Joe Rogan, Roger Avary, and Quentin Tarantino dive into covert assassinations, exploring coffee’s unique role as silent weapon

The legendary Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino recently appeared in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. With him, his frequent screenwriting partner, Roger Avary, discussed various topics with the UFC commentator. Tarantino and Avary wrote the script for the Academy Award-winning film Pulp Fiction.

Right off the bat, Avary and Tarantino came with their wild stories. Avary recalled meeting a covert assassin with the call-sign "Mikey" named after Michael the Archangel. Mikey let the Silent Hill writer in on a few unique ways to assassinate someone without leaving a trace.

Avary said:

"I think the best one is you inject someone with coffee. Caffeine. Just inject coffee into their bloodstream. Gives them a heart attack, and it's untraceable. Later on, they do an autopsy, and they just discover caffeine in your system. That's it. Sometimes the simple ones are the best."

Upon learning this, Rogan said:

That's it? Just right into the blood, coffee, it can kill you?

Quentin Tarantino provided an exclamation point by saying:

"Just right into the jugular with a syringe."

Check out the full episode featuring Quentin Tarantino below (for quotes 2:00):

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Quentin Tarantino and Joe Rogan on movies

The podcast went from full gear to absolute overdrive when the conversation started getting onto the topic of the film. Avary and Tarantino are two of the most legendary names in film history, so, unsurprisingly, they'd be passionate about their craft. Quentin Tarantino was in his usual fast-talking voice when the topic hovered over films he loves, but everyone hates.

The topic came to light when Joe Rogan jokingly told Tarantino that he might be wrong about the sequel of Joker, which the Oscar-winning director loved but was panned by critics and fans. Joe Rogan then asked the Kill Bill director what are the other films he loved that everybody hated.

Check out the full episode featuring Quentin Tarantino's comments below (2:23:20):

"There's I have a ton of those. As a matter of fact, I have so many. But when I was younger, particularly I was the champion of like, the movie that everyone [and] all the critics put down and said was 'the fiasco' and I wanted to defend it."

Tarantino then named some "bad" films in the past that he didn't just defend, but defended. He named films like Ishtar, 1941, Waterworld, and even the 1995 erotic drama Showgirls - a film Joe Rogan admitted to being "so bad it's good".

The two then hammered their point home by saying that Showgirls, no matter how bad it was made, was an opportunity for them to see zany, low-budget ideas done on eight-figure budgets.