James McCann on Joe Rogan: Why Australia Sent Him to Texas

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   Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out

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   The Joe Rogan Experience

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

4. JRJoe Rogan0:12

   Everybody's just-

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   Thank you for having me back

6. JRJoe Rogan0:14

   Good to see you-

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   Yeah

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   ... my brother.

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   How are you?

10. JRJoe Rogan0:16

    Always great to see you. [slaps table] I'm good. It was, uh, fun having you at the clubhouse last night.

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    I was ter- I was fucking terrified.

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    You just looked like you were back.

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    No, I thought-

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    You were like at home

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    ... I thought, "That's it. I've been away for too long. I'm gonna suck. None of the new stuff's gonna work."

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    No.

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    "They'll see me. They'll go, 'He was wrong to come back. Fuck him off.' And then we're done."

18. JRJoe Rogan0:32

    No.

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    It was so nice. It was so nice.

20. JRJoe Rogan0:35

    You were telling the story, I, I said, "Hold these thoughts."

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    Yeah.

22. JRJoe Rogan0:38

    Well-

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    I didn't know you didn't... I didn't know we'd never spoken about it.

24. JRJoe Rogan0:40

    No, tell me the story.

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    I... Well, that's why I came to America to start, is, uh, I got offered a job hosting a Catholic podcast, and they fired me as... I had packed up everything in Adelaide. This is, like, two and a bit years ago. I had the kids and the wife, and on the way to America, I got fired.

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    [laughs]

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    And they said, "We'll still pay your rent. It's in Steubenville, Ohio." Beautiful Appalachian town just outside of Pittsburgh. And, uh, yeah, it's where we w- Three months I was there.

28. JRJoe Rogan1:07

    So what did they see that they fired you for?

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    Oh, a lot.

30. JRJoe Rogan1:10

    [laughs]

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