#1903 - Kurt Metzger

Joe Rogan (0:08)

All day.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Let's go.

Kurt Metzger (0:17)

I mean, that's why Elon Musk is a success.

Why? Because he smoked weed on this show.

SPEAKER_5 (0:22)

I don't think that's true.

SPEAKER_6 (0:24)

That's right.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

That's like when high school kids...

Kurt Metzger (0:28)

That guy's got a lot of money, and I saw him smoke weed on this show.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

That's what happened, bro.

That was the root of it. I almost got him fucking, like, removed from NASA top clearance.

Kurt Metzger (0:39)

That's crazy, dude, that you would have to...

Joe Rogan (0:41)

Meanwhile, we were drinking whiskey for like two hours before we hit that blunt.

Kurt Metzger (0:47)

That's wild how slow that aspect, because weed's so legal in so many places, you forget that it's not legal still.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Well, it was legal in California. That's what he asked me. He goes, it is legal.

I go, yeah, it's legal here.

Kurt Metzger (0:58)

Yeah, but it's not... There's California law, and then there's...

Joe Rogan (1:02)

State law. Federal law, rather.

Kurt Metzger (1:04)

Or also corporate investor confidence law, I guess, is what he violated.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

NASA had an issue with it, so it's government. Because marijuana still, very unfortunately, is still federally Schedule I, which means it has no medical benefits, which is hilarious, because I'm pretty sure cocaine is Schedule II, because cocaine has medical benefits.

Kurt Metzger (1:26)

Because of the throat, right? Like Elvis would get it for his throat.

I mean, officially, that's why they would give it to him. I was watching like his entourage, like the guys from his entourage.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

We need to get Elvis some cocaine for his throat.

Kurt Metzger (1:39)

It was like this medical grade, the kind Robert Evans got busted trying to get, the pure, like liquid cocaine. And they would just dip these cotton swabs in, and they would just sit there and be ripped for hours, he said, on liquid. It was for his throat.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Well, it would numb it, because they had, like, I had lidocaine on my nose, which is like a cousin of cocaine, I guess.

And one of the things that I thought was really interesting about it fucking killed my appetite. Like, I tried to go to dinner afterwards, and was like, God, I don't want to eat anything. I know I'm hungry. I had this delicious steak in front of me, and I couldn't eat it.

Kurt Metzger (2:12)

Oh, yeah, right.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Because the lidocaine, like, it was still in my throat. I could taste it. It was like, ugh.

Kurt Metzger (2:17)

Isn't that like a similar, what's that movie?

Joe Rogan (2:20)

It numbs everything. But it doesn't get you high, but it does get you feeling weird. You know, you don't feel like you're not in any way, like, high. You know, but you're like, ugh, like, weirded out. I think he gave me, like, a heavy dose, too, because he had to clean out my nose and fix my septum.

Um, I don't know. I don't remember. I don't remember, because they put me under. I don't remember if it was injections. I don't remember what happened.

Because I had to go out for that, because it was pretty serious.

Jamie (2:49)

I had to fucking get in there and...

Joe Rogan (2:52)

shave down your turbinates.

Kurt Metzger (2:54)

Oh, I didn't even know that was what it was called.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Yeah, it was like these bumps in the middle. My nose was fucked.

Kurt Metzger (2:58)

From getting hit or just...

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Oh, well, from everything. I fell down a flight of stairs when I was five years old.

Yeah, there was a little photo of me with a black eye when I was five. I remember I just slipped and fell down a cement flight of stairs.

Kurt Metzger (3:09)

Jesus Christ.

Joe Rogan (3:10)

In my backyard when I was five. Smashed my nose. And so I think from then on, I never had a good nose.

I think it was pretty fucked up from then on. I was a literal mouth breather until I was 40 And then I got my nose fixed.

Kurt Metzger (3:24)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

Oh my God, it was the greatest thing ever. I was like...

Kurt Metzger (3:27)

I just had always had huge nostril capacity myself.

Joe Rogan (3:31)

Well, a lot of guys start out with huge nostril capacity, but if you get hit there enough, a lot of wrestlers and very much boxers, boxers, they get their nose smashed. MMA fighters get their nose smashed.