Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1411 - Robert Downey Jr.
Uploaded: 2020-01-15T20:00:04.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1411 - Robert Downey Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1411 - Robert Downey Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1411 - Robert Downey Jr.

boom so we're talking about losing eyesight yes you you actually take comfort
in the fact that
your eyesight is starting to dwindle you want to chase it at first i was like i'm
fine then i'm 42
then it's like let's try some ones then it's one two fives then it's one fives
we're not now
uh i stopped because i have so many fucking glasses some of them are ones some
of them
are two fives it's like it's like uh you know what i mean yeah i do know what
you mean
but what i appreciate is you know where you're at by what you're able to retain
if you fight for it
and the things that are going no matter what you do now i've heard there's some
uh israeli guy who's
got this app probably from laird got this app and you do it you get your
eyesight back and
sometimes it's about i don't need to try to use something to hold on to
everything i want to pick
the five or seven things that i definitely want to hold on to and i want to
watch the rest of it go
in and out with the tides i i i agree with that in some ways but if there was a
real thing where you
could get your eyesight back i would definitely be on that i don't think there's
lasix that's not real
the problem well lasix but i know people problems you can get it if you have
problems with your
vision but we have macular degeneration that's coming from age age related macular
degeneration
lasix doesn't really fix that but i know people who were wearing glasses and
then got lasix and they
don't wear glasses anymore that's that's a fact but also we never wore glasses
they get one eye
too close up and one eye for distance it's even more fun half the eye exams i've
gotten wind up
fucking me two weeks later like these don't work yeah what about the loss of a
uh a sense that you're
accustomed to being fine annoys you what about it yeah i like being able to see
things read labels
in particular like how many of these are supposed to take you know and what's
in here yeah you know
like how many milligrams what's in what does that say but it's also funny to go
up to like uh a little
lutron pad and have to go
like that to me i just it's a gas really interesting except the things you
cannot change now if someone
comes in and says joe bob i got it we're done come over here it's easy or it's
a supplement or do this
for two weeks or stop doing this this and this then there's a trade-off yes
well i'm down for anything
that actually works to make your eyesight come back but i have heard of nothing
everybody that i've
heard of this might be this might be our project then because you care and i
don't so we have a nice
balance there's a guy named david sinclair that i talked to he's a professor at
harvard yeah is it
mit where the fuck is he it's harvard he's they're doing some work with people
that have serious eye
diseases and serious injuries and they're actually injecting some form of
bacteria that has been
encoded with some miracle cure for degeneration and they can detach retinas fix
things and incredible
yeah so they're working on some stuff yeah so maybe in the future you won't
have twos and ones and 1.5s and
yeah what am i going to i will i've alighted to greener pastures i'm sure there's
going to be
other issues and hurdles that you're going to go eyesight i don't fucking times
we've got real
going on here yeah i'm sure too i'm concerned about that do you that thing that
you're wearing around
your neck yes being as you are obviously known as being iron man are you
concerned with wearing a
large thing in the exact same spot did you ever think of that uh life is funny
because i was doing this
before i ever got fitted for the rt so it was more of uh art imitating oddball
stuff i was doing anyway
oh really yeah oh well what iron man obviously this is even more interesting
because maybe you were born
to be iron man because iron man obviously had that from the comic books loosely
pre-arranged destiny
and what's incredible is how far afield you can go from it and still find your
way back yeah
well there's been it's the the whole superhero genre thing is so interesting to
me because there's so
many reboots and there's so many like how many fucking spider-mans have there
been how many hulks
have there been yep there's only one iron man though you got that thus far what
year is it
get the fuck out of here you're iron man man it's just like there's certain
dudes just own a role
and if anybody else tried to be iron man we'd be like well interestingly enough
uh
east coaster uh a dad of of uh some renown very different my dad was a kind of
a underground filmmaker
uh auteur maverick i grew up definitely being bob downey's seniors kid um spent
time on long island
which is i think where tony was raised yeah but when when stan lee was really
thinking that through
he it was the vietnam era and he was thinking about the military industrial
complex he was thinking about
how about if i can throw a little bit of not politics in here but karma and he
gets shrapnel by the
own thing and it becomes you know so uh and then of course there was the whole
demon in the bottle i
think he was the first superhero who ever like had that you know almost like
yeah hang up his jersey
because he was hammered yeah so i mean yeah there was obviously but again once
something goes your way
you can draw all the parallels you want you can call it destiny but it was it
was something that i def
i definitely felt drawn to and i definitely fought for and looking back on it i
go why was i
fighting for that uh because it turned out to be a pretty special thing wow it
was an amazing thing
i mean you embodied it in a very strange way i mean it's inexorable at this
point you you know which
is why i thought it was cool that you're going to do dr doolittle because i i
love the fact like i'm
a fan of your work you've done a lot of great stuff likewise and you you doing
dr doolittle is like
a cool it's i don't want to say you're not taking yourself seriously but you're
you're taking a
trust that i'm not yeah but you're taking i mean this is a fun kids movie about
a guy who talks to
animals yeah you know i mean that's a great break for because like if you're
iron man like there's
certain people that for whatever reason become a role and that is it that's
what we will accept you are
that guy and you're not doing that you're you're you're able to through your
talent and through your
ability to take chances you're able to be a bunch of different things as well
as be the iron man
yeah i mean don't we i don't know if i'm noticing anything now it's that it's
that we need to shift
and we need new challenges and just like uh uh mma and society and politics
things are moving and morphing
and the information age is making things so everything's learning and growing
from everything
so quickly and improving or disproving or or uh discounting whatever's
happening next but for me
i heard that this was on the table my missus who's my creative partner and all
things
um said uh steve gagan i was like i know steve gagan syriana really what did he
do he wrote wow
i like that's a big turn for him yeah and then i said but why why do i want to
and i looked out and
we live on a on a on a rescue farm we have alpacas and goats and kuni kuni pigs
and uh you know it's
just crazy and i was like okay same way i did with iron man a little bit i was
like all right there's
something here and then before i signed on i was just googling like weirdest
welsh doctor i just
want to think of i don't want to just do another english accent so there's this
guy william price who's
a nutty welsh doctor he was a neo-druidist he was someone who believed like we
could communicate with
all nature and all that stuff so i sent a picture of this wild looking guy
wearing like a suit stars
on it and like a staff in his hand i sent that to gagan he goes that looks
right to me i was like
great let's do this movie and literally that's it it's always it you know what
i mean it's always that
thing of you click and you go here's my here's here's my sense what do you
think and and then
the other the gal or the guy says yeah let's lean into that and then you go but
do this and that hey
will you give me some of this and you go yeah and all of a sudden you're in a
synergy it's like a good
interview like a good fight like a good dinner it just kind of happens the
gentleman right there
that's a crazy look yeah to me i just thought that's can do little be like that
he goes does
he have to be that way the whole way through i go no no when they find him he's
a recluse and then
the animals like clean him up and then he looks less unhandsome or what he left
less weird for the
kids for the rest of the movie but let's find him like that this this concept
of things just sort of
falling into place i'm i'm a big believer in that too yeah what what is that
though is that you
getting out of your own way like what what is that is it isn't that 70 of it
yeah yeah i'd say it's 70
maintenance of what can i do to do my part to stay out of the way and then the
other part i always think
of it as like this little super thin uh invisible thread but you can feel the
tug and you just kind
of you have to be really gentle and you have to pause when agitated and you
have to go for it when
you're gonna like there's four walls in here which one has the map behind it
you it's that one
and you knock down the wall and it's there you know yeah what is that though
that's a synchronicity yeah
intuition but labeling it is very dangerous because it's so filled with woo so
it's you know
there's so many people that are hucksters that have like made a career out of
sort of like labeling it
and defining it or teaching you how to get to it it's great because it's the
commodity that you can't
capitalize on and yet if you don't show proof of its existence you you can't
even you shouldn't even
be qualified to speak on it i don't know right it's the big i don't know but
when it happens whether
it happens with love or with friendship or with a career or with a path you're
taking you just know
while there's a smile there's an inner smile like yeah this is it well put i
found it this is it i'm
supposed to be doing this here we go here we go yeah and i really feel it's so
funny at this point in my
life and being you know kind of middle-aged and all that well i know i'm going
to fly around the world
i'm going to sell some soap and i know i have a new project and i know i've
just retired my jersey on
this 12-year journey i've been on and uh and how do i want to start and it came
up how would you like
to go yes that's exactly what i'm going to do i'm going to go have the joe rogan
experience and and
kick off this year and this season and this new chapter by doing what i love
which is an interview
is we're looking at each other and it's there's a give and take is the door to
iron man totally
closed because i don't believe it is oh you guys can go through time now you
can go there's there was
you know you already opened up that door let me ask you the question if i pick
the jersey back up and
put it on wouldn't you feel a little bit like oh no crap no oh here's here's
what i think they go
through a few semi-lackluster avengers movies without you you ready for this i'm
ready here's the scene
there's a moment where the world's fate is at stake and they've realized they
need a super genius
and then they figure out how to restart that time machine
great come on man is that the audience sees you when you when you step out of
that thing is this
your and can we you want a little arc on it too because if this is your idea
then you got to show
up for it too i'll do it i'll show up what i have to do i don't know i'll do
whatever i have to do we
all have to do whatever kevin feige says i'll hold the thing i'll hold the
thing is that do they still
have that they do they do it's digital i'll hold that digital thing i'll do it
but the the way people
would freak out if you came back come on man think about it take a few years
off a few