#1930 - Adam Curry

Adam Curry (0:14)

And I was just thinking, is this my fifth time?

Joe Rogan (0:16)

I think so.

Adam Curry (0:17)

Dude, I feel so blessed.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

I'm blessed to have you.

Adam Curry (0:20)

It's like, holy crap, man.

Five times in three years. Come on, brother. And we had, of course, the first show in the old new studio. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Well, yeah. You were the first.

Adam Curry (0:31)

You were the very first. Remember, we had to wait for like two hours, and the mics weren't working, and we couldn't use headphones, and then we made a big mistake of getting really high.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

You remember.

Adam Curry (0:41)

I remember you calling me, like...

Joe Rogan (0:43)

I don't remember it being a mistake. I remember it being the right move.

Adam Curry (0:47)

You called me a couple days later and said, dude, we have to do that over. We need to do over.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Yeah, we were barbecued.

Adam Curry (0:54)

Yeah, we were.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

But that's part of the fun.

Adam Curry (0:57)

Well, and the place looks phenomenal. It's really, really beautiful.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Thank you. So what is the reason why you can't smoke cigars? You said there's a reason as you puff on that robot dick.

Adam Curry (1:06)

Well, okay, so I did something at the end of last year, which I should have done ten years ago. I had a real problem.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Psychedelic experience?

Adam Curry (1:17)

No, I wish. Well, it wound up kind of being a cool experience, but the bone in my jaws degenerated. You know when you go to the dentist and they stick that thing in and they go, two, three, five, nine, nine, eleven. And that's millimeters. So I had like a good, it's a pocket, so the bone had just degenerated. And so I was really a candidate for full-on dentures. Oh, Jesus. Uh-huh, exactly. So I found these great dentists, one in Fredericksburg, one in Kerrville, and one does all the cosmetic stuff. I said, look, dude, I cannot have dentures. And first of all, my wife will never sleep with me again. That's the worst thing.

I'm not going to put shit in the glass next to me at night. No. Second, I'm really worried about my speech. I can't be chlithling and doing all that shit. This is what I do for a living. So they figured out they could remove 12 teeth.

Amen. 12 teeth.

And mind you, I've never had any procedure. I've never been under anesthesia.

I've never even had an IV. So, and quite frankly, I was quite terrified of it. But it had to be done because as they did the scans, they do the, I think it's a CT scan, you can slice through your head. Not only was this degenerating, but it had gotten all the way up to my sinuses, and there was a low level infection.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Holy shit, and you didn't know?

Adam Curry (2:40)

I thought I had allergies. Wow. So we'd always go out to eat in Austin, you know, and then be like, Austin is filled with shit because the minute I'm eating in a restaurant, it's like, oh, it's just streaming down. What is going on?

Turns out, eating, you're aggravating the infection and the sinuses, and it would just really get bad.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Oh, my God.

Adam Curry (3:02)

So I didn't even know this until just before I got this procedure. So the idea is they knocked out 12 teeth, four in the front, four at the bottom, and then a couple of these molars, which was, I mean, I was fucking afraid.

Joe Rogan (3:16)

Did you take pictures? Are you a West Virginia spy?

Adam Curry (3:21)

I'll show you.

No, you're going to think it's a TikTok filter when you see it. But so it put me under for five and a half hours with fentanyl.

Joe Rogan (3:31)

Hot damn.

Adam Curry (3:33)

Now, mind you, I'm there, my wife is there, and I'm like, and she's putting the IV in. I was more afraid of the IV than anything. I've never had this.

Joe Rogan (3:40)

You've never had an IV?

Adam Curry (3:41)

Never, never. No. And so it goes in, I'm like, was that it?

But I kept waking up.

Of course, by then, you're anesthetized and everything, and I kept waking up during this procedure, and they would hit me with some more fentanyl. I didn't even know. I guess medical fentanyl is pretty normal to use for this kind of procedure. And later, they said, any red hair in the family? Red hair? Any Irish in the family? No, because they apparently, red hair and Irish have high tolerance for all kinds of anesthesia and drugs. Interesting.