#1465 - Tim Pool

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Three, two, one. Tim Pool, you mad man.

Tim Pool (0:03)

How's it going?

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Dude, the ride that you made to get here, you drove from the other side of the continent in a bug out van.

Tim Pool (0:10)

Well, I mean, you've had guests on who've driven here, you know what I mean? I drove here.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

You drove here, but it took four days.

Tim Pool (0:16)

Took four days.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It's a different kind of drive. Have you ever done that before?

Tim Pool (0:19)

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Not in the van, but I've driven around the country too many times.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

The van's pretty dope. I'm impressed.

Tim Pool (0:27)

I told you last year, I was getting the van, and I got a bunch of people on Twitter making fun of me, like, oh, he's gonna get a bug out van, he's crazy. I got a van.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

You got a bug out van. You could live in that thing.

Tim Pool (0:37)

Oh, totally, dude. The solar power on it lasts you forever.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

That's pretty amazing. I didn't know that you could power everything. So you have solar power roof panels.

Is it less effective in Jersey, where it's cloudy right now, over the summertime? How much difference is it when it's cloudy?

Tim Pool (0:55)

I mean, several hours of magnitude.

Yeah, like barely work. I mean, it works, it works. It works well enough.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

But right here works great.

Tim Pool (1:01)

Right here, the sun is so intense and just gnarly. You go outside, you can feel it on your skin.

Yeah, my solar thing's like, you're good forever. Don't worry. Turn the AC on full blast.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Really?

Tim Pool (1:12)

So if I run the AC on full blast, it will probably last, if I start when the sun comes up, maybe like, I don't know, 14 hours.

That's intense though, man. AC, if I use just the fan to get circulation, I can play PlayStation, I can watch movies, I can turn the music on full blast.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

And you could probably, with AC, you could probably turn it on and off as the temperature goes up and down. Yeah. And the van is, is it insulated at all?

Tim Pool (1:37)

Oh man, like crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

Yeah?

Tim Pool (1:38)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, these guys, I was trying to find somebody to help me modify this thing for a while. I think when I was here last time, I had the van, but it was empty. And then I found these guys in Jersey, they do like, they do police modification stuff, like gun racks and, you know, like seats.

And I guess because the van life thing started getting big, they, I did a Google search, I couldn't find anybody.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

The van life thing?

Tim Pool (2:01)

Yeah, van life, man.

So on YouTube, van life was this big trend. I think it's kind of waning a little bit, but there was one woman who got like two million subscribers on one video because she lives in her van with her pet snake or something like that.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Oh, she's probably hot. Is she hot?

Tim Pool (2:17)

She's a younger, I think so. I haven't actually seen the video, so I'm like making the assumption that, you know.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

That makes sense.

Tim Pool (2:22)

Make a YouTube video, you're a single female in a van, you know, and I think the video was like, here's how I shower, so naturally. Oh, there you go.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

It's a good move.

Tim Pool (2:31)

Yeah, but the-

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Here's our masturbate, four million views.

Tim Pool (2:33)

Yeah, yeah, these guys over where I live, I guess I couldn't find anybody to do this. The wait lists are crazy.

Like, there are pro companies that do van modification. Eight month wait period.

Joe Rogan (2:43)

Really?

Tim Pool (2:44)

Yeah, so I went on Google Maps of all places just because I was like, maybe that's my problem. I typed in van modification, and two miles from me, boom, this guy pops up.

And he does, him and his company, they did modifications for local police departments on like SWAT vans, surveillance vans, and things like that. I wonder if I'm supposed to be saying that.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

Probably not.

Tim Pool (3:03)

Probably not.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

They didn't tell you to keep your mouth shut?

Tim Pool (3:06)

No, actually, he was like, yeah, let people know we do this work, you know what I mean?