The Dark Truth About Hollywood & California | Joe Rogan & Tom Green

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Host: Joe Rogan
Producer: Jamie Vernon

[lordzords]

The late Robin Williams said it best "The only thing worse than being alone, is to be surrounded by people who make you feel alone" by the other comments here looks like he nailed it RIP..

[JMeez]

imagine going to a town where people will convince you that playing make believe is more important than being a REAL PERSON.

[BBelle]

Welcome to the Hotel California.

The Eagles were spot on.

[aisle_of_view]

Someone said it best "The sunny place for shady people".

[MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis]

It’s actually strange. I never lived in CA, but visiting Hollywood especially, it feels empty. Under the sunlight in the daytime, the city feels like desperation and sadness. Driving through at night, it feels like emptiness. There’s lights and music and billboards but it feels like…. I can’t quite put my finger on it. It’s depressing.

[mattstacey]

He nailed it. The city REEKS of desperation. You can smell it on EVERYONE. Even the successful ones. Its grimey.

[lisal.]

It’s a disgrace that we live in a country where entitled celebrity line memorizers make more money than people who save strangers lives (police, fire fighters, nurses etc). Smh

[TheFlyingHeart]

I lived in LA for over 10 years.
LA is a TOTAL MINDFUCK.
.
The things they say here, are spot on. But it’s even WEIRDER than that. It’s more soulcrushing than they describe. These two are wildly successful millionaires. They are famous….and even they felt it. Imagine NOT having any success or money…and living in all that. It’s like a drug addiction. You KNOW it’s killing you …but you keep RUNNING towards it.

[__Aiden__]

I met someone from California who was convinced that calling girls the word female was misogynistic because it dehumanizes them since female could also refer to an animal, actual madness

[stanmoroncini]

Joe is talking as a person who went to Los Angeles TRYING TO GET INTO THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. I was born and raised in LA, in working class Mexican communities that are as far removed from Hollywood as you can get. There are many more people who just live normal lives in LA than celebrity/entertainment minded people.

[YourMomsHouse]

Who remembers Tom Green in the movie Road Trip?

“Unleash the fury!!”

[EvenStrange]

I live in California and I’m trying like hell to get out. Was born and raised but I don’t recognize it anymore.

[frankthetruthtank]

Roddy Piper blew this wide-open when he did the movie THEY LIVE.

[nealprentice]

My first time in LA I went to visit friends and promised I would not get into the who knows who scene. But it took all but six hours before the people I met knew people, famous people, who knew other people who knew people I was about to meet. We weren't trying to name drop. It just happened in a snap of a finger. It is its own world. And yet I noticed when you get a little off the grid there are a lot of wonderful people who work in the madness but have managed to stay sane and down to earth. It is almost like you become famous just so you can give yourself permission to be human again.

[ken_caminiti]

The dark truth about Hollywood is MUCH MUCH darker than what these two gentlemen talked about.

[thetattooedtraveler]

Joe has nailed it. After living and working in that town for over two decades, leaving for a better way of life was the most liberating thing I could've done. A breath of fresh (smog-free) air.

[bobsmithers]

Have a cousin that moved to L.A and made a few movies and hung out with some tops and now he has moved back to his small home town and takes the train in to Toronto for therapy...

[glendepasse]

Went out in 2007 having worked in NYC.I was 52 but was in great shape and never looked my age. Never liked the party scene but one night a friend convinced me to go. I was dressed to the nines. All these much younger women were flirting like crazy asking so many questions, when they found out I wasn't an agent or producer and no real connections they ran and never made eye contact with me the rest of the evening.

[AvonleaMontague]

LA makes me want a daily baptism to cleanse my soul.

[VonHanzee]

Was in a popular band in LA in late 90s.
The a&r guys wanted us to dress more edgy, basically dress really gay. We played with another band, that band was okay. They had a great guitarist, but that's it. A&R guys chose them, because their lead singer would comply to every suggestion these corporate grabblers wanted. They got famous, renamed to Maroon 5 and their soul selling lead singer was always a hole they could fill at Geffens malibu house. Think twice about your " favorite bands", chances are they took the pegging for the fame.