#1909 - Stavros Halkias

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Stavros Halkias (0:17)

Yeah, because LA, it's like, famous people are everywhere.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

They're everywhere.

Stavros Halkias (0:19)

They know how to act, people know how to act. Here, it's just starting a little bit.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

It's just like Matthew McConaughey, Elon, but Elon never goes anywhere. He's always working on five different companies.

Stavros Halkias (0:30)

Right.

Who else? Who else is in Austin?

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Zach Levy, but he lives out a little bit further out in the country.

Stavros Halkias (0:39)

Yeah, just McConaughey.

Stavros Halkias (0:40)

Dawson moved here, James Vanderbeek.

Joe Rogan (0:43)

Oh, that's right. He's here.

And then the other, there's a few guys.

Stavros Halkias (0:47)

Well, it's also, I think, podcast fame.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Sandra Bullock, but she's never here either. She's always working.

Stavros Halkias (0:51)

Yeah. So I think podcast fame and internet fame, it's like people, you're much more approachable too.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Yeah.

Stavros Halkias (0:56)

You know, because it's like you're in their ears.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

Well, they 100% know you.

Stavros Halkias (0:59)

100% know you. They know all the most embarrassing stories you told. Seven years ago, when you were like, podcasting isn't gonna catch on. And you talked about, you know, things you put in your ass in middle school. They're like, oh.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Bro, 12 years ago for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we started off with a fucking laptop using a webcam, high as fuck.

Stavros Halkias (1:18)

Just recording directly to the webcam, like the laptop audio.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Yes. Well, we had like some sort of a USB microphone.

Stavros Halkias (1:25)

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

But we also did like everything completely obliterated. We were doing volcano hits.

Stavros Halkias (1:33)

Oh, dude, the volcano. You didn't know why you were saying it.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Why you were saying it. Like, while you were saying it, you're like, what am I saying?

Stavros Halkias (1:39)

Of course. Well, no one's gonna listen. Who gives a fuck? I'm just having fun. And then they did.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

Back then it was like, you know, a good episode would have like 2,000 people. For real.

Stavros Halkias (1:50)

Now a tweet that gets 2,000, I'm like bombed.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

I know, what happened?

It's fucking fascinating to see the difference in tweets now because people aren't scared to post what they really think about something. So like NBC News will post something and then underneath it, you'll just see a cascade of people shitting all over them. And harshly.

Stavros Halkias (2:12)

Right, right, right.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

It's wild.

Stavros Halkias (2:13)

You're making death threats?

SPEAKER_4 (2:14)

No, not that.

Stavros Halkias (2:15)

They're like, fuck you, Tucker.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

But they can be funny again and not worry about getting banned or shadow banned or any of that stuff.

Stavros Halkias (2:23)

Yeah, yeah. No, I honestly barely use Twitter anymore. It's just like.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Me too.

Stavros Halkias (2:27)

Purely for all social media, honestly. I just do the fucking, cause it's comedy and you have to get people out.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Right, promotion, yeah.

Stavros Halkias (2:35)

I really don't think people should use that. I mean, I'm not breaking any ground here, but it's like, I barely, you know.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

You and I are on the same page.

Stavros Halkias (2:42)

Yeah, it's not. Dude, I put my phone away for like, this summer I went back to Baltimore. I lost like 20 pounds with my brother. My brother's a trainer.

And I just didn't use my phone. I was fucking eating right. I was working out every day. Fuck it, I felt great. I was like, this is awesome. I'm gonna go into the next leg of the tour.

I'm in New York for like four days, and I'm like, I'm just gonna check Instagram to try and get pussy. And I haven't been off it for more than 20 minutes for four months. You know what I mean? It's like, and I was like, I know, you know what you have to do. And it's like, you know, you can't stop.

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Well.

Stavros Halkias (3:13)

And then the fucking algorithm gets you, bro. The TikTok algorithm.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

I don't fuck with TikTok, but apparently that's the worst. I was just going to say that I was listening to Chris Williamson. Do you know him? No. He's another guy who's out here in Austin. Great, really interesting, intelligent guy. He runs a great podcast, but he had Scott Galloway on. And they were talking about how TikTok is essentially engineered to like keep us engaged and also accentuate all of our disagreements and arguments and make America look like a real shit hole.