#1269 - Bryan Callen

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Five, four, three, two, one.

Yes, and we're live. Bryan Callen, we are live on the internet.

Bryan Callen (0:16)

In Kashmir right now, everybody, in Kashmir.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

How come you don't wear watches? You were just saying.

Bryan Callen (0:20)

I don't wear, I was thinking, because I was saying to Brendan, I go, you could rob my house, and there's nothing you'd find of value. Like, there's not a fucking thing.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Still your car.

Bryan Callen (0:28)

Oh, okay, oh, no.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

But do you wonder why you make money then?

You have a lot of money, right? You could probably, like, not work for years.

Bryan Callen (0:40)

Yeah, I have enough, I make money. But I never, I was thinking about that too. I genuinely did some soul searching about this, because I watched how motivated Schaub is. He's so buttoned down about his stuff. He's just always coming up with ideas. And I don't think I ever gave two fucks for real about fame or money.

And I still don't, I have a very precarious relationship with that. What I love is coming up with new ideas and writing new standup.

And, you know, like now, having done the album, now I gotta come up with a whole new bag of tricks. That's a really fun time. I'm probably more happy or never as happy as when I'm on the road at some cafe somewhere, coming up, solving problems, coming up with new ideas and surprising myself. Everything else, you know, and I like hanging with my boys and laughing.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Do you like having a nice house? Do you get any pleasure out of having a nice house?

Bryan Callen (1:34)

Yeah, but I could live, I have lived in rudimentary places and I have, I don't notice.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Yeah, I noticed that when I first started making money. You get, everything gets normal.

Like this is your house, wake up, it's normal. You know what doesn't change? What always makes you feel good is views.

Bryan Callen (1:53)

I was about to say that, I can't believe you just said that. A view is not underrated.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

No, views are very underrated, I think.

Bryan Callen (2:00)

So interesting you say that, I just said that.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

You know who else said that to me? Ray Kurzweil.

Bryan Callen (2:05)

Really?

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Yeah, he always lives in a place with a view.

Bryan Callen (2:08)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

When I interviewed him, he was on a very high floor in an apartment building in San Francisco. That's where he lives.

And you look out from his apartment and you see the city and you see the bay and it's beautiful.

Bryan Callen (2:24)

Yeah, it's expansive.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Yes, he said views are very important to him.

Bryan Callen (2:28)

They are, but I have another weird thing that like, if you put me in a French cafe, there's a, I don't know if it's still around, but there was a, I'm so French. Je suis très français. Do you speak? Oui, je parle français couramment.

Listen to my accent.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

A sandwich, to jazz for him.

Bryan Callen (2:45)

I said I speak French for lonely. Did you say Hamon? Hamon. Un petit peu de jambon.

How well do you speak French?

Joe Rogan (2:51)

Do you speak it for lonely?

Bryan Callen (2:53)

No, I mean, I used to speak it. I went to French schools in Lebanon.

Yeah. You know, I mean, I can, give me six months and I'm gonna.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

You'd hop right back in there.

Bryan Callen (3:03)

I think so.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

The dating pool in France.

Bryan Callen (3:05)

Ah oui, chérie. Chérie.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

What were you saying? You were about to say something about you were in a cafe in France.

Bryan Callen (3:12)

There's a place called Chez Paul, which is this restaurant where you're crammed in with a bunch of people and the walls and the wood has been there. You know, you go to the comedy store, like a comedy club that's been around since the 70s. Like the Ice House. Yeah, and you think the wood in this, this is a weird thing, but the wood in these walls have absorbed so much laughter and good energy.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

Dude, I was just saying that the other day about the Ice House.

Bryan Callen (3:37)

Ah, it's very special. If they ever demolish that, God forbid, I would buy that wood and put it up on my walls.

Joe Rogan (3:45)