John Fogerty on Joe Rogan: How His Own Label Sued His Sound

1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

   Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

2. JFJohn Fogerty0:04

   The Joe Rogan Experience.

3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

   Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat rock music]

4. JFJohn Fogerty0:13

   Think I can just step on the floor right here?

5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

   It doesn't matter. You can leave it on the table. It's fine. There's water there, too, uh, in this metal cup, and then there's coffee.

6. JFJohn Fogerty0:23

   Oh, thanks so much.

7. JRJoe Rogan0:23

   There's coffee in here.

8. JFJohn Fogerty0:24

   Okay, yeah.

9. JRJoe Rogan0:24

   If you'd like some coffee.

10. JFJohn Fogerty0:25

    Yeah, ready to... I have some notes that I'll probably never look at, but-

11. JRJoe Rogan0:30

    You got notes?

12. JFJohn Fogerty0:32

    Me?

13. JRJoe Rogan0:34

    What, what's on the notes?

14. JFJohn Fogerty0:36

    Uh, just stuff, like what I went through with CCR and all that. But tell me something, did you, did you read up on me or anything, or-

15. JRJoe Rogan0:46

    I'm a huge fan. I don't have to read up on you.

16. JFJohn Fogerty0:49

    Okay.

17. JRJoe Rogan0:49

    I read up on you a little bit, just to catch up about how you got out of the, the... Well, you did do military service.

18. JFJohn Fogerty0:56

    Mm-hmm.

19. JRJoe Rogan0:56

    But you got out by smoking a lot of weed and not eating. I read that. Is that true?

20. JFJohn Fogerty1:01

    No.

21. JRJoe Rogan1:02

    Is that true? They lied? There was a story about you smoking a lot of weed and, uh-

22. JFJohn Fogerty1:07

    Oh

23. JRJoe Rogan1:07

    ... getting emaciated so you can get out of the Army.

24. JFJohn Fogerty1:10

    Well, i- it's not quite in that sequence, but those things did happen.

25. JRJoe Rogan1:17

    [laughs]

26. JFJohn Fogerty1:18

    Yeah. I had, I had determined to lose a lot of weight, right? So I was kinda really s- skinny by 1967, '68. Uh, I mean, like 100... I think it was 129 pounds.

27. JRJoe Rogan1:37

    Whoa.

28. JFJohn Fogerty1:38

    Yeah. Um, and then I was gonna go, uh, to the, I think it was the Presidio, and I had to meet with a Army doctor, right? And my friends gave me a couple of joints, and I stuck 'em in... You know, I used to smoke in those days, cigarettes. I stuck it in the cigarette, and going across the Bay Bridge [laughs] I smoked 'em. My, that's so fu- I hadn't even thought about it. So if you want, yeah, man, he, he, he went on a starvation di- a protest diet, and then smoked a lot of weed.

29. JRJoe Rogan2:13

    That's what I heard.

30. JFJohn Fogerty2:14

    Wasn't quite that way, but yeah, okay. But it's, it's essentially some truth.

Episode duration: 2:40:09