#2317 - Cody Tucker

Jamie (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Jamie (0:06)

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

Joe Rogan (0:13)

What are the odds that I contact you on Instagram, and the fucking day you're here is the day your book comes out?

Cody Tucker (0:20)

It's pretty unlike.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Kind of crazy.

Cody Tucker (0:23)

A little bit.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Right? You know, it's kind of like the universe smiled upon us. You know what I mean? It's like, it's synchronicity. If you want to believe in the simulation. Sometimes I do.

Cody Tucker (0:35)

I'm with you. Sometimes you just see something, you're like, this is a simulation, right? We're not in the real.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Yeah.

Cody Tucker (0:43)

There's a second and a third and a fourth and so on.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Sometimes just things seem like God is showing you satire.

Like there's just a little fun thrown in there. And a lot of it is on your Instagram page. I have to tell you, dude, I have wasted so much fucking time, so much time watching your videos going, what the fuck?

Jamie (1:04)

Is that real?

Joe Rogan (1:05)

And so many things I've learned from it. It's actually, it's very educational, but it's also very fun. Thank you. Cody Tucker, your book is called And Now You Know. And I didn't even know you had a book when I reached out to you. I just said, this guy's got to be interesting.

Cody Tucker (1:21)

Yeah, I mean, that remains to be seen. But we'll find out together.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Well, you are on Instagram. How did you get started doing that type of a page? Because it's very specific.

Cody Tucker (1:31)

I mean, I've always been interested in random facts, like origin stories of words, like movies, all these different things, like the dark side of history.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Right.

Cody Tucker (1:42)

And I like telling people those stories. And they seem to enjoy it whenever I tell them. So I was like, well, why don't I just make little videos and clip them, clip them up, make them look all right.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

What were you doing before you were doing that?

Cody Tucker (1:55)

I mean, I've always had a podcast. No one watches this thing. So it's all right.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

We'll bump that bitch up now.

Cody Tucker (2:01)

Well, yeah, it might change now. But yeah, I mean, I wouldn't necessarily recommend watching the podcast, but it is, it exists.

Cody Tucker (2:08)

Ah, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_6 (2:09)

It's all right. But yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:10)

That is, by the way, so much better than, please watch my podcast, like and subscribe. Whenever a video gets interrupted by like and subscribe, the last thing you want to do is like and subscribe.

Cody Tucker (2:19)

Like, come on. I mean, I'd rather you just, if you watch it and like it. Well, thank you. If you don't get it, you get in line.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Well, that's how podcasts get good.

Cody Tucker (2:30)

Yeah. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

That's what I started out doing with this. I never advertised this thing once.

Cody Tucker (2:35)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

This thing got where it is 100% word of mouth.

Cody Tucker (2:39)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

That's it.

Cody Tucker (2:41)

Yeah. So I started watching pretty early and it was, but it still had like a pretty decent following then. But I know that like you started like, we started in 2009 Yeah. So this would have been like a couple of years after that even.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

But when I started, me and my friend Brian, when we started, we weren't even thinking it was a podcast.

We had already done these things where we'd stream live from the green room at comedy clubs back when it was on Justin TV, which became what, Jamie? Twitch. So we would just be, you know, like Joey would be talking shit in the green room, and we'd be having fun, and you know, we'd just film it just for fun. And then I had a few friends that started doing internet shows. Tom Green was the big one, because Tom Green had it all set up at his house.

Cody Tucker (3:26)

He's incredible.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

Oh, he's the best. He's such a sweetheart, too. It's like such a, everything you would hope he'd be, that's who he is. Great, great fucking guy. And, you know, like really forward thinker early on, he was like, I think I could just do this from my house. Why don't I just do it? But it was too early. Like this is 2007 and the internet sucked. It wasn't ready yet. You know, no one had smartphones yet. It was like, but he was patient zero, I think.