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Jan. 23, 2018 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1067 - Whitney Cummings
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joe rogan
I think what you said is dead on, that he's got to go straight African-American because white people are just not, hey, and we're live.
This is what I think.
We need to recognize the return of Dr. Cosby and send a shout out to him and all the folks at the barbershop.
unidentified
I can't do this.
whitney cummings
No, I can't do this.
I'm triggered.
I'm triggered!
joe rogan
You were saying before the show, like, what do you do if you're at a comedy club and Bill Cosby walks?
Because apparently Bill Cosby's doing stand-up again.
They're like, what do you do?
whitney cummings
Why isn't he in jail?
I'm not even trying to be funny.
Why isn't this guy in jail?
joe rogan
Well, because the first trial was...
Was it a mistrial?
Yeah, it was a mistrial.
They couldn't agree, which is hilarious.
How many people have to say, that guy fucking drugged me and raped me?
How many people...
Can you imagine there's like 80 people that are telling the same story of you drugging them and raping them?
And people are like...
whitney cummings
So, look, and here's what I'll say, like, you know, I'm sorry.
I just, I don't want anything black and phallic near me right now.
We're talking about Bill Cosby.
This is too soon for this.
I guess I just, you know, and it's interesting that this happened after this weekend was the Women's March, and I know, like, a lot of people want to roll their eyes, and I was getting a lot of shit on Instagram for, like, the Women's March.
This is exactly the kind of thing that I'm terrified of, is that this guy is now not in jail, and he's just, like, back to doing stand-up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Because I don't know if we got desensitized or if we just forgot about him or we just got sick of talking about it.
unidentified
I just don't understand how people in that club- Nobody saw it coming.
joe rogan
First of all, he has an enormous ego and he's a psychopath.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
And I think that he has enough fans- And enough people in his community still love him, where he can go places, and small places, and they accept him, and then he's advertising it.
whitney cummings
And what is that?
Is that the people that accept him with this, is it people who have their own skeletons in the closet, and they see him coming back as like, they get redemption in some way, or maybe it makes them not be incorrigible people, or is it like a herd mentality, or is it just star-fucking?
Like, how do you rationalize that in your head?
joe rogan
A little bit of star-fucking, a little bit of dumb people.
whitney cummings
The fact that he's famous eclipses the fact that he's a psychopathic.
joe rogan
But then there's also...
Do you remember how it was right after OJ got innocent?
There was a guy, and I don't want to say his name because I respect him.
He's a comic, and he went on stage.
whitney cummings
Carrot Top.
joe rogan
He said...
No, he's a black guy.
He goes, my blackness will not allow me to think that OJ did it.
And I was...
unidentified
Interesting.
joe rogan
I was like, what?
What the fuck did I just hear?
Like, that is insane.
Like, okay, all black people are innocent?
What if a black person comes in and kills your family?
Will your blackness exonerate that person?
Like, how are you going to handle it then?
whitney cummings
And I don't know what the...
I mean, do you know who was in that job?
Was it all black people?
I don't know anything about it.
I can't read it.
Like, I'm sick to my stomach.
joe rogan
Okay.
No!
I don't know if it's a black or white thing, but I think it's a culture.
whitney cummings
When rapists are on stage performing and there's not a complete melee of disapproval, that's really scary to me.
joe rogan
It is scary.
It's scary.
But I think that there's a certain amount of people that get overwhelmed by celebrity.
He shows up like, I can't believe he's here.
They don't want to say anything.
whitney cummings
But like if Charles Manson goes up at a jazz club, it's like he's a celebrity, but he's also a monster.
joe rogan
Charles Manson's probably less of a monster.
Here's why.
I'll throw this at you.
He never killed anybody.
Charles Manson actually told people to kill people.
And they did.
And it's terrible that they did it.
Like Tex Watson did all the crimes.
And what was her name?
Squeaky Fromm.
She was the one who tried to kill Gerald Ford.
They're the one who did the crimes.
He was just this crazy fuck who talked these people into these things.
whitney cummings
He was kind of the puppet master, yeah.
joe rogan
Bill Cosby raped who knows how many women.
whitney cummings
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
It scares me and shakes me to my core.
Not that a psychopath does psychopathic things, but the people who permit it and who are permissive and are okay with it and don't resist.
The fact that a bunch of people in that club are just like, okay, we're all good.
joe rogan
We don't really know what happened.
We just know that he was there and we know that he's going to do another show and he announced that he was going to do some show at a jazz club.
It's like today, I think.
Is it today or tomorrow?
whitney cummings
And is this jazz club...
I mean, I don't know who owns it.
I don't know enough about it, probably, to weigh in.
joe rogan
I don't know anything about it.
whitney cummings
And I'm, like, frozen with disgust.
It's like, that's the other thing.
joe rogan
It was yesterday?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, so it's already over.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
As promised, he performed at a jazz club today, but this article was yesterday.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
As promised.
Like, oh, he's a man of his word.
He might be a rapist, but he does not lie.
joe rogan
And he was wearing that Hello Friends sweater that he always wears.
whitney cummings
What a fucking nightmare.
joe rogan
And he's got that Bobby Brown thing on.
whitney cummings
I don't know what that is.
jamie vernon
I'm triggered.
whitney cummings
I'm triggered.
I'm upset.
I'm upset.
joe rogan
The microphone headpiece thing.
whitney cummings
I mean, I don't know.
It's just so tricky because it's like I was getting all these nasty comments on Instagram this weekend.
joe rogan
But why are you getting nasty comments?
For what?
whitney cummings
Well, I think with what's going on.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But why are they being nasty?
whitney cummings
Because I was posting photos from the Women's March.
Which was the march was about a lot of things.
And I think just in the last month or so, there's been a little bit of eye roll of like, oh, this is still going on.
You know, like, there's a lot of I think, guys and women also who are a little bit exhausted.
Or I had one guy I talked to a couple weeks ago, a friend of mine who was like, I'm done with this.
What do you mean you're done with this?
You're done with sexual predators getting in trouble and getting fired and getting cleansed from our society and possibly stopping from assaulting people in the future.
And they were just like, I feel like this has gotten ridiculous.
I think a lot of people think it's like a hysteria or it's like women being dramatic or something like that.
And then something like this happens.
And I'm like, oh, are we not being dramatic enough?
Because this is crazy that he's just going on stage and performing like as if everything's just kind of fine again.
joe rogan
Well, I think he's a bad example because I think he's nuts.
And I don't think it makes any sense that he's out.
whitney cummings
I think anyone who rapes as many people is nuts.
I think all these people are nuts.
I think we're more nuts for just being like, okay, I guess he's doing comedy again.
joe rogan
I don't think we are.
I think most people are like, what in the fuck?
whitney cummings
Are outraged.
joe rogan
Yeah, I sent it to Tom Segura and his immediate reaction was like, what?
He gave me like a bunch of yous.
whitney cummings
I guess I'm thinking about the people who are in that jazz club and the guy that owns that jazz club.
Fuck you, guys.
joe rogan
Yeah, we don't know.
I mean, we don't know who these people are or what it was like.
whitney cummings
If I'm in a comedy club and Bill Cosby gets on stage, I'm like, I gotta hear what the fuck this bitch has to say.
Like, that's what I'm thinking.
I'm not being like, awesome, Bill Cosby's here.
So maybe I should give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they think they're seeing some kind of circus show.
joe rogan
Well, I don't think I would say anything.
I don't think, I mean, I don't think it helps.
Like, I don't think I would yell out, you're a fucking racist!
I don't think I would do that, but I definitely think I would sit there and watch and study him like some weird fucking creature, which is what he is.
He's an aberration in humanity.
First of all, he's an aberration in a couple ways, right?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He's an outlier in terms of the popularity he reached.
He reached this insane level of popularity.
And he did it in the 60s and the 70s when the world was a different place.
And I really...
We've talked about this a bunch of times in this podcast.
I think a lot of people drugged people back then.
I think it was normal.
I think that dropping a Mickey in someone's drinks...
whitney cummings
It was common, maybe not normal.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a better way to put it.
I think a lot of people did it.
I think a lot of people...
whitney cummings
People still do it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, but I think a lot of famous people did it back then.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think they were giving out pills and I don't think...
I think culturally we've evolved way more than we are aware of.
I think we think of ourselves as being very similar to people from the 1960s.
I don't think we are.
unidentified
Interesting.
joe rogan
I think we're way...
I think if you go from like...
1810 to 1870. I bet people are pretty goddamn similar.
whitney cummings
Interesting, yes.
Okay, good point.
Yeah, the technology is moving so fast and adapting to that and the fact that we have alarm systems.
joe rogan
Right, got it.
1960 to 2018, way different.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fucking way different.
What's acceptable, how people think of things, what we've...
Just how people...
I think one of the things that's happening, one of the reasons why guys are eye-rolling about the Women's March...
Is that it's a new thing.
And this is an overwhelming amount of energy that's headed towards this thing.
But what it represents is years, decades of frustration.
Women that had to work with guys that were grabbing their ass and trying to fuck them.
whitney cummings
The pendulum swang hard.
It's like it snapped fast.
And there's also, we always talk about this, and I'm obsessed with epigenetic imprinting.
It's not just us.
It's our moms and our grandmothers who this happened to.
And we carry that pain and that suffering with us.
joe rogan
There's a lot of guys that say, hey, I didn't do anything.
I shouldn't have to feel this.
But this is the thing.
These guys saying, like, I'm done with this.
You're not even a part of this.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, how are you done with this?
You don't have to go there.
whitney cummings
How is this inconveniencing you so...
Like, I don't understand how...
joe rogan
Well, I guess if you're stuck in traffic...
whitney cummings
Well, yes.
unidentified
Women's March traffic.
joe rogan
That's it.
whitney cummings
I mean, that's exactly right.
So it's like a couple...
I mean, you're in LA. You're always sitting in Women's March traffic.
But I feel that way about the fucking marathon.
joe rogan
When they have a marathon, I feel that way.
unidentified
Completely.
whitney cummings
And the gay pride parade and whatever.
So it's like, I'm so sorry you're going to have to sit in traffic for an extra 20 minutes.
But get your Amazon drone.
Why are you driving on a Saturday anyway?
joe rogan
I get it.
I mean, it makes sense.
If I was a woman who worked in an office, I'd fucking hate it.
whitney cummings
I guess I just don't understand why this is such a hassle for men.
I don't understand why it's such an...
Unless you were raping people, assaulting people, hurting people, nothing's being taken away from you.
And I feel like a lot of men think something's being taken away from them.
And I don't know what that is.
You know, and I'm just a little bit confused.
If it's...
Unfollow me.
I don't know.
Unfollow me.
If it's blowing up your Twitter feed and your Instagram...
I just...
I can't wrap my head around why this is such an inconvenience for guys.
And what's so threatening about it.
joe rogan
I don't think it's that many guys that are saying this.
whitney cummings
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Most men, I think, are recognizing, like, that...
If you look at the stories, the Harvey Weinstein one is the worst and most egregious example, right?
I mean, he's a guy that did it for decades.
They even enabled him.
whitney cummings
Cosby's pretty bad, too.
joe rogan
Well, Cosby's worse.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
Because Cosby was, like, Harvey Weinstein was an obvious predator.
It's like, hey, don't go in the chicken coop with the wolf.
whitney cummings
And here's something interesting.
I was also getting shit about this, about a lot of people are like, well, if you knew about Harvey, why didn't you say something?
And it's just, it's such a testament to how...
joe rogan
Someone said that to you?
whitney cummings
Yeah, like I just got some comments that were like, well, you knew about Harvey, why didn't you say something?
You know, when you knew about it 10 years ago or whatever.
unidentified
But what did you know?
whitney cummings
But I had heard like, oh, he like sleeps with actresses and he like makes them fuck them.
But I wasn't really in that world.
So I knew about it.
But what was I going to call up the New York Times and be like, hey, I was on Comedy Central for 10 minutes.
I have an idea.
You know, like who was going to let, you know, and it's also it's like the kind of thing where we didn't even know what we were allowed to say.
And we didn't even know that there was a possibility for change or that there was a possibility that anything would be done about it.
Like that's how ingrained in our psyche it was and how we just didn't know there was anything.
We just thought that's how it was.
joe rogan
Well, first of all, you didn't know him.
You didn't work under him.
whitney cummings
So he did come to the comedy store once.
I think you were gone.
And this isn't like my Harvey Weinstein story.
Like it's not close to how awful most of the women's stories are.
But it is, I think, more like kind of funny.
He came to the comedy store and I went on stage in the main room and then I left.
And then Tommy called me and he was like, oh, Harvey Weinstein came here to see you.
He's here.
You need to come back and talk to him.
And I was like, I was like already at the improv or already like whatever.
And I was like, I don't want to go.
And then the only reason I did not go back at first, I was like, fuck him for just like summoning me to come back.
I'm making $22 at the comedy store.
And it already took me 40 minutes to get out of the comedy store parking lot.
I can't go back in there.
And I remember literally just being like, the lighting in there is bad.
I don't want him to see me.
joe rogan
The lighting is bad.
whitney cummings
The lighting on stage is great.
He saw me at my best, and I really don't want to go back and talk to him.
I don't know how to do small talk with producers.
You know me.
I'm a neurotic mess.
I'm not good at charming and whatever.
joe rogan
That is such a crazy way to think of things.
unidentified
Insane.
joe rogan
The lighting in there was perfect.
unidentified
Yeah.
He saw me at my best.
whitney cummings
Like, let me just get the fuck out of here.
But, like, I didn't know how bad it was.
But, you know, it's like the kind of thing that it's like we didn't know what we didn't know.
joe rogan
Don't you feel a little guilty, though?
Like, what you're saying, what I'm getting is that people saying that to you, you feel like, oh.
Of course.
I didn't do it.
I didn't.
I'm not.
whitney cummings
Totally.
I think that there's a lot of women that kind of have done nothing wrong, but were consumed with guilt and shame.
joe rogan
Men, too.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I'm so glad to hear you say that because I'm just not hearing a lot of that.
I'm not hearing a lot of empathy and maybe I'm just like zoning in on negative comments.
joe rogan
I've never had a female employee and I've never worked in an office.
But even though you hear all this sexual harassment shit and you go, did I do anything?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You gotta check.
Seems like everybody did something.
whitney cummings
But we were the same way.
I remember working on a talk show and everyone's like, oh, well, does that count?
That's not as bad as rape.
Like getting granular about it.
Right.
I remember I worked on a talk show, a late night talk show, and a guy came up to me in front of a couple of the writers and he took his hand and put it between my butt cheeks and just swiped and he was like, it's like a credit card machine!
And everybody started laughing.
And of course I started laughing because I froze and I was embarrassed.
joe rogan
Was he your friend?
whitney cummings
No, he was like my co-worker.
Like, you know.
And it was just kind of a dick comedy writer.
And I was like, what am I going to do?
I mean, at the time, I had no concept that it was offensive.
I was emotionally so numb and unconscious in my 20s.
Like, I didn't even think to do anything about it.
But looking back, I'm like, that was fucked up.
But what was I going to call human resources and say that...
Right.
There's all these little tiny things that aren't enough to be assault but are too much to be appropriate.
And it's just like a gray area that I don't...
You know...
It's hard for us to delineate what makes sense of what doesn't.
joe rogan
Well, it's funny how cautious you are now.
I mean, we're good friends, but we're joking around.
We had these hoverboards, and we're rolling around these hoverboards.
whitney cummings
If I had fallen, you would not have caught me, because you didn't want to touch me.
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
That's my fear.
joe rogan
But what you said was hilarious.
You wanted to say something about a porn, but you weren't sure if you could talk about it because you were worried that you bringing up a porn would somehow or another be sexually harassing.
And I had to say, like, hey, that doesn't work.
You can't do that to men.
Like, you say whatever the fuck you want.
whitney cummings
I remember...
joe rogan
I'll give you license right now publicly.
Say whatever the fuck you want forever.
You can't sexually harass me.
whitney cummings
Women feel it too.
Like, you know, I don't want to...
unidentified
Well, you would feel like a hypocrite.
whitney cummings
I'm stuttering.
Look at me.
I'm panicking.
Exactly.
I don't want to be a hypocrite.
Right.
You know, I've been coming back to the comedy store a lot and I hadn't been there in the last like six months.
I've been working on something and I noticed when I used to go to the comedy store, I used to feel like praying or any comedy club.
It was like, you know, people would hug you too long and, you know, you were just waiting to kind of like have something inappropriate happen.
I went in the other night.
Not one man hugged me.
Everyone was like, hello, m'lady.
People were like bowing at me.
No one would come near me like I was a fucking leper.
Donnell Rawlings came up to me and gave me a hug and halfway through he was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry.
Am I allowed to do that?
And I was just like, oh, whoa, like this is this is fucking crazy.
The tables have turned because it used to be women were terrified of men and now men are kind of terrified of women.
joe rogan
Definitely guys are afraid of being called out.
There's a lot of that and a lot of guys going over there.
whitney cummings
Are you afraid if you don't have skeletons in your closet, though?
joe rogan
If you're afraid if you don't?
whitney cummings
If you don't.
Are you afraid because you know you have some shit?
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing.
You don't have to have skeletons in your closet.
You can just have a bad relationship where someone's mad at you.
Like this Aziz Ansari thing is very bizarre.
Like this seems like he went on a bad date and they took turns eating each other out and blowing each other and then she didn't like it and she said that there was like, I don't know what the fuck happened because I wasn't there, but there's a lot of people that are picking sides on this.
whitney cummings
And I'm not accusing or supporting either side because I don't think there's enough information yet.
And it all seems very like he had one experience, she had one experience.
And if they're both telling the truth, you know, who fucking knows?
But here's what I'll say just about my experience in my 20s as a woman is I was not fully formed yet at 22 years old.
I didn't know.
joe rogan
No one is.
whitney cummings
I had literally no sex I wanted to have in my 20s.
joe rogan
Well, we understand that now, that the frontal lobe is not really fully formed in human beings until you're 25. So, hey guys, in your 30s and 40s, stop dating 20-year-olds.
whitney cummings
Just, in general, this is a bad idea.
And I think that a really big part of the conversation that, for me, a blind spot is sexual abuse victims.
So, the statistics are a little foggy, but one out of six women are sexually assaulted as children, and those are only the people that come forward.
joe rogan
Is that real?
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
One out of six?
whitney cummings
One out of six is the statistic for people that come forward.
That's not even including the people that don't come forward, which is a lot.
And not to get too serious.
joe rogan
Did you see that fucking Olympic...
I'm sorry to interrupt you, but did you see that Olympic thing?
whitney cummings
It makes me crazy.
joe rogan
That Olympic thing is insane.
The Olympic gymnastics coach, or doctor rather, that was molesting all those girls?
whitney cummings
Makes me want to...
It makes me homicidal.
joe rogan
And when they're doing the testimony, he's saying that this is too uncomfortable for him to listen to these girls?
whitney cummings
If I saw that guy in the street, I think I'd kill him with my hands.
I'd have to.
I would go batshit crazy.
So I don't talk about this publicly because I'm too embarrassed.
That's the other thing about this.
I think that some guys have this idea that us being sexually harassed is like It's fun for us and we want to come forward and there's some glory in it.
It's embarrassing and it's awful.
And I don't talk about my sexual assault publicly because I just freeze up and I can't.
joe rogan
But you're very self-aware.
There are people that take some sort of glory in being victimized.
whitney cummings
Maybe.
I can't speak to that.
joe rogan
What I mean by that is to the point where they will exaggerate any sort of interaction with someone.
Maybe.
But men and women.
whitney cummings
So here's what I'll say.
That could be true.
I don't know enough about the science of that, and I'm not a psychiatrist, but my experience was the opposite.
I minimized mine.
Most people do.
I didn't come to terms with the fact that I was sexually assaulted until I was 32. I'm 35. I just kind of figured this shit out.
And there's a lot of stuff that is still blind spots that I don't want to deal with.
And I was only able to write about it in my book because I can't talk about it publicly.
I freeze up.
I get weird and scared.
And one of the trauma responses of if you've been sexually assaulted as a child is that when a man moves towards you or you have any kind of sexual...
See, I'm getting all nervous.
When you have a sexual interaction, you freeze up.
Because when you were sexually assaulted as a child, it didn't serve you to fight back and you had to kind of disassociate.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
That's why people get confused with fight or flight.
It's not just fight or flight.
Freeze is a big one.
whitney cummings
I have a freeze response around sex.
joe rogan
I should be clear about what I'm saying so nobody misconstrues this.
What I'm saying, I'm not talking about real victimization.
I'm talking about people that love to play the victim.
whitney cummings
Sure.
joe rogan
There are a lot of people...
I'm not talking about real...
When I say that people take glory in victimization, I don't mean someone who's actually been sexually assaulted.
I mean someone who may have had a weird interaction with the person when they said something to them.
whitney cummings
And by the way, I've done that.
Like, you know, I get bumped at the comedy store and I'm like, can you...
I just am getting adrenaline and dopamine from being self-righteous or having been wronged or something.
I know what you mean from that perspective, but I think when it's something real, my reaction is to completely hide.
joe rogan
Freezing is a big one.
That's also a big one with assault.
Not just sexual things, but physical assault.
One of the things that happens to people when they're confronted by someone in a dangerous situation is that panic and they freeze.
They don't do anything.
They literally can't move.
whitney cummings
So if at least 20% of women have that, who knows what the fuck is going on in some of these interactions.
So for me, like in my 20s, when a guy came towards me, I would freak out and people go, why didn't they say no?
Why didn't they leave?
Because I'm fucking frozen and I don't know what to do.
joe rogan
Anybody that says that has never been involved in any sort of real altercation when they're in danger.
Anybody says, why didn't you just...
Well, you don't know why you didn't do things.
There's times in my life when I look back, I'm like, why didn't I fucking say something?
Why didn't I tell that guy to fuck off?
You don't know what to do.
whitney cummings
And that's a lot of, I mean, that was me in my whole 20s.
Why didn't I tell him no?
Why didn't I leave?
Why didn't I tell him to stop?
Like, you know, so a lot of it I didn't even understand because I was too young to.
And I also, I didn't, it took me 15 years of a 12-step program and therapy and EMDR to even be able to say.
What's EMDR? EMDR, eye movement reprogramming and desensitization.
joe rogan
How the fuck would you expect anyone to know what that means where you could just yell at me?
whitney cummings
Your fans are so fucking smart and like they're such neurology nerds.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's off the deep end.
EMDR. I've never heard of that shit in all my life.
whitney cummings
It's a post-traumatic stress disorder therapy.
It was started for Vietnam vets and it helps you to sort of deactivate traumatic experiences.
joe rogan
Have you ever done ecstasy?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Yeah.
MDMA therapy is supposed to be amazing for people that have gone through trauma.
whitney cummings
I've been told about this.
I'm going to go to Coachella next year and try that.
joe rogan
I don't know if that's the place.
But it's supposed to be amazing for people that have gone through real traumatic experiences that are just so ingrained in their mind.
Like, the memories of those experiences are ingrained with trauma and horrible feelings.
And somehow or another, MDMA therapy allows people to separate from that.
And...
Lose the trigger and like lose this reoccurring...
whitney cummings
That sounds like a way more fun way to do it because EMDR is like you sort of have to relive the memory and then other shit gets unearthed and things start clicking into focus.
joe rogan
Well, the reason why they call it ecstasy is because that's literally what you feel.
You feel so much love.
It just floods your brain with dopamine.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
And I only did it once, but the thing that stunned me was how comparatively insecure I am in regular life.
whitney cummings
Comparatively insecure.
Can you say that?
joe rogan
Comparatively insecure compared to when you're on ecstasy.
whitney cummings
Oh, got it.
You have no inhibitions.
joe rogan
None.
Zero.
You're so friendly and so warm and so affectionate.
unidentified
But you always like that.
joe rogan
I try to be.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But when you're on ecstasy, you really realize all the hitches in your personality, all the things that are holding you back.
I only did it once, but it made me completely aware of insecurity that I didn't even know existed.
whitney cummings
That's fascinating.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Let's do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, do it.
You trip out.
It's very interesting.
whitney cummings
I'm super into it.
I had another friend recommend that and I'd be down because it's also like, you know, and something else I'll say, not to speak for all women, like I'm not the face of all women, but like with this administration, if you're a sexual trauma survivor, seeing this fucking guy on the news every day can be really triggering.
joe rogan
Do you see his post about the Women's March?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
His Twitter post was hilarious.
Joe, I literally can't read the news anymore because I'm too activated and I'm going crazy.
I'm way too activated.
Seeing a sexual predator or someone I deem to be a sexual predator with all the women that have come forward in the news every day is activating my trauma response of...
joe rogan
I think he's a predator.
I don't think it's just sexual.
I think he's a predator in business.
I think he's a predator in politics.
I think he's...
I mean, if you look at the way he campaigned, you know, like about the Hillary Clinton, lock her up, lock her up.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's predatory.
unidentified
Yes, correct.
whitney cummings
He's a bully.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he's a fucking winner.
I hate to say it that way.
whitney cummings
Can I tell you?
And I was, do you remember, I think it was, I don't know, was the primaries or it was like when Ben Carson was still in the mix and they were all lined up.
And I remember seeing, and this was when we all thought it was like a joke.
And he called all of them out.
He was like, you've asked me for money and you've asked me for money and you've asked me for money.
And I was like, that's fucking hot.
The reptilian brain was like, oh shit, that guy's a fucking winner.
And he's not scared of anything.
And with the sound off, I'm like, that's the alpha.
If shit hits the fan, I'm following that guy.
joe rogan
He's old.
He's lived a long life.
He's on speed.
And he has a lot of money.
And there's all these reports that he's on diet pills.
whitney cummings
Do you believe that syphilis theory?
joe rogan
I don't know that.
whitney cummings
Can you look this up, B? As if you haven't already today?
joe rogan
Do you know the diet pill thing, though?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
Is that like caffeine?
joe rogan
Yes.
He's on some sort of amphetamines, apparently, according to several sources.
One of them that tracked his prescription from Dwayne Reed Pharmacy in New York from a few years back, that he was on this one type of amphetamine for like eight years.
whitney cummings
Do you have to take drug tests if you're the president?
unidentified
No.
whitney cummings
I don't even know.
joe rogan
No, you don't.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
No.
This is amazing.
whitney cummings
Wow.
joe rogan
You have to take a drug test if you work for UPS. Wow.
You don't have to take a drug test if you have the fucking nuclear football.
whitney cummings
How is that not a thing?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions is fucking trying to take pot away from everybody and Donald Trump's popping pills.
I don't know if he's really popping pills.
I just should say this.
But what I've read is that what he's taking, what they believe he's taking is...
Do you remember Fen-Fen?
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
Fen-Fen was some shit that went on in the 90s.
It was a diet pill that they had to stop taking because it was super effective for people, but it was essentially speed.
They lost their appetite and everybody lost weight.
whitney cummings
Dexatrim?
Do you remember that diet pill?
I took that when I was in high school and had an eating disorder.
joe rogan
That's similar.
All these things are similar because they're amphetamines.
They're speed.
They're all stimulants.
And there's one of the ingredients in fen-fen.
When the two of them are combined together, fen-fen is two different things.
And see if you can find that story about what they think that he's on.
But it gives you delusions of grandeur.
That's a thing.
whitney cummings
Whoa, I need that.
joe rogan
One of the symptoms.
First of all, think about the amount of energy this guy had.
Running for president.
Giving these long speeches.
unidentified
He's tireless.
joe rogan
Never seemed tired.
Yeah.
Rumored.
Doctor prescribed Donald Trump cheap speed.
unidentified
Look at this.
joe rogan
That picture's amazing!
Who made that picture?
whitney cummings
I'm triggered!
joe rogan
Who's Jim Cook?
Jim Cook, you're a fucking wizard.
Whoever you are.
whitney cummings
His neck looks like a fucking elephant ear.
joe rogan
My applause.
That made me laugh hard.
The orange is perfect.
It's like such a...
But just exaggerate just enough.
The eyes...
whitney cummings
I'm glad you're enjoying this.
He looks like you're a rock salt lamp.
joe rogan
You gotta be able to laugh while this is going on.
I can't.
You can't freak out.
Okay.
Rumors of Trump's predilection, I love that word, predilection for stimulants first started really popping up in 1992 in Spy Magazine Road.
You ever wonder why Donald Trump has acted so erratically at times full of energy, of manic energy, paranoia, and wow, what is that word?
Garrulous?
whitney cummings
Where is it?
Garrulous.
joe rogan
Garrulous?
Have you ever used that word?
whitney cummings
Garrulous is like, I thought, like cheerful.
Like garrulous.
joe rogan
Well, you're speeded up.
Well, he was a patient of Dr. Joseph Greenberg's from 1982 to 1985. At the time, Dr. Greenberg was notorious for allegedly dolling out prescription stimulants to anyone who would pay.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Diet drugs.
Trump took a pill for him.
whitney cummings
How can you be on diet drugs and also be fat?
joe rogan
Because he's eating a lot of terrible things.
Okay, this is the stuff.
Okay, Fen-Fet.
It's called...
Fentermine first gained notoriety in the U.S. under the name Fenfen, a miracle combination of fentermine and fenfluramine, another established anti-obesity drug.
The two of them together.
The only problem was when the patients taking the drug began reporting damage to their hearts and lungs.
Apparently the combination destroyed the patients' bodies.
So he's not taking both of them.
He's taking one.
Phentermine on its own, however, is still prescribed.
whitney cummings
Trouble with thinking, speaking, or walking, decreased ability to exercise, false or unusual sense of well-being, insomnia, nervousness.
This is my suicide note.
joe rogan
Increase in sexual ability, desire, drive, and performance.
whitney cummings
That's not true.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Confusion.
Sure.
I mean, so this is doctor prescribed.
joe rogan
Yes.
This is what I think.
whitney cummings
Why wouldn't you just take Adderall?
joe rogan
Well, that's a good one.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it's the same thing.
Got it.
whitney cummings
Will you look up the syphilis theory, Trump?
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
Adderall is essentially, like, incredibly similar.
There it is, medical theory.
Many mental health professionals believe the president is ill, but what if it causes an untreated STD? So apparently syphilis untreated?
whitney cummings
It creates reddening of the face, manic behavior.
I can't read this for him.
joe rogan
But his face is pale.
It's orange skin color.
whitney cummings
Oh, is that self-tanner?
joe rogan
Yeah, if you look at his eyes.
whitney cummings
Syphilis?
joe rogan
That's why his eyes are white.
All around his eyes, like a raccoon, they're white.
whitney cummings
Okay, it's characterized by the development of an ulcer, usually genital, a few weeks and a few months after sexual contact with the infected person.
If the ulcer is not noticed, not...
Secondary stage of the disease is seen in some patients.
Weeks or months later, these patients may develop a variety...
Thank you.
unidentified
Look at you, you're leaning towards it like you're so obsessed.
whitney cummings
Because I can't see.
I want to get to the...
joe rogan
It's right behind you, too.
whitney cummings
Oh, I can't swivel.
I hurt my back.
I told you that.
I hurt my back on your fucking Segway.
Just trying to impress you.
unidentified
I'm suing you.
You didn't even fall.
I'm suing you.
joe rogan
We have video cameras everywhere in this place.
whitney cummings
And you know how to use a bow and arrow.
I'm not suing you.
joe rogan
Neuropsychiatric disorder.
Neurosyphilis.
Symptoms of neurosyphilis are protein, varying widely from one individual to another.
whitney cummings
Irritability, loss of ability to concentrate, delusional thinking, and grandiosity.
Memory, insight, and judgment can become impaired.
joe rogan
Maybe he's got everything and they're duking it out inside of his system.
whitney cummings
He got syphilis in the fucking 80s from Stormy Brown or whoever, and now he's fucking got delusional thinking and grandiosity.
joe rogan
Okay, Stormy Brown right now is pissed off.
whitney cummings
And then it also makes your hair like fluffy and just exactly like his.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he's fucking 90 years old.
You're gonna lose your hair.
There's like a history of his hair.
Look at all those girls.
whitney cummings
I banged her, I banged her, I banged her, and I banged her.
That's amazing.
unidentified
I came on her feet.
whitney cummings
That's kind of amazing.
Anyway, so I mean you can see why we're all a little triggered.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I don't think...
I think people are reaching for straws.
I mean, he just got...
It was interesting, the doctor that examined him, examined him and said that he probably, if he had a good diet, he'd live to be like 200 years old.
He's got just great genes.
That doctor that examined him, I was like, this is...
whitney cummings
Who is this doctor?
The guy that killed Michael Jackson is his doctor?
Who is this guy?
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
After he did that, then Sanjay Gupta examined the actual results.
And Sanjay Gupta said, well, no, there's actually an issue here.
And the issue is something to do with arteries and something to do with the potential for a future stroke or heart attack.
And he was basing it on actual test results.
And obviously, I don't know jack shit about medicine, but see if you can find out what he said.
He's a common form of heart disease.
Yeah.
See, scroll up and see if you can find what it said there.
Yeah, here it is.
This is what it is.
Dr. Ronnie Jackson disclosed Trump's basic lab measurements, physical exam, and the conclusion of a cognitive exam known as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Additionally, the president had an echocardiogram of his heart as well as a stress test.
Both described as normal.
Although it's not a part of the official medical records that were released yesterday, FBFSA.
After further questioning, Jackson also revealed that Trump underwent coronary calcium CT scan.
Now, this is it.
His score was 133 and anything over 100 indicates plaque is present and that the patient has heart disease.
According to Trump's official records, in 2009, his coronary calcium score was 34. Does a president have an obligation to be in shape?
whitney cummings
I mean, wasn't Robert Taft, like, notoriously obese?
Like, do you have to be in shape to be the president?
I don't know the answer.
joe rogan
That's a good question.
unidentified
Like, do you, are there certain boxes you have to check?
joe rogan
But what I'm getting out of this is it's Sanjay Gupta, who is an unconnected third party, who's unbiased.
Is going basically just off of these coronary calcium CT scans.
And what he's showing is the difference between how it was in 2009, which was 34, 2013, which is 98, and then 2018, which is 133. So you're saying it's increased, basically doubled every couple years.
whitney cummings
It's bad.
joe rogan
Everything over 100 indicates heart disease.
whitney cummings
I'm not going to say anything else bad.
I'm worried I'll get death threats.
joe rogan
Were you worried that you want him to get this?
whitney cummings
No, I just, you know.
joe rogan
Just kind of say it.
whitney cummings
No one's listening.
I yelled millions of fucking people.
You know, but I think that's the other thing.
I think we're all sort of just especially angry.
Like when you were talking about the pendulum swinging so hard of women.
It's like having to see this constantly every day in the news.
This guy, it's hard.
It's really hard and depressing.
joe rogan
Trying to be objective.
This is what I find fascinating about it is that obviously this is an aberration like no one's ever seen something like this before.
No one's ever seen a president.
There's a video that was on go to The typical liberal Instagram page, there's a video of him saying, no one is better at blank than him, and it's like a video that was actually put together by people to mock him, but the Trump supporters actually love it.
Yeah, play this, because 24 things nobody is better at than Trump.
unidentified
Nobody can do it like me.
Nobody.
Nobody can do it like me.
Honestly.
Nobody's stronger than me.
donald j trump
Nobody has better toys than I do.
There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.
unidentified
Nobody loves the Bible more than I do.
joe rogan
Nobody builds walls better than me.
donald j trump
Nobody's better to people with disabilities than me.
Nobody's fighting for the veterans like I'm fighting for the veterans.
unidentified
There's nobody that's done so much for equality as I have.
donald j trump
There's nobody more pro-Israel than I am.
unidentified
There's nobody more conservative than me.
There's nobody that respects women more than I do.
Nobody would be tougher on ISIS. Had I known...
donald j trump
Nobody's ever had crowds like Trump has had.
whitney cummings
But here's the thing.
unidentified
Before the internet, you could say shit like this and get away with it because no one could check you on it.
whitney cummings
He belongs in the 1800s when you could just lie to crowds of people and they couldn't corroborate it.
unidentified
I know what it means.
Nobody knows more about trade than me.
Oh my god.
donald j trump
Nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump.
Nobody can do it like me.
whitney cummings
I feel like people who actually do no shit do the opposite.
They're like, look, I'm not a scientist.
I don't know that much about this.
Like, are more humble about it.
joe rogan
I wish he wasn't president because I love him.
I love what a character he is.
whitney cummings
He's entertaining.
joe rogan
He's fascinating.
But that's fascinating.
whitney cummings
But he has power is the problem.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the problem.
whitney cummings
And he's doing horrible things with it.
joe rogan
As a character and as the host of a reality show, he's a gem.
I mean, he's such a freak.
whitney cummings
Oh, to be on a reality show, great.
Sign me up.
But to be running the most powerful country in the world, I don't know, maybe China is now, is really, really scary.
joe rogan
Well, it's just fascinating, the supporters, too.
Like, I love reading his supporters, because I'm always trying to figure out which ones are Russians.
whitney cummings
Oh, interesting.
joe rogan
Like, how many of these are Russian bots?
whitney cummings
A lot of them are women.
joe rogan
There's a few that are women, yeah.
whitney cummings
A lot of women voted for him.
joe rogan
What's the deal with those girls?
whitney cummings
You know, here's what I'll say.
And I have some family who voted for him who are in, you know...
joe rogan
Exile.
whitney cummings
But no, they're just in working class.
And their whole thing is like, we don't care.
All we care about is the bottom line in our jobs.
It's actually kind of a luxury.
And that's, I think, a fair flaw with what's happening with this, you know, women's, you know, movement conversation is right now the people getting the most visibility are fucking millionaires.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
You know, that's sort of, for the most part, who's speaking up right now.
And like, you know, that's what Time's Up is for, to enfranchise people who don't have the kind of resources to just be like, you know what?
You're mistreating me.
I'm going to quit my job.
You know, a lot of people can't quit their job and they have to tolerate sexual harassment and whatever.
And they don't really have a choice in the matter.
They have to stay in bad relationships because they can't afford to get their own place or whatever.
But all they heard was jobs.
Their thing is, like, we don't care anything about his character.
We think all politicians are assholes.
We just want jobs and that's what he said he was gonna promise and he lied, you know, so they were just like Well, isn't there more jobs now than ever before and isn't the unemployment as low as it's ever been But he was but he was promised I mean health insurance I think they also thought they were gonna get this like magical health insurance reform which they didn't get but there was also He was promising like coal mine jobs Which is so crazy A lot of my family members are like, we're going to work in coal mines.
I'm like, you realize that's 50,000 jobs, right?
And it's starting to become obsolete.
So he promised kind of jobs that I think the pipeline and shit like that.
So I think that, you know, and they just watch Fox News and they believe everything that's when they think like liberal news is a lie, you know?
So I think it's like the kind of jobs that they promised.
And I know and I think that you're exactly right.
It's like their whole thing is unemployment going up is what helps women because more women can get jobs.
joe rogan
But isn't it a case where when you see unemployment and how more people are doing better than before and the economy is doing better than it's ever been before, isn't this like a natural cycle?
Wasn't it already charting in that direction when Obama was leaving office?
whitney cummings
I was going to say, I think it's the president that's like four years prior that usually is what caused it.
Because you can't just become president and all of a sudden there's more jobs.
It's something that has to start a little bit earlier.
I'm not saying Obama.
I don't know enough about it.
joe rogan
When Obama got into office, everybody was blaming him.
whitney cummings
Correct, even though that's probably what the president before him caused.
joe rogan
Sure.
Here it goes.
The economy gained a net 11.5 million jobs.
The unemployment rate dropped below the historical norm.
Average weekly earnings for all workers were up 4.1% after inflation.
The gain was 3.7%.
We're just production and non-supervisory employees after tax.
Corporate profits also set records as the stock profits.
S&P 500 index rose 166%.
There was some story about how the tax break that we got here because of Trump that people got, that California was going to somehow or another impart Some sort of a 10% surcharge to counterbalance that.
And I was like, what?
But then they said it was all going to social programs.
I'm like, well, that's a good thing.
I'm all for paying more taxes if those taxes can go to poor communities.
That's what I feel like.
I feel like if there's one thing that we need to concentrate on in this country, It's people that are disenfranchised and live in poor communities that don't feel like there's any hope.
And then setting up community centers, setting up some education programs, setting up safe places where kids can go and they don't have to worry about gang violence and shit.
And just making it safer for people and giving them more opportunities to possibly get out of that fucking horrible cycle of unemployment and fucking welfare and crime that so many people are stuck in.
whitney cummings
And I completely agree.
And when I think about that, I'm like, oh, you know, and this is just my point of view because of what I come from, and maybe it's being a woman, a female brain, whatever.
But, like, when I hear that, I'm like, the thing that perpetuates that cycle is having kids too soon and having a lack of access to birth control and education.
And this administration is a huge threat to that, an enemy to that.
So I'm like, what...
joe rogan
Right, but why is that?
whitney cummings
What completes you faster than a kid?
joe rogan
Is that just a straight-up Republican thing?
Pull this thing...
whitney cummings
I'm so sorry.
I always have this problem.
joe rogan
Don't have it like here, though.
whitney cummings
I always do this.
unidentified
Why?
whitney cummings
What does this say about me?
joe rogan
Make it like a fist.
whitney cummings
Do any of your other guests have this problem?
Okay, good.
joe rogan
I used to do it before I did a podcast.
unidentified
I'm terrible at this.
joe rogan
I do radio shows.
They'd always yell at me because I wasn't in the mic.
Why is it a Republican thing?
It's always a Republican thing to try to deny women birth control, to try to restrict abortion.
This is always a Republican thing.
whitney cummings
Because I think it probably boils down to religion.
Yes.
And I still can't understand why religion is the reason that people think women have to be cows.
But he was never religious.
joe rogan
This is what's so crazy.
whitney cummings
Yeah, well, he used to...
I mean, I think a lot of it's kind of like Keeks conveniently now, super pro-life or something.
joe rogan
Nobody likes the Bible more than I do.
whitney cummings
Nobody hates abortion more than me.
joe rogan
I wish I could do an impression.
whitney cummings
I can't do an impression.
I was just thinking.
unidentified
I need to learn how to do it.
whitney cummings
You don't.
You don't.
It's chilling.
I don't want to hear it.
Last thing we need is more fucking Trump impressions at the Comedy Store.
I'm good.
joe rogan
Steve Byrne has a really good one.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
It's really good.
whitney cummings
I would not have seen that coming.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
I didn't see it coming either.
He did it the other night.
I went, whoa!
He nails it.
whitney cummings
That's kind of amazing.
joe rogan
He nails it.
whitney cummings
I have to process that later.
joe rogan
He does the finger thing.
whitney cummings
That's great.
I mean, Alec Baldwin's is like fucking just next level.
But yeah, I think it's religiously sort of based and hubris based.
I mean, just the idea that women shouldn't have control over their own bodies.
It's just like, why do you want me to have kids that I'm not ready for?
It depletes our economic system.
It means everyone else has to pay more taxes.
It puts more people on welfare.
All the things that Republicans hate.
joe rogan
Do you think that it's a vulnerability thing?
They like women to be vulnerable?
whitney cummings
Maybe.
Maybe.
joe rogan
And they want control over people.
whitney cummings
Control over people they've never met.
Why do you want to control the uterus of a woman that lives 10 states down from you?
How does that benefit you?
joe rogan
I think there's a sick thing that people have where they want to control people in a lot of ways.
I think that's a lot of when you see people that are trying to control people's language.
When you see people that are trying to restrict.
whitney cummings
Yeah, PC. Don't say this.
Say this word.
Don't say this word.
joe rogan
I think there's a weird instinct that we need to address outside of ideology, outside of political lines that you cross.
There's a weird instinct that people have to try to control people.
whitney cummings
It's just a fear-based thing or it's a habit.
joe rogan
I just think it's a thing that people do.
They don't have much control of themselves and they want to control their people.
And I think this is where bullying comes from and I think this is where a lot of what sexual harassment and just the entitlement The way bosses behave when they're employed, like this is one of the things about Harvey Weinstein that I found fascinating, is that he would bark at his employees and they would run and they were terrified.
I used to date a girl when I first came to L.A. Wonderful woman.
Beautiful, perfect personality.
Terrified of her boss.
She worked as an agent's assistant.
She couldn't have been a nicer person.
And this girl would wake up in the middle of the night terrified that her agent that she was working for needed her to do something.
She would freak out.
whitney cummings
Sure.
joe rogan
She was like constantly worried.
And this guy, I mean, she made terrible money.
It was constant stress.
And she would work insane hours.
I mean, they would make, she would make like $400 a week.
And she was working fucking insane hours.
whitney cummings
Yeah, this is before they had the rules of, you know.
joe rogan
I don't know what she really made.
I'm just guessing.
She was always broke.
whitney cummings
And then my questions for you are that Stockholm Syndrome, super real thing.
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
And then what was her relationship with her dad?
Was she recreating her childhood circumstances?
unidentified
It wasn't good.
whitney cummings
Done that.
joe rogan
It wasn't good.
Yeah, the relationship with her dad was very bad.
whitney cummings
And then the epigenetic imprinting.
It's only till very, very recently that we were not completely dependent on men for our survival.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And that you guys weren't killing us in the streets.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Like, it's so recent in terms of human evolution.
And, you know, I did this movie with Neil Brennan.
And we wrote it together.
unidentified
What's it called again?
whitney cummings
It's called The Female Brain.
And it's about all the shit because I'm obsessed with figuring out and you're so good at delineating what's nature and what's nurture, what's a choice and what's not, what's biologically, neurologically driven and what's socially constructed.
That's my fascination in life.
And like when all this stuff happens, I'm always trying to figure out this kind of behavioral stuff.
And then it talks a lot about epigenetic imprinting.
So it's like even if your girlfriend at the time had not gone through some sort of trauma with a man, her mom certainly did.
And then her mom's mom certainly did.
And she carries that with her.
So all of a sudden you're in 2016 and a man's yelling at you and it's like, Flashback to 1850 when one of your ancestors was being fucking murdered by a guy.
We just don't think about that kind of stuff.
But what I meant to say is, we used to have this storyline that was about sexual harassment.
We ended up kind of changing it.
It's the Cecily Strong and Blake Griffin storyline about her.
Because women are generally wired for consensus.
We get dopamine from consensus, right?
Because we are physically weaker.
I know nobody wants to talk about it.
joe rogan
When you mean by consensus, what do you mean?
whitney cummings
In terms of like, if you guys are arguing about something, I mean, we're on a show that kind of encourages, you know, healthy discourse.
And I know you guys a little bit and I feel safe here.
But in general, in a work environment, I'm going to try to get everyone to agree because 2000 years ago, getting everyone to agree made my life safer.
If I'm eight months pregnant, I need protection from the whole tribe and I want everyone to agree.
I'm going to pretend I agree with things that maybe I actually don't.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
whitney cummings
We get dopamine from Harmony because I'm less able to defend myself.
Especially with men.
I need you to like me because I need your protection.
We're not that different.
I mean, 200 years ago I needed your protection.
My brain has not caught up to the fact that it's illegal for you to attack me and rape me now.
joe rogan
That doesn't mean anything though.
whitney cummings
I think it means something to our reptilian brains.
joe rogan
But the illegal part doesn't mean anything in terms of no one's going to save you.
unidentified
Totally.
whitney cummings
Correct.
That's correct.
You could kill me whenever you wanted, but 200 years ago it was like, you know, there was no phones to even call to report anything.
It was just much more common, I suppose.
joe rogan
What I'm saying is that today, anyone saying that that fear is alleviated because there's laws against it is crazy.
whitney cummings
Totally.
joe rogan
Because those fears are always there.
whitney cummings
Completely.
In my reptile brain, just in my conscious brain, I'm sort of like, okay, it's less likely that this is going to happen because we all have this illusion of being civilized, you know?
joe rogan
That's all horseshit.
I get nervous when I interview Francis Ngannou after a fight.
Like when I had to interview him Saturday night, because he's...
265 pounds and six foot four and he smashes people's heads in for a living and I stand next to him and I feel like a little tiny person.
This is just no getting around that.
whitney cummings
And here's the thing.
And that's why it's like that.
joe rogan
And he likes me.
I know he's not going to do anything to me.
whitney cummings
But exactly what you're saying to me right now is what I'm trying to explain to people that are like, I don't understand the fucking women's movement.
Why are you guys freaking out in the office?
joe rogan
It's not like we're talking to those people.
whitney cummings
It's like, what are we going to rape you?
It's like, yeah, maybe.
I don't get in elevators with guys.
I just wait for the next one.
I'm scared.
joe rogan
We have tribal thinking.
And this is, right now, there's tribal boundaries that are being established on the male and female side.
And people are picking sides.
And there's a bunch of men that are annoyed that people are talking too much about women.
And there's a bunch of women that are saying, now it's my time to be a fucking crazy bitch and go crazy and attack all these men and take that.
whitney cummings
We're not trying to go crazy.
joe rogan
But there are some.
But there are some.
whitney cummings
Okay, maybe I don't know them.
joe rogan
But what I'm saying is, see you saying that right there.
We are not trying to do this.
That's a crazy thing to say because you're not all women.
whitney cummings
Because I'm looping us all in together.
joe rogan
I'm not all men.
unidentified
That's crazy.
whitney cummings
I guess I just don't know anybody like that.
unidentified
I do.
whitney cummings
I don't.
unidentified
Who?
whitney cummings
Where?
unidentified
On Instagram?
whitney cummings
I know some crazy people.
joe rogan
Women?
Yeah, I follow a lot of really insane people on Instagram.
There was a woman that was, she's like an editor for Vogue or something like that, that said, here's an unpopular opinion.
I am not at all concerned with men being falsely accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault.
whitney cummings
That's irresponsible.
joe rogan
But they exist.
Those people exist.
There's the burn it all down people.
That fuck them or burn it all down.
whitney cummings
But they're not going to succeed.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's inherently tribal.
This is a tribal thing.
And there's no nuance to that.
There's no consideration of all the different kinds of men.
There's a lot of men that are considerate and friendly and nice.
And they're concentrating on themselves.
And they don't want anything bad to happen to anybody else.
But there's men who are like, fuck these bitches.
Fuck all women.
They're all whores, bitch.
And they listen to rap music.
I've been listening to a lot of really bad rap music lately.
That is one of the rare places where you could still just be a straight up misogynist.
unidentified
Totally.
whitney cummings
And then do you think, and I'm always, and I don't know the answer to this, do you think, because I think porn definitely affects our psyche and how we view, dehumanize women, just, right?
Especially young people watching it.
Do you think that a rap song going...
Destroy that shit, murder that shit, beat that pussy up.
Do you think that that affects the way men view women on like a cellular level?
joe rogan
It's impossible that it doesn't.
It's impossible.
When you have something that's incredibly popular and you're repeating the words to it over and over again.
I don't know what percent.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Of an effect it has on a 20-year-old brain, whether it has a 5% effect over your parenting and what your life experiences have been, all the various different variables that come into your psyche, like what makes you a human being.
I don't know, but that's a factor.
It's a factor.
whitney cummings
And what happens when you hear, beat that pussy?
Why do guys cheer for that?
Aren't we also kind of on some level wired to protect?
Is that a tampon tattoo?
joe rogan
Is that a tampon tattoo?
whitney cummings
Yes, it is.
joe rogan
What is that?
whitney cummings
No, it's a safety pin.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
I'm trying to figure out what the fuck that tattoo is on your wrist.
And I was like, does she have a tampon tattoo on her wrist?
unidentified
That would be hilarious.
whitney cummings
What kind of monster do you think I am?
joe rogan
What kind of monster would you get a safety pin?
whitney cummings
Burn it all down.
Why do you have a safety pin?
It's like a personal thing.
It's too much of a bummer.
You don't want me to tell you.
Most of my tattoos are white.
I have white ones everywhere.
joe rogan
What?
You are fucking crazy.
whitney cummings
Here's what I will say, is that burn it all down, people.
joe rogan
Most of my tattoos are white.
I want the pain, but I don't want anybody to see it.
whitney cummings
You have fucking 5,000 tattoos.
You're covered.
Why am I crazy?
Because you can't see mine.
joe rogan
I'm crazy, too.
I'm not saying I'm not crazy.
unidentified
I don't think you're crazy.
joe rogan
I'm probably pretty crazy.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
You hide it very well.
joe rogan
Well, I manage it.
whitney cummings
Or you channel it.
You manage it in healthy ways.
You get it out.
joe rogan
Oh, if I didn't manage it.
whitney cummings
If you didn't work out every day, would you just be murdering people in the streets?
joe rogan
I would probably have been in jail a long time ago.
whitney cummings
You would be like breaking apes out of zoos and fighting them.
joe rogan
I don't think that.
But I think...
I would have done something really stupid a long time ago.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But I think that there's a lot of men that have terrible genetics and instincts and environments that they grow up in.
And there's a lot of violence in your life.
And you either find a way through that.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
For me, the way through it was martial arts.
If I didn't find martial arts, who knows?
And I think that is one of the best ways for men to not be pieces of shit.
unidentified
Because I think a lot of the way people behave is through insecurity.
whitney cummings
So find pride in other things and do ecstasy.
joe rogan
That'll help too.
But give you some security and give you an outlet for your aggression and give you some humility.
Like in martial arts, you get humility.
You get strangled all the time.
You learn humility.
whitney cummings
Right, right.
You get real humble real fast.
You can't have an ego.
unidentified
You let it go.
joe rogan
You do it to them.
They do it to you.
Everybody does it.
And you hug.
And there's like real genuine love and affection between the guys that I do jujitsu with.
It's very intense.
It's as real as it gets.
whitney cummings
And here's something, sorry, I just wanted to go back to that Vogue woman for a second, or whoever that was, because it's like, I think what I'm trying to do is understand, like, when a man acts in a way that's violent or whatever, I'm like, what's the root of that?
What's going on?
What happened in his childhood?
Like, what's going on biologically or genetically?
Or like, what has he been taught?
Like, he was failed somehow.
If a guy feels the need to rape a woman, someone failed him, or he's a sociopath and just should be locked up or is mentally ill, but he saw it from his dad, he learned it, hurt people hurt people.
So it's like, when a woman says, like, all men should, I don't care if they're, I'm like, what happened to her that made her think that that's her paradigm?
joe rogan
She probably met a bunch of fucking assholes.
whitney cummings
Something went wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was probably guys that she grew up with, guys that were in her life.
whitney cummings
Could be sexual trauma.
joe rogan
Her stepdad.
There's a lot of variables.
whitney cummings
And I guess I'm just trying to start a conversation that's like, let's explore what happened back then and how do we sort of stop that shit from going on?
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
Whether it's like sexual abuse, physical abuse, whether it's like the messages we get growing up of like, and I don't know how you parent your kids, but the idea of like, all I heard growing up was calm down, relax, it's fine, be seen.
Like the messages that we give kids.
joe rogan
Calm down, relax, be fine.
About what?
whitney cummings
Anything.
Anytime I cried or I was injured or whatever, it was calm down, you're overreacting.
That's what I heard as a kid growing up.
joe rogan
And that bothered you?
whitney cummings
I think it did because...
joe rogan
Were you overreacting?
whitney cummings
It caused me to...
I mean, I was a kid.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
I don't know.
When kids cry...
joe rogan
But don't you think that kids should be assured?
Like, it's okay.
It's just a small boo-boo.
You're going to be fine.
whitney cummings
Everything's okay.
unidentified
I think it depends.
whitney cummings
I think normally what kids do when they're crying is they're just testing to see how available you are to them.
Right?
So when you go, calm down.
Everything's fine.
joe rogan
Sort of.
Let me tell you.
whitney cummings
I don't know enough.
joe rogan
Take it from someone who has kids.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They do that, but then they also recognize that it's a way that they can get attention so they will overreact on purpose about things.
whitney cummings
You have to know the difference.
joe rogan
Yes, they will have fits if they don't go to the movie they like to see.
whitney cummings
Sure.
joe rogan
Like, if my two daughters want to go see a movie and one of them wins and the other one starts throwing a temper tantrum, you gotta go look.
We're gonna go see a fun movie.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, you can't get pissed off.
Next time, you'll get to choose.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But this is crazy.
You can't stomp your feet and cry.
But she's seven.
whitney cummings
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
You know, but this is like...
Have a chance to Explain to her that these feelings are natural.
Yeah, you're gonna win some you're gonna lose some but you can't hold on to that You got to let it go and realize oh, we're still gonna go to go to see a fun movie, right?
It's just not gonna be this one.
It's gonna be that right and you know for whatever reason we made a decision sure We try to be as fair as possible, but you can't have fucking temper tantrums over all the time Oh, we're going to the wrong restaurant Kids do that.
That's because they're little kids.
They're recognizing that there's some influence, that they have some power over you.
whitney cummings
And then I'm going to see how much power I can get and how much attention I can get and how much I can play you.
So you just have to figure out the difference.
I think for me, I learned to invalidate my own reality and stuff my feelings.
I remember a specific moment where I was like, you can't rely on adults.
They won't help you.
Figure it out yourself.
Or don't have those feelings or invalidate those own feelings.
And I think there's probably a bad parenting.
You don't want your kid to go like, if I'm hurt, don't tell anyone.
joe rogan
Parenting is fucking confusing.
Because you try to figure out what bad parenting you received.
I was lucky in that my parents were very busy.
So I didn't get a lot of parenting.
whitney cummings
Yeah, me too.
Same way.
unidentified
That's interesting.
joe rogan
It wasn't like I got bad parenting.
I didn't get bad parenting.
I was just alone a lot.
I didn't get anybody who was mean to me.
Yeah, I was alone a lot.
But then I found things to occupy my time.
So that literally became like those obsessions that I developed when I was young with various things, whether it was art or martial arts or whatever.
Those things became my vehicles for developing my human potential.
whitney cummings
Do you think you got a lot of eye contact as a kid?
joe rogan
I never thought about that until just now.
whitney cummings
Apparently that's a big one.
joe rogan
Eye contact.
whitney cummings
Eye contact and physical touch in the first couple years.
joe rogan
We're affectionate.
My family's always been affectionate.
It's always been huggy.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I'm real huggy with my family, too.
And I'm huggy with my friends, too.
I think that's super important.
And I think it's also very important to tell your friends.
I tell everybody I love them.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's awesome.
I mean, I know I got really into John Bowlby's theory of attachment because I couldn't make eye contact until like two years ago.
Like I would always kind of look here.
joe rogan
Really?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
This is how I used to always look at people.
And then I just recently started making eye contact.
And it still makes me a little bit uncomfortable.
It's like a muscle.
But I had something called infant maternal disruption, which is basically you just didn't get enough eye contact.
So apparently the amount of eye contact.
joe rogan
How do you know this?
whitney cummings
Because I can't make it now.
joe rogan
But isn't that just an insecure?
I used to get real insecure.
I've talked about this before.
Talking to a bank teller, I'd freak out.
whitney cummings
Why?
joe rogan
I'd get nervous.
I was nervous.
whitney cummings
Only bank tellers?
That's an example.
joe rogan
I remember being in the bank, getting ready to deposit a check, and in line, there's two people ahead of me.
whitney cummings
That's because it was the old times of the comedy store.
You didn't know if it would go through.
joe rogan
No, it was before.
Way before then.
It was before I did comedy.
whitney cummings
Did it have anything to do with a man or a woman?
joe rogan
No.
No.
Didn't matter.
I just was nervous talking to people.
whitney cummings
That's so interesting.
I'm like that too.
The first couple of minutes you talk to me all the time, I get a little shaky.
I'm socially awkward in the beginning and then I sort of settle in, but I do get a little shaky when I first talk to people, even now.
joe rogan
Well, I feel that with you.
I feel like I have to say, we're friends.
I love you.
We're friends.
And you're like, we're friends, right?
Yes, we're friends.
Like, right away was the thing with the porn and the hoverboards.
You're like, I really shouldn't bring this up.
whitney cummings
What are you talking about?
joe rogan
Say whatever the fuck you want to say.
whitney cummings
I get, you know, and I also have this contingent called codependence.
I'm working on it.
unidentified
But...
whitney cummings
I'm fucking dealing with it.
It's expensive to handle.
It's very time-consuming to rewire your brain around it.
But when I first meet someone, it's like a chameleon response where it's like when you grow up in an alcoholic home or if you have codependence, the first thing you do is you meet someone and you kind of try to figure out what they want and then you morph to become what makes them comfortable.
So I still have to fight that response sometimes, especially with men.
Especially with men and then with women.
joe rogan
Men do that too though.
Men do that for sure.
whitney cummings
Like, are you into football?
Who is this guy and how am I going to make him like me?
That's kind of what codependence is.
joe rogan
Well, men do that with other men, but they also do that with women.
They'll become like what the woman wants.
Like women will...
I see it a lot of times with my friends with the way they dress, like the woman will come along.
Yeah.
Well, also, women will mold men.
Like, women will get men into shape.
Like, you should just lose some of this love-handled honey.
whitney cummings
Well, that's like in a relationship.
I just mean, like, when I first meet someone, my instinct is kind of like, how do I make...
And especially with...
It has taken me so long to not be funny when I'm not doing stand-up.
Because, like, my first instinct is, make this person laugh.
Make them like you.
And I kind of have to, like, manually be like...
Turn that shit off.
You're not five and you're not trying to get the approval of your dad.
Like, not your dad, not your dad.
joe rogan
Right, but do you turn it off?
But what if you just see something funny?
You're still free enough to just be funny.
whitney cummings
I can do that, but it's like my motive is not I'm trying to make this person like me.
joe rogan
Don't be on all the time.
whitney cummings
Totally.
You know those people who are on all the time?
joe rogan
Brian Callen, just say his name.
To say his name.
whitney cummings
But Brian, I feel like genuinely Brian isn't trying to get anyone to prove all this because he's not getting it.
joe rogan
Well, he's just really funny and he loves being that.
Brian is at his best, and I've said this before.
whitney cummings
There's an innocence to it.
joe rogan
He's at his best in a group of people.
whitney cummings
Correct.
joe rogan
Not on stage.
whitney cummings
That's really funny.
joe rogan
He's at his best around 20 people.
If you've got 20 people and they're going somewhere, Brian's like, guys, guys, guys, I just want to show you something real quick.
He's calling my cock.
He'll just be this...
I've never met anybody that makes me laugh harder just in groups of people other than Joey Diaz.
whitney cummings
Kills me.
joe rogan
But Joey Diaz is the opposite.
Joey Diaz is not trying to do that.
whitney cummings
He's just naturally.
It's not a performance.
I just wonder if Brian Calla knows the difference anymore.
Is there a certain point where you can't even tell when you're performing and when you're not?
It's like he's morphed in...
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
He doesn't care.
He has a bizarre ability to not care if people are upset at him.
He's got this weird, almost Peter Pan-like way of moving through life.
whitney cummings
It's correct.
I am in therapy and a 12-step program to get the inner monologue of Brian Kellen.
If I could just have an iota of the self-esteem that he has.
joe rogan
Do you meditate?
whitney cummings
I do.
I lost my dad last year and I started getting too sad.
I couldn't close my eyes for 20 minutes, so I've stopped for the past six months, but I'm trying because I need to build those neural pathways.
joe rogan
Well, I feel like you're always...
Do you know that feeling when you're running down a hill where it's super hard to stop?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
You have this momentum.
It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're still up, but it's fucking tricky.
That's how I feel you are.
You're running on a slight angle.
You're not flat.
You're always like a little...
whitney cummings
I'm fucking, I am sometimes, I think in the last, yeah, I agree.
I'm trying to answer in a way that makes you seem wrong, but I realize you're pretty right.
And I think that also in the last couple of years that we've gotten to know each other, I haven't been doing as much stand-up.
And when I don't do stand-up, I get a little manic.
I think that stand-up serves a really important release and catharsis purpose where I'm much more calm when I'm not performing when I do stand-up regularly.
joe rogan
Well, you get it out, right?
You get out those thoughts, these antagonistic and protagonistic thoughts, all these weird little ideas that are wrestling in your head.
You could put them into a comedy form and then deliver them on stage.
It's a very cathartic way of releasing ideas sometimes.
And then when the audience laughs, You know, and you're like, oh, I nailed this.
I'm on to something here.
I got it.
whitney cummings
And there's just, I think that, you know, and again, I, and not to beat the, I come from a, we all do tricky home.
And I think that my brain seeks control or even a false sense of control soothes it.
And when I do stand up, you kind of get to have control for at least the 20 minutes or an hour.
That you're on stage and everything feels like it's in order.
I know my place.
You know your place.
It's very clearly defined rules.
I'm talking.
You're laughing.
I'm talking.
You're laughing.
And that makes me feel really calm.
Whereas going through the world with like, I don't know who you are.
You're dangerous.
I have a hyperactive amygdala.
So it's like during the day I'm just very dysregulated.
And doing stand-up is just, I don't know, I just feel very like, I know where everybody's place is.
And I feel safe for that amount of time.
joe rogan
Do you get calmed down by working out?
whitney cummings
A little bit because my motive for working out is so fucked up.
It's not like to, you know, I'm working more on like working out to get strong and to get healthy.
But for the longest time, it was like to get skinny and to look fuckable, you know, so working out was like, I was kind of hate fucking it.
I wasn't like doing it because I enjoyed it or wanted to be doing it.
So I'm trying to sort of find a new motive.
joe rogan
What kind of exercise do you do?
whitney cummings
I get bored, and I used to work with a trainer, and I stopped, and so I just started doing it myself, like lifting, and I just want to have a big butt.
That's all I really care about.
I just want an ass.
So I use that machine.
Is it called the Jimmy John machine?
joe rogan
I don't know.
whitney cummings
Isn't that a sausage company?
joe rogan
Or is that a sandwich company?
unidentified
Jimmy Dean.
whitney cummings
I eat Jimmy Dean sausage to make my ass bigger.
Jimmy John sandwiches.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
It's a squat machine, but it has a little helper.
It has little claws.
What is it?
jamie vernon
I think it's the Smiths.
whitney cummings
The Smith machine?
joe rogan
The Smith machine is the rack where the squat goes up and down.
whitney cummings
That's what I do.
joe rogan
And you can just turn it forward and catch it.
whitney cummings
That's what I do.
I do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a good machine to do.
It's good to do on your own.
I used to just run.
Oh yeah, that's a Smith machine.
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's what I do at the gym.
joe rogan
Yeah, those are good.
whitney cummings
And then I do...
joe rogan
A lot of people don't like those because you don't have to balance them, though.
The idea is that there's a benefit to all the stabilizing muscles.
Like, if you have a real barbell, a real bar on your back...
whitney cummings
I don't trust myself.
joe rogan
Yeah, sure you do.
whitney cummings
I'm too ADD. If I do that one, I'm afraid I'll hurt myself.
The Jimmy John helps me to not...
I'm not like a professional athlete.
I'm just like...
joe rogan
You should get a hug in pill form and take it five times a day.
Whatever you're just getting.
Everything's gonna be in here.
whitney cummings
I'm working on it.
joe rogan
Here's a hug in pill form.
whitney cummings
But I was doing like SoulCycle.
I was doing like Spinning for a while.
Yeah.
Just because whatever.
joe rogan
There's a great episode of the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
whitney cummings
Oh, really?
I'm making fun of it.
joe rogan
You ever watch that show?
whitney cummings
No, it's funny though.
I've seen a couple episodes.
joe rogan
It's fucking hilarious.
whitney cummings
She's great.
joe rogan
It went down for like two episodes and I almost abandoned it.
whitney cummings
Great commentary.
joe rogan
Let me tell you folks, if you're watching it now, because I've talked a lot of people into watching it, when you get to like episode six of season one, don't panic.
It sucks for two episodes.
And then it bounces back fucking strong.
It's hilarious.
whitney cummings
And they made fun of spinning?
joe rogan
Oh, there's one with Nick Kroll.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I love Nick.
joe rogan
And he's the spin instructor.
unidentified
Great.
whitney cummings
Genius.
joe rogan
I don't want to give it up.
whitney cummings
Genius casting.
joe rogan
But it's like, it's a cult.
These fucking SoulCycle things.
whitney cummings
I used to go into SoulCycle and cry.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I'm not fucking kidding.
They'll play like Sheryl Crow or like Pink.
Like, you know, Neil Brennan always says that I have the musical taste of a 45-year-old divorcee.
I love an inspirational Kelly Clarkson song.
I swear to fucking God.
Pink, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette.
Like, I will just get in there and you just start crying.
Because you're in a lot of pain and you're working really hard and you're just vulnerable.
joe rogan
Do you feel like it's okay to cry because you're sweating?
whitney cummings
It's like me.
It's like sweat or tears.
It's me and a bunch of publicists crying.
Because it's $35!
A fucking class!
It's crazy!
joe rogan
Is it that much?
whitney cummings
I mean, if you buy like 100 packages, it ends up being like 28. I have a thing called a Peloton bike.
Oh, that's the...
No, I tried it.
It's supposed to be amazing.
I tried someone else's.
joe rogan
You do a live spin class with people.
We have it here.
whitney cummings
So do you do spin it?
You like it?
joe rogan
No, they gave it to me.
whitney cummings
Not a fan.
joe rogan
I mean, I would use it.
whitney cummings
I'll come in and do it.
joe rogan
But I have one here.
whitney cummings
I just like it because I can get in a groove and I can check out and think about other things.
It's like a moving meditation for me.
joe rogan
That's how I feel about regular running.
When I run the hills.
unidentified
Me too.
whitney cummings
I love running.
joe rogan
But now I run it with my dog.
It's a different dynamic because I always have to keep an eye on him.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But he's pretty good.
He waits and waits for me and then I run and he's so much different than any dog I've ever had.
whitney cummings
You don't do it on a leash.
He's just following you.
No, he's just running.
That's amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's great.
unidentified
That's cool.
joe rogan
He's great, but he's not a...
All my other dogs have been psycho.
Really?
So I've had to have them on leashes because they would attack other dogs.
whitney cummings
What kind of dog?
Pit bulls.
joe rogan
I had a bunch of pit bulls.
So I'd run with them.
And my mastiff, I just never ran with him.
He's too fucking big.
whitney cummings
I just think it's bad for his body too.
joe rogan
Because he's always limping a little bit too.
He runs around too much in the yard.
He's huge.
whitney cummings
They're too big.
They're sort of meant to just hang out and loaf.
joe rogan
And I'm running really steep inclines.
whitney cummings
This is yours now as a golden retriever.
Yeah, that's great.
joe rogan
That dog is the best.
whitney cummings
It's great for them.
Running with animals is the best feeling.
joe rogan
But me and him have this crazy bond.
Like when we stop, like I'll stop when I run the hills.
I'll pause because it's like, you know, I'm running this big sprint up to the top of the hill.
And then he'll sit and wait with me.
And then he's just like, I love you!
And he'll like jump up and kiss me.
I'm like, I love you too, buddy.
Like calm down.
But it's like he's so excited that I do this with him.
He loves it.
whitney cummings
He's so grateful.
joe rogan
We have this crazy bond thing going on.
whitney cummings
That makes me so happy.
joe rogan
It's really intense.
He's a sweet dog.
I bonded with him from the moment we got him.
But we have this extra bond now that we run three or four times a week.
whitney cummings
Oh yeah, totally.
Well, you're a pack.
You're a pack together then, if you're running together.
joe rogan
The other day, he found some shit.
I don't know if it was his shit, because he usually shits in this area.
And he just...
I laid down on it, started rubbing on it.
whitney cummings
I one time took my fucking dog to hike and he came back.
I let him go.
I was like, alright, let's see how this goes.
Let's see if this is going to end the lawsuit for me.
So I let him go.
He comes back.
He's covered in like, he smells like wharf.
I can't even explain the rancid smell.
I was just like, what is that?
And he's covered in like, he's got like stringy, I'm like, is that spaghetti?
And then I keep walking.
There's a dead deer.
He had rolled in a dead deer carcass.
joe rogan
Oh, so you get all the worms.
unidentified
It was just covered in worms and guts and eyeball.
whitney cummings
And I was like, oh, fuck.
Now I just, you're up for adoption.
unidentified
Yeah, it's weird.
joe rogan
Dogs like that smell on them.
whitney cummings
Well, because don't they do it?
Because my dogs, coyotes, when coyotes shit in my yard, my girl rolls in it.
Because don't you do it so that the coyotes think you're in the pack so they don't kill you?
I think that's why you do it.
joe rogan
Wow.
whitney cummings
Fire up that Google.
Make sure I'm not wrong.
unidentified
Does that make sense?
whitney cummings
Yeah, they roll in the shit so that the coyote doesn't kill them.
joe rogan
There's a guy I follow on Instagram that has a pet coyote and he hunts coyotes.
And he uses this pet coyote to help him hunt coyotes.
whitney cummings
I don't like this person.
joe rogan
He has dogs and they hunt coyotes.
Well, hunting coyotes is important in areas where coyotes attack deer fawns and coyotes...
whitney cummings
Is this in California?
joe rogan
No, no.
He's a hunter.
I mean, the guy's just a hunter, period.
But one of the things that he's done, he found a puppy.
Coyote puppy that had been abandoned and so he adopted it and she lives with him.
It's really weird.
whitney cummings
Coyotes can't attune to human faces.
They're basically sociopathic.
They're not like dogs.
You can't domesticate them.
joe rogan
Maybe not true because this dog seems to be very playful with him.
Biting his hand but not hurting him and he's petting it.
It's playing with other dogs.
whitney cummings
Oh, but you can raise, because it's like, you know, I go to work with this place, Wolf Connection, and essentially it's like, I'm always like, well, which one's the most wolf?
Which one has the highest content of wolf in it?
Like, with their blood, and they're like, it doesn't really matter.
It's back to the nature-nurture thing.
It's that there are some wolves that were raised by dogs that have more dog-like qualities, and some dogs that are raised like wolves that have more wolf-like qualities.
It's like the nature and nurture thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, that makes sense.
Rolling in feces, they're really common, possibly a dog's ancient instinct to mask his scent, which then enable an animal to sneak up on their prey without detection.
whitney cummings
Oh, I guess dogs do it with other dog poop as well.
But my dog doesn't roll in my other dog's shit, only coyote's shit.
You know what I mean?
Wait a minute, your dogs are...
joe rogan
Fucking tanks.
unidentified
Huge.
joe rogan
They're probably not worried about a fucking coyote.
whitney cummings
But coyotes hunt in fucking packs and they lure one and they surround them.
joe rogan
Did I ever tell you a story about the guy who worked at the pet food store?
There's a guy who worked at the pet food store also worked at a veterinarian's place and they got this dog in.
It was one of those giant pit bulls.
One of those like 120 pound muscular tank pit bulls.
And it was covered with cuts all over its body.
Required hundreds and hundreds of stitches.
And so he asked the owner, like, what happened?
He goes, I don't know.
He goes, I came home and he had gotten out of the yard.
He was covered in blood.
It was all fucked up.
He goes, I don't know what happened.
And so they stitched the dog up and then they literally follow a blood trail up into the hills where he finds nine dead coyotes.
whitney cummings
Jesus.
joe rogan
This pit bull, they lured him in, and then the coyotes ambushed him, and he killed them all.
It's my homie right there.
Exactly.
whitney cummings
It's my homie.
joe rogan
It was like Vietnam.
Dude, it was like just necks ripped open, guts torn apart, arms snapped off.
He goes, this pit bull just killed...
The pit bull had a head like a fucking fire hydrant.
whitney cummings
And their muscles are in their head.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a monster dog.
whitney cummings
You know I had my ear bitten off by one.
Yeah, you told me.
It happened so fucking fast.
I didn't feel anything.
joe rogan
And you said it didn't mean to do it.
whitney cummings
I felt no pain.
I don't have to defend it.
joe rogan
We talked about it on the podcast.
whitney cummings
Right.
So fucking fast.
I didn't even feel it.
I felt no pain.
That's how fucking precise it was.
joe rogan
That's what they say about shark bites.
You don't feel the shark bite until you realize your leg's missing.
whitney cummings
Actually, that girl, Bethany something, she said it was like an orgasm.
It was like bliss because so much dopamine rushes to the area so that you keep fighting.
It actually felt good.
joe rogan
I don't think I'm comfortable about a 13-year-old talking about orgasms.
whitney cummings
Oh God, we're going to jail, Joe.
unidentified
Are you sure?
whitney cummings
We're going to jail.
You sure she said it was like an orgasm?
Maybe I'm putting that in there because I want to fuck a shark.
unidentified
She was a little kid.
Whoa.
whitney cummings
Sorry, don't sue me.
I do feel myself walking on eggshells around anything sexual all the time now.
joe rogan
You shouldn't.
You can't.
A woman, I would say this right now.
You can say whatever the fuck you want to me.
whitney cummings
We're fucking next.
You know women are next and they should be.
unidentified
No, they shouldn't be.
whitney cummings
If women are predators and using their power to coerce people, they should.
joe rogan
Have you seen my Harvey Weinstein bit?
You haven't seen it.
No.
whitney cummings
I'll say Wednesday.
joe rogan
I'll tell you, yeah, Wednesday.
Yeah, for sure.
But I don't, that's, that's nonsense.
Any guy, well, there are, I know guys that have been victimized by women at work.
There was a guy, TJ, remember the amazing atheist was telling the story about the woman that he worked with was always grabbing his ass and making him uncomfortable and she was like his boss.
He was, you know, real socially awkward and in this fucked up situation.
But that's super rare.
And I think that this is a balancing thing.
You know what I thought was the most hilarious thing about the Women's March?
whitney cummings
What?
joe rogan
That people were angry that these white women were wearing pink pussy hats because not all women have vaginas.
Because not all women have vaginas.
Because there's trans women.
Fascinating.
whitney cummings
Oh, I thought you were going to say not all women's pussies are pink.
joe rogan
That too, because women of color.
It's both.
They're offensive to women of color and trans women.
unidentified
I haven't even heard this.
joe rogan
How many trans women were marching in the Women's March?
whitney cummings
I saw a bunch.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I mean, I didn't know they were trans based on their appearance.
Calm down, internet.
I know them personally, so I knew that they were trans.
joe rogan
I would have been able to tell.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I would have sniffed them out for you.
What does that mean?
whitney cummings
I'm a joker.
joe rogan
I'm a comedian.
There was a thread on my Twitter that I wasn't even involved with where these trans people and these lesbians were going at it back and forth.
And it was fascinating because lesbians are one of the few groups that don't feel intimidated to talk shit to trans people.
unidentified
They're like inoculated against that.
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they were saying that these trans people are homophobic and these trans women...
I can't keep up.
It was fucking crazy.
whitney cummings
It was for days.
unidentified
I can't keep up.
joe rogan
I mean, for seven or eight days they were going at it back and forth.
But essentially, the trans women...
This is what the lesbians were saying, that the violence, the intersexual...
No, that's not the way to put it.
whitney cummings
Intersectional.
joe rogan
No, the violence between women, women on women violence in relationships, domestic violence, the statistics were skewed because a lot of it is trans women that were attacking women that they were in relationships with.
Because these women that are trans women...
They have the same behavior that men have, which is this inclination towards domestic violence.
And so they were saying, and she was citing statistics about how many of these women that were the victimizers, they would not specify their gender at birth.
They were talking about their current gender, which is like a weird thing now.
You could get arrested if you're a trans woman for beating up a woman, and they will say, okay, you're a woman.
And they'll say, yes, I am a woman.
whitney cummings
But you have the strength of a woman.
joe rogan
It's none of your fucking business.
Like, oh, okay.
So it was really deep.
whitney cummings
That's fascinating.
joe rogan
Because one of these lesbians that started this with these trans women was very educated about these statistics and was attacking these trans women.
And she was saying, essentially, like, don't go around and say, because you've been a woman for a fucking year and a half, that you understand the struggle.
Fuck off.
whitney cummings
Right.
And because you just had male privilege two years ago or whatever, and you've had it your whole life.
joe rogan
What was that video?
That guy, that comedian?
whitney cummings
You said it to me.
unidentified
The face swap thing?
whitney cummings
Yeah, yeah.
So I ran into him yesterday.
Kyle Dunn again.
I ran into him.
joe rogan
Find his Twitter page and there's a thing that he did with...
whitney cummings
No, it was...
joe rogan
Bruce Jenner.
whitney cummings
Bruce, nope.
Caitlyn Jenner.
joe rogan
Caitlyn Jenner.
whitney cummings
You're going to get us killed.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
Can't change your name.
whitney cummings
I love coming in here.
unidentified
There's no PC shit allowed in here at all.
Fuck off.
whitney cummings
But this is it.
joe rogan
Hold on.
Play it from the beginning and give me some volume.
So, hold on.
Before you play it, before you play it, let everybody know.
whitney cummings
This is what I wake up to.
joe rogan
This is...
So, Kyle Dunning...
How do you say his name?
whitney cummings
Dunningan.
joe rogan
Kyle Dunningan did a face swap with Kim Kardashian and Caitlyn Jenner.
And so, take it from the beginning.
It's...
It's, uh...
unidentified
Hey, how about this women's movement, huh?
It's our turn now!
Yeah, baby!
God, you lived as a man most of your life.
You're not a victim.
Are you serious?
Bruce used to make me touch his penis till he climaxed.
Time's up!
Me too!
Wait, I'm confused.
That was you, though.
Oh, nice, can't blame the victim.
That's nice.
What's your next question?
What was I wearing?
Jeez.
What are you wearing?
It's super cute.
Are you like this?
Donna Karan, 800 bucks.
Worth that.
whitney cummings
That's funny.
unidentified
Fuck yeah, it was worth it.
joe rogan
That's it, but it's fucking very funny.
whitney cummings
Where did you file on his Twitter page?
joe rogan
No, his Instagram.
Somebody sent it to me.
I think that's his Twitter.
But somebody sent it to me on his Instagram page.
whitney cummings
Oh, he does tons of this.
joe rogan
I don't know him, but he does a bunch of these and they're fucking hilarious.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
whitney cummings
He wrote an Amy Schumer show.
He's really funny.
He's really funny.
Hey, do you remember back in the day, he did that cow commercial back in the day?
Was it Chick-fil-A or something where he was like dancing with a cow?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
joe rogan
No, we don't have to play that.
whitney cummings
But I just mean like it was something funny.
He's funny.
joe rogan
I tried to go to Chick-fil-A yesterday.
whitney cummings
Why?
unidentified
Because I was hungry.
whitney cummings
Do you eat fast food?
joe rogan
Occasionally.
On Sundays.
whitney cummings
Chick-fil-A is fucking delicious.
joe rogan
I went to Five Guys instead.
But I couldn't go on Sunday.
whitney cummings
Is that terrible for you?
joe rogan
Five Guys?
whitney cummings
Why can't you go on Sunday?
joe rogan
Because they are open.
Because of the baby Jesus.
Chick-fil-A does not open on Sunday.
whitney cummings
Oh, because Chick-fil-A is fucking super religious.
I'm going to go have an abortion in the Chick-fil-A bathroom.
joe rogan
Don't do that.
whitney cummings
Do you think that would upset any money?
Aren't we?
Yeah, I feel like I heard we're not supposed to eat a Chick-fil-A because of that.
You can't eat and you worry.
unidentified
I was somewhere the other day and I was like, oh, let's go to this restaurant.
whitney cummings
They're like, we can't.
That's a Mario Batali restaurant.
I was like, can everyone stop raping people so I can eat my favorite pasta?
joe rogan
How about Monique telling everybody to boycott Netflix?
whitney cummings
That was crazy, huh?
unidentified
That's hilarious.
whitney cummings
I mean, that's fucking insane.
joe rogan
I'm only getting a half a million dollars for an hour.
whitney cummings
But it's like, for most people, that's like an insane fucking amount.
I mean, that's an insane amount of money.
joe rogan
Well, what's insane is her comparing herself to Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle and Amy Schumer.
Look, she's not as famous.
There's a scale.
unidentified
This pay disparity stuff is tricky because you get paid based on the value that you bring.
joe rogan
You know who else was going on that?
Kathy Griffin.
Kathy Griffin was saying something about...
She did 23 stand-up shows, 23 standing ovations, and she would do a special.
She would be willing to do a special, but she wants to make sure she gets equal pay for women, and she was making it a part of that.
whitney cummings
Here's my thing.
Say no and go somewhere else.
You know, there's so many outlets now.
unidentified
There's Epix.
whitney cummings
There's fucking Hulu.
There's so many places.
Just say no.
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
They pay you what they think it's worth.
Based on how popular you are, based on how popular your stand-up is, and based on what they think they can get out of it.
whitney cummings
The tickets that you can sell.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, that's why Dave Chappelle gets the most.
That's why Amy Schumer got a lot.
She was selling out fucking gigantic arenas.
whitney cummings
She was selling out arenas.
joe rogan
Yeah, Monique's not doing that.
So for her to compare herself to those two people is fucking crazy.
whitney cummings
I agree.
joe rogan
And she's basing it on her tickets, like their box office for movies that she was in.
Like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
whitney cummings
And it's also, you're not just getting paid that amount.
You're getting paid when the special airs.
The tickets are going to sell because that special is streaming.
joe rogan
Which is, people are so crazy when they start going, boycott.
You need to boycott.
We need to boycott Netflix.
whitney cummings
The head of Netflix could openly lynch someone and not one person would stop watching Netflix.
joe rogan
We're so addicted to it.
They were in trouble though with the Kevin Spacey thing.
They had to do something about that.
whitney cummings
And they did.
I mean they lost a lot of money on it.
joe rogan
Yeah, they lost 39 million bucks.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Between that and the Gore Vidal.
Wow, I didn't know it was that much.
Yeah, there was an article about it yesterday.
whitney cummings
Oh, right, the Gore Vidal, the Kevin Spacey thing.
You know where they shot that movie?
Yeah.
I saw them when we were there.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, that was where Gore Vidal used to go to bang dudes.
whitney cummings
But I feel like that's right.
But I feel like that it had to get this bad for people to be like, you know what, we're not going to hire these people because it has to be like a bottom line issue.
They're like, I'm not going to hire a rapist because it's too expensive.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen the Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley documentary?
whitney cummings
No.
joe rogan
Where it details the two of them.
whitney cummings
Was that his lover?
joe rogan
No.
No, the opposite.
They hated each other.
William F. Buckley was a conservative.
whitney cummings
A lot of lovers hate each other.
joe rogan
He was a British conservative guy who was very popular during the day.
And this is from the 1960s on television.
And they were debating back and forth, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley.
Liberal versus conservative.
But on national television, it was these really contentious, highly charged debates.
And it kind of sunk William F. Buckley's career.
Because at one time...
Gore Vidal called him a Nazi.
He called him a neo-Nazi or something along those lines.
And then William F. Buckley said something, called him a fucking queer and I'll punch your face.
I'll sock you in your nose and you'll stay plastered.
Like, lost his cool on television.
Called him a queer on television.
And it was like this, whoa moment.
And then William F. Buckley's career completely descended.
unidentified
I love that.
joe rogan
I love when people lose their shit.
You get to see who he really is.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You pressure him.
whitney cummings
When somebody snaps.
And I love thinking about what in 30 years or when you look back and be like, yo, I can't believe we used to just fucking say that.
You know, like retard.
We used to just say retard.
unidentified
I still say it.
whitney cummings
Of course you do.
joe rogan
But only the retards.
whitney cummings
Only if someone's being retarded.
joe rogan
Not people with a disease, just a human who does.
But the word is not, the word is retarded means like to slow the growth of something.
whitney cummings
Yes, to retard the business.
joe rogan
Somebody has retarded ideas.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like, or like, yeah, like, okay, like denying someone birth control.
That is retarded.
whitney cummings
It's retarded.
joe rogan
It's like socially retarded.
whitney cummings
Right.
Because it's retarded.
It's slowing progress.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
I don't think that's a bad word.
What I think is a bad thing is to mock someone who has a disability.
But I don't think that you're always talking about that when you're saying that word.
I think we have a real problem with language policing.
I think we have a real problem with denying the use of sounds.
This is what a word's supposed to be.
It's like, you make a noise, so I understand what you're saying.
I understand.
There has to be context.
It's supposed to be a sound that you make, so I can understand what you're trying to convey.
Right.
whitney cummings
But if you say that's retarded and I go, you mean, you know, that's missing a chromosome?
You know, like, it's like...
joe rogan
Well, that would mean me saying that's Down syndrome, though.
whitney cummings
Right.
Oh, that's true.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I think it's figuring out what the etiology is of the word.
I did not know.
This happened recently.
Someone said in a writer's room, she's uppity.
I did not know that that was a slave term.
We all learned very quickly that that was a term.
joe rogan
That's what it means?
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
The ideology of it was to describe a slave that was acting out.
Uppity.
unidentified
Uppity?
joe rogan
Wow.
I always thought uppity was someone who was like a highfalutin, like, you know, some rich person.
whitney cummings
I thought it was just someone who was recalcitrant and would not participate or who was resisting.
But it actually has origins.
And same with like Paddy Wagon.
Is, like, offensive to Irish people.
Because it used to describe drunk Irish people.
joe rogan
Oh, but Irish people don't care.
Trust me.
I'm one quarter Irish.
unidentified
We don't give a fuck.
whitney cummings
Of course.
It's like non-Irish people are the ones that are offended by it.
joe rogan
Isn't it funny that, like, one quarter Irish, I can't really say I'm Irish.
But if I was one quarter black, I'd be...
whitney cummings
You would be...
joe rogan
I would be a part of the community.
whitney cummings
And then what's the other one?
There was another one, Under Your Thumb.
If you have someone under your thumb.
joe rogan
It's a Rolling Stones song.
whitney cummings
Yeah, but it used to be, that was the thickness of a switch that you could hit your wife with.
It couldn't be thicker than your thumb.
unidentified
What?
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Is it etiology or etymology?
Etymology.
Etymology of those words, which I just didn't know.
joe rogan
Do you know the term faggot?
Where that came from?
whitney cummings
Cigarettes?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
That's a fag.
joe rogan
A bundle of sticks.
whitney cummings
Oh, that's right.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
And do you know- Why did it turn into a gay slur?
joe rogan
This would piss me off on Louis C.K.'s show.
They used this- Urban myth that what it meant was that a bundle of sticks was a faggot and so a gay man was a faggot because they were a bundle of sticks and you would burn them in a fire.
That's not true.
At all.
whitney cummings
Did he know that wasn't true?
joe rogan
I don't know.
It's convenient to ignore.
All you have to do is research it.
It's not hard.
What a bundle of sticks was referred to was a burdensome woman.
They would call a burdensome woman a faggot because she was like a bundle of sticks.
Very difficult to carry around.
They would be awkward.
So a man who acted like a woman was a faggot.
unidentified
Whoa!
joe rogan
That's what the term meant.
That's where it came from.
I had no idea.
That's the absolute origins of that term.
So when people say, like, there was a gay guy on Louis C.K.'s show that was saying that, and it was him and Nick DiPaolo and Louis were all playing cards together, and someone said some faggot, and you realize why that's so offensive?
It's because, you know, they used to burn people.
There's no fucking history of gay people being burned like witches.
By the way, even the Salem witch trials, they didn't burn witches.
They drowned them.
whitney cummings
They drowned them and dogs.
This is how fucking insane the hysteria was.
They drowned the dogs?
They killed two dogs in the Salem witch trials.
joe rogan
Because they were dogs or witches?
whitney cummings
It was mass hysteria.
joe rogan
Do you know why they think they did that?
whitney cummings
Why they think what?
The dogs or the drownings?
joe rogan
Why the whole witch trial thing happened.
whitney cummings
Religious fanaticism.
joe rogan
Urgot.
There was a late frost, and this has been proven by core samples of the ground.
They had a late frost, and when you have a late frost on wheat, one of the things that happens is bacterial growth on the wheat, essentially ergot is very similar to lysergic acid, very similar to LSD. Cows were dying and shit, right?
whitney cummings
And they thought it was like witchcraft.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, there's a little bit of that, but that could have been other diseases.
whitney cummings
Just fucking everyone had hepatitis back then.
joe rogan
But ergot is a psychedelic.
And so these people were literally on acid.
And they were freaking the fuck out thinking they were being hexed by witches.
And they were paranoid, losing their mind.
whitney cummings
But why was it only women?
Why didn't they think men were being witches as well?
I guess a couple of men did die.
I don't know.
And babies.
They killed a couple of babies.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
whitney cummings
They just lost their fucking minds.
joe rogan
Well, they're on acid.
But I think given the situation when men are in a position of power, which they almost always were back then, And then something's happening to them.
They would go for the weakest thing, which is probably a woman or a single woman or a woman is weird in any way.
And just like that bitch.
whitney cummings
I mean, it's also just sort of annoying that now people are like, this is a witch hunt.
This is a witch hunt.
Like without even knowing that that word is actually something to describe when men used to hunt women.
And now they're using it as a way.
joe rogan
That's funny.
whitney cummings
I mean, you know, men thinking that we're like hunting them or it's some kind of like McCarthyism or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, the idea is that you're looking for something that's not really there.
whitney cummings
Exactly.
And I just don't know a lot of people who are doing that.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think there's a real problem we have, like we said earlier, about tribalism.
unidentified
Correct.
This is a mass shaming, wouldn't you say?
joe rogan
There's definitely that going on, for sure.
But what I'm saying is that people identifying with all women or men identifying with all men.
Especially men.
I had this bit that I was doing for a while about a bumper sticker that I saw in a car.
It said, girls kick ass.
whitney cummings
That drives me nuts.
I hate that shit.
joe rogan
Some of them.
Some of them are lazy.
whitney cummings
Don't even, I mean, we're getting into this too.
Have you seen the bit I do?
joe rogan
But the point is, you can never have that about men.
Like a guy have a bumper sticker that said, boys kick ass.
I'd be like, pull the fuck over.
What are you doing?
What's in your car?
whitney cummings
So yes, and here's what I'll say.
I do have a lot of girlfriends who are conflating You know, empowerment with entitlement.
I totally get it.
And I have a lot of girlfriends who think they're feminists and they're actually just assholes.
Like, I have that.
I talk about this a little bit.
joe rogan
That's real, right?
whitney cummings
On stage, yeah, I have a couple girlfriends who are like, I need a man to respect me and men need to respect me.
I'm like, bitch, you need to get those photos of you in tank tops that say Rosé all day off your fucking Instagram before we have this conversation.
Or not.
joe rogan
Or recognize who you are.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, but you then earn my respect.
whitney cummings
You don't automatically get respect just because you're a woman.
That's entitlement.
You still have to watch a fucking TED Talk and read a book every now and then.
You still have to be cool and know what you're talking about.
So there's definitely some duds.
joe rogan
Well, there's people that are now on the team that's attacking.
whitney cummings
And there's a tribal...
joe rogan
Yeah, this is no different than someone like, the Patriots, we're fucking kicking ass!
That's tribal too.
It's the same thing.
It's a natural inclination that people have.
whitney cummings
But it's also at the same time, like, you know, I think a lot of guys I've heard be like, well, you guys hate all men and you think all men are assholes.
It's like, for me, it's actually the opposite.
I know a lot of really amazing men that have self-control and restraint that I'm comparing the shitheads to.
joe rogan
Those guys that say that, though, just...
whitney cummings
Or just what?
They're scared?
They're guilty?
joe rogan
Who's saying that you hate all men?
unidentified
No, I get it.
whitney cummings
The people are like, you're bitter, you know, feminists that hate men.
Like, you can't even say that word.
unidentified
It's the same thing.
joe rogan
They're tribal.
They want to stand up for tribe male.
Instead of just objectively looking at this and going, what's going on?
Well, imagine being a woman, man.
Imagine being a woman who's been working in an office.
And dealing with this shit all of your life.
Imagine being a woman who's been raped.
Imagine being a woman who's been, you know, had to walk down the street past a bunch of guys and they grabbed her ass and harassed her.
whitney cummings
And learn about the neurological ramifications of that that go on, i.e.
like sometimes we can't speak out, sometimes we freeze, like you said.
You know, and I think it's just like nobody wants to look into that research.
joe rogan
There are some women, very few, but there are some women that hate men.
There are some men.
whitney cummings
To hate a whole gender is a trauma response.
That is a one person hurt me or a couple people hurt me and I need to generalize about all of them to give myself a false sense of safety.
joe rogan
I have friends that have been divorced a couple times and those are the trickiest ones.
Because those guys, they literally have this idea that the women are the enemy and they take your money.
unidentified
Some do.
joe rogan
They pretend they like you and then eventually they turn on you and they get their lawyers and they take your money and And then I go, what's going on with you that you keep gravitating that woman?
Yeah.
whitney cummings
That's my thing.
It's like, what's going on with you that you had no idea?
joe rogan
Well, people are very different in the beginning of a relationship.
whitney cummings
Date women that have as much money as you.
joe rogan
Very few people have real personal sovereignty in the beginning of a relationship.
whitney cummings
Interesting.
joe rogan
In the beginning of a relationship, you lock on.
Like, is this going to be the person that makes me feel better about life?
Is this going to be the person that brings me joy?
Is this going to be the person that brings me lust and sex and fun?
And then after one, you get bored with each other.
And then people get resentful.
unidentified
Yep, yep, yep.
joe rogan
And this is the thing about men with money that I've always said.
When a man with money is dating a woman who doesn't have money, then there's this weird dynamic.
whitney cummings
But I think you like it at first, or some guys like it at first.
joe rogan
When the man with money is dating a woman that doesn't have any money, the woman is like, wow, this guy's got money.
This is amazing.
But then, when they get married, she's got money too now.
It's like, now you're just another guy.
I'm a rich lady now.
Now I have money.
I'm fucking divorces, dude.
I'm rich.
whitney cummings
Oh, I see.
And then they get entitled to money.
See, I would never take money of the guy I'm dating.
joe rogan
Well, you have money.
That's different.
But that dynamic of the guy having all the money and the woman being a waitress or something like that, that's a normal dynamic.
When it happens, men like it, because look at me, I'm so advanced in comparison financially to where she is.
I have all these things that I can offer her that she can never get on her own.
We're going to fly to Paris on a private jet.
I'm going to blow her mind.
You know, that kind of shit, right?
And then the woman marries this fucking asshole, and then next thing you know, she is rich too.
She's got Gucci bags and a big diamond, and she's driving a Ferrari, and she's like, you know what?
I don't want to suck this guy's dick anymore.
I'm tired.
I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of the whole thing.
And then, you know, she's not impressed anymore because she's wealthy too.
So he's not a wealthy guy anymore.
He's just a guy because she's wealthy.
whitney cummings
I see.
They're now equals.
And he doesn't have something that I can't access on my own.
I don't need him anymore.
joe rogan
Exactly.
whitney cummings
I've not had money before, and I've been hungry and poor before.
I guess I get that, but I don't know.
Maybe things are going to change in terms of maybe we'll look back in 40 years and be like, remember when 40-year-olds just used to date broke 20-year-olds?
joe rogan
It's still going to happen.
It's still gonna happen.
whitney cummings
We're biologically wired.
You guys are biologically wired to want to, you know, fuck women that are fertile.
I totally get that.
joe rogan
It's not just that.
whitney cummings
It might be a liability.
joe rogan
The women are biologically wired to want to fuck successful, mature men that have their shit together.
They're more emotionally stable.
They're physically more together.
unidentified
Sure.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Are you my dad?
Are you my dad?
I've done it.
joe rogan
But this is not even just a dad thing.
It's just a position of power.
Like that someone is, like, they've accomplished something.
whitney cummings
And maybe that's going to be the new Darwinism.
It's like, I don't need to date a man who has power.
I don't really need protection, right?
Because we have alarm systems and I have a lock on my door and whatever.
But we're still wired to seek men that are alphas that have power and that have resources.
Even though, you know, we're not.
unidentified
Maybe.
joe rogan
But I don't think that's going to go away anytime soon unless we go full socialist.
whitney cummings
Like, we're not as vulnerable as we were 2,000 years ago, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, we're definitely, I'm sure, 2,000 years ago, men and women had a much more different dynamic than they have in 2018. Yeah.
It's getting better.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think, overall, we have less violence, we have less crime, we have less almost everything today than we did 2,000 years ago.
But I think the amount of radical change that's happening, like we were talking about before, between 1960 and today.
Yeah.
If we go another 50 years in the future, it's going to be even more insane.
whitney cummings
But it just might be like the people that thrive are the ones that are able to have some self-control over their primordial brain.
So it's like you, it's like, I want a Ferrari, like I would love to, but it just doesn't make sense.
joe rogan
I don't want to suck that Donald Sterling guy's dick.
whitney cummings
Do you know what I mean?
Totally.
unidentified
It doesn't seem worth it.
whitney cummings
I'd love to eat pizza every night, but I'll fucking die.
That's not hell.
I'll get fat.
You will just start to understand the consequences of dating the person that we are sort of primally attracted to and just go like, I know what that is.
That's what I want, but I can't have everything I want because I'm a fucking human adult.
joe rogan
I think there's also a real this the way human beings react the way we even think and the way what we think is acceptable and isn't acceptable changes with the culture and I think like it's one of the problems with going back to like 1960 and being upset at some of the ways people behaved because I think man that is the way people behaved back then we know better now but to get mad at a man who behaved a certain way no I'm not talking about like drugging and raping and stuff like that Yeah, yeah.
Certain classic classic sexist behavior from 1960 that was just normal.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, I think this is just a part of the culture and people thought that's how you behaved.
Now people are shifting.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I think we're...
And also, I think one of the things that's going on, this is one of the things that's empowered the women's movement and empowered a lot of other movements, is access to information.
It's radical, it's happening so fast, and it's inundating us, and we have to catch up to it.
It's like it's happening so goddamn quickly that we're just trying, okay, what is okay now?
What's not okay now?
What can we do?
What can we not do?
whitney cummings
And access to each other.
Never before have 10 women all assaulted by the same man been able to meet each other.
How else would we run into it?
The grocery store?
Hey, were you assaulted by that guy by any chance?
We're able to find each other online.
joe rogan
Jamie, were you talking about Steve Carell in The Office?
Was it you that was talking about that?
Yeah.
whitney cummings
What about?
joe rogan
You watched the old episodes of The Office, which is not that long ago.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was such a creep.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like, you can't really do that today.
whitney cummings
That's amazing.
But he was kind of, like, bumbling, you know, like, silly, hapless.
joe rogan
I didn't watch the show, so what was the difference?
jamie vernon
It was, I think, the purse episode where a girl shows up to sell purses and he just, like, makes a big to-do, just like, you can have the conference room, and guess what?
I just got this espresso maker.
Don't make me give it to you, because I won't.
Oh, and you need a ride home?
I give you a ride home.
whitney cummings
But did it feel creepy, or did it feel...
jamie vernon
The ride home thing was a very particular creepy thing based off today's, like, world.
whitney cummings
Right.
And I think that, like, I mean, what I know about the English version, I don't know what the intention was for the American version.
The idea was to make him kind of polarizing and make it makes you uncomfortable.
unidentified
And he, you know, it's crazy that it wasn't that long ago.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it was like, but it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's interesting because so much of this is is.
It's because it's so intangible it's hard to explain and I think this is why a lot of guys are getting annoyed because when you get granular about it it makes us seem like we're just being crazy because so it's like you hug me at the comedy store and it feels different than when let's call him Joe Blow hugs me there's just something creepy about Joe Blow and there's something not creepy about you and I can't explain it and I can't tell you why and I sound crazy and manic and histrionic.
joe rogan
No that doesn't sound because that's the same way with gay guys there's certain gay guys that hug me where it's creepy There's certain gay guys that hug me.
I don't want to out anybody, but there's certain guys that hug me.
I'm like, what's up?
I give them a hug, and it's all just warm and friendly, and it's cool.
It doesn't matter if they're gay or not.
But then there's other guys that hang on to me a little, or they'll squeeze my back a little.
It's a little extra going on.
I'm like, okay!
whitney cummings
And I think that that's what, like, females are kind of trying to sort of say with the more granular stuff and with the Aziz story and stuff.
It's like, I know it sounds like I'm being crazy, but I promise there's something fucking creepy about it.
And I know that I don't have proof and I don't have photo evidence, but I'm, I, but, and the more I talk about it, the crazier I sound.
But I think that that is just making me, the Steve Kroll thing is making me think.
It's like a hug that lasts a little too long.
I had a guy once in an office.
joe rogan
Right, but don't Don't you think the Aziz story is like, you don't have to try to tank a guy's life from a bad date.
It seems like you both ate each other out and went down on each other.
It sounds like it sucked, but then you're anonymous and then you're 22 or 23. This is poor judgment.
whitney cummings
And cruelty.
joe rogan
There's a lot of cruelty involved.
Somebody described it as revenge porn.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's our version of revenge porn.
joe rogan
This is not these are not comparable crimes to like what we've been discussing.
whitney cummings
And I don't know if and I can't speak to saying who's guilty and all that sort of information, but I don't think that that this person is coming forward equating it to rape.
I think women know that there's different echelons.
There's rape, sexual assault.
I mean, look, I don't know enough about it.
None of us were there.
But, like, I do know in my 20s, I'm not saying Aziz is guilty again, I don't know, but in my 20s I had a lot of sex that I felt I was coerced into that was transactional sex that I didn't want to have, you know, and this is something we talk about in the Female Brain movie, is that men are less able to read emotional cues on faces than women are.
joe rogan
How does that work?
whitney cummings
So we have evolved to cry four times more easily because men have a harder time reading emotional cues on faces.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Oh, that's why women cry easier?
whitney cummings
That's why we cry easier because men are designed to see movement and to hunt.
You're not designed to read, oh, is she frustrated or angry?
Have you ever been on a double date with your wife and you think that her and the other...
I can't imagine you on a double date.
That was so weird thinking about it.
joe rogan
I've done those things.
unidentified
Really?
whitney cummings
In the very early stages?
joe rogan
No, I've done them recently.
They get annoying.
whitney cummings
Yeah, and you go on a double date, and you have to fucking talk to the guy, and he's asking you a million questions about hunting, and you're like, just listen to my podcast, why do I have to fucking do this for free?
And then your wife is talking to the other girl, and you think it's going well, and the girl gets the car, and you're like, that went well, and you're like, she was such a bitch, I couldn't fucking stand her.
And you're like, it seemed like you guys got along great.
Has that ever happened to you?
joe rogan
My wife's not like that.
whitney cummings
She's pretty transparent.
joe rogan
She just talks.
If she thought something was bad, she would let everybody know.
whitney cummings
Like right away?
joe rogan
Well, it would be obvious.
whitney cummings
Or just sort of like sometimes there's...
Basically, and we talk about it in the movie, men are not as good at reading emotions on faces.
So it's like if you were to say, like, Whitney, how are you?
And I was like, I'm fine.
You might just be like, OK, she's fine.
Let's move on.
A lot of guys can't understand that there's a discrepancy between what I'm saying and how I'm saying it.
And it's like about just reading like how muscles move on human faces.
So it's like you can look up sort of the difference.
And, you know, so I'm not defending men in that area.
I think that that an interesting conversation that might come up at some point is people who have autism are really going to be fucked in all of this.
People who can't pick up on social cues because so much of this is nonverbal.
I fear that we're going to get to a place where we're going to have to, like, sign contracts and shit before we have sex and stuff.
Because, you know, I know that in my 20s, and I'm freezing up just talking about it, is that when men made physical advances to me, I would be giving off these nonverbal cues.
And I wasn't saying no, but my body was saying no.
And I'm not saying it's necessarily a guy who's supposed to, like, be able to read my body language.
But that's what was happening because I froze up because of my trauma response.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
And I was scared.
And also we are conditioned to be submissive to men.
I am conditioned to feel shame if I don't fuck a guy in a certain amount of time.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
unidentified
Totally!
joe rogan
I thought it was the opposite.
I thought you would feel shame if you fucked a guy too quickly.
whitney cummings
If you fuck a guy on the first date, you feel shame.
But there's this sort of unspoken rule that you kind of have to fuck a guy on the third date.
joe rogan
What?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Oh, totally.
Do you not think that?
joe rogan
Jamie's never heard of this either.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
whitney cummings
I feel guilt and shame and I'm difficult and I'm a prude and I'm like, whatever.
joe rogan
This might just be you.
whitney cummings
Yeah, this might just be me.
But like every, I mean, every girl that I know that I, maybe it's just my generation or something.
joe rogan
Every guy out there is like, all I gotta do is just get three dates in and we're in.
whitney cummings
But think about all, think about negotiations.
So just the, just the tip is like something we joke about, right?
But it is based in the idea of negotiating for sex.
So if someone is starting to say just the tip, that means I've already said no.
And you're like, well, come on, how about just a blowjob?
And then I'm like, no, just come on, just the tip.
It's like we joke about it, but that means that a negotiation is going on and that I've already said no.
And then you just get worn down.
And that's like transactional sex, which I think women are kind of just I won't generalize about all women.
But I think some women are like sort of like, I don't want to have that kind of transactional sex anymore.
And I feel like I'm being used as a blow-up doll.
And I think from what I understand that girl felt is she felt like she was rushed through dinner and went back and was just sort of expected to be fucked.
And I think a lot of what's happening is that men were promised something from porn and women were promised something from romantic comedies.
Men were promised that women want it all the time.
And women have been promised that men want to talk to us.
And I think these expectations are clashing.
So I think it's a little bit of nature and a little bit of nurture.
joe rogan
So a lot of it being media misrepresentations of actual relationships and that's the models that people are acting on.
whitney cummings
Maybe.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I think it's different for every person because every person has a different experience with sex.
Everyone has a different ability to read faces.
Everyone has a different nature and nurture.
Everyone had different fucking parenting.
joe rogan
And then there's a problem with like sometimes you really shouldn't be with that person and you're there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're there.
And what do you do?
unidentified
What do you do?
whitney cummings
I mean, I've literally had sex before just to like get out of there.
You're just like, oh god, I don't want to argue with this person right now, but I feel like this person feels entitled to my body, and I feel shame, and I'm embarrassed, and like, it's just all this stuff that's really kind of hard to explain, and I think it probably is annoying to the guy, and I just like, I don't want to be difficult, and I've been so gaslit to believe that I'm difficult.
It just gets like really messy, and then by the time you figure it out, you've already had sex, and you're just like, oh fuck, can I have my parking pass back?
joe rogan
Isn't this part of just being a human and trying to navigate your way through the fucking treacherous waters of just social interactions, sexual interactions?
whitney cummings
I didn't figure it out until I was 32 years old.
I wasn't able to, like, articulate or figure out whether I actually wanted to be having sex or not.
So, like, my advice to all my guy friends is do not have sex with girls that are under 30 because, like, I could not, I didn't have the ability to even know or say what I wanted until I was 32. But for men, a lot of men feel like if you have sex with a girl who's under 30, then it's fun.
joe rogan
And you can have fun.
But if you have sex with a girl who's over 30, their biological clock is ticking.
unidentified
Maybe.
whitney cummings
I froze my eggs.
I've got time.
My shit's on ice.
joe rogan
They're pressuring you into this relationship very quickly.
What's your intentions?
Where is this going?
I want to know how we stand.
whitney cummings
What are we?
Block that bitch!
Block her.
Find another one.
There's Tinder.
You can find plenty of women in their 30s.
joe rogan
What if you like her?
You just wanted to calm down.
Let's work this out.
whitney cummings
I mean, look.
We're going to have to start talking to each other, I guess, and setting expectations.
I know.
That sounds like a nightmare, doesn't it?
joe rogan
So much drama.
whitney cummings
LBC. But it's also...
It's like...
It's so funny.
This is totally, like, I probably shouldn't say this, but I was thinking someone was like, yeah, and then they had dinner, and afterwards, whatever, and she wasn't into it.
I was like, that is already fishy.
I never want to have sex after dinner.
I think it's disgusting.
I'm, like, full of lasagna.
Like, I don't want anything in my body after I've eaten.
Like, I need a couple.
I like to have sex before I eat.
joe rogan
Someone's going down, and you have to fart.
whitney cummings
I'm like, I... Can we, if we're gonna, if I'm, just assume that any sex after dinner is non-consensual.
joe rogan
But it's super normal.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sex after dinner, you're grossed out by it.
whitney cummings
If I just like eat chicken parmesan, like I don't want your, you know, it's disgusting to me.
unidentified
I get it.
whitney cummings
You know, so I just know that I've had a lot of sex in my 20s that I didn't want to be having, that felt transactional, that just didn't feel, you know, I think that, you know who really wins in all this?
Prostitutes.
And sex robots.
joe rogan
I think if prostitution was legal.
See, the problem with prostitution being legal is it's still shameful and still looked down upon, whereas massage therapy is not.
whitney cummings
But you get to keep your job.
joe rogan
You get to keep what job?
whitney cummings
You get to keep your job.
The man?
joe rogan
Is that what you're saying?
whitney cummings
No, I mean like if you're afraid of sexually assaulting someone by accident or having an interpersonal relationship at work and all this stuff that's going on, just like having sex with a hooker, like you're not going to get fired.
They're not going to report you.
joe rogan
Yes, but it's very problematic in that it establishes this dynamic between a man and a woman where it's very transactional.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Good point.
And then if you get accustomed to transactional sex...
whitney cummings
It could make it worse when you're actually with...
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, it's like then your thought is just, I just got to pay for it.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, why would I deal with your bullshit?
I'd just be a grown-up baby paying to get my dick sucked all the time.
whitney cummings
I just mean if, like, men need...
Because I literally was thinking about the other day, I was like, I would like someone to invent, like, a virtual reality game so that women can understand what sex feels like for men.
Like, it must be so amazing.
I was thinking about it.
joe rogan
Why do you think it's more amazing for a guy than it is for a woman?
whitney cummings
Just because I'm like, to be willing to throw away your career and take that big of a risk.
joe rogan
No, that's not what it is.
The way I described it in one of my specials, I said, being a man is like having a small 24-hour sperm factory.
With a very shitty agreement with the union.
You got one delivery truck.
That's your dick.
And you got one warehouse.
And packages are piling up every day.
And your dick is like, hey!
unidentified
Hey!
We gotta get these fucking packages out of here!
What are we gonna do?!
joe rogan
And the more it stacks up, the more desperate you get, the more you're willing to negotiate, the more you do stupid things.
The nature of being a human being is men are trying to get rid of cum because we're making it all day long.
All day long we're making cum.
We're cum factories.
That's what we are.
And when a man doesn't have sex for a few days, I did an experiment on my website many years back where I didn't jerk off for a month.
whitney cummings
What happened?
joe rogan
I was like, holy shit.
Punching walls.
You get so desperate.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, just touching people, just getting a hug, your dick gets hard.
He's like, this is bizarre.
Like, because most of the time, guys handle it by just jerking off.
It's like a relief.
You literally are backed up.
You have pressure, and you relieve it.
I don't know what it's like to be a woman, but one thing I do know is you're not making a thing that you have to get rid of.
whitney cummings
Correct.
joe rogan
Like, we have...
And the difference between a guy being horny on day one of No Jerking Off versus day 30, you're a totally different human being.
You're desperate.
And men who don't ever get touched and don't ever get to have sex are extremely desperate.
And they will do almost anything.
They will negotiate in very bizarre ways in order to be involved in relationships.
That's why you see men that are...
Quote, pussy whipped.
Like, why are they pussy whipped?
Like, what is that?
Well, that's the only option they have.
whitney cummings
Sure.
joe rogan
These are weak people, and the only option they have is to acquiesce to whatever desires and needs the woman has.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You have to submit.
You have to submit, and then she'll throw some pussy at you like a dog.
Throw some fucking scraps your way.
That's literally what happens.
whitney cummings
I just thought of airborne pussy.
unidentified
Take it!
whitney cummings
Take it!
But my question...
But these men had no lack of pussy in their lives.
Which men?
The powerful men that are going down.
These are men that could fuck whenever they wanted.
joe rogan
But there's still...
The Harvey Weinstein thing...
whitney cummings
He had the most beautiful wife on the planet.
I don't know if she wasn't fucking him.
joe rogan
I think he was a fucking addict.
And I think he's a power addict.
And a sex addict.
And he's a fat fuck, so he's a food addict.
whitney cummings
Insatiable.
joe rogan
And power.
unidentified
I want a big baby.
joe rogan
Just stuffing things in his body.
I mean, he's a fucking crazy person.
whitney cummings
But Bill Cosby could have fucked anyone whenever he wanted.
He was so famous.
joe rogan
Power addict, fame addict.
Did I ever tell you a story about Bill Cosby?
I did this casino once, and I talked to this woman who was one of the managers of the casino.
She said Bill Cosby would make the entire staff watch him eat curry before he would perform.
They would have to watch him eat.
They would come into his dressing room, and he wouldn't talk to them.
They would watch him eat.
And that's what he would do.
When he was eating his food before his performance, everyone had to watch him.
Then he had someone, a security guard, tuck him into bed at night.
They had to tuck him in.
So he laid in bed and they would tuck him in and then shut the lights off and close the door.
whitney cummings
What mental illness is that?
joe rogan
Delusions of grandeur, complete separation from normal society, this thought that he is royalty.
This is what I think.
I think the same behavior that kings have, you see that with dictators, you see that with celebrities, especially celebrities that, again, became super famous 50, 60 years ago, like Bill Cosby.
You know, he was famous 60 years ago.
whitney cummings
Well, there's some people like Danny Masterson who's young.
This guy's not, you know...
joe rogan
The Danny Masterson one is interesting because he's a Scientologist.
whitney cummings
Yeah, of course, yeah.
I mean, I'm not saying...
unidentified
Is he left Scientology?
whitney cummings
Did he leave Scientology?
unidentified
No, I don't...
whitney cummings
I mean, now I think he's left...
I don't know if they embraced that or I don't know enough about it.
joe rogan
Well, this is Paul Haggis, too.
This is one of the things that they were saying about him.
They think that he's being set up...
whitney cummings
I understand.
Right.
So, yeah, I know Leah Remini, I heard her saying that she thinks that these are fake allegations.
joe rogan
But I don't know if that's true.
whitney cummings
But I think Danny Masterson didn't leave.
Like, I don't think it was a ploy.
I've been hearing this for years.
joe rogan
Oh, you have been hearing this before.
whitney cummings
And I didn't come forward.
joe rogan
Why the fuck didn't you come forward?
unidentified
What was I going to do?
whitney cummings
Hey!
unidentified
Tell everybody.
whitney cummings
This is my phone, as if phones still look like this.
unidentified
I don't even know if this is true, but I'm going to tell you because I don't want to feel bad about it 10 years from now.
whitney cummings
I know, totally.
Like, I don't...
You know, like, I had heard creepy shit about him, but it's like, why does a young guy like that, who can fuck anyone whenever he wants, have to do something like that?
And it's like, I understand if you have all the packages and the sperm building up, but why can't you just jerk off?
Why can't you just fuck someone consensually?
joe rogan
See, that's a different thing, though.
The rape thing's a different thing.
The rape thing is a...
Dehumanizing power things.
It's like you say, no, fuck you.
Don't say no to me.
I'm going to fucking do this to you.
That's not sex.
There's something way more.
Because if you can get hard when a woman is crying and wants you to stop and saying, please stop.
Don't rape me.
Don't do this.
I don't want you to do this to me.
And you could still do that.
That's like some Viking shit.
That's really some...
whitney cummings
Because it's like, I mean, there could be some sort of, obviously not to defend it, but some sort of survival instinct in being able to procreate with a woman who's not interested.
Like, our biology is still not checked for, like, overpopulation, the fact that we no longer need to force ourselves upon women to proliferate the species.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's got to be some leftover, ancient, horrible, rape DNA. Because there were a lot of people that were...
I mean, Genghis Khan, his genes are in some ungodly percentage.
whitney cummings
That's right, a mount.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Pull this microphone off your face.
whitney cummings
Oh, shit.
Sorry, I keep doing this.
joe rogan
You got it on your neck again.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
I can see.
It starts sounding like this.
whitney cummings
I mean, it's interesting.
Like, I'm just so curious how things are going to evolve.
Like, are the people that are going to proliferate the ones that have the most self-control?
Whereas it used to be your masculinity or your value was defined by how strong you are, by how powerful.
And maybe the new power is self-control and restraint.
joe rogan
Well, I think maybe people need to start looking at each other as other human beings instead of us versus them.
And I think that's part of the women's movement that's an issue and part of the men's side of it that's an issue.
I think we have to get past tribalism.
Dan Harris from Good Morning America was on the podcast the other day and we were talking about it in terms of politics.
He was saying toxic tribalism.
I love that term.
unidentified
Me too.
joe rogan
Because that is across the board an issue in this country, right versus left.
That's an issue in this country with basically everything, men versus women.
I think we have to just look at each other as human beings.
And, you know, I'm not...
I'm not pro-men.
I'm not pro-woman either.
I'm pro-humans.
And there's a lot of really shitty men out there.
And there's a lot of really shitty women.
And it's a real problem if we lump everybody into, well, women want this.
Women are not going to do that.
Women are not going to lie about rape.
Of course they are.
Just like men are going to lie about it.
People are liars.
whitney cummings
Great point.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people that are just poorly formed human beings and they are now a part of a righteous tribe of people that are attacking this other tribe.
whitney cummings
And it's like most women didn't march.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Imagine if they did.
Imagine if 150 million women were marching.
whitney cummings
Most women did not give a fuck.
joe rogan
But the numbers are pretty staggering.
whitney cummings
Staggering.
But there is something interesting, I think, about what happens when a group of women get together.
Because I think that, at least in my experience, especially in the workplace, and I was trying to do some research on this, and I don't know enough about it, but there's this thing called, I believe it's called favoritism bias, and it's how women in a workplace actually compete with each other because they're afraid that the man is going to think that they're favoring their gender, so they're actually shitty.
It's like queen bee syndrome or something, where it's actually, I've experienced a lot of conflict.
Competition with other women because there's so much scarcity for jobs.
It's like women just getting in the workforce.
In the last 10, 20 years, this is kind of new.
So it's sort of like, bitch, this is fucking my job.
Oh, hell no.
So I think for women to actually be on the same team not to support toxic tribalism is actually kind of a refreshing thing to just be like, we're not competing for a man.
We're not competing for a job.
We're actually going to unite.
I think there's something kind of healing about that, at least for now.
joe rogan
Yeah, I agree with that.
I've experienced women confiding in me about other women in comedy, and they're so shitty and judgmental and critical.
I've had women say things about other women comedians like, what?
Wait a minute.
You really think she's like that?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, yeah.
Oh, she's a fucking hack.
She's fucking terrible.
Wait a minute.
She is funny.
Like, what are you talking about?
They'll get really angry about it.
And like, like, what is it?
Like, what is that?
Like, what is that?
whitney cummings
Scarcity complex.
There can only be one woman each show, and it's fucking her or me, or it's like, you know, and that's like a primal thing, of course, because it's like, I want protection from the man, because whatever, there's all that sort of like old primordial shit.
But competition between women, like I have, this is the first time I'm kind of not feeling that.
And it's kind of nice for the moment.
And we'll see, because I definitely know, even though I think that, you know, women...
My concern, I don't remember who I was talking about this the other day, is that basically people are just going to stop hiring women or stop hiring mixed, like putting, mixing people, genders up in offices because it's just too scary.
I'm concerned.
joe rogan
Do you really think that's going to happen?
whitney cummings
I'm concerned there's going to be a little bit of a backlash that guys are, you know, it's not worth hiring a woman because it's just going to be a nightmare.
I mean, I know a lot of guys who are like, I never hire pretty assistants or I'll never hire a pretty girl to be in my office because I'm just too scared the way men are going to act, which I think is a little crazy and unfortunate, but it's like, but it's true.
No one wants to get sued.
joe rogan
But it's not just no one wants to get sued.
You change the office dynamic.
If you have a really hot assistant and she's walking around with all these other guys in the office and the other guys in the office are getting their cups of coffee.
whitney cummings
All of a sudden they're her assistant.
joe rogan
And then men recognize that.
Like when I see a guy that's like skeezing on a chick, I'm like, I see what you're doing.
whitney cummings
If you need an intern or something and you have two women that are equally qualified and one is overweight and 55 and one is 22 and gorgeous.
I don't know how they could be equally qualified, but whatever.
Like, who are you going to hire?
Are you kind of like, oh, this is a liability, this could be a problem?
joe rogan
Well, the 55-year-old lady might be fucking crazy.
whitney cummings
She will not know how to use Dropbox.
joe rogan
She might be, like, really interested in, you know, some of the things that we're interested in, make it easier to talk to her.
Or it could be the opposite.
The 55-year-old might be wise and, you know, very calm to be around.
I mean, you can't, like...
whitney cummings
That's a good...
joe rogan
It's the individual.
whitney cummings
It's based on the individual.
If you're owned by a corporation or if you're NBC or if you're Disney or something, I know there are a lot of conversations about potential liabilities.
joe rogan
Well, someone who's a 55-year-old intern is like, whoa, don't you need money?
whitney cummings
Well, that's a red flag.
joe rogan
Where are you getting your money?
whitney cummings
Yeah, that's a red flag.
joe rogan
We had a PA on this show that I was on once and he was 39. And I was like, wait a minute, you're a PA and you're 39?
And he turned out to be a fucking nut.
And he was on pills.
I had to tell people.
I go, do you see the way he's moving?
Like he turns really quickly.
I go, that guy's on speed.
There's 100%.
And they were like, you sure?
I go, watch him.
I go, watch him.
He's twitchy.
whitney cummings
Swiveling around.
joe rogan
He's always talking.
He can never shut the fuck up.
He interrupts conversations and he injects with these long, boring stories of his own.
That guy's on speed.
A hundred percent.
39 year old intern.
They fired him.
They wound up firing him like right after this one job that we did.
But I was like, okay.
whitney cummings
It was tricky, though.
I've talked to a bunch of people who are like bosses, and they're like, fine, I'll just stop hiring women.
joe rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
whitney cummings
And it's like, oh God, that's a whole other...
unidentified
That's crazy.
whitney cummings
Because they're just so afraid of getting sued, and they're so afraid of inter-office relationships and that sort of shit.
So this could backfire.
joe rogan
I'm too free.
I'm too free to have input on this.
I think there's a weird dynamic when men and women work together, and you have a really hilarious bit about it.
People working in an office together, the way they interact with each other, it's very strange.
whitney cummings
Honey badgers in a fucking cage.
joe rogan
Which is weird.
This is your new family.
You're with these people eight hours a day and you're only asleep for five.
You know what I'm saying?
whitney cummings
How long do you see your wife every day?
unidentified
Two hours?
joe rogan
Maybe?
whitney cummings
It's fucking weird.
joe rogan
And then you're in traffic for three.
What are you doing?
Your life is these people.
And so then your sexual situation gets weird.
whitney cummings
You're developing bonds with them.
Trauma bonds.
joe rogan
Especially if you're...
That never fuck, but they want to fuck forever.
And they just hug each other a little, and they're sweet to each other forever, but nothing ever comes of it.
But they both know.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
They both know they really want to fuck, but they're not going to, so they're kind of a little flirty and a little affectionately.
unidentified
While pretending we're not.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And they exchange silly text messages, and then the wife will find out this is an inappropriate emotional relationship.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're like, well, what does that mean?
I can't have friends.
whitney cummings
And it's emotional cheating.
My work wife or my work husband type thing.
I've had that sort of stuff happen.
joe rogan
People have that.
I've heard people openly talk about their work husband.
I was like, whoa, this is dark.
whitney cummings
I mean, I remember with Chris D'Elia.
I was doing a show with Chris D'Elia and we would spend all day together every day and we were like having this relationship.
I mean, we were also acting as girlfriend and boyfriend and we were sort of super bonded and then because you spend all day talking to each other, confiding in each other, sharing all these experiences, by the time you get home to your actual boyfriend, you're like, goodnight!
And then a month later, I'm like, because remember when that director yelled at me?
And they're like, no.
And it's like, I thought I told you.
You don't listen to me.
You don't understand me.
It's only because I've invested everything in that other person that all of a sudden it starts driving a wedge between you and your actual.
So what you're supposed to do in relationships is keep everything and hold it.
It's like not ejaculating, basically, emotionally.
It's like hold.
Like if something crazy happens to me at work, I don't confide in someone at work.
I have to wait till I get home and bore the shit out of my boyfriend.
joe rogan
I know this dude who is a very funny guy and he brings this woman on the road with him and when he brings this woman on the road with him his wife freaks.
She does not like it.
whitney cummings
You mean like an opener?
joe rogan
Yeah, he's got a woman opening act and his wife is fucking freaking.
whitney cummings
Do you truly think...
I'm all for female opening acts, obviously.
I'm panicking.
Do you think he has any interest in her?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
No, I don't.
whitney cummings
He just wants to...
I mean, I support having a team.
joe rogan
She's nice.
She's funny.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
She's a good comic.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and he has her open for him.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
I used to open for...
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, it's totally possible.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
But, you know, it's that thing.
You know, you're experiencing this thing that she can't do.
The wife is not a comedian.
whitney cummings
That's another thing.
I think comics also have a bond that I feel like the outside person can never totally understand.
joe rogan
Never.
Well, just the way we joke around with each other.
Like, just the things you and I have said to each other.
If we said these things in an office, like, holy shit.
whitney cummings
Lawsuit.
joe rogan
Human resources.
We'd both go to jail.
whitney cummings
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
I think you'd go to jail more than me.
whitney cummings
I am the worst, but thank God that NBC lawsuit, those Friends writers made a lot of progress for us.
unidentified
What is that?
whitney cummings
Okay, so there was this famous lawsuit on Friends.
The writer's assistant sued the writers in the writer's room because they were saying something about the actresses or saying like fucking them with twigs or I think something crazy.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
And the writer's assistant sued the writers for sexual harassment and said, I need to hear all this disgusting shit.
And the writers won because they said it was part of our creative process.
joe rogan
Well, it is.
It certainly is.
And especially with comedians, we have said ridiculous shit to each other.
Yeah, I mean, like, we just, like, guys, first of all, like Callan, D'Elia, me, we've said ridiculous shit, like, about each other.
Like, about how I'd fuck you.
We had fuck you, bro, first of all.
I'm a top.
whitney cummings
I'm a top.
joe rogan
That's me.
I'm a top.
And you're just going to give in.
You're just going to give in.
You're going to spit on your hand.
You're going to rub it on your butt.
And we will do that to each other because it's how we make each other laugh.
That we need something really extreme and completely forbidden to make each other laugh.
whitney cummings
That's correct.
I think that is so fascinating.
I think comedians, we just have to go off the grid a little bit every now and then.
joe rogan
Like someone who watches too much porn.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
We need gags and fucking mascara running and fucking belts around your neck.
We need the whole thing.
whitney cummings
Amputee porn.
Yeah.
joe rogan
We need gagging.
whitney cummings
We're desensitized to regular conversation.
I think we have a certain threshold of adrenaline we need or something.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
When I get around comics, it took me so long to delineate the difference between how to act around comics and how to act around human beings.
And I also think part of the reason I'm a little manic when I first see a comic, it's like a puppy seeing its owner.
And then I just get so excited that I get to be like, bitch, can't fuck.
I get to be deviant.
joe rogan
And you get to be free.
whitney cummings
Because I feel like I spend all day just being like, don't say that, don't say that, don't say that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's our culture, the culture of comedy, stand-up comedy.
It's very unusual.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
The community, it's one of the reasons why I'm very protective of that community.
And it's one of the things that I thought was the weird, you know, it's one of the things I've said about this whole Louis C.K. thing.
I'm like, he did it to one of us.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He did it to us.
It wasn't, not that he should do it to anybody.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
That doesn't want him to jerk off in front of him.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
But I don't think writers or interns on a writing staff are the same as stand-ups.
joe rogan
Oh, he did that too, right?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
It's like stand-ups is one thing.
joe rogan
Well, he just had a thing.
He just had a thing.
You like to beat off in front of people.
whitney cummings
Pick on someone your own size.
You know what I mean?
Come jerk off in front of me.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Now, as a 35-year-old woman.
whitney cummings
I would love to see that.
joe rogan
And apparently he did do that to some comedians and they laughed and they thought it was funny.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Oh, God.
I've seen so many dicks.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, there's some women that he did that to that didn't come out and they thought it was funny.
whitney cummings
But there's a difference between like, oh my God, what are you doing?
And like, stop, please.
And I could lose my job if I challenge you, you know?
joe rogan
Right.
Nobody's doing that now, right?
No one's beating off in front of anybody anymore.
I think that's over.
Most likely.
There's still people scared to talk, right?
whitney cummings
I guess I just am curious what the neurology is of being able to get an erection when a girl's going, stop!
joe rogan
The worst is if they didn't get an erection.
It's like three quarters hard.
whitney cummings
But if that's your thing, if a woman, is that like being humiliated as an aphrodisiac or shame?
I think it's driven by shame, yeah?
joe rogan
There's a lot of weird shit to that for sure.
I don't know.
whitney cummings
Because there's nowhere to go.
Like I was reading this thing about pedophiles and like I'm not supportive of pedophiles.
But like if you are a pedophile and you have horrible thoughts, there's nowhere where you can go unless you can afford therapy where you can say, hey, I have some really fucked up thoughts.
And I want to fuck a kid.
And because shame is the engine of pedophilia and you have nowhere to go.
Or if you do go somewhere, people are going to go, ew, you're disgusting.
And they have nowhere to quell that shame and stop the cycle.
Right.
And then if you act on it, then you have more shame.
And then it just makes it worse.
And most pedophiles were molested.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Right.
So it's just this fucked up cycle and there's no socially acceptable place to go express that the way in AA you can go, hey, I want to drink or I want to do drugs or whatever.
There's no like place for them to go.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And it's also because it's your your thing is victimizing children.
There's zero tolerance for that anywhere.
People want to kill you.
They literally think you should be killed.
whitney cummings
But there should be a place like AA or somewhere where you go to go like...
joe rogan
But how would we know if it even works?
That's the problem.
Like, you know what works?
Bullets.
whitney cummings
Bullets in your head.
joe rogan
Bullets in your head work.
whitney cummings
Correct.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, if someone's a kid fucker.
whitney cummings
How do you feel about the fact that if you are a pedophile, that means someone molested you?
And you were a victim at some point.
joe rogan
No, it's horrible.
whitney cummings
Because victims become perpetrators.
So it's like, how do you break that cycle without just constantly shaming people?
Because then you shame them into isolation, and isolation is where shame thrives.
joe rogan
Maybe one day we'll have some sort of a form of therapy that can literally erase inclinations, that can erase desires.
whitney cummings
Or surgery that fucking takes out...
joe rogan
Well, that's what they were trying to do, right?
Like a lobotomy?
whitney cummings
Yeah.
Great.
Bring those back.
unidentified
Oof.
whitney cummings
I don't think that works.
Like whatever you have to do.
joe rogan
They just went in there with a drill and fucking...
whitney cummings
But it's like, because when you see...
I mean, I was reading about the dark web.
Is it the deep web or the dark web?
unidentified
Dark web.
whitney cummings
I'm a hundred years old.
But like 90% of it is child pornography.
And you're just like, there's so many, like, what the fuck?
It makes me homicidal.
joe rogan
Did you see that hero cop?
This guy was like a hero cop, got his arm blown off, and then they just caught him with child porn.
Like, oh, fuck.
whitney cummings
That fucking Vegas shooter apparently had a bunch of child porn.
joe rogan
Not surprised.
whitney cummings
Yeah, you know, so it's like, but like to stop that cycle is just so it's like the same idea of like jerking off on someone and being turned on by them being scared, being sexually aroused by a woman being scared.
There's something fucking going on there.
And I don't know if it's nature, if it's nurture, if it's fucking Viking shit.
joe rogan
The pedophile thing is also it's such a forbidden topic that no one even wants to express any sort of sympathy for those people at all.
You don't want to be thought of as a pedophilia sympathizer.
whitney cummings
Correct.
unidentified
Correct.
joe rogan
That's almost like a thing that you can't fix.
The recidivism rate is so high.
whitney cummings
But if there's a way, if it's technically an addiction, I mean, I think it's probably a mental illness or some sort of trauma therapy, because those people are traumatized, right?
joe rogan
Right, but if you're addicted to cigarettes...
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you go through therapy, and you kick them, and then you get back on the cigarettes 10 years later.
I don't care.
But if you're addicted to fucking kids, and then you live, and then another kid gets fucked because you couldn't keep it together anymore, I'm not willing to take that risk.
And that becomes a real problem, especially someone who has young children.
That freaks me the fuck out.
And I, like most fathers who are hearing my voice thinking about this right now, I want to murder.
I just want to take that person out of the food chain.
And you don't want to take that risk.
whitney cummings
And I guess the one thing I would say is people have a lot of sympathy for children who are molested or victims of pedophiles until they grow up.
You know, like a lot of women who were victims of that end up manifesting as the women who can't say no or the women who are like, you know, traumatized and freeze up and stuff like that.
joe rogan
But those women were hypersexual.
That's the other thing.
Porn stars.
A lot of women that get involved in the adult industry were molested as children like a giant percentage.
I don't want to say it's all of them.
I don't want to say it's all of them because I know there's a lot of women that do it just because they enjoy it and that's totally cool.
But there are a lot.
There was some survey they did once back in the day and it was some alarming number.
whitney cummings
And those are just the ones that admit it.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
A lot of people can never come to terms with it.
I was talking to a therapist who was saying something about plastics.
A lot of people that get crazy plastic surgery do it because they were molested and they're trying to change their face so when they look in the mirror it's not the person that got molested.
joe rogan
That's what they thought about Michael Jackson.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, that was one of the big theories about Michael Jackson.
His father abused him.
Yeah.
You know my theory about Michael Jackson?
whitney cummings
Tell me.
joe rogan
Don't say it again.
whitney cummings
Tell me everything.
joe rogan
I think he's a castrato.
I think he had his balls removed.
I think that's why his voice was so high.
That was a common thing they used to do with singers.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
You ever heard of castrato music?
I'm going to teach Whitney Cumming something.
They used to do that with opera singers.
whitney cummings
You know so much more than I do.
joe rogan
No, I don't.
You know a lot of shit.
I know I'm not to eat cookies while we're doing a podcast.
whitney cummings
Sorry, because my blood sugar.
joe rogan
There's no sugar in those.
whitney cummings
I'm not in ketosis.
No wonder I'm so hungry.
joe rogan
Yeah, those are no cookies.
They have very little sugar.
The glycemic index on those is extremely low.
whitney cummings
How do you not get hungry?
I don't understand it.
joe rogan
Because my body burns fat.
I eat very little carbohydrates.
Like this morning, I ate eggs and fat beef.
whitney cummings
So you never have sugar dips because you don't eat sugar?
joe rogan
No, I don't have any spikes.
No, I'm eating fat most of the time.
I'm eating fat and meat.
That's what I eat mostly.
whitney cummings
God, I need to just regroup here.
I need to start from scratch.
joe rogan
It's way healthier.
It's way better cognitively.
I don't get mentally tired this way.
whitney cummings
I take four naps a day, Joe.
joe rogan
I don't take any naps.
whitney cummings
I'm always so fucking tired.
Well, I'm on beta blockers, too.
I think that's a whole other thing.
joe rogan
You're on beta blockers?
whitney cummings
I take beta blockers.
joe rogan
Why are you on beta blockers?
whitney cummings
Because I get really bad migraines, and it's hormonal, but I think I figured that out.
joe rogan
But beta blockers are supposed to keep you from getting nervous.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it stops adrenaline, I think, from what I understand.
joe rogan
I know a lot of archers use that to actually test for it.
Because when you're on archery competitions, the nerves will make you shake.
whitney cummings
So I produce a lot of adrenaline and cortisol at the tiniest things because I'm a fucking trauma source.
joe rogan
You need a goddamn hug, woman.
whitney cummings
Don't.
joe rogan
Every time I'm around you, I want to hug you.
whitney cummings
I'm a fucking spaz.
And so I was getting really bad migraines because of my neurochemical spikes.
I would get too much adrenaline and too much cortisol when I get nervous.
So I take two beta blockers a day.
I'm a catch!
joe rogan
Jesus.
whitney cummings
If you had your balls cut off today, would the octaves of your voice go?
joe rogan
No, it's the way you're developing.
They do it to a boy when they're very young.
There's actually recordings of castratos from the early 1900s.
See if you can get that.
whitney cummings
What surgeon does that surgery?
jamie vernon
Got us pulled off YouTube before.
joe rogan
Oh, did it?
jamie vernon
I'll pull it from there.
whitney cummings
Oh, really?
Because it's like child pornography?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
Because the recording gets flagged by YouTube as being their proprietary or their property.
And so anything that you use that someone else's stuff can get you pulled off of YouTube.
You know, like, there's a shitload of people out there that have, like, these nature videos.
There's a big one.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It gets us pulled all the time.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, people that own things.
whitney cummings
Can you pay for it?
Like, the way you would license something?
joe rogan
You could do something like that, or you could give them your ad revenue, but you'd have to give them, like, all the ad revenue from a show.
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
That's insane.
joe rogan
It's insane.
So, like, if we played a clip from The Office, and we played it, and you could see it on the show, we would totally get flagged and pulled off YouTube.
Yeah.
And if it happens more than one time, you can lose your whole channel.
whitney cummings
That's insane.
joe rogan
I didn't know that.
Yeah, you could argue it, that it's fair use, but you don't have a license to do it, and if you're making money off of it, it might not be considered fair use.
So listen to this sound.
What this sound is that we're hearing, and Jamie, what is the name of this?
This is a young man who had his balls removed.
And one of the things that happens to them as they get older, they never really develop masculine traits.
This guy got fat.
whitney cummings
Because he had no testosterone.
joe rogan
Yeah, no testosterone.
There's no balls.
And so they have this haunting, high-pitched, almost female but not quite sound.
And it was a preferred sound.
So much so that they would take children and sell them off and they would get their balls cut off at a young age so they would develop to be castratos.
whitney cummings
I can't handle things like this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
This is my thought about Michael Jackson.
I think Michael Jackson's voice was so high.
It was so high-pitched.
And, like, his falsetto was so pure.
I really...
I mean, no one's gonna know.
I mean, there's no way to know.
But I'm a retard and I have my own thoughts.
These are my thoughts.
whitney cummings
But if I'm the surgeon who did that surgery, after he dies, why aren't I coming forward and getting $5 million for this story?
joe rogan
Because that surgeon's going to go to fucking jail.
Is that illegal?
unidentified
You do that shit in America?
joe rogan
100%.
You took a kid and cut his balls off?
You can't do that.
It might not even be real.
I might just be a stupid person who has a dumb idea, which is more likely.
unidentified
I don't know.
whitney cummings
I think it's a pretty good explanation.
It's weird, right?
Because he had other brothers that didn't sound like that.
joe rogan
They didn't sound anything like that.
You hear Jermaine Jackson saying he sounds like a man.
Michael Jackson never sounded like a man.
whitney cummings
Doesn't add up.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was all weird.
whitney cummings
It's fishy.
joe rogan
Well, it's also the abuse that he suffered as a child and his incredible connection to children, this bizarre connection.
whitney cummings
Because when you're traumatized, you get stunted, yeah?
joe rogan
What, Jamie?
jamie vernon
The doctor that killed him or was in jail for killing him wrote in a book that his parents had him chemically castrated.
unidentified
What is that?
whitney cummings
Oh, like taking those pills?
unidentified
For real?
jamie vernon
I mean, that's what he wrote in a book I'm reading on some New Zealand news hub.
I don't know how accurate this is.
joe rogan
Well, they do that.
They've done that to child molesters.
They do that to child molesters.
They give them the option.
whitney cummings
Oh, so that you don't...
joe rogan
Michael Jackson, chemically castrated by parents, claims doctor.
Dude, this is my fucking theory.
Goddammit, I'm right.
I bet I'm right.
I bet I'm right.
Well, also, his children weren't his children, right?
He's a heterosexual man, but heinous things happened to Michael in his lifetime that actually changed or had him morph into who he thought he was.
One of those things, according to Murray, was his parents arranging for his chemical castration.
His testes were never removed, but injections were given to Michael Jackson to maintain his voice.
His high-pitched voice of a child that went long beyond puberty.
He places much of the blame for Jackson's extraordinary but difficult life at the feet of his family.
I fucking knew it.
whitney cummings
So let me ask you, is this something that stops testosterone production?
unidentified
Yes.
whitney cummings
Like what's given to kids who are transitioning and that sort of thing?
joe rogan
You're done.
That's why he was so skinny.
whitney cummings
And how long ago was that?
I thought that was a more recent thing.
joe rogan
They did that to him as a child to maintain his voice.
whitney cummings
But then why did he grow so tall?
Can you still grow?
joe rogan
Yeah, you can still grow.
Women are tall.
You're tall.
You're taller than me.
whitney cummings
A lot of GMOs.
joe rogan
That's why.
No, it's just different genes.
It doesn't stop you from growing tall.
It stops your muscles from developing.
whitney cummings
Oh, and then what does that have to do with the vocal cords?
Because something about your vocal cords...
joe rogan
Testosterone changes your voice.
That's why when a woman turns into a transgender man, their voice becomes a different thing.
unidentified
Right.
whitney cummings
Is that legal?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
It's not legal to chemically castrate a boy.
whitney cummings
It's expensive, though.
joe rogan
It's fucking crazy.
whitney cummings
Because we talked about this in Roseanne.
joe rogan
This doctor's right.
If that doctor's right, and I bet he is right, if you wrote about this, I bet he's right.
jamie vernon
He self-published it, too.
whitney cummings
What does that mean?
No one would give him a book deal?
joe rogan
Who the fuck's going to give a book deal to the guy who killed Michael Jackson?
whitney cummings
That's a bad idea.
Well, someone gave a book deal to that Milo...
joe rogan
No, they didn't.
They took it away.
whitney cummings
Oh, did they get the money back?
joe rogan
Yeah, he lost it.
He lost his book deal when the thing came out about him thinking that it's okay for young boys to have sex with gay men.
whitney cummings
Not great.
Not a great brand.
joe rogan
The gay community has a different take on that.
whitney cummings
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they have a different take on it than the straight community.
The idea of young gay boys having sex with gay men, it doesn't bother them in the same way.
Obviously, I'm not speaking for the gay community, and I don't want to generalize.
But the reactions that I've had from gay friends that talk about it say it's way more common.
unidentified
Huh.
joe rogan
Well, that was the Bryan Singer thing.
Bryan Singer had those parties at his house where he had a whole pool full of fucking gay kids.
whitney cummings
And Morrissey also defended Kevin Spacey about it and was like, it's different.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
whitney cummings
But how young, like how do you know if you're 17 and like we were just talking about the power dynamic, how do you even know you're trying to figure out who you are?
Are you looking for a father figure?
Are you abused yourself?
It's like we just we don't know until they grow up and figure it out in therapy if it was really consensual.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, it's weird that we put this arbitrary date too, like 18. Right, it's so arbitrary.
Well, you can go to war now, you're 18. Like, what?
whitney cummings
I figured out at 32 who I was.
joe rogan
Well, when should she be allowed to vote?
I say 50. I say...
unidentified
That's a really...
whitney cummings
Yeah, I mean, it's so interesting.
It's like, I mean, you know...
joe rogan
When should you be allowed to drive?
I drove like a maniac when I was young.
I just never should have had a car until I was like 25 years old.
whitney cummings
When should you be able to drink?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
When should you be able to drink?
unidentified
If at all.
joe rogan
If at all.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a good question.
whitney cummings
It's terrifying.
And when should you be able to have kids?
joe rogan
That's a good question, too, because you only can do it for a certain amount of time.
whitney cummings
That's right.
And by the time you can't do it anymore, that's when you finally know what you're doing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
I feel like I'm 35 years old.
I finally am qualified to be a mother, and this is when you stop being physically capable.
joe rogan
Isn't that nuts?
unidentified
Nuts.
joe rogan
Like, you have a couple more years.
We could still shoot one out.
whitney cummings
I have...
I have my shits on ice, so I think I might have more time.
joe rogan
But you have to find someone that you would really raise a kid with.
It's a very different thing.
whitney cummings
I have to find the perfect nanny.
It's hard to do.
I have a guy that I think is pretty A+. And if he's not, I'll just give the child to you.
You seem to be doing a pretty good job.
unidentified
I'll raise him in the forest.
whitney cummings
That's a very real fear.
I'm finally, for the first time, like, oh god.
Do I have to get my shit together on that?
But then I get super scared about this world.
I'm like, do I want to bring kids into this world?
joe rogan
Yeah, I have a bit about that, too.
whitney cummings
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
I'm like, oh, I wouldn't want to have kids today.
Yeah, why would you with all the books and medicine and shit?
People are shitting kids out in cave floors.
That's why we're here.
whitney cummings
Are we going to have water in 20 years?
joe rogan
Yeah, we'll have water.
We're going to figure this out.
We're panicking, we're freaking out, but that's also why we correct things.
I think the technology, ingenuity, and I also think, as ironically as it seems, a guy like Donald Trump as president is going to really Activate people.
whitney cummings
Agree.
joe rogan
They're gonna start moving in...
Look at this fucking women's march thing.
unidentified
You're right, you're right.
joe rogan
A big part of that is having to grab the pussy president.
whitney cummings
It had to get this bad in order for us to wake the fuck up because we're all zombie sleepwalkers.
joe rogan
He's the reason why those pussy hats that, by the way, whoever's making a windfall off those goddamn pussy hats, they should be thanking Donald.
whitney cummings
There were people down there selling them.
joe rogan
No one knows how to make pussy hats like me.
whitney cummings
What if he's behind the selling of that?
Yeah, no, it was amazing to see all the commercialization of it and everybody capitalizing on it.
joe rogan
And also, I think it's going to make us much more appreciative of the Environmental Protection Agency and then all the restrictions that Obama put in offshore drilling.
If anything goes wrong, because he's just opened up offshore drilling everywhere.
You know that, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you know what he's done?
whitney cummings
Yes.
joe rogan
I mean, I know.
whitney cummings
I've heard that.
joe rogan
He's done a lot of really crazy things with the environment and with state, with, you know, whether it's Bureau of Land Management areas or I don't know which organization.
There's definitely state land that was public land that's now being diminished.
State parks that are now being diminished.
And they're opening them up for mining.
They're opening them up for extraction of minerals and resources.
And all this is close to rivers and watersheds and all these different areas that are very important for different ecosystems.
whitney cummings
Fault lines.
unidentified
Terrifying, terrifying stuff in terms of the future.
joe rogan
Well, there's earthquakes in Oklahoma all the time now that never used to happen.
And all that's directly attributed to fracking.
They're drilling these giant holes in the ground and pumping all this water in there and fluids and all this shit they use for fracking.
It's going to energize people and get people to understand that there's real consequences to just thinking about money.
Also, how ridiculous it is that a guy who has more money than he could ever fucking possibly spend is only thinking about money.
In his mind, he's thinking about America.
He's thinking about people prospering and getting jobs and this and that.
But clearly it's not just that.
Clearly there's some personal profit that's being extracted from all this.
whitney cummings
Of course.
Yeah, it's like his people.
And look, I love Oprah, she's a delight, but for the left to go like, let's have Oprah be president.
joe rogan
How about NBC's Twitter page?
This is our president, capital letter, our president, Oprah.
whitney cummings
Let's hire another celebrity who isn't qualified to be the president.
joe rogan
Oprah, I just want to tell everybody, do you guys remember the secret?
Remember the fucking secret?
Go back when Oprah was telling everybody, you can have anything you want, you just got to imagine it.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
What the fuck are we watching here?
whitney cummings
It's not great to also be like, let's have this other celebrity be president.
joe rogan
She's a wonderful lady.
whitney cummings
Wonderful.
joe rogan
I don't have any problem with Oprah, but I just think what we should have is someone who is extremely educated, who has incredibly nuanced and well-thought-out opinions on things, and someone who's got a really good grasp of what it takes to run a democracy.
whitney cummings
Let's stop electing rich celebrities to run our country.
unidentified
We tried it.
Didn't work.
whitney cummings
Didn't work out so well.
joe rogan
Well, you know, maybe it worked out if you're an oil man.
Maybe it worked out if you're in the mining industry.
whitney cummings
And then it's just tricky.
It's like the idea of being like, I don't think Oprah should be our next president.
It's like, well, you're sexist.
It's like, Jesus fucking Christ, you're racist.
No, I'm not.
It's like, we should be able to say we don't think certain people are qualified.
It's also crazy.
Stop yelling at me.
Do you read your comments on Instagram?
Should I just stop?
joe rogan
No.
whitney cummings
You never do?
joe rogan
No.
Very, very rarely.
Sometimes I'll look in and I'll see someone that's a dick and I'll just block them.
It's like, what?
whitney cummings
Because I try to engage and try to see what's going on, but the kind of shit is just too insane.
It's not worth it.
joe rogan
You just put out good things, try to be nice.
whitney cummings
And is that a crazy person or is that a person that masquerades as being sane and then behind closed doors as crazy?
unidentified
Could be both.
whitney cummings
Mix of both.
joe rogan
Could be both.
Did you ever hear about that guy that got fired from Reddit and he was saying awful shit on Reddit and posting all these terrible things and they found out his personal identity?
And they went after him and then got him fired from his job and it devastated his life.
I think I was married with kids and the whole thing, his life completely fell apart.
Yeah.
People enjoy being a cunt anonymously.
They enjoy it.
One of the things that I found on Instagram, if someone says something really particularly heinous, you go to their page, they're almost always private.
They almost always have like a blocked page because they're cowards.
There's just a lot of like very deeply unhappy people that will lash out at anybody that's in the public spotlight, like you.
Especially a woman.
whitney cummings
Crazy question.
joe rogan
Okay.
whitney cummings
If a man, this happened to someone I know, if a man is engaging with relationships with other women on the internet as a character, is it cheating?
joe rogan
No.
It's just, he's having a character.
whitney cummings
Roleplay?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, is he an artist?
Is he a writer?
whitney cummings
No.
No.
Like in a, you know, just sort of pretty adrenaline-free job.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's probably fucking completely bored out of his mind, and it gives him a charge.
whitney cummings
Is it like a video game?
unidentified
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Because I was like, this feels kind of like a video game.
joe rogan
In a little bit of a way it is.
It's role-playing.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, it's like a simulation, right?
In a little of a way it's just being deceptive.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
Maybe it's fantasy.
whitney cummings
Right.
joe rogan
He wishes he was someone different.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
If your wife is online as a different person engaging with men...
joe rogan
Sending pictures of her own pussy.
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
That's when it gets weird.
unidentified
Dicey.
joe rogan
Right.
whitney cummings
Pussy flying through the air.
unidentified
Ha ha ha!
Literally.
whitney cummings
You know who's here?
This is what's going to win.
Fleshlights.
unidentified
I wonder if the sale of fleshlights is going to go up.
joe rogan
Robots.
That's what's going to win.
whitney cummings
Sex robots.
joe rogan
Sex robots.
whitney cummings
Totally agree.
joe rogan
They're closing in.
whitney cummings
But to your point about the...
Do you think that that also works the muscle of dehumanizing?
joe rogan
Yes.
whitney cummings
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And also changes your reward system.
Like instead of like learning to be an interesting charismatic person who's caring and kind and reaping the rewards of real relationships with people that care about you and you care about them and understanding real true love.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Instead of that, you're fucking this robot.
whitney cummings
I cannot, like, is it cheating if he fucks a robot?
Like, I can't have that fight.
I can't.
I can't do it.
Did you fuck the robot or not?
I can't have that fight.
I can't do this.
joe rogan
What do you do about that?
What do we do?
whitney cummings
Did you fuck the robot?
Tell me the truth.
Look me in the eye and tell me you didn't fuck Siri.
joe rogan
What do we do?
whitney cummings
I can't.
joe rogan
Is a robot bad, but a fleshlight okay?
unidentified
Yeah, because there's no head, I guess.
whitney cummings
If there's eyeballs, it gets very dicey.
unidentified
Is the robot skinnier than me?
whitney cummings
Is she prettier than me?
I just want to make sure the robots have wrinkles, couple crows feet.
joe rogan
Giant anime eyes.
whitney cummings
Yes, I don't want them being too...
We've got to make sure these robots...
joe rogan
You see your dick, they faint.
whitney cummings
They giggle.
They laugh at your bad jokes.
We have to make sure these robots aren't too pretty.
They've got to be ugly.
joe rogan
It's not going to happen.
They're going to be hot as fuck.
They're going to be perfect.
whitney cummings
I don't like this one bit.
You posted that thing of that robot jumping.
joe rogan
How crazy is that?
unidentified
Did you fucking see that?
How crazy is that?
joe rogan
There's so many of them.
Did you ever see that episode of Black Mirror?
Called Metalhead?
Is that what it's called?
whitney cummings
I haven't seen the new one.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
The new season of Black Mirror is fucking insane.
And one of the episodes has a bunch of robots that are going after people and it's called Metalhead.
I don't want to say anymore.
It's terrifying because it's very realistic.
Incredibly realistic and probably represents something that's going to exist in the future.
whitney cummings
Or maybe it's going to go the other way.
I'm going to be like, baby, can you just fuck the robot tonight?
joe rogan
Maybe.
whitney cummings
I'm tired.
joe rogan
That's when you know it's over.
whitney cummings
I just ate too much.
joe rogan
Send him over to the robot because you've got lasagna in your stomach.
whitney cummings
Please don't impale my lasagna.
joe rogan
Maybe you'll allow him to fuck robots, but the robot has to look exactly like you.
You have a spare.
whitney cummings
The problem is that we'd get the robot, we'd order it, it would come in and be like, is that what I look like?
I have two dysmorphic.
joe rogan
And you'd put your hand up and just like a mirror, it would put its hand up and you'd both like move perfectly in sync.
whitney cummings
It would be a nightmare.
It would have to age with me though.
It would have to age.
It would have to get older when I get older.
It'd have to get wrinkles and gray hairs and shit.
joe rogan
You'd take it outside and drag it through the dirt.
whitney cummings
Of course they're all Asian.
Did you see the woman Grace Wu at the march?
unidentified
Hello.
Hello?
joe rogan
Oh, is that a dick?
I've never seen one.
I'm getting lightheaded.
whitney cummings
I can't do that.
joe rogan
No, I didn't see a woman at the march.
whitney cummings
There was an actress named Grace Wu who talked about sort of the fetishization of Asian women.
joe rogan
Well, get over it, bitch.
She's just bragging.
unidentified
That's what she's doing.
joe rogan
She's bragging.
Oh, everybody just wants to fuck and I'm so tired.
whitney cummings
That's my thing of fucking free the nipple.
I'm like, only girls with great tits want to free the nipple.
Now you're just bragging.
joe rogan
Got those leather tits.
whitney cummings
No women in their 40s are like, let's free the nipple.
It's all like hot chicks.
joe rogan
I see what they're doing.
whitney cummings
Yeah, I don't want to free the nipple.
joe rogan
Wendy Cummings, let's wrap this up.
When's your movie out?
whitney cummings
It's out, February 9th, The Female Brain.
It's about all of this shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
whitney cummings
Yeah, it's about all of this sort of stuff.
joe rogan
And where would it be?
whitney cummings
It's going to be in movie theaters, and then it's going to be in VOD. It's got Blake Griffin, Will Sasso is in it.
Yeah, Neil Brennan is in it.
joe rogan
Will Sasso's hilarious.
unidentified
Hilarious!
joe rogan
Funny dude.
I gotta get him in here.
whitney cummings
He has a scene with Blake Griffin where he plays his physical therapist and it's fucking hysterical.
I could not cut it.
It's really great.
joe rogan
Whitney Cummings, ladies and gentlemen!
Give her a big e-hug.
unidentified
Oy!
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