#1845 - Zachary Levi

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Zachary Levi (0:12)

How are you eclimatizing to Austin?

Joe Rogan (0:14)

I love it.

Zachary Levi (0:15)

It's great, isn't it?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Yeah, I've been here now, like, we're going?

Yeah, so I've been here now for two years, and just totally feels like home. I love it.

Zachary Levi (0:22)

It's such a great town.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

It's the best. The people are so nice.

Zachary Levi (0:25)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

It's such a great place to live.

Zachary Levi (0:26)

Yeah, and one of the things I love about it is how well nature is protected here, like Barton Springs, for example, or even like, I can't think of another major city I've been to, anyone in the world, that has a river that goes through the middle of the city that anyone is playing on.

Austin is the only place I've ever been to where there's a river in the middle of the city, and there's people kayaking and paddleboarding and doing all of the things. You're like, that's what we should be doing in all of our rivers.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

And it's clean.

Zachary Levi (0:51)

It's so clean.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Yeah, that's what's crazy. You know, one of the comedy clubs that I was going to buy, there was a problem with it. And the problem was there was a parking lot.

And the parking lot was at the bottom of a long hill.

And if it rained, the rainwater would come down and get all the oil and all the bullshit from people's cars from the parking lot, and then take it over the hill into the creek. And so they were supposed to have installed this big bio-containment pond. Yeah, it's a really wild thing. They had to like literally build a pond, and then they had to surround the pond with very specific plants that filter out shit and suck everything up. I was like, I'm out.

Zachary Levi (1:35)

That's more than I want. Thanks.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

But it wasn't even that. It was just like I could see the headline, Joe Rogan Kills Fish with his Shitty Comedy Club.

Zachary Levi (1:45)

With the comedy club.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

I am not doing anything that is ever going to be an environmental concern. I'm not, if it's up for, I'm fucking, I'm out.

Zachary Levi (1:54)

No.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

I'm out.

Zachary Levi (1:55)

Well, to the extent that we should never be doing anything that's fucking up the planet would be great if we could all agree on that.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

It's like this agreement to fuck up the planet a little bit so you can get more gas mileage or agreement to fuck up the planet a little bit so it's easier for you to do X, Y, or Z.

Zachary Levi (2:12)

Certainly. But also I think, well, it's just industry run rampant, man. I mean, you know, that's what most of it is anyway.

It's greed on a really high level that we all kind of just accept because it's like, well, that's capitalism, I guess, or whatever.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

We all agree that companies should try to make the most amount of money every year always. Like you're always supposed to make more money.

Zachary Levi (2:33)

But I feel like we do, which is, I don't think that's such a bad thing to the extent that it should never be at the expense of life, of human life and plant life and animal life. To the extent that industry is milking every single dollar, right, out of everything.

Just, so what, so their bottom line is better, so their shareholders are happier, so their CEO makes a better salary that year. It's all just high level greed. And they could still all make so much money and not kill everything.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

That's what's really crazy is like, everybody always wants to do better.

Like no one wants to maintain, no one wants to say, hey, you know, this company makes $100 million a year. This is great. Yeah, we're good. Everybody high five, let's keep the ball rolling. We all get vacation time and we all live a wonderful life. No.

Zachary Levi (3:20)

No, you got to have more, man.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Yeah, and you got to put in overtime. We got to increase our bottom line. We got to fucking, why aren't these things moving off the shelves?

Zachary Levi (3:27)

Have you seen Succession?

Joe Rogan (3:29)

Yes. Love it.

Zachary Levi (3:30)

Oh, it's so good.

It's so good, but it's also so terrifying because you're watching it being like, yeah, that's going on right now. That's so representative of multiple different, you know.