Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1884 - Anthony Kiedis
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Joe Rogan Experience #1884 - Anthony Kiedis

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Good to see you, man. What's happening?
What is really happening?
Your show was fucking great.
Thank you.
I really enjoyed it.
I'm so happy to hear that.
What that means to me is even on an off night, we're still pretty damn good.
That was an off night?
Way off.
Really?
Bad sound.
Sound was bad?
For me.
Sounded good.
We have high standards.
I guess.
It was excellent.
Thank you.
So what else was wrong?
The sound?
Well, I like to dance, and I like to get the mojo flowing at maximum photon
speed.
Right.
And my knee was locked up, so I couldn't fully flow, which is disconcerting,
and it actually
throws my singing off as well.
Well, we talked afterwards about your knee entry.
But while you were on stage, I didn't notice anything.
You moved great.
I can move better, but thanks.
The good news for me is I'm surrounded by John, Chad, and Flea, which is just
like a huge, uplifting energy circle.
So they carry me.
Yeah.
How did you injure your knee?
Is it just from all the years of dancing on stage?
Pounding.
Pounding on stage for 100 years.
Yeah.
You know Maynard from Tool?
He's got an artificial hip.
Mm-hmm.
From stomping.
From stomping.
From stomping on stage.
He blew his fucking hip out.
I'm not surprised.
What I am surprised is that Mick Jagger hasn't blown both of his hips out.
Oh, man.
We saw him when he was at COTA, the Circuit of the Americas here in Austin.
It was insane.
First of all, it was like a psychedelic experience just seeing him.
Because you can't believe, that's really Mick Jagger up there.
Like, that's the fucking Rolling Stones.
They were incredible.
And he's still dancing around.
He's as old as Biden.
He's as old as...
Which is an official expression, by the way.
Yes.
I mean, he's like commensurate.
I think he's basically the same age, right?
Like, what is Biden?
Biden's like 78.
And I think Mick Jagger is like 78 as well.
I think he's in the neighborhood, right?
How old is he?
You could ask your father.
I think it's because he's...
He's 79.
79.
He's so light.
Yeah.
His bone structure, his anatomy is light.
Yeah.
And he's written a song or two.
Oh, yeah.
He's older by four months or so.
He's older than Biden.
That's insane.
As you said, he's older than Biden.
But meanwhile, he talks great.
No, he's not.
No, he's not.
I'm sorry.
No?
No, I misread that.
They're twins.
Biden's older by like eight months.
Oh, okay.
November 42 versus...
Those eight months are a motherfucker.
The eight months of the difference.
You and I shall see.
Hopefully we'll see.
Yeah.
If we're lucky.
We need those black...
How old are you now?
I am looking at 60.
Looking at it.
I'm looking at it.
Yeah.
Two weeks away.
Wow.
Yeah.
How's it feel?
You look great.
I feel...
Thank you.
You look great too.
Thank you.
Yep.
I don't know how old you are, but...
55.
Wow.
You look real good.
Thank you.
Yeah.
We could grapple later.
It feels wonderful.
It feels so good.
If I can...
If I can do what I want to do for the next 20, 30 years, I'm just...
Hallelujah.
It's just a matter of the joints.
The joints holding up.
I think they're going to repair.
Yeah.
I think they're going to repair.
I went hard last night and I feel better today than I did when I saw you a week
ago.
Oh, that's great.
Did you get any treatments done on the knee or anything?
Osteopathy.
Osteopathy.
What is that?
Osteopathy is a medicine, a hands-on medicine, where you have to study for 12
years before you
can touch a patient.
And they study anatomy, connectivity, all tissues, all bones.
And this girl is French, Lucille.
And she gets in there and she starts feeling the hamstrings connected to the
knee bones,
connected to the calf things, connected to the archery foot.
And she just starts allowing your body to heal.
So she makes some space with her hands and her mind.
Her mind?
Oh, yeah.
You have to be focused.
There's a concentration to it.
It's not the biggest part, but it's a part.
You're looking at me.
Okay.
Yeah.
Anyway, I had a frozen shoulder.
I went to every doctor in the world.
Nothing.
Oh, really?
Three visits with Lucille.
You know what's great for shoulders is hanging from your hands?
Yeah.
A chin-up bar?
Yeah.
It's really good for that.
Sounds good.
If you have frozen shoulders, impingements and things like that.
And there's a theory that, you know, as we are primates, our ancestors swung
from trees
and hung on trees and that the joint expresses itself better when it's, like,
constantly put
through a range of motion and hanging from things.
And people, especially people with sedentary lifestyles that never really put
that kind
of, like, where your body weight sort of stretches out your joint, your joints
can kind of collapse
and they get impinged and they, you know, they get kind of fucked up.
I hear that.
That makes sense.
We are primates and it's also mental.
Your brain depends on walking.
So, old school us, we would walk all day, every day.
Right.
However, 20, 30 miles.
And it's good for your brain.
It keeps the Alzheimer's away.
You stop walking and the brain kind of freezes up.
Yeah.
That's true.
Activity is one of the very best ways to fight off all sorts of mental degeneration.
Yeah.
Yes.
And music.
Yeah.
Well, that's why, you know, you look so great at 60 because you're always
bouncing around and
moving and you, I feel bad for people that aren't, like, active, you know,
because you will
deteriorate to a point where you're not going to be able to bring it back.
If you can maintain, it's so much better to maintain than it is to try to
rebuild.
Agreed.
People need a push.
People need an inspiration.
They need something that they love and they need maybe somebody to do it with.
Right.
They need something fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's one of the key.
Like, some people love running.
Some people love skiing.
Like, whatever you love.
Like, doing something that you really enjoy doing that keeps you active, I
think, is a great
key to that.
I need the push.
You've been, I mean, when did you start, you've basically been doing music your
whole
life.
I feel like I started late, relatively speaking.
Relatively.
Yeah.
But you've been performing since you were how old?
83, which would put me at 21.
I was pretty young.
But my friends had been studying and playing and practicing music since they
were 10, the
guys that I hooked up with musically.
Hmm.
So 21 is kind of like, you already have to have started music.
Let's, like, with a sport.
If you start at 21, it's kind of late in the game.
That's true.
So I just got lucky that I had been studying other things that fed into music.
So I had something to say.
I had rhythm.
I had love for dance, love for sound, love for my friends.
But I have been performing since I was 21.
It's a long time to be in the public eye, live in that life.
Hmm.
It is.
And it's both wonderful and horrific at the same time.
The public eye, specifically.
I don't think I would trade it because it comes with joy and perks and it's a
unique experience.
But I love my anonymity to pieces.
Yeah.
I love going out in the world and just knocking.
Can you still do that?
Yes.
Not often.
But when I do, I love it.
When you can sneak by.
I'm not even sneaking.
I mean, you don't have to sneak.
I think it's the anti-sneak approach that makes you invisible.
You go about your business and maybe you just blend in.
Los Angeles, California is the place where I get noticed and mess with the
least.
Because they're so used to famous people there.
Jaded.
Yeah.
In a bubble, self-obsessed.
Right.
They could care less.
The minute I walk around New York City.
Hey, Katis, caught you on the TV.
Whatever.
Yeah.
Completely different sort of scenarios with giant masses of people.
The New York mass of people is not connected to show business.
No.
So you have less of the self-obsession.
And they love seeing people that they relate to.
Right.
And they'll let you know about it.
Right.
They'll stop the car.
Yes.
Yeah.
But the Los Angeles scene.
Yeah.
That's so true.
That's one of the reasons why a lot of people that are famous actually enjoy
living in Los Angeles.
Because people are jaded.
Mm-hmm.
And you can, you know, it's kind of normal.
You can hang out.
People don't care.
They'll leave you alone.
I agree.
I miss you as a fellow resident.
I understand.
But, yeah.
L.A., geographically, it's gorgeous.
It's a harsh toque these days.
It's different.
You know, I got out in, we started looking in May of 2020, like right when they
expanded,
you know, two weeks to flatten the curve and it got to a month and a half.
And I was like, oh, this is not going away.
And I started seeing that there was other places where they were taking a more
sane approach.
I immediately started looking.
But I had been thinking about getting out of L.A. anyway.
Just the, I get anxiety about the sheer numbers of people.
The sheer, there's the traffic, the, just the untenable volume of human beings
was just,
like there's a certain level of anxiety that comes with that.
That when I would go to other places, like if I would go to Montana or go to
like Utah,
it was like, oh, this feels better.
Like this is relaxing.
It's like less humans.
I hear that.
You did live in the boondocks, did you not?
I lived a little outside.
Like I didn't live in the city city, but so it was nice that I got my little
break there.
But it was always, I was always aware it was around the corner.
It was always there.
I mean, I was, I was living near.
There was a lot of like owls and coyotes and, you know, mountain lions.
There's a lot of shit out where I live.
Those are my people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those are my people.
You're naming my people.
Those are your creatures.
Yes.
There's a lot of that here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The traffic thing is hell.
I ride a motorcycle to circumvent as much of it as possible.
Do you really?
Every day.
Wow.
Every day unless it's freezing or raining.
That is a wild thing to do in Los Angeles to ride a motorcycle because there's
so many
people on their phone and there's so many cars.
You just have to be defensive.
It's normal to me.
Yeah.
It's second nature.
Have you always ridden a motorcycle?
I started off crashing mini bikes through backyard fences in Michigan and I put
it down for
a while and then sometime in the 80s, Chad Smith showed up on a Suzuki and I
was like,
let me try that big bike.
And I was hooked.
Wow.
So you just get around on motorcycles?
I do on a cop bike.
Really?
A cop, yeah, it's the bike that the California Highway Patrol use.
So it's a big cruiser.
It's big.
It has a windshield.
It's fast.
It handles like a magic carpet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love it.
Wow.
Yes.
Do you have a car too or do you only?
No, I have a couple of cars, but it's a pain in the ass to go down the PCH and
just wait
for an hour to go somewhere.
That's the thing about LA too.
You're allowed to split the lanes.
And people are starting to recognize, like, oh, there's a bike.
I have to make space.
Yeah.
Well, that's nice.
Yes.
Some people are dicks though.
They just like.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So you can't go by.
I have moments.
It's also an opportunity to see where I'm at as a human being.
Like, do I want to kill these people or do I just want to.
Forgive them.
Just forgive them and carry on with my life.
Yeah.
Not worry about it.
It's better.
It's a little opportunity to just exercise that aspect of your thought.
Yeah.
Also in a car.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Who am I?
Well, that's one of the nice things about here.
Like, people let you in.
It's so different.
They let you in the lane.
They wave.
It's like, it's a different, like, they're more friendly.
People feel like, I think in Los Angeles, the problem is there's so many human
beings
that human beings become a bother.
Like, God, there's so many people.
Whereas here, it's only like a million people.
So it's like people are just a little bit more appreciative of each other.
It's not that level of tension.
This is what I hear.
I had a conversation with Guy on