Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2189 - Dennis Quaid
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2189 - Dennis Quaid' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-08-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2189 - Dennis Quaid

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Nice to meet you, man.
You too, man.
Really.
It's been a pleasure.
I've seen so many of your fucking movies.
It's always weird when you meet someone that you've seen so many times in
movies.
Yeah.
It's like, all right, there he is, real person.
Yeah, there they are.
I didn't know you do, you released a gospel album, though.
Yeah, last year.
That's wild.
Yeah, it's called Fallen, a gospel record for sinners, because I wanted the
biggest possible audience.
Gospel record for sinners?
Yeah.
How long have you been singing gospel?
Well, you know, basically, I grew up in the Baptist church, and so it's five
songs that I grew up with,
and it's five songs that I wrote before and during the making of the record.
It's kind of like my spiritual journey, I guess.
That's the way it turned out in the end.
My wife, she put the order together, and that's what it seems to be, kind of my
journey in life.
Was this something that you had thought about for a while, or did it just kind
of...?
Yeah, I wrote this song called On My Way to Heaven, and I wrote it for my mom
to let her know that I was okay after I got out of, like, rehab for cocaine in
1990.
Then I wrote Fallen, which is kind of like taken from, remember that movie
Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum?
You know, it's kind of like in that vein or that kind of feel to it, and there's
this highway called The Devil's Backbone up near Bandera.
And so it's a ride with the devil, and you wind up getting left for dead on the
side of the road.
So this was just something that you felt like, like, fuck it, I've done
everything else.
Why not do a gospel album?
Yeah, you know, I've recorded, I've always been a songwriter.
I got a guitar when I was 12 years old.
My grandfather bought me, you know, at Western Auto.
It's a great place to buy guitars.
And, you know, I realized I was never going to shred a guitar, so a songwriting
became like a defense, you know, somebody you could bring to a band.
Right.
And so I've always done it, but I got this offer from Gaither, because Bill Gaither
had heard this song, On My Way to Heaven, asked me to do a gospel record.
So I said, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it was a great experience, really.
And On My Way to Heaven, in fact, Tanya Tucker heard it, and she called me up
out of the blue.
I hadn't seen her, like, in 30 years, and said she wanted to do it.
So I said, okay.
And then she called me 15 minutes later, and she said, Chris Christopherson
wants to do it.
Whoa.
And I said, wow, you know, so.
And Brandi Carlisle's doing backup singing on it, and it's, and myself, and we're
going to put that out this year as a single.
Wow, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Chris is just the greatest.
I love that guy.
I love him.
We're one of the highwaymen.
Yeah.
Come on.
Yeah.
No kidding.
Wow.
So you were telling me that you, you got to Hollywood in, in the 70s?
Yeah, I went, I went out there, I was born in Houston, you know, and grew up
there, and I was in acting class.
And Mr. Pickett, we always bring him up because so many people actually started
working.
My brother was, you know, his student as well.
And my brother was already out there in California, and he had been nominated
for the last detail and stuff.
And so I kind of realized, hey, you can actually do this stuff, you know, and
get paid for it.
And I went out there at 75 and, you know, just driven and got an agent after
about a year.
Oh, did you have any previous acting experience or was it something you wanted?
Yeah, drama, in college.
I wasn't serious about it in high school.
I was going to be a veterinarian.
That's what I wanted to be.
Really?
Yeah, I was a vet's assistant up in East Texas.
I'd spent summers up in East Texas, you know, in Jacksonville, Frankston.
And I worked for a vet when I was, you know, 14, 15.
And that's what I was going to do until one day we did like a house call out to
this guy's farm to castrate his horse.
And the farmer didn't want to sit out there in the field and wait for him to
wake up from a full anesthetic.
So they only gave him half of it and cinched his legs up like this.
And that horse stood up on two legs.
And it was just, man, it was horrific.
And I kind of, I think that's what changed my mind.
Maybe I should be an actor and I'll play a veterinarian.
The horse, yeah, I'm sure the horse was not enjoying that.
No.
Yeah, that's got to be a bad feeling.
Also, as a man, like, I don't want to do that.
I didn't do that to my dog.
No.
I don't do that to any of my dogs.
No, you can get that done for free in California.
Right.
Even if you're a person.
Yeah.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
Very different in the 70s, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, you went through, like, 70s in Hollywood must have been a weird
experience, man.
Oh, it was fantastic.
It was amazing, man.
That whole era of the 70s, you know, which started with Bonnie and Clyde and
Easy Rider.
Great films.
Yeah.
Great films.
The French New Wave, you know, is what they called it, you know, kind of more
handheld, grittier.
And it was the return of the anti-hero and the rebel hero.
And because Hollywood had lost touch with their audience.
You know, they were making movies like Toby Tyler and, you know, these bloated
musicals.
But, and so it became like the inmates had taken over the asylum.
There was really new, exciting stuff getting done, like, you know, Badlands and
the conversation, you know, which led to The Godfather.
And it's, that was, I think, the golden age of filmmaking.
Well, certainly some amazing films came out of that era.
And it's just, just seeing Los Angeles today and imagining what it was like in
the 70s.
It had to be, because, I mean, really movies, if you really think about it,
they were only a few decades old back then.
Yeah.
It was a new thing, essentially.
Yeah.
And they just, like, perfected it.
I mean, really, it was only, like, 10 years into where all the movies were
color.
They were making black and white movies up to, like, 63, you know.
Right.
Like, The Hustler was black and white.
Yeah.
That was 63.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it was an exciting time.
Like I said, the inmates had taken over the asylum.
And it was a feeling like you could do just about anything.
And music, too, was really happening.
In Los Angeles, as well.
I mean, record deals were getting signed left and right.
And it, you know, there was this, it's kind of turned upside down now because
of all that rebellious attitude of the 70s.
And everybody who did it sort of became the establishment, I think.
Yeah.
Bizarre, right?
It's really kind of turned up on its ear because it started to kind of really
turn politically correct.
In the 90s.
And it became kind of a, nobody stays at a party after 11 o'clock.
Is that when you went into rehab?
Yeah.
After that, no matter where you're going, you know, afterwards, you had to
pretend you were going to bed.
You know, you were, oh, look at the time.
Yeah, oh, look at the time.
Oh.
I guess everybody had kids, too, by that point.
But then it just, it got to where we are today that, you know, you're getting
warned to keep your mouth shut.
Because of, it turned upside down.
Well, it's also one ideology dominates, especially in Hollywood, dominates the
entire business.
You know, one of the things that I said that drove me crazy about Hollywood was
there's people that had differing opinions about things, but they would never
speak out because it could damage their career.
Right.
That's what's going on now.
They will fucking blackball you.
They will.
I mean, they tried, you know, there were a couple attempts to cancel me while
we were making Reagan, in fact, you know, kind of half-hearted, I guess.
But it has become that, you know, and that ain't right.
I mean, back then, you know, few people really were, I guess, conservative.
Let's throw out parties and just call it conservative.
I mean, you had John Wayne.
John Voight.
Yeah.
But you didn't know if John Voight was conservative back then.
He wasn't vocal about it?
Not back in the 70s, no.
But it was basically John Wayne and Charlton Heston.
Right.
And that was pretty much about it.
Or anybody wearing a tie.
Well, how did the rebels become, like, what the fuck happened?
How did the rebels become the establishment?
That's, that is, we went through an era where, remember, tolerance?
That was what we were trying to do, like, back in the teens, I think, in the
tens, where you tolerate other groups and all that.
And that didn't last very long.
And it seems like one had it over the other.
But if you ask me where this great divide really started politically, I think,
of course, there was Watergate.
But you come up to, like, when the Republicans had their contract with America,
I think it was, like, 94 in, you know, the year that Clinton was going to be a
lame duck president.
And then it started to become just along party lines where there was no, you
know, you were a traitor if you went to the other side.
Because we had conservative Democrats.
We had liberal Republicans up until that point.
You know, that's what I grew up with.
And that wasn't good enough anymore.
And so it started there and, you know, then continued.
And, you know, then the Democrats really took over.
And they really do it really well as far as that stuff of turning things on
their head.
And, you know, I feel like today they were using the judicial system against
Trump, which is really off the reservation.
Well, they're using the judicial system against Trump.
The entire media establishment, other than Fox News, is completely against
anything Republican.
Right.
And it's full.
Did you see on Colbert the other day, Kristen Collins, that her name?
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw that.
And she said, Colbert says, Fox just reports, or CNN just reports the facts.
The whole audience starts laughing.
Yeah, was that a laugh line?
Yeah, he goes, well, I guess it is.
I guess it is.
Yeah, which is hilarious.
People get it.
Oh, they do get it.
That's what, you know, the bolsters me, is that people do get it.
Sometimes I think everybody just swallowing this.
There's a lot of people that are still swallowing.
A lot of boomers, a lot of older folks that are just swallowing whatever's in
the newspaper and whatever's on television.
And a lot of people aren't news wonkeys like you and I.
Yeah.
They just get the sound bites.
And that's what they do it for.
Well, it's disheartening the more you do a deep dive on the actual facts about
a thing.
You know, like I've heard people repeat.
I've had conversations with people.
They go, well, you know, Trump's a felon.
He's convicted of 34 felonies.
I go, okay, do you know what those things are?
Do you know that they are misdemeanors?
Misdemeanors?
Do you know that, you know, the statute of limitations had run out on this
little misdemeanor?
Yeah, the whole thing is the same.
It wasn't a campaign contribution.
They just did all kind of gymnastics to make it happen.
And then the third person in the line in the Justice Department comes back to
New York to oversee this case.
And, you know, just...
It's just incredibly dangerous.
It's incredibly dangerous.
Because it can also be turned around.
Yes.
You know, and there has to come a point where we go, stop.
Yeah.
You know, we have to stop this or we're losing our country.
Yeah, I think they're more concerned with being in power than they are with
preserving the idea of democracy.
That's...
Yeah, I totally agree with that.
And I think some of that was certainly they were emboldened by the fact they're
essentially running the country without a president for the last three years.
Yes.
Because he's, you know, he's not there.
Not there, really.
And since he's decided that he's not going to run again, he's gone.
He's vanished.
It makes...
Who's running it now?
Exactly.
You know?
And then the crazy thing is Kamala Harris.
And then if Kamala's elected, who's going to...
Who'll be running then?
Because they really can't see her, like, being in charge.
