#1421 - Jim Norton

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Three, two, one.

Vancouver, April 20th. We're doing a 420 show. Cheeto Santino, Andrew Santino, Tony Hinchcliffe and me at some big ass arena. Go to joerogan.com. We're doing every year, hi Jimmy Norton.

Jim Norton (0:14)

Hi buddy.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

I do a 420 show. No headphones? You wanna do headphones or no headphones?

Jim Norton (0:17)

I don't mind doing headphones. No, I don't mind.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

You do that weird thing with one in your mouth?

Jim Norton (0:21)

I have to, I'm claustrophobic.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Really?

Jim Norton (0:23)

Yeah, it feels weird.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

You feel like the headphones are trapping you?

Jim Norton (0:25)

I don't know, I feel like I'm underwater. Like I don't like the way that sounds. And now I know, that's better. I look like an asshole, but it feels better.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

A lot of people do that. Yeah. A lot of musicians do that. They do like one in, one out.

Jim Norton (0:35)

It's the air, it's feeling the air. I don't know why, the pressure of the headphones, I just don't like it.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

I like to be trapped.

Jim Norton (0:41)

You do?

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Trapped in the headphones.

Jim Norton (0:42)

I don't care for it at all.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

I like hearing the other person's voice right next to mine, so I don't talk louder than they talk. We don't talk over each other. That's what it does.

Jim Norton (0:51)

That's professional, but I can't, like Howard I heard would do it well. They wouldn't even look at each other. Like I have to be in the room looking at the person's mouth. Like I don't like to do it.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

They wouldn't look at each other.

Jim Norton (1:00)

No, meaning the way they were set up for the cameras, sometimes you're facing both kind of the same way because of the cameras. They weren't always, I don't think, face to face. If you looked at his old setup, wasn't like Artie sitting behind him at one point?

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Yeah, Artie was sitting to the side of him. And then the guest was like over there.

Jim Norton (1:17)

Yeah, I could never do that.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

Well, you know, Howard also runs a board. That's the difference. Like he's got a bunch of shit in front of him. He's actually a trained radio guy. He knows all the Jamie shit. He knows all them switches, all that fancy stuff over there.

Yeah, I have no idea what the fuck's going on over there.

Jim Norton (1:33)

I can basically set, I can start and stop, but I hate running the board. It's distracting and I don't like doing it. It just, it doesn't feel fun.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

You know, it's crazy is they have full setups now for podcasts, like a podcast board that you buy. Like it's set up for podcasts. Just plug mics into it and it's all kind of there. Is it, they have audio compression on those things too?

SPEAKER_3 (1:53)

Yeah, it's called like the Podcaster Pro or something like that's in the name, yeah. You can put a phone into it for calls and, yeah.

Jim Norton (2:00)

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_3 (2:00)

Call.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

In case you want to take calls.

Jim Norton (2:03)

I like being live. We're live now too. Yeah, I like being live.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Right now on this? No, we're not live anymore.

Jim Norton (2:07)

Oh, you don't do live anymore? Because I always like the feeling of live because if you fuck up, it's out there.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

No, there was companies that were, they were taking clips as we were live and uploading them immediately and building these huge channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

And you could use that for anything. They were selling things, they had links to stuff. They're basically building a business off of your clips.

Jim Norton (2:29)

So you gotta be a little bit more.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

You can't let that happen because you also don't know what they're gonna turn that channel into. They could turn that channel into anything. It's like, it's, YouTube is still a little bit of like a Wild West sort of situation. Then there was also copyright issues. Like you get three copyright flags in a row, they take your whole channel down. And we had gotten a bunch of them. We've gotten them for clips that we show, we got them for pictures.

You have to try to figure out like, what are you allowed to do, what are you not allowed to do?