#1570 - Willie D & Mike Judge

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Willie D and Mike Judge together at last. Good to see you, man.

Willie D (0:19)

Absolutely.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

You're the first guy in the studio to bring his own headphones, the first guy ever in 1,500 shows.

Willie D (0:24)

Is that right?

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Yeah.

Willie D (0:25)

Oh, man. Well, you know that where there's a will, there's a way.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Well, they fit, too. They're unique.

And Mike, you just happened to be rolling with Willie, so you're here today as well.

Mike Judge (0:36)

Yes, thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

My pleasure, man.

I wanted to get a hold of you and find the good spots in Austin anyway, man. You've been here for a long time, right?

Mike Judge (0:44)

Yeah, since 94 And I'd come down here a lot before that. Lived in Dallas.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

What's going on with Beavis & Butthead?

Mike Judge (0:53)

It's coming back.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

It really is?

Mike Judge (0:56)

Yeah, in fact, that's why I'm going to have to split in a little while for some Zoom meetings. But yeah, no, it really is. Yeah, we're doing a...

I think it's going to be good.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

Dude, I was a gigantic fan of Beavis & Butthead. Right around the time I started smoking pot was when I really got into Beavis & Butthead at the same time.

Mike Judge (1:15)

Yeah, we had a lot of stoners that liked it. Also a lot of people talking about it, like watching it after you come home from a bar, that sort of thing.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

Yeah, it was one of the silliest shows ever. It was ridiculous.

Mike Judge (1:27)

Now everyone will be drinking at home and getting stoned, well, you always get stoned at home.

Willie D (1:32)

You'll be stoned everywhere, right?

Joe Rogan (1:33)

I've been a fan of the Geto Boys since the very beginning. So when I first met you in Houston, I rarely geek out.

But when I met you, dude, when I used to deliver newspapers, I used to listen to the Geto Boys while I was delivering newspapers.

Willie D (1:45)

I didn't know you delivered newspapers. We got something in common, man. We got something else in common.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

You did that too?

Willie D (1:49)

Well, I delivered newspapers and I also sold door-to-door subscriptions for the Houston Chronicle.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

No kidding. Yeah.

I did the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. When did you guys start? When did the Geto Boys start?

Willie D (2:04)

The incarnation that everybody know right now is myself, Scarface and Bushwick with Reddy Red. We started in 89, but the group actually was formed in 87

Joe Rogan (2:15)

Wow, that's a man, 1980, because you got to think like, when was Sugarhill Gang? That was 81?

Willie D (2:24)

That's like 83

Joe Rogan (2:25)

83 Dude, you were-

Willie D (2:28)

No, no, no, no, more than, less than, oh, no, no, Sugarhill Gang, 79

Mike Judge (2:32)

Yeah, that was-

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Wow.

Mike Judge (2:33)

In high school.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

Yeah, that's 79

So you were there in the earliest days of hip hop. Yeah. So that's an amazing thing to be a part of, like when an art form emerges, you know, there's like, how many people can say that they were there when an art form emerged?

Mike Judge (2:54)

Yeah, as a fan, I was like, because I was into blues, but that was all before I was born. And then when this stuff was happening while we're alive watching it, it was just really cool to see.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

I was in Jamaica Plain. I was, I guess I was in like seventh grade or something like that. And Jamaica Plain was a suburb of Boston. And I was in school and some kid had a beatbox that he brought to school and he was playing Sugar Hill Gang. I'll never forget this. I was like, wow, that's different.

And that was the beginning.

Willie D (3:26)

Man, that's Sugar Hill Gang, man. I remember I used to play football for Hester House. It's a community center in Fifth Ward.

And I used to play for the Houston Cowboys, go figure, right? So we played in the Astrodome, that was a big deal, you know? That's what the Houston Allers played at. And so I remember being on the bus and the whole team singing that song. They played the song and everybody was singing it word for word. That's my greatest experience when I think about that song.