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March 13, 2013 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #338 - Shane Smith
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unidentified
Meow.
joe rogan
Hello, freaks.
Are we on?
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It doesn't show to me.
Silly Ustream.
unidentified
What the fuck is going on, ladies and gentlemen?
joe rogan
Yeah!
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This Thursday night in San Diego, California.
That's tomorrow.
Yeah, right?
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow night, Brian is going to be at the American Comedy Company with a bunch of really funny guys that are friends of ours, like Tony Hinchcliffe, who's fucking hilarious.
Really one of my favorite young guys coming up.
Jason Tebow, an awesome dude.
A very, very funny comic, too.
Billy Balnell, another very funny comic, and Yoshi.
So you guys have a hell of a show, and it's one of the coolest clubs in Southern California, that American Comedy Company.
It's a sweet little spot down in San Diego.
All right, if you listen to this and you're in L.A., we've got a show tonight at the Pasadena Ice House.
It's Ari Shafir, Ian Edwards, and me, and it's going to be at 10 o'clock.
So that's...
It's only a few hours for now, alright you fucks?
Shane Smith's here, and we're fixing to get busy.
We're gonna get jiggy with it.
We're gonna throw it up.
We're gonna put it down.
shane smith
I would just like to say whatever powders...
joe rogan
What is this?
shane smith
It starts already.
joe rogan
Play the music.
unidentified
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
joe rogan
Shane Smith, ladies and gentlemen, the powerful Shane Smith of Vice.com, one of my favorite human beings from the face of the earth.
And you are here, sir.
It is a pleasure.
shane smith
Thank you.
I was just going to say, whatever powders and supplements you're selling, I'm buying because you're fucking jacked.
joe rogan
Holy shit, dude.
Looking very sexy, right?
shane smith
Holy shit.
I've got to get some fucking kettlebells.
joe rogan
Get some, son.
I was telling you, I haven't done jujitsu in several months because of my back.
I've never felt better.
It's amazing.
Taking time off jujitsu just does the body great.
It's so brutal.
It breaks you down.
Everybody who does it is always walking around like, ah, something.
Elbow, your knee's fucked up, your ankle jacked, your should have tapped, your wrist is fucked up.
Everywhere you go.
It's so much fun to do it.
People, like, sort of sacrifice parts of their body up to a certain point.
The spine is a real issue, though.
That's a scary one.
shane smith
Right.
joe rogan
You know, back issues.
shane smith
How's your spine?
joe rogan
It's fine.
It's just a minor bulge, and it's getting better through doing this disc decompression therapy where they hook you up to a machine, and it's like this slow pulling and pushing where it slowly, like, separates your spine.
Right now it's only, like, 19 pounds, which sounds like a lot, but it doesn't feel like anything.
brian redban
Backtalk is so hot right now.
unidentified
It's hot.
joe rogan
Doing a lot of backtalk lately.
Yeah.
I don't know why, man.
It's on my mind.
brian redban
No, I fucked up my back, but supposedly the bottom left is fucking killing me.
It's either my intestines or there's something wrong with my back.
joe rogan
You got AIDS, son.
Yeah, it might be AIDS. That's where AIDS starts.
It starts right there.
Fuck you, RubMaps.
You know, Boss Rootin scared the shit out of me the other day.
That scared the shit out of me.
His arms scared the shit out of me.
Boss has had two neck surgeries, and he's not getting signals to his right arm.
So his right arm is shriveled up, and they just recently fused three of the discs in his neck.
So this is a second surgery he's had on his neck, and then the other day his arm failed on him, so there's another blockage, so they have to go in and figure out where the nerves are blocked.
That's scary shit.
brian redban
He couldn't pick up a gallon of milk, that's how bad it was.
shane smith
I have a friend of mine who, I have a place in Costa Rica, a little surf shack, and he went over on a wave and broke his neck in the water.
And about three years ago, I, in the exact same place, went over, came up, rubbed my face off on the bottom, and my neck hurt.
I went in to get a CAT scan.
They're like, yeah, you have a hairline fracture.
You broke your neck three years ago.
And I've just been walking around going, yeah, my neck's a bit stiff.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Dude, how badass are you?
shane smith
No, it's actually fucking stupid.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fucking stupid.
shane smith
I was sitting there for like four months going, yeah, I can't really move it, but you know.
joe rogan
Whatever.
I'm not a pussy.
Just walking around with a broken neck.
shane smith
Well, the other thing is I would use your fucking kettlebells, but I have a huge journey.
Oh, do you really?
This could just be talking about all of our...
I have a helmet-headed flesh-eating parasite in my colon.
joe rogan
What?
unidentified
What?
From where?
shane smith
Well, I was supposed to get my hernia.
joe rogan
You're like, yeah.
shane smith
No, I was supposed to get my hernia fixed, right?
And so I was scheduled for surgery to get my hernia fixed.
And then I went to a tropical disease doctor and they're like, no, no, no, no, no.
If they push on that hernia, you've got a fucker living in your bowels.
And if you push it onto it, it'll perforate your bowels and you could die because this fucker's wedged in there eating your flesh.
joe rogan
Whoa!
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
Whoa!
There's something alive inside of you?
shane smith
Well, not anymore.
I took lots of pills.
joe rogan
But it's like alien.
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
How big was it?
shane smith
I'm going to be honest.
I didn't look at my shit for three weeks because I was like, I didn't want to see the fucker come out.
joe rogan
What?
Why wouldn't you want to know what that looks like?
You've been all over the world.
You've been to Karachi.
unidentified
You've been to the Congo.
shane smith
You say that, but these things would make me not want to fucking go anywhere else ever again.
joe rogan
There's not a fucking army of humans that can keep me from looking at that shit.
I would have to know what that fucking thing growing in my body looks like.
shane smith
You would not go anywhere else.
joe rogan
Man, that's so scary.
That's one of those things about that show.
What is that show?
The Hidden Enemy or something like that where people get parasites.
Oh, man.
I forget the name of it.
brian redban
I wouldn't want to see it either because you can't unsee that.
unidentified
That shit will be in your veins.
joe rogan
You don't want to unsee it.
I don't want to unsee it, man.
shane smith
Also, every time you go to anywhere and have a glass of water or eat anything, you're just thinking, fuck, I just got another one of those fuckers in my colon.
joe rogan
Oh my god!
shane smith
Can you test for this?
unidentified
I feel like I've had a million of these.
shane smith
You should go.
unidentified
No, because I had bad sushi once and for like two months my stomach was fucked up and I had to poop in all these things.
shane smith
You should go because you get a Roto-Rooter go up there and usually there's some amoebas or there's some shit going on there.
This one's an extra special.
joe rogan
Are you allowed to beat off while they're doing this?
As if you were just listening.
shane smith
Well, the doctor is about 90 years old.
joe rogan
Maybe they won't even notice.
shane smith
Have you been to Redmaps?
They might have this on there.
It was apparently quite a special parasite.
So I didn't want to see it.
joe rogan
Large?
shane smith
Large and they look bad.
They look like an alien inside.
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
Like the alien, the alien, right?
Like the fucking H.G. Geiger?
H.R. Geiger?
Oh my god.
Dude!
What the fuck?
shane smith
Well, you know you're getting old when you're like, I can't get my hernia operated on because the fucking parasites are too big.
joe rogan
No, no.
That's not you know you're getting old.
You know you've eaten food cooked on the side of the road in the strangest parts of the world.
It's actually kind of amazing that you're as healthy as you are when you consider all the different nutty places that you've gone.
shane smith
You're fucking healthy as shit.
I'm fairly healthy.
joe rogan
Let's not blow each other.
The idea of eating food at all these different places, did it ever bother you before you had this parasite?
shane smith
You know, stupidly, I eat street meat, I eat fucking, you know.
joe rogan
Well, if they're doing it, you'll do it, right?
shane smith
They're kebabs in Afghanistan, they're delicious, you know.
joe rogan
And what are they?
Who knows, right?
shane smith
Well, who knows what's in it?
I remember somebody said to me, the first time I went to Afghanistan, they're like, whatever you do, don't drink the green tea, because they give you green tea everywhere you go.
But the problem is, if you refuse the green tea, it's sort of like an affront.
Right.
joe rogan
Why would you not drink the green tea?
shane smith
Because the water.
The water is very bad.
And maybe they didn't boil it.
Oh!
And so it's very, very bad for you.
But if you say no, it's like saying fuck you.
joe rogan
Right, right.
You gotta teach those savages about boiling water.
So listen, listen, listen.
Be friends here.
We can be friends here.
shane smith
Who knows what it is.
joe rogan
But I need to see how you motherfuckers make your tea.
shane smith
Basically.
It's the same thing like when I was in Sudan.
They give you these drinks, like pomegranate juice.
But they've just added water to it.
It's really bad to say no.
And you're just like, I can't say yes to anything.
joe rogan
And then explosive diarrhea?
Is that what it is?
shane smith
Or is it worse?
The tweets that I get the most response are like Shane's Law, which is the more you need a toilet, the ratio is directly proportionate to how bad that toilet will be.
So for example, when you have explosive diarrhea, In West Africa, guess what?
That toilet is just arcing ropes of shit and piss and fucking blood everywhere.
Whereas in Sweden, when you're having one lovely, beautiful log and then one white wonder, you have perfect, beautiful, clean toilets that smell of jasmine.
And so it's literally like Murphy's Law, Shane's Law.
How bad you need to take a shit is directly proportionate to how bad that toilet's going to be.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, those truck stop toilets.
Those ones you go in.
shane smith
Truck stop toilets in West Africa.
joe rogan
Oh, what it must be like.
Just holes in the ground, right?
shane smith
Well, actually, they're so bad, you can't actually get...
I personally can't even get into the room, so I'll go outside into the bushes.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
People are so fucking gross.
At our lowest level, we're so disgusting.
When you're at a concert, you go to a porter potty, and there's this giant line of people shitting into a bucket of blue water.
shane smith
Shitting, pissing, fucking...
joe rogan
And just a bucket of blue water.
We're all pretending it's okay.
And as we walk up, we're dry heaving.
shane smith
You would have figured with all of our technology, we could have figured out something better.
The only guys who really got it sussed are the Japanese because they have music and fragrances and sprays and heated rings.
And they're really into their sort of pleasure shitting.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They truly are.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But the people that have to shit into a hole in the ground.
shane smith
Well, a hole in the ground would be better than a toilet that's just fucking overflowing.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's true.
shane smith
Shit that's been baking in the sun.
unidentified
Having shy ones.
joe rogan
As long as it's a nice deep hole.
But then you worry about losing your watch, you know, like some freak accident.
shane smith
I don't know what you're doing down there.
You're watching.
joe rogan
Some freak wiping accident.
You hit a root near the hole.
unidentified
Or it's one of those sinkholes.
joe rogan
Because you think it's so wet all the time.
That's a very good point.
Very good point.
That fucking sinkhole thing in Florida freaked me out.
That scared the shit out of me.
That's a terrifying thing.
Their fucking house just, a hole opened up underneath it.
And apparently it happens so often in Florida that you have to get insurance for it if you have homeowner's insurance.
unidentified
Wow.
What?
brian redban
That's a good horror movie.
joe rogan
That's a crazy place to live, man.
That is the craziest place to live.
shane smith
There's a big slum in Mexico that was built on a dump.
And the reason why it was a dump was because magically, if you put your garbage there, it would disappear.
Oh no!
Because it was a swamp.
Oh no!
And so they kept just sort of dumping stuff and then as the garbage got higher they sort of started building houses on it.
unidentified
No!
shane smith
But now like 100,000 people live there.
It's like a city but it's built on garbage on the dump.
But the garbage was in a sinkhole.
So every once in a while, they won't just have one or two houses.
They'll have like ten houses just go...
unidentified
Oh, Jesus Christ, just fall through the earth.
shane smith
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's weird how weird and uniform the holes look.
Have you seen?
shane smith
Yeah, how it's seen.
joe rogan
Brian, pull up some of the photos because you can't believe it.
I think the big one was in Guatemala where it started swallowing up entire blocks.
shane smith
Right.
joe rogan
It's insane.
It just doesn't look real.
It looks like a horror movie.
It's like all of a sudden where your house is is a cliff going down.
And everyone's walking around the edges looking down, not knowing when it's going to expand, if it's going to expand, if it's going to stay that way permanently.
unidentified
Look at that!
Look at that!
Dude!
Come on!
joe rogan
That looks like a fucking meteor came from the moon and slammed into the earth.
shane smith
We went to one of those in Libya where they actually have like cars or whatever, junk cars, and they throw it in because you can't hear it land.
It's so deep.
That you can't hear it land.
So it's like a thing.
It's like, oh, you're here?
Let's go throw something into the bottomless pit.
joe rogan
How could they stand near that thing?
How could they be sure that's stable now?
shane smith
I went there.
We threw like some, I don't know, metal rods or whatever.
We listened.
And you literally can't hear it hit.
That's how deep it is.
joe rogan
My balls hurt with you just saying that.
My balls started hurting.
My ass started crumbling and I'm squeezing my toes.
What the fuck, man?
Why does that happen?
They don't know, right?
They're not entirely sure.
Is that the case?
There's a variety of factors.
unidentified
Aliens land in it, and then they call it a sinkhole.
shane smith
I think it's alluvial clay.
A lot of cities are built beside rivers, and those rivers used to be bigger.
And so there's this alluvial clay, which is unstable, and it just sinks down.
joe rogan
But it sinks down like 100, 200 feet sometimes.
What the fuck, man?
shane smith
There's a big one there, yeah.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
unidentified
At least you can see the bottom of that one.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's scary.
But look, all those people standing over there.
What the fuck are they doing anywhere near that thing?
Who knows what's going to happen?
All around that could just fall apart.
shane smith
You're a real morbid dude.
joe rogan
Well, just when it comes to the earth swallowing you, yeah.
You know, there's spots where that never happens.
I say go to those spots.
shane smith
But you live in L.A., I mean.
joe rogan
What a little shake, a little rock and roll.
We'll be fine.
This shit never happens out here.
Oh, look at that city.
It's just a big hole in it.
Now that I said it never happens, you know it's coming.
shane smith
That's a pretty...
unidentified
Oh, God.
joe rogan
And people are going to blame me.
Wow, look at that hole.
Holy fuck.
Yeah, you know, single-floor dwelling, very important.
A good move if you can afford it.
I think that's really the safest thing.
And make sure your house is up to code.
shane smith
I think you've got to build it into, like, a mountainside, like Dr. No.
joe rogan
It's very possible your shit's going to get fucked up.
It's really all about staying alive.
And you've got to think, really, realistically, you've got to think, if you live here, it's very possible that every couple decades or so, The fucking earth cracks the foundation of your house.
Plumbing is spraying water into the street and it powers out for a month.
You've got to be willing to accept that that's possible.
shane smith
Are you a prepper?
joe rogan
No.
I'm prepared slightly.
I'm prepared for a few months of bullshit.
But I'm not stocking dried meat or anything nutty.
I just think that there's no way that with all the possibilities of natural disasters that we really don't take into consideration because the extent of our history, of what we really know about what's taking place on the earth, and the amount of devastation that can occur over an enormous period of time,
billions and billions of years, where all these unique events, which have been documented throughout history, where They're just starting to understand what caused certain geographic features and what kind of cataclysmic effect that must have had.
shane smith
There's meteorites blowing up over Russia right now, and we missed two after that.
I would say I'm not a prepper, but I will say this.
You know, in northern Canada, they have these millions and millions of lakes with fresh waters, nobody on them, nobody can get to them, all these things.
And you're like, if you have a few bucks stashed away, and you can build a cottage on one of these fuckers with pure water, you'd be stupid not to because if shit goes down, And you've got this lake and this thing and it's hard to get to and all this stuff, then you can get the fuck up there.
It's like hedging your bets.
You're just hedging your bets.
And the only problem with it is, if shit does go down, how the fuck you get up there.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the issue.
Well, I think you should have a little bit of food at your house and you should also try growing your food if you can.
Even if you have a small patch in your backyard, you'd be amazed what you could do with, like, pots.
You know, we started growing our stuff in pots, you know, just like large pots.
And you can grow, like, big vegetable plants.
You can get a lot of vegetables just from your garden.
shane smith
Well, we were just...
We were doing this story on the world is sinking.
You know, we went to the Maldives, we went to Venice, we went to Greenland, and then we were in New York City, and I actually interviewed the deputy mayor, and I said, you know, Sandy hit, and it was bad, but, you know...
It was pretty fucking bad.
I was outside of my house, waist high in water.
joe rogan
Well, you had a video of you standing outside.
Me, waist high in water.
Was it by the Hudson?
shane smith
Yeah, right by my house.
joe rogan
Dead rats are just floating by.
shane smith
Hundreds of rats are shooting by.
But in a current...
joe rogan
Can you pull that video up?
shane smith
Because the image is insane.
What should I search for?
unidentified
Rats.
joe rogan
What is the video?
What was the name of it?
shane smith
Well, that's for the HBO show, so we haven't released it yet.
joe rogan
But you showed it to me.
shane smith
Yeah, I showed it to you.
joe rogan
Yeah, you son of a bitch.
We can't put it online?
We can't show the people?
What about the people, the good people out there?
The folks that are not privileged?
shane smith
But yeah, the Hudson went to West Broadway, and I was sitting there doing a stand-up, and all these rats are going by and whatever.
But the thing that's interesting about New York was...
That it fucked shit up pretty bad.
But the fact is, there was no gas.
You couldn't get gas.
It was like lineups to get gas.
The whole city was sort of shut down gas-wise.
People were trying to get out.
And then you realize, we're like one centimeter away from everything fucking collapsing.
joe rogan
Yes.
shane smith
Because you're like, oh, sir, I got my fucking bolt hole up in Canada on the lake that's stocked with shotguns and dried meat and fucking peas and seeds.
And then you're like, how the fuck am I going to get there when there's no goddamn gas?
And by the way, you can't get out the bridges and you can't get out the tunnels.
The tunnels are fucking flooded.
And at that point, you're sort of saying, well, I don't know what you're prepping for, but if something bad, like really cataclysmic happens, we're fucked.
So in the meantime, have some fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, have some fun is good.
Be nice.
That's good, too.
So that when the shit hits the fan, people want to show you where their basement is with their canned tomatoes.
You know?
You could develop a real sense of community.
It would actually be kind of something refreshing if you could actually ensure that you weren't going to get attacked by roving hordes of outlaws that had given up on society and started robbing people.
But if we could...
You know, if we had something to, not necessarily something that kills a bunch of people, but something that gets everybody scared enough to bond together.
shane smith
We're really getting dark.
joe rogan
No, it's not even getting dark, man!
shane smith
We're like, we went from zero to 60 here.
joe rogan
Brother, I don't even think it's getting dark.
I really don't.
Brother, let me tell you.
I don't think it's getting dark.
shane smith
But that's how it used to be.
It used to be communities banded together to defend themselves from everybody else who's trying to fuck them up.
That's the history of mankind.
That's why we're fighting all the time.
There's only a certain amount of carrots, and they're trying to get your carrots, and you've got to defend your carrots so your kids can eat.
So it was a continual warfare, and it was the community all supporting each other.
joe rogan
That's also why we have this tremendous desire to be around each other, this tremendous desire for community, for fellowship.
shane smith
Exactly.
joe rogan
It's a part of our DNA. That's why one of the worst things a person can be punished with is solitary confinement.
shane smith
That's exactly right.
joe rogan
Drives them nuts.
shane smith
It literally drives them nuts.
joe rogan
It literally drives them nuts.
I said it just like you, because you're Canadian, and I wanted to be proper.
There's a horrific thing that happens to the mind when it's tortured without human contact.
You long for it.
Because we really are not individuals.
We're fibbers.
We pretend that we're rugged individuals so that we push forward an ego and a legacy and conquer and all that nonsense.
But at the end of the day, you must be around other people.
shane smith
That's true.
The worst...
joe rogan
I'm sorry.
shane smith
There you go.
joe rogan
No, please.
You know, I said it already.
I'm verbose.
shane smith
Well, my thing is, you know, we're a learned species.
We learn most things, but we are hardwired for three basic things, which is survive, which is why people commit suicide, they figure are crazy, because you're going against your hardwiring.
So it's survive, procreate, right?
So we're hardwired to procreate, and then protect the progeny.
So at the end, you sit there and say, okay, if you're talking about protect the progeny, history makes sense.
Because that means, if you're in these villages, everyone's sort of intermingled.
You know, like your cousin and me, and we're, and everybody, all the kids are there, and they're all playing.
So then you would fight to the death to protect the progeny, because that's hardwired into our spinal fucking column. - Right. - So that's why we have this innate desire to form these communities and to protect these communities.
- Yeah. - And that's been the history of humankind, and it's only when sort of the nation state came and sort of had these supranational entities guaranteed security theoretically that politics in the modern form started.
But before that, it was just about, we're gonna protect our village.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think if we could figure out how to truly recognize that all people that can speak English and that can follow a certain ethic, just to be cool to people and just be friendly and be nice to people, just that attitude alone,
if that is possible to change, if it's possible to heal people psychologically enough to where they don't lash out at others, like for whatever reason, for their own mistakes, for their own I mean, I think we're literally that close to it.
The number one thing that was missing throughout all of human history was the ability for all of us, all of us to have a say, all of us to be able to express ourselves, all of us to connect, all of us to figure out how to get information with no boundaries as far as countries and time-limp zones and internet connections.
It's so free now.
That I feel like there's never been a time like this before where people might have a chance of taking a step back.
It's just overcoming the amount of momentum that's behind it as far as tradition and government and rules and regulations and how we've always done things.
But if we could just relax, if everybody could just relax and understand that there's no secrets anymore as far as Where the oil comes from or where the money goes.
Everybody can prosper.
There can be a way where instead of being insanely overbalanced, where the money is going to these foreign banks and all this crazy shit, You guys would be happier too, you super rich guys, if you had less money but no evil karma to go with it.
I'm not you, I'm talking about banker type characters.
If you're a banker and you're one of those evil cunts that has a house in the Hamptons and you have these people that are around you all the time and you've made a billion dollars by finagling your way through Wall Street and you're just this maniacal Gordon Gekko type character, you failed.
You got into a crazy game, and you sort of decided that the numbers were more important than people.
And somehow, somewhere along the line, you figured out a way to manipulate it to the point where you're like...
What was his name?
The dude, Bernie Madoff?
Bernie Madoff?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, you're Bernie Madoff.
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
Where you don't give a fuck.
You're just stealing money from the system.
Well, I... Pulling it out.
shane smith
I definitely agree with you that, look, it's all within our own...
I think somewhere along the line, we forgot that it's in our power to do shit.
joe rogan
Yes.
shane smith
It's up to us to do shit.
And I think that humans generally are capable of incredibly...
I mean, you see heroes every day and incredibly sort of heroic feats and communities sticking together and humanity sticking together and all this stuff.
We're also, sadly...
can fucking possibly imagine.
And the problem that I have with what we're doing at Vice now with our news and what we're doing with the HBO show is, you know, we're going out into the world and we're seeing all this shit and you're like, holy fuck, we're fucking, we can do some really, really bad shit.
And I think that as people do bad shit, it collectively brings humanity down.
When you're using children 6, 7, 8 years old to be suicide bombers or assassins, that's collectively bringing humanity down.
And I believe what we have to do is we have to stomp that up.
We cannot let that fucking go on.
Because of modern day politics, what happens is these kinds of heinous crimes are being perpetrated all the time now.
And it's detrimental to humanity as a whole.
joe rogan
Unquestionably.
I think no one can argue that.
The real question is how to go about doing it.
And is the threat of that, is it...
Is it cultivated?
shane smith
You can't do it militarily.
That's the problem, because it's like apocalypse now, right?
And they're like, you know, we went in and inoculated, this is fiction, by the way, but we went in and inoculated the arms, and then the, you know, the Viet Cong came in and cut the arms off, and they're like, you know, Kurtz, when he's going crazy, is saying, you know, how are we going to win against that?
These are the kinds of things that we are capable of.
These are the kinds of things that are happening today.
joe rogan
That's fiction?
shane smith
Well, I mean, it's fiction within the movie, but the reason why I brought it up is when I was interviewing the Taliban and they were telling me about that they were going to continue to use child suicide bombers, all I could think of was this quote from the movie of, if they're going to cut off the arms of their own children because they were inoculized by the Americans, then how can we win against that?
And I was thinking, if they're going to send their own kids to be suicide bombers, then how are we going to win against that?
You definitely can't do it militarily because then it's just one-upmanship.
Who can be worse?
Who can fuck the other guy up the most?
And you know about this in any kind of street fight.
Okay, well, you're beating me with fists and I'll use a bottle.
Or you're using a bottle, I'll use a knife.
Or you're using a knife, I'll use a gun.
joe rogan
Well, that's why I always tell people, like, avoid conflict at all costs, always, because first of all, I don't want to be mad at anybody.
shane smith
Somebody's going to be crazier than you, too.
joe rogan
Yes, and well, not only that, nobody likes it when you kick their ass.
It's not like they forget that.
No, they make you their sworn enemy, and they want to come back and get you.
And a lot of times, those situations where you make an enemy for life could have been avoided if you went out of your way to be, whatever, more apologetic, friendly, or nicer, understand his point of view, and then he probably would concede a little bit too, and then maybe you could get a drink, and then maybe you could be friends.
I mean, there's a lot of moments like that in life where it could go one way when you get in a fistfight with someone that was totally avoidable, but...
Maybe you were in a shit mood because your girlfriend just dumped you or maybe he said something that he wished he didn't say but he's fucking 22 and you say stupid shit and you don't even really mean it.
You don't even know what the fuck you're doing.
You're just making noise with your mouth and practicing being a person.
And next thing you know, you've got an enemy for life.
shane smith
Yeah, the other thing is, you know, it's a game where psychopaths win.
joe rogan
And it pays to be a psychopath in those situations.
shane smith
Well, because, you know, you see guys who are going out there and, you know, you're going to have a fistfight in the back alley.
And then, you know, I was in a place one time where there was a fistfight and a guy sucked out a guy's eyeball and then just tore it out with his teeth.
Oh, my God.
Because he's a psychopath.
And you sit there and go, well, there's always going to be somebody willing to take it to the next level.
Yeah.
You saw that?
It was in the place where I was.
I saw the aftermath of it.
Actually, it's a famous, what they call firms in the UK, football hooligans.
It was a hooligan move where they pound you and they suck your eyeball.
Oh my god.
It's a move that they use.
joe rogan
In a football match.
shane smith
In the fighting of the firm.
So like if you're Manchester United versus Manchester City and they hate each other, they have these fights.
joe rogan
Jesus fucking Christ.
How nutty are we, man, that people in England can't even get along with people in England?
shane smith
Well, that's the whole thing.
That goes back to the village mentality too, which is I'm from this village, I hate the other guy from that village.
joe rogan
There's some tough motherfuckers from the UK, man.
shane smith
There's some tough motherfuckers anywhere.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's all over the world.
But there's like a certain, like, there's a London toughness.
You know, there's a whole UK toughness.
shane smith
Well, it depends where you come from.
I always say the tougher...
Actually, the poorer the neighborhood, the tougher the fighter.
joe rogan
Often.
shane smith
Because they're fighting for fucking survival.
joe rogan
Do you remember Barry McGuigan?
shane smith
I remember fucking Roberto Durant.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
shane smith
Roberto Durant, because he wasn't as good.
He wasn't as Sugar Ray Leonard.
He was not as good of a fighter.
He was not as fast.
He didn't have the time.
But he had the heart, and he wanted to win, and he beat him.
And it went back and forth, obviously.
joe rogan
Well, he fucked up in the second fight.
He went from the first fight.
That Duran was an animal.
That was a street animal.
And his boxing was underrated.
He just had a very unconventional style.
He would paw with the left.
He didn't have a stiff left jab the way Leonard did.
Leonard would stick you.
Duran would paw with the jab to more of a range finder, but he was very clever, man.
By then he had already fought Ken Buchanan.
You ever watch that fight?
He was the original Andrew Gulotta.
He fucked up Ken Buchanan with low blows.
He blasted him right in the dick.
Duran was an animal, man.
shane smith
He was an animal.
joe rogan
There was a story where they had went to Panama once to interview him about something.
It was for Sports Illustrated or some shit.
And while these people were talking to him, he picked up a cat by the tail and threw it against a wall and smashed its head.
And they were like, whoa.
What the fuck?
That's very mean.
Like, he was just so...
He was savage.
I mean, he literally was a wild man.
I mean, he became eventually like a brilliant boxer as he developed as a man and after he went through the no-ma situation, you know?
For people who don't know, you don't follow boxing.
He quit in the second fight.
He beat Leonard in a really tough fight in the first fight.
Very close fight.
Really wild, amazing fight.
Even to this day, the standard of that fight is very, very high.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, you could picture the Duran of that era fighting, like, Floyd Mayweather and having an amazing fight.
It's not like looking at old football players or old mixed martial artists.
It was, like, really hotly contested.
Yeah, real high-level stuff.
And then the second fight, Duran got fat.
He had a hard time making the weight.
He apparently, like, struggled to make the weight and they ate, like, a big steak and a gallon of orange juice and got really sick.
unidentified
Really, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then there was also speculation that he was told to throw the fight, that the people had bet on it, but he looked terrible.
He just didn't look, and then he quit.
And then after he quit, man, fucking Latinos, all the people that supported him, all the Spanish-speaking world were so upset because he was this macho, fucking savage representative of everything.
I mean, he just quit for no reason.
He's like, no mas, no mas.
Like, nothing.
He's fine.
He's like, you know how much we fucking paid to watch this?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he was crushed for years and years.
And it was sad.
I watched him fight like, you know, it's like all of a sudden he just looked like this doughy version of who he used to be.
And then he came back and fought Davey Moore.
And if you remember that fight, he was a distinct underdog.
He was in his late 30s.
I think he was like 36. And in those days, back in that day, it was like, that was really fucking old.
Like 36, like Bernard Hopkins just won the title at 48. But in Duran's day, 36 was old as fuck.
But he boxed the shit out of Davey Moore.
And he thumbed him in the eye, more importantly.
He swole up one of his eyes, and he couldn't see.
And the kid just didn't, he never had overcome adversity like that.
Where he was in with a guy he really couldn't hurt.
The guy was just clever enough to get out of the way of all his shit.
And land a little bit, and a little bit more, and a little bit more.
And as the rounds progressed, he realized, oh my god, I'm getting beat up.
Put on them.
That was such a wild thing to see.
I love a guy that comes back.
I love a guy that's like his life's in the toilet and then he bounces back.
shane smith
Yeah, George Foreman.
joe rogan
George Foreman's a fascinating story.
shane smith
Fascinating.
joe rogan
I remember when he made his comeback.
He was 36 years old and he was over 330 pounds or something crazy like that.
Like, rotund.
shane smith
Yeah.
And it was a joke.
I love this fighting style which is sort of like a weeble wobble but we don't fall down.
He'd just sort of rock back and forth and he'd keep his left way out there like this because this was what was coming.
joe rogan
Yeah, all of it was coming.
He could knock you out with anything.
He had like hams for fists, that guy.
He was an incredible specimen.
shane smith
But he went into four years of heavy depression after the Ali fight.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a brutal fight for him.
First of all, he'd never encountered that kind of psychological warfare.
shane smith
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
When Ali was dancing and screaming to the cameras.
Have you seen the documentary on that, When We Were Kings?
Amazing, amazing documentary.
And if Ali had retired after that fight, maybe he'd still be around to talk about shit today.
Maybe we could have him on the podcast.
He hadn't really gotten to the point where...
His illness kicked in like it does now.
It's so sad to watch.
Like his later fights.
shane smith
Well, taking the beating that Foreman...
Actually, in the documentary, when they say he was taunting him, he was taunting him, and finally, Foreman just let him have it.
And then you saw the fear in Ali's eyes.
Then you saw, holy shit, what have I done here?
But then he lasted it through, and then...
You know, boom, came back.
joe rogan
That was just a will battle.
A battle in a rope-a-dope style.
Nobody saw that coming.
Against a guy like Foreman?
shane smith
And you see him hitting that heavy bag, just putting a hole in it.
You're taking that to the ribs, to the kidneys?
joe rogan
There's a guy named LeVar Johnson who fights in the UFC right now who's freakishly strong like that.
He's got that ridiculous kind of power.
He's a huge guy.
He's about 250 pounds.
I think he was 260 for his last fight.
And he fought Brendan Schaub, who just kept taking him down.
Brendan fought a real smart fight because he's just too dangerous standing up.
He just knocks out everybody.
He's so fucking powerful.
I mean, he's not the most technical guy in the sport, but for sure, he's one of the hardest punchers.
If he hits you, you're a And everybody's just scrambling to grab ahold of this guy and drag him to the ground as quickly as possible.
He's just got that thing.
And there's a few guys, like a George Foreman type guy, they just have that thing.
They can hit you way harder than you can hit them.
shane smith
Oh, Tyson.
Tyson, you know, everyone would watch for his right because he would knock you out and then he was knocking you out with his left.
joe rogan
Tyson had speed that just was unrivaled.
The ferocity and speed.
And the ruthlessness of it.
Like if you watch the Marvis-Fraser fight.
shane smith
Him and his prime.
Him and his prime.
When he was still up in Vermont.
joe rogan
Brian, pull up the Marvis-Fraser fight.
Pull up Mike Tyson versus Marvis-Fraser.
Because in my opinion, this was the scariest I've ever seen a human being be in my life.
I remember I was like...
I think I was probably like...
I was watching this at home on TV, and Tyson just destroyed Marvis Fraser in the most violent fight I had ever seen in a boxing match.
And I thought to myself back then, I was like, if there's one person that would be the most terrifying person to be encountered with, it would be Mike Tyson, that has ever lived.
Watch this fight.
I mean, he just...
Marvis Frazier was like a top heavyweight contender.
And Tyson just stepped to him and just started fucking blasting him.
Dodging under punches.
Got him in this corner right here.
And this is the end right here.
Wah-bing!
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
That's all before he can fall down.
He's already unconscious.
Tyson hits him four times more before he even gets to the ground.
It was like an assassination.
shane smith
Yeah.
When I was watching Tyson, I was like, no one's ever going to beat, not for ten years.
He ended up beating himself.
joe rogan
Well, you know what it is, man?
It's a bunch of things.
First of all, once you've gotten there, it's got to be a very strange and uncharted place in your mind and in your ability to maintain discipline.
He had been very protected.
shane smith
He'd been living in this.
joe rogan
Well, he's also 20-something years old.
shane smith
But he'd been trained.
He'd been taken out of Brownsville.
He'd been taken out of Reform School.
He'd been trained by one of the greatest trainers of all time.
You know, adopted effectively by him.
joe rogan
And more importantly, Customato was one of the greatest psychological trainers of all time.
shane smith
And he saw in him, he said, he's the greatest raw talent I've ever seen.
joe rogan
And he would, Customato would say things that to this day, there's, you can have a short, precise point that an athlete can digest and take with him as he steps out of the locker room and into the ring that actually can help.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And Customato said one of the most brilliant things that I've ever heard when it comes to being terrified in the face of combat and in the face of a fight.
And he said that every man experiences fire.
And that fire can cook your food, it can heat your house, or if you let it get away, it can burn you to the ground.
And you have to decide how to take care of it.
But the coward and the hero feel the exact same thing.
It's just the coward...
It falls into the pressure where the hero figures out how to manage it and overcome it and actually rises to the occasion and keeps it together.
So for Custom Mono, he had studied psychology and he had studied so many aspects that are crucial to success in that crazy, isolated type of a sport.
You've got a guy like Tyson who's this needy, young, energetic, physical specimen, just Just filled with anger and rage and not getting enough love.
And all of a sudden this Yoda motherfucker comes out of the Catskills.
shane smith
He was Yoda, yeah.
joe rogan
It's one of the greatest stories in sports history.
shane smith
It's sad the way it ended.
joe rogan
It isn't sad, man.
It's not sad.
He's alive.
He's fine.
Tyson's doing these story shows.
Dana White told me it's fucking fantastic.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He goes on and he tells these wild stories about his life, and Spike Lee directed it.
It's apparently amazing.
So it's not sad.
It's inevitable.
There's no way you can keep beating people up, and that's happy.
Because it's always sad for the people you beat up.
I mean, there is no happy ending if you beat the fuck out of people for the rest of your life.
There's no happy ending.
There's a bunch of sad endings.
There's your happy ending.
You're happy.
You get to retire undefeated.
Yay!
No, I never had to take it.
Dished it all out.
Good night, everybody.
Like Rocky Marciano.
It was the big deal that Rocky Marciano reached whatever it was, 46-0 or 39-0.
And everybody was like, Marciano was the only one to retire undefeated.
Well, that's almost unfair.
shane smith
Right, right.
joe rogan
It's almost unfair, you know?
shane smith
I'd like to retire undefeated.
unidentified
Not for my parasite eating your asshole.
joe rogan
I think, yeah, you lost that game.
You had to cheat.
You had to take performance enhancing drugs.
Your immune system wasn't able to fight off the alien.
You had to swallow poison.
I don't know, man.
I'm just talking shit.
brian redban
What was it like hunting in Japan?
unidentified
Weren't you hunting animals?
No, no, no.
joe rogan
You're confusing it.
Siberia.
They were in Chernobyl.
Yeah, we talked about that last time.
Yeah, the wolves.
They're freakish giant wolves out there.
shane smith
Yeah.
Well, they're mutated.
Mutated animals.
joe rogan
Is that true?
For real?
100%?
shane smith
100%.
joe rogan
What did they look like?
shane smith
Well, the mutations are mostly internal because the exclusion zone, which is a huge area, is radioactive and so they've undergone mutations.
I actually read something the other day saying I'm from Ukraine and there's all these horses out there and there aren't mutations.
We actually have the guys, the people who run the exclusion zone, admitting on camera Yes, they're mutated.
The scientists are saying they're mutated.
And of course they're mutated because they're growing up in a radioactive zone about the size of France.
But yeah, we went to hunt them.
The thing is, we had a Geiger counter with us.
And whenever you go off and they go into the forest, the forest, which is where all the dirt and everything is trapped, it would go off the register.
I mean, it was like...
I forget what it was, but it was like 400 mega rems or whatever was safe, and we got to 14,000 at one point.
Speaking of parasites, I'll take, but 1,400 times the healthy dose of radiation.
brian redban
Yeah, but you might have zombie parasites now.
shane smith
Radioactive parasites.
joe rogan
Have you seen the fish?
Have you seen the fish of Chernobyl, those videos of these enormous fish?
Brian, pull that up because it's really strange.
I mean, I don't know, maybe these fish, maybe I'm just ignorant and they're like sturgeons or something.
shane smith
If you look at now, too, if you look at what's happening in Japan, they have massive protests in Japan saying you have to stop nuclear energy.
Look at what the fuck happened in in Fukushima because you know we had a tsunami which we're gonna have more and more of but guess what now we have whole radioactive villages and you know radiation in the groundwater radiation all but radiation in the food What is that?
joe rogan
That's like a giant carp.
Is that a fish in Fukushima that's fucked up?
That's just a giant carp, dude.
shane smith
I think that's in...
joe rogan
If you Google radioactive fish of Chernobyl, there's a video where these people are by this river and these enormous fish.
I don't know what they are.
I mean, maybe it's just that's what they are.
Maybe it's like there's a lot of fish there and the people went there didn't know.
shane smith
When we were there, the people who run the actual zone were saying that the animals, they admitted the animals are mutated.
And so, well, of course they are.
I mean, why wouldn't they?
You have massive amounts of radiation.
How can they not be?
joe rogan
We had this dude, Scott Sigler, on the podcast yesterday, and he's an author, and he writes about shit like that, like a fucking island of mutated animals that are 650 pounds, and they're packed predators with fins.
So you're freaking me out right now, man.
You're freaking me out with these Siberian werewolf stories.
That would be an awesome movie, though, Siberian werewolf, because of the mutation.
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was like, you know, almost all of the like, like when you were a kid, but well, not all of them, but it was always a constant theme for superheroes.
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like David Banner became the Hulk.
It was Bruce Banner originally, but they thought that was too gay for television.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So they changed it to David when it was on television.
shane smith
It was always you came close to it, but just close enough.
joe rogan
The X-Men.
shane smith
The good shit would happen.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They would all get like some super power.
shane smith
As opposed to testicular cancer or fucking renal cancer.
joe rogan
Wasn't the Fantastic Four, like they got fucking blasted, something happened and they became super powerful?
We're so funny.
shane smith
Usually we're talking about politics.
We're like, how the hell did the Fantastic Four become so...
joe rogan
I've always liked the Fantastic Four, man.
I always liked comic books when I was a kid.
And that was such a big theme that somehow or another you would get into some encounter with massive amounts of radiation, but you would become a superhero.
And so every kid sort of looked at that like, wow, yeah, man.
shane smith
As opposed to, you know, what it does to you.
joe rogan
Bunnies being born with no arms or legs.
shane smith
Dude, it's...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Weird shit.
shane smith
Bad shit.
Bad, bad shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And you don't know, like, how is this all going to balance out?
How long is it going to take?
Because, by the way, life can sort of barely trudge on in an incredibly fucked up state of toxicity for several thousand years.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And, you know, eventually get to the point where it either figures out how to clean everything up or mutates to the point where you can tolerate it.
But it's not going to be fun, you know?
No.
It's avoidable, too.
shane smith
Well, when we interviewed the IAEA for our World's Most Dangerous Border piece, which I think we talked about here, India, Pakistan, and Kashmir, which actually the fort that we were based out of just got attacked yesterday, They said categorically that if you use more than 100 warheads, of which they have hundreds of warheads pointing at each other in Pakistan, that the world, as we know it, ceases to exist.
Everything is just, I mean, the ozone is gone.
It's over.
It's like, you know, the Planet of the Apes dudes who are living underground?
That's the type of shit that you're, you know, and you sit there and say, this is what's happening today is that India and Pakistan hating each other mean that, you know, we have the distinct possibility that Our ozone is gone or...
joe rogan
That one of these crazy fucks pushes the button.
shane smith
Exactly.
joe rogan
Well, then we have to hope that the aliens land and stop all that shit.
shane smith
That's the only thing that can save us.
joe rogan
Well, maybe if aliens were real, that would be the time to move.
To get in between India and Pakistan and go, guys, guys, guys!
God damn!
What is this mess you've got here?
Why is there a billion people here?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everybody settle the fuck down.
You look exactly the same when you hate each other.
That's nonsense.
And you're right across some stupid divide.
One person believes one pile of wacky bullshit and the other person...
Everybody settle the fuck down.
shane smith
I agree.
joe rogan
You need a big spaceship to pull that off though.
Like several football fields long and you need to do a magic trick or two.
And let these bitches know that you're there for...
For serious.
You're not taking any bullshit.
Make some trees disappear.
shane smith
I think you're out here in L.A. in the land of Scientology.
You've got to get the aliens.
Dr. Zog and the Phaetans and all that.
joe rogan
Amazing how easy that was to pull off when you really read that story.
shane smith
Sure.
joe rogan
Doesn't it make you want to start a cult?
Just a little baby one?
shane smith
It's pretty interesting, I've got to say.
I'm fascinated by it.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
If you could live in the 1950s and start your cult around the same time he started his cult.
shane smith
People start cults.
Warren Jeff's, you know, is doing it right now.
Warren Jeff's...
joe rogan
That's Utah, though.
It's a totally different animal.
Utah's a different animal.
You can pull it off there.
You can't get any New Mexicans to buy into that bullshit.
shane smith
We did a...
Well, they buy into it all over the place, but we did a story on the Lost Boys.
You know these guys, the Lost Boys?
No.
Because of, well, more in Jeff's case, he has like 78 wives.
joe rogan
Shazam!
Why you hating, bitch?
shane smith
The elders get like 20, 30, 40 wives.
But then just by math, okay, there's only X amount of women, so they have to get rid of these...
The kids, the men.
joe rogan
Okay, you're not thinking in terms of being bountiful.
I think you're bringing more women.
See, you're seeing a problem.
I see an equation that you have to solve.
And what you need to do is bring in more crazy bitches.
shane smith
What's happening is they kick the men, the boys, out.
And so these kids who grew up in this religion that says everybody else is evil and you can't do anything and they don't know how to pay bills, they don't know anything.
They just kick them out and said, okay, you're gone now.
joe rogan
Because they want the girls.
shane smith
They have to have the girls.
joe rogan
Okay, that's weak.
That's player hating.
You're not loving your brothers and sisters.
They're in your crazy cult together.
shane smith
You're kicking out your own kids.
joe rogan
You're also kicking out people who know how crazy your nutty cult is, and they're going to eventually tell people why they're so sad.
Why so sad, Billy?
unidentified
Right.
My fucking dad needs to have a hundred fucking bitches to marry, so he kicked me out so I can't have girlfriends.
Those poor girls that grow up with no men, and they're forced to accept the fact that the 70-year-old guys...
shane smith
I like the voice that you're adopting.
joe rogan
That's me.
That's me in therapy.
If I got kicked out by my dad and he was fucking this girl I was in love with, my own dad's like, Shut up, son!
Get out of the room!
She's mine!
Mine!
unidentified
Mine!
joe rogan
I need a hundred of them.
A hundred.
But you know what?
On the other hand, you can't hate.
If the guy can keep it up...
shane smith
Wow.
I don't know.
I don't know if he can keep it up in prison.
joe rogan
Don't take that out of context, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't really mean that.
That was only in jest.
I think that that guy obviously victimized some poor people that were easily led.
My question has always been, why are people still so easily led?
shane smith
That's a good question.
joe rogan
Is it just a way the body is designed that some of us are worker bees and some of us are middle management and some of us are the contrarians hanging on the outside like you or I? Life is hard.
Life is hard.
shane smith
And you're looking for someone to say here's why it's hard.
Here's why it's hard.
And by the way if you work hard and do what I say then you're going to go someplace better because now it's a bitch.
Now it's fucking hard as shit.
But if you do all this shit it's going to get better.
joe rogan
And you know what else it is?
It's like being in a group is great.
It's nice to be in a group.
shane smith
It's us against them.
joe rogan
Yeah, like what we call death squad.
It's not like...
You don't have to join it or anything like that.
It's not real.
It's not a real organization.
Yeah, the tattoo.
Is it in your right cheek?
Yeah.
shane smith
I got the whole...
joe rogan
But it's cool.
When we go places and we see all those death squad shirts, there's something cool about it.
There's something undeniably cool about it.
We're not trying to really start a cult.
We're not telling anybody what to do.
But if we show up somewhere and you're wearing a death squad shirt, it's kind of badass.
It's like, what's up, man?
How you doing?
You know, most likely, unless he's an undercover cop, that's going to be a very nice guy.
You know what I mean?
shane smith
I understand what this podcast is for now.
I'm finally getting your light.
joe rogan
Selling Mises.
shane smith
Starting a cult would be cool.
joe rogan
No.
But you don't want a real cult.
See, the best kind of cult is the kind of cult that doesn't really have any foundation whatsoever.
No leadership.
There's no structure.
And everybody kind of knows what the fuck to do.
That's the perfect cult.
Where you can't really say you're doing anything.
Because you're not doing anything.
shane smith
You've set up the meta cult.
joe rogan
You just podcast.
That's what you do.
You just start podcasting.
And eventually you get into their system.
And once you get into their system, you tell them, listen, man, we just need to spread this and we're all going to be okay.
We just need to get this out to everybody.
Spread it out as far and wide.
And it's real simple.
It's like Jim Jeffery said about the Bible.
Did you ever see Jim Jeffery's bit about the Bible?
It should say, don't be a cunt.
And really, are you peeing?
Are you getting up to pee?
More alcohol.
unidentified
That's a good move.
joe rogan
Jamie, why don't you...
Yeah, one of you gentlemen that's not working.
unidentified
Shane, you sure you don't want the Kool-Aid?
joe rogan
Shane, our Kool-Aid has been processed in a special microfilter that's pumped uphill.
unidentified
Using on it.
joe rogan
Yeah, using gravel and stream water.
And it's all broadcast live on audible.com.
But thank you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I really do think, all bullshit aside, that your shit that you guys are doing on Vice.com has as much of an impact on where this culture is going and the potential that this culture has for understanding The true inner workings of all the various aspects of intergovernmental relationships and nutty places like Chernobyl and the Liberia episode.
I didn't know anything about Liberia until I watched that show.
You guys have done more.
Look, just for educating me, okay?
And I can, I mean, not really educate people, but tell you what link to click on.
shane smith
Sure.
joe rogan
But that kind of a connection?
You guys have exposed me to some of the most little understood, little talked about things that are so bizarre and hard to believe that exist today.
shane smith
I think I said this last time.
Your audience is maybe the best audience in the goddamn world because we, you know, people used to say Vice was the best content on the web that you've never seen.
And when we started to come out here and do this podcast, all of a sudden we'd get these, you know, fanatical, sort of positivist, wow, like great responses.
And it was always with the hashtag, you know, Powerful or Rogan or whatever.
And it's always by...
100% of the time, it's your...
You know, and I've got to say...
That says a lot about you, but it also says a lot about the people who listen to this podcast, which is they're thinking for themselves.
They're listening to alternative shit.
They're not believing the bullshit that they see on regular mainstream TV. And look, they're positive when someone says, look, like you said, you and I live on the periphery.
And we live on the periphery, but we're trying to do our thing.
And you know what?
When people who listen to this podcast are so positive...
It makes me fucking happy and it makes me say, you know, I don't mind.
I got a helmet-headed fucking flesh-eating fucking colon.
Because these motherfuckers on Twitter and on Facebook and on Vice, they're so fucking positive.
And then, you know, I'm going to tell you another thing.
It makes me feel like we can change shit.
It makes me feel like, okay, there is some negative motherfuckers out there in the world who are doing some really bad shit.
But we can actually do things to stop that.
And you're doing it and I'm doing it.
And by the way, the people on this podcast are doing it.
And the more people that actually educate themselves and listen to you and come in here and check on those links, that's fucking how we change shit.
We shouldn't expect anyone else to change the shit for you because they won't.
joe rogan
I agree with you, and I also believe that it's also a matter of projecting a certain way of living.
shane smith
Right.
joe rogan
That you project.
You project a very honest and humbled view of the world.
And I think when someone is exposed to a guy like you, when a guy's sitting on his stationary bike right now, riding along, listening to the show and listening to your experiences in life in Karachi and Liberia, which I really want to get to again.
They sort of get this view like, okay, here's this fucking guy who's out here doing all this crazy shit, and he's saying all these things.
This guy has no reason to lie to me.
He's not like anybody that I've ever met before, but yet I'm sort of absorbing his thoughts.
And by doing that, you're injecting these ideas that might not have ever manifest themselves in hundreds of thousands and millions of people.
And that's some powerful possibility.
powerful, powerful shit And it's not on CBS, and it's not on NBC, and it's never going to be.
It's never going to be broadcast by anybody that doesn't want to risk everything they already have.
shane smith
Which we get a lot of shit for.
We get a lot of shit for.
And this is another thing I want to say about the people on this podcast.
A lot of times, for example, what just went down in North Korea, we get attacked by mainstream media.
And yet, you know, people who are on the periphery, people who are watching us, people are just like, exactly, this is exactly what the fuck we want to have go on.
joe rogan
Well, nobody exposed mainstream, well, nobody in the mainstream, rather, exposed North Korea the way that you guys did.
When you went to North Korea and showed those fake restaurants and showed just how spooky and nutty the atmosphere was over there, We were not...
There was no shows that were doing that.
There was no...
60 Minutes wasn't doing that.
The honesty in which you portray things, like from Ladyboys in Thailand, you know what I mean?
Like when you were hanging with the Ladyboys.
Dude, I'm telling you, man, I became a fan of yours when I saw that video of you hanging with the Ladyboys.
You know why?
Here's why.
Because you were being kind to them.
You were being nice to them.
You were chilling out with them in a bathtub and all laughing and so on.
But it wasn't even...
You weren't being creepy and sexual.
You weren't being a douchebag.
You were being a sweetheart.
You were being a nice person to a bunch of other nice people.
No bullshit.
And...
It's hard to do that.
It's hard to do that.
It's hard to do that without this fucking faggot.
It's hard to do that without someone being mad at you.
It's hard to do that without protecting your ego.
How are people going to think about you?
You're hanging out with these ladyboys.
You were just a guy who was there and he was trying to be nice to some other people and they were being nice to you back and it was the right thing to do and it resonated.
And I remember watching that video going, this guy's a cool motherfucker.
And I... I think that was before I even saw Heinmo's adventure, Arctic Adventure, which was the thing that really made me a vice addict.
I look at vice.com more than any other website on the net, pretty much, other than Twitter and checking my own email.
I watch all your shit.
I watch that Heinmo's great adventure, whatever it was, Arctic Adventure.
What is the actual name of that?
It was Vice Guide to Travel.
shane smith
Yeah, it was the most remote man on earth.
Heimo, the remotest place on earth.
The remotest man on earth.
joe rogan
If you just Google Heimo and Vice, you'll find out whatever the actual...
Do you know what it is, Brian?
unidentified
No.
Did you try one of the ladyboys, by the way?
How dare you?
joe rogan
How dare you?
You know we're on the internet?
shane smith
Everyone always asks me that question.
You're like...
You understand that there's like two camera guys and sound crews.
Like we're shooting.
joe rogan
So what?
You did the right thing, man.
It was beautiful.
I wish I would be that strong.
I'd be like, bitch, get off me.
unidentified
You know how it is.
shane smith
At a certain point in your life, you don't give a fuck what anybody thinks about you.
You're just like, you know what?
I'm going to do my shit.
I'm going to try to get through the day and do the best thing I possibly can.
And that's it.
That's all I can do, you know?
joe rogan
Well, I think that's a possible state to achieve and maintain, but I think it's difficult to get there.
For a lot of people, that's an alien concept.
And that's why when I saw you were so comfortable and cool about that, I was like, there's no way that guy's not cool.
I was like, that's a cool motherfucker.
You were just really easy with these people.
It was fun.
And I really...
There was an issue that came up last week or earlier this week about transgender MMA fighters.
There's a woman who used to be a man who's now fighting in MMA against women.
I've gotten some heat about it on Twitter that I took the wrong stance because I said that that's a guy that cut his dick off and he's fighting girls.
That's the end of the story.
You can say all you want.
I don't care what the Olympic Committee says.
There's a different mechanical advantage to being a man.
But that in no way.
I want everyone to know that if you really feel like you are supposed to be a woman and you're a man, I will still be friends with you.
I have zero issue with that.
My only issue in that Venue is that I understand the mechanical advantage of the male frame.
I just do.
If I lost my dick and balls, if I decided to chop my dick and balls off and be a woman, I would still have these giant hands.
And they're not going to shrink.
These aren't going to go away.
So there's a mechanical advantage to having this big hammer fist to punch a girl in the face with.
That's fucked up.
It's just not the same.
And anybody who says that it's the same as far as athletics, it might be the same in track and field.
If you don't have balls anymore, you might not be able to run as fast.
shane smith
Have you ever seen the beautiful boxer?
Have you ever seen that movie?
joe rogan
That's the Thai boxer that was a ladyboy with testicles, successful, then chopped him off and then started getting his ass kicked.
shane smith
I believe she stopped after...
joe rogan
I think she fought for a while.
Yeah, that was the issue.
shane smith
I interviewed her in Bangkok and we fought with her a little bit.
And I gotta say, she could kick the shit out of people.
But, you know, she was a guy fighting other guys.
joe rogan
But, you know, yeah.
I feel for those people.
I understand that the body is not...
shane smith
My thing is, whatever gets you through the fucking day.
joe rogan
But not that way.
shane smith
However, if you're talking about sports, you sit there and say, I don't know what we're looking at.
joe rogan
Well, you're not even just talking about sports.
You're talking about the most violent sport in the world.
And a sport which I understand.
And I am telling you from a perspective that very few people enjoy.
I'm telling you from the most honest perspective possible.
I have called more than a thousand fights.
I don't know how many fights I've ever done commentary on over 10 plus years of doing it.
A man has an advantage.
There's a big difference.
There's not a little difference.
There's a big difference.
shane smith
Well, also then you start to deal with, you know, the questions of there's steroids involved and there's different things and enhancements and other weird shit that's involved and all that stuff.
joe rogan
Also, the predatory mind of the male is a very different mindset.
If you're 30 years old and you get your dick cut off at 30, you've had 30 years of man living.
shane smith
Right, right.
joe rogan
Okay?
There's a different thing.
Fighting and dealing with bullshit and dealing with violence and dealing with, you know, possible death.
When you're hanging out with a bunch of creepy people when you're 18 years old, there's a bunch of violent sexual men.
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
Gang, right.
Yes, anything can happen.
Especially if there's little money and very few parental influences that are positive.
There's some dangerous shit.
If you get through all that and then you cut your dick and balls off, you still lived all that.
You're still a man.
You're still a violent motherfucker.
You're still a dangerous dude that happens to want to be a woman.
shane smith
And why are you getting into shit?
joe rogan
Because I said that although I support anybody becoming transgender, if that's what you really want to do, I would never tell anybody what they can and can't do.
But you shouldn't be fighting women.
Maybe a tranny league.
And I don't say tranny.
It's not derogatory.
Until it is.
Didn't the guy from Bravo get in trouble for using the word twink?
shane smith
I don't know.
joe rogan
Trust me.
shane smith
I just remember, I remember seeing a video of these big sort of, you know, Aussie rugby player types.
And they, I guess, were fucking with some, you know, tranny, ladyboy, whatever.
And the ladyboy kicked the shit out of them, like, just flatten these three rugby players.
Because I guess they were actually MMA or they were something, Muay Thai or some sort of fighting.
And this tranny just fucking leveled them.
It's on YouTube.
unidentified
Oh, that's hilarious.
shane smith
And I was just like, well, you got to think that, you know, if you're in most countries, maybe not Thailand, but if you're a ladyboy or a female or transgender or whatever, they're fighting all the fucking time, you know?
And so, you know, anyway, I saw that video and it was just kind of like, because I hate those, I was just in Thailand at a conference and there's all these fucking, you know, Australian sort of rugby dudes who are just spoiling for a fight, just They just want to go and they just want to fight.
joe rogan
You know what those guys need to do?
They need to get out of rugby and get into some MMA. If you want to fight, you should be fighting, man.
And I would tell them that.
I'd be like, look, bro, you're a bad motherfucker.
It's obvious.
The reason why you're trying to fight at bars is you need to be testing yourself in that way in a gym.
shane smith
I agree.
Get out of rugby, bitch!
joe rogan
Knuckle up, son!
Take a leg kick!
Defend the choke, bitch!
Come on, stop it with your stupid ball.
That's a goddamn euphemism.
Who gives a fuck what happens with that ball?
You take away your nutty score thing with one, oh, you got a point, whoa, oh no, they did what we didn't want them to do.
That's all nonsense.
What you're doing is trying to stop what you really want to do.
And what you really want to do is...
One on one.
Man to man.
Someone your size.
No mechanical advantage.
No weight advantage.
Let's see.
Let's see what's going on.
Let's see what's going on.
So any rugby player that shows up and wants a fight, stop being a pussy.
unidentified
Get out of rugby.
shane smith
I'm gonna send him to you.
joe rogan
I will help them.
I was saying, you're a bad motherfucker.
There's a rage inside of you.
You need to project that shit in the right way.
And this ball thing isn't working out.
You need to leave that ball alone.
Nobody gives a fuck if you get it across that line.
That's nonsense.
You're playing a game.
Oh, you kicked it between the two sticks.
The world has changed!
No, it hasn't.
Nothing's changed, okay?
You still, you're fighting off those bullies that fucked with you when you were in the seventh grade.
What you need to do is some fucking kettlebells, son.
Some bodyweight squats.
Learn some jujitsu.
Choke some bitches out.
Get it out of your system.
shane smith
There you go.
joe rogan
Stop fighting in bars.
Stop letting the demon alcohol bring it out of your body.
shane smith
I agree with you because they just bum my fucking...
They harsh my buzz.
joe rogan
They do harsh my buzz too, man.
Because the guys that get it out in the gym, they don't look for it anywhere.
shane smith
Well, I'll tell you what.
When you drink, the real you comes out and the real me is just a jovial 80-year-old man.
I'm like fucking Buddha.
I'm just sitting there drinking my drink.
I'm having a good old time.
And, you know, when you see these dudes come out and they have a few drinks in them and they get all, you know, randified and you're just like...
Yes.
Anyway.
joe rogan
It's not necessary.
It's not good for them.
They all need hugs.
They all do, man.
shane smith
Well, you and I both know if you're a real fighter, you won't fight in a bar.
joe rogan
Well, why would you want to hit someone that doesn't want to get hit, that doesn't want to fight?
And if they do want to fight, is it possible that can be avoided with talking?
And if it's not, they're probably a bitch.
Or you're crazy.
shane smith
If you're a real fighter, you're not going to fight a bar.
Someone's going to take a bottle of your head.
unidentified
That's not true.
joe rogan
This guy's like Tank Abbott that will fight you anywhere.
He'll fight you on a plane.
And he's a real fighter.
It's just that's that dude.
That's what he's all about.
He's not about...
shane smith
Let me say most professional fighters.
joe rogan
A guy like Tank Abbott, he's one of my favorite fighters of all time.
And one of the reasons why is not because he was the best, not because he was the most technical or won the most titles, is that you genuinely knew for a fact, 100%, no doubt about it, If you fucking flap your gums in front of Tank Abbott, he's going to make you swallow your teeth.
It doesn't matter if you're on a Greyhound bus or on a fucking space shuttle.
He's going to beat your ass.
And there's a reality to that that I find refreshing.
Like drowning in the ocean or getting hit in the head by a meteor.
There's certain unavoidable consequences to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
shane smith
But that's why I say most of the...
Many more than I do, but most professional fighters or fighters who do it for a living aren't going to get to a fight in a bar because someone's going to take a bottle to their head, you're going to fuck up your hand, you're going to do something...
joe rogan
That or they would, and they would clean out the whole bar and you have a real problem on your hands.
Yeah, yeah.
A guy like Randy Couture and Dan Henderson.
I don't know if this is a true story or not, but there's a legendary story about those two guys in college when they were both elite wrestlers just cleaning out a ball.
I don't know if it's true.
I never talked to Randy about it.
But what I can tell you of what I know about Randy, I've been around that guy for, I saw his first fight in the UFC, and he fought Tony Halma, and then he fought this really promising kid, I forget his name, Kevin something or another, and he beat both of these guys, and I was like, wow, this guy's a stud.
This guy is the real fucking deal.
He is one of the friendliest people you could ever be around.
You would never imagine that Randy Couture would ever get into a street fight.
If you're talking to that guy, whether it's in a bar or a Denny's or a bowling alley, he's a smiling, handshaking, comfortable, pat-you-on-the-back gentleman.
You would never imagine that anybody would ever find themselves so cunty that they would be in a fistfight with Randy Couture.
shane smith
Did you ever hear that story about Tyson?
joe rogan
Mitch Bloodgreen?
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, they fought in a bar.
shane smith
And didn't he hit him?
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
It wasn't even in a bar.
It was in a...
What are those fancy words for when the...
It was like 2 o'clock in the morning in Harlem.
And Mitch Blood Green had been taunting Mike Tyson forever.
And Mike broke his hand on Mitch Green's face.
shane smith
But didn't Mitch Green had like 28 surgeries?
joe rogan
Well, he broke his orbital, I believe.
shane smith
Yeah, he caved in his face.
He broke his hand on his face.
Caved in his face with one punch.
And you're just sitting there saying, okay, with one punch, he caved in dude's face.
He had to have 28 surgeries.
And by the way, this guy's a professional fighter.
He gets paid to get fucking hit in the face.
And you get one punch and it gives you 28 surgeries.
joe rogan
He accomplished what he wanted to do.
He dragged a guy into the ring that had no business challenging Mike Tyson.
He really wasn't at that level.
And by his persistence and his arrogance, he really did get that fight.
And you saw it.
But you saw in that fight why he wanted that fight.
And why he wanted that fight is Mitch Blood Green, even though he had no business being in the ring technically with Tyson, he didn't get stopped.
Tyson beat the fuck out of that guy.
And he couldn't put him away.
That was an amazing fight.
If you think about it, because Tyson was in his prime.
That was the Tyson that was just...
Darchin guys.
Tyrell Biggs, who's an Olympic gold medalist, was just running for his life, trying to keep the jab on that guy.
Jesus Christ!
He's just ripping to your body, right to the body in that right uppercut.
That shit was legendary!
And Mitch Blood Green made it through that.
And the reason he made it through that is the same reason why he wanted to fight Tyson in the first place.
He was convinced that he was the baddest motherfucker on the planet.
shane smith
But he got his face caved in.
joe rogan
Sort of.
He did.
He got beat up, but he was alright.
I mean, it's really amazing when you think about it, because who the fuck was training Mitch Blood Green?
I mean, I don't know who his trainers were.
I mean, it might have been someone really good, but I had to think about his approach.
Part of it was kind of brilliant.
He forced Mike Tyson into fighting him.
But that Mike Tyson, that was the best Mike Tyson.
That era, that Marvis Frazier era.
That was our Joe Lewis.
That was our Sonny Liston.
That was our, whoa, that one guy.
That Mitch Blood Green thing, man.
shane smith
That was a long time ago.
We're like old men.
Just talking about old fights.
joe rogan
We're old as fuck.
Jack Johnson, I'll tell you what.
unidentified
I'll tell you about a guy who used to be able to hit you and you'd stay down.
I hit you with one lick.
It was all over.
brian redban
What was that video you told me to look up earlier to see what the name was for Vice?
Because I typed in Hyman Vice and that's not the name.
joe rogan
Heinmo.
shane smith
Heinmo.
It's Heinmo's Arctic Refuge.
joe rogan
That's it.
shane smith
H-Y. Heinmo's Arctic Refuge is what it's called.
joe rogan
Yeah, that got me sold.
And then David chose Search for the Dinosaur.
That got me going.
shane smith
Speaking of Heinmo, we went to the The Arctic, this guy lived out in the middle of nowhere, and he lived with his wife out there, literally in the middle of nowhere.
He was the most isolated person on earth, until they found, I don't know if you heard about this, this Russian family in Siberia.
They were like Russian Orthodox, and during the Communist Revolution, they went up to this mountain that's nearly impossible to get to, and they lived in this little shack.
And they lived like...
They didn't even have shoes, which I don't understand because I don't know how you get frostbite in Siberia.
But they'd wrap their feet in like birch bark and moss and shit.
And they were eating seeds.
And they lived up there.
The guy was like 90 years old and they finally came in and he had his family.
They were there and they were like 70 and 60 and shit.
And they finally arrived and they had like iPods and everything.
And when they got there, they had lived this whole time...
unidentified
You mean the people that showed up had iPods, not the family.
shane smith
No, no, no.
The family had not seen...
joe rogan
They had been isolated since the 40s, right?
shane smith
I believe the 1930s, yeah.
It was the 1930s.
They had been isolated up there as a family.
joe rogan
They didn't know about World War II, correct?
shane smith
They did not know about World War II, correct.
They didn't know about anything.
And they had literally, like, sort of learned how to make shit out of bark and everything.
You know, complete survivalist shit.
joe rogan
How many people were up there?
shane smith
I think there were six of them and then they all died.
It was weird because they...
So this is an interesting story.
They got found and they found out, oh, there's another world out there and whatever.
And then one by one they died very quickly after they got found.
unidentified
Whoa!
shane smith
Except for, like, I believe the youngest daughter is now in her late 70s.
And she went into the nearest Siberian town and sort of lived there for a while and said, you know what, screw this.
And she went back.
She's like a 77-year-old woman.
joe rogan
Back by herself.
shane smith
She went back by herself and she's still there.
So we wanted to go up there and do like the Haimo, the most isolated person in the world, which was Haimo.
joe rogan
It's a woman.
shane smith
It's a woman and she's in her 70s and she's going back up this mountain where you can't like...
joe rogan
Do you hear that, pussies?
Okay, all you fucking weak bitches complaining.
unidentified
I gotta get up at 7 to be at the office by 9. Are you fucking kidding me?
joe rogan
There's a hundred Carl's Juniors on the way to work.
You're complaining there's a 70-year-old crazy bitch on a donkey and it's 80,000 degrees below zero.
And she's by herself in Russia.
shane smith
And like 600 miles away from the next nearest person.
joe rogan
And she prefers it.
She prefers it up there.
shane smith
She went back.
She went back.
joe rogan
Jesus fucking Christ!
What's wrong with that crazy bitch?
I bet she has a pussy like a softball mitt.
And I bet...
shane smith
I don't even know what that means.
joe rogan
Just a fucking...
Thickly padded wall and a lot of pressure.
She could catch a ball with that thing.
shane smith
Can you imagine the weird shit that happened amongst those five, six people?
joe rogan
Sexually?
shane smith
No, but for 70 fucking years.
Oh, Jesus.
unidentified
Alone.
shane smith
On a fucking mountain.
joe rogan
Continuous orgy.
At the end, they probably checked them for sperm.
There was nothing left.
unidentified
It might be awesome.
joe rogan
No, you're fucking your kids and your sister.
shane smith
So, it feels the same.
unidentified
Shut up!
joe rogan
That's fucking communism!
Yeah, I don't think it would be good, okay?
I don't think it would be good to have no TV. I think that shit's nonsense.
Why not be a woodchuck out there eating beavers and fucking your kids?
I don't think that's the way to go.
shane smith
They were eating like bark and shit, you know?
joe rogan
Oh, that sucks.
unidentified
Bark off your son's dick?
joe rogan
When was the last time you had a Diet Coke?
What?
Look, that guy is living in shit.
He's in 2013, but he lives like he's in this.
shane smith
These are the questions that come to me when you're like, okay, these people are eating bark and putting moss on their feet for shoes.
And I'm sitting there going, boy, they're just bringing us more and more booze.
joe rogan
You're thinking, do you want to survive the zombie apocalypse?
shane smith
No, but what I was going to say to you is, and this is a serious question, right?
Oh, no.
No, not that serious.
But when you look at shit like that, you say, okay, these people are up there eating bark.
And there's a lot of shit happening.
We were talking a little bit earlier.
How much of your life revolves around the pleasure that food, booze...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
We were talking about this before the podcast even started, about making the choice between booze and food.
shane smith
Like, if you could eat whatever the fuck you wanted and be healthy and live till you're fucking 90 and all that shit, but you couldn't drink.
Or you could drink, but you can't eat shit.
You gotta eat cardboard and fucking grape leaves.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Well, I'm done.
shane smith
I don't know where grape leaves came.
Cardboard and fucking grass.
joe rogan
I truly believe that living without good food and living without, I mean, if you've got to survive, you know, if you're living in The Walking Dead and you've got to shoot deer and shit, that's all well and good.
But we're talking about in this day and age.
shane smith
I'm talking you have a choice.
If you have to make a choice between I can eat my favorite shit or I can drink booze and have the added sort of crank that gives everything you like.
joe rogan
Well, what I was going to say was that the idea of subsistence living is although frightening, that food is delicious.
Eating deer over a campfire, that's a really yummy tasting food.
If you're saying like shitty food, like cardboard tasting, bland food...
That's a big part of the enjoyment of the day.
In my opinion, a meal with my family, I think, is one of my favorite things in life.
And that sounds like utter horseshit to single people.
But the real idea is sitting down with your kids and having a laugh and having a meal.
I think that whole process is very important.
And nutrition is very important, but for me, the taste is very important as well.
I think it's important to eat things that are delicious.
It's a part of a pleasurable aspect of life.
And so if I had to choose, honestly, between...
Drinking booze and eating delicious food.
I would go with delicious food.
I think delicious food is more important because I've experienced the booze.
And I understand the lessons.
The lessons of the dropping of the inhibition and the good aspects of alcohol, which are often overlooked by people who just can't handle alcohol.
We were talking before the podcast started about not...
There's a certain level of trust that you have where someone's willing to get drunk with you.
Like, you know that guy's demons.
They're all right there.
It comes out.
Five or six Jack and Cokes, you know, telling a story about Tijuana, and you're like, holy shit!
How did you...
Whoa!
What did you tell your mom?
You know what I mean?
It's like you get to know a person.
And you realize that there's no benefit in hiding all that shit from people you love anyway.
There's a benefit in telling them.
And the sort of camaraderie that ensues from those drunken conversations of complete and total honesty where the alcohol does a purpose.
Instead of inhibiting you and making you make shitty decisions, the alcohol...
releases you from this idea that anything makes any sense whatsoever and you start telling the truth or you start expressing yourself or you start looking at things from a more relaxed perspective even temporarily where that thought gets planted in your mind and then You just have more of a sense of friendliness the next day.
Oftentimes, it's little encounters that steer us.
I remember this Anthony Robbins quote, who believe it or not, I've listened to a lot of his books on tape and read his books, and he's got a lot of interesting ways of looking at things that I really think are enabling.
But one of the things that he said is that sometimes if two people are going along the very same paths, like think of yourself as like two boats, if one boat just turns one degree to the right, like over the course of the boat's motion through life, Just that one decision can lead it so far away from the original path that it was on.
And that, often times, it's a good time that leads you.
And it might cost you a day or two of being hungover.
But there might be that phone call where you call each other on a Wednesday like, I had a fucking great time, dude.
unidentified
That was fun.
shane smith
But it doesn't even have to be.
I'm not even talking about a crazy fucking boozy fucking crazy time.
The reason why I ask the question is because whenever I meet people I like and I respect, I like to ask them questions because I believe that's how you learn.
And so I have this problem.
Because I'll tell you what.
I grew up poor.
I grew up poor.
I left home at a very young age.
And a lot of what I learned, I learned initially through books.
So I'd read books.
And that's why I have this sort of intense curiosity about the world.
Because I'm like, oh fuck, I'd like to go there and see that for myself.
So anyway, speaking of Chernobyl.
So I go to the Ukraine.
I'm just a regular fucking dude from buttfuck nowhere.
And I go there and I have this dinner and they bring out these potato pancakes with sour cream and caviar and vodka and all this shit.
I think it was the first time I had caviar and I'm eating it and I'm like, this is fucking awesome.
joe rogan
You love caviar right off the bat?
shane smith
Yeah, first time I ever had it.
Now, granted, I was a few vodkas in, but I'm drinking the vodka and eating the caviar, and it's Russia, and it's crazy.
We're out in the middle of fucking nowhere.
It's not Russia, it's Ukraine.
We're out in the middle of fucking nowhere, and it's some crazy Cossack shit that's going down, and I'm like, fuck, this is like living in a book, and it's crazy.
I literally had one of the best nights of my life.
It was like living in a book from the 1800s.
So I had one of the best times of my life.
Then, you know, so for the longest time I'm like, I fucking, caviar is my favorite fucking food and this is the greatest thing in the world.
Then I was shooting in Iran.
So I'm going to Iran where the best caviar comes from now.
And in my hotel room, sorry, in my hotel in Iran, the only hotel foreigners can stay in, they sell caviar in the lobby.
So I'm sitting there in the lobby and I go, fuck Yeah, I love caviar.
That's my favorite shit now, man.
So I go and I buy the caviar, right, in the store.
It's like the best, I don't know, I bought like $10,000 worth of caviar for $100 or some shit.
So I get it, and I go upstairs, but they don't have no booze, right, because it's Iran.
So I have like orange Fanta and some chips in this caviar, and I'm like, this is just fucking salty, fucking fish egg.
joe rogan
Tastes like shit?
unidentified
What the fuck is this?
joe rogan
Does it only taste good when you're drunk?
unidentified
Well, I think this is the whole question that I have.
shane smith
Is that like when you have a big fucking fat old steak with a good glass of red wine, how much of it is the fucking red wine and how much of it is the steak?
When you have your linguine and clams with a nice fucking crisp fucking white wine, how much of it is...
joe rogan
I don't drink white wine.
shane smith
How much is the fucking, is the talk and the thing around?
Like you said, meal with your family.
How much of that is with the family and with the thing?
And then, so when I was sitting up there in this fucking shitty fucking hotel room in Iran eating this shit...
You know, caviar with Fanta.
I'm like, actually, I probably just enjoyed the fucking evening.
joe rogan
Right.
shane smith
You know, I enjoyed the people and the craziness and the fucking vodka and the caviar and the fact that I hadn't had it before and everything went fucking apeshit and all that stuff.
Not apeshit.
I shouldn't say apeshit.
It was a very fucking transformative evening.
joe rogan
Right.
shane smith
And then when I just had the straight-up caviar, you're like, man, I don't care about this shit.
joe rogan
That's so funny.
What a contrast.
shane smith
Yeah, and so when I was asking you the question, because we were talking about food, and you were saying, like, you know, if you have a bad back, you shouldn't eat the pasta.
unidentified
I'm like, you know what?
shane smith
Fuck, I love fucking pasta.
joe rogan
No, what I was saying is that this chiropractor that I was talking to over the weekend, she was explaining to me the influence of certain wheats and glutens.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And how it inflames tissue and that you can get a substantial anti-inflammatory response by just cutting weed out of your diet.
I agree with you that there's a pleasure to eating that I think is super important.
shane smith
There's a pleasure to eating and a pleasure to drinking.
joe rogan
Could I smoke weed and not drink?
Because I would take that.
shane smith
That's the problem.
No, you're not allowed.
joe rogan
For me, weed is like, that's the one that really made a big difference.
I think alcohol has played a good part in a lot of positive aspects of my life as far as joyful evenings and having fun with friends and telling them that you love them and hugging them and even whatever romantic altercations.
shane smith
Not with the boys, though.
unidentified
No, girls, bro!
Cut the shit, Brian!
joe rogan
But as far as what transformed me as a human being, though, marijuana is more important.
Marijuana was, to me, almost like a missing piece to my conceptual puzzle of how I interfaced with nature and with the world.
I was like, why am I so goddamn agro?
And then all of a sudden, I find weed, and I was like, boom.
shane smith
I know a lot.
For me actually, booze was my savior because I was hanging out with a lot of dudes who were doing some serious bad drugs.
And my whole thing was, I don't want to be 60 years old So I always have this, my idyllic sort of retirement, which I'm trying to get to sooner rather than later now, is just like this sort of forgotten little cove.
joe rogan
Can I be your neighbor?
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
Can we chip in for Wi-Fi and solar?
shane smith
I'm sitting there at the school.
I'm going to send you this article of this dude.
joe rogan
How old are your kids?
shane smith
Three and one and a half.
joe rogan
Dude, I got a four and a fucking two.
Let's have a party.
shane smith
Date night.
How old are you?
joe rogan
Are you boys or girls?
shane smith
Girls.
joe rogan
Okay, we got a big lesbian super slumber party.
shane smith
I'm going to send you this article.
It's a fantastic article about a dude.
Who was diagnosed with lymphonic cancer, like the worst cancer you can ever...
And he was a Greek dude.
He grew up in America, but like, you know, came here when he was three or some shit.
So he goes back to Greece to this little island in the middle of nowhere, and he has to walk up this hill every day.
He goes to talk to his buddies, drinking the wine, he's eating the food from wherever.
And all of a sudden, like five years...
He was given like six months to live or whatever.
Not even six weeks to live.
And they said, you know, what the fuck happened?
You didn't die.
And he goes, you know, I came here and I forgot to die.
Because...
You know, he's sitting there and there's no stress and he's walking up the hill every day and he's drinking wine with his buddies and he's eating the fish from the bay and the fucking whatever.
And I sit there and I say, you know, now I'm looking at this shit.
So my idyllic retirement is basically I'm stealing this guy who killed cancer by living this euphoric life of I live on this little cove and I'm drinking my wine and I'm sitting out there and I'm just blissing out on reality.
Now, that's why I didn't get hooked to heroin.
That's why I didn't get hooked to fucking crack.
That's why I didn't get hooked to all the shit that my boys got hooked to because I always thought to myself, if I fucking get hooked to this shit, I'm going to have to A, die, or B, fucking quit it.
And if I quit it, guess what?
I'm never going to be able to sit on that fucking cove with my glass of fucking wine sitting out there and being this blissful old Buddha dude, right?
So for me, that was booze.
But I will say this.
We were just in Jamaica filming the Snoop stuff over New Year's and Snoop Lion and we were in this place.
joe rogan
Snoop Lion, I love how you went with that.
unidentified
He's the best.
joe rogan
I like how you went with that.
unidentified
He's the greatest guy.
shane smith
One of the greatest guys on the road, right?
joe rogan
Ever.
shane smith
He's one of the best guys.
And by the way, now more than ever.
Because that shit's been through shit.
That guy's been through shit we don't even fucking understand.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
shane smith
But anyways, you know, so we were filming down there, and I was in Jamaica, and, you know, generally I don't smoke a lot of weed.
I was smoking every day.
I was drinking rum every day, smoking every day.
I gotta tell you, I felt like God was touching me in my head.
I was like, I felt fucking spiritually fucking...
joe rogan
You know what you've got to start doing?
Eating it.
When you eat it, that's when you really get into that sort of psychedelic love state.
It's very feminine.
It's a very feminine, sensitive state.
And a lot of people are afraid of that.
They're afraid that it's going to make you a pussy.
I'm not afraid of shit.
You're not afraid of shit.
No, no, no.
shane smith
You're not afraid of shit.
I'm not afraid.
We're afraid of singles and fucking aliens.
joe rogan
I'm afraid of a lot of shit.
You know, people always give me, oh, are you afraid of fucking mountain lions?
And yeah, one ate my dog.
Yeah, you know, are you afraid of meteors?
Yeah, I watched some TV show.
But they come from the sky like goddamn torpedoes.
Yeah, I'm fucking scared of all that shit.
shane smith
You're scared to die, Joe, that's why.
unidentified
Not scared to die.
joe rogan
I'm scared to get fucked up and suffer.
shane smith
Listen, you're a happy guy, you have a good life, and you don't want to die.
My whole thing when I was a kid...
Well, when I was a kid, I thought I was going to die, so I didn't give a fuck.
I'd do anything because I'm going to die.
Who the fuck cares?
joe rogan
Why did you think you were going to die?
shane smith
Because I was going to die.
I mean, you know, everybody I grew up with, you know, when I was a kid died because we were bad guys doing bad shit.
People die and all this stuff.
joe rogan
How bad were you guys?
Like, what did you do?
What's the worst thing?
Anybody who did?
unidentified
I mean, everybody who does, like, blow farts on people?
joe rogan
No, Brian...
shane smith
So it's like, you know, look, you do some gang-y shit, you do...
joe rogan
Oh, gang-y shit.
But you're doing Canadian gang-y shit.
shane smith
Yeah, exactly.
unidentified
How bad can you...
That's like going farts on people.
shane smith
How bad can you be?
But no, you know, look, people get into junk.
It doesn't matter if it's...
By the way, this is a surprising thing.
Well, they get into everything, but, you know, generally the end result is...
Well, now it could be meth, but heroin...
And the thing is, even in shitty sort of nice Canada, people end up on jonk or they start doing more and more serious crimes.
And this is one of the reasons why my cove was my dream was because, you know, you have guys who are dying of heroin overdoses or guys who are going to prison for life or worse, getting killed.
And, you know, these are 17, 18, 19-year-old kids and you're sitting there saying...
That's the biggest tragedy is you never fucking live.
You're a teenager, you think you've fucking lived your life.
You haven't lived shit, you haven't done shit, you haven't seen shit.
And one of the reasons why I say I'm going to go out and I'm going to see shit and I'm going to do all this shit, whatever, is because I didn't fucking die.
But at a certain point you sit there and you say, look, you know and I know how hard life is.
We know fucking what good things are.
joe rogan
Or can be, right?
shane smith
And can be.
And also, we realize there's a lot of people who didn't make it.
There's a lot of people who just, for one reason or another, they don't get to where you are.
And so that's why now, anyways, one of the reasons why I like coming here and having these discussions with you is, you can actually say, look, I've come to these fucking realizations...
And look, we're two guys who are saying, you know, we don't need to fucking fight.
We probably had fucking 100 fights between us.
joe rogan
I've had no street fights.
The last street fight I had, I was in high school.
It was a really quick alternation.
shane smith
You're a smarter man than me.
joe rogan
I've avoided everything.
But I've had actual fights.
I've had like three kickboxing bouts.
I don't know how many Taekwondo fights, but there was a lot of them.
shane smith
What I'm trying to get at is, when you see fights in Iraq, those fights are different fights.
Those fights are like they shoot you in the head fights.
So what I'm trying to say is, you know, you want to get to more of an understanding, and this is when I go back to, like, I don't give a fuck what people think about me, I don't give a fuck about other shit, because when you see it, you sit there and say, on this hand, this motherfucker got shot, or this guy got into heroin, or this guy got into this.
Now, to go back to this, this is very long-winded, but if you go back to it, what do I want to do?
I want to sit in the cove with my family, your family, hanging out, have a drink, enjoy myself.
I don't know how much food, although I'm a fat bastard, I don't know how much food is going to play into that, but I definitely want to be sitting there with that glass of wine, looking out at that cove and just going, I fucking made it.
And that's why I don't judge anybody, because I'll tell you what, everyone's trying to get through the day to get to their goddamn cove.
joe rogan
You're 100% right.
Yeah, right?
100% right.
I agree with you so much, but we live in a beautiful world where you don't have to choose between the food and the booze.
unidentified
Ha!
shane smith
And I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.
joe rogan
What happened?
shane smith
We do live, I gotta tell you, you know, we live in a fucking country where you can still, to this day, make your own shit happen.
joe rogan
Yes.
shane smith
Which most, and look, I'm an immigrant, but I made my shit happen in this country, and I gotta say it's the best country in the world.
And there's a lot of countries out there we don't realize how fucked up they are and how bad shit is there.
And we should fucking say, you know what?
You can do anything here in America, so you should.
joe rogan
You know, when you say that, it has so much more weight than the average person, including me saying it.
First of all, because you've been everywhere.
And second of all, because you came from another place.
You grew up in Canada.
So when you come over and you see this situation, there's no question this is not perfect.
And I think we all agree on it.
shane smith
But it's fucking fantastic.
joe rogan
It's better.
It's better than it's ever been.
What we're doing right now is we're figuring life out.
And we still have a lot of old standards and old traditions and old things that we abide by that don't make any sense and they trip us up.
We step on our own dicks.
But I think ultimately...
We're moving forward in a direction of progress.
As much as people like to be cynical about the possibilities of the future, I think just where we are today in this country, despite the eroding civil liberties, all that, that's all good on paper, but the reality of the progression of information through the internet is we're taking the world to a different place right now.
shane smith
It's not cynical to criticize.
joe rogan
It's not.
You're right.
shane smith
And you know what?
America and democracy was based on honesty and being critical and being allowed to be critical because you couldn't say, fuck the aristocrats, fuck the king and all that shit.
They cut your head off.
So democracy is based on people like us sitting there going, you know what?
The political system isn't right.
And guess what?
The political system will not change unless motherfuckers like us and everybody listening to this fucking podcast Do something about it.
And that's what America is.
joe rogan
You're right, 100%.
But more importantly, the people who are in the positions of power, it must be reinforced that we are all living in this temporary state.
And to make the most of your temporary state...
You can enjoy the bounty of your work and the fruits of your labor and the overwhelming affluence that you get from having successfully figured out capitalism.
But it's possible to do that in a way where you don't fuck people over and you promote freedom and love.
shane smith
In fact, you have to.
joe rogan
And if you did, you would be more happy and more successful.
shane smith
In fact, you have to.
You know, I'm going to tell just one quick story, but I was hanging out with a guy who inspired the shit out of me.
And he was the president of the Maldives.
It was a 35-year dictatorship there.
He got elected against all odds and he did all this shit like underwater cabinet meetings and stuff to bring awareness to global warming because his country is sinking.
And so he was going to buy land in Australia or Sri Lanka or India because he's not going to have a country anymore.
And then they ousted him, and he has this flotilla going around the Maldives, which is actually like the size of Europe, but like islands.
So he's on these fishing boats, and I went on these fishing boats with this guy.
He's called the Mandela of the Maldives, because he's been in jail most of his life.
I was hanging out with this dude, and one of the interesting things that this guy was doing is he was just saying, look, you have to take individual control.
You have to say, look, unless we do it, unless we as a community fucking say no to this shit, it's going to continue.
Because people don't want it to fucking change.
joe rogan
Right.
shane smith
They just don't want it to change.
Even in America, they don't want it to change.
But the thing is...
joe rogan
Do you think that people don't want it to change or they don't want to upset their reality?
shane smith
I'll tell you.
So this is my second point is, you know, for the people, of the people, by the people.
And you sit there and say, the people...
This is the country, the first country, that was set up not for the aristocracy but for the people.
And the thing is, I think that was forgotten because if you actually look at the people and what the people want and what the people can do, people want a good life, but they're willing to say, you know what, fuck, I don't want to fucking have, you know, all this garbage or whatever the fucking radiation is.
I don't want to have this, you know, threat of nuclear war and all these things.
If you look at, actually, if you talk to regular people, people are sane, people are good.
Actually, when you were talking about it, people actually, if you hang out with your neighbors, people are inherently good.
People are inherently fucking nice.
Yet, all this fucking bad shit happens, right?
And you're saying, why does that bad shit happen?
Because people let it happen.
joe rogan
Is it because people let it happen?
Not necessarily, because someone has to be initiating it.
I mean, someone has to be willing to take it to a hard place.
shane smith
I lost the train of my thought because you guys are doing some weird shit.
unidentified
I was wondering what you were doing.
shane smith
I don't know what you were doing over there.
joe rogan
Listen, there was a roach that I left on the table.
I was trying to figure out where it was put.
shane smith
I was getting into some deep shit that I found.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
I'm sorry.
I really apologize.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to distract you.
I thought you could keep your train of thought.
shane smith
I couldn't.
I'm a visual.
I'm a visual guy.
unidentified
This place totally has roaches.
joe rogan
It's an old building.
Yeah, exactly.
There's bugs here.
I think it's a moth ate my sweater.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
So what was your point?
unidentified
Just scared of roaches.
shane smith
What I will say is that I think...
joe rogan
This fucking place is haunted.
shane smith
I think because of where we are with the transference of information like we're doing with Vice or like you're doing with your podcast...
joe rogan
We're not doing shit.
shane smith
You are.
joe rogan
I just want to tell you that right now.
shane smith
You are.
joe rogan
If the government is willing to arrest people...
shane smith
But that information gets out.
I gotta say, information does get out.
WikiLeaks, this, that, the other thing.
Information gets out now.
And by the way, that's what's keeping governments in check because mainstream media is not keeping fucking governments in check, which is their fucking job and they're not doing it.
joe rogan
It's really interesting you just brought that up because I was reading on Vice about the Bradley Manning testimony that you guys have released.
What's going on with that?
What is that?
Explain that.
shane smith
Well, I think, look, the thing that we're looking at is how much of media is actually...
So we actually did this story on Iraq recently that is the thermobaric weapons that were destroying...
So if you have to do house...
I'm doing it again.
It's like a pantomime over here.
joe rogan
This motherfucker touched my head with a ghost.
shane smith
It's a pantomime.
joe rogan
Brian snuck out behind me.
He's very childish.
shane smith
If you look at what happened in Iraq, they had these thermobaric weapons.
What's a thermobaric weapon?
If you have to do house-to-house fighting, which traditionally is the worst fighting you can do, right?
Very difficult.
They have this weapon where they can, it's called a SMA-ME, and what happens is they shoot it into a building.
And it does a heat blast which sort of takes all the oxygen out so it kills you right away.
And then it has this massive heat blast and then it implodes the house.
The problem is it's suspected that this is a thermobaric weapon that's made from depleted uranium so what happens is all that dust that goes out there becomes radioactive or chemically laden.
joe rogan
And that possibly is responsible for the first Gulf War Syndrome that no one really sort of figured out exactly...
shane smith
Correct.
And this huge increase in rare cancers and...
joe rogan
Amongst veterans.
shane smith
Well, amongst veterans and also...
And locals, yeah, the people who are living there.
And so, you know, you have these sort of incredibly bad...
I don't even know what the fuck's going on.
joe rogan
I'm just telling him no more weed.
I'm saying get away from me with the devil weed.
The devil's cabbage.
Sorry.
shane smith
Keep going.
I've forgotten where I was.
joe rogan
Do you remember what he was talking about?
shane smith
This is really devolving.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
unidentified
We don't normally drink on a podcast.
Oh, sorry.
I'm having a great time.
shane smith
I don't know what I'm talking about anymore, but I'm having a great time.
unidentified
It doesn't matter.
joe rogan
At the end of the day, here's what matters.
Here's what you are saying.
What you are saying is that you are seeing the best and the worst aspects of humanity.
And you truly are seeing this.
shane smith
Oh, that's what I was going to say.
Is that these thermobaric weapons have done these things in Iraq, and you know what I'll tell you what?
No one would have ever reported on that before.
Why?
Because you couldn't.
There weren't the actual tools to do that.
And for example, us just having this discussion today and what we're talking about, Like, it didn't exist before.
joe rogan
Yes.
shane smith
Because if you were, you know, the Washington Post, even though they, you know, Deep Throat and Nixon and all this business, you know, because of your proximity to the Pentagon, you can't lose your fucking seat at the fucking White House table.
They'll tell you whatever.
Now we can sit here and say, okay, those thermobaric weapons...
By the way, the story was broken by a Marine.
Ross Caputi, who's a Marine who fought in Fallujah, who saw the thermobaric weapons, The Marine broke the story and said, by the way, this is what the fuck was going on.
And I'm breaking this story because I saw what happened in Fallujah.
This is a fucking Marine who's saying this.
And you sit there and you say, because of the fucking movement of information, and by the way, we're on the cusp of this, me and you, as we sit here and have a few drinks, this is why, this is why you have to be honest.
So to go back to the story, now I've realized it, if you look at WikiLeaks and you say, okay, Is WikiLeaks good or bad?
I believe that the freedom of information is imperative to democracy.
Unless you have transparency, unless you have accountancy, unless you have people who...
unidentified
Accountability.
shane smith
Accountability, not accountancy.
Accountability.
Unless you have people who are going to be held accountable for what the fuck they do, then it's not democracy.
Then there's no difference between us.
joe rogan
Here's what I think about Bradley, man.
unidentified
Go.
joe rogan
This is the number one most important thing.
There's no way they should have put that guy in solitary confinement...
There's no way they should have isolated that guy from the rest of the world.
There's no way they should have made that guy feel like he was going insane because he longed for the human touch and he knew that he was being punished for releasing information.
That's inhuman and that's unnecessary with A government that doesn't have anything to prove.
If a government is being honest and is not hiding anything, it doesn't need to take a guy like Bradley Manning and put him in some horrifying state of detention where he has no rights.
There's no need for any just and loving government to treat any of its citizens like that.
shane smith
But let's be honest.
joe rogan
Our government is not I understand that, but that to their own self, there's no benefit in behaving the way they're behaving.
And that's what needs to be reinforced, is that I think they have this idea, or I don't say they as in like some conspiratorial overlord.
shane smith
We're all in it together.
joe rogan
What I think some people who are scared of losing their position of dominance, what they're afraid of is they're afraid that people are going to understand what's going on and they're going to take over and they're going to lock them up and they're going to isolate them from...
shane smith
I've actually, you know, I said something in this podcast one time when I said, if you ever go to a war zone, I can't remember exactly, but I said, you cry, and then you puke, and then you freak the fuck out.
And I had so many people respond to that, and they were, by and large, I would say about 98% ex-military.
Because if you talk to the people who go to these things, they're like, oh fuck, I didn't know what the fuck I was getting into when I signed up for this fucking shit.
I did not have a fucking clue.
And you look at that and you say, okay, before we go to war, before a government sends people to war, before Dick Cheney sends people to war, saying that Al-Qaeda is being sponsored by Iraq, or Iraq is having weapons of mass destruction and all that, All of which is completely made up.
And by the way, made up by the government that the mainstream media then said, and by the way, everybody who had half a brain knew that fucking the secular state of the Ba'ath party was totally against Al-Qaeda.
There's no way Al-Qaeda was doing anything, but 9-11 was the fucking, you know, the sort of carte blanche to go in.
Guess what?
These motherfuckers lost their lives, they lost their limbs, they're fucking, you know, pissing out of fucking catheter bags now.
When I first saw a battlefield, I fucking cried my eyes out.
unidentified
What was the first battlefield you saw?
shane smith
The first real one was Afghanistan.
joe rogan
What did you say?
shane smith
Wait, never mind.
joe rogan
Afghanistan.
shane smith
Where were you?
In Kunar province on the Pakistani border.
And when you see it, you just go, okay, this is the worst shit I've ever fucking seen in my whole life.
joe rogan
What did you say?
shane smith
If you want to get into it, there's guts coming out of cavities.
There's hands.
There's severed heads.
The bodies are not human beings anymore.
It's like cow parts or some shit.
There's blood running into rivers.
But the dead people aren't so bad.
It's the wounded.
Because these fuckers aren't going to walk again.
They're going to be shitting out of a bag.
They're young kids.
And this is the other thing I say.
We're sitting here debating, well, my cove with my red wine, or would you have a steak, or would you have a glass of booze?
These fucking kids, they're never going to be normal again.
And you sit there, and by the way, I'm not saying you can't police the world, and I'm not saying that there aren't bad people out there that have to be bucked out.
But I am saying, if you do that, you better fucking be cognizant of the fact that when you're sending our best and our brightest and our fucking nicest fucking kids out there, that they're going to be coming home with no legs and no arms and shit out of their fucking bag.
Unless we realize that, then we should never go to fucking war.
joe rogan
Having seen that is a perspective that very few people...
shane smith
A lot of people in the military know it.
And people in the military are coming back and it fucks them up so much, they cannot re-enter into fucking society.
Because when you see that shit, it fucks your fucking wiring up.
joe rogan
I think we're still operating under this behavior pattern that was established before the kind of communication and understanding that we enjoy now exists.
shane smith
That's exactly my point.
And my point is...
Is to say, guess what?
We're not sitting here saying, don't go to war, don't go to war.
What we're sitting here saying, this is what happens when you go to war.
You see the guys.
A lot of the guys in the MMA came out of the military.
joe rogan
I met a kid that had been pronounced dead.
It was multiple times.
I mean, this guy, his friend was trying to explain to me the amount of times this kid had been pronounced dead and brought back to life and that it was unbelievable and the amount of courage that he had shown.
Apparently it jumped on a grenade.
And it was an intense, intense, intense conversation.
And all I could think of was this guy unquestionably was a hero from a Joseph Campbell story.
You know what I mean?
What's exhibited in a true hero is beyond ideology, beyond politics and political influence, and beyond special interest groups.
What he exhibited is the thing that we aspire to the most.
The person who's willing to literally sacrifice their own being for the health and the welfare of the whole.
He was willing to dive on a grenade for the rest of his crew.
I mean, that's an incredibly...
An incredibly honorable human being.
shane smith
Well, we have heroes.
We have real, straight-up heroes.
But the whole thing is, you know what?
I don't want to send our heroes, or I don't think anyone in the world should send their heroes to fight a war that isn't philosophically correct, that isn't backable.
joe rogan
Very true.
And I think true heroes, the real heroes, should be guiding the rest of the heroes.
We should figure out a way to make people who understand what warfare is truly all about.
shane smith
The people who went and fought should be the fucking voices that we hear about next time we go and fight.
Because they're the motherfuckers that know what fucking time it is.
And guess what?
No one listens to them.
And I'm going to tell you one thing about this podcast, is whenever I say, you know what, I fucking saw that shit and it was bad, the response I get from people who have been there, they're like, exactly, exactly, exactly.
And I agree with you 100%.
If we're going to go to war, then we should listen to our fucking veterans, because it is not...
Fucking pretty.
And the people who make the decisions to go to war are not the people that ever have to go fight those fucking wars.
joe rogan
Those are the only people that are going to understand that reality.
That reality is so extreme that it can be sort of justified and glamorized and glossed over in a fictional sense by people who have never experienced it under the threat of their own life expiring.
And that's the reality that those people have experienced, that No one who can make their decision from an air-conditioned room with a custom-designed suit should ever be allowed to do.
The only people that are going to understand that reality are the people that have experienced that reality.
And as a whole, as an organism that respects itself and wants itself to evolve, we should all collectively get together and say this is completely unnecessary for what we're all looking for.
And what we're all looking for is happiness.
And we can all compete.
And all of these needs to accomplish and conquer can all be satisfied in a very ethical way.
Like this idea that we have to continue the Genghis Khan way is nonsense.
shane smith
And if there is a war, the people who are making that decision have to understand and have to talk to the people who have previously been there.
Because if you talk to anybody who's gone to Vietnam, if you talk to anyone who went to fucking Korea during the Korean War, if you talk to anybody from World War II, World War I, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, anywhere, they'll say, don't fucking do it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane smith
Do not fucking, fucking do it.
Because it's fucking bad.
It's really fucking bad.
Now, are there bad people there?
unidentified
Of course.
shane smith
Are there bad fucking motherfuckers out there?
Is North Korea fucking crazy?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
shane smith
Do you have to buck them down?
Of course.
joe rogan
You've got to give them hugs.
They need all hugs.
The North Korea needs the most hugs out of anybody ever.
They need someone to take them and give them hugs and say, listen, man.
unidentified
That's going down right now, by the way.
joe rogan
It is going down right now.
unidentified
That's going to be like any day now you're going to see.
joe rogan
I'm telling you, North Korea, if you listen to me, please.
I know this sounds crazy, but you've already accepted Dennis Rodman, so I know you're over the deal.
unidentified
He listens.
Kim listens.
joe rogan
You know, Kim Jong, whatever your name is, sir, love, God, I'll call you God.
shane smith
He's Monkey Todd on Twitter.
joe rogan
Everybody knows, everybody knows that you need a hug, okay?
You know, I know, we all know.
Let's accept that.
You're the dominant ruler of your situation, but you shouldn't be because you would be way happier if you weren't.
You'd be way happier if you let all those people go.
You'd be way happier if you released all those political prisoners and slaves and whatever the fuck you've got going on there with your wacky laws and the people that were in prison because they didn't cry long enough after your dad died.
If everybody was let out and everybody said, alright, settle the fuck down.
Let's vote on this shit.
Let's be cool with each other.
Let's be nice to each other.
And the dominant person, the dominant ideas, the most accepted ideology will pretty much always rise to the top.
And the exceptional people that can influence the groups, as long as they're doing it in an ethical way, and as long as they're truly trying to advance their culture, good.
But they all need to have a certain amount of...
Of reality in their own head and a certain amount of humility in their own head and a certain amount of experiences with dark situations or bad moments in life or understanding of failure or psychedelic experiences or whatever the fuck it is.
shane smith
I would say for the first time, and maybe I'm being naive, but I would say for the first time in history, because of the internet and the freedom of movement of information, that you have this young population, Huge, massive, global, young population that most obviously is causing change in Arab Spring.
In these countries where Gaddafi was never going to fucking leave.
Mubarak was never going to leave.
And forcing change in there.
Forcing change in Europe.
Because young people are pissed off.
They're unhappy.
They're poor.
They're broke.
They don't have a lot of opportunities.
And they're sitting there saying, we're going to force change.
I think that that change is coming to Asia.
I think that change is a global phenomenon.
The world economic crisis has forced us to wake up.
We're saying there's a lot of young people out there and they're fucking pissed off and they're going to fuck shit up.
And they're either going to fuck shit up in a good way.
And by the way, I think Arab Spring is a positive thing.
There's going to be an implosion in Europe if it hasn't already happened and we're just seeing the aftershocks.
There's even shit happening here in America.
Which, by the way, I'm not afraid of because I like change.
I like things to be de-stratified.
Because I don't think America, if you look at right now what's happening in Congress, I think America's political system, the America, the political system in America, is broken.
Because you have Congress just fighting each other over things that are detrimental to what's going on.
joe rogan
They all need mushrooms.
They do.
They need mushrooms.
Everyone does.
It sounds like nonsense.
shane smith
Somebody needs to force them to say, hey, yo, you have to fucking work together for the betterment of this country.
joe rogan
And the only way to do that is to take ayahuasca.
shane smith
Because what they're doing is they're working against each other and they're fucking...
You should have.
joe rogan
Salvia Divinorum is legal in 36 states.
shane smith
Do it.
unidentified
I'm resetting.
I'm resetting Friday.
joe rogan
Get a Motel 6 and a bong and let's get this party started.
All you need is one of those butane lighters.
You've got to heat it to a certain temperature.
shane smith
Shane, do you know anything about dolphins?
unidentified
Because I'm swimming with one Saturday and I can't wait.
shane smith
Can I tell you something?
unidentified
Yes.
shane smith
I'm going to tell you the truth.
unidentified
All right.
shane smith
So, I went down to this dude, which I'm not allowed to talk too much about, but I'm going to just say his name.
Johnny Pagazzi's Island in Panama.
And I was on a boat.
joe rogan
That guy's going to get some email.
shane smith
I was on a boat, and I went to a super pod.
Have you ever heard?
joe rogan
I've heard of those recently, right?
shane smith
So, I was on a super pod with 3,000 dolphins, right?
3,000 dolphins.
3,000?
$3,000.
joe rogan
Did you hear about that in Mexico?
It's an orgy.
shane smith
I saw it on Craigslist.
unidentified
Hey, easy.
shane smith
Okay, so what happened is they gave me, you know what a CBOB is?
It's like a James Bond motherfucking thing.
Oh, okay.
It's like a little jet engine that you can keep up with them.
Because they don't like you if you can't keep up with them.
Seriously.
joe rogan
Well, they need to fucking get over that shit.
Judgmental pitches.
shane smith
Anyway, so I had this C-Bob.
joe rogan
Were you born with that fin or is that some shit you earned?
shane smith
I was going on my C-Bob and I was going with the Superpod.
There's three thousand...
This is what...
I got shit on because they shit a lot.
I got pissed on.
I got come on.
I saw a baby dolphin being born.
There was orgies.
joe rogan
Okay, stop right there.
Which one of those got you the most hard?
shane smith
No, but I gotta tell you what happened.
So I was on the Seabob thing, and then eventually, because the Seabob fucking ran out of batteries, I was holding on to the side of the boat with my thing, you know, snorkel and my mask.
And that's when all the shitting and the pissing and the cumming happened.
joe rogan
I'm like, what?
shane smith
Because they're all fucking all the time.
unidentified
Yeah, that's right.
shane smith
They're fucking, like, continually.
unidentified
I'm shaving my back for this side of it.
shane smith
Yeah, they just, they fuck, they fuck, they fuck, and they shit, and they piss.
And in a super pod, there's just all this matter.
There's all just kinds of bits of shit.
joe rogan
Shit and cum.
shane smith
Just everywhere.
joe rogan
Do they just cum in the air?
shane smith
This was me being shit, pissed, and cum on.
I was just going...
I was trying to talk to them.
Mating call, yes.
I was trying to talk to them through my snorkel.
Because they come close to you if you do.
They come straight up to you.
joe rogan
How do you know what you're saying, though?
shane smith
What if you say fuck?
unidentified
Fuck!
joe rogan
Don't let me tap out!
unidentified
Joe, they have this shit on YouTube.
shane smith
These videos of all the mating calls.
brian redban
I've been training for two weeks.
shane smith
Don't get raped, man!
They'll come straight up to you.
joe rogan
What if a killer whale jumps the fence?
shane smith
They'll come straight up to you.
They'll come within two inches.
They'll check you out.
They give you the eyeball.
They want to check you out.
These were spinners, and spinners are the most...
unidentified
Right, right.
shane smith
It's like crayons.
joe rogan
I wish that I could talk to a dolphin and talk them into a game of pool.
shane smith
I saw more fucking...
In the super pod.
And by the way, I came out of that, the water.
unidentified
He calmed out of it.
shane smith
I came out of the water covered.
Covered in shit, piss, and cum.
Yes!
Hold on.
And I've got to say, it was fucking awesome.
It was fucking awesome.
Because you're in the middle of, you're in the middle of, like they're doing some crazy shit in their society.
You don't understand what the fuck is.
They're all talking to each other.
They're all talking to each other.
joe rogan
What does it sound like?
shane smith
There's, like, you can get down there.
Say it.
unidentified
It's like a fucking Korean.
Yeah, no, they're talking to each other.
joe rogan
How many dolphins are there?
shane smith
In the Superpod, there was over 3,000.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
Okay, there's 3,000 dolphins, and this is just a wild fuckfest?
Yes!
shane smith
That's exactly what it is.
joe rogan
So you're down there.
You've got a scuba helmet on and all that bullshit.
shane smith
I have a sea bob.
joe rogan
And it's basically just you in a wetsuit, right?
shane smith
No wetsuit.
joe rogan
You're in a pod, right?
shane smith
No, there's no pod.
You have a little engine that you push on the button like this.
There's a little tiny engine to keep you...
You can't swim as fast.
They can swim as fast as fuck.
But they do this.
The reason why they're called spinners...
They do this thing where they're having sexual talks and they spin up into the water.
So you see hundreds of dolphins spinning up in the air.
But when you go down into the water, there's thousands of the dolphins fucking and having babies and shitting and pissing and everything.
And they're actually just hanging out.
joe rogan
Before we came along and stole all the tilapia, I bet that shit was a bomb.
Party and a half.
shane smith
I'll tell you what.
That's exactly what it is.
It's not tilapia, but tuna.
joe rogan
Tuna, whatever.
How long ago were dolphins have been in the same state for a million plus years?
Is that correct?
shane smith
Yeah, and that's the interesting thing about it.
They have language.
They have social norms.
They have all this.
joe rogan
They have names for each other.
shane smith
They have names for each other.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane smith
All this shit.
joe rogan
Their cerebral cortex is 40% larger than a human being.
unidentified
The hottest dolphin is actually the pink dolphin.
shane smith
It's the rarest one.
brian redban
So that's like the Japanese girl with the big tits.
joe rogan
That's the Angelina Jolie.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane smith
I think that's Brazilian.
unidentified
The dolphin's got some big ass tits.
joe rogan
Is that a saltwater or a freshwater dolphin?
shane smith
I think pink is Brazil, right?
Yeah, of course.
unidentified
They have the biggest ass.
They have the biggest ass.
shane smith
Look at these asses on these dolphins.
But I will say spinners are my particular favorite.
joe rogan
Well, spinners are what also dudes call 90-pound freaks.
shane smith
I've never been happy until I was accepted by the spinner paw.
joe rogan
You've never been happy as a human?
That's ridiculous.
shane smith
I finally have found out my...
joe rogan
Did you ever watch Saturday Night Live while you were on amphetamines?
unidentified
Joe, I'm doing this Saturday.
joe rogan
You know that, right?
shane smith
Saturday, I'm swimming with the dolphins.
I will say it's fucking awesome.
joe rogan
Explain what you're doing.
shane smith
It is fucking awesome.
unidentified
They're putting me in...
This guy has this pool about the size of your pool.
brian redban
Like a regular swimming pool, but he has four dolphins that just shoves in there.
joe rogan
A backyard pool?
unidentified
Yeah, and he has this yoga music on, and you just fucking swim naked around his back pool.
Wow.
joe rogan
How long have these dolphins been in this pool?
unidentified
I don't know why.
shane smith
Is this some sort of porn?
unidentified
No, it's not in porn.
I don't think it's porn.
I really don't think it's porn.
shane smith
Because they get horny, you know that.
I know!
joe rogan
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Where are you going to do this?
unidentified
San Diego.
joe rogan
That's a bit weird.
shane smith
It's not a pool.
It's not like somebody's backyard.
unidentified
He's gonna give me his address when I get there.
joe rogan
Oh my god, dude, you're getting raped.
shane smith
Hold on, hold on.
joe rogan
Don't do that!
shane smith
That sounds fucked up.
joe rogan
You need to talk to my lawyer.
What are you doing?
Are you out of your mind?
Listen to me.
unidentified
He sent me video links that I've watched.
joe rogan
For people at home going, how fucking big is Rogan's pool?
It is a totally normal backyard pool.
I don't have a crazy pool at all.
unidentified
It seems a lot smaller than it should be, honestly.
joe rogan
It's a regular pool.
If anybody has four dolphins in my pool, you're an asshole.
Okay?
You don't need to congregate with those type of humans.
shane smith
I will say this.
I have some proclivities to play cards.
And I went to Atlantis to play some cards.
And I swam with the dolphins in Atlantis.
You know, you swim with them.
I had a good time.
They're nice dolphins.
Everybody's nice.
But I gotta tell you one thing.
When you go out when they're wild motherfuckers in the pods, they could fuck you up.
They could kill you, bite you, fuck you up in a second.
And you know what they want to do with you?
They want to play with you.
They want to talk to you.
They want to fucking hang out with you.
And then you realize, these are nice dolphins.
The sharks will fuck you up.
The sharks will get you and eat you.
They're looking for meat.
joe rogan
Well, they're the cleanup crew.
shane smith
They don't kill dolphins, by the way.
By the way, dolphins eat meat.
Dolphins eat meat, the same as sharks do.
And dolphins will fuck a shark up.
But the dolphins, for some fucking reason, they have this weird affinity with humans.
They won't kill you.
They won't eat you.
They won't fuck you up.
They'll save you.
The sailors always say, you know, the fucking...
joe rogan
Dolphins don't have it together either.
shane smith
I don't know.
unidentified
Most dolphins do.
shane smith
I don't know.
Because I'll tell you one thing.
I swam around sharks and I was shit scared.
And when I was swimming around dolphins, I was not scared at all.
joe rogan
They were very nice to me.
shane smith
They were very polite.
unidentified
Very nice.
shane smith
They're like fucking massage parlors.
They're nice.
joe rogan
Settle down, bitches.
They don't have thumbs and they know we have guns.
It's that simple.
They don't have thumbs and they know we have guns.
They're not stupid.
What's going on here is that they realize that evolution has blessed them with the ability to move through their waters as if they were flying through the fucking sky like superheroes!
They don't have to breathe for minutes at a time.
They can always get to the surface unless some crafty Japanese dudes have manufactured some sort of a netting that traps them in the water.
shane smith
I'd just like to say things have gotten real weird all of a sudden.
joe rogan
Not weird at all!
Don't get uncomfortable!
It's a life and death struggle.
And the reason why dolphins are as ruthless as they are is because life demands that at the top of the pyramid of fucking craziness.
shane smith
You're a bit weirded out by dolphins.
unidentified
No!
No!
He is!
shane smith
He's a bit weirded out.
joe rogan
He's going to like it!
unidentified
He's married!
shane smith
He's a bit weirded out by a dolphin.
joe rogan
No, there's a bit that I wrote about something.
Dolphins and sinkholes.
shane smith
We figured it out.
Dolphins and sinkholes.
joe rogan
What about bigfoot?
What about crocodiles?
What if there was a dolphin that became a werewolf?
Yeah, what about all that?
What about syphilis?
You're being rude.
You're being rude by eliminating a lot of my fears.
shane smith
Sorry.
joe rogan
Or trying to categorize me as some sort of a normal meathead.
shane smith
Joe, why don't we do podcasts like this every day?
joe rogan
We're not incapable of it.
shane smith
I think also my question of food versus booze has been answered.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
You're right.
joe rogan
I haven't ate yet today.
I could take a cardboard sandwich with a good pause and that'd be fine.
shane smith
Dude, I have not ate yet.
joe rogan
I'm not going to taste it anyway.
shane smith
Have you ate yet today?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've eaten several times.
shane smith
Oh my God, I haven't ate yet today.
joe rogan
I'm ready to kill a buffalo, bitch.
I'm ready to go to Aubrey's hunting camp and kill a buffalo.
unidentified
Are you going to need that?
joe rogan
Yeah, I need a lot of red meat, man.
It's very important.
It's imperative to keep my fucking fuel.
shane smith
I thought the red meat was the inflammatory shit.
joe rogan
Nonsense!
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
The real issue.
shane smith
No, it's the highest thing of cholesterol ever.
joe rogan
The real issue is, Brian...
What is that word?
shane smith
Hey, I have to worry about you now.
unidentified
Brian, what's the word?
shane smith
Fart monkey.
joe rogan
Grass fed, bitch!
Battle ropes.
Real inflammation as far as animal tissue, there's a lot of it that's been correlated to cows eating corn.
shane smith
My problem is I eat everything.
I love it to eat.
I love eating food.
I love drinking food.
joe rogan
Here's the problem with corn-fed beef.
Goddamn delicious, okay?
A ribeye, a solid ribeye over mesquite charcoal.
shane smith
You were talking about when you first saw Vice and you're like, I saw your Chernobyl shit.
The first Rogan podcast I ever heard was You know how much fucking shit it takes to make a skirt steak?
Or a strip steak.
A strip steak.
You were talking about a strip steak.
Maybe it was Anthony Bourdain, but it was somebody.
joe rogan
Probably.
shane smith
You were talking about a strip steak, and you were saying, this fucking steak, they take it out of the whole cow, and this is the fucking thing, and you put it on the goddamn barbecue and whatever.
And I was sitting there, and I was like...
Why the fuck isn't he talking about a porterhouse?
Because the porterhouse has the strip and the filet.
joe rogan
Because you don't want to get crazy.
shane smith
With the bone.
So it's got the best of both worlds.
It's like a she-mail.
Like what we're talking about.
unidentified
The best of both worlds.
shane smith
It's got the filet and the strip.
joe rogan
You need a hug, son.
unidentified
And the fucking bone.
shane smith
So anyways, the first podcast I ever heard was talking about steak, and that's when I fell in love with you.
joe rogan
Was it Anthony?
Oh, you fell in love?
That's sweet.
I'm glad it's mutual.
shane smith
I don't know.
This feels like the marathon, like three-hour podcast of steak, booze, and politics.
joe rogan
When I met Anthony Bourdain, he was one of the first guys.
I was like, I hope this guy likes me.
It would suck.
He's awesome.
I love him.
I love his shows.
He's awesome.
shane smith
And what he's done is awesome.
joe rogan
Yes!
Well, who he is, he's so honest about his intentions.
shane smith
But a guy who can take food and fucking make it into what he did.
joe rogan
Listen, let me tell you something about how committed Anthony is to food.
He takes this drug so that he can still eat pork.
He takes some sort of Lipitor or whatever the fuck it is.
I need that drug.
They literally said to him, you must change your diet.
You're traveling all over the world.
shane smith
Because he's got too much cholesterol?
joe rogan
Exactly.
Cholesterol-filled fatty foods.
shane smith
Red wine, red wine.
joe rogan
You have to make a decision.
It's either Lipitor or it's no fatty foods.
You either take this drug.
shane smith
So he takes the Lipitor.
joe rogan
So he takes the drug.
shane smith
Yeah, fuck yeah.
joe rogan
He doesn't give a fuck.
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
He's like, I want the pork.
shane smith
Yeah.
unidentified
I need it.
shane smith
Well, pork is the best.
Well, pork, because if you go to any country, beef generally sucks.
America, the beef is fantastic, but generally it sucks because beef needs a lot of, you know, grass and a lot of food and a lot of water.
So beef in most countries is shit.
But pork, like when you have pork from a third world country or yard birds, the best...
Yard bird?
Like a yard bird.
That's what I call those...
unidentified
Never mind.
shane smith
Like a bird that lives in the yard.
joe rogan
Is that a pigeon?
shane smith
No, chicken.
joe rogan
Chicken?
shane smith
But they'll just like, let's say you go to Jamaica, right?
joe rogan
Right.
shane smith
They have a yard bird.
They just go out and kill it.
They take it and they cover it in chili and they barbecue the fuck out of it.
Not jerk.
Everyone always talks about jerk chicken.
It's fucking barbecue chicken in Jamaica.
And it's the best fucking thing you ever eat.
Why?
Because it's just a yard bird.
It's just been eating the fucking shit, whatever.
Same thing when you go anywhere else.
joe rogan
Yeah, well you can, people don't realize that.
Like you can take like your scraps of your table scraps.
shane smith
It's the same thing with pork.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you had a bunch of chickens, you can throw them in the backyard and they can live very well off of your scraps.
shane smith
Yardbirds are the most delicious motherfuckers you'll ever have in your fucking life.
What we have here is some Purdue genetically modified bullshit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane smith
But if you ever have a yard bird just from anywhere, just put it on a grill, do whatever the fuck it is.
You sit there and you go, what the fuck am I eating?
This is the best thing I've ever eaten.
joe rogan
Let me ask you this because I have two inclinations.
And one inclination is to be in the woods on the top of a mountain with a well and experiencing nature.
And the other inclination is to be in the hive, to be deep inside of Manhattan.
unidentified
I think you were on the mountain guy.
joe rogan
Yes and no.
Where's the gravity coming from?
Is it coming from the masses of humanity who, although imperfect at the moment, might be trying harder to work shit out?
Or is it from this sort of reluctant...
Agreement that the earth is much more powerful than the culture at this point in time.
It's better to just isolate yourself from all these idiots who haven't gotten the information yet and get your own water from a hole in the ground.
shane smith
I think, you know, again, that may be the quintessential question of the modern age.
joe rogan
But you're in both spots.
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you're in a guy, you live in Manhattan, you have children, so you're on that next level of sensitivity.
shane smith
But also, I spend the majority of my time out there in the shit...
And I will tell you this, when you actually have something, like for example, like you said, if you kill a deer and you cook that on an open fire, nothing tastes better than that.
You're right.
However, the thing is, this might be my paranoia, you've got your sinkholes and your werewolves.
What I think is happening is there's a global restructuring happening.
There is a global restructuring happening.
The people are seeing their calling the greatest recession since the Depression.
They're saying, well, this is this and this is that.
I think this is the new normal.
So, to be honest, and I'm not necessarily proud of this, what I love about New York City is I kind of feel like Nero as Rome is burning because I believe New York City is the greatest city in the world.
I believe it's the capital of the world culturally and economically and politically, for that matter.
And, you know, when you go out in New York City, It has the best restaurants in the world.
It has the best nightlife in the world.
I believe it has the best everything in the world.
I'm a huge fan of New York City.
I'm not from New York City.
joe rogan
Here's the problem.
I'm not in New York, so I say wrong.
shane smith
Well, it does, and so you can fuck off.
But what I will say is when you go out in New York City, right now, today, and it might be Shanghai in 10 years or whatever, but today, New York is the global capital.
And you can go out in New York City and you can, like me, come as a penniless immigrant and become a fucking rich motherfucker who can go out and have the greatest food.
And by the way, that food can be like a dollar.
Spring roll at the Vietnamese Bice or the best steak at Peter Luger's or whatever the fuck it is.
New York will give you everything.
New York has everything.
It's fantastic.
joe rogan
God damn it, I'm moving to New York!
Ryan, pack your bags!
shane smith
No, I'm not going.
joe rogan
We got Blue Cross Blue Shields!
Jamie's with us!
shane smith
But where are we going?
Where are we going?
joe rogan
Underground to a bunker with the crocodiles.
shane smith
Where are we going is, and where do I feel the happiest is, I feel the happiest out in nature.
I feel the happiest at sea.
I feel the happiest in the forest.
I feel the happiest grilling meat over a grill.
joe rogan
You've got to bring Manhattan to the forest.
shane smith
But what I will tell you is, I don't believe that the sort of Roman bacchanalian craziness that is New York today is going to be around that much longer.
joe rogan
Who is Roman bacchanalian?
shane smith
Well, Roman, like the end of Rome, the Roman Empire, and Bacchanalian Bacchus, the sort of, the god of wine and drink and partying.
joe rogan
How obscure are your references?
shane smith
Sorry.
unidentified
I know, it's like Bacchus.
joe rogan
Who's Bacchus?
shane smith
God of booze.
joe rogan
How do you know about these people?
shane smith
I read books, bitch.
joe rogan
Okay, I understand this.
shane smith
Bacchanalian, it means boozy.
joe rogan
It's been three times during this podcast that the MagSafe electrical cord connecting to my laptop has dropped off through my flailing hands.
That means it's a good'un.
shane smith
Dude, you have a battery.
unidentified
It lasts three hours.
You don't have to worry about that.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
I'm upset with Apple.
Why did you change?
This shit's 100% charged right now.
shane smith
They change their charges all the time.
joe rogan
Stop playing games.
unidentified
No, it's the best right now.
It's the best.
joe rogan
I finally, at 45 years of age, am a part of an actual company that sells things.
And one of the things that I realize is you can decide to make more money, you fucks.
Are you peeing?
shane smith
No, no.
But, hey...
unidentified
Ice-T. Ice-T the rapper?
No, he wants Ice-T. Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We never came up with Olive Garden.
shane smith
No, Olive Garden.
joe rogan
Just keep the camera off my man as he meditates into a trance.
unidentified
That means he has to snap one off.
joe rogan
A transcendental meditation point where he understands the point of view that he is in right now does not represent where he will be in infinity.
If he is in fact a soul and if a soul transgresses from one point in history to another Over and over and over until you get it right.
Now this sounds like hippie bullshit, but do you understand that Helio Gracie believed in this?
Helio Gracie said something once, and if you don't know who he is, his real name isn't Helio Gracie.
I say that for all you white people who don't understand how Brazilian people pronounce things.
But they pronounce the...
for whatever reason...
Helio Gracie, H-E-L-I-O, was pronounced Ilio Gracie.
That's how the Portuguese in Brazil use that word.
Ilio Gracie.
He said something once, and he's the guy who trained Hickson Gracie and Hoist Gracie, the original winner of the UFC 1 and the UFC 2. I mean, Hoist Gracie changed the entire face of martial arts.
shane smith
Wasn't he the dude who also said, I'll take on all comers, all weight classes...
And we'll pay 10 or 100 grand or whatever.
The number changes.
But he said, I'll take on any fighter, any weight class, and I'll fight them.
joe rogan
Not only did Ilio Gracie do this, he did this when he was 140 plus pounds.
He was like 145. He developed a method of using leverage and using technique to submit guys that were much, much, much larger than you.
He trained Hickson.
He trained Hoyce.
He trained some of the most influential martial artists in the history of the world.
One of the things he said is that you live this life and if you make even one mistake and you live this life incorrectly, you will return and you will do it all over again until you get it right.
That sounds crazy.
I heard about that, and I was like, oh, you motherfucker, why are you putting all that bullshit on me?
There's no way anybody's ever going to live this life perfectly and get it...
And then I thought, if anybody knows, if anybody understands the path of man in its truest form without hyperbole, without...
Directing other people's insecurities back on different folks to alleviate the pressure of reality.
If anybody's going to understand what the fuck is really going on, it's going to be a 145 pound man.
Who's willing to take on the greatest fighters.
shane smith
Any fighter.
Any fighter.
Any style.
joe rogan
This is the 1920s.
unidentified
The 1930s.
joe rogan
Any weight.
shane smith
Any fucking weight.
That's insane.
joe rogan
Kimura broke his arm with a Kimura.
It's a shoulder lock.
The catch wrestling guys call it a double wrist lock.
But this technique became known as a Kimura.
He broke his arm.
Ilia wouldn't tap out.
He let him break his arm.
shane smith
Did you ever see the thing I did?
I went down to Sao Paulo and Rio and I hung out with the Gracies and I hung out with the fighters down there, the Vale Tudo guys.
They are the fucking toughest dudes in the fucking world.
The Vale Tudo guys are fucking enough.
joe rogan
It's a crazy way to live.
shane smith
Now they're all fighting MMA. They're all fighting UFC. Well, they do that now because they realize there's prosperity in that.
Yeah, they can get out of the favelas.
But they are the toughest motherfuckers alive down there.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
One of the most beautiful things about what Elio said, what Elio Gracie said, when he said that he would...
Like, that he literally had sort of figured out a way to test who you are and test what you could figure out and test what you could do.
And he truly believed in these most extreme of circumstances, literally fighting these much larger, much stronger men and letting them break his arms.
He believed that if you live this life, That you must do it correctly.
And if you did anything wrong, anything contrary to your spirit or contrary to the soul or the collective idea of humanity as a whole being of the utmost importance, so you, the one who is tested, must represent humanity.
And in that...
Saying that if you made any mistakes, you would do it again.
I was so scared.
When I read that, I was like, that might be one of the most frightening things I've ever read in my life.
Because he might be right.
What if that guy in his battles, literally almost to the death.
I mean, he was fighting guys.
shane smith
With anybody.
unidentified
Yeah!
shane smith
The modern-day kumite blood sport.
joe rogan
And he was a small man!
shane smith
Exactly, and he kicked the fuck out of everybody.
joe rogan
Dude, I weigh 190 pounds.
That means this guy, he was 145 pounds.
unidentified
He was literally 45 pounds more than me.
joe rogan
That's less than me.
That's an insane amount of weight.
And this guy would take...
I wouldn't take on anybody in the world.
He would take on big, giant people.
And in throwing himself into the fire, he had an understanding of human life and of human nature.
And he sort of, in some way, relayed that to the rest of us.
shane smith
Can I give a shout-out and can I tell you one story?
joe rogan
Are you giving a shout-out?
unidentified
Are you a black guy or a white rapper?
shane smith
Can I give a shout out?
joe rogan
What's happening here?
shane smith
I would like to give a shout out to one guy who I met.
He's a guy named Matt Ruskin, right?
And he was in the Marines in Iraq.
And they had these fight clubs in Iraq.
And the Marines, these were tough motherfuckers.
And he was doing this.
They had these fight clubs.
And they would fight the fuck out of each other.
And he's like 200 pounds.
And he would fight guys who were 250. He would fight guys who were 150. He was fighting them.
He would beat them all.
And he came back and he started doing MMA. He started fighting MMA. And he hooked up with this guy, one of the Gracies, and taught him Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, of which he was, I believe, five-time world champion, the Gracie.
joe rogan
Which guy?
shane smith
I'm forgetting his fucking name.
He's a fucking amazing, amazing guy.
joe rogan
His name is Gracie?
shane smith
Yeah, he's Gracie.
And I went down to Brazil.
joe rogan
Hodger Gracie?
What weight does he compete at?
shane smith
Heavyweight.
joe rogan
Heavyweight.
shane smith
He was five-time world Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion.
joe rogan
Well, Hodger's not quite a heavyweight.
shane smith
He competes in MMA at 185. I don't think he fights any more than MMA, but he was a Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion five times.
Global champion.
Anyway, Matt Ruskin hooked me up with this guy.
Do you remember his name at all?
See, Gracie.
joe rogan
That's the problem, goddammit.
shane smith
But he's a big, big fucking heavyweight.
joe rogan
Heavyweight?
shane smith
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Heavyweight Gracie.
shane smith
Yeah.
I went down, if you can look it up, I went down with him on, you know.
unidentified
Shout out to Echo.
joe rogan
Shout out to heavyweight Gracie.
shane smith
Anyway, but I gotta say this, Matt Ruskin, the Marine fought in Iraq, came back, started fighting with the Gracies, took me down there, showed me what the fuck was going on, And I've got to say, you know, I learned the story of the Gracies from the Gracies when I was down there.
And that story of, you know, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and him sort of taking on all comers with the bounty, you know, like if you can beat me.
When I heard it was a million bucks, but I think it was actually more like a hundred grand.
joe rogan
What year is this?
shane smith
This is in like the 70s and 80s.
This is like the Valley Tudo times.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
A heavyweight Gracie from back then?
shane smith
No, no.
Now, the Gracie that brought me down.
joe rogan
Hollis?
Was it Hollis Gracie?
shane smith
No, Hollis Gracie is very famous.
joe rogan
Well, Hollis, the son of Hulse.
shane smith
Right.
It's...
Fuck.
I'm going to get in shit for forgetting his name.
joe rogan
Well, that's okay.
Think about it for a second.
shane smith
He's a real good looking guy.
He was a model.
Real good looking guy.
joe rogan
Hickson?
Pickson's the most handsome of all time and the greatest of all time.
shane smith
No, this guy was actually a model in Brazil.
joe rogan
I'm not gay, bro.
shane smith
And Matt Ruskin, if you could tweet me his name now.
joe rogan
His name is Gracie and he was a model?
shane smith
Yeah, model and a great fighter.
joe rogan
Somebody lied to you and got in your pants.
unidentified
Was this that structure at Sears?
shane smith
And five-time...
Global jujitsu champion.
benjamin jaffe
We are now in a swamp of disinformation.
shane smith
No, it's true.
joe rogan
No Wikipedia entries whatsoever.
shane smith
If someone could tweet us right now.
joe rogan
Here's the problem.
We don't have an actual name here.
Let me tell you something.
shane smith
I'm going to look at my phone.
Matt Ruskin, email me his name.
joe rogan
I'm sure Matt Ruskin has probably got a good gator roll, maybe an Anaconda choke, or Victor Gracie.
I'm going to look right now.
Victor Gracie?
Victor Gracie is pretty sexy.
unidentified
A good half guard.
He shaves.
shane smith
This guy was more of a jiu-jitsu straight up.
joe rogan
Let me explain something.
Okay, first of all.
No bullshit.
I've been doing jiu-jitsu since 1998 and I've never heard of a Gracie heavyweight.
shane smith
He seems like a Victor guy.
He's a heavyweight who won World Jiu-Jitsu Championship.
joe rogan
I understand.
shane smith
Okay, go.
joe rogan
Hollis Gracie in MMA, who was...
He beat Bob Sapp.
I think he fought in the UFC once.
He lost, but I think it was more of a case of a...
When a guy immediately gets thrown into the UFC, there's a thing that happens called an adrenaline dump where you get in front of the big cameras and you think about the Hoist-Gracy fights of 1993 and you panic.
It's like the overwhelming input of the moment is too much.
shane smith
Matt, how are you?
I'm here with Joe Rogan.
We're talking about the Gracies.
And I'm saying, who's the...
Daniel Gracie.
Daniel Gracie.
Daniel Gracie, world jiu-jitsu champion.
How many times?
Three times?
Yeah, so he's a global jiu-jitsu champion.
Daniel Gracie.
I'm going to put you on to Rogan.
Hold on a second.
Talk to him.
By the way, Matt Ruskin's a fucking awesome dude.
joe rogan
Hey, Matt.
unidentified
Hey, what's going on, man?
How's everything?
joe rogan
Can you hear it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's up, Matt?
How do you know powerful Shane Smith from Vice.com?
All right.
unidentified
Shane Smith walked into a fucking gym that I used to work at, and I basically told him he needed to lose weight because he was going to die.
joe rogan
First of all, how rude.
How about...
Hey, settle down.
First of all, how about you tell him first and foremost that you love him?
You don't have to go right into your fat fuck and you're going to die.
He knows how much you love him?
You say that, but is that to alleviate the pressure of your own person?
shane smith
It's true, though.
We love each other.
joe rogan
Oh, no gay stuff.
This is a late night podcast.
There's a lot of dudes that are listening to this in the shower.
I'm sorry.
Keep going.
Matt.
No gay stuff, bro.
This is late night.
unidentified
So we just became friends after that and I did some work with advice before Fightland.
They did this whole thing with me when I was training for one of my fights.
They sent their friend Thomas around with me for a while.
shane smith
Tell them about when we went down with Daniel Gracie.
joe rogan
Daniel Gracie?
Here's the thing about Daniel Gracie.
Daniel Gracie is a very, very, very talented Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter, but his real last name, I don't believe, was initially Gracie.
unidentified
No, he's Henzo's cousin.
joe rogan
He's Henzo's cousin, yeah.
And I think his mom's name was Gracie, but his dad's name and his birth name was not Gracie, right?
Yeah.
I believe.
This is what I believe.
I believe he's a very talented fighter, but I believe this whole idea of connecting yourself to the word Gracie is...
It is ultimately very self-defeating.
And when a guy does that, I almost want to pull him aside.
I say, Daniel, you're a bad motherfucker.
Whatever the fuck your last name is, it doesn't matter.
You need to get your head wrapped around the fact that that's all bullshit.
Gracie is a great name, but it's 2013, and when he was competing 8, 9, 10, whatever the fuck it was, 2000...
It doesn't matter.
What matters is how good you are.
And adopting the name Gracie almost makes people think like, oh, well this guy is trying to get a little extra attention for no reason.
The world championships are the world championships.
You either mount a guy, you take his back, you tap him.
Whatever you do, you either do or you don't do.
And it doesn't matter if your name is Marcelo Garcia, who's unbelievably respected.
I mean, Marcel Garcia is the top of the pyramid when it comes to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in the world today in 2013. Or Gracie, it doesn't matter.
So, whatever his name was, what was his real name?
unidentified
I think the family name was Vieira or Samoes, one of the two.
joe rogan
Matt, how many times have you been high in your life?
Don't lie to me.
unidentified
How many times what?
joe rogan
Have you been high in your life?
More than ten?
Is it more than ten?
shane smith
Yes.
joe rogan
Okay.
So we could probably go camping together.
How many times you ate in pot brownies and thought about chicks you fingered when you were 14?
You were really upset.
shane smith
Like Kyra Gracie.
joe rogan
More than 10. More than 10. That's why I love talking to you, Matt.
Let's keep it together, Matt.
But there was a few guys that did the Gracie thing, where they used the word Gracie.
shane smith
What I'm going to say is, Daniel Gracie, whatever you want to call him, what I'm going to say is, he's a bad motherfucker, but by the way, he took us around Brazil, he took us to the Valetudo gyms, he took us to the gyms, he took us with Matt, and I got to say, it was fucking, I got to say, you see a different level of shit down there than you will see anywhere else.
These guys train like motherfuckers.
joe rogan
Do you hear this, Matt, and do you agree with this?
unidentified
I was in the Marine Corps, the Iraq in 04. We walked into the favela.
We were in the complexion of the Alamal, which at the time was like the worst of the worst.
And we had to go ask the boss if we could come in here and film.
So the boss said, yeah, no problem.
Just don't film the kids with the guns.
And we're looking around.
We're like, what kids?
What guns?
We take a left turn down the street and I mean, it was just wall-to-wall 14-year-olds, 15-year-olds with, like, military-grade weapons.
I mean, you've got to picture the look.
It was, like, board shorts, flip-flops, you know, like a 1989 Luther Campbell, like, gold rope chain with a medallion, you know, side-to-side mount gold teeth, fucking, you know, collapsible stock M4 with an ACOG grenade launcher, the whole nine.
I mean, these kids were armed to the fucking teeth.
And everyone that we went down there with was just looking around like, holy shit.
joe rogan
Listen, man.
You never end a story by saying, like, holy shit.
unidentified
I understand you have a very good story.
shane smith
I was with Matt.
joe rogan
However, you leave us confused.
shane smith
I'm going to say this.
unidentified
You at least can give us the respect of the end.
shane smith
I was with Matt on that, and there was 14-year-old kids.
unidentified
Don't lie to me, Mats.
joe rogan
Say yes.
Okay.
Listen, bro.
I feel what you're saying.
And I was only fucking around.
I was filling some dead space where we're trying to recalibrate our reality due to your circumstances and your story being paradigm shifting.
Joe, you're so fucked up.
I'm not that fucked up.
Listen, I want to tell you, Matt.
shane smith
Matt, I'm giving you a shout out.
I love you.
This guy fucking is an awesome guy.
Ex-Marine and a fighter.
I love you, Matt.
joe rogan
Matt, I'm very sorry that you got dragged into a podcast.
It was just a phone call for you, and all of a sudden, Shane Smith talking about some crazy shit.
And you're like, God damn it.
I gotta tell the truth, because I'm Matt.
I'm Matt Ruskin, and I don't give a fuck.
shane smith
But Daniel Gracie is a badass motherfucker.
joe rogan
Yes.
Unquestionably.
What is his real name, Matt?
unidentified
What's that?
joe rogan
Daniel Gracie.
What is his real name?
unidentified
The last name, the family name is Vieira or Samoa.
It's one of the two I know.
joe rogan
And I completely...
By the way, I want to let everybody know.
There's no judgment involved in that whatsoever.
I completely understand why someone who especially was in a situation where they were a very talented guy and they were trying to maximize the The sort of the spread of their name as far as possible.
And the word Gracie, because of Hoyce and because of Horian and what they accomplished in UFC 1, it was one of the most important moments in the history of martial arts.
Would you agree, Matt?
For people who don't know the history of it or weren't there when it's happening as martial artists, it was one of the most important moments ever.
It's like all of a sudden we found out what really works, right?
And those guys...
That name, that Gracie name, that shit's like Q-tips or Kleenex, you know?
It's synonymous.
I don't give a fuck about your tissues.
If you have tissues made by Kraft macaroni and cheese, if they're right next to Kleenex, I'm taking the Kleenex.
Okay, because they dominate, as does the NFL. They dominate as well.
You know what I'm saying, Matt?
Jesus Christ, back me up.
unidentified
I do, but in Daniel's defense, I gotta tell you, I think the name was given to him by Enzo and Hyatt.
shane smith
100%.
Thank you, Matt.
Thank you.
joe rogan
In what way?
Like, Daniel was a...
unidentified
When they all were fighting in pride, they told him to take the family name.
joe rogan
You know why?
Do you know why?
unidentified
Do you know why?
joe rogan
Because they're smart motherfuckers.
Because they're smart motherfuckers, and they know how to make that paper, son.
Matt, don't freeze up on me now.
We're in the deep end of the pool, Matt.
unidentified
My heart hurts.
joe rogan
And we're not close to the lip.
Hang in there.
Right, Matt?
Are you with me, buddy?
I'm sorry.
Listen, Matt.
I need to apologize to you as a human being.
You didn't know what the fuck was going on here.
You got dragged into this conversation.
Shane Smith calls you.
Where do you live, sir?
Don't tell me.
East Coast, West Coast, or Mountain Time?
unidentified
East Coast.
joe rogan
East Coast.
Oh, dude.
It's late as fuck.
shane smith
What I'm trying to say is Matt is an awesome dude.
joe rogan
Do you hear this, Matt?
Shane Smith just said, Matt is an awesome dude.
shane smith
And Daniel Grace is an awesome dude.
And what they showed me was awesome.
joe rogan
We're not trying to discredit any of that.
We're not trying to discredit any of that, Matt.
You understand this, correct?
shane smith
Joe, you want to do a shot?
joe rogan
No, not yet.
In three minutes.
Listen, what's important, Matt, is you understand that I respect and adore Daniel Gracie and anybody that gets in there.
I just think that if I could have been there when Henzo and all those other guys were trying to talk Daniel into using the last name Gracie...
Let's think this shit through.
unidentified
Sorry.
joe rogan
Vanderlei Silva did pretty good with the name Silva.
Okay, okay, we're gonna be fine.
We don't need Gracie.
unidentified
We're okay.
Are you Gracie?
Is your name Henzo?
It is.
joe rogan
Henzo, do you support this Daniel character?
Yeah, what the fuck difference does it make?
What noise you make with your mouth that represents his last name?
Are we cool?
Jesus Christ!
For the greater good of the humanity of the world, how about we forget about...
Imperial dictatorships and names that dominate sports history.
You feel me, Matt?
brian redban
Did you know eating marijuana is different if you smoke it?
unidentified
Hey, Matt!
joe rogan
Matt!
I'm sorry, dude.
This is so rude.
shane smith
Tell Matt you love him.
joe rogan
I love you, Matt.
I'm so sad that I dragged you into this.
And even though I did it with no malice...
100%.
shane smith
Matt Ruskin.
joe rogan
With jest.
Matt Ruskin.
I didn't do this to be mean.
I just did this because that's my nature.
I am the scorpion.
You are the frog.
This is how shit goes down.
I didn't mean to do this.
shane smith
Matt Ruskin is a beautiful dude.
joe rogan
Hey, Matt Ruskin.
Will you do my podcast?
unidentified
I would be happy to do your podcast.
joe rogan
Sir, I'd be honored if you would do my podcast.
Will you do it with Shane?
Yes.
unidentified
The heavens have just opened up!
In a hot tub in San Diego with a dolphin?
joe rogan
No, stop it.
No dolphins and no shaman.
brian redban
Ask him if he's ever experimented with a dolphin.
joe rogan
Matt.
shane smith
Just tell him you love him.
joe rogan
Matt.
Have you ever watched a rodeo and felt sorry for the bulls?
Nothing.
Listen, Matt.
I love the fuck out of here, even though we've never met.
shane smith
He's a good man.
joe rogan
If Shane Smith says you're a good man, you're a good man.
Do you feel me?
unidentified
Alright, let's move.
joe rogan
Okay.
Jihad.
unidentified
Hey, can we give a shout out to Green Mountain Grills?
shane smith
Thanks, buddy.
I'm gonna go.
joe rogan
Green Mountain Grills are badass.
shane smith
Yeah, I got one.
Matt Ruskin and Daniel Grace, you're a fucking great guy.
joe rogan
Did you cook on it yet?
shane smith
I just want to give you a shout out, Matt.
unidentified
I just had my first cookout.
joe rogan
That was one of the most, the least entertaining...
unidentified
Dude, that broke my face.
That was one of the funniest shit things I've ever seen in my life.
My face hurts.
Tomorrow you're going to look at that video and you're going to be like...
joe rogan
Listen, I just typed Daniel Gracie into Wikipedia and I don't even remember doing it.
How about that?
shane smith
You cracked me the fuck up.
joe rogan
How about that, huh?
Badass motherfucker, though.
And Hodger.
Hodger Gracie is one of the most...
shane smith
The Gracie's full stop are badass motherfuckers.
joe rogan
Yeah, Hodger is fighting in the UFC, I believe.
I want to say he's fighting Tim Kennedy, but I'm not...
Hold on a second.
Let me pull that up.
What are you laughing at?
shane smith
It's the funniest episode ever.
joe rogan
You know what?
I dragged this guy.
I met him online.
shane smith
You know, can I say one thing?
Can I say one thing?
joe rogan
Yes, sir.
shane smith
I'm pissed off.
unidentified
Why?
shane smith
Because I saw a tweet, because I follow you on Twitter, you fucker.
Yes.
Wait a minute.
And somebody was tweeting their shoes that they made with your design.
Yes.
unidentified
I don't have those shoes.
brian redban
That's Jill, who does the calendar for DeathSquad.tv.
shane smith
If I don't get shoes with that design that I can wear every day, then I'm going to be pissed off.
joe rogan
Before you request these shoes, understand that Brian is in the middle of...
Number three.
brian redban
That's like pooping and pissing out of your butt.
shane smith
I don't even know what that fucking means.
joe rogan
Stop listening.
These are noises coming.
He panicked right now.
He's on cat number three.
Death Squad cat number one, who originally was my favorite.
That's the one over your right shoulder right there.
That's Death Squad cat number one.
But then once I fell in love with the Wendy's cat, and the second cat is my favorite.
shane smith
Can I say one thing?
Tom Ford is making money off of doing these Baroque slippers with Baroque old things.
And I'm saying...
joe rogan
Oh, hold on.
What's Baroque?
shane smith
Like, you know, tapestries...
joe rogan
I'm tired of hearing that word.
shane smith
Tapestries from the 17th century.
He's taking tapestries, making slippers out of them, selling them for a thousand bucks.
I want a red fucking...
Man, fucking...
Shoe that I saw on Twitter and the fact that I don't have those shoes.
unidentified
I don't have those shoes.
shane smith
Are those Twinkies legit?
Because I want to wear those when I go to the Academy Awards.
Oh, wait a minute.
joe rogan
That's the last thing you want to do.
No, it's the right thing, Joe.
We've got to come to an agreement.
No Academy Awards, okay?
shane smith
Okay.
joe rogan
Some awards.
The Death Star.
shane smith
Death Squad.
unidentified
Not the Death Squad, but the Death Star.
shane smith
If I don't get a pair of those shoes, I'm fucking pissed off.
joe rogan
Okay, we need new shoes.
unidentified
We need a left eye and a right eye.
shane smith
I want slippers that he has designed and made, otherwise I'm fucking pissed off.
joe rogan
Listen, Brian does not have any time to design and make slippers.
shane smith
He does, because I see them on Twitter.
joe rogan
No, I didn't make Listen, Brian and I have been working together for at least, what, a decade now?
2003?
shane smith
A decade?
Those are badass shoes.
joe rogan
Badass.
unidentified
Oh, no.
Badass.
shane smith
By the way, I want them, but I want them more plushy.
joe rogan
No doubt about it.
shane smith
Made out of sort of...
joe rogan
How long have we been working together for?
unidentified
Ten years.
joe rogan
Okay.
This is the most important thing with Brian.
You can't tell Brian what to do.
You can't let Brian...
shane smith
I want those shoes.
joe rogan
You can't put any pressure on him.
You can tell them, look, at least a couple of days a week you have to show up and do this.
But other than that, you've got to leave him alone.
shane smith
I will fight...
joe rogan
That's the only way these hypnotic cats get discovered.
shane smith
I will fight...
joe rogan
Because you're not going to come with that shit if you live in a fucking cubicle and you're panicking, taking Adderall all day to get through your workload.
shane smith
I will fight Hoist Gracie if I can have a pair of those shoes.
joe rogan
You say that.
shane smith
I need those shoes.
joe rogan
No one has ever gotten you into a proper rear naked choke.
unidentified
If you really felt the fucking pecs and the spine.
shane smith
If you choked me, you would win in 3.2 seconds.
But I would be wearing the shoes.
joe rogan
That's what I need.
shane smith
Well, you'd win.
It's not about winning.
I concede, but I want the shoes.
joe rogan
I don't even know how we got to this point.
unidentified
I don't know either.
joe rogan
What I'm telling you is...
shane smith
We've gotten off track.
joe rogan
The kid's on his way to...
shane smith
Well, by the way, fuck that.
Your shoes are amazing.
Your designs are amazing.
joe rogan
It's not his shoes!
shane smith
I know I said this last time!
unidentified
This is what I'm telling you!
shane smith
I said it last time.
Your fucking designs are good.
I want those fucking shoes.
joe rogan
I understand what you're saying, but what you need to understand is the next cat is going to be on the next level.
unidentified
No, why are you putting the pressure on me?
Are you going to be looking at the other cats and be like, fuck those slippers!
shane smith
Death Squad!
unidentified
Shoes!
I fucking want them!
joe rogan
Chocolate-filled Twinkies.
We're not fucking around.
unidentified
By the way, your fucking spine is bulging.
shane smith
You're eating a fucking Twinkie.
I'm allowed to have some fucking shoes.
joe rogan
That's an old Twinkie, Joe.
unidentified
Stop.
It's a chocolate.
joe rogan
They don't even make that anymore.
unidentified
It tastes a lot like the shit you put in your tire when you want to fix a flat.
shane smith
That expired a long time ago.
Cockroaches and Twinkies are the only things that will survive the apocalypse.
What do you mean expired?
You're getting ready.
You're getting ready.
You're fucking getting your Twinkies ready.
But I want my shoes ready.
As the fucking bomb goes off, I'm going to be looking good!
joe rogan
For anyone right now collecting their thoughts and gathering their finances on their way to the bank, on their way to financing their very first yoga studio, I want you to know, I know this podcast doesn't represent how you feel right now.
When you're...
When you're in that train and you're thinking to yourself as you make the connection to the bus on your way to work, I don't want to be that guy!
I don't want to be out of control, worrying about asteroids with intestinal viruses that look like fucking aliens grown inside my shit tract!
unidentified
I don't want to be that guy!
How?
joe rogan
How does this help me?
shane smith
The squad.
joe rogan
This helps me.
shane smith
The squad makes me look good.
joe rogan
Because this helps all of us.
because we need all of the information about all the possible realities of all of the human beings existing in this temporary state that we both exist in that you all three of us right now this 2013 can i say one thing Let me say whatever the fuck you want.
shane smith
Joe Rogan, Taekwondo motherfucker, the voice of the MMA. How drunk are you?
joe rogan
Fear Factor.
shane smith
And fashion fucking mogul.
Because unless I get those goddamn fucking shoes.
There's going to be things going to be happening.
joe rogan
We're going to get those shoes, and we're going to find this gal who made those shoes, and we're going to ask Jill Himitsu, that girl?
shane smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
See, I know about my super fans.
shane smith
I will say one last thing, because this podcast has been going on for 800 hours.
unidentified
So what?
shane smith
But I will say this.
joe rogan
We got a show in 20 minutes.
shane smith
How about fucking Joe Rogan?
Joe Rogan, fucking shut up.
Between Fear Factor and your UFC shit and all your other shit, but the fucking podcast that you do, and by the way, I'm sitting here in a room with 700 cameras that Red Band has set up.
I'm sitting here doing podcasts with you.
The fact that you do these podcasts and you finance these podcasts and you do these podcasts, I've got to say, I fucking hand it to you, my friend.
I fucking hand it to you.
joe rogan
This all means nothing.
Listen, let me explain this to you.
shane smith
Shut it.
joe rogan
Let me explain this to you.
shane smith
Hey, how about this?
How about this?
unidentified
You were in my position.
You would also know it.
How about this?
joe rogan
Take it.
shane smith
How about this?
You got to take it.
You got it?
If I say you're fucking awesome, you have to fucking take it.
joe rogan
I understand, sweetie pie.
But here's the problem with that.
You can never believe you.
If you start talking to me in these crazy superlatives and tell me how awesome I am, I'm like, this guy's basically full of shit.
shane smith
Okay, and I'm going to tell you the truth.
I'm going to tell you the truth.
joe rogan
If you believe it, lock it up and throw it in a dark place in the back of your mind.
shane smith
No, now see, this is going to be me and you in the back alley.
But I'm going to tell you the truth is, you don't have to do this fucking podcast.
You don't have to fucking sit here and deal with shitheads like me.
But I will tell you one thing.
joe rogan
That's when you're wrong, sir, because that fear factor money comes at a price.
unidentified
It's a mental mortgage I'm paying off.
shane smith
Us talking about this shit is because you fucking paid for this fucking room with all the cameras and the fucking microphones and all the shit.
joe rogan
I did not pay for this room.
This is mostly Brian's.
The only thing I paid for was the microphones.
unidentified
My iMac.
shane smith
I bought that iMac.
I bought the mics.
I give kudos to you, and if you don't take it, then I'm going to put this pen up your arse.
joe rogan
Normally, I would say thank you very much.
unidentified
Why do I get shit if I'm not allowed to give you a compliment?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
You're absolutely allowed to, but I have to tell you that in this particular situation, since we're at the Ice House, this was 99% Brian's work.
shane smith
Which I give him fucking straight up kudos.
Well, I'm trying to fucking buy fucking footwear off him.
He won't give it to me.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
He's not selling the footwork.
But what I'm saying is that...
unidentified
I don't have anything to do with it.
joe rogan
Although he is...
I gave permission to make it.
It's a very strange situation.
Brian and I have been friends and employees.
And I try to distance myself from the employee aspect as much as possible.
But he really created this whole room.
He decorated it.
shane smith
He's a smart motherfucker.
joe rogan
Our friend Brendan gave us that picture.
I asked him to put that up.
And that's it.
Other than that, it's all Brian's creation.
shane smith
But you don't have to do these podcasts, and the fact that you do these podcasts, the fact that you have Anthony Bourdain, and the fact that you have me, the fact that you have all these people on, that is something special.
And I know we always get to this at the end of it, but I've got to say, what you're doing with Brian and with yourself, come on now.
At least accept the fact that that's an important fucking motherfucking thing.
And by the way, if you don't accept it, I will do something bad with this thing.
joe rogan
Listen, I have a problem, I got a t-shirt on, I got my keys and my knuckles, and I'm ready to fucking party.
I'm telling you, you're asking me to take the Kool-Aid and to fucking brush my teeth with it, but not swallow it.
shane smith
Joe Rogan, ladies and gentlemen!
joe rogan
I'm not interested!
shane smith
Joe Rogan!
joe rogan
Even though my gums have lacerations on them that would allow the sacred liquid from the Kool-Aid to get into my bloodstream, I'm not willing.
I'm not willing.
shane smith
I want everyone in the Joe Rogan universe to tweet the motherfucker out of him because Joe Rogan is the fucking man.
unidentified
Shut up!
Where does this look from?
Alcohol.
joe rogan
There's a lot of douchebags that are me 20 years from now.
They're going, fuck that guy.
The reality.
shane smith
I'm going to say I like Joe Rogan.
I like Red Band.
Death Squad.
Powerful.
I love all you guys.
I love you.
joe rogan
Are we almost three hours in?
shane smith
Yeah, five minutes.
joe rogan
Listen, Shane, you're a bad motherfucker.
shane smith
Fuck you.
joe rogan
I got to tell you.
This is a very, very unusual podcast, but all podcasts with you.
unidentified
I think it's my favorite one of all time.
joe rogan
Yeah, it might be up there.
It's probably number one.
shane smith
My only weird thing about this is we only have real meaningful conversations with headphones and microphones.
And hold on, I'm going to tell you this.
You guys, like, I seriously respect what the fuck you're doing.
And there are people out there in the fucking world that are listening here.
And I got to say...
I'm fucking stoked to be here.
And so, if it's you, and I'm...
Nobody can see me, or maybe you can't see me.
I'm pointing at you, Redman.
If it's you, then fucking thank you very much.
Because, you know what?
My favorite thing to do, my favorite press ever...
Like, I have to do press all the time.
And by the way, you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about, because...
Vice sent fucking Dennis Rodman to fucking North Korea.
We have the fucking only interviews with Kim Jong-il.
We have like number one fucking shit that ABC, CBS, NBC, everybody fucking wants.
You know where I come?
I come to the Joe fucking Rogan podcast and I'll tell you why.
Because those are the only fucking people I give a shit about.
And that's why I'm here.
I love you fucking guys.
And by the way, if that's your fucking shit, Red Band, great.
And by the way, you don't have to...
Look at your shoes, man.
And by the way...
Well, it's not him, it's not me, it's not...
It's all...
It's everybody.
By the way, you don't have to do this, and you do it, and I gotta say...
I fucking love you guys, and I love what you do, and you can tell me to fuck off if you want.
No, shut up!
joe rogan
Listen, we love you too, man.
There's no need for anybody to take any extra recognition for what the fuck is going on.
shane smith
I'm not talking about right now.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
I know you're not.
I know you're not.
What you're trying to do is what any cool person tries to do, is you're trying to spread the love as far as possible to as many people as possible.
shane smith
The people that listen to this fucking podcast...
Are the people that I give a shit about.
And I don't give a shit about...
joe rogan
Well, there's people that you give a shit about that don't listen to this because they don't know about it.
But the reality is that the ethic of what Brian is trying to put forth and what I am, and unquestionably, without a shadow of a doubt in my heart, what you're trying to put forward...
It is what resonates with a lot of the people that are sort of waking up in the middle of history and looking at this crazy world that is handicapped and sidetracked and hobbled by these ancient traditions that were written back when people couldn't even fly fucking planes and didn't even have printed type and there was no internet and unfortunately this Distribution of information is far more
swift than the absorption of it amongst the people and the altercation or the changing of the culture because of that information.
And you're at the front of the line of that.
shane smith
Let me tell you, you're in the front of the line.
unidentified
Nonsense!
Shut it!
You have sent people to Alaska!
I have done none of this!
joe rogan
I put Brian on Brewcross.
What is it?
Brewcross?
unidentified
Brewshield?
shane smith
It's free dental.
I'm going to tell you, if we can finish with this one last thought.
If I can finish with this one last thought.
joe rogan
What is this one last thought?
unidentified
Why do I need to wrap it up?
joe rogan
Can't we just say Abba Dabba Shabba Gazoo Snowflake?
unidentified
Let's hear what this thought is.
shane smith
Maybe it's about fucking dolphins.
joe rogan
You're right.
shane smith
Alright.
Fuck the dolphins.
I love the dolphins.
I don't give a shit what you say.
unidentified
I love dolphins.
joe rogan
Team people.
Am I right?
Team people?
shane smith
Team people.
joe rogan
Team people, goddammit.
shane smith
Can I say one thing?
I love all you bitches and everyone who's listening to this.
Joe fucking Rogan.
Death Squad.
Brian fucking Redman.
Fuck all y'all.
joe rogan
Shane Smith.
Tom Segura.
unidentified
Ari Shafir.
Joey Coco Diaz.
Duncan Trussell.
Duncan Trussell.
Suck it!
joe rogan
2012. Oh, whoops!
I guess that shit didn't happen, did it?
unidentified
December 21st.
Daniel Pinchback, where the fuck were you with an apology and an explanation?
joe rogan
Where were you?
To let people know, I want to apologize to Frankie Boyle.
I got into a Twitter altercation with him this weekend.
And I just want to let you know, Frankie, you're retarded.
I'm retarded.
We're all retarded.
It's okay, boo.
Just stop fronting.
Just stop fronting, alright?
Keep it together, bitch.
Shane Smith, 2013. The Soviets say that an asteroid's coming in 93 years.
unidentified
I won't be here to see it.
Holla!
joe rogan
See you next week.
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