Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE Review of 1283 with Russel Brand

Episode Date: May 1, 2019

Russel is an English comedian and actor that has been putting out hilarious content for decades. His conversation with Joe is really thought provoking and as a fan I really enjoyed talking about it.   Enjoy my review folks!   Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future shows :   [e-mail]

Hello guys and thanks for tuning into another episode of the JRE review. If you listen to this podcast, I really appreciate it and if you can, leave a thumbs up or a review and say something about why you like it. It always helps me get more of an understanding of what I'm doing and why I'm doing it and how to make it better. So you don't have to put up with really shitty podcasts that I put on. Today's podcast is awesome for me to review because it was Joe's conversation with Russell Brand, podcast 12.83.

Doing this went a little late. They talked last week, but I had some things on and every time Russell Brand is on he just seems to get better and better. He's really one of my favorite guests for Joe to talk to and I love just expanding on it. The point of this podcast is just that I'm a fan of the Joe Rogan experience and it's such a massive podcast that I love the idea of continual dialogue. I'm not the only person that does reviews of Rogan's podcast. Other people do. There's some guys out of Canada that do it and they do a great job. You know, they do long form

conversations. They're like hours and they kind of sum up the whole week and it's decent. It's funny. You know, they they are even at times critical of some of the podcasts, you know, saying that they were boring or confusing or whatever, and I like their honesty. I have to say, it's important because there's a lot being discussed in these podcasts, and sometimes you need more than just, you know, their conversation. You need analysis, whether it's crappy or not. I don't know. I try and keep mine light, and I always try and keep it positive.

It's a good lesson for me, and it helps with things. But yeah, at least some feedback. Let me know how I'm doing, and yeah, please try and say some nice things. That's always good. I also want to touch on something Joe says a lot about, you know, not just the heater thing or the trolling thing, but, you know, if you find yourself being a person that leaves a lot of negative reviews and a lot of negative content, consider that you might be a bit of a negative person and that's not good for you. You'll feel better if you're

not that way and also if you are doing that maybe you just don't like a lot of the content that you're listening to so or viewing so change it. Get some better content in there so you can enjoy it and leave some positive feedback because that's a nice thing to do. Anyway, yeah let's start this page. Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review. Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? So Russell Brown. This guy is somebody that growing up in England, you know, over the last guy, he must have been

around for like maybe 20 years doing different things. He's always been hilarious and he has changed, you know, he's always been kind of a bit of a hippie type, but he was He's just kind of has changed for sure. He's always been very funny though very witty very silly Super peculiar, but it always seemed like a genuinely nice guy and Recent years he's talked a lot about the kind of the job problems that he's had. And he's a real advocate for addiction and other things and doesn't take that stuff lightly, which is cool for people to struggle because he has a very honest message that can help, hopefully help people move away from the real stresses and struggles of addictive behavior.

And I mean, I think he's kind of been addicted to all sorts. He was like a sex addict and drug addict drinking, you name it. I mean, and across the board some real strong stuff, too. So he has a deep understanding of it and does his best. He's careful to watch his impulses. He talks about that with Joe, which I really enjoyed listening to, because I think on some level everyone can relate to impulses taking you in the wrong direction and it's natural, but also to try not to feel guilty about it, understand that you do it and and be more careful. And in so many ways, I think that's why he's gravitated towards

Jiu Jitsu like he has. He talked a lot about it. He's new, he's a white belt. He says, hopefully, here we get, and his blue belt soon, and they talk about that on the podcast, which is pretty cool, he's very excited. But, you know, if you have kind of, I mean, in a sense, I guess,

it's an addictive personality, right? Why not replace the bad addictions with some good addictions? That's probably a smart move, I would say. And yeah, he's done that, you know, in so many ways. I mean, he's moved away from the drugs, away from the addiction, into a lot of jujitsu, and trying to work on more positive aspects. Maybe he never get over those levels of impulses. That's probably why he doesn't feel like he can ever get back into doing drugs even on a social basis. I mean, it's good that he's identified

that limitation, I would say. If part of the reason that you listen to Rogan is for maybe advice or mentorship, like I do believe a lot of people listen to him, it's not just for entertainment, then Russell Brand is a guy I urge you to follow. I really do, because his message is, I wouldn't say similar they are very different but it's very positive it's well thought out his podcast is excellent it's very big in England and it's getting quite big in other places I believe that if he had started it the same time as Joe but just say over in England it would be massive in its own right I mean it's just coming in a bit later and it takes time to build up an audience, but he really is all of those similar things and always has a great message.

I mean, he's a very nice and interesting guy and that comes across on Joe's conversation with him. I mean, he just, it does seem so genuinely genuine. One thing I really liked is that they make the point to say it's okay to think and be different but still get along right so one aspect of their podcast they get into and you'll notice is when they talk about hunting so Russell's a vegan and could never hunt as he says because it's too empathetic towards the animals and then Joe does it but there's kind of like a there's like a commonality in that that they both don't like factory farming so they went different ways but even though Russell would say look this is not my cup of tea. I mean being English you'd probably say that. It still is something he understands the direction

of and is willing to listen to, and it's okay that people think differently, and that's a really mature way of kind of understanding an argument. Of course, you don't have to agree at all, and you lay your point down, but if you sit and listen, you might get a different understanding, and there's no need to yell and scream and not that these guys would have but it's cool that people can communicate like that. It's important to find like that common ground. But really Russell was very thought-provoking on this podcast. He has these long, fantastic rants that are really interesting. I'm probably if he annoys you with the way that he speaks, it's gonna continue to do that

because he does those rants quite a bit on this, but I think they're very quite clever. You know, he's not saying anything. I mean, he's saying some important things. Sometimes it's hard to follow what the question is because he's saying, hey Joe, I have a question. And then he just go for so long. You're like, okay, wait, where was the question in that? You can usually get it, but, but, you know,

it's that. They talk about having kids. And this comes up quite a bit. I don't have kids, but I always like hearing about how kids have changed people's lives. Not in the annoying Facebook way where they post a million pictures and you're just like, Jesus Christ, if I see another fucking picture of your kid, I'm gonna, you know, delete you as my friend. But in the way that it like, it gives them this other energy to work for and towards. And now they're thinking, shit, I have to, I have to grow up, you know, I've made a little person. They talk about getting the kids into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I think that's really important. I would imagine, I would probably push it more in my daughters than in my sons. The boys probably learn to fight anyway, but for

girls, it never hurts for them to be able to protect themselves. Jiu-Jitsu is excellent because it doesn't require a lot of strength. If you've got just the skill set of it, they can kind of lull them in and choke them out if they're getting attacked. You know, good trying would choke on them. But one thing they say is they both agree that, you know, about pressuring your kids into having a specific job. I've had a lot of friends like that that were pushed into medicine or law or whatever by their parents. And they're not necessarily that happy with it. Even though it's a good job, I guess parents are just so worried about how my kid will survive that it's like,

do this. You've got to become a doctor or whatever, but you know, I think in so many ways let them on their own path. You know, even if it means quote unquote failing at life, you know, okay, you didn't make a ton of money. And, but, but you could go off and just follow your, your passion, you know, master something no matter what it is. And, and, and that's pretty cool. Russell does mention DMT a few times, and I'm curious to think what you guys thought about that. He is obviously not into doing drugs but he's really intrigued by what DMT does, where you go, what you're thinking, when it happens, and also the spiritual kind of maybe medicinal healing

properties of what it could leave out. He's obviously talked to a lot of people about this. This isn't just like a thought that's popped up. Being the kind of like, I mean, Joe even says he looks like a guru. The people he must talk to and meet, generally in those kind of circles. I'm sure a lot of them have done it and a lot of them have probably expressed to him a deep kind of reverence for that experience. And this leads him to want to really kind of check it out. But of course, being an addict, being somebody that is thinking that he's trying to find a loophole to get fucked up, he's very concerned about that.

And I really respect that too. I mean, he's showing a lot of restraint and it's pretty, it's really fucking cool that he makes that point. They talk about the difficult things when it comes to stand up. And in so much of that, I like, and I always like the stand up ones. You guys know that that because comedy is dear to my heart. And in so many ways, I think people pursue very difficult things because of an absolute fear they have of it, they want to overcome this fear. Like maybe they were bullied so they learn martial arts or maybe they're scared of public speaking. So they want to do more public speaking.

But Joe says he pursues his pursuit of excellence really comes from wonderment and joy. Like he loves it and he wants to do more of it. Now, was he born that way? I doubt it. I think it's easy to see successful people in the think that that's just how it is. But, you know, they learn it like anything else. They learn to be more positive or to work harder at difficult things and to make that their pursuit and to find a positive, healthy way of doing it. You know, I mean, being motivated through revenge, although motivating, is probably not like long-term healthy for you mentally. And you know, that moves on to their favorite comedians or at least Joe, Dave Chappelle.

Chappelle is somebody that I've seen just show up to the comedy store a couple of times. And when I've seen it, he was on stage for like two hours, which is if you haven't been to stand up comedy, it's very rare that anyone will do that long. He usually do like 25, 30 minutes. And then when they do their special, it's about an hour. But Dave would just go up and kind of shoot the shit

And he's so loose. He's so relaxed. He's really is Just as incredible. I mean and Joe explains this a lot better than me. I mean, I don't know comedy anywhere like he does but When you're watching it even if you're not a fan and I've taken people up there You know to see him my girlfriend now came with me and didn't necessarily know too much about Who Dave Shapel was as a stand-up, but she came away going wow that was truly magical what I saw I'm not saying necessarily. He's like that all the time probably now. He's closer to it But he truly is an incredible

Comedian and it's just this like freeing Energy that I think a lot of these guys strive towards you know, just letting go as much as possible and really hammering out the comedy and and listening to both Russell and Joe described that in this podcast was cool. It was It's inspiring and it's and it's cool to know that they is still working towards this point that they may never retain. I don't think Joe ever thinks that Hibis is good as Dave Chappelle, but it doesn't mean he doesn't work as us off. Anyway, it was a great podcast. Again, thanks guys for downloading. I appreciate the support. That's it. Have a great week, bye!