#1986 - Jack Carr

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

How are you? Good to see you, man.

Jack Carr (0:17)

Great to see you.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

How does it feel to have another one done?

Jack Carr (0:22)

Oh, it feels great, but there's another one in the work, so it doesn't really stop. I mean, I hear some guys like John Grisham talk about, they do six months of work and six months off, and that's kind of the routine that they've gotten on.

But for me, it's go, go, go, this, the next one, scripts, although...

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Do you ever anticipate doing like a six-month-on, six-month-off thing?

Jack Carr (0:40)

Maybe when the kids are out of the house, maybe someday, way later on, but right now, it's still building. It's just like any entrepreneurial type of venture. You gotta just go and keep building and take advantage of momentum and look for gaps in the enemy's defenses and adapt and just go, go, go, go. So it's a constant thing from the second I wake up till everybody else is in bed and I'm working for a few more hours.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Yeah, you gotta make hay while the sun's shining.

Yeah, I think about that too with the podcast. I'm like, one day we'll do, you know, I do so many things. Sometimes I'm like, one day maybe I'll just do one thing.

Jack Carr (1:09)

I don't know, you'll be able to do that?

Joe Rogan (1:12)

I don't think I'm ill.

Jack Carr (1:13)

Have you ever been bored?

Joe Rogan (1:15)

I don't even know what that means.

Jack Carr (1:16)

Neither do I. When people talk about being bored, like I'm gonna hear that from one of our kids, I'm like, that's like the one thing that gets me.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Yeah.

Jack Carr (1:22)

But it's because I've never been bored in my life.

Joe Rogan (1:24)

I'm bored at things, like if someone takes me to a gala, and I have to dress like a monkey, sit there and wait.

Jack Carr (1:32)

How many of those have you, you don't do those anymore, do you?

Joe Rogan (1:34)

I had to do one recently.

SPEAKER_3 (1:35)

Oh, for what?

Joe Rogan (1:37)

Yeah, a friend. Yeah. There was an art thing that was going on here, so I had to dress up, and I'm like, Jesus Christ.

Jack Carr (1:43)

Every now and again, it's okay, maybe, but if it's...

Joe Rogan (1:44)

Maybe. It was okay because it was next to my friend, and his wife, and my wife, and it was fun. But it's for the most part, it's like that's the only time I get bored.

Jack Carr (1:53)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

Then I get hostile. Then I have a couple of drinks, and I get a little hostile.

Jack Carr (1:56)

Do you? Are people nervous when you're there?

Joe Rogan (1:59)

No, they get weird. They get weird, man.

Jack Carr (2:02)

Just looking at you as you're there?

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Yeah, people stare at me.

Jack Carr (2:04)

Really?

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Yeah, it's gotten exponentially weirder over the last like three years. I used to be able to blend in. Five years ago, I could blend in anywhere. Yeah, just people say hi, but that would be it.

Now it's...

Jack Carr (2:16)

But now it changes the dynamic of the room type of thing.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

Yeah, it's weird.

Jack Carr (2:19)

I'm not changing the dynamic of any room, I don't think, but people definitely in the airport stop and say hi, and I feel so just fortunate that people are interested enough in the books or the podcast or the TV show or whatever to actually recognize me and say hi. One guy recognized me by my Sitka backpack last night.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Oh, wow.

Jack Carr (2:33)

I was flying out here, and he's like, the backpack gave you away, because I was in the corner calling my wife on Mother's Day and my mom on Mother's Day, both...

He said, well, no, it's the gray one. It's the Drifter. So it just blends, but it has a little Sitka symbol. And he said, the backpack gave you away. I turned around and so I said hi. But that's, you know, I feel xtremely fortunate.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

Yeah, I do too. We're very lucky guys to be able to do what we love to do. When someone meets you too, also it's like your writing is so brutal.

This one in particular. You're such a nice guy. It's like when someone meets you, they're like, what the fuck is going on behind those eyes?