Joe Rogan Experience #1982 — John Hennessey Transcript

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0:00 the Joe Rogan experience so you've got some power-to-weight ratio to work with there. Well, you know. And I don't know, maybe 60 years later, you know, I'm 60 now. and now all of a sudden I've got all this motivation It can lead you to be very ambitious and very successful, but it can also just fuck your life I mean, you know, to have an opportunity

2:44 Something nobody really needs. Nobody needs to go to comedy show show mma but they do it for entertainment i tell people but when I drive them the experience Oh, yeah, for sure. What's that? when i was a kid when i was about 16 years old one of my friends picked me up his friend had a so bad. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I saw my wife for my 60th last year, my 60th birthday. She and the kids

5:31 you know, we'll probably put an LT4 bob lutz who used to be the president of chrysler back in the day when i first met him he had um Bob told me that story like 30 years ago. As long as you're not there for the accident. My boys all like to ride. So bad. Just next time you do that, just look out the window. Yeah. I mean, it's- They have retrofit kits now for that of stuff i have but honestly when i'm driving those

8:28 I just, you had to ride the bus. Sure. this quadrangle where I could like pull right up to the door. And there's all these windows that I had my car crash, blah, blah, blah. bikes and I paid him like 50 bucks a month for a year or something like that. And I bought, I bought, Yeah, so I just grew up around muscle cars. they got ahead of the helicopters and these group B rally cars like

11:56 And made a little bit of money. up to Indy, but maybe I could do that. And so made a little twin turbo V6, four-wheel I had the Conquest. I loved those things when I first saw those things. There you go. So I learned the first rule in car racing. They take Highway 318, which is about south of Ely, Jesus Christ. that. I'm doing all these races, come home from the honeymoon and I look at the bank balance.

15:38 So, you know, it was JDM, so it was Supras, 300ZX Twin turbo, you know, so Grand National Supras. but I'll make you a deal. If you let let me modify it I think I can get another 100 horsepower to that Viper and I'll do it for free I said I won't even got some articles off of it. I did this race. You know, the Viper is a big, that if you go back to the original Viper, it wasn't really that fast?

18:19 The new Dark Horse would be 500. That's true. then we added it up, well, maybe a year ago. That's from 91 through about a year ago, we had No. You get to see accidents before they happen. to be worse for them than it is for you for sure it's just there's so many fucking bad drivers out Getting your driver's license in Germany, They just need to pay attention and don't go fast.

21:21 You know, if you're going a little bit faster, you go in the inside lane. but it doesn't bother me and I would put some of that control, you got your tunes going, you're a little tired, you fall asleep in the ditch, right? So I I used to slap myself in the face. Fuck yeah, I did, dude. No, I'm in the back of this paper truck, and this guy had the route, and then we would

23:33 But that was just kind of what we did. I had like a cargo van. So they give you a map and all the houses that are on it, all the addresses. I had a stack of papers right next to me in South Kansas City, St. Joe's, and I found out that they did not have a paper route in the hospital. And So I actually used to teach at Boston University. Just show up and try.

25:43 in front of the Jaehyun Kim Taekwondo Institute, and they're Leave me alone. walking on the street and these two guys start fucking with me and and i'm not rattled at all But it was hard to get there. Six months? Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I had several. But this guy, like invested into you? Yes. Yeah, I had several Yeah. That's you now. I learned that that was possible. Like, I'd never known that a person could do that. Like, the, many times. But watching him, I learned it. I learned that that was possible.

30:43 It was a good way to generate some money while I was doing this crazy thing where I was trying to make the Olympic team for Taekwondo. And I never – I couldn't win the nationals. kickboxing. Okay. And then I kind of lost my faith in Taekwondo because I realized how limited it was were you when you started with that? Well, I was thinking about it when I was like 19 one of the other. Where did stand-up come into that whole program? How were you when you started with that?

32:15 But you're the kind of guy that like you don't put your balls out there and you won't mind And like he'd been on the US ski team, could get attention okay from cracking that tension all right i could get attention from like making it's like, these people are terrible. This is how it works. just quit he went up and just it was so polished so it was he was in such like

35:14 Yeah. I compare it to trying to build a mountain and I couldn't be involved in anything that didn't freak me out. I went in and and dogs we're gonna put you in a cage with a bunch of centipedes well it was That's so stupid. And that was in the very early 90s. i'm watching you get out i'm like okay you know how to play pool it's complicated we'll say it

38:11 So when I moved to LA, I fucking hated it. Comedy Store was the mecca for stand-up, and I would compete in the Sunday tournament. Would go there on Sunday you get there early So like that kept me going right we still do an MMA then well still I was doing martial arts. Yeah Is this like late 90s? 97. 97, okay. So Campbell McLaren, who was one 90s 97 97 so Campbell McLaren

40:49 I'm like, fuck yeah, I'll do it. Yeah. They had that like those, I think, what, Dana bought it from the guys that did the- This was long before the Fertitta Brothers came along with Dana and all that. I loved doing it, but I could make more money doing a comedy club over the weekend than I could going. Right. My first event was supposed to be in New York, but they banned it in New York right before

42:21 Right. Like crazy recent. thought about the politics of it until we were just chatting, New York, the last guys headbutt each other right they can they could see all the blood and in the nuts yeah you have a cup on it hurts like hell yeah yeah so like back And so in 98-ish, 99, I quit. And Tito Ortiz, they used to have these elaborate walk-ins with like lights and fire and shit.

45:15 So Dana bought it yet at this point? That was like years in. even bought out the ads and they took care of the whole thing they put Berserker he would just come at you just swinging bombs take one on the chin knock dudes out his fights were most fan-friendly style you he would win he would throw his arms back like this it was crazy see if you get see if you get

48:29 So this is Chuck with a fucking mohawk. he was one of the most terrifying fucking human beings that's ever walked the face of the earth. He's so terrifying looking. This one was insane. he was the the face of the company because he was the guy that like if you the casual fan when you talk to him like have you seen the chuck liddell doing like opiate anthony show mostly okay when you do you do radio for a while then oh yeah

50:55 And he used to do a show called Live from the Compound. so we have all these cables running to a server excuse me a server room and but all these people that come on that a lot of people never heard of and have all these Just you and me looking at each other eye to eye, no phones, no people around. or that you're interested in whereas it seems like you know you flip on tv the people are getting

53:12 Right. Or you just fucking roll in and just start thinking and talking. I'll listen when I'm driving. ever since you got to Texas two and a half years ago, with the Mammoth. It's way, you can see out of the side mirrors way better. the visibility that's the only issue i have with it it's an amazing truck yeah i fucking love it used to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex and you changed it

55:42 consultant that I could never afford to hire why it's a TRX and then you turn it into like orange like a matte orange like oh that looks like orange yeah i never thought i wanted to drive an Yeah. We've only been working on it for almost three years, but just finished it up a few months ago. He's our chief engineer and development driver for the Venom F5.

57:20 bone stock, I'm guessing So, cool car. It's crazy. Z06. It's American design and American build. Well, the sticker on them, like my friend Hein Rockets, I think he paid 160. Yeah, yeah. the road for, you know, four or five X, you know, maybe like a McLaren F1, like it'd be $20 million 0 to 60 is a metric from 60 years ago. But it's built in America.

1:00:59 We're now producing the Roadster and the Revolution. Yeah, no, no. 12 to 15 months. but everything's carbon. Wow, that's pretty. Yeah, Linegar found a Rem looks like with the roadster. Wow, that's pretty. How pretty that is. it was just kind of an idea and a sketch, Dude, that thing looks so good. It's very raw. So Bugatti, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Gordon Murray. And so one time like we're

1:03:59 We'll see. Well, hell yeah. system, and everything else that you would expect. But right now, I mean, like I said, Yeah, you're just driving through the country, So Top Gear tests on an old runway So he was a client. And so I think they're – but now you've got Chris Harris and you've got Clarkson and Hammond and May. The Grand Tour. has been back into 2014. And so I'm working with the producers and they're like, when you're around

1:07:42 He's got one of these Breitling watches where you pull out the little cord and it tells I'm going to go watch football. that guy a couple times too but i can't do that and i don't want to get arrested in canada anyway And I realized that was Andy Willman, the producer of the show. That is so smart. But this guy was definitely paying attention. The car didn't.

1:10:27 It seems like everybody has an agenda. Oh, Tesla attempted to sue the BBC for libel in March of 2011. Yeah, they did. And they did it just to sort of He ended up going to the hospital and getting broken ribs and whatever else, just to shoot It's on YouTube. They did. when they went into the wall just drive and they're all wearing gnarly that seems like it could cause permanent damage and so they would do stuff like that well

1:13:35 but I hear it was pretty painful. we were hanging out with the crew, these guys were getting chased out of the country. Like people were going to like looking for them. So they bought them all first-class tickets business class for him from argentina back to the uk but then the question Why else would you do it? and this auto had gone down like 30 days before.

1:16:02 and yeah, have they gone too far a few times? it would either make you or break you. yeah I've had Chris on yeah him and Matt Right. It is great. Yeah, I don't understand the steam cars. and the boiler's got water in it And he goes up and knocks on some little old lady's front door and says, Yeah. Yeah. Jay's been a customer, gosh, almost 30 years.

1:19:10 say, John can't make it. super influential you know another thing i learned from jay that's cool so whether it's a it and the guy came up to the car and says and so when they kind of start queuing up come out to the show but he was always so busy like i would just like see him in passing and but then years later maybe 10 years ago i got to hear him do stand-up and i'm like it's so much

1:21:35 And he's like a fucking machine gun, dude. or if he just does big shows. to your point, reach out to him like I guess it was the early 80s or late 70s, Eh, what's my beef? Like, first of all, you're talking to someone very quickly. And some subjects deserve more attention. That's the problem. There's nothing you can do to fix it. No. Deep dive and pack it all.

1:24:53 You've got a live audience. that's really what it is yeah it's not you know and Jay Leno didn't get a chance to pick the guests I do my car thing. So they all wanted that. podcasters if you want just free entertainment in your ears you could there's so much there's And when you're on a television show, you're kind of depending upon people flipping through the channels.

1:27:05 I had no idea. by going on Lena, Someone could be funny and have one clip about one subject So if you've got talent, you can't keep it down. like the first television show that i did where i got attention from it and then i got a development Okay, okay. They want the lights and they want the crowd and they feel like it's more of a show. I'm buzzing pretty good.

1:29:22 Good. Texas has got to get its shit together with weed. I'd been married for a while, and we're having trouble. And it kind of helps me stay focused on the stuff I've got to do and better follow through and focus. I'm like, she's like, okay, well, tell me now when you want to go pee in the cup. Were you on a fairly low dose? From the cold? But it had been jacking me up for 25 years.

1:32:19 And I'll go, I'll go do an early workout, a boxing workout a couple of times a week. But And I don't know, maybe it's just because it's a combination of it's something that I really don't want to do and it's really hard to do. What did that transition feel like? But anyway, so Ritalin just kind of gets me going, helps me focus, stay on task. to see if like, maybe there's a more healthy way to approach this. Yeah. I mean, I mean just how

1:34:54 I didn't one time wonder where's my phone, what's going on. was calm it was like zen it's like me being up in the mountains looking at the trees and just kind You feel so happy. And so he thought he tweaked his knee playing pickleball the other day. But that's just what comes with the territory. What do you still carry to this day that you got hurt doing back in the day?

1:36:38 Is it more for your mind stimulation or relaxation Like there's a – One school of thought is you should ice things immediately and calm down the inflammation. what to say about that, but I do know that it does inhibit your growth and gains if you do it post All of his problems went away. but it also might have been when you're doing keto, more than anything.

1:39:14 They leave you searching for your thoughts. take so like when you go to you know go on the road for a fight or doing stand-up you bring like get something in and you know, get, get the sweat going and let's get rocking and then I still think about checking it out. I get out. I'm like woof like my body's completely adapted to it. So I can start working out right away.

1:41:13 I have a Morosco cold plunge at home, a Morosco forge. It's out here Okay Exactly In the Morosco, it's amazing. Because when you get out, you know how your body gets like super red? It's giving you some insulation. It's constantly flowing. I shower in that. punch first always. And then because of the heat, like it's a static form of cardio. No, the original ones don't overheat.

1:43:48 The pros, they eat a lot. Sometimes even when I lift weights, I'll go into the sauna. Go through 20 minutes of this fucking 189 degree sauna Okay. We were racing each other. But without getting hurt, you could do that with pool. A little bit of zen. and set some drills up Right. Yeah, I did. Okay. Yeah, I did. I like action, you know, so. the Tony Cho hands of the world.

1:46:50 right right I like breaking yeah I like i appreciate you coming here and i love your cars man and i appreciate you making wild shit The GT500, not fast enough. And his son went out and drove around Monterey, California last August and had a blast with it. It was a lot of fun.