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Jan. 20, 2017 - The Joe Rogan Experience
01:53:56
Joe Rogan Experience #902 - Live Underground from The Comedy Store
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andrew santino
20:30
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greg fitzsimmons
23:21
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jeff ross
19:22
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joe rogan
45:01
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jamie vernon
00:06
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unidentified
We are now live.
joe rogan
Jeff Ross, this is the first time we have ever done a live podcast from the Comedy Store, and it's with you, buddy.
jeff ross
I feel like we're in Hitler's bunker.
joe rogan
Do you?
I think Hitler's bunker is probably not as well lit.
Definitely didn't have the sound dampening.
That's how you know it's a real podcast studio.
They have this shit.
jeff ross
The sound dampening stuff.
joe rogan
The sound dampening stuff.
jeff ross
I think this is cool though.
It's in the color of the comedy store.
It's got the old sign.
joe rogan
Old comedy store sign in the background.
And we figured, fuck it.
We're here all the time.
Usually I'm just here hanging around after.
Why not do a podcast?
Have some fun.
jeff ross
I love it.
Hi everybody!
unidentified
What's up?
joe rogan
Hey everybody!
jeff ross
Happy Thursday.
joe rogan
Happy Thursday.
So, tell me about your fucking show.
Your roast battle is on Comedy Central.
jeff ross
It's crazy, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's amazing.
jeff ross
Started out in the belly room.
You know, you came.
joe rogan
It's fucking great.
It's one of the reasons why I came back to the store.
When I came to see that show in the belly room, I was like, wow.
It was the day before Ari filmed this special.
And I hadn't been to the store in seven years.
jeff ross
I remember.
joe rogan
I came here.
jeff ross
I saw you at the improv that night.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
I'd seen you a couple.
I'd been sitting at the improv around and I kept talking about it.
joe rogan
That's where I was doing sets.
jeff ross
And I kind of made it a personal mission to bring you back to the comedy store.
joe rogan
Aw, sweetie.
jeff ross
And Roast Battle was the bait.
joe rogan
Well, Roast Battle definitely helped, too, also because it was so electric.
I was like, man, there's something going on in this place.
jeff ross
Dude, I love doing this show so much, and the comics love doing it.
It's the only competition show where comics who aren't even on the show come to watch other comics.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
It's insane.
joe rogan
It's one of the rare shows where comics come to watch other comics.
jeff ross
We're shooting in the old House of Blues across the street.
They're knocking it down in a couple weeks and building condos forever.
Very historic building.
joe rogan
That's kind of crazy.
jeff ross
So our producer, Joel Gallen, had the idea to go in there, pull the stage out, clean it up.
There was like all kinds of stuff living in there.
And we built our roast battle arena inside the old House of Blues for four nights.
I can't believe this is happening.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
jeff ross
It's like, you know, the early days of wrestling or fighting or something.
joe rogan
I can't believe they're turning into condos.
jeff ross
That stuff's hard to realize that that's what we're going to have across the street, but maybe it'll be good in some way.
joe rogan
Well, I bet a lot of comics are just going to get a fucking apartment there.
If you can afford it, that'd be amazing.
Stumble out of bed, walk across the street.
jeff ross
Oh, I didn't even think about that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Why not live there?
jeff ross
Huh.
joe rogan
I mean, come on, man.
It'd be the greatest.
And if you have a reluctant girl, you know?
You're trying to meet a young lady, and you're like, come on back to my place.
Well, I mean, I'm getting kind of tired.
Listen, baby, it's just across the street.
jeff ross
Yeah, you're there.
We're already there.
joe rogan
Come on over.
Okay, Jeff.
I mean, you are kind of funny, and I just want you to know I'm not that kind of girl.
jeff ross
Well, we'll play ping pong in my rec room.
joe rogan
Ping pong's a good one to play.
Everyone thinks they know how to play foosball.
unidentified
Right?
jeff ross
I don't know.
Do they?
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of drunk people think they know how to play that one.
jeff ross
Oh, foosball.
joe rogan
Yeah, you know that thing.
Nobody knows how to play ping pong.
A few people do, but they're assholes.
jeff ross
I have two Chinese cousins and they're very good at ping pong.
joe rogan
China and ping pong go together for some reason.
jeff ross
Has anyone seen that video of Bruce Lee hitting the nunchucks?
Is that real?
joe rogan
No, it's not real.
jeff ross
Damn!
unidentified
Oh, Joe Rogan, you ruined it!
joe rogan
Why did you think it was real?
It looks so fucking fake.
jeff ross
How do I know?
I could eat glasses.
joe rogan
Can you imagine if he was a world champion ping pong player plus this martial arts master?
jeff ross
I didn't even take it to fact that his ping pong was that good.
It was more like he was hitting the ball without...
joe rogan
Wasn't he doing it with nunchucks?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think.
I'm pretty sure.
I can't.
I don't even know why I answered that.
I should have told you yes.
jeff ross
It was true.
Totally real, bro.
joe rogan
Bruce Lee was a master, bro.
jeff ross
Damn, I just never wanted to know and I shouldn't have asked.
joe rogan
I was here one night where Eddie Griffin was telling a Bruce Lee story and Eddie Griffin was just drunk as fuck and he was making up some Bruce Lee story.
unidentified
He's like, there was 39 people in the room when he died.
joe rogan
All of them attacked Bruce Lee.
18 of them died before they got him.
jeff ross
Wow.
joe rogan
I was like, what?
No, no, no, no, no.
He had like an allergic reaction to a drug or something.
He had like a blood clot or something.
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Some people think the Chinese triad had him whacked.
jeff ross
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, because you know his son Brandon died on the set of a movie where they had a fake gun, like a gun with a blank, and they shot at him, and there was something inside the gun, and it wound up killing him.
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
What a way to go.
Was it a stuntman who shot him or another actor?
joe rogan
I think it was another actor.
And from then on, now they made a new rule after that, I think.
This might be bullshit.
But I think the new rule was what I had heard, was that you can't point a gun at someone when you shoot them.
Like, instead of shooting you in the blank, if you and I were in a movie and I was going to shoot you in the blank, I'd have to do that.
It looks like from over there that I'm shooting at you, but I'm really shooting to the left of you.
jeff ross
Oh, fascinating.
Wow.
I guess I never realized that.
Sightline is weird.
joe rogan
Yeah, you remember his brother, The Crow?
Or his son, rather?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Isn't that movie The Crow?
jeff ross
It was cool, and they had to finish it without him or something?
joe rogan
Yeah, they had to hire some guy to pretend to be him, I think.
jeff ross
It's 2017. We're almost done with January, and not one major celebrity has died in any way yet.
joe rogan
Crazy.
Amazing how many dropped off right before the end, though.
Carrie Fisher was a bummer.
jeff ross
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Who else died?
unidentified
Prince, George Michael, David Bowie.
joe rogan
Prince is a bad one, man.
unidentified
He died from fucking pain pills.
jeff ross
Hey, Magoda.
joe rogan
We lost Fish?
jeff ross
A year ago.
joe rogan
Really?
jeff ross
Beginning of last year.
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
jeff ross
Tough one.
I didn't know about that one.
He was 175 years old.
joe rogan
He was at least that old.
What was that other?
Barney, um...
jeff ross
His SAG number was three.
joe rogan
Barney Miller, right?
Wasn't that a detective show?
jeff ross
He played Fish on Barney Miller.
joe rogan
And then he had Fish.
He was on his own show.
jeff ross
Well, he was in the Godfather movies.
joe rogan
That's true.
He had a spinoff, though, right?
Fish.
jeff ross
Fish.
I love that show.
It's only on one season, but everyone remembers it.
How is that possible?
If there's a show on now for one season, you don't even know it's on.
You never heard of it.
Fish lasted one season, and everyone remembers it.
joe rogan
Do you think this now that, you know...
You've been on TV a bunch of times, and you've had your own show, and now you've got Rose Battle on.
Do you think there's so many shows on now, with so many networks and so many channels, and then there's streaming shit like Netflix and Hulu and CISO? It's almost like there's too much content.
jeff ross
I think it's just, for some reason, more narrowed.
You know?
You get your exact audience.
joe rogan
That's true.
jeff ross
Strange.
You know, like Doug Benson has something for pot smokers, and someone else has something for home improvement, and there's a channel just for cooking shows.
It's kind of like that, I guess.
Otherwise, it's hard to understand.
joe rogan
Well, it's hard to get people to know about your show just from TV. Right.
You need some sort of web presence and some sort of social media presence and something else.
It's like regular shows.
If you just put it on after a successful show, nobody knows what the fuck it is.
They just change the channel to something they do know.
jeff ross
Right.
Interesting.
joe rogan
There's almost too many things going on now, Jeff.
jeff ross
That's what's hard about launching any TV show.
And we're doing our show as a tournament, like as an event.
So by the time you even know it's on, it's over.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But it's so good.
It's so good, it can't lose.
That's a show when they said that they were going to turn that into a television show, I'm like, that can't miss.
It can't miss.
And, you know, especially if you could figure out a way to do them all in the belly room.
I really feel like the belly room is something special.
jeff ross
It really is the magic.
joe rogan
There's something, it's so intimate, it's so, and when you see someone get fucking crushed in the belly room, like I've heard some goddamn titanic lines up there.
What did Kim Kong did say about this girl?
Oh, she said, she's not Union, but her tits are sag.
jeff ross
It really is a joke writer's showcase.
joe rogan
It is.
jeff ross
We're doing it the last...
It's next weekend.
I don't know when you were posting.
We're live.
So it's...
joe rogan
Yeah, we're live now.
jeff ross
We're live now.
Hi, I forgot for a second.
joe rogan
Oh, hi, everybody.
So when is it...
jeff ross
It's 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th January.
Four nights in a row.
joe rogan
And it...
Has it already...
jeff ross
It's a bracketed tournament.
We'll start taping tomorrow, and then the finale is live on the 29th.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
jeff ross
Live on TV? It's fun right now because we're in the comedy store right now.
All the New York comics are staying across the street.
So they're all coming over to check out the comedy store.
And now we're shooting across the street in the old House of Blues.
So this whole little neighborhood is going to be a roast battle neighborhood for a week or so.
joe rogan
You hear the piano?
jeff ross
It's kind of great.
joe rogan
We're downstairs below the original room.
This is underground comedy.
This is underground.
That's what we're going to call it.
Underground at the Comedy Store.
Right?
jeff ross
I love that.
joe rogan
Perfect, because we're underground.
unidentified
That's what we'll call it.
jeff ross
Got it.
Love that.
joe rogan
Live underground from the Comedy Store.
Fuck yeah.
Because you can hear comics killing up there.
You can hear the piano music.
It's fucking awesome.
jeff ross
It's got a real feel to it, bro.
joe rogan
Dude, you shaved your eyebrows.
I ran into you in New York five months ago, and you had shaved your eyebrows.
jeff ross
How do I look now?
joe rogan
They're kind of not back yet.
jeff ross
I'm a strange looking guy, Rogan.
joe rogan
How long does it take for eyebrows to grow back?
jeff ross
Could be a lifetime.
joe rogan
That's fucking nuts.
That's so weird.
I thought eyebrows would be like a beard.
jeff ross
I don't really have hair on my body.
joe rogan
You don't?
Like your body hair?
jeff ross
Yeah, like my sister's never shaved her legs.
joe rogan
Look, Greg Fitzsimmons, everybody.
Come on in, Greg.
unidentified
Come in?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah!
Get in here, buddy.
We saved you a spot.
Isn't this cool?
jeff ross
Hi, Greg.
joe rogan
Dude, you are for here.
jeff ross
Is he better for here?
joe rogan
This one's fine?
Okay.
Beautiful.
jeff ross
Welcome to Hitler's bunker.
greg fitzsimmons
I know.
Can we fuck Ava?
joe rogan
No.
jeff ross
How was your set?
How was your set?
greg fitzsimmons
You know, it was one of those crowds where if you did new shit that you were excited about, they were with you, and as soon as you did a bit that had any dust on it, they just fucking flatlined.
joe rogan
So do you think that was you, or they felt it in you?
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, it was definitely me.
It was me because I felt like when you have new stuff, you get so excited about doing it that you come alive and you're not reciting it.
You're really saying it.
And then when you transition into shit that you've been doing for too long, you lose that freshness and they sense there's a difference between the material.
joe rogan
There's a moment when you're doing an old bit where you have so much shame and you try to reignite it and It's like when you see a guy yelling at his son in a parking lot.
greg fitzsimmons
And he doesn't even believe it.
He's just doing it because he thinks that's how a father's supposed to act.
joe rogan
You know what's even worse?
Is when you see someone yelling at their kid and then you look over and you make eye contact with them and they realize they shouldn't be yelling at their kid and they've lost their cool.
greg fitzsimmons
Plus I can imagine you looking at a guy who's yelling at his kid.
There's probably a little bit of a menacing look on your face.
joe rogan
I try not to be.
I try to be kind.
I don't want to be menacing to parents.
jeff ross
Or audiences, for that matter.
joe rogan
I don't yell at my kids, man.
I might raise my voice occasionally if they're doing something really fucked up, like they're being mean to each other.
But I remember people yelling at me, man.
The cortisol reaction that happens in a kid's brain and all the stress hormones that get released, there's plenty of fucking bad shit going on in the world.
They don't need their parents yelling at them, too.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, especially when you put it in perspective.
Like, your parent, at any given time, is possibly three or four times bigger than you.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
And then when they yell at you on top of that, that's really, that's fucking intimidating.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
You sound like a couple of pussies right now.
joe rogan
We have kids.
You become a pussy.
You definitely do in a certain way.
You become a pussy.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, you definitely.
joe rogan
The good thing about that, me not yelling, is my fucking six-year-old is not even remotely scared of me.
Not even a little.
She mocks me openly.
I go, hey, listen, you can't do that.
She sticks her tongue out at me.
She's not even a little nervous around me.
Maybe I should be a little harder.
greg fitzsimmons
Just leave some videotapes of you doing jiu-jitsu on somebody.
Just in a loop.
joe rogan
I teach her.
I teach my kids.
They take martial arts.
My six-year-old is actually a higher rank than my eight-year-old.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
I think that gives them the confidence to talk smack at you.
joe rogan
No.
jeff ross
If he hits me, I can block it.
joe rogan
No.
I don't think that's it.
I just think they know I'm not going to do anything.
They beat the shit out of me, though.
They're allowed to hit me because they're allowed to practice techniques on me.
I allowed them.
Full blast leg kicks.
Especially my 8-year-old.
She can fucking hit hard, man.
She'll step into a leg kick and crack!
She lets me know she's going to do it, but I let her do it so she can feel what it's like to hit a real person as hard as you want.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, you're her meat puppet.
joe rogan
It's interesting.
You know Jeff Ross of Black Belt and Paekwondo?
greg fitzsimmons
I did know that.
Wow.
What year did you become a black belt?
jeff ross
I was not even 11. Oh, so it's a junior black belt.
Easy, buddy.
greg fitzsimmons
Hey!
That's nice, though.
It's great if you fight a midget.
jeff ross
It was a black belt.
I had to teach adults in order to get my black belt.
greg fitzsimmons
Really?
joe rogan
You had to teach adults?
greg fitzsimmons
Really?
jeff ross
That was part of the test.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
You learn a lot when you teach.
jeff ross
That's true.
joe rogan
Your son's a black belt, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
Junior black belt.
joe rogan
Junior black belt.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
He did it for like eight years.
joe rogan
A lot of different schools have different distinctions.
jeff ross
Eight years of anything at that age is pretty great.
greg fitzsimmons
What's tough is once they get the black belt, there's not new forms to learn.
It's just perfecting what you've already learned.
There's a big drop-off because kids are so used to getting a new belt and learning new, what do they call it, katas?
joe rogan
Yeah, depending on what style art.
Kata is actually a Japanese word.
It depends on what martial art.
In Taekwondo, I think they called it It's different for other styles of Korean martial arts.
I have a different name for it, too.
You can go to higher degrees, though.
You can get second degree, third degree.
greg fitzsimmons
It takes a while.
It takes a different mentality to go to that level.
joe rogan
Yeah, that is a thing, man.
Once people achieve black belt, they feel like they're done.
The mountain has been climbed.
That's one thing that you don't...
Well, I guess you kind of have that in all martial arts.
But Taekwondo, you're doing a lot of light contact sparring, and because of that, I think it's not as engaging as jujitsu, because jujitsu is kind of like full blast, because you're not hitting each We're good to
go.
greg fitzsimmons
I usually just wait until somebody gets an erection, then we call it a day.
joe rogan
Do you finish them off?
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, yeah.
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
Good man.
greg fitzsimmons
I made a joke last night on your show.
It just kind of came up, but somebody goes...
This guy goes, I'd have sex with you.
And I go, that's nice.
He goes...
He goes, but I'd be the top.
I go, of course you'd be the top because the only way anyone's fucking me is I'm flat on my face and you just tackled me.
And it's probably a three-way.
That's the only way I'm getting fucked is these two guys and I'm the bottom.
There's something there.
joe rogan
Could be.
greg fitzsimmons
What's the closest you ever came to fooling around with a guy, Jeff?
joe rogan
Right now?
jeff ross
Not close.
greg fitzsimmons
Not close at all?
joe rogan
With this conversation?
greg fitzsimmons
You ever got high and like, uh...
jeff ross
I guess I saw...
unidentified
What happened?
He's rubbing his eyes.
greg fitzsimmons
He just cut himself off.
unidentified
Yeah, he's like, I can't get into that.
joe rogan
You know what he's thinking now?
This is part of the problem with being a roast master.
He's thinking someone's going to use this on me in a roast.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
joe rogan
Could be a roast battle.
greg fitzsimmons
You can't show a soft underbelly.
joe rogan
Do you think you'll ever wound up battling on roast battle?
jeff ross
Oh, yeah.
Definitely.
joe rogan
Are you already preparing?
jeff ross
No, I just think about how it would work.
I look at like...
Who would be fun to battle.
I'm obviously a bit easy target for a guy who works the door here.
He's going to destroy me.
It's like, of course, how the mighty will fall.
But I still think it would be fun anyway.
joe rogan
What does it feel like knowing that you roasted the President of the United States?
You roasted Trump.
jeff ross
It is totally a weird feeling.
And I saw him a couple weeks ago.
I saw him down in Florida.
What are you doing at his golf course?
unidentified
What?
greg fitzsimmons
I don't understand your life.
Jeff Ross's life is like nobody else's.
I follow him on fucking Instagram.
And every night he's in a different city with a different set of cool people.
joe rogan
Well, when you're a successful man, you don't have children.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
And you're not married.
You can do whatever the fuck you want.
greg fitzsimmons
Jesus, what a life.
joe rogan
Yeah, you really do have a good life in that regard.
You're free as a bird.
jeff ross
It is cool.
joe rogan
How the fuck have you managed to not get tied down?
jeff ross
I'm ready to get tied down.
joe rogan
You're ready?
I wish I... They say that.
jeff ross
I wish I would meet somebody who could do that.
greg fitzsimmons
They say that when they're around us.
jeff ross
Yeah, that's not true.
That's not true.
I would like to settle down.
joe rogan
Really?
jeff ross
Yeah, I haven't met the right person.
Hmm.
joe rogan
How come you haven't met the right person?
Because you're in a new city every night, you fuck.
You're constantly traveling.
jeff ross
Maybe I'm looking the wrong way.
I came close a couple times.
joe rogan
Do you think you'll have a little Jeff someday?
jeff ross
I really hope so.
How old are you now?
50. 51. It's over.
Why?
joe rogan
Because your comma's bad.
jeff ross
You really think so?
joe rogan
If it tastes it, it's probably bitter.
jeff ross
Don't freak me out.
Don't freak me out.
You already told me that the Bruce Lee video wasn't real.
joe rogan
He thought the Bruce Lee video, Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchucks, he thought that was real.
greg fitzsimmons
No, you didn't.
joe rogan
Are you serious?
greg fitzsimmons
They're round.
Nunchucks are round.
unidentified
And who the fuck is that good that you could time it?
joe rogan
You'd have to time the ping pong.
It's not like a paddle that's like a rigid thing where you can kind of hit it.
You have to time the swing of the thing.
jeff ross
I thought he was a badass.
joe rogan
Well, he was definitely a badass.
No doubt about it.
He was the original mixed martial artist.
jeff ross
You think my cum is bad?
joe rogan
It's probably not good.
greg fitzsimmons
It's probably not good.
You probably have to...
Get a nephew or somebody to kick in.
jeff ross
Come on.
joe rogan
Some of Greg's come.
Greg's still got a couple of good rumors in there.
jeff ross
This is terrible news.
joe rogan
At a certain age, when men have children, there's a high risk of autism.
Somebody was mocking Trump.
I think it was Rosie O'Donnell was mocking Trump's kid.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, yeah.
Rosie O'Donnell did.
joe rogan
Yeah, which I thought was like, wow.
I know that he said some fucked up shit about her, but going after his kid like that, that shows you how much he hurt her.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
joe rogan
She wrote a poem about how depressed she was when he became president.
No, he hadn't even won yet.
He made fun of her in a debate.
In one of the debates, he was talking, like someone said he talked bad about women.
He's like, well, Rosie O'Donnell.
But everybody agrees with me.
And he got a laugh.
And apparently she was just devastated.
greg fitzsimmons
She called his kid autistic?
joe rogan
Later.
It was after that.
I think she was just crushed.
She was talking about how sad she was.
She couldn't go outside.
greg fitzsimmons
I haven't seen his kid.
Does he look autistic?
joe rogan
He looks like a fucking kid.
jeff ross
He's a tall, good-looking kid.
joe rogan
He's got a bunch of kids.
jeff ross
He gave them Rhode Island for Christmas.
unidentified
It's a comedy store.
joe rogan
Well, the kid's 10, and he's 70. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean...
greg fitzsimmons
So he was 60 when he...
joe rogan
Yeah, when he shot one in.
greg fitzsimmons
Jesus.
Because the thing is, now you just think about how much your cell phone is in your pocket, how many waves are going through your semen all the time.
Oh, you don't put it in your pocket?
jeff ross
I do.
greg fitzsimmons
You do.
joe rogan
Why does everybody think that radiation's bad?
Remember when we were kids?
The comic book guys got radiation.
Don't sit too close to the TV. But they became heroes.
jeff ross
Don't sit too close to the TV, they used to tell you.
joe rogan
Yeah, they were worried about that.
But I think that was for your eyes.
Right?
But like radiation in comic books, it always does good shit.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
unidentified
Hmm.
jeff ross
I guess you're right.
People go radiation when they're ill.
It's a healing thing now.
joe rogan
Not really.
They do to kill the tumor, but it kills you too.
It just kills the tumor more than it kills you.
It kills the tumor first, and it brings you to the door of death, and then you pull back.
jeff ross
Oof.
joe rogan
And start drinking wheatgrass juice and getting your life together.
greg fitzsimmons
That's right.
I just started some probiotics online today.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah?
You should eat actual live probiotics.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, kimchi, yogurt, kefir is good.
All that stuff.
I'm a big proponent of probiotics.
I eat a lot of it, man.
It's huge.
jeff ross
Like what?
What is that?
joe rogan
Kimchi, well probiotics is anytime you're taking in like healthy bacteria, like whether it's in the form of yogurt, acidophilus.
Sauerkraut is actually a healthy, especially raw sauerkraut.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh yeah?
joe rogan
Actually a very good probiotic.
Really good for you.
There's a lot of like natural food stores, like Whole Foods type places that have probiotic sauerkraut.
Really good for you because it's fermented.
Anytime you're fermenting something, what's happening is this bacteria is living on the food.
When you're eating kimchi, there's bacteria living on the food, but it's healthy bacteria.
greg fitzsimmons
Because I fart so bad, and it's been years.
I think I caught Giardia when I was down in Florida.
unidentified
Really?
greg fitzsimmons
You drink it out of a creek?
No, tap water in Florida, man.
You're not supposed to drink it.
It's the worst tap water in America.
unidentified
What?
greg fitzsimmons
Because it's a sandbar.
There's no fucking fresh water down there.
joe rogan
Yeah, but isn't all tap water treated with chlorine?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, but there's only so much they can do with that shit down there.
unidentified
Really?
greg fitzsimmons
Look at those people.
And so I started farting, and I went on all kinds of antibiotics, and I got rid of a bulk of it, but the farts have remained.
And so somebody told me probiotics can clear it up.
joe rogan
Have you ever heard that when people get poop transfusions?
greg fitzsimmons
No.
joe rogan
Yeah, they'll take poop from a healthy person.
Yes.
Yes.
It's a real thing.
greg fitzsimmons
Ass to ass?
joe rogan
Well, they don't make you go butt to butt with somebody.
I think they go in and fish it out and they shoot it up in you.
But they literally will shoot somebody else's poop up your asshole into your body.
And some people even swallow poop tablets.
greg fitzsimmons
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
Never heard that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
They do to people that have really unhealthy gut biomes.
And one of the issues with a lot of people is antibiotics.
When you take antibiotics, it doesn't just kill the bad stuff.
It kills good stuff, too.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, they just had the first woman who couldn't be cured by antibiotics.
Did you read about that?
unidentified
No.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, she had some kind of a...
I don't know what it was.
It was some kind of a bacteria.
Like MRSA? You know, I wish I knew more about the story, but I don't know.
Maybe we can look it up on the internet.
But it was the first time that they tried every type of antibiotic, and it didn't work.
And they said that this could mark the beginning of untreatable viruses.
So bacteria or virus, I guess?
joe rogan
Bacteria.
greg fitzsimmons
Bacterias, right?
You don't treat viruses with antibiotics.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
Antiviral medication is a different thing, I believe.
But bacteria, as far as the stuff that you get from staph infections and stuff like that, has gotten stronger and stronger over the years.
Especially in hospitals, man.
There's a lot of people that catch MRSA from hospitals and they fucking wind up dying.
It's a big issue.
jeff ross
You guys are really depressing me.
joe rogan
I'm sorry.
Come on, man.
Do you have a light?
Yeah, I do.
greg fitzsimmons
So, we are in the final hours before the inauguration.
It's a crazy time.
I didn't think that I would be this...
I really thought after the election, I would wrap my head around it and I would be like, okay, this is normal.
Trump is going to be president.
Like I would have some sense of like, okay, I don't feel any more, um, uh, ready for this than I was the night after the election.
joe rogan
No, it's weird.
It's 100% weird.
I was watching this video that someone was playing on their Instagram page where they were there while Trump was walking into this room in D.C. and surrounded by Secret Service agents.
And all these sycophants and all these weird people around him, and this guy's yelling out, Thank you, Mr. Trump.
Thank you.
You are a godsend, sir.
You are a god.
Andrew Santino, ladies and gentlemen, come on in.
Have a seat, fella.
You're coming in right at the time Jeff Ross is handing you a joint.
andrew santino
Oh, thank you, Jeff.
Thank you.
joe rogan
Ladies and gentlemen, Andrew Santino, live Netflix special on the way.
Trump supporter, by the way.
He voted five times.
andrew santino
Huge, huge Trump supporter.
I voted as many times as I could.
I kept doing it.
unidentified
He had a fake ID, pretended to be Mexican.
andrew santino
I did, actually.
Yeah, I became Andrew Santino.
So I switched it up.
Yeah, Santino.
Yeah, Santiago.
Yeah, big, big Trump supporter.
Fitz, you are, too.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, I'll just say right now, ladies, get your abortions before noon tomorrow.
joe rogan
Don't you think Trump's had a lot of girls get abortions?
I think he's going to back off of that.
greg fitzsimmons
Are you shitting me?
He's got a frequent fetus card.
Oh yeah, he's driven a few ladies off into the clinic.
Of course.
Absolutely.
andrew santino
That's his thing.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, they were saying that about G.W. Bush, is that there was a pretty well-documented case when he was in college, where did he go to Texas or something?
Yeah, probably.
andrew santino
He went to college?
greg fitzsimmons
He went to fucking Yale, didn't he?
andrew santino
No.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
jeff ross
Warton School of Business, right?
greg fitzsimmons
No, that's Trump.
Talking about G.W. Oh, okay.
unidentified
Didn't he?
jeff ross
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think he did go to Yale, didn't he?
jeff ross
He went to Yale, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, because he was in the Scull and Bones, right?
jeff ross
Yeah, G.W. All the Bushes went to Yale.
greg fitzsimmons
Right.
joe rogan
That's one of those grandfathered in things, though, right?
Oh, yeah.
jeff ross
How about George and Barbara Bush doing double suicides?
unidentified
You could have to go into the inauguration.
joe rogan
What are they doing?
greg fitzsimmons
They're both in the hospital.
jeff ross
Really?
andrew santino
Yeah, they're both dying right now.
jeff ross
Why don't we just stop taking our medication?
What do you think, Georgie?
Maybe we should stop taking our medical.
We won't have to go to the inauguration.
joe rogan
What medicine?
Who are you?
jeff ross
I want to go skydiving.
andrew santino
Why is Martha Washington in my bedroom?
jeff ross
Jeff, put that down.
joe rogan
I didn't see him for years, and then I saw him recently, and he was in a wheelchair on some interview and some video, and it made you realize, like, wow.
It's been a while since you saw him.
jeff ross
It's crazy to think that Carter's still alive and W is still alive.
andrew santino
How old's Carter?
unidentified
He's old.
He was old when he was president in 76. Was he?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, he was already old.
jeff ross
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was an interesting guy, man.
Carter didn't really get a fair shake.
jeff ross
Go to the Presidential Library.
Carter's in Atlanta is awesome.
You should check it out.
joe rogan
Well, I heard some speeches that he gave before when he was running for president.
Back when Hunter S. Thompson recorded a speech that he gave at one of those Washington's.
unidentified
Is it out?
No.
joe rogan
You want some more of this?
andrew santino
I'm good.
joe rogan
I'm good too.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
It was in that movie, Fear and Loathing.
Not Fear and Loathing, the other one.
Gonzo, the life and works of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the documentary on him.
Really interesting, man.
Carter was a pretty intense and moral guy.
Very powerfully so.
greg fitzsimmons
He was a good Christian.
He was the good kind of Christian.
andrew santino
The good kind.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, because I think people can use Christianity as a way of feeling better then, or it can be a life of service.
And he was very much a life of service.
andrew santino
The way that my dad goes to church still, just because he just likes the people that are there more so than anything else.
He's like, I just want to go see fucking people that I've known for For 40 years.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
He's like, I don't really listen ever.
I mean, like, my dad is notorious to just falling asleep every single time.
Yeah, he's just there to, like, see some friends before and after.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
It's a fucking, it's a club.
greg fitzsimmons
But do you think, I mean, because here's, I go back and forth on religion because it's so easy to take, like, the, uh...
You know, the agnostic root and say that all religion is evil and all that.
But it's like so much good shit has happened because of organized religion.
I mean, look at what the Jews have done in this country with just fucking hospitals alone.
And then you got Christians that have gone to Central America, you know, nuns that have fucking saved villages.
joe rogan
Yeah.
For sure.
andrew santino
Yeah, there's tons of good stuff.
I think the cheap fucking route is to say that religion sucks just because that's an easy blanket to go, fuck religion, it's just caused every war, it's the worst thing.
It's like, yeah, there's a lot of fucking negatives to it.
joe rogan
You know, they blamed it on every war, but war is something that's caused by people.
People would have found a reason to go to war.
They go to war because they're apes.
They go to war because apes fight against apes.
It's like they're always dominating for that alpha position.
If they're blaming it on religion, it's just a convenient reason to go fuck somebody up.
They would have done it because they had diamonds or they'd do it for oil.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, that's the thing in Ireland.
They try to pretend that it's a war between the Protestants and the Catholics.
No, it's the fucking Brits trying to colonize and destroy a population of people.
That's it.
joe rogan
And people get tribal.
People will fight.
The fucking Raiders will fight the Eagles.
The fans will meet in the parking lot and have a fucking gang war.
unidentified
That's just what people do.
greg fitzsimmons
For a shirt color.
joe rogan
That's just what people do.
Didn't they beat some guy almost to death?
Dodger Stadium.
andrew santino
Yeah, he put him in a coma.
greg fitzsimmons
Horrible, man.
andrew santino
San Francisco fan.
joe rogan
Some guy with his kid, right?
andrew santino
Yeah, kids.
He had his kids with him and two dudes just stopped him.
greg fitzsimmons
I think the kid was autistic.
andrew santino
Was he?
joe rogan
He just went for it.
andrew santino
I was going to say.
joe rogan
His instincts took over.
andrew santino
He was autistic, yeah.
joe rogan
It's just crazy how tribal people are.
And that's one of the things that you're seeing with this election, too.
Whether you're a Trump supporter or a Hillary supporter or a Bernie supporter, whatever, if you just can step back from it for a second and look at it objectively, what you're seeing is these people that are like blindly loyal to one side or the other.
And then you just see giant clumps of them that move in that direction.
And very few people who look at it and have a balanced perspective that's outside of an ideology.
You know what I mean?
Very few people are going, well, we got...
This guy who won a popularity contest, and he's the first actually popular person who won this popularity contest.
And everybody else who's been in this popularity contest has just been in this one select group.
So in that sense, it's a good thing because it's going to be a disruptive thing.
And this system is not good.
It's not good to have the same fucking families run the country over and over again.
Have the same bureaucracy, the same red tape, all the shit that people have had to deal with when it comes to politics.
It's not a perfect system.
And it's not getting improved.
And one of the reasons it doesn't get improved is because the people that run the system, they have a concerted...
There's a great benefit for them to keep the system in place.
There's plenty of jobs.
There's plenty of people doing it.
There's plenty of red tape.
There's plenty of confusion.
There's plenty of debate and influence and it goes back and forth from side to side and all that keeps it relevant and it keeps people from stopping and saying, why are there these two groups?
One is right and one is left.
One is conservative and one is liberal when most of us are a combination of all those things.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, not only that, it's all projections by the big business to say there's even a right and a left.
They're pulling the strings on both sides.
andrew santino
I remember coming around the store and listening to people at the beginning of Trump's campaign.
You know, like, vehemently hating him so much.
And that kind of, like, extremism was the same for, like, Bernie support.
Like, the Bernie chaos, like, the Bernie thing was crazy.
I mean, it was like the same kind of crazy, chaotic, like, fuck anybody but Bernie.
And the Trump supporters were the same way.
It was like, fuck anybody but Donald Trump.
It was like extremes on both sides.
And it's the same thing.
At some point, you're at a level playing, right?
Zero is the same as 100. You know what I mean?
Like, if I said...
If I said to a friend of mine, how gay are you on a percentage scale zero to 100, and if a guy says 100, okay, he's gay.
And then if a guy says, second guy says, oh yeah, I'm 48, I'd be like, okay, I get that.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
Yeah, Jeff.
Me.
But then if a guy says, I'm zero, fuck that.
It's the same as the 100 guy.
The extremism is the same.
It's just a different angle.
But there's not enough people that are 40% gay.
There's not enough people in the middle of it all.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, and a lot of people try to say, I actually really am independent.
And it's like, I wish, but then you talk to them a little bit, and they're on one side or the other.
It's very difficult because there's no truth anymore.
There's no paper.
It used to be like, if you watched CBS, NBC, ABC News, there was a journalistic integrity that they subscribed to, and both sides said, these are the facts.
There's no news outlet any longer that both sides...
Look at!
andrew santino
No.
joe rogan
That's a really important point.
andrew santino
I mean, it's very clear.
It's cut and dry.
joe rogan
How did that happen?
andrew santino
I don't know.
I'm curious to know when it happened.
At what time period of politics did that become?
The notion of the shift of an obvious, this is precisely who we're for, and it's clear.
joe rogan
I was watching CNN and Fox News back and forth after the debate.
And it was so fascinating, man.
It was like, who is telling the truth?
What is happening here?
These are two totally different stories.
And they're so clear on one side or the other.
Like Fox News...
Excuse me.
It was so clear on Trump's side.
unidentified
And CNN was so clear on Hillary's side.
joe rogan
It was so obvious.
jeff ross
They switched places in one day.
joe rogan
They were concentrating.
jeff ross
CNN and Fox News, they just switched places overnight.
joe rogan
Well, it's crazy how one of them became...
jeff ross
CNN's the fear network and Fox News is the reality.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, what news do you follow, Jeff?
jeff ross
I follow it all.
I don't follow any news.
I watch...
And read a lot of news.
greg fitzsimmons
You have like an aggregator on your phone that pulls from different news sources?
jeff ross
I just tend to search up topics.
Be curious what Chris Christie's up to this week.
Or Al Franken.
Or I'll just get someone on my mind.
Sometimes I'll go to Politico and usually there's a great angle that you hadn't thought of.
greg fitzsimmons
Politico and Guardian are good.
For different angles.
andrew santino
Yeah, Guardian's good.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, because they're...
You know, they're outside.
Well, originally, I guess there's a lot of their writers are Americans now, right?
joe rogan
Did you see the Guardian?
andrew santino
Initially it was UK. Are you okay?
jeff ross
You want some water?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm good, dude.
I don't know what's going on.
That weed's strong.
Did you see that Guardian article by Glenn Greenwald about this unsubstantiated attacks on Trump?
greg fitzsimmons
It was really interesting.
What, like fake news?
joe rogan
Yeah.
And he was talking about what Eisenhower warned about, the military industrial complex.
I was like, wow, this is a crazy, bold article.
greg fitzsimmons
And they predicted a Trump-like figure rising up.
joe rogan
Well, it's not just that.
He's talking about how the deep state is attacking Trump.
That's what he's bringing up, that the deep state is attacking him and going after him.
And that the CIA and the intelligence agencies, they're making some sort of a concerted effort.
To single him out and go after him and destroy his person.
Destroy his public persona.
And that's where all the urine thing came from.
jeff ross
When you get into politics, all this stuff blows up.
greg fitzsimmons
Those stories are crazy.
The FBI doesn't give a fuck about politics.
They care about the FBI. And if anybody crosses them the way Trump already has, they're going to try to bury him.
jeff ross
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, think about that.
When has there ever been a time where an unsubstantiated story about a guy who's the president-elect about peeing on beds?
When is there ever?
They've talked about that so openly.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
It's been so open that his last press conference, he shut down the rumor by saying he's a germaphobe.
greg fitzsimmons
He's a germaphobe!
andrew santino
That's how massive of a story that is, that during one of the most important press conferences, he addressed that fucking thing.
greg fitzsimmons
He had to.
And it didn't stop there.
Then he went on to talk about, well, you know, everybody knows his camera's in the room.
I mean, you know, what am I, stupid?
It wasn't about, what am I, immoral?
It was, what am I, stupid?
andrew santino
That is so crazy.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
And then you watch how he...
I don't think I've ever seen...
I mean, this might be me being ignorant, but I don't know if I've ever seen a president in a press conference or president-elect shut down a source like he did CNN and was like, I won't talk to you.
I don't know if I've ever seen a president single one out and then...
They probably slyly ignore certain journalists that they don't want to fucking talk to, but I've never seen one be like, I don't talk to CNN. I don't talk to that news source.
Fuck you.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, I think that there's a protocol for who you go to first.
For years, the first question always went to that one old woman from the Associated Press.
andrew santino
Yeah, from the AP, yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
She was always the first question.
And then after that, I think there was a certain pecking order to it.
And Trump just basically said...
I'm going to choose what news and questions you guys hear from now on.
The press corps is no longer traveling with him.
It's the first time a president has not had the press corps with him at all times.
andrew santino
His reasoning was, he was like, what are you going to watch me eat food?
That's what he thought that they were at.
He's like, no, they're interested in what's going on.
They're interested in what this conversation you might be having with someone of some sense of importance.
But he was like, I don't want you watching me do simple shit.
But that's just part of their fucking gig.
That's what they've always done.
And then I think about that.
How much simple shit have they seen where it's so annoying?
At some point, they've got to be like, fuck, this is so boring.
greg fitzsimmons
Especially when they get on Air Force One and they're going to fucking Russia for 10 hours and they're just sitting around so they can do a 30-second photo op and yell questions at them and then another 10-hour flight home.
andrew santino
Imagine one of the guys in the group is just like, I think I'm going to go talk to him.
The other guy's like, don't do it.
Don't go in his room, dude.
greg fitzsimmons
It's like, what?
andrew santino
I think we're cool now, man.
We've had some moments, you know?
I feel like, don't be that guy.
And then the rest of the nine-hour plane flight is fucking miserable.
joe rogan
When he was praising Kanye West for supporting him, I remember watching that on TV and going, is this real life?
andrew santino
Yeah, it was a trip.
joe rogan
Is this real life?
andrew santino
Wait, I read the greatest, I wish I know the source, just because I don't want to fucking say somebody else's shit, but there was just a meme floating around on the internet that said, I bet you, eight years ago, when Obama gained presidency, there were so many fucking extremists going, I bet you the first people he's going to talk to are rappers and Steve Harvey.
laughter And then you see Trump just drags in rappers.
I loved it.
I was like, that's so fucking true.
How many white extremists were like, he's going to talk to rappers in the White House and it's Trump that's doing it?
It's great.
unidentified
It's so funny.
joe rogan
Who else is he talking to?
Who else is he publicly talking to?
jeff ross
Don King.
andrew santino
Don King.
Yeah, he loves Don King.
But they've had a relationship in the past.
So they go back.
So this is almost like he gets to invite his actual friends into this world.
joe rogan
Do you remember when Obama was in trouble?
jeff ross
All his friends are getting ambassadorships.
It's going to be crazy.
greg fitzsimmons
No, not Christy.
Christie's getting nothing.
andrew santino
Nothing?
jeff ross
I don't mean his political friends.
I mean his friends.
andrew santino
Yeah, his life friends.
jeff ross
His lawyer, his buddies.
joe rogan
Do you guys remember when it was a big deal that Obama was attached to that really radical professor who was one of the weathermen?
Is that what it was?
Is that what they called themselves?
And they were doing acid and having orgies and shit and robbing banks or something.
And he was a part of that in some way.
And he was a professor that Obama knew in college.
And it was always this big controversy that he knew this radical terrorist.
That Obama is like some fucking sleeper guy.
greg fitzsimmons
No, but he did have to distance himself from the guy because the guy did have some very pro-secession.
What do they call it?
The blacks that think you should return to Africa and whites should pay for it.
He was one of those guys.
Secessionist?
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess that would be.
andrew santino
Secessionist?
Secessionist.
joe rogan
Secession, right?
andrew santino
Secession, yeah, to secede.
greg fitzsimmons
So, no, he had to back off from that guy.
But it's, what about the guy who marched?
andrew santino
Have you guys seen his brother?
Do you know about his brother on fucking Twitter?
Obama's brother.
Do you know this account?
Have you heard about this?
unidentified
No.
andrew santino
There's like a guy who's saying he's his brother and he's like, I don't support him, I support Trump.
You haven't seen this?
joe rogan
He's pretending to be his brother?
andrew santino
You saw this?
unidentified
Yeah.
andrew santino
Yeah, this is...
jeff ross
He's a half-brother.
andrew santino
He's a half-brother.
joe rogan
That is fake news.
jeff ross
It probably is.
Who knows?
joe rogan
I saw Obama talking about fake news.
He was talking about it, too.
jeff ross
I think that was fake.
andrew santino
But Trump was fucking talking...
Trump was talking to this dude, like...
Thanks for the support.
Thanks for not supporting your half-brother.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, I mean, you want to talk about fake news.
How about Trump ran around for three years saying that fucking Obama wasn't born in this country?
unidentified
I know.
greg fitzsimmons
That was crazy!
I mean, that was the beginning of fake news.
andrew santino
Let me see his ID. Yeah.
Let me see his birth certificate.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
And then the irony, now Trump won't show his fucking taxes.
unidentified
Yeah.
andrew santino
He won't, and because his excuse is, even after the audit's over, what do people need to see now?
Like, That's the reasoning.
What do you want to see?
If I get audited and I fucking deal with the government through the audit, what do you need to know other than we're taking care of it?
greg fitzsimmons
I think people want to know how much money he has borrowed from China and Russia.
andrew santino
Yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
Because that could really affect his policy decisions.
joe rogan
Absolutely.
I thought that that was like one of the things that you had to divulge your income.
andrew santino
You do.
joe rogan
Wasn't that a deal with Howard?
That's why Howard didn't eventually like really run for governor after a certain point because they wanted him to divulge his taxes.
jeff ross
That's how they found out he hasn't paid his taxes.
He doesn't pay taxes because of his major loss a long time ago.
joe rogan
Oh, that was that weird thing, right?
greg fitzsimmons
The Atlantic City Laws?
jeff ross
He had to make some disclosure, but it's a general summary of his income.
greg fitzsimmons
It would also say how much...
jeff ross
It's like where he has money in certain types of ways, but it's not his income taxes where you know what he spent on phone calls and security and everything.
It's just investments and shit.
greg fitzsimmons
It would also tell you how much he's donated to charity, which he doesn't want people to know.
andrew santino
Uh-uh.
greg fitzsimmons
I mean, he created his own charitable, what do you call it?
Charity.
andrew santino
Yeah, charitable fund.
Charitable charity.
greg fitzsimmons
Charitable charity.
And apparently he hasn't given any money to it in like two or three years.
It's just been money he solicited from people on the outside to give to his charity that then he disperses.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's so crazy.
andrew santino
But that's the whole thing.
Then do we know that that's real too?
I don't know.
I would like to think that's got to be true, but then I'm like, I don't know.
greg fitzsimmons
No, because they can solicit the records of his charity.
andrew santino
Of the non-profit.
Right, right, right.
But they can't do it for his personal and private.
joe rogan
That's so nuts.
jeff ross
Game over.
He'll be president for 20 years.
andrew santino
He's going to change it?
jeff ross
He's going to step aside, let his buddy take over like Putin did in Russia, and then eventually one of his kids or something.
This is it.
Hello.
andrew santino
Game over.
jeff ross
Get on board.
andrew santino
Game over.
joe rogan
You really think so?
jeff ross
Yeah.
joe rogan
Chris Rock was saying that on stage, or a bit wrapped around that.
It was very funny.
And I was stopping at the thing.
I was like, we're all laughing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But if something like that did happen, if it wasn't Trump, if it was somebody like that, maybe it's the next guy to figure out how to do it like that.
We essentially exposed the personality contest.
You expose the flaw in it.
You're not looking for the best leader.
You're looking for the person who's got the best personality for the job.
The person who's got the best story.
jeff ross
It's a reality show.
andrew santino
Which is why he fucking won.
joe rogan
Scott Adams, the guy who wrote Dilbert, he's a really, really smart guy.
And he predicted Trump winning a long time ago.
And the reason why he predicted it, he said he's the most persuasive guy I've ever seen.
He's incredibly persuasive.
He just understands the art of persuasion extremely well.
And he's like, just if you looked at it mathematically, this guy has a really good chance, and he predicted he was going to be president.
And people gave him so much shit.
And he doesn't even vote.
He's a really interesting guy.
Very, very smart guy.
And he wasn't saying that Trump was going to be president because he was this big Trump supporter, and he was...
It wasn't that.
He was looking at it pragmatically.
He was like, this guy has incredible abilities of persuasion.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, he's broken every single rule.
Every conventional wisdom about running for president, he broke and won.
So now it's like, like you said, Jeff, who fucking knows?
Who knows?
There's nothing normal anymore.
andrew santino
Do you think he gets two terms easy and then...
After that, he's just going to line up people.
jeff ross
Then there's no more terms.
andrew santino
No more terms.
joe rogan
No more terms.
jeff ross
That's it.
No.
Then it's just...
There's no more voting.
joe rogan
You really think so?
jeff ross
I feel like it's going to get interesting.
I feel like he locks up his own military.
It's going to start...
greg fitzsimmons
He's already marginalized the press.
unidentified
He's told his followers that the press is lying.
jeff ross
You're not arresting him.
You're not impeaching him.
andrew santino
He's staying in the White House for like two nights a week.
jeff ross
He's not moving into that place.
He's not even moving to fucking D.C. He's going to stay in New York.
andrew santino
He's having a satellite White House in New York City.
He wants a satellite in Manhattan.
joe rogan
You should have seen the video.
jeff ross
The way he operates, there's no way he's going to the White House and having all that around him.
greg fitzsimmons
No chance.
jeff ross
I don't think so.
andrew santino
You know what's so funny?
jeff ross
I think for a little while, to make it look good, but...
joe rogan
I am fucking freaking out right now.
greg fitzsimmons
People in New York are bullshit about the traffic around us.
jeff ross
But then again, he might like it there and stay.
I could see him going, you know what?
It's not so bad.
greg fitzsimmons
He likes it when he can rub elbows with famous people.
That's what's so funny about this inauguration weekend for him is that he couldn't get any celebrities and that's all he really cares about.
andrew santino
That was the most important thing.
And then he got that one young...
They offered it to that one young singer, that chick, and she said, I'll do it.
If I can sing...
Oh, what is that fucking song?
It's about slavery in America and about black people swinging from the trees.
greg fitzsimmons
Sweet Home Alabama?
andrew santino
Yes, that's the one.
That's it.
But she basically was like, I'll do it if you let me sing this song.
And of course they were like, no, absolutely not.
But she was just like, I'll come do it.
Because every artist in the world was like, I'm not singing there.
Absolutely not.
No chance, no chance, no chance.
joe rogan
How strange is that?
Have you ever heard anything like that?
Where there's no artist that you know about that want to go to that?
greg fitzsimmons
There's one country guy and he's fucking nuts.
andrew santino
Who's the country guy?
greg fitzsimmons
What was the country guy's name who sang?
Is it Hank Williams Jr.?
jeff ross
Leo Greenwood or whatever?
greg fitzsimmons
No.
No, bigger.
This guy's huge.
Toby Keith.
andrew santino
Toby Keith?
greg fitzsimmons
That guy's fucking massive.
He's massive.
I think it was tonight, actually.
jeff ross
Colby Teeth?
andrew santino
Colby Teeth!
jamie vernon
It's Colby Keith, Lee Greenwood, and Three Doors Down were the main.
greg fitzsimmons
Three Doors Down.
andrew santino
They're every band you've never heard.
greg fitzsimmons
They have that one song.
jeff ross
They have one big star.
greg fitzsimmons
What is it?
jeff ross
Roseanne Barr is singing the national anthem.
joe rogan
That's a good song.
jeff ross
Is she really?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, but they're done.
They're done.
joe rogan
That's a good song.
unidentified
If I go crazy, man, will you still call me Superman?
joe rogan
Is that it?
andrew santino
I don't know.
Is that it?
greg fitzsimmons
If I go crazy...
Yeah, it is a good song.
andrew santino
Are they going to sing that for him?
greg fitzsimmons
You know, they had a Bruce Springsteen cover band booked and they fucking cancelled.
Yeah, you didn't hear about this?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, Don.
jeff ross
We're born to run.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, they were going to do it, and then they got so much shit from their fans, and then they said, we're stepping down out of respect to the boss.
andrew santino
Is that what they said?
jeff ross
Did he issue a statement?
andrew santino
Did the boss say anything about it?
greg fitzsimmons
I don't think he had to.
The boss is not like Trump.
andrew santino
I was wondering if he publicly made a statement about the cover band playing.
greg fitzsimmons
No, I think Bruce's fans were very vocal with these guys.
jeff ross
Everybody who probably got an email about some fucking gig is like, I turned it down.
greg fitzsimmons
These guys were signed up.
But that is a good play.
That's a good publicity move.
andrew santino
Yeah, it is.
I bet you could find a comic that would do it in a heartbeat.
greg fitzsimmons
Who do you think would do it?
andrew santino
I'm sure there's a bunch of people that would do it.
unidentified
Brody Stevens would do it.
andrew santino
Oh, my God.
I love it.
jeff ross
I heard Marlee Maitland is going to sing.
unidentified
I heard that.
jeff ross
Like, what is that?
I heard they got David Bowie.
I'm going to go.
greg fitzsimmons
They're going to get holograms.
Celebrities against their will.
andrew santino
That's what he would do.
He'd get a prince hologram.
jeff ross
I know this.
For the inaugural parade, Secret Service is on high alert in case Donald tries to attack somebody.
joe rogan
Why didn't Kanye play it?
jeff ross
He's at another inauguration.
unidentified
He said he's not American enough or something.
What?
I'll find the quote real quick.
greg fitzsimmons
Even the people that are doing it are not necessarily saying they support Trump.
They're saying that they're supporting patriotism.
andrew santino
They need the money.
They need the money.
joe rogan
Toby Keith's supporting Trump.
greg fitzsimmons
He is.
He came up on stage with a red Dixie cup and cheered him.
Did a big cheers.
I swear to God.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
Jesus Christ.
jamie vernon
He's not traditionally American enough is sort of the quote they said.
jeff ross
Who said that?
unidentified
Trump's team that was asked, the inauguration committee, that Kanye is not American enough.
joe rogan
That's so ridiculous.
jeff ross
What does that even mean?
unidentified
I don't know.
jeff ross
Not American enough?
greg fitzsimmons
Look at Kid Rock.
I'm surprised Kid Rock didn't do it.
joe rogan
How is Kid Rock not on the card?
jeff ross
I don't know what kind of show you think this is.
greg fitzsimmons
Anyone they can get.
unidentified
Who knows?
jeff ross
I don't know what it is.
andrew santino
Did you guys see this?
Ted Nugent grabbing his dick at the Trump rally?
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, he was there?
andrew santino
Have you not seen this video?
joe rogan
He was grabbing his dick?
andrew santino
No, this was up in Michigan.
This is a great video of Ted Nugent.
If you have never seen this...
unidentified
...born and raised to be a productive American in the asset column by that spirit of real Michigan.
That spirit of the greatest state in the nation, they should not, we must not let it get lumpy.
jeff ross
He's dressed like a fisherman in a rally.
unidentified
Do you have that?
In Illinois, in New York.
New York and New Jersey and Maryland and Massachusetts.
I got your blue state right here.
joe rogan
He just grabbed his dick and he said, I got your blue state right here, baby.
andrew santino
Ted Nugent, baby.
joe rogan
He's very happy.
andrew santino
You're a big Nugent fan.
jeff ross
Love to.
Cat scratch fever.
joe rogan
Dude, Stranglehold.
Great fucking song.
andrew santino
I got your blue state right here.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
andrew santino
Someone Funny or Die did a thing where they kept zooming in on him grabbing his penis to accentuate the physical hold of his penis.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, he actually went for it?
andrew santino
Yeah, no, no.
He physically grabs it.
It looks like he's holding onto a lighter.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
andrew santino
And they fucking kept punching in on it to show him doing it.
joe rogan
When did he do that?
When did that take place?
andrew santino
This was at a rally in, I think it's Michigan.
Do you have it up there?
joe rogan
Really recently?
andrew santino
I'm going to see.
I just got it sent.
jeff ross
That happened along the campaign trail.
andrew santino
Yeah, it was on the campaign trail.
jeff ross
It was a while ago.
andrew santino
Yeah, it was a while ago.
jeff ross
I was doing a late crazy thing.
The victory tour.
How do you win the election and then go to the states you won?
Wouldn't you go to the states that you lost and see what they have to say?
joe rogan
Yeah, this is a different experience.
jeff ross
And then going after SNL's cast members, that was kind of weird.
greg fitzsimmons
Every week, not just once.
jeff ross
Well, Alec Baldwin's one thing you would ever go after, but you go, and the cast isn't funny.
I was like, oh, jeez.
23-year-old first job, now the president is saying on his Twitter that I'm not funny?
andrew santino
I think the beauty of it is it's just fuel for the fire.
jeff ross
He doesn't have to go to the cast.
joe rogan
How can he say?
andrew santino
I think SNL's benefiting from that.
I think it's fantastic.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, it's great for them.
jeff ross
If I were him, I would tweet next week.
Now that's funny.
They got me.
He should make like he was just being tough.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, the thing about this country is we love it when we hate somebody and then we like them again.
andrew santino
Yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
So all he has to do is that.
All he has to do is put out some positive tweets and be conciliatory and then watch the country just sweep him up in the road.
Look at what happened to Bush after 9-11.
andrew santino
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's true.
greg fitzsimmons
He had the lowest favorability rating of any president in history.
And after 9-11, he shot up to like 80%.
joe rogan
That's right.
I remember that.
andrew santino
They said Trump has the lowest incoming president-elect approval rating in the history.
How do they compile that?
joe rogan
That's a very good question.
I've always wondered.
andrew santino
I was like, how do they compile?
Who are they asking?
joe rogan
Exactly.
andrew santino
I don't know.
joe rogan
Who's taking polls?
People that take polls.
That's what they're doing.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, that's like the same people that projected the election to go to Hillary.
joe rogan
Well, what's interesting is they were right.
greg fitzsimmons
Why do we trust them anymore?
joe rogan
No, but they were right if it was a popular vote.
They actually were right.
It's really funny.
It just shows how crazy the electoral college system is.
But he said, no, it should be a popular vote.
He goes, that's a different race, though.
He conceded that it's better to have it be the popular vote.
jeff ross
But he would have run a different campaign.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
That's not the game.
He goes, the game is the electoral college vote, and that's the game we played, and we won by a landslide.
andrew santino
He's right.
joe rogan
He's right.
He played it like a game.
They played it like this thing that they've been doing over and over and over again.
They fucked up in that they rigged it for so long that their popularity contest got taken over by someone who's actually popular, like an actual famous person.
andrew santino
He knows how to become more popular.
Do you know what I mean?
He understands that some people know the formula of just how to do that.
He knows how to fucking do it.
joe rogan
And he's rich as fuck.
And he doesn't have to do what they want him to do.
It's different.
He can finance his own campaign.
He gets there.
He gets pressed by talking mad shit and getting people to talk about him.
He knows how to do it.
greg fitzsimmons
Here's the thing that I'm confused about.
What's the overall vision?
What is Trumpism?
If you think about democratic What's Trumpcratic?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
greg fitzsimmons
Small government.
andrew santino
Well, I mean, I think his truths are to make sure taxes are low for people that are earning a lot so he can...
Those people can stabilize that market that they're already in.
You know what I mean?
That people don't have to sacrifice at the top.
I think he's pretty clear about that.
He wants to lower the fuck out of business tax.
He wants that to go low.
So he's saying, zero government.
Let these people fucking govern themselves.
Let small businesses...
That's his whole campaign.
Is to keep money up top where it is.
And fucking let pockets that are pretty thick stay thick.
I think he's pretty transparent about that.
That seems to be a thing that he's...
Pretty obvious about.
I think he wants the rich to stay rich.
And he's not afraid of saying it.
And for some reason, people that are poor are like, I like it.
I like what he's going for.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
It's going to be very, very interesting.
I'm really curious to see how this plays out.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, it's going to be interesting.
There's no doubt about that.
I mean, it's like any other time when I'm not happy about what's going on politically, I just put my head in the sand for a while and I go, I'll just check in in a few months.
But I cannot stop reading on my phone in the papers.
This is like we're living through a part of history that's probably more turbulent than any other presidential transition.
Except for Johnson and Kennedy.
andrew santino
This is like a big...
Metaphorical question, but because of, like, Obama lived through the age of, like, the bursting of the internet space and its involvement in politics, you know, of, like, Twitter and Instagram and all this shit.
jeff ross
This is bigger.
andrew santino
This is even bigger than that.
jeff ross
America's midlife breakdown right now.
andrew santino
This is it.
jeff ross
This is us bottoming out.
Halfway.
This is the halfway point.
greg fitzsimmons
I hope we got another 200 years.
jeff ross
I think Trump is president for 20 years or three days.
Or it's like something terrible happens.
andrew santino
But do you think...
joe rogan
Do you worry about something terrible?
Sorry to interrupt you.
jeff ross
Yeah, because I think he had a real control over his message in America.
You know, he has friends who own the tabloids.
I remember flying with him.
Never mind.
But it's like...
greg fitzsimmons
I remember flying with him once.
No, fuck you.
Go back.
You can't just fly past that.
jeff ross
Some of his best friends own tabloids.
joe rogan
Wow.
jeff ross
You know?
Yeah.
And those are his boys.
andrew santino
It's like the Koch family.
jeff ross
They had all the bad stories locked up, but now when it starts happening in Russia and stuff, he doesn't have quite the hold on it.
People can really get to him.
He's not young.
Yeah, I worry about something bad happening.
It may not end well for him.
It's really a tricky one.
Another part of me says, get behind it because you're going to be around for the rest of my life.
joe rogan
The Glenn Greenwald thing is an interesting angle though because Glenn Greenwald is a really respected journalist.
He's the guy who exposed WikiLeaks.
He's a guy who a lot of people go to and he's not without his criticisms.
I mean, a lot of people criticize him.
He's had this ongoing feud with Sam Harris.
But if you look at what he's talking about here, if there's any shred of truth to it, that you're seeing this old institution attack this new incoming guy and do it in a foolish way that actually kind of strengthens This disbelief that people have in the news.
If they make up some crazy story and you hear CNN talking about it and all these other people talking about it, unsubstantiated reports that involve lewd activities and golden showers, who the fuck is doing this?
Who's doing this?
What are you trying to do?
Because by doing this, especially when it looks obvious and dumb like that did, it makes his case look stronger.
It's almost like something that he would do to attack himself.
That's like how Nero burnt Rome.
You might do something like that, attack yourself so that you look vulnerable.
greg fitzsimmons
Do you think he did that?
joe rogan
No, I don't.
jeff ross
He's not that true, but what he's great at is a counterpuncher.
I've been living in New York City during his entire reign of popularity.
He's a great counterpuncher.
So if something happens...
Even if you perceive it as bad for him, he knows how to work that.
joe rogan
That's what he talked about with Kanye West.
When he was talking about Kanye.
jeff ross
And I saw him do that every time.
A friend would say, oh boy, this is really going to sink him.
And I'd go, watch.
greg fitzsimmons
But you can't run a country like that.
You can win an office, but you can't.
jeff ross
Who knows?
joe rogan
Who knows what he's going to do?
jeff ross
I'm just super curious.
He probably knows, but we don't know.
joe rogan
You know, if you're right about saying that he's never going to leave, then obviously that's going to become a problem.
But if you're not right about it, and he does manage to show some flaws in the system and expose them, Then it could be great, sure.
No one else is going to do it other than Bernie.
If Bernie won, and obviously they were conspiring to keep Bernie out, but if Bernie won, we could have seen some really weird changes in the system.
Yeah, I think so.
And overall, he would be a mood shifter.
Like, Bernie would be a guy that is like...
Like, that's kind of what a lot of people are looking for.
Someone who's not money-oriented.
Someone who's like for the people.
Someone who lives a fairly simple life for a guy like that.
Someone who's never...
unidentified
Like the Pope.
jeff ross
When the Pope got in, you were like, oh, he cares about the poor.
Bernie was like the Pope.
They became friends, the whole thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, like the Pope got rid of that throne.
He went with a more...
jeff ross
Casual dress.
joe rogan
Yeah.
In a lot of ways, what Bernie would have represented, I think, is someone who's not of the same cloth as we're used to.
Someone who's concerned about equality across the board.
The system's broken.
jeff ross
The system's broken.
Sorry.
No, that's it.
joe rogan
You're right.
jeff ross
The system's broken.
Instead of the guy who should or the woman who should or could have, they're fighting the wrong game all the time.
Hillary was probably a great, smart person.
Yeah.
You know, you drift into distractions and she's trying to...
greg fitzsimmons
But there's also the...
jeff ross
And then something weird happens.
Like the wiring goes haywire and the guy who's the most popular at something completely different gets in there on a freak of nature.
greg fitzsimmons
He also stands...
I mean, this country's gone through in 50 years...
jeff ross
You can't tell me it's not amusing.
unidentified
Right.
jeff ross
It's definitely amusing.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
jeff ross
There's a little part of glee in your heart where it goes, what?
The Supreme Court?
It's like seeing the whole thing.
greg fitzsimmons
As comedians, I think we all have something to talk about for the next four years.
jeff ross
It made everyone's life a lot more interesting all of a sudden.
joe rogan
But don't you think that there's a certain amount of intimidation about criticizing him?
jeff ross
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, there's some real intimidation that comes from him.
He's a legitimate, powerful man.
jeff ross
Would you want to be on his enemies list?
unidentified
No.
andrew santino
Fucking no.
joe rogan
No.
It'd be horrible.
And everybody feels like that.
And with great power comes great responsibility.
And that's one of the things that people are really terrified of with a guy like that.
Because he's got so much power and so much influence.
jeff ross
He didn't used to.
He was a joke in a weird way to a lot of people.
But I always knew that he could actually do things.
Like when you see him in New York, you go, all of a sudden, you're like, holy shit, there's a tower there that was not there.
People think he's willy-nilly, like shooting from the hip.
He's patient.
Builds buildings.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
It's different.
greg fitzsimmons
When I grew up in New York, when he was a celebrity in New York and not the country, he was just a slumlord.
We talked about him in my family.
He was a guy who had suits against him.
He owned projects, and it was pretty well known back then that he was a slumlord.
jeff ross
Twitter's a hobby for him.
I think building is his occupation.
That's a really hard thing to do.
I remember the skating ring popping up and he was always talking about taking over swaths of land in New York when you were lucky to get a little apartment somewhere.
This guy was going to buy where the trains were, the subways used to be.
It's like, you were in awe of that.
You couldn't help it.
And his politics didn't emerge until much later.
He just kind of kept it cool and was just like a playboy and a personality.
Wow.
You know, it was like a kick to see him around.
He always loved a good joke.
You know, he was generous.
So, I get it.
greg fitzsimmons
A lot of smart, rich New Yorkers.
jeff ross
I'm not surprised.
Some of the smartest, most successful people I know in New York supported him.
joe rogan
Do you think, though, that the level of responsibility that you have when you become the president, the amount of power that you have, do you think that anybody can really manage that correctly?
It's a ridiculous position, and this is one of the things it's exposing.
This is exposing how ridiculous the position is, that you could get someone who's just this one popular person that gets into place and run this entire thing.
Like, one person running anything is crazy.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, are we overstating how much the president really runs?
joe rogan
Look what he's doing.
greg fitzsimmons
No, but I'm saying once you're in office, do you think president has as much power as people...
joe rogan
We're going to find out what kind of power he has.
Because look what he's doing.
Look what you're talking about with the press corps.
Look what you're talking about with...
jeff ross
You don't just get power.
You accumulate power.
He's accumulating leverage and power.
andrew santino
And by putting people around him that he wants.
joe rogan
Fascinating.
jeff ross
He can't operate without his family.
He's always going to have his family around.
It's like...
You don't just suddenly tell an IndyCar driver, tomorrow you're driving a NASCAR. He's been doing it a certain way.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, but his son and his daughter, or his two sons, they can't advise him on policy because they're running his companies.
They have to never have a conversation with him again about the businesses or politics.
unidentified
Yeah, sure.
andrew santino
Come on.
Yeah, like, come on.
joe rogan
That sounds so ridiculous.
andrew santino
Yeah, there's no fucking way.
jeff ross
But even if that's how it is, it's still his family.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
But you know what?
unidentified
That's so weird that they won't let him talk to him about it.
jeff ross
He got it.
He's going to be the richest guy in history.
He's going to be a mythical figure.
joe rogan
Do you hear about some oligarch that got arrested and said that he thinks Putin's the richest guy in history?
andrew santino
Am I wrong?
No, dude.
jeff ross
He will become...
You're going to bet against it?
I don't think so.
andrew santino
He'll become bigger, larger than...
This will make him larger than life.
It'll just be like a fucking...
It will be a myth.
greg fitzsimmons
If there's a huge scandal...
jeff ross
It's not going away.
He's got a million kids and family.
I don't know.
greg fitzsimmons
If you think about what's come out in the last year...
andrew santino
Scandal makes him stronger.
Billy Bush got fucking trampled on the bus thing.
I think it just made him stronger.
greg fitzsimmons
Do you think if this whole story about the Russian prostitutes pissing on him got corroborated, do you think it would hurt him?
andrew santino
I read someone said that they thought he fucking started that shit.
I was like, that's a fucking interesting angle.
What if he was like, yeah, that's what Joe was saying.
That's what I was just saying.
How high are you?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
Hi.
joe rogan
Well, I don't think that's the case, but I do think that...
jeff ross
But he knows how to turn that stuff around pretty quickly.
joe rogan
Yeah, those attacks are foolish.
So you've already proven that he's Kevlar.
He got past Grab the Pussy.
andrew santino
There's no video.
But then, conversely, then you can't do anything then.
So what's the legitimate thing that you can come out about him?
If you present real facts...
They get kind of pushed away.
If you present these crazy news stories, it just fuels the fire.
So what do you do then?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
andrew santino
What does the opposition do?
Because anything they come up with is either fake news to him or it's something crazy that makes people go, dude, how funny was that they pissed on that fucking bed that Obama...
I mean, then it becomes like a social bit.
joe rogan
The worst thing that could take place is that people decide while he's in power that he can't be in power.
People decide that there can't be a president anymore.
We've decided as a nation that we're going to abolish this and we're going to start a whole new system of government.
That is where shit could get really crazy.
andrew santino
That would get crazy.
greg fitzsimmons
That's what Susan Sarandon wants.
joe rogan
Does she want that?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
Remember when he was running for president, he said, she goes, maybe Trump should win because maybe it's time we do have a revolution in the streets.
Maybe we need to change it.
It's like, yeah, that's easy to say when you're on the fifth and a five-story brownstone with guards, you know, not fucking living in the projects during a revolution.
jeff ross
It's harder for a rich person to say that.
A poor person has nothing to lose and would call for revolution, but when a rich person does it, I think she's got something.
greg fitzsimmons
Do you think they'd be coming for her first?
jeff ross
Probably.
When I talked to Trump, somebody said, how'd you do that?
He's like Hitler.
I go, if he's Hitler, you'll be glad I'm friends with him.
unidentified
Otherwise, I'm giving up your fucking home address.
joe rogan
Man.
Well, it's bizarre, too, because he's actually publicly in support of Putin.
And he talks about Putin being a smart guy.
jeff ross
He's a businessman, so he talks with whoever he's been friends with.
That's how it works.
None of this should be taken away from him or a surprise.
He'll figure all that out.
But he can't pretend that these aren't his pals.
If you meet somebody famous once or twice and they're nice to you, that's all he's...
Plus, he's...
His stuff is deep.
He would go over there.
He would bring TV shows there.
All that stuff is – we're a client.
We're another piece of commerce in his portfolio of how he does business.
So when he picks up the phone and he knows some guy in Japan, of course he's going to mention his properties.
That's how he gets going.
That's how he gets going.
joe rogan
What if that works?
Really?
greg fitzsimmons
Well, that's what Putin did.
joe rogan
What if that's a better system?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, Putin used government and private ownership to amass fortunes and then get his friends' fortunes.
joe rogan
It's almost going to take something like this to make people realize that this is a ridiculous system.
I mean, otherwise we would never figure it out.
We'd just still look for a better and better version of the impossible person.
jeff ross
Maybe it's a great system.
Maybe we're all looking at it wrong.
We've tested it.
Anybody can become president.
joe rogan
Well, maybe it is a good system because it's got that and it's got all the checks and balances in place.
Maybe it is a good system because of all the bureaucracy.
jeff ross
It's like something beyond politics and what's right and wrong.
joe rogan
I've heard that argued before.
jeff ross
Dynasty is not the right thing, so it's time for...
Civilization had a great run.
What else you got?
unidentified
Well, what's crazy is that it's as dark as it can fucking get.
joe rogan
See, here's the thing.
There are wars going on right now.
jeff ross
Come on.
joe rogan
There's wars going on right now.
And we'll always say...
jeff ross
How about a fucking waitress?
joe rogan
Down here?
jeff ross
Fucking wars going on.
No drink.
joe rogan
But there's wars going on right now.
But they're just not going on right here.
Are we just naive?
Are we naive to not understand the danger...
andrew santino
I think it might be coming.
joe rogan
You really think so?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
andrew santino
Really?
Yeah.
What would stop it at this point?
unidentified
Dude.
andrew santino
I don't think anything is...
joe rogan
Like a war with Russia?
jeff ross
There aren't a lot of barriers.
joe rogan
No.
andrew santino
No, no, no, no, no.
jeff ross
What would England or France or Germany?
joe rogan
No.
Why would we go to war with Germany or France or England?
jeff ross
Anything's possible.
greg fitzsimmons
Leaking?
Cyber warfare?
Yeah, cyber warfare is what it's all about.
We had natural boundaries before, but now you see that they can hack into the FBI and the CIA and fucking, you know...
jeff ross
There's a known unknown now.
Don't presume anything.
joe rogan
It's true.
It's true.
jeff ross
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay, here's the scenario.
What would be the ideal way, outside of a dictator, what would be the ideal way to run a nation?
What would be better than having this one alpha that we keep putting in place?
Which seems pretty ridiculous at this point.
It seems like we might have fucked up and got a super alpha in there.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, I don't think that the framers of the Constitution didn't see the presidency as being such a big deal.
He was kind of a lead administrator, but he wasn't supposed to be the be-all, end-all of power in this country.
So I think we probably want to ratchet that position down a little bit.
jeff ross
That's what they told the guy that they didn't give it to.
Yeah.
andrew santino
This is not even that cool of a thing.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, it's just a weekend thing.
jeff ross
You don't want to do that.
Come on.
You want to get in there and write the laws, right?
You don't want to be kissing babies and going to photo ops, sketch ops.
I don't know what kind of photo ops they had back then.
joe rogan
Were you a Bernie supporter?
greg fitzsimmons
No, I was kind of a pragmist about it.
I wasn't a supporter of anybody except...
I'm pretty much...
I was against Trump winning.
andrew santino
So anybody but Trump type of thing, right?
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, so I'd love to say my wife was a big Bernie supporter.
I would like to say I was, but I think I was betting on the best horse.
But I thought it was the best horse.
andrew santino
It was actually, you didn't even make the bet, but you had a horse in mind.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
And it didn't win.
It was like, well, but you didn't lose any money.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, I mean, I can't sit here and say, for all the bad things I say about Trump, I can't sit here and tell you that I was passionate about Hillary or that I even like her.
I just saw it as the lesser of two evils.
joe rogan
Yeah, you saw her as business as usual, not business way worse.
andrew santino
That's exactly right.
It seemed like it was just another thing.
Woman president, huge, great.
Has the relationships that exist that we already know.
So you're like, okay.
It was almost like, yeah, the assistant coach has been there for a while.
That's what it felt like in my brain that was going to happen.
But I gotta say, I was shooting the night that people were watching it.
And of course, we're here in Los Angeles.
Like, fucking not one of those crew members isn't hardcore left.
And we watched people watching it on their phones.
And, like, their reactions were, like, complete confusion.
It was crazy to watch from this perspective.
And I wonder what it was like watching from, like...
Michigan.
Do you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Greg and I did a live podcast.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh yeah, that was crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, we did a live podcast with Burr and Stan Hope and Bert Kreischer.
andrew santino
Oh, I saw it on YouTube after.
That's right.
I saw that.
joe rogan
It was chaos.
andrew santino
It is chaos.
I bailed.
I couldn't handle it.
unidentified
It was so crazy.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, because first of all, they're fucking...
Passing joints around the whole time.
I thought, this is a celebration party.
Yeah, why not?
I didn't realize I was going to go into the most confusing moment of my life.
And I just bailed.
As soon as it looked like it was going to Trump, all of a sudden, I look up and Joe's fucking laughing and Stan Hope is carrying on.
I'm like, there's nothing funny anymore.
And I just went and I sat in my car in front of my house for like two hours.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, dude, you're bumming me out.
andrew santino
I know.
joe rogan
We were having fun.
greg fitzsimmons
I know you were.
You guys were having fun.
joe rogan
It was just Burr killing for like four hours.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, he was on fire that night.
joe rogan
He was on fire.
And then when weed became legal and Burr took a hit, he doesn't smoke pot.
He went right in there.
It was amazing.
greg fitzsimmons
The whole fucking room.
Somebody came out from, Bert Kreischer, I think, came from the back and he announced that pot was now legal in California.
And three out of four people in the audience immediately lit up and there was a cloud of smoke that just took over the room.
joe rogan
This is the photo from the actual moment.
andrew santino
Fuck.
joe rogan
The Troy Conrads took this photo of the moment.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Bert's running around.
And there's all these people in the front row.
We all go crazy right here.
Everyone's going crazy.
That's the very moment when we found out that pot was legal in California.
We were doing a live podcast from the main room.
Jeff Ross just walked back in.
greg fitzsimmons
The other crazy thing is that Doug Stanhope's girlfriend at the time, or still, but she was in a coma at the time.
joe rogan
She's not anymore.
andrew santino
It got more depressing since I went through the bathroom.
unidentified
It was just crazy that Doug powered through.
andrew santino
Wait to hear what's next, Jeff.
joe rogan
Doug's a fucking trooper, man.
Not many people would have powered through right there.
Doug...
And talked about it.
Doug Stanhope is a special human.
I've known that guy for a long time, man.
He's the real deal.
He actually did move to Bisbee, Arizona and essentially start a whole community of weirdos that live down there and hang out and work with them and do podcasts with them.
And he's kind of using the podcast as like an open mic.
That's how he rants.
And that's how he's coming up with material.
His whole setup is very interesting, man.
jeff ross
Sounds cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's the real deal.
jeff ross
He told you about it?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, I've listened to it.
I've listened to it a bunch of times.
His podcast is awesome.
But he owns like, he's like a real estate mogul in his fucking town.
jeff ross
Get out of here.
joe rogan
Yeah, he owns a bunch of houses.
When houses go up for sale, he buys them.
andrew santino
They're all like four grand.
joe rogan
He owns a ton of houses.
He's telling me about it.
He's fucking buying the town.
He's going to be the Trump of Bisbee, Arizona.
unidentified
That's what he's going to be.
joe rogan
Doug Stanhope's going to go, I own this town.
He's going to be like the bad guy in Roadhouse.
Remember the bad guy?
I own this town.
That's what Stanhope's going to do.
greg fitzsimmons
Everybody will have to dress like him.
joe rogan
I'm telling you, I'm thinking about moving there.
Sometimes I think about moving there.
I'm like, why not?
Let's fucking join him.
He's seven miles away from Mexico.
If shit gets weird, you go left, you go right.
Pick your poison.
What do you want to do with drug cartels or rednecks?
What do you want to do?
Where do you want to go?
He's got a weird spot, man.
They see people.
When you're near the border like that, you see families coming over.
I've talked to dudes who've been hunting in Arizona, and there's areas that they avoid.
Because too many people are coming over the border and they walk.
And they'll even put things on their shoes, like big chunks of carpet, and they tie them down to their shoes so that they don't make any footprints.
greg fitzsimmons
The hunters?
joe rogan
No, the fucking Mexicans coming over from the border.
They'll wear things on their feet so that they don't leave obvious tracks.
He's like, it's crazy.
I know guys that have seen them down there and run into them.
It's like a super common thing.
So there is a trickle of people that are...
greg fitzsimmons
It's also pretty comfortable because it would be like running across the border on a carpeted area.
joe rogan
High class.
andrew santino
They did it for comfort.
It just so happened to cover up the tracks.
joe rogan
A lot of those folks died.
A lot of those folks go over and they get dehydrated.
They don't have enough water and they get stuck in the desert.
If they try to come over in July and August, you could get fucked.
andrew santino
In southern Arizona?
joe rogan
Yeah.
If somebody doesn't pick you up, there's supposed to be someone to come and pick you up.
They have this whole system, I guess, set up.
How they get people over here.
It's kind of crazy, man.
It's kind of crazy that we have this boundary in the dirt that we decide if you're born over there, you're fucked.
andrew santino
You stay over there.
joe rogan
You're born over here, you're on our team.
If you pull back from it, You look at this connection between Mexico and the United States, it's like it's a landmass.
It's one landmass.
Mexico is physically connected to us.
It's a part of us.
If we were a being, that would be like being at war with our foot, or not letting our foot come in the shower.
No, you can't wash.
I'm going to wash the whole body.
This is a part of the entire thing.
To break it off into these imaginary lines in the sand is no different than us telling Seattle they have to go fuck themselves.
No one from Seattle can come over.
It's the same thing.
They obviously aren't under our constitution or our laws or any of that thing, but they're connected to us.
They're literally a part of us.
They're right there.
greg fitzsimmons
But it's like what you said before about tribalism.
It's just so deep.
It's crazy.
It's random, and yet it's deep, like a sports team.
It's like any guy can get traded any given year, but you're still going to cheer for that fucking color uniform.
andrew santino
Of course.
greg fitzsimmons
Even though like the Mets in 86, after they won the World Series, they fucking traded everybody off, and they weren't the Mets anymore.
But people were still wearing the jerseys and cheering.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Here's the question.
How do you stop something like that?
greg fitzsimmons
Well, the hope was globalism would.
With all of us having access to the internet in our pockets, the same as people from India, that there would be this amazing image of all the walls falling down.
But that doesn't seem to be happening, do you think?
andrew santino
No, because we're getting more connected, but But culture means a lot to people, and they're going to keep it, and that identifies them with who they are.
They're never going to get rid of that and just become super...
Otherwise, the westernization of the world would just be them all being us.
What's the end answer?
Everyone should be the same, but most places you go around the world...
That are westernized, quote unquote, that are globalized.
It looks like us.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I mean, we know for a fact that Apple goes to China and pays people pennies, and they have nets all around the buildings where these people live and work.
They have dormitories, and they cover them with nets.
We know about Foxconn.
We know that story.
So we know, and we still buy these fucking phones.
I didn't even think twice.
I didn't even think twice.
I'm like, those fucking jumpers make a hell of a phone.
greg fitzsimmons
Wait, put the phone down before you jump!
joe rogan
Bless the little $1 an hour hearts or whatever the fuck they get paid.
And we accept that.
And we accept that not just in China, but all throughout South America, there's a bunch of different factories that employ people that pay them pennies.
Compared to what they would have to pay the same person in America.
greg fitzsimmons
So what are you saying?
That we care less about them because they're not Americans.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Yeah, we literally allow people to give them slave wages.
Well, we would consider slave wages.
Like if someone took a guy like you and made you work for someone at the blah blah blah factory that makes fucking jeans or sneakers or whatever the fuck they make, If they made you work for that amount, you would think you were in jail.
You're like, oh my god, I have to live off of this?
These people control me.
They own me.
They have paralyzed me with poverty.
There's no way I'll ever be able to escape this.
And the only argument against it is, well, the quality of their life is much better than it was before the factory got there.
Before the factory got there, nobody made any money at all.
Because they were eating coconuts and mangoes and they were catching fish.
They didn't need any money.
You made them work.
There's a lot of these places where you're setting up shop.
They've been there for thousands and thousands of years.
They didn't need the factory.
Maybe the factory's nice to them.
Maybe it is good.
Maybe they do become dependent upon it over time.
But people have existed everywhere, all over the planet, without factories for a long fucking time.
You don't need that factory.
There's a lot of other solutions.
It's not an either-or proposition.
Either the factory's there or they never get their shit together.
No, that's not the case.
They could develop their own culture and society just like the United States did.
But if you just make them in prison to these factories where they get paid slave wages in these foreign third world countries that we don't care about as much as we care about Detroit or we care about Chicago or we care about places that are just like that place connected to us.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, well...
joe rogan
I'm a commie or something, right?
greg fitzsimmons
Jesus.
joe rogan
That's goddamn commie talk.
jeff ross
You're real.
It's realist.
joe rogan
It's gross.
The whole thing of not letting those people over here is gross.
You're going to end it eventually.
When are you going to keep it like that for a million years?
A million years from now we're going to have states and you can't cross.
You can't immigrate from Mexico.
So a million years from now we're still going to have deep poverty in Mexico and we're terrified of the drug war and leaking over our soil.
Is that what's going to go on?
A million years from now?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
We're going to be one united planet.
One super organism that can read each other's mind.
jeff ross
The federation.
andrew santino
The corporation.
The corporation.
joe rogan
This is a hiccup along a gigantic trail that leads from us throwing shit at each other from a tree to us being able to transcend literal space and time, become a part of some artificially created dimension that they establish.
That's 100 years from now or 200 years from now.
This whole thing we're going through right now is a blip in time.
And it's also a challenge to how much technology really connects us.
This guy's going to present a lot of challenges as to how much technology can unite human beings.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, the problem is, and you and I were talking earlier about, what's the law called again?
joe rogan
Moore's Law.
greg fitzsimmons
Moore's Law.
That every two years, the speed of computers and the memory of computers doubles.
And that that's held true since the guy came up with the law, which was in like 1960. That's the name of it, right, Jamie?
Moore's Law?
joe rogan
Tell me that thing, yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
And the problem with it is, I'm reading this book right now about it, and the problem with it is that we can't keep up culturally, emotionally, legally with how fast information is traveling and how, like you said, everybody has access to the same information.
But it's also just the ramifications of information.
You know, corporations being able to get into your information.
Like, we don't have laws in place that can really tackle that because it's happening so fast.
You look at Airbnb.
We didn't have laws in place for people renting out their places, paying taxes on using your own car to drive people as a taxi.
We're like one step behind progress and we're going to stay that way because it's happening so fast.
joe rogan
I saw a taxi today and I went, wow, this is going to be like one of those payphones.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'm looking at this car.
This guy's driving.
I'm like, this is going to be a payphone.
People are just going to have Priuses and people are going to take Uber and it's better.
jeff ross
You know what's happening in big cities is Uber started replacing the cabs, making it tough for cabs and probably buses and private limos certainly.
Now it's starting to cut into cars.
joe rogan
People are not needing a car in major cities in LA. And it cuts out all that drinking and driving shit.
I watched some guy slam into a fucking barrier last night.
I was driving home last night, and there was this guy driving home from the ice house.
There was this guy to the left of me, and he was speeding, and he was flying by me, man, and he was losing control of his car a little bit.
Just a little bit.
He was just wiggling a little.
It was wet.
The roads were wet.
This guy was just driving way too fast.
He's probably hydroplaning.
And I said, this guy's just not keeping it together good.
He might be drunk or whatever.
So I pull over two lanes.
I give him some space.
And a minute after I do that, BING! He hits the fucking side, the cement barrier, spins out.
Correct.
Spins again.
Fucked his car up.
greg fitzsimmons
No shit.
And then just came to a standstill in the middle of the highway?
joe rogan
Came to a stop in the left lane.
Yeah.
To turn in the right direction, fortunately.
His car was fucked up, for sure.
He might not have been able to drive.
But he was at least looking that way.
Because sometimes dudes wind up sideways.
And when you wind up sideways on the highway, you're fucked.
Because not everybody is going to see you.
And it doesn't look like rear taillights.
So you're not getting the same kind of reflection that you get.
If you saw taillights, even the guy who stopped in front of you, he saw those taillights, you would know, oh, there's a car there.
Sometimes when people are not totally paying attention, and there's a car that's sideways, parked on the road, like, dude.
I watched that happen once.
I was in New York, and I was coming home from a gig with my friend John.
And we were driving, and there was a car that was stopped dead in the left lane.
And it had hazard lights on, but the hazard lights were dying.
It was like super dim.
There was no battery juice.
And I saw it.
And I changed lanes quick.
But not that far away from it.
Like I barely missed it.
I missed it by like, I don't know, 50 yards or something like that.
Close enough where it was like, holy shit!
And then I look in my rear view and this guy plows into it at full speed.
And I see the cars in my rear view as I'm driving.
I see them spinning in the rear view mirror.
And I realize like people are probably dying back there.
I'm looking at dead people.
Because they hit that thing going 70 miles an hour.
Just slammed into it.
And everything's spinning around.
jeff ross
I just have visions of a car crash.
It's so scary.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, I had a guy...
andrew santino
Have you ever been in a bad car accident?
jeff ross
I've been banged around and spun around mostly when I was...
You know, old tires as a teenager.
andrew santino
Yeah, yeah.
But not like a fucking wreck wreck.
jeff ross
I got in a couple smaller, not too bad wrecks as a comedian, you know, trying to drive.
andrew santino
Yeah, yeah.
jeff ross
Drive home in the snow and shit because I didn't want to pay for a hotel, dumb stuff, you know.
andrew santino
I was running late at night and I saw that car.
There was a really bad car accident two months ago on Fountain where a girl was fucking shit-faced and people always fly home on Fountain because it's fast, there's no lights.
And a girl must have clipped a curb...
And then jetted to the other side, like the fucking other side of the road, and missed parked cars, which was insane, and smashed into one of those concrete walls on the corner.
You know what I mean?
The apartments have those concrete fucking huge walls.
And it looked like a fucking bulldozer ran into it going 50. You know what I mean?
It was like a million pieces.
I mean, there was shit like two blocks up.
It was un-fucking-real.
joe rogan
When you see someone really hit something with a car, you realize how crazy car travel is and how those autonomous cars are like the future.
You're not going to be able to argue against it.
greg fitzsimmons
Right, because it takes...
I mean, we've all been...
I mean, I've fallen asleep at the wheel on the highway at night.
I used to drive from Boston back to New York.
Saturday night, I would do two shows...
Then I'd get in my car, wherever the fuck I was, and I would drive to New York that night.
And I can remember windows open, singing as loud as I could, just because I would close my eyes and I would fucking wake up on the shoulder.
It was great.
I think about how many times I could have died.
I remember when I was a teenager, there was this 69 Cougar that I was going to buy from this kid named Billy Arduino.
It was a muscle car and he had it fucking jacked up.
He was a motorhead.
joe rogan
I was going to buy this car.
Where was he from?
andrew santino
The Arduino's.
greg fitzsimmons
And so this other kid bought it, and I'm driving down Route 9, right in front of the hospital.
It's a two-lane road, but it goes like 50 miles an hour.
And I see the car, and it's driving in front of me, and there's a light rain, and I see him.
I don't know what the fuck happened, but he started going back and forth.
andrew santino
Fishtailing.
greg fitzsimmons
A fishtail.
I think he was gunning it because he saw me, and he was trying to be a badass.
Went in the opposite lane.
Hit this mother and kid fucking head on.
And to this day, I can remember the smell of burnt rubber and oil.
It happened right in front of me.
And the woman was hospitalized.
Somehow the kid was okay.
And this fat fuck just got right out of the car.
andrew santino
Yeah, nothing happened.
Yeah.
They chipped a tooth.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, when you see people driving really fucked up, man.
There was a...
I passed by one of those power boxes, whatever it is.
You know those things that are on the corner?
And it had all these wreaths on it.
And all this in memory of this person.
And then I looked up the store and it was two kids.
They were racing down the road and some lady pulled out and they clipped the lady and spun her car around but didn't hurt her.
And went straight into a pole and just died.
unidentified
My best friend's handicapped from doing the exact same thing.
jeff ross
High school buddy.
greg fitzsimmons
He was racing?
jeff ross
I just spent New Years with him, yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
Wow.
jeff ross
So be careful out there, kids.
joe rogan
So fucking scary.
jeff ross
And the other three guys in the car walked away.
joe rogan
Being competitive like that on regular streets and racing with people is so fucking dangerous.
So dangerous.
andrew santino
It's like you see those painted bikes that are chained to poles that represent bikers that died.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, is that what that is?
andrew santino
Well, LA doesn't really have a lot of it.
In Chicago, where I'm from, it's a big thing of commuter bikes, passenger bikes, and messengers.
They get hit all the fucking time, and then when they die, they spray paint it white, and then they chain it to the pole at the intersection.
My mom was saying it was like, one year it was almost like every other block she was driving down, it was like, there's another bike, it's another bike.
People are fucking drunk as shit.
greg fitzsimmons
Don't give a fuck.
andrew santino
Clip some guy that's riding his bike home from work or some shit.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, it's a commitment to go, I'm going to ride a motorcycle.
You've got to really buy into it because your odds of dying just go up exponentially from driving a car.
joe rogan
What are your odds of dying more?
A bicycle or a motorcycle?
jeff ross
Buy.
joe rogan
Sorry, dude.
unidentified
You're right.
joe rogan
I'm Debbie Downer.
greg fitzsimmons
I've been looking at Jeff all night.
andrew santino
Joe's got the reins and he's taking us down and we're going deep down.
joe rogan
I did not mean to.
jeff ross
I don't want to cry.
joe rogan
I'm glad you corrected me.
jeff ross
I don't want to cry on your fucking podcast.
joe rogan
I'm glad you corrected me.
Thank you.
jeff ross
If you want me to cry, don't hear it live.
joe rogan
You're right.
andrew santino
He needs a couple of takes.
jeff ross
I'm not the first comic to cry in the basement of the comedy store.
joe rogan
Oh, definitely not.
You're probably the first that didn't really do anything horrible, though.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
I came down here.
Adam brought me down here.
There's like a back room over there with just like storage shit in it.
And you know what I found?
jeff ross
What?
greg fitzsimmons
I found Pauly Shore's original script of In the Army Now with his acting notes to himself in it.
Like one of them was like, Be the Weezer.
unidentified
What?
jeff ross
Weasel.
greg fitzsimmons
Be the Weezer?
joe rogan
Be the Weezer.
Be the Weezer's a band.
andrew santino
Be that band.
greg fitzsimmons
They got some great hits.
But like the whole script he had marked up with all his acting notes.
andrew santino
I would have taken that.
greg fitzsimmons
I fucking tried.
andrew santino
Well, I would have taken that.
Oh, Adam was with you.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, there you go.
This place is, you know, one of the most, if you believe in ghosts, one of the most notoriously haunted places in all of California.
Maybe in the country.
Because it used to be Ciro's nightclub.
jeff ross
I believe in ghosts.
I saw Yakov Smirnoff here the other day.
greg fitzsimmons
A lot of killings happen here, right?
It was a mob place.
jeff ross
I killed tonight.
Roast battles.
Big taping tomorrow.
Three nights are invited.
joe rogan
Is it all sold out?
jeff ross
I don't know.
RoastBattleTickets.com.
Maybe the finale might not be.
That's next week.
joe rogan
Now, when you do these things, do you open up tickets to the public?
jeff ross
Yeah, they're free tickets.
Oh, wow.
RoastBattleTickets.com is how to sign up.
joe rogan
Oh, that's awesome.
jeff ross
You're all invited.
And then it'll air January 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th.
It's a bracketed tournament.
Wow.
16 comics.
A lot of people from right here in LA. Comedy store people.
A couple people who work here like answering phones.
Jay Light, Frank Castillo, Alex Hooper.
A lot of LA comics from here in the comedy store.
Frank Barry's doing it.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh, he is doing it.
Wow.
andrew santino
Who's he going against?
unidentified
He's awesome.
jeff ross
Jessica Curzon.
joe rogan
He's fucking funny, man.
jeff ross
He's going to be crazy.
joe rogan
Tom Barry's one of the most underappreciated guys working today.
He's a fucking funny guy.
greg fitzsimmons
He's funny as shit.
andrew santino
So Lawrence holds the belt, right?
jeff ross
Yeah.
andrew santino
And does he get challenged?
jeff ross
I think he's going to challenge whoever wins this tournament.
joe rogan
There's so many funny up-and-coming comedians, and that is one of the best places for them to expose or to get exposure.
jeff ross
Some of them are already barely comedians, and Roast Battle helps them figure that out.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're just starting out.
jeff ross
Find their voice through those roast jokes.
andrew santino
Like we did.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, the jokes that they write, I'm fucking blown away.
Every time I sit in and judge them, I'll say to them afterwards, how long did you write those jokes for?
They'll be like, three months.
They literally write for a month for one roast battle.
jeff ross
Two of the roasters told me they have the bracket up on their wall and they're writing ahead in case they advance or for when they advance.
joe rogan
Well, you guys have always said it best.
It's a joke writer showcase.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah.
andrew santino
It's such an important thing in comedy right now.
jeff ross
Dude, love that.
Thank you.
andrew santino
It is, dude.
You need to have that world exist for people in a world right now where PC and people on their toes and who knows what to say what all the time and that's such a fucking deal now.
I'm so happy that that is still being represented in the comedy world because it fucking lightens everything.
It makes everything...
All the voices shut the fuck up and enjoy two people making fun of each other.
It's like the most clean thing that we need in entertainment, especially for comedy.
Because, dude, right now I feel like you're on tippy-toes sometimes when you do shows in places and you're like, what are these people going to get offended by?
And that fucking...
greg fitzsimmons
Joe and I were really into Bill Hicks.
And like, I didn't necessarily agree with everything about his politics.
Certainly with Kinison, I didn't believe in any of his politics.
But I fucking loved him.
And now, as a comedian, the crowd has an expectation that they have to agree with you.
And that they'll actually yell out if they disagree.
It's like, that's not an option.
unidentified
I had that last night.
jeff ross
You guys are like, not funny.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're going to have that.
And they feel like they have the right now because they're so used to commenting on things.
They're so used to commenting on things on social media.
andrew santino
That's what it is.
jeff ross
YouTube comments.
We don't troll on the internet, we troll to each other's faces.
joe rogan
Yeah, well no, that's a different animal.
Look, Roast Battle is so beautiful because it's a pure competition.
It's like, you know, Mike is so doom, and then, oh shit, and then here we go, counter.
It's like you're playing a game.
Sometimes the ball goes out of bounds and sometimes it doesn't work.
Sometimes you hit net.
Sometimes you fucking smash it right in their face.
It really is amazing in that way.
greg fitzsimmons
I would say you're more apt to win if you go harder.
There's not too many people that lose by going too far, is there?
jeff ross
No.
No.
andrew santino
That's the fucking best ones I've ever seen are people that just go...
jeff ross
No, people are nervous.
joe rogan
As long as it's funny.
But what's really weird is when someone goes super mean and it's not funny.
andrew santino
But even that's beautiful to see.
I love that shit.
jeff ross
Even if it's sort of entertaining, yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
Of course.
joe rogan
Yeah, sort of.
jeff ross
They don't win, but it's good, fun entertainment.
joe rogan
Well, it's squirmy.
andrew santino
Thank God the audience knows that Failure in comedy is still a thing that's not just like, everything's not just a special prefabricated late night set.
I think a lot of people, because they only see comedy in that way, they see specials on Netflix, they see late night sets, things that are tight and are formula that have been practiced, that when they come see live comedy, an inch of any sort of faltering and they're like, what?
joe rogan
Are you not a pro?
Yeah.
Santino, you're about to release your Netflix special, right?
andrew santino
No, on Showtime.
joe rogan
So when that comes out, do you abandon your material now?
andrew santino
I mean, I've already started to implement a bunch of new stuff and do both right now before it even comes out just because I'm trying to get in the habit.
But yeah, I mean, I think so.
I mean, that's a personal thing.
I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do it, but I think I'm trying to...
Get rid of that stuff and try all new stuff.
greg fitzsimmons
I'm going to stop doing your shit probably in a couple weeks.
I'm hoping.
andrew santino
You do it so much better, that's the problem.
That's why I sit and watch you do me after.
No, yeah, I'm trying to abandon it.
But I'm not trying to do...
A special every year type of thing.
I don't think that's for me.
I know that that's like the new thing, but I don't.
joe rogan
I think even Louie's backed off of that.
andrew santino
I mean, a lot of people have that aspiration of like, I'll do one every fucking year, and I'm always like, what for though?
greg fitzsimmons
Well, wait to see what kind of year you have.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
I mean, I have years where I write like a motherfucker, and I have years where I'm like, I'll look at a set list on my computer that says January 2016, and I look at it recently, and I'm like, wow, this is not that different than what I'm doing now.
I see a bunch of stuff I tried that didn't work, and then I have years where, yeah, I will come up with close to an hour.
jeff ross
This is going to be the year where every comedy, that's the one thing, every comic will have three specials a year.
unidentified
Yeah.
greg fitzsimmons
All right.
andrew santino
I want everyone to have three.
Everyone's going to get three.
joe rogan
Dude, you can do Trump.
andrew santino
A little.
jeff ross
Just a little bit.
joe rogan
Give me a little something.
I heard it.
andrew santino
I like Joe Rogan.
Joe's good.
You know what?
He's a fighter.
That's why I like fighters.
He's a fighter.
I like fighters.
joe rogan
That's not bad.
greg fitzsimmons
It's good, except you got to get the R out of there on the New York accent.
andrew santino
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You're close enough.
andrew santino
Fight it.
joe rogan
You're almost there.
greg fitzsimmons
Where are you from?
andrew santino
Chicago.
greg fitzsimmons
Oh.
joe rogan
I can't do his voice.
I can't make that sound.
I can imitate certain people's voices, but I have a very limited range.
The people I can do, I can do good, but I can't do him.
andrew santino
Trump is almost so quote-unquote simple that that's why anybody that comes down on SNL, there's a lot of people that can do the impression, but they were saying how hard Hillary was.
Which I get.
I didn't really think about it, but I was like, oh yeah, she's such a fucking hard voice to imitate.
Do you know what I mean?
Trump, that's another reason it's so cartoonishly perfect that you're like, anybody who can do a voice like that is going to get- Well, and Bernie was easy as hell.
Oh my God.
greg fitzsimmons
He's just an old Jew.
andrew santino
It just was Larry David.
joe rogan
Yeah, Bernie was the evil.
jeff ross
We're going to have a political revolution, and then we're going out for soup.
greg fitzsimmons
We're going out for soup.
jeff ross
Everybody pays for their own soup.
greg fitzsimmons
He's like Jackie Mason a little bit.
jeff ross
Hey.
greg fitzsimmons
Hey.
jeff ross
Listen, kid.
That's what he said to the Pope.
I said, I met the Pope.
I said, listen, kid.
You're doing a great job with the Catholics.
joe rogan
Did you see him today?
He was doing that, he did something today or yesterday.
greg fitzsimmons
Who?
joe rogan
Bernie Sanders, where he's grilling the guy.
jeff ross
I was at the Senate confirmation hearings.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jeff ross
Trying to make some sense of all of this.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Trump's bringing in this guy that's kind of a climate change denier.
andrew santino
Yes.
jeff ross
So you're telling me that you're responsible for the climate.
You don't even know if it's raining out.
unidentified
I shouldn't necessarily say he's a climate change denier.
joe rogan
He's a skeptic to the science.
jeff ross
You think it's true?
You deny it?
You think it's true?
You deny it?
What's the truth?
andrew santino
Let's get soup.
jeff ross
Let's get some soup.
You still owe me $2 for that split piece.
andrew santino
He's got a tab at Cantor's.
jeff ross
Listen.
andrew santino
My Cantor's tab.
jeff ross
How's the lockers tonight, baby?
greg fitzsimmons
I would love to have a little new president.
You know, they're so nurturing.
joe rogan
He seems like a genuinely nice guy.
andrew santino
Who's that?
joe rogan
Bernie Sanders.
andrew santino
Yeah, he does.
joe rogan
To me, he does.
He seems like a genuinely nice guy.
andrew santino
But don't we know that anybody who has kind of the audacity and fucking self-indulgence to want to be president is also behind that fucking crazy person.
I'm sure he's a nice person.
jeff ross
I was there for the right reasons.
I beg to differ.
I spent 22 years in the Senate.
I was mayor of my town of Vermont.
joe rogan
Or isn't it possible that someone could not want to be president until they realize that the country's back is up against the wall and that's when he finally ran?
It is possible.
Sure.
andrew santino
Do you think had the DNC not fucking strategically shoved Hillary Clinton in front of him, if he had fucking won, do you think he could have beat Trump?
joe rogan
That's just an open speculation.
Who knows how it would have played out?
andrew santino
I'm so fucking curious to see that.
unidentified
Is that something I'm prepared to discuss at this time?
andrew santino
Would you think you would have won, Bernie, or what?
You think you would have fucking...
Beat Trump?
jeff ross
I think I would have given him a run for his money.
unidentified
I think I would have won in the key states.
andrew santino
What key states do you think you would have beat him?
jeff ross
I think I would have won in...
andrew santino
You think Michigan you would have taken down?
jeff ross
I think head-to-head I would have been very competitive with the Trump campaign.
andrew santino
Oh, wow.
jeff ross
I think we're both outsiders.
andrew santino
Right.
Definitely.
Definitely, definitely.
joe rogan
You should do your Trump impression now and you guys should duel.
jeff ross
Listen, I'm sorry, Mr. President, I can't accept your presidency.
I'm stepping out of government.
I'm taking a job at Goldman Sachs.
I need to make some money.
andrew santino
You're welcome.
That's what I would say.
You're welcome.
I think I've done for you more than you've ever done for me.
So you're welcome.
You want to make college free?
You want to make college free?
I'm going to charge four times for college.
Four times.
unidentified
More debt.
jeff ross
Mr. Trump, I beg your pardon.
andrew santino
Don't beg me.
jeff ross
What's in those tax returns?
andrew santino
I'm not going to show you my tax returns.
unidentified
I don't need to show you.
jeff ross
Some undisclosed payments to your barber?
I don't think so.
andrew santino
My stylist does what he does very well.
He does very well.
I have a trans stylist, by the way.
I have a trans stylist.
You want to talk about trans culture?
I have trans stylists.
Okay, don't tell me I don't like the LGBTQ community.
jeff ross
I'm very low budget.
I'm working on that.
I care more about the important things in life.
andrew santino
You look like you shop at the dollar store.
It's pathetic.
jeff ross
I tried the Trump steaks.
They were harder to digest than your foreign policy.
andrew santino
Trump steaks are delicious.
Don't listen to that.
They're better than Omaha steaks.
Don't listen to that.
We have premium cows.
Our cows are beautiful.
They're shipped over from California.
jeff ross
I don't appreciate your racist comments that you've made in the past.
andrew santino
I'm not racist.
I'm racial.
I'm racial.
jeff ross
Making fun of people with disabilities.
andrew santino
Oh, what, what, what?
I can't mock a retard anymore?
What's the news coming to today?
I can't do that.
I can't sit up there and jiggle my wrist like we used to when we were seven.
Screw you, Bern.
I'm going to mock a tard once in a while.
Get used to it, America.
unidentified
Whoa.
andrew santino
That's legitimately what would come out of his fucking brain.
That's for sure.
And you know what?
That would be fed live to America, an argument between those two, and fucking his fans would love it even more.
He's right.
He should mock fucking Reed.
Fine.
Fun.
That's what my buddy said to his mom.
She was a diehard Trump supporter, and he said, justify seriously to me.
Justify how he could mock a handicapped person.
Just tell me what's the fucking spin on that.
He said it wasn't because he was...
Just watch it once.
Volume off.
Watch it once.
No one in the world...
Someone who speaks no English and doesn't understand our culture would go, well, they're probably making fun of, it looks like they're making a character of somebody.
greg fitzsimmons
It was this kid who was a comedian.
joe rogan
But you know he does that about everybody that he thinks is flustered?
There's like a whole series.
andrew santino
I saw that.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like every time he thinks he goes, he does that when no one knows what they're doing.
Oh, and he's trying to figure this out.
Literally, that's his thing that he does.
I'm not defending him, but the real fact is he always does that.
andrew santino
Right.
They showed a video of them looping, but specifically, he did this arm thing like that.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, it was more specific.
joe rogan
More extra.
greg fitzsimmons
Yeah, it was definitely like wrists banging against each other kind of a move.
andrew santino
He does this in some of them open handy, and then this was kind of like...
I mean, it was just like what...
What when you were a punk kid in third grade or fourth grade were doing to each other, mocking shit, it was so obvious that that's what it was.
greg fitzsimmons
There was this comic, and you guys probably wouldn't even remember him, but he was an L.A. comic, one of those guys that was just always around, and you never really saw him go on stage much.
andrew santino
Earl Skakel.
greg fitzsimmons
And he had these giant front teeth and like a receded upper lip so that his teeth just like jutted out.
And I'm talking to him and I don't know what the fuck was going through my mind but subconsciously I like curled my lip up above my teeth and then he just looked at me and he goes, oh that's really funny.
And I realized like in a second that I was doing it.
andrew santino
Right.
greg fitzsimmons
And I was so fucking embarrassed.
I didn't know what to say.
unidentified
Oh my god.
andrew santino
That's kind of like when someone's twitching, you just naturally just do it with them for some reason.
greg fitzsimmons
I think it's a monkey response.
Monkey see, monkey do.
It's like subconscious.
joe rogan
Like when someone yawns and you start yawning?
greg fitzsimmons
Right.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
andrew santino
Or when someone has a fucking thing on their face, you just kind of even feel it on your face.
Do you know what I mean?
It's not there, but you start to feel it on your own face, and then you've got to go, dude, it fucking...
joe rogan
What are you doing, Jeff Ross?
jeff ross
Somebody knocked?
joe rogan
Somebody knocked?
There was no one there.
jeff ross
Someone knocked.
joe rogan
Jeff, this has been a blast.
jeff ross
I came in an hour before these.
joe rogan
You were the first ever on a live podcast from the Comedy Store.
jeff ross
I had a big day.
I want to rest.
joe rogan
Yeah, you had a lot of shit going on here.
andrew santino
And you've got big shows.
Tomorrow's when you tape, right?
joe rogan
So, one more time for everybody.
Roast Battle.
jeff ross
January 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th on Comedy Central.
It'll be great.
John Mayer, Sarah Silverman, Jason Sudeikis, Snoop Dogg, Jesselneck, Whitney.
joe rogan
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
All live on Comedy Central.
jeff ross
You're in the sizzle reel that opens the show.
joe rogan
I'm so proud.
greg fitzsimmons
Nice!
jeff ross
It's really fun.
joe rogan
Andrew Santino, your Showtime special?
jeff ross
What's it called?
andrew santino
It's called Home Field Advantage.
I did it in Chicago at the theater.
joe rogan
Are you from?
andrew santino
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, beautiful.
You already said that when you were talking about the accent.
I forgot.
andrew santino
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I did it in the theater that I used to go watch bands in when I was in high school.
It was such a fucking surreal thing.
joe rogan
That's fucking awesome.
andrew santino
It was fucking wild.
joe rogan
When is it out?
greg fitzsimmons
See you, man.
andrew santino
June.
It'll be out in June.
joe rogan
June.
Beautiful.
Powerful Jeff Ross.
Greg Fitzsimmons, Fitzdog Radio Podcast.
greg fitzsimmons
Tour dates coming up.
Tacoma.
Austin.
Tampa.
Phoenix.
I'll be coming to Phoenix.
Go to Fitzdog.com.
A lot of shows.
unidentified
What's that?
greg fitzsimmons
I know.
joe rogan
Live poker game.
Like a live poker podcast.
That'd be perfect for that.
I don't know how to play.
It'd be awesome.
greg fitzsimmons
Well, that camera, you stick it in the middle of the table and you can see everybody playing.
unidentified
Get an air conditioner.
joe rogan
Yeah, we could do some shit to this room.
This room's pretty badass.
It's cool that they have it.
unidentified
Yeah, it's not bad.
joe rogan
It's a good spot.
It's cool.
Yeah.
Well, you can definitely hear the piano.
andrew santino
We've got to get a TV down here.
We can see what's going on on the stage.
unidentified
We could.
joe rogan
We could get a monitor and watch everybody.
greg fitzsimmons
That would be fun.
andrew santino
That would be so fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, we could easily do that.
andrew santino
Like Mystery Science Theater comics that we know.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's not like Roger Science.
Jeff, thanks, buddy.
Thank you.
Always a pleasure, my friend.
andrew santino
I'm going to come by tomorrow.
joe rogan
I gave you a dainty, womanly handshake there.
It was like...
unidentified
Thank you, sir.
joe rogan
And Greg, where can people get a hold of your shit?
greg fitzsimmons
FittsDog.com, baby!
joe rogan
FittsDog.com and Greg Fitts Radio is your Twitter, right?
greg fitzsimmons
FittsDog.
andrew santino
FittsDog.
joe rogan
That's it, folks.
You have been witness to the very first ever and it went into the 20th so it's an inauguration podcast in a lot of ways.
andrew santino
Oh, it is?
joe rogan
Yeah, because we're here.
It's the 20th.
And that's it, you fucks.
First time ever.
Comedy Store live podcast.
We'll do it again.
It was fun.
unidentified
Awesome.
Yeah, it was a cool idea, right?
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