Joe Rogan Experience #1884 - Anthony Kiedis

Approaching 60, Anthony Kiedis talks with Joe Rogan about staying physically vital, the upsides and costs of lifelong fame, and a 'don't be a bitch' gratitude philosophy. They go deep on a wild-game diet built around his genetics, plus extended riffs on whales, orcas, sharks, bears and hunting ethics. Kiedis recounts psychedelic sensory-deprivation-tank trips, his late-blooming love of surfing, and trips to Yosemite and Hawaiian observatories. The conversation closes with how the Chili Peppers formed almost by accident in 1983, his heroin and cocaine addiction, and how producer Rick Rubin's instincts shaped songs like Under the Bridge.

• Kiedis shares his life philosophy 'don't be a bitch' after a radiant young woman he met at a MetLife show died unexpectedly a week later.
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• A nutritionist who studies his genes prescribed a diet of wild game (alligator, elk, moose, kangaroo), which he says fixed his injuries and gave him peak clarity.
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• Rick Rubin reveals he walked out of an early rehearsal because he thought someone in the band was going to get murdered, the band had become that dark.
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• Rubin pushed Kiedis to turn a private, sentimental poem into Under the Bridge, calling it his best song.
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• Kiedis describes his descent into heroin and cocaine addiction starting at a young age, calling it 'a life of suffering.'
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• He recounts John Lilly's research where a woman jerked off a dolphin to enable interspecies communication experiments, which got the science shut down.
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• In 1983 Kiedis took LSD and entered a sensory deprivation tank, describing a fully conscious astral-plane experience '10 billion miles away in outer space.'
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• Kiedis credits a French osteopath named Lucille with healing his frozen shoulder and knee where every doctor failed.
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• Rick Rubin introduced the band to Transcendental Meditation in the early '90s, bringing a TM instructor into his living room.
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• Kiedis has a tiger tattoo of samurai Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings, who reportedly defeated 62 men in single combat.
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• They note stand-up comedy is an American art form born of the country's cultural melting pot, like jazz, blues and rock.
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• Texas barbecue brisket traces back to German immigrants who slow-smoked a cheap, tough cut of meat.
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• Wild boar can have three litters a year and breed from six months old, making them an unstoppable invasive species in Texas.
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• Humans kill an estimated 100 million sharks a year while sharks kill only single digits of humans.
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• The Chili Peppers played a free show at the Hupa tribe's school gym in Hoopa Valley, calling it their best show of the year.
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• Kiedis says the word 'humble' derives from being low or close to the ground.
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• Texas has more captive tigers (an estimated 3,000-5,000) than exist in the wild worldwide.
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