Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2033 - Matt Rife
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2033 - Matt Rife' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-12. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2033 - Matt Rife

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
All right, where are you recording this?
Let's go, Matt Rice.
Let's do it.
Let's start off the show.
Are you still in LA right now?
Technically, yeah.
I mean, I'm home three days a week, three days a month, maybe.
You're just constantly touring.
Yeah, it's a dream come true, man.
Careful what you wish for.
But long time coming, you know?
Well, I don't know.
It's not careful what you wish for.
It's just you just have to learn how to manage this new thing now.
It's great, though.
It's not careful.
It's fucking awesome.
It's so much better than it not working out for you.
Oh, absolutely.
No, if I could sleep like a normal human being, I think I'd be just fine.
Yeah, you were just talking about that serious insomnia.
Have you done anything to try to mitigate that?
Have you taken melatonin?
Have you tried any herbal?
Have you done all that stuff?
I've OD'd on melatonin, dude.
I've taken 30 milligrams in a night.
And, you know, you build up a tolerance to melatonin.
You need to stop using it for a little while.
I mean, I do have to smoke, like, every single night to even have a chance of
falling asleep.
Wow.
So you just, like, get some of that be real indica, some of that Cypress Hill
shit?
Yeah, dude, until I just am just deformed in bed.
And that puts you out?
Not really.
No.
Dude, it's insane.
I can stay awake on Xanax and everything.
It's almost like...
It's so interesting.
If you picture, like, a light switch to turn your brain off, I just can't.
Your switch doesn't work.
No.
And I think it's, like, after thinking about it for years, I think it's the
same mechanism in my brain that, like, allows me to think quickly on stage.
That allows...
That keeps my brain up at night.
Like, I just think about anything.
It's not even anxiety.
It's just anything.
It's just frantic thoughts just bouncing around your head.
Yeah.
Anything from middle school memories to, like, man, it's crazy how leaves are
green and then brown sometimes.
Like, it's just fucking anything.
My dick is like, please don't beat me again.
Like, I've tried everything.
You've tried everything.
I promise.
Wow.
I know.
I know.
It sucks.
Because, obviously, I mean, sleep...
For as much as I work out, like, your muscles don't get that time to recover
because they can't build.
Well, and your brain doesn't get that time to recover.
Oh, yeah.
Your immune system suffers.
Everything suffers when you don't sleep.
Like, I've made, like, a really conscious effort over the last year to get a
lot of sleep.
And I've fucked it up quite a few times with the club.
Because there's been times with the club where, like, at least three nights a
week when I'm performing, you know, I'm out until 2 o'clock in the morning.
And generally, I wake up around 8 to start working out.
And at, you know, at 8, it's like 6 hours.
It's not quite enough.
Yeah.
Like, it's not even 6 hours.
It's like 5 and a half.
And, you know, I feel tired.
I look tired.
And I just don't have as much juice.
And then when I adjust and then get proper sleep again, it's all of a sudden it's
like...
Like, I feel like everything turns up to 10 again.
It's fascinating.
Like, I feel a big difference.
Like, physically feel a big difference.
Like, if sleep was a supplement, if I could take a sleep supplement and it
gives you that feeling you get when you're, like, fully rested...
Oh, my God.
You're just better.
You're better.
Everything works better.
Your brain works better.
You can physically do more.
Everything works better.
I've heard.
Yeah, you gotta try it.
I don't think I've even been in a REM sleep in 5 years, dude.
Oh, that doesn't make sense.
It's so not good.
You'd be dead.
I feel dead, dude.
But you're not.
You feel alive.
I've stayed awake for 9 straight days before.
What?
Yeah.
I don't even think that's possible.
I think the world record is, like, 11 or 13.
Because I looked into it because I genuinely started to get, like, fearful for
my own health.
Jesus Christ.
Do you agree with having, needing 8 hours?
Because I've heard so many different theories.
No, I don't think everybody needs 8 hours.
I just know I do.
There's no way I could know what's going on in other people's bodies.
You think it's case by case?
Yeah.
I think it's, like, everything with biology.
Biology varies so much by genetics and life experiences.
You know, like, what have you done leading up?
Have you just been sedentary your whole life?
Have you been very active?
Is your body very fit?
Or is your body, like, riddled with problems?
Like, there's so many.
And it's just genetics, man.
They vary so much.
Some people are, you know, they have no problem with 5-hour sleep.
And it changes over time as well, doesn't it?
Like, didn't people evolve from sleeping in, like, 4-hour increments or
something like that?
I mean, I'm sure they did.
I'm sure they didn't get a chance to just fucking chill.
You know, they were getting eaten by cats.
Yeah.
You know?
That's the, you know, the rub on people.
It's like, we still have these genetics that are from 10,000, 15,000 years ago
when life
was very different.
And those are still the same genetics.
And that's why we're still looking for, like, tribal leaders and shit.
We're looking for, like, a president, a prime minister.
We're looking for, like, one person.
Oh, yeah.
Leaders used to fight in wars, dude.
And that was how we sort of figured out what to do.
We went to the person who had experienced the most.
Not the person who's been paid off the most.
Yeah.
Not the person who's got the fucking shadiest insider dealings with the party
that has the most
influence.
Oh, I know.
God damn it.
I'm so happy I take zero part in any politics whatsoever.
Good for you.
I'm the least politically informed person you'll probably ever meet.
And I know I'm taking pride in naivety, but...
Well, for your own self-preservation, that's probably a good idea.
I've always said that, like, voting and, like, politics in this country is a
lot like rooting
on pro wrestling.
Damn.
It might make you feel better, but I'm not sure how much it affects the outcome.
That's a very good point.
It seems like at the very end of the day, the same people are getting all the
money.
Yeah.
And don't think about it in terms of whether or not you can vote in your party.
You most certainly can.
And don't think about it, they most certainly can enact social change, and they
can do some
good things, and especially in relationship with the Supreme Court and a lot of
other things.
But at the end of the day, the real people that are running the show are the
people that
are getting these massive defense contracts and massive pharmaceutical
contracts.
Like, the billions and trillions of dollars that's being generated by various
industries,
that's what's running the show.
That's what's running the show.
Man, you're speaking Mandarin Chinese right now.
That's not that fucking old dude that keeps getting tripped by ghosts.
He's not your leader.
Are you a big ghost guy?
I believe it's possible.
I'm obsessed.
Are you?
So, really weird side hobby of mine, I go ghost hunting.
I've been, like, around the world.
Yeah.
It's incredible.
What have you experienced?
Have you ever had, like, an absolute moment when you're like, oh my god, I'm in
the presence
of a poltergeist?
Not...
Still not a thousand percent.
I've definitely witnessed things that I cannot for the life of me explain that
have creeped
me out.
The timing has been impeccable.
I've seen things move that there's just no fucking way that they've moved.
I've gotten answers back on EVPs, but for me, it is one of those things I do
need to see
it.
Isn't the EVP like a radio, though?
No, EVP is just a recorder.
It's a recorder.
What is that radio thing?
I'm sorry, then.
What is the one where they, like, listen...
There's a bunch of different names.
My daughter's heavily into this shit.
What does she watch?
Heavily.
Sam and Colby.
You had them on, right?
Yes.
Great guys.
So, I met these other guys.
There's another channel called the Overnight Channel, who are equally as
popular as Sam
and Colby, and they actually used to work together, and I believe they each do
their own thing.
But that's who I started going with, so I'm very familiar with those guys.
So, these kids, the Sam and Colby guys just went into the Conjuring house.
I was just there, maybe a month and a half ago.
You went into the Conjuring house, too?
By myself, Joe.
Okay.
Do you believe that there's something going on in that house?
The Conjuring movies are fucking great, by the way.
It's my favorite franchise.
They're fun.
And there's so many of them.
Oh, yeah.
They really did it right.
Like, if you want to be smart, they branched off with The Nun.
They branched off with Annabelle.
And I love the way they tie in the story for each one, to make it all one chronological
story.
It's genius.
Yeah.
I will say I wasn't as scared as I've been in a lot of places we've been.
There is some kind of solace to the house, but you get to know the history of
it.
And it just, it does make sense that there'd be something here.
I mean, it's on some ley lines of water underground.
There was war spot there.
There's apparently bodies buried on the property in the walls of the property
structures and stuff.
There's a lot of history that goes into it that just makes for kind of the
perfect storm for some creepy shit.
But I didn't witness anything that was that insane.
Some items moved.
Some cars rolled off of the children's dressers a couple of times on cue.
And that's the one thing I do pride ourselves in these videos is so often we
get absolutely nothing because we don't fake anything.
So you only get to see the highlights.
There's so many times we'll go to a place that is so notoriously haunted and we'll
be there for 10 hours and get absolutely nothing.
And it sucks.
But that makes when something does happen that much more valuable.
It's so much more impressive.
So do you think a ghost is like the soul of a person that's left behind?
Or do you think the ghost is almost like space and time because of a horrible
incident contain a memory?
And like that memory is almost like it like shows up in current time sometimes.
There's a guy named Rupert Sheldrake.
I forget what his field of study is.
But he had this theory about things.
And he believes that objects contain memories.
Oh, interesting.
And he's not the only one that has this.
Inanimate objects?
Yeah.
That things contain memories.
And this is one of the reasons why people kind of universally support this idea
that if someone was murdered in a house,
you must tell the people, inform the people that are about to buy it.
You have to tell them, hey, somebody got murdered in this house.
Like maybe you don't want to buy this house.
Maybe you should think about it.
Does the potential owner have to ask that information?
It's a good question.
I'd want to know.
Yeah.
I think it's a good question.
I think they should have to inform you because there's something about someone
being murdered in a spot that freaks us out.
And this is my question.
You knew the conjured house was haunted, right?
So you go there with this feeling and this expectation.
That's what I always wonder about these things.
Like how much of, how much of, and this isn't just imagining things.
This is like the mind itself seems to have some unmeasured effect on the world.
I think the way you think has an unmeasured effect in terms of like this, there's
energy that you put out, there's connections you make with people.
They're very, very unmeasured.
And you can manifest your own perception of things for sure.
Yeah.
So what my concern is, is like if you go into a place with a preexisting
knowledge of ghosts, like you think ghosts are here, you think ghosts are real.
You have this thought in your mind that you maybe experience a ghost in this
place that's haunted.
You're at this elevated level of anticipation.
You're proba