#981 - Josh Barnett

Joe Rogan (0:00)

As soon as we go live, five seconds. Now, Josh was just telling me about how he's gonna start his own cult.

Josh Barnett (0:07)

Yes, for sure, absolutely, you know. Everything else just seems like fucking worked to me, so.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Yeah, starting your own cult, if you could pull it off. The key is to not take it too far. Don't get too crazy, you know.

Josh Barnett (0:19)

I don't know if I have that ability, though, man.

I'm sitting here wearing, you know, black metal t-shirts, and you know, listening to crazy-ass music. I think taking it too far is kinda in my nature.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

You're still driving the muscle car?

Josh Barnett (0:30)

Oh yeah, every day, man. All about muscle cars.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

All muscle car plus, in this traffic, still drives a manual.

Josh Barnett (0:36)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

That's gangster.

Josh Barnett (0:37)

Yeah, six-speed.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

That's your method of, your number one method of transportation. If you're driving a man, respect.

You drive a manual transmission in fucking Orange County. You still in Orange County?

Josh Barnett (0:47)

No, no, no, no, no, no. I've been out of Orange County for a while.

I was in downtown for a while, and then now I live in Hollywood.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Like a vampire.

Josh Barnett (0:54)

Kind of. Also, getting a lot of extra sparring in, you know, with hobos and knives and stuff like that.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Oh, were you in like the bad area of downtown?

Josh Barnett (1:02)

Is there? Well, you know what? Here's the thing about the bad area of downtown. It doesn't stay in the bad area of downtown.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

That's so true.

Josh Barnett (1:09)

You know, it's like, oh, this is a really nice, oh, we got our quaint little lofts and la-di-da. It's like, by the way, you see that schizophrenic crackhead?

He's going to fuck your shit up, you know?

Joe Rogan (1:20)

It's like Hancock Park.

You know where Hancock Park is? Hancock Park is fucking amazing. It's like one of the most beautiful sections of LA. But you can go two blocks down, you got gang graffiti. Like two blocks down, you're in some sketchy area. Like as soon as you get out and you start going east further, like you get some fucking sketchy neighborhoods within a mile of these like 1920s mansions of old Hollywood money. I mean, those things are incredible.

Josh Barnett (1:47)

Right, and to me, it's just like, wow, it's the most fantastic tourist guide ever. Like, hey, come to LA.

You might get fucked, or you might not. Please roll the dice. Let's see how this works out.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Yeah, if you wanna walk through downtown LA, you could take a wrong turn in being a Walking Dead episode.

Josh Barnett (2:06)

You could be just strolling down Seventh. Everything's looking great. You're passing Seventh Grant and Mallow and all this stuff, and then all of a sudden, oh shit, where the hell am I?

That guy's got a tent, but I don't really think he's camping.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Yeah, people who think that their downtown is fucked up, you don't even know what fucked up is. You need to see Skid Row. Like people who don't see, I've shown people Skid Row and they go, that's not real. I go, no, that's real.

Josh Barnett (2:31)

Yeah, it looks fake as fuck. It looks like an episode of The Walking Dead. And the first time I drove through it, and there was like some, and I'm seeing all these just people just milling about, and it must have been later in the night, like not super late, but getting to probably six or seven, because at some point, there's this mission or something down there, and it's got this gated courtyard, and at some point, they close that gate, and there was just people inside the courtyard, and there were people outside of the courtyard that was clamoring to get into this thing, and it was just insanity. I go, fuck, man, this is straight out of some sort of Dawn of the Dead, what have you.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

So is the gate, if you get in by a certain amount of time, you're locked in for the night?

Josh Barnett (3:09)

You can stay in there, yeah, I guess, whatever.

Joe Rogan (3:11)

Holy shit. So some people, they gotta get away from the crazy people on the street.

Josh Barnett (3:15)

I guess, or they'll probably get some place to sleep and eat and what have you, and tell each other psalms.