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Joe Rogan Experience #2407 - Billy Bob Thornton

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
It's working so far.
Right?
Right?
I told my wife the other day, I said, if I live to 85, I'm going to go to Long
John Silver's
every day for lunch.
I'm just going to eat shit that, like, everything that I dream of right now
that I can't eat,
I'm going to eat all of it.
I'm going to drink whiskey all day long and just eat everything I want.
Yeah, fuck it.
You're at the end of the ride.
Yeah.
Unless, that's the problem, is, like, on your deathbed, they come up with some
new shit that
fixes everything.
Oh, I know, right?
That'll be my luck.
New stem cell stuff that regenerates every cell in your body to a 25-year-old,
like, oh.
Exactly.
I know.
That'd be a real problem, like, a 70-year-old brain and a 25-year-old body.
Like, you would have a lot of knowledge.
For sure.
You'd have a giant advantage.
Oh, yeah.
I fantasize about stuff like that.
I fantasize about being able to, like, I imagine, you know, like my version of
heaven.
It would be like, if I could go back to when I'm 12 years old, live through
junior high
high school again, and have the knowledge I have now, and just, I would know
exactly how
to navigate everything.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
But that's the fun of growing up, and the not-so-fun of growing up.
Sure.
Because you don't know what the fuck is going on, and you're so confused, and
then you get
older, and you go, man, if I could just go back, I'd fucking kill it.
I think about it all the time.
You know, your lovely co-host, co-star, rather, Demi Moore, that movie that she
did,
The Substance.
Right.
Is fucking crazy.
That's a great piece on this whole, like, fear of aging thing, because that
movie is wild.
Oh, yeah.
It's so crazy, but it's like, you know how many women would agree to that deal?
If it was a real, it was realistic enough where you're watching, like, I know a
lot of
ladies who would agree to that.
Right, right.
I know a lot of ladies.
Have you seen that South Park episode where they, it was about that type of
thing, but
it was about how they have all these apps that you can make yourself look
better in?
You know, I mean, it's like they can make you look, filters that make you look
younger
and all this kind of stuff.
And they have this episode about that where, like, all these girls who aren't,
like, the
hot girls, but their Instagram stuff, they are.
And they actually start to think.
And so all the guys start going for these girls, even though when they're in
front of
them, they're not like that.
But that's what they look like on there.
And, yeah, it's pretty crazy.
It's probably accurate, too.
As long as a couple people start doing it, a couple guys start going for those
girls,
then everybody else will as well.
Yeah.
Which is most of our world.
Yeah.
Most of our world is some fucking idiot decides bell-bottoms look good.
And then we're all like, shit, I gotta get bell-bottoms.
I want to get laid.
I want to be cool.
I had bell-bottoms when I, you know, because I was playing in bands and stuff,
so whatever
was trendy, you know, we wore that stuff.
I can remember those bell-bottoms that were so big, you couldn't see your shoes.
It just looked like a pair of jeans walking down the street.
And it was so dumb looking.
It's a crazy thing that lasted for a little while.
Like regular jeans.
Somebody invented that shit in like the 1800s.
And everybody's like, yeah, you nailed it.
Yeah.
And it's like a Jeep.
A Jeep still looks like a Jeep.
They made a Jeep in like the 1950s, made a Jeep in 2026.
You could see the difference.
It's like, it's a little bit more advanced, but that's a Jeep.
Yeah.
Jeans, they nailed it.
And then bell-bottoms are like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What the fuck were we doing?
Oh, I mean, I had shirts with like bell sleeves with like pictures of sailboats
and stuff on it.
It's like, are you kidding me?
I mean, you know, like lime green and orange and shit like that.
Remember the Elvis-style collars?
Oh, for sure.
Giant collars.
Oh, yeah.
Like, what happened?
I have a theory because all that stuff happened after they passed the sweeping
psychedelic Schedule
One Act in 1970.
And I think they cut everybody off from mushrooms and acid and anything that
makes you think.
And then they started giving them Coke and no one knew what to do.
And they were all just like, and it was disco and the music kind of sucked and
everybody got real weird.
Wow.
I think that's what happened.
Yeah.
I don't doubt that at all.
That's when the clothes get really fucked up.
Yeah, it is.
It's the exact time.
Because before, like there was like a hippie style, you know, like Hendrix and,
you know, a lot, Clapton, a lot of guys.
It was like a flowy hippie, but it looked good.
It was kind of cool.
Sure.
But something happened in the 70s.
We just lost all perspective.
Oh, I know.
I mean, when you look at some of the 70s, like especially like sort of late 70s,
you know, the disco era and stuff like that.
And you look back at some of these TV shows they had and you see a lot of these
bands and stuff on there.
And it's like, who thought that looked good?
I mean, who said this is the thing now?
It looked like shit.
I mean, horrible, horrible stuff.
Why?
I talk about this all the time, but it's the cars too, man.
I love 1960s muscle cars, but I check out around 71 and I only allow a 71 Barracuda
and a Challenger in that group.
Everything else after 71 is useless to me.
Oh, yeah.
Except Corvette.
Corvette still stayed cool looking.
Oh, yeah.
They stayed cool looking deep into the 80s.
Yeah, that's true.
I'm a muscle car guy.
I've got a 67 Chevelle 396.
Oh, nice.
And muscle cars are my thing.
I have a 70.
Oh, do you really?
Yeah.
I would like to get a 64 GTO the first year they were made.
That's what I'm looking for.
But to get one that's perfect, they're pretty pricey.
They're very pricey.
And I grew up poor, so I don't like to buy stuff for myself.
I buy my kids' stuff all the time, and I don't mind how much money I spend on
my family.
But for me, I just, I don't spend money on myself, so.
Old habits die hard.
Yeah, they really do.
When I was a kid, my sister's boyfriend's brother, the older brother, was the
cool guy in the neighborhood.
He had a 65 GTO convertible.
Oh, yeah.
And he would, I worked at a gas station, and he would drive by the gas station.
We'd all go like this, like, oh.
Oh, yeah.
I can't believe he owns that.
That's really his car?
Oh, yeah.
He was the coolest guy in the world.
Oh, yeah.
We had those heroes.
Cherry Red.
Yeah.
Woo!
There was a guy named Mike Page in our town.
He was older than my group.
You know, when we were seniors, he was probably already 25, 26, something like
that.
And you never really, because, you know, cruising was a thing.
And you'd cruise through Sonic or whatever it was, you know, and see who was
there and all that crap.
Everybody parks on the bank parking lot, and you'd drink beer, and then the
cops would come by and you'd hide all your shit, you know.
And, I mean, it was literally like the American Graffiti days, you know.
And so this guy, Mike, he had a 65 Candy Apple Red vet, and he had a Mustang.
Remember Chuck Negron, singer in the Three Dog Night, the one with the mustache?
Yes, yes.
He looked like Chuck Negron.
So we would see him pass by, and he was like Harrison Ford was in American Graffiti.
It's like you'd just see him in his car, you know.
And so he was, it was like seeing Elvis Presley go by.
And everybody would go like, wow.
And that's actually how the boxmaster's name came about.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
How?
Well, in the South, in those days, there was a, there are two stories how the
boxmaster's name came about.
There's a, there's the politically correct one, and there's the one that's not.
And the one that's not is, if somebody was a Playboy type, you know, he was
called a boxmaster.
And so, and we had a.
I would have never guessed that.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
And then the old days, people would say, oh, look, there goes the boxmaster
when Mike would pass by, because he just knew.
But you only saw him driving his Corvette up and down, cruising.
You never saw him, you know, actually doing stuff, and he never got out and
drank beer with us or anything.
He was just making an appearance.
Yeah, yeah.
Just letting everybody know.
Look at this.
Second generation Corvette.
Yeah.
65.
I have a 65 convertible.
Oh, yeah?
Oh, yeah.
I love them.
Awesome cars.
I mean, yeah, muscle cars are the thing to me.
Do you remember, there are two sort of car times that confused me.
I mean, first of all, how can a Mustang ever not be cool?
But remember in the late 70s, early 80s, there were, it may as well have been a
Ford Fiesta.
I mean, it was garbage.
What was that?
It was the gas guzzler crisis, the gas crisis.
Oh, okay.
That's what it was.
So, they had to make all these cars gas efficient.
So, they got rid of V8s.
They started having these, like, very economical on gas, V6s, and, like, really
shitty engines,
and they made the cars plastic and lighter and cheaper, and, yeah, they fucked
everything up.
They fucked everything up.
Like, the fact, whoever, imagine working at Ford in 1969, you know, you got the
Mach 1,
which is, like, you just look at that and you go, God dang.
Every time you see, to this day, I see one of those on, you go, God.
They just nailed it.
Yeah.
Like, you just stare at that car, just walk around it for hours just looking at
it.
Yeah.
And then 10 years later, they got something that you would never want to own.
No.
Like, this is a hunk of shit.
This is a fucking box.
This is a, it's like a, literally, like, a box that a washing machine comes in.
Oh, yeah.
It's garbage.
People didn't even want to steal them.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Imagine being the CEO of that company, going, what did we do?
What the fuck happened?
We had it.
We had magic.
Right.
Like, legit magic.
Remember the Tornado and the Riviera?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my God.
I mean, you're talking about different looking.
Yeah.
But they were cool.
They were, they were very cool.
Very cool.
But weird and huge.
And huge.
Yeah.
And the opposite end of the spectrum was AMC.
What were they thinking?
They were weird.
That was a weird car to own.
Weird.
All of those.
Yeah.
They had one that looked kind of okay.
But, you know, they had the Pacer and the, what was that other weird looking,
the Gremlin.
All of those kind of things.
I mean, it was like, what in the hell is this?
It was a strange company.
Yeah, it was.
It was almost like a fake company.
Yeah.
Like, it didn't make any sense.
It didn't make any sense at all.
It was like an Australian.
Remember like Mad Max?
He drove that Australian muscle car.
Oh, yeah.
I remember watching it.
I go, what the fuck is that thing?
Yeah.
It was an Australian muscle car.
I don't know what it was.
Yeah.
Still to this day, I don't know what it was.
But that's like what, what those AMCs were.
Oh, yeah.
Weird looking.
Oh, yeah.
Just off.
Yeah.
Strange.
Strange looking vehicles.
From a different timeline or something.
Oh, yeah.
Like.
Yeah.
There was a movie called, it had, Raquel Welch was in it and Donald Pleasance
and all these
people called Fantastic Voyage.
Where some politician or scientist or something, he'd, he'd, I guess it was an
assassination
attempt, but it was, there was a brain thing.
So they shrink all these scientists down on a little, you know, glass thing,
whatever those
things are called for chemistry or whatever.
They shrink the cats down and their little submarine thing.
Oh, I remember that.
And they shoot them into the guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, that, that, well, see, that's a pacer, you know, I go, it's a damn pacer.
That's hilarious.
Yeah.
And so they go through the guy, all through his veins and arteries and stuff
and get to
the place where they need to fix it and all this kind of stuff.
But antibodies kept attacking them and all this kind of stuff.
It was weird.
I saw it in the theater and I was pretty impressed, actually