#883 - Kevin Smith

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Let's fuckin do it. Yee-haw, Kevin Smith, we did it again!

Kevin Smith (0:11)

Is it happening?

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Yes, sir.

Kevin Smith (0:12)

We're there?

Joe Rogan (0:13)

We're here, we're live.

Kevin Smith (0:14)

This took a while to bring together.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Dude, so nice to see you, though.

Kevin Smith (0:17)

Excellent to see you. Before we go any farther, or far at all, or do anything, let me just throw out there, I was telling somebody, like, what are you doing today? I was like, I'm gonna go talk to Joe Rogan. And then I launched into my, like, 10-minute Joe Rogan pitch.

And at the end of it, the person I was talking to goes, oh, like, you've known him a long time? I said, I've talked to him, like, twice in person.

And she was like, you just went on a passionate tirade about the man. I said, I don't know how to explain it, but I love the way he lives. Like, I've loved the man since News Radio, and then I like meeting the man and speaking with him on previous podcasts, both his and mine.

But not just that. And I love your philosophy. I love the way you do life. You handle it like the way I would if I was you. Like, that's the best compliment I could give. But I'm not you, so I'm gutless. And I live through your Instagram. Like, I look at how you live. I was like, this is how a man lives.

If only I could be this man. So coming here is an absolute fucking pleasure. I thought we were going to your house, but that happened years ago, apparently.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Yeah, I moved out of the house.

People got creepy. There's too many, too many creepy people. Like, when you don't want them coming to your house, but you do want them on the podcast, I'm like, shit.

Kevin Smith (1:32)

When I went, like, this is, it must have been a while ago, because Megan was still working for me, and she drove me, and she, like, had to take a leak. She pissed outside.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

We did a five-hour podcast.

Kevin Smith (1:44)

It went so long, and then I felt bad. I was like, maybe that's why he's not having me back at the house. He's like, we're bringing him to the satellite office, because he lets his assistants void in the yard. I'm feeling fucking dope, sir. Let me tell you why. I made this movie called Yoga Hosers that just finally came on to Netflix, and I took it to Sundance in January, and they bent me over, and just critically speaking, and were just hate fucking it. They hated this movie. A lot of people reviewed it from the moment we announced it. I'm like, hey, I'm going to make a movie with my daughter and Johnny Depp's in it, and his daughter's going to be in it, too.

And right away, I saw, like, fucking the long sharp knives come out. And so, as expected, it goes to Sundance. I'm not saying this movie is for everybody. It's for, like, ten people in the world. But the ten people that love it will love it like religion.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Well, haven't you always done that, though? You just kind of do what you like to do.

If I could turn it around and turn on you, what I like about what you do is you're very much an accepted inside guy who lives like some guy from Jersey who's trying to break into the business.

Kevin Smith (2:47)

This is useful because you never really understand how people, professionals, see you. You know how the world sees you because they'll tell you at any given moment, Joe Normal or Sally Normal, people who live in the real world and shit.

But your peers and people like we work in entertainment and shit, tell me that again.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

You're very unaffected. You're a uniquely unaffected guy.

Kevin Smith (3:09)

But also ineffective at the same time?

Joe Rogan (3:11)

No, you're very effective. You're effective at doing what you enjoy. And that's why you have such a unique and loyal fan base.

Because they know, it's like, in this world, there's not a whole lot of unique visions. There's a lot of ideas that get brought to producers and executives, and a bunch of people pile in, and it becomes more of an idea where it's trying to appeal to a broader audience, and it switches up, and then someone wants to bring in a love interest. There's all sorts of influences that happen that homogenize as you drink some milk. A man drinks his milk!