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Aug. 5, 2014 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #531 - Nick Youssef
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brian redban
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nick youssef
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joe rogan
I wish I knew, like, foreign languages so I could say something like, you know, bonsoir mon amis, but I don't know what that means.
So I might be saying something stupid.
Hello, everybody in English.
This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Squarespace, which we were talking about before the podcast even began.
So we're not bullshitting you when we tell you it's awesome.
Powerful Nick Youssef uses Squarespace.
Brian's made at least 20 or 30 websites, right?
If you had a guess?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
It's super easy to do.
It used to be a huge pain in the ass if you wanted to get a website.
Unless you were super lucky and knew some guy who was awesome and was easy to deal with, like me.
I have found an awesome guy.
But if you, my friend Menthol.
But if you don't find that, you're fucked.
You know, you gotta try to learn coding yourself.
Good luck.
Good luck.
It's difficult.
And it's also, it used to be really difficult to mash things up.
Like for one browser, it would look great, but then you would see it in Safari, it would look all wonky.
Or, you know, it'd work good with Windows, but it wouldn't work with a Mac or whatever it was.
There was always issues with compatibility, like iPhone compatibility.
A lot of times that would be squirrely.
Squarespace, they have it set up where your website will work on everything.
It'll work on an Android phone.
It'll work on an iPad.
It'll work on one of those tablets of unknown origin that you run various operating systems on.
It just fucking works.
Works awesome.
You can set up an online store.
Super easy to do.
Just point and click, drag and drop.
They have 24-7 support.
It's simple, easy, beautiful designs.
And it looks completely professional.
Like, look at this website.
He's slapping together a website right now.
A Nick Yusuf website.
And he can do it like that.
I mean, it comes out like you hired somebody.
Like you spent a lot of money.
And you can bang them out quick.
They just got it wired.
They figured it out.
Like, there's no need to go anywhere else anymore.
You can make your own shit, especially if you're even remotely creatively inclined, but you were just technologically ignorant, you know?
If that was the case, this is super easy to use.
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That's what they make you say.
That's their part.
brian redban
It's really easy.
It's so drag and drop.
Like, if you want to map...
Like, say if you have a store and you want a Google map.
joe rogan
No, I love them.
I'm going to eventually...
brian redban
You just drag it right there.
joe rogan
If I get some time, I want to make my own website.
It's fun.
nick youssef
I made mine in like four hours.
unidentified
Yeah.
nick youssef
But the one you just made is better than mine.
joe rogan
We're also brought to you by Ting.
I got my new Ting phone here.
Ting is the official...
I got the Galaxy S5. Oh, cool.
Yeah, I just got it.
I'm a phone whore.
unidentified
Here's my little phone whore device.
joe rogan
It's a dope little phone.
I like the fact that it's waterproof.
That's pretty slick.
brian redban
That's the new thing.
They're all becoming waterproof.
It makes so much more sense.
unidentified
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
You can drop this phone in water, dude.
brian redban
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And it's just like, what?
Gets out of the water.
What, bitch?
Water resistant.
Some of them are actually waterproof.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I believe there's a Sony that's actually waterproof, which is pretty fantastic.
Ting is a website, or Ting's a mobile service company that uses...
What they do is you buy your phone from them, and then they handle all the rest.
It all goes through the Sprint backbone, but you do it by their rules, and their rules are just a lot fairer, a lot easier for people to digest.
I think everybody enjoys paying for things that are worth it.
It's nice when you go to a good restaurant and you get a nice meal and you pay for it.
You feel good about it.
It was a good experience.
That was great.
You leave there.
Whatever you spent was totally worth it.
It's always a shitty feeling when, even if you enjoy something, if you feel like you got fucked over or you feel like it's too much or you feel like it's not fair...
And for the longest time, the way cell phone companies have done business has irked a lot of people.
One of the things being that you pay for your minutes.
Like, you know, you have this thing like 120 minutes.
But if you don't use that 120 minutes, you don't get any money back.
Like, that money's just gone.
Like, all that time is out in the ether.
And Ting was like, well, why do you have to pay for shit you're not using?
How about this?
How about we work out a really simple...
Way to do it where most people would save money and we just do it by the minute like whatever you use That's what you pay for if you don't use that much you pay less and if you want to save money use your fucking phone less you know like you could really do that and Ting figured out how to do it and I think that all cell phone companies in the future are probably gonna follow that model I think it's gonna be one of those things like remember used to pay for roaming You'd get in your phone and you drive 20 minutes or you get in your car rather and you've got you every phone on you and 20 minutes outside of the city, you'd be roaming.
So it cost you some ridiculous amount of money.
Where'd all that go?
All that shit went away.
It had to go away because companies like Ting come along and they come up with a better way to do it.
And that's what I feel.
brian redban
I think the minute, the whole minute thing is going to go away soon.
Because I was just thinking, how many minutes a month I use on my cell phone talking?
nick youssef
Yeah.
brian redban
I'd barely talk on my phone.
joe rogan
Do you think you use a minute a month?
brian redban
I bet 10 minutes a month.
No doubt.
I bet I use 10 minutes a month.
nick youssef
They charge for data now in the same way they used to charge for minutes.
brian redban
Yeah.
nick youssef
Because minutes are like nothing.
brian redban
Yeah, minutes are nothing anymore.
joe rogan
I still don't totally understand why data is expensive.
It's confusing to me.
Like, I get storing it would be expensive.
Boy, I don't understand it.
I mean, is it electricity being used?
I mean, what is being used?
There's bandwidth, right?
But what exactly is bandwidth?
Like, this is how stupid I am.
This is how stupid I am on something that I rely on on a daily basis.
I don't know jack shit about how the internet works.
brian redban
Yeah, you're pretty much paying to use computers to transfer data to you.
So it's using computers.
It's way overpriced than it should be, definitely.
joe rogan
Well, I don't know about all that.
Because imagine if you had to reset it up yourself.
Hey, you know, the internet, they quit.
Everybody quit.
Time to make a new internet.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
How much would it cost?
How could you ever come up with 4G on your own?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, we need these fuckers.
I don't know how they're doing this.
nick youssef
It would be smoke signals for me.
That's the next step.
I'm like, there's no internet?
I guess I'm yelling and starting fires.
brian redban
Yelling louder.
joe rogan
We should be so happy that there are people out there that are way smarter than us that figured that fucking thing out.
We should be so happy, you know?
We would have never figured out the internet.
There's some, like, that, just the evidence that the internet is real, that is one of the best evidences that there are people that are just so far beyond how fucking smart you think smart is.
It's like, remember when you were, like, five or six years old, you had, like, a lot of times you had, like, this one kid in the neighborhood that maybe was, like, a little bit bigger, a little bit stronger than the other kids, and when you would play with them on the field, like, you'd get, like, bummed out, like, you'd get knocked over and shit.
Remember what you thought that was?
That was a strong little kid?
But if you were there right now, you'd be like, get out of here, you little fuck.
Stop knocking into everybody.
You know what I mean?
brian redban
I was more scared that he had freckles or something like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, you'd be like, get out of here, you fucking little weirdo.
Don't be mean to me.
I'm a grown-ass man.
But that's what I feel like technologically and just the mental capacity of a super genius in comparison to me.
I feel like if I'm that little kid and if I tried to figure out how the fuck they figured out the internet, I'd just be like, oh, my brain doesn't work that good.
I can't talk to you.
You're freaking me out, man.
You know, if you went into one of those dudes' offices and they had those crazy, like, goodwill hunting shit on the wall, and he's doing those equations that fucking nobody understands.
Yeah.
You know, that they'll work on for years.
nick youssef
Even the professor didn't.
unidentified
Yeah.
nick youssef
He's like, how did you?
brian redban
I didn't even know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, remember, like, in goodwill hunting, the fucking janitor fixes the problem?
They leave it open so the janitor can work on the problem?
Really?
unidentified
Really?
brian redban
What if he just erased it?
joe rogan
What if he's just crazy?
Why are you a janitor, bitch?
This is a stupid story.
You're a super genius janitor.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
You're smarter than anybody.
You can figure out these equations and nobody else can and you're also beautiful.
brian redban
Right.
joe rogan
What are the odds?
nick youssef
And charming.
joe rogan
What are the odds?
Anyway, rogan.ting.com.
Go.
Get a phone.
They're awesome.
They have all the best Android phones.
And like I said, this one I got that's waterproof is the Galaxy S5. That's going to make the drought worse.
The Galaxy S5 is going to make the drought worse?
nick youssef
Because you'll be texting in the shower for like two hours.
joe rogan
I didn't even think about that.
People are going to start not worrying about the pool and shit.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, remember when they were dipping phones?
There was like a company that would dip them, like dip your iPhone, and then they would send it back to you and it would essentially be waterproof.
brian redban
That's probably what they did with these.
They probably just dipped them.
joe rogan
Maybe.
But did that work?
Did that totally work?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Did that work?
Does anybody know if that worked?
brian redban
I think for water resistance, it has to work.
joe rogan
Just dipping it has to work.
brian redban
I mean, you could drop your phone in a toilet like all of us have, and it'd still work.
So the dipping it, I mean, even if it's 99% accurate, it's still probably going to work enough.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Yeah, I bet the fine print is like 20 pages long.
It's got to be under four minutes and all these other things.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's probably got to be like under 30 meters or something.
They probably have like a, like what's like a good waterproof depth for a watch?
Because they have squirrely little rules.
So they'll say water-resistant up to 30 million.
Listen, bitch, is this waterproof or not?
I guess it's like water pressure.
Is that what it is?
That shit's legit.
I mean, if it hurts your ears, it probably would fuck with your phone, too.
It makes sense.
Anyway, rogan.ting.com.
Go there and save $25 off a new Ting phone, you dirty savages.
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And also, I don't know whether or not...
I was saying on this ad before, when I would read it before, one of the points is that it has no nitrates.
And I don't know exactly if nitrates are actually bad for you in natural form.
I don't know if they're bad for you in sea salt form, or bad for you in celery, or if it's just a...
An amount thing.
And I think that's a good question for Dr. Rhonda Patrick.
And she's going to be coming back.
We're exchanging emails.
So hopefully I can get an answer from her on this kind of stuff.
When it comes to health and anything that's controversial, diets and supplementation and things along those lines...
I can't stress enough.
If you've got any questions about that kind of shit, you've got to Google it, and you've got to read both sides.
It's not comfortable to do.
It's annoying.
Say if you think that taking vitamin D is good for you, and you're like, well, let me go through it.
Oh, there's a bunch of papers that say vitamin D is good for you.
You've got to read vitamin D is bad for you.
Is vitamin D bad for you?
And read that, too.
Read whatever papers, whatever studies they have.
If you don't, you're kind of guessing.
Or if you know someone like Rhonda Patrick, you can ask her.
That's why she's awesome.
brian redban
Isn't nitrous what make you have boners?
joe rogan
No, that's nitric oxide.
Boy, I'm glad you're not a fucking doctor.
You gave him some shit that makes beef jerky, dude.
No wonder his dick didn't get hard.
brian redban
And is vitamin D bad for you?
joe rogan
No, vitamin D is excellent for you.
It's the thing that most people are deficient in, apparently.
According to numerous studies, they say that most people, like 70% of the population does not get enough vitamin D. I had my physical.
brian redban
That's the only thing that was wrong with me.
joe rogan
Everybody do it.
It's super common.
We're not getting enough sun.
People are supposed to be on the sun all the time.
We're scared.
Everyone's scared of cancer.
I don't want to get the cancer.
nick youssef
And dairy too, right?
You get it a lot from dairy.
joe rogan
I don't want to get the cancer.
Doesn't dairy give you cancer?
nick youssef
No, no, vitamin D. Yes, you get it from milk.
I'm probably very deficient.
I'm lactose intolerant.
joe rogan
Are you really?
Yeah.
brian redban
I'm getting there.
joe rogan
You should get your blood work done, man.
Get your shit checked out.
If anybody's ever interested in really getting healthy and fit, getting your diet checked out, getting your blood work done, finding out where your nutritional levels are, eat like you normally would eat.
Don't try to trick them.
Eat like you would normally.
Yeah, I'm all about kale, bro.
I'm all about organic celery.
But get your, you know, go to a reputable place and get your blood work done.
Find out where your nutrients are lacking.
It's really important.
A lot of times you think you have a good diet and you're just being naive.
You start looking at your diet and you go, oh, I eat a lot of shit.
brian redban
I've never thought I had a good diet.
joe rogan
Well, you're one up on the delusional, folks.
nick youssef
I'll have one for four days and I go, now I deserve to eat a whole pie or something terrible.
joe rogan
There you go.
brian redban
Gelato in bed.
joe rogan
So the Warrior Bars, what we were talking about, so take that into consideration, but they do have, they're 140 calories, 4 grams of fat in a 2-ounce serving with 14 grams of protein, which is a lot.
You know, that's really healthy.
And it's just natural buffalo with cranberries.
And it's this ancient recipe that Lakota people, the Lakota Native Americans, used to preserve their buffalo with.
It's delicious.
It tastes good.
And it's really guilt-free.
As far as, like, nitrates and celery and salt, it's all a very good question.
I'm going to have to look into that.
brian redban
Oh, yeah.
It has celery juice in it.
joe rogan
I would say, don't be a pussy.
Don't worry about celery and salt.
brian redban
That's just me.
You're worried about celery juice.
joe rogan
Fucking sea salt and celery.
If those are the two things that are going to take you out in this game, how weak is your defense, son?
How weak?
How weak?
We sell a lot of shit on it that we find.
You can find other places, but what we try to do is just get the best versions of it available.
Like hemp force protein powder is an important one when it comes to that.
You can get hemp protein from other places, but a lot of times it's super gritty.
It's not that easy to digest.
It's just a different texture.
It feels different when you drink it.
It's just because it's not the highest quality.
The stuff that we buy costs more money, but it's higher in protein, and it's easy to digest.
It's super powdery.
It's really interesting, the difference between the hemp forest protein powder, and I've used some powders from some other companies that use the cheaper shit.
It's just more coarse, more fiber in it, and it's like you taste it in your mouth when you're drinking grit.
But as far as your body's ability to digest it, I think it's the easiest form of protein to digest.
My body has zero problems.
I can drink a hemp force protein shake with coconut water and work out in like an hour.
There's nothing else I can eat where I can work out in an hour and I can be comfortable about it.
The stuff just digests so easily.
I love whey.
I love those muscle milks.
Those are fucking delicious.
Those taste good.
But my body does not react that well to that stuff.
nick youssef
What was the difference you noticed between muscle milk and the hemp, then?
joe rogan
No farts!
Let's be real, Nick Youssef.
Let's get crazy.
I would fart like crazy when I would drink the whey protein.
Remember Tate's farts?
They're still legendary.
brian redban
It's all whey protein.
joe rogan
It's all whey protein, man.
But I like it.
I like whey protein.
I'm not saying it's bad, but as far as digestibility, hemp force is my favorite shit of all time.
Whether I was selling it or not, I would tell you that.
It's fucking fantastic.
So that's it.
Go to Onnit.com, O-N-N-I-T. Use the code word ROGAN and you can save 10% off any and all supplements.
And what are the comedy dates you got coming up, Brian?
brian redban
This weekend we're going to be in Tampa, Florida.
Me and Sam Tripoli.
Friday it's Tampa.
Saturday it's Jacksonville.
And then Sunday is Orlando.
And you can go to deathsquad.tv for tickets.
joe rogan
Powerful Florida.
Prepare yourself.
Bring penicillin, son.
brian redban
It's Florida.
That's like up higher, right?
Those are okay.
joe rogan
They're the craziest people.
The craziest are the ones up high.
nick youssef
Yeah.
brian redban
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Orlando's in the middle.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Orlando's a good spot.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know what?
But South Florida's fun too, man.
They're fun.
I enjoy doing shows down there.
People are crazy.
It's a totally different world.
It's a completely different world than the rest of America.
nick youssef
It really is.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
South Florida's wild.
In all the bad ways, like Florida Man, you follow that Florida Man Twitter account?
nick youssef
Yeah, yeah.
brian redban
It's fucking great.
joe rogan
I mean, there's just no denying.
I mean, I would like to have someone like Sam Harris, some really rational guy, break down why Florida actually has no more crime.
It's just that, for whatever reason, people focus on Florida.
But I don't know if that's entirely accurate.
The sheer numbers of idiocy that you get, just the numbers of morons that come out of Florida, it's almost hard to believe.
brian redban
I've watched almost every single episode of Cops, and Florida is always the best episodes.
That's a great show, by the way.
They re-edited all the old episodes of Cops.
And made them HD and edited them real fast and quick now.
It's called Cops Reloaded.
joe rogan
Oh, that's so ridiculous.
nick youssef
I wonder how much they could do just on Florida.
Because they picked out from every episode.
joe rogan
You could just have cameras running 24 hours a day and hire some editors.
Just keep the cameras on.
You would never go wrong.
Wacky shit happens in Florida.
If you were a vice cop in Miami and you had a camera on your car, We don't need to do commercials anymore.
brian redban
It's over.
joe rogan
We're here.
We don't need the music.
Fuck it.
But if you were a vice cop and you were in Miami and they just put a camera in your head, how much wacky shit would you see every year?
It would probably be madness.
nick youssef
Oh, I mean, it would be every other day.
There'd be something amazing.
joe rogan
Something crazy.
nick youssef
Like, everyone should just have a GoPro.
On their head and just be traveling around.
joe rogan
Well, they kind of do now in a lot of states.
They said that's lowered the instances of police harassment or police brutality substantially.
And I know, I believe Los Angeles has some sort of program, at least on some of the officers.
Where they put these cameras on them.
You know, we're starting to see so much video of cops beating people up, man.
It's really disturbing.
brian redban
It is.
joe rogan
It's so disturbing.
Like, that one cop that beat that lady up on the side of the freeway.
You've seen that one?
brian redban
Yeah, that is fucked up.
joe rogan
Holy shit, dude.
brian redban
She might have been mentally challenged and she was acting like...
She was walking on the freeway.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know what her deal was.
I don't know.
But if that is the only way that he can control her, he shouldn't be a cop.
You can't just fucking waylay somebody in the face over and over again while you're holding onto their neck on the side of the highway.
You just can't do that.
That's not defensive.
You're not saving them from themselves.
You're not saving anybody from them.
You're assaulting them.
You should be able to contain that woman.
That woman wasn't striking him at all.
If you had any, you know, knowledge of jujitsu whatsoever, you would just contain her.
It would be really easy to do.
I mean, you might get hit with some clawing at you and shit, but you could hold her in place, and nobody has to get hurt.
If you're a cop, it's not like that woman was attacking him.
If that woman was attacking him, say if that woman had a bat or a knife or something like that, she's coming at him and he took her down and punched her in the face, I'm all for that.
That might as well be an animal.
A person that's attacking you with a weapon might as well be an animal.
That's how I feel.
Would you kick a dog that tried to bite you?
Fuck yeah!
A person with a knife that's coming at you, it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman, they're getting punched in their fucking face.
For real.
You have to.
Otherwise, you're a dead man, Brian!
brian redban
Yes.
nick youssef
Is running an option?
Because I'd like to just run away.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you can run faster, definitely do it.
nick youssef
Okay, cool, I'll do that.
joe rogan
If you can go side to side, if you've got a good juke.
But at the end of the day, if you're a cop, you can't just beat somebody up like that.
You just can't do that.
That lady's not hitting you.
She wouldn't listen?
What's going on?
There's no way she could have been doing anything That justified getting the fuck beat out of her like that.
brian redban
Isn't there some police force that's now putting GoPros on all the cops?
Their whole force, you have to have a GoPro camera on your person now.
joe rogan
We should probably Google this because we keep saying it.
brian redban
I just heard it the other day.
nick youssef
That'd be great.
brian redban
That makes so much more sense.
joe rogan
I don't know.
What it should be is something that broadcasts.
brian redban
Yeah, that would be cool.
That would be the best cops, by the way, ever.
joe rogan
Ever.
brian redban
You go, hmm, I want to see what's going on in my hometown, cops.
nick youssef
You could just stream it in real life.
What's Compton really like?
joe rogan
Cops use GoPros to film traffic stop.
Oh, this is different.
brian redban
I think it was Florida, actually, now that I think about it, that was doing it.
Florida, police camera.
joe rogan
Look at this.
A cop uses a GoPro to film a traffic stop of a lieutenant cop.
A Miami police officer, he made a routine traffic stop.
He discovered that it's a man of superior rank, like a cop that's superior rank to him.
They start fighting, and he got suspended.
brian redban
Yeah, I saw that.
joe rogan
And the lieutenant is merely reassigned.
nick youssef
Huh.
brian redban
Yeah, he filmed the whole thing, too, and...
joe rogan
There's like a hierarchy like that's like a weird thing the rank thing for police officers like that's some military shit like the whole rank thing like that he had to like you know give in to a superior officer like that's what the issue is a superior rank yeah how weird is that like a guy's a general yeah like we're not at war yeah that person ran a red light like let's calm down I mean,
I guess cops should be able to get better positions as they get better at their job, and they should get more prestige as they get more experience and knowledge.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Officer Realta California now required to wear video cameras while on duty.
brian redban
See, it's right in the middle, and so it's just like a full-on GoPro that just records every time.
joe rogan
One year, the use of force have dropped 60%.
Complaints have dropped 88%.
nick youssef
Wow.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
nick youssef
Wow.
joe rogan
That's accountability, man.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's all about accountability.
That's exactly what that is, you know?
It's not that...
Being a cop is a tricky decision.
To be the guy who decides how things get handled in times of stress, and that's your job.
You do that every day.
You come in, people are screaming, wives and husbands are...
You're worried you're going to get shot.
Like, they're always worried they're going to get shot.
Like, domestic violence cases especially.
Can you imagine?
You don't have anything to do with these crazy people.
But the neighbors' lights are all on.
It's 5 o'clock in the morning.
People are screaming.
They're throwing shit.
And, you know, you hear the guy say, I'm going to fucking kill you.
And you're outside, and you're a cop.
You're like, Jesus Christ, here we go.
Like, that's your job.
That's a crazy job.
It's hard for anybody, I think, to expect that people that go through that job on a daily basis are perfect, or that they should be held to the same standards as everybody else, as far as their ability to tolerate bullshit.
Because they see too much.
That's a crazy job.
It's a crazy job.
When people look at police brutality, you've got to look at the cops, too.
What are these guys being subjected to?
It's not just that these cops...
Are lashing out and attacking people?
It's like, what's making them ramp up their violence?
Are they just inherently violent?
That's a real convenient way to look at it, to just decide they're just inherently violent.
And that they're assholes and bullies, and that's why they became cops in the first place.
And that might be correct for some, but you also gotta take into consideration what they're seeing on a daily basis.
Their fucking job is It's to deal with the worst situations that people have to see every day.
Every day.
Bullets, car accidents, motorcycle wreck, violence, murder, suicide.
nick youssef
Yeah, the worst parts of humanity all day long.
joe rogan
The worst.
unidentified
Liars, liars, thieves, rapists.
joe rogan
All day.
It's got to be overwhelming.
And then for them to be, you know, in a situation with a person and the person is like, I don't have to listen to you.
Oh, you don't, you fucking bitch.
nick youssef
Listen to this.
joe rogan
It's like they're so wound up.
They're always at like eight, you know?
If you live in that world and you're constantly like, Dodging this and evading that and capturing this guy and pulling that guy off the street.
Fuck, man.
nick youssef
That's why it surprises me when you see cops that are so young.
When there's a 21-year-old, 22-year-old cop, and you're like, that guy's going to be able to handle all this stress?
Like the domestic violence thing?
He'd show up to a house, husband and wife are arguing, and it's like, that kid's probably had sex twice.
And he's supposed to know what to do during a...
joe rogan
Yeah, I wonder if they have people that they specifically assign to those kind of cases that are good at that shit.
nick youssef
Okay, yeah.
joe rogan
Does that make sense?
That's like an Al Pacino role in Heat.
Norman, can I talk to you?
Get the guy to the window and put the gun down, Norman.
There's a lot of cops here.
You know, it'd be like the guy who, like, slowly talks you off the ledge.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
I bet in real life cop world, though, it's like, what is it?
Is it a murder?
There's no specialists.
Like, dude, I don't even do robbery.
I'm not doing robbery.
I'm over here.
I'm doing violent crime.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Nothing petty.
Like, no, they're cops.
They show up where there's, you know, there's, like, vice departments, right?
And they have, like, different departments.
But for the most part, they all deal with bullshit.
nick youssef
Yeah, it's like, who's closer to the crime?
Just get there and deal with it.
joe rogan
Deal with nonsense all day.
Deal with the worst of us.
And every time they talk to people, the people are lying.
Like, most of the time, most of the time, people are talking to cops, they're lying.
nick youssef
Yeah, I don't think I've ever talked to a cop when it hasn't been like, I'm on the end of getting in trouble, and I'm like, how do I get out of this?
brian redban
Exactly!
nick youssef
I've never just been like, hey officer, nice to see you today.
I've never done that.
joe rogan
That's funny.
Yeah, that's a lot of people's interaction with cops on the street, man.
That's a lot of people's, if you think about it, remember that video, that kid was taking a video, the woman was beating him up, and she was screaming at him, and he was like, stop hitting me, please stop, and that's all he was doing.
And she was saying that she was going to say that he sexually assaulted her.
brian redban
Yeah.
Remember the other one that we showed that the old women stealing the guy's beach stuff?
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
The guys on Reddit found her name and her Facebook and everyone started going to her page.
unidentified
Oh my god.
brian redban
And it's ridiculous because it looks like she's just a normal woman that just happened to be stealing shit.
joe rogan
Well, you know what?
That's a weird thing about people's looks.
There's some sweetie pie looking people that are killers.
brian redban
Yeah.
nick youssef
Ted Bundy.
joe rogan
Yeah, perfect example.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I've met, like, there's a lot of MMA guys like that, too.
Like, you would never know.
Jiu-Jitsu guys.
There's a lot of Jiu-Jitsu guys.
Like, you would never know.
You look at them, they just look like normal dudes.
And they would kill people.
It's just like there's something about their head.
It's not just their physical abilities, it's like their head.
They have like a little something extra, a little piece of...
But they look like, you know, Opie, you know?
They look like an all-American boy.
They look like a total normal, sweet-faced fella, you know?
Meanwhile, they're just stone-cold killers.
Some old lady could be a dirty murderer.
You know, you're looking at her on the beach, and she's like someone's Grammy.
Like, where's your grandparents?
Oh, they're over there by that tent.
Oh, hi, Grammy!
unidentified
Hi!
joe rogan
That's her.
Meanwhile, she's a dirty, stinky thief.
Stealing someone's tent, packing it up.
And then she's done it before, obviously, because when that guy came up to her, she wasn't surprised.
She was playing it off.
Like, well, this is ours.
I'm pretty sure this is ours.
Like, this is our stuff.
It was a complicated tent.
They got like fucking posts and shit and they're folding everything up and putting it in bags and stuff.
unidentified
This old dirty broads just stealing stuff.
nick youssef
She probably has gotten away with that for the last 15 years.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
After you hit a certain age, no one suspects you.
brian redban
Right.
nick youssef
That innocent old person's not going to steal anything.
joe rogan
Well, people become kleptos, and they don't even know why.
Like, I had a girl that I was dating when I was in high school that had a bit of an issue at one point in time, and she was a very good person.
She wasn't a bad person at all.
She's not like a bad kid from a bad home, but she wanted something and she didn't have the money and she just took it, you know, and it was this thing where like she did it a couple of times and she got in trouble for it.
She didn't get arrested, but she got caught.
She didn't give the stuff back.
I don't remember.
It wasn't anything monumental, but it was enough where she was trying to understand why she was doing this.
I almost can't stop.
I go in the store, and there's something I want, and I know no one's looking, and I figure out a way to get it.
And I'm like, that's crazy.
Like, that's stealing.
But it was like, when they say kleptomania, like, for some folks, it really is an issue.
Like, they really can get obsessed with this idea of stealing something, and they can't help it.
brian redban
Joey Diaz used to do it allegedly all the time.
Allegedly.
When we were at the airport, we'd just be like...
He would just be stuffing hamburgers in his pockets, and you're just like, what the fuck are you doing?
He's like, don't worry about this, Brian!
Or he would just go and get to one of those little stands where they have drinks and popcorn and stuff, and he's just putting stuff in his pockets right in the open.
nick youssef
Is it more about the thrill?
It's not even like, oh, I need this thing?
Is it like the adrenaline?
Can I get away with it?
joe rogan
Let's say this about Joey.
That was a long time ago.
He's a different guy now.
He doesn't do that at all anymore.
I don't know.
The girl was 17 at the time.
And like I said, she's not a bad person by any stretch of the imagination.
She's very nice.
She's very smart, too.
She just had a thing.
And the thing was she wanted to steal shit.
And I don't think, you know, it could be a combination.
First of all, when you're 17, you're essentially insane.
You know?
I mean, you really are not sure what's going on.
For the last couple years, your body's been overwhelmed with hormones.
And you're like, why do I feel so different than I did just two or three years ago?
And you're obsessed with girls, right?
And girls are obsessed with boys.
And so you just start fooling around, having sex, and it becomes like your whole life.
It becomes obsessive when you're young.
And you're about to become an adult.
And you're going to have to take care of yourself.
And you're like, what?!
Nobody taught me shit!
I just want to fuck all day.
I'm fucked.
I'm 17. I'm almost 18. Then I got to fend for myself, you know, and then graduation's out and you take your deep breath and you try to figure it out.
Like, wow, what next?
They're all crazy.
Everyone that age is crazy.
So some of them steal clothes and some of them sniff paint and some of them, you know, whatever.
nick youssef
Become cops that beat people.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a little harder than you can't be more than 17. How old do you have to be to be a cop?
nick youssef
I think 18. It should be 40. If you can join the military at 18, you'd think you'd be...
joe rogan
It should be 40. It should be 40-year-old dudes that are yoked.
brian redban
They're like hiring in Burbank cops right now.
There's signs everywhere that says, I'm now hiring.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
It's probably a tough job.
It's probably tough to get people to do.
Because, you know, I don't think most of us have the perspective to understand what they have to go through.
So I think a lot of people also treat cops with disdain.
It's kind of cool to treat cops with disdain.
But that's all well and good, but if the shit hit the fan, you'd be fucking happy there were cops.
nick youssef
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, remember that North Hollywood shootout?
Remember that shit?
nick youssef
Oh yeah, with the fully automatic weapons?
joe rogan
Do you remember that, Brian?
brian redban
Oh yeah, it was like a video game.
joe rogan
Dude, we were on news radio.
It was on the set of news radio.
And I forget who told us it was happening, but we all gathered up in this break room to watch this.
And we were watching this on the TV. Someone's office or something.
I don't remember where we were watching it.
But we were like, this is fucking crazy.
Like, we were all holding our hands on our heads like, what are we looking at?
This dude's armed to the tits.
He's got...
Are you showing it?
Pull it up on the screen so we can see it too.
This dude is armed to the tits.
He's got bulletproof everything on.
They got a van stuffed with bullets and ammo and rifles and shit.
And he's just fucking cops up.
nick youssef
Jesus.
joe rogan
This is a different guy, Brian, isn't it?
The North Hollywood shootout is what you want.
Is this it?
brian redban
Yeah, this is North Hollywood shootout.
joe rogan
Oh, this is the end.
That's where they just shot him.
This is the end.
There were some videos before of him fully armed up, giant machine guns and shit shooting at cops, and these cops had pistols.
nick youssef
Their bullets were bouncing off of them.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, the cops had standard...
You know, officer-issued pistols, and this fucking guy had, like, the craziest rifles money can buy.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Machine guns and shit, and just these two dudes held all these cops at bay.
nick youssef
This is the same one where they were trying to rob a bank, right?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
nick youssef
That's that one, yeah.
joe rogan
Yep.
Yeah.
But see, if it wasn't for cops, then what?
Those guys do that again next week, and they do it again the week after, and then who stops them?
Who stops them?
nick youssef
Yeah, we would not be able to...
unidentified
Exactly.
nick youssef
They'd sort of go in house to house.
Like, I have an iPhone.
Someone I can throw at you or something?
joe rogan
What do you do?
If someone's that crazy that they're willing to do something like that, who knows where that guy's limits are?
That guy could easily just go door to door and gun people down.
nick youssef
And how many friends he has that are willing?
Imagine if it was a hundred of those guys out in the street.
joe rogan
Exactly.
That's what you've got to really worry about.
What you've got to really worry about is people that don't think you need a military or don't think you need law enforcement, you're Really kind of underestimating the evil that human beings are capable of.
We've just been in a nice place here in America for a few hundred years.
Pretty sweet as far as world history goes.
Like it's invading violence.
Pretty sweet.
Like one of the best spots ever.
Like a solid 200 plus years of nobody coming over here and fucking us up.
Like a few little baby attacks, but nothing in comparison to anything that any other empire had to go through over like, you know, the course of its reign.
If you think about how many human beings, how many different countries there are in this country, and then that we have military bases in like 100 plus of those countries, those numbers are crazy.
Just stopping and thinking about how many of us there are is nuts.
But if there wasn't a military and some crazy fucks like those North Hollywood guys gathered up together and decided to start taking shit over, what would you do?
People are capable of that.
It's a very unfortunate, but it's a realistic aspect.
It's a realistic subject.
It needs to be breached.
It's very unfortunate that people are capable of things like that, but they are.
And to not plan on it and to not be prepared in case it happens...
There's a lot of civilizations that don't exist anymore because of that.
nick youssef
Yeah, you get used to the safety you have.
Then you go to a third world country and you're like, oh, things aren't as together over there.
And there's groups of people who are fighting other groups.
That could never happen here.
joe rogan
Unless they got in a boat.
Unless they got over here.
See, anything can happen here once it happens here.
How quickly would they be able to tighten it down?
I don't know.
I would hope quickly.
I would hope quickly.
But when people look at things like...
When you look at things like the bad aspects of the military or the bad aspects of war...
And the bad aspects of police enforcement, law enforcement, the bad aspects of people being horrible and police brutality in those situations.
I think people are tending to go in only one direction with the idea.
Like, they're only looking at the violence that these cops are doing to civilians.
They're not looking at, like, what are we asking these people to do?
What are we asking these normal people to do for $40,000 a year?
And how much of an assurance do we have that these people are of sound character, where they can get through that gig?
Yeah, I know there's some screening processes, but how thorough is it really?
And how much do we really know about the impact of day-to-day violence, day-to-day bullshit that these people have to deal with?
It sounds like the craziest job ever.
Imagine if you had to be a vice cop?
brian redban
No.
But I would think that I would want that GoPro on me at all times.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
brian redban
Yeah, I think that would...
I think that's the most important thing for cops nowadays.
I think they need that.
I think that would be a perfect way to police the police and help the cops at the same time.
nick youssef
Imagine starting in a bad neighborhood, too.
I'd want to start in the suburbs.
I'd want to go from Burbank to Watts.
I'm like, just let me do a couple traffic stops before I'm involved in a shootout.
joe rogan
There was a guy that I used to do taekwondo with that he got reassigned.
He wanted to get reassigned to a more urban area.
And I go, why do you want to do that?
It's like, there's more action.
I was like, more action?
Wow.
brian redban
I would want to start off like small town, like where there's two cops for the whole city, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, this dude wanted to be where the shit was going down.
He genuinely enjoyed it.
He was an odd duck.
He was like this weird sort of hard ass cop guy who liked to fight.
But he was a really nice guy.
Like as a cop, he was really nice.
nick youssef
Did he have, like, a good sense for justice?
He was, like, a power guy?
joe rogan
No, he was weird.
He was a sweet guy, but it seemed like he would, like, look forward to someone doing something that he could correct him on.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
Like, if you didn't do anything wrong, he was, like, a super nice guy.
But it was weird being friends with this dude while I was, like, a young teenager.
Because I always, like, thought of cops.
Like, oh, shit, I'm going to get arrested.
You know?
Just think of all the people that I knew that were dirtbags.
Like, oh, I've got to get out of here.
There's a cop.
You know, but he was older than me, but it was a weird sort of a relationship.
Because he was older than me, but I was better at martial arts than him.
So I'd beat his ass.
But he was a cop.
nick youssef
And then he'd arrest you.
joe rogan
Well, he didn't arrest me.
But, you know, I would even take it easy on him.
Sometimes sparring.
Because he was a cop.
Because I would just think, like, I do not want this dude, like, developing a grudge, you know?
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Because people could develop a grudge, you know?
And especially, like, sparring sessions.
There's, like, sparring sessions for striking and there's sparring sessions for grappling.
Sparring sessions for grappling are way safer.
So you can go really, really go at it hard.
But sparring sessions for striking...
They're really dangerous because people get knocked out all the time.
So there's like a certain amount of respect that you have to give each other and you have to not hit each other that hard.
And some guys just don't play by that.
Some guys just, it all goes out the window and they start winging shots at you and next thing you know you're in a melee.
Like it happens all the time where a sparring session turns into an all-out fight.
It happens all the time.
So you don't want to do that with a cop.
Especially a cop that knows how to fight pretty good, too.
brian redban
See the John Jones thing?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was crazy, man.
John Jones and Daniel Cormier got in this huge scrap at a press conference.
It was ridiculous.
John Jones got in Daniel Cormier's face, put his forehead on Daniel Cormier's forehead, and Daniel Cormier grabbed John Jones by the neck and pushed him away, and John dropped his belt, and then it was just bodies colliding.
nick youssef
Wow.
joe rogan
And...
John immediately, I guess, you know, it's a wild scramble, but John was on top.
And John was like, I took you down so quick, within seven seconds you were on your back.
And you're like, oh no, like the shit talking just escalated to a totally different level.
And John Jones put out a video that said, you suck, you're so weak.
When I got a hold of you, you felt so weak.
And then he deleted the video, which is really interesting.
See, this is what happened.
nick youssef
Poor guy in the middle.
joe rogan
Yeah, that guy.
This is just a colliding pile of bodies.
brian redban
Dan is on a vacation.
He wasn't even there.
joe rogan
Yeah, this can't happen.
You can't do that.
This is real bad for the sport.
It's real bad.
It's real bad for public perception.
It's a weapon to be used against MMA. You know, it's unfortunate.
What you gotta have, everybody should have, is...
A no-contact policy.
Unless guys agree to hug, you know, you agree to shake hands and hug, you should have a no-contact policy.
And anybody who clearly violates that no-contact policy gets fined.
You know, some guys can deal with it, that getting in each other's face, but when you have a situation like this, You know, you gotta have to have a no-contact policy with those guys.
brian redban
Yeah, cause like the weigh-ins, they're always doing the forehead stuff and getting it in people's face.
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
I think it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
And some of it's gamesmanship, but it's just so bad for the image of the sport.
nick youssef
Is that starting to happen more often?
joe rogan
No, it's pretty rare.
It's pretty rare, but that's a big high-profile fight.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean like Ronda, Rousey, Amish Tate, they got head to head in each of those faces and it was pretty hot.
brian redban
Yeah, it's sexy.
I saw where you were looking.
joe rogan
But they were professional about it.
They didn't do anything about it.
These guys were not professional.
nick youssef
It was like immediate.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't do that.
You can't grab each other and fucking slap.
And if you say, hey, I don't want to headbutt you, man.
But nobody wants to give ground.
They don't want anybody getting any psychological advantage.
And so they have to show each other, like, I'll fucking fight you right here, bitch.
And then, you know, that's when shit like this happens.
It's like they just have to treat it...
The importance of that not happening is huge.
It's huge.
There's such a negative connotation attached to what that is.
That's just violence.
The difference between that kind of violence and the violence of a sport is the violence of a sport is everyone's agreeing to this scenario.
You're agreeing to train for X amount of weeks.
You're going to fight for X amount of rounds.
You're going to fight this guy.
He weighs what you weigh.
Everybody prepares.
You meet at this day and you compete.
And it's a very dangerous form of competition, and yes, it is fighting as a competition, but it's not violence the same way that that is.
That's a street fight.
That's a world champion mixed martial arts fighter and an Olympic wrestler, and they're street fighting.
That's bad for everybody.
That's bad for wrestling.
That's bad for MMA. That's bad for sports.
It's fun for people to watch, you know?
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You know, part of me, I have two ways of looking at it.
Part of me is like, that's bad for the sport, but part of me is like, how do I feel about it, though?
Does it bum me out?
No.
No, it doesn't make me upset.
I'm not upset.
I'm looking forward to watching this fight even more now.
Would I have liked it to not happen?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I wish that they were very professional about this.
They don't need to do that.
That fight's going to be amazing no matter what happens.
But, since it did happen, and I got to see it, I'm like, whoa!
I'm not going to pretend that that's not fun.
I'm not going to pretend that that didn't make everybody way more excited about that fight, because it fucking for sure did.
Yeah, it's not good.
It's not good to do.
But...
It was fun to watch.
And more people are going to be excited about the fight.
I mean, that's the Catch-22.
There's no real black or white about this.
You know, as a representative of the sport, I absolutely wish it didn't happen.
As a person who cares a lot about the future of the sport and...
The public's perception, which I think is already a little skewed.
I think there's a lot of people that aren't fans that like to look at the people that fight in MMA as just barbarians.
But there are a lot of nice guys that fight in the UFC. And they're some of the nicest athletes you'll ever meet.
That's a fact.
So, part of me gets bummed out when I see shit like that.
But part of me is like, look, they're going to fight eventually anyway.
So they fought a little here.
nick youssef
They're just being passionate.
joe rogan
Just get a little taste.
Get a little taste.
I don't know.
It's going to be a wild-ass fight, though.
brian redban
When is that fight?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
I think it's September 27th in Vegas.
Is that it, or is it the weekend of the 27th?
Either way, it's on Donkey Kong, son.
It's going to be exciting.
But it's unfortunate, man.
It's unfortunate.
nick youssef
So as far as now, they didn't get in any trouble?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I mean, Dana's on vacation.
brian redban
I mean, I read that they were going to get in trouble.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
There's something in that contract, you know, that you can't do that shit.
joe rogan
Well, there's a thing that says there will be consequences.
brian redban
Right.
joe rogan
That's the statement, the official statement.
There will be consequences.
Right.
nick youssef
It's almost scarier than saying what's going to happen.
joe rogan
We will contact you.
It's very vampire-like.
It will be consequences to your actions.
brian redban
You don't get any of the headphones to wear during the fights.
joe rogan
Have you been watching The Strain?
You been watching The Strain?
The Guillermo del Toro show on FX? It's fucking great, man.
It's great.
nick youssef
Have you seen it?
No, I've been waiting until at least five or six air.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's four out now.
This is the fourth one.
Just aired on Sunday.
It's fucking fun.
nick youssef
Because the billboard with the thing going into the eye, I was like, I'm in.
I don't even know what this is, but I'm absolutely doing this.
joe rogan
I read the book, and I don't remember the worms from the book.
Maybe I just don't remember.
Maybe I have to go back and read it.
Again, I didn't remember that part, but I remember the book being really entertaining for like three-quarters of the way through.
Like really fun in the beginning, too.
It's a good story.
It's an interesting story.
And they're doing a great job with the miniseries.
It's really good, man.
It's like really ropes you in.
It's fun.
brian redban
I need to try.
I just gave up on the leftovers.
joe rogan
Dude, I love horror movies and shows.
We need more of that shit.
More zombie shit.
More vampire shit.
It's fun.
Horror movies have taken a big dive.
I don't know.
If you go back to the 1950s, look at those black and white movies that were super popular back then.
There were so many horror movies, man.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Remember those?
unidentified
That's a good one.
nick youssef
But now, like, now the demand is so much more for, like, there to be a real story instead of, like, this monster attacks a village and then a hot girl gets her clothes ripped off and you see her tits.
You're like, that was an amazing film!
joe rogan
Dude, we should do a mystery science theater type thing where we watch Creature from the Black Lagoon.
brian redban
Everything.
joe rogan
First of all, it's so obvious they're in a swimming pool.
I mean, it's not a fucking lagoon at all.
It's like some backlot swimming pool.
nick youssef
Why is there cement there?
That's weird.
joe rogan
The creature was pretty dope for the time.
It was just a really cool scuba diving outfit, essentially.
And this weird, freaky, lizard-like scuba diving outfit, they put this guy in, and he would swim in the swimming pool and capture the group.
nick youssef
It's so great.
joe rogan
It's so bad.
It's so bad that it's awesome.
Like, it's so bad.
It's exciting when you watch it.
Here it is.
unidentified
Out of the monk and mystery of a hundred million years ago, up from the depths of unknown waters, comes a creature to confound science.
joe rogan
And terrorize the world!
This is awesome!
This is awesome.
It just grabbed this guy by the head.
It was the worst acting job anybody's ever done, ever.
Look at this.
Shocking!
Perfected three-dimensional.
brian redban
Ooh, it's 3D! I didn't even know it was 3D! Yeah, it was one of those where you got your glasses in the Sunday paper and they would play it on the TV. Remember that?
nick youssef
Wow, no.
unidentified
That's cool.
joe rogan
I do remember that.
unidentified
Even the music.
Starring Richard Carlson, friendly adventuring underwater in the depths of the mighty Amazon.
Lovely Julia Adams, her beauty allure even to the man-beast from the dawn of time.
With Richard Denning, whose scientific passion turned to the fury of revenge.
You'll see the most amazing underwater photography that the screen has ever known.
joe rogan
Wow!
This is incredible!
Look out!
That's so obvious!
That's a pool!
There's not a ripple in that water!
Look at it.
unidentified
Four men dead so far.
We're staying until we get it.
Or until somebody else gets killed.
He just dives in the water with her.
Deep.
joe rogan
Into the waters of his domain.
This is hilarious.
He's just going to drown this chick.
brian redban
I know.
She's dead already.
joe rogan
What's he doing?
Is he making out with her?
How does he keep her from drowning?
brian redban
Great cave.
joe rogan
Oh, does she have a scuba outfit?
unidentified
Amazing in three dimension.
joe rogan
Creature from the Black Lagoon.
brian redban
They should do a remake of this one.
Some monster in a creek grabs all these women and rapes them.
joe rogan
Yeah, you could come up with a better story, right?
You could just say it was some genetic experiment that escaped from some dude who was really rich in Florida from cocaine.
He hired a bunch of scientists to try to make lizard soldiers.
Right?
That could totally be a story.
They could do that.
Creature from the black...
And it'd be in Miami.
Fucking people up in Miami.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
nick youssef
Because you need the hot girls to kill.
brian redban
Yeah.
nick youssef
They're always swimming around.
joe rogan
Well, it needs at least them to run.
You don't have to kill them.
nick youssef
Yeah.
In very slow motion.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If they run, the titties are bouncing while they're being chased by a lizard man.
nick youssef
That's what you could count on with all those Jason movies, where you're like, in the first scene, he's going to be walking through some camp, and there's going to be a bunch of girls going like, nothing's going to happen.
Let's just take off all our clothes.
It's very hot.
unidentified
Nipple to nipple.
nick youssef
Yeah.
Let's make out for warmth.
joe rogan
Yeah, that genre has kind of...
That genre has kind of gone away a bit, right?
Has it?
I mean, those were big movies.
nick youssef
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
Halloween.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Friday the 13th.
All those movies.
Those were big movies, man.
Like, you get fired up.
Friday the 13th.
Freddy Krueger.
nick youssef
Even when they were bad, they were good.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If you could ensure that a couple girls would be having a pillow fight, and a tit would pop out, and then an axe murderer shows up, Yeah.
nick youssef
You're talking about that for two months with your friends if you're a teenager.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Especially if it's like Jason because he's undead or whatever he is.
Nobody knows what he is.
nick youssef
Yeah.
He was killed and then came back somehow.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They fucking run him over.
They shoot him.
He rises and somehow or another finds a way to get you.
nick youssef
And it didn't even matter back then.
Like, well, we have to explain to the viewers how he came back.
They're like, well, that's what those four pairs of tits are for.
unidentified
Yeah.
nick youssef
Because immediately they'll forget.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Then he just goes on a rampage for two hours.
joe rogan
It was a different world back then.
brian redban
Scream movies were good, I thought.
joe rogan
Scream?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those were good, yeah.
brian redban
Those were fun.
nick youssef
It took a lot from that old school kind of horror slasher film thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, what bums me out is the lack of monster movies.
That's what bums me out.
Whenever a good monster movie comes out, I get super excited.
This is going to be fun.
But there's so few...
There's so few.
Like, Godzilla.
It was alright.
You know, it was fun.
It was really well done.
Like, the Godzilla itself was amazing.
But there's just one motherfucker, the main dude, who survives more close calls in this goddamn movie than anybody in the history of monster movies.
I mean, it's so ridiculous.
Like, everywhere he is, everybody dies and he escapes, and everybody dies and he escapes, and everybody dies and he escapes.
Like, fuck, man!
You know, by the time the movie's over, by the end of the movie, like, you've used up all your get-out-of-jail-free cards, dude.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're just officially ridiculous.
nick youssef
Like, he's the guy that lands in between the paws when he goes, boom!
And he's like, oh, that was a close one.
unidentified
Ha!
nick youssef
The tail slams down.
He's like, God, I was like four feet away.
Thank God.
joe rogan
Exactly.
I mean, it's just, there's so many cut-the-shit scenes.
But what they can do now, as far as the special effects, it makes it worth it.
It makes it worth seeing.
Because even if the story's goofy as shit, the monsters are insane.
Like, the way Godzilla looks now, holy fuck.
nick youssef
Did you watch it and didn't like it?
Was that you?
brian redban
I never saw it.
nick youssef
Or Ari?
Ari was like, he hated it.
joe rogan
Of course he did.
nick youssef
He's like, oh, totally don't watch that movie, ever.
I'm like, what's wrong?
And he just had all these problems with the storyline.
I'm like, Ari, it's a giant lizard destroying Japan or whatever.
joe rogan
It might be a god.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
They always do that in these movies.
It might be a god.
They might be gods.
nick youssef
What was the one with the giant robot warrior ones that came out?
joe rogan
Oh, Transformers?
unidentified
No, no, it was Pacific Rim.
nick youssef
I like that one.
joe rogan
Did you really?
nick youssef
Because it was just giant robots going at it.
It was like watching a video game.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was cool.
That part was cool, but the human parts were horrible.
It really felt like I was watching someone took a comic book and just didn't do any rewrites at all and just slapped it together.
It was very comic book-like, which I think in some cases is fine, but the comic books that they're doing now, comic book movies, they do so well.
Captain America, it's a silly story, but they do a really good job.
These movies are fun to watch.
They do a great job.
So if you go back to really clunky stuff like that, like the Pacific thing, it was too clunky for me.
Does that make sense?
nick youssef
Yeah, story-wise.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Yeah, that I didn't even...
I was like, I want to go watch a movie and turn my brain off.
And I'm like, what better thing than watch 200-foot-tall robots destroy each other?
joe rogan
But there was a scene where this guy and a girl were in love with each other or something.
And I was like, what am I watching here?
nick youssef
Yeah, that's where you're like, oh, bathroom time.
Or cigarette or something.
joe rogan
What is this robot fight thing?
What are you guys doing?
What's happening here?
Where's the monsters?
Show me some monsters, bitch.
brian redban
I hated the acting.
I couldn't even watch it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it seems like it was a choice, though.
It seemed very comic book-like, right?
Didn't it?
Almost like they were going for a certain feel.
nick youssef
Yeah, it had that comic book video game feel.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
nick youssef
I don't even remember who was in it.
joe rogan
No.
nick youssef
The human beings that were in it.
brian redban
Yeah, I remember I got really mad when I finally watched that movie because everyone told me it was good.
joe rogan
That fucking Tom Cruise movie is good.
The latest one?
Yeah, Edge of Tomorrow.
nick youssef
What's that one about?
joe rogan
It's a science fiction movie.
It's really good, man.
It's really good.
I mean, I said it's really good.
A bunch of people criticize me online.
How dare you?
But I think that those people, your taste of the movie sucks.
Listen, man, it's just my taste, okay?
You can't say it sucks.
We like different things.
But I understand if you think the movie sucks to you, but to me, I thought it was excellent.
And if it wasn't Tom Cruise, I think if it was some other dude that didn't carry a lot of baggage, I think it would probably have been rated a lot higher than it was.
I think one of the reasons why people are like, oh, that movie wasn't that good, I really think it's because it's a Tom Cruise movie.
I think, like, Tom Cruise's movies, people think they're good, they're pretty good, that's pretty good.
But if it was, like, another actor in the same role, like, it wouldn't be judged the same way, I think.
I think people just think that guy's so wacky.
nick youssef
Yeah, his reputation precedes anything else he can do from now on.
joe rogan
But he's so good.
nick youssef
He's a really good actor.
joe rogan
He's a really good actor.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's fucking really good in this movie.
Like, you buy it.
Like, I don't want to give away the plot, but it's a pretty ridiculous plot.
And he sells it.
Like, the idea behind it is pretty crazy.
And he sells it.
It's a good fucking movie.
nick youssef
People forget, like, there's a reason he became the biggest movie star in the world.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's cute.
He's got a cute face.
nick youssef
Yeah, he's talented.
joe rogan
He's talented as fuck.
nick youssef
He just happens to be insane.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that everybody who's really good at that gig is insane.
I think that's an insane person's hobby, or an insane person's profession.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're really good ones.
I mean, you can contain your insanity, but...
nick youssef
That's like the difficult trick, it seems, for celebrities now, is to not let it out that they're crazy.
Because there's so many venues, you could just like, I'm going to tweet something, and people are like...
unidentified
Did you know Shia LaBeouf is out of his mind?
nick youssef
Did you read all those tweets?
And it was, it's all been there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We just didn't know.
nick youssef
Like, imagine if there were social media in the 50s.
Oh, good God.
Like the things Humphrey Bogart...
We'd be railing against, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, right.
nick youssef
Like, Cary Grant's, like, homophobic.
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, all the racist shit that would be said.
nick youssef
Yeah, all the DUIs that would be publicized.
All the, yeah.
Domestic abuse.
Like, who knows what those people were into back then?
joe rogan
What is that guy's name from the early 1900s?
Fatty Arbuckle.
Remember that whole story?
nick youssef
No.
joe rogan
Fatty Arbuckle, apparently, they put a bottle or a glass up a woman's vagina and it killed her.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
Something happened.
Let me pull it up.
Fatty.
And he was acquitted, but he never worked again.
nick youssef
Wow.
joe rogan
What's that, Jamie?
unidentified
It's up on the screen for you.
joe rogan
Fatty Arbuckle.
His name was Roscoe.
Roscoe Arbuckle.
Yeah.
He...
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The woman died four days later.
She'd fallen ill at a party and she died.
And he was accused by this woman's acquaintance of accidentally killing the woman.
And after the first two trials, which resulted in hung juries, Arbuckle was acquitted in the third trial and received a formal written apology from the jury.
Despite Arbuckle's acquittal, the scandal has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian.
Following the trials, his films were banned and he was publicly ostracized.
Although the ban on his films was lifted within a year, Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s.
He later worked as a film director under the alias William Goodrich.
He was finally able to return to acting, making two short real comedies in 1932 for Warner Brothers.
He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 46. Whoa.
Reportedly, on the same day, he signed a contract with Warner Brothers to make a feature film.
Ooh, that's scary shit.
It doesn't say here what he did.
Like, it doesn't get into graphic detail about it.
It just said she had fallen ill.
I don't know.
nick youssef
Yeah, I wonder if they...
How old is that story?
joe rogan
It's from 1921. Yeah, I guess they...
nick youssef
I doubt they printed stuff like that back then.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Like anything that alluded to sexual or whatever.
It's like, oh, she was ill.
They wouldn't even use the word pregnant.
joe rogan
They'd be like expecting And they're saying that he wasn't that big but what the charge was that he had killed her with his weight while savagely raping her it says The newspapers of the day reveled in the glory Rumored details juries found little evidence that Arbuckle Barbuckle wasn't any way connected with her death.
unidentified
Hmm.
nick youssef
Yeah, imagine how many more of those stories about those, like, old legends that were, like, considered pristine stars if there was a TMZ back then.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a couple different versions.
This one website has one person's version, and then the Fatty Arbuckle version, they're two different versions of what exactly happened.
unidentified
Either way, no boring on my friend.
joe rogan
That's fucked.
Yeah, how did we get on the subject of Fatty Arbuckle?
nick youssef
I didn't know.
Oh, it's because Tom Cruise is considered crazy.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
nick youssef
And we're like, they probably were a bunch of crazy.
There's always been crazy celebrities.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why it was.
Yeah, there's always been crazy everything.
People are crazy.
It's just that people have done a really good job of hiding their crazy until they shut their doors.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
They would get home, goodnight, take care, bye-bye, shut that door, and rah!
nick youssef
Put on a vinyl suit with a zipper.
Let's get to work.
joe rogan
Ball gagging plays.
Yeah.
Go down to their basement.
Fucking chain themselves up.
Yeah.
People are crazy.
We're starting to see it.
It's coming out more.
nick youssef
It's going to be great when people want to go back to privacy.
When they want to cherish their privacy.
brian redban
It's not going to happen.
joe rogan
He'd have to go somewhere like the Big Island of Hawaii.
No internet.
nick youssef
There's no internet?
joe rogan
No, I mean, you would live there with no internet.
nick youssef
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
I mean, there is internet on the Big Island.
It's great.
But if you really wanted to...
First of all, think about the fact that there's internet on the Big Island of fucking Hawaii.
It takes five hours to get there on a plane, right?
You fly through the air for five hours, and someone laid fiber across the ocean floor that is that length.
I mean, that's how it works, right?
nick youssef
I think so.
I have no idea.
joe rogan
Isn't that how it works?
There has to be a direct line somewhere.
brian redban
There's underwater lines.
joe rogan
There's underwater lines, son.
unidentified
How?
joe rogan
Exactly.
How did they do that?
nick youssef
The Pacific Ocean.
So they're just like, we're tossing this in there, and let's hope a shark doesn't gnaw on it.
joe rogan
Okay, I'm going to Google, how do they get internet in Hawaii?
Call AOL. Dude, it's one of the first things that people ask.
Let's see what they say.
Say, how does Hawaii get internet?
Yahoo answers.
The internet is provided via a 10,000-mile submarine and terrestrial fiber optic cable connecting the state's six major islands, which is owned and operated by Pacific LightNet.
Wow.
10,000 miles, dude.
nick youssef
So there are, like, cables connecting all the continents.
brian redban
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Yep.
That's how...
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's crazy.
It's like, think about that.
Like, what part of that most people don't know.
Like, that part we don't know.
Like, most people are like, wait a minute, it's all a wire?
There's wires everywhere?
People don't think of that.
You don't think of that.
Like, you don't think there's, like, a wire that goes across the ocean to England, and that's how you're doing the internet with England?
nick youssef
You think it's, like, signals flying through the air.
unidentified
Yeah.
nick youssef
The people building railroads were like, this is impressive.
Like, we linked this city to that one with all this steel.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
And now it's like, there's a cable where I can just, like, pick up a thing.
joe rogan
And send a thing.
nick youssef
Yeah, and just type a thing.
joe rogan
And watch a video.
nick youssef
Yeah, screw you, train.
Takes two weeks.
joe rogan
That's why it gets really squirrely when people start talking about, like...
When you start talking about, like, videos that you can and can't watch in other countries, like, why can't I watch this in South Africa?
Like, why can't...
How come this is a...
It's because the pipe, like, they don't have agreement with various pipes.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, that must be it, right?
brian redban
Music licensing also, mostly, and things like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, music licensing, and I'm sure also, like, that there's certain places, like, they don't want to waste their bandwidth on a product that's not available in your country.
brian redban
I'm surprised terrorists just haven't gone after these lines yet.
That seems like...
unidentified
Shh!
joe rogan
Why are you giving them great ideas, bro?
nick youssef
Dude, you just gave it away.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
You're so bad for America.
nick youssef
Now Al-Qaeda's building a submarine to go down to the Pacific Trench.
unidentified
It's not Al-Qaeda anymore.
joe rogan
It's ISIS. You gotta keep up on your bad guys.
nick youssef
That's right.
Didn't they change it from ISIS again?
joe rogan
I do not know.
Well, if they were smart, they would, since I know about it.
nick youssef
Right, yeah.
joe rogan
I would say once I know about your organization, it's no longer secret.
nick youssef
Yeah.
brian redban
You know?
I made a mistake on the last episode I was on when I saw the video of an Israeli hitting a Palestinian kid.
Remember that?
When I was talking about the kid.
I guess there's just a lot of videos that they're just saying they're Israeli and they're not.
They're just trying, like, there's people on the team.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was a real video, but it was two other Arab kids.
brian redban
Yeah, it wasn't Israeli.
So all these people, angry Jews got on my kid.
joe rogan
Well, we're sorry, angry Jews, you sweeties.
Angry Jews, sweeties.
But I think there's some sort of a ceasefire right now, right?
Isn't that the idea?
Mm-hmm.
nick youssef
Unless it's already ended.
joe rogan
Imagine if we were going to war with Mexico.
brian redban
We better not.
joe rogan
But think about it.
That's essentially what's going on.
Where you look at where Israel is and you look at Gaza, we're going to war with Mexico.
That would be what it would be like.
Us going back and forth and rockets from Mexico flying into San Antonio and we're like, what the fuck?
That's real.
That's really what it would be like.
nick youssef
Yeah, like, they would, like, destroy a 7-Eleven in El Paso, and then we would just, like, bomb all of Mexico City for, like, three straight days.
joe rogan
But that's why the people in Israel, one of the things about people in Israel is those motherfuckers love to party.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
I had a friend.
He was a kickboxing instructor.
I went over his house once for dinner.
And a dude was playing the bongos and his wife was dancing, his kids were dancing, and they were all cooking.
And I was like, wow, this is crazy.
And he's like, this is, you know, how we do it in Israel.
He goes, you never know, one day you die, you know?
So today, when will I? Party, party, party.
And he was like playing the bongo drums and all happy.
And I was like, wow, that's a perspective you only get when you've been involved in that sort of hellish existence.
I believe he was in the military for the Israeli army.
I think it's mandatory, actually, for everyone.
But, you know, he was an interesting guy.
But always, like, big smile on his face and very happy.
And that was his explanation.
I go, you know, how come you guys are always so happy?
When I meet someone who's that, like, exuberant, that was his explanation.
You never know.
You know, you're over there.
It's just like...
Death.
Bombing.
Something.
Always terrible.
You never know.
Everyone could die.
nick youssef
It shows you how different life with Israelis and Palestinians are.
There's no way the Palestinians are partying like that.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
nick youssef
You'd think they'd party twice as hard.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
We're really living under at any moment.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a dark situation, man.
nick youssef
It really is.
joe rogan
It's very dark.
nick youssef
Like, I asked my parents.
They're from Lebanon, my parents.
So, like, they grew up in, around all that, you know?
They were, like, Christian, you know, so they just got out of there.
They're like, we need to get out of here.
But every time I'd ask them about it, they would just, like, I'm like, what do you think about what's going on in Israel and Gaza now, all this stuff?
And they just look at me like, what do you mean?
I'm like, what do you think's gonna happen?
And they're like, the same thing that's always gonna happen.
They're gonna keep fighting, and it's never gonna end.
Psh!
Like, they just look at it like it's not even worth talking about.
unidentified
That's...
nick youssef
Yeah, it's really, like, dark and you're just like, good lord.
Like, they just got so used to it.
Like, growing up that, like, war is a thing.
Like, I went to Lebanon when I was 13. Like, to go back to the homeland kind of thing.
And, like, you're in the southern parts of the country.
And I'd never seen anything like this growing up in the suburbs of L.A. But, like, you're sitting in a village...
And then there's, like, a guy tending, like, cattle.
There's, like, goats.
And then five minutes later, a tank just drives through a dirt road in a village.
No one bats an eye.
No one...
But meanwhile, I'm, like, you know, just pointing.
I'm, like, that's a tank!
And they're, like, yeah, that happens, like, two, three times a day.
Like, Israeli tanks and Lebanese tanks.
And there's soldiers with fully automatic weapons walking through towns.
And that's just, like, a normal part of life.
joe rogan
Well, have you ever done a gig that's on a military town?
nick youssef
No.
joe rogan
Whenever you do, anytime you're on the road, if you're near Camp Pendleton or Fort Bragg or any of these military bases, if you have a gig anywhere nearby and you hang out there for a day, you're going to see military trucks.
You're going to see camoed up Jeeps and Humvees and all these different troops constantly moving back and forth, left and right.
If you're close to that, you see it all the time.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's weird.
It's weird if you're not used to it.
You're like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
That's a killing machine.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what a tank is.
That's all it's good for.
nick youssef
That's what it was doing.
It was looking for trouble.
I mean, to find if there is any trouble.
joe rogan
Can you imagine if you saw that tank and then all of a sudden fucking alarms start going off and the shit starts flying and you're sitting there real close to this tank that's getting shot at?
nick youssef
That happened when we went to sleep in the village that night.
The night before we went back up to the city in Beirut.
And, like, my younger brother and I just heard these distant, like, noises, and we, like, asked my mom, like, what are those noises?
And she said, no, don't worry, it's nothing, don't worry about it.
And the next day we were like, so what were those noises?
Like, you wouldn't tell us.
And she's like, those were bombs going off, like, five miles away from us.
unidentified
Whoa.
nick youssef
Yeah.
So it was, like, terrorists bombing each other five miles away from us.
joe rogan
Yo.
nick youssef
And you're a 13-year-old kid, and you're like, I grew up in a suburb of LA where it couldn't be safer.
Six cops will pull you over for smoking a cigarette.
And five miles away, it's like people are destroying each other.
joe rogan
Wow.
nick youssef
It really helped shape my perspective of what it's like to live in America and grow up in America.
Because that could have been me.
I could have lived there.
And maybe, who knows, if I would have gotten to age 30, 31, 32, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's absolutely true.
We're all stupid lucky that we landed on this spot.
Because you could have landed anywhere.
You could be in the Congo right now going, oh...
Well, how do I get out of this?
nick youssef
How do I get rid of this Ebola?
joe rogan
Does it come to the armpit?
nick youssef
Is that where it hits?
Yeah, they get the big, like, big buboes, or what they call them.
Like the bubonic plague.
That's where that term comes from.
They get these, like, giant...
joe rogan
Oh, it's like blood or something like that?
Like your skin?
nick youssef
Yeah, your lymph nodes or your glyphates swell up.
That some people have read that are immune to it.
unidentified
Me.
joe rogan
Immune to everything, bro.
Hemp powder, bro.
You can't fuck me, bro.
nick youssef
There's like tribal guys that like it goes through so much that like the bubonic plague of all these things, they get it and then nothing happens.
joe rogan
Wow.
That's cool genetics, but you have to be a tribal guy.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
Probably just get a little bit of Ebola every day and develop an immunity to it.
I think it's a hemorrhagic virus, right?
I think it's one of those ones that makes you bleed.
nick youssef
Is it the same one that liquefies your insides?
joe rogan
Something bad like that.
brian redban
Yeah, that's what I heard liquefied.
joe rogan
Not good.
And they just sent someone to America, right?
brian redban
Two people to Atlanta.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a hemorrhagic fever.
It's a human disease caused by the Ebola virus.
Symptoms typically start two to three weeks after two days to three weeks after contracting the virus with a fever, sore throat, muscle pains, and headaches.
Typically, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea follow along with the decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys.
At this point, some people begin to have bleeding problems.
The virus may be acquired upon contact with blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal, commonly monkeys or fruit bats.
So, somebody fucked a bat or a monkey.
And that's how we got Ebola, most likely.
Somebody got super crazy and fucked a monkey or a bat.
It's unnaturally transmitted through the air.
Fruit bats are believed to carry and spread the virus without being affected.
Once human infection occurs, the disease may spread between people as well.
Male survivors may be able to transmit the disease via semen.
Ugh!
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
In order to make the diagnosis, typically other diseases with similar symptoms such as malaria, cholera, and other viral hemorrhagic fevers are first excluded.
Wow.
This is deep shit, man.
No specific treatment for the disease.
Efforts to help persons who are infected include giving them either oral rehydration therapy, slightly salty water to drink, or intravenous fluids.
The disease has a high mortality rate, often killing between 50 and 90% of those infected.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
Whoa.
It was first identified in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The disease typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of the sub-Saharan Africa.
It's always Africa, bro.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's always Africa.
That's where whatever gets us is gonna get out of Africa.
You know, when I did that sci-fi show, that was the scariest part, was the dealing with the infectious diseases, by far.
Where I asked people about diseases, like, what we really have to worry about.
The scariest thing they were saying wasn't terrorism.
It was just a disease that morphs.
Just something that becomes, like, super potent and kills a ton of people.
Something like, they had that Spanish flu that killed a bunch of people in the early 1900s.
nick youssef
Yeah, in the 1920s or whatever, yeah.
joe rogan
Apparently it started on a military base.
Cue the conspiracy theories.
But the thing that was really deadly about it was that it would go after young, healthy men.
People with strong immune systems.
It would shut down their immune system.
It would kill them quick, which is really strange.
It was almost designed to take out healthy people.
nick youssef
Yeah, because normally a flu is, it's like children and old people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, babies and old people have to worry about it.
But most young people survive.
But that's, you know, it's a creepy thought that at any time something could happen and some...
Virus could morph and turn it into some new thing that we don't know how to deal with.
nick youssef
Yeah.
Someone sneezing on you at an airport could wipe out 5% of human civilization.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Think about this Ebola.
90% of the people die.
Okay?
If that's the high number.
What if everyone got Ebola?
Just think of that.
If one person get Ebola, what's to say that everyone can't get Ebola?
Well, because there are specific protocols in place.
Stop that from...
Yes.
Most likely, I'm just being crazy.
Most likely, most people are not going to get Ebola.
But if they did, what we're saying is at least half would die.
Yeah.
That's some catastrophic shit.
nick youssef
It's like with the way the world's interconnected, it's like that could, like TSA doesn't check for Ebola.
Like it could get through an airport, and the next thing you know, boom.
joe rogan
Well, listen to what that just said, that it doesn't necessarily, the symptoms don't show up that quickly.
Two days to three weeks.
Three weeks is a long time.
You contract a virus and then you have that virus for three weeks and you don't know.
nick youssef
If you travel a lot.
joe rogan
Traveling, licking your hand and touching things everywhere.
nick youssef
Yeah.
High-fiving people.
joe rogan
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
You could spread that shit for sure.
nick youssef
Coughing on a subway.
Like, there's so many...
The more you think about it, you're like...
joe rogan
Spits on their hand and gives you a handjob?
Right?
That's how you got Ebola?
You're like, God damn, really?
nick youssef
I'm at the hottest shit.
Her eyes were really red.
She was probably just high.
joe rogan
But now I feel like I have a temperature.
She was so hot, she gave me a temperature.
nick youssef
I think she gave me something.
Just go to Planned Parenthood.
They'll figure it out.
joe rogan
Planned Parenthood.
nick youssef
So what do I have, Doc?
joe rogan
Check for Ebola.
Have you been getting hand jobs from African chicks?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
African chicks.
nick youssef
It looks like you have, we need you to leave immediately.
That's what you have.
joe rogan
Yeah, so the woman, the second patient, you know, there was two patients that flew into America, apparently.
Weak but improving.
The second American Ebola patient to arrive in the U.S. soil was wheeled into an Atlanta hospital Tuesday by workers in biohazard suits.
You should see the picture, man.
It's freaky.
The picture is them wheeling her into...
It's dark, dude.
Pull that picture up.
Pull this picture up.
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
There was somebody that...
They had a video where they showed this news guy that was hiding in a bush taking video or photos of this, and he wasn't wearing a suit, though.
And it was just like, oh, he's feet away from this person, not wearing a suit.
This is how it happens.
This dumb...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, that would be like a plot in that old episode of The Incredible Hulk.
Right?
That would be how the guy gets the super disease.
I'm just trying to do my job, man.
I'm a reporter.
Look at that.
It's so weird.
Looking at them taking that gurney and pushing it in their spacesuits.
That's madness.
unidentified
It's like E.T. Ooh, that's so scary.
joe rogan
Dude, that's so scary.
nick youssef
I wonder if it's like 90% though if it happened in developed nations with like hospitals and shit.
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
nick youssef
Because in tribes, like, in Africa, I'm sure when people get it, they're like, oh, the disease is back.
Like, what do we do?
Like, we'll just, you know, start a fire and, like, chant to the gods and, like, hope that it goes away.
joe rogan
More than 1,400 Ebola cases have been confirmed in the worst-known outbreak of the disease, and more than 800 people have died.
Most of these cases have been the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
The experimental drug or anything else about the infections ultimately leads to an Ebola cure.
That would be incredible, this doctor is saying.
This is dark shit, dude.
I didn't know that this was the worst outbreak of Ebola ever.
Did you know that?
nick youssef
No.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Wow.
nick youssef
And in countries like that, too, they're like, well, what next?
joe rogan
I know, right?
nick youssef
Like, what could be worse?
joe rogan
Both aid workers received doses of an experimental Ebola drug derived in part from tobacco plants and never before tested on humans before they left Liberia.
Brantley got an additional dose at Emory.
Wow.
unidentified
Whew.
joe rogan
Man.
That's scary shit.
nick youssef
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
joe rogan
You know, whenever there's a movie like that World War Z or any of those movies, like, it's always the same beginning.
And it's a beginning just like this.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, you're reading a story and you're like, do you think this sounds really bad?
And then one of us would be like, nah, it's nothing.
It's nothing to worry about.
They got it out of control.
That's what they do.
These guys are great at it.
That's what they do.
nick youssef
That's why there's a CDC, guys.
Anyway, I'm headed to the airport to get on a flight.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
And he's the guy who lands and he's itchy and his fucking eyes are bleeding.
What's going on, man?
nick youssef
Nothing.
I'll be fine.
I gotta go home and hug my wife and children.
joe rogan
Hey, we really should take a look at you.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
Thank you.
nick youssef
Now I'm going to go to the sporting event.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I've got front row tickets to the Lakers game and I'm not gonna miss it.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
And he goes there and the Lakers win and you see him high-fiving everybody.
unidentified
Sweating.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's doing blow in the bathroom.
I feel like shit.
He does a couple of bumps and he's high-fiving everybody.
nick youssef
Sharing needles.
joe rogan
Just spreading Ebola.
nick youssef
I've never done heroin, but I'll try it today.
joe rogan
Fuck it, bro.
YOLO. He's doing heroin.
YOLO. Yeah.
Man, it could happen.
There's a lot of selfish fucking people, too.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people that, you know, if they get HIV, they don't tell people.
That's a big one, man.
That's a big one.
nick youssef
John Holmes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
I think I did it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, it's a weird thing.
If someone caught the zombie disease and they knew they had the zombie disease, but they knew that it didn't show up for a couple weeks, but they could transmit it to people, would they still fuck?
I say they would.
They probably would.
brian redban
Be on my side.
I don't want to be the only one with the zombie.
joe rogan
A dude was drinking in a seedy hotel room and he ordered up a stripper and he knew he had the zombie disease.
I could totally see this.
The zombie disease fucking spread.
That's all you'd have to do, right?
nick youssef
They find a way to rationalize.
Well, everyone's going to get it anyway.
joe rogan
Exactly.
nick youssef
And she asked me if I had chlamydia or gonorrhea.
I didn't lie.
I said I didn't have that.
joe rogan
Everybody was going to get it, bro.
The sooner you accept that, the quicker you get some of the sweet, sweet pussy.
nick youssef
Yeah, no one ever asks, like, you don't have this zombie disease, do you?
joe rogan
What are you even talking about?
nick youssef
Yeah, that's crazy.
joe rogan
The what disease?
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Are you fucking me?
nick youssef
Yeah, why would I have...
Seriously?
joe rogan
Come on.
Yeah.
Yeah, there could be something dark, man.
There could be some really crazy avian swine monkey flu that comes along that they just don't see coming.
Especially these hemorrhagic ones.
Those are terrifying.
nick youssef
Yeah.
brian redban
We should take these two people that they flew to Atlanta and just, like, drop them off in North Korea and just let them walk around.
joe rogan
They need to study them and find out whether or not the drugs work on them, dummy.
You gotta, like, find out, like, how to fix these people.
Like...
When they put a lot of money into these things, like these kind of projects, like they have new drugs they're trying to test, if it works, the amount of money that they can make from it is giant.
So they're probably working really hard on developing some sort of a cure.
They had enough hope in it, they injected people with.
That's a good sign.
You know, it doesn't mean it's going to be effective, but it means they probably have done a lot of work with it already, and they're pretty sure it does something good.
They're not just taking wild guesses.
Let's just inject them with the first thing that comes to mind.
Tobacco!
Okay, let's do it.
Fuck it.
Tobacco.
You know, there must be some sort of a reason.
Drugmaker's stock falls after Big Pop.
Hmm.
Why is there no Ebola vaccine?
There is no cure for Ebola.
Dude, this is the beginning of a goddamn horror movie.
nick youssef
Because the people that have it don't have credit cards.
Like, why would you create a vaccine or a drug where people are like, we can pay you in goats.
We can.
joe rogan
It's true.
nick youssef
Here's an Adobe Hut.
joe rogan
Could you imagine if we found out, and I'm sure someone will suggest, it's black helicopters!
But someone will suggest that the reason why this Ebola outbreak has happened was because someone poisoned a bunch of people.
With Ebola!
It's been shown!
They injected Ebola into the drinking water of this tribe so that they could spread it.
The aid workers would bring it back home with them.
And then next thing you know, this pharmaceutical drug company is making trillions of dollars!
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
Someone's going to suggest that.
But it could just be Ebola, motherfucker, alright?
nick youssef
Yeah.
It could just be nature.
joe rogan
People escaped.
They weren't supposed to.
They quarantined people.
People got out.
It spread.
Lots of people died.
It could just be that, too.
And it's most likely just that.
But it's scary.
Scary as fuck.
It just shows you how easy it is for that shit to actually spread.
Everything doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be totally terrifying.
Just a disease like this is fucking totally terrifying.
It doesn't have to be manufactured by the government.
Everybody has this idea when one of these things happens.
It's one of the first things you start reading about.
These government instituted programs where they designed viruses that could not be fought off.
nick youssef
Six men in a dark smoky room.
joe rogan
Lower the world population.
unidentified
They want to lower the world population to 500,000 worldwide.
joe rogan
How do you think they're going to do that?
Okay.
nick youssef
Yeah, you're like, I don't know, but why?
To pocket billions of dollars.
joe rogan
They will own everything.
unidentified
Yeah.
500,000 hookers and them.
joe rogan
A nation.
That's being 500,000 people is not a lot.
That's what the, uh, isn't that what the Georgia Guidestones, doesn't it say something like that?
It says like 500 million worldwide.
You know the Georgia Guidestones?
nick youssef
What is that?
joe rogan
The Georgia Guidestones are these really tall pieces of stone that were carved in several different languages with guides for how to run a civilization.
nick youssef
Whoa, I've never heard of that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
Here, I'll pull it up because it's pretty interesting.
The Georgia Guidestones, the guy who made them, I'm not sure who that is, but he actually had some good guides.
As far as how to manage a civilization.
They're not perfect, but they're kind of interesting.
Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature.
That's one.
Two, guide reproduction wisely.
Improving fitness and diversity.
Guide reproduction, meaning engineering reproduction.
nick youssef
Like eugenics.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, what they're doing is, look, you could say that this is some sort of an evil plot, and it may be, but it also might be that they're just trying to look at it in what you would consider a cold and calculated manner.
But if you looked at it in a cold and calculating manner, I'm not telling you that anybody should do this, but if you did...
You would want to take the smartest females and breed them with the smartest males and the ones who had the most good habits, the ones who were the most fit, you would want them to be the ones that would be raising children more often.
It's just like what you would do if you were raising dogs.
nick youssef
That's an interesting one.
brian redban
Yeah.
Obama is a Muslim.
joe rogan
Is that on the Georgia guys' terms?
nick youssef
It is now.
joe rogan
Wow, somebody spray-painted it.
That's so rude.
What else does it say here?
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Whoa.
That's interesting.
That's interesting.
nick youssef
It doesn't say like...
brian redban
It's emojis.
nick youssef
Yeah, right?
joe rogan
A living new language.
That's interesting.
Like a language for all of humanity.
That would really help.
For sure.
Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason.
Okay.
That's just common sense, right?
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
That's kind of duh.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Fuck yes.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
absolutely prize truth beauty love seeking harmony with the infinite and 10 be not a cancer on the earth leave room for nature leave room for nature the only thing that's repeated twice in the entire thing Thank you.
Huh.
It's not a bad idea.
I mean, listen, you're going to need a lot more than that if you're on the run of fucking world.
nick youssef
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
But they're not bad.
There's only a couple of them that are kind of goofy.
nick youssef
There's nothing in there about how to lay fiber optic cables.
joe rogan
Across the fucking ocean.
Yeah.
nick youssef
Help us out here, Georgia Stone thing.
brian redban
Where's the Georgia Stone thing at?
joe rogan
It's Georgia, I assume.
Let's find out.
Elbert County, Georgia.
A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines as inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages.
Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Wow.
The structure is sometimes referred to as American Stonehenge.
Monument is 19 feet 3 inches tall, made from six granite slabs, weighing 237,746 pounds.
Why am I reading this?
Nobody cares.
The capstone lies at the top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned.
An additional stone tablet, which is set on the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and the purpose of the guidestones.
In June of 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R.C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure.
Wow.
In 2008, the stones were defaced with polyurethane paint, death to the New World Order, like all that shit that we saw.
Wired Magazine called the defacement the first serious act of vandalism in the Guidestones history.
I wonder if they cleaned that up.
Can they clean that shit up?
unidentified
Yeah.
brian redban
I mean, you can still slightly see it, but...
joe rogan
Oh, that's so annoying.
brian redban
It is annoying.
joe rogan
Death to the New World Order.
Jesus Christ.
Some fucking kids.
Kids are crazy people.
Death to the New World Order.
Can you imagine if they said, okay, listen, man, we're going to give you a button that kills the New World Order.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay?
But before you hit that button, can you at least identify who you're killing?
unidentified
What?
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, it's death to the New World Order.
What's the New World Order?
Is it the banks?
Or is it the politicians?
Is it everybody?
nick youssef
Yeah, it's really vague.
joe rogan
Right.
And if you kill them, what happens to everything?
Because if you go totally death to the New World Order, what are you going to do?
Are you going to run the banks?
Who's going to run the banks?
Is there a bank now?
How do I get credit?
How do I use my credit card?
nick youssef
Yeah, you can't just hit the button and then be like, I'm going to go get something to eat now.
Because your credit card won't work.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Like, it's over.
joe rogan
It's over, dude.
You've got to be careful.
You can't death to the New World Order.
Maybe enslave them and force them to work for us.
Enslave the New World Order and force them to work for us and fix this problem that they created.
Okay, I'll be with you.
I'm down with you on that.
Death to the New World Order.
At least can they just tell us how this thing is running before you kill them?
nick youssef
I'd start with accountability for the New World Order.
Explain yourselves.
unidentified
Death.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, would you ride down on the Georgia Guidestones, you silly fuck?
The Georgia Guidestones are fascinating.
I think it's interesting that they don't know who the dude is.
Or unknown dudes or dudettes.
nick youssef
Yeah, especially since they commissioned, like, a place to do it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Like, dude, don't tell anyone we were here.
joe rogan
Well, you could rock it that way in 1979, though.
You know?
1979, like, there's no DNA, there's no credit cards, there's no nothing.
nick youssef
A paper receipt with a carbon coffee that they gave you.
That was it.
That was the only record.
joe rogan
Yeah, people used to buy groceries with checks all the time.
You would see women at the cash register, and they would be reading, okay, what's that?
And they'd pay with a check.
That was super common.
Now it's rare.
When I see someone paying with a check, I get kind of excited.
nick youssef
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like a legacy thing.
Like, whoa, you're not going to see that much longer.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's kind of cool.
nick youssef
Yeah, it's always old people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Or, you know, there's some housewives.
Sometimes people, they like to balance their checkbook like that.
That's how they make sure that they keep an accurate assessment of what's in there.
But now you can balance your checkbook.
You can look it up online.
Not balance it, but at least be aware.
You can do it pretty easily.
Find out what your balance is.
nick youssef
The craziest thing is you can send a check.
You can take a picture of a check and send it over the internet.
brian redban
Yeah, deposit it using your phone.
joe rogan
Well, how about all these businesses now that have these phone apps that you put a thing on your phone, you swipe a credit card, and you can pay for a credit card with your phone.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of businesses have those things now.
nick youssef
Square is the big one, right?
brian redban
Yeah.
nick youssef
That changes merch.
You can go, oh, I now accept credit cards on my iPhone.
joe rogan
Do you have one of those?
Because you have an LLC, right?
For Death Squad.
So you have one of those you put on your phone?
brian redban
Anyone can get one.
joe rogan
But do you have one?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
So you have one for shows and shit when you sell t-shirts?
brian redban
Yeah, I've never really done that.
joe rogan
Dude, why are you not doing that?
That sounds perfect.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
That sounds cool as fuck.
You feel so independent.
Like, yeah, I'm my own business.
nick youssef
Yeah, I would...
Wait, are you saying there's a problem?
Do you not do it because there's, like, some issue?
brian redban
No, I just...
It's just, you know, if you're selling a $10 poster, usually people have $10, you know, so it's not necessary, but if I... Somebody likes cash!
Yeah, I mean...
joe rogan
How about we fucking next subject, Yusuf?
Next subject!
brian redban
But no, it works good.
I mean, my weed dealer sells it.
joe rogan
Hey, easy, bro.
You're fucking throwing him under the bus, too.
How dare you throw him under the bus?
brian redban
No, it's cool.
A lot of small businesses, like mom and pop stores use that now.
Instead of having the big credit card machine, they just have an iPad sitting there that you just sign.
joe rogan
Yeah, it makes sense.
I went to a coffee place recently that you swipe your credit card and then you write on the screen.
brian redban
Right.
joe rogan
You know, you write your thing on the screen.
What's really crazy is that there's like these little tablets and it's all this really complicated screen, high definition, touch screen, super accurate, but you're still like doing this thing with your fucking, you're putting your mark.
That's how you prove it's you.
That's so goofy.
brian redban
It is goofy.
joe rogan
It's real weird that that's still the way we do it.
nick youssef
And it doesn't even matter anymore.
There's no need to go through that.
I did once, because I was looking at one of these sign-in things, I'm like, there's no way it matters.
And I wrote in the signature box, stolen card.
And I hit submit, and it totally worked.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just they want to get a record of you making a mark on that paper.
You making a mark on that screen.
nick youssef
What do you think will happen, because they're going to stop teaching cursive in school?
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
And they're already starting to?
brian redban
Thank God.
nick youssef
What's going to happen with signatures?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
That's a very good question.
nick youssef
How are we going to sign things?
Like, if you never learn cursive, are we going to all have, like, codes?
joe rogan
Do you think that the idea of signing things is ridiculous?
And isn't it kind of ridiculous?
The idea of signing things?
Like, you said!
You wrote it down!
We got it right here!
He said it!
Like the idea that you're bound to an agreement.
nick youssef
These wavy lines that you put on paper.
joe rogan
There's certain things that I think like business dealings, like say if you and I decided to build a house together, like Nick and Joe go into construction business and we decided to build, and we have a business and the business is 50-50 and we pay for the same amount for this and that and we get the same amount of profit and you got that all worked out.
That kind of makes sense to do that.
But there's a lot of things that you sign for, like cable agreements, you know, or cell phone contracts, or there's entanglements, business entanglements.
There's a contract to get a cell phone?
I have to have a contract?
Like, what is this?
What am I agreeing to?
I'm agreeing to...
This is ridiculous.
nick youssef
There's a whole documentary I watched on Netflix about terms and conditions and all the things that you sign away the second you...
unidentified
Hey, you don't even look at them.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who fucking reads that shit?
nick youssef
Nobody, and that's why they get away with putting all kinds of insane shit in there.
joe rogan
What's the documentary called?
nick youssef
It's called, like, We're Fucked or some shit.
unidentified
It's something really terrible.
nick youssef
I think it's called, like, Terms and Conditions, Terms and Something.
It's on Netflix.
And it's pretty interesting that they go through all the different companies and which ones will sell your personal information because you've agreed.
The second you click yes on iTunes or you agree to Apple's the second you turn on your iPhone or something like that, they can store your information.
They can sell it if the government needs it.
They used to be like, we will not give out your information, and then they've changed the clause to, like, you know, unless...
Like, it'll be words like, unless certain things come up.
Like, well, what the fuck does that mean?
It'll just be anything?
joe rogan
Unless certain things come up.
nick youssef
They're so vague about it.
Like, you know, unless, like, shit goes down.
You're like, you can't say that!
joe rogan
Yeah, it's just...
What is that?
brian redban
that that south park episode human cine pad where it's all about apples termines and conditions and it ends up like having like you signed you have to eat this guy's ass oh south park's the best That's so great.
joe rogan
Nobody reads it.
I would love to know what the actual numbers of people who read the terms and conditions before they click on it.
nick youssef
Oh, it's got to be like half a percent.
joe rogan
If that, right?
nick youssef
Because it's so much.
joe rogan
That means half a percent is one person out of 200, right?
Isn't that what it means?
nick youssef
I think, well, yeah, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, 1% would be 1 out of 100, so half a percent is 1% out of 200. Yeah, yeah.
brian redban
Right?
joe rogan
Does that make sense?
So, I don't believe that.
nick youssef
Do you think it's even less?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's probably...
Not one percent, but like one-tenth of one percent.
I bet it's one out of a thousand.
That's what I bet.
nick youssef
Yeah, that makes more sense.
joe rogan
Yeah.
One out of a thousand actually reads the whole thing and goes, hmm, do I want to click on this?
Let me see.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Gets out his reading glasses, this fucking goddamn liberal president we have here trying to communize my country.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that guy will read it.
nick youssef
And they tell you...
joe rogan
Black cell adopters.
nick youssef
They tell you in the documentary, if you've spent all the time reading every time a new terms and conditions comes up for all the different things that make you sign one, it would take years of your life.
You have to take days off of work to be like, dude, I just signed up for Netflix, Spotify, and I got a new iPhone, so I can't come into work today because I have to read 860 pages of legal jargon.
joe rogan
Yeah, it should be, at a certain point in time, it should be that your method of delivery is so woefully ineffective that it's illegal.
Like, in terms and conditions on that scale, if I could prove that my theory was correct, and then it's like one-half of one percent, or one-tenth of one percent, rather, that actually read that thing, those should be illegal.
Because you're making people sign things that they're just not reading.
You know they're not reading it!
nick youssef
You're, like, misleading.
You're intentionally making it more difficult.
joe rogan
They make everything so rock-solid in their favor, and even things that just shouldn't be that way.
There's certain agreements.
When you find out that anytime you cancel, anytime you want to change this, you're subject to fees, you're subject to that, and you find out things about your information, your history, they're selling your phone number or your email.
There's so many things that happen to people when you sign those little things away.
But we do it recklessly.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't ever think about it.
Have you ever had an app that you clicked yes on and started making tweets for you?
brian redban
Yeah, especially on Android, there's a lot of sketchy things that you're installing so they can also track you.
Whoever made this app can track you.
nick youssef
Yeah, it's weird.
joe rogan
I had a guy, he made some app that tweeted for me something about a prize for an iPad.
You know?
And someone said, dude, you hawk in iPads?
And I was like, what are you talking about?
And then I went to my thing.
I was like, what the fuck is this?
And then I found out where it was from.
This guy, I guess I had, like, retweeted something from a website.
Like, sometimes when you retweet something, like, if you go to a website and you click on a story or something that you think is interesting, and you, there's like a tweet button.
But if you tweet it, like, sometimes you're agreeing to allow them to have access to your Twitter account.
Or at least used to be that way.
brian redban
Well, a lot of those websites, that's how they steal your password also, because you go in there and it could be like, tweet this story, and it's just like you need to log in, and what it's doing, it's actually stealing your password and logging you in at the same time, so it looks like everything's going right, and then that's how a lot of people get phished for their passwords.
joe rogan
Yeah, I could only imagine.
But this dude somehow or another had like an app installed on my Twitter.
It was like, you know, those things that are attached to your Twitter?
You know, there's like Evernote, and you can tweet with Evernote, and there's a bunch of different ones.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
This guy had like this installed on my computer.
I was like, what the fuck?
So I go to his website, his website is like, you know, his Twitter page has got like 100,000 fucking friends, or whatever it is, followers.
Like, how's he doing that?
Like, it's just scams all around.
brian redban
Yeah, you automatically add him, probably.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I do a search to find out what kind of traffic his website's getting.
Ridiculous traffic.
Because there's all this weasel work going on.
Sneaky people that force you into clicking on things or trick you into clicking on things.
Next thing you know, they're tweeting about iPad giveaways from your account.
You're like, what?
And then you find out that that's legal.
You actually clicked on a thing that said you're allowed to do that.
brian redban
Mm-hmm.
nick youssef
Yeah, it's bizarre.
After watching that documentary, it made me want to just not sign up for a lot of websites where I'm like, do I really want that?
Do I need that?
Because I'm not going to read the terms and conditions.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
Whoa, Brian Dunning sentenced to 15 months in prison.
nick youssef
Who is that?
joe rogan
Ooh.
brian redban
Remember Brian?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, Brian Dunning was the guy.
I had him on my podcast, and we had a very contentious discussion.
Sad to hear.
And he...
He had an issue with, I believe it was Amazon, right?
eBay.
Yeah, and he had created some sort of an app, and if you use the app, it puts a cookie on your computer, like if you use it.
It puts a cookie on your computer, and then any time you go to eBay and make a purchase or do business, he would get a kickback.
And the way he described it and the way they described it is very different, so I don't know who's right or who's wrong.
But what they're accusing him of is you plant something on your, like it plants a cookie, and then even if you don't go to eBay through his website, it appears that you did.
So they have these eBay affiliates where, say, if nickyusef.com, if I went through that and then went to eBay and purchased something, you would get a little tiny piece of the action.
And over time, that counts for a lot.
And because these apps were popular, they counted for a lot, and he made a lot of money.
brian redban
Five million.
nick youssef
Whoa.
joe rogan
Yeah, he made five million dollars off his app, and then they shut it down and arrested him.
And when we had him on the podcast, I do not think he's a bad guy, but there's something wrong with the way he thinks.
And when I say that, I say that with all respect and dignity, communicating about a fellow human being.
Like, I don't hate that guy.
He's silly and he said a bunch of crazy shit about me.
But I think there's something wrong with the way he thinks.
And I even communicated with him about that in private.
We had like a little email conversation.
He actually asked me about psychedelic drugs.
And he's curious about the mind-expanding aspects.
And we had a pretty intense conversation about it.
Because I think...
And I told him that.
I said, with all due respect, I think there's something wrong with the way you think.
Like, I don't know what it is, but I think it's like a mental illness.
His versions of reality and reality itself are so twisted.
Like there was a video that we watched of Tower 7 from September 11th falling.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he was trying to convince us that it doesn't collapse into its base.
He was trying to convince us that only three quarters of the tower, the three quarters of the tower is still standing.
It was only the top quarter or whatever it was.
He had some weird numbers in his head.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
That thing gives out and falls into a pile.
unidentified
Yeah.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, the reason why it's so high is because that's how much shit there is.
The whole thing's gone.
Like, the building disintegrated.
nick youssef
It's not a cartoon where it all just vanishes.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's all on top.
Yeah, exactly.
nick youssef
It's a for rent sign.
joe rogan
It's a stack of shit.
The reason why the stack is so high is because there was a lot of shit above it.
It fell.
Like, this is retarded.
Like, this is...
But he wouldn't let it go.
And when I was looking at him, when he wouldn't let it go, I was like, oh, there's something wrong in there.
Like there's a missing thing.
And then when he started talking about his life, it made way more sense because he was raised a very, very conservative Mormon.
Like his whole life, he was very religious.
And he's developed, his mind developed under this fundamentalist thinking that is super damaging to people.
And that sounds like an ignorant bigot, an anti-religious thing for me to say, but just listen to this for a second.
I have friends that grew up Mormon, and they, to this day, tell me that they're really gullible, and they worry about it.
They don't...
They don't know whether or not someone is trying to pull a fast one on them.
They don't know whether or not a yoga guru or a cult member could rope them in and suck them into things by telling them that they found the secret.
They have this weird need to believe irrational things.
This is from this woman who tells me herself.
It disturbs her.
She's like, I don't know what it is, but I have this weird...
I'm susceptible to trickery.
I was like, whoa, that is a weird admission.
And she was just like, as I've gotten older, and she's not dumb.
She's like, as I've gotten older and I've talked to my other friends, I'm like, well, what is it about me?
And she's like, because all my life, I thought that God had my back.
All my life, I thought that God has everything covered and everything's going to be fine.
Until over and over again, fucked up things would happen to her.
And she was forced to go, wait, what's going on here?
And then she would see...
The ridiculous hypocrisy of the church.
She looked into the religion deeper and then got to your 40s and is looking at her life going, fuck!
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what is this?
And why am I... That guy is like that.
He grew up super religious.
When you grew up super religious like that, especially if you don't have open-minded parents, there's a way I think that you could grow up with a sense of spirituality and still be very open-minded and Maybe scientifically inclined, but the reason why this guy is such a skeptic, he's going after things, debunking things, showing, ha, this is all nonsense, ladies and gentlemen.
Have you ever seen his video on fracking?
brian redban
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's the perfect example.
There's like a no-nonsense voice that people use.
And it's like there's a tone.
There's like a very condescending way of communicating their ideas.
It's the no-nonsense guy.
And there's a lot of things that are misunderstood about hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as fracking.
Have you ever seen it?
Pull that video up.
nick youssef
Yeah.
brian redban
I believed it back in the day when I first saw it.
joe rogan
What'd you believe?
brian redban
That fracking was real.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
brian redban
Or, I mean, not fracking.
I'm sorry, never mind.
joe rogan
I believed it.
Fracking's totally real.
They make a lot of money off of fracking, son.
What were you talking about?
brian redban
This little...
Things in the cameras.
I was thinking of that.
joe rogan
Things in the cameras?
brian redban
Remember the lines?
joe rogan
Oh, you're talking about the rods?
brian redban
Rods.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, that's totally different.
That guy's mad at me.
That rod guy.
brian redban
The rod guy?
joe rogan
They've clowned him on that MonsterQuest show.
Do you know what the rods are?
nick youssef
No, no.
joe rogan
There's a visual artifact that comes when bugs fly across the screen.
Bugs move really fast, and if you don't have a super high-speed camera, it can't capture the bug, so it elongates the shape of the bug, because it's this little tiny thing moving quickly, and it looks like a translucent tube that's moving through the air.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's just a video artifact of video cameras trying to capture high-speed bugs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And this guy made all these documentaries about these things flying in the air, man.
And you can only see them on camera.
They move too fast with the human eye.
Which doesn't make any sense.
Because if I can see them on the camera, like the video, that's not too fast with the human eye.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay?
I'm seeing the video of it.
unidentified
It's just...
joe rogan
Like, this is actually slower than the human eye can perceive.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, the human eye sees shit.
You know, like, hey, what is that?
Fucking some shit flying fire.
You would see it.
This is so stupid.
Like, if you could see it in the video, you would see it in real life.
It's so dumb.
nick youssef
So he tried to run with a conspiracy?
joe rogan
Oh, he made documentaries.
Me and Eddie Bravo got stoned as fuck and watched it.
And we're like, dude, what do you think these rods are?
We're so high.
We're so high.
We're so ridiculous.
We're going, what do you think they are, man?
It's crazy that you can't see them.
I'm like, that doesn't even make any sense, man.
It doesn't even make any sense.
So you think they're everywhere?
unidentified
Yeah, they're everywhere.
joe rogan
They're just moving so fast we can't see them.
We're like, that's so crazy.
unidentified
Maybe we should put up a net.
joe rogan
We should put up a net and try to catch them.
Yo, they're so fast.
They see the net.
They're gone.
You're right.
Otherwise, they would slam into planes and shit.
They'd be peeling them off of planes.
Here it is.
Listen to Brian talk about hydraulic fracturing.
unidentified
Then sand is mixed with the water and gets distributed throughout the cracks to prop them open.
The water is then pumped back out and now the gas can freely flow to the borehole.
The controversy comes mainly from the fact that about one half of one percent of the fluid consists of lubricants and surfactants.
joe rogan
Okay.
Controversy comes from the fact that people can't drink their water anymore, man.
This hydraulic fracturing, that's one of those things you bring up in a conversation on podcasts and people go fucking bananas.
It's a global warming type issue.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, you know how global warming, if you believe in global warming or if you don't believe in global warming, you're going to piss somebody off and they're going to get heated tweets about it.
People get fucking furious.
Because it's an ideology argument.
Abortion.
Yes.
People that support hydraulic fracturing support business.
You don't understand, Nick Youssef, you fucking hippie.
You don't understand business, okay?
The way business gets done, it's cheaper to get that oil out than it is to rely on foreign oil and endanger Americans.
It's that sort of attitude.
And then there's the people that are environmentally conscious, go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's happening?
How much water's getting polluted?
How many wells are there?
There's millions?
Hold on.
Wait a minute.
You guys have a million fracking wells.
There's a million.
And it's causing earthquakes, too?
unidentified
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
joe rogan
You can't...
Well, what we need now is not hippies.
unidentified
What we need now is oil.
nick youssef
Patriotism.
joe rogan
Patriotism and oil.
I'm not pro or con fracking, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm not opposed to putting a fence around a certain area of, like, South Dakota where nobody goes and fracking the shit out of that bitch and not having to go to war for foreign oil.
I'm not totally opposed to that.
My problem is I don't think it's controlled.
When you talk about, like, all right, let's guess.
How many fracking wells are there?
Let's take a wild guess.
brian redban
They've been fracking in Ohio lately, and now we have all these earthquakes over there.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, proven.
Yeah, proven.
nick youssef
That's so scary.
joe rogan
Okay, how many fracking wells in the U.S.? A thousand.
That's so cute.
nick youssef
That's a really low number.
joe rogan
Oh, that's so low.
Or do I just look cute right now?
You do look, you're a handsome bastard.
But that, no, I'm saying it's so low, it's ridiculous.
I bet it's more than a million.
unidentified
Oh, I would say a million.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think so.
brian redban
I'd say, yeah, 5,000 to 10,000.
joe rogan
That's it.
Okay, you guys say in the thousands, would you say?
nick youssef
I said around 1,000.
joe rogan
You said 5,000 to 10,000, I said a million.
nick youssef
Okay.
joe rogan
I bet you guys are right.
Okay, 2013. What's the numbers?
Over 1.1 million active oil and gas wells in the U.S. Whoa.
Wow.
Alright, how many of them are fractured?
Many people ask us how many wells have been hydraulically fractured in the United States.
It's an excellent question, but not one that's easily answered.
Most states don't release the data on well stimulation activities.
Also, since the data are released by state regulatory agencies, it is necessary to obtain data from each state that has oil and gas data to even begin the conversation.
We finally had a chance to complete the task.
And have able to be able to aggregate the following totals.
Wow, this is pretty nuts, man.
There's a lot of fucking wells, bro.
There's over a million.
unidentified
Woo!
nick youssef
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Dude, that's scary.
Man.
nick youssef
How is that a better idea than investing in like solar paneling and like alternate sources?
joe rogan
I don't know.
There's a bunch of different kinds of wells, though.
So let me just clarify that.
There's directional, there's a bunch of different types.
Directional, horizontal, either direction or horizontal, vertical, hydraulically fractured, not fractured, unknown, or shale formation.
So out of all of these, all of these, it's a million.
But it says hydraulically fractured, it says 130. But does that mean there's only 130 fracking wells?
As each state releases data differently, it wasn't always possible to get consistent data on fracking wells.
These wells are known to be hydraulically fractured, but the slant of the well is unknown.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
get the um the oil out this is fascinating shit man they go down then they take turns they're like they'll go down and then take left turns or they'll go like horizontally or they'll go at an angle into the earth depending on where the where the rock is and where the oil is they're trying to suck out wow that's a crazy fucking thing man how Hydraulically fractured...
Okay, here it is.
Wells that have been hydraulically fractured might appear in any of the eight categories, with the obvious exception of not fractured.
So that's the only one that doesn't have hydraulically fractured wells included in it.
So categories that are very likely to be fractured include horizontal, hydraulically fractured, and unknown shale formation, the total of which is 32,000 wells.
That's most likely to be fractured.
So they don't know, but at least 32,000.
However, the number doesn't include any wells from Texas or Colorado.
Where we know thousands of wells have been drilled into major shale formations, but the data for which had to be placed into categories that were more vague.
So there's different states that have different regulatory bodies, I guess.
There's states that are better to fucking rape the earth in.
nick youssef
They probably are better off hiding the information too.
joe rogan
So it seems like what they're saying is like 32,000 plus hydraulically fractured ones that they could locate, that they know are most likely hydraulically fractured.
But then there's a bunch of the other ones that possibly could.
And the ones that aren't fractured, there's only 7,477 of them out of the 1,136,000.
nick youssef
What's crazy is that they create earthquakes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's fucked.
nick youssef
And then it's still like, nah, it's worth it.
It's worth it.
Totally worth it.
joe rogan
Bro, it's worth it if you keep your family warm.
nick youssef
Yeah.
It's for America.
joe rogan
Keep America safe, bro.
America safe.
America's going to be a puddle of goo.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
A stinky puddle of goo and dead elk.
unidentified
Fucking...
joe rogan
Choking bison with their fucking legs over there.
Gagging blood out.
They have a new Ebola that comes only from oil.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
I just wish there was a better way to power shit.
I wonder if there was no oil.
Let's say that oil didn't exist.
How far do you think civilization would have gone?
Because there's no doubt that the combustion engine and making machines and trucks and engines...
That's the reason why we became what we are today.
There's this fucking chaotic mass superorganism that we are.
So if there was no oil, if there wasn't an element on Earth, and you only could have plant-based oils like...
Sunflower oil or some shit.
Hemp oil.
Which they use for lamps and stuff.
They use different kinds of oils for lamps.
But no oil in the ground.
How far would things have gotten?
nick youssef
I don't know.
Because how long would it have taken...
joe rogan
This is the part of the conversation where Brian checks Alex.
nick youssef
Yeah, he's like...
Who knows?
Because how long would it have been before you'd found an alternate way, like the electric car?
How long did that take?
joe rogan
Forever.
But you need combustion engines to make all those things.
nick youssef
To make an electric car?
joe rogan
Yeah.
You need an engine to take the parts, to get the parts to the car manufacturer, to deliver the stuff.
Those are all being delivered with trucks.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
Like, this idea that, like, you get an electric car and you're karma-free, this is nonsense.
nick youssef
Well, no, that technology would have had to have been created for the manufacturing.
Everything would have had to have been run electrically.
joe rogan
Exactly.
nick youssef
But how long would it have taken to discover, yeah?
joe rogan
Forever.
Without the motor to take the parts to put it together.
Like, you've got to pick up the tire somewhere and drive a truck.
Those aren't electric trucks.
nick youssef
Yeah, it would have been like wagons for so many years.
joe rogan
With oxen, it would have had oxen pulling your fucking tires.
And then how are they going to figure out a way to power up these machines?
What's it going to fire up the electricity?
Are they going to use a dam?
And the dam fires up the electricity for these machines, and these machines build this engine.
And is there enough electricity to charge batteries?
And where are you guys getting the batteries?
Where are you getting the minerals that go in the batteries?
You gotta go to Afghanistan, man.
nick youssef
Yeah, you gotta drill for them.
How are you gonna get to Afghanistan?
The oxen can't swim.
joe rogan
You gotta take a fucking raft and fill it up with minerals from Afghanistan and floaty back to America and build your stupid electric car?
nick youssef
The battery would have been invented in like 1973. It would have taken that long.
unidentified
This is what Obama meant when he was like, when you started a small business, you didn't build that.
joe rogan
That's what he meant.
The infrastructure.
You cannot have an electric car without the infrastructure.
nick youssef
Right.
brian redban
They created batteries back in the Egyptian days, though.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
So they might have been...
I think they could have probably done something.
It would have been...
joe rogan
Well, those batteries were dog shit, by the way.
Everybody's like, the batteries were amazing.
They weren't even iPhone 1. They weren't even close.
They were stupid.
nick youssef
They weren't even Duracell.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those bitches couldn't even power a light.
You couldn't have the light that powers your cell phone.
I went out to close my chicken coop last night, and I used my phone as a flashlight.
The new iPhone has a built-in flashlight thing.
You slide this thing up, and you hit that, and boom, you got a flashlight.
It takes two seconds.
It's built in.
It's such a slick thing.
Go outside.
That wouldn't work without a stupid Egyptian battery.
Big, goofy-ass thing.
Gotta carry around this pot with a copper core.
brian redban
Unless you made a big one, like the size of a pyramid.
The pyramid was a battery the whole time.
joe rogan
Can you imagine if that's what it was?
nick youssef
Soon our battery will be operable.
joe rogan
That was one of the crazy conspiracy theory hypotheses.
The pyramid was a giant, some sort of a power plant.
brian redban
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Of course.
brian redban
I believe it.
joe rogan
If you can think it up, somebody has probably written blog entries about it.
brian redban
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter how kooky the idea is.
If you can think up a kooky idea, somebody's written some shit about it.
brian redban
I was thinking of bugs the other day because there was a praying mantis that was on my porch that just hung out the whole day.
And he has these huge antennas.
And I was like, isn't it weird that we don't really focus...
These bugs have antennas on them.
In the future, we're going to find out that these are aliens that are communicating with each other through some Wi-Fi.
joe rogan
Well, they might as well be aliens.
We just don't give a shit about them because they're little.
nick youssef
We can just kick them out of the way.
brian redban
They're little drones.
They're drones for aliens.
There's these little...
joe rogan
What they are is a weird little life form that shares the world with us that has no morals, no ethics.
They're ruthless, cold-hearted, emotionless killers.
They have a hard skeleton.
They don't need each other's touch.
They have this very bizarre military organization as far as they have a queen.
They have the worker bees and they're building shelter and protecting the hive.
They're weird, man.
We just don't think of them as being so weird because they're little and we could fucking smush them like that.
But if a bee was big...
nick youssef
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
But a lot of them, it's like, if they all of a sudden became big, we're like, fuck!
And then we're like, oh, cool, they only live for four days.
Thank God!
That threat's neutralized soon.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there's so many of them.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Before we started killing them off with cell phones, cell phones and pesticides, apparently, the good one that's whacked them out.
Remember when you were a kid?
Bees were everywhere.
How often are you seeing bees?
brian redban
Every day at my house.
joe rogan
But do you see bees like you saw in bees when you were a kid?
brian redban
Well, I have a ton of...
Like, bees nests everywhere in my house.
joe rogan
Yeah, you do?
brian redban
Yeah, really?
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Maybe you got a sweet spot for bees.
brian redban
And wasps.
joe rogan
Bee populations are pretty down, though, aren't they?
Wasn't that like a...
It's a major concern.
Let's see, dropping bee populations.
Let's play another game.
I say bee populations are down by 40%.
nick youssef
40, wow.
I would say...
joe rogan
25. 20%.
25%?
brian redban
What do you say, Brian?
I say it's up.
I say I think it's a big conspiracy.
I think bees are going crazy.
nick youssef
More bees than ever.
joe rogan
All around Brian's house.
nick youssef
In fact, we have a bee problem.
We need to stop these bees.
joe rogan
Okay, 30%.
It's even crazier.
30% in the U.S., beekeepers experience losses of 40% or 50% or more.
brian redban
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, just as commercial bee operations...
Prepared to transport their hives to the country's largest pollinator event, the fertilizing of California's almond trees.
Oh, that's interesting.
So I guess they hire people to go do that.
They bring bees, and the bees pollinate these plants.
That's pretty cool.
Spread out across 800,000 acres, California's almond orchards typically require 1.6 million domesticated bee colonies to pollinate the flowering trees and produce what has become the state's largest overseas agricultural export.
I did not know that.
Almonds are our largest overseas export?
And why is that?
unidentified
Because weed's illegal, bitch!
joe rogan
If weed was legal, you don't think that people in Portugal would be dying to get a hold of some goddamn California weed?
But given widespread bee losses to so-called colony collapse disorder this winter, California's almond growers were able to pollinate their crop automatically.
Only through an intense nationwide push to cobble together the necessary number of healthy bee colonies.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Nationwide push.
That's crazy.
nick youssef
That's how they grow almonds?
That's insane.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
So cool.
I love when I find out something like this, where I had no idea.
I thought bees, they just made honey and they pollinated shit, but I didn't know that they needed them to grow almonds.
They're domesticated.
That's crazy, man.
nick youssef
Yeah, I thought they only did one thing.
They make two delicious items.
joe rogan
Make almonds?
Yeah, if it wasn't for them.
That's amazing!
But that these colonies were down, and that in order to pollinate all of their plants, they needed to bring in other bees.
There's not, like, another possibility.
They're like, no, no, no, no, no, we need bees.
But isn't there another method?
Let's put our heads together.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They're not going to grow.
You need bees, or it's not going to grow.
That really puts into light how important bees are, something like that.
That really makes you realize, like, oh, like...
If it's not for bees, there's not a lot of shit.
Like, you need those little cunty bugs.
nick youssef
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's bizarre, man.
And there's this image on this Yale site where I'm reading a story, and there's this dude who's dressed up in this beekeeper's outfit, and he's handling these bees and moving them around in these California farms, these onion crops.
And you're looking at them, you're like, how is that much different than the Ebola guy?
nick youssef
What do you mean?
joe rogan
I mean, he's got a fucking crazy suit to protect him as well.
That dude's fully suited up for an invasion of attacking monsters.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
What is that, Brian?
brian redban
That's Tony Hinchcliffe dressed up as a bee.
joe rogan
He is a bee.
brian redban
Right.
nick youssef
The greatest bee of all time.
brian redban
Do wasps do anything positive?
joe rogan
They fuck up bees.
brian redban
Oh, is that it?
They're just dicks.
nick youssef
Aren't they the ones that can keep stinging you?
It's like a kamikaze mission.
It's like one and done.
unidentified
Wasps.
joe rogan
Yeah, have you ever seen that video, the Japanese hornets killing the beehive?
nick youssef
No.
joe rogan
Ooh, it's the weirdest video ever, man, because it's this...
If we put it on, it'll probably get us kicked off of YouTube, right?
Is that how it works?
Wait, really?
brian redban
It's one of those ones.
joe rogan
There's nature documentaries, man.
They go after you and have you pulled from YouTube.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Yeah, nature documentaries.
People own them.
It probably cost a grip of money to film high-speed video footage of some Japanese hornets fucking up some honeybees.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
But just do me a favor.
Just Google Japanese hornets fuck up honeybees and check it out because it's amazing.
They're monsters.
They cut their heads off.
They just cut the honeybees' heads off.
And I think it was like 30 bees killed 30,000 bees, or 30 hornets killed 30,000 bees, something nutty like that.
brian redban
That's like a serious war.
joe rogan
But it's not a war.
It's like you with a hatchet in a room full of babies.
nick youssef
That's what it's like.
joe rogan
No one's fighting back.
I mean, they can't do anything.
They just chop their heads off.
nick youssef
It's like the Iraq war.
joe rogan
Something along those lines.
The only way they can kill them is they have to overheat them.
So what they do is they all swarm on top of them.
They hold the hornet down and they keep buzzing.
They buzz on him and raise his internal temperature until he dies.
nick youssef
Holy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's the only way they can kill him.
They can't kill him by stinging him.
It doesn't work.
They can't get through their fucking armor.
nick youssef
They just turn the heat up until they die.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
They smother them.
nick youssef
They fucking torture them.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
It's the only way to do it.
What else would you do?
Just trying to eat your babies.
Chop their heads off.
unidentified
What the fuck?
nick youssef
It's crazy that these invasions are happening on such a small level.
You think bees are like dumb bee just flying around making honey, and meanwhile they're like, here's the plan.
We're going in, and we're going to heat the fucking place up until everyone dies.
joe rogan
Well, no, the bees do that to the hornets, but what they do is say one hornet will be a scout hornet, and the scout hornet will show up, and when the scout hornet shows up, that's when the bees swarm it.
The bees swarm it and hold it down and try to kill it.
Because if they don't kill it, if it gets back to the hornet's nest and goes, yo, I found some bees, that's when shit gets crazy.
That's when they fly back and fuck everybody up.
nick youssef
That's insane.
joe rogan
Yeah, that world, the hornet bee, I think of them as sort of the same sort of category, these flying bugs that sting.
That world is unbelievably ruthless.
First of all, the fact that their stingers kill them, too.
When they sting a person or something, it pulls out of their body.
It's this giant sword that pulls out of their body, and they die.
That happens when they have sex.
That happens when they sting.
Yeah, they only live to be like a week old, like if they're lucky.
And if they sting you, they die.
And then on top of that, like the female can sting all the time.
Like the queen, she doesn't have to worry about her barb coming out.
She can just sting all day long.
But all she does is seek out other females.
So she walks around the hive and smells each individual little honeycomb and those little combs where the bees grow up in.
That's not a honeycomb.
What are those things?
It's not a comb.
Whatever it is.
Whatever those little pods where the larvae are growing.
If she finds that it's a female, she uses her fucking stinger and stabs the baby.
nick youssef
What?
joe rogan
Yep.
That's what it's for.
nick youssef
No other women.
joe rogan
There could be only one.
She's Highlander.
nick youssef
Damn.
joe rogan
Yeah.
She walks around and stabs all the females.
nick youssef
And then fucks all the dudes to death.
joe rogan
Yep.
Fucks them to death.
nick youssef
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
That bitch is gangster as fuck.
That's a gangster bitch.
nick youssef
Wow.
joe rogan
That might be the most gangster bitch of the animal kingdom.
Right?
nick youssef
I mean, probably.
joe rogan
She's got a sword on her pussy.
nick youssef
Because how many other, like...
brian redban
Praying mantis.
nick youssef
Or black widows, I guess, right?
joe rogan
Okay, here's a good question.
Who would win in a fight?
A praying mantis or a wasp?
brian redban
Praying mantis.
joe rogan
Okay.
I'm going to go with the wasp.
Wasp versus praying mantis.
nick youssef
I'd say praying mantis.
brian redban
Female praying mantis decapitates her, like fucks the dude, and then...
joe rogan
Yeah, but those guys are bitches.
brian redban
I don't know.
joe rogan
Praying mantis versus wasp.
Okay, there's a video.
nick youssef
It wouldn't be able to probably reach around, like if the wasp was like, I'm going to stab you in the back, the praying mantis probably couldn't get it.
brian redban
Yeah.
nick youssef
But maybe they have like hard skeletons that they can't be pierced by bees.
I'm going to go praying mantis.
joe rogan
Interesting.
brian redban
Is that your bird?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm watching this praying mantis.
Okay, the amazing thing is if only the wasp knew how vulnerable the praying mantis is, could in numbers easily sting it to death, but it doesn't.
The answer lies in the camouflage strategy of the mantis, and now the wasp usually visualizes the mantis among the foliage.
The mantis is not seen as a threat to the wasp.
Large female praying mantis.
Almost ready to produce her egg case.
Needs one last meal.
It's a European wasp.
It says the bullies of the insect world.
Insect mimicry.
So I guess that's the answer there.
Fucking praying mantis.
brian redban
Here's a giant hornet versus a praying mantis.
nick youssef
Oh, whoa.
joe rogan
Dude, this praying mantis fucked this wasp up.
Quick.
The wasp is walking around.
It's pretty dope.
I wish we could show it and not get pulled off of YouTube.
Whatever happens to those when we get pulled off of those, Jamie?
Do we get back on?
unidentified
Yes and no.
joe rogan
Yes and no.
This is worth watching, dude.
brian redban
Look at this one.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the one I'm watching.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
brian redban
I'm doing it small in the corner.
unidentified
I think we could make it away with that.
joe rogan
Well, praying mantises are gangster.
They fuck wasps.
The wasps don't have a chance.
He just holds them and starts eating them.
That's what's really crazy.
They're so strong, they just eat the wasps back.
Just hang on and eat them.
Yeah, that's a fucking vicious, vicious animal.
The world of those creatures is just so evil and alien.
We just don't think about it because they're so small.
nick youssef
On their level, it's like ruthless people, not people, but the other animals, they run scared.
But for us, it's like a pair of vans can just take them both out at once.
joe rogan
Yeah, these other bees are swimming or flying around.
This praying man is not sure how to save their friend, but they don't know what to do.
While this wasp is getting just eaten alive.
Just eating the back of his head.
It's horrific, man.
He's just holding on to it and just eating it.
We're looking at it in this tiny scale so it doesn't seem that horrific.
But if a praying mantis was the size of a giraffe, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And we saw it chase after a hippo and jack it.
It was fucking up this hippo in front of all the other hippos and there wasn't a goddamn thing they could do about it.
They just had to sit there and just deal with the fact that this huge mechanized looking beast taking chunks out of the hippo's head.
nick youssef
And they're like, oh fuck, do we go over there and save him?
What do we do?
joe rogan
That's why size in the animal kingdom is so relevant.
Because when you get really low, wow, there's a praying man that just jacked that bee.
They don't play games, man.
They don't play games.
They're so strong.
They just hold onto the bee and start eating them.
nick youssef
Is that his death rattle?
joe rogan
No, he's just trying to fly away.
He's trying to fly away.
Look how much stronger those things are.
That's like...
nick youssef
He plants his legs?
joe rogan
John Jones versus Bobby Lee.
That's what that's like.
That's what that's like.
That's what kind of a battle that is.
Just holds him.
It doesn't matter what he does.
You're not going anywhere.
And this praying mantis is a motherfucker, man.
Just holds on to him and starts eating.
nick youssef
Dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a weird world.
It's just tiny, tiny, tiny so we don't freak.
But if it was big, it would be way more ruthless than what we're seeing even amongst mammals, like predator mammals.
When we see a lion take out a gazelle, I guess that's not as creepy to me because they're mammals.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
If I saw a giant praying mantis take out a gazelle, I'd be way more freaked out.
brian redban
He's corn-coving.
nick youssef
The way they look, it looks more alien.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
You know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
With their weird bugged-out eyes and their crazy arms and their antennae, some kind of weird internet.
joe rogan
All of it, man.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, if a praying mantis didn't exist and you got to see this, you'd be like, what?
If this was a character in a movie.
nick youssef
You're like, what planet is this on?
joe rogan
Yeah.
That easily could be, if it was large, it could be an alien in a movie.
Like the movie Alien, if that thing was chasing you, that would be just as scary.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Big giant ass fucking crab arms is going to clamp a hold of you.
nick youssef
They're probably designed after the praying mantis.
unidentified
I bet.
nick youssef
Some animal like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I bet there's probably definitely some influence.
Yeah.
Because if you think about like bugs, bugs are just like what those aliens were like.
They were like this emotionless, ruthless thing that just like sort of popped out of the darkness and clamped a hold of you and fucking shot a tongue into your brain and sucked your brain out.
How is that any different than when we just saw that thing do?
nick youssef
I know.
Yeah, you don't see any humanity because the eyes don't look the same.
You can't identify with it.
You're like, this is a foreign species and this giant tongue is coming at me to rip my heart out of my chest.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's kind of exactly what it is.
The difference between when we see a cat eat a gazelle.
When you see a cat, wow, what is this?
brian redban
Praying mantis versus hummingbird.
nick youssef
No way.
joe rogan
What happens?
nick youssef
There's just three of them.
joe rogan
Well, praying mantis does kill hummingbirds, dude.
nick youssef
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, so hummingbirds are scared of him.
There's a video of a hummingbird with a praying mantis in his mouth.
It's really fucked.
Or a praying mantis with a hummingbird in his mouth.
Looks like they jacked him there, right?
nick youssef
A lot of hummingbirds are super small, too.
joe rogan
So they attacked him?
Where did they attack him?
brian redban
Right here he is.
And those things are fucking aliens also.
Hummingbirds?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're beautiful.
Where does he jack them?
nick youssef
You know the smallest hummingbird is the size of a dime?
unidentified
Really?
nick youssef
Yeah, I saw one.
I did a dissection.
brian redban
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Oh, dude, the praying mass wins.
brian redban
Holy cow.
nick youssef
Did it explode?
brian redban
Look at that.
joe rogan
Look at this.
It's waiting, and the hummingbird gets close, and when the hummingbird goes for the food, it attacks the hummingbird.
Watch this.
brian redban
It's like playing dead.
joe rogan
Look at this.
brian redban
Swap.
Oh, look at his...
unidentified
Bam!
brian redban
Took him down.
nick youssef
It was a suicide bomber.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
brian redban
That's like UFC shit.
joe rogan
That was insane.
Yeah, that's how scary those things are.
That thing was bigger than him.
nick youssef
Fuck.
joe rogan
Fuck praying mantises, dude.
nick youssef
They need a more threatening name.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
nick youssef
Praying mantises, you're like, yeah, because it stands weird.
And it also kills hummingbirds.
joe rogan
Well, the prey is P-R-E-Y. It's not like praying mantis.
nick youssef
I think it is A-Y, right?
joe rogan
Is it?
nick youssef
Because I think the way they, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, it is praying mantis.
nick youssef
The way they stand, yeah.
joe rogan
I always thought it was praying.
nick youssef
Yeah, because of what they do.
joe rogan
Yeah, it would suck if they spelled it prey and they were just sweeties.
No!
No, they don't attack a fucking snake.
Oh my god.
nick youssef
No way.
unidentified
Snake.
joe rogan
Yeah, if we get kicked off YouTube, we give the fuck.
Just fucking play it.
nick youssef
What the fuck?
joe rogan
I'm tired of this shit.
brian redban
Praying mantises also led the dudes to Bethlehem, if I remember.
joe rogan
Dude, you're making shit up now.
brian redban
No, I think that's real.
joe rogan
A praying mantis jacks a snake.
unidentified
A corn snake.
About ten inches in length.
joe rogan
That's about what size my dick, son.
brian redban
We'll just keep on pushing it back and forth.
Confused a little.
joe rogan
Are you trying to trick the algorithm?
That ain't gonna work, you fucking silly bitch.
brian redban
Yeah, put it negative.
joe rogan
That shit ain't gonna work!
What did we just see?
nick youssef
Whoa!
joe rogan
Turn that back to regular.
I need to see what his approach was.
Look, he's upside down!
brian redban
He's Spider-man-ing it.
joe rogan
That's insane!
He's upside down.
And he reached down and snatched a snake.
They're so evil, bro.
unidentified
Incredibly.
The snake is incapable of freeing itself from the grip of this six-inch mantis.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
brian redban
It is in danger of being eaten alive by the insect.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
It's just eating it.
brian redban
Upside down.
joe rogan
Look at that poor snake, too.
He's like, what the fuck?
Nobody eats me.
I'm a snake, man.
nick youssef
You're supposed to be a leaf, I thought.
brian redban
He was insane.
joe rogan
It's amazing how much stronger insects are.
Aw, you pussy.
No jujitsu.
Bad position.
nick youssef
But what we didn't hear is the praying mantis go, like, go tell your friends.
I'm letting you live.
joe rogan
Yeah, go tell your friends.
unidentified
Let them know.
nick youssef
I'm in town.
brian redban
Praying mantis versus tarantula?
I don't know what it is.
joe rogan
Praying mantis are motherfuckers.
nick youssef
They're just showing off at this point.
The next one's like, praying mantis versus teenage boy.
They're like, what?
joe rogan
No!
Praying Manus vs.
unidentified
Baby.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Praying Manus vs.
Kitten.
I bet that's out there.
nick youssef
Oh, that would be great.
joe rogan
I bet it's out there.
Is it out there?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shit.
nick youssef
Versus Kitten.
joe rogan
I gotta watch that.
How is that possible?
nick youssef
That's nuts.
joe rogan
So the idea is that its hands are out like it's praying.
Like it's like...
Yeah.
Look at this.
Praying Manus vs.
Tarantula.
Jack to Tarantula.
nick youssef
It's saying, please come fuck with me, I dare you.
joe rogan
It's just holding on to the tarantula.
I think once it gets those clamps on you, all those bugs are fucked.
They can't do shit about it once you get those clamps.
That's weird, man.
unidentified
Oh no.
brian redban
Is that cat one bad?
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
This is crazy how strong that thing is.
brian redban
Yeah, cats are evil.
joe rogan
Look, it just holds on.
Look, it just hooked that fucking praying mantis' head.
Or that tarantula's head.
And the tarantula's like, let me go, bitch!
It's like, nope.
It's so much stronger.
Look, it's just eating it.
Biting its legs and shit.
nick youssef
They're praying for mercy.
joe rogan
Oh, but the tarantula turns it around!
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
Oh!
You got jacked, son!
brian redban
It's over.
joe rogan
He's jacked.
Look, he's upside down, writhing in pain.
nick youssef
Oh, please.
joe rogan
Oh, is that the end?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
Who shot the video up there?
That guy's an asshole.
nick youssef
Who got bored at that point?
That's like the height.
joe rogan
Is this a part one of a ten-part trilogy?
nick youssef
Yeah.
Two hours later.
You know what?
Can you look up what the praying mantis is afraid of?
Like who preys on the praying mantis?
joe rogan
Pull up praying mantis versus kitten.
This is awesome.
No, no, no.
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
The kitten's fine.
nick youssef
I gotta see that.
joe rogan
But it's wild to see, man.
It's wild to see.
You see how gangster a praying mantis really is.
That's how you see how gangster they are.
No, no, no.
This one.
This one here.
Praying Mantis.
Boxing Praying Mantis versus Kitten.
Sorry, this one.
nick youssef
Boxing.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta see this.
This is so ridiculous.
Like, they're going to war.
The Kitten and the Praying Mantis are fucking throwing down to the death.
Yeah, this is it.
Look at this.
Look at this fucking Praying Mantis.
He's not scared of shit.
That Kitten fucks him up.
nick youssef
Bitch, what?
unidentified
Bitch!
Swat!
Swat!
But look at him.
joe rogan
He's still up.
Still swinging at the Kitten.
The Kitten doesn't know when to bite him.
He's scared to bite him.
Look at him.
It's fucking him up, though.
unidentified
Pop, pop, pop, pop.
joe rogan
Look how tough a praying man is.
It takes a blow to the head by something way bigger than it.
Who's that guy?
Speaking voodoo.
Okay, don't do that, Brian.
You ruined the performance.
This cat's doing a great job.
Praying man is all fucked up.
You got a standing eight count.
Cat goes right back to him.
Boom!
Body slam.
nick youssef
We can jump.
joe rogan
That wasn't a jump.
That cat bit him in the head.
Look at him.
He's still fighting back, though.
It's crazy.
And the cat is obviously scared of him a little bit.
Because he's so fast.
unidentified
Ooh!
joe rogan
Another bite.
You're fucked up, son.
nick youssef
I didn't know they had, like, wings like that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Look at that thing.
What a creepy-ass alien bug.
One millionth the size of that cat.
It's still fighting back.
Oh, shit.
How many praying mantises in body weight?
How many praying mantises does it take to equal that cat?
brian redban
That cat's about 10 pounds.
joe rogan
Yeah.
brian redban
Praying mantises about 2 ounces.
joe rogan
So 16 ounces is a pound.
unidentified
Yeah, that's a lot bigger.
nick youssef
That's the mathematical equation.
joe rogan
Okay, he just jacked it.
He just jacked it.
It's down now.
He must have bit it in the head.
Now he's like, what, bitch?
brian redban
It's on his back again.
joe rogan
What, bitch?
What, bitch?
What's up, bitch?
What's up, bitch?
That's why you're in your head, bitch.
The praying mantis is still trying to fight back.
unidentified
Dude.
nick youssef
I want the camera to widen out and there's just a circle of Filipino dudes betting money on the whole thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
Right?
That's a good thing to bet on.
How long a praying mantis lasts with a cat.
I had no idea until this podcast how gangster praying mantises were.
nick youssef
I know.
I want to know who preys on the praying mantis.
Who's their predator?
Their direct predator.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
Predator to the praying mantis.
brian redban
Here's a mouse versus a fucking praying mantis.
nick youssef
It's gotta be some kind of bird that's like tougher than a hummingbird.
joe rogan
Hmm.
Yeah.
What are the enemies of a praying mantis?
Okay, let's find out.
brian redban
Check this out real quick because I don't want to show too much of this video because it's...
joe rogan
Oh, we jacked a mouse.
That's incredible.
nick youssef
It's fucking crazy, these guys.
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Show that again, dude.
Show that again.
I don't care if they pull us off of YouTube.
unidentified
I need to see this.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Look at this mouse.
It doesn't move.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
Bitch!
Wow.
unidentified
Oh, the scenario is a friend who needs that.
It's an odd sight to watch an insect devouring a mammal.
brian redban
Yes, it is.
nick youssef
Whoa!
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
That's the most gangster insect in the insect world.
Period.
nick youssef
It's gotta be, yeah.
joe rogan
It's gotta be.
I mean, it doesn't have any venom.
It's doing all this shit with no venom.
nick youssef
It's just, yeah, it's got like those big praying man in his hands or whatever it's called.
joe rogan
It's essentially just doing jujitsu and eating it.
Yeah.
It just does jujitsu and then just starts eating.
He holds him in side control and just eats the shit out of him.
Wow.
nick youssef
That's insane.
brian redban
It's weird because the one that was on my patio, it was right next to where I was sitting the whole day.
joe rogan
Did he swing at you?
brian redban
No, it just stared at me.
His head would look like when my girlfriend came outside, he would look over at my girlfriend and then look back at me.
But I would walk next to it.
It never flew away.
It never moved.
The dog started...
It's trying to sniff it, and it kind of looked down at it like, get away from me.
joe rogan
It was probably wondering if it could eat you.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was probably looking at you and going, fuck, he's too big.
nick youssef
Later, it's like boxing an oak tree or something like that, like working out.
joe rogan
It was like, I think he's vulnerable.
I feel like I could get him, but he's not quite big enough.
Yeah.
Come on, man.
nick youssef
They're getting into modeling now?
joe rogan
Look at that thing.
brian redban
They're modeling now?
joe rogan
Look at that thing.
nick youssef
Crazy.
They're breaking into entertainment?
joe rogan
That's dance.
nick youssef
Wow.
joe rogan
Progressive dance.
Put that picture up again, man.
nick youssef
The next one's going to be like...
joe rogan
Look at the body on that thing.
It's so weird.
What a strange animal.
And how horrific would that be if that thing was horse-sized and was chasing after you?
nick youssef
That's it going like, now what, bitch?
Like there's something on the ground.
Fucking mouse.
joe rogan
Do you imagine the physical strength of one of those things if it was like the size of a horse?
nick youssef
Oh yeah, dude.
They'd be tearing apart cars.
brian redban
Here's the one that was at my house.
nick youssef
Like, I'm going to hide in my car.
No.
And they'd just rip the...
joe rogan
Pry that car open easy.
That was yours?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look at them, man.
Evil fucking bug.
nick youssef
They're such a crazy...
joe rogan
We're just so lucky that they're little.
They're like the bugs from Starship Troopers, right?
nick youssef
Yeah, kind of.
joe rogan
That's like the best analogy.
Or the best comparison.
nick youssef
They do look like them.
They had to have been modeled directly after them.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, for sure, right?
Those Starship Trooper bugs are fucking awesome.
That was a silly movie, but...
What are you doing?
brian redban
Brando before and after his role in Godfather before makeup and after makeup.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow, that's amazing.
Oh, so they made him look older.
I didn't know they did that.
brian redban
He almost looked like a George Clooney-Brad Pitt combo right here.
joe rogan
Oh, he was a handsome man when he was young.
What does that have anything to do with what we're doing?
brian redban
I don't know.
We're talking about...
joe rogan
You goddamn conversation killing...
nick youssef
We're talking about a green bug that destroys...
joe rogan
Well, that Starship Troopers movie.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's very realistic in terms of if there was an invasion by bugs, we would be getting killed.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
If there was bugs like that...
Do we even have...
Like, what kind of guns would it take to shoot down a giant praying mantis?
You'd have to have some fucking serious firepower.
Like, a regular rifle's not gonna do it.
Like, if you shot a shotgun in a praying mantis, the shit would probably ricochet right off of it.
nick youssef
Probably.
I wonder if their armor's in paneling.
I don't know if it's like an armadillo just straight through, but they seem like Batman has panels that we can move around.
It seems like that's what they're like.
joe rogan
Well, I bet they grow shit back, too.
I bet they're like lobsters and a lot of other bugs.
nick youssef
I hope not.
joe rogan
When they snap off a wing or something like that, they just grow it back.
brian redban
You took this photo.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, that was the praying mantis that was in my yard.
brian redban
Yours is like brown.
nick youssef
That one was like on vacation.
joe rogan
Well, I think he was being camouflaged.
nick youssef
Oh, they can change color?
joe rogan
I think so.
brian redban
Really?
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think so.
Okay, can Mantis camouflage?
Let's see.
brian redban
Wow.
That'd be cool.
joe rogan
Yep, they can.
unidentified
Whoa.
brian redban
I had no idea.
joe rogan
Yep.
Defense and camouflage.
Yeah, so that's what that thing was doing.
So that's what that thing was doing in my yard.
If you look at it, it's on that stone ball, which is the top of a fountain.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it blended in to the exact same color as the ball.
brian redban
Wow, that is so cool.
joe rogan
Yep.
Pretty weird.
Praying mantis can camouflage perfectly into an environment of sticks, barks, leaves, and flowers.
The mantis is almost four inches long.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
nick youssef
The most evil-looking one would be a red one.
brian redban
Oh, yeah.
nick youssef
With it camouflaged onto, like, you know, something red.
joe rogan
It can be...
nick youssef
With those, like, crazy eyes.
joe rogan
They can be green, brown, or a combination of colors to match their environment.
It will molt every few weeks and then can take on the colors of its natural surroundings.
Wow.
A praying mantis might even mimic the charred remains of sticks, weeds, or grass after a fire.
nick youssef
That it started.
brian redban
With its dick.
joe rogan
Swaying repetitively from side to side is a common calicoage behavior of the praying mantis.
It might be used to mimic the swaying movement of vegetation in the wind.
brian redban
Remember this?
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
What was that?
brian redban
This is a video you posted about the...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that was this gangster praying mantis at the commons.
Wait a minute, what's this?
brian redban
This is the parasite.
Guy kills a zombie praying man and it's revealing a huge parasite living inside of it.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Oh, no, no, no.
This is not what I'm talking about.
I thought this was something else.
Oh, that's right.
He killed it and there's something inside of it.
brian redban
Look at that parasite just coming out of it.
unidentified
Whoa.
brian redban
It's like a snake inside of it.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's essentially like that movie The Strain.
Back that up so we can see that whole thing pop out.
Ew, Jesus Christ.
That's so weird.
Welcome to the world of bugs.
That's what this episode is.
Nick Youssef is hilarious and the world of bugs.
Look at that thing.
nick youssef
Also buy my new album.
joe rogan
Yeah, also buy his new album.
And don't think about this black dick coming out of this dead praying mantis.
So when the body died, the parasite left it and just weaseled out.
Wow, that is so fucked.
Look how big that thing is, man.
nick youssef
It just keeps going.
joe rogan
Well, it doesn't know what to do either.
Yeah, it's so big.
brian redban
How was that inside of it?
joe rogan
God, it's the entire body of the thing.
That's incredible.
nick youssef
And the mantis didn't look like it was fat or anything.
joe rogan
And that spray that's on the ground, that's the poison, right?
So it's rolling around in the poison?
nick youssef
It's still going.
brian redban
So that parasite controlled the...
Like a zombie, he controlled the...
joe rogan
The mantis.
Well, there's an aquatic worm, I don't know if that's the same one, that it gets inside of a grasshopper, and when it's about to be born, when it reaches the right size, it actually takes over the mind of the grasshopper and gets the grasshopper to commit suicide.
So it hot wires.
Look at that thing man.
nick youssef
It looks like a snake.
joe rogan
Totally looks like a snake.
brian redban
I would not swallow that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You would for like a lot of money though, right?
No.
No way!
How much do you have to get paid to swallow that?
nick youssef
Imagine how big it would grow inside of you.
Like a human?
joe rogan
Look at the size of it when that guy grabbed it and touched it.
That is some alien invasion type shit there.
That's what that is.
nick youssef
And what if there's a parasite living in that parasite?
joe rogan
Dude, you're blowing my mind, man!
brian redban
It's getting too crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
I'm wondering.
nick youssef
That's scary.
Like, there's parasites like that that live in humans.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
nick youssef
They just grow in your intestines.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
That's bizarre.
brian redban
From live sushi.
joe rogan
Yeah, people get it from freshwater sushi.
They say that you shouldn't really be chewing down too much salmon sushi.
That's where you can catch it.
Like, freshwater stuff that lives in freshwater.
Yeah.
Fuck, man.
brian redban
Check this out.
This is creepy.
joe rogan
What the fuck, man?
Look at that face.
brian redban
Look at those eyes.
It looks like digital.
nick youssef
That's the last thing that mouse saw.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, what an evil bug a praying mantis is.
brian redban
The mouse is like, hi guys.
joe rogan
That thing was clamping down on your face the size of a giraffe.
brian redban
This guy has a third eye.
nick youssef
It's funny, it looks like a lot of models.
joe rogan
How dare you?
nick youssef
Like, when it was a model, it really does.
A lot of models look like aliens.
joe rogan
Is that an eyeball?
brian redban
Third eye.
joe rogan
Is that what it is, or is it just like a...
nick youssef
Dude, it's even spiritual?
unidentified
It's totally spiritual, I'm 42. And look at these antennas, like gold-plated antennas.
joe rogan
They're dope as fuck, yo.
brian redban
Look at that.
joe rogan
That is pretty cool.
It's like braided.
nick youssef
It's Persian.
joe rogan
Don't tell Maz Jobani that joke.
Bro, that's so racist.
Yeah, yeah.
Why does it have to be Persian?
Why can't it be Mexican?
nick youssef
Because go to Studio City.
unidentified
That's why.
nick youssef
Go walk around there.
joe rogan
That didn't even look real.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
When you see them on a large scale, you get a sense of what it really is.
When you see those fuckers, it's not trying to kill a frog.
brian redban
No, it's just hanging out on top of a frog.
joe rogan
Wow.
brian redban
They're like buddies.
nick youssef
It's like, I need a ride.
joe rogan
Wow.
nick youssef
Those things are amazing.
brian redban
Actually, there's a lot of pictures of frogs and them being friends.
joe rogan
That is a gangster bug, but I kind of like that the tarantula jacked it.
Because that was a battle to the death, and tarantula won.
Tarantula will reverse position and sunk those teeth in there.
nick youssef
I wonder if in nature, though, who would have won.
Because it's camouflaged.
You know what I mean?
Because that was in a kitchen.
joe rogan
Yeah, it looked like they set that fight up.
unidentified
Right.
nick youssef
Before they turned on the camera, they broke one of the manis' legs and were like, alright, go.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wonder if the praying mantis would go after something as big as a tarantula in the wild.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It seems like they're just so evil to go after anything that's in front of them.
The fucking things are attacking birds.
nick youssef
I know, and mice.
joe rogan
And mice.
And they win.
nick youssef
And a fucking cat?
It's just crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't give a fuck.
They go after cats.
nick youssef
Like, every animal has another animal they run from, where they go, whoa, shit, all right, I'm out of here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
I thought we owned this area.
joe rogan
That praying mantis didn't even try to fly away.
It has wings, right?
They have wings.
unidentified
Yeah.
And it's like, nah, I'll just fucking take my chances here to get out.
joe rogan
Come on, cat.
Come on.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Come get some of this.
Come get some of this.
unidentified
Stab your fucking stupid nose.
joe rogan
Just duking it out with this praying mantis on the sidewalk.
Dude, that's crazy.
Seriously, that's like you fighting a house.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's like you fighting a giant elephant.
nick youssef
Right.
Like a semi-truck.
joe rogan
Come on!
You're smaller than...
You're bigger in comparison than you would be...
You know, if you were fighting an elephant, then that thing is to that cat.
What is this?
brian redban
Wait till you see...
Do you see the mantis?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
He's like tucked away in there.
Like a flower.
What an evil fuck.
He's pretending to be a flower.
What a creepy ass fucking bug.
He looks exactly like the color of the flower.
Totally blended in.
nick youssef
And to hide is something beautiful, too.
joe rogan
Look at this.
nick youssef
That's what they say about the devil.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
And look at this fly.
Like, oh, you know, just hanging out.
Nothing.
nick youssef
Bitch!
joe rogan
Look how quick it did that.
You can't even see it.
Oh, and just eat your face.
brian redban
Eat him live.
unidentified
Damn.
Wow.
joe rogan
Dude, back that shit up so we can watch that one more time.
What a bizarre animal.
You really can't tell.
nick youssef
Yeah.
unidentified
Brilliant.
Look how brilliant it is.
joe rogan
It looks so much...
I mean, even the highlights.
The pink highlights like a flower.
Oh, bitch, that's so fast.
brian redban
That was so fast.
joe rogan
You can't see shit.
Oh, my God.
brian redban
That's pretty.
joe rogan
It's beautiful.
That's like the most beautiful image.
unidentified
Murder.
joe rogan
Yeah, the most beautiful video of something killing something ever.
nick youssef
I know.
joe rogan
The color is like the white with the blue.
Oh, my God, look at that one.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
That's incredible.
That is incredible.
It's like we're looking at this image from the rogue and evil.
Yeah, it's gorgeous.
nick youssef
To take shape as like one of the most beautiful images.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
Like who doesn't like a flower?
joe rogan
And they did it perfect.
Like with perfect highlights.
Like I would have never thought, like if you showed me a photo of that and I didn't watch the video, I've never thought there was a praying mantis in there.
I would have bet you a lot of money.
What are the odds?
There's a praying mantis in there.
None.
Zero.
nick youssef
It's a flower.
joe rogan
You fucking idiot.
You don't even know what a mantis looks like.
Come on, you want to bet?
nick youssef
Where would it fit in that flower?
joe rogan
Don't be retarded.
You really think it can look that...
No, it looked exactly like it.
nick youssef
You know what that means?
If they were the size of humans, they'd be taking the shape of cheeseburgers and all kinds of stuff.
joe rogan
They would look like the guys from Duck Dynasty.
They'd be wearing camo.
unidentified
Look at that.
I'm walking here.
joe rogan
Look at that.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
That's so weird.
That's so weird that that's a real thing.
nick youssef
Why can't people do that?
joe rogan
We're lucky people can't do that.
They would be eating people the way the mantis is eating flies.
nick youssef
They just can't.
Just camouflage.
joe rogan
Yeah, that would not be good.
People would be hiding.
nick youssef
That's true.
joe rogan
Hiding in your bushes and shit.
nick youssef
There's like six people in here.
joe rogan
People would be blaming you.
Like that character on X-Men.
nick youssef
Mystique.
joe rogan
Yeah, Mystique.
How come they have a new Mystique and they didn't even bring that up, by the way?
How'd they go from Rebecca Romaine Stamos?
Age?
She got too old?
nick youssef
Oh, because it's like a prequel.
joe rogan
Yeah, doesn't matter.
It's a different person.
Don't they have CGI? They can turn one guy, you know, they can turn people into the Hulk, and you tell me you can't CGI that chick to look exactly like Rebecca Romaine Stamos?
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
Come on, son.
That evil fucking thing.
What's it eating there?
brian redban
Ice cream.
I don't know what that is.
joe rogan
Looks like some sort of a bug.
nick youssef
It's pulling a pin off a grenade.
joe rogan
It's eating a turkey leg.
brian redban
He's at the Renaissance.
joe rogan
Renaissance fair.
Renaissance fair bug.
I think the bug world is the creepiest world in all of nature.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Second only to the fish world.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
The fish world's pretty creepy.
nick youssef
Bugs just look so creepy, and they're able to, like, they have multiple hands, tentacles, all these things.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
And fish, because you know, you're like, well, if it's out of the water, it's over.
But a bug can just get in your bed, sneak in your house.
joe rogan
What's the world's largest bug?
That was a good question.
If you had to guess, who would you say the world's largest bug is?
brian redban
The iPhone.
joe rogan
Mwah, you fucking baby.
nick youssef
World's largest bug.
unidentified
Oh.
nick youssef
It's probably like some kind of cockroach.
brian redban
I'll say beetle.
Yeah, that beetle.
nick youssef
That half-life thing.
joe rogan
Oh my god, it's enormous.
Oh my god.
brian redban
Does it look like a pill bug?
joe rogan
It's so big.
This is a gross animal.
Look up, the world's biggest insect is so huge it eats carrots.
nick youssef
What?
joe rogan
It's so huge it eats carrots.
Look at this thing.
nick youssef
Whoa.
joe rogan
Exactly.
That's a great sound.
That's real.
It's a giant weta?
W-E-T-A? Came across a cricket-like creature which has a wingspan of seven inches after two days of searching on a tiny island, Lake Barrier Island in New Zealand.
It only lives there.
It was wiped off the mainland by rats accidentally introduced by Europeans.
Pull that picture up again, man.
brian redban
Here's another one.
It's like a big grasshopper.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, that thing's gross.
brian redban
Gross.
joe rogan
It's like a crab or like a lobster or something, which are related, by the way.
brian redban
See, I was thinking it was going to be something like this, which was like a pill bug, I thought.
joe rogan
That's pretty big, too.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a Madagascar hissing cockroach, isn't it?
I think that's what that is.
They get pretty big.
brian redban
Didn't you eat one of those?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, I ate one of those.
Not that bad.
brian redban
See, this is what I thought it was.
Like one of these things.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, those creepy things.
They look like cephalopods or something like that.
Is that what those are called?
nick youssef
Like land otters.
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, those things have been around for a long time.
nick youssef
Bad eating happens.
brian redban
They live on Doritos.
Yeah.
They hate Cool Ranch.
nick youssef
It's the stoner variety.
joe rogan
What's the technical name for those things?
Does it say in that image?
unidentified
Lossopod?
joe rogan
Lossopod?
brian redban
Lossopod.
Remember that?
joe rogan
Isopod?
brian redban
Isopod.
joe rogan
Isopod.
Yeah, that's it.
Jesus Christ.
nick youssef
Damn.
joe rogan
It's a lobster.
It's like a land lobster.
That's bigger, obviously.
So that must be the biggest.
nick youssef
But that has more than...
Isn't eight legs or more considered an arachnid?
joe rogan
Insect.
nick youssef
Insect is six?
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
Is that how it works?
Insect being six?
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Like arachnid is spider.
unidentified
By the way, this is Nick Yusuf's new CD. What is it called?
nick youssef
Oh yeah, I forgot about my own album.
It's called Stop Not Owning This.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a smart way to market it.
Yeah, really, Stop Not Owning It, ladies and gentlemen.
nick youssef
iTunes and allthingscomedy.com.
Please purchase it.
It's my first album, and I'm very proud of it.
joe rogan
Nick Yusuf, old school comedy store veteran.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
Dude, you go back.
I know you from...
When did I meet you?
Probably met you in like...
nick youssef
Parking lot of the comedy store in 2008. Two, three?
joe rogan
You used to work there.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You did the whole stint, like Ari, like a lot of guys.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
That's how I met Ari.
Duncan.
I worked the phones.
He was the talent coordinator.
unidentified
Ha!
joe rogan
Duncan did the full stint.
nick youssef
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
That's a good stint for comics.
That's the one place where a comic can get a job, like doing comedy, being surrounded by degenerates on a constant basis, and eventually become a professional comedian to have his own comedy CD. Exactly, yeah.
I love those stories, man.
I love watching guys come up in LA. That was one of the few places where you'd see guys come up.
Joey Diaz is starting to do the Comedy Store again.
nick youssef
I love that, man.
joe rogan
This is a strange dilemma.
Since Tommy has decided to...
nick youssef
Part ways with the comedy story.
joe rogan
Move on to the next stage of existence.
brian redban
We did a great Ice House Chronicles Friday, by the way.
I heard.
I mean, Tammy Pascatelli, Hannibal Behrs, I mean, everybody came in because everyone wanted to talk about it.
It was ridiculous.
joe rogan
Everybody wanted to talk about how ridiculous Tommy was?
brian redban
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a great episode.
nick youssef
Did anyone defend him?
brian redban
You know, everyone kind of somewhat defended him as being, you know, like this mysterious person and it's probably going to be the end of that part of the comedy store where it's like, ooh, it's haunted and oh, Mitzi.
But I think, you know, I showed a couple of the videos that I made and I think that kind of silenced everyone.
Like, yeah, he was crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
Well, here's the deal, though.
To take that job and to try to keep up the legacy of that famed institution of insanity, you've got to be a little crazy.
Nobody else wants that job.
Nobody else would have done that job.
They would have turned it into some sort of a corporate whatever, you know, fill-in-the-blank sugar shack.
nick youssef
The sunset chuckle hut.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it could have easily been something that it isn't.
What it is is a very, very bizarre place.
Like, as far as comedy clubs go, one of the most bizarre places of all time, and one of the most historical comedy clubs ever in the world.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
As far as the art of stand-up comedy, how many historical comedy clubs rival the Comedy Store?
Very few, because it's in the same location.
You know, you have, like, a few other ones, like the Ice House that's older.
You have the Comedy Magic Club, which is older, the Laugh Factory, which has a lot of historical significance, but...
Laugh Factory is not the same.
The Laugh Factory is not just...
It's a good club.
It's a great club to work at.
But as far as a place where when you're there, you're like, holy shit, I'm at the goddamn comedy store.
That was the mecca.
nick youssef
Because the store produced comics.
It was where the Ice House and the other ones just had them come through.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Yeah, the store is one of the only places that produce comics, all because of Mitzi.
You know, that lady, she helped a lot of comedians, me included.
She helped a lot of comedians.
brian redban
I think if they just keep the open mics as strong as it is there, I mean, like Sundays and Mondays there, you know, they have a really good open mic program.
Kill Tony on top of that is, you know, really good for the open mics.
I think you'll still be able to make new comics there, and it will still be a good place for comics to start.
nick youssef
Hiring comics as employees, letting them kind of graduate through the system.
joe rogan
Yeah, and now that, you know, you've removed some of the crazy aspect as far as, like, the real negative crazy...
There was just too much ego and madness and just too much intolerable madness is the best way to describe it.
You're not dealing with rational people.
You're dealing with someone who's intolerably crazy.
And it's not that the whole intolerable crew is removed.
There's still some intolerable behind the scenes folks.
But it's way better now.
It's at least gotten 50% better.
brian redban
And that other group, you never see ever, ever, ever there.
joe rogan
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
brian redban
Yeah.
And you could also go online and see when they're out of town.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that makes you seem like a stalker.
You know, I love the improv, man.
I did one thing that changed my act quite a bit is when I left the store and I started doing the improv.
I found audiences that aren't heckling.
They're not constantly heckling.
They actually have crowd control.
And then I also noticed that they have two shows at night.
They do an 8 o'clock show and a 10 o'clock show, which is way better for the audience's attention span.
And it made me realize the comedy store is lifting weights with a weight vest on running up a hill.
You know?
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
When you get through that place, the great thing about that is you go anywhere else and you're fucking golden.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
The regular audiences will be so much easier than the audiences that you deal with on a weekly basis at the store.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
Going up after 12 comics, five, six of them are just crushing.
The crowd's drunk.
They've been there for three hours.
joe rogan
And if anything topical happens, by the time you get up on stage, it's been discussed 50 fucking times.
There was one time when Ari was working there, and the Chinese fighter pilot crashed with an American fighter jet, and the guy's name was Wong Wei.
That was his name.
W-O-N-G-W-E-I. Everybody did a joke on it.
Nobody saw anybody else's set, but everybody came in and did a Wong Wei.
Is this real life?
Wong Wei.
Do you know what the guy's name was?
Wong Wei.
And at a certain point in time, the audience is like, are we being trolled?
unidentified
Is this like an inside joke?
joe rogan
Do they not know that everybody before them has done a Wong Wei joke?
nick youssef
Right.
Even crowd work sometimes.
joe rogan
Yes.
nick youssef
If you go up, like, where are you from?
And someone else will answer it.
He's from Lancaster.
How the fuck did you know?
Because he's been asked 10 times.
brian redban
I love the fact that this happened because it seems like a lot of comics are coming back to this place that didn't really want to come here.
By the way, Tosh wanted to apologize for shaking your hand weird last time you saw him.
unidentified
Daniel?
brian redban
Yeah.
joe rogan
What?
brian redban
But it was cool seeing Tosh and seeing...
nick youssef
What?
brian redban
Yeah, he said, tell Rogan I'm sorry about how I shook your hand.
unidentified
What is he talking about?
brian redban
He's an interesting guy.
joe rogan
He's a great guy.
I love that dude.
He didn't shake my hand weird at all.
brian redban
I don't know what he's talking about.
He told me to say that too.
joe rogan
Comics are super sensitive, man.
Comics are super sensitive.
There's weird shit that'll stick in a comic's head.
And then they'll bring it up like, you know, there was this time where, you know, I said this thing and I probably shouldn't have said it.
Like, what are you talking about?
Like, I don't even know what the fuck you said.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, oh, I made a joke about something.
I really didn't mean it.
I'm like, I don't remember it at all.
So it's like, you're carrying on to that?
Like, you're holding on to something they said that you might misconstrue as a slight or as a joke that you might not take it well?
Some comics are like super sensitive.
nick youssef
Oh, yeah.
Because you want to be liked and respected, and you're just always worried about saying the wrong thing.
Because no one knows who you are yet, and you're just like, I want to make friends, make a good first impression.
Yeah.
joe rogan
But a guy like Daniel Tosh, he shouldn't be so sensitive.
nick youssef
That's weird.
joe rogan
Multi-millionaire.
nick youssef
I know.
joe rogan
Awesome, beautiful man.
He's a good dude.
He's fun to be around, too.
He's hilarious, too.
He's like Kander.
We talked to him about other comedians and shit.
He was ragging on this one comedian that he's had difficulties with.
It was goddamn hilarious.
Brian Callen and I were crying laughing.
It was really funny.
nick youssef
That's funny.
brian redban
It's very interesting.
joe rogan
But the improv has guys like that.
They're there all the time.
I wonder if guys like that will start showing up at the store now, too.
brian redban
Yeah, David Spade was there yesterday.
joe rogan
Did he do a set?
Is he doing stand-up again?
nick youssef
I guess so.
joe rogan
How was it?
nick youssef
It was alright.
He was working on a couple new bits.
He had notes up there with him.
But he had some funny stuff about going skiing for the first time.
He had a story on that.
The names of all the slopes were these...
Horrifying, like, evil names.
Like, Hitler's abortion was one of them.
Just stuff like that.
It was really funny.
But you could tell he's, like, developing it.
And it's, like...
It's interesting to see him.
joe rogan
Right.
nick youssef
When he would do stand-up live.
joe rogan
Well, he probably, like, took some time off doing a lot of TV and movies and shit.
And then a lot of those guys, they lose their chops, man.
They don't...
They have, like, a hard struggle to try to get back.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, getting back...
nick youssef
Norm MacDonald's been there a few times.
brian redban
Yeah, Norm's been coming there.
nick youssef
I love him.
joe rogan
I love Norm MacDonald.
If he comes, I'll kidnap him and drag him to this podcast studio.
I love Norm.
I'd love to do it, but what time?
What time does that say?
He's a character, man.
He's a character.
We were on a plane with him once, and all the way on the plane, he's talking about how he quit smoking.
Yeah, yeah, quit smoking.
He lands, immediately goes and buys cigarettes.
brian redban
Brian, let me buy my cigarette.
joe rogan
He immediately ran and got a pack of cigarettes and he was outside.
I guess I'm smoking again.
nick youssef
That's so funny.
joe rogan
But the funniest guys are like that, man.
They're just nutty.
They're just nutty.
That comes with the territory, right?
nick youssef
So have you been asked a million times if you'll go back to the comedy store?
joe rogan
At least ten.
Not a million, but at least ten.
brian redban
Do Friday kill Tony?
joe rogan
No, that's not happening.
That's not happening.
But I'm happy.
I'm happy that the place will get more normal.
nick youssef
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's for sure.
And this will be more relaxed.
There's just too much insanity there with that guy running shit.
nick youssef
Absolutely.
joe rogan
He was...
You know, I don't hate the guy, but there's just certain levels of intolerable bullshit where you're just like, okay, you're too crazy.
unidentified
You're too crazy to run this.
brian redban
Matter of time.
joe rogan
Well, you know, that clip.
unidentified
I'm more talented than anyone here.
nick youssef
I'm the most talented person in this building.
joe rogan
Yeah.
nick youssef
You don't know how much power and money is behind me.
The building likes me.
brian redban
I'm so happy.
nick youssef
Someone was saying it would have been great if the way they fired him was they bring him into an office and they go like, well, it's not just that, Tommy.
They start with that and then they fire him.
brian redban
It's just not that.
nick youssef
Then he goes, no, it's not that.
It is just that this time.
You're done.
joe rogan
How much touring are you doing?
nick youssef
Not as much as I'd like, but I'm going to Chicago with Ari at the end of August.
joe rogan
Oh shit, oh shit.
Where are you guys going?
nick youssef
Zany's downtown.
joe rogan
That's a good spot.
nick youssef
Yeah, we're doing one night and we're going to hang out in the city for a couple days.
joe rogan
Beautiful.
nick youssef
I open for Bobby still, which is good.
joe rogan
Bobby Lee?
nick youssef
Bobby Lee, yeah.
Beautiful.
joe rogan
He's a good dude.
nick youssef
Yeah, he really is.
He's one of those guys that is good to younger people.
A lot of guys get to the top or wherever and then they either quit stand-up or they don't have any time for newer guys and stuff.
But he's always been super cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, he got shit on a little bit when he was coming up, you know?
So I think because of that, you know, he had a bunch of issues with guys that he was working with that either didn't pay him or fucked with him.
So he's super nice to people that are coming up now.
nick youssef
Yeah, it's pretty great.
He takes care of comics and he gives way new comics that are like, oh, I'd like to open for you on a local thing.
And he'll let him have a few minutes just because he knows, he remembers what that was like, doing not an open mic of any kind.
There's going to be 80 people there, like 200. And he's like, because it'll be like something local, and he's like, yeah, if I can come down and do five minutes.
joe rogan
Yeah, camaraderie between comics is one of the coolest things.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's one of the coolest things, because it's one of the things about the store as well, is the store, because everybody, we're all hung out there, like it really fostered that sort of camaraderie.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was so much fun just in that back parking lot area, just the hilarious conversations that we've had back there.
nick youssef
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was a mad, mad club.
Are we running out of time?
Three minutes left?
Three minutes and we turn it into a pumpkin.
So everybody go buy Nick Yusuf's new CD. And it is, what is it called?
Why?
Stop Not Owning This.
Stop Not Owning This.
And is it available on iTunes?
nick youssef
It is on iTunes and allthingscomedy.com.
For those of you who hate iTunes, I also get more money if you buy it on allthingscomedy.com.
But if you're an iTunes guy, totally go there.
It's on there.
Rate it and review it.
I think that helps, right?
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, it'll definitely help.
And this will help too.
So Nick Yusef, follow him on Twitter.
It's Y-O-U-S-S-E-F. That's Y-O-U-S-S-E-F. And Nick is spelled normal.
N-I-C-K. Nothing crazy.
nick youssef
Yeah.
A cue.
A cue.
joe rogan
Well, hey, man.
Thanks for doing this.
nick youssef
This was fun, man.
joe rogan
We've got to do it more often.
nick youssef
Yeah.
Definitely, right?
We learned so much about praying, man.
This isn't all such great shit.
We did.
I didn't know anything about it.
This was fun.
joe rogan
It was actually sort of like work in some way.
nick youssef
Right.
joe rogan
I think we hijacked the system.
Nick Yusuf, ladies and gentlemen.
Powerful Nick Yusuf.
Thank you, guys.
Please go out and buy his shit.
He's a very funny comedian.
Thanks to our sponsors.
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brian redban
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joe rogan
Yeah, Squarespace.
Thanks to Squarespace for just nothing but positive feedback.
I haven't heard one person say anything bad about Squarespace, which is a beautiful thing.
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nick youssef
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Tomorrow, Shooter Jennings, son of the great Waylon Jennings.
That's right, bitches.
Respect.
Until then, much love and big kisses.
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