Joe Rogan Experience #2490 - RZA

Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2490 - RZA
Uploaded: 2026-04-28T17:00:29.000Z
Duration: 2 h 51 min 58 s
Channel: PowerfulJRE

PowerfulJREApril 28, 20262h 51m

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Flying Guillotine T-Shirt and Richard Weiss0:01 Catching Up and Wellness Practices1:02 Shaolin Training and Morning Routines4:31 RZA's Ice Bath Experience9:31 Benefits of Cold Exposure and Martial Arts13:00 One Spoon of Chocolate Film15:30 Tai Chi Principles and Practice19:30 Devastation of Violence and Spiritual Cost24:29 Opioid Crisis and Sackler Family32:00 Historical and Modern Exploitation in Congo42:32 Genius Lyrics Annotation and RZA's Bars on Congo Cobalt Mining49:05 Cobalt in Electronics and Battery Technology Advances51:00 Exploitation, Royalties, and Spiritual Perspective on Resources53:01 Nigerian Oil Hustle and Call for People to Recognize Their Value58:00 Transition to RZA's Film 'One Spoon of Chocolate'1:00:00 Art Reflecting Real Issues and Audience Reactions1:02:00 Anecdote with Darnell Rollins and Beat Licensing1:04:31 RZA's Directing Career and Cast Connections1:07:00 New Film Music and Eddie Levert Encounter1:09:00 Music Recommendations and Tastes1:11:01 Cool G Rap and Hip-Hop Influences1:14:39 Quitting Weed and Substance Preferences1:18:00 Snoop's Weed and High Tolerance1:23:31 Cannabis Legality and Comparisons1:26:00 Vegan Diet and Protein Sources1:29:30 Hawk Story and Chicken Predation1:36:30 Chickens and Fresh Eggs1:38:25 Fake Ad and Egg Benefits1:39:00 Indian Restaurants in California1:41:01 El Big Burrito Mexican Spot1:43:03 RZA Stopped Driving After China1:46:01 Shazam Street Music Story1:50:02 Perplexity vs Google and Earth Calculations1:52:00 Fake Ad and Movie Promotion2:02:00 Anamorphic Lenses and Cinematic Feel2:04:12 Digital Shooting and 35mm Prints2:05:01 Personal Significance of April 22nd2:07:31 Theatrical vs Streaming Deals2:09:02 Immersive Viewing Technologies2:11:31 Timeless Elements in Film2:19:32 Dolby Glasses2:22:00 AI as a Tool2:25:00 Lab-Grown Diamonds vs. Natural Diamonds2:28:39 Fake Rolexes and Super Clones2:36:03 Analogies to Quantum Computers and Biology2:44:31 RZA Movie Promo and Theater Talk2:47:00

In a Nutshell

Joe Rogan and RZA discuss wellness routines like cold plunges, chi gong, exercise, and veganism; the opioid crisis, Sackler family's role, and modern exploitation in Congo's cobalt mines fueling tech; plus RZA's new action film *One Spoon of Chocolate* (produced by Tarantino, theaters May 1st), channeling aggression into art amid talks on martial arts, music influences, AI tools, lab-grown diamonds, and immersive cinema tech. Key takeaways: Exercise and cold exposure build mental resilience and chi; systemic profit-driven abuses (pharma, mining) demand awareness and self-realization; art like RZA's lyrics and films expose truths while promoting timeless human potential over violence. Wu-Tang forever, with RZA quitting weed for scotch and promoting early rising for peak performance.

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Joe Rogan mentions the designer architect Richard Weiss who designed both RZA's bar and the Mothership. Both have Flying Guillotine t-shirts; Joe looked for his this morning but couldn't find it, RZA wore his to a screening at Alamo Drafthouse on Staten Island.

RZA recalls Joe's place in Woodland Hills about eight years ago with a hyperbaric chamber and sensory deprivation tank. Joe has a hyperbaric chamber at his house now. RZA impressed by Joe's unique consciousness and wonders if he still moves his chi in the same direction amid evolution physically, mentally, spiritually, or economically. Joe agrees momentum can pull you off track, vacations realign; RZA feels the same after eight days running around without workouts, only drinking, stretched this morning.

Joe feels off after two days without exercise—antsy, irritated, unclear thinking. RZA maybe three and a half days. Both shocked people live without exercise, harming body and mind, leading to anxiety. In Shaolin philosophy, chi gong moves chi through blood via oxygen, stretching, exercise, respiration energizes blood through vessels and meridians, firing endorphins and endocrine system, calming you.

Joe compares humans to batteries storing energy that leaks if not purged; body requires movement or you feel bad, contributing to societal tension and mental health issues.

RZA's teacher Sifu Shi Yan Ming (10 years older than RZA, looks 10 years younger) works out six times a day training clients, still kisses his toes in his 60s. Sifu says exercise feels good and in Shaolin, you exercise (run up/down mountain, chores) before eating or you don't eat—echoes Bible's "work to the sweat of his brow." RZA skips morning food, drinks coffee (10 years), water, banana, exercises first. Joe same: workout before eating, food tastes better, you earned it, hardest part done, smooths mental rest of day.

Recall Army commercial: "we do more before 6 a.m. than most do all day." Wisdom to get up early, get chi going. Joe: force out of bed against comfort, victory over inner laziness. Tell bed "fuck you," resist octopus tentacles of warmth. Joe starts day with cold plunge (3 minutes) before workout—hesitates every time but pushes through, uses phone timer, past 1-minute mark gets easier by relaxing and breathing.

RZA did one ice bath in New York with Tibetan lama, brain scans before/after cold bath and meditation. Hated it, got out past 1 minute, younger skinnier host still in—got back in to not be beaten, impressed himself despite hating cold (runs hot, acts as wife's heater). Joe: mind game, ignore urge to get out, breathe to count of 10 (sighs on each), relaxes by 10 (∼1 minute), then settle. Suggests cold shower, great in NY winter; recalls taekwondo friend Bob Caparella taking cold showers after training.

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Joe Rogan Experience #2490 - RZA

Flying Guillotine T-Shirt and Richard Weiss00:01

Catching Up and Wellness Practices01:02

Importance of Exercise and Chi02:30

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