#1180 - Everlast

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Five, four, three, two. Ladies and gentlemen, live and available right now, Everlast, Whitey Ford, House of Pain, you.

Everlast (0:10)

Yes, sir.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

How are you, sir?

Everlast (0:12)

How are you doing, man?

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Good to see you, brother. Good to see you again.

Everlast (0:14)

Been a minute.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

You going to Vegas this weekend for the fights?

Everlast (0:16)

Yeah, man, we got a little party the night before. We're doing a little show at the Brooklyn Bowl with my buddy Evidence and McCrew Cycle. No headphones?

Joe Rogan (0:23)

You don't want to wear headphones?

Everlast (0:24)

I'll put the headphones on.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

I feel like I'm alone here with the headphones on.

Everlast (0:27)

There we go. There we go, now we're on the same team.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Now we're locked in.

This is out? This is out, right?

Everlast (0:33)

Yeah, it came out about three weeks ago. Something like that, maybe a month.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Beautiful.

Everlast (0:37)

I've been in Europe for the whole month just touring.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

This is like everything. Everlast presents Whitey Ford's House of Pain.

Everlast (0:44)

Yeah, it's everything in the toolbox I brought to this record. So that's kind of where the title came from. Just, you know, it's been eight years since my last real studio album. So I figured, hey, maybe this could be the last one. I hope not. But just like, you know, I mean, like, you know that my story is like, you know, with the family, I dedicate a lot more of my time to the family than I used, you know, just because of some of the, you know, extra issues we deal with, which everything is wonderful and great now, you know, and dude, I'm 30 pounds lighter than the last time I was here. How'd you do that? Honestly, it started here because I purposely came here that day. It was the first time, if you remember, it was a while ago, I hadn't even done a thousand podcasts since that day. But it was the first time I had come out and they started talking about anything, like, you know, that was going on in my life in a public way.

And, you know, I got a lot off my chest that day. And I also planned that day to put myself in a position to hold myself accountable by stating, I don't feel good about the way I look right now.

And I reached out, like, theoretically for help, you know, and I got an incredible response from the podcast audience and my own fans. I mean, I got offered from everybody everywhere how to do this, that and the other.

Didn't really need that because within my own circle, some people stepped up. And I also did it to hold myself accountable, to put it in the universe. Like I've thrown it out there. Like I put it up there on the wall and stamped it and said, here's what I want out of life right now. And, you know, there's nobody stopping me. But me, and sometimes some of the things I used to, I used to get on and see you talking about, I'm not letting this inner bitch kick my ass today. And I just started taking things like that to heart, you know?

And again, after-

Joe Rogan (2:30)

How did you change? What did you do different?

Everlast (2:32)

I mean, we started talking about it last time, therapy. You know what I mean? It's helped a lot for me because of this, you know, the added pressures our family faces with my oldest daughter having cystic fibrosis.

You know, it just, for a long time, it was just learning how to live life with it.

You know, and that got heavy. There was some real dark, you know, heavy moments, you know, scary moments for her in the hospital, you know. So we, I mean, as a human, you know, you have this baby and you're just trying to figure out how to not screw it up with a normal health situation. You know, this is this added thing. So it took a long time for me to come to terms. At first, I got really angry. I got into some real, you know, Lieutenant Dan, war with God kind of stuff, you know, at the top of the sailboat flip, you know, I was there all the way. And it got to a point where I almost, I was at, I almost got locked up for trying to fight a cop that was, you know, trying to just talk to me about something. You know, I just lost my, I had no, I had so much anger over so much that I wasn't dealing with. And then I found a guy that just really got me, therapist, and it began the ball rolling of understanding how to cope with a lot of that stuff, you know.