#2499 - Marcus King

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

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

**Joe Rogan** (0:14)
Good to see you, brother. What's happening?

**Marcus King** (0:15)
It's crazy to be here.

**Joe Rogan** (0:17)
It's crazy to have you here, man. And thank you so much for the guitar. That's the dopest shit that anybody's ever given me.

**Marcus King** (0:22)
Oh man, I hope you like it.

**Joe Rogan** (0:23)
I'm sure I like it. I just can't play. And I would love to learn how to play, but I know my brain, and I can't give my brain another thing to do.

**Marcus King** (0:31)
You've got a lot.

**Joe Rogan** (0:32)
Well, the problem is I get obsessed with things.

**Marcus King** (0:35)
Me too.

**Joe Rogan** (0:36)
I'm sure. You can't get as good as you got without getting obsessed.

**Marcus King** (0:39)
Are you like this, like I don't like doing things I'm not good at.

**Joe Rogan** (0:43)
I love doing things I'm not good at to get good at them.

**Marcus King** (0:46)
Right.
But it's not leisurely to me to play golf. Like I can't enjoy it because I'm bad at it.

**Joe Rogan** (0:54)
Well, you'll enjoy it if you get good at it. But the problem is to get good at it, then you got to get obsessed and then you got to take less. Like Jamie's got a fucking virtual reality thing in the back where he wax balls every day.

**Jamie** (1:05)
He's obsessed. He's recovering from hitting today.
Sweating.

**Marcus King** (1:09)
Well, my drummer is a really good golfer.

**Joe Rogan** (1:12)
Golf is one of those things that if you get into that, man, that's your whole fucking day.

**Marcus King** (1:16)
Yeah, he goes out three or four days a week on the road.

**Joe Rogan** (1:21)
When I was living in Boston, I noticed that the comedians that really got into golf, their career kind of stalled because all they were, they were just playing golf all day, having fun, drinking, and then they would go to the club at night, but they weren't writing any new jokes. They weren't obsessing on their career. They kind of stalled out a little.

**Marcus King** (1:40)
When I still drank, I really liked golfing. And then I quit drinking it. I was like, I don't really like this.

**Joe Rogan** (1:47)
When did you quit drinking?

**Marcus King** (1:50)
Well, I quit a few times, but most recent time was like a year and a half ago.

**Joe Rogan** (1:55)
Were you quitting because you were just off the rails or like you got to get your health in order?

**Marcus King** (2:02)
It was kind of a combo deal.
When I met my wife, at that point I thought that I could drink like a gentleman. It just never really worked out that way. There was just something in me that just wanted to completely burn my life to the ground every time I drank. A real destructive quality.

**Joe Rogan** (2:24)
Oh, that's not good.

**Marcus King** (2:25)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (2:26)
Yeah, fortunately I never had that. But that is a thing. I've seen that.
What is that?

**Marcus King** (2:34)
I think a lot of it is repressed emotions. And that's where they find you when your brain is in the off switch.

**Joe Rogan** (2:45)
Demon in the bottle.

**Marcus King** (2:46)
Yeah. Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (2:47)
They go, hey, Marcus.

**Marcus King** (2:49)
Yeah, man.

**Joe Rogan** (2:50)
Let's get those problems out.

**Marcus King** (2:52)
It seduces me. It's like, you don't need anybody. Fuck everybody.
That woman that married you, you don't want her.

**Joe Rogan** (3:01)
I think sometimes people do that to almost save themselves from heartbreak sometimes. You kind of wreck it yourself.

**Marcus King** (3:08)
It's like making fun of yourself before anyone else can.

**Joe Rogan** (3:11)
Right.

**Marcus King** (3:11)
It's like that, thanks.

**Joe Rogan** (3:12)
Yeah, right. Just assume it's going to go bad eventually. Let's get this fucking train on the tracks right now. Crack, pour, break.

**Marcus King** (3:26)
That was kind of my, you know, that was my approach for a while. I just, I don't know, man, I was just, I didn't want to feel anything. So that was where it would always end up. And I remember even asking my wife, like, a couple years ago, we opened up for the Avett brothers in Raleigh, North Carolina. And at that point, I had been sober for like six months. And I was like, I really think I can handle it. You know? And then, and then got two, it's like the famous last words, I chucked a jumbo white claw. Like I started with a jumbo white claw. And I just got completely hammered, blacked out, pissed my wife off so bad. Like I woke up and I was at our friend's house still, like on the floor and she left in my bus.