#2456 - Michael Jai White

Michael Jai White (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

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

Joe Rogan (0:12)

If you're all suited up, you got a wild card boxing hat on, a Bruce Lee shirt, come on, son.

Michael Jai White (0:17)

Hey, we got the yellow thing going on.

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Yeah, you got it all going on. What's happened? Great to see you.

Michael Jai White (0:25)

Man, things are really well. This thing is a little loud.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Is it? On that thing there, there's a little volume knob.

SPEAKER_5 (0:32)

You can turn that sucker down.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Last time I saw you was at Terry Black's Barbecue.

Michael Jai White (0:36)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Random run-in.

Michael Jai White (0:38)

Yeah, that was crazy. That was crazy. Yeah, man, I was thinking about going there right after this. I'm like, what? Terry Black's? That place was no joke.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

That place rules.

Michael Jai White (0:46)

Yeah, man.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

Are you still in LA.?

Michael Jai White (0:48)

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

What's it like?

Michael Jai White (0:51)

It's cool, man.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Is it? You like it? You're the only person that said that.

Michael Jai White (0:56)

No, no, no. Yeah, well, because, okay, I defend LA in a way where, first of all, if you got a handful of good people with you, you know, and your family, then it's, so the fact that LA has all kinds of different things, you could be on a hiking trail in 20 minutes, you could be-

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Oh, geographically, it's amazing.

Michael Jai White (1:16)

Yeah, and the weather, you can't. Oh, you can't beat it. So if you got good people, good friends with you, then it's all good.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

You just run by crooks. It's a nice neighborhood run by the mob. It's run by the woke mob. But I mean, geographically, you can't beat it. You could be at the ocean and then you could be in the mountains in two hours.

Michael Jai White (1:36)

Yeah. So even if you don't partake, it's still cool until it amps up the ante really.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Oh yeah. The spot itself is magical. It is a magical place to live.

Although, I am deeply concerned that that motherfucker is going to get hit with a big one soon.

Michael Jai White (1:57)

It's about time, right?

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah. I was reading this article about massive earthquakes in California and how often they're spread out. And the possibility of one of them happening within the next decade, it's very high.

Michael Jai White (2:10)

Yeah. Yeah. I try not to think about that.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

I try not to think about it too. Yeah.

Michael Jai White (2:16)

Yeah. But, you know, and now there's, you know, you can... I think they have better detection of that stuff now, too. It's better.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. They can't detect. Do you remember what happened in Italy? A couple guys got arrested and went to jail. They were seismologists because the company, the country, rather, didn't understand the ability to detect it. They had a big earthquake and a bunch of people died. And so they blamed these geologists or seismologists. They wound up winning in court on appeal because eventually the science was revealed. Like, hey, there's no fucking way you can really tell. But they hung these guys out. They blamed these guys on not being able to detect it.

Michael Jai White (3:02)

Man. Well, I mean, just think about it. The last crazy ones was 72 and then 94

Joe Rogan (3:09)

Yeah. I think it was 93 I came, I moved to LA right after the last big one. I saw one of the sections of the highway that had collapsed on the other one. I remember driving by going, fuck this place.

Michael Jai White (3:22)

I was in the middle of that one. I just, I came into LA.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

Over, you were there?

Michael Jai White (3:26)

Dude, I don't even like to tell the story about what happened during that 94 earthquake. Because it sounds like bullshit. But literally, I got up, ran out of my house, my apartment at the time, jumped off the balcony and watched it happen.

Joe Rogan (3:46)

You watched the house collapse?

Michael Jai White (3:48)

I watched the earthquake happen from outside.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

Oh.

Michael Jai White (3:51)

It's like no bullshit. Everybody's, so I thought, oh shit, I overreacted. I had a bad dream. I lived on the first floor of this apartment building. All I know is I wake up, I'm off balance, catching my balance in the parking lot, right? And like, oh shoot, I got to find the guard to get me back in the apartment building, right? And I'm thinking, what, you know, what's, like I've lost my mind or something. The next thing you know, everything shakes and the lights go out. Just go, just everything gets black. And so I'm backing, I retreat back because I'm thinking the building is going to fall on me. And I'm like, wait a minute. Then I got the story from everybody else that experienced it. They said that the first thing that happened was the building shook and the lights went out. Well, I was outside watching that.