#2298 - Kurt Metzger

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

Kurt Metzger (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Jamie (0:12)

I have these shades, you know why? I'll save this gold, hold on.

SPEAKER_5 (0:15)

Because the future's so bright, you gotta wear shades.

Jamie (0:18)

Oh, nuclear war, the flash, you have 59

SPEAKER_5 (0:21)

Oh yeah, it's good protection. I heard, get under the table as well. You remember that in high school? Did they do that in your high school?

Jamie (0:27)

No, they, okay, yeah, I'm 47, so.

SPEAKER_5 (0:30)

Get under, I'm 10 years older.

Jamie (0:31)

Yeah, my parents, they did that too.

SPEAKER_5 (0:33)

They told you, get under the table, like what?

SPEAKER_6 (0:34)

They did that surprisingly long.

SPEAKER_5 (0:37)

It's like a mask for COVID, it's basically the same thing. That is not working. Getting under the table is so dumb. It's a fucking nuclear blast that annihilates buildings. You're saying, getting under my stupid desk with the clam shell, remember those desks with the clam shell?

Jamie (0:50)

It's the only shot, yeah. That's one of my first desks I had as a kid. It's the only shot we got. Now, I saw Indiana Jones get in a fridge on the...

SPEAKER_5 (0:59)

Yeah, that was a good move.

Jamie (1:00)

Where was he? At Trinity? I don't know. He got in a fridge. They really made them things back then.

SPEAKER_5 (1:05)

What the fuck? Can you imagine being those guys in the Manhattan Project when they first do it? They first detonate it, and they're like, what in the holy fuck?

Jamie (1:16)

Yeah, well, they kind of didn't know what was going to happen, right?

SPEAKER_5 (1:18)

They didn't know. There was a less than zero chance that it would burn up the entire atmosphere of the earth instantaneously, and all life would be over.

Jamie (1:25)

Well, the chance we've got to take.

SPEAKER_5 (1:27)

They took it. They just took it.

Jamie (1:29)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_5 (1:29)

I wonder if it was bigger than they thought it would. I wonder what, so like no one had ever seen a nuclear explosion before those people did.

Kurt Metzger (1:37)

Weren't they too close?

SPEAKER_5 (1:39)

Well, they definitely weren't really far away, right?

Jamie (1:41)

I know a few of them. People were too close.

SPEAKER_5 (1:44)

Well, you know, the real problem is the area where they did it is radioactive forever. Like they did a bunch of these tests out in the desert, and then John Wayne and his crew went out there and all got cancer.

Kurt Metzger (1:56)

Yeah, exactly.

Jamie (1:57)

Genghis Khan.

SPEAKER_5 (1:58)

Yeah, which is a terrible movie.

Jamie (2:00)

It's one of the most amazing because it's cursed from the gate.

SPEAKER_5 (2:03)

Yeah, it was probably cursed by Genghis Khan.

Jamie (2:08)

I hope it was.

SPEAKER_5 (2:08)

And if you're going to make a bullshit version of one of the most fascinating human beings that has ever lived, a bullshit version of their life, it would be a John Wayne movie from the 1960s. Was it even the 60s? Was it the 50s?

Jamie (2:22)

Is that the original...

SPEAKER_5 (2:25)

Whitewash movie?

Jamie (2:26)

Well, no, not Whitewash, but like Jada Pinkett Smith made Cleopatra, where it's like Cleopatra is black and on Netflix. It was like she clearly sees Cleopatra as her, and it's like a suck up to herself. And John Wayne, I'm sure, was thinking that with Genghis Khan.

SPEAKER_5 (2:44)

Genghis Khan was 65

Jamie (2:46)

Yeah, so that's like Jada Pinkett.

SPEAKER_5 (2:47)

Oh, it says 56, The Conqueror.

Jamie (2:49)

Yeah, this is the same.

SPEAKER_5 (2:51)

Hold on, what was the 65 one? Who did that one? Is that John Wayne? No. Oh, Omar Sharif. Okay.

Kurt Metzger (2:58)

So they've done a few of those.

SPEAKER_5 (3:00)

Yeah, you're getting a little closer with Omar Sharif, but even then, you should be getting a guy from Mongolia. I mean, if you want me to believe that it's Genghis Khan, find a guy in Mongolia. There's gotta be a guy.

Jamie (3:10)

Oh, I don't.

Kurt Metzger (3:11)

Acting is not that hard.

Jamie (3:13)

I don't want you to believe. I want you to identify with him and see yourself reflected.

That's John Wayne, wokely wanting to see himself reflected in the story of Genghis Khan.

SPEAKER_5 (3:24)

Do you think so? I think it was a giant movie. And they offered him a shit ton of money. And he's a giant movie star.

Jamie (3:31)

It's not his project.

SPEAKER_5 (3:31)

And there was only like five movie stars back then. Was it John Wayne's project?