Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1738 - Ben O'Brien
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1738 - Ben O'Brien' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1738 - Ben O'Brien

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Oh, hi, Ben O'Brien.
Hey, Joe Rogan.
Good to see you, man.
God, it feels really comfortable in here.
It's been a while.
I know, I missed you.
This is so appropriate that I'm mixing this with a nice little bench-made knife.
We're making rye brains.
This is a...
We are.
Well, we figured out a couple of different drinks one time on a hunting trip in
Lanai,
and one of them was the Cat Lady.
That was John Dudley's creation.
The Cat Lady.
There's no way to know.
Do you remember what was in the Cat Lady?
The Cat Lady had Red Bull, red wine, and I think it was tequila?
Tequila, for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
There's no way to really recreate that.
John Dudley's everybody's uncle.
He could put him away.
Yeah, he knows how to put him away, and we did a podcast.
Podcast in Paradise?
Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
Who was on that?
Remy was on that one?
Remy.
Sam Soho was on that one.
Shane Dorian.
Shane Dorian.
Oh, it was a classic, and we had a giant dinner table in my hotel room just
covered with bottles.
And you emptied the minibar.
You're like, guys, guys, let's have a podcast.
We literally opened up the minibar, and I don't even remember what equipment we
used to record.
I was employed then.
As a marketing person, I was like, this is it.
Was that what you were working for Yeti?
Yeah, I was like, this is the end of my career.
I think I might have even told you guys after.
Yeah, that could be it for me.
That could be a problem.
We got a little wild.
A little wild.
But I don't think it was that bad.
No, no.
I don't think we said anything that was too crazy.
I think we did just fine.
We created the worst drink ever.
And people actually, to the discredit of the American public, people actually
made that and drank that.
Star drinking cat ladies?
They did.
They weren't that bad.
Which is the surprising part.
Yeah, the rye brain, which is what we're making now, that was your creation, I
believe.
I want to say Dudley was also involved.
But rye brain is alpha brain instant, the delicious, alpha brain is like a...
Memory.
Yeah, well, it is normally, like it's just a supplement, but we have alpha
brain instant.
You add to water, it actually tastes good.
This one I'm drinking here is lemon.
No, pineapple.
This one, yeah.
I was stirring my drink.
I didn't have a spoon, so I was stirring it with a packet.
Coconut lime flavor.
Oh.
With a little, a little rye whiskey.
Benchmade gave me this sweet little knife.
Oh, look at that.
How light that is.
You done any...
Ooh, it's got like a little design on it.
It's so light.
You done any work with this on animal parts?
No.
No?
That's just a little carry one.
They gave it to me when I was in Portland.
I did a show up in Portland.
Just don't fly on a plane.
Oh, you probably fly private.
Don't fly on a plane with that.
They'll take it away from you.
No, dude.
Jocko gave me a big-ass fucking knife, and I had it in my fanny pack.
I went straight through security, no problem.
And then I sent him a photo of it from my hotel room.
I go, hey.
I go, look who's protecting your air.
Fucking TSA.
Let me fly straight through.
I think if it's in a fanny pack, though.
Oh, yeah.
They figure this guy's safe.
He's not going to do anything.
He's wearing a fanny pack.
He's a good guy.
It's leather.
It's shiny.
Don't a lot of people use fanny packs for concealed carry?
Yeah, that is popular in concealed carry world.
Have you seen those Velcro ones that they have that you just pull a tab?
No offense, concealed carry world, but it's not the most fashion-forward ever.
It isn't.
If you're not worried about getting laid, just, it's a practice.
But you can defend yourself.
You can defend yourself.
Mine's in my truck.
What do you need?
My car, rather.
My fanny pack.
Carry it everywhere.
I don't fuck around.
No, I mean, the first time I met you, you had one on.
I fucking really wear one.
I know, you really do.
I often tell people, they're like, how's Joe Rogan?
I'm like, well, he wears fanny packs.
I don't know.
You take, what are we doing here?
What's your, so you put it in the water.
So put a little bit of there.
So we got a little water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, whiskey.
We need the whiskey.
Since we're in Austin.
What kind of whiskey are we going to go with?
Is Jamie, are you going to have one, Jamie?
He's going, no.
Got a couple different choices.
I feel like, you know, someone gave us this one.
He had three of them.
So what do you got there?
Buffalo Trace.
That's delicious.
Is this the one that Sanjay Gupta gave me?
Might be.
Could be.
I think it is.
And then Buffalo Trace, which is probably my favorite.
Which is pretty good.
But then still Austin.
Since we're in Austin, probably have a little local flavor.
Did you see this guy yesterday go viral?
Because he's Blade, the security guard guy on the left.
Look at him, knee pads and shit.
What's in his, stuck in his pants?
A hatchet?
I think it's a sword.
That looks like a hatchet.
He's a real security guard?
It says on there's Agent Wolf security.
I don't know.
I was trying to look at this.
Wesley Snipes.
I'm going to go on a limb and say that guy lives alone.
Right?
He's one of those dudes.
Small apartment.
Just a couch.
Or maybe like a trailer in the woods.
Yeah.
You know?
And he's out there doing karate and fucking moonlight.
Shirtless in the moonlight.
This is going to be, this is going to taste nostalgic.
I feel like they do.
This will bring us back to hunting and life.
Better times.
Not better times.
Not better times.
Different times.
These are perfect times.
How dare you.
These are good times in this little time machine you got here.
Yeah.
This is, I was telling you, this is my third studio.
Yeah.
You've been to all of them.
All the studios.
Well, yeah.
I've been to the one that was in my house.
That was the first one.
That was the early one.
So I don't, yeah, I don't want to overhype my podcast.
That was before I knew this was a job.
That was a bad go.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers, my brother.
Good to see you, my brother.
Very good to see you.
It's good to be here.
Yeah, that was.
That's deep.
The one in the house was like, this is just for fun.
Because that was, yeah, you guys filmed it.
Yeah.
Or you like live streamed it, didn't you?
Yeah.
Well, we had a, I guess my office that we set up and I just put a table in the
office and
put like a little webcam on and it was, it was just for fun.
It was all just a goof.
Well, I tell people like my biggest regret in life, although there are many,
one of them
is when I first met you, when we went moose hunting, the whole, the time we had
a fucking
hell of a time.
I didn't laugh more in a truck my whole life.
Like that was fucking fun.
And you said, you should do a podcast, man.
Do a podcast.
I'll help you out.
Do a podcast.
And I was thinking, I'll work for a magazine.
That's the real media.
Joe Rogan's over there in his basement with his buddy.
That's what everybody said.
Everybody said.
And I didn't listen to you.
It took me a while to get there.
But if I had to listen to you when you first told me, I think it was seven
years ago this
month.
It might've been, this might be like the seven year week anniversary of that,
huh?
Or seven or eight years ago.
Yeah.
Something like that.
Yeah.
So how long has this been going?
12 years.
12 years.
Yeah.
This is a 12 year old podcast now.
Oh shit.
Yeah.
The only ones who were doing it before me were Corolla, Marin.
There's a couple of guys that were doing it before me.
Yeah.
You had the guy on that was the pod filer.
What's that guy's name?
Lives here.
Yeah.
Adam Curry.
He's the OG.
He's the, he's definitely been doing it longer.
I mean, he fucking invented this shit.
And he's, I love that guy.
He's awesome.
He's so fucking smart and so tuned in.
And he does everything like completely independent.
You know, he's got one of them fucking Linux phones.
Like, he only uses signal.
You know, like everything's blockchain.
He's one of them guys, you know?
He's too, hmm.
I don't know how to smoke a cigar, so for the people watching, you probably.
You just do it.
Just fucking go.
You figure it out along the way.
But he's, he's fully dialed in.
Like, Adam Curry's the most dialed in guy.
Like, he's, he's the one who's always alerting me to fuckery.
Like, weird shit that they're doing about with voting or with the internet or
with, you know, the digital rights.
You feel like you have kind of a, a back alley, like, information group of
people that are just sharing stuff with you all the time.
Yeah.
Because a lot of information comes to you.
Yeah, a lot of information comes to me because people want me to get it out.
And I usually butcher it.
Me too.
Me too.
So it comes out all fucked.
Me too.
Comes out through my meathead mouth.
And those are my ears.
I'm like, yeah, got it, got it.
All right, let me tell everybody.
And then I fuck it up.
I got you, bro.
I got you, bro.
I'll tell you, I always, I'm terrible like that.
And you think of the important points of history and things that you want to,
ideas you want to articulate to people about things that are very important to
you.
Yeah.
And you almost invariably fuck it up.
And we could all just do a little bit better to, to acknowledge that with each
other.
Like, this is hard.
Well, you know what it is also, it's like we have many interests and that is,
that's my main problem.
I have so many interests.
If you want to talk to me about very specific things that I've studied for most
of my life.
Right.
I can give you a very detailed, like if you could wake me up at two o'clock in
the morning and ask me, uh, uh, what martial arts, the best martial art.
And I go, okay, well, this is what we know.
And then I can give you like a very detailed, nuanced perspective on what we've
learned about, you know, hand to hand combat.
Yeah.
And everybody has like one or two of those subjects that they know really well.
And that's when you get into like public speaking or doing stuff like this,
where you can go all day about that stuff.
The rest of it, you have at best ancillary knowledge of what you're talking
about.
Right.
At best.
Secondhand knowledge.
Especially if you're a person that has many interests because there might be
multiple things that you're really fascinated by.
You know, I, I always say that I wish I had many lives that I could live
simultaneously because I would have a bunch of different occupations.
And you've gone deep on many things just in your life, like pool.
When I first met you.
Still addicted to pool.
Addicted to pool.
And then we got you addicted to hunting, archery.
Yeah.
Everybody got you deep into that.
And you find like, especially going outside, you find that there's so many
crafts.
Mm-hmm.
But even, even in the outdoor world that I live in, there's so many little
crafts that you can, you've got the archery one.
Yeah, the bow hunting one is a, is a big one because there's like hunting,
which is a fascinating, really difficult pursuit.
Right.
And people don't understand how difficult it is, especially on public land.
You know, it's a, it's a very hard pursuit.
It is.
And especially if you want to, if you want to fill your freezer up on a regular
basis and you want to eat mostly wild game.
You, and you're, if you, especially those do-it-yourself guys, I fucking give
all the credit in the world to those dudes.
But I tell you a story.
When I moved to Bozeman, I had killed big elk, right?
I had killed, if you came to my house, you might say, this is a big elk killing
guy.
This guy has the, the bone of fetes to tell me how to kill elk.
But I had never really done it on my own.
Done it all with guides?
Yeah.
Most of it.
I did, I had one, I killed one big elk on public land, but again, it was a
rifle hunt and I had a buddy helping me.
And I didn't really, I didn't gather the intellectual property in a way that I
felt was appropriate to say, this is my, this is the thing that I did.
This is a craft that I can now 