#1823 - Neal Brennan

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. You're slowly opening that bottle.

Neal Brennan (0:16)

This is the same podcast we used to do in your basement, right?

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Basically.

SPEAKER_4 (0:20)

Yeah, it's just a little different.

Neal Brennan (0:21)

Same one, just scaled out?

Joe Rogan (0:22)

It's not much different in terms of how to do it.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

I was wondering what happened to it, and then I got an email that said, this is your friend Joe, he's doing a podcast in Austin.

Neal Brennan (0:33)

Congrats, buddy.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Thanks, man.

Neal Brennan (0:35)

You don't seem to care that much, which I like.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

What does that mean?

Neal Brennan (0:41)

You just did like, muh.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

I'm the same person.

Neal Brennan (0:43)

You've never been especially susceptible to... I feel like fame was eased on you incrementally, and then a lot at once, but you were so used to it that you were just like, muh.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Yeah, I can handle it. It's weird.

It's not normal. It's definitely not... You don't want to take it all in one shot. Like, if you like a Demi Lovato type character or some young celebrity, I fucking pity those people so much.

Neal Brennan (1:11)

Under 30, you have no chance.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

I don't know how they do. I mean, I got on television when I was 26 or 27, the first show that I ever did, and I wasn't famous. You know, I was like, oh, there's a guy that I think I might have saw you on TV.

Neal Brennan (1:25)

Right.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

And then it's like slowly over time built to Fear Factor, and then the UFC, and then ultimately the podcast, and then the latest version of the podcast, which is just impossible to handle. If you were a normal person that just went right into that, you would lose your fucking mind. Yeah. You wouldn't be able to adjust.

Neal Brennan (1:45)

You've developed antibodies to like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, boost it. You know what's happening.

You're like, oh, you know when someone's hovering, you know when like, this guy, you know what they want.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

That's the bummer. Not the pictures are fine.

That the bummer is when people want things from you. Like they want to talk to you about some fucking thing that they're doing.

Neal Brennan (2:06)

Their issue.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

And, oh man, you know, like the idea that I would have enough time to do that with you. So, you know, like people will just come to you with their projects or they want you to invest in their company. And like, I don't have time for that. And like, well, you don't need to pay attention. Like, that's how you go broke.

That's how you go broke.

Neal Brennan (2:23)

No, like I have people that I, and then suddenly I look at my bottom line at some point.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Where did all that money go?

Neal Brennan (2:32)

To the car wash.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

Or something even dumber.

Neal Brennan (2:36)

To the topless car wash.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

Yeah, some solar company that you're starting up.

Neal Brennan (2:41)

And you're, can you tell me about Austin quickly?

Joe Rogan (2:46)

I love it. It's great. People are super friendly, really kind.

There's way less of them. Traffic is a joke. It's ridiculous. They think traffic's bad. It's funny. It's funny. Their traffic bad is like, it took me five extra minutes.

It's, there's a thing that happens when you get too many people.

It's like, you don't care about them anymore. They become a burden. And that's what happens when you get the 405 at like four in the afternoon. You're like, fuck this. Where it's just like, you can't believe you have to get to Redondo.

Neal Brennan (3:16)

You resent everyone, literally everyone. Ambulance drive fucking everyone.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

I went to visit a friend of mine, and he was down, I think it was like Newport Beach.

And it took me three hours to get there. I was like, this is fucking insane. This should be a 45-minute drive.

Neal Brennan (3:32)

Ian Edwards has been doing a joke about how he started driving places during COVID.

Joe Rogan (3:38)

Yeah, just to see how long it took.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

See how long it really takes.

Neal Brennan (3:41)

Yeah, so goddamn fun.

Joe Rogan (3:43)

But that's LA.

It's just unnecessary. It's unnecessary. And I'm completely removed from regular Hollywood now, so there's no reason to be there.