#862 - Trevor Valle

Joe Rogan (0:00)

, one...

Yes! Yes! Yes, Trevor, we're here, we're back. Two years, almost to the day, and we didn't even plan it that way.

Trevor Valle (0:08)

No, it was weird. I was, I pulled it up, and I'm like, oh, hey, I was here in 2014 Wasn't it October? Shit, October 23rd.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

And in two years, something's happened to your beard, where it's a bright yellow that doesn't exist in nature, or it exists in flowers.

Trevor Valle (0:22)

Yeah, flowers. It reacts under blacklight as well. Oh. Yeah, my Twitter profile picture is under blacklight.

Yeah, I used to dye my beard crazy fucking colors all the time. It was like green, purple, blue, and all that. And I did this neon yellow, and I've always liked it. And the girl I was dating always hated it.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Perfect. Run with it.

Trevor Valle (0:43)

It's my vengeance dye.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

What is this crazy shirt you got on, too?

Trevor Valle (0:47)

Oh, Miskatonic University, you know, Cthulhu, HP. Lovecraft, and all that. This company, well, they're called Geeky Jerseys, and they do just radical fucking jerseys. So this is like the Cthulhu jersey.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

And it's like a wizard jersey, too. Look at the sleeves.

Trevor Valle (1:03)

Oh, no, it's the hockey sleeves.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

Oh, I see. It's a legit hockey sleeve.

Trevor Valle (1:07)

Yeah, it's goalie cut, so it's a little bit baggier.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

I thought you were a wizard.

Trevor Valle (1:13)

No, they do stuff like Game of Thrones jerseys and all this crazy stuff. And they're just like, hey, you do a lot of talks and you always wear a jersey. So we're just going to start sending you jersey. I'm like, oh, OK.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

Well, that's very nice of them.

Trevor Valle (1:25)

Because I always wear hockey jerseys. When I was in here, I was trying to be last time professional with the polo and all that.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Oh, yeah.

Was that because you were promoting something? You had to be?

Trevor Valle (1:35)

Yeah, I had to be a little bit more clean cut. It was like Nat Geo.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Did they give you like a mandate? Or they give you like standards of dress and stuff?

Trevor Valle (1:44)

Not really, but since it was like a pretty professional documentary we were doing, it was suggested very lightly by my publicist. And she's just like, well, you know, business casual, maybe.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

Business casual.

Trevor Valle (2:00)

I'm like, but I wear hockey jerseys and shorts. She's like, yeah, no.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Why not?

Trevor Valle (2:05)

That's why I'm doing it now, man.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

Isn't it funny? It's like you're a legitimate paleontologist. You actually do real research.

Like, why do you have to dress like everybody knows your credentials?

Trevor Valle (2:16)

Well, the thing about that, the crazy thing is, I mean, and there's the whole paleo thing, too.

It's weird when you ask somebody, hey, is like, do you know what a paleontologist is? A lot of people say yes. A lot of people go, hey, like Ross on Friends.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

What's Ross on?

Trevor Valle (2:35)

I forgot.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

He was a paleontologist?

Trevor Valle (2:37)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Bullshit he was.

Trevor Valle (2:39)

I know, right?

Joe Rogan (2:39)

He fucking did it all that free time. He was hanging out in the coffee shop talking about nonsense.

Trevor Valle (2:44)

Yeah, I know R1 position guys at museums that are doing full academics. They would never have that amount of time.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

They don't have any time.

Trevor Valle (2:53)

No, zero.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

Isn't that fucked?

Trevor Valle (2:55)

It's crazy.

Joe Rogan (2:56)

You can't be a casual paleontologist.

Trevor Valle (2:58)

Right.

And I ask them, what does a paleontologist look like? When I used to work at the tar pits, I would ask kids on tours and stuff like that, and they're like, oh, he's got a hat and a whip. I'm like, they're describing Indiana Jones.

Joe Rogan (3:10)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you wear, right?

Trevor Valle (3:11)

Yeah, sure.

And I'm like, okay, well, I have a neon orange beard and I'm wearing a lab coat and I'm covered in tattoos. Do you think I'm a paleontologist? They're like, no, you're like a biker. Uh-huh. Here's the stuff. Welcome to my lab. This is my deal going on.

Joe Rogan (3:28)

You can get away with that in 2016, but if you were living in the 1970s, good luck.