All Episodes
May 1, 2019 - The Joe Rogan Experience
02:03:30
Joe Rogan Experience #1288 - Jon Reep
Participants
Main voices
j
jamie vernon
05:19
j
joe rogan
01:02:59
j
jon reep
50:02
| Copy link to current segment

Speaker Time Text
joe rogan
Do you drink?
Do you want a zero alcohol mannequin?
jon reep
Sure.
If you haven't one.
joe rogan
There you go, fella.
Zero alcohol.
Let's get crazy.
They're actually good.
jon reep
Well, let's pace ourselves.
joe rogan
Cheers, sir.
jon reep
I'm going to chug this.
joe rogan
Whoa, don't do that.
jon reep
No, I'm not going to do that.
joe rogan
Dude, what are you, dangerous?
jon reep
Zero alcohol?
How many calories, though?
joe rogan
What are you scared of calories, bro?
That's how you stay alive.
unidentified
That's true.
joe rogan
What are you going to get your energy from the air?
jon reep
I mean, I got plenty of calories already.
unidentified
I have to ask you, did you drive in in the Hemi?
jon reep
No, I didn't.
I got dropped off in a Chevy.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
This is outrageous.
jon reep
I had one for a little while.
joe rogan
Just a little while?
Yeah.
I figured, like, you would have to have one for quite a long time.
jon reep
It was fun.
Well, okay.
I'm going to backtrack a little bit.
So, first commercial, right?
That thing got a heavy!
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
I did six of these things.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
And around commercial three, I was talking to my agent.
I said, man, you know, if they ask to do another one.
Oh, shit.
Here we go.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Oh my god.
unidentified
Is that a hammy?
jon reep
That's the worst I've ever looked in my life.
I really felt like, I was sitting in the desert, like, no one's ever going to see these commercials.
No one's going to know what a hammy is.
Incorrect.
unidentified
And I could not have been more wrong.
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah.
There it is.
Look at that badass!
joe rogan
Did they give you one or did you just go out and buy one?
jon reep
Well, I said, listen, if they want me to do another commercial, see if you can get a vehicle out of them.
unidentified
Right.
jon reep
And my agent was like, you know, make it their problem.
He calls them up.
He goes, hey, I don't know if you know this, but your Hemi guy, your spokesman, is driving around Los Angeles right now in a Suzuki Sidekick.
joe rogan
Oh.
jon reep
And they're like, what?
joe rogan
Wait a minute, Suzuki Sidekick?
unidentified
That's what I had.
joe rogan
Isn't that the fucking T-Mobile device?
unidentified
It's a box kite.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is that the same thing?
jon reep
It's the lightest.
It's a box kite.
If you could put a string to it and float it in the air.
joe rogan
Was that that shitty looking Jeep thing?
jon reep
Yes.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
You had one of those?
jon reep
I did.
Yeah.
Red.
joe rogan
Wow.
jon reep
I don't know why.
For some reason, I liked that thing.
I got it in college.
joe rogan
That's probably why you like it.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Nostalgia.
jon reep
It was cool for tailgating and shit.
joe rogan
There it is.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Look at that.
That's the LL Cool J version.
I didn't have that one.
joe rogan
What's the LL Cool J version?
jon reep
I don't know.
I think I saw that in a video one time.
Because that's the one I had right there.
unidentified
You had that?
jon reep
Hard top.
joe rogan
Damn.
jon reep
Yeah.
I totaled that thing in North Dakota one time.
Hit black ice.
I mean, a gust of wind just knocked me off the road, and I was in a ditch.
But it was, you know how people in motorcycles, they'll see another motorcycle and they'll wave, and it's like a little club that you're in, and Jeeps do it too.
And I started doing that to other Suzuki sidekicks, and for whatever reason, I'd wave to them.
Nine times out of ten, it's like an overweight black lady.
unidentified
And I'm just waving at them like, what is he doing?
jon reep
I was like, we're in the club, man.
joe rogan
People love to do that with nice cars.
But to do that with shitty cars, too.
jon reep
That's next level.
That's more fun.
Like, I see you.
joe rogan
So what did they give you when they gave you a Hemi?
jon reep
It was a 1500 Dodge Ram quad cab, black, a lot of chrome.
joe rogan
I feel comfortable on that thing.
jon reep
I loved it.
I loved it when I first got it.
You know, it's like in the middle of, you know, I did six of those commercials, so I was riding around L.A. with the windows down, just blasting, you know, Leonard Skinner and shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's perfect for that.
jon reep
Just pull up to the comedy store, and like, park it!
I mean, they hated parking that thing in that lot, because it's gigantic.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a wide beast.
jon reep
And they're like, really, man?
Can't you just have somebody drop you off?
joe rogan
Yeah, Brendan Schaub's been showing up in his, he got a Raptor.
jon reep
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You didn't realize how wide those things are until you're standing in front of them.
jon reep
They're huge.
joe rogan
It's a fucking giant vehicle.
jon reep
And then trying to valet that thing anywhere in Los Angeles, you know?
It's a lot of tiny little Mexican dudes who are like, really, man?
joe rogan
Well, the worst is if you try to valet a stick shift.
jon reep
Oh, right!
joe rogan
I tried to give a valet my keys to my Bronco, and he didn't know what to do.
I go, you don't know how to drive a stick shift.
He goes, no.
I go, what the fuck are you doing here, man?
How can you have this job?
jon reep
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah, that should be a part of the resume.
You can't drive all cars.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
jon reep
Yeah.
I don't think most people know how to, you know, anyone under 30 can drive a stick.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
No.
I think it's going gone.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Porsche doesn't make them anymore.
American muscle cars are one of the last holdouts, like Corvette and Camaro.
jon reep
I haven't driven a stick in a long time.
joe rogan
Mustangs?
No.
You want to try?
Sure.
jon reep
Actually, the last time I did, I was in Costa Rica, and I rented a car.
And I'm like, I just assume all cars now, when you rent them, are automatics.
You get to know the country, it's whatever.
And so, I'm pulling out of the lot, and it's like, oh shit, it's been a minute.
It's pretty embarrassing.
I got this.
joe rogan
Yeah.
When you're in Italy, they all drive stick shifts, even like minivans.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's weird.
Everything's a stick shift over there.
I'm not sure why.
jon reep
I don't know.
What's the advantages and disadvantages?
I mean, what do you prefer?
joe rogan
Well, where I was in Italy, it was in Ravello, which is very small little roads.
It's very tiny, and it's like crazy congestion because of tourism.
Yeah.
And the guy was always on the clutch, back and forth, back and forth.
I was like, you know...
This has got to be annoying as fuck.
You want an automatic.
It's like LA. If you're commuting to LA bumper to bumper every day, you're going to want an automatic.
jon reep
Exactly.
joe rogan
That's what happened.
unidentified
Right.
jon reep
I think you're right.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah, it's just more comfortable.
Let the car do the work.
joe rogan
But if you're on a mountain road, like the Angels Crest Highway, and you want to shift.
jon reep
There's something cool about being in command of the vehicle and you telling it when it's, you know.
joe rogan
It's manly.
jon reep
Yeah, it is.
You've got a dick in your hand.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And if it's a woman, you've got to go, ooh, don't get too close to this one.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
She's driving stick shifts like, oh, she's a rebel.
She might be a problem.
jon reep
Right?
unidentified
She might be a problem.
jon reep
Might be great in bed though.
joe rogan
Maybe.
Yeah, for a little while.
And then just all sorts of problems.
She gets mad at you for an email from 12 years ago.
I didn't even know you then.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
I can't go back and time.
joe rogan
How'd you find this?
unidentified
Right?
jon reep
Where's that phone come from?
That's my flip phone.
Where was that thing?
unidentified
That's my Suzuki sidekick.
joe rogan
We were looking at that thing from CES that Jamie pulled up.
What is that goofy thing called?
These are good, right?
jon reep
I don't feel like I'm drinking a non-alcoholic beer.
joe rogan
It tastes like a regular beer.
jamie vernon
Planet Computer's Cosmo Communicator.
joe rogan
Look at the fucking outside of that thing.
That is wasted development.
That looks like someone was doing coke and they decided...
Does that have a spaceship?
It does.
jon reep
Oh my god.
joe rogan
It looks like it either has a planet or a spaceship on the front of it.
jon reep
It looks like one of those metal wallets that you get to keep your credit card secure.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that shit's preposterous.
unidentified
Well, for sure.
joe rogan
But you're not using your fingers.
You could.
But would you?
unidentified
Who makes that?
joe rogan
My fat fucking hands are not going to fit on that thing.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're not going to be able to do that.
jon reep
I mean, at this point, we're so used to doing this.
Why go back and go back to that now?
joe rogan
Do you ever go sideways on your iPhone?
jon reep
Yeah, just to take a picture.
Not typing.
No way.
joe rogan
I thought that was the move.
I'm like, oh, once we go sideways, that's going to be the shit.
jamie vernon
Have you tried it on an iPad?
joe rogan
I have not.
jamie vernon
It's not bad.
jon reep
Sideways on the iPad?
jamie vernon
Yeah, like when you have to type on the full screen with the full keyboard.
jon reep
Yeah, with both hands.
jamie vernon
It's not bad.
It's not perfect, but it's fucking way better than just your thumbs on an iPhone.
joe rogan
Yeah, that makes sense.
Especially if you can type.
jon reep
I used to think I would never get used to that, just that, you know, the screen without feeling it.
joe rogan
Look at that little front screen.
Like you got a bunch of shit that comes in on it.
unidentified
Look at that.
jon reep
Oh.
joe rogan
Like apps and stuff, I guess.
Boy, no one's buying that, son.
jon reep
How much is that thing?
jamie vernon
You never know.
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing.
There are so many options now.
If you don't like Apple and you're committed to an Android phone, there's so many options.
Why would you buy that thing?
jon reep
I don't even know.
What company is that?
joe rogan
Exactly.
That's also part of the problem, right?
jon reep
Yeah, that would be gone.
joe rogan
Where do you bring that thing to get it fixed?
If the screen cracks and you bring it to the mall, what is it?
The Cosmo communicator, bro.
jon reep
We're going to have to go to the future and fix this thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, we can't do this in 10 minutes.
jon reep
This thing's a mess.
I mean, I got a cracked screen now, and it's not even that bad, but I've seen people walk around with a damn spider web on their phone.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
I'm like, when are you going to go get it fixed?
What's the point?
Where glass is falling off?
joe rogan
This is an indication of you needing to get your shit together.
jon reep
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
Yeah, if your phone looks like a haunted house.
jon reep
That's a good one.
Yeah, let's go into like, you know, see if this girl's going to be crazy.
unidentified
Right.
jon reep
How cracked is her screen?
joe rogan
That's a good point.
jon reep
Give me your phone.
unidentified
Like, a girl who can deal with a little crack, that's probably a sign of character.
jon reep
Yeah, that's okay.
unidentified
She's cool.
jon reep
Just a little crack in the window, in a corner.
unidentified
No big deal.
jamie vernon
That's fine.
joe rogan
She doesn't give a fuck.
She's easygoing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
She doesn't even need to wear makeup, bro.
jon reep
But if she has to do like this and get the light just right, because it's like a damn, it's a full-on spider web.
joe rogan
I have to scroll up to make a T. Because that part of the glass won't work anymore.
jamie vernon
What about the other way they're going with the flex phone?
jon reep
Oh, now, here we go.
jamie vernon
This isn't the one that broke, but this is another one that came out at CES, too.
Samsung recalled the ones that are supposed to come out last week.
joe rogan
They recalled all of them, huh?
jamie vernon
Yeah, the unreleased date now.
Who knows when they're going to come out.
joe rogan
They're breaking like crazy, apparently.
jon reep
Flex phone.
But then, is it flexible?
It bends?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But how does that one work?
All I'm seeing is like, it opened up.
jamie vernon
It's not showing a video of that.
Yeah, but the Samsung one had like a little teeny, I don't know.
joe rogan
Like a line in the center of it?
jon reep
It looks like a little flat aquarium that we put sea monkeys in.
joe rogan
It does.
unidentified
Yeah.
Right?
joe rogan
It looks like one of them ones that's like a pillar in a shitty hotel.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like in Miami or something.
jon reep
You stare at my phone for hours.
joe rogan
Yeah, someone needs to clean the tank.
They have a...
Huawei has a Flex phone.
It looks way better than the Samsung one.
It looks thinner, and it looks like they just nailed the design better.
And on the side of it...
jamie vernon
Oh, this is it.
I don't know why I asked.
Yeah, it's a different company.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Is it a different company?
jamie vernon
No, no, no.
I'm sorry.
Royale Flex Pie beats Samsung and Huawei to market.
Probably sells out.
That's what this one was.
jon reep
Does it fold in half?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're making these things where you can flex them and bend them like a thousand times.
Oh my god.
Oh, how weird.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's weird.
Look how fat that thing is.
It's like carrying a VHS tape in your pocket.
Right?
jon reep
I mean, I'm trying to imagine the advantages and disadvantages of watching porn on that thing.
joe rogan
Oh, there's advantages.
jon reep
Yeah, because it's like, well, I see your ass, and then you've got to turn your phone upside down to see the rest of them.
joe rogan
That's pretty wild, though, how it works.
jon reep
That is neat.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I'm kind of hoping it works so that the version 3 or 4 in a couple years is way better than these broken ones.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, for sure, you're going to see people at concerts holding up what looks like 12-inch iPads because it's going to be these goddamn things in the future.
jon reep
I've seen that before now.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, people bring iPads to Disneyland.
jon reep
Why would you do that?
joe rogan
Because they're assholes.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're everywhere.
jon reep
I mean, you're right.
I hate it.
Especially a comedy show.
It's like, the phone's bad enough.
iPad?
joe rogan
I have a Tesla, and the Tesla has this huge screen.
It's enormous.
And you get so used to it.
So I go from that to another car with a little tiny navigation screen.
I'm like, what is this bullshit?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's funny how you get used to things.
jon reep
It's like I'd rather have a Thomas guide.
joe rogan
When I first...
unidentified
Remember those?
joe rogan
Did you have one of those?
jon reep
I did.
joe rogan
When you came to LA?
jon reep
God, you have to pull over every five feet?
joe rogan
Bill Burr had one of those as recently as 2011.
Wow.
He came to my house.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
He came to my house in his fucking Prius.
He still has a Prius, that asshole.
He's probably got a billion dollars.
He's got a fucking Prius.
He pulls into my driveway, and I see the Thomas guy in his backseat.
He's like, yeah, that navigation shit, what if that goes down?
You can't figure your way around town.
jon reep
You're lost up on the hills, no connection.
Thomas guy works every time.
joe rogan
I knew how to do it, man.
Back in the day, oh, E10. I know how to do that.
You go E, and you go to 10. That's where I need to go.
Okay, what do I need to do?
I would write it down.
Yeah, that was always dangerous.
Fuck up and all of a sudden you're in a super Mexican community.
Chickens are running across the street.
jon reep
Sun Valley sounds great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Is Sun Valley a sketch?
I've never been to Sun Valley.
jon reep
I think it is.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
There's lots of spots.
jon reep
I've been there once.
I think I got lost.
I was like, this is not...
joe rogan
So when you got rid of your Hemi, did you say, hey, this is from the Hemi guy?
Like, this should be worth some money.
unidentified
Yeah!
jon reep
Well, I thought it could auction it off.
Yeah, on eBay.
Like, I took pictures with it and everything.
joe rogan
It didn't work?
jon reep
No.
I think it was when gas was at its highest price.
And people are like, no, I think we're moving on to other things.
joe rogan
It's pretty fucking high now.
It's closing in on five bucks a gallon, again.
jon reep
But I had it for, well, about two years.
Why'd you get rid of it?
Well, I was married at the time, and that thing was hard.
When I would leave and she'd have that car, it was just hard to...
Back into the garage.
We have a small two-car garage, and it was hard to get that thing in there.
So she convinced me that we didn't need it.
So we leased a Lexus RX350 for a while.
unidentified
Those are dope.
jon reep
I like them.
I like them.
joe rogan
When you drive a truck, too.
jon reep
I like the backup camera in those things.
joe rogan
That's very nice.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But you drive a truck, and then you get into a little car like that.
You're like, oh, I'm agile.
I'm like a dancer.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Right.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
What was your first car?
joe rogan
My first car was a 1973 Chevelle.
Chevelle SS. It was a shitbox.
I drove it from the guy's house to my house and then it died.
It never worked again.
I think I drove it to my girlfriend's house and then I drove it back to my house and then it died.
Yeah.
And then I called the guy up and I'm like, hey man, your fucking car died.
And he came and gave me the money back and took his car.
He said, what happened to my car?
I'm like, it died.
It just doesn't work.
jon reep
Wow.
So you had it like a day.
joe rogan
I had it for a day.
And then my...
jon reep
That's horrible.
joe rogan
Yeah, then I had a 1968 442 that I wrapped around our telephone pole.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, whoops.
Hydroplaned.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you didn't know how to drive back then and you had like kind of balding tires and you hit some water, cars would just go sideways.
And you're like, what is this?
jon reep
It's like you're floating in the air.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a crazy feeling.
jon reep
And you can't do anything about it.
joe rogan
Nothing about it!
jon reep
They always tell you to turn into it.
joe rogan
Good luck.
jon reep
Nothing's happening.
joe rogan
I was just going sideways.
I was like, I can't believe this shit.
I just got this car.
I had that one for a few months, and then bang, fucked that one up.
jon reep
Just hydroplating.
joe rogan
Just hydroplating?
No, I was with a couple of guys from school.
jon reep
You might get hurt?
joe rogan
No, we're alright.
But it fucked the car up.
jon reep
I was in a Fiera.
Remember Fieros?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, my sister had one of those.
jon reep
It's like a little fake Ferrari thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Remember they used to do...
jon reep
They're so small.
joe rogan
They used to do Ferrari kits for those?
jon reep
Yes!
joe rogan
Where they'd turn into a fake Testarossa?
jon reep
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Put a car bra on there.
joe rogan
Yeah, those were interesting.
My friend Joe had one of those, too.
Those were cool little cars.
jon reep
Back in the day, it was like either...
In my hometown, it was like...
There it is.
That was a fake one.
unidentified
Look at that.
joe rogan
Look at that ridiculous car.
jon reep
That's great.
That is adorable.
joe rogan
Those cars are so gross when people do that.
jon reep
Yeah.
And it's obvious.
joe rogan
Well, it's like, what do you...
No one wants that once you get...
Is that one?
jon reep
That can't...
No, that's...
joe rogan
Is that a Fiero?
jamie vernon
That's what it says.
unidentified
Wow.
jon reep
Great job!
joe rogan
That's crazy.
That one actually looks good.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You could trick some really dumb girls with that.
Like if you go to Miami.
Right.
jon reep
Let me see your cell phone.
joe rogan
The really, really dumb ones.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like if you were only looking for really dumb gals.
jon reep
Yeah.
That's your car.
joe rogan
Dumb gold diggers.
jon reep
What is that?
Are those louvers?
unidentified
What is that?
joe rogan
What is that?
jon reep
What is that in the back?
joe rogan
Yeah, it looks like louvers.
jon reep
Glass louvers?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's probably a plastic rear window.
jon reep
Oh my god.
joe rogan
They make some cars with plastic windows just to save weight.
Like, hey, relax.
Relax with that.
jon reep
Yeah.
My buddy and I, he had one of those.
We hydroplaned, spun it around a couple times, totaled it, hit another car that was parked at a body shop.
And they had just finished it.
joe rogan
No!
jon reep
I swear to God.
He's like...
Cool!
I guess I'm doing two cars.
So he just left his car there.
joe rogan
Totally by slamming into a car that was just finished in a body show.
jon reep
Yeah.
Serendipitous.
joe rogan
Uber is that guy's friend.
You should get on the Uber.
jon reep
Yeah.
I love Uber.
joe rogan
I wonder how much that's preventing drunk driving.
jon reep
I just had this conversation.
joe rogan
Yeah?
jon reep
I think what, you know, Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Mad.
Maybe even the government should kick in.
These guys are saving lives.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
jon reep
Because if you're not doing that, then you're drinking and driving most likely.
joe rogan
Most likely.
It gives you a real easy option.
jon reep
Yeah.
And it's so quick.
It's so convenient.
You don't have to pull cash out.
It's great.
joe rogan
It's kind of a weird organization, both of them.
It's like they're trying to figure out if they're employees or if they're contractors.
And then there's like...
This fact that you're just getting into someone's car.
You don't know them.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, you assume if you get a limo that there's a background check.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
If you get a cab, you're living on the edge.
Right?
jon reep
That's what I was going to say.
You never know.
unidentified
Taxi driver.
joe rogan
Robert De Niro.
jon reep
You looking at me?
joe rogan
Yeah.
You're talking about a fucking psychopath.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
That's what you, like...
But you would get, like, New York City cab drivers, you'd get characters.
You'd get either, like, angry white dudes or, like, guys who come from other countries that could tell you cool stories.
You'd get, like, characters.
Weird smells and shit.
jon reep
Yeah, crazy smells, lots of weird music.
Possibly a voodoo doll.
joe rogan
But now, you know what you get when you get in a New York City cab driver?
You get advertisements.
You get screens.
Like they have little laptops facing you.
And they play these...
jon reep
There's a credit card machine back there.
joe rogan
And they play these videos about things.
About restaurants and this and that.
Shows.
jon reep
That's probably its own network at this point.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Like just the cab network.
joe rogan
It is kind of, right?
It must be.
jon reep
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
His company probably has their own little loop that they play.
jon reep
Jimmy Fallon, I mean, I've seen him on there many times.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Doing stuff.
joe rogan
Remember when they used to do that HBO show, Taxi Cab Confessions?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was crazy.
jon reep
I enjoyed that.
joe rogan
I was like, who the fuck is signing this release?
What are you giving these people?
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
It's like, I just want to be on TV. And they would say the worst stuff.
joe rogan
Like, if you're fucked up on coke, and you get into a cab, and you start just talking shit about all the crazy sexual stuff that you like, and then afterwards, they're like, hey, you're going to be on HBO? You're like, fuck yeah, I am.
And then you wake up in the morning.
unidentified
No!
I do!
jon reep
That's true.
joe rogan
You don't know who to call.
unidentified
You give them this waiver at the right time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
That's gold.
unidentified
That's a good move.
joe rogan
How does that work?
Well, you don't tell them before they get there.
If you're hammered?
jon reep
There's got to be some loophole.
joe rogan
I always wondered about the Catch a Predator show.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Why the fuck would they sign?
They have to sign a release.
jon reep
Do they?
Yes!
joe rogan
Or cops!
They have to sign a release.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to sign a release.
Yeah.
jon reep
And then there's like, is it entrapment even, you know?
There was that whole thing, too.
joe rogan
Well, that show's definitely entrapment.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it's entrapment I support.
jon reep
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
I support entrapment if it's like, hey, do you want to fuck a six-year-old?
unidentified
100%.
joe rogan
And they're like, yeah, I do.
Okay, get in the cage, you fucking piece of shit.
jon reep
That's right.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a certain entrapment that I'm all for.
Someone could talk you into fucking anybody under 18. Right.
jon reep
Or 17. How do they get away with that?
joe rogan
How do they get away with it?
jon reep
Showing their face.
Maybe because they were proven guilty that you waived your rights just by being guilty.
You have no rights when you're a felon, right?
When you're a felon, you have no rights.
unidentified
Is that right?
joe rogan
Well, you have rights.
Bernie Sanders wants you to be able to vote even if you're a terrorist.
Have you seen that?
He's like, anybody in jail for anything, he's like, you should still be able to vote.
unidentified
I'm like, ooh, okay.
joe rogan
I don't know.
There's a lot of people in jail.
jon reep
That's true.
joe rogan
What if they count as residents of the state?
Like, what if you have, like, a maximum security prison somewhere, right?
And these prisoners have everything to, like, they have all day, right?
They don't have anything to do.
And they register to vote while they're in there.
If you have a few hundred thousand prisoners, you literally can shift an election one way or the other.
unidentified
That's true.
joe rogan
All you'd have to do is get into that prison and go, hey guys, here's the deal.
I'm shortening your fucking sentences, okay?
I'm forgetting you better lawyers.
People would start campaigning in prisons.
jon reep
That's true.
joe rogan
That's legitimate.
Yeah.
Like, these laws are bullshit, man.
jon reep
And you can bribe them real easy with the little ketchup?
joe rogan
Cigarettes.
unidentified
Cigarettes.
joe rogan
Bring in cigarettes.
Yeah, you just truck in cartons of cigarettes.
jon reep
How'd you win this election?
Marlboro Reds.
joe rogan
What's that guy's name?
Buttigieg?
What's his name?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
How do you say his name?
jamie vernon
You got it.
joe rogan
Tulsi Gabbard's my girl.
I'm voting for her.
I decided.
I like her.
I met her in person.
unidentified
Who is it?
jon reep
I don't know.
joe rogan
I give up.
I give up.
I'm not even paying attention to anything else.
Tulsi Gabbard.
But if you could go into a prison, what's a giant prison population?
jon reep
What's the biggest prison?
I don't know.
joe rogan
What do you think the biggest one is?
jon reep
The biggest one?
I don't know.
Would it be in New York?
joe rogan
California?
Isn't there a giant one in Colorado that Joey always talks about?
unidentified
That's the one where they take the serial killers, they stuff them on the ground.
joe rogan
Isn't there...
jon reep
Well, I mean, what's the biggest one?
Let's take a guess.
50,000?
joe rogan
Before he looks it up.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Do you say 50,000 prisoners?
jon reep
Yeah, I don't know much about that.
joe rogan
That's probably a lot of people.
Think about an arena.
jon reep
50,000 spread out.
joe rogan
A football arena.
jon reep
Right.
Yeah.
Oh, that's true.
Okay.
unidentified
Well, no.
Okay.
jon reep
50 to 60,000.
The biggest one.
joe rogan
The biggest, yeah.
jon reep
What's the smallest?
joe rogan
It's probably some rinky-dinky ones, but I bet...
Have you been in jail?
No.
I'm going to say a little lighter.
I'm going to say $30,000.
I'm going to say $30,000 is the biggest.
jon reep
Will you put money on this?
joe rogan
I'll put a dollar on this.
I don't give a fuck, bro.
I'll bet you Heineken double zero.
unidentified
Shit.
jon reep
Well, we got too rich for my blood.
joe rogan
What do we got?
Jimmy's confused.
jamie vernon
Well, I have to be very specific about what I look up to find this answer.
So, do you want largest maximum security?
joe rogan
Sure.
Yeah.
Killers, not people who smoke weed.
jamie vernon
Known as Alcatraz of the South, the Louisiana State Penitentiary has an inmate population of 5,000.
joe rogan
That's it?
Wow!
Damn, we're way off.
jamie vernon
That's maximum security.
joe rogan
Oh, that's like super criminals.
jamie vernon
Yeah, so if you go a little bit less, then it might be a little bit higher.
joe rogan
Okay.
Let's go with thieves.
Let's go with medium security.
Maximum is like violent crimes, right?
jon reep
What's just the biggest prison?
joe rogan
Yeah.
The biggest prison.
jamie vernon
I looked at the largest prison.
That's the thing that popped up.
Damn.
Maybe we're way off.
joe rogan
5,000 is a lot of people.
jon reep
Sometimes it looks bigger.
jamie vernon
ADX in Florence, the supermax prison.
There's one supermax prison.
That's the one I think you're talking about.
joe rogan
Okay.
jamie vernon
That's even higher.
That would probably have way less people.
Trying to see if it says...
joe rogan
Oh, that's even higher criminal level?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was like where they put the ice man.
jamie vernon
23 hours a day.
joe rogan
Dun, dun, dun.
jamie vernon
Single cell confinement.
Um...
jon reep
5,000 is a lot of people.
joe rogan
Confinement is so weird.
Because we're killing you, but we're just killing you with nature.
We're going to kill you with old age and shitty nutrition.
We're just going to keep you in a box.
jon reep
Kill with your own brain.
joe rogan
Isn't that weird?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like it might be more cruel to put someone into a small cage for 23 hours a day than it is to just kill them.
jon reep
I think so.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
If you just kill, it's over with.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're suffering.
jon reep
It's suffering.
joe rogan
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
100%.
Like...
That was my take on Chelsea Manning, who's now free.
jon reep
Yeah?
joe rogan
Like, they tortured her.
They tortured her.
jon reep
They did?
joe rogan
Yeah, she was naked, in a cage, by herself, for years.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
I think it was like, the whole, she was in solitary.
We'll have to find this out once Jamie's done with this search.
jamie vernon
I'm like looking around, there's the one in California's male only, where Manson is.
It's got 3,500.
There's one in Illinois, medium security.
It's got 1,000.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Okay, so...
unidentified
Man, we were way off.
joe rogan
We're way off.
Way off.
By a factor of...
jon reep
We were so pessimistic.
joe rogan
I thought I was going low, and I was off by a factor of ten.
jamie vernon
I don't know if this is counting them, too.
There's private ones, and I don't know if I can get the numbers on private.
joe rogan
Those dirty bastards stuff them in on top of each other.
jon reep
Although, it makes sense.
If there were 30,000 inmates in one place, I mean, it would be hard to contain that and control that.
joe rogan
Yeah, what's the largest private prison?
See if that's...
Yes, but the Chelsea Manning thing, she was in solitary confinement when she was still a dude.
Does that count?
Is that two different sentences?
How do you say that?
Do you say Bradley or do you say Chelsea when she hadn't changed yet?
jon reep
I think we have to ask.
joe rogan
Do you still say Bruce Jenner won the Olympics or do you say Caitlyn?
jon reep
Well, Bruce won the Olympics.
joe rogan
No, no, no, Caitlyn.
What does it say?
He's Caitlyn now.
jon reep
He's Caitlyn now.
joe rogan
You know if you deadname him, you'll get kicked off of Twitter?
jon reep
Deadname him?
joe rogan
Do you know what that deadname he is?
jon reep
No, I never heard of deadname him.
joe rogan
Oh, you didn't know?
jon reep
No.
joe rogan
So say if you become Johanna Reap.
jon reep
Yes.
joe rogan
If you decided at this stage of the game, you know what, fuck Hemis.
jon reep
I'm transitioning.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm wearing skirts.
jon reep
It's time for Prius.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's time to get my legs waxed.
unidentified
What do we got?
jamie vernon
Reeves County Detention Complex in Pesos, Texas has a combined capacity of 3,763 prisoners in its three subcomplexes.
joe rogan
Wow.
So that's probably about as big as it gets.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
jon reep
If you've dug that far and you still can't get anything over 5,000.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So it's in the 30s.
The 3,300.
jon reep
Interesting.
joe rogan
3,500.
jon reep
What about the world?
joe rogan
So if you change your name to Johanna Reap.
jon reep
Johanna Reap.
joe rogan
And I started saying, hey, John Reap, what's it like wearing dresses?
Pretend you're a girl.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
That's deadnaming you.
I deadnamed you because I called you John.
jon reep
Right.
When your new name is Johanna.
Right.
Right.
But Bruce is the one who won the Olympics.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's his dead name.
jon reep
Well, that's what he was when he won.
joe rogan
Don't be an asshole, John.
God, you're so insensitive.
I can't believe this.
unidentified
I hate facts.
joe rogan
In this day and age, I'm going to make you subscribe to the Alyssa Milano podcast.
You're going to get your shit together.
jon reep
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
You need to get up with the times, bro.
unidentified
I'm going to follow her.
jon reep
I'm so way behind.
joe rogan
I'm just kidding about Alyssa Milano.
I don't know what she's doing.
jon reep
I don't either.
joe rogan
It was a good name, though.
The throw around.
jon reep
Alyssa Milano.
Alyssa Milano.
She's active on the Twittersphere?
joe rogan
I believe so, yeah.
She's very political.
She's always arguing with people, I think.
She's one of them people.
You know, they booted John Woods.
You know John Woods, the actor?
They booted him off the Twitter again.
He did something naughty.
I don't think he did anything that big a deal.
jon reep
First of all, who's John?
Refresh my memory.
joe rogan
James Woods.
I'm sorry.
jon reep
Oh, James Woods.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
John Woods.
jamie vernon
People are probably mad if we probably know this.
joe rogan
What?
jamie vernon
New York City's Rikers Island has a population of 11,000, but I don't know if that means they're all prisoners or not.
What?
joe rogan
Vacationers?
jamie vernon
There's probably workers that live on the...
joe rogan
People want cheap rent.
jamie vernon
It might be half.
joe rogan
Yeah, do they really?
jamie vernon
It says they can accommodate up to 15,000 prisoners.
joe rogan
15,000 prisoners.
That's about as big as it gets.
Now we're in the neighborhood.
jamie vernon
There's one in Turkey that's got 10,900.
joe rogan
Wow.
Okay, so that's about as big as it gets.
15,000.
That's a lot, though, if you go to a theater.
Like, if you did an arena, like 15,000 people is like Madison Square Garden.
unidentified
That's a lot of fucking criminals.
Yeah.
joe rogan
You gotta take care of them.
jon reep
You gotta baton.
joe rogan
So the Chelsea Manning thing, now she's free, but then she got locked up again for contempt of court.
But I think when she was locked up in solitary confinement, they took away her clothes.
They wouldn't let her have clothes because they thought she was suicidal.
jamie vernon
Really?
jon reep
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
I think that's just an excuse to use.
jon reep
Okay, so when Chelsea was a male...
joe rogan
Yes.
Don't say Bradley.
jon reep
I'm kind of not dead, babe.
joe rogan
Don't do it.
jon reep
When Chelsea won the Olympics...
Yeah.
She didn't win the Olympics.
unidentified
I'm trying to do that.
Was he in a male prison?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
jon reep
And then, as a female, does he go to a female prison?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
jon reep
Okay.
joe rogan
I don't know.
Maybe that's why they put her in solitary.
jon reep
Oh, right, right.
joe rogan
Protect her from dudes.
jon reep
I mean, that's kind of a loophole that, let's say, if I know I'm going to prison and I got, like, a year before I get sentenced, I might just go ahead and get that sex change.
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
So I'm with females.
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
I don't know.
joe rogan
Maybe I have a better chance of surviving.
You don't have to get the sex change anymore.
You just have to identify.
jon reep
Oh, okay.
unidentified
There you go.
jon reep
I'm good.
joe rogan
Do you see that male who identifies as a female just broke all these world records in weightlifting?
It's a new one.
It just came out.
Wonderful.
Congratulations, everybody.
You broke everything.
You fucking...
You went so progressive and so preposterous that we broke everything.
You have men that are winning women's world records in fucking weightlifting, which is like the dumbest shit for men and women to compete against.
If there's ever one thing, even the tennis argument, it's like, well, you know, Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs.
Yeah, but Bobby Riggs was 55, she was 29, and they say that he threw the match because he bet against himself.
jon reep
Oh right, he was a big gambler.
joe rogan
That was what I heard, but I would say that too if I lost.
I would say I threw the match.
jon reep
Basketball?
Tennis?
joe rogan
Is this the woman that won?
jon reep
Is this Chelsea?
joe rogan
This is the woman who's winning world records.
jon reep
This is not Bruce Jenner.
joe rogan
Let's get a look.
Oh my gosh, here we go.
Seems like a gal.
jon reep
Huh.
joe rogan
That seems like a very strong man.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's so ridiculous.
jon reep
How much weight is that?
joe rogan
It doesn't look like a lot of weight.
jon reep
This is about reps here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
300?
300?
315?
Yeah.
jon reep
Okay.
joe rogan
That's a ridiculous amount of weight for a woman to lift.
If you're going to be a real woman, a biological woman, excuse me, and lift that kind of weight, you have to be a real outlier.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's very rare.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
But this is so ridiculous.
jon reep
Wow.
joe rogan
What is this guy's quote?
One guy in the comments say, congratulations on your excellent performance.
Screw anybody who tries to knock achievements.
The hard work speaks for itself.
Hey, whoever you are, fuck you!
Fuck you and your nonsense.
You're the reason why this shit is happening in the first place, because people tolerate this.
That is nuts.
If you had a daughter that trained her whole life to be a weightlifter, and she's really into it, and this fucking guy decides he identifies as a woman, and then comes I don't know how it's legal.
How is it legal?
It has nothing to do with being open-minded or tolerant.
It has something to do with logic.
Just basic reason.
This is craziness.
You're enabling people to do something that's preposterous.
This has nothing to do with being open-minded or kind to people.
I'm 100% for people being trans.
I'm 100% for people doing whatever they want to do.
Just don't hurt anybody, and I'm cool with that.
jon reep
Same here.
joe rogan
But this is just, you're in make-believe town.
Why not pretend you're a fox and go live in the forest?
Like, you're in make-believe.
This is make-believe.
You can't just decide you're a woman and compete with women.
jon reep
Right.
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
That's make-believe.
Oh, there's no advantage.
Make-believe.
That's make-believe.
Of course there's an advantage!
You fucking know there's an advantage.
jon reep
Yes.
joe rogan
Everyone knows.
This is crazy.
jon reep
I want to see that in the NFL. You know, you got like...
joe rogan
What is that?
Before and after?
Is it two different looks?
unidentified
That's the same person?
joe rogan
We don't need to see this person.
jon reep
Wait a second.
joe rogan
I don't want to shame this person.
Look, someone's letting her do this.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
jon reep
That's the problem.
joe rogan
That's the problem.
There should be a transgender league.
Right.
Or there should be, you know, some rules where you have to compete with the chromosome of your birth.
You don't have to fucking compete.
Most people don't compete in organized sports.
Most people don't.
And if you're trans, maybe that should be something you can't do.
And particularly for girls who transition to boys, you know that school in Texas that won't let this girl who's transitioning to a boy, they won't let her compete with boys.
So they make her compete with girls, and she's on fucking testosterone.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
So she's taking testosterone, or he's taking testosterone, whatever you want to say.
I get so confused.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
To become a boy.
Zur is taking testosterone to become a boy, and then now is forced to wrestle with women, with young girls, in fact.
All jacked.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
Jacked like a boy.
It's like a boy wrestling girls.
It's crazy.
jon reep
Probably Papa Boner doing that.
joe rogan
I don't think she has one yet.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
You can get a little thumb.
You grow a thumb.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what happens.
jon reep
Oh, yeah.
The clitoris gets a little bit bigger.
Yeah.
Gets bigger.
And do the ovaries sort of, like, start getting suspended in a...
I don't know what happens.
unidentified
Do they drop?
joe rogan
What do they do?
unidentified
I wonder.
joe rogan
I wonder if they remove those parts, you know, because they do hysterectomies on women when they have diseases.
I wonder if they do that when a man transitions from a woman.
jon reep
Yeah.
unidentified
It's crazy.
jon reep
When a man transitions from a woman.
joe rogan
Yeah, when you used to be a woman and now you're going to a dude.
Yeah.
What do they do?
I just can't wait to the day where they can do it genetically.
Where a woman really becomes a woman.
Like a man becomes a woman or a woman becomes a man.
But guess what?
Even if they do, here's the issue.
If you knew that a woman took steroids for 30 years...
And develop insane tendon strength and muscle strength and then stop doing steroids.
It is a scientific fact that you are going to keep a very big percentage of those gains.
What are the gains?
What is the percentage?
30% or 40%?
Whatever the fuck it is.
Whatever percentage that you would keep after you get off the steroids, that is significant.
And even if you're not currently on these performance enhancing drugs, your body has been...
Artificially boosted to the superior level through these drugs.
jon reep
Yeah.
And you lose a lot of the feminine, you know, you lose the breasts.
joe rogan
Yes.
jon reep
And those might not come back.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, I think if you take estrogen, they'll probably come back.
unidentified
Oh, right.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm not a fucking doctor.
I'm a moron.
But what I do know is when this is, we're in nonsense land.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's not saying that someone can't become a woman and be a woman and I'll call them a woman.
I'll treat them like a woman.
I'm cool with it.
I'm 100% cool with it.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I'm as open-minded as I come with this.
But this is unfair for women.
It is.
Which is what's so ironic about this.
Because everyone's supposed to be looking out for women.
If you're looking out for women, but you're also blindly progressive to the point where you're letting shit like this fly, well, now you're not looking out for women.
Right.
Because now women are in this weird position where you're putting them at an unfair disadvantage.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
It's fucking crazy, man.
jon reep
I agree.
joe rogan
God damn it.
It makes me want to drink real Heineken.
I'm getting all loopy on this double zero.
No, they just sent this stuff to me.
It's good.
jon reep
Yeah.
I used to love Heineken Light.
joe rogan
I talk about that subject a little bit too much.
But it's a symptom of a sick society.
It's a symptom of a lack of rational thinking.
It's a symptom of people just bending over backwards so hard to be progressive and open-minded.
That you're giving in to these extremists, these crazy people that are looking at this thing completely delusionally.
jon reep
When will it snap back?
joe rogan
It's coming.
Trump!
That's why Trump's president.
jon reep
That's what that is.
joe rogan
He's gonna win again.
He's gonna win again.
jon reep
Who can beat him?
joe rogan
They're not gonna beat him.
jon reep
There's no one who can right now.
joe rogan
He's gonna win again.
He's gonna win again because of shit like this.
The more shit like this happens...
jon reep
So then what's after Trump?
I mean, there's another four years.
joe rogan
His son, Donald Jr. Donald Jr. was with a friend of a friend of mine.
His name's Crispy, and he's a disabled veteran.
He's very able, I should say, but he's a wounded veteran.
He had his leg amputated.
Burns over most of his body.
Super positive attitude.
Great guy.
Anyways, he doesn't get political online.
He took a picture with Donald Trump Jr. Right.
And Instagram took it down for violating their terms of service.
It's just a photo.
jon reep
A picture of just the president's son?
joe rogan
Yeah.
A photo with him and Trump Jr. just standing there.
And they took the picture down.
Like, what?
jon reep
That's not...
joe rogan
What are you doing?
jon reep
Yeah.
Maybe that's a glitch.
When they do that, do they give you a reason?
Or do they just do what they want?
joe rogan
Well, he posted it on his...
He sent me a direct message about it, too.
I actually reached out to him, because I follow him, and he follows me, and I was like, is this shit real?
And he's like, yup.
And he's super positive about it.
I mean, this is a guy who served our country, too, and he's a great guy.
Like, his...
His Instagram handle is Crispy11B.
jon reep
Okay.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he just put it up there, and they said that they got him for terms of service, and they took it down, and he put it back up again.
jon reep
Good.
Good for him.
joe rogan
So this is the photo right here.
jon reep
Let me see.
jamie vernon
When asked, Instagram says that they didn't do it, so I don't know.
joe rogan
So they didn't do it, but who took it down then?
jamie vernon
However, an Instagram spokesperson told Fox News the post was reviewed but was not deleted by the company after it found the post did not violate their standards.
joe rogan
But that's not true, because it's missing.
jamie vernon
Spokesperson said that there are a number of reasons a post may no longer be available, including the account hoarder deletes either the account or the post.
He's saying he didn't do that, so it could have been something else.
jon reep
I mean, you can't prove it.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, I know that this dude is not an attention whore, and he wouldn't do that and lie about it.
That's ridiculous.
jon reep
I mean, Twitter, Instagram could be lying.
joe rogan
It could be a glitch, too.
Sometimes it's a fortuitous glitch that looks like a massive conspiracy.
But he said they sent him notice.
It said it violated the terms of service.
So if he said that...
jon reep
Okay.
That's what was sent back to him.
joe rogan
Pretty sure.
jon reep
That's the screenshot you want.
joe rogan
Let me make sure that's what he said.
jon reep
It says...
You violated something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
That's what you want.
joe rogan
I mean, it's just so weird what's going on now.
Everything just seems so fucking preposterous.
jon reep
Yeah, just like on Facebook, Twitter, all that stuff.
If it's something negative, I just, you know, that's gone.
I don't let people just start bashing me on that stuff.
joe rogan
Okay, here it is.
Once I landed, I opened up Instagram and got a message that your post was taken down for violating Instagram guidelines.
So, did he post that?
Yes, he did.
jon reep
Oh, there you go.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Let me see if he did.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, he posted a thing saying it.
Okay, here's what he posted.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It said, wounded veteran violated community standards by posting with Donald Trump Jr. He didn't post the actual notification, but he probably didn't even save it.
unidentified
Right.
jon reep
Why would you?
Yeah.
joe rogan
I believe him.
I believe him.
jon reep
You're right.
It is a sad...
joe rogan
I think you also have overzealous employees.
I think there's that, too.
jon reep
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I think there's probably...
jon reep
A huge company.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
jon reep
I mean, anybody could go rogue at any minute and just do what they want.
joe rogan
You think they're reading dick pics?
jamie vernon
I would say someone could have just been fucking with them on the other way.
The other way around.
Someone could have just flagged it by a bunch of bots that just made it disappear to get a reaction like this.
It could be as simple as that.
joe rogan
Can you do that?
Sure.
So if you just had a bot that did that?
jamie vernon
I could do it right now.
joe rogan
But wouldn't Instagram review it manually before they delete it?
jamie vernon
No.
jon reep
So it could just be taken down.
jamie vernon
It happens on other accounts where it doesn't get reviewed that way and it just got taken down because it got flagged so many times.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, that's one thing that we did learn from talking to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter.
It's impossible to manage.
There's too many posts.
They're going up right now by the thousands.
If you could see everyone in America posting on Twitter right now, it'd be like...
unidentified
It would just be fucking flying.
I mean, imagine if you could see it all happening all at once.
jon reep
A supernova explosion of ones and zeros just busting all over the place.
joe rogan
And text.
Just text.
jon reep
Who do you think, like, if you were to grab somebody's phone, the most popular person that gets tweeted the most and just looked at it, just looked at it, how fast would that go?
You know what I mean?
Like, just that one account.
joe rogan
Oh, it would be insane.
jon reep
I mean, yours probably goes quick.
joe rogan
I don't have my notifications on.
jon reep
Do you follow a lot of other people or do you just put stuff out?
joe rogan
Yeah, I follow a lot of other people.
I just follow whenever I think someone's interesting.
Someone's got cool pictures, I follow that guy.
jon reep
Yeah, yeah.
I follow thousands.
I'll hit like first.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's good too.
jon reep
And then go like, let me see.
joe rogan
Let me go back.
unidentified
Okay, yeah.
joe rogan
Double check.
jon reep
Double check.
So what else is this person's done?
joe rogan
Make sure they're not wacky.
What's really funny is people get mad at you for certain people you follow.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like people are like, you gotta stop following R. Kelly.
Now...
Don't tell me what to do.
jon reep
That's first of all.
joe rogan
First of all, don't tell me what to do.
jon reep
Don't ever do that.
joe rogan
Second of all, what am I doing?
Am I boosting up his profile?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's fucking R. Kelly.
jon reep
I want to know.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter if I follow him or if I don't.
I want to know how crazy he is.
jon reep
Yeah, that's right.
joe rogan
Dude, did you see Tyron Woodley?
UFC top welterweight former champion had a thing on his Instagram page of him watching...
R. Kelly getting interviewed, where he was denying that he knows how to hogtie people.
jon reep
And Tyron's laughing at him.
joe rogan
Play this, play this so we can hear it.
jon reep
Oh, in this interview?
Yeah, this is great.
joe rogan
This shit ain't funny, but dog.
unidentified
I don't know how to hogtie people.
I sent me home.
I don't know how to hog.
Jesus.
jon reep
That's great.
He's not using consonants in that.
joe rogan
I follow R. Kelly for the same reason that I love Real Talk.
If you ever watch that video, Real Talk, we've played it on the podcast multiple times.
Real Talk is one of the greatest unintentional comedies that's ever been created.
Real Talk?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
jon reep
What is it?
joe rogan
It's an R. Kelly song where he's in an argument with his girlfriend on the phone.
And while he's in an argument with his girlfriend on the phone, he's like getting his hair done and shit.
He's smoking stoke.
He's drinking.
He's got like different outfits on.
And he's still in the conversation.
And there's one part where he goes, Bitch, I wish you would burn my motherfucking clothes.
Real Talk.
Bitch, I wish you would burn my motherfucking clothes.
Real talk.
jon reep
Are you serious about that?
joe rogan
Listen, I absolutely feel for any person that he's victimized.
jon reep
Oh, 100%.
joe rogan
I absolutely do.
But you cannot deny that that shit is funny.
jon reep
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
That shit is funny.
jon reep
I'm sorry.
unidentified
There is.
joe rogan
There is.
Hold on, I just played that.
unidentified
What you want?
With your trifling ass!
joe rogan
With your trifling ass!
Trifling is the best African-American saying of all time.
Trifling.
And it's one that white people cannot use.
jon reep
I pronounce it too good.
joe rogan
They own that word.
They own that word as much as they own the N-word.
jon reep
Stop trifling.
joe rogan
You can't be trifling.
jon reep
You can't pronounce the G in trifling.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why white people are not allowed to use it.
They would ruin it.
jon reep
Exactly.
joe rogan
He's out there trifling.
jon reep
He's out there trifling again.
joe rogan
He's bullshit.
He's just a bullshit trifling ass.
jon reep
Yeah, he's trifling ass.
joe rogan
Well, here's the thing.
I bet gay guys use trifling.
I bet gay guys will pull it out.
Oh, him over there with his trifling ass.
You know?
jon reep
Sounds like a rifle that you travel with.
It's a trifling.
joe rogan
Yeah, like a trifling.
jon reep
A travel rifle.
joe rogan
They're thinking of banning those.
They're good for long range.
jon reep
Don't bring that trifle with it.
jamie vernon
How many people do you think had to look it up before Webster had to, like, answer this question?
What is a trifling heifer?
unidentified
I mean, Definition of trifling.
joe rogan
Lacking in significance or solid worth, such as A, frivolous, trifling.
B, trivial, a trifling gift.
C, chiefly dialectical.
jon reep
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Lazy, shiftless, and a trifling fellow.
A trifling fellow?
unidentified
A trifling fellow!
That is a trifling fellow, is he?
joe rogan
That's...
The most English thing you've ever said.
jon reep
It got very wide at the end.
joe rogan
Trifling fellow.
He's a trifling fellow.
jon reep
Don't bring your ass over here with a trifling fellow.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a word, bro.
That's a legit word.
jon reep
Trifling.
joe rogan
Shit, I was going to say something else, but I totally forgot.
What did we talk about right before trifling?
jon reep
You were talking about R. Kelly.
I like that album.
He did an album where it was a lot of just talking.
joe rogan
Oh, Trapped in the Closet?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was a whole series of videos.
I think Aziz had a whole thing on that.
I think he did, like, Aziz Ansari did a bit on it.
I believe so.
I know he had a bit about R. Kelly.
It might have been about Trapped in the Closet.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Trapped in the Closet is great, but it can't fuck with Real Talk.
Real Talk's the jam.
jon reep
Have you seen Weird Al Yankovic's Trapped in a drive-thru.
joe rogan
No.
jon reep
It's really good.
joe rogan
No.
jon reep
It's the same length as R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.
And it's the same.
And it's all about being trapped in a McDonald's drive-thru because the person in front of him is taking too long.
And it's like...
The fact that he did the whole song is what got me.
unidentified
Respect.
jon reep
Yeah.
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
Respect.
Commitment.
jamie vernon
It's animated, too.
It's a whole cartoon.
joe rogan
It's animated.
Oh, my God.
That's hilarious.
jon reep
Which one is this?
jamie vernon
This is.
joe rogan
Weird Al has been around for a long time, man.
I mean, I remember when Michael Jackson's Beat It came out, and he had Eat It.
jon reep
Eat It?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, that was in the 90s.
jon reep
Instead of I'm bad, it was I'm fat.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What year was that?
That might have been the 80s.
jon reep
It's got to be late 80s, early 90s.
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
How old is here?
Weird Al's got to be 85 years old.
jon reep
I think so.
jamie vernon
No, he's 59. What?
jon reep
59?
joe rogan
Was he 12 back then?
jamie vernon
His first song aired in 1976. What?
jon reep
He was that big on Dr. Demento.
joe rogan
That's insane.
jamie vernon
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
So he was really young.
Dr. Demento.
jon reep
Dr. Demento.
joe rogan
God, I remember that.
jon reep
I remember listening when I was a kid, but they played all these weird, goofball, nerdy songs.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
And he was the king of it.
He has a huge following now.
He'll sell out places.
joe rogan
Weird Al?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
jon reep
Yeah.
He's got so much work.
joe rogan
He's got so, I mean, it's a giant body of work.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
I like his hair, too.
He's got that...
joe rogan
Apparently he's a super nice guy, too.
jon reep
Yeah.
And smart, I've heard.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah.
But everyone's smart.
unidentified
What else can we say about him?
joe rogan
He's nice.
jon reep
Yeah!
He's a good dancer, too.
joe rogan
And he accepts his gender.
jon reep
You know what I also like?
He's not trifling.
unidentified
That's what I like.
joe rogan
He's definitely not trifling.
Yeah, that's a word.
It's like...
There's certain words.
Like that one, you just seem so ridiculous if you try to use it.
Oh, this is what I was going to say.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
We were talking about...
We weren't even talking about this, but...
My daughter is watching these YouTube videos of this...
There's this young gay fellow that does makeup tutorials.
jamie vernon
James Charles.
jon reep
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
He's enormous.
Like, he's enormous.
You know, he probably gets more views than any network show that's ever been created.
jon reep
How old was this fellow?
joe rogan
He's young.
Looks like he's like 20. What do you say, Jamie?
jamie vernon
I'm trying to know if I should bring this up.
The last thing that popped in my head during Coachella, he got accused of being in this viral video that happened.
It wasn't him, but the Ferris wheel at Coachella, have you ever seen that?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
joe rogan
No.
jamie vernon
It's a big famous thing that people take pictures in front of.
During a concert, you could see a silhouette of somebody getting head in there, and it's two guys.
jon reep
Oh, really?
jamie vernon
It's a very vivid video that went super viral on Twitter that night.
joe rogan
And they were saying it was him?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
How dare they?
He's all about makeup, not head.
Sons of bitches.
jon reep
Keep it clean.
joe rogan
Keep it clean.
But it's hilarious.
My daughter sits in front of the TV cackling watching it.
Really?
jon reep
Is it supposed to be funny?
joe rogan
She thinks it's funny.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
She thinks he's hilarious.
jon reep
Is this dude going for laughter?
joe rogan
I don't know.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, he's covered in crazy makeup.
I think what she was laughing at, though, in all fairness, was he was making fun of someone, subscribers, 16 million people.
jon reep
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
I think he was making fun of people that put on too much makeup.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
So he was going crazy with the makeup, but she thought it was really funny.
That is fucking bananas.
16 million people, and he's doing makeup tutorials.
jon reep
He looks great!
joe rogan
He looks great.
That's the thing.
It's like, there's an audience from all kinds of shit like this that you would have never expected.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
And because of the access, Because on-demand access, especially through a computer, it's so easy.
It's so easy to just type in the next thing.
John Reed, Penny, bang.
It just pops up.
So these people that...
No network in their right mind.
NBC would never say, hey, that young guy, let's get that guy to do a makeup show.
They'd be like, get the fuck out of the office.
You don't know shit about ratings.
jon reep
Meanwhile, 8 billion subscribers.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
jon reep
That'd be a fun game to play.
It's like, what rabbit hole would YouTube send you down if you typed in this and just let it keep going on its own?
joe rogan
Those algorithms, the real problem is people think that a lot of those algorithms are essentially designed to get you angry.
Oh, yeah.
Get you pissed off so you watch the next thing.
Yeah.
What are they teaching our children?
What are they teaching our children?
unidentified
Next!
joe rogan
Yeah, this is the problem with illegal immigration.
I knew there's a fucking problem!
And then, you know, next thing you know, you're just more and more angry.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's like the argument with Facebook, too, is that...
They're trying to figure out what gets people to engage.
And so the algorithm realizes what you engage with, and then that's what they show you more of.
And what gets people to engage is shit that makes them mad.
jon reep
Yeah, totally.
It keeps me wanting to...
I watch fight videos on Facebook all day.
joe rogan
Do you really?
jon reep
Well, just like brawls in a schoolyard.
It just keeps going.
I'm like, oh man, what's going to happen here?
joe rogan
Those get me anxiety.
jon reep
Do they?
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Well, you know, I don't do much of the fighting, so when I see it, it's like, oh, this is interesting.
Who's going to win this one?
I like it when the underdog wins.
joe rogan
Yeah, I enjoy watching it.
I mean, I will watch them.
jon reep
Not if it's stuck, it's obviously someone's about to die like that.
A good couple punches to the face.
joe rogan
Well, the best ones are when someone deserves it.
jon reep
Yes.
joe rogan
Those are the ones you enjoy.
When someone's being a real dick, and someone's like, listen, man, you're being a dick.
jon reep
Yeah.
I just saw one.
There's a guy on a...
It was a, I want to say like an old Middle Eastern couple that are on a subway.
And this dude's like smacking his wife in the face like that.
And this other guy, he's across from him and he's recording it.
And he's like, no, not in front of me.
And he walked over there and said, he told him like eight times to stop.
And then just punching the shit out of him.
So it's nice to see it, you know.
That is nice to see.
Yeah, there's one of a guy in the...
Okay, it's like a bus, and some guy's running his mouth to this old white guy who's obviously like an ex-Vietnam vet, and he's telling him, like, just leave it alone, man.
Leave it alone.
And he comes down there, and then he walks up to the front, and he just beats the shit out of him.
And you just see blood coming out of his face, and it's like, you know, he started this.
He engaged that whole thing.
The guy was walking away, and then he went back up there.
joe rogan
Those are the best ones.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
When someone deserves it.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
How many, like, that's the thing about, like, a guy smacking his wife in public.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, how often does he smack her that he's so confident that he'll just smack her in front of everybody?
jon reep
Right.
Like, it must be, he must think it's acceptable and everyone else is cool with it.
joe rogan
Or he must think that he could just get away with things.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sometimes people just think they can get away with things.
jon reep
Yeah, there was not many people on that bus in this video.
I think he felt like that guy wasn't even paying attention to him.
joe rogan
Or that most people are just going to be too scared to say anything.
jon reep
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's what...
I mean, this is where it gets real scary.
Because that is the best argument for the end of all privacy.
Is that no one would ever be able to do anything like that because the whole world would be watching.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Keep somebody honest.
It depends on what kind of action you could take.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you could literally see everything that's happening at any time everywhere in the world.
jon reep
Ugh.
Ugh.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Well, now that everyone's got cams, so it's like...
joe rogan
It's close.
jon reep
It's close.
joe rogan
You're right.
Then they're going to have those fucking foldable things.
jon reep
You're keeping cops honest?
You're keeping the people honest now a little bit?
Until too much alcohol is involved?
joe rogan
No, there's something to it.
Because if you think about...
Kennedy did a speech on secrecy.
It was like in 1961 or 62 about how abhorrent secrecy is.
How dangerous it is for a free society.
And they were basically talking about secret societies and secret, you know, pacts in the government.
He was basically, I think a lot of it was him talking about some of the shady shit that he experienced in intelligence agencies.
jon reep
Oh.
joe rogan
But when you have, like, kings or when you have people that are in power, like, how do they wield that power?
One of the ways they wield that power, it's all secrecy.
If they want to execute people, they want to kill people or torture people.
It's all secret.
Right.
The world is not privy to it.
Like, what happened to him?
They took him to a bunker somewhere.
And they're beating the shit out of him and torturing him.
jon reep
Like North Korea.
joe rogan
Yeah, exactly.
jon reep
They're just isolated from the rest of the world.
And who knows what the hell he's doing over there.
We just know the stuff that he allows us to know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, that's the perfect example of power and secrecy, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, they just take you and make you disappear.
He's executed a bunch of people.
jon reep
Oh, yeah, but we don't even know.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
jon reep
They're never close to the tip of the iceberg on that.
joe rogan
I'm sure that still goes on here, too.
jon reep
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
I'm sure people are killing people for someone right now.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
You know, and some of them deserve it.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Give them an extra one for me.
It's also weird what we'll accept people dying from.
I was listening to this podcast Where this wolf lady, she's a wolf biologist, she was talking to my friend Steve Rinella on the Meat Eater podcast, and she was talking about how we accept people getting killed by mountain lions.
It happens.
It happened twice last year.
It happens.
It's not really common, but it happens.
But the moment that people start getting killed by wolves in America, people are going to get furious.
jon reep
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, because they reintroduced wolves in 1994. That's right.
jon reep
Oh, so that's...
They're outraged that we did that, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, she was...
Basically, there was two really interesting things about the podcast.
A lot of really interesting things, but two that really stood out was one that...
These people, they reintroduced these animals in 1994, but there were already some wolves here.
And the wolves would have probably eventually made it down there.
jon reep
It was in Yellowstone, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
But that we aren't...
Because of the fact that they brought them in, and it wasn't just a natural fixture, we have this thing like, oh, somebody ruined this.
Somebody fucked this up.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
The other thing is that they number them instead of name them.
Because if you name them, it's like, oh, there's Dolores.
Oh, Dolores killed some sheep.
We're going to have to take her out.
No, we can't kill Dolores.
jon reep
Not Dolores.
Yeah, number three.
joe rogan
Wolf 157. Right.
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah, that's true.
It's like inmates in prison.
You just give them numbers.
joe rogan
Exactly.
jon reep
So it's easier to kill them.
joe rogan
Easier to treat them like cattle.
jon reep
Right.
But one guy killed that mountain lion.
He fought back.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That story turned out to be horseshit.
jon reep
Oh, is that right?
joe rogan
Yeah, the mountain lion was a kitten.
jon reep
It was a kitten, yeah.
joe rogan
It was a real kitten, and it had been separated from its mom.
You think his mom got killed?
And it was really, really small and really young.
So it wasn't like...
I mean, he might have attacked it.
Who knows?
He was emaciated.
Yeah.
jon reep
Well, he still got fucked up a little bit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He's a bitch.
I don't know.
unidentified
I'm just kidding.
joe rogan
If he's listening right now, I'm sorry, bro.
But I think...
jon reep
What happened?
You're alive.
joe rogan
We're happy alive.
jon reep
You better not touch wolves, buddy.
joe rogan
I think maybe it was starving to death and it took a chance to try to kill him.
Yeah.
That's possible, too.
But it was really small.
It's like 30 pounds.
Which, still, a 30-pound cat is fucking terrifying.
jon reep
I never saw pictures of the cat.
The one that he killed.
joe rogan
No, I never saw it either.
Because I think something had ate a lot of it by the time.
jon reep
Oh, okay.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
So did he say how he did it?
Did he put it in like a choke hold?
Or did he...
He stabbed it with a...
joe rogan
He choked it.
unidentified
Oh.
Right?
joe rogan
Stepped on it?
Something like that?
jon reep
Oh, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I was going to ask if you saw this thing going around the internet about this wolf pack being tracked.
There's actually six of them.
It's like a moving gif over time.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I have seen this.
It's amazing.
It shows how they never cross territories.
jon reep
Oh, cool!
jamie vernon
Six different packs, I think.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They all establish their territory, they mark their territory, and they all respect it.
jamie vernon
It's like over Minnesota, I think.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Minnesota has a shitload of wolves, apparently.
jon reep
What if it keeps going and it's a picture of Jimi Hendrix?
joe rogan
Wisconsin has a shitload of wolves, apparently.
Like, thousands.
jon reep
Wisconsin, yeah.
I could see that.
And it's a lot of woods up there and just land.
Not many major cities.
joe rogan
I think I saw a wolf once.
I think I saw a wolf once.
jon reep
You mean like in the wild?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It was big.
It was either a coyote or it was a wolf.
But I think it might have been a wolf.
Because it was just getting dusk and I was in Alberta.
And I saw this thing run across the road.
I was like...
That might have been a wolf.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
But if you see a wolf, the spooky thing is, what are they doing?
Are they circling you?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Are they checking you out?
jon reep
And they're not usually alone, right?
unidentified
No.
jon reep
Those are the lone wolf, but that's rare.
joe rogan
That's an asshole.
That's a guy who got kicked out.
You ever seen this video?
This one's great.
jon reep
No.
joe rogan
Look at the size of this thing.
Comes out of the woods and walks across the street.
Look at the size of this motherfucker.
jon reep
Oh my God.
Jesus.
That's a bear.
joe rogan
That's such a big wolf.
jon reep
That's a bear.
No, that's a wolf.
joe rogan
What the fuck is that?
It's a big-ass wolf.
That's what that is.
That's probably a 130-pound wolf or something.
jon reep
Where is this?
joe rogan
If I had to guess, is this like Russia?
jon reep
Russia.
Yeah, it's got to be Russia.
That's a gigantic wolf.
joe rogan
Russia's had real, legitimate problems with wolves.
Where in Siberia, they have these super packs.
They would get together because they were starving.
So they'd get like 100 wolves who'd form a super pack.
Because they could kind of do whatever the fuck they wanted once they got that big.
And they started killing horses.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Going to horse stables to just...
jon reep
A bunch of wolves would take down a horse easy.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's just the idea that the super packs, they realized it was too hard to just take over shit with all these pesky people and their guns in houses.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
And so they got Desperado.
jon reep
We're going to take your fucking horses now.
joe rogan
Siberia has always been an interesting place.
jon reep
Have you been to Russia?
joe rogan
No.
jon reep
I've been.
joe rogan
Have you?
What did you do up there?
jon reep
1990. Yeah?
Right before communism fell.
I was there for three weeks.
joe rogan
Whoa, before communism fell.
jon reep
Yeah.
What were you doing?
Gorbachev was in power.
joe rogan
Whoa.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Are you a spy?
unidentified
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Wow, that's pretty good.
jon reep
What did you say?
I said, hello.
I don't understand.
Please and thank you.
unidentified
Wow.
jon reep
That's the words I remember.
It was this program founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 40s.
It's called People to People, where they send the youth of America to other countries to hang out with that youth to promote world peace.
And that's all it is.
And certain kids from high schools are selected, and you go to Washington, D.C. first for three days.
They debrief you, and then you go to another country.
Ours was Russia.
It was awesome.
I had a great time.
unidentified
Wow.
jon reep
Yeah.
And I told Bert Kreischer that too, you know, because he has the whole machine story.
I said, I feel like I can't tell my Russian story because you've owned it so much with your machine story that if I do anything about this, then it's going to look like, oh, okay, you too, huh?
Yeah, you got a Russian story.
joe rogan
Dude, you should tell it.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, people want to hear it.
They'll understand.
They don't think you're a thief.
jon reep
I kind of got in trouble because I was trading illegally on the black market over there.
Not on purpose.
I didn't know I was doing it.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Likely story.
If I was a cop, I'd be like, tell me more.
jon reep
That's kind of what happened.
This dude I was talking to, it was after a function that we were at, you know, where you would go to some town, some village, and they'd greet you with bread and salt, and they would dance around, and you would just...
Eat with them and hang out or whatever.
So I was just talking to this kid.
They speak perfect English.
We're the ones who don't speak Russian.
So this kid's trying to teach me Russian cuss words and I thought he was pretty cool.
It's before the internet.
So I had a bunch of these ink pens that my mom gave me from a phone company where she worked.
She goes, just give them ink pens.
They love anything with English writing on it.
Anything American, they're going to love it.
Bubble gum, jeans, ink pens.
So I was like, yeah, dude, let's be pen pals.
So exchanging addresses.
I'm like, I'll keep in touch with you.
Why not?
And I give him a pin and he gives me his address.
And what I don't know is this dude's already kind of in trouble with cops over there for trading illegally on the black market.
I had no idea.
And this cop just grabbed both of us.
Drags us into the hotel.
No one saw me from my group get grabbed, by the way, because I was off doing my own little thing with this dude, right?
Learning Russian cuss words.
So we go into his office in this hotel, and they're just cussing each other in Russian, and I don't know what the hell's going on.
I'm like, dude, what is this?
Am I in big trouble here?
He goes, this is bullshit.
Let's not have to worry about that.
This is bullshit.
And they scream some more.
Now, the cop doesn't speak English.
And so, he's basically my translator, this guy, to the cop.
I'm like, hey man, I'm with this group, you know, I don't know what's going on.
And so he kicks that kid out, the Russian cop.
And now it's just me and this Russian cop, and I'm looking at him, and he's looking at me, and he looks at my bag with all these ink pens, and he's like, he goes like this, he's like, let me see, you know.
He's like, oh, you want a pen?
So I hand him a pen, and he looks at it.
He's like, oh, cool, and he puts it in his desk.
And he goes away, and he comes back with this big-ass Russian pendant sickle and hammer thing with wings coming out.
It's a pretty cool-looking thing.
And he just handed it to me.
And he goes like this.
So he technically arrested me for trading, and then he traded with me.
Yeah.
1990 is when that happened.
It was pretty crazy.
It was fun to see all that shit, though, right before it fell.
joe rogan
Did you see, like, lines in the street for food or anything crazy like that?
jon reep
Yeah.
Not...
Well, yeah.
I saw Lennon's.
We went to Red Square, Lennon's Tomb.
We went to some smaller little danky villages.
Went swimming in the Nippa River, right close to where Chernobyl was, like 50 miles from Chernobyl.
Whoa.
So...
But yeah, there was...
You definitely tell it was...
Definitely some poverty going on here and there.
But not to the extreme that you hear.
I didn't see these lines around buildings for toilet paper or anything like that.
Communism was on its way out, too.
It wasn't in the worst part of it.
But it was definitely an experience.
I was 18 when I went over there.
There's a picture of me in Red Square.
And I got acid wash jeans.
I got a Bugle Boy t-shirt on.
And I'm wearing a fanny pack with deck shoes.
And I'm just doing like this.
unidentified
So that was fun, man.
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's got to be a hell of a flight, too, right?
How long does it take to get to Russia?
jon reep
We went to Germany first on a layover there for like three hours.
Frankfurt.
And then...
God, I was so young.
I couldn't even tell you how long that thing was.
It's been a long time.
47 now.
joe rogan
That is an interesting country to me.
It's always been an interesting country.
Because it gets so fucking cold.
And they're hard people.
And they create all these amazing fighters.
There's so many great fighters and wrestlers and wrestlers that have come out of Russia a former Soviet Union Dragov Rocky five or four four.
Yeah, the new one was scary He was afraid a new Creed Rocky's Yeah, you know that I've heard I haven't seen it yet.
Yeah Drago's son is yeah fighting Who is this guy?
Creed's son.
jon reep
Do we know the actor?
joe rogan
Is it out yet the Creed guy?
jon reep
No, no think the son out The son of Drago.
joe rogan
I don't know.
Some Russian cat.
jon reep
Okay.
unidentified
Probably not even Russian.
jon reep
So is that someone that's already famous over here?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Yeah, there's the guy.
Look at him.
There's Drago.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
This is the son.
This is my son.
jon reep
He still looks like a badass.
joe rogan
He does.
He's still a badass, I'm sure.
jon reep
His jaw is perfectly square.
That's like a damn square.
joe rogan
Look how much bigger he is.
Jesus Christ.
jon reep
How tall is Sylvester?
joe rogan
I don't know.
jon reep
Have you met him?
joe rogan
Yes.
Yes.
I think he's...
jon reep
He's got about 5'9"?
joe rogan
He's taller than me.
I'm 5'8".
jon reep
Okay.
joe rogan
So he's either 5'9 or 5'10".
jon reep
Okay.
So that, well then Drago must be huge.
joe rogan
Like how tall does it say he is?
Because everybody who jokes around says he's 5'11 or that he's 5'7 or 5'5.
But they do that with everybody.
jon reep
Yeah.
They do a Tom Cruise.
joe rogan
Yeah, it says 5'10".
See, that makes sense.
So he's two inches taller than me.
jon reep
5'10".
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Okay.
Well, yeah, I think I'm 5'9".
unidentified
I don't know.
jon reep
I haven't measured myself in a while.
How tall do you think I am?
joe rogan
I think you're about that.
unidentified
About 5'9".
jon reep
Yeah.
In high school, I always put like 5'10", 5'11".
unidentified
People are bigger now.
joe rogan
People are bigger now.
We're old people that are small.
And as people get bigger and bigger, these kids today that are hitting puberty when they're six...
There's the hormones in the meat!
jamie vernon
What's up?
6'5".
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
jon reep
Who's 6'5"?
joe rogan
They probably accentuated his height for that scene.
jon reep
Well, that's just his hair is 5 inches.
Look at that damn hair.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that looks like he's almost like a foot taller than him, doesn't it?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, they probably had him in heels and had Sylvester Stallone barefoot or something for that shot.
jon reep
Didn't they say, like, at one point during this movie, Rocky said, go ahead and hit me for real one time.
Just want to, you know, make it look real.
Because they were always like, you know, they're like an inch apart in the swings.
And it almost hit him to the hospital.
Like, he hit him in the chest.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, he talked about that.
jon reep
So he almost stopped his heart or some shit.
joe rogan
That's a dumb idea.
Dolph Rundgren is a beast.
Right.
He's a serious athlete.
jon reep
He was a professional, yeah.
joe rogan
He's a kickboxer.
jon reep
Kickboxer, yeah.
joe rogan
Really good.
Sylvester Stallone.
Lundgren put me in the hospital during Rocky IV. Yeah, I believe it.
Don't let people hit you, bro.
jon reep
I like the realism, though.
joe rogan
I guess.
I wonder if they even use the clip.
Right.
He also has, like, screws in his neck from doing the Expendables.
jamie vernon
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What do you got, Jamie?
jamie vernon
He's put in intensive care for five days because of that.
Jesus!
joe rogan
With nuns walking around.
Jesus Christ.
Wow.
The insurance company would not pay out until after they saw the footage of the incident.
Once they did, they wrote the check.
jon reep
I want to see that footage.
I want to see that punch.
joe rogan
He hit my heart so hard that it banged against my ribs and started to swell.
And that usually happens in car accidents.
jon reep
Oh my god.
Jesus, that guy can punch!
joe rogan
He's a beast, man.
He's a giant dude.
jon reep
Why would he ever kill a dude?
joe rogan
And he's a serious striker.
Like, he knows how to throw shots.
If you watch him in his movies, he's obviously trained.
jon reep
Yeah.
I want to see that footage.
I want to see that punk.
unidentified
Ouch.
jon reep
That's got to be out there.
joe rogan
What if Sylvester Stallone wouldn't let anybody see it?
jon reep
It's too embarrassing.
joe rogan
The way he cried.
jon reep
He makes a weird face.
He's like that lady who steps on grapes, who falls down and goes, Ow!
She loses her breath.
joe rogan
You can never be an action hero again if somebody sees you cry.
jon reep
Yeah, that's true.
joe rogan
If somebody sees you legitimately cry from a liver shot, like, whoa!
You just shit yourself.
jon reep
He's looking at the camera.
joe rogan
Why?
Shitting yourself is probably the most embarrassing thing a person can do, right?
jon reep
Yeah.
Especially if you shit yourself.
Like a guy who's known for being handsome and debonair and a badass.
joe rogan
Yeah, just can't make it to the toilet in time.
unidentified
Blah!
jon reep
There's no control over himself.
joe rogan
Shit yourself in your car while you're driving.
You got white leather seats.
jon reep
That's the worst.
joe rogan
It's going to happen to someone.
jon reep
It happens to everybody.
joe rogan
There's going to be a time in your life if you eat risky.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
jon reep
Yeah.
Think of the most handsome person in the world.
joe rogan
Most beautiful woman in the world.
Splattering.
jon reep
Her shit all over herself at some point.
In her hotness heyday.
Most likely.
joe rogan
Do you remember that?
jon reep
I don't like thinking about that.
joe rogan
What was the Woody Harrelson movie?
Was it?
jon reep
No.
Was it a shit scene?
joe rogan
That was he was throwing up.
Was it the Woody Harrelson movie where he played the bowler?
jon reep
Oh, yeah.
Kingpin.
joe rogan
Kingpin.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
That wasn't a shit scene, right?
There wasn't a shit scene in that.
I'm thinking of Dumb and Dumber.
jamie vernon
There is a shit scene.
Well, he's just shitting in the urinal.
That's about it, really.
unidentified
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jon reep
That's right.
jamie vernon
I know how to do it.
joe rogan
Is that a Farrelly Brothers movie?
I think so.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I think so.
jon reep
Dumb and Dumber has a big shit scene, too, with Jeff Daniels.
joe rogan
That's right.
jon reep
Yeah, where he's like...
joe rogan
That's what I'm thinking of.
jon reep
Puts laxative in his drink.
joe rogan
Yeah, where he's hanging onto the toilet seat lid like he's going to get shot to orbit.
jon reep
And he's going...
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Making all those weird noises.
joe rogan
Yeah, because Jim Carrey was stealing his girl.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
He poisoned him.
Poisoned his friend.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it right there.
jon reep
There it is.
Full on.
joe rogan
But Kingpin.
Was it a Farrelly Brothers movie?
No.
That's one of my all-time favorite comedy movies.
jon reep
Kingpin?
joe rogan
That's a great guy.
jon reep
I remember loving it, but I haven't seen it in so long.
I need to look at it again.
joe rogan
I'm scared to watch movies that I love again and see them in the light of 2019 and go, ew.
This is terrible.
jon reep
Yeah, I know.
That's happened a couple times.
joe rogan
It happens.
It's weird, right?
You remember them so fondly.
jon reep
Look at that.
joe rogan
Don't worry.
jon reep
Look at that hair.
That hair's amazing.
joe rogan
It was such a good movie, man.
jon reep
It was so fun.
Someone in hair and makeup had to go like, I'm sure that was his decision, we're going to make your hair just fan out randomly.
It's going to look like a spoiler on a Fiero.
jamie vernon
Donald Trump's hair before Donald Trump had it.
jon reep
Yeah!
He had like a little Trump thing going on there.
joe rogan
It's very similar.
jon reep
There's a professional bowler now in the PBA that has a full-on orange afro right now.
unidentified
Really?
jon reep
And he's, like, really good.
And he's from my hometown.
joe rogan
Yeah, see, if you're a bowler, you gotta do something like that.
unidentified
You gotta stand out.
joe rogan
You gotta wear, like, purple, glittery clothes or some shit.
unidentified
That's what I'm saying.
jon reep
That's smart.
That's just Brandon.
He's peacocking.
He's like, there he is!
That dude's from Hickory, North Carolina.
unidentified
See, that's why he wears that shit.
jon reep
Got him.
joe rogan
Well, he's got to.
He's got to.
I mean, how the fuck else do you get attention when you're a bowler?
jon reep
That's exactly right.
joe rogan
Like, that might be the only way to save bowling.
They might have to, like, go, like, roller derby and just knock into each other while they're bowling.
People are bored of bowling, man.
jon reep
I've never sat down and watched bowling.
joe rogan
Ari's got a good friend, Tommy...
What's his name?
He's a professional bowler.
Real nice guy.
I met him at a couple of shows.
But this guy's a real pro bowler.
We were talking about the financial opportunities of bowling.
And it's not good.
Like pro pool players look down on bowlers.
jon reep
You'd be surprised.
It sucks.
joe rogan
It sucks.
unidentified
Fat dick.
Tommy...
joe rogan
Ari's friend.
I'm sorry, Tommy.
jon reep
Have you bowled recently?
joe rogan
I bowled with my kids.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's fun.
I've bowled, yeah.
jamie vernon
Delutes, maybe?
joe rogan
I think that's it.
Yeah, Tommy Delutes.
I think that's it.
jon reep
The guy I went to high school with was...
joe rogan
Yep, that's him.
100%.
There's Ari.
Ari went to see him bowl.
Yeah, he's a good guy.
Real good guy.
Real fucking killer bowler.
jon reep
Can you make it curve?
joe rogan
Nah.
jon reep
Do you even try?
joe rogan
Steamroll that motherfucker.
jon reep
I do too.
Right down the damn middle.
joe rogan
I do it as hard as humanly possible.
Or it's just disturbing for people to watch.
jon reep
And now they have the miles per hour up there.
So you can see how fast.
It's like a damn pitching thing.
joe rogan
I'm trying to get that bitch fast.
I just want to smash those things.
jon reep
I get annoyed at the guys who, like, curve it really good.
Like, it goes way over here and it just whips real fast.
And then they gutter ball.
I'm like, all that for fucking nothing.
Look at all that you did.
Now watch me.
Right down the middle.
joe rogan
To me, bowling was always like breaking in pool.
It's like, yeah, it's cool to break the balls, but the real cool thing is to play the game.
You're just breaking the balls over and over again.
It's the same look every time.
Every time.
Well, it's like bowling.
Bowling, you're just breaking the balls.
That's all you're doing.
When you're bowling, you've got pins.
You're just knocking down the pins in the exact same order.
It's the same thing every time.
And I know the combinations are different and the way they collide and the way you impact is different, but it's still the same thing.
It's a dumb game.
I'm sorry.
And my grandfather was a big bowler, man.
He bowled leagues and he had trophies in his house and shit.
He used to love bowling.
But when I was a little kid, I was analyzing bowling.
Because he'd take me bowling with him.
I was like, this is a nonsense game.
This game's nonsense.
jon reep
How do you get into it?
Just so you can smoke and drink?
joe rogan
Dude, there's a thing that they have on the East Coast in Boston that they don't even have anywhere else.
It's called Candle Pin Bowling.
You ever see that shit?
jon reep
It's a smaller version?
joe rogan
Dude, you bowl with a softball.
jon reep
That sounds more fun to me.
joe rogan
But it's huge in the East Coast.
jamie vernon
Hometown Ohio, they've got a few places, actually, gigantic bars that have all these lanes for this thing, yeah.
joe rogan
For Candle Pin Bowling?
jamie vernon
Yeah, it's called pins or something like that.
joe rogan
I was looking down on that, because I came from my grandfather in New Jersey who bowled regular bowling like a fucking American.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And then I'm over, what's this candle pin bullshit?
I'm like, would you guys steal this from Finland or something?
What is this?
Right, right.
Nonsense game.
Look at those pins.
unidentified
Look at those things.
jon reep
Oh my goodness.
Now see, I didn't know it was that.
joe rogan
That is ridiculous.
jon reep
I didn't know they were shaped that way.
joe rogan
They're throwing rocks.
They're throwing rocks at pins.
jamie vernon
That's not what I was talking about.
This is really just a bar game.
jon reep
What is that?
joe rogan
This is not what you're talking about?
jamie vernon
Well, I mean it is, but it's way smaller and it's really just like a bar game.
joe rogan
Oh no.
jamie vernon
They have like five lanes or ten lanes and you can Oh.
joe rogan
But it's this same game?
jamie vernon
Yeah, yeah.
unidentified
I'll show you.
joe rogan
Candlepin Bowling in New England, they'll have bowling alleys.
And you go, oh, let's go bowl.
And they're like, oh, we're candlepin only.
People are like, what?
Candlepin only.
Bowling alleys.
jon reep
Yeah.
So we're going to light these candles?
That's what I want.
Set them on fire.
joe rogan
It only works on the East Coast for some reason.
There's a few of those things.
How about this?
Highlight.
jon reep
Oh, fuck.
How fast does that ball go?
joe rogan
That ball goes fast.
jamie vernon
It's actually way smaller than I was thinking in my head.
I've only been there once.
jon reep
It's way different.
jamie vernon
Miniature bowling, kind of.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, it's like skeet ball, too.
jon reep
Skeet ball a little bit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So it's kind of like candle pin bowling.
But the pins are different.
They're shaped like candles.
That's why it's called candle pin bowling.
If you look at them, they're thin pins.
They're not fat on the bottom.
jon reep
It's like, why do we even hear?
joe rogan
I don't know.
jon reep
Are we bowling or not?
Make a commitment.
joe rogan
High Lie, I think, is one of the most corrupt games.
jon reep
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
Someone tried to tell me, oh, it was Joey.
He was explaining to me how High Lie works, that it's all about gambling.
And the only reason why it works is that people are betting on the games.
And so because people are betting on the games, they get these guys, and these guys are just fucking missing on purpose.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it's like it's rigged.
I might be wrong.
If you're a highlight player and you're like, Fuck you, Joe Rogan!
I'll never listen to this podcast again!
Hey, I get my information from the church of what's happening now.
jon reep
Look at that damn glove.
joe rogan
Look how they play with that goofy thing.
jon reep
It looks like somebody with one long, freaky nail.
joe rogan
They're holding it, right?
It's not like wrapped around their wrist.
They're holding it like a tennis racket.
jon reep
How much more fun would it be if he watched a baseball game where the pitcher just had that thing?
joe rogan
Boy, that looks so stupid.
This game looks so dumb.
What's the goal?
unidentified
Who's winning?
jon reep
Who's losing?
joe rogan
I don't know.
They're throwing it off the wall and then another guy catches it.
jon reep
Somebody better get hit in the face pretty quick.
joe rogan
They're putting forth minimum effort.
Even when he falls down, it's like that guy, he's falling down like he's trying to get a foul.
jon reep
Oh, yeah, he does.
It looks like he flopped.
Yeah, he flopped.
And soccer.
joe rogan
The soccer flops the best.
jon reep
Oh, he soccer flopped it.
joe rogan
That's why soccer never make it in America.
The flop.
You have 30 years of flopping.
You can't trick us.
We can watch it on TV. We know what you do.
jon reep
You know, though, I think it's catching on to the NFL and the NBA. They're flopping?
They're starting to flop a little bit more.
Because they see what happens.
joe rogan
Didn't somebody analyze?
Whose free throw did they analyze?
There was an ESPN analyst who analyzed...
What's the guy's name with the big crazy beard?
Really good basketball player?
jon reep
Oh, from the Clippers?
joe rogan
Oh, go to...
jon reep
I don't know what...
I pretended to know.
joe rogan
I literally don't know shit.
Go to Andrew Schultz's...
I think it's Kevin Durant.
Is that it?
Andrew Schultz's...
Go to Andrew Schultz's Twitter page.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
So he had it up on his Twitter and I watched it.
I watched the analysis.
The difference between him when he's challenged and he throws a free throw versus unchallenged.
jamie vernon
James Harden with the beard.
unidentified
That's it.
joe rogan
James Harden.
jon reep
What do you mean challenged?
joe rogan
Meaning someone's trying to block him or he has a free open shot.
When he has a free open shot, he just jumps up in the air and does his three-pointer.
But when he's challenged, he throws his legs up to hit the other person so he can fall down on his ass.
jon reep
Oh, like it's like a leg kick?
Like a self-defense move?
joe rogan
Well, it's not even a self-defense move.
He's like making...
He's forcing contact with the person so that he can fall down.
jon reep
So it looks like...
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's interesting.
jon reep
So it looks like he got fouled.
joe rogan
So here you'll see him.
Watch.
No one's there.
unidentified
Watch.
joe rogan
Watch he jumps.
He jumps straight up in the air.
jon reep
Straight up.
joe rogan
Just straight up in the air.
And this guy analyzes several shots where he does this.
jon reep
Oh, and he missed.
joe rogan
And then they show when he's contested.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
And when he's contested, he jumps up in the air.
And look, he throws his body weight forward and then falls down.
unidentified
Oh.
jon reep
So, in the hopes that they'll be a foul.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're saying, like, if you look at the way his body moves, when someone's contesting him, he moves and leaning his legs towards them to make contact with them.
jon reep
Do you think that's involuntary or voluntary?
joe rogan
It could be involuntary.
See, the problem is that pencil-neck dork fucking...
jamie vernon
No, he's specifically known, especially in the last two or three years, for getting himself to the free throw line at a way higher clip than almost anybody in history.
So that's what they're also saying.
You can't fault him for that because he's using the rules of the game to play the game.
joe rogan
Right, so who is this guy who's examining this?
jamie vernon
Scott Van Pelt.
Scott Van Pelt.
joe rogan
So the head sports center guy is analyzing this and he's realizing that I don't know.
I'm going with Scott Van Pelten.
unidentified
Is that his name?
jamie vernon
Yeah, they made it a rule too.
There's a big thing that happened over the weekend in their game because you have to give the guy a space to land because a couple years ago there were a couple defensive players that got in trouble for hurting people.
They were getting their ankles turned, ruining their career, which is then ruining this team's chances to win a championship.
Lots of money involved.
It's a flagrant foul.
It's very bad to do that.
And the referees all of a sudden didn't call this on Sunday.
The very first time all year they stopped calling it.
That's why they're talking about it, really.
joe rogan
And they stop calling it because people are taking advantage of it?
jamie vernon
Why they stop calling it is the big question that people are literally talking about for 48 hours.
Like, why are they doing this?
Bringing up the question of, like, are the officials really involved in the game?
And it's become a big discussion about that.
jon reep
Another reason why I won't watch it.
joe rogan
Do you watch sports?
jon reep
I watch football.
joe rogan
That's it?
jon reep
Yep.
joe rogan
Do you worry about brain damage?
jon reep
Well, yeah, because it's going to ruin the NFL. Do you look at it differently?
Let's go take my sport away.
joe rogan
Do you look at it differently than you did before that concussion movie?
jon reep
Well, I played high school football.
I've got hit so hard that I've seen stars and that kind of stuff.
But I think that could happen...
I don't look at it differently, to answer your question.
joe rogan
No.
jon reep
I think, you know...
They might change the helmets.
And they've tried that over the years.
Do you remember, like...
It was just leather helmets.
There was less concussions because you would not lead with your head.
joe rogan
Exactly.
jon reep
Now you have a weapon on your head and people have used it as such.
And so I would love...
You know how they do throwback uniforms?
I mean, let's go throw back equipment.
Let's put the leather helmet back on.
Take that stupid face mask off.
joe rogan
You really should, but you'd have to change so much.
You'd have to change so much in the way people...
There's so many different factors.
The way they practice, the way they set up plays.
It would have to be a new game.
I don't think it's going to happen.
I think the perception of the helmet being safer fucked the game up.
I really think it did.
I used to think that bare knuckle boxing, that they should have bare knuckles in the UFC, but then I've been watching this bare knuckle boxing stuff, and people get cut up so bad, now I'm thinking, you know what?
It's better to have padded knuckles.
It's better.
It's better for the fighters.
jon reep
The helmets, the leather helmets were padded.
They just weren't like a hard shell.
And the shell is what made it, you know, you used it as a weapon.
joe rogan
That's literally the only way you're going to be able to stop some of this brain damage.
And you're still not going to be able to stop at all.
They're still colliding into each other.
They say these guys are getting brain damage from getting hit in the chest.
They're getting hit in the chest and their head snaps back and their brain's swashing around inside their skull.
jon reep
Well, they're changing, I think, Maybe like in the little league now, it's like you can't do tackle football until a certain age.
So now it's all flag football until a certain age, I think.
That'll probably happen.
And then the practices will be different.
We only do pads once a week.
Save it for the real game.
joe rogan
Well, it would be amazing if they ever came up with something that definitively fixed it, like some stem cell treatment or something like that that regenerated brain tissue and bring you back to your normal state.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
If they do that, then we don't have to worry about it anymore.
jon reep
Right.
joe rogan
But until that, man.
jon reep
Well, that's got to be around the corner.
That's close.
joe rogan
I think that's a very complex question of how to regenerate neural tissue, brain tissue, how to get rid of all those abscesses and all those things that you see in those people's brains that have CTE. They develop these holes in their brain.
It's serious shit.
It's a wild-ass sport, though.
jon reep
Did you play football ever?
joe rogan
No.
jon reep
No.
joe rogan
No, I wrestled in high school.
I was little, man.
I wrestled 134 pounds.
jon reep
Yeah, but you could have been a good runner back.
joe rogan
Fuck the fuck out of here.
There was another dude...
jon reep
Well, so the fastest guys are small and just, you know...
joe rogan
I wasn't that fast a runner.
I was fast kicking and punching and stuff, but I wasn't really that fast a runner.
I didn't do a lot of running.
But when I was in high school, when I was wrestling, they were trying to tell me, like the coach, Coach Murphy, he was also the wrestling coach, he was also the football coach, And he's like, bro, come on.
You're a sick fuck.
You should play football.
And I was like, dude, that guy plays football.
We had our heavyweight.
His name was Bobby Baker.
He was 300 pounds.
He was enormous.
He was so big.
I was like, he's not squashing me.
Get the fuck out of here.
jon reep
The hardest I've ever been hit was by a little dude in practice.
Probably like 5'7".
And he was a DB. And it was a practice, so I was like third string running back in there.
I was just running up the gut.
And I was falling into the end zone, right?
It was over.
And this kid, he had a running start, like 20-yard head start.
And it was like he came up from out of the ground and went, wow, and knocked me back up.
joe rogan
Whoa.
jon reep
And that's the hardest I've ever been hit was by a little guy.
unidentified
Just think about a human torpedo.
joe rogan
You're like a human torpedo with a hard helmet on.
jon reep
And that's what he led with that helmet.
joe rogan
But you know how fast a really good athlete can run and just think of all that mass behind them and just crash!
The way those guys get hit and the amount of force behind them getting hit is probably unlike anything in sports other than a car accident, right?
jon reep
Other than a NASCAR. Yeah, NASCAR, I think they should bring, they should, you know how hockey, you can still fight in hockey.
joe rogan
NASCAR fights?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Pull out in the pit stop, let's duke it out.
jon reep
Yeah, if there's a caution, everyone else is lapping, you got two guys to have a beef, pull over, get out of the car.
unidentified
Whoa.
jon reep
In the middle of the infield, we have a wrestling rink.
And it's like full on, let's go get in the rink.
unidentified
Wow.
jon reep
We'll give you two minutes, and then if you win that match, maybe you get a little time shaving off, you know.
So there's an advantage to it.
I'd watch that more if it were like half wrestling, half wrestling.
Put the Nacho Libre mask on.
joe rogan
NASCAR's a weird one, right?
Because it's obviously fun to watch.
It's fun to be there.
But it's not as fun as Formula One.
You watch Formula One, you're like, well, these guys are going way faster.
jon reep
Well, and those wheels.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah.
I mean, that's a whole other thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
You know, those wheels touch.
It's over.
You're in the air.
unidentified
Right.
Yeah.
jon reep
These guys' NASCAR, a lot of that happens, and it's fine.
joe rogan
That's true.
jon reep
That one wheel?
Wow!
unidentified
Wow!
joe rogan
Yeah, and those guys die.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, I guess NASCAR guys die, too.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not as much anymore, but...
I mean, anybody's driving a fucking car going fast can die.
What am I saying?
But there's something about...
Have you ever seen the video between...
They show GT3 racing versus Formula 1 racing?
It's the same track.
And they show a GT3 car, like a Porsche, going around this car really fast.
And then they show the same exact path being taken by a Formula 1 car.
And you're like, Jesus.
Watch this.
Okay.
Jeez.
Yeah.
One on the left.
Whoa!
Look at how much faster they are.
jon reep
Okay.
That's the same track.
joe rogan
The same track.
Exact same turn.
Look how much goddamn faster they are, man.
jon reep
That's insane.
joe rogan
Look at that.
It's so wild.
jon reep
How fast is that car going on the right?
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
jon reep
That's insane.
joe rogan
It seems amazing.
What a perfect line he's cutting.
See how the line, the perfect racing line is cut into the groove?
You see that darkness?
jon reep
Yep.
Yep.
joe rogan
That's a bunch of talented drivers.
jon reep
No, thank you.
I think the fastest I've ever been is like maybe 115. You ever been on a racetrack?
I've been on a racetrack.
joe rogan
Yeah?
jon reep
Yeah.
But not, you know, in a pace car, you know.
joe rogan
Oh, but a NASCAR? Yeah.
Yeah.
jon reep
But the Daytona 500 has that huge...
You know, that incline.
And just being down there and seeing that and standing there next to it like, whoa, I didn't know it was that steep.
You have to go fast to stay on it then.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That is pretty wild, right?
And people get hit up there.
They bump wheels up there and collide and fucking spin out on each other.
Look at that thing.
unidentified
Yeah, that is nuts, man.
joe rogan
That's a serious bang.
jon reep
Look at that.
unidentified
It's like a wall.
joe rogan
That is.
unidentified
A little turned to the picture, but still.
joe rogan
What do you think that degree is?
Like, what angle?
jon reep
They've told me before.
I forgot.
It's probably like...
joe rogan
It's pretty serious, though.
jon reep
20 degrees?
joe rogan
31 degrees.
31 degrees.
unidentified
Whoa.
jamie vernon
Wow.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
unidentified
That's insane.
That's...
joe rogan
I mean...
jon reep
Man.
joe rogan
If you would be nervous if you were on a skateboard on that thing...
jon reep
You have to go a certain speed just to stay up on the...
joe rogan
Probably, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's such an American sport, man.
NASCAR is so American because it's loud as fuck.
The cars are gross.
They're so gross looking.
They don't look anything like a real car.
jon reep
Too many sponsors are all over it.
joe rogan
Even if you have a really nice car that's supposed to be the model that that car is, the NASCAR car looks gross.
jon reep
And the decal, they make fake headlights.
It's a sticker of a headlight.
Why even put that on there?
joe rogan
Yeah, what are you doing?
Why are you lying to me?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a fascinating piece of equipment, though, that we've decided to make these things that just drive really fast and then hurl them around this circle, this oval, over and over and over again.
jon reep
It's got so high-tech.
They count the drafting of it.
They know every angle.
Back in the day, it was just a couple of good old boys with moonshot trying to outrun the cops.
joe rogan
Exactly, yeah.
jon reep
That's what I want to see.
joe rogan
That was hot rod in its finest.
That's what it was.
jon reep
That's what I want to say.
Put Mochon in them cars.
joe rogan
Isn't that funny that that's where it all came from?
unidentified
These guys are trying to figure out how to get the fuck away from cops.
joe rogan
Cops used to have the shittiest cars, man.
You'd think they had to chase people in Caprice Classics.
With bench seats.
That is the worst car for handling.
jon reep
With dress shoes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh my god, they make them wear those stupid shoes.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Give these guys some Nikes, man.
joe rogan
That's back in the day.
That's like the early days.
jon reep
Yeah, on the beach.
joe rogan
Wow.
jon reep
Daytona was on the ocean.
joe rogan
Was Daytona 500 the first event?
jon reep
You know, I think so.
I think, well, no, I don't know about that.
Look at these cars.
It was on the sand.
joe rogan
Look at that.
The first Daytona was on the sand.
unidentified
I believe so.
joe rogan
Wow, these are on the sand.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're driving on the sand.
This is crazy.
jon reep
They're not going as fast.
joe rogan
Oh, those cars are so shitty.
unidentified
Is that a convertible?
joe rogan
That looks like a Batmobile.
They are convertibles.
They're convertibles.
Wow.
jon reep
That's what I want to see.
I'll bring back the name Convertible and NASCAR. I want to see these dudes' faces.
joe rogan
I wonder why they made them in convertibles.
unidentified
I don't know.
jon reep
Yeah.
Well, that got the roll bar.
joe rogan
Yeah, but still.
I mean, I bet it gets too hot in there.
They probably didn't have air conditioning back then.
jon reep
Right, yeah.
joe rogan
That's probably exactly what it was.
jon reep
If it's on fire, it's easier to get out when you don't have a roof.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, those people probably died in those things all the time.
Those shitty cars.
Like, if you were a car racer back then, you were going to crash.
There's no way you're going to not.
You're not going to keep it together every time.
Ugh.
jon reep
What's the fastest you think you've been in a vehicle?
joe rogan
I don't want to say because we're on the end.
jon reep
Well, you don't say what country it was in.
joe rogan
I don't know.
jon reep
This could be in Germany on the Autobahn.
joe rogan
In the 100s.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's some...
unidentified
Is that the Chevelle?
joe rogan
No.
No, that thing.
That would have fallen apart.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Flying off the...
The newest cars, though, the problem is they're in this horsepower war where every year they have to have a faster 0-60.
And now they've gotten to the point where they're ridiculously fast.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, the cars of today.
Like, if you just bought a regular car today, it'd be faster than a muscle car was in the 1970s.
unidentified
Right.
jon reep
And you wouldn't even feel it.
unidentified
Yeah.
You wouldn't even notice it.
jon reep
You couldn't even tell you're going that fast.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like, if you bought...
Like a Honda Accord today.
It would probably handle better and drive faster than any supercar from 1970. Right.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Probably.
Fight a gas.
jon reep
Yeah.
You can't feel it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They're real numb.
jon reep
And way safer.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
It's way more boring.
joe rogan
Have you driven a Tesla?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Just drive that.
jon reep
I would love to, though.
joe rogan
Stupid.
jon reep
Isn't electric cars zero to 60 way quicker than gas?
joe rogan
You wouldn't even believe it.
jon reep
I mean, it's gotta be, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
It's just instant power.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Instant power, and that one has a four-wheel drive, the Tesla Model S P100D. It's got four-wheel drive, and so it's got an engine in the front and an engine in the rear, and it flies.
It violates physics.
jon reep
Do you get like a whiplash in that thing?
joe rogan
Like a rollercoaster, dude.
You can't believe how fast it's going.
It's stupid.
And they're making a stupider one.
They're making a faster one that goes 0-60 in 1.9 seconds.
Good lord.
Yeah, it's a Tesla Roadster.
It looks dope, too.
It looks like a spaceship.
jon reep
I would love to have one.
joe rogan
Are you still living in LA? Where are you at now?
jon reep
I moved back to Hickory, North Carolina.
joe rogan
Damn, what are you doing now?
jon reep
I was out here 18 years.
joe rogan
You just couldn't do it anymore?
jon reep
No.
Well, it was a couple things.
My career has always been like a roller coaster.
Good years, bad years.
And I actually just miss my family.
I missed out on a lot growing up.
And the market was really good.
I had this condo in Studio City.
I bought it for a certain amount, and then it gained value.
And I thought, well, if I'm going to do this, now is the time to pull the trigger.
And I think I saw you at the improv one night.
I said, I'm out of here.
I'm bouncing.
joe rogan
We do the road so much, right?
jon reep
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing, too.
And the industry's changed.
I already have a manager and an agent.
It's not like I need to be here for every little audition.
I'll put myself on tape.
I got Eastbound and Down on a tape.
I got Harold and Kumar on a tape.
The second audition, yeah, you fly up for it, but getting your foot in the door of that tape, anybody can do that now.
It's just changed so much.
joe rogan
That's if you want to act, and you do so much stand-up on the road, there's really no reason to be here unless you just want to perform at the store all the time.
jon reep
That's right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
And I moved back to Hickory, and I was going to get myself a nice lake house in Lake Hickory.
Yep.
Still want to do that, but then as soon as I get home, you know, Thanksgiving, Dad has a stroke.
So I see that happen.
unidentified
Oh, man.
jon reep
You ever seen someone have a stroke?
joe rogan
No, you were there when it happened.
unidentified
I was looking right at him, and it was weird.
jon reep
Because my dad's a funny guy.
I thought maybe, because we were going to eat Thanksgiving dinner late.
It was like a 6 p.m.
thing we were doing to get other people in the house.
And so he was complaining all day about not eating.
Like, I'm hungry.
When are we going to eat?
When are we going to eat?
I'm looking around at him.
He's sitting next to the fireplace.
And he's just like...
Nosedives, but just head first right onto the hardwood floor, and it was like, boom, you hear like a thump.
I was like, ah, dad's making a joke.
We haven't eaten yet.
It's, you know, he's making a thing about like a little blood sugar or something.
And I was kind of laughing, and my brother's like, no, he hit really hard.
His head hit that floor way too hard for that to be a joke.
And then you walk over to him, and Arms curling up, one eye's going like that, and it's like, this is a stroke.
And we called 911. They came pretty quick, but he suffered some serious brain damage right here.
And so he's paralyzed on his left side now.
But I was, in a weird way, happy that I was at home when this happened because How we're still out here and that shit happen, I'd be hating life.
But the fact that I'm there and able to help mom out, going through all this whole thing.
Because she's got glaucoma and she's got brittle bones.
She can't physically lift him up and do stuff.
And the fact that we were in the house and able to help...
It's crazy.
I didn't see the drooping of the face.
I didn't see that happen, you know.
That's what people say when you see a stroke.
You see, like, the drooping happens.
Yeah, like that fat chick in Total Recall, you know.
Two weeks!
That scene where her head explodes.
Get ready for our surprise!
I thought that was what it was, but...
No, he just hit the floor.
joe rogan
So have you toured at all since that, or have you just been...
jon reep
Small, just places I can...
I didn't take on extra gigs, but I didn't cancel the ones I had.
So the ones that I could drive to, definitely, I was just, well, let me go...
I have a brother who's there as well.
unidentified
So...
jon reep
But I definitely didn't take on anything for, you know, since Thanksgiving that it wasn't already there.
So...
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
But he's at a skilled nursing facility now.
And they showed us the X-ray, you know, the MRI of the brain damage that happened.
He had a colloid artery.
Now he keeps getting UTI infections because he has a catheter.
Because it also, it doesn't just fuck with your muscles.
It's the organs on that side, too.
So his bladder's got to relearn how to operate.
So he's got a catheter, you know, and that just opens you up for UTI infections a lot.
And those, I don't know if you know, they're like UTI infections when you're older.
Like, it really devastates you because you hallucinate.
So you see shit.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
jon reep
Yeah.
And it's weird being in there and, you know, he was like, hey, make sure that bear's not out there.
Like, a bear.
Like, he keeps hearing or think there's a bear outside the window.
So, yeah.
I was happy to be back home for that.
But, yeah.
joe rogan
Are there bears where you live?
jon reep
No, not the skilled nursing facility.
I mean, there might be some twinks.
joe rogan
Yeah, no bears.
Are you allowed to say twink?
No!
jon reep
I was trying to make a joke!
joe rogan
He used to be able to just make a joke about that.
Now it's dangerous.
jon reep
Yes!
Yeah.
No, but, yeah.
Hoping for the best.
Still going through rehab, occupational therapy, physical therapy.
joe rogan
Do they think that he'll be able to recover some function on his left side?
jon reep
I think, you know, they always want to dangle a little bit of light of hope at the end of the chart.
Oh, Jesus!
joe rogan
I'm panicking.
jon reep
But, you know, some people recover quickly.
Some people not at all.
Some people three years later can recover.
You need a, here you go.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Three years later can recover.
jon reep
Yeah, I mean, you know, so we're just still, we're still doing all of it.
joe rogan
Dude, John Singleton just died from a stroke.
jon reep
That's right.
joe rogan
Do you believe that shit?
jon reep
Yeah, and he was what, 51?
unidentified
51. Yeah, it could happen to anybody at any age.
joe rogan
Luke Perry, same thing, 51 stroke.
jon reep
That's right.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Crazy.
jon reep
A lot of strokes are happening.
joe rogan
Fuck, man.
I wonder if those folks smoked cigarettes.
jon reep
Well, my dad definitely did.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
They say that cigarettes contribute pretty heavily to strokes.
jon reep
He used to smoke a lot when he was younger and then quit when he was in his late 40s.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
But that was a lot.
Back then when you'd smoke at 12 years old or something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
A whole pack.
joe rogan
I don't know if Singleton smoked, but I do know Luke Perry did.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, and this woman that I talked to who was a neurologist was telling me that that's a significant factor.
It raises your chances of stroke pretty significantly.
jon reep
Yeah.
So, I'm back in Hickory.
My idea is to come out here, you know, for pilot season.
Keep doing it.
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
And then hit the store.
I was there last night.
unidentified
It was fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was good seeing you, man.
jon reep
Yeah, you too, man.
Doing the roast battle.
That's out of my comfort zone, too.
joe rogan
Oh, it's so mean.
unidentified
It is.
jon reep
That's not me.
unidentified
I don't know.
jon reep
I couldn't.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
I know.
You're a nice guy.
jon reep
But I'm like, okay.
You guys should shake hands.
I'm glad they hug at the end.
joe rogan
I'm glad they hug too.
Well, Brian Moses, the host of it, is awesome.
Yeah, he's good.
He's such a nice guy that when he does that show, it seems like it's okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because he's so nice and he's so funny too.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like him hosting it, it makes it seem like it's okay.
jon reep
And Jeff Ross being there and sort of like letting everybody know kind of what the rules kind of are, you know?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jeff's an interesting cat, right?
He's really created...
Roasting is...
It's come back.
jon reep
He's carved out that whole niche.
joe rogan
It's all him.
jon reep
It's all him now.
joe rogan
But it really is.
There was so little roasting going on before Jeff Ross.
Roasting was a thing of the past.
It was an old Friars Club type deal.
jon reep
Yeah, it was like old Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, that kind of stuff, you know?
joe rogan
It's kind of amazing.
Those were good, too, though.
Yeah, they were great.
jon reep
I like those.
joe rogan
Those guys are so mean to each other, but they were all friends.
jon reep
And they were laughing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
While it's happening.
joe rogan
That's also the difference, too.
It's like those roasts, there weren't that many of them, and they were friends.
Like, legitimately friends.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
jon reep
That's the thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
They already were friends.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
A lot of these roasts now, it's like, who am I doing?
unidentified
Right.
jon reep
Who?
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
And I'm going to come out swinging?
joe rogan
Yep.
unidentified
Mean.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Mean.
jon reep
I feel like I've got to get to know you before I can really bust your balls.
Otherwise, I'm just being a dick.
joe rogan
Exactly.
But it is just being a dick.
unidentified
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
But it's really clever.
jon reep
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
Being a dick in a clever way.
jon reep
I enjoy it from afar.
joe rogan
Yes, me too.
But I think it's a great showcase for joke writing.
jon reep
100%.
Yeah.
Really good for that.
The best ones are the quickest right to the joke.
Brutal.
This guy last night had pulled out a laptop and was trying to do some voice created, like, you know, Stephen Hawking voice or something.
And I'm like, this is taking too long.
It's not working.
The next guy had like, it was like four words, pam, pam, pam.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
That's a skill I wish I had.
See, I'm like, I get up there, I'm a goofball, I tell stories, I'm animated, I move around, but I envy those guys who can go, ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.
I wish I had that skill.
joe rogan
You could develop that skill.
jon reep
And I have gotten better at it over the years.
joe rogan
But you have a style.
You have your own John Reap style.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And people like your style.
That's true.
They would be mad.
Like, hey man, why are you doing that?
What's this?
Who's this guy?
I like the guy who tells the great stories.
jon reep
Is he doing an impression of a comedian?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Do you remember, like, when you first started out, there was, like, a way you thought you had to be?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
Did you do anything, like, cringy that you look back on now?
And you go, what was I doing back then?
jon reep
Yeah.
I mean, I used to come out, like, I used to dance a lot.
I was the Hickory dance machine.
joe rogan
The Hickory Dance Machine?
jon reep
I would come out dancing.
unidentified
Really?
And the crowd's like, okay, a lot of energy here.
joe rogan
What kind of music?
jon reep
Whatever was popular, you know.
Something from Jock Jams Volume 2. You know, snap, I got the power.
joe rogan
Oh, I got the power.
jon reep
It's getting kind of hectic.
unidentified
Really?
jon reep
So I come out dancing.
I made up stupid little...
I do a shovel dance, a rake dance, a mop dance.
And then I would stop and do comedy.
And then I would get bored with myself.
And then I'd dance again in the middle.
This is what I was featuring.
And then I would dance again at the end.
Hickory Dance Machine.
My favorite one, though.
I'm actually proud of this dance.
It was any guy washing women's laundry in the 1800s dance.
It's a very specific dance.
joe rogan
A guy, look at you.
jon reep
Oh, turn it off!
joe rogan
That's it!
jon reep
So he smells it.
Oh, that's before the beard.
Look at those chins.
Look at that baby face.
joe rogan
How old were you back then?
jon reep
Oh, this was a week ago, I think.
Look at you dancing.
This is like, I'm not sure how long ago.
joe rogan
It looks like you're in Russia.
jon reep
That's in a theater right outside of Hickory, a place in Lenore.
Oh, like 700 people.
unidentified
Wow.
jon reep
Yeah.
Yeah, out of shape right there.
joe rogan
Where did you first start doing stand-up?
jon reep
In Raleigh, North Carolina.
Charlie Good Nights.
joe rogan
Charlie Good Nights.
That's a great spot.
jon reep
It's one of the...
People love it.
It's like one of the best clubs on the East Coast, they used to say.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is.
Didn't somebody buy that place?
jon reep
Yeah.
Well, Brad...
It was Tommy Williams Forever.
Then he sold it to Brad Reeder.
Brad Reeder sold it to the guys that own Helium.
Philadelphia and Portland, that club chain.
So now they own it.
It's just called Good Nights now.
They took the Charlie off of it.
Still a great club.
unidentified
I don't know.
jon reep
Charlie Goodnight was some cowboy.
I think maybe they didn't like that.
What's wrong with Charlie?
Charlie's great.
But you've played there before.
joe rogan
Yeah, a bunch of times.
jon reep
It's hard not to do great in that club.
And it also can kind of ruin you in a weird way if you start out at a club where everyone kills all the time.
Because you're thinking, okay, I got this.
It's been a week.
I've nailed it.
Come on, world!
What do you got?
And then you go to some other little shitty one-nighter.
It's like, no.
No, you can't dance here.
joe rogan
That's interesting.
Like, what do you think made it so good?
Was it the dimensions of the room?
Was it the crowd?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because of the town?
I think it was.
The town's a cool town.
jon reep
Yeah, town's great.
It's a college town.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
It's also the capital.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
So you get a mix of like, you know, your politicians, your college professors, your students, and right outside of it's the rest of the world.
So it's a mix of everything.
And it's really close to campus, too.
So I don't know.
I think it's...
That club was good at what they did.
You go to a one-nighter and it's a bar.
I remember the first time I did a gig outside of a comedy club where it was just a bar.
It was a pool hall that had a comedy night.
And I went there on a Wednesday.
And me and this other guy walk in.
We're the comedians.
And we're like, oh yeah, so we're here for the show.
The comedians are like, oh shit, that's tonight, huh?
unidentified
Fuck.
jon reep
All right.
Johnny, go get that amplifier.
So it's like there's...
I'm like, are you kidding me?
And then you have to tell people to stop playing pool so you can tell your jokes.
Right away, people hate you.
joe rogan
Oh, you can't get people to stop playing pool.
jon reep
I'm going to go back to good nights.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
So that was your first venture?
jon reep
First one outside of a club was like a one-nighter pool hall.
unidentified
Wow.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a rough first one-nighter.
jon reep
Yeah, yeah.
Luckily, I only had to do like 10 minutes, but that 10 minutes seemed like an hour.
joe rogan
Charlie Goodnights also was a club that had been around for so long.
It had such a history.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because there's so many comics that come through there.
Everybody came through there.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everybody I know.
jon reep
Everybody came through there.
joe rogan
Everybody.
So the people that lived in that town, they were used to good comedy.
jon reep
That's right.
joe rogan
They got great comedy every week.
jon reep
Yep.
And the 80s was the heyday.
joe rogan
You know what else is like that?
Zany's in Nashville.
jon reep
That's my favorite comedy.
joe rogan
That's a fucking great spot, man.
jon reep
That's my favorite one.
joe rogan
It's a fucking great spot.
jon reep
Zany's.
God.
joe rogan
That place is the shit.
jon reep
Yep.
I've been going there for years.
joe rogan
There's a lot of dead people on those walls.
jon reep
Probably.
Yeah, there is.
joe rogan
There's 8x10s?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's 8x10s of comics.
Many of them are dead.
jon reep
There's a guy named Brian Kiley.
joe rogan
I know Brian Kiley.
jon reep
This is a different one.
joe rogan
Oh.
jon reep
I know the one you're thinking of.
joe rogan
The guy from Boston.
jon reep
Yeah.
This is a different one.
Same name.
But he started in Nashville.
He's a big, big, big guy, right?
Probably weighed like 500, 600 pounds.
You know, he's a polite guy.
He said, hey, I'd love to open for you and, you know, do the road and all that stuff.
I said, sure, just show up at these gigs and you want to go up?
I'll let you out.
I don't care.
And so it got to be a thing, you know.
He did a gig for me right outside my hometown.
And then that night he goes, well, I'm just going to drive back to Raleigh tonight.
It's like a three-hour drive, and he died on the way there.
Some drunk driver hit him, and he flipped his car, and he didn't have his seatbelt on because he didn't have the extender.
He couldn't physically put it on.
And so no matter how big you are, if you're flipping that car, you're going out the window.
And so it killed him, and his headshot hangs right there above that door.
And so that's one of many people on that wall that is no longer with us.
A lot of comedians are dying.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
When do you think that Zany's was started?
I want to say in the 70s.
jon reep
Probably.
joe rogan
There it is.
jon reep
I think they started in Chicago.
Zany's Chicago.
joe rogan
That's the Chicago one, right?
jon reep
That looks like, yeah.
That's a weird angle.
joe rogan
That's a lens.
jon reep
That one's not as great to me because it's long and boxy.
And the further you get back to the bar area, the more chances you have to lose them back there.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's still only 150 seats.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's tiny.
Shit.
But I see what you're saying.
Nashville's perfect.
jon reep
You get the flanks.
It has a balcony right there at the top.
joe rogan
Shout out to the Dorfmans.
jon reep
And everybody just has a good time at Zaney's, man.
joe rogan
It's a great club.
jon reep
It's my favorite one.
And then the second favorite would be...
Denver.
joe rogan
I was bummed out when they lost.
Denver's fantastic.
But I was bummed out when they lost the punchline in Atlanta.
That was another one.
That was another one, man.
jon reep
They lost that one to a parking issue.
joe rogan
Is that what it was?
jon reep
Yeah.
That one, it was shaped like a barn.
joe rogan
Perfect.
jon reep
Yep.
It had a small balcony, but they just packed people on top of each other.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
So you didn't have room to be, you know, on your phone or talking.
It was like, you're right on top of people.
You had to walk through the crowd to get to the stage.
Unless you hung out in that one weird green room the whole time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
But there's no bathroom.
joe rogan
That one weird green room.
Yeah.
I like that spot.
And then it had that sign on the back wall that said, quit trying to be Hicks.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Because there was all sorts of writing on the wall.
jon reep
Which is weird in Atlanta because we're all kind of Hicks.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I love parks!
Boom, boom, boom.
Remember there was an upstairs area, too, where you could look down?
Like, there was limited seating.
jon reep
Small little balcony where the DJ was up there or whatever.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's right.
jon reep
And you had, like, that's where their office was.
And they had, like, it's like the heckle.
Maybe, like, five people could sit up there.
I did a good practical joke at that place one time.
There's this comedian named James Sibley.
Great guy.
Very funny.
Southern dude.
unidentified
Uh...
jon reep
We were sharing a condo somewhere, I think in Myrtle Beach.
And as a joke, I thought it'd be funny when he's leaving to put a condom wrapper in his bag.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
And I go, ha ha!
Not tell him.
unidentified
You're so pissed.
So I did that, right?
jon reep
Did this happen to you?
No.
So he goes away.
I don't see him for a year or two.
Maybe three.
joe rogan
He's divorced now.
jon reep
Well, the first thing he did, this is Atlanta Punchline, he walked up to me, he's like, you motherfucker, you know what you did to me?
You got me divorced.
Like, it was this long thing.
I was like, dude, I am so sorry.
It was stupid.
It was just dumb.
I wasn't even planned out.
It was sitting right there.
I just threw it in there.
unidentified
Ha ha.
jon reep
Maybe he'll find it as he's packing to go home.
I didn't think this out, you know?
joe rogan
Right.
jon reep
So I felt really bad about it.
He goes, I'm going to get you back.
And I'm like, okay.
And that stupid green room they have in that corner at the punchline, right?
Where you're sitting in there.
There's no access to a bathroom.
If you just poke your head out, everybody can see you.
Like, who's in there?
What's going on?
So I'm sitting in there.
He goes, all right, here's what I'm going to do.
When you go on stage, because he was opening for me, I'm going to put mustard all over the doorknobs in here, okay?
And you're going to be in such a hurry to get out of there and go back to your stupid merch table that you're not even going to remember that I told you there's mustard all over this doorknob, and you're just going to grab mustard on your head.
It wasn't as good as me getting him with a condom, obviously, but he was right.
Like, I go on stage.
joe rogan
He told you he was going to do it.
jon reep
He told me he was going to do it.
I said, uh, cat's out of the bag, James.
Not going to happen.
And of course, I grabbed it right away.
I was like, okay.
joe rogan
Are you still close with him?
unidentified
Do you know him?
Yeah.
jon reep
Well, not as close as I can be, but we're good.
We're fine.
joe rogan
Did you have to talk to his wife?
jon reep
No.
He's got a new wife now, but not because of me.
joe rogan
I wonder if it was.
It was the first step.
jon reep
Maybe so.
Could have been the first name.
That's right.
You're welcome, new wife.
joe rogan
The glass is half full.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
Okay?
Settle the fuck down, everybody.
Yeah, you're welcome, new wife.
Maybe that was like God's plan.
jon reep
That's right.
In a weird way, I was like God.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
In a lot of ways.
jon reep
What if God was one of us?
unidentified
He is.
jon reep
It's me.
joe rogan
Isn't that a song?
jon reep
Yes, it is.
joe rogan
Who sang that song?
jon reep
Jane Osborne, I think.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know what's really funny?
jon reep
Am I right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Joan Osborne.
joe rogan
Joan Osborne.
Pretty close.
jon reep
Pretty close.
Are you not impressed with the speed of that?
joe rogan
That was very quick.
unidentified
Thank you.
joe rogan
Like a DJ from the 90s.
jon reep
Junk jams.
joe rogan
Yeah, whatever happened to that lady?
That was a good song.
jon reep
Yeah, she had her nose pierced.
She had beautiful curly hair.
joe rogan
She just said, listen, this is not for me.
I'd rather be in a hippie commune somewhere doing yoga every day.
jon reep
I wonder what she...
Maybe she is doing that.
joe rogan
Probably.
What, is she still out there?
jamie vernon
She's still out there.
joe rogan
Still hustling?
unidentified
Still out there?
jon reep
Still making it?
joe rogan
Every day I'm hustling.
jon reep
Eric Ross.
I love that one.
That's on my playlist of working out when I get on the treadmill.
joe rogan
Every day I'm hustling?
jon reep
Yeah.
That one gets me going.
I swear to God, it does.
Cat Williams started it, though.
When I saw Cat Williams do his bit about you could have any stupid job, and if you hear that song, you do the best you can at it.
It was a great bit.
And that's the first time I heard the song.
I go, I like that.
Yeah, I'm hustling up here on the treadmill.
joe rogan
Cat Williams has some all-time great bits.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Especially the earlier stuff, all that Pimp Chronicles stuff.
jon reep
He does.
joe rogan
He's a murderer, man.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shit's fantastic.
jon reep
Murdering.
It's so funny.
joe rogan
When he was coming up, right when he was starting to blow up, his stuff was so good.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was so good.
jon reep
The way that he talks.
joe rogan
Excited, too, and animated.
It was really fun, man.
Fun shit.
Great comic.
jon reep
So there's Rick Ross on my playlist.
And then I also do a soundtrack from Flash Gordon, Queen.
You know?
You're the best.
No, that's Karate Kid.
joe rogan
You have that one in your soundtrack?
jon reep
That was on there, too.
You're the best around.
Rocky, obviously.
I go with movies that kind of inspired me when I was a kid and get that soundtrack.
unidentified
I see.
jon reep
And then I get on that elliptical machine, and now I'm doing the elliptical for the universe like Flash Gordon.
joe rogan
You're letting motherfuckers know.
jon reep
I'm saving the planet.
joe rogan
Did you ever watch the old Flash Gordon from the 1950s?
jon reep
No.
The first one I saw was the shitty one in the 80s.
joe rogan
I was on a plane, not really recently, I guess more like a couple years ago, and they had one of those video catalogs where you could just watch stuff.
I think it was an international flight.
And it had old TV shows, and it had Flash Gordon.
I watched a bunch of episodes of Flash Gordon.
It was wild, man.
It was weird.
It's weird to watch.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's weird to watch what people thought space was going to be like and aliens.
It's so strange.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, I think Flash Gordon was probably from the 50s, right?
jon reep
It was a comic book, wasn't it?
joe rogan
Yes.
It was originally a comic book.
See if you can pull up video of...
jon reep
They need to remake that video.
jamie vernon
I found photos of the green room in the punchline.
I was looking for that Hicks line.
joe rogan
Oh, we've showed that before.
jon reep
I wish they would remake Flash Gordon and make it a comedy, but keep the soundtrack, because it's Queen.
Bohemian Rhapsody's huge.
Queen's huge right now.
Keep the exact same soundtrack.
Make Flash Gordon a comedy.
Jack Black, get the...
joe rogan
Well, you're thinking of Flash Gordon the movie now.
jon reep
Yeah, the movie.
joe rogan
That's way, way, way, way.
There's the original Flash Gordon.
With Ming the Merciless.
jon reep
Ming the Merciless.
joe rogan
Look at him.
How weird does he look?
Look at Flash.
That's what they thought.
People were going to be wearing weird neck collars in the future and belt buckles.
It's such a strange look, man.
jon reep
Just a lightning bolt on your chest?
joe rogan
Pull up a video of it so you can watch a video because it's so weird to watch.
What year did it say?
56?
jamie vernon
54 to 55. Wow.
jon reep
Ming the Merciless.
joe rogan
It's so...
jon reep
This is where he like...
joe rogan
It's so shitty.
Like the special effects were so bad.
jon reep
Oh, this is not even the movie, this is the...
joe rogan
I know.
But I mean, I'm saying.
The Claim Jumpers.
Steve Holland as Flash Gordon.
Irene Champlin.
jon reep
Dale Arden.
joe rogan
Look, she's hot.
She's hot in a real way.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
There was no faking it back then.
Dr. Zarkov.
jon reep
So, yeah, same character.
I've not seen this, though.
So this was a whole TV show.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
jon reep
How many episodes do you think they made?
joe rogan
If I had a guess, I bet they made 50 or something like that.
jon reep
Yeah, look at that.
joe rogan
She's hot.
jon reep
Look at that shirt.
She is hot.
joe rogan
Look at that gun!
jon reep
It looks like a drill!
joe rogan
Yeah, I know.
jon reep
She's holding a drill!
joe rogan
Women back then all had flat butts, unless they did gymnastics.
jon reep
That's right.
joe rogan
Unless they're some freak of nature accident.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
That is some sort of weird dildo.
joe rogan
That's so stupid looking.
jon reep
That's a jackhammer.
joe rogan
You know what that looks like, Jamie?
jon reep
A handheld jackhammer.
joe rogan
It looks like that Tim Tam, that Theragun.
That's what it looks like right there.
jon reep
What is that?
joe rogan
This thing.
What does that do?
It's for massage.
Oh, shit.
unidentified
It hurts.
It hurts.
jon reep
May I? Yes.
unidentified
You probably shouldn't do it right in front of the microphone like I did.
joe rogan
It's great.
It doesn't hurt.
It's real good for loosening up muscles.
There you go, bro.
That's what they had.
jon reep
Good lord.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's their weapon.
jon reep
I'm going to punch you in the face real fast.
joe rogan
It's always weird seeing what people thought the future was going to be like once the future already hits.
Because if you think of that movie Alien...
Didn't we figure that out?
It was like 2015 or something like that.
They thought the first one was in 2000. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, like the future was 2015. Yeah, it was something along those lines.
jon reep
Yeah, it is weird now.
Well, Back to the Future is classic.
Their future was...
What was it?
What was the future?
Because it happened in 1985. And they went to...
And the second one they went to the future.
But it was like 2000. It wasn't that far.
No, it was like 2015 or something.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, something like that.
jon reep
Where Biff was the billionaire now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
Because he took that stupid sports almanac and bet on a bunch of shit.
joe rogan
I watched that a couple of years ago at a movie theater in Bozeman, Montana with my family.
They had like a Back to the Future night where they were playing it.
unidentified
It's a great movie.
joe rogan
You know, they play an old classic movie.
It's fucking great.
jon reep
That one holds up.
It's so good.
joe rogan
It's especially cool to see an old movie in a movie theater.
Like, I know they do those sometimes at certain movie theaters.
They'll have like, they'll screen an old movie.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
I went to the Hollywood Bowl and watched Back to the Future, and they had an orchestra playing live.
The soundtrack, you know, during the movie, as it's happening, and you kind of forget that that shit's happening right now.
joe rogan
Yeah, we do that every year.
We go to see The Nightmare Before Christmas.
jon reep
Oh, yeah?
They do that at the Bowl?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's great.
jon reep
You ever go to the cemetery and watch a movie?
unidentified
No.
jon reep
Hollywood Forever?
joe rogan
I did a show there once, though.
jon reep
You did?
joe rogan
Yeah, Duncan Trussell used to host a show there.
unidentified
Yeah, Duncan!
Yeah.
jon reep
Love him.
So what, outside?
joe rogan
No, inside.
There's like an inside place where you do stand-up.
jon reep
Okay.
It was real weird.
unidentified
So cute.
joe rogan
Yeah, we did stand-up.
jon reep
Oh, I never did that one.
joe rogan
At the cemetery.
There's concerts there and shit.
jon reep
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
Well, they have that one gigantic white wall, and they just project movies, and everyone sits on the lawn.
It's like 5,000 people.
joe rogan
How weird is that?
jon reep
I watched Purple Rain out there.
joe rogan
Look at that.
jamie vernon
I watched Scream.
That was super weird.
joe rogan
Scream?
jamie vernon
The horror movie?
joe rogan
Oh, that would be good.
jon reep
That would be good.
joe rogan
That's actually a great move.
jon reep
I was there watching Purple Rain, and Dave Chappelle was there.
They come out as a DJ. They do stuff before and after the movie.
Everyone dresses up like characters from the film.
joe rogan
Wow.
jon reep
Yeah.
It's awesome.
Have you seen Purple Rain, the movie, lately?
joe rogan
No.
jon reep
That's great.
joe rogan
Is it?
jon reep
Yes and no.
joe rogan
Yes and no.
jon reep
The acting is so bad.
I mean, great sarcastically.
But Prince, it's so funny.
There's this one, when he first makes his full face on film, right, in the movie, it takes a minute.
There's this one scene where Apollonia is walking off and he's mad and he just like whips around real fast and his hair comes and does that.
And then everybody in the cemetery was watching this in front of like 5,000 people.
Every girl's like...
Look at him!
This guy was 4'1".
joe rogan
Oh, man.
But it was...
jon reep
80 pounds.
joe rogan
He kind of changed music.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
I was a huge fan.
joe rogan
Yeah, I was a giant fan.
jon reep
I saw this one and a theory it came out.
It was the first time that I French kissed a girl and touched a boobie was in this movie.
joe rogan
Well, it's also like...
Oh, and there's a lot of wife people.
jon reep
He hits her in this movie.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There was a lot.
Yeah, didn't he?
jon reep
He hits her in the movie.
unidentified
Yeah.
jon reep
And he's like, oh, I want to be like my dad.
But he actually hits her.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jon reep
And he says the F word as well.
unidentified
Yes.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's right.
jon reep
I'm afraid to say anything.
I don't want to deadname anybody.
joe rogan
Don't do it.
Now you know about deadnaming.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
You put it in my head.
jon reep
I was free.
joe rogan
Deadnaming.
jon reep
No, I'm living with deadnames.
joe rogan
You can get kicked off of Twitter for life, bitch.
For life.
jon reep
I'm barely even on Twitter.
joe rogan
Really?
unidentified
How come?
jon reep
Well, I'm on there, but I don't know if Facebook seems to be where my people are.
joe rogan
Really?
jon reep
Yeah.
joe rogan
What people are those?
jon reep
Rednecks from Hickory.
joe rogan
Is that more of a thing?
unidentified
I don't know.
jon reep
Well, I had nothing wrong with MySpace.
I was okay with MySpace.
You were on MySpace.
joe rogan
Hey, go back to AOL, man.
You've got mail.
jon reep
Hang on, it's like this.
You've got mail.
That's perfect.
joe rogan
That's perfect.
jon reep
Listen, dude, I've got to wrap this up.
There was one before MySpace, too.
What was the one?
joe rogan
Friendster?
jamie vernon
Friendster.
jon reep
Friendster.
jamie vernon
Pickrave and a couple other ones.
jon reep
It was MySpace, then Facebook.
joe rogan
What do you think is going to be the next thing?
jon reep
TikTok!
joe rogan
Is that a new thing that kids are doing?
unidentified
Have you seen that one yet?
joe rogan
Oh, that's like music videos, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's not going to work.
It'll work with little kids.
jon reep
I'd be annoyed with the commercials for it.
joe rogan
Eventually people will give up.
jon reep
Yeah.
The next thing will be something in your brain.
That would be a chip that you put in there.
joe rogan
That's going to happen.
jon reep
Yeah, it'll be an iCloud where everyone's just hanging out with each other.
joe rogan
Yeah, some virtual world where you're in an avatar.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And you get to be a perfect person out there.
jon reep
Yep.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's going to happen.
jon reep
I'll try it out.
joe rogan
The world we live in is very strange, John Reap.
jon reep
It certainly is.
joe rogan
But I'm glad you're around to provide comedic entertainment, sir.
jon reep
Likewise, my friend.
joe rogan
Thank you.
Where are you going to be next?
Where can people come see you?
jon reep
Oh, good question.
Next, I am going to Dayton, Ohio.
unidentified
Funny Bone?
jon reep
Funny Bone.
joe rogan
Nice.
jon reep
And then Toledo.
Perrysburg, Ohio.
Also a funny bone.
And then it's all on johnreap.com after that.
joe rogan
Johnreap.com!
Ladies and gentlemen.
jon reep
Thank you, brother.
joe rogan
Always good hanging with you, man.
jon reep
Likewise, thanks, bro.
joe rogan
You gonna be around tonight?
You gonna come down to the store?
jon reep
Yeah, yeah.
unidentified
I'll see you, buddy.
jon reep
I'll see you at Laugh Factory on Friday night.
joe rogan
Okay.
Beautiful.
Bye, everybody.
unidentified
Peace!
joe rogan
That was fun.
Export Selection