so far back in line, there's no way we're getting into this movie. And I'm like, "Shit." Julian's very handsome, so we sent him up to kind of schmooze the girl up front. No dice. And then I see Rob Zombie walk into the diner next door, and I go, "This might be our chance." I... We just are loosely connected and, you know, maybe I can get him to remember. And we go in there. It's my best interaction with him ever. I, I go up, I go, "Hey, Rob." I go, "Jay Oakerson." I go, "We met through Tom Papa before and blah, blah, blah." And he's like, "Oh, yeah." And he shoots the shit with us for, like, five minutes. And then I go, "Well, anyway, man, I'm really excited for the movie. I hope we get in. You know, we're, like, super far back in line." He goes, "You'll be fine." (laughs) Just so-
- 45:58 – 49:48
Celebrity encounters, shutting down socially, and early radio-era star moments
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
There's some people you just don't resonate with in the world, I think-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... at that time. I don't know. Dave Chappelle's another one. Uh, Dave Chappelle, I've met over the last 25 years a dozen times. I did some punch-ups on season one of, uh, Chappelle's Show. He bumped me and Kurt Metzger off a weekend, uh, in the thing, and we... But we were there, and we hung out with him there. And every time I see him still, it's just completely unfamiliar.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Chris Rock, same thing. I do not make an impression with these people.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) That's so weird.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I also shut down around celebrity.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, maybe that's it. Maybe you need to-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
So I don't... I'm not a... I, I can't inject, uh, my personality out of the gates, uh, in a situation where I'm, like, intimidated by, like, someone. I'm like, I'm like... Where I go... Not intimidated, but I go, "Man, I really want them to like me."
- JRJoe Rogan
Is... Uh, isn't that weird? Because you know so many famous people.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But, uh... But you know what I mean by, "Want them to li- not like me," but I go-
- JRJoe Rogan
I know.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
If I try to be funny and I whiff-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
This sucks.
- JRJoe Rogan
You just feel nervous.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Right. So I'm like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I could just lay low and not take the risk of being not funny by accident. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) That's hilarious. It's hard to feel like-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
There's no one who intimidates you anymore? I mean, the people you have in here and just strike a conversation with is unbelievable.
- JRJoe Rogan
No, people don't intimidate me anymore. They, uh, inspire me. Some people are fascinating. They inspire me.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Every time I have, like, a big guest coming in that I don't know on, uh... Me and Bobby Kelly on the radio show, and someone's coming in, I get, like... When they're like, "All right, we're gonna go get them now," I'm always like, "Wait. All right, wait. Okay, go get them."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
'Cause I'm like, "Shit. Like, what do we even start with?"
- JRJoe Rogan
I used to be like that on Opie & Anthony.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. When I'd go on Opie & Anthony and, like, they'd have famous guests there, I'd be like, "Holy shit. You know, that's this guy."
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
"Holy shit. That's that guy."
- 49:48 – 53:22
Why bands can’t recreate classics: Guns N’ Roses, time-travel songs, and iconic riffs
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Do you have any theories on why people can't... Like, classic, amazing bands can't make a classic again? Comedians can still write their best joke.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And it, and it will be accepted.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Everyone's looking for that, what's the new thing?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But, like, if Guns N' Roses got everybody back together again and sat in a room for three months, they can't make Welcome to the Jungle again.
- JRJoe Rogan
They're not the same guys. You know, that's part of the problem. And then also part of the problem is, I went to see Guns N' Roses in Athens, so I'm in Greece. It was just a total coincidence. I was there with my family and I ran into Axl Rose at a restaurant.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
This is more recent?
- JRJoe Rogan
Real recent.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like last summer. Or is it z-... Yeah, like last summer? The summer before last? Summer before last, I guess. And, uh, you know, it's one of those weird moments like, "God, I hope he knows who I am."
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You know what I mean? (laughs) You're like, "I'm gonna go say hi. I'm gonna be a dick." And this is after my friend tried to say hi to him and he got shooed away. So-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh, so I went over to his table and he was like, "Oh, hey man, what's up?" I'm like, "Phew."
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I go, "R- really nice to meet you. I'm a huge fan." This and that. He goes, "We're doing a concert here tomorrow night. You wanna see 'em?" Like, "Fuck yeah." And so my whole family went to see Guns N' Roses. We were backstage watching. It was amazing. Three-hour performance. These guys are in their 60s.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
They're fucking rocking hard for-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I saw 'em on the New Tour.
- JRJoe Rogan
... three hours. But the thing is, they have so many hits. If, if you want 'em to do all the, the w-... Songs you love, it's gonna take a long time. And if they're gonna add new songs.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Isn't it crazy too that it's essentially four albums?
- JRJoe Rogan
Crazy.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs) All of that from four albums.
- JRJoe Rogan
Bangers.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But they did great. I was like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, my God.
- 53:22 – 56:22
Method acting, Jim Carrey’s extremes, and imagining how bad the past smelled
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Like again. Right. But like, again, you don't get to be Jim Carrey unless you're outta your fucking mind.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No. No, he's showing that now too. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You don't, you don't get to be that guy. You don't get to be F- Fire Marshall Bill unless you're outta your fucking mind.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'll make a lot of concession for someone's process, but when I watched that documentary about him doing the Andy Kaufman movie and him coming into the makeup thing every day and really, like, screaming and bothering the shit out of everybody. As you see, almost... You see Judd Hirsch's face in the documentary, like, "That's plenty."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
"We're good."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
"I get it, you have to get into your mode or whatever, but, like, come on."
- JRJoe Rogan
Apparently, he would go nutty if he fucked a scene up and, like, smash things.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah. Exactly.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And it's like, this is not the... That was not his personality when he was talking out of his ass cheeks.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
You know what I mean? Or when he was doing Vanilla Ice on In Living Color. You know what I mean? Like, that's-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What's that personality shift where you become a guy who's kinda, like, rude to interviewers and stuff like that? Like, it's strange.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I think when you're trying to get into a character, there's, like, a thing that the, some of these guys do, where they are just that guy the whole time. Like when, when Da-... W- who was it that played Lincoln?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Daniel Day-Lewis.
- JRJoe Rogan
Daniel Day-Lewis, right? Yeah. So when Daniel Day-Lewis was playing Lincoln, he was apparently Lincoln.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah, they said all day.
- JRJoe Rogan
All day long, all the time.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So if you're playing Andy Kaufman-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
You shouldn't let him eat, you shouldn't let him eat modern foods then that's catering.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Right.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
"Here's your mutton, Mr. Lincoln."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. You gotta go full old school-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Shit-
- JRJoe Rogan
... Shit in a hole in the ground, sir.
- 56:22 – 59:55
70s fantasies, cocaine signals, and a wild West Palm comedy afterparty with a narcoleptic driver
- JRJoe Rogan
That's why anybody talking about the good old days, shut your stupid mouth. This is the good old days. With th-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
With basic hygiene?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, b- books and medicine and shit. What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, I wish I lived back in the 1600s when I died if I broke my ankle.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No, but if I could have picked a, uh ... Uh, again, for the, it's so hard because, like, moving backwards, you're like, "Well, I would take all the technology of now, of course."
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, you can't go anywhere. Then, then you can't make it, like, a hybrid deal.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No, no, it's not a hybrid deal. But if I was saying if, if I have to just let go of that and see what, what the most fun time would have been to, to be, like, a teenager in 20s, 70s, I think.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, um-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Just listening to Ambrosia. Fucking, you could wear a silk shirt un-ironically.
- JRJoe Rogan
We were all real confused.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
If you were chubby, no one even cared. Chubby guys got pussy in the 70s, if you had a beard.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did they?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
As long as you had a beard and some long hair.
- JRJoe Rogan
And you knew how to get cocaine.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah. And if you knew how to get cocaine.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'd grow a long pinky nail so people wouldn't know my house (laughs) was the party spot.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Yeah, that used to be a thing. You'd see a guy with a long pinky. That long pinky nail was like, "Oh, that guy parties." That was like when y- there was a bad guy in the movie, he had a long pinky.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
A long pinky nail.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Which is so gross.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's so disgusting. When you think of what, what, that's how bad people want cocaine. They'll snort it off some dude's-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... stinky fucking fingernail.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh, yeah. I went to a, I did a gig opening for Bobby Slayton, uh, years ago at the West Palm Improv, the old West Palm Improv. And, uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
That was a great room.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
The guy, yeah, the wide, shallow one.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that was a great room.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And, uh, I forget the name. It was Joey something was the guy who hosted. But he was, like, local, local legend, this guy. And, uh, he brought us back to his h- He was like, he took us to this strip club and it was like everyone knew him kind of thing.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
And then brought girls back to his house. And I am always impressed with the level of, like, the person who carries their morbid obesity with, like, a not give a shit. And also have no give a, like, no care that the girls are gonna suck his dick or fuck him because he's got coke.
- 59:55 – 1:05:36
Pimps as pop culture, Girls Gone Wild, Columbia House scams, and how music monetization flipped
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, there was a weird time where, for whatever reason, they were kinda celebrating pimps and prostitutes. Like, do you remember Pimps Up, Hoes Down?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I mean, that was, like, a famous documentary.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Mr. White Folks.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mr. White Folks, yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
He was the best. Yeah, I watched all those. Um-
- JRJoe Rogan
But they were, like, celebrated. Like, people liked ... And then there was American Pimp. Remember that film?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No, it was-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's weird.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... it wa- Well, that was like the, the small window of like pro-sexuality and go be whores, girls. And then it immediately became Me Too. That's wh-
- JRJoe Rogan
But it was weird.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
What happened to me immediately.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was weird though because it was the exploiters of those women. It wasn't like it's okay to be a prostitute. It was it's cool to be the man who exploits all these women and gets them to go be prostitutes for him.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Well, I think it took 20 some years for people to realize that Joe Francis was a terrible guy. You know what I mean?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
He was celebrated as, as hell. I just heard a Howard Stern clip the other day where he had Joe Francis on. I'm sure if you ask him about-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... Joe Francis now, he'd be like, "What a terrible piece of shit."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Y-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But when Girls Gone Wild was a thing, everyone was just like, "Who cares how it gets done?"
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Yeah, that's crazy, right? Like, Girls Gone W- That's how the i- When the internet wasn't around, you could buy tapes of drunk girls at the bar flashing their boobs.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And you'd pay for it.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
You'd pay for it.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And it had, like, a production value.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
Oh. No, you'd pay, you'd pay for it, and then you were part of a subscription service (laughs) that-
- 1:05:36 – 1:12:04
Building ‘networks’ to get bought out: Kevin Hart’s strategy, money instincts, and burnout risk
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I don't... You know, it's interesting. When I talked to, uh, Kevin Hart in Montreal some years back and he was buying up, uh... He was buying up things for, uh, the LOL Network that he was starting, which was like a... I guess an internet network. And they made all this news because when he did the pitch show where they were pitching, uh, ideas for his network, he apparently in the room bought like four or five of them. And when I saw him (laughs) that night, I was like, "Were these five... Are you had five shows you saw today that are like definite shows?" And he was like, "No, but it gets you press." You know what I mean? He was telling me kind of like the whole thing and then he goes... But the idea that he was saying he was doing with that, I'm like, "Are you gonna run a network now?" And he was like, "No, you wanna build it until it becomes competitive and then another company comes along and goes, 'Can we give you money just to go away?' Is the idea." You know? So it's like the idea is like he wants like Netflix to buy-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, how weird.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
... LOL or something like that. So it's just building it-
- JRJoe Rogan
Probably a good business move, but I don't... Do you think like that?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
No, absolutely, but I think-
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you think like that?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
(laughs) No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Huh?
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I have no business acumen whatsoever.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that's a weird business acumen to have. It's interesting-
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
But I'm also-
- JRJoe Rogan
... but probably effective.
- BOBig Jay Oakerson
I'm, uh, you know, blown away by... You know, I- I watch you when you talk to Bert sometimes about that, about his like employment of so many people.
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