#2489 - Ryan Bingham

**Ryan Bingham** (0:01)
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

**Joe Rogan** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Ryan Bingham** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Joe Rogan** (0:12)
What's happening, man? Good to see you. Hold on to that microphone, sir.

**Ryan Bingham** (0:17)
All right.

**Joe Rogan** (0:20)
You were fucking great at that McConaughey thing last year. I really enjoyed that. That was my first time seeing you perform live. It was really cool. Thank you, man. It was very cool. You're so relaxed up there, man. So it was like you brought everybody into a nice, like comfortable chill vibe. It was cool.

**Ryan Bingham** (0:36)
I'm glad you guys felt that way. Sometimes it takes me a minute to get into the groove, you know?

**Joe Rogan** (0:42)
Yeah, but it felt like that. It felt like you were in it. It brought the whole crowd into it too.
That event that he does, the two events, the one, the singer-songwriter one, and then the other one with the auction and everything. They're so cool, such good events.

**Ryan Bingham** (0:56)
Yeah, they're good people too.
I really grown to just appreciate the community around here in Austin, in the Hill Country area and all of that stuff. I definitely wouldn't have the career, I don't think, if I wouldn't have been for the community around here that is supporting songwriters and music in the way that they do. It's pretty incredible. When they get behind anything, it's just like, it just feels so good to see that many people come together and have that support.

**Joe Rogan** (1:22)
It's a really good place, man. Austin is a really good community. It really is. A very positive place in a lot of ways. Yeah. I mean, nothing's perfect. There's no perfect places, but it's really good.
I like it so much better than when I was living in California. It feels like real people.

**Ryan Bingham** (1:40)
I miss it, man. I'm in the process of moving back to Texas as well.

**Joe Rogan** (1:45)
Where are you at right now?

**Ryan Bingham** (1:46)
I'm outside of Dallas, Texas, out by Tyler.
I've been in Topanga Canyon in LA for years. So I've been in the middle of it.

**Joe Rogan** (1:55)
Doing that Hollywood thing.

**Ryan Bingham** (1:57)
Every time I get across the state line, it's just like that weight comes off. You're like, oh man, I'm home, you know?

**Joe Rogan** (2:04)
Did you have the coolest fucking character on Yellowstone? It must be so fun to play.

**Ryan Bingham** (2:10)
It was so much fun, man.
I laugh, I always talk about it. I felt like I had one of the easiest jobs there, you know, it's because my character was kind of a smaller role. You know, most of the time I'd work like one or two days a week, and then the rest of the time I'd just be like fly fishing and get lost in the mountains and just disappear out there. Yeah, it was awesome.

**Joe Rogan** (2:30)
God, Montana's awesome. That show made so many people move out there, though.

**Ryan Bingham** (2:33)
I know. You had to take your license plate off your car before you go.

**Joe Rogan** (2:38)
Right, you better not have a California plate. They will fucking write things on your hood.

**Ryan Bingham** (2:42)
Run you off the road.

**Joe Rogan** (2:44)
Yeah, they get upset. It's very interesting. They're very proud to be from Montana. They want to keep it to themselves. Like, let it go, motherfucker. We're all Americans, all right? If you got a good spot, you should be happy that people from California figure it out. Don't be a dick.
Like, you're American, bitch. You're not, it's not the United States of Montana. Shut the fuck up.

**Ryan Bingham** (3:04)
I guess it's kind of anywhere, right?

**Joe Rogan** (3:06)
Not that much here.
Here's pretty inviting. I've never had that experience here. Not really.

**Ryan Bingham** (3:13)
Texas is a pretty friendly place. Yeah. And there's so many different walks of life that have been here for so long. You know, I think up there in Montana and stuff, man, if you were tough enough to survive those winners and stake a claim up there back in the day, you had to fight for it and they're still fighting for it now.

**Joe Rogan** (3:28)
You know, that does make sense. I mean, that's also one of the things that's highlighted by the whole series, all the different Yellowstone series, the older ones with Harrison Ford and you know, they really do explain in a lot. I mean, it's kind of a cool chunk of history to see like how this all got started, how the kind of people that had to survive out there when, you know, all you had is a fireplace. That's it. You got a fireplace.