#1563 - Tony Hinchcliffe

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Good to see you in the right side of America.

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:21)

Feels good out here.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Feels good, right?

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:23)

Whole different feeling.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Feels normal.

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:25)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

People aren't terrified.

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:27)

Correct.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

They got everybody scared as fuck in California.

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:30)

It's horrible, man. Everything shut down. Everything feels bad.

It's sad.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

It is sad.

Tony Hinchcliffe (0:36)

The more the more businesses are completely closed, the sadder it is. It's seeing stuff that you know.

In the memories that you have there.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

It's also I think it's harder to bounce back in big places. I think it's harder for big places to bounce back because you get like all these stores closed down, like all the stores that got hit hard with the looting on Melrose. Like they're still closed, right?

Have any of them come back?

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:01)

Yeah. Most of them.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

When you drive down, the last time I was there, it's like board it up, board it up, board it up, four lease, four lease, four lease. I'm like, this takes a long time to come back.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:11)

It feels that way for sure. Some places are open, but it's not the same vibe.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Yeah, out here, they're not interested in shutting things down the same way, especially the governor. He's like, we've got to keep businesses open.

He's right, you can do it safely. I think you could do it safely here better than California because there's lower numbers, there's less people. There's not just, everyone's on is smushed in together. And everyone's more relaxed because of that. It makes you realize when you come to a place that has less humans, it makes you realize like, oh, that's better.

There's plenty of people out here. It's not like we're in the farms in the country in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. It's not like that. It's a city, but it's a less populated city. And everything's just a little more.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:52)

Oh, yeah, relaxed.

LA is a giant county. Yeah. People think it's a city and it's just a massive, huge place.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

And it smushes in with Orange County, which is even more populated, right?

No, L.A.'s probably more populated than Orange County, but Orange County is so dense though. The traffic in Orange County on the 405 is mind blowing. It's mind blowing. Like when you're driving down to San Diego and you're just like, where are all these people coming from? There's so many of them.

Tony Hinchcliffe (2:24)

And north too. I went up to Pebble Beach a couple weeks ago.

Traffic's just crazy. I mean, six lanes.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

You're all in with the golfing. Look at you.

Tony Hinchcliffe (2:32)

Unbelievable.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

You took a trip to Pebble Beach.

Tony Hinchcliffe (2:34)

I'm telling you, dude, it's the greatest thing. Out of nowhere. I went to go smoke pot with my buddy Pete one day, and then he's like, yeah, I'm golfing. I'm like, great, I'll smoke pot with you there. I figured I would just drive the cart and have fun.

The rest is history, addicted. I caught myself the other day watching a thing on the TV, like golf lessons or whatever, and at the same time, I was on my iPad on YouTube, not realizing I was doing two at once, learning how to chip.

It's so much fun.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

It's very dangerous. It's why I never played.

Tony Hinchcliffe (3:07)

Why is it dangerous?

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Because it's a suck of time. It sucks time.

Not that it's bad, people enjoy it. And as far as activities that suck time, I mean, at least you're walking around, you're out in nature, you got all that beautiful green grass, you know? There's positives to it.

Tony Hinchcliffe (3:24)

It's definitely an interesting thing to suck time because it gives me energy and when I'm away from it, I can think more clearly about everything else. It's like, it's very meditative.

You're always thinking about your next shot or your last shot, what you did wrong, what you could have done better for the next one. So it's like when I'm out there, I'm not looking at my phone for four or five hours, which is great.

I'm not thinking about anything else so that when I do afterwards. And normally most days, if I don't do that, I sort of crash out around evening time. But if it's a golf day, even if I'm up at six, five, seven a.m. I have energy all day, all night after that. Those are the best days now.