Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2412 - Adam Carolla
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2412 - Adam Carolla' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2412 - Adam Carolla

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Good to see you, brother.
What's happening?
Oh, man, everything.
It's been a while.
It's been a few years, man.
Yeah.
When was the last time I saw you?
I think I saw you outside of the ice house.
Oh, yeah.
When you were coming in doing a set, you got a Land Cruiser or something.
LS swap engine in it or something.
Yeah, that's right.
And you showed it to me.
And I think, I was thinking about it.
I went to your house to do the podcast.
Early in the day.
Early.
Yeah.
Up deep valley, up the hill.
And then I think you got your place sort of down, strip mall kind of place down
in the flatlands of the valley.
Yeah.
And I went there.
Woodland Hills.
Yeah.
And I think that, I mean, it's been a million years.
Yeah, it's been a while.
Time flies, buddy.
I know.
It's so sad.
You know what?
You know what?
You know what's sad?
It goes so slow when you're young and miserable.
You know what I mean?
Now I'm old and happy and rich and it just flies by.
You know what I mean?
Like all the stuff you want to do and it just goes right by you.
And then when I was like 13, I just sat in a class and stared at the clock and
just went, God damn.
You know why that is?
It's relative.
It's a percentage of your life.
So when you're 10, a year is 10% of your life.
Right.
You know, when you're 55, a year is really quick.
I know.
It just sucks that like, I remember going back to school in September and going,
when's Christmas vacation?
And they'd go two months and I'd go, oh man, no way.
That's too long.
And now it just goes flying by, but now it's good and you'd want it to slow
down.
Yeah.
I always think of life as sort of like driving to San Francisco from LA.
Like the first time you do it, it takes a long time.
And the 50th time you do it, it's like nothing.
And that's the relative part.
You get used to it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's, uh, I don't know.
Just got to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's here.
Hope, hope it works out.
Hope something's next or not.
I, I guess.
Yeah.
That moment, you know, that, that thing.
I, you know, it's like that thing where people have a near death experience and
then they swear
they're going to change their ways and they're going to appreciate everything
and they're going
to do all that.
I don't think it works.
It works on some people.
Yeah.
I've met people that have had near death experiences and completely changed who
they are.
Yeah.
I wonder if it's worth trying to have a near death experience.
The problem is, is it's too close to death.
Well, it's really what kind of a person are you?
Are you a reflective person?
Are you an introspective person?
Do you think about the way you think and the way you live?
And do you analyze it and decide whether or not this is a good way to proceed
or whether
or not you need to make adjustments?
Some people don't.
They don't look, they don't self-analyze, they don't course correct.
They just don't.
And so something comes along, I'm changing everything.
But you never changed anything in your whole fucking life.
You've never done that.
You've never exhibited that kind of will.
You never had that kind of discipline.
So like, how are you going to change now?
You're not.
You're going to say you're going to change.
Then you're going to go right back.
Yeah, I think I went to high school with all those guys.
Me too.
It's crazy, right?
Most people don't know how to live.
Yeah.
They don't understand that you are in control of the way you think about things.
It's one of the only things you're in control of.
Well, change is like one of the greatest gifts we have.
Like it really, if you think about perks of being a human being versus being a
hyena or
any, any other creature, it's you get to change.
And then so many people just squander that gift, which is the greatest gift.
And they just go, I'm not.
And then you're sort of no different than any other animal.
If you just sort of stay the course, you know, and the, the ability to grow and
change and
transform is such a gift that people completely squander.
Well, it's hard because you have to change the way you think you have to, you
have to
decide that you've been doing things wrong and people don't like to do that.
They don't like to admit fault.
They don't like to look at themselves in a negative way and analyze what they've
done
wrong and be critical of themselves.
They don't like it.
I know everyone is crazy externalizer now and young people have it more than
our generation.
You can't tell them stuff.
They just push back on everything.
It's encouraged to think that everyone else is the reason why you are not happy.
Yeah, I get it.
But I think growing up and, and maybe it's just being coached a lot, you know,
like, like you
got coached a lot.
I got coached a lot.
It's just dudes telling you you're doing something wrong all day, every day.
And I believe they did it because they cared, because they wanted you to get
better, because
they wanted you to succeed.
They wanted to win, you know, and I just got used to being coached.
You know, I just got used to people just yelling at you, dummy, you're fucking
up, fix it, do
it right.
And it never felt like criticism to me.
Well, even if it is criticism, it doesn't matter.
It's like if coaching is good, like if you can be coachable, that's like one of
the best
indicators that you're going to do well in life.
If you could take direction and instruction from someone who knows what they're
talking
about.
Yeah.
If you want to learn something, like say, if you want to learn jujitsu, you
have to listen.
You have to really listen.
And the people that don't listen, they don't get better.
Yeah, and I shouldn't, I shouldn't have said criticism.
It was criticism, but that's fine.
It's just how you digest it.
You know what I mean?
It's criticism.
They go constructive criticism or criticism.
It's just criticism.
You're doing something wrong.
Right.
That's fine.
Now, how do you perceive it?
How do you ingest that?
Well, also, how do you look at yourself?
Do you look at yourself as like, do you think of yourself as only being
valuable if you're good
at a thing, right?
And if you're not good at that thing, do you take it as a slight against you?
Or do you just understand that you are a person, this is you, and this thing
you're doing is
something you don't know how to do as well as this person who's teaching you?
And if you can do that, then you can get better.
And then getting better at anything that you are trying to do that's difficult,
any discipline,
that discipline becomes a vehicle for developing your human potential.
If you can figure out how to get good at that by listening to this person and
then proceeding
and seeing the steps of improvement, you can apply that to everything in life.
But if you never learn how to do that, you're going to get stuck.
You know what I've been thinking about?
I've been thinking about how insecure a lot of people are and how they really
react when
you tell them something, criticism or coach them.
But I think it's their insecurity that's reacting.
And then I sort of realized, like, you have a skill set.
You have multiple skill sets, right?
And you take just martial arts, you know, okay, you know it, you're comfortable
with it.
You're real secure about it.
You know your abilities.
And you know your abilities as a comedian.
And you know your abilities as an archer and stuff like that.
So you have a bunch of stuff that you know you own.
And for me, like, I'm a builder, so I have a skill.
So I have a trade, you know.
And so I don't feel insecure.
I feel like there's stuff I know and then there's other things I do know.
But I don't walk around with that insecurity that I realize, like, a lot of
people, they
don't have a trade.
They don't have a skill.
They don't have really anything who they could call expertise.
Like, you would go, you know, what are you an expert at?
Well, you would go, I can teach UFC, mixed martial arts, jiu-jitsu.
I can do that.
I can do this.
Podcasting, stand-up comedy.
Like, there's fields of expertise, speaking another language, mastering an
instrument,
you know, things like that.
And I realize so many people just are, there's just nothing.
They never found a thing that really interested them.
They don't find a thing.
And they're so insecure.
And they walk around in this heightened state of insecurity.
And then somebody runs into them somewhere at an airport or a Starbucks or
something.
And they start ripping off, you know, throwing furniture.
And it's like, why are you in this state all the time?
And I realize it's an insecurity.
And how would it feel?
Like, how would Joe Rogan feel walking around not having a black belt, not
being successful
at stand-up, like not having any expertise?
Like, it'd be a really vulnerable feeling.
Yeah.
And I think that's a lot of it.
It's most people.
Yes.
Yeah, most people just get jobs.
And they never really find a thing where they can throw themselves into it and
watch the improvement
and understand that, oh, I know that I started this out as a beginner.
And now I'm really good because I put in so much time and so much effort.
So I know that I have that in me.
I know I have that willpower.
It's also like some people just don't have good brains.
That's just a fact.
You know, it's like some people are born with big ears.
Some people have small ears.
Some people have shitty brains.
And that's just true.
I've met a lot of people.
They're just dull.
They're just dull-minded and dull-witted.
And even if they threw themselves into something, they don't have the
horsepower.
They have a nine-volt brain.
It sucks.
No, I know.
But that's just reality.
I know.
And it's hard not to look at them through your lens because you go, come on,
man.
The sun's shining.
Let's make some hay.
Let's go.
There's so much to do.
And they're like, huh?
And you're like, come on.
The saddest thing for me is when I talk to anybody, but especially a young
person, I go, what do you like?
What do you do?
What's your thing?
And they go, I don't know.
I like video games.
I go, no, no.
But what's your passion?
What do you want to get into?
And they go, I'm watching a lot of Netflix.
I go, no, man.
What is your thing?
What do you want to get your hands on?
And they just go, I don't know.
Well, they've probably never been introduced to something like that.
The problem with video games is it'll steal your thing.
Like video games, if there was a thing maybe that you, maybe you were into golf
or maybe you're into something, video games will steal your time.
They'll steal your desire because they're so fun.
Yes.
I think, I think there's a problem with like satiation, like you'll feel satiated.
Like you'll, you'll say I did something, but it's like you didn't do anything.
You simulated doing something.
Unless you're a professional video game player and then you can make a lot of
money.
So it is weird because he used to tell you, you're playing video games, you're
wasting your time.
But then you find out that some people playing professional video games are
making a lot of money.
Like those StarCraft guys.
What does a good StarCraft, like the best StarCraft player make?
Like they have sponsorships and stuff like that, but they're making millions of
dollars, right?
It is weird that you could no longer tell your kids that's a crazy idea that'll
never work.
How about those Twitch guys?
That's what I'm saying.
Those guys that play video games all day on Twitch, they make a ton of money.
I know.
You couldn't, I mean, there was a time when we started, if someone young said,
I want to do a podcast, you'll go, come on.
You got to get a real job.
That's not going to work.
Yeah, like Howard Stern.
So this guy, Saral, his name is Juna Sotala.
He's from Finland and he made 1.8 million total earnings.
So yeah, South Korea, 1.3 million.
Cho Sung Chu, Park Young Woo made 1.19 million.
Yeah, so they're making money.
But this is lik