#2440 - Matt Damon & Ben Affleck

Joe Rogan (0:03)

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SPEAKER_2 (0:13)

I went in because I came in from...

Matt Damon (0:15)

I am here, I think I was living at the time, and I went in, and I'm sitting in the waiting room, and it was like on a Sunday, because I was like, I'm only in town for you, and Stan was like, I'll come into the office. I'm like, thank you so much. I had to have a filling or whatever I needed. It was kind of an emergency. So I'm sitting in the thing, and I'm not getting called in, but the ladies are just... No, no, there's not even a receptionist. And Stan comes out with his mask on. No, the first thing I hear is, pig fucker, fucking cock sucker, fucking pig fucker. And I'm like, what is happening in there? It's in the other room. And Stan comes in with his mask on, and he goes, sorry, he goes, I'll be with you soon. He goes, I got Hunter in the chair.

And I hear, listen to Hunter Thompson swear for like 15 minutes. I'm like, this is amazing. And then Stan goes, okay, come on back. And Hunter's kind of getting out. And he goes, oh, you're sitting down with this guy? He's a fucking assassin.

And then he goes, and he's got this jug of clear fluid. And he's like, you're gonna need a sip of this. And I'm like, oh my God, this is fucking Hunter S. Thompson's moonshot. I'm like, this is fucking amazing. I'm talking to this dude for 30 seconds and I'm getting a sip. And it was like 10 in the morning on a Sunday.

SPEAKER_2 (1:31)

Yeah.

Ben Affleck (1:32)

He was halfway through the jug.

Matt Damon (1:34)

Pure catch fire.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

Where was this?

Matt Damon (1:36)

In Beverly Hills.

Ben Affleck (1:38)

Yeah.

Matt Damon (1:40)

Yeah. Brentwood. Yeah. Brentwood was Stan's office.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Oh my God. That's amazing.

Matt Damon (1:43)

It really was. So I had probably a total of seven minutes with him. And it was like, I could not have been a better seven minutes.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

That's incredible. I went to the Woody Creek Tavern just to go there because I know he used to go there. And you could feel him in the building. There's all the pictures in the walls. It's a cool little place.

Ben Affleck (2:03)

I mean, those books, Hells Angels and Fear and Loathing, it's some of the best writing. I just fucking... He really had his own rum diary. It was spectacular. It was really descriptive and punchy and fucking interesting and fucked up. And he also just lived that life.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

Fear and Loathing changed my life. Reading that book was like, what the fuck? What is this guy doing?

Grown men out there, balding grown men with spectacles running around with them.

Ben Affleck (2:31)

There's lizards in the fucking lounge, like, you guys are listening.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

He's got a day trip bag filled with acid. Like, what the fuck are you doing, man?

Ben Affleck (2:42)

And it's great shit. It's like you fucking feel like you're on the adventure with him, you know?

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Yeah. No, it's interesting to watch the evolution of his writing, too. You know, like I read Hell's Angels and it's like very different, you know, but it's kind of restrained and it was quite like for that, I think it was edgy sort of for the time.

Ben Affleck (3:00)

Yeah. Like, oh, you're going to get beaten, chain whipped and stomped by the angels. And that was really edgy. And by the time they got into what was Fear of Loathing, 72 or something like that, he was just out there.

Matt Damon (3:11)

He found his voice.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

He was supposed to be covering a race for like Sports Illustrated. That's a Fear of Loathing when I read his book.

Ben Affleck (3:20)

Come on, I fucking lost my mind.

Matt Damon (3:24)

Great.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

It's great, Hunter.

Matt Damon (3:26)

We'll take it.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

Well, hey, it's very nice to meet you guys. I've met you before, but it's very nice to meet you.

Ben Affleck (3:30)

Thank you very much.

Joe Rogan (3:32)

I love the fucking movie. The Rip is great.

Matt Damon (3:34)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (3:34)

It's really good. It's so original and it's so different. And it's, you know, it's like I love those kind of movies, but it's not like any one that I've ever seen before. Really solid movie.