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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1038 - Billy Corgan

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Billy Corgan is a musician, songwriter, producer, poet, and entrepreneur. His new album "Ogilala" produced by Rick Rubin, is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right?

0:09.0

We're live.

0:10.0

What's up?

0:11.0

How I know weird, right? Yeah, here we go.

0:13.0

Nice to meet you, man.

0:14.0

Thank you, yeah, I can't believe we've never met.

0:16.0

Yeah, well, I've been a fan of your music for a long time, so it's kind of cool to see you in person.

0:20.0

I've worked out conversely so it's cool. So I mean I don't want me to just jump right into this but it kind of freaked me out that you have involvement in pro wrestling.

0:30.0

You own the NWA?

0:31.0

Yeah, I bought the National Wrestling Alliance, the oldest brand in the world.

0:35.5

I was working for T&A, you know, as president for a hot second, and then I got fired.

0:39.5

And you were president of T&A? Yeah, yeah, that's a crazy story. I don't know how much you want to get into that.

0:45.0

Get into it. Well, you know, Dixie Carter owned T&A. I knew her through the years. I used to go to shows and stuff like that and at some point they approached me about

0:56.4

investing. I said no, then they offered me a job, I started working for the company, then

1:02.1

they started having money

1:03.0

to start putting money and through the contrivance of all that,

1:06.0

then I started getting more power in the company and putting in more money.

1:09.0

So then it became like, well, if I'm going to put in all this money and I'm going to have all this power I want to run the show

1:14.0

They basically said that was cool and then the minute I had the spot it was like game of thrones they all started to kind of kill me off and and then you know wrestling's weird because you have this weird mix of reality and

1:25.4

fantasy and it's hard sometimes to know where one thing and the fans get into both

1:29.8

the behind the scenes and the fantasy so no one's quite sure sometimes where the

1:33.0

blur is and yeah it got pretty crazy for a while there's a lawsuit. A real lawsuit?

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