#1962 - Eddie Huang

Joe Rogan (0:14)

What's cracking?

Eddie Huang (0:15)

Been forever, I feel 2017, I think, was the last time.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Well, I have to go back and check, but was the last time that I saw you on the podcast, is that the last time I saw you?

Eddie Huang (0:25)

I think it was, we came with like a voting expert before the election, like it might have been like 2017

Joe Rogan (0:33)

That's right.

Eddie Huang (0:34)

I think, cause we did hot yoga, then I came back on the show.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Yeah, we did hot yoga for your show, that was fun.

Eddie Huang (0:40)

Yeah, that was dope.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

That was fun, that was fun.

Eddie Huang (0:43)

Then Vice ran out of money and, you know, couldn't do the show anymore.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Well, somebody got money. Didn't Shane Smith make a fucking ton of loot?

Eddie Huang (0:51)

Shane's a man.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Yeah, I love that dude.

Eddie Huang (0:53)

I still talk to Shane, but no, I think the end of Wong's World was just, they were like, yo, we still wanna do Wong's World, but can we make it domestic? And I wanted to do films and I was just like, love you, I'ma go make this film.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

So they wanted to do it in the United States because of travel costs?

Eddie Huang (1:11)

Yeah, and just cause Viceland, the first couple years, it was just, the accounting was off on, people were just spending money crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

Bro, it started out, they would take these guys with glasses on, these nerds, and send them over to the middle of a goddamn war zone. These dudes would be filming with a flak jacket on, and bombs are blowing off in the Middle East, and they're just reporting there.

SPEAKER_3 (1:34)

You're like, whoa, Vice is wild.

Eddie Huang (1:36)

Yeah, it was the best, cause Vice would just pick the most dangerous shit and be like, here's $30,000, go with a 5D camera, and fucking come back with some footage and try not to die.

And then once it became the TV channel, it got crazy, cause I was probably the biggest perpetrator, so in all fairness to Shane, somebody needed to be like, Eddie, you're burning money crazy. Cause I was going to F1 tracks, and literally the last episode, I went on an F1 track in Abu Dhabi, and Shane was there, and he's like, what are you doing here? You're a fucking food show. And I was like, I don't know, I gotta drive this car. It's like getting caught by your boss. That's hilarious.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

I'm here to try Formula One food, bro.

SPEAKER_3 (2:23)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Eddie Huang (2:24)

I was like, I'm gonna try the concessions.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Dude, they sent David Cho to the Congo to look for a dinosaur.

SPEAKER_3 (2:30)

David Cho. Have you ever seen that? Yeah. That's the most ridiculous shit of all time.

Eddie Huang (2:37)

It might be the greatest Vice episode ever.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Bro, it's an amazing episode.

That in Haimo's Arctic Adventure, that's my favorite one. That's the one about that dude who lives in Alaska. His subsistence survives in this very small cabin, and he's the last person that's allowed to own this cabin in this wilderness.

Eddie Huang (2:54)

I haven't seen it.

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Whoo, that one's heavy. That's heavy.

Eddie Huang (2:58)

But that show episode's the best because there's so many people now, especially in LA, that are like, for a honeymoon or for the holidays, I'm gonna go to the Congo. I wanna go to West Africa. And I'm just like, bro, watch that episode real quick.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

Yeah, watch that episode.

Eddie Huang (3:12)

That's not where you're staying, but it's close to where you're trying to go. Check that episode out.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

You're in the middle of a conflict zone. It's very dangerous being down there.

It's just, poof, and probably no dinosaurs.

Eddie Huang (3:27)

No, there's probably no dinosaurs. I wanna go to Ethiopia, but I'm not going where Joe went. Wherever Joe went, I'm like, I'm not going back.

SPEAKER_3 (3:34)

It was wild, man.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

He camped with the Hadza. He stayed with the Hadza and went hunting with them.

He was saying that when they shot, they were shooting baboons to eat. And he said, it's crazy. When they shoot a baboon, it grabs the arrow. And you see it grab the arrow, you're like, yo.

That's a little too weird, you know?

Eddie Huang (3:53)