Name: Joe Rogan Experience #642 - Rich Roll
Uploaded: 2015-05-02T22:15:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #642 - Rich Roll' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-05-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #642 - Rich Roll' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-05-02. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #642 - Rich Roll

are we live oh my goodness rich roll ladies and gentlemen how are you buddy
good to see you what's
cracking happy to be here man drinking green juice i know of you i hope that's
in my honor
sort of i drink it every day but i appreciate that it helps where'd you pick
that up juicy lady
yeah yeah yeah you know where that is i do i go there all the time i love that
place yeah me too
i wish i changed the name of it but uh juicy ladies i don't know why it's i
think a lady owns
it yeah no she's cool actually i like her she's juicy yeah the food there is
pretty good it's a
little sexual yeah the name are you right yeah is it an assault to your
masculinity no no i'm cool with
it but some weaker men might have an issue yeah you have to be self-assured you
have to be strong
enough to go in there and order vegan food they do but they make a good green
juice yeah they make a
lot of good stuff there it's a good spot there's more and more of those places
that are opening up
it's true mcdonald's is going to offer a kale shake no way yeah i've never
heard that yes
yes yeah it's changing well something's working people are getting nutrients in
their body it's
crazy yeah starbucks has them now starbucks has what kale shakes get the fuck
out of here i didn't know
that yeah get the fuck out of here evo green things mix it up with uh yogurt
and fresh kale if you
wanted to but why would they put yogurt in it i don't know because it's mcdonald's
it makes it a
smoothie but starbucks yeah yeah well you know the market uh you know the
market will dictate it if
people want it yeah it's sort of like when you talk about conspiracy theories
with evil corporations
it's like they're responding to what people want you know that is true people
want it they're going to
start making it that's the whole conspiracy with like really shitty television
shows too like people
like man they're trying to make us dumb nope we're already dumb yeah like all
you have to do is look
at the ratings and see what people are actually watching and they're responding
to that well people
are tired they get home from work they're exhausted they don't want to watch
cosmos or some of them do
i do but some people just want to they just want to zone out and watch honey
boo boo or i don't think
that's anymore right is that not anymore there's always a new one but yeah we
uh we got rid of our tvs
what yeah like who are you like a year ago what believe me i did not want to do
it it was not my idea
i was uh i was quite vociferous and opposing that idea that was my wife's idea
but actually
it's just like anything else you adjust to it i mean i still watch netflix and
i watch the shows i
like to watch and now i don't i don't miss it and i have total like when i i've
been traveling a lot
and you know when you're in hotel rooms you turn the tv on and i have a zero
tolerance policy for
commercials now like i just can't even i'm like really you know and i just turn
the tv off and
go back online yeah commercials are fucking brutal whoever invented the idea of
stopping a show
every 15 minutes for three minutes or whatever the hell it is for commercials
that's awful well it's
crazy how you acclimate to that because as a kid you know think about how many
hours of your life
you know we're just basically watching commercials well you know what happened
though dvrs dvrs made
commercials really stupid that's still i mean we're about the same age right so
that's still a recent
development in our life yeah you know most of our formative years was terrible
television commercials
yeah i got my first tivo in the early 2000s it was like a standalone unit that
hooked up to direct tv
i think it was i want to say like 2003 or something like that and i was like
this is amazing
you can pause the tv you know you can pause it you go take a leak you could
record things you could find
search things and have them on a schedule because i fucking i had probably
10 vcrs in my life and never figured out how to record one of those bitches it's
just flashing 12
o'clock i never scheduled one of them i never had one of them scheduled i don't
think anybody figured
that out some people must have but it's it's cool how it's changing i mean you
know to see how
how you know what's going on with netflix and amazon and all that kind of stuff
and and most recently
uh what tim ferris has done with his show have you followed that at all which
what did so so tim
had a show called the tim ferris experiment and it aired on i can't remember
what cnn what yeah it was
like it was a it was like a another channel that was part of the cnn right like
headline news or
yeah it wasn't headline news it was something like that it went under right and
so
his show was i don't know how many episodes it aired but certainly not the
entire 13 you know of the
season and then it was just you know how it is in entertainment like you're
just done right they own
the show and even though they were all taped and locked and and and completed
nobody had seen them
and somehow he was able to get get his show back and he he i don't know you
know through lawyering or
what what have you and uh bought the rights back got his show and cut a deal
with itunes and it's
premiered on itunes this past week and i think it's like the top ranked tv show
on itunes now you can
i wonder if their tv show rankings though are just like their podcast rankings
you know well who knows
how the itunes algorithm works well it does it's definitely not based on the
number of downloads no
it's definitely not it's based on new like it it new it takes precedent new
subscribers and and also
uh comments so like chelsea peretti had the number one podcast in the country
and she hadn't even
released an episode yet right so zero had been downloaded and they also
subscribed they over inflate
new shows so when somebody premieres a show with one or two episodes that it's
it's like super high up
for a while before it settles into where it should be well i think that's good
because it doesn't keep
anybody from downloading other shows that are already popular and it does give
new shows like a window
but like you'll see people i'm number one like you'll see like these brands
like come on man like do you
know what that means like what is it what are your numbers how many downloads
you get you're definitely
not number one there yeah it's weird the rankings is weird it goes all over the
place like my show
this week uh it's got a banner you know in the top carousel of itunes on the itunes
home page for
podcasts so my numbers went way up this week you know in overall rankings but i
know that's not real
you know it'll settle back down it will but it won't you know it will but it'll
build you know i remember
when we first started doing this podcast i don't know what our downloads were
there were there were nothing
though it was like you know a few thousand here or there and then it's one day
was like oh we're
getting a million downloads a month what a million and now it's somewhere
around 14 million is it really
yeah what's your what's your average download per show you can you talk about
depends depends on the
show but there's all the different things there's itunes it's then there's the
raw mp3 that you can
download there's stitcher which is really hard to track yeah you don't know
what's right stitcher
only takes one they'll give you numbers but you know you gotta chase it down um
they what they do is
stitcher is uh an application for cell phones that allows they take a podcast
and they lower the bit
right they're making a much smaller file and then they so they only download
one episode but then it
gets distributed through their system you know i don't know how many times so
then there's that
then there's you stream which is a few thousand usually um and then there's
youtube which is tens if not
hundreds of thousands usually hundreds of thousands and then um it's never tens
of thousands um
and then um vimeo so all together it's usually around a million an episode
depending upon the
episode crazy yeah it could be more crazy numbers you know powerful joe well it's
just a number thing
it's just an you keep doing it uh have interesting people like rich roll ladies
and gentlemen have
interesting people on have funny conversations fun conversations and just keep
doing it you know
it builds i just listened to your uh episode with sam harris from the other day
and it's just that guy's
captivating yeah he's an interesting dude he's a very intelligent very cool guy
i want to get him
together with abby martin though she's not down in the same room i'm sure your
phone rang uh from her
after that show i got a few text messages we went back and forth she's my
friend i'm very good friends
with her and i'm good friends with sam too i like both of them well sam's got a
next level brain
yeah he's very smart whether you agree with him or not uh he has an incredible
acuity to present an argument and support it and communicate it in a very clear
and calm way
he's also very honest you know like uh if he's communicating an argument he is
not doing it to
be deceptive these are his actual feelings and thoughts and agree with them or
not agreeing with
them this is his point of view and uh as is hers you know i mean i respect both
of them very much
i i i'm in the middle between both right as well i'm not necessarily a hundred
percent her side
i'm not necessarily a hundred percent his side um it's it's it's uh you know
you're talking about
death and war and uh anytime you can find any way to minimize or trivialize
that it's easily open for
argument open for criticism so that's why i see i see her point of view but i
also see his point of
view there's a lot of fucking crazy people in the world a lot of awful terrible
people there's a lot
of really dangerous ideologies that are being passed around and have been
passed around for a long time
and the people that are embedded in these ideologies are married to them they're
very very committed to
you know i see his point of view he knows what he's talking about and so does
she so it's it's crazy
you know well a couple things i mean first of all i'm always impressed with how
you kind of navigate
the treacherous waters of having guests on that you may disagree with which may
be me today i don't
know but you know sort of you'll you'll have people with differing point of
views sometimes extreme
sometimes not uh and and the way that you kind of have to gracefully like as a
podcast host myself
that's always a challenge you know like how do you um have a respectful
engaging conversation um but
also make sure that you're asking the right questions so that you're not just
people pleasing the whole
time well i don't think there's anything wrong with this agreeing with someone
you know and i don't
think there's anything wrong with having a pleasant conversation with someone
whose views you don't
share i think two people can be diametrically opposed on certain issues but
still be nice to each other i
don't think there's anything wrong with that and i think when i talk to someone
who doesn't share my
opinions or has differing opinions i try to relax whatever part of me wants to
argue with that and
just try to figure out what is it where are they coming from you know where
where's what's their point
of view based on is it logical is it emotional is it objective is it not you
know what where where where
where are they at you know and also i like to play like sometimes people say
yeah but you asked this
and you asked that and like sometimes i'll ask people things that i don't even
i don't even believe
what i'm saying what i'm what i'm trying to do is either play devil's advocate
or argue the counterpoint
just to try to figure out where they're at right and try to cover all the bases
because especially when
it comes to a controversial issue you know you want you want to explore not
just where a person's at
like what what they're trying to say but how did they 