#2435 - Bradley Cooper

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 157 minutes

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
0:03.9	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
0:12.0	Hey, Bradley Cooper.
0:13.4	What's happening, baby?
0:15.2	You know what it's like when, like, a Twilight Zone episode or something?
0:19.6	We're like, you're watching the TV.
0:20.8	This is an episode where, like, I'm watching the TV. And then all of a like I'm watching the TV and then all of a sudden you're inside the show and you're looking at me. Oh. Yeah, I'm also inside the show. It's crazy. It's weird for me too. It's weird for me that it gets weird for other people too. Like when I see people of Being weird about it. I'm like, it's okay. I feel comfortable, just saying that. Oh, good.
0:38.6	You look comfortable.
0:39.4	Yeah, no, no, no.
0:40.0	But it's excitement.
0:41.1	It's weird. see people of being weird about it I'm like it's okay I feel comfortable just saying
0:38.0	oh good you look comfortable yeah no no no but it's excitement it's weird for me
0:42.0	like I was trying to explain this to someone they'll they're like do people have a hard
0:45.1	time being comfortable on the show I go I kind of do too it's fucking weird yeah it's weird
0:49.5	that many people are watching yes and then you start thinking like oh oh, don't fuck it up. Don't say that.
0:55.6	Right. But if you think about it, the fact that you did this long form setup and that we live in a culture where people taught least say that it's all about short term. Yeah. It goes against it. The people are interested.
1:11.6	Yeah. Well, the short term stuff does work, you know?
1:15.6	Like short attention span stuff is very popular, even with me.
1:18.6	But I have been resisting it more and more lately.
1:22.6	I'm like a fucking heroin addict, like slowly weaning myself off the drug. And the more I weaned myself the better I feel like physically better my brain works better I feel more relaxed I don't feel like this like sugar Sean O'Malley the USC fighter he said even when I'm just scrolling even if he goes even if it's not anything about me he goes there's
1:44.5	just like a low level anxiety that I get I'm like yeah yeah because like you know you're
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