#952 - Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell (0:00)

I'm not interested.

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Five. Four. Three. Two. One.

Yes! We're live, Thaddeus Russell, you're going no headphones, you're a radical.

Thaddeus Russell (0:13)

Well you knew that.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Dude, I'll take the headphones off with you. I don't give a fuck. Let's go.

Thaddeus Russell (0:18)

Bring it. It's on.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

I feel better. I feel liberated. Now I know what the real sound is. Dude, you look slim and healthy, what have you been doing?

Thaddeus Russell (0:26)

Thank you. I just got back in the gym and I'm doing boxing and kickboxing still and I don't know.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Look active.

Thaddeus Russell (0:32)

Yeah. Well, you know, I'm in Oregon a lot, so the meth is awesome up there also.

SPEAKER_3 (0:35)

Oh, they do have good speed.

Thaddeus Russell (0:37)

It's great for weight control.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

I would think that Oregon would be more of like a calm down type of state as far as drugs. I was just there for 420

SPEAKER_3 (0:46)

I emailed you.

Thaddeus Russell (0:46)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:47)

I love it up there, man.

I would live there. I should have fucking, the winter is so goddamn depressing, but I would still do it.

Thaddeus Russell (0:54)

This winter has been just ridiculous.

With the rain? It's rained for 9 months straight. There were like 500 inches in my county.

SPEAKER_3 (1:00)

Jesus.

Thaddeus Russell (1:01)

This winter.

SPEAKER_3 (1:02)

But beautiful green.

Thaddeus Russell (1:04)

Oh, God. It's so lush. When I just, when you get out of the PDX airport, it just, you smell pine trees. As soon as you walk out of the airport.

I mean, it's amazing. And after being in LA, which is just basically like this giant desiccated turd, I mean, it's like, it's just so nice.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

That would be like the best place to live. Like if you had a place there and a place here, you go back and forth, you deal with total dry and total wet.

Thaddeus Russell (1:24)

That's what I'm doing.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

It will kind of balance itself.

SPEAKER_3 (1:26)

I think you nailed it, Mr. Russell. I think you've nailed it.

Thaddeus Russell (1:29)

I'm commuting every week and people say, don't you get sick of this? I actually love it so far. So far, yeah. So my son here, my son is here, he goes to school here. In fact, he goes to school right near where we're sitting.

And so I have an apartment here and then a house in Salem, Oregon. And I love it. It's great. Going back and forth. I'm not, I'm kind of like a shark. I need to keep moving and I don't like, I get, I feel claustrophobic and like the world is passing me by if I'm sitting in one place too long.

Have you always been like that? I'm digging it. Yeah, always. I always need to be doing something and moving. I get, I am literally claustrophobic.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

Yeah?

Thaddeus Russell (2:01)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

And have you ever done an isolation take?

Thaddeus Russell (2:04)

Oh my God. Yeah. I know when you talk about that, I'm like, that's my worst nightmare.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Whoa.

Thaddeus Russell (2:08)

Like, and I'm also a little bit afraid of the dark.

I knew you were going to laugh at that. You're going to call me a girl again?

Joe Rogan (2:16)

Nothing wrong with being a girl, by the way. How dare you?

Thaddeus Russell (2:20)

Oh, yeah, well, we'll get into that, Joe.

We'll get into that.

No. I mean, like, pitch black. That freaks me out. Really? When you can't see anything, I can't stand that. I don't mind a very dark room as long as I can see something, but if it's pitch black, I freak the fuck out.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

You know what freaks me out? Night vision goggles.

Thaddeus Russell (2:38)

Well, that's what I want, right? Then I'm cool.

SPEAKER_3 (2:39)

If I had those all the time. No, it just seems so weird.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

You put them on, you feel like you're in a horror movie, or you're in one of those scenes in one of those stupid Ghostbusters shows where they're down in the basement and they always have night vision on.

Thaddeus Russell (2:49)

Yeah. Have you tried them on?

Joe Rogan (2:50)

Yes. Yeah, I have some.

Thaddeus Russell (2:52)

Of course you do. Of course you do.

For like nighttime boar hunting or whatever it is you do.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

That is one of the reasons why they use them. Yeah, but actually for them, it's scopes. They have night vision scopes where you see the infrared version of the pigs moving around. It's very weird to look through them.