Joe Rogan
People for the most part can smell lies.
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.
So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.
Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.
Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.Collection: Life
Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.Collection: Greatness
One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.Collection: Struggle
There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results.Collection: Mma
Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.Collection: Excellence
Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.Collection: Men
In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.Collection: Order
The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don't even realize it.Collection: Hate
Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.Collection: Decisions You Make
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passionCollection: Passion
I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you.Collection: Jealous
A unicorn is a donkey from the futureCollection: Unicorn
Be the hero of your own story.Collection: Hero
The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.Collection: Keys
The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.Collection: Workout
There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.Collection: Art
Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.Collection: Funny
When you're jealous, especially of someone else's art or creations you automatically put up these selfish walls that reinforce your stupid ideas. It's hard to pull those walls down and look at what you're hiding. Look at your own weakness and realize that the jealousy came from knowing that you're intimidated by someone else's work, and that when you compare it to your own, you fall short.Collection: Art
To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.Collection: Mma
The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your own medicine. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The first car ever made ran on hemp oil. Hemp seeds are also the healthiest food on the planet with the highest protein content out of any plant.Collection: Marijuana
This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.Collection: Inspirational
Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.Collection: Mma
It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.Collection: Strange
It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.Collection: Determination
The best way to pursue any discipline is the martial art way.Collection: Art
I've actually been doing stand up for more than 20 years. I started in 1988. It's almost 30 years! Which is crazy.Collection: Crazy
I don`t like people that make their living talking about bullshit, and you see them in many shows that are made on the same subject. When you go looking at UFOs or bigfoot or what-have-you, there's just nothing there.Collection: Talking
Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the oppor-tunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.Collection: Fun
There's a classic story I tell about when I did the Man Show about the retarded conversations that you have with the executive producers and the network.Collection: Men
Houston people are way cool. They're smart, they know how to have a good time, and they have the hottest chicks on the planet there.Collection: Smart
If I could, I would live in Houston, and I would encourage any comic starting out looking for a good place to develop to move there.Collection: Moving
Well you see, Brazilian JiuJitsu Blackbelts have a blackbelt in...... Brazilian JiuJitsuCollection: Wells
Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robotCollection: Moving
I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.Collection: Advice
Despite all the advancements in science, and all things about religion that are disproved it still marches on. The bottom line is that the only real, absolutely provable answers about life and our place in the universe are provided by science, and religion has been holding down science since day one.Collection: Real
People for the most part can smell lies, at least I thought that until I saw audiences applaud at Carlos Mencia.Collection: Lying
I like LA because it has a giant supply of great comedians.Collection: Comedian
There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.Collection: Sports
Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.Collection: Mma