#1338 - Roy Wood Jr.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

We're good?

Roy Wood Jr. (0:08)

Roy Wood Jr. How you doing, man?

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Pleasure, pleasure to have you on here, man.

Roy Wood Jr. (0:11)

Man, appreciate it.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Fun of these guys alive.

Roy Wood Jr. (0:14)

You are. Just trying to pay bills, bro.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

You're one of the funniest guys out there, man.

I'm very excited to have you in here. What the fuck's going on? We were talking shit about Apple and electronics. Apple's fucking you out here.

Roy Wood Jr. (0:24)

So, got the new MacBook, right?

And the new MacBook with the new OS or whatever it is, it doesn't fuck with the old versions of Final Cut, the old video editing software I used to use. New MacBook goes, you gotta buy that shit again. I'm like, my nigga, I just paid for that shit, hundreds of dollars with my last computer. And you tell me my old software ain't no good, but then you could make the software work with the new OS if you want it to, but they don't to get you to buy it again and all that shit.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

So dirty.

Roy Wood Jr. (0:54)

So now, I'm having to learn Adobe Premiere. I was pretty good with Final Cut, but I'm having to relearn a whole new thing. And if I'm gonna do that, then I may as well relearn a whole new piece of electronics. But to do that means I have to gut everything. That means you have to gut the Apple TV, you have to let go of the iPhone, you have to let go of the iPad. My girlfriend, the whole house, that's how the companies get you.

So everybody in the house, even my son, he had a Samsung tablet. I was like, get that shit out of here.

We gotta get you an iPad. So we re-gifted that and then got him an iPad. So it's like, no man.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

People get fierce about that Mac versus Android shit as much as they do about Republicans versus Democrats.

Roy Wood Jr. (1:38)

I want something where I don't have to keep paying for the same shit over and over again every three, four years.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Apple makes great shit, but they fuck you.

Roy Wood Jr. (1:46)

The interface is so smooth. It's so convenient. I can check text messages, I can do whatever I want on my Macbook.

I can talk to my television, I can one click and all the Apple Pay and all of that stuff. It's beautiful. But in three years, it's time to pay up again.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

I almost switched over a couple years back, I bought a Pixel when the Pixel 2 came out. But then when it came out, I couldn't get text messages. And I got an email, Apple, and asked them to take my email address off of the iMessage database in order for, I'm like take that email off so that I can't get iMessages anymore. And it still didn't work. I went online to try to figure out what is a way, how do you get out of this? How does this work?

You can't.

And unless you switch over to text message for a long period of time beforehand, like switch your iMessages to text messages on your Apple, on your phone, or unless you buy a new number. You gotta kinda buy it. If you're gonna get a Samsung phone or something, you gotta get a new number.

Roy Wood Jr. (2:46)

What got you, when did you make the switch to Apple in the first place?

Joe Rogan (2:50)

I've been with Apple forever, forever.

Roy Wood Jr. (2:51)

But what was the genesis? At some point, you had to have had like a Sanyo 59 That was my old flip phone. Shout out to Sanyo.

I remember when I was in radio back home in Birmingham, I was gifted an iPod Touch.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

Oh yeah.

Roy Wood Jr. (3:07)

And I was all Android phones, Android, everything. And I had an iPod Touch. And at the time, all I had to play music was a mini-disk player, so I could only hold like five hours. This was like 01, 02, and I had a five-hour mini-disk and I go, fuck it, I'll carry around an iPod Touch.

And then it made more sense, why am I carrying an iPod Touch and an Android phone when I could just have an iPhone that does both? And that started the journey.

Joe Rogan (3:32)

I started with iPhone 1, but before that I was using MacBooks. I was using Mac forever, even before they had an iPhone. I used to make my own PCs.