June 13, 2018 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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| Five, four, three, two, Dave Rubin, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| How are you, buddy? | ||
| What's up, brother? | ||
| Dude, I haven't seen you. | ||
| Well, the last time we saw each other was just now, but before that was right before the election. | ||
| The day before the world changed. | ||
| Squirrely times. | ||
| Forever. | ||
| Squirrely. | ||
| Doesn't that literally, it seems like a lifetime ago. | ||
| Not even a lifetime ago. | ||
| It's like a different life for me. | ||
| I think it's a different life for you. | ||
| Think about how much has changed for both of us in that time. | ||
| But it seems like another planet. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like an alternate universe the day before the election. | ||
| It is, in a lot of ways, right? | ||
| I mean, people are... | ||
| The world's going... | ||
| Well, people are... | ||
| The world's trying to find its footing. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You know? | ||
| It's a lot of craziness. | ||
| Well, I hate to tell you, Joe. | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| But you are a little piece of the finding of the footing. | ||
| Because people are finding the footing. | ||
| You know, I'm on tour with Peterson right now. | ||
| I just got in this morning from Atlanta. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And it's like there is, without being hyperbolic, there is some kind of awakening happening right now. | ||
| People are kind of getting their shit together. | ||
| They're kind of sorting out things. | ||
| They're through long-form conversations like we're all having and all these people that we're now connected with. | ||
| There's something happening where people are going, there's another way to make sense, and let me figure out what that is. | ||
| Doesn't mean we have all the answers, and I'm sure as hell no I don't, and I don't think you think you do either, but we're at least giving them a little room to figure it out, and it's pretty cool. | ||
| It's been fascinating is how many people misrepresent what he says to try to frame him in a way that makes him evil and makes their position seem more ethical or more moral or better or more intellectual. | ||
| There's so many articles being written about him almost on a daily basis that misrepresent what he's saying. | ||
| It's epic bullshit. | ||
| It's weird. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| These guys want clicks. | ||
| That's all they want. | ||
| We've done about 20 shows in the last six weeks or so, bounced around from Nashville and Houston and Atlanta and Chicago and everywhere else. | ||
| The crowds have been incredible. | ||
| It's probably split. | ||
| First off, they always go, well, it's angry white men. | ||
| That's the main thing. | ||
| It's all angry white men. | ||
| Let's say it was all angry white men there. | ||
| That in and of itself doesn't mean it's bad. | ||
| Let's say there was like a really disaffected group of angry white men that really felt like either masculinity had been compromised or they couldn't get jobs or they didn't feel good about their lives. | ||
| Like if there was someone talking to them that was helping them, that would actually be good. | ||
| But let's just put that aside, right? | ||
| Because they don't mean it in a positive way. | ||
| So they say it's all angry women. | ||
| Now, I can tell you it's about 60-40 male to female, roughly. | ||
| At Jordan shows? | ||
| At Jordan shows, yeah. | ||
| Do you think that's like dates that reluctantly go along with men? | ||
| There are some. | ||
| I mean, there will be guys that... | ||
| Well, it's actually usually girls will come up to me after and they'll go, you know, he's a big fan of you guys or he loves Jordan or he loves you or blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And I'm just here. | ||
| But then they all have a great time. | ||
| I mean, I'm telling you, this thing has been an insane love fest. | ||
| I know you saw the video that Jordan posted last night. | ||
| It was his birthday last night. | ||
| We were at, where the hell was I? Atlanta, the tabernacle in Atlanta. | ||
| You know, almost 3,000 people singing happy birthday to him. | ||
| We brought out this freaking stuffed lobster and a piece of meat because he's on this crazy meat diet now. | ||
| And it's like it's an endless love fest. | ||
| Every street we walk down, people high-fiving us, saying hi. | ||
| We did a little meet-and-greet impromptu thing at the Lincoln Memorial, and about 100 people showed up just out of nowhere. | ||
| And it's like these people are just trying to figure shit out. | ||
| They're not white supremacists. | ||
| They're not alt-right. | ||
| They don't hate women. | ||
| It is literally nothing. | ||
| That they say. | ||
| Because they want clicks, and the way they get clicks, I mean, you know, the way they get clicks is they say the absolute reverse from the truth. | ||
| It's not that they lie a little bit. | ||
| Like, a little lie, I think nobody would even pick up on it. | ||
| Do you think that's what they're doing? | ||
| I think they're just misrepresenting. | ||
| I don't think they're saying the opposite of the truth. | ||
| They just, look, they're finding these little categories, like homophobia, transphobia, sexism. | ||
| Well, he's not a homophobe. | ||
| He's on tour with a gay guy. | ||
| He's not a transphobe. | ||
| There are trans people that show up there. | ||
| And I discussed it with him every freaking night. | ||
| So I basically do like 15 minutes of stand-up up top. | ||
| He does an hour and a half. | ||
| And then we do a Q&A together. | ||
| And we bring out all of these things. | ||
| And every night to clear it up. | ||
| And sometimes I'll have people bust out their phones. | ||
| And I'll be like, why don't you guys record this tonight? | ||
| And let's get it out on Twitter. | ||
| Where he takes down the alt-right because he hates the identity politics of the right as much as the identity politics of the left. | ||
| I mean, I think... | ||
| I think the reason we all focus on the thing of the left is because it has encompassed culture and media and politics and what you're allowed to say and universities and all that. | ||
| So it makes more sense to focus on that. | ||
| The little sliver of it that's on the right Yeah, it's shitty. | ||
| It's horrible. | ||
| You should not look at your skin color as some great thing that makes you better. | ||
| But it's not a right thing? | ||
| Is racism always a right thing? | ||
| No, not at all. | ||
| Are all racists right? | ||
| No, I think the left is far more racist than the right at this moment. | ||
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Really? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Why do you think that? | ||
| Because identity politics is based in racism. | ||
| You happen to be white. | ||
| I know nothing about you by the color of your skin. | ||
| I know about Joe Rogan because I watch the show. | ||
| I listen to the show. | ||
| We've done this several times. | ||
| And for the hours that we're going to sit here now, we can dive as deep into any issue. | ||
| And that's the only way that I can sensibly judge you. | ||
| But the idea that you will look at people, that you would look at a black person, a black person would be sitting there, or a Muslim person would be sitting there, or a trans person sitting there, and you'd go, I have even the inkling of what you think Because of that immutable characteristic, that is actual racism. | ||
| That is prejudging, right? | ||
| Judging first before you know somebody. | ||
| So I have a much bigger issue with that because that has infected everything in American society right now. | ||
| The identity politics of the right that this should be a white ethno state or something like that. | ||
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But is that real? | |
| Of course it's nonsense. | ||
| Hold on a second. | ||
| That's not really the identity politics of the right. | ||
| So what are they? | ||
| Well, I don't think the left is necessarily that way either. | ||
| I mean, I think the identity politics... | ||
| There's a real issue, right, with people that only identify with other women. | ||
| Women that only identify with women and don't care about men. | ||
| There's a real issue with people that are only American. | ||
| They don't care about the rest of the world. | ||
| There's all these weird groups. | ||
| But I think we run into problems when we start saying, oh, it's the left that's doing this, it's the right that's doing this. | ||
| I think it's just tribal. | ||
| It's just this weird thing that human beings tend to gravitate towards tribes. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| And look, we can... | ||
| I talk about things usually from a little more of a political lens than I think you do. | ||
| So yes, of course, ultimately it is tribalism, however you want to parse that tribalism, right? | ||
| So yes, and I say this all the time, but the left-right thing doesn't make that much sense anymore. | ||
| You're either basically for freedom. | ||
| You're for the individual. | ||
| To live freely, however they see fit, or you believe that the government should engineer things and that there should be central planning so that people... | ||
| I think that's always shitty thinking. | ||
| I think there's people that say that the government should engineer things, they're just looking for a solution. | ||
| And then they think the government should handle it. | ||
| Well, yeah, but I think... | ||
| I think we should pay more taxes. | ||
| Where is that going to go? | ||
| It's going to go to the government. | ||
| So you're agreeing with me? | ||
| Yeah, in a lot of ways. | ||
| Oh, okay. | ||
| I thought you said it. | ||
| No. | ||
| No, I don't mean your thinking. | ||
| I mean their shit. | ||
| Oh, okay, okay. | ||
| I mean their having shitty thinking. | ||
| It's like this idea that the government's going to fix it. | ||
| The government's filled with people. | ||
| We don't have our own individual solutions. | ||
| We don't have our solutions just as human beings, objective human beings looking at problems. | ||
| Why would we ever think that elected officials, these people that are, for the most part, full of shit. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| They're just trying to say whatever they can say that's going to appease both the special interest groups and the lobbyists and the people that are helping them get into place, the people that are going to vote for them, and then just sort of skirt around all the other issues that are controversial to the point where they can get into office. | ||
| Let's try it this way. | ||
| Name three politicians that you really like. | ||
| I don't know any of them. | ||
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I mean, I know Gary Johnson. | |
| Yeah, so Gary Johnson, who I like him too when I voted for him, but he was the worst possible libertarian candidate. | ||
| Well, who's the best libertarian candidate? | ||
| I mean, Rand Paul should be, if he really had the balls to be what he is. | ||
| He's got to learn how to stuff a takedown. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Right. | ||
| He's got a lot, right. | ||
| The guy's coming at you. | ||
| You got to figure out a way to sprawl. | ||
| You could do two hours with him and he'd be a lot better in a lot of ways. | ||
| But he should be the guy. | ||
| But he doesn't have the balls to do it because he wants to maintain being a Republican senator in Kentucky and he's not going to do it if he has to leave the party. | ||
| But I've seen a major shift, I think, in Republicans or at least conservatives or generally people on the right, whatever you want to call that thing. | ||
| I think I'm a classical liberal. | ||
| You believe in the individual. | ||
| The sovereignty of the individual is the simple, most important thing. | ||
| It is your life. | ||
| It is your duty to do what you see fit. | ||
| The government is supposed to do pretty much nothing other than protect your life. | ||
| So it's supposed to have an army and police and stuff like that. | ||
| And then really just laissez-faire economics. | ||
| The difference between classical liberal and libertarian is how far do you want to go with the government? | ||
| So I think there is some utility for the state. | ||
| But the more I do this, the more I have these conversations and I talk to ANCAPs and real libertarians and all that. | ||
| I find it hard to defend the state at almost any level at this point. | ||
| But I do think that because I don't want to live in Mad Max Fury Road just yet, although we may be heading there, I still will defend the state at some level. | ||
| But I would say everything should be local. | ||
| We have an incredible experiment here with 50 states. | ||
| Move, go somewhere else. | ||
| If your state doesn't have good education, you can go somewhere else. | ||
| If you don't like the weather, somewhere. | ||
| But the second we make everything federal—and this is what—it's not just the left. | ||
| This is what people who were using lazy thinking that you referred to—they think we should just have one law, that we should all live exactly the same no matter where we are geographically, no matter what our religion or however we set our set of views is. | ||
| That is a nightmare. | ||
| That is a nightmare for a totalitarian state because if the federal government, if one government controls everything, guess what? | ||
| If you don't like it, you got to leave the country. | ||
| You know, go to Mexico, go to Canada. | ||
| You probably won't like it there either. | ||
| But what are you referring to in terms of like one set of laws? | ||
| Well, because you want states' rights. | ||
| What you should care about is states' rights. | ||
| So, for example, we live in California. | ||
| We are taxed out the fucking wazoo. | ||
| I bought a house last year. | ||
| It's my first time at 41 years old that I own property. | ||
| In America, I made it. | ||
| I own property. | ||
| I don't have to tell you about my property taxes. | ||
| They're insane. | ||
| They're very high. | ||
| They're absurdly, absurdly high. | ||
| That's the price you pay for living in a spot where everybody wants to live. | ||
| Yeah, no, but that's it. | ||
| That's the beauty, right? | ||
| So, like, there's a trade-off there. | ||
| Now, I could move to Texas, and the property taxes would be way low, and maybe because they don't tax as much, the schools aren't as good, or a series of other things. | ||
| But that's the beauty of the foot vote. | ||
| You can go. | ||
| This is an experiment. | ||
| This thing in America... | ||
| Well, who's against that? | ||
| anyone that wants to keep giving more power to the federal government which is pretty much everybody these days pretty much everybody in mainstream certainly all of the Democrats All of, you know, the mainstream set of Democrats and the Bernie and the progressive crew, they would love for the federal government to control everything. | ||
| And that is an absolute nightmare. | ||
| But when you say control everything, like how so? | ||
| They want to control all economics, Department of Education, configure out all the environmental regulations, all of those things. | ||
| I would kick back everything to the states. | ||
| Let the states decide. | ||
| And if you don't like it, Get going. | ||
| I mean, that's a beautiful thing. | ||
| If you really care about marijuana and you live in Alabama right now and it's not legal, guess what? | ||
| Go to Colorado. | ||
| Go to California. | ||
| I mean, that's how you'll influence things because you can move your family, your value, whatever you bring to your community and your life. | ||
| I mean, think about it. | ||
| Right now, if California just kept taxing higher and higher and kept screwing up a lot, there's a ton that's going wrong in the state. | ||
| Eventually, Joe Rogan might be like, you know, I just built this freaking kick-ass new studio here. | ||
| I'm now paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and all this stuff. | ||
| You might want to try it somewhere else where they're going to tax you less. | ||
| But that's the beauty of the thing. | ||
| You don't have to leave the country. | ||
| So the federal government should pretty much do nothing. | ||
| It should make sure we're not warring with each other, that the states aren't warring. | ||
| And then protect the borders. | ||
| Beyond that, it doesn't have to do a lot. | ||
| Leave it to the states. | ||
| Look, if you had a problem here... | ||
| You know, a sewage leak right outside. | ||
| You want the federal government to deal with that or do you want the local municipality to deal with that? | ||
| You want everything to be as local as possible because that's how you'll influence things. | ||
| And that's how you as an individual will be empowered. | ||
| And that's all I am to say about that. | ||
| No, I'm hearing what you're saying, but I'm just not hearing this... | ||
| This clamoring for the government to take care of everything. | ||
| I mean, you heard a little bit from Bernie, you know, but I just think, again, a lot of that is like, it's not doing it now. | ||
| So the idea is that the solution would be if the government takes over and we take more rich people's taxes, you know, and he'll spout off about income inequality and take that money and redistribute it. | ||
| And then somehow or another, that's going to fix everything. | ||
| But it's not. | ||
| You're just going to make government bigger. | ||
| You're going to have more jobs. | ||
| You're going to have more jobs in government. | ||
| More red tape. | ||
| More bureaucrats. | ||
| More bullshit. | ||
| So you're agreeing with me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For the most part. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, that's the thing. | ||
| It's like, look, you want to give free college education to everyone. | ||
| First off, it's not free. | ||
| I mean, this is just stupid, lazy thinking to say it is free. | ||
| It's not free. | ||
| You've got to pay the janitor and you've got to pay the professors and everybody else. | ||
| They mean free for students. | ||
| And the idea being that our taxes, instead of going towards the military, They would go towards education. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| So they should at least be honest and say that because a certain amount of people just hear free and you just think it's free, but it's not free. | ||
| You obviously have to pay for it. | ||
| But also we're moving into an economy where robots are taking over. | ||
| Automation is taking over. | ||
| Go to what I think McDonald's said within five years, it's all going to be iPads. | ||
| Go to half the McDonald's and fast food places in airports now. | ||
| It's all iPads. | ||
| So the more you're going to... | ||
| I mean, that's ingenuity, right? | ||
| We're going to be subsidizing all these people to go to college, where often in college they're learning nothing in gender studies and all of these other crazy classes. | ||
| And we're just going to have this set of people who have no real skills, and we're going to set up businesses that will never want to hire them because the government is going to tell them how much to pay. | ||
| I mean, you have employees here. | ||
| You pay them what you think is fair. | ||
| And if they don't want to do it, they don't have to. | ||
| But imagine if the government came in and was like, Joe, you're going to have to pay your guys this amount. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Think how many people would love to work for you for free. | ||
| I'm sure you get emails every day as I do. | ||
| Stalkers? | ||
| Stalkers. | ||
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| I don't want people to work for me for free. | ||
| I don't like interns. | ||
| I don't like the idea of it. | ||
| Silly. | ||
| But you're a small business owner. | ||
| I mean, that's the fact. | ||
| And you should be able to do whatever with your business and your property that you want. | ||
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It's as simple as that. | |
| I think we get real... | ||
| There's a lot of cliché terms, and one of them is that people who go to college are studying gender studies or lesbian dance theory. | ||
| But how much of that has really happened? | ||
| It's very small. | ||
| It does exist in some weird states. | ||
| I'm sure you're aware of that lady who was the... | ||
| A professor from Fresno State who got in trouble recently. | ||
| There's so many of them. | ||
| Which one was his? | ||
| Some big lady was talking a bunch of shit. | ||
| She said she could never get fired, and they didn't fire her. | ||
| There's a lot of them. | ||
| There's a lot of really wacky professors out there that do have tenure. | ||
| Yeah, that woman was tweeting out some banana stuff, and she has tenure, and she's not going to go anywhere. | ||
| But there's universities all over the country. | ||
| They're constantly teaching kids. | ||
| I mean, for the most part, it's a small percentage. | ||
| It's a small percentage, but they have way over... | ||
| Influence on the amount of people they have scared the majority into silence I mean, I don't know how often you're doing colleges these days, but I don't know Yeah, I'm doing them all the time and what I find so I did this thing at University of New Hampshire We posted saw it so look they first off what they did was they were supposed to be about 300 people there So they at first because of the protesters the school said we can't secure a room So think what are they protesting you about? | ||
| Well, technically I was supposed to be there that day with Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk from Turning Point. | ||
| And we were going to talk about cultural appropriation and some of the hot button stuff. | ||
| So I don't even know that they all were there to protest me specifically. | ||
| But anyway, that day was the day that Candace and Charlie ended up on TMZ with Kanye. | ||
| So they bailed on me and just left me for the wolves. | ||
| They were on TMZ with Kanye? | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Just a couple weeks ago, Kanye showed up at the TMZ offices with them. | ||
| So they just showed up with him and they blew off their appearance? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It was me and University of New Hampshire or Kanye and TMZ. Yeah, but they had a schedule. | ||
| They were supposed to be there and they just decided not to? | ||
| So the people paid to have you come, right? | ||
| And they were supposed to be paid to go too. | ||
| Come to think of it, I didn't get more money for this. | ||
| That is ridiculous. | ||
| The whole thing is ridiculous. | ||
| That they would just blow that off. | ||
| That's a gig. | ||
| You don't blow off a gig because Kanye wants to go on the gossip show. | ||
| That is fucking stupid. | ||
| Well, now you're talking to me as a comic. | ||
| It's like, yeah, we wouldn't do that. | ||
| It's just a different... | ||
| You don't blow off a gig. | ||
| Yeah, it's just a different... | ||
| People come to see. | ||
| You don't just decide, oh, this gig is better for me right now. | ||
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This gig's with Kanye on TV. Hi, Harvey. | |
| How are you, Harvey? | ||
| To think that they spent time with Harvey Levin instead of me. | ||
| That's depressing. | ||
| Well, he seems like a nice enough guy. | ||
| His business is a little shady. | ||
| But the whole thing behind it is you don't cancel a gig because you got another gig that you think is better for you last minute. | ||
| Like, that's terrible. | ||
| What's that phrase, man? | ||
| The show must go on? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's supposed to go on. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| So, I saw you getting... | ||
| Was that the lady... | ||
| They brought noisemakers, they were slamming on shit, they were screaming. | ||
| But this is where it's so ridiculous. | ||
| Like, you would let them talk and they didn't have anything to say. | ||
| I mean, the best part of this... | ||
| So first off, 300 people are supposed to be there. | ||
| They say, we can't secure a room on campus. | ||
| So think about what a defeat that is. | ||
| So this is where you might say, okay, it's a minority of students. | ||
| But think how they affect the majority. | ||
| That meant that a University of New Hampshire is a pretty solid school in the live free or die state, right? | ||
| They could not secure... | ||
| Because I'm showing up a room on their campus. | ||
| So that's already a massive loss, right? | ||
| When you say could not secure, you mean safety-wise? | ||
| They said they could not secure it safety-wise. | ||
| There were too many threats, whatever the hell that means. | ||
| Twitter chat or other nonsense. | ||
| So Candace and the other guy are gone. | ||
| So it's just you. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The gay libertarian guy. | ||
| And they're like, too dangerous. | ||
| Too dangerous. | ||
| Too crazy. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, what is he gonna say? | ||
| We're gonna have to silence him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I flipped the script on their heads. | ||
| I mean, that's what it comes down to. | ||
| Like, they don't know what the fuck to make of me because I don't play their game. | ||
| But I'm just doing what I think is right. | ||
| I don't think I'm a freaking rocket scientist. | ||
| I don't think I'm some massive intellectual. | ||
| I think I'm someone that can communicate these ideas pretty well, and hopefully we'll talk about it, but I'm back in stand-up now. | ||
| I'm just doing what I think is right on this planet while I'm here. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| And so when you do these speeches, what do you do when you go to these colleges? | ||
| So I get up there, so they move it from the university, 300-seat room. | ||
| They move it to a hockey rink of 7,500 seats. | ||
| So think how absurd this is. | ||
| 300 people? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How many people are in the audience? | ||
| 300 people! | ||
| Oh, God. | ||
| So apparently another hundred supporters of mine showed up, but they didn't even let them in, even though there were roughly 7,100 empty seats. | ||
| Why wouldn't they let them in? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Because at that point, security starts. | ||
| Everything just gets whacked. | ||
| I mean, this happens at every college thing. | ||
| Nobody knows who's in charge anymore. | ||
| It's just like this big clusterfuck. | ||
| So anyway, so they put up a step and repeat with the turning point symbol behind me, and I'm doing my thing. | ||
| But There's a freaking Zamboni back there. | ||
| I'm like, what the hell am I doing? | ||
| Like, this is ridiculous. | ||
| And Turning Point is that conservative think tank thing? | ||
| They're the largest conservative college nonprofit. | ||
| So why do they have that behind you? | ||
| Well, because it was sponsored by them. | ||
| Charlie runs Turning Point. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But he didn't even have the fucking... | ||
| He didn't even show up. | ||
| It was either that that thing goes there or I stand there literally in front of, you know, 6,000 seats behind. | ||
| But seriously, why? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, that's for them to figure out why they did that. | ||
| But anyway, 7,000 empty seats. | ||
| I do my thing. | ||
| I talk for about a half hour and I knew there were a certain, you know, 250 of those kids were there to listen and agree or disagree. | ||
| I mean, think about it. | ||
| This is the conservative group. | ||
| They're bringing a gay married guy who's pro-pot, who's pro-euthanasia, who's against the death penalty for reforming the prison system. | ||
| I'm pro-choice. | ||
| I could go on and on about the liberal cred that you and I don't get anymore. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And they're there applauding. | ||
| What are they mad at you for? | ||
| Well, so it's not those guys mad. | ||
| It's the other 50. It's the other... | ||
| They don't know. | ||
| They just want you to bow forever. | ||
| They don't come to listen. | ||
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| They want to silence you. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| But what do they want to silence you about? | ||
| What is it that they oppose that you're saying? | ||
| Joe, I literally every time... | ||
| They would scream or they'd start robotically, you know, they set timers and then they robotically chant, we're not the problem or just some other nonsense. | ||
| Is that what they say? | ||
| We're not the problem? | ||
| We are not the problem. | ||
| And I'd go, I'd look at them right in the eye and be like, I'm standing right in front of you. | ||
| Do you have a question for me? | ||
| Is there something that I said that upset you? | ||
| Any of that? | ||
| And they can't respond. | ||
| I mean, they just can't respond because they're not there to exchange ideas. | ||
| They believe they are oppressed and they, I mean, look, I always go up there. | ||
| What do I say at every college thing? | ||
| I go, Think about it. | ||
| Do you think you have it worse than your grandparents? | ||
| I want everyone in this room to think about your grandparents right now. | ||
| And 99.9% of people in America right now have it better than their grandparents had it. | ||
| I'm sure you have it better than your grandparents had it. | ||
| I have it better than my grandparents had it. | ||
| All of these kids, they're at University of New Hampshire, studying whatever the hell they want to study. | ||
| They have it better than their grandparents. | ||
| But the power Of thinking that you're oppressed, the power of thinking that the world is warped against you, it's a drug. | ||
| It is truly a drug. | ||
| And one other thing on that, so it turns out, did you see the exchange I got in with the trans woman? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So this trans woman is telling me to go fuck myself and whatever she's saying. | ||
| And screaming along with everybody. | ||
| What was she upset about? | ||
| Well, because I mentioned the Jordan Peterson pronoun thing. | ||
| And I said, look, I want trans people to be treated equally under the law. | ||
| I want trans people to be respected. | ||
| I literally said to her, looking right at her, I hope you find someone that loves you in your life. | ||
| I mean, I want you to be as equal and happy as anybody else on this planet. | ||
| That is what I want for you. | ||
| She's still telling me to go fuck myself. | ||
| It turns out, I didn't know this until weeks later. | ||
| I found this out about a week ago. | ||
| She's a professor of gender studies at University of New Hampshire. | ||
| Wait a minute. | ||
| So she's literally trying – you have a professor that is part of the protesters and she's live tweeting the thing about alt-right Dave Rubin. | ||
| I mean so that's where – when people think it's this little thing, it's – yeah, it's this little thing that's metastasizing and spreading like a cancer. | ||
| And I truly believe that identity politics, that this thing I think is the biggest threat to the West and to freedom that exists. | ||
| Did you communicate with her at all? | ||
| I communicated her with my mic. | ||
| Did she say what she has a problem with? | ||
| No, so she kept yelling at me. | ||
| What did she yell out? | ||
| Do we have a video of this? | ||
| Oh yeah, it's there. | ||
| It's probably maybe an hour in or so. | ||
| I saw it and I just was like, oh poor Dave. | ||
| What's he dealing with? | ||
| I got a lot of pity for that. | ||
| When the girl was shaking the jar of coins, I was like, ugh. | ||
| You know what was really funny is that... | ||
| I realized that there's one moment in it. | ||
| I never lost my cool, because it's a bunch of kids yelling at me. | ||
| No, I saw you didn't. | ||
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Good for you. | |
| And as long as they're not going to take a samurai sword out and stab me or anything, then it's fine. | ||
| But there was one moment where they just kept going and going, so I sarcastically said it. | ||
| I was like, guys, shut the fuck up. | ||
| And it got a big laugh, and then I repeated it a couple times. | ||
| But then I realized that when the school newspaper wrote about it, they said, and then Dave Rubin told them to shut the fuck up. | ||
| But it's like, in print, shut the fuck up is very different than shut the fuck up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So that was my one lesson in there. | ||
| But nothing. | ||
| Nothing is the answer. | ||
| She didn't want anything from me. | ||
| She wanted me to bow. | ||
| You should be thrown out for doing that. | ||
| Because if you're doing that, you're disrupting a performance. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure you would have a Q&A with those people, right? | ||
| You'd be happy to do that. | ||
| Dude, after a half hour, I opened it up for Q&A, so let's do the last hour. | ||
| But you didn't even get a chance to get to that with her, right? | ||
| She was already yelling at you. | ||
| No, and then I think I even said to her, I know I did it with several people, I'm pretty sure she was too, do you have a question for me? | ||
| And I think her last thing was, you're... | ||
| I hate you or something to that effect. | ||
| I mean, this is a professor there. | ||
| She should be disqualified for teaching. | ||
| She's an illogical thinker. | ||
| This is not what you want raising your children. | ||
| Essentially, that's what they are. | ||
| They're still children. | ||
| You got this fucking dummy who can't focus enough to have a coherent argument. | ||
| They're yelling out in the middle of your performance. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And by the way, for the record, the authorities or the police or the campus safety, whatever it was, did at one point try to have some people sit down and be quiet. | ||
| And I was like, guys, don't worry about it. | ||
| Because it's like, yeah, I guess we could escalate it to that point. | ||
| Oh, and by the way, I didn't even want this video to be released. | ||
| When they videotaped this, I did not want it to be released because I don't want to add fuel to the fire. | ||
| I'm trying to fix some of these problems. | ||
| That's part of the problem, right, is that this becomes something that they know that they can get a video of if they go to your next performance and interrupt you. | ||
| Yeah, but you know what? | ||
| I don't think they won one person over to their side. | ||
| I don't think one screaming lunatic who did not come to respect me, even though I was there to respect them, I don't think they won anybody. | ||
| I think I actually won a lot of people to my side, and I think... | ||
| I mean, I know it because I've received tons of emails about it. | ||
| I know what you're saying, but I don't think it's about winning to your side. | ||
| I think it's about other lunatics that realize there's an opportunity to get attention if they go to your show and yell things out. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's why we ended up putting the video up because a couple of them would put up these little clips very selectively edited that made it seem like I was doing things that I wasn't, like I was silencing them or just some other nonsense. | ||
| So then finally I was like, all right, if this is the way the internet is and it just is, then we'll just put up the whole thing unedited, even though I had... | ||
| Ten minutes before, I said, guys, don't even record this. | ||
| I said, don't even record this because Charlie and Candace hadn't showed up. | ||
| And I was like, it's ridiculous. | ||
| I got 7,000 empty seats behind me. | ||
| But then once people start playing that game, you can either just be the bitch, which I refuse to be, or you can fight back. | ||
| Yeah, it's a weird place to be, because you know what they're doing, and they're essentially just trying to rile you up, and if they're not willing to have a real dialogue with you, they're just yelling, fuck Dave Rubin. | ||
| That really should disqualify you from being a teacher. | ||
| I mean, that's the worst way to communicate. | ||
| You're demonstrating that your thinking sucks, and that you want to teach about gender studies, but yet, you know, you're... | ||
| You're interrupting, and you're trying to claim transphobia, or whatever the fuck he's, she, is trying to claim. | ||
| She, it's a she, right? | ||
| She's a trans woman. | ||
| Right, but she was a man, and now she's a woman. | ||
| Yeah, okay. | ||
| Yeah, and by the way, I treated her with complete respect. | ||
| Like, That's the thing. | ||
| They truly, they want you, they want to put their foot on your neck and have you stay there forever. | ||
| And that's why every time now that somebody mainstream writes something about you, half the time they're calling you a conservative because they don't know what the fuck to do with this guy who's talking about drugs and all the crazy shit you're talking about all the time, but also you're woke enough to actually identify there is a problem here. | ||
| With what's happening in the mainstream. | ||
| So they can't categorize us in any sensible way. | ||
| So in a weird way, especially because me and you also, because of the nature of what we do, we sit from people that are a little scary. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, you've had Jones on. | ||
| I've had Molyneux on. | ||
| You know, I had Cernovich on at the beginning. | ||
| And I'm sure you've had plenty of other controversial people. | ||
| And it's like, so there's an odd way that they want to look at the two of us more than other people because by the nature of our jobs, by the nature of how we exist... | ||
| That's a threat if you want to control the way everybody thinks. | ||
| Yeah, you're not supposed to give people a platform. | ||
| That's what I keep hearing. | ||
| So what's your policy on that? | ||
| Because after this IDW, Intellectual Dark Web article came out, that was the big thing that people kept hitting me on. | ||
| It's like, you don't want any gatekeeping. | ||
| You'll talk to anybody. | ||
| Now, first off, I won't talk to anybody, but I'm a general believer that you let ideas out there. | ||
| But what is wrong with talking to people? | ||
| It's always been what people have done. | ||
| There have always been interviews with controversial people. | ||
| Guess what happens when you stop talking to people? | ||
| Yeah, not good. | ||
| Yeah, that's when shit goes down. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But there's a lot of people that don't want us talking to people. | ||
| I mean, look, a lot of people were pissed. | ||
| You smoke pot with Jones, right? | ||
| You smoke pot with Alex Jones. | ||
| I watched it. | ||
| It's bananas. | ||
| I watched all the memes. | ||
| And it's like, look, that guy has done some seriously twisted, crazy shit. | ||
| There is no doubt about it. | ||
| The Sandy Hook stuff. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't know about the Sandy Hook stuff, by the way, before we did the podcast. | ||
| I knew that he believed a bunch of stupid conspiracies that I genuinely just dismissed. | ||
| But I didn't know that he was saying that. | ||
| Those kids never died or that it was a hoax. | ||
| Now would that change the equation for you? | ||
| Yeah, I would have been mad at them and I would have talked about it right away. | ||
| I would have been like, what the fuck are you talking about? | ||
| Those kids are dead. | ||
| Like there's a guy that was a terrible story about a guy who was a conspiracy theorist before Sandy Hook and then his kid died at Sandy Hook and a bunch of people were threatening him and calling him a crisis actor and saying his kid never died and then he realized how insane it really is. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| People are looking for conspiracies everywhere, man. | ||
| I keep hearing them now about Anthony Bourdain, that Bourdain was going to expose some child pedophile ring and that's why they suicided him. | ||
| It's fucking stupid, man. | ||
| Without going down fully on that road, there is one odd thing about the Bourdain thing, which is just a few weeks ago, didn't he tweet some odd thing about having the... | ||
| He's met the Hillary Clinton machine or something? | ||
| Well, he was talking about... | ||
| No, no. | ||
| I'll tell you exactly what it was. | ||
| Yeah, what was it? | ||
| He was talking about the same people that Harvey Weinstein used that were Israeli... | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Black Cube or some shit? | ||
| See if you find the tweet. | ||
| Because he was basically saying that... | ||
| Donald Trump's people use the same people that Harvey Weinstein used. | ||
| Some Israeli intelligence group. | ||
| There was something that Harvey had done to his victims where he was trying to silence them by scaring them with these Israeli... | ||
| Mercenary-type folks. | ||
| So point being, don't go down that conspiracy route. | ||
| But that's not what he was doing. | ||
| He was just saying... | ||
| He was just standing... | ||
| He had some crazy thing with his girlfriend where he was fully invested in her battle with Harvey Weinstein. | ||
| So that's what he tweeted about. | ||
| But it's like they would kill him for that. | ||
| That's so fucking stupid. | ||
| What about Ronan Farrow? | ||
| What about all the people that wrote the story? | ||
| What about all the people that are accusing him of rape? | ||
| The guy's going broke, too. | ||
| People don't understand that Harvey Weinstein's business is going bankrupt. | ||
| He's fucked. | ||
| He's going to jail. | ||
| The walls are caving in. | ||
| He doesn't even have his business anymore. | ||
| He's not hiring a mercenary to go kill a chef. | ||
| I mean, this is fucking stupid. | ||
| This is stupid thinking. | ||
| And, you know, look, it's not that it's impossible for someone to want to hire someone to kill someone. | ||
| I don't think that's what happened. | ||
| I think he killed himself. | ||
| And I think it's a terrible, terrible tragedy. | ||
| And I think it's really disrespectful to have all these dumb speculative ideas because there's sport in conspiracies. | ||
| It's a sport. | ||
| It's a game. | ||
| There's a hobby that people have. | ||
| I'm looking for the truth, bro. | ||
| I'm looking to fucking close the gaps. | ||
| This is what it is, man. | ||
| It's the Illuminati. | ||
| The second you think you got it, that means you lost it. | ||
| Here it is, right here. | ||
| Okay, here it is. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Scroll up. | ||
| I'm in no way Hillary Clinton. | ||
| I've been on the receiving end of her operative's wrath, and it ain't fun. | ||
| Right, and that's from about a month ago. | ||
| Operatives. | ||
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Operatives. | |
| Oh, here we go. | ||
| Now you're gonna fill some gaps for me? | ||
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What does that mean? | |
| Her operative's wrath? | ||
| Okay, I don't know. | ||
| The thing is, Hillary Clinton was, before the scandal happened, there's a lot of photos of Hillary Clinton hanging out with Weinstein. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Oprah hanging out with him. | ||
| Yeah, everybody. | ||
| Yeah, Meryl Streep. | ||
| Meryl Streep cuddling up with him. | ||
| The whole thing is, there's people that are complicit, for sure, in one way or another. | ||
| So after everything you just said, and knowing that Jones plays that game a little bit, would you have him on again? | ||
| If I had him on again, that would be the first thing I would talk about. | ||
| I've been friends with Alex since 1998. I've known him for a long time. | ||
| I don't think he's a bad guy, but I think he's very wrong about a lot of things. | ||
| He's very misguided about a lot of things, and I think he loves conspiracies. | ||
| There is a bunch of people in this country that love to connect the dots and find conspiracies in fucking everything. | ||
| Everything that there is. | ||
| And sometimes they're right. | ||
| And Alex has been right. | ||
| Definitely. | ||
| He's been right about a bunch of things. | ||
| He was right about the World Trade Organization in particular. | ||
| About when they were using... | ||
| Agent provocateurs to disrupt protests and make them violent protests by smashing windows. | ||
| He documented all of it. | ||
| None of them were arrested. | ||
| They all went to one safe house and then negotiated with the police. | ||
| Then they were released. | ||
| They all had military issue footwear. | ||
| He's got all these documents from people that worked inside either police or law enforcement that say that there is a standard practice, and this has existed for a long time. | ||
| And when you have peaceful protests, and you can't do anything about it, the best way to do something about it is to take that peaceful protest- We're good to | ||
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| See, I don't know enough about that story other than the fact that a bunch of people are mad at me on Twitter for not talking about it. | ||
| I saw it and I was like, I don't even know what that is. | ||
| I'm going to back away. | ||
| And then I saw something about he was filming outside of a trial of Muslim pedophiles. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Is that what they're these grooming gangs? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Grooming gangs. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Tell me the whole story. | ||
| So I don't want to do this as if I'm the freaking lawyer of the whole thing. | ||
| But in effect, he was filming outside of the trial for these this group of men that are raping. | ||
| They're raping like 12 and 13 year old girls. | ||
| Basically, they're on trial. | ||
| He had already been on probation or something for something else. | ||
| And you're not allowed to film outside a courthouse. | ||
| So technically, I suppose he is in jail now for the right reasons. | ||
| But there's a lot of people that think he's not going to survive being in jail. | ||
| And look, I had the guy on my show. | ||
| Have you ever talked to him? | ||
| No, I didn't know anything about him until this thing happened. | ||
| Yeah, I mean... | ||
| There's too much to pay attention to. | ||
| No, I know. | ||
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It's a lot. | |
| It's all the time, man. | ||
| You can't keep up on everything. | ||
| I have shit to do. | ||
| I have kids. | ||
| I have hobbies. | ||
| Don't you have to occasionally just pick one and you're like, this one? | ||
| Dude, there's a lot of them. | ||
| I just don't know. | ||
| I don't know what's going on. | ||
| Like, people go, how come you're not commenting on this? | ||
| I'm like, I didn't even know about it, you fuck. | ||
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I know. | |
| I love that when you sit outside on Twitter for six hours and people start screaming at you like, ah, that proves it. | ||
| You didn't say anything about it. | ||
| Yeah, oh, you talk all day long about this and that, but then this comes up and you don't hear a word. | ||
| I'm like, I didn't even hear about some just now. | ||
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| Well, all right, let's not dive too deep in that. | ||
| But quick on Jones, though. | ||
| So I'm not actually, in case you think I am, I'm not giving you shit for doing it. | ||
| I'm just curious. | ||
| I'm just curious because I think part of the article that Barry Weiss wrote in The Times about us, she was talking about that. | ||
| And there's a line in there where she said, you know, if you talk to these people, meaning Jones and Cernovich and all of you, that you're either cynical or stupid. | ||
| And in effect, that was a shot at me and you. | ||
| It wasn't a shot at anybody else because they don't have to talk to other people. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like, I love Eric and Brett Weinstein. | ||
| Is that what she said? | ||
| You're either cynical or stupid? | ||
| We can probably find the line, but I think it was you'd have to be cynical or stupid. | ||
| I would argue that. | ||
| I mean, I would argue against that because I don't think you have to be either cynical or stupid. | ||
| You just have to be a person talking to someone. | ||
| Just because you're talking to someone doesn't mean you agree with them. | ||
| This idea of giving someone a platform, like, I'm going to have Ted Nugent on the podcast, right? | ||
| You obviously endorse everything he's ever said. | ||
| That's what you're saying, right? | ||
| If you have one, that's the only way to look at it. | ||
| Sorry, Rogan, that's it. | ||
| How come you can't just talk to the guy and find out, like Candace Owens. | ||
| I don't agree with everything Candace Owens says. | ||
| I don't agree with a lot of it. | ||
| And this is nothing wrong with having a conversation like that. | ||
| In fact, it's illuminating. | ||
| What do you got here? | ||
| What are you pulling up? | ||
| The line. | ||
| This is from the Times piece. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It says, it seems to me that if you're willing to sit across from an Alex Jones or Mike Cernovich and take them seriously, there's a high probability that you're either cynical or stupid. | ||
| If there's a reason for shorting the IDW, it's the inability of certain members to see this as a fatal error. | ||
| So that's Rogan and Rubin. | ||
| That's what that's saying. | ||
| Well, I get it. | ||
| There's definitely things you can criticize about me. | ||
| I have the list right here. | ||
| But here's the thing. | ||
| If you're saying I'm taking him seriously, I got Alex high and drunk and he started talking about interdimensional child molesters. | ||
| Like, if anything, it showed people who he really is. | ||
| Like, I've known the guy forever. | ||
| I've partied with that dude. | ||
| I've had him come to my comedy shows. | ||
| We've gotten fucked up and ran around the town and went to bars together. | ||
| Back before everybody knew who he was, too. | ||
| We could go places. | ||
| He's a fun guy. | ||
| I don't believe everything he believes. | ||
| I think he's silly in a lot of ways, but I like a lot of people that I don't agree with. | ||
| I don't have to agree with them. | ||
| I didn't know about his Sandy Hook denial. | ||
| If I did, it would have been the first thing I pressed him on. | ||
| When I talked to him, I wanted to do it with my crazy friend Eddie Bravo because he believes every fucking conspiracy theory. | ||
| And I wanted to get him with Alex together. | ||
| And it was the clusterfuck that I hoped it would be. | ||
| It was. | ||
| But the good thing about it is it showed people who Alex really is. | ||
| It showed a side of him that you just don't get from his Infowars show. | ||
| You get to see him high and laughing and drunk and pounding whiskey and fucking around. | ||
| And people are like, oh, I can see why you like that guy. | ||
| I can see why he's fun. | ||
| We We had a good time together. | ||
| It doesn't mean I endorse his opinions on things. | ||
| And the idea that this is only red or white, that it is one or zero, it's binary. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| I think that's ridiculous. | ||
| I just didn't... | ||
| Those two choices of adjectives I just thought were slightly... | ||
| Like you could say... | ||
| She's defending her position. | ||
| I think she's doing a smart thing because she's a writer for the New York Times. | ||
| I do have a lot of ridiculous people on, and you have had ridiculous people on, too. | ||
| So what she's saying makes sense, if you take them seriously. | ||
| But she left that caveat, if you take them seriously. | ||
| I do not take Alex Jones's opinion on interdimensional child molesters seriously. | ||
| I don't. | ||
| His opinion, I only smoke pot once a year to test to see what George Soros has done with the marijuana. | ||
| George Soros is giving the marijuana fucking dosage recommendations. | ||
| That's ridiculous. | ||
| I'm pretty sure Roseanne told me that too. | ||
| Well, she thinks... | ||
| That's another thing. | ||
| I don't know what to do with her now. | ||
| She apologized for that, but she said George Soros was a Nazi or something. | ||
| Yeah, I saw the apology. | ||
| He was captured by the Nazis. | ||
| I mean, he was like... | ||
| Well, anyway, this gatekeeping thing, I just think it's interesting because if we're going to do what we do well at whatever level we do it, it's like we're going to have to talk to people that people don't like. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| Look, Larry King, this is the one thing I always say. | ||
| It's like Larry King in his heyday. | ||
| Think of the prime Larry King, right? | ||
| So 1991 CNN primetime. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He could have... | ||
| j simpson lawyers on on monday he could have the cast of seinfeld on tuesday he could have a magician on wednesday he could have lucille ball if she was still alive on thursday and then you know george the secretary of state or something so no one thought he endorsed all of those ideas or was friends with all those people but i think somehow now because because this feels like your home mine is actually in my home the way we are we're different we're friendlier | ||
| we're not sitting here with note cards and with ifbs and it doesn't feel all produced and planned and all that even though i think we both do a hell of a fucking professional show that i think we're both really proud of um I think because of that, they think... | ||
| Now you're seeing the real them or something like that. | ||
| I just think they're looking for shit to complain about. | ||
| Yeah, that might be the easiest way. | ||
| One of the reasons why I decided to do a podcast in the first place is because I wanted to be able to do whatever I wanted. | ||
| I wanted to be able to talk to my friends, have a good time, fuck around. | ||
| Along the line, it became something different. | ||
| And along the line, it became not just talking to my friends, it became talking to people that are famous or interesting people or professors or writers or whoever it is. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| And I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want. | ||
| And that's why I'm doing this. | ||
| I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want. | ||
| And if you don't like who I'm talking to, it's super simple. | ||
| You just don't listen to that episode and go, oh, Rogan, you're alt-right now. | ||
| All you have is alt-right people. | ||
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| I just think I talk to people. | ||
| I talk to a lot of people. | ||
| I like talking to people. | ||
| I like talking to people I agree with, and I occasionally talk to people I disagree with, and I get something out of that, too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| How aware are you of the thing that you just said there, that you did exactly what you set out to do? | ||
| I don't know that you fully set out to do it this way, but you did it. | ||
| This thing that you have created is so it. | ||
| It is so what you wanted to do, whether you fully got it or not, but you created it. | ||
| It's awesome like I'm I'm doing it at a I think a lower level than you are but I'm very aware of that that like I somehow I Hated what the system was offering and I was like I gotta do something that feels right for me And I came at it from a different place did it cuz I didn't come out from a place like I need a gig I came at it from a place like it'll be fun. | ||
| Yeah, fuck around, right? | ||
| I mean, I was already a professional stand-up. | ||
| I was already the commentator for the UFC. So this wasn't like... | ||
| When I came... | ||
| I mean, I did it for years for zero money. | ||
| For years. | ||
| I just did it for fun. | ||
| Literally for fun. | ||
| Do it once a week. | ||
| Have fun. | ||
| Sit down. | ||
| Have some comics over. | ||
| Smoke some pot. | ||
| Talk some shit. | ||
| Have a couple of laughs. | ||
| And then, next thing you know, I've got Graham Hancock on. | ||
| And next thing you know, I've got Bourdain on. | ||
| And I've got... | ||
| This professor and this author and then it got weirder and weirder. | ||
| But to me, it's just what's interesting. | ||
| Talk to people. | ||
| And I've never looked at it like... | ||
| Like, there's anything I have to do. | ||
| I've never looked at it like that. | ||
| I've just always like, well, this would be cool. | ||
| Oh, that guy sounds cool. | ||
| Let me get him. | ||
| This guy might be interesting. | ||
| Oh, I'd like to talk to that dude. | ||
| I want to find out about sleep. | ||
| I want to find out about exercise. | ||
| I want to find out about diet. | ||
| I want to find out about, like, how the fuck does finances really work? | ||
| I want to talk to Peter Schiff. | ||
| Tell me how this works. | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| How are you making your money? | ||
| Like, what the fuck is going on in Puerto Rico? | ||
| I love talking to people, man. | ||
| It's a fascinating thing to... | ||
| To pick the brain uninterrupted, with no distractions, to sit down and talk to someone for hours at a time. | ||
| You learn a lot about yourself. | ||
| I'm much better, much better at talking to people and being sensitive. | ||
| Open-minded and being considerate and listening. | ||
| And that's a big thing, like listening and communicating with people. | ||
| Not just waiting for my time to talk, but communicating with people. | ||
| It's like, I feel like conversation is a lost art with a lot of folks. | ||
| And I've gotten way, way better at it over the whatever many years, nine years? | ||
| Nine years of doing this show. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm with you. | ||
| I mean, I hear you. | ||
| I mean, I said at the beginning, but I just am doing what I think is right. | ||
| Yeah, it's fun, too. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's fun. | ||
| I like it. | ||
| When I see the barrage of hate that I'll get online for this or that, it's the same thing. | ||
| It's just these people that just endlessly want to hate on everything and all that. | ||
| It's too much noise. | ||
| I'm always like, if you're spending all day long hating on me, if you think what I'm doing is the real problem here, you know what I mean? | ||
| Let's say I'm wrong on everything. | ||
| Let's say everything I said for the first 10 minutes about politics is wrong and we should have strong federal government and identity politics. | ||
| Even if that's how it really is, am I really the biggest problem here that people are all day long devoting Twitter accounts, people that make accounts all day wrong? | ||
| Fuck Dave Rubin. | ||
| Dave Rubin sucks. | ||
| It's like, what are you doing? | ||
| Is that going on all the time? | ||
| Yeah, all the time. | ||
| It's like, go get laid. | ||
| Do people get laid anymore? | ||
| You shouldn't know that that's happening. | ||
| That's the part of the problem is you're sort of indulging it by paying attention to it. | ||
| There's just too many people out there, Dave. | ||
| I'm paying way less attention. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| You can't pay attention at all. | ||
| Dude, I was in a sensory deprivation tank just two, three days ago, thanks to you. | ||
| I've been doing it more. | ||
| I was just in one of these infrared saunas. | ||
| I'm doing all my Augusts off the grid. | ||
| I did it last August. | ||
| Just literally nothing. | ||
| I locked my phone in a safe. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Locked my phone in a safe for 30 days. | ||
| Do you call it anything? | ||
| No TV, no nothing. | ||
| Off the Grid August? | ||
| We had some Ruben something, Rubenesque something or other. | ||
| Off the Grid August, something like that. | ||
| But I'm going to do it for now on. | ||
| I'm doing that every August. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm completely shutting down. | ||
| I'm working on this book that I started last August. | ||
| And then, of course, the year gets so crazy that I have to pick it up again in August. | ||
| I've been writing it now while I'm on the road. | ||
| What's the book about? | ||
| I mean, I don't want to go too far in it, but in effect, it's when I did that PragerU video about why I left the left, that's sort of the genesis of it, of sort of giving people a little bit of a road map. | ||
| What is the PragerU video? | ||
| I'm not aware of it. | ||
| So you're familiar with PragerU, right? | ||
| Yeah, with Dennis Prager, super conservative fellow. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So he does – he has this online university where they do these five-minute cartoon videos on different ideas. | ||
| So they'll do on economics and foreign policy and race and religion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| And so I did one. | ||
| It was about a year and a half ago, February of last year. | ||
| Well, I had actually never said the phrase why I left the left, but I just talked about my frustrations with the left and why I believe in freedom and in liberty. | ||
| They titled it, Why I Left the Left. | ||
| And actually, the first half hour when it dropped, I was pissed because I was like, man, did they just blow my gig? | ||
| I really felt at that time, I feel a little differently now, that I was trying to fix the left from within or at least have conversations as someone that was one of these people. | ||
| That's why I was focusing on the left. | ||
| All these liberals were my people. | ||
| This is the thing that I grew up in that I always believed in. | ||
| So the fact that they did that, the first half hour, I was like, fuck. | ||
| Did I just get booted out? | ||
| And then quickly I realized that video went so viral. | ||
| It's their number one viewed video on YouTube that I was like, you know what? | ||
| I have to just kind of embrace this. | ||
| And again, it goes back to the labels thing. | ||
| It doesn't really matter whether you left the left or whether you're a libertarian or a classical liberal, the rest of it. | ||
| But anyway, that's the genesis of the book of like, just how do you escape this sort of monolithic... | ||
| Totalitarian thinking and how do you just be whoever you are and how does being an individual basically lead you to being happy? | ||
| Because I think that's actually the only way that you can be happy. | ||
| I think that that's it. | ||
| It's the most cliche thing ever. | ||
| It's what Peterson's telling these people every night that thousands and thousands and thousands of people are showing up every night and he talks about the individual. | ||
| He talks about stand up straight, clean your room. | ||
| These things all sound silly, At some level. | ||
| And the more that I'm with the guy, it's like he is giving these people something that has just been so lost. | ||
| Like so absolutely lost. | ||
| People think you can just be pathetic. | ||
| Blame the system. | ||
| Everything else is somebody else's fault. | ||
| You should be given shit. | ||
| All of this stuff. | ||
| And it's like, think about every movie, any movie, whatever your 10 favorite movies are. | ||
| Is it about a guy who just was like, oh, the world sucks and what the fuck am I going to do? | ||
| And it's somebody else's fault. | ||
| No! | ||
| Every great movie. | ||
| Whatever, you guys got a problem and guess what he does? | ||
| Solves the problem. | ||
| And that's what you're supposed to do. | ||
| This is an adventure, this life. | ||
| But when you mean the individual, like being an individual is the only way to be happy. | ||
| What do you mean by that? | ||
| Well, first off, that we should only be judged as individuals. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| So remove all the immutable characteristics. | ||
| I'm gay, big damn whoop. | ||
| But you got any specific questions for me on that? | ||
| Big damn whoop. | ||
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How is that? | |
| Big damn. | ||
| But like, you know, like that. | ||
| Just saying that means nothing other than you can figure out. | ||
| Right. | ||
| You know who I sleep with. | ||
| Okay, that's it. | ||
| All we can do is judge people as individuals and you have to just figure out what is right for you. | ||
| So for all the people that I disagree with that are sort of like big government lefties and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And I get why that you maybe need a little more of that if you live in a big city where you might need more noise regulations than if you lived in the freaking – if you live in the middle of Idaho on a farm or whatever. | ||
| It's like if that's the life that you want to live, then fight for that. | ||
| But what we're doing now is this collectivist craziness is causing people to be unable to think clearly. | ||
| So like Huffington Post yesterday wrote a thing about how you have to choose between being for gay people or said – I think it was for For queer people or for Chick-fil-A? Oh, is this because of Jack? | ||
| Yeah, because Jack retracted his tweet about Chick-fil-A. Did he have a tweet about Chick-fil-A? Yeah, he tweeted that he showed a digital receipt that he bought Chick-fil-A and then Soledad O'Brien was like, you tweeted that on Gay Pride Month. | ||
| And it's like this endless... | ||
| But why would he tweet a Chick-fil-A receipt? | ||
| Who the hell knows? | ||
| The guy likes Chick-fil-A. Who cares? | ||
| You're not allowed to like it. | ||
| Yeah, you better not like Chick-fil-A. Do you eat Chick-fil-A, Dan? | ||
| Yes, I eat Chick-fil-A. I took a picture yesterday. | ||
| There was a Chick-fil-A next door to the theater we were at. | ||
| I took a picture of Chick-fil-A there, and I tweeted out the thing. | ||
| And it's like, I like chicken sandwiches. | ||
| Every time I've gone into a Chick-fil-A, the people are going to find me one fast food restaurant. | ||
| What do you got here? | ||
| So that's what he did. | ||
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That's the tweet. | |
| Oh, it's the cash app. | ||
| That's one of our sponsors. | ||
| Your 10% boost at Chick-fil-A was applied. | ||
| You were charged $28.43, Chick-fil-A. Aha! | ||
| And he dared save 10% on Gay Pride? | ||
| He wrote, boost, and then he tagged Chick-fil-A. And Soledad O'Brien showed him who's boss. | ||
| But that's what I'm saying, that that sort of, this endless guilting and, you know, you do this so you're evil... | ||
| It's ruining the fabric of society. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| Eat chicken if you like chicken. | ||
| Don't eat it if you don't like it. | ||
| But that's what individualism is about. | ||
| If you want to make the choice, if you think that whatever Chick-fil-A is doing to gay people, whatever they're secretly doing to gay people, if you think that's so evil, even though, by the way, During the Pulse nightclub shooting at the gay club in Florida when 51 people were killed, they gave free food to everybody. | ||
| But if you think they hate gay people that much, then don't shop there. | ||
| But you don't have to harangue everybody else into doing everything that you want them to do. | ||
| That's actually the reverse of freedom. | ||
| Live and let live. | ||
| That's what I believe. | ||
| I could see people, if they're saying that Chick-fil-A is a homophobic institution, that you shouldn't endorse Chick-fil-A, particularly if you're a gay man. | ||
| But what does that mean? | ||
| I go into Chick-fil-A. Is Jack gay? | ||
| Not that I know of. | ||
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Okay. | |
| So it's not that. | ||
| That seemed weird. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I don't know either. | ||
| But he clearly is an influencer, and I think that the Cash App, if I had to guess, because they sponsor this podcast, they're very active in sponsoring podcasts, they probably have some sort of an endorsement deal with him, which is why he did that. | ||
| So it was a financial thing for the Cash App, if I had to guess. | ||
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Okay, so... | |
| All right, so we don't know about that specifically, but if they were paying him to do it, I mean, that's for him to... | ||
| I mean, again, that's for him as an individual to decide, I am going to accept... | ||
| When's Gay Pride Month? | ||
| Is it this month? | ||
| It's this month. | ||
| This is the gayest month there is. | ||
| Damn. | ||
| And I'm here with you. | ||
| Hello. | ||
| This is the gayest thing I'm going to do all month. | ||
| June. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Yeah, June. | ||
| It's very gay. | ||
| But that's what I'm saying. | ||
| But how many people are upset? | ||
| How many people? | ||
| But it goes exactly to where we started with this whole thing. | ||
| There is this loud group of people and most of them have some sort of odd influence in media. | ||
| They're all of these Blue Check, BuzzFeed, 4,000 Twitter follower people that retweet all of the articles of the people like them at Salon and Vox and BuzzFeed. | ||
| And they make it seem like we're all hysterical, crazy people. | ||
| And I simply don't believe that. | ||
| I believe that most people, I would say the vast majority of people probably... | ||
| I mean, I think it's something crazy. | ||
| Like 80% of people I think are good, decent people who just want people to live. | ||
| They want, you can fuck who you want to fuck. | ||
| You can smoke what you want to smoke. | ||
| You can't do it on my property. | ||
| You can't take what's mine. | ||
| You can't force me to bake a cake or do any of those things. | ||
| But you can allow people to live as they see fit. | ||
| I think that's what most people are. | ||
| And that's why there's such a pushback. | ||
| That's the answer to the Peterson thing. | ||
| Peterson said, I'm not going to use pronouns that the government forces me to use. | ||
| That's what put him on the map. | ||
| There's so many of them. | ||
| They got so silly with that that it made sense that someone was pushing back. | ||
| There's 78 different gender pronouns. | ||
| You're obviously dealing with people that are being silly. | ||
| But it's not just people being silly. | ||
| You remember when Miz came along? | ||
| There was Miss and there was Mrs. When was that? | ||
| What year was that? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I was a kid. | ||
| I remember being super confused. | ||
| I'm like, they made a new thing? | ||
| What's the matter? | ||
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He's the CEO of that company, too. | |
| Who is? | ||
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Jack. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Of Cash App. | ||
| Oh, he's the CEO of Cash App, too. | ||
| So he's advertising his company. | ||
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Oh. | |
| Well, that makes total sense. | ||
| That makes total sense. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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Well. | |
| Oh, there you go. | ||
| I just think that... | ||
| Well, that's a tricky one. | ||
| That's different. | ||
| Well, look, he's a guy promoting something on one of the things that he owns, and that's it. | ||
| But he's doing it on Gay Pride Month. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
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I mean, really? | |
| So I guess at one point they were against gay marriage, and maybe they still are now. | ||
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Who? | |
| Who knows what every... | ||
| Think of all the products. | ||
| Wasn't it the late CEO? Isn't the CEO dead? | ||
| I think the CEO that was like super Christian is dead. | ||
| Yeah, I think it is the original guy and he's dead. | ||
| I think they honor his wishes though and keep it closed on Sunday still. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Every time I've... | ||
| It's stupid as fuck because I want a chicken sandwich on Sunday. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So somebody should be opening the- Somebody should be opening the Sunday Chicken Sandwich! | ||
| But not in June. | ||
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Pro-Gay! | |
| Not in June. | ||
| Solidarity to my gay brothers and sisters. | ||
| It's all so stupid. | ||
| Eat a sandwich if you want a sandwich. | ||
| Don't- Every time I've gone into Chick-fil-A, when you've gone into Chick-fil-A, are they nice or not? | ||
| Yes or no? | ||
| I've only been there literally twice. | ||
| And are they nice? | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| Nobody yelled at me. | ||
| They're friendly. | ||
| They don't look at you and go- Nobody yelled at me. | ||
| I think everything's okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| I just don't think there's that much outrage. | ||
| I think there's a business in outrage, though. | ||
| And there's certainly a business in a lot of people that write these articles. | ||
| The Jordan Peterson thing has been very illuminating to me because I've watched them misrepresent his positions on so many different things and call him so many horrible names, transphobic, racist, alt-right, all these different things, and do so with You know, with no justification or rationalization. | ||
| Like, you look at the actual article, and they don't post to what he actually said. | ||
| It's like that woman in the monk debates. | ||
| What was it called? | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| What is it called? | ||
| The monk debate, yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Whoever that woman was. | ||
| Goldberg, I think. | ||
| Whatever her name is. | ||
| It was her and Eric Dyson. | ||
| Yeah, when she said that he doesn't want her to wear, he doesn't think she should be able to wear makeup at work. | ||
| He's like, I never said that. | ||
| She goes, well, you can Google it. | ||
| Well, we can Google it. | ||
| We can Google it. | ||
| We can find out you made me Google something that you were wrong about. | ||
| That's upsetting to me. | ||
| I don't want you to do that. | ||
| That bothers me more than anything. | ||
| That is dishonest. | ||
| It's 100% dishonest. | ||
| She knew he did not say that. | ||
| He was having an intellectual exercise with an interviewer. | ||
| And I think one of the things that's gotten him into trouble is his openness to discuss things with question marks. | ||
| Question marks. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know if we can work together. | ||
| We've only been doing it for 40 years. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Why do women wear makeup in the workplace? | ||
| Why do women wear short skirts and high heels? | ||
| Why do they? | ||
| I don't think he's saying you can't do that or you shouldn't be able to do that. | ||
| He's saying why. | ||
| He's saying that there's obvious realities. | ||
| When you turn on CNN, why is it that Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, and the rest of the men are all in suits? | ||
| Exactly the same. | ||
| Andersons are a little more tailored, but everybody dressed. | ||
| What do the women all wear? | ||
| Every single woman. | ||
| Dresses. | ||
| They all wear dresses with cut-off sleeves. | ||
| They're all sprayed tan. | ||
| They all have gorgeous hair, lipstick, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| Why isn't Wolf Blitzer walking in there with the cut-off? | ||
| I don't know what that arm would look like. | ||
| Netflix special. | ||
| I have a whole bit about it. | ||
| About women on Fox News versus men on Fox News watching it with the sound off, smoking pot like it's some sort of a wildlife show. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's something very strange. | ||
| It's a weird cultural dance that we're doing. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So the idea that Jordan's talking about this, that men and women dress differently, women put on lipstick to look attractive. | ||
| Why do you work out, Joe Rogan? | ||
| Because I don't kill people. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I don't want to be angry. | ||
| So number one, so you don't kill people. | ||
| But number two, you want to look good. | ||
| You want to feel good. | ||
| You want to be in a body that is... | ||
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Sure. | |
| You want to look good for your wife and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And you want to live long. | ||
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Right. | |
| Like to deny these realities all the time and to think that that's because of your toxic masculinity and all of this nonsense. | ||
| I agree that it is a loud minority. | ||
| But what I... I think maybe where we're having a little difference is that I think this thing has spread in a way. | ||
| It is so easy to believe this nonsense, this abject drivel, that it is infecting young people at an alarming rate. | ||
| But by the way, there's a lot of hopeful signs on this because now they're doing all these studies that the generation right after millennials, so the kids that are like... | ||
| You know, like 15 now, that they're actually more conservative now because they see all this as absolute hysteria. | ||
| So I think there is, we are getting like a little bit of a rubber band effect on this thing. | ||
| And I think things are shifting into normalcy. | ||
| And that's why people are listening to your show and listening to Sam's podcast and everything else. | ||
| I think there's an issue with people commenting on things that other people were saying and just sort of jumping in and not having the other person there to Discuss these subjects with it particularly like why do women wear makeup at work? | ||
| Why do women dress the way they dress? | ||
| I think if you sat if you were sitting down with Jordan talking about it He's willing to engage in these subjects with a very very Broad canvas. | ||
| I mean, he's willing to look at all the various aspects of them because as a legitimate intellectual, that's what he's doing. | ||
| It's an intellectual exercise in discussion of cultural norms. | ||
| Like, why do women wear these shoes where you can see their toes in the workplace? | ||
| Whereas if a guy showed up with flip flops on, he'd be like, Mike, the fuck? | ||
| We're at work here. | ||
| Get out of here with this bullshit outfit. | ||
| Go put on some goddamn dress shoes. | ||
| We're in the office. | ||
| It is strange that women wear very little clothes in comparison to the way men do on these shows. | ||
| And I don't think there's anything wrong with the discussion. | ||
| The problem is framing it as if he's saying, you shouldn't be able to. | ||
| If someone got on TV and said, you shouldn't be able to wear makeup at work, you shouldn't be able to dress like that, that would be a problem. | ||
| So think about what these guys are doing in effect. | ||
| So you're saying that Jordan's taking basically a decent but potentially confusing position, but it's basically a right decision of let's have a conversation. | ||
| So when they write all these hit pieces – and why do they do it? | ||
| Because they can't get anyone – they just did release this study about journalists and they're basically all paid like 45 grand a year and they're alcoholics, just – Mm-hmm. | ||
| Oh, there's a guy out here who's sold over a million copies of his book, who's on tour selling out Beacon Theater and blah, blah, blah all over the world. | ||
| I'm going to write a hit piece on him because guess what? | ||
| That's going to drive a hell of a lot more traffic than writing something honest. | ||
| So that's part of the game. | ||
| And, you know, he – I've discussed this many times including on stage with him. | ||
| Why does he keep retweeting the articles? | ||
| His belief is, well, I'm still here. | ||
| I'm still here. | ||
| I have exposed them and I'm still here. | ||
| And if anything, I'm bigger because of it. | ||
| And now... | ||
| One of them was a guy who was his friend. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| He's pissed about that one. | ||
| That was a weird one. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Because the guy's argument was shit. | ||
| It was like, he's like, why I think Jordan Peterson is dangerous. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Dangerous. | ||
| You didn't explain. | ||
| Dude. | ||
| Like, why? | ||
| The problem with that is I don't give you many chances like that. | ||
| If you write something like that, it doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Now I'm going to discredit your opinions. | ||
| I'm not going to think about – I'm not going to go, ooh, let me listen to this intelligent person's perspective. | ||
| I'm going to go, oh, this is that silly fuck that had that dumb idea about Jordan Peterson. | ||
| I feel like it was just – it was some sort of rationalization for him getting attention to virtue signal over what Peterson is saying. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But he didn't have any real points. | ||
| It didn't make any sense. | ||
| I don't think I actually read that full one, but I know that- I read it twice. | ||
| Yeah, so I know- Just to try to go back over it and see if it made any sense to me. | ||
| And nothing. | ||
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You got nothing that- Well, he just didn't represent his opinions accurately. | |
| That's the problem. | ||
| When people don't represent the opinions accurately, they set up a straw man and then attack the straw man and then have this click-baity title. | ||
| I'm like, oh, you just need a hug. | ||
| You need attention. | ||
| Is that what it is? | ||
| They need a hug. | ||
| I mean, that's what they need. | ||
| But I'm telling you, man, this tour, it has been a freaking love fest. | ||
| Every night when I go up there and I'm warming up the crowd and I'm doing silly lobster jokes and, you know, some of his other buzzwords and I'll talk about make a couple jokes about Kathy Newman or like some other silly things. | ||
| So what you're trying to say is... | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I do a roll on those five different ones. | ||
| A whole bunch of other stuff. | ||
| But I'll go up there and I usually make some reference to the intellectual dark web. | ||
| And if I say your name or I say Shapiro or Sam or whatever, people go crazy. | ||
| And what I'm realizing about it is all of these people, think about all the people, however many hundreds of thousands of people are watching this or listening to this right now, and then how many millions will, you know, in the next two weeks or whatever. | ||
| Most of them are doing it alone, right? | ||
| They're watching on their phone or they're listening on their iPad, whatever it is, or you're maybe watching with your boyfriend or girlfriend. | ||
| But most people, it's a pretty solitary experience in the world of what we do. | ||
| Now imagine, and it's like when you do stand-up. | ||
| Now 3,000 people piled into this place. | ||
| And you can look around and go, whoa, there's some other people like me. | ||
| And they're not bad people. | ||
| And actually what I've found is that these people look good. | ||
| They dress right. | ||
| Not to make it all about material stuff, but they look like people who are trying to get their shit together. | ||
| And I think I said it to you right before we sat down, but me at this moment, I truly feel like the best that I've ever been. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| And it's partly because of that, because you cannot be around that constantly. | ||
| I'm not saying everything he says is right, and I'm still not with him on some of the religious stuff. | ||
| And I'm doing my show when I leave here to go with Sam Harris, and they're really... | ||
| At loggerheads on some of the truth stuff. | ||
| They need a moderator. | ||
| I swear to God, and Sam has said this too, I swear to God, if I was there with the two of them, I could have worked it out. | ||
| When that whole truth thing, that they bounded back and forth for an hour on the meaning of truth, I wish I was there. | ||
| And we talked about doing some live event together, we never got around, because Sam's doing a lot of live events now as well. | ||
| So they're doing it with, they're having Brett Weinstein moderate it. | ||
| But I would have been thrilled if it was, look, I love Brett, there's nothing about Brett. | ||
| A little humor would be nice. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| So either it could have been one of us or whatever. | ||
| It's completely fine. | ||
| And I think they just wanted a more science-y, focused person, and he's a great biologist. | ||
| Well, they're both powerhouses. | ||
| So if there's any... | ||
| They're doing jujitsu on each other. | ||
| If there's any openings, they're trying to choke each other. | ||
| It's like... | ||
| But that's how we find out if ideas are valid. | ||
| You let guys like them discuss them. | ||
| It was very unfortunate that at least their first podcast... | ||
| The first one, yeah. | ||
| The second one, I think, was much better. | ||
| But the first one was just a clusterfest. | ||
| I called Sam up afterwards. | ||
| I was like, this is a non-conversation you guys had. | ||
| He's like, yeah, I just got stuck. | ||
| Yeah, but think how cool that is that the two of them are some of our leading public intellectuals in the country, in the world, probably. | ||
| They're debating over the nature of truth. | ||
| And millions of people care. | ||
| That's a little different than what's going on on CNN on any given day. | ||
| Oh, for sure. | ||
| Well, there's a real problem with mainstream news. | ||
| And first of all, there's a problem in that it's a ratings-driven thing. | ||
| It's like everything they're doing, they're trying to get ratings. | ||
| Anytime there's a big story in the news, it's just like, what are people going to pay attention to? | ||
| That's what we're going to put on. | ||
| There's no consideration like, is this interesting to us? | ||
| Is this what we want to discuss? | ||
| It's a news program, but it's not a news program because it's also an entertainment program. | ||
| And then they have commercials every 15 minutes. | ||
| Did you see the Jim Acosta thing, what he did during the Korea thing? | ||
| That is crazy. | ||
| That's crazy that a journalist would insert himself into that sort of a situation and interrupt and yell things out, and people don't have a problem with that. | ||
| We are truly watching the implosion of the media. | ||
| And that's why I meant before. | ||
| It's like if they would just lie a little bit, just lie a little bit on the margins, as they probably always have done. | ||
| I don't think we'd be in this position because people wouldn't be able to so clearly see how messed up the whole thing is. | ||
| But because they've become so hysterical, writing articles that are completely the reverse of the truth, because they're acting like petulant children all the time. | ||
| And because they half the time, it's like they pretend they're nonpartisan. | ||
| But if you just look at any of these journalists Twitter feeds, it's like pretty obvious what you all are, all of you in the mainstream media. | ||
| They've created an opening so that now, if people want some sense of truth, you turn into... | ||
| Joe Rogan and you're turning to all of these other shows. | ||
| I think it's very difficult to get employment if you're not on one side of the fence or the other side of the fence and you're a journalist. | ||
| It's not a simple world like the world of podcasting where you truly can be independent. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think in a lot of ways it's like Hollywood. | ||
| I've always described Hollywood as one of the main problems with it is you get a bunch of people that come here seeking attention, right? | ||
| That's the reason why they're here in the first place. | ||
| They want fame. | ||
| They want exorbitant amounts of attention. | ||
| And then on top of that you're entered into this system where you have to be chosen. | ||
| For each part. | ||
| It's not like you have a sprint and the guy who's the fastest is the one who wins. | ||
| It's not like that. | ||
| It's someone who goes, well, Dave, why don't you read these lines? | ||
| Like, hmm, I might like you, Dave. | ||
| How do you feel about Hillary Clinton? | ||
| Because I'm pro-Clinton. | ||
| I mean, we want Clinton to win. | ||
| Don't we want Clinton to win, Dave? | ||
| And you're like, oh my god, yes. | ||
| Yeah, you'll drop your standards like that. | ||
| I'm a huge supporter of Clinton. | ||
| I think she's amazing. | ||
| And I've seen this because it's this weird environment where You want these people to like you so you're terrified of saying anything, even remotely controversial, that doesn't stick to the script of this left-wing discourse. | ||
| So there's all these people that are just faking it. | ||
| They're bullshitting. | ||
| They might not even have real opinions, but they've adopted this predetermined pattern of opinions that they think that is going to help them get through the door with these producers and these studio executives. | ||
| That's Hollywood. | ||
| And then when someone breaks free, occasionally someone becomes right-wing, whoever the fuck they are, whether it's Chuck Woolery or Dennis Miller, or they're like, look at that fucking crazy man broke from the pack! | ||
| What's his name, the fucking actor? | ||
| The older guy. | ||
| Oh, Jon Voight? | ||
| No, not Jon Voight. | ||
| The other one. | ||
| Very good actor. | ||
| Well, there's Gary Sinise. | ||
| Got a big dick, supposedly. | ||
| Got in trouble with Dave Cross's wife. | ||
| Dave Cross's wife said that he tried to hit on her when she was 16. James Woods. | ||
| James Woods, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, he's really dealt himself in. | ||
| He's got a giant dick. | ||
| That's what I hear. | ||
| Yeah, he's dealt himself in he's all in he's all in and he's like sort of like resigned himself to never work again Yeah, I mean means but he's probably like 75 years old or whatever he is. | ||
| He's probably I don't give a fuck anymore. | ||
| Yeah, I mean I'm pretty sure he's got fuck you money like probably Yeah, he's definitely saying fuck you. | ||
| So if he doesn't have the money she might want to Yeah, yeah, exactly but doesn't that prove though why doing this What was the right thing to do? | ||
| Because I'm very aware right now. | ||
| It's like, I got a lot of good shit going on. | ||
| I'm getting offers and all sorts of different things. | ||
| And I'm like... | ||
| I'm my own boss. | ||
| I'm not going to accidentally tweet something one day and then go, I'm going to fire Dave Rubin. | ||
| My fans fund most of what we do. | ||
| And it's like, I need to grow. | ||
| We definitely need to grow because my guys are just doing too much. | ||
| But I'm also very aware that the more we start growing, that all the problems that you just laid out will start becoming more and more real. | ||
| So I like being as slim and trim as possible, at least for now. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Because I don't want to be down the road where we've got too many people. | ||
| There's too many just different competing interests and business interests and political interests and everything else. | ||
| So it's like – that's why. | ||
| I mean what you're doing here is freaking – it's amazing, man. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's nice to be able to do it for sure. | ||
| It's nice to be able to just – Have opinions on things. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And also, just know that you're a nice person. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| And that you're not trying to, like, I'm not trying to do any evil. | ||
| Like, I look at, like, who I am, like, I'm a nice guy. | ||
| Like, okay. | ||
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All right. | |
| Well, what are my opinions? | ||
| Why can't I talk to this guy? | ||
| Why can't I have discussions on these subjects? | ||
| You know, like, there's a lot of people that feel like if you're not in a certain group, you shouldn't have discussions on certain things. | ||
| If you're a straight man, you shouldn't talk about gay rights. | ||
| If you're a man, you shouldn't talk about women's issues. | ||
| You shouldn't talk about Me Too unless you're 100% supportive. | ||
| You shouldn't discuss the subtle nuance of human interaction. | ||
| Well, didn't Martin Luther King, he wanted us to be judged by those things, right? | ||
| And he said, if you're only this color, you can talk about that. | ||
| If I'm not, I'm pretty sure it was something like that. | ||
| That's what he said. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's where we're at. | ||
| But also, you know, there was an article right after that IDW thing came out in the Times that was calling you a conservative. | ||
| And I think I emailed it to you. | ||
| Yeah, it's hilarious. | ||
| Because I was like, man. | ||
| It was a Twitter thing. | ||
| Twitter thing said, renegade conservative. | ||
| Oh, right. | ||
| That's what it was. | ||
| Pro-gay rights. | ||
| Pro-women's rights. | ||
| Pro-choice. | ||
| Pro-marijuana. | ||
| Pro-universal health care. | ||
| Pro-universal basic income. | ||
| Like, what else do I have to do? | ||
| Like, what other things am I... Oh, pro-Second Amendment. | ||
| He must be right when I... Yeah. | ||
| Well, Joe, you're off the range. | ||
| You can't just have... | ||
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What do you think? | |
| You can have a series of thoughts that don't all lock in? | ||
| Well, you have to be in a pattern. | ||
| You have to be in the pattern. | ||
| I just don't understand why someone's willing to be dishonest like that. | ||
| Like a cursory examination of people's thoughts and positions on things would lead someone to realize I'm definitely not a right-wing person. | ||
| The thing is that they have owned the narrative for so long. | ||
| They think they can still get away with it. | ||
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Yes. | |
| And what's happening is now it's shifting. | ||
| And that's what I mean by I think we're starting to win. | ||
| And I don't mean it win like we're going to destroy these people. | ||
| I mean I think the narrative has started to shift a little bit where the enthusiasm behind the conversations that we're all having, whoever it is in this thing, the enthusiasm is so great and there is no counter-enthusiast. | ||
| Like where are all the – Versions of us on the other side of this. | ||
| On the right? | ||
| No, I don't even mean on the right. | ||
| The people that really are selling identity politics at a really great way, at a comedy level, who have a huge podcast. | ||
| Where is that intellectual set of people? | ||
| Where's the Sam Harris of the other side of this that have real followings? | ||
| They don't exist and that's partly why the hysteria has been ramped up. | ||
| They can't believe That out of nowhere, just because of all of our just wherewithal and desire to do what we think is right or what makes us happy or whatever the hell you want to call it, they can't believe we all freaking created something. | ||
| Well, I'm weirded out that we're all in a group. | ||
| I'm weirded out that we're in a super boy band. | ||
| I've never been in a group before. | ||
| We're in a boy band or I guess Christina Hoff Summers is in that band too. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who else is in that band? | ||
| Is Heather in it? | ||
| Yeah, Heather's in it. | ||
| Is Heather hiring? | ||
| Is she in there? | ||
| I mean, look, we don't- She's married to Brett. | ||
| Wait, you didn't get the card yet? | ||
| I didn't get the card. | ||
| Dude, the clubhouse is under your studio. | ||
| Me and Shapiro were joking around about it. | ||
| We're like the super friends. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, what is this? | ||
| This is the weirdest Avengers ever. | ||
| It's a weird group of humans. | ||
| I mean, me and Ben, we disagree on a lot of shit, but we're super friendly to each other. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Like, when I do his show or he does my- I really enjoy that guy. | ||
| Oh, by the way- I like him. | ||
| You do freaking Shapiro's show before my show? | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| The guy's had a show for three weeks. | ||
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I'll do a show. | |
| What are you doing? | ||
| People were mad at me with the way I dressed. | ||
| See that? | ||
| They were like, everybody else is wearing a nice shirt and a tie. | ||
| I'm like, listen, man. | ||
| I told the guy I was on my way to the comedy store. | ||
| You want to take a photo of me? | ||
| I'll be there. | ||
| You're not in the bush. | ||
| In the brush. | ||
| Yeah, I should be in a bush. | ||
| I had a freaking succulent up my ass. | ||
| I'm wearing fucking chucks. | ||
| I'm wearing Converse and some sort of a flannel shirt. | ||
| I bought that jacket in Alaska. | ||
| That's what I was wearing at the comedy store. | ||
| They said they wanted to take a picture. | ||
| I said, alright, man. | ||
| That's what I'm wearing. | ||
| No greenery around the comedy store. | ||
| You'd have to go up to Sunset. | ||
| Either way, I just don't... | ||
| I don't give a fuck. | ||
| That's what I look like. | ||
| That's who I am. | ||
| I'm not interested in portraying an image. | ||
| It is what it is. | ||
| It's like this intellectual dark web. | ||
| It's fucking Eric. | ||
| He's crazy. | ||
| He gets mad when I call him crazy. | ||
| He loves it. | ||
| He's trying to get me to... | ||
| Are you on the WhatsApp group? | ||
| The little fucking chat group? | ||
| Are you in there? | ||
| No, I haven't jumped in yet. | ||
| Get in! | ||
| I'm too busy. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| I don't have the time. | ||
| Just two or three messages a day. | ||
| I have four different group text conversations with comedians where we're talking shit about things and jumping around. | ||
| I don't have time for this. | ||
| I'm busy, man. | ||
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All right. | |
| Well, then you can't come to the club trying to make a yoga class. | ||
| I don't got no fucking time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Who the hell knows? | ||
| Are we a group? | ||
| Do we have a meeting and shellacked cards? | ||
| What do we have in common? | ||
| I think we have... | ||
| A respect for our audience and intellectual curiosity. | ||
| Intellectual curiosity for sure. | ||
| And I think that's where a guy like me and Shapiro, although we have very different opinions on many different things, I think we both are intellectually curious. | ||
| So think about it. | ||
| I've had Ben on many times. | ||
| I consider him a friend. | ||
| We've broke bread together, although he's kosher, which makes it fucking pain. | ||
| What do you have to eat? | ||
| How's such a smart guy follow that voodoo? | ||
| Well, I eat whatever the hell I want. | ||
| You can talk to him about that. | ||
| I eat whatever I want, but he usually brings something. | ||
| Why don't you eat at a kosher restaurant? | ||
| I did eat at a kosher restaurant with him once, but then it was all these Orthodox Jews there, and then they treat him like Jesus. | ||
| And I was like, dude, I'm not your photographer. | ||
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You know what I mean? | |
| I have to take all these pictures of him, and they're like, who's that guy? | ||
| I was like, all right, I'm not doing that again. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| I've had Shapiro on – look, he's not inherently for gay marriage, right? | ||
| My studio is in my house where I'm married. | ||
| What is his thoughts on gay marriage? | ||
| Well, now he takes the libertarian position, which is the government shouldn't be involved. | ||
| But I don't know – but I see a lot of conservatives doing that where they should have all – like this is where Rand Paul, who I mentioned before, he should have been years ago screaming that he's for gay marriage because if you're truly a libertarian – If the government doesn't tell me what to smoke, what to sleep with, then the libertarians could have taken a really awesome, powerful, principled position and said, this isn't about religion. | ||
| It's not about anything. | ||
| It's about freedom. | ||
| That's one of the things that I shove in the face of people that were Hillary Clinton supporters. | ||
| I'm like, do you know that she didn't support gay marriage till 2013? | ||
| You know how goddamn crazy it is? | ||
| I supported it when I was 13. This fucking grown-up old lady with grandchildren. | ||
| It's telling people that she's not for gay marriage until it became convenient politically. | ||
| And she just wanted to separate herself as being at least the semi-conservative option compared to Barack Obama. | ||
| Look, Barack Obama was not for gay marriage at the beginning. | ||
| He got pinned into it because Biden made that stupid comment on Meet the Press where he was basically like, everyone's for it, and then Obama had to come out for it. | ||
| But think about it. | ||
| If all of this stuff that we're talking about keeps winning, if it all keeps winning, what will happen in 50 years? | ||
| They will literally look back at video of Barack Obama campaigning the first time around saying that he's for traditional marriage and they will call Barack Obama a homophobe. | ||
| And they will eventually want the Barack Obama library that's being built now in Chicago, they will want that being taken down because that will be the statues of our day. | ||
| So that's why I don't know where you're at on the monument stuff, but I would not take any of them down. | ||
| You can put up a counter plaque or something right next to it to say Robert E. Lee did this or that. | ||
| But the idea that they're removing this shit, I think, is absolutely terrible. | ||
| You can't erase history. | ||
| No, I agree with you. | ||
| I think they should. | ||
| There's a problem with having them in town squares and celebrating them. | ||
| But there's also a problem in that they were all most of them. | ||
| The ones that they're talking about in the South, they were resurrected during the Civil Rights Movement to sort of counteract the Civil Rights Movement. | ||
| So, like, these are really... | ||
| This is not like a celebration of these people back in the day when they were viable. | ||
| This is during the Civil Rights Movement. | ||
| They erected these fairly cheap, and they put them up quickly. | ||
| And they did it in response to black people wanting more rights. | ||
| I would still... | ||
| In the face. | ||
| Yeah, I get it. | ||
| I would still be not for taking them down. | ||
| You put up something next to it, you put... | ||
| What I would mean, if you want to compromise... | ||
| I'm for taking them down and replacing them with something else and putting them somewhere else. | ||
| Like, if you want to have a Civil War museum... | ||
| So that would be the compromise where you could get me. | ||
| I'm not saying you should melt them, but it's... | ||
| There's something to... | ||
| There's something to the argument that they're racist statues and especially if you understand the motivation behind creating them in the first place. | ||
| Yeah, the problem though is that You know, I mean, I know you know this, it never ends where it's supposed to end. | ||
| No, people wanted to go after George Washington and Trump said that. | ||
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| Trump said that and people were ridiculing him and then almost immediately afterwards someone wanted to take down a statue of George Washington. | ||
| I was in Old Town Alexandria where George Washington's church was and it's actually the same church that Robert E. Lee went to so they had a plaque for both of them and because they took down the Robert E. Lee one they also took down the George Washington one at the church that George Washington went to. | ||
| I mean, if you follow that logic, and this is what you have to do when you're doing these sort of historical trackings, they will come for everything. | ||
| So think about it. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson is my favorite founder. | ||
| Thomas Jefferson, you can go to his house in Monticello, and they do – if you go on the tour, it's incredible. | ||
| They are incredibly honest about his relationship to slavery, that he owned slaves his whole life. | ||
| He was having an affair with at least one slave and most likely had children with that slave. | ||
| At the same time, he was writing the laws that freed the slaves. | ||
| So without this man, these things don't move forward. | ||
| So we all live with these odd inconsistencies. | ||
| George Washington. | ||
| George Washington, who gave up power after the revolution. | ||
| Like, he did the most incredible thing. | ||
| You know, he gave up power as the commander of the army after the revolution. | ||
| The most incredible thing that a leader of a country could do, he owned slaves his entire life. | ||
| When he died, and they do this at his house in... | ||
| It's outside D.C. I'm blanking on it for a second. | ||
| I'll get in a second. | ||
| But you can go on the tour there. | ||
| And he had his slaves his entire life. | ||
| When he died, his half of the slaves got freed. | ||
| But Martha Washington's half didn't. | ||
| Martha kept the slaves. | ||
| That bitch. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So it's like all of these things. | ||
| Martha had half the slaves? | ||
| What kind of weird relationship did they have? | ||
| She had inherited them I think from her parents or something like that. | ||
| Like it's all – it's deeply twisted and warped and of course it was – now of course we can objectively look at it and go slavery was wrong and you shouldn't – of course. | ||
| But they all were doing things in their time that the world doesn't magically become what you want it to be just because you exist and think something. | ||
| And the more that we start thinking that, the more we'll eventually come after Obama for running against gay marriage the first time and all of these things. | ||
| There is something that we think – you love meat, right? | ||
| You love elk and all this other stuff. | ||
| Guess what? | ||
| One day if this craziness keeps going, they will look back when you're a grandfather and they'll be like, they ate meat because at that point we'll be eating artificially produced whatever. | ||
| And they'll literally watch videos of you chomping on some ribs and go see what a savage he was. | ||
| So that's why you have to just be aware of what your time is, your time in this world. | ||
| Yeah, they're doing it right now, exactly. | ||
| Yeah, did you ever see the video of Obama talking about illegal immigration? | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| It's really amazing. | ||
| It's when he was a senator and running for president the first time, and he is more, like, he's stricter. | ||
| Than Trump. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| I mean, it's a fascinating thing, because no one brings that up, and no one called him racist. | ||
| I guess we're dealing with a long time ago. | ||
| Well, I mean, there's a couple of things. | ||
| When was it? | ||
| Was it 2011 that he was doing that? | ||
| He was a senator, so it was probably around 2010, 2011, something like that. | ||
| I mean, look, there's a lot of things there, right? | ||
| I mean, he's black, number one. | ||
| So it's like they're not going to call him racist. | ||
| It creates a thing where they can't compute what does that actually mean. | ||
| He was saying the things that people wanted to hear. | ||
| He also wanted to be elected. | ||
| He wanted to be elected. | ||
| So they elevated him to a point that he was God. | ||
| Play this. | ||
| Let's listen to this. | ||
| 2005. 2005? | ||
| This is early on. | ||
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We will agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. | |
| We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law. | ||
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And they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. | |
| We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country. | ||
| So that's why we need to start by giving agencies charged with border security new technology, new facilities, and more people to stop, process, and deport illegal immigrants. | ||
| Having said that, securing the borders alone does not solve immigration management. | ||
| We're going to have to better manage legal immigration in order to end illegal immigration. | ||
| Senators McCain and Kennedy point us in the right direction on that point. | ||
| Right now we've got millions of illegal immigrants who live and work here without knowing their identity or background. | ||
| That's part of the reason that we need a guest worker program to replace the flood of illegals with a regulated stream of legals who enter the United States after checks and with access to labor rights. | ||
| Part of the reason that illegal immigration is so damaging is that it ends up Creating a pool of workers with depressed wages and no rights. | ||
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And that's not something that we find acceptable. | |
| It's crazy. | ||
| Dude, American employers also need to take responsibility. | ||
| I mean, I just scribbled down like I was doing homework in seventh grade. | ||
| Think about what he said there. | ||
| We have to secure the border. | ||
| Secure the border. | ||
| Trump. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Secure the border. | |
| Build that wall. | ||
| Punish you if you hire. | ||
| If you hire illegal workers. | ||
| If you enter illegally, you're showing disregard for our laws. | ||
| We cannot allow illegals to pour in. | ||
| We can't let them go ahead of lawful people who are trying to enter the country. | ||
| We need better border security, more process and deportations. | ||
| We have to better manage legal immigration. | ||
| And then he talked about the millions that are here now, which in effect is a pathway to citizenship, which by the way, Trump is basically for at some level. | ||
| So what are we really talking about every time we scream that everybody is racist? | ||
| Did he just make a wild... | ||
| So I assume he's talking about Latino people. | ||
| So is Barack Obama racist against Latino people? | ||
| Well, this was when he was a senator. | ||
| He was elected in 2008. And so he was probably gearing up to run. | ||
| When he was in 2005, the things that he was saying, he was letting people know who he is and that he's out there and starting the ball rolling. | ||
| You know this is a different time too. | ||
| 2005 was just a different world. | ||
| And it seems like it shouldn't be because it was only 13 years ago, but god damn is it different. | ||
| So what does that say then? | ||
| What does that actually say about the way things have changed or the cult of personality around Trump or just sort of the general derangement of the media that they can't view these things? | ||
| It's not just the media. | ||
| I think it's also people's access to communication. | ||
| The fact that anyone can voice their opinion, whether it's on Facebook or YouTube or what have you. | ||
| It's a different world. | ||
| Twitter. | ||
| You just tweet instantaneously. | ||
| This is fucking bullshit. | ||
| People should be able to do whatever they want or whatever you want to say. | ||
| And then a bunch of people can agree or disagree or retweet it or screen grab it because they think that it's damaging to you and they put, I can't believe you support this piece of shit. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| You can wake up on any given morning, find someone you've never heard of who said something you slightly disagree with, and you can help get them fired. | ||
| That's a lot of people. | ||
| There's a lot of people want to do that, too, which is really interesting. | ||
| That people want to get people fired for opinions. | ||
| That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. | ||
| But really, if we were to do a deep dive on that, it's like, well, what did we just hear that is different than what Trump is trying to do right now? | ||
| Does Trump use sloppy language? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Does Trump lie? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| But they all lie. | ||
| Obama, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. | ||
| Lie. | ||
| Syria red line, lie. | ||
| Those are pretty big lies that he did. | ||
| Now, does Trump lie about everything constantly? | ||
| Yes, but what he has a way of doing is getting these odd big picture things correct, and then it causes this... | ||
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Like what? | |
| So, like, almost anything. | ||
| So, like, they'll say, okay, you know, just in the last couple days with North Korea, that Trump said... | ||
| I've been traveling a lot, so, like, getting the exact quote will be tough, but it'll be something like... | ||
| You know, Trump said to the North Korean dictator that they're good friends now or something like that. | ||
| Like he's already giving him respect. | ||
| Well, it's like if Obama, when Obama ran, he said he would sit down with Ahmadinejad and he would sit down with the leaders of North Korea and the rest of those things. | ||
| Now Trump is doing it. | ||
| So it's like, do you want him to sit down with them and tell him to go fuck himself at the same time? | ||
| Like, I'm not even saying this thing's good or bad. | ||
| I have no freaking clue. | ||
| Nobody has a clue. | ||
| But everyone has every opinion on everything. | ||
| Well, people want him to fail, too, which is fascinating to me. | ||
| Well, did you see the Bill Maher thing? | ||
| No. | ||
| So Bill Maher on Friday said that he's hoping for a recession because that's how we'll get rid of Trump. | ||
| Now, we talked a little bit about Bill before this thing, but he's been a huge influence of mine. | ||
| I like him. | ||
| I used to want to be on the show. | ||
| I've kind of moved past that at this point. | ||
| But think about it. | ||
| Bill's probably worth $100 million or something. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| But he can afford living through a recession. | ||
| But when people talk about the liberal elite that they hate, it's that type of person. | ||
| It's this person on the coast who's like, yeah, yeah, have a recession so we can get rid of Trump. | ||
| I hope he does amazingly well. | ||
| Yeah, I agree. | ||
| I hope Trump does amazingly well and turns the country around. | ||
| I hope he evolves his ideas as a human being. | ||
| I hope he does mushrooms. | ||
| I hope he grows to love people. | ||
| Why would you hope for failure, especially failure for the whole country and sending people into a recession, which is undoubtedly going to cause suicides and turmoil and crisis and people going to go into panic thinking and panic voting, which is not what you want. | ||
| I mean, literally, that's what started Hitler. | ||
| I mean, that's what started Nazi Germany, right? | ||
| They were in the middle of a horrible recession, and this guy came along that proposed a solution. | ||
| You're not going to get a better version of the future by people living in fear and poverty and sadness. | ||
| I didn't vote for Trump, but he's the president. | ||
| I want him to do great. | ||
| I don't agree with him on a lot of shit. | ||
| He lies about a lot of shit. | ||
| Still want him to do great. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because he is the guy that's running the country. | ||
| If he's running the country, I want the country to do well, no matter who's running it. | ||
| Like, my thought was like, this is almost what it's like. | ||
| It's like, I don't like this doctor. | ||
| So when he fixes my knee, I hope he fucks it up. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| It's really almost what it's like. | ||
| It's like, he's the goddamn president. | ||
| Okay, if you want him to be impeached because he's done some fucking horrible crime, which... | ||
| I've gone over all this Russian stuff. | ||
| I still am not convinced that he did anything horrible. | ||
| I don't see it. | ||
| Seems like the Democrats did more horrible things, or at least things that they've been caught on. | ||
| They definitely did something. | ||
| And just what they did to Bernie Sanders alone should be a devastating blow to the credibility of the DNC. It really should be. | ||
| And the fact that it's not, it's just... | ||
| It's just blind allegiance. | ||
| He can say, I hope for a recession. | ||
| Maybe he said that without thinking. | ||
| Maybe it was just a flippin' remark. | ||
| I'm pretty sure it was a package line. | ||
| I would never hope for a recession, no matter what. | ||
| I hope the guy does fantastic, even if he's hated across the board. | ||
| I hope he does an amazing job, and I hope the economy soars, and I hope people have more jobs. | ||
| I hope there's a method to his madness. | ||
| I really do. | ||
| Why would anybody hope differently? | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| Well, I agree with that. | ||
| Basically, and again, I voted for Gary Johnson. | ||
| Look, if I had my choice, I'm pretty sure you know me well enough. | ||
| Like, I would much rather have like a really bright intellectual person who I think— You'd probably rather have Rand then, right? | ||
| Yeah, I'd much rather have Rand Paul. | ||
| I'd rather have a libertarian who basically is kicking everything back to the states. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| Trump is cutting a ton of regulation and doing a lot of states' rights stuff. | ||
| The economy's doing really well. | ||
| Do you have any sense that we're going to get into some intractable war in the Middle East to nation build? | ||
| I don't think under his watch. | ||
| There may be some level of some peace now in the North Korean Peninsula. | ||
| That's a fascinating thing, man. | ||
| I don't think anybody else would have done what he did with North Korea. | ||
| Talked a bunch of shit to that guy. | ||
| Call him fat and short and you know like it was very funny like what he does is kind of funny and then he gets to have a meeting with the guy and the guy agrees to a meeting with it. | ||
| I think they're baffled by him. | ||
| They don't know what to do with him because North Korea and South Korea when the presidents of the two countries met at the DMZ and shook hands like that was an historic moment. | ||
| Yeah Maybe they can get past all this fucking bullshit that's been going on forever. | ||
| And if part of that was helped in some way by Trump being crazy, like maybe it's good to have someone that fucks things up a little bit and mixes it up. | ||
| It doesn't mean he's a perfect person. | ||
| It doesn't mean he's not a liar. | ||
| Right-wing conservative neocon Joe Rogan. | ||
| But think about it. | ||
| So then, like, what does he do? | ||
| So he brings in John Bolton, who's thought of as a neocon, like a warmonger neocon. | ||
| And then he has Mattis as the Secretary of Defense, warmonger neocon. | ||
| Maybe what he was doing is that he was scaring people from the... | ||
| Going, I'm going to bring in all these people who are really scary, who don't talk about peace that often, who talk about exercising our power and all of that stuff, so that Kim Jong-un is going to go... | ||
| Maybe this time they might actually depose me. | ||
| Yeah, he's looking at Trump. | ||
| He's like, this guy's fucking crazy. | ||
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Right. | |
| And by the way, this is where I would say my side in this, the libertarian side is pretty weak on this. | ||
| Because a guy like Rand Paul, what he would say is, you know, we should be cutting all military and never doing anything, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| In which case, you can make a strong argument that you're constantly emboldening your enemies all the time. | ||
| Because if they know you never want to do anything, then it's not a great argument to get bad actors to stop doing things. | ||
| But I think that's a great place to have a good conversation. | ||
| And Rand Paul has supported a lot of the stuff Trump has done at the same time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, I just don't understand the logic behind wanting a recession. | ||
| I mean, I can understand the logic around wanting someone else to take over in two years or three years when the new elections take place, but... | ||
| But don't you think things are basically going pretty well right now? | ||
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They are. | |
| Like, if you remove the Twitter hysteria, like, remove just, like, hysteria stuff, like this he said, she said. | ||
| Like, in terms of what's happening in the country right now, black and Latino unemployment all-time low, economies chugging along, like, the basic things that matter for a society are working. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| That's pretty good. | ||
| I don't know enough about this, but what's been explained to me is that a lot of this is the momentum of what Obama did when he was in office and that the economy, he's riding the work of Obama. | ||
| He's riding the wave of the previous administration's policies. | ||
| Does that make sense? | ||
| Yeah, I've had economists on my show argue kind of both sides of this thing. | ||
| Most don't agree with that, but I've had probably more libertarian-leaning economists in general. | ||
| What do they think? | ||
| Well, because they're all about cutting regulation all the time, and Trump has been very good at that. | ||
| I think it's something like, at one point it was like, for every one regulation he passed, he cut something like 63 regulations. | ||
| So if you're a libertarian economist or someone on the right, economically, you want the government out of all of that stuff. | ||
| So they're very happy at the economic level right now. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But all right. | ||
| But let's even say that's completely true, what you just said there, that this is all just because of Obama stuff. | ||
| Well, it's working. | ||
| Like we've got a guy that maybe has just picked up the ball and he's the lucky guy and maybe he's going to get it to the next thing. | ||
| But what I'm actually more enthused by is that I think after all this craziness that we're in right now, I actually think people are so starved for sanity and like a reset to decency. | ||
| I actually think things are going to get much better. | ||
| I think, again, this is where I think the conversations that we're all having are affecting things in a big way. | ||
| And I think that even politically, it's going to start bubbling up. | ||
| When I was in DC the other day, I was at a small dinner with a pretty – Influential senator who probably doesn't want me to say his name at the moment. | ||
| I'm not gonna say it, but I'll tell it to you later. | ||
| But it was somebody. | ||
| It was somebody big. | ||
| And he got it. | ||
| He really got it. | ||
| Like he knew about us, like this whole thing. | ||
| And that's what I'm saying. | ||
| Like, I'm not sitting here like, oh my God, it's so amazing what we're doing. | ||
| But there is something happening. | ||
| And I think it will reach the political level too, that people will not want the hysteria anymore. | ||
| And that eventually Trump will, because of his own craziness, become unnecessary. | ||
| You won't always need the icebreaker. | ||
| We needed the icebreaker to get all this shit out. | ||
| Now it's all out. | ||
| Everyone's reevaluating everything. | ||
| And then out of that is going to grow. | ||
| I mean, look, maybe it grows something horrible, right? | ||
| Like maybe the Hitler comes. | ||
| I obviously hope it doesn't happen. | ||
| But what I think is that something decent is going to come. | ||
| That's just where I believe. | ||
| I think eventually something decent is going to come. | ||
| And I think there's a lot of decent that's coming right now, but I think there's some people that are always going to resist that. | ||
| Oh, of course. | ||
| There's people that are just ideologically driven and they can't be shook from that position. | ||
| They're hard left or they're hard right or whatever they are. | ||
| They have this rigid idea in their head of what reality is and anything that's contrary to that, they're going to oppose. | ||
| And I think... | ||
| Jordan has been one of my favorite lightning rods for observation for watching this because all the disingenuous articles about him deceptive Talking about his positions and in extremely inaccurate ways and labeling him as some sort of a prejudiced terrible person What those have done is solidified This idea that there is a campaign of people that just are completely ideologically driven and they don't mind being deceptive | ||
| and that strengthens the position. | ||
| It helps people like us to just talk about stuff and don't mind talking about being incorrect or ignorant or not worried. | ||
| We're not worried about our stance. | ||
| We're going about most conversations from a place of objectivity as much as we possibly can. | ||
| Most people are subjective, at least to a certain extent. | ||
| As much objectivity as we can, as much honesty as we can, and just talking about things. | ||
| And this is something that's not happening in these little click-baity articles or in... | ||
| People that interrupt your shows and shake fucking jars of nickels or whatever they're doing. | ||
| All that stuff strengthens this position that we're in, that we're in this weird time of intellectual dishonesty and turmoil. | ||
| And I think a lot of it is because there's a lot of people that were just extremely upset that Trump got into office and anything that seems to represent that position or that side must be opposed violently. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I think underneath everything you're saying right there, you're very hopeful right now. | ||
| I actually sense that you're really hopeful, and I am too. | ||
| And it's like, how could we ever do this if we weren't, right? | ||
| I would say that if I had to sort of whittle it down what I am at the core, I basically am a world-weary optimist. | ||
| I'm an optimist by nature, but I believe that the world is rough and tumble and all the things that Jordan would say about existence, I believe. | ||
| But I'm still an optimist despite that. | ||
| And what you just said right there basically is showing that the Trump thing was necessary because imagine if Hillary was president right now and the same machine and bullshit nonsense and media and all of that stuff kept churning along. | ||
| Think how much worse it would be for these conversations right now. | ||
| We would so be on the wrong side of things so to speak. | ||
| And the forces that don't want us to do anything good and have conversations would have been so emboldened. | ||
| Trump just came and took a freaking bat to the whole thing. | ||
| Now, as I discussed with Eric Weinstein, it's like Trump was the bull in the China shop. | ||
| I think most of us would have preferred a panther. | ||
| We kind of wanted something to walk through, knock a few things off. | ||
| Trump just blew up the whole thing. | ||
| The phrase is bull in a China shop, not a panther in a China shop. | ||
| So that's what you get. | ||
| But after this, for every reason you just said, there is going to be a return to sanity. | ||
| It goes one of two ways, but I just am a firm believer that it will go that way, that there is enough of us out there now trying to reset things, and because I don't think people are evil, I don't think people want to be talked down to, I don't think people are dumb, and even the people who are dumb, I don't think they want to be dumb. | ||
| And because of all of that, I think this was the necessary thing to happen right now. | ||
| I'm with you that I think I hope that he continues to do basically good things. | ||
| And that if that means that he gets in for another four years and continues to do good things, then so be it. | ||
| But yes, what I prefer that it's sort of more of a small government, calm person who could tell you how many branches of government there are. | ||
| And like all of that shit and all of the stuff from that flag that's right behind you. | ||
| Yeah, I've got a freaking Declaration of Independence in our control room and a constitution and a big American flag. | ||
| Like, would I rather someone who knew what the Federalist Papers are and all of those things be in the Oval Office? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| You don't get everything you want in life. | ||
| So you just kind of work with what comes. | ||
| And I think we have a little room to work right now. | ||
| I think also as more people open themselves up to the ideas that Jordan is espousing, or you are, I am, or more people are genuinely objective about these ideas and start discussing them, the more frantic The people on the radical left, what they call the regressive left, the more ridiculous they're going to get and the more obvious it's going to get that they're out of control. | ||
| It's just what happens. | ||
| People start ranting and screaming louder because their initial message doesn't work. | ||
| It's not like they're going to go back and revamp the message and make it more logical. | ||
| There's no logical message there. | ||
| But think about that. | ||
| So when that's exactly what they're doing with Trump, too, you keep screaming Trump's Hitler, right? | ||
| You keep screaming Trump's Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. | ||
| Now, Hitler killed millions and millions of people, and many more millions were killed because of Hitler that he didn't directly kill. | ||
| Now, if you keep doing that with Trump, and then someone plays that Barack Obama clip, and you go, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. | ||
| You're calling Trump Hitler. | ||
| Here's Obama saying something that actually sounds possibly even more extreme if you believe this is an extreme position to take. | ||
| So now, is Obama Hitler? | ||
| And what they're doing is they're creating a situation where they're going to cause a rebound so that people will be like, oh, these guys aren't all nuts. | ||
| But if they destroy all of our ability to have this conversation, Then when the real Hitler comes in, we won't even be able to recognize it because they will have cried wolf to the point that someone's going to come in and they're going to have a big smile. | ||
| It won't be a Trump. | ||
| When Hitler, the Hitler type, and I hate using Hitler as the metaphor because it's so overplayed, but when the Hitler type comes... | ||
| It ain't coming as the angry guy like Trump is. | ||
| It's going to come with the smile on its face, right? | ||
| That's that socialist t-shirt, like, you know, socialism smiley face. | ||
| That's how it will come because it will be masked in identity politics. | ||
| It will be masked in all of this nonsense that will rip us apart, that will literally have us killing each other on the streets. | ||
| What do you think would cause that? | ||
| Like, what scenario do you foresee that could be possibly... | ||
| If the ideas of what I consider the fringe left, which are pretty much mainstream Democrat ideas already, if the Democrats keep going more towards the Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, Keith Ellison, real hard left progressive stuff, it is rooted in identity politics, which we've done already. | ||
| But it is rooted in something that separates us. | ||
| It is rooted that you should... | ||
| That even today, did you see this at Harvard? | ||
| I just tweeted out when I was on the way here. | ||
| Harvard released this statement defending the fact that they're okay with basically having quotas that work against Asian students because they want to have more other minorities, basically meaning black or Hispanic minorities. | ||
| So think about it. | ||
| Why would you discriminate? | ||
| If you were hiring right now, let's say you're hiring today, right? | ||
| You're hiring for your studio. | ||
| Who's going to hire? | ||
| You're going to hire the most qualified person or are you going to try to figure out every little identity thing to figure out who you should hire? | ||
| Diversity, bro. | ||
| I'm all about diversity. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| It's racist against Asians. | ||
| It's racist. | ||
| Asians just haven't been very vocal about it because they tend to just put their fucking nose to the grindstone and keep kicking ass. | ||
| have to use that against them now. | ||
| That will, so that's the new thing. | ||
| You will not be, if you're Asian and you, and why did they, why did Asian Americans or Indian Americans are a great example that they have succeeded at every level that we measure success. | ||
| I think the highest socioeconomic average salary over a hundred grand, you know, education, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| If you now say, well, wait a minute, these people played by the rules they They came here as in most, you know, like all of our ancestors virtually came here pretty much with nothing. | ||
| People owned small businesses, busted their ass, worked in coal mines, etc., wherever you had to do it. | ||
| If you do all of those things and then you focus on education and on family and all of those things, and now the system is going to say, well... | ||
| Worked for a while, but we're going to have to put you at the bottom of the thing now. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
| You're not going to get into Harvard because you're Asian. | ||
| That is racism. | ||
| So I've been calling this out for at least two years. | ||
| That the next move by this identity politics, this evil oppression Olympics machine, is that they will come after Asian people. | ||
| And it's starting to happen now. | ||
| So I see all these minorities, by the way. | ||
| So Candace... | ||
| I watch the show, and I know you guys definitely have disagreements on stuff, as do I do when it comes not only to politics, but tactics sometimes and stuff, but I really do like her. | ||
| You know, look, she's causing a massive rift in the black community, and you can see it in the numbers. | ||
| Black male support for Trump doubled. | ||
| It was at 11%. | ||
| It's now at 22%. | ||
| Well, it's Kanye. | ||
| Kanye was the wrecking machine, but I actually think in the grand scheme of things, Candace is much bigger. | ||
| I really believe that. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because I think she could be a direct line to all of the political parts of this if she decides to go that route. | ||
| Because I think she could run for Senate. | ||
| What? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Are you okay? | ||
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Are you high? | |
| Did you get high before you got here? | ||
| I'm not high today. | ||
| I'm only smoking maybe once a week on Sundays. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| And now I'm on tour, so I'm not really at all. | ||
| Maybe I'll spark up a joint and have you reconsider what you just said. | ||
| You can smoke a joint and maybe I'll reconsider it. | ||
| You said you watched the podcast I did with her. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I watched, I don't know, maybe at least an hour and a half of it or so. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why what? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Why are you saying it that way? | ||
| Because I don't think she should run for Senate. | ||
| No, no, I'm not saying... | ||
| I think she's a young girl with some interesting ideas and she's got a lot of passion. | ||
| No, no, I didn't say you think she should. | ||
| I'd even say I think she should. | ||
| I think she could have a bigger effect even than Kanye when it comes to just everything going on politically and socially. | ||
| I'm going to ask you again if you're high and you need to be honest with me. | ||
| She wants it. | ||
| She wants it, man. | ||
| I'm sure she does. | ||
| She's affecting people in a big way. | ||
| I think maybe in a bigger way than perhaps either one of us understand. | ||
| But forgetting Candace specifically. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I like her. | ||
| Don't get me wrong. | ||
| She's a nice person. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| My point was, though, that I think all minority groups are reevaluating what's going on here. | ||
| If you're in the black community, clearly there is, at the moment, a reevaluation of do we have to be democratic? | ||
| That is an issue. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's a racist issue. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Because people assume that if you're black, you must be a Democrat. | ||
| If you're not, you're some sort of an Uncle Tom. | ||
| It's kind of fucked up. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Talk to my friends Larry Elder, or I had Thomas Sowell on the show, or my buddy David Webb, or many... | ||
| There are many black conservatives. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| You are allowed to think however you want, despite your skin color, right? | ||
| So I think the black community... | ||
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Ben Carson. | |
| Ben Carson. | ||
| I mean, I think the black community is starting to split. | ||
| I think the gay community is starting to split because the left has sort of had this odd embracement of Islam, which is bad for gays. | ||
| So I think the gays are starting to split. | ||
| I think... | ||
| That Latinos are even starting to split a little bit differently because I think for all the people that came here legally, they're actually not as thrilled with illegal immigration as the media may imply that they are. | ||
| So I think there's just massive shifts happening all over the place. | ||
| And the way we look at voting where every election, you know, what's his name? | ||
| John King goes on CNN and shows you the map and he goes, well, the white working class people here voted this way and the black inner city people. | ||
| I think all of that is about to explode. | ||
| And they won't know what to do because they haven't been listening, but I think some others have been listening. | ||
| Do you think there's real room in this country for a third party? | ||
| I mean, I think for sure someone could take a position that's outside those two boxes and make some real valid points and have a little bit of ideas from each side. | ||
| But the real concern in this country seems to be throwing your vote away, right? | ||
| That's the thing that people are always worried about. | ||
| Well, if you go that way, you're throwing your vote away and you're essentially... | ||
| Giving it to the person that is on the other side. | ||
| So I used to kind of buy into that, right? | ||
| Because realistically within – but this is why I was so disappointed in Gary Johnson. | ||
| Half the country hated Hillary. | ||
| Half the country hated Trump at the highest levels that you could hate a candidate, right? | ||
| So if there was ever a time for just a decent guy, right? | ||
| Like Gary Johns is just a decent guy. | ||
| If he was here, like he'd probably want to spark up a joint. | ||
| He's a nice guy. | ||
| He's just a nice guy. | ||
| But he was such an ineffective, confused memory problem, couldn't lay out his basic principles simply. | ||
| He wanted, as a libertarian, he wanted the baker to bake the cake. | ||
| That's a crazy position to hold as a libertarian. | ||
| It's completely against what would be your line of thinking as a libertarian. | ||
| You would never want the government to force someone to do a specific task. | ||
| You're talking about the gay couple that wanted a wedding cake made? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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What's your position on that, by the way? | |
| Well, there's two issues. | ||
| One issue is that they apparently went to places they thought would deny them so that they could make a story out of it. | ||
| It wasn't as simple as a loving couple went to some place, they wanted to get a cake made, and the people said no, and they're like, what the fuck? | ||
| No, they wanted a story. | ||
| So they sought out places that they thought were going to deny them, and then they made a giant national event out of it. | ||
| I don't think... | ||
| People should discriminate to the point where they're not gonna make someone a cake. | ||
| But do you think the government shouldn't step in? | ||
| No. | ||
| I think you should let people know publicly that these are people that they discriminate against gay people. | ||
| And so if you want your dollars to represent your opinions and your feelings on things, maybe you shouldn't buy a cake from these folks that don't want to make a cake for gay people. | ||
| But the idea that government's going to step in? | ||
| It seems crazy to me. | ||
| But then, as soon as I say that, I go, okay, well, what if they wouldn't make a cake for black people? | ||
| Should the government step in then? | ||
| So, okay, so there's a couple things there. | ||
| So, first off, it was about the specifics of the cake. | ||
| I know a lot of people are going to get into the nitty-gritty of every legal part of this thing. | ||
| But it was about a specific... | ||
| It wasn't that he wasn't going to sell them a cake that was on the shelf, right? | ||
| He didn't want to make them... | ||
| Wedding. | ||
| Now that's asking him to do something that's artistic or that's not... | ||
| What was the variables? | ||
| Like, did he want two men holding hands? | ||
| So apparently the conversation actually never got to that point because he denied them before that because he knew what it was going to be. | ||
| So it never got to like, oh, are you going to draw us together or whatever, but he knew it was going to be a gay wedding. | ||
| So he just said, no, I'm not making a cake for a gay wedding. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Now look, but they could have bought a cake that was there. | ||
| What if it was an interracial wedding? | ||
| Would you have more of an issue with that? | ||
| So here's the deal. | ||
| So it's – look, we have the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You have to serve people based on race and all of the minority statuses that there are. | ||
| I'm not for relitigating that. | ||
| But there are – there is a libertarian argument that basically would say – We don't need those laws anymore because the Civil Rights Act was in response to Jim Crow laws where states in the South had discriminatory laws. | ||
| So we had the federal government come in and clean that up for everybody. | ||
| So you have to serve everyone equally. | ||
| You can't deny a black couple to come into your restaurant or you have to serve them. | ||
| So why can you deny a gay person then? | ||
| No, but it was a specific thing. | ||
| So look, put it this way. | ||
| If there was a Jewish artist who took commissions for paintings, would you force that person to paint neo-Nazi signs? | ||
| Of course not. | ||
| You would never have the government come in and say that they are... | ||
| Forced to paint something that's against their conscience. | ||
| So I would say that your original position is the right one, which is it kind of sucks, right? | ||
| It kind of sucks. | ||
| Like I wish in my heart of hearts, I'm gay again. | ||
| Like I wish that every baker would treat everyone equally and every person would treat everyone equally. | ||
| They're not allowed – he wasn't allowed to deny them something that was in the store already because you can't deny based on those protected categories. | ||
| So he wouldn't – by the Civil Rights Act, he wouldn't have been allowed to deny interracial couple a cake that existed there already. | ||
| Could he have denied them one that he would have had to draw a black woman and a white woman if he was a real racist? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think the answer is that he could have denied them that. | ||
| And that would have been very shitty. | ||
| And he would be a racist and a really awful person. | ||
| But if the answer is that the government should then come in and tell this man what to do, I would not be for that. | ||
| I see what you're saying. | ||
| That's just the cleanest way to deal with this related to freedom. | ||
| It's kind of shitty. | ||
| Like, freedom is messy. | ||
| It's definitely shitty. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's shitty and... | ||
| But the government can't protect you from shitty. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, I mean, obviously, that's why the KKK still exists. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And what's the alternative? | ||
| I mean, what's the alternative? | ||
| We would all love the KKK to go away. | ||
| We would all love there to be, not all of us, but most sane people don't want racism to exist. | ||
| But should we not let people meet? | ||
| Should we be bugging people? | ||
| Should we force people to do something they don't want to do? | ||
| I mean, I just fundamentally do not believe in that. | ||
| I don't want people to be racist. | ||
| I don't want people to be homophobic or transphobic. | ||
| But the idea that the government can use its authority to make people do all of these things I just think is absolutely crazy. | ||
| So whether they decided to intentionally inflame this or not by finding people that weren't going to do it, if you're listening to this right now and you're getting gay married or untraditionally married, as they call it, if you're doing that and you live in Alabama and there's only one baker there and he doesn't want to bake a gay cake, It sucks. | ||
| It does suck. | ||
| But what you might want to do is what I said about an hour ago, which is maybe leave that town. | ||
| Like, maybe take your skills, whatever worth you bring to a community, and move to a bigger town where there probably is someone that'll do it. | ||
| Or order a cake online. | ||
| I mean, the technological part that you just mentioned, that you can now tweet about stuff and go, don't... | ||
| We have power as people. | ||
| And the idea that we outsource all the decision-making to the government is extremely dangerous. | ||
| I mean, every horror in human history is a government doing things, basically, as long as governments have pretty much existed. | ||
| It's not bands of nice individual people that disagree on some stuff, murdering people. | ||
| I mean, I understand your position. | ||
| I'm with you to a certain extent. | ||
| I wish there was a clean answer. | ||
| There's no clean answer. | ||
| No, but freedom's not clean. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I mean even the freedom to be a piece of shit, and to be racist, and to be sexist, or homophobic, or whatever it is. | ||
| We have to define what that is in the first place, right? | ||
| By whose definition is something homophobic? | ||
| Is it homophobic, or is it religious freedom? | ||
| If someone is deeply religious, and their religion discriminates against gay people, are they discriminatory? | ||
| Or are they religious? | ||
| You'd have to give me an example of what they were actually doing. | ||
| Like, you're allowed to hate gay people. | ||
| You are. | ||
| I hope that you do not. | ||
| And I actually think this is somewhere where the conservatives have moved. | ||
| I really do think they have moved. | ||
| There's virtually no mainstream conservative that's screaming about gay marriage anymore. | ||
| Even Mike Huckabee, who's sort of irrelevant, or like the Christian conservative side of that. | ||
| They pretty much have... | ||
| Ted Cruz, what does he say about gay marriage anymore? | ||
| But that's again why Rand Paul should have led or the real, the true conservatives that believe in limited government should have led the charge on this. | ||
| So this is where the progressives did do something right years ago because they were fighting for real equality. | ||
| Because real equality means you should be able to marry whoever you want. | ||
| They weren't going for extra rights for anyone. | ||
| Now they're going for extra rights because we all have equality. | ||
| It doesn't mean we all have equality. | ||
| Equal everything. | ||
| But we have to have equality under the law. | ||
| That's all the government can provide you. | ||
| And then once you have that, some of us are going to be born into more money, right? | ||
| Like your kids are going to have more money than you did, right? | ||
| Fact. | ||
| Should they be punished for that? | ||
| A lot of people would say yes. | ||
| There's a lot of people who do think that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| A lot of people that don't believe you should be able to give your kids money when you die. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I mean, the estate tax. | ||
| I hope that I'll be able to... | ||
| Make enough money in my life that that will be a problem, but it will be a problem for you, for sure. | ||
| Short of you going bust on everything you're doing, which I'm assuming is not going to happen. | ||
| Do you think at the end of your life that you've paid taxes your whole life? | ||
| You've paid payroll taxes because you have employees. | ||
| You've done all of these things. | ||
| You've done everything right as a citizen. | ||
| Do you think at the end of the day, the government should be able to come in and take something like 55% of your money at that point? | ||
| No, that's creepy. | ||
| It's creepy that they're able to do that to take money from taxed money. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For your whole life. | ||
| Yeah, you earn that money and then they're going to tax it on top of that. | ||
| But that's a mainstream democratic talking point. | ||
| It's one of those things where they're dealing with the redistribution of wealth. | ||
| That conversation, the redistribution of wealth, is super slippery. | ||
| Because who's going to redistribute it and to who? | ||
| And when do you decide that someone has too much money? | ||
| Or what's the standard? | ||
| What's the metric? | ||
| And what... | ||
| What occupation? | ||
| Are we only going to go after the bankers? | ||
| Are we going to go after artists as well? | ||
| What if someone's a successful artist? | ||
| Are we going to take all their money? | ||
| Are we going to remove incentive for success? | ||
| There's a certain line that you're going to cross where you shouldn't be more successful because they're going to tax you harder. | ||
| Are we going to keep people in some sort of an artificially constructed glass ceiling to avoid being taxed? | ||
| It's real weird. | ||
| I hate to tell you, but everything you just said there is completely against what Democrats basically are for. | ||
| They are for the estate tax. | ||
| But why? | ||
| What's the argument for it? | ||
| The argument is you died and now in the greater good, which is a phrase that sounds really good, but your face pretty much summed it up. | ||
| It never leads to good. | ||
| Well, okay, let's just give more money to this thing that wastes money on everything, that has no accountability, this giant money-churning monster. | ||
| Yeah, that's the real issue, right? | ||
| Is that this thing doesn't have accountability and that it does waste a shitload of money. | ||
| Think about this. | ||
| If the government was slim and trim and effective and, you know, we were all taxed right and it was transparent and effective and functional, there would be no reason to be a libertarian. | ||
| I'd be sitting here going, I'm for government. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like if it really operated in a slim way. | ||
| But what? | ||
| The government doesn't do anything good. | ||
| Name one problem you could possibly have in your life, Joe Rogan, that you'd be like, let me get the government to solve this. | ||
| Do they do the post office well? | ||
| No. | ||
| Like, what do they do well? | ||
| They do the post office pretty good, actually. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| If a post office closed tomorrow, it would be alright. | ||
| You'd still get mail. | ||
| It would suck. | ||
| Amazon would pick that up. | ||
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You'd have to send things through UPS. It would cost a lot more. | |
| It wouldn't, though. | ||
| Competition would start kicking in. | ||
| And between UPS and FedEx and Amazon and drones and blah, blah, blah and DHL, they'd all start – it would probably drop prices because right now we've just got this artificial thing that sits there that then allows them to price according to that. | ||
| But if you drop that, why is the government in that business anymore? | ||
| I have three chickens. | ||
| I've really done the Joe Rogan lifestyle here. | ||
| Over the last couple of years. | ||
| So I have three chickens right now. | ||
| I'm going to give you a good UPS story. | ||
| We ordered them. | ||
| They were born in August on a Monday in Cleveland. | ||
| They hatched that day. | ||
| They threw them in a box with a little hole, USPS, and they showed up at my door in LA on a Tuesday. | ||
| The USPS has been doing that for about 100 years. | ||
| It's the only way you can do it, by the way. | ||
| You can't order chickens through any other method. | ||
| Oh, is it just USPS? Yeah. | ||
| So actually, I was giving the USPS credit there because my chickens all arrived live. | ||
| Yeah, they send them to chicks. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You're buying these live chicks. | ||
| That's the way you get them. | ||
| You get them through the U.S. Postal Service. | ||
| You don't get them through UPS. I'm pretty sure, though, that if the USPS stopped, it didn't exist anywhere, you'd still get chickens delivered. | ||
| And Amazon could probably do it even more effectively. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| It's like, I'm not saying these things have to be eliminated tomorrow. | ||
| I'm not even really calling for them to be eliminated. | ||
| But just generally... | ||
| What problem would you have? | ||
| Everything you're building here right now, right? | ||
| Do you want the government to tell you how to do all these things and all the regulations that you got to have your electric thing this far from this? | ||
| Regulations like that for construction are important, though. | ||
| You do have to make sure that people don't do stupid shit. | ||
| Make sure you don't have a power line. | ||
| It's near a water line. | ||
| There's a lot of... | ||
| But I would put most of that on the builders, though. | ||
| They want to build things that are good. | ||
| Now, I get it. | ||
| Oh, that's not true. | ||
| Listen, people cut corners all the time. | ||
| You have to have regulations when it comes to construction methods or people are going to get fucked. | ||
| They cut corners when there are regulations anyway. | ||
| They do. | ||
| They would cut a lot more if there weren't regulations. | ||
| If you go to third world countries and look at construction methods, they're fucking dangerous. | ||
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| That's why schools collapse on kids in foreign countries sometimes. | ||
| Well, I'm not telling you that I'm against all regulation, period. | ||
| But that's where I said intellectually I like that argument because I think you can make a very sound argument that competition would force people to do better work. | ||
| Like if you're a plumber, you have a vested interest In doing the best plumbing job you can so that people will rate you on Yelp so that you will get more work. | ||
| You don't have a vested interest in cutting corners. | ||
| Now, you might, right? | ||
| You're going to push it as much as you can to save as much time and energy and money as you can. | ||
| But once you go over that edge, yeah, you don't want to be known as the guy that you tighten something too much so that you flooded the house. | ||
| Or when you're building a house. | ||
| You're thinking logically, though. | ||
| When people fuck things up and short things and do things terribly, they're not thinking logically. | ||
| But I don't think it's the government that they're like, The government gave me this regulation, so that's why I'm going to do it right. | ||
| Well, if they didn't have any regulations, there'd be no incentive whatsoever to do it right. | ||
| No, there would be an incentive. | ||
| If they knew there were no inspectors, no one was going to check their stuff and make sure that their stuff was up to code. | ||
| Listen, man, I was in construction my whole life. | ||
| My dad was an architect. | ||
| I've been in construction since I was a little kid. | ||
| You fucking need regulations. | ||
| These guys, a lot of people that are in construction... | ||
| They'll do whatever the fuck they can to make money and it's not good for the people that have the house because they might have that house for five, ten years before that problem manifests itself. | ||
| The people who are establishing these codes are licensed builders or people that have been involved in construction for a long fucking time and they know what's safe and what's not safe. | ||
| That's why those codes exist. | ||
| They exist to protect the consumers. | ||
| You can't just protect the consumers through the marketplace because Because it takes a long time for these problems to become a real issue. | ||
| And these problems could potentially damage everybody in the neighborhood. | ||
| It's not just going to affect the person on this one lot. | ||
| Like if a fire starts, it burns all the houses in the neighborhood. | ||
| Or if a flood happens and it floods everyone downhill, it's a real problem. | ||
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| You have to be real careful with construction. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| And, you know, my dad wasn't in construction, so I'm not privy to like all of that, the little stuff. | ||
| But I genuinely believe that as a general level, People have a vested interest in, especially now because of phones and apps and Yelp and all the things, doing good work because that's how you will get more work. | ||
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I agree. | |
| You're never going to remove the people who will do shoddy, shitty, malicious stuff. | ||
| But you can keep them at bay with regulation. | ||
| So this is where I say you can have some regulation. | ||
| Educated regulation. | ||
| People who actually understand what's going on. | ||
| And make sure that someone doesn't do something stupid with a power line or someone do something stupid with the way they constructed main beams where they're subject to collapse. | ||
| That's important. | ||
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| Because most people buying a house don't know what the fuck they're looking for. | ||
| Most people getting a house built, they have no idea about construction methods and they need someone to inspect things and make sure that it's up to code. | ||
| That's why code exists. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I'm not totally with you on that. | ||
| I think most of it, probably 90% of it, would be, who has the most vested interest to build a good house? | ||
| It's the builder because he wants more work. | ||
| He doesn't want the house to collapse because then he'll be out of work. | ||
| But I'm telling No, I got you. | ||
| I got you, though. | ||
| I get it that it will not always... | ||
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These guys are jerk-offs. | |
| There's a lot of them that are jerk-offs. | ||
| So construction may be a specific thing, you know what I mean? | ||
| It's a dangerous thing, too, because it's where you sleep. | ||
| It's where your kids sleep. | ||
| It's... | ||
| I think there's a lot of idealistic notions about deregulation and I think there's some consumer protection has to be put in place because people don't have the time to spend all this time researching construction methods and making sure everything's done correctly and be there and make sure that the joists are a certain width and they have a certain amount of support. | ||
| All that stuff has to be done by people who understand code. | ||
| Assuming that the government regulators understand code correctly and aren't just on the take or just basically just taking money and signing off on things. | ||
| They inspect things, man. | ||
| Have you ever had a construction project done? | ||
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| Well, I got my house last year and we had to go through all the inspections and had several guys come back. | ||
| You didn't build it, right? | ||
| Right. | ||
| There's a big difference between an insurance inspector and a code inspector. | ||
| Code inspectors are very different. | ||
| When you're having a house built, and I've had construction projects where I had to explain to people and go through it with builders, they're making sure that the house doesn't fucking fall on you, that the power lines are done correctly, that all the electricity is done correctly, the pipes are laid in correctly, your septic system or your sewage system is done correctly. | ||
| Do you think that could be privatized then? | ||
| See, again, I just think it's an interesting... | ||
| The regulations? | ||
| How would it? | ||
| There would be no incentive. | ||
| Well, no, you could have companies that their job would be to make sure... | ||
| To inspect, yeah. | ||
| To inspect. | ||
| But they wouldn't have the threat of law to enforce these things. | ||
| Like, if someone is building something and they're not up to code, they lose their license and they can't build. | ||
| Right. | ||
| If you privatized it, what's the incentive for them to follow the guidelines? | ||
| Yeah, so this is where I'm not telling you that I'm calling for all this. | ||
| I just think intellectually it's just an interesting space to argue something. | ||
| Because I think that there's more, the more that you can give to people to freely do what they think is right, I think generally they will. | ||
| Like, again, I get it. | ||
| There's going to be some real shitty construction people out there. | ||
| You know who you should have on to talk about this, and I think people have looped you in before, is Yaron Brook from Ayn Rand Institute. | ||
| No, no one should loop me in with him. | ||
| Maybe if they have, I haven't paid attention. | ||
| Okay, so I'll be happy to do it. | ||
| He's a really interesting guy who's moved my thinking a little bit on this. | ||
| Those Ayn Rand people are fucking harsh. | ||
| They like ideas, man. | ||
| Those are... | ||
| They're not the most fun people on the planet, but I generally like them because they're kind of live and let live. | ||
| That's really it. | ||
| That's the crux of it, pretty much. | ||
| Is that really the crux of it? | ||
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| People think that there's sort of a cruelty aspect to it, to the Ayn Rand philosophy. | ||
| Well, they believe in rational self-interest, which if you say self, it makes people think you're evil. | ||
| But we all basically operate in rational self-interest all the time. | ||
| Right, but espousing it. | ||
| That's the thing. | ||
| It's like proclaiming it is the thing that people go, oh, you're essentially setting up the idea, the Gordon Gekko idea. | ||
| Greed is good. | ||
| Yeah, I kind of buy into that idea. | ||
| Do you buy into greed is good? | ||
| Yeah, basically. | ||
| Not greed to destroy the world, but if you do, you, Joe, do what is good for you. | ||
| Is that greed? | ||
| Or is that ambition? | ||
| All right, exactly. | ||
| That's my point. | ||
| That's where it gets conflated, isn't it? | ||
| Right. | ||
| So without whittling it to the definition of greed versus ambition, it's like you do what's good for you, but it doesn't mean you're just running this rampaging program to destroy the world in the name of Joe Rogan. | ||
| You're doing what's good for you because you actually like your audience and you want them to learn. | ||
| You want to have money so that your family can live in a house that you can afford and that you can send your kids to good schools and all of those things. | ||
| That's all rational self-interest. | ||
| If at the same time you were running a nuclear power plant and you were Mr. Burns and you were dumping in the river, well, no, that's actually no longer rational self-interest because now you're polluting the very environment that you live in. | ||
| So rational – So who takes care of that? | ||
| Who regulates that? | ||
| Is that where the government comes in? | ||
| So those guys, I don't want to speak for— Well, who gets you in trouble, in your opinion, if you're this deregulation guy? | ||
| Who goes after you when you dump shit into the river? | ||
| So I'm not saying there should be no regulation. | ||
| I just was saying that I like this—generally, I like this line of thinking. | ||
| There has to be some regulation. | ||
| I agree. | ||
| You can't—but what I would say is— So that's where the regulation comes in when you pollute the environment? | ||
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| Yeah, that I would say there has to be some, but I've had some interesting people on conservatives who are doing environmental stuff from a conservative perspective, that there's ways to make money actually in green stuff, in green products. | ||
| Of course. | ||
| Look at Al Gore. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know that he's creating anything other than movies, but he's making a lot of money. | ||
| A lot of money in green corporations. | ||
| Right. | ||
| But that's him doing it privately. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But what's the solution if someone pollutes? | ||
| If you're not going to have regulation, what is the solution if someone does something that's illegal? | ||
| Well, if you're not going to have a regulation, it wouldn't be illegal. | ||
| But your question is... | ||
| Well, it's illegal to dump things into the river, right? | ||
| I mean, it's just illegal. | ||
| That's not a matter of regulation. | ||
| I mean, polluting, willful poisoning of rivers... | ||
| I'm sure it's actually illegal. | ||
| ...would be eco-terrorism. | ||
| Right. | ||
| It would be a bunch of... | ||
| So what those guys would argue is what I said before, which is that ultimately, especially now because of technology, like in the old days... | ||
| So every time someone cuts regulation, I've heard Bill Maher say this a lot, they're going to start... | ||
| Polluting the river immediately. | ||
| That implies that these businessmen, whatever industry that they're in, that they're immediately going to be like, ha, the regulation's gone, start polluting the water. | ||
| We live in a time now where everyone's walking around with an iPhone, where maybe 50 years ago you could have got away with a lot of bad shit, right? | ||
| coal miners that were breathing all kinds of horrible shit that nobody was ever going to find out about, where now everybody is walking around with Snapchat and Instagram and blah, blah, blah. | ||
| So a lot of the stuff would be exposed more so that all of the things that we've been talking about for the last couple hours about people getting involved, a lot of the things I think would start self-regulating. | ||
| But again, and then I won't say it again, I'm not for just deregulating everything. | ||
| I just think there's probably better ways to do it than just having the government come in and say, this is what you got to do and now figure it out. | ||
| Because the government isn't that good at most things. | ||
| Yeah, I know what you're saying there, but I do think that obviously there has to be laws in place, specifically laws in place that protect people from someone doing something that's going to damage all the other people in the community. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, by the way, so you can do that from, look, the government's supposed to protect your life and your property. | ||
| I mean, that's a very simple libertarian thing. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| So there's a good argument there for why you could have some level of... | ||
| Right, but I don't think it's just like specifically in terms of like someone polluting rivers. | ||
| I don't think it's good enough to snapchat about it. | ||
| I think people should be locked up and go to jail if they find out that someone's dumping toxic waste into the river because it's too expensive to process it and get it removed and put in some place where it's, you know, safe. | ||
| That's a crime. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, I'm all for fining those people and having the companies fire them and all those things. | ||
| As far as putting them in jail, I don't know that I'm... | ||
| Lock them up. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know that I'm... | ||
| Get them off the streets. | ||
| Take the money. | ||
| Give it to Bernie's kids. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I'm not a fan of putting more people in jail, generally, but... | ||
| Yeah, no, I'm not either. | ||
| I think that's one of the more interesting things that happened in this administration is when Kim Kardashian got that lady exonerated. | ||
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| Or whatever he did. | ||
| Got her released. | ||
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| Got her... | ||
| Sentence commuted that's kind of crazy like she showed up and she presented this case about some woman who's a Been in jail for she's essentially jail for life for nonviolent drug offense, right? | ||
| Yeah, and I think how many other people are like her for non-violent drug offense for doing something with your own body and Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's where we're in a full and total agreement. | ||
| I just think that this idea that the pharmaceutical companies can sell drugs, but people can't sell drugs, that they're responsible for the unimaginable number of people that have died from opiate overdoses, fentanyl. | ||
| I mean, fentanyl, just last year, we lost Tom Petty, we lost Prince. | ||
| A couple other people too. | ||
| I can't remember. | ||
| There's some other famous people that died from fentanyl. | ||
| Patton Oswalt's wife, she was another fentanyl. | ||
| It's a horrible, horrible, horrible drug. | ||
| And no one's clamoring for these people to go to jail. | ||
| Prescription drugs all day long. | ||
| You can watch cable news all day long. | ||
| What are they selling all day long? | ||
| Prescription drugs with a zillion side effects that are seemingly far worse, including thoughts of suicide and depression and blah, blah, blah, than the original thing they're trying to treat. | ||
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| But specifically opiates. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Opiates are the real deadly ones. | ||
| And then you think about how many people that are in jail right now for marijuana, how many people that are in jail for cocaine, how many people are in jail for psychedelics, MDMA. I mean, there's no comparison in terms of the amount of damage done per capita. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| Look, when the thing happened with Roseanne and then she blamed Ambien or she at least said she was on Ambien... | ||
| The Ambien, the parent company, whatever it was, they tweeted out something like, there are a lot of side effects, but it doesn't make you racist. | ||
| But think how glib and ridiculous that was. | ||
| Yes, no one is saying that Ambien makes you racist. | ||
| But Ambien does have a litany of, I don't know, 50 side effects. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, sleepwalking, saying crazy things, eating it, you know, literally just being unable to control what you're doing while you're on Ambien, being in this zombie-like state. | ||
| So is it possible that even though she has also said that she didn't realize that Valerie Jarrett was black, which I actually kind of do believe – I don't know. | ||
| She said it to me. | ||
| Yeah, I don't know her. | ||
| I know her. | ||
| I know her a little bit. | ||
| She didn't think she was black. | ||
| I believe her. | ||
| I believe her. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| But look, she's said dumb shit in the past. | ||
| The Susan Rice thing was much more egregious. | ||
| The one where she said that Susan Rice was a man with big swing, eight balls. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, so I'm not defending what Roseanne said. | ||
| All I'm saying is that Ambien, the maker, sends out this glib tweet like, we don't make people racist, but guess what? | ||
| You have people doing all kinds of crazy shit that they can- People have committed murder. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| People have driven their cars on the wrong side of the highway. | ||
| People have done all kinds of crazy shit on Ambien. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So is it possible that made her impaired enough to have a stupid thought and then... | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's 100%. | ||
| There's definitely side effects. | ||
| Whether or not they're responsible for those side effects is where it gets into the realm of personal responsibility. | ||
| Like, if you take Ambien and you do something, are you responsible for it? | ||
| No? | ||
| Yes? | ||
| What are we going to say? | ||
| If you drink and you go commit a violent crime, are you responsible for it? | ||
| We all agree, yes. | ||
| So it gets real strange. | ||
| It gets real strange. | ||
| I mean, that's one of the weird things when it comes to gender and responsibility, because there's been so many issues of men and women in particular. | ||
| It's almost always men and women. | ||
| You never hear about these from gay couples, but men and women, or I haven't heard about it at least, men and women getting drunk and having sex, and then the man gets accused of sexual assault. | ||
| And this has gotten so weird that a guy, preemptively, a guy and a girl had sex, and the guy called the police and wanted her charged with sexual assault because he was drunk. | ||
| And he did it as a preemptive measure because he was worried that she was going to come after him. | ||
| And so the university took action against the girl. | ||
| And I'm like, Jesus Christ, are we playing little stupid games and pretending that girls rape guys when they're drunk? | ||
| Or that it's really devastating for the guy? | ||
| What the fuck are we doing? | ||
| We are going to criminalize everything. | ||
| We're going to criminalize everything. | ||
| Think of all of the stupid things you've done in your life, whether on drugs or not, or when you were in college or not, blah, blah. | ||
| Now add social media to that, add the amount of pictures that people send to each other and everything else. | ||
| If we don't stop this out of control monster, we are all just going to destroy each other. | ||
| It's a gray area because we know that some people do take advantage of people that are drunk. | ||
| For sure. | ||
| If someone was like pouring drunk drinks down someone's face and they were sober and they were doing it with the intention of raping them once they were intoxicated and they couldn't consent anymore, that's one thing. | ||
| But if two people are getting together and drinking and then having sex and then the woman has regret in the morning when she sobers up so she decides that it was rape because she and he were both drunk, that's preposterous. | ||
| But we don't have this ability to rationally process each individual case. | ||
| But by the way, here's something that Trump did that was really good. | ||
| He got rid of those ridiculous Title IX laws that Obama instated where they were basically having these clown courts in colleges that you could go to them. | ||
| And instead of having due process, which is perhaps the most important piece of a functioning Western free society where you are innocent until proven guilty... | ||
| They were suspending male students just by accusations. | ||
| And then it was leaking. | ||
| I had Laura Kipnis on, who's a professor, that she was fighting against Title IX. So then they brought up Title IX charges against her. | ||
| And there's many, many other stories on this. | ||
| That's something that Obama brought in that Trump actually got rid of. | ||
| That evil, what's her name? | ||
| Evil Betsy DeVos got rid of. | ||
| So it's like... | ||
| We've just gotten to the point where we've politicized everything. | ||
| We've politicized our own capacity to be free and make decisions for ourselves. | ||
| If you get drunk and are fooling around with somebody, some of that's on you. | ||
| You might regret it in the next... | ||
| Every single one of us listening to this has had sex with someone or done drugs with someone or something, woke up the next morning and been like, fuck, I shouldn't have done that. | ||
| Not Jamie. | ||
| Jamie's clean. | ||
| Except for Jamie. | ||
| Well, here's my thing. | ||
| I was thinking about driving. | ||
| If you drive and you're drunk, no one says you're exonerated because you're drunk. | ||
| No, man, you are drunk. | ||
| You fucked up and you did something drunk. | ||
| You're responsible for your actions. | ||
| But if you have sex drunk, all of a sudden, for some strange reason, you're not responsible for your actions. | ||
| That's preposterous. | ||
| They don't match up. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Yeah, but again, this is where the identity politics of all this ruins everything, because you're not saying that anyone that gets drunk, you're saying if a girl, really, although that one example that you gave is true. | ||
| The one example is ridiculous. | ||
| Right, it's a complete throwaway ridiculous example. | ||
| It just shows you how fucking stupid the university is that they let that fly. | ||
| They should have smacked him. | ||
| Send him back to class. | ||
| Smack him in the face. | ||
| Send him right back to class. | ||
| Congratulations, buddy, you got laid. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Good for you. | ||
| Oh, you were drunk and a girl took advantage of your penis? | ||
| Oh, did you orgasm? | ||
| You did. | ||
| Shut the fuck up, then. | ||
| Get out of here. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| It's ridiculous across the board. | ||
| It's far more ridiculous, though, when a guy is accusing... | ||
| Let's just be honest about this. | ||
| It's far more ridiculous when a guy is accusing a girl of rape in those circumstances. | ||
| And I don't want to hear all your progressive nonsense screaming and yelling and, no, it's not. | ||
| We're all equal. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| It's not the same. | ||
| If a guy does that to a girl, if a guy purposely gets a girl drunk and does it because he knows that she wouldn't consent any other way, and then gets her to the point where she's like, and she's barely conscious and fucks her, in my opinion, that's rape. | ||
| But if a couple gets together and they have a few drinks, and they're laughing, they're flirting, and they make out, and then they go back to her place or his place and they have sex, it's not rape. | ||
| We know it's not rape. | ||
| Alright, so let's split the difference on that one. | ||
| So now it's a sorority party in college. | ||
| The girls decide they're going to drop roofies in a couple of the guys' things. | ||
| Late at night, girls are just, you know, let's just... | ||
| Depends on what the girls look like. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Okay, so girls look good, right? | ||
| So a bunch of hot chicks. | ||
| Now they drug these guys. | ||
| I mean, I'm sure this has happened. | ||
| This has definitely happened. | ||
| I've never heard of it. | ||
| If you're sure it's happened... | ||
| It's got to have happened. | ||
| You think they roofied a guy? | ||
| I'm sure a guy has been... | ||
| I'm pretty sure I got roofied by a girl in college. | ||
| Really? | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| Now I'm married to a dude, so who the hell knows what's going on? | ||
| Maybe she fucked your brain up. | ||
| She seriously, it was some high-level roofie shit. | ||
| I was like... | ||
| We went all night, and then I was like, you know what? | ||
| I've had just about enough of this. | ||
| Enough of this gal stuff. | ||
| You really got roofied by a girl? | ||
| I was roofied once in college, just like a keg party. | ||
| But you don't know who did it? | ||
| I don't know who did it. | ||
| I don't have much of a recollection of it, other than I remember I had like half a beer... | ||
| I could not really think. | ||
| And I remember I couldn't stand. | ||
| Did you realize something was wrong and try to get out of there? | ||
| I knew something was wrong, but your mind doesn't operate correctly. | ||
| And I remember my friends were there, but we were all like stoners at the time. | ||
| So I don't even know that I was like thinking clearly like something. | ||
| You don't realize fully. | ||
| You know something's not right, but you're like, at least what happened to me was I just couldn't like put all the pieces together. | ||
| Did you get tested? | ||
| Did you find out what it was? | ||
| No. | ||
| I mean, I remember at one point just sitting on a couch in the corner. | ||
| I remember a very bright lamplight above me. | ||
| I have no recollection of how I got home or, like, any of that. | ||
| But what makes you think it's Rufinol? | ||
| Like, why wouldn't you think it's... | ||
| How do you say it? | ||
| Ruhifinol? | ||
| Something. | ||
| How do you say that? | ||
| Let's just say Rufy. | ||
| Rufy. | ||
| What makes you think it was that, not, like... | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| No, maybe – well, because I didn't trip. | ||
| I mean, I wasn't – I've tripped. | ||
| I've done acid. | ||
| What is that other stuff that people give people? | ||
| Or G or something like that. | ||
| GHB, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, like I don't think I was in like a K-hole or – I've never done that. | ||
| But I don't think I was in that kind of state. | ||
| I was just in this like – My body kind of couldn't move, you know, little aura kind of stuff, bright light. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And like, I kind of couldn't think straight. | ||
| That's the way I would describe it. | ||
| But I've, I mean, I've done mushrooms. | ||
| I've done most things that are out there. | ||
| I wasn't hallucinating in any way. | ||
| Right. | ||
| So, but, but just playing that one out for a second, if a girl did that to a guy, managed to get him hard, fucked him. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I think you'd think it's the same thing. | ||
| No, I say walk it off. | ||
| Walk it off, pussy. | ||
| Those are my four words. | ||
| Suck it up. | ||
| Suck it up. | ||
| Walk it off, pussy. | ||
| You got laid. | ||
| Yeah, it's not good. | ||
| It's definitely not good for anybody to take advantage of someone's body and in particular give them a drug where they have no control and then rape them. | ||
| Yeah, it's the same thing. | ||
| If a girl does it to a guy, it is the same thing. | ||
| If she roofies the guy and has sex, and especially, what if the guy has a girlfriend and he doesn't want to have sex with her, or, you know, fill in the blank, he's not attracted to her, or he's gay, and you do that to him and he's repulsed by it, yeah, it's rape. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But, you know, now we're in the realm of Bill Cosby, right? | ||
| The Bill Cosby situation is fucking rape, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| No doubt. | ||
| It's a big difference between that and a couple that gets together and has a couple of drinks. | ||
| Have you heard it from a gay perspective? | ||
| Like two gay guys getting drunk and having sex and one of the guys accusing the other one of sexual assault because he was drunk? | ||
| I've definitely heard of the first part. | ||
| Two gay guys getting drunk and having sex. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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I've heard that happen. | |
| Plenty of that. | ||
| That's happened a lot. | ||
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| The rape one... | ||
| I haven't heard it that. | ||
| I've heard so many stories about a woman and this one story about a man claiming that he was sexually assaulted because they were drunk. | ||
| I've never heard it about two gay guys. | ||
| I actually do know one story of a guy that was given something that... | ||
| But that was given something. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| But not two guys that willingly got drunk. | ||
| Not willingly got drunk. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No. | ||
| So not that. | ||
| Definitely have people been given things. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's probably just a guy thing. | ||
| That's a fucking dark thing, man. | ||
| That's a dark thing that people are willing to do that. | ||
| That Cosby thing shook me to my fucking core. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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| The idea that this guy, who was America's sweetheart, America's dad, was possibly the greatest serial, not the greatest, but one of the worst serial rapists of all time, if not the worst. | ||
| Dude, the first time I came on, we talked about Cosby. | ||
| He's the reason I got into comedy. | ||
| Four years old, I think it was 1981 or 1982, maybe I was five. | ||
| I saw Bill Cosby himself on HBO. I remember sitting in my family room. | ||
| Buckled over and laughing to the point, you know, when you just... | ||
| Your whole body, you cannot move. | ||
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| Pain in my stomach. | ||
| And I remember thinking, I want to be funny. | ||
| And now my comedy hero... | ||
| Is basically the biggest serial rapist of all time. | ||
| What the fuck, man? | ||
| I used to have Cosby records hanging up in my house even to three years ago and eventually as the story started leaking out, I had one of his great records. | ||
| And at first I was like, I'm just going to leave it up. | ||
| Like it doesn't change my feelings about him as a comic. | ||
| And then I remember people would be coming into my house. | ||
| Oh, you got Cosby over there. | ||
| You know what you should do? | ||
| You just take it and then put bars over it. | ||
| That's what I should do. | ||
| Just leave it up there and put bars over it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| The whole thing is just so fucked. | ||
| How could he be that guy? | ||
| How could he be the guy who's so funny and everybody loves him and also be the guy that drugs people and rapes them? | ||
| It's like, what a dark, dark, dark secret. | ||
| I mean, I think Jordan would have a lot to say on this. | ||
| These inconsistencies that we live with that often drive us and that, you know, why did we find out that... | ||
| You know, these people preaching about morals all the time are the same people that are doing all this weird shit, or that we've all done things that we're not proud of, or whatever it is, and it's like... | ||
| That's a part of being a human, right? | ||
| It's just part, yeah, yeah. | ||
| But you're talking about, like, the truly... | ||
| Yeah, the evil. | ||
| I mean, someone who's doing this into his fucking 60s, he was doing this. | ||
| I guess it becomes an addiction like anything else. | ||
| I'm sure people do studies on this about what happens to the actual brain chemistry when you're doing these things. | ||
| And I would guess it has something to do with the dopamine levels that are released at the same time when somebody's snorting coke and doing whatever they're doing. | ||
| Yeah, whatever it is. | ||
| I don't know what it is, but it's just so stunning to me. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, there's a, and again, this goes back to laws. | ||
| There's a need to protect people. | ||
| But there's also a need to go, hey, college boy who got drunk and had sex with a girl who was also drunk, you didn't get raped. | ||
| Fuck off. | ||
| It's really disrespectful to people that actually have been raped. | ||
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| You know, and I get it's kind of funny that he's turning the tables and he's doing it to her. | ||
| I I think part of the story was something about she had done it to one of his friends. | ||
| She had said that to one of his friends, so he's preemptively doing it because he thought that she was going to come after him next. | ||
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Well, part of it is that it's gross that it's all public, right? | |
| Everything has become so public, and I think that that's part of the problem all the time. | ||
| Who banged who in college? | ||
| The idea that that now is like this thing that gets written about and people get interviewed on all these things. | ||
| Again, all of that is kind of dangerous. | ||
| And that's why I try all the time. | ||
| And I think what you usually do is you usually talk about ideas, not people, because it's the underlying philosophical ideas that matter, not the specifics of this kid. | ||
| I mean, you didn't pull up the picture of the kid and Mention the girl's name and hers are Twitter and all that. | ||
| But that it's the underlying philosophical issues of why are we doing this? | ||
| Why are we exposing everybody? | ||
| Why are we attacking and destroying everybody and all that? | ||
| That that's much more interesting to me than just the specifics of the people or, you know, all the people that I'm so sick of, all these blue check writers and BuzzFeed people. | ||
| Like, I never call them out specifically. | ||
| Like, that guy. | ||
| I hate that guy. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Because, like, that guy's nobody. | ||
| Well, they're just—they're in the business of writing. | ||
| You know, I think a lot of it is—I mean, we can decide that these people are our enemy, but, like, we're in some ways foes on the battlefield. | ||
| You know, I just— In a very perverse way. | ||
| In a very perverse way. | ||
| And I don't—I just think it's just like— Their job is to write about things, and when we're involved in a story, they find an angle and they go after it, just like I do with jokes. | ||
| If I crack a joke about somebody, I do a bit about somebody. | ||
| I don't hate them. | ||
| I had this whole bit about Bruce Jenner and the Kardashians, what led Bruce to become a woman. | ||
| It's not because I hated them. | ||
| It's because I thought it was funny. | ||
| I thought there's an angle there. | ||
| It's a story. | ||
| It's a big thing that's on people's minds. | ||
| And so it became a target for me. | ||
| The same way it is when a lot of these folks write articles. | ||
| And, you know, a lot of them are in their 20s. | ||
| And, you know, they're idealistic or they're young and evolving their thoughts. | ||
| And maybe they wouldn't write that article five years from now or 10 years from now or whatever. | ||
| I think we have to take that into consideration as well. | ||
| These people are embarking on a career in journalism and, you know, for a lot of them shitting on Jordan Peterson gets them social brownie points. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| You know what, you want to shift topics for a second? | ||
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| Can we do a little mid-shift there? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| We can do a little mid-shift. | ||
| So I was talking to Jordan about something that I think is kind of interesting that I haven't talked about publicly before, and I thought if I'm going to come on Joe Rogan, let me see if I can bust out something kind of personal. | ||
| So, you know, Jordan was having all these autoimmune problems, and that's kind of what led him to... | ||
| To doing this crazy diet where he, in effect... | ||
| He's on the carnivore diet. | ||
| Yeah, like meat. | ||
| That's it. | ||
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That's it. | |
| How does he feel doing that? | ||
| Great. | ||
| He looks so much better, even than probably last time he was here, maybe, what, four or five months ago? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His skin looks good. | ||
| He's got some color back in his face. | ||
| He's definitely lost some weight, slimmed down a little bit, but in a good way. | ||
| His energy is back. | ||
| His hair looks better. | ||
| He just looks better. | ||
| I don't know... | ||
| All the science behind the carnivore diet of whether you can do it forever and not eat vegetables and truly survive. | ||
| I don't know where you're getting the rest of the nutrition that you need and the rest of the vitamins and all that. | ||
| But when I've gone out to dinner with him over these things, the biggest steak you can imagine at every place, chops it up, eats meat. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| So anyway, we were talking the other day in the green room before the show that it's interesting that He had this health problem as his success was growing. | ||
| And it's like you don't really think about that in life because we all like to think like as we're growing and getting better and doing what we're supposed to do, that our health is kind of in line with that. | ||
| So I've actually never talked about this before, but about two and a half years ago, right when my show was really taking off, I think probably about the first time we did our first sit down, so not the one last year, but about two and a half years ago. | ||
| As I was also first getting hate online at the same time, I started losing tons of chunks of hair. | ||
| Tons. | ||
| Like I'd be in the shower. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And tons of hair would be everywhere after. | ||
| You know, I'd shower hair in my towels and everything and lost like huge patches back of my head, up top, like all over the place. | ||
| So I had, or I have, I guess I technically still have it, alopecia areata, where it's an autoimmune thing. | ||
| They don't know why your white blood cells start attacking your hair follicles. | ||
| So I went about two years ago. | ||
| And again, this is just as I'm starting to really succeed. | ||
| I'm really just breaking through for the first time. | ||
| And I went on this crazy experimental drug. | ||
| So usually when you have this, they just shoot corticosteroids into your head, and they hope that that Basically reverses it or stops it or whatever. | ||
| Reduces the inflammation that's causing it to fall out. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| But my case was so severe that I went – I found this doctor who's doing this really experimental thing where in effect they're putting something like poison ivy on your head so that your white blood cells will attack that instead of attacking your hair follicles. | ||
| And the hope is if you do just the slight amount that's necessary that you won't have like crazy reactions and you'll be – and your hair eventually will grow back. | ||
| Anyway, I did it for about a year. | ||
| First off, when I was on camera – I mean there were points where like I was like, oh my god, like I can't be on camera anymore. | ||
| I was doing, not spray hair, but powdered shit and grew out my hair to hide. | ||
| Later I can show you. | ||
| I still actually do have some spots here. | ||
| But anyway, I went under this experimental stuff. | ||
| And literally for two years, virtually my entire body was broken out. | ||
| Like red, itchy, gross, disgusting. | ||
| My head was like dripping. | ||
| For two years? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| For like a year, bad. | ||
| And then a year, not as bad. | ||
| But like oozing my head, like as if you had poison ivy. | ||
| I was literally basically putting poison ivy on my head. | ||
| And like... | ||
| I was extremely sensitive to heat and light, and it was a truly miserable... | ||
| I had a real... | ||
| Oh, I gained weight because of it, because it screws up your... | ||
| My neck actually looked thicker. | ||
| I look at videos where I did not look good for a year. | ||
| I look kind of bloated, because my body was basically having an allergic reaction at all times. | ||
| I was putting something on my head to cause my body... | ||
| To have an allergic reaction. | ||
| Like, for whatever reason, I was just very sensitive to it. | ||
| But anyway, I bring this all up. | ||
| A, because I've never talked about it and I thought it might just be something to, like, throw out there. | ||
| But B, what I've discussed with Jordan is just this interesting idea of sort of as you're succeeding and as you're doing what you're supposed to be doing, that life just throws you weird things. | ||
| And I'm pretty much over it now. | ||
| I'll show you later. | ||
| Like, I definitely have some stuff still that now I'm just taking the injections and we'll see what happens. | ||
| But don't you think it's stress-related? | ||
| Yeah, so I'm doing the float tanks now. | ||
| I'm doing the saunas. | ||
| I get massages every couple weeks now. | ||
| I'm definitely trying. | ||
| That's why I did the month off. | ||
| Jordan was not famous his whole life. | ||
| And then in his 50s, became famous. | ||
| That is not... | ||
| It's not a normal state that people are accustomed to. | ||
| He was a clinical psychologist. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Had a practice. | ||
| And a professor. | ||
| And... | ||
| You know, there's, I mean, how many stories do we have to read about people who go famous and lose their fucking marbles? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's not an easy road. | ||
| It's not easy to handle. | ||
| People ask him about that. | ||
| So when we do the Q&A at the end, there's an app that people submit questions and then I just kind of moderate it. | ||
| So I pick some funny ones and then I pick some serious ones. | ||
| But a lot of the questions are asked him directly about that. | ||
| What pressure do you feel now that you're famous? | ||
| What if you screw up? | ||
| They also ask him a lot, which I think is a great question, and I don't want to paraphrase his answer because I won't do it justice. | ||
| But they ask him, you talk about religion and archetypes and all that. | ||
| Are you a prophet? | ||
| They will ask him. | ||
| Now, not because they're saying he's a prophet, but if you believe in all of this stuff, if you believe that- How do you factor in? | ||
| Right. | ||
| And he goes out of his way to say he doesn't believe that and he's not trying to make anyone drink Kool-Aid. | ||
| He's trying to help have them live the best life for themselves, not a life that he's laying out for them. | ||
| But watching him go through all this, it's just been truly fascinating. | ||
| I think I said it before, but the whole thing is like this love fest. | ||
| It's not what they want it to be. | ||
| Who's that? | ||
| The people that are writing all these pieces. | ||
| Who often I invite a lot of the writers sometimes that write things. | ||
| I'll be like, you want to come to the show tonight? | ||
| And any of them are welcome to come as my guest. | ||
| They can sit right up front. | ||
| I'll do the exact same thing. | ||
| Jordan will do the exact same thing. | ||
| You know what's good about those people? | ||
| What's good about is the same thing that I try to do with all my material. | ||
| I look at and I learned this from Doug Stanhope. | ||
| Doug Stanhope actually said it to me and I realized I kind of do it, but from him saying it, I did it more. | ||
| He said, you should write your bits as if you're a defense attorney. | ||
| Like, you're defending your bit. | ||
| Like, write your bit, like, as if you... | ||
| And so I think that one of the things about having haters out there or critics out there is that they're examining your material and finding holes in it. | ||
| And I think if you go over all of your material and all of your ideas from the perspective of someone is watching them right now trying to find fault in everything that you do... | ||
| You will find it. | ||
| Just be undeniable. | ||
| Just be undeniable. | ||
| Find those holes, patch them up, and there's going to be disagreements. | ||
| It's not like you're always going to be able to state your point and it's going to be undeniable to someone who completely disagrees. | ||
| Ideologically with your stance on whatever the fuck it is. | ||
| But no, as long as you... | ||
| It's undeniable to you. | ||
| You've rationally made your case. | ||
| You've objectively stated the facts. | ||
| This is your position. | ||
| This is why. | ||
| And you can back it up. | ||
| There's too much sloppy work going on where people think they can... | ||
| And you see this a lot. | ||
| There's a lot on the progressive left, or the regressive left, or what do you want to call it, where they just expect that other people are just going to agree with their stance on things so they have this sort of This very rigid ideology that they're trying to put out there. | ||
| They often think that they're morally right. | ||
| So then you don't have to do the legwork of the argument. | ||
| It's a lot harder to take a position that says you should be who you are and you have to fit that into society rather than saying, this is what the moral imperative is. | ||
| This is why we need those laws. | ||
| And if you deviate from that, you're the bad guy. | ||
| So unfortunately, they've just embraced that, I think, too much. | ||
| So it's like one of those things, like when I go to these colleges and I'm usually invited by libertarians, and it's like, libertarians want low taxes and limited government and live how you want to live, right? | ||
| Like that's the basics of it. | ||
| But they'll often say, you know, I talk about low taxes in a college class and people say I'm racist. | ||
| And it's like, well, how does race get into that? | ||
| But what they will say is that what they'll say is, well, wait a minute. | ||
| If you want low taxes, that means you don't want money going to people who need it more. | ||
| And often it is people of color who need it more. | ||
| So you inherently are racist. | ||
| You have to think on how to make the counterargument to that. | ||
| I think there's a very valid counterargument that I buy into. | ||
| But you have to think. | ||
| It's very easy to just take somebody who thinks the reverse of you and go, you're racist. | ||
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Right. | |
| Right. | ||
| You're racist. | ||
| It's such a lazy way to approach an idea. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, it's so lazy. | ||
| The only thing I have a problem with what Jordan has been saying lately is this idea of enforced monogamy being the solution to incels. | ||
| These involuntary celibates. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's not going to help. | ||
| So what do you think? | ||
| They have to become men. | ||
| Well, what do you think his definition of enforced monogamy is, just to be clear? | ||
| Well, culturally enforced monogamy, where people, you know, the culture encourages and supports the idea of monogamy. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Marriage. | ||
| In effect, he's just talking about marriage. | ||
| Yeah, but that's not going to clear the way to people that no one wants to fuck. | ||
| It's just not going to. | ||
| The idea is that there's a bunch of men out there that are taking up all the viable females because no one's getting married and they're just... | ||
| There's no room for these incels. | ||
| No, they are not attractive to women, whether they're not physically attractive. | ||
| You tell me Harvey Weinstein was physically attractive? | ||
| That fucking disgusting pig? | ||
| Forget about what he did to those women, the rapes or the sexual assaults. | ||
| He had a gorgeous wife. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| His wife is gorgeous. | ||
| That was a voluntary relationship, okay? | ||
| So how did that happen? | ||
| It happened through success. | ||
| It happened through success and confidence and whatever the fuck else he's got, you know, intellect. | ||
| I don't know what his mind's like. | ||
| These incels, they have to become men, okay? | ||
| Well, Jordan's all about that. | ||
| I mean, his whole message is that. | ||
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Right. | |
| I just don't think that... | ||
| Enforce monogamy has any factor whatsoever in that? | ||
| So he, I think he would say this, but I'm not his lawyer, but I think he used the phrase, all he meant was marriage, that generally societies that more people are married and people remain married. | ||
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Right. | |
| So I think it's not going to help. | ||
| I think perhaps if he was being interviewed again by her, he would use a different phrase. | ||
| But even if he says marriage, marriage is not going to help incels. | ||
| These guys that are involuntary celibates, they have to become attractive. | ||
| So they have to become men. | ||
| Well, the rest of his message is about that. | ||
| But they have to do difficult things. | ||
| That's what they have to do. | ||
| They have to build confidence, get your shit together. | ||
| And martial arts, I think, is one of the best ways to do that. | ||
| I've seen so many men that were insecure and dorky. | ||
| They become fucking nerd assassins through martial arts. | ||
| I think it's a great way to build confidence, and I think there's an extreme lack of adversity, like physical adversity in a lot of people's lives. | ||
| And overcoming physical adversity is what leads to a lot of confidence in men. | ||
| I just think that there's a lot of men that just have no idea whether they can or can't do anything difficult, and they have massive insecurity because of it. | ||
| Yeah, I think he would agree with every word that you just said there, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I just think that marriage is not fixing it. | ||
| Culturally enforced monogamy is not going to fix it. | ||
| They have to become men. | ||
| A woman has to have a reason to want to have sex with you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So I think he would agree with that. | ||
| I think he would say that once you accomplish that, that that's when you will find more women and that the next step, the next natural progression in life is that you will find someone that you want to be partnered with and that that then has the best value for a society. | ||
| But I don't want to completely state his case. | ||
| It's an interesting case. | ||
| But he completely – I mean, look, why is it that for the little bit that these articles get right about him, it's that he's helping men? | ||
| He is. | ||
| He is also helping women. | ||
| But yes, he is helping men. | ||
| - Men need-- - Get their shit together. | ||
| They need framework, for sure. | ||
| I mean, people need this thing about discipline. | ||
| You're aware of Jocko, right? | ||
| Jocko Willink? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Discipline equals freedom. | ||
| It's like one of the best catchphrases. | ||
| It's so accurate. | ||
| It's empowering. | ||
| It's so empowering. | ||
| Get your shit together, and then the time that you have for recreation, you'll appreciate it so much more. | ||
| You don't appreciate rest when you're fucking off all day. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You appreciate rest when you've worked hard. | ||
| That's when it means something to you, when you've accomplished goals. | ||
| That's when this celebration is something that you get a good feeling from it. | ||
| Do you have a part in your life that you feel like is lacking in that department? | ||
| In what department? | ||
| In just getting your shit together, not slacking on something? | ||
| No, I'm pretty good at that. | ||
| That's what I do. | ||
| I mean, I do a lot of shit. | ||
| The only way I could ever do as many different things as I do is if I just get after it. | ||
| I get after it pretty fucking good. | ||
| I'm not insecure in that. | ||
| I mean, whether it's through martial arts or any kind of exercise or work, I take pride in getting things done. | ||
| I take pride in working, especially working towards things that are important to me, whether it's working on my set, working on my stand-up, whether it's working on a podcast, whether it's working on my martial arts or my fitness or yoga or whatever. | ||
| I get after it, man. | ||
| Just got to. | ||
| And for me, it's not a matter of whether or not it's an option. | ||
| It's like brushing my teeth. | ||
| I don't decide one day, I don't want to brush my teeth today. | ||
| I just fucking brush my teeth. | ||
| And when there's days where I'm doing fasted cardio, when that alarm goes off, it's not a matter of whether or not I shut the alarm off. | ||
| That's not an option. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You get up, you put your fucking shoes on, you get the dog, and you go running because that's what you do. | ||
| And if you just decide that's what you do, then you get things done. | ||
| And then a month later, you're like, oh, look, we did this all month. | ||
| And then six months later, it's like, oh, I did this half a year. | ||
| And then if you're doing jujitsu, you're like, oh, shit, look, I got a blue belt. | ||
| Oh, shit, now I'm a purple belt. | ||
| And that's how you become a black belt. | ||
| This is the good type of progressive, because it gets progressively easier, too. | ||
| It doesn't, though. | ||
| It doesn't get easier. | ||
| It's fucking hard every time that alarm goes off. | ||
| Like, fuck! | ||
| But you don't think it's easier for you now than right when you started? | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Because you know the reward of it. | ||
| You know that that reward is there. | ||
| There's some enforcement. | ||
| There's some enforcement in the success that I've had in completing these tasks. | ||
| But every fucking time I go to yoga class, I'm like, oh, Jesus. | ||
| 90 minutes and a 104 degree temperature with all these women that are going to humiliate me. | ||
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They can definitely do things that you can't do. | |
| They're tough, man. | ||
| There's a lot of these older ladies that are fucking tough. | ||
| They just gut it out. | ||
| There's this one lady that goes there, she's like 60 years old, she doesn't even bring water. | ||
| And this lady's in there for 90 fucking minutes, sweating out. | ||
| She's there every time I go. | ||
| I'm like, jeez. | ||
| She's not bringing water. | ||
| Are you sure she's 60? | ||
| She could be like 20 and just dehydrated, you know? | ||
| No, she's gray-haired and tough as shit. | ||
| She drinks water before and she drinks it after, but when she's in that class, she's just tough. | ||
| It's just, you know, it's never easy to do. | ||
| You know, it gets a little bit easier when you get better at it, but then you just try harder and it makes it more difficult. | ||
| If you're always giving 100% effort, it's always going to be hard. | ||
| You know, you take some pride in the fact that now I can go two miles through the hills and, you know, and reach the point of exhaustion where before it was one or whatever. | ||
| Whatever your little progress markers are, you get some satisfaction in that. | ||
| But it's always difficult to get going. | ||
| The hardest step is the first step. | ||
| It's not the 30th step or the 100th step. | ||
| It's the fucking first one. | ||
| It's getting on the trail, getting going. | ||
| It's the hardest thing. | ||
| The hardest weight to lift is the first one because once you get going, Like, okay, I'm a half hour into my workout. | ||
| I'm writing things down that I'm supposed to be doing. | ||
| Now I got, you know, 20 chin-ups and then burpees and then all these... | ||
| You have to do it. | ||
| You just have to do it. | ||
| And so many people have a hard time doing it. | ||
| Just getting moving. | ||
| If you would have ever thought when you started stand-up that you'd be sort of like a... | ||
| Because you're kind of like a lifestyle guru in a way. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Like every time I've done the sensory deprivation stuff or the float stuff, every time I've gone into the place, when I just talk to the girl when she's like setting it up or something, I'll be like, oh, Joe Rogan got me into this. | ||
| And they're always like, oh, Joe Rogan! | ||
| Joe Rogan, he got everybody into this. | ||
| You literally created float places. | ||
| I went to one in Nashville. | ||
| The woman was like, oh, Joe Rogan, I love Joe Rogan. | ||
| But that and the MMA stuff and all that, what a bizarre adventure. | ||
| You probably would have never thought that. | ||
| The only reason why it happened was because I had no intention of doing it. | ||
| It's a beautiful thing. | ||
| I've never written a book on lifestyle or fucking what to do. | ||
| I just say what I do. | ||
| And I do it by example. | ||
| Like, obviously, I do all these things. | ||
| I mean, that gym's not there for looks. | ||
| I fucking do all these things. | ||
| I think this is just a natural thing that's happened. | ||
| But the float thing is the most bizarre one because... | ||
| I can't believe I'm the one to tell everybody about this. | ||
| You told everybody, man. | ||
| But how the fuck doesn't everybody already know? | ||
| They do now. | ||
| More people know now. | ||
| But how the fuck didn't they know when I first got my tank in 2002? | ||
| And I had been talking about it for a couple years before because I had done one where you go to a place and you rent it for an hour. | ||
| That's how we regular people do it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I need one, man. | ||
| I fucking need one. | ||
| How often do you do it? | ||
| I burn it as much as I can. | ||
| I mean, it's right there. | ||
| It's nice. | ||
| You're doing this once a week? | ||
| Oh, more than that. | ||
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Oh, really? | |
| For sure. | ||
| And I like to come in here different... | ||
| I'll come in here sometimes even after the comedy store. | ||
| I'll come in here weird times. | ||
| I'll come in here during the day. | ||
| But the whole idea is... | ||
| That this is something that somehow or another was created in the 60s by John Lilly, and nobody talked about it. | ||
| It was like kind of a weirdo popular thing with hippies for a while, and then it fucking went away. | ||
| But they were barely around. | ||
| And then I started talking about it, and now they're everywhere, all over the planet. | ||
| And that is the strangest thing to me. | ||
| It's one of the strangest things about my entire career, is that the float tank business has sort of started up because of me. | ||
| And that they're everywhere in the world now. | ||
| There's hundreds of them everywhere, in every country. | ||
| And they didn't exist before. | ||
| And that somehow or another, you could directly connect them, a lot of them, to me. | ||
| That's very strange. | ||
| So what does that say about ideas? | ||
| I mean, what does that say about saying what you think and explaining what your life is to people? | ||
| That's what they want. | ||
| I mean, I think when I'm with Jordan, the thing I realize more than anything else is he's giving them a little room to be who they are. | ||
| He's taken some of the bullets, the hit pieces and all that stuff that we've talked about. | ||
| He takes a little bit of that to take these positions that are not wrong, but are just... | ||
| Politically incorrect or somewhat unpopular or controversial. | ||
| And by taking those positions, he gives other people just a little bit of a force field to think a little bit. | ||
| So for you in this, it's like you started doing something that gave you a little peace of mind, a little something that made you feel good and feel healthy and clean and mentally sound and all that. | ||
| And then you started talking about it. | ||
| And then, holy shit, somebody in Nebraska was like, I'm going to try that. | ||
| And the next thing you know, she opened a clinic for it and is doing it. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| And then that spurs. | ||
| And so that's the beauty of saying what you think. | ||
| Well, it also works the same reason why this podcast works. | ||
| I've never promoted this podcast. | ||
| I just did it. | ||
| And through word of mouth, it got bigger and bigger. | ||
| The thing about float tanks is I'm telling you how amazing it is. | ||
| You try it and it doesn't suck. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
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It's not like he's lying. | |
| If you don't enjoy that, I don't know what... | ||
| Yeah, it's not like all these people went and tried it out like, he fucking lied to me. | ||
| God damn it. | ||
| No, they went there. | ||
| Oh my God, it's so relaxing. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| I got out of there with a fresh perspective. | ||
| My body feels loose and relaxed. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| It's like there's a real positive benefit. | ||
| I'm telling the truth. | ||
| How quick can you snap into the zone that you want to get into when you're in there? | ||
| Because when I just did it a couple days ago, I've done it a couple times now and I've usually been... | ||
| to kind of clear the clutter. | ||
| But, you know, sometimes it's more, sometimes it's less. | ||
| This last time, just because I think we've been traveling so much up in planes every day and everything else, it wasn't until the last, you know, that's what happens. | ||
| Like the last five minutes, I finally got to that place where I was kind of disconnected. | ||
| But do you have a trick for that when you get in there? | ||
| I've done it so many times that my body knows what it's doing. | ||
| I lay in the tank and my body's like, oh, here we go. | ||
| I just sink in. | ||
| But I've done it, I don't know how many times. | ||
| I've had a tank since 2002. You're more tank than man now. | ||
| Weed and, you know, weed edibles especially. | ||
| That's the weird one. | ||
| Marijuana edibles are some of the most underrated psychedelics in terms of, like, introspective thinking and self-examination. | ||
| It's one of those things that just forces you to really go over every single aspect of your subconscious you're trying to hide from. | ||
| You got a good strain of indica that's not going to completely destroy me. | ||
| Like, my weed situation at this point, and I used to be a big pothead, my weed thing is like, end of the night, puff from my vape pen, like, watch the same Simpsons episode that I loved in 1989. Like, that's good enough for me. | ||
| Like, I don't need, like, I know a lot of my comic friends, like, they want to smoke a sativa, and right, right, right. | ||
| And I'm like, I've opened up enough doors in my brain, if anything, I'd tighten a couple hinges, you know what I mean? | ||
| I don't need to go the other way again. | ||
| For me, it's much more about relaxation. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, there's a lot of great sativas. | ||
| Or indicas, rather. | ||
| All you have to do is just go to any store and then just take a little hit and then try it out. | ||
| The whole thing is just don't go too deep. | ||
| People try three, four, five hits and they've never smoked pot before and then they're in a K-hole in the corner crying and screaming. | ||
| It's like, jeez, your body doesn't know what the fuck to do with all that THC. You should have it like this. | ||
| Watch this. | ||
| Watch this. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| You're good. | ||
| Blow it out. | ||
| Relax. | ||
| Give it an hour. | ||
| Find out what the fuck the effect is. | ||
| Don't just keep hitting it. | ||
| You know, I've seen people that don't smoke pot. | ||
| I'll try it. | ||
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I'll try it. | |
| And then an hour later, I'm like, are you going to die? | ||
| And they're like, are you going to die? | ||
| You think you're going to die? | ||
| Like, you're freaked out, man. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So, back in the day, like college and a little bit after college, I had Did mushrooms, I don't know, maybe 20 times in my life, something around there. | ||
| And then I haven't done it in about 15 years. | ||
| And then about six months ago, some mushrooms appeared, doesn't matter how. | ||
| They were in my house, and I was like, all right, here's what we're going to do. | ||
| I had some friends over, and David was there. | ||
| And we were like, all right, we're all going to take one cap. | ||
| We're not going to have a full- Oh, you fucking pussies. | ||
| Wait, wait. | ||
| It's been a while, man. | ||
| Come on. | ||
| So I was like, you know, we're just going to take one cap. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| See what happens. | ||
| So we take a cap and we had smoked a little and we had drank. | ||
| It was after dinner and we were just all hanging out. | ||
| It was a couple of us. | ||
| And we were like, all right, we're going to go play some video games. | ||
| So we're playing like NBA Jam kind of thing, you know, and we're playing and playing, playing, playing. | ||
| And I'm going, guys, guys, my controller is not working. | ||
| My controller is not working. | ||
| I can't control this. | ||
| Nothing's working. | ||
| David looks at me, he's like, you're not holding a controller. | ||
| I was playing on my leg. | ||
| I was actually, I had the controller on my left. | ||
| Yeah, I had no controller. | ||
| I was actually, I thought I was, so I'm telling you, one cap, so you mocked me, but one cap can do the trick. | ||
| That's the story. | ||
| I think you need to go to a doctor and find out what's wrong with your brain. | ||
| One cap should make you like this. | ||
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Hmm. | |
| Wow. | ||
| The world's more interesting than I thought it was. | ||
| Video games, Rogan. | ||
| PlayStation 4. Yeah, I jumped connected. | ||
| I jumped right into PlayStation 4, you know. | ||
| Video games are good when you're with a little bit of... | ||
| I would recommend once you get into the two or three caps, you put the fucking video games down and just lay down and think about your life. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| But for video games, again, I just don't have enough time. | ||
| So I like old school 8-bit... | ||
| Run one way. | ||
| I want to run that way. | ||
| I want to run that way. | ||
| I don't even want to run backwards. | ||
| And I definitely don't want to run this way. | ||
| I just want to run that way. | ||
| So Mario, Metroid, that kind of thing. | ||
| I played that new... | ||
| Silly shit. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I want to blow some stuff up for a few minutes. | ||
| I don't have to murder a family and rape people and steal cars. | ||
| Grand Theft Auto type shit. | ||
| I've raped a couple of prostitutes and all that. | ||
| It's fun when you're doing it. | ||
| Someone's gonna take those fucking sound bites and use it against you. | ||
| See, subconsciously you give it to them. | ||
| You think so? | ||
| I just gave it to those people. | ||
| Who are they? | ||
| They all need a hug. | ||
| Everybody needs a hug. | ||
| I'm less combative with every year. | ||
| Less defiant and combative with every year with this stuff. | ||
| I'm more shrugging than ever. | ||
| I'm like... | ||
| Just try to be a nice person. | ||
| Try to be nice. | ||
| Try to be nice to each other. | ||
| Do your best at whatever you're doing. | ||
| Keep moving. | ||
| And when things pop up and people write things, just go... | ||
| Okay, well, what am I going to do? | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You think that could be a connection, though, to eventually killing the drive? | ||
| To want to keep doing things? | ||
| Like, to want to keep being funny? | ||
| To want to keep getting out there? | ||
| No, my drive is for the people that enjoy my work. | ||
| When I'm doing stand-up, my drive is because I know there's a bunch of people that are getting babysitters, and they bought tickets in advance, and then, like, next Friday, Joe's coming to town, and I'm... | ||
| I'm working hard for that. | ||
| I don't want them to have a bad experience. | ||
| I want to do the best fucking show I can do. | ||
| I'm dead serious about that. | ||
| That's very important to me. | ||
| I understand there's a massive responsibility. | ||
| And I'm doing the Chicago Theater like I did last weekend. | ||
| Two shows, 3,700 people a show. | ||
| That's a lot of fucking people. | ||
| I don't want... | ||
| I want anybody to be disappointed. | ||
| I want to do my best job. | ||
| The best I can do. | ||
| And that's where my drive is. | ||
| My drive is to... | ||
| I'm dissecting material. | ||
| I'm rewriting it. | ||
| I'm practicing. | ||
| I went up three times last night. | ||
| I'll probably go up... | ||
| I'm going up at least two times tonight. | ||
| I'm doing the improv and I'm doing the comedy store. | ||
| I do that all the time, man. | ||
| I do that all the time. | ||
| And my drive is to... | ||
| There's a great reward in making people laugh. | ||
| And there's a great reward in... | ||
| We made an exchange. | ||
| They came to see me. | ||
| I made them laugh. | ||
| Everybody's happy. | ||
| We had a deal. | ||
| That's the deal. | ||
| It's not an easy deal. | ||
| It's like you've got to work hard to fill your end of the bargain. | ||
| But if you do work hard and you do work at it and you do examine it and you do put in the hours on stage and you do go over the rewrites and listen to the recordings and do your best, it's rewarding. | ||
| The reward is that I... I can say that those people have a good time. | ||
| Like when I put a video up on Instagram of a bunch of people cheering after the show, my feeling, this is like we shared this time. | ||
| You guys had a good time. | ||
| I had a good time. | ||
| I'm super happy. | ||
| There's nothing like it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, because I told you I'm just getting back in. | ||
| So I just booked my last couple hours. | ||
| So on the nights off that I'm with Peterson. | ||
| So we sold out the DC Improv, sold out Tempe Improv, sold out Irvine Improv here. | ||
| Irvine Improv? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, Irvine Improv. | ||
| Yeah, I feel that now because it's weird because you don't know me from comedy. | ||
| So it's like I did it. | ||
| I lived all those New York City years as a comic. | ||
| I was a good comic, but I never hit into TV in that way. | ||
| And that's why I started doing all these other things that led me to this. | ||
| But it's like they can put my name up and now it sells out. | ||
| Yeah, whereas it wasn't before. | ||
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| So now it's like I feel this extra pressure of like, wow, these people, like, they're really coming for me. | ||
| It is extra pressure. | ||
| There's extra pressure. | ||
| But there's a reward to it, too. | ||
| It's been awesome. | ||
| I mean, it's like I'm getting back to this thing that people don't know me from. | ||
| And it's like, I'm good. | ||
| I sent you... | ||
| The hour. | ||
| I haven't sent it to anybody. | ||
| I'm not putting up publicly, but I wanted you to see it because even if you could only watch a minute, because I wanted you to know that I'm a real comic. | ||
| You know what I mean? | ||
| Because otherwise, it's like we can all sit here and be like, yeah, I'm a comic, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| But it's incredibly powerful when you're in that room with those people and you make it real for that. | ||
| And I know my style. | ||
| I'm never going to be the best joke writer on the planet. | ||
| It's not where my passions lie. | ||
| But I like being in that room with these people Doing what we did here and getting everybody playing and being in the moment. | ||
| And I get people kind of yelling at each other and screaming and announcing their political differences and like all this crazy shit. | ||
| And I don't know anyone that's doing it the way that I'm doing it. | ||
| And it's not like I'm doing a set the way Seinfeld would lay out, you know, every word, you know, for the hour. | ||
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But I love it again. | |
| Yeah, I mean, it doesn't matter. | ||
| The beautiful thing about comedy is any way you want to do it. | ||
| You do it your way. | ||
| Yeah, you do it your way. | ||
| Dave, we just did three hours. | ||
| Shit, man. | ||
| Now I got Sam Harris. | ||
| I gotta run home. | ||
| I came here from the airport. | ||
| It's 3.20 already. | ||
| It's already 3.20. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| I got Harris at 4, I think. | ||
| I gotta get the hell out of here. | ||
| Well, thank you, man. | ||
| It's always a pleasure. | ||
| Yeah, wait. | ||
| Hold on. | ||
| Now I'm getting you official. | ||
| You went to Shapiro before me. | ||
| Listen, it happened. | ||
| I was free that day. | ||
| We'll do your show. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I have so many other things to say to you. | ||
| Dave Rubin, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Dave Rubin. | ||
| Thanks, brother. |
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