Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1239 - Travis Barker
Uploaded: 2019-02-06T01:07:43.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1239 - Travis Barker' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1239 - Travis Barker' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-02-06. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1239 - Travis Barker

let's do it four one boom hello Travis what's going on thanks man thanks for
doing this really appreciate it stoked to be here it's cool to have you hey so
I wanted to talk about what we were talking about right before we started I
have always watched you play drums and I'm like how the fuck does that guy's
arms not fall off I mean you you have so much repetitive motion I've never
understood how you could do that just barely no I pull this thing like right
up like a fist from your face there we go I always do battle ropes oh okay that
must constantly like I'll do 30 minutes you know not high intensity the whole
time but just keep my shoulders and arms moving as I prepare for a tour but
yeah I
think my wrists my wrists probably have gone through the most hell over the
years
like I just feel like just normal people's wrist strength that probably
don't have because there's been so much grinding like they pop and oh Jesus do
all sorts of weird things but yeah but I'm still you know I feel like because I
do
battle ropes and because I box and the kind of work out fast twitch muscles I
really don't get tired that's it's amazing like because so many people have
repetitive stress injuries yeah you know I mean even secretaries they get carpal
tunnel you know people get who write a lot get carpal tunnel kids are getting
injuries on their thumbs from you know fucking around with their phone too much
yeah I felt like when I smoked cigarettes a lot I was feeling kind of the first
symptoms of that stuff I wasn't drinking a lot I was kind of a dumpster on tour
you
know not really taking care of my body and I could really feel it and then you
are
you still vegan yeah and you run that restaurant right um was crossroads or it's
one of your one
of the owners running it is saying a lot I couldn't do that I shouldn't have
said running
no towel towel Ronan is the man he's like the illest vegan chef ever he's like
old punk rock hardcore
guy like new john joseph yeah john joseph keeps trying to get me to go there
and I almost went last
time he was in town with them next time I'm gonna make it down there I think
probably 80 90 percent of
the people that eat there aren't vegan because it's that good yeah that's what
I
hear Dana White said that yeah I yeah Dana we usually have dinner there when he's
in town
so I think for Dana to be able to sit through it and and enjoy it and Matt
Sarah I think he brought
everyone for like I don't know if it was like fight companion it was like no it
was yeah it was uh
Dana White's looking for a fight yeah YouTube show yeah I was on tour but they
facetimed me from
there but yeah Tal is uh like a G he's the best vegan chef in the world by far
that's cool how did
you get involved with that is it were you were you already you're cleaning your
diet up because of
your your injuries or because you were trying to keep your body tuned for drumming
or you just
wanted to clean it up period no I was vegetarian since I was 13 really yeah and
then uh after my accident
I I was in the hospital actually long long story that that I'll just sum up
into this is a plane
accident yeah yeah and I had to eat meat in the hospital because they didn't
have any other
kind of vegan options of protein so I'd eat bags of beef jerky whatever they
would give me whatever
I could stomach and not like kind of like think about what I was eating because
I wasn't eating at
all uh and I was just ditching my food giving it to my friends because I didn't
want to eat any of it
and I got caught so long story short I ate a little bit of meat in in the
hospital and when I got out I
just felt like the next evolution of my eating would would try and be vegan and
it was so easy in LA
because we have so many great vegan restaurants so yeah that was that was
pretty much it I was already
vegan I was actually at a bad brain show one of the the best hardcore bands in
the world to ever ever do
it and Tal approached me there saying hey I had this idea for a restaurant I'd
really like to be
you know you to be involved and I said say no more just tell me what you need
because I was familiar
at all before of course that's a weird thing to approach someone with it hey
man thinking about
opening up a restaurant yeah I need this drummer yeah right no I think he was
just reaching out to
friends and family because he was he was Oprah's chef and he was Ellen DeGeneres's
chef and he was all
these like you know really high profile people's vegan chef when they would you
know do a vegan diet
for however long some some forever some just like a two-week thing but uh I
think he just got to the
point where he wanted to do something for himself and then Crossroads was born
and I knew how good he
was so I just told him say no more tell me what you need from me and I'm there
and then it just you
know I think it's been five years now well it's got a fantastic reputation yeah
I know a bunch of
people that have eaten there and they love it well it's not because of me it's
because of Tal and his
food for sure yeah Tal and Scott the chefs there are just you know the best now
how hands-on were you
in the were you just one of the people promoting it like how hands-on were you
with the construction of
it or nothing with like the decor or anything he would run stuff by us like hey
check this out tell
us what you guys think of this as you know there's basically menus change every
season so it's not the
same menu all year long so as we prepare for the next season's menu he's like
testing it on us the you
know the season prior so he'll be bringing out dishes and and letting us try it
but yeah he curates
the whole thing that's interesting so when he gets his food when he's preparing
his food like is he
getting his stuff directly from farmers like how is he getting his food yeah
directly from farms yeah
so he has to curate these relationships with these farmers and just go visit
them and find out how
they're growing their food yeah and and you know you'll be all set with a menu
if it's fall but then
those same vegetables aren't in season so he has to rethink everything for the
next season and not
kind of repeat himself so it's really he's really got it down to a science and
how long has he been
vegan for i don't know how long Tal's been vegan i've never really asked
because it's got to be incredibly
difficult to be a vegan chef i would imagine being a regular chef is difficult
but when you put all those
restrictions you know and just you have to make things taste interesting and
and different and
yeah i think that's where chef scott comes in because he's actually comes from
a meat background
so he was working at italian restaurants and italian mediterranean restaurants
that cooked
everything so it was infusing this vegan obviously like lifestyle of eating
with you know chef scott's
taste as well so i think he had to think that out to where it would appeal and
and meat eaters would
eat there too and not really notice a difference because i i agree you know
sometimes i'll be on
tour and you go to a vegan spot and i'll take my bus driver in or my whoever's
traveling with me and
they're like oh man this is rough you know like they can't stand it crossroads
is not one of those
spots where you're thinking about like man i might not enjoy this meal there's
some good spots in
la has some great spots you ever go to follow your heart in the valley all the
time great spot yeah
that's the spot close to home that i love like follow your heart uh shout out
to air one air one
has like good vegan options uh chef ito who has a spot in downtown called a
look who took a val of
silence 22 years ago yeah what he's special man yeah 22 years ago took a val of
silence and he's done no
more talking no more talking what in the is that about yeah so he just communicates
if he has a lot
to say he'll write it down oh my god other than that you just read the lips and
i know what he's
saying but he shows up to oh that's so crazy yeah he takes a lot of photos so
he'll show up to like
punk or raps whatever whatever show i'm playing he's in the pit with his camera
this silent guy who
doesn't say a word yeah and his cooking is phenomenal so but yeah la we're
spoiled with great
great vegan restaurants that's a trip yeah 22 years of no talking yeah he also
does like this juicing
where this year he juiced for 189 days with no food wow what did he get down to
i think he was
pounds yeah he lost about 20 something pounds yeah he does it every year wow
yeah he's trying to vanish
right he's trying to not talk i don't think i can do it yeah intermittent
fasting is like as much as i
can do yeah i do that every night but that's the vow of science is freaking me
the silence is freaking
me out yeah he and i i've never really pried and kind of like asked a bunch of
questions why because
they didn't have to write a lot yeah that too but no i've i've been around when
people ask him he just
said he wanted to time out for 22 years yeah that's a serious time how old is
homeboy he's got to be
probably in his 50s so almost half his life yeah what the man yep but he spends
christmas with me
spends thanksgiving with my family and i oh that's cool yeah it's pretty cool
everybody just smiles at
him yeah everyone just smiles and waves basically he'd be a good guy to sit
next to someone who's on coke
totally they would just talk his ear off and he'd just be sitting there all
silent yeah
yeah man that is i've never even heard of anything like that does he make any
noises does he whistle
no i've heard him snort one time when he was laughing hella hard but that was
about as close as it gets
so he doesn't laugh out loud like ha ha wow yeah nothing terrible comedy club
audience yeah yeah it
would be rough he has a march too it's called march of silence that happens
once a year where you have
a bunch of them that basically you know that are and they're basically marching
for the march of silence
for like the cruelty of animals and whatever else so yeah i'd like to have him
on the podcast to see how
long i could talk to him for yeah just to see what what it would be like that's
so strange it sounds
cool i mean yeah i love that there's people like that out there though i do i
love hearing those
stories like the world needs him you know like when you said that i got excited
like the guy's been
silent for 20 i'm like whoa you know there's something about that it makes you
go wow i was
talking hella loud when i first met him and he was like i can hear you you know
i was like oh man
because i was trying to wrap my head around you know no one did an introduction
going hey this guy's
silent oh they didn't tell you no i had no idea so i'm talking really loud and
he like he like just
whispers to me like mouths to me i can hear you and i was like okay and then i
just figured out over
time wow he's silent by choice whoo yeah that's heavy what is he involved like
heavy meditation or
buddhism or anything very strange like that yeah he meditates i think he has
like a lot of kind of
buddhist uh kind of qualities like kind of i think if he had to lean in some
kind of religion or or
practice it would be that wow yeah that's intense yeah that's a serious
commitment man yeah i couldn't
even imagine going 22 days without talking a day i think any anything i think
we'd catch ourselves
it being very hard yeah i was gonna get my uh tonsils and adenoids removed
because i have sleep apnea
because i have a fat neck but uh i found a mouthpiece that i can sleep with
that keeps my tongue from
falling over because i have a when when your neck is thick your wind hole is
smaller believe it or not
because the more muscle you put in the smaller your hole gets and then if you
have a big tongue when
you lay back you can actually block your airway wow yeah and so friends that i
know have had their
adenoids and their tonsils removed and they actually take some of the soft
tissue out of your
your passageway so you can breathe easier but the problem is you 