#1387 - Josh Homme

Josh Homme (0:29)

I think we'll just sort of be for a second.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Yeah.

Josh Homme (0:33)

And you can listen to tunes, and it makes all the songs better. I don't know if I fully appreciated Judas Priest until I rode a motorcycle, and could listen to music.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

So you listen in your head? Like you have it in your...

Josh Homme (0:46)

No, that one has a... I have the luxury of having a couple of them, but that one's almost like the grandpa bike for going to the movies.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

But is it speakers or is it in the helmet?

Josh Homme (0:54)

It's speakers. I don't do the helmet because there's so much of that in my life anyways.

I was sort of over over by Runyon Canyon.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Oh, okay. Yeah, if you live in like Orange County, I get it. Because it's really like the only way you're gonna get here and not lose your fucking mind.

Josh Homme (1:38)

Well, something that's 21 miles away is 25 minutes away.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Legitimately.

Josh Homme (1:43)

Yeah, I mean, there's a little bit of like, should I go stop here? And also, you're always going to the front of traffic, which really is the safest place to be at the very front.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

Sure.

Josh Homme (1:53)

Just with everyone on each butt cheek, sort of, you know.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

The thing that freaks me out though is the lane splitting. Some people are just not paying attention and some people are just trying to go fast.

Josh Homme (2:05)

Some people work out their kinky anger on you.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

Oh, on the bike, you mean?

Josh Homme (2:10)

Yeah, like some is like, no way. If I'm stuck in this, you're stuck in this.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

That is fucking weird, man. That thing's weird.

What kind of anger against motorcycles, like that they can get ahead and you can't?

Josh Homme (2:22)

Just, it's beyond motorcycles, you know? It's that angriness of like their emotional bank accounts are low in that moment and they're like, how about you?

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah.

Josh Homme (2:34)

You can have that too. It's like sharing the wrong shit.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

Yeah, I think it's people that don't feel like there's a way out of the light they're in too. There's no light at the end of the tunnel.

Josh Homme (2:44)

Yeah, the Missouri Loves Company, where it's just like, welcome to the Missouri Loves Company. Sit down, and it's just, I don't know. So much has been happening for me lately, and I just, you have those things when they click, and then you can't unknow them once you've learned something. And it's like, I see how that is just really attempting to elevate your own situation by bringing someone down, which is impossible. And so in that moment, that's almost them doing the best they can. I know they're trying to kill you.

But they're trying to cope with something that's just maybe the wrong way.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

It's definitely the wrong way. That's one of the weird things about being a kid, right? Nobody really tells you how to think.

Nobody really teaches you how to approach situations in life and what's gonna help you and what's not gonna help you at all.

Josh Homme (3:34)

No, but you learn some funky stuff instead. You know what I mean? And even when you're learning the history of someone, it seems like they don't tell you how they've wrestled with that emotion or motion to do the right thing or find a way to just accept something. Like how did they get to accept that this was their decision that they had to make?

I don't know, there's not many guideposts for how to treat yourself and other people, but there's all sorts of math and stuff like that.

Joe Rogan (4:09)

Yeah, but even history, right? There's a lot of facts. This happened then, that happened, this is the date that this took place, but the actual accounts from the human beings. And even if you read it, it's like, I wanna see the person say it, you know, I almost-

Josh Homme (4:22)

That's the Ken Burns version of all that. There's one guy in the Ken Burns, the Civil War one, who's kind of like, was probably alive then, too, like just, it seems like he's so passionate about it, and he's such a good storyteller.

And so he's adding the emotions of like, you know, when Robert E. Lee was, or I'm sorry, the Union guy.

Joe Rogan (4:49)

He was just Grant?