#1680 - Jakob Dylan

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Hello, Jakob.

Jakob Dylan (0:15)

How are you doing?

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Good to see you again, man.

Jakob Dylan (0:16)

Good to see you.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

First time we met, we were talking about earlier, you took your kids to Fear Factor. It was a gross day, right?

Jakob Dylan (0:24)

Weren't they all?

Joe Rogan (0:25)

No, the second day is always the gross day.

Jakob Dylan (0:27)

Oh, I didn't know that.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Yeah, the first day is a big stunt.

Jakob Dylan (0:29)

Today, the first day is the sports day.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Yeah, and then the second day, it's disgusting, and then the third day, it's usually something to pick.

Jakob Dylan (0:35)

Well, had I had a choice, we would have picked the disgusting day anyway. That was pretty wild.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

I don't remember what it was, do you?

Jakob Dylan (0:41)

No, you know, it was downtown, it was an abandoned building, like a warehouse style, and it was disgusting before you guys even started.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

It was.

Jakob Dylan (0:48)

I do remember what looked like an exploded, melted cat on a chair. There was fur, there was a face, and it had been, like, for many, I don't know how long it had been.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

That might be just a part of the landscape.

Jakob Dylan (0:59)

I'm saying, that had nothing to do with it. That wasn't you guys.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Those downtown buildings, like, that was when I first found out about Skid Row was working for Fear Factor. Look, if you're a person that just spends time in Hollywood or Beverly Hills or Tarzana or whatever, you don't know that there is this crazy spot in downtown where they've basically contained homeless people. They've set up shelter and food, and then people just camp out on the street. And obviously, that's an issue now in LA.

But this was 2003

Jakob Dylan (1:29)

Yeah, and that was mainly where you saw it then. But if you've been out there lately, it's...

Joe Rogan (1:33)

It's crazy.

Jakob Dylan (1:33)

It's pretty much everywhere.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

Yeah. I'm excited to have escaped.

Jakob Dylan (1:36)

Yeah, good for you.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

You live in there?

Jakob Dylan (1:40)

I do. Just mainly because I've always been there.

I think often about going somewhere else. You just transplanted here.

Joe Rogan (1:46)

Yeah, that was my concern, too, is that I've been there for so long that I was just gonna stay there.

Jakob Dylan (1:52)

Where were you out there?

Joe Rogan (1:53)

I was in Calabasas. I was out like in the suburban area, which is nice. It's quieter, but it's not quiet enough. I moved there in 96, or 97, something like that. But when I moved there, it was, you know, no one was out there. It was like coyotes and owls and shit.

And it was just, that's what I like. I like quiet.

Jakob Dylan (2:16)

Did you have to commute every day for any of it?

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Yeah, but you just leave on time. And, you know, I was like, for when I was doing news radio, the TV shows when I first moved out there, and we didn't really start until 10 a.m. at the earliest. So by that time, traffic has started to die down. It's not that big a deal.

Jakob Dylan (2:36)

Yeah. Well, it's back. Traffic is back.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Yeah. It's back.

Jakob Dylan (2:40)

Yeah. We were just talking earlier that we thought there was an exodus of people leaving these major cities, but I haven't noticed that. It seems like more people than ever out there.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

Well, there's so many people. Even if you lose a million people, or two million people, or three million people, you still have 25 million people jammed into an area where, when I moved to LA in 94, I guess, it was probably, I mean, I got to think the population was like a third of that.

Jakob Dylan (3:07)

Oh, yeah. Or a third less.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

A third less.

Jakob Dylan (3:10)

When I was growing up out there, there was traffic from, I think you didn't want to be in your car from like 5 to 6 p.m.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

Right. That's it.

Jakob Dylan (3:16)

That was it. Well, morning traffic, I wouldn't know about because I wasn't driving, but no, it's just all day long every day now.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Sometimes I would come home from the commie store at 1 in the morning and be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. I'm like, what the fuck is this?