Joe Rogan Experience #831 — Byron Bowers Transcript

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0:00 Byron Bowers ladies and gentlemen hey what's going on what's up brother man thank you for you'd be like, man, this is horrible. So it pulls you out of the situation and lets you see how, you know, fucked up things are for like Haitian people. Like would most of the world be like a lot of these countries that you visit And they was like, take your jacket off.

2:05 got on glasses and stuff and they was like oh okay oh it's a shirt huh come through and as soon as I You know? Yeah. But don't they have rules like we have rules as far as like how many ounces of liquid and stuff like that you could take on a plane? What are you wearing that shit for? Okay, so I think you could bring on like four ounces of liquid. So this same luggage has been like everywhere. So what were you doing down to the Dominican Republic so this same luggage has been like everywhere

4:34 The oceans down there are amazing. Anytime I snorkel, like, it's that other world experience to me. Because it looked like a lady just doing her dress like that. And you put it on. you ever used any kind of virtual reality i'm pretty new to it too yeah but you get a full 360 the actual ocean yeah that's uh that's basically what it that's basically what it looks and feels like, you know.

7:48 I think a body is like 60%. Average human bodies between 50 and 65% water. like the older we get, Yeah, that's actually collagen. I definitely use creams. Well, I can't use dyes and perfumes in my lotions. You should be in a cologne commercial. that you could smell it and immediately transport you back to that good place yeah or bad place or bad place like yeah like i like like sexy smells so i like

10:45 small like erection like a little erection a little erection yeah like if it don't turn me on on them here it's not like in georgia like i'm from georgia where you can oh you can get a honda I mean, it's control explosions, essentially. I kind of know there's some, you got to have camshafts and you got to have some cylinders The simplicity of it. Like, body shapes and what it feels like. But don't don't you enjoy like what it feels like when you drive them

13:44 Like what's the best suspension setup for handling? but it was the best car of our own. Instead of just, no, man, the flattest, most It feels more like a go-kart, you know? Let's put some van tires on it, you know. ridiculous slide slid on the freeway a bunch of times just stopping and wasn't used to a uh not Nope. That's terrible. And all type of stuff that, you know, antifreeze tastes like.

16:33 It's like Kool-Aid almost. Yeah, you learn your lesson with cars, you know, while you still can. That's true. You have no idea what the fuck's going on there and everything's connected to some sort of you know, computer management system So I had to go under the dash and rewire everything. Well, I learned how to install car stereos. just like the universe have patterns when you learn combustion and stuff like that you just

19:03 That's an interesting comparison. You could get to everything pretty easily. Try to take stereo out of one of those things. and it's just a bunch of that going on right computing at one time that's the pattern right fucks up yeah and that's cool. That's just a pattern that's just going to happen. it's one of the older bigger ones yeah the big one yeah yeah that's that's the one that's

22:41 Yeah. cars and i was like yeah it's hard to find something you can find when it's not been They use it like as a standard term? No. I just need it to be quick and, like, turn and handle well. Yeah. Your road is a warp? My road is a warp now. Pure warped. Your road is a warp? But it was already warped before I went that day. Yeah. And just the balance between the left and right brain, the logic side and the creative side and the balance between the two.

26:47 Kind of unoriginal, though. I see how you're looking at me there. On a residential street. Just like my set, you know. yeah that could be the difference no worries just edgy. No worries. Yeah. It's just what happened regularly. So, but in your 20s, like to my grandmother, this is nothing. Like Jim Crow and like these things aren't that old. anywhere else because when i got out here people act like racism didn't exist and it affected

31:31 the whole light skin dark my sister light skin fair skin I'm dark skin you You know what I mean? Yeah, that's an unfortunate thing that people do. a weird situation you know you just park this and keep up with you. Male feminists are seriously barely real. since he's been on this podcast. But what they're doing is just trying to make everybody think that

34:21 You sure yeah, okay, and she was like you objectify. And I was like, well, I guess I objectify women then, you know? One of them was like, men who objectify women are the effing worst I didn't say only learn through my ignorance Yeah. They're funny. Just like anybody that would say to you that there's no racism. to, and the think process, the thought process that surrounds these areas is super difficult

37:47 That's the problem with the Internet? This is just people I'm related to. You know what you know i mean yeah there's nothing you can do about that being like this sort of subversive comedian? tell by the look in their face when they see it um it's not what they it's not world star hip-hop trying to sit around motherfuckers that drink alcohol all day you know i mean and they trying

40:02 And then I try to go back and explain those things, you know. Yeah. But we can identify each other so easily by what we look like or where we're from it's so easy is shit. Yeah, that's true. Those dudes will wear fucking wife beaters, tank tops with gold chains hanging down. They look through you sometimes. Yeah. one-quarter which is Texas fucking huge so this country is bigger than Texas by

43:26 happened and our mother gave birth in this weird part of the world and they're just people man It was a show. super early in the morning before the sun came up to observe this hyena because he would only be Yeah. Just fuck that. but they broke down the white man wolf theory to me. of mine who went to africa another black guy was telling me the same thing he's like dude he goes

46:09 they don't want to see you He goes, But we're so far removed. The planet they lived on. Pandora. Yeah. Like the app. Yeah, like the app. There's no war. like I've had like bizarre They didn't even have horses, man. and became zebras who's a, Ice Age thaws out. That's how I look at it. how many white people have black lives movement uh hashtagged on their fucking twitter page

50:34 they're all their hero genes fired up that's what i wonder if that's what makes men want to do it in They feel there's nothing they could do, so they just want to make out with black guys. Maybe they knew this guy was a dangerous. And they invited him to go through like one of their police training safety courses to realize that this is how quick a cop can get shot by a psycho yeah and so there's different

53:12 And he goes in the back and pulls out a gun and shoots him. So they have to, they are always fucking like this, man. If we get out of gas, we'll walk to a goddamn gas station. I know somebody that talked to a cop and they said that when, how they started working and minutes we'll get some gas we'll come back don't cry jesus christ yes but i mean yeah i know

54:10 It naturally kicks in. little pistol out on you. And as it went up, we went under. Oh, my God. And as it went up, Like, we made it. to tell what happened. And I ended up calling the police. And I was like, man man you know that nigga was black you know I know both sides. Oh my God. he was like, man, and I don't use love like that Because I was out of town and I got back.

57:21 and you're driving to your house and someone shoots over your car, fucking for sure you're calling the police, right? and then compare it to how many people get killed in America every day from gunfire. And sometimes your lady, your girl don't even want to hear that either. And he's like, you know, just giving people enough money every year so they live.

59:08 not going to work yeah but now the more i think about it the more i think of that might be like So it might actually make sense in terms of law enforcement yeah in terms of unemployment like all sorts of different things where you would have Or to feel like I'm sad. Do all those things. grow and see what things went wrong if she doesn't feel it's too

1:01:50 the law, So, Right. Most people are just guessing, me included, just guessing. people that have been to war they um for some reason even though it was awful and they saw They just start collecting houses and boats. Everybody's got a cool story that makes it. Yeah, man. Because it's institutionalized thinking. You can. But I think that, like all things, when the world around them evolves quicker than they do, it creates issues.

1:05:40 schools and now are reading online accounts of what these professors do. but might not necessarily be real. got on a bus and went to school. what i mean in a sense but what happened was by the time like my professors were like rich They write their own books. He wrote his own book, and I didn't like that. Oh, that's interesting. But they give you 25% of what the book's worth.

1:08:20 From the bookstore. You know what I mean? So it's only a few people that I supplied. Win-win except stealing stealing Lars Ulrich got involved. 2002. 2002. Was there even Sirius Satell Am I imagining this? It might've been the radio, actual radio. XM was right around that same time. I think it might've been, um, whoever it was right you didn't have the internet you still had to go to the computer lab so check this out

1:11:30 So a few of us in the dorms had internet. had laptops or nothing like that Wow yeah a friend of mine called crazy And I think a year or two earlier, I was in the crack game a little bit. They literally blamed everything on crack. I know you're looking at it. um somebody you look up to just you know it was a it was a way for people to get coke way easier

1:13:48 I haven't did coke you know everything I've done lean on anything for any emotional thing right so when I do it it's just to see what it's like Yeah. Because I didn't know that the person who sells it is addicted just as much as the user. Yeah. Because they don't. There's nothing they would normally do you can make somebody do that you know i mean And if you can't afford it, you know what I mean?

1:16:39 I did it enough to see it, but I didn't do it long enough to get full power. in this other place. This is the first it was a pharmaceutical company in that town that made a lot of money and i You know what I mean? What? I don't think I had the mentality. Wow. a lot of people have to learn and you learn it by watching either you do your own fuck-ups or you

1:20:36 Because one knocked my dad's eye out. king or king falling or something like that right so I just wanted to see like Like, there was an area called Lowell in Massachusetts that had a big problem. But do you think that it's because of all these pressures that you were talking about? kid i was still they would call me a square when i was younger i didn't partake anything but i would

1:24:02 of tobacco um almost like chewing tobacco is what the dudes did but you don't it's what snuff is. Snuff is like a powder form of tobacco. oh, you know, as a kid, They'd have spittoons. He used to swallow his tobacco juice oh that's gangster My Nigerian friends, they put me on. This is just income for, like, this is the hustles that we had. Like, I'm in there just chewing, hanging out my mouth.

1:26:29 It's like a more, it's like alertness. It's like you buzzed in a way so it's better better than than coffee uh it's more of a a drunk And then as time went on, the cancer ate his jaw away. I can believe that. It's a different experience than the coal. Okay. We need a goddamn assistant. Your mind fires up. When I told my mom I did acid, and I told people in the South I do acid,

1:29:45 I understand what he went through. Oh, after you did that. Like, God damn it, Byron. yeah in a sense they already think like nuts this guy's already he's out there i don't know what a lot of money doing stand yeah you know like i i is now now you're at the point people be like It's a little more complicated than that. How so? Or, okay, you're going to put me on a show with five people.

1:32:49 He said to me, you're the one that got away. Or you can meet some of the people that you and I know from the comedy store. It's beautiful, right? That's a goddamn hug fest. i've been dealing with racism my whole life that's easy that's a mental thing and that's what i did They have an idea in their head of what it's going to be. it was fucking crazy but his idea he's probably thought he was doing the right thing he did well

1:36:14 because the talent, as far as what people got going on, you have to follow joe rogan and then you learn what season is on a different level and you can't cheat your way of being So you're going to get some opportunities if you're a young guy or a young girl So if you go on right after him, you have to introduce them to the world of Byron Bowers. and also see, I mean, you're going to get a chance to see 12 different people's styles

1:38:56 and you might see that 10 times yeah that's true night so you know and it's weird because tommy people say he told to them but he didn't have no conversations with me he just made it it just And when you go to another club and you get an 8 o'clock spot, boom, And we had to do a warm-up show. And I didn't want to close the taping, but in their mind, they was like, no, you're strong enough to do this.

1:41:20 not be that good well that's a lot of what it is right it's like when someone Yeah, that's true. Yeah. because what I'm doing is I got comfortable. Everybody wants to stay inside their comfort zone. Yeah, that's true. But when I started doing that, people weren't just coming up to me saying, you're funny no more. that's in in some ways more more enticing right it's an interesting subject like oh schizophrenia

1:44:50 the worst part of me about the video because that's what the police are doing is turning niggas into hashtags. those things but the more work i don't get the more honest i become because you don't you stop Like that where you're coming from is not just where you are now, in the day on jen kirkman and it was talking about uh she was talking about comedy is one of those

1:47:29 She's fine. No, I mean, I told her that before, but I look at it like, I'm talking about, like sending out the bat signal? No, I mean, I told her that before, Respected the boundaries. She's nice outside of that. them they get uh they're draining they're exhausting because you know that there's a lot Look, you're a talented guy. That's what I hear.

1:49:46 successful like there's a little bit of that too it's not just the money yeah like i don't think built his own cars that run on electricity he's making a fucking rocket ship to go to the moon He's doing that with everything. He doesn't seem to—he's, like, remarkably stable for someone who's that fucking smart and successful. Warren Buffetts and the

1:52:04 neighborhood. Did you see his house? Yeah, a show after party, and then... after they leave the club. to that house had three Volvos in the driveway. They had Chilean bass, and we came with an appetite. But more came. my neighborhood that I live in, Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's got like is different, man. Because dogs are really complex, and they love you, and they give you unconditional love.

1:54:49 But the average person doesn't give a fuck about a chicken. And I know people that executed dogs that i'm closely friends with you know i mean and it's But I don't mean normal in that it's like less offensive than how the adult human beings are treated in that neighborhood. He used to keep 30 dogs in his yard. But him, whatever his life was like, him growing up in wherever he grew up yeah that was a normal thing

1:57:25 that you accept depending on where you you are you know i mean yeah and more than a lot of ways then what you're saying is like those those principles of life and those things that you're accurately so they're not moving forward they stay where they're at because they think that these things that we create whether they're innovation or whether they're a piece of art

1:59:50 so the whole thing was a disaster for the other guy well that guy did dine in hell the guy who Oh, that even sounds poetic. That's what I call it now. I don't call it creative. your style of fucking. of music there is. So is fucking little kisses. is about. I got this Nike rope And I was like. Like that. I don't know what to say. Super liberal. Jews and blacks. Jewish, probably. You know what I mean? Super liberal.

2:02:35 Oh. oh she wasn't gonna die i don't think i'm that strong i think you could definitely kill someone Well, then you can kill them. The human neck is real vulnerable. She didn't get AIDS, but she still died. with this woman and this woman had sent him these text messages saying you know come on over let's and quoting different feminist writers He doesn't the judge doesn't know either. Yeah, but in my opinion you

2:06:27 It's the only place to go. And you're just giving her CTE and throwing her head through wallboard. Thank God. Medieval Times. It's dot, dot, dot. Oh, they're female colleagues. what would happen if the United States She don't have to wear a wig, but the outfit looks better on her. Yes. Yeah, there's like some. He's a Quaker. They're clear. That was the first.

2:09:57 I bet they don't get paid. This is our shit. grandmother was telling about the cotton gin last time I went to see she like 90 the hills the help the help yeah i don't know that movie it's like it's about the uh that black Here's a picture. And there was a white family there. broke it down like yeah it would take the cotton and take the seeds out and let it go and people

2:13:19 you know yeah in the world you know you know what's crazy that person living that life You know, when we look back at people that lived like a couple hundred years ago we think to ourselves like fuck that yeah you know especially if you were a slave That's amazing. He took the grapes from the vines and made wine. The preserves, your jelly was made.

2:16:13 you get a bucket, At this point, because they're overcharging for that stuff now. He had his area where he would drive to his driveway, where you know you had to have a supply of food yeah that's true i mean it only makes sense we i'm like i don't want to give away his identity and it's probably jose caseco you buy meat yourself i don't know like he didn't understand you know he came from mexico he did

2:19:25 Whoa. wet it and hang it in the sun you want to clean your jeans you hang them in the sun you know to keep it from shrinking to keep it from shrinking and yeah And let the air hit it and it's just the freshness of the smell, you know? That actually makes sense. man that people have something that gives them cancer yeah it makes everyone around them stink

2:22:41 problem yeah the suspension the setup and everything was very low suspension and wheels and not doing the brakes well you know what they do now that's really interesting they do these different companies have suspensions and frames that they And then you take the old body and you bolt it down to this modern frame and suspension. Those things are smooth as a baby's ass.

2:24:59 There's a lot of people right now that are car experts like, you don't know shit about cars. That's a little bit of a struggle. And that was my first experience with a supercharger and how hyped they are. I rented one. Yeah, I saw the new ones. But what they're doing with these Vipers is they're bringing them to these race tracks, Get the fuck out of here.

2:27:26 in tapani canyon going sideways why not it was just a little bit you know if you go a little bit I don't know the name of it. They do a lot of testing out there. fast on any of them if there's a car in front me, I might slow up and wait for it to go by. You know what I really like? before he kind of fair yeah he came to comedy club twice he's a big comedy fan yeah he's a good dude

2:30:01 Look at this thing, man. Doesn't say what year? I was running, too. He really knows his shit, though. Yeah. and see if I could find him at night. porsches yeah i think he's got like one two three, 6. He's probably got at least 10 of them. No, there's more. Oh, I see that. It looks like a car carrier I wasn't that sideways like he doesn't have anything really crazy.

2:33:25 Yeah. That car scared the fuck out of me. I with that one. Oh, that GT2? Yeah, that was sitting outside. Yeah. I'm like, this is too much. That car is so fast. but too fast for a guy like me. a lot there this car is a totally different experience this car is like all about managing Not drive it, but just sit in one. and built 1,200 horsepower was it the

2:36:21 Yeah. It's way hotter. and they bring that, racing on a residential street in in Beverly Hills was This guy's got a Ferrari. The guy's engine started smoking and he pulled it into his driveway. Everybody's like, My people should not be designing things. Oh, I've seen that. I was coming through there. cuts off here it's gonna be here and uh i had my had my African homeboy who I just went to DR with me, right?

2:40:05 He's like, I got to— So he pulled the badge out, yada, yada, yada. They never get my jokes. There's two dudes. Like, okay, why does this guy not have his fucking lights on? It's an improv game we're doing. shut your car off. I had a Honda Prelude. and I realized, like, all the time, I'd get my car searched, put in the back of a couple of these cars.

2:42:22 you know i don't know if it's the survival in you or what but it's like pulled over and stuff, then I need to, you know, I don't know if it's the survival right here but I also experienced another white privilege thing when I had an accident in the 944. And he was like, okay, everything's going to be okay. Don't and I swim sitting on the car like I've seen a lot of fucking people that are driving illegally in Los Angeles.

2:44:36 Sure. But the odds of you getting pulled over is kind of slim. yeah a lot of cops commit suicide a lot of cops feel despair it's a crazy job it's a crazy job And they have to go in those situations. So you have to go and you know that these people are going to see you and look at you and know that you represent that team that they've been watching on these videos.

2:46:38 outside of the videos that are being... some niggas should die and that's a shot just in 30 seconds i'll get applause break in 30 seconds I'm just Out in Berkeley. Which is true Even to me like Like, when you're looking at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, like, what's your thought? But I don't think, I think this part is for ratings. It ain't like a Barack Obama.

2:49:43 I think she's going to make some adjustments on the low. I'm going to play it for you. government and those people that were being suppressed by that government, you are opening Yeah, that Libya situation is not... They're, you know, it's not fair. for women at a certain time and if a dude was out so yeah there's certain things like you know that is like wow that i that i see like it happened

2:52:54 Just like guys I met who talked about, man, I shot that thing three times, man. to somebody's murdered someone with a gun and it's laughing and joking around about it's got pattern wise but I think yeah if Hillary get in I think they trying to lure There's a lot of those. when she talked about the FBI having this long interview with her about her This is not the one. You don't want this.

2:55:45 as a business. You know what I mean? It's got such a stranglehold. that the FBI was going to drop some bombshell, is coming out against the nominee the uh There's like a bunch of different prominent politicians the Haitians and kicked them out you know she gave them to be fair she's like you got this amount of money you can stay And it's like, man, maybe we should be glad we're a lost tribe.

2:58:41 have to deal with dear leader they don't have to uh cry for hours capable of doing like they have it like classified like what jobs you get depending upon how how That's your spot? No. They shoot animals and shit. He's performing. Love Instagram, by the way. Three hours.