Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2315 - José Andrés
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2315 - José Andrés' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-02. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2315 - José Andrés

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day go Jose my man I cannot believe I'm here I can't believe you're
here either
I'm so happy yo I remember when you know people began telling me hey you know
you know Joe Rogan
and I was like oh you're Rogan what because I'm I'm always lost right yeah you're
wrong and loves
Bazaar yeah loves Bazaar in Las Vegas it's my favorite restaurant Vegas loves Bazaar
meat in
Las Vegas and I'm like really shit and you know you're happy every time you you
listen that anybody
likes your restaurant well your restaurant is set up so good when you walk in
the those Argentine
grills are going with the live wood fires oh and you smell the steaks right
when you walk in oh it's
perfect honeypot because if you're not hungry you get hungry the moment you
walk in the door so so
you know Bazaar I open uh first one oh my god over 15 years ago in LA you know
and there's hotel amazing
hotel SLS by Philippe Stark Sam Nazarian was the brains behind the whole
project and and and the restaurant
just became wow big big big hit in LA it was a crazy place was like Alice in
Wonderland like Joe in Wonderland but
then when we were opening SLS the same hotel in Vegas we were like let's do Bazaar
but something else and
obviously what everybody loves in Vegas is a meat place so we got the spirit of
the original Bazaar
we brought meats meat from different parts of the United States different parts
of Spain Europe Iberica pork big grills and was kind of fancy you could go
fancy you could go
meat from different parts of the United States, different parts of Spain,
Europe, Iberico pork, big grills, and was kind of fancy.
You could go fancy. You could go cotton candy and cones of caviar, which by the
way, I have here some cones if you're hungry later.
But then you can go and you eat the steak. That's it.
Why is Vegas a big meat place?
It feels like it's a lot of steakhouses.
A lot of steakhouses, yeah.
Not a lot of great ones, though.
A lot of women. Overall, it's good. I'm not going to be the one saying that.
You can, you can. I'm not going to be the one.
There's a couple of good ones.
I'm not going to be. I mean, listen, it's a great chef.
My friend Tom Colicchio has one.
What's that one?
Tom, I don't even know. It's so many casinos. I don't know.
Tom Colicchio, the chef. Wow, you know everything.
That's the one we've been to at MG.
Oh, that one's great. Yeah.
That one's great.
And Tom is a great guy.
The MG one's great.
What is it called? Craft Steak? Is it Craft Steak?
Craft. It's a craft one.
I think Wolf and Pack has another one.
Anyway, it is many other ones with names, with chefs behind, with no chefs.
Yeah.
Big name chefs, no name.
I like Cleaver's great.
It's off the strip.
Ah, yeah. I've not been.
That's very good.
Very good.
Yeah. People, this is good you mentioned that because when we go to Vegas, we
stay in the casinos and we go to the casinos, hotels, and that's it.
Yeah.
And me, I've always been a big fan of saying it's okay, but make the effort to
leave the casino.
Yes.
Leave the strip and also visit some of the other restaurants.
Yeah, you gotta travel a little bit.
Because they deserve that we visit them too. Vegas is the casinos, but Vegas,
like every other city in America, every other city in the world, is so much
more.
Right.
We all go to the Wizard of Oz. Yeah, here we go. That's it. Nothing else. No.
Go beyond, beyond the obvious.
Yeah.
And you're gonna discover great things. But Bazaar, I'm moving Bazaar.
Where?
To the Venetian.
Oh.
Well, that other casino's gonna starve then. They're gonna fall apart. No, no.
There's no reason why I went there.
No, it's a good casino. It's a good casino. And they do a good job. The Sahara
and the owner is a good guy. And we need to-
I'm sure.
And they're gonna put a great concept there too.
What are they gonna replace Bazaar with?
I don't know yet. They didn't announce. If I can, I will help them. I've been
helping them. But I'm moving to the Venetian.
Bazaar meet to the Venetian.
And when is that gonna happen?
At the end of this year.
Okay.
Soon. You'll be there.
I'll be prepared.
You'll be invited.
I'm gonna come.
You'll be invited.
That's my favorite place to go on Vegas.
You know, I'm very happy because it's almost, you know, I don't know if it's
the same as when a player moves.
To a new NBA team.
Sometimes works.
Sometimes doesn't work.
No.
Bazaar meets, it'll work.
But, you know, it's that feeling, right? It's like, I'm going to this new
casino.
They are- it's great.
Closer to my other restaurants at the Cosmopolitan.
I can go walking from one to each other and-
Well, that's nice.
Better for me.
Yeah.
And then I have the other bazaar, which is bazaar-
Man, I'm sorry. I sound like a commercial, but-
No.
You know, restaurants are like my babies.
I've eaten at your place in Chicago as well.
Yeah, the bazaar meet in Chicago and Bazaar Mar is great.
Excellent, excellent.
So, bazaar, it's kind of, again, restaurants for me, you know, they've never
been business.
God knows I'm not even- I'm not the best businessman.
I'm surrounded by good business people.
I am a creative guy.
I think that's why they're so good, though.
I think that's why they're so good.
I think if you were just concentrating on making money, it wouldn't be what it
is.
Well, I should, I should.
You shouldn't.
You keep doing what you're doing.
It's not a bad thing, but I am a sto-
Well, you are a storyteller, yo.
You are a storyteller.
Yes.
You are a troubadour, a medieval troubadour that will tell the stories of what
was happening
around the castles and courts in medieval times in Europe.
You're a storyteller, right?
I am not very good at anything.
My English, I miss a lot of words that I wish I knew.
Yeah, but it sounds cool.
I could express myself better.
No, no, no, no, no.
But I'm a storyteller and I tell stories through the issues.
That's who I am.
Yeah.
Well, you do a fantastic job of that.
And the passion that you have for food comes through.
It comes through in your restaurants.
It really does.
Like you can tell the difference between someone who just really loves food and
someone who's
just trying to make money.
So it's good that you're not a good businessman and that you surround yourself
with good businessmen
because that's all you need.
Good businessmen that you can trust and then you concentrate on what you do
best.
That's a perfect marriage.
You know, I'm 55.
I'm about to become 56 in July.
July 13th.
I was born in '69.
And I realized, not only as a chef, but as a person, as a man, as a father, as
a husband,
all the different labels we all have.
It's always that the more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
Right.
In the old days, I will be 23.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
Now it's like, I don't know.
Tell me.
And even if I know something in a conversation, I just tell, do you know about
this?
I don't.
Why?
Because I want to listen.
Because I want to learn.
I realized that me living home fairly early and not going to university and not
even beginning
the first year of high school, I was out.
I didn't even graduate in the first year.
That one of the things I needed was receive education, but not in the
traditional way.
The traditional way was not for me.
Just being there eight hours a day listening to all the hundred kings we have
in Spain growing
up, you know, like why I need to know.
And listen, and I respect kings, and I love the king of Spain.
I think he's a great man, a great human being.
It has nothing to do with that.
It's only, I didn't want to know what the other 200 kings we had in Spain in
this history.
It's not what I was interested.
Yeah.
I would be interested in knowing what they did that was amazing, but not
knowing about
their names and their last names.
I didn't care about that.
Right.
So I needed to find ways for me to, just to learn.
So that's why for me, I realized the more I know, the more I know nothing.
And I'm in this moment, I'm 55, that I'm just eager to learn.
I want to know more.
I want to learn more.
I want to, I'm talking now, but I want to listen more.
I only want to be, use a better, a better person by learning.
Yeah.
Well, that's beautiful.
And when you're young, you think you know everything.
And as you get older, there's a quote by, I think it's Dennis McKenna said this,
that
as this, as the bonfire of enlightenment grows, the surface area of ignorance
is exposed.
So the more you learn, the more you realize there's so much you don't know.
Whereas as you're young, you think you can't fucking, I figured it all out.
And then as you get older, you're like, there's so much I don't know.
Not only that, there's no way I can know everything.
It's not possible.
That's why fools argue about things that they don't know.
Instead of just going, what is that?
How does that work?
Instead of actually being genuinely curious, fools like to try to pretend that
they know more
than they know.
No, there's no, it's not possible to breathe underwater.
Don't pretend you can.
It's not possible to know everything.
You just can't.
There's going to be people that know things that you don't know.
Celebrate that.
Enjoy it.
You know, I think that's one of the best things that's ever happened to me, uh,
through this
podcast is I get to talk to so many different people that have lived so many
different lives
and have so many different passions and so many different interests and so many
different things that they've studied.
It's, uh, an amazing education.
But I was a lot like you.
I did not want to sit in school.
Whatever ADHD is, I have it.
You know, whatever the fuck it is.
I'm raising my hand.
I got it.
I mean, it's like sometimes when, you know, I have people, oh, that's, oh, my
son has this.
I'm like, what?
Your son is an amazing human, smart individual.
Yeah.
And I feel like I connect with him because I think we are alike.
So, I raise my hand.
I am that too.
I subscribe.
I do.
I subscribe to the idea that ADHD is a superpower.
I really do.
Because I think the people that can't focus on nonsense, generally speaking,
they can focus on things they love.
Really focus.
They get really excited about certain things.
But everything else they can't be bothered with.
Like, when I was a kid, I remember being in math class and checking out.
Because I said, wait a minute.
Can I do this on a calculator?
Yes.
There are calculators, right?
And there's an unlimited supply of batteries, right?
They said, yes.
I'm like, I'm out.
I'm out.
I'm not going to think about math now.
Because this is not something I'm interested in.
If I can do all this math on a calculator, why do I need to learn how to do it?
Obviously, that's a dumb way to think.
I was 13.
But I remember thinking that at 13 years old.
I'm out.
I'm not going to think about this anymore.
I'm just going to use a calculator.
This is so stupid.
Just give me the result.
Yeah.
I don't need to know how you made all those numbers work.
I just, like, I know it's real.
Okay, that's great.
I'm interested in other things.
But the thing is, school was designed to make good factory workers.
That's what school was designed for.
The American school system, at least, was designed by the Rockefellers.
And what they're essentially doing is preparing people to be cogs in a wheel.
They're preparing people to just show up and do what you're told and live this
life of quiet desperation
and just sit there and absorb whatever they tell you to because you're going to
have to go and work and do something you don't want to do all day long
and show up and do it again until your body stops working and you die.
I don't know if I will 100% agree with that statement in the sense of this was
created by design.
I think --
Well, the school system in America, it certainly was created by design.
Yeah, but --
The idea of sitting people down, especially young kids, for eight hours a day
is a ridiculous idea.
But the schools and education go way be