#2055 - Tim Kennedy

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Tim Kennedy (0:13)

Did, like, Evan make this for you?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Yeah, it's black rifle. I don't know what blend it is.

Tim Kennedy (0:18)

Me, fully transparent. I only like the bougie black rifle blends.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

The bougie blends?

Tim Kennedy (0:23)

Yeah, like.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Oh, like the Ethiopian stuff?

Tim Kennedy (0:25)

Yeah, like Evan.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

I like the lemon-y sort of.

Tim Kennedy (0:28)

Evan will be like, oh, so I, you know, soul source selected this bean from this place and I roasted it this way. I'm like, oh, it's gonna be good. And it's good.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Well, every year I do elk hunting camp with Evan. We share an elk hunting camp in California. So we just got back. And so Evan makes coffee for us every day. So he gets up and he fucking hand measures everything and he brings his own fucking special blends. He had two different blends because he knows I like a dark roast. He had a dark roast. And then he had this really bizarre, exotic coffee that tasted different than anything I'd ever had before. It was kind of like, almost like a sweet, like almost like a tea taste to it.

Like he just, he's a master.

Tim Kennedy (1:13)

He was using tax paying dollars to start his coffee obsession.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Was he really?

Tim Kennedy (1:19)

Yeah, so when he was both in group and at the agency, he would take, you know, we have discretionable funds that you can spend on whenever. And area improvement is an appropriate way for you to spend money. So he would buy like a $20,000 espresso machine and you know, a $3,000 grinder in some middle of nowhere Ford operating base where he's making coffee and like just being a total nerd. It's all taxpayer money.

It's awesome that finally something's being used with tax paying dollars that benefits the soldier, which is rare.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

We ran out of coffee filters and someone was like, we'll just use paper towels. And he just let, fuck no, we're not gonna use paper towels. I was like, dude, we're not using paper towels.

Tim Kennedy (2:06)

Look at him. He's little, but he's mighty.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

He's very serious.

Do not use paper towels. Like this, he's very serious about his coffee.

Tim Kennedy (2:13)

Or he's going to have it next month.

Joe Rogan (2:15)

You've been to his place in Utah?

Yeah. The lab that he has set up at Black Rifle.

Tim Kennedy (2:20)

Yeah, he made me do one of the little tastes where they did this thing with the spoon, and then you have to smell it first, and you have to do something with your tongue. And I was like, what are we doing here?

Joe Rogan (2:31)

I can't do that. I can't go that far. It's like with wine, like when people are like, oh, hints of oak. Like, I don't, it's good.

Tim Kennedy (2:37)

I like it.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

I like it. You can do that.

Tim Kennedy (2:39)

This goes well with what I'm eating right now.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

I have a friend, my friend Matt, I'll call, he's a real wine freak, and I'll just show him a photo of like the wine page at a restaurant. Like, what should I get? And he'll tell me, he'll just text me. He loves it.

So I'm like, good. I've got that farmed off.

Tim Kennedy (2:56)

If I can outsource things that I don't have to keep on my brain.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Yeah, I do not want to have to pay attention to that. Oh, you are so good. And that's how I do it with coffee too. I just like, like Evan's like, I'll send you a bag of that stuff. I'm like, great. What was it again?

I forget what it was, but it was like fruity and fucking interesting.

Tim Kennedy (3:11)

Another one, like as Jack Carr is so incredible, Evan.

So I'm skydiving all, I was supposed to be skydiving all last week, but I was in Israel. And then, so I had to move it to the right because we're doing this Moab jump with a bunch of your friends, Mike Cirelli and Mike Glover and Evan. And so I like, I need to brush off, knock off the dust a little bit. So I, Evan, and he sends me this like super fancy designed helmet from Black Rifle, a skydive helmet, a G3 for, just like, just sent it to me. You know, I was like, all right, this is really cool. You know, I mean, skydiving with this helmet that is way above my ability because I'm just total sky trash.