Joe Rogan

My mistake was just because you know the language doesn't mean you know the culture.

Man, what was in the – I know what I read in the thing.

So that's – again, I don't know enough depth to know –

And now people are like, oh man, can you speak Mandarin for this?

I just won't do it.

It's a skill that I have, but it's a skill that's gonna remain with me because I don't have the depth of field to know what to call that place in that region of the world, and I haven't done enough research, and I don't have the wisdom, and I don't have the cultural fluency.

So it was a cool lesson.

It sucked, because I thought I was just trying to do something good, but it was a cool lesson.

Was it really that big of a deal?

Man, I thought, I was filming Peacemaker season one, and when they came out with all of this stuff, I went directly to James Gunn and was like, hey man, if you have to fire me, I understand.

Wow.

It was that serious?

No, no.

It was for the movie I was promoting.

Right.

So the movie, the people that made the movie wrote it.

So I don't know.

Like when you do these press tours, let's say, if I'm doing a movie for Warner Brothers, let's say, let's use Peacemaker as an example.

I'm doing a global Peacemaker tour and we go into China or we go into South America.

you meet the PR person there, and they have all the stuff you're supposed to do, and they curate your experience, and they hold your hand, and you're like, okay, now we're gonna go to this station.