The Joe Rogan Experience - #2565 - Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas is an actor, producer, writer, and philanthropist whose film and television credits include "Wall Street," "Fatal Attraction," "Basic Instinct," "Behind the Candelabra," and "The Kominsky Method." He has won two Academy Awards, multiple Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award and has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His new book, "One Helluva Ride," is available now.https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-douglas/one-helluva-ride/9781538782224/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000140/ Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Use code ROGAN at https://BlueChew.com to get 10% OFF + Free Overnight Shipping on your first order. Visit https://squarespace.com/ROGAN to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 20m
Broadcast on: 14 Oct 2026
Audio Format: other

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(dramatic music) - Joe Rogan, fly and catch, check it out. - The Joe Rogan, experience. - Train by day, Joe Rogan, podcast by night, all day. (upbeat music) - Very nice to meet you, sir. - Thank you. - I've been a fan for a long time. - Oh wow, okay, I appreciate that. - Falling Down's one of my all time favorite movies. - Oh yeah. - That's such a crazy movie. I re-watched some scenes today, getting ready for it, and the scene where you confront the guy who's working on the highway, and so there's nothing wrong with this highway. - Right. - The thing that everybody a lot of times thinks, that they have these budgets, and if you don't spend all the money, then you don't get the money next year, so you gotta tear up the fucking road and you take a bazooka out. - I know, I mean, this spooky thing I see about, I guess, some money and this is just how Matt meets up to today. - Yeah. - You know, 30 years, this is 30 years later, that's a thing that's sort of interesting, but also depressing. - It is depressing. You would have thought we would have figured it all out by now. - Yeah. - Especially with the use of the internet. So much more information that was available than when you made that film. - Right. - You know, the world's a totally different place, and yet it resonates perfectly. - Yeah, well thank you, yeah, that's one of my favorites too, that's kind of dark comedy. - Yeah, I mean, it was a dark comedy, like, and there's parts, completely caricaturist, unsympathetic characters, like the guys in the golf course. - Right. - The guy dies, 'cause he freaks out his heart, you go, "I guess you're gonna die." - So, I remember getting a studio calling me down, Mr. Took it too warm, but down in the office, I got to come down, I came down in the office,

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