#1704 - C.K. Chin

C.K. Chin (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Happy birthday, my friend.

C.K. Chin (0:14)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

I did not know it was your birthday when we scheduled this.

C.K. Chin (0:17)

Yeah. So it's exciting.

You know, my sister's birthday is today as well. We're five years apart, exactly to the day.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

What?

C.K. Chin (0:24)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

How weird.

C.K. Chin (0:25)

Yeah, my mom had great timing.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

That's amazing timing.

C.K. Chin (0:28)

And so, yeah, so forever, probably since I was like 10, it's been her birthday.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Like I wake up and say, That's crazy odds.

C.K. Chin (0:35)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Like what are the odds? Like five years apart on the same day.

C.K. Chin (0:39)

Yeah.

I guess I thought about that before. I mean, I guess the odds are just one out of 365 I mean, at the end of the day, that doesn't matter.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Are they really?

C.K. Chin (0:46)

Because 25 years apart, still we only have 365 days a year. So it has to be one of those days.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

I guess.

C.K. Chin (0:55)

Mathematically speaking, I think.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

I feel like there's something missing in that equation.

C.K. Chin (0:59)

Right.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

You know what I mean? It's like one of them trick problems.

C.K. Chin (1:02)

Right, right, right, right.

Jamie (1:05)

It's way higher than that.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

Yeah.

Jamie (1:06)

Probability is a little less than one in 500,000 of a family with two children who aren't twins that share the same birthday.

C.K. Chin (1:13)

Really?

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Ooh, see?

Jamie (1:15)

Maybe this is actually for two years. Well, okay, I think that's what it was. Sorry.

They're looking for two kids that were born two years apart on the same day.

C.K. Chin (1:22)

Yeah, that might actually, actually, I guess as you get closer, probably because there's some sort of rebound rate. Like, you can't, you know, you can't just, five years apart, it's like, all right. But like, It's still wild. It is wild. No, and she waited. She was due in August, mid-August, and then she just chilled and hit the snooze until my birthday. Yeah, it was great. I was saying, the only thing I remember really of that whole situation was that my mom missed my fifth birthday party.

And I was like, where's mom? They're like, well, she's having your sister. And I'm like, well, why can't she be at my birthday party?

It's kind of like-

Joe Rogan (1:56)

That's hilarious, and that's what you remember.

C.K. Chin (1:58)

Yeah, I do remember that pretty clearly.

Pretty clearly. But obviously, I love her.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

The young ones steal the thunder.

C.K. Chin (2:04)

But it was really great. I think that it was, she and I were very close, and it kind of created this kind of twin connection thing that I've always really kind of enjoyed.

It's a cool story. It's a little thing that you can talk about and remember. And it's really, it's great.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

That you both have birthdays the same day?

C.K. Chin (2:21)

Yeah, and it was kind of cool to always kind of, it was cool to share it in a way.

I've never been someone that was very possessive on that kind of stuff. So it was great to share that with somebody.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

I always felt sorry for kids that had like Christmas birthdays.

C.K. Chin (2:32)

That's a totally different thing. That's bullshit. Then you get that Christmas slash birthday gift.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

I would just lie to my kid. I'd be like, dude, you were born in July. Yeah, let's get the fuck out of here with this Christmas shit.

Cause that's bullshit for a kid. Cause they look for that, that's a big deal, your birthday, for at least the first few years of your life.

C.K. Chin (2:53)

I have an interesting perspective also. My mother was, you know, single mother raised me and my grandmother. And I always thought that you should celebrate the parent for like the first 10 years.

Or something.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

That's a good call.

C.K. Chin (3:05)

As a kid, it's kind of like, I mean, what'd you do in the beginning? It's like your mother is like, happy birthday, good job on what you created. And then we'll see if this kid is worth celebrating later on, give him a little time.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

The thing is that that's the only birthdays that mean a fuck.

Like, when I see a grown man at a show going, it's my birthday, like, bitch, your birthday was 30 fucking years ago. It is not today. You're a grown man.