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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1533 - Adam Curry' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-09-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1533 - Adam Curry

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
If not for you, I would not be here.
Wait a minute.
In both places.
Welcome to Texas, Joe.
Thank you, sir.
Welcome.
You bring tremendous, exciting, and good energy to our city and to our state.
I appreciate that very much.
But I'm here in a big reason, in a big way because of you.
So before we even get started, if you do not know, Adam was the very first podcaster
ever.
He's the real, if you want to have a patient zero of podcasting, it's you.
Yeah, I'd say that's arguably correct.
I would say it's inarguably correct.
Yeah.
And then also you talked about how much you loved it here.
Yeah, and I've been here 11 years or so.
Without you, we would not be here for those two things.
Right.
Well, it's really because after I did your show, which I cannot, the only thing
better
than going on the Joe Rogan show is being invited back on the Joe Rogan show.
It's, I mean, you did, it was incredible for me.
You renewed my credentials.
Well, listen, I think you're awesome.
I think you're one of the most interesting guys on the internet.
No bullshit.
I really do.
Thank you.
The other thing that's very interesting is I told you when we were doing the
show that
time we were kind of getting a little baked, I'm like, this is when my Tourette
shows up.
You know, I have a mild form of Tourette's.
And so because I had said that, it was like, I felt really comfortable just
being who I am
and not having to worry about, I don't want to tick right now.
Oh, right, right.
You know, Steve Mnuchin, our secretary of the treasury, he also has Tourette's.
He also has a hot wife.
But bam.
Well, this is, of course, one of the superpowers you get when you have Tourette's.
You get a hot wife.
Hot wife that wears those.
Yeah, baby.
That's what you get.
She's one of those ladies that wears those gloves that go all the way down to
the elbow.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
The lady's like, oh, he's kind of weird, but I like that.
So you can see him, you know, he's testifying before Congress.
And you can see him, like, you know, stretching his neck and shit.
You know, so it's.
Interesting.
But once it's out there, then it actually removes all the tension.
And even on the YouTube comments, you know, people are like, what the fuck is
wrong with
this guy, man?
It's like, you know, is he backing up his files every five seconds when he's
batting his eyes?
What exactly is happening if someone, like, is there a physiological thing that
they've identified?
Yeah, it's like sparks happening in your brain.
And they're not really sure what it is.
It's Gilles de Tourette's syndrome.
And there's all kinds of stuff they say can help.
What are the things they say help?
Oh, certain herbs, you know.
I always get fucking fishy.
There's a lot.
Yeah, there's a lot of people say it's, you know, it's trauma that the body is
held on to.
That's very possible.
You know, that could be it.
But it started around when I was seven.
So it could also be, I think, possibly vaccine related.
I'm not, I'm not saying that I'm, you know, anti vaccines, but I know, I know
what happened
then because my parents took me to the doctor.
My dad, interestingly, also had Tourette's.
Vaccines are one of those things.
So it can be hereditary.
Vaccines are one of those subjects where people tense up and you're either, you're
either all
in or you're not.
Well, you're not allowed to just want safe vaccines.
You're not allowed to say, I am 100% pro vaccine, but vaccines are in fact some
sort of actionable
chemical, right?
I mean, what, what, some liquid that you're putting into someone's body and it's
going
to have an effect.
And there's all kinds of stuff in there.
And things happen sometimes with people with regular things, with aspirin,
peanuts.
Yes.
People's bodies react differently to all sorts of different things.
That doesn't mean that vaccines haven't saved fucking uncountless lives.
Of course, they're amazing.
The people that figured out vaccines are the most.
Well, I think you have vaccines in a combination of a lot of other things.
Sanitation.
Sure, sure, sure.
That's why in New York City, the sanitation department still wears kind of
uniforms because
they were seen as like first line, first responders when people were living in,
you know, horse
shit and trash.
We were just dumping it out their windows in New York.
These guys came in like the National Guard and they became this force.
Yeah, that's no doubt about it.
If you had to live in like ancient Rome and where the shit would just roll down
the street.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Like, oh.
Yeah.
I mean, that's how a lot of people got sick in those places, right?
In ancient cultures before they really figured out sanitation and sewage.
In general, sanitation.
That's giant to prevent diseases.
Vaccines are also, I mean, how many people have been saved by vaccines?
The overall net gain.
I don't want to look at people like a chart, but if you did, you'd have to say,
God, look
at all the people that were saved.
Look at all the people that are healthy.
But you have to say, oh, but for some people, it fucked them up.
You know?
I mean, there is a vaccine court, right?
Well, isn't there?
I mean, I've met Robert Kennedy Jr. in the past.
He's a big anti...
Well, not safe anti-vaccine.
No, no, no.
He's anti-vaccine.
No, no, no.
He's pro-safe vaccines.
But he's very controversial.
This is what I was going to say.
Of course, of course, because he's challenging the conventional wisdom of
vaccines.
And, you know, we have a lot of media influence to, you know, to kind of set us
up on this
path where, I mean, when I was growing up, we didn't have vaccine for the mumps
or the
measles.
And I don't think it was the German measles.
And we got it.
And chicken pox.
And you got that.
And so the vaccine industry was able to prevent that and some form of herd
immunity.
But, you know, the way we had these outbreaks and people are all freaking out.
And, you know, it just seems like it's an industry that wants to keep this type
of safety for
people.
And that's one view of what is good.
I mean, there's all kinds of views what people think about, you know, certain
illnesses you
should just get to build up your immunity.
You know, so it's hard for me to say.
I mean, it's not black and white.
And why should it be black and white?
Why should it be?
Yeah, that's the thing is, like, there's room for reasonable discussion without
getting
into fistfights and lighting each other's houses on fire, you know.
And this is another subject where I think that's the case.
I think there's room.
I think what's interesting is...
Young Jamie had to make first adjustments.
We got a whole new setup here.
Oh, yeah, man.
How about a nice round of applause to Matt Alvarez, the fucking king of the
world, who put
this place together.
Let me just say, this is so badass.
Thanks, buddy.
When you sent me a picture and I was like, that looks like the interior of an
Embraer jet.
I mean, this is crazy.
And then the lighting.
And I'm glad my buddy Drew got y'all hooked up to the table.
Yeah, shout out to Drew Teague.
That's fantastic.
Put this together.
And, you know, just all of it is so cool.
But shout out to young Jamie.
Fucking VIP.
Yeah, yeah.
If not for him.
We said, whatever you do, we don't want headphones.
And he came through for us.
I really appreciate that.
Yeah, we had a couple of sound issues.
No, it doesn't matter.
I'm the perfect guest for that.
You know, I just sat here and smoked your weed.
You're the perfect guest for the first podcast.
I just sat here and smoked your weed.
You have to be the first guest.
Yeah, well, thank you.
Here in the new studio.
It really is an honor.
And let me tell you, man.
It's an honor to have you here.
I am so happy for you and so proud of what you've done.
And, you know, to get someone to put a fucking number on the value you've
created with your show.
Let's not do that.
Because that's just going to freak me out.
No, not at all.
That's huge.
You get exactly what you deserve in life.
Let's just have a sip of whiskey and talk.
Right.
But what I want to say is you've made it.
You know, this is a big move.
You're not going to like a television network.
You know, this is not Hollywood picking you up.
Fuck, this is something completely different.
It's another app.
It's like an app against another app.
This is cool.
You know, we see Netflix and Disney and Apple Plus and Amazon.
You know, so there's all these different.
I think that that creates markets and the place right now may be a high value.
But place a value on content and people are willing to pay for it.
So I'm not against any of that.
I think that's very, very interesting and a very logical path.
And I'm glad that it's happening to you.
They have a vested interest in the show, which is what other platforms didn't
necessarily have.
Like YouTube has always been great to us.
I don't have any complaints really about YouTube.
I think the real problem with YouTube is managing at scale.
I think they're dealing with some ungodly number of videos that are constantly
flooding into it.
But they didn't really have an interest.
I mean, they knew that the show was popular, but it's not like we were working
together.
You know?
Sure.
They just would take some of the ad revenue, but there was no like real.
It was just a nice place where I could put it up.
They can make some money.
I can make some money.
But something like Spotify is a different situation where they're like, let's
do this together.
We'll be together.
So you'll be exclusive to here and we want you to do well.
Instead of having like a non-connected relationship, like a lot of people feel
like with YouTube.
Which is, again, I think it's because of managing at scale.
They can't have a one-on-one relationship with everybody.
It's not possible.
There's so many fucking people have YouTube channels.
Right.
What is the number?
I don't know.
Jamie, how many people have YouTube channels?
It's got to be a crazy number.
Billions.
Why not?
Why not?
Maybe billions?
Why not?
Maybe.
Why not?
Yeah.
It's the number one video source in the world, right?
In terms of like watching clips.
There's 31 million YouTube channels out there.
As of 2019.
31 what?
31 million.
31 million.
What?
Interesting.
That's it?
Well, in our world, this is preposterous.
What is wrong with this shit?
It must be much more than that, I tell you.
Why does that?
People use, there was a period of time during the podcast when I was telling
people to do
a podcast and they would get mad at me.
They're like, stop telling everyone to do a podcast.
Oh, because it was like dirty?
It was like I was...
I felt like the lowest rung on the showbiz ladder was VJ, but no, I went and
created one
lower, which was Podcaster.
No, that's not what I was saying.
Oh, okay.
I was encouraging too many people to enter into it.
Oh, oh no.
Yeah.
People got, people like, dude, stop telling everybody they should have a
podcast.
Not everybody should have a fucking podcast.
No, well, this is very important for me because I realized as the podfather who,
you know,
really helped create everything in this whole, the mechanisms of it all, how it
all fits
together is very, we're losing something out of podcasting, but what that does
is actually creates
this huge opportunity in a vacuum because there's, if you don't mind me saying,
there's other
Joe Rogans waiting to be born.
They're out there.
Oh, they're alive right now.
So they are ready and they need to have the same type of support that you get
inside Spotify.
And, you know, you'll see iHeartRadio and Stitcher, they're going to announce
deals.
And it's all going to be kind of, they have all their exclusive and you have
podcast one.
And so that's where radio is moving, mainly by the music companies who have a
kind of bad
business model.
They have to pay for every time someone listens to a song, regardless of
whether they could
make money on it or not.
