Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1553 - Maynard James Keenan
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1553 - Maynard James Keenan' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-10-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1553 - Maynard James Keenan

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The Joe Rogan Experience
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day!
Oh, hello, man.
Hey, bro.
Is this how you're wearing your mask now, on the wrist?
That's cool.
I just forget to bring it with me, so if I just, like, hang it on my nose, I
just bring it.
It's a new move.
Yeah.
People will do that now.
They will see you, and they'll say, one side of the watch, other side of the
watch.
Put your miniature schnauzer right here.
Aw, you have a cute little dog, dude.
That picture of your dog is adorable.
Yeah, she's awesome.
She's out.
What's her name?
Taking a walk.
Miho.
Miho?
Yeah, she's 15.
What does Miho stand for?
Beauty, Crest of a Wave.
It's Japanese.
Oh, okay.
Deadly Little Miho from Sin City.
Which one was that?
She had the swords in the corner.
Oh, right.
From the movie?
Yeah, Sin City.
Sin City was a movie, but it was also a comic book, right?
Comic book, yeah.
Was she in the comic book as well?
I don't know.
That movie was fucking good, man.
Yeah.
I forgot all about that movie until just now.
Yeah, she's named after a deadly little Miho.
So we were talking about how, well, we didn't talk about how the new Puss for
Album comes
out on the 30th.
I listened to what is available, and it sounds awesome.
There's a lot of layers to that shit, man.
There's all kinds of sounds coming at you from all over the place.
Yeah, Matt, normally what happens with our recording process is that I'll have
an idea or Matt will
have an idea, and we'll just kind of set down a direction.
For example, I'll go mandolin, drum machine, banjo.
Let's just start there and start to see what we can build on this thing.
And then you have an album like Conditions of My Parole.
On this, he picked up an old Fairlight.
And making a Fairlight actually work nowadays.
I don't know what a Fairlight is.
It's a synthesizer, and you've heard it on, you know, Peter Gabriel used it,
Art of Noise.
Like, I think, yes, might have used versions like a Synclavier or a Fairlight.
I'm going to get that wrong, and Matt's going to just, he's got his face in his
palm right
now.
But, you know, so there's very specific sounds that come out of these, and
there's a learning
curve to go with it.
But the cool thing is that it kind of paints you into a sonic corner, and then
you start layering
on that.
And then, of course, unconsciously or consciously, you start thinking of all
the stuff you heard
in the 80s, you know, that was used on.
Yeah.
So you start reacting in that way for those sounds.
And then, you know, Karina coming in on top of me, adding her piece, and then
just that
kind of, you know, that kind of three-way chest that we have going on.
As a non-musician, it's always interesting to see, like, the way people react
to synthesizers.
You know, synthesizers got to be one of the most polarizing sounds.
Yeah.
And all of you.
But obviously, it's responsible for some amazing songs.
Absolutely.
Undeniably.
Yeah.
But for whatever reason, people are either love or hate that kind of sound.
Well, yeah.
Whenever, you know, when you have people that are like, I don't know, man, I
like live music,
you know, totally live music.
So you're big, you know.
And then you kind of wait, come back around and go, what do you think of Kraftwerk?
Oh, I love Kraftwerk.
They put robots on stage and push a button, and you pay money to watch, like,
four mannequins
play the songs.
It's basically like Chuck E. Cheese.
Yeah.
But I love Kraftwerk.
And, you know, so, but it's funny when people don't quite make the connection
of, they don't
know what it is they're saying.
Well, it becomes almost an ideological thing.
It's like you're opposed to it because it's a non-cool thing or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you remember when Jump came out and everybody was like, what the fuck has
happened to Van
Halen if they lost their mind?
What is this?
Meanwhile, one of the biggest fucking songs they've ever put out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Massive, super blockbuster.
Yeah.
But some people were just like, this is the end.
Well, I remember living in Boston.
We had the classic rock station playing.
AAF or WBCN?
I think it was, it might have been BCN.
What's the other one?
AAF, BCN.
I think it was BCN.
But it was like, it was a classic rock channel.
And this was 87, 88.
I was there.
And I remember people losing their shit because they tried to play Van Halen on
that station.
Like, that's not classic rock, bro.
They really were very adamant about like, no, no, no, no, no.
Van Halen is hairband.
That's like some kind of glam rock thing.
There were, you know, Bostonians just getting their panties in a bunch over Van
Halen on BCN.
Yeah.
There was a real resistance to hair metal.
There's hairband music came around.
Even Guns N' Roses.
Like people put in the hairband category.
And I'm like, boy, you're splitting hairs.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's hardly hairband music.
I mean, it's Sweet Child of Mine and like, you know, Welcome to the Jungle.
I mean, these are fucking great songs.
It's hard.
Like hairband to me is like, I get why people would like it.
I understand it.
But it's simple.
It's like, it's a piece of candy.
Yes.
You know?
Whereas like, you know, Guns N' Roses had, they put out some fine meals.
You know, some of their songs were, you know, there were...
It was one meal, but it was a good meal.
But they were like, well-crafted pieces.
Whereas, you know, there's...
I don't want to name some bands, but there's some, you know, some bands.
They wore eyelash extensions and fucking crazy hair and...
Bowie.
Bowie.
He did do...
Yeah, that's right.
You're right.
Good point.
Yeah, but...
Nobody's giving him shit.
No, he can't give him shit.
He's...
Well, how undeniable was Michael Jackson that even though people think he most
likely
did some horrible shit, they still play his music.
Yeah.
And oddly enough, the Fairlight is part of some of those records.
Sure.
Bowm, bowm, bowm, bowm.
That's all those synthesizers we're talking about.
When did synthesizers come around?
Like, what was the first introduction?
Like, when did they hit modern music?
I'm having a brain fart.
Damn it.
Maybe it'll come.
It's when it's a...
There's a specific thing.
But there was sound manipulation that bands started introducing prior to that,
right?
Like, Hendrix started doing weird shit with pedals and...
Yeah.
You got a Mellotron, which is kind of recorded on tape, and it's looped, and
you're playing
the recorded sounds on these looping cassettes, but that was still kind of
analog.
And I'm having...
There's a specific keyboard, and I'm bad at that.
It must be the 56, bro.
Dude, I'm 53.
I get it.
My brain is...
My memory is so inconsistent.
Like, sometimes it's amazing.
And sometimes it's just straight dog shit.
Like, people I've known for 10 years, I can't remember their fucking name.
It doesn't make any sense.
Things that I know what that thing is, and I can't fucking...
By the way, it's good to see George over here.
George?
George.
His name is Brian.
Oh, we should probably explain what's happened.
This almost didn't happen.
Young Jamie got the COVID.
Young Jamie's got a new lady friend.
And the new lady friend wanted to go to a bar.
And young Jamie was like, okay.
So he went to a bar.
And bars in Texas, they do not give a fuck out here.
They go outside, and they're on a patio, and they just drink like there's no
COVID.
And they're bumper to bumper with people.
All partying down.
And a few days later, Jamie thought he had a sinus infection.
He was just all stuffed up and felt like shit.
Only for a day.
And then the next day, he started to feel better.
The day after that, he's like, ah, it can't be COVID.
He's like, I know I have allergies.
He has allergies.
And it's ragweed season, apparently.
Comes in.
Gets tested.
And the only one we were concerned with is our employee, Jeff.
Our friend, Jeff.
And Jeff was actually fairly close to Jamie for a few minutes talking to him.
I never got any closer than 20 feet from him.
And most of the time, I was about 30 to 40 feet from him.
As soon as I found it, because Jamie came in first and got tested first.
And as soon as I found he didn't feel well, I stayed the fuck away from him.
I thought because I was in the room with him, maybe I would have to quarantine.
But the doctor said, how close were you?
And I was like, no closer than 20 feet.
He's like, you don't have to worry about it.
Just get tested every day.
And so I'm three negative tests in a row.
So I'm 99.999% sure I'm good.
But Jeff, I'm a little worried about.
So Jeff's not here today.
Poor bastard.
But we almost didn't do it.
Because I thought the protocol was I was going to have to stay up.
But they said, no.
They consider close contact six feet or closer for more than 15 minutes.
They're really close.
Oh, that kind of close.
Yeah.
I wonder if you get it from fucking Brian.
You would know.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
It's liquids.
That's how I got mine.
Did you?
Wow.
Amazing.
But you fuck so much.
How would you know that's how you got it?
I fucked myself.
Oh.
Because you're not sure then.
So anyway, we pulled it off and we did do it.
So here we are.
Awesome.
The other thing that's coming out tomorrow is a tape where apparently Rudy Giuliani
tries
to fuck a 15-year-old.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
What's funny is apparently his take on it, and again, he's older than us, so
his memory
is probably terrible, because it happened quite a while ago that they filmed
this.
His take on it was he was proud that they didn't get him the way they've got
other people.
And the article that I was reading last night, it's, it's, the death of
journalism is so
goddamn apparent when you read articles and then you see the actual thing and
you go, what
the fuck did you just write?
Because this is not what it is.
Right.
This is like these takes on things that are so, it's, it's, it's, there's so
much hyperbole
and there's so much exaggeration and bias.
Until we watch it, we won't be able to, I, yeah.
So I, you know, I'm excited tomorrow, but you know, you had me at Borat's.
Yeah, I had Borat's.
I mean, listen, I still think Ali G in the house is one of the most underrated
comedy films
of all time.
It is good.
Especially if you like weed.
I wouldn't recommend it this month, Sober October, but when Sober October's
over, Ali G in
the house.
I, I actually bought a UK version of a VHS player because it was only available
on VHS
from the UK.
Okay.
Was it UH, VHS or DVD?
I got the, I have, you're talking about the, I think it was DVD.
You're talking about the actual Ali G series?
No, it was a movie.
Okay.
Oh yeah, that one too, but, but even, even the series wasn't available over
here for a
long time.
For a long time.
You had to like do the conversion.
But he had a movie.
You're right, Brian.
It was a DVD and it was an all regions.
I had to buy an all regions player.
And, um, because it like players were limited to like certain regions.
It was really weird.
I don't.
I had that too.
Do you know what the science behind that is?
Uh, it was different.
Frequencies, I think it was PAL versus H or NTSC.
NTSC or something like that.
And some of them were universal.
They would play everything.
Yeah.
Some of the, the cheaper ones that you could buy, like at Fry's had like a
secret like menu.
You could switch it back and forth.
Yeah.
That was the key, right?
It was like a cheaper one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I had to buy one.
I bought, I literally bought a DVD player specifically for this film.
Me and Eddie Bravo got barbecued and we watched this and could not stop
laughing.
It's a fucking hilarious movie.
It's really ridiculous.
So apparently that, that comes out tomorrow.
Yep.
And Rudy Giuliani is allegedly trying to fuck a 15 year old, but it wasn't
really a 15
year old.
She was in her twenties playing a 15 year old.
Here it goes.
Rudy Giuliani speaks out about, on Borat 2 controversy, calls it hit job over
Hunter Biden
campaign.
How could it be a hit job over the Hunter Biden campaign if they shot it in
July, bro?
There