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Joe Rogan Experience #2085 - Charles Wesley Godwin

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
What's up, man? Pleasure to meet you. What's happening?
Pleasure to be here, Joe. Thanks for having me.
Listen, my honor. I love your music.
I got introduced to you by Duncan.
We were in the green room of the mothership,
and Duncan goes, you got to hear this,
and he puts on Family Ties.
I went, damn, that's a good fucking song.
And then we played Q Country Roads,
and then we just got on a roll,
and then the whole night we played your music.
Hell yeah, dude.
It was fucking awesome.
He was telling me that he showed my music to you.
He said, normally you don't like his recommendations.
Well, he'll go a little emo on you.
He said that you dug that, and I was like,
holy shit, man, isn't that something?
Duncan was really cool.
I was at Apple Studios in Nashville
doing this live session thing with him
when he messaged me on Twitter
and asked me to be on his podcast.
And that made my freaking week.
I was like, holy shit, Duncan Trussell likes my music?
Fuck yeah.
That's so cool.
And then we were doing his podcast,
and then afterwards, he's like,
yeah, man, I showed your music to Joe,
and he really liked it, too.
I was like, fuck yeah.
So, yeah, shout out to Duncan.
I appreciate him doing that, man.
No, Duncan's the man.
He is one of the most unusual people
that I've ever met in my life.
There's not another one like him.
Yeah, he's cracking me up.
Yeah, he's a one of one.
That's a one of one.
When he moved here, I was so happy
because he went to Asheville
because he grew up in Asheville,
and he moved there,
and it was just during the pandemic,
it got bleak there.
The jobs were all dried up.
Everything was fucked.
Everything closed down,
and he said crime was crazy.
It's like Asheville is like per capita
in the top 10 of crime in the country.
Oh, holy shit.
I mean, I might have made that up.
No, shit.
Let's see if that's a fact.
I think, I'm pretty sure Duncan told me that.
But he's like,
dude, there's so much fucking crime.
It's everywhere.
Everyone's on meth.
Your Duncan impersonation is way better than mine.
But we recorded the album there.
Oh, no shit.
We were there for two weeks last January,
and it's like sleepy this time of year.
I guess their tourism is at its lowest in January.
And, dude, I loved it.
It's gorgeous.
I love the town,
and, you know,
I don't know.
It had some homeless and stuff like that,
but, damn, I didn't know that.
I went there back in two,
I think I did a gig there in 2015 or 16,
somewhere around then.
I was like, God damn, what a great town.
Just a perfect size.
It's not too big, you know, cool, artsy.
Yeah.
Beautiful scenery.
You know, it's like the mountains.
Yeah, I dig it.
We were at the,
we played the Orange Peel,
I don't know,
like four or five weeks ago,
and it felt like a hometown show.
Mm.
That's awesome.
That's the stronghold there in the mountains.
Duncan grew up there,
and he said when he was growing up there,
there were so many cows
that had magic mushrooms in their shit
that the farmers started putting
some sort of antifungal thing
in the cow's food
so that it would repel the fungus
from the cow shit.
I was like,
how satanic.
People were going out in their meadows
trying to harvest those bad boys.
You said it was everywhere.
What is this?
It was up around April,
so about a year ago.
What does this have to do with Epstein?
That's just the picture that's on the-
Oh.
I was like,
what are you saying?
Tourist Town Asheville,
rocked by violence
in the wake of defund police movement,
rolls out plan to combat crime spike.
Yeah, so there was a big-ass crime spike.
Damn.
Yeah, he said it was crazy.
Yeah.
He said,
but that's the saddest fucking shit
about like small rural communities
is when everything dries up,
there's nothing.
There's nothing there.
There's no other jobs.
There's no other place to go.
If you have a small population of humans
and they all live together,
if the industry dries up,
if business is shut down,
if things go under,
like everyone's fucked.
Like people are so reliant.
Yeah, that's happening in my hometown right now.
What's your hometown?
Morgantown, West Virginia.
And it's, you know,
it has its ups and downs,
and right now it's definitely in a bit of a down.
We had a big pharmaceutical company
that was based out of West Virginia
called Milan.
And the founder passed away
a little over a decade ago.
So then when that happens,
you know,
it goes into folks
that didn't build it themselves.
And they ended up selling to an Israeli company.
And once that happened,
they shut down those headquarters
in Morgantown,
where it had always been.
I think that was 1,200 jobs
in a town of 26,000 people
in the city limits.
So you imagine
how many people that affects
in the big circle.
Then COVID,
which that happened during COVID.
So then you all said COVID.
So, you know,
our main street,
it's called High Street,
is, you know,
it's like one third closed down
and it used to be all open.
Fuck.
Did you ever see Roger and Me,
the documentary?
It's a Michael Moore documentary.
It's the first one that he did.
It's his best one, I think.
And it's about Flint, Michigan.
And it's about when,
what happened when the car manufacturers
all moved out of the country.
And it's the saddest fucking documentary, man.
It's just,
they just up and pulled the factories
just so they could make more money,
having people work for cheaper.
And the whole town just collapsed.
Collapsed.
It's just,
it's so sad.
One of the saddest things
is there's a lady
that has a sign
that says,
bunnies for pets or food?
Damn.
Yeah.
You want to think
that like you're committed
to selling bunnies as a pet.
If it's a,
you know,
imagine that little puppy
we're showing,
Jamie's getting a puppy,
a French bulldog,
and Jamie trying to con me
into taking one of them.
Might have worked.
It might have worked.
I did a dirty trick.
Yeah.
I sent a video of this puppy
to all my daughters
and my wife.
So we might have a puppy.
And it was definitely like
Jamie knew that was going to happen too.
Well, he didn't know that.
I waited.
He waited a little bit.
He didn't know that,
but the moment I emailed it
to the daughters,
I was like,
they're going to fucking go crazy.
But imagine.
What's that?
Onto what you were saying.
There it is right there.
Holy shit, man.
Rabbits, buddies,
pets, or meat for sale.
That's something you don't see
in the U.S. every day.
It's a dark documentary.
Look at her.
She's skinning it right there.
Yeah.
Like she's on a loan.
Yeah.
And she kills it right there too.
And, you know,
she's holding it
and cuddling it
and then she snaps its fucking neck
and cooks it.
It's just,
you would imagine
like those puppies,
they're like Jamie,
if they said
you could keep this as a pet
or you could eat it.
Dude,
you see it in Flint.
We play there once a year
and our shows are great
and the people are great.
But, man,
compared,
I see all the towns
across America
and that one's
It's dark.
different.
They haven't done jack shit
to fix that water either.
I don't think they fixed
that water at all,
have they?
I don't think so.
Remember when Obama went there?
That was a long time ago, man.
That's two presidents ago.
I remember seeing videos
of people,
you know,
lighting it on fire.
Well,
that is from the,
that's fracking.
That's from that movie
Gasland.
And that's,
that's different.
Did I get fooled?
Yeah.
Well,
they might have did it
in Flint too,
but there,
there are places
in the country
where you can light
your fucking tap water
on fire.
Unreal.
Yeah.
And they say
there's been
some of that
that existed
even before fracking.
It's kind of confusing
because you don't know
how much the fracking
industry is like,
all that's always
been here.
Do not concern
yourself with this.
Yeah.
This is no longer
an issue.
This is a little bit
of contamination,
but look on the bright side.
Yeah,
you never know.
Just take tap water
and fuel your car
and,
you know,
use it as a candle.
Yeah.
You can never take,
you know,
when somebody's business
is at stake,
you got to kind of,
you got to get
some different points
of view on those
types of things.
Yeah,
it's very difficult
to know what the fuck
is actually going on,
but overall,
it seems like fracking
does a lot of fucked up shit.
It says they've got
their lead levels
below the federal threshold
for like the sixth
or seventh year in a row.
Oh,
okay,
but what does that mean?
What's the federal,
I don't like that.
Right.
I don't like that term,
federal threshold.
It's still in there,
but.
What it mean,
wouldn't it,
how much would it cost,
think about how much money
they spent on Ukraine.
How much would it cost
to provide every family
in Flint
with a filtration system,
like a real hardcore
filtration system
that provides them
with absolutely clean water?
I guarantee you
it wouldn't be
a hundred and fucking
seventy billion dollars
or whatever we've sent
over to Ukraine.
Yeah,
it'd be a lot less than that.
It'd be a lot less than that,
but not a goddamn thought of it,
not a conversation
about massive filtration systems,
like there's a way to do this.
We've got to provide
every family.
It's a small,
Flint's not that big.
Yeah,
I mean,
there's just over
40,000 households.
Yeah,
that's not that big,
man.
Wow.
That is not that big.
A thousand dollars a piece.
Yeah,
how much is that?
I'm just guessing,
like if it was a thousand
a piece,
that'd be pretty easy.
I feel like it probably
used to be way bigger
than that too.
I bet.
You know,
that's not much bigger
in Morgantown,
you know,
with all the car industry
stuff that used to be there.
It wouldn't surprise me
if they had hundreds
of thousands.
Have you ever seen
videos of Detroit
from the 1950s and 60s?
Yeah.
Yeah,
it's like Boomtown.
Detroit was one of the biggest
fucking most wealthy cities
in the world.
In the world.
Yeah.
And now you got trees
growing through houses
because the houses
have been abandoned.
Top Gear,
that show,
they went there.
I think it wasn't
Top Gear at the time.
I think it was when
they did the other show
and did it for Amazon.
What was that called
when they went over to Amazon?
Oh,
I know what you're talking about.
I forget what it's called.
I can't remember the name of it.
But what they did was
they bought a house
for like $500.
And,
you know,
they were like
hanging out in this house
while they were staying there.
It's like,
you get a house for $500?
I looked into that one time.
It's a little bit of a loophole.
When you're buying it
for $500,
at least the way it was
when I read it,
you're making a commitment
to get it up to code
within like seven days
or something like that.
You have a very limited
amount of time.
You don't know
if you have to,
but yeah,
you're spending $60,000
on top of that
to get it up to code.
Oh, really?
Like you're buying it
for $500,
but you're making
a commitment to fix it.
You get a house
for $60,000?
Shit.
I think Mike Epps
just fixed up
a whole block of houses.
Not there,
but in Gary, Indiana
or outside of Indy.
No shit.
Shout out to Mike Epps.
That's awesome.
Just like that.
Just like he bought
the whole block.
Fuck yeah.
That's awesome.
I heard Detroit
has a bunch of manufacturing space.
It's kind of a good opportunity
for somebody
if somebody's got
something that they want to make,
it's kind of a good place
to go and get after it.
I think the last time
we were there,
we opened for Zach
at one of those theaters there,
but we were kind of
chilling around downtown,
and it seems to be
a little bit on the up and up
in some parts of the downtown.
They're by the baseball stadium,
you know,
and then compared to years past,
like, you know,
a while back
when I'd been there before,
it seemed like
maybe it's taking a turn
for the better.
Yeah,
there's a little bit
of a resurgence.
There's a resurgence
of like small businesses
being established there.
I know Shinola's out of there.
You ever heard of that company,
Shinola?
Yeah, American Watches.
Mm-hmm.
They make watches.
They mak