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Sept. 27, 2017 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1016 - Whitney Cummings
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whitney cummings
I need fear tactics.
This video will not get demonetized.
Watch.
joe rogan
We're getting demon-tized already.
whitney cummings
What's happening?
Are we going?
unidentified
We're live!
whitney cummings
Oh, God!
This is so stressful.
joe rogan
Why do you need scare tactics?
whitney cummings
Because it takes me so many threats and so much pain to change my habits.
joe rogan
But you're so self-examinatory.
That's not the right word.
whitney cummings
That's called neurotic.
unidentified
But it's not really.
whitney cummings
That's a very nice synonym for it.
Thank you.
joe rogan
See, if you were not getting anything done, I would agree with you.
whitney cummings
Oh, interesting.
It's not paralyzing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I do...
I come from such a...
Dysfunctional is not even the word.
I feel like that's lost its value.
I come from a very sick family, and I'm very determined to not be sick.
Right.
So I'm trying hard to...
joe rogan
But you get a lot of shit done.
See, I don't agree with this, like, the idea of paralyzing.
It may, like, hinder in some way, shape, or form, or cause obstacles.
But you maneuver around those obstacles.
So I don't agree with you.
whitney cummings
It's tricky.
I definitely would identify as self-analytical, but do you think that's part of being a good comedian, is being able to analyze yourself and your neuroses?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
If you can't see yourself, it's going to be super hard to get other people to relate to you.
Because if there's some obvious blind spots that they see that you're not addressing...
whitney cummings
It's my nightmare to not be self-aware and have everybody know something about me that I don't know.
I am, like, in constant paranoia.
I mean, and we know people who don't know themselves and who can't see themselves, and it terrifies me.
joe rogan
Well, that's what bothers us about those people.
It's not necessarily that those people are that annoying.
What it is is we're terrified of seeing that in ourselves.
whitney cummings
100%.
Because the antithesis of a comedian is somebody who can't see the truth and can't look in a mirror, and, like, that's my nightmare.
joe rogan
Well, I think we all know, and I think anybody knows it's trying to do anything.
Whatever you're trying to do.
Whether you're trying to start a business, or write a book, or what you just did.
unidentified
Whatever you're doing.
joe rogan
Whatever you're doing, it's going to test you, right?
It's going to be difficult.
No one is going to get through it.
All in one incredibly smooth, linear process.
It's going to be weird shit that happens along the way.
When you see someone who's not doing it correctly, in your eyes, or not doing it to the best of their abilities, or fucking off, or being delusional, it scares the shit out of you.
Because you're like, God damn it, that could be me.
God damn it, I could lose a year of everything I've been concentrating on.
whitney cummings
I lived in denial, I think, for a long time.
And I was sort of like sleepwalking through life and kind of like unconscious, I think, for like a lot of my teens and early 20s due to like some fucked up shit that I saw and lived.
And it was all survival mechanisms.
But I just always want to make sure that I've disarmed those and de-thawed those and I'm not like just being a puppet of my...
joe rogan
Right, but I think, like, to give you more credit than you give yourself, I think that that self-examatory, self-reflecting aspect of it, which seems to you to, like, this be as constant self-criticism, is just almost like a watcher.
Like a watcher over your thoughts to make sure, okay, keep this fucking thing together, you crazy bitch.
Come on, here we go.
But along the way, look at all the things you've accomplished.
See, like, I don't think you've been...
I mean, you haven't been impeded by it as much as you've been aware of it.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's the idea.
And I definitely think I need to stop.
We live in this world of constant feedback.
And I guess my thing is, like, I give myself enough feedback.
I don't also need your feedback with the likes and the at replies and the trolls and the reddits and the whatever.
So I think that that magnified it a little bit.
And I had to do, like, a little bit of a social media internet cleansing where I didn't sort of constantly, like, go down the wormhole of, like...
People trashing and being negative.
joe rogan
That's good just as a matter of resources.
You know, 24 hours seems like a lot of time until you start dissecting it into the things you actually enjoy doing and how much time do you actually really have with eating and sleeping and traveling and commuting.
Crying.
And furious hole punching in the wall.
whitney cummings
Furiously masturbating and crying in the tub.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What do you, you know, how much time do you really have left?
You've got to be careful with your time.
whitney cummings
Yeah, no, agree.
I'm pretty hardcore about protecting my time.
I used to not be.
Before I got a handle on, like, my codependence.
Gotta be.
Anyone who wanted to go on a fucking hike, I was at Runyon every morning.
I was getting coffee, and I was just like, I don't do that shit anymore.
unidentified
That's, like, one of the biggest problems with conspiracy theories.
joe rogan
One of the biggest problems with people that get involved in conspiracy theories, they go...
You remember...
What the fuck is his name?
whitney cummings
Didn't see that coming.
joe rogan
Who was, um...
Kevin Costner.
Kevin Costner was in that JFK movie.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Oh, Oliver Stone.
I wrote my senior's honors thesis on the postmodern implications of JFK. Did you really?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
What do you think about JFK? Isn't that weird?
whitney cummings
I don't have a ton of thoughts on JFK. I'm not an authority on it.
The movie is unbelievable.
I believe at the time it had the most cuts of any movie.
And I was obsessed with postmodernism at the time, like Gene Baudrillard.
So I was obsessed with him using archive footage and reenactive footage and new footage and just the way that he told the story was brilliant.
Right.
I don't know.
You mean JFK's assassination?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
The whole subject.
I just, in the last couple days, got annoyed at JFK as the president.
He was the most telegenic president and the first televised president, basically, right?
He kind of...
joe rogan
Well, Eisenhower definitely had been on TV. A bunch of guys had been on TV, but TV was a different thing in 1963 than it was in 53. He was the first, like, star.
whitney cummings
Yes.
unidentified
Right?
whitney cummings
Tan, handsome.
He was the first president who was, like, after him, presidents had to start being handsome and charismatic.
And I was just in some arguments this week where people were like, well, Hillary just wasn't charismatic.
And I'm like, who fucking cares?
Like, since when is that the number one box that a president has to check?
Not like qualified or like...
joe rogan
We want magic people.
whitney cummings
Yes, we do.
joe rogan
We want...
whitney cummings
We want cult leaders.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
We want someone that comes out of nowhere that also doesn't want to fuck all the time.
whitney cummings
Correct.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
We want someone that can figure it all out and has all of these key attributes of a leader, but we don't want that leader-conquerer mindset.
whitney cummings
Correct.
We want to have our cake and eat it too.
But JFK was the first handsome president.
From then on, presidents had to look healthy.
I don't want my president looking healthy.
I want him looking tired and anemic.
I don't want him to have been at Martha's Vineyard getting a tan.
joe rogan
Can you imagine a time where we have a president that everyone likes?
whitney cummings
No.
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Isn't that amazing?
whitney cummings
Yeah, but that's just our tribalism, right?
We're not really designed to live in tribes over like 60 people, right?
joe rogan
Of course.
whitney cummings
This is all just madness.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's total madness.
We're not designed for it.
whitney cummings
Yeah, we're bad.
joe rogan
But is it possible that someone can achieve some sort of...
I mean, even if you achieve some Martin Luther King Jr. state, or you're that level of speaker, and although you were a black guy, you were so obviously super intelligent and so spiritual that even racists had to go, damn, he's making a lot of good boys.
whitney cummings
He's kind of sexy too, right?
Who is that guy?
joe rogan
His fucking way of speaking was so...
It was like a song.
whitney cummings
It was like he had this...
It was almost like a...
Sorry to denigrate Martin Luther King by saying it, but he had the cadence of a comedian who was in the rhythm.
He was hypnotic in the way that he spoke.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Do not judge a man by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
unidentified
Like, why...
whitney cummings
Like, how?
Like, where did it, and does that come from preachers, right?
Is that, like, preacher rhythm?
Yeah, it's like musical.
joe rogan
That was why Kinnison was so good.
Kinnison was an amazing preacher.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He was one of those hellfire tent preachers.
There's video, or at least audio, maybe video as well, of him doing a tent revival, and it's fucking incredible.
whitney cummings
I have to see that.
joe rogan
It's just all about the rhythm and the Jesus!
whitney cummings
But it's also just the electricity, which is like, you know, people are always like, how do I do comedy?
And how do I just stand up?
Do I write jokes?
It's like, yeah, you can write jokes.
You can do this.
You can do 10,000 hours.
You can do whatever.
But like, do you, can you deliver electricity on demand?
I don't know how to teach you that.
joe rogan
You can't teach someone that.
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
And that's the thing about a guy like Kenison, too.
It's like, what he was doing...
Like, you know, he was talking about the power of the Lord and the power of God and the power of Jesus and say his name and he's stopping around on stage and You know, and then the, God!
God is alive!
And the thing is, he was doing it so good that he was right.
He was doing it so good that the people who were watching got a feeling from it.
Like, oh my God!
unidentified
I feel the Lord!
joe rogan
I feel the Lord!
And maybe you and I are too skeptical.
unidentified
Maybe we're fools.
b-real
Maybe we're fools because we can't just give in to it.
joe rogan
Maybe we're fools that we can't just sit there and watch some guy go off.
Maybe we're fools that we don't just speak in tongues and just let it all go.
whitney cummings
I know.
I mean, I'm too much of a fucking controller.
I'm just a science freak.
I'm like, but what about statistics?
unidentified
I love the Lord, but are there some metrics to go with that?
joe rogan
Something's happening.
Why are they getting so happy?
Obviously, he's exciting them.
He's inspiring them.
He's giving them some sort of almost like mental placebo effect.
whitney cummings
I mean, you really do get dopamine from someone being a leader.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Taking charge.
joe rogan
So, like, just entertain the thought that that's what God is.
That God is those moments, you know, and they're more and more extreme as we get more and more evolved.
But those moments where people sort of figure it out and get together and lock on, whatever that energy is...
unidentified
But sometimes they lock on and they decide to kill Jews.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, but they don't.
whitney cummings
You know, sometimes they get together and like, I have a good idea and it's a bad idea and they all start locking on.
joe rogan
They don't do it unopposed, though.
whitney cummings
You can use it for evil or you can use it for good, I feel like.
joe rogan
Well, definitely the whole biological instinct of humans can go south.
It can get Western with people.
whitney cummings
Yeah, real quick.
joe rogan
Which is why people should be really terrified of anybody who assumes any sort of position of power, even the state itself.
That's what freaks me out about all these people that want Marxism and socialism.
It's like, how much money do you want to give to taxes?
You want people to pay 90% taxes.
Do you understand that that means someone is getting that money?
Do you understand that entity getting that money, the government, is going to want more of it?
They grow.
They just keep growing.
whitney cummings
The only trick about that is like you're so smart and you're like you the word understand it has no place in people trying to feel safe Like we're just these visceral animals who are just like am I safe?
Am I safe?
Am I safe?
Like our brains are only designed to keep us alive They're not designed to make us think logically and you're not safe.
joe rogan
You know one's safe.
You're safe right now.
unidentified
We are a trash bag full of blood Not even!
whitney cummings
Texting and driving.
We are about to die every 20 minutes.
joe rogan
They make some good trash bags.
Those hefty lawn bags.
unidentified
You can shove sticks in there and shit.
whitney cummings
Every day I'm like, how did I survive this day?
Why aren't I dead?
Everything should kill us.
I think it was in that book, Sapiens, just the idea that so much of our anxiety comes from the fact that we all know that we're only subconsciously at the top of the food chain.
We should not be at the top of the food chain.
It's only because we developed weapons.
We know that at any point, we deserve our life expectancy to be like 16. But I think developing the weapons is also what led to us getting like this.
Here, but we're so vulnerable.
joe rogan
But I think all this vulnerable stuff came along with the advent of inventions.
I think that when we, obviously I'm an idiot, but don't listen to me, but I would think that when we didn't have anything other than what the animals had, our instincts, claws and fangs.
whitney cummings
But we can't sleep outside overnight.
unidentified
How long?
I mean, you could.
You can.
whitney cummings
You're actually the one person I know who could probably live outside.
joe rogan
Living outside sucks.
Anybody could do it, but it's not good.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but we're not designed for elements.
We're not anymore.
Right, we're so infantilized at this point.
joe rogan
I think we're getting closer and closer to those fucking gray aliens that you see in the movies.
I think that's what we're going to be.
A giant head, little skinny arms, and that's what those things are.
whitney cummings
I've been thinking about this a lot.
That's a hipster.
They're in Los Feliz.
They're everywhere.
joe rogan
They have vintage glasses on instead of black eyes.
whitney cummings
They're in Echo Park.
joe rogan
There's a fucking great commercial.
I don't know what it's for, but it's a hipster and Danny Trio.
And Danny Trio's a bartender, and some hipster is asking for this custom craft beer that's leather, but not shoes, like a belt.
And he's going through all this woody, earthy.
It's really funny.
And Danny Trejo staring at him with his no-nonsense face.
You know that dude, the tattooed-up Mexican dude?
whitney cummings
Yeah, oh no, I'm aware.
joe rogan
Yeah, that guy's awesome.
whitney cummings
Oh, I know Danny Trejo.
joe rogan
It's a fucking hilarious commercial.
whitney cummings
Well, you know, I mean, I can finally talk about this, but it took me getting my ear bitten off by a dog to realize how fucking vulnerable we are.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
It happened, I didn't see it come, it just, my ear was gone.
joe rogan
And this was a rescue dog that you had?
whitney cummings
It was a dog that was at the Carson shelter and was about to be euthanized.
I try to grab any dog that's going to be euthanized.
He came in.
He had been taken from his mother too young.
He wasn't neutered.
Didn't have spatial intelligence yet.
It wasn't his fault.
He didn't attack me.
Their mouth is their hands.
And when they're taken from their mother too young, they don't learn manners basically So I also made the mistake of not establishing myself as the alpha I was just like felt so sorry for him and I pitied him instead of doing the right thing like all my dogs I establish myself as the alpha.
They're not allowed to lick me They're not allowed to jump on me and I let him do that and I pushed him off me and it just you don't allow your dogs to lick You or jump on you?
I Sometimes, but I have to end it before they end it.
But I generally don't.
joe rogan
Wow, that's deep.
whitney cummings
It's not ideal.
joe rogan
That's deep.
whitney cummings
Yeah, because every now and then you do need them to really respect you when a car is coming when they get out and it is a dominant thing to lick you and to jump on you.
joe rogan
That's weird.
whitney cummings
Why?
joe rogan
Because I never thought of that like that.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I do have these moments with my puppy.
I have a puppy.
I guess he's like 10 months old now, maybe 11. Neutered?
Not yet, no.
And he's just a super sweetheart.
Super sweetheart.
whitney cummings
Golden, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Yeah, they're just like humans.
joe rogan
And sometimes he doesn't want to kiss me.
Like sometimes shies away from kissing me.
And then once he kisses me he realizes it's okay and then he kisses me a bunch.
And he's reluctant to climb on top of me except in a submissive position.
He climbs on top of me and lifts his arms up in the air so I can rub his belly.
whitney cummings
This is very good news.
So when you make eye contact with him does he look away?
joe rogan
A little bit.
whitney cummings
That's good.
That's what you want.
So whenever I have to ascertain whether a dog is dominant or not I look him in the eyes and if they don't look away I have a dominant dog and that's a problem.
So you have to do all these things.
You gotta put them on their back.
You gotta hold them down until they exhale.
That's a problem.
Dogs, when they don't have an alpha, they're designed to have a leader.
They love discipline.
And when they don't, it's chaos.
And most people are not in control of their animals.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's interesting.
We do a lot of things like we make him sit before he comes in the house.
We make him stay with the door wide open.
whitney cummings
They love that.
joe rogan
I'll put his food out.
He has to stay.
whitney cummings
And you walk through a dog.
You never walk around a dog.
Like if your dog's in front of you, you walk right through him.
joe rogan
Just bump him out of the way.
whitney cummings
You're going to knee him.
You just get him out of the way.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
Because that's you're in my house instead of I'm going to walk around you.
joe rogan
That's interesting, because I have two other dogs.
I have a Mastiff, and he's a sweetie, too.
whitney cummings
Well, they're the sweetest.
joe rogan
This dog, my kids ride him.
You can ride him.
He's just such a big teddy bear.
whitney cummings
I have a Great Dane Pitbull, who kind of looks like a Mastiff.
joe rogan
Well, Johnny Cash is his name, and he's what's called a Regency Mastiff.
And the Regency Mastiff is half Neapolitan Mastiff and half Pitbull.
whitney cummings
What were they bred for?
Oh, if it has Pitbull, then for fighting bulls.
joe rogan
The guy who bred it, he had dogs that he brought on Fear Factor, and they used them as attack dogs, and it was fucking hilarious.
Because we used to have people, they would get these Belgian Malinois on people.
whitney cummings
Those dogs They're ferocious.
That's what they use.
Those are police dogs.
joe rogan
Those dogs look at you so different than any other dog.
They have like a look of like, just give me the green light, Dad.
whitney cummings
Yes, and they grab and they shake.
I know someone who they grabbed face, shook his face off.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
But they're smaller.
They're a smaller dog.
They're like a 60, 70 pound dog.
Like just a taut ball of wire.
But these Regency Mastiffs are 140. And they're tanks.
Did you ever see that stupid movie, The Hulk, with Eric Banna?
Eric Banna, yeah.
whitney cummings
Didn't have Norton do one also?
joe rogan
Yes, his was better.
But the Banna one, Nick Nolte, I can't believe we're talking about this two podcasts in a row.
Nick Nolte?
unidentified
You just talked about this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But I forgot to bring up this one crucial part.
Nick Nolte was Eric Bana's dad and he injected these dogs with this Hulk serum.
So these pit bulls became Hulk pit bulls to attack the Hulk.
It was so stupid.
But the dog that they used to model the Hulk pit bull was Curly.
Curly was my dog's dad.
whitney cummings
Oh, wow.
unidentified
Royalty.
joe rogan
So it's this insane tank of a dog.
That's the sweetest dog you've ever seen.
That's like the image that they drew for the renderings.
whitney cummings
That's like the dog that bit my ear off.
It looks exactly like him.
joe rogan
Show what the actual dog looked like in the movie.
It was like a giant hulked out pit bull.
whitney cummings
See, I would rescue that dog.
joe rogan
That's it right there.
whitney cummings
I would let that dog in my bed.
I love him.
I think that there is something about it so interesting that you have a couple kind of breeds because I feel like people usually see themselves in a breed and that's their thing, you know?
And if yours is massive, but what made you do golden?
joe rogan
I'm a meathead.
He looked awesome.
unidentified
He looked awesome and he was super sweet.
joe rogan
This dog, Curly, was the sweetest dog.
whitney cummings
Well, you know that the dogs that were bred to fight dogs and bulls, they were also selected for the ones that were the kindest to the owners because the dogfighters didn't tolerate dogs that were violent towards people.
joe rogan
I've had a bunch of pit bulls.
I know the whole deal behind them.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and the tragic irony is that they're trained to be weapons, but they're trained to be very emotionally attached to people.
joe rogan
They're so attached to you.
whitney cummings
And babies.
joe rogan
The love that those things give you is so intense.
whitney cummings
So unconditional, so intense.
joe rogan
It's weird.
They're so much more vibrant than a lot of other dogs.
And the way they love you.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
It's so different.
whitney cummings
And the ones that are rescued, I think, also know on some level.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I had this one.
She wouldn't even let any other dog near me.
I had to give her all the love.
If the other dogs came near her, everybody got snapped at and backed off.
I had to get all the love to her first.
whitney cummings
And they also gravitate towards vulnerable.
So when I'm sick, they get more protective of me.
When I had the injury, when my ear was ripped off, when someone would come in, they'd be extra flexing on the gardeners and stuff.
They're really empathic.
I've learned so much from training dogs, especially ones with low impulse control.
They don't have a lot of impulse control, so you have to teach them impulse control.
Because they're designed not only to fight, but also to chase rats.
joe rogan
So to bring it all back, Johnny Cash and Brutus, my two dogs.
Brutus is much smaller.
Brutus is an English Bulldog Shibu Inu mix.
whitney cummings
So many flaps.
joe rogan
And so when they're both going to enter into the house to eat, Johnny always knocks Brutus out of the way.
Like, bitch, step aside, bitch.
Step aside.
They have such a clear run, how it works.
whitney cummings
Pecking order.
I told you about when I went to that.
No, I don't think I did.
The Wolf Sanctuary?
joe rogan
Yes, you did.
whitney cummings
Oh, yeah.
You have to leave them alone and let them have their pecking order.
There's the Alpha, the Beta, and the Omega.
You've got to just leave them alone.
People are like, don't.
They're fighting.
Leave them alone.
Let them work it out.
joe rogan
You can't interject into nature just because you're uncomfortable with your own mortality.
whitney cummings
Exactly.
And what is...
I mean, I tell people to leave the dog park all the fucking time.
People are so stupid with their dogs and they project their shit onto their dogs and they're codependent with their dogs.
And you know the way to get pit bulls or to unlock, you know, to get dogs.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
So I'm just sticking my finger in buttholes at the dog park constantly to get dogs to stop fighting.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Because people don't know how to control their dogs.
joe rogan
Most people that have those kind of dogs, they don't realize that this is not like getting a lab.
You're getting a dangerous animal that loves to fight.
Loves it.
They lock on each other and wag tails.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
And you have to be able to ascertain the difference between when things get real, like the hair on their back, and when it's playful.
And then the dog feels your fear and then they start to get protective that's people don't understand like all the time when I'm walking my dogs and someone's like And they start pulling their dog away and I'm like what you're doing is you're feeling fear now your dogs gonna get aggressive So you're manifesting this dog fights with your fucking bullshit fear like get your shit together That's where the argument comes in Do we really want those kind of pets?
joe rogan
I mean, do we really want people to have dangerous dog pets?
It's a super responsibility.
And I agree that many people can do it correctly.
But it is a super responsibility to have a warrior animal.
whitney cummings
I do think that for a lot of these animals that are just so unbelievably I mean, the same way we get driver's license for cars, you're operating something that can injure people.
I don't think people should have big dogs with big teeth without taking some kind of test for it.
joe rogan
I have a friend who runs greyhounds.
They have greyhounds.
And they have these dogs that they're so fast and he's like, these things are so ferocious that they won't even play with other dogs.
Like if they find another dog like a coyote or a poodle, they'll kill it.
They just immediately kill it.
whitney cummings
That's a bummer.
joe rogan
It is a bummer.
And I had a buddy who rescued racing greyhounds.
whitney cummings
Yeah, because they're the most abused before pit bulls, actually.
Greyhounds.
joe rogan
Well, the ones that were, I mean, they weren't pets at all.
They were just existing to race.
They were existing as gambling dogs.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, it's a really common thing.
whitney cummings
I know.
unidentified
I hate it.
joe rogan
So he would rescue these dogs.
He rescued one of them, and he couldn't keep it.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Because any time it saw a cat or anything small, it's gone.
whitney cummings
It's like having a cheetah.
I mean, you're just having this, you know, thing.
So, I mean, if you raise it from a puppy, you can usually, you know...
joe rogan
I don't know.
whitney cummings
Really.
I don't know a ton about greyhounds, but...
joe rogan
I don't know.
whitney cummings
People can raise lions from cubs, and they see them on Instagram, they're biting them and hanging out with them.
joe rogan
But oddly enough...
And this is going to sound weird.
Lions seem to be calmer than a lot of other animals that we keep as pets.
whitney cummings
Male lions, for sure.
unidentified
Right?
whitney cummings
Male lions are only awake two hours a day and they don't do anything.
joe rogan
As long as you feed them and you're nice to them all the time, I think you can connect with them.
whitney cummings
But all these guys on Instagram, black jaguar, white tiger, you know, the guy and they're snuggling with fucking panthers.
I heard something that they have their scent on them.
They put their urine on them.
They declaw them.
joe rogan
I don't know, but even that's not going to help you.
If that thing decides to bite you, it's a wrap.
There's no way you're going to survive.
whitney cummings
It's over.
Well, remember Tippi Hedren, the Hitchcock actress.
Will you pull the Tippi Hedren Shambhala?
Melanie Griffith grew up with 18 tigers and lions in the home.
joe rogan
In L.A., right?
whitney cummings
In L.A., right outside.
And they did a documentary about it, and everyone on the crew got attacked.
They got their scalp ripped off.
Melanie Griffin had some injury, and then Tippy came out later and was like, they are not pets.
Do not have them in their house.
It's dangerous.
It's a bad idea.
But she had 19 of them in Insano!
We're just like, what the fuck is going on?
I wish I was alive in the 70s.
joe rogan
People just didn't know how to live yet.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but or did they?
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know.
whitney cummings
But if you raise them from infancy, if they're domesticated, it's just a little different, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm sure.
I'm sure it's different.
But there's still the potential for something going sideways.
whitney cummings
But it's also tricky because it's like, and this is like the work I do with like horses and dogs, it's like if you get scared and they feel it and if you run, food runs, right?
It's you fuck yourself.
It's really like you decide if they attack you or not based on your energy.
joe rogan
They're like baby first generation, like Viking animals.
You know what I mean?
It's like if you could get them and raise a bear and then have the bears cubs and the bears cubs cubs, maybe.
whitney cummings
Have you seen?
joe rogan
Many generations in.
whitney cummings
The epigenetic imprinting of they've always been domesticated.
Have you seen that guy that swims with the polar bear?
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
What the fuck is he doing?
joe rogan
He's got to keep that thing really well fed.
whitney cummings
Just gave a fucking Benadryl?
Or what's happening?
Why is it in a swimming pool?
And the best part of that video is the gate is like chicken wire.
I'm like, there's a neighbor who's just like in his house who has not left in two years.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Can you imagine your neighbor has a polar bear wrapped up in chicken wire?
whitney cummings
I mean, what is that?
joe rogan
Well, this is some gay shit for sure.
unidentified
Why is he alive?
joe rogan
Just some gay bear stuff with him and this bear.
I'm 100% sure of it.
whitney cummings
Look at that fence.
Look at that neighbor.
That neighbor's like, fuck this shit.
joe rogan
That is insane that that's legal.
whitney cummings
Insane.
Where is that?
It looks like Cincinnati.
joe rogan
Well, there was a guy in Ohio that had his own zoo, and then he shot himself.
And before he shot himself, he let all the animals out.
whitney cummings
When was this?
joe rogan
A couple years ago.
whitney cummings
I'm making that TV show.
joe rogan
This fall on NBC. So yeah, it's a real show.
whitney cummings
He committed suicide.
jamie vernon
So there were lions running down the freeway and crazy shit that people had to hide.
whitney cummings
Didn't that just happen?
Wasn't there like a tiger loose recently or something?
joe rogan
Yeah, there have been other ones.
But this one...
whitney cummings
Why did he shoot himself?
joe rogan
So he just committed suicide?
Yeah, he whacked himself.
He's just like, I don't want to do this anymore.
and he let all his animals go.
unidentified
Or what, he just sobered up and he's like, fuck, I have six lions!
joe rogan
He's like, this is just too weird.
I just don't want to do this anymore.
And he just ended it, but he let all the animals go first.
whitney cummings
That is so funny.
joe rogan
Yeah, so the cops.
whitney cummings
Who's this?
Oh, this is the guy?
joe rogan
Where is this?
whitney cummings
Oh, in Ohio.
joe rogan
The frantic 911 call.
unidentified
I'm pretty sure and I just saw a wolf.
A wolf or something?
whitney cummings
This is fucking bed love.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
They had to shoot all the animals.
They couldn't capture them.
Well, they couldn't let them go.
And once they were in a certain area, they had to isolate them before they spread out to the point where they couldn't find them.
unidentified
Jesus!
joe rogan
What a fucking nightmare.
Yeah, it's a nightmare.
whitney cummings
When I see a human die, I'm just like, oh, bummer.
When I see animals, I'm like, Can't handle it.
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's intense.
whitney cummings
That's a fucking nightmare.
Okay, so when your new dog gets neutered, it's going to be a game changer.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm sure.
whitney cummings
For his energy.
joe rogan
Yeah, right now.
But he's sweet.
He's a different kind of dog.
whitney cummings
Well, Goldens are just like lifeguards.
I mean, they're just like humans.
joe rogan
They're the sweetest dogs.
They're just so nice.
whitney cummings
The stories about they smell a fire, and they get the kid, and they open the door, and they take it to a shelter, and they put it on a plane, and they like...
joe rogan
They change your travel arrangements.
unidentified
Totally.
whitney cummings
They help you get into college.
They're on kayak.
I mean, they're just such incredible dogs.
joe rogan
He gets a little silly sometimes because he's young.
Like sometimes he'll test you with things and won't listen when you tell him to do things.
whitney cummings
But animals test you because they want to go like, are you the leader?
Are you the leader?
Are you the leader?
That's what they're doing.
I think that's kind of what audiences do as well.
You know, we were talking earlier about self-analysis and I am trying to stop with that shit, but it's just hard to turn that off because it's like we get on stage and we're like, do you like me now?
Do you like me now?
What about now?
We do that for an hour every night.
And then I get off stage and I'm doing it to myself.
Do I like me now?
Do I like me now?
It's just a hard thing to fucking shut off.
How do you negotiate on stage getting feedback and using that validation and then as soon as it's over, not needing it at all?
Well, you have people that love you and a family and shit.
joe rogan
You're answering for yourself.
whitney cummings
People care about you.
joe rogan
Well, I think doing things that are more difficult than that is a good way to even that out.
whitney cummings
That is an unbelievably salient point.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think if that's the most difficult thing in your day, it becomes...
It's got extra weight that it doesn't need to have on it.
whitney cummings
That's fascinating.
That's fascinating.
Is there something more difficult than stand-up, though?
joe rogan
Yeah, there is.
Everything's more difficult.
Stand-up is easy when it's going great.
Joey Diaz said that stand-up is the easiest, hardest thing you'll ever do.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's exactly right.
That's the perfect way to describe it.
joe rogan
Of course, Joey said it perfect.
whitney cummings
Do you, of course, you know this, but I read something recently about how the reason people hate or are so scared of public speaking, evolutionarily speaking, if you were Whoa!
Holy shit!
Oh my god, that makes so much sense.
So much sense.
So when we're up there on stage, the reason you feel all that fear is because it used to be you were begging for forgiveness and not to get speared to death or stoned to death or whatever.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
Makes a lot of sense.
joe rogan
That's crazy because we always associate it with being a leader who's speaking to the tribe.
Nope.
unidentified
Nope.
whitney cummings
Please don't kill me.
Please don't kill me.
joe rogan
Holy shit!
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's what it was in tribal times.
It's the same thing about, like, there was that article in The Atlantic about how loneliness is now as bad for you as smoking.
Because it used to be, if you were living alone in an apartment, in a pod, that meant you were exiled from the tribe and had no protection from it.
So your brain stops producing serotonin and endorphins and you basically just, like, get depressed.
Because it's like you feel so unsafe and you feel so much anxiety.
We're designed to live together because that meant protections before we had, like, alarm systems and locks and shit.
joe rogan
Right Wow that totally makes sense as well and it seems like the the more people get advanced Socially like the more we understand each other socially we more more we understand like that There's all these causes and effects that go on inside of human relationships on both sides that that make things go well or go bad and hopefully Over generation after generation of us studying this and paying attention to the way that we behave and talk to each other.
Because I think people talk to each other far differently today.
We definitely do in media, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We did in the 1930s or 40s or 50s.
It's like there's a very crude, rudimentary form of communication then.
Yeah.
Richer and weirder and more aware now today and I think it's gonna continue to get better and better and if it does Maybe one day we'll get into a more relaxed Society place like if we can ensure that more people are nice and friendly and Helping and honest and helpful and less people are dangerous and fucked up But instead of doing that what we do is the opposite.
We like put up bigger walls lock things down more Separate ourselves ourselves further You know, secure our position.
I think as a society, and this is total hippie talk, right?
But we have to figure out a way to make less people live sucky lives.
As soon as you make less people live sucky lives, everything becomes way less dangerous.
whitney cummings
Right, but like, I was in Guatemala once, and I remember looking around and going, what a sucky life, what a sucky life.
And then I drive past people, they're sitting around Laughing with no teeth, in hammocks, in a shack.
And I'm like, why are they happier than me?
And from what I gather, it's because they're together.
So it's like so much of our communication is nonverbal.
They say like 80% of our communication is nonverbal.
And I'm on here texting, texting, texting.
You're seeing the verbal, but you're not seeing the nonverbal of like, you're safe.
I'm connected to you.
We're getting oxytocin for making eye contact and hugging.
Like we're communicating more and more and more, but actually reaching each other less and less and less on a chemical or neurochemical level, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, and you've got to figure that people that are living in a village or some third-world country or they're living closer to the land with less electronic stimulation, who they are as a person, the way they're living their life is fitting into the world that they live in.
It's like those grooves have already been cut.
They're smooth and deep and everything just slides into place.
Everybody's been doing it this way for a long-ass time.
When do you start factoring in all the crazy shit that we're after dealing with just with traffic and the sheer number of humans clogged into this intersection just trying to move forward and everybody being frustrated and honking and cutting each other off and that is so not normal.
whitney cummings
Apparently our brain doesn't know what a car is.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
whitney cummings
Like, our primordial brain, it's just a lion running across the fucking Sahara.
You know?
It's just, like, things coming at you quickly.
So we're kind of in fight-or-flight mode all the time.
And the phone is the sun, right?
Our brain basically thinks it's just producing cortisol.
It's like we're constantly looking into the sun all day, and then we see just things coming at us in our periphery constantly.
And it's depleting, and it's putting us in fight-or-flight mode, which shuts down our frontal lobe, right?
Which is, like...
Our feeling and decision making is out there.
joe rogan
What is it?
I remember reading this, but I don't remember what the answer is.
What is it about the disassociative aspect of driving in a car that makes people aggressive to other people, like verbally and giving them the finger?
whitney cummings
The anonymity?
joe rogan
No, no, I remember what it is.
What it is is they had concluded that you're in a heightened state of not necessarily fear, but reaction time when you're in a car because you realize that you are going 65 miles an hour.
And everything is happening fast.
You have to be paying attention to everything.
And so in this heightened state, you're almost in like a heightened altercation position.
You're ready for anything, right?
What do we got?
unidentified
What do we got?
joe rogan
Fuck you!
Like you're ready to go, this fucking dickhead just cut me off!
Like it's everything so ramped up.
whitney cummings
But let me ask you a question because I've been in cars with people who are just like, oh, sorry.
And I've been in cars with people who are like, fuck you.
And to me, it's like, I feel like kind of every guy turns it into a sport.
joe rogan
You can do that if you let it get away from you.
whitney cummings
Because you're competing and who's going faster and that sort of thing.
Like, does that happen to you?
joe rogan
Yeah, you can do that if someone's a total dick and you start falling into that.
It's always best to think twice.
It's always best to just relax and just avoid.
Because it's not worth...
There's no upside on that sort of involvement.
There's no upside on that altercation.
whitney cummings
There's nothing there for you.
I've never been like, fuck you, and been like, that was a good idea.
I've never felt proud of that.
joe rogan
There's no upside, but the downside is gigantic.
Actual violence, like you could get shot, you could get stabbed, you could get beat up, someone could run you over.
You could get into some terrible position where you hurt someone, and you have to pay for their medical bills and their legal bills, and it could be devastating to you.
whitney cummings
Is there something like...
joe rogan
And you could feel terrible about the fact you did it because you did it in the heat of passion when you weren't even thinking straight.
whitney cummings
This is stupid.
joe rogan
Guys do dumb shit all the time that changes their life.
unidentified
I was in, is it called Artesia?
whitney cummings
That's a place in California.
joe rogan
Yes, I think that's in California.
whitney cummings
I watched a guy, like two guys tailgating each other, chasing each other.
Some guy fucking got out of his car with a baseball bat and like came in and they got in a fight and I was like, I'm gonna leave.
joe rogan
There's a great video of that.
Some guy gets out of his car, pulls a bat out of his car and smashes this other guy's car.
The other guy gets out of the car, grabs him, gets him in a rear naked choke, puts him to sleep.
Pushes him to the side of the road, gets in his car and drives off.
It's amazing.
whitney cummings
But, you know what?
joe rogan
There's no butt there.
There's no butt there.
whitney cummings
I'm just saying, is that...
joe rogan
That's how it's supposed to go.
whitney cummings
I got in this...
And I know I was texting you about that Calcio Storico thing, that thing in Florence.
joe rogan
You've got me obsessed with that shit.
whitney cummings
Is there...
I want to make a documentary.
I've been trying for years.
unidentified
You should.
whitney cummings
I'm obsessed with our need for violence.
And if we didn't have violent sports and competitive sports, would we all just constantly be having baseball bats in each other's windshields all the time?
Like we have an inherent need to be violent.
Right.
And we need to just sort of control.
Like the reason I'm obsessed with Calcio Storico, which if you don't know, it's we've talked about it, I think, on the show before, which is like it's bare knuckle boxing football, essentially.
But the month that they do it in Florence, there's virtually no crime.
Because they purge.
People purge.
And they get it out in not healthy ways, but at least in controlled ways.
You know?
Like, are we designed to just be, like, taking baseball bats to each other's windshields?
joe rogan
I think what it represents is a very valid release for primal instincts.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
And I've been studying it most of my life.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, most of my life I've been paying attention to martial arts, studying martial arts.
I'm usually in the woods if I go a whole day and I don't see someone fight.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, I see it every day, constantly.
Right, right, right.
I watch Muay Thai fights every day.
I'll watch a wrestling match.
I'll watch a jujitsu match.
I'm constantly watching these things.
And what I get out of all of it is that what these people are doing, everybody's doing is, first of all, they're engaging in something incredibly difficult.
And when you engage in something incredibly difficult, it's a great way for strong-willed people to find themselves.
whitney cummings
And to get testosterone.
joe rogan
There's that, but you're finding validation through incredibly difficult acts.
Like, I think I'm special.
How do I prove I'm special?
I prove I'm special by choking out other trained killers.
I'm going to get to a place where I can choke out all the experts.
Like, I'm not just choking out regular people.
I want to be able to choke out the experts.
And those guys who do that, they find themselves in the most exceptional minds and the most exceptional bodies.
It converges together.
You cannot have one without the other.
whitney cummings
But it's so recent that we're not choking each other out in the streets all the time.
I mean, like 100 years or something.
I mean, I was reading that our eyes evolved to be sunken in because we were getting punched in the face so much as a species.
That's why our eyes are sunken in.
Swear to fucking God, our fists evolved to do this so that we could punch people.
joe rogan
Maybe if the UFC keeps going with all the eye pokes, the walls of our eyes would get thicker.
I would give up a little bit of vision to have poke-proof eyes.
whitney cummings
I mean, our eyes are made of glass.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're so weak.
whitney cummings
I mean, we're pathetic.
But so it's so recent that we're not just constantly fighting each other and choking each other out in a socially acceptable way.
joe rogan
But here's my thing, what I've noticed, and everybody has, look, everybody's a work in progress.
You know, I mean, you want to judge someone by an argument that you got with someone 10 years ago.
I think that's kind of ridiculous.
But we're all capable of weird, aggressive behavior and mistakes.
But The people that I know that are involved in martial arts are uniformly some of the nicest, most peaceful, friendly...
whitney cummings
If they didn't fight, do you think they would be?
If they didn't get it out?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I would hope not.
whitney cummings
It's like good balls.
joe rogan
But it gives them something.
It gives them a feeling of security and it gives them an understanding of ego because you lose a lot.
whitney cummings
Yeah, so true.
joe rogan
Most guys don't lose a lot of fights because they don't get in a lot of fights.
You talk to an average person, I might have been in my whole life, like street fights, like three or four ever.
Ever.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
All my fights I had were in competition.
whitney cummings
So your thing is you learn how to avoid fights?
joe rogan
Definitely.
Well, it wasn't my choice.
whitney cummings
And you don't have the ego that drives you to need to do it.
joe rogan
It wasn't my choice.
Like, I was avoiding fights because I was scared of getting my ass kicked.
And then I got into martial arts completely because I was scared to fight people.
And I moved around a lot and I didn't really know what I was doing.
But my point being that this desire, once you really know how to fight, all that shit goes away.
And you're friendly.
whitney cummings
Yes, and you don't have the need to overcompensate or prove anything.
Because you proved it to yourself that you can do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a little bit of that.
whitney cummings
As soon as I actually felt like I was funny as a comedian.
joe rogan
You're talking into your neck.
whitney cummings
Sorry.
I just want the vibrations to go.
unidentified
I'm here to tell you that smoking is a terrible thing.
joe rogan
Remember there was like 10 comics that used to do that?
unidentified
Yes, I do.
joe rogan
In the 90s.
whitney cummings
Hashtag Craigshootmaker.
I forgot what I was talking about.
joe rogan
I forgot what we were talking about too.
whitney cummings
Me too.
No, I was saying as soon as I felt like I was actually funny as a comedian on stage, I stopped trying to be funny in my real life.
I didn't need to be.
joe rogan
Right.
I think it's probably pretty similar.
I think it's probably pretty similar.
For guys, I think also they get it out of their system.
And also they don't have this...
A lot of male-to-male interaction happens just out of fear.
Like guys want the other guy to back down because they're fucking terrified.
They don't want to fight.
But when people are not afraid of it, and it's not a terrifying thing to them, there's more relaxation and less things happen.
whitney cummings
Can I ask you a really weird question?
joe rogan
Sure.
whitney cummings
It's illegal to fight people just in the street?
joe rogan
It is in California.
It is not in Washington State.
Washington State has something called a mutual combat law where cops will actually stand by and watch people beat the shit out of each other if they agree to.
whitney cummings
So there's no such thing as like assault?
joe rogan
It is Wild West shit.
They literally agree.
whitney cummings
Washington State?
joe rogan
In Seattle.
whitney cummings
What if it's man versus woman?
joe rogan
Ooh, I don't think you can do that.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
No, I don't think you can do that.
I don't think so.
whitney cummings
And what if you're you?
You can't do that because you're a weapon, right?
joe rogan
Well, you can, though.
That's not real.
whitney cummings
Isn't there a thing?
joe rogan
Registering yourself as a weapon?
No, that's real.
whitney cummings
Sorry, I've dated some fighters.
joe rogan
I had to go to a town hall, register my hands.
whitney cummings
I'm a human weapon.
I've heard that.
Why have I heard that?
joe rogan
It's not real because people used to always say that.
whitney cummings
But you can't.
If you're you, you're not allowed to fight.
A human on the street.
You go to jail.
If I hit someone, I'll get an assault charge.
joe rogan
First of all, everybody who hits someone for no reason is going to go to jail.
whitney cummings
Unless it's self-defense.
joe rogan
But if you're Vanderlei Silva, and someone doesn't know it's Vanderlei Silva, and they go and pick a fight with him, and he beats the fuck out of them, he's not going to get in trouble.
As long as there's some sort of proof that these guys were starting a fight with him, he's defending himself.
whitney cummings
So if I attack Ronda Rousey at Whole Foods...
joe rogan
She flips you in your head.
whitney cummings
And she breaks my neck with her finger.
That was self-defense.
joe rogan
100%.
Yeah, you don't know.
whitney cummings
It's not our fault that she killed me.
joe rogan
Well, not only that, she doesn't know.
You might be some crazy black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu who's insane.
unidentified
That's true.
whitney cummings
I look at me.
joe rogan
Who just wants to strangle her.
whitney cummings
Look at me.
joe rogan
You look like you've been lifting.
But there's danger in interactions with people if you don't know who they are.
whitney cummings
But if you're a professional fighter, you can get sued.
joe rogan
Well, you could always encounter someone that knows how to fight.
When someone touches you or they're arguing with you or they're in your face, you have no idea what they're capable of.
Even if you're a martial artist, they might be better than you are.
You don't know.
whitney cummings
No one ever knows.
Yeah, that's interesting.
joe rogan
There's this crazy idea that somehow or another you have to have your shit together to be a fighter.
I've known a lot of fucking crazy people that were insane that were really good at fighting.
whitney cummings
Isn't that part of it, though?
You have to be lacking a circumspect approach.
joe rogan
George St. Pierre isn't.
George St. Pierre is super present and kind and a fun guy to talk to and a sweetheart.
Just ultra, ultra competitive.
whitney cummings
Right, right, right.
You have to have adrenaline addiction shit.
joe rogan
My point is he's not a mean person.
But there are mean, crazy people that are also really good at fighting.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
joe rogan
The idea that only good people are good at fighting is ridiculous.
whitney cummings
No!
joe rogan
So you have to be always careful.
whitney cummings
What's this?
joe rogan
These hands and feet are registered as deadly weapons in Guam.
whitney cummings
So in Guam you can do that?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I'll shut the bomb.
There's a law about the...
whitney cummings
Like if you went to Guam...
joe rogan
Any registered karate or judo expert who thereafter is charged with having used his art in a physical assault on some other person shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of aggravated assault.
Upon conviction, though.
That should be.
I agree with you.
whitney cummings
You mean that you have to have been arrested already?
joe rogan
Well, I agree with that.
When I take, this is how I interpret that, that if someone, like, say, Brendan Schaub, decided to pick on some guy who didn't know how to fight, knowing that this guy didn't know how to fight, and Brendan would never do that, he's the nicest guy ever, but beat the shit out of this person, they should be charged with, like, an extra level of assault, because it's not just assault.
It's almost like assault with a weapon.
whitney cummings
Well, it's Brendan who told me that people will come up to him and he'll be like, you know, I used to fight, and he's just like, don't do this.
Like, they instigate, and sometimes you just have to leave.
Do you ever have people do that, where you just have to, like, leave?
joe rogan
Sometimes people are delusional, but I've seen it happen even to Chuck Liddell.
I've seen people come up to him when he was in his prime.
People are crazy.
unidentified
Crazy.
joe rogan
There's always a certain...
whitney cummings
Well, it's like people who come up to...
I mean, as a comic, people come up to me like, what's up, cunt?
I'm like, you don't want to do this.
Don't do this.
Don't do this.
They're like, hey, hooker!
And I'm like, don't try to be funny.
This isn't going to go well for you.
joe rogan
Imagine just practicing that at home.
unidentified
Then when I see her tonight, I'm going to look her right in the eyes and say, what's up, cunt?
whitney cummings
The things people say to me are so...
What do you think my reaction is?
You think I'm going to crack up laughing and be like, here's my phone number?
joe rogan
Just drop to your knees.
unidentified
How did you think that was going to go?
joe rogan
I don't think they think.
I think people also, maybe they have an idea of what will be funny and they think about it a total of 15 seconds before they say it.
whitney cummings
It's shocking.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And my favorite is when someone bores you with like a 15 minute, just the longest vagina monologue of all time, something just like terrible and awful.
They just talk about like traffic and then they're like, you can have that one.
unidentified
And you're just like, oh, can I? Thank you.
joe rogan
Did you ever notice like, oh no, are you doing material?
whitney cummings
Or like you're talking to someone super boring and they're like, are you going to put me in your act?
Like, no, you're fucking bombing.
Say something funny and I'll think about it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
The worst.
Every guy says that on dates.
They're like, you're gonna put me in your act.
joe rogan
Wow, really?
Is that a part of the issue?
whitney cummings
The guy I'm dating has never seen me do stand-up.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
unidentified
Never.
joe rogan
Keep it that way.
whitney cummings
That's what I'm gonna do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
How long you been dating him?
whitney cummings
Eight months.
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
Keep it that way.
whitney cummings
I think that's...
Isn't that kind of a life hack?
It never goes well.
I don't think guys love seeing girls in like an alpha stance yelling about dicks they've sucked in the past.
I like to separate church and say it like that.
Or do you think that that's delusional that I can...
joe rogan
No, I don't think it's delusional at all.
You've done it for eight months.
If you've done it for eight months, why can't you do it for eight years?
whitney cummings
Why not?
Which is as long as I ever want to be in anything.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it seems like it's totally possible.
I mean, if that's what makes you comfortable and he doesn't give a shit, you got it.
whitney cummings
I think comedy is for strangers.
I don't think it's for people you know.
My friends are like, can I come see a show?
unidentified
And I'm like, no!
You can't.
whitney cummings
That's not what it's for.
It's for complete strangers.
It's not for people you know.
joe rogan
You just nailed it.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Like, if you're doing stand-up and someone who you know really good is in the front row, like, what other front row is all your family and they've seen your act twice this week?
whitney cummings
I can't say that.
It's like I'm doing these shows in L.A. and I'm like, why am I doing L.A. shows?
Because it's going to be all people I know.
Everyone's like, can I come?
I'm like, you can't, actually.
I'm like doing a complete, like...
joe rogan
You gotta tune in to everybody else.
But it's just like, you're right.
You're not even thinking about it.
Those are the people, they may or may not be an impediment, but they're not gonna enhance it.
They're not gonna be a part of the normal crowd for you.
whitney cummings
For me, I'm always thinking in the back of my head, oh no, I can't say that, I'm gonna hurt their feelings, da da da da.
It's like you can't say anything because you can't just be like, oh, because my fucking crazy family.
And then they're like, were we crazy?
And everyone's such a fucking narcissist.
Like, it's like the worst when you're dating someone or whatever it is.
And you're like going on and on about like, and this stupid guy.
And they're like, was that about me?
I'm like, no, I made that up.
It's not about anyone.
It's my friend told me this.
Like, everyone just has to like turn your act into a Rorschach test and everything's about them.
And I just like can't.
joe rogan
Okay, I mean, there's this unspoken shit that's going on in your act.
It's me.
unidentified
What?
No, it's not.
joe rogan
Okay, just say it.
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
You're fucking, you know, this is so ridiculous.
I don't have a problem with you doing comedy.
unidentified
Really?
When you work out our shit on stage.
whitney cummings
It's like, well, it's interesting because Bill Burr never talks about his wife on stage.
Or he never talks about, he says that she doesn't like when he talks about him.
Or when he talks about her.
Like, she drew a boundary about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it makes sense, and I think what you're saying makes sense, too, that it's the actual act of doing it.
You're doing it for people who don't know you.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, you're trying to do a thing.
whitney cummings
If I was a stripper, I wouldn't want you to come.
To me, it's so emotionally revealing, and it's about vulnerability, and it's about, like, I'm going to talk to you for an hour and then never see you again.
joe rogan
That completely makes sense.
whitney cummings
It is a one-night stand.
joe rogan
But what about songs?
I feel like songs are the same way, too.
Like, if you know someone really well, like, god damn, like...
Do you really want someone to sing a song for you?
whitney cummings
I went to a wedding where it was two brides, it was a lesbian wedding, and one of them sung to the other person, and I had to get up and walk away.
unidentified
I was so uncomfortable.
whitney cummings
Looking in her eyes, singing to her, I was crouched over, I literally was sweating, I was I mean, I look like fucking the Joker.
My makeup was...
I was so uncomfortable.
I think singing to me, I would rather blow you making eye contact the entire time than have you sing to me.
I will put a gun in my mouth before I let someone sing a song to me.
unidentified
Awful.
whitney cummings
Disgusting.
unidentified
I can't even think about it.
joe rogan
What the fuck is that, right?
unidentified
I don't know.
Why is it so...
whitney cummings
What is it?
What about the human condition?
unidentified
How can we, from a primordial perspective...
joe rogan
It's so true.
whitney cummings
I just am trying to do...
I can't.
Why is it so embarrassing?
Maybe if you're a good singer...
This was a good singer, too.
That actually made it worse.
joe rogan
Yeah, but even if you're a good singer, if it's just you and this one person, you're alone in your kitchen, and they start looking you in the eyes singing, you're like, Hey, hey, hey!
unidentified
Hey, stop it!
joe rogan
Cut the shit.
whitney cummings
That is an act of aggression.
unidentified
It is.
whitney cummings
Well, it really is a very alpha thing to do.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You have to listen now.
whitney cummings
Because making eye contact, it just makes me...
The guitar...
joe rogan
And you're so comfortable, you could look someone in the eye and sing?
unidentified
Nope, nope.
whitney cummings
Gotta go.
It's a wrap.
It's a wrap.
Can't do it.
joe rogan
Like something really intense, right?
Like what would be an intense song you would sing to someone?
whitney cummings
Like a Sam Smith banger?
Right, right, right.
joe rogan
Maybe some Elliot Smith, where you're thinking about sticking a knife in your heart.
whitney cummings
It's just...
It's just some...
What is it?
joe rogan
Soul stuff.
whitney cummings
Because we are designed music...
Releases endorphins, right?
When we listen to music.
joe rogan
But it's great in a small gathering where a bunch of people are singing together.
unidentified
Or is it just because we're comedians?
joe rogan
I think it's just people on top of each other.
whitney cummings
Is this R. Kelly?
unidentified
Well, he's wearing glasses.
whitney cummings
He's wearing glasses.
It's different.
I could do it in sunglasses.
joe rogan
It's super bright where he is.
whitney cummings
I don't fuck with karaoke.
I don't fuck with any of that shit.
jamie vernon
No.
joe rogan
I'm not into that.
whitney cummings
Not interested.
joe rogan
I did it once on a radio station.
I sang a Kiss song.
whitney cummings
How did that go?
joe rogan
It was great.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
You're like...
joe rogan
We were high as fuck, and they had this thing that they did on Alice.
It was a radio station in San Francisco.
Yeah.
Alice was the...
Yeah, it was Sarah and No Name were the hosts of the show.
whitney cummings
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
Remember those guys?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
whitney cummings
I think they have another thing now.
joe rogan
Are they doing a podcast or something?
whitney cummings
Probably.
I mean...
joe rogan
Yeah.
What do you show?
More R. Kelly?
jamie vernon
She's like playing with his dick while he's on stage singing.
joe rogan
Oh, there's a girl behind him playing with his dick while he's on stage singing?
whitney cummings
Wait, I don't understand.
I don't understand.
Is that enjoyable?
unidentified
Someone just playing with a dick that's...
joe rogan
So this girl is reaching up, grabbing his dick while he's singing.
whitney cummings
Where's her hand?
joe rogan
Her hand.
jamie vernon
She has a towel.
joe rogan
But that's her dick.
whitney cummings
That's his balls, isn't it?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh, no.
whitney cummings
This is upsetting.
joe rogan
It's beautiful.
whitney cummings
Speaking of garbage bags, what are those pants?
joe rogan
He's smoking a Stogie while he's doing this in front of 50,000 people.
whitney cummings
Oh, God.
joe rogan
Insane.
whitney cummings
Wait, is that enjoyable?
Having someone just towel your dick from behind?
joe rogan
I'd have to have it happen.
Especially in front of all those people.
whitney cummings
I feel like that would be uncomfortable.
joe rogan
Depends on how you do it.
Some people are really good at playing golf.
Other people, this is fucking...
whitney cummings
You look more like badminton to me.
joe rogan
What's going on here?
Same thing?
jamie vernon
I guess he hands him a towel and they wipe him off.
But he's got clothes on.
joe rogan
Oh, give me some volume on this.
I need to hear this.
whitney cummings
What mental illness does he have?
joe rogan
All of them.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
He's got the good ones, the bad ones.
They cancel each other out.
He's doing great.
whitney cummings
What is she getting out of this?
joe rogan
He's amazing.
whitney cummings
I don't like this.
The Christmas tree is kind of sinister.
joe rogan
Come on, this is beautiful.
jamie vernon
I have to leave.
joe rogan
Wipe it off my chin.
He's singing it.
Come on.
You gotta just let it go, Whitney.
You gotta let it go.
This is hilarious.
This is beautiful.
He's singing.
Lick off my tongue.
whitney cummings
How do you know about this video?
joe rogan
This is beautiful.
jamie vernon
This isn't just the only time you do this.
unidentified
By the way, stop having people wipe sweat off you and just take off your fur coat.
whitney cummings
Stop it.
joe rogan
She's got her hand on his dick.
whitney cummings
This is making me sexist against women.
joe rogan
Look at her.
whitney cummings
Your mother must be very proud.
joe rogan
Listen, she's doing a good job.
Everybody's happy.
I see a lot of love in the room and I see one hater.
Oh, look at this!
whitney cummings
Right here?
joe rogan
She's grabbing.
She hurt his dick.
whitney cummings
Why would you...
What did she do?
Just grabbed it?
joe rogan
She grabbed it and crushed his balls.
She tried to snatch it and take it home with her.
whitney cummings
I feel like this took a turn for the amazing.
joe rogan
It's amazing that that's totally legal.
whitney cummings
Is having your dick grabbed enjoyable?
joe rogan
Not like that.
She's high-fiving, bitch, I got that dick.
whitney cummings
I'm so confused about dicks.
joe rogan
I got that dick.
She's like, get over here.
I'm gonna get it again.
unidentified
What?
whitney cummings
Women are letting me down.
joe rogan
It's not all women.
You can't be on Team Woman.
That's crazy.
whitney cummings
That's a human being.
I agree, but I get a little bit where I'm like, meh.
joe rogan
You are not on the same team.
You're a human being who also happens to be female.
People get ridiculous.
You can't say women.
whitney cummings
It's one crazy person.
I agree, but I need everyone to class it up.
Everyone needs to just elevate.
joe rogan
What about R. Kelly dropping his dick in front of some confused woman?
whitney cummings
I think he's disgusting.
joe rogan
She's probably drunk.
whitney cummings
When was that?
Was that recent?
joe rogan
Exciting?
jamie vernon
That video was from December.
whitney cummings
He's garbage.
Recent?
jamie vernon
He does that, I think, probably every show.
joe rogan
First of all, how dare you say he's garbage?
whitney cummings
He's garbage.
joe rogan
He has provided some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of the world.
whitney cummings
That's our job!
I don't like it when musicians take our job.
joe rogan
Oh, no, no, no, no.
whitney cummings
I don't like it when musicians...
joe rogan
Have you ever heard Real Talk?
No?
whitney cummings
What is that?
unidentified
A song?
Oh, is this where he talks for the entire song?
joe rogan
It's going to be a beautiful moment in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
whitney cummings
Please don't make eye contact with me.
joe rogan
Even if we get pulled off YouTube, I don't give a fuck, we get pulled off YouTube basically every video anyway.
unidentified
Why?
whitney cummings
Because of copyright stuff?
joe rogan
Oh, we get claims and then we get demonetized.
It's hard out there for a pimp.
But you got to listen to this.
whitney cummings
Is this going to make me have an orgasm?
joe rogan
Play it.
Play it.
We're going to play it.
We're going to comment over it.
And then if we lose this episode, we'll re-upload it.
whitney cummings
Take this out.
joe rogan
And then this is going to have to go out live.
All you internet folks.
You're going to have to take chunks of this and save this part.
whitney cummings
Am I going to climax?
Don't make eye contact with me, Joe.
Don't look at me.
unidentified
The profanity represents just how real shit gets when you're arguing with your girl and shit.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
unidentified
You're arguing with your girl because all you do is cheat.
joe rogan
Hold on, hold on.
unidentified
I gotta give me a drink.
joe rogan
You gotta give me a drink.
unidentified
Take me a shot.
whitney cummings
Oh, take me a shot.
unidentified
Okay.
Smokey's jumping off here, so.
Oh.
whitney cummings
Oh, what is that?
unidentified
I'm just gonna be real.
joe rogan
Sequent.
Here we go.
unidentified
We're gonna do it.
I'm doing this for the fans that I know around the globe.
Okay.
Love Real Talk.
Real Talk.
Oh.
Wait a minute.
Calm down.
I was at a club with who?
whitney cummings
This is the happiest I've ever seen you, Joe!
joe rogan
Listen to this.
unidentified
Man, you know what?
whitney cummings
Is that a landline?
unidentified
Girl, I'm not about to sit up here and argue with you about who's to blame or call no name.
Real talk.
Is that a sequined bomber jacket?
joe rogan
Only thing I'm trying to establish.
unidentified
Establish?
joe rogan
Meanwhile, he's getting braided.
unidentified
I... It gets better.
Listen to this.
Did she say there were other guys there?
Well, tell me this.
Why was there any music?
That was kind of a mind bug.
whitney cummings
He is the Martin Luther King of our day.
unidentified
I am.
Real talk.
Don't you think I got enough bullshit on my mind?
Real talk.
Why is he looking into the camera?
I feel violated.
whitney cummings
I feel violated.
unidentified
What?
Is you tweaking?
joe rogan
Here goes.
unidentified
Is this a song or is this a...
Is it real?
whitney cummings
Is this real?
unidentified
It gets better.
and watch your mouth.
joe rogan
She's called his mom's house.
unidentified
Fuck me, girl, fuck you.
I don't give a fuck about what you told me about.
I'm sick of this bullshit.
I'm coming home and getting my shit in.
Fuck me!
Fuck you!
It's my favorite part.
What?
What?
This bitch?
Someone needs to burn your fucking clothes because they are hideously ugly.
Stop the pop warming up.
whitney cummings
This isn't real.
unidentified
What's happening?
Guys are fighting.
joe rogan
This is what men do.
unidentified
Real talk.
joe rogan
This is real.
Don't you get it?
unidentified
Why don't you go fuck one of your funky ass friends?
You probably already are.
joe rogan
You're probably already doing that shit anyway.
whitney cummings
You need to break up with this girl.
This isn't a healthy relationship.
unidentified
Bitch, I wish you I would burn my motherfucking clothes.
I like, fuck me.
Fuck you!
What?
joe rogan
Those are the best lyrics ever.
whitney cummings
Great comeback.
This is a game changer.
joe rogan
It's a game changer.
You need to know that's out there.
whitney cummings
That's not real.
I mean, that's real.
joe rogan
It's real.
That's a real song.
That's a real song.
That's a non-ironic real song.
That shit's genius.
whitney cummings
I changed my mind.
He's an artist.
joe rogan
He's an artist.
whitney cummings
He's a visionary.
He's a performance artist.
joe rogan
Leave your 20-year-old at his house, but he's a goddamn visionary.
whitney cummings
That requires an amount of bravery that I'll never understand.
joe rogan
No one will.
You have to be that guy.
whitney cummings
Yelling one side of a conversation.
And humiliating.
I mean, that's what a real fight would sound like.
joe rogan
Did you say there was other guys there?
Did you say there was other guys there?
What the?
whitney cummings
The use of silence in that song is brilliant.
joe rogan
It's art.
whitney cummings
Art.
joe rogan
That is art.
whitney cummings
I'm feeling so many different emotions simultaneously that I've never felt before.
joe rogan
It's repulsive art.
It's almost like a disgusting punk rock scene.
whitney cummings
Well, it also made me examine a lot of my own beliefs.
I have a lot to think about.
joe rogan
You need to know that's real.
There's a dude out there running shit like that.
He's got a sex cult now.
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
Have you heard this?
whitney cummings
Really?
Do tell.
joe rogan
There's been all these stories that R. Kelly, they're accusing him of having some sort of a sex cult.
whitney cummings
Oh, I think I did hear about this.
I tried to join.
joe rogan
These girls were separated from their families.
You tried to join?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I tried to join us.
joe rogan
What's the requirements?
whitney cummings
A heroin addiction.
Lack of frontal lobe.
No college education.
joe rogan
Love of R. Kelly.
Holder of the towel.
whitney cummings
And you can't be literate.
joe rogan
Right.
But once you hold a towel and grab a snake.
A woman said she was under the spell of a master manipulator, R. Kelly.
whitney cummings
After watching that video, I feel like I would actually like to join this cult.
I have some questions.
joe rogan
If you say that you were under the spell of a master manipulator...
whitney cummings
But can I ask you a question?
Why do you need to start a sex cult?
Why can't you just get a girlfriend?
joe rogan
I don't know.
You'd have to talk to R. Kelly.
whitney cummings
Is the idea to sleep with a lot of people?
Can't you just...
You're already a musician.
Don't you get to do that anyway?
joe rogan
You'd have to talk to R. I do not want to speak for the man.
whitney cummings
I don't want to.
Because, yeah, because I, you know...
I don't know if he's really doing that.
unidentified
Anyone who comes back from fuck you with, fuck you, it's infinity.
Fuck me, girl, fuck you!
whitney cummings
It's literally infinity.
You can't argue with that.
unidentified
Real talk!
whitney cummings
It's banging your head against a brick wall.
You cannot want to fight with that guy, because he just repeats your insults back to you.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know if he's really running a sex cult, but if he is, why does anybody ever run a cult?
whitney cummings
Isn't any pop star running a sex cult?
Isn't that what being a pop star is?
joe rogan
What does it say here?
This is Kitty, you gave me your number, he said, always refer to me as Daddy.
whitney cummings
Oh, no.
That's not good.
I mean, whatever.
unidentified
We say baby during sex, which has been weird to me.
joe rogan
It does make sense that if that was your kid, though, you'd be freaking the fuck out.
Your kid's in R. Kelly's basement.
whitney cummings
You don't strike me as someone who fights with women.
joe rogan
I'm not into it.
I don't like fighting.
I don't think it's fun.
It's not necessary most of the time, too.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
That's the point.
It's not necessary.
I no longer have the need to have those chaotic arguments and stuff.
joe rogan
But people disagree all the time.
I've had pretty heated arguments with some of my best friends.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
And sometimes over ridiculous shit.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
You know, I think it's the same with relationships.
Like, you should never say something in a relationship.
Like, people say things in relationships I feel that they would never say to, like, their best friend.
Like, it's very rare.
whitney cummings
That's interesting.
joe rogan
That you would, like, say something to your best friend Like a hurtful thing without...
I mean, at least me, the way I think it.
I don't want to hurt my best friend's feelings.
Or any good friend.
whitney cummings
If they're acting a fool and it's like, I have to say this uncomfortable thing to protect you from yourself because what you're doing is stupid or dangerous.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And I feel like most men agree with that.
But...
Most men that I've talked to about fights with their wives, a lot of guys have told me that shit can get really ugly and you start going after the things that you know are going to hurt the other person's feelings.
It's like, woo!
And I was like, do you do that with your friends?
And they were like, no.
I don't do that with my friends.
whitney cummings
I mean, that's the whole point of what a friend is.
I used to have weird, acrimonious things with friends.
I'm like, this doesn't make any sense.
If I'm not fucking you, I'm not fighting with you.
Friends should be a safe place.
I see a lot of friends of mine going down in a blaze of glory on Instagram with their crazy...
Have you ever lost...
joe rogan
A Bon Jovi song?
whitney cummings
I've lost some friends to Instagram.
Like, oak trees are falling every day with the just losing their minds with their documenting every last thing.
And I've done a couple interventions where I'm like, hey, you're starting to look crazy and it never goes well.
Trying to help.
Trying to just, like, hold a mirror up.
You're starting to look bad shit.
You gotta take your kids off.
You can't be filming them and saying their name and saying where they live.
It's just dangerous, you know?
I want someone to tell me...
You would tell me if I was going crazy, right?
joe rogan
Well, there's definitely a lot of people that get addicted to the idea of posting things and then reading the likes.
unidentified
That's exactly right.
whitney cummings
Getting the feedback, feedback.
joe rogan
There's some sort of a weird serotonin thing that comes from that.
whitney cummings
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I mean, it's like rats with the fucking, whatever, the Skinner box.
It's not just like Pavlovian response.
I was at Instagram the other day.
They said the average Instagram user goes to Instagram 35 times a day.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus!
whitney cummings
35 times a day.
That's more than once an hour.
joe rogan
It's nice to know I'm average.
whitney cummings
Do you think you go that often?
joe rogan
No.
I'm probably close though.
unidentified
Yeah?
joe rogan
I go a lot.
whitney cummings
I feel like I'll go five times in a row and then not for like a couple hours.
joe rogan
I follow a bunch of really cool nature ones.
whitney cummings
Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
whitney cummings
I know.
And travel things.
Now I follow doctors and surgeries and zit popping and that kind of shit.
joe rogan
Oh, do you follow Dr. Pimple Popper?
whitney cummings
Yes, of course.
joe rogan
She's amazing.
whitney cummings
Yes, I'm obsessed.
I like when they take a tool and push down and it comes out.
joe rogan
Yeah, why is that so satisfying?
whitney cummings
Because as humans, we're designed to groom each other.
Because before antibacterial soap and fucking Purell and stuff, we get endorphins from popping zits and grooming each other.
Yeah.
Does your wife ever try to, like, pop zits and stuff on you?
joe rogan
No, I don't really get zits.
whitney cummings
Really?
Well, yeah, no, you don't.
Yeah, well, your skin is, like, kind of amazing.
But, like, ingrown hairs and stuff?
Does she ever want to, like, get stuff?
Oh, my God.
With my boyfriend, I'm constantly, like, in his...
unidentified
Popping zits.
He hates it.
whitney cummings
He hates it, but he lets me do it because he knows how I'm poor.
I tweeze his eyebrows.
joe rogan
So, what is it?
It's like a monkey thing, you think?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Like a grooming monkey thing?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
So, when we're watching Dr. Pimple Popper lance these zits and pop...
whitney cummings
Yeah, we get endorphins.
It's like little mini orgasms.
joe rogan
She's unapologetic with it too.
She's not just a doctor.
She actually loves it.
whitney cummings
I go on planes and go in and I squeeze and then stuff comes out of every pore.
I love it so much.
joe rogan
Do you ever go on planes and squeeze one off and it hits the mirror?
whitney cummings
No, I don't have the ones that, like, are projectile.
I wish I did.
joe rogan
I remember I had those in high school.
whitney cummings
There's something in every one of your fucking little pores.
And if you just, like, squeeze your skin, it'll come out all at the same time.
joe rogan
It's like porn.
whitney cummings
I love it.
I live for it.
joe rogan
Yeah, in high school, you used to get those volcano zits that, like, you'd be walking around.
There was, like, this white bubble.
unidentified
Ugh!
whitney cummings
I used to have to get cortisone shots for that.
I used to get them, yeah, like when I got my period, they would like, you'd feel them and they'd like hurt.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And you like can't even sleep on them.
And then you'd have to wait like four weeks for them to surface.
So I would get a cortisone shot.
joe rogan
And right in the time when you're most vulnerable and confused.
whitney cummings
As a teenager.
joe rogan
Yeah, your body starts to fuck with the way you look.
whitney cummings
What is the biological basis for having acne as a teenager?
joe rogan
It's a hormonal thing.
It's some sort of a reaction.
And there's a bunch of different ways to mitigate it.
A lot of these medications are really heavy.
They dry your skin out.
whitney cummings
Oh, I took Accutane.
Oh, I took Accutane twice.
Does it make you crazy or something?
I mean, you met me.
What do you think?
joe rogan
I can't blame it on the Accutane.
whitney cummings
No, but there was this great...
When you take it, you have to take birth control simultaneously.
unidentified
You have to.
whitney cummings
You have to because it causes birth defects in fetuses.
So I'm like, if this causes birth defects, maybe I shouldn't be putting it in my bloodstream.
And the side effects are so gnarly.
Suicidal.
You have to sign these forms saying this could...
joe rogan
Push the thing forward.
whitney cummings
Oh, sorry.
Draw you to suicide.
Like, anal bleeding is one of them.
unidentified
Hey!
Hey!
whitney cummings
Anal bleeding?
You're giving that to a 14-year-old?
My skin started flaking off in, like, croissant, like, pastry sheets.
And my lips were, like, bleeding.
It was a nightmare.
Your eyes start itching and drying out.
Like, this isn't ready for the market.
Don't release this product yet.
It's not a thing.
joe rogan
Now, was it possibly, like, you took too much of it?
whitney cummings
No.
You're on it for six months, and that's just, it varies.
Yeah, it dries your skin out, or, like, hair starts mauling out.
But my skin cleared up.
joe rogan
God, that's awful.
But does it have behavioral effects as well?
Or am I making it up?
whitney cummings
I mean, yeah.
Here's my thing.
It says increases your risk of suicide.
joe rogan
Oh, Christ.
whitney cummings
But when you're a teenager having bad skin, it's like a chicken or an egg thing, you know, because all you want to do is fit in.
So I'm always like, was it the Accutane or was it the bad skin?
I don't know.
That's what they're arguing, I guess.
Would you ever let your kids go on Accutane?
joe rogan
No.
No.
unidentified
Smart.
joe rogan
I mean, I wonder what natural alternatives there are.
Like, I wonder if anything has to do with the amount of probiotics you take.
I wonder if anything has to do, like, any of it could be mitigated with...
whitney cummings
Well, it's about oil glands, really.
It's genetic.
There's not a ton you can do about it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but is that the case?
Do the genes express themselves exactly the same way, dependent upon environmental stress, the amount of nutrition you take in, the way you clean your skin?
whitney cummings
I mean, your oil glands, I don't know.
Can you shrink or grow oil glands based on diet?
joe rogan
I don't know, but it's not uniform, right?
So there's only a few in certain places.
It's variable.
whitney cummings
I have large oil glands and large pores.
joe rogan
Right, but it's not all your pores get infected, right?
So some of them do.
Like, why are they getting infected?
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's a good question.
joe rogan
How much of that could be dietary?
How much of that could be changed?
Like, what if you cut out dairy?
Who knows?
whitney cummings
Huh, yeah.
joe rogan
There's probably a lot of things that are causing issues.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I don't know.
From what I gathered, and this could just be all of the dermatologists trying to prescribe me more stuff, but a lot of it is genetic.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
whitney cummings
But yeah, diet, I know.
joe rogan
But I wonder if it could be mitigated with diet, or I wonder if maybe poor diet exacerbates it.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I don't know, probably.
joe rogan
I'm just guessing, but I just wonder if medication can do something for you.
Maybe there's another way to do it, to handle it in some sort of a more all-encompassing way.
whitney cummings
Because those deep cystic ones, that is just so...
joe rogan
Those are the worst.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but I think it's probably a hormonal thing.
Can you control your hormones with diet?
joe rogan
I doubt it.
I mean, I'm sure it enhances your body's ability to produce hormones if you eat the right foods.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I wonder, as a child, you're in such a state of flux.
whitney cummings
And it might actually be, I wonder if there's some biological basis for like the Darwinism of having really bad skin and overcoming it, you know?
Like what is the point of that in terms of your pecking order in the tribe of like having some kind of stigma and overcoming it and if you're more of a badass, like...
joe rogan
That's interesting.
whitney cummings
There was an article, I don't remember, Scientific American or something, that people who had acne are over-performers in life because they had to overcompensate and overcome adversity.
The more adversity you overcome, the more resilient you are.
And yeah, it was just like something about you work harder.
joe rogan
Isn't that funny how something will come up and it seems completely contradictory?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Then you stop and look at it and you go, oh, okay.
They had to try harder so they got stronger.
whitney cummings
But then again, who's tracing the people who had acne who weren't successful?
No one's following them and they don't know about them.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
But is there a disproportionate amount of people with acne that succeed?
whitney cummings
Apparently, it was some study about a ton of people who say, I was a dork in high school, I had acne, I was a loser, and then they're CEOs of companies or performers or entertainers.
Like Bill Murray.
You become funny, you sort of have to develop some kind of personality to fit in because you're so stigmatized.
joe rogan
That line of thinking is real similar.
It's similarly criticized to the line of thinking that they use in the movie The Secret.
Remember that?
whitney cummings
I was just talking about The Secret, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, the problem with that thing is not that the law of attraction isn't real.
Not that if you don't focus on something and put your energy towards something, you're more likely to achieve it than if you don't focus on those things.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But the problem is you're only looking at winners.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
You're only looking at people...
whitney cummings
Of course.
joe rogan
Yeah, who focus...
whitney cummings
No one's following the losers.
joe rogan
There's so many of those.
If you just go over 300 million people, it's easy to find a few thousand super winners like those people.
whitney cummings
Totally.
joe rogan
You find them and you say, what made you so successful?
And they will tell you, you know, I use the power of the law of attraction and I wrote things down and I had a vision board and I went towards, but you also like took all the necessary steps to make that happen.
You also were very disciplined and worked hard.
But some people don't, and you also thought it through correctly, right?
There's a puzzle in front of you.
You solved it.
All of a sudden, I'm the CEO of Exxon.
All of a sudden, I started Apple.
You have to figure that fucking thing out.
Just because you made it there doesn't mean you have a valid roadmap that anyone can use and just think positive and think about the future and make some sort of vision map, and it's definitely going to work out.
No, you have to do all the right things, too, and it's not going to be easy.
Most people are going to quit.
whitney cummings
But the kind of person who goes to buy The Secret and makes a vision board is probably the same person who's going to do all the right things.
joe rogan
Hopefully.
whitney cummings
Right?
joe rogan
But there's a lot of people that will try a new thing like that and they sort of start them out and then they bail on them.
And I used to do that for a long time.
whitney cummings
Me too.
joe rogan
Fuck, I did that for a long time.
I would get like those Anthony Robbins books on tape and I would listen to them and then I'd bail.
whitney cummings
Do you remember Zig Ziglar?
Did you ever listen to that guy?
He was like one of those.
joe rogan
That was a rich one though, right?
It was like dream and become rich or some shit?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
joe rogan
Or is he how to influence people?
whitney cummings
I don't remember.
Zig Ziglar, he was like something positive thinking bullshit, I know.
joe rogan
Sounds like an English pop star.
whitney cummings
Wait, so you would start these inspirational things?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'd start these programs and I'd just fucking bail on it for whatever reason.
I never completely disciplined myself with any sort of self-help program.
I would start them out and then I'd bail on them.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but it's like everybody has a different...
I mean, do you feel like your training is kind of that now?
joe rogan
Yeah, but I think even then, it was just a matter of me just developing as a person and being able to understand the process of disciplining myself better.
Because I was never very disciplined when I was younger.
I would just get obsessed with things.
And I would do them because that's all I wanted to do all the time.
It never felt like discipline because it felt like this was something I wanted to do.
whitney cummings
Well, productivity and cooperation makes dopamine, right?
joe rogan
Right.
So I had to learn after the fact how to be disciplined.
Discipline is doing a bunch of stuff I don't want to do.
whitney cummings
You strike me as, I mean, one of the most disciplined people.
I mean, you're certainly one of the most disciplined people I know.
joe rogan
I know more disciplined people than me.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
My friend Cameron Haynes.
I talk about him too much on the podcast.
People are thinking we're gay for each other.
whitney cummings
He's your polar bear.
joe rogan
He's the guy who taught me how to bow hunt.
And he runs ultra marathons.
And he works a full-time job.
And he has a family.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
He runs a marathon a day.
You can follow him on Instagram.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Yep.
Follow him on Instagram.
unidentified
Where?
joe rogan
Pull up his Instagram story.
He lives in Eugene, Oregon.
And he runs Mount Pisgah is the mountain.
whitney cummings
That's crazy.
joe rogan
He's a fucking savage.
whitney cummings
I mean, I think there's something to be said, though.
Like, I'm pretty disciplined, but I think my next step is to be like, you know what?
Let things be sloppy.
Wake up and don't know what you're going to fucking do, because I am just so attached to rigid control.
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing, though.
As a comic, that fuck-off instinct is a good one.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's good to have, because fuck-off is where the ideas come from.
Like, what?
whitney cummings
I only feel like I can do that on stage.
joe rogan
Look at this crazy fucker.
He runs a goddamn marathon a day, and I'm not kidding.
whitney cummings
Is that healthy?
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
For sure.
joe rogan
It's definitely not healthy.
unidentified
He doesn't care.
joe rogan
He's training for something called the Moab 240, where it's 238 miles of running.
At one time?
Yep.
whitney cummings
Is that possible?
joe rogan
It takes more than three days.
Yeah, it takes more than three days.
He did 205 already.
whitney cummings
Does he run in sneakers?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Under Armour.
He runs in these things called fat tires.
They've got like a good amount of cushioning to them.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because the amount of pounding you constantly do, he likes it that way.
It's just like, he's talking, you're talking extreme volume of running.
I mean, it's just insane.
whitney cummings
His knees are just, that can't be great.
unidentified
See, he's fine.
whitney cummings
But he's not running on pavement.
He's running on...
joe rogan
Sometimes he runs on pavement.
Sometimes he runs on the road.
I mean, he'll run early in the morning near his house.
This is the Moab 205 endurance race.
whitney cummings
How many people do it?
joe rogan
230, 240. Moab 200?
whitney cummings
I've seen it called the Moab 200. It's four days of running?
joe rogan
It says 240. I've heard it called the 240. I think they changed it to the 240. They were calling it the 200. Do you get paid?
whitney cummings
What is the...
joe rogan
It's a good question, but look at the fucking scenery.
And look what happens if you slip.
whitney cummings
But you're looking down.
You're not enjoying the scenery.
joe rogan
But look if you fell.
unidentified
Hi.
joe rogan
Goodbye.
See you.
unidentified
Bye.
joe rogan
No one.
No one is surviving that.
whitney cummings
Obamacare cannot help you, sir.
joe rogan
No.
There will be no Trumpcare that gets you out of that crevice in between those rocks.
unidentified
Okay, so it's...
Jesus!
joe rogan
And this is for four days.
More than three days.
whitney cummings
And they stop and eat?
joe rogan
Yeah, you stop.
They get, like, a snack.
But the strongest runners, they keep running.
They don't go to sleep.
whitney cummings
How many runners?
joe rogan
I don't know.
It's interesting.
I think he said 100 entered the 200, the Bigfoot 200, and he said 45 completed it.
I think those are the numbers.
I remember 45 completing it.
whitney cummings
And what is the main element of someone that completes this?
Is it mental tenacity?
Is it physical?
It's not physical.
It's mental.
joe rogan
It's mental tenacity because, first of all, physical is involved.
You certainly have to be physically tough to do this.
But the physical toughness is most of the time dictated by your mental toughness.
whitney cummings
It's like the Navy Seals that make it are never the biggest or the strongest, right?
joe rogan
You know, David Goggins, that ultra-endurathon runner, Navy Seal character, who's like a famous ultra-marathon athlete, he always says that people quit at 40%.
What?
Yeah, most people quit at 40%.
40% of their capability.
whitney cummings
That's probably the place where you get to go like, I didn't fail, I stopped.
joe rogan
No, you get to go to, I can't do this anymore, I gotta stop, I gotta stop, I gotta stop.
And that's 40% of what you're actually capable of.
whitney cummings
So where does mental, I mean it comes from adversity at a young age, right?
joe rogan
It can, but there's no recipe for it, right?
Decide that you don't like being a pussy at 18 and just start doing jujitsu and become one of the hardest trainers in the room.
Escalate who you are and who you become and become some world champion jujitsu person.
It's been done a bunch of times by a bunch of different guys.
A lot of world jujitsu champs They're like kind of nerdy, geeky book type characters.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Amazing.
Yeah.
Crazy.
And they become these nerd assassins.
whitney cummings
But you are studying.
I mean, it is.
It's so precise and it's geometry and math.
You're kind of just a nerd, right?
joe rogan
There's definitely an equation, right?
There's definitely some sort of an interactive equation going on.
But it's also incredibly physical.
So you get away with all the physical anxiety and all the bullshit that most people carry around with them.
You talk to people after training, after class, everybody's so chilled out.
They're so relaxed.
Because they just went to war for like an hour and a half.
Everybody's like so chill.
And afterwards they're like the funnest guys to hang out with.
Go to dinner and laugh and joke around.
whitney cummings
And what happens if those people don't do it for a month?
joe rogan
They get itchy.
Every time you get injured, a lot of guys get injured again because they'll get a surgery and then go in too quick.
Super common.
whitney cummings
Because they need that fix.
joe rogan
You just want to do it.
You miss it so bad.
whitney cummings
How long can you go without doing stand-up before you start doing bits for your wife?
joe rogan
I never do that.
She never tolerated.
But I could probably go.
I mean, I've gone a month.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I didn't do that.
whitney cummings
That's as long as you've gone since you started.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That was a long time ago.
I just did it because I moved, and I settled into a new place, and I was doing a lot of stuff for the UFC, and I was traveling a lot, and I was like, you know what, I'm just going to do nothing for me.
whitney cummings
But doing UFC stuff, I get so fascinated by our need for visibility and how much do I need and where is this shit coming from and do I exist if I'm not on camera?
I need to work on that thing.
Do we exist when we're not fucking documenting?
Because I sort of took some time off of being on TV and stuff and then I started being like, do I still exist?
Because I wasn't seen a lot as a kid.
But it's like, doing UFC where you're being heard, you're being seen, you're valuable, people love you.
Is that the same reward centers in your brain as performing stand-up?
joe rogan
No.
No, it's totally different.
I'm a representative when I'm doing the UFC. It has almost nothing to do with me.
The only thing that has to do with me is me.
unidentified
That's not true.
joe rogan
It is true.
whitney cummings
Well, you're the aficionado on this stuff.
joe rogan
Honestly, without the fight, without that, what I do is useless.
So all I'm doing is trying to use my vocabulary and my creativity and my understanding of what they're doing to I try to keep myself as much as I can out of it.
It's not your opinions on tactics.
whitney cummings
It's not your creative point of view.
joe rogan
Sure.
It's just my perspective on performances and character and the different interactions between these different people.
whitney cummings
It's your acumen for understanding the science and stuff, but you're not infusing your incendiary.
joe rogan
It's just a very different feeling than being stand-up.
When I go to do stand-up, it's like, I'm going to go and I'm going to do my act.
Like, hey, here we go.
What's up?
And it's about me interacting with people.
Whereas doing the UFC is really just about being a representative.
whitney cummings
Like a scientist.
joe rogan
More of like an analyst.
I've seen so many of these things.
I'm like, what does this represent?
Oh, I know this code.
This code means left high kicks coming.
You know, he's moving this.
He's lifting his leg.
I see where it's coming.
The other guy's dropping his hands.
Oh, there it is!
And you call it, and it's a representation.
So it's very different than doing standing.
whitney cummings
Do you think that athletes will start, or have they already started getting elective surgeries when they don't have injuries?
joe rogan
There's only a few that I've ever heard of that think that that's willing to do that, and Brody Stevens actually told me that was wrong.
One of them was a Tommy John surgery, where it apparently makes you able to pitch better.
whitney cummings
Well, yeah, a lot of those guys, I think, are getting it, but I thought it was you get it when you need it, when your shoulder's fucked up.
joe rogan
Right, I had read that people were getting an elective, and Brody said that was bullshit.
unidentified
Oh, really?
whitney cummings
Well, didn't RG3 get one knee?
He did one knee and then he did the other one?
Who's RG3? The guy from, am I saying that right?
jamie vernon
He's a quarterback.
whitney cummings
Quarterback, the Redskins guy?
Yeah, didn't he get elective knee surgery just because they can improve your knee?
unidentified
What?
whitney cummings
Yeah, when it's not injured.
jamie vernon
For real?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I have not heard this at all.
whitney cummings
He got one knee done because he had two.
The running quarterback guy?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
I know nothing about sports.
joe rogan
The running quarterback guy?
whitney cummings
The black guy.
Yeah, the black guy.
unidentified
Oh, the black guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The fast one?
whitney cummings
Yeah, yeah, the one that runs with the thing.
joe rogan
He's really muscular.
whitney cummings
The guy, he was on the Redskins, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I've never heard of someone doing that.
jamie vernon
That's crazy.
whitney cummings
I don't know.
I'm just curious if you think that that's going to start to be a, it's an off-season, I'm just going to get a new wrist, because they can make better ones than genetics can.
joe rogan
We've talked about that with legs.
Like, what if they get to the point where someone breaks a leg and it gets gangrene, they have to remove the leg, but they replace it with a bionic leg, and it's like the six million dollar man.
What if they get you a leg that you can feel and it works way better than your regular legs?
What would you rather do?
Would you rather be in a wheelchair?
Would you rather be on crutches?
Or would you rather have a leg that works way better than a regular leg?
Well, you definitely take the fucking leg that works way better, right?
So then, if you feel it and it feels like a regular leg, what's to stop you from just deciding to just do the other leg, too?
How about get your arms done?
I'm getting my arms done.
whitney cummings
I'm getting my neck done.
joe rogan
I'm bionic.
whitney cummings
Yeah, why not?
joe rogan
Come on.
Wouldn't you else fucking carry around like that?
For real.
Just carry somebody around.
whitney cummings
Every time you send a text message, your phone explodes.
I mean, I feel like we might be moving towards this.
We now have this, like, where everyone's trying to be a superhuman, super...
Everyone thinks they're a fucking athlete now.
joe rogan
Well, I met a guy who didn't have an arm.
He lost his arm.
I forget what the accident was, but he had a carbon fiber arm with an articulating hand.
whitney cummings
And it could move from his thinking...
joe rogan
Well, I don't think so.
I think he's moving it somehow or another with his nerves in his forearm.
I think somehow or another that's how he's moving it.
But I'm not entirely sure.
The idea is that they've had people that they put these sort of electrodes or something to their head and they can have them articulate fingers, like people that are paralyzed, these mechanical fingers.
whitney cummings
It's amazing.
joe rogan
But I've done this thing.
I went to this lab where they do these tests and we put this helmet on me.
And by thinking about things, you can make a drone fly around.
By thinking about when you can achieve a certain frequency, it communicates wirelessly with this drone through this thing that they put on your head with all these electrodes.
whitney cummings
We can actually, I mean, you were just talking about it with Kinison.
We can kind of do that.
I mean, he was doing that with words, but I mean, this is the shit that I do with horses is that you can kind of communicate with them with your minds if you're really having a 50-50 consensual relationship with them because they're prey animals.
And you can literally just think if your intention is pure enough.
I mean, this sounds like bullshit, the secret, whatever.
But if you think about what you want from them and you're really present and connected to them, they will do it.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
joe rogan
So that's why people get really into it?
Really into horses?
whitney cummings
Somatic riding because they're prey animals.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
They're prey animals.
So the way that they've evolved, if anyone cares, there's this book called Zen Minds and Horse and talks about the evolution of the prey animal and basically how they can feel fear.
They can feel intention.
They can feel where you want to go.
And if you're training to be the lead mare of the herd, that they look to you.
And if you basically anticipate something from them, they will fulfill that.
It's wild.
So it's like, we don't use bits, we don't use saddles, and I don't use any sort of leads, and I'll be on him, and I'll lead a little bit with my knees, but if I just visualize where I want to go, he'll just go there.
But if I'm disconnected and just came in from traffic, and I'm just like, bullshit, like thinking about my shit, he's just like not connected to me and won't do anything.
It's hard to achieve.
You have to get to that flow meditative state.
I haven't smoked weed and hung out with my horse before.
That's an interesting idea.
I've played music and stuff like that, but maybe I should try that to turn off my amygdala.
joe rogan
Yeah, just try a little.
Don't get crazy.
Just try a little.
whitney cummings
That's actually a really good idea because when you bring anxiety around a prey animal, they feel it and they just feel fear.
And fear is what they have been designed to avoid.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Any sort of companion animal feels the same thing.
I think dogs know when you're high.
whitney cummings
Totally!
Totally!
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Totally.
Because they get high with you if you're smoking.
They can't not.
joe rogan
Well, I've had that happen before.
I had a dog that she got a panic attack.
whitney cummings
Oh, no.
unidentified
She fucking hid underneath the table.
joe rogan
She was high as fuck because we hotboxed her.
Me and Joey Diaz.
whitney cummings
Oh, Jesus.
joe rogan
It was in my office.
Yeah.
We were doing bong hits in my office with my dog, Lucy.
whitney cummings
Oh, no.
There's this guy, the dog that bit my ear off.
I couldn't find him.
Basically, if a dog self-sues that way and was taken from its mother too young, it's always going to be a liability, and I wasn't going to put him down, obviously.
So I sent him.
There's this guy named Stephen Baldwin, and he takes dogs who have bitten people.
joe rogan
Not like Alec Baldwin's brother.
whitney cummings
Not like Alec Baldwin's brother.
Oh, there's a Stephen.
Well, he's Steffen.
S-T-E-F-F-E-N. But Stephen Baldwin might also have a dog ranch.
joe rogan
It's not Stephen Baldwin?
whitney cummings
I'd like to go there immediately.
There's a Stephen Baldwin?
Yeah, there is.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I mean the actor.
Stephen Baldwin, right?
Your guy's Stephen Baldwin.
whitney cummings
Stephen, yeah.
I said Stephen.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I think I probably fucked it up.
whitney cummings
That's amazing.
I've learned a lot today.
There's two Stephen Baldwins.
There's two Hulks.
Real talk!
Fuck me!
Fuck you!
Like, good one, R. Kelly.
joe rogan
Mark Ruffalo.
unidentified
I forgot about that.
joe rogan
He's the best.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
He's the newest Hulk's the best Hulk.
whitney cummings
He's such an amazing actor.
joe rogan
He's pretty amazing.
whitney cummings
That guy's badass.
But he uses hemp treats for his dogs.
joe rogan
Good move.
whitney cummings
Have you ever tried that?
joe rogan
Keep your dogs chilly.
unidentified
Have you ever tried that?
whitney cummings
Chill them out.
joe rogan
Keep them chilly.
whitney cummings
A little bit.
I think that's smart.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
If you ever need to pop one.
joe rogan
No, but I've been trimming elk steaks and I have these little scraps, these little scraps, and Give them to the dogs.
It is the greatest training aid in the history of dogs.
whitney cummings
And you just give it to them non-cooked, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, raw.
whitney cummings
You can give them one piece.
It'll last them three days.
You have to feed them for three days.
unidentified
Three days?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I have a friend who just gives the dog a slab of raw meat every three days.
joe rogan
And they don't feed them the second day?
whitney cummings
We feed our animals way too much.
Dogs do not need to eat twice a day.
We give them this fucking giant bowl.
All of our dogs are overweight and overfed.
Oh no, my dog's fat.
We're giving them way more food that they need and it's terrible on their joints and just terrible for them.
So I only feed my dogs as training rewards.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Only as training rewards?
whitney cummings
They don't get just a big bowl of food.
They get marrow bones.
They get meat.
They get eggs sometimes.
But they only get feeding throughout the day.
joe rogan
You're just running shit in your house.
You total alpha the fuck out of these dogs, don't you?
How many dogs do you have at your house?
whitney cummings
I have three.
joe rogan
Yeah, so you've got to kind of be running shit.
unidentified
You have to.
joe rogan
Because they're alone right now, just plotting.
whitney cummings
Well, they're in crates.
joe rogan
They're always in crates.
unidentified
Ooh, you keep them in crates.
whitney cummings
Crates, always.
Dogs are den animals.
They want to be in crates.
People are always like, it's mean to put them in crates.
No, it's not.
They love it.
It's mean to just let them roam around all the time because then they get territorial and they think that they have to control things.
My dogs are guests in my home.
That's the whole deal.
unidentified
Ooh.
Yeah.
whitney cummings
They don't get on the couch.
They don't get to do anything.
joe rogan
That sounds like you're a slave master.
unidentified
Kind of.
joe rogan
You sound like a speciesist to me.
whitney cummings
Kind of.
I mean, I have had my ear ripped off, so I've made some mistakes.
But with my dogs, dogs really do well when you dominate them.
joe rogan
What kind of food do you feed them?
whitney cummings
I feed them this place called Luann's Kitchen.
It's just quinoa and turkey, quinoa and beef, quinoa and chicken.
And they come in these frozen things.
joe rogan
And is it a good thing to give them grain?
Does it help them in some way?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
They seem to do really well on it.
joe rogan
Yeah?
whitney cummings
When I give them store-bought food, I sometimes do that buffalo, what's it called?
Buffalo, wild buffalo or something.
But they start eating grass and I see in their, they puke and I see in their, you know, because they eat grass to sort of like restore equilibrium because they're too acidic.
So they'll start eating grass with that.
joe rogan
That's why they do that?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it's some sort of an instinct?
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's to restore.
Exactly.
They're not getting enough of certain minerals and vitamins.
It means they're malnourished and they're getting it elsewhere.
That's when they start eating dirt, when they start eating shit, they're malnourished.
So I give them this stuff and they don't do that.
joe rogan
So you got this from watching them just eat grass around the backyard?
whitney cummings
Basically.
When dogs puke up grass or you see in their poop that they have grass in it, that means that they're having to go other places for nourishment.
joe rogan
So have you ever tried to feed them?
I know there's a lot of companies that sell like sort of a raw diet for dogs.
That's why I'm asking this.
They have like these tubes of raw food.
whitney cummings
Have you ever done that?
Yeah, I have.
I usually only do it for like training, but that's what they're designed to eat.
I mean, they're designed to eat raw.
They're wolves.
You know, they're just designed to eat raw meat.
joe rogan
This dog, like I said, he's the sweetest dog of all time, but he can barely keep it together when I have meat.
Barely.
It's crazy.
He's like ready to jump up at me.
whitney cummings
Because also the meat that we eat is full of antibiotics and chemicals.
It's been frozen 50,000 times.
There's no fucking blood in it.
You're bringing home this like fresh real meat with no garbage in it.
So he's like, you're awakening his primal.
joe rogan
His reactions are incredible.
And his reactions are way, they're just, it's way more extreme.
whitney cummings
I'd be super interested in juxtaposing like store-bought meat and then your elk meat and seeing What he goes to.
joe rogan
I think they would eat either one of them.
whitney cummings
I mean, for sure.
joe rogan
Whatever they got.
I mean, meat is meat, I think, to a dog.
I bet if you gave him time and allowed him to discern and hunger was not an option, he'd probably lean towards the elk, probably lean towards the bloody stuff.
Certainly more than that than dog food.
If you put the elk down next to a bowl of dog food, he would totally ignore the dog food.
If you let the dog loose in a row, and one bowl of elk and one bowl of dog food, they would go to the elk 100% of the time.
whitney cummings
Have you ever read the ingredients in dog food?
unidentified
It's like sugar, sucralose, high fructose corn syrup?
whitney cummings
I mean, it's just like trash.
joe rogan
I buy this stuff that has no grain in it, and a lot of it is wild game, and a lot of it is lamb and beef.
whitney cummings
I've been hearing people talk about their dogs eating cancer at five.
I'm just like, why are you feeding your dog?
joe rogan
Well, it also could be a genetic thing, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
Could it be a fucked up breed?
whitney cummings
Environmental.
joe rogan
I think dogs are supposed to eat meat.
Yes, correct.
I would think that if you could figure out a way...
I've been thinking about that lately, actually hunting for my dog.
That's cool.
Getting some food and putting it aside just for the dogs.
whitney cummings
Just do that.
I always do.
Whenever I make eggs, I'll make some for the dogs.
joe rogan
Yeah, just grind it up and just see if they behave different, if they feel different.
whitney cummings
Yeah, sometimes I'll just feed them meat and then eggs and then a couple days later I'll just give them marrow.
Sometimes I'll just give them marrow bones for the day.
joe rogan
My thinking of it is that's like some of the only mass-produced factory farm food that I still buy.
unidentified
Dog food?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's got to be factory farmed.
They're getting it the cheapest way they could get it, right?
If you're buying some sort of dry chicken.
whitney cummings
It's like feeding your kids Lucky Charms.
Yeah, just give the dogs meat.
Yeah.
And then they sleep more, you know.
joe rogan
They probably fart more.
whitney cummings
It's just probably fart more.
unidentified
A little fucker.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Does he fart a lot?
joe rogan
Sometimes.
It's not a lot, but when he does, he lets you know.
whitney cummings
Well, actually have him eat meat and see if he farts less.
Because their bodies are working so hard to break it down, they have to release methane gas.
joe rogan
That could really be what it is.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
When your dogs are farting, that means something's up.
It's like when you're farting a lot.
It's just like, what did I eat?
joe rogan
Yeah, what's going on in there?
whitney cummings
Why is my body working so hard to break this down?
Why isn't this digestible?
joe rogan
Do you follow any kind of crazy diet?
whitney cummings
You know, I had eating disorders.
unidentified
Uh-oh.
whitney cummings
Shocker.
Plot twist.
I mean, obviously.
So I have to be careful with that shit.
joe rogan
How'd you get over them?
unidentified
You know, a lot of things.
whitney cummings
I, like, went into a 12-step program for codependence, you know?
And I did this, like, inner child work.
It all sounds, like, very hippie and, like, ridiculous.
But I had to start...
Reparenting myself because I grew up around eating disorders.
I saw a lot of it.
There wasn't a lot of eating in my house.
There was a lot of eating on the go.
There was nothing in my fridge.
Like it just never occurred to me to take care of myself nutritionally.
But eating disorders are a lot about control for the most part.
I'm sure you know that.
So it was like my life fell out of control when I was a teenager and that was the one thing I could control is what I ate.
Getting thin also got me attention.
It got people to like worry about me and fawn over me and that I wanted attention.
And I think that Coupled with like intense therapy with it and then doing a job where I get my sort of quota of attention in healthy ways.
That box is checked.
I no longer need to get attention in unhealthy ways.
Does that make any sense?
joe rogan
So it was basically an attention thing and also just a bad programming thing.
whitney cummings
Bad conditioning.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And you had both of those things sort of.
whitney cummings
Yes.
And I had an adversarial relationship with my body and with food, and it was a very antisocial behavior as well.
I was able to isolate.
In school, I was not very social.
I was socially awkward.
I was really scared of people.
And having fucked up eating, like you're eating in your car, you can't really go to dinner with people, is kind of a way that I put a wall up between myself and other people as well.
joe rogan
Why is that more common, a female thing?
Like, from your perspective, like, when you think about, like, people having, like, that phrase, having an adversarial relationship with your body, you don't really hear guys say that, right?
whitney cummings
Well, because we have an expiration date, and you guys kind of don't, maybe, and then we also have this sort of...
What is it?
Golden rule or symmetrical need to look fertile to you guys where it's like tiny waist, tiny legs, big hips, big boots.
You know, like I think there's just like a lot more pressure on our bodies because our bodies are why you guys decide to protect us and procreate with us or not.
And then there's, of course, the social construction of what's beautiful.
Like eating disorders.
I read this amazing book.
I can't remember the name of it, but how their eating disorders in Italy only started when American television went over there.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
whitney cummings
And it's like tearing apart the fabric of their families because food is how they show love and connect with each other.
And mothers, you know, it starts with breastfeeding and then it's feeding you pasta and this.
And girls stopped eating pasta and dairy because they started getting eating disorders.
And it was like tearing apart the fabric of Italian families.
unidentified
Wow.
Amazing.
whitney cummings
to think about.
But I definitely grew up around a lot of it.
I saw women, you know, I think that we all have such a fucked up relationship with, you know, our children because we tell our kids to do certain things, but we don't do those things.
So I heard adults say, like, I need to lose weight, I need to lose five pounds, adults who are not fat.
And so I internalized sort of, oh, that's the body that I need, mine is, you know, like, I just saw a lot of fucked up shit.
And women that had adversarial relations with the body.
So I just like, I didn't know any better.
joe rogan
But it seems like a lot of women have it like from the jump, right?
I mean, it's not something that I don't even know if you're really aware of your expiration date when you're 16 and 17. You're not thinking about your longevity, right?
You're thinking about your current state.
whitney cummings
Yeah, women are objectified at such a young age.
You know, my brother is so good.
He's got these daughters and they're gorgeous.
And he always tells people, don't tell them they're pretty.
Tell them they're smart.
At such a young age, you're told like, you're so beautiful.
You're so pretty.
And whereas boys are like, you're so cool.
You're so awesome.
You're so good at football or whatever.
So I think from such an early age, I thought my appearance was the only thing that I had to offer the world.
And I just got really obsessed and fastidious about like what it looked like.
And I just thought I had to be really skinny at a young age.
joe rogan
How you talk to kids like that in that regard is very important.
Instead of saying, you're so good at that, you're supposed to say, see how working hard has paid off this way?
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
You're supposed to say, look, all the times you've gone to class, now you can do this.
This is amazing.
I you've progressed.
whitney cummings
I also heard it's really good because I had struggled with intense perfectionism and eating disorders are a big part of that because I didn't know I was allowed to have flaws as a kid because my parents, I think, always tried to put on a front that everything was fine when it wasn't.
Whereas what they say you're supposed to do with kids is fuck up and then course correct and then they get to see resilience.
So you go, hey, I was late to pick you up from school today.
I totally miscalculated the time.
I'm really sorry.
Instead of being like, oh, there was a line at the bank and things, or just, you know, like you don't lie to kids.
You aren't supposed to pretend things are fine or you're not supposed to pretend you're perfect to be this hero to them.
Or if like you're fighting with your spouse, you go like, hey, we kind of got in an argument and I was wrong and now we're fine.
You don't say like, no, everything's fine.
We were just...
Watching a movie, it was the sound from the TV. You know, you don't lie to them.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
whitney cummings
And I never had any of that.
I just got the message very young that, like, I had to be perfect and thin.
And that's the way it translated.
joe rogan
See, that's very rare that boys get the thin message.
That's what I'm trying to get to it.
It's like it's odd that it hits girls at such an early age.
whitney cummings
You have to be muscular and strong.
I mean, I recently just learned that men, like, have body image stuff.
I just had no idea, but it just manifests in different ways, right?
It's like you guys have to be, like, cut.
unidentified
You have to be big.
whitney cummings
You have to be...
You know, have a big dick, like you guys have all that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, some men do have the fat thing, like where it really bothers them, really fucks their head.
whitney cummings
Oh, guys are eating salads all over the place.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of anorexic guys.
unidentified
Smoothies, yeah.
joe rogan
No question about it.
I mean, it's just, especially like when you're trying to course correct, you know, like you've got, you decide, okay, I'm going the other way, I am going to fucking, like you look at yourself in the mirror, you get disgusted, you're like, I'm not eating.
whitney cummings
And you get, like, dysmorphic.
I mean, I see a lot of guys, and I'm curious your take on this because you're such a big part of this world of, like, these guys who are like, I'm paleo, they don't eat anything, and I'm like, this is still fucking rigid and fucked up, and I see guys with their cricket protein shit, and they're just...
I dated a guy who just ate dry protein.
I'm like, this is a fucking eating disorder.
Yeah, that's an eating disorder.
When is it healthy?
When does it go into disordered and dysfunctional?
joe rogan
It's unnecessary based on the results that you get from it, right?
It's like, okay, if you just eat healthy foods and you take, like, say, I mean, depending upon how much training you're doing, you might want to take a protein supplement occasionally, you know, take something that's easily digestible, concentrate on, like, macronutrients, concentrate on getting most of it from your food, but making sure you balance things out with supplements.
Once you do all that, like, why are you eating dry protein, dude?
whitney cummings
Like, what is this?
joe rogan
Just eat some food.
Get a nice piece of salmon and a salad, and it's going to be way better for you than what you're eating here.
whitney cummings
But a lot of it's irrational.
I used to have such an irrational fear of fat.
Like, I would go to a restaurant, order steamed vegetables.
If there was oil on it, I would, like, pat it down.
Like, it was, like, insanity.
But eating disorders are not logical.
They're completely, they become, like, a mirage.
Like, I used to only eat, like, dried fruit.
Which is so fucking bad for you and fattening.
joe rogan
It's so sugar.
whitney cummings
You're eating pure sugar.
It's not logical.
joe rogan
That's why it tastes so good.
whitney cummings
Yes, but then I would go to the gym for four hours.
I wasn't even good at having an eating disorder.
I was eating 4,000 calories a day.
You're not even good at being anorexic.
It becomes so irrational and you just get so illogical and you just have so many blind spots about...
joe rogan
Yeah, but don't you think you just know a whole lot more about nutrition now, too?
Because like...
When this is going on, say back to 20 years ago, how many people really knew how to eat correctly?
Everybody was eating whole grain bread and they thought that was the way to go.
whitney cummings
There wasn't this high fructose corn syrup and fucking everything and antibiotics and garbage and everything.
joe rogan
If we didn't notice...
whitney cummings
You're eating real food.
joe rogan
There was that.
But we didn't understand what your body actually needed.
We were trying to go low-fat with everything.
Yeah, that's true.
Everybody was trying to go with low-fat yogurt.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you know low-fat milk has sugar in it?
whitney cummings
That's disgusting.
joe rogan
Low-fat milk has sugar in it.
They put sugar in it, because otherwise it's vile.
whitney cummings
And they put bleach in it, too?
joe rogan
Yeah, there's rat piss.
All rat piss.
whitney cummings
Do you know about Rat Kings?
joe rogan
Rat kings?
Oh yes, I do.
whitney cummings
I'm obsessed with rat kings right now.
joe rogan
That is insane.
whitney cummings
Insane.
joe rogan
I saw a photo of a bunch of dead ones all tangled together by the tail.
whitney cummings
Because they just starve to death?
joe rogan
Well, is that what a rat king is?
whitney cummings
A rat king is when they're...
joe rogan
It's like when they all get tangled together, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah, all their tails get tangled and then they shit and it all congeals and they just turn into a mass of rats and then they starve to death and die.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
whitney cummings
I know.
joe rogan
Now, how do their tails get all tangled up like that?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
It doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
I mean, they are pretty...
What?
Sinewy?
joe rogan
You've never seen this before, Jamie?
unidentified
I don't know.
whitney cummings
Yeah, a rat king.
joe rogan
Yeah, there it is right there.
So that's one where their tails all get tangled together and they all rotted out and die.
whitney cummings
But why do they get stuck together?
Aren't they kind of slimy?
joe rogan
I guess, if I had to guess, that they spend too much time in a very small area.
Is that a squirrel king?
benjamin jaffe
The squirrel king.
joe rogan
The squirrels got accidentally intertwined?
No.
whitney cummings
Oh no, that's heartbreaking.
What are they going to do?
joe rogan
They're going to get eaten by coyotes.
unidentified
Oh, fuck.
joe rogan
That's how it goes.
whitney cummings
Hold on, but that rat king- Does that bother you?
joe rogan
Does predation bother you?
Like, you love animals.
whitney cummings
I do love animals.
Here's what I'll say.
Your deal, because you do it from an angle of conservation, I think is amazing.
joe rogan
Well, I sort of do it from an angle of conservation.
whitney cummings
And sport.
joe rogan
Well, no.
Food.
Mostly.
Food's number one.
But conservation is a consequence of trying to seek out food that way because the money that's spent goes directly to trying to preserve the habitat where these animals live and to keep things public.
To keep all this land, like we have millions of acres of land public.
whitney cummings
I know that we need predators for things to make sense, like wolves being reintroduced into Yellowstone, basically.
You call out a couple, and more get to live, right?
Not people.
But I'm sort of obsessed with that, and also just understanding that kind of the It's such a big key to, you know, whatever, it sounds ridiculous, but I don't know why I have shame about, like, giving a shit about the environment.
I don't know when being into the environment became, like, you're, like, lame, but it's, like, I think it's 240,000 gallons of water for one cow, and we only eat 40% of cows?
joe rogan
40% of its body?
whitney cummings
40% of its body.
We are so wasteful in the way that you do it, which is like you're eating every part of the body and don't you eat it for like months at a time and stuff?
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
whitney cummings
I think what you're doing for the environment is amazing.
joe rogan
Well, I think that's a consequence of just being selfish.
And selfish, not in a bad way, but the honest word is selfish because my feelings about meat were I really enjoyed eating meat.
And I was thinking like, well, let me look at it from a health perspective.
And boy, if you look at it objectively, there's a lot of shit that vegans try to point out.
But if you look at it objectively, there's almost nothing that shows that eating meat with vegetables is bad for you.
whitney cummings
Don't they digest at different speeds?
Is that true?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Not that that really matters.
joe rogan
You're killing me with this mic.
whitney cummings
I'm sorry, why am I doing this?
joe rogan
I don't know.
whitney cummings
What's wrong with me?
I'm rusty on my podcast.
unidentified
Don't worry about it.
whitney cummings
I know, because I'm actually trying to talk to you.
I keep forgetting we're on a show.
joe rogan
It just gets weird.
whitney cummings
But is it, I mean, because our teeth are sharp.
This is proof we're designed to be predators, right?
joe rogan
Well, we're more omnivores.
We're not predators.
This is like the argument against us being predators by really argumentative vegans who give these speeches.
If we were really predators, we would have fangs, we'd be able to eat things raw.
We are just opportunists, and we are hedonists, and we don't need to live like this.
whitney cummings
And they argue that because our intestines are longer?
joe rogan
Yeah, but the argument's not good.
Here's why it's not good.
We evolved to kill animals and cook them and then chew them up and eat them.
We've been doing that for thousands of years.
That's why we look this way and we don't look like chimps who also eat meat.
Chimps eat chimps.
whitney cummings
Bone marrow.
joe rogan
They cannibalize.
Chimps eat monkeys all the time.
whitney cummings
Is that true?
joe rogan
Yeah, chimps eat a lot of monkeys.
A lot of monkeys.
Kill them?
They eat them alive.
They tear them apart.
There's much video of chimps, particularly in the Congo, grabbing monkeys out of trees and eating them alive.
whitney cummings
What?
joe rogan
Just tearing them apart with their hands.
whitney cummings
Are chimps what rip that guy's face off?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Chimps are the closest to us, of course.
whitney cummings
Superhuman.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're so close to what we are.
They're like one step left or right of the evolutionary chain, something like 96 to 99% of our DNA. They're like insanely strong.
Insanely strong.
Like we can't even rationalize.
whitney cummings
But smaller than gorillas.
joe rogan
Way smaller, but as strong as a 500 pound man.
Like a 150 pound chimpanzee is literally bigger than a Game of Thrones guy.
whitney cummings
That's insane.
joe rogan
Like just rip you apart.
You'll never be able to understand the amount of power they can generate with their limbs.
whitney cummings
My concern is more, you know, we're designed to eat meat great, but the way that we eat meat is actually killing us in the long term and destroying our planet so much that we're just going to fucking go extinct if we don't just, you know, do it in the kind of way that you do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's some chimps right there tearing apart a monkey.
See the little hands?
whitney cummings
Holy fuck.
Why does that look like a gorilla to me?
joe rogan
No, that's a chimp.
That's a straight up chimp.
That's a big ass fucking chimp.
whitney cummings
I had no idea.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
Tearing that monkey apart.
unidentified
Eating it alive.
whitney cummings
I had no idea that they ate meat.
joe rogan
It's their favorite thing.
unidentified
What?!
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the thing they love more than anything.
It's just hard to get a monkey.
But when they get a monkey, they don't give a fuck about a banana.
whitney cummings
So what's the difference between chimps and gorillas?
joe rogan
Gorillas are vegetarians.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
100% vegetarian.
whitney cummings
But they're bigger.
joe rogan
Yep.
Huge.
They're the biggest primates we know of.
They have these giant fangs and that's just for war.
You know, that's just one gorilla takes care of like, you know, a gang of bitches.
And a gorilla has a tiny little dick like an inch long.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Tiny little dick.
whitney cummings
Why?
joe rogan
Because penis sizes and testicle sizes are directly proportionate to the amount of promiscuous females in the area.
So with chimps, chimps have giant balls because all chimp women are hoes.
And these bitches are just slinging that pussy from branch to branch.
whitney cummings
Isn't that why human dicks evolved to have that little hook at the end to scoop out the competitor's semen?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why the bigger head is more successful because it's like a plunger.
It just gets in there and pulls it out.
whitney cummings
Does circumcision fuck that up?
joe rogan
I wonder.
I bet it does.
whitney cummings
I'm sort of obsessed.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
I'm sure it would.
Yeah.
whitney cummings
You're going to hear all about this tonight at the Ice House.
joe rogan
Circumcision.
I used to have a whole series of bits about it.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's insane.
It's one of the last insane rituals that we- Like it's crazy that we do this, right?
People lose penises every year.
There are many kids every year that lose their penis due to infection, where they never get a dick their entire life because somebody wanted to go through a ritualistic, Dickskin cutting on a baby.
whitney cummings
And beside the religious argument for it, and also the sanitation argument, no longer makes sense.
We have Purell now.
We can disinfect baby penises.
joe rogan
It's such a stupid argument.
And the argument is that there's a direct connection to the amount of people who are uncircumcised who also have HIV in Africa.
The way it was explained to me, like, yeah, but the people that are uncircumcised also probably weren't taking care of themselves There's
whitney cummings
also all these metrics coming out now that it's emotionally traumatizing.
unidentified
Of course it is.
whitney cummings
Which makes it that men can't express their feelings.
80% of the men that are circumcised have a harder time expressing their feelings.
It's like something I read.
And yeah, because the only woman that you have ever met gives you to a stranger when you're five days old.
joe rogan
Cut your dick.
whitney cummings
And cuts your dick off in front of people.
And when you start crying, they just start clapping and taking pictures.
Of course you're going to not distrust women.
joe rogan
I literally heard this come out of a lady's mouth.
I did it to my son because I don't want it to look gross for him.
whitney cummings
Oh my god.
joe rogan
She's like, I don't want his dick to look gross.
whitney cummings
You should have called child services.
joe rogan
But you're allowed to do it.
That's what's crazy.
Circumcision didn't exist.
whitney cummings
It is insane that it is even legal.
joe rogan
Imagine if it didn't exist.
whitney cummings
Imagine if you were cutting off women's vaginas.
There would be riots in the streets.
joe rogan
I mean, I've heard some really crazy fucking arguments from people that are super ultra-progressive that start going down the rabbit hole with Islam where they don't want to criticize anything.
Someone called it egalitarian gender surgery.
The genital mutilation was some sort of egalitarian gender surgery.
whitney cummings
For men and women?
joe rogan
Yeah, women.
But women.
Women.
Women, which is...
whitney cummings
It's not too ridiculous.
joe rogan
They cut off your clit.
It's not the same thing.
It's way worse.
whitney cummings
A lot of porn stars do that for aesthetic reasons.
What?
You know, like in porn...
joe rogan
Right, but they don't cut their clit off.
whitney cummings
...is the enemy.
Yes.
You ever see vagina...
joe rogan
They cut their clit?
whitney cummings
You ever see vagina...
You want me to draw it?
You ever see vaginas that don't have the chicken gizzard?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
That's a labioplasty.
And they do it for aesthetic reasons.
Because they have the...
They've got that, like, you know...
Yeah.
joe rogan
Mud flaps.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
They've got the kind of oyster vibe going.
joe rogan
But does the clitoris get cut there as well?
unidentified
Yes.
Oh, Jesus.
whitney cummings
Which is like, you guys are watching porn with these girls that are generally mutilated and aren't even having orgasms and you're being lied to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So if the vagina doesn't have this on it...
joe rogan
If I see one of them, I'm calling the police.
whitney cummings
They went to one of those strip mall plastic surgeons and got that thing shaved off.
Oh man, that's so awful.
I've seen porn where I'm like, where's her labia?
What is going on?
They're just cutting them right off.
joe rogan
To numb the outside edge of your pussy and remove meat.
Just to give it some sort of an attractive pose.
whitney cummings
And that is what's causing so many problems because you're seeing that fake vagina and then you see a real one and you're like, oh, this is ugly.
It's like, no, this is just what a vagina looks like.
It's like the new voluntary female circumcision.
jamie vernon
Sorry, clitoral hood reduction.
whitney cummings
Hood?!
We do need to change the name of that.
Look under the hood, everybody.
I'd really rather not.
A hoodie.
Let's say hoodie.
joe rogan
That's at least a little more endearing.
But at least it's like relatively...
Oh my god.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Is it worth it?
Look at this.
Reviews, costs.
Get the fuck out of your pictures.
whitney cummings
Stop this.
I have friends who have gotten the vaginal rejuvenation surgery and they said it was more painful than childbirth.
joe rogan
Owie!
whitney cummings
But what they do is they ask you, do you want to go back to 16, 18, or 21?
They ask you what age you want to go back to.
joe rogan
What if you say 12?
unidentified
Here's my point.
whitney cummings
Girls have had different amounts of sex at those ages, so it's like, I want her 21, not my 21. Yeah, what in the fuck kind of question is that?
I know.
joe rogan
I mean, it's disproportionate, though, the amount of people that get circumcisions versus the amount of people that get labia reduction, right?
whitney cummings
Well, at least labia reduction is somewhat consensual.
I mean, you're choosing to do it.
I mean, you probably aren't all there, if you're a porn star anyway, but, like, I just think doing it when you're five days old isn't particularly fair.
joe rogan
It's so unfair, and it's so crazy that it's the norm.
It's more common than not.
whitney cummings
The norm?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I think something like 75% of American men?
joe rogan
It's so unnecessary, and it doesn't do any good.
It's not a good thing.
whitney cummings
And there's some numbness, too.
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
Do you know guys who are uncircumcised?
joe rogan
Yeah, they say it feels way better, and I'll go, how the fuck do you know, bitch?
whitney cummings
When you're uncircumcised.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't know what my dick feels like.
joe rogan
You're just talking shit.
Might be worse.
But it's a thin layer of mucus develops over the head of the dick, where it's like protected by the skin and stays moist in there and supposedly more sensitive.
Whereas after you've had your foreskin removed, it's dried out and it's a numb dick.
whitney cummings
Well, it also cuts some nerve endings.
Which is actually, you know what, maybe you guys do need less nerve endings.
I actually think if all men weren't circumcised, nothing would ever get done.
Because you'd be jerking off all day.
joe rogan
If everybody gets sucked their own dick and no one will circumcise, that's the reason why everybody comes just short.
whitney cummings
Maybe that's why our country has such a prolific GDP, because the men are circumcised.
joe rogan
And they can't suck their own dick.
whitney cummings
If sex felt any better, we'd have a real problem on our hands.
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe if you go to a city and it's super advanced, you know that the dick size is directly proportional to the face, how far the face can get down on most men.
whitney cummings
Can anyone suck their own dick?
I'm just curious.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, there's a dude online that someone sent me a video of this guy literally fucking his own face.
It was so disturbing.
He was doing like a shoulder press.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was doing like a shoulder press where it was like his neck was flat on the ground, okay?
And then his body was like super flexible and it was up like his back was this and he was bent over so down that he was literally deep-throating his own dick.
And then he jizzed in his own mouth, pulled out, kept jizzing on his own face, and then stuck it back in his mouth again.
Yeah, and I saw it.
And I can't unsee it.
whitney cummings
Is he single?
benjamin jaffe
Somebody sent it to me.
joe rogan
It was an animated GIF. And I was like, you motherfucker.
I can't believe you.
How about that one that Nick Swartzen sent us the other day?
unidentified
What the fuck?
whitney cummings
Wait, I don't remember.
joe rogan
You remember that one?
whitney cummings
I don't think so.
joe rogan
This guy, he's that fucking asshole, Nick Swartzen.
whitney cummings
The stuff Nick sends me is just, I've become desensitized to it.
joe rogan
It's a guy carrying a guy.
Imagine if you had a backpack, but in front of you.
whitney cummings
Was it the three of us?
We have a couple shades going with offensive things.
joe rogan
I think it's the three of us.
whitney cummings
The pregnant girl with a gun?
joe rogan
No.
It's one where a guy literally, it's like his arm is soaked up.
There's all white foam all over his arm.
And he's got a guy and he is like literally elbow deep inside this guy's ass.
And he's picking him up and putting him down and the guy's just letting the fist.
It could be anything.
Who knows?
Bear spray?
whitney cummings
Hold up.
Mr. Clean.
Hold on, why?
joe rogan
You're playing mace.
I fuck with mace as a fucking lube.
whitney cummings
I'm looking through our chain and it's pretty horrific.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of horrific shit in that email chain.
whitney cummings
Oh, I see.
Oh, wait, is this the thing with the...
joe rogan
The guy's got his...
He said...
whitney cummings
Is it that?
It's not that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
Click on it.
whitney cummings
Oh, God, I don't know.
joe rogan
Look at this.
whitney cummings
This might be more upsetting than R. Kelly.
joe rogan
Real talk!
whitney cummings
Wait, it's not playing!
joe rogan
It's not?
whitney cummings
No, it's like a still.
joe rogan
No, what is this?
No, that's not the one.
I'm sorry.
That's the one where a dude's fucking a dude in a butt.
That's a still.
The one with all of us together is...
Isn't there a way you can do it?
whitney cummings
Yeah, there's a way you can go to just the things that have been texted.
joe rogan
He gets drunk and it'll just hurt your feelings with an animated GIF. You're like, hey!
unidentified
I love it.
It's good.
whitney cummings
Quick adrenaline.
I'm learning a lot on this text chain.
joe rogan
You can learn a lot.
whitney cummings
It's humbling, quite frankly.
I'm like, am I supposed to be doing this?
Am I supposed to be doing this?
Is this what the kids are doing?
I can't.
I can't keep up with this stuff.
joe rogan
No one can keep up with anything anymore.
whitney cummings
What does fisting establish?
Is that a real thing?
Or is that a joke?
joe rogan
Well, you're willing to take it to a level, sort of like ultramarathon running.
You know, like, why are you running 205 miles?
You're just taking it, endurance and mental strength, to a level that very few people can get to.
Fisting is like, not only will I let you fuck my ass, but I'll let you ball up your fucking...
Punch it.
unidentified
Pause.
whitney cummings
But does it feel good to anybody or that's a pathological thing?
joe rogan
Why do people get their face pierced?
unidentified
Why do people have robot implants?
whitney cummings
I want to be stigmatized and I want to be a part of a tribe, but getting fisted in private is not about acceptance or maladaptive behavior.
unidentified
It's about taking things to the next level, though.
joe rogan
A lot of things people do sexually is to try to freak out the partner to let them know that they're on another level.
Like, I'm on some super freak level.
Like, put it in my ass, baby.
whitney cummings
I'm at the point where I'm like, you know, be really kinky?
Missionary.
unidentified
Oh, crazy.
whitney cummings
That's like the craziest thing you can do these days.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let's get crazy.
whitney cummings
Yeah, let's kiss during sex and I'll be on the bottom.
joe rogan
But some people know, right?
Some people want to do freak shit.
And then if someone's going to want to do freaky shit, there's always going to be someone who wants to take it to the next level and show you.
No, I'm a super freak.
I'm not a regular freak.
You can fist me, motherfucker.
And the next thing you know...
whitney cummings
Do you think this is all the people who don't get to do what you get to do and fight people and do comedy?
Like people that don't get to get those extreme needs met?
joe rogan
They might not have ever found a path for them to sort of express themselves through and then they're spiraling out of control with like poor programming and shitty relationships with their family and friends that are fucked up and all that leads to someone with a fist up your ass.
whitney cummings
Sign up for an open mic at the comedy store.
joe rogan
Or something else, you know?
I mean, the thing is, like, everybody's personality would lend itself to a different kind of pursuit.
And it's one of the real problems, like, some sort of a cookie-cutter existence.
Like, the idea that you, in any way, shape, or form, would be most happy in a cubicle is patently insane.
whitney cummings
Insane.
joe rogan
It's insane.
whitney cummings
Insane.
It's so unhealthy.
joe rogan
I mean, it's literally, oh, look, you get to put your Star Wars toys up in the cubicle with you.
Show everybody you're kind of a wacky nerd type guy.
unidentified
Is fisting...
whitney cummings
Is fisting new because we're all in cubicles, or has it always been around even when we're fighting each other in the streets?
joe rogan
Well, you gotta think during the Roman Empire, somebody fisted somebody, right?
whitney cummings
Constantly.
joe rogan
For sure.
They were going so deep, they were crazy.
They were literally trying to be as hedonistic as possible.
whitney cummings
I was just at the Coliseum.
Amazing, isn't it?
Amazing.
And I don't know that much about it, but it was funny.
I was like, this is fucking barbaric.
And the tour guide was like, nothing is as barbaric as the NFL. She was like, these were like criminals.
These were people who were going to die anyway.
They only did these fights once every couple months.
If the emperor wasn't into it, they didn't do it at all.
They were like, you guys routinely have people killing each other on television and you guys cheer.
joe rogan
Yeah, sort of.
They brought in lions.
whitney cummings
Lions, animals.
joe rogan
They made animals extinct.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they made species of animals extinct because they used them in the Colosseum so much.
whitney cummings
Didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, look at that up.
I read that just a few days ago.
whitney cummings
But a lot of what they were doing was actually reenacting wars because they didn't have newspapers.
They were doing reenactments and stuff and people would get injured.
joe rogan
How about when they told you they put water in there and had boat fights?
whitney cummings
Insane.
You're like, what?
Why were you guys more advanced than we are today?
They had SeaWorld.
joe rogan
They had a SeaWorld.
They had a show.
They have an actual SeaWorld show, like a Waterworld show at Universal.
whitney cummings
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fucking pretty badass.
whitney cummings
What's in it?
joe rogan
It's like this choreographed water world scenario.
People or animals?
Yeah, people.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
People shooting at each other and shit.
What is this?
unidentified
Who?
joe rogan
Fighting killed off whole species.
Yeah, the sheer quantity and slaughter in the Coliseum saw the number of lions, jaguars, and tigers plummet across the globe.
According to some, Roman hunting absolutely devastated the wildlife of North Africa and the entire Mediterranean region, wiping some species of animals off the map entirely.
whitney cummings
9,000 animals.
The hippo disappeared?
joe rogan
In one particularly brutal set of games in which 9,000 animals were slaughtered, the hippo disappeared from the River Nile.
whitney cummings
And North African, they were fighting elephants?
joe rogan
Yeah, they were using elephants and lions and some of the lions escaped and tigers had leapt to the front rows where the richest people lived or the richest people had their seats and killed the richest people.
And so they had to develop these fence systems all around and they had to raise the whole thing.
This guy was like explaining how they had to protect the rich people who sat in the front row.
whitney cummings
I think that's fucking amazing.
Those lines are awesome!
Eat the rich!
I hear they're gonna start putting nets up at baseball games.
unidentified
A baby got hit by a ball.
joe rogan
A baby got hit?
whitney cummings
Soon there's gonna be nets in all the fields.
joe rogan
You can't bring a baby to a baseball game.
Is the baby dead?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
I didn't ask.
I didn't want to know.
jamie vernon
It happened in hockey after a girl got hit by a puck where I'm from in Columbus.
whitney cummings
But apparently hockey pucks slow down.
But baseballs don't as quickly or something?
It killed her?
jamie vernon
Yeah, she died.
The girl in Columbus died.
That's why they have nets up all over every hockey arena now.
So the pucks aren't flying into the crowd.
whitney cummings
I thought they had glass.
joe rogan
Did you get hit by a puck?
jamie vernon
No, it used to be a thing to catch a puck when it came into the crowd like a foul ball in baseball.
Because they would flip over and whatnot, but they started flying because people got better and hitting faster, slap shots, etc.
So now there's like a net, you almost can't even catch one now.
whitney cummings
Is it all hockey arenas?
unidentified
At least NHL. Where did it hit her?
jamie vernon
I think it hit her in the head, yeah.
unidentified
Jesus!
jamie vernon
She wasn't sitting very super close, but I mean, most good seats now, so they're all good seats, etc.
whitney cummings
Who hit it?
jamie vernon
A player.
whitney cummings
Do you get in trouble?
I mean, I guess.
unidentified
I don't.
whitney cummings
Did you get a penalty for that?
joe rogan
I feel like this is your mom yelling at you.
jamie vernon
Well, that one guy got...
joe rogan
Don't tell mom I killed that lady in the audience.
whitney cummings
Do you get paid more money because you're so good at hitting?
jamie vernon
The one guy got an assault charge for hitting the guy with the stick, but that was like player on player.
joe rogan
Right, that's different.
whitney cummings
Illegal or within the...
joe rogan
But that's actual assault.
jamie vernon
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
On your ticket it says you're assuming all risk of potential whatever can happen to you at the event.
joe rogan
Eating a puck.
whitney cummings
But now all baseball fields are going to have nuts.
joe rogan
It's not the worst idea in the world if people died from it.
But the nerfing of the world continues.
whitney cummings
Or do you just say you can't bring children and babies?
Baseball's just different because it's like American pastime.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think you should wear a glove and don't bring a baby.
That's my take on it.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and if a ball's coming, you gotta be paying attention all the time.
Don't leave your kid alone.
You gotta be there with the fucking glove.
whitney cummings
The nightmare.
joe rogan
Should be able to show that you can catch a 90 mile an hour fastball.
whitney cummings
I mean, is that going to kill baseball to have to look through nets?
joe rogan
Well, what's happening to all sports is they're nerfing things up, right?
And that's the big thing that Donald Trump got criticized for the most was when he said that not just the thing about the players kneeling, but that they're killing the game with all these safety regulations.
Like, wait a minute, man.
whitney cummings
Safety regulations?
These people are dying!
joe rogan
Yeah, they're changing the rules.
whitney cummings
They can't read at 35 all of a sudden.
joe rogan
They are getting fucked up.
whitney cummings
But isn't it all the things that are...
joe rogan
Someone has to do something.
whitney cummings
All the things that are supposedly making them safer, the helmets, are actually becoming weapons and the things that they're injuring each other with.
joe rogan
Yes.
The people that believe that, and I tend to believe that rugby is a superior sport.
Are those no helmets?
No helmets.
See, I'm not a fan of either one.
Not that I don't...
If I had to choose to watch one...
I don't give a fuck who wins the Super Bowl.
I don't watch it, right?
But if I choose to watch, like somebody said, hey, you want to go see a rugby game or a football game?
I'm like, I want to go see a rugby game.
They don't have any helmets or pads on.
Like, that's real.
whitney cummings
But they're not hitting each other the way that they do.
unidentified
You can't.
joe rogan
You would die.
You would break your body.
You'd break your teammates.
Everybody would get fucked up.
They hit each other a lot.
Don't get me wrong.
It's a rough game.
But it's a smarter and it's a more realistic game.
It's like putting on this stupid outfit.
No offense, guys.
If you're such a badass, why do you have pads on?
What is this?
The only reason why you're able to run at each other full clip is because of pads.
It's crazy.
Take that stupid shit off, and you'll get a more honest representation of what's possible when people collide with each other.
You'll have way less head-to-heads.
whitney cummings
You skill instead of just brute force.
joe rogan
Exactly.
whitney cummings
Do you think there will ever be a day where there is no NFL? I mean, no NFL, yeah.
joe rogan
I would hope that the NFL would just go to a more rugby-based system.
Obviously, look, I'm an idiot.
Don't listen to me.
If you're an NFL fan, you love, you don't understand, the game is relatively safe compared to the old days.
I don't know shit about NFL, but I know that wearing helmets, it's the same thing to me about striking with boxing gloves.
I think striking should be bare knuckle.
I think we'd be safer.
I think fighters would have less brain trauma.
whitney cummings
Because you would strike less.
joe rogan
Yeah, you wouldn't be able to just openly start wailing on someone.
You just shatter your hands.
It's not that easy.
whitney cummings
So you're more, you know, calculated.
joe rogan
Much more calculated.
There's much more emphasis on accuracy.
You couldn't just hit someone as hard as you want to.
The thing about having pads in your gloves, it's like if you're gonna punch a door, right?
Like a real wood, solid wood door, and you just knuckle that door full blast, man, you're gonna get fucking hurt.
But you can kind of punch a door like this, so you could do that and it doesn't really hurt.
But you can hit someone a bunch of times like that and it doesn't hurt you if you have bare knuckle.
But if you have pads.
If you have pads on your knuckle, you can just fucking slam that table and it doesn't hurt at all.
You're literally not capable of punching full blast with knuckles all the time.
Especially if you hit like an elbow or you hit a forehead.
Guys shatter their hands on people's foreheads.
Your forehead is a dome that's good for head-butting.
whitney cummings
Like this area right here.
joe rogan
It's so hard to break that.
You're not going to break it with a hand.
But if you hit someone right here, it's pretty devastating.
This is more flat.
whitney cummings
Is this softer?
joe rogan
No, it's more flat.
You can get a good impact on it.
But if you catch this bridge, like a lot of times people break their hand by catching this bridge.
So what happens is the curve of the head runs into the middle of your hand.
whitney cummings
That's fine.
joe rogan
Because you're just trying to tee off, right?
And if you're in a fight and you're just trying to swing as hard as you can, if you hit forehead and the curve of that forehead hits the middle of those fingers, that's the weakest area.
It's almost like bends in between the joints.
They snap.
And they also snap back here.
They snap on the top of the hand, particularly the last two knuckles.
These aren't really connected to the rest of your arm.
These two knuckles are what you're supposed to concentrate on because they're sort of reinforced by the wrist, but they break too.
Your whole hand breaks.
Hands are super fragile.
whitney cummings
You're making me wonder, the same way Michael Phelps was just born to swim, right?
His fucking wingspan, his heart, you know, all that shit.
Are there people whose faces are just born to fight?
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
Faces were born, for sure, they can take more impact.
Wider faces, bigger heads, thicker necks.
For sure they can absorb better.
Everybody can get knocked out.
Because the human body is just so flawed.
Especially if you have some crazy oust or ovarian type character kick you in the head.
Anyone can get knocked out.
But it's less likely to get knocked out if you're shaped a certain way.
And your hands, the shape of your hands makes a giant difference as well.
It's like how much impact you can deliver.
Do you want bigger hands?
Yes.
George Foreman had enormous hands.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
There's a guy named Francis Ngannou, who's one of the top UFC heavyweights.
Every time I shake his hands, I just go, ah!
unidentified
Jesus!
joe rogan
He's got these fucking hammers, like these giant hammers, and he just knocks people just dead.
It's a huge advantage, a structural advantage.
It's like the difference between having a ball-peen hammer, a little tiny hammer for nails, and having a sledgehammer.
It literally is the difference.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, it's just having that extra weight on the end, especially if there's a lot of body mass behind it as well, just a massive advantage.
whitney cummings
So would you want there to be no gloves?
joe rogan
Hey, look at his hands.
The size of this motherfucker's hands.
unidentified
Jesus!
joe rogan
Yeah, they're enormous.
whitney cummings
That doesn't seem fair.
joe rogan
They're enormous.
That's Brian Stan, by the way, who was the WEC 205-pound champion.
He was a top UFC fighter at 185 pounds.
He's a big boy.
And his hands get dwarfed by Ngannou's hands.
whitney cummings
His hand looks like a stump.
joe rogan
Yeah, so that is an undeniable physical advantage if you can land that punch.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and then you want a big face and you want a more domed head.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of shit going on.
But my point is that if fights had no pads, we would get a more accurate representation of what the body can really do.
Instead, we're making fighters get more damaged because you're letting people tee off.
I don't think you should be able to tape your wrists either.
I think that's unfair too.
What is taping your It makes it stiffer, so it doesn't buckle as much when you impact something.
Because when you hit something, if your hand goes like that, you can really fuck your wrist up.
You really get torn tendons and all kinds of shit.
whitney cummings
Is it true that people put cement in their gloves and stuff?
joe rogan
They have.
Margarito did that.
Yeah, he was fighting a bunch of different guys and busting them up really bad.
And then before his fight with Sugar Shane Mosley, they caught him in the locker room with plaster in the wraps of the gloves.
Somebody caught him and then they started putting two and two together and realizing when he beat up Miguel Cotto, when he beat up all these different fighters, it was an unusual beating.
He was hitting them and it was just having an inordinate effect on them.
Hitting people way harder than anybody else was.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
No one could figure out why.
Once they took that padding out of his glove.
whitney cummings
It's like the Lance Armstrong thing.
Like, win, but don't win too big.
joe rogan
But way worse.
Because Lance Armstrong was doing that when everybody else was also doing that.
whitney cummings
Also, of course.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
No one else was putting plaster on their hands.
whitney cummings
But don't win by too much if people are going to start getting suspicious.
joe rogan
Well, he wasn't necessarily beating everybody, but he was beating a lot of guys.
And the way he was beating them, he was fucking them up.
And then when he got to Sugar Shane, they caught him with the plaster.
They took it out, re-wrapped his hands, and Sugar Shane beat the fuck out of him.
And Sugar Shane knew about it.
Everybody knew about it.
They were talking about it on the broadcast, and that they were almost not letting him fight, and they let him fight with newly wrapped hands.
And Sugar Shane just lit him up like a Christmas tree.
Fucked him up.
And then Manny Pacquiao fucked him up, too.
Everybody fucked him up after that.
He should have been probably retired from boxing.
They should have said there's no way you could ever fight again.
whitney cummings
They were just like we want to see you get killed a couple times.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean he was never the same guy and he actually wound up fighting.
He had a really badly torn retina to the point where I think they put an artificial retina from one of the beatings that he took.
I think to Sugar Shane.
It might have been to Pacquiao.
It might have been that Pacquiao beat him bad.
There's a couple of guys beat the fuck out of them, but it's just that guy was putting plaster in his gloves.
So I just don't think gloves are the way to go.
I mean, if you want to do it for boxing, I get it.
Boxing is a completely different sport and there's an art catching punches on the gloves.
But my thing about MMA in particular is why is it okay to elbow someone in the face, but it's not okay to have Gloves that are bare knuckle?
That's crazy.
You could literally smash someone's head.
whitney cummings
What's the difference between this and this?
Yeah.
joe rogan
You could smash someone's head with an elbow.
Like right in their eye socket.
And that's totally legal.
You could smash their nose to a pulp.
That's totally legal.
But somehow, like a shin.
You could hit someone so hard with your shin.
whitney cummings
It's a razor blade, ultimately.
joe rogan
Well, it's a baseball bat.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Kick someone in the head with a shin.
It's crazy.
There's no padding on it at all.
But you have to have padding in your fists?
That's crazy.
whitney cummings
Why is that?
joe rogan
It's old.
When the UFC first came about, it was bare knuckle.
And then in some sort of a concerted effort to turn into a legitimized sport and be accepted by athletic commissions...
Very new.
In terms of big-time sports, it was started in 1993. That's crazy.
Just 20-something years old, 24 years old.
So they wanted to make it look like in the beginning, the first fights that I saw in 1997, when I first started working for the UFC, there was a lot of bare-knuckle fighters.
Guys fought with shoes on.
They were bare-knuckle.
You were allowed to grab people's crotches still.
You were allowed to grab their clothes.
whitney cummings
R. Kelly's?
joe rogan
Yeah, not that.
A little different.
You were allowed to do a lot of shit.
You could pull hair for a long time.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
And then they finally got rid of that.
They got rid of grabbing clothes.
But you didn't have to have padding on your knuckles back then.
And the people that were super successful realized you could hit people way harder if you have padding on your knuckles.
whitney cummings
Of course.
joe rogan
So Vitor Belfort was one of the first.
He was 19 years old and he entered into the UFC. UFC 12, Dothan, Alabama in 1997 and just beat the fuck out of everybody with gloves on.
whitney cummings
What would it take for them to do a rule that said no gloves anymore?
joe rogan
They would just have to listen to me.
And listen to a lot of other martial arts fans.
Some people wouldn't want it because they think you would get cut more, which I think you would.
You would get more superficial tissue damage.
But I think ultimately you'd get less brain damage.
whitney cummings
Because you'd get hit less.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think you'd get hit less.
And especially if you practice correctly, I think you could...
I mean, you would still run the risk of getting elbowed and kneed and kicked.
And it's not safe by any stretch of the imagination.
whitney cummings
Do you think it has to get to a point where...
Because MMA is so young, where fighters are 60 and they're blowing their brains out and doing what NFL players are doing?
joe rogan
I don't think anybody would...
I don't think people would have to know...
whitney cummings
I don't hear about a concussion crisis in MMA that much.
joe rogan
But it's real.
I mean, any sort of combat sport, you're going to have it.
whitney cummings
No, I mean, I know it's there, but it's not like in the zeitgeist, really, at the moment.
joe rogan
It isn't yet, but it certainly could be.
And it probably certainly will be when some of the veterans get into their 60s and 70s and we start to see them like...
Do you ever see Joe Frazier before he died?
whitney cummings
Oh, yes.
joe rogan
He was on...
God, my throat.
He was on Opie and Anthony's show.
And it was so bad.
His slurring and his inability to put...
whitney cummings
Even when Floyd was on Howard, it was like...
joe rogan
Floyd Mayweather?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't think he's showing any signs.
whitney cummings
Really?
He was like stuttering.
joe rogan
Yeah, I just think that's just how he talks.
whitney cummings
Yeah, maybe it's just 5 a.m.
joe rogan
5 a.m., nervous, talking to Howard Stern.
unidentified
Yeah, maybe.
joe rogan
You know, trying to get it together.
whitney cummings
Yeah, good point.
Brain damage or talking to Howard?
joe rogan
And, you know, probably has zero cum left in his body.
Probably was banging all night long, right?
For sure.
whitney cummings
Or too much cum in his mouth.
joe rogan
What is this?
jamie vernon
They have a CTE test, they think.
Boston University, they found a biomarker they think that can let people know now, ahead of time.
whitney cummings
Ahead of time?
But isn't it just you get your bell wrong three times and they sort of know that already?
joe rogan
No, because it varies upon the person.
Some people are way more durable for some reason.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they don't know why.
And it could be also connected to what we were talking about before.
The actual shape of the head, the thickness of the muscles of the neck, the ability to keep the head from snapping back too much, how many times it actually happens, how good you are at avoiding things.
Some people get hit and they learn how to roll with stuff and it takes a tremendous amount of the impact off.
whitney cummings
So you think when MMA fighters are in their 60s and 70s and it's like...
Not looking good, they might consider no gloves.
joe rogan
I don't think they're gonna consider it because I think to the general public gloves mean safer.
Gloves mean sport.
whitney cummings
But do they want safer?
Do fans of MMA want safe?
joe rogan
I would say if you're talking about public opinion, you're gonna have a lot of the people that aren't really fans that are also gonna weigh in, right?
So if you have public opinion, should they take the gloves off MMA? There's going to be a lot of people out there arguing passionately that have no idea what they're talking about.
whitney cummings
And they don't understand that gloves mean more dangerous.
joe rogan
And they will say, no way, it's already barbaric enough.
It's really what we should concentrate on is putting more pads and more safety procedures and stopping fights quicker and looking out for the safety of these athletes.
But I think...
Much like how pads and football probably cause more injuries to players than rugby.
whitney cummings
I think the same thing should be said about MMA. It's so anathema to your logic of like helmets and pads cause injuries.
joe rogan
Yeah, it really does.
whitney cummings
You think they prevent them.
joe rogan
That's the only thing that it does any different.
If I had to choose between fighting someone with MMA gloves and fighting someone bare knuckle, I'd get hand wraps and MMA, I'd be like, yeah, wrap me up.
Wrap me up.
You could just tee off on somebody.
It's a totally different experience.
If your hands are fragile, a lot of times guys will hit each other with the palms of the hands instead because you don't want to break your hands.
You get on top of someone, you could smash their face with a palm of the hand.
whitney cummings
Is this the hardest part of your hand?
joe rogan
Well, you can hit things hard with a palm and it doesn't hurt at all.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a different kind of a bone.
It's a thick bone and it's used to touching and pushing against things.
whitney cummings
What's the hardest part of your body?
Your elbows?
joe rogan
Maybe your knee and your elbow.
They're real hard.
whitney cummings
You can't really break your elbow.
I guess you probably can.
joe rogan
People break shit all the time.
They break chunks off the bottoms of their elbows from fighting.
Jesus!
Yeah, I've had friends that have to get surgery where they have like floating bone chunks from elbowing people in the head.
You can chip off little pieces of your elbow.
whitney cummings
That's not great.
joe rogan
Get kicked there.
unidentified
Do you feel pain when you get hit when you're fighting?
joe rogan
You feel less pain than you probably would in a regular life because your adrenaline's through the roof and you're in this heightened situation, but you could definitely tell some shots hurt guys.
Shots to the legs, a lot of times when you get like that second or third leg kick in the same spot on the legs from a really good leg kicker, there's like a jolt that goes to your whole body.
It's like...
The difference between a leg kick and anything else is you're dealing with a giant piece of muscle.
And there's a lot of nerve endings in there.
unidentified
Right, right, right.
joe rogan
The outside edge of it is kind of tender.
Especially if you're not a person who's used to getting kicked there.
And if someone like a Maurice Smith or an Ernesto Hoos, like a world champion kickboxer, slams a shin into there, it is extraordinarily painful.
whitney cummings
Because I remember that girl that got her arm bitten off by a shark, Bethany someone, she said that when she heard the sound, she heard it, the crunch, but she felt no pain.
In fact, she said it felt like blissful, like orgasmic because so much dopamine goes to the area so that you don't give up.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
So I just was curious if in like fight or flight modes and fighting, if you're even feeling this stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, you feel it.
You feel some stuff more than others.
whitney cummings
Or just, like, kick in as soon as the fight's over.
You're like, oh, fuck, I'm in so much pain.
joe rogan
Well, after a fight, you're in severe pain, for sure.
After your whole body's bruised up.
It's been a long time since I've felt that, but I definitely remember after fights.
whitney cummings
What's the most painful place to be hit?
joe rogan
The head, for sure.
The body, too, though.
Your body can hurt for days afterwards if you get hit with a left hook to the liver, like a really hard left hook to the body.
whitney cummings
Is tearing the Achilles heel really the most painful injury you can have?
joe rogan
Never done it.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
It's a bad one, though.
But I think injured discs are pretty goddamn bad.
unidentified
Sorry.
joe rogan
Injured discs leave a lot of people with atrophied arms.
whitney cummings
In your back.
Because it pushes on nerves in general?
joe rogan
It pushes on nerves and pinges on the signal.
So your muscles literally atrophy and shrink up.
And if you don't act on it really quickly...
It's a really common thing with men that either lift a lot of weights or do it incorrectly and fuck their back up.
whitney cummings
But aren't we all sleeping wrong and sitting wrong and just doing everything wrong?
joe rogan
There's definitely sitting wrong.
whitney cummings
Is that why I'm in the Sibian right now?
joe rogan
This thing's awesome.
whitney cummings
Is this how I'm always supposed to be sitting?
unidentified
Yep.
whitney cummings
Because we're sitting wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
How do you sleep?
Are you sleeping wrong?
joe rogan
I just sleep.
whitney cummings
But do you sleep on your side?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Do you put a pillow between your knees?
joe rogan
Sometimes.
unidentified
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Are we all supposed to do that?
unidentified
I don't know.
whitney cummings
We're also shitting wrong and peeing wrong, right?
joe rogan
I shit right.
whitney cummings
I don't know what you're talking about.
joe rogan
I got a squatty potty.
whitney cummings
Do you?
joe rogan
Yeah, I got one of those things.
whitney cummings
I feel like you just have a hole in your backyard.
joe rogan
No, I don't.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I have one of those too and people come to my house and they think they're like, does a handicapped person live here?
I'm like, just calm down.
We're all shitting wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's easier to shit that way.
whitney cummings
And apparently women, we don't empty our bladders completely when we use regular toilets, and that's why we have to pee all the time.
unidentified
What?
whitney cummings
Yeah, because we have to use squatty potties when we pee also.
joe rogan
Really?
whitney cummings
Yeah, we don't empty our entire bladders.
Toilets are not designed for our uteruses, basically.
Uteri?
Is it plural?
Is it uteri?
I don't know.
But yeah, that's why women always have to pee.
joe rogan
But you can pee standing up no problem, right?
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
Yeah, it just goes all over the place.
unidentified
Yeah, it's a mess.
joe rogan
But it comes out okay.
Right, but in the shower, right?
whitney cummings
I don't do that.
joe rogan
You should just pee in the shower only.
Seems like it'd be a real clean way to do it.
whitney cummings
It's a real great way to stay single forever.
joe rogan
Why, you think a guy would have a problem?
Like, hey, I'll be right back.
I'm gonna go pee in the shower.
unidentified
Would you be down with a woman peeing in the shower?
whitney cummings
If you were in there with her?
joe rogan
I don't give a fuck.
whitney cummings
I dated a lot of guys who pee in the shower.
joe rogan
Yeah, I pee in the shower all the time.
whitney cummings
Is it just like...
joe rogan
If I have to pee and I'm in the shower, would I give a fuck?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I've had guys pee while I'm in the shower with them.
It's like, you're peeing on my foot.
joe rogan
A lot of what's on my body is grosser than what's coming out of my dick.
whitney cummings
That's actually really true.
Why are we so grossed out by pee?
And snot, too.
Is that socially constructed?
Like, why is this so disgusting?
joe rogan
It's gross.
whitney cummings
Why?
joe rogan
I don't know.
Especially when my nine-year-old pulls it out.
I know, right?
Eye boogers are not as gross.
whitney cummings
This isn't grossing you out, but this is.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's weird.
I don't know.
whitney cummings
What is that?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
whitney cummings
It's conditioning.
joe rogan
It's probably conditioning.
unidentified
If you were to reach and scratch in your ear, if you were to scratch in your eye, when you pick out food, it's fine.
whitney cummings
But this is gross.
joe rogan
But boogers, gross.
unidentified
Why?
whitney cummings
But I don't even have any boogers in here.
joe rogan
It's a good question.
I don't know.
whitney cummings
Tell me.
joe rogan
I really wish I knew.
I guess it's like a shame thing from the time you were little.
You got a booger in your nose.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
Mikey eats his boogers.
whitney cummings
But it's also like, this is my face.
It's like I have a butthole on my face.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
Like, why is this as gross?
joe rogan
I'm trying to ignore that face butthole.
You dig it in there.
unidentified
Two of those little buttholes.
joe rogan
Getting crumbs.
But why is it so satisfying when you pick out a giant booger?
whitney cummings
Oh, that's the best feeling.
joe rogan
When you get, like, a giant winter booger and you're like, whoa, look at this goddamn thing.
whitney cummings
I started getting my nose waxed.
The inside of my...
unidentified
This is what happens in, like, the second hour of the podcast.
whitney cummings
I just start admitting things I should never tell anyone.
That always happens on the show.
No, because you have little hairs, and they're just unattractive, so I started waxing them.
joe rogan
That's a good move.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it hurts like all fuck.
joe rogan
I have a tremor.
I stick a little...
whitney cummings
But why are guys having nose hairs fine?
Girls having it's disgusting.
joe rogan
It gets itchy for me, and boogers get stuck in it.
I clean it out just so I can blow my nose easier.
whitney cummings
Yeah, the boogers get all.
But we're supposed to have nose hairs.
I sneeze more.
I just sneezed.
joe rogan
If you're running, do you ever run?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I do.
joe rogan
Okay, when you run, do you do a snot rocket?
Do you put a finger on one nostril like that and go, and then the other side and go, do you ever do that?
whitney cummings
Not only when I'm running.
Why when I'm running?
joe rogan
Because it's a good thing to do in the middle of running.
whitney cummings
But then you have snot all over your face.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Do you run outside?
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I'm trying to start running barefoot.
joe rogan
Do you run inside?
Barefoot?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like those socks you sent me?
Those socks are ridiculous.
whitney cummings
So stupid.
joe rogan
Here's the thing about those socks, and I feel it with those five-finger running shoes.
whitney cummings
Are those known?
I don't even know.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've heard of them.
whitney cummings
The steel socks?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're made out of Dyneema.
Dyneema is the same stuff they use to make bowstrings.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, because it's incredibly strong.
I mean, you think about it, a bow, you're pulling back, like, a really heavy bow can go like 80 pounds of pressure to pull it back.
And so you have all this force on this very thin wire that's like the shoestring.
Thinner even, in fact.
That's how strong Dyneema is.
So they make these shoes out of Dyneema and you can run on things.
whitney cummings
Well, I'm getting into, like, I'm trying to be barefoot outside 30 minutes a day.
joe rogan
It's a good move.
Does it say Dyneema?
No, well, today I did kickboxing, which I always do barefoot.
So I got a lot of barefoot moving in.
And I also do it on a fairly soft surface, which is great, because your feet really get to dig in, your toes push off.
whitney cummings
Very, very good for you.
Because don't we want the electrons from the earth or something?
joe rogan
That's it?
It's Dyneema, Jamie?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I got these myself, too.
joe rogan
You do?
jamie vernon
They felt like just putting on garden gloves on your feet.
whitney cummings
But can you walk on rocks and stuff and it feels fine?
jamie vernon
I walked outside in my little parking lot and it was like, nah, I feel like it felt barefoot, like glass was going to go right through my foot.
whitney cummings
Oh, it wasn't, right?
jamie vernon
I wouldn't have run anywhere.
joe rogan
But glass won't go through it.
jamie vernon
I wasn't going to test it.
whitney cummings
But it just felt like it.
joe rogan
Don't be a pussy, bro.
jamie vernon
They didn't feel comfortable at all.
whitney cummings
Yeah, this is supposed to be like sneakers.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I didn't buy the advertising.
whitney cummings
Write a Yelp review.
joe rogan
How much were they?
whitney cummings
Expensive?
jamie vernon
80 bucks.
joe rogan
Jesus!
Bowstrings cut all the time, accidentally.
Bowstrings, it's not invulnerable.
In fact, when I was in Hawaii, I accidentally cut one of my bowstrings with the broadhead from the arrow, just touched it, and I didn't even know it happened.
whitney cummings
That's not so good.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not good.
whitney cummings
It's like fishing wire, kind of, or fishing line?
joe rogan
Well, it's some sort of a synthetic line.
I don't know how exactly they make it.
I think it's got to be different.
But there's a bunch of different kind of fishing line too.
They have braided fishing line.
It's like the most common stuff that they use.
whitney cummings
Do you fish?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, I fish.
whitney cummings
Where?
When you go to Utah?
joe rogan
Mostly, no.
Mostly saltwater.
whitney cummings
Fly fishing?
joe rogan
Yeah, no.
Just boat fishing.
You know, if I'm in the ocean, it's great to catch fish, and then, you know, you bring it, like if you're staying at a restaurant or at a hotel.
whitney cummings
Where are you on mercury?
Are we eating mercury?
joe rogan
You could definitely get some mercury in your body if you eat a lot of salmon, or if you eat a lot of tuna, rather.
whitney cummings
Is it salmon?
It's tuna, right?
joe rogan
Tuna.
whitney cummings
And swordfish is bad, too.
joe rogan
But they just say don't eat it all the time, every day.
Yeah.
With the amount of heavy metals that are in the ocean, you're definitely going to get some.
I don't know how much of it they're actually testing, though.
Yeah.
I get my blood tested, and I've never shown it.
At one point in time, I was eating a lot of sardines, and it tested positive for arsenic.
whitney cummings
Is that in rice too now though?
joe rogan
I don't know.
It was a very tiny amount.
The doctor was like, hmm, go through your diet.
And as soon as I hit sardines, he goes, how often do you eat?
I go, I eat like two cans a day.
unidentified
Jesus!
joe rogan
He's like, what?
And he's like, yeah, that's it.
You think?
He goes, yeah.
They live in very polluted areas often and they're at the bottom.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of times they collect some of the heavy metals that comes from our pollutants.
whitney cummings
Do you still eat sardines?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
How often?
joe rogan
Not every day, not two cans a day, but I ate a can last night.
whitney cummings
Why do you have to do them canned?
joe rogan
Because you don't.
You can eat them fresh for sure.
They're just a good source of healthy fats when they're canned because they can them in olive oil.
But it's a good high fat thing to eat for me before I go to bed.
whitney cummings
Do you enjoy the taste of them?
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
They're not that bad.
I like them.
whitney cummings
Also, what is this?
We were talking about this earlier.
This whole thing of everything has to taste good.
joe rogan
It doesn't.
whitney cummings
That cave shake.
There's this thing where everything has to taste good.
I'm like, no, they don't.
Everything that tastes good is fucking terrible for you.
joe rogan
Sometimes things that taste good are great for you.
Like a juicy steak.
whitney cummings
Well, that's true.
unidentified
That's a good thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's things that are good for you that taste good.
Beets.
Beets taste delicious.
whitney cummings
I'm a big fan of beets.
joe rogan
I love beets.
They're super good for you.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, like, there's a lot of stuff that tastes good that's good for you.
whitney cummings
I'm trying to figure out what to eat.
I just don't know what to eat.
I'm going to start eating whatever you post on Instagram.
joe rogan
Don't get another eating disorder.
whitney cummings
No, now my eating disorder is I only eat shit that you post.
I bought all those cave shakes.
I'm only eating those cave shakes now.
joe rogan
Well, I have meat for you.
I got elk for you.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
That sounded wrong.
I had to say elk.
whitney cummings
I have meat for you.
Thank you, R. Kelly.
unidentified
Fuck you.
joe rogan
Real talk.
whitney cummings
I got meat for you.
unidentified
Real talk.
Don't you think I got enough bullshit on my mind?
whitney cummings
Real talk.
Wait, are you a good singer?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
Are you sure?
joe rogan
Definitely.
100%.
whitney cummings
I don't know.
I think that your joke singing is actually pretty amazing.
joe rogan
It's just R. Kelly.
If I wanted to go on tour, it's R. Kelly.
Real talk!
People that have a real singer, they can do things with their voice.
I can only make noises.
whitney cummings
It's a muscle, ultimately, isn't it?
joe rogan
I think it's a sound that you're capable of making, right?
There's impressions.
I can do impressions of some people, and I know when I can do them.
whitney cummings
Are they in your same register?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
You do a good Sam Kinison impression?
joe rogan
Yeah, maybe.
I can do that if I could listen to him in particular.
Then I can do it.
Then you can just get into it.
I can do a Mike Tyson.
I can do a few of them.
But then there's other ones that I hear and I go, I can't do that one.
whitney cummings
Apparently people who are good at impressions are good at singing.
It's the same part of your brain, right?
unidentified
Really?
whitney cummings
Like you hear something and can replicate it.
It's about hearing, not about replicating or something.
joe rogan
Well, it's like singing is a weird thing, right?
Because there's Mariah Carey-style singing, and then there's Amy Winehouse singing.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
And I like both of them.
Big Mariah Carey fan.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I was going to say, I did not see this coming.
jamie vernon
I'd say the difference, like Mariah Carey, I wouldn't say she's known for songwriting, whereas Amy Winehouse is...
whitney cummings
Yes, she has more soul and talent.
joe rogan
Different artist, but like that fantasy song?
whitney cummings
I can't believe you just said that.
joe rogan
It's a great song.
whitney cummings
The one with Busta Rhymes on it?
joe rogan
Yeah, that one.
whitney cummings
I can't believe you just said that.
Mia Mariah.
Go back like babies.
I listened to that.
That's like my go-to song.
That's ODP. Huh?
joe rogan
Is it Old Dirty Bastard?
Even better.
whitney cummings
What did I just say?
jamie vernon
Busta Rhymes.
whitney cummings
Oh God, I'm so racist.
Sorry.
Should not have smoked weed today.
Conflating black rappers with deep voices.
joe rogan
Whoopsies.
whitney cummings
I'm not even joking.
That's like my go-to song to put me in a good mood.
joe rogan
It's a good song.
whitney cummings
It's a great song.
joe rogan
It's a good song.
Her voice is awesome.
whitney cummings
That's so weird.
joe rogan
She's got a beautiful voice.
It sounds good.
whitney cummings
I'm a big fan.
Hero makes me cry every time.
joe rogan
But I also like Liz Phair's voice, which is all like talking through songs.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I do love me some Liz Phair.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
ODB and Mariah Carey.
whitney cummings
She's like lost it, right?
unidentified
Kind of lost her mind?
joe rogan
Listen, we all lose it eventually.
unidentified
I mean, yeah.
whitney cummings
Can you please have her on the podcast?
joe rogan
How famous you get.
If you get that famous, good luck.
whitney cummings
Do you remember her in that field of corn with those Djibouti shorts on?
I mean, big fan.
joe rogan
That was the first song, right?
That was her first big hit.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Pigtails.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And everybody was like, Jesus, Louisa.
And she was dating some record executive, right?
whitney cummings
No, she married him.
Not Jimmy Ivey.
unidentified
Who was it?
joe rogan
Good move.
jamie vernon
Tommy Mottola.
whitney cummings
Tommy Mottola.
You just know everything, don't you?
joe rogan
He does.
whitney cummings
Ask him some gossip.
He's a gossip boy.
Who was Jennifer Lopez's first husband?
jamie vernon
Before Puff Daddy?
whitney cummings
I don't think they were married.
Before Antonio...
Antonio Banderas?
joe rogan
Did Ben...
What's his name?
Ben Affleck?
Did he dodge the bullet?
whitney cummings
They didn't get married.
They did some music videos together.
jamie vernon
Mark Anthony was...
She was married to her, but I don't know about before.
whitney cummings
But she was married to some guy who sued...
Where are you going?
joe rogan
Everybody dodging her.
whitney cummings
Dodging Jennifer Lopez.
Remember when Ben Affleck was in a music video with her?
jamie vernon
Chris Judd.
whitney cummings
Chris Judd!
joe rogan
I heard a story that I hope is true.
Someone told me that they were told by a construction guy that Jennifer Lopez called them and told them to take Ben Affleck's basketball court that he has and move it to her house.
And they were like, what?
And she was like, I want to surprise him.
I want to move his basketball court to my house.
whitney cummings
Does she know how asphalt works?
joe rogan
She wanted them to literally build a basketball court in her, I'm sure, palatial estate.
He has an indoor basketball court.
She wanted them to recreate it at her place.
Take it board by board and move it to her place.
Now, if that is true, and it may not be, it might just be bullshit that somebody told me.
unidentified
It's a power move.
joe rogan
But I loved it.
I loved it.
I'm like, that girl, like, how hard does she squeeze?
I mean, do you know what I'm saying?
I mean, what kind of ferocious power?
whitney cummings
I'm not sure I know what that means.
unidentified
A dick?
jamie vernon
A dick?
joe rogan
Everything.
Everything.
Emotionally, sexually.
How hard does she pull it in?
How much control does she clamp down that she thought it would be a good move to move his entire basketball court?
unidentified
But do guys like it when women throw money around and give gifts like that?
That's not women.
joe rogan
That's stealing your basketball court and putting it in your house.
That's a crazy person's move.
whitney cummings
But to make him happy?
joe rogan
How does that make you happy when someone steals your basketball court?
unidentified
Because you get to now play basketball at my house.
whitney cummings
Isn't that the whole point?
joe rogan
Whitney's like, I would do it.
I'm thinking of doing it.
unidentified
My boyfriend has a tennis court and I don't like where it is.
whitney cummings
I need it to be closer to me.
I'm not going to drive down to your fucking bullshit house.
joe rogan
Listen, we are together forever.
I'm convinced.
Are you?
unidentified
Okay, then let me make this fucking call and move your goddamn tennis court!
whitney cummings
I don't see anything wrong with her choice.
I think it sounds like an awesome solution to a frustrating problem.
I'm not going to drive over to Ogden in Sunset.
You come to me.
You come to Calabasas.
joe rogan
Right.
I understand what you're saying.
I understand what you're saying.
whitney cummings
I feel like they were fighting about it.
He's like, I want to go play basketball.
And she's like, but I need you here.
And he's like, well, my basketball court's over there.
And she was like, now what, bitch?
I respect that.
Now what?
What?
Fuck you!
Fuck you!
Your basketball court's right here.
unidentified
Fuck me!
No, fuck you!
whitney cummings
Yeah, I'm gonna go play basketball with my boys.
Oh, that's interesting.
The basketball court's here.
Now what's your excuse?
Now where are you going?
That's like a let me smell your dick move.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They put like a little balcony where she could watch over the basketball game like this.
Like some princess in a castle.
whitney cummings
And I would put all these shaming devices in, like every time you miss a basket, the whole court reverberates with a fart noise.
Just to emasculate him as much as possible.
joe rogan
That's too much pressure.
But if she sat there just cross-heart, like reading a book.
This is where I like to read.
I like to read the sound of you guys playing basketball.
No one can talk any crazy shit.
Dude, dude, dude, listen to me.
whitney cummings
Do guys like expensive gifts?
joe rogan
Don't get married.
Just don't do it.
How am I going to not do it, bro?
She moved the basketball court.
I mean, what the fuck, man?
whitney cummings
They didn't get married.
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
So it either didn't work or it didn't happen.
joe rogan
Imagine if the story's true, by the way.
I don't even know if the story's true.
Let's assume it's not true.
But let's just, for fiction, let's create this true story that she did move the basketball court.
And here poor Ben is with his few actor buddies that are hanging out with him like, dude, you can't do this.
You can't do this.
whitney cummings
Here's what it is.
My nightmare is the guy I'm with going out on a boy's night.
I'm going to go play basketball with my boys.
Ding, ding, ding!
If the basketball court's here, I know what you're doing.
I'm in control of your shit.
You're not secretly going to Jumbo's clown room.
I can control the situation.
joe rogan
Do you treat the boy the same way you treat a dog?
Like when you look in his eyes?
whitney cummings
Yeah, I walk through them.
I just give them raw meat and marrow bones.
And they're not allowed on the couch.
joe rogan
Do you eye fuck them?
Like, hey, look at me.
whitney cummings
No, I'm very beta in my relationships.
But something I do wonder is apparently giving is masculine, and I'm always curious if guys like expensive gifts or if they don't.
joe rogan
I don't have an opinion.
whitney cummings
We're dating.
I'm getting you a watch.
joe rogan
Well, you're rich, so I wouldn't.
whitney cummings
I'd say that's so sweet of you.
No, I'm not, because I buy guys watches.
I have no money left.
joe rogan
I would say that's very sweet.
whitney cummings
That's a really nice thing.
joe rogan
I'd be like, damn, I gotta buy this bitch something now.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would think that.
whitney cummings
Oh, I don't like that.
I don't want to feel like...
I don't want to feel like scorekeeping.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
But if I get you a, I don't know, fucking another salt lamp.
joe rogan
Right.
Nice move.
whitney cummings
Whatever, that's not a strong move.
unidentified
I don't know what that is.
joe rogan
It's a salt lamp.
whitney cummings
If I get you something fancy or pay for a trip or something, do you like it or do you feel, like, grossed out?
joe rogan
I think ideally, like, and this is a very...
This is...
It sounds like horse shit, but I'm being honest.
I think ideally...
Especially in a situation where someone like you has a lot of money, if you're dating a guy, I give it all to dogs and sick relatives.
You're not hurting.
You don't have an issue with money, right?
It's like the person that you're dating, if they're successful, likely, they don't have an issue with money either.
So if people don't have an issue with money, money should just be like fun coupons.
She'd be like, what can we do?
unidentified
Can we go do something?
whitney cummings
Oh, interesting.
But what if the other person doesn't have Joe Rogan money?
joe rogan
Well, then it becomes weirder.
Then it becomes weirder.
whitney cummings
Does it feel patronizing?
joe rogan
It could.
You know, I mean, it depends on what kind of relationship you have with the person.
But it also, it's like, what's the purpose of this?
Is this like a control thing?
Or is it just like a let's go have fun thing?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
It depends on the motive.
Yeah.
So like if Ben Affleck was dating Jennifer Lopez, they're both fucking kajillionaires.
whitney cummings
It doesn't matter.
unidentified
It's fun coupons.
whitney cummings
It's just like, here's a thing, here's a car, here's a whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah, like if Ben orders the private jet, Jennifer doesn't go like, fuck you, bitch, I'm paying for this.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can't pay for me.
whitney cummings
They don't even know.
I don't even know who's paying for what.
That's probably what it's like.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fun coupons.
whitney cummings
I feel like money is the last frontier of weird.
joe rogan
It can be.
whitney cummings
It's just so symbolic, I feel like now.
joe rogan
I've had financial arrangements with friends before that go south, and it just gets real weird.
whitney cummings
If you were dating now, let's say we're in some alternative string theory universe where you were dating, would you pay for everything if you were starting from scratch?
joe rogan
If I was starting from scratch with a person?
whitney cummings
Like with a new person?
joe rogan
For sure, if the person didn't have money.
And one of the reasons why I like paying is because I like to tip a lot.
whitney cummings
But what if you date someone who has money...
joe rogan
Then no, I don't give a fuck.
whitney cummings
Then you'll split it?
joe rogan
Yeah, like my friends.
Like if I go out with my friends.
whitney cummings
But with a woman, it's different.
joe rogan
Well, it depends.
unidentified
Or is it?
joe rogan
I would be more than happy to pay because I don't give a fuck.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But if they for some reason wanted to pay, I wouldn't give a fuck about that either.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'd be like, okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like as long as it didn't feel weird.
But like I've met guys where the guy doesn't make any money and the woman makes a ton of money.
And the woman pays for everything, and that relationship always gets squirrely.
unidentified
Never.
joe rogan
It's squirrely.
I'm your mother.
unidentified
Squirrely.
joe rogan
But the other way, it can work.
Like, if the guy has a ton of money and the woman doesn't, it definitely can work.
whitney cummings
Yeah, always.
joe rogan
And I don't know why.
I mean, it's not saying it's impossible.
whitney cummings
It's alpha, though.
joe rogan
It's just not likely.
It's not likely that that's going to work for whatever reason.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I never know if paying makes things weird or if it's masculine.
joe rogan
Like, Beyonce and Jay-Z, do you think they give a fuck about who pays for something that sells fun coupons?
whitney cummings
If they split the bill, I am the happiest person on the planet.
joe rogan
That would be hilarious, right?
whitney cummings
Like, did you get the salmon?
No, I got the salmon.
If you could just put this on two carts.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But I think like you're obligated at that level of fame to tip ridiculously.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
whitney cummings
I just heard somewhere that 20% is actually not a good tip.
joe rogan
Really?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it's a good tip.
whitney cummings
Someone, a friend of mine who has a daughter who's a waitress said the waitress was like, that's now not...
joe rogan
So what is it now?
25?
whitney cummings
I don't know.
I guess so.
joe rogan
Give me all your money, fuck.
whitney cummings
I don't like working.
It's just such a nightmare.
jamie vernon
20 is standard.
20 is expected.
whitney cummings
20 is expected.
joe rogan
It used to be 15, right?
whitney cummings
When does this start?
jamie vernon
Working at a restaurant, one of the last jobs I had was a brand new restaurant, and the rule they were coming up with to decide how much we had to tip out to our co-workers Was basing it off of us getting 20% off of every table.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
20% is expected.
joe rogan
That's fucked up, man.
Because then they're screwing you.
Because you know there's going to be a lot of cheap people.
I've seen some people leave some fucking horrendous tips.
It really bothers you.
whitney cummings
Honestly, that is my number one pet peeve.
It makes me sick.
joe rogan
It's just so selfish.
Unless you're super broke and you can barely pay.
And then honestly, you probably shouldn't be going out.
whitney cummings
Just don't be going out to restaurants.
But yeah.
But how are people supposed to know this stuff?
Because I thought it was 15%.
jamie vernon
Go out.
Then the servers start getting mad and like, we shouldn't be going out to eat if you can't afford a 20% tip.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Then add 20% to the whole bill.
joe rogan
There's a place that I go to, a sushi place, that puts the tip on the bill always.
whitney cummings
I kind of like that.
joe rogan
It's not bad.
whitney cummings
I like it at hotels.
It's always like, gratuity included, which is like, how shitty is your clientele that you have to include?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Gratuity because you don't trust them.
joe rogan
Well, it's not necessarily that.
It's just that you take it out of the equation.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's nice to not have to think about it.
That's the worst part at the end of a date when you're like, what's the percentage?
joe rogan
It's also weird that those people who are working don't get paid right.
They only get paid through tips.
People say they rely on your tips.
Is that it?
whitney cummings
As a waiter, do you only make tips?
That's fucked up.
I had no idea.
joe rogan
Why don't you pay them?
whitney cummings
Why don't they get some kind of lump sum?
joe rogan
How come you can fire them, but you don't have to pay them?
Or you pay them very little?
whitney cummings
Do you get insurance?
jamie vernon
No.
whitney cummings
Where did you work?
jamie vernon
In Ohio, which is a right-to-work state.
whitney cummings
What kind of restaurant?
jamie vernon
All kinds.
I worked at a chain.
whitney cummings
Did you get health insurance?
jamie vernon
No, no, no, no, no.
whitney cummings
Just tips?
jamie vernon
Yeah, this is also pre-Obamacare, so I don't know how it actually works now, but I would not have been able to afford it.
I can tell you that.
whitney cummings
How much money a night in tips?
jamie vernon
For a guy, it's also different between guys and girls there, too.
whitney cummings
Oh, is that like the one profession where guys get fucked?
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
It's a woman's game.
jamie vernon
I was discussing this with someone at the end of the night, and we kind of came to the conclusion it might be, not for sure, but it might be that, let's say a guy's taking care of the bill, he might feel shittier, or it might be more okay being shittier to a guy than a girl that's taking care of him.
whitney cummings
Wow.
jamie vernon
For whatever reason, lots of things could play into that, but that's kind of where we arrived to.
whitney cummings
That is fascinating.
jamie vernon
Because we were all Arely servers, the girl I was talking to.
joe rogan
Well, a lot of men have weird competition issues with other men.
You've got some guys bringing your food.
You're like, fuck that guy.
Give him a shitty tip.
jamie vernon
Just shittier that way.
You don't want to be mean to a girl.
You don't want to make her cry.
That might not happen, but you think it could, and you just make all your decisions based off of that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
That is so nuts.
I never thought about being a male waiter.
You're going to make less money than a woman.
joe rogan
Probably.
Unless you're really good at it.
whitney cummings
It's a sexist profession.
joe rogan
But if you're at a really good restaurant, you're a really good male waiter who knows exactly what kind of fucking Dijon sauce is in the preparation.
jamie vernon
Then you have to be almost way above and beyond the job, knowing way deep, being anticipating everything.
whitney cummings
How much a night?
How much in tips a night?
jamie vernon
A hundred bucks, maybe, is a good, decent night.
But out here, you'd be expecting to make three or four hundred a night, or you wouldn't probably survive.
whitney cummings
Right, but a lot of out here...
You want to work at a place that serves alcohol, though, right?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
For sure.
joe rogan
You want to make the cash, yeah.
jamie vernon
That's the only way to make money.
joe rogan
But I would think that if you were like a waiter, like, I'm always fascinated when you go to a nice Italian restaurant, and the waiter's obviously from Italy.
whitney cummings
Oh, interesting.
joe rogan
I wish I could stop coughing, Jesus Christ.
unidentified
I know, are you okay?
joe rogan
Yeah, I just have phlegm.
But if the waiter's from Italy, like, it's more impressive, right?
Yes, always.
whitney cummings
You're like, oh!
joe rogan
Do they bring those guys over?
How's that work?
Do they have some sort of a service?
whitney cummings
Probably.
joe rogan
Or Italian restaurants request the services?
whitney cummings
Yeah, you're going to want it.
I mean, because Italians take service way more seriously than we do.
Everybody who's working as a waiter, I feel like at least certainly out here, is trying to do something else for a living.
joe rogan
Right, but it makes your restaurant more legit.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, you don't even know who the fuck's cooking.
It could be a straight-up white guy in the back.
unidentified
That's true.
joe rogan
That doesn't bother you.
But as long as it's an Italian person explaining the right, you know, enunciation of the words.
whitney cummings
Yeah, you're just enchanted.
What's the most fucked-up thing you've ever seen in a restaurant?
Like, restaurants are just nightmares, right?
jamie vernon
Not fucked up, but I just remember, because I explained this too, the newer restaurant I worked at that was expecting that 20%, the clientele they were trying to attract was like a white tablecloth kind of thing, although it was not in that kind of place and was not that kind of restaurant.
And one of my first tables I got that was expecting that service, I like cleared the gentleman's plate before his wife, before she was...
Close to being done eating.
I literally got yelled at about that and explained to why you shouldn't do that.
You shouldn't take a plate.
My boss, he got yelled at by the client and then the next day he was like, hey, just so you know, don't take people's plates until everybody's done.
I was like, what?
That was just a weird thing.
joe rogan
You fucked up, Jamie.
whitney cummings
I hear there's no such thing as Chilean sea bass.
That's not a real thing.
unidentified
They just take white fish and they call it a bunch of other shit so they can charge $30.
joe rogan
Definitely Chilean sea bass.
whitney cummings
Really?
I thought that was like an invention.
joe rogan
Really?
whitney cummings
Like a restaurant invention.
Look up New York Times.
jamie vernon
They also say don't eat sushi in Oklahoma City and shit like that.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's not what she's saying.
She's saying Chilean sea bass is not a real fish.
whitney cummings
Like apparently restaurants just take random white fish and call it a bunch of fancy things.
joe rogan
But it tastes so similar.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, Chilean sea bass has a very interesting and unique buttery taste to it.
whitney cummings
Like don't a lot of restaurants just take garbage fish and put a bunch of salt on it and call it fancy?
joe rogan
They definitely have found that.
They've found that people lie about the type of sushi you're eating oftentimes.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fake fish on your plate.
Right, but that's Chilean sea bass you just ordered.
It isn't a bass, and it probably didn't come from Chile.
unidentified
No!
whitney cummings
What is it?
This is fishy.
joe rogan
Fuck, this is crazy.
whitney cummings
I know, isn't that nuts?
joe rogan
Chilean sea bass is a fraud.
First off, it's not really a bass, it's a cod.
Oh, that makes sense, because you know what?
It tastes like miso cod.
Like miso cod in Chilean sea bass.
Buttery, right?
Until the late 1970s, the name Chilean sea bass didn't exist.
The fish went by the unappetizing name of the Patagonian Toothfish.
whitney cummings
I'm good.
joe rogan
Okay, so it is an actual animal.
It's just not a bass.
So that makes sense why it's uniform in its flavor.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But it's on a bass to a cod.
That's better.
Cod tastes better than bass.
That's why it's interesting because bass doesn't taste good.
Most bass are not like the tastiest fish.
whitney cummings
Really?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
They're like very fishy.
joe rogan
Well, largemouth bass are kind of boring to eat.
whitney cummings
That's funny that bluefin tuna used to be cat food.
It used to be trash fish.
How crazy is that?
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
whitney cummings
Look, until the 1970s, bluefin tuna was considered a trash fish suitable for cat food.
Today it's one of the most prized fish in the world.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
whitney cummings
We are such idiots.
joe rogan
As the bluefin sushi craze spread from Japan to the United States, overfishing triggered a 95% decline in the fish's population.
Holy fuck.
whitney cummings
Crazy.
joe rogan
95% since 1970s?
whitney cummings
It's going extinct, isn't it?
joe rogan
That's not good.
95%.
I'm not a doctor, but I would say you're sick.
unidentified
Wait, go up a little?
whitney cummings
Up a tiny bit?
When seafood buyers found the fish adaptable in terms of taste and texture, they rebranded it as Chilean sea bass and peddled it as a gourmet fare.
Is that legal to just lie about what you're eating?
joe rogan
Look at what they're saying.
Today, much of the fish sold as Chilean sea bass comes from the Antarctic waters, not the Chilean coast.
Whoa.
whitney cummings
Isn't that like false advertising or like blasphemy or isn't there some law against just lying about food?
joe rogan
Look, it's the same thing though.
Look, long considered worthless, the Patagonian toothfish can live up to 50 years and grow to 7 feet long.
But when seafood buyers found the fish adaptable in terms of taste and texture, they rebranded it as Chilean sea bass and peddled it as gourmet fare.
whitney cummings
Scam.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
I'm so disappointed.
whitney cummings
Real talk.
joe rogan
Real talk.
whitney cummings
It's a lot.
unidentified
Don't you think I got enough bullshit on my mind?
Yeah, you gotta press your head.
My favorite is, bitch, I wish you would burn my motherfucking clothes.
whitney cummings
Yeah, we all wish someone would burn your clothes, R. Kelly.
They're disgusting.
I love it.
It's more like, don't you know how many sexual harassment lawsuits I have on my mind?
What does R. Kelly have on his mind?
Does he have a lot on his plate?
joe rogan
I don't think he's remarkably calm.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
How old is R. Kelly?
joe rogan
He's 80. He seems to be like gliding through forever.
whitney cummings
He's been 35 for 78 years.
joe rogan
He seems to be gliding through any forms of controversy like relatively unscathed.
whitney cummings
How much money does he have?
joe rogan
Oh, ungodly Tums.
57?
jamie vernon
I turned 50 this year.
joe rogan
50. Wow.
How much money is he worth?
Let's take a guess.
whitney cummings
Like 20 million?
joe rogan
Way more.
whitney cummings
100 million?
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Does he write his own songs or whatever the fuck those are called?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you think somebody else is writing that shit?
unidentified
Were there other guys there?
joe rogan
Were there other guys there?
unidentified
That's what I thought!
joe rogan
150 million.
unidentified
What?
Boom!
joe rogan
What?
That's a low number.
unidentified
Do you think that's true?
joe rogan
He's got probably 150 million stored in his fucking basement somewhere.
jamie vernon
From what?
joe rogan
The 90s?
He's concerts.
He's constantly doing concerts.
whitney cummings
It's live shows.
You're right, you're right, you're right.
joe rogan
He sells out giant places.
Every time you sell out a giant place, you can- Will you go to his website, his tour?
Hundreds, hundreds of thousands.
whitney cummings
Constantly touring?
joe rogan
He tours.
He tours a lot when he's not fucking.
unidentified
Oh, excuse me.
joe rogan
Look at that picture.
whitney cummings
Go to events?
joe rogan
That's a beautiful photograph.
Ontario, California.
Oh, Citizens Business Bank Arena.
Arena, bitch.
Arena.
You know what I do in Ontario?
I do the fucking improv.
unidentified
Me too.
whitney cummings
That's a nice improv.
It's a fun one.
joe rogan
Citizens Bank Arena.
That's like a 20,000 seat motherfucker.
whitney cummings
How much are tickets?
50 bucks.
joe rogan
50 bucks.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
The After Party Tour.
whitney cummings
So no one's mad?
No one's mad about...
Oh, 127 bucks.
Damn.
joe rogan
Real talk.
unidentified
Fuck you.
Fuck you!
joe rogan
Fuck me, girl!
unidentified
Fuck you!
whitney cummings
You know what?
Good point.
You know what?
Never mind.
I'll stop yelling.
That was a cogent point.
joe rogan
He's still raking it in.
He does those every now and then, rakes in the cash, goes back to his sex slave den, slangs dick until he falls asleep.
whitney cummings
So do you have to pay to be in the sex cult?
joe rogan
Yeah, everybody pays.
unidentified
With your integrity and sexual health.
joe rogan
Everybody pays.
unidentified
Everybody pays.
joe rogan
Gotta listen to lyrics.
whitney cummings
Pays emotionally.
joe rogan
Gotta take notes.
unidentified
50 years old, $150 million.
whitney cummings
God damn it.
jamie vernon
He's sold over a hundred million albums.
unidentified
What?!
joe rogan
It's amazing he's only got 150 million left.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
He's got a dollar an album?
That's crazy.
You gotta get a new manager.
jamie vernon
It's actually pretty good, I think.
unidentified
Is it?
joe rogan
They saved that much?
jamie vernon
Well, a dollar an album's a pretty good return.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But you would just think a guy, that plus concert sales, maybe he's got a lot more money.
You know, those fucking people don't know that celebrity network.
They're just making guesses.
whitney cummings
So I was gonna say, what is that based on?
I've gone to mine and it's not true, I don't think.
I literally have no idea how much money I have.
50 million settlement!
joe rogan
Andrea Kelly needs you to support her ex, R. Kelly, so she can get paid.
whitney cummings
The best job you can have is R. Kelly's ex-wife.
joe rogan
He agreed to a 50 million dollar settlement with his ex-wife.
whitney cummings
Were they married more than 10 years?
They must have been.
Because in California you get...
joe rogan
He met, choreographed, blah, blah, blah, when she auditioned to be one of his backup dancers in 1994. They married in 96. They had three children before their divorce in 2009. Since then, he has gone on a dick-slinging rampage of epic proportion.
The singer explained the grounds of their divorce in his 2012 autobiography, Sola Coaster, The Diary of Me.
whitney cummings
Why don't we have that book?
The diary.
Why did you say my diary?
unidentified
No, no.
Not the diary of me, you egomaniac.
It's been a solar coaster.
It's been a solar coaster.
whitney cummings
I'm uncomfortable.
joe rogan
But I'm here now.
whitney cummings
Does he know that you can just say my diary?
joe rogan
Solo coaster.
Why would he when he looks so awesome?
Look at all those microphones pointing at him.
What is that book cover?
Like he's flying.
whitney cummings
That looks like the cover of the Rosetta Stone.
joe rogan
It looks like maybe the greatest book of all time with 189 consumer reviews and four and a half fucking stars.
That's what I'm seeing.
I'm seeing success.
Real talk!
whitney cummings
Do you know that Matthew McConaughey's mother has a book?
It's called I Amaze Myself.
Am I being serious?
joe rogan
I don't want to pick on anybody's mom.
whitney cummings
That was the realest I've ever seen you.
She talks about...
joe rogan
He's paid out millions in out-of-court sexual misconduct settlements.
Real talk!
whitney cummings
It gets funnier every time you do it.
unidentified
Fuck you.
Don't you think I got enough bullshit on my mind?
whitney cummings
Real talk!
joe rogan
Hey, I mean, he's finding people that like to live his way.
whitney cummings
Do you think you could start a cult?
You kind of have a cult, actually.
joe rogan
I think...
Pretty much anybody can start a cult.
I know a shitty comedian that's basically started a cult.
Yeah, I'll write it down.
Okay.
It's more common than you would think.
I think people have...
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that one.
whitney cummings
Wow.
joe rogan
I think there's a lot of people that want to be led.
I think there's a lot of people that, like, just how some people are born tall.
I mean, I had a joke about this, like, when I was trying to explain to my kids something, and I was like, you know, some people have big ears, and some people have little ears.
Well, some people have brains that are made out of dog shit.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
And then you find people that are dumber than them that let them have sex with them.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then they make kids and those kids are fucked.
And don't let anybody tell you any different.
whitney cummings
What a nightmare.
joe rogan
And if you have a really low Watt brain and you run into some charismatic figure that you feel...
whitney cummings
Didn't we just see this happen in November?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, that's a lot of what happened, right?
A lot of people who are like, yes!
Finally!
Finally!
You let them know!
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
This is my president!
You fucking...
It's your president too, you PCC! Real talk!
Real talk.
Yeah, you can...
There's a lot of monkeys out there.
A lot of really dumb people.
whitney cummings
I just want to be told what to do by someone who's confident in Alpha.
joe rogan
It's 100% absolutely evident to almost anybody that I know that's honest that there are people out there that are far smarter than them, right?
I have them on my podcast all the time.
I talk to astrophysicists and people breaking down the actual fiber of reality, and you try to talk to them and have them explain things to you, and it's like abundantly clear that I'm not nearly as smart as them.
But I talk to a lot of people, and you tell, like, somewhere in the conversation, like, this is all you got to work with.
Yeah.
We've all met people, and it's not even their fault.
It's just like, this is what they have to work with.
But nobody wants to entertain that idea.
We all want to pretend that we're on the same starting line.
But if we're not on the same starting line with dick size, and with height, and with physical strength, and with all the other attributes that people possess, why the fuck would we be on the same with mind power?
whitney cummings
It doesn't make any sense.
joe rogan
It's not.
It's not real.
whitney cummings
If all of us had the same mind power, we'd be extinct by now.
We've all just destroyed each other.
joe rogan
For sure, there's a general sort of range that most of us fall into and you can for sure improve upon that with really good schooling and study and discipline and supportive family and all the good things that we're all aware of.
But there's always going to be these fucking people that are way smarter.
There's going to be these Elon Musks.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
If you talk to them, you realize like, oh, John Carmax.
You're going to talk to them and you're going to go, I'm not...
We're barely the same thing.
We're barely the same thing.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
You're a supercomputer.
joe rogan
So if that's the case, if you're going to meet people like that, and I think you have and I know I have, for sure there's people that no matter what you say, you're not going to help them.
And if that person, that dumb person, runs into an R. Kelly and he's like, what we're doing right now is communicating with Saturn through love.
Saturn.
This is a core Saturn.
See, they don't want you to go there, because if you go there, it would be all about the bliss.
One day we're going to get there.
We're going to get there through Earth.
We're going to get there through my bedroom.
And he's going to fuck you to the center of Saturn.
whitney cummings
Yeah, or he's just like, I have $150 million.
joe rogan
Yeah, like when he's banging you, just sort of like when Kinnison was yelling about Jesus, and you sort of want to believe, and you feel it in your body.
whitney cummings
Or he's like, I'll feed you dinner if you come to my house.
I mean, I think it's really susceptible, vulnerable people.
It's like who Scientology prays on.
joe rogan
How about the comet people that killed themselves because they thought there was a UFO behind the comet, right?
Those are real people.
whitney cummings
Didn't you know how many people killed themselves during the eclipse?
joe rogan
Ooh, I hope so.
whitney cummings
I think there was a bunch of people.
I mean, that's just like the new Darwinism.
It's like the people who acquiesce to cults.
It's like, that's just modern day Darwinism.
joe rogan
I hope it's not your kids.
But, you know, I hope all their parents are dead already.
whitney cummings
I mean, look, if someone kills themselves during the eclipse, they were going to go somehow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
By walking into a wall or falling off of a building or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not a good choice.
whitney cummings
Right?
Not ideal.
joe rogan
It's not the way to go.
But I think for sure, like, those people are always going to exist, right?
Those people like the Heaven's Gate cult or...
whitney cummings
Who have so little to lose and need to believe something that exists bigger than themselves.
Or they need a lie.
joe rogan
Their brain doesn't work that good, you know?
There's certain people, no matter what you do, you and I both know that their brain doesn't work.
Right?
It just doesn't work that good.
No matter what you do, you're like, oh, okay.
This is...
Did I spell it wrong?
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
You don't even know his name.
joe rogan
I don't care.
whitney cummings
That's how you're just like operating on another level.
joe rogan
But there's some people, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you know for a fact like they can...
There's certain...
Especially like open-ended pursuits like stand-up comedy.
It attracts those people, right?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
You meet those perpetual open micers who are convinced they have phantom laughs.
whitney cummings
Did you ever know the guy who...
Because you like...
joe rogan
Windy City Heat?
Is that what you were going to say?
whitney cummings
Oh, no, but that is one of my favorite documentaries on the planet, or whatever it is, movies on the planet.
It's heartbreaking, but amazing.
It's almost as good as that R. Kelly video you showed me in terms of the emotions it evokes, but did you ever see the guy at the comedy store who wore a dollhouse on his head?
joe rogan
No, I missed that guy.
whitney cummings
I think you missed that.
He was on the porch of the comedy store, whatever, the front patio, for like a good year when you were gone.
joe rogan
Dollhouse.
whitney cummings
Giant dollhouse.
joe rogan
Well, that's a way to get people to look at you.
whitney cummings
The Jesus guy?
joe rogan
The Jesus guy's got a weird in, because he's dressed up as Jesus.
Like, if the same guy dressed up as Muhammad, people are like, get the fuck out of here.
whitney cummings
I mean, what happens when you're that guy who dresses up as Jesus on Sunset?
joe rogan
He's probably listening right now, crying.
whitney cummings
What does that life look like?
What's your life look like, sir?
Tweet me.
How much money does he have?
Google his net worth.
Like, you're either a trust fund kid and you're a billionaire.
Oh my god!
joe rogan
Hey, there he is.
It's just probably not the smartest way to live, but the message that he's given when he walks around like that is of one who is a disciple of Jesus.
So you see him, he looks like Jesus, he's dressed like Jesus, and you think, eh, guy's probably fine.
whitney cummings
What if he's Jesus?
joe rogan
Right?
whitney cummings
This isn't really my belief system, but if Jesus were to come back, were we going to go...
joe rogan
He would have to show...
First of all, it's going to be in Israel.
whitney cummings
We'd take pictures and think he was a crazy homeless guy.
joe rogan
Those people that are convinced that Jesus, when he returns, is going to return to Israel, so we have to secure the safety of Israel.
Those really super evangelical Christians.
Speaking of cults.
Did a vice piece where all these people go over to Israel.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
All these Southerners, all these Southerners that are real familiar with the Lord's Word.
And they go over there and they're literally talking about where Jesus is going to return and he's going to be over here.
whitney cummings
Sure.
joe rogan
He's going to speak up on high.
whitney cummings
They voted, I think.
unidentified
This is the area that's dictated in the Bible where he will return.
jamie vernon
What was that crazy thing called where they go over to Israel and they end up taking off all their clothes?
joe rogan
Jerusalem Syndrome.
jamie vernon
What is that?
joe rogan
Jerusalem Syndrome is like...
Mark Maron actually wrote a book called Jerusalem Syndrome.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
But yeah, it's people that, it's a relatively common thing that happens.
They go to Israel and they think that they're like a messiah and they freak out.
They think that they're hearing the word of God, right?
Isn't that, am I reading this wrong?
unidentified
I think I am.
whitney cummings
Like a lot of people do this?
joe rogan
Yeah, like a couple of years.
Yeah, and they literally have a name for it.
whitney cummings
It's making me feel so sane.
joe rogan
Here we go.
What does it say here, Jimmy?
It says a group of mental phenomena involving the presence of either religiosity-themed obsessive ideas, delusions, or other psychosis-like experiences that are triggered by a visit to the city of Jerusalem.
Yeah.
Wow.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
It's not endemic to a single religion or denomination.
It has affected Jews, Christians, and Muslims of many different backgrounds.
But when they go to Jerusalem, that's what's really crazy.
whitney cummings
Jerusalem squabble poison.
joe rogan
Imagine if Jerusalem really is a holy place.
whitney cummings
I mean, that's the thing.
joe rogan
These people all go there.
unidentified
What if?
joe rogan
Only some people can hear the calling.
whitney cummings
What if we're wrong?
joe rogan
We could be wrong.
We're arrogant.
jamie vernon
I feel like they said that most of them were southerners from the US. Of course, they're the dumbest people.
whitney cummings
Do you know about the hookworm epidemic in the South?
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
And that's part of the reason that they were slow, is because people in the South all had hookworm.
joe rogan
Well, explain that.
whitney cummings
This is recent.
Will you look this up, please?
I listened to, I think it was on How Stuff Works or something, how, because of the heat and the way the South is so humid, that hookworm was so prevalent.
They were finding hookworm in all of their feces, and it eats away your brain.
And something like 70% of all Southerners had hookworm.
Until, like, the 40s.
joe rogan
Ooh, Jesus Christ.
whitney cummings
Will you look that up and corroborate that so that I'm not just lying?
Yeah.
But so there is a scientific explanation for Southerners being slower.
Sorry, Southerners.
I love you.
joe rogan
Wow.
But some of them are super smart, like Jimmy Carter.
whitney cummings
Well, of course.
But, like, this is the...
You know.
And who was it?
Was it Roosevelt who tried to...
No, it was...
joe rogan
Southerners weren't lazy, just infected with hookworms.
The story of the postbellum South as told by parasites.
Holy shit.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it makes your teeth fall out and it eats away from your brain.
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Stereotypes are almost always the conclusion of lazy science.
They're just empirical generalizations.
That are stripped of their variances and encoded as fact into the collective consciousness of the general population.
However, sometimes a stereotype reveals a hidden truth that provides an origin to the myth.
The trope of the lazy southerner dates back to America's postbellum period following the end of the Civil War.
No one really knows where it came from, but the image of a lethargic, filthy, drawing farmer has pervaded art, literature, and popular culture up until this very moment.
So one argument recently published by Rachel Neuer for PBS Nova Text presents some compelling evidence for the theory that a hookworm epidemic was responsible for the rural stereotype.
Holy shit!
whitney cummings
The germ of laziness due to the exhaustion and mental fogginess it tends to inflict upon its victims.
Historical evidence shows that the parasite ravaged the American South throughout the early 20th century as a result of poor sanitation and lack of public health programs among the poor.
Holy shit!
joe rogan
Can you imagine?
I'm a joke-tohologist.
whitney cummings
Charles says, 40% or more, not 60%, I was wrong, of the southern population was infected with hookworms.
The parasite thrives in fecal matter and the combination of shoddy waste disposal and the rarity of shoes.
Shoes, no shoes, allowed hookworm larvae to enter people's bodies through the webbing between their toes.
How fucked.
Once they penetrate the skin, they travel through their host's lungs and into their intestines where they survive on a diet of blood they suck out from the intestinal wall.
A female hookworm can lay up to 10,000 eggs in a single day, which gives you an idea of how rampant a localized infestation can become in a very short time.
The laziness that is synonymous with hookworm infections is a synonym of iron deficiency anemia due to blood loss.
unidentified
Holy shit.
joe rogan
They're getting bled out by worms.
whitney cummings
Yes, 40% of people were anemic and had blood loss.
The poor malnourished victims, the parasite can cause stunted growth.
That's right.
Children with hookworms were plagued with attention deficit disorders, lower IQ, and the infected often had strange food cravings for dirt, clay, paper, and chalk.
How nuts is that?
Southern states were the nexus of hookworm-friendly climate as the parasite loved the sandy soil that makes the region so fertile.
In 1910, 7.5 million Southerners had hookworms.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
whitney cummings
How nuts is that?
joe rogan
That's insane.
whitney cummings
Insane.
unidentified
40%.
whitney cummings
Yes, Rockefeller is who donated money to try to combat it.
joe rogan
But that's the Illuminati.
Isn't he like a...
Maybe this is all scam.
whitney cummings
It would take 50 years for the worm to be eradicated from the South.
1960 it was eradicated.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
whitney cummings
Because of the sanitation issues.
joe rogan
Look at that.
Almost entirely freed from hookworms by 1985. Yeah.
unidentified
That was 20 years ago!
whitney cummings
That's so recently.
joe rogan
It's completely insane.
whitney cummings
Yeah, isn't it?
joe rogan
Well, then add that to the fact that half the people in the country have toxoplasmosis.
whitney cummings
What's that?
joe rogan
That's from cat parasites.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
You want to know about that?
whitney cummings
No!
joe rogan
This is a crazy one.
whitney cummings
Do I have that?
joe rogan
Most people.
If you're around, for real, if you're around like farm animals, if you're around cats- Comedians?
Comedians are all feral.
If you're around any sort of feral cats- It's a parasite that it only can sexually reproduce inside a cat's gut.
So check this out.
These rats get it and it rewires the rats to make them sexually attracted to the smell of cat urine.
What?
And it erodes their fear of cats.
So these rats literally get enlarged in some of them.
Their balls swell up and their dicks get hard and they go to find the rats.
And so, or they go to find the cats, rather.
When they go to find the cats, they get killed.
The bacteria gets inside the cat and doesn't seem to have any effect on the cat, but then the cat shit has an effect on women in particular, where they tell women, like, see how that rat is, like...
whitney cummings
Not scared.
joe rogan
Not scared at all of the cat.
And sometimes they chase cats and, like, jump at them and shit.
It's nuts.
See, look.
unidentified
So that cat is gonna kill the rat, though.
joe rogan
Maybe, but the rat's not afraid.
It's running and then stopping.
It knows it's being chased, but it's not like, I have to get the fuck out of here.
whitney cummings
But the bacteria eradicates its fear, so it's...
joe rogan
It's not just its fear.
It literally makes them sometimes sexually attracted to the smell of cat urine.
So then this parasite, this toxoplasmosis, gets inside the cat's gut.
The cats shit it out.
And that's why they tell pregnant women to never touch litter boxes.
It's extremely important.
unidentified
Whoa!
joe rogan
Because it can be deadly to children and cause all sorts of birth defects.
But a crazy amount of people have it.
Like maybe as many as 50% of some countries that people have it.
I think 50 million people in America have it.
I think that was the latest number.
See if that's the case.
whitney cummings
What is the repercussion?
How does it manifest itself?
joe rogan
Well, it makes men reckless.
We had this guy, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, on the podcast.
Yes, and Robert Sapolsky is a fascinating scientist and researcher, and he spent a tremendous amount of time studying toxoplasmosis.
And one of the things that he talked about, how they found a disproportionate number of motorcycle accidents.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
Whoa!
joe rogan
Where the person who died had toxo.
So they would do these tests.
One of these doctors told them when we would get a guy who died from motorcycle crash, we'd test him for toxo and it was a disproportionate number.
And they think toxo is making people reckless.
And there's also a connection in some strange way to soccer teams that are successful.
They find a disproportionate number of soccer teams that are successful.
The players test positive for toxin.
whitney cummings
Because they're reckless in some way, or they're fearless.
joe rogan
Yeah, and it may in fact even raise testosterone in some males.
Can you cure it?
No, no, no, it can't be cured.
whitney cummings
But you can test yourself for it.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a part of you.
Yeah, literally, it's a brain parasite.
unidentified
That's fucking insane.
whitney cummings
Why isn't this on the front of every magazine?
joe rogan
Well, people like Sapolsky have only been studying and only been aware of it for the last couple of decades.
And, you know, as people have grown up and talked about all the various factors for why people behave the way they behave, this is just recently coming into the realm of understanding.
It's not a real, like, well-established fact for many, many, many years.
But Sapolsky's...
Done a lot of incredible work on it, and you can, you know, read his lecture, or listen to his lectures, rather, or read them, in fact, and some of the shit that he tells you about it.
whitney cummings
I mean, do we have it?
We have it, probably.
joe rogan
I probably have it.
Yeah, I've had a lot of feral cats.
I've had a lot of wild cats.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'd lived with a wild cat for like seven years, and I had a couple of when I was growing up that were wild.
They were always living outside, you know, and who knows what the fuck they were getting outside.
When I was a kid, my cats were always outside.
You know, my cat used to bring home squirrels.
I used to see him walk across the street with a squirrel.
He killed a squirrel.
He had it in his mouth.
And the squirrel was almost his size.
And he's literally walking across the street with a squirrel's body in between his legs.
He's dragging the squirrel across the street to show me that he killed the squirrel.
So he was probably out there killing rats and all kinds of things.
whitney cummings
Are rats smart?
joe rogan
There's a great documentary on Netflix about rats called Rats.
What does it say here?
Morbid attraction to leopard urine in toxoplasma-infested chimpanzees.
Yeah.
See, the chimpanzees that are infected by toxo...
whitney cummings
Fuck with leopards.
joe rogan
They fuck with leopards so they can get killed because the toxo wants to grow inside the cat's gut.
unidentified
What?
whitney cummings
That's science fiction.
That is Tales from the Crypt.
joe rogan
It is.
It's where it sexually reproduces.
Inside the gut of cats.
It's the only way it's viable.
whitney cummings
So they stop being afraid so they can...
Basically, they commit suicide.
joe rogan
Not just stop being afraid.
They're attracted to it.
It's drawn to them like their destiny.
whitney cummings
So it could be the same reason that reckless people are attracted to danger.
joe rogan
Yeah, like go to the light.
whitney cummings
That's fucking mind-blowing.
joe rogan
Yeah, the parasites have some sort of innate intelligence.
whitney cummings
Could that explain people who are just have a higher tolerance for danger and attraction to danger?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's probably possible.
whitney cummings
Or addicts or something?
Addiction?
joe rogan
For sure.
whitney cummings
There's gotta be some kind of relationship.
We know so little.
unidentified
Like, when we learn shit, when we learn shit now...
whitney cummings
It's like I remember I get really bad migraines and I was in Cedars getting morphine.
joe rogan
Dude, when was this?
whitney cummings
Oh, I get gnarly migraines.
joe rogan
Whoa, you go to Cedars and they shoot you up with morphine?
All I have to say is I had a headache?
whitney cummings
Yes, which by the way, I was on the watch list because drug addicts go in there and they say, I have a migraine, help me.
So I was on a list, they were like, don't give it to her.
And they were like, it's this whole thing if you go in too frequently.
And I used to get really gnarly migraines and now I have a whole system.
joe rogan
You need a Michael Jackson doctor.
whitney cummings
I do.
Is he available?
I feel like he's on Craigslist.
Oh.
joe rogan
That guy's in jail.
whitney cummings
Oh, is he?
joe rogan
Killed Michael Jackson.
You can't just kill the King of Pop.
whitney cummings
No, you can't get away with that.
Is he in jail for life?
I don't think so.
Or is he in R. Kelly's cult now?
joe rogan
I think he's in jail for a wee bit, though.
whitney cummings
Like a hot minute.
unidentified
He's in jail for a spell.
whitney cummings
I've had that shit.
Is it propofol or what was it?
Was it propofol?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
When I froze my eggs, they gave me that and I was like, I got it.
unidentified
What?
whitney cummings
He got out on parole?
Yeah, in 2013. He's not allowed to practice, though.
joe rogan
Sure, he's talking to me tonight.
whitney cummings
He's got a podcast.
joe rogan
He's going to put me under.
I'm tired of sleeping shitty.
whitney cummings
But I remember asking him.
At least Michael Jackson died doing what he loved.
joe rogan
Sleeping?
whitney cummings
I was sleeping.
One time I was just like, what causes migraines?
They're like, we don't know.
And I was like, what do you mean you don't know?
And they're like, there's just a lot we don't know about neurology.
I'm like, what are you talking...
And then I remember another doctor was like, yeah, that's why we call it a practice.
We're doing the best we can with what we know.
joe rogan
So how often do you have to space it out?
Like, how often can you go in there and whack yourself to the moon?
whitney cummings
I haven't had to do that for like a couple years.
joe rogan
But when you go in, they're like, I don't know.
whitney cummings
They're like, I think now it's a little bit better.
I don't go back to Cedars because they were shitty about my ear surgery.
joe rogan
Reattached your ear?
whitney cummings
They reattached my ear.
It just did not go particularly well.
The doctor was very dismissive to me.
So funny.
Is this an only in L.A. thing?
They were like, you're going to need a plastic surgeon.
Do you have one that you prefer?
joe rogan
Oh, God.
whitney cummings
I was like, first of all, thank you.
Second of all, what the fuck?
Like, I just have a plastic surgeon.
Is that only an L.A. question?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would imagine.
whitney cummings
Have you ever had to get plastic surgery on an injury?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
Oh, really?
Have you?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
No?
You have to get a plastic surgeon if your ear comes off.
joe rogan
I know dudes who have had their ears fixed where they had the cauliflower removed.
whitney cummings
Oh, that's hard to do though, right?
Because it's got nerve endings in it.
joe rogan
Well, it's real tricky.
They have to fillet your ear.
whitney cummings
Oh, I'm aware.
joe rogan
They peel it back and they have to pull the calcium deposits out of the hard parts of your ear.
I had that on my nose.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, and a lot of calcium deposits.
whitney cummings
Your nose looks good.
joe rogan
Thank you very much.
whitney cummings
I mean, I would assume it'd be a little more...
joe rogan
The inside was pretty fucked up until about 10 years ago.
whitney cummings
Do you have a thing in there or no?
joe rogan
No, but when I had a deviated septum operation, they put these plastic stints in there and opened everything nice, and they cut away the turbinates, they cut away all this tissue.
They showed me all the tissue that was removed from my nose.
It was fucking crazy.
whitney cummings
Scar tissue?
joe rogan
It was like, yeah, a lot of scar tissue and a lot of...
When you get blood clots, like the same stuff that happens with cauliflower ear, what that is is...
There's blood leaking in between the tissue cells, and then it stays in there, pools up, and then it calcifies.
And when it calcifies, it literally becomes like a rock.
And you can get that stuff in your nose, too.
In some guys, you get calcification in there, and it hardens up, and you also get a lot of scar tissue, and it closes up the nose windhole.
You can't breathe out of your nose.
It happens to a lot of guys.
A lot of people that do fighting, they talk, like, you'll hear them, they almost have, like, a couple days away of talking.
And that's why, it's because they can't breathe out of their nose.
Super, super common.
unidentified
But they can't, did you, but you haven't done your ear, you only did your ears.
joe rogan
No, I never had it in my ears.
So I got a little, I got little pieces in my ears.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I always wore ear guards.
unidentified
Oh, that's smart.
joe rogan
This is important.
This helps you hear shit.
Like, all the stuff, the design of the ear.
whitney cummings
Everything on your face is fucking important.
joe rogan
Design of the ear, though, particularly so.
Like, just take your ears.
This is what I tell people.
Take your ear and then talk like this and then fold your ears over like that and keep talking.
unidentified
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
joe rogan
It dulls the sound.
whitney cummings
Well, yeah.
Now, imagine if you have big rocks.
joe rogan
Like, literally, Randy Couture is like a rock.
whitney cummings
Oh, yeah, because of the way that it's formed.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Well, mine is all fucked up now, but you can't, I guess, I don't know the case, when you get cauliflower ear surgery, but they can't, anesthetizing your ear actually hurts more than just getting the surgery without anesthesia because they had to put anesthesia in the lacerations.
unidentified
Yo.
whitney cummings
I guess because of cartilage, it doesn't, like, spread as well.
So they did the reattachment surgery without anesthesia.
It was a fucking nightmare.
joe rogan
Real talk.
whitney cummings
Real as the fuck.
And he was doing it, and he wasn't listening to me.
You know, surgeons can be kind of dismissive anyway, because they're like, God.
They think they're God.
And I was like, sir, can you please just give me a heads up of when you're going to do that?
Just would do it without telling me, and I was just freaking out.
And I was not being heard, which was actually...
It's triggering me emotionally.
Like, I can deal with physical pain.
I was getting triggered.
I was like, you know, I'm being heard.
He's, like, totally ignoring me, just, like, doing it.
I mean, punching holes into my body, like, without, I was like, can I get, like, an on three or after three?
And then the next day my friend called to be like, hey, when can Whitney come get her stitches out?
And the nurse was like, oh, the surgeon can't talk on the phone.
He's deaf.
I got a deaf surgeon and they just didn't even tell me.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus!
whitney cummings
I feel like you need to give someone a heads up on that.
joe rogan
You should definitely give a head- How the fuck is he gonna know if you're in agony?
unidentified
I had no idea!
That's hilarious!
whitney cummings
I was screaming at him like, sir, can you please give me a heads up?
And he just was deaf.
joe rogan
I know a dude who got cauliflower ear and then somehow or another got a staph infection inside of his ear and it was so bad they had to remove his ear and they had to solder it because the infection was so prevalent he was constantly leaking fluid out of his ear.
whitney cummings
What's solder mean?
joe rogan
They had a fucking, like, you know what they do in the Wild West movies when a guy gets shot?
They slap iron to it.
whitney cummings
Oh, God.
joe rogan
Cauterize it.
whitney cummings
Cauterize.
joe rogan
Yeah, they cauterize the inside.
I call it solder.
I'm being dramatic.
whitney cummings
I don't know if I know.
They do that with, like, cleft palate.
They cauterize the inside.
joe rogan
They cauterize his fucking ear.
unidentified
The smell of cauterizing skin is not a...
joe rogan
And it didn't work, and they had to do it again.
whitney cummings
Cartilage is tricky.
joe rogan
They had to go in there more than once and clean it out, shoot antibiotics in there.
whitney cummings
Because you can't fight with it or wrestle with it because it'll keep popping.
joe rogan
Well, he had a staph infection inside of his ear.
whitney cummings
That's not good.
joe rogan
Which is, yeah, super bad.
jamie vernon
Have you tried these headphones?
joe rogan
Bone conduction headphones, good enough yet.
I don't know.
unidentified
What is that?
joe rogan
No, I haven't.
jamie vernon
You're talking about the sound made me think of that.
They're headphones.
You put them on like headphones, but they don't go in your ear.
They go on your ear.
They vibrate in your jaw.
The sound literally is vibrant.
There's no sound coming out of them.
It's vibrations, which is what sound is.
And it vibrates into your head, not through your ear.
whitney cummings
Where did you learn all this shit?
jamie vernon
I went to sound audio engineering school.
joe rogan
He's very smart.
Have you heard them?
jamie vernon
Yeah, yeah.
At the CES I went to a couple months ago, I tested them out there, but they're coming out again.
There's a video going around where people are getting amazed by how...
What it sounds like when you're putting something weird.
It's a very weird feeling because it's literally vibrating really small pulses on your skin.
whitney cummings
Have you ever done a sound bath before?
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
You've never done a sound bath?
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
You would fucking love it.
joe rogan
What do you do?
whitney cummings
Smoke some weed, go do a sound bath.
There's one in Pasadena.
I just did one in Joshua Tree.
It's like, you'll probably be better.
It's this guy that does bowls, but it vibrates your entire body with sound.
unidentified
Whoa.
whitney cummings
And it's like this hypnotic...
I mean, I got paralyzed.
I couldn't move my body.
unidentified
It's so...
whitney cummings
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
I've seen this place.
whitney cummings
It's the way that they dome it and the way that the sound travels renders you paralyzed.
It's like this insane out-of-body experience.
joe rogan
There's one of these places that's really famous that's in Palm Springs, right?
Isn't it out in the desert or something?
whitney cummings
See that white one?
No, no.
That's the one I went to.
That's in Joshua Tree.
joe rogan
Oh, Joshua Tree.
whitney cummings
There's something about Joshua Tree.
They say it has the most conductive sound or there's something about the electricity in the earth that makes it particularly powerful.
That's the one that I went to.
joe rogan
Whoa.
whitney cummings
And it was good?
unidentified
How high?
How high were you?
joe rogan
On a scale of one to Snoop Dogg.
whitney cummings
I was R. Kelly.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
I was like a six out of ten in Highness.
jamie vernon
I saw a concert there.
joe rogan
You saw a concert inside there?
jamie vernon
This one, actually, that I'm wearing a shirt of.
whitney cummings
Oh!
jamie vernon
Jesus Christ, what kind of fucking...
Oh, really?
whitney cummings
He performed there?
jamie vernon
They had a screen up, and they projected 3D images on the screen, and you couldn't take your cellphones in, so it's really hard to find anything about this.
But, yeah, it was a really cool experience.
whitney cummings
Was the sound insane?
jamie vernon
It was weird, because it was different.
They had to spend some time figuring it out, so it sounded good in there to enjoy it as a concert.
whitney cummings
Also, if you stand in the middle of the room, you hear waves.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
Just because of the way that there's a hole in the ceiling, and you just hear this...
It's oddly numbing, and your skin starts tingling, and you just go into this hypnotic state.
unidentified
Wow.
whitney cummings
I came out of it, and I was like, I had no idea if I was here for six hours or ten minutes.
It was wild.
You have no concept of time.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
It was pretty awesome.
joe rogan
So it's doing something to you.
whitney cummings
It's doing something.
What's the one in Pasadena?
That's the one I want to try.
But I'm super into it.
Super into it.
And I'm not a lay on the ground with strangers type of person.
So those are the bowls that he rubs.
Sound bath center.
What's the science of it, though?
Oh, there's one in Eagle Rock.
joe rogan
Science is the same science that makes crystals.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Dirty feet.
whitney cummings
See, I don't do...
I'm not a crystal.
Are you on the crystal tip?
Are you into crystals?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
Crystals happening?
unidentified
That's like a light...
joe rogan
I have these salt lamps, but they just look cool.
whitney cummings
Oh, you don't do this because it's like...
joe rogan
No, I don't think they do anything.
That one doesn't even have a light bulb anymore.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I know.
I have some of these in my house.
joe rogan
But that one over there is lit.
They say it does something to the room.
whitney cummings
I have these in my house, and I don't even know why.
I do have those lights that are sunlight, replicate sunlight and make serotonin happy lights.
Yeah, I have those in my house.
joe rogan
I always wonder if maybe some of the positive energy in this room is because of that salt lamp.
whitney cummings
Yeah, you have a very good vibe in here.
I'm worried about you getting a new studio.
I like this energy.
But you're replicating this size.
joe rogan
Almost exactly the same.
whitney cummings
That's awesome.
joe rogan
Almost exactly the same.
TV's a little bigger.
whitney cummings
I like that.
joe rogan
But the same desk.
This desk has life.
whitney cummings
I like how intimate it is in here.
joe rogan
Alright, Whitney, we've done too much.
whitney cummings
I know, it's been a minute.
joe rogan
We've talked for three and a half hours.
whitney cummings
I know, we always do this.
joe rogan
Crazy.
But your book is out.
Tell everybody about your book.
whitney cummings
Oh, I wrote a book.
Buy it.
joe rogan
Go buy that book, bitch.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
unidentified
Alright.
whitney cummings
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you.
Bye.
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