Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1578 - Richard Rawlings
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1578 - Richard Rawlings' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1578 - Richard Rawlings

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What the fuck's going on with this?
This is those Virgin Abloh kicks.
These are Air Jordan Fives.
And like he was saying, it's real controversial
if you're going to cut all the stuff out of the different holes.
Cut the stuff out of the holes?
I don't understand that.
There's holes?
I don't know.
I mean, it's got stuff.
It's got holes with fabric in it,
and you can either cut it out or leave it in.
But why would you cut it out?
I don't understand.
I guess just to be one of the cool kids.
So, Jamie, explain.
I'm trying to find the hole cut out so you can see it.
Some cool kids.
Oh, by the way, salute, my friend.
Cheers, sir.
Thanks for having me back.
Please, my honor.
Thanks for being back now that I'm in your home state.
Hell yeah.
So, what do you do?
He didn't cut it out either.
Okay, this guy didn't cut it out.
You can see it with the yellow socks.
Yeah, so you're supposed to cut that little hole out here?
You're supposed to.
In that little hole.
Once you get it home, you have to put an exacto knife?
Why would you fucking...
What?
You got to bring an exacto knife to fix your shoes?
That's crazy.
That's the...
That's the thing.
That's the designer's idea.
They're running out of shit.
You know what it is?
It's like there's so many different kinds of sneakers that you're running out
of new ways
to get people.
So now you have to get a fucking exacto knife.
Yeah, and cut out your circles or leave them or only cut out one.
I don't know if there's any kind of hierarchy there that you might reach a
point where you're
a sneaker god or not.
But my buddy James runs this thing called Off the Cut, a little podcast about
sneakers.
And so he gets me hooked up on the good ones that are hard to find.
Imagine how quick you'd run out of shit to talk about if you got a podcast just
on sneakers.
That'd be for a long time.
That'd go for a long time.
That'd go for a long time.
Jamie's a sneakerhead.
There's some serious cuts out there.
Talk shit about sneakers.
Jamie will jump on that mic.
Yeah.
This guy, James, man, he has like 5,000 or 6,000 pair.
What?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
That is madness.
That is madness.
I don't get it.
Yeah, these are Cameron Haynes, Under Armour's, Hovers.
They're great if you want to run mountains.
I hunt in these.
They're good.
That's right.
I think we were trying to get me on a little earlier, and you were still out
hunting.
Yeah, that was in October.
Yeah.
So, how are you digging, Texas?
I fucking love it.
Well, I don't wish I moved here earlier, because I moved here at the right time.
It was a perfect time to move here, but I love it.
Everybody's moving here.
Whew, you ain't kidding, man.
Oracle just moved here.
Elon Musk moved here.
It's a mass exodus.
Adam Carolla is moving here, too.
I was watching some interview with him today.
It's not just the taxes.
L.A., they just got a new district attorney who is going to get rid of bail.
They're not going to have cash bail anymore.
They're not going to arrest people for resisting arrest.
They're not going to charge people for resisting arrest.
They're not going to charge people for...
There's a bunch of things, like loitering, drunken disorderly, things along
those lines.
So it's going to get wild.
Well, as long as the California people that move here don't bring that kind of
stuff.
That's the problem.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the problem.
Because this dude is the same dude that apparently was doing the same kind of
stupid shit in San Francisco.
Well, we've got a mayor in Dallas that just passed.
I think it's up to $1,500.
They don't prosecute.
So literally, somebody could walk into my merch store there in Dallas and take
$1,499 and walk out.
And they won't even get in trouble.
That is so ridiculous.
Now, I wouldn't advise them to try it because they might get shot, but they won't
get in trouble.
That is so ridiculous, though, that people have the lack of foresight to see
how that would become a real problem.
We're starting to get a lot of homeless problems here, too, in Texas, period.
Austin's pretty bad.
It's the first time I've spent the night here in a long time.
And I was like, wow, that's a big community of homeless.
Well, you've got so many people out of work.
I mean, what are the numbers of people out of work?
It's some insane number.
It's like 30%?
Yeah.
You know, something crazy like that?
When you have something like that, you're going to get a lot more homeless
people.
There's people that were, like, barely on the edge.
The question is, how do you bring them back?
How do you get them back into society?
How do you help them out?
How do you get them housing?
Because some of them are drug addicts and mentally ill, but some of them are
just people that are down on their luck.
And in this sort of environment, like, it's not even their fault.
They didn't even do anything wrong, a lot of them.
No, not at all.
I mean, welcome to the shittiest year in history, 2020.
I don't know about that.
It's pretty bad, though.
It ain't shit compared to, like, the Black Plague or the Inquisition or the,
you know, World War II.
Well, for sure.
But in our lifetime, let's put it that way.
In our lifetime, it's rough.
You know, it's pretty shitty.
It's not good.
It's not a good year.
No.
Not at all.
I'm ready for 2021.
You think that's going to be better?
Are you going to be lining up for the fucking vaccination?
What are you going to do, bro?
You going to wait?
I don't know.
I think I'm going to hang out.
I think I'm going to hang out and see how everybody else does, because I'm just
not sure.
I don't consider myself against the vaccine.
I can just consider myself, let's wait and see.
You know, let's hang out.
Yeah.
I know a lot of people that have gotten the disease, and I know a couple of
them that got
it really bad.
Real bad.
Like, one of them, two of them almost died.
Wow.
Yeah.
One of them was an older gentleman, and one of them was a young guy that was
just worn
the fuck out when he got sick, and he was beat down already and, you know, not
at his
healthiest, but he's only in his 40s, and he almost died.
Don't tell me that.
We're in our 50s.
That's what I'm saying, bro.
You taking vitamins now?
Your wife's got you working out.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, man, you getting pumped?
Nah, I'd like to say that I don't work out.
I hope things work out.
But, you know, nah, she's got me going up to the gym upstairs, and like she
said a minute
ago, it's like I'm walking the green mile like I'm going to death.
I'm, like, walking up the stairs all sad and slumped over.
Dude, you got a trainer, and I'm telling you, if you just stick with it, once
you start seeing
yourself looking good, you start getting some abs.
What the hell are you talking about, Joe?
Look at this.
You look better, excuse me, better than the already pristine condition you find
yourself
in currently.
On the outside.
Yeah.
The inside's all jacked up.
Your liver's probably strong as fuck, man.
My liver is strong.
Your liver probably looks like a linebacker.
So what's happening with your show, man?
What are you doing?
What's the latest?
Oh, shit.
You're just going to go right for the big one, huh?
Let's get in there, man.
All right.
First of all, I love your show.
I've been loving it for years.
It's fun.
And I'm a giant muscle car fan, so it's right up my alley.
But what's the latest?
Well, everybody hold on to your hat out there.
Fast and Loud is no more.
I have exited Discovery, and I'm a free agent.
What?
We're going to be doing some cool things in 2021, and it just was a perfect
storm, so to
speak.
It was time for me to expand and grow a little bit, and I've kind of gotten to
the top of
that mountain, being Discovery, and there wasn't anything else for me to do
there.
Wow.
I used this year to kind of rethink and reshape what I want to do in the future.
And so, fast and loud, no muss.
Jeez Louise.
Man, eight years, though.
That's a long run.
That's a very good run.
You know, 300-ish episodes, and you know...
That's a lot.
There's only so many times you can buy a car, fix a car, sell a car, and it was
time to make
some changes to make it more fun.
And so, the stuff we've got coming out in 2021 is going to be quite a blast.
What are you...
Well, you know, I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.
You selling them Wonder Woman bracelets?
Yeah.
Shaking off bullets with those.
Ka-ching!
Yeah, a lady asked me one time, she goes, don't those bother you when they make
noise?
I said, they only make noise when I do this.
Did you tell that to her?
Yeah.
It was a good joke.
Uncomfortable conversation?
She thought it was funny.
Oh.
You know, it was back in my single days.
Right person.
I'm all married now.
Right person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, we're going to...
I think I'm going to end up doing a podcast because there's not a whole lot
going on in my
genre in the podcast world.
I mean, I know some guys are doing it, and they're doing well, but I've never
been allowed
to before.
You know, so...
Oh, that's right.
You've got to realize that when I signed my deal with Disco, it was almost 10
years
ago.
Is that what you call it?
Disco?
Yeah.
So, Discovery didn't...
You know, social media didn't even exist hardly.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I signed off on all media.
So, up to this point until literally...
All media, including social media?
It wasn't even social media back then.
I mean, what was it?
Like MySpace or something?
Well, I was doing something on another network back in the day,
and they wanted to get control of my social media.
That was like part of the deal.
And they thought it was just like an easy yes.
No, it's not.
I was like, you can eat shit.
There's no way.
You can pay for it.
But it was ridiculous.
They wanted to use it to promote other shows on their network.
Correct.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
And they're like, well, everybody else lets us do it.
I go, I have millions of followers.
Like, there's no fucking chance you're just going to get access to that for
free.
Now, I had the same conversation several times.
It's a weird conversation, right?
It's like, you know they're being Weasley.
Like, you know this is a valuable thing.
You know, hey, no big deal, Richard.
We just like to use your entire social media to promote a lot of other
discovery programs.
No big deal.
Yeah, no big deal.
Yeah, you're cool with that, right?
Okay, good.
Sign here.
Well, see, they try that, but I couldn't post myself.
I couldn't do things like of myself for a lot of the time.
Like, if I went out and bought a car and my camera crew wasn't with me, and so
I took
my camera phone and whatever, and I wanted to post about it, I wasn't able to
do that.
You weren't allowed.
No.
Yeah, it was pretty rough.
But that's ridiculous.
But that would just boost up your social media, which would boost up the show.
You would think so.
You would think that that would be the thought that I'm going to, you know,
help boost the show.
Walk me through a conversation with one of these knuckleheads.
I can't.
Well, a fake conversation.
Pretend.
I can't.
Let's pretend it's not Discovery Channel.
Let me tell you.
It's called the Hoo-Ha Network.
Yeah, let me tell you.
It's so bad.
You know, the question would be, how was my tenure there, you know, and how
well was I
treated?
And so the answer is, there's a piece of the contract, of the contract when I
exited.
Oh, that you can't talk shit.
That I can't talk.
It's up to a $25,000 fine per occurrence of me.
Per occurrence of you talking shit?
Of me talking shit.
Well, can I talk shit?
You can talk as much shit as you want.
I love the Discovery Channel.
I would talk shit, but I watch their programs all the time.
I like it too.
I think that the automotive programming could have been a little stronger and
we wanted to
make some changes, but we were just kind of stuck in a rut.
The problem is, they're a business and businesses will get away with whatever
they can get awa