Joe Rogan Experience #2499 - Marcus King
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>> What's up, Marcus? Good to see you,
brother. What's happening?
>> It's crazy to be here.
>> It's crazy to have you here, man. And
thank you so much for the guitar. That's
the dopest [ __ ] that anybody's ever
given me.
>> Oh, man. I hope you like it.
>> I'm sure I like it. I just can't play.
And I I would love to learn how to play,
but I know my brain and I I can't give
my brain another thing to do.
>> You've got a lot.
>> Well, the problem is I get obsessed with
things. And then
>> me, too.
>> I'm sure you can't get as good as you
got without getting obsessed.
>> Are you like this? Like I don't like
doing things I'm not good at.
>> I love doing things I'm not good at to
get good at them.
>> Right. But it's it's it's just it's not
leisurely to me to play golf. Like I
can't enjoy it because I'm I'm bad at
it. Well, you'll enjoy it if you get
good at it, but the problem is to get
good at it, then you got to get
obsessed. Yeah. And then you got to take
less. Like Jamie's got a [ __ ] virtual
reality thing in the back where he
whacks balls every day. He's a
>> Oh, yeah.
>> He's obsessive.
>> Recovering from hitting today.
>> Sweating. Wow.
>> Hot.
>> My drummer is a really good golfer.
>> Golf is one of those things that if you
get into that, man, that's your whole
[ __ ] day. That's
>> three or four days a week on the road.
When I was living in Boston, I noticed
that the comedians that really got into
golf, their career kind of stalled
>> because all they were they were just
playing golf all day, having fun,
drinking, and then they would go to the
club at night, but they weren't writing
any new jokes. They weren't obsessing
>> on their career. They kind of stalled
out a little.
>> When I still drank, I really liked
golfing. Then I quit drinking. I was
like, I don't really like this.
>> When did you quit drinking? Uh well I
quit a few times but uh most recent time
was like a year and a half ago.
>> Were you quitting because it was you
were just off the rails or like got to
get your health in order?
>> Uh it was a it was kind of a combo deal,
you know. Um like when I met my wife uh
at that point I thought that I could
drink like a gentleman. Um and it just
never really worked out that way. There
was, you know, there's just something in
me that just wanted to completely burn
my life to the ground every time I
drank, you know,
>> a real destructive quality.
>> Ooh, that's not good.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Fortunately, I never had that. But
that is a thing. I've seen that. What is
that?
>> I think it's
I think a lot of it is repressed
emotions.
Um, and that's where they find you when
your when your brain is
>> off the bottle.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> They go, "Hey, Marcus."
>> Yeah, man.
>> Let's get those problems out.
>> It seduces me. It's like, you don't need
anybody. [ __ ] everybody. That woman that
married you, she you don't want her.
Like,
>> I think sometimes people do that to
almost like save themselves from
heartbreak. Sometimes you kind of like
wreck it yourself. It's like making fun
of yourself before anyone else can.
Right.
>> It's like that thing.
>> Yeah. Right. Like just assume it's going
to go bad eventually. Let's get this
[ __ ] train on the tracks right now.
Crack pour.
>> That was that was kind of my, you know,
that was my approach for a while. I just
um I don't know, man. I was just I
didn't want to feel anything. So that
was all that was where it would always
end up because I remember even asking my
wife like a couple years ago we opened
up for the AIT brothers in Raleigh,
North Carolina. And at that point, I'd
been sober for like six months and I was
like, I really think I can handle it,
you know? And then and then got to it's
like famous last words like I chug a a
jumbo white claw. Like I started with a
jumbo white claw and I just got
completely hammered, blacked out. Pissed
my wife off so bad. Like I woke up and I
was at our friend's house still like on
the floor
>> and she left in my bus
>> and like my wallet everything was on the
bus. I had no identification. She was
like, "You can [ __ ] figure it out,
man."
>> Wow.
>> And uh the bus turned around come and
got me. But
>> um
>> yeah, she doesn't play any games.
>> So did you stop then?
>> Yeah, I did. I did.
>> Oh, so one night? Yeah, I had one night
off the leash and I realized I couldn't
handle it, you know? There's just some
kind of quality in me that's like I
can't stop, you know? And maybe someday
I'll find that it's like I got to get
right in here, you know, and in here
>> with myself
>> before I can really
>> consider that again.
>> I quit drinking for about eight months
just because I realized I just wasn't
feeling good. I was doing because of the
club. I was at the club every night and
you know it's like one night someone
would say, "Hey, let's do shots." I'll
do a shot. I want to be, you know,
cordial, hang out with everybody, sense
of community. Let's all do it together.
Come on, boys. And then, you know, it's
two drinks, three drinks. Go home, get
up, feel like [ __ ] work out, do it
again the next day, feel even shittier
the next day. And it's like, god damn, I
got to take some time off. So, I took
about eight months off, I think. I think
I'm not exactly sure how much time I
took off. And then, uh, I had like a
drink with dinner one night and I said,
"This all right." And so, since then,
I've never gotten drunk. I've only had a
drink or two.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, so I've managed it, but I was
not an alcoholic. I was just realizing
that all this fun was it was messing up
the rest of my time. I was like, "What
is it? There's an expression that when
you're drinking like the you're you're
taking a loan out on the good times that
you could have had for some good times
you can have right now and then you got
to pay it back."
>> Yeah. With with interest.
>> Yeah. Well, physic the problem is
physically for me it just wasn't worth
it.
>> I just I would be working out at the gym
going, "Why why am I doing this? I keep
feeling like shit." And every time I'm
working out, I'm pushing through all
this, you know, toxic [ __ ] that I poured
down my throat the night before. And my
body's recovering from it. So, I feel
tired and drained. And then my brain
wasn't working as well, you know?
That was that's what it was for me was
like the anxiety
>> and just like the um the dopamine
depletion
>> and just feeling just completely just
like and I'm somebody who was already
struggling with like that's why I drink
in the first place. It's like my mental
issues and just anxiety and depression
and and then it would just kind of hit
me tfold the next day. Um,
>> it's always interesting to me someone
with anxiety chooses a path in life like
live performing.
>> Yeah.
>> Because like if there's anything that
gives people anxiety, it's live
performing and you're really good at it,
>> which is crazy. It's like, you know,
you're you're picking this thing that
you're really good at, but that gives a
lot of people anxiety and you have
anxiety to begin with.
>> Yeah. I mean, it's like there's there's
something to that. It's like Dan Soder,
I always quote him on this. He's like,
you know, I go around each night like
craving the approval of like thousands
of people a night. You're like, you
didn't think I was doing that cuz things
went well growing up, you know? Like,
I'm [ __ ] up. I need I need all these
people to tell me I'm doing a good job.
But
um
>> I think the idea is that eventually you
channel that and when you get yourself
the idea some people have this idea that
if you ever get yourself together
somewhat
and I don't think anybody ever gets
totally together but you get yourself
together somewhat and then you don't you
don't do it for the approval of it. who
do it for the love of the art of it,
>> the thing, and bringing the thing to
people and getting enjoyment out of
having these people have a good time. Y
>> I think you I think that can be done. I
think you can shift your focus from I
just want these people's love to I want
to give them love. I want everyone to
have a good time, you know? I want to be
up there just [ __ ] having a good
time. They're having a good time. We all
have a good time together. I make their
lives feel better for a brief moment. I
feel better. Everybody's Everybody's
better off.
>> And that's the [ __ ] man. That's what I
crave. And that I mean, that's why like
we just did a run of Texas Honky Tons,
which that's that was kind of the the
goal was just to get everybody in these
sweaty rooms just for the purpose of
just like enjoying music again, getting
back to these sticky floors.
>> Yeah. Well, you reached out to me
because we were talking on the podcast
about how rock and roll is kind of dead.
And you said, "Fucking rock and roll
ain't dead. Come on." And I was like,
"All right. Well, is anybody that could
tell me that rock and roll is not dead?
It's Marcus King, man."
Yeah. I was um my boy Ben Jernigan, he
told me, he was like, "You should text
Joe." Cuz I I I'm an avid listener. I
was like, "You think I should say
something?" He's like, "Yeah, [ __ ]
tell Rock and Roll ain't dead, man. It's
here tonight. Green Hall.
>> Well, it's not dead, but it's different.
>> And a lot of the rock that's out now
that's doing really well is like a
southern inspired rock, which is
interesting. There's like a southern
almost country like rock, like bluesy
country rock, you know, red clay strays,
like that kind of [ __ ] They're doing
great. Yeah.
>> It's like there's a lot of that out
there, you know, like people people are
digging that kind of music, but there's
just, you know, when I talk about like
rock, I mean, like when I was in high
school, it was all Van Halen, AC/DC,
like that. There was so many big rock
and roll bands, the Stones, you know,
there was just so much of that out
there. And it's odd that there's not a
lot of big bands like that anymore.
>> I think it's coming back around.
>> I got to hope so.
>> It doesn't make sense to me because like
the classic rock is still like we're
we're in the green room and uh Freeird
comes on. Still everybody's going nuts.
>> I mean,
>> you know, I mean there's classics.
Another southern rock and roll band,
Leonard Skard. But there's there's still
like a love of that kind of music, but
it's just it's weird that it kind of,
you know, just didn't I don't know what
happened.
>> Well, it's interesting how cyclical the
music industry can be. And like
>> I feel like for the first time in the
last 10 years, like since Urban Cowboy
came out, like cuz I mean for the last
10 years I've been going to LA with a
cowboy hat on and I always get the same
[ __ ] like, "Well, where do you want to
park your horse?" You know, like, "What
are you up to, cowboy?" People just
talking [ __ ] But now I go out there and
everybody's got a cowboy hat on. Really?
>> It's like chic. Yeah,
>> that's interesting.
>> It's like in Vogue,
>> like the cowboy thing
>> and makes you not want to wear a cowboy
hat.
>> Well, you know, it's just I think rock
and roll is kind of having a a similar
resurgence.
>> God, I hope so. I hope so. You know, I
mean, there's got to be people out there
that still love it. And I just don't I
mean, I just don't understand how
there's no new big bands like that.
>> Well, it's interesting. You know, I was
actually I was in the gym watching um
Led Zeppelin at Royal Albert Hall.
>> Oh, wow.
>> And I was like, "This is a [ __ ] jam
band. They're jamming."
>> Mhm.
>> You know,
>> and I'm like, it just like the Almond
Brothers band was a jam band, but like
they had guidelines and that's kind of
how we do our show. like we have songs
that we're playing just to get to that
that improvisational section where we
can just kind of, you know, work with
the chemistry of the crowd and each
other on stage.
>> And it's just um
it's interesting to me like the way
things have become subdivided, you know?
It's like you're not a jam band unless
it's like widespread or like Fish or
like the Dead or something like that.
But like Zeppelin was a [ __ ] jam
band.
>> Yeah. In a lot of ways. Yeah. Especially
when they're performing live.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. It's
What is that band that sounds like
Zeppelin?
>> Gretan Fleet.
>> Yeah. Gretan Fleet. They're [ __ ]
great. They are great.
>> It's weird.
>> It's weird cuz they sound so much like
Zeppelin. But they're really good. So
like I give them a pass.
>> They get a pass from me. I mean they're
my boys. I I really I really like those
dudes. Like we used to party together a
bunch. They live in Nashville. And uh
the guitar player, Jake, he's
um he's just the sweetest guy. Like he
gave me a housewarming gift. He's like
really into pirate stuff.
>> Pirate stuff.
>> Yeah. He's really into piracy. And he
gave me he gave me a like a like a um
like a musket pistol.
>> Oh wow.
>> Like what a pirate would have carried
around. I got
>> a real one.
>> Yeah.
>> So like from the olden days.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh [ __ ] That's got to be worth a lot of
[ __ ] money.
>> Yeah. I mean, they're doing pretty well.
>> Wow. What is a old musket pistol run?
How much can you get one of them for?
See if you can find something, Jamie.
>> Musket.
>> Yeah, an old musket pistol. You know,
when um the concistadors took over
Mexico. That's They had 12 of those.
That's it.
>> 12 guns.
>> 12 musket pistols.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah. I looked that up on Perplexity. I
was I was diving deep into how the [ __ ]
Mexico became Spanish.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, like what happened? How did
they like they lost like a hundred
indigenous languages at least?
>> Wow.
>> It's kind of crazy. But here it is.
>> What? You can get one from 195 bucks.
>> Modern reproduction.
>> Oh, reproductions. What about a real one
>> down here?
>> Antique ones. Uh 17th century Barbie
wars antique pirate flint lock pistol
recently sold for $416. That's it.
>> Yeah.
>> H
>> that seems crazy.
>> That seems crazy. That's a
>> It's pretty good for a gift budget.
>> I'd say it looks based off how many
reproductions and what you just said
there being 12 back then. There might
not be that many of them that exist. So
they have to make reproductions. But if
this says antique pirate era musketss
and it said it sold for 416 bucks I mean
from the 17th century.
>> Maybe it sucks. Maybe it's a bad one.
That's all they can get.
>> But it's from the 1600s and it sold for
416 bucks.
>> I'll try to look it up.
>> Can you see what what those look like?
>> This should show up.
>> We'll see if we can get one.
>> We should get one and put it on the
wall. Oh [ __ ] Look at that one.
>> How much is that one?
>> That's I think that's the one that sold
for 400 bucks. That says $155. What?
>> That's crazy.
>> How are they so cheap?
>> There's the one for 416.
>> God, that seems like they should be
almost priceless.
I mean, this is from the [ __ ] 1600s
and it's sold for 400 bucks.
That one sold for 200 bucks.
>> Wow.
>> Just go pick them up. There's a store in
Austin. I bet they've got a bunch.
>> No way.
>> Yeah.
>> Really?
>> Well, I went to the store. Well, they've
got a bunch of weird [ __ ] like this.
They must They would have to have them
if they're only 300 bucks, I guess. I
would say.
>> And all kinds of armor and guns and
cannons and weird [ __ ]
>> What? What place is this?
>> It's called like Collector's
I'll look it up real quick.
>> There's something weird about those
dudes who like uh want to recreate wars.
>> Yeah,
>> that's an odd thing. That's a very odd
thing.
>> Yeah. I mean, I've got the facial hair
of a Civil War reactor, but that's about
as close as I get.
>> On the wall.
>> Oh, wow.
>> That's in Austin.
>> Yeah.
>> No [ __ ]
>> Yeah.
>> Well, that's pretty [ __ ] dope.
>> Yeah.
>> Collector's Crossroads.
>> Popped in there one day to see what it
was about.
>> And they have little musket pistols.
>> They got all kinds of [ __ ]
>> I wonder how do you know the
>> crossbows swords?
>> Crossbow's just a shitty gun.
I'm not a fan.
>> What if it was a pirates crossbow?
>> Yeah, I guess it's kind of cool. But
it's just uh
it is weird that we're really into like
old like you you know it's interesting
you're holding something that's a piece
of history. And what history is is like
at the time this was the [ __ ]
>> Like at the time this was like the
coolest thing you can get. Like 400
years ago if you wanted to kill somebody
this was the way to do it. You had to
get one of these things, which is very
odd.
>> Yeah,
>> it's just very odd that
>> Oh, look at all this stuff.
>> I don't know if it was George Washington
[ __ ] there, but they had That's what it
looks like. It would be
>> George Washington swords.
>> I don't know.
>> We should get one of those for Shane.
He's a big George Washington fan.
>> Look, there you go.
>> Oh, wow. Look at that.
That's crazy.
>> So, yeah. I mean, I don't even know what
that
>> That's a weird one. Look at the handle
on that [ __ ]
>> Says from Middle East, Central Asia.
That could be
>> Oh, look. It's got like a dragon mouth
on the back of it.
>> That's pretty sweet.
>> Wow.
>> Huh.
>> All right. So,
>> we need one of those.
>> All right. Let's take a road trip,
Jamie.
>> We should probably do it before this
episode comes out.
>> Grab it tonight.
>> Yeah, we need to go down there today
before this episode go [ __ ] up their
business.
Go there. It's empty. All these dorks
have [ __ ] armor all over their house
now.
It's just people that are really into
like the old wars and recreating old
wars. I always I always want to know
like what's wrong with you? Like what
happened to you? Like
>> Yeah. It's um I grew up with a kid that
was like that that was obsessed with
like everything Army, Navy. Um but he
his father was in the military but he
had never gone into the military. They
wouldn't they wouldn't accept him.
>> Why?
>> I don't know. He was I don't think he
could ever pass the physical. He was a a
bigger dude.
>> Oh, okay.
>> His name was Maurice.
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They say that 77% of American kids can't
pass the physical to get into the
military.
>> I believe it, man. Just based on my own
experience, like I remember the
presidential fitness test. Like that's a
that's a bad memory of mine. Just
hanging on the the pull-up bar in front
of all my my classmates and not being
able to do one pull-up. Just hanging
there.
>> What is the presidential fitness test?
>> Uh it's something they did when I was a
kid. It's like they wanted to make sure
that you could do like 10 push-ups or
however many pull-ups or whatever.
>> How many pull-ups do you have to do for
the presidential fitness test?
>> Uh well, there's different standard, but
they literally, this was going on last
week. They just started it up again.
Donald Trump had uh like Bryson Desambo
in the White House with a couple guys.
Gary Player, golfer.
>> Well, they had kids in there also.
>> That's funny.
>> It's funny because you I' I'd go, "Hey,
why don't you do it?
>> Let me see you do a [ __ ] up, bro."
>> 22 push-ups for a 10-year-old.
>> 22 push-ups. That's a lot.
>> Yeah. 45 curl-ups. That's crazy.
>> Six pull-ups. That's a lot. What's a
curl up? with the other way like biceps.
Uh hands, you know, pull up with your
hands.
>> 45.
>> Yeah.
>> Come on.
>> That's crazy.
>> Wait a minute.
>> In an 8 minutee mile.
>> Come on. Is that really?
>> It says six pull-ups or 45 curl-ups. But
curl-ups aren't that much easier than
pull-ups, are they?
>> I remember when I was 10, they were.
>> What?
>> But that's just being a 10-year-old cuz
your body you only weigh like 60, you
know? I don't know. Kids are light.
Usually, lighter than I am. I was
heavier than most.
>> Yeah, that's I was going to say there
are different standards. I remember kids
some
>> But bro, 45 is crazy. That seems That
seems excessive.
>> That seems like a lot of reps. I don't
even understand how that's possible.
That that's the standard. I don't think
I could do that.
>> Uh actually, I think there are sit-ups.
It's calling it a curl-up cuz here it
says it measures abdominal strength.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sit-ups.
>> Okay. Oh, why are they calling it
curl-ups? cuz it was like 45 chin-ups.
So, it's like there's pull-ups and
chin-ups. Which one's a pull-up? Which
one's a chin-up?
>> Pull-up hands over.
>> Okay. And then chin up.
>> And I was saying, "Yeah, that's what I
>> 45 of those would be bonkers. That's cra
I can't do that. That's cuz like six
pull-ups I could do easy." But 45 But
sit-ups is still hard. That's hard, too.
>> Well,
>> that's a lot.
>> It's a standard,
>> huh?
>> Not every kid's there. That seems like a
lot of kids wouldn't be there for 45
situps.
>> Yep.
>> What are they trying to do?
>> What are they doing to us?
>> I would fail on that, too. So, they
couldn't draft me. These [ __ ]
are talking about drafting people. I was
listening to Tim Dylan show and he was
saying that Pal see if this is true that
Palunteer thinks that uh we should
reintroduce conscription conscription
that kids should start getting drafted
again into military and they should have
mandatory military experience for kids.
I just don't understand why anybody
would want to support that. That sounds
crazy,
especially after this Iran war where
everybody's like, "Why the [ __ ] are we
in Iran?" And if you signed up for that,
that sounds nuts. Is that real?
Palanteers publicly call for the US to
move away from an allv volunteer
military and towards some form of
universal national service that many
observers interpret as reintroducing a
draft or conscription.
>> Yeah, Tim got into this manifesto that I
didn't I haven't looked into this yet.
>> Why the [ __ ] would a tech company be
saying that we need to move towards a
universal national military service? How
about [ __ ] you?
How about [ __ ] you, youug go?
Because you know none of these tech
dorks that are running these companies,
they're not doing it. Like what are you
what are you talking about?
>> Yeah.
>> Throwing meat into the machine, right?
>> Throwing people's children into these
unnecessary wars. [ __ ] you.
>> It's scary.
>> It's very scary. It's scary that they
would like how about let's figure out a
way to use your technology so there's no
more wars. Wouldn't that be a better
goal,
>> right?
>> Instead of getting kids to [ __ ] learn
how to go shoot people they don't know.
>> Sure.
>> Because someone tells you to.
>> And how many of these out of all the
wars that we've been in since World War
II? Is it zero that made sense? I think
it's zero. I don't think there's one war
that we've been in since World War II
that makes any [ __ ] sense at all.
>> Sure. and they're like, I think the the
solution is we need more people to be
forced into it.
>> I mean, what would a draft look like in
today's culture? I mean, like with
inclusion, would it be like anybody at
18 years old can be drafted or do you
think it would still be just able-bodied
young men?
>> That's a good question.
I, you know, I'm for people doing
whatever they want, but when it comes to
like combat,
you're going to draft women, that would
be [ __ ] insane.
That would be insane.
So, are you not going to Are you going
to be sexist? Are you going to Yeah. Are
you going to go inclusion and say
everybody has to do it? Well, then
that'll be good for America cuz most
people would say, "Get the [ __ ] out of
here. Yeah, there's not a chance in hell
we're doing that,
>> right?
>> I just don't understand how people that
aren't elected officials that
essentially just run a tech company
would think it's a good idea to call for
national military service. I've heard
other people say that, too. I've heard
like podcasters and weird tech people
say it's a good idea. And I don't know
what the [ __ ] they're thinking. I think
they should have to go over there and
experience war and then and then come
back and see if you really think the
same thing.
>> Sure. I I buy that. I mean, or at least
go on like a USO tour or something. Go
with Jeffrey Ross to see what it's
about, you know?
>> Well, then you're just going to meet
people that are happy to see you. You
need to actually see combat.
I just don't get why we're even
listening to them. You You make
software. Keep doing that.
>> Yeah. It's interesting that they would
even have the
>> like why would they say that?
>> It doesn't No, it doesn't sound good.
And it's also they make weird
surveillance software that a lot of
people are like but how much are you
surveillance how much power do you have?
Like Tim Dylan went pretty deep on it on
the show which is I can't recommend
enough. If you did not listen to Tim
Dylan show you're [ __ ] up. It's the
funniest [ __ ] take on all the chaos
that's going on in the world. I don't
think there's anybody better right now.
His His podcast is [ __ ] phenomenal.
Um it's my must listen to podcast every
week.
>> Yep.
>> It's so good.
I just listen. But if you watch it, it's
even more ridiculous. He was He did this
thing about them giving OMPic to babies.
It was so funny. It was so ridiculous.
My dad did Ozmpic and he said, he said,
"Man, you know, like you can eat through
that." He's like, he's like, "You can
just keep going. I mean, you won't feel
great, but you know, it curves your
appetite, but you can you can get it
down." Well, Tim talked about it because
he did it and he said it didn't just
stop his desire for food, it stopped his
desire for everything,
which I've heard. Um, so there's some
people that think there's some good in
these GLP1s for addiction. Um, because
it curbs whatever that is as well. So,
it can help people with all kind all
kinds of addictions, too. Not just like
food addictions, alcohol, but gambling,
like weird stuff.
>> I heard that.
>> Yeah,
>> I did. I actually I was doing it for a
minute and it was around the time that I
was like one of the times I was trying
to quit drinking and I was working on a
record and um I was trying it out and it
actually curbed my desire for a drink.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> What else did it do?
>> Gave me really bad stomach cramps.
>> Yeah.
And also, I mean, that was like before I
really
I just I don't know at that at that time
in my life, I just wasn't really
concerned about what I put in my body,
you know? I say that while I'm smoking a
cigarette, but you know,
but dude, you're you're smoking natural
spirits. I think those are safe and
effective.
>> Yeah. You know, additive free.
>> Yeah. Um, I just, uh, I always wonder
about these things when things come
along that give people an easy fix.
Like, okay, maybe it works or maybe
there's some sort of side effect that's
going to [ __ ] you up for the rest of
your life. And for some people, there
is. I mean, some people are experiencing
all kinds of wild side effects. Stomach
paralysis is one of them. Um, Brian
Simpson got pancreatitis from it.
>> Really?
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah. He was sick in bed for like two
weeks. It [ __ ] him up. Yeah. Well,
yeah. I mean, the long-term effects like
you just have no idea because it's new.
>> You know,
>> I've also heard that the problem is the
dosages are too high and what, you know,
when you go into a doctor, they give you
a standard dosage and the way to do it,
some people feel, is to make a much
smaller dose than what they're
prescribing. And that that's what you
need. You just need a little bit of a
curb to it. Not like a complete
sessation of all desire to eat,
>> right? Get to that that high dosage
really fast could probably be harmful.
>> Or have some [ __ ] discipline. How
about try that out? How about try out
don't eat as much.
>> Same thing, right?
>> Except this way it's not going to kill
your body or kill your stomach or make
you go blind or what? What are the side
effects?
>> I was just looking
>> because there's a lot of lawsuits.
There's a [ __ ] ton of lawsuits that are
coming down the pipe because I think
people have gone blind. I think I might
have made that up. Chuck that.
But this there's some wild lawsuits.
>> Yeah.
>> Where people are claiming bad side
effects from this stuff, which you know
makes sense. It's a medication. People
vary biologically.
>> Can cause vision.
>> Permanent blindness.
>> Yeah. So
>> in one eye. Oh, well, you know, you got
your other guy and now you got a
six-pack.
>> Eye stroke.
>> Eye stroke. Oh, boy.
>> Wow.
>> Woo. Non arteritic anterior eskeemic
optic neuropathy. I don't think I said
that right. Sudden painless and often
permanent blindness in one eye.
>> Sounds like a punk band.
>> It does.
>> There's the other ones.
side effects. Uh, acute pancreatitis,
that's what Brian got, gallbladder
problems, gastroparesis,
stomach paralysis, bowel obstructions,
and potential thyroid tumors. H, mild GI
issues are common. These severe
complications require immediate medical
attention, often occurring more
frequently at higher doses. Yeah, that's
what they're saying. Uh it's apparently
when you're getting it from a
pharmaceutical drug company, you're
getting it that this is the argument for
um compoundingies apparently.
And then then there's a new one that's
coming out. What is it called? Ratuide.
>> Retratide.
>> Retatrutide. And this one is supposed to
be better because it doesn't cause
muscle loss and it doesn't cause bone
density loss and it's supposed to be
more effective.
Huh. investigational.
>> I mean, I don't I just typed in red a
true type was telling me.
>> Isn't that a weird word?
Investigational. Once weekly injectable
triple agonist medication targeting
GLP1, GIP, and gluccogen receptors
developed by Eli Liy, showing
unprecedented weight loss results of up
to 24% in phase 2 trials. They say that
this is going to be a trillion dollar
medication.
Or have some [ __ ] discipline.
>> Yeah.
>> Go to the gym, eat better, be healthy.
Do what Jelly Roll did.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, Jelly Roll was at the club
last night. He's down 300 lb.
>> That's [ __ ] nuts.
>> He runs like five miles a day. He works
out every day.
>> He looks fantastic. He looks like a
different person. It's like I I knew him
when he was like 500 lb and now I know
him when he's in the twos. It's like
he's a different human. He looks
different. Like I know it's still Jelly
Roll, but it looks like a completely
different man. It's nuts.
>> I remember when we did u I was in the
house band for Kill Tony at the Garden
and Jelly came out and did New York New
York.
>> I was there.
>> That's got to be a custom suit.
>> I was like that's a big suit.
>> Yeah.
>> And then the next time I saw him he was
like he is now. And um I mean help like
what I did cuz like I have an appetite,
you know, like what I do now like I I'm
basically doing like a keto diet cuz I
like to eat a lot of whatever it is. Me
too.
>> So if it's like a big salad, you know,
or whatever, but I'm down like 25 pounds
doing that.
>> Oh, that's nice.
>> Yeah.
>> Are you doing this with the help of a
nutritionist? Are you just doing it on
your own?
>> Just doing it on my own.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> You're laughing.
>> Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it's just
um I've tried a few different routes,
man. I've been I've been, you know,
husky since I was a kid and shopping in
the husky department at Kmart, you know.
>> Is this uh do you think it's a genetic
thing? Do you think it's the way you ate
as a child? What do you think?
>> I think psychological a lot of it um it
was like the only thing I had control of
as a as a child is like food. It was
like and a scarcity mindset as well.
>> Yeah.
>> Just like the way that I,
>> you know, think about food is just, you
know,
>> probably not the healthiest. So for me,
it's just easier to say like I don't eat
these things cuz like if I eat bread or
something like that, it just hurts my
stomach now, you know, and I just I can
feel
like the difference when I don't eat it,
you know? I just feel better. I have
more energy. I just
>> 100%. Yeah.
>> Yeah. And once you get your body working
on ketones too, the thing is you just
your brain functions better. That's one
of the more interesting things. This is
why people take things like um
um like ketone, what is it? Ketone IQ.
>> That stuff's great. Like you just down
one of those little shots and it puts
you into ketosis temporarily.
>> Oh, really?
>> Mhm. Yeah. They're exogenous ketones. I
think the guy who just invented those
just died.
Um, he was also a guy that worked for
Balco Labs. He developed the the clear
that [ __ ] that Barry Bonds took.
>> Okay.
>> The steroids. So, this guy was a a
chemist. He was a scientist. I think
someone Oh, I think Chris Bell. Chris
Bell or Mark I think it was Mark Bell
just posted about it on his Instagram
page that this guy just died. This guy
was like one of America's great chemists
and he developed a lot of these things
including exogenous ketones according to
Mark.
But um that's one of the things that I
noticed when I went into when I did the
carnivore diet is that immediately
my brain just started functioning
better, which is what I try to eat most
of the time. Like this morning I ate um
sausage and eggs and sausage from an
animal that I shot. I like to do that. I
eat like I had Sable. This is the guy.
So this is Mark's Instagram. The
greatest chemist of our time and
possibly any other. Patrick Arnold is
dead. Patrick Arnold's the guy who made
the cream and the clear for the Bonds
and Maguire uh oh that Bonds and
Magguire bast blasted home runs off of
supposedly in addition to those
incredible inventions he also brought
exogenous ketones to the market. What
happened to that guy? How did he die?
>> That's an interesting picture to put up.
>> Yeah,
>> looks like Oswald looking at Jack Ruby.
>> He looks healthy. I want to know how he
died.
I wonder how old that picture was.
Organic chemist.
And Dion, too. Oh, he he had all those
uh pro what are what are those pro
hormones or whatever those things were
that people were taking that weren't
totally steroids, but they were kind of
steroid like.
How did he die? Does it say a weird
website, too?
Uh, he died at 60.
>> Maybe he's experimenting on himself.
Why don't you just just put in cause of
death?
>> I know. It should come up.
You would think a guy who's working on
like performance and fitness.
Does it say? No,
>> there's a Reddit post, but I don't know.
>> When you click on what happened Oh, to
David Arnold.
>> Somebody else.
>> Oh, Patrick Arnold.
>> Huh. So, it just doesn't say how he
died.
>> Nope. And it just happened. So, there's
not a lot about
>> Oh, okay. So, it hasn't been released
yet.
>> Yeah.
>> Doesn't say.
>> He made a lot of roids.
You got to wonder. the dude who's like
doing so much work in anabolic steroids.
He worked for Balco.
They were the ones that were making
undetectable steroids. Do you know about
that whole story?
>> This is back in the was it in the 90s,
Jamie?
>> The the Maguire
>> around 2000.
>> So, um they developed steroids that were
undetectable. So when they would test
for steroids, what they would do is they
would take because when I guess the way
it works is when they're doing a steroid
test, they're looking for very specific
molecules. So they invented a molecule
that had like additional things attached
to it where it wouldn't show up. And I'm
probably butchering that, but
essentially they were undetectable
steroids. One of them was called the
clear. And the guy who ran their lab was
called Balco Laboratories was this guy
Victor Ki who eventually went to jail
for that. And then when he I don't know
why he went to jail, but he got out and
then became an anti-stereroid
sort of activist and he was I don't want
to say activist, but he was essentially
he was ratting people out and saying
that this guy's probably doing steroids
and this is how he's doing it. And then
a lot of uh athletes were using his
company to use steroidfree
performance-enhancing supplements that
were legal. So he would show you what's
legal and how to do it. He knew a lot
about it because he did the illegal
stuff, too.
>> Interesting.
>> Yeah.
>> I've got I've gotten a couple steroid
shots like before a show like if my
voice goes out.
>> Like what kind? Is it like a cortisone
or
>> I guess that's what it is. It's like
that one that they shoot in your ass.
Cheek.
>> Hm. What does that do like for your
voice when your voice
>> goes just brings you back?
>> Man, it's got to be rough when a [ __ ]
singer loses their voice.
>> Yeah. I mean, people have asked me
before like what my warm-up routine is,
and like I've never had one. And I mean,
>> two cigarettes,
>> a couple cigarettes. It used to be shot
of whiskey. Um, if I was really in dire
straits, I would take uh like a handful
of sugar-free gummy bears and put uh
boiling water on that.
>> Really?
>> And then the gummy bears would like coat
my throat. Huh.
>> Like honey, ginger, lemon.
>> Yeah. Hot water and lemon is a really
good one. There's something about that
that eases
>> really. It's like time off is what [ __ ]
my voice up more than anything.
>> Time off.
>> Yeah.
>> Really? Oh, so like your vocal cords get
out of shape.
>> Mhm.
>> Interesting.
>> Cuz it's hard to like keep them up, you
know? Right.
>> Unless you're like going in your garage
and screaming for two hours a night, you
know?
>> That's crazy. I never thought about it
like that. Like your vocal cords are
essentially a muscle like any other and
they develop over time
>> and you get endurance.
>> That makes sense.
>> Yeah. So, like the pandemic was like the
first time that a lot of us like had any
extended amount of time off from the
road and we all started noticing like or
at least me like I came back like
hurting a little bit.
>> Oh, that makes sense. I saw Guns and
Roses in Athens, Greece
>> and uh Axel Rose, you know, has that
crazy singing style. Yeah. It's like a
like and that has to be [ __ ] hell on
your voice and you know the show was
amazing but his voice is not the same.
>> It's just there's no way it can be.
>> Um I know Stephen Tyler like he's back.
>> I is he?
>> Yeah.
>> So he he quit for a while cuz he was
like I can't sing and then he healed up
and now he's back again. I don't know
exactly what he did, but I I played with
him back in January and like the boys
really back.
>> No [ __ ] That's [ __ ] great.
>> Singing his ass off.
>> That's [ __ ] great. I love to hear
that.
>> Mhm.
>> I saw the Stones a couple years ago at
uh Circuit of the Americas and Mitch
Jagger can still whail.
>> Yeah,
>> he can still whail. That That was a
great [ __ ] show. Almost surreal.
>> He's got a lot of energy, too, man.
>> So much energy.
>> It's crazy. He has two trailer trucks
that he brings with them that are just
gym equipment.
>> Wow.
>> Everywhere they go. Two big ass trailer
trucks just filled with gym equipment.
They say he works out seven days a week.
>> That's awesome.
>> And he's 180,000 years old.
>> He's still up there. Still. And then
Keith Richards opposite approach.
Whiskey, cocaine, LSD, no problems.
Still there, too. So it's like
>> Yeah.
>> Find something you love and stick with
it.
>> I know. It's so funny. Like it makes me
think of like we went out with Willie a
few times and um Willy's got like like
most artists he's got like 18 tractor
trailers back there but like I don't
know if you've been to a Willie Nelson
show recently it's like there's nothing
on stage. I'm like what's in all these
[ __ ] trucks? I never really got to
the bottom of that but there's like
seven or eight truck drivers back there.
>> It's all weed.
>> It must be all weed or something. You go
in, there's all grow lights and plants
and [ __ ] And
>> he's got that drink that they sell.
>> Oh yeah.
>> He's got that weed drink.
>> Willy's remedy.
>> Yeah. And Ron White brought some to the
green room of the comedy mothership. And
someone was saying, "Oh, you can't get
that's not real." I'm like, "It's real
as [ __ ] dude. That stuff's very legit."
>> It's real.
>> Yeah, it's very I don't know what the
rules are, the laws are.
>> Seems like it's starting to become like
a gray area. It should be
I mean they just made it schedule three.
Okay. So what that means is and I mean
listen it's a great step in the right
direction. I'm very happy that the
president did that. It really should be
regulated the same way alcohol is. It
should be for adult use 21 and older.
>> It shouldn't be maybe I wonder what the
issue Well, I'm sure there's a bunch of
issues, right? There's like lobbies that
are trying to keep it illegal. Like
there's the alcohol lobby that doesn't
want it legal because it cuts down on
alcohol sales. And I know they lobby to
try to make sure those laws stay in
place. And then unfortunately you have
prison guard unions
that lobby for it, which is [ __ ]
right? They want to keep their job. And
so the way they keep their job is to
keep people locked up. And the way the
way they keep people locked up is keep
laws that don't make sense. Like
[ __ ] up. That's a that's an evil
[ __ ]
that it's it just doesn't make any
sense. If you can buy alcohol, you
should be able Like I'm not saying you
should drink alcohol. You don't drink
alcohol anymore. Like I said, I took
months off. It's like you should have
some self-control. And I know some
people don't. But get your [ __ ]
together. You should. But other people
are fine with alcohol. They go to the
bar, have a drink or two, go home, go
out to dinner, have a drink, go at home,
have a drink while they're watching TV,
and they're fine.
>> Yeah.
>> It should be a personal choice. No adult
should be able to tell you what you can
and can't do and be able to lock you up
in a [ __ ] cage if you don't listen.
That's nuts. And in a free country, in
this country is as free as it gets in
this world, there's no way weed should
be illegal. It should be regulated and
it should be only for people that are
adults where, you know, you have to be
21 to be able to buy it. It's Look, it's
never stopped kids from getting alcohol.
They they still get alcohol. It's not
stopping kids right now from getting
weed. they can still get weed. But if it
was legal and regulated, first of all,
we'd get taxes from it, and that would
be huge for every state. You'd get a ton
of tax money that you're not getting
right now. And also, you would keep
people from getting locked up for their
own personal choices, which is just
insane.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean, not a lot of people get locked
up for personal use these days. That's
pretty rare. But there's still there's
just way too many laws.
>> Yeah. I mean, it's interesting, too,
like if you have like
um like CBD flour, like technically
that's legal. Yes. So, like if you just
put some of your cannabis in a CBD
container, like
>> are there ways to like test that on the
side of the road? Like if you get pulled
and they search your car?
>> Not on the side of the road, but they
could confiscate it and then test it, I
think.
But there's weird things about like
legalization of I was watching a YouTube
video about what Texas's laws were. And
Texas's laws are the amount of THC by
volume.
So the thing about that is
if you get like gummies
>> like a a 10 milligram gummy will pass
that by volume and be legal. So, are you
saying that people can take 10 milligram
THC gummies and that's legal?
>> Yeah.
>> Because
>> they'll [ __ ] you up. Like a If you don't
smoke weed, a 10 milligram THC gummy
will have you going,
>> dude.
>> Take two of those and who knows what's
going to happen to you. I just watched
this movie that uh a friend of mine was
in this movie um Laney Wilson and we
watched the movie and I don't want to
spoil the movie for anybody, but it
turns out that the girl like she went to
jail cuz she was impaired while driving
and she was impaired by weed gummies.
And I was like that's kind of okay.
>> Well, depends on how much you took.
Yeah, but
>> if you take 200 milligrams to get behind
a wheel, you're not even exactly sure
what the road is.
>> 200 milligrams is a lot. Yeah.
>> Right. So, that's pretty impaired.
That's that's equivalent to like eight
shots of whiskey and then getting in
your truck,
>> right? You're impaired.
>> I guess you're right.
>> I don't think you should drive on weed.
I definitely don't think you should
drive [ __ ] up. But it's like the same
>> like I don't advocate drinking and
driving either. But if you have like one
drink and drive
>> like you're gonna feel like a little
relaxed and lubricated, but I don't know
how much you'll be. And it also varies
on who the person is. If the person is
used to drinking all the time, one drink
is not going to do a damn thing to them.
But for some people, one drink will make
you drive stupid. You'll do stupid
things.
>> Yeah. It's it's a it's all a personal
responsibility thing.
>> That's the bottom line about all of it.
And yeah, you shouldn't be out there
drinking and driving. You shouldn't be
out there eating 500 milligram edibles
and [ __ ] driving in a car. No. No.
>> I remember one time my drummer had this
like THC spray. Have you ever [ __ ]
with that?
>> Oh yeah. We had that back in California.
Like breath spray.
>> Yeah. And I was I was still drinking at
the time and me and my wife were both
just hammered and we were on this uh a
ferry like the tour bus goes on to the
ferry and the ferry carries you over
from um France to the UK and we were
like sitting in the lounge area on the
ferry or lounge area on the ferry rather
and um he had this spray and I was like
it's not doing anything.
>> Me and my wife both kept just spraying
it.
>> No. And um then I woke up in my bed just
like in a cartoon just like completely
removed from reality just and u yeah it
was it was a bad bad scene. I remember
one time I took a they had these THC
breath strips that they used to sell.
And the problem with these things, and
this is back uh in the pre-legalization
days of pre 2016 in California. And so
each store you would get weed at like
they would have medical stores. So you
could go to a doctor and say, "Hey doc,
I got a headache." And they go, "You
need medicine." and they would write
your prescription and then you can go
and like there's always reasons to to
have it just like there's reasons to
have Tylenol. Do you get a headache?
Yeah. Well, then you need it. Do you
have a backachche? Yeah. Well, then you
need it. So, you could get it pretty
easy. And um they had these breath
strips and I took one and I got on a
plane and I closed my eyes when I was
lying on the plane and I was watching
neon like cartoon characters that are
made out of neon light and they were
having sex. It was an orgy of And I was
just lying there with my eyes closed
watching these cartoon neon characters
[ __ ] And they they were [ __ ] in like
complete blackness, like void. So it was
just the colors of their weird bodies
just banging each other and then they
would shift shapes and another one would
pile on and they would I was like, "This
is crazy." It was very psychedelic. It
was almost like But when I'd opened my
eyes, the world was normal. Yeah. It
wasn't like I was the world was wiggling
and and I was just s I didn't have
anything to do. I was flying all the way
to New York. It was a six-hour flight.
By the time it landed, I had sobered up,
but I was like, "This is cra like how
much is in these [ __ ] things?" Cuz
it's they're not making them in the same
labs where they're making [ __ ]
Tylenol. Sure.
>> You know, I mean, it's some hippie, some
dude who's like pouring weed into a
machine and can't remember whether or
not he put weed in there cuz he's high
as [ __ ] so he adds double. They're very
inconsistent. It's like the micro doses
that I I used to get in Mon Georgia. I
was like, "Some of these are stronger
than other ones." And he's like, "Yeah."
So depending on the day, my boy Hubble's
like,
>> you know, he's going to ride it for
whatever it is.
>> Well, that's why we need legalization
regulation. That's the beautiful thing
about whiskey. You get a glass of
whiskey, you get a shot, you know
exactly what that shot's going to do.
>> The the shots of whiskey have been
having the same impact on human beings
for hundreds of [ __ ] years. You can
quantify it.
>> Yeah. And that's how it should be with
all these things. But the problem is
when they're outlawed, you know, some of
them are, you know, a glass of wine,
some of them are [ __ ] moonshine. Like
you you need regulation. And it's the
idea that there's laws against people's
personal choices. Just [ __ ] stupid,
man. There's plenty of laws that are
good. Don't murder people. Don't rob.
Don't rape. Don't do this. Don't do
that. That's great. Don't vandalize.
Great. Great laws. Makes sense. Better
society. Laws on personal choices,
especially things that you might enjoy,
like
>> having a joint with your wife, you know,
after dinner and just sitting there and
watching Netflix together. Like
>> the [ __ ] armed thugs can burst into
your house and take the joint away from
you. Like, who are we protecting? Who we
serving? Who we protecting and serving
with that? That's dumb.
>> Yeah.
>> It's just bad for society.
>> And it creates this business. Once a
business is established, the business of
enforcement, once that business is
established, that business doesn't want
to go away because now you have a bunch
of people whose jobs depend on enforcing
laws and enforcing these things that
don't make any sense. And they want to
protect that because that's their
livelihood. So now you got a quagmire.
Now you're in a [ __ ] terrible
situation that is no easy way out other
than ripping the band-aid off and making
it legal. You're also propping up the
cartels. That's the other problem with
it being completely illegal in this
country. federally is like, well, guess
what? It's there's still a demand for
it. So, legal companies that actually
employ people and give the the employees
health care and, you know, have rules
and regulations. No, they're not making
it. So, they're not growing it. So,
instead, you have [ __ ] cartels that
are growing it in California on public
land because if you get caught, it's
just a misdemeanor cuz it's legal in
California. So literally, I think it's
more than 80% of all the le the weed
that's sold in the United States that's
illegal is grown in California on public
lands by the cartel. And they use toxic
pesticides and herbicides. They they use
all kinds of [ __ ] that you're not
allowed to use in in normal farming,
>> right?
>> And you know, the only reason why it
exists is because we've made these
stupid [ __ ] laws.
So now that it's schedule three, it's in
the same category as like Tylenol with
codine,
>> which is not bad. It's better certainly
better than schedule one, which is
ridiculous. So now hopefully once they
do more testing and more studies, they
can get to a point where federally it's
legal and regulated. That would be the
best case for everybody. just in the
same category as alcohol. Get all that
tax money from it and then don't make
criminals out of American citizens that
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>> When did it um when did it get scheduled
as uh schedule one?
>> Well, the whole schedule one thing, this
is this is what I talked about when I
went to the White House recently, which
is a hilarious thing to say for a [ __ ]
like me.
that I helped get things scheduled. I
mean, when it all goes down in the
history books and they they attach my
name to this, it's going to be really
confusing. They're going to be like,
"Fucking that guy. What? How? What the
[ __ ] happened?" So, when in 1970, the
Richard Nixon administration passed the
Controlled Substances Act, and it made
uh DMT, psilocybin, LSD, all these
different things. It made them schedule
one. So that they the idea is that there
was no benefit including Ibagame which
is crazy. Uh which has means it has no
medical benefit and uh harmful and
addictive all these different qualities
that they attach to it. But the only
reason they did that was to target the
civil rights movement. The civil rights
movement and the anti-war movement.
That's what they were doing. They didn't
like the fact that these people were
causing trouble and then they were
organizing, you know, marches and doing
all these different things that were
disrupting the government. And there was
also this movement where people like,
why are we living the way we're living?
Like this was the ' 60s. Like, why are
we doing what we're doing? Like, well, I
don't want to be like my parents.
They're not happy, you know? I want to
live a life that's like freer. I want to
be filled with love and joy and I want
to, you know, have a good time and
follow the grateful debt around. Like so
a lot of people in government were very
concerned with this new movement and if
you go and like music is a great
example. Like if you look at the music
of the 1950s and then you look at the
music of the 1960s like what the [ __ ]
happened? Y
>> like if you look at the music of 2016
and the music of 2026 not much
difference.
>> Right.
>> Right. It's all great. So, but it's like
it's not there's not some revolutionary
crazy new change,
>> but you saw that from 1959 to 1969.
There is a radical difference. A radical
difference. 1950 you got like you go
from Buddy Holly to Jimmyi Hendris.
You're like, "Okay, what the [ __ ]
happened? Something crazy must have
happened." And it's drugs. It's
psychedelic drugs.
>> It's like the stone ape theory
>> in, you know, our modern society.
>> Exactly. To see it. Exactly. And this
terrified the administration and they
were really worried that they were going
to completely lose control of the
country. And so they passed this
controlled substances act. And that
happened in 1970. And from that time on
we've been [ __ ] You know, for 56
[ __ ] years we've been under the grip
of this stupid [ __ ] law that was
passed by the Nixon administration. It
didn't make any sense. Some of the drugs
that they added to aren't even
psychoactive.
They just threw a bunch of stuff in
there and they missed a bunch of potent
ones.
>> Yeah,
>> they missed five methoxy DMT. They
missed 5 MO DMT, which is one of the
most potent psychedelics, if not the
most potent psychedelic. You used to be
able to buy that online.
>> Oh wow,
>> dude. There was a company that you could
order from and they would send you a a
[ __ ] jug of it as big as this. Now,
the amount that gets you blasted into
the center of the universe and
introduces you to God is like the si
It's like the size that goes on your
pinky. Yeah. Like your pinky nail. Like
that amount. You smoke that, you'll see
God.
>> Wow.
>> And you could just buy a [ __ ] jar of
it online. There was a company called
the American Chemical Company. American
Chemical Company or American Chemical
Corporation. And you used to be able to
just buy five mythoxy DMT and they would
just send it to you like a jar of
vitamins.
>> Wow.
>> And then you could go to head shops and
buy salvia.
>> Oh yeah.
>> So salvia is a [ __ ] insanely po
potent psychedelic, which by the way is
also sage. Like sage is the same family,
the same genus as salvia.
>> So like think about it. Sage, meaning
wise, like like an old sage. Yeah. And
meanwhile, that is one of the most
potent psychedelics in the world. And
so, kids were going to head shops and
buying salvia. I don't know if they've
made that illegal now. They probably
have, right? Is salvia illegal now?
>> I think uh
I don't know.
>> So, Ari Shafir on Brian Redband's
podcast. Do you know this story?
>> No.
>> Okay. Ari Shafir went on Brian Redband's
podcast and took a giant hit of Salvia
and went under for like 10 minutes. And
when he came back, he said that he had
lived six months under the water with B
like with a
entire different community of human
beings under the water. Had
relationships, had a job, like had a
six-month experience and then came back
in that 10 minutes. And he was so
confused. He was so baffled. He's like,
"I had a life under there. I had a
girlfriend. I had friends." He goes, "I
had all these experiences."
>> No [ __ ]
>> Yeah.
>> Ari's crazy, man.
>> He's crazy. He's fun.
>> He came out to my show in New York.
>> He's the man.
>> He is the man.
>> Um,
>> but I mean, that's that's how potent
this [ __ ] Salvia stuff is. By the
way, a lady had a very similar
experience recently who uh went into a
coma. So, she was in a coma for an
extended period of time. I want to say
it was like a few months. And when she
came out, she had a whole life that she
said she had triplets and she had like
she was married, all these different
things. Here, here's a story. Uh she
asked for her triplets after waking up
from a coma. Doctors say they never
existed. When she woke from a coma,
first thing she did was ask for her
three daughters. Medical staff was
stunned. The response shattered her
entire world. Just like that, the
children she had nursed, watched grow,
and deeply cared for over seven years
were gone. So, she was placed in a
medicallyinduced coma for 3 weeks. And
what followed was a dream of a lifetime
quite literally. She was obviously not
aware that she was in a coma. Instead,
she slipped into a dream and a lifetime
unfolded before her eyes. Talking to the
outlet, the teen recalled having
extremely intense dreams and nightmares.
She was not aware that she was in a coma
at the time. So those dreams became her
reality.
So she became a mother. She said it felt
so real. She felt the physical and
emotional pain throughout the
hallucination. I could feel so many
things when I dreamed about giving
birth. I felt the stress. I also felt a
lot of pain in this dream. I gave birth
to triplets who I named Mila Miles and
Miley. Miley died shortly after birth. I
felt so awful, overwhelmed with sadness
and guilt. She recalled. She remembers
the first skin-to-skin contact that she
had with her babies. It was incredible.
I felt an overwhelming wave of love, she
added. In her dream, she lived for seven
years and watched her daughters grow up.
Each had their own personalities. One
was quite shy. The other was a bundle of
energy. I remember walks, meals we
shared, and bedtime stories. She loved
them with all her heart. And then she
woke up from the coma and was told that
her children never existed. That's when
they told me they didn't exist. I was in
shock. I was so convinced that it was
real that the time I saw my parents
again, I told them they were
grandparents.
>> Wow.
>> Whoa.
>> Man,
>> it makes you like wonder like what is
reality? What is this thing that we're
currently experiencing?
>> Yeah.
>> And we're currently experiencing this
thing, but what what is this?
>> Is this everything? Is this the whole
thing? Or is this like one channel on an
infinite radio and just while we're on
that channel, we think this is the
radio,
>> right?
>> Well, maybe there's maybe when you go to
sleep, maybe that's just as real as
being awake.
>> It's a heavy thought.
>> But the idea that you just shut off
every night as bananas.
>> Yeah,
>> we look forward to it. Oh, can't wait to
just go away.
>> Go away for a few hours.
>> Can't wait to not exist. And if you
don't like if I don't get enough sleep,
I'm like whatever whatever happens
during the the dream time, the sleep
time, the recovery, I feel it. I I've my
waking life like I haven't done what I'm
supposed to do by sleeping for an
extended period of time. So my this
reality is compromised. This reality I'm
dumber, my memory sucks. I'm more tired.
I don't have any energy. I can't wait to
go to sleep. Can't wait to shut off so I
could pay back the void.
>> Pay back the void. The time I owe
>> into the dreamland of bizarre dreams.
>> Yeah. And just the symbolism of dreams,
too. I've been having a lot of crazy
dreams lately.
>> Like what?
>> I dream about snakes a lot, which is a
good
>> snakes.
>> It's a good sign.
>> Is it?
>> Yeah. Dreaming about snakes evidently
just represents like shedding your skin,
going into something new, you know,
growing.
>> Or you're surrounded by people who want
to get you.
>> Or maybe that.
>> Yeah.
>> Whichakes both both can be true.
You know, the music business.
Yeah.
>> A lot of snakes.
>> Isn't it every business though?
>> Yeah. I mean just the idea like the
business side is just so in contrast to
like the artistic sensibility,
>> you know, an artist is supposed to be
>> not supposed to be but just like
psychological or makeup is more just
like open and just more just like giving
and wanting to share your craft with
somebody and more emotional, you know?
>> Yeah. Um, and then having to be like a
shark and having to think like these
snakes
>> contracts.
>> Yeah.
>> Sign the D line, Marcus.
>> You're going to make so much money,
Marcus.
>> It's only 7 years.
>> It's just seven years
>> with an extension. With options.
>> With options. How's it about?
>> You'll be free.
Don't worry about these song rights.
>> Yeah,
>> you'll have other songs in the future,
>> right?
>> That will be even better.
>> Bet on yourself, Marcus.
>> Take the money. Don't you want a big
house?
>> Don't you want a fancy car?
You need a Rolex.
>> Have you ever seen Late Night with the
Devil?
>> Uh, yes.
>> That was [ __ ] good.
>> Yeah, that's the talk show.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, that is great, man. Who made that?
Uh, that's a good question. We
>> That's a really good movie, man.
>> We watched it on the bus one night. I
was like, whoa.
>> That was like 2019 or something.
>> It was heavy.
>> Yeah, this was Oh, 2024. Oh, it's an
Australian movie. Uh, Jack Delroy, the
host of a failing It's in 1977. Jack
Delroy, the host of a failing late night
show, decides decides to film a
Halloween special. However, the
broadcast takes a dark turn, unleashing
evil into the nation's living rooms.
Yeah, it's a dope movie. It was really
fun.
>> It was good.
>> It's [ __ ] scary as [ __ ] too.
>> It was scary.
>> Yeah, it was good. Bro, you know what's
[ __ ] scary as [ __ ] and really good
that I just found out about from my
daughter. There's a a new show called
Well, it's not even new. It's like four
seasons. It's called From
>> From Yeah.
>> What's it on? Is it on like uh
>> It's on Apple TV. I don't know if it's
an Apple show, but it's on Apple TV.
It's with the dude from Lost,
>> one of the dads from Lost.
>> Harold Perinu
also from
>> He's been in a lot of things. He's
great. And the show is [ __ ]
terrifying. It It is It's very original
and very weird.
Um, so it came out in 2022. Interesting.
>> First season premiered on Epics.
>> Oh, okay. What's it on now? Is it just
on Apple TV?
release epics MGM Plus.
Yeah.
>> So, it says in 2018 YouTube Red,
remember we were talking about YouTube
Red,
>> Canada I on Paramount Plus, India's on
Amazon Prime.
>> Oh, it was on all over the place.
>> Huh?
>> Where MGM Plus is?
>> So, it appeared on Epics. I don't even
know what MGM Plus is. Maybe that's just
the company. That's the production
company. So, in 2026, they renewed the
series for a fifth and final season.
It's [ __ ] good, man. It's good. And
it's really scary. It's really scary and
[ __ ] creepy and horrific. It's about
these people that um are stuck in this
town that doesn't make any sense. Like,
the town doesn't make any sense. And you
can't get out of the town. And at
nighttime, people come out of the woods.
They're not people. And they're like
these monsters. And if you let them into
your house, you can't let them into your
house, but if you let them into your
house, they they butcher you and tear
you apart. And people they try to trick
you into letting you letting them into
your house. Like, I'm not doing it
justice. It's like, it sounds stupid,
but
>> here here's the pitch,
>> but it's it's really scary, man. It's
really scary and really creepy to the
point like I'm watching I get anxiety
and I don't like watching [ __ ] like that
before I go to bed. Yeah. Because then I
get like weird dreams and I start
getting because it's like children are
in trouble in it and I'm a father and
when I see children in trouble I get I
[ __ ] freak out,
>> you know? There's part of you like the
sheep dog in you just like
>> Right.
>> So it's it's a good show though.
>> My wife gets on to me. I like it's like
forensic files puts me out. I love it.
You like that before you go to bed?
>> I don't know why.
>> That's crazy.
>> That's my comfort.
>> How people murdered people.
>> Yeah.
>> I remember that uh show on HBO, the
autopsy show. That was like one of the
first ones.
>> Okay.
>> Do you know that show?
>> The autopsy one.
>> It was this guy Dr. Michael Baden. And
what he was was a forensic scientist
that would catch people that had
murdered people and got away with it.
They would exume bodies and find things.
And it was all these different cases of
where someone had gotten away with
murder, but then they discovered how
they did it. It was very, very
interesting.
>> Wow.
>> Cuz people are [ __ ] weird, man. Like,
you know, a lot of like wives poisoning
their husbands, like multiple husbands
died of similar ways and
>> Yep.
>> nurses that poison their the people
under their care.
>> There's some [ __ ] up people out there.
There's some [ __ ] up people out there,
man. And the crazy thing is they get
away with it. That's the crazy thing is
for every one that Michael Baden
catches, how many of them get away with
it?
>> Yep.
>> Like what percentages of murders in
America go unsolved? Let's put this into
perplexity.
>> Are AI sponsor and find out what the
What do you think it is? What percentage
of murders go unsolved in America? Uh,
that's a good question. I mean,
>> take a guess.
>> 50 60%.
>> Whoa.
>> But I I don't I don't know how you would
quantified. I guess you'd find out.
>> Well, someone gets murdered and they
don't catch anybody.
>> Oh, right. Right. Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. It's half.
>> Wow.
So, you're saying there's a chance?
>> So, you're saying there's a chance?
>> Approximately 40 to 50% of murders in
the United States go unsolved. means
that roughly half of all homicide cases
do not result in arrest or resolution.
So, uh I was talking to somebody and um
someone who lives in their community got
arrested because the wife went missing
and uh they got the wife's DNA from this
guy's chainsaw. They have no body. They
have no evidence other than there's some
DNA on his chainsaw and you know he's
playing stupid so he's in jail now but
everybody that knows him and like like
these these friends of mine they know
the family. They knew him. They knew
her. Oh
>> [ __ ]
>> And he's just in jail and they don't
know if they have enough evidence to
convict him. And so he's been in jail
for a while now and they're trying to
gather enough evidence for trial, but
all they have is like DNA. I don't even
know what that means. Like how much DNA?
Like did he clean the chainsaw and not
do a good job? I don't know what that
means.
>> But was she like out like trimming
hedges?
>> Who knows? That's the thing. It's like
you could use a chainsaw and
accidentally scratch yourself. Like you
don't even have to cut yourself. It
doesn't even have to be on. Like if
you're move, if you're, you know, taking
a chain, I don't know why the wife would
be taking a chainsaw out into the I
mean, some women are capable and they do
it, but
>> my wife, you know, she accidentally
scraped your arm with this chainsaw and
they went over every blade with a swab.
They probably could find your DNA and
go, "Oh my god, you did it."
>> Y
>> I don't know. I don't know what
happened, but apparently these people
that I know believe that the husband
chop this lady up.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. They think he did it. They're
fighting a lot. And
>> I remember when I was a kid, my sister
used to and like Shane's actually got a
really funny bit about how diabolical
older sisters are. And just my sister
used to say, "I hope you go to jail for
something you didn't do."
>> Whoa.
>> I hope you get wrongfully convicted for
something and you're in jail forever.
>> That's so a terrible thing to say to
somebody. What did you do to her to make
her say that to you?
>> Who [ __ ] knows?
>> That's so dark.
>> I hope you go to jail for something you
didn't do was so evil.
>> Wow.
>> We're very close now.
>> Are you?
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Well, she was a kid.
>> She We were kids.
>> How old was she when she did that? When
she said that.
>> She's two years older than me, so she
must have been like nine or 10.
>> Oh,
>> but
>> people say things
>> kids stuff
>> at nine or 10. They're just being kids.
>> Yep. That's a diabolical mind though.
Like that's how you want someone to
suffer. You want someone to emotionally
suffer for something they didn't do
forever.
>> Her her and a neighbor boy, there was a
vacant house across from mine and they
like locked me in the back fence and my
sister was like, "This is where you live
now."
>> Like they were like, "Unless you break
that window."
>> And I was like, "I don't want to break
the window." And like sure enough, like
they said, "Well, we're not letting you
out of this gate." And like I probably
could have waited it out, but I was like
five or six. So, I just said, "All
right." So, I took a brick to the window
and they're like, "Well, we're going to
go tell on you now." I was like,
>> "Wow,
>> really [ __ ] up.
>> What the [ __ ] does she do now?"
>> Uh, my sister's actually she's a badass,
man. She's uh she drives for the
Department of Transportation. Um, she's
got her CDL. She's a horse.
>> Sounds uh like she has some devious
thoughts in her mind.
>> She's Yeah.
>> Sounds like she should write books.
>> I know. She's so smart. That sounds very
creative. Yeah. You know, like she's
manipulating a 5-year-old into breaking
window so she could tell on them.
>> But as a seven-year-old, you
>> know, she's she's awesome. But u
actually I had a good friend I told that
story to and she loved it so much she
got me a a welcome map from my house
that said, "This is where you live now."
>> That's [ __ ] up, man. Where did she
learn that kind of behavior? Probably my
mom.
>> Oh, was your mom like that?
>> My mom was pretty wild. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
I had an interesting upbringing.
>> Most artists do,
especially most interesting artists. I
don't know a lot of interesting artists
that say like my childhood was perfect.
It was amazing. There was so much love
and everybody was really supportive and
understanding and
>> yeah,
>> we talked a lot about stuff and
>> yep spoke about our feelings mostly
around the dinner table.
>> There's there's always some sort of
element of psychological torture
involved
>> or some kind of abandonment or some kind
of
>> something
>> touchy uncle whatever it is.
>> Yep. Something ignoring you.
>> Yeah. Just not making you a priority,
making you not feel special or making
you feel like you're a burden. something
something that causes you to like want
exorbitant amounts of attention from
strangers.
>> Sure.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> But look, that's where the great stuff
comes from, which is really wild. Like
there's this concept that you cannot
have good without evil.
>> And I think there's something to that. I
think it's just part of the human
condition. For whatever reason, you you
don't appreciate good unless you you
experience bad, which is why rich kids
are [ __ ] You grow up rich with
everything you've ever wanted. There's
no struggle. It's so difficult for those
people to ever be exceptional
>> because they don't have the motivation.
They don't have that. They haven't
experienced the bad. Not in that way.
>> Like I remember I went on a hunting trip
with uh my friend uh Steve Reanella and
Brian Ken. We went to Alaska and it
rained every day. It rained for like six
days in a row. We were soaking wet and
we came back to LA and uh it was sunny
and I was driving my car and I had to
call my friend Steve and I said, "Dude,
I have never been happier. The sun hits
my face. I'm so appreciative. I'm so h"
And I've never felt like this. Like it's
always like this in LA. Yeah.
>> But it never meant anything to me. It
was just, "Yep, another day in LA. Got
to go to work." But this one day I was
like just filled with gratitude and I
was so happy. The sun on my face felt so
good and warm and and I realized like,
oh, you have to suffer in order to
really appreciate the good. Like if it's
just all good, you're you're not going
to appreciate it. You don't you need
evil people so that you really
appreciate the people that are beautiful
and that you love,
>> right? You need people that suck so you
appreciate people that are kind.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, you need people that are mean,
so you appreciate the ones that are
nice.
>> Yeah. Just people that are on the level,
just people that are
>> like no agenda, just just kind people.
And it is that duality that kind of
gives you perspective.
>> That's what I meditate on every day is
perspective.
>> That's why I wonder about the music
business and then even the comedy
business. I think kind of any business.
I'm sure it's the same with the music uh
mo rather uh movie making business as
well. It's like you almost need these
rotten vampire [ __ ] that are you know
what I mean? It's like so
>> not a punk band
>> but so that like when you see fellow
musicians that you love like you give
them a hug like you embrace each other
like oh we're cool like you know what I
mean? It's like we're together now it's
all right. We're okay. It's
>> trauma bonding.
>> Yeah. We're away from the [ __ ] Yeah,
>> we're away from the vampire [ __ ]
>> It's like my boy Charlie Crockett, you
know, um Charlie always says like you
can do what they do, but they can't do
what you do.
>> Charlie's great.
>> He's the [ __ ] man.
>> He's an interesting dude, too. Very
interesting dude. Very, you interesting
life. Like the life that that guy had
and
>> playing street music for so long, then
finally getting discovered.
>> Very like again, but that's how you get
a person like that. when you talked
about his childhood, how [ __ ] up it
was and crazy. He was basically just on
his own from the time he was a teenager,
>> just
running around just singing songs.
>> Yep.
>> You know, like that's how you get a
person like that.
>> Yeah. You can't create a Charlie
Crockett in a lab.
>> No. Or a jelly roll. You don't you don't
create those in a lab. They got to go to
jail first. You know what I mean?
Yeah, but it's like I mean Jell's like
one of the most beautiful people I've
ever met in my life. He's the one of the
nicest, sweetest, kindest, warm,
affectionate people. Every he hugs
everybody, tells everybody he loves him
and he means it and cuz he's been
through hell, you know, and that's
that's how you make a person like that.
>> Jill's in like a constant state of like
like when you run into somebody after
they've had an Iwasa experience.
>> Mhm. It's like
>> he has this constant
>> like gratitude.
>> Yes.
>> That I feel like kind of fades even with
people who have like Iaska journeys or
experiences.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, he's just I don't know there's
something really pure to that.
>> Yeah. He's maintained it and especially
now that he's on this like health
journey. I think that sometimes the
momentum of life takes over and you kind
of forget
those beautiful moments. you you're
grounded in these moments where you
realize like, God, I'm so lucky to have
a beautiful family that I love and
friends that I love and be able to do
what I do for a living. God, I'm so
lucky. And that feeling like sometimes
it goes away cuz you're dealing with
this and that and contracts and [ __ ]
then New York Times wrote a hit piece on
you. Oh [ __ ] And you forget. You just
you you lose your perspective. But I
almost feel like you need all those
other shitty elements to just reinforce
the good elements that there's this
constant sort of mechanism that's going
on where there's this constant process
of pros and cons of negatives and
positives and they're duking it out to
see who rises. And the the more the
negative comes at you, the more it has
this creative desire inside of you to
excel with your music or your art or
whatever it is that you do to just push
past it.
>> Mhm.
>> I mean, think about some of the great
songs that people have written just
about the struggles that they've gone
through just even in the music business,
you know?
>> Yeah. like Leonard Skinner working for
MCA, you know, there's a lot of those
songs like that where it's just like
people just want to tell you what the
[ __ ] they've been through.
>> Yeah. Uh Leashik uh Freak Out, you know.
>> What's that about?
>> They weren't uh like they weren't
allowed to get into Studio 54. They
wouldn't let him in. And the song was
originally written as [ __ ] you. You
know,
[ __ ] you.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. They went
>> instead it's freak out.
>> Yeah. And that ended up being a major
hit, you know,
>> that was because they couldn't get into
a club.
>> Yeah.
>> That's pretty crazy.
>> Pretty crazy.
>> Yeah.
>> Yep.
>> But it is just about threading that
needle of like wanting more for
yourself, but for the right reasons. And
that's something that I think about
every day is just like having a a
virtuous reason to want more, you know,
not just for the sake of having it or
for hoarding wealth or anything like
that. It's like I want to work to where
I can get to a place where,
>> you know, my wife and I can have our own
bus and raise kids on the road, you
know, but you can't do that unless you
have a certain profit margin on the
road, you know. So, I'm always kind of
trying to think of like virtuous causes
to want more, you know, because in
reality, you know, I should be grateful
for everything that I do have,
>> but also speaking to that, you know, and
trying to meditate on the things that
I'm grateful for every day.
>> That's a good perspective. I think
people get trapped in working towards a
result
>> instead of thinking about the process,
>> right?
>> I try to be processoriented. I try to
like think about whatever I'm doing,
just try to be better at it and do a
better job at it. And I think the other
stuff sort of takes care of itself.
>> Yeah.
>> If you have the right people and that's
where the evil [ __ ] vampires come in
>> because they'll steal all that goodwill.
Like if you leave the door open like on
that TV show
>> on from you let them in.
>> Yep.
>> They'll [ __ ] tear you apart.
>> They'll tear you up.
>> Yeah.
just and it's hard because you don't
want to become jaded. Yeah. You don't
want to become like
I feel like I meet a lot of people out
there who
>> like like they're open and they're kind
but they they're not interested in
making any new friends, you know? It's
like they have their circle.
>> And on one hand, I kind of understand
that. I get that, you know, but
>> it it's it's hard, you know. You got to
maintain a certain level of perspective
not to become like angry and
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. It's hard. And it's hard to know
who you can let into your circle, too.
Like you got to give people a stress
test.
>> You know what I mean?
>> Yep.
>> It's almost like you have to give them a
baggie and then have a fake cop
>> gra and say, "Where'd you get Marcus
King gave it to me?" Oh, gotcha, [ __ ]
there. I ran into this guy recently and
um
uh basically what happened was like I
was on Jam Cruise years ago and I was
super [ __ ] up and I was supposed to
sit in with this band called Naughty
Professor from New Orleans and they're
like
>> that's a great name.
>> They're so good and they're just
outrageously talented musicians. And I
had gone out on an adventure that
morning on a catamaran. I didn't know
what the [ __ ] a catamaran was. I didn't
know if it was land air or sea vessel,
right? So, we go out there. Turns out
it's a boat. And uh we go like
snorkeling in the Cayman Islands and
we're just like looking at all the fish
and like my girlfriend at the time and a
bass player friend of mine from a band
called Lettuce. His name's Jesus. So,
out there with my girlfriend at the time
and Jesus,
>> his name is Jesus. Yeah.
>> Not Jesus.
>> Well, his name's Eric, but he goes by
Jesus.
>> Oh boy. Eric.
>> Oh boy. How did Eric get in your circle?
I
>> I don't think it's a a messiah complex
or anything. I think it's just a
nickname that stuck. But they were
tripping on acid and I was drunk on rum
and beer and um just out there waiting
and like when we came out for air, the
boat had or we had drifted
quite a ways from the boat and like we
couldn't get their attention and like
the waves started crashing and like a
storm started rolling in. Oh, [ __ ]
>> Big waves. And like,
>> you know, I'm not the strongest swimmer,
you know, but we were we were basically,
you know, we were treading water out
there for like 40 minutes. And like,
>> holy [ __ ] dude.
>> You know, we were we were going to drown
and finally the dude jumped off the boat
and came out there and then he was like
yelling at me cuz I didn't have flippers
on. So, I was just out there with just
my shorts on and some goggles and uh he
signaled for the boat to come around and
they pulled us up out of the water. So
after that, we were celebrating our
life, you know. So I got completely
hammered and then I was on the boat and
I was like, "Well, I need a pickme up,
you know, cuz I got to sit in with these
guys and they're like college educated
like jazz musicians."
So uh this guy comes over, he's like,
"Hey man, you need a yatuski?" And I was
like, "Yeah, hook me up." And he pulled
out a spoon and he digs it down in the
bag and I go to take it and it was like
a small little mountain. I was like,
"Give me a little more." And he gave me
some more. And big snort. My whole face
went numb. And I was like, and it stung.
I was like, "Whoa, what the [ __ ] was
that?" And he was like, "Oh, just a
little blow." And I was like, "No, it
wasn't." And like, he said, "Yeah, it
was." And I grabbed him by the shirt and
I said, "What the [ __ ] did you give me,
motherfucker?" And um he looked at his
buddy like, "Well, I had he had had him
you know, like this. And he said, "Hey,
what bag did you give me, bro?" And he
was like, "The blue one." He's like,
"Oh, no." And he looked at me and I was
like, "What was it?" He's like, "It's
ketamine."
So, I went totally the wrong direction.
But I ran into that guy at the Grand
Opry. He came into my dressing room.
He's like, "Hey, remember me? Wrong
bag?" I was like, "Yeah, I remember
you."
"Yeah, I don't like you.
Yeah, you kind of put me in a weird
spot.
>> What was that like taking ketamine after
you almost died?
>> Man, it was heavy, you know. Um,
I basically like from what I recall,
like I became part of the boat.
>> That's how I remember it. like my feet
were like in the deck, you know, and
like I was moving the whole boat with
every step that I took. That's what I
remember.
>> Whoa.
>> Yeah.
But there was this one guy that kept
trying to get me to come play a festival
in like New Mexico and um I kind of put
him off the whole week and then he ran
into me and like I just remember his
eyes getting big like saucers. I don't
know what I said to him, but it was some
crazy [ __ ]
or it wasn't English at all. Probably
>> ketamine talk.
>> Ketamine's a weird one, man.
>> Because there's a lot of people that are
doing that right now for therapy.
>> Yeah.
>> Like Neil Brennan, a comedian, the co-uh
creator of the Chappelle Show. He was
the first person to tell me about it
because Neil's had depression problems
most of his life. And um we were in LA
and he said, we're in the hallway of the
comedy store. He goes, "I've been doing
ketamine therapy for depression." And I
go, "How's that working out? Is it
good?" He goes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I
didn't know what to expect." He goes, "I
thought, oh, you know, it's in a
doctor's office. It's probably going to
be just I'm probably just going to close
my eyes and I'll feel." He goes, "No."
He goes, "It's [ __ ] a fullblown
trip." He goes, "Tripping balls in a
doctor's office is [ __ ] strange."
>> I bet. He said it worked though for a
little while. Like he's done a bunch of
different things. He did a ton of Iwasa.
>> He's done a bunch of ketamine. He he did
like magnets on his brain. I think he's
did like a bunch of different things to
try to like rewire the way his brain
works.
>> Yeah.
>> Like whatever it is.
>> That's a that's a journey I'm on. You
know, I'm on anti-depressants and I I
want to get off them.
>> Which ones are you on?
>> I'm on Symbalta.
>> What does that one do?
>> Well,
>> is it an SSRI? Yeah.
>> So, it basically just kind of a it's for
a chemical imbalance, you know, but like
the best work that I did to combat my
depression and anxiety and stuff was
micro doing, you know, mushrooms.
>> Yeah.
>> Like that's that's the most progress
that I'd seen in my life. And
um I'm going to figure out some kind of
strategy because
you know like being on anti-depressants
and them telling you like whoa don't
just stop taking them all at once or you
know you could have seizures and [ __ ]
I'm like I don't like that. I don't want
to be like
you know enslaved by a drug by a
pharmaceutical drug you know.
>> Yeah. I'm
>> and it's like also like now you just
take this the rest of your life. It's
like what's the end result here?
>> Yeah. Theo Vaughn's going through the
exact same thing and last time I was on
the podcast he was explaining it to me.
It freaks me out because I know Theo has
had conversations before like even
publicly he had a Netflix taping and and
it didn't go well. It was like they
actually never they shelved it. They
never used it. And you know there was
all these stories from people that were
there saying he bombed. I think he just
had a kind of a breakdown. And when he
was talking to the crowd and there's a
video of it, we said, you know, the
people were shaking. Hey, we still love
you. He goes, "Thank you." Look, I'm
just I'm trying not to take my own life.
That's what I'm trying to do right now.
>> Yeah.
>> And like you hear stuff like that and
you just go like, "Oh, Jesus Christ."
I've known too many people that I didn't
think were going to kill themselves and
then did and then he goes down these
spirals where he starts talking about
world events and freaking out. I'm like,
"Oh, Jesus Christ." Like, I got to help
this dude. And so I send him things
about people getting off of them. And
apparently there's some doctors that
specialize in getting people off of
them. But here's the thing about that
chemical imbalance thing. That's not
real. They they used to think that that
was what these things do, that they
treated a chemical imbalance. But then
recently studies have shown that there
that is not what they do. They don't
exactly know what they do. and they kind
of numb you in some sort of a way that
helps some people. And I've had some
friends and I don't, you know, I don't
want to make any blanket statements
because I had some friends that were
suicidal. Um, Ari is one of them and he
got on SSRI and it helped him. He got on
he tried a bunch of different ones,
found one that worked, got on track, and
then his career started taking off. And
then as his career started taking off,
he started feeling much better. He was
on a good positive path in his life and
then he slowly weaned himself off of
those and now he's off of them. So I
think that might have saved his life.
I also know other people that have been
on their on those things and taken their
own lives. So I don't know cuz that's
part of one of the side effects is
suicidal ideiation. It's one of the side
effects.
>> But see if you could find anything about
the chemical imbalance not being true.
the chemical imbalance reason for taking
SSRIs. It's they they've measured like
levels of dopamine and serotonin and
people that take it's not that's not
what it's doing and they don't even
exactly know why it works and it's a
huge business. That's part of the
problem. And it's also part of the
problem these doctors are incentivized
to prescribe people these things. I had
a friend that went to a psychiatrist
and um was talking about their life and
things not doing well and immediately
the doctor tried to prescribe him SSRIs
>> right away. Like right away. Here's
something that you're never going to get
off.
>> I'm going to give it to you right away.
First meeting. And he was like, "Well, I
don't mean shouldn't I like try
exercise? Shouldn't I try diet?
Shouldn't I try just drinking water?"
And you know like I I read something
about like magnesium and red light
therapy being far more effective than
even SSRIs. There is no good evidence
for the simple chemical imbalance like
low serotonin that directly causes
depression or automatically means
someone should take an SSRI. But SSRIs
do change brain chemistry in ways that
can help some people. Um but so for
decades depression was popularly
explained as a serotonin imbalance in
the brain. Large reviews of the research
have not found convincing evidence that
people with depression have consistently
low serotonin or a specific measurable
imbalance that explains their symptoms.
Experts now describe the chemical
imbalance story as an oversimplified or
outdated way of explaining a much more
complex condition. And here's the other
thing about depression.
It has to be
connected to the state of your life.
Like if you have a terrible job, you're
in a bad relationship, you have abusive
parents, you know, and you live in a
shitty neighborhood,
who why why would you be happy?
>> Mhm.
>> Oh, I'm depressed. Oh, you need a pill.
No. Do you? Is that what you need?
Right.
>> Well, it's quite possible that you're
eating processed foods and you have all
these other things that we talked about.
shitty life, shitty house, shitty job,
shitty neighborhood, shitty parents.
>> Maybe you just need to make your life
positive,
>> like figure out a way to get your life
in a positive direction. They've shown
that exercise is way more effective than
anti-depressants at at actually helping
people with depression. True.
>> Just exercise. Just
>> [ __ ] go on a nice long walk every
day. Do some cardio, you know, take a
[ __ ] yoga class. That's way better
for people than these goddamn pills. But
these doctors are financially
incentivized to prescribe these things
and they prescribe them and hand them
out like candy. And again, I think for
some people it helps them.
>> And and and that's the issue, right? I
mean, if it wasn't a financial
incentive, I think it would be like take
these for six months, you'll be better,
you know? Yeah.
>> It wouldn't be like
>> forever. This is you now.
>> Even six months, it's like okay, how
long does it take to get off them?
Right?
>> Cuz I know a guy who was on him and it
took him a year and a half after he got
off of them before he felt normal again.
For a year and a half, he was [ __ ] up
cuz he was on him for I think he said he
was on him for 10 years and then for a
year and a half he got off of them. And
it just took that long before he finally
like balanced the ship out like whatever
waves he had to go through for a year
and a half. But he was like, "Whatever
I'm doing, I am not going back on those
goddamn pills." So he wrote it out
>> and came out on the other end.
>> It's [ __ ] up, too, because it's it's
hard to compare your experience to other
people because everybody's brain
chemistry is different.
>> Yeah.
>> So you you could have two people on the
same medication like you were, you know,
saying earlier, like,
>> um, it's hard to even quantify. Like I
even talked to my own sister or like
other family members about you know
their depression and their you know
mental health uh journeys and um it's
just it's interesting to think like
you could say like it's it's hard to
disprove it. You know what I mean?
Because somebody could be doing well on
it. But it's also like it takes two
weeks for it to really get into your
system. And I've I I had to try like
three or four different ones before one
really I felt felt like me, you know,
like even at my grandmother's funeral,
like I just felt nothing. I just felt
numb.
>> And like I didn't notice it until I got
into a situation where I was like, "This
woman raised me and I can't feel
anything."
>> Wow.
>> And it wasn't until like a heavy moment
like that that I was able to kind of
have that perspective of like I should
be feeling something right now. So, I
put those down and then uh it was like
two weeks later was having dinner with
somebody and like this song came on that
just brought all of it up. There was
this melody, this Wayne Shorter melody
that just unccorked everything and I was
just sobbing at the dinner table, you
know.
>> Wow.
Um, what did you feel like before you
took them and what was wrong with the
ones that you didn't stick with?
>> Um, well, I don't know if it was a a
matter of like maybe the dosage was too
high and it was just kind of creating a
block because like you got to feel some
emotions, right?
>> So, how did you feel before you were
taking them? Like what was what was
bothering you that you realized you
needed to take something? Well, I think
a lot of it had to do with just like
substance abuse, but I was feeling
really anxious and really suicidal and
um just really really depressed, you
know, and um just this overwhelming
sense of dread every day and just also
just a lot of helplessness like just
trying to going to different doctors and
just like trying to figure out like what
the [ __ ] is it that's going to finally,
you know,
take this away, but also realizing like
I rely on that a little bit, you know,
for what I do for a living, you know,
>> so there's kind of that, you know,
>> rely on the feelings of depression.
Yeah.
>> All that, you know, for writing and for
creating um
>> God, that's a [ __ ] conundrum, ain't
it?
>> Yeah. Being fearful that it's going to
take your drive away
>> because you don't have anything to
create for
>> no substance, right? So, it's a it is a
strange battle. It's one that I still
kind of deal with, but I'm just in a
much better spot on the journey.
>> So, which ones did you try and what was
wrong with the ones that you try? They
just numbed you up.
>> This was like six years ago, so like
2020. Um,
I can't remember the name of the
specific
medication. And I'm sure I have a an old
bottle of it somewhere in my house, but
um
yeah, I don't know. I just
>> But what did it do? It just made you too
numb.
>> It just made me feel numb.
>> And then when you found one that worked,
what did that do differently?
>> So the one that I'm on now, uh I mean
like if I go a day without it, like I
like the the withdrawal symptoms are
like fairly severe. just like headaches
and just like complete like body
tingling sensations and just like it's
really scary stuff. It's just,
>> you know, so I'm I'm going to have to
wean off of it slowly over time like
already did.
>> Yeah.
>> I wonder if I gain would help with that.
>> Well, I mean, you know, it's like I was
saying like micro doing mushrooms was
like the first thing that I actually
felt some kind of lasting result. Like
now like when I get an anxiety attack or
something, I can recognize it as
something just coming from an outside
force, you know, an energy that's not
aligning with me. Mhm.
>> And I can recognize it. I can work
through it where like before I would
just get a little overwhelmed, you know.
But I think also just like
not drinking and like having to
socialize with people and having to have
a little exposure therapy to like social
interactions and life in general without
just masking myself with drugs and
alcohol
>> has helped a lot too in that growth.
So when you first started taking it, you
there's all the stuff that you're doing
in terms of like abusing alcohol and
substances and that which definitely
causes you to feel like [ __ ] and
definitely causes a lot of people to
have like all sorts of angst and anxiety
and just [ __ ] with you. This stuff
alleviated that.
>> What I'm on now?
>> Yeah. Uh, I mean, you know, it has
>> kind of
>> and I'm afraid of like, you know, if I
get off of it, are those emotions going
to come flooding back in, you know?
>> So, did it stop those emotions?
>> It
>> This is all, by the way, why you were
drinking, right? You're not drink. And
how long has it been since you've drank?
>> Like a year and a half.
>> Okay.
>> But, I mean, those those emotions do
come back every now and again,
>> even while you're on the stuff.
>> Yeah. But it significantly
curbed them.
>> But it's like, you know,
>> at what price?
>> I mean, I was talking to my boy Earnest
about it cuz, you know,
um he's kind of a kindered spirit and
like, you know, just talking about like
I'll be working out and like getting
after it, feeling good, listening to the
Stones or whatever. And like I noticed
like
um in my gym at my house like I guess
they used to have a punching bag hanging
up there and just like you see something
like that and you just take a mental
note of like that probably hold my
weight, you know. It's just like these
>> Oh, you mean to hang yourself?
>> Yeah. Like these thoughts just kind of
come,
>> you know, and it's I don't know where
they come from. They just they just pop
in and as quick as they come, they go.
>> And this is before you taken the
medication?
>> No. I mean, this is like a month ago,
you know.
>> Okay. Did the Did you have those
thoughts before the medication?
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Okay. So, they're still there.
>> Yeah.
>> So, whatever it's doing, it's doing a
little bit.
>> It's
>> I mean, it's got to be helping to a
degree.
>> Do you think it is? I think so. But I
think it's it's really just about like
your will and like your your mental just
your ability just like we were talking
about like with diets and stuff, you
know, like
>> does Osimpic help curb, you know,
appetites, but you could also just
exercise and just have willpower. And I
think mental health can be of a similar
thing.
>> One of the things that people are
finding out about Ozmpic is it actually
curbs your desire to be in love, too.
Yeah,
>> that's a nasty thought.
>> Yeah, you you don't enjoy anything.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> What I'm hearing about these SSRIs is
like um like genitalia like paralyzed.
Yeah.
>> I saw that on Twitter. Some lady was
talking about her she got off of it and
her clitoris is numb. She can't have
orgasms anymore.
>> That's [ __ ] up.
>> Yeah. If that ever happens, it's like,
you know,
>> the problem is I don't know if it comes
back.
>> So, you can't wait for it to happen and
like which medications cause it to
happen?
>> Yeah.
>> Um, if you do get off of it,
>> have you talked to your doctor like what
is the protocol?
>> Um, well, weaning off of it. Yeah. My
doctor always just says like
>> I don't know. He just every time I talk
to my doctor, it's like every few months
we check in and he's like, "Well, how
you feeling?" You know, "How you doing?"
Uh I'm like, "Well, I'm okay." You know,
just kind of feels like the same. Um
kind of want to get off of them. And
he's like, "Well, you know, if you want
to do that, like you're going to have to
go slowly overtime, but uh you know, are
things good?" And I'm like, "Well, yeah,
things are fine." He's like, "Well, you
don't really want to change things if
they're good, right?" You know,
>> that kind of thing.
>> And you worry, what
>> I worry about what's going to happen if
I, you know,
>> what's that going to be like getting off
of him
>> cuz the thing about it is like I was
talking about this guy that was on him
for 10 years. like that year and a half
was [ __ ] rough where he was
experiencing all sorts of problems
because his body was just kind of in
shock
>> that he had be on he had been on SSRIs
for a decade
>> and then all a sudden he's off of him is
like like the way Theo described it is
like the floor was missing
>> like the floor fell out from under him
>> getting off him.
>> He got off him for a while and then got
back on him. He got off him about a year
ago for a little while and then got back
on him. but he wants to get off him. He
just doesn't know what to do. And
>> I mean, hell, it's like it's it's like a
it's literally a plot device, you know,
like the show The Ozarks, you know,
>> like The Crazy Brother, like he's
pouring his medication down the drain. Y
>> and he goes [ __ ] nuts, you know? It's
like
>> somebody being off their medication is
kind of a pjorative term, right?
>> Yeah.
>> But I'm like,
>> I kind of want to get off mine. Well, it
depends on what medication, right? Some
people are schizophrenic.
>> Yeah. If it's anti-csychosis, I guess
>> if you've got psych psychosis, have do
you exercise?
>> Yeah.
>> What do you do?
>> I usually do 20 minutes on the pelon and
then a different muscle group every day.
>> Oh, that's good. That anything cardio-
wise is great for depression supposedly.
And even weights. Weights are supposedly
really good for anxiety for some reason.
>> I've noticed. Yeah,
>> there's a there's a real definitive
difference when I'm working out versus
when I'm when I'm not.
>> Yeah, man. So, like, do you have a
strategy for when you're thinking about
doing this or how you're going to try to
do this?
Well, I was thinking I'd probably do it
when I had some time off, but I'm
working the rest of the year, but
honestly, man, being on the road is kind
of my my constant. So, I think it's
something that I could probably
accomplish while I'm on the road, but
I'd hate to have like a breakdown.
>> Yeah. [ __ ] that.
>> You're in Nashville about to do a show
and you're like, I got to cancel the
show,
>> right?
>> Yeah. So, it's it's it's hard to
determine, you know,
>> it scares me, man, because and again, it
scares me because doctors incentivize to
keep you on them
>> and promote them and get you to do them.
Also, when they've been prescribing them
for people, they don't want to ever
think that they're doing something bad.
>> There's a justification process in there
somewhere,
>> 100%. Justification process, financial
incentives, there's there's a lot going
on there. And then there's also this um
this position that they're in of
expertise where they're explaining to
you what you should and shouldn't do and
how it works and and when you're like
this is [ __ ] up my whole life and I
can't get off them. Like oh just why why
slow down? Like isn't everything doing
well? Just keep keep on the same path,
Marcus. Everything's fine, Marcus. Bye.
Click. Got a new patient calling. Oh, hi
Jenner Deal. Yeah, it's it's very weird,
man. It's very weird that our society is
so hypermedicated.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. And injectables are the the wave
of the future.
>> Like
>> even like um like uh my boy Chevy that
works for me, he's um he used to work in
pharmaceutical sales and he's like
everything is injectables now because
that's what's hot because of like the
craze. So like every medication is like
pedaling injectables
>> because like the the wave of like
peptides and ompic and all that kind of
stuff now it's like it's trendy
>> which is really interesting to me.
>> That is weird
>> cuz I grew up with my dad having type
two diabetes and and my grandfather too
and u you know just seeing them inject
like insulin and stuff I was like yuck.
Well, type two diabetes. The thing about
that one is you can cure that.
>> Yep.
>> You just got to stop eating like a pig,
>> which is crazy. I know a bunch of people
that have stopped themselves from having
type two diabetes.
>> Yeah. And that and that's that's a goal
that I'm on is preventing myself from
ever dealing with that. Yeah.
>> I don't I don't eat sugar or anything.
>> Oh, that's awesome.
>> Yeah. I gave up sugar.
>> Well, again, the ketogenic diet is
supposed to be good for depression, too.
>> Do you take supplements? So, you're
taking magnesium and yep,
>> multivitamins and all that jazz.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> That's good. So, it seems like you're
doing a lot of the right things, man.
>> Yeah, man. I'm, you know, I just
I
>> don't want to be a prisoner to pills.
>> Yeah. And I I love my wife and I'm just
excited to have some babies and just I
want to get myself like her career is
taking off and my career is going really
well and like
>> Does she take SSRIs?
>> Mm-m.
>> No, that's good. She she's very anti
like any pharmaceuticals which I I
really admire about her.
>> I was just reading something about SSRIs
and the development of children
>> children's brains when women are
pregnant and they're on SSRIs and
apparently there's a bunch of issues.
>> Yeah,
>> I can see that.
>> I mean, look, man, there's millions of
people on those things. there's a giant
business and they want to hide all the
side effects and hide all the negative
aspects of it and hide the impact that
it does just to the overall psyche of
the nation when you've got okay let's
just take a guess how many people do you
think in this country are on SSRIs with
liberal women it's like 80% of them but
it is and the other 20% need them like
what is what's the percentage of people
on SSRIs in America. Let's guess,
>> man. I
>> 30
>> probably say like I would go even
higher. I'd say like 60 to 75.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> 60 to 75% of the country.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow. I don't think it's that. I think
it's under 30.
>> It's too many.
>> It's too many. Yeah,
>> it's definitely too many. But there's
also a bunch of people that are looking
for a quick fix when
>> there's a bunch of factors to why you
don't feel happy. Like we were talking
about before, there's lifestyle, life
choices, situation that is beyond your
control, like where you're born, where
you live, the job that you have, like
where you, you know, if you're in a
place of limited opportunity and you got
a bunch of shitty people around you and
life sucks every day. It's hard to be
happy.
>> It's hard to not feel depressed. So then
there's the question of like, how does
one develop the the tools to get out of
that situ situation and get somewhere
else? And for a lot of people, it's
something that helps them break out,
whether it's starting a business or
being a musician or an artist or
something that gets you out of there.
And then you start getting around more
positive people and then you make more
positive lifestyle choices. But you just
can't expect to be happy if your life is
[ __ ]
>> right?
>> 13%. Okay,
>> that was way off. American SSRI
prescribing, but I bet in your business
that's why you think of it because Yeah.
And with artists, I bet it's a lot
higher.
>> Uh 13% of US adults report taking an
anti-depressant in any given 30-day
period. SSRI is the most frequently used
class within that group.
Yeah. Okay. So, 13%. So, that's 2015 to
2018.
>> I asked for an update for 2020. And it
said it's about the same
>> for 2026.
>> I mean, yeah, it says I asked, "Is there
any updates in 2020?" And it basically
said the same information.
>> So about 13%.
>> Still a lot. One out of 10 people on
crazy pills is a lot.
>> Yeah. In in the arts community though.
>> Yeah. Like within the artist community,
um the last data that I remember reading
was like 70% of like artists struggle
with some faction of mental health.
But um
>> I that makes sense.
>> Yeah.
>> And then there's also the newest element
that targets your mental health and goes
after it, which is social media.
>> Yeah.
>> That's a rough one, boy.
>> That's a rough one. And so many people
treat that as if it's no big deal. Like
you just shooting heroin into your
eyeballs every day with that stuff.
>> Yeah, man.
>> Not good. So many people are in there.
>> Yeah.
>> All day, every day. and then reading a
bunch of negative [ __ ] about them and
getting angry and upset
>> and then
>> carrying that weight around with them
all day.
>> It's it's easy to say like don't read
comments, but it's easier said than
done. Yeah. You know.
>> Yeah. Especially if you have it on your
phone. That's the thing. Like you got to
not have it on your phone.
>> If you have it on your phone, you're
going to go to it. But then the problem
is if you use it for touring and for
posting information, keeping your fans
engaged.
>> Yeah. Well, the algorithm also serves
you like you you got to engage.
>> They like anytime you talk to a social
media group, they're like, "What are
your engagement levels like?" Like, so
they want you on the app using it,
>> like commenting, responding to people
because if you don't and you choose not
to do that and they're like, "Well, can
we go on there for you and like respond
to comments or whatever?" And I'm like,
"No, I don't want you punching in any
bullshit." So, I'm like, I want to be on
there and be myself and like if this is
a tool that I have to have, I want it to
be me like authentically.
But, you know, it's a necessary evil.
>> Yeah. But it it ruins so many people's
brains.
>> It rots you.
>> Yeah, it really does. And it's also
you're absorbing so much negativity just
from what's going on in the world. Like
on any given day, if I open up Twitter
and I just start reading what people are
upset about, it's just like, oh my god,
the whole world is falling apart.
Everyone's mad at everything and
everyone and every little
whatever [ __ ] social issue, political
issue, world issue, economic issue.
Everyone's blaming everyone and
everyone's pissed and then there's so
many grifters and psychopaths that are
just on there all day using it, stirring
up [ __ ]
[ __ ] man.
>> I know.
It's um
Yeah.
>> You think I can use the bathroom in the
>> [ __ ] yeah, we can use the bathroom.
We'll
>> get into this.
>> Yeah. Got a lot to say about
>> We're going to pee, folks. We'll be
right back. And we're back, ladies and
gentlemen. Where were we? Depression.
Everything sucks. Stay off social media.
>> Yeah.
>> Let's talk about music.
>> Let's talk about some music.
>> Damn. That's how How does it take so
long to talk? seen that James Brown
interview from the 80s
>> when he's got those big glasses on.
>> Oh yeah.
>> I want to talk about some music.
>> That [ __ ] interview is amazing.
>> It's the best.
>> When he he had just got arrested and the
>> I'm out on love.
>> Yeah. Aren't you out on bail? I'm out on
love.
>> Yeah.
And he starts talking to the women in
the thing. He's like, "Why is that
ladies?"
>> Yeah. No, it's hilarious.
>> It's the best.
>> Clearly high as [ __ ]
>> Yeah. something going on there.
>> James Brown was an original.
>> When you first started doing music, how
old were you?
>> Um, man, I was probably like two or
three years old when I started dealing
with it. Yeah.
>> That's crazy.
>> Mhm. My grandfather played, my uncles,
my dad still plays, you know.
>> Wow. So, were they professional or they
just did it for fun?
>> My grandfather, so he was a career
serviceman. He was in the Air Force and
he was a staff master sergeant and he
played honky tonks on the weekend. He
was in charge of booking all the NCO
clubs on the base. So he would book like
Charlie Pride or Johnny Cash, Barbara
Mandrrell and his band would open up and
then back them up.
>> Oh wow.
>> So he was a country and western purist.
And
>> did you get to go to any of those shows
when you were young?
>> No. Well, so this was this was back in
the 60s.
>> Oh. My dad's 73 I think now. He was born
in 53 and um I was born when my dad was
like 43.
>> Oh wow.
>> So by the time I came along everybody
was
you know a lot of my family traded in
like uh I think they associated music
with a lot of the secular lifestyle. So
they kind of when they all got born
again and into the church, that's around
the time I came around, you know. So the
music was really associated with church,
but I was really interested in that
other stuff.
>> Isn't that interesting? Like I wonder
why there's a division,
>> you know? I think about it a lot. I
think that's the closest you can get to
divinity,
>> you know, is music really. um allowing
yourself to get that close to something
and the conviction that you feel in a
church, you know, that's a good common
thing for everybody to get on the same
level. And um
>> yeah, that's part of the church
experience that everybody having it
together, experiencing it together as a
group.
>> Being together live in a room with a
great musician on stage when everyone's
enjoying it together is very much a
transcendent experience.
>> Yeah,
>> it really is. It's
>> like drinking the Kool-Aid, man.
>> Yeah. It's like there's a beautiful
moment when you're all experiencing it
together and you're all clapping and
cheering or you're all dancing and
singing along. It's a beautiful moment.
>> It really is. Music is like a drug, man.
It really is. It's like a beautiful
drug.
>> Like the right song when you're on the
treadmill and you're like, "Fuck yeah."
You could just keep going, you know?
>> Dude, I tear a door off the hinges.
>> Yeah.
>> If I hear like Little Feet, Skin It
Back.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
There's certain songs that just give you
[ __ ] energy, man.
>> Or like [ __ ] by the Rolling Stones.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> That song. If I need a pickme up in the
morning, that song comes on. A great
weightlifting one is Prison Sex by
Tulle.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Oh, you know that song?
>> Tulle's a band that I never really
delved into, but I know Danny Carrey.
And
>> um I know them because of my buddy Brent
Hines.
>> Did you ever listen to Masttodon?
>> No.
>> Man, I got to send you some some choice
cuts, but
>> Okay.
>> Brent was he was the [ __ ] man. He he
just died back in September.
>> Oh. Um, I took him on the road right
before that, which was
>> Oh, really?
>> which was messy.
>> Oh, really?
>> Um, Brent, um, he and Masttodon kind of
had a mutual agreement that he would
leave the band, so he was doing his solo
thing and like he's one of my heroes,
you know, and I was like, I'll take you
out. Sure. and like he just threw it
together somehow and then I ended up
having to kick him off the tour which
like broke my heart but he kind of
forced my hand. Um
the night in question like I walked
outside and he had this little tour
manager named Angela and she was crying
and my my tour manager was holding her
and she was crying. I was like [ __ ] a
what happened now? She said, "I walk
into the dressing room and Brent pee on
the floor
and I said, "No, no, you have to stop."
So then he pee in his mouth.
>> Oh Jesus.
>> And like I know. So you just have to
picture my boy just like pissing and
she's like, "You have to stop." And then
he's like, "Oh."
>> In his own mouth. And like at his
funeral, I told I told uh Matt Pike from
asleep. I told him that story and he was
like,
>> "Yeah, like and
>> normal."
>> He's like, "It's a party trick.
>> That's a Wednesday move."
>> And I was like, "Yeah, no, it's
hilarious." But it really offended her
and she got very upset and um the whole
thing just fell apart and you know that
>> that was the last straw.
>> That was fisting in his own mouth.
>> That was what did it
>> really? But you know, um,
>> get him some paper towels and let's fix
this.
>> I was ready to fix it, but like his
whole band and crew, they were like,
"It's not working." So,
>> what was he doing?
>> He was just just partying a little too
much, you know? And I mean,
I I really I love that dude like a
brother, you know? I miss him.
Miss him a lot. Sometimes it takes a
really wild, crazy, off the rails person
to make music or make any kind of art
that just moves you, drives you crazy.
>> Yeah. I mean, he was a true artist, you
know, like he he was insane.
>> Yeah.
>> And like you got to have friends that
your wife doesn't particularly love you
hanging out with,
>> right?
>> You know, there's something about that
friend.
>> Yeah. That's a lot of my friends.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. But those are the ones that
make the magic.
>> Yeah,
>> there's something to it. And again, that
it is a magic thing that the the you
know, and this is coming from someone
with no music. I have no talent. And so
for me, like watching it and
experiencing it is a pure experience
because I'm not like, oh, I don't like
he how he played that chord. I don't
like how I don't know anything about
music. I just know I love it.
>> I mean, Rick Rubin, you know, he's held
on to that. Mhm.
>> He he wants to be, you know, and I think
he has been like the u you know the
voice of like the consumer.
>> He he hears what the consumer wants to
hear and I
>> Well, he knows what he likes.
>> Yeah.
>> And he's got a very interesting mind,
you know. He's a very interesting person
to talk to. His perspective on things is
very unique. I like him a lot.
>> Y
>> really like him a I like talking to him
a lot and just he sends you the wildest
text messages. You text me.
>> Oh yeah,
>> he send me some [ __ ] conspiracies
that are often sometimes I have to say,
"Hey, that's not real,
>> but every now and then he'll send you
some some ones that make you question
reality."
>> I like the thought of you talking Rick
off of a ledge.
>> Not necessarily talk him off a ledge.
letting them know that some of the, you
know, it's hard to know what's real and
what's not real out there in the world
if you're not like deep into the bowels
of conspiracy theory movement.
>> Yeah.
>> You know,
>> right.
>> But again, a guy like Rick like his
sensibility like he he has a it's like a
very valuable position person just with
a unique mind that is just helping shape
how music gets produced and created.
Mhm.
>> And because like whatever whatever it
takes, whatever it I mean it's not a
science like a math thing or a it's not
carpentry like you have to level this
and square that like no man. There's
like some weirdness and there's love in
there and hate in there and there's
there's there's a lot of stuff that is
intangible. It's hard to describe like
why this is better and why this is good.
But when you hear it, you know. when you
know you know
>> you know there's some riffs
>> you know there's some riffs that just
like oh my god like the beginning of
Vuju child slight return
>> come on
>> yeah come on just the beginning you hear
it you go oh yeah
>> yeah dude
>> I mean Dan Hourback's another one who's
just
>> Oh yeah I love those guys
>> perfected the riff
>> Josh Hammy Stone Age
>> Oh yeah
>> um you So Rick's a funny one, man. I
love his philosophy on music, too. He
just he looks at it the same way that
Colonel Bruce Hampton looked at it.
>> Colonel Bruce Hampton and Rick both
believed that music is like pro
wrestling, you know.
>> Is Colonel Bruce Hampton the Colonel
from Elvis?
>> That's different. Different Colonel.
Who's Colonel Bruce Hampton?
>> Colonel Bruce Hampton. He was kind of
like um so Billy Bob Thornton put him in
a movie in Slingblade. Um, he was I
can't remember his name in the film, but
yeah, Colonel Bruce Hampton. There he
is. He died on stage at the Fox Theater.
>> Wow. In Detroit.
>> No, in uh Atlanta.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Uh, his story is he was born with two
birth certificates. Um, he was just a
wild man and he was just he was all
about like instead of instruction, he
called it outstruction. And like Billy
Bob worked on a documentary about him in
like 2003.
Um,
and he was just like his whole
philosophy on music and just like why we
do it and just pointing out the hilarity
of like the business and like the coffee
getters as he referred to them. You
know, we have a whole industry built
around coffee getters now. You know, all
the people that got the suits, their
lattes and stuff in the morning, now
they're calling the shots. And that's a
that's a weird place to be. But the
Colonel Bruce Hampton I, you know, I
just what I do now is I just buy copies
of u his uh documentary Basically
Frightened and I just give it to people
who aren't hip to the knowledge. So I'll
I'll send a copy down here.
>> Yeah. It's called Frightened.
>> It's called Basically Frightened.
>> Basically Frightened.
>> Colonel Bruce Hampton story. Yeah.
>> Is it available anywhere? Like is it on
Apple or Amazon or
>> It's not streaming anywhere.
>> No. So I just I just collect the DVDs
when I can find them.
>> Oh wow. Is it a Can you buy a DVD
anywhere? Like if people are listening
to this and they want to get a hold of
it.
>> Yeah. Like eBay.
>> That's the only way.
>> That's That's the only place I found
them.
>> Really?
>> Yeah. And you'll be bidding against me.
I always
>> keep buying copies of it.
>> I Yeah. Every time I give one away, I
buy another copy.
>> Wow.
>> Yep.
>> Here's I found a thread on Reddit.
people looking for it and someone's
like, "Just mail me the DVD and I'll
copy it for you." Like, you can't find
it anywhere.
>> Oh, wow.
>> It would be cool if it it were to be
streamed somewhere. It's a fascinating
story.
>> $215 on Amazon, but I don't know that
that's going to be even real,
>> right? Yeah. They might just send you a
[ __ ] brick.
>> But he he was somebody like,
>> you know, widespread panic. That was
like their guru, you know,
>> really. Colonel Bruce Hampton, Jimmy
Herring, you know, um, Otil Burbridge,
who I'm in a band with now. Um,
you know, he started with Bruce. Really?
>> I've never heard of him before.
>> You know, it's just he's one of those
guys that, you know, he was like to the
southeast. He was like our Frank Zappa,
you know, or like our son Raw.
>> Oh, wow.
>> He was just all about just the
outrageousness.
And you know, I have a lot of friends
who spent a lot more time with him than
I did, but like he was one of the first
people that took notice to what I was
doing when I was like 15, you know, and
then I remember like being in Germany
and finding out that he'd passed away on
stage,
which he predicted.
>> He did. Really?
>> Yeah. He said that's how he was going to
go. Well, if you keep performing long
enough.
Well, Carlin died in a hotel room on the
road.
>> Really?
>> Yeah.
>> I'm gonna have to download this for you
real quick.
>> Oh, there you go.
>> It's unlisted on YouTube.
>> Oh, perfect.
>> It won't be there tomorrow, though.
>> After this episode gets released. Yeah.
Can you download it?
>> Uh, I can try to Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Download it to I'll figure it out,
though. But
>> Okay. Jamie to the rescue.
>> Sorry folks, if you're getting this.
>> You might be able to find it still. I
found good luck.
>> Somebody can upload it on one of them
other social media platforms.
That's cool. I'm interested in checking
it out. One of I I love music for
inspiration, you know. It's um it's one
of the unique art forms that uh it
inspires you to create,
>> inspires you to go do things. You know,
whenever I see a a live band or a live
performer, I can't wait to go do
something. I want I want to go write. I
want to go perform. I want to Paul Paul
Mooney who's a great comedian. Do you
know who Paul Mooney is?
>> Yep.
>> Uh he used to write for Richard Prior.
He was one of the real OGs back in the
early days when I came to the comedy
store. I was kind of blown. He was one
of the guys I was always nervous around
being around till he liked me. It's
like, you know what I mean? Like yeah,
>> Paul Mooney hates you. You're [ __ ]
>> But uh he gave me that advice once early
on. And he said, "If you want to
entertain people," he said, "Go be
entertained." He goes, "You want to
entertain, honey? Go be entertained,
homie. Go see some other shit." He goes,
"Go see something that gets you. Go see
a great movie. Go see a band. Go see
something. Be entertained."
>> That's what That's what my process is
like in the studio, man. Like this last
record we did like we had a projector
and we'd play like you know uh Giant
with James Dean or we play like
>> Easy Rider Big Labowski or like films
that like inspired us films that we like
really gravitated towards
>> and I all the while you know waking up
in the morning and reading East of Eden
and just like some of these great
architects of Americana and just like
being inspired on every turn
>> watching live concert footage of bands
that we love. Marshall Tucker Band,
Skard, whatever the case.
>> Um, just inundating yourself with
inspiring stuff, you know,
>> just something to get the juices
flowing.
>> Yeah.
>> To summon the muse.
>> Mhm.
>> Something to
>> Sometimes we would play just the the
footage of like a Midnight Cowboy or
something
>> and we would we would record, you know,
in the mindset like we were trying to
score this film, you know?
>> Oh, wow. Wow.
>> Just to kind of get a different
approach.
>> I forgot about Midnight Cowboy. What a
wild movie.
>> It's a good one.
>> Yeah. That was back when Times Square
was dirty.
>> Yeah.
>> Now Time Squares is one big Applebees.
>> That's when people would go and watch
pornography together in a theater.
>> In a theater. Yeah. Not only that, but
it was a thing in the early days of
pornography where couples would go out
and like Johnny Carson went to see Deep
Throat.
>> Yeah.
>> There's like famous people went to see
the film Deep Throat in the theater.
>> Yep. Well, it was adult entertainment.
>> How But how weird is that that
pornography like there was always stag
films, right? Mhm.
>> Like that was the thing that they used
to make like in the early days of
movies. They would film
>> people having sex and you could watch it
like at a stag party which was like a
bachelor party,
>> right?
>> But then people tried to make films like
artistic films that had people having
sex in them which is really interesting
that we we find that
aborant like people don't like that in
today's society. We don't mind like this
this show from that I was telling you
about. Bro, the violence is horrific.
The gore and the violence is crazy.
That's okay.
>> Just don't suck someone's dick. Don't
make them come. That's terrible. Like,
do you remember the movie Bad Bunny? No,
not Bad Bunny. Was that Brown Bunny?
Brown Bunny. Do you remember the movie
Brown Bunny?
>> Brown Bunny was a Vincent Gallow movie
that he made and there was a real sex
scene in there. Like like real like how
do you say that lady's name? Chloe
>> I don't know how
I don't know how you say her name. She's
a really good actress and she blows him
like for real in the movie. Like it's a
real scene and the movie is a real
movie. But then when it came to the sex
part, they actually did it and people
were horrified.
>> Yeah.
>> I mean that's so weird. Like if it was
violence, like if it was a scene where
she beat him to death with a baseball
bat,
>> people would be like, "Wow, what a crazy
movie."
>> Right.
>> But it was a scene where she blows him.
People like, "This is outrageous."
>> Outrageous.
>> And I think that movie ruined Vincent
Gallow's career.
>> Really?
>> Yeah. Cuz Vincent Gallow had been in a
bunch of movies. He's a really weird
guy. Like a very interesting guy. And
after that, he kind of dipped away from
Hollywood. like he kind of vanished in a
lot of ways. And that was the big thing.
I remember reading these articles on how
outraged people were that they had
actually seen real sex in a movie.
>> Like it's so strange that we don't mind
violence.
>> Like once upon a time in Hollywood, Brad
Pitt takes a lady's head and bashes it
into a mantel piece and [ __ ] brains
her.
>> Fine.
>> Fine.
>> No. No outrage. No. Everyone Everyone
okay? Everyone's okay. But if he [ __ ]
her Yeah. Yeah.
>> Like actually pull her pants down. You
see Brad Pitt's penis and her vagina,
you're like, "This is crazy." Something
that we all do.
>> Yeah. But the simulation of it is fine,
too,
>> right? Simulation of it is fine.
>> Yeah. Like if it was a sex scene and you
just see his hips and her face like,
"Oh, and they're kissing." Fine. Long as
you don't see actual sex.
>> Mhm.
>> Even if it was like him and his wife.
Like if he made a movie with him and his
wife and they decided to have actual sex
in the movie, people would be like,
"This is disgusting. Get this [ __ ]
smut off the screen." But if they had a
movie with him and his wife and she
shoots him, you're like, "Okay, that's
fine." Didn't really happen,
>> right?
>> Weird, right?
>> It is weird. I mean, hell, I did a
commercial for
like I did a a shoot for this car and
like they couldn't have me in the car
while it was moving for insurance
purposes. So they had to like make it
seem like I was in the car while it was
moving.
>> Insurance purposes. That's crazy.
But that's more uh of a financial thing.
>> Yeah.
>> Are we But the the weirdness about sex,
the point is like see if you can find
that um footage of all the people that
were in line. And there's like an old
there's a YouTube video of an old news
report of people in line to see
[ __ ]
>> right?
>> And again, Johnny Carson was one of
them. And I think they even interviewed
him after the film. Like they they went
and watched people [ __ ]
>> and like it was a movie. Like you know,
you're watching the Joker or something,
>> right?
>> Very odd.
>> It is odd. And they got that name
[ __ ] from the the Watergate. Uh,
>> did they?
>> Yeah.
>> I thought Deep Throat was uh afterwards.
>> I thought I thought the Watergate thing
was after
>> I don't know.
>> I could be wrong. Chicken or the Egg.
>> Okay. So, Watergate was what 70
>> 74 was it?
>> Came out in 72.
>> Oh, yeah. So, the movie came out first.
>> Okay.
>> And so, that was after those. So that's
interesting too when you think about
like 72
was not that long ago and people's ideas
of pornography were very different back
then.
>> A lot of my favorite venues in the
country were porno theaters first.
>> Comedy mothership, bro.
>> All right. Yeah.
>> Was a porno theater at one point in time
>> and like people cared about like the
quality of like the the audio production
in those films and like you know and
these rooms sound really good. the
Variety Playhouse in Atlanta.
>> It's one of the best scenes in American
Werewolf in London.
>> Okay.
>> Do you remember that movie, American
Werewolf in London?
>> Um,
>> it's a great [ __ ] movie. One of the
best scenes. They're in the middle of
London and they're in an adult movie
theater and these people are watching
pornography. They're watching a smut
film and while these people are [ __ ]
he turns into a werewolf and kills
everybody.
>> I got to check that out.
>> Oh, it's great. One of the greatest
movies of all time. That wolf that we
have in the lobby, that's a a recreation
>> Oh, really?
>> of the American Werewolf.
>> Okay.
>> That's what that is.
>> The thing with Johnny Carson and Deepth
Throat, I think, is like a
conglomeration memory.
>> Is it?
>> There's a there's a weird There is a
photo of people waiting in line to see
the movie.
>> Mhm.
>> But it's like this is it on screen.
>> Mhm.
But there was a video
>> of Johnny Carson talking about it after
the fact during his monologue that he
went to see it.
>> Oh, so there wasn't a photo or a video
of him at the movie theater?
>> I don't think so, man. I'm looking for
it cuz I sort of remember what you're
talking about. I think remember we might
have read an article that listed all of
this stuff together.
>> What was that play where they had like
everybody was like naked and it was like
really a big deal. Um, was it like
Hairspray or something like that?
>> I don't know.
>> In the late 70s, my dad told me him and
his friends went to go see this like
Broadway production or off Broadway
production um where like everybody was
like nude and it was like this really,
>> you know, it was like this really racy
thing. Yeah.
>> And uh there was a preacher up front
just like really just giving him hell,
man. And then he got up closer and he
realized it was his uncle. My great
uncle was up there.
just motherfuckering them.
>> That's hilarious. Widely cited uh
overview. Many works are quoted. Note
that several mainstream celebrities
appear to have seen deep throat
including Martin Scorsesi, Brian Dealma,
Truman Capot, Jack Nicholson, Johnny
Carson, Spiro Agnu, Frank Sinatra, and
others. Barbara Walters later mentioned
seeing it in her memoir. These
references are usually brief, but
they're pulled into many articles about
the film's cultural impact. But that's
what's so interesting. is like that is
not um not normal in today's society to
even think that a bunch of people would
say they went to go see a porn film.
>> I think this is also so Midnight Cowboy
which is where you guys started this
1969 which is before this and one best
picture as the X-rated or NC7 movie. So
there started a little bit of a trend
then
>> this is only three years later you know.
So
>> why was Midnight Cowboy X-rated? the
reason.
>> Yeah. Like what was uh what was so
explicit that they had to make it an X?
>> I would say a little bit has to do with
marketing,
>> but I don't know if there's a reason.
>> Marketing.
>> Yeah. It make people want to go see it,
>> right? I guess. Oh, this is crazy. This
movie is crazy.
>> It's not standing out here.
Right here.
after consulting with a psychologist
they told to give it an exhomosexual
frame reference and its possible
influence on youngsters.
>> Wow, that's crazy. Today that would be
celebrated,
>> right?
>> Oh, there's a rape scene. I haven't seen
this movie.
>> I I saw it in like the 80s. I haven't
seen it in forever. Yeah, but even I
mean like in that film it's like a it's
like a a distant thought that John Voy's
character keeps going back to like the
rape scene whereas like [ __ ]
>> when was the last time you saw it?
>> Um couple months ago probably.
>> Oh, really?
>> But like [ __ ] u the deliverance is
plays on AMC on TV.
>> Right. Right. Which is another rape
scene.
>> Nothing's edited out.
>> Squeal like a pig.
>> That one [ __ ] me out when I was a kid.
I'm not going to lie.
Oh yeah, very much so.
>> Not to mention it like supposedly took
place like in the Appalachian like
backdrop, which is like where I grew up.
And I was like, that's [ __ ] happening
like here. Uh because of then shocking
sexual content. Even more importantly,
it's frank portrayal of homosexuality
and hustling. Hustling meaning having
gay sex for money,
>> which the studio and sensors saw as
potentially corrupting to young viewers.
The film includes scenes and references
to male prostitution, homosexual
encounters, and brief but explicit
situations including implied oral sex
and nudity, which went far beyond what
Hollywood had shown in a mainstream
drama up to that point.
>> Maybe now it would get just an R, but
also that would be with this never
existing. So
>> now it' be celebrated there. It's it's a
film celebrating sex workers. Yeah. It's
weird. It's weird what was uh but it's
also weird that there was a movie that
was an actual porn movie that a bunch of
people just went to see and talked
about. Like today people want to pretend
they don't even watch porn.
>> Yeah.
>> Meanwhile, I think last check we did I
know we've done this before, Jamie. Like
what percentage of the internet is
pornography? Internet traffic.
Take a guess of that. I bet it's way
more than SSRIs,
>> right? Don't you think?
>> Yeah. I haven't I haven't guessed right
so far. So, let's see. Uh
50%.
>> Oh, wow. I don't think it's that high. I
would think I would say 30.
>> Okay.
>> I'd say 30% of the internet, but I could
be wrong. I don't remember. 30% of the
internet traffic is pornography. Let's
say that. Maybe it's 40.
>> Saying that's a myth.
>> It's a myth.
>> I don't I mean, I haven't read through
this yet.
>> That's a bunch of people lying about
jerk and all, but 30 to 40% is a myth
apparently.
Okay. Porn makes up a small share of
sites. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But traffic,
>> yeah, it says it
>> um 30 40%.
Uh wy stated, but what is the what about
traffic? The amount of internet
>> searches.
>> Yeah, but
>> no, but I mean traffic like the amount
of bandwidth.
>> All right, then it's getting lost in
this word because I used I used traffic.
No, I used traffic.
>> Yeah, you did. Why do we see higher
numbers? See, 37 37% of the internet is
porn. BBC reported tracing one of these
popular figures back to single content
filter company press release, not an
independent audited measurement, some
advocacy. I I bet now today because of
YouTube and the amount of streaming that
goes on with like uh Instagram and Tik
Tok, I bet it probably isn't as high as
it used to be the percentage wise
because there's so much more content
that's being streamed now than ever
before. Mhm.
>> Porn related searches are 13% on the web
and 20% on mobile devices. That's funny.
It's more on mobile devices because
people can hide in the toilet.
Um the content filter company. Okay.
>> The claim comes from this.
>> Yeah, we read that. We already read
that.
>> Well, I just So it could be just made up
to begin with.
>> Yeah, could be. But there's got to be
like a number.
>> I don't know.
>> Of like the internet traffic.
>> I don't know how you'd get that number.
So, some advocacy or internet safety
groups site very high traffic shares and
storage figures. Example, uh nearly a
third of all internet traffic, but these
are rough, sometimes opaque estimates
rather than peer-reviewed measurements.
H okay, so it's at least 4%. So, it says
roughly websites 4 to 12%. That's a lot.
Just 4 to 12% of the whole internet is
jerkoff websites. That's crazy.
But the volume in terms of the amount of
bandwidth used,
>> right?
>> But
>> I bet if you went and watched Deep
Throat today, it probably be pretty
pedestrian,
>> be tamed.
>> Yeah.
>> It probably would seem just like
softcore almost,
>> right? Yeah. Like one of them Showtime
late night movies.
>> Yeah.
I mean it is something that I you know
um I like to save all that you know when
I get home off the road see my wife.
>> Yeah.
>> You know tagline that it had originally
>> the woman had an unusual birth defect
that came from a doctor who has an
unorthodox solution to make the best of
her situation.
>> Is that it?
>> Is that a the deep throat?
>> Yes. Yes. Oh, that she could just take
it
>> a bird defect
>> balls deep down her her chin. That guy
Harry Rees, he was like one of the first
famous male porn stars and I think he
went on to be a real estate salesman or
something.
>> Like if you're one of those people that
gets famous [ __ ] that's that has got
to be a very weak.
>> Is that where the porn mustache comes
from? That thing's huge.
>> Oh yeah, he had a crazy stash.
>> 1947. Wow. What's he up to these days?
He passed away,
>> did he? Yeah.
>> When did he pass away?
>> 2013.
>> Wow. Didn't live that long.
>> All that [ __ ] wasted all his jizz.
>> I bet he shaved off his mustache and he
was just anonymous. He just drifted in
and out of traffic. Nobody even noticed
him, you know?
>> Right.
>> Weird life having sex with people on
camera.
>> Should we add that to the wall?
>> That Oh, look at that. Got it.
>> Wonder what he got arrested to.
>> If we add it to the wall. Oh, probably
for
>> indecent something. Yeah, we should add
that to the wall.
>> Memphis,
>> you got to be up to some no good to get
arrested in Memphis. I tell you,
>> what did he get arrested for?
>> I'll see if it says something.
>> Too much dick.
>> Says his appearance in Dethro led to his
arrest by FBI agents in Memphis and
charges his conspiracy to distribute
obscenity across state lines.
>> Whoa.
Whoa.
>> He called it forum shopping, but I don't
>> What does that mean? forum
>> real term for the practice of litigants
taking actions to have their legal case
heard in the court they believe is most
oh to give them a good judgment
>> they're trying to f they're trying to
get them convicted I guess trying to
make an example of them so they found a
court that would take the case
>> like for obscinity
>> yeah supreme court
>> Miller vers California resonance granted
a new trial charges were dropped in
August
>> wow so they just
>> defense argues the first act to ever be
prosecuted by the federal government for
appearing in a film It's like the Looney
Bruce is slinging dick
>> and then all these people got behind
him.
>> Very Shirley Mlan, Warren Batty, Richard
Drifus. They all got behind him. Jack
Nicholson, Ben Gazara. Wow. Dick Cavitt.
>> He was in Greece as the coach.
>> Wow.
>> He was in the movie Greece, the musical.
>> What? In 1978.
>> Out of fear his notoriety would uh
jeopardize the film's B, he was
replaced. Okay. Oh, he was cast and he
was replaced by Sid Caesar. That's
hilarious.
Wow. After an 8-year in 1982, after an
8-year hiatus from porn, Reams returned
to the industry and performed in the
film Society Affairs and reportedly
received a six figure salary.
>> How weird.
>> Way back then.
>> Weird.
>> It is.
>> It the the whole pornography thing is
very strange cuz like people want to
watch other people have sex because
people like having sex but it's like
>> but you can't talk about it.
>> Well, you know, if you say you like it,
people like [ __ ] is wrong with you and
then they watch it.
>> But if we could dstigmatize it and like
not give people unrealistic ideas of
what happens in the in the bedroom
>> and and note it as something that is
entertainment, you know, it's
entertainment. The fear is that the
women that are in it, they for the rest
of their life, they're always going to
be thought of a certain way.
>> And the men skate, they don't really
have a like they're thought as CD, but
they don't thought as like, you know,
girls that got used. Well, I think
what's going to get weird is AI porn
because then you can watch porn and
there's no victims, right? There's no
person you feel bad for. like, "Oh, that
poor girl. Everyone's going to know that
she sucked dick on camera. She took it
in the ass on camera."
>> It's not a real person. So then maybe
you can watch that and
>> remove any kind of victim. Yeah.
>> I don't know. People are [ __ ] weird.
>> People are weird.
>> I'll tell you one thing I've never tried
and I'm not going to. I don't want it.
Nope. Not going to do it. Is VR porn
because Duncan told me, "Dude, have you
ever seen VR porn? It's [ __ ]
amazing." like not gonna do it. I'm not
going to sit there with [ __ ] goggles
on, jack it off.
>> Joe hasn't left his house in about six
months.
>> I mean, you imagine you're watching porn
and the people are [ __ ] 20 ft high in
front of you and they're they're bagging
and if you could move around in it like
you can move around in other VR like you
can get like really close to watch the
dick go in there like
>> that's one thing I haven't tried either.
>> VR porn good for you. Stay away. VR in
general is weird. You know what's really
great though is VR games. Have you ever
done any VR games?
>> You know what Sandbox is? You ever heard
of Sandbox?
>> Sandbox. They have one in Austin. Uh
they had one in Wood Woodland Hills
right down the street from our old
studio in LA. And it is a a place where
you go. It's like a big ass warehouse
and you go to these rooms in the
warehouse and they have fan set up and
it's all like these these walls like
it's all uh boundaries. They put a
haptic feedback vest on you and goggles
and they give you rifles and the plastic
rifles and then you get dropped into
this virtual reality world where you
fight zombies.
>> Oh [ __ ]
>> It's [ __ ] dope, dude. It's nuts. When
the zombies attack you, they run at you.
They claw you. You see blood splatter in
front of your eyes and you gun them
down. It's [ __ ] crazy. There's a
there's one called Deadwood Mansion.
That's my favorite. And the Deadwood,
man. There's a couple different Deadwood
games. I think there's
two or three now. I think there's three.
I think there's three. There's three
zombie games that you could play.
>> Three different ones. No, it's here.
>> Here.
>> They have one in Austin.
>> Yeah, it's out at um the domain. Mhm.
>> Yeah. It's out of the domain. It's
[ __ ] so fun. My family hates it
because they get like sick and I want
that's all I ever want to do. So on
Father's Day, I make everybody shoot
zombies with me.
Like it's Father's Day. What do you want
to do? Shoot zombies. Like no. Like come
on. We have to do it.
>> Yeah.
>> It's once you do it, it's fun.
>> Father's Day is coming up.
>> Joe
>> tournament.
>> Okay. Uh at one point in time I had the
number three score in the country.
killing zombies. Yeah, I went ham one
day. One day I was just locked the [ __ ]
in. And the key is I'm going to give you
guys a a pro tip. If you're doing
Deadwood Mansion, get the shotgun.
>> The shotgun is overpowered. The shotgun
kills more things than anything else.
It's way better at it. But the game is
nuts, man. I mean, there's there's
zombie rats that come running at you.
There's [ __ ] people that are attached
to the walls and they they they shoot
down their tongue and wrap it around
your neck and they're pulling on you.
Show Show them a clip of it.
>> It's crazy. It is a [ __ ] It is It's
really fun, dude. You'll You'll love it.
>> I'm going take the band to do that.
>> Yeah, that's what you you could do. You
could do it like six people. You go
there for like band activities.
>> It's a good one. I bet they have
multiple. I don't I only know of these
two of Austin and um LA.
>> The one I pulled up is in Atlanta.
>> Oh, is one in Atlanta?
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah. They have to have them all over
the place. I don't know. I I have no
idea why it's not everywhere cuz it's so
fun. It's one of the most fun things you
could do with your friends. We've done
it. My wife and I have done it on double
dates. Like you go do that and then you
go have dinner. It's great, man. It's
great. It's really fun.
>> They got a ton OF LOCATIONS NOW.
>> OH [ __ ] They're all over the place now.
Yeah, that's great.
>> Um, see if you can find a video of
Deadwood Mansion. Oh, Deadwood Phobia.
>> Oh, that's the newest one. That's the
third one. Oh, there's a Squid Games
one. We've done that one, too. The
Stranger Things one. They have so many
different Deadwood Valley. That's
another one that's really good.
The Deadwood Valley one. Do they have a
Yeah, here we go. So, check this out.
So, this is what happens. You get
dropped off into this city.
and the zombies are there.
And so this is this is you. It's like
it's cut between you with the guns and
then like this is what you see. This is
what it looks like. So, but this is more
like a video like showing you what it
looks like on the outside. But when
you're in it, wish they would show you
what it looks like. That's what it looks
like when you're in it.
>> Oh wow.
>> And these dudes are chasing after you.
You're gunning them down.
>> It's really fun.
But again, there's a bunch of games that
you can do that
>> survive the horrors.
You got to save the heroes.
There's There's people in there that you
have to save and there's other people
that you have to kill. It's dope. It's
really fun.
>> It's badass.
>> So, that's a good use of VR.
>> Don't be looking at 10-ft vaginas.
>> Look at Go kill fake zombies. You get
stuck on a train and as a train's
running down the tracks, they're jumping
onto the train and trying to get you.
You have to gun them down. It's really
fun.
>> That seems like something I I could get
into.
>> I never played any video games growing
up.
>> Really? That's crazy. How old are you?
>> 30.
>> How's that possible?
>> I mean, I just I never had much interest
in them. Like when I was young,
um I don't know.
>> Do your friends play video games?
Uh, like the rest of the band, they all
play, you know,
>> and you just say, "No, not interested."
>> I was just never really into it, man.
>> Well, this is different than a regular
video game. Like, this is very physical.
Like, you're running around. You're in a
room that's bigger than this room. And
you have your haptic feed. You also have
fans that blow air at you, you know?
Like, see, like if it's also to cool you
off, too, cuz it gets hot as [ __ ] And
you're running around. You got this vest
on and when you get grabbed the vest
vibrates so you feel it like
>> that's sick.
>> Oh yeah. It's really fun. But it's
probably good that you never got into
video games cuz they're so time
inensive. They they rob you of your
life. You think go golf robs you of your
life?
>> You don't have to leave the house to
play video games. Like look at Jamie
over there. How often do you play video
games, Jamie?
>> No, not that often.
>> No.
>> No.
>> I thought you were a junkie.
>> I actually I haven't played in weeks.
>> Oo, maybe.
>> But you were hooked for a while, right?
It's a fun, as I'm thinking in my head,
I'm like, I grew up playing video games,
but I also wish I was [ __ ] sick at
guitar. So, there's a [ __ ] trade-off
there.
And most people I know who are sick of
guitar aren't good at video games or
play them. So,
>> that's a very good point.
>> I did make I made an effort like uh a
year or two ago. I got a PS5 and I got
Red Dead Redemption. I was like, I'm
going to [ __ ] do it. I'm going to
play this game. And I just got I was
like, I feel like I'm just doing chores.
And I asked my drummer. He was like,
yeah, it's pretty much what it is.
>> Oh, Red Dead Redemption. Yeah,
>> you got to play something like a first
person shooter.
>> Mhm.
>> You know, play like Quake or something
like that. Like what's a what's the big
first person shooter that the kids play
today, Jamie?
>> I made Fortnite. Really?
>> Fortnite? Fortnite is
>> Boy, Fortnite's been around forever.
When I My kids were in like grade
school, Fortnite was big.
>> Yep. And they just made some weird I
don't I stopped paying attention but
like Star Wars is now in Fortnite and
that the games that they made for Star
Wars are just like Nope. It's just in
this thing now. You can just play it in
here.
>> Wow.
>> Really?
>> Yeah. It's like they download
Stormtroopers and lightsabers.
>> Whoa.
>> Yeah. My nephews are always hitting me
for uh what do they call that? Like
Fortnite bucks or
>> V-Bucks? V-bucks. Yeah,
>> they want V-Bucks so they can play more.
>> Yeah. There's Robux. My kids were always
into Robux for Roblox. So you could buy
things in Roblox. But apparently now
there's like pedophiles have been
gotten into Roblox. They try to message
people.
>> They ruin everything.
>> They do. They do. Creeps ruin
everything. But there's some very fun
video games that you shouldn't ever do
because it'll [ __ ] with all the other
things you do. Like not getting into
golf, not getting into video games.
Again, Jaime's dead right. That's
probably why you're so sick at guitar.
That's what
>> you can make a guitar jly wheat back.
>> Well, there's other things like there's
certain games where you can play guitar
like Guitar Hero.
>> That's not the [ __ ] same.
>> No, no, no. But haven't people learned
how to play guitar? An actual guitar
because of guitar?
>> There's a game there's technically a
game. It's like a training aid called
Rocksmith, which is way it's uh you
actually have a guitar and it's plugged
into it, not
>> on run. That's cool.
>> Guitar here. You're just hitting five
buttons. Oh,
>> you're just matching red to red, blue to
blue, and it's a timing thing,
>> but has you no transfer?
>> It doesn't. Oh, but it would I would
imagine that a game that would teach you
how to play guitar
>> with an actual guitar would be dope.
Like if you got like, you know, like
these games like the sandbox game
Deadwood Mansion, they you get a gun and
if you got really good like Staccato has
a VR gun game. staccato. They make
pistols and they there's a VR gun game
and you get a plastic staccato and when
you're playing this game like you're
actually pointing the trigger and when
you pull the trigger there's actually
like a muzzle jump. Oh wow.
>> So your reticle actually jumps up and
down a little. Your red dot jumps up and
down a little bit. That was that would
be exactly like it would do if you
actually shot a gun. So they have to
like reenter it. Bang bang bang. And so
you could run around doing things and
shoot stuff and shoot targets. And
>> that's here too.
>> Yeah. And you But that's a a game that
you can get for like medical VR goggles,
like consumer VR goggles. And so you
doing that could get better at shooting
guns
>> cuz you're shooting a plastic. Doesn't
weigh the same, but it's the same shape,
the same form. It's a plastic gun. I
mean, what they really should do is make
one of those things with the weight of
an actual steel gun so that you're
accustomed to the actual feel of the
thing.
>> Yeah.
>> And then, oh god, why can't they do
that? They should be able to do that.
>> Maybe I'll talk to them. But if you did
that, like that would be a skill that
would actually transfer over. So, if
they could do that with a guitar, if
they could figure out a way to attach
like computer sensors to an actual real
guitar.
>> This is Rocksmith. This is uh
>> there's levels of it. You can slow it
down. And
>> And what are you playing?
>> Real songs. You pick the song. They're
all real songs,
>> right? But what is the interface?
>> The guitar.
>> Oh, an actual guitar.
>> Yeah, it's plugged in with the USB cable
to the computer.
>> Oh, it's their virtual guitar.
>> No, no, this is just I I showed you what
it looks like on the the the game, but
>> right. Um
>> what is it? But it looks like an actual
guitar.
>> It's a real Whatever guitar you want to
play.
>> It's your guitar. It's not It's not a a
fake guitar.
>> Guitars are just things that vibrate
strings and
>> expel. Oh, dude, that's dope.
>> Expel digital sound thing.
>> That's That is dope. But I think
>> pretty sick.
>> After a while, you'd have to abandon
that, right?
>> Well, yeah, he's good at guitar. I mean,
>> need to learn this.
>> Did you learn by lessons or did you just
learn by playing?
So, initially I just learned by just
sitting around the house watching
cartoons, playing guitar. Um, my
grandfather would teach me something.
He'd give me like a project basically.
Um, or my dad would leave me a record to
listen to. And it was just his old
record collection. So, a lot of Almond
Brothers band, a lot of Skard, Marshall
Tucker band, that kind of thing. And
then I would just sit at home all day
and just go over it. And then later when
I was in high school um I studied jazz
theory with um Steve Watson um at this
it was like a vocational school for the
arts.
>> It's called the Fine Arts Center in
Greenville, South Carolina. And um I'd
go there in the afternoons and study
jazz theory and which was which was
really beneficial because it's it's good
to put a
>> put a vocabulary to things that you
>> you kind of knew you know but you didn't
know how to quite name it.
>> Just kind of learning the you know the
vocabulary learning you know what the
things are called and then expanding
upon that. you know.
>> Yeah, music theory is a is a valuable
tool.
>> Yeah.
>> Does it does it help you in writing
songs?
>> It can. Um, it helps in like um like in
Nashville they use something called the
Nashville number system. So like you go
into a session and like it's all based
off of the major scale. So like one two
three four five six seven and then the
eight is just the octave of the one,
right? So
they'll say like we got a one, four,
five, you know, and that just represents
what the chords are.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh, this is where math and stuff gets
this get really interesting. You go down
this rabbit hole forever.
You could you could bring a Terrence
Howard back in here into some weird
stuff and honestly and then you could
bring in ancient Egypt and say this is
all vibrations and you could probably
translate hieroglyphs into some of this
music theory stuff.
>> It's [ __ ] weird.
>> Terrence Howard trying to find the one
>> like in a in a beat. That's hilarious.
>> But the first time I used a number
system was with with Hourback.
>> Oh, really?
>> Yeah. Cuz Dan, like his house band for a
long time was the remaining members of
the Memphis Boys who played on like Son
of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield.
>> Oh wow.
>> And like U Suspicious Minds, that kind
of thing. Uh Jean Chrisman was 80 years
old playing drums. Um Bobby Wood,
keyboard player, Billy Sanford. And his
second session in Nashville was Pretty
Woman and he wrote the riff.
>> Oh wow. So I walk in, I was early to the
session and they were still they were
finishing up their first session of the
day which was John Prime and I walked
in. It was just like whoa.
>> Wow.
>> And Dan was like Marcus to get his ass
in here and play some slide guitar. So
they threw a chart in front of me. I
just had to pretend I knew what was
going on. You know, that's where you got
to rely on your ear.
But it's conversational, too. Like if
you don't really know what's going on,
like you don't want to say much.
>> Yeah,
>> right. That's fascinating, man.
>> I'm scared of music.
>> Not Not really, but I'm scared of
practicing it. I'm I'm scared of
learning it because I I just feel like
it would be very rewarding.
>> It is.
>> And I' I'd get very obsessed.
>> Yeah.
>> Something to it.
>> Yeah. Well, listen, man. I'm glad
there's people out there like you doing
it,
>> man. I'm I'm just thankful.
>> Well, that's the best attitude to have.
That's what I think. I think gratitude
is the best attitude to have.
>> Any anyone that's doing what they
actually want to do,
>> what's going to propel you forward and
and keep it going is probably gratitude.
>> Yeah.
>> Just be happy that like you're able to
do one of the coolest [ __ ] things in
the world for a living.
>> Kind of amazing.
>> Just And don't be an [ __ ]
>> Don't be an [ __ ] That's it. You'd be
surprised how hard it is to follow that
one.
>> I know, right? A lot of people fail.
Well, thank you, Marcus. Thanks for
being here, brother. It was fun. I
enjoyed it.
>> What's that? Oh,
>> thanks for having me.
>> Anytime. Let's do it again. All right.
Bye, everybody.
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In this episode, Joe Rogan hosts musician Marcus King to discuss various topics including his journey with sobriety, the state of rock and roll music, and his interest in historical weapons. They also engage in a deep conversation about mental health, the influence of SSRIs, the pros and cons of Ozempic, and the importance of finding joy in the creative process while maintaining personal discipline.
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