Peter Berg is a writer, director, and producer. His latest project is the Netflix series "American Primeval." https://www.netflix.com/title/81457507 Save $20 on your first subscription of AG1 at drinkag1.com/joerogan 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/rogan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are Peter Berg's thoughts on fitness and workouts?
Thanks for the workout. My pleasure. Thanks for the work. You're a beast. For anyone that doesn't know, you are a fucking beast. And I suspected you would be. You know, that's why I wanted to work out. And I was smart enough. And I told you right away, I'm not going to keep up with you. But, man, you go hard.
You did a lot of the things, though. You did all the stuff, you know, like in stuff that you'd never done before, like windmills and stuff. Yeah, those windmills were like, you could really get in trouble with the windmill. Yeah. For people that don't know what that is. You certainly can with heavy weight. Yeah.
But all those things, like the push-ups and bodyweight squats, it's all just you have to build to it.
I love the way you warm up, you know, because I'm the same way. I do a long warm-up every day. And my buddy Ari got me into it and just try and stretch absolutely everything. And I was telling you, I got thrown off a horse in Africa a month ago.
And when I was in the process of getting thrown off and I was like in the middle of the air and I'm about to come down and I'm like, oh shit, this is going to be a problem. And I thought about those warmups and I landed and rolled and didn't hurt myself. So I think those are really smart.
Yeah, if we could just appreciate when your body works well without having to be injured, it would be so nice. Right. Because you really only think about your body heals when you get injured. If you get fucked up, then you think, God, I can't wait to get healthy again. But if you just appreciate, and the best way to appreciate your body working well is to keep it working well. Yeah, man.
Is to work on it. Like stretch out, work out, lift weights, get some cardio in. Do the stuff that's uncomfortable, like stretching. I like that you started off your workout with a nice long stretch. We had a good stretch.
Yeah. And a good ice bath, man.
Yours is colder than mine. That blue cube is brutal because it's always running. It's like a flowing river.
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Chapter 2: How was the Netflix series 'American Primeval' created?
I've heard it.
It's such a great quote. And it just sits on his laptop. And I love it. I love that. It's so true. And I just write.
I just write. But when you're writing, because I was just watching you as you were speaking, you were looking up at the sky for an idea. Do you think about your writing intellectually Okay, I'm thinking this thought, okay, I'm going to write it down. Or are your hands on the keyboard and you're just channeling? It's both.
You know, sometimes I'm just sitting there thinking about it before I write or in the middle of writing. Like, am I correct? Is this how I'm looking at this? Or am I trying to force this? And then I also write on a computer that is not connected to any apps. It doesn't have anything on it. The only thing it has on it is it has, it's a think pad.
So it has a- So you can't distract yourself. Right.
I am allowed to Google things to find out if something's correct. That's it. I've never, I don't go to websites. I don't look at it. This laptop is just for writing. It's connected to the internet, which is a tricky thing, but there's a rule. So my home computer, there's no rules. I might watch YouTube videos. I might fucking watch a little Netflix. It's iMac, so it's big screen.
I might do all kinds of stuff on that computer. But when I'm writing, my laptop is only for writing. And so I don't allow myself. There's no TikTok. There's no Instagram. There's no nothing. I don't ever look at anything else. I just write. And I use the browser. I use fucking Bing, which is like who searches shit on Bing? You know, it's good enough to find out what's real and what's not real.
That's the only time I use it. That's it.
And do you experience euphoria when you're writing on occasion? Do you blow your mind?
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Chapter 3: What inspired Peter Berg to create a realistic Wild West series?
Look at this. Look at the hitting. It's just fucking nuts. Shh, shh, shh, shh. And I'm sure a lot of head to head collisions, too. So I went to this practice of one of these teams just got back and they were and I brought in American football. And I'm like, do you guys have any idea? And they're like, zero. I'm like, come on. You sort of have to know something. And they're like, zero.
So I get they just know nothing. Like, how much cricket do you know? Zero. Okay, if I had to gun your head and said one rule of cricket, could you do it? No. Could you do it? No, you couldn't.
Cricket, do you understand? The ball's got to stay in, I think. I've seen them try to throw it back in.
Stay in to what? The ball has to stay in to what? The pitch. We don't know shit. Do you understand how fucking popular cricket is? Gigantic. Bigger than football. Huge. Go to India or Sri Lanka. These people go nuts. In Australia... They have 100,000 people stadiums for Aussie rules football. So I go and I'm like, you know, I'm meeting these guys. And these guys I think are big stars.
I don't know them. But, you know, this is a major Aussie rules football team. And I got the football. And so I line them up, 11 against 11. And they're really kind of starting to get into it. And they're lined up, center, guards, tackles, ends. And I'm like, all right. So what do you think? They're like, yeah, we don't like it. I go, well, let me help. Tell me what this does for you.
All right, you're the center. If you were doing this in American football, you'd be making $6 million to $7 million a year. You're the tackle on blindside. You're making $40 million a year protecting Patrick Mahomes. Okay, you're Patrick Mahomes. And I'm telling them how much money they would make because these guys make no money. There's no money in it. Which is crazy. Crazy.
And then they have, do you know tall poppy syndrome? Have you heard of this? Yes. There's no ego. These guys, they're huge. They're members of these super successful teams, but they don't have the ego of American athletes. And they don't get the attention. And it's tall poppy syndrome. They're culturally conditioned to not brag and to not boast and to be humble. And I don't know.
They like to see people get knocked down when they get too big. Yeah, for sure. That's tall poppy syndrome. The tall poppy gets its head cut off, so they stay humble, which I kind of thought was kind of cool, just realizing that I was hanging out with the captain of an Aussie rules team. And I had dinner with the captain of the New Zealand All Blacks, the rugby team.
And this guy, this was a little while ago, a couple of years ago, this guy in America, I mean, you know, the all blacks, like the most popular rugby team and the most humble dude ever. And you go to a restaurant and nobody bothers him. He, you know, no security, no nothing. We don't – that would never exist here.
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