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The Joe Rogan Experience

#986 - Maynard James Keenan

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Maynard James Keenan is a singer, songwriter, producer, winemaker, and actor, best known as the vocalist for Grammy Award-winning rock band Tool, Puscifer, and A Perfect Circle. His new book "A Perfect Union of Contrary Things" is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's it called again? What's the gym called? Verde Valley,

0:10.0

Brazil and Jiu-J so Verde-Vich-Valley B. J. And what what town is that in?

0:14.0

Old town cottonwood at Arizona. So you essentially like invested and built a gym out there so you'd have a place to train?

0:21.0

Basically, yeah. That's such a smart move.

0:23.5

Yeah. It's kind of what you have to do right? Yeah. Otherwise you'd have to drive hours

0:27.7

to go somewhere. Yeah I mean there's megatons down south there's a bunch of places down there but

0:31.5

they're just it's you know two hour

0:32.6

drive there's also Ted Osborne jutitsu has an academy there when you decide like

0:39.2

where you're gonna live when you decide where you're gonna like decide to spend all your

0:42.4

time like do you ever go when you decide where you're going to like decide to spend all your time.

0:43.0

Like do you ever go what the fuck am I doing in the middle of nowhere in Arizona?

0:48.0

I'm maintaining peace of mind and I remind myself of that right away. So that's like essential, it's planned out in the sense. Yeah,

0:56.9

just that that isolation a little bit just to be able to unplug and reset I think just my introvert nature I need I need that time I need that I need that

1:06.0

introspection I need that moment yeah because for you you are kind of an introvert but

1:10.6

you're also kind of an extrovert I mean you're the lead singer of

1:14.4

tool I mean it's not like I mean you can only be so introverted

1:20.3

and do what you do so you have to kind of like fluctuate between

1:23.6

balance but I need to recharge I need to unplug and go back and recharge and then I can

1:27.4

go back out and do that a lot of people never figure that out right they just

1:30.6

kind of burn they burn the fuck out How did you figure out to not do that?

1:37.6

First couple years of being in LA, realize it was just such an energy sap. I needed to actually literally go someplace where there were very few people.

1:46.0

Yeah, that's the move, right? God, I always keep thinking I should do that.

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