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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2406 - Russell Crowe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2406 - Russell Crowe

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Joe Rogan, ladies and gentlemen, how are you, sir?
Good to see you.
Joe Rogan.
Yeah, good to see you.
Nice to see you, man.
Your movie's great.
Thank you very much.
When does it come out?
In the United States, it comes out November 7th.
And then various dates over the next month and a half or so around the rest of
the world.
It's a fucking heavy movie, man.
Yeah.
It's a heavy movie.
Yeah.
The trial, that footage, was that all real footage?
The Holocaust footage?
Yeah.
Real footage of the piles.
That was one of the reasons that inspired Jamie to go ahead, that he was given
access to that footage,
some of which has never been seen since 1946.
It's a very interesting way that he makes the subject matter accessible because
it's such a dry topic from the outside, right?
Here's a court case.
Right.
You know, here's yet another courtroom drama procedural or whatever.
So I can imagine that people would see that and go, well, this might not be an
exciting watch or something.
But he sort of puts the audience in this position where he allows them to start
to be amused by some of the things that are going on and the interpersonal
relationships.
And, you know, when the commandant of the prison has to call up his two top
mental health experts and dress them down for getting into a fist fight, things
like that.
So there's a charm to it.
And then he gets you into the courtroom and he locks the door and he goes, now
you're going to see what we're talking about.
So I think it's a very interesting film device to disarm people before he
starts giving them the real juice, you know?
Yeah, it's also a fascinating psychological tape from the psychiatrist, from
Kelly's perspective, you know, because the way he's describing all human beings,
that all human beings are capable of these horrific acts.
And that's the thing that was a very unpopular take at the time actually led to
his removal from the process because he wasn't fulfilling what the war
department wanted him to say, which is, you know, all Nazis are crazy, you know,
ruled by a madman.
And this is a unique experience, but that's not what he found.
And sitting down talking to the 22 major Nazi sort of names that he was
assigned to post-war, he realized that every single one of these people was,
you know, as normal.
Well, there was a couple that were pretty out there.
But, you know, for the most part, he was dealing with rational men.
Yeah, that's what's scary.
And how the hell did they end up making this series of decisions if they're
rational men?
Well, it just seems like things just get pushed slowly but surely into this
unbelievably horrific place.
Right.
Like it starts off, it's just a war, it starts off, Hitler's in power, and then
slowly but surely, things get pushed.
Incrementally.
Yes.
And that's the thing that's, you know, difficult because gigantic jumps, we can
all read.
Right.
But little incremental changes.
Right.
The boiling of the frog.
Just how, you know, you take away this person's rights, that person's personal
power, you know, and slowly, you know, you get to a point where the average
person then turns around and goes, how did we get to here?
Right.
You know, I thought it was, I thought it was about something else.
You know, there's a smoke screen going up and I thought we were doing that and
as it turns out, it's very different.
Yeah, that's the, one of the scariest aspects of human beings is our ability to
dehumanize others, to turn others into something less than us.
Right.
Non-human, an other.
Right.
Humans with families, with mothers and fathers and children.
It's one of the most dangerous things, and I see it going on everywhere at the
moment, that we're trying to say that you're either, you know, and for one or
other better team name, that you're either red or that you're blue.
Right.
And humans are far more nuanced than that.
They're not, we're not that extreme, you know.
And the idea that you can split all of us into two camps, it's kind of nuts.
It's nuts.
You know?
Yeah, it's nuts.
And it takes out all the room for subtlety in a discussion.
And therefore, it makes communicating with each other less and less available.
Well, it's just in this country in particular, I don't know about Australian
politics, but we only have two parties.
And they're both essentially financed by enormous corporations.
So it's a, it's a ruse.
The whole thing's a ruse.
And you have different social issues on each side that come up.
And then it becomes this, you're with us or against us, right versus left.
But it's, there's going nowhere good.
Nowhere good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we have the same sort of, you know, two principal party system in Australia
as well.
But we have a slight advantage in that we're kind of on the edge of the world
in a lot of ways, you know?
So what I've always said is when you're growing up in Australia and New Zealand,
you're growing up, you grow up looking out.
Yes, you understand your own culture and all that, but you grow up looking at
what else is happening in the rest of the world, what's happening in Europe,
what's happening in America, you know?
But by and large, Americans grow up looking in.
Right.
The principal sports are only played by American teams, American football, in
some instances, baseball.
But they're not the types of sports that we play where the pinnacle of that
sport is international competition.
Right.
Rugby union.
Right.
Rugby league.
Cricket, football, soccer, you know?
So we grow up with that as being the pinnacle of any particular sport if you
get to represent your country.
And that's only really relevant in an American sense in an Olympic period, you
know?
Right.
That's it.
Yeah.
We never think about other sports.
We mock them.
We think about, you know, like, what are you doing playing cricket?
And it's a fascinating game.
And anybody who loves baseball, generally, I've found baseball lovers are all
about the minutiae.
They're all about the stats and what those stats mean.
You know, there might be a certain score on the board, but, you know, their
team might be getting beaten.
But they see in the stats that there's, you know, a certain dominance in an
area.
And so, you know, they still have a hope that the outcome of the game may come
their way.
And cricket fans are the same as that.
So the fact that the two never seem to meet is odd to me.
It is odd.
Because it's the same type of game.
There's – cricket is larger worldwide, right?
Mm-hmm.
Much larger.
Yeah.
Well, you have –
India.
India and Pakistan.
Yeah.
And Sri Lanka and, you know, countries like that with huge populations playing
the game.
Do you guys have home runs in cricket?
Like where someone really cracks the ball and smashes it out of the park?
It's called a six.
If you hit the ball over the fence without it bouncing, you get six runs.
Oh, okay.
And that's the version of a home run.
Does that happen often?
See, there's different forms of the game.
You have T20, then you have one day.
So this is going to be – this is going to be difficult.
T20 means that each team gets to bowl 20 overs.
An over is six balls.
So you have 26 ball overs that you're bowling to the batting team and they've
got to try and get as many runs as they can.
And then you will have a go at batting, right?
So you have that version of the game, which is very short.
It can happen in an evening.
Then you have a one-day game, which maybe, you know, starts in the afternoon,
finishes by eight or nine at night.
But then you have the test match.
And this is what I grew up with.
It's sort of been dialed down a little bit now because they brought in shorter
forms of the game.
But the test match is between two countries and it's played over five days.
And the idea is that both teams have to bat and bowl twice.
And the result will be whatever it is at the end of five days.
Five days?
Five days, man.
Five full days.
And they start and then they have morning tea.
And then they have another break.
They have lunch.
And then they have afternoon tea.
And if it's really hot every now and then, somebody will walk out and give them
drinks.
You know, it's very civilized.
My cousin Martin was a great cricket player.
He was the captain of New Zealand.
And my other cousin, Jeffrey, was also a captain of New Zealand.
So I kind of grew up in a cricketing family.
And it was one of the pathways for me that was, you know, potentially play
cricket, you know.
But when you've got two of your cousins who are as good as they were, it's a
very crowded room.
You know, how am I going to make any kind of statement here?
When one of them, Martin, at his peak, he was called by Sports Illustrated, I
believe, the Michael Jordan of world cricket.
Wow.
He was a very dominant player in his day.
And he used to call, we used to discuss test matches as the gentleman's war
because you have a defined space.
You have X amount of players.
And you've got to stop that little ball in this gigantic 180 meter by 120 meter
oval.
You've got to stop that little red ball from going between the players and
therefore, you know, preventing the batsman from scoring runs.
But that five-day game, the way that it ebbs and flows, once you're into it, it's
the only way you want to watch cricket.
Because it's like, you know, at one moment, your team can be just so far ahead,
you're like, eh, just, you know, and then it'll turn on a dime.
And day two, things get really dark for your team, you know.
Day three, you've got an edge back again.
Day four, it's fantastic, man.
And as a kid, I used to go and attend every day of a five-day game.
Wow.
Yeah, it was crazy.
Yeah, there's nothing like that here.
No, no.
I mean, it really requires, I mean, just like, look at the, you know, five-day
game.
It's like five news cycles, right?
Yeah.
We're not really set up for that sort of patience and persistence.
How is it broadcast?
Is it streaming?
Television.
Television.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, you know, there's cables and companies and stuff have got
involved now, but it used to be National Network.
And when cricket season was on, I mean, you know, back in the day, people would
come from overseas and into Australia in the summer and ask the question, is
there anything else on television except sport?
Is it, so when you're playing, do they take commercial breaks?
Yep.
Okay, they do.
So that's the problem with soccer, right?
Soccer in America, the reason why it's very hard to sell is not just that a lot
of people don't play it, but it says there's no commercial breaks.
You have a huge number of people who play association football, soccer, in this
country.
Oh, for sure.
Listen, they have a professional team here at the end of the game, but it's
nowhere near the involvement that football has.
American football.
American football in this country.
Yeah, for sure.
Not even close.
Yeah.
Well, see, all of our sports that we like in Australia, apart from cricket,
tend to be quite compact, you know?
80-minute game, 90-minute game, 10-minute halftime, and it's part of your day.
It's not your whole day.
Right.
It's like we'll go to a football game, and then we'll go and, you know, have
dinner or go and do something else.
So we have that same thing where the action is so continuous that the idea of
stopping for a commercial break gets quite tricky.
Yeah, that makes sense.
It's always been fascinating to me that rugby never took off in America.
Yeah.
Because it seems like kind of a more savage version of football.
Yeah.
Well, the way I think it sort of plays out is you've got Rugby Union, right,
which is 15 men aside.
Every time a player is tackled, you recompete for the ball.
You have rocks, malls.
You have lineouts.
It's a very different game.
But there's another version of rugby called Rugby League, which was played in
the north of England, and that has a defined period of offense and defense.
And I think that's where American football c