Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2440 - Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
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Joe Rogan Experience #2440 - Matt Damon & Ben Affleck

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That's wild.
I went in because I came in from...
I am, I think I was living at the time, and I went in and I'm sitting in the
waiting room
and it was like on a Sunday because I was like, I'm only in town for you, and
Stan was
like, I'll come into the office.
I'm like, thank you so much.
I had to have a filling or whatever I needed.
It's kind of an emergency.
So I'm sitting in the thing, and I'm not getting called in, but the ladies just...
No, no, there's not even a receptionist.
And Stan comes out with his mask going, no, the first thing I hear is, pig fucker,
fucking
fucking pig fucker.
And I'm like, what is happening in there?
It's in the other room.
And Stan comes in with his mask.
He goes, sorry, he goes, I'll be with you soon.
He goes, I got Hunter in the chair.
And he goes back, and I hear, listen to Hunter Thompson swear for like 15
minutes.
I'm like, this is amazing.
And then Stan goes, okay, come on back.
And Hunter's kind of getting out.
And he goes, oh, you're sitting down with this guy?
He's a fucking assassin.
And then he goes, and he's got this jug of clear fluid.
And he's like, you're going to need a sip of this.
And I'm like, oh my God, this is fucking Hunter S. Thompson's moonshot.
I'm like, this is fucking ethel alcohol.
And I'm like, this is fucking amazing.
I'm talking to this dude for 30 seconds, and I'm getting a sip.
And it was like 10 in the morning on a Sunday.
Yeah.
He was halfway through the jug.
It was just pure, pure, like, catch fire.
Where was this?
In Beverly Hills.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Brentwood.
Yeah.
Brentwood was Stan's office.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
That's amazing.
It really was amazing.
It was.
And so I had probably a total of seven minutes, you know, with him.
And it was like, I could not have been a better seven minutes.
That's incredible.
I went to the Woody Creek Tavern just to go there, because I know he used to go
there.
Yeah.
And you could, like, feel him in the building.
You know, there's all the pictures in the walls.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a cool little place.
I mean, those books, fucking Hell's Angels and, you know, Fear and Loathing, it's
some
of the best writing.
I just fucking, like, he really had his own voice.
Rum Diary, spectacular, you know.
It was, like, really descriptive and punchy and fucking interesting and fucked
up.
And he also just lived that life.
Fear and Loathing changed my life.
Like, reading that book was like, what the fuck?
Like, what is this guy doing?
There's grown men out there.
Balding, grown men with spectacles running around with them.
They don't fucking think there's lizards in the fucking lounge.
Like, you guys are listening.
He's got a day trip bag filled with acid.
Like, what the fuck are you doing, man?
And it's great shit.
It's like, you fucking feel like you're on the adventure with him, you know?
Yeah.
No, it's interesting to watch the evolution of his writing, too.
You know, like, I read Hell's Angels, and it's, like, very different.
You know, but it's...
Yeah, he was kind of restrained, and he was quite, like...
For that, I think it was edgy, sort of, for the time.
Yeah.
Like, oh, you're going to get beat and chain-whipped and stomped by the Angels.
And that was really edgy.
And by the time they got into what, it was Fear and Loathing, 72 or something
like that,
you know, he was just out there.
Yeah, he was gone.
He found his voice.
He did find his voice.
He was supposed to be covering a race for, like, Sports Illustrated.
That's a Fear and Loathing when I read a book about I fucking lost my mind.
Great.
It's great, Hunter.
We'll take it.
Well, hey, it's very nice to meet you guys.
I've met you before, but it's very nice to meet you.
It's a pleasure, man.
Thank you very much.
I love the fucking movie.
The rip is great.
It's really good.
It's so original, and it's so different.
And it's, you know, it's like, I love those kind of movies, but it's not like
any one that
I've ever seen before.
Really solid movie.
Thanks, dude.
Thank you.
It was awesome.
So much better than you hating it in us having to stop you.
The interviews where they're like, so I saw the movie.
Anyway, how you guys been?
We've had a lot of those, the press junkets where they come in and the first
thing that
you know the movie sucks if they don't ask you anything about the movie.
They come in, they go, so how you been?
You know, and you're like, oh, shit, this is going to be bad.
Is it weird?
Like, the transformation of the film industry seems to like a lot of it is
moving towards
these big streaming movies now.
Absolutely.
I mean, look, it's because where most people have gone to watch them.
Yeah.
Like, used to be the only place you'd go see movies in the 40s.
Like, every American went to the movie every week, basically.
But it was because it was that or watched the cows walk by, you know?
That was the only.
And then TV comes around, and it's little.
And you've seen these little serials.
But, you know, what happened was now, this is why it's totally changed the
whole thing,
because you have 300 million people, 330, whatever it is, watching, you know,
Netflix.
And it's a lot harder to get people to go into the movies.
There's also YouTube.
There's also TikTok.
There's also my kids.
Like, it's hard to get them excited about a movie.
Yeah.
That's what we had.
I mean.
Yeah, that was our, I mean, our teen years were just, every weekend we were at
the movies.
Yeah.
There's just no question about it.
You were going to go and usually not get into one because there were too many
people.
And then you just see what else is playing and go to that.
Well, it seems like it was kind of slipping away because so many people were
watching streaming already.
And then COVID came around and everyone was locked down and no one was going to
the movie theater.
And then it just set in.
I had this, like, drama that was coming out, like, right when COVID hit.
I really liked the movie, performance movie.
It's not an alcoholic guy who's kid.
A kid guy whose kid dies and becomes an alcoholic.
It's a dark movie.
But I loved it.
And I could tell, like, we're fucked.
No one's going to go to the theater, see this movie.
And it wasn't even that streaming really blew up, you know, of course, during
COVID.
So, you know, look, they rushed it onto streaming.
People actually saw it.
I was like, well, all things being equal.
I'd like people to see it, you know.
And it's not like my dad had an 11-inch black and white TV.
And that's what was TV viewing.
No, it's like $200.
You've got a fucking 65-inch flat screen, like, and good sound.
So, of course, people are willing to.
And then streamers also started making great shows.
You have Adolescence.
I don't know if you saw.
I think that's one of the best things ever done.
I haven't seen Adolescence.
It's great, dude.
What is it?
Oh, my God.
I don't want to spoil too much of it.
It's only four episodes.
They're all one shot.
They're all one shot.
Each episode is one entire shot.
Whoa.
So the cast, they took, I think, I talked to the director about it.
The cast took, I think, a week to rehearse each one and then a week to shoot it.
And so they'd do it twice a day.
It's the full hour.
They would choreograph the entire thing.
Yeah, it's really.
And then the acting is great.
But that's, I mean, just dismiss that.
You could even call it a gimmick.
It's not in this case.
But the performances and the writing and what it's about, it's as good as
anything you'll
see.
It's phenomenal.
What is it on?
Netflix.
Netflix.
Yeah.
You know, you have like, it's not, it's not even an anomaly.
There's Baby Rangers, there's fucking Succession, there's Game of Thrones, Ozarks.
You know, it's just like, okay, well, they're doing great shit out there.
It's not like the sort of implied thing before was like, yeah, well, TV's not
as good, not
as interesting.
It's a serial.
When we started, it was, there was a different, I mean, like George Clooney,
for instance,
like there was a big thing, you know, he very famously, you know, became this
superstar
on ER.
That show, 40 million people a week were watching that show.
It was the biggest thing, right?
Because there were only a few channels to tune into and that show was the
biggest one.
And, and George never renegotiated his contract.
He wanted to work in movies.
And it was like, you can't go from TV to movie.
It's a very, very few people can do it.
And he really strategically and kind of patiently, like he joked that on the
last episode he was
on, Anthony Edwards, you know, his co-star was making a million bucks for the
episode and
he was making, you know, 20 grand or whatever his deal was.
Like he could have renegotiated, but he would have had to give more years.
The point was, that's how bad he wanted to get off TV and do movies.
That's how bad he wanted to get off of the biggest TV show in the world.
Because the, there was such a big kind of level change between features and TV.
Well, it was a giant difference in quality.
It was also this, the breaking it up for commercials.
Right.
It was just a different experience.
It couldn't be, you know, there's all these rules.
So like, you can't say this, you can't do that.
You can't swear.
Not all the, you can't have violence and nudity.
All the things people want to see in movies, you know, and then, and also it
wasn't,
it wasn't as interesting.
And then now that's a tether to these schedules and all this stuff.
Or as you get this shit, like you don't have a schedule and, and you can take a
bunch of
risks.
So, and that started happening.
And then it was kind of like, well, this all is just as good, if not better
than what's
in the movies.
Well, then movies started to move towards more IP.
Because it was hard to get people to come to the movies, everyone got scared
and thought,
well, you have to, it has to be a sequel or a superhero movie.
And so an interesting little movie, kind of in the nineties, when we kind of
came onto
the scene, you know, there were a lot of really good independent movies that
were being made.
There was, there was, you know, it was a really great time to be making movies.
People were, they were making daring movies and, and, and then everyone just
got way more
conservative because it's huge.
Like the business is so different theatrically and streaming because to put out
a movie theatrically,
you have to put so much more money behind it to publicize.
Like you're trying to get everybody.
You're basically spending about what the budget was to make it, to advertise it.
Because you got 50% of the theatrical.
Yeah.
Because you split it with the, the, the movie house, right?
Through the exhibitor.
So a $25 million movie to break even, you got to make a hundred million dollars.
And so, and you got to get everybody to not only know about the movie, but to
show up
like that Friday night, like that specific time, you know, for that specific
movie.
And so did you, and to cut through all the noise that people are contending
with and
you know, it just becomes about risk and nobody wants to take the risk.
So they don't want to make something new because it's such an investment.
We're going to lose our fucking money.
And the streamers have stepped into that and like, you know, you don't have to
have a star.
You could try something more interesting or didn't have to be a superhero movie,
whatever
it was.
And also I think it's like, you know, frankly, like people, my age, like it's,
first of all,
it's expensive, right?
You take your old family.
It's a hundred dollars.
You're on a streaming service, $20 a month, you can watch all you want.
So you can't be cavalier about like, you're just going to price it however the
fuck you
want and expect everyone to like be indifferent to that.
And then, you know, also, you know, the idea of like, for me, you know, there's
a lot of
stuff.
I make that decision.
Like, do I want to see the odyssey on, on a big s