I have an elder friend of mine who's in his 60s now. He grew up and lived all over the South. He has a ton of hitchhiking stories. He started hitchhiking when he was 15 in the early 70s, he told me about the time when him and his buddy were picked up by a Motorcycle Club/Gang in New Mexico and they partied with them for a few days,he has a similar story to David Choe's where a preacher picked him & his buddy up in Texas and the preacher got them drunk & try to come on to them while they were passed out. He said him & his friend hitchhiked everywhere together and were best friends, they got arrested trying to get a ride on a freeway on-ramp. They took him to jail and his friend to juvie(18 & 17), they let him go a day later and he tried to find his friend, he said he called the detention center and they told him that they didn't have anyone by that name and he was never able to find him & never saw him again. This guy has a ton of interesting stories, I need to film him telling these stories or record them or something
" Everybody hitchhiked in the 60's and 70's and then a weird thing happened, everybody thinking they might get murdered or raped" proceeds to tell stories of murder and rape coming from the drivers, yeah real weird
@@sierraoller6265 Yeah, there's even situations where a people pleaser couldn't say no to some shady character, gave them a ride or went somewhere to "help" them, and got robbed, or robbed and murdered. Beging practicing saying no in your life, in little things, to salespeople, anywhere. Politely, but sternly. It will help build up your no muscle some.
This guy should just bring Bobby with him on trips & show and explain things to Bobby while getting real reaction. “See that guy with the burning tire around him? He molested someone.” “That would have helped me at the ice rink bleachers to get some candy.”
yeah it’s crazy. He’s worth 300 million dollars. Invested into Facebook at 38$ a share and I think it’s at like 260$ rn🤯. He’s also very renowned for his impressive artwork & graffiti artwork. A real sage he is.
@@jamesmadison5045 Depends on if he sold all his stock. He said he didn't sell all in 2012. That's when it was worth 200m when stock was 25-30 bucks per shares. 12x that now and its worth over 2B.......if he kept majority since 2012.
I began hitching in 2015 and to date it is the best decision I have ever made. I'm nowhere near as well traveled as him but I put around 8000 miles under my belt in five years. I never see myself stopping. The world is too big to sit in one corner and call it good. I've met some wonderful people, some insane individuals, some lonely but lovely souls, and some desperate disasters...and I've loved every minute of it looking back.
My first time hitch hiking I was headed back to a hostel in New Zealand and the dude that picked me up had his son in the back and he just told me and mostly his son abt his experience hitchhiking across the United States at my age. Good dude, in the us a lot of ppl tend to pick you up and rant abt how unsafe it is and then let you go a bit down the road depending on where they are going
crazy story, i got my wisdom teeth out a year and a half ago, turns out the anesthesiologist who administered the drugs to me, kidnapped and held this young woman at his house with the help of his wife.
Ive *LOVED* this guy since he put his Hitchhiking Journeys on Vice back in the early 2000s. absolutely AWESOME videos. his friends he Hitched with are great too, hope they're doing great too.
well if you dont want anything negative to happen to you then never leave your house.. actually you will probably still get fucked so.. might as well live.
The Great Cornholio Yeah but hitchhiking ain’t the best idea... I wonder when exactly it was that that shit started going sideways and people started getting murdered and stuff didn’t it used to be super common before?
@@SliceofBread123 No, it was just propaganda that started spreading during the 70s and 80s. They also made it illegal to pick up hitchhikers in some states.
The fact that people judging you as not a threat and this guy taking advantage of that in the right way is absolutely genius. I’m sure this dude has witnessed multiple live’s worth of amazing things.
I hitched cross country starting at 15 yrs old. Great stories from getting 1st ride to drop me off 3000 miles at my destination to truckers waking me up to give me rides. Once I drew thousands of faces on every rock at the end of the on ramp...thousands. Always wondered how the next hitchhiker reacted when he looked down. :)
Many years ago I had a friend who hitched and hopped trains to get home to be with her kid. There are MANY types of people that choose the road less traveled.
Aren't the hitchhikers usually the victims? Seems like a much more chill way to kill people instead of waiting at the side of the road and too much complications if you don't have your own vehicle..
He made a good point when he talked about receiving help. For men that might be the hardest things to do I feel, it’s much easier to help others then it is to except the help of others. That means letting go of your pride and having the humbleness of spirit to receive. That’s the key.
True when he also said he is apart of a men’s group. I was like I going to look into that. In Sought ca they have things like that. This quarantine really messed me up for minute. I had to to reach out to a therapist. I’m doing much better now. Glad I asked for help. Think of it staying in house 2.5 months. Wow. I began using the calm app as well. It was a huge help with dealing with anxiety. I’m using the 30 day beginning mediate part of the app. So that has helped me and also checking on different friends each week. Helps me get the focus off myself.
I have hitchhiked for years myself, but you are not travelling for free, you are travelling on the costs of somebody else. But, its true, there are really weird people on the road.
He is absolutely correct. People will bare their souls and tell you the most stunning things about themselves, the most appalling personal secrets that they'd NEVER tell anyone, because, as a total stranger who they will never see again, the act of confession is extremely cathartic. When I used to hitchhike people told me things that curled my hair
He’s got something in him.. something genuine and humane, my cousin has been to every state but has looked down disdainfully on those she didn’t understand who had a different way of living than her,
@@DM-bv9uh he did the art for the first Facebook HQ in 2004 and they offered him Facebook stock or $60k. He took the shares even though they hadn't had their IPO yet, in large part due to Sean Parker recommending that he take the stock. When Facebook had their IPO in 2012, those shares were worth $200 million. Not sure how much he sold off, or if he even still has any of those shares, but they'd were worth $1.9 billion at the stocks' peak value back in September of 2021.
It’s a shame there’s so many psychos and creeps out there, because hitchhiking sounds like a genuinely fun and interesting way of exploring the country.
@Karson Kalabo yeah but there was 100 other women to your 1 aunt that were. We just don't hear about it because they didnt have technology to get their stories out there
@Karson Kalabo I'm glad your aunt was safe, but there are plenty of women (and men for that matter) who got into deep trouble trying to hitchhike. Robbed, raped, murdered or simply beat up. Maybe even ditched somewhere. There's a lot of risks involved in asking a complete stranger to take you somewhere. In a better world, it'd be a viable option. Not in this world, bro.
What did the guy do that was psycho or creepy? Picked up hitchhikers? Said he was gay? Said if they wanted he would have sex with them? Nothing he did was super creepy just interpreted as creepy by a slightly homophobic mind. He didn't force or even ask for anything at all.
For the first time on a Joe Rogan podcast I watched from the beginning to the end without being distracted from something, this guy can really tell a good story 😂
This guy knows how to paint a picture. I’ve had some similarly crazy experiences myself where you think someone is harmless but they turn out to be dangerous. But people are people and if you know people well enough, you can survive the rare dangerous moments in this first world. Too many people are afraid of one another though. I’ve put myself in insanely dangerous situations and the scariest people often choose peace over trouble.
To everyone who’s confused about the guy’s jobs, he said that he had a family and a normal life before everyone found out he was gay, so he probably was anesthesiologist for a long time, but after his life fell apart and he lost credibility, he probably needed to get another part time job in order to support himself
Eh I don't know, he said he was part time anesthesiologist and part oil rig worker around 4:35, so it appears he did those at the same time. Anesthesiologists are medical docs and are well known to make a hell of a lot of money. Now unless he was a medical doctor on the oil rig, I can't see any anesthesiologists going to bust their butts on an oil rig. David Choe seems like a huge embellisher to say the least
obviously he isnt, there must be sometghing in his house david saw that he had to make up a job to exp;ain to david, how he has things related to anesthesiology.
Mike Lees I get that anesthesiologists make a lot of money and normally wouldn’t work a working class job like an oil rig, but this guy was exposed for being gay in a deep southern community and lost his entire family, he probably lost his credibility as an anesthesiologist too and was then forced to work on the oil rig in order to support himself
I don't get the whole threatening / non-threatening stereotype. It just doesn't make sense to me as a label we can apply to an entire race. Like that MASSIVE Asian guy in Rush Hour? Threatening as fuck. Yakuza gang members? Threatening as fuck. But a skinny Asian accountant with glasses at a Starbucks? Totally non-threatening. Same goes for the racist black stereotype. People acting like black people in America are a threat as a whole -- totally nonsensical. Bloods? Threatening. Mike Tyson? Threatening as fuck. Chris Tucker in the same Rush Hour movie? Not threatening in the slightest. It just doesn't make sense any other way.
David’s sense of wonder & willingness to share is amazing . Being better , self inspection/ reflection while sharing his adventures . I didn’t know his name before this podcast . I know it now . I feel grateful for this show . Thanks Joe Rogan & David Choe
I like how he says with annoyance that in the 80s people started to believe it was dangerous to hitchhike, while rolling his eyes. Then proceeds to tell us unsafe after unsafe story involving hitchhiking. Getting in the car with strangers is just dangerous, especially when no one knoemws where you are.
the scary part is that he tells david that he is a "part time" anesthesiologist . obviously he isnt, there must be sometghing in his house david saw that he had to make up a job to exp;ain to david, how he has things related to anesthesiology.
Uhhhh my good friend’s dad was an anesthesiologist, and eventually he went to part-time. He also had random medical supplies, just because and just in case shit went down and he could help. But I have no idea how you be a part time oil rigger and part time anesthesiologist though.
I drove a cab in Sydney Australia for 10 years & the stuff people confessed to me would fill a book. I’m a straight male & only had 1 female proposition me but plenty of gay men do it. Sometimes they would be in tears after I refused out of loneliness. I saw a lot of humanity.
An oil rigger and a part time anesthesiologist? An anesthesiologist makes $250,000-$400,000 a year and he has to work as an oil rigger? It takes 12 years of training to be an anesthesiologist but he has a job that pays 100-150k that is dirty, sweaty and dangerous? I'm a coal miner and part time MLB pitcher.
He was probably in an “office” position like a consultant or something of the sort. With a 2 week on 2 week off schedule I doubt he was getting too dirty.
His presence in Roadrunner about Anthony Bourdain was beautiful and sad. He’s so alive, I love people like that. Omg He’s right about hitchhiking storytelling😳. I’ve hitchhiked in the Yucatán and Maui, the stories get shadowy no doubt and the connections are potent, never forgetting someone you meet in passing is a trip.
As a black person I was always afraid and never had the nerve to hitch hike, thinking I'd be picked up by a racists , a murderer or any other deranged personality that would do me some kind of harm. In parallel, my son hitch hiked from New York state to W.Virginia. He was a boldly intoxicated risk taker. I was sort of envious of his type of bravery in which I never possesed. I lectured him about the dangers of hitch Hicking. He simply replied "I know how to take care of myself, I'M a survivor"
Michael true story: I was driving a car from Chicago to St. Paul Minnesota, was out in the middle of bumfuk nowhere Wisconsin, nothing but cornfields and dairy farms as far as the eye could see in all directions. 1978, I am 22 years old. Up ahead I see a black dude thumbing a ride so I pull over and he gets in. He looks strangely familiar, like I know this guy from somewhere, you ever have this happen? I'm taking occasional peeks at him, quick surreptitious glances, and eventually he gets kind of spooked, and he says what you looking at me like that for? And then it hits me and I ask him is your name Tom? And he jolts like I touched him with a cattle prod and says how'd you know? And I laugh and say Tom Smith! I remember you! You sat next to me in 6th grade in Mr. Jones's class in school. And slowly he looks at me and recognizes me; I have a full beard now & we haven't seen each other for 11years but we both laugh and now he's at ease. I don't ask him how he happened to find himself where we are (I don't want to know) but I drop him off right at the front door of his house and we parted ways, never to meet up again. Absolutely freaky coincidence...
Michael but yes, you are very prudent about the bigots. I (white guy) was once picked up by a straight up card carrying Klan member and spent several hours listening to his vitriol, the usual crap about blacks, Jews, etc. I was rather uncomfortable but I didn't let it show, however was greatly relieved to get out of his car and see him disappear down the highway...
@Stephanie S relax Stephanie, literally 1 time in 15 yrs he said was a bad experience. I myself have given hitchhikers rides 4-5 times. Just short distances and always at Day. Never had a bad experience just chill ass folk tryna get somewhere. It's not all serial killers and rapists Like the movies show.
I went to California in 1978 with my girlfriend. I was 22. We were from the UK, and both of us used to hitch around back then, completely safely. The idea was for us both to hitch up the coast stopping off at various places till we got to San Francisco. I turned on the news in our motel in LA, and there was a girl with no arms who was campaigning to say how dangerous it was to hitch rides. She was a hitcher, got picked up by a truck driver.....he tried to rape her and when she struggled he chopped off both her arms! .....we decided against it and took the greyhound bus instead! the US is still the most violent country I've ever been to. Downtown LA and Hollywood were very scary places back then after dark. gun fire, burning cars at the side of the road.
Downtown L.A. and Hollywood are still very scary places, especially after 5 PM. I was in US in 2010, me and a couple of friends were walking through downtown L.A and I've never seen anything like it, after 5PM all the bums, beggars, junkies and basically the whole underworld and underground starts to appear on the streets while all the normal people disappear. We rented an apartment in East Hollywood and were shocked to see what kind of people occupy the streets and corners there. You get bothered at every corner and cursed at by scum. Same thing was in downtown Las Vegas at evening hours and in New York. And I come from poor, war torn and problematic Southeastern Europe, but US was the most scary place I've seen.
I used to hitchhike all the time when I was younger. I hitchhiked all over Europe and Balkans. I remember one time I was hitchhiking with my friend on Island of Korčula from Korčula to Vela Luka. The guy who picked us up was a teacher from Sarajevo, and he immediately start working on us. Come to my apartment, you can stay there, etc. We laughed afcourse, but he was pushing man. We told him we are going on the beach to swim in front of some hotel, and got off. After a half an hour, he came on the beach, and we said to him, what the fuck man, this is not how we roll, leave us alone. He got it, and got it quick, so he left. And one time I got picked up by an Albanian just after Macedonian border in Serbia. And he gave me a ride to Croatia. When we arrived, he told me the car is full of drugs, and he didn't want to drive alone. I dodged that as well. Ahhhhhh, the good ol times.
@@Siouxthenation the most optimal person to go missing is an "invisible" one. Someone who has no attachments to their local community. So when they don't show up to local city council meetings, people don't ask questions about where Dan went? Someone who doesn't have a family so then the wife/husband isn't asking questions. Someone who no one has no real attachments. Although in this case David Choe is referring to being seen as non-threatening because he's asain. So that's what he means by invisible. People don't see him as a threat.
Its why Homeless are s step 2 to the progression of being a serial killer. Animals are step 1.They need to get their skills down before stepping up to risky targets
The amount of info you've given about this guy, stuff that's quite unusual like working both on an oil rig and being an anaesthesiologist, living in a black neighbourhood, the fact that it's just him and one other guy at the oil rig.. even though it was decades ago now, I bet someone out there knows that guy and immediately knew you were talking about him.
He looks like a magical old asian man that sells you the most potent weed in all the land
He looks like an orangutan
@@zazarays such an in-depth notion
between that and the mmaster from kill bill
Fuckin' lighting coming out his fingers 😆
LoL !!!! :)
Ironically this guy looks exactly like I would expect a guy with a weird hitchhiking story to look like
villen yep I was thinking the exact same thing lol
meanwhile every time he hitchhiked on vice he always wore a suit and was clean cut lol
He might also be a someone's weird encounter while driving.
That’s not ironic.
That’s not ironic then.
This might be the most interesting guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast to date. His unique perspective on life and how he’s lived is one in a million
This was a fascinating 4 hours
He has great stories. Very entertaining.
He is a lovely guy..
More like 1 in a billion :P
More like 1 in a billion. This man is also worth 200 million now because of that Facebook art deal.
He was but not the Most, The Author of Fight Club was the most interesting guest for me
I have an elder friend of mine who's in his 60s now. He grew up and lived all over the South. He has a ton of hitchhiking stories. He started hitchhiking when he was 15 in the early 70s, he told me about the time when him and his buddy were picked up by a Motorcycle Club/Gang in New Mexico and they partied with them for a few days,he has a similar story to David Choe's where a preacher picked him & his buddy up in Texas and the preacher got them drunk & try to come on to them while they were passed out. He said him & his friend hitchhiked everywhere together and were best friends, they got arrested trying to get a ride on a freeway on-ramp. They took him to jail and his friend to juvie(18 & 17), they let him go a day later and he tried to find his friend, he said he called the detention center and they told him that they didn't have anyone by that name and he was never able to find him & never saw him again. This guy has a ton of interesting stories, I need to film him telling these stories or record them or something
Man that's sad
Wow
You should definelty record them. Sounds very interesting like the David choe stories. I love intense and eerie stories
Yes! 🙌 ❤
i think he was imagining his friend, lol, maybe his friend died way back and the trauma made him regress to a point in the past
This dude is a fantastic story teller.
I was telling myself exactly the opposite...
Yeah fables more like
@@likearollingstone007 agreed!!
@@sookmajoaby Watch any of his hitchhiking series and you'll trust.
And I believe him
" Everybody hitchhiked in the 60's and 70's and then a weird thing happened, everybody thinking they might get murdered or raped" proceeds to tell stories of murder and rape coming from the drivers, yeah real weird
What
Logic ++
You know what they say, liberal as kids, conservative as adults.
@@SC-gp7kt last time I checked this doesn't have anything to do with political beliefs... and I have also never heard that saying
@@andrewdavis499 j
4:20 - "die hard movie collection, rambo movie collection, shotguns, and er..."
"Lube"
😂😂
I lost it right there hahaha Joe ‚Lube‘ Rogan
Beat me to it
It's at 4:20 too lmao
@@bomarle4427 tf??
O did not hear the libe part omfg
Yeah, being a people pleaser can lead you into dangerous situations. He's so right about that.
The people pleaser comment had me yelling 😂 at first. Then the self realization hits
I hate that about me
@@sierraoller6265 Yeah, there's even situations where a people pleaser couldn't say no to some shady character, gave them a ride or went somewhere to "help" them, and got robbed, or robbed and murdered.
Beging practicing saying no in your life, in little things, to salespeople, anywhere. Politely, but sternly. It will help build up your no muscle some.
@@aaliyahali5537same❤
@@RantTherapistcheers
Choe: He had Die Hard movie collection, Rambo movie collection, shotguns
Rogan: Lube
Lol
thats why he makes the millions. hes so quick
Did a 'Control' + 'F' just for this lube comment
🤣🤣🤣
Lol
The lube joke was underrated/ appreciated
Fortnite
@@Quanchop why
Lol the soft “lube”
The putting his masks on killed me 🤣
I swear to good if I see the word underrated on a fucking comment one more time..
I could listen to David all day. People like him are so interesting and have done so many amazing things while others barely have a pulse.
Sigh true
There is always that one driver that creeps you out when hitch hiking
"You boys look 'HOT' out there" 😂
🤣🤣
Lolol
Thats some good foreshadowing
It was Anderson Cooper.
Good one 😂😂
This guy is like Bobby Lee's cool Uncle
Naw man, this is Bobby Lees version of Tony Clifton...
David Choe is the Superman to Bobby Lees Bizarro.
Haha yeah but Bobby lee is older
David choe is Bobby lee without the ritalin
This guy should just bring Bobby with him on trips & show and explain things to Bobby while getting real reaction.
“See that guy with the burning tire around him? He molested someone.”
“That would have helped me at the ice rink bleachers to get some candy.”
I’m glad his answer to “They don’t think I’m a threat?!”... was “I’m gonna go travel the world”... 🤙🏽
Well what do you recommend those who ppl see as a threat do?
Nicholas Dante McGee I’m simply pointing out and praising David for taking that inquiry and doing something positive with it.
Im a very tall white guy. Never had a problem hitchhiking. Not sure how it would be for black people though.
@DA BOUL BLACKLUNGZ It's possible. We should do a field test of this. Would be interesting.
@@tumbas299 what about a 6 foot Chicano?
“dude he just left.. okay imma take a shower then” 😂😂😂😂😂 is the best part
4:22 The way Joe quietly says "lube" during the pause absolutely killed me
That was FAF!!!
Same 😆
XD
omg ahahahahah i didnt even hear it the first time til i saw your comment and laughed so hard... hahah thank you for pointing it out!
Joe is bisexual himself, thats why he came up with "Lube".
This man has lived an interesting life. All the stories he’s heard in his life & the places he’s seen.
yeah it’s crazy. He’s worth 300 million dollars. Invested into Facebook at 38$ a share and I think it’s at like 260$ rn🤯. He’s also very renowned for his impressive artwork & graffiti artwork. A real sage he is.
I think interesting is an understatement tbh his life was just fucking crazy 😂😅
he just lies
stipidman93 nah, don’t say that when you don’t know shit about him??
@@jamesmadison5045 Depends on if he sold all his stock. He said he didn't sell all in 2012. That's when it was worth 200m when stock was 25-30 bucks per shares. 12x that now and its worth over 2B.......if he kept majority since 2012.
he said part time anesthesiologist but all I heard was full time serial killer
I don’t even understand the context but this comment was so funny I lol’d and told my wife about it.
Yeah that was straight scary. Glad he made it thu that time in his life
FACTS! I was thinking the same thing. 😂
Yup you nailed it. He is getting closer to his goal if he hasn’t already
I began hitching in 2015 and to date it is the best decision I have ever made. I'm nowhere near as well traveled as him but I put around 8000 miles under my belt in five years. I never see myself stopping. The world is too big to sit in one corner and call it good. I've met some wonderful people, some insane individuals, some lonely but lovely souls, and some desperate disasters...and I've loved every minute of it looking back.
You need to share your stories.
Peace from Sydney AUSTRALIA.
How do you keep making money though?
Not only hitch hiking but those hobos that hop trains also must have some interesting tales to tell (granted they usually do some hitch hiking too).
@@Taradise85find a cash gig somewhere. Whether it’s bucking hay or trimming weed; you’ll find something.
Still alive?
Dude looks like he'd sell you a gremlin
LMFAO!
And it probably be a real one 😂🤣
Pigsy from monkey magic
Bahahahaha
🤣🤣🤣
He visited an African tribe and they made him lion king.
It's the circle of life, man.
I see what you did there
Lion Kim
Time to utilize my Asian superpower
Asian from narnia😂
This is the most interesting man alive. Period.
Look up rob "rabbit" pitts stories ln vinwiki channel. Awesome car stories
Instagram Atl.nellii lmfaoo Elon musk is an idiot
Bubba Watson a very smart idiot, but idiot nonetheless
hitchhikeamerica.wordpress.com/about/
Get him a Sleeman
My first time hitch hiking I was headed back to a hostel in New Zealand and the dude that picked me up had his son in the back and he just told me and mostly his son abt his experience hitchhiking across the United States at my age. Good dude, in the us a lot of ppl tend to pick you up and rant abt how unsafe it is and then let you go a bit down the road depending on where they are going
The fact that the guy was a part time anesthesiologist is scary.....imagine the people he's drugged
Right? Imagine the drugs he has at his house
That parts gotta be made up....I mean c'mon...
crazy story, i got my wisdom teeth out a year and a half ago, turns out the anesthesiologist who administered the drugs to me, kidnapped and held this young woman at his house with the help of his wife.
That part was super made up. Although part time anesthesiology is heard of, why Tf would he go work on a damn oil rig.
yea he's got a track record of wishy washy bad stuff he's done in his past so who knows lmao
Joe sneaking “lube” into that story killed me
Me too lmfao
Haha me too
Wait I somehow missed that
So quick n quiet when right over homeboys head lol
Me too rofl
Had to rewind to make sure I heard it too.
Why haven’t I ever heard of this man? He’s legendary.
He has a movie about hitching across the US dude whatcha it.
You live under a rock? Ever herd of Vice?? This guys been around for a while now
Look him up on VICE its awesome!!!!
This guy might look like a bum but he's worth 200 million dollars and is the top 10 richest Loving artists on the planet 💯
sam han 300 mill now
Ive *LOVED* this guy since he put his Hitchhiking Journeys on Vice back in the early 2000s. absolutely AWESOME videos. his friends he Hitched with are great too, hope they're doing great too.
"I don't want to discourage people from hitchhiking."
The First Time I Rode a Freight Train & other hitchhiking stories
hitchhikeamerica.wordpress.com/settled-nowhere-book/
*after talking about how he was almost raped*
well if you dont want anything negative to happen to you then never leave your house.. actually you will probably still get fucked so.. might as well live.
The Great Cornholio Yeah but hitchhiking ain’t the best idea... I wonder when exactly it was that that shit started going sideways and people started getting murdered and stuff didn’t it used to be super common before?
@@SliceofBread123
No, it was just propaganda that started spreading during the 70s and 80s. They also made it illegal to pick up hitchhikers in some states.
The fact that people judging you as not a threat and this guy taking advantage of that in the right way is absolutely genius. I’m sure this dude has witnessed multiple live’s worth of amazing things.
"You didnt just hitchhike? You hitched house?" Joe rogan is funny af
dad joke
@@ThatWasPrettyFunnyLMAO, i was gonna say somthin but you got it
Hilarious 😭😭😭
You know he's a comedian, right?
Wouldn't it be "hitchcouchcrashed".?
I hitched cross country starting at 15 yrs old. Great stories from getting 1st ride to drop me off 3000 miles at my destination to truckers waking me up to give me rides. Once I drew thousands of faces on every rock at the end of the on ramp...thousands. Always wondered how the next hitchhiker reacted when he looked down. :)
I've waited half a day for rides, and I've waited barely 3 minutes.
There are only 2 types of people who hitchhike:
1- Coolest most chillest dudes on Earth
2 - Serial killers
You watch too much Hollywood movies.
I’m gonna go with my instinct on this one, SADDLE UP, PARTNER!
Many years ago I had a friend who hitched and hopped trains to get home to be with her kid.
There are MANY types of people that choose the road less traveled.
Aren't the hitchhikers usually the victims? Seems like a much more chill way to kill people instead of waiting at the side of the road and too much complications if you don't have your own vehicle..
That's the fun :)
He made a good point when he talked about receiving help. For men that might be the hardest things to do I feel, it’s much easier to help others then it is to except the help of others. That means letting go of your pride and having the humbleness of spirit to receive. That’s the key.
True when he also said he is apart of a men’s group. I was like I going to look into that. In Sought ca they have things like that. This quarantine really messed me up for minute. I had to to reach out to a therapist. I’m doing much better now. Glad I asked for help. Think of it staying in house 2.5 months. Wow. I began using the calm app as well. It was a huge help with dealing with anxiety. I’m using the 30 day beginning mediate part of the app. So that has helped me and also checking on different friends each week. Helps me get the focus off myself.
Accept, not except
I have hitchhiked for years myself, but you are not travelling for free, you are travelling on the costs of somebody else. But, its true, there are really weird people on the road.
Great. An natural remendy skullcap, can be good too. liquid tinture.
He is absolutely correct. People will bare their souls and tell you the most stunning things about themselves, the most appalling personal secrets that they'd NEVER tell anyone, because, as a total stranger who they will never see again, the act of confession is extremely cathartic. When I used to hitchhike people told me things that curled my hair
Such as? 👀🍿
Craziest confession u ever got
Yes please tell 👀
Tell
Fucking come back to this comment and tell us some stories
I never knew David Choe before appearing on JRE but I'm glad I do now. He is the definition of a creative.
"Sure Mr. Dahmer I'll stay for breakfast"
He's a people-pleaser.
Sam and eggs
LosBerkos underrated Comment.
Eggs and brains, delicious.
He’s got something in him.. something genuine and humane, my cousin has been to every state but has looked down disdainfully on those she didn’t understand who had a different way of living than her,
That’s the problem. She’s never left her bubble. There is so much more out there than the US.
That is also rare. Travelers are usually the most non judgemental people you will ever meet.
"When you hurt someone it stays with them forever". Reminds me of a proverb I learned as a child- "the tree remembers what the axe has forgotten".
Both dudes are absolute legends and would be the epitome of the word ‘epic’ to meet them in person 🤘
Soon as he said part time anesthesiologist.. you should have known not to go to his house lmao
RPL lol right sounds like horse shit
Yeah part time anesthesiologist means i know how to make you pass out in about three seconds.
He really meant amateur anesthesiologist.
Agreed
@lino You must not have heard of this guy then.
This man is PURE INSPIRATION
He was homeless, hitch hiking around having to go through crazy unbearable stuff and now he’s WORTH OVER 300 mill 🙏
bro he's been rich
Where does he get his wealth?
@@hammersmashedface6059 what, really? He invested in Facebook early?
@@DM-bv9uh he did the art for the first Facebook HQ in 2004 and they offered him Facebook stock or $60k. He took the shares even though they hadn't had their IPO yet, in large part due to Sean Parker recommending that he take the stock. When Facebook had their IPO in 2012, those shares were worth $200 million. Not sure how much he sold off, or if he even still has any of those shares, but they'd were worth $1.9 billion at the stocks' peak value back in September of 2021.
@@keahilanil3469 ohhhh shit! Say no more. Cheers for the break down and the history.
“You didn’t just hitchhike you hitchhoused?” Had me dying for some reason lmao
30 seconds in and already rolling my eyes🤣 sums him up in a heartbeat
They think "he's like Jackie Chan". And immediately KNOW he doesn't want no trouble.
Lmfao
David: “Die hard movie collection, rambo movie collection, shotguns”
Joe: “lube”
FFS 😂 😂 😂
😭😭😭
David Choe is refreshingly authentic. I have seen everything he’s done and want more.
The nonchalant excitement in Joe’s voice with that “one at a time” was epic and perfect timing!
It’s a shame there’s so many psychos and creeps out there, because hitchhiking sounds like a genuinely fun and interesting way of exploring the country.
@Karson Kalabo yeah but there was 100 other women to your 1 aunt that were. We just don't hear about it because they didnt have technology to get their stories out there
@Karson Kalabo I'm glad your aunt was safe, but there are plenty of women (and men for that matter) who got into deep trouble trying to hitchhike. Robbed, raped, murdered or simply beat up. Maybe even ditched somewhere. There's a lot of risks involved in asking a complete stranger to take you somewhere. In a better world, it'd be a viable option. Not in this world, bro.
What did the guy do that was psycho or creepy? Picked up hitchhikers? Said he was gay? Said if they wanted he would have sex with them? Nothing he did was super creepy just interpreted as creepy by a slightly homophobic mind. He didn't force or even ask for anything at all.
@@winningsince1992 if homophobic means not being ignorant of red flags, than yeah.
I hitchhiked 600 kms in 4 different cars. All were the nicest people ever
Hes sounds like he got picked up by Tiger King!😂
😂😂
🤣
Bruh
Sounds like it
What the hell was tiger king about lol I never heard or saw or knew anything about that tiger king?
A guy says to driver "what would you do if I was a serial killer?" The driver replies "I dont think there is likely to be two in same car do you?"
Wow
No way!!!
@@shonnieperson7649 it was a story I actually heard on youtube, not sure if its an urban myth or not but makes for a good story
Hahahah
The way he diverted away from the murder confession into the rape story was slick
For the first time on a Joe Rogan podcast I watched from the beginning to the end without being distracted from something, this guy can really tell a good story 😂
Same here holy shit🤣🤣🤣
same
Maybe work on improving your listening skills
@@kennywest9626 i disagree
Indeed
This guy knows how to paint a picture. I’ve had some similarly crazy experiences myself where you think someone is harmless but they turn out to be dangerous. But people are people and if you know people well enough, you can survive the rare dangerous moments in this first world. Too many people are afraid of one another though. I’ve put myself in insanely dangerous situations and the scariest people often choose peace over trouble.
He looks like a Mongol warlord to me lmao
No the cowardly lion lol cool guy though.
That's a compliment lol
Your stories are great David. Hope to hear more from you. 👍👍
After listening to this guy I feel like have done nothing.
To everyone who’s confused about the guy’s jobs, he said that he had a family and a normal life before everyone found out he was gay, so he probably was anesthesiologist for a long time, but after his life fell apart and he lost credibility, he probably needed to get another part time job in order to support himself
Eh I don't know, he said he was part time anesthesiologist and part oil rig worker around 4:35, so it appears he did those at the same time. Anesthesiologists are medical docs and are well known to make a hell of a lot of money. Now unless he was a medical doctor on the oil rig, I can't see any anesthesiologists going to bust their butts on an oil rig. David Choe seems like a huge embellisher to say the least
His point was that the guy was loaded
Chris he could of made that point by saying “the guy was loaded” if that was the case
obviously he isnt, there must be sometghing in his house david saw that he had to make up a job to exp;ain to david, how he has things related to anesthesiology.
Mike Lees I get that anesthesiologists make a lot of money and normally wouldn’t work a working class job like an oil rig, but this guy was exposed for being gay in a deep southern community and lost his entire family, he probably lost his credibility as an anesthesiologist too and was then forced to work on the oil rig in order to support himself
He said “you hitch-housed?” 😂😂
This was one of the best podcasts for jre this dudes story and his way of telling it and looking at things was cool to listen to
it is so true what he is saying about asian people. Especially eccentric asian dudes.....there is a non threatening factor involved for sure.
Being seen as threatening is good and bad, being seen as non threatening is good and bad as well. Though I'd rather be non threatening
Same with Indians
I don't get the whole threatening / non-threatening stereotype. It just doesn't make sense to me as a label we can apply to an entire race.
Like that MASSIVE Asian guy in Rush Hour? Threatening as fuck. Yakuza gang members? Threatening as fuck. But a skinny Asian accountant with glasses at a Starbucks? Totally non-threatening.
Same goes for the racist black stereotype. People acting like black people in America are a threat as a whole -- totally nonsensical. Bloods? Threatening. Mike Tyson? Threatening as fuck. Chris Tucker in the same Rush Hour movie? Not threatening in the slightest.
It just doesn't make sense any other way.
Gerald Wiseman people are stupid when it comes to race
Which is crazy. 2 of the most scariest people in history were the Japanese and the Mongols lol.
No ones afraid of him and he's super approachable, little do they know he once killed a man with a rock in the congo while he was sleeping.
he never killed him he thought about
@@temaratkinson6051 na he definitely killed him just didn't admit it you could tell by his body language and how he didn't wanna say his name
Why would he kill him?
That time he said “which version of the story do I tell, cos it gets dark” and said he didn’t do it
you can never tell with this guy. although if he did kill that dude, holy shit
David’s sense of wonder & willingness to share is amazing . Being better , self inspection/ reflection while sharing his adventures . I didn’t know his name before this podcast . I know it now . I feel grateful for this show . Thanks Joe Rogan & David Choe
I like how he says with annoyance that in the 80s people started to believe it was dangerous to hitchhike, while rolling his eyes. Then proceeds to tell us unsafe after unsafe story involving hitchhiking. Getting in the car with strangers is just dangerous, especially when no one knoemws where you are.
Joe “a big gay guy in a cowboy hat that takes you to his house” rogan
This comment and the audio lined up
Rogan wishes that happend to him
@@courtneyj1856 same lol !!!
Joe “lube” Rogan
the scary part is that he tells david that he is a "part time" anesthesiologist . obviously he isnt, there must be sometghing in his house david saw that he had to make up a job to exp;ain to david, how he has things related to anesthesiology.
"Oh yeah, all that... uh... stuff. Uh..."
"I'm a part-time anesthesiologist."
"Yep. That's all that is."
😆😆
Uhhhh my good friend’s dad was an anesthesiologist, and eventually he went to part-time. He also had random medical supplies, just because and just in case shit went down and he could help. But I have no idea how you be a part time oil rigger and part time anesthesiologist though.
@@JohnDoe-zq1ho Most offshore medics are trained anesthesiologist, that's what he does at sea. I believe the story.
Or david embellishes and makes up parts of his stories
“this guy went to the store and bought eggs for me” LMFAOOOO
I drove a cab in Sydney Australia for 10 years & the stuff people confessed to me would fill a book. I’m a straight male & only had 1 female proposition me but plenty of gay men do it. Sometimes they would be in tears after I refused out of loneliness. I saw a lot of humanity.
In other words...David Choe experienced his first 'Harold and Kumar' moment
'Who wants first reach around?'
I swear to God
I do want to like this comment... But won't... It's count is at 69... In Harold n Kumar spirit!!!!
@@sriblock6987 I liked it up to 70 for ya
@@edgarallanpoe8917 🙄🙄🙄😀😀😀
An oil rigger and a part time anesthesiologist? An anesthesiologist makes $250,000-$400,000 a year and he has to work as an oil rigger? It takes 12 years of training to be an anesthesiologist but he has a job that pays 100-150k that is dirty, sweaty and dangerous? I'm a coal miner and part time MLB pitcher.
He was obviously not a part time anesthesiologist. I doubt they even have part time positions.
He was probably in an “office” position like a consultant or something of the sort. With a 2 week on 2 week off schedule I doubt he was getting too dirty.
I think the old guy considered ruffieing young boys as anesthesiology.
Yea I mean my cousin is an Hvac tech and a part time anesthesiologists. Oh wait no he just gets high after work
I believe he may have been telling an inside joke (to him) about drugging his rape victims.
Real Life GTA Strangers & Freaks mission.
Love this dude so much. So genuine & pure
So basically “the guy” likes to put people asleep and drill holes. FFS
This is gold
He thought he struck black gold when he settled in a black neighbourhood...
LMAO! That is an underrated comment.
Love how Choes a millionaire but hes eccentric as hell with crazy worldly experiences.
Dude was a rebel fuck-up before facebook gave him shares...nothing changed, just more crazy experiences. lol
He's more likely a billionaire since he owns 0.5% of FB....
How is he a wealthy guy
@@cosmicHalArizona 300 mil net worth maybe, idk.
@@davefarlow he has illuded to being a billionaire before
If this was an Asian women this would be a different story.
Your name made this comment
Lolololol
Probably sexist or racist idk
She would have said "too buku"?
There wouldnt be a story
His presence in Roadrunner about Anthony Bourdain was beautiful and sad. He’s so alive, I love people like that. Omg He’s right about hitchhiking storytelling😳. I’ve hitchhiked in the Yucatán and Maui, the stories get shadowy no doubt and the connections are potent, never forgetting someone you meet in passing is a trip.
As a black person I was always afraid and never had the nerve to
hitch hike, thinking I'd be picked up by a racists , a murderer or any other deranged personality that would do me some kind of harm.
In parallel, my son hitch hiked from New York state to W.Virginia.
He was a boldly intoxicated risk taker. I was sort of envious of his type of bravery in which I never possesed.
I lectured him about the dangers of hitch Hicking.
He simply replied "I know how to take care of myself,
I'M a survivor"
Watch Cle Elum walk from Seattle to Miami.
Mike
It’s not a good idea for anyone, I’m a white guy and the same could happen to me.
He is a survivor..until someone drugs him or shoot him..hahahhahahhah made me laugh
Michael true story: I was driving a car from Chicago to St. Paul Minnesota, was out in the middle of bumfuk nowhere Wisconsin, nothing but cornfields and dairy farms as far as the eye could see in all directions. 1978, I am 22 years old. Up ahead I see a black dude thumbing a ride so I pull over and he gets in. He looks strangely familiar, like I know this guy from somewhere, you ever have this happen? I'm taking occasional peeks at him, quick surreptitious glances, and eventually he gets kind of spooked, and he says what you looking at me like that for? And then it hits me and I ask him is your name Tom? And he jolts like I touched him with a cattle prod and says how'd you know? And I laugh and say Tom Smith! I remember you! You sat next to me in 6th grade in Mr. Jones's class in school. And slowly he looks at me and recognizes me; I have a full beard now & we haven't seen each other for 11years but we both laugh and now he's at ease. I don't ask him how he happened to find himself where we are (I don't want to know) but I drop him off right at the front door of his house and we parted ways, never to meet up again. Absolutely freaky coincidence...
Michael but yes, you are very prudent about the bigots. I (white guy) was once picked up by a straight up card carrying Klan member and spent several hours listening to his vitriol, the usual crap about blacks, Jews, etc. I was rather uncomfortable but I didn't let it show, however was greatly relieved to get out of his car and see him disappear down the highway...
This guy’s voice is so soothing
It’s the LA accent I think.
Part time anesthesiologist be like:
*gives you a rag*
does this smell like a chloroform to you?
this guy is amazing i wish i could have had his life or just a glimpse of his experience
You can still,you need courage to take the 1st step
This dude said “John Wayne”, I was gonna lose my shit if he added Gacy at the end
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂same
Joe “a big gay guy with a cowboy hat that takes you to his house” Rogan
Rogans fantasy
😂😂😂😂😂
Someone already said this. Try something more original.
@@Krytern thanks for the update. God knows I would’ve been embarrassed if two months had gone by and I left this up like a jackass
He said this sentence as I was reading it
This guy literally is the greatest person to interview, omg I need to see every one.
David’s got some amazing stories to tell and accumulated some incredible wisdom along the way.
ASS
GAS
Or
GRASS
(Nobody rides for free)
LMFAO. You're so wrong! 😆😅😂😳
What about Sass??
Kain Toad
What is SASS ??
Cash*
@Stephanie S relax Stephanie, literally 1 time in 15 yrs he said was a bad experience. I myself have given hitchhikers rides 4-5 times. Just short distances and always at Day. Never had a bad experience just chill ass folk tryna get somewhere. It's not all serial killers and rapists Like the movies show.
wish he woulda gone into the murder confession story more
What he heard scares him. He absolutely changed that subject so fast.
“Something weird happened in the 80’s”
Serial Killers, serial killers happened in the 80’s 😂
We need David Choe on again
David Choe is in tune with the universe. Some of the best conversation I have heard on Rogan. He earned the wisdom he has. Cool dude!
Joe “Lube” Rogan
I went to California in 1978 with my girlfriend. I was 22. We were from the UK, and both of us used to hitch around back then, completely safely. The idea was for us both to hitch up the coast stopping off at various places till we got to San Francisco. I turned on the news in our motel in LA, and there was a girl with no arms who was campaigning to say how dangerous it was to hitch rides. She was a hitcher, got picked up by a truck driver.....he tried to rape her and when she struggled he chopped off both her arms! .....we decided against it and took the greyhound bus instead! the US is still the most violent country I've ever been to. Downtown LA and Hollywood were very scary places back then after dark. gun fire, burning cars at the side of the road.
that's insane!!!!
I know exactly who you’re talking about. Lawrence Singleton, dude’s a sick fuck.
Mary Vincent! She survived and makes art now. The man who did it was a serial killer, Lawrence singleton
Downtown L.A. and Hollywood are still very scary places, especially after 5 PM. I was in US in 2010, me and a couple of friends were walking through downtown L.A and I've never seen anything like it, after 5PM all the bums, beggars, junkies and basically the whole underworld and underground starts to appear on the streets while all the normal people disappear. We rented an apartment in East Hollywood and were shocked to see what kind of people occupy the streets and corners there. You get bothered at every corner and cursed at by scum. Same thing was in downtown Las Vegas at evening hours and in New York. And I come from poor, war torn and problematic Southeastern Europe, but US was the most scary place I've seen.
That’s California where only criminals are armed
the hitchhiking series with Choe is still one of the best things I've ever watched.
I used to hitchhike all the time when I was younger. I hitchhiked all over Europe and Balkans. I remember one time I was hitchhiking with my friend on Island of Korčula from Korčula to Vela Luka. The guy who picked us up was a teacher from Sarajevo, and he immediately start working on us. Come to my apartment, you can stay there, etc. We laughed afcourse, but he was pushing man. We told him we are going on the beach to swim in front of some hotel, and got off. After a half an hour, he came on the beach, and we said to him, what the fuck man, this is not how we roll, leave us alone. He got it, and got it quick, so he left. And one time I got picked up by an Albanian just after Macedonian border in Serbia. And he gave me a ride to Croatia. When we arrived, he told me the car is full of drugs, and he didn't want to drive alone. I dodged that as well.
Ahhhhhh, the good ol times.
"This mic smells like Post Malone." 😂👌
AKA Marlboro Lights and Budweiser
Lmao... 😄
Tommy Patton and PO
"Hey boy! You're lookin' mighty cute in them jeans!"
~Mr. T
when he did the eye thing with his fingers that broke my heart a bit. How many times he seen that, how unfair is that.
“Invisible” is what predators look for.
Would you care to elaborate?
@@Siouxthenation the most optimal person to go missing is an "invisible" one. Someone who has no attachments to their local community. So when they don't show up to local city council meetings, people don't ask questions about where Dan went?
Someone who doesn't have a family so then the wife/husband isn't asking questions.
Someone who no one has no real attachments.
Although in this case David Choe is referring to being seen as non-threatening because he's asain. So that's what he means by invisible. People don't see him as a threat.
Its why Homeless are s step 2 to the progression of being a serial killer. Animals are step 1.They need to get their skills down before stepping up to risky targets
"The guy left!"
"Okay, I'm gonna take a shower then!" LMFAO
The amount of info you've given about this guy, stuff that's quite unusual like working both on an oil rig and being an anaesthesiologist, living in a black neighbourhood, the fact that it's just him and one other guy at the oil rig.. even though it was decades ago now, I bet someone out there knows that guy and immediately knew you were talking about him.
WE NEED DAVID CHOE BACK ON THE SHOW