Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 236 Joe Rogan Experience Review of Andrew Schulz Et al.

Episode Date: August 18, 2021

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Big week for Joe's is birthday this week. Always the 11th Happy both Big week for Joe's is birthday this week August 11th. Happy birthday to you, Roads. Where's he 54? 54. There we go. Like a stud. Well, you know, it's not what it used to be, man. You used to look at 54-year-olds growing up and I was like, you're basically dead. I remember so that's totally true. It kind of is. Back in the 80s, man. Oh,

everyone's changed smoking. Yeah, they won't live a long. Wasn't a healthy time. One thing I want to get into Justin Ren for Fight for the Vagantan, you may have heard, if you follow his Instagram is you know a great guy. Fight for the Vagant is an important charity. We give to it. He and Joe are really good friends and he lost his YouTube channel which is important for the charity because he shows a lot of videos on that of the work they're doing for the pigmeas or the rest of it. So if you are a listener of us and a fan of him, I employ you if you can reach out on social media, whatever means you have, yeah, show some support and pressure, YouTube to get

his channel back up. There seems to be no reason why he lost that and And then once it's up follow the charity and see the good work they do and I was messaging Back and forth with Justin. So it's very important. This is this is huge it's a it's a good way for him to get his message out and Get people to be a part of his charity and give to it. So that would be awesome if you guys would make it effort and do that. Fight for him. Gotta fight.

Great guy. Anyway, let's jump on to this week's episodes. We got Hicks and Gracie. Legend. I'm a huge fan. Huge fan. Probably the greatest of all time. I mean, you know, talk about a resilient, resilient character, huh? I mean, he was talking about, I mean, he could get this a little bit further in, but we started talking about how it's back, like,

the disc that are just sitting on one another from, yeah, I couldn't imagine that kind of pain. It just like happens to everything seems like a task at that point, right? It seems so brutal. I hear that. And you do hear it from a lot of X fighters, especially ones from back in the day, because they just, you know, you get injured and there's a lot of pressure to keep fighting or keep training. And I do you think that's a difference now? Do you think now we understand rehab and we have better? I like to believe that kind of medicine. That was probably a good old boy's mentality too.

Like nowadays, not that people don't try and come back as quickly as possible from injury and we have like new technology that can heal the body much quicker and different methods and whatnot. But yeah, I think that's kind of like a good old boy back in the day, like you just fight through it a lot of the time, you know? Yeah. And it's almost too like you hear back in those days,

they would go to their doctor and the doctors were describing these pain pills and they were all getting hooked. And I think that lesson has been taught now to newer fighters that like all right don't get in the pill pop in you know cycle of you know it's you know it just really messes you up I could see how that could happen real quick too because it was one of the pain to go away so you can keep on fighting you know yeah I mean in in some ways, I'm kind of surprised because I can't imagine Hicksom would have been one of those

like pill-popper guys. Doesn't seem like he's healthy, he talks about that. He's always been a huge proponent of the yoga, the breathing. I mean, obviously he's been in some wars and he's trained like nobody's business and he was elite about, wars and he's trained like nobody's business and he was Elite about like he was elite amongst other black belts like extraordinary amongst extraordinary people

but Yeah, but I just mean but it's still it's still wears you to death like it's almost like the human body can't work that hard for that All is just no way so in tune with that breath work like he was talking about stuff that I'm I never heard about I've heard about hyperventilating the body and how it couldn't be very beneficial for you But he knew like every single detail like he's gonna be like one of the masters at that as well. Yeah Yeah, have you ever seen the documentary church? No, how you? Hmm, yeah, have you ever seen the documentary? No, no, have you? Dude, yeah, it's great. You gotta check it out.

It's phenomenal. It was like the first really good like MMA documentary and it's about this tournament he does in Japan, which is pretty badass. No rule, no rule, no time or something like that. Yeah, and those old tournaments were like almost like watching the movie Bloodsport or like playing Street Fighter. Like it was just like the type of characters that they would have in there and they all had different styles and they'd all go against it.

It was brilliant. It was so cool, but he does a lot of his breathing shit in that and it's phenomenal the control he has over his stomach like he can like roll it like a wave side to side. It's crazy his son can do that too so I train with his son Cron here in Belgrade and I've never seen the guy tired like and I'm not saying he doesn't work out hard like this guy works out but just his breath work through training it's like if you're counting on him getting tired to try and get any leverage like forget that

Not that not that anyone even gets ever close to beating him anyway, but It's just terrifying watching like It's seeing the level of like how good someone can be at something. You're like a lot of us a little gonna get Strangles the jujitsu videos that I've been watching I've got out a few rabbit holes it seems like they're just so patient and it's like all right I'll just sit back and wait for you to do whatever you're gonna do and let you do a few things and then figure out okay this is what I'm gonna do basically I mean when um so Nick Diaz I mean sorry Nate Diaz came up um when Cron opened his place here Nate Diaz came up when Cron opened his place here, and which he did recently after he moved

from Santa Monica, and he's in their training, like rolling on the mat with white belts. Like, it cool as hell, like giving everyone a chance, anyone that wants to roll with them, just how calm and patient he was. Like, it just doesn't look like they're putting any effort in it at all. Like, they're just chilling and tapping everyone obviously.

I mean, you know, of course they will be winning, but it's so interesting to see that progression, like in the sense of like, how good they get, they don't even have to think about it. It's just plain this to me, if you're a black belt and you're going against the white belt or just a blue belt, purple belt, are you not getting tapped at all zero at a hundred times? Never. No, never. I think I've seen a blue belt tap a black belt once, and it was just because it was like a very fast movement that went into a comora. So he just, you know, he's like the blue belt

thing, God, and just managed to get a hold of the wrist and kind of swoop his arm around and it was just The black belt was maybe not paying attention basically. I mean otherwise they're gonna win every time like without even really trying unless maybe there's like a massive weight difference and The white belts like really putting pressure but but even when I won you sign like one out of one like a thousand times. Oh yeah I mean you never watch thinking like you rarely watch a purple belt against a black belt thinking he can win. Sometimes they put some good matches in for

sure but it's it's very unusual because it's just so much time and it's a technique play at base sport and that technique only comes from time. So it kind of eliminates the athletic ability to some degree. There's some overlap there, but generally no. I mean, it's just not how it goes. But yeah, I would love to know more about like just those breathing techniques that he had, I almost wish that Chrome would do a class on that. I've never really talked to him about it. So he must have been pretty much. He's really expert on this. Oh yeah,

of course, that's his son. Like he's learned everything through this guy and does it that way. I mean, what's crazy training with Kron is if you're lucky enough to get at a school with that caliber of a professor, they usually older because to get to that skill level, in some sense, you would have had to be doing it for so long. But I think because he started like straight out of the womb, I mean, he's that good in his early 30s Is there just a handful of graces like like less than 12 or is there like? It's a big family. I mean there's probably

Yeah, I mean there's probably less than 12 that are like less than 12 that are like involved. World class ranked in, you know, Gigietsu tournaments, but I can't imagine how many blackbrows they have in that family. I mean, it's a ton. Like there's enough of them for sure, enough of them. I love what he was talking about when he's talking

about his mind and like learning to control it and like knowing that his mind is really his worst anime. It's not his opponent. And you do hear that in MMA. It's the voice inside that wants you to quit. You sometimes hear that when people are in their corners and the rounds end. They're like, I'm not going back out there.

I'm done. That's not super uncone. It's fairly on call, but you kind of hear that in the corners. And it's just like that part of your mind, like you're not as tired as you think, you know, you could be injured, but all hurt. But it's, it's like the mind starts quitting on you. And I get it. I mean, it's terrifying. I wouldn't even get in there. But it reminds me of this quote. It's my favorite books by Wayne Dyer. You talk it's called the Secrets of Manifesting, but he says that quotes this book and he says our doubts are biggest traders. Yeah, that's a good one. That's like they really hit it. That's it. Yeah. That's a good one, but I mean the fact that he said

After he was really tired in a training session I think he got like quite claustrophobic because he got tapped out So he had his brother roll him in a Conplay for ten years like Jesus, I love that over the top. That's some dog in the site like who who gets home from something like that? And you just like you know what, I help me with this is to do the same thing

but 10 times worse. You hate, come on, that's like that. That's the right thing. I got love for that kind of behavior. That is amazing. That's like, and then he, well, I respect it, but I can't imagine many people are doing it.

I certainly haven't taken many failures in my life and applied that to it. Mostly I just get home and cry for a bit and let it pass. No, he needed multiple times. He's until he got comfortable with it, I think, was what his story was. He's like, he had his brother do it like a handful of times. And then by the fifth time, he was like, all right,

I got this. I'm not uncomfortable. How good is that though? How good a millionaire for life that is too? It's like just keep on doing the hard shit and then it becomes comfortable. And they're like, oh yeah, I got that. It's genius.

You know, I had a bit of PTSD listening to that, but when I was real young, they used to be this big hill near us. And we had this huge like plastic top, you know, they like cover shit with those types of tops and we were sliding down the hill on it so the people at the front had to hold it back like a sweet slap and slide put their feet in basically but like the whole thing would slide we wouldn't slide over it we would slide down like a moving carpet down

the hill yeah but not nice because one time it started a roll and I got rolled in it. And everyone else like jumped off and I was stuck in the middle of this thing. Like arms to my side. Dude, it was absolutely terrifying. And did I get home and think, roll me in another top to get me over it? No way. No, I've just been really claustrophobic for the last 35 years more like a dizzy thing than anything isn't it dude it was awful man well but the problem was I was stuck at the bottom of the hill and I you can't get out of it you can't unroll yourself it's no way if

everyone had just left I would have just died in a top thank god people got me out good friend Top thank God people got me out Yeah, that's unfortunate Wild man wild but the cool thing about the the Training that he talked about and like why he's so good. He was massive like he was a tank of a man when he was fighting But he talked about his dad Like having this condition of like vertigo, which I didn't know about this, but I had heard that he was a smaller guy, so he couldn't, he couldn't train with the same power, but he had, because of that, learnt like perfect technique

and only applied that, then obviously taught that to Hickson. And Hickson gets to bring a giant strong body to the front of it, but not use that. Like I guess that's a backup if he's trying to break someone in half. What a combo to have the best technique. That's like Mike Tyson having the best coach who makes with the best physique and body, right? Yeah, I mean, but it just highlights the technique portion massively and really shows that when it comes to

Giu Jitsu, I mean that's why Joe always talks about nerd assassins like you don't have to go in with a giant body I there's so many people at Street sports my last school in Santa Monica that I think about if they're tiny and my last school in Santa Monica that I think about at that tiny and I you I can't do anything you remember my buddy Rodrigo right you remember rod yeah legend he's pretty small okay I'm saying on the part he knows he is what is he like five for five he's not big about 130 pounds is Yeah, I can't do anything against Rod. And he was a blue bell then. Now, he did work at the school, that does help, but his technique was just flawless.

That's a nice thing, Adam, and your back pocket went some loudmouth for the bars, trying to be mouthy. Yeah, Rod's gonna hate that I just call him, I ain't even out there. What do you, you're right. Whatever. What are you gonna do? Yeah, Rod's, Rod's gonna hate that I just call him. I ain't married, but it'd be all right. Whatever. What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?

He can't beat me up in both of them too far away. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Unreal. Uh, it's very sad that he said that even if he trained like if he rolled with his son right now like five minutes on the mat Would be like five months of recovery Like imagine what that would be like for him being the legend that he is and just like he talks about Okay, you know, he's just got to accept that position and run his life differently and do he has his Instagram he does his classes

and he does some YouTube videos and he can still demonstrate things but I must be frustrating for him. I'm not sure how old Higgsin is actually. You definitely? I doubt it. I bet he's in his 50s. He looked like he was one of more like I guess he if he's in his 50s closer to Joe's age but he definitely look like one of Joe's like mentors you know yeah I don't think they trained together much oh he's 62 62 yeah I don't I think Joe said that he started out at his school but then changed and then Joe's trained with like his cousin or something for most of it so he within that group but yeah I mean hey 62 and you live like a serious warrior life I mean it's reasonable that you're gonna get jacked up pretty bad sounds like he's pretty

pretty well-bound standing LA I imagine that's probably just because the studios are here and whatnot, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's for most of those guys out there, to be honest. We're, it'd be interesting to see what Condo's whether he stays out in Bozeman when things settle down or not. But I mean, his score is, it's full. Like, he's doing well over there.

He's got a good set up. Nice, nice. And who knows when I'll be back in the UFC? I think he's doing well over there. He's got a good set up. Nice. Nice. Who knows when I'll be back in the UFC? I think he's still active though. I think he's still has a contract with him. So he should fight eventually. How is his career? What's he? Dude, he's done really well. His last fight was against Swanson and that was like he didn't even use any jiu jitsu really he just stayed on his feet and fought Swanson and I mean it was fucking close man like you

could almost go either way like it was close so he proved he proved his toughness I mean he took some blows he kept moving moving forward. It was dangerous stuff. Let's jump over to Miss Pat and Jordan Cooper. Miss Pat, hilarious, number one. I mean, every time she's come on, she's been coming on Joe's podcast for a long time. I'm a great friend. Does she have any Netflix specials? I don't.

I don't. I don't really think I feel like there's not, but she's always that. I think she may have a special out there somewhere. Yeah, she's She's hilarious. She's so wild like some of her stories. I remember listening to her back on I think it was like podcast 1312 like a long time ago on Joe's roster and I was living in Albuquerque and it's like night time I was driving out I think to a comedy show actually like way out in Bernalillo which is like the next town over and they like she was all like describing her life and if you go back and listen to that one It's crazy. She's been like shot at and like drug deals and like all kinds of like that her past is like

and Yeah, and she has very funny stories about like how it all unfolds. Probably why she's so funny like to deal with that trauma But even in that same episode, Joe talked about, and it really important thing that like stuck with me forever, and it was like, if you don't like your job, you're working in a cubicle, like you don't like your setup, like don't assume that your life has to be that way. Just change it and do something that you enjoy. And it seems so simple, but so unattainable and

I remember he just stuck with me forever. I mean, I think it was probably the beginning of me thinking about doing this podcast Interesting that we fail before we even try so many times It's like we've already set ourselves up a failure before you've attempted it. It's like you got to attempt it. And then if you, and then you be surprised you attempt something and you learn something from that failure, you try something again. And you fail again, but at least you learn how not to do it two more times. Like, and then you start figuring out what doesn't work, what does work. And eventually you see, like you start making some progress.

Yeah, but it's hard to see it like that. It's almost like when you start doing it, you just keep seeing these things fail and you think, God, I just really suck at this. I mean, do you? I guess I guess I say, yeah, yeah. Resilience, easier said than done sometimes, but at the same time, it's like,

my brother said something to me yesterday, he's like, you gotta look at obstacles, they're gonna go through them around them or under them. If one way or another, you're going to get through them. You know what I mean? You got to find a way. Yeah. You'll find a way.

Oh, they're just going to roll you over. Clap some hands. Exactly. You think you've acted like, I guess there's more options. Yeah. Well, that's the other option, right? But it's like, you can't sit back and let it just happen. You got to kind of take the bow by the horn sometimes

and then and figure out The best option I think learning from past mistakes and learning from others mistakes even on a bigger scale is so beneficial in life You know, I mean that that's yeah, and it almost plays in the miss part like how she was getting God of her show together, you, different networks didn't want it, and she just like, her resilience to like, one, keep it the way she wanted to do it, really show herself. I mean, what I remember,

like when I was listening to it, I was thinking, wow, like, what kind of person can like, hold their own through all that? And it's like someone like Miss Pat that's been through fucking everything. And she's like, yeah, that's how I feel. I'm not going to quit. Authenticity seems to always shine through regardless of the story. You know what I mean? Like, yes. Could you imagine her like putting on a like a corporate smile and behaving and not being happy. No way. She doesn't seem like her

company, especially when life experiences would not allow for that kind of she seems as real as it gets. And she is. She's curious. Even that guy Jordan Cooper was pretty interesting. Like his knowledge of shows and like how sitcoms work in the passion like what a perfect team. He was talking about how not a lot of characters were able to be themselves I don't know if it was specifically related to black characters but he was talking about like red fox like I remember Joe making mentioned to that and there's only been a few characters that actually got to play

themselves and these sitcoms yeah. Comedy's only been a few characters that actually got to play themselves and these sitcoms, so yeah, comedies and she definitely apparently plays herself. I can imagine her playing anybody else, you know. Yeah, I'm keen to check it out, you know, and I'm sure even though Joe is a huge fan of hers and their friends, let's be honest, if the show sucked, Joe's not going to be like, it's a good show just to pump her up I mean he's very supported, but I don't think he could do that So yeah, so I'm gonna definitely be checking that out Also what the hell is funny that's on TV that's even worth watching right now

You know what I mean? It's like when was the last funny show? I just started it's not big bang theory 30 Rock again. Just crazy. Oh, that's great show. Great show. There's a show on Apple called Ted Lasso. Oh, yeah, yeah.

But I kind of like it because it's like there's a bunch of English people on it. It's like British socket to one. And it's human. But it's a good show. I think that show is fun. Jay's the day, yes, yeah. I think that's his name, right? The SNL guy. He's been around a lot of funny stuff.

Hold on. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, you know, that's his name. Bada. Look at that. Doing some research on our show. Oh, they talk about the Nelson rating machine. Remember, like, how they figure out if show is a good or not? That's interesting, right? Yeah, so those things, you know what those things are, I don't know. Yeah, it's like focus groups kind of thing, right? Kind of, but what it is is, so when I lived in Santa Monica, we actually had the one for, like, I think that because

Santa Monica has a lot of people, they had a few of them, but we were one of them, like, in my apartment. So we used to have to push this button on the remote when we were watching a show, and it records what we're watching, and then they think they, like, multiply it out by the amount of people in the town in order city And then they get a gauge for like how many people watched American idol or whatever this crap is you know what I mean Well, it's unfortunate for them because even though they paid our cable bill

We really didn't take them seriously and what my roommate and I used to do is put Rambo 4 on repeat And watch that and keep clicking the button and then another thing is we used to keep Playing cupcake walls and well we we because we didn't watch a lot of TV But we had this theory that it was gonna boost Rambo's Numbers so that maybe they'd make another one We have no idea if there's no rainbow but then we thought hey, let's make cupcake wars the biggest Show in the country. I don't know if it works like that, but I felt like we get Yeah, we were we've done a lot for the cupcake

You know you do what you can bro Yeah, I can't imagine at that age I've been taking a whole lot of that too seriously But I was just thinking about that, but that's that's how they make them interesting like they probably will wondering why so many people What you gotta say to anybody all right guys all right guys give me the remote What do we want to watch? They're doing the data. Let's press the button. Yeah.

They can't long is that. Yeah, but that back in the day is how they used to know who was watching what. It was just through those systems. Interesting. It was kind of a pain in the ass to be honest. I always forgot the minute. Now they're just staring at us through the TVs's the smart tv's are staring at our eyes

oh now they don't need to do that with streaming they know exactly what every single person is watching they probably know what we're where oh they know what we're saying what we're googling while we're watching TV like they were all over us there's no escape no escape Did you think that the life coach thing that she was talking about was like me? I was surprised. He liked that person. I couldn't imagine miss patria. I would imagine to just be like Said it was how I mean I wonder how much you think about it is, you can associate value on anything. If it's finding you value, it's like, how can you say it's not valuable? Well, she said it was helping her pay. And if you can recognize that in any situation, you're like, all right, well, what amount of money is the right amount of money?

If something that you're like figuring out how to deal with problems. There's no amount of money where you're like and it just depends on how you find them Find that avenue people find it. I get it. I mean, I'm not I wasn't saying that I don't That's true. I'm not as woo woo you. I. I'm surprised you don't have crystal earrings on right now. I can't see them there. Oh, right. I can't. There. You've been out in the sun too long, bro. I think I have a winter.

Alright, let's jump over to Andrew Schultz and where Finis is going on. It's so great that Andrew is back on. That guy's career is just blown up. I mean, what was he on Rogan like a probably like a year ago? He's been on a couple of times. Since then, I mean, his impact is ridiculous. He's been down in Florida just partying like a. I don't know.

His life is. His life is. His sex is too. Like, I go laugh at him. Dude, if anyone watches him and doesn't find him funny, I don't get it. I'm'm just like you've got to be kidding. It's crap like how do you not find out? His proud work is like his stuff always pops up on my Instagram feed like a little two minutes And a bit and it's like his proud work is just In fact, a book crazy

He's an animal just a savage. Yeah, I'm using the do you ever see him? You're seeing him around the comedy store? I haven't, no, I never saw him live. He never came to the comedy store when I was out there. I mean, he may have, but I think I, it seems like all the of all the comedians like Joe's man mentioned to this too, like he was the one that got the biggest during the pandemic, like just out of nowhere. Yeah, close to it, I would imagine him Tim Dylan, Mark Norman did really well

Kyle Donagan was already doing a lot with his Instagram before then Kyle's Instagram is off the chain when they look when they went through it and watched that Quilmo thing Oh my god, that was hilarious. I'm not a pover on Italian Come on son. What a line a pover on Italian. Come on son. What a line. What a line. Oh man. I mean after he just described it not that I have any on-site promo, but the year's explanation. He's like, I can't say everyone. He saw those pictures saying I was kissing like, they'll Clinton. Like it was real close. Like I was was like wow, he wasn't lying about kissing people on the mountain Yeah, but then Andrew was like he's just calling himself out

He's like sexually arousing ex presidents, too doesn't get any better. You don't think oh, he's less of a trick Oh, man, that's why yeah, yeah, he's an animal That guy. Yeah, he's an animal. I know where I am, but... Blast it. Funny how much humor Trump provided. I think that's what that allowed. Right, it's like looking back.

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. It's not as funny now. Right. I think Biden made it. It's made Biden made mention a 350 million American American That's pretty funny actually unintentionally so

Yeah, so we should give him a better sense of shit Good stuff too good. Yeah, I Went at like shows are still gonna about trying to choke out Joe and like grabbing him with a store I was like that's a dangerous man. I'm just saying the same shit. Go easy Yeah, don't grab it any black belt No, I don't think that's such a smart idea at all But they probably had him fine. He hit me and Andrew hates Portland. I thought that was a great shout out He's like not a fan of that. I just mean it was funny to me that you would say that

I'm sure he goes there and like tours and like has shows I would kind of he doesn't seem to give a fuck I kind of want to go I don't want to go don't see what the like rogue behaviors all about out there. See what's going down. Something a different country. Yeah, I don't know. Well, they've legalized all the drugs out there. It's going to be interesting to see how they cope over the night. These walking around should be interesting. Right. You're either going to get real relaxed or real strong out. One or two. Let's say. Yeah. I don't know. Have you ever been up there? I spent some time in Washington which is real close. I've spent a few days in Portland. I mean that weather does take its toll. I think it probably does affect people. Maybe this is just

like a reflection of the weather. But it's like a raining all over the country. I don't know. I couldn't handle it for that long I had to get out of Washington after a year or two I knew what I was in for about four months I was like this is not for me I need to you with that that one year we had signed a contract to be there for a year otherwise we had to pay back a bunch of money that was held down to get there so we just had to stick it out so what were you doing uh just working like an office job for my aunt. We had just bought a small business and I was just up there giving some else a try. No shit, I didn't know that.

That's what you're saying? Yeah, I mean the weather is like, that's like the England of America. I mean, it's not great. It's not great. It's not great. It's not great. It's not great. It's not great.

It's not great. It's not great. It's not great. It's not great. It's interesting how my aunt would describe it too. She's like, with the three weeks in August, and I'm like, you literally live here the whole year for the three weeks in August. I mean, I was just like, and really agree with that type of mentality. So, I don't know, it's not, I guess, and it's not for me. I think that's the one redeeming factor about California at all times,

like regardless of what's going on, like having beautiful weather, is especially getting getting older and how much I value it, I see the value in the weather, like that's especially having a good perspective on being in places like Washington, having something to compare it to, you know what I mean? He was, yeah, I mean having a bunch of sunny days does affect mood, like for sure. When it's gloomy and overcast I mean that people aren't like walking around with like a pet in a step it's just not happening I mean that you you're body like reflects it you're like oh god let's bring you again cheers

you was talking about still loving New York I haven't spent any time in New York have you spent time out there? not not during the pandemic I mean back in the day when I lived in Ohio I you spend time out there? Not during the pandemic. I mean, back in the day, when I lived in Ohio, I used to go out there quite a bit. It was like a 10 hour drive, but it wasn't bad. It was like nice. The freeway kind of goes through these hills

and has these tunnels and it's like a nice drive. And then you get out to the city and you spend a weekend out there. I mean, it's still a place. I don't know if I could live there. It's a bit hectic. But great bars, great energy, like the people are interesting, I think. And but it's tense. Like, I've seen, you know, like people running around, uh, central park, like jogging around there and they're like one guy bumped into someone else,

and he's like, hey, motherfucker, like instantly went from relaxed and running to a 10. I mean, there's kind of that energy there. Yeah, zero on, zero on, zero on. It's intense. Yeah, it was like, whoa, okay, that's how they roll. But seeing the buildings is unbelievable. It's pretty amazing.

Like, it really is cool. You go up the Empire State Building, and It's pretty amazing. Like it really is cool. You go up the Empire State Building and it's pretty dope. I get to the top of my buddy, Sven is up there with me from England and he's looking down and Sven doesn't say a lot a lot of the time but when he does it's gold and he looks down and he's like, oh they must have had a sale on yellow cars. Because it's just all the calves. Dude, I fucking laugh for like 10 minutes after that shit. That was epic. Yeah, I'm like fair enough.

That was great. Yeah. Shorts was also talking about St. Louis. Like how... Yeah, it was. That, like, there's parts that are just a dump. And that's interesting because I was talking to some kid up here recently that moved from down there. And he was saying the same thing. He was like, it's, it is rough spots. I don't know a lot

about St. Louis. I've driven through it, but I can't speak on St. Louis. I think you can find in any big city if you're looking for it True, but when you hear it twice in a month and you're not anyway close to it like you got a wonder what the heck is going on there I don't know yeah, I'll stay away from that place It's such my buddies from there. I never heard that but I think like you said you can find parts. I don't know from there. I've never heard that, but I think like you said, you can find parts. I don't know. Oh, did I tell you that dude? There's no more there is no more tents down the beach any longer. Zero. Zero? They go over to all of them. Zero. That's impressive. They won't even able to do that before the pandemic. I don't want. I asked this copy yesterday a couple of days ago. It was down

there. Skate now. It's like no more tents. He's like nah, and I was like, oh my god, thank you. That should help out tourism just in its own right. I imagine that. Yeah, that's a great move. I wonder where they all the homeless people are. But it seems like they, I mean, I don't know. I don't know what was. Are they clearing them out from other neighborhoods? Like places where they popped up. There's been quite a bit of clean. I gotta get him credit in Heinz. I mean, I criticized it so long, but they have made some solid, solid moves. I mean, finger gum.

Thank you to whoever's doing that because my bitch's about it for so long. There is being some steps taken. So, I mean, it seems to be a step in the right direction. That's for sure. So I mean it seems to be a step in the right direction. That's for sure So well, I mean it it needed something. I mean it's almost a shame in a way it went from one extreme to another You know because they there was like a Kind of harmony before where they were there But there wasn't a ton of trouble and it was like it was exactly

It definitely got I don't know where you draw the line But there wasn't a ton of trouble and it was like it was accepted. It got out of control. It definitely got out of control. I don't know where you draw the line. I think there's no tense. It seems to be a good, a good rule of thumb at the end of the day. Because once people, well, I think when it's got out of control, you probably have no choice at that point. Well, I mean, at that point.

But to do clean. Right. I mean, you can't allow like one or two or three that have been like, for and fathered in, like, how's that going to work? I don't know. Right. I mean, Joe talks talks up Austin all day long, but how many guests have come on and said, how sketchy that one street is where they perform comedy. Like most big cities have. they have they're like Yeah, yeah, and Austin like what is it? Street they keep talking about is it oh sick. Okay. I don't really know that town But yeah, yeah, I mean he's always trying to sell it and they're just like I don't know about that street pro chill out

Like it's a mess there, too. He probably's not down there very often. I imagine Seems like that. It seems like I wonder how far out that club is. They made more references to that. Yeah. No, he's getting close to like really finalizing it and chatting about it. But I think the other club that Joe was going to open fell through for some reason. And I actually talked to a guy up here randomly that said

he knew the people that Joe bought that first club off. But then we didn't really get in a detail like I didn't have enough time to chat with him about it. But I was like, oh that's interesting. He's like, yeah, but they've had some problems up there. So I think that deal fell through. I was like, huh, you can never tell who's full of shit though. That's true. But the guy was definitely from Austin. Yeah. And you talked to Joe about like what? How Joe kind of has survived the cancel culture thing, even though he gets some pressure about, you know, his lab leak theory thing, the vaccine stuff, some other things he said. But Joe just makes the joke.

He's like, ah, it's the number one podcast on earth, motherfuckers. And that's a good point. It's like at this point, it's speaking for itself. It's like who's trying to cancel you when the most people listen to your show? Like when I started this podcast, like what what five plus years ago, I mean, Joe's show wasn't like, like, it had a big audience, but it's just insurmountable. It's unbelievable. It seems how much of an impact it has to like, I met reference to it before it seems to

be kind of one of our biggest news sources at this point Given different for a lot of people. Yeah, I mean that's probably why it's important that Joe gets really good people on Talk about that thank God he's like into it and good at finding those people, but I knew yeah in a sense you could look at it like that would be a problem if he didn't get really amazing people on to discuss this stuff. Half the time though, honestly, I feel like the more of the comedy ones that we listen to, that, you know, sometimes we don't even review because it's like guests that have come on a bunch of times, they get friends of his.

Oftentimes the political end of those conversations get further, I feel like, like I almost learn more from that. It's like two kind of average joes, well, pun, but it's just regular conversation of two guys just chatting, talking about their personal experience and then dive virgin into, you know, where it hits. And it's an important conversation. I mean, it seems Andrew is pretty well thought out with like, he seems to know history pretty well too. You know, I mean, like he's not just speaking diligently.

Who? Yeah. I mean, speaking diligently in a certain way. Yeah, except is North Korean knowledge Korean knowledge seemed to know nothing about He was like his business Yeah, no, yeah, he's got to be on his own I thought I think maybe just make a joke that they didn't land I don't know, he's got to be on his own. I thought I think he's maybe just trying to make a joke that they didn't land. I don't know where he's going.

He's probably talking around. I mean, it probably was. Probably was. Anyway, let's call it for this week. Thanks as always guys for listening. We really appreciate you. Yeah, look forward to next week. I think we got Lex.

Lex on, right? That's all we know so far. Lex Friedman's coming on that's gonna be interesting guys robot and and yeah happy birthday again for Joe thank you Garrett and we're talking next week guys later you