Name: Joe Rogan Experience #952 - Thaddeus Russell
Uploaded: 2017-04-28T03:01:59.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #952 - Thaddeus Russell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-04-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #952 - Thaddeus Russell

i'm not interested five four three two one
yes we're live daddy s russell you're going no headphones you're radical
well you knew that dude i'll take the headphones off with you i don't give a
fuck let's go bring it it's on i feel better it's liberated now i know what the
real sound
is dude you look slim and healthy what have you been doing thank you i just i
got back in the gym
and i'm doing boxing and kickboxing still and uh active yeah well you know you
know i'm in oregon
a lot so the meth is awesome up there oh they do have good speed rate for
weight control i would
think that oregon would be more of like a calm down type of state as far as
drugs i was just there for
420. yeah i emailed you yeah i love it up there man i love it i would i would
live there if i can the
winter is so goddamn depressing but i would still do it yeah this winter has
been just ridiculous it's
rain for nine months straight there was like 500 inches in my county jesus this
winter but but
beautiful green oh god it's so lush when i just when you get out of the pdx
airport it just you smell
pine trees as soon as you walk out of the airport yeah i mean it's amazing and
after being in la which
is just basically like this giant desiccated turd i mean it's like it is so
nice yeah that would be like
the best place to live like if you had a place there and a place here you go
back and forth you deal with
total dry and total wet i'm doing it'll kind of balance itself i think you
nailed it mr russell
thank you nailed it i'm commuting every week and people say are you really yeah
don't you get sick
of this i actually love it so far so far yeah so my son here my son is here he
goes to school here in
fact he goes to school right near where we're sitting and uh so i have an
apartment here and then a house
in salem oregon and i love it going back and forth i'm not i'm kind of like a
shark i can't i need to
keep moving and i don't like i get i feel claustrophobic and like the world is
passing me by if
i'm sitting in one place too long have you always been like that i'm digging it
yeah always i always
need to be doing something and moving i get i am literally claustrophobic yeah
yeah and have you
ever done an isolation tank oh my god yeah i know when you talk about that i'm
like freak out that's my
worst nightmare whoa like and i'm also a little bit afraid of the dark i knew
you were going to laugh
at that you're going to call me a girl again no nothing wrong with being a girl
by the way uh how
dare you yeah well we'll get into that joe we'll get into that no uh i mean
like pitch black that that
freaks me out really when you can't see anything i can't stand that i don't
mind like very dark room
if you can as long as i can see something but if it's pitch black i freak the
out you know what freaks
me out night vision goggles well that's what i want right then i'm cool if i
had those all the time
seems so weird you put them on you feel like you're in a horror movie or you're
in one of those scenes
in one of those stupid ghostbuster shows where they're down in the basement and
they always have
night vision on yeah have you tried them on yes oh yeah i have some oh of
course you do of course you do
for like nighttime boar hunting or whatever it is you do that is one of the
reasons why they use them
yeah but actually for then it's scopes they have night vision scopes sir where
you see the infrared
version of the pigs moving around it's very weird to look through them yeah but
people often mistake
other things for pigs like deer and i like that idea i haven't tried them on
but i like that idea but
you know like so spelunking is definitely out for me you know claustrophobic
and afraid of the dark
what is spelunking again caving oh yeah it's like the idea of being like in a
tight one of those tight
little caves you have to like squeeze your body through in the pitch dark and
then and then your headlamp
goes out i was just listening to a podcast about this family that owns a ranch
in texas and they
had these small caves that these kids would explore in and then um they allowed
some cavers some local
you know cave explorers to go and check it out and they crawled through this
really small like three
foot diameter hole like literally crawled through it and found two football
field size caves inside
and then found out that there's literally miles of cave systems in there oh
yeah no it's incredible
i wish i weren't terrified of it because i love all that other stuff in the
outdoors you know backpacking
and camping and hiking i do all that i love it but going underground is the
worst thing do you only
backpack and camp when it's a full moon uh no i'm cool with the stars that's
good enough good enough
yeah yeah headlamps like i said only pitch black when you can't see your hand
in front of your face
that freaks me out and i don't understand why people other people don't freak
out about that
like i'll wake up in a hotel room and i forgot to there's or there's no light
at all on for whatever
reason i'll freak out because i don't know where i am see look look what i'm
already admitting to
millions of people i just got here man i'm already like i'm already like a girl
and opening up you're
opening up you keep saying girls if it's like a weak thing it's just that that
scarred me the first
time i was here you called me a girl it stuck with me i'm sorry i don't even
remember doing it no you
just said you sounded like a girl just then really what did i say about i can't
remember what it's
about i can't remember something probably something really pretty pretty girlish
pretty so up in um
portland the portland area what are you doing up there so teaching right my
girlfriend who i live
with is a vice president at willamette university and i teach part-time just
for the hell of it
at willamette but mostly i'm developing all these other things uh and i'm
mostly just enjoying
oregon so because man you can you can afford a hell of a house in salem oregon
for what you were
paying in la let me tell you so we're just living a lot better first time in my
life i've been
in a house that i enjoyed being in oh that's nice yeah and so it's great and it's
given me a base to
do these projects my new podcast and renegade university and write my book it's
great i have
my own studio in the house and i have my own office in the house so it's like
kind of the command center
up there nice nice yeah so it's been it's been pretty awesome lately um i think
it's fascinating
how some places like some cities have like a mindset there's like a feel that
you get from the city and
i like the feel that you get from portland yeah i mean it's like a it's a aware
city you know and it's
not a dumb city but it's a small they're aware aware you mean like they're woke
they're woke as
yeah but it's like a white it's like a white woke white woke whatever white
woke is they're a little
pretentious i think somewhere along the line portland became like a place that
pretentious people gravitated to because they wanted to identify like i'm white
and i have dreadlocks
here i am right you know what i mean like but they make really good food those
pretentious people
their food cards and coffee yeah yeah yeah they make great food and those food
trucks are out of this
world totally totally portland is a great city except have you noticed they hid
all the black
people there's four or five of them i saw you've seen yeah i've only seen three
so far yeah mountain
lions i keep waiting to like come across the cage where they keep them in the
one corner of the city
because then it's amazing especially in like the core of portland you know the
main part all the
i you do not see any black people you don't see mexicans you don't see japanese
people you just it is
just white people dudes with beards that's like a pacific northwest selling
coffee you see more of it and you
definitely see more black people in seattle seattle is definitely yeah pretty
diverse yeah not fully but
a lot of asian folks for sure but uh yeah right portland i mean not even white
not even latinos and
and asians no i'm like how do you do that on the west coast where do you put
all those people if
you're on they just pass by they just go let's keep going vancouver's right up
the street let's just keep
going hey you you took a wrong turn keep going just keep walking let's just
keep going north yeah it's like
it's it's a small city i mean i don't think portland right has more than a
million people right does it
no i think it's like it's like half a million is it really in the i think
something like that yeah
it's small i know it the lack of diversity actually is the only problem i have
with it and it's a fairly
big problem that's an issue but otherwise it's the best city in america really
i think really it's
my favorite city in america yeah i should say it's pretty goddamn good lawrence
krauss lives there oh yeah
so there you go yeah uh there's two of us two people two cool people two cool
smart people
i don't live in portland right i live in salem which is an hour south but we're
still in portland
a lot so it's kind of is that because the university will yeah yeah and because
it's way cheaper to live
there and it's also um really beautifully centrally located so we've got we're
an hour and ten minutes
from the coast which is gorgeous have you been to the oregon coast yes amazing
yeah and then we're an hour
and a quarter from the cascade mountains on the other side and then all around
salem is the willamette valley
which is like napa valley and sonoma county meet vermont it is so beautiful
just incredibly beautiful
farmland all around there they make a lot of wine up there too incredible wine
the pinot noir is the
best in the world yeah but it's really pretty just driving through there so oh
man it's yeah i'm
telling you also salem has mexicans so we do have a little diversity because of
all the farm workers
there's a substantial population of latinos you have legit mexican food we got
in salem uh it's not
damn not like we're working on it we're working on it i mean salem has been
like a dumpy town for a
long long time until just recently um and now it's starting to pick up we got
some stuff going on and
we've been now we've got a good mma gym there and a boxing gym just just opened
yeah in salem
legitimate yeah like team quest people former team quest people who's the
trainers uh nick gilardi
who's uh he actually came up with chael and randy couture he was he was trained
as a wrestler by them
when they were doing wrestling only when he was a kid and then he became a
champion wrestler and then
they went into fighting and he was like okay i'll do that with you and he's a
major sort of northwest
mma fighter now he's like coach of the year in the northwest oh great he's my
coach we have a
little it's really good mma gym in uh in salem called impact that's awesome
impact jujitsu so your knee is
we're talking about this before the podcast your knee feels like it's good
enough i'm i really would love to
start grappling i never have and i'm scared of it because of all the take
especially the takedowns
you know and the the leg locks and all that right so i don't know but i'm doing
it's i'm still doing
just stand-up boxing and and um and muay thai kickboxing have you ever done any
yoga yes yes it's great
for me uh i don't know if it's gonna help my knee it will definitely help your
knee i guess so i mean
stretching it helps just strengthening and strengthening yeah i mean just
holding static positions like static
yoga positions for your back and for your knees and your feet and it just does
i'm a broken record
with this so i'll stop right no i love it people people listening to this
podcast like jesus he's
gonna talk about yoga again i love it yeah so we don't we don't have to talk no
no yeah that's i'm all
about that why are you drinking gatorade man because i'm i'm a this is not good
for you it's got
sugar and this is terrible for you 