#1929 - Louis CK

Joe Rogan (0:12)

I never thought of a... Yeah, there's a lot of shit going on over there.

Louis C.K. (0:15)

That thing in the front is weird.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

What, this thing right here?

Louis C.K. (0:19)

What is that?

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Oh, that's a piece of art. That comes from Beeple. Beeple crap on Instagram. Beeple is a digital artist. He puts up a new piece of digital art every day. And he came in to do the podcast, and he gave us this thing that's Elon Musk, if he was jacked, once genetic engineering comes along.

Oh, okay.

Glasses are brutal. I wear reading glasses when I try to look at my phone in the morning. I'm like, Jesus fucking Christ. Every day, I'm going a little blinder.

Louis C.K. (0:57)

Yes, you are. That's just the way it goes.

I mean, they're just such intricate little machines, and they're organic, so they just start to soften on you.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

I had a guy in the other day, Bilal Muhammad, he's a UFC fighter who's had a detached retina and a detached lens on his other eye. On both eyes, it's like, you're talking to people like that, and the game they're playing is you're punching people in the face, and a lot of times, thumbs go in the eyes, because UFC gloves have open fingers, so occasionally, guys accidentally get poked in the eye.

Fucking terrifying.

Louis C.K. (1:29)

That's the reason I wouldn't ever, I mean, there's a lot of reasons I wouldn't be a pro fighter, but that's it. Now, if it wasn't for the eyes, I'd be all over it.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

They can kind of fix them a little bit. You remember when Sugar Ray Leonard had a detached retina, and he retired from the sport, and everybody's like, holy shit, and then he came back, and everybody's like, he's back?

I think he needed the money, but I think he also needed the thrills.

Louis C.K. (1:53)

Yeah, it must be those guys retired so young, and then was left a huge expanse of life ahead of you.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Not just that, it's like the things that you've looked forward to are these enormous events where you're in your underwear, and you're walking out in front of this gigantic group of people that's there to watch you slam your fist into someone's face.

Louis C.K. (2:12)

Well, and you've worked up to it, too, all the training and the getting ready, the challenging someone, the setting the fight, and where it is in your career, and are you challenging, are you defending? So it's like a year. It fights like a year of your life. I mean, in boxing.

UFC, they fight more often, right, I guess?

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Depends. Depends on the fighter. Depends on what stage they are in their career.

Louis C.K. (2:35)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Yeah, but the guys like to fight more often just to stay comfortable.

Because otherwise, the moment's so big. When you have more fights, you can relax.

Louis C.K. (2:46)

I remember Ali describing, somebody asked him, does he get nervous? He was a great guy because he wasn't a bullshitter. He bullshitted when it was time to sell the fight. But whenever anybody asked him things like that, he was honest. Somebody asked him, do you get nervous? He said, every fight, I get really nervous. When I come out to the ring, I feel like I can't do this, and that guy's huge, and why did I come here?

But then the bell rings, and as soon as it becomes about the work, I go, well, this is what I do.

And then what takes over is just routine. That's what I do, and then he's just serious.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

I always felt like the worst part was before the fight started.

The worst part was standing there getting ready before the fight started. But then once the fight starts, you're on instinct. It's sort of normal.

Louis C.K. (3:39)

That's what stand up is like. I fucking hate waiting to go on stage.

It's the worst thing. And I get a little, if there's stuff going on, I get irritated. If the opener is going over a little or...

Joe Rogan (3:51)

You want a drink, you want a this, you want a that. Give me something to distract myself.

Louis C.K. (3:56)

It's bad news. But yeah, I could see why guys like that need to come back.

But it's good to be able to live your life where that's not what you need.

Joe Rogan (4:07)

It's a gigantic shift, though, in the way you view the world. You have to view the world as not like these big events that you're planning for every three to six months, but instead just life.