Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2348 - Lukas Nelson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2348 - Lukas Nelson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-10. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2348 - Lukas Nelson

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we're up Lucas what's up good to talk to you man thanks for being here here
yeah I appreciate you
having me I gotta tell you you know when I heard Willie Nelson's kid plays
music there's a thing
that you always do and I have to admit it you do it you like when the son of a
great man you always
assume well yeah he's probably mediocre you know I mean and then you performed
at McConaughey's that
charity function thing and you fucking killed it man you blew me away it was
incredible and I was
like wow it was really cool to see man it was really exciting it was really fun
you know you
were the highlight of the night man you really were it's moments like those
where I started to
gain confidence you know I'd have over the years I'd go out and play and play
my songs that I've
written and when I get crowds that would do that you know and so that gave me
the confidence to keep
going and and and I first started playing music in order to get closer to my
father oh wow you know
what I mean so I I he would be gone all the time right and I'd be missing him
and uh and so in order
to get close to him I figured I need to speak the same musical language and uh
and so I learned young
and I wrote a song young uh that's on the new album actually I got it's called
you were it's the first
song I ever wrote when I was 11 and my dad loved it so much that he covered it
at the time and he put it
out on his album back in 2004 called it always will be the the album was called
it always will be and that
gave me the confidence at a young age Chris Christofferson came up to me and he's
like man you don't have a
choice but to be a songwriter and so I had all this inspiration at a young age
kind of like an athlete at a
certain point you kind of have to look at like oh well if I have a talent at
this I have operate
like I have connections in the industry I need to work like I was going to go
to the Olympics on this
because it's something that I can do that will make it so that I never have to
rely on my family or my
father for anything right you know I would my whole goal in life is to discover
who I am as an individual
you know is that a part of the difficulty of growing up with an incredibly
famous father I think the you
you know Victor Frankel has a book a very famous book called man's search for
meaning oh and it's about
Auschwitz and he was an Auschwitz survivor and he wrote about what was the
common denominator in terms of
people who persevered and survived in these camps and dignity and meaning were
the common denominators generally
and so finding who you what you mean in this life to yourself it doesn't have
to mean anything to anyone
else and I think that's where for me I've lived my whole life trying to
discover who I meant to myself
so that at the moment of my death I can look back and say I
Did something that I enjoyed that was meaningful that gave me a sense of
purpose hmm
Yeah, that the there's a both a blessing and a burden to
Being the child of someone who's incredibly famous at a thing that you're
trying to do
Sure, you know like there's there's a lot of sons of athletes
For instance, right that live in their father's shadow and very few of them
ever rise to the level that their father was at
Sure, I think for me. I was never trying to be as great as him
I was only trying to be close to him
Because more than anything my father's a great human being
He's a well-rounded kind empathetic human and I am
I am truly grateful to be his and my mother's son
You know because I have a good family. I'm lucky, you know, I have also, you
know, I have a good good parents
So what I was trying to do was just be closer to him and you know as a little
kid, you know
the best thing my mom ever did
was when I was like earlier I was probably five or six years old and my brother
had just passed away not too
long before this actually and
I would cry every time my dad would leave, you know, and
My mom sat me down one time. She said it tears him apart
When you cry like this because he doesn't want to leave he's going out there.
He's making people happy
He's giving people joy, and he's doing what he came here on this earth to do
And he's supporting this family and so the support that my mother had for him
At that moment, I never cried again. I was able to let go of that idea and then
just from that point on
Work towards creating what would make me happy in my life and give me the same
joy and then you can be able to take care of a family
Hopefully, you know my one of my greatest sources of pride is that I haven't
had to ask my parents for anything
I bought my own house. I bought my you know, I went and did stars born and I
got you know, I mean
I I've been able to make myself a
Living and I think that makes my parents proud it makes my dad proud and that's
what I've always wanted to do
That's been my whole my whole life is one to make them proud. That's awesome.
Well, it's a great motivation
You know for sure when especially you have great parents
I'm lucky in that way, you know, I know a lot of people have broken homes and
grew up and even I
Caught dad at a good time. I mean my dad was 55 or so when he had me, you know,
and so
He had already been through a lot of his
Demons and gotten through them and faced them, you know, and was still going
through them at the time that I was born
but he had come out of
You know a life of habit and sort of formed the ones that would take him at
that point to where he is now at 92 years old
Wow, and so I got a good version of dad
You know who had grown since you know, and so
Man, you know, I'm the luckiest guy in the world
I feel like I you know, I was able to be exposed to a lot of great music a lot
of great mentors, you know in my life and
And I'm also lucky that I at a young age
I'm grateful to my younger child to the myself as a young child for having the
wisdom to say all right
Work hard now forget about parties forget about hanging out work hard eight
hours ten hours a day practice your guitar
Write all the time sing all the time so that when you get to a certain point in
life
You'll have something to show for you know something you can leave behind that's
yours. Yeah. Yeah
That's awesome man that you know, that's what most people in this life want.
They want a purpose. Yeah, you know
They want something that means something both to them and other people exactly.
Yeah, it's hard to find
It's hard to find a purpose. You know, I that is something that I've always had
growing up and I think it's because I was
You know again, I'm grateful to that younger kid sometimes. I feel like he's wiser
than I am now
You know that younger self is like almost
I'm you know, I now and now that I'm sober. I mean I quit smoking weed. I quit
drinking and when did you do all that?
Really around the pandemic. Yeah, but that's usually when a lot of people
started. Yeah, I went the opposite way
I started meditating twice a day
You know, the only thing I'll do now is mushrooms every once in a while to
check in with myself and you know, just kind of make sure that I'm
You know, I feel like mushrooms is like taking a nice good whole hose to your
soul and just you know
Yeah, I clean out all the bullshit out all the bullshit. Yeah, I feel like you
know, so they should be legal
Yeah, a hundred percent. I really if I could talk Trump into one thing
That might be the one thing I you know, I had this conversation with Paul Stamets
the other day. I love Paul Stamets. He's amazing
Yeah, he's great. I just saw him at the dead show the sphere show. Oh, yeah. Oh,
that's cool. That's cool
Yeah, have you been to his place? He invited me to his place up there. It's
supposed to be amazing
I was just reading an email from him today inviting me to his place. That's
awesome. Yeah, he's he's a prepper
He's ready for the apocalypse
Yeah, well
Might be a good idea. I mean, maybe I don't know. I think we're gonna be okay.
I do too. I do
I mean, I think the feeling that we might not be okay. That was a great motivator
We should always be checking in with ourselves and asking ourselves. Are we
going too far to certain extremes? Yeah
Well, that was the part of the conversation that we had, you know
We're like if is there a thing that could really help the world and it sounds
so cliche and hippie and and
Especially someone who's never done mushrooms, but I think that might be the
thing
You know, even if it's just like small doses just a little something to
alleviate anxiety
Bring people close together make them understand. There's more to life than
Conflict and bullshit and most of your conflict is bullshit. Most of his
nonsense and most of its unnecessary
Yeah, my net always says 99% of the things you worry about never come true. Mm-hmm,
you know, and it's just a matter of
Yeah, I mean it is sort of a cliche
I mean, I read the the power of now which is Eckhart Tolle
When I was like 13 I used I went to school next to a Buddhist temple
And so I grew up with my dad teaching me the Lord's Prayer
I'd say every night and then I'd go to this Buddhist temple and hang with these
monks, you know, really? Yeah
Yeah, where is that now? I grew up part-time in Austin. I was born in Austin. I
was in Maui
And so I Buddhist temple and there's a Buddhist temple right there where I was
going to school at the time
so after school every day, I'd sit with these monks and
Just the vibe of that is is powerful the chanting that energy around that
You know the presence though that they have they're just you know, their whole
goal obviously is to just, you know, be purely present
Yeah, and and so while that sounds like a cliche
I truly believe that that's an important thing, you know, to to let go of the
The battle of positive and negative that in the mental space, that's all that
exists is duality, you know
Well to find a true path
You have to avoid being pushed and pulled in a bunch of directions that are
totally unnecessary
Yeah, and sometimes you get sort of preoccupied or
Activated yes by the push and the pull of bullshit. Well, and we're
We're we there is a manipulation that happens
On purpose. I have a song called turn off the news and build a garden mmm.
There you hear that song. No, I haven't heard that one
You want me to play it fuck? Yeah. Yeah, play it. All right
This is a song called turn off the news and build a garden and I wrote it
because
Because it's great advice
Yeah, and I just I was just the news cycle. I mean, there's a difference
between being informed and being constantly captured by this overwhelmed. Yes
Got a tune for all your listeners
I believe that every heart is kind
Some are just a little underused
Hatred is a symptom of the time
I'm lost in these uneducated blues
Lost in these uneducated blues
I just want to love you while I can
I just want to love you while I can
I just want to love you while I can
I just want to love you while I can
I just want to love you while I can
I just want to love you while I can
All these other thoughts have me confused
I don't need to try to understand
All these other thoughts have me confused
I don't need to try to understand
Maybe I'll turn off the fucking news
Turn off the news and build a garden
Just my neighborhood and me
We might feel a bit less hardened
We might feel a bit more free
Turn off the news and raise the kids
Give them something to believe in
Teach them how to be good people
Give them hope that they can see
Hope that they can see
Turn off the news and build a garden with me
That's awesome
Yeah, so I've always felt that way
And I think that there's
Action is so important
Being a part of your community
Being a part of decisions that are made
I think that's huge
I think local communities are really important
I think local town meetings
Understanding where you're going
Yeah
You know
And understanding where your neighborhood is going
And getting to know your neighbors
Because it's really hard to
It's hard to have 