#964 - Everlast

Everlast (0:32)

You know, it's that, it's Slantcha. It's like S-L-A-I-N-T-E with one of them crazy marks on it.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Oh, that's a, so Gaelic?

Everlast (0:41)

Gaelic is a fucking crazy language to read or try and pronounce some shit. They'll be like, somebody's name will be Gary, and it'll be spelt with like six, 17 letters. Crucifixes and shit.

Joe Rogan (0:54)

Crucifix with the circle, what is that?

Everlast (0:57)

I think it's among those runes and shit, I don't know.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Does anyone speak Gaelic? Can you go have a conversation with somebody in Gaelic?

Everlast (1:04)

Oh yeah, and ireland people do for sure.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

So is it like, real time?

Everlast (1:07)

I'm sure it's a dying, lost, kind of fading away thing, but you'll find pockets that definitely do.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

It's fucking crazy when you stop to think about how many different languages there are. Like, have you done much touring in Asia?

Everlast (1:20)

Really, only Japan.

I haven't hit, I've never been to Korea, never been to like, China, never been to Indonesia or anything. That's not really Asia, Indonesia, yeah, sorta Asia.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

I've only been to Japan and only for a few days with the UFC.

Everlast (1:31)

I love Japan though, man. Japan is my favorite.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Oh, it's amazing. The people are so nice and polite, and it's fascinating how their culture works.

Everlast (1:38)

One of the reasons I love it so much too, is it's like, you go to Europe, you don't feel foreign necessarily, you know what I mean? It's really the foreigner experience when you're there. I am now the obvious outsider. I'm taller than most people, and I'm Caucasian, you know? And there's a lot of places there. Like, I try to go to like, I'd get the low down on a sushi spot from somebody that I knew there, and then you go there and be like, oh no, no, Kaijin, we don't serve y'all here. Like those places like that, you know what I mean? When you try and get the down low Anthony Bourdain treatment, like if you ain't Anthony Bourdain, you might not have no luck, you know?

Joe Rogan (2:09)

Show up at that crew.

Yeah, man, it just, they're so different than us in their culture, that it's like this crazy immersion into like an alternative world. Like Japanese writing is so different than American writing. The sound their language is is so different than the sound of English. Then when you go there, you're like, wow, this is like, like I'm literally peering into a coexisting alternative world. Like what if there was no different languages? It was just language. Like everybody knew what everybody spoke, right?

And your language was the sounds that they make and the way they interpret things. And the way they interpret things shapes the way they look at reality.

Everlast (2:51)

For sure.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

That's, I mean, it's a weird, like our culture is in a lot of ways, almost like an operating system. I think Terrence McKenna described it that way. And I think it kind of makes sense.

It is like an operating system.

Everlast (3:03)

Yeah, we learn a basic set of parameters and rules that we all kind of buy. Yeah, we're all individuals within it, but like there's, you know, hey, you know, in this society, this is what's acceptable and this is what isn't. And here's how we peer at things.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

And then when you see something, like we were talking about this book, Dear Reader, Michael Myles, who was on yesterday, who was just amazing podcast guest, but was talking to us about North Korea. Like that's a different, totally different operating system. And that shit is going on right now.

Right now, there's like a whole country that's in prison.

Everlast (3:32)

Yeah, what's amazing to me is that that many people can be subdued in that manner. Like where's, you know, you read throughout history, it's like, you know, people got sick and tired of some shit after a while and just bucked up.

Joe Rogan (3:45)

Yeah.

Everlast (3:46)

Where are they? What is going on there? What mastery do these dudes have that, it's crazy. I mean, I look at that, there's millions of people that are starving and still accept, and this dude's living in his whatever, Golden Palace, whatever kind of lifestyle, and nobody's really like trying to revolutionize, or start a revolution or buck up and make a coup would be a problem, because I think the old guys around them are even crazier.

Joe Rogan (4:09)

Well, Malice was telling me why. He was saying that the way their society is structured, everybody reports on everybody else about what you did wrong. Like if you and I were hanging out together, we'd be forced to report at the end of the day, I would have to report on everything you did wrong. Like maybe you didn't cry long enough when something happened, maybe you didn't express enough grief. Like you have to, there's like rules to the way you grieve. People who didn't grieve hard enough got six months rather of hard labor for not grieving hard enough when Kim Jong-il died.