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Dec. 6, 2016 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #883 - Kevin Smith
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joe rogan
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kevin smith
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joe rogan
Let's fucking do it.
Yee-haw, Kevin Smith!
We did it again!
kevin smith
Is it happening?
joe rogan
Yes, sir.
kevin smith
We're there?
joe rogan
We're here.
We're live.
kevin smith
This took a while to bring together.
joe rogan
Dude, so nice to see you, though.
kevin smith
Excellent to see you.
Before we go any farther, or far at all, or do anything, let me just throw out there.
I was telling somebody, like, what are you doing today?
I was like, I'm going to go talk to Joe Rogan.
Then I launched into my, like, ten-minute Joe Rogan pitch.
And at the end of it, the person I was talking to goes, oh, you've known him a long time?
unidentified
I said, I've talked to him like twice in person.
kevin smith
And she was like, you just went on a passionate tirade about the man.
I said, I don't know how to explain it, but I love the way he lives.
I've loved the man since news radio, and then meeting the man and speaking with him on previous podcasts, both his and mine.
But not just that, and I love your philosophy, I love the way you do life, you handle it like The way I would if I was you, like, that's the best compliment I could give, but I'm not you, so I'm gutless, and I live through your Instagram.
Like, I look at how you live, I was like, this is how a man lives.
If only I could be this man.
So, coming here is an absolute fucking pleasure.
I thought we were going to your house, but that happened years ago, apparently.
joe rogan
Yeah, I moved out of the house when people got creepy.
There's too many creepy people.
Like, when you don't want them coming to your house, but you do want them on the podcast, I'm like, shit.
kevin smith
When I went, it must have been a while ago, because Megan was still working for me, and she drove me, and she had to take a leak, and she pissed outside.
unidentified
That's right!
joe rogan
We did a five-hour podcast!
kevin smith
It wasn't so long, and then I felt bad.
I was like, maybe that's why he's not having me back at the house.
He's like, we're bringing him to the satellite office, because he lets his assistants void in the yard.
I'm feeling fucking dope, sir.
Let me tell you why.
I made this movie called Yoga Hosers that just finally came onto Netflix and I took it to Sundance in January and they bent me over and just, critically speaking, and were just hate-fucking it.
They hated this movie.
A lot of people reviewed it from the moment we announced it.
I'm like, hey, I'm going to make a movie with my daughter and Johnny Deppson and his daughter's going to be in it too.
And right away I saw, like, fucking the long sharp knives come out.
And so, as expected, it goes to Sundance.
I'm not saying this movie's for everybody.
It's for, like, ten people in the world.
But the ten people that love it will love it like religion.
joe rogan
Well, haven't you always done that, though?
You just kind of do what you like to do.
kevin smith
Story of my life, dude.
joe rogan
If I could turn it around and turn it on you.
What I like about what you do is you're very much an accepted inside guy who lives like some guy from Jersey who's trying to break into the business.
kevin smith
This is useful because you never really understand how professionals see you.
You know how the world sees you because they'll tell you at any given moment.
Joe Normal or Sally Normal.
People who live in the real world and shit.
But your peers and people like, we work in entertainment and shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Tell me that again.
You're very unaffected.
You're a uniquely unaffected guy.
kevin smith
But also, like, ineffective at the same time?
joe rogan
No, no, you're very effective.
You're effective at doing what you enjoy.
And that's why you have such a unique and loyal fan base.
It's because they know...
It's like, in this world...
There's not a whole lot of unique visions.
There's a lot of ideas that get brought to producers and executives and a bunch of people pile in and it becomes more of an idea where it's trying to appeal to a broader audience and it switches up and then someone wants to bring in a love interest.
There's all sorts of influences that happen that homogenize as you drink some milk.
kevin smith
I know, that was perfect timing.
joe rogan
My man brings his milk.
kevin smith
Oh my lord, that was perfect.
The perfect timing of a stand-up comic.
joe rogan
Well done.
Really, that's the best word for it because even though if it's good, you don't feel like that guy.
Tarantino is one of the unique guys where even though his movies are these gigantic mega blockbusters, it feels like Tarantino.
kevin smith
He's doing his own thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, it feels like this crazy fucker just got the money and the wheels and they're listening to him because he's Tarantino.
Your movies are the same kind of feeling.
kevin smith
And his thing also connects with more people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
There's more of a like, oh yeah, that's cool.
It's cinema of cool because you could just look at, even if you don't have an experiential connection to it, like, oh, I once went to a 50s cafe as per Pulp Fiction.
You're just like, that looks badass.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Seeing John Travolta dance with Uma Thurman, that's badass.
joe rogan
Milkshakes, everything.
kevin smith
Yeah, everything about it is just like cinema of cool.
And fed by a lifetime of movie loving and a movie diet.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
So if you love movies, here's a guy that distills everything that's the essence of cool of cinema.
And I don't want to keep hitting the cool bell because people are like, come on, that's a hipster term.
But it does distill it down to those moments.
Not so much like massive arcs, but, ooh, this feels awesome.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's dope.
kevin smith
Oh, that's metal.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
You have that same kind of thing.
Your movies are very...
For very few people.
Well, it's your comedies.
kevin smith
I think I'm the only one left.
joe rogan
Your comedies in particular.
Like, that was one of the more interesting and unique things about Red State.
Because I had no...
You didn't tell me a word about it.
You said, I don't want you to know nothing.
Just come and sit there.
unidentified
Going dry.
kevin smith
Which sounded filthier than I meant to be.
joe rogan
Me and Maren sit there and watched it.
And at the end of it, we were like, holy shit.
Like, holy shit.
Like, what the fuck was that?
That movie was crazy.
And it wasn't a comedy at all.
kevin smith
It's nice to be able to every once in a while throw him a curve and be like, oh, we thought we saw everything.
I always felt most people saw me as like, oh, he did Clerks and then he's done about 96 variations on Clerks.
joe rogan
People need to see Red State.
If you haven't seen Red State, that is a...
I don't want to say too much because I want people to go into it the way I went into it.
Just go see that fucking movie.
But that's another movie where even though it wasn't the same voice, it was still a unique voice.
I don't know what it's like to make a movie, but it's got to be a lot of people have a lot of say.
kevin smith
Depends what your budget is.
The bigger the budget, the more you have to listen to a bunch more people.
And you can't be unreasonable about it if you get tremendous amounts of success like J.J. Abrams and you're a nice guy at the same time.
I'm going to do whatever I want.
And people are like, what you want tends to work, so here you go nuts.
But generally speaking, the more money you accept, the more input you also have to accept.
Lower the budget, and if it's coming out of your pocket, you don't have to say shit to anybody or nobody can tell you anything.
But, you know, if you're putting together something small, it's still a smaller circle of people to kind of answer to you.
You always have to be willing to hear what they're saying.
If somebody's willing to give you ungodly amounts of money to make pretend, mind you, this is not like, I'm going to give you funds and you're going to give me eggs and then I'm going to sell those eggs and I'm going to make more money selling those eggs.
They're like, we're going to give you money and you're going to take this goofy fucking idea you have and try to make it real and turn it into a movie that may work or may not work.
It's all crapshoot.
It's like buying a lottery ticket to a large degree.
No guarantees that there'll ever be an audience for it.
So I learned that midway in my career and realized, well, just work for you.
Sounds masturbatory, but it's like, if you're the audience that you're trying to hit, Then you'll always be satisfied.
You know, it's like if you want other people to like it, it's subjective.
And you may not find that people dig what you're doing.
And, you know, if you're looking for monetary success, good luck.
Nobody can guess that.
Like, even when Marvel releases a new movie, and we know Marvel is exceptional at what they do.
Put them in Pixar.
Marvel, Pixar, I don't care.
The best of the best.
Even when they release a movie...
They clench a little bit.
joe rogan
Oh, they have to.
kevin smith
Because they're like, anything could happen.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Like, anything could happen at all.
So, generally speaking, they're a little more insulated from like, oh shit, we lost money.
joe rogan
Well, especially those Marvel movies are so expensive now.
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
But they make loot, dude.
It's like, same thing with the animated movies.
The animated movies are ungodly expensive to make, but they print money.
And they print money not just the first time they come out at the box office.
They print money through all the licenses.
They print money where, you know, sometimes you go like, they're doing a sequel to that.
Why?
Why don't they do something new?
Because they've already built the world.
It's already there in a computer, and they're like, all we need is a new script, and we're good.
We've done our infrastructure.
Like, when you think about it, if you were building something, you built all this massive infrastructure and spent three years putting it together and did it once, and then you're like, okay, everybody, goodbye forever.
It's kind of a waste of everything you put together.
That's why they immediately go for a sequel.
A, they know they're going to make money, but B, they're going to make more money because they don't have to invest as much time and money as they did the first time.
So that's what makes a studio go like, oh, that's easier.
That's low-hanging fruit.
And everyone's happy.
You know, it's not like they're making art films that only a few people like.
Generally, they tend to make flicks that a bunch of people want to go see.
And that riles up people that want to see newer films or something like that.
Because, like, why is it always the same movie over and over again?
But, you know, I submit to you, if you're going to see a superhero movie...
Expect a little fucking sameness.
It's a story of, like, an exceptional being with powers that others don't, and hopefully that person will use it for good.
You know, you could only cut that cheese so many fucking times and say it's something new.
joe rogan
Other than the Watchmen.
I think the Watchmen took it to a new place.
kevin smith
Yeah, and I love the Watchmen, but at the end of the day, it's just like people in masks doing the right thing.
And yeah, they fucked in space, but other than that, it's people in masks trying to do the right thing.
joe rogan
They were murdered, too.
They murdered each other.
kevin smith
They caught up in Batman v Superman.
I heard there were some murders in that movie.
In the movie, I was like, did they say somebody fucking died in prison?
And over Batman?
You know, they went in strange directions.
But...
After a year of, like, just taking it over, a movie that nobody saw because it didn't really come out conventionally, we toured it and stuff like that, Yoga Horsers finally goes to Netflix.
And I just want to go back and, like, here, let me just assure people.
If there's something you want to do, do it.
Like, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody.
Especially if it's something like make something, like a movie or fucking comic book or art, whatever the fuck.
Don't worry about the consequences.
There was a moment throughout this year where I was like, fuck, what was I? I was stoned, why did I make that movie?
Like, oh my god, I'm a fucking idiot and stuff.
And I forgot somewhere along the way that, like, when I made it, and this isn't a cop-out of, like, I didn't make it for everybody, but I did kind of target an audience for it.
And I knew going in that it was going to have this weird life to get to where it is.
I made it for tween girls specifically.
I was like, maybe other people could enjoy it, but this is for a tween girl.
The way, like, when I was a tween boy, I was clicking on cable and I found Strange Brew, starring Bob and Doug McKenzie.
And I was like...
Oh my God, I've never heard of this before.
How come nobody ever heard of this?
This is mine.
You have a sense of ownership to it.
It changed my life.
It's one of my favorite movies and informed what I would become in life, the kind of comedy I would do.
joe rogan
You were formed by Bob and Doug McKenzie.
kevin smith
By Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Think about it, dude.
I made Jay and Silent Bob.
You don't get to Jay and Silent Bob without Bob and Doug McKenzie.
unidentified
That's hilarious.
kevin smith
It's not a direct line from Cheech and Chong to Jay and Bob, right?
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
kevin smith
So I felt like, I want to make a movie.
I have a daughter, and she's 17 now, but for years I was always trying to take her to flicks where it's not Iron Man, Spider-Man, Superman, Batman.
It's like, hey, is there a fucking lady up in the mix here that's not just like, and Black Widow.
Now they're making a Wonder Woman movie.
So I said, you can sit around and curse the darkness, or you can light a candle.
So I was like, all right, let's make this thing that I'm trying to take the kid to that I could never find and shit.
And she got into acting, so...
She's in it.
And she's the reason I did it.
If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have tried it and shit.
But she had a small role in Tusk.
I thought she did good.
So I spun off her character and her friend Lily Rose's character into this whole movie.
So when I was making it, I was making it for like, you know, you want to talk about playing a game of darts.
It's like, you're not going after anybody between girls.
And I knew in that moment, I was like, it's going to be a long time before they get it.
They're not going to find it in theaters.
It's a fucking weird hybrid midnight movie.
It's a stoner flick.
The villains are one foot tall Canadian Nazis made of bratwurst called Bratzies.
Like it's a fucked up weird ass movie.
So they'll find it.
Like the way I found Strange Brew on cable, I had this dream, like two simple dreams in regards to this poster.
In regards to this movie.
I want a poster where two girls just stand next to each other and they're not like fighting over a fucking boy or something like that.
They're just hanging out.
The way like Dante and Randall hung out on my clerk's poster.
And then, like, it would eventually wind up on Netflix or some streaming service that's, like, amidst hundreds, thousands of other movies.
And some tween girl is clicking through one day, bored of shit, and just watched everything, and suddenly sees the picture of, like, two girls standing next to each other, hockey stick, and little sausage men.
And going like, what's that?
And like, it becomes their religion, their strange brew or something.
You know, you can't always go for the world.
It'd be nice if you're going to satisfy everybody, but you're trying to satisfy yourself, which sounds very masturbatory, but at the same time, it's like, I hope people go on the journey.
But I understand if they can't.
Like, sometimes we go in directions where the audience, the entire audience, can't follow us.
I'm sure you got some people who love you who are like, yeah, I don't dig on MMA, but I love everything else you do.
It's like, they could go partially, they can't go all the way with you sometimes.
And I get that, you know?
It's like, especially lately, I've been making movies that are real, like, fucking dare.
Like, not daring, but like, I dare you to fucking get through this.
You know, it's a real, like, clearly he doesn't give a shit about the audience anymore.
He's just making shit to watch their reaction change.
And it's not true.
There's something there and stuff.
But I know that it used to be a wider bridge people could cross to get to me, and now the bridge is getting smaller and smaller.
Because I'm like, you gotta like this.
You gotta be interested in this.
Like Tusk, the movie I made after Red State, is a movie about a guy who tries to turn another guy into a walrus.
You really got me in the mood to see a fucking weird, batshit, stupid movie that's intentionally like, well, is this fucking dumb?
Is he serious?
And it plays it so straight and shit, like we're Argo.
So clearly I'm in a very experimental, like, let me fuck around.
I've done enough.
I feel good.
Let me fuck around.
And it finally paid off.
That's the point of this whole story.
Like, after a year, get mass kicked online and people being like, he fucking lost it and shit.
Now that audience is starting to find it.
Now that it's on Netflix, all of a sudden I'm hearing from fucking tween girls that like the movie.
And parents of tween girls are like, oh my god.
joe rogan
How many of them are like 40 year old dudes pretending to be tween girls?
unidentified
I hope it is.
kevin smith
I hope it's all of them, dude.
I don't give a shit.
joe rogan
At least two.
kevin smith
I'll take them all.
If they were all 40 year old dudes that said nice things about it.
After a year of people being like, it blows.
It's nice to have people being like...
Oh, it blows on purpose, or, oh, I get it, or blah, blah, blah.
joe rogan
I gotta ask you this.
How much of your thought process, when you make something, is worrying about how it's going to be received?
Or dealing with the people that don't like it?
kevin smith
Lately, not anymore about either.
But sooner or later, there's a factor of want to see, because that has to do with whether the thing makes money or goes at the box office.
How something makes money is completely different now.
You're never counting on, like, oh, people will come out and see it in a theater and shit like that.
You know, there's a bunch of different revenue streams at this point and stuff, thanks to the digital age.
But at that point, when I'm making it, you know, of course you think, hey, somebody's going to see it.
It's not like you're doing it in a, you know, kind of like an abyss and nobody's there but you or something like that.
But at the same time, you know, when it's all done...
Just stupid questions like, you know, what do you want the poster to look like?
Dictates a commercial thought.
You know, I can't say, like, I never think about that shit, because sooner or later, somebody's going to ask me a question that I have to, you know, where they're like, hey, man, we get it.
You're making it for you, but you did take a few million bucks.
Like, how do we sell this shit?
How do we get our money back, you know?
So, you know, then you, that's when you start going, okay, how do we get it to the right audience?
No more like, how do we tailor it, or how do we, Fucking trick them into seeing it or something like that.
Like, put it on Front Street.
And then dealing with the fallout...
Yeah, I used to have to deal with it a lot more.
I used to choose to deal with it a lot more.
And now it's just like...
I'm 46. Like, I don't know what else to tell you.
Like, there was a person who came to one of the screenings on the road.
We had this screening at...
I forget where we were.
I want to say New Orleans.
And of Yoga Hosers and I was doing Q&A afterwards.
And you know, everyone's getting up and like, oh, it's fun.
It's fucking stupid and asking questions.
And then one guy gets up and he is like tight, dude.
He's very serious.
And he's just like, okay, you told a big long story before that movie began.
And I did.
There was a big intro before the movie began.
Told like an hour-long story of how we got there.
And he goes, that story did not match the movie I just watched.
And I said, no?
And he goes, not at all.
And he goes, why did you make that movie?
He's going, I found that unwatchable.
And everyone in the audience is going, oh.
And I was like, no, man, he paid.
Like, he overpaid to see this movie if I'm sitting here talking.
So, yeah, let him say what he wants.
Like, I'm a big boy.
I'm fine.
And so he goes, I just don't think you ever should have made it.
It's terrible.
And I said, well, you understand that's subjective, right?
Like, you're surrounded by a bunch of people that feel, like, the opposite way.
So, you know, and people were applauding and shit.
And then some guy behind him in line jumps in front of the mic and goes, you want me to kick his ass?
And I was like, no, fuck no.
I was like, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
I said, but his opinion is I never should have done this.
And, you know, my answer to that is, like, that's ridiculous.
Like, if...
I wanted to make it.
That's the only reason we're here.
I just want to see it.
You could choose not to see it.
And in this instance, I'm really sorry that our tastes didn't coincide.
But every time I go to do one of these things, I do it the same way, whether it was Clerks up to the most recent one.
I just make the movie I want to see.
And hopefully others like it.
And sometimes they do, and that's amazing, and it feels great.
And you're like, holy shit, my finger's on the pulse.
And sometimes you're fucking alone, but at least you're like, I'm happy with the thing that I made.
I said, but I feel heartbroken that you came out here looking for something I didn't give you.
So I said, I'm going to give you your money back.
And I pulled out 40 bucks and I was like, put it on the, there's like a riser speaker.
And he goes, I don't want that.
And I was like, no, man, honestly, take it.
It's not a trick.
It's not like Jason Mue is going to come out and hit you with a hammer.
Just take it.
Like, I feel bad.
I want you to have a good time and shit like that.
And he goes, no, I don't want that.
And I was like, dude, it makes for an excellent story.
You could be like, I told him his movie fucking blew to his face and I fucking took his money and walked out.
And he goes, no.
And he went and sat down and crossed his arms and just stayed there for another half hour during the Q&A. So for him it was worth the $40 just to be like, I'm going to just sit here and fucking hate on this.
And let you know and then sit down again.
So you deal with that, but that's the memorable one because that never happens.
Generally speaking, Like when we toured the movie, you're in a safe zone.
It's like going out and doing club night.
It's like people there are there because they love you.
They're not going, I wonder if this fucking tween sausage movie is for me.
Like, they're already dialed in on some part of the journey.
Like, oh, I've loved Tosk or I've been with them since Clerks or so forth and so on.
I feel like I'm rambling.
Let's talk about fucking useful shit.
joe rogan
No, no, you're not rambling at all.
It's interesting because...
The relationship that you have to the people that buy your stuff is very direct.
You also have a podcast, so you talk about things in a pretty open and honest way like this, and you express vulnerability, which makes people super uncomfortable.
kevin smith
Does it really?
joe rogan
Is that your experience?
It doesn't make me uncomfortable.
kevin smith
No, no, no.
But in the world in general, if you tell people like, oh, I fucked up and I'm stupid or I'm fat or my dick's small, they're like, hey, man, hey, that's too much.
joe rogan
Well, I think there's two factions.
There's one faction that enjoys it and they go, hey, Kevin Smith is just like me.
He's kind of fucked up just like I am and nobody really ever gets it together.
And then there's like...
There's the facts and like, God, I wish he was like Will Smith.
Will Smith just seems to have his shit together always.
Like, Will Smith just keeps knocking it out of the park.
kevin smith
And the only reason is because we share that last name.
That's why there's an expectation connecting me to that guy.
joe rogan
I just came up with a guy who never fails.
kevin smith
I thought it was out there in the world.
You're like, anyone I talk to says you should be more Like Will Smith.
joe rogan
I'm like, that's weird.
Will Smith is essentially a never fail guy, right?
Like, name a time Will Smith has failed.
unidentified
Yes.
kevin smith
Look, I'm with you, generally speaking.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
He always gets jiggy with it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
But there have been moments where he too, you know, we saw him be mortal.
Wild Wild West was one of the first ones.
Yeah, I missed that.
That's good, though.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
kevin smith
But there have been a couple flicks.
Recently, including the one he did with his kid.
Once again, he got punished for making a movie with his kid as well.
And he's raising those kids in a real interesting way.
That's where he gets most of his flack these days.
joe rogan
His son's all about stardust and shit.
kevin smith
His daughter's not that far off.
joe rogan
Really?
kevin smith
Yeah, they're both really creative kids, but they have been raised in a world much different than the world that most people are raised in.
Nothing wrong with that, but it's produced very interesting results.
joe rogan
Yeah, and I guess if you're that sheltered, like your dad is some super movie star type character, your transition to regular, ordinary adulthood is probably super confusing.
kevin smith
I got one kid, and I'm not fucking Will Smith by any stretch of the imagination.
I ain't even fucking Joe Rogan, which is not saying you ain't Will Smith, but I guess it kind of is.
joe rogan
I definitely am not Will Smith.
kevin smith
But I've done some shit, so some people know me and stuff, and I got a kid...
And I was talking to her recently, and it came out that she was like, well, it's, yeah, it can be hard to be your daughter.
And I was like, what are you talking about?
I was like, I put you in things, I'm making stuff.
And she goes, no, it's not that you make it hard.
It's that there's this expectation.
Like, you did something.
unidentified
Right.
kevin smith
And now if I don't do something...
What the fuck?
And I'm like, oh, don't worry about that.
I said, no.
I did one thing like 22 fucking years ago, and that's it.
Like, all you have to do is find one trick.
You can take your whole life if you need to.
But I said, nobody expects you to be me.
And this is a common...
Not theme, but I've had a moment like this before.
Once with Scott Mosher, the guy that I do Smodcast with, and I made all the early flicks with.
He would always say, it's tough to live in your shadow.
And I was like, what shadow?
We make everything together.
And he goes, well, we make your stuff.
And every time I think about going to make something...
I gotta compare it to the shit that we made together, and it makes me go, well, maybe I'm not ready to try it.
And I was like, well, that's not my fault.
He's like, I'm not saying it's your fault.
It's just tough to live in your shadow.
And, you know, I thought maybe that was his thing.
Years later, I heard the same shit from my wife.
She's like, it's just tough to live in your shadow.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
We don't even do the same things.
And she's like, but I can't even think about doing things now without thinking Well, he's kind of done something like that.
Or is it going to be compared to something he does?
And I'm like, you're out of your mind.
Everything I do fails.
And nobody ever holds it as a high watermark.
So it's not like they would hold you to some same high standard that they don't even hold me to.
So there's a bit of that, man.
Now my kid is echoing it a little bit where...
Through no fault of my own, not like I've created this, you know, like, live up to my standard.
I'm like, everyone do what you want, man.
Even with a kid.
I've never talked to her like a kid.
I've always talked to her like an adult.
But now even my kid is just like, yeah, it makes it tough to go do something because of you.
And it's not like you did it, but you do a lot and there's a high bar.
And I'm like, it makes me feel bad.
It makes me go like, all right, do less.
But I'm like, I got one life.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I gotta accomplish a lot before my old man died at 67. Like, I don't know how long I'm gonna live, but I want to accomplish as much as I can and create and do shit and experience things.
joe rogan
Enjoy your time here.
kevin smith
Yeah, it's like, and I don't want to take away from all these other people's time.
You know what I'm saying?
I want her to enjoy her time and my wife to enjoy her time and Scott to enjoy his time.
But the sad fact of the matter is, In order for you to rise, usually someone in your life falls.
And it's not a precipitous like, oh, I've fucking broken, but they can't be rising like you when they're helping you build your shit.
That's something I had to learn to deal with way early on in my career.
I used to take advantage of people and not in the way of like, oh, I'm trying to take advantage of you, but I was like, oh, we're just working on my thing because what else will we be working on?
And hey, isn't this all great that we're working, period, and stuff.
And you forget that not everybody started Wanting to do your thing.
Like, Scott's whole thing was, you know, I didn't go to film school to become a producer of your movies.
I went to film school to write and direct.
And I've been having a great time doing your stuff.
But that meant ten years of me not even trying to do the thing that I went to do.
So it's a weird...
Especially because I never really feel successful.
I'm never like, well, I understand.
I understand I cast a wide shadow, but I don't think it's a very long shadow, because I'm like, there's no high bar here, kids.
There's a high bar in as much as, like, you know, I smoke a lot.
But there's no, like, well, he made the Matrix, motherfucker.
Like, how are you going to be the kid or the guy that made the Matrix?
Or the ladies that made the Matrix now?
Like, that would be tough.
I imagine growing up their kids, like, hey, man.
Your parents made the matrix.
Like, yeah.
joe rogan
Hey, let me ask you this, because you probably wouldn't know the answer to this before we get back to the subject, because this subject's really important.
kevin smith
Obviously, I'm using you like a therapist today.
joe rogan
Whatever the fucking happened to that lawsuit?
Remember there was a lady who wrote a book?
She said that she had submitted that book to those brothers that made the matrix, and that is the exact same story.
kevin smith
I didn't hear that.
joe rogan
And then it went to court.
unidentified
I had to guess.
kevin smith
It did go to court?
joe rogan
Yeah, it did go to court.
It's really interesting similarities.
How close?
kevin smith
Between what she wrote and the actual thing?
joe rogan
I don't remember, because it was quite a few years ago.
But I thought maybe you would know about this.
Snopes says it's false.
Snopes is a Hillary Clinton shill organization designed to keep the white man down.
kevin smith
I'll get political, man.
This is the one place people should run for politics.
joe rogan
It's not even real.
It's not real.
kevin smith
I saw your Instagram post on election day where you were like, what happened?
It was a picture of the results.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was amazing.
kevin smith
I think that might have been the place where I actually learned of the results.
joe rogan
I enjoy chaos to a certain extent, so I'm looking forward to this.
I really am.
kevin smith
May you live in interesting times, as they say.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
I would not have been interested in Hillary Clinton doing the same goddamn thing that she's been doing.
And I'm not a big fan of how he behaves as a human.
What's up?
unidentified
It's not false that...
jamie vernon
It's false that she won the large judgment.
I guess in 2005 there was a court case and I guess she never showed up to court for her preliminary hearing.
joe rogan
Maybe they paid her off.
kevin smith
Because she was in the Matrix.
joe rogan
Maybe they paid her off.
kevin smith
Somebody disconnected her and she was fucking trapped and shit.
She saw Kat on the way there twice and she was like, fuck!
joe rogan
It's entirely possible that she just got paid.
kevin smith
That's the other option.
Like, you know, what was she...
How much was she necessarily...
Was she like, I want half, or was she like, give me 50 grand, I'll go away?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
But The Matrix, obviously, is a pretty goddamn big movie.
Apparently, her story was remarkably close.
kevin smith
I mean, look, and I'm not taking anything away from them or her, but, you know, like, there are archetypes in that story.
And, like, that movie's brilliant.
joe rogan
Of course.
kevin smith
But it's like, nobody can...
Really go like, well, I've never seen anything like that before.
I mean, it is kind of like, go to the Bible, it's a Jesus story on some level, right?
Messianic in nature.
But if you're talking about, these motherfuckers are in big batteries that power a fucking machine that we're all in and plugs in our head, then it gets very, very close.
joe rogan
But even that concept of one day we're going to live in some sort of a virtual reality, that's not a new concept.
That concept's been explored.
kevin smith
Are you watching Westworld?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
kevin smith
God, it's good.
That is discussing that very subject while being vastly entertaining.
unidentified
Amazing.
kevin smith
And you're like, oh, my God, this is a great idea.
But also, they are going into the idea of consciousness.
And there are a few times as you watch that show, not where you're like...
Are we in someone's fucking game?
But you start sitting there going, everything we know about what we understand to be reality, accept to be reality, is a social contract in many ways.
Like ideas and thoughts that we all agree on and stuff about what is real, what is important.
That's why when you meet people who are like...
Don't want to have kids.
You know, some people are like, well, that's fucking weird.
It's like, no, their reality is, like, kids are not a part of their reality, never were.
Like, it's just not in them and stuff like that.
I think, you know, this year with the election we've seen, literally we've seen reality challenged.
The thing that we all understood to be apparently was not, and now, you know, things are vastly different.
I don't know where I'm going with that.
Save me.
joe rogan
It's just...
The unique thing about it is that we have been living under this illusion that it either had to be one of these people, like a Democrat, or one of these people, or Republican, and that these people are politicians and these are the people that won presidencies.
kevin smith
I think, you know, I don't want to...
There's a faction out there and I don't want to...
We should really just stay away from this.
But I will.
Look, I'm a guy who always tries to find the silver lining to a situation.
So I did not vote for this president, but I did not campaign against this president and stuff.
I went another way.
It didn't work out.
It's not the first election where I voted for somebody that did not win.
joe rogan
Right.
kevin smith
But being the person I'm, you know, I'm not going to sit there and be like, fuck the next four years.
Like, no.
Like, you know, I've lived through presidencies that I didn't agree with and things work out.
I hope it's going to work out this time, but this is what I'll say.
It's new.
joe rogan
It's new.
kevin smith
And we might see, and I'm not saying burn it all down and see what happens, but...
We've had how many years of a two-party system, essentially, where it's like, yeah, there's lip service to a Green Party and lip service to another party, but we, for all intents and purposes, I mean, I know it was claimed by the Republican Party, but we saw...
A huge upset of a third party candidate.
joe rogan
They didn't want him in.
kevin smith
If it happens once, that means it could happen again.
There's now a new model.
There's a new path.
joe rogan
He was always a Democrat his whole life.
kevin smith
That's what I thought.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was.
kevin smith
I grew up in Jersey, so I was very familiar with the man and his work throughout my life and stuff.
He was a prominent figure in the press.
Always, always.
He always seemed very liberal-leaning and Democratic.
joe rogan
Well, what he did is essentially...
I mean, he played a certain group of people in this country, and he got to this ultimate position in power, and we're not sure.
I mean, look, he's 70 years old.
You don't think he's a crafty guy?
Like, he's probably pretty good at getting people to like him as a certain person, who he really is.
Like, I think you probably got to get to know him to find out who the fuck he really is.
kevin smith
But also, I honestly feel like, to some degree, and I'm not taking anything away from him, but Anybody could have just popped up and been like...
I'm the other person.
I'm not her.
joe rogan
Right.
kevin smith
I'm not him.
joe rogan
She carried so much baggage.
kevin smith
And that's the thing, too.
It was so much.
Essentially, the Democratic Party was going, come on, America.
joe rogan
Let's vote a woman in.
kevin smith
Come on.
We just had the black president.
That was amazing.
Let's have a woman president.
And I think if they'd gone with almost any other candidate that didn't have as much baggage, it'd be a different story.
But they were asking you to like somebody who I didn't have an issue with, but a lot of people have got a big issue with.
joe rogan
If she was a man, it would be a giant problem.
But we gave her...
unidentified
What do you mean?
joe rogan
Well, if she had all those problems, if she, you know, all the campaign...
All those shit.
unidentified
I don't know.
kevin smith
We saw a guy with a lot of problems and he seemed to squeak through.
joe rogan
But I'm saying if she was a man and she was up against Trump and she had all those problems, she would be crushed.
She would have no chance.
But because she was a woman...
kevin smith
Oh, you think she got further because of that?
unidentified
Oh, 100%.
joe rogan
100%.
There was a lot of people that wanted to make history.
They wanted to make history because, look, from a social standpoint, Barack Obama was very important because here was a super articulate guy who's really calm and he has a very even presence about him, always.
You never see him riled up.
You never see him crazy.
Even he gets heckled.
Did you see that thing where the Trump supporter was heckling him and he handled it with grace?
He's just a graceful guy.
That's probably the best way to describe him.
That was important for the country because that represented like, wow, hey, here's this black guy who's super articulate and so calm and so, like, the way he expresses himself is so perfect for a president, so presidential.
Like, what a perfect example for our country.
This is us.
And then I think a lot of people felt like Hillary Clinton would be another one of those things.
Like, look, we can have a woman running things.
We're not sexist.
Like, look, we look, we are a really articulate, incredibly well experienced woman who's been in business for a long time with the government.
unidentified
She's deep inside the public service since she was a teenager.
joe rogan
Yes.
But it was just too much.
It was just too much shit for people.
But I think if that was a man and she had all those same problems, it was a man and tied to some foundation that was getting all these people that eventually got arms deals and they donated and they were all part of this weird sort of incestuous political world, a man would be skewered with that same record because Trump was running as an outsider.
You know, what he had going against him is he's boorish.
He says ridiculous shit.
And, you know, they could point to that recording of him talking about grabbing pussies.
And they're like, look, look, look who we have here.
That was like the big thing against him.
But at least to these people that hate the system, he was an outsider.
If she was a man, she would have represented even more of it inside her.
You know, I think to a lot of people.
I think her actions and what she's done in the past versus her as a woman that was like sort of a situation there.
You ever see the video where she was talking about Gaddafi being killed?
kevin smith
No.
joe rogan
It's a crazy video, man, because she's joking around.
It's before they interview her, and she goes...
kevin smith
It's like before the official interview starts, like she makes a crack about something?
joe rogan
She had just found out that Gaddafi had been killed, and she was like laughing about it.
She goes, we came, we saw, he died!
Ha ha ha!
And she throws her head back, and she's laughing.
kevin smith
She was kind of hawkish.
unidentified
Woo!
joe rogan
She was hawkish.
If that was a guy, if a guy did that, he would have been thought to be a fucking serial killer, a sociopath, right?
kevin smith
Probably.
joe rogan
If a guy did that, like, say if Joe Biden, like, we came, we saw, he died.
People would be like, do you want that guy in charge of the fucking nukes?
But we let her go.
We'll give her a pass.
There's a lot of stuff that she's done where people give her a pass.
kevin smith
They put a more interesting cat in charge than the nukes.
joe rogan
There should be no president.
This is what I say.
Everybody's like, well, who do you think should be the president if you have a problem with Trump or if you have a problem?
No human being should be in control of 350 million human beings.
Explain.
It's a preposterous job.
kevin smith
Explain.
joe rogan
There's way too many of us.
unidentified
It's impossible.
kevin smith
So then how would it be done?
joe rogan
We don't have to do it this way.
No doubt.
kevin smith
What's the idea?
joe rogan
I don't have one.
But we can't have an alpha champ.
kevin smith
Let's figure it out right here.
We're smart.
joe rogan
The internet.
kevin smith
What about...
joe rogan
Education, the internet, mind reading.
kevin smith
Well, essentially, does it come down to...
What was that movie with the girl who shoots bows and arrows and shit?
joe rogan
Oh, Hunger Games?
kevin smith
Hunger Games.
Can we district the country and then there are heads of district or same thing?
joe rogan
We'll go to war with each other.
kevin smith
You're absolutely right.
unidentified
Can't do that.
kevin smith
Alright, so that's gone.
This is a think tank, kids.
This is how it happens.
You gotta throw out every idea to get there.
unidentified
That was one.
joe rogan
Even states are problematic.
kevin smith
So then what is...
joe rogan
Because people are like, fuck Utah, this is Texas, son.
kevin smith
That's true.
joe rogan
That exists.
kevin smith
I grew up in New Jersey and New York hated us.
joe rogan
Fucking everybody hates everybody.
kevin smith
We hated Boston.
unidentified
We hated Pennsylvania.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you hated Pennsylvania, New York hated Boston.
Connecticut got a pass.
kevin smith
Okay, so states...
joe rogan
Connecticut's like some little kid with a limp.
Like, ah, don't pick on them.
kevin smith
Well, so Connecticut doesn't get mentioned in the tri-state area.
Whenever they did commercials, it would be like, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
joe rogan
Exactly.
kevin smith
I didn't know...
I thought Connecticut was New Hampshire until years and years later.
joe rogan
Connecticut is a highway.
It's a highway between Boston and New York.
kevin smith
Spoken like a poet.
Connecticut's a highway.
Everyone in Connecticut's like, fuck you!
joe rogan
They are, like, fuck you.
But you know what I'm talking about, bitch.
Bitch, you know I'm right.
kevin smith
All right, wait.
No states, because we'd war with each other.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Somebody has to govern, no?
They have to be police and shit like that.
joe rogan
I think the best way to probably handle it is let every human being have a say.
Every human being that's of adult age.
And I think registering to vote should be just as fucking easy as getting an email.
It should be just as easy as doing everything else that you do online.
You got a Twitter handle?
You should be able to vote.
You should be able to use your ID, whoever you are, whatever your name is, call yourself whoever the fuck you want.
That is one individual vote.
That's what I think.
And I think as long as we can figure out how to make that system pure, where people can't hack into it, you can't log in from 15 different computers, if you have a fucking birth certificate and your birth certificate aligns with this number and that's this and this is you, as long as they can figure out how to make it so people don't hack into it, everybody who's an adult should be allowed to vote.
kevin smith
What are we voting for, though?
unidentified
What are we voting for?
joe rogan
Including people that have gone to jail.
I think people that have gone to jail.
The idea that someone goes to jail for four years, and now they can't vote for the rest of their life, I think that's fucking crazy, too.
That's ridiculous.
kevin smith
Especially you pay your debt to society back, and you should be able to reenter society.
joe rogan
Exactly.
You tell them you can't be a 20-year-old and do something stupid and rob somebody or something, and then I'm supposed to think of you a certain way for the rest of your life?
You're 80 now.
You robbed somebody when you were 20. That's still you?
kevin smith
You're a dangerous man talking about tearing down institutions.
joe rogan
But institutions are a problem no matter what.
They're always a problem.
I think the real issue is government, right, governing us.
So the real issue is what everybody wants is safety Security, protection, and unity.
That's what everybody wants.
All the other stuff, in terms of restrictions on your behavior, we have to just figure it out, cut it down the middle between hurts other people and hurts yourself.
And hurts yourself?
You're on your own.
Just like you're on your own with rock climbing, just like you're on your own with bungee joping.
kevin smith
So wait, give me an example of hurts yourself, like doing heroin.
You're on your own.
It's a hobby.
It's a choice.
joe rogan
You're on your own.
kevin smith
In high school, they'd call it an elective.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
How come you could just go to the roof and jump off, but you can't do heroin?
Like, no one will stop you.
You can go to your roof and practice backflips off your fucking roof.
kevin smith
You're making so much sense.
I'm ready to boot, dude.
I'm ready to fucking jack a needle in my 12-gauge it right now.
joe rogan
When you have people telling other people what to do, you've got a tyranny.
You've got a fucking problem.
Even if they sort of can get away with it because it's written down on paper, did you agree to it?
No.
Nobody asked you about child labor laws.
No one's pulled you aside.
kevin smith
I haven't had a say in that for years since I was a child.
joe rogan
No one's pulled you aside and you've decided with them how old you should be when you drink.
No, it's all been done.
Most people don't have a say.
It's all written down somewhere.
And the amount of people that vote versus the amount of people that are affected by that vote, completely disproportionate.
It's really weird, man.
It's really weird.
We have a ton of systems that are set up completely to do two things.
One, to control people.
And two, to ensure the survival of these systems.
And that's what bureaucracy is.
That's a giant problem with government.
Like the DEA. The DEA wants so badly to keep arresting people for marijuana.
Because if they don't, they don't have jobs.
kevin smith
I'm just going to light up.
I'm like, I better not light up right now.
joe rogan
It's perfect timing again.
Dude, you and I are in sync.
kevin smith
What do you mean?
Why?
joe rogan
Because they have jobs.
Their jobs are going to go away.
kevin smith
There's plenty of other drugs.
joe rogan
Dude, there's so little.
46% of all arrests, they said, what was the number?
More people have been arrested today for marijuana than all other arrests combined.
kevin smith
You see me smoking, man.
You want me watching the door for the next hour where I'm like, what is that?
I heard a noise.
joe rogan
What are you doing?
kevin smith
But we live in the correct state, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, right now.
kevin smith
Tell me I'm right.
joe rogan
Well, we live in several correct states.
kevin smith
If you're going to scare me, then throw me a dick tickle a little bit.
Like, tell me everything's going to be okay.
Okay.
joe rogan
We're here, Washington State, Oregon, Washington, D.C. One large smoking section.
Washington, D.C. and Boston now, Massachusetts.
unidentified
And Florida is medical, not legal.
joe rogan
Yeah, a bunch of medical.
kevin smith
Huge step, though, for Florida.
joe rogan
What are the other legal states?
Alaska?
Alaska's legal.
Fuck yeah, Alaska.
Are gangsters to the north?
kevin smith
I love Alaska.
Do you believe the theory that as goes California, so goes the union?
Like, for years they said, if California goes legal, there you go.
joe rogan
That's interesting.
I think there's going to be states that resist it still.
There's guys like that Jeff Sessions guy who's coming into office with Trump who could be an issue, but I don't think he will be because I think Trump is a- A business person.
Yeah, he's a business person.
He's not just a business person.
He's a populist, right?
He's going to want people to like him.
And it doesn't make sense.
It's not a logical move.
As weird as he is, he's not illogical.
Hillary Clinton was illogical, and this is why I say that.
Because I got a lot of shit from people that are super pro, hashtag I'm with her.
And I'm like, look, man, she didn't support gay marriage until 2013. Do you know how crazy that is?
Until 2013, Hillary Clinton was saying that she believes that marriage was between a man and a woman.
It was a sacred union, and it should be protected.
So it's one of two things.
Either she actually believed that, or she was in bed with people who were forcing her to behave that way or say that.
Or she thought that she had to say that in order to get elected.
kevin smith
Either way, you're not getting an authentic person.
joe rogan
Either way, no!
No!
You can't be a part of that.
kevin smith
I attended my first...
Gay wedding in 1994, right before Clerks came out.
My brother married his husband, Jerry.
They're still married to this day.
unidentified
Whoa.
kevin smith
So they've been married for 22 years, which is like 108 years in straight people years.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
That's deep.
kevin smith
Because part of going outside the box is like, I don't have to live like the normies, man.
I could just...
joe rogan
Yeah, I can't even get you pregnant, bitch.
kevin smith
I can roam this earth like fucking Cain in Kung Fu.
But they've been committed to each other and been in marriage for like a long, long time.
And the best...
Thing about that wedding.
Like, it was great.
Number one, seeing my brother happy and get married and stuff.
But, like, part of the wedding when the shit gets slow and you're like, oh, man, let's get out of here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
You know, and it's just middle, midway.
Once everyone's toast to everybody, the dancing's beginning.
That's not for everybody.
A drag show started.
unidentified
Oh, beautiful.
kevin smith
Like, all of a sudden, Donna Summer and Diana Ross came down the staircase, and it wasn't a real thing.
But, boy, they fucking looked it and put on a huge show.
And my father was still alive, and he just had a heart attack at that point, or a couple heart attacks, stroke as well.
Two heart attacks and a couple strokes.
So he walked to the cane, and one of his hands was like Bob Dole, like, just kind of hanging there and stuff like that.
So him and my mom are at this gig at my brother's wedding.
And there we are, like, on the dance floor watching the drag show.
And, you know, the performers are lip syncing, like, famous songs.
And my mom was, she had a lot of drinks in her.
My mom is, like, fucking boogieing and shit.
She's got, like, you know, extra fucking weight, like every Smith.
And so, you know, she's jiggling here and there and stuff like that in her sleeveless dress.
My old man was dressed in, like, a suit that didn't fucking match.
She just put it together and shit like that.
But he had his hand on my mom's back and with his weak hand was kind of leaning on the can but using her more for stability.
So his hand's on her back while she's dancing and stuff.
And I watched, you know, I'm standing right behind him.
I watched through the course of the fucking song, my old man's hand slide down my mom's back, then spin in a pretty fluid motion for a guy who had a couple strokes, and go right for the ass cup.
And not stop on cheek, son, but dive deep, spelunking for gold.
Like, he went right inside and cupped it like this shit's mine.
Jesus Christ.
And I will never forget that.
I told my brother, I was like, my God, like, you don't realize that's never going to happen in any other wedding but yours, man.
Like, my father was just like, I'm free, motherfucker.
And he started grabbing his wife, my mother.
Now, they were married, so that's okay.
She wanted it.
She didn't fight him.
She was just like...
She was...
I've had discussions with my mother since about that night.
Because now I'm a grown adult and stuff.
joe rogan
You talk to her about getting scooped?
kevin smith
Of course, dude.
Of course.
I don't want to leave this earth not knowing.
It's like, you know, I don't want to have a propriety relationship with my mother.
I've had her on the podcast.
We talk about shit.
But I asked.
I was like, Dad, you guys looked randy that night.
Did you guys have sex?
She said, oh, yes.
And I was like, I knew it!
I knew it!
joe rogan
Randy.
Randy's a weird word.
What if your name was Randy?
You'd be all bummed out that people expect to be horny all the time.
kevin smith
My dad's name was Randy.
She's like, I feel Randy all the time.
I feel him in certain places.
joe rogan
Where were we?
Grabbing pussies.
President.
kevin smith
Pops grabbing pussies.
joe rogan
Oh, people that aren't truthful.
And this is like another thing I want to say to people that think that I hate him.
kevin smith
Oh man, you just will not leave the politics alone.
joe rogan
It's your show, go ahead.
It's not even a politics thing.
It's a human thing.
I think we owe ourselves, as human beings, to not accept Like, blatant lies.
And I don't think it's good for her either.
I don't think it's good for everybody.
I mean, the rub is supposed to be that once you're in your 60s or something like that, that you're done.
You're done developing.
You're done growing.
kevin smith
Is that true?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't think so.
I think you're alive.
If you're alive, you're a person.
But we have categories of people, right?
We have people that were 20, oh, he's young, he's stupid, he made a mistake.
And then we have categories, like, in your 60, oh, you're never going to learn anything.
You're done developing.
They're stubborn.
They're stuck in their ways.
Let's just accept the fact that she lies all the time.
There's this video of when they were talking about the emails, and there's a video of the director of the FBI talking versus her talking.
She would say what the director said, and then he would say what he really said.
It was ridiculous.
It's like you see that she's being dishonest.
That's not good for anybody, man.
It's not good for her.
It's not good for us.
And I think for a person like her, This is probably just a system that she's been competing in forever.
And that's how this system operates.
And she's really good at it.
And she was a lawyer.
And she knows what you can say and what you can't say and how you can kind of distort things to make them seem like they were better than they were.
kevin smith
We're still talking about her at this point?
Yeah.
Because that sounds like him as well.
joe rogan
Well, all of them.
But doing that, when you do that, when you do that and we see that, that's not good for us if we say yes to that.
It's bad for us.
It's bad for us as a culture.
No, not as a nation.
Just as a group of human beings where one person at a very high level is supposed to be expressing for us.
Like, if you're going to be the person who's expressing things for us...
kevin smith
But don't you think that's impossible?
Exactly.
That's why we can't have a president.
So then what's the, do you have a binary presidency?
unidentified
Yes.
kevin smith
One president who speaks for one half, one president who speaks for the other half?
joe rogan
No, I don't think we should have a president, man.
kevin smith
Because then you're back to warring factions.
joe rogan
I don't think we should have a unique individual or even a small group that runs this thing.
I think it's crazy.
kevin smith
How was it done before we got here?
Native Americans.
joe rogan
The problem is it was done in small groups because everybody was a small group.
There were tribes.
And even if you came over on a boat, you came over on a boat with all those other psychopaths that were willing to hop across the ocean with you.
How many could get on the boat?
A thousand?
I mean, what's the most amount of people they had on one of those boats?
Why don't you Google that?
It's true.
kevin smith
You've got to really have a sense of adventure to get over.
joe rogan
You gotta be a crazy person, right?
kevin smith
And really hate it where you are.
joe rogan
Small towns, small groups, little villages.
I mean, that's essentially why we had representative government in the first place.
Because these guys in Utah couldn't really talk to the guys in D.C. Like, somebody had to talk for you.
You're over there.
It would take you months to get there.
So they have to decide how the fucking thing runs.
So you have to vote in your little spot.
And this guy sends his vote.
102 passengers.
Jesus Christ, that's no one.
kevin smith
Which one?
On which one?
joe rogan
The Mayflower.
102 passengers.
kevin smith
That's it?
unidentified
Half died the first winter.
joe rogan
Half died the first winter.
kevin smith
They got here with 102 and 51 made it?
joe rogan
Holy shit!
Half died the first winter.
They fucking froze to death.
kevin smith
Just think about that when you're like, how come I can't fucking get Wi-Fi in the subway train?
joe rogan
Oh my god!
kevin smith
102 people sailed the ocean blue.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's insane.
kevin smith
And it probably was blue back then.
And then came here with an idea of like, let's start America.
joe rogan
Yeah, imagine what the ocean was like back then.
Probably amazing.
kevin smith
None of those little beads that make those weird plastic bead islands out in the middle.
You ever seen those?
joe rogan
No, yeah, I have seen that.
kevin smith
Hauntingly beautiful, but terrifying.
joe rogan
Very disturbing.
kevin smith
Yeah, and birds choke on it and shit.
I read an article that said that seagulls are...
Birds in general are attracted to the smell of plastic.
joe rogan
Well, I've read something they're saying because a lot of plastic has food on it.
Like even if it's like in a microscopic small amount.
kevin smith
That would make more sense to me, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, well a lot of our plastic comes in contact with food for sure.
But I read another thing about a certain type of bird that lives on this one island where it's a real epidemic that these mama birds are bringing back plastic and feeding it to their babies.
kevin smith
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's these babies.
kevin smith
It's like a supervillain plot.
joe rogan
It's awful.
There's these bodies of these birds, and their stomachs are filled with plastic.
And, you know, they're rotting.
Their bodies are decomposing, and the plastic is just sitting there exposed.
Yeah, it's super dark.
kevin smith
Can we talk about something?
joe rogan
Well, I was in Hawaii recently, Matt, and I was with this dude.
This is not a very positive thing either, unfortunately.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's been a commercial fisherman for a long time.
His name is Steve.
Shout out to Steve.
Steve and Scooter took me out fishing.
But when we were fishing, he was telling me that he's been doing this forever.
And he lived in Costa Rica and ran a fishing camp out there.
And now he's doing it out of Hawaii.
And I was like, well, how much of a difference have you seen over the last few years?
He goes, oh, it's huge.
It's a huge difference.
He's like, between now and 10, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, the amount of fish.
He's like, it's just totally different.
kevin smith
Less fish.
joe rogan
Way less fish.
And then he sort of explained to me all the different methods that these commercial fishing corporations use.
That how they go like hundreds of miles off sea.
They have these massive nets.
They capture these tuna and they can them on the boat.
Like, they have this system.
That's pretty fast.
And they're just thousands and thousands of pounds of tuna.
Just scooping it up, killing them, canning them.
Like, you don't think about it when you go to the store and you see canned tuna.
You think, I'd like some canned tuna.
Ooh, I remember Starkist.
I could go for a tuna salad sandwich.
kevin smith
Sorry, Charlie.
joe rogan
With whole wheat and some nice alfalfa sprouts on that.
Maybe a little cheese.
kevin smith
What's the best tuna?
Chicken of the sea.
joe rogan
Or how about a grilled cheese sandwich with tuna where you butter the outside of the bread and you put some tomato on that bitch and you put some tuna and you put a bunch of slices of sharp cheddar and you cook that shit?
Come on, man.
kevin smith
Well, the problem is you've surrounded the meal with so many cool adjectives.
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
It's a melt.
And made it sumptuous that we forgot.
unidentified
It's a melt.
kevin smith
And the heart of it is a dead fish.
Killed at sea and canned at sea.
unidentified
Dude.
kevin smith
With relatives looking up going like, there's hell.
Hell on a boat.
joe rogan
I don't know what kind of bitch-ass shit you're talking about.
I'm talking about a tuna melt.
That's a delicious American sandwich.
What the fuck?
kevin smith
Truly American sandwich.
joe rogan
This guy, he was describing it to me, and I was seeing it in my mind like a horror film playing out.
I was seeing it in my mind like that.
Obviously, the ocean's giant.
It's gigantic.
But it's been going on, these large-scale efforts for so long that it's just chop, chop, chopping away at the number of fish.
And he was really scared of it.
He was really scared of it.
He was like, I just don't know how much longer it's gonna last.
kevin smith
So there could be an end to fish in our lifetime?
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of speculation that by 2050, we literally would have killed most of the fish in the sea.
If we continue escalating the way we have from 1960 to 2016, population now 7 billion, let's just assume it's going to double by 2050. I don't know what the number is.
What's the projected population by 2050?
I gotta imagine it's double.
kevin smith
You ask the most interesting questions, right?
joe rogan
Is that a weird thing?
kevin smith
I always ask people shit like, who's that guy who played that wizard once?
joe rogan
I asked that too.
kevin smith
And you're like, what's the population going to be by the year 2050?
It's like you're making big decisions now.
joe rogan
Almost 10 billion, so I was off by quite a bit.
kevin smith
There can't be enough fish in the ocean for that, right?
joe rogan
11 billion by 2100. Oh, Jesus.
9.7 billion in 2050. There's not enough fish.
There's no way.
kevin smith
Does it go to Soylent Green?
Like, we gotta start consuming the dead?
joe rogan
Well, they have a method now, apparently, where they can make petri dish, you know, like...
Stem cell created meat.
I don't know how the fuck they do it.
I have zero understanding of the process.
But I know that they did it a long time ago and it was so expensive that they did it like one cheeseburger would have cost like a quarter million dollars.
Like so expensive to produce.
But it was more of like sort of a test subject.
Like, okay, now we know that we can do this.
Let's make the process more efficient.
Let's figure out how to large scale.
kevin smith
Let's bring that cost down, people.
joe rogan
A quarter of a million is a lot.
But if they can do that, they can literally grow meat with no body.
There won't be a body attached to the meat.
It would just be meat.
I don't understand how it works, so I don't understand, like, what do you fuel that meat with?
Like, how does it grow?
Like, what is it eating while it's growing?
It has to take something in in order to get larger.
It's not just pulling air out and getting bigger.
So what are you feeding it, and how does that work, and is that ethical?
Can we watch?
Yeah.
Can we watch?
Can you animate it?
kevin smith
Can we see how that shit works, yes.
joe rogan
Can you suck my dick?
kevin smith
How far can you take this meat?
joe rogan
How warm is it?
There's a lot of questions that we would want to ask, but that's some Westworld shit.
If you can make a leg of a fucking cow, you can make a leg of a fucking person.
You can just do it.
It just takes some time.
I know a guy with a metal femur.
He has an artificial femur.
He got bone cancer.
And so one of his legs is like a bone.
Like a metal rod that goes down to his knee.
Like they replaced his femur with a bone, with a metal bone.
Like they can start doing that to the whole body, which means if you can make some sort of a nervous system, you're like halfway to a person.
You can make meat, and you can make artificial bones.
You make an artificial skeleton, you cover it with meat.
You've got a Westworld thing going on here.
kevin smith
That's true.
joe rogan
They can make hearts now.
unidentified
Well, they have.
kevin smith
They showed you the Westworld characters underneath their skin.
It's all robotics.
What you're talking about is an organic form of...
joe rogan
Yeah, I think the Westworld thing is a little off on how it's going to go down.
I think it's probably going to go down.
kevin smith
I think this fucking HBO show got it wrong.
joe rogan
I think they're bullshitting us, okay?
I think it's a part of the elite strategy.
They figured out a way to make a human heart in a Petri dish.
A fucking beating human heart with stem cells.
Yeah, see if you can find that.
kevin smith
Is this associated at all?
joe rogan
It's insane.
kevin smith
To the Russian scientists or the German scientists, the ones who used to cut off dog heads and feed it and shit?
Oh, I'm sure.
unidentified
I saw this today.
kevin smith
Did you ever see that?
jamie vernon
It's a stem cell gun that helps burn victims heal burns in days, it says.
joe rogan
I've seen that.
I've seen that.
It's insane.
It sprays stem cells like a little mister.
Those stem cells cling to the tissue especially like when they're recently injured and it heals up super quick.
Holy crap It's fucking crazy, dude.
I mean that was one of the most devastating injuries a person can get because it's a giant organ Like a big burn like that is devastating 90 minutes.
That's insane permanent results within days As the stem cells regenerate the skin, leaving no scars.
Fucking A, man.
kevin smith
Now, if you're giving your own stem cells, nobody can get all shitty about that, right?
joe rogan
Well, the stem cells that they're using now, they can get them from women when they have cesarean sections.
They take it out of the placenta.
I've had it shot into my shoulder.
I had a shoulder injury.
I had it shot into my shoulder, and, dude, you heal like Wolverine.
It's the craziest fucking thing ever.
It was, like, that close to getting shoulder surgery.
I had this real issue with my shoulder.
Like, probably...
I probably dislocated it at some point in time and I didn't know.
And then just years of doing jujitsu and lifting weights and fighting out of arm bars and shit.
It was just always bothering me.
So I go to a doctor, I get an MRI. And he says, man, he goes, you got a tear here.
You got a tear here.
You got a tear in your labrum.
You got a tear in your biceps tendon.
Like, you know, you might need surgery.
Like, see how long you can go now.
Just do a little rehab.
And, you know, and if it gets to a point where it's unmanageable, then you go under the knife.
So I go and it's always annoying me.
Like, it was always gnawing at me.
And then I go and get these shots in my shoulder.
And, like, three weeks later, I'm like, am I imagining this?
Or does this fucking thing feel great all of a sudden?
kevin smith
Wait, but you skipped over the big step.
How do you get to the shots in the shoulder?
Was the doctor like, you try this?
joe rogan
The UFC doctor.
The UFC doctor who had had Dr. Davidson had shoulder surgery.
And after shoulder surgery, he was still in pain months, months later.
And he went and got these stem cell shots.
And he said within weeks, his shoulder felt amazing.
It was crazy.
kevin smith
Who tells him about that?
joe rogan
He's a doctor.
So he's just up on the latest stuff.
kevin smith
So in the doctor community, they're like, yeah, these are stem cells that aren't good to get you yelled at.
joe rogan
A lot of pro athletes are doing it.
And they're doing it to help.
kevin smith
And do they take them from their body or no?
joe rogan
You can.
There's a bunch of different ways to do it.
You can get it from your own fat.
They suck your fat out.
They do a lipo on you.
kevin smith
Oh my god, I'll live forever if that's the case.
joe rogan
Dude, just keep sucking it out and you go intravenous with the stem cells.
Sucking it out, intravenous with the stem cells.
kevin smith
It's more than that.
joe rogan
Boom.
kevin smith
Say it again.
joe rogan
Do it again.
kevin smith
Because I'm going home getting a needle.
joe rogan
That's illegal right now in America.
kevin smith
I'm just stabbing myself a million times.
joe rogan
That's illegal right now in America.
To pull it out of fat cells?
No, no, no.
To intravenously inject it back into your body.
It's supposed to have some magnificent effect.
What?
Intravenous stem cell injections.
kevin smith
Explain the process.
joe rogan
Into your whole body.
Like intravenous, like a drug, like heroin.
They can somehow or another do that with stem cells, and you're like, I've known two people that have done it, Bas Rutten and Dan Bilzerian.
They're both like, holy shit, this was amazing.
Bas said it felt like he had energy coming off his fingers.
He was like, dude.
He was like, my whole body was like, charged!
kevin smith
This is as close as we get to superhuman ability.
But it's with our own stem cells?
joe rogan
With your own stem cells.
You can do it with your own stem cells.
That's one method.
Another method that another friend of mine did is they drilled into the bone in his hip and they pulled marrow out and used that marrow, used the stem cells from his hip marrow and then injected that into his knee and it had a pretty remarkable effect too.
The opinion is divided over which stem cell therapy is the most effective.
But one of them that seems to be very effective is one that I did, and that's with cesarean section.
They take a woman who's given birth by cesarean section, and if they're young, I think they have to be within a certain age limit, then they take their placenta and they extract stem cells from the placenta.
And then they have some sort of a process that I'll never understand, and then they inject the stem cells into the injury itself.
And your body starts regenerating tissue.
So that's the difference between this and any other sort of form of therapy, is that it actually allows your body to regenerate tissue.
So things that are torn can actually heal and thicken and strengthen, like you're seeing with those burn victims.
Again, don't listen to me because I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
I just know how it's been explained to me.
But it had a pretty profound effect.
kevin smith
So if you've got nothing wrong with you, And you just inject stem cells.
That's where the dude was like, woo!
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he had something wrong with him, though.
He was recovering from a pretty serious injury.
Boss Rootin was, at least.
But yeah.
Well, one of the things they're finding out is that with mice, they're taking the blood of young mice and they're injecting it in older mice.
And these older mice start acting like young mice again.
And they start literally going back in age.
And this is some crazy vampire shit.
kevin smith
It really is, dude.
That's very close, isn't it?
joe rogan
It's totally vampire shit.
kevin smith
First off, The Blood of Young Mice is an excellent fucking novel.
joe rogan
I think we got your next movie, bro.
The Blood of Young Mice is your next movie?
Or a punk rock band.
It's a great idea for a movie gone wrong, right?
unidentified
Heavens, yeah.
kevin smith
Well, you're talking to the guy who made Tusk.
Yeah, I could say I could make that work.
joe rogan
Do you know who Elizabeth Bathory is?
kevin smith
No.
joe rogan
Elizabeth Bathory is like one of the most infamous serial killers in human history.
And her gig was she would kill young women and bathe in their blood.
kevin smith
In their blood.
Okay, then I did hear about it.
joe rogan
She was a noblewoman.
And where was she from?
Slovakia?
What?
Hungary?
Hungary?
And she just killed a ton of pretty girls.
She would go find these peasant girls and bring them back to her castle, torture them, kill them, and cut them up.
And all the people that worked with her are just horrified by her because she just had like a dungeon of dead women.
And she would just slaughter them and then bathe in their blood.
But because of the fact that she was a noblewoman, She never even got executed.
They just put her in house arrest.
So they locked her in some fucking chamber up in the top of some castle like some monster by herself until she died.
kevin smith
How old?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
She was old when she died.
She didn't die at 30. That's a real mom question.
kevin smith
How old?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
She was 54 when she died, which back then...
kevin smith
Which right now, think about it.
unidentified
Think about everyone you've loved.
kevin smith
1610. Anyone that you ever loved that didn't make it to 54 and just realized that the bloodbather who butchered all those women made it to 54. How old was she when they locked her in the hole?
Did the process work?
joe rogan
No.
No, it didn't work because she didn't know what the fuck she was doing.
She had the right idea.
I mean, in a way.
Like, there's the right idea.
kevin smith
She was the mice before the mice?
joe rogan
But you don't have to kill people, you dumb cunt.
kevin smith
I believe that was the name of the movie.
joe rogan
Pay young kids to donate blood.
That's all you need to do.
kevin smith
What she did wrong was bathe in the blood?
What are you supposed to do?
joe rogan
Oh, I mean, what she did wrong is she's a fucking serial killer.
I'm killing people.
I'm kidding, but her idea was somehow or another that she was going to get younger.
kevin smith
The blood of the young would rejuvenate age.
joe rogan
And that's been a theme that people have sort of repeated over and over again.
And it makes you wonder.
Maybe we know somewhere, and maybe it's just we're ridiculous, and blood's a liquid, and you can contain it and measure it, and we just get our heads wrapped around this idea that that's what makes you younger.
Or maybe like we inherently knew that's the source of aging is the blood.
kevin smith
And then chased it away during civilization just because like, well, there's only one way around that, the blood of others.
joe rogan
Maybe it's not something that we knew or didn't knew, but it's inherent knowledge.
Like maybe your system, sort of like how your body knows when it's thirsty to drink water without anybody even telling you, like you just kind of know, right?
There's like certain things that you know.
You see a snake, even if you've never seen one, you're going to back up.
There's things that you just know.
It could be highly possible that we'd have some sort of subconscious understanding of some aspects of our body, some needs that our body has, that we've never been able to see it written anywhere because no one's written it down, but maybe you kind of know things.
And maybe somewhere...
kevin smith
And one of those things is just...
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe somewhere in the back of the human DNA, we know that's the blood.
When the blood goes bad, your body starts to get old and starts to fall apart.
But if you pump that young blood back in...
unidentified
But aging has to happen eventually, right?
joe rogan
That's the scary thing, man, because that's the number one thing that people are hoping science can stop.
There's people getting old and dying.
That's the number one thing.
kevin smith
I understand going like, hey man, wouldn't it be great if we could do all this without a president?
But it's tough to be like, hey man, wouldn't this all be better if we couldn't die?
joe rogan
I'm not saying it would be better.
I definitely don't think that.
kevin smith
But still, I don't even think it's possible.
Everything ages in one direction.
The road goes in one direction.
unidentified
Sort of.
kevin smith
You can slow it down and you can make the path comfortable for yourself, as comfortable as you can.
The journey even more so.
But I don't think you could...
Extend the road forever.
joe rogan
Do you know that certain jellyfish are essentially immortal?
kevin smith
Explain.
joe rogan
They live forever.
kevin smith
They also don't have a head, heart, lungs.
joe rogan
But if we really can regenerate all the tissue in your body, except for trauma...
Except for accidents and someone killing you.
kevin smith
There could be only one!
joe rogan
There's no physical reason why they shouldn't be able to figure out how to stop the aging clock and literally turn it back.
No physical reason.
kevin smith
What about the brain?
joe rogan
Both that.
I mean, that is also an organ.
Does it age?
kevin smith
Does it time out?
joe rogan
I'm sure.
There's going to be a real question as to where your memories are actually stored and who are you.
Once they start getting to that Ray Kurzweil shit of storing consciousness in some sort of a...
kevin smith
On a databank?
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
Have you watched Black Mirror?
joe rogan
No, I haven't, but I heard I have to.
kevin smith
You got it.
You'd love it.
joe rogan
I watched one episode when they made the politician fuck the pig.
kevin smith
Which is amazing.
joe rogan
It's pretty badass.
kevin smith
Amazing episode.
What the fuck?
You watched that and you were like, good enough!
Any show that gives me that brilliance, I'd be like, oh my god, and that was their first episode.
Let me see what the next one is.
joe rogan
It's not that I'm opposed to it.
I'm just too busy.
kevin smith
Way too busy.
They did one episode in the second season about...
They don't telegraph it up front.
It's smart TV. They make you work for it.
But essentially the idea is they take people who are dying and you can download your consciousness into this digital playground where you look the way you want.
It looks like, you know, every spring break you've ever seen and stuff.
And so these two people meet up and they're both young women.
You find out one is an old woman and the other, they're both old women, but one's been a vegetable since she was like a teenager.
unidentified
Wow.
kevin smith
They can run, romp, and be free and be whoever they want.
But it's generally considered, like, you could choose to just die and pass on to whatever you think is out there, if there's a heaven or something like that.
Or you could choose to go to the server, as they call it and stuff.
And so the two women who fall for one another, one is like, stay here forever.
We can be like this forever.
And the older woman was like, I had a life with a husband and a kid.
And I watched him get old and die.
And he chose not to do this.
And now I'm going to choose to live forever.
And her friend's like...
Where you're going?
You don't even know where you're going, but what if he's not there?
joe rogan
Perhaps you should have said spoiler alert somewhere along that ramp.
I did not know where you were going with that.
unidentified
Sorry, kids.
Sorry.
joe rogan
It's deep cuts in this.
Hoping I can smoke another joint and forget this.
kevin smith
One of many episodes.
But I've got to keep going with this because it's good.
And we've got to talk about The Arrival.
Have you seen Arrival?
joe rogan
No!
kevin smith
Don't fucking spoil it like that.
I can't believe you haven't seen it yet.
joe rogan
I pre-ordered it on iTunes.
kevin smith
It's genius.
joe rogan
Let me tell you what I'm not watching anymore is The Walking Dead.
Done.
kevin smith
Why?
unidentified
Don't be that way.
joe rogan
I watched one episode of the latest season or the new season.
I'm like, fuck you.
kevin smith
What, the first one?
joe rogan
Yeah, fuck you.
kevin smith
They had to do that.
Everyone's waiting to see what Negan did, man.
Don't be like that.
It's our song.
joe rogan
It's a goddamn torture show.
unidentified
Just that episode.
joe rogan
It's a murder and torture show.
kevin smith
Just that episode.
joe rogan
No, the zombies all of a sudden are totally insignificant.
You just kick them away.
They charge you.
You just kick them away.
They tear open horses with their raw hands.
But they charge you.
You just kind of like fucking Heisman them.
There's a group of thousands of them surrounding a van.
And he figures out, fuck you.
Fuck you.
You killed Glenn?
You killed Glenn?
Like that?
Spoiler alert.
Like that?
unidentified
That way?
joe rogan
You torture him?
kevin smith
They didn't kill him the way everyone was expecting when they did.
joe rogan
Bullshit.
Fuck that show.
kevin smith
You got a high bar, Rogan?
joe rogan
No, I don't.
Yeah, I do.
kevin smith
You're like, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
No, I don't.
kevin smith
It's just if you're gonna fucking kill a zombie, be consistent.
unidentified
It's too much torture, man.
joe rogan
It's torture.
kevin smith
I think the idea was to show as bad as we think the zombies are, the humans are always gonna be worse.
unidentified
I get it.
joe rogan
I get it.
You can't kill Glenn.
kevin smith
Is that it?
That's your big beef?
I love that guy.
I know, but this show excels at going like, hey, I'm sorry, we gotta kill someone you love every once in a while.
joe rogan
I'm spoiler alert in the fuck out of that show.
If you're not watching it, pause this.
I'm done.
I won't do it anymore.
kevin smith
Can I tell you the end of that other thing?
joe rogan
No!
kevin smith
Come on, dude.
Jesus Christ, you're gonna ruin it.
Come on, it's good, it's good.
joe rogan
You can talk, I'll cover my ears.
kevin smith
Then I'm talking to nobody.
Let's talk Arrival.
I want to keep saying The Arrival, but it's not.
It's just Arrival.
joe rogan
Did you ever see the other one with Charlie Sheen?
kevin smith
The Arrival?
joe rogan
Yes.
kevin smith
That's why I keep wanting to say The Arrival.
That's a very good movie.
That's an RST video store flick from when I was renting slinging videos back in the day.
joe rogan
I remember.
kevin smith
I would sling that quite often.
People would come in and be like, you got The Arrival?
Yeah, Chuck Sheen, son.
joe rogan
I was like, God, I feel embarrassed to have liked that.
And then Dave Foley released me of my embarrassment.
Dave Foley was like, that was a really good science fiction movie.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I was like, yes!
Yeah, I always refer...
kevin smith
Do you know Dave?
No, I met him once on a game show, but, you know, I'm a big news radio fan.
But even going back pre-news radio, probably the reason I get to news radio is because I was a massive...
Kids in the Hall fan.
So I met Dave twice.
He only remembers probably the one time on the game show recently, the Hollywood Game Night.
But I met him back in like 95. I went to a Kids in the Hall show in Kitchener, Ontario, and then went backstage after a show.
And I've never done that before, but I was a big fan of him.
My friend was like, oh, they'll fucking love it!
My friend Malcolm, he's a wonderful guy, very much a blowhard.
He has a podcast called Blowhard.
But he's the guy that's just like...
Fucking Batman v Superman's a cinematic abortion.
You know, he's just got opinions and shit.
So my man took me to see the kids in the hall and he's like, we'll go backstage.
They'll fucking love it.
You made Clerks.
This will be amazing.
And they just finished an amazing show and we go backstage and, you know, I don't know how you are after a show, but I now know how I am after a show.
And generally speaking, the show was there and now I just like, I just want to grab some milk and drive home or something like that.
And instead, you know, you're not like, hey!
So I met them and they were all like, hey.
You know, and they didn't fucking see Clerks.
They didn't know who I was.
It was early, early on in my career.
But, you know, they just give it all up on the stage and they're like, oh shit, we gotta fucking do another mini-show and stuff.
So, you know, I'm not like, what a letdown he was.
The show was amazing.
You know, it's just not like, I doubt he'd even remember meeting me.
But I did meet him on that Hollywood Game Night show and talked to him for a long time.
But I'm a deep fan, going way back.
joe rogan
That's awesome, man.
kevin smith
The long answer to a very short question, sorry.
joe rogan
I don't remember what the question was.
kevin smith
You like Dave Fuller.
You meet that guy or something like that?
joe rogan
He's literally one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life.
kevin smith
Arrival.
Let's talk about the new Arrival.
You got to see it.
You would love it.
joe rogan
But Dave Foley.
I want to talk about Dave Foley.
kevin smith
I'm going to go deep on Dave Foley.
unidentified
I just want to tell you.
joe rogan
He's the secret producer of news radio.
kevin smith
What do you mean?
Explain.
joe rogan
Is this Deep Cuts news radio shit?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
kevin smith
Here we go.
I'm listening mode.
joe rogan
And this is not a knock against the writers because the writers are brilliant.
Paul Sims, the guy who created it, another one of the smartest people I've ever met.
And just completely unique.
There's a lot of guys that pretend to be that eccentric, weirdo writer guy.
Paul Sims is that motherfucker.
He's such an eccentric guy.
They didn't start writing until like 3 o'clock in the morning.
They would hang out and play video games and fart in each other's faces.
They literally didn't start writing until the middle of the night because Paul had a strategy of getting everybody really tired and silly and then they would write all night.
And then a lot of times we would get like the first draft, the day of the table read, we would get the first draft, they would just be coming, like Josh Lee would come down barefoot, and these guys would be up all night, and Lou Morton and all these writers, and I was like, you guys are fucking crazy, like, you didn't even sleep like this?
He goes like, no, we've been writing all night, this is how we do it.
And they were just silly, because they were almost, without doing drugs, they were getting high.
Right.
kevin smith
As far as I know.
They're curbing inhibition.
The longer they're up, the more they're like, anything goes.
And as you're sitting there, if you're well-fed or you're in the middle of the day, perhaps you're less...
We're less apt or less likely to be like, hey, I got a fucking stupid idea.
You don't want someone in the room to be like, you asshole, that's not fucking funny.
Nobody wants to get judged.
So for me, I smoke weed not because it gives you better ideas, but because it lowers your inhibitions.
I don't give a fuck if people think it's stupid.
I'm going to try it.
And if that don't work, I'll say another thing.
joe rogan
Well, you can express yourself more honestly.
You feel freer to express yourself more honestly.
kevin smith
It must be the same idea of keeping people fucking up and then just getting them tired and then be like, now, right.
joe rogan
It's a strategy.
It really is.
It's a good one, man.
kevin smith
That show was very specific.
joe rogan
It was very silly.
It was a silly show.
That's one of the reasons why I think there's a lot of silliness going on.
kevin smith
Which is a strong suit when you don't have the card to play of, let's say, cock or fuck or shit.
You can't even do the basic cards.
So what do you replace those cards in the deck with?
And that show replaced it with, we're going to up the silly quotient in a way that doesn't look like other sitcoms silly.
Like, their silly was Bill getting a cane.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Where it's like, that's a real fucking silly episode.
They built a whole episode around him walking.
Everybody loves a cane.
Like, that's not the saying, Bill.
joe rogan
No, it was a very, very silly show.
kevin smith
And don't be shit like, your last name's Gorelli?
Like, just repeating that.
joe rogan
For five fucking years, that was like a running joke.
kevin smith
Every time it happens, like, your last name's Gorelli?
I was like, that's genius.
joe rogan
That show was a very weird show in a lot of ways.
Like Paul was a he's such a unique guy that he would essentially let anybody come up with another line if like they were doing a table read or not a table read rather but a Run-through if you would get a hold of script Dave would come up with an alternative line, and right away, the show was in trouble, because the first year that we were filming, it wasn't really doing very well in the ratings, and they couldn't figure out how the show...
kevin smith
The show, I bet you that number would be...
joe rogan
Well, it was weird.
We moved like nine times in five years.
But there was this, or four years, whatever we did, and it was this moment when they were just trying to figure it out constantly.
It was a lot of work.
And they would all get together and try to rewrite scenes, but Dave Foley would rewrite scenes like on the floor.
And as the show kept going, it became more and more of a thing.
He was like a secret producer.
But not that it was a secret, because the writers were so open-minded that they just wanted to see the best jokes.
kevin smith
He's the best cut actor, though.
He's the actor that you love because he's a writer as well.
So he comes to set and he's not just doing your script.
He can give you five other scripts just as funny if you want them.
And if he's like...
The good ones.
He's not jamming, my shit's better than yours, down your throat.
He's like, if there's an opening, gracefully it goes in.
But in the beginning of my career, I used to reject people that were like that.
Because I'm like, no, if it's not my writing, then what is it?
And then the older you get, the more comfortable you get, and you realize, dude, you're going to get credit regardless.
Like, go ahead.
Like, I remember, for me, it was Chris Rock.
There was a moment in Dogma.
Chris Rock, there was a line in the script...
A line in the movie where he falls out of heaven.
He's Rufus, the 13th apostle.
And they're having this conversation in the middle of the road.
Him and Linda Fiorentino playing Bethany.
Jay and Silent Bob are there.
And he references knowing Jesus.
And she's like, Christ, you knew Christ.
And he goes, no, I'm shit.
And he used the N-word.
He goes, owes me 12 bucks.
Nigga owes me 12 bucks.
Now, I didn't write that line.
I wrote dogma, every piece of it, but I didn't write that line.
I would never put that line in front of Chris Rock and be like, look what I did.
My line was, no, he owes me 12 bucks.
Chris was able to dress it up in such a way.
And I told him, I was like, oh God, because I was crying when he did it.
I was like, that's hysterical.
But I was bittersweet about it because I was like, I can't include it.
And I said to him, I was like, dude, that's the funniest thing I think I've ever put on film and I can't use it in the movie.
He goes, why?
And I was like, because I didn't write it, how am I supposed to do the credits now?
Written by Kevin Smith and one line by Chris Rock.
He goes, I don't give a shit.
Don't you know how this works?
He's going, you'll get credit for it.
He's going, it's funny.
Take it.
I don't need credit for that.
I say a lot of shit.
And I was like, oh, oh, really?
And then the next guy I worked with was like that.
Was Will Ferrell on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
joe rogan
That's almost an alien idea, that you would not accept a really funny addition because you didn't write it.
kevin smith
I didn't know how to do the job, dude, because I was so...
I came through indie film, and so I didn't come up through the world of comedy.
I backdoored into the world of comedy.
But I came up through indie film, and indie film was like, hey man, auteur.
You write and direct your stuff.
It's your statement and stuff.
And since nobody taught you, and there's nobody to teach you this shit, there's no book, you have your own process where you're like, well, I guess to be pure, it should all be my stuff.
That way when I see it say, written by Kevin Smith, it's not a lie.
Just like I was raised Catholic, so for the longest time, I thought I was a virgin until I was about 17, Really, I lost my virginity at 13. Like, I was inside a girl at age 13. She was also the same age, so it's not creepy.
Although it's creepy to talk about now.
But I never came.
And in Catholic school, there's no class where they're like, you know, sex is penetration.
They don't tell you shit.
So, you know, I was like, well...
You make rules for yourself, and you just buy them as those are the rules.
So for years, I was like, well, you know, I never came inside a girl, so I've not had sex yet.
And then when I finally had sex, I was like, oh, I guess penetration counts, and hence I had sex a long time ago.
It was a problem for a minute with my current girlfriend then.
She's like, you said you were a virgin.
I was like, I thought I was a virgin.
But she was like, you bet inside somebody.
I was like, yeah, but I didn't come.
Isn't that the...
Like, if you don't come, it don't count.
And she's like, where'd you get that?
joe rogan
It should be super impressive.
Anytime a 13-year-old doesn't come, it should be super impressive.
It's like, how do you not just...
kevin smith
Fear.
You've got the Catholic fear of not like, oh, she'll have a baby, but the very Catholic fear of like...
joe rogan
Of, I can't believe I'm sinning.
kevin smith
Not even that.
Like, oh, she may have to get an abortion, and then you're carrying that shit.
No, Catholics, I don't think...
I think any faith...
You know, you can sin.
Especially with Catholicism, they had a built-in get-out-of-jail-free card.
You can do what you need to, but you come into church, you tell the strange man your dirty little secrets in a booth with no lights, and you leave, and everything's going to be fine with Jesus.
And it made sense all throughout my childhood.
I was like, yeah, it makes sense.
unidentified
Alright, so wait, where were we before we got into that?
joe rogan
I don't know.
We don't have to be anywhere, man.
kevin smith
I know, but we were on a good thread, man.
We were talking about It is what you think it is.
Like, you build the rules for yourself.
So I said to myself, if I include Chris Rock's amazing ad-lib in my movie, then I've taken from another writer and hence it can't say written by...
joe rogan
It's bullshit.
kevin smith
That's absolutely in my head.
joe rogan
I understand why you would think that.
kevin smith
He got that out of me, man.
joe rogan
It didn't make sense to me just because I was really lucky in the only real comedy that I did that lasted anyone...
You know, was news radio.
And it was a crazy environment like that.
kevin smith
It was based on you though, right?
Like Joe Gorelli...
joe rogan
The character was very loosely based on me.
kevin smith
Feels like they saw your stand-up and said, fucking do that on the show.
joe rogan
No, Paul was just like really good at picking out the goofy shit that you do and like exaggerating it.
Because I was always into stupid UFO stories, so it would always be some conspiracy theory or some gadget, because I've always been a dork when it comes to technology.
I'm fascinated by all sorts of gadgets and shit, but I don't actually know how to make anything.
kevin smith
I'm good at it because I'm flashing on moments where you're like, you see this, and it's just a card, and you're like, it's from the elevator, but I don't know which one.
It was during Ray's period and stuff.
All the Gorelli moments are washing over me as you say that.
joe rogan
I probably don't even remember him.
kevin smith
I bet you I know more about that show than you.
If you and I went head-to-head news radio trivia, I bet you would.
joe rogan
I bet you would, too.
kevin smith
No doubt.
joe rogan
Like, Andy Dick was a perfect example.
Andy Dick is a super exaggerated version of Andy Dick.
Of Andy Dick.
That's what his character was, Matthew.
Matthew was just a super exaggerated version of Andy Dick.
But, like, in ways, Andy, almost sometimes, at his craziest, was more of an exaggeration, but in a totally different way.
You know, when he was partying and getting crazy.
But...
The silliness of that character was really just Andy Dick.
kevin smith
It really was him.
I can see that because Matthew takes off...
Like, he's funny, but he becomes the Matthew that he is for the rest of the show.
joe rogan
Right.
kevin smith
About six episodes, four to six episodes in.
unidentified
Right.
kevin smith
Like, you slowly see him start to become the Matthew that you...
When you think of news radio, oh, yeah, Matthew.
unidentified
Right.
kevin smith
So it feels like same thing with you.
Well, you weren't even the first guy, right?
Pilot, they had a different guy.
It was Ray Romano.
Was he the guy?
joe rogan
Yeah, Ray Romano.
kevin smith
He was the you?
joe rogan
No, he was the guy before me.
This is what happened.
Ray Romano was cast in it originally.
And then I guess while they were shooting the pilot, they decided to go a different direction.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I don't know what that means.
So they brought in another guy, and that guy did it, and then after the pilot, they said, we want to replace that guy.
And so then they had this open casting call thing, and then I got involved in that.
kevin smith
And what had you been doing at that point?
Stand-up?
joe rogan
I was thinking about moving back to New York and thinking I shouldn't have got a fucking apartment in L.A. That's what I was thinking.
kevin smith
So it's the classic story.
You got it just at the right time.
joe rogan
I came out here for a show called Hardball.
It was a show by this guy...
Jeff Martin and Kevin Curran, these two guys who wrote for Married with Children.
And they also wrote for...
I think they wrote for The Simpsons.
And they wrote for a lot of shit.
They were really funny guys.
kevin smith
The names I recognize.
joe rogan
They came up with a great pilot.
Me and Jim Brewer and a bunch of other great guys were in it.
And then Fox got a hold of it and just sort of fisted it and just came in its eyeballs and just twisted it all around.
Turns out it's like a really hacky...
It's just a really hacky version of what it once was and then eventually got cancelled.
So I thought being a young, dumb guy that I was, I thought, oh, this show's definitely going to be a hit.
I should get an apartment.
I'm going to live out here.
I might as well get a year lease.
Everything's going great.
And then all of a sudden the show gets cancelled.
I'm like, what am I doing out here?
I don't have any friends out here.
I hardly know anybody.
My friends were all back home and I was like, gosh, she just moved back to New York.
And then I got a development deal.
It's like NBC got in touch with my management and they asked me if I wanted to do my own show or if I wanted to do this show that they have already, this show called NewsRadio.
So I got to watch the pilot before I had no idea what it was like before anybody ever saw it.
I got a VHS tape of the pilot before it ever aired on TV. And so I got to watch that and then I auditioned for it.
So it was a big advantage in that I kind of understood Like the style.
kevin smith
The rhythm of the show.
joe rogan
That they did.
But it was really interesting.
What he did was the first audition wasn't funny, necessarily.
It was just a scene.
And I was like, this is weird, because the pilot was really funny.
But this seems like they did it on purpose to see if people would ham it up.
They didn't want anybody who wasn't playing it real.
And so they weeded people out by making something that wasn't really that funny.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
How fucking crazy is that?
kevin smith
That's kind of nuts.
joe rogan
And then the second time I come back, and it's hilarious.
The second time, the banter is just genius.
And I'm like, oh, these clever bitches.
Like, I see what they did.
They just whittled it down to people who could play it straight.
kevin smith
That's...
I mean, I'm not saying insidious in a negative way, but that's...
Ingenious, maybe, is the word I'm looking for, instead of insidious.
That's, like, I don't think like that.
unidentified
No.
kevin smith
I'm just, like, I remember we cast Clerks.
I still cast the same way.
When we cast Clerks, we had a First Avenue Playhouse.
It was a little theater, dinner theater, in Atlantic Highlands, in New Jersey.
And so we put an ad out, like, I think in the free paper, and I hung up ads any place where, like, College kids congregated and stuff.
Monmouth College at the time.
Now it's Monmouth University.
So we had this open casting call.
And, you know, as people are coming through, we're seeing people do things that, like, were blowing us out of the water.
I had no experience.
Marilyn Gigliotti, the girl who plays Veronica in the movie, she got cast because she, like, cried during the audition.
And I remember, like, looking at my friends going, like, who could do this?
Who could just, like...
Cry like this.
And none of them auditioned with comedy.
Like, Brian O'Hollander, who played Dante, auditioned with a piece from, like, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
No, not Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
Oh, fuck.
Yeah, maybe Don't Be Afraid...
There's one where Alan Arkin is, like, stalking Audrey Hepburn, and she's blind, and he's, like, robbing the place.
Alone in the Dark, maybe.
But it's a real, like, killer monologue that's nothing like his character.
So we were like, this guy's fucking...
He can act.
If he can act like that, he can fucking...
Say, I'm not even supposed to be here today and stuff like that.
So yeah, I could see.
That was my process.
I'm blown away.
I'm easily impressed.
So people come through and I'm like, you cried?
Like, oh my god, he's the greatest actress I ever saw in my life.
Or you're crazy, right?
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
You're just a crazy person who can pretend that something's real when it's not.
kevin smith
No doubt.
joe rogan
God damn it, that's part of the problem, isn't it?
kevin smith
It's ability, man.
joe rogan
Isn't that a part of the problem?
kevin smith
Genesis Rodriguez.
joe rogan
To have that ability, you have to be a little fucking cuckoo?
kevin smith
I don't know.
Genesis Rodriguez.
Who was an actress in a couple movies I did.
She came from Telenovela.
joe rogan
From what?
kevin smith
The Spanish...
joe rogan
Telenovela.
unidentified
Telenovela.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
kevin smith
So, you know, she did a scene in Tusk and she was crying.
I was like, that was amazing, man.
Like, that's crazy.
It's like you orchestrated a tear for the right line.
It just rolled and hit at the right time.
unidentified
Wow.
kevin smith
And she's going, yeah, she's going, well, tell a novella.
You've got to know how to cry like crazy.
Like every episode, somebody crying and stuff.
And she also described the process.
She was like, you know, well, first she was like, here, like, just give me a sec.
Say something funny.
And so Jason Mewes was there, and Jason Mewes started telling this fucking funny story.
And she just starts bawling.
Wow.
I was like, that's fucked up and shit.
And she said, you have to do that on telenovela while somebody is in an earwig in your ear reading you the dialogue you're about to say.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
kevin smith
They get scripts this thick, thick as a dick.
So they can't learn all that dialogue.
And they shoot like 20, 30 pages a day.
So they stick bugs in their ears, a little receiver, and essentially the director's in the control room, and they shoot it like a soap opera.
There's multiple cameras.
But they are giving them the lines, and they are saying it simultaneously.
And I was like, how do you fucking do that?
How's your brain work like that?
And she goes, say anything to me.
Give me a nice long sentence.
And so I went for the sentence in the English language.
It has all the letters in it.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs.
And as I got to quick...
She, it's true, she started following me and finished at the exact same time.
Like, it was pretty fucking impressive.
She doesn't seem crazy by stretching the imagination.
I asked her, I was like, how can you fucking do that?
She's like, I don't know, it's just a family thing.
She's like, my dad.
joe rogan
A family thing?
kevin smith
She said, her dad, her dad's a big performer and singer.
She said, my dad can make his hair stand up on his arm and get goosebumps just by looking at it.
joe rogan
Whoa.
kevin smith
And it's like, wow, I mean, what a weird superpower to have, but, like, cool?
joe rogan
Well, there are definitely weird things like that where people inherit them from their parents.
Like, I used to date a girl who couldn't even see a needle in a movie.
She would faint.
Like if she saw someone getting a shot in a movie, she would faint.
kevin smith
I get squeamish, but she was like, woof.
joe rogan
And her dad, who I believe was a dentist, so like you would think the guy saw a lot of needles.
kevin smith
Right.
joe rogan
That guy would do the same thing.
Like if he saw something bad, he would faint.
kevin smith
So even though he normally saw needles, he probably stuck needles into gums and shit like that.
In his job.
He was a dentist?
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
In his day job, he's doing shit and then watching trauma on TV. Well, she was telling me that her brother had a real severe sunburn to the point where it had blisters, where it's like, whoa, you really fucked this up.
kevin smith
That reminds me of childhood.
joe rogan
And he saw it and he fainted.
And they were like, what the hell?
Like, he couldn't help it.
It's just he was so, you know, you love your son.
unidentified
Come on, buddy.
kevin smith
If it's not in the mouth, you don't, like, you react like that?
It's like, you know, it's sunburn.
unidentified
It's bad.
joe rogan
Well, it's a weird, I don't think it's his fault.
That's what I'm saying.
I don't think it's like, yeah, man, there's like something in the system.
There's something bizarre in the system.
kevin smith
I react when people tell stories when they're just like, you know, and then fucking I tour this.
I always do that and shit.
The idea of...
I'm low tolerance for...
Threshold for pain myself.
And, like, hearing people tell stories about injuries, you know, I react.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, everybody does, right?
Like, you watch those videos.
I watched some poor guy.
Oh, my God.
Who let this fucking guy do this?
This guy who is, like, ridiculously overweight.
And they set a skateboard up on a ramp, like, balancing it on this.
Did you see that?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my god, it's awful.
It's awful.
But when you watch someone like that, where you know they're going to get hurt, and then when they get hurt and it's really bad, you know that feeling that you get like a sharpness?
Like almost like a sharpness in your cells?
kevin smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where your whole body's like, fuck, Jesus!
kevin smith
Sometimes at Great Heights I get that.
If I look over the side of a building, I'm like, Jesus.
joe rogan
You get that sharpness.
kevin smith
Yeah, it runs right through you.
Like, move back!
joe rogan
It's almost like the adrenaline becomes like stalagmites coming off of a fucking ceiling.
unidentified
Just...
kevin smith
They say that that is built in.
Even babies have that.
They did a test with babies.
They had a long table like this.
And then in the middle here, instead of it being wood, they had plexiglass and it was clear.
So they had the mother at one end of the table and the baby at the other.
And she was like, come on.
The baby would crawl.
But as soon as the baby got to the clear part, which is still a table, went back and would not go forward.
joe rogan
Good.
kevin smith
That's built into us for some reason.
joe rogan
Good.
Someone posted a picture.
kevin smith
And that closes that fucking thought.
Good.
joe rogan
Somebody posted a picture today from a playground in the 1920s.
And I don't know if it's real, because I really probably shouldn't be talking about it, but if it is real, like, Jesus Christ, these bars were like 50 feet off the ground.
These kids are just climbing ladders and shit, these metal ladders.
I mean, the way the setup looked like, today there's not a chance in hell you would let your kids play on this thing.
You would freak the fuck out.
Like, look at this.
Look at this goddamn thing.
Look at this!
kevin smith
How many kids got hurt before they were like...
They died!
joe rogan
Kids died every day!
kevin smith
We should bring it in.
unidentified
I don't know.
kevin smith
Look at that height, dude.
joe rogan
Dude, they're dead.
If you fall from that, you're dead.
kevin smith
Even if it's all sand, you're still hitting something hard.
joe rogan
They didn't care.
They didn't want you to live.
Look, they're all riding bikes back then.
No cars.
kevin smith
What year is his early 19th century?
unidentified
Wait a minute.
joe rogan
Go back.
Is that a body?
Is that one falling from the sky?
That's not real, is it?
Or the hanging from something?
It's a swing.
Look at that swing.
That swing is 15 feet off the fucking ground.
It looks like a body, though, doesn't it?
If you don't look at the lines.
The lines are like those falling marks in a cartoon.
unidentified
He's just hanging off a fucking swing.
kevin smith
Kids are playing around.
joe rogan
It's a crazy picture, though, isn't it?
kevin smith
Yeah, that's nuts.
joe rogan
Look at that.
kevin smith
Yeah, things were a lot more dangerous in our day, and that's even before our day.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's before our day.
kevin smith
You're from back east.
You know Action Park?
joe rogan
No.
I was just gonna say, I broke my arm on one of those things.
kevin smith
Did you really?
joe rogan
Yeah, when I was a little kid, I fell off the monkey bars, snapped my arm.
unidentified
And...
joe rogan
And I posted on it, snapped it.
kevin smith
So you got your first cast at what age?
joe rogan
I think I was six.
kevin smith
Do you have people sign it?
Do you have a lot of friends?
joe rogan
I believe I had people sign it.
kevin smith
Many?
Was it like, there's no room, sorry.
joe rogan
I don't remember.
kevin smith
Or was it a lot of like, love you, mom, have a great Wednesday?
joe rogan
Mostly that.
Yeah, mostly that.
But those things are fucking dangerous.
Shit.
It's concrete on the bottom of it.
kevin smith
In New Jersey, there's a theme park, it's closed now.
all growing up, man, we'd go there.
They would do shit like a water slide that, you know, people got fucking hurt on.
They would do these things.
It was before insurance, I guess, where, you know, they had a wave pool.
So a wave pool is a big pool.
And then, like, they've got these giant fucking beaters in the underwater at the end that are huge that just constantly make fucking waves.
And people would get crushed under them and get killed.
They had this, like, slalom race thing where you're kind of sitting on this cement track.
unidentified
Whoa.
kevin smith
There you go.
New Jersey's Action Park offered fun and injury for the whole family.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
kevin smith
That was a water slide.
Look at that water slide.
joe rogan
That's insane.
kevin smith
You were completely in a blue tube that went down a mountain.
It did a loop in the dark where a lot of people were getting hurt.
Like, they didn't make the full loop.
They just got jammed.
joe rogan
And then people clied into you?
kevin smith
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
There were a lot of injuries, a couple deaths.
joe rogan
Oh my god, a couple deaths?
kevin smith
But that was fun when we were kids.
You know, you didn't want to get hurt, but nobody told you you might get hurt that badly.
Some things were sensible.
Like, I was a child, if I saw monkey bars that high, number one, I didn't even go near the fucking monkey bars, but if I saw them that high, I'd be like, this is ridiculous.
Like, this is clearly, clearly we're being filmed or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
I'd be like, this is a setup.
kevin smith
This was built by somebody who doesn't know what a child looks like.
joe rogan
Yeah, or hates them.
Once they've tricked them into going high so they can fall and die.
kevin smith
They're like, look, the more blood I get young child blood to bathe in, the younger one can look.
They subscribe to the theory of what's-her-fuck.
joe rogan
But there was a real concern back then about Mao's defeat.
I mean, we're talking about the Depression.
kevin smith
So you think they built the playgrounds like that?
joe rogan
Sweet out the week.
kevin smith
No way.
joe rogan
Sweet out the week.
kevin smith
Well, then you have to agree that we live in a better time because nobody ran on that platform in the election of like, hey, man, only the strong survive.
So, you know, if your kid goes to the playground, falls off the muggy bars, that's on you.
joe rogan
Well, we certainly are more protective of our children today.
We understand child rearing and understand mortality.
We understand the bad things that you can do to your kid while you're developing them.
It's a weird catch-22, and you'll probably agree with me as a parent.
kevin smith
How many kids you got?
joe rogan
Three.
kevin smith
You know a lot more than me.
I got one, but go ahead.
joe rogan
But what I was just going to say is there's a weird catch-22 in that you want to give them all the love in the world.
You want to support them as much as you can.
You want to be there 100% for them.
But you also realize that everyone you know that's interesting...
They had to overcome some bizarre childhood.
They had to overcome some crazy...
All my favorite people tell me terror stories about growing up and what their parents did or what their dad did.
Holy shit.
So many people, especially the comedians that I know, it was all just like, oh, fuck.
And then what happened?
Oh, fuck, dude.
And they're the funniest fucking people.
kevin smith
So we have a generation of kids that aren't...
Well, I know...
Look, I'm a helicopter parent, and I know I'm the guy that paves the way for his kid.
She wants to act.
I'm like, oh, let's make a movie.
You don't really...
That's not normal.
joe rogan
But you know what, man?
The only thing that's wrong with that...
This is the only thing that's wrong with that.
And this is where we have a problem.
Human beings...
The only thing that's wrong with that is the idea that she's not going to have to start making a living on her own.
She's going to be able to carry forth under her dad's momentum.
But the only reason why that's a problem, even remotely, is because we have this absurd idea that it should be super important for you to take care of yourself.
That it should be super important for you to financially carry yourself.
kevin smith
Explain, explain.
joe rogan
I've been fucking with this idea more and more lately.
kevin smith
That's what I love about you.
You fuck with ideas.
joe rogan
My buddy Eddie Wong, who's a chef and a really fucking interesting, cool guy, was on the podcast.
kevin smith
Okay.
joe rogan
And Eddie was talking about universal basic income.
And at first I thought, what?
You're going to give people free money?
Get the fuck out of here.
That's so stupid, dude.
You can't do that.
And then the more I thought about it, the more I said, well, it seems like when you give people money, it kills their motivation for a lot of folks.
But what if that's just like your needs are covered?
Is that really true, that if you give people something and you give them security, that it takes away their creativity?
Or is this just, I mean, we don't know, because everybody's always been in need, they overcame that need, and then they became successful, right?
That's the story that we hear over and over again.
But what if all your needs were taken care of, like food, shelter?
Like you have basic stuff.
You're not going to get rich, but you have enough to eat, and you always have a roof over your head.
First of all, wouldn't we like each other more if that was the case?
If we didn't have to worry, if nobody had to worry about how much money they had, nobody had to worry about not being able to eat, nobody worried about not having a place to sleep.
That sounds utopian, right?
But that's almost doable financially.
If you look at the amount of money we have versus the amount of people we have versus how much money people make, it's like, ooh, it's kind of close.
Like, we would have to restructure a lot of shit, but it seems like they might be able to give every person $12,000 a year.
Something like that.
kevin smith
Right.
joe rogan
And I think if we could figure out some sort of a way To do things like that, I think we would have a giant alleviation of tension and struggle at its, like, base level.
Survival shit.
Like, to elevate us as a people just above the survival thing.
So then we can relax more and get better at all this other shit.
But we've got to get past the survival thing.
And the base of the survival is what?
Basic food.
Basic shelter.
Having a roof over your head and having food.
If you could just guarantee that, if we could all collectively say, let's figure out, let's pile all this fucking money together.
Let's figure out how we can make this better.
What's number one?
We've got to...
We've got to figure out a way to make it easier to figure out what the fuck you want to do with your life.
You shouldn't have to just dive into some job and be desperate.
I mean, we were talking today, Jamie, about people that we know, that you know, that maybe wanted to do something else, but they played it safe, and now they're kind of stuck in this weird place where they can't get out of playing it safe because they have bills, and they get trapped.
I feel like if we had some sort of like universal basic income, it's totally possible that way less people would do that and then more people would try to make independent films or more people would try to become stand-up comics or more people would try to write books or more people would try to build cars or do whatever the fuck they're compelled to do.
kevin smith
How did you do it without getting twelve thousand free dollars a year?
joe rogan
I got lucky.
I worked.
kevin smith
I did a lot of different things.
You didn't wait for it to show up at your door.
You actually went out into the world and had to move some elements around in reality to make a new reality.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess, man.
kevin smith
I also didn't have a lot of options.
I consider yourself an exceptional human being now.
Did you consider yourself an exceptional human being then?
joe rogan
I knew I was good at Taekwondo.
That was about it.
kevin smith
So you had a skill.
joe rogan
I was good at one thing.
I knew I was good at one thing.
I was like, God damn it, if I can get good at that, it's totally possible I can get good at life.
kevin smith
Right.
That's a smart way to look at it.
At the very least, you're a hired hand.
Walking through the countryside, taking care of people's problems with your bare fists and shit.
joe rogan
No, well, I wasn't really taking care of any...
I was competing.
kevin smith
But if you had to, if society collapsed and they didn't have any competitions...
joe rogan
I'd already realized I could get my ass kicked too easy by a wrestler or by a good boxer.
I was having problems already.
Some sparring problems.
kevin smith
But you built a world.
And I'm not saying, like...
I like your idea.
But at the same time, it's like...
Not anybody can do exactly what you did, but anybody can take the steps that you did.
joe rogan
Well, I'm not saying that this world that we live in right now doesn't offer opportunity.
This world we live in offers ample opportunity.
That's not what I'm saying.
I really feel like it's possible that we're doing it wrong.
I just think, collectively, and I've said this before, so if you heard me say it before, anybody listening, I apologize, but I always say that if we looked at ourselves as an organism, if we looked at society as an organism, what would we want to fix as an organism?
Would we want to make the muscles stronger, or would we want to kill the cancer?
Would we want to figure out what's wrong with it?
Would we want to cure the disease?
Well, the disease has got to be poverty.
Like, it's the number one problem that we have is crime and poverty.
Like, we've got to focus on that area of our world.
And instead of thinking of it as, oh, they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps or, oh, they need to fucking, you know, realize there's opportunity out there.
You just got to go get it.
Everybody's got their own path.
I think collectively as just a human species, we have to look at the world's problems, like the world's real deep poverty and social problems, and look at it almost like as if we're a living creature.
If we're a living creature and there's parts of us that are starving to death, you've got to get that part food, right?
I mean, that's universal.
That's why those commercials with Sally Field's Sally Struthers.
kevin smith
Sally Struthers.
joe rogan
Sally Struthers.
Were so compelling, right?
Because you would see those babies that didn't have any food.
kevin smith
And be like, here's somebody who's hungry and I've got so much.
joe rogan
And you're like, holy shit.
These are...
I feel like we only have a certain amount of time.
You know, just as an organism that has a finite lifespan.
You have like...
100 years, if you're lucky, you know, and this thing that we're doing now where we have a president, you know, and you have to fucking go out there and earn your keep, boy.
And, you know, you get a job and, well, looks like you're gonna have to get married now.
You're a dad.
Okay.
And then you just you're like, all of a sudden, I'm dying.
Like I was living.
I worked in a factory.
Now I'm dying.
I don't know if that's the right way to make the most The most productive society.
Or the most enjoyable experience for the people that are living in this society.
kevin smith
It feels like a little more joy.
joe rogan
Goddamn, I'm high.
kevin smith
A little bit.
I feel like a little more joy would...
The American experience would benefit from a little more joy.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
kevin smith
There's so much toil.
And as you said, there's so much...
You can do anything here, but you gotta do it.
And we spend so much time chasing...
Something that makes life easier.
I'm not going to argue that.
Money makes things easier to do.
But chasing the idea of prosperity in one direction as opposed to spiritual prosperity.
Not saying religion.
Prosperity of one's soul.
Growing as a person.
Something that doesn't have to stop just because now you've entered the workplace, now you're married, and now you're falling into place with the model for society.
There's still...
A space in there for, well, and I think maybe this is where I'm coming around to your free $12,000 a year.
joe rogan
It's not my idea by any stretch of the imagination.
kevin smith
The idea of free $12,000 a year because maybe it does leave a little breathing space where suddenly in that space somebody's like, oh, I want to do this and this would make me happy.
And when I'm happy at this, it'll trickle down at work.
Like so many people are like, I go from one job to this job and, you know, and then I get the weekends maybe and my weekends are Tuesday and Thursday or something like that.
So yeah, you're right.
I was thinking like, Even I got privileges and fucking breaks that a lot of people wouldn't get.
I came from, like, poor white people, but it didn't matter.
It was white people, and so there were breaks for me out there somewhere in the world.
And I always think through that prism.
But you're right, man.
There are a lot of people out there that would benefit from, like, here's a cushion.
Here's something to start with.
Where you go from there, and what is that for?
It's $1,000 a month just for being an American.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, instead of thinking, oh, everybody's scamming to try to get welfare money, how about you just give it to them?
Just give them enough to survive.
Just give everybody enough to survive, and then let's work this shit out.
And then when you make more than X amount a year, if you're like Kevin Smith or me, you would say, look, I don't want my $12,000.
Put it back into the system.
kevin smith
Exactly.
joe rogan
Pay all your taxes, all that stuff.
kevin smith
Exactly.
joe rogan
But this would make us feel like we're looking out for each other a little bit.
I mean, I'm not fully formed on this idea.
It's just something I'm battering around in my head.
But I'm battering it around in my head the same way I'm battering around this idea that there shouldn't really be a president.
It's only there because we've been doing it this way for 300 years.
But if it didn't exist, there's no way that's how you would run it.
There's no way we would all agree, well, what we should do is we should get one person who knows the most people with the most money, who have been doing this the longest, and that person will have a giant advantage over everybody else, and get that person backed up by these huge corporations that would benefit by this person being Because you'd make laws and make environmental rules a little bit lax so we can get away with some shit and we can make more money.
There's no way we would say, yeah, let's do it that way.
There's no fucking way we would say, no, we want the geniuses of the world.
We want the professors, the Elon Musks.
We want the Bill Gates, the people that are very wise and very intelligent and very rational.
You want to talk to giant groups of them.
And we want to form our own opinions, and we should all be voting collectively as a group.
There shouldn't be some representative government, some electoral college.
What are you gonna fucking wear a powdered wig to, you cunt?
You gonna ride around on a fucking horse with some homemade horseshoes with your powdered wig and your electoral college?
Are you gonna read it on a scroll in the town square standing on an apple box?
Fuck off!
That shit is old!
kevin smith
See, you make me feel bad, dude, because I get high and I'm like, let me write a movie about a guy who turns a guy into a walrus.
You get high and you want to change the world.
You're a dreamer of day, man.
joe rogan
Sometimes.
Sometimes not at all.
Sometimes I just want to go watch that Hawaiian movie, Moana.
It's a good movie.
kevin smith
It was good?
joe rogan
It was good.
kevin smith
It was an adorable movie.
Let me ask you about Archery, which you seem to have fallen in love with.
joe rogan
Yes, I love Archery.
kevin smith
How fucking hard is it to pull back a bow and arrow?
joe rogan
It's not easy, but they make bows for people like little kids.
kevin smith
Like a compound bow that goes back with hollies and shit?
joe rogan
It depends entirely on what you're trying to do.
If you want to shoot a target, they make bows that a little kid, like my little kids were shooting bows when my daughter was three.
I got her a bow and arrow that she could kind of pull back.
I'd kind of help her.
I would have to hold on to it, and she could pull it back.
And then I'd go, we're getting ready to go in one, two, three, and she'd let it go.
kevin smith
Can we do that later?
joe rogan
Sure!
kevin smith
That's the way I would need to be handled.
joe rogan
But then for a compound bow, you have two possibilities that you're using it for.
One, which is target archery, which is what I do more than anything.
I shoot targets just in my yard and with friends, and I'll go to some ranges, and there's a place in Vegas I go to that's really cool.
And doing that is like you don't need that much power, because it's just about figuring out where the arrow's going to go and being accurate about it.
But then when you get to, if you wanted to hunt an animal with it, then you have a certain obligation to make sure that your bow is at least a certain amount, has a certain amount of power to it.
And most people agree that somewhere around 45 or 50 pounds.
It's debatable.
But in Texas, I know they're like, I think they fought back a law because they were trying to keep kids from bow hunting unless they could pull back, I think it was 35 pounds or 45 pounds.
I forget what the weight was.
kevin smith
So there's a measure of strength in order to do something?
They don't even do that for driving.
It's not even like, you've got to be strong enough to drive.
joe rogan
It's because it's not ethical.
Because you really almost don't have enough kinetic energy to actually penetrate an animal and kill it.
kevin smith
So you would be sticking them.
joe rogan
The arrow would stick out of them.
And it does happen.
So you have a certain amount of requirement of the kinetic energy where it's ethical to bow hunt.
kevin smith
I remember trying my father-in-law, my wife's stepdad, Byron.
Great guy.
He was a bow and arrow enthusiast.
I wouldn't call him a bow hunter because he didn't go out and hunt anything, but he was good at it.
He won medals and shit like that.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
kevin smith
So I was writing Green Arrow at the time, and I was like, you know what, man?
I should...
If I'm going to write, he knocks and fires an arrow.
You should try knocking an arrow.
Maybe there's something there about, like, you can describe it rather than make it up.
And he took me into the backyard with a bow and arrow and a target, a big hay target with a thing on it.
And no compound or anything, just a long bow.
And, you know, I'm like, God, this is going to be easy.
Green arrow knocks like six of these at a time and shit.
I knocked one arrow and went to pull back and, like, the shake began in my arm pretty fucking quickly.
I didn't get very far back.
I was like, holy shit, man.
joe rogan
Probably a serious bow, huh?
kevin smith
Pretty serious fucking bow.
But, you know, number one, I was like, I'm not the man I thought I was.
And I didn't think I was much of a man to begin with.
But number two, I was just like...
I don't think anyone would ever choose this to fight crime.
You know what I'm saying?
unidentified
So ridiculous, right?
kevin smith
Oh my god.
One of those things where, you know, you confront...
As much as I love this shit, I love comic books and whatnot, that was the moment where I was like, this shit falls apart.
Like, you always find yourself defending the notion of a Batman to people like, come on, dude, if you had all the money and you lost your parents, you had all the time to fucking commit to your body, turning it into a weapon, you could be Batman.
There could be no Superman.
He comes from fucking space.
But there could be a Batman.
And then...
All you have to do is try pulling back a bow and arrow once and you realize, like, well, there couldn't be a green arrow.
joe rogan
No.
kevin smith
And he's got it easier than a Batman.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
So if that can't exist, then this probably can't exist.
Although, like we were talking about on an episode of Smodcast the other day, could...
Could you, like, I saw a video they did on Penn& Teller, Penn& Teller were doing it, where somebody shot a bullet at a samurai sword, and, you know, they had it calibrated so it was hitting directly into the middle of the blade, and it split the bullet in two.
And then the idea was, like, could a butter knife do the same thing?
And, of course, the butter knife did the same thing.
It split the bullet.
So it didn't matter if it was hammered a thousand times, razor's edge samurai sword or a butter knife, that bullet hitting that target split in two.
So we were talking about it on the podcast.
I was like, well, that to me, I said, that to me is proof now that you could fight crime with a katana sword.
unidentified
I was like, you have to be super fucking fast, I said to Scott.
kevin smith
And Scott's like, yeah.
And Scott's making fun of me because he's gone.
Because I said, I'm not saying you have to be Batman.
He's like, and then I am saying you do have to be Batman.
But I'm saying, like, if you were the guy who held a sword and somebody fired a bullet and it split, would the kickback of the bullet throw the sword into you?
joe rogan
It very well could, for sure.
kevin smith
This thing was, a concrete block was holding the samurai sword.
So, you know, we talked about it on the podcast, and then, God bless the internet, somebody sent us a link of some other fucking show where they had a guy holding a sword, like a samurai swordsman, like modern-day swordsman.
joe rogan
Cuts of baseball in half?
kevin smith
No, fucking metal BB pellet.
It was fucking nuts.
Now, the other thing I watched, it was like, you know, they had the gun calibrated on a hinge and a laser scope so that it would hit exactly what they were going for.
This guy hand-eyed it, man.
joe rogan
Dude, feel that.
This is from the 1500s.
That's a legit samurai sword.
kevin smith
Feel how heavy that is?
Thank God I didn't live back then.
joe rogan
I'd be dead.
That's a legit samurai sword from the 1500s.
kevin smith
Sharp or not sharp?
joe rogan
That's the real deal.
Oh yeah, it's sharp.
Careful, bitch.
unidentified
Ah!
Don't do it!
kevin smith
Now, this guy pulled one of these, and he was like this.
Ready?
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
And then the guy fired the gun, and he went...
joe rogan
Swipes through the air.
kevin smith
And so, you know, then they roll back the footage, and goddammit, if he didn't fucking split that thing.
And dude, like, again, the first one...
unidentified
So he could have died.
joe rogan
You sure it's not CGI? No, this was real.
kevin smith
You gotta look it up.
joe rogan
Have you snopes this?
unidentified
Um...
kevin smith
No, I haven't.
I can't live in a constant world of snoping.
joe rogan
We must.
We must.
kevin smith
No, because think about our childhoods.
When we were kids, someone would be like, the Loch Ness Monster would be like, fuck yeah, it's real.
joe rogan
Oh, dude.
kevin smith
If you could have snoped that shit, you've got no imagination in your childhood.
Look at this guy!
Okay, that was it, right?
And now they play it back.
He just whipped it out and fucking cut.
Now wait until they play it back.
joe rogan
This is a scam.
First of all, this Japanese guy looks like he's cock blocking this guy and his girl.
Doesn't it?
Like leaning over his shoulder like, hey bro, I'm talking to her.
kevin smith
Well, he's about to earn it.
I'd fuck this guy.
unidentified
Watch.
joe rogan
Watch this.
Here it comes.
kevin smith
Fushing!
joe rogan
Yo, I see CGI. Now, I added these special effects there myself.
It was all red up there.
See all that red stuff?
unidentified
That shit wasn't real.
kevin smith
That's what happens in real life.
joe rogan
See, this is CGI, bro.
kevin smith
We know for sure it's CGI. There it is, there it is, there it is.
joe rogan
Maybe.
kevin smith
They removed the rings.
And now they'll pick it up up and down.
unidentified
I smell Hollywood.
kevin smith
Bullshit, that's real.
That's gotta be real, right?
Look, they talked to Dr. Rahmani.
joe rogan
She's hot.
unidentified
Right?
kevin smith
And she's gotta be smart.
They got her there in the desert.
joe rogan
Check out the one where the guy cuts the softball in half, or a baseball rather.
It's one of those baseball machines- That's a pretty big target.
kevin smith
I'm not saying I could do it, but that dude hit a BB, man.
joe rogan
I just don't believe that's real.
kevin smith
You don't think so?
joe rogan
I think he'd be an hoaxed.
kevin smith
Come on, man.
Were you the kid that didn't believe in Bigfoot when you were a kid?
joe rogan
Dude, are you kidding me?
I lived for Bigfoot.
I went looking for Bigfoot for a TV show.
I spent a week looking for Bigfoot.
kevin smith
So if you can believe in Bigfoot, why can't you believe in that?
joe rogan
I can't believe in Bigfoot because I spent a week looking for Bigfoot.
I had a bit in my act I was doing.
You know what you don't find when you go looking for Bigfoot?
Black people.
You're more likely to find Bigfoot than you are black people out looking for Bigfoot.
I go, what you find is unfuckable white dudes camping.
Just wandering through the woods, trying to work out whatever's in their head.
Very little of it is about Bigfoot.
kevin smith
If you gave everybody $12,000, a lot more people would go looking for Bigfoot.
joe rogan
Maybe they'd find them.
Maybe they should at least find something.
kevin smith
I love about you.
You're like, you know what, dude?
You haven't thought this through.
12K a year could find Bigfoot.
joe rogan
You know, when I knew that...
I always had a feeling that it was probably horseshit.
kevin smith
Yeti, too?
Does that cover Yeti and Abominable Snowman?
joe rogan
There used to be an animal called a Gigantopithecus.
That's what a lot of this is based on.
The Gigantopithecus lived as recently as 100,000 years ago.
kevin smith
Ape?
Or man?
joe rogan
It was a bipedal hominid in the orangutan family that was potentially eight feet tall.
kevin smith
A sky ape.
joe rogan
Giant, fucking, big, standing, freaky ape thing.
And the reason why they figured out it was bipedal...
kevin smith
Like Dr. Zaneus, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, like Bigfoot.
Really, it would be Bigfoot.
It's bipedal like us.
And they don't know if that's true or not because they only have some jaw bones.
See, what happened was this guy found a tooth in an apothecary shop in China.
I want to say the 1920s.
And he was an anthropologist.
And when he was there, he looked at us like, what's this?
Where'd you get this?
And they took him to the place where they got it.
He saw the tooth.
And he recognized it as a primate tooth, but far larger than a gorilla is, far larger than a human being.
He's like, whoa, this is like a giant tooth.
What the fuck's going on?
They took him to this spot, and then he found more bones.
And then it was eventually recognized as an actual animal, and they call it Gigantopithecus.
They just don't know that.
kevin smith
That could have been Bigfoot?
joe rogan
Yeah, let me show them the picture of Gigantopithecus next to a person.
kevin smith
What area of the world was Gigantopithecus?
unidentified
I found the baseball guy.
It's the same guy.
joe rogan
Okay, but just right now, before we get to the baseball guy, show the picture of Gigantopithecus next to a human being.
kevin smith
Gigantopithecus.
joe rogan
This is, you know, scientists believe this.
So this is not like Bigfoot researchers that are claiming this is a real animal.
This is like actual scientists.
There's a picture of one standing right next to a dude.
It's like a statue of Gigantopithecus covered in hair.
You got it?
It's huge.
So this was a real animal.
That right there.
kevin smith
Gigantor.
That's Harry and the Hendersons.
joe rogan
That is Bigfoot.
I mean, if that is what...
And again, this is not Bigfoot researchers.
They didn't create this.
This is created by actual anthropologists.
kevin smith
When did this exist?
joe rogan
As recently as 100,000 years ago.
kevin smith
So, no chance that there's one still hanging out?
joe rogan
Oh, there's definitely a chance.
It's just, I mean, unless we comb every inch of the earth and we give an audit on every single living creature that is in the densest of dense forests, we can't really say that.
kevin smith
That's true.
joe rogan
Because they find new shit all the time.
kevin smith
Thank you for keeping the magic alive, dude.
joe rogan
We find new shit all the time.
And the Pacific Northwest where these things, the reason why it works, it works geologically or geographically because that animal existed in Asia.
We know that humans came from Asia, like literally American Indians, Native Americans, they're from Siberia.
Like they have the same DNA as people who came from Asia.
They came across that Bering Strait.
kevin smith
So we were all connected to Pangaea or something like that?
joe rogan
The whole thing has been connected and separated for as long as humans have been human, right?
If we came from that area, we know that a bunch of other animals came from that area too, and they think that it's entirely possible that that big-ass monkey thing came from that area too.
kevin smith
Somebody brought it with them?
joe rogan
It just came, like all these other things.
Just took a walk before us.
kevin smith
Just like, let's make the walk.
joe rogan
That could be where the whole Yeti thing comes from.
The Yeti thing is one of those living in an extremely cold climate during the Ice Age.
I mean, it's entirely possible.
kevin smith
And people either saw remnants of it, but never alive.
They would have never crossed paths.
joe rogan
I bet they did back in the day, for sure.
I bet they did.
kevin smith
Are you serious?
joe rogan
Yeah, 100%.
We cross paths with all the other great apes.
We cross paths with orangutans.
Why wouldn't we think we'd cross paths with a gigantopithecus?
kevin smith
Because you'd see it and you'd fucking run.
joe rogan
If it's really smart, it would have a fucking house and a cell phone.
It's not smart enough to hide from us.
Like, get the fuck out of here.
kevin smith
If we could find a gorilla...
joe rogan
This is the problem.
We can find a gorilla.
We can find a chimp.
We can find the howler monkey.
But this one monkey is so slick.
It's still a monkey.
It doesn't even have pants.
This stupid fuck.
He doesn't have shoes.
He doesn't have a house.
kevin smith
Is that your barometer for intelligence?
You like pants or no pants?
I could beat a man with no pants.
joe rogan
You're going to freeze death or you're going to figure out fire?
You're walking around on two legs like you're the shit.
Come on, bro.
Figure it out.
So if he could figure out nothing except escaping people, he'd be like, wow, what an extraordinarily intelligent animal.
It's figured out at least how to get the fuck away from people.
But it doesn't even have a house.
Come on.
I'm not buying it.
I don't think it's a real thing.
kevin smith
I'm with you, but...
joe rogan
I think it was a real thing.
I think it was a real thing, but I don't think it is a real thing.
kevin smith
So do you think somebody sees one of those frozen in a cave and then it's passed down...
joe rogan
Or they could have encountered it.
If people have been around for, I think, what did we decide the other day in this forum?
I think the consensus is like at least 250,000 years we've been in this forum.
That means for 150,000 years we lived around those fucking things.
And that has got to be in our head.
Because most likely they were probably peaceful because they were so big, like orangutans.
But if that wanted to, it would just throw you like a water balloon.
And you would splatter against a coconut tree.
And that would be the end of that.
kevin smith
And you'd imagine there'd be someone in our history where we're like, and then there was the Great Ape War.
joe rogan
We probably killed them.
We probably figured out bows and arrows.
And we probably started fucking killing them from a distance.
It's probably why we're alive and they're not.
kevin smith
And nobody remembers?
It's too long ago.
joe rogan
How can we know?
kevin smith
I know shit about my grandmother and grandfather.
joe rogan
We know we killed those hobbit people.
That's a fairly new revelation.
Island of Flores.
There's a small being that they found on the island of Flores that's in the human species.
They're literally calling the hobbit people.
It's called like homo floriensis or something like that.
And this is 100% confirmed now.
I mean, this is 100% accepted by mainstream science that this was an actual type of human being or type of...
unidentified
So where?
kevin smith
The third one in?
joe rogan
Yeah, the third one in.
That was a real animal.
It wasn't a human, necessarily like a homo sapien, but it was some humanid or hominid.
Some human-like hobbit person.
kevin smith
Based on finding skull?
joe rogan
Finding a bunch of them.
There was a bunch of resistance.
Now when I say that it definitely lived, there are people to this day that don't think it lived.
But the vast consensus amongst these anthropologists is that this is a real animal.
But there's always going to be people that are willing to debate it and...
They found a bunch of bones of these little tiny people-like things.
And what they think is that these are literally like hobbit people.
And that there has always been a legend of...
I forget what part of the world it's called, but there's a thing called the Oren Pendek.
Think that's how you say it?
Oren Pendek?
And that was a little tiny ape-like person.
And they think that this legend of these little tiny ape-like people, it was this species.
That this was a real species.
And they think that this real species might have even preyed on human children.
They might have been competing for resources.
We might have cannibalized them.
Yeah, it's entirely possible that we cannibalized Neanderthals as well.
kevin smith
Maybe that's where the grim fairy tales come from, like the troll that comes to steal your baby and shit like that.
joe rogan
I had this guy, Dr. Jordan Peterson from the University of Toronto the other day on the podcast, and he was telling me a story about how when the fall of the Soviet Union or in Russia in the 1930s and during Marxism, that they had signs, they had made signs telling people not to eat their children.
kevin smith
Why?
joe rogan
Because people were so starving to death they were eating their fucking children.
So they had to make billboards saying don't eat your children.
kevin smith
Okay.
We just went on a different track.
I thought we were talking about the hobbits still.
joe rogan
Well, we are.
I mean, I'm talking about cannibalism.
kevin smith
But you're saying, like, human beings have been known to eat a human being.
joe rogan
This was in the 1900s, through the 20th century.
kevin smith
In our era.
joe rogan
In Russia, they were telling people, don't eat your children.
I mean, however many had happened, three people ate their kids, four?
I don't know what the numbers were.
But if that was enough to the point where the government wanted to have a sign that said, please don't eat your children, like, holy shit.
kevin smith
Yeah, that's pretty metal.
joe rogan
Dude, it's as metal as it gets.
People have been eating people for a long-ass time.
kevin smith
And then we stopped.
Why?
Because of civilization?
joe rogan
Because it's not good for you.
unidentified
No?
joe rogan
That's where mad cow disease comes from.
Did you know that?
kevin smith
Oh my god.
I... Thank God I cleared out a bunch of my head so I could walk out of here with a bunch more knowledge.
Go!
unidentified
Fire!
joe rogan
Mad cow disease comes from something called prions.
kevin smith
Yeah, the prions in the brain.
Eating other prions.
joe rogan
It comes from eating the brain tissue of other human beings.
That's one of the ways you get it.
Like in Papua New Guinea, the cannibals of New Guinea, they developed, I think it's called Jacob Korksfeld, which is technically mad cow disease.
It's the exact same thing.
We're getting it because they're feeding cows cows.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They're feeding cows ground up brain matter, which they're not supposed to fucking eat.
The cows eat that.
They develop these prions.
The people eat that tainted beef and the prions get into their body.
kevin smith
That goes into their own brains and does damage to them.
joe rogan
And these fucking prions can exist in like a thousand degree temperatures.
They're like these indestructible organisms.
And they invade your central nervous system.
kevin smith
But it's one thing you feed a cow another cow, but you're saying...
That this has existed prior to mad cow disease called something else in human beings.
joe rogan
Well, it's probably set up to discourage predation amongst the same species that you are a part of.
Because if cows get it from eating cows...
kevin smith
We evolved essentially to not eat...
joe rogan
Yeah, and especially the brain tissue.
The brain tissue is apparently where we could really differentiate it.
Like if you eat someone else's brain tissue, that's like the New Guinea neurological Jacobs Crutzfeldt, which affects cannibals.
Like literally a fucking disease affects cannibals.
It's like a neurological disease when you eat brain matter from your own species.
That's how they get it.
kevin smith
It's crazy.
Maybe that's a reason why people stopped eating people.
joe rogan
I don't want to get the shakes like this guy.
It's nature discouraging that, that this is an aberrant behavior.
This is not what we want.
It's not conducive to the survival of the species.
That's where it gets weird.
kevin smith
A riddled cow brain.
Let's say there was a normal cow brain that didn't have mad cow disease in it.
No prions.
Could I eat that brain?
Is that okay for me?
Can I eat the brain of another species?
joe rogan
A normal cow brain you most certainly can eat.
People eat lamb's brains and calves' brains.
It's very, very common that people eat brains.
kevin smith
Why?
Because it's delicacy?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like a delicacy.
It's an organ that some people even prefer for some meals.
Some people love eating lamb's brain and cow's brain.
Yeah, it's trippy.
kevin smith
But do you get any...
Is there any...
joe rogan
Disease from it.
kevin smith
Or nutrient from it.
Do you get something that you don't get from eating another meat?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
unidentified
I'm not saying, will it make me smarter, need a lamb's brain?
kevin smith
But I am saying, will it make some part of me stronger?
joe rogan
What if it did?
What if it did make you smarter?
But cows aren't that smart.
kevin smith
That wouldn't be bad.
Thank you very much.
joe rogan
How dare you.
If you ate a really intelligent thing, I wonder if you'd get more intelligent.
kevin smith
Well, obviously, it would have to be something outside your species.
joe rogan
Imagine.
Imagine if there was, like, magic in brains.
And the more brains you ate, the more power your brain had.
Yeah.
kevin smith
I think people have believed that.
Is it a zombie thing?
Brains.
I don't know if that's necessary.
Well, the zombies...
joe rogan
They used to want brains.
kevin smith
...have called for brains in the...
Not in the Romero flick.
unidentified
No.
kevin smith
Well, think about it.
Romero's the modern father of zombies, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
I mean, the concept of an undead human has been around forever, but calling it a zombie, it comes out of the graveyard, it wants to eat your brains.
I don't think they ever said brains in that movie.
The zombies never say brains.
joe rogan
Who did say brains?
Who do you think said brains first?
kevin smith
I think the first one that might have happened, and you can look it up, but I think it's...
Is it Revenge of the Living Dead, which had nothing to do with the Night of the Living Dead?
unidentified
Oh yes!
joe rogan
That one was great!
kevin smith
Remember the scene in the cemetery where the girl has sex, she takes her gear off?
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
I remember watching that in early days of cable and I'm like, oh my gosh, she's going to have sex right here in the graveyard.
And then there's a zombie attack.
joe rogan
Dude, that movie was great!
kevin smith
It was a really wonderful film.
joe rogan
That was a fun movie!
Because it was kind of tongue-in-cheek.
kevin smith
It did.
It had a hipness to it, something funny to it and shit.
But it was pretty committed to its gore as well.
joe rogan
I've got to write that down.
Revenge of the Living Dead.
Revenge of the Living Dead.
kevin smith
Share childhood.
joe rogan
I can't hate on zombies because I'm bailing on The Walking Dead.
kevin smith
I've got to fulfill my zombie love elsewhere.
Is that what it's called?
Return of the Living Dead.
1985, that's right.
And what did it say?
Oh, because it was made by John Russo parted ways and reached the agreement that Russo would retain the rights to the living dead suffix while Romero agreed to use of the dead in any subsequent How funny, man.
Those are the two dudes who came up with Night of the Living Dead.
So he's like, you take Living Dead and I'll take of the whatever.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
kevin smith
They split it up.
joe rogan
They negotiated it.
That's hilarious.
That seems rational, though.
kevin smith
Not bad.
joe rogan
I like to think they did that with a smile and they shook hands.
kevin smith
Do you think George Romero is like, man, I wish I'd put my zombies on TV? I don't know, man.
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
The problem is it's not about zombies anymore.
The zombies have, like, they're so radically different.
kevin smith
Go back to these little people.
Could they eat human brains?
joe rogan
Yeah, that was the problem.
One of the things they were speculating.
kevin smith
We gotta finish that, man.
joe rogan
One of the things they were speculating.
kevin smith
They loved human brains.
joe rogan
Is that those things might have preyed on people and that we might have preyed on them.
And that might be also what we did to the Neanderthals.
They found Neanderthals, apparently, that had some scouring marks inside their heads.
Like we might have, like, someone in the past might have killed a Neanderthal and then ate him and broke his brain open and scooped the brains out and cooked it.
Yeah.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Super, super, super hard to survive 500,000 years ago.
kevin smith
Put it in perspective when you're sitting around going like, man, the person I wanted to win the presidency didn't win the presidency.
And you're like, there was a time, dude, where you'd be eating Neanderthals brains and you'd be sitting there going, never thought I'd be here, but you'd be doing it.
joe rogan
And by the way, you would be one of the lucky ones.
Because most people, they'd be eating your brains.
kevin smith
That's true.
joe rogan
If you were eating Neanderthal brains, you survived, dude.
You clubbed him with that mastodon bone over the fucking head while he was trying to rape your mom or whatever the hell went on.
kevin smith
Oh my god, every story goes dark.
Can't it just be like a first Thanksgiving story where like me and the Neanderthals like come to a common ground.
joe rogan
No, you're eating his brain.
kevin smith
They give me a brain and I give them some wheat.
joe rogan
Maybe.
Like a dude who just fell.
kevin smith
We have no need for him.
Eat his brain.
And like, once a year.
We'll only do this once a year.
joe rogan
Right.
Imagine if that was the deal.
Like, look, we're not going to kill you.
Please don't kill us.
But if one of your guys dies, can we eat him?
kevin smith
That's not, I mean, call me crude, but that's not a bad deal, right?
joe rogan
It's not the worst deal.
kevin smith
And think about this.
It's like, why?
What are you going to do with him?
I know there's the sentimentality and the nostalgia of like, oh, the dead.
But it's like, you're just going to put him in the ground.
He's going to rot.
What a waste of energy.
So you give us your dead, we'll give you our dead, and that will keep peace amongst the living.
Dude, we're onto a movie right here.
Or a better version of government in a world where you're like, who needs a president?
Maybe this.
This is the civilization stabilizer.
joe rogan
Have you ever heard of a Tibetan sky funeral?
kevin smith
No.
joe rogan
Dude, prepare to freak the fuck out.
kevin smith
Here we go.
joe rogan
Because the way they handle it in Tibet, the Himalayas, they take the body out, they score it, they chop it up into chunks, and then the vultures come in.
And they get it down to the bone, and then they smash the bones up, and then the vultures come in and they consume the bones.
And they do it all.
There's images of it.
You can watch it all.
Here, pull it up.
kevin smith
That blew my mind as much as I'm like, that's kind of a letdown.
No, no, it's intense.
Then they take the bones.
joe rogan
This is how they deal with their dead.
They feed them.
unidentified
To the vultures.
joe rogan
They literally feed them to vultures.
And they film it.
And they take photos of this.
This is like this intense ceremony that they do of their dead.
kevin smith
Oh, this is what they do now.
joe rogan
Well, you can see it.
That's why I'm having Jamie pull it up.
kevin smith
I thought this was like the pictures of the little people that didn't exist anymore.
joe rogan
This is happening right now.
jamie vernon
This is on Live Lake, too, so I'm not going to put it up.
kevin smith
So no cemeteries for them.
joe rogan
Just go in with the images, because there's a bunch of websites that have some Tibetan Sky Funeral.
I mean, we don't want to watch it necessarily.
Let's just look at some of the images.
But they film them now.
kevin smith
I'd rather watch it than go to one, like if I have to choose between the two.
joe rogan
Yeah, you don't want to be there while that's going down.
kevin smith
It might be a little weird.
unidentified
It might be up on YouTube either, though.
joe rogan
Just give me the images so that we can see them.
So that's just a spinal cord and a skull.
kevin smith
And mind you, this is the upper left hand corner.
This is just one of their dead monks.
joe rogan
Just a regular person.
kevin smith
So rather than bury them in the ground or burn them?
unidentified
Look at this guy.
joe rogan
He's just getting picked apart.
And then after they pick him apart, like he's almost down to nothing, then they have the bones and they'll take the bones and smash them.
And the birds will come in and eat the bones.
And the birds know, like if you just clicked on, Jamie, up above, right there.
Like, where you see the body?
Right next to that.
Yeah, look at that.
So they're taking this guy and they just, they treat him...
kevin smith
Is that a dead human being?
joe rogan
No, it's a bunch of dead human beings.
They take these human beings that die in wherever part of the world this is, in Tibet, And they cut their bodies up for the vultures.
And they wear gloves.
I mean, these are modern people.
Look, he's got Levi's on and a belt.
And he's chopping up this person's body.
And then they leave it out there.
And if you go through those series of pictures, Jamie, there's a whole series of them.
kevin smith
Oh my god.
joe rogan
And you see...
kevin smith
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
I wasn't ready for that.
joe rogan
It's deep.
kevin smith
I can't unsee that shit.
unidentified
It's deep.
kevin smith
I thought they were just throwing dead bodies out there letting the vultures pick them clean.
joe rogan
Well, in order to help...
Yeah, they help because they want it to be done within a good amount of time.
And the more it's chopped up like that, the more vultures it'll attract and the quicker the whole process will be.
kevin smith
What is the reaction?
Do you think it's, ooh, squeamish, or do you think it's ego?
Do you think it's just like, what?
Like, no, I'm far more complex.
Like, I've got way more going on in my head and body.
I can't wind up as bird food, but at the end of the day, you're food for something.
joe rogan
Yeah, man, it's not the worst way to go.
Because you're gone.
kevin smith
Well, I mean, as long as you don't go, like, you know, fucking, like, at the mouth of something while you're still alive.
But if they were like, look, when you're dead, however you pass, we want to feed you to something else.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
I think I'm okay with that.
joe rogan
Well, particularly, like...
kevin smith
Because I feed a lot, motherfucker.
They'd remember me.
They'd be like, oh, he fed the village for, like, nine months.
unidentified
Who...
joe rogan
You'd be amazed how quick they put you down.
They'd eat you so fast.
kevin smith
They'd eat a whole elephant.
A dude would go fast.
You'd disappear in a second.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I know a dude who was in Africa when someone shot an elephant.
He said they just chopped that elephant up to like a million pieces and handed them out to all these villagers.
They came from far and wide to get elephant meat.
I was like, whoa.
kevin smith
So everyone could eat.
And that's an instance of a bunch of people eating, not some asshole who's just like, hey man, I killed something, just kill something.
joe rogan
Well, I don't know who killed the actual elephant.
It might have been one of those guys that just went there to kill an elephant.
But when they killed the elephant...
It's such a catch-22, but when they kill the elephant, it's very beneficial to the environment because they can pay for more of the park rangers to protect the elephants against poachers, and then the people all around the village get the meat.
The thing is, some places, elephants are endangered, but some places, the people decide there's a surplus, those elephants, because they're trampling on people's crops or eating people's stuff.
You know, automatically you say, like, hey, you should never kill elephants, for sure.
But the real problem is with some of these extremely poor people where elephants invade their crops, you can't do a goddamn thing.
And those are the people that want help, and then they hire someone to come and kill an elephant.
The whole thing's very fucked up.
kevin smith
Way more complex than my teenage daughter May painted.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, we would all like to think that human beings and elephants live so far away from each other that it was a non-issue, and we just let the elephants survive out there in the wild and leave them the fuck alone.
That's what we'd all like, right?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
The problem with that is they do live with people, and they live with people that are super poor, and they live with people that have houses that are made out of fucking hay, and they're people too.
kevin smith
And as we all know, elephants like hay.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's not always that.
There's a lot of it as trophy hunting.
There's a lot of it as poachers trying to steal ivory.
There's a lot of real darkness to killing elephants, no doubt about it.
And ideally, no one should ever have to kill an elephant.
But if you don't want those people to kill the elephants...
Someone's got to figure out a way to at least capture them and make it valuable to transport them to some other part of Africa where they're not going to kill this guy or trample and eat all of his crops.
Unless you don't give a fuck about the guy, and you don't care, and you say, well, that guy's going to have to starve to death because the elephant is just as important as a living organism as the guy is, which is another argument.
kevin smith
Something has to fall in order for you to rise.
joe rogan
I see how people think that way.
I understand.
I understand where they're coming from.
I disagree.
I'm more into people.
I like people more than any other animal.
But I love other animals too, so I get where they're coming from.
I just think that it's complex.
Eating any animal is complex.
Ugh.
My buddy Brian just killed a rat in his house.
He had a rat trap, and he killed a rat.
And I was like, whoa, you got him.
Whoa, that's good.
And I sent him a text message.
You got him.
And I was thinking, this is one of the few animals you could cheer for its murder.
kevin smith
And people back you up.
joe rogan
Yeah, everybody backs you up.
You showed a picture of a rat that you killed with a trap, like, ah, must have been satisfying.
kevin smith
Yeah, well done, man.
Fuck, ooh, that grosses me out.
joe rogan
If you're watching TV and you hear a snap, And you're like, motherfucker.
And you go in the kitchen, and you've got a fat rat.
You are happy.
kevin smith
We live in the Hollywood Hills, and sometimes it gets dry.
joe rogan
Rats.
kevin smith
It's crazy.
It's one of those things that...
I grew up in New Jersey, and you would imagine that, according to every joke you've ever heard, that's where I would have encountered a rat.
Never encountered a rat in my life until...
I lived in Los Angeles.
Really?
Yeah, I lived in the suburbs of Jersey.
There weren't a lot of rats.
And we were by the water, too.
joe rogan
Whoa.
kevin smith
So the rats, if there were rats, they lived in the rocks by the water and shit.
There were a lot more fish in those days, as opposed to lately.
But yeah, fuck, where was I going with that?
joe rogan
Rats.
kevin smith
So rat I didn't see until I got to Los Angeles.
They come out of the hills because it's dry and we got a pool and water tracks and shit like that.
And then you think like, oh my god, if I ever had a rat in my house I'd fucking go ape shit.
And then suddenly you're like, oh, we are a house that It gets rats in it.
And it's not like the stereotype that you always think of where it's like, we live like pigs and there's filth everywhere.
It's just like creatures looking for fucking food.
Yeah, that's the creepy thing.
It's like you'd be sitting in your office and you hear something in a wall.
And you realize, oh my god, and they got...
Once they get in, they get the inside of your house down to a system in science unless you plug all the holes.
And we've had to go through that thing where you plug all the holes.
And then the skittering stops.
You never hear it again.
joe rogan
Yeah, those motherfuckers.
They will camp out in your house.
And if it's a safe spot, they're like, this is where we live now.
They're making a little nest in there.
Especially if you have insulation in your attic.
They're like the nest in that stuff.
Oof.
kevin smith
It happens.
But you're right, man.
People get, like, yeah.
joe rogan
That's an animal that you're allowed to kill.
So, like, elephant?
No.
Rat?
Yes.
You know?
Like, tiger?
No.
Mouse, yes.
We have rules.
unidentified
It's true.
kevin smith
Yeah, there's always going to be a guideline there.
joe rogan
I found a mouse the other day, and I have one of those little pails with a mop for barbecuing.
And the mop thing was sitting there, and I saw this little motherfucker run up the top and go into the bucket.
I was like, God damn it, I got a mouse in that thing.
Fuck.
I'm like, that's gross.
He's going to shit all over that little brush.
So I took him over to the, I picked up the bucket, I took him over to the fence and just emptied him out on the other side.
And he fell and he just hit the ground and just stand there like, what the fuck?
I just fell out of the sky and he just slowly started walking off.
And like, I don't think he knew what the fuck happened.
Right.
But immediately I thought, damn, I should have fed him to my chickens.
kevin smith
What do you mean?
A chicken would eat a mouse?
joe rogan
Dude, would they eat a mouse?
They go after them.
Like raptors.
Like raptors in Jurassic Park, like what you would imagine.
kevin smith
Chickens like to eat mice?
joe rogan
Dude, chickens are straight up dinosaurs.
If you remember that scene in Jurassic Park, what is that?
A chicken with a mouse?
Yeah.
Pull it back so we can see it.
They'll fuck a mouse up, dude.
And they fight over them.
They all know.
And so they run after each other.
They stole it from the fucking cat.
Look at that cat.
Cat's like, bitch, that was mine.
That was mine.
What the fuck?
kevin smith
And it's going to eat that mouse?
joe rogan
Dude, I've seen chickens eat mice.
My chickens.
I've seen them eat one that I fed them.
kevin smith
This fucking chicken don't want to share, man.
joe rogan
Oh, they don't want to stare.
They fight.
They peck at each other.
They fucking bite off each other's skin trying to get out the mouse.
They steal little pieces from each other.
Yeah, he got a little piece.
This guy got a little piece.
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park?
kevin smith
I just saw a video of a snake.
No, a bunny.
Mother bunny.
Fighting a snake?
This video starts with this snake over a little patch of baby bunnies.
And out of nowhere, this fucking mother rabbit smokes in, dude.
And you've never seen anything fight like this in your life.
unidentified
Maybe you have.
kevin smith
You go to the UFC shit.
joe rogan
So the mother rabbit went after the snake?
kevin smith
And wouldn't stop, bitch.
It wasn't like, I'm gonna get the snake away from my baby.
The snake fucked off.
It's like, I get it, I get it.
And the rabbit wanted revenge.
The rabbit was like, fuck you.
And kept going.
Like, it was something I'd never seen before.
Generally...
You know, unless you're a bear, right?
You defend, get the thing away from you, and then you go take care of your fucking young.
This rabbit chased it to the...
Here it is, bitch.
Watch this shit.
This is crazy.
So I'm sitting there going, ew, it ate the bunny already.
I don't know if it did anything, but it's just right now on top of all...
Is that squeezing the bunny?
joe rogan
Look at this, bang!
Oh, wow.
So it's the babies in there.
Oh, it killed the babies, man.
kevin smith
It looks like it killed one, right?
That one's pretty quiet.
joe rogan
It killed a couple of them.
kevin smith
So watch her go fucking ape shit, dude.
joe rogan
It just smothered her fucking babies, man.
Imagine her coming back and seeing that.
unidentified
I know.
kevin smith
And this is why this happened.
joe rogan
Oh, wow, this is crazy.
kevin smith
Dude, it goes on for at least a minute and a half.
joe rogan
She's just biting the shit out of the snake.
kevin smith
Even when the snake gets away.
Did you know that a rabbit could do this shit?
joe rogan
No.
kevin smith
Look at that.
Look at how many times, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, with those kicks.
joe rogan
Biting it and kicking it at the same time.
kevin smith
She's like, I fucking hate you.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
She's tore up its body.
Its body's got all these holes in it now.
unidentified
Wow.
kevin smith
But not done.
Watch.
Wait till it gets to the wall and there's a fucking 360. Watch this shit.
joe rogan
Oh, whoa.
It's trying to kill it.
kevin smith
Yes.
joe rogan
It's going after it and pulling it down.
kevin smith
Yes, it doesn't want it to get away.
It wants to kill it.
Revenge, dude.
Like, that's...
joe rogan
Whoa.
kevin smith
Look at that shit!
You see it flip?
joe rogan
Because it almost bit her.
Whoa.
unidentified
Not done.
joe rogan
That's not even a poisonous snake.
kevin smith
Rabbit's not done.
joe rogan
Wow, that is amazing, man.
What part of the world is this?
kevin smith
Where is it?
Because you hear kids talking.
It's definitely got an accent.
joe rogan
You hear kids talk, they have an accent?
kevin smith
Yeah, you hear the kids going, do it, Bonnie, and stuff like that.
joe rogan
Oh, like England or some shit?
kevin smith
Not quite England, but like definitely Europe.
But look, even on the rocks, this motherfucker is not done.
It's like, from hell's heart, I stab at thee.
joe rogan
She doesn't say, it says save babies.
She didn't save them.
That fucking thing killed a couple of them.
She might have saved one.
kevin smith
Maybe click on it and see if somewhere there's an explanation or something like that.
Or maybe that's what they told the kids.
Maybe she saved the babies, but I didn't see any movement there.
To me, that was the story of a mother coming home, seeing her kids dead, and was like, I'm going to fucking kill you.
And that's a very human story.
You don't really think about that in the animal kingdom, but like...
joe rogan
That's very human.
kevin smith
There it is.
joe rogan
I'm just glad.
Whether it's revenge or whether she just knew that if that thing was alive, it presented a threat to the other baby and she had to kill it.
Because if she let it go, eventually she would have to leave to come back to get food and the baby would be gone.
It would find out where it was.
Maybe she knew that it would know where it is.
kevin smith
So you're in the middle of like the worst moment of your fucking life.
I've just lost two kids.
And you're like, I still have to fucking kill this thing to death.
Otherwise, it'll come back and take my other baby, maybe me in the night.
joe rogan
And so poorly equipped for battle to the death.
All fluffy and shit with nothing but buck teeth.
kevin smith
But look what happens.
Holy shit, man.
Unleashed.
Just grabbing and kicking, scratching.
Apparently until you're just goring that fucking thing.
And that snake was a pretty nasty customer, but he was still like, I'm done.
I'm fucking done.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Serpents and snakes and lizards and all those unfeeling cold things, you know, that existed before time.
Chickens are in that group, bro.
kevin smith
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're in that group.
You don't realize it until you see them tear a mouse apart.
kevin smith
Primordial?
joe rogan
They're like raptors.
They're Jurassic Park raptors.
They're just little.
kevin smith
You see them in the kitchen, open doors and shit?
joe rogan
Well, they're not that smart, but they're smart enough to like, if I have rocks around my house, if I pick up a rock, the chickens will go towards it because they know there's bugs under it.
kevin smith
Oh, really?
joe rogan
They figure that out.
Yeah, but it's not about being smart.
It's about that lizard brain.
Like, they mostly are omnivores.
They mostly eat grain because most of them are being kept by people.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And that's the best way for you to feed them.
But when you let them loose, they eat every fucking thing that moves.
kevin smith
Really?
joe rogan
Everything.
Every bug, dead.
They eat snails, dead.
Anything.
Whatever's on the ground, dead.
They caught a mouse.
They'll fight to the death of that mouse.
They chase each other, claw it out of each other's mouths.
They're little eating machines.
kevin smith
Would they eat chicken?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, they'd eat each other.
For sure, they'd peck holes in each other.
kevin smith
But I mean, is that just pecking holes?
joe rogan
If you fed them chicken, they'd eat the shit out of it.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
If you cooked some chicken, or made raw chicken and put it out there, they'd eat the fuck out of it.
They wouldn't even think twice.
kevin smith
You'd be like, it's you!
It's fucking you!
They'd be like, bah!
unidentified
Bah!
Ah, ah, ah!
kevin smith
Then they go open a kitchen door.
joe rogan
They're not smart.
kevin smith
How many you got now?
joe rogan
22?
kevin smith
Does it irritate you to watch Jurassic Park where you're like, where the fucking feathers, bro?
We all know these things have feathers.
joe rogan
Well, now.
Now I think they should have feathers.
kevin smith
But they did make Jurassic World just recently.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Did they have feathers?
No.
No feathers.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Well, it's probably too hard.
Like CGI-wise, because you can't use just one big texture.
kevin smith
That's going to be the next big cash grab.
Like when they reboot the franchise, it's going to be like, we finally got feathers on.
Now it's fucking historically accurate.
joe rogan
Remember when we were kids?
Columbus discovered America and dinosaurs were green.
kevin smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
The good old days.
kevin smith
Or the days.
joe rogan
The days.
Now they're off.
There's a museum of Montana.
kevin smith
I never understood the dinosaur thing, I'll be honest with you.
joe rogan
Understood it?
In what way?
kevin smith
In as much as you find a bunch of bones, and then you extrapolate what it looked like.
joe rogan
Well, you mean it depends on the extent of what you're finding.
There has to be...
Like some sort of consensus on what actually is a dinosaur, like how much of this belongs to the same animal, especially because you're dealing with fossilized remains.
And the problem with fossilized remains are it's not really the bone anymore.
It's like the bone disappears, it's replaced by minerals, and it makes this rock.
Right, so you can't really do DNA tests on it for the most part, so you gotta find enough of them laid out in the same way where you agree that this was this animal.
You know, and they've changed that over the, you know, time from the beginning of the first discoveries of dinosaurs to today.
But now they've been doing it for so long, they have a pretty good idea.
And then every now and then they find a new one, and they go, well, we'll check out this motherfucker.
What is he?
kevin smith
But again, like, I'll grant you, hey, This is what its bones would look like if we put it together.
But how do they get to, like, its skin was like this?
joe rogan
They don't.
They don't.
kevin smith
So this is all bullshit.
joe rogan
All speculation.
kevin smith
Speculation for years.
And now at least they're going, we think it's got feathers.
I'm pretty sure it's got feathers.
joe rogan
One guy had a really cool idea about T-Rex.
That T-Rex would have, like, vulture colors.
That T-Rex...
Because it was...
They think that T-Rex...
Some people think that he was a predator, and other people think that he was a scavenger.
And one of the reasons why they think that he was a scavenger is they look at it the way his body's built.
They're like, he couldn't possibly run very fast.
He couldn't really possibly chase things down.
He's really super awkward.
But then there's other people that point to the idea that the atmosphere itself was very different back then, and it might have been much richer and thicker, and it actually might have been able to support an animal like that easier.
kevin smith
In terms of his size?
joe rogan
In terms of his size, in terms of the amount of life on the planet itself.
The animal was so large and consumed so much.
But everything was so large back then.
And everything consumed so much back then.
There were so many examples of these mega animals, right?
Like Brontosaurus and fucking Allosaurus and T-Rex and these crazy, gigantic fucking things roaming the Earth.
The speculation is that there was more richness of life.
There was more life.
And so the animals that consumed life, whether it's in the form of plants, like a brontosaurus, or in meat, like a T-Rex, they just got bigger and bigger and bigger because there was so much to consume.
There was no need to hold back their size.
Whereas if you're a chimp or if you're a human, there's only so much you can eat.
The more you eat, we've shown, The more people eat and the more prosperous their nation, the larger the people start to get, right?
And so I think that it's entirely possible that that's the case with the world back then, that the whole world was like, it just supported bigger things.
It was just more life, more green life, more animals for T-Rex to eat, and it was just this big fucking thick oxygenated soup of life.
kevin smith
That...
Nobody was lizard looking.
joe rogan
There were more bird looking.
Probably bird and lizard because today we have crocodiles, we have Komodo dragons, and we have chickens, and we have eagles.
An eagle is fucking clearly a lot like a dinosaur, right?
This crazy ass thing with swords on its fingers and death in its eyes and it swoops down and it's got the strength to catch a fucking fish in the water and pull it out.
And fly with it.
They can catch goats and pull them off the side of cliffs and watch them fall and smash on the rocks below.
They do it as a strategy.
kevin smith
In order to eat it.
It's like, we'll knock it down.
Have you seen that?
I've heard.
I've never seen it.
joe rogan
You've never seen those videos?
There's videos.
They swoop down, they catch a mountain goat, they pull them off the side of the cliff, and then they let them go.
And they smash on the rocks down below.
Golden eagles in particular, because they're some of the largest eagles.
Yeah, giant fucking seven-foot wingspan flying demons.
unidentified
They snatch them and throw them.
kevin smith
They're doing it just because that's the...
joe rogan
Yeah, that's how they get meat.
Watch this shit.
This is crazy.
This is a golden eagle.
Look at the eyes in that thing, that evil fucking cunt.
kevin smith
That looks very much like a dinosaur.
joe rogan
Oh, it is, man.
kevin smith
That's depicted in the movie.
joe rogan
So sweat this.
He swoops down, and they know what's coming, too.
They boogie.
They're like, fuck this...
He swoops down.
God, the shitty resolution.
This must drive you nuts as a filmmaker.
kevin smith
I'm fine.
joe rogan
He swoops down.
Look at him.
He drops down.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
He gets one and he takes it.
Watch this.
Snatch.
Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon.
kevin smith
Oh my God, this poor thing's like, no!
joe rogan
Boom!
kevin smith
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Look at that.
He literally follows it to the rocks to make sure it lands on its head.
And then boom!
All the way to the ground.
So this is a strategy.
This is a strategy for eating these goats.
kevin smith
So he'll go down there and now easy pickings.
joe rogan
Easy pickings means he earned it.
He caught a goat.
kevin smith
Nature is red in tooth and claw.
unidentified
Look at this, too.
joe rogan
He carries it right to the rocks and then lets it go.
Watch this.
Let's it go right here.
unidentified
Badoja.
joe rogan
Wow, he flew so far with that one.
Look how far he flew.
That's incredible.
With a goat.
Maybe if he got a good hold of it, he doesn't have to throw it.
kevin smith
I couldn't carry a goat that far.
unidentified
Look at this thing.
kevin smith
This guy's flying with him.
joe rogan
What a majestic animal, man.
kevin smith
Do you think there's any part of the goat that's like, maybe I'll survive this?
What a story I'll have to tell.
joe rogan
It's amazing, man.
Amazing fucking life form.
Flying monster.
Predator.
kevin smith
Now, that's not an American eagle.
That's a what?
joe rogan
That's a golden eagle.
I think the largest eagles are these Venezuelan eagles called harpy eagles.
And those motherfuckers kill monkeys.
kevin smith
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Was that a mountain goat?
joe rogan
That was a mountain goat.
kevin smith
Because it looked bigger than a mountain goat.
joe rogan
It was a mountain goat.
It's pretty big.
I'm sure they do it to deer, too, though.
kevin smith
If you can kill that, fucking killing a chimp doesn't seem that difficult.
joe rogan
They kill wolves.
kevin smith
So they just swoop down?
joe rogan
In Mongolia, the Mongolians have trained eagles, golden eagles, to attack wolves and kill them.
And then they use their fur.
There's video of that, too.
kevin smith
Can we?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
kevin smith
For sure.
Makes you feel lazy.
Makes you feel like...
joe rogan
It should.
We should go kill something.
kevin smith
No.
It didn't make me feel bad, Joe.
joe rogan
Sweat this.
He swoops in.
His eagle swoops in, and the wolf knows exactly what the fuck is going on.
Oh, he's like, fuck!
Look at that guy's face.
unidentified
That guy is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
joe rogan
I mean, they have the traditional Mongol wear on, and these eagles swoop down.
They see the wolf.
They know exactly what to do.
Look, he's got the little things hanging in front of him.
kevin smith
This guy's like, please, no.
joe rogan
Yeah, the wolf's like, fuck this.
kevin smith
You can't really defend against that.
joe rogan
I would have never thought that eagles were so fearsome to wolves.
I thought wolves would fucking eagle up.
kevin smith
Yeah, like turn around and bite its head off at the right time.
joe rogan
I'd be like, a wolf?
Dude, wolves are ferocious.
But this wolf is way bigger than the eagle, too.
Like, if you look at the actual body size of the eagle, I mean, it's like the wolf's like three or four times bigger than him.
See how small he is?
unidentified
Dang!
joe rogan
Look, he just grabs the back of his fucking neck and pierces him with his claws.
It's amazing.
kevin smith
Is that a second bird?
Yeah, a second bird comes in.
Then they double team this poor dog?
joe rogan
Double jack him.
But the first one's already handled him.
Look, he just grabs a hold of his head with those knives and just sticks those knives in his neck.
kevin smith
Are they eating that wolf there now?
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
Yes, they're eating the fucking wolf.
You would have never thought.
I would have said, dude, that wolf is going to fuck them up.
kevin smith
Why didn't they ever show this shit in Mulan?
This looks amazing.
joe rogan
So he gets his eagle friends.
kevin smith
That dog's definitely dead, right?
joe rogan
Thanks, boys.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
The wolf's dead.
Dead as fuck.
Look, another one's coming in.
kevin smith
Oh, look at that.
joe rogan
He lands right on his arm.
This is amazing.
kevin smith
Why don't they try to eat the man?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
kevin smith
You know what I'm saying?
Like, how long before they're like, you know, we could keep attacking these wolves or we could turn and hit the dude in the hat.
joe rogan
Well, maybe if the dude keeps bringing him wolves, they're like, look, guys, he seems pretty cool.
kevin smith
Yeah, but if the bird figures out, like, he didn't bring me a fucking wolf.
There are wolves out there for the taking just like there are humans.
I could be picking this fool off.
I could turn around and eat his fucking eyes out.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
Damn, you're making a lot of sense today.
unidentified
What were we going to look up before we were going to look up that?
kevin smith
There was something else.
joe rogan
Oh, the harpy eagle that swoops down and kills monkeys.
That's one of the reasons why we look up all the time, apparently.
People look up.
They have a consistent instinct to look up like you're in the forest or something like that.
You look up.
One of the main reasons is they think that there's an ancient instinct that we have to protect ourselves from flying raptors.
Because they found, you know, old hominids, like not necessarily humans, but in the human tree that had predation marks from eagles on the inside of their skulls.
kevin smith
So it came from that?
joe rogan
Yeah, from eagles.
From eagles swooping down and, you know, especially larger eagles.
Yeah, I look up a lot of shit.
kevin smith
No, no, not look up shit.
Do you look up for danger?
joe rogan
Like, yeah, bro, I'll use Google.
kevin smith
You're like, come on, motherfucker, I'll Google everything.
I need references.
joe rogan
No, I don't, but apparently it's an instinct.
I mean, I'm not mostly in the woods, like looking around in the forest, but apparently when you go to the forest, there's an instinct to look up.
Also, you can be connected to cats, too, potentially.
But most of the time, big cats are not hiding in the trees when they come down and get you, but they can be.
kevin smith
I'm looking at fucking cats.
I'm worried about ticks.
I'm looking up because I'm like, I don't want any ticks in my hair, man.
Somebody has to use a Bic later.
joe rogan
Fucking Lyme disease, man.
kevin smith
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a dark and silent killer.
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
And it was something we've seen develop in our lifetime.
Am I right about that?
It didn't exist when I was a kid.
And then one day somebody was like, if you get bit by a deer tick, you'll be fucked up for a long time.
It's like mono times a thousand.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I know a guy who got Lyme disease, misdiagnosed.
Steven Kotler, a guest in the podcast really recently, misdiagnosed for about a year, wound up spending three years in the hospital because of it.
Three years in the hospital because of Lyme disease wrecked his immune system.
Because the misdiagnosis of over a year and all these different doctors told him it wasn't that, that's not what it is, you might be going crazy.
One doctor told him he had AIDS. Are you fucking shitting me?
Yes, the doctor told me, you have AIDS. He's like, what?
It was during the time where a lot of people had AIDS, and he was saying, no, I think it's Lyme disease.
And the doctor was like, no, you have AIDS. I'm like, holy shit.
Because your immune system is devastated when you have Lyme disease.
Can you sue a doctor like that?
Sue the fuck out of everybody.
kevin smith
Jesus.
joe rogan
He didn't tell us the numbers, but I believe he got...
As Damon Wayans would say it.
kevin smith
He had to go through a lot to get there, though.
There's easier ways.
I'm sure he wouldn't have chosen it.
joe rogan
Oh, he didn't want it.
But I think he learned a lot about himself, like overcoming this incredible health crisis.
But I've had many people that I'm friends with get Lyme disease.
I know at least 10 people.
kevin smith
But you go out in the woods a lot and hunt.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
And that's where they're all contracting it?
joe rogan
I know several people who've gotten it from that, for sure.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I know other people that have gotten it just from upstate New York.
You know, you're just like going fishing or something like that.
I mean, it doesn't have to be upstate New York.
It could be North Carolina.
It could be, you know...
kevin smith
All outdoors, though, right?
joe rogan
Almost all outdoors.
Almost all ticks.
kevin smith
Ever happen here in California?
joe rogan
Yes, yes.
It's not as prevalent, but it has happened here in California.
Picks are fucking bad news, man.
They're carriers, and that disease is insidious, and it's a tricky one, too, because it's oftentimes misdiagnosed, or especially what he was talking about, Kotler was saying that the doctors in California weren't really hip to it, because it's not common, but AIDS was more common, so that's one of the reasons why this guy...
Well, it was also...
like it was a shitty deal where the doctor wasn't get paid very much for each person that came to him.
So it wasn't very motivated.
We kind of went through the full gamut of explaining, uh, how, uh, it came to be, but yeah, misdiagnosed for a year.
One of spending three years in the hospital.
Yeah.
kevin smith
I, that's a losing that much time to something where you're like, what bit me a Again, that's where human arrogance or ego would come in.
I'm like, a fucking bug put its dirty spit in me and now I'm going to be in a hospital three fucking years?
This isn't fucking fair!
And then you remember there are guys out and...
joe rogan
Tibet, chopping people up for vultures.
kevin smith
Chopping people up so the vultures can eat them and shit.
joe rogan
You're making movies of smoking weed.
kevin smith
Relax.
I'm doing fine in life.
joe rogan
Everything seems pretty awesome.
kevin smith
I'm not sweating the ticks anymore.
joe rogan
You're not sweating shit.
You're doing fantastic.
kevin smith
I came back from recently.
I was in Vancouver.
I have been in the woods lately.
I directed two episodes of The Flash, one last season and one this season, which was fucking fun.
Is that on Netflix?
Yeah, I think so, the old episodes, but it's a CW show.
joe rogan
I need to watch that show.
kevin smith
It's dope.
If you like DC Comics, oh my god, it's fantastic.
joe rogan
I love comic book movies.
I'm more into them now as I get older than I was when I was younger.
kevin smith
It's a show, you know, its center is about a boy who runs very fast to solve all his problems, but really it's just soap operas for boys.
Or, again, girls.
I'm not even going to limit it.
It's just, they're very soap operatic.
You know, it's like very episodic and they throw in an adventure each week, but it's more about the relationship between the characters and stuff.
That's kind of what you keep coming back for.
It's a good balance of heart, humor, and heroics.
Like, you know, they got the family stuff or friendship stuff.
Like, yeah, it's important to be friends.
Then they got some laughs, and then the heroics is like, holy shit, look at them run fast.
Holy shit, look at her fly.
I did an episode of Supergirl as well.
So I was in Vancouver like three times in the span of the last year.
And we were, at one point, out in the woods.
And I remember being kind of like, can I get some...
I was like, no, for ticks and stuff like that.
Like, oh, that's not a real big problem here.
I don't know if it is up in the Pacific Northwest.
unidentified
I don't think it's a real big problem in the Pacific Northwest.
joe rogan
I think it's more of an East Coast problem.
Well, they named it after Lime, Connecticut.
That's where it originated.
That's where the original diagnosis of it was.
How long it existed before that is anybody's guess.
I don't know.
But I do know it's also connected to other neurological disorders like Morgellons.
Morgellons is a weird one where people think they have strands of fibers growing out of their body and oftentimes they have these crazy delusions.
And what Kotler was saying was that it has a neurological effect.
He didn't have like Morgellons disease.
But one of the doctors that I interviewed about Morgellons was telling me that he believes it's connected to Lyme disease because Lyme disease has some sort of neurotoxicity effect.
It has some sort of an effect where it distorts reality.
And Kotler had a real problem.
Remember he was talking about he couldn't figure out whether a green light meant go?
Or he didn't understand how to drive anymore.
Out of nowhere all of a sudden.
And he's realizing, wow, something's really wrong.
And this neurotoxicity effect, this whatever it was doing to pollute his brain's ability to function correctly, The more gelance people think, it's also what makes you claw at your skin and think there's fibers in there and you start seeing shit.
And then they get fibers from their clothes stuck to their scabs and they think that's growing out of their body.
But it's more likely just an offshoot of Lyme.
Because apparently when you get Lyme, you're not getting one bacteria.
It's one of the reasons why the results that people have when they get bitten vary so widely.
It's like there's a gang of different ones.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And there's a bunch of different also neighboring poisons and toxins that this tick could have in its body.
It might just not be this simple.
Lyme disease.
Oh, here's that one bacteria.
The tick has it.
No, the tick might have a host of different pathogens that affect you as Lyme disease.
This is this guy who has it explaining it to me.
And I'm shitting my fucking pants because I know so many people who have gotten this.
kevin smith
And there's no one, like, hey, take this antibiotic and knocks it out.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
And it varies widely how your body reacts to it, when you get it.
My friend's son, my friend Steven Rinella, his son got it.
The doctor misdiagnosed him.
The kid wound up getting Bell's palsy where his face started going numb.
kevin smith
In childhood?
joe rogan
Yes, yes, yes.
kevin smith
That happened to my dad when he was in his like...
50s.
joe rogan
Well, most likely the young body could probably bounce back from it better than the old body, but for a lot of people, like my friend Cody has it, he's like 26, I think, and he says his fucking joints hurt all the time, and that it's from having Lyme.
Like from that point on, like his joints are always achy.
kevin smith
I've not been bit by a tick, and I don't have Lyme disease, but lately I've noticed I'm 46 now, so I have noticed aging in a way that I haven't before.
My knee lately.
Doing nothing.
I'm not an active guy at all.
Has been being fucking weird.
And somebody said it's from descending a hill.
I walk every day.
Walk the dogs like a mile and a half up a hill and back down.
That's like my exercise routine.
And down the hill, they said that's what's doing it to you.
They're like, how do you walk?
And I was like, I don't like this.
And they're like, you don't do heel-toe?
And I was like...
I don't know, don't I? And they're like, no, look.
And apparently I walk ball heel.
joe rogan
Well, ball heel up is the way to go.
kevin smith
Yes.
Ball heel down apparently not good.
joe rogan
But is it heel-toed down?
kevin smith
Apparently is what they're saying.
But I don't know anybody.
Unless you're thinking about walking heel-toe, I don't know if you necessarily fall into a heel-toe type pattern.
joe rogan
Well, the real issue is there's a big issue with shoes.
Like, the way we have constructed shoes, we've created a gate that's an unnatural, like, heel, toe, forward gate.
Like, people always used to walk on the ball of their foot because the ball of the foot acts like a shock absorber.
It allows you to slowly lower your heel down to the ground, which is why a lot of, like, those barefoot runners, they do so well.
Like, if you're running barefoot all the time, you're developing, like, these incredibly strong feet, and they're springing.
And they don't need, like, these big, thick cushions, but we, and I guess it was, like, the 1970s when Nike came out with a running shoe.
They developed that big, fat-ass heel, and then people started running on the heel.
They started bouncing on the heel instead of using the natural shock-absorbing motion You tell me a fucking shoe changed the way we walk as human beings?
It changed our running gait.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Which would also, would it affect your walking gait as well?
joe rogan
Sure.
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
kevin smith
So prior to the sneaker, what was that guy's name?
Phil Knight or something like that?
joe rogan
I don't know.
Who invented Nike?
Jamie, yours?
kevin smith
Is it Phil Knight?
joe rogan
Jamie goes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's excited.
He's a sneakerhead.
kevin smith
Phil Knight literally changed, was it?
joe rogan
He buys Yeezys.
kevin smith
What's that?
joe rogan
Exactly.
Thank you.
God bless you.
God bless you and your kind soul.
kevin smith
I heard an Yeezy in there.
I was like, maybe that's Kanye West.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's amazing that you don't know that.
Thank you.
kevin smith
See?
I try to keep my head firmly lodged up the ass of the 90s.
That's where shit was good for me.
joe rogan
He was like, you don't know what Yeezys are?
I'm like, you get away from me.
You're not poisoning me.
kevin smith
Always keep your finger on the pulse, Jason.
joe rogan
But meanwhile, people look at his sneakers, hey yo, fresh Yeezys.
And he's like, yeah.
Jamie gets all, and he looks over at me like, ah, bitch.
How many people have done that?
unidentified
Like five or six Yeezys?
A lot.
joe rogan
No, I'm not saying it's me.
kevin smith
You a big sneakerhead?
joe rogan
Oh, he's a dork.
kevin smith
We had a pair of sneakers once.
We had a Smodcast pair of sneakers for the podcast.
joe rogan
He's a super sneaker dork.
Sneakers are awesome, man.
I like them, but I only like...
You've got to tell me, man, those Converse 2s fell apart on me quick.
Kind of shocked.
Converse 1s, virtually indestructible.
Converse 2s fell apart on me pretty fucking quick.
kevin smith
You tend to do a lot more active shit than the average bear, though, to be fair.
joe rogan
Yeah, but, like, these are the shit.
Converse Ones.
These are the shit.
Chuck Taylors, they're the shit.
They have no sole.
There's, like, the rubber sole, but there's no cushioning.
There's, like, very little, like, sponge.
You feel the ground.
kevin smith
Vans were like that as well.
joe rogan
You feel the ground.
Yeah, sort of.
Yeah, like those thin-soled shoes.
To me, it's like that's how you're supposed to walk.
You're not supposed to walk with this crazy cushion on the bottom.
Whenever I do the UFC, I wear dress shoes.
And dress shoes have a heel.
And if you stand in them with that heel for a while, it kind of makes your feet feel weird.
They don't feel good.
They want to get out of them.
If you're wearing Converse All-Stars, You get out of them.
It's not like your feet were hurting.
kevin smith
It's almost sick and skinny.
It's like wearing slippers.
joe rogan
They're so minimal.
They're the best sneaker, in my mind, for just wearing them, just walking around wearing them.
I'm not even getting paid by Converse, bro.
I'm just endorsing it out of love.
kevin smith
You're just advocating the same way you'd be like, look, we should all be nice to each other.
We should all get $12,000 a year.
We should all have a pair of these.
joe rogan
You can't pretend you're too fancy.
If you're wearing Converse All-Stars, you can't pretend you're like a super fancy Yeezy-wearing man.
He's a Yeezy-wearing man.
He might sell his.
He might sell them as they've been worn for a while.
There's a second-hand Yeezy market.
kevin smith
So somebody will buy a worn sneakers.
joe rogan
His eyebrows are up.
Look at him.
He's excited.
kevin smith
I've got some Simpsons vans from back in the day that I've had people offer for those as well.
joe rogan
You know who I bet would buy them?
That dude who didn't want to take the $40.
He'd buy them.
He'd jerk off with them on.
That's what running shoes looked like in 1920. Whoa!
Oh, that's crazy!
kevin smith
It's got a heel.
joe rogan
They have cleats on them.
But they're dress shoes.
That's amazing.
kevin smith
Did they have tracks or were they just running in like that dirt circle probably?
joe rogan
Dude, they had heels.
The Spencer shoe.
Possibly the first pair of specialized running shoes ever made.
Oh my God.
kevin smith
Old timey pictures, dude.
joe rogan
Dude, that's amazing though.
Look at those stupid things.
kevin smith
This is off the topic, but old timey picture triggered in me.
Have you ever heard of the Cottingly Fairies?
joe rogan
No.
kevin smith
So I guess maybe turn of the century or the beginning, like 1900 or something like that, there were these little girls in England that photographed themselves playing with fairies.
unidentified
Whoa.
kevin smith
And the world was exposed to it.
This wasn't the only person, but...
What's his name?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
There's the picture.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of Sherlock Holmes...
Was a spiritualist?
And so he actually wrote an article defending that picture.
You go through all the pictures.
Those are the Cottingly Ferry pictures.
joe rogan
Hey, dude, I'm going to take a leak.
kevin smith
Go ahead.
joe rogan
I'm holding in some pee for quite a while now.
Go ahead, but take a peek at that.
This needs to be debunked.
Jamie, tell them about your sneakers.
jamie vernon
I was going to say keep talking, but there was a thing that says Museum of Hoaxes.
unidentified
I wonder what they talk about.
kevin smith
Oh, this is a fucking hoax.
This is a big-time hoax.
The kids...
Years later, admitted that they had kind of cut the picture.
They admitted something that if you look at these photos, you'll be like, that had to be admitted?
Like, to us, it's very clearly she cut pictures out.
Those are pictures.
Those are two-dimensional images of fairies and pretty traditional fairy imagery.
Years later, they revealed that they traced the images out of a popular book and put their own spins on them and then cut them out and took pictures with them.
But Arthur Conan Doyle, the guy that wrote fucking Sherlock Holmes, like, really defended this shit, going, no, there are fairies.
There is another world, and it's trying to break through.
And these little girls have been in contact with it.
You know, and he was ridiculed by over half the population because...
A lot of people looked at that picture and saw what we see, which is kids with little cutouts, pictures of fairies.
But there was a time where...
Almost half the world was like, oh no, that's real.
Yeah, that could be real.
The Cottingly fairies are pictures that these kids fucking took, Joe.
And clearly, just blow one up.
joe rogan
That shit's fake as fuck.
kevin smith
Exactly.
But there was a time, because you had somebody like Arthur Conan Doyle going, no, this is real, and spiritualism is a real thing, and there are other races and other beings, and fairies are real.
Out there in the world defending it and stuff.
And then finally, late in their lives, when they were nearly past...
They said, yeah, we cut them out of a book.
They admitted to something that you knew right away just by looking at the photo.
Like, oh, that's fake as shit.
But in the 20s or whatever, or back in the day?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, man.
kevin smith
Oh, my God.
You could show somebody a picture, and they were like, that's fucking real.
joe rogan
Well, you can only imagine.
I mean...
How gullible people were before photos.
kevin smith
When you didn't know it was in the night.
That's bullshit.
But I still think of the Bigfoot video and I'm like, that shit's real.
Like when he walks past the camera and then he suddenly looks at the camera.
jamie vernon
I saw a thought on this topic recently.
Five years from now, if Photoshop was erased from the internet's memory, how could you explain Photoshop pictures to somebody?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
If we live to be a few thousand years from now, if society goes down and then they rebuild computers a thousand years from now and they look at these old images but they don't have the capability then, yeah, totally possible.
kevin smith
They'll be like, there was somebody standing on top of one of the Twin Towers when a plane came at it on September 11th.
I remember seeing that picture and being like, holy fucking shit, how'd they find that camera?
For five seconds.
And then I was like, wait a second, dude.
We live in the age of Photoshop.
Do you know the guy that created Photoshop?
Created it with his brother?
Is the guy that created the story or came up with the story for this new Star Wars movie, Rogue One.
joe rogan
Wow.
kevin smith
Special effects wizard, right?
And so one day, you know, they work in the special effects biz.
Him and his brother are like, you know, this would be helpful, like, in a kind of home use setting.
You know, like, being able to take a photograph and manipulate it.
So in their spare time, dude.
Because they were working on motion pictures and shit.
unidentified
Holy shit.
kevin smith
In their spare time, they invented Photoshop.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
kevin smith
They must be gazillionaires.
But he still works at Skywalker.
joe rogan
Do you know who John Carmack is?
John Carmack is one of the original owners of id Software.
He's the head programmer, lead programmer.
He created Quake and Doom and a bunch of different awesome video games.
And now he also works on Oculus Rift.
He's working on that.
Hero to the game community because he created like arguably the greatest 3d shooter of all time a series of them doom quake quake 1 quake 2 quake 3 he In his spare time made rockets in his spare time.
He was a rocket scientist So he was he was coding the most complicated 3d graphics engines known to man for video games right then in his spare times He's making rockets.
He's a fucking rocket scientist for fun.
Then, he would take Ferraris and turbocharge them.
So he'd get these Ferraris, because he's got ungodly sums of money for making all these fucking crazy video games that have sold kabillions of copies, right?
He's buying Ferraris and re-engineering their fucking engines.
In his spare time...
kevin smith
What do you mean?
Re-engineering it to do what?
joe rogan
These double twin turbo-charging Ferraris.
kevin smith
So that makes it like a jet?
joe rogan
This was a long time ago, man, where a Ferrari would have, like, if it came from the factory, maybe 400 horsepower.
He would jack them bitches up to, like, 1,000.
In his spare time.
He was making...
kevin smith
Renaissance man.
A real life buckaroo bonsai, if you will.
joe rogan
A guy who you and I are barely in the same species.
kevin smith
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
Barely.
kevin smith
That's true.
In a moment like that, you're like, well, I can't do any of those things.
Every time I've had a conversation with him.
You'd like to comfort yourself by being like, well, he probably can't make a real good dick joke, and then that's not enough.
I'd much rather be him than me.
joe rogan
Better off to not balance yourself out.
Better not to go, well, he can't do it.
Better off to just go, look at this crazy motherfucker.
This is amazing.
kevin smith
Just appreciate someone else's ability.
joe rogan
Yeah, the less time you compare yourself to other people, the better off you'll be.
Just enjoy how amazing people are.
Don't think, man, I wish I was that amazing.
kevin smith
Well, that's when I was going back to the $12,000 a year.
Free $12,000 a year for everybody.
I think what gets in the way is human nature.
Because you have some people who are like, he don't deserve that $12,000.
Or he gets a lot.
He's got a nicer house.
He's also getting the $12,000 I'm getting.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, for sure.
kevin smith
I think that would start seeping in.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he gets a lot because he makes money on top of the $12,000.
So his needs are taken care of.
kevin smith
You're being logical.
You've got to admit, a human animal doesn't always see things logically.
Sometimes they just be like, why them, why not me?
joe rogan
We get selfish.
kevin smith
That's where the $12,000 a year comes into problem.
I don't know.
joe rogan
We don't know because I don't think it's ever been really, at least on a wide scale, it's ever been practiced.
kevin smith
I'm with you.
What a good idea.
joe rogan
I just don't think our system is good.
kevin smith
How many people did you say we had in this country?
joe rogan
Three hundred and something million plus Mexicans.
kevin smith
So do quick math.
What is that?
joe rogan
Oh, I'm sure they've done it out.
There was an argument by an economist, like a really well-respected economist, for universal basic income.
And I think the number they were going by was $12,000 a year.
Surprisingly supports universal basic income just Google that and because there was some Pretty prominent economist who actually understands the system, except for you and I. They're like, oh, I got enough money.
I can do my thing.
kevin smith
Is this like a Noam Chomsky kind of idea?
unidentified
No, I'm not.
joe rogan
Noam Chomsky, he's a linguist.
kevin smith
Right.
joe rogan
So he's not an economist.
kevin smith
He wouldn't be talking about economy at all.
joe rogan
No.
You ever try to follow Noam Chomsky's stuff on language?
kevin smith
Oh my God, it's fucking tough, dude.
unidentified
Whoa.
kevin smith
It feels like doing exercise with your brain.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
It feels like you're doing a workout.
I think Take In Some Chomsky is...
There's that movie they did.
It was a documentary.
Is the Tall Man Happy, I think is the name of it.
Is the man who is tall happy?
And it was directed by the guy that...
Oh, what's his name?
Michel Gondry, the director.
He made a very interesting documentary that was partly animated in a conversation with...
About Chomsky.
joe rogan
What is it called again?
kevin smith
Is the Man Who is Tall Happy, I believe is the title.
And it's wonderful.
It's like beginners.
It's Chomsky for beginners because it's very colorful and breaks it down.
But I watched...
The other morning I got up and blazed and watched three interviews with him.
Talking about post-election and stuff and his take on everything.
joe rogan
He's a fascinating character.
kevin smith
Oh my god.
He's advanced in age at this point, but that mind is sharp as a tack.
And it's one of those minds you can be like, there's going to be a loss to lose that mind.
He's thinking about things that a lot of others aren't.
And his thing that spooked me big deal was...
He said right now the whole world should be focused on the Russian front, on Russia and the Russian front, because that's where your hot spot of activities like the United States and Russia have come into conflict recently in a way that they haven't since the Cold War.
And he's going, and now you're talking about two superpowers with the ability to destroy the planet.
Shit that we haven't really thought about since the fucking 80s.
And all of a sudden you're like, oh, is that what they meant by make America great again?
Like, let's be scared of the possible nuclear annihilation?
Because I hadn't thought about that in years, I'll be honest with you.
joe rogan
That was another thing that bummed me out about the Clinton campaign.
They were Russian fear-mongering.
One of the big things that she kept saying during the election was they were talking about being hacked.
And she was saying it was the Russians.
So she was implying that Donald Trump supports the Russians because he supports the hacks.
And there's no evidence that the Russians did it.
None.
I've looked at it.
People have gotten mad at me so that I've looked into it deeply.
No one has proven that the Russians have done it.
But they're saying it as if they've proven the Russians have done it.
So, one of two things.
kevin smith
I thought the Russians admitted that they actually tinkered with it.
joe rogan
Sure, I would admit it too.
But there's no evidence that they did it.
kevin smith
Okay.
joe rogan
I mean, who knows if they did it?
kevin smith
Fair point.
joe rogan
The problem is, if you say they did it, you gotta know for sure they did it.
Otherwise, I'm gonna listen to you every time you say you know something for sure, and I'm like, this bitch definitely doesn't know for sure.
You can't know for sure, because you don't have the information.
If you did, you'd tell us what it was.
Like, you don't know.
And the FBI doesn't say they know, and the CIA doesn't say they know.
There's a likelihood, there's a possibility, there's a high probability, but you don't know.
So until you know, you can't say you know.
Because as soon as you do, because you might be full of shit about other things.
You might...
You know, you might fill in the blank on a bunch of other important stuff and pretend you know when you don't know, because that's what you're doing.
And I think that's another thing as a civilization.
We can't allow that.
We can't allow that.
Like in Donald Trump, when he keeps talking about these millions of voters that illegally voted and kept him from winning the popular vote, you can't say that.
You can't do that anymore.
kevin smith
Why?
joe rogan
Because you can't lie.
kevin smith
Well, number one, you couldn't do that before.
joe rogan
Right.
kevin smith
He kind of seems to have brought it back.
And it hasn't killed him.
He is, in fact, the president.
joe rogan
When you do this thing, when you put your hand on the ancient book and you raise your right hand.
kevin smith
I'm with you, but we're in the epsidazium now.
Like, it doesn't matter what used to be, and there is no more you can't because of things like that, where you're like, well, you couldn't, but he did, and everything worked out fine.
joe rogan
But I'm with you.
kevin smith
I'm totally with you in terms of, like, you shouldn't fucking say that, because that starts breaking the system down.
But then again, we were just talking about, like, is this a system that you even want to place?
In a world where you're like, do we need a president?
Who cares what's being said then?
Why does it matter if somebody's being like, there was people that voted that didn't vote?
joe rogan
Yeah, because he's the guy now.
See, if you want that position, you have to be under oath all the time.
That's what it's got to be like.
unidentified
Totally.
joe rogan
If you really want to say that you're so noble or you're so powerful or wise, whatever you are, whatever your attributes are, you're so awesome that you should be the president?
Man, you can't be lying about illegal voters.
Unless you have some data, you can't say it.
Until you have some data, you can't say it.
And once you say it, you've got to have some data.
kevin smith
But he said a lot of things with no data whatsoever.
joe rogan
I know.
kevin smith
And I understand you say anything to get elected, but now we're beyond that.
joe rogan
I know.
kevin smith
It's still playing the same kind of game.
joe rogan
I know.
kevin smith
I've just not grown comfortable with, but I think I have to learn to accept the fact that What I used to consider a fact is no longer a fact.
People talk about facts in this real loose way now where they're just like, well, what is a fact?
A fact to you may not be a fact to me.
And it's like, well, that's not the definition of fact at all.
A fact is a fact.
But people go, what's factual for you may not be factual for me.
We're on such a fucking slippery slope now.
joe rogan
The Matrix, bro.
kevin smith
That's the least egregious thing at this point of him being like, 2 million people voted illegally.
Because the dude was literally saying he won the popular vote.
That's the first big kind of untruth.
But he said a lot of things that sometimes he chalks up to like, I was kidding.
joe rogan
It's the same kind of thing.
Someone's saying that the Russians hacked the Democratic National Conference or committee or whatever the fuck it is, DNC. Are you sure?
That's the same thing.
Saying that.
Whether they're little tiny lies or whether they're leaps of faith or leaps of judgment or whether they're just full fabrications, you can't do any of them.
andy stumpf
Shouldn't be able to do any of those.
kevin smith
I agree.
joe rogan
Like, if anybody catches you, like, if you're in big government and, you know, there's a video of the FBI saying one thing and then you saying another thing.
When the FBI told me this and the FBI saying explicitly what they told you and those things don't match.
kevin smith
Right.
joe rogan
There should be a trial.
kevin smith
Right.
joe rogan
They should be like, are you a liar?
Like, do you get interviewed?
kevin smith
As long as it's extended to people that are like, you know, the president was born in...
joe rogan
It should only be when you have power.
kevin smith
In a Muslim country and he's Muslim.
joe rogan
Like, yeah, he's a perfect example.
When he was saying that...
That he was born in Kenya.
Trump was like a major league birther.
That's a perfect example.
kevin smith
Yeah.
He was some theorized, I've read, that he kind of jumped on to the birther movement because he was like, well, if I ingratiate myself with this crowd, that'll be helpful if I want to run for president in a couple of years.
joe rogan
Or he might have watched a YouTube video and believed it, too.
kevin smith
That, too.
I like to think that—I mean, I don't like to think, but I choose to think— That he's smarter than that.
joe rogan
Oh, I don't know, man.
kevin smith
It could have just been him.
Like, recently he tweeted, anyone who burns the flag should go to jail and be arrested.
And then they found out, I read an article online, that they had just run a piece on Fox News about flag burning.
So he was kind of informed by something he just watched on TV. But that's how most people tweet, right?
They see something and go like that.
But that's not what you want out of a chief executive of a country.
At least that's traditionally not what people wanted.
But this time, that seems to be what people want.
joe rogan
Did you know Hillary Clinton had proposed that very same thing in 2005?
She proposed that flag burning should have a stiff fine in a year in jail.
Like, she said that.
kevin smith
Right.
But she's not the president.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Yeah, right.
Now that he is.
Well, the whole thing is...
It's uber, uber bizarre from top to bottom.
kevin smith
Do you feel like...
And I don't want to, you know, paint it cynically.
Like, this country has been here for a while, probably be here for a lot longer than our petty issues with it in the moment, if we have issues with it.
But...
I just, you know, it became a different world in the span of six months.
joe rogan
Yeah, I feel like it did too.
kevin smith
Like, you know, in a way where, you know, I thought I had this down.
Like, I think about this.
Whenever I was in school, you'd read like your history books and you'd be like, how come they didn't stop this?
Why didn't they know this was going on?
Like, what the...
Are you serious?
Like, I'm sitting here as a child reading this, and I know that this is wrong.
Why didn't someone step in?
Why didn't blah, blah, blah?
I remember going to Germany the first time with Clerks.
I went to the Berlin Film Festival.
And before screening, me and my friend Brian Johnson, we were like, well, let's go see a concentration camp.
We're here.
We should go see a concentration camp.
And they're like, dude, you've got to introduce a comedy in three hours.
You really don't want to do that.
I was like, no, I'll compartmentalize.
I was like, let me...
I'm here.
I've got to see history.
And so, you know, we went to Buchenwald?
The one that says, albeit mocked Fry over it, work will make you free, like the worst fucking lie.
And it's, you know, obviously fucking sobering and horrible.
And, you know, you're seeing the dimensions and spaces where things happened and whatnot.
And you can't help but turn to the guy who was our cab driver who drove us for Berlin, which was like 40 minutes out of Berlin, maybe an hour out of Berlin, and then drove us back.
And, you know, he was waiting with us while we were there, so he went through the concentration camp.
He was born and raised in Germany, so I'm sure he's had to do this a number of times with school or something like that.
unidentified
Right.
kevin smith
But you couldn't help it on the ride back.
You didn't want to be that American dick.
But it's like, did anyone in your family know?
Did you guys talk about this?
Like, how do they handle this sort of thing over here?
Like, how did you guys wake up after it was all over and go back to what was the new normal?
Like, you realize this is fucking heinous.
You know, and the guy was just like, it's taught to us in school.
And there was a moment when, you know, every young kid in school learns about...
Hitler and the Third Reich and the Holocaust that they go back to their parents and start saying, like, how much did you know?
How much did grandma and grandpa know?
unidentified
Blah, blah, blah.
kevin smith
Wow.
So I think of moments like that where I'm just...
And I'm certainly not comparing this country to the fucking Germany by any stretch of the imagination.
joe rogan
Did you say Trump was Hitler?
kevin smith
Not at all.
joe rogan
Bro, that's why I heard it.
kevin smith
Not at all.
All I'm saying is, like, there are moments in history where, you know, I thought we were kind of past it.
History happens all the time.
You know, obviously September 11th is a very big historical moment in our lifetime.
But I really felt like, well, you know, until like World War III, we're probably done with history for a little bit, which is a ridiculous fucking statement.
But now I feel like we are living in a chapter in a history book.
Some kid in the future is going to be looking at this chapter and being like...
Really?
Like, they didn't know?
That's what they did?
And I'm not saying again, like, I expect horrible things from this guy or anything.
I'm just saying the world is vastly changed in a way that it's going to be recognized now, and it'll be recognized when they write the book on this year, and when they write the book on this year for years to come.
Suddenly we're kind of in that moment as well.
But then again...
We probably were always in a moment of history.
And I don't even mean in a stoner way, like, this is a moment of history, and this is a moment of history.
But history's not always that loud and noticeable.
Sometimes it's quiet, and they don't notice it until later on.
joe rogan
Well, we've gone through it.
I mean, I'm a couple years older than you, but we remember Reagan.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We remember the Iran-Contra affair.
kevin smith
Is that what it feels like to you?
Culturally, it felt like, because I was just having this discussion with somebody else, but in the 70s, 60s into the 70s, you had this kind of Progressive, growing America where suddenly, you know, maybe there wasn't as much segregation and, you know, people were kind of developing, evolving and becoming more like the world we recognize now.
And it felt like, you know, like by showing you stuff like All in the Family and whatnot, You know, arts tries to push the edge of the envelope at all times.
Try to put normalcy into something that, you know, a situation that you maybe don't find normal.
But if you see it on TV enough, you're like, hey, I'm over it.
And suddenly it's for real and stuff like that.
It felt like, you know, the 80s and Reagan, and again, I'm not a political creature by any stretch of the imagination.
I lived through it, but I was not active during it by any stretch of the imagination.
But it feels like that time was a reaction to the culture.
Like, hey, things have gotten too loosey-goosey around here.
And then things got conservative for eight years or maybe.
And then it feels like things loosen up.
I mean, again, I'm no political analyst, but it just seems like if you look over your history...
It contracts and it expands.
It contracts and it expands.
But the contractions don't seem to bring it back to square one.
You know, it may be a matter of two steps forward, one step back.
Two steps forward, one step back.
And if you do that enough over the course of a nation, there's growth and you'll see the balance.
But you've got a bunch of people that don't believe in the same...
Don't even see the world through the same prism.
So it just feels like, I don't know, I mean, maybe the idea, and again, a couple stoners talk about how to do the presidency better.
Maybe you just have an agreement where it's like eight years of this, eight years of that, and that's only if it's a two-party system.
Like, what if you come up with a four-party system and you're like, okay, you only get four years, and then it goes to this party right after, then this party, this party.
joe rogan
Well, there's a multiple-party system.
You have multiple independent parties.
If you look at the ballot, a lot of other people wanted to run for president, right?
Like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, and I'm sure there were a bunch of other ones that we don't know.
Yeah, there was Zoltan Istvan, who's the...
He's the transcendent or transhumanist party.
There's like a lot of people ran, but that's...
The system is just so old.
It's just so goddamn ancient.
We're trying to patch up this thing that we would never create today.
If it existed today, there's no way we would ever let one person have all the fucking power.
I just think that human beings are in a process of waking up and of realizing how bizarre our position is.
I mean, and not just our position in America, but our position on the planet Earth as it hurls through infinity.
We're on a spinning ball that's floating in the sky and hurling towards the cosmos or through the cosmos.
We tend not to focus on that.
That alone is insane.
And we're concentrating on whether or not gay people should be able to marry or girls should be able to get abortions or whether or not Black Lives Matter.
We're fucking hurling through infinity.
This slow process of realization coincides with the innovation that you're seeing from all these different new technology companies that are coming up with better and better ways to communicate, whether it's cellular or fucking video or whether they're using Snapchat or virtual reality rooms where they can all meet in.
And it's going to keep going and going and going and going and going and going until we're in some sort of a matrix-like world.
It's inevitable.
It's going to fucking happen.
kevin smith
You think we go digital eventually?
joe rogan
100%.
100%.
And I think we might not even have a choice.
I think it's entirely possible we're going to create a new form of life, some new artificial form of life, and that thing is going to be what goes on from now.
We're going to merge with that somehow.
We're going to find out that they can give you new eyes when your eyes go bad, and these eyes allow you to look at navigation screens and Google things, and you're going to be able to stare straight at the sun.
It's inevitable that we're going to improve upon the human body.
They're already replacing people's hips and shoulders and knees.
They're growing fucking hearts in a laboratory with stem cells that actually beat.
They created a woman's bladder out of stem cells.
She had bladder cancer.
They made her a bladder.
Here, we got one for you.
Stitched it back in there, like, whoa.
kevin smith
It's very sci-fi.
joe rogan
We're doing some crazy shit, and it's going to keep going.
50, 60, 70, 80, 100 years from now, whatever it takes.
We're going to merge.
We're going to merge with technology.
kevin smith
And technology is going to be smarter than us.
You and I have been sitting here talking for a little while, and normally when you're in the world, you've got that device in your hand.
I've noticed that my wife says that all the time.
She's...
It's like, you're never separated from that phone.
Like, I get up from the side of the bed, I pick it up and go to the bathroom because I'm like, well, I might want to play a game or I might want to look up some information.
Like, there seems to be a human need for data at all times now.
We've trained ourselves to have data at our fingertips.
We no longer sit there and go, what is that person's name?
Now you're just like, oh, I'll look it up.
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
So a lot of our thinking has been pushed off to technology that we've created so we feel comfortable with it, going like, well, you know, we're smarter than that.
joe rogan
And it keeps getting better.
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
And faster, dude.
Think about it.
Like all those body parts you're talking about them doing, that's last, what, 28?
20 years.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Like prior to that, there was no like, Hey, we'll grow you a new bladder.
Hey, we can, we can put skin on you again.
You know, it wouldn't look like that and shit like that.
So yeah, what's going to happen.
Yeah.
You're right.
In the next fucking 50 years.
joe rogan
We're going to merge.
We're going to somehow...
There's this new Google Assistant that comes with the Google Pixel phone.
It's like their version of Siri, but it's superior because it's contextual.
So I could say, like, how old's Kevin Smith?
And they'll say, Kevin Smith is 46 years old.
What's he working on these days?
Like, it knows I'm talking about you.
I'll say, what's he working on these days?
Kevin Smith just produced a movie.
It's got...
Yoga hosers.
kevin smith
But could you say that about, like, Grace Smith, my mom?
joe rogan
No.
I mean, it'd have to be out on the internet, like all the data and details.
But, like, say if you wanted to know.
kevin smith
My mom's always on the fucking cruising Craigslist trying to get fucking cocked.
joe rogan
Okay, what is Craigslist?
It'll tell you.
Craigslist is this.
How many people on Craigslist are selling drugs?
Well, we found approximately 5,000.
It gives you, like, contextual.
kevin smith
It's true to make it much easier.
Like, look, I'm looking to have the girlfriend experience.
How many people on Craigslist are offering it?
joe rogan
Oh, that's for sure going to happen.
kevin smith
Like, cha-cha-cha-cha-ching.
joe rogan
Well, if you could get, like, sort of...
You know how Bitcoin has sort of enabled people to...
kevin smith
Still happening, Bitcoin?
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Don't you ever say that around Andreas Antonopoulos.
kevin smith
It's still going on.
joe rogan
We get furious at you.
Yeah, we have this guy.
He prefers not to call himself Bitcoin Jesus because he doesn't like how his story ends.
He likes Bitcoin Buddha.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He feels like it's better.
It leads to enlightenment.
kevin smith
Didn't they have a problem?
Like, somebody fucking hacked their account or something like that?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that's...
Well, this is a long conversation if you want to go with that.
kevin smith
No, no need, but it's still happening.
joe rogan
That is actually an exchange that got tapped into.
It was the Magic the Gathering exchange.
That's what it started out as.
You know that game, Magic the Gathering?
It started off as that, and then during that time, people started trading Bitcoin on that when it was nothing.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And then that Bitcoin became worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and then they got robbed.
So all the Bitcoin got stolen out, and this guy got in trouble because he ran the site that he was never...
No one had any idea that it was going to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and that this guy would lose it all.
So the whole thing was like a really crazy and sordid affair, but...
The spirit of Bitcoin is that you and I can exchange money for services with no third party.
kevin smith
Just you and I. There's no bank in that.
joe rogan
Yeah, like you want to buy this computer.
I say, sure, give me X amount of Bitcoin and you send it to my phone.
All right, cool, we got a deal.
And then you're done.
And this idea, I mean, if you could get to the point where you're talking to your phone and you tell your phone to order you a pizza and pay for it in Bitcoin and it's doing everything digitally and it's Bitcoin or Bitcoin?
kevin smith
Bitcoin.
When you eat, it's Bitcoin.
When you're buying shit, it's Bitcoin.
joe rogan
What is it when it's a hooker?
kevin smith
Bitcoin.
unidentified
Ah.
joe rogan
That sounds racist.
kevin smith
Some will have the coin, but not everyone will have the coin.
What was the coin?
It meant like love, respect, everything.
joe rogan
I don't know.
kevin smith
What does that mean?
joe rogan
What does that mean?
kevin smith
Remember Jerry Maguire, man?
He was always talking about the coin.
unidentified
I don't.
kevin smith
He said it was the full package.
It was love, money, respect, endorsement.
I don't know.
unidentified
Hmm.
kevin smith
But it was a bigger deal than just like...
joe rogan
Okay.
kevin smith
All right, but go back to Bitcoin.
So it's still going on.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's some people who love it.
Yeah, I like the idea, but I think it's awesome.
kevin smith
Very democratic way to...
It's my money.
Why do I have to go through this, this, this?
And I understand those institutions and FDIC is all built to protect your money, but it also seems engineered to...
Keep your money and get your money and take a percentage of it as well.
joe rogan
I have the weirdest abstract take on cryptocurrencies.
I think that ultimately all money will be digital.
And since money, if it all becomes digital like that, money is basically information.
And the one thing that's keeping people from each other, like the one thing that separates us is the barrier of information.
Like, I can't read your emails.
You can't read my mind.
You can't see my pictures.
You can't know everything that you can possibly know instantaneously.
There's like this barrier, and that barrier is all information, right?
It's all trying to get writing.
What has someone written?
What is all the scholarly work on astrophysics?
What is all...
All that stuff, the barriers between us and those things are slowly being removed.
There's more and more information.
If you went on the internet in 1996 and tried to get an education, you'd be a retarded.
kevin smith
You wouldn't have that education.
joe rogan
You're not going to learn shit.
But now, you can legitimately get a full college education online.
Plus, you can read a million different papers on all sorts of different things, especially if you want to pay for them, on all sorts of different studies.
kevin smith
You get smarter online than you could actually in a classroom.
joe rogan
You could almost never run out of things to absorb, almost never run out of information.
And I think that that's the one thing that technology seems to be embracing, is closing the gap between people and data, closing the gap between people and information.
Well, eventually, that money is going to be the only bottleneck.
To read in each other's minds.
What money is, if it's Bitcoin or if it's digital, it's a one and a zero.
It's just a code.
So what's to stop me from getting into that code?
How come I can't get that code?
Well, that's somebody else's.
Oh, okay.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Is it information?
What is it?
Can I get it?
Can I copy it?
No, if you copy it, it's no good.
Oh, okay.
So it's a finite resource.
Well, that's fucking ridiculous.
Because it's not.
We're not talking about oil or water or rocks or minerals or metals.
We're talking about some goofy fucking numbers that you've got on a goddamn commuter.
It's information.
It allows us access to resources.
We should all have access to all the information.
And then it's going to be some weird merging of digital minds, some sort of a hive mind system created by something like Google or some company that figures out a way to allow people to communicate thought to thought, and it's going to have Money attached to it.
All of it.
It's going to be a big fucking soup of information.
That's going to be the breakdown.
The breakdown is money.
kevin smith
Why?
Why that?
joe rogan
Because it's information.
Because if money becomes information...
This is obviously super stoner talk.
kevin smith
Go ahead.
joe rogan
But if money just becomes ones and zeros, what's happening with WikiLeaks, you know, these...
Emails getting hacked, data getting out, you know, Sony getting hacked, all their data getting out, all these people.
The barriers are falling between people and information.
kevin smith
They said in the government right now, our government.
joe rogan
I love it when I say something retarded and someone nods like, yeah, dude.
kevin smith
I'm like, that's fucking, that's dumb, dude.
They said that there's a deep need for hackers in this country.
joe rogan
Whoa.
kevin smith
There's not enough because everywhere else, like hacking has exponentially increased over the course of the last few years by double the amount that it was.
And that's why you're seeing things like, they took down Sony.
unidentified
Of course.
kevin smith
They took down this one.
They took down this one.
So, yeah, lately I've just been like, do I really want to have...
All my world online?
I go the other way, where I'm just like, well, how do you protect that stuff?
How do you protect...
joe rogan
Well, you think you'll be able to for a while.
kevin smith
Just to set the fact that you can't?
joe rogan
Well, the trend is clearly going to the cloud.
If you look at these goddamn new Macs, they don't even have a slot for a USB, like a thumb drive.
unidentified
Scary, right?
joe rogan
They don't have a DVD player.
There's no other way to do it.
You have to do everything wirelessly.
Like, wow, this is weird.
So you have a very minimal hard drive.
The hard drives of the new MacBooks are smaller than the old hard drives.
They've made them smaller.
kevin smith
So it can be lighter or more compact?
joe rogan
So it can be lighter, more compact, but also you're not storing shit on your computer anymore.
kevin smith
Because you're throwing it up in the cloud.
joe rogan
They want to throw everything up on the cloud.
You're like, oh.
kevin smith
Where do you stand on that?
joe rogan
It's fascinating.
Because on one hand, I think it's inevitable.
On the other hand, I'm digging my heels in the dirt and I'm getting dragged along.
So I got off the Apple tip.
I got a Windows 10 laptop.
unidentified
Why?
joe rogan
Two terabytes of fucking storage.
Two terabytes.
kevin smith
You can't get that in any Mac whatsoever?
joe rogan
You could.
It costs you a fucking shit ton.
Way more.
kevin smith
Do they...
Does this operate smooth?
joe rogan
It's great.
Windows 10. Lenovo ThinkPad.
People need them for business.
If they broke down all the time, I just assumed they had to be better now.
So I said, I'm going to give it a try.
I've only been using it for a few months.
Zero problems.
Super durable.
kevin smith
Were you Mac prior to this the whole time?
joe rogan
Yeah.
For like years.
Since, like, the 90s, really.
kevin smith
You're one of those cats that, you know, when it all collapses, you're going to be fine.
joe rogan
I'm fucked.
You're fucked.
kevin smith
No, you've unplugged and gone off the grid before anybody else.
You've thought about things that most people don't think.
You have big thinks.
You don't just smoke and be like, damn it, life's good.
You smoke and go deep on the big think, on stuff that, like...
Like you pointed out, very few people do, it's usually stoners, that the big issues are, that we all think of the big issues, are nothing compared to like, you do recall, we're hurtling through space on a fucking rock.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Spinning.
kevin smith
Like, anything can happen.
unidentified
Anything.
kevin smith
And you're worried about...
This or this.
joe rogan
Nonsense.
kevin smith
Fucking, you know...
joe rogan
Gender identity pronouns.
kevin smith
Knocked off Netflix or something like that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
kevin smith
Even the big things that people are like, this is everything in life.
joe rogan
Yes.
unidentified
Kentucky Derby.
kevin smith
So you do the big thing on everything beyond the obvious, beyond the temporal or the daily.
You're going like, what's next?
What happens?
Ten years from now.
What happens to us?
Not just, hey, what happens to me?
Because that's very human nature to be like, what happens to me?
But your thing is, what happens to us as a species?
You're a thinker and a seeker.
That's what I always like about you, man.
You're not content to just be like, I think I know everything there is pretty much to know that I'm interested in the rest I'm really not interested in.
You refill all the time.
I met a priest once when I was a kid.
And he said, not when I was a kid, but I was like a grown-ass man.
I was 20-something.
It was before I wrote Dogma.
It was when I went out to film school in like 92 in Vancouver.
And I was in Washington State.
My uncle lived in Federal Way.
And so I was like, you know what?
I'm going to go to my uncle's and then go up from there.
He can drive me up, drop my shit off and stuff.
And I never really left my side of the world, let alone fucking New Jersey and stuff.
So, at one point, I was still struggling.
It was the end of my Catholicism as I knew it in childhood.
I just believe everything.
They tell me and stuff.
So I was having some troubles with it, and I went into...
I was walking around, and I wouldn't call myself an emo kid, but, like, I still was raised in it.
When you believe something from the moment you're born, like, you know, all the tenets of the Catholic faith...
I was an altar boy, even, for heaven's sakes.
When that moment comes, it's almost like the adult version of when your parents are like, there is no Santa Claus.
Where suddenly you're like, what?
You fucking upended my entire existence.
So I was going through that.
And I'm age 22 at this point.
Should have gone through it in high school, but I held on to mine a lot longer.
So I walked into this church.
And I sat down, and a priest came by eventually, a younger priest.
He's like, can I help you?
And I was like, oh, I'm just having a crisis of faith and just sitting here and praying and meditating on it and stuff.
And he goes, come in the office, we'll talk.
And I went into his office, and he was like, what's the issue?
And I was like, I believed in this shit so much when I was a kid.
Like, it wasn't even a matter of belief.
This was the truth.
I said, but now I'm of this mind that, like, you know what, we follow this Bible and it's supposed to be the Word of God, but, like, thousands of years ago, there were a bunch of people that followed a bunch of other books that said there were multiple gods, and now we read those books and go, isn't that fucking quaint?
These fuckers thought there were twelve gods, one for each thing that ever happened in the day.
I said, I'm afraid one day that they're going to turn around and say the same thing about our book.
I just don't believe like I believed when I was a kid.
And the priest said something really smart.
I stuck it in the movie.
It was so smart.
He said, well, he's going, when you're a little kid, think of yourself as a small glass.
You're very easy to fill up.
People put liquid in you, you're done.
It's easy to top off a small glass.
He's going, the older you get, the glass gets bigger.
You can't expect the same amount of liquid that filled that small glass to fill the big glass.
And I was like, what do you mean?
He's like, periodically you gotta refill the glass.
Now he was talking about faith and shit, but that goes for anything.
Even goes for intellectual pursuits or just the person who's the seeker, who's not content to just be like, I see it all as it is and I think I understand it now.
You always understand there's more to understand and you go looking for the, not just like, hey, that's kind of fucked up and interesting, but what's really ultimately important.
If you scrape away all the stuff that we kind of concern ourselves with, the shit you think about, like, you know, and again, this is just from fucking listening to some podcast and mostly looking at your Instagram thread.
Is shit that's, like, useful if it all went away.
And it's not just like, you know, I know how to live off the land and stuff.
You're thinking big think about where the mind goes.
You know, like, most people look like you, strong and shit like that.
Don't fucking think nearly as much as you think.
I know that's a stereotype, but it's true.
You can't develop one set of muscles and concentrate on another.
Generally speaking, you either concentrate on building your brain, building your body.
You found a perfect way to build both.
joe rogan
I think you'd be surprised.
kevin smith
What do you mean?
joe rogan
No, fuck you.
kevin smith
You're smart.
joe rogan
You're smart, dude.
Yeah, but especially jujitsu guys.
I know a lot of really, really smart jujitsu guys.
kevin smith
Of course.
It's a fat man stereotype to be like, all muscle heads must be dumb.
That's the only thing I got in this.
joe rogan
Do you know what Josh Waitzkin is?
kevin smith
I do not.
joe rogan
He's the guy from, he was the inspiration for the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer.
kevin smith
Oh, I love that movie.
joe rogan
American chess champion.
He became obsessed with jiu-jitsu and now has a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Marcelo Garcia, like one of the most respected Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners of the last couple decades.
kevin smith
So all I'm hearing is now good at two things, chess and jiu-jitsu.
That's unfair.
joe rogan
He's a bad motherfucker, this guy.
And he's a chess master.
And he's just a brilliant, brilliant guy.
And, I mean, but a killer.
Like, if he got a hold of you, he'll choke you to death.
For sure.
kevin smith
But only if I did something to him.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I'm saying, if he had to, if he wanted to.
I mean, he's not just as genius.
He's a genius and a killer.
kevin smith
He's smart and he's physical.
joe rogan
He wouldn't probably never describe himself that way.
He's a martial artist.
But his ability, what he can do, his specialty is strangling people.
What do you mean?
It comes from Marcelo Garcia.
Marcelo Garcia is famous for his chokes.
He's like a famous strangulation artist.
He's had some of the most spectacular highlights in the history of competitive Brazilian Jiu Jitsu just choking guys unconscious.
He's an animal.
kevin smith
Never killing them, just taking them to the point.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
It matches.
Two black belts go at it.
You've never seen...
kevin smith
We had this conversation last time.
joe rogan
Marcelo Garcia versus Shaolin Hibero.
kevin smith
This is a perfect one.
I've still never seen a UFC match in person.
joe rogan
Well, you don't have to see a UFC match, because this is probably something more interesting for you to watch, because no one got hurt.
Even though it looks like the guy is dead, he actually is just...
The blood stops the brain, and then he lets it go, and the guy is instantaneously back.
It's not like a knockout.
You don't suffer brain damage.
Here's the scramble.
Marcello takes his back, and he holds onto the choke, and Shaolin tries to squirm out of it, but he locks in the choke, and now Shaolin's trying to fight gallantly, but he goes to sleep.
He's out cold here, and the referee stops it.
As soon as they realize, now he's out cold.
So Marcello gets off of him and walks away, and Shaolin wakes up just a second later.
So he's 100% fine.
He's just like, whoa, what happened?
He starts talking.
It's not like he got knocked out.
It's not like he got brain damage.
He just got choked unconscious.
Like, he'll be instantaneously fine.
But Marcelo is just that good.
kevin smith
Have you ever been choked out?
joe rogan
Never totally out, but I've gotten super close.
I've gotten to the elevator door.
It's closing in.
kevin smith
Is that literally what it feels like?
joe rogan
It feels entirely like the walls are closing in.
The darkness is coming, and you barely can get out of it.
I've gotten to the door.
I never went totally asleep.
kevin smith
As you're going to the door, you're also smart enough to be like, I'm not dying.
joe rogan
I tap.
Yeah, you tap.
You gotta know when to tap.
kevin smith
But do you panic?
Like, is there a moment of panic where you're like...
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Yes, for sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
kevin smith
Because we saw, like, that dude was like...
He was like that fucking goat picked up by the eagle.
He was like, fuck!
unidentified
Yeah.
kevin smith
Before...
It was over, but then he gets up again.
joe rogan
Well, the thing about jiu-jitsu, though, is those moments happen a lot.
So, like, if you go to a jiu-jitsu class, it's very likely you might get choked out three, four times by one person.
Like, if you roll with some guy who's a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and you're, like, a blue belt, pretty likely he's going to get you at least a couple times while you roll with him, unless you're, like, really agile and really good at defending yourself.
kevin smith
What are they closing off?
Your windpipe?
joe rogan
Carotid arteries.
kevin smith
Your carotids.
joe rogan
They're literally, like...
Closing the blood supply to your brain.
kevin smith
How dangerous is that?
joe rogan
Not.
Not.
Only if you keep it on.
If you keep it clamped on.
kevin smith
How long?
joe rogan
A minute.
Probably kill somebody.
kevin smith
That's what I'm saying.
You have to be like a surgeon to be like, I got him for 30 and I'm like, no.
joe rogan
I would like to find out.
Like, how long would you have to hold someone?
It'd depend on the person, how healthy they were, how young they were, I'm sure, would have a factor as well.
But find out how long would it take if you choked someone out before they died.
Someone must...
kevin smith
It's got to be there online, right?
joe rogan
I don't want to just talk out of my ass.
kevin smith
That's a pretty specific Google request that's going to bring the FBI here.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're going to come.
kevin smith
But what have...
If you can do that with a body part, and you've got to get a certain amount of leverage on somebody.
joe rogan
Carotid artery sinus reflex death is sometimes considered a mechanism of death, and the case of strangulation remains highly disputed.
The reported time from application to unconsciousness varies from 7 to 14 seconds.
That's wrong, if effectively applied, to one minute in other cases with death occurring minutes after unconsciousness.
So if you held on for a couple minutes, you could choke someone out.
kevin smith
How long would you have to choke...
joe rogan
To kill, yeah.
Is that from a forum, MMA forum?
They might not necessarily know.
kevin smith
It's on the internet, it must be true, let's read it and believe it.
joe rogan
Yeah, forumsbodybuilding.com, Aris Technica, that one is.
The thing about it is, they're super wrong right there.
When it says varies from 7 to 14 seconds, it doesn't even take a second.
What do you mean?
You could put someone to sleep in a second.
kevin smith
If you hit the right?
joe rogan
Yeah, if you just hit it right.
If you just hold on to it right.
Especially if they're not resisting, like if they're hurt already and they're relaxed, you could just put them to sleep.
If someone gets hit first and then they get choked and they don't defend it quickly enough, like if they're out of it and then they get choked, they just go to sleep.
Like real quick.
kevin smith
Has anybody, nobody's ever been choked to death?
joe rogan
No.
I'm sure people have been choked to death.
kevin smith
Not in the...
joe rogan
Just not in the UFC. But I mean, in the real world, like, that was the Eric Garner thing.
Well, he had a breathing issue.
That was the guy who the police killed in New York.
They took...
He was selling loose cigarettes in front of a bodega, and they get mad at him.
kevin smith
I thought we were still talking...
joe rogan
You were.
They killed him with a choke.
kevin smith
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but you were talking in real life, yes.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I'm saying you can choke someone to death, but I don't think they...
I think he died more as a...
He wasn't physically very well.
jamie vernon
About three minutes is about the most your brain can last without air.
joe rogan
Three minutes without air.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Man.
That's crazy.
kevin smith
So that would never...
Basically, he could have you for three seconds, you'd be passed out, and then they'd let you go.
joe rogan
Yeah.
In a jiu-jitsu match, yeah, they would just let you go.
And in class.
Sometimes people forget to tap in class, so they don't tap quick enough and they go to sleep.
kevin smith
See, I like the things you do, but I have zero interest in doing them myself.
Like, they don't seem appealing to me.
Like, every time I look at those pictures, I'm like, fuck, man, he's living a cool life.
But I'm like, I couldn't do that.
I couldn't do any one of these things.
joe rogan
You certainly could.
unidentified
You certainly could do everything that I do.
kevin smith
Admire and envy someone's freedom in life and still not want to do it yourself.
Generally speaking, when you look at somebody and be like, I wish I was like that, you want to do the things they do or be the person they are.
But instead, I can look at you and appreciate what you do and who you are and never once be like, yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
I couldn't.
You're far too much of a man.
You're such a dude.
And not a dude like you're a bro.
But you are like...
It makes sense you're somebody's dad.
You know what I'm saying?
You are...
When I think of a man, that's what I think of.
And I don't mean this to sound like...
joe rogan
You're too complimentary.
I'm going to have a big head when I leave here today.
kevin smith
I'm telling you, dude.
joe rogan
I have problems in life now.
kevin smith
I loved my dad, but I think you would be a cool dad.
joe rogan
That's very nice.
unidentified
Thank you.
kevin smith
Your kids have a...
Wonderful lifetime ahead of them.
Have had, like, great experience thus far, it seems like.
But for the rest of their lives, they're being raised by a thinking masculine man-man.
Like, my kid will never have that, ever, in her life.
joe rogan
Would you want to be different than you are, though?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
You seem super content with who you are.
kevin smith
Yeah, I mean, the way I look at it is just like...
Everyone's dealt the cards, right?
And you can improve some things in life, but when we were young, they'd be like, that's your cross to bear.
When I was a kid, I was always having my mom be like, well, that's your cross to bear.
As if it was genetic.
She could have said, hey, let's get you working out and maybe feed you less or whatever.
She's like, that's just your cross to bear.
But the rest of your life is blessed and stuff like that.
joe rogan
She probably just didn't.
I mean, a lot of people say things like that because that's what someone told them and they never stopped to think about it.
kevin smith
Oh, her mother definitely told her that's your cross to bear or something that was just kind of passed down and shit.
My mom is a wonderful woman.
I just spent, you know, she's getting old and stuff.
I took her to see Dolly Parton in Tampa.
And Dolly Parton I've seen three times in two months, man.
She smells like cotton candy.
And baby powder in real life.
joe rogan
Dolly Parton does?
kevin smith
Dude, I know.
Here, let me try to hit...
You always hit me to cool shit.
Dolly Parton is 70 years old.
She did a three-hour fucking show.
She didn't sit in one place.
She moved all over the stage.
She played piano, guitar, banjo, flute, and then at one point she blew a saxophone, which sounds dirty as I meant it.
Now, she didn't just blow a saxophone like I had a few notes.
She played yakety-sack, which is like yakety-sack.
That requires some fucking lung power.
She's 70 years old.
I took my 70-year-old mother to see her and like...
Mom's got a cane and we had to get a people mover and stuff like that.
It's crazy, man.
So I took Mom to go see Dolly Parton.
My mother, God love her, she's amazing.
One of my favorite people in the world.
But she's like, Tiger, you finally made it.
And I was like, why?
And she's like, because we got to meet Dolly Parton.
I was like, mom, you could have met Dolly Parton any old time in life.
That's not a sign of prosperity or success or something like that.
That happened back on Clerks or something.
joe rogan
But those days when Dolly Parton was on TV, there was only like three channels.
kevin smith
Yeah.
Dude, she fills arenas.
Like, it's crazy.
unidentified
Dude, I can imagine.
kevin smith
This is massive.
And just watching somebody...
Like, you know, I saw her when I went up to Vancouver to shoot an episode of The Flash.
I went, and I was like, holy shit.
And there's a part of me, of course, I'm not a big country guy, but my old man loved country and western.
Even though we came from New Jersey, and we weren't even from, like, southern Jersey.
We were from central Jersey.
He loved country and western.
I hated it growing up.
And he's now dead for, like, 12, 13 years.
And naturally, the older one gets...
You hear that music, it takes you not to the present, but right back to your childhood.
So lately, even though I've never been a country person, I find more country leaking into my life and it has everything to do with my father or something like that.
So I went to see this show and it was like, I might as well have taken my dad with me.
He's been dead so long, but like...
That was his dream show.
He loved Dolly Parton.
He's a big country music fan in general, but he loved Dolly Parton.
So I went to see the show the first time because I was like, I got nothing to do.
Let's go.
And then I was blown away by her showmanship.
And a storyteller as well.
She doesn't just sit there and play the music between songs.
She'll sit there and tell you a story about growing up in the Rocky Mountains.
She's fucking funny, dude.
I know she's got patterns she's probably been doing for years, but she talks about...
She's like, when I was a little girl, we went into town and they grew up fucking poor and she's one of 13 children or something like that.
And she's like, I saw this woman, this beautiful woman.
And, you know, she was painted like an angel.
And she had pretty clothes and real big pretty hair.
She's wearing heels and a lot of makeup.
And I said, Mom, who's that?
And her mom's like, that's the town trope.
That girl is nothing but trash.
And she goes, and I said, that's what I want to be when I grow up.
So that's why she's got the look she's got.
She's like, it costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
unidentified
I'm telling you, dude.
joe rogan
That's a good line.
kevin smith
Even if you're not a Dolly Parton fan, what a true night of entertainment.
joe rogan
When was the last time you saw her?
kevin smith
I saw her last weekend.
I took Mom to see her in Tampa.
joe rogan
And you've seen her three times?
kevin smith
I saw her at the Hollywood Bowl a month ago, and then I took Mom to see her in Tampa.
And that was more like, hey, Dad would love this.
But she had this weird moment where she met Dolly and you're talking about two 70-year-old women.
And my mom went in for a fucking kiss.
Not like, I want to French you, but just like the way you would kiss a friend.
And then you could see Dolly, who's had to politically maneuver strangers for 50 years or so, figure out, do I say, hey, I don't kiss strangers, or do I just hug her?
unidentified
On the lips?
joe rogan
We going for the lips?
kevin smith
I don't know what she was going for.
It was awkward, dude.
There was a moment where they were sparring.
And then finally, they hugged.
And, you know, she was like, my husband loved your music and shit.
It was really fucking beautiful to see.
unidentified
Wow.
kevin smith
But Mom, I love Mom to death, but Mom is like...
Everybody's mother is a very singular individual, but mom had this thing I was trying to figure out.
I was like, when did this person die?
I think we were talking about my Aunt Barbara.
I was like, when did Aunt Barbara die?
And my mom's like, oh, hold on.
And she had this thing when we were kids.
She'd get a calendar from church and she wouldn't write on it your birthday or a relative's birthday.
She'd write the day that they died.
So this day was the day Uncle Andy died.
This day Aunt Connie died.
So my mom keeps all that information.
So she goes, hold on.
She comes out with a box of Like funeral mass cards.
Like when somebody dies, you go to a funeral, there's a little trading card that has a picture of a saint and on the back has a person's name and when they were born and when they were dead.
My mom has like a collection, the way you would collect baseball cards and shit.
And we spread them all out on the table.
There's 12 significant deaths in our family.
She had lots more, but the ones that would matter to both me and her in our immediate zone of family.
And between 12 deaths, I was able to quiz my mother, like, who died in 1980?
And she was like, oh, that was Grandpa Smith.
Like, she is, my mom's obsessed with death, but not in a, like, death is metal.
When she was a child in Catholic school, they tried to explain hell to her, you know, like, as you do in Catholic school.
And she was fucking far too young to get the idea, so death has been her obsession her whole life.
Staving it off.
Stopping it from like taking not just her her but her family you know she lost her husband to it we all death is just a natural part of the process you're freaking me out man my mom finds it like she's terrified by it now I as a creative person and I wonder if you feel the same way and I fancy myself a creative person some people like you're not very creative but I fancy myself a creative person no caveats death To me, it's not scary as much as a repugnant idea, where you're like, what?
Stop all this?
I'm just getting the hang of it.
I'm just learning.
I've got so many more jokes to tell and shit like that.
Death to people who make stuff like us, and that's why you might be the exception, because you deal with death on a regular basis with hunting and shit like that.
It's just something that probably enters your purview far more than mine.
But it is one of those things, man, where you're like, wow, I hadn't really thought about that too often.
But she thinks about it often.
When I think of death, I'm irritated by it because it's unfair.
Like, why?
But I imagine if I was my grandmother.
My grandmother lost her sight 12, 14 years before she died.
And I loved hanging out with her.
I used to play cards with her and shit like that.
And then when she lost her sight, she was no longer interested in living.
So she would sit around and be like, how are you, Graham?
You go visit her.
She'd be sitting in the dark and shit.
Listen to her radio, maybe.
No longer crocheting like she used to do.
We used to play cards.
She couldn't do any of that shit.
So she just sat there.
And he'd be like, how are you?
And she'd be like, well...
I asked him to take me and he said he didn't answer, still not today.
And I was like, who, Graham?
She's like, Jesus.
Every day I pray that he finally take me and I'm still here.
She slowly grew to be bitter about life and shit.
Now, from where I sit right now, I'm the guy that's like, I never want this party to end.
Oh, shit.
But I guess there could be a time in my life where, you know, everyone you know and love has passed and you just get to a place where you're like, you know what, I'm okay.
Like, who was it?
The singer that just passed was the guy that sang Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen.
I was going to say Lawrence Cohen.
Leonard Cohen did an interview before he passed, like five months, five weeks maybe before he passed, where he was like, yeah, I'm ready for death.
He's going, I've pretty much done everything I've wanted to do, and I'm ready for it.
And he went fairly shortly thereafter.
Grandma didn't, man.
She hung on for a while, but wanted to die.
I hope I'm never that person.
But, you know, what if I'm...
Something happens to me and I can't move or something.
It's like that movie Johnny Got His Gun and shit.
joe rogan
You started really taking care of your health.
kevin smith
Yeah.
A little bit late in life.
Just because I was like, oh shit.
I come from diabetic people.
My dad and all his brothers and sisters are very diabetic.
I've played for my whole life as if that wasn't a factor.
I never ate vegetables and shit.
I always ate packaged food.
So I saw that movie Fed Up and that turned it around for me.
I lost a bunch of weight because I stopped...
eating sugar.
This documentary was fascinating.
It used cartoons.
Maybe that's why it worked on me.
But it broke down like, oh, this is what you do every time you put sugar into your body.
And I was one of those people that was like...
joe rogan
Which was the documentary?
kevin smith
Fed Up, I believe it was called.
joe rogan
Fed Up?
kevin smith
I was one of those people that's like, well, sugar's natural, comes out the ground.
So, you know, just like wheat...
And fucking flour and vegetables, I guess it's okay for us.
It's one of those things where it's taken me a long time to accept the fact that sugar, as much as I love it, for me it's a poison.
It's like booze for an alcoholic.
I can't stop.
I dropped sugar on my life, lost 70 fucking pounds.
Then I let sugar creep back in.
Slowly 20 came back.
So now I've gotten rid of 10 of it.
I got another 10 to get back to where I fucking was.
And I remember being free of sugar and being like, what a fucking asshole I was.
joe rogan
How'd you get back into it?
kevin smith
It's a slippery slope, man.
joe rogan
Candy bar?
kevin smith
Yeah, a piece of chocolate.
It starts with a piece of chocolate where you're like, milk chocolate, man.
I love milk chocolate.
I can handle this.
And then, when I was working on the shows in Canada, donuts.
Because they got Tim Hortons everywhere.
Throw a rock and there's a Tim Hortons.
I got those Timbits, which are like Dunkin' Donuts munchkins, little donut holes.
joe rogan
I like those Boston cream jammies.
kevin smith
Dude, I love when they take a donut.
joe rogan
Chocolate on top and the cream inside.
kevin smith
Shove jelly in that shit.
That's my religion.
joe rogan
Oh, I like a jelly donut, too.
Powdered sugar.
kevin smith
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Oh, my goodness.
kevin smith
Don't do it to me.
joe rogan
Just so soft, too.
kevin smith
I learned that I had to...
I had to cut it out.
I had to put sugar away entirely.
So I stopped eating anything processed or added sugar.
No sugar whatsoever.
Natural sugar, like the closest sugar I get is out of drinking milk or beets.
I know.
I started drinking vegetable drink, though.
Something I never did.
Vegetable juice.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm a big fan of cold-pressed juices.
kevin smith
That's what I've been doing.
joe rogan
I put a full bead into it.
There's a lot of those stores, too.
You can go and stop in and get them.
kevin smith
Get them pre-done.
joe rogan
You can find out online if there's a store near you.
For me, I've got a bunch of them that I stop at.
Because you can always go and get something to drink that's really nutritious.
kevin smith
And fucking powers you, dude.
I mean, it's no secret or anything, but here's a tip.
Before I got to do anything, it requires a lot of energy or something.
Like if I was going to go on The Talking Dead or if I was going to fucking go to the movie set or make something to do a show.
I get me a fucking, a big vegetable drink, basically I get one whole beet, eight fistfuls of spinach, half a carrot, half a...
I stopped doing so much apple because there's a lot of sugar in it.
So about a quarter apple, big nub of ginger, shit just burned my insides out.
joe rogan
Kids in 1920 were playing on scaffolding and we're scared of sugar from an apple.
We're such pussies.
We've become such pussies, America.
kevin smith
I never was until now.
Now I'm like, I can't have the extra sugar.
So I make that, dude.
I drink that.
And that gives me, like, beets.
Pure fucking natural sugar.
So you're like, hey!
joe rogan
Beets are amazing.
kevin smith
It's like, I've never done Coke, but I imagine it's like what doing a line of Coke is.
joe rogan
I really don't think it's anything like that.
kevin smith
Eating beets is like doing coke.
joe rogan
Beets make me feel like, well, not just beets, but like a good, robust vegetable juice.
You feel like, ooh, I can get a little, you know?
kevin smith
That's one of the things I like about your Instagram feed.
You put a lot of food in there, and you talk about what it does for you, and you're like, look at this shit.
This is fucking natural, and I'm getting all this out of it.
It's food porn.
joe rogan
Yeah.
People get mad, though, because it gets repetitive.
I get it.
kevin smith
What do you mean?
joe rogan
It gets repetitive.
Oh, what are you, cooking elk again, you fucking faggot?
You know?
kevin smith
That's what you get?
Do you then stop and be like, did you ever realize you're hurtling through space on a fucking rock?
Anything could happen?
unidentified
No, man.
joe rogan
I just think that.
I think it.
I don't bother saying it.
But, yeah, I get it.
But people are always looking for things to criticize.
They like criticizing.
kevin smith
It's fun.
If you're eating elk again, it's not a one-time experience where you're like, I've eaten elk when I was 14, and of course, that's when a man eats elk and never again.
So they got to expect you might redo a meal.
joe rogan
If I give you something, will you cook it?
kevin smith
What kind of meat is it?
joe rogan
Elk.
kevin smith
Yeah, how do you cook it?
joe rogan
I'll teach you.
I'll show you how.
kevin smith
Put it on a barbecue grill?
joe rogan
I'll give you some real simple.
I'll give you elk burger.
kevin smith
You kill this thing?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I'll give you elk burger.
That's the simplest.
kevin smith
You can make the cheeseburgers out of it.
joe rogan
You just got to treat it.
kevin smith
What does it taste like?
joe rogan
It tastes really good.
It's super healthy for you.
Because, I mean, no hormones, no antibiotics, no nothing.
It's just wild elk meat.
It's very lean.
And if you cook it like as a cheeseburger, you have to kind of cook it pretty quick because it doesn't have much fat in it at all.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
It's really lean protein.
Very high protein content.
kevin smith
So cook it quick meaning like it's going to burn fast because there's not a lot of fat.
joe rogan
Yeah, just don't cook it maybe as long as you would like a real fatty beef burger.
You know, just cook it a little less time.
kevin smith
I think the last time we talked, we talked about that.
The idea of, you'll go out hunting, but you eat what you bring back or whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah, I eat everything.
kevin smith
Remember Mark Zuckerberg that one year was like, I'm only going to eat, should I kill?
And for a minute we were all like, that's savage.
And then afterwards we were like, oh, I see.
joe rogan
I'm not doing anything we're all doing if we eat meat.
That's my point.
If you're buying...
Food from a store or restaurant you're killing it.
You're just killing it with a card a credit card or a checkbook or If you're eating meat you're killing things.
Yeah, you know you might not be doing it yourself, but My whole take is that if an animal's wild, in that wild animal, you kill it.
That thing was wild.
Whether you ever existed or not, that thing did exactly what it did.
That's the pure life for one of those animals.
And you're saying, well, why would you want to hunt it down and kill it?
Something's going to.
This is what you don't understand.
These things are not going to live forever.
They have a very short and brutal life, and they usually get taken down by coyotes or mountain lions or...
I mean, when a person comes in and shoots a deer, that is the best death it's ever going to die.
If a person doesn't do it, that thing's going to freeze to death.
kevin smith
Isn't this the thing with a deer just like, you know, I died in my bed at age 80?
joe rogan
No, they freeze to death.
kevin smith
Surrounded by my loved ones.
joe rogan
They freeze to death.
They get hit by cars.
kevin smith
Can I make this more clear?
They fucking freeze to death.
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't live.
They don't live very long.
If a deer lives to be like seven, that is an old fucking deer.
kevin smith
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
So, if people are upset with you eating any kind of animals at all, they're not going to understand why you would be upset at hunting.
kevin smith
My kid is total vegan.
Great kid about it though.
She's not like, you know, judging me as I sit there and eat meat and shit.
But she's, you know, her thing is like, she fucking loves animals.
joe rogan
What does she do to supplement like her essential fatty acids and vitamin B12? That's a great question.
kevin smith
Because the diet I've seen for a vegan, now I've been around it quite a bit, is insanely limited.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Like when I pull sugar out of my diet, suddenly you're down to fucking 20 things because everything's got fucking sugar added to it.
When you go vegan, and not just vegetarian, I mean fucking straight up vegan...
There's like, you know, everything green and maybe three other things in the world.
Like, you can't even eat a bagel without being like, did you use this or this or this in it or something like that.
joe rogan
You can't have eggs, which is really unfortunate because eggs are never going to be a living thing.
That's what people don't understand.
I can understand if you're against factory farming, but I think that's a different story.
My chickens are pretty free-range.
They live in a big coop, and I know a lot of people don't have room for a coop.
I'm not saying you need to do it, but what I'm saying is you can have chickens that exist in some sort of a natural environment.
It's not entirely difficult, and they give you eggs.
You don't have to worry at all about anything bad happening.
This is just a natural product of being a chicken.
They lay one on their own.
It's not fertilized.
No one's going to eat it.
kevin smith
Not every egg becomes a chicken.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
They have to get fucked.
The rooster has to come along and sling that dick.
kevin smith
That's what makes a chicken.
joe rogan
Yeah, so if there's no rooster, then the chicken...
kevin smith
I didn't know that, dude.
joe rogan
I didn't know that until I was like fucking 39 years old.
kevin smith
Me too.
I think you told me last time a version of this.
joe rogan
I'm a repetitive motherfucker.
unidentified
I will repeat shit.
kevin smith
Don't matter, dude.
I like reading that you eat elk more than once.
Wait, so it's kind of like a chicken's period?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yes.
As a matter of fact, PETA developed a whole campaign to try to get people to stop eating chicken eggs by calling it a menstrual cycle and also showing a fucking frying pan with a bloody maxi pad sitting in the frying pan.
kevin smith
I don't know if that's very effective.
joe rogan
Dude.
kevin smith
I mean, it would gross me out, turn me off, but I'd be like- Pull it up, pull it up so he doesn't think I'm kidding.
I never want to eat a tampon again.
joe rogan
It's foul.
It's foul that they chose to do this.
kevin smith
My kid doesn't get like shitty or political about it or like, you know, in your face or you got to live my way and stuff.
But every once in a while it slips out.
I'm a big milk drinker.
And so, you know, she's, her whole thing is not your mom, not your milk.
And I was like, what do you mean?
And she's like, well, that's not your mother.
If you want milk, you should get it from your mother.
You took some of the baby cows.
And I'm like, oh, come on.
Don't do this to me, kid.
I was like, they raised us to believe in milk.
I watched a lot of commercials.
Milk does a body good.
They taught me that on television.
Don't tell me that I'm taking milk from a baby cow.
joe rogan
She's kind of right, though, right?
kevin smith
Yeah.
Were you down on milk?
Every time I talk about milk...
People put up a little meme, there's a picture of you talking on stage, and they put up a bit of your routine we talked about right before the show.
joe rogan
Oh, that vegan comment?
kevin smith
Yeah, where you're like, they say, vegans say, you know, we're the only species, go ahead, do it, cheers.
joe rogan
We're the only species that drinks the milk of other animals.
I'm like, you know what else only humans do?
Fly planes, make movies.
unidentified
Call each other and tell each other how awesome milk is.
kevin smith
So you do like milk.
joe rogan
Yeah, here it is.
Eggs come from chicken menstruation.
Look at that.
It was a bloody underwear.
I'm sorry.
I thought it was a maxi pad.
But that's a real PETA ad.
They put a bloody pair of women's underwear in a frying pan.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
kevin smith
The tagline is, don't eat eggs, period.
joe rogan
And period is in red.
kevin smith
Wow.
joe rogan
It's like, come on.
What's gross is factory farming.
That's what's gross.
What's gross is having all these chickens packed and stacked into these horrific cages and warehouses.
That's what's gross.
What's not gross is a chicken living in a chicken house that occasionally lays an egg, and when they lay an egg, then they just wander off, and they just wander around the yard and peck at grass and do chicken stuff.
If a chicken is living in a healthy environment, they're not even scared of you.
Like, I go near my chickens all the time.
I can pick some of them up.
Some of them don't fuck with it.
They won't let you pick them up.
kevin smith
What do they do if you try to pick them up?
joe rogan
You have to chase them.
They don't try to go after you, but they don't want to be picked up.
But some of them will just stay there, and you pick them up, and you pet them, and my girls will hold on to them.
They all have their own little personalities.
Are they dirty?
No, surprisingly, they don't feel dirty.
You know, they take dust baths, though.
But their feathers, I think, can brush off a lot of things, you know?
I think they keep themselves fairly clean just by whatever the composition of their feathers are.
They're interesting little animals, man.
kevin smith
You eat the eggs.
Do you eat the chickens as well?
joe rogan
No, I don't eat the chickens, no.
That just feels fucked up.
kevin smith
I agree.
Do you eat chicken in general?
joe rogan
Yes, I do.
kevin smith
But just not those chickens.
joe rogan
I just don't eat those chickens.
kevin smith
So it's like Animal Farm.
Some chickens are more equal than others.
joe rogan
Yeah, these chickens get a pass.
They're within my control.
kevin smith
Do you ever eat chicken in front of them?
Not in a shitty way, but hey, it's chicken tonight.
joe rogan
Oh, dude, we kill the chickens in front of them.
We put them on a fire in front of them.
We set the fire up in front of the chicken coop to let them know.
Wait, what chicken do you kill in front of them?
I'm kidding.
kevin smith
Oh, holy shit.
I was like, oh my god, the cool team.
joe rogan
You're like, look at this shit!
That was what Vlad the Impaler used to do.
Vlad the Impaler that Mary Shelley based, not Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley was Bram Stoker.
Bram Stoker based Dracula on.
That Vlad the Impaler guy would eat people in front of other people.
kevin smith
Why?
unidentified
That crazy killer lady made me look up earlier.
She made one of her victims cook and eat themself.
joe rogan
Cook and eat herself?
Yeah.
unidentified
Herself.
A little girl, I think is what it said.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
She was a monster.
kevin smith
How do you cook and eat yourself?
joe rogan
To make someone cut a piece off of their body.
unidentified
Oh, fuck.
joe rogan
That was what Vlad did that as well.
He also put people on stakes in front of his house, and he would eat lunch while he was watching them slowly rither.
It's like when someone has a stake through their body, it doesn't kill them right away.
They can punch you with a stake.
And the stake, as long as they put it through the right spot, although you have massive internal bleeding, the stake kind of keeps it all in there.
kevin smith
Staunches the wounds.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's all stretched out, and your body is kind of like...
If they stick it in you the right way, it takes a while to die.
It could take hours.
So they're sticking this literally through your asshole and out through your back.
kevin smith
That's how I went in?
joe rogan
I never really thought about it.
Or through your center.
I mean, they could do it a bunch of different ways.
kevin smith
God, they never show you that in any of those Dracula movies.
Put that asshole, put the steak right through his asshole.
Now stand it up.
joe rogan
I mean, maybe they go through a lung.
Maybe they go through one side and go through a lung.
But either way, there's ways they can do it where they would put you through steaks where it would take a long time for you to die.
So these people would all be moaning on steaks.
kevin smith
These steaks are probably going in dry too, right?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, they don't lube that shit up at all.
And these people were mowing to death.
kevin smith
You're going to die on a steak going through your asshole first then up through your body.
But the good news...
joe rogan
We have some lidocaine.
kevin smith
It's pretty slippery.
joe rogan
We're going to spray the outside before he stab you with this fucking gigantic steak.
kevin smith
Oh, God, man.
That's tough to...
joe rogan
Well, this is a real human.
I mean, that was a real human that really did live.
Yeah, look at this.
This is the ancient pictures.
I mean, these are from a long fucking time ago, these images.
kevin smith
Some woodcuts.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
Yeah, he's just like right on.
joe rogan
And he's sitting there eating while all these people are on steaks in front of him.
And of course, you know, you have to sort of process like how much of that was myth, how much of that was folklore, how much of it was real.
kevin smith
What was the point of all this?
joe rogan
Is that him there too?
unidentified
Yeah, it's just a drawing.
kevin smith
What was the point?
joe rogan
Well, he just wanted to make sure that everybody knew he was a bad motherfucker.
kevin smith
It wasn't like, I want to live forever.
joe rogan
Well, he became...
It's so hard.
Whenever you're talking about people and you definitively describe who they were and what they were and you know how...
History just gets so twisted and distorted, especially back when there was no videotapes and no, you know, they weren't even writing things down.
kevin smith
We were literally looking at drawings going like, wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, how many of those people were even writing things down?
How many of those people could even read back then?
kevin smith
How many of those people actually saw that?
It was probably passed down.
Like, I was in this village and I saw a bunch of people on sticks and like, I'm going to draw that.
joe rogan
Like, what year was that, Vlad the Impaler?
unidentified
1448 to 1476. Yeah.
Somewhere in there.
joe rogan
Good luck.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
1,400?
Good luck.
Good luck saying exactly what that guy said, or exactly what that guy did.
Good luck.
We can't even decide how many illegal voters kept our darling Donald Trump from the popular vote.
kevin smith
I think my biggest takeaway from the day are the little people.
joe rogan
That was weird, right?
kevin smith
I had no idea.
I mean, I know there have been like, well, I thought there were pygmies and stuff like that, but that's like...
joe rogan
That's a totally different level.
kevin smith
Completely different species of...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Smaller brains.
Smaller, like chimp-sized brains.
kevin smith
So it's not a human being?
joe rogan
There's some better pictures of them.
kevin smith
Not a homo sapien?
joe rogan
Homo floriensis, I think it's called.
There's a few better images of them where they recreated what they think it looked like.
Look at some of these pictures, man.
kevin smith
It literally looks like, you know, an innocent version of what they would show you as a troll in storybooks and old pictures.
joe rogan
Look at that one right there, the one that you just passed, Jamie, on the top row with the spear and the animal on his shoulder.
Look at that.
I think if you go full image, there's a full image, see over there?
You can see what it looked like?
Yeah.
See, that's what they believe these things looked like.
Like sort of semi-chimp-like humans that were three feet tall, but they had tools.
kevin smith
What do you think the discussion was on, like, do we give them a dick?
They're like, yeah, everything's got a dick.
Not everything's got a dick, but some things have a dick.
Put a dick on it.
It's like, come on.
It's going to distract from everything else.
joe rogan
His dick's in the shadow.
kevin smith
They're like, put a dick on it, but don't make it look too big.
joe rogan
His dick is wrapped up in a riddle.
It's a mystery.
kevin smith
It's a mystery wrapped up in a riddle inside an enigma.
joe rogan
Dude, I've got to end this.
kevin smith
You've got to go?
joe rogan
I've got to get the fuck out of here, yeah.
I think we did four hours.
kevin smith
I was going to conduct these things with you like a Springsteen concert.
Let's see who drops first.
You or the audience.
joe rogan
Well, I think today I have too many things.
I have three sets tonight.
kevin smith
What do you mean?
What are you doing?
joe rogan
Three sets at the Comedy Store.
kevin smith
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a belly room show, main room show, and an OR show.
unidentified
Oh.
kevin smith
You're busy.
joe rogan
Yeah, one starts in an hour.
kevin smith
Go.
joe rogan
I got shit I gotta do.
kevin smith
Go.
joe rogan
My friend!
This is very fun.
kevin smith
This is awesome.
unidentified
Always is, dude.
Always.
kevin smith
We gotta do it again sooner rather than waiting fucking four years or three years or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure, brother.
kevin smith
Always a pleasure, man.
You expand my mind.
joe rogan
We have these fun conversations, but I think we spend so much time complimenting each other because we like it because we don't have to be like, then we can get deep.
kevin smith
We can go deep on other things, not each other.
joe rogan
Yeah, because if we compliment each other like every time, people would be like, these guys are super gay for each other.
kevin smith
Yeah, to be fair though, we've only done it like every four years.
unidentified
I know.
kevin smith
It's not close enough for people to make the assumption that...
joe rogan
Is this our third?
kevin smith
I think so.
I think I did one with you, I did one at our house.
joe rogan
Yeah.
kevin smith
And I think we're the one at our house first, then with you, and then this is the third.
joe rogan
No, this is the fourth, then.
I feel like I've done your house twice.
kevin smith
Okay, then you did.
The first time you did with me and the wife, then maybe you came and did one solo with me, and then we did one solo with you.
joe rogan
The last time we did one, you showed me that cool treadmill-type desk thing you had set up.
kevin smith
With the standing desk.
joe rogan
I was like, oh, that's genius.
You have to walk and type at the same time.
kevin smith
And wife's sitting there working.
joe rogan
That's a sweet move.
kevin smith
A year and a half, I think, I used that.
Yeah?
The tread started slipping, so I'd be walking.
joe rogan
Oh, that ain't good.
kevin smith
One time I hit my chin on the desk.
unidentified
Oh, dude.
kevin smith
And the desk was down here, so I had to go like this far.
And I was like, you know what?
joe rogan
How do you sue those bitches?
kevin smith
Maybe we were meant to stand at a desk or walk, but never at the same time.
joe rogan
Don't quit now.
Get back on that motherfucker.
I say ramp it up.
Put it on an angle.
So you have to hike.
Like you're hiking uphill.
kevin smith
You're to the extreme.
I'm lucky to walk up a hill.
joe rogan
Old school English running shoes on.
kevin smith
I know.
joe rogan
With their dress shoes with the spikes.
kevin smith
So I'm running in heels and shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
kevin smith
All I need is a hat with a buckle on.
I'll look like a fucking pilgrim.
joe rogan
Thank you, sir.
kevin smith
Thanks for having excellent seeing you, man.
joe rogan
I really, really appreciate this.
kevin smith
Keep seeking, my friend.
joe rogan
Keep seeking.
We keep saying this, but let's try to do these regularly.
unidentified
I agree.
joe rogan
Let's try to do these regularly.
They're so much fun.
kevin smith
I agree.
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