the Joe Rogan experience well it's like the Pink Floyd line you know living life of quiet desperation I mean that just terrifies that's the Rose quote that most men live lives of quiet desperation it's one of my favorite quotes ever because it's true now Jim that guy you just you're just in this world where you just can't wait to just run away and how do people get stuck there how do you think they get stuck there bills bills like financial thing hmm yeah bills and commitment you have an apartment you have to pay for you
have a car you least you have a wife that you have to feed you have a child do you have to raise you have to you have your mortgage you have your this you have your that and that's where it all comes from where do you think opportunity plays into that well the opportunity takes place usually when you're young and you don't have any responsibilities though that's when you have your options well your options are severely limited the more you gather responsibilities like if I had as a 51 year old father of three married man
pays taxes has a house and a mortgage and a business and all that jazz if I had to quit everything now and struggle the way I struggled as a stand-up comedian it would never work but the only way I could be this person now is if I took that chance when I was 21 when I was dead broke and had my cars repossessed and all that stuff that's the only way you you ever get where you want to go you have to you have to take a path it's dangerous and most people want to take
the safe path and the safe path leaves you stuck in quiet desperation almost every time it's hell it's hell you're selling insurance or some other [ __ ] they care zero about but can people just make that change I mean you can't believe you have to plan it out the way you can change is you have to put aside enough money to give yourself a window and then you have to have a plan and you have to spend all your waking hours outside of whatever [ __ ] job you do planning your escape and you
have to come to the realization very clearly that you [ __ ] up and you got yourself stuck so whatever you're doing you have to do it like your life depends on it and whether it is you're trying to be an author and you're gonna you're gonna if you're gonna try to be an author and you're working eight hours a day plus commuting plus family responsibilities or whatever else you have whatever time that you have you have to attack like you're trying to save the world you're trying to save your life you don't want to
drown that one-and-a-half hours a day that you have to write goddamn you better be caffeinated and motivated you got to go you got to get after it and you got to have discipline that's most people don't have those things most people don't understand what it's like to really go for something and to know that the consequences of not doing that are horrific then you're desperate and yeah but I do think there is something to be said for fate and circumstance sure and I always write I mean people in these military and environments that I write
about and in these intelligence world environments fate and circumstance plays a big part because they too can even get complacent you know but when your life is on the line right a lot of times they have these experiences where they're like I must change and that's what I find really interesting yeah in people sure desperation [Applause]
