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the Jo Rogan Experience how I got introduced to you I I'd heard about Reservoir Dogs but the first film I saw was Pulp Fiction and I saw Pulp Fiction with this girl that I was dating when I first moved to Los Angeles and I remember being in man's Chinese Theater watching this and for me it was like this crazy change in my life that was in the first that was in the first few weeks of it opening yeah cuz that's where it opened yeah crazy change in my life moving to Los Angeles and then seeing this film and then I remember very clearly like at the end of the film like even in the middle of the film going this is the craziest [ __ ] movie I've ever seen in my life and this seem it symbolized to me like the world was changing like everything was changing it was so wild and so crazy it was a film not it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before well all the the different timelines how you interwove everything together but the the violence and the chaos and the humor of all of it like people walked out of that movie theater [ __ ] up and I remember think like wow like the the world is different like sometimes you'll see a work of art of something and you'll say that thing just changed everything it just it was so wild that it it it influenced so many other films afterwards they tried to be like a Pulp Fiction movie or they tried to be wild well people would ask me about that and they go hey did that really bug you when there was a period of it seemed like five years in the '90s where like every crime film kind of had this like ironic bit and and they talked about TV shows and played music in a weird way and and everybody was a smartass um and they asked me like well does that did that bother you and I go well no it doesn't bother me when I don't think any of them are as good as mine so it just makes mine look better and better and my dialogue look better and better but you know one of my favorite directors is Sergio Leoni and I always considered I was doing to traditional gangster films like you know Scorsese kind of good fell kind of movies what he was doing to traditional westerns when he did his Spaghetti Westerns so then the fact that mine hit and now the fact that I've not it wasn't that they were just trying to do Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs they were
trying to exist in the same sh subgenre of crime film that I had created which is what all the other spaghetti West that came after Leon had done so the fact that it wasn't they were doing just Reservoir Dogs or PP fiction ripoffs uh I created a sub genre in gangster films that did not exist before and they were trying to fill that sub genre and that was [ __ ] awesome that's got to be a wild feeling it was great I I I had affected gangster fil I mean by that point to do kind of a Scorsese kind of thing was like almost P yeah well you brought back John dvol yeah uhu which is pretty wild too well I remember even asking somebody I go uh okay well people say Tarantino es what do they mean and there was a guy I knew he was a he's like a film analyst is named Dave scowl and he goes well okay just to give you an idea it's like okay so in bad boys or yeah I think maybe no it's like bad boys well again Bad Boys okay you have a couple of henchmen working for the bad guy and they're sitting in their car and all of a sudden they have a conversation about an I love Lucy episode okay that wouldn't have happened with without you yeah it's true yeah yeah well what is that from I mean where have you had this uh this flare for references and then this uh this way of layering that just comes from being Gen X Man I mean that was that was the whole thing about like uh about that generation is the idea that um okay in the okay the generation before us that like lived through the 60s they had the 60s they had the acuta in the 60s they had all that 60s music um and they look down on the generation that grew up in the 60s uh in the 70s like you didn't have that any of that [ __ ] you you didn't have the music that we had well maybe we didn't have the music you had we had our music but what we did have is we had television we had the Saturday morning cartoons that we dug we had Schoolhouse Rock we had all the TV shows we liked we had Speed Racer we had all these kind of things and they meant something to us and you know um kids back then who if their parents didn't let them watch TV at a certain point well the parents might have
actually had like the best intentions but they were actually robbing their children of the pop cultural glue that's going to tie them to their generation when they get older and so you know we had the ABC movies of the week I mean we just you we had all that stuff and we had [ __ ] great movies if you were going out and seeing the movies of new Hollywood we had all that and and so um when we got older it it was about talking about that stuff that was that was what was worth talking about and then to actually have characters in a movie talk about that that was making them sound realistic and to be specific about it you remember that old sitcom no no no talk about no you mean you mean Alice okay talk about you talk about Mel and Alice catch new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience for free only on Spotify watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify including Clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on Spotify you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free Spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes you just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app go to spotif ify now to get this full episode of The Joe Rogan Experience