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Feb. 27, 2017 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #923 - Whitney Cummings
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joe rogan
01:13:23
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whitney cummings
01:41:48
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jamie vernon
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unidentified
Let's just go live!
Da da da da da da da da da da And we're live!
whitney cummings
Should I put this in my...
joe rogan
There goes the MCT oil.
whitney cummings
Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
How long are we going to talk today?
joe rogan
It depends.
It depends on how long you can hold back the floodgates of hell.
whitney cummings
Okay.
I mean, I don't...
unidentified
Oh, why is this wet?
joe rogan
Oh, that is coconut emulsified MCT oil.
whitney cummings
If this is cum, I will never talk to you again, Joe.
joe rogan
I swear to God, my cum does not look like that.
And it definitely doesn't keep that well in plastic.
whitney cummings
Pristine white.
You're so healthy.
joe rogan
I'm eating a lot of organic foods.
whitney cummings
Is that too much?
joe rogan
It's changed the way my cum looks.
whitney cummings
Wow, it looks like Elmer's glue.
joe rogan
No, that's not too much at all.
This is nothing wrong with this.
We were talking before for people that just tuned in.
There was no other way to tune in.
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
Unless you bugged the studio.
whitney cummings
The FBI is recording us.
joe rogan
We were talking about the drama behind taking too much MCT oil.
There's a feeling that you get where like a water bubble pops in your stomach and you're like, oh Jesus!
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's like just abortion.
Like a five month abortion.
There's some ribs crack.
joe rogan
Yeah, something goes wrong, and then you must get to the toilet immediately.
And I don't know why.
I was trying to figure it out, like, whether or not it's, like, the oil itself, where it lubricates.
But that doesn't make any sense, because a lot of water comes out of your body, too, somehow or another.
whitney cummings
It's true.
joe rogan
I don't get it.
whitney cummings
Do you ever do colonics?
joe rogan
No.
I've heard they're not good for you.
whitney cummings
Have you ever?
joe rogan
Are they?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know either.
whitney cummings
But placebo effect is a measurable effect.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
So if you think it's good for you, maybe it is, or I don't know, but I have done a couple, and I don't do them anymore.
I just was like, when I first got money, I was like, I should pay guys to put things in my butt!
joe rogan
So a guy did it?
whitney cummings
A guy did it, yeah.
joe rogan
Is that weird?
unidentified
Yes, yes.
whitney cummings
The answer is yes.
joe rogan
Judging by the pause.
whitney cummings
Just so you know, like, well, because I was thinking about it, I was like, guys, I know putting things in my butt is weird, too.
It's all weird.
unidentified
That's weird, too.
joe rogan
It's all weird.
whitney cummings
Paying someone, I at least feel like I have a modicum of control and can actually sort of set boundaries, but it's weird.
There's so many weird things going on, it's hard to isolate what's uncomfortable, though.
joe rogan
I feel like putting things in the bud is a lot like Catholic schoolgirls, in that suppression is what creates the diamond, you know?
Yes, yes, true.
whitney cummings
It's weird because he did find a diamond in there when he flushed me out.
joe rogan
What I mean by that is...
When we were kids, we all knew that Catholic school girls were like the biggest hoes.
whitney cummings
Right, because they had the repression.
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
The pendulum has to swing hard.
joe rogan
Yes, exactly.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can't, like, there's yin and yang to this life, right?
whitney cummings
Yes, right.
To find equilibrium.
unidentified
There's a cycle.
whitney cummings
They have to be whores.
Yeah, I did.
I went to Catholic school.
I know.
joe rogan
Did you?
whitney cummings
I did.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
whitney cummings
I did for a bunch of years.
unidentified
How many?
whitney cummings
Five?
Six?
But I was, I mean, my fate was sealed way before Catholic school.
I mean, that was just like my excuse for my behavior.
I went to Catholic school.
That's not why.
I was a mess way before then.
But it weirdly, yeah, I mean, there's so much transgression within the Catholics.
Everyone was getting in trouble because, yeah, they were all sort of rebelling against.
joe rogan
It's forbidden.
whitney cummings
It is forbidden.
joe rogan
I think it's like the butt.
It's like butt sex.
It's the same thing.
It's like, ooh, she's going to let you put it in there?
whitney cummings
It's funny you said that because I was thinking about you during butt sex.
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
I was thinking about, like, because I was like, I'm coming on the show tomorrow, and I felt like the last couple times I did the show, I was like, I feel like I was in a weirdly, like, I was talking about, like, I had just come back from Vietnam with deformed babies.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
And I was like, is it going to go that way?
And last night...
Are we going to talk about deformed babies again?
No.
Because I'm out of deformed baby stories.
And I was at the gym last night.
I know it's obvious that I go to the gym.
LA Fitness.
I go to LA Fitness because I'm successful.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
And I can afford $28 a month.
No problem.
And I was in the bathroom, just like, you know, whatever.
And I heard this girl on the phone.
And she was like, you know, when you see someone pacing on the phone and you're like, oh, that's like a business call.
And I was just incapable of minding my own business, so I was listening to her.
She was also yelling.
And she goes, you know, into the phone, she's like, you know, I don't really get it.
I've only been asked to do one anal scene.
It sounds like I'm lying.
I know it sounds like this story's a lie.
I've only been asked to do one anal scene.
It went on and she's like, and it doesn't make any sense because I don't do anal in my personal life, so it's really tight.
This happened in the LA Fitness locker room.
joe rogan
Whoa.
whitney cummings
And I was just like, I was agog for many reasons.
joe rogan
I would think that that would be like standard in LA that you'd run into porn stars.
whitney cummings
You'd think, and I'm sure we do all the time, I don't hear them negotiating their deals.
This went on for quite a long time.
She did talk about when her rent was due.
I mean, I was in there for quite a while, and it just made me think about how grateful I am that I don't...
joe rogan
Do porn?
whitney cummings
Do porn.
joe rogan
That's a good thing to be grateful for.
I had a friend of mine who his buddy was dating a porn star and it was like, no big deal.
You know, it's no big deal.
We all have sex.
No big deal.
And then one day the straw that broke the camel's back was she was going over her contract and he was apparently there.
I guess they have contracts sometimes.
I don't know if they always do, but in the contract it said, airtight.
And he was like, what's airtight?
And she was like, it's a guy in every hole.
And he's like, I'm good.
That's it.
We're done.
It's over.
unidentified
It's a wrap.
whitney cummings
It happened.
joe rogan
That was it.
whitney cummings
Break the fourth wall.
joe rogan
Just one in the ass, one in the pussy, one in the mouth.
unidentified
Yeah, one in each ear.
whitney cummings
I mean, it was, and I couldn't stop thinking about it, because I was, of course, like, I had just, we had been texting about, I came back from Tulsa, and I had a connection, and I was like, I have a, like, I... You were on what Bill Hicks used to call the Flying Saucer Tour.
unidentified
What's that?
joe rogan
Because you were in the places only where flying saucers go.
unidentified
That's...
whitney cummings
Amazing.
joe rogan
That's what Hicks used to call it.
When he would do the South.
He'd do these flying saucer tours.
Because that's the same as you.
That's how he would work out his stuff.
He would go to these weird road gigs.
whitney cummings
I call it the kidnapped comedy tour, which is when I leave the airport with the driver, I'm like, I'm being kidnapped.
Like, because I truly don't know where we're going.
There's no hows.
I mean, we were just like in the middle of nowhere.
And I was like, I'm either going to go to a casino and do stand-up or get murdered brutally in a field.
joe rogan
Is that what you were doing?
Casinos out there?
whitney cummings
I did a casino.
Yeah, yeah.
Mommy's got bills.
Mommy's got a lot of bills to pay.
And, oh, and this girl, she just went on and on and on.
And she said something that was so interesting to me.
She was like, and it doesn't make any sense because I don't do anal in my personal life.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's crazy.
whitney cummings
And I thought it was so interesting that a porn star had boundaries in her personal life, but she'll do it on camera.
joe rogan
Yeah, she'll do it for money.
whitney cummings
And it made me think about my boundaries.
I was like, this girl has stronger boundaries than I do.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, it's a preference issue, right?
Like, some girls actually like it.
Like, it's a bizarre thing.
I've had it come up on stage before, where people, like, raise their hands and say, I love it.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're like, alright.
whitney cummings
There are many I get.
I'm not gonna chime in too much on this, but I agree with you.
joe rogan
I think some people just like to be dirty, too.
They like to be a dirty girl.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I mean, I just don't know when sex got so boring.
Just regular old sex.
It's got to be so weird now.
joe rogan
I think a lot of it is who you're doing it with.
Why you're doing it to them.
Is it maintenance sex?
Are you really turned on?
Do you really like them?
Do you want them to like you?
Are you mutually enamored with each other?
whitney cummings
Is there a mental connection?
joe rogan
Are you trying to get them to be enamored with you?
whitney cummings
Animals.
joe rogan
Yeah, is it two animals?
Is it pure?
whitney cummings
Is it a power thing?
joe rogan
Is it like that Billy Joel song?
whitney cummings
What's that?
joe rogan
Matter of Trust.
whitney cummings
Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
Old school.
Or are we just so desensitized from porn?
I'm fascinated by that.
joe rogan
Well, there's definitely that.
100%.
I'm doing this bit in my act now about the loss of pubic hair.
That there was at one point in time people just had pubic hair.
And now it just seems like women don't have pubic hair anymore.
whitney cummings
Look, I got it lasered off five years ago, and I have been freezing ever since.
I am so drinking hot tea just trying to stay warm.
joe rogan
Have you ever thought of wool panties?
whitney cummings
No, I'm going to have to get a merkin.
Wool is good.
joe rogan
Get your eyebrows!
whitney cummings
I'm going to have to go to Piven's guy.
So it's interesting you say that.
A friend of mine, she is more like a family, like acquaintance, and she's got a daughter who's 15 who had her first sexual experience.
I don't think they had sex, but a man.
A boy her age saw her naked.
joe rogan
So there's no legal issues here.
whitney cummings
Yes, there was no authorities.
joe rogan
Don't call them authorities.
whitney cummings
Normal stuff.
She came home hysterically crying after her first teenage boy saw her naked because he saw her private area and was like, what is that?
He had never seen pubic hair before because he had only seen porn.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
whitney cummings
And he had never seen a labia before because in a lot of porn they have labioplasties and they remove them.
So he sees this horrific chicken gizzard and he thinks that she's deformed or has a giant skin tag because in porn they don't have a lot of it.
joe rogan
Is that that common that they get their labia chopped off?
whitney cummings
It's pretty common.
When you see a vagina in porn that does not have the orchid-like You know, I don't know, elephant ear or whatever.
joe rogan
Catcher's Mint.
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
I don't know what porn.
You're watching MILF porn, obviously.
joe rogan
MILF porn.
whitney cummings
That's apparently the most popular.
joe rogan
Really?
whitney cummings
Yes.
unidentified
You know why?
joe rogan
I have a theory with that.
whitney cummings
What's the theory?
joe rogan
The same reason why Ron Jeremy was a big time porn star.
Because, like, people looked at Ron Jeremy fucking these girls, and they're like, hey, if Ron Jeremy can fuck these girls, it's not like Ryan Reynolds.
It's like, I kind of look like Ron Jeremy, and he's getting laid.
whitney cummings
Yeah, he wears a t-shirt in his porn.
joe rogan
Yeah, and if you see these women that are, like, 45 and still doing porn, I could get her.
I could get her.
whitney cummings
Oh, yeah, I have her.
She's in my living room right now.
unidentified
She's down the street.
whitney cummings
She's in apartment 4C. Yeah, I'm married to one.
joe rogan
That crazy bitch.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
She's right over there.
Interesting.
So maybe just like movies, there's like aspirational and then there's, you know, relatable.
joe rogan
Relatable, I think, is a big factor with the MILF porn.
whitney cummings
I guess for me, I can't.
And maybe this is my being a girl.
Maybe it's being a comic.
Maybe it's having a hyperactive amygdala.
I don't know.
But when I watch porn, it's really hard for me to separate what I'm looking at from how the person got there.
And when they're young, I'm like, she's an idiot and she had a bad childhood and it happens.
But when they're older...
Unless it's Jenna Jameson or someone who's been doing it for a long time.
I'm like, who at 43 starts doing porn?
It's just too tragic for me.
joe rogan
Well, the jump off, like how do you jump off the train and when do you decide you've had enough years on the ride?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
That would be the issue.
whitney cummings
So many of them are on drugs and had bad childhoods.
The only porn I really am able to watch is Tumblr.
joe rogan
Tumblr porn?
whitney cummings
Tumblr has great porn because it's just in increments of 8 seconds.
joe rogan
Wait a minute, Tumblr is porn?
whitney cummings
It's like teenagers blogs about Twilight.
Pinterest-type collections of furniture and stuff.
joe rogan
Animated GIF files?
unidentified
Exactly.
whitney cummings
But there's also some porn ones that are sort of tasteful.
And it's only an increment of eight seconds, and it just replays it, so you don't have time to see the bad furniture in the background.
I get distracted by the...
joe rogan
The decor?
whitney cummings
The bed.
I'm like, that's IKEA. It's not assembled properly.
unidentified
I get distracted so easily.
whitney cummings
If a girl's got a tattoo on her thigh, all I can think about is what it's going to look like in 20 years.
I can't separate enjoying porn from the porn star's bad decisions.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
whitney cummings
And I get worried about them.
So this is good because it's eight seconds and my mind can't wander.
joe rogan
Okay, I get it.
whitney cummings
And they have some that are black and white, which is kind of sexy.
It's arty and it always looks consensual.
I can't really get turned on because I can tell when a girl is faking.
I can tell.
I've done it.
I've seen it.
So when a girl is just overdoing it or something, I'm just sort of like, that's a bummer.
joe rogan
It is a strange thing, the overwhelming number of people that watch other people have sex and masturbate.
whitney cummings
It's amazing.
joe rogan
In history, in the history of human beings, there's never been more people masturbating to other people having sex.
whitney cummings
Amazing point.
unidentified
It's true.
whitney cummings
It's fascinating.
And also I've gotten kind of obsessed with this because I recently did a movie where, and you know, when you do stuff, you do like focus group testing.
And there was a scene in the movie where Blake Griffin, the basketball player, really funny actor, like he's great in it, is with Cecily Strong.
They're married.
And the scene was that I wrote it with Neil Brennan, actually, that he walks in on his wife masturbating and what that is.
You know, like women walking on men, guys masturbate all the time, but how he takes it personally and, you know, it's sort of a threat to his masculinity and manhood and he's insulted and his feelings are hurt and all this stuff.
And so she's at a table and there's a computer and that's the deal.
I guess I just put my own experience into it.
I just assume everyone masturbates the same way to the same things, the same vibe.
When we played it for the focus groups, everyone was so confused about what was going on when he comes in and sees her at the desk with her hands under the table.
With the computer.
And then she throws the computer down and she's freaked out.
And to me, it's very obvious that she was masturbating in the scene.
In the focus groups, this one guy was like, oh, I had no idea she was masturbating.
I mean, where were the candles?
joe rogan
Whoa.
whitney cummings
I was like, what?
You light candles?
Like, everybody masturbates so differently, I learned.
joe rogan
That dude masturbates with candles.
whitney cummings
I was like, you light a...
You have a ceremonial...
Because I thought all guys just masturbate under a bridge where they belong.
And then...
unidentified
The women were even weirder.
whitney cummings
This one woman was like, oh, I had no idea she was masturbating because she wasn't in the tub.
unidentified
Oh, God.
joe rogan
That's so specific.
whitney cummings
Masturbate in your own...
joe rogan
Juices?
That's pussy soup.
whitney cummings
Yeah, don't!
joe rogan
That's what I feel about Tubbs anyway.
You're not really even totally clean.
You're kind of in pussy and asshole soup.
I mean, that's what you're doing.
You're making tea.
whitney cummings
You really gotta take a shower after you take a bath.
You're making tea.
joe rogan
Put some MCT. You're making pussy tea.
whitney cummings
So it's just this...
I mean, we're comics, so we're...
I'm fascinated by people's deep, dark secrets.
And I feel like masturbation is that.
We show our lives to everyone on social media.
You know what I eat.
You know where your kids are.
You don't really do that.
But most people, everything.
The one thing we don't know about anyone is how they masturbate.
joe rogan
Well, I think also it highlights the problem with those focus groups.
Those focus groups are filled with morons.
whitney cummings
Think about the kind of person who needs $50 cash.
joe rogan
Yeah, right now.
whitney cummings
And we'll go watch a movie in the valley for $50.
joe rogan
And by the way, if you're listening to this, you're like, hey man, I'm fucking normal.
I'm just broke.
It's not you, man.
But you know the people that you're doing it with.
whitney cummings
Yes, yeah.
joe rogan
Okay, let's be honest.
whitney cummings
I mean, I have a complicated relationship with focus groups because...
We're comics.
Anonymous Strangers feedback is how I seek the truth, and that's who I listen to.
Like, I would rather Anonymous Strangers feedback than, like, a network executive who's, like, got all these, you know, sort of preconceived ideas of what a show should be like based on some formulaic thing that worked 10 years ago.
You know, the involuntary laugh, that's, to me, where the truth is.
So I have a complicated relationship with focus groups, because I really do trust Strangers.
joe rogan
Well, you kind of have to if you're a comic.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, because we have a weird art form in that we're one of the very few art forms that requires other people to make it form.
whitney cummings
People we've never met and know nothing about and put complete trust in.
joe rogan
Yeah, if we don't do that, it won't be good.
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
I mean, you can write a few jokes on their own and they come out really good, but you can never write an act.
whitney cummings
Like, have you ever, and I know a bunch of comics that do this, like, if I'm sitting in a vacuum, like, writing jokes, I can be like, oh, this is funny, and you go do, you know, it's very, I mean, I feel like I'm gonna, I definitely have a, I'm usually pretty close, but there are times that it's just like, Yeah.
There is not a linear relationship with what I think.
That's why you're having a...
You just put a giant squirt of MCTY. No, that's fine.
joe rogan
That squirt is fine.
That is too much MCTY. No, it's like cream.
Look, it's great.
Looks good in there.
unidentified
Tastes good.
whitney cummings
That is too much.
joe rogan
Trust me, it's not too much.
whitney cummings
Are you sure?
joe rogan
Yeah, what I'm talking about is like...
whitney cummings
I want to know how much you drank that was an overdose.
joe rogan
Well, have you ever seen those smoothies?
whitney cummings
That was half a bottle.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen the smoothies that I put up on Instagram?
I call them Hulk loads.
Yes.
That's the problem.
whitney cummings
That is also a brand of porn, by the way.
joe rogan
Hulk loads?
I put like a quarter of a cup of MCT oil in that.
unidentified
Is there...
whitney cummings
I don't know anything about...
Is there a point where your body stops metabolizing something because it's gotten enough of it?
joe rogan
Yes, but I hit that point.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the thing.
unidentified
Oh, you know exactly.
joe rogan
I hit that 100%.
whitney cummings
Got it.
joe rogan
I get it all.
whitney cummings
Okay.
joe rogan
And this is a daily thing, this much MCT. Well, that squirt right there, that little baby squirt, that's nothing.
whitney cummings
You're a monster, and your Shrek hand, literally in one squirt, released half of that bottle.
I've never seen anything like that.
I shudder at the idea of you jerking off.
I literally feel sympathy for your dick.
joe rogan
Strange noises.
unidentified
What you just did to that bottle was intense.
whitney cummings
Your dick needs a day off.
joe rogan
I'm never going to look at my hands again and think of Shrek hands.
whitney cummings
Never touch it again.
Your dick is filing a restraining order against your hands.
joe rogan
Well, thank God for fleshlights.
That used to be our sponsor.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, way back in the day.
It was our first sponsor.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
The only sponsor that we had was The Fleshlight.
whitney cummings
I remember I had sort of an aha moment with one of my specials.
I think it was on Comedy Central.
You kind of find out who you are based on who buys advertising time on your show.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, I guess so.
whitney cummings
I did some special on Comedy Central, and the ads were all like Adam and Eve sex toys!
Valtrex!
I was just like, oh, okay.
joe rogan
There it is.
whitney cummings
That's who I am.
Good to know.
joe rogan
The focus group thing, I just can't imagine that no one would understand that a woman with her hands in her pants watching a computer wouldn't be masturbating.
whitney cummings
They were very confused.
joe rogan
Unless guys assume that women don't masturbate to porn.
whitney cummings
To porn, yeah.
That's a good point.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't talk about that kind of stuff with my girlfriends.
You don't?
No.
Nope.
I'm not like, what do you masturbate to?
unidentified
No!
You guys don't talk about that all the time.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, we joke about it.
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
Like we prepare.
Like some guys prepare.
whitney cummings
I don't even talk about sex with guys with my girlfriends.
unidentified
I talk about it on podcasts to strangers.
joe rogan
You don't talk about it with your girlfriends.
Is that odd?
whitney cummings
Well, it's not odd.
It's just like, I mean, I'll definitely sometimes try to corroborate.
Like, I'll be like, hey, is this happening?
Or is this just, you know, is this a thing?
And they're like, yeah.
joe rogan
How many times do you get smacked?
whitney cummings
Yeah, like, are you?
Because that's the new, the pussy, sorry, I hate that word.
joe rogan
Pussy?
whitney cummings
You hate pussy?
No, I hate the word pussy in a non-sexual, I don't hate it, it just feels like it's reserved, it's just not.
joe rogan
It's only for sex.
whitney cummings
I don't use it in a colloquial way, but I don't have another substitute for it, because vagina's a bummer.
joe rogan
Yeah, vagina is like an ant.
whitney cummings
It is like an ant from Mississippi.
joe rogan
It's like non-sexual.
Oh, it's vagina.
whitney cummings
It's very clinical.
I don't have a synonym for it, but slapping...
Like, I always know what's the new trend in porn, because it'll, you know...
joe rogan
Slapping pussies is the new trend?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
You'll get, like, a slap.
joe rogan
That doesn't seem like it would be good.
whitney cummings
And I don't know if it's like a...
Am I in trouble?
I don't know.
What if I just slapped your dick?
joe rogan
That would not feel good.
I don't know why anybody would like to get slapped.
whitney cummings
I just think guys assume that since we give birth and that's such a shocking amount of pain that we can injure anything.
I don't know.
It's a weird little...
joe rogan
Well, there's something that happens in porn, for sure, where they escalate.
Where it used to be just people having sex.
If you go back to old porn, it would be like a secretary and a boss and, oh, I'm so tense, and the guy gives her a back massage.
Next thing you know, they're having just regular sex.
And then somewhere along the line, it became like gagging and slapping and fucking coughing and tears.
whitney cummings
Going back and forth from one to the other, which is...
joe rogan
Super dangerous.
whitney cummings
That is a UTI way, it's septic infection.
That's all I can think of, you know.
Stuff that's like you should not do in real life.
It's a really setting bad example.
unidentified
Terrible example.
whitney cummings
And guess who's having to suffer?
This guy.
It's us.
We're the ones that have to be like, meh.
And then we're like...
joe rogan
Mean women.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Well, I mean, we just have to play defense because there's always a, what porn did you watch today?
It's like, am I getting hit?
Am I getting trolled?
Can you please teach me jiu-jitsu just so I can get through this?
joe rogan
It's going to take a long...
It's not something...
You just teach somebody.
It's not like, this is the letter A in cursive.
whitney cummings
I have a question.
I was thinking about this because I always am trying to equate our primordial instincts that we have not evolved past and with modern technology and alarm systems and how we get out those impulses in the modern world.
You know, did you hear about these food trucks that were in downtown LA? They're like these awesome food trucks who in every day are at a different location and guys go on Twitter to find where they are.
So I'm like, that's hunting, right?
That's the closest thing these guys have to hunting if they're not you, right?
joe rogan
That's a weird way of thinking it.
Isn't it?
I never equated that before, but I guess kind of.
whitney cummings
If men have a primordial need to chase things and go kill and slay or whatever it is, so if there's an inherent need to be violent, let's say, and people don't get to do what you do and a lot of people that you talk to do, do they...
I guess here's my question.
Do people who get the impulse to fight out, either professionally or recreationally, are they less violent sexually?
Like, do they not need to...
Does it have to come out somewhere?
joe rogan
I would imagine they would be less violent, actually.
whitney cummings
Yeah, because they get that urge.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would imagine they'd be less violent overall.
whitney cummings
Agree.
Because they get to purge it somehow.
joe rogan
Yeah, and while I think road rage, when you see people in road rage incidents, the likelihood of them coming straight from a jiu-jitsu class and having road rage is almost zero.
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
Because when I come home from jujitsu and someone cuts me off, I'm like, oh, dick.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
That's it.
Dick.
whitney cummings
So you know how much, you know, what your threshold is for how much violence or not even violence.
I don't know what testosterone, whatever it is.
joe rogan
I think it's more tension than anything.
whitney cummings
Yeah, releasing it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it's more.
whitney cummings
Most people never get to release it.
joe rogan
No, most people don't.
And I think our bodies, I always describe our bodies as like a leaky battery, that we have a certain amount of reward systems that are built into our bodies, fight and flight, and worrying about how to gather food, and worrying about incoming tribes that are going to rape and kill us.
And I think those things are just ingrained in our DNA, and they don't get met or even addressed at all in modern society.
I have a friend of mine who has a really bad neck.
His neck is all fucked up.
And he works at a desk all day.
He hardly exercises.
He does a little bit of exercise.
But I'm like, man, your body has demands.
And you're not meeting it by just sitting there with shitty posture at your desk.
whitney cummings
My doctor says sitting is the new smoking.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of people say that.
Well, that's why we're in these chairs.
These things are called capiscos.
They're from Ergo Depot.
whitney cummings
Is this a Sibian?
joe rogan
No.
You would be really numb.
Then you would need a slap down there.
whitney cummings
It's very distracting.
joe rogan
It makes sense.
These are forcing you to sit like this.
Have you noticed it?
whitney cummings
I wore an underwire bra today, so that forces me to do this.
joe rogan
What does that do?
It pushes down?
whitney cummings
No, it's like three harpoons.
And if you move, they sort of jam into you.
joe rogan
Is it a posture thing?
whitney cummings
No, it's just like a masochism, misogynistic lingerie thing.
joe rogan
Is that just to make your tits perky?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I haven't done laundry.
My cleaning lady's sick, so I'm improvising and wearing things that I wouldn't normally wear.
And I can't believe women wear this all the time, because I normally don't wear underwire.
joe rogan
Now, does that...
I always wanted to know this.
Do support bras actually support your breasts and keep them from starting to sag?
whitney cummings
Yes.
That's like any part of the skin, you know, if you hold something up.
So I know a lot of women who have pendulous breasts who wear bras to sleep so that they don't, you know, because their skin's elastic.
joe rogan
So they don't ever fully get beaten down by gravity.
whitney cummings
Yes.
And then you have a kid and it's...
joe rogan
Right.
If you go Africa style.
unidentified
Yeah.
They're just...
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's no way around that, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah, but this, unless you wear a support, this is just more like, I normally never wear underwire because it makes me a bad person.
joe rogan
Because you're in pain?
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's just uncomfortable.
joe rogan
Irritated?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I'm used to thongs.
I've gone numb in that area.
I've just had to acquiesce to them.
joe rogan
Your butt crack goes numb.
whitney cummings
But yeah, it's like if, I mean, basically.
joe rogan
There's a certain type of...
What the fuck is wrong with my throat today?
unidentified
I don't know.
whitney cummings
It's probably MCTO. It's MCTO. No, but I have gotten so—it's amazing, and I'm just always fascinated by—and we're seeing it, you know, I think everyone's—it's sort of a zeitgeisty word right now, normalization or desensitization.
I'm obsessed with how we acclimate, because I think it's our human instinct to acclimate to some kind of pain or lower our tolerance to deal with— Consistent pain or discomfort or whatever.
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
whitney cummings
How we sort of have this amazing ability to adapt.
And I didn't wear thongs, didn't wear thongs.
I was resisting it, resisting it.
Finally started wearing them.
They were so uncomfortable for a couple months.
And then I forgot I had one on and peed through one once.
joe rogan
You peed through it?
whitney cummings
Peed through one.
I sat down.
joe rogan
So you sat down on the toilet.
You thought you were naked.
whitney cummings
That's how little I felt it.
joe rogan
Were you on any kind of medication at this time?
whitney cummings
You know, I should have been.
I probably should have been on antipsychotics.
joe rogan
I can't believe you peed through your underwear.
whitney cummings
No, I got the super light camo ones.
Actually, Under Armour makes workout ones.
They're called camo, I think.
They're not like camouflage.
I'm not hunting in them.
unidentified
Oh, okay, okay.
joe rogan
Because Under Armour makes a lot of hunting gear.
whitney cummings
Oh, does it now?
Didn't know that.
They started making...
They did not ask me to be the face of that campaign.
I can't imagine why.
joe rogan
You could be if you wanted to try a new career.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
They're always looking for women to get involved in hunting.
whitney cummings
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's like a big thing, like pretty girls that go hunting.
whitney cummings
Is that sexy?
joe rogan
I think some people think it is, but what it is is unusual.
You see these girls with full makeup on with really well applied camo on their face, so it's kind of obvious.
And then they have a dead lion next to them.
And then they take these Facebook photos and it gets really weird.
There was a girl, she was pretty famous for it because she was a cheerleader in Texas and she shot a lion.
And like Ricky Gervais and all these people went crazy and they're attacking her and it became Kendall Jenner, I think is her name.
whitney cummings
That's a famous Kardashian.
joe rogan
Am I right?
whitney cummings
No way.
It's not Kendall Jenner.
joe rogan
It's Kendall something or another.
whitney cummings
I mean, that's the most endearing thing you've ever done.
unidentified
I'm so out of the loop.
joe rogan
What's that?
unidentified
Kendall Jones.
joe rogan
Jones.
unidentified
There it is.
whitney cummings
Kendall Jones.
Not far.
joe rogan
Pretty close.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm so out of the loop.
Someone's trying to explain to me.
whitney cummings
If you were in the Kardashian loop, I'd be concerned.
joe rogan
Which one's the one that had...
There it is.
There's the girl with the lion.
See?
So there's something weird about it.
Like this picture right here.
Look at this picture.
whitney cummings
I don't want to look at it.
joe rogan
Just take a look real quick.
whitney cummings
No, I think I've seen...
This will ruin my week.
joe rogan
Ash, you'll be fine.
whitney cummings
My hippocampus can't...
joe rogan
This sexy pose with a bow and a dead lion.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I can't look at it.
joe rogan
And by the way, that lion...
Is, you know, it's lions all...
There's a weird thing about the hunting lions thing, too, because a lot of them, they're in these high fence places where they go and these lions are kind of trapped in these areas.
And sometimes they actually release the lion the day of the hunt.
So this lion had been in a cage.
unidentified
Disgusting.
joe rogan
And then they release the lion and this woman goes out and shoots the...
I mean, I don't know if that was the case with her.
This person, a man sometimes, will go out and shoot the lion.
The lion literally has no idea what's going on.
It's not even a free-range lion.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Yes.
So to me, that's a mentally ill person.
But my question for you is that is there something primordial about because I think, you know, we are I think inherently and this is going to sound wrong or it's going to sound like feminist, whatever.
But like there's a lot of evidence that we're matriarchal species, not that women should have more.
Orca whales, lions, female lions do all the hunting.
It's not economical for their energy because they're so big to do the hunting.
They'd have to kill twice as much food.
joe rogan
They're there for protection.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
And fucking and whatever.
So is there some sort of reptilian attraction to seeing a woman go hunt food, even though it's ironically a lion?
joe rogan
No, I don't think so.
whitney cummings
Is it like watching a woman cook?
Watching a woman cook is probably sexy, but is watching them hunt the same thing?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
But maybe it varies.
I think it's more in line of watching a woman cage fight.
Like, there's some really pretty women that fight now.
whitney cummings
Because I'm always sort of in this thing, and people always tell me, like, I have alpha vibe, and that's not sexy to men, or it is, or is it case by case, or is it a generalization?
I'm just always interested in it.
joe rogan
Well, I think what you are is powerful.
And that's what's scary to people that are insecure.
You're a go-getter.
You're constantly doing things.
I would imagine that a guy who doesn't test himself or a person who's not accomplished would be very insecure around someone who's got more ambition and more drive and more irons in the fire than they do.
So they would feel insignificant.
whitney cummings
Which is ironic because my engine is insecurity.
joe rogan
That is ironic.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what fuels the fire.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
But if you were secure, would you be as ambitious or would you be exactly the same?
whitney cummings
I don't know if I can even entertain that hypothetical because the idea of being secure is so foreign to me.
joe rogan
What if someone came out with a security pill?
whitney cummings
Yep.
joe rogan
And you took that bad boy.
whitney cummings
That's called cocaine.
unidentified
Does that work?
whitney cummings
They have that.
joe rogan
See, that's a chatterbox pill.
whitney cummings
That's what that is.
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
That's a let's start a business even though I don't even know you.
whitney cummings
From what I understand it.
joe rogan
Right?
whitney cummings
Let's start a business!
joe rogan
Dude, I'm telling you, man, we need to go into business together.
I've got a good idea.
unidentified
I've got an amazing idea.
joe rogan
There's a co-op that I'm working with.
whitney cummings
There's a vitamin company.
There's branding out of China.
joe rogan
Branding?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You've done an amazing job with your brand, Whitney.
unidentified
Thank you so much.
joe rogan
Your brand's amazing.
Have you ever heard someone refer to you as your brand?
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
That's such a bizarre way of putting things.
whitney cummings
You know, it's got such a pejorative weird...
But we're comics, so we have an allergy to anything corny.
We can say it, but we have to do it with an eye roll.
You have a very strong brand, but part of your brand is not being the guy who goes, me and my brand.
joe rogan
Part of my brand is not having a brand.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but you do have one.
joe rogan
I guess.
whitney cummings
An incredibly strong, clear one that anybody could say in one sentence, but part of it is because you're so authentic and anti- You know, conscientious, calculated marketing that the word is anathema to your brand.
joe rogan
Well, that's one of the big issues in the quote-unquote hunting community about a lot of these girls that are involved in this hunting.
You don't know, so I'm going to explain it to you.
There's this whole movement where these pretty girls have...
I mean, maybe some of them are...
I mean, for sure, some of them are authentic.
I don't want to discredit the ones that are authentic.
But a lot of them...
whitney cummings
And authentic, and let me just ask you, because I really want to understand, and this is maybe a generalization about men and women, but do you think women have the DNA and the true reward system?
Are they getting dopamine from, are they inherent hunters?
joe rogan
The same way women like playing sports, they would love hunting.
whitney cummings
Interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The same way people like very challenging and difficult things that offer you a massive reward when you do it.
whitney cummings
But sports is, there's teamwork, which gives us dopamine and adrenaline, you know.
joe rogan
Sort of.
whitney cummings
That do things like make out with other guys when they're not lesbians just to get another guy's attention.
joe rogan
You mean make up with other girls?
whitney cummings
I'm sorry, what did I say?
joe rogan
Guys.
Yes.
whitney cummings
Make up with other girls.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
Make out with other girls.
Like, are women hunting because they want to or because they feel socially protected?
joe rogan
I think there's both.
I mean, I think, obviously, we'd make a massive generalization if we said, women do this because that.
I hate that shit.
I hate when people say, the left does this, or the right does that, or men do this.
It gets goofy.
whitney cummings
I've just never met someone that does it, so I have no reference.
joe rogan
I know a lot of them.
whitney cummings
Women that do.
joe rogan
And some of them are unquestionably authentic, but some of them are unquestionably targeting social media and these specific avenues of getting famous and making a living.
And inside the hunting community, it's a very hotly debated subject about whether or not some of these women are legit, and who is legit, and who's...
whitney cummings
And what if they're not legit?
Does it matter?
joe rogan
No, it doesn't matter.
Why is it different than a girl who's a fitness freak?
You know, a girl just likes doing squats.
whitney cummings
I mean, we're designed to, if we get attention for something, our brain just keeps doing it.
joe rogan
There was a Vice thing about that today that I retweeted.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
About thirsty pictures.
unidentified
Yeah!
whitney cummings
Yeah, you mean Instagram?
joe rogan
Girls with bras on, why do they do that?
whitney cummings
Because they're getting likes.
joe rogan
Yeah, why do they have their ass hanging out with a thong, with their legs sort of exposed in bed where they're pretending that they're sleeping?
whitney cummings
And why are millions of people looking at them?
joe rogan
Yeah, because we like it.
Thirsty.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I mean, what got us attention is what we're going to keep doing.
joe rogan
Hashtag thirsty.
whitney cummings
Yeah, who is the perpetrator?
Is it the person doing it or the person enabling it?
joe rogan
Well, I don't want anybody to stop, because I like looking at those pictures.
whitney cummings
Do you follow that on Instagram?
joe rogan
I follow a lot of hoes.
whitney cummings
Really?
What does that do for you?
joe rogan
Not much.
But I follow a lot of dummies, too.
whitney cummings
Why at 2 p.m.
do you want to...
2 p.m.?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just specifically.
Right after lunch.
whitney cummings
Yeah, just like buttholes after lunch.
joe rogan
Well, there's not many buttholes on Instagram.
Instagram is all...
It has to be PG-13.
whitney cummings
Right.
But is that distracting?
Do you think it's...
Because I'm fascinated by what we put in our brain and the sort of way it wires our brain.
Does that just sort of make you exacerbate the obsession with sex?
joe rogan
Well, let me go over my thing right now.
Because for me, I follow, I think, more than a thousand people.
whitney cummings
Oh, so this is not curated.
joe rogan
I follow 1,224 people.
So, what I try to do with my Instagram feed is have it be a cascade of humanity.
I follow people who are animal rights activists and vegans.
whitney cummings
You want to know every angle.
joe rogan
I follow people who are bodybuilders.
I follow people who are...
If you looked at, like, when you do the search and the algorithm tries to find out who you are, it's fucking...
Like in chaos, I don't know what the fuck I am.
There's flowers and dead deer and guys getting head kicked and muscle cars.
It looks like I'm a fucking crazy person, which I probably am.
But what I do is I try to, if you have anything remotely interesting, I just follow you.
And then I unfollow people all the time too.
whitney cummings
This is interesting about you because this, to me, illustrates an absence of ego.
Like, you're very like, I'm open to anything.
I just want to know how everybody thinks.
And that's so cool.
joe rogan
Well, I definitely have an ego, but I beat the fuck out of it.
whitney cummings
It's interesting.
I mean, maybe it's, you know, you know more than I do, but I find that I get very threatened by things that upset me.
Like, you just saw that?
Like, this is gonna, my whole day is gonna be dedicated to, like, obsessing about, you know?
So I think I'm doing something that's kind of under the guise of self-protection or boundaries, but I actually end up robbing myself a little bit by, like, I went through that discovery page, and there's photos that I don't want to see, because I do a lot of, like, dog rescue, and then you end up getting a lot of, Seeing beheaded dogs, and the Chinese dog, and I don't want to see it.
I'm too hypervigilant, and I'm just too, like, I have, you know, trauma survivors, we don't have the same ability to calm ourselves down, and so it just will, the aftermath is just too much for me, so I went in, and on the discovery page, you can put, see less photos like this, so I'm now narrowing my sort of...
joe rogan
This is my new puppy eating broccoli.
whitney cummings
I thought you were going to throw me out.
Money!
unidentified
What's his name?
joe rogan
That's Marshall.
whitney cummings
Marshall!
joe rogan
He's a golden retriever.
He's the sweetest.
whitney cummings
Best security system you will ever have.
This guy.
joe rogan
For dogs?
I mean, for barking?
whitney cummings
Just having dogs.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I had someone break into my house.
Is that your first dog?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
This is like you.
joe rogan
I have a ton of dogs.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, I have three now.
whitney cummings
I feel like I know so much about you, but I know nothing about you.
But I had this guy, this security guy, come to my house and he said the best security system is putting chimes on all of your doorknobs because people that break in, they expect an alarm and then they know they have like three minutes or something.
But if they open a doorknob and there's some dreamcatcher making a bunch of noise, they freak out.
unidentified
Jingle bells.
whitney cummings
And then a dog.
joe rogan
Dogs are good.
And you've got big dogs, too.
whitney cummings
I have pit bulls, yeah.
joe rogan
That's a good move, for sure.
whitney cummings
Yeah, they've taught me a lot.
For me, the thing with me is that I'm not the same functional mental acumen that you have.
And all the work that I do to try to rewire my brain, it's very hard to practice.
In the problem, you know, it's very hard to practice, you know, without something where the ramifications aren't going to be huge.
Like practicing on people is just sort of, you know, if people are so triggering that it's hard to get out of the fight or flight sort of fear mindset if you're with the very kind of person that triggers you.
So animals are a great way for me to work on the things that I'm working on.
joe rogan
How do people trigger you?
whitney cummings
Like in what way?
I have sort of like, just because of how I grew up, I grew up in an alcoholic home.
And anyone that has like an authority sort of vibe, my brain, and we all, I think, tend to kind of do this if we're not like checking ourselves in our conscious mind.
We recreate our childhood circumstances.
So I sometimes...
I'm just trying to make sure I don't go through my life where everybody's a projection of what happened to me.
Just sort of being in this moment instead of this network executive is my dad and this, you know, the guy that runs this comedy club is my mom.
You know, we sort of...
Our brains go, I know what this is.
And then we start doing our old behaviors, our, you know, the sort of...
You know, protection mechanisms that we developed.
And horses are actually helping me the most with it, but dogs help too.
joe rogan
Wow.
You know, for me, it doesn't really happen anymore, but when I was younger, places and people that I knew when I was a loser would make me feel like I was a loser again.
whitney cummings
Of course, you just time travel back, and all of a sudden you're eight years old.
joe rogan
I'm still a loser.
I gotta get away from you!
whitney cummings
I mean, it's just, it's so...
And I'm working on, you know, I think there's a lot of advantages to being hypersensitive.
I think that's probably what we're good at, what we do for a living.
We make observations.
We have to be sensitive.
We, comedians, the idea is to see things that no one else sees.
But I find myself struggling a lot as I, you know, do what I do for a living when I deal with ostensible authority figures, recreating my childhood circumstances.
And I also had, and I'm interested in your opinion or view on this, is...
I mean, I have a very real addiction to adrenaline.
And it doesn't manifest in, you know, MMA or the kind of adrenaline that you experience and see.
But I had epigenetic imprinting, like, which is when in the womb, your mom has a lot of stress, cortisol and adrenaline, the baby gets addicted to it.
So just like crack or anything, we can be addicted to neurochemicals.
So from a very early age, I had a really high tolerance for adrenaline.
And I find myself or found myself not so much anymore, like, How do they prove that that's what happens to the child?
joe rogan
Because I would assume that how much of it would just be genetic and how much of it would be circumstantial and how do you prove that while this woman's under stress in the womb because I think you would have to because one thing you realize when you do have children is that every kid is different But every pregnancy is probably different.
whitney cummings
I'm sure.
Because the first one, the mom is probably like, I've never done this before.
The second one, they're like, I got this.
By the third one, they don't even give a shit.
They hardly...
unidentified
You and the MCT. They just drink some MCT and knock it out.
joe rogan
Lube up the box, push it out, just give it a slap.
Send it on its way.
whitney cummings
Dad of the year, Joe Rogan.
joe rogan
Hashtag Stop the Pussy.
whitney cummings
I know exactly!
joe rogan
Yeah, I just, I think that there's most certainly got to be some way that nature prepares the human for the circumstances it's going to face as a child.
whitney cummings
Totally.
joe rogan
Michael Irvin was the first one to explain this to me.
You know the football player?
whitney cummings
I tried.
I try to stay away from football players.
joe rogan
He's a super nice guy.
whitney cummings
I'm joking.
joe rogan
But he and I were on a flight once, just randomly, to Australia.
It's one of those crazy 14-hour flights, you know?
And we talked for a long time about this.
Because he's a big UFC fan.
We just started talking about people that grow up in bad neighborhoods and children that grow up in abusive households.
That you develop this penchant for violence.
Like very early on.
Like an addiction to violence.
And then also he was saying that their trigger is so much...
Like their wick, their fuse is so much shorter than the average person.
It's just like you have to be prepared easily.
unidentified
Like...
joe rogan
Right away, you gotta be prepared to go crazy.
Whereas someone who grows up in a really happy, healthy environment where mom's on Xanax, everybody's fine.
And then you can't get going.
So I wonder what's better.
Is it better to be hypersensitive and hyper-fueled and always ready to sprint and then figure out how to calm yourself?
Or is it better to be just some dough ball with no instincts at all that has to toughen up?
whitney cummings
I mean, I think that the answer is probably somewhere in between, and the idea is to be able to react to the circumstances you're in in an appropriate way.
So if you're in a dangerous situation, to be able to go zero to 60 and defend yourself.
But if you're not in a dangerous situation, to know that and to stop shadowboxing in a safe situation.
So for me, I found myself, I grew up in a dangerous situation.
I was always at war.
The war was over, and I continued to fight a war that wasn't happening.
joe rogan
You're like one of those guys that was in World War II and they find him on some island outside of Japan and he doesn't know the war's over.
whitney cummings
Just like covered in armor, you know.
joe rogan
I read about this guy that was on an island.
He was on an island.
He didn't know the war was over.
He's a Japanese guy.
whitney cummings
Wow.
joe rogan
He didn't know the war was over for 30 years.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was literally Tom Hanks-ing it on this island.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
Maybe 20 years.
That's unbelievable.
30 or 20. I think it was 30. That's how a lot of people that grow up in dysfunctional homes sort of live.
And I'm done taking it out on employees, employers, boyfriends, friends.
It's not fair to them.
You know, one of the first things I heard in the 12-step program I'm in is this guy said, he was leading the meeting, he was like, the war is over, you lost.
Which is just so great.
You know, it's like time to put the weapons down and start living.
It's really just being appropriate.
So if you and I, you know, are in a relationship and you're like, hey, I got to step out and go do my podcast and I start feeling abandoned and scared, that has nothing to do with you.
joe rogan
That gets weird.
whitney cummings
It's not fair to you.
joe rogan
I've had friends like that before.
whitney cummings
Yeah, or relationships or whatever.
It's like, I'm going to react to the present moment instead of what happened to me 20 years ago.
I don't want to be a puppet of my parents' failures.
And I'm just trying to figure out a way.
So there are situations where you might have to go zero to 60 and fight for yourself, but knowing when those situations are actually happening and when they're not.
joe rogan
Yeah, I feel like it's better to be able to go zero to 60 really quick.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
And just manage it.
whitney cummings
And I know I can do that.
But in a conference room with three executives is not the time.
Right.
joe rogan
In my mind, it's never the time to be in a conference room with three executives.
whitney cummings
That's true.
joe rogan
When I'm there, I'm like, okay, let's get out of here.
Let's go.
This is all fake talk.
whitney cummings
But there's something.
What is that?
Is it because you're not getting adrenaline?
joe rogan
I'm scared to ever be them.
I'm scared to ever be locked into some cubicle existence.
whitney cummings
But you know on a conscious level you never will be.
joe rogan
I know on a conscious level I'll never be there, but I know they are.
whitney cummings
So is it an irrational fear?
joe rogan
I'm around people that are dying of syphilis.
They're right there.
They're rotting away.
They've got some Ebola or something.
They've got some economic Ebola.
whitney cummings
In our field, that's just called a law school degree.
joe rogan
There was a guy that used to live next door to me, and I used to call him Bling Bling, because all Bling Bling would do is talk about stuff.
That's all he could ever talk about.
Like, all this guy would do is talk about objects and new cars and new things and I got a new watch.
whitney cummings
That's threatening to you in some way.
joe rogan
No, he was retarded.
whitney cummings
It's just boring.
joe rogan
It's boring.
whitney cummings
So it's a lack of adrenaline.
joe rogan
Well, I knew that he was trapped.
And this guy was working, I think he was an attorney, I forget what he did, but all he was doing was working towards objects, getting new objects.
He had a nice house.
whitney cummings
Stuff.
joe rogan
He had a nice car, but he always wanted to talk about cars and objects and stuff.
whitney cummings
Sounds like he's in a lot of pain.
joe rogan
Well, you left his wife and then shit got real crazy.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
He was trying to get internal needs met with external things.
He was also probably trying to bond with you and he thought that was how.
joe rogan
Maybe.
That probably makes sense.
whitney cummings
He was probably just like, cars?
joe rogan
Hit a yellow viper.
whitney cummings
Like me, like me, like me.
Oh, that is depressing.
Is he Persian?
joe rogan
No, I don't think so.
unidentified
Who is this man?
joe rogan
I think he's Jewish.
whitney cummings
Is he single?
He sounds awesome.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's a good guy.
He's got a gut, but whatever.
unidentified
You work that off.
joe rogan
He's a fixer-upper.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I'll give him this Zevia.
joe rogan
Get him on some Fen-Fen.
I have some leftover from the 90s.
whitney cummings
I'm just going to give him some of that MCT oil and he'll shit his belly out.
joe rogan
Do you remember Fen-Fen?
Were you around during the Fen-Fen days?
whitney cummings
What's Fen-Fen?
joe rogan
Fen-Fen was some crazy shit that they were giving girls in the 1990s.
There was this one girl that I knew, and she was a very cute girl.
She had a beautiful face, but she had a food problem, you know, whatever the area is.
And she didn't weigh a lot.
I mean, she wasn't giant, but she was probably 5'2", 150 pounds.
whitney cummings
I'm not a mathlete, but I think I know where you're going.
joe rogan
Yeah, she was thick, but not in the right way.
whitney cummings
I got it.
joe rogan
Not in the right way.
whitney cummings
Disapportionate.
joe rogan
She ate too much.
whitney cummings
Got it.
joe rogan
She had a thick, wide belt.
Anyway, I didn't see her for a long time, and then I saw her, and she weighed 100 pounds.
I mean, literally.
She lost 50 pounds.
She was normal-sized.
I mean, not normal-sized.
whitney cummings
Well, in America, that's not normal.
joe rogan
She was thin and attractive.
I was like, what the fuck did you do?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And she's like, oh, my doctor got me on fen-fen.
And I was like, oh, okay.
unidentified
Phenylethyl?
joe rogan
I do not remember what the actual name of the...
whitney cummings
Because phenylethylamine is an adrenaline chemical.
Is it like an Adderall?
joe rogan
It's totally illegal now.
And people died.
A lot of people died.
Here it is.
Oh, F-E-N, not P-H-E-N. Fenfluramine, fentermine.
whitney cummings
I remember when like diet pills, like Dexatrim came out, which I definitely took when I was like 12. But what is that, just like caffeine or something?
joe rogan
No, this is way harder than caffeine.
Go to lasting damage from fenfen.
By the way, this is...
There's a lot of people that are on Adderall now.
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
And I'm not telling anybody to not be on Adderall, but I want you to listen to me.
Everybody who's on Adderall, everybody who's doctor told you you need to be on Adderall, you are on amphetamines.
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
You are on speed.
whitney cummings
Do not get it twisted.
joe rogan
Don't get it twisted.
And, you know, if you're taking, especially if you're taking it every day or three or four times a week.
whitney cummings
Then you're just going to develop a tolerance to it and then that just becomes an addiction.
joe rogan
You're on speed, folks.
And you might be okay with speed.
Look, you're talking to a guy who just squirted a bunch of MCT oil and some coffee.
whitney cummings
That's naturally occurring.
I mean, look, I have addiction in my DNA. If you know you don't, I mean, I would just explore that.
And also, I'm trying to look at not the things I can add, but the things I can subtract.
joe rogan
That's a good move.
whitney cummings
So instead of taking Adderall, why don't I just stop eating sugar and see what happens?
joe rogan
Maybe there's some beneficial aspects of Adderall to some people.
I'm willing to go there.
But you've got to understand, I know so many moms that are on fucking Adderall.
whitney cummings
That's shocking.
joe rogan
There's so many of them.
And they're around you and they're all like peppy.
whitney cummings
Well, it's so fascinating to me because the people I know who take the...
unidentified
They're like, can't stop moving.
whitney cummings
No, but everyone I know is complaining about anxiety, which I'm sort of fascinated by because I think that's kind of like...
You know, survival of the fittest.
We are the fittest.
And the most anxious won.
Because the most anxious people and tribes were the ones that survived because they knew lions were, you know.
joe rogan
I had to explain that to my daughter because my daughter was worried about some things.
And she was asking me some questions and she was worried about stuff.
And I said, do you know why you're worried about these things?
And I go, it's a good thing.
It's because you're smart and you're aware of danger and you're aware of the variables.
Yeah.
I go, you're going to be fine.
I go, but I'm like that too.
But I've just figured out how to manage it.
So I had to kind of explain it to her.
I'm like, you're just a smart little girl.
And you're aware, like, hey, there's a lot of fucking idiots out here.
And some of them are on there.
Like, she freaks out when she sees people texting and driving.
She's like, Dad, he's not looking at his car.
whitney cummings
It kills more people than drunk driving now.
She's right to be, you know.
It's just being anxious about that instead of something you can't control.
joe rogan
Well, then the little brain starts going, you know, she's eight.
How do you stop people from doing that?
What if they do that and what if they hit our car?
What if they hit somebody else's car and what happens then?
whitney cummings
Her and I are the same person.
Yeah.
And, you know, that makes adrenaline, which makes dopamine, and, you know, it sort of becomes a self-filling prophecy.
Our brains evolved to make anxiety feel good on some level, and it makes us feel safe.
joe rogan
So a lot of these crazy women that are the moms that she goes to school with, or her kids go to school with, Her friends, rather.
Their moms.
They're on fucking Xanax, too.
So they're on Xanax and they're on amphetamines.
whitney cummings
So delete both and you're at the same place.
joe rogan
But they want to stay...
This is the way to do it.
This is the way.
Stay happy.
You have to be on Xanax.
unidentified
Because Xanax keeps you from being scared.
And then Adderall keeps you peppy.
I get everything organized.
joe rogan
I'm so organized.
whitney cummings
If you can afford, time-wise and financially, to go to the appointment to get Xanax and Adderall, you have no actual problems.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
See, the thing is, they all want to go to doctors.
They go to doctors constantly.
Because you get this idea in your head that you're going to find this guy, and he's got a good job, and you're going to live in a nice community, and you're going to have children, and then you're going to be happy.
whitney cummings
Sounds like my nightmare.
joe rogan
You realize, like, oh, well, you're just breeding.
And then, you know, you have to find fulfillment in your actual existence.
Your day-to-day, here and now.
The moment, like this, the moment.
Like, right now.
You have to find fulfillment in that.
And it's not going to be in, like, Bling Bling's idea, where you get, like, I've got a boat now.
Look at my boat.
Now I've got a fucking this.
And I've got, look at my new watch.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
whitney cummings
Doesn't work.
joe rogan
No, it doesn't work.
And you keep trying to fill that hole up, and it never gets filled.
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
So these women start going to the doctor.
I've got anxiety.
And the doctor's like...
Here, take this.
whitney cummings
Anxiety is like opposable thumbs.
It's been very effective and useful in our history.
It's like this is the first time in our history that anxiety is not particularly useful because we have doors and locks and, you know, but yeah, there's an interesting...
I hear entitlement when I hear about that.
And look, I've definitely been like, I'm doing a show and I have to write a script and I'm going to take an...
I've definitely cheated and cut corners.
I'm not...
joe rogan
How's that, cheat and cut corners?
whitney cummings
I just mean when I'm like...
I have to finish a script in four hours.
I'm gonna take a half at Adderall.
I've definitely done it, but I know I have addiction in my DNA, and I know that could get real ugly real fast.
joe rogan
I've never done Adderall.
What is it like?
whitney cummings
Here's my experience.
I'm sure it's different with everybody.
My experience with Adderall is what I'm...
I'm not easily distracted.
I don't like when people diagnose themselves, I have ADD, I have OCD. It's like, if you had any of those things, you wouldn't be able to sit on a podcast for an hour and say it.
joe rogan
We'll get to that in a minute, but go ahead.
whitney cummings
No, what it does for me, and again, it could be a placebo effect.
So many of these things that we take, maybe with the exception of amphetamines, but certainly antidepressants and stuff, is taking it is part of why it works.
Just the act of putting it in your mouth and swallowing it.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
I think placebo effect is something like 58% or something.
Correct me on that because I'm probably wrong, please.
So for me, I find if I'm at my computer, because all these devices are all addictive too.
The color, the cortisol, the adrenaline.
So if I've got this device in front of me, I've got my computer and I'm writing, writing, writing, and this dings and I'm here and then I'm on Instagram and then there's a link and then all of a sudden I'm reading about the apocalypse.
Apocalypse.
joe rogan
Better check my email.
unidentified
It might be important.
whitney cummings
Exactly.
And then I'm in a fucking email thing with it's totally a net.
Ha ha.
Love you too.
See you soon.
See you soon.
And then I just can't end of an exchange.
And basically, when I've taken Adderall in the past, I just do one thing with more enthusiasm and it is less appealing to me to go do other things.
joe rogan
The other day I put my phone down to work out.
It worked out for an hour and a half.
I got done.
I had 37 texts.
whitney cummings
It's too many.
unidentified
But they were probably all from me and Nick Swartzen.
joe rogan
And Chris D'Elia.
There's one thread that Whitney and Nick Swartzen and Chris D'Elia, and we can't talk too much about this, but there's one thread.
whitney cummings
You realize that we also have our own thread without you when we worry we're bothering you too much?
joe rogan
Why are you bothering me?
whitney cummings
So that's not even all of our exchanges all day.
unidentified
Why are you bothering me?
whitney cummings
Well, because you'll respond, but then you won't respond for like two days.
joe rogan
Oh, you're like, oh, he's too busy.
whitney cummings
And we're like, Joe's an adult.
He has a family.
If his wife sees that he has 40 missed texts at midnight, this is bad for his marriage.
joe rogan
She does ask me.
whitney cummings
I'm sure she does!
joe rogan
Sometimes we're watching TV and she's like, who's texting you?
I'm a comedian!
whitney cummings
But it's like, why did Whitney just send you 40 texts?
Well, she also sent it to two other guys.
She's ruining everyone's relationship.
joe rogan
It's not a jealousy issue, but it is a...
It's like, we're a family.
This is family time.
whitney cummings
She's not wrong.
joe rogan
She's not wrong.
whitney cummings
And she also...
There's something interesting about sort of being on your phone with kids is the new being drunk on your phone.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
Because kids look at you and they think, oh, that device is more important than me.
unidentified
Oh.
whitney cummings
I must be a real piece of shit if daddy would rather look at that or mommy or whatever.
Yeah, there's an interesting that like cell phone uses the new alcoholism.
joe rogan
My little kid got a hold of Snapchat recently.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
She's been doing these Snapchat videos.
They're fucking hilarious.
unidentified
She's a star.
joe rogan
My six-year-old is hilarious.
She uses the filters so you don't see it's her, but she was Abraham Lincoln yesterday and then she became an evil snowball.
whitney cummings
Love it.
joe rogan
She's a little fucking character.
whitney cummings
But she doesn't post them?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
She just leaves them on my phone and sometimes I put them up on Instagram because they're so ridiculous.
whitney cummings
That's so cute.
joe rogan
Yesterday I started doing it.
whitney cummings
I mean, that's a slippery slope.
joe rogan
It's a slippery slope because they get addicted to those little things.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and it all makes, you know, adrenaline.
joe rogan
So going back to what you were saying, I don't think you're cheating because you take a half an Adderall to work on a script.
It's no different than me drinking coffee or smoking pot.
I smoke a lot of pot.
So if I smoke pot and write, did I cheat to write?
I mean, I don't know.
unidentified
Nope.
whitney cummings
I think it's just knowing, I mean, you said this earlier, like, knowing who you are and what your limitations are and what actually works for you and what starts being, you know, diminishing returns.
Like, I know if I smoke pot every night, it's not going to be as effective for me and I'm going to be groggy.
Like, I just, I have some restraint about it and some discipline.
Not on New Year's Eve.
That was different.
joe rogan
She sent me a picture from New Year's Eve where she looks, you look like someone sprayed you with a mist of sweat.
whitney cummings
I was literally...
So I had a...
And I'll tell you about this next time I come on, because I am writing about it in a book, and it's a long story.
But I had a surgery, and I don't do well on painkillers by some miracle, because genetically, my family loves painkillers, but I, for some reason, they make me really nauseous.
So...
And I was smoking weed instead, but I was also, like, I don't know what your take on this is, but my lungs were, I was like, getting out of breath.
And I was like, let me just do these edible things.
unidentified
Really?
whitney cummings
Yeah, because I was just like, I was in like a spin class or something, which sometimes I do just for like anger management.
unidentified
And...
I picture you fucking gritting your teeth.
joe rogan
Cracking your enamel.
unidentified
It's like just going, just slamming my vagina against...
In between recessions.
whitney cummings
I do like being, yeah, just totally, like, it's really hard on the lady bits that's spinning.
I can't do it too much.
joe rogan
I heard it's rough, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah, they slam it back.
unidentified
It's a hard seat.
whitney cummings
It's a hard seat, and you're slamming and tapping it back, but there is this one class that I really like, and I like the instructor, and I just kind of cry and release anger and stuff, and it's painful, and I'm...
unidentified
You cry?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Once you're sweaty, like, I can get away with a cry here?
whitney cummings
Usually, it's like, it's...
Yes, because there's something about, for me, when I feel a certain amount of emotional pain, it just, like, opens up some kind of...
Well of sadness that if I didn't cry it out, it's going to come out as anger another time, so I'd rather just release it in a healthy, private way and pay $38 in class.
joe rogan
It's $38 a class?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I think SoulCycle's like $38.
unidentified
Really?
whitney cummings
If you do it one at a time.
I do it in a package, so it's less.
joe rogan
That seems super expensive to ride a bike.
whitney cummings
It is.
It's a bunch of rich publicists.
Pretending they have a problem.
joe rogan
I was in Aspen, and it was during the winter, and they opened up a SoulCycle.
unidentified
I was just in Aspen.
Crazy.
whitney cummings
Yes, we're like soulmates.
joe rogan
I love it up there.
whitney cummings
I was at the, not Throckmorton Theater.
joe rogan
The Little Nell.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's where I stayed.
unidentified
That's where I stayed.
I was there two nights ago.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
whitney cummings
They have a festival there again now.
joe rogan
Oh, do they?
unidentified
A comedy festival?
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it was me and Nealon and Margaret.
When did they start doing that again?
I think this is the first year.
It was, what's the theater?
The Wheeler.
unidentified
I used to do it.
whitney cummings
The Wheeler Opera House.
unidentified
Yeah, I used to do it.
Yeah, I used to do it.
whitney cummings
Two nights ago.
joe rogan
I used to do that.
whitney cummings
I was sick the entire time.
joe rogan
It's hard with that oxygen up there.
It's like 8,000 feet above sea level or 7,000 feet.
whitney cummings
It can't be healthy.
joe rogan
Well, I think it is eventually, but not originally.
Not initially.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But what was my point?
whitney cummings
You were in Aspen.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And we...
joe rogan
SoulCycle!
whitney cummings
SoulCycle!
You were spinning to not spin in Aspen.
joe rogan
I didn't spin.
whitney cummings
The best shape I've ever been in was when I was in Aspen for like a week and I worked out every day.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, for sure.
Well, that's why fighters go up to Big Bear.
whitney cummings
And train, right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And like Steamboat Springs, maybe, or Utah.
joe rogan
Anywhere it's above.
In Colorado, they all do it.
Denver, there's a Team Elevate that competes up there.
Right.
whitney cummings
Is it twice as much?
Like if you work out 20 minutes, does that equal the 40 minutes?
It's not that it equals.
joe rogan
Honestly, the way they think you're supposed to do it now, they think you're supposed to actually train at sea level and then sleep and live at altitude.
So if you could live at the base of Big Bear and then drive up to Big Bear to get your workouts in and then drive down to live and sleep.
Because the idea is, or the opposite, yeah, drive down to get your workouts and drive back up to live and sleep.
Because they think that you get more work output in sea level.
whitney cummings
Because you're not going to tire.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
But then your body recovers and you acclimate to having a higher threshold.
You develop more red blood cells, the whole deal.
But anyway, they had spin classes up there, SoulCycle, and they only opened it up for like a month.
They just rented a place for a month for SoulCycle during peak ski season.
whitney cummings
Oh, like a, what is it called?
When a store just opens for a month, like a pop-up.
joe rogan
Like, you know how they do those Halloween stores when a place closes down?
whitney cummings
Yes, yes.
Yeah, or like a Christmas store.
joe rogan
They just brought in a bunch of fucking cycles and set up a soul cycle.
I mean, they might have been doing it to test the waters.
Because Aspen has so much fucking money.
It's so crazy.
Every other car is a Range Rover.
whitney cummings
I was shocked.
It's really just rich alcoholics.
joe rogan
It is a lot of rich boozers.
whitney cummings
It was just like people in minks drinking Makers at 2 p.m.
I was shocked because my flight got canceled and I had to stay for the day.
unidentified
If I was a high-end hooker, that's where I would go.
whitney cummings
When I am a high-end hooker, that's where I'm going.
joe rogan
SoulCycle Aspen's pop-up.
whitney cummings
There it is.
joe rogan
Let's you spin in 8,000 feet.
Is that what it is?
They call it a pop-up?
unidentified
That's what it is?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I don't know your take on spinning.
My chiropractor says he is going to retire on the money that he gets from spinning injuries.
He's literally like, people doing yoga and spinning is how I pay my bills.
Well, a lot of people do it improperly and mess up their shoulders real bad and their lower backs.
Doing all those downward dogs.
joe rogan
If you mess up your shoulders from yoga, jump off a fucking building.
Seriously, you pussy.
unidentified
You know that I broke my shoulder.
That's what takes you out.
joe rogan
How'd you break your shoulder?
whitney cummings
Not playing.
joe rogan
Downward dog.
whitney cummings
Trying to snowboard.
Yeah, doing yoga.
unidentified
God damn it.
joe rogan
Well, snowboarding makes sense.
whitney cummings
Yeah, no.
It's more like people Want to do yoga for exercise like these type a people want yoga to burn 9,000 calories and get them like a huge ass But that's not really what yoga is designed to do so these new yoga classes that are like acro yoga yoga, hot, intense, and you're too loose and you're trying to do things that you have no business to.
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of push-ups and weird positions where you're on one shoulder.
Yeah, I don't do that kind of yoga.
whitney cummings
And unless you're doing it perfectly, you're going to injure yourself.
Unless you have a one-on-one instructor, you're going to injure yourself.
joe rogan
I do Bikram's hot yoga.
whitney cummings
Just to stretch.
joe rogan
I do it for my stretching, flexibility, my spine in particular.
Spine strengthening.
whitney cummings
But you don't go to yoga to get glutes.
joe rogan
No.
You do it to stretch.
I think you've got to balance even that.
whitney cummings
Pick a lane.
unidentified
You don't get both.
joe rogan
I think you've got to be real careful with those combinatory type movements.
whitney cummings
Yeah, so for me, spinning is really just to get out anger and push myself.
joe rogan
Even CrossFit.
I think CrossFit can be very dangerous because there's a lot of people that do CrossFit and they don't really have perfect technique and they do it to failure and you're doing these incredibly high repetitions of power moves.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
You know, like, which Steve Maxwell, who's a real world-famous strength and conditioning coach, he's like, that's, he's like power moves, like cleans and presses.
You're supposed to do low repetition for them.
They're supposed to generate extreme force.
Even lower.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Pavel Tatsulin, who's like the godfather of kettlebells in America, he brought him over from Russia, he believes you shouldn't do anything more than five repetitions, no matter what you do.
whitney cummings
So what is this?
Is this because CrossFit attracts such a type A, overachiever type of person, that the desire for overachieving supersedes the logic of what actually is effective?
joe rogan
Well, there's a philosophy behind it, and I think that philosophy can be effective for some people.
And I'm very hypocritical if I say don't do something that causes injuries because I've had a ton of surgeries from martial arts and injuries from jujitsu.
whitney cummings
But was it like a collision injury or was it just an overtime stress?
joe rogan
Injuries from knees getting yanked and twisted, shoulders getting popped out of sockets.
whitney cummings
But you didn't get it from working out.
joe rogan
Well, I got it from sparring.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but being in action.
joe rogan
Yeah, in action.
whitney cummings
I just feel like it's crazy.
I mean, not crazy.
I'm not an athlete, but to get injured while you're practicing.
While you're in the thing, you can't necessarily control that.
joe rogan
CrossFit competitions are particularly scary to me because there was one video of this guy who owned a CrossFit gym and he was involved in a competition and he was doing these clean presses and his body literally gave out and he dropped the weight on the back of his neck and now he's paralyzed from the rest of his life.
And there's a video of it and it's horrific to watch.
whitney cummings
Someone sent me one where someone's anal sphincter came out.
joe rogan
I saw that one.
whitney cummings
He was lifting weights.
Is this your hobby?
Is there not...
joe rogan
Well, he set some goals, and he really wanted to achieve them, and that goal is to blow his asshole out like an old sock.
unidentified
How do you come back from that?
joe rogan
Stitches, painkillers, time.
Probably steroids.
whitney cummings
You know what?
He's allowed to take Adderall.
We rescind our judgment around that.
joe rogan
Yeah, he should take everything.
whitney cummings
Yeah, he's allowed to take Xanax.
I mean, our country is so over-medicated, it's terrifying.
joe rogan
It is terrifying.
It is terrifying.
Well, you really see it, like I said, in these housewife communities, or sleepy, what do they call them, bedroom communities.
Where I go is where white people go to breed, and that's where I live.
whitney cummings
Or raise their offspring.
joe rogan
Yeah, they raise their kids out there, and there's a lot of these people that just become medicated.
Men and women.
I mean, I talk to the women more than I talk to the men, but I know a lot of men that are medicated.
They're on Adderall and shit.
The late, great Robert Schimmel, who's a buddy of mine.
Love that guy.
unidentified
The greatest.
joe rogan
He accidentally took an Adderall once.
He told me about it.
whitney cummings
I already love it.
joe rogan
He told me, I forget whose it was, but he grabbed a pill and he thought, you know, he had a heart condition.
whitney cummings
Oh, before the cancer?
joe rogan
Yeah, he had a bunch of different issues, and cancer, and I forget what the medication he thought it was, but he realized after taking it wasn't his, and then it was an Adderall, and he's like, oh, fuck.
So he called his doctor up, and he told his doctor, hey man, I fucked up, I thought it was this, but it's Adderall, like what...
What do I do?
whitney cummings
Go clean your house.
joe rogan
And the doctor said, you're going to be fine.
He goes, you're going to be fine.
It's going to take about X amount of hours to wear off.
But don't worry.
With that dose and your body and your body weight, you're going to be fine.
So don't worry about it.
And he said, I went over all my notes.
He said, I started organizing all of my comedy notes.
And he goes, I got so much work done.
whitney cummings
Work done.
It's unbelievable how prolific you are, but it starts to backfire.
So I remember when I was like, this is working, I kept doing it, and then the aftermath was like, I couldn't fall asleep that night, and then I was even more tired the next day, which meant I needed to take more.
It just becomes an addiction, and it stops being that effective if you overuse it.
joe rogan
Tate Fletcher put something on his Instagram today about the strongest cup of coffee in the world, and it's from Australia.
They made this cup of coffee that you're supposed to sip over the course of three to four hours, and it is half a lethal dose.
whitney cummings
Like Four Loko or something?
Remember that?
joe rogan
Yeah, Four Loko, though, was like...
whitney cummings
I have taken out it all.
unidentified
Here it is.
joe rogan
The strongest coffee.
Look at what it says there.
The world's strongest cup of coffee is outrageously caffeinated.
It contains 80 times the amount of caffeine in a single cup.
unidentified
Upsetting.
joe rogan
It's called the Ass Kicker Coffee.
It's sold at the Vicious Cafe in Australia.
So what's in it?
It has four shots of espresso, eight ice cubes of cold brew, and a half a cup of 10-day-old cold brew.
That adds up to half the amount of caffeine needed for a lethal dose.
Steve Bennington created the drink for a nurse completing a night shift.
whitney cummings
I don't want my nurse to be so tired.
joe rogan
It's meant to be sipped over three to four hours, and it took the nurse two days to finish the drink.
She stayed up for three days after she drank it.
She was seeing rabbits or fucking running around in pajamas in her house.
whitney cummings
She's just anesthetizing everyone.
I don't know.
I mean, look, it's my goal because I, by the time I was like 28 or 20, well, maybe it was, I noticed it when I was 31 because I froze my eggs when I was 31. And this is maybe when I noticed it, that at 31, I was on five medications.
joe rogan
Why you froze your eggs?
whitney cummings
Because when I froze my eggs, they put you on a thyroid medication for some reason.
I don't know why.
And I was on, I think, two antidepressants.
Birth control, of course, which makes me very crazy.
They had given me Adderall for when I needed it.
I had Lunesta to sleep, and I just was like...
I have more medications than someone in a nursing home.
This is crazy.
And for thousands of years, we've survived without all of these pills.
This can't be right.
And I just noticed this, and I don't know if it's what I do, but just this dismissive instead of, hey, learn to meditate or whatever.
Someone was like, here's a sleeping pill.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I found myself like restless, irritable and discontent and not actually getting quality sleep.
And I'm on antidepressant.
I don't even know.
I felt like a shell of a person, you know.
And so that's when I sort of started looking into all these medications.
And then, of course, I was on coffee and, you know, all this other stuff.
So my body chemistry was just bananas.
And I think that a lot of people, you know, I personally would like to sort of get to the root of it or get ahead of my pain.
So I'm not that housewife in 20 years who's just taking Xanax because I've got pain or can't deal with it.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Discomfort or anxiety like an adult.
joe rogan
Do you think you have pickled eggs?
Those eggs?
whitney cummings
My eggs are by the beach in Redondo.
They are doing just fine.
They're frozen somewhere, right?
Yeah, they're frozen somewhere.
joe rogan
Do you have like a locker?
Do you go visit them?
whitney cummings
I don't.
I'm a deadbeat mom.
I'm a terrible mother.
I'd never go see them.
joe rogan
I wouldn't trust that they were organized enough to make sure it's your eggs.
whitney cummings
If you don't think that is the main nightmare that I have...
You are crazy.
joe rogan
Why are my kids Chinese?
whitney cummings
I would love for that to happen, actually.
But yeah, I worry about that constantly.
I mean, with the Oscar mix-up last night.
joe rogan
I heard about that.
I didn't see it, but I heard about it.
whitney cummings
I mean, what if they mix up my eggs?
joe rogan
What happened?
They said someone won and then it turned out to be someone else?
whitney cummings
I didn't even see it.
Basically, Warren Beatty, they gave him an envelope.
Bless his heart.
I can't, and I'm so hard.
joe rogan
Can you not read anymore?
whitney cummings
No, they gave him the wrong envelope.
Warren Beatty has done nothing except be a classy legend.
joe rogan
So is this like the Steve Harvey thing?
whitney cummings
Yes, exactly.
joe rogan
The same thing?
whitney cummings
Same thing.
All the memes are comparing them, basically.
unidentified
That's hilarious.
whitney cummings
Like, you know, Warren Beatty's a new Steve Harvey.
Or Warren Beatty's a brilliant legend and Steve Harvey is a silly talk show host.
But yeah, he got the envelope for best actress and he just saw La La Land and said best...
And the entire cast of La La Land went up on stage.
And then they had to go, oh, actually, it's Moonlight.
And then one of the producers of La La Land was a total class acting gentleman and was like, Moonlight won.
And then Moonlight had to come up.
It was madness.
It was like the Super Bowl stress level.
joe rogan
I fucking hate those contests.
Me too.
I really do.
I don't have a dog in the game.
What's the expression?
whitney cummings
Dog in the fight.
joe rogan
Dog in the fight.
I don't have a dog in the fight, but I hate those.
I hate award shows for art.
They seem so pretentious.
whitney cummings
Have you not already won?
You've all won.
You have millions of dollars.
joe rogan
You're movie stars.
whitney cummings
Well, I think for me, especially with the political climate when people go up and make political speeches, it's like, okay, how much did you donate this year?
Like, what do you really do?
Like, you know, just making all these speeches and talking the talk.
I hope everyone's also walking the walk and, you know, authentic that way.
joe rogan
I don't know.
It's so loaded.
whitney cummings
There's something anesthetic about it for people, I think.
There's, look at the silly monkey, like the diversion of dresses and necklaces and makeup and actresses.
You know, I think humans, we have probably an inherent need for that sort of diversion, that sort of vapid...
Let's talk about dresses instead of what's really going on.
joe rogan
And there's always a ribbon du jour that you're supposed to wear.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
What was the ribbon they had to wear last night?
It wasn't a blue ribbon.
whitney cummings
What was it for?
joe rogan
What's the blue ribbon for?
ACLU. ACLU? I thought it was for the iceberg that was breaking off.
I was like, maybe they're worried about that giant iceberg the size of Manhattan that's about to fucking...
whitney cummings
Yeah, I know.
It's just there's so many, you know, and I just get frustrated sometimes.
I mean, your listeners are not the ones because your listeners seem to all be seekers of...
joe rogan
Oh, who the fuck knows?
It's like saying all girls or all boys.
You know, my listeners are...
There's a bunch of knuckleheads out there as well as smart people.
whitney cummings
Anyone that listens to you is smart, I think, or at least aspires to be.
joe rogan
There's a guy right now going, what?
whitney cummings
I believe in you guys.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
She doesn't know me.
unidentified
Fuck this bitch.
Fuck this cunt.
Where's Kendall Jones who runs lions in thongs?
joe rogan
Yeah, this should be lion hunting porn.
You shoot a lion and you fuck right on top of his body.
whitney cummings
I feel like that would do well to someone very desensitized.
I mean, that's what it's coming to, I guess, these days.
Hashtag Reddit.
But yeah, I'm sure humans have a need to just sort of disassociate with pictures of dresses.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think there's definitely some of that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's definitely the pageantry.
People love when people dress up in all their best and they walk the red carpet.
whitney cummings
People also love watching people lose.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Trying to keep it together.
joe rogan
Look at that fake cloud.
whitney cummings
Yeah, look.
Oh, she's not even happy for her.
It's like, well, what?
No matter what she does, you're going to project your shit onto this.
joe rogan
You know what I do?
I do secretly, not so secretly enjoy.
whitney cummings
What?
joe rogan
I do enjoy watching people as they get older who are clearly fucking crazy keep it together less and less.
Nicole Kidman was clapping like the Grinch last night.
whitney cummings
Like that lobster.
joe rogan
Yes.
She was clapping like the Grinch.
whitney cummings
I mean, I don't know what that is.
I don't clap a lot because we're comics.
We don't go to shows.
I don't even- I clap.
How do you clap?
joe rogan
Well, you have to clap if you have a daughter that's in a play.
whitney cummings
Oh, constantly.
But aren't you all just filming the whole time?
joe rogan
No.
I clap.
My wife films.
I clap.
whitney cummings
I'm not a good clapper either.
joe rogan
I do it after sex.
unidentified
Good job.
Good job.
Yay.
whitney cummings
Found it out.
joe rogan
Look at her.
unidentified
Look at her.
No, wait.
joe rogan
Look at this.
whitney cummings
She also has...
She's comically willowy.
I mean, she does...
Are her nails wet?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
There's something crazy going on.
whitney cummings
It's like carpal tunnel.
joe rogan
She's pulling her hands way back, too.
whitney cummings
She's doing too much Bikram.
That's not good for your joints.
I am hypermobile.
Do you know about hypermobility?
This is a thing.
So it's a lot of Western European trash genetics that we use our joints instead of our muscles when we move and walk and do things.
And I got this thing called costcochondritis.
I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
It's basically when your cartilage inflames and it was in my chest.
It's like a relative of plural C, basically.
And I did have pneumonia and didn't treat it, but I had so much stress in my back that the cartilage or my ribs started rubbing, I guess, against each other.
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
And I went to this rheumatologist who was like, oh, you're hypermobile, which means you don't walk with your muscles, you walk with your joints.
That's where all of the impact goes, and you need to relearn how to walk.
joe rogan
So you need to cushion yourself with your muscles?
whitney cummings
You're not using...
joe rogan
Decelerate with your muscles?
whitney cummings
Yeah, you're basically...
I walked just like a...
unidentified
Monster?
Like a zombie?
joe rogan
You're a zombie.
whitney cummings
I walked like a monster.
I'm like one of the zombies in the beginning of the thriller video.
Oh, right.
joe rogan
Yeah, like everything's all wonky?
whitney cummings
And I was like, so that's where all, and that's how, he's like, that's why people when they're 55 have non-collision injuries.
That's why you hear about people who like sneeze and throw their back out.
It's just there's so much impact over so much amount of time.
I had to go to a Pilates instructor who specializes in this, and I was just like, had to hold a rubber band and like walk.
Like, it was so boring that I just stopped going.
joe rogan
This podcast is going to be really fun to listen to dumb people's interpretations when they remember everything poorly.
Kendall Jenner killed a lion and she can't walk right.
whitney cummings
She clapped a lion to death.
joe rogan
Dude, she's definitely on Adderall.
I remember.
whitney cummings
I would like to hear the recap of this podcast.
She clapped a lion to death.
joe rogan
There's something about the Botox in her face.
It reached its way to her fingertips and she couldn't clap anymore.
whitney cummings
She was shitting out so much MCT oil that she actually couldn't even clap.
joe rogan
There is something going on with Nicole Kidman's face too.
She's definitely shooting some stuff in her face.
She's got some weird sort of frozen appearance thing going on.
whitney cummings
It's weird to me because people accuse me of having work done.
And do you see in my forehead I have wrinkles?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
So that's sort of how you know.
If someone has wrinkles there, they haven't had Botox.
But when people say I had work done, I just try to take it as a compliment.
joe rogan
Well, they just assume.
Everybody gets work done.
That's just an assumption thing, right?
whitney cummings
Here's what a doctor said to me, because I said to a doctor...
I had really bad under-eye bags when I was doing a TV show.
Like, bad.
Like, I looked like Steve Buscemi.
joe rogan
Because you just weren't sleeping?
whitney cummings
I wasn't sleeping, and I was not eating well, I wasn't hydrated, and it was too much salt.
And genetically, again, my genetics are a disaster, and my mom, everybody has it.
It's fat.
I mean, it's not really something.
Ice, sleep, nothing helped.
So I went to a bunch of doctors and their solution is they were like well, we can put filler They called it that one guy called it a pillar like we build a pillar to fill it in and I was like no I'm a comedian I can't just get a new face like I I can't do the Joan Rivers thing like it's just not the carrot top or whatever and and basically He explained to me, I was like, I can't have bad work.
I can't, like, this is not good.
Work is so obvious.
And he said something interesting, what you just said.
He was like, you only notice the bad work.
He was like, everybody gets it done, but the good work you don't notice.
joe rogan
Don't say everybody.
whitney cummings
Well, I mean, that's sort of what he, yeah, totally, which he was probably just manipulating me, but I didn't end up doing it.
joe rogan
Everybody puts it in their ass.
whitney cummings
But this is...
unidentified
They still talk about it.
whitney cummings
Literally, I know, I'm talking like a rapist trying to control someone.
But he explained to me because I was like, everybody just kind of looks like swollen.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They look like they've been punched in the cheek.
whitney cummings
But that's what happens when you get filler.
You have to build everything out.
It becomes whack-a-mole.
If you do this, you got to do this.
If you do this, you got to, you know.
So once you start, there's no going back.
And I'm actually noticing it in men a little bit, too.
joe rogan
Ooh, that's good.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Yeah, that's gay.
But why is that like the, you know, I feel like HGH is like the male version of Botox.
You know, guys do like that sort of thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, but HGH is just something that puts your body's hormones to the same level it was when you were younger.
It's not like filling your face.
But you get cut, you know?
Yeah, your metabolism increases.
whitney cummings
Women are valued by this, men are sort of valued by their brute, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, so when a guy starts Botoxing his face, like, I've met guys before and their forehead doesn't move, I'm like, what's going on with your forehead, bro?
whitney cummings
That's how you know.
Yeah, so you have wrinkles, I have wrinkles.
joe rogan
It gets shiny.
whitney cummings
Well, I'm shiny!
joe rogan
Yeah, but it gets a weird shiny.
whitney cummings
But you know what else that is?
Like, it's dead.
Like, it's just a MCT-covered wax figure.
joe rogan
It just looks weird, like it's pulled and...
whitney cummings
Yeah, because that's a couple things I found out.
So I am like shiny, but I also put like oil all over my face and sunscreen.
joe rogan
Well, that's good.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
And so I'm always like, you know, but because I think that's like preventative and but lasering your face.
What happens when you laser your face?
Because I was like, oh, I'll just do laser to prevent it.
And I had a lot of like sun damage.
But what that does is it removes the hairs on your face.
And then that's why it gets so shiny.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, that makes sense.
So we have like microscopic little hairs.
whitney cummings
Yeah, little peach fuzz, which is what deflects the light.
And when you don't have that, you get shiny.
So my dermatologist was like, we should slow down on the laser because you're going to look like a wax figure.
And I'm already pushing it.
But I have oily skin.
joe rogan
Well, the laser is like, is it similar to like, they say that women get more wrinkles around their face than men because men exfoliate when they shave.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I've never thought about that.
Maybe that's why I don't have wrinkles.
joe rogan
I shave every morning.
Men get less lines around their lips and around the corners of their mouth.
whitney cummings
They don't have to fake laugh as much as we do.
unidentified
They don't have to giggle at bars all the time.
That's so true.
joe rogan
Why is that a thing where men like women to laugh at them?
Isn't that odd?
whitney cummings
Well, it's feedback.
It's feedback.
joe rogan
But the other way, it's not like a lot of men laugh at women.
whitney cummings
No.
It's making a guy laugh as an act of aggression.
unidentified
Whoa.
whitney cummings
It's a competitive...
Is it?
joe rogan
Oh, it's competitive.
whitney cummings
First stone thrown.
For me, if I'm...
Well, I already have guys, so I've been on this online dating app.
Another one?
joe rogan
Is this the one for famous people?
You told me you were on one.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's that one.
joe rogan
That one?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
It's not just famous people.
You can also get on there if you're rich or...
joe rogan
You have to be like a certain...
whitney cummings
They have an approval board.
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
Yeah, they have like an approval committee.
joe rogan
Oh, get the fuck out of here.
Who's on the approval committee?
Bunch of losers?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
But it's an interesting gaggle of monsters.
But I find there's something very fascinating, and you can probably answer this.
Guys are so mean with their openers to me.
Like, they're like, oh, so you think you're funny, huh?
Like, that's instead of like, hey, nice to match with you.
It's like usually an aggressive...
Quip.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, those guys block them.
whitney cummings
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, right away.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and guys being nice.
But I definitely like being funny.
Well, I mean, think about it.
It's like, you know, I'm always fascinated by non-physical forms of aggression.
Like eye contact is a form of aggression.
And a lot of like, if you walked into a bar and made eye contact with a guy for more than 10 seconds, he'd be like, oh, I mean, not just because you're Joe Rogan, but if you were anyone, like eye contact is like...
joe rogan
Well, without saying something.
whitney cummings
Yes, yes, exactly.
joe rogan
Like, hey, how you doing, man?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you do that, he's like, hey, what's up?
And then everything's cool.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Are we going to fight or fuck?
There's something...
joe rogan
Established tone.
whitney cummings
Eye contact is fascinating.
You know, breakdancing.
I was obsessed with breakdancing for a long time.
joe rogan
Can you pop and lock?
What?
whitney cummings
I cannot pop or lock.
joe rogan
But you just were into guys who could do it?
whitney cummings
I'm hypermobile.
My knees lock all the time, but by accident.
I wanted to make a documentary.
I started making it in college, and I would go to these breakdancing competitions in the Bronx, and I was fascinated by when there's breakdance battles, if violence goes down in the area, kind of like what we were talking about earlier today.
This has not been a day-long podcast.
What are substitutes for violence?
Are they get the same needs met that violence Gives us, right?
Competition.
And breakdancing is one of them.
Rap battles is one of them.
And I think comedy is one of them.
So if comedy and a lot of my stand-up comes from a place of self-defense, and the implication is you're my attacker, so I think that I probably like, you know, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
joe rogan
See, I always imagine that your kind of comedy comes from you being forced to analyze your surroundings.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that is true.
joe rogan
Then you've had to make light of distressing, almost like gallows humor.
whitney cummings
Yes, that is true, but I did the roasts for a while, and that is an aggressive form of attack.
joe rogan
You roast battled?
whitney cummings
I did not do the Rose Battle.
I was a judge on one of the ones this year, but I used to do just the Rose.
joe rogan
You were a judge on the Comedy Central one and we were fucking howling because we were in the Comedians Bar at the Comedy Store and you were that young girl, Olivia...
whitney cummings
I love her.
joe rogan
She's really funny.
whitney cummings
She's great.
joe rogan
She's fucking really funny.
whitney cummings
Olivia something.
unidentified
She's great.
joe rogan
Yeah, and you were going on about her being brave and overcoming trauma and this and that.
And we're like, Jesus Christ, Whitney, she can't help but psychologically analyze this young lady.
whitney cummings
Well, here's the thing, because Rose Battle is so interesting to me, because when people aren't famous, you just have to attack their personal life.
And she was on the one that I did recently, the taped one, and everyone was like, Olivia's been raped by a black guy.
And I was just like, are we just all going to pretend?
I mean, because, you know, comedy is our anesthesia and we make jokes to deflect and to not have to really deal with it.
But I was just like, don't get it twisted.
Like, you're going to have to deal with being raped one day.
Like, we're all laughing and you're going to get a paycheck at the end of this?
joe rogan
Is that like an open thing?
Is She talked about it or something?
whitney cummings
It was on the taping I went to.
And then it was like, you know, Mark's brother has autism and committed suicide.
unidentified
Joke, joke, joke.
whitney cummings
And I was just like, this is too brutal.
This is too brutal for me.
Because I know the mental ramifications of this kind of pain.
And we're all just pretending like this person isn't in a tremendous amount of pain.
joe rogan
And she's like 20, right?
unidentified
Literally, she's 20. I met her when she was 17. Crazy.
joe rogan
She came to the improv in Brea.
whitney cummings
She's a beast.
Well, that's worse than being raised by.
I mean, she had even more trauma than I thought.
joe rogan
She was out there for something.
I forget what she was out there for.
whitney cummings
No, I reached out to her, and I was like, look.
joe rogan
She's fucking funny.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and then in, I think, Montreal or something, she fell off the stage, and it ripped her calf open, and then she did the roast battle the next night in a wheelchair.
unidentified
Oh!
whitney cummings
Yeah, she's a warrior, but I, as someone who, I'm not comparing my experience to her, but someone who was 20, who started doing comedy, who joked about my pain, that shit caught up with me.
You can try to outrun it.
Laughs don't, the same way watches don't fix it, and cars don't fix it, laughs don't fix it either.
joe rogan
Freddie Prinze and yourself.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it doesn't work, and neither does money.
joe rogan
Yeah, isn't that funny?
You know, it's like when you laugh at pain, and then it just becomes a joke, the pain is still there.
It's like you didn't kill it with laughter.
You just sort of like...
It's like throwing a bunch of gauze bandages over a swimming pool.
whitney cummings
That's exactly what it is.
joe rogan
There's no pool here!
whitney cummings
A swimming pool full of blood and...
But it is a temporary way, I think, to get your power back over your damage, or is to alchemize it or sublimate it into something lucrative or positive.
Like, my negative experience kind of paid for my house.
But there's a certain point, and I'm fascinated, like, you know, because I personally think, I mean, I can't speak for every field, but in our field in particular, I think we've lost a couple too many comedians to suicide that just kind of come out of nowhere.
And everyone's like, how did that happen?
It's like, How do you think?
You heard him every night on the stage.
Why is this so shocking to us?
So, you know, I think it just, you know, it's not my business necessarily, but whenever I see a young comic, I'm just like, let me know if you ever want to talk about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, that's very nice of you.
Now it makes sense, because I didn't see that.
I walked into the bar right when they had finished and you were dissecting.
I'm like, Whitney's fucking hilarious.
She can't help but psychologically analyze these people.
whitney cummings
Well, that's like me in porn.
I can't enjoy porn because I'm too worried about the girl and why she's doing it in comedy.
When she's talking about getting raped, I'm just like, should we call a helpline?
joe rogan
I remember I read a story about a guy who was in porn that I'd seen in a bunch of porn films that blew his brains out.
And I was like, whoa.
I'm like, even the guys.
whitney cummings
It's fascinating.
joe rogan
Because a lot of these people that get involved in porn, it's like they came here to be an actor and it didn't work out.
And then somewhere along the line, someone said, look, you make $2,000 to fuck.
And they went, all right, I'm in.
And then back then, they really could make a lot of money doing porn.
Yeah.
Now, it's even stranger because the money went away.
There was a guy who was a porn star, and he was producing films, and he lived a few doors down from me.
And I was like, wow, this guy's ballin'.
He's ballin' from porn.
And then the internet came along, and you know how the internet crippled A lot of industries, and people cared.
Like, people cared about the internet crippling the record industry.
Like, it was a big deal.
The Napster issue was a big deal.
whitney cummings
Yeah, yeah, I remember.
joe rogan
Nobody gave a fuck about porn.
And it's a very strange thing.
It's like our shame in watching other people have sex, it transferred over to commerce.
Like, the actual commerce of porn, which is totally legal, was completely and totally ignored.
That industry essentially vanished and had to regroup and refigure itself out.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't understand the economics of it.
I've never really looked into it, but I know that they don't have DVD sales anymore.
It's kind of gone.
whitney cummings
And there's also something psychologically really annihilating about being seen and then not being seen.
You know, it's like, I mean, I... Spencer and Heidi?
Yeah, like, totally.
And how you self-destruct after you, you know, humans, we don't like things being taken away from us, but especially being seen, and we feel safe or dopamine or whatever it is from being seen, and then we're not seen anymore.
And porn is probably the most insidious in a way, because, like, I mean, I even find myself, and I'm not as famous as you, I'm not, like, but when I don't know if people know me or not, I get, I feel really unsafe.
So, if I'm...
joe rogan
In what way?
whitney cummings
Like, if I'm sitting next to someone on a plane, and this happens, you know, kind of a lot, and I'm like, okay, cool, he doesn't recognize me, I change my hair color, you know, a lot of people don't recognize me now, and we're cool, and I'm doing this, and I'm, like, doing my dumb, writing my dick jokes, and I'm picking my nose, or doing whatever I'm doing, and at the end of the flight, he's like, I just want to let you know I'm a big fan.
And I'm like, wait, I thought we had an agreement that we were just strangers and now you've completely betrayed.
And then I just get into this weird Hitchcock paranoia of who knows me, who doesn't.
And that's my codependence.
I have to be able to behave in an authentic way whether people recognize me or not.
But it's just sort of this creepy feeling.
And I imagine doing porn because way Many more people watch porn than watch anything I've ever done.
So I'd imagine so many people recognize that guy, but would never say anything.
It's just this weird, like, secret...
I don't know, it feels like a very pernicious existence, like, not knowing who knows you and who doesn't, and everyone pretending they don't know you.
I mean, if you're...
I have, like, a lot of people come up to me, and this is always very, like, weird...
Guys will come up to me, they'll be like, hey, hey, hey, hey!
I don't know who you are, but my girlfriend loves you, so can we get a photo?
joe rogan
They're just being dicky to you?
whitney cummings
Now you're just hurting my...
What's happening?
Or when people are like, so what do you do?
I can tell they're pretending not to, and then I have to engage in this weird, bad improv game with them?
And I imagine porn stars, because there's so much shame in admitting you watch it, people know you, but they don't say anything.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wonder if that's ever going to go away.
The shame of admitting you watch other people have sex and that you masturbate.
Like, there's two shames there.
There's a shame in watching it and there's a shame in, well, why do you watch it?
unidentified
Well, I'll just watch it just because I'm interested in a psychologist.
joe rogan
No, you're beating off.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're slapping your pussy.
You're doing something.
Something crazy is going on.
whitney cummings
It is so fascinating.
I mean, it's obviously rooted in religion, I would imagine.
joe rogan
Well, it's Puritan instincts that have sort of echoed from the time the people came over in the boats.
whitney cummings
I feel very safe when I know men masturbate.
Because I'm like, you're getting your needs met in a healthy way.
You're not just fucking holes in walls once a month.
You feel safe.
I feel safe when I know the truth.
I don't like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
joe rogan
So you feel like if men don't masturbate, they have so much built up.
whitney cummings
Where you're just going to shoot someone randomly.
I know a lot of guys who have stopped masturbating because it made them too crazy and they've managed to go years without it.
I can't speak for everybody.
They seem really happy because I think they were sick of being a puppet of this...
I can't pretend to know what it's like to...
joe rogan
Well, there's an insidious thing that happens with human beings when they don't have intimate interactions with people.
People that normally have intimate...
whitney cummings
You become Carrot Top.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't know if he's...
whitney cummings
I don't know, but when I see comedians who don't hang out with other comedians, I'm always like, oh, this isn't going to go well.
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of comedians that are super competitive, and they don't like other comedians.
whitney cummings
Which is so weird because...
There's so few of us.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
It's the least competitive field you can go into.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
In a weird way.
joe rogan
There's so few of us.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's so much demand for comedy.
whitney cummings
There's thousands of comedy clubs.
Someone else doing well helps you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
You know?
joe rogan
It's true.
whitney cummings
It's interesting.
joe rogan
I mean, how many comedy clubs are there and how many comedians are there?
whitney cummings
I mean, I talk about this.
Like, how many comedians can do an hour?
joe rogan
I think there's 500 working professional headlining comedians in this country.
I think there's maybe 500. Maybe there's a thousand, and I think 500 of them are probably funny.
whitney cummings
They can sell...
How many can sell a thousand seats?
joe rogan
A Friday night, yeah.
Oh, a thousand seats?
whitney cummings
A thousand seats?
joe rogan
Like a small theater?
whitney cummings
Yeah, it goes down to what?
joe rogan
200 maybe?
whitney cummings
Maybe 200. Maybe.
joe rogan
Maybe.
Yeah, 200 out of 350 million.
whitney cummings
I mean, is there any other field that has that few people besides, like, Tiffany glass makers or something?
joe rogan
Yeah, like neuroscientists or something.
whitney cummings
I feel like there's one at every college.
And there's how many colleges in America?
joe rogan
But there's a lot of shit comics, too, just like there's probably a lot of shit neurosurgeons.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but there is this sort of false...
I mean, granted, to be a comedian, we're probably in fight-or-flight mode anyway, or some sort of competitive thing, because it's so hard to do that if you do make it, there's a very specific neurology there.
But the competition among comedians is so odd to me.
joe rogan
Well, I remember being...
I got into it straight from fighting.
And I remember being super jealous of people that were doing well when I was just starting out.
Like, I'd see someone on stage, I'd be like, he's not even funny, why can't I get up there?
And then I recognized, maybe like, a couple years in, in my career, I'm like, wow, that is a dumb way to think.
And this is some really self-dif...
I constantly was reading psychology books and self-help books and constantly trying to analyze my mind because I knew that insecurity was tripping me up, whether it was in...
Fighting or whether it was in comedy.
Insecurity is like a weird little demon that wrecks havoc on the mind.
whitney cummings
And that a lot of times masquerades as confidence and ambition.
So it's hard to sort of...
joe rogan
Well, it didn't even masquerade with me, but I would pretend it did.
I would pretend I was confident, even if I wasn't.
That line of thinking was very, very dangerous.
It was tripping me up and it was keeping me from reaching my full potential.
So instead, what I realized somewhere, I had a heart to heart with myself.
And I realized like I got into comedy because I love comedy.
And now all of a sudden I don't love it anymore because when someone's doing well, I'd be like, God, why didn't I think of that?
Or why did I come up with that joke?
Or why is he so much better than me?
And then I realized, oh, you have to be a fan and a practitioner.
You have to stop, and then you have to support other comedians.
It felt hard for me to say, hey, I saw this guy the other night, and he was fucking brilliant.
God, he's so funny.
And then somewhere along the line, like a couple years in, I started doing that again.
I started being a fan of comedy again, and then I started running with it.
And then I realized how few people did that, and then I became super supportive of all the other comedians around me, and then developed a whole clan of people that do that.
So if you've noticed, my friends, all my really closest comedy friends, were all super supportive of I love that about you.
whitney cummings
It's so cool.
Did you have to get a lot of success before that happened?
No, it happened before my success.
joe rogan
It definitely happened before my success.
I was helping people when I was terrible.
I wasn't doing well, but I realized that there was something wrong with my thinking.
It's the same as martial arts.
Like, you don't get good by denying that other people are good.
You get good at respecting the fact that other people are good, looking at yourself and your objective analysis of your own skills, and then realize, like, wow, I got a lot of work to do to reach that guy's level.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and I was like, look at me like, you know, and I definitely had that in the beginning a lot, too, where, I mean, in the beginning, for me, there was so much about just dealing with aggressive people and recreating my childhood circumstances.
You weren't really there when I first started the Comedy Store.
You sort of had your respite from the Comedy Store.
But I was hazed so hard.
Really?
unidentified
Joe!
whitney cummings
We're fine now.
And we are totally friends now.
But Ari and David Taylor.
joe rogan
Oh, David Taylor's got some deep, deep female issues.
unidentified
And we're fine now, and we worked through it.
whitney cummings
It was really hard for a long time.
Wow.
But Ari, has Ari never told you the story about how he hid my backpack?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
Oh my god.
whitney cummings
It's an amazing story where every night when I would go on stage, you know, there's like, in the Comedy Store original room, which is sort of our, at least my kind of like, was my church in a lot of ways, and my home, sick as that sounds, like there's a back booth, like that back row of booths that's kind of for VIPs and like Mitzi Shore.
hallway in the back where they put drinks up.
So I would have a backpack every night I would go in, I would put my backpack up there because it was super dark in there.
And one night I was on stage at like some comical like one in the morning slot, like after Don Barris was like was when I would sort of go up.
And I had just had my wallet stolen or my house broken into and someone stole my wallet like two days before.
So I was already in fight or flight mode.
And I got off stage and I couldn't find my backpack.
And I'm like running around and, you know, it's so dark in there.
I'm like, fine.
And I got so scared that someone was, because basically what a security person that helped me said, someone who you're probably with all the time took your credit card, copied it, and then put it back in your wallet.
Like, because someone had, remember, there was that big Bank of America scandal where they copied like 2,000 credit cards.
Oh yeah.
It was that.
I was a part of that.
So I got in my head that there was someone in my life around me who took my credit card and copied it.
And so I was freaking out and everyone thought it was probably so funny.
And then I started crying, hysterically freaking out crying.
And once Ari saw me crying, he was like, I'm not owning up to this.
He's just like, fuck this.
joe rogan
So he just chickened out?
whitney cummings
He told me later, like, we just thought it was an innocent prank and thought it would be funny, but then you started crying and then we were all freaked out.
joe rogan
So he didn't even give you your backpack once you started crying?
whitney cummings
I don't remember.
We have to ask Ari how it ended up, because I did his podcast a couple years ago and he told me.
joe rogan
You can't ask Ari because Ari is hiding.
I don't know if you know this, but listen, I'm going to play this for everybody because I've been playing Ari's voicemail message because when you call him up, it says, at the subscriber's request, incoming calls have been blocked.
whitney cummings
He hasn't paid his bill.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
Incorrect.
Ari decided to go rogue, and he decided to go completely off the grid for a couple of months now.
And he was in Myanmar, and now apparently he's in some South American country.
Whoa!
Hold on a second.
unidentified
This phone does not accept incoming calls.
Message CA-127.
joe rogan
Okay, well that's normal.
whitney cummings
What's he doing if...
joe rogan
That might mean that he's back stateside, because last week it was in Spanish.
When you would call him up, it would be a Spanish message.
whitney cummings
You can't text him or anything?
joe rogan
Nothing.
No email, no nothing.
unidentified
Is he alone?
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
What's this for?
joe rogan
He fucked up and hung out with Henry Rollins.
That's what happened.
He fucked up and hung out with Henry Rollins, and Henry Rollins, who is fucking crazy!
In a great way.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Speaking of Adderall.
joe rogan
No, he's not on anything.
whitney cummings
I don't know.
I have no idea.
joe rogan
He was on Ritalin, right?
whitney cummings
Ritalin.
joe rogan
Was it Ritalin?
unidentified
Ritalin.
joe rogan
Was it Ritalin?
He was on Ritalin when he was a child.
whitney cummings
His neck disagrees.
joe rogan
Well, when he was really young, he was like a test subject.
From 5 to like 17, his family put him on Ritalin.
His doctors, whatever, whoever it was.
Oh, it's heartbreaking.
But he would be like, all day, he used to be like, gritting his teeth and holding, and then after school was over, he would be like, crashed.
unidentified
Oh, buddy.
joe rogan
And so, he's fucked.
So anyway, what he does...
Henry Rollins has the hardest time dealing with human beings and not being in motion.
He wrote this thing about how he gets into deep depression.
It comes thudding into his chest whenever he's not doing something.
whitney cummings
We're all running.
joe rogan
He can't chill.
He's gotta go do something.
whitney cummings
I heard him on a podcast talking about how his assistant makes up fake work for him.
Just to keep him busy.
He'll be like, you have to drive out to this thing and pick up this thing.
She makes things just so he's in motion.
joe rogan
She hates, by the way, being called his assistant.
She's his manager.
whitney cummings
I'm sorry, Heidi.
joe rogan
She explained it to me.
I hate when people say assistant.
I said, did I say it?
She goes, no, you didn't.
We're talking about other people.
whitney cummings
It's a trigger.
joe rogan
She's got a warning shot.
She fires when you meet her.
Don't call me assistant, motherfucker!
whitney cummings
Jeez!
Okay, got it.
joe rogan
So, Henry picks a spot.
He'll just go, how about Bali?
And he'll call his travel agent, and the travel agent says, yeah, we can get you out to Bali.
By the way, only flies economy, because even though he's fucking wealthy as shit, drives a shitty Mazda 6, Is that like a masochistic thing?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
whitney cummings
For sure.
Self punishment.
joe rogan
Wears gray t-shirts only.
Probably doesn't own a suit.
whitney cummings
Is he still in like crazy shape?
joe rogan
He's in good shape.
whitney cummings
I got it.
joe rogan
He's not like jacked anymore.
Apparently he had a bunch of injuries because he was power lifting for a while.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Anyway, so he had a podcast that he did with Ari, which is an amazing podcast where Ari and him met.
I feel like they were in...
unidentified
Scotland?
whitney cummings
I feel like Ari's always in Scotland.
joe rogan
Edinburgh?
Yeah, they were at the Edinburgh Fest and they started talking and the podcast is amazing because Henry was talking about how he's been doing this.
He's been to over a hundred countries.
He travels all over the world and does it every year and he does it.
He goes completely off the grid when he does it.
He just goes there and he brings his laptop and his camera and takes pictures of people and people going, what are you doing here?
And he's like, I'm here to meet you, man.
And he just meets people and goes places and hangs out with Bedouins and goes into the fucking desert and winds up in dangerous places, dangerous situations, but then comes back and has these amazing stories from it.
So Ari just released his or just recorded his latest hour and had decided that he really needs to do something radical to generate new material.
Interesting.
He spent a month in China last year and he came up with a bunch of material from that.
So he decided, I'm just gonna not talk to people.
I'm gonna not talk to my friends.
I'm not gonna talk to anybody.
I'm not gonna use my cell phone.
I'm just gonna live.
I'm just gonna go completely off the grid and travel the world.
And so, you know, he makes a shit ton of money now.
He's got his Comedy Central show.
He's done really well with stand-up over the last few years.
Which is great to see.
But this thought that he has...
unidentified
I mean, it's...
whitney cummings
Look, I mean, there's something to be said for it.
I mean, I feel like our brains are so cluttered with chores and, you know, we're so routinized at this point.
It's like there's something to be said for just completely rewiring, you know?
It's just like...
joe rogan
Ari's crazy, though.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I was gonna say.
I also...
I'm in this stuff program where it's like human connection is what keeps us sane.
You know, when I'm alone and isolate like that, bad things will happen.
joe rogan
Well, Ari won't use a smartphone anymore because he's addicted to it.
He's like, it's too addictive.
whitney cummings
It's amazing that he's able to course correct like that.
joe rogan
He's smart as fuck.
whitney cummings
Joel Silver uses a flip phone.
unidentified
Does he really?
whitney cummings
And he gets so much done because it's not like dumb text.
He just phone calls, handles it.
He's a little dumb little LG flip phone.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, that's all well and good, but you know what I do?
I put my fucking phone down.
There's another level of discipline.
unidentified
I don't like that.
joe rogan
That's the other thing.
whitney cummings
Do you have to just, you know, abstain entirely?
Can you just do that every hour?
joe rogan
I put my phone in the other room and then I go do stuff.
whitney cummings
How do you have so much self-control?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I just do.
whitney cummings
But it takes a certain warrior to be able to do that.
joe rogan
But I don't do it all the time.
Sometimes somebody has to tell me, hey, put your phone down.
My wife will tell me that.
Put your phone down.
You're right.
But I do understand it personally.
I'm not denying it sometimes.
whitney cummings
You gotta just stay awake.
I just have to stay awake because I get real zombie real fast.
joe rogan
I'm way better at putting my laptop down.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because I used to have an issue where I would just be constantly going on YouTube and searching different websites.
whitney cummings
Getting a hole.
joe rogan
You go in those YouTube spirals that take you down, down, down the next thing you know.
whitney cummings
I got in a spiral of watching people pop zits.
joe rogan
Oh, have you seen Dr. Pimple Popper on Instagram?
whitney cummings
No, I can't.
joe rogan
Go straight to it, Jamie.
whitney cummings
I got stoned one night and I was watching all the zits get popped for like a good two and a half hours.
But then you know when you go to YouTube and it says suggestions for you.
unidentified
It's all zits!
whitney cummings
Then you find out the next day what you did.
joe rogan
For me, I know I have to get the fuck away from the computer when I get down to animal attacks.
We'll go to a good one.
whitney cummings
I like they're called confetti streamers, the ones that are small and they just come out for like a minute.
joe rogan
She's got some ones that are just horrific.
Go to that one at the right-hand side.
Right-hand side.
whitney cummings
Upper.
joe rogan
Upper.
Right there.
Right there.
Go to this one.
She gets a lot of cysts.
Click on that, please.
whitney cummings
Looking at...
Oh, well, that's like a...
joe rogan
Here it comes.
whitney cummings
Is that pus?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, some of them come out and they come out like goddamn volcanoes.
whitney cummings
What is...
unidentified
So is that...
joe rogan
Fat globules.
whitney cummings
That is...
Oh, it looks like a birth video.
It literally looks like a deer is giving birth.
joe rogan
And some of them come out and they just look like cream cheese.
She's got some other ones on her page.
Look at that, 579,000 views.
I think she has millions of followers.
whitney cummings
That is so much more fascinating than...
joe rogan
She's probably got more followers than you and I combined.
Click to see how many followers you have.
whitney cummings
We are in the wrong business.
unidentified
23 million?
2.3.
joe rogan
Oh.
Okay, but you know, she only had like 1 million a year ago.
whitney cummings
Who is?
Is this her only job?
joe rogan
She's a doctor.
She's a dermatologist.
whitney cummings
What genius was like, let's start filming this?
joe rogan
Well, and she specializes in popping zits.
whitney cummings
What's the one on the head?
joe rogan
Probably some dude's got some...
Her name is Sandra Lee.
Some dude's got some fucking...
whitney cummings
Sandra, I want your life.
Well, you know that grooming for women releases endorphins in our brain.
Really?
I mean, does your wife try to pop your zits?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
Or ingrowns?
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
No, I don't really have any.
whitney cummings
Well, you're flawless.
joe rogan
That is disgusting.
unidentified
That looks like aliens are giving birth to twins.
I look at the smaller ones.
whitney cummings
Oh, that is so gross!
joe rogan
Look at this one.
How about this one?
Is this one okay?
whitney cummings
You had to pull it out like it was hamburger meat.
joe rogan
How about this one?
whitney cummings
I can't.
joe rogan
Do you like this better?
whitney cummings
I like the tiny ones.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
whitney cummings
I like these.
joe rogan
What's better?
This or...
whitney cummings
This or all that?
Those are my favorite.
That's my favorite.
I do that on airplanes in the bathroom.
joe rogan
So the nose ones...
whitney cummings
Oh, that's my favorite.
Oh, love it.
joe rogan
Is it harder to watch...
whitney cummings
Oh, my nipples are hard.
unidentified
I love it.
joe rogan
Is it harder to watch that?
whitney cummings
I like these.
joe rogan
Or is it harder to watch the Deadline?
whitney cummings
Dead Lion.
joe rogan
The Dead Lion.
whitney cummings
This I'll watch all Dead Lion.
joe rogan
Any dead animal?
whitney cummings
You know, here's my thing.
Your whole approach to hunting is...
I get it.
Like, you have a very honorable...
You have a lot of...
You know, you treat on some level them with, like, dignity.
And you have integrity about it, you know?
joe rogan
Do you eat meat?
whitney cummings
I do eat meat.
Yeah, so I had eating disorders.
So I can't really, like...
When I start restricting things, they're going, I don't eat this, I don't eat that.
That can go down like a bad spiral.
I don't actively seek out meat, and I don't eat pork, really.
But I can't start being too abstemious.
joe rogan
Why do you not eat pork?
whitney cummings
I don't eat pork.
All of your listeners, I think, would probably think I'm very annoyed.
I'm going to get a lot of...
Don't worry about that.
I think I've just chewed down the rabbit hole of learning about the emotional acumen and capacity of pigs and dogs.
That it's just kind of like a bummer.
joe rogan
Pigs are very smart.
whitney cummings
Very smart and very emotional.
They say they're like toddlers.
joe rogan
You've got to be around wild pigs.
Wild pigs are monsters.
whitney cummings
Feral pigs, I'm sure.
Yes, but ones that are just raised and killed.
And there's also a lot of like, maybe this is too metaphysical or whatever, but like they know what's happening.
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
And I just, it's more like you're just eating fear.
So their adrenaline and cortisol, it's just like...
You know throbs through their bodies while they're getting killed and they just they live in fear their entire lives And there's just you're ingesting that and it's an energy, you know, yeah, and you know, it's fucked and antibiotics are crazy My dad has antibiotic resistance right now, which I think is going to be part of the next sort of Horrific things that we can't control where technology sort of taken over do you think it's from doctors or from livestock?
It's Definitely from doctors as well, being over-prescribed antibiotics.
Every time you have a cold, every time you have a this, take antibiotics.
And then by the time you actually need them, they don't work anymore.
And that's where the situation my dad is in.
joe rogan
There's a thing that they're just researching recently on Komodo dragons.
And they're looking to Komodo dragons.
I think there's enzymes in their blood that they think is going to be effective in treating people that have resistance to antibiotics for diseases.
whitney cummings
Wow.
Bananas.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was today I was reading that.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's bananas.
And I also look, it's like, again, you know, for me, and I'm not generalizing about everybody, I know this for me, a lot of things are projections.
And so for me, like when an animal is helpless, I see myself as a helpless child.
And when I see something in a cage, maybe the same way that like when you go into a room of executives, you're like, I don't want to be this.
When I see something in a cage, I just, something that's voiceless and helpless, that's what a kid is.
unidentified
So it just triggers like a lot of Yeah, I can't go to the Pound.
joe rogan
I'll have 100,000 dogs.
I just can't do it.
whitney cummings
I do so much animal rescue and I send someone to go.
When I see one that I'm going to rescue, they go and get them for me because I'll lose my mind.
joe rogan
Yeah, you'll take them all home.
unidentified
It's just too hard.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I just rescued a horse.
I just got a horse.
unidentified
Do you have a horse?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I just rescued a horse.
joe rogan
Where do you put it?
unidentified
What's Hollywood?
whitney cummings
Yeah, so Joe, that's why I'm here today.
joe rogan
I keep him at the improv.
unidentified
I feel like he's at the ha-ha.
whitney cummings
But he was a show horse, a dressage horse, who, you know, after a while, they're just useless.
They're like racehorses, kind of.
So he was going to be...
I do equine therapy anyway, so someone's like, do you want him?
And I was like, yeah.
joe rogan
What's equine therapy?
whitney cummings
He's my teacher.
So there's this, I think you will find this interesting.
I find it fascinating.
Horses don't value anything that we value.
Money, prestige, clout, IMDB, meter, house, they don't care about anything.
Anything that we use to defend ourselves, being funny, being smart, they don't care about it.
The only thing they care about is authenticity.
So basically, horses serve kind of as mirrors to your flaws.
Really?
Yeah, in authenticity.
joe rogan
So if you're fake, a horse recognizes it?
whitney cummings
They don't understand.
They're repelled by it.
joe rogan
So if you got a horse around like one of the real housewives from Beverly Hills would just kick her in the face?
whitney cummings
It would just kill itself.
It would kick itself in the face, as would I. It's based on this philosophy called Being With Horses by this German woman.
Her name is Sabine.
I don't remember her last name, but this place called The Reflective Horse is where I keep it in Topanga Canyon.
And, you know, like, as you know, like, equine therapy is used for a lot of, like, people in rehab and sexual abuse victims.
I'm working with this organization called She Heard Power, and Beth Bares, who I work with, is sort of running it, and it's letting—because humans can be so triggering for drug addicts and trauma survivors that, like, for me, therapy stopped being able to work because I was so triggered by therapists.
I found myself lying to them.
I found myself, like— Literally trying to manage their, like, you know, I didn't want them to think I was crazy.
Like, it was just...
joe rogan
You're the most awesome and crazy person at the same time I've ever met.
whitney cummings
But it's like, we all do this shit.
But then I was resentful, because I'm like, I'm fucking pinging you, and that's all you're going to say?
Like, I was combative to them.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
Well, because it's like, I'm very, not selfish about my time, but I have like a healthy understanding about what is a waste of time.
And I found, you know, I have a great therapist now who's like a badass, and she's like...
She's 5'2 and wears only mink coats and pajamas.
She's awesome.
joe rogan
Mink coats?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Well, they're like faux fur.
Like vests.
But then I would get very like you in the executive room.
I would be in a therapist's office and it would be like Harvard Business School.
I'm like, this fucking guy doesn't know anything about problems.
Fuck this guy.
Like, I just was like, I'd get angry at them.
And then all of a sudden, they'd be like authority figures to me.
And that triggered me.
It was just like, and then I felt we were talking about like, boundary stuff or sexual stuff.
And I didn't, you know, the shame that comes with saying I watch porn or this or that.
Like, it just wasn't.
It's working for me.
And then equine therapy, it's not about dominating the horse, and it really illuminates our instinct to control and be perfect and achieve.
And those are sort of the things I'm working on right now.
I have crippling perfectionism.
I feel like you and I have been, but you're interesting because you're one of the few people I know who's incredibly successful, but you don't seem to have a perfectionism issue.
Like you achieve a lot without an obsession about achieving.
Does that make sense?
I have a perfectionism issue.
And like with writing this new hour, like we've been texting about this.
You're like, do you want to come to the Ice House?
Do you want to come to the Ice House?
And I'm like, yes, I do, but I don't have a new, like, I can't.
joe rogan
But you only have to do whatever you want to do at the Ice House.
You can do 10 minutes or 15 or 20, whatever you want to do.
whitney cummings
But I'm like, if I don't do it perfectly.
joe rogan
Oh, that's so crazy.
unidentified
It's crazy.
whitney cummings
Yes, because in my household, I only got rewarded for being perfect.
joe rogan
But there's no perfect in comedy.
whitney cummings
No such a...
It's a...
A hundred percent.
So this is why, like, with horses, if you're trying to be perfect or control the outcome, and you can't control a horse, they're a thousand pounds.
You can't...
If they're...
You know, when you're alone with it in a ring, not dominating it or cajoling it or using any kind of manipulation devices, you really can only be authentic and detach from the results of, like, I need the horse to run and jump and do all these things.
They're not going to do what you in your mind think is perfect.
So it's about like detaching from results.
joe rogan
Well, let me ease your concerns because I definitely have perfection issues.
whitney cummings
How?
joe rogan
But I just let them go.
But I don't like anything I do.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, almost nothing.
I don't like any of my comedy.
I don't like anything I do because I break it down so much.
I go over it so much.
whitney cummings
You get sick of it?
joe rogan
I listen to it.
I make notes.
I go over it.
I change things.
I go over it.
If I flub a word, I want to jump into a fucking- Me too.
Oncoming train.
whitney cummings
Whereas the audience loves it.
They're like, he's human.
He flubs words.
joe rogan
Well, if I recover, it's fine.
But it bothers me when I don't do something right.
It definitely bothers me.
But I've learned how to manage that bother over the years where I don't go crazy.
And I think part of that is...
I don't know.
There's a lot of factors there.
Part of it is understanding that it's an issue and then figuring out why.
And then I spend a lot of time doing things like...
It's meditating.
I'm taking a lot of yoga.
I do occasionally, I get in my isolation tank and work things out in there.
whitney cummings
When I do yoga, I can't even, because I need to be doing it perfectly.
And it comes and goes, but it really is, especially when I'm...
Like get really busy and like out of control and out of touch like I resort to my perfectionism is what gets me attention and that's how I will survive very like primitive thinking because that's what worked for me as a child.
joe rogan
Well, it seems like you're aware of all these issues, which is at least step one, right?
whitney cummings
Well, I think the real thing, and your proof that you can do it, is can you release your protection mechanisms or the things that worked for you?
Because I think a lot of my perfectionism has worked in a lot of ways.
Have achieved things because of it, but it has started to actually hold me back.
So can you, the thing, the sort of maladaptive behavior that has worked for you professionally, can you release it and still get what you want?
joe rogan
You're single and you're not finding people that are compatible with you.
whitney cummings
I love that you just said that because I'm finding it was bleeding into my mind.
Dating.
I was like, you're not perfect.
I think a lot of dating is being able to just go like, I'm flawed.
You're flawed.
I'm going to stop picking you apart.
Because I think there's an overachiever mentality that sometimes bleeds into our personal life of like, but what if there's someone better?
joe rogan
Well, if you don't feel safe, too, you also have predatory instincts where you find a weak thing.
And you're like, look at that.
This guy's got a limp.
He's got a mental limp.
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
And then you go like, oh, he might be full of shit.
Or he might be pretending he's something he's not.
whitney cummings
Totally.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Totally.
So am I sometimes.
I've done that.
I do that.
At what point do you just commit and accept somebody?
And I don't know the answer.
joe rogan
Well, it's going to be hard to find someone who can keep up with you.
That's going to be a big part of the issue, too.
whitney cummings
But does he need to?
joe rogan
Yep.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yep, for sure.
100%.
whitney cummings
I love that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it has to.
whitney cummings
But is that going to be exhausting?
I mean, I've dated guys that are very high-functioning, alpha type A's, and it was exhausting.
joe rogan
Well, that doesn't necessarily have to be exhausting.
You just have to find someone who knows how...
Look, you can have a car that's 600 horsepower and not know what the fuck to do with it, and you're going sideways around every corner.
Just because you have all that power and all that energy...
Doesn't mean you're utilizing it correctly.
Or you could have a car that has 600 horsepower and you take every corner perfectly and you know when to hit the gas and it's always there when you need it, but you don't use it.
whitney cummings
How did you know?
Do you talk about this?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I figured it out.
whitney cummings
How did you know that you were like, I'm going to commit to this person?
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
whitney cummings
You're like, any day now.
joe rogan
You know, I don't think you ever totally know.
You know, you just gotta be, you gotta feel safe with the person, feel calm with the person, enjoy being around them.
You know, and the other thing is a person like you or me or anybody is you have a lot of options.
That's an issue too.
You know, because if you don't have any, if you live in a small town, there's only a few people, you find someone quick, like musical chairs, like sit down, quick.
whitney cummings
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But if you have a lot of options, you're like, well, this guy's just not quite doing it for me.
Let me just fucking go test the waters.
And then you're out there checking your dating app and, oh, so you think you're funny, huh?
whitney cummings
It's a full-time job also.
I see, and this is a generalization, but a lot of people that I know that are being the most effective in life do have calm, predictable home lives.
That helps.
If you were going out every night to Winston's...
joe rogan
What's Winston's?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
It's like a club in LA. Is it?
You know what Winston's is.
No?
Whatever.
If you were going to Maggiano's Little Italy at the Grove every night trying to pick up girls, you would have no time to build an empire.
There's no time.
joe rogan
There's no time to work.
Yeah.
That's true.
whitney cummings
It's a full-time job.
joe rogan
Well, that is a real issue with men.
whitney cummings
I'm looking to settle.
I'm in the market to compromise.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, then you'll probably find someone if you're willing to compromise.
But are you really willing to compromise, or are you just saying that right now?
whitney cummings
That's a really good question.
joe rogan
Once there's a guy there and he's flawed, and you think about guys that you used to date that weren't flawed, and then maybe I'll look him up and...
whitney cummings
Yeah, but I'm trying to not view, objectify people that way.
It's like, I'm flawed too.
Like, where do I get off?
joe rogan
We're all flawed, for sure.
whitney cummings
But I also think, like, there's this, and there's this, and I don't know if it's feminism, like, we can leave that out of it, but there's this new trend where women, my girlfriends, a lot of them, who are like, I deserve better than this.
And I'm like, no, you don't.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
whitney cummings
You're a B minus.
You deserve a B minus.
So for me, when I'm like, I deserve this and this, I'm like, no, I don't.
Like, I deserve someone who's kind of a mess like me.
joe rogan
Well, I think people, you can certainly get lucky.
I think I definitely got lucky with my wife.
She's a really nice person.
She's smart.
unidentified
She's calm.
joe rogan
She's very patient.
whitney cummings
She must be.
joe rogan
She's easy to get along with.
whitney cummings
And I think for me, and this is the first time I've thought this way, it's maybe not about who that person is.
It's about who I am with that person.
joe rogan
That's the everything.
That's everything.
Who you are, like we were talking about this before, if you're around people that are negative, that shit bleeds off into your brain.
unidentified
It's toxic, yeah.
joe rogan
And when you're around people that are nice, you feel nicer.
whitney cummings
So who are you around?
You're calm and you're...
joe rogan
I try to be this guy all the time.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and for the most part I am.
whitney cummings
I just don't want to go home and work.
joe rogan
Unless I'm hammered.
whitney cummings
Or...
joe rogan
Do you drink?
I could definitely drink.
Really?
whitney cummings
Or do you do like tequila?
I don't want to guess.
joe rogan
I mean, I've been drunk a bunch of times on podcasts just to try to make it more fun.
whitney cummings
Oh, I respect that.
I want to listen to those.
Why did I get one of those?
joe rogan
We could do that.
unidentified
Tell me when.
whitney cummings
Let's do that.
joe rogan
Next one.
We'll get hammered.
whitney cummings
High five.
Let's do that.
That'll be fun.
joe rogan
Could get dark.
whitney cummings
We'll have to Uber home.
This is what happens when we're sober.
We're just going to be watching zit pop.
I'm going to be popping your zits.
joe rogan
We're just going to watch animal attacks.
We're going to watch all those guys in China.
Why is it always in China where they keep sneaking into those animal enclosures?
whitney cummings
Wait, did Joe let Whitney pop his back zit?
joe rogan
I found one.
whitney cummings
On a podcast?
joe rogan
Film it.
whitney cummings
How do you not get ingrown hairs?
unidentified
I don't know.
whitney cummings
Because you shave or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
whitney cummings
I even pop ex-boyfriends when I see ex-boyfriends.
unidentified
Call them up.
whitney cummings
I'm like, can I get it?
Can I get it?
They're like, we're not dating anymore.
You don't get to do that.
It's grooming.
We're monkeys.
We're monkeys with guns.
We're just monkeys.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
We talked about this last time that bonobo apes and humans have more similar DNA than African elephants and Indian elephants.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Bonobo apes, it's really fascinating.
They have one restriction, sexually.
The mother won't have sex with the son.
That's it.
Women have sex with women, men have sex with men, the son fucks the dad, the dad fucks the son.
whitney cummings
Yeah, well that's like a good genetic sort of survival instinct, because incest breeds...
joe rogan
But the dad fucks his daughters.
whitney cummings
Oh, that's not fair!
joe rogan
Nope, rude.
But the mom's like, get out of here, you freak.
whitney cummings
That sounds like inequality.
It is a, I might not be pronouncing this right, a gyneocracy?
Like, apparently they call it a gyneocracy because they use their vaginas to get what they want as power.
joe rogan
That's interesting.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I mean, some people, humans do that, too.
joe rogan
It is fascinating that they're the least violent champ and the one that has the most sex.
Oh, yeah.
By far.
whitney cummings
Well, yeah.
I mean, that's another way to get your aggression out, I would imagine.
That's been sort of our theme today.
joe rogan
Well, I've been thinking about this a lot lately when I examine human culture and civilization and all the fucking atrocities that we commit on a daily basis.
And then I look back at, you know, I was reading this piece about ancient man and, you know, the trials and tribulations, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens how to deal with.
whitney cummings
And I was thinking, what is the difference between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
whitney cummings
I always get this wrong.
joe rogan
Well, Cro-Magnon is the early version of us.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Neanderthal is a different breed of human.
Neanderthal, we're human.
whitney cummings
That's right.
I conflate them all the time.
Okay, now I understand.
joe rogan
But I think Cro-Magnon is not us, though.
It's not homo sapiens, I don't think.
whitney cummings
I always get this wrong.
joe rogan
Australopithecus, I think, was the first human.
The first human-like creature.
whitney cummings
It's an honor to be the dumbest person on your podcast.
joe rogan
I don't think you're definitely not the dumbest person.
Clearly you've never met Brian Redman Unlike Neanderthals Cro-Magnons are not a separate species Okay, they're us in fact they're the earliest known European example of our species living between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago That's what's so fucked up 10,000 years ago is nothing.
whitney cummings
Nothing.
It's a second.
joe rogan
And they're actually modern in every anatomical way.
Huh.
whitney cummings
You guys learned something today.
joe rogan
Fucking A, that's nuts.
10,000 years is so recent.
And here's the craziest thing.
They only existed 175,000 years ago, they emerged.
So 175,000 years ago, humans emerged.
So before 175,000 years ago, which is a blink in time.
unidentified
A blink.
joe rogan
Roughly, they don't really know.
Their estimate changes based on fossil evidence.
But that's so recently.
whitney cummings
So recently.
joe rogan
What I was thinking is, when we're looking at our issues, you know, dating and love and friendship and creativity and ambition, all these weird issues that human beings have today in this context.
whitney cummings
And weirdly luxuries.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
First world problems, left and right.
Creativity and love.
Yeah.
100 years old.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
What is the future going to be like?
What is a modern human in the year 2075?
whitney cummings
Well, it's all going to be VR, right?
I mean, aren't we all just going to be in our virtual reality machines just masturbating?
joe rogan
We might be the last people to touch our genitals.
whitney cummings
Probably.
joe rogan
This will be the last pussy spanking generation.
whitney cummings
Maybe sex will be...
I mean, there was a...
Sorry to circle back to porn again.
There's a book called Pornation.
And in it, there was a statistic that said 80% of kids under 18 boys would rather watch porn than have sex with an actual woman.
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
Come on.
whitney cummings
That's a bullshit.
If I'm wrong, fact check it.
joe rogan
That's a focus group statistic.
whitney cummings
I was going to say, it's probably a very specific group of people who would agree to be interviewed about, you know, whatever.
joe rogan
The same assholes who think women have to masturbate in tubs.
Only in tubs.
unidentified
That's it.
It's only the only time they do it.
joe rogan
There's no kid.
This is fake.
whitney cummings
But, I mean, who knows?
Fake news.
Fake boobs, fake news.
You could probably prefer, because you're in control of it.
If you have a VR woman who's going to do whatever you want, you don't have to deal with her afterwards and talk about, like, what are we?
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's half the thrill.
Half the thrill.
whitney cummings
For you, but you didn't grow up on fake women and anime.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
People are jerking off to cartoons, Joe.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
You don't understand.
We watch Saturday morning cartoons.
They are jerking off to animated women.
Oh, God.
How many?
joe rogan
Most of them are jerking off to actual porn.
whitney cummings
Will you look up in an animated...
joe rogan
How many people are jerking off to anime?
Anime porn.
I would say it's a very small number.
whitney cummings
Which, by the way, a lot of the women in real porn are more lifeless than the animated women in porn.
joe rogan
Well, they're weird now because they're getting fake asses.
whitney cummings
Well, it's like Jean Baudrillard's theory of simulacrum about how we prefer this simulation of something to the original of something when we can actually control it.
I think Andy Warhol was onto that as well.
joe rogan
Well, isn't it bizarre that some men prefer fake boobs?
Yeah.
Why getting off to anime porn is shorthand for supporting Donald Trump?
whitney cummings
That's a weird connection.
joe rogan
Lauren, how do you say that name?
Orsini?
Orsini?
Oh, this just happened to pop up.
But what a bizarre fucking title.
Okay, let's see what she has to say.
Goddammit, Forbes.
unidentified
Continue, please.
whitney cummings
But is this in Forbes?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's hilarious.
On Tuesday evening, GOP consultant Rick Wilson made Twitter waves.
Look at that.
They have the fucking stock of Twitter right there.
whitney cummings
Single men who masturbate to anime.
joe rogan
Plus 0.50%.
Isn't that hilarious?
They show Twitter and people reading Forbes, what's the stock at?
whitney cummings
Oh yeah, totally, totally.
joe rogan
They know their audience.
So weird.
Waves with his claim that Donald Trump supporters are mostly single men who masturbate to anime.
I think they're right.
This is an intentionally incendiary statement that Wilson says he made directly to troll Trump's followers.
Everybody's trolling everybody.
First of all, as any anime fan will let you know, it's called...
Clears throat.
Hentai, a specific genre of X-rated Japanese animated cartoons.
But what's interesting is that in order to intentionally make people angry, Wilson targeted anime geeks as his insult.
whitney cummings
Geeks tweet.
Don't upset them.
joe rogan
Yeah, they'll find you.
whitney cummings
They'll at-reply you.
I mean, I don't know.
I can compete with porn.
I feel strongly that I'm like, okay, I can compete with the girl.
I've seen porn.
I can't compete with cartoons.
I have cellulite.
I really don't want to have to.
unidentified
Here's the stats on how many people.
joe rogan
How one website is convincing people to pay for cartoon porn.
whitney cummings
If you're paying for cartoon porn, just watch Jessica Rabbit.
joe rogan
Whoa, hold on a second.
Among 18 to 34 year old viewers, cartoon and hentai are the 13th and 17th most popular porn searches and millennials are 131% more likely to search for anime than older browsers.
whitney cummings
This is what I'm saying!
joe rogan
Whoa, you just blew my mind.
whitney cummings
So can we see what the other 12 porn categories are above?
joe rogan
It's all gagging.
whitney cummings
It's all gagging.
joe rogan
Gagging while getting choked.
whitney cummings
Gagging while getting punched.
Gagging pregnant bitches.
joe rogan
Gagging while anal.
whitney cummings
Gagging while spitting.
Gang bang gag.
Oh, here we go.
joe rogan
Gagging while slapping.
unidentified
Okay, so where's one?
joe rogan
Lesbian's number one with a fucking bullet.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Lesbian and then teen.
And then stepmom.
whitney cummings
That's upsetting.
Let's not brush past teen.
That's awful.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is.
whitney cummings
That's horrifying.
You're monsters.
I'd rather you watch anime.
joe rogan
Stepmom is ahead of MILF. Wait, whoa!
And then squirt.
People are into peeing.
whitney cummings
People are into squirt.
They like the squirting.
joe rogan
They think it's anything other than peeing.
And then mom is below that.
whitney cummings
Well, apparently it's a mixture.
joe rogan
It's definitely not.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
It's coming out of your pussy.
It's pee.
whitney cummings
Okay, we'll circle back.
joe rogan
And then it's mixing with your pussy juices because you're excited.
whitney cummings
We're going to circle back.
joe rogan
And then when scientists analyze it...
unidentified
They go, well, it's not all P. And they're like, good, we're in!
whitney cummings
Circle back.
We're going to circle back to that.
So it's interesting to me that Stepmom is above MILF. Yeah.
Isn't that interesting?
I want a mom.
I don't want to be...
joe rogan
You want to fuck your dad's wife.
whitney cummings
That's what it is.
Is that a weird, like, Freudian penis envy thing?
unidentified
Fuck yeah, it's weird.
joe rogan
Number one at the bottom, rather, the least is public.
Public is the least searched.
Anal is above...
Anal is shockingly low.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
It's below ebony.
Ebony is above black, which I think is strange.
whitney cummings
What's the difference?
I'm so racist.
joe rogan
One is for educated people.
whitney cummings
Wait, why is Japanese and Asian...
I know why they're different, kind of, but do you see how they're different categories?
joe rogan
Yes, Asian's way down low.
People are way more into Japanese than they are into Asian.
whitney cummings
So specifically Japanese.
joe rogan
Asian, you get like Vietnamese, Thai, and people are like, nope, nope, nope, nope.
whitney cummings
That's where I draw the line.
joe rogan
I want a girl with a kimono.
whitney cummings
Yeah, geisha girl.
Oh, interesting.
So it's like a power thing.
unidentified
I think anything I say here is going to be misconstrued.
whitney cummings
It's incredibly racist.
joe rogan
Don't be worried about that.
This is the age we live in.
whitney cummings
Okay, what is the difference between Ebony and Black?
I'm so sorry.
joe rogan
There is no difference.
One of them is said by people with education.
unidentified
Got it.
joe rogan
And the other one is someone who just wants to get jungle fever.
whitney cummings
But I'd imagine what's under those, one's going to be classier than the other, maybe?
There's something socio-interesting.
joe rogan
Millennial search term differences.
Look at this.
Cosplay.
whitney cummings
What is cosplay?
Sorry, I don't know.
Oh, that's coming?
Or shitting.
joe rogan
Costumes.
unidentified
Oh!
Shitting.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
joe rogan
Shitting cosplay.
unidentified
Why would you think cosplay is toilet?
whitney cummings
I don't know, but I said it so nonchalantly.
joe rogan
Foot job.
Look at that.
whitney cummings
What is the foot fetish thing?
Do you know?
joe rogan
I don't know.
I guess it's like something happening when you were young.
whitney cummings
Oh, like some sort of...
Isn't that called cathexis?
joe rogan
I think it's called imprinting.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sexual imprinting.
unidentified
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
Look at that yoga.
whitney cummings
Let me see.
joe rogan
Yoga's in there right below gym.
whitney cummings
There's a lot of yoga balls in porn these days.
I see a lot of sex on yoga balls.
I do not feel sexy at the gym.
joe rogan
But gym is above yoga, which is interesting.
unidentified
More people can relate.
whitney cummings
They're all the CrossFit people.
joe rogan
Yeah, more people can relate.
Like a girl doing squats.
What if she just wanted to fuck right now?
Fuck my dick!
whitney cummings
Squat on that dick!
joe rogan
Could I get hard with all these people watching?
I think I could.
whitney cummings
Wait, what's...
POV. Now that I heard that porn star in LA Fitness, I get the gym porn thing.
What is emo?
Like, goth girls to Morrissey?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
A lot of crying.
whitney cummings
Tattoos.
unidentified
Tattoos?
whitney cummings
Oh, I think that's just all porn now.
unidentified
I mean, that's part of...
whitney cummings
Like, goth makeup?
unidentified
Suicide girl type girl.
Suicide girl.
joe rogan
Emo?
No.
For sure, that's what it is, yeah.
whitney cummings
He's like, for sure.
jamie vernon
I mean, that's what they are.
joe rogan
Why do they call it emo, though?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Suicide girl, I wouldn't think of it.
unidentified
It's like generality.
joe rogan
I would think emo, a bunch of crying dudes.
unidentified
Like Doc Martens?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
jamie vernon
If they put suicide on here, then you're looking for suicide porn, and that's a way different thing than emo girls.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's not porn, that's just crime.
joe rogan
What's that guy who committed suicide, Elliot something or another?
What the fuck's his name?
Elliot Smith?
Is that his name?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Duncan told me to listen to him.
I listened to him, I'm like, Duncan, what the fuck is wrong with you?
It was like super depressing music.
I'm like, no wonder this guy stabbed himself.
whitney cummings
Wait, can you walk me through this?
joe rogan
Dogging?
What is dogging?
whitney cummings
Doggy style?
joe rogan
What the fuck is dogging?
whitney cummings
Or walking?
joe rogan
But it says dogging.
whitney cummings
Dogging.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
Long nipples is at the very bottom.
Granny is well above long nipples.
whitney cummings
Wait, so aren't those synonymous?
Smoking, what's smoking?
joe rogan
Wife swap.
whitney cummings
So why is it negative?
Does this mean it's become less popular?
jamie vernon
This one is actually comparing millennial searches to people older than them.
whitney cummings
So millennials are more into all this.
But this stuff is all new.
Millennials never probably had the opportunity to see Granny.
joe rogan
Well, there's granny porn that's more prevalent now than ever before.
unidentified
What if you were 80 doing porn?
whitney cummings
What is that?
joe rogan
That's a bitch that knows she's gonna die and just wants to ride that boat right into the rocks.
Hit the throttle.
She's bobbing across the top of the ocean.
She sees the rocks.
She doesn't let up at all.
She doesn't even close her eyes.
whitney cummings
This is upsetting to me.
joe rogan
Go back up.
Stop scrolling so much.
whitney cummings
I guess it's the no teeth.
joe rogan
Kim Kardashian is the most popular porn star searched by millennials still.
whitney cummings
Is she a porn star?
joe rogan
Yeah, she's got a porn tape.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
whitney cummings
I don't know the rest of these girls.
joe rogan
And Mia Khalifa, who's like a...
whitney cummings
Liz Khalifa's...
unidentified
Sister?
whitney cummings
I know nothing.
joe rogan
Lisa Ann, who's deep in her 40s, I believe.
whitney cummings
Good for her.
That's a victory.
joe rogan
Interesting.
whitney cummings
I don't know any of these people.
Oh, Sasha Gray, I feel like she's fallen off the...
joe rogan
I don't think she does it anymore.
whitney cummings
Oh, really?
joe rogan
I think she retired.
whitney cummings
Her vagina threw in the towel?
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, it's like a fighter.
They get enough headshots, and they're like, I gotta step away.
whitney cummings
She's had enough concussions in the back of her throat.
How do you...
I don't know.
I mean, I know I met...
I did a job...
This is gonna sound crazy.
So I hired Jenna Jameson to do something in a pilot that I did, and I met her fiance, and she was actually really cool.
I mean, all the weird...
Recently her Twitter feed has revealed something else, but when I met her, she seemed quite normal, whatever that even means.
She's very nice.
And she's sober now.
Her guy didn't know she was Jenna Jameson for like a couple months.
joe rogan
I don't even want to comment.
whitney cummings
Do not believe it.
joe rogan
I know her.
She's a very nice person.
I'd rather not comment on her personal life, so I don't really know.
whitney cummings
Got it.
joe rogan
I support anyone who's trying to escape that world and just become normal.
whitney cummings
Well, because I also, with guys that I date, I never want them to see my stand-up.
joe rogan
Do you think that...
How many guys have you dated where you were on a date with them for a while before they figured out that you were a famous comedian?
whitney cummings
I mean, since I've done stand-up, I don't...
joe rogan
Never?
whitney cummings
Yeah, maybe not.
joe rogan
So it's always an elephant in the room.
whitney cummings
Well, it's always like, have you seen my specials, have you not?
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
And someone I'm seeing now, I was like, could you not?
joe rogan
Could you not watch me?
whitney cummings
Watch them.
Wow.
Just so that you have an opportunity to just get to know me first before you hear me talk about squirting for 40 minutes.
unidentified
And is he okay with that?
whitney cummings
He was like, I'd rather not, actually.
And I'm like, cool.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
Whereas some guys are like, what's your special last night?
Fucking squirting.
And I'm like, okay.
I don't want the guys I date to see me that way.
So I'm just codependently worried about Sasha Gray's future.
joe rogan
Well, she seems like a very smart person.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, a buddy of mine used to work for the Fleshlight and he'd met her and she just reads books a lot.
She's very smart.
She's a freak.
She did a whole article about that.
She had done some mainstream movie.
whitney cummings
She did with Soderbergh.
The Girlfriend Experience or something.
joe rogan
That's right.
She did some interview about it.
She was like, I'm just sort of embracing my inner slut.
She's like, I like it.
How come guys are allowed to do that?
whitney cummings
No, so do I, but I don't film it.
I have parents and I don't put it on camera.
joe rogan
Maybe that's the thing.
Maybe it's the parent thing.
whitney cummings
There's something different there.
joe rogan
Or maybe you don't have parents that you want to punish.
Maybe some women have parents that they want to punish.
They want their dad who doesn't talk to them ever to see this and realize how bad he fucked up.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Oh, interesting.
It could be an act of aggression or like a punitive act.
I mean, there's a lot of people that I would like to get revenge on and I still don't have sex on camera and upload it to Vimeo.
joe rogan
Well, because that's also self-punishment in some ways.
whitney cummings
100%.
unidentified
It's cutting.
joe rogan
You're opening yourself up to massive amounts of...
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
Like, I went just for no good reason.
I went to Ronda Rousey's Instagram page the other day.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because she showed up in my feed, and then I went to her page, and I looked at some of the comments on some of her pictures, and holy shit, are there monsters out there?
whitney cummings
About sexual stuff?
joe rogan
No.
I mean, I'm sure there's some of it was sexual.
What I just thought was just mean.
Like, you open yourself up to just mean fucking people.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I mean, she, I don't, you know, know, like, she, I'm sure, doesn't look at that or something, but whenever I look at it, I'm out for a couple days.
joe rogan
You can't look at it.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Apparently they have to keep Donald Trump away from Twitter and from Instagram and television.
Because, like, there was some thing, they were talking about some campaign aide that was like, you know, we have to keep him away.
You gotta keep him distracted.
You gotta keep him away from the television.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because he becomes fixated and he just wants to talk about, like, someone who's doing a Saturday Night Live sketch about him.
whitney cummings
Well, I mean, look, I don't know enough about politics to really talk about it, and it really doesn't matter who you are interested in or not, but he shows the signs of a clinical narcissist, and whether that's good or bad, maybe presidents should be narcissists, maybe athletes should.
I don't know where that benefits you.
I'm sure there are careers where it does, but narcissists have that kind of addiction to feedback.
joe rogan
It's scary for a leader.
It makes sense for an artist or for an athlete that you have to have some sort of narcissism to become J-Lo.
whitney cummings
To say I'm the best in the world.
joe rogan
Yeah, to be a diva or to be a whatever the fuck you are.
But yeah, it becomes a real scary thing when it's like, I remember when he was talking about Kanye West, when Kanye West did that thing in front of this giant concert and he said, I didn't vote, but if I did vote, I would vote.
He said, I vote on Trump.
whitney cummings
He's not even spelling it right.
unidentified
I would vote Vote on Trump.
Thank God you don't vote, but it's not helping.
whitney cummings
Well, it is interesting.
joe rogan
What I was going to say is he did this thing where he's talking about it in front of this gigantic group of people, where he's talking about, he loves Trump.
I love Kanye because Kanye loves Trump.
He was talking about himself in the third person.
It was so disturbing.
It was like, this is such a weird way of addressing that.
Instead of saying in a gracious way, that was very kind of him, I appreciate him, he's a brilliant artist, and it's very nice to have his support.
Thank you, Kanye.
Instead of just saying that, he loves Trump.
Well, I love Kanye, because Kanye loves Trump.
He loves Trump.
Like, he kept saying it and repeating it.
whitney cummings
Like an Asian person speaking broken English.
joe rogan
He's also a 70-year-old grandpa who's out there working 150 hours a day and he's probably ragged.
whitney cummings
But your thing about impulse control is like if you can't go, you know what?
I'm not going to send that.
I'm going to put a pin in that and spend some critical thinking before I sort of act.
But this is also a man who is Did you hear when he said, he was like, you know, I can see things from every angle.
I'm not doing impressions.
I can see things from every angle probably better than anyone.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he always does that.
whitney cummings
Anyone?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Anyone.
But I'm fascinated by how much a mental illness can help you and then when it starts to backfire on you.
It's obviously worked pretty well on some level.
joe rogan
Well, what's going on now is his mental state or the way he behaves, his personality, is being examined by the brightest minds in the world.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like us.
No, not us.
whitney cummings
And the dumbest.
joe rogan
And two idiots that like to talk about pussy slapping and gagging.
whitney cummings
Or watching zip popping for you.
joe rogan
But he's, you know, he's under this, there's a level of scrutiny that you get if you're a rapper like Kanye West or a fighter like Ronda Rousey.
And then there's this whole nother level when you want to be the center of the entire nuclear armament for the United States of America.
You want to be the commander in chief.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
For the greatest country the world has ever known.
And that's what he's done.
And I don't think it's good.
Howard Stern was talking about this, and I think Howard knows him pretty well.
And I think it was very astute what he was saying.
It's not good for him mentally.
It's like the guy wants to be loved, and you're just not going to be loved in that job.
unidentified
It's heartbreaking.
joe rogan
Nobody gets loved.
whitney cummings
Yeah, you did it to get love and you're getting the massive amount of hate come at you, but he is getting love from a specific area of people.
I mean, I'm, again, fascinated by the primal element of it, of how we, you know, the people who are responding well to what he's doing are...
Responding to alpha male.
We have a, I think, reptilian attraction to alpha males.
I mean, I'll say it.
When I was watching him in early, early on, in the early debates when there was like, you know, six candidates on stage, as much as, I mean, I did his roast.
I met him.
He was gross to me.
joe rogan
He's gross?
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Oh, he's the guy who like puts his hand on your lower back when he talks to you for no reason at all.
It was just like, you know, but he was a cartoon character of Donald Trump.
I mean, it's like he's the erstats version of Donald Trump.
It's so surreal at this point.
But I saw him sort of knowing all of his shortcomings.
This is before anyone actually thought he would become president.
Not that the other candidates didn't have shortcomings, but he said to all of the people, he pointed them all out, and he was like, you've asked me for money, you've asked me for money, and it was so ballsy and courageous.
And I was like, my primal brain was like, if there's an earthquake, I'm going with that guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I think we're all in such a survivalist mindset with what's happened with the economy and people are struggling for- I get it, you know?
And I was like, yep, that guy's the most fearless motherfucker of the bunch.
Everybody is so calculated and scared and reserved and- They weren't prepared for that.
joe rogan
I don't think politics in general was prepared for someone with that mindset.
Someone who can rebound from that grab the pussy thing and be like, it was locker room talk.
whitney cummings
But he didn't care.
If he had apologized, we would have been pissed.
I mean, at least his supporters would have been pissed.
He didn't apologize.
He's like, yeah, I said it.
There's something in our primal brains that's like, yes, that guy can protect me when shit goes down.
joe rogan
Well, there's also, like, people are tired of really ultra-left-wing, nanny-state-type people that want to tell you what you can say and what you can't say and how to behave and trigger words.
whitney cummings
And you're so good at, like, you're not contributing to this problem.
You're part of this solution of, like, I think there's also, like we were talking about earlier, with Catholic schools and the pendulum swinging of this, like, hyper-political correctness.
And then just this reaction of, like, this motherfucker does not care.
He's saying Muslims are bad and they're raping.
Like, he's saying what our crazy uncle says at dinner every night, you know?
And, like, there's just something brave about it that's attractive.
joe rogan
I think there is hope that someone is going to recognize the positive elements of that kind of, not total, like, disregard for the way people view him, But having the confidence to be yourself and then meeting much closer to the middle in terms of being compassionate and kind and being open-minded.
whitney cummings
But not apologetic and weak and scared.
I think you can be both.
And the Democratic Party is showing a lack of people who are unapologetic, fearless, and have aplomb.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's also, it's interesting watching people that he's trying to assign to different cabinet positions backing out.
They're like, nope, sorry.
whitney cummings
They're like, no amount of money can deal with the hate threats and the pussy hats out my front door.
joe rogan
It's just, it's so...
It's detrimental to your career.
And if they think the boat is sinking, like, oh, this boat might make it across the ocean, but it might not.
unidentified
I'm good.
whitney cummings
I could also just, yeah.
It's a fascinating time, I think, to explore the kind of things that you explore on your show, which is like human nature and our primordial instincts.
Because this has been, I think, the most tribal, primal thing I've witnessed in my lifetime.
joe rogan
I've never seen so much separation between the left and the right and the anger and fury that's going on today.
whitney cummings
There was a great article in, I think it was Scientific American, I think, about when people are wrong about something.
Because here's the other thing, like even if you voted for Trump and he promised you, you know, manufacturing jobs would come back, which is...
kind of impossible given modern technology.
He promised something that is sort of like technologically not feasible.
But even if when you voted for him, you were right, he was going to give you, he said ISIS in 30 days.
It's been more than 30 days.
Hasn't done, you know, can people say, you know what, I was wrong.
That guy fucking lied to me.
It's so hard for us to do that because of our ego.
And there was an article in Scientific American how people, and granted, I'm sure this study was skewed, and it's a specific, you know, group of people that sign up for a study, but that when someone was wrong, when someone told them they were wrong, it made them believe their point even more.
I don't know.
I'll send it to you.
joe rogan
They double down.
whitney cummings
They double down.
But if you say to them, and I think it's the CIA that uses this as a form of questioning, is that you first have to legitimize their position before you suggest that there might be something flawed about it.
So you go like, you know, I totally understand that you would think that, you know, the earth is flat.
I can see why you would thought that.
I mean, you grew up here.
Of course you thought that.
If you empathize with them first and then say, you know, but turns out it's round, they'll more...
They're more likely to come around, but if you just say hey, you know that's fucking wrong, and if you show them proof, they double down even further on there.
joe rogan
What's the worst thing you say to someone who's upset?
Calm down!
whitney cummings
Relax!
joe rogan
Yeah, they just get fucking furious.
It's a non-respecting thing.
You're not respecting the person's state of mind.
You're not objectively stepping back and looking, how does this person really feel right now, and what's the best way to talk to them?
whitney cummings
You're demoralizing, and what we're all doing is demoralizing each other by going, you're fucking wrong, you're stupid, And something that was interesting, and I know that I'm in Hollywood and I don't know anything about politics.
I know, you don't have to tweet it.
I know.
But one thing I do know is that, and I was sort of fascinated by the comedian's role in this election, because as the news fails us in a lot of ways, comedians sometimes tend to sort of show up and tell the truth.
But in every movie, the underdog always has to win.
And, right?
It's just Rudy.
Fucking baseball.
What is the field of dreams?
Rocky!
Exactly.
So I was like, everybody beating up on him, you're just making him the underdog.
And underdogs always have to win.
It's just like some weird human nature thing.
joe rogan
Sort of, but isn't he also the president?
Like, you can't really be the underdog and be the president, can you?
whitney cummings
Don't you think he was the underdog?
I think during the election, we were all beating up on him.
And I think we were going, he's stupid, you're dumb, you're not qualified.
And then everyone was like, oh, we gotta fucking root for that guy.
Because we were, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's going to take the establishment down.
But meanwhile, he's bringing in all these fucking bankers and Exxon people.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and people tweeting about him just gave him hundreds of millions of dollars of free press.
It was just sort of interesting how we sort of hoodwinked ourselves.
joe rogan
Well, not just tweeting about him.
The things that he said were the things that CNN decided they were going to cover and now he won't let CNN into the Fascinating.
Or the New York Times.
unidentified
Fascinating.
joe rogan
He wouldn't let the New York Times into the press gaggle.
But he let Infowars and all these other weird websites.
I mean, it's very odd.
That's unprecedented that he's limiting access.
To the press.
whitney cummings
You know, he filed for re-election five hours after he won.
I mean, this guy is like, you know, and there's something amazing about it.
Like, he has figured out a way to hypnotize a nation, a world.
I mean, there's something just so primal at play.
joe rogan
Well, he's juking the system in the same way he's juked the system with taxes and With, you know, with filing for bankruptcy.
whitney cummings
Well, it's interesting because we're mostly designed to follow rules and to comply with what is socially acceptable, right?
That's like how we get dopamine is like, just fit in, be part of the pack.
That's how you stay safe.
And he is not one of those people.
And it's just pretty fascinating.
joe rogan
No, not by any stretch of the imagination.
It's unprecedented that this person that lies all the time.
whitney cummings
Pathologically.
Yeah, pathologically.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But he's getting called on it, though, which is weird.
Did you see that?
The reporter who said to him, you said that you won by the largest margin ever.
whitney cummings
And he was like, someone told me that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he said, well, it was amongst Republicans.
And then he said, no, because George H.W. Bush had a larger Electoral College victory.
He's like, well, it's what they told me.
It's what I've been told.
whitney cummings
But there's also with, and this is sort of back to the horse thing, like, it doesn't matter what you say, it matters how you say it.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
And do people care if they're being lied to, if they're being lied to in an authoritative way with someone who seems very confident, like they know what they're fucking doing.
joe rogan
But it's going to chip away at him, though.
This is what I really believe, that all these times where he's being checked, like, this is the reason why he won't go to the White House press correspondence dinner.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, that's weird.
That's a tradition.
whitney cummings
Remember when he wouldn't go on the debates?
He wouldn't go on CNN? This has been going on where he just refuses to be president.
Hasn't he not even moved in?
He's been golfing most of his presidency and it's cost us money.
joe rogan
He sends his kids on these business trips.
whitney cummings
To go set up hotels in the countries that don't...
joe rogan
We have to protect his kids.
whitney cummings
Do people care?
I can't tell if people care.
joe rogan
They don't know yet.
whitney cummings
They don't know.
joe rogan
It's only been 30-something days.
How long has he been in the White House?
Yeah, so he's been in the White House a little over a month.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and most people are just living their lives and they're busy and they just don't even have time.
joe rogan
It takes a while for all that information to trickle into the entire country.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like it's getting into some people.
There's people that are furious.
There's, you know, there's New York Times writers who are writing on it on a daily basis and there's all these different authors.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I mean, I just think there's something to be said for, and I'm working on this in my life, to be able to be like, I was wrong.
You got me good.
You hoodwinked me, and I'm wrong, and now what?
joe rogan
Do you think that people are going to do that, though?
I don't know.
That's acquiescing to the left.
whitney cummings
Or just being sane, going like, I was bamboozled.
joe rogan
But being sane doesn't work when you have these party politics things.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's so tribal.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's so tribal.
It's so team-oriented.
I mean, it's just something that's ingrained in us to have an enemy and a team.
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Fight with and then it becomes all about our projections like I mean it's really been hard because I'm trying to sort of like especially going on stage like I had a riot breakout in Napa people started fighting you know in a crowd.
joe rogan
What were you talking about when they rioted?
whitney cummings
This was before the election and I really start out with being like you know what politics is not my thing there's people who are much better at it and I let them do it if you want to talk about squirting you come to me but like I know my I stay in my lane and But this felt like something that was just, you know, beyond something that almost feels weird to ignore it on stage.
It's like the elephant in the living room.
And so I was talking about it, and I was like, look, I'm not saying who I think should win.
I think both candidates have flaws.
I think there's one that's less flawed, but whatever.
And I said something about, you know, if Bill is in the White House, because it would be the first female president, it was just something about, like, what happens with the first female president and how I think that there should be a rule saying that The first female...
Can she...
Because the woman doesn't have...
She doesn't have time to fuck him.
She doesn't have time.
And this woman yelled out.
She was like, How dare you?
Talk about Hillary.
This is one of the most conservative areas in the country.
You need to know your audience.
joe rogan
This lady said that to you?
whitney cummings
She was in the second row.
She was with me the entire time.
Turns on me.
And I was like...
joe rogan
You need to know your audience.
whitney cummings
And I... Now I realize wrongly, was like, oh no, you need to know you're a comedian.
I don't give a shit.
joe rogan
How's that bad?
whitney cummings
That's right.
I thought so.
But...
Then the audience all went after her, and then she had a bunch of people with her, and it was just turned into a melee.
joe rogan
That sounds awesome.
whitney cummings
You would have loved it.
joe rogan
Plus, you're in Napa.
They're probably drunk as fuck.
whitney cummings
Shit-faced.
I was so scared, because no one was tractable.
It wasn't like, oh, the bodyguard.
It was like everybody was getting up and fighting with everybody.
And so I hadn't really talked about it on stage, but it's just so deep.
It's so visceral with people.
It's like we're in a war.
I mean, this country's in a psychological war.
joe rogan
A psychological civil war.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And you can't bring it up with anybody.
It just is like, I feel like I'm walking on eggshells around.
This is the first time I think I've ever even talked about it.
I don't even tweet about it.
I just kind of like...
joe rogan
How'd the show end?
Fire.
whitney cummings
Quickly.
joe rogan
Earthquake.
whitney cummings
I got my check and it cleared.
But no, they had to be, like, 16 people had to be removed.
joe rogan
Whoa, 16?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did the show go on?
whitney cummings
The show went on, yes.
joe rogan
Did you have a good time with it?
whitney cummings
And I ended up, I mean, for me, like, if someone tells me, I just had to, so I had to go harder at the political thing.
But it's the kind of thing where I thrive in adrenaline and conflict.
I was just like, bitches, this is how I grew up.
I'm looking for an excuse to fight people.
Don't do this.
joe rogan
Don't you think also starting out and doing a lot of work at the Comedy Store, which has no fucking crowd control.
whitney cummings
I'm an original room comic.
You fucked with the wrong monster.
joe rogan
But the idea is she could say, know your audience.
It's the most conservative place in the country.
whitney cummings
She just was like, cater your material to us.
Which was just so, yeah.
unidentified
Know your audience.
whitney cummings
She was one of those, I mean, it was really demeaning.
And I think I also got very deeply insulted.
I was a slot machine or a jukebox where she puts money in and I'm just supposed to do what she wants me to do.
And I was like, comedians, we're the only ones left Who are taking risks and saying shit that no one else will say.
How dare you?
I felt like it was an attack on free speech in general.
joe rogan
Well, people have their ideas of what you're supposed to do.
This is how you're supposed to behave if you're a this.
This is how you're supposed to be.
You have a bedside manner if you're a doctor, if you're a comedian.
You have to tailor your jokes.
whitney cummings
I think it's like, if you're, I mean, I'm in comedy, so I think if a comedian doesn't make you a little uncomfortable at some point, we're kind of not doing our job, you know?
joe rogan
I always think it's hilarious when someone tells you not to talk about something.
Like, someone tells you, next subject!
Have you ever had someone to yell out, next subject!
whitney cummings
Oh my gosh.
I've had some pretty...
unidentified
Drop it.
whitney cummings
Well, I've had...
Sometimes Kevin Christie pointed out to me one time that about...
Because he opened for me a long time, about 45 minutes into my set, someone always turns on me.
It's usually a man who just has had a drink and I turn into their wife.
Like a woman talking into a microphone at you for that long, I will become your mother, your ex-wife, the girl who didn't fuck you in high school.
Especially the booze.
The booze.
And one time we were in La Jolla, which you know is the most chaotic group of drunk people.
joe rogan
Xanax.
whitney cummings
Xanax.
And I did this joke about how guys ages ago, every guy has a jar of coins in their house somewhere, like pennies, or like a bowl of coins, and everyone's laughing, and this guy just snaps at me.
He had been in the front row laughing the entire time, and he was just like, that's so we can pay for your shit!
And very quickly I realized that I had transmogrified into someone.
So it's triggering.
I mean, going to see comedy can be triggering.
I think it should be.
joe rogan
That's heavy.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it should be.
Obviously I went to sort of a different place.
But yeah, we basically trigger drunk people for a living that just want to be heard.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's so innocuous.
Why would anybody be upset that you have a jar of coins?
I mean, it's kind of funny because a lot of guys do.
They have a jar and they chuck coins in it and then they eventually bring it to the bank and go, do something with this.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it was just like a shitty observational joke from six years ago.
But I get a lot of times, the most annoying thing is actually just when people are like, so true!
You're like, what?
For me, the backhanded compliments after the show are always the worst.
joe rogan
Like, you're really funny for a girl?
whitney cummings
Or like, I don't care what anyone says, you're hilarious.
unidentified
Oh!
whitney cummings
And stuff like that.
Hey, hey, don't...
joe rogan
My friend hates you, but I think you're pretty good.
whitney cummings
Don't listen to them.
You're amazing.
unidentified
Whoa.
whitney cummings
You know, just sort of like...
joe rogan
There's so many crazy people you have to talk to.
whitney cummings
Are you really 34?
I mean, I get.
You're the craziest.
The craziest.
I mean, you're so much prettier in person.
You're actually really pretty.
joe rogan
Well, that's actually nice.
That's a nice thing to say.
whitney cummings
If there's ever an actually...
You're actually funny.
joe rogan
But that's...
Yeah.
Well, don't you think people are just awkward?
whitney cummings
Yes, people get awkward.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, just like a guy trying to contact you on a dating app.
They don't know how to.
Like, so you think you're pretty funny, huh?
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I'm like, no, I have really low self-esteem.
Next question.
joe rogan
You see him sitting in front of his phone trying to think of the right thing to say.
whitney cummings
Do you get people...
You must have people...
Because I think for comics, like with celebrities who are like movie stars, people are like, oh my god, That's Emily Blunt.
Or whatever.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Right?
But with us, they're like, what's up, buddy?
Like, they think we're friends.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
I find, at least with me, and people are super comfortable with me.
joe rogan
Even more so because of the podcast.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Do people just come up to you and they're just like, hey, man.
joe rogan
All the time.
whitney cummings
I used to fight.
joe rogan
Yeah, they just want to talk about all kinds of things.
But the problem is, like, sometimes I'm with my kids and they just want to talk to me.
I'm like, I can't talk to you right now.
whitney cummings
What do you do?
You just say...
joe rogan
I tell you, I'm with my family, man.
I gotta go.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, like, I can't...
Hey, man, I gotta ask you a question.
You know, boop, boop, boop, boop.
And they'll just go into these in-depth questions like, this is not happening.
I'm holding the hand of a six-year-old right now.
And I'm on my way to do something.
Like, this is not...
We're not gonna sit here for half an hour so you can talk about Conor McGregor.
whitney cummings
I mean, it's a victory that you have created such a group of people who are so into...
I have people come up to me about your show quite a lot at the gym.
joe rogan
At the gym?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
When you're not talking about anal sex?
unidentified
It's always, yeah, they're like, hey, so I... I don't buttfuck in my personal life, but what I do is listen to you on podcasts.
whitney cummings
People know so much about us that, I mean, it is tricky.
I don't have a family, but when I'm on dates and people are like, hey, how's your knee?
I'm like, what?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
Guys are always like, who is this person?
I'm like, I've never met this person.
They're like, why do they know more about you than I do?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, you get exposed in a weird way when you do these long-form conversations.
unidentified
It's true.
whitney cummings
I forget it.
joe rogan
You can't hide.
That's who you are, you know?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
But it's like, I definitely, I mean, I would imagine your listeners know more about you than your wife does.
joe rogan
No, she knows a lot about me.
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Does she listen?
joe rogan
Yeah, she listens too.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Hey, girl.
joe rogan
Hey, what's up?
whitney cummings
Hey, girl.
joe rogan
She was listening to me and Ron White and she just goes, comedians are so fucking weird.
She's like, you guys are so honest.
You reveal shit that people would hide to their deathbed.
whitney cummings
It's true.
joe rogan
And you guys are talking about it and laughing like Ron White was talking about accidentally getting his dick sucked by a bunch of guys.
whitney cummings
I know it.
You know what's really weird?
I listened to the Ron White episode.
I'm obsessed with Ron in a million ways.
And I remember when he said, I just want respect from my peers.
And I was, you know, when we say things that no one else, everyone thinks, but no one else says, I think it gives grace to them.
So I think we sort of serve that purpose.
joe rogan
Well, I think that's got to be the worst thing in the world is even being successful.
I know we can name a few people that are like this, but even being successful, hated and despised by their peers.
And it's like, you don't, you're a man without a country.
Like you're You're lost.
whitney cummings
The only people that understood me now...
Well, that happened when I got a TV show and all the comedy store and the comics there were like my family.
And then I got a show and then all of a sudden everyone was mad at me.
joe rogan
I wish I was around back then.
whitney cummings
I'm trying to think when that was.
It was like five, six years ago maybe?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
It was the loneliest I've ever felt.
I was like, the only people who understand me now hate me.
joe rogan
I got so jealous and weak.
whitney cummings
It was awful.
It was terrible.
I now know that it was just them being insecure and then everyone's got a show now.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people that do have this feeling that's never going to happen for them.
And there's no greater way to ensure that it's never going to happen for you than to have this feeling and ride it out that it's never going to happen for you.
It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's like the opposite of a placebo effect.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and then look, when it happens, you better be ready because it's not going to work if you're not ready.
joe rogan
Right, and even if you're ready, it might not work.
And if it doesn't work, you can't think it's the end of time.
You've got to keep going.
whitney cummings
You've got to keep hammering.
If you haven't healed the wound that made you want the thing in the first place, the thing is not going to fix it.
joe rogan
Absolutely.
I've gone into depth with comedians about that because I think that's an important thing to think.
We all start out from a fucked up place.
Every comedian that's any good starts out from a place of insecurity and weakness and then somewhere along the line you've got to become more secure and then it's going to become about art.
It's got to become about creating something that's good that people enjoy.
And then it's got to be about doing something that's going to enhance people's experience.
They're going to go to see you, and for an hour and a half, that show is going to be so fun, they're going to literally feel better.
And it's got to be that.
whitney cummings
You're a healer.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And whatever good feeling you get out of that, here's the sacrifice.
You're not going to enjoy it at all.
I enjoy onstage killing, but the creating and the process and the going over the material and writing and the chipping away at your fucking, why does this suck?
This topic sucks.
Should I abandon it or should I just keep working at it?
whitney cummings
Or it's working, but it's fucking cheap.
And why the fuck are you guys laughing at this?
This sucks.
joe rogan
You can't do that either, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's sort of self-loathing.
It's like figuring out a way to heal the wound that made you funny, but also stay funny.
So can you be healthy and funny?
I think that's my biggest...
You can be.
joe rogan
But it's not easy.
It's definitely a bouncing act.
And there's something that happens to comedians when they become famous that their main motivation was to get that love and then they get it and then they fucking suck.
Something happens.
whitney cummings
You get complacent, you stop needing the approval or you stop, you know, that's the perfectionism thing.
Because perfectionism is a lot of why I'm like so like, you know, my bar is so high for what to say on stage.
And if I lower that bar, is it going to be less quality, you know?
joe rogan
You seem like you just need more reinforcement personally in your personal life to relax your perfectionism in your career.
That's what I would think.
whitney cummings
And I think you're right.
And I think what happened is I think a lot of people are like, what do you mean?
You made it.
Everyone knows you.
And you're like, well, no, that means I have to be even better.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
Like the bar is now higher.
joe rogan
That's why you're scared to do a set at the Ice House.
whitney cummings
Well, I'm just kind of like, and we've talked about this, I have an allergy to doing old material, and it makes me feel like a phony.
joe rogan
That's good.
You should give it to some people I know.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Can you spit in their mouth?
whitney cummings
I feel...
That's a thing, by the way.
There's a lot of open your mouth so I can spit in it happening.
Do you guys think we like that?
I'm going to talk directly to camera.
There's a lot of let me spit in your mouth.
Actually, I'd rather you spit on my face.
joe rogan
Whoa.
whitney cummings
Spitting in the mouth is like, then I have to swallow.
joe rogan
You mean sexually?
People spit in your mouth?
whitney cummings
Yeah, a lot of spit in your mouth.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
whitney cummings
Let me spit in your mouth.
joe rogan
Don't.
whitney cummings
When did cum in your mouth become so boring?
Now there's the spitting in the mouth.
There's a lot of spitting.
unidentified
Sigh.
joe rogan
I don't know.
whitney cummings
A lot of spitting.
joe rogan
I don't get it.
whitney cummings
Degradation.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm not...
I don't get it.
whitney cummings
I have heard, though.
I heard from a guy I know I'm obsessed with.
What's the most disrespectful thing a woman could do?
And I've had a couple guys say, spit in my face.
Just, I mean, in general.
Like, not sexual.
joe rogan
Oh, like a woman who doesn't like you?
whitney cummings
Yeah, like, or if you're like, you know, this guy, I know his wife spit in his face when they were in a fight.
And he was like, I... He's like, it took every...
A molecule in my body not to...
joe rogan
Not to what?
Spit back or hit her?
whitney cummings
Or just lose my mind and kill her.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
That was his, the most disrespectful.
Because I'm always interested in what, you know, people...
joe rogan
Did he stay with her?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
She's still married.
Three kids.
joe rogan
Hilarious.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
What a bitch.
He's in the military.
Like, he's all about respect and whatever.
joe rogan
So she was trying to push those buttons.
whitney cummings
But he's like, she can slap me all day long.
But spitting in my face, that is the most disrespectful thing you can do to a man.
joe rogan
It's a very dangerous thing when you get physical with people.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Super dangerous.
whitney cummings
It's very interesting.
I have a very high tolerance for physical disrespect.
unidentified
Really?
whitney cummings
I mean, and I was dealing with this with my horse the other day.
joe rogan
Your horse was disrespecting you?
whitney cummings
Well, horses, so you have to claim your space with a horse and you have to draw a boundary if you guys are going to be around because they can kill you.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
And I don't really do it with dogs.
You have to do it with dogs.
joe rogan
You should bring a taser.
whitney cummings
I mean, yeah, you just sort of claim your space and they actually respect you more and like you more when you have self-respect and you have sort of your boundary or else they'll just walk all over you.
I mean, it's metaphorical.
You don't seem to have this problem in your life.
But with dogs, you also, for a dog to lay on top of you, that's dominant.
We mistake it as like, we're good.
But they're actually in your space, and they're like, oh, well, I own you now.
Really?
Yeah.
So a lot of times with my dogs, especially since I get rescue dogs who are unpredictable, and pit bulls have a very high arousal rate, so I can't just let them lay on me all night long and stuff.
I have to then go, now you're off of me, and you're my bitch.
I'm not your bitch.
Because that could backfire later.
joe rogan
Jesus.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, dogs are so weird when you rescue them because you just don't know what the fuck they had to deal with.
You just don't know.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and I made some major mistakes of mistaking physical proximity with like trust and we'll be fine.
joe rogan
Yeah, especially when they're full grown.
whitney cummings
Yeah, because if they get possessive of you or attached to you or we sometimes think that's like so cute, but sometimes it's actually dominant.
joe rogan
Well, it's also when you bring other people into your life, and then this dog decides that other people are stealing you from them, and they get aggressive towards the other person, it becomes an issue.
whitney cummings
Yeah, well, I mean, it's really dogs are just extensions of their owner.
Like, you also have to let them know, like, I can talk to whoever the fuck I want, and you're not allowed to have a problem with it.
So they're not allowed to get possessive over you like that if you train them properly.
joe rogan
You know what's interesting?
That puppy that I got, the golden, we brought him home and he gives everyone kisses, everyone kisses, everyone kisses.
He's so sweet.
Then he gets to me and he wants to bite my face.
He bites my face and he plays super rough with me, like right away.
He was like nipping at me, not hard, like he wasn't hurting me, but he's like, you're so fun.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think he thinks I'm an animal.
whitney cummings
Have you put his lip under his teeth?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
You put your lip just so that they learn how sharp their own teeth are.
And then also bite them back.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
That's what I do, bite them back.
joe rogan
Yeah, I usually just put him on his back and go, hey, cut the shit from my face.
whitney cummings
Yeah, hold him down with both of his, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he's trying to bite me when I'm doing it.
whitney cummings
Yeah, because their mouth is their hands.
Like, he's not trying to hurt you, he's just trying to hurt you.
joe rogan
No, he's sweet, but he thinks my six-year-old is a puppy.
It's hilarious.
That's so funny.
That's like his little puppy buddy.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, he bites her clothes and stuff.
We have to keep him from doing that.
And he's not being mean at all.
whitney cummings
Well, they don't care about clothes.
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
What is that?
And they don't know until you tell them what is wrong.
People are so bad at training their dogs, it's shocking.
Like what I see just in the streets when I see someone with their dog, their dog's tugging and they're like, what are you doing?
I'm like, oh, is your dog the one that speaks English and no sarcasm?
Would you stop that?
It's just like the way you're saying it does not match what you're saying and that's not a command.
So I'm really into training dogs in a very rigorous way.
joe rogan
Yeah, me too.
You also have to, like, I'm teaching my kids, like, you can't, the dog doesn't understand his name being used a bunch of different ways.
whitney cummings
Like, Marshall.
joe rogan
No, no.
Marshall.
unidentified
Yep, agreed.
joe rogan
Marshall.
I go, you gotta say no.
whitney cummings
Children don't even understand that, and sarcasm, you know?
And, yeah, and people, I think, mistake, and they conflate discipline with, like, being mean to the dog or something.
It's just not true.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
whitney cummings
Discipline is so nice to a dog.
But also when I see people, I've seen some real disasters with placing dogs in homes where people don't train their kids how to deal with dogs.
A child's going to get their face bitten off.
I get so scared because people just let their kid hit the dog in the face and shake their face.
And I'm like, you have to train your child also.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Especially a dog dog.
There's a danger in bringing a dog around children in the first place.
A lot of times they think kids are like another dog.
whitney cummings
And my dogs are giant.
My dog hurts me.
They hurt me by accident all of the time and I'm an adult.
Like I'll bend over to pick something up and they'll come by.
joe rogan
They headbutt you.
whitney cummings
Yes, they don't mean to.
joe rogan
No, they just have iron heads.
whitney cummings
Yeah, just block heads.
And so my big dog is a Great Dane Pitbull, and he just knocks me out.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ, that's a giant dog.
whitney cummings
All the time.
So when kids come over, they go in the crates.
They're not going to attack them, but why do people want to take chances?
Let's take a selfie with the dog.
Just put it in a crate.
joe rogan
Super dangerous.
whitney cummings
It's got razor blades in its mouth.
It's going to make a mistake sooner or later.
I used to be really naive about it, but...
joe rogan
It's interesting with German Shepherds, apparently, and Akita's.
I always say, if anything looks too much like a wolf, be fucking super careful around kids with it.
whitney cummings
There's this guy that has really been helping me, this guy, Brandon McMillan.
He's got a show called Lucky Dog on CBS, and he taught me how to aggression test dogs with two leashes and stuff, because I was just getting these dogs from shelters that had been abused and stuff, and I'm like, my love isn't going to make you trained.
No, it's not.
Like, living in the valley with a yard, that's gonna fix you.
It's not true.
So I've learned to sort of honor the neurology of dogs and their instincts, and they were wolves, and food comes first, and if they have a scarcity complex, like, they're gonna go after food, and if they've been abused, like, they have no reason to not protect themselves if they feel threatened.
joe rogan
Is that dog whisperer guy, that Cesar Millan guy, is he good?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I mean, he's great.
Like, all these guys have, you know, I'm sure, like, any, like, fighting or anything, everyone's got, like, that's wrong, that's wrong.
Everyone's got their own.
Like, I've figured out what works for me, which is, like, basically positive reinforcement or just ignoring the dog when they do something wrong.
So the biggest punishment to a dog is just ignoring them.
When you hit them, you're actually giving them attention and confusing them.
Really?
Interesting.
It's confusing to them, and it probably doesn't hurt.
They usually just lose respect for you because you've gotten in a situation where you're now hitting them, and they're just like, well, why did you let me do that yesterday?
You're the one that's inconsistent.
And then they just start to feel unsafe and anxious.
So when they do something wrong, just ignore them for 30 minutes, and they will fucking never do it again.
joe rogan
Do you read books on dogs?
whitney cummings
I do read books on dogs.
joe rogan
Would you read books on more, people or dogs?
Do you?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Well, I mean, your dog is a reflection.
Yeah, well, I was just thinking about it because I was like, recently, I mean, I read a lot of books on, like, addiction and, like, science.
joe rogan
A lot of books on them?
whitney cummings
Yeah, and, like, neuroscience.
That's kind of, like, you know, I'm finishing that book, Sapiens, right now, which is kind of bad.
joe rogan
What is that?
whitney cummings
It's about, like, um, what's the guy's name?
Seth, his last name?
Sethi or something?
It's basically about evolution and how we evolve to be the way we are.
His whole point is that we're...
Not his whole point.
One of them that I find interesting is that the reason we have so much anxiety is because we know that we're...
We implicitly know that we're only superficially at the top of the food chain.
We don't deserve to be at the top of the food chain without weapons.
If I'm in here with a gorilla alone, I'm going to lose real quickly.
Of course.
If I'm in here with a gun, I still might lose, actually.
But we're all kind of walking around with paper-thin skin and we're incredibly vulnerable.
But we just happen to have the animals that kill us in cages.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I just think it's incredibly fascinating that anatomically similar humans who lived 10,000 years ago, as we were talking about with Cro-Magnons, who literally didn't have very many tools or weapons, I mean, didn't have guns for sure, and maybe, I mean, had atlatls or something like that.
I don't even think they had bows.
Find out when they invented the bow and arrow, Jamie.
Let's figure that out.
whitney cummings
And the bow and arrow is also not a sure thing.
You got one chance.
If you miss, you know, you have another 10 minutes that you kind of, you know.
joe rogan
And you can panic.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, how many times have you had to shoot a bow and arrow when your life depends on it, too?
whitney cummings
I've never done it once.
joe rogan
But it's amazing that people before then, I mean, so let's go back even earlier than 10,000 years ago, probably not a whole lot of difference between those people and people 100,000 years ago, with the amount of tissue and the softness of the body and the vulnerability.
Like, it's kind of crazy that we even made it.
whitney cummings
We're made of...
The fact that we get through the day without...
joe rogan
We're water balloons of blood.
whitney cummings
Bees can kill us.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Bees are the literally tiniest animal.
joe rogan
Okay, bow and arrow appears to transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic.
So, oldest elegant bow...
Hold on, what'd you do?
Extent bows in one piece are elm homogard bows from Denmark, which were dated to 9,000 BC. Huh.
Wow.
BCE. I like how they do that now.
Before current era.
It's not even about Jesus.
whitney cummings
They're 71,000 years old.
joe rogan
Wow.
Africa suggested arrows might be at least 71,000 years old.
Holy shit.
whitney cummings
Wow.
joe rogan
Wow.
That's crazy.
whitney cummings
That is crazy.
joe rogan
So they had arrows for like 50,000 years before they figured out the bow.
whitney cummings
I mean, there's an epidemic of fear.
joe rogan
Gotta do something with this.
whitney cummings
Has this always been here?
This epidemic of fear?
I mean, like, this election?
unidentified
Fear.
joe rogan
I'm kidding, by the way.
I'm sure they had a bow, folks.
If people are tweeting right now.
whitney cummings
Yeah, they're all just going fucking apes.
joe rogan
I understand history.
Fear has always been here.
unidentified
Fear.
whitney cummings
I mean, the gun.
People want guns in their house all the time.
And I'm not against people.
People have guns.
unidentified
Walls.
whitney cummings
It is what it is.
joe rogan
Jiu-jitsu.
whitney cummings
But why are people so scared people are going to take their guns away from them?
They need the guns.
There's fear.
I'm fascinated by fear.
joe rogan
I have a theory.
My biggest theory is not just that some people live in bad neighborhoods, but also that we're dealing with the news of seven billion humans.
whitney cummings
True.
joe rogan
That's just too much.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
And we see, now that we have the news, and we see so much negative things happening, that we have a false sense of how dangerous the world is.
joe rogan
And the news is all bad!
whitney cummings
We're the safest we've ever been, and we're the scaredest we've ever been.
unidentified
Are we?
joe rogan
I don't know if we're the scariest we've ever been, because a lot of people are on Xanax again.
whitney cummings
That's true.
They'd be scared if they weren't on Xanax.
They'd be shitting their pants.
But everyone is like, you know, terrified all the time.
And it's just sort of an interesting thing, and trying to figure out what's a real fear and what's a sort of reptilian, irrational fear.
joe rogan
Well, it's what we were talking about before that one day, and probably not far from now, we're going to exist in some sort of a quasi-electronic state.
We're going to exist in some sort of a weird virtual state.
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
And then it's going to be interesting to see what that state is like.
unidentified
We'll be even more vulnerable because we'll have fucking Google glasses over our heads.
joe rogan
And our fucking spinal cord will be connected to the matrix.
whitney cummings
Yeah, we won't have peripheral vision anymore.
We're devolving.
joe rogan
In some way, for sure.
We're evolving into a more vulnerable thing, which is weird.
It's not necessarily that we're devolving, because we're not becoming more like animals.
We're becoming more like...
whitney cummings
There was some study that came out that said that kids who play video games actually have faster reflexes than kids who don't.
unidentified
Whoa.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Is that interesting?
That is.
joe rogan
Reflexes have to do with the mind and the hands reacting, hand-eye coordination.
That makes sense.
You have to move quick.
But physically, moving your body side to side, they don't have the dexterity or the strength to do that because they're fucking just stuck to the couch.
whitney cummings
So it has to be a thumb war.
It can't be an actual threat.
I don't know what the threat was.
joe rogan
Well, Jamie was talking about how they're doing these E-teams for basketball that are going to do alongside the NBA. Like a fantasy team?
Well, no.
They're going to play electronic basketball alongside real basketball games.
whitney cummings
I was on the plane.
joe rogan
What were you saying?
Explain it.
Here.
In the NBA's eSports League, diversity means a new kind of athlete.
jamie vernon
They haven't announced it fully because every team isn't fully locked into it yet right now, but the idea, I think, is that every team is going to have their own 5-on-5 video game team, and they're going to be responsible for signing good players, and there's going to be competitions.
Ideally, they want to have the finals in arenas, too, for this.
joe rogan
The finals in arenas?
whitney cummings
They do for other games right now, like League of Legends.
Oh, they do like PewDiePie goes and plays in a Staples Center, sort of.
I'm terrified by the fact that we're outsourcing physical sports to our phones.
I sat next to a guy on the plane who was playing darts on his phone.
Darts.
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
Literally, he was just sitting there moving his finger.
joe rogan
Did she show...
Whitney has a phone with a photo of this guy's...
So, yeah.
whitney cummings
He's just...
That was the...
He thinks this is a sport.
joe rogan
Plus he's drinking.
whitney cummings
He is shit...
Yeah, he got shit face on.
And he was also wearing shorts, which was really traumatizing for me.
But it was just this.
And I was like, the fact that you think this is a...
Thing.
He was basically just scrolling up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
The fact that he thought he was good at darts.
joe rogan
Or he's just bored.
whitney cummings
Yeah, he literally was like, yes!
joe rogan
Maybe just was freaking out about air travel, so he's getting drunk and medicated and he's distracting himself with this stupid game.
whitney cummings
It scares me.
I worry that we're all just zombies.
joe rogan
I think you should stop being so scared.
whitney cummings
Okay, you're right, you're right.
joe rogan
Just living this moment, Whitney.
Let's end this strong, because we've already done three hours.
whitney cummings
Okay, okay, alright.
joe rogan
Let's end this strong.
whitney cummings
Okay, what are we gonna do?
I'm gonna squirt.
If people are by some miracle still listening to this, you need to just...
joe rogan
I'm sure they are.
whitney cummings
Do something.
Do something.
Do your thing.
joe rogan
Whitney, we've got to do this more often.
whitney cummings
Get me out of here.
unidentified
This is fun.
whitney cummings
This is embarrassing.
joe rogan
This is really fun.
It's not embarrassing at all.
You need more positive reinforcement in your personal life.
whitney cummings
I'm writing a book.
I just sit home all day with my negative thoughts.
That's the problem.
joe rogan
Don't do something negative.
Call me.
I'm here.
whitney cummings
Don't worry about it.
joe rogan
You're going to be fine.
You're going to be fine.
Why did I write a book?
whitney cummings
This is a stupid book.
unidentified
You're so crazy.
whitney cummings
Why did you let me do this?
unidentified
What?
If you cared about me, would you let me on your podcast?
whitney cummings
You would have stopped me from doing this.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
Everything's great.
whitney cummings
You said to me, I said, I was like, did you write a book?
And you were like, yeah, I gave the money back.
It didn't work for me.
And I was like, all right, then I can still do it.
I should have listened to you.
joe rogan
No, you don't.
I mean, the problem that I had was editors.
They were trying to get me to write stand-up.
They said, I want you to write...
First of all, they wanted me to...
They said, look, you don't have to write anything.
We'll just take your stand-up and we'll transcribe it.
I go, that's crazy.
whitney cummings
I've already done that.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they go, well, George Carlin did that and Jerry Seinfeld did that.
I don't care what they did.
I'm not doing that.
If I'm going to write something, I think it's a different kind of medium.
whitney cummings
Right.
Well, it's also interesting because you're just sitting there bombing all day.
unidentified
There's...
whitney cummings
There's no audience.
It's my worst nightmare.
I have to wait eight months to see if something's funny and people laugh in their living room.
I can't even tell.
joe rogan
And they have to pretend they hear you say it, too.
They have to have an imagination and tone and fuck all that.
whitney cummings
I just have to go back to stand-up full-time because this is just madness.
joe rogan
Everybody wants to not do stand-up full-time.
Every comic works so hard to become a professional comic.
whitney cummings
I learned my lesson.
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
She's back.
whitney cummings
I'm back.
joe rogan
Come to the Ice House.
whitney cummings
I'm going to.
joe rogan
Tomorrow night.
Or Wednesday night.
whitney cummings
Tomorrow I go to Orlando.
Don't be jealous.
But I'll come next time.
unidentified
I'll come in two weeks.
I will.
whitney cummings
I'll just go.
joe rogan
You heard it here, folks.
whitney cummings
It's happening.
joe rogan
She'll be there in two weeks.
whitney cummings
Come see me eat shit.
joe rogan
All right.
Thank you, bro.
That was awesome.
Whitney, not exactly happy with it.
Look at her.
She's like, I don't believe it was awesome.
unidentified
What?
whitney cummings
No, no.
It was a disaster.
It was great!
I'm like, I was a disaster.
I'm a disaster.
joe rogan
Whitney was great.
You're awesome.
whitney cummings
Thank you.
joe rogan
Bye, everybody.
unidentified
You're the best.
Oh, that was on?
whitney cummings
I hate you!
I hate you!
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