Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1965 - David Choe
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1965 - David Choe' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1965 - David Choe

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hey, can I give you a real hug?
Yeah, you can give me a real hug.
Sure, I missed you.
What's going on?
It's great to see you.
Yeah, and I always like to give you a gift.
So this is my like shroom mates, you know, our connection through psychedelics.
That's beautiful.
And I added this one, train all day, JRE all night.
And then I got the mushroom guy.
I got a mushroom playing a mushroom drum set with like some guy dunking on, you
know.
Nice.
I wanted to model it for you, but I want to give it to you.
Well, thank you very much.
I don't know if it'll fit, but...
I'm sure it'll fit.
Here you go.
Thank you.
Yeah, there you go.
And what is this fucking costume you're wearing underneath this?
Jesus Christ.
Joe, I've been cruising Austin.
All right, where do I begin with this?
Okay.
Where do I begin with this?
Where do you begin with this?
I touched down Austin yesterday, all right?
This is what I...
They're like...
You touched down wearing that or with the face?
I had this on and people were like, do you think they know I'm from L.A.?
Do you think they know I'm from out of town?
No, there's a lot of people here like that.
Let me do a call out to the Asians really quick.
Asians, if you're listening to all my gooks, all my jungle Asians, I've been
here for 24 hours in Texas.
Oh my God.
I found a kai bichin place, awesome sushi.
There's like two banh mi places, a hallo hallo place.
Like, if you're listening, I've done the reconnaissance.
I was on my bike.
I went down Congress.
I went through, like, Westlake.
I rode all over town.
Like, it was the best.
Like, I had explosions in the sky playing.
I watched Friday Night Lights when I got back to my room.
It's like, this place is...
I saw, like, maybe two homeless people.
I rode around the lake.
Barbecue's great.
Like, that was my concern, right?
I think the last time I did your show, it was the week you were about to leave.
I talked to Jamie.
He was like...
Yeah.
You know, and I was like, this guy's not really going to...
Like, it's such a bold move.
And, like, I didn't even...
Like, time has passed so quickly.
It's been, like, two years since I saw you.
It's almost three.
Shit, it's almost three, yeah.
Yeah, I've been here almost three years.
It'll be three years...
Well, it'll be three years, Jamie.
In May, it'll be three years that I looked.
And then August when I moved here.
Yeah, so I...
Look, when people tell me how awesome Austin is,
I don't know the rest of Texas, but, like, Austin is, like, the vibe yesterday.
It's, like, the weather.
Like, everyone was out, like, having picnics.
How many days are you in town for?
I leave tomorrow if you want to, like, like...
I want to show you a club.
Oh, I definitely want to show you a club.
But, like, I was, like, checking out real estate on my bike just to be, like...
I was just...
I got a lady.
Looking like this.
Yeah.
Looking like this.
And I got to tell you, man, like, I kind of, like, come in hard like this
because I want people to be, like...
And Austin's already weird, right?
Like...
Yeah.
And no one gives a fuck.
No one gives a fuck.
Waiting an hour in line at Terry Black's like this.
No one gives a fuck.
Like, it's just, like...
It's...
Like, there's not a ton of Asians.
Not like I...
Like...
There's Asian communities.
There is.
There is.
But I'm saying to the Asians listening, it's a good place.
It's an open-minded, cool place.
I see very quickly why you didn't go back after.
Like, I don't want to go back.
I'm not going back.
I don't want to go back.
There's no traffic here.
The people are so friendly.
They're so nice.
Yeah.
It's, like, everything about it I love.
There's so many artists here.
There's so many musicians here.
There's so many comedians here now.
It's fucking thick with comedians.
Yeah, and, like, you think I like dressing like this?
It's, like, it's because I'm born and raised in L.A.
Like, I'd rather raise kids here and, like, have them not look like this.
Like, sorry, mom.
Like, fuck.
That's your fucking fault.
Like, um, so, yeah.
It's a great place to raise kids, too.
It feels very artsy.
Yeah.
Like, tons of art everywhere.
And the deeper you get, like, the more you're here, the more you'll see that.
The more you'll see that.
The more you experience that.
What is your threshold for compliments this morning?
Oh.
Generally not that good at them.
All right.
Well, I just have to tell you, because I've, once again, like, we don't talk
very often,
but when we do, and then, like, your voice is just on all the time because I
got you playing.
You're a great audio portrait artist.
Like, the interviews you've done using, like, you've captured the essence, like,
the way a painter captures, and it's, like, the best of that person, right?
Like, you've, of that celebrity or that scientist or whoever.
So, you're a great audio portrait artist.
Thank you.
Um, just that move to, like, be like, L.A. sucks and then lead the charge and,
like, look, my driver, my driver, like, I saw on the map that I was, like, a
mile away and I told him to, like, drop me off because I just wanted to walk a
little bit like this.
And, uh, he's, like, what do you mean, like, how are you going to get there?
I'm, like, I'm going to walk, like, like, you're going to walk to the studio?
I'm, like, yeah, like, like, walk the earth, motherfucker, you know?
And walking, you know, going down South Congress and, like, your presence is
felt, like, you've, you've, like, kind of changed, like, the comedy club thing.
Oh, my God, like, that's amazing to, to, like, try to get into a comedy club.
Like, it's gone full circle.
Like, you've, like, you've gone, like, from trying to get the spot at the
comedy club to now owning one and you're, like, I'm going to do it my way and,
like, all the things I didn't like.
So that, that courage to, like, just cut your own path gives me courage and I
just want to say you're lovable.
Oh, you're lovable, too.
You're loving and you're just, you're, you're love.
Thank you.
You are love.
So I just wanted to.
I appreciate you, brother.
I just wanted to say that.
Yeah, I just, you know, my, I just follow my instincts and my instincts were,
first of all, to get the fuck out of L.A.
I felt like it was just going to get worse.
Yeah.
I felt like the way the government has run there, they're, they're just
drinking the same poison that got them sick and they're not going to change.
And after all that defund the police shit and the, the chaos of shutting all
the restaurants and bars and everything down from COVID for like a fucking year
and a half, I was like, you people are incompetent and you're not going to ruin
my life.
I'm going to go someplace where you're more free.
Yeah.
And this was the first place that we went in May of 2020.
Right.
And my kids loved it.
And my, my wife loved it.
And I was like, let's go, let's fucking move.
So a couple months later, I was here.
And, and you don't, you don't seem to come back that often.
I don't like it.
I don't like going back.
It feels, it feels shitty when I'm landing.
Too many people, man.
I think when you get too many people in an area, you devalue people.
You don't appreciate them as much.
They become a hindrance.
I have a, I live in a pretty nice neighborhood in LA.
I have a bat, a baseball bat.
I'm not an athletic person.
I have a baseball bat in my house.
That's never hit a baseball.
It's only hit human flesh.
Like it's like, it's like insane.
If I like forget to close my garage one night, there's junkies in there.
And I'm just like, maybe Austin is a nice starter place,
but I'm trying to, I'm trying to like, get out, get out.
Like I'm looking in South America.
I'm looking in Asia.
I'm looking in New Zealand.
I'm looking in Africa.
Jesus.
Yeah.
Like, so, I mean.
Costa Rica?
Costa Rica, for sure.
Like, yeah, cause I just, you're right.
That whole thing about things being too populated.
Oh, and I have to, like, before we like get into it, like, I have to.
Like, you came on my podcast, like, 15 years.
Something like.
Something crazy.
Something like way in the early, early pod days.
And it was like, so, and I've done your podcast a few times now.
So it's like, I remember when it was live and I would leave your studio.
And as soon as I left, people would be like, yo, that was great.
I was like, oh shit, dude.
So I always knew you had impact, but to come on your show the last time I came
on, like, two, three years ago, it's like standing on a soapbox with a
microphone in front of the whole world.
Like, in three years, like, not a day has gone by where someone doesn't say
something nice or say, hey man, like, I was going to kill myself and I heard
that episode.
And it's like, you changed my life.
And I'm like, okay, thank you.
It feels weird, right?
It's weird.
But in the way, I mean, Jamie, you could talk about it with, like, you do the
show and then you chop it up into, like, clips, right?
There's people out there that chop it into, like, TikToks and Reels.
There's one where I talk about the Hadza tribe, the hunter-gatherer tribe that
has 30 million views.
And I don't know what that monetizes into for, like, YouTube or whatever, but I
think it's, like, it's, like, 50, 60 grand.
So it's, like, the words are the, like, you can, like, just, this is it.
Like, someone could get rich just, like, talking and doing this shit.
And so after doing that show, and I'm just telling, like, my journey to Africa
and how I felt being with this hunter-gatherer tribe, it, like, literally just
saved their lives.
Like, the money that came in, the amount of people that donated to the Hadza,
the Maleka Foundation, the, you know, the foundation people are calling me
saying, what's happening right now?
This is so, and, like, this is, like, clean water for them.
This is, like, you know, education, clothes, like, all these things.
And I'm, like, wow, you talk about something on Joe Rogan, it could, like, save
a culture, you know?
And there was so much, like, the influencers that went out there, the guy with
the red headband that eats all the crazy shit went out there, the liver king
went out there.
Logan Paul, I've never met the guy, calls me, like, bro, take me to Tanzania.
Like, so, there's, like, insane, like, and if you guys are doing that, like,
please, however much money you're making from getting those views, like, all
those views have, like, all those videos have, like, millions of views.
Please donate back to the Hadza because, like, they need it.
But, yeah, I mean, the Rasooli, Shani, the guys that I know out there are, like,
the tourism is great.
So, it's, like, a thriving thing just because I talked about it.
And, like, going off what you said, like, I helped make a film.
I was the cameraman on this film called We Are Hadza.
If anyone out there wants to, I just helped make it.
It's just, like, the best documentary.
It's, like, the first beginning to end baboon hunt and then skinning it, eating
it.
Like, you feel like you're living that lifestyle.
So, I'm not trying to be, like, Harrison Ford in, like, Mosquito Coast, but,
like, I think Austin is a good buffer for the family.
And then, eventually, I do want to fully go to kind of, like, who am I kidding?
Like, not fully hunter-gatherer, but, like, fully, like, a culture where it's,
like, not that many people.
I know who all my neighbors are.
I'm living, like, half, like, city life and half, like, there.
So, things are starting to steer towards going back to Africa for me.
Wow.
I mean, I'm not even close yet.
I'm just saying, like, I remember—
What was it about that spoke to you so much that you wanted to be there more
often?
Well, like, art—I'm an artist, right?
And art is about expression and creating.
But if you're saying I'm a professional artist, at some point there has to be a
conversation about business.
It's monetization, making money, and, you know, we could get into all the AI
shit, which is craz