#1811 - Brendan Schaub

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Brendan Schaub (0:17)

I bet Jamie's into it.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

We're up in Rome.

Brendan Schaub (0:18)

Jamie's into it.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Jamie is aware, but you're not investing. You've got like a few weird ones.

You got more?

Joe Rogan (0:27)

I have one of the big ones.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

What do you got?

Joe Rogan (0:29)

I have a mutant ape.

Which is not the biggest. I'm not going to put it out there. It's the biggest.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

One of the big ones. Okay. How's that a big one?

Oh, by the way, this vodka, or excuse me, this whiskey you have, this, what is it?

Brendan Schaub (0:44)

Tiger Thick.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Tiger Thick. It's very good.

Brendan Schaub (0:46)

Thank you, brother.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

I was surprised.

Brendan Schaub (0:47)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

I was ready for some bullshit last night. When you busted it out, I was like, because I got an offer to do a thing that was going on with me.

Brendan Schaub (0:57)

Cheers, brother. Love you, man.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Love you, too.

Brendan Schaub (0:59)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:59)

Great to see you.

But I've been, you know, people have like sent me stuff. Like try this out. Would you like to get involved? I'm like, whoa, I don't know. I don't think this is good enough. This is good.

This is legit. It's like it tastes aged. It tastes like-

Brendan Schaub (1:15)

Which it is.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Yeah.

Brendan Schaub (1:16)

Yeah, 10 years, Japanese aged whiskey. It's the first blend of Japanese whiskey, American bourbon. It took three years just to get the licenses from the alcohol companies in the United States was such a beast. And then you're talking about years of trial and error, trying what I like, what I don't.

It was fun though, man.

Joe Rogan (1:34)

You nailed it though.

Brendan Schaub (1:35)

Thanks, brother.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

It's smooth, but it's different.

Brendan Schaub (1:38)

Yes, sir.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

It's like it's a different taste.

I mean, I'm not like a whiskey wizard. I don't really under, like Barnett is. Barnett knows a lot about whiskey.

Brendan Schaub (1:48)

He took a sip of it and I was like, Jesus Christ. He's like, there's caramel.

SPEAKER_4 (1:54)

I can taste, I'm like, what, what? Excuse me?

Brendan Schaub (1:58)

Caramel?

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Did I ever tell you the time I went on a fucking wine tasting dinner with my friend Matt?

Brendan Schaub (2:03)

No.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

My friend Matt's like a legit wine connoisseur.

So much so that he had a birthday and on his birthday, he had this wine tasting dinner and you would get like a flight of wines with each plate. So it was like a fancy restaurant. So they bring like a little tiny little piece of something.

Brendan Schaub (2:21)

I've done like Napa. You're trying and it's not me.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

It's not my thing, man.

Brendan Schaub (2:25)

I can't believe you went to that.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

It's not my thing. My friend, it was his birthday. I love him to death. So anyway, I wind up meeting this guy there and then years later, I'm watching this documentary about this guy that ripped off all these wine connoisseurs by taking cheap wine and blending it up and putting in fake old bottles and that was the guy I met at the fucking wine party.

Brendan Schaub (2:49)

Was it really?

Yes. They couldn't tell the difference. They were saying the same shit with the cheap wine to the fancy wine.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

The way this guy fucked up is, the movie's called Sour Grapes and the way the guy fucked up is he ripped off one of the Coke Brothers, which is like not a smart move. Those guys got some capital and they know how to move. And this guy had bought like, I think it was like more than a million dollars worth of fake wine from him.

Brendan Schaub (3:15)

Hilarious. Brian Cowan's the same way. He loves wine.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

But does he know it? Does he understand?

Brendan Schaub (3:20)

He really does. Don't get me wrong, he says a lot of bullshit to make us laugh, but when it comes to wine, he knows it. And when I first started hanging with Brian, was this 10 years ago around LA, you know, it'd be him, he hangs around smart people and I would feel so stupid and I'd hang out with him. But I'd watch him try wine and I'd pick up on things they would say. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna use that next time.