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June 11, 2018 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1129 - Tom Papa
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joe rogan
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tom papa
01:09:32
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5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We can do it.
joe rogan
Tom Papa is a motherfucking author.
tom papa
I'm a man of letters now.
joe rogan
You're an author.
tom papa
I'm an author.
joe rogan
I've always admired that and secretly wished that I, not even so secretly, wished that I had the discipline to write a book.
tom papa
You do have the discipline.
You just have to focus it on that.
You can do it.
joe rogan
How long did it take you to write this?
tom papa
About two years.
joe rogan
That's too long.
I don't got that kind of job.
tom papa
You can do it shorter.
joe rogan
Oh, okay, like a little pamphlet?
tom papa
Yeah, just throw a flyer.
Just make a flyer.
This is all I can do.
joe rogan
How long before you started writing the book did you think about writing the book?
tom papa
I've always kind of wanted to write a book.
Did you have a book deal?
No.
Well, yeah, on this one.
I had pitched doing a book, I don't know, like six years ago.
Pretty much the same concept, and no one was into it.
And then a couple of years ago, two, three years ago, a publisher contacted my agent or whatever, and they had interest.
So we made a book deal.
And that changes everything, because now someone's waiting for you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
You know, you've got to turn stuff in, and they make books, and they're probably smart.
You don't want to seem like an idiot.
joe rogan
Did you have an editor that, like, went over your stuff and said, this is too long, this is too short?
tom papa
Yeah, they were pretty great.
They were pretty...
They just left the material alone.
joe rogan
Oh.
tom papa
There was a couple little things where they're like, you know, you're repeating something or that, but mostly it was...
Grammar kind of things.
Do you want to say it like this?
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
This isn't technically grammatically correct, but, you know, typos.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
That kind of stuff.
They were pretty hands-off about the actual material.
joe rogan
And is it a book of essays?
Is it your life story?
What is it?
tom papa
It's all on family.
It's called Your Dad Stole My Rake and Other Family Dilemmas.
And it's broken down by...
By everyone in your family.
The basic thing is, as a comedian, I've been writing about family and looking at everyone's families for so long, so I'm going to write about all of them.
So it's moms, dads, cousins, aunts, uncles, all broken down chapters like that.
So I talk a little bit about my family, and then I just talk about funny essays about just life in general, like going on family vacations.
joe rogan
Why are you eating your shirt?
What's going on there?
tom papa
I don't know exactly.
There's a really cool photographer, Sam Jones, who's...
joe rogan
And he just decided to get wacky?
tom papa
He just...
This guy is like this amazing photographer who's done like Clooney and Damon and all these people.
And I asked him if he would help.
And when I showed up, we were just taking some regular shots.
And he's like, I have this idea.
And he just brought out this giant shirt and put a tie on it.
And just shot it.
And it came out pretty funny.
It looked like Dilbert.
Yeah.
Or beaker.
joe rogan
I was just trying to figure out what you're doing there.
I guess what you're doing there is get people to try to figure out what you're doing there.
tom papa
Yeah, they stare at it and they're like, maybe if I buy the book, I'll figure it out.
joe rogan
I'll understand.
unidentified
The puzzle is deep inside.
tom papa
It's just being goofy.
joe rogan
Yeah, when you write a book, you have to think, man, someone could be reading this 30 years from now, 50 years from now.
tom papa
That is, as comedians, you write something in the morning, and you bring it on stage.
They tell you if it's funny or not.
You know what you're working with.
You go back and forth.
This is like it's permanent, and no one gets to review it until it's done.
So, the nerve-wracking part of it was like, okay, it's done.
I'm pretty proud of it.
I've edited it like crazy.
I've worked on it for a long time.
Will people think it's okay?
Will they not think it's hack?
Will they think it's good?
Is the writing okay?
All that other stuff.
And it's been out now for a week, and I can tell the reviews are good.
Like, the people are reviewing it, and writing about it, and calling, and people just randomly...
And I'm over the hurdle...
The anxiety of is this a good book is over.
People like it.
It's funny and people are saying I can write.
So that is huge.
It's just calming down completely.
Like you said, for 30 years, what if everybody's like, Takes a dump on it.
joe rogan
Well, there's some that are really fucking bad.
tom papa
Yeah!
joe rogan
I mean, some comics, someone should have just walked in while they were writing and grabbed them.
And said, hey, you're doing something terrible for your future.
tom papa
This is going to be around for a long time.
People are going to refer to this forever.
joe rogan
You catch people in these really...
Self-righteous, defensive modes, and they're writing things down.
And maybe like five years from now, they'd be like, what the fuck was I thinking?
Yeah.
They're in the middle of writing it, and I've read some shit.
Oh my God.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
tom papa
Just horrible stuff.
Yeah.
No, I'm relieved.
I'm not excited.
I'm just relieved.
Like, oh, okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
It's good.
It was good.
I thought it was good.
I hoped it was good.
My editor said it's good.
People are saying that they're laughing when they're reading it, like editors who don't normally say that kind of stuff.
joe rogan
How do you balance out book writing with writing stand-up?
How do you divide your time?
tom papa
It was tough.
Whenever I work on something else, I work on it at night.
I got into this rhythm of going in every morning, get up at 7, go in with my coffee, and sit there.
And that was book time until noon.
I would try and just work on that.
But that wasn't for two years.
That was like the last, you know, year to eight months kind of thing.
Before that, it's a little looser.
I'm trying to get it done and stuff, but that real discipline of like coming in every morning, sitting down, and seven days a week.
Just writing, just writing.
joe rogan
Seven days a week.
tom papa
Wherever I was, whatever I was doing, I had to make sure that I had that time.
If I'm on a plane, if I'm in a hotel, if I'm on the road, I was just writing the thing all the time.
It just became – because the biggest challenge for me, and I think a lot of writers, is that you judge yourself as you go.
You're like, is this good?
But you have to just get it down and know that it's bad.
Just get it down.
I want to write this chapter on crazy ants.
So I'm just going to write it and spit it out.
And then I'm going to go to work on it.
Like a bit, you know, like stand-up and just go back and just start editing and peeling back and peeling back and getting rid of words.
joe rogan
What program were you using when you're doing this?
tom papa
I did it all on Word, Microsoft Word.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen Scrivener?
Do you know what Scrivener is?
Scrivener is really interesting.
I did my last special on Scrivener.
tom papa
Oh yeah?
joe rogan
This is the first time I've used it for writing stand-up and what's good about it is On the left-hand side, you have all of your different subjects, and you click on each subject, and there'll be a whole column.
So I had the title, Strange Times, and then the left-hand side.
This is what it looks like when you're looking at the cork board.
So the cork board is one aspect of it, where you have these little cards, like index cards, and you set these index cards up, and you write all the different things on the index cards.
tom papa
You can organize it.
joe rogan
Outside of the index cards, there's also on, like, each index.
The index, the corkboard, it corresponds to each individual subject.
Like, say if I'm doing a bid on desks, right?
So I have desks on the left-hand side, and then I'll write out all the stuff on desks, but there's also a corkboard tab.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And then so I'll have all the different things to make sure that I covered all the notes.
tom papa
Yeah, that's good.
joe rogan
Dude, I like it a lot.
tom papa
Yeah, I'm going to try that.
joe rogan
What I like a lot, this is not really showing why I like it.
Why I like it is because you can move all those little chapters around and move all the bits around, like for stand-up.
tom papa
Oh, that's great.
That's really good.
The organizing, it gets so in your head, it just starts bogging you down.
But the good thing about this was that it was essays, so each one's like four or five pages, right?
I would just be like, literally just open up the file and go, Dads, alright, I'm going to go to work on this one.
Dad, no gifts for Dad.
And then just, boom, just edit that.
Put it away.
Go on the next, you know, I could just bounce it.
What I'm trying to say is I didn't have to keep track like a novel.
I didn't have...
300 pages of flow.
They were all just hits.
So it was kind of similar to stand-up that way.
I could just go to work on them.
But it's fascinating.
I really loved it.
I have friends that have written books.
Colin Quinn came and did a book event with me a couple weeks ago.
And he wrote a book.
He's like, I'll never do it again.
I just hated it.
I couldn't stand it.
unidentified
I hate it.
tom papa
And he's a prolific guy.
He writes a lot.
I mean, there's one-man show.
joe rogan
He's always writing.
tom papa
Yeah, the guy writes a lot, but the writing for the book drove him crazy.
I really loved it.
I couldn't believe that you could look at a five-page essay and find something wrong with it every time you looked at it.
Every time.
Why am I saying this?
They know this.
Why do I have to say he sat down at the table and ate his breakfast?
He ate his breakfast.
You could just peel stuff away all the time and get it as direct as possible.
And I started to really just love that.
joe rogan
Jordan Peterson told me he wrote his first book, and it took him 15 years.
Because he went over every single line, like a critic, trying to find fault in everything that he did.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
Until he felt like he got it down.
It was on the Cold War, so he really wanted to make sure that he had the subject matter completely locked down.
tom papa
Yeah, that's daunting.
You're dealing with something that people can fact check.
People can fact check what happened to me in putting my sister in a garbage can in fourth grade.
You know what I mean?
It was family.
It's all about family.
It's all about the joy of being with other people and the aggravations and all that kind of stuff.
So it was just...
And I have a lot of that in my act.
So it was definitely in my wheelhouse.
I'm not writing books about the Cold War.
joe rogan
You're going to write another one?
tom papa
I am going to write another one.
joe rogan
Have you started yet?
tom papa
No, I haven't.
I have a couple ideas.
And the publisher wants me to write another one.
joe rogan
Already they want you to write another one?
tom papa
Yeah, I think...
joe rogan
That's a good sign.
tom papa
Yeah, it's a good sign.
We're the number one new release in family humor.
So it's like...
joe rogan
Do you have any potty words in there?
tom papa
Very little.
Very little.
joe rogan
How many?
Like 10?
tom papa
That would be a lot.
joe rogan
Got any C words in there?
tom papa
Which one?
joe rogan
The cunt word.
tom papa
Oh my lord.
unidentified
Yes.
tom papa
There's a whole chapter on cunts.
joe rogan
This is the problem with family.
unidentified
Cunts.
joe rogan
Male and female.
tom papa
Just period.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
No, it's actually pretty clean.
I don't know if there's...
I don't know if there's anything in there.
I think there might be one or two words.
joe rogan
One or two questionable?
tom papa
Yeah.
There might be a shit or a...
Yeah, I don't think so, though.
It's pretty clean.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Good for you.
Anything in there on bread?
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
There is?
tom papa
Yes.
The final chapter is Just Eat the Bread.
unidentified
Really?
tom papa
Yeah, it's called Just Eat the Bread.
And it's all a chapter of...
Basically, using bread as a metaphor for just enjoy your life.
Don't turn it away.
Don't get all balled up.
Once in a while, just a little, just do it.
Should I segue into my big announcement?
joe rogan
You got a big announcement?
tom papa
I have a huge Joe Rogan...
Podcast announcement.
unidentified
What is it?
tom papa
Huge!
The book is huge and it's a great Father's Day gift and everybody should buy it.
But as we all know from being on this show that I am the Sultan of Sourdough.
joe rogan
Yes.
tom papa
And my reputation as a baker is because of this show.
Hands down.
From doing your show, your fans are so awesome and started just sending pictures of their bread.
We have this non-stop relationship about bread.
They show me their failures.
They're constantly sending...
I'm in these interactions.
I'm in cities.
People are bringing bread.
And when I would travel, I would go and visit bakeries when I was on the road.
So the big announcement is the Food Network...
Asked me to do a show about bread and baked goods.
joe rogan
Whoa.
tom papa
So I have a new show coming out on the Food Network on Labor Day called Baked with Tom Papa.
joe rogan
Wow.
tom papa
And I travel around kind of like a diner's drive-in kind of thing, but with all baked goods and meeting these amazing people that make the stuff, getting their stories, these families, these Turkish families and Italian families or whatever, and then showing all of this amazing, amazing stuff that they're making.
All because of this show.
I have to thank you 100%.
It was a hobby of mine that I completely loved and got into.
But after doing this, it just kind of exploded.
And now we're going to be...
I just finished shooting them all.
joe rogan
That's awesome, man.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
How many did you shoot?
tom papa
We shot eight.
joe rogan
So where'd you go?
tom papa
Eight different cities.
New Orleans, New York, Detroit, LA, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Northern New Jersey, which is where I grew up.
Yeah, eight different ones.
It's going to start in Labor Day.
It's so silly.
I mean, literally, you know, I've been writing scripts, I've been auditioning, I've been acting, whatever, to be on television.
I start baking bread with my daughter.
That's my show.
joe rogan
It seems like that's the best way anyway.
It's the thing that you actually enjoy and really love.
tom papa
100%.
joe rogan
You find that thing that you're really passionate about and turn that into a show rather than some sitcom that you're really not that excited about other than being on television.
tom papa
That's exactly right.
I was doing this anyway.
I didn't have any of the stress of trying to get a show on the air.
When I've written pilots and you're like, this was just so natural because it's just what I'm doing.
And you hear that a lot.
It should come from something you love.
And you hear that a lot and you're like, well, I love working in an office and having a girlfriend.
I'll make a show about that.
No, you don't.
Not really.
You don't really.
But this actually just, you can't force it.
It's just organic.
And this one was organic.
joe rogan
Did you link up those different cities with comedy shows?
Did you do stand-up in those cities when you were traveling?
tom papa
I did just pop in.
Neil Brennan and I did a show in New Orleans.
I did a show in Cleveland when I was there.
Just as a pop-in.
I didn't promote it and do it while I was there.
joe rogan
So you're just concentrating on filming?
tom papa
Yeah, I was just concentrating on filming.
We'd go in for like three days.
I'd meet like four or five different bakers.
And it was cool.
Just dealing with these people was amazing.
joe rogan
That's awesome, man.
tom papa
No one gets into baking.
Because they're an asshole.
You know what I mean?
No one says, I'm going to bake cookies, and they're an idiot.
joe rogan
Fuck these people.
I'm going to bake them cookies, and they're going to like it.
Food is a fascinating thing to me.
I guess this is as good a time to bring it up as any.
Obviously, Anthony Bourdain took his life last week.
And he was a friend of mine.
And that was real hard.
Friday was real hard.
I woke up and I got a text from my friend Maynard from Tool.
Maynard said, so much for the Keenan versus Bourdain.
Bourdain celebrity jujitsu match.
And he's like, fuck.
And I was like, oh no, what does that mean?
And so then I googled it, and I saw it, and I was like, oh shit, man.
I can't fuck.
What?
unidentified
I just hung himself.
joe rogan
Like, what?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't...
tom papa
How close were you?
Did you know his demons?
joe rogan
I was friends with him, hung out with him, got fucked up with him.
tom papa
Did you get a feeling that he had that in him?
joe rogan
I didn't know that.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But what was really weird was, like, he had been saying really recently that he'd never been happier.
He, um...
Was talking about his girlfriend, saying that he'd never been happier, didn't know he could be that happy, didn't know someone could make him that happy.
tom papa
Oh, man!
That was so terrible.
joe rogan
Well, who knows?
I mean, they might have broken up, but who knows?
I mean, who knows?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, sometimes people, when they say, I've never been that happy.
You're catching them on these ups and downs.
Some people get manic.
I don't know if he was, but some people get manic.
They get up and down.
I'll tell you what.
He liked to get fucked up.
He liked to drink.
And he enjoyed it.
It was something that he enjoyed.
We did an episode of this show.
We went hunting for pheasants in Montana.
And then we cooked over this campfire.
He cooked.
It was fantastic.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
And then afterwards we drank whiskey.
And smoked weed.
And he goes deep.
He goes deep.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Where I'm sitting down.
I'm like, I'm going to just try to catch myself with the world spinning.
tom papa
Deep breath, deep breath.
joe rogan
He's like, where's the fucking weed?
He just kept going.
unidentified
He just kept going.
tom papa
Wow.
I knew he drank.
I didn't know he smoked weed.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
He had a heroin problem when he was younger, and he kicked it.
But he didn't feel the need to just be sober.
tom papa
Yeah, that was kind of interesting about him.
joe rogan
That's a thing, right?
When people get sober from a drug, they feel like they have to get sober from everything.
He did not feel like that.
And he, by the way, he would drink, but when he was home...
Like with his kid and he's homeless, he didn't drink at all.
Like he would only do that when he would be on the road.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
Filming a show.
joe rogan
So he'd be home for these stretches of time and he didn't drink at all and he was addicted to jujitsu.
Oh really?
Yeah, he was doing jujitsu like literally every day.
unidentified
How?
joe rogan
When I was hanging around with him, we were in Montana, he went to Bozeman to find a local jujitsu club.
And trained with them in the morning.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
He just trained with everybody.
I hardly ever did that on the road.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I would just go to the gym and work out.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But he was so into learning and getting better at jiu-jitsu.
tom papa
Do you know if he was on prescription for depression or anything like that?
joe rogan
I do not.
tom papa
That's what I'm so suspicious of.
Like when you heard of like Robin Williams and...
joe rogan
Chris Cornell?
tom papa
Yeah, there's like...
joe rogan
He was on anti-anxiety medication.
Anti-anxiety medication is a big one.
tom papa
That stuff, in their long list of side effects, it's always suicidal thoughts.
And then if you mix it with other things like alcohol and this, and I don't know at all who was on what.
But what bothers me is that it's not part of the conversation.
joe rogan
Well, Robin is a different take.
Because Robin had Lewy body disease.
He had a heart attack.
He had significant issues with that.
My friend, Dr. Mark Gordon, actually wrote a paper about long-term anesthesia, like when you're under, not long-term, but long duration for things like Open heart surgery.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That there's a high instance of depression afterwards and a lot of people coming out of these big time operations where you get anesthesia for long periods of time have significant dips in their hormone levels afterwards.
It's very, you know, it's not like a free ride getting put under.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And having your heart opened up and, I mean, your body goes through massive trauma.
Your body's like, holy shit, we just had our chest plate split open and, you know, your heart gets worked on.
tom papa
People were inside of us.
joe rogan
Yeah, and there's a significant correlation in Mark Gordon's opinion between depression, post-surgery, post-surgery depression.
I think it's something that people need to look at.
He had that, obviously, because he did have heart surgery.
tom papa
For a long period of time, the depression lasts after that?
Because I know people get...
I always thought it was just a mental thing of, like, you know, surviving something.
Like, I remember Letterman...
On his show, like, weeping and bringing his staff on and stuff.
I didn't know it was a hormone thing.
I thought it was just the trauma of surviving that.
joe rogan
I think it can be both.
I mean, I'm obviously no doctor, but he was...
unidentified
Close.
tom papa
I'd say you're close.
joe rogan
Closer to a garbage man.
But he was explaining it to me that there is an issue with this.
And so Robin had that and he had some serious neurological disorders.
And there was quite a few other things too.
tom papa
Right.
They're also complicated.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then whatever medications.
This is the thing, right?
Like, what are these medications?
What's he on?
You really don't know.
But Chester from Lincoln Park, he was on a shitload of things.
But he was very troubled.
He was a guy that was...
He had some real problems, but he was also very medicated.
tom papa
I mean, look, we have the highest suicide rate among middle-aged people in America than ever.
The numbers are through the roof.
And there's also this pharmaceutical opioid crisis at the same time.
And I just feel like people are on this shit that really affects your head and your mood.
And it says right in it, like, you know, I remember I had a friend who's Brother was depressed.
And this was, you know, in the 80s when we were kids.
And the game, lack of a better word, of trying to get the right medicine for him.
Because when they prescribed the wrong one, things got out of hand.
I mean, like, really dangerously out of hand.
And then they finally find the right med for him, and then he kind of...
joe rogan
There's no obvious path.
The problem is, say if you have some particular type of infection, they give you antibiotics.
If you have poison ivy, they know what kind of cortisone cream to put on you.
When you're depressed...
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's just so many different factors involved in depression.
There's your actual life, right?
There's what's going on in your life.
Like, are you taking care of your body?
Are you exercising?
Do you have loving relationships with your family and close friends?
Or do you feel distant and detached?
Do you not have anyone in your life romantically?
Do you not have a job that you enjoy?
All those things factor into the way you feel about life.
tom papa
And from the time you were a kid.
joe rogan
Sure.
tom papa
Your whole life.
joe rogan
Oh, your whole life.
And then on top of that, you have legitimate mental illness.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You have depression because your brain is not producing enough serotonin or dopamine.
There's so many factors.
People try to self-medicate.
I know a lot of people try to do it with exercise.
Exercise apparently seems to be as effective or more effective than most SSRIs and anti-depressions.
tom papa
I heard that, I don't know if I'm right, but I remember hearing that whatever your body manufactures or secretes when you exercise is similar to what a lot of these drugs have in them.
joe rogan
Well, you definitely get runner's high, right?
tom papa
Right, yeah.
joe rogan
Runner's high, you actually...
Runner's high, I don't know the exact mechanisms involved, but it has something to do with the cannabinoid receptors.
So it literally gives you a high...
It's similar to almost like a marijuana high.
tom papa
Right.
Yeah, you get, you're euphoric.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, you get, like, I love it.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I love running.
tom papa
And just feel, even if it's not identified for me as a high, like smoking weed, my whole rest of my day is better.
Like, there's a happy little thing going on that's, you know, I'm not flying, but I'm definitely not balled up and anxious the way I was before the run.
joe rogan
Yeah, that balled up and anxious thing, I have my own theory about that.
I think the human body has physical requirements.
And I think if you don't, just because of the design of it, the fact that human beings have lived for thousands and thousands of years either hunting or gathering or running away from danger, your body's like constantly in action back then.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
We essentially have the same bodies as people that lived 10,000 years ago.
Our DNA is very, very similar.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And I think we have all these requirements and we don't meet them and there's so many people that just sit down all day and that's all they do.
They walk to sit down and they sit down again and most of their time is sitting down, whether they're watching television or sitting in front of their computer.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that shit is terrible for you.
tom papa
Terrible.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
And you feel it.
You just feel shitty.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
You just feel bad.
I was in...
After the Bourdain news, I was traveling outside of Chicago, and it just kind of clicked in my head, like, you know, you're just thinking, whenever you have someone that inspires you, and especially if you're friends, like you were, you know, it's just, you can't get it out of your head kind of a thing.
And your balled-up anxiety is even worse.
And I just instinctually got in, put on my running shoes and just went for a run because I didn't want to sit and think about all of it so much.
And I just felt better.
Like I wasn't euphoric again after the run, but I was definitely better than – before.
Yeah.
I feel like, especially when you're traveling and stuff like that, but he did jujitsu all the time.
See, These are puzzles we can't solve.
joe rogan
Yeah, who knows?
I don't know what was going on.
And there's no way to ask him, obviously.
Yeah, but I when I travel One of the first things I do whether I'm coming home or going there's workout.
Yeah, and I didn't this weekend Because Friday when I got there I'd worked out Thursday so I'd worked out that day already I ran that day and then I got there Thursday night woke up Friday to that text and I was just like fuck man I didn't want to do anything I cried I felt like shit I got a bunch of phone calls from some friends, and then I had two shows that night.
I was like, I just gotta get on the horse, fire up.
And I was a little worried.
I was a little worried that I was going to be moody or weirded out.
But once I got there, I was fine.
I was with Santino and Tony Hinchcliffe.
So those two guys are great.
We just had a fun time.
We talked a little bit about it.
Smoked a little weed.
tom papa
Nice.
joe rogan
Got up there and just had some fun.
tom papa
And the energy of that crowd.
I saw your Instagram of the crowd.
And that's such a beautiful theater.
joe rogan
That's an amazing theater.
tom papa
It'd be tough to be depressed doing a show there with all those fans and that thing.
joe rogan
3,700 people, yeah.
Yeah, we did two shows, too.
They were both great.
tom papa
Oh, they look killer.
joe rogan
It was a lot of fun.
Chicago's an awesome town, man.
Great food, great people.
It's a combination of a big city and Midwest friendly people.
tom papa
Yeah, yeah.
And the summer becomes a totally different city, too.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
tom papa
I'd always gone my whole career in the winter.
And then literally just like three years ago, went in the summer.
I was like, oh man, this place is amazing.
The parks and the festivals.
joe rogan
It's great even in the winter, though.
tom papa
The winter's cool.
joe rogan
I've done gigs there in December and January.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like they're happy to be inside.
Yeah.
tom papa
Yeah, exactly.
And that you came through the cold to see them.
But back to the food thing.
I mean, the stories that Bourdain told through food was just, I mean, amazing.
That's why he reached so many people.
You could sit with that show, and he really took his time, and you really felt like you had been there after he left an episode.
joe rogan
Yeah, he made me think of food as an art form.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I never thought of it as an art form before watching No Reservations, his original show.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I watched that show and...
I just would feel like, oh, this is not what I thought it was.
I thought it was just like, oh, this guy knows how to cook yummy food.
That's great.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But then watching his show, I was like, oh, this is art.
These guys are treating this like a painting or like a sculpture or something like that.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they're passionate and they're all tattooed up and weirdos.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They're artists.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're just artists that cook.
tom papa
That's right.
Exactly.
joe rogan
They might as well be making music or painting, whatever it would be.
Drawing.
They're artists.
tom papa
At its best.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
You know, and the same thing with any other art form.
Then there's people that just crank it out and see a way to make money.
And you can tell there's like a difference.
But once you eat stuff from an artist, you're spoiled.
Because then you're like, ah, these people don't care as much.
Right.
Technically, this is lasagna, but this isn't the same.
joe rogan
I know.
It's fascinating.
The approach is very contagious.
You watch the way they cook, and you watch their passion for the food.
It makes you hungry, you want to eat, and you also want to try it.
At least I do.
I always want to try it.
tom papa
Always.
Always.
It's fascinating.
You know, going around and meeting all these bakers, it's like they all got into it because there's a love there.
And then it's really hard work.
Like these people work, you know, two o'clock in the morning, they're baking.
They're like in there.
I know it sounds so silly, but anytime I'd walk into a coffee shop or a bakery or something, you'd just see a whole display case filled with stuff.
It seems like it's always been there.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
And now meeting the people, these poor bastards who are making it from 2 o'clock in the morning, it's hard, hard work.
And the only way it seems that they can continue to do it is because there was that initial love of it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
That deep, deep love.
They learned it from their grandparents or they just went to school and figured it out and they just hooked them.
And that, like, it's enough of a big bang explosion of love that they stay in it for like, you know, 10 years and make a business out of it.
joe rogan
My grandfather used to walk to get bread every day.
He lived on North 9th Street in Newark, New Jersey, which was at one point in time an Italian community.
It wasn't when he lived there when he died, but when I was a boy...
We would go.
We would leave his house.
We would visit and stay there.
We'd leave his house.
We'd walk like three or four blocks down the street to this bakery that he had been going to for probably 30 years.
And these people, this was like an old Italian bakery with those white paper bags.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Put the loaves in, and they would go there every day and get Italian bread.
tom papa
Every day.
joe rogan
Every day.
Get fresh bread.
And the bread was good for about a day or two.
Like, if you got the second day, it was getting a little dry and stale.
But if you got it that day, boy, ooh, you slice that bread.
And my grandmother made homemade pasta.
She made from scratch.
From flour, eggs, add the whole thing, make lasagna, make...
And it was just fucking sensational.
tom papa
Oh, it's the best.
It's the best.
And, you know, there's that thing, like, when someone makes something really good in the community, it changes the community, because people will walk to get it in the morning.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Like, just making something real quality, all of a sudden, it's like, it just starts attracting people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's fascinating.
joe rogan
It is fascinating.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Did your parents, your grandparents, come over from Italy?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
They were born there?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Oh, yeah?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
What part?
joe rogan
Well, different parts, but Sicily and Naples.
tom papa
That's mine, Sicily and Naples.
That's funny.
So is Rogan...
joe rogan
That's Irish.
That's my grandfather who came from Ireland.
My grandfather on my father's side came from Ireland.
My grandmother on my father's side came from Italy.
So it was one quarter Irish.
tom papa
That's funny.
We were one quarter German.
All the rest were Italian.
It's amazing.
So did they speak Italian?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, they spoke dialect, too.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
So you'd know what the fuck they were saying, even if you spoke Italian.
Like, if you spoke proper Italian and listened to my grandmother and my grandfather yell at each other, you wouldn't know what the fuck they were saying.
tom papa
That's great.
joe rogan
They yelled at each other so much, too.
It was so crazy.
tom papa
Did they really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
When I was a little kid, I'd go over the house.
I'd have to hide.
They would start yelling.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
My grandmother was late for everything.
Everything she ever did, she was late for.
And my grandfather's name was Joseph.
My family was very unoriginal.
My father's name was Joseph.
My grandfather's name is Josephine.
And then my name is Joseph.
So it was like a lot of fucking jokes.
tom papa
What did you call your grandmother?
joe rogan
Grandma.
tom papa
Grandma.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was just grandma.
But when I was over there, I remember my grandmother was always yelling.
My grandfather was always like, we gotta leave!
We gotta leave!
Don't rush me, Joe!
Don't rush me!
And she would get crazy.
They would fucking get crazy.
I was always scared of marriage.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was part of the reason why I was scared.
My grandparents were always yelling at each other.
Wanted to get the fuck away, man.
tom papa
That's just how they communicated back then, though.
I remember my grandparents, too.
Charlotte!
Like veins in their neck popping out.
joe rogan
Well, they grew up in hard times, man.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
When my grandmother had a stroke...
And when they were taking care of her, they started finding these little pockets of money that she had squirreled away in the house.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, all over the house.
Like, coffee cans with cash in it.
Because during the Depression, people just, they realized, like, oh my god, it can get to a point where there's no food.
tom papa
Like, nothing.
joe rogan
Nothing.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And people starve to death.
Like, that's really possible.
tom papa
That was their reality.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the United States going through that was far better than, like, say, Europe post-World War II or the Soviet Union.
Where, you know...
tom papa
It was worse there?
joe rogan
Oh, fuck, man.
People starved to death.
Who knows untold how many people starved to death in the Soviet Union?
Starved to death.
tom papa
I know this sounds selfish, but I only thought of it in terms of America.
joe rogan
Of course.
tom papa
The whole time.
Oh, of course.
joe rogan
Well, Russia took it really bad, man.
Russia took World War II very, very bad.
And these people that grew up during that era...
My grandparents came here.
My grandfather came here, I think, when he was seven.
And it was during the Depression.
unidentified
So it was like the worst of the worst times.
joe rogan
And, you know, my grandmother was similar age.
They just had this...
This mentality, like, it could all go away.
They had seen it, and it was burned into them.
And, you know, kids today, everyone's, like, fucking leaving food on their plate, and no one's worrying about where it's coming from, and everybody thinks they had a totally different mentality.
They were scared.
tom papa
Big time.
I mean, they had enough, and they would save everything.
Every little piece, every little something.
Like tinfoil.
And think about how messed up it is that they go from that, they go from the depression, they get out of it, and then you roll into World War II. Like these people, they dealt with a lot of different levels of stuff that we didn't have to deal with.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, Tim Kennedy, who was a guest of mine recently, a friend of mine, said something very profound.
He said, hard times make tough men, easy times make weak men.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But hard men make easy times.
unidentified
Ah.
joe rogan
You know?
tom papa
Nice.
joe rogan
And you think about it that way.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Hard times make tough men.
Tough men make easy times.
Easy times make weak men.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like a fucking gross cycle.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
I mean, when people are always like, kids today, these kids today don't know.
Well, it's because they haven't gone through anything.
tom papa
No, you can't manufacture that for them.
My grandmother, this is a funny story, on 9-11, I was in New York.
I was at Newark.
You don't hear that a lot, by the way.
This is a funny story.
9-11...
But I was at Newark.
I was flying out that day.
And we watched the second plane fly into the...
joe rogan
You saw it?
tom papa
The second one.
joe rogan
You saw it?
tom papa
Saw it.
joe rogan
On television?
tom papa
No.
You know, at Newark, you look right across.
joe rogan
You were looking and you actually saw the plane hit.
tom papa
A hundred percent.
I was...
The first plane that hit...
joe rogan
What the fuck was going through your mind when you saw it hit?
tom papa
Well, the first one hit on...
Before we got there.
Before I got there.
And I walked with a pilot.
Down, like, through the airport.
And he said, yeah, I think it was a Cessna.
It was kind of crazy.
And so I'm down there, and I was at the desk, and I was going to Chicago.
And I said to the woman working the thing, I said, do you think we're going to fly out today?
Do you think we're going to actually get out?
And a guy yells, here comes another one!
This man, just like a businessman.
And we all turn, and you could just see it streaking across right into the, you know, small.
The plane looked small, but just, and you saw, insane.
So I sit down.
I just sat.
And I was sitting with an artist, a middle-aged man who was an artist.
And then we heard about the Pentagon as we were sitting there.
And he opened up his little art case, and it had all these razors in it.
Like razor blades and stuff from his artwork, like how, you know, he's a commercial artist.
And he's like, this has all got to change.
He said, you know, people are just, they let me on the plane with this.
And we're just sitting there, just freaked out, like calm, but freaked out.
And I was calling my wife, who was in New York.
And I woke her up, and we were trying to, you know, talk, and she was going to the thing.
And at one point, the artist I was sitting with just looked at me like in my eyes, like we were trying to understand what was happening.
He said, I think we should go home now.
I was like, yeah, yeah, right, of course we should, after sitting there for 20 minutes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
So I can't get back into New York.
I can't get back into the city.
Time's gone by, and I'm in a cab going up the parkway to New Jersey, and there's just dust where the towers were.
And I'm like, holy shit.
So I can't get in, so I go to my Nana's house, who lives by Giant Stadium, because she's the closest to the city.
I can't get into the city, so this driver takes us over.
And I get to my Nana's house, And she's so excited to see me because her grandson's visiting.
And she lives alone now.
My grandfather had passed.
And I'm sitting in front of the TV and I'm like, Nana.
At first I hugged her and I was all weepy.
I was shaking.
I didn't know what was happening.
And she's like, oh, it's so nice to see you.
Get in here.
Visit.
This is so great.
And I'm like, do you see what's happening?
She's like, oh, I know.
It's a crazy world.
And I sit in her little tiny living room den area, and we have the TV on.
And she's trying to talk to me, and I'm trying to watch the television.
And she, this is the World War II mentality, I'm like, yeah, man, I'm kind of avoiding talking to her.
And she goes, all right, well, look, I have a bridge game, a card game with my lady friends.
Here, take half of my sandwich.
She reached, opened her tinfoil, gave me half of her tuna fish sandwich.
She goes, you eat this.
I'm going to go play cards with my friends and we'll have dinner after.
You'll be okay.
And she walks out.
unidentified
Wow.
tom papa
But they were tough.
They dealt with so much.
I hadn't dealt with anything.
joe rogan
She wasn't even freaking out?
tom papa
Not even freaking out.
She's like, it's a crazy world.
And she wasn't like, you know, Alzheimer-y.
She was just, hey, you know, shit happens.
unidentified
It is what it is.
Yeah.
joe rogan
We lost a couple of buildings and a few thousand people.
Here's half a sandwich.
I'm going to go play bridge.
tom papa
I'm going to play bridge.
We've got to keep moving.
Tomorrow's another day.
But that's how they live.
Both my grandmothers are that way.
Just completely like, plow ahead, plow ahead.
Don't get caught up thinking about everything that's happening.
There's no sense in it.
We've done that before.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
And you get nowhere.
So let's just keep going this way.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, having a war that affected people the way World War II did, where the entire...
Not just the entire nation was involved, but the whole world was involved in this conflict to stop evil.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was a different time.
tom papa
You had an evildoer.
joe rogan
Yeah, you had a real...
I mean, obviously...
ISIS is evil.
Obviously, North Korea.
There's a lot of evil in the world.
But it's not like this evil empire that's invading Europe and dropping bombs on people.
It's not the same.
It's not these Nazis that believe in eugenics and want to create an Aryan race.
That was terrifying.
tom papa
Putting people in camps and not stopping, spreading, telling people, we're coming.
joe rogan
And they were the most sophisticated in terms of engineering.
To this day, where do you get all the fucking engineers in terms of automobiles, top-end, Audi, BMW? Those people were making shit for Nazis back then.
tom papa
Yeah.
They were co-opted by the regime.
joe rogan
Do you ever see, like, one of Hitler's cars?
There's an Audi from, like, 1930-something that was made for Hitler.
Yeah, it's like they were designing engines for planes, and they were super sophisticated.
tom papa
Super advanced.
Super advanced.
No, and you had this real...
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Evil focus.
Like, it was like, okay, the world has got to come and go get this one guy.
It seemed...
I don't know.
I mean, I wasn't there, but it seems more black and white than the way the world is now.
joe rogan
For sure.
I mean, there was a thing called Operation Paperclip that happened where, after the war, we scooped up all these Nazi scientists secretly.
And some of them were like legit...
Like Wernher von Braun, the guy who was in charge of NASA, he was a Nazi.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
A hundred percent.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center said that if he was alive today they would prosecute him for crimes against humanity.
unidentified
And he was the head of NASA? He was the head of NASA. Geez.
joe rogan
Yeah, they took monsters.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
And they brought those monsters over here, and those monsters helped us make the Apollo rockets.
tom papa
Geez.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then some of the monsters went to Soviet Union.
They took some of those monsters.
tom papa
God.
joe rogan
Those were, I mean, there's no reason to whitewash that either.
Those were real monsters.
tom papa
They were real.
joe rogan
Like, they hung the five slowest Jews every day in front of the rocket factory in Berlin, where Wernher von Braun was making rockets for the Nazis.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
They had these Jews that were slaves that worked as...
I mean, there's people that were alive today that have those tattoos in their arms that talked about meeting him there and seeing him there.
And they would hang the slowest workers.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Yeah, in the front of the factory to let you know.
tom papa
And this guy just keeps going to work.
Doesn't split.
Doesn't leave the country.
joe rogan
What could you do?
And then...
In Nazi Germany?
How the fuck could you get out?
You were a slave.
tom papa
No, not the Jews.
unidentified
What are you talking about?
tom papa
Baron, the guys who were working for the company.
To see the people being hung and still hang in there.
joe rogan
They were Nazis.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, he was a Nazi.
tom papa
They were all in.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, whether or not he agreed with the ideology wholeheartedly, I mean, I didn't have a conversation with him.
I don't know if he was doing it for pragmatic purposes.
tom papa
If he was frightened or whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah, but...
tom papa
Get a disguise!
Get out of there!
joe rogan
I don't think they could.
tom papa
You know, one of those glasses with the mustaches.
joe rogan
Does that work?
tom papa
Yeah, you go to the airport, you get on a flight, come to the US. You take it off, they're like, oh, it's the NASA guy.
joe rogan
Well, there was a slow slide, I'm sure, into that.
I mean, it wasn't that slow, but from World War I to World War II, as it escalated...
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it just got to this point where they're like, oh my god, what are we doing?
When they started having concentration camps and killing all these Jews.
tom papa
God, terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah, and we took a lot of those guys, brought them over here.
They worked for the U.S. government.
tom papa
Man, oh man.
I have a 67 Volkswagen.
Little Beetle.
joe rogan
Sweet little car.
tom papa
Sweet little car.
joe rogan
It's like a little tank.
Weighs like 50 pounds.
tom papa
I know, but it's solid.
Yeah, you can't get around.
Every time you admit it, you think, you know, this was the people's car.
This was the early Nazi Germany, Hitler at the plant, you know, being very proud about this car and stuff.
joe rogan
Well, here's a good way of looking at it, too.
You have a 67, right?
That's like if I had a 1998 car that was produced by Nazis.
tom papa
What do you mean, a 98?
joe rogan
Because it's 20 years old.
20 years from 67 to 47. Oh, right, right.
Literally, it's that era.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, it's so close.
tom papa
So close.
joe rogan
20 years.
tom papa
Yeah, that's nothing.
joe rogan
That's nothing.
tom papa
God, yeah.
unidentified
It's really close.
joe rogan
Yeah, when you think about it that way, there it is.
That car is 20 years removed from Hitler being in power.
tom papa
Did you literally, did you do that randomly?
unidentified
No.
Googled it.
Do you know what Google is?
tom papa
Because that's my car.
My car is literally...
joe rogan
That is your actual car?
unidentified
That color, different wheel, different hubcaps now, but I mean, to a T. My friend Jimmy Lawless had one of those when we were in high school.
joe rogan
It was so light.
It was crazy.
tom papa
So great.
joe rogan
He had a tiny-ass little engine in the back.
It's got a little four-cylinder.
tom papa
That's the thing.
When you see this little Beetle, you don't think Nazis.
You think...
joe rogan
Oh, they're adorable.
Have you seen what they do?
They take an older 911 engine and put them in these things?
unidentified
Yes.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
And make them fast?
tom papa
I know.
They do that with the buses, too.
joe rogan
But you look how little those fucking tires are.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
I mean, that thing ain't got any traction.
tom papa
No.
Going around turns with that thing is like, hey, here we go.
joe rogan
They were smart back then, though, with their engineering.
They put the weight of the engine in the back.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, it has such a different effect.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
It's kind of amazing to look at all automobile manufacturing in the 30s.
Before the war came, there was enough metal for everybody.
There was enough ingenuity.
The French car, the design is so amazing.
There was a real moment of...
Of inspiration and creativity.
And then the war came and all the resources and all the people and everything got dampened down.
But man, they were flying in the 30s.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What's interesting, though, is there's another resurgence in the 60s.
Especially in America.
American cars in the 60s were fucking amazing.
And then the gas crisis got them.
tom papa
Ah, right.
joe rogan
The 70s, they were dog shit.
tom papa
Yeah, it went terrible.
So bad.
joe rogan
They're so useless.
tom papa
My mom had a Pinto.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
It was a bad car.
joe rogan
But, like, I'm a muscle car fan, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, like, for me, the golden era was, like, 1960s to somewhere around 71. You got the last of the great cars.
Like, 71 Barracuda is still pretty badass.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But then 72 starts to look a little shitty.
tom papa
Like the Mustangs.
joe rogan
Yeah, once you get to 75, they're dogshit.
Right.
By the time 1980 rolls around, just fucking light those things on fire.
tom papa
Because of the gas?
joe rogan
Well, the gas crisis came.
They started making cars cheaper, and they were just lighter.
They tried to make them more fuel efficient.
And something happened to the way they look.
tom papa
Yeah, the design.
joe rogan
They just started looking like...
Shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, look at that.
That's a 79 Mustang.
tom papa
That's terrible.
joe rogan
Now, I want you to...
So, this is a 1979. Yeah.
Look at this piece of shit.
Now, I want you to Google 1969 Mach 1. Get ready for this motherfucker.
1969 Mach 1. Boom, son.
Click on that black one right there.
Click on that.
Come the fuck on.
How do you go from that?
How do you go from that and ten years later you have that boxy piece of shit?
Look at that red one in the upper right hand corner.
tom papa
Man, that looks like it should come with Steve McQueen in it.
joe rogan
Oh, good googly moogly.
Look at that thing.
What a fucking car that is.
God damn.
If that doesn't get your dick hard, go to a doctor.
tom papa
Comes with Steve McQueen and a naked gal in the back.
joe rogan
Steve McQueen at a 68. Go with a 1968 Steve McQueen Mustang.
It's a green one.
There it is.
unidentified
Boom.
joe rogan
Look at that.
Come on, man.
tom papa
What did they do?
joe rogan
Fuck.
tom papa
That's more than the gas.
That's some bad...
Something happened in the company.
joe rogan
Something happened with life.
tom papa
Yeah, something happened in Ford.
joe rogan
Look how gorgeous that is.
tom papa
God.
joe rogan
I mean, that is a fucking work of art.
There's the lines on that thing.
tom papa
Look up a 76 Toyota Corolla.
joe rogan
What?
tom papa
Why do you want to do that to yourself?
1976. I want to show you what a badass vehicle I was driving around in.
Yeah, that yellow one.
unidentified
Ooh, baby.
joe rogan
Ooh, baby.
tom papa
Yeah, mine was baby shit orange.
joe rogan
Here's the thing.
That thing would start up every day.
tom papa
Yes, 100%.
joe rogan
That's the difference.
It might look like a piece of shit, and it most certainly does.
tom papa
That was it.
That was the color.
Baby shit orange.
And I put a racing stripe along the side.
joe rogan
Did you really?
tom papa
Yeah, and I had a horn in it that played 200 different tunes.
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, like Dukes of Hazzard stuff?
tom papa
Yeah, or Happy Birthday.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
I had a CB in it.
joe rogan
Boy.
tom papa
I'd contact my friends on my CB. You had a CB? We're going to the Dairy Queen.
unidentified
Over.
joe rogan
Did your friends have CBs too, or were you just shouting out into the abyss?
unidentified
No.
tom papa
We had like three friends with CBs, because we had no phones.
That's hilarious.
Is there a party?
I'm not sure.
We're going to the Dairy Queen.
Okay, get me a Butterfinger Blizzard.
Be there in a minute.
joe rogan
Explain that to me.
How do you choose what channel you're on?
tom papa
You just choose.
We all knew we were on channel 4 or whatever.
joe rogan
How many channels are there?
tom papa
Not that many, actually.
joe rogan
So how close do you have to be?
tom papa
Like 10 miles.
joe rogan
So within 10 miles you could use it?
tom papa
Yeah.
Why didn't everybody have CDs back then?
Because they weren't thinking!
I had a Toyota Corolla with a horn that played 200 songs!
I was into it!
joe rogan
You were ahead of the curve.
unidentified
You were ahead of the curve.
tom papa
I was having a blast.
I was so happy to be out of the house.
joe rogan
But isn't that amazing?
I'm thinking about this now, how often people use cell phones and such.
What were people thinking back then?
Why didn't they get CBs on their cars?
tom papa
I don't know.
It's a good question.
joe rogan
Why wouldn't everybody have one?
tom papa
I don't know.
And especially then, it was like the big trucking era.
Remember Convoy?
Dude, Smokey and the Bandit.
Yeah, Smokey and the Bandit had it.
joe rogan
Come on.
tom papa
I was like, come on.
joe rogan
Smokey and the Bandit had it in his Trans Am, right?
tom papa
Yeah, that's right.
They were talking to each other.
joe rogan
What year was that?
I think he had a 79 Trans Am.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I was going to put it at 78. It says that CBs exploded in the 70s when the oil crisis caused the miles per hour on the highways to go down to 55 and truckers started using them to tell each other where the best gas prices were.
Like a network started of people using CBs.
tom papa
Okay, rubber duck.
joe rogan
That's funny, because I would have thought that they were exploded because they were using them to tell each other where the cops were.
tom papa
Yeah, like Smokey and the Bandit.
joe rogan
Yeah, dude, when I was in high school, it was 55 miles per hour's speed limit, which is just fucking torture.
That's torture.
tom papa
What are you doing to people?
joe rogan
Who do you think you are telling people to go 55 miles on the highway?
tom papa
On a highway!
joe rogan
Yeah, and with a 400 horsepower engine.
tom papa
Yeah, with that Steve McQueen car.
joe rogan
Yeah, what in the fuck is that all about?
tom papa
In my Toyota Corolla, it was just fast enough.
joe rogan
What are you saying, Jim?
jamie vernon
Speed Traps was like the third thing that they helped each other out with.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would imagine that would be a big one.
I mean, that's what...
Waze is pretty good for that.
Waze is like, police spotted ahead.
unidentified
Oh, Waze is a snitch.
tom papa
Yeah.
jamie vernon
They blocked the freeways, too, in protest of the lower speed limits.
tom papa
Did you remember that?
I remember that.
joe rogan
Who did that?
jamie vernon
The truckers, dude?
joe rogan
Well, that didn't help you fucking idiots.
You're blocking yourself, you stupid fucks.
Do you remember when these morons were blocking the highways?
Remember when people were doing that around San Francisco?
Recently.
tom papa
Yeah, for a protest, they would walk out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
And just walk on the highway.
joe rogan
Yeah, what the fuck was that about?
Thank God people stopped doing that.
tom papa
Yeah, you want everyone to hate you?
joe rogan
Well, it's not just that.
It's like you're stopping people from being able to get to a hospital.
You might cause people loved ones' lives, and they did.
tom papa
Well, that's what happened with Governor Christie when he closed down the bridge.
A couple people died because of that.
Because they couldn't get to the hospital.
joe rogan
How is he not in jail for that?
tom papa
That guy's the worst.
joe rogan
How is he not in jail for that?
tom papa
He should totally be in jail.
Other people went to jail for it.
joe rogan
That is just fucking straight corruption.
Just to make that call, the audacity that you would have to have, just the balls to make that fucking call and say, shut down your bridge.
I'm going to have some M&M's.
tom papa
So arrogant.
Do you remember seeing when they closed the beaches and him and his family were the only one on the beach?
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
tom papa
That says everything.
joe rogan
Just his body says everything.
Let yourself get to that state, you slob.
And he had an operation too.
He had a stomach stapling.
tom papa
Did he really?
And ate through it?
Look at that.
joe rogan
Fucking blob.
tom papa
Every state beach was closed.
I think on the 4th of July.
And him and his fat family were just sitting there on the beach.
unidentified
Arrogance.
tom papa
What an F you to everybody.
Look at that.
Nobody else allowed.
joe rogan
Extreme arrogance.
And why were the beaches closed down?
tom papa
For the budget.
He ordered him closed.
joe rogan
Right, because they couldn't pay for people to watch the beaches?
tom papa
Yeah, it was like one of those pissing matches between, you know, who's going to cut what for the budget.
And on the 4th of July...
joe rogan
Sand portrait of him.
Look at that.
Someone made one of him in the sand.
That's hilarious.
tom papa
Yeah, the 4th of July.
Look at him in his little shower sandals.
joe rogan
Ugh.
I think the kids call those slides.
tom papa
They call them slides?
joe rogan
Yeah, the kids call those slides.
tom papa
I hate slides.
joe rogan
I call them flip-flops.
unidentified
No, no, no.
joe rogan
That's not a flip-flop.
unidentified
That's a slide.
tom papa
When I see someone in the airport with slides on, I just want to punch them.
joe rogan
A lot of dudes have slides in the airport with socks on.
I'm like, okay.
What are you doing?
What are we doing here?
Why does that annoy me?
tom papa
Because it's lazy.
You don't like lazy.
It's lazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I have those Solomon running shoes that don't even have...
They don't have laces.
They have this little tab you pull, and you pull it down, and it tightens up, and you open it up, and it's like Velcro.
tom papa
Yeah, but you're still pulling a tab.
At least there's a little something there.
joe rogan
Is that what it is?
tom papa
Yeah, they just stick them in your feet and flop, flop through the air.
unidentified
Is that what it is?
Flop, flop.
joe rogan
People don't like that?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Is that why people don't like that?
tom papa
Yeah, because they're lazy.
unidentified
Just going to the airport.
tom papa
I want to be as comfortable as possible.
joe rogan
You're very excited about this.
tom papa
It makes me so angry.
joe rogan
But why?
tom papa
Because you're a 25-year-old man sitting on the floor of an airport waiting for your thing next to your shower sandals.
joe rogan
It's not a lot of people do it, though.
It's not a lot of people do it.
But enough people do it with the socks and the slides.
Yeah.
unidentified
It bothers you.
tom papa
It bothers me so much.
I don't know why.
joe rogan
Does it bother you more or less than flip-flops?
tom papa
A little bit more, which is pretty crazy because I really railed against people with flip-flops.
joe rogan
Like Bert Kreischer wears flip-flops everywhere.
tom papa
Disgusting.
joe rogan
He's kind of gross.
tom papa
It's so gross.
And people act like their feet don't have...
Your feet have a real bacteria between the toes.
There's like a real...
There's real germs in there.
And then they're just slipping them off and putting their toes in the magazine rack.
joe rogan
But Bert is like this life of the party type character.
That's part of his thing.
tom papa
It's his thing.
I love him, but he's disgusting.
joe rogan
I love him too.
He's disgusting.
There's a video of him on a fucking skateboard flying down his street with flip-flops on.
I'm like, dude, do you understand the damage to your toes that you could do?
For the rest of your life, your toes are going to be fucked up if you crash.
He's flying down the street with flip-flops on.
tom papa
He's hilarious.
No.
I mean, at least he's a character, like, bigger-than-life character.
You're just a flip-flop and you don't care and your pants are hanging off just to get on a flight to Boise.
Just come on!
joe rogan
Why Boise?
Why'd you pick on Boise?
tom papa
I love Boise.
I'm just...
joe rogan
What's the issue?
tom papa
Because it's a shorter flight.
I didn't want it to be...
I'm like, you can't even get it together for a short flight.
You know, it's disgusting.
joe rogan
It is weird.
tom papa
It is weird.
It's just, come on.
joe rogan
We have very specific ideas about footwear.
I judge people when I see them with Yeezys on.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Including Jamie.
jamie vernon
I have something right there.
joe rogan
No, you gave me them.
I don't have them.
They're exactly where they sat.
tom papa
Right below me here.
That was like six months ago, right?
joe rogan
When he gave them to me, they're in the box right there.
I've contemplated running in them, running through like a creek and filming it because people love these things so much.
But I don't want to run in them.
tom papa
Are they expensive?
joe rogan
Because I like running in shoes that are actually supposed to be running in.
Yeah, they're expensive.
Look at him.
tom papa
He's upset.
joe rogan
Jamie's one generation younger than me, so his idea of what these things are is different than my idea.
jamie vernon
I feel like they're mad at you for saying that right now.
Some people are, some people think it's hilarious that you would do that.
joe rogan
That I'd run with them?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
I know, they're mad at me.
But they're dumb.
If you're mad at me for what I would do with a pair of sneakers, you're a fucking idiot.
And you need to get your shit together.
tom papa
It's not your sneakers.
You're thinking about sneakers too much.
joe rogan
Are you happier that they're just sitting here in this fucking...
And people think I'm joking.
tom papa
What do they look like?
joe rogan
They're sitting here in this fucking box.
I'm not joking.
I mean, I didn't plan this out.
They're here in this box.
tom papa
Here.
People who are into them are like, oh my god, you got them there and you're not using them.
joe rogan
You got them and you're not even flossing.
You should be out flossing, man.
Wear those jeans.
He's taunting me because I mock his all the time.
They look like some sneakers from the 80s.
They look like the sneaker version of that shitty Mustang from 1979. No, man.
tom papa
The cool...
joe rogan
The whole back end sticks out.
The heel has like a duck bill behind you.
tom papa
It's so stupid.
joe rogan
It's so bizarre.
tom papa
Yeah, but...
joe rogan
That Kanye West has a large effect on humans.
Very interesting.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
The Family Feud.
I heard.
tom papa
They were on Family Feud?
joe rogan
Well, was there any good?
jamie vernon
I just heard Howard Stern talking about it.
joe rogan
I hope they asked him tough questions.
jamie vernon
I heard they did not.
joe rogan
Just to see them fall apart.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Try being a book in that house.
You will collect dust, motherfucker.
tom papa
I don't care it's broken up into chapters.
joe rogan
They ain't reading shit in that house.
They ain't reading tweets.
Elon Musk wants to do the podcast.
tom papa
Right back here on The Feud.
Really?
joe rogan
Message me.
tom papa
Can I come in as your co-host?
jamie vernon
That'd be fun.
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
I'll just listen like everybody else.
That's really cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, it should be interesting.
Yeah, he wants to get his Model 3 up to some high-level production, and once it's done, put some time away.
No, a Model 3 Tesla.
tom papa
Oh, a Model 3. Yeah, he's close.
joe rogan
That's what he's concentrating on.
Yeah, once he's got that.
jamie vernon
They just delivered their first 1,000 flamethrowers this weekend.
joe rogan
Yeah, what's up with that?
Why is he on flamethrowers?
tom papa
I don't know.
jamie vernon
I almost bought one just to do it.
Just to see what happened.
joe rogan
Let's buy one.
tom papa
And you couldn't do it.
joe rogan
Let's take it out back.
tom papa
You couldn't do it as a flamethrower, so he named it Not a Flamethrower.
joe rogan
Is that what it's called?
tom papa
Yeah, it's called Not a Flamethrower.
joe rogan
I have a boring company, Not a Flamethrower.
tom papa
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
jamie vernon
They went out to some airport hangar to pick them up, I guess.
joe rogan
Okay, but what happens when people get killed by these things?
Wait a minute, is there a mariachi band playing?
tom papa
They're having a good time.
joe rogan
It's a frame thrower thing?
tom papa
Yeah, it's the big unveiling.
joe rogan
That's where you pick them up?
unidentified
Is that real?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
So go back up to that photo of the flamethrower.
jamie vernon
That's it.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
Look at that fucking thing.
tom papa
Pretty cool.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
That's amazing.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
Probably just got to buy propane maybe to refill it and connect it and it's good to go.
tom papa
Seems like it's going to cause a house fire.
joe rogan
What's the purpose of that?
tom papa
When your enemies come close and you run out of bullets, you hide behind the couch and hit them with that.
joe rogan
Or if you're in the movie Alien.
unidentified
Yeah.
Remember?
joe rogan
Yeah, they have flamethrowers.
tom papa
Yeah, you need to burn them instead of shoot them because you're on a spaceship.
If you live on a spaceship.
joe rogan
Oh, right, right.
What are you gonna do with a flamethrower, my boyfriend asks me.
And that's her.
That's the author out there blasting.
She doesn't even have the stock against her fucking armpit.
She doesn't even know what she's doing.
Look where she's got the stock.
Terrible technique.
You're supposed to tuck that in your arm, honey.
tom papa
Yeah, but there's not a lot of kickback on a flamethrower.
unidentified
I don't give a fuck.
joe rogan
You do that like you're a goddamn professional.
You exercise with trigger control, too.
unidentified
What about his tunnels?
tom papa
What about all his tunnels?
I didn't realize how many tunnels he wants.
joe rogan
Dude, he wants us...
He's doing everything.
He's making flamethrowers.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's making these gigawatt factories, these gigantic batteries that are powering Australia.
tom papa
Yeah, in Nevada.
joe rogan
He's a very, very unusual human being.
tom papa
It's amazing.
It's just...
unidentified
The balls.
tom papa
Just do it.
You get an idea, just do it.
joe rogan
She does not know how to handle that gun.
tom papa
Somebody told me they saw him speaking about the tunnels.
Because he's got to get approval.
There's different things he's got to get past.
And he doesn't just want a tunnel from here to LAX. He wants multiple tunnels.
So if you're going to the United Terminal, it takes you right there.
If it goes to the American one, it takes you there.
It's going to be a whole...
Like, ant farm of tunnels all through the city.
joe rogan
What happens if we get an earthquake?
What happens if there's a tsunami?
Do those things fill up with water and does everybody drown inside those tubes?
jamie vernon
This says the tunnels are weatherproof.
tom papa
That means when it rains.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's not what I'm talking about.
tom papa
Yeah, but what about an earthquake?
I don't think an earthquake is weather.
No, I know.
I've been getting claustrophobic lately.
joe rogan
Why?
tom papa
I don't know.
joe rogan
Like in what way?
tom papa
I had a couple little instances where I was like, I've never been claustrophobic before.
joe rogan
1994, Northridge earthquake, no damage to LA subway tunnels.
1989, Loma Prieta, Northern California earthquake, no damage to tunnels.
1985, Mexico City earthquake, no damage to tunnels, which were then used to transport rescue personnel.
tom papa
The tunnels were in shape, but there's a big rock over the hole that gets you out of the tunnel.
joe rogan
A building fell on it.
The elevator won't take you up and now you're stuck in that little elevator.
tom papa
Living in a tunnel for the rest of your life.
joe rogan
You're stuck to death in there.
You try walking and you get clipped by some other guy in a Tesla going 120 miles an hour in the tunnel.
You get run over.
tom papa
Everyone's turning into rat people.
joe rogan
Because the tunnel's not big enough for you to walk in while there's cars in it.
tom papa
No.
jamie vernon
I think they recently changed the plan, which is going to be these things called electric skates, which people get on like a subway car.
tom papa
Like a pod.
jamie vernon
Yeah, instead of your car getting in there.
tom papa
But small, like only like 16 people.
Right to the airport.
Right to downtown.
unidentified
Man.
tom papa
Yeah.
It'd be pretty cool, but I don't know if my claustrophobia will kick in!
joe rogan
Well, he's got that, and then there's another thing, the Hyperloop.
He's doing that Hyperloop thing, too.
tom papa
The Hyperloop is the...
joe rogan
That's the fucking train that goes to San Francisco in like 13 seconds.
tom papa
That's him, too?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Dude, what the fuck?
tom papa
Just keep doing it.
joe rogan
But this is the crazy thing.
It's one guy.
Like, how is this one guy that innovative?
How is he that smart?
tom papa
I don't know.
But is he funny?
joe rogan
He's pretty funny sometimes.
tom papa
He's a comedy fan.
joe rogan
He came to the store.
tom papa
He was at the store.
Yeah, he was at Largo.
joe rogan
With Johnny Depp's ex.
tom papa
Oh, right.
joe rogan
Cut that loose, though.
tom papa
Oh, he did?
Good.
joe rogan
Smart guy.
tom papa
Smart guy, exactly.
unidentified
Exactly.
tom papa
That was my only time I worried about him.
I saw him at some events.
I was like, oh no, what is he doing?
joe rogan
He's probably just getting some of that crazy pussy.
jamie vernon
I just googled Hyperloop.
He's beautiful.
It's not being associated with him.
I know he is doing that, but he might not be the only person, or maybe he's just involved in the project.
tom papa
It's different.
joe rogan
Could be.
Well, he's also involved in the fucking rocket project.
tom papa
SpaceX.
He's going to Mars.
That's what I wanted to ask you.
Have you talked about 3D printing?
joe rogan
A couple times, yeah.
We've talked about it.
tom papa
I just watched the recent Vice on 3D printing.
joe rogan
Pretty amazing.
Oh my god!
Do you know who has one?
That guy, the fucking puppet guy?
Jeff Dunham?
Jeff Dunham, yeah.
tom papa
He makes puppets with him?
joe rogan
He makes a lot of shit with him.
He was on Opie and Anthony back in the day.
Apparently, he's like a super tech geek.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he was on Opie and Anthony back in the day, and he had one of the earlier 3D printers.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're getting really, really complex.
tom papa
Oh my...
They're making human body parts.
They're making human ears.
There he is.
joe rogan
There he is, making the Achmed Mobile, Controlled Chaos, Jeff Dunham.
So he does all this stuff himself.
He's a fucking character, Jeff Dunham.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Interesting guy.
tom papa
That's amazing.
You put anything, and the computer, like actually, they showed like a dishwasher, and the guy wanted to manufacture the part that's inside the dishwasher.
The computer says, no, we can improve on that part, and we're going to alter the shape of it and have it be like this, and then it makes that, and then you use it.
It's getting so crazy.
joe rogan
Fuck you, dishwasher.
tom papa
Human cells and they're making ears and skin.
It's amazing.
joe rogan
Well, they think that in the future you won't be buying things.
You'll be downloading schematics.
And then getting the raw materials.
And then the raw materials you'll have like...
In your machine, somehow or another, and it'll make whatever you need.
Like, say if you need a French press, it'll make a French press.
It'll 3D print a French press for you.
You won't go to the store and buy one.
You'll just, like, download the whatever it is.
tom papa
You don't need a manufacturer.
No one's going to be in this business of making presses.
joe rogan
Less.
I mean, less and less.
But the thing is, like, more and more demand will be for things like this table.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Like craftsmanship, or someone makes something for you.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
Yeah, which is, you're kind of seeing that now.
Like, people are getting...
You know, there's all these restaurants that are, like, kind of farm-to-table.
They have wooden metal, and everything's, like, rustic, and everything's, like, kind of retro.
tom papa
Everyone has armpit hair.
joe rogan
That's not what we're talking about.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
They had razors a long time ago.
There's no excuse for girls to have armpit hair.
Isn't it funny, guys?
It's fine.
It's fine.
I have armpit hair.
Do you have armpit hair?
unidentified
I do.
joe rogan
Of course you do.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
We're men.
If you don't have armpit hair, I'm like, what happened?
You got a disease, bro?
tom papa
Were you in a fire?
joe rogan
You got alopecia?
tom papa
Does your friend have a flamethrower?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like girls with their junk.
Like, okay, here's a perfect example.
Butthole hair on girls.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Like when we were kids?
tom papa
Can't get enough.
joe rogan
Standard.
It was normal.
It was there.
It was chaos.
tom papa
Right, just how you grew.
joe rogan
It was just a big fucking pile of whatever.
Nowadays, if you're a gal, you're a young single gal, and you got butthole hair, you're taking some risks.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
You're like, I don't care.
Love me who I am.
tom papa
Yeah, you must be into older men, because that's the only one that is accepting it.
joe rogan
Love me for who I am.
Like, um, no.
No, we're not doing that anymore.
We're trying to evolve, and the first thing that's evolving is women's hair.
tom papa
You gotta start somewhere.
joe rogan
Right?
Like, how many women, when you go to the beach, how many women shave their legs?
unidentified
All of them.
tom papa
All of them.
joe rogan
That's fucking crazy.
tom papa
Yeah, it's weird.
joe rogan
Like, think about the grooming standards that we've imposed on women, like the culture's imposed on women.
tom papa
It's pretty crazy.
joe rogan
It's fucking crazy.
tom papa
It's so crazy.
joe rogan
In comparison to us?
Like, you and I? Yeah.
Look at us balding.
Fucking hairy armpits and shit.
tom papa
I have one patch of hair on my back.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, like a wolf.
tom papa
Just like one side.
joe rogan
Like when American Werewolf in London, the transformation sequences.
tom papa
Yeah, like I stopped a quarter way through.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's funny.
I mean, the standards.
tom papa
Yeah, it's weird.
joe rogan
It's very weird.
tom papa
It's weird.
But what's also weird is that women who are really progressive still like doing certain parts of it.
That, for me, as a man watching it, is always like...
Yeah, we're all the same.
Let's own it and stuff.
But I'm still going to put this big line on my eyes to make it look like...
I'm going to put extra lashes on to make it look like...
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's weird.
Like the...
What you choose to...
joe rogan
Sculpted eyebrows and shit.
tom papa
Eyebrows.
joe rogan
Some dudes sculpt their eyebrows.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They got a word for those guys.
tom papa
Because they were in...
joe rogan
Starts with an F, ends with a T, and it rhymes with faggot.
No.
tom papa
A cabaret star?
joe rogan
Yes.
It's a bundle of wood.
tom papa
No, it's...
Yeah, it's very bizarre.
I always feel like...
But they also like, it's empowering to feel good.
And it does make women feel good.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
To be in heels and do all that stuff.
joe rogan
Well, then there's different standards for gay folks.
Like, gay guys, they do it way different.
And by the way, when I use that F word, I should not use that.
And definitely wouldn't use it for gay guys.
tom papa
We know.
Consider the source.
joe rogan
Gotta be careful, though.
Gotta be careful in today's day and age.
tom papa
Yeah, but people know you're a good person.
joe rogan
Some people don't.
tom papa
They know you're making a joke.
joe rogan
People are, it's a dangerous time.
tom papa
Did you hear the Lisa Lampanelli thing?
joe rogan
What happened?
tom papa
She was screaming at an audience member, like really completely off the charts.
I think it just happened last night.
I don't know.
I heard it on the radio.
She's like screaming, you sons of bitches!
Did you see that?
joe rogan
She yelled at them?
Called them sons of bitches?
On stage nuclear meltdown.
Fan hands are $100 to shut up.
tom papa
She goes off.
joe rogan
Does she have blue on her hair?
tom papa
Yeah, she's got blue in her hair.
Nuclear meltdown.
Someone tried to say something in the middle of her set, and she just goes batshit crazy.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
She went nuclear on a fan who gave her $100 to shut up in the middle of her gigs.
Well, here's the thing.
Why would someone pay her at a show to try to get her to shut up?
tom papa
I don't know.
After someone from the balcony called her a cunt...
It all went downhill from there.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
How long is it going to be before you can't say that word anymore?
tom papa
Probably good until, like, next Wednesday.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're running the sand in the hourglass.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, when I just said faggot, I felt it.
I'm like, ooh, this is a dangerous time to say that word.
tom papa
Yeah.
unidentified
Don't say it anymore.
tom papa
Yeah, no.
No, no, no.
joe rogan
Even as a joke.
tom papa
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
Even not even calling an individual person.
Just saying the noise that is that word.
Like, it's getting down to the, like, you'd have to call it the other F word.
tom papa
Yeah, the F word.
joe rogan
Like, the N word, it's clearly established, right?
People say it all the time.
People even say it on stage in a comedy set.
They'll say the N word.
tom papa
Right.
Say the N word, right?
joe rogan
The N word.
They won't say it.
tom papa
No, no, no.
joe rogan
And if they do say it, people are like, oh, yeah.
tom papa
Yeah, forget it.
joe rogan
From the crowd.
tom papa
Forget it.
joe rogan
No, that's gone.
tom papa
Retarded gone?
joe rogan
Yeah, pretty much.
tom papa
Yeah, retarded is, I think it's probably...
joe rogan
But you can say it, but the way you're saying it, you can say retarded.
tom papa
Right, right.
The N word wouldn't say it.
joe rogan
You won't even say it.
tom papa
No, I'm too scared.
joe rogan
It's the word bigger, but without the B, with a different, with an N in it.
I can't even do that.
I can't even say bigger, but without a B with an N. That's how tricky it is.
tom papa
I'm just feeling for the keys in my pocket.
unidentified
Damaged!
joe rogan
We're terrified.
Jamie, you were telling me about what was the rap concert where the girl got on stage and she was saying...
jamie vernon
Yeah, the Kendrick Lamar concert, which...
So I guess this is a song that happens a lot.
You can see lots of videos of the crowd singing all the words, which has a lot of N-words in it.
joe rogan
Including white people in the crowd.
jamie vernon
Correct.
Yeah, lots of white people.
There's videos of those?
Yeah, I'll pull one up as we're talking about it.
So the concert in Alabama, the Hangout Fest.
The boy would grow up on stage.
She was obviously drunk.
Kind of almost set her up to do it.
And as soon as she said it like two or three times, he stopped it, stopped the whole thing.
joe rogan
Well, what did she say in reference to?
jamie vernon
It's in the song.
joe rogan
Oh, so she sang the song?
jamie vernon
Yeah, she was doing like karaoke.
tom papa
Like a song lyric?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I'll pull up the video.
tom papa
And then he turned on her?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, that's not for you.
That's only for me.
tom papa
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's meme.
That's setting her up.
joe rogan
I had a bit from 2009 from my Spike TV special.
Here, woman gets on stage.
unidentified
You ready?
What's your name?
Delaney.
joe rogan
Oh, and she's going to do it?
Oh my god, she's going to...
He set her up!
tom papa
Yeah, that's terrible.
unidentified
She said, where we started at?
joe rogan
Where we started at.
unidentified
Here we go.
tom papa
He's mocking her already.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
I told you every time.
Swear I got you!
Oh!
Wow.
joe rogan
She must be so nervous.
unidentified
Are we playing this over YouTube or will we get pulled?
I don't think so.
joe rogan
Let's find out what happens.
unidentified
Oh!
The crowd's already on.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
unidentified
Wait, wait, wait.
Am I not cool enough for you?
What's up, bro?
tom papa
That's terrible.
joe rogan
This is crazy!
unidentified
Everybody's doing this on his down!
But they're your lyrics.
*laughs* They just have to kick her off.
joe rogan
They're all of the thumbs down.
unidentified
Get off.
You said the noise that he says that we love.
joe rogan
You can't say the noise.
jamie vernon
That's mostly it.
I don't know if you like it.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
We live in hilarious and preposterous times.
I mean, that is so strange.
That is his song.
tom papa
Yeah, he wrote it.
joe rogan
That is the song.
tom papa
He wrote the words.
unidentified
That is his song.
tom papa
She loves him.
joe rogan
She loves him.
She's at his concert.
He gave her the microphone, played the song.
She's singing the song that he loves, that he wrote, that the whole audience loves, and everybody's like, You did the wrong thing.
You made the noise.
Wow.
tom papa
That was mean.
She was so happy.
jamie vernon
There's a whole crowd doing it, though.
And this whole crowd looks mostly white.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
They're all streaming it.
joe rogan
Okay.
What in the fuck?
So how's that work?
We got a double standard?
tom papa
I don't.
This is why I stayed home.
unidentified
But how come?
joe rogan
How does that work?
tom papa
That's why I don't go to concerts.
joe rogan
If there's a lot of people there, you can do it.
You can do it if there's a bunch of people there.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But you can't do it if you're by yourself.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
On stage, by yourself, in front of those people, you can't do it.
But if you're in with them, you can do it.
tom papa
Yes.
And that was mostly white.
That was a lot of white there.
joe rogan
Of course.
tom papa
In that one.
joe rogan
White people are ridiculous.
tom papa
They're so confused.
joe rogan
We're so confused.
I mean, this is a strange time.
I was going to say, I did this Spike TV special in 2009, and there was a...
Do you remember that old commercial with the girl comes home, and her dog starts talking to her, like, Lindsay, I really wish you wouldn't smoke pot.
You're not the same when you smoke pot, and I miss my friend.
tom papa
Remember that bit?
joe rogan
I had this whole thing where I was like...
I was like, first of all, whatever that chick's on, she's not on pot.
Because if you were on pot, you'd be like, wait a minute, my fucking dog can talk?
Like, how long have you been able to talk?
Dude, I had you my whole fucking life.
This is the first shit you said?
And I went through this whole thing, and I called my dog a faggot.
And this guy, this was like in the beginning of political correctness, right?
Because this is 2009. A gay guy said this to me.
He goes, you can't say that word.
unidentified
That's our nigger.
joe rogan
That's our word.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That's what he said.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He literally said, I go, wait a minute.
What did you just say?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he said it again.
He said, it's our nigger.
We're allowed to say it.
You can't say it.
I go, that's the gayest shit I've ever heard.
And he started laughing.
That's so crazy.
I go, I'm talking to a dog.
I'm angry at a dog because I've had this dog my whole life.
First words out of his mouth.
I tell you I love you every day.
And what do you say?
You say, I wish you wouldn't smoke weed.
Hey, fuck you, stupid.
I smoke weed and I go to work and I pay for your food, faggot.
That was the joke.
And he got...
I'm like, these rules are preposterous.
Isn't it supposed to be about intent?
Isn't it supposed to be like, I'm supposed to be conveying how I feel, and the words are supposed to mirror my thoughts?
Like, when you have magic words that you can't say, and in this case, with the N-word, it's even crazier, because it's like, some people can say it, you can say it sometimes, sometimes you can't say it.
tom papa
It's too heavy.
joe rogan
Black people can say it, white people can't, but white people can say it if they're in the crowd and they're yelling it out, but as long as there's an A on the end of it.
tom papa
Yeah, right, exactly.
The ER is what gets you in trouble.
joe rogan
Well, look, racism is disgusting.
All racism.
Racism against Chinese people, racism against white people, racism against Of course against black people.
Of course against everyone.
Judging someone on something that they have no control over.
That's what it is.
Whatever you're born, Irish, German, Italian, African, you're born.
It's not you.
You're just who you are.
So racism is disgusting.
But Is it racism when you have that girl on stage and she's singing that song that she loves that you sing?
It's your song.
That's not really racism.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
So when she's singing along and everybody's, Boo!
unidentified
You racist!
joe rogan
You fucking Nazi!
What are we doing?
What we're doing here is we've gone into some ridiculous zone where it doesn't make any sense because we know that's not her intent.
tom papa
No, exactly.
It becomes an intellectual exercise.
joe rogan
Exactly.
tom papa
It becomes like a word game.
It's a little puzzle kind of thing that we're doing to trap this person.
You could say she's very innocent up there.
They all know she's a little drunk.
It's kind of like setting someone up to do something.
unidentified
What?
tom papa
Yeah, it's pretty gross.
joe rogan
It's just weird.
But it's weird that it's so universal.
Like that crowd, that was probably 20,000 people.
unidentified
Yeah.
Boo!
Boo!
tom papa
I had a weird thing on...
You know, I'm on the show Live From Here, the old Prairie Home Companion show.
And, you know, I'm the writer for it and stuff.
Head writer on it and appear on it and stuff.
Anyway...
I'm very involved with the show.
Chris, who's this bluegrass guy who plays a mandolin, who's amazing, the kindest person you'd ever meet.
Like, super, super sweet, sweet person.
Like...
Like Mr. Rogers in a way.
It's to that level of kindness.
And he sings everybody's birthdays and stuff and he sings different songs as a tribute to everything.
He loves all music.
He loves everything.
He sang a Kendrick Lamar song.
He sang a little bit of it because it was his birthday that week.
And he got so much hate online that a white person can't be singing that song.
joe rogan
What is the song about?
tom papa
I don't know.
But that wasn't the thing.
joe rogan
So it wasn't the N-word?
tom papa
It was that he was cultural appropriation.
That he's not allowed to sing.
And meanwhile, he's singing bluegrass, Indian music.
I mean, from all around the world, this is a kind soul celebrating everything.
And it really freaked him out, because he is so nice.
He couldn't believe the hate that he got from it, that now he's super sensitive about singing that music at all.
joe rogan
It's not logical.
tom papa
It's not logical.
joe rogan
And you have to put your foot down.
tom papa
And you have to consider the source.
joe rogan
But culturally, we have to put our foot down because we're going down this very strange, illogical road where you can just decide what's evil and what's bad, and it doesn't have any bearing on the thought or the intent behind it.
Yeah.
Look, they went after Bruno Mars.
Like, get in the...
Just get the fuck out of here.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They accused Bruno Mars of cultural appropriation.
tom papa
What culture?
He's everything.
joe rogan
He's He's a bunch of stuff.
But meanwhile, what is he doing where anybody would accuse him of cultural appropriation?
He sings these beautiful fucking songs.
tom papa
Oh, he's a light in this world.
joe rogan
He's amazing.
I love that guy.
tom papa
Oh, the guy's amazing.
joe rogan
His voice is fantastic, and his songs are fun, and they're catchy, and I love listening to them.
tom papa
I saw him in Vegas in concert.
It was just the most uplifting, bright thing.
joe rogan
You know what made me happy, though, is that a bunch of black artists said, fuck you, he's great.
tom papa
What was the original charge?
joe rogan
Just fucking social justice warriors were going after him for cultural appropriation.
All these like super progressive angry fuckheads were deciding.
tom papa
Of what culture?
joe rogan
Whatever, man.
It doesn't have to make sense.
This is the thing.
They're just looking for targets It doesn't have to make sense This is not like a logical progression Like, oh, Bruno Mars is It's not like, oh, he's stealing From these old blues singers And he's not crediting them And he's a white guy from Kentucky That's not what we're dealing with here We're dealing with a multiracial guy Who sings these beautiful songs They're not cultural appropriation Even if he was white Yeah, no, exactly It's just a joy of music
tom papa
And music is a mix of everything.
unidentified
It's a mix of all of us, of everything that is I think they're saying like his style.
joe rogan
But if that's the case, then here's the case.
I'm a fucking huge fan of the Black Keys.
The Black Keys, a lot of their shit is blues.
A lot of it is old blues.
Like it sounds so similar to some great old blues.
tom papa
Sure.
joe rogan
Is that culture appropriation?
I mean, I love them.
Are you saying they should stop doing what I love to hear?
tom papa
No, come on.
joe rogan
What are we doing?
tom papa
Yeah, that's crazy.
joe rogan
But what is it?
tom papa
But you know what?
The other part of it is, how many people are really complaining about that stuff?
joe rogan
It's a very small amount.
tom papa
So small!
joe rogan
But it's enough where your friend got scared.
tom papa
He did get scared, and it literally amounts to probably three tweets.
You know what I mean?
But those people, that's the only noise.
People aren't saying, wow, I love that version, because they just like it and they're normal people.
It's these haters that just want to do it.
But the people in control of it have to...
Calm him and make him realize, we've got your back that's wrong.
joe rogan
But they won't, though.
tom papa
No, that's the problem.
joe rogan
They'll fucking fire him if it gets loud enough.
It doesn't have to make any sense.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's where it's squirrely.
Dude, they fired, speaking of Prairie Home Companion, they fired Garrison Keillor.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
They fired him, removed his name from everything because he hugged a lady and his hand went down her back.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And then he apologized, sent her an email.
She said it's fine.
They went back and forth with it.
Didn't do anything else.
No history of sexual harassment, sexual assault, no history of anything terrible.
Years later, when all this Me Too stuff comes out, she comes out with that.
tom papa
Yeah, it was dirty business.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It was dirty.
joe rogan
It's dirty.
But it's not logical.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's like there's this fever feeding frenzy that goes on with these things.
This mob mentality.
tom papa
Yeah.
They just want to tear people down.
joe rogan
They want to tear people apart.
tom papa
And I really believe that you have to, in all these situations, is consider the source.
Like, you really have to consider...
It's like when the steroid thing went down.
People came at Barry Bonds harder than everybody else because he had a rep for not being a good guy.
People did not like him regardless of that.
So when it happens, people kind of...
joe rogan
Did they come after him harder than they came after Sammy Sosa?
tom papa
Yes.
Did they?
Yeah, much harder than Andy Pettit.
I don't know who that is.
He's a pitcher for the Yankees and he's just a nice guy.
But if somebody is a problem...
joe rogan
Jose Canseco.
Well, Jose Quintego was a problem because he ratted everybody out.
tom papa
Oh yeah, that's right.
joe rogan
He wrote that book called Juiced.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Boy, that's interesting.
tom papa
Exposed to everything.
joe rogan
That made him persona non grata.
tom papa
Kind of disappeared.
joe rogan
He got written off from that book.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
People just decided, fuck you.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's interesting, right?
tom papa
It is.
It is.
You had too much of a snitch, I guess.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
People just didn't respect him after that.
Because there were so many people that were also doing it, and he was the one that ratted everybody out and profited off of it.
There's some justice, some street justice in that.
I just think that we have to be really careful.
There's also an issue that everyone has access to social media and everyone has the ability to complain about things.
tom papa
Yeah, everybody.
joe rogan
The whole world.
Right.
So there's a lot of noise.
tom papa
A ton of it.
joe rogan
Yeah, you get the real sound.
Like, there are things that happen that are really bad.
And when something happens, it's really bad.
The Twitter mob and all the people that go after these people for something that's legitimately awful.
tom papa
Sure.
joe rogan
It makes sense.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, there's justice to it.
But there's also, like, this constant looking for targets.
tom papa
Yes.
It seems like that's kind of like a hobby of some people.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Like that is their thing.
joe rogan
100%.
tom papa
Is just to go out and pick people off.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's awful.
joe rogan
It is.
tom papa
It's a horrible thing.
It is.
Because at its best, it's a really wonderful thing.
It's a celebratory thing that you have this community that you share with.
And think about, like, you can see things from all around the world.
You can see cultures.
You can see young people doing amazing things in all these different little tiny spots around.
I mean, in so many ways.
It's beautiful.
But then there's just like this little dark underbelly of like hate.
There really just is good and bad in the world.
joe rogan
There is good and bad in the world, but there's also people that are just very frustrated and looking to vent that frustration as often as they can on whatever targets they find to be viable.
It's not like they've carefully considered the issue and carefully considered this person's stance on it.
For me, one of the big ones was the Roseanne Barr thing, because Roseanne Barr, what she said, seemed racist, right?
You look at her on the surface, she called that lady something like a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Planet of the Apes.
And like, oh, Jesus, she's calling a black woman an ape.
She said she didn't even know that woman was black.
And then you see her photo and you go, oh, okay.
That woman is very racially ambiguous.
I talked to her on the phone.
She told me she did not know that woman.
She goes, you really think that I would call a black lady Planet of the Apes?
I'm not fucking stupid.
That was her literal words.
She goes, I didn't know.
She goes, I just was fucked up on Ambien and drinking all weekend and tweeting a bunch of stupid shit, her own words.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
She's like, I didn't know what I was saying.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And no one cares, though.
No one cares that you got a lady who has mental illness, like a history of mental illness, is on a host of different medications, is on Ambien as well, and drinking, and smoking pot.
No one cares.
You compared a black woman...
To Planet of the Apes.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And then all these people made these memes where they put a photo of that woman next to that woman from the Planet of the Apes.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And you see why she was joking around about it, but it's totally off limits.
So they've decided she's this horrible racist.
Forget about all her years of people loving her and...
tom papa
Well, she also has, if you go back to the source kind of thing, it's like, you know, there's a picture of her dressed like a Nazi.
Right, but she's Jewish.
I know, but there's like, there's enough, she's always tweeting bombastic stuff.
joe rogan
She's got issues.
tom papa
Yeah, so it's not like somebody, like Rachel Ray, just making muffins and all of a sudden one tweet comes out.
She's in that area.
And I think when you're in that area and you're spewing hate and you're throwing fireballs and stuff, Whether you have good intent or not, you're in that arena.
You can get burned by it.
joe rogan
Yeah, she's a shitster.
tom papa
You know what I mean?
Yeah, she's a total shitster.
joe rogan
We remember the national anthem.
She grabs her crotch and spits on the ground.
Apparently, everyone fucking was super...
She was scared after that because that's a patriotic thing.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
People were like, you don't fucking do that to America.
tom papa
People were mad.
I remember that.
joe rogan
The issue with Roseanne, to me, is not even that tweet.
Not even the recent Planet of the Apes one.
It's an earlier one that she made five years ago, which is much more racist.
tom papa
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, about Susan Rice, where she said Susan Rice is a man with big swinging ape balls.
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
You're talking about an absolutely black woman.
tom papa
There's something there.
That's the thing.
It's the source.
It's like there's this person that has all of this kind of stuff and she's always going up to the line and not crossing it, but maybe sometimes crossing it, and then you do it, you're going to get popped.
joe rogan
Do you remember when Imus got kicked off the radio for saying about some gals who were athletes?
He called them nappy-headed hoes?
tom papa
Oh, yeah, of course.
joe rogan
And that was like, whoa.
tom papa
Yeah.
Man, you know, look, you want to play in those fire arenas?
You can get burned.
Right.
joe rogan
Occasionally you drop some bombs and it's great.
Yeah.
But if you're a shit stirrer and you're trying to drop bombs...
Occasionally.
tom papa
The shit's gonna land on you sometimes.
joe rogan
But it seems like racist bombs are the ones that get you burned the most.
tom papa
We have not healed as a nation.
We're this very confused...
It's like, you know, we grew up with an alcoholic, dysfunctional fathers.
And there's a sickness...
Like when you talked about how there's only 20 years between Hitler and my Volkswagen coming out.
There's not that much time...
Between that most heinous part of that to today, I mean, it's...
joe rogan
Well, it's less than 200 years, which is two lifetimes.
tom papa
It's raw.
It's raw.
joe rogan
Less than two lifetimes between us and slavery.
tom papa
I think, like, just recently, like, the last person, last African-American person who was around during slavery just passed.
I mean, we're...
joe rogan
It's...
tom papa
You know what I mean?
We're...
We never healed.
We never had a discussion.
We didn't go to therapy.
joe rogan
And forget about just slavery.
How about the civil rights movement?
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
I mean, how about hosing people down with fire hoses and sicking dogs on them?
That was in, if not our lifetime, just before we were born.
tom papa
And still today, there's still, you go to certain parts and people are popping stuff off and people, you know, as a white guy, you walk around, you hear people say shit because they think they're safe around you and it's still around.
joe rogan
They look at you and like, this guy has bread?
tom papa
This guy just bakes bread and stays home.
That's why I do it.
joe rogan
It's tricky.
tom papa
You know what I mean?
That is our disease in our culture.
There is a disease that we haven't met it out yet.
So, of course, if you're going to pop off about that, you're going to be...
Why?
Why are you?
Why are you?
What's in you that makes you feel like you need to tweet that off?
joe rogan
Well, if you're Roseanne, that's her whole thing, is getting this little reaction out of people.
I mean, a lot of comics, that's their thing, right?
Saying little controversial things to get a spark out of people.
tom papa
That's fine.
And look, I have a sensitivity that I don't even...
I don't want to go in that arena because I don't even do well when people yell around me.
It's not me.
Really!
joe rogan
About anything?
tom papa
About anything!
I don't like it.
We're only here for a little while.
Why are we going to fight?
That's where I live.
But there's a sport to it.
Yes, and there are people that do it who can read tweets calling them horrible things, and it just kind of...
You know, bounces off them.
They don't really care.
joe rogan
I don't think they read it.
tom papa
Is that what they do?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, if you read tweets about people that say horrible things to you, I mean, are you going to respond to them?
Are you going to engage in a dialogue?
And then other people are going to join in?
Are you going to respond to all of them?
You won't have any time.
There's no time.
You won't...
Your whole day will be taken up with that, with new people jumping into the fray.
It's like, if you want to have a fistfight with a mob, a mob of people, you can't really do that.
You can have a discussion with a one-on-one person, but if you fight a whole crowd of people, like that Kendrick Lamar, if that lady was like,"'Fuck you, bitch!' I'll say that word!
That's my song!
And she just knuckles up and dives in the crowd and starts throwing haymakers.
She's going to get fucking killed.
But if she has a discussion with one of those white guys who's doing this boo-boo that was just yelling it at himself, if you put them alone in a room and she said, okay, tell me why what I did was wrong.
And he was like, well...
tom papa
She turned it to Ralphie Mae.
unidentified
It's just fucking...
joe rogan
It's just fucked up.
It's just fucked up.
You can't use that word.
You know you can't use that word.
It's like, motherfucker, you were singing it.
I watched you sing it.
unidentified
No, no, no.
I sang it with everybody else, and I make the noise with my face.
joe rogan
I open my mouth like I'm going to say it, but I don't say it.
I go, nah.
unidentified
I don't say it.
joe rogan
I don't say it.
I kind of start it, and then I let other people end it.
I do the end part, or I do the guh part.
I don't do the in-between.
unidentified
I don't do a whole word, because that way I'm not racist.
tom papa
It's so complex.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
tom papa
It's too crazy.
joe rogan
But it's not complex.
It's stupid.
tom papa
It is complex.
joe rogan
But what's complex about that?
tom papa
Well, not just that issue, but what's complex about that to me is that you have a whole crowd of people...
joe rogan
Yelling it.
tom papa
...responding this way.
Like, it's on their minds.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
They're having these discussions that we are trying to move things forward, other people are trying to move you back.
That is complex.
joe rogan
Well, who's trying to move it back?
Who's actively saying, I mean, other than like white nationalist groups that everybody pretty much hates other than themselves, who's trying to move it back?
tom papa
And then other people who think that maybe that they're being, that it's being reversed and that they're being hated on now when they, you know, white, like young white kid who just wants to have a good time at the concert and is saying, but why are you attacking us?
We're trying to be this way.
joe rogan
Someone put up some things at a school that was criticized by a dean and was taken down.
They put up these signs that say, it's okay to be white.
Google that, because this was kind of crazy, that whoever this dean was, or whoever it was that chastised these people, they put up these signs that said, it's okay to be white.
And people were angry.
tom papa
Yeah, it's like white lives matter, that kind of thing.
joe rogan
No, just that statement.
It's okay to be white.
Why would anybody have a problem with that?
tom papa
Why do you feel like you've got to say that?
What are you thinking about people that aren't white?
Yeah, that's what I mean.
It is complex.
joe rogan
But is that complex or is that fucking stupid?
Here it is.
Signs saying it's okay to be white found at Maryland High School.
tom papa
Like finding a bomb, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, okay.
What does it say something?
At 5.45 a.m.
and removed by staff before students arrived for classes.
Oh, so they discovered them?
tom papa
We're taking this seriously.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
They sent a letter home to families informing them that the signs were discovered on 10 doors at 5.45am and removed by staff before students arrived for classes.
We are taking this seriously and are investigating this incident, wrote Renee Johnson, the school's principal.
Our research so far has indicated this may be a part of a concerted national campaign to foment racial and political tension in our school and community.
The same flyer was posted in other cities and communities this week.
Okay.
But, here's the question.
Do you disagree with the sentiment of that statement?
It is okay to be white.
It's okay to be Chinese.
It's okay to be Indian.
It's okay to be whatever the fuck you are.
It's not okay to be racist.
Maybe if they wrote, it's okay to be right, it's not okay to be racist.
Maybe if they wrote that, would that be an issue?
tom papa
That would have helped.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
That would have helped.
When you walk into your school campus, and all of a sudden there's Signs up everywhere that normally there are no signs.
joe rogan
Well, if they're a white person and they feel like they're being openly racially discriminated against, is it okay to say, hey, it's all right to be white?
Is that okay?
tom papa
Yeah, yes, of course.
joe rogan
So what's wrong with that sign?
tom papa
Because you pop them up in the middle of the night and put them all up on it.
unidentified
Sneaky style.
tom papa
You come in with your little lunch bag and you're going to teach your Spanish class and on your door is a sign that says, okay to be white.
Your knee-jerk reaction is, what are you doing?
joe rogan
The flyers appear to be a part of an online campaign that is detailed on the web forum 4chan.
Okay, but is it that...
But is that saying that 4chan's talking about this online campaign?
Or is it saying that 4chan started this online campaign?
jamie vernon
I would lean towards that because it was Halloween night and they discovered this article was posted November 1st.
Not like it's just a fun Halloween prank, but people do do that stuff on Halloween.
tom papa
Yeah, it's totally okay to think it.
It's like the guy with the bumper stickers all over his car.
Those guys are a little more unhinged than the other people.
It's like, yeah, I think it's okay to be white.
Do I have to make a sign?
Do I have to go get copies?
Do I have to get some tape?
Do I have to sneak on campus?
Do I have to put it up there?
joe rogan
There was an article in Washington Post.
Google this.
This woman wrote this article.
Why can't we hate men?
And it was published in the Washington Post.
And it, of course, had a photo of Harvey Weinstein, who's a disgusting man.
And this is like the perfect example.
But that is literally like...
It's like picking out the worst white man, Hitler, right?
Why can't we hate white men?
Because all white men are Hitler.
Why can't we hate white people?
tom papa
Is that what the article...
joe rogan
Well, the article, I don't know what the article says.
I didn't read it.
But I mean, like, how could you write an article that says, why can't we hate men?
tom papa
Well, because you want to get...
joe rogan
Unless you're trying to say we can't hate men because men are human and we've got to give everybody a chance and we can't generalize even if men have done horrible things.
tom papa
I'd have to read it.
I mean, it's definitely...
The headline is made to make you want to read it.
joe rogan
It's clickbaity.
tom papa
Yeah, it's clickbaity, exactly.
joe rogan
It's fascinating.
tom papa
How about we just take the hate out, guys?
Can't we just do that?
What's wrong with just...
joe rogan
Tom Papa's a big sweetie.
tom papa
Come on.
Can't we just get along?
joe rogan
You are a big sweetie, Tom Papa.
tom papa
How long are you going to be here?
How much time...
I would much rather live in a world where you go with your grandfather and get a little bread and you come back home and they yell at each other and you make a meal.
You know what I mean?
Why are we spending all this time?
I mean, there's people that need to spend the time to move the culture and do things and protect themselves.
joe rogan
That's not what this is.
This is people trying to get attention for their work.
They're trying to get attention for their click-baity little articles and click-baity little things and click-baity little campaigns against people.
That's what it is.
I mean, people love that shit.
tom papa
All I would have had to do with this book is write something about Trump in it.
And that people could soundbite.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
Right?
Sure.
And have a lot of people be like, what is it?
And get everybody talking about it.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
Right?
That's what they're doing.
They're trying to make up, make noise so people look at them and they make more money.
joe rogan
Well, and then there's also, I mean, there has to be a thought behind it.
Like, that men have done some horrible, shitty things.
So, but the idea of why can't you generalize?
Well, you can't generalize because you're a nuanced human being.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And you're supposed to be able to understand.
unidentified
Thoughtful.
joe rogan
Well, everyone is different.
Literally everyone.
There's 150 million men.
The idea of why can't you hate all of them?
Well, you can if you want to, but it's a ridiculous way to live your life.
tom papa
No, exactly.
Exactly.
So it means, are you straight and you are attracted to men and you have to hate them all and quarantine yourself away from them?
joe rogan
There's a lot of those guys, right?
tom papa
There's a lot of really good people out there.
It's Father's Day.
joe rogan
How often does that have to happen with people who are homophobic, who hate gay people, who rally against gay marriage and rally against gay rights, and then you find out that they're really gay?
tom papa
Yes, all the time.
joe rogan
All the time.
Almost every super religious guy who is anti-gay.
tom papa
Some scandal always comes out.
unidentified
Oh, he was sleeping with Oh, they're so common, it's cliche.
tom papa
Yeah, I know, right, exactly.
It's that many of them.
joe rogan
It's like you look for it.
When someone talks about gay, it's a sin against men, and we should lock them up, and we should do this to them.
Oh, oh, oh, someone's sucking dick on a sneak dip.
tom papa
Right.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Let's follow that dude around.
What you doing behind closed doors, son?
tom papa
We're going to find it.
We're going to find it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
We'll find it.
I mean, that is what people do.
I think what I like about what you're saying and how I feel, too, is that we need to be nice to each other.
This whole idea of this gotcha bullshit and this attacking people for things that don't necessarily make sense without nuance, without the understanding of complexity of human interaction, with no concern for that at all.
Because you just want a target.
We have to shun that stuff.
That stuff is just pure foolishness, and it's bad for discourse, it's bad for community, it's bad for the way we communicate with each other.
tom papa
It generates more hate.
joe rogan
It's also a generalization, a gross generalization, which is just the same thing as sexism, it's the same thing as racism, it's the same thing.
Why can't we hate men is a gross generalization.
I don't know what the article said, but that statement.
That's a gross general...
You can't because you're a nice person.
I assume you're a nice person.
tom papa
Yeah, because we don't hate.
How about that?
How about we try not to hate?
joe rogan
You hate them all?
You hate Justin Trudeau?
That guy seems like a sweetie.
tom papa
That guy seems awesome.
joe rogan
You hear Trump called him weak?
tom papa
Yeah, in an amazing suit.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
Trump called him weak and dishonest.
tom papa
Yeah.
No, I mean, you know, the culture has enough hate.
I think the campaign has to be for more kindness.
joe rogan
Look at that.
That's a great picture.
jamie vernon
Crazy photo.
joe rogan
Him sitting there with his arms crossed and they're all leaning on the table.
tom papa
Just listen to us.
Just listen to us.
joe rogan
Oh, I agree.
He's like, no.
I wonder what they're talking about right there.
Like, should we go to lunch?
I like spaghetti.
tom papa
We don't have spaghetti, Donald.
We don't have spaghetti.
joe rogan
You can't make spaghetti?
Make some fucking spaghetti.
tom papa
Could someone get spaghetti?
unidentified
Hey!
joe rogan
Make me a fucking pizza!
unidentified
Can't you just get what everybody else gets?
joe rogan
I wonder what they were talking about there.
That is a great picture though.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's great with him being the only one sitting down, his arms crossed.
tom papa
He looks like so spoiled.
joe rogan
And her, the look on her face.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
She's like, ugh.
Is that the woman from Germany?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Merkel.
joe rogan
She's got problems of her own.
tom papa
I have to deal with this guy.
jamie vernon
His fist is on the table.
tom papa
Anger.
joe rogan
Anger fist.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Ugh.
What are you doing for Father's Day?
What do you do?
joe rogan
Nothing.
tom papa
Nothing?
unidentified
Nothing.
tom papa
Just kind of hanging home.
joe rogan
Every day is Father's Day.
tom papa
It's true.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't want any special treatment.
I don't celebrate my birthday.
I don't want anybody to give me Christmas presents.
tom papa
Do they anyway?
Of course.
joe rogan
But I don't...
tom papa
I'm the same way.
Dad is just supposed to be there.
I like having him around.
I always tell them, I want to see your faces.
That's all I want.
joe rogan
I got all the gifts.
I got all the love.
I got everything.
If I get hugs every day, I'm more than happy.
tom papa
Totally.
joe rogan
I don't want some fucking cake or some stupid shit.
tom papa
I don't want to go to brunch.
There's no Father's Day brunch.
unidentified
It's my day.
joe rogan
It's my day.
tom papa
There's no Father's Day brunch.
There's no having to race through the mall and get flowers for Father's Day.
unidentified
Just let us be and be around.
joe rogan
Some woman heckled in Chicago.
It's a pro-woman piece.
It's a piece about how we forget...
That women make all the human beings.
It's like this idea that women are supposed to do everything that men do, but they also make all the fucking human beings.
So it's like this complex or twisty road that I take people down with this.
There's a lot of misdirection.
And anyway, I say it and then...
Later on, I'm talking about something else, and this girl yells out, we make all the people!
And I'm like, I just said that.
I said that five minutes ago.
I go, that bitch is one of those chicks that celebrates her birthday all month long.
And everybody went crazy.
unidentified
It's my birthday month!
joe rogan
But it's like, that's what I don't want to be.
I don't want to be the person that wants the attention.
It's my Father's Day.
It's Father's Day week.
The whole month is Father's Month.
tom papa
Finally, we're getting ours.
No, no.
joe rogan
We got it easy.
tom papa
I'm the same way.
joe rogan
We got it easy.
tom papa
Yeah.
I just want them around in the house.
Let me see your faces.
joe rogan
The reward is not a card or a cake.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
The reward is actually in being a father.
It's the greatest thing ever.
tom papa
Yeah, just hold my hand for a minute.
Just come up and just be like, yeah, hug me, just a little squeeze, and we're good.
And I think they like that, too.
Dads don't want you running through the mall trying to find stuff for us.
And also, dads buy everything anyway.
joe rogan
Dude, I went to the King Tut exhibit downtown yesterday.
How was it?
Amazing.
tom papa
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
It's crazy.
They have things there from 3,300 years ago.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
They constructed them 3,000 years ago.
They have jewelry and these wooden boats that they found in King Tut's temple or his tomb.
unidentified
Ooh.
joe rogan
See, that's a bow and arrow that they add.
Here's how stupid they are, though.
Whoever put that thing together, it says compound bow.
Hey, you fucks.
You museum fucks.
That's not a compound bow, okay?
It's just not.
It's a traditional bow, you asshole.
A compound bow has cams on it, and it works on a totally different system.
The fact that you fucking people are running a goddamn museum, and you don't know what a compound bow is, really pisses me off.
tom papa
I took a photo of it.
Gee, Mr. Roken, we just thought it was a bow and arrow.
joe rogan
I took a photo of it, and I took a photo of what it says, what it says there, because I was legitimately angry.
I was reading this thing where it says, compound bow.
Here it says.
Here's what it says.
It says...
Gilded wooden compound bow with glass and calcite inlay.
It's not a compound bow!
tom papa
Well, gee, Mr. Rogan, we thought it was a bow and arrow.
joe rogan
It's a ceremonial bow.
A compound bow is like one of those bows that I have in the back.
This is a very new modern creation, you fuckheads.
It makes me angry.
tom papa
I love how you're in this big Egyptian thing with Tutankhamen and you're like obsessed with the bow and arrow.
unidentified
Well, I do get obsessed with it because it means a lot to you.
joe rogan
Well, yeah, and it makes me angry.
tom papa
You're wearing an archery shirt right now.
Nobody has archery shirts.
Nobody wears archery shirts.
joe rogan
I fucking practice every day, dude.
To me, I'm a person who's...
That's like, if I was looking at a jujitsu diagram and they said, this is kung fu, I'd be like, hey, you fucks.
tom papa
Yeah, this is important.
joe rogan
This is Brazilian jujitsu.
tom papa
Wait, could you go back to that?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's boomerangs.
tom papa
I love boomerangs.
joe rogan
They have boomerangs, though, but the boomerangs, the shape of them, they were not designed to come back.
It's interesting.
I wonder when they figured out...
That was designed as a weapon?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But not enough of a curve for it to return to the thrower.
tom papa
So it's just meant to hit somebody 100 yards away.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess just a good way to throw something and hit it.
tom papa
I love boomerangs.
joe rogan
They're pretty dope.
tom papa
Oh, they're cool.
joe rogan
It's a cool design.
tom papa
Oh, I would be able to find open fields and...
You don't catch it like it doesn't come right back.
It comes back and like sails slowly down like in a spiral at the end.
joe rogan
You know what's fucked up though about this King Tut exhibit?
Is you really got the sense that he was an inbred.
First of all, the shape of his head was all fucked up.
He had a club foot.
Like he was inbred.
He had two children that were mummified with him that were stillborn.
And he married his sister.
His father had a baby with someone else, and then he married his half-sister.
He was banging his half-sister.
But what they did, they were constantly inbreeding in the royal families to try to keep the bloodline pure and to try to keep all the money in the family.
tom papa
Oh, boy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
That's weird.
joe rogan
Dude, did you ever see his head?
What his head was shaped like?
Jamie, pull up a photo of King Tut's skull.
He had this weird-shaped, deformed skull and a club foot and all the depictions of his body.
Yeah.
tom papa
Oh, weird.
joe rogan
Yeah, his head, like, look how big his head, like, stuck up in the back.
tom papa
Weird.
joe rogan
He was essentially inbred.
Like, there was something wrong with him.
tom papa
Was he a good king?
joe rogan
He was only around for a little while.
tom papa
He was a...
It's just because we found his stuff.
joe rogan
I mean...
tom papa
It's not like he had that much global impact?
Or did he?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
I'm not sure.
tom papa
He's got a weird little head.
joe rogan
The story is amazing of how they found it.
They have this IMAX movie that goes along with the exhibit.
It's pretty fucking badass.
Because the IMAX screen is gigantic, right?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
So when you're there, you get a real sense of how big these structures actually are.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But they were looking for it for five years.
This guy, this British guy, and this kid named Hussein, who was the, like, he would get water for all the workers.
He was clearing, like, he had these water pots, and they'd set them into the ground so that people could come scoop water while they were digging and trying to find these.
Yeah, while they were trying to find this tomb.
And he found a step.
He put the water bottle down and he cleared some dirt away and he found this flat rock just randomly.
That flat rock was one of the stairs that led down to the tomb.
And it was the only tomb that they ever found that was completely untouched.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
That is the coolest.
Grave robbers had found every other tomb.
The tombs were miles away from the pyramids.
Because, I mean, they probably had tombs in the pyramids that were raided, and then they realized after a while, like, look, we've got to hide these things.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So they took them way far out, miles and miles away, and they put them in these, like, hillsides, but then thieves found them there, too.
tom papa
Jeez.
So was that one, like, underground?
Did they build it that way, or over time...
joe rogan
No, it was underground.
tom papa
It was underground.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
tom papa
Wow, that's amazing.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
tom papa
What a cool way to discover something.
joe rogan
Yeah, dude, one kid.
And he was the first one in the tomb, too, because he was tiny.
So when they busted the hole, they busted a hole through the wall, and he climbed in with a light and showed it around.
tom papa
You see anything down there, Billy?
joe rogan
Well, yeah, that's part of the film.
The archaeologists looking through the hole and seeing the gold and all this different stuff when they first chipped through the hole.
Can you imagine something like that?
tom papa
Oh, my God!
joe rogan
Thousands and thousands of years, completely untouched.
tom papa
Amazing.
joe rogan
Oh, it's amazing.
tom papa
And then you take that one thing and a big, giant rock ball starts rolling after you.
joe rogan
Whoa, like Indiana Jones?
Yeah.
tom papa
That's remarkable.
joe rogan
The exhibit is really interesting, because they had a glove, a linen glove that was 3,000 years old.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, and you're looking at this linen glove, and they had sandals.
They had the sarcophagus and sandals.
He had these decorative sandals.
tom papa
So how long were they making that stuff even before then, if that's 3,000 years old?
joe rogan
Thousands of years.
tom papa
So even before that?
joe rogan
I had a guy on really recently, Dr. Robert Shock from Boston University, and he's a geologist, and he is one of the first people to propose the idea, one of the first real scholars to propose the idea that the Sphinx is far, far older than people think it is.
And that it's not from 2500 BC, but it's from way before that, perhaps maybe 10,000 years old than that, because it has water erosion, all of it, that can only have come from thousands of years of rainfall.
Yeah, dude, it's crazy.
tom papa
So what's the implication of that?
joe rogan
The implication is, his take on it, which is really interesting, and he really scared the shit out of me and blew my mind, mass coronal ejections, so something from the sun, some gigantic solar flare that created unbelievable havoc on Earth.
He was talking about Lightning storms that were like the lightning coming down like sheets of rain in a hurricane and that it like just covered parts of the earth with lightning and killed everything and killed off mass Just mass numbers of human beings, large mammals, it's responsible for...
There's a big mass extinction that we really don't understand what caused somewhere in that range of around 10,000 years ago.
And he attributes that to this mass coronal ejection and that this huge sun, this burst of energy from the sun caused...
These unbelievable, chaotic storms that killed, who knows, I said, so is it like a thunderstorm times a hundred?
He's like, no, times a million.
He was like, sheets of...
tom papa
Times a million.
joe rogan
Sheets of lightning coming down like rain in a hurricane.
tom papa
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Just imagine lightning just...
Just cooking the earth.
tom papa
For like a long period of time or just like one big storm?
joe rogan
Long period of time.
tom papa
So the sun just kept shooting stuff?
joe rogan
People started living in caves and they built these dwellings inside the earth because that was where they could survive.
They could survive where the radiation wasn't coming down.
It wasn't going through the earth to get to them.
So houses, tents, anything that you lived in that was outside, those people were dead.
The only people that lived were the people that had their houses carved into hillsides.
tom papa
Is there evidence of this?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Evidence, geological evidence.
tom papa
Is it a mainstream thing, or is it his kind of...
joe rogan
Well, the fact that that's possible is mainstream, whether or not it happened then is up for debate.
It's also the end of the Ice Age, and he thinks that's the reason why all these ice caps melted, and this was what caused it.
tom papa
Oh, that was part of that.
joe rogan
Caused a massive shift in the global temperature.
tom papa
Jeez, that's crazy.
I was just reading a thing about the Ice Age yesterday in the Times about how the ice changed Manhattan, all the five boroughs.
Like, that's kind of where the ice kind of came down to, was around there, and seeing how it receded and what it left behind.
But the civilizations weren't really living around then, right?
joe rogan
What do you mean?
tom papa
During the Ice Age.
joe rogan
Of course there were.
tom papa
They were?
joe rogan
Well, there were some civilizations.
I mean, there's established civilizations.
Like there's some structures...
tom papa
Like in Africa or...
joe rogan
Well, there's some structures that have been absolutely linked to that time.
A big one is Gobekli Tepe, which is in Turkey.
And they have absolutely dated that to 12,000 years ago.
So what's fascinating about that is they didn't know that people were capable of building these gigantic stone structures 12,000 years ago.
And they've only uncovered a very small amount of Gobekli Tepe.
It's a huge, huge site.
tom papa
So do you think that there's still tons of stuff we could discover out there that hasn't been tapped yet?
Like under the oceans?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
I want to find it.
Well, if these guys are right, and here's the thing.
unidentified
They...
joe rogan
What they think is that there was a big dip, and I forget what his term that he used to describe it, but there was a dark age that was created by these mass ejections, and that civilization, particularly in Egypt, had reached a very high level.
of sophistication when they were capable of building these gigantic stone structures and they had all this amazing architecture and engineering or to move these huge stones and then there was a big die-off and that for thousands of years people essentially were knocked back almost down into the stone age and then regrouped and this but this cataclysmic story this story is in Noah's Ark We're good
tom papa
They all talk about this event.
joe rogan
Great floods and chaos and God punished everyone and everyone died.
This is like a part of human history.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Just many different versions of it.
tom papa
Of like, right, what exactly happened.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But he's pointing to geological evidence, which is fascinating because at one point in time, around 9,000 BC, the Nile Valley was not all sand the way we see it now, but it was a tropical rainforest.
And so for thousands of years before that, it was torrential downpours and rain.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That all this was the reason why the Sphinx enclosure has these deep fissures that are indicative of rainfall and water erosion for thousands of years.
Not just instantaneous flooding from some giant event, but from thousands of years of rainfall.
tom papa
Of rain.
Just constant rain.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And so that would predate...
The idea is the current established timeline is that the Great Sphinx was created somewhere around the time that they believe the Great Pyramids were created.
Now, the Great Pyramid, they've done carbon dating that indicates that that was somewhere around 2500 BC. Uh-huh.
He thinks that that was built over an older site that was from many, many years before that.
He has all these photos of similar construction methods that they've done where they've taken a really old site from maybe many, many thousands of years ago and put something over that.
Sort of like the Greeks did.
tom papa
Yeah, they just built on top.
Yeah.
joe rogan
With the Parthenon and the Acropolis.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They built it over the Acropolis.
tom papa
Right.
Over an old thing.
joe rogan
Yes.
That they don't even know where the fuck it came from.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They don't know where that old thing, where it's from.
So the idea is that this old thing, in Egypt in particular, is a product of an old civilization from many, many, many thousands of years ago.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
So long ago that the distance and the gap between the people who built the pyramids and the people who originally built the Sphinx is far greater.
Far greater than our distance between us and the people who built the pyramids.
tom papa
Oh really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Oh man.
That's amazing.
joe rogan
This is how fucking crazy it is.
tom papa
It's so crazy.
joe rogan
But think about this.
Cleopatra, she's closer to the creation of the iPhone than she is to the creation of the pyramids.
That's the real deal.
Really?
Yes.
That's established Egyptologists, archaeologists.
This is not controversial.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
This is just a fact.
Jeez, that's cool.
But they think that at 2500 BC, that represents only the new construction in Egypt, and that before that, if you go to 10,000 BC, and before, there was a whole other civilization there.
tom papa
Jeez, that's amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's amazing.
And that this is when, 10,000 plus years ago, this is when these cataclysmic events happened and all these people died off, and much of what they knew back then was lost.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And then they rebuilt.
Whew.
tom papa
What's so scary about that is that it sounds like it could happen any day.
Oh, it certainly could happen.
Something could happen with the sun and all of a sudden we're dealing with some other, right?
Some big solar flare comes at us and we're in trouble.
joe rogan
What did it say, Janet?
jamie vernon
It was an article in Business Insider about coronal mass injections.
tom papa
What's coronal mean?
joe rogan
Go back to that?
jamie vernon
This is a different thing, though.
tom papa
Coronal sounds like eyeball.
joe rogan
What did you just say?
High-speed solar winds, increased lightning strikes on Earth.
Yeah, but what was that last one, though?
Coronal mass ejection.
Do you have to subscribe or something?
jamie vernon
I had it up for five minutes, and I just went back.
tom papa
It was all red.
jamie vernon
But it was saying that they could hit us.
joe rogan
Go back to that article.
tom papa
Come on!
We want that article!
jamie vernon
It's not letting me go back to it.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
What's it doing?
jamie vernon
It's acting weird.
I've got to find it again.
tom papa
It's King Tut.
This is what happened with Indiana Jones.
Then he can't go back.
joe rogan
Why isn't it...
tom papa
There it is.
unidentified
Here.
joe rogan
We're shockingly unprepared for an extreme...
unidentified
Oh.
tom papa
It looks like you're using an ad blocker.
joe rogan
Just disable the ad blocker.
tom papa
Business Insider, isn't it?
joe rogan
Here it goes.
We're shockingly unprepared for an extreme weather event that could fry Earth's power grid.
Now, that's something that...
What did he say it happened?
What year did he say that it happened?
tom papa
Yeah, you don't want that to happen.
joe rogan
The Carrington event was 1859. Yeah, an 1859 event, if it happened today, would completely...
And this is a documented event.
If it happened, I mean, where, like, transformers blew up, all these different...
Where they would do the Morse code and shit.
tom papa
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
All that shit fucking exploded.
All the Pony Express.
It exploded because of this coronal mass ejection or a gigantic solar flare.
And this is a documented one.
And they're saying if this documented one, this quarantine event, happened today, we'd be fucked.
tom papa
All the electric would...
We wouldn't have to go on Twitter anymore.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
That would be amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you also wouldn't be able to go to the grocery store.
And your Tesla wouldn't work.
tom papa
But I would get my compound bow and go hunt for my food.
A real compound bow.
joe rogan
Not that fucking piece of shit in the museum.
unidentified
That's a cool compound bow.
tom papa
That's so crazy that we've...
What's crazy is that these civilizations were able to build up and they get knocked all the way back and then build up a similar way, right?
If you're talking about the Egypt one, right?
They came back kind of in a similar way.
If the pyramids and the Sphinx are that far apart, that there was something in the DNA, in the brain space that was...
They tried to come back the same way.
It's pretty interesting.
joe rogan
Well, if not the same way, in a similar way.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, some of the people survived, right?
And some of the people that survived must have had some knowledge of the construction.
They passed it down from generation to generation.
But, you know, you're dealing with thousands and thousands of years where they weren't building things like that.
And then they've figured out a way to do it again.
tom papa
Yeah.
It's interesting.
joe rogan
How the fuck did they become so smart?
That's what's interesting.
tom papa
Genetics.
joe rogan
Perhaps.
Maybe they just had superior genetics, but it's also what they were showing in this video that I watched in the IMAX thing yesterday was that the area was so unbelievably fertile that there was so much of an opportunity for them to grow food and there were so many animals there for them to hunt and agriculture that they had a chance to sort of establish a civilization because it was such a rich area with natural resources.
Yeah.
And that it was all eventually weakened by civil turmoil that civil turmoil and the Pharaohs lost their power and as the Pharaohs lost their power then they were invaded Yeah from across the sea Yeah, well, no from inside of Africa.
tom papa
Oh, from inside Africa?
joe rogan
Yeah, if you look at, yeah, the Nubians took over Egypt at one point in time.
tom papa
Damn, Nubians.
Sons of bitches.
joe rogan
Well, different, you know, different people in Africa were going over there and looking at all the shit they had.
And also the Library of Alexandria was burned by the Muslims.
tom papa
Was it a lush area?
Like when I picture Egypt, I picture like a desert.
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
Right?
Is it?
joe rogan
No, the Nile.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
The Nile is a river.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And the river where the wetlands were is filled with animals and they grew food there.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And what they're thinking by this predating of the Sphinx with Dr. Robert Schock, his proposal is that it was initially created back when it was a rainforest and was unbelievably lush, so incredibly fertile.
And then slowly the climate shifted.
And that climate shift could have corresponded with that coronal mass ejection.
So it could have been some sort of a massive event that slowly or even rapidly shifted the climate.
tom papa
I would like to go over and see it.
I'm a little scared to go there.
joe rogan
Me too.
You and me both, buddy.
tom papa
Yeah, that would be a cool...
I mean, what else would you want to see that's that profound?
joe rogan
Dude, when they're walking, when you watch the IMAX movie, I can't recommend enough.
It's quick, too, if you have short attention span.
It's like 45 minutes.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But when you watch them walk next to these enormous statues...
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, these fucking statues of the pharaohs are so big that you see these little tiny people walking by and you realize like, oh my god, look at this.
These people had done something unbelievable.
The pyramids and the Sphinx, there's so much of that stuff.
There's so much.
tom papa
And why just there?
joe rogan
Exactly.
tom papa
Right?
joe rogan
Exactly.
What did they figure out?
tom papa
Yeah.
What happened?
Why were they the only ones at the time?
joe rogan
I mean, it has to be connected to resources, right?
Because if you go today, there's parts of the world where people are, you know, some impoverished parts of Africa in particular where they don't have a lot of resources or people are fucked.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And they don't have any opportunity and they're in a terrible place and it's just a really, really shitty time to be alive.
tom papa
You're not advancing.
joe rogan
The Bay Area and go to some artisanal cheese shop and ride around your electric car.
You know what I mean?
We're experiencing that on Earth simultaneously.
tom papa
Yeah, it's just purely what's available.
joe rogan
Yeah, and what minds.
How many Elon Musks did they have in the Egyptian times?
Because if it was just us, you and I, we're kind of dumb.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Let's be honest.
tom papa
Yeah, not that bright.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're not inventing tunnels underneath the fucking...
tom papa
We're just getting by.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If we smoked a joint and started talking about, ew, this is what we do, dude.
We'd make fucking tunnels, and then your car goes in the tunnel and it shoots around.
tom papa
Dude, I love that idea.
joe rogan
Fucking crazy, bro.
tom papa
Fucking love that idea.
joe rogan
But nobody would take us seriously, and nobody would let us dig.
tom papa
And then we'd just fall asleep.
Yeah, we'd just forget about it.
joe rogan
But there must have been a bunch of Elon Musks back in the Egyptian times.
tom papa
Well, that's what's amazing, is there's this genius IQ where all the magic happens.
You know, where the Einsteins live, where those big leaps kind of happen, and everybody else could be really smart, but not to that level where...
You're actually shifting the world.
And maybe that's what happened.
Maybe there was just one genetic freak in the Egyptian world that was there because of their diet and stuff.
They were able to survive.
joe rogan
And it could have been a slow process too, because you're dealing with thousands of years of prosperity too.
thousands of years they have many many many generations to think things through I mean right think about what's happened on this continent just over 200 years just 200 go back 200 years ago nothing's here yeah that's crazy That's crazy.
tom papa
Just 200 years ago.
Yeah, go to 1818. So where are we going to be, like, 2,000, 3,000 years ahead?
joe rogan
Here.
Just here.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Especially if you let Elon Musk make his tunnels everywhere.
tom papa
Ah, there's going to be so many tunnels.
joe rogan
So many tunnels.
tom papa
It's going to be awesome.
joe rogan
He's going to get to the Grand Canyon in 10 minutes.
unidentified
Shoo!
tom papa
A little pod.
joe rogan
But that is...
What is this, Jamie?
jamie vernon
That's all there was in 1818 in the United States.
joe rogan
Missouri territory.
unidentified
Wow.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
That's nuts.
tom papa
That's only 100 years ago.
joe rogan
Look how much Spain owned.
New Spain.
Vice royalty of New Spain is all Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That looks like...
Montana, Colorado.
Jeez Louise.
Then look at the Oregon County.
tom papa
Yeah, all of it.
joe rogan
Oregon Country.
Wow, shared with United Kingdom.
tom papa
The whole Northwest.
joe rogan
Shared with United Kingdom.
tom papa
Nobody had...
joe rogan
Oregon Country.
Michigan Territory.
tom papa
Missouri Territory.
joe rogan
Michigan was on both sides of the lake.
Look at that.
jamie vernon
It still is.
joe rogan
Is it?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
So Michigan is on the left and the right of the lake?
jamie vernon
The UP, Upper Peninsula.
joe rogan
Oh, but not the right side where it says Michigan Territory.
That's not Michigan anymore.
tom papa
That's Michigan.
The other side is Minneapolis.
jamie vernon
That's where Detroit and all that stuff is, and then there's the Upper Peninsula up above Wisconsin.
joe rogan
Right, but the other side is not Michigan.
They're not both Michigan.
tom papa
Right, that's Minneapolis.
jamie vernon
Right here it is.
tom papa
Up there in the corner.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, but where it says Michigan Territory, Jamie.
jamie vernon
Oh, that's Wisconsin.
joe rogan
Right, that's what I'm saying.
jamie vernon
Oh, my bad.
Sorry.
joe rogan
It says it right there.
It says Michigan on both ones.
tom papa
Jamie was just hit with a solar flare.
joe rogan
He just lost his mind.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Disputed between Massachusetts and the colony of New Brunswick, UK. So that's Maine, right?
Because they have Massachusetts.
tom papa
Everyone's just grabbing.
joe rogan
But Maine was like, we're not sure what we're going to do with it.
tom papa
We might keep it.
We might not.
joe rogan
You realize how fucking far up there Maine is?
tom papa
There's a lot of mosquitoes up there.
joe rogan
Like Massachusetts.
When you look at where Massachusetts is, and then you go above Massachusetts.
tom papa
Yeah, Maine's...
Maine's big.
First place that gets sunlight in the morning.
joe rogan
Fucking giant, man.
tom papa
Yeah, huge.
joe rogan
Right, and where's New York?
tom papa
New York right down there.
joe rogan
Look at that.
tom papa
Right next to Little Vermont.
joe rogan
Look how New York goes.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
So look at Massachusetts.
So Massachusetts was two places.
Look, it was Massachusetts and it was Maine.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Look at that.
See, because there's two Massachusetts then, just like there's two Michigans.
tom papa
I'm gonna keep all of it.
joe rogan
So this is 1818?
tom papa
I want all of it.
joe rogan
Is that Ted Kennedy?
tom papa
It's my Kennedy.
joe rogan
Wow, look at all that, man.
Alabama territory, Georgia, South Carolina.
So all those fucked up southern states are still there.
Tennessee.
tom papa
All filled with Native Americans.
We just came in and like, let me have this.
I'm taking that.
joe rogan
Well, Texas, man.
tom papa
That's so brutal.
joe rogan
I mean, Texas, they were fighting off the Cheyenne.
I mean, those ranchers, that was not established territory.
That's one of the reasons why Texans are so fucking hard, man.
They had to fight.
Yeah, they were, at one point in time, they were a republic before they were a state.
They were like this weird thing where they were kind of like not even a part of the United States.
tom papa
Oh, really?
Yeah, just so wild.
joe rogan
That just happened!
tom papa
Yeah.
Yeah, we're talking thousands of years for your little toots and commons.
joe rogan
Yeah, your little fucking, the little guy with his club foot.
tom papa
Your little bonehead.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow, that was thousands of years after King Tut.
People were taking wagons and going across the route.
tom papa
Just going.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
How crazy is that?
Think of that.
3,000 years later, people are still shooting bows and arrows at each other.
tom papa
Yeah.
3,000 years later, just completely wide open.
joe rogan
3,000.
tom papa
Yeah, so why...
Right.
So why weren't the Native Americans before we got here putting up those big statues?
joe rogan
Well, they lived a very different life.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer life.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And they have this incredible spiritual connection to the land and to the animals that they hunted.
And they had a very, very fascinating...
I mean, there's a bunch of different, of course, Native American cultures.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
To their earth and to the animals and the worship that they had, the reverence they had for the animals and for life.
tom papa
The trees.
joe rogan
It's just crazy when you think about how people were living in Europe at the same time.
tom papa
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Just completely, a totally different thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Getting syphilis, wearing powdered wigs, banging their sisters.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
So when they showed up and had gunpowder and all the rest of this, the Native Americans didn't stand a chance.
joe rogan
What's crazy to me, too, is how many people that were Westerners, they joined Native American tribes and were living with them.
tom papa
Oh, really?
Like Kevin Costner?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was common.
It happened, and no one moved the other way.
No one from the Native American cultures decided, eh, I'm going to move to the city.
tom papa
No.
Those are the saddest pictures of all time when you see those Native Americans putting suits and ties and hats and standing there having to take pictures.
joe rogan
Those pictures are so weird.
tom papa
Hard shoes in a city.
Oh, brutal.
It's so bad.
joe rogan
You know what must have been really interesting?
We're talking about your VW, which was from 20 years after the war with the Nazis.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
What about those Wild Bill Wild West shows?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They had those Wild West shows where they had men who had killed a bunch of colonists.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there's a guy, I think his name was Maul?
It was this giant Indian guy who's this fucking murderer who'd killed a bunch of the Settlers and he was they would tour with him Wild Bill would tour with this guy and they would do on their their Wild West show they shoot guns and do like pretend to fight each other Well, thanks for people was like a recreation of what it must have been like she's when they you know Captured territory from the Native Americans.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
They do these wild Wild West shows, man.
That's how they made their living.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
It became a big thing.
tom papa
It was like the movies.
joe rogan
See if you pull up the Wild West shows from the 1800s.
It was a fascinating time, man.
tom papa
Isn't that crazy?
joe rogan
Because it's just after this had all happened.
tom papa
That was how you were telling stories.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Nobody knew about it.
You'd get your little weird newspaper.
unidentified
Dude.
tom papa
You'd read a little story.
No one really knew what was going on.
joe rogan
Imagine how little you knew what was going on back then.
tom papa
You knew nothing.
You knew nothing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
A town crier would come in.
Hear ye, hear ye.
Maine gave up the top of it.
It's now Massachusetts.
joe rogan
No one knew anything back then.
tom papa
Nothing!
joe rogan
Look at that.
Pawnee Bill Shows, the only genuine Wild West.
tom papa
Yee-haw!
joe rogan
Touring America this season.
Over 1,000 people and horses employed.
tom papa
Wow!
joe rogan
Every equestrian nation in the world represented.
Wow!
tom papa
Two performances daily.
Weird and startling free street parade.
unidentified
Ha ha!
joe rogan
Look at that name, Calamity Jane.
tom papa
I love this.
This is just a show business guy.
I wonder if there was a comedian in it.
joe rogan
Wild West shows, man.
And this was like early 1900s, late 1800s.
tom papa
Yeah, when was it?
joe rogan
It says 1902, I see that.
tom papa
1903. Wow.
joe rogan
So this is, you know...
tom papa
That'd be pretty cool, like, for a young kid.
joe rogan
50 years after the, you know, they were still going to war with the Native Americans.
tom papa
Is that a picture of it over there?
unidentified
Fuck, man.
joe rogan
Crazy.
jamie vernon
Yeah, there's another one.
They had a reenactment.
They did, like, Custer's Last Stand and train robberies and stuff.
joe rogan
Can you imagine people would go to see that, like, 1901 in Buffalo, New York?
tom papa
He had no movies.
He had nothing.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
This was your movie.
Oh, my God.
It must have been amazing.
joe rogan
And you still, like...
I had to try to make sense of it all.
Like, what happened?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
How did we get here?
tom papa
Especially, like you said, having the real guy there who you know could at one point just turn on everybody and start killing the people in the audience.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
There was one guy who was this giant...
See if you could find that Native American Wild West shows.
I think his name was Maul.
unidentified
Maul.
joe rogan
I think that was his name.
I'm trying to remember his name.
Look at...
Buffalo Bill.
tom papa
Look at that.
Just a showman.
joe rogan
And sitting bull.
tom papa
He was a movie star.
joe rogan
Hanging out together.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
tom papa
Look, I'm sorry we took all your land, but listen, just hear me out.
I've got an idea.
We put some makeup on each other and we go out and we do these shows.
joe rogan
Listen, we got whiskey.
tom papa
We got a lot of white women.
joe rogan
A lot of white women.
A lot of whiskey.
tom papa
We tour around.
We make money.
We charge these dopes.
We do two shows a day and we're out.
joe rogan
Do you think women were like crazy?
These guys, they'd see them.
Oh my God, look at them.
Look at them.
They'd probably scalp people.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
He avenges Custer by killing and scalping yellow hair, also called Yellow Hand, which he called the first scalp for Custer.
unidentified
Jeez.
tom papa
Jeez.
Yeah, big-ass show.
joe rogan
But here's the thing, man.
That just happened.
All this just happened.
We're talking about 1900. I know.
118 years ago.
It's almost a human lifespan.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like this convergence of human beings is so recent.
jamie vernon
What killed these more?
Probably like movies and radio?
Yeah.
People are like, ah, for sure.
unidentified
Probably.
tom papa
It looks like a movie production.
joe rogan
Plus they probably shot each other a bunch.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
I'm sure there was some venereal disease involved.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
They probably all died of fucking herpes or something.
Didn't they?
They had guns.
They were actually shooting guns off.
jamie vernon
They had like competitions and shoot offs.
It was a three to four hour show.
tom papa
Well, that's why the Western was such a popular movie for decades because it was so fresh in people's minds.
I mean, you had grandparents that, you know, knew this stuff.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
When you think about like the 1950s Westerns, they're only a hundred years after the fact.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right, that's like us watching something about something that happened during the Depression.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like Once Upon a Time in America or something like that, right?
tom papa
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
unidentified
Pew, pew!
tom papa
That is the coolest.
But what's so funny about it, it's just show business.
It's like the beginning of show business.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he figured it out.
tom papa
The posters, I mean, all of it.
How much of it has really changed?
You put on a big show, you make a cool poster, you get these people to come and buy tickets.
joe rogan
2.5 million tickets sold.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Wow.
You know what's really fucked up, dude?
There was no comedy back then.
No stand-up.
tom papa
Well, that's what I was going to ask.
Mark Twain, when was Mark Twain running around?
Because he was kind of like the first stand-up.
He would go do these shows, and he writes about it like it's a stand-up performance.
When was he traipsing around?
joe rogan
Well, they do say that he was probably the first.
tom papa
Yeah, he was talking about things that didn't work for a laugh.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
jamie vernon
Hal Holbrook's touring as him.
tom papa
He's always touring as him.
jamie vernon
I didn't know that was a sticker.
tom papa
Well, when did he live?
What was the lifespan of Twain?
joe rogan
So that's an interesting case.
You know, in Mark Twain, they use the N-word all the time in Huckleberry Finn.
tom papa
Oh yeah, big time.
joe rogan
And they're removing that now.
tom papa
They're removing it?
joe rogan
Removing it.
tom papa
Who is it?
joe rogan
They're editing it and removing it from the books.
tom papa
The publishers?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Oh, come on.
I mean, you want to learn about a culture and learn about a time.
joe rogan
Well, one of the characters in Huckleberry Finn, one of the main characters, was Nigger Jim.
tom papa
Yeah.
That was his friend.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They removed the N-word.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
That's not accurate.
But it's weird.
Weird.
Well, that's sanitizing history, and that's a mistake, because you don't learn from that.
joe rogan
Jamie, pull that up.
Pull up the censoring of Tom Sawyer, or Huckleberry Finn.
tom papa
Mark Twain had to build a little writing room out on his lawn so he could smoke his cigars out there because his wife wouldn't let him smoke cigars.
So he built himself a little shed so he could go sit out there and smoke.
joe rogan
Good for him.
tom papa
I just want to see what his lifespan was.
Old Twain.
He was funny.
You ever read Twain?
joe rogan
Yes, he's very funny.
tom papa
Really?
Like cutting.
joe rogan
What does it say here, Jamie?
jamie vernon
Replace the word with the word slave.
joe rogan
Whoa!
Okay, look at this.
A new effort to sanitize Huckleberry Finn comes from Alan Gribben, a professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama, who has produced a new edition of Twain's novel that replaces that word with slave.
It appears in the book more than 200 times.
It was a common racial epithet of...
Okay, duh.
Used by Twain as part of his character's vernacular speech and as a reflection of the mid-19th century social attitudes along the Mississippi River.
There is a...
tom papa
So an effort, but that doesn't mean that it's been done.
joe rogan
There's a ride at Disneyland.
I want to say it's either Splash Mountain or...
I think it is Splash Mountain.
Splash Mountain at Disneyland, which was based on a really racist old cartoon that you can't get anymore called Southern Tales.
I think it's called Southern Tales.
tom papa
No, it's the Himalayan thing?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
That's the Matterhorn.
tom papa
Oh, Splash Mountain.
Oh, with the Briar.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
tom papa
Right, right, right.
Yeah, that was very racist.
joe rogan
Briar Bear or Briar Fox?
tom papa
Yeah, Briar Fox.
joe rogan
Briar Fox.
Briar Fox.
Yeah, that whole thing is like a southern ride, and there's all these singing ducks.
And we went with a guide, and the guide was explaining to us that this was all based on a really racist old thing that you can only get bootleg copies of now.
tom papa
Ah, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a super racist old cartoon.
tom papa
Well, they had the Tar Baby thing.
joe rogan
Well, what is it?
It's Southern Tales, right?
Is that what it's called?
jamie vernon
I'm trying to find the name.
I just keep seeing Briar Fox listed a bunch of times.
Song of the South telling the story.
joe rogan
Song of the South.
I think that's the name of it.
I think it's called Song of the South.
I think that's it.
I think that's the name of it.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Now that I think about it.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it was apparently super racist.
tom papa
Yeah, I believe it.
There was a lot of bad stuff back then.
joe rogan
What is it?
Is this it?
Is this it?
tom papa
Zippity-doo-dah.
unidentified
Yeah, this is Zippity-doo-dah.
joe rogan
They sing this in the movie.
Zippity-doo-dah.
tom papa
Is this racist?
joe rogan
So why is this racist?
tom papa
Well, that's what they're asking.
Is this racist?
Song of the South.
joe rogan
Well, right now it's just the guy singing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't think this is the racist part.
I think the reason why you can get this online is because it's not the racist stuff.
Because this is just a guy singing Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder.
So Song of the South.
See if you can find Song of the South.
jamie vernon
This is the clip that popped up when I googled it.
tom papa
Yeah!
joe rogan
81% liked it.
Look at Rotten Tomatoes.
7.3 on IMDb.
So it's on IMDb?
jamie vernon
It came out in 1946. Wow.
tom papa
Maybe it wasn't.
Mark Twain died in 1910. So that means that he was walking around as an old dude doing these performances, you know, late 1800s.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
And so maybe that was kind of the beginning of stand-up comedy.
joe rogan
Go back to that.
Go back to that page you were just on and that Snopes article on it where they do a fact check on the Song of the South.
You see it up there?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I was gonna...
joe rogan
What does it say?
jamie vernon
I was going to double check it before I wanted to see what they said.
It says it's true.
What does it say about it?
Can you pull it up?
joe rogan
Oh, Song of the South and NAACP. Is Song of the South unavailable on video in America because of the NAACP threats?
Status true.
Wow.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
So is that racist?
tom papa
I wonder what it was.
joe rogan
There was so much racist shit back then.
tom papa
Briar Rabbit.
jamie vernon
I'm sorry.
tom papa
Brear Fox, Brear Bear.
joe rogan
Why Brear?
What does that mean?
tom papa
A Brear.
Like stuck in a Brear.
joe rogan
But B-R-E-R. That's the way you're going to say it.
Brear Rabbit, Brear Fox, Brear Bear.
So that was the idea that they're stuck in Brears?
tom papa
The minstrel tradition of Uncle Remus stories, the major objections to the Song of the South, had to do with the live-action portions.
The film had been criticized both for making slavery appear pleasant and pretending slavery didn't exist, even though the film...
That's kind of you're caught in between.
joe rogan
Finish that.
Finish what you just said.
tom papa
Even though the film, like Harris' original collection of stories, is set after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Still as folklorist Patricia writes.
jamie vernon
That's just a long paragraph.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's fascinating.
tom papa
That's kind of interesting, especially when you talk about the Huckleberry Finn part.
Like, they're saying, okay, take that out.
And then in this one, they're saying they had an objection to making it seem like slavery didn't exist.
That's why you can't take it out of Huckleberry Finn.
Because you need to know that this existed.
We need to...
Deal with it and understand it rather than sanitize it.
joe rogan
The problem is defending it.
It's almost impossible to defend the use of that word.
If you wanted to defend the use of that word, you say, well, we want to put that word back in a book.
People are like, what are you, racist?
tom papa
Right.
But you can't...
You talk rationally, though.
This is history, yeah.
Right, exactly.
joe rogan
You can't be rational.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
There's no rationality when it comes to dangerous, forbidden words, as you saw from the Kendrick Lamar concert.
tom papa
Right?
joe rogan
I mean, that's...
tom papa
Yeah.
I wonder what Twain would say.
joe rogan
Do you think that ultimately, like, this is all going to sort itself out?
All this political craziness and this kind of shit that this is just a little rough patch of chaos that we get through on our way to establishing a new way of communicating with people, a new way of appreciating each other.
Even the anti-white racism and anti-male sexism and all this stuff, it's just the wave going this way and then it'll go that way and then it'll settle and Yes, and then we're learning from even these missteps like why can't we hate all men or You know anything like that that we learn from these missteps and the outrage that goes these missteps and we say oh I understand why this woman feels this way She's probably abused by men and dealt with asshole men and asshole bosses and see these people like
tom papa
Harvey Weinstein in the mainstream media that have abused and violated and victimized women yeah, and that it It's gonna balance itself out and the only way it does is you have to have outrage and then correction and yeah I mean that's the way history seems to go it seems like you know there's you would think in certain ways like oh we don't have to work that hard to abolish these evils but then evil pops up again and it feels like okay no it's still here we still have to deal with it yeah and you just hope at the end we all end up like Bruno Mars
we all look like Bruno Mars And everybody's happy because no one knows who white anybody is.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Just having a good time and we're all a little darker, not totally white, not totally black, and everybody's happy.
But wait a minute.
joe rogan
What about white people?
I like looking at white people.
I like some white people.
I like the fact that we have variety in the way people look.
Some people look like Seal and some people look like...
unidentified
Who's like a super white lady?
tom papa
Um...
Tom Cruise's ex-wife.
Nicole Kidman.
Nicole Kidman.
joe rogan
That bitch is white as fuck.
tom papa
Jessica Chastain.
Yeah, white ladies.
So white, you're almost red.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Yeah, it is good to have a nice mix.
joe rogan
Fuck, man.
unidentified
It's everything.
joe rogan
It's fascinating.
tom papa
We're still these very tribal...
You know, we talk about all these thousands of years and what we've done and where we've come, but there's still like this...
This just instinctual tribal element to a lot of humanity.
joe rogan
You gotta have a dick like an axe handle to wear your shirt like that.
Look at that shirt.
Look at his shirt all the way down to his belly button with gold chains hanging out with a white trench coat.
tom papa
Yeah.
No, you're packing.
joe rogan
And he's got sunglasses on at night, which is always a bold move that really only black people can pull off.
tom papa
Yeah, exactly.
Just owning it.
joe rogan
Look at him.
Slanging dick and singing songs.
Do-da, do-da.
You don't hear about him anymore, man.
Dude, when I first moved to California, when I first got some money, I was on this television show.
One of the first things I bought was a stereo.
I always loved good music, so I bought the stereo and I bought Seal.
And I remember listening to Kiss by a Rose from the Grave or whatever the name of that song is.
But that song...
I'd never realized, because I'd never heard it on a good stereo before, but I had these two speakers, and there's all these layers, and piano tunes, and keys, and there's all this stuff that comes out of...
When you're sitting in front of good speakers, you hear all the layers to the music, and I'd be like, wow!
tom papa
It's like hearing it new all over again.
joe rogan
Oh, it was so like hearing it new.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess he still is, because he's still alive, but he is so fucking talented, man.
tom papa
Yeah, a real artist.
joe rogan
And so different.
Try naming someone who sounds like Seal.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
I can't.
The Black Keys?
joe rogan
No, no, no.
He's a fucking original, man.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Super original.
tom papa
Phosphorescent.
joe rogan
I don't know.
He's got a very unique style.
tom papa
Yeah.
There's a lot of those...
Well, what's unique about...
There are a lot of artists that have this really crazy kind of unique style, but they don't become accepted from the mainstream, by the mainstream.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Right?
You listen to KCRW in the morning, and there's a lot of weird experimental stuff, but...
Not that many people know they exist.
Seal was able to make that like a poof.
joe rogan
So you're one of those hipsters who listens to that channel.
unidentified
You and Henry Wallens at KCRW. I like KCRW in the morning.
joe rogan
I don't know.
tom papa
Morning sounds eclectic.
joe rogan
I haven't listened to radio in a decade.
tom papa
For real?
joe rogan
Yep.
tom papa
Where do you get your new music?
joe rogan
I don't.
tom papa
Oh, come on, Joe!
Now I know what to get you for Father's Day.
joe rogan
What do we got here?
unidentified
Is this Seal?
tom papa
I'm gonna get you some albums.
joe rogan
Is this recent?
jamie vernon
No, no, no.
joe rogan
Oh, this is VH1. VH1. Is VH1 a thing anymore?
tom papa
This is when he was peeking.
joe rogan
VH1 still around?
tom papa
It is still around.
jamie vernon
The Real Housewives and all that kind of stuff.
tom papa
Yeah, I think they do.
joe rogan
Really?
jamie vernon
Or maybe that's on E. I don't know.
tom papa
That's on E. That's Bravo.
jamie vernon
Alright, well, then I didn't know.
They used to play those, like, real...
tom papa
They do, like, reality shows and stuff.
jamie vernon
Loving basketball or loving hip-hop or something.
joe rogan
Oh, they do that stuff.
unidentified
Kissed by Rose.
tom papa
Why did he have face bubbles?
joe rogan
You mean his scarring?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't know.
Was that acne?
jamie vernon
There's an article from three days ago that had that info.
tom papa
Oh, really?
Just three days ago?
People are still thinking about it.
People are still asking.
joe rogan
Well, he was so good.
But his body of work has just radically dropped off.
A lesson in lupus.
He had lupus?
Oh, wow.
That's where he's got the scarring from his face, from lupus.
tom papa
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
Interesting.
tom papa
Isn't that amazing?
You'd have that all out on your face and still be like, no, man, I am beautiful.
And you're going to think it, too.
joe rogan
Well, not really.
tom papa
You don't get new music?
You don't listen to new music?
joe rogan
I don't even know what it is.
tom papa
Come on, Joe!
joe rogan
I told you I like Bruno Mars.
He's new.
tom papa
Yeah, he's new.
That got to you somehow.
jamie vernon
Kid Cudi just dropped a new album this week.
tom papa
Yeah, it's too moody.
It's too moody.
joe rogan
Listen to you with your white privilege.
You son of a bitch.
tom papa
Yeah, you're appropriating.
Kid Cudi.
joe rogan
Is it moody?
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
It's depression-based music.
He's getting his feelings out kind of stuff.
Yeah.
tom papa
He deals with a lot of mental illness.
joe rogan
You don't like it.
You like people who bake bread and cookies and shit.
tom papa
Ah, I love it.
joe rogan
You don't like moody shit, do you?
tom papa
I do love moody stuff.
I've listened to him.
He's one of those that proved himself so early.
I just love it so that I just get whatever he puts out.
Wilco's like that.
He's like that.
joe rogan
So you're into the hip-hop.
tom papa
Eh, a little bit.
I try, but you know.
joe rogan
Do you like older stuff?
tom papa
Older hip-hop?
joe rogan
Do you like Gangstar?
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
How dare you.
Put that book down and get the fuck out of here.
How do you not like Gangstar?
tom papa
I don't even know Gangstar.
I'm so sorry.
joe rogan
You hurt my feelings.
tom papa
Come on.
joe rogan
Where were you in the 90s?
tom papa
I was around.
unidentified
You weren't around.
tom papa
In the 90s?
Early 90s?
Grateful Dead.
It was the end of the dead.
unidentified
Grateful Dead?
joe rogan
Did you like The Grateful Dead?
tom papa
Almond Brothers.
joe rogan
Did you like The Grateful Dead?
Almond Brothers.
tom papa
Almond Brothers.
unidentified
That's Gangstar.
joe rogan
Do yourself a favor, download a decade of hits.
tom papa
I was listening to Tribe Called Quest.
unidentified
Okay, I like them.
joe rogan
Here's another one that went away.
De La Soul.
They were fucking great!
tom papa
They were so great.
I know!
unidentified
They were great!
tom papa
De La, De La, De La Soul.
They were amazing.
joe rogan
Dude, they were great.
They were hot, like right when I first got into comedy.
tom papa
Oh, they were so cool.
joe rogan
Dude.
Three feet high and rising.
Run DMC? Well, that's great that they released all their music, but their music came from like six months.
tom papa
I know.
unidentified
It's really true.
joe rogan
They had like six months of music.
Like, what the fuck, man?
unidentified
Yeah.
This is what confuses me.
joe rogan
I love Nas.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Big Nas fan.
But here's what gets me.
How does someone put out something, how does a group put out something that's so good for a short period of time And then Not.
unidentified
Like what?
joe rogan
Three.
That's magic number.
They had great fucking songs.
tom papa
They were really good.
joe rogan
And they were interesting.
tom papa
It's hard to keep a band together.
They were, yeah, they were good to get high to.
joe rogan
You know what probably did them in?
tom papa
What?
joe rogan
Some white bitches.
unidentified
White girls.
tom papa
Son of a bitch.
joe rogan
Came along, fucked everything up.
I just don't like the way he looks at you when you sing.
unidentified
He's fucking jealous.
tom papa
I liked hip hop and stuff and I still do, but it's a very, you know, old white guy way of doing it.
When I find it, I know it must be over.
That I found Kendrick, I was like, oh, so this is done, right?
joe rogan
Once you find it, it's over?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
tom papa
Interesting.
joe rogan
I don't think that's enough to kill Kendrick Lamar's momentum, but he's got too much momentum.
tom papa
Yeah, but it was like, okay, I mean, if it got to me, you know, and I try to listen to music, but you know, it's different when you're young and it just hits you from your friends, and I have to like really try and find music now because I have no friends.
joe rogan
I go to Jamie, and then I have to throw it through a filter.
I have to throw it through a, yeah, but he wears Yeezy's filter.
tom papa
Right.
unidentified
Exactly.
jamie vernon
He's making the Nas' new album that comes out in two weeks.
tom papa
Does he really?
jamie vernon
Kanye's producing Nas' new album that comes out in two weeks.
joe rogan
Well, I'm not saying that he doesn't produce good music.
I'm just saying his sneakers suck.
tom papa
Killer Mike.
I like Killer Mike.
joe rogan
There you go.
tom papa
Yeah, I like a lot of stuff, but it's a big range.
If you listen to bluegrass and hip-hop, it means you're just kind of tasting it all.
joe rogan
I feel like music is a lot like movies in that people are constantly making new stuff and you can't see it all or listen to it all.
tom papa
Yeah, it's true.
joe rogan
I mean, think about movies.
They have been making movies since whenever the fuck they started making movies and every week they come out with new movies.
jamie vernon
You're right.
joe rogan
No one ever says, hey folks, you know, we just realized if we keep making movies, you're never going to watch The Godfather, you're never going to watch Taxi Driver, you're never going to watch the classics.
So we're going to stop making movies for a while and let you fuckers catch up.
tom papa
Ten years off.
We'll start up and again in ten years.
joe rogan
People are just cranking them out.
tom papa
It's going even more because now you can just make them on your phone.
Like the technology to be able to make movies.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
tom papa
So you can just do it.
joe rogan
Dude.
I mean the phones that we have now are dog shit compared to the phones we'll have in ten years too.
tom papa
Soderbergh just shot a whole horror movie on his iPhone.
joe rogan
Did he really?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
What is it?
tom papa
It's called Unsane.
joe rogan
Whoa.
tom papa
Yeah, about a girl that's trapped in a mental institution.
joe rogan
Isn't there a horror movie that's out right now called Hereditary?
What is that about?
tom papa
Is that a good one?
jamie vernon
It's supposed to be really good.
joe rogan
Ooh, play the trailer.
unidentified
Ooh.
joe rogan
Let's play the trailer.
tom papa
Play the trailer!
joe rogan
I love trailers.
tom papa
Do you love trailers?
Oh, they're the best.
joe rogan
Sometimes the trailer's the most enjoyable part of the movie.
tom papa
Sometimes.
jamie vernon
Sometimes they give you too much, though.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
They do that with comedies, man.
They give you too many goddamn punchlines.
Give me some volume.
tom papa
Crank it.
joe rogan
Will we get in trouble for this?
Will we get pulled from YouTube?
tom papa
For a trailer?
joe rogan
We're helping them.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I mean, as long as you guys are, like, talking over it.
joe rogan
We're promoting them.
jamie vernon
We can maybe stop at 30 seconds.
joe rogan
All right, give me some volume.
tom papa
It looks scary.
It starts with a dollhouse.
joe rogan
That is a scary dollhouse.
tom papa
Or an architectural design house.
joe rogan
What's going on here?
tom papa
A model.
unidentified
Wait a minute.
tom papa
Some man walks in it.
unidentified
That's your suit.
tom papa
That was cool.
It made it look like a real room.
unidentified
It's heartening to see so many strange new faces here today.
I know my mom would be very touched and probably a little suspicious.
tom papa
Gabriel Burns in it.
unidentified
My mother was a very secretive and private woman.
joe rogan
From the producer of The Witch.
The Witch, which I didn't see.
Heard it was good, though.
tom papa
Oh, and what's her name?
unidentified
Who's what's her name?
joe rogan
Felicia Charquette?
tom papa
No.
unidentified
Damon Wayans?
tom papa
Faye Dunaway.
Faye Dunaway.
unidentified
What?
Sometimes I swear I can feel her in the room.
Oh.
What's that?
tom papa
It's a bird.
Scary kid.
joe rogan
It happens all the time.
tom papa
Oh, she cut a head off a dead bird!
joe rogan
That bitch is crazy.
Got a kid with mental problems.
tom papa
Ah, she cut with scissors.
joe rogan
Unsettly look at what demons...
tom papa
Ooh, she looks good.
unidentified
Private rituals.
Private friends.
joe rogan
The Generations.
The Exorcist.
unidentified
You don't think I'm gonna take care of you?
But when you die...
tom papa
She's coming up.
joe rogan
- She was real horror. - She wasn't altogether there.
- The unspeakable kind.
tom papa
- This looks good.
unidentified
- At the end.
- Wow.
- Whoa.
A modern day horror masterpiece.
joe rogan
This does sound very scary.
unidentified
Whoa!
tom papa
Bone-chilling.
unidentified
I just don't want to put any more stress on my family.
Ha ha ha ha.
tom papa
That looks good.
That looks scary.
joe rogan
That's out right now.
tom papa
I can't believe I can't see it.
joe rogan
Why can't you see it?
tom papa
Because I can't see anything.
When do you see things?
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
tom papa
We just said, looking at all these movies.
unidentified
What are you talking about?
tom papa
Do you ever watch stuff?
joe rogan
Yeah, I go to the movies, bro.
tom papa
You do?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
When do you do that?
joe rogan
Whenever I can.
tom papa
I am so lucky.
joe rogan
What the fuck's wrong with you?
You're writing books and baking bread?
Take a couple hours off.
Go to the goddamn movies.
unidentified
Okay.
tom papa
Writing is killing my...
I really haven't...
My father said that to me the other day.
Watch this movie on the plane.
I'm like, I haven't watched a movie on a plane in two years.
joe rogan
What was the movie that Eddie Bravo said he saw for like six minutes and then he left?
jamie vernon
Oh yeah.
It was one of the new...
joe rogan
It was a big blockbuster movie.
tom papa
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Was it Black Panther?
No.
No.
It was The Avengers?
tom papa
Oh, that new one?
jamie vernon
It wasn't Deadpool, because I think it might have been the Avengers or something.
tom papa
That new Avengers one that everyone loves.
jamie vernon
But it doesn't make sense that he would have walked out of that so quick.
I don't remember what it was.
tom papa
Because everyone loves that one.
joe rogan
He doesn't make sense, period.
He's got weird tastes.
tom papa
You go to the movies?
How often do you go to the movies?
joe rogan
Once a...
tom papa
Month?
joe rogan
Month, month.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Maybe once.
Yeah, I've watched some on flights, you know, when they come out.
I don't really get too much of a chance.
You know what I really enjoyed?
That Tom Cruise movie about Barry Seale, Made in America.
tom papa
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I was pretty...
tom papa
It was good?
joe rogan
Yeah, I was pretty surprised by that.
That's a good goddamn movie.
You forget how good Tom Cruise is, too.
tom papa
He's great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
I mean, all of the crazy talk show stuff aside, that guy's amazing.
joe rogan
Well, he's just a Scientologist.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's out of his mind.
tom papa
He's got his own stuff, but he makes good movies.
joe rogan
But people who are out of their mind make good shit.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
That's part of the thing.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
Part of being good at stuff.
tom papa
Some of the times.
joe rogan
Crazy assholes.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They make good shit.
tom papa
They really do.
joe rogan
A lot of times.
tom papa
If you can harness it.
joe rogan
Word.
tom papa
If you can harness it and put it into something.
joe rogan
It's a good movie, man.
tom papa
Yeah.
All right, I'll see that one.
joe rogan
Mission Impossible.
unidentified
Yeah, come on.
tom papa
Cruise.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
This comes out in a couple weeks.
joe rogan
I'm just going to live.
That's what I hear.
tom papa
Go, Cruise, go.
joe rogan
Harry gets to the end and he lives.
tom papa
He does all his own stunts.
joe rogan
He does a bunch of shit.
He's going to drive that thing off the fucking cliff.
unidentified
Oh, Jesus.
tom papa
He just does that.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does a lot of stunts, which is pretty crazy for a dude who's, I think he's 53 or 54, and he's still doing all his own stunts.
tom papa
Yeah, it's pretty badass.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He was in a...
What was that Jack Reacher movie, though?
That one was...
That was a turd.
jamie vernon
Right.
joe rogan
Are you making another one of those?
jamie vernon
No, I think it might have been John Wick.
They're maybe doing a third one.
joe rogan
Of course they're doing it right.
John Wick.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta do that.
jamie vernon
That Kill, Die, Repeat he was in was an awesome movie.
I think they changed the name of it.
I don't think that's what it was originally called.
But, you know, he has to keep redoing the scene.
He goes back and he ends up, like, killing everyone and saves the day.
Oh, yeah.
tom papa
Was that an Adam Sandler movie?
joe rogan
That movie, The Day After Tomorrow.
tom papa
Oh, right.
joe rogan
Wasn't that?
jamie vernon
They changed the name so I don't remember.
joe rogan
It used to be called Kill Die Repeat?
jamie vernon
Edge of Tomorrow.
joe rogan
That's right.
That movie was fucking badass.
That was a really good science fiction movie.
But it was one of the ones that came out.
What year did it come out?
2014. 2014 was just a few years removed from him being wacky.
When he did that Matt Lauer interview on the Today Show where it was like, you're being glib, Matt.
You're being glib.
When he's talking about Brooke Shields taking psychiatric medication.
tom papa
You understand this?
I understand this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Scientology is highly critical of psychiatric meditation.
They prefer you stay crazy.
tom papa
You don't know what you're talking about, Matt.
Have you done the research?
I've done the research.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You're glib, Matt.
You're glib.
But Lauer didn't handle it that good either.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
You're supposed to go, well, explain to me the mechanism.
What's happening with these psychiatric drugs and what do you pose?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And why do you think that you understand the biological makeup of all these different human beings and that none of them should be taking psychiatric medication?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
That's a crazy thing to say, that you're smarter than all these biologists and medical scientists and all these people that have concocted these SSRIs and different...
tom papa
Have you done the research?
Have you done the research?
joe rogan
Are you glib?
jamie vernon
They're making Top Gun 2 right now.
unidentified
Fuck.
tom papa
Did I ever tell you the first time I did Letterman when Cruz was on it?
Did I ever tell you that story?
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
I was trying to do my first Letterman.
I'm super nervous and I'm just trying to tell myself, you know, Just like any other show.
It's just like any other show.
Tom Cruise, it's his first time he's on the show in like 10 years, 15 years.
And he's on and I'm watching through the monitor.
He's running up and down the...
He's running up and down the theater.
The theater.
Like saying hi to people during the break.
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
Yeah, he's like, hey!
And he's like running up and down and having this great time.
Like, it's just another show.
It'll be okay.
And then they bring you downstairs and you're standing outside this door like to go onto the stage.
And he says goodnight during the show, and the door swings open, and a very sweaty Tom Cruise is like nose-to-nose with me.
And he's like, you're next?
And he hugs me.
He's like, woo, it's great out there!
And then goes bouncing up the stairs, and I'm like, what's gonna happen to me out there?
This is terrifying.
He totally took all of my coolness and just...
joe rogan
What a strange guy.
tom papa
Yeah, but the energy.
He was like an electric eel.
And I'm just like, it's alright.
I can get through this.
joe rogan
He's such a strange, strange guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
When he gets into that like I'm laughing thing, it just gets weird.
unidentified
He's getting enough oxygen to his brains.
tom papa
Oh my god.
unidentified
I know.
tom papa
Well, it's funny now.
unidentified
It's funny.
No, it wasn't such a high altitude that it would have, you know, caused death or anything.
tom papa
I'm standing in the wings right now.
joe rogan
What are you thinking?
What am I going to say first?
What do you think with those things?
Those things are such a little weird sprint.
tom papa
How's my tie?
How's my tie?
What's my first line?
joe rogan
What am I going to say?
Do I go out casual?
There's a heated interview with Matt Lauer.
Play that.
It's right there.
It's coming up next.
Here it is.
Here's Matt.
Matt had a full head of hair back then.
tom papa
Oh, yeah, look at that.
He's got all that hair.
joe rogan
2014. Look at him, handsome bastard.
unidentified
Yeah.
This is not just an alien movie.
The story breaks down on a lot of different levels.
tom papa
They look pissed at each other already.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Not the best father in the world.
When we were working on the story originally three years ago, Steve and I came up with this idea of making it about a family.
It's okay.
Matt.
tom papa
That was a good movie.
unidentified
I loved that movie.
tom papa
Yeah, me too.
unidentified
That real sense of like, where are we gonna go?
joe rogan
Well, that's what I think it would probably be like if we did get invaded too.
There'd be robots like that.
tom papa
Yeah.
That'll be cool.
joe rogan
Here, play some of that.
unidentified
Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry.
And then when I started studying the history of psychiatry, I started realizing more and more why I didn't agree with psychiatry.
And as far as the Brooke Shields thing is, look, You've got to understand, I really care about Brooke Shields.
Why?
I think here's a wonderful and talented woman.
And I want to see her do well.
And I know that psychiatry is It's a pseudoscience.
But Tom, if she said that this particular thing helped her feel better, whether it was the antidepressant or going to a counselor or a psychiatrist, isn't that enough?
Matt, you have to understand this.
Here we are today, where I talk out against drugs and psychiatric abuses of electric shocking people against their will, of drugging children with them not knowing the effects of these drugs.
Do you know what Adderall is?
Do you know Ritalin?
Do you know now that Ritalin is a street drug?
Do you understand that?
The difference is, this was not against her will though, but this wasn't against Book's will.
I understand there's abuse of all of these things.
No, you see, here's the problem.
You don't know the history of psychiatry.
I do.
Aren't there examples, and might not Book Shields be an example of someone who benefited from one of those drugs?
All it does is mask the problem, Matt.
And if you understand the history of it, it masks the problem.
That's what it does.
He is pretty aggressive on Lauer.
Lauer wasn't being shitty.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, he's right about a lot of it.
He's definitely right about Adderall and Ritalin that some people abuse it.
But just because someone abuses it doesn't mean it doesn't have uses.
I've met people that are on Adderall, and they say they need it.
I don't know if they're right.
tom papa
Yeah, but the guy who developed Adderall says that it should be for about 4% of the population.
joe rogan
That's a lot.
Four people out of 100?
You get a room full of 100 people, four of them are cranked out?
tom papa
And doctors are cranking it out like 30% of the patients they see.
unidentified
Is it 30?
tom papa
Yeah.
It's like super high.
The guy who made it said it's being abused.
joe rogan
Well, I'm sure it is.
And amongst journalists...
tom papa
Have you done the research, Joe?
Have you done the research?
unidentified
Well, I know a lot about...
tom papa
I understand about it.
joe rogan
I understand.
tom papa
I understand it.
joe rogan
I understand psychiatry.
But he's right about little kids and Ritalin, and I had a neighbor, they drug their kid up with fucking Ritalin.
It was weird.
There was nothing wrong with the kid.
He just had energy, and the parents were working all the time, and they just didn't want to deal with it.
They put the kid on Ritalin.
tom papa
That's terrible!
joe rogan
They were bad parents.
tom papa
That's terrible!
joe rogan
I was watching it happen.
I was like, whoa.
And then they zoned the kid out.
They got him on some shit, and he was just like a weird little zombie kid after that.
I could say hi to him and he's like, hi.
tom papa
Oh my god, that's terrible.
He could have been an artist.
He could have been something great.
joe rogan
Right, that's the thing.
tom papa
You take it away from him.
joe rogan
You put a kid in a classroom and you make them listen to boring shit all day and they don't want to do it.
You think, well, there's something wrong with this child.
tom papa
Yeah.
Right.
No, he's kind of actually a free thinker.
He's actually going to do something really cool.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's got energy.
tom papa
Let him figure it out and do something great.
joe rogan
He's bouncing off the walls.
Yeah.
Let him go outside.
tom papa
Yeah.
Because he's not turning into a robot like the rest of the class.
joe rogan
But that's what we need.
We need robots.
We need workers.
tom papa
Well, we can do it with the 3D printers.
Make robots?
We can make them.
Totally.
With human skin around the outsides.
They're going to ship the 3D printers to Mars and have them make all the stuff we need on Mars right there.
You don't have to ship it.
joe rogan
Do you think in our lifetime someone's going to fly to Mars and live there?
tom papa
Yes, you're looking at him.
I've already told my family I might not come back, but I'm going to be a pioneer.
joe rogan
You won't come back.
If you go there, you're not coming back.
tom papa
I know.
I'll die on Mars.
Pretty cool.
joe rogan
No, you won't be able to do sets up there.
tom papa
Yeah, I will, because by then comedy's going to be all hologram.
joe rogan
So you'll be able to beam you into a room?
tom papa
Yeah, it'll be me at the comedy store doing a late night set, but I'll be on Mars.
unidentified
Is that good enough?
joe rogan
Is that good enough?
tom papa
No, you don't, for us, we won't feel it.
unidentified
It's analog.
tom papa
You won't feel it.
joe rogan
It's an analog experience.
tom papa
Yeah, there's no energy transfer.
joe rogan
Mm-mm.
tom papa
Yet.
joe rogan
Think someday?
tom papa
Yeah.
They're gonna harness your energy.
joe rogan
It'll be that good?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you think you'll be able to bang people who aren't there?
tom papa
Yeah, I'm gonna make them with my 3D printer.
With human cells and then bang them.
joe rogan
We're setting up...
tom papa
This is why I made you.
Just to bang you.
joe rogan
Well, that's an interesting question, right?
There's people that are considering the ethical implications of making a headless person that you would harvest your organs for.
Like, say, if Tom Papa decides, I'm going to make a headless Tom Papa, and I'm just going to drink like a fish and scoop the fucking liver out of this asshole...
And stick it into my body.
tom papa
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
joe rogan
It is.
It's great if your grandpa needs a liver and you want to keep grandpa alive.
tom papa
Harness all those parts.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But what's the ethical considerations?
tom papa
Someone just told me that if you need a part, if you need an organ or something, you go to the states that have no helmet laws.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
tom papa
How crazy is that?
joe rogan
I was just in Chicago.
Chicago doesn't have helmet laws.
tom papa
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Dude, watching these people riding the highway.
But you know what?
I came home, and then in Chicago they don't have helmet laws, but they can't split lanes.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And then I came home, and these fucking guys are just driving right next to cars and whizzing in between lanes.
And I'm like, what's more dangerous?
Is splitting lanes more dangerous, or is it riding around with no helmet?
tom papa
I don't know.
Scary, though.
Both of them.
joe rogan
Have you ever ridden a motorcycle?
tom papa
Yeah, for years.
joe rogan
Did you?
tom papa
Like 15 years, yeah.
unidentified
Look at you.
tom papa
Until my kids were born.
Yeah, I went around the whole country on my bike.
joe rogan
Really?
tom papa
My wife and I on the back for five weeks.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Oh, did we talk about this in the podcast?
unidentified
I think so.
joe rogan
I feel like we did.
tom papa
We must have.
It's one of my big stories.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I remember you saying that.
tom papa
That's how you knew she's a keeper.
I do miss it.
I've been looking at it more.
joe rogan
What if you had, say if you had a summer house in Big Bear or something like that.
tom papa
I remain.
joe rogan
Nobody up there.
You just drive around.
tom papa
Get a nice bike up there.
I would do that.
joe rogan
People drive kind of slow.
tom papa
I would do that.
I've got to get a house.
joe rogan
Freedom.
tom papa
I love it.
You're so focused because you don't want to die.
It's one of those things that you're just so focused on you forget about the whole rest of the world.
joe rogan
You're locked in.
tom papa
Oh, it's so nice.
joe rogan
It does sound good.
tom papa
I know.
I've been looking at bikes lately.
joe rogan
But you see people that get fucked up by bikes.
It's not good.
tom papa
No, especially here.
I know you don't listen to the radio, but if you do out here, you hear about motorcycle accidents like every day.
On the news, radio news?
Yeah, like, oh, there's traffic on the 5. There was a motorcycle accident.
It's like there's a lot.
joe rogan
Why do you listen to that shit?
tom papa
Because it's music.
joe rogan
That's what you listen to?
On the radio?
tom papa
Well, they break in once in a while and say there's an accident or something.
If I'm not listening to Sirius XM or podcasts or...
joe rogan
Do you listen to Sirius?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
What do you listen to?
tom papa
Sometimes I listen to comedians.
Sometimes I listen to the news.
I have a Sinatra station, a Coltrane station.
Yeah.
Music.
You know, I'm a hip dad.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Do you think your kids think you're a hip dad?
tom papa
No.
unidentified
No.
tom papa
I humiliate my children.
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's just how it's always going to be.
tom papa
Which is cool.
They like that.
They like knowing that the dork is there and he loves them.
joe rogan
Yeah, that you're hilarious.
tom papa
That's the whole key.
joe rogan
You're stupid.
tom papa
Don't you love making your kids laugh?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
tom papa
Oh, it's the best.
joe rogan
It's fun.
tom papa
A lot of dads can't make their kids laugh.
joe rogan
Really?
tom papa
Yes!
They can make them laugh in a goofy way, but when you can make them laugh in a way that you know is really funny, that's like, you know, stand-up funny.
joe rogan
My youngest is fucking funny.
tom papa
She's hilarious.
Yeah.
joe rogan
She's really into it, too.
She's really into saying funny shit.
She's got good timing.
tom papa
It's good.
joe rogan
It's funny.
tom papa
My little one's the same way.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, they realize that's how they get attention.
tom papa
Yeah.
They're wise asses.
joe rogan
Yeah, you say something, they say something funny, everybody laughs, and they're like, whoa, that felt good.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Gives them a little charge.
tom papa
And what's funny, too, is probably the same thing that she has, that mine has, is that they're not doing it for you.
They're doing it purely for them.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
To mock you.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They victimize you.
tom papa
Yeah, you're old.
joe rogan
They love to mock you.
tom papa
What's it like being old?
joe rogan
Mock you on the ground.
Mock you.
They love to mock the fact that I'm bald.
tom papa
Yeah, I know.
joe rogan
It's hilarious.
tom papa
They mock that I can't see with any glasses.
With any glasses?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Cute.
Daddy's dying.
unidentified
Ha ha.
joe rogan
Daddy's eyes are fading.
tom papa
Fucking loser.
Watching me use a cell phone and not be able to navigate.
Dad, just give it to me.
joe rogan
Oh, they know how to use electronics in a weird way.
tom papa
Oh, instinctual.
joe rogan
They take to it.
They know how to edit videos and shit like that.
I'm like, how do you know how to do that?
They don't even have a phone.
They're using my wife's phone.
They're making videos.
I'm like, how the fuck did you know how to do that?
These little video editor programs and shit.
tom papa
Because I have a young brain...
I can learn things very quickly.
joe rogan
Very quick.
tom papa
My eyesight is killer.
I can learn things quickly.
joe rogan
The eyesight killer is a big deal, but I think the brain is so plastic.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
The mental plasticity is just...
Yeah.
They figured out, oh yeah, you swipe right.
Oh, you do that, and then you highlight that, and you spread this out, and you touch that, and you edit.
You don't want that.
You want a filter, so you go down to the bottom.
tom papa
My kids were with my wife at a party.
Relatives when I got home yesterday, they weren't there.
And I FaceTimed with my daughter.
I said, how's mom doing?
And she was bored at the party.
And she's like, how's mom?
I said, how's mom doing at the party?
She's doing okay.
She's inside.
I heard her repeat a couple stories a couple times, but she seems to be having fun.
Oh, that's hilarious.
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
tom papa
They're all over us.
joe rogan
And one day they'll be us.
tom papa
Yeah, it's great.
joe rogan
They'll be their version of us.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Raising their own kid, going, what the fuck?
I've got kids now?
tom papa
And you'll be like, with this new baby that they made.
joe rogan
I'm like, hey, kid's cute.
Here, take him.
I'm going fishing.
I don't got responsibilities anymore.
unidentified
Woo!
Woo!
tom papa
Let me have a little kiss.
Let me get some sugar from that baby cheek.
Now I'm out.
joe rogan
Bye.
unidentified
Good luck.
joe rogan
Change the diapers.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Can I babysit Friday?
Friday night?
No.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
No, that's for you.
tom papa
I'm working.
joe rogan
Do you think you'll be working to the bitter end?
tom papa
To the end.
Yeah.
When I hear people say that they're going to retire, like anybody just in the world, I hear retirement.
I know that's one thing I'm not doing.
unidentified
Why?
joe rogan
Why would you retire?
tom papa
I want to make stuff until I go.
I want to put out stuff and see what that stuff will be later on.
Who knows?
joe rogan
Well, it's also you've chosen a path that it's just perfect for you.
You're not working because you have to go to work.
You're working because you enjoy what you do, which is really what I encourage everyone to try to attempt to do.
This thing that we're taught in school to try to find a good job that pays well, that's wonderful advice.
But it's not the best advice.
The best advice is try to find the thing that you love to do.
Because if you can do that, then you never have that feeling that most people have when it comes to work.
Most people have that feeling like, oh, I've got to go to work.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You never have that.
tom papa
Never.
But that's also, I think, there's some luck involved in that.
joe rogan
For sure.
But there's also decisions that you make if you don't have that luck to try to make that luck happen.
And then there's also talent.
Some people want to be a comedian, and they really never will be.
They just can't.
tom papa
I think being self-aware of what you really, really want to do as the person, not thinking of it even in terms of work, but looking at yourself enough to know what you're good at and what you enjoy.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
And then follow that path, whether it makes a business sense or not.
That's the best thing you can do.
You don't know where it's going to lead, but at least you're heading in the direction where it's stuff you like, and it's stuff you know you have an aptitude for.
So wherever you end up in that area will be pretty close to happiness.
joe rogan
Words of wisdom from Tom Papa, author of Your Dad Stole My Rake.
Available now.
Is it an audio version?
tom papa
There's an audio version, too.
joe rogan
Did you use your voice to do the audio version?
tom papa
Nine hours.
Nine hours in a booth.
joe rogan
Thank God you did, though.
I read a lot of books on tape, or I have a lot of books written, read to me on tape.
The real problem is when you know that it's not the author, and you hear someone have some sort of bullshit, half-assed connection to the words they're saying.
tom papa
No, I know.
joe rogan
It's not good.
tom papa
That's why it was hard to do, actually, because it's nine hours of reading.
You've got to read a whole book.
But also, I have to be me behind it.
They don't want me doing a phone-in version of it.
joe rogan
How many hours at a time did you do these sessions?
tom papa
I broke it into two.
It's like four and a half each day.
joe rogan
It's hard.
It's hard to stay on point for that long.
tom papa
It was a thing when you get out of there.
But also, you know, when you go in those booths, like even in this show, time's different here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's different here than three hours somewhere else.
joe rogan
Three hours is up.
We did three hours.
See?
tom papa
There you go.
joe rogan
Crazy.
tom papa
Exactly.
It's different.
There's something going on with the timing.
You're engaged.
It's not like three hours out in the world.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a little time warp.
tom papa
Yeah.
It's a total time warp.
Yeah.
Whenever I say I'm doing this show, people will...
That was like three hours.
I'm like...
That's not a thing.
unidentified
It's not a thing with you and I. You're just doing the show.
joe rogan
Believe me, it's a thing with some people.
Some people are just squeezing blood out of a rock.
tom papa
Jesus.
No, I could do this for four hours.
Easy.
Easy!
Well, thanks, Joe.
joe rogan
You're a beautiful man.
tom papa
You too, man.
joe rogan
And I'm sure your book's hilarious, although I haven't read it.
tom papa
It's a great Father's Day gift for you.
joe rogan
Great Father's Day.
tom papa
I'm giving it to you.
joe rogan
Thank you.
tom papa
Because you don't get gifts from your family.
joe rogan
Tom Papa, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified
See ya!
tom papa
Woo!
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