#2015 - Zach Bryan

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. What's happening, baby?

Zach Bryan (0:13)

Good to see you, brother. How you doing?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

And we're drinking Bud Light, ladies and gentlemen.

Zach Bryan (0:17)

Sorry, guys.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Sorry.

Zach Bryan (0:19)

We're fucked.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

There's nothing wrong with it.

Mm-mm.

Cheers, sir. Cheers, brother. People are so silly. We were just talking about how silly it is. One person made a really stupid decision, and now everybody's decided that Bud Light is the enemy. But that's like this thing that people do in America, where they just decide, now I hate these people. These people are the enemy. And, you know...

Zach Bryan (0:38)

And it's over.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Yeah, and it's over.

Zach Bryan (0:40)

The reason I'm drinking Bud Light and Bud Light is like my entire adult life. And then on Twitter, I defended my sister's spouse, and people were like...

People were pissed. And I was like, I didn't mean to do this. It was crazy. And Travis Trick came after me, and I was like, he didn't come after me. But Travis Trick is so respectable, and he's like a good guy. And I met him at the Two Step Inn, where you were.

And it was just, it was cool to get to talk to him about it and see like two different views. And it was cool sitting in the room with him and hearing it.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Well, you know, people, just the culture war in this country is so goofy. It's so overblown. And a lot of it is people just not talking to each other.

It's people talking through social media and talking through narratives. And it's just...

Zach Bryan (1:23)

It freaks me out. It freaks me out. And being so public, you too, as well. It's so scary.

I feel like it keeps people from being who they actually are.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Oh, yeah.

Zach Bryan (1:31)

Which is terrifying, because every time I get anywhere, I'm like, shit, man, I can't say or do this. And then when you do, it's fucking... It's crazy.

It's psychotic.

Joe Rogan (1:40)

There's a lot of self-censoring. But I think it's important to speak your mind.

Zach Bryan (1:44)

I think it's getting better.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Yeah, it's just more people have to do it. And then more people... You know, people are worried about the repercussions, but you have to understand that when you're a person like yourself or a person like me, you're communicating to millions of people. And so you're going to have a certain percentage of them that are upset at everything you say.

Whether you say you like to eat meat, or whether you say you think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a good guy, or whether you think that, you know, whatever the fuck you think.

Zach Bryan (2:10)

And you only have one life, man.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Allegedly.

Zach Bryan (2:14)

Yeah, I guess.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

I'm not sure about that.

SPEAKER_3 (2:15)

I'm not sure about that.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

You ever have a feeling you've been here before?

Zach Bryan (2:19)

No, I saw your podcast like two years ago about the infinity thing. Yeah. And I kept telling people about it. Like in Oklahoma and stuff.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Isn't it weird that that freaks people out? Like it freaks people out. Like I love life.

I love my family. I love my friends. I love my job. I love existing. I enjoy it very much.

But if I had to do this over and over again forever for infinity, it's a weird feeling. It freaks people out.

Zach Bryan (2:44)

Have you seen that Black Mirror episode?

Joe Rogan (2:45)

No.

Zach Bryan (2:46)

Not to be that guy.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

No, I've seen a bunch of them.

Zach Bryan (2:48)

There's a Black Mirror episode where they're in a cabin, and this guy's in prison for infinity. And he's talking to this guy over and over and over again.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

Wow.

Zach Bryan (2:54)

And this is the new one. The new season came out. And the same thing, they're in space, and they're coming down.

I'm not going to ruin it.

Joe Rogan (3:00)

No, no worries.

Zach Bryan (3:00)

It's crazy.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

It's an amazing show.

Zach Bryan (3:02)

It freaks you out. It's my favorite show.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

It's a great show. My wife won't watch it with me.

Really? It's scary. She gets freaked out by it. Yeah, she doesn't like things that could be real.

Zach Bryan (3:12)

I get that. I get that. A lot of people, like when I bring it up, they're like, I don't know. And I'm like...