Name: Joe Rogan Experience #762 - Robin Black
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #762 - Robin Black' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-02-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #762 - Robin Black' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-02-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #762 - Robin Black

Doom, doom, doom, da-dum.
Amber Live.
My man, I wish people who weren't watching on YouTube
could just see the majesty that is the jacket
that Robin Black is wearing right now.
How would you describe that?
It's just a jean jacket, man.
It's a colorful jean jacket.
I like colorful stuff.
It's definitely, but it's not just colorful.
It's like you're trying to blend in in a rave.
Well, it could be, it does have some camouflaging effect.
Yeah, if you were hunting in a rave,
that's what you would wear.
Exactly.
I don't know what you'd be hunting there.
Pussy?
Yeah, yeah, I guess.
Ecstasy?
Yeah.
It's like a light blue with purple, some sort of decorations.
Camouflage is a weird thing,
like when you see guys walking down the street with camouflage,
and it's like, what if they really were camouflaged?
Like you'd just see a head floating down the street.
Well, one day they're going to have that.
Have you ever seen that Japanese invention they came up with?
They have this, like a cloak that you can wear,
and it essentially takes an image of what's behind you
and projects it on the front.
That's invisibility.
Yeah, it's kind of crude right now,
but what it is is like the guy's standing,
like you can see it right here.
Look at this.
That is ridiculous.
Isn't that nuts?
That is wild.
So what we're looking at is a guy holding a ball,
and the ball does it.
And so the ball, somehow or another,
he's holding it in front of his face,
and it doesn't show him when it's in front of him.
It shows what's behind him.
Crazy.
I don't know how that one's working.
Yeah, I don't know.
So this is the cloak.
I've seen the cloak before.
But, you know, you can still see the cloak.
Well, that's the thing with that kind of technology.
Once it starts, then you're on your way.
Exactly.
Then whether it's in one year or three years or 12 years,
you're going to be invisible.
Yeah.
We're in such a strange time
because these emerging things are just starting to come out
where people go, ooh, oh, whoa.
You know, like Magic Leap.
Have you seen that Magic Leap technology?
I just retweeted a new version of it today
that somebody sent me.
It's like, oh, god damn it.
It just keeps getting so bad.
Was it Magic Leap or was it the Microsoft?
Which one's a Google one and one's a Microsoft one?
Magic Leap is a Microsoft one.
Which one did I tweet today?
I'm looking right now.
But they've...
Yeah, HoloLens.
I'm sorry, Microsoft is HoloLens.
That's Microsoft.
They've got these new goggles that you're going to be able to wear
and it's going to be like Minority Report.
Like the world is going to be your desktop.
You're going to be able to spin things in the air,
stop them, expand them, contract them.
I mean, you knew that was coming.
Yeah.
Like as soon as you see it on a movie,
you know that's going to happen.
The one thing right now,
it's like we are in probably the fastest time of change ever.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's like if you have an idea,
that idea can be done.
It's just a series of steps to have to do it.
Yeah.
I mean, I think if you go back just a few...
Is this it right here, Jamie?
Yeah, just a picture.
Just pictures of them using it.
Like how crazy that's going to be, man.
You're going to be able to like see movies play out
in your living room right in front of you.
Video games.
You know, if you were doing a demonstration
for like a company or something like that
and you want to show them a project you're working on
or maybe some architecture you're trying to construct.
Insane.
Yeah.
Fucking crazy times.
And you know, the first thing people are going to start doing is
how do we connect this to sex?
Oh, yeah.
Right away.
That's where the money is.
That's what...
Somebody's thinking of that right now.
Yeah, people are going to be able to fuck right in your living room.
Right?
You're going to be able to...
That's what the new porn's going to be.
The thing is I can fuck in my living room.
Yes, right?
You can do it yourself.
I could.
Yeah, it's a do-it-yourself world.
We need to get back to that, people.
Get back to doing things, actually.
Not just watching them.
Yeah.
That is a weird thing.
I mean, as much as, you know, you make comedy and fighting
and podcasts and stuff, it's still strange that people watch stuff all the time.
Don't you find?
People love to be entertained.
Yeah.
I do.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We like to just have other people do the shit.
Just sit back and watch.
Yeah, but do you define...
This is something I always kind of wonder about you.
How you can possibly consume so many interesting and unrelated topics
and develop expertise in so many unrelated things while being a content maker?
Like, you're making stuff that people consume.
How can you possibly be mastering all these things at once?
I don't really have any...
I'm not...
I've mastered anything.
You know?
I'm pretty good at comedy.
I throw some good kicks.
I know jiu-jitsu pretty well.
I'm not a master at any of those things.
Yeah, but I mean, you're bow hunting.
You're...
You know, there's so many different things, you know?
Like, I literally do fighting stuff all day, every day.
And when I get a break, I hang out with my wife.
And sometimes I'll take a day off.
And that's it.
I don't know about other stuff.
It fascinates me how you can possibly know about so many things that seem unconnected.
I assume that it's probably something wrong with my brain, you know?
I assume that this...
It's like an extreme form of ADD.
But I need a bunch of different things going on in my mind, in my life.
I just...
If I don't have a bunch of different things going on, I don't feel stimulated
enough.
I'm almost the opposite.
It's like, I literally specialize so deeply in something.
Once I know something about it, I need to know way more about it.
And when I know stuff about that, that opens up a ton of new questions.
And that's why it's the same kind of area of stuff that I am obsessively
researching and studying.
I do that too, but I just do it with a bunch of different things.
That's what I mean.
That's what I'm getting at.
I listen to archery podcasts where they're just talking about very specific
ways to hold a bow.
And fix your sight and make sure you use your release properly.
I'll listen to those fucking things for hours and hours and hours obsessively.
On top of practicing.
I just get obsessed with things.
But I used to worry about it when I was younger.
I used to be like, what the fuck is wrong with me?
I can't just concentrate on one thing.
I always have all this other shit going on in my life.
But then I realize, well, that's just me.
If I just enjoy it and just do those things, then it doesn't concern me.
Then I'm just appreciative that I have so many interests.
Did you ever read some piece somebody wrote?
Something about, oh, I hate Joe Rogan or why I hate Joe Rogan.
And then he went on this path and he discovered that he actually hated that you
were your authentic self.
Have you ever read this?
Somebody wrote this thing.
And as he learned more about what it was to be authentically him, he realized
his hatred for some famous person was that he was looking at him and he hated
that that guy was actually him.
Well, it's easy to hate somebody that's like in the microscope all the time
because you'll find all these flaws.
Like if you follow someone every day, day in, day out and expect perfection or
enlightenment, you're going to be massively disappointed because the kind of
exposure that you get when you're doing a podcast, like when you're talking to
someone for hours and hours and hours.
You know, I've done 700 and what is this?
700, 762, 762 podcasts.
The shortest one is an hour.
Most of them are three hours.
That's 2,100, almost 2,500 hours.
Somewhere around that, you know, give or take.
But it's, yeah, you're going to get annoyed at me.
I get annoyed at me.
But his point wasn't that.
It was that you are authentically Joe Rogan.
Like whatever it is you do, you ended up being, I mean, you're sitting here in
a place that you built to do the thing that you want to do exactly the way you
want to do it.
You're as authentically a human being as a person can be.
I guess so.
You know?
Like when you're talking about accepting why you go and do things the way that
you do them, that's why you do it because you're like, fuck being some other
thing.
I'm going to be this thing.
Well, that's just, I think having this kind of a life is super lucky.
And if I didn't live it that way, I wouldn't be taking advantage of this huge
opportunity that very few people get.
Most people have to work.
Yeah.
They have an actual fucking job that they don't really necessarily like that
much.
And somehow or another, I've figured out a way.
I mean, I worked when I was younger for sure.
And I figured out how to get to this spot by sort of moving away from things
that I didn't want to do.
But now that I get to a point where everything I do, whether it's this spot, I
was looking forward to this.
I'm like, I'm going to get the hang of my friend, Robert.
We're going to have some fun.
Talk some MMA and life and all kinds of shit.
And that's the same thing I feel like when I go do stand up.
Same thing I feel like when I'm practicing archery or I'm working out.
These are things I enjoy doing.
And that's why I do what I do.
And I really believe people can do that.
I think you just have to start, first of all, by figuring out what it is you
want to do.
Yeah.
Because if you don't know that, then you're just going to start wandering.
But the thing is, if you push somebody, they all know.
Most people really know what it is that they love.
I find that young people a lot of times don't.
Like a lot of young folks, when I talk to them, they just don't have a path.
They're like, God, I just need to find something to do.
I'm thinking about doing this.
Or maybe I'll join the military to get some guidance and some discipline.
Or maybe I'll do that.
It's hard to tell because what's cool for you, Jamie might not like.
What Jamie might like, I might not like.
Jamie was trying to find Kanye West shoes all last night.
I don't like that.
That's what I'm saying.
But he probably thinks this jacket is stupid.
Motherfucker was up all night trying to get Kanye West shoes.
You know, it's true.
Yeah, everybody's different, you know.
I think you've got to figure out what it is you like doing.
Because the path of going to do that is the whole point.
Yeah.
People will often be like, well, I want to get this kind of job.
Or I want to buy this kind of house.
And it's not supposed to be that way, in my opinion.
You're supposed to start on a path.
And on that path, traveling along it, you're having adventures.
You're stumbling onto new things.
And the challenge of it being really hard to achieve is part of what gets you
up every day.
Yeah.
And it's also fun.
Yeah.
Watching things improve.
Watching yourself get better at things.
And analyzing things and figuring out what the holes are, the flaws, where the
errors are in your little system that you've created.
Those moments are fucking awesome.
They're really fun.
It's just, you know what really frustrates me, really frustrates me when
talking about these things?
Sometimes I'll get messages from people and they'll say, well, that's easy for
you to say.
Because, you know, you've got lucky and you found it.
But, like, you know, a lot of people can't do that.
A lot of people have response.
And they'll come up with all these reasons why they can't.
Instead of saying, well, my situation is particularly difficult, but there's a
workaround and I'm going to find it.
Yeah.
It might take me a year.
It might take me a decade.
I'm going to find it.
If wherever it is you're ending up is somewhere in the future.
You don't know what that is.
And now it's like, well, I would like to do that thing I got to do.
But I have all these responsibilities.
Okay.
Our new job, figure out how to take care of those responsibilities.
That's step one.
Do you know Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Yes.
That