Joe Rogan on Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and Super Rich People

the Joe Rogan experience, we're talking about Jeff Bezos before the show, who is now the

rich

est man in the history of humanity, it's like it's inconceivable that he's worth a hundred and five billion dollars, which is exactly what he is like the eighth largest landowner in the United States. He says you know he just buys like crazy, I'm not stunned, although of course I'm not, yeah, 300,000 acres of Texas, whoa, that's a lot, that's a lot, yeah, that's a big slab, yeah, right, I'm pretty sure his house in DC was anywhere. I feel like he was. Whether it was a museum or a hotel, before he said I would make that my home, now I wonder what it will be like to hang out because there is a photo of him.

Let's see if I could find this photo. Jamie, there is a photo of Jeff Bezos from 1993 and he has like a vinyl banner, yeah, above his desk that says

amazon

.com, huh, and it's just him at this little Ikea desk, yeah, he likes bad clothes, yeah, yeah, chubby, yeah, I've been out, he's tanned and probably has a

super

model for a girlfriend. Does he know that he has a wife for Kevlar? Yeah, normal, yeah, she's an author, yeah, how long have I known she doesn't schedule morning meetings for you to hang out with the kids, really? Yes, wow, I read all of this.

I wonder why he tries so hard. when you get to 105 billion boo-boo-boo-boo-boo, yeah, you'd think you'd go, yeah, we're good, I know, I think you really start collecting because you're like because you know when he bought the Washington Post. You know, it's not like he's like I love journalism here. It would be great to have a newspaper. You know, I mean, what do you do on that level? You're like I like waterfalls. Are there any for sale or anything you know they have? The Washington Post is one of those weird ones where you get a link, someone sends you a link and you click on it and it's a Washington Post article and it says you obviously love great journalists.

Sign up like they don't even do it. give you the free readings I feel like the New York Times will give you ten for free I signed up later You know I kept clicking I know I know the Washington Post Faith how to click number one They say: you read this, do you want to pay or not, yes No, I'm not going to pay, yes, I mean, I support paying for journalism, but I feel like it should give us a sample. You know, we should try some. It's hard to trust magazines these days. It's hard to trust.

How odd. your articles will be that's true, it's his journalism, watching news has become a man. I remember when it started leaning towards personality and taste, yeah, now it's out of control, it's out of control, that's where the money is. I know, but it's like you are. I totally go with who you're going to look at, you can select what I feel like leaning towards, yeah, and then you look at Tucker Carlson, yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, Rachel Maddow, yeah, there it is, that's that picture, oh my gosh , No. that crazy guy, yeah, it doesn't look anything like it now, yeah, with that

amazon

.com banner.

I hope he's still hanging somewhere in his head. Yeah, he probably shoots that thing a lot. What do you have? Yes. Crazy that started. I remember Amazon was a book thing, yes. being a place to buy books and I remember thinking how strange it is as an online bookstore, why wouldn't you go to the bookstore? You could see the book and all those books or close like they're closed, there's only a few left, well, I know a guy who got a deal with amazon.com to publish a book. It was like when Amazon started publishing books and they kicked him out because of this because he had had traditional deals before and you know his books would be front and center and Barnes Noble and all the different places, he's a pretty popular author, but so soon like you went to amazon.com, they're like you and they just excluded it, they excluded it from all those doors, yeah, and I was like, wow, like there's a weird book war going on that I didn't know they both probably Sean, I mean, those book

people

were trying to keep their business model going and thriving, you know, and yeah, but doing it through threats is never the way to go, probably not, no.

I mean, the best way to do it is when Amazon publishes a book that

people

actually want to buy in your store, silly Fox, I'm sure in your store you know I hate these

super

rich

guys, they will never do it, they never have in their interviews. The only one who will talk about what it's like to play at that level and make it sound fun and things you want to have is Mark Cuban. I have seen him in interviews say that I have one and he knows it. a genuine curiosity for people like how far away is it from having two 747s.

He's like, yeah, man, it's cool, right, and he talks about it, but I saw this interview with Gates and this guy was asking all these questions and he said that you have to worry. like when someone asks you, like when you ask for something, someone will try to ask for more because of your knowledge and wealth, he's like you know my charity really is like dodging all those questions, yeah, I like the fun that everyone was right, kept. Going back to his charity, we thought we know you're a charitable guy, tell us what it's like to have six planes, bro, what kind of ones do you have?

It's like this house in Xanadu, it's like 70,000 square feet. Well, he has a house I think it's in Puget Sound, it's somewhere in the Seattle area, yeah, Medina Medina or Medina say what it is, I think it was called, it's so strange, look it looks like you're not an AdBlocker, it what he pulled out, what he pulled out, 19. crazy facts about his house, oh okay, 123 million dollars, just stable, you're a blocker, so we could read it, so we were in Seattle and there's this thing that's close to a bridge where you go under this bridge and they have these transparent walls. where you can see the salmon swimming up the salmon ladders, they have everything set up with these clear glass walls that you can look at, but it's really pretty rough, yeah, but the guy that was there, which was the one you know, is the guide of this, who is explaining it to us.

You know how this works and what kind of salmon you're looking at and the whole thing he said, You know my uncle worked on the bill, Guto, so start talking about Bill Gates' house, where's Bill Gates' house? and where he lives and me. I remember thinking how strange it must be if you're so rich that everyone wants to talk about, like hey, my friend worked on your yeah, yeah, it's uh, and I was like, well, what's it like and he just starts describing the skills you have. kind of underwater access in case you get kidnapped like if someone is trying to kidnap you they can get in a submarine and shoot into the river.

I'm like, yeah, I don't even know how much of that is true because this guy seemed like yeah, a little piece of his brain was missing. Yeah, he really started adding things. I was like: how much of this is an urban myth? I know they were reporting even like I don't know when that house was built at ten fifteen or whatever. years ago even back then there was super high technology in his house, like if you walked into a room the music would play and he would leave the room, the music would turn off and he would pick up in the next room so you would know that there was like that, I think probably a normal person could do something like that now, but that was something unheard of, yeah, I think you carried a pin that you can place and that pin, when you went into different rooms, it recognized that you were the person like that.

You had specific colors that you liked, so they would be like backlit notes, like they were his children, like he was big. He's the one who started that Giving Pledge, which is like billionaires giving the overwhelming majority of their wealth to charity. that you don't pass billions to your children, right, you like it, so your thing is that I'm going to leave money to my children, but not like a crazy person, that money, how you are, yes, that's what you know, I understand totally the idea behind that, but I also like, if you grew up with him, you know you're his son and you say, oh, we have lions this year, and then you say you know you grow up and you say I'm a photographer now.

My dad left me five million dollars, but five million dollars is great, it's great, but mine is like it was a step below what they were used to. I feel even remotely bad for a kid getting five million dollars from me. Don't feel bad, what I'm saying is that adjustment has to kick you in the balls. I mean, the exposure that they've had that lifestyle is like it's not unfathomable, it's like we can't even, it's beyond them, just as it is. like being the prince, you know, he's like your nan sultan of brunei and then he says, well, go with him, I mean, probably well adjusted, I don't know why I assume that, but I think he and his wife seemed like that. reasonable people who I bet have prepared them for what is coming