Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - Joe Rogan Experience episodes 1126, 1127, mma 30 and 1128 reviewed

Episode Date: June 15, 2018

Guests on the Joe Rogan Experience this week we're   1126 Erik Griffin   1127 Jesse Itzler   MMA 30 Sean O'malley   1128 Ryan Sickler

Hello and welcome to podcast 2 of the JRE review. Fun thing about podcasts is when you start them out there's a lot of anticipation and angst towards who is ever going to listen and do you even know what you're doing. Fact is I have no idea what I'm doing with this. And I have no idea who's gonna listen. And what that does is it... me take multiple takes. So this is, let's just say, at least the second take of this podcast where I...

well and truly fucked up the first one. But that's it, that's how we learn. And then I put it off for like four days. So less than there, trying not to put things off, you know, get right back on that horse. But anyway, thanks for joining us. And we'll have some guests coming up. The next podcast I do, it'll be the podcast for week 24 of the year for Joe Rogan's, J.A.A.A. and review. I should have a guest, a good friend of mine coming in just a chat, kind of liven it up. And then hopefully another person I know that's done

podcast before and is an actor and I always have great conversations with so we're going to bring some people in and then you just don't have to listen to me just whaffling on my own all the time. Alright, so anyway week 23 it starts off with Eric Griffin. Eric Griffin best known for his role on Worker Hollacks as the grumpy older office guy. Eric is great. I've watched his standup for years, really talented standup too. He has a new special coming out and if you get the chance to watch it, do it for sure. I actually haven't seen that one but I've seen plenty of his standup in the past and he has a pretty unique and

way about going Around his comedy and he's very talented too like surprisingly talented Where he can just break into song and he's very Smooth and effortless with his transitions and it's very well rehearsed and than effortless with his transitions and it's very well rehearsed and absolutely hilarious, honestly. And when you listen to the concept of the comedy too, you just write out where the joke was and what was happening, he takes very simple, kind of unfunny events and really just crushes them. I mean, makes them great. Like, things as simple as watching a Disney movie, you know, and he starts singing along and

someone's complaining in the theater and it's, you know, a lot of comedians could do that joke and it could just die. But he really just, he pulls something magical out of it and, you know, a lot of that comes through on the podcast too. It's just really interesting guy to talk to. He was, he's a T-Tokes, that doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, right? He's dating like a 20 year old, but someone in their 20s, he's like 47. So yeah, maybe midlife crisis thing

or maybe whatever who knows. I'm not here to judge. But also friends with Justin Bieber, right? And Wilde is that. He says he actually knows the kid. So, and just describing how that kid lives his life. I mean, Wowser. I mean, Wowser. When Eric was trying to describe the level of power that this guy has, he was saying that when he first met Justin, he was at some sort of party.

And Justin just stood there and Eric's kind of close to him. And Justin turns to him and says, Hey, can I get a jack and coke or some drink? And Eric immediately was like, yep, and just went. When really, you know, you'd be like, what kid? Get your own fucking drink. But I think there's just something about that guy. I mean, there has to be, right?

Someone who could just send out a tweet and say, I'm horny. And then all of a sudden, there's lines longer than anything that you could ever see at Disneyland is around the corner of his house down the street for miles and miles of just hot chicks wanting to bang him. I mean, how he even controls himself in any way. I don't know. Maybe because he just practiced himself in any way. I don't know. Maybe because he just practiced since he was young.

Like he's been this famous since he was fucking 10 years old. I just can't imagine anyone giving that much power and acting normal. I would be an absolutely mass with that. But good for Justin. I don't listen to any of his music and whatever. So, yeah, that's Eric, he's got his new stat, special coming out, you gotta check it out. He needs the support, you know, this is where good comics get to show off their stuff. And it only takes a minute just to track it down, find it, put it on.

And, you know, and it's for you too. It's for the listener. It's not just to support him. It's like, you have the right to laugh. You have the right to know who's hilarious and who to look for and who will really cheer you up. And he's definitely a guy for that. So hopefully Eric will be back on.

Really enjoyed listening to it. And, you know, put anything in the comments if you had some questions or anything that you liked or if you watched this special and then you think hey that was fucking awesome. Let us know about it. It's good to get some feedback. So podcast 1127, Jesse Itzler. Right? This guy is is pretty badass. He's like a Tim Ferrissie type. Well maybe, I don't know, he's just like super motivated once to learn everything, intense type a guy who's made plenty of money with a coconut water company.

He's very successful. Also, he has a private jet company as well. So yeah, tons of money. Always looking for adventure. And he decides to go up upstate New York and live with these monks for 15 days. and they're like Russian orthodox I believe and Maybe there's some people that doesn't sound too bad, you know Maybe to some people listening it sounds like a bit of a vacation take a break chill out hang out with some monks You know drink tea whatever monks do But I think to this guy who's like moving

at a hundred miles an hour all the time, to go to a place that that's secluded, to sit quietly with, I believe there were 16 monks there, and you know know going to bed at like 8 p.m. 7 a.m. You're in your little You know room, but it's more like a cell. I think they even call their room cells and having to just sit and be alone with your thoughts I mean, it's a huge wake up call and he describes as the first couple of days just and he describes as the first couple of days just making him mad, like absolutely going out of his mind, he didn't know what to do. He said something like you ran over a hundred miles up and down the driveway

in the time that he was there, like a cumulative time. That's a lot of fucking running. I mean, that guy has some some angst, some anxiety that he's trying to work off. But yeah, he wrote a book about his experience and what's interesting is the monks that actually raise dogs. I think they raise German shepherds. So they train him and raise him and sell him and this is kind of how they keep the power on on and it's fascinating because they're so good at doing this now that they have they I think that The books been written about that too and it's it's one that Joe Rogan actually owned I believe and it's about

You know training your dog training a puppy Getting it ready for like, you know, but even it's also dog training a puppy getting it ready for like you know, by even a saw. So there he was surrounded by all these uh, German shepherds in these monks and having to just like really find himself. And what was cool about what he was talking about, and I love like the passion in his voice anyway, I mean he spoke so quickly and and powerfully that says he has a new relationship with time. Time is different.

And that's a fascinating one when I think people take, take a step back because a lot of people are moving very quickly. It's like, go, go, go, go, go, come on, come on, come on. And you know, you get a lot done. But then sometimes when you slow things down, you don't run out of time quicker. When you slow things down, you don't run out of time quicker. When you slow things down, you actually slow down time. When you just take a minute and go, whoa, hold on.

What am I getting done here? You kind of streamline it a bit. And I was thinking about this this morning, actually, and it's kind of a strange one. It's like you think the faster you move through your day, just plow a ticking shit off your to-do list and just ticking it all away. That's the way forward. But sometimes you could just take your daily to-do list and just scrap it and say, right, today is just for me. And you just stop and you think,

and you kind of reanalyze where you're going and what you're doing. He was saying that he was watching a ton of sports, right? You know, 10 plus hours a week sports on TV. While he gets back and he understands time differently, he wants more of this time for himself and this time is more important. And not necessarily just a waste of watching television. Not watching sports is all that much of a

waste, but eventually you're just like, well, can I do something else with this time that's more valuable? And I think that's where he was getting to with this, which I thought was really, really cool. And, you know, he has other strategies moving forward that really apply to this. Like, you're saying that he takes a week a year for adventure. Like, no matter what, no matter how busy he is, seven days, in a year, you know, who can't do that? Realistically, I think everyone can.

If you put that as a priority, and it's not about knocking out a bunch of other things that you need, it's just seven days. And if you really pick your adventure, I mean, it can be incredibly powerful. Just years fly by, and if you don't do it, five years can go, and you haven't done an adventure, maybe your body's not even holding together enough to do that kind of adventure. It's important. It's something that you got to focus on. And I love that message. I really did. He does a lot of corporate talks and you know, kind of just as a motivator and like, this is how I did what I did and given his message.

But one thing that Jesse says he likes to do when he talks in front of these people is that he likes to say, take all the feelings that you've had for your whole life, all the feelings, happy, sad, anxiety, stress for all the rest of it. Put them in a blender and give it a rating, right? And this was, it's an interesting experiment. But Joe Rogan called it out immediately. And I'm glad that he did. And this is, this is just one of those things where you realize, like really how in tune Joe is, because it's not just about him sitting there quietly and listening. He really applies it. He's like plugging this information in the algorithms that he has.

And if something doesn't come outright, if something doesn't equal one at the end, then it doesn't fit. It's wrong and he a question it. And I always love that about Joe, because it takes balls to do that. It takes balls to even identify it right away. And what Jesse was getting at is that the over rating is not all that high, you know? Maybe you could say five or four. Because if you think about it, a lot of your emotions or feelings

and not all that pleasant, because they're kind of motivating us to do things. You know, you've got to go take a shit, you've got to drink some water, you've got to eat some food, you've got to go to work, you've got to worry about these things at work in order to get them done. If you just felt great all the time, you wouldn't do a lot. So as a living organism that requires nutrients constantly and wants to reproduce, it's going to create impulses and feelings that motivate us through discomfort.

So there may be more discomfort than pleasure. You get that short period of time after you've done with tasks and you're like, ah, it feels good. But how long does that live before you got to get on with something else? So what this guy was trying to say is like, overall, look at your life this way and that number is barely low. Maybe you need to change some things. Well, maybe true. You need to change some things. But what Joe said is he goes, it's not about that. You know, it's not about like just that overall feeling. It's about, it's about all the different feelings at different times, because

you can't just do an average of it. If you do an average of it, maybe it doesn't look good, maybe it doesn't feel good. But then that's inescapable. But it's about organizing it in the right way. You know, if the discomforts come anyway, let's say they're inevitable. Well, if they're coming, why not choose them? So why not go to the gym and do a really killer hard workout? That's very uncomfortable. Well there we go, you've had your discomfort now. So now you can focus on some other things.

It's about choosing when you feel those things. If you can't get rid of them, if you have like all these different points of emotion that you have to hit every day, but you get to choose when they are, that's far better than letting the universe choose it for you. Who knows, that's just kind of bullshit talks for now, but it's just something that I think about. I think that's why someone like Joe Rogan works out so hard. Or, you know, even does stand up. I mean, a lot of people that do stand up,

that's a battle between torturing yourself and really loving something. I mean, it's brutal. It's brutal. And it's not just a 100% fun payoff, even for the guys at the top like Joe. It's very difficult. Like right now, he's writing new material I saw him recently and so what he does it looks like he does like 10 minutes and new stuff and then he goes and does the

some more of his older stuff that's more polished because he has to have some stuff up there that really hits. Well the new stuff is God bless him it's clunky but it remember he's one of the best at doing God bless him, it's clunky. But remember, he's one of the best at doing this. It has to be clunky. It's how it is for all these guys. He's still so natural, like he's so practiced and talented when it comes to his stand-up anyway, that he can turn some clunky material into something good. He knows how to follow the energy to crowd and get some laughs. But I'd never seen it before. I'd never seen him really play with some new material, and it's different to watch it.

It's a challenge. It must make him sweat. He must get nervous up there. And that's him choosing the difficult parts of his day. And it just makes the rest of your day, God, not so difficult. If you've had the hardest part and you chose it, it's just like somehow you just don't worry as much about the other little issues that pop up. It's, it seems to be pretty universal. I like it.

Another thing Jesse talked about, which I really liked is carving out three hours a day for himself. I don't know how he manages and what he does with that time, but three hours a day is a lot of time and I like that he is doing it. I think that is fantastic. And I don't know how I would take that on myself or where, like how I would fit that in, but man, it sounds good, doesn't it?

What would you do? What would you do with three hours to yourself a day? Like a free three hours, no work, no nothing. Three hours. Have a think about it. Because if it is something that you're just like, wow, I've thought of these like six, seven great things, maybe it's something you should do. Maybe it's something you should find a way.

He and build it up, start with an hour. Work it into three, so if you can prioritize like that. You know? The idea is that these, taking this time for yourself and taking these moments isn't just a break that allows you to do less, but it's overall benefit allows you to do more. And it's hard to see it because it's kind of counterintuitive, like saying, wait, I won't do anything for three hours a day.

What? Like, you're not gonna get anything done, but maybe you just feel so much calmer that you just don't come across those hurdles, those roadblocks, those procrastination points that stop you getting things done because you just have more peace Who knows something to think about Next up this was a great podcast

JRE MMA 30 Sean O'Malley Tim Welch Sean O'Malley if you're not familiar with this guy this UFC fighter Lanky, Skinny, Part Smoking, Killer. This guy is a wild animal. He's so good, so technical, so fierce,

closes the gap, absolutely crushes. He's great to watch. I really liked listening to this podcast. Just because in so many ways, it's like the same journey that a lot of people are taking. You know, he's talking about how he learns, like when he's not training, he's listening to podcasts, and he's learning this information. It's like forget school, forget college. He's spending his day just absorbing fantastic conversations from great people. and then using that to discipline himself and getting back to work and training like a killer. I really do think he's going to be a champ.

He just, he's just doing all the right things and he's phenomenal. He's ten and oh from Montana. Love that state. Yeah, I can't say enough about about who he is and how he puts things together. Really, really cool guy. And he's on this like total mind and body exploration. It's not just about eating right, it's not just about training right, it's about thinking right and being honest. Which is a fascinating thing because it just shows that people draw a parallel. Back in the day you just get these fighters that are just the tank the tank habits or the rampage jacksons, they're just big, strong,

you know, killer fighters and then they're aggressive and in their regular life, they're just kind of, you know, flippant and, and however they are. And then you don't draw that connection, you know, that this is a martial artist. You just see people as thugs. And then someone like GSP comes along who is wonderful, super nice guy, very friendly, calm, meditates, does a lot of gymnastics and shows that the mind and body, in every other aspect of his life, he does well. And that is what spills over into keeping him so strong with his fighting, because he leaves no area that's not perfection. And that's really inspiring. And I think that sort of thing

is it's by a lot of these young guys. you're not getting thugs that are drinking and smoking and then coming in there and just kicking people's heads off. You just can't compete at that level. You can't go in with those demons in your head because the true enemy is yourself and if you're living in an unhealthy lifestyle and then you're going into the UFC with the level of competition that there is. I don't think you can keep yourself sane anymore. This is why so many of these guys are clean and focused and like real athletes and that's it's so bad to ask to see it. You know, and he talks

about that with his, with his, you know, explorations into shrooms like Sean O'Malley once, you know, explorations into shrooms, like Sean O'Malley wants, you know, likes that, likes to really get inside and see what his mind is doing and reevaluates. You know, he wasn't talking about these things like, oh, I use a bunch of drugs and I'm a druggy. He's talking about him very much like they're a medicine. A medicine that helps keep him focused and yeah, wild. Yeah. Badass guy. Badass guy can't wait to see more and it is coached there, good friend, mentor, Tim Welch. It really nice guy to a great person to have in Sean's life and yeah he wants to be in line for Connor. I mean, very real possibility of that.

I mean, if he starts, continues to do well. I mean, that's a great match up for Connor. That's the kind of thing Connor would want to take because their fighting stars very similar. O'Malley's Jiu-Jitsu is solid, but I mean, he's gonna wanna stay on his feet. He's gonna wanna box it out the way Conor likes to. He's got Reach over Conor, but Conor,

that doesn't really matter. We saw what he did to Diaz. Be a great fight. I would love to see that happen. Next up, 1128, Ryan Sickler. Great comedian, hilarious guy. Great stories. What a fucking cool dude. And he just has this hilarious high-pitched

laugh that's you know kind of very childlike and really amusing and any time that he'd like a giggle. I mean it was more of a giggle if anything like he he he I mean it was just brilliant. I really love listening to him talk. He's got a Baltimore accent, you know, so it's like Northeast. It has a podcast called Crab Feast podcast. I think it was, I really can't remember. I should write more of this shit down. I apologize. But it's supposed to be a good podcast. He enjoys doing it really has a good time with it.

And yeah, they just got into some great stories. I mean, one of my favorite right off the bat is when Ryan almost killed his cousin. They got super high and then he smashed his head on a bannister and knocked himself out. That was fucking hilarious. He, he, a big fisherman too, like really into fishing, loves to do that. And when they were talking about different fish and they got onto the I think it's called the alligator gar. This thing, if you guys haven't Googled this, you can take a look at it. It's the most ridiculous fish you've ever seen. It's just straight up like an arm-adplated fish with an alligator head. So I give a little kid designed their own fish, like a super monster fish. You're gonna put that on. I mean you would

maybe a shark's head would do. I don't want to guess amongst fish I have like sharks heads anyway but yeah this thing is ridiculous looks terrifying and uh supposedly people catch it and eat it so I don't know why the fuck anyone's doing that shit. Another great video they pulled up is when Randy Johnson, the whole of Famer, baseball, killed the dove with the pitch. Now I'm sure most of you have seen this. I never had. I never seen this as far as I can remember, but this pitch, he's taking a fastball, throws it and this dove just flies right in front of him, boom, just a massive explosion of feathers and this thing is dead, D-E-A-D-D. It is kind of funny. All right, it does die, the making of that, but it was an intentional, and even the picture fell bad about it. So since it happened, it's just

one dove we can laugh about it. It's perfectly fine. Ryan was also really interested. He's a big part smoker. I think he said he did some acid, but he didn't know much about DMT and he talked to Joe about that. And there's, you just would Joe, it's like Tourette. Or no, I would better way describe it. It's like verbal diarrhea.

As soon as you mentioned DMT, he can't not talk about it. He just, he's so polished with the way that he talks about this. And yeah, he just went for it. He, he, he really got into like, you know, how, what you learn, how amazing it is, what it looks like, but then also talked about dog stand hopes version of how far behind he is and how life eats life. And Joe's like, oh fuck man, I don't care, I'm just glad you're alive. So, Bruto, Bruto, but you know, it's important that he throws that down, right? Because what's the point of just telling everybody

that you're gonna have a great time when he himself has seen somebody really struggle with it. I mean, that only makes sense to like give a bit of a warning. What I liked about it though, it goes, the beef, you know, dog, dog's kind of held together with duct tape, just kind of describing how grossly unhealthy Doug Stanhope is, God bless him, and loosely held together by duct

tape, I think is how he described it, but very funny. And then along that, along with that kind of line of questioning, he talked about the benefits of CBD and the uses of it and how beneficial that is. I don't really know the deal with CBD. I don't think it's classified federally as any sort of illegal drug. It's the non-psychoactive version of THC, which is tetrahedral cannabinoid, you know, this shit in weed. So you don't get high, you just get relaxed, and I think it's supposed to be good for inflammation and pain, and the uses of it are rising. I mean, they've got creams now, they've got stuff that's really good. And it'd be interesting, need to do some some more studies on that but if they find some really good Benefits of it

And as far as I know it's not a pain killer that's bad for your kidney or your liver and those sorts of things I mean usually pain killers are and that's the problem with them We just can't find good ones that don't cause other damage. It's pretty bad Hopefully they find some good uses out of CBD cuz hey we're all getting old people shit's gonna start hurting and I don't know So every week when I do G-Git so I'm like oh god what have I broken this week? You just like tentatively leaving class like am I ribs good? My ribs? Yep. All right. I'm good. I'm good. The last thing they talked about which was really cracking me up

was the foreign accents syndrome. Foreign accents syndrome is something that they jumped on and Tom Segura talked about on his comedy special and it's where someone will get have an injury like a head injury and then they will wake up and then they will have an accent That's from a different country. Well Joe is Super skeptical of this like anyone should be because it sounds like the most Bullshit thing ever though. It could be real But what I really liked about is when he was reading out the condition He just kind of changed the definition midway and he was like for an accent syndrome is a rare condition only crazy people get and that just crap I think I listened to

that like five times it was such a well-placed like hilarious thing to say oh it just cracks me up but yeah I mean what do you feel it's on that you think it's real you think somebody can bang their head and then wake up and they're like But yeah, I mean, what do you feel it's on that? You think it's real? You think somebody can bang their head and then wake up and they're like talking like they have a French accent? I mean, it just, it's very bizarre. Like what the heck is going on there?

Like people that have never even been to those countries, it seems like nonsense. But anyway, great fucking week of podcast. Really enjoyed it, really good guess. And coming up next week, we've got Tom Papa and some others. I'm not saying that.