Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1041- Dan Carlin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1041- Dan Carlin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-11-17. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1041- Dan Carlin

Hold this all the good stuff happens before we're on it always does three two
one
Dan Carlin ladies and gentlemen and we're live hey dude first of all thank you
so much for this coin this coin from
Constantine you brought me a what how many years old is 1700 that's fucking
crazy man
It's fun to I always say I like giving something that is the oldest man-made
object in most people's homes
Maybe not yours you'll have some Aboriginal instrument or something that's like
from the stone age
But most people that'll be the oldest man-made thing in their home my friend dr.
Mark Gordon actually gave me a Roman coin as well
But I don't know whose coin is all yours looks older. I don't know that's
depressing though because normally I'm the coin guy
So I hate that I've been beaten to the punch by anybody on that well
He's he's kind of a historical aficionado or a history aficionado as well not
the extent that you are though
But so this is from Constantine yeah, my wife would spend that by accident just
so you know
I mean, that's where's that coin? Oh, I got a coffee. I got a pair of shoes.
That's right
No, wouldn't no wouldn't buy shoes now. What would how much was that worth back
then? Do you know what the I think that's like their penny?
Probably is it is did they have what kind of units do they had like they
probably had like some dead metal type thing and then some kind of bronze and
then you get into the
Silver and gold and how much is mixed into the rest and and they have those
like you can go and it's actually really cool because they wear better
Like like they'll they'll clean the silver off and it looks like yesterday
Mmm, so you always know it's the cheap stuff when they're all dirty and
everything like that
Oh, right because then that's like a penny. Well our pennies get the same way,
right?
What do you think this is made out of oh some alloy? I don't know they had alloys
back then oh sure
Electrum was the cool one where you mix gold and silver ooh. Yeah, I've never
heard of that. Yeah, Electrum they still have it drum
Yeah, so what do they use it? I hope I'm right about this
This is gonna be one of these on Twitter Dan Carlin doesn't know what he's
talking about it about Electrum
It's not that well the beautiful thing about your podcast is you can research
things in advance
So, you know what the fuck you're talking about by the time you speak
Theoretically, yes allegedly allegedly supposedly I have a lot of a lot of
wiggle room words
Defensive journalism. Yeah, but dude, I don't have to tell you any again, but I
will your your podcast is for me has been the most
Educational historical thing in my entire life
Like I've never had anything in my life that's taught me more about history
than hardcore history
I don't even know how to react when people said it is the kindest things that
you hear and I always say the same thing
I always hope everybody gets a chance in their lives to have people that they
admire
Turning around and telling them something like that because it is the neatest
feeling
And when when you realize all the crap you put up with for decades and other
jobs and other businesses to say
Okay
I'm 51 or whatever and and they really like what you do you just everybody
should feel this way
My pleasure and I appreciate you you you found your niche man
You like think about all the other stuff
You did all the broadcast work you did before it really prepared you for this
this podcast because
Obviously this medium is so incredibly new and this ability for you to just put
something out
I mean, I see when you put out new podcasts
They're regularly at the top of the heap of all the podcasts in the world
That's incredible when you think about that that all you it's just you and you
have a
Guy who helps you with editing theoretically. Yeah, and that's fucking it. I
mean that is amazing
Well, but I mean, how is that any different from this empire?
You but this because I'm just talking yeah, but that's all I'm doing too
But you walk into this place you go. This is this is the Joe Rogan's talking
has built
Yeah, something something along those I'm talking to people like you, but you're
right
I mean, I keep trying to remind myself because you know
You and I both been doing this a long time got into it pretty pretty early on
and so for us
It doesn't feel new, but you keep trying to think about okay. What's this gonna
be like in 30 years, right?
40 years
I keep telling everybody that what you're seeing now and my my children know no
other world
I mean in their minds I tell my oldest all the time at the time you were born
we weren't even texting yet
That is all since you've come around
So I keep thinking we're still at the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg
in this era that we're in now
What's podcasting going to be like when whole generations grow up?
And it's just a part of their world and podcasts are a part of it and it won't
even be podcasting
I mean, they'll be broadcasting into the matrix cord in the back of your neck
or something
But but I mean we're still at the it seems hard for long-term podcasters to
understand that this is still the beginning
It's almost impossible for us to predict because when you really think about
what we're doing now in terms of like
Like you could put a youtube video right now
You could make a video and you could it could go viral for whatever reason and
a million people all over the world could be watching your video
Like almost instantly this was not not only unheard of 10 years ago
Just go back 20 30 40. It's insanity
You're talking insanity like people would be like what the are you saying?
You have a phone in your pocket?
That would be insane you have a phone in your pocket that has a camera what you
wait a minute
You have a phone in your pocket
That's a video camera that takes high definition video with stereo sound and
you can wait a minute
You're uploading it through the sky just through the air what in real time like
instantaneously
That's insane. So now think
What could we be looking at in terms of augmented reality in terms of virtual
reality?
I'm working on something along those lines right now. It's it's it's crazy.
Yeah, it's what are you doing?
I can't tell you what I'm doing
The point is is that this this you're absolutely right about this stuff and and
you you know
I spent before I got into podcasting
I was in uh in the era where you know like mark cuban made it big and everybody
was just going to start a high-tech company and sell it for billions of dollars
What did cuban make it big with uh broadcast.com?
I think which which if I recall it was basically like a website with a bunch of
links and and you know
Everybody was like dang if he can do so
So so I was in one of these companies with a bunch of buddies and we were we
were pushing what we called amateur content back then
So we're talking 95 96 and one of my jobs was to go with the staff
To all these venture capitalists and try to sell them on the idea of what
amateur content was going to become
Joe we went from like place to place to place with all these people who are
supposedly the ones who can see the future and every one of them
And I mean every single one said
Nobody's gonna view amateur content because if anybody could make anything
anybody wanted to see they'd be paid for it
Right and I kept talking about the the quantity has a quality all its own idea
Right where you say listen if only one percent of this stuff is worth watching
you're still going to have
Millions of pieces of content uploaded all the time there's going to be good
stuff in there and they were like
You so you thought this was coming in some ways
Well, yeah, and it wasn't just because um, you know, I was in with a bunch of
tech people who understood this too
But one of them had taken me off the radio and and said, um, we're gonna put
you on the internet
This was in 94 what and I said put me on the internet
I said, you know, we're just learning how to use the I said, what are we going
to do?
And he says, well, I'm going to invent the the way to do this and you're going
to be the test person right that shows everybody
Hey, you so that fell through but once that happened I was you know, it was in
the back of my head going
Okay, someday we might be able to do this on the internet that kind of thing
But but the the point was is that these people to venture capital meetings all
these you know hardcore guys who are inventing our future and funding it
None of them saw this amateur content thing coming there was one thing that
they were doing quite a long time ago
There was like some internet radio
Channel yes, they had tried to put together and you know
They had funded it and spent a bunch of money on they hired a bunch of people
to do it
And bobby slayton was actually one of the uh the online broadcasters and I did
his show
And you know and he was talking about how they were having a hard time
Keeping it up and it wasn't catching on the way they wanted to they were just a
little bit ahead ahead. Yeah
Yeah, too far. I read somewhere too because I was actually sort of researching
the history of what we do and what the precursors were
And I guess there were audio blogs and stuff that some really high-tech types
were were pursuing in the 90s
Also, maybe even the late 80s where you know, they're like send in full files
to each other or something
But you know, it's funny because somebody's gonna write a book someday about
the history of this and how it got started and all that kind of stuff
And it's crazy to think about that
We're actually due to sort of a a serendipity good good timing sense that here
We are like I said in the first 10 years 15 years of of what's not just going
to be a phenomenon
But it's going to be a huge part I think of the future world that people grow
up in not our show specifically
But but but this world we're creating. I mean everyone's a broadcaster now.
Yeah, and
Look anyone could have been I mean there's been a lot of barriers to keep
people that are really talented interesting funny people from getting their
stuff out there
And that thing was like always like they didn't know how to start
How do I like how do I become a stand-up comedian? I've talked to so many funny
guys
And they just go well, how do I get started like well, you got to go sign up at
an open mic night like
It just seems too much and the idea of it is too daunting
But if you just sit in front of a camera, that's all you have to do turn your
cell phone on and start talking
Here's what I think about donald trump. This is what I think about harvey weinstein
All you have to do is have a unique take be funny be interesting somehow
engaging and it doesn't even have to be visual
I mean god, there's a hundred maybe more really funny what I would call twitter
comedians
That just say funny shit
They write funny shit on twitter and they have huge followings because of it
I always say you know you try to look at what the brick and mortar analog
version of this was before this came around remember mc hammer was selling
You know cassette tapes of his music out of the out of his hatchback at the oakland
a's games or or I think of like eddie murphy or richard prior
These people who are just they're so funny that you could put them on a crappily
recorded
Cassette tape and it wouldn't make any difference and and I remember eddie murphy
saying something about if he hadn't gotten on saturday night live
He doesn't know how he would have how he would have exposed himself to the
public
Well these days if you're that funny and you put that on audio and you put it
out there
You will you you no no you no longer need the facilitator the gatekeeper to
open the doors for you you have a wide open
Um a mic you know you called it open mic night. This is open mic night for the
world, right?
Yeah, every country it's fucking crazy. There's some kid who's 20 years old who
bought a house in my neighborhood for nine million dollars or seven million
dol