#1065 - Danica Patrick

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Yes, and we're live. Hello, Danica Patrick.

Danica Patrick (0:04)

Hi.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Welcome to the show.

Danica Patrick (0:05)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Thanks for doing this, I appreciate it.

Danica Patrick (0:07)

I'm excited to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

You're an intense lady. You've got a lot of intensity. When I met you, like right away, I'm like, whoa, got to take this one in.

Danica Patrick (0:15)

Well, you know, it's the handshake, and then it's the, you know, when someone actually looks you in the eye.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Well, you have to be intense. I mean, what you do for a living is probably one of the craziest things a human being can do.

Danica Patrick (0:25)

Do you think so?

Joe Rogan (0:26)

It's up there for a job. A job?

How fast do you go?

Danica Patrick (0:32)

200 plus. I mean, like, you know, NASCAR's top speed is probably 215, Indycar's maybe more like 240, and I'm gonna do the Daytona 500 next month, and then the Indy 500 in May, so those are gonna be my last two races, so.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

The last ones ever?

Danica Patrick (0:49)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Really?

Danica Patrick (0:50)

Yeah, it's, this is my Danica double goodbye tour.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Why are you doing that? How come you're doing a Danica double goodbye, is it enough is enough?

Danica Patrick (0:59)

I'm ready. I mean, I love racing, but I love other things too. So, you know, I'm okay with transitioning out. And there was a lot of things that were kind of just pointing me in this direction in 2017

Stuff that has never happened to me before, to kind of, yeah, head towards the exit a little bit. But I'm good with it, I'm a very decisive person. So this is probably one of them that I thought about a little bit, as far as how to be done, or if to be done, I guess. But the how was the hardest part. My agent kept calling and saying, what about this, and what if you did that? And I'm like, no, no, no.

You all need to get ready for me to be done, please.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

Wow.

Danica Patrick (1:41)

And so then he came up with the, he's like, what if you finish up at Daytona for the 500? And I was like, what about the Indy 500? And he goes, and I was really only referring to the Indy 500 And he was like, well, I'd love you to do both. And I was like, oh, well, that's a good idea.

So there's this thing in racing called the double, which is doing the Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend on Sunday, and then flying straight to Charlotte to do the Coke 600 afterwards. And that's kind of known as the double.

But this is what we're calling the Danica double. And it has to do with just having spent, you know, a chunk of my career in IndyCar and a chunk of my career in NASCAR. And it just kind of feels like the right way to go out. I don't know, it didn't, it wasn't clear. It was a bit of a murky end as far as like, what's gonna happen? Am I gonna race next year full time or not? And it just kind of went too long for me to have like a proper I'm done sort of moment in my head. So this was just a great way to do it.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

So when you say that things happened in 2017 that didn't happen before, like what do you mean?

Danica Patrick (2:41)

Like I had a sponsor leave me. My primary sponsor left at the beginning of the year. I mean, I signed a contract when Mercury was in retrograde. So, you know, I screwed myself there.

I don't know. I don't know, it was true. So I guess maybe the universe is a little bit more straightforward than we think it is.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

I think a lot of good things probably happened during that time.

Danica Patrick (3:04)

In 2017 or during retrograde?

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Mercury in retrograde. I don't believe in any of that shit.

I think people look for some sort of like hidden meaning to things when it comes to like astrology.

Danica Patrick (3:16)

Yeah. I do try and understand it. It's quite, I'm trying to understand how it really matters, but I don't know. There's definitely some things, at least with the moon, that goes on.

I mean, the water changes with the moon. So doesn't that mean that other things should too? Whether it be energetically or something like that?