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April 29, 2020 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1466 - Jessimae Peluso
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joe rogan
Three, two, one.
Jessie Mae.
jessimae peluso
Rogan.
joe rogan
Good to see you.
jessimae peluso
Joseph.
Do people call you Joseph?
joe rogan
My mom does.
jessimae peluso
Oh, that's sweet.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
What's your middle name?
joe rogan
She's basically it.
James.
jessimae peluso
Joseph James.
Sounds like an author.
joe rogan
Maybe I should write books.
jessimae peluso
I can't believe you haven't written a book.
joe rogan
I tried.
I started doing one a long time ago.
I had a deal for a book like 12 years ago.
And the dealing with the editors was so gross.
They basically wanted me to just transcribe stand-up.
And I wanted to write a bunch of weird shit.
jessimae peluso
Didn't Judy Carter already do that?
Bah!
joe rogan
Do you remember that book?
Is that the worst genre ever?
Books on how to do stand-up?
They might be the most piss-poor books ever.
Belzer had a pretty good one.
Belzer had a decent one.
I think it was...
He had a couple of them.
He had one on stand-up and he had one on UFOs, Bigfoot, and JFK. Belzer is a great...
jessimae peluso
Those all go together.
joe rogan
Do you know him, Richard Belzer?
jessimae peluso
I don't know him personally, but he's a legend for sure.
joe rogan
He's a crazy conspiracy theorist.
jessimae peluso
That makes sense.
joe rogan
Off the deep end.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
Is he, like, rate him with Sam Tripoli?
Is it just as crazy?
joe rogan
No, maybe more.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's...
I don't know if they believe in the same things.
Because it's funny, like, there's, like, classifications of conspiracy theorists.
Like, some conspiracy theorists are balls deep in, like, JFK. But you try to bring up 5G, and they're like, get the fuck out of here with your 5G. So is Marilyn Monroe.
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
Balls deep in JFK. It was a little sex joke.
I mean, well, I guess he was balls deep in her.
joe rogan
Allegedly.
jessimae peluso
But I mean, who knows?
Who knows what they were into behind closed doors?
She could have strapped one.
joe rogan
That's a good conspiracy theory, too.
Do you think they killed her?
jessimae peluso
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
100%, right?
jessimae peluso
Absolutely.
Snitches, bitches get snitches.
Is that what it is?
There's stitches that happen with bitches.
joe rogan
Snitches get stitches.
jessimae peluso
Bitches who are snitches get stitches.
joe rogan
Yeah, or no stitches because you're just dead.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you're dead.
You get the ultimate stitch of life.
Which is just done.
joe rogan
For sure they killed her.
jessimae peluso
So if you were going to write a book today, what would it be about?
joe rogan
Oh, I don't know if I would do it today.
I don't know.
Maybe this is what I should be doing right now during this COVID time.
But I'm using it as an excuse to...
I don't know.
I'm not working on stand-up at all.
This is the first time in forever.
No writing.
I haven't written anything.
jessimae peluso
Do you feel like it's relaxing or do you feel any anxiety about having that detached from your day-to-day routine?
joe rogan
That's not the anxiety.
The anxiety is the world.
The anxiety is what's happening right now.
jessimae peluso
General existentialism?
joe rogan
Well, just the fact that the economy has come to a complete screeching halt and all these people are losing their jobs and all these people are losing their businesses and we're not exactly sure what to do because there's the hardcore people that are like, fuck it, open it up, keep the women and the old people safe.
You know what I mean?
unidentified
I know.
You know what I mean?
jessimae peluso
We're fucking fine.
First of all, stop making us so weak, okay?
Why are we grouped into old, haggard people?
joe rogan
I shouldn't have said women.
Most people aren't saying.
I made that up.
What people are saying is old people.
jessimae peluso
No, but you're right.
It is a thing.
joe rogan
Well, you know, women and children first.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, which we should be, for sure.
joe rogan
Well, in the Titanic, you were.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, in the Titanic, we were.
joe rogan
That's why everybody loves Leonardo DiCaprio, because he died for her.
jessimae peluso
Paint me like your little French girl.
joe rogan
Yeah, but meanwhile, I'm like, can't you both get on that fucking raft?
unidentified
I know!
joe rogan
It's not that.
It's lying on top of each other.
You're already making out.
Like, what's...
jessimae peluso
Picked his little frozen hands off and shoved him into the belly of the ocean.
joe rogan
Get out of here, fucker.
jessimae peluso
Get a sign on the paper first.
joe rogan
Nice drawing.
jessimae peluso
You could write something about parenting.
I mean, it must be interesting for you to be raising daughters in this climate.
joe rogan
Well, I think raising sons in this climate would be just as interesting and just as weird.
Just raising humans in this climate, what no one's ever done before.
Raising kids with full-time electronics and the internet from the time they're babies.
The good stuff is you can't bullshit people as much.
There's access to information.
Like we're trying to figure out today, just now, how many people died in the 1918 flu.
And you said it best.
You're like, there's no unanswered questions anymore.
jessimae peluso
You can't ponder.
Wondering and wonderment is a thing of the past.
It's gone.
joe rogan
It's still there, but you can get answers.
You know, it's like you could search shit down and get answers.
So what was it, the number, like 50 million died in the 1980s?
Yeah, totally.
jessimae peluso
I mean, that's a huge number.
But the thing that we were talking about also is, I guess I just don't understand.
I understand that this disease has a lot of unknown factors, but there are so many other things that are detrimental to our society that it's wild that it took this sort of situation to bring everything to a screeching halt globally.
It's a little scary.
And it's scary that we're using so much resources to deal with it.
I know we need to, but then, okay, after this, are we going to start to apply those resources to deal with child sex trafficking that happens in the country, to deal with homelessness, to deal with these other issues?
Is this going to be a sort of Kickstarter to be like, okay, let's get our shit together as a global society instead of living in our own tribal existences, which doesn't work.
It doesn't work anymore.
joe rogan
Whoa.
jessimae peluso
I'm sorry.
You made me smoke the blunt.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you're right.
You're right.
Maybe that is what we'll do next.
Maybe...
Listen.
500,000 people in this country alone die prematurely because of cigarettes.
And we're just like, well, you know, whatever.
Imagine if it was Kool-Aid.
If Kool-Aid was killing half a million a year.
jessimae peluso
Well, Kool-Aid is.
joe rogan
Imagine if Diet Coke.
But it's not.
jessimae peluso
Sugar kills a lot of fuckers.
joe rogan
But yes, it does.
It does.
But...
Not as clearly as cigarettes.
Like you can be healthy and occasionally enjoy Kool-Aid.
jessimae peluso
I agree, but don't you think sugar is just as addictive as nicotine?
joe rogan
It's very addictive.
You're right.
jessimae peluso
I think if we look at it from a broader spectrum, they're both equally as bad and killed just as many people.
They do kill a lot of people.
But I see what you're saying.
joe rogan
I don't think they kill as many because I think heart attacks is higher right now.
I guess you would have to lump diabetes in there too, right?
jessimae peluso
You would, absolutely.
And what's the highest killer?
joe rogan
Heart attacks.
Heart attacks was number one until COVID. COVID took the number one spot on the chart.
unidentified
Coming in at number one, COVID-19.
jessimae peluso
Coming in, number 19, straight out of Wuhan.
He's quick with the slips.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
Killing bitches.
joe rogan
And sneaky.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, sneaky.
joe rogan
Sneaky disease that kills healthy people, and then old people survive it like it's nothing, and then it kills an entire nursing home full of people, and then young people get it and die from it, and old people get it and brush it off, and some people have zero symptoms at all, as many as 50% or more.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's wild.
It's like the crack of diseases.
It's like a bunch of diseases.
It is.
It does have a lot of characteristics of multiple diseases, and that's a scary factor for me.
But I'm always grossed out.
I mean, you and I travel.
We used to.
joe rogan
Yeah, we used to travel.
jessimae peluso
Remember comedy?
joe rogan
But are you enjoying the not flying all the time?
jessimae peluso
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
How good is it for your body?
jessimae peluso
Dude, I feel like I look like 15 now.
I'm like, oh, I'm chilling.
I got my plumpness back.
Sleep is amazing.
I don't have to deal with farticles anymore and fucking airplanes.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
jessimae peluso
Dude, I don't know what it is about flying.
I'm sure it's the pressure and the pressurized cabin.
joe rogan
People love to fart on airplanes.
jessimae peluso
God, they let it rip on airplanes and that's COVID in my face.
I'm fine with not dealing with the farts anymore.
joe rogan
Imagine if it was killing people, if farts were killing people.
If a guy could fart on a plane and half the people on the plane died.
jessimae peluso
You should have met my dad.
unidentified
A couple of those cookies would have ripped you right out of your seat.
joe rogan
There's something about old man farts.
jessimae peluso
Oh, they're great.
They're legendary.
joe rogan
You know, it's something funny about when you walk into a supermarket right behind an old guy who crop dusted you and you're like, you motherfucker.
jessimae peluso
You're not even mad at him, though.
You can't be mad at him.
That fart went to Vietnam.
That was a fart that maybe, you know, fought some wars.
He deserves it.
unidentified
People that have been through war have got to be like, what are we doing?
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
Like, if you've been through war and then everyone shut the disease down, people are coughing.
Wait.
jessimae peluso
This is what we're worried about?
joe rogan
Obviously it's a terrible disease.
I'm making light of it.
But it's a terrible disease sometime, which is weird.
It's like, you know, car accidents are car accidents, right?
Your car gets hit by a train.
It's the same thing every time.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's an isolated situation.
joe rogan
But it's terrible every time.
jessimae peluso
Every time.
joe rogan
This is terrible, like a car hitting a train sometimes.
People just die.
And then for other people, it's literally nothing.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's really wild.
It's an inconsistent disease.
And it's also, I just don't understand how much longer we're going to be shut down.
I mean, the economy is struggling so much over this fucking disease.
joe rogan
Not just struggling, like broken.
jessimae peluso
Yes, this broke us.
joe rogan
They're going to have to rebuild it, and it could take a long time.
It scares me listening to these experts talk about it.
jessimae peluso
What scares you the most about the current situation?
joe rogan
Well, it's always gonna be a new disease and loss of life.
That's number one, right?
So number one is we're all scared because this disease is super infectious.
It's just running through like old folks homes.
There was one old folks home.
I believe they said 70 people died in this one old folks home.
jessimae peluso
And that's terrible on another level because those people can't bury their family the way they need to or want to.
The grieving process is interrupted by the protocol.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't even visit them in the hospital.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, that's that's really brutal and that for that fact It makes me really sad for families that are losing loved ones like that older people.
joe rogan
That's why it's so crazy It's almost like and this is a ridiculous way to put it, but I'm gonna do it anyway do it if you were intact if this country was attacked by an invasion of demons And they were all interconnected.
jessimae peluso
We did.
It was the Kardashians.
It already happened.
It was a fucking genocide for women.
joe rogan
It already happened.
jessimae peluso
Sorry, sorry.
Continue.
You're making a good point.
joe rogan
That's what it would be like.
It's like some people don't even get haunted.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Some people just get a little bit of a demon.
And then some people get the full wrath of Satan himself.
jessimae peluso
That's a good point.
joe rogan
I was reading about this guy who was on an incubator for more than 30 days.
And it was a terrifying account.
It was in Massachusetts.
All these different ways they were doing, different methods they were doing to try to revive this guy.
One thing it made me think is like, thank God there's people out there that can do this, that know how to keep a guy like this a lot.
Yeah.
A guy who was a young guy.
He was like in his late 30s, I believe, maybe 40s.
And he was married with little kids.
And, you know, it was a terrible story.
But they figured it out.
And they used some crazy machine that was bypassing his heart and his lungs.
Like it had to go in through his leg and like into a major artery, I think, or something like that.
And they had to keep him like basically in a coma, like so that he doesn't move.
jessimae peluso
Like an induced coma to keep him.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're just trying to pump air into him.
Oh my God, it's terrifying.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, that is terrifying.
joe rogan
That's why this disease is so strange.
jessimae peluso
It is.
I laugh because you made a good point about we're lucky to have people who know how to handle this.
I feel like that, you know, with social media and everything, those jobs are not as appealing to people.
And who knows in like 50 years of another thing like this and we're lucky enough to be alive and it hits us.
Instagram influencers aren't going to be able to intubate anybody.
You know what I mean?
Like the girls selling fit tea won't be able to help us.
joe rogan
And imagine if your job was, if you thought your job was to help people, which is what most nurses and first responders, I mean, their job is, hey, you know, I'm going to do a good thing for the community.
I'm going to do a good thing for people.
I'm going to be there to help people when they're ill.
I'm going to treat them.
I'm going to help them survive and recover.
Like, that's a beautiful thing.
But to go from that to all of a sudden you're on the front line of this infectious virus war and you could get bit.
jessimae peluso
You can get bit, and there's not enough PPE in all these places, and it's really scary.
That's the scariest part.
We don't even have the fucking equipment for these people.
joe rogan
How is that possible?
They have more equipment now than they ever had before, but they just never saw this coming.
There was a pandemic department, apparently.
What do we know about that?
It was canceled during the Trump administration?
They canceled the pandemic?
jamie vernon
I believe, yeah.
What I read was that there was like a team in place at the transition that since that time, which would have been three years ago by now, those people are no longer at the jobs that they had.
So they would have probably had other positions maybe in the White House or other places.
joe rogan
But does the actual position exist anymore?
jamie vernon
I don't.
From what I read, no.
Or like, I don't even know if it was like an actual position.
I think it was like a team.
jessimae peluso
It's hard to not think about conspiracy when you hear that that team was just shut down and that department was just shut down and then this happens.
I'm not a big conspiracy theorist, but I understand where people might go, wait a minute, hold on.
joe rogan
I know what you're saying.
Yeah, I don't think it's a conspiracy.
I think it's incompetence.
I think, you know, there's been scientists for years, even Bill Gates.
Bill Gates in, I think it was 2015, a very famous, was it 2015?
Did that TED Talk?
jessimae peluso
Oh yeah, that TED talk about saying how it wasn't going to be like war.
It was going to be about a microscopic war.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
jessimae peluso
Which is what we're at right now.
joe rogan
I've heard this from so many independent sources.
I think that's exactly what it is, really.
I think they just didn't see it coming.
And it's just incompetence.
They didn't treat it with the respect that it deserved because it's not in their face.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
If you're a person deciding what to spend money on...
And you're running something like the United States of America.
There's some fucking wacky decisions you have to make, you know?
And someone, whoever it was, made the call that we don't need that.
I mean, I don't even know if that's true.
Maybe the money was diverted or it was diverted into some sort of another program or something.
But they just didn't see it coming.
jessimae peluso
I guess it would be hard to see something like this coming and it's like preparing for the thing that you can't imagine would be hard to prepare for.
And it's going to be an interesting thing because, like, for our ability to look back at ancient civilizations, it's a little difficult because of the lack of technology available then to record incidents happening.
But for us right now, this is all being recorded.
And maybe there'll be a differentiation in the advancements with technology, but I wonder what future generations are going to know and decipher from this situation that we're in right now.
Like, didn't they see that coming?
You know, that sort of situation where they're like, How did they not see this happening?
How did they not know this was going to happen?
joe rogan
Because we have a really weird inability to pay attention to anything that doesn't affect us immediately.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, that's strange.
joe rogan
It's very strange.
But it's a characteristic of human beings that's probably got some sort of evolutionary benefit.
Like, concentrate on what you're concentrating on.
Don't see the big picture.
Because if you see the big picture, you're going to go, why am I even bothering?
I'm a finite life form on a planet with a dying star floating through infinity trying not to get eaten.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
It's a survival mechanism.
joe rogan
There's something about it, like, your brain has too much ability to comprehend.
And if you comprehend everything, like, just the nature of life itself, the fact that your body is this ecosystem with all this different stuff inside you, because you collectively, like, however they influence you, however your microbiome influences you, collectively are you, and you know that.
You just assume that there's one.
But meanwhile, it's this crazy fucking world.
It is.
It's all interconnected.
It's all interconnected.
jessimae peluso
Do you ever talk to your cells?
joe rogan
No, do you?
Do you talk to yourselves?
jessimae peluso
I do.
I say that in a sense of I thank my existence and my being for taking care of me.
I express gratitude to myself on a microscopic level, on a molecular level.
joe rogan
Like talking to plants.
jessimae peluso
I talk to my plants.
joe rogan
They say that's real, right?
If you play plants music, they actually grow better?
jessimae peluso
I wonder if there's plants that like Cardi B. Or if it's all just like...
joe rogan
Is that real?
jessimae peluso
No, it's real, yeah.
joe rogan
But was there a study on this?
jessimae peluso
Absolutely.
That they grow more flourishly.
Flourishly, is that a word?
They flourish more with music in their growing process.
joe rogan
Have you ever been high on a grow-op?
jessimae peluso
I don't even know what you just said to me.
joe rogan
High in a grow-up, like a grow-up where they're growing weed, walking through weed high?
jessimae peluso
Oh, actually, yes, I take it back.
My partner's grow-up.
I was inside a little bit stoned.
It feels nice.
joe rogan
Yes.
One of the earliest studies of the effect of music on plants was conducted in 1962 by Dr. T.C. Singh Head of Botany at Animalia University.
He exposed balsam plants to classical music and found that their growth rate increased by 20% compared to a control group, along with 72% increase in biomass.
unidentified
Wow!
joe rogan
72% increase in biomass from playing music.
jessimae peluso
But even that 20%, that's a huge, huge number.
And imagine what that does to plants.
I mean, we already know there's science that it helps babies and fetuses and babies inside the womb to listen to classical music and things like that.
So it's interesting.
I wonder what the rate of helping a baby grow is, what the percentage is.
joe rogan
No shit, right?
I wonder if you could play Beethoven for your kid when it's like a tiny little baby who's in the crib.
What if it increases its intelligence?
jessimae peluso
I wonder if it would.
Do you think it would?
joe rogan
I mean, for real, it'd be an exercise, right?
Because the kid would be following along with these beats.
So the thing to really complex classical music is like, I don't know about you, but I don't play shit.
I have zero musical talent at all.
jessimae peluso
I have none.
I mean, I can do like a finger flute.
joe rogan
I love the fact that I don't know anything about how they do it.
So I could just enjoy it.
Just enjoy the music without thinking about the technical details of it.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it must be a little stressful if you know how it goes to obsess over that, over the notes.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, it'd be like us with comics.
jessimae peluso
You're like, why the fuck did you do that?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right?
jessimae peluso
Why would he go that way?
Why would he go this way?
joe rogan
Or you know what it'd be like?
It would be like us if you're watching someone play a comic in a movie.
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
Right?
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you're like, you did it all wrong!
joe rogan
Right, yeah.
jessimae peluso
That was so terrible.
joe rogan
So if you were a guitarist and then they're doing a movie on Hendrix...
Like, what are you going to do with the fingers?
unidentified
What are you going to do?
jessimae peluso
Because you're not going to trick people.
Flap them around aimlessly.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're not going to.
You have to actually know how to play guitar if you want to play Hendrix in a movie.
Am I right?
jessimae peluso
I'm just laughing.
jamie vernon
Yes and no.
You're right, but also so many people have such different technique that you'd look at somebody and be like, that's not how you play that, but you hear it and it sounds exactly right.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, because of the way they develop their dexterity.
joe rogan
Let me give props to someone who faked it better than almost anybody.
Will Smith when he played Muhammad Ali.
I don't want to say faked it.
I would say acted his ass up.
Became like a boxer.
I've seen so many fights.
When someone moves, you go, ah, come on with that.
jessimae peluso
Oh, you're talking about the actual choreography of his movement.
joe rogan
His movement.
jessimae peluso
See, I never saw that movie, but I know it was a good one.
I thought you were going to say, because we're talking about music, like Jamie Foxx with Ray, but I don't know.
joe rogan
He's fantastic.
That guy can do anything.
jessimae peluso
I know, Jamie Foxx is amazing.
joe rogan
He's weirdly talented.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, he is.
joe rogan
If you listen to his voice, you're like, whoa, you can do that too?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
He is a very, very talented dude.
Very funny.
jamie vernon
He did the cello thing, too, though.
He made it seem like he would learn...
Maybe he did, but a master cello player in that movie with Robert Downey Jr. That's right.
jessimae peluso
The guy who's homeless.
jamie vernon
I can't remember the name of it.
jessimae peluso
We can Google it, Jamie.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, but see, he can really do that.
It's not like if someone asked me to play a guitarist.
I don't know what you're supposed to do with your hand.
It's going to be like...
jessimae peluso
I don't know what to do with my hand!
joe rogan
You ever see a movie where you could tell someone doesn't really smoke and they're smoking cigarettes in a movie?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it just looks so awkward in their hand.
unidentified
Unnatural.
joe rogan
I've heard actors talk about that, too.
If their character smokes cigarettes, they'll actually smoke cigarettes so they can get comfortable with the fact they have a cigarette.
And even then they feel like a fake.
jessimae peluso
Well, I think because so much of our mechanism is dependent upon our personality type, you know?
It's not necessarily everyone smokes a certain way.
It's just like, how do you stand?
Like, where are you?
Are you leaning?
Or how do you eat?
You know, do you have bad posture?
It's going to affect the way you do things.
joe rogan
There's a thing that you can see in someone that's doing something awkward.
There's a weird thing if they're not really good at it.
And it's like, I play pool.
And when you watch someone play pool in a movie, and he's supposed to be an amazing pool player, they're like, bitch, get the fuck out of here.
This guy's doing everything wrong.
Everything's all clunky.
That guy can't play.
jessimae peluso
Do you like that Martin Scorsese movie?
joe rogan
You can see it in seconds.
Which one?
The Hustler?
jessimae peluso
No, with...
joe rogan
Color Money?
jessimae peluso
Color Money.
It's a classic pool movie.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's an amazing movie.
That's actually the sequel to The Hustler.
jessimae peluso
Oh!
joe rogan
Yeah, The Hustler.
I've read the books.
Who's the author?
I forget the author.
jessimae peluso
You read a lot.
When did you have time before?
joe rogan
I don't read much anymore.
Mostly what I do is listen to books on tape.
jessimae peluso
Is that considered reading?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
Donnell Rawlings says no.
Donnell is like, wait, you listen!
unidentified
You listen and you say you read!
joe rogan
And Ari Shaffir said the same thing too.
Ari Shaffir wrote on my Instagram something, some fucking comment.
jamie vernon
Books don't have tracks or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jessimae peluso
That's funny.
joe rogan
Come on, bitch.
jessimae peluso
But I mean, if you're in school and you're getting a lecture, you're learning.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Listen, it's not the same.
But I can do it when I work out.
So I can listen to books while I work out.
jessimae peluso
Do you think you retain information better when you're working out and doing physically exerting things?
joe rogan
No, I think you retain the most information when you're sitting there concentrating on retaining information.
You retain less, but you can still do it.
jessimae peluso
You seem really able to acquire and retain a lot of information.
joe rogan
It's scattered though.
It's like I have all my hard drives are fucked up.
jessimae peluso
Are you running on an old Dell processor?
joe rogan
I have a chimpanzee's brain.
jessimae peluso
A chimpanzee?
joe rogan
I'm supposed to have a few categories of things that I concentrate on.
That's what my brain's designed for.
But I've taken it like if you're trying to put a big engine in a Volkswagen Bug, I'm just cramming information.
Instead of horsepower, I'm trying to cram information in this chimp brain.
jessimae peluso
Do you get headaches from it?
joe rogan
Every day!
No, I'm lucky I don't get headaches.
I've had friends that have had migraines, and it seems like probably one of the most disturbing things you can experience.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, there's so many other physical...
Symptoms that are associated with migraines that just the migraine itself everything else seems so much worse I've had friends that say it's like literally like their heads in a vice and It'll last for an hour.
Yeah, that's brutal.
Do you have any like physical issues?
I know you have like a like a joint issue or a bad knee I've always got something wrong from fighting.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's always something wrong.
jessimae peluso
Is there anything congenital?
joe rogan
No, no, nothing.
No, everything was just from just use and abuse.
But, like, I'm 52, and for most guys that are 52 that still get involved in jiu-jitsu, they've got a bunch of surgeries.
Most guys have, like, back surgery or shoulder surgery or knee surgery.
Almost every guy that I know that gets into, like, his 40s and 50s from jiu-jitsu.
jessimae peluso
Is it like a midlife crisis choice where you're just like, I gotta...
I gotta try this thing and challenge myself.
unidentified
I'm a man.
jessimae peluso
I gotta get in the ring.
joe rogan
You could use it that way, but it's more like a life challenge.
The way I look at it, it's like a really difficult thing to do.
And in doing really difficult things, it increases your capacity to do other things.
And it also occupies your mind with real drama.
It's really dangerous.
jessimae peluso
What do you mean by real drama?
joe rogan
It's really dangerous.
I mean, it's not dangerous in the fact that you're going to get hurt.
You might get hurt, but most of the time when you train, you don't.
But I mean, it's dangerous in that this guy's trying to kill you.
He will tap you out, you'll tap, and you'll give up, and then you go again.
You're not going to die, you're not going to get hurt.
But the reality is, he could have killed you.
If somebody gets you in an arm bar, they're going to break your fucking arm.
If they get you in a triangle, they're going to put you to sleep and strangle you to death.
jessimae peluso
Are you flirting?
unidentified
That's...
jessimae peluso
That sounds great.
joe rogan
My point, Jessie Mae, is that when you do that, it makes other things easier.
jessimae peluso
It makes other things seem trivial.
joe rogan
The people that get good at jujitsu, men and women, they have a tolerance for the hardships of life that's built into them from training sessions that other people don't have.
When you're constantly, you're a woman, you're constantly grappling with this and this bitch is just trying to kill you.
You're good friends and they're getting on top of you and she's trying to strangle you, she's trying to get you in the rear naked choke.
You're like, not today, motherfucker!
And you're doing this all the time, like regular nonsense out in the street.
jessimae peluso
It must be a great way to focus your stresses and angers in your everyday existence and sort of funnel them into this.
joe rogan
Instead of that, I think it avoids a lot of the anger.
I think a lot of like frustration that a lot of people have, the tension is like built up energy that they need to expand.
They need to expel.
They need to get it out of their system and they don't get a chance to.
They're stuck in offices.
They're stuck in their car.
They're stuck at home, wherever they are.
jessimae peluso
I don't know if it's not that they don't get a chance to.
They don't decide to implement it into their life somehow.
joe rogan
There's that too.
jessimae peluso
Because there's a choice to make.
And I realize there are limitations to people's lives in certain situations, but it's a choice to implement something like this where you can deal with your anger.
unidentified
For sure.
joe rogan
For sure.
jessimae peluso
I mean, anger is necessary.
joe rogan
Here's why it's a weird choice.
It is a choice.
But, you know, it's not normal or healthy to sit in a chair all day.
jessimae peluso
No, it's not.
joe rogan
And everybody's being forced to do that.
And it is a weird thing to decide that we got to do.
jessimae peluso
I mean, that's why there's so many suicides in Chinese culture, isn't that?
Like, in Japanese cultures, too?
joe rogan
It's crazy hours, too, right?
jessimae peluso
Yeah, but they're sitting in a desk all day long, jumping out of their windows because of the stress of the work week.
joe rogan
Imagine the feeling when you make that jump.
jessimae peluso
You probably regret it.
joe rogan
You're like, fuck this job!
jessimae peluso
There's no way each time you're like, this is a good choice.
joe rogan
Each time?
unidentified
Milk was a bad choice, and so was jumping out of the window.
Shh!
joe rogan
Boy, that's a crazy way to go.
jessimae peluso
It is.
joe rogan
But how crazy is that Foxconn place where they make the iPhones where they had to put nets around it because so many people were jumping?
jessimae peluso
I mean, at least they're evolving, you know?
It would be fun if they put a trampoline and then you can just kind of jump around and deal with your emotions and that.
You're like, I guess it was a good thing that I didn't do it, that I didn't die.
joe rogan
They have dorms there and everything.
Like, why can't we make an American cell phone?
Is that impossible?
unidentified
No, it's not.
joe rogan
Or would we have to pollute everything?
There's a thing that's like, no bullshit.
Like, no bullshit.
I don't know why everything gets made over there other than cheap labor.
jessimae peluso
That's why it is!
joe rogan
But the other question could be, is it also because they don't have the same environmental concerns?
Oh, wow.
And I know that if you're in some of those cities, the smog is fucking insane, right?
Some of the worst air conditions in the world you'll experience in these cities where they make all this shit.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, they don't give a fuck about nature.
joe rogan
Like, here's the deal.
Can we even have all the stuff we have over here and make it over here?
jessimae peluso
And not have all that waste?
joe rogan
And not pollute the world?
jessimae peluso
Can I ask you a question?
joe rogan
Sure, but we should answer that one first.
jessimae peluso
Oh yeah, we should answer that.
joe rogan
Let's figure out if this is true.
Does this make any sense?
jessimae peluso
It does make sense, but don't you think we make too much shit?
Do we need a new car every year?
joe rogan
No, we don't need a new phone every year either.
jessimae peluso
We don't need new shit every year.
You talk about the waste that it's producing.
joe rogan
I got an iPhone 11 and you could have this for five years.
If this is all I could do on the phone is call and make pictures and fucking shit that you do normally and send text messages...
Do I really need something better than this?
unidentified
Right.
jessimae peluso
Why do we need a new one?
joe rogan
Keep making this.
Just keep making this.
jessimae peluso
Right.
I think we're producing too much.
joe rogan
We're going to be intertwined with this thing.
jessimae peluso
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
We were talking about that app, about the tracking, the COVID tracking.
jessimae peluso
The...
Which is just, it sounds scary to me.
joe rogan
Get the fuck out of here with that.
jessimae peluso
That's some NSA shit.
That's really scary.
joe rogan
They're gonna keep going.
This is what things do.
It's your job to try to do something like this, to try to implement something where you can get people to agree to tracking.
If it's your job to do that, you're going to keep going.
jessimae peluso
Yes, you are.
joe rogan
Once you get that tracking, then you're going to want some new shit.
Then you want cameras in front of people's houses to see if they really are quarantining.
You know, they're doing that in China.
jessimae peluso
Yes.
joe rogan
This guy just got back from a trip in China.
They gave him a 14-day quarantine and they put a fucking camera right in front of his door.
jessimae peluso
That's weird.
joe rogan
He's like, whoa, like you're not going anywhere for 14 days and we're watching you.
jessimae peluso
It's also strange for people in politics to encourage society to snitch on people.
That's weird.
That's a level of tracking.
joe rogan
That's our mayor.
jessimae peluso
I know, but don't you think that's fucking weird and wrong?
joe rogan
It's weird and wrong, but it's even worse if you're offering rewards.
That's right.
If you're saying, usually snitches get stitches, but this one, they get rewards.
jessimae peluso
You guys are going to get riches.
unidentified
LAUGHTER You know what it is, Joe?
jessimae peluso
Honestly, it's a behavior change.
It's a weird step towards this tracking system that's going to be implemented that they're starting to be like, oh, it's okay.
We're going to reinforce you guys being stitches.
It's snitches.
It's fine.
Here's a little treat for you.
Here's 500 bucks for letting me know that Karen was out not doing the proper protocols.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, there have been that many deaths, like, relatively to what they thought they were going to be.
And so that means it's a success.
So that means the way it's being implemented so far has been a success.
Like, you're going to get more aggressive with it, even though the numbers are way lower than we thought they were going to be?
jessimae peluso
What are we doing, George?
joe rogan
We're doing the right thing.
Understand that it's hard for people.
Keep an eye on each other.
Don't let people do stupid shit.
You shouldn't have fucking parties.
But you also shouldn't give people rewards to snitch.
jessimae peluso
No, that's not helping.
joe rogan
I saw a house party the other day where people had masks on.
Someone put it up on their Instagram.
I'm like, this is crazy.
It might have been Lil Duval.
Lil Duval has the best Instagram follow out there.
jessimae peluso
It's so good.
joe rogan
And he posts all day long.
He's just getting high and posting.
unidentified
Lil Duvall posts the funniest shit.
joe rogan
He posts the funniest shit.
jessimae peluso
He really does.
The house party was packed.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a packed house party.
I think it said something like, if these people ain't dead in 14 days, I'm going to go out.
jessimae peluso
But also, like...
joe rogan
People are partying with masks on.
jessimae peluso
They're partying in my apartment as well.
Not where I personally live, but the building.
People have been having house parties.
Having them.
Chilling.
I hear there's Cards Against Humanity happening a lot.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
jessimae peluso
It's wild.
And like...
joe rogan
Did you see the beach?
There it is right there.
unidentified
Look at it!
jessimae peluso
Look at the dude with the mask!
joe rogan
If don't nobody from this house party die in 14 days, I'm going outside.
unidentified
And also, why is it so bright?
jessimae peluso
It looks more like a meeting that just led out in a business.
unidentified
Where are they?
joe rogan
Well, maybe it is.
Maybe this is bullshit.
jessimae peluso
That's the thing.
joe rogan
Or maybe someone turn the lights on and take a picture.
jessimae peluso
How do we know?
These photos, so many photos are doctored.
Like you talked about the picture from the beach.
How do we even know what date that's from?
I'm sure a lot of these things you can sort of track, but then they posted a picture about, you know, the anti-stay-home protesters.
It was a photo from like an election from 2011, one thing I saw.
joe rogan
I think that's just lazy journalism.
They're just clickbait people.
jessimae peluso
That's interesting.
joe rogan
Did you see the deep fake of Biden's tongue?
Did you see that?
jessimae peluso
No, it sounds like a porno category.
joe rogan
There's a crazy deep fake where they took Biden, his thing where he's doing this press conference, and they made him move his eyebrows and stick his tongue out in this really wacky way.
And when I saw it, I was like, is he really doing that?
And I'm like, I don't know if this is really not.
So I think I retweeted it.
I'm like, what is this?
I just sent it out there in the universe.
jessimae peluso
Somebody tell me what this is.
joe rogan
And then someone wrote a thing about this deep fake.
What did it say?
Was the article like the beginning to the end of democracy or something like that?
But it's really...
Do you want me to send it to you?
jamie vernon
No, no.
Sorry, I... I found it.
I'm looking at...
I guess calling it a deepfake might be misleading, but yeah, it's not technically a deepfake, but it's not accurate either.
It's like manipulation.
jessimae peluso
But did it really happen?
joe rogan
But he didn't really open his tongue like that, right?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I think what this is saying is that he opened his tongue like that, but there's some app you can use to do the rest of the manipulation.
joe rogan
He opened his tongue like a normal open...
jamie vernon
What is that?
joe rogan
Can you show Jessie Mae?
jamie vernon
I was trying to read through it so I could explain it at the same time.
joe rogan
Jessie Mae doesn't know what we're talking about.
jamie vernon
There's a picture like that.
unidentified
I can't deal with it.
joe rogan
That's a real picture?
jamie vernon
I think this picture is real.
jessimae peluso
That looks like every housewife in Bel Air, by the way.
joe rogan
Yeah, by the time they hit 70. Yeah, they're hanging on to it.
jamie vernon
This article's on Vice where it says not everything is a deepfake.
joe rogan
For the love of God, not everything is a deepfake.
What a great title for an article.
jessimae peluso
Sloppy Joe is trending?
jamie vernon
Wow.
Oh!
joe rogan
Didn't, so Trump retweeted that?
Did he retweet that?
unidentified
Trump yesterday retweeted his own tweet.
joe rogan
I know!
jessimae peluso
Where are we?
Like, what is life right now?
joe rogan
See, what people want from him is for him to be like his fans.
They want him to be this boss guy that doesn't make dumb mistakes.
jessimae peluso
I mean...
joe rogan
But like, if you say something stupid, that's one thing.
But if you say something stupid and then try to pretend you didn't say something stupid, now you've doubled down.
jessimae peluso
Are you talking about when he told everybody to boof bleach?
joe rogan
Yeah, well he said maybe there was a way to use disinfectant.
Now here's what's interesting.
It's clearly not.
He's not being sarcastic.
But then he said he was saying it's sarcastic just to your reporters.
Like, he's so embattled with the reporters.
It's like, I've never seen anything like it.
jessimae peluso
He's embattled with his ego.
His ego is the first thing he's embattled with.
And any time that's threatened, he can't...
He focuses on that.
He's so focused on his sensitive ego that everything else falls to the wayside.
Like, just running the country.
He's like, eh, I'm busy tweeting my haters right now.
I'm busy tweeting trolls about For hours!
Can you imagine him?
What is he wearing?
Is he in bed in sweatpants?
joe rogan
I hope he's naked.
I hope he's in the steam room and he keeps blowing out his iPhones.
They keep giving him, get me a new one!
unidentified
He's just in there, in the steam room, chilling, talking shit about Putin.
Whatever.
joe rogan
Talking shit about China and everything.
I don't know.
I think that guy, I bet he could never imagine what it was going to be like to have that job, to be hated that way.
jessimae peluso
No, I think he wasn't able to put himself in a category of ever being hated, but that seems to be his biggest downfall and his biggest insecurity is what people think of him.
joe rogan
But when you're living in conflict, right?
So he's in this constant conflict with the press and the reporters when he gives those speeches.
When you're living in conflict like that, you're always at like seven.
You're always on edge.
You can't take things from a neutral place.
You take things, they're always a bigger front than they really are.
The perspective is always off because you're like stuck in conflict.
It actually happens to people if you grow up in bad neighborhoods.
If you grow up in bad neighborhoods, and they've even said that they've done studies.
Michael Irvin actually talked to me about this once on a plane flight from Australia.
And he explained to me that kids that grow up and they're born, when their mother is going through extreme stress, like the mother lives in a very violent neighborhood and there's violence in the house and things like that, the kid in the womb, it changes the way the kid will approach life.
jessimae peluso
That's what I was saying to you before.
I was wondering, living in a stressful environment having an effect on the development of the child.
joe rogan
I'm sure it will, but this is literally changing the wiring in the brain while she's pregnant with him.
It's happening because of the outside world.
It's like changing the baby, changing the behavior.
Make it, apparently, a much quicker ability to react or instinct to react.
jessimae peluso
Constant survival.
On edge.
joe rogan
Being on edge.
jessimae peluso
I think that's definitely also consistent with having a rough childhood or traumatic experience.
I definitely went through that, experiencing things as a girl that made me reactive to men until I learned how to narrow it down to this one instance and deal with it.
It's interesting how you're able to...
Overcome trauma with therapy and behavioral changes.
But I think it comes down to that.
Like, having traumatic things will always sort of negate...
I'm sorry, will always sort of dictate how you react to things.
Trauma drives the ship for so long until you deal with it and have some sort of therapy.
And even then, sometimes it's difficult to overcome your instinctual response, which is based off of that sort of...
That experience of stress being influencing how you react.
joe rogan
You know what you were talking about earlier, talking about what kind of an effect is this disease going to have on people?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, I'm hoping that it's going to have an effect on shifting in a way where we understand how good we had it and how recent this is that people have had it good.
I think one of the reasons why we're so quick to react to things, like why a child in the womb would be quick to react and tend to be more violent or react quicker to violence Or be defensive.
Because it needed it for survival.
unidentified
Yeah, it's survival.
joe rogan
Up until about four or five hundred years ago, everything was a bloodbath.
jessimae peluso
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, if you...
jessimae peluso
We've had it good.
joe rogan
Yeah, we've had it real fucking good.
jessimae peluso
We've had it so fucking good.
joe rogan
Real fucking good.
jessimae peluso
So...
I mean, we have...
All of our needs are instantly met.
And then because of that, our needs grow because we need more.
Like, oh, this iPhone 11 isn't good enough.
joe rogan
I need an iPhone 24. We also find more things to complain about.
We find more things to be bitter about, but less things to be thankful of.
Like, I think, if anything, I hope that when we come back from this, other than the fact that I hope people get their lives in order, is I hope that we get this understanding that Of how temporary all of this really is.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
And how we just thought, because it existed, because it had always been here, it always will be here.
This is fragile.
This is fragile like the Great Barrier Reef, which we fucking killed with hairspray.
unidentified
Fuck, we fucked that up!
joe rogan
That shit's fishing line and hairspray and suntan lotion.
It's like, fuck you.
jessimae peluso
We haven't put enough effort into educating ourselves about the things we're consuming, the products we're buying, and the people we're surrounding ourselves with.
We sort of had this reckless, abandoned approach to existence.
And I agree with what you're saying.
I think, hopefully, I thought about this yesterday when I was high on a walk yesterday with my dogs.
Oh, shit.
Where I hope, and one thing that I've gotten from this is a humility about existence, a humility about being a human and all of the things that we get in just this society, but also in everyday life.
Our needs have exceeded what we really need to exist.
And our wants are beyond what we really need on a day-to-day basis.
joe rogan
It's greedy!
jessimae peluso
It's so fucking greedy and it's not serving It's not serving the community.
joe rogan
It's a trick, too.
You're tricked into working harder and wanting more.
jessimae peluso
It's a trap.
Working hard for some dude you don't know, that cliche thing where you're making money.
It's a job you hate.
To get in a car, to drive to a house you can't afford, to be in a marriage that you haven't put any effort into, and to put the TV on, to put the food that's not good for you in your belly, and rinse and repeat.
joe rogan
The dog's a cunt.
jessimae peluso
The goldfish dead.
The dog's not the cunt.
Usually it's a spouse.
The dog's the saving grace.
joe rogan
Sometimes you can get a fucking rescue dog that's a little bit of a cunt.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, but you can change that with behavioral training.
It's the same thing as people.
You rescue people.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you can't talk to them.
It takes too much time.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it does take a lot of time to train them.
But it is possible.
joe rogan
When they're puppies, it's easy.
jessimae peluso
It is easy when they're puppies.
You can start from the ground zero with their behavior.
joe rogan
I know you're a big dog freak, though.
You must have had one or two dogs you've adopted.
You're like, oh, Jesus, what kind of project did I take on?
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it definitely has been a...
I have one, my pit bull, my pit boxer mix.
mix.
He's been a journey.
I've had him for like nine years.
And when I got him, I got him in Brooklyn in this shelter.
And it was like a bully breed shelter, you know, pits and Dobermans and German shepherds and all the dogs that people are kind of scared of.
And there was like three rows of cages that...
Wrapped around this room and they were all stacked on top of each other and I just put my hand up against each cage just to see how the dog would react in this stressful talking about being inside of a baby being a womb while the mother's stressful.
This is a similar scenario where these dogs are in this room And it's stressful and they're all barking.
So I just put my hand outside of each one just to see their reactions.
And Carlin was the only one who, when I put my hand in front of his cage, he didn't meet me with aggression.
He turned around and showed me his butt and he let me scratch it.
I'm like, this is my dude right here.
To that point, the dog's behavior, I'm sure you know this, in a shelter is not reflective upon how his behavior will be.
joe rogan
Of course.
jessimae peluso
Or what the female dogs will be.
So it took years of training, six years, so much money.
joe rogan
Here's a good question.
Why is it so fucked up?
Why do we feel so bad about that happening to dogs, but we don't feel that same way about it happening to people?
jessimae peluso
I think people do, but it's also about your personal experience.
And maybe some people don't feel like they have the means or resources or the ability to start to help those other areas.
You know what I mean?
Like, maybe they don't know how to begin to help, like we were talking about before, causes that deal with child sex trafficking, or they don't know how to start, you know, where do they start to help homeless people and things like that.
I think the dog situation's an easier step to feeling like you're contributing a little bit.
I know for me, like, that whole thing changed because...
Feeling like I wanted to help and give back more and finding purpose.
I think it's important in life to find purpose.
And maybe that's one of the things that you're talking about.
Like after my dad passed away, I felt like I wanted to have more purpose because it made me realize the value of life and what this is all about.
And it's not about...
What can I get?
It's what can I give?
And so I did research into Alzheimer's and did research into how could I become an advocate and ways that I could inspire and help other people that are dealing with the disease.
And it's really a statement on turning pain into purpose.
And I think that people who get dogs, maybe they don't have a big enough purpose yet.
Does that answer the question?
unidentified
Well...
jessimae peluso
Do they go too deep?
joe rogan
Maybe you just like dogs?
I love dogs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It doesn't have to be so crazy.
jessimae peluso
Well, you know, I know you like to go into the darkness.
joe rogan
The darkness.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, there's...
Dogs are like little love dispensers.
jessimae peluso
They're great.
They're pure love.
They only function on love in immediate, you know, gratitude.
They just want to lick your face.
I mean, my dog crapped on my carpet last night, but that's okay.
I'm not taking it personally.
joe rogan
The problem with dogs, I mean, the pound dogs at least, is that sometimes, you know, they're in for too long or they're just habituated to it.
It's just they're scared.
They went there because they were abused.
jessimae peluso
It takes a lot of effort.
joe rogan
But isn't it crazy that we don't think the same way about people?
jessimae peluso
It is.
It's fucked up.
joe rogan
People that are in prison for stealing something, like, fuck them, keep them in the cage.
Like, there's something about, like...
How many people really should be in prison?
How many people really, I mean, really, really should be in prison?
jessimae peluso
A fraction of what we have.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
There's people in there that don't deserve it, and it's definitely a systemic issue, for sure.
And it's a...
Almost like a caste issue when it comes to, like, how much money you have.
It's definitely like a financial issue, too.
joe rogan
Right.
How about nonviolent drug offenders, right?
Think about that.
Nonviolent drug offenders, what do they do?
They take them, lock them in a cage.
But if you're an opiate distributor...
jessimae peluso
A rapist.
joe rogan
No, no, I'm saying if you're a pill company like OxyContin, you just get money.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
You just get money.
You kill how many million people die every year from OxyContin?
What is the worldwide opiate death thing?
jessimae peluso
Is it over 100,000?
joe rogan
In this country, I don't think it's quite 100,000 a year.
jessimae peluso
75,000?
joe rogan
It's a fraction of cigarettes, which is really crazy.
It's a fraction.
Cigarettes are so bad.
jessimae peluso
They're so, so bad.
joe rogan
They're the worst.
jessimae peluso
But I get what you're saying.
You're pumping pharmaceuticals, and that's okay, but people who are in jail because of Marijuana.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
It's fucking ridiculous.
joe rogan
Some of it's just possession in some states.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, just having it on you.
joe rogan
Having a couple ounces.
CDC's response to the opioid overdose epidemic in 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States.
Out of those deaths, almost 68% involved a prescription or illicit opioid.
jessimae peluso
And a lot of these people who get onto opioids, they never did drugs before.
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's not a word I say with confidence.
Opioid.
jessimae peluso
Opioid is a tough one.
joe rogan
It's a weird word.
jessimae peluso
It's fucking up the rest of my words.
joe rogan
Because it was like opiates.
I could say that.
Opioid.
jessimae peluso
An illicit opioid together is a tough grouping.
joe rogan
There's so many people dying of that stuff.
jessimae peluso
And that's legally prescribed.
We're talking about a quote-unquote legal drug that is on the market.
joe rogan
And they try to give it to you, too.
I had my nose fixed.
I had a deviated septum, and they put this thing in my nose and cut out all the scar tissue.
It was really bad.
I was listening to myself talk from like 30, 20-something years ago, and I was like, God, I'm so nasally.
And I realized that's what it was.
My nose didn't work.
It was useless.
I had like one quarter of one nostril that I could get air out of.
The rest was all smashed up.
So they fixed it, but it really didn't hurt.
And I'm not trying to be a tough guy.
It really didn't hurt.
It just didn't hurt.
Like after it was over, it was like, yeah, my nose is a little numb, but I'm not like, ah, I'm in pain.
It was like, it certainly hurts.
But it's not like I need a drug.
And the guy offered me two different kinds of pills.
He offered me like Vicodin and Percocets or one of those fucking things.
One of them was hardcore, whichever one it was.
I was like, Jesus, man.
jessimae peluso
Don't they get...
I mean, they used to get, you know, perks for prescribing and they would get perks for how much they prescribed out to people.
joe rogan
It must be.
It must be.
jessimae peluso
And there was that whole pain management system that was implemented into our hospitals is also based off of...
Being able to prescribe opioids.
Companies were giving kickbacks to hospitals based off of their level of pain.
If you had higher pain, you would get money because that would equal dollars on the pharmaceutical side of you prescribing the drug.
joe rogan
Really?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
I mean, I read an article.
joe rogan
As long as you got a citation, you can pull that article up.
jessimae peluso
Allegedly, but I did read that.
joe rogan
God, it's crazy.
The doctor didn't, I mean, he was like trying to, he wasn't just encouraging me.
He was pushing these things.
He's like, you're going to need this.
And I was like, man, everybody told me, like, oh my god, it's the worst things ever.
And apparently it used to be that they would pack your nose up with gauze, and then when they pulled the gauze out at the end of like a week or so, it was like really painful.
But now they don't even do that.
They have like these nose tampons, and they just slide right into place, and they come out after a week or whatever the fuck it was where I had to keep it in my nose to keep everything open after the surgery.
But it was nothing.
And this guy was like, you need pills.
I'm telling you, it was nothing.
It was over.
It doesn't feel good, but it doesn't hurt.
jessimae peluso
Was he trying to Michael Jackson you?
joe rogan
I just think they do that with everybody.
They don't want to hear you bullshit about pain.
unidentified
It gets you in and out.
joe rogan
They don't want to hear you whine either.
jessimae peluso
It's a drive-thru.
joe rogan
My knee is killing me.
What to do?
Take those pills I gave you, stupid.
jessimae peluso
I feel like a lot of the medical, let me rephrase that.
There are some medical professionals because I do think that it's an amazing profession.
Like you said earlier, how lucky we are to have these people who want to help people as a profession.
But there are doctors who are lazy and there are doctors who aren't furthering their education.
It's like they go to college and then they become a doctor and they get that stamp and that label.
And then that's it.
They don't continue to read and evolve because information is evolving every day.
I mean, look at this COVID crisis.
Something new is coming about every single day.
And it was really apparent when my mother, she was sick.
She had an issue with her heart and she went into the doctor.
And then immediately the doctor wants to put her on a bunch of medication.
Not once did the doctor ask her about her exercise.
Not once did the doctor ask about how she eats and what her history was with nutrition.
Didn't even offer like an alternate way for her to eat to sort of build her heart strength from within.
Just wants to put her right on medication.
And to me that's a big issue with our medical professionals these days.
They're just lazy.
joe rogan
Well, it may be a little bit of that, but also it's like that you can do.
You can get a person on medication, but trying to get a person to get their shit together is fucking way too hard.
jessimae peluso
It is way too hard.
joe rogan
Especially if someone's coming to you with like health issues, you can look at them and go, hey man, you got to get your shit together.
You're going to fucking die.
Stop eating Twinkies.
Stop drinking soda all day.
Come on.
jessimae peluso
I would rather that.
joe rogan
But you can't do that.
First of all, they probably won't listen.
They'll get mad at you.
Say you're fat shaming them.
You can't tell someone that they have to get their shit together and then, boom, they get their shit together.
It's like a long process and they have to be fully on board.
jessimae peluso
I agree with that.
I just think it goes further to the doctors not having the care or whatever it is to at least provide a little bit of information.
joe rogan
But I think to be a doctor, to give like a really good holistic approach, like a holistic response, like let's take care of your whole body.
Let's not think about this injury.
Let's think about your whole body.
Why did this injury happen?
Why do you get sick?
What's going on?
And what can we strengthen?
Let's take a look at your nutrition.
Let's take a look at your lifestyle.
Let's take a look at the amount of sleep you get.
jessimae peluso
I know.
No one has time for that.
joe rogan
That's the problem.
jessimae peluso
The system is fucked.
joe rogan
To be a doctor like that is really fucking time consuming.
And these doctors are fucking pumping people in and out of their offices.
They're dealing with insurance and malpractice lawsuits.
And it's a business.
It's a crazy business.
And they're still in hock for the fucking student loans they got to go to medical school.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, they still have to pay their student loans.
It's so fucked up.
joe rogan
Shout out to my friend Steve Graham.
He was fucking struggling with his student loans until he was like well into his adulthood.
He was an ophthalmologist and for him it was just a catastrophic amount of money that you have to spend to go to school.
jessimae peluso
That's so unfortunate.
It's crazy!
joe rogan
You send them out of the gate with an incentive to do more surgery because they're all broke.
jessimae peluso
And they're on debt.
They're in debt.
joe rogan
In a big way.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Imagine you got to catch up to hundreds of thousands of dollars you spent.
jessimae peluso
And you got a wife and a kid or a husband and a kid.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus, Jessie Mae!
jessimae peluso
It's so stressful.
And then be able to operate or prescribe or to be present.
joe rogan
Or to be on the front lines today.
jessimae peluso
And to be on the front lines.
joe rogan
Today.
jessimae peluso
But I mean, a lot of that is the breakdown in the overall system.
The overall, you know, healthcare system is completely, it's so disjointed from really keeping people healthy.
I know because it's a business and maybe it's my hippie heart, but...
Isn't there some way we could shake the shit up so that at least it's starting to give people information, knowledge, and tools so they can have somewhat of a healthier existence?
joe rogan
The problem is people are a lot like dogs in some ways.
It's very difficult to learn the bad lessons that you learned when you were young.
You know, like you get a dog from the pound and their life was fucked up and they're all sketchy.
That's the same thing with human beings.
It's also the same thing with diet.
Like if people get on a certain diet when they're really young and their parents are on this shitty diet, it's fucking hard for you to get them off of that.
jessimae peluso
It's ingrained.
It's a part of their genetics.
unidentified
It's so hard.
joe rogan
All animals, whether it's humans or dogs or anything, they seem to get trained by their environment.
And then once they're trained, once they've sort of adapted to their environment in whatever way they had to, it's really hard to get them to shift.
It's really hard to get them to change.
jessimae peluso
It's that reinforcement.
It's like behavior and reinforcement.
You have to almost take it upon yourself to recognize why you're doing something and what is it that's reinforcing you to do it.
And that takes a lot of self-awareness and self-work to go, oh, I'm doing this.
For a lot of girls that I know, because I have a huge female fan base, when I do Dr. Peluso on Mondays, thanks to you, I'm a doctor.
unidentified
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
I answer questions for everybody and sometimes they're medical and I'll Google and try and give a little bit of information but a lot of times it's girls like this guy is such a jerk and you know should I text him back and you're allowing the assholes into your life to satisfy that void inside of you you know you're sort of allowing that behavior because the negative effect that you have is like that reinforcement and just brings you back into that cycle of trauma and abuse that you experienced before.
joe rogan
That's very deep.
jessimae peluso
I feel like I can get deep here with you, Joe, and you won't judge me.
joe rogan
No, I don't judge you at all.
jessimae peluso
And as a father of daughters, that's why I say, like, do you feel a certain way about raising daughters in this climate?
Because that's my experience, and I know what it's like.
joe rogan
I'm a very hopeful person.
And my hope, not just for my daughters, not just for everyone in this room, but for everybody, is that all this stuff is a wake-up call for us.
And I think that when we're talking about these deeply ingrained patterns of behavior that people get into, And that we need to, you know, especially with healthcare, but also with education, all the things that you need to keep your body healthy and to allow you to advance in life, to give you a chance in life, to be in a place that's crime-free, to have nutrition, and to have healthcare, and to have education.
If we could give that to everybody.
Like, I've always said, like, if we really wanted to make this the best country ever, what would be the first thing you would do?
You'd say, well, we need to have less losers.
I don't mean losers like they're weak.
I mean like they got dealt the wrong hand.
You got born into a terrible neighborhood that's crime infested and it's been this way for decades and no one's going to change it and there's just gangs and drugs.
You can't say that someone who's born in that neighborhood has the same starting line as someone who was born in Bel Air.
It's crazy to say.
I agree.
Right.
So we gotta figure out how to have more people have more of a chance.
And instead of thinking that it's all for us, you know, like the people that do well, like whether it's through Wall Street or business, instead of like continually chasing more and more money, maybe something like this would make us say like, We gotta reinvest in bringing everybody up and then there'll be more competition which would be better for everybody because you have more people that are striving to get better and people push you.
People that are good push you and you become better because of them.
Iron sharpens iron.
It's in the Bible.
You need it.
You keep moving.
And then we could somehow or another make things at least slightly more even because it's not like you can't fix it.
jessimae peluso
It's a huge disparity, though.
joe rogan
But it's not like these crime-ridden, like, this is just what it is.
No, there's no solution.
We've put all the mathematicians and all the social engineers, and we can't fix it.
jessimae peluso
The education aspect is a huge, huge issue, like the access to education.
joe rogan
Access to safety.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
joe rogan
And then healthy food.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And then understanding the choices, like why you want to eat healthy food and what's the difference, and educate people.
Just educate people on that.
How many people grow up and they don't even know that drinking all that sugar or eating all that sugar is going to fuck you up long term?
jessimae peluso
Well, it goes back to what you were saying about the parental influence.
It's ingrained in who you are.
It becomes that sort of vicious cycle of rinse and repeat how you eat, how you live.
It's definitely an issue.
But there is something to say about people who experience...
Severe trauma and they live in bad neighborhoods where they go the complete opposite route.
You know, both of us.
I mean, look at comedians.
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
I mean, that's born out of a seed of trauma.
And, you know, there's a lot of amazing businessmen and women who achieved what they achieved because of the disparity they experienced in their childhood.
So there is something to the dichotomy of the journey from experiencing the trauma to achieving success, but I do agree.
Everyone needs to be lifted up so that the whole community can experience the benefit of that.
The thing about this COVID that makes me scared on a level, like on a little bit of a level, is desperate people do really bad things.
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
Because they need things for their family to survive.
And I'm not saying that's where we're at right now.
It could have gone that route.
But imagine having people with access to safety and education and food.
Everyone would chill the fuck out a bit.
joe rogan
Right, because he wouldn't be worried about survival.
jessimae peluso
No!
joe rogan
But still, you know, there's so many things that are fucked up about this, right?
That we've never had this happen in our lifetimes, hasn't happened in a hundred years.
There's so many things that are fucked up about this.
But the repercussions, we've got to be real careful about how we manage the repercussions of starting everything back up, the economy, starting it...
jessimae peluso
What do you think is going to be, what do you think one of the first issues is with opening things back up that we're going to experience?
joe rogan
Restaurants, comedy shows, like that kind of shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where people gather.
Movie theaters are probably fucked, right?
jessimae peluso
Are you saying about the reinfection and the re...
joe rogan
I think they're going to be scared to...
People are going to be scared to go.
They're not going to want anybody sitting like right next to each other in the movie theater like it used to be.
So they're probably like multiple seats that are open.
So the movie theaters won't make nearly as much money.
Probably cut their...
I mean, who knows?
Probably maybe even more than in half.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of people that are scared to go to the movies and now they also set a precedent where you can watch movies on Apple TV. It's not the same!
jessimae peluso
I miss going to movies and I know that's such a like self-serving desire and want and it's not necessary, but I fucking miss it.
I miss going to the movies.
It's not the same watching at home.
joe rogan
You know what never happens at home?
No one ever talks at home.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's not two people in front of you having a conversation.
What do you think he's gonna do with that?
jessimae peluso
I yell at those people.
joe rogan
Those fucking people.
jessimae peluso
I'm an asshole.
joe rogan
But that's the problem with going to the movies.
Look, if you get lucky, you go to the movies and there's a hundred cool people in there, you have a great time.
I've seen some movies with cool people.
jessimae peluso
I think the movie really dictates that as well.
joe rogan
But if you're in a movie where everybody's laughing, like if it's a killer movie, it's a really funny movie.
jessimae peluso
It's an experience!
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's almost like being in a comedy club.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you feel the energy.
But when motherfuckers talk, you know when that really doesn't happen?
When it's like nerdy movies.
You know, like Filmhouse.
You know, if you go see like Peanut Butter Falcon.
Nobody's fucking talking during that.
You didn't see Peanut Butter Falcon?
joe rogan
No, what is it?
jessimae peluso
With Shia LaBeouf?
Is that how you say his name?
joe rogan
If it's not, we're going to say it that way from now on.
jessimae peluso
I'm sorry, Shia.
I'm a big fan.
joe rogan
I think that's how you say it.
Is that how you say it?
unidentified
How do you say it?
jessimae peluso
Les bouffes?
It sounds like something that gay guys do in France.
joe rogan
How dare you?
jessimae peluso
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
Les bouffes?
jessimae peluso
Les bouffes.
Peanut Butter Falcon was this great movie about this special needs kid and his...
Friend that he picks up along the way in the journey that they make together.
Like a total, you know, feel-good movie, but it features this really talented special-needs actor.
It's a heartwarming film, and Shai, he's a great actor.
joe rogan
Did you ever see that thing where he, when Trump was elected, he was getting people to chant, he will not divide us, he will not divide us?
jessimae peluso
Yeah, I remember something about that.
Where was he?
joe rogan
Well, this is why it became funny.
Was it Reddit or 4chan?
4chan, right?
That did it?
4chan.
So there's this website of mischievous people called 4chan.
And they found out that he had set up on his website, he had a webcam on this flag that said he will not divide us.
And he had this flag in the middle of Oklahoma somewhere on a webcam streaming on his website.
So the geniuses, these nerd geniuses, decided to triangulate where that was based on the stars that you could see on the webcam in the distance.
They figured out where it was on planet Earth.
Then they had someone drive around in a truck and honk the horn while another person...
Was listening to the webcam and see if it gets louder or quieter.
So as they got closer and closer, it's genius shit.
They finally got to the webcam.
They took the flag down.
The guy looks in front of the camera and goes, fuck Shia LaBeouf.
jessimae peluso
I have to say that was a fucking rollercoaster of a story.
joe rogan
It's genius.
It was a genius thing.
But here's the thing.
Radiolab had a whole podcast about it.
It was really interesting.
Because first of all, no one got hurt.
This is not about violence.
This is not about terrorism.
No one got hurt.
jessimae peluso
About point of views.
joe rogan
But it's also funny.
It's also funny.
And if you don't think that's funny, well then you must not have had a job that you hated where you sit in a cubicle and you Google funny shit because that's funny.
jessimae peluso
It is really fucking funny.
joe rogan
That is fucking funny.
And look, Shia's going to get over it.
If that's all the guy did, say fuck Shia LaBeouf, that shit's hilarious.
If that was me and I was a pretentious fuck and I had a sign that said he will not divide us and I put it on my website.
unidentified
Would you show him your butthole?
joe rogan
No, but if I did and they found my flag and they took it down and they went fuck Joe Rogan, I'd be like, ah, you got me.
jessimae peluso
That's pretty, like, talented, and the fact that they found it by the stars?
joe rogan
But here's the thing.
4chan, they said, well, it was on this website, 4chan, that's been known to be sexist and misogynistic and all the other isstics and isms.
What does that have to do with it?
It has nothing to do with it!
No.
Because someone might have posted, like, a Hitler frog tweet.
With the Pepe the Frog.
jessimae peluso
Oh, Hitler Frog?
What's that children's book?
joe rogan
You know, the Pepe the Frog.
jessimae peluso
Oh, yeah, yeah, yes.
joe rogan
Because on that same message board, somebody might have posted a picture of that, of the thousands and thousands of users, they'll use something like that to say, oh, this is just what 4chan is.
jessimae peluso
Right, to group it.
joe rogan
It's just the worst people on Earth, the biggest monsters ever.
Yeah, and people that found that fucking flag by staring at the stars.
Okay, they're that too.
You don't think that's amazing?
You don't think that's amazing?
And all they did is say, fuck Shia LaBeou.
jessimae peluso
That's it!
That's like talent that should be focused in a specific field.
joe rogan
Listen, it probably is.
They're probably just bored.
They're probably tired of this fucking shit.
And they saw it and they're like, this guy, I'm going to find it.
I'm going to find that flag.
And then they put their nerd minds to the test.
jessimae peluso
Do you know how good it must have felt to find the fucking flag?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like a movie.
Like find an X and dig a hole and find Pirate's Booty.
jessimae peluso
It's like a treasure hunt.
It's like the ultimate treasure hunt.
joe rogan
It's a treasure hunt.
So Radiolab took the podcast down.
I love Radiolab.
It's one of my absolute favorite podcasts.
jessimae peluso
Why'd they take it down?
joe rogan
Because people were complaining that they're supporting 4chan by making that podcast.
jessimae peluso
But that feels like a threat of freedom of speech.
Well, if people don't like something, we're going to start taking it down.
Like, no, keep it up, because only those conversations are the ones that move the needle on a societal level.
Like, only those conversations where people are debating, do we learn and grow if we open ourselves up to that?
I mean, if you and I sat here and agreed on everything, it'd be a fun conversation, but it's also interesting to have, you know, alternate points of view and learn from one another.
joe rogan
Also, they didn't do anything that deserves to have them nuked from the historical record.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
If you have people and you have an open message board, which is what it is, and people post awful shit, that doesn't even really represent who they are most of the time.
When people are posting, they're posting because they're bored or they want a reaction.
It's a terrible way to communicate with people.
jessimae peluso
It is.
And it's also, find a way to create some sort of algorithm to block people like that.
Instead of taking down the people who are putting up these videos, instead of censoring, you should just block the trolls.
Block the trolls and they can go someplace else.
joe rogan
But people are doing that.
They do that themselves because they want to get a reaction out of people.
jessimae peluso
They do.
joe rogan
I guarantee, when you see people that post that Pepe the Frog with a Hitler hat on, they're doing this.
They're doing it to freak people out more than they're doing it because that's their ideology, that they're actually a Nazi.
Way more of them are doing it to fuck with you, and they're trying to do it anonymously.
jessimae peluso
Yes.
joe rogan
It's just a weird way to communicate.
jessimae peluso
I experienced that early on during this whole quarantine thing where I was doing a Zoom, a podcast via Zoom.
joe rogan
Oh, did you get Zoomed?
jessimae peluso
Homie.
Woo!
joe rogan
I've been hearing about these.
What happened?
jessimae peluso
So I went to record my podcast, Sharp Tongue Podcast, shout out to my own podcast, on Zoom, and I didn't set the parameters.
I didn't know that you, there's like settings to it to make it kind of closed.
joe rogan
Oh, you can make it closed.
jessimae peluso
I didn't.
I sent the link out.
joe rogan
I didn't know you could make it closed.
Oh.
jessimae peluso
I sent the link out and everybody who had the link could access and post and show their video.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
jessimae peluso
And I didn't know this because this was like the first week of, you know, everyone figuring out Zoom.
And so it went dark web quick.
There was definitely someone fucking, a woman screaming in the background, people screaming the N-word at me, saying, Jesse likes to fuck N-words and all this craziness and screaming and death metal.
joe rogan
Did you record all this?
jessimae peluso
No, but...
joe rogan
Why?
unidentified
Because I was just trying to shut it the fuck down.
joe rogan
Oh my God, you need a real producer.
Because I was trying to do a podcast.
If that was young Jamie, he would have hit record and we'd be like, this is going to be amazing.
We're going to be on Reddit's front page.
jessimae peluso
It was so early on, I didn't have access to my normal producer girl, and so I was just like, oh, I can do this myself.
I'm going to learn and do it myself, and I learned the hard way to not...
Dip out into the web.
People left it their own, like, their own expression.
If they know they're not being watched or if they know that they're not displaying who they really are, they're fucking dark.
joe rogan
They can be, but I think even that, they're trying to get a reaction.
jessimae peluso
Exactly.
They were trying to get a reaction.
joe rogan
It's just a dumb way to communicate openly with strangers.
jessimae peluso
They got one because I was like, oh, oh, whoa, what is going on in here?
joe rogan
You can't have that.
You can't have that in your life.
jessimae peluso
I had to shut that down, but it was a quick little glimpse into how people will try and get a reaction out of you.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're bored.
People are so on edge right now.
They're bored out of their fucking mind.
jessimae peluso
And bored is okay.
joe rogan
We still got two more weeks.
jessimae peluso
Boredom's fine.
I'm not afraid of boredom.
People are going, I'm so bored.
Fucking learn a language.
Pick up a guitar.
Boredom is a time for you to put your brain to use or to give your brain a break.
You know, people are like, I'm bored.
Really?
unidentified
Go out for a walk.
jessimae peluso
Can we not do that?
Can we not go outside in nature?
joe rogan
I think people need interests.
jessimae peluso
Exactly.
joe rogan
Find something you're interested in, whether it's documentaries on shit or find something you want to try to learn how to do.
jessimae peluso
Find a purpose.
joe rogan
There's a lot of things you can learn how to do online.
jessimae peluso
There's so many things.
I mean, there's no excuse now.
I mean, Yale even offered that, like, course in the, what is it, like, well-being?
Like, something like the...
joe rogan
Who's going to teach that course?
jessimae peluso
I mean, probably some lady who has a lot of cats, but it was a free course from Yale, is the point.
Early on, they're like, here, you could learn all sorts of things in this.
I think boredom is an excuse for laziness.
joe rogan
Yale should have a course on stuff like that, on self-help people and hypnotists.
jessimae peluso
What do you think about hypnotists?
Do you think it's real?
Have you ever been hypnotized?
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
Can you tell me what it's like?
joe rogan
Well, my friend Vinny Shorman, he does what I do for the UFC. He does that for a lot of Muay Thai events.
Great guy.
He's a commentator.
And he's also a hypnotist and a mental coach.
He works with a lot of fighters.
And I said, I want to know what it's like.
He said, okay, I'll hypnotize you.
And I'm like, all right, here we go.
So he sits me down.
He counts me through this thing.
And next thing you know, you're in this weird state.
I don't know how long it took to get me hypnotized.
A couple minutes or so.
But I gave into it.
I was trying to just listen to him.
He's a friend.
I really like him.
So it was easy to trust him and just say, all right, let's see what this is all about.
And I feel like it puts you in a place where it cuts down.
You're still conscious.
You're not like, at least I was.
It's not like you don't know what's going on.
You wake up with your pants down.
It's not like that.
jessimae peluso
Hello, college.
unidentified
Hello.
joe rogan
That's a funny thing you always say.
Whenever you text, Jessie Mae will send me a text, but is there a right fuck?
It's F-U-X-T. And I said, why don't you ever use the C? And she goes, it's too open.
It reminds me of college.
unidentified
Remember that one time I texted you and I was like, I'm going to Japan.
jessimae peluso
Oh my god, that's so exciting.
when I was like, just kidding.
unidentified
When?
jessimae peluso
I'm high eating sushi.
joe rogan
So, hey, I was reading this thing about Japan, about their COVID deaths are really low.
jessimae peluso
Am I hypnotized right now?
Because you talked about it and totally diverted.
joe rogan
Oh, the hypnotist thing?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
So, I keep doing it.
I keep talking about it.
But it was interesting.
It's like, just, I wanted to be, sounds crazy, but my thing would be to try to figure out how to distract myself less, have less procrastination, You're a procrastinator?
No, very little, but I want to get rid of it.
Even the little I got left.
jessimae peluso
I can't imagine.
If you're procrastinating, it just seems like a lie.
joe rogan
A couple years ago, maybe it worked.
Before I moved into the studio.
But it was just an interesting way of channeling out all the bullshit and getting to the heart of who you are in this weird way.
It gets to this weird Center of you.
And then as it expands back out to regular consciousness, it's like you're filled in with the outside world and a lot of other shit.
It reminded me a lot of experiences that you can get or states of mind that you can get when you do the float tank.
jessimae peluso
I was going to say ketamine, but yeah.
joe rogan
I've never done that.
But I know a lot of people are into that now.
I don't know what the fuck's going on.
I know so many people are doing ketamine.
I'm like, settle down.
That kills people, you fucks.
jessimae peluso
Well, I mean, if you get the right guy, the right person to do it, you could survive.
joe rogan
You're having ketamine parties up in the beach.
jessimae peluso
Come on over, guys.
We're having quarantine ketamine parties in my apartment.
joe rogan
There's a thing about the float tank.
You get to this state where you can kind of see things more clearly.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you feel like you're one with everything.
It's strange.
joe rogan
It's very weird, right?
jessimae peluso
Very healing, though.
So it sounds like hypnotism partnered with the right person could be a way to get into your mind and sort of do some therapy?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
jessimae peluso
Because that's what float tank was for me as well.
joe rogan
I think it's real similar because it leaves you alone, other than the fact that when you do hypnotism you'll be suggested and you'll be having a conversation with the therapist, the person who's doing it to you.
I'm only basing it on my one experience.
I've seen some other hypnotism stuff online but I've only had it done once.
But I think that as people learn how to float and learn how to relax, you can kind of use your inner voice and you can guide yourself through various aspects of things that you find troubling, things that are bothering you, things, patterns, bad patterns that you keep recreating over and over again.
jessimae peluso
Anxieties.
joe rogan
Anxieties.
Yeah, and perspective.
And I think that there's a real value to being alone with your thoughts, and there's no better place to be alone with your thoughts than a float tank.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, sensory deprivation.
joe rogan
I think it's a sense, in a way, it's like a self-hypnotism.
There's something to it.
jessimae peluso
That's interesting.
That's an interesting approach.
I think you're probably right.
It's almost like you're in a womb, in the womb again.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're free of all the bullshit.
jessimae peluso
It really helps you just let the fuck go.
Let go of your ego, of your worry, and all of that.
Do you float a lot?
I have one right here.
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
I have a tank right here.
jessimae peluso
That's right.
joe rogan
It's the beautiful thing about it is that it gets you away from all the other information.
Like, you're always getting information.
There's always something coming at you.
jessimae peluso
Always.
Most of it's subliminal.
You don't even realize the effect it's having on your brain.
Sure, sure.
And all of those synapses that are firing, and at some point they need to relieve themselves.
And when you're sleeping, I'm sure it affects your ability to go into those deep REM cycles.
You're supposed to get like three or four a night.
Maybe you don't get as many because all day long we're inundated with these phones and these screens and the sounds.
And especially us, we're in the city.
There's value to removing yourself from a highly populated area.
That's the one thing I've realized about this quarantine is the appeal of the rural life.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
jessimae peluso
You know?
I was talking with Justin, our friends from ABX, and he was showing me a video of his home, and it's just all this beautiful grass.
Just green.
joe rogan
Don't tell anybody where he lives.
jessimae peluso
I won't, but it was just beautiful.
If you guys, I'll send you the video, you guys can geotag it by the blades of grass, you fucking nerds.
joe rogan
Cut to article, Jessie Mae supports 4chan.
jessimae peluso
I'm out there protesting for 4chan, yeah.
I just think there's a value to surrounding yourself in nature.
And for you, I'm sure you've provided yourself an existence that...
It represents your values in life, but do you feel like the way you live right now in your house, in your home, feels like a real homestead to you?
Or does it still feel out of place because you wish you were someplace else?
joe rogan
Well, when things like this happen, one thing you realize, there's two things you realize.
One, that it's really nice to have a nice community.
I have a bunch of nice neighbors.
I love that.
I wave to them.
I love that we talk to each other.
I love that.
jessimae peluso
That's really sweet.
joe rogan
It means a lot to you when shit gets weird, you know?
When you have a bunch of nice people that live near you.
But two, makes me realize the value of being able to grow your own food.
Like, if you lived on a fucking farm and some shit went down, you wouldn't have to go anywhere.
You'd go...
You've got...
Animals and vegetables and you're managing everything.
If you live on a small organic farm, that's like the move.
That is the move.
The move is you have a small organic farm and then you have a few friends that live on this property with a small organic farm.
And you split time.
jessimae peluso
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
And you share the value of the resources of the stuff that you grow yourself.
You could get away from having supermarkets if you did that.
You really could.
jessimae peluso
You know who lives like that?
The actor who played Shazam is Zachary Levi.
joe rogan
I like that guy a lot.
jessimae peluso
Have you interviewed him?
joe rogan
I would love to have him on.
jessimae peluso
He'd be a great guest on here.
He speaks a lot about mental health and he has a place.
joe rogan
Does he really?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's great on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
jessimae peluso
Oh, he was wonderful.
He was such a great...
Supporting character to her.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
And Shazam was amazing.
Did you watch that with your kids?
unidentified
Yeah, it was adorable.
jessimae peluso
So fun.
But he lives like that.
He's got like a commune.
Not like a culty thing.
joe rogan
Mushrooms.
Oh, sex.
jessimae peluso
You're just saying words.
Mushrooms.
unidentified
Sex.
jessimae peluso
Which sounds great.
joe rogan
I know how they do it.
It always starts like, oh, we're just going to grow tomatoes together.
Next thing you know, he's gotta fuck your wife and you have to give him 10%.
jessimae peluso
It's literally Wanderlust, that movie Wanderlust.
joe rogan
Has anybody ever done a cult right?
Anybody?
jessimae peluso
Well, what's doing a cult right?
What would the Joe Rogan cult look like?
joe rogan
The problem is you die and someone else takes over and they fuck it up.
That's what happens with every good empire.
Even if you figure it out the first time, if you get it right, someone dies, the new guy comes along, ruins everything.
jessimae peluso
Would you have people drink the punch?
joe rogan
No.
It'd be too much work to run a cult.
It's too much work.
But I'm saying it's amazing that no one, like the last one to come up with a good one was like Scientology, right?
That's the last one that stuck.
jessimae peluso
Who was that?
joe rogan
L. Ron Hubbard.
Science fiction author, by the way.
jessimae peluso
Fucking genius.
joe rogan
Really bad science fiction author.
Really bad.
jessimae peluso
But it talks a lot and says a lot to the power of persuasion.
joe rogan
You ever read his stuff?
No, I... You need to read his stuff.
jessimae peluso
Okay.
Is it like Harry Potter?
joe rogan
It's all first draft.
There's never a second draft.
It's the most nonsense.
jessimae peluso
And narcissistic.
joe rogan
But it's bonkers.
Like, the stuff, it's bonkers.
Like, some of the reading, like, he would write these stories and he would get paid like, you know, like a penny a word or some shit like that.
And he would write like a bunch of them for like Strange Times Magazine and stuff like way back in the day.
Like, this is what he did before he created Scientology.
He wrote these stories.
And, you know, like, what was the one, that John Travolta movie that they made of?
jamie vernon
Battlefield Earth.
jessimae peluso
Damn, Jamie!
joe rogan
He's a wizard.
jessimae peluso
You got that mushroom coffee going?
joe rogan
He's a wizard.
jessimae peluso
Jesus!
joe rogan
Are you an AI? Did you ever see that?
Did you ever see Battlefield Earth?
No.
jessimae peluso
Oh, with the eyebrows?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Amazing.
jessimae peluso
L. Ron Hubbard didn't write that.
joe rogan
Yes, he did.
Are you fucking kidding me?
And it was John Travolta's lifelong dream to turn that movie into one of the most preposterous movies of all time.
He turned that book into a masterpiece.
jessimae peluso
He looks like every white guy who wishes he was black.
Look at the dreads.
joe rogan
They're supposed to be giant, and the humans are these little tiny people.
unidentified
Who is that?
jessimae peluso
Is that...
joe rogan
Forrest Whitaker.
jessimae peluso
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah, so anyway, this movie is, uh, it's like Showgirls.
You ever watch Showgirls for fun?
jessimae peluso
A great movie.
joe rogan
For fun.
jessimae peluso
Great movie.
joe rogan
It's so bad, you're like, what in the fuck?
It's like, there's a lot of movies like that that are great because they're awful.
jessimae peluso
I need to rewatch this.
Yeah, he looks like a dude who hacky-sacks in a park during the day.
joe rogan
Please do this for me and for your fans.
For me and for your fans.
Spark up and do a fight companion for Battlefield Earth.
jessimae peluso
I will do that.
joe rogan
You watch Battlefield Earth for the first time and queue it up so that people can watch along.
They'll just see you, but they can watch Battlefield Earth on one screen and you on the other.
If they queue it up at the same time, they'll get you reacting to the movie.
jessimae peluso
That's such a good idea.
I'm going to do that for the next podcast episode.
That's a great idea.
joe rogan
I think you might have to have headphones on because you probably couldn't have the content of it streaming, right?
jessimae peluso
My mind is blown that he wrote this.
jamie vernon
Let me check.
joe rogan
Oh, dude.
You gotta read some of the stuff he wrote.
You read some of the stuff he wrote and you go, well, this is terrible.
jessimae peluso
So is this like, is this, it's bad?
joe rogan
It's terrible.
jessimae peluso
It looks really good.
It reminds me of like...
joe rogan
It's so bad.
It's just like, what the fuck are you doing?
The fuck are you doing?
jessimae peluso
But people like that...
And I've said this about Hitler and people who are...
Just people who have these massive capabilities of persuading just a mass of people.
joe rogan
Like L. Ron Hubbard?
jessimae peluso
L. Ron Hubbard.
It's like a missed opportunity to do something good.
joe rogan
Well, have you ever read that book, Lawrence Wright's book?
Is that what it is?
Clear?
Is it Lawrence Wright?
Is that who wrote it?
I think it is.
The book on Scientology is amazing.
I mean, fucking amazing.
Was it an HBO series he did on it?
They did some...
Anyway.
jessimae peluso
It's a book about...
joe rogan
It depicts books about how he created it.
How L. Ron Hubbard created the...
jamie vernon
Alex Gibney.
joe rogan
Alex Gibney.
jamie vernon
Director and screenplay.
joe rogan
Okay, that's that.
But there was a book written too.
Yeah, there was a book written too.
Going Clear?
Maybe it's Going Clear.
jamie vernon
That's what this is called.
joe rogan
That's called Going Clear.
jessimae peluso
I wonder, like, you know in marketing how there's like a tipping point to like where things become like...
jamie vernon
They're both titled the same thing.
So go ahead, Claire Lawrence Wright, too.
unidentified
Sorry.
joe rogan
Okay.
So I think the other one is that Alex Gibney directed the...
Is that what it is?
jamie vernon
They're both...
Must be.
joe rogan
Anyway.
The story behind it is he was self-helping himself.
So he was psychologically kind of fucked up, and he was sort of self-diagnosing and self-medicating, giving him self-therapy by taking a lot of these principles of different self-help books and different psychology books that he had read.
And then he started applying that, and then he started putting that together with some, like, fucking...
jessimae peluso
UFOs?
joe rogan
UFOs and Thetans...
jessimae peluso
So, like, Tony Robbins on crack?
joe rogan
I forget what the director's name, and they're going clear on HBO. It's fucking amazing.
And one of them, there's this guy who's a big-time Hollywood guy who is in Scientology.
I forget what he did.
He's a director, right?
jamie vernon
Paul Haggis?
joe rogan
Yes, that guy.
And Paul, like, he's a really, really respected Hollywood guy, right?
Makes movies.
And he's deep into this thing, right?
Probably giving him millions of dollars or something like this.
And then finally he gets to read these handwritten notes that he's been waiting for.
You're on to the next level.
And he's like, am I being trolled?
He thinks it's almost like a test.
jessimae peluso
The next level?
Like it's Super Mario Brothers?
joe rogan
Exactly like Super Mario Brothers.
jessimae peluso
But that's kind of smart.
That's smart marketing.
joe rogan
Well, it is.
jessimae peluso
A false sense of achievement, like you've achieved something different.
And that's what I was saying.
Do you think how in marketing there's a tipping point to when things become viral and more popular?
Do you think there's a tipping point to Scientology?
Just the floodgates opened and then everybody was sort of following?
Well, here's the thing.
joe rogan
If you follow a lot of the tenets of things like Dianetics, all these self-help tenets, if you follow the good stuff, You can actually do better.
And you'll do better because you're also focusing on the fact that you're following this path that's going to do better.
So your intention, your focus during your day is of improving and doing better.
jessimae peluso
And applying all of that.
joe rogan
So a lot of people, whether they join this or whether they take something less venine like Tony Robbins stuff, which is very motivational but without the cult, Mostly.
jessimae peluso
I mean, he's not your guru.
joe rogan
He seems really good for a guy that's experienced what he's experienced, right?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
To be that, doing that kind of stuff for this long.
jessimae peluso
I'm actually reading Awake the Beast Within.
joe rogan
I read Unlimited Power like in 1989 or some shit.
It was great.
unidentified
Yeah, it's a great book.
It's great.
joe rogan
There's a lot of great stuff in it.
But those people that, if you're one of those people that's doing something like that, Like the giant, not the beast.
jessimae peluso
Giant.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Who was the other example that I used?
jessimae peluso
The other motivational dude.
Jamie.
Help!
joe rogan
How did we both forget?
I said Tony Robbins and who else?
Anyway, point is, people want something that guides them in a positive direction.
If they think it's going to be Tony Robbins or if they think it's going to be Scientology, they're trying to do better, right?
So if you say, well, Scientology really helped my life.
It did.
But why did it help your life?
It helped your life because you decided to focus on doing better in your life, and you used the tenets of Scientology, which some of them are really good.
I read Dianetics, or at least I read a couple of chapters.
jessimae peluso
It's like religion.
There are aspects of it that you can apply to your life and benefit from it.
But then there's the tribal side that gets crazy.
joe rogan
With everything, though, look how focused Tom Cruise is.
jessimae peluso
He is very focused.
Where is he?
Does anybody know?
joe rogan
He's in a bunker right now.
jessimae peluso
He's in outer space.
joe rogan
Rehabbing his ankle.
He broke in half doing Mission Impossible.
Did you see that shit?
jessimae peluso
Was that when he jumped on the wall?
joe rogan
Dude, he's like...
jessimae peluso
How old is he?
172. He's at least 56 years old.
He's 5,000 years old.
He's from another galaxy.
joe rogan
57?
Okay.
jessimae peluso
Do you think you could take him down?
joe rogan
57 years old.
57 years old.
He jumps from one building all the way to the other with his fucking rope attached to him and mishits it and slams his ankle into the side of the building.
You see his foot compresses.
His ankle's fucksville.
jessimae peluso
Why do they allow...
unidentified
Exactly!
jessimae peluso
What clause in the movie contract?
Are they like, yeah, we're going to have Tom...
Or do you think he was just like, fuck it, I'm going to do it?
joe rogan
He's going to do it and you could eat shit all day because he's fucking Tom Cruise.
jessimae peluso
Sit down!
joe rogan
You can't handle the truth!
jamie vernon
He learned all that helicopter piloting for the movie too.
joe rogan
He did it?
jessimae peluso
He flew?
jamie vernon
That's what they said and showed.
joe rogan
He's a legit maniac.
Love him or hate him, that guy is a legit maniac.
A badass actor.
If you don't think he is, watch Interview with the Vampire and shut the fuck up.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, that's a good one.
joe rogan
He was amazing in that movie.
jessimae peluso
Also legend, for the ladies who are listening from the 1980s.
Ladies from the 80s, the legend.
Tom Cruise was in The Legend.
You remember that movie?
joe rogan
I do remember.
jessimae peluso
You're a nerd, that's right.
You'd watch that type of movie.
joe rogan
I remember that movie.
That was a dope movie.
jessimae peluso
It was.
Tim Curry is a devil.
joe rogan
So this is him really hanging on.
unidentified
No!
joe rogan
Yes!
No, it is.
jessimae peluso
Why does he look like Donald Trump's son?
joe rogan
No, this is him really hanging on right now.
unidentified
Oh!
jessimae peluso
No, no, no, I have chills.
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
Oh god, are you for real?
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
I have such a hype...
joe rogan
Do you understand how hard that is to do?
jessimae peluso
No, no, because I wouldn't do it.
joe rogan
This crazy fuck's holding onto a plane!
jessimae peluso
Now, do you attribute that to Scientology?
joe rogan
Yes, it has to be.
It's the only other way he could have done it.
So, also, he's flying this helicopter for real, so he's doing this crazy helicopter stunt for real.
jamie vernon
By himself.
joe rogan
By himself, this fucking maniac.
unidentified
He also drives race cars!
joe rogan
You remember when I said about playing pool?
You watch someone play pool in a movie and they look like dark shit?
He looked good in the color of money.
jessimae peluso
Do you think there's a level of sociopathy that's playing there?
joe rogan
Why do you have to find negative?
Why can't you just look at the positive?
jessimae peluso
No, it was a question.
I didn't say.
I offered a question.
joe rogan
He's out there making it happen, Jessie Mae.
Why you gotta look at the dark side?
jessimae peluso
Is this your man?
joe rogan
Why is the glass half empty, Jessie Mae?
Listen, Adam, look at these fucking crashes that he has riding his motorcycle.
You just gotta think, out of all the people that have done all the action movies, who is wild in this motherfucker?
jessimae peluso
He's the Michael Jordan of action movies.
joe rogan
Who's wilder than this motherfucker?
Legitimately.
jessimae peluso
Vin Diesel.
I just threw a name out there.
I threw a name.
joe rogan
Sounds like he should be with that name.
Vin Diesel?
Do you know how cocky you have to be to make up that name?
Vin Diesel.
jessimae peluso
It's a lot.
It's a name that comes with a lot of attitude.
Do you think Tom Cruise is a daredevil?
He's a savage.
Do you think he thinks he's immortal because of Scientology?
joe rogan
I think he thinks he gets his own planet when he dies, or is that a Mormon?
That's a Mormon, right?
Mormons get their own planet.
jessimae peluso
They do?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jessimae peluso
Fuck.
joe rogan
Dude, there's a fucking album from Johnny and Marie, or the Osmond Brothers.
It's from the Osmond Brothers.
And inside the album, when you open it up, it's from back in the Diz A. The album, the name of the album is the name of this thing that happens when you get your own planet, when you die.
And then there's all these different people, they all have their own planet inside the album.
jessimae peluso
Okay, we need to know that album title.
joe rogan
Here it is, here it is.
The Plan.
jessimae peluso
Okay, that looks like...
joe rogan
Is that it?
jessimae peluso
A cult.
joe rogan
Which one is it?
unidentified
I think it's that one.
jamie vernon
I think it's the one with the planet on it.
jessimae peluso
Look at the pink people.
joe rogan
There's one that you open it up, and then the inside of it, it's got all the different...
Do I remember?
jamie vernon
Am I remembering this wrong?
I know we did.
jessimae peluso
Joe Rogan, you're a treasure chest of information.
joe rogan
No, useless shit.
I told you, my chimp brain is overused.
It's taxed.
The information just stumbling out of it, out of nowhere.
jessimae peluso
It makes for perfect podcast fodder, though.
Oh, you reminded me, remember when I said it?
joe rogan
I'm mentally ill, and it works well in this genre.
jessimae peluso
I wanted to tell you something.
Speaking of chimps, I was reading this thing about sperm competition in correlation with sack size.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
The size of the balls.
And as I was reading that, Joey Diaz's video.
joe rogan
Was on Twitch.
jessimae peluso
Was on Twitter.
And so he calls me last night and he's like, what are you doing, beautiful?
Like, oh, I'm just hanging out.
What are you doing?
unidentified
He's like, oh, I'm hanging out with the missus and the kid.
jessimae peluso
And I was like, oh, it sounds nice.
And he goes, did you check out those nuts?
unidentified
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
jessimae peluso
I was like, yes, I did, Joe.
They're not nuts.
They are fucking planetary systems.
It's a universe.
I've never seen nuts like that in my life.
joe rogan
What happened with the violation?
Didn't they get a legitimate violation from that?
jessimae peluso
I hope so.
He just...
Joey's so necessary.
joe rogan
Oh, look at them!
jessimae peluso
It looks like a Louis Vuitton bag.
joe rogan
Look how he jiggles them for you, too.
jessimae peluso
He's so proud.
He's like a kid.
He's like a fucking four-year-old.
I love him so much.
Look at...
He called me to make sure I saw it.
joe rogan
The fact that he thought he could do that on a fucking live stream for the Comedy Store.
jessimae peluso
People don't realize how necessary of a person Joey Diaz is.
Somebody who pushes the ticket like this, who literally moves the needle with his nutsack.
He's such a...
He's a national treasure.
He really is.
I love him so much.
joe rogan
No, he really is.
He's a one-of-a-kind.
But that's a great example.
He experienced the fucking...
jessimae peluso
The craziest.
joe rogan
The craziest life.
One of the craziest lives of anybody that's out of any of my friends.
And look what happens on the other end because of that.
jessimae peluso
And he's so gracious and he's so good to his friends and he has such a big heart on the other side of all of that.
joe rogan
It's so weird how much of who you are is based on these sort of random circumstances and then how you come out of them.
jessimae peluso
Well, I think a lot of it has to do with The absence and relationship to love and safety throughout your lifetime.
And what your relationship to love is.
Because when you're born as a creature, your job is to get love.
And then as you get a little older, you learn how to love.
And then as an adult, you learn how to give love.
And if that process is interrupted along the way, it's going to affect how you express that outwardly to people in your life.
And for someone like Joey Diaz, who...
As most people know, experienced almost every kind of trauma and crazy life experience you can have in a single lifetime.
For him to come out on the other side, who he is, it's a testament to, I don't know, a greater thing going on, like a bigger picture.
joe rogan
He consciously made a decision to be a different person.
jessimae peluso
Because I remember, I heard you talking about how you'd bring him on the road, and it wasn't always, you know, sometimes it was difficult.
joe rogan
He just had a real bad drug problem back then.
You know, he's talked about it pretty openly.
He just liked to do coke, and sometimes he showed up and sometimes he didn't.
And my take on it was, I did want to not work with Joey.
Like, I love Joey.
jessimae peluso
Did you love him immediately when you met him?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think there was more than a couple weeks after Joey and I met that we were like best friends.
jessimae peluso
That's adorable.
joe rogan
But I grew up around wild people.
He's a wild person.
jessimae peluso
You seem like you're good with chaos.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I love it.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
But people like him was like, ah.
Because when I was growing up, I always felt...
I always felt out of place.
I didn't live with my real dad.
I lived with my stepdad.
We traveled around a lot, so a lot of times I was the new kid.
And I just didn't feel like I fit in with...
I looked at other people's lives.
The mom and dad were together, and the kids never got in trouble, and everyone was doing well in school.
I looked at them almost like they were aliens.
I was scared of them.
And I gravitated towards people that were like, you know, I haven't seen my dad since I was three.
My mom's been selling heroin.
They're like, all right, we're friends.
And then through all my choices, just sort of coincidentally, whether it's through martial arts and then through comedy, it sort of reinforced that.
It wasn't my thought.
When I was 17 years old, thinking I didn't fit in anywhere, it wasn't my thought.
I know what I'll do.
I'll go seek out stand-up comedians and fighters, and they'll understand me.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, people who sort of represent my own feelings.
joe rogan
People who are also fucked up.
People who also came from a less...
Just not a sub-optimal childhood, let's say it, because I wouldn't have a bad childhood.
There's many people that had way worse childhoods than me.
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good.
So it's like going over it and trying to think...
How many people are living way worse childhoods?
Way worse.
And then they have to correct as they're becoming an adult while they're working and they're in relationships.
jessimae peluso
To have self-awareness to know what it is.
joe rogan
And they're fucking busy with a million different things and they're not even concentrating on themselves.
Which is the thing you have to do.
If you have to get good at anything, right?
If you want to get good at playing basketball, you've got to concentrate on playing basketball.
jessimae peluso
You have to be focused.
joe rogan
Ask Jamie.
He's actually a basketball wizard.
jessimae peluso
Are those lies, Jamie?
joe rogan
You should see some three points.
jessimae peluso
You got a nice Jimmy Jimmy?
joe rogan
His three points are out of control.
But you have to concentrate on that.
How many times do people concentrate on being a better person?
Concentrate on who you are.
Concentrate on why you react to things the way you do, or whether or not you're pursuing your passions with 100% of your enthusiasm, or whether or not you could be more successful if you got up earlier and got more done and just had a better attitude about things.
Just more focused.
jessimae peluso
It's hard.
The ego gets in the way of the self.
joe rogan
Yep.
jessimae peluso
And it's those, you know, that self-work, the self-respect and self-care that you have to embark on.
But first you have self-awareness and to discover that requires a whole other situation and ability to access your humility.
joe rogan
You got to be brave.
jessimae peluso
You have to be very, very brave.
joe rogan
Not like brave like you're about to go stab a bear.
To face yourself!
There's a different kind of bravery.
There's some bravery, and this is the thing with men, right?
The big thing with men is men tend to be more inclined To place value on being brave in physical situations.
Brave where you save somebody, brave where you risked your life, brave where you did something that was a dangerous thing for the good of all or for the good of your loved ones.
But then the other kind of bravery, the kind of emotional bravery, where you look at yourself like accurately.
Mentors, they tend to shy away from that or to frown on that even.
jessimae peluso
I agree with that.
joe rogan
But it takes a kind of bravery to look at yourself accurately, too.
It's a different kind of bravery, but it's still, it's a daunting thing to sort of dissolve your pre-existing notions of who you are and look at yourself with fresh lenses.
jessimae peluso
Have your daughters helped you access that vulnerability about yourself?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, for sure.
Anytime you're raising little people and you realize how dangerous the world is for little people, and then these little people, you love them as much as any person you've ever loved times 10 in your whole life.
It's impossible to describe.
Every parent will tell you.
It doesn't even make sense.
When you see them, you just get like a love drug just floods through you.
It's different.
It's different.
jessimae peluso
And it's so important, and as a girl who was a daughter of a girl dad, it's so important for you...
joe rogan
Wait a minute, you're a what?
You're the daughter of a girl dad?
jessimae peluso
A daughter of a dad who had a girl.
joe rogan
Okay.
jessimae peluso
And it makes me emotional, but I had a really, really great dad.
joe rogan
Dude, do not cry.
I will fucking come over there right now and violate social distancing rules.
jessimae peluso
You cried on this podcast once!
joe rogan
I've cried a couple times, I'm just kidding.
jessimae peluso
But for you to love your daughters...
That love will carry them through all sorts of shit that they're going to experience.
That you cannot avoid.
Where you're not going to be able to be there and protect them the way you want to as a dad.
So you just loving them gives them all the strength they need for their entire life.
I'm sure you know that, but I just want to express it to you because I am that girl too.
My father loved me so, so much.
So it's such a responsibility because in order to...
Express that love as a man.
You have to have a humility about yourself and you have to be real about your vulnerabilities.
So it's an achievement as a guy, but also just as a man in society to do what you're doing.
So you're creating healthy girls, and we need more healthy girls in the world, so thank you.
joe rogan
Well, you're welcome.
I'm doing my best.
I'm doing my best to be a good dad.
But I think we all need to realize, and this is one of the things that I really realized when I started raising kids.
As time went on, I recognized that I don't look at people the same way anymore.
I look at them as babies that became people.
Where I used to always, if I met you, like, oh, here's Jessie Mae in 2020, and this is how she's always been.
That's just how I would think.
Oh, there's Jessie Mae.
unidentified
Hi, Jessie.
joe rogan
I know what you look like.
I see you all the time.
Hey, Jessie Mae.
But I would never think, oh, that was like a little two-year-old.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like this little two-year-old who was walking funny and dancing when music was coming on.
unidentified
Pooping her pants.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like, oh, and then life just sort of like puts you through the wringer and does this good and that bad and this better and that worse.
And then boom, here you are in 2020. And it made me think of the whole path of human beings rather than just the static thing that you see in front of you right now.
jessimae peluso
That's like enlightenment.
That's a form of enlightenment.
You're an evolved human to think that about people.
joe rogan
Well, it's not.
It's just seeing it in real time.
Like watching my kids grow up and watching them become these little intelligent things that I can have conversations with.
jessimae peluso
Little personalities forming.
joe rogan
When you have a little person and all of a sudden that person's a big person sitting across you and you're having a conversation with them, it's very surreal.
Just having full-on conversations with this person that didn't even exist.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, that you saw grow and get bigger.
How has the quarantine changed or evolved your relationship with them?
Has it brought up any new experiences?
joe rogan
With my family and I think with all my friends, it's made everybody a little more appreciative.
Made everybody appreciative of each other.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Made everybody realize, like, hey, this really can happen, okay?
Now that we know that, everything really can shut down.
We've kind of all known this before.
It's sort of like what we were talking about earlier.
Like, we have this ability to block out all the stuff we're doing that doesn't affect us right now.
And I think...
Something like this quarantine, something like this pandemic makes you realize, like, holy shit.
jessimae peluso
We're vulnerable.
joe rogan
We're really vulnerable.
And this is what's important.
What's important is staying alive.
And we were all on momentum.
We were all on momentum, just running around.
jessimae peluso
And not even considering where we're getting stuff.
joe rogan
You know what a Buffalo Drive is?
jessimae peluso
Migrating them?
joe rogan
No.
It's called a buffalo jump, actually.
Native Americans used to chase these buffalo off the side of a cliff.
And so the buffalo would be running, and the ones in the front would go, oh, fuck, there's a cliff.
And they go to turn around, and there's a thousand buffalo behind you running full clip.
You're going over the edge.
So they would all go over the edge.
And then the Native Americans would come around the front.
And pick up the buffalo and take them.
Well, that's what we're like.
We're like, we're on this crazy momentum.
We're just getting up and just working all day and doing this and all this momentum and you're fucking upset and your blood pressure's up.
And then, boom!
Something like this happens.
And yeah, it's terrible.
Yeah, I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
But there's an opportunity in this moment To reset your perspective.
jessimae peluso
And slow the fuck down.
joe rogan
Get off the hamster wheel.
Get off the hamster wheel and go, why am I living like this?
jessimae peluso
And what am I doing to contribute how I'm living?
How are my behaviors, choices, and decisions contributing to the life that I have?
And I think, I don't know about you, but for me, I've been really asking myself, is the life I'm living the one that I want to live?
And how can I improve it?
joe rogan
Is the travel thing the thing that bugs you the most?
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's so exhausting.
And it's exhausting on a cellular level.
And it's stressful.
It ages you.
joe rogan
It really does.
It really does beat you up when you fly every week.
jessimae peluso
It beats you up when you fly every week.
And also, I'm a big energy person.
And I like to conserve my energy.
And I don't like to give energy to people who are emotional vampires.
And I'm very specific about where I put it.
But traveling doesn't give a fuck about that.
It'll pull from that energy source as much as it wants to.
Like you, I love comedy and I love to perform and give my all on stage.
If I'm tired from a flight, sometimes those shows are great.
I don't know if you've had those ones where you haven't slept at all and you go on stage and you're just like, fuck it.
But for the most part, I like to be rested.
joe rogan
Yeah, you want to be rested.
You want to be where your brain's firing.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, where you're not even thinking, when you're in that sweet zone.
It's almost like a natural reaction to the moment.
joe rogan
Isn't it weird how dumb you can get sometimes?
Me, personally?
unidentified
No, me.
joe rogan
Everybody.
All of us.
We all have to admit that there's a range that we operate in.
We're on fire.
Brains firing.
Everything makes sense.
Everything's going good.
You have a great conversation.
You understand what people are saying.
You're stimulated.
And where's my keys?
Who am I? What was that guy's name we were saying?
What the fuck did I just say?
jessimae peluso
How do words work?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Sometimes my brain is like...
And sometimes it's like...
Sometimes it's like a race car.
And sometimes it's like a car with some shitty spark plugs that can barely make it out of the driveway.
jessimae peluso
Have you found aspects of your life that contribute to you feeling like you're...
joe rogan
Oh yeah, for sure.
jessimae peluso
What do you attribute it to?
joe rogan
Exhaustion's a big one.
Exhaustion is a big one.
I was doing podcasts earlier in the day, but I would do them straight from working out.
It's just too hard.
Especially running hills.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you're out there with Marshall!
joe rogan
Yeah, or yoga.
Yoga can kick your ass too before a podcast.
I had to give myself an extra hour after the class before I tried to do a podcast.
jessimae peluso
What's your routine after you work out hard?
Like what do you do right after you work out?
joe rogan
I always replenish.
With food?
Yeah.
Eat some food.
Your body wants some protein.
If you're eating carbs, your body wants some glucose.
And your body definitely wants some electrolytes.
I always take electrolytes.
jessimae peluso
Are you a person who naps?
joe rogan
No.
jessimae peluso
I can't imagine you napping.
It's like a napping bear.
joe rogan
I don't have that kind of time.
I'm not interested.
I just sleep at night.
I sleep good.
I'm a solid seven, eight hours sleeper every night.
I don't need a nap.
jessimae peluso
What's the first thing you do in the morning?
Do you have like a regular morning routine?
Are you the FBI? Yeah, I've got people recording this.
I'm just making sure we can find out where you are.
joe rogan
I usually do some kind of workout.
Either I'll do something with the dog, we'll do the hills, or I'll work out here, kick the bag, that kind of shit.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or I'll lift weights.
Depending on what day it is, I just decide, like, today I'm going to do this, tomorrow.
I just have a series of workouts, too, that I've been doing forever that I can sort of plug in.
I have a whiteboard.
I write shit down on the whiteboard.
jessimae peluso
And you've been consistent through quarantine as well?
You've been taking it easy on exercising?
You've been doing that every day?
joe rogan
No, I've been ramping it up because I don't want to be edgy.
I want to be relaxed.
jessimae peluso
And you also don't want to be like the people from WALL-E. What?
joe rogan
What's that?
jessimae peluso
Fat people.
joe rogan
Oh.
jessimae peluso
People just get lazy.
Everything's done for them.
joe rogan
There's no excuses.
If you're home all day, there's no excuse to go to the gym for one hour.
And by the way, you don't even need a gym.
You don't.
jessimae peluso
You need like a kettlebell.
joe rogan
You don't even need that.
You can do bodyweight shit.
There's a shit ton of things you could burn yourself out on just with bodyweights.
Especially if you have a chin-up bar.
Bodyweights and a chin-up bar.
unidentified
I have one of those.
joe rogan
Dude.
jessimae peluso
I can do four.
joe rogan
But do you have the one that go...
Can you really?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
That's very good.
jessimae peluso
Is it?
joe rogan
Yes, it's very good.
jessimae peluso
I feel good.
I thought it was terrible.
I thought you were going to be like, you fucking weak bitch.
joe rogan
No, that's very good.
Damn.
Why is it when people put words in your mouth, it's always shit you would never say?
jessimae peluso
You say bitch a lot, but not in like a derogatory...
joe rogan
But it's a friendly bitch.
jessimae peluso
I say bitch too.
joe rogan
Is it the kind that hang over the door, or is it the one that's screwed into the...
jessimae peluso
It's screwed into the wall.
unidentified
Okay, good.
jessimae peluso
Is that good?
joe rogan
Yes, better.
The ones that hang over the door freak me out.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, well, I've seen videos.
unidentified
Because there's plenty of videos.
jessimae peluso
And the bitches who don't, look, we have to, like, before you decide you're an Instagram fitness instructor, let's read the instructions of how to put those bands in your door.
Because there's so many people out there that are putting them on the door and slapping themselves in the back.
joe rogan
I'm noticing a lot of, not all, not all you ladies, not all, but a lot of these ladies that have fitness accounts also have, like, an OnlyFans account.
jessimae peluso
Oh yeah, they're showing titties and clitty cats.
They're showing clitty cats.
joe rogan
They're getting paid.
They're showing the whole basket.
unidentified
They're showing the bunghole.
joe rogan
They're showing the whole thing.
jessimae peluso
And you know what?
In today's economic climate, it might be right behind them.
I'll dress my butthole up for you.
joe rogan
Will you paint it out like a clown?
jessimae peluso
I'll bedazzle it.
You know what I'll do?
I'll get a really good artist to paint my butthole like a famous person and then you have to guess who it is.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a good idea.
Have you seen that one lady, we've talked about it before on the podcast, that makes that visual art with painting, paints eyeballs and shit on people's faces?
jessimae peluso
Whoa.
joe rogan
Remember?
jamie vernon
That one in particular, yeah, but there's a lot of girls now that do body paint stuff and do...
joe rogan
A bunch of crazy stuff, probably 3D stuff, yeah.
jessimae peluso
Is that what you're looking at, Jamie?
joe rogan
People are getting really artistic with face and body paint.
jessimae peluso
That's interesting.
joe rogan
Weird stuff.
So yeah, you could do that to your butthole, though.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, I think I might...
joe rogan
Same thing.
jessimae peluso
I might do that.
I did make a butthole candle that smells like my butthole.
joe rogan
I bet you didn't.
jessimae peluso
I did.
How much you wanna bet?
joe rogan
I bet you're wrong.
jessimae peluso
How much you wanna bet?
joe rogan
I bet you're wrong.
I bet it doesn't smell like your butthole.
jessimae peluso
Well, we can't.
How would we even cash in on that?
joe rogan
We'd have to do a sniff test.
I'll blindfold myself so I can't see anything.
Just back it up.
jessimae peluso
Oh, okay.
We need to do a companion episode to that.
joe rogan
I'll blindfold myself, put my hands behind my back.
I can't move.
And then you just back it up there and I'll take a sniff.
jessimae peluso
What do you think it smells like?
joe rogan
Like an asshole.
jessimae peluso
You're wrong.
What do you think it smells like?
unidentified
You're wrong.
joe rogan
A meadow?
What is it, like an elk basin?
jessimae peluso
It smells like a field.
joe rogan
It's a wallow.
jessimae peluso
It smells like vanilla and leather.
Aged leather.
joe rogan
What's her name?
Gwyneth Paltrow's candle?
Smells like her vagina?
jessimae peluso
I was like, everybody knows what vaginas smell like.
We need a butthole candle.
joe rogan
Did you come up with this idea after her?
This is like some next level shit?
jessimae peluso
I came up with that idea after I got really stoned.
Really, really stoned.
And I was like, here's Gwyneth Paltrow.
Pussy candle.
What other body parts could I... Feet.
Oof.
joe rogan
You have all creeps.
You have the creepiest guys at your show just looking at you, staring at your feet.
jessimae peluso
There's a lot of foot fucks out there.
I'm on Wikifedia somehow.
joe rogan
Congratulations.
jessimae peluso
Thank you.
I'm stating all my alkalades.
joe rogan
Wikifedia?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
It's another area of a woman's life you have to be.
unidentified
That's hilarious.
jessimae peluso
If there's even a toe in a fucking photo, some dude comes out from the earth, like some little slithering worm, and he's like, I see a toe!
joe rogan
That's why Andy Letterman is so funny.
All of her pictures, she has her feet in them, and they're all pixelated.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, now she can have an OnlyFans account where that bitch can retire.
If you're a woman in this climate and you don't have anything to do, retire on your butthole.
Retire on your feet.
joe rogan
There's a whole world for it.
It depends on how much money they're giving you every month, but you don't need a lot of people to sustain you.
jessimae peluso
No, and it's much smarter for a smaller price to attract a certain number of people.
joe rogan
Do you think the legitimate fitness girls get mad at the naked fitness girls?
jessimae peluso
Absolutely.
joe rogan
A lot of hating, right?
jessimae peluso
Well, there's always people worried about it diluting their own industry.
joe rogan
These motherfuckers.
jessimae peluso
They define the industry.
They also define the standards because if there's going to be a high standard, there has to be a low standard.
Don't you think?
With every industry?
It's almost like natural selection.
joe rogan
It becomes a different thing, right?
Because, for one, the fitness thing, for sure, it's inspiring girls to want to look like her and do this and 10 lunges and this and that and that.
For sure.
But also a bunch of guys who want to fuck her.
jessimae peluso
Absolutely.
joe rogan
But when you dip into the world of here's my naked pictures for X amount a month, then you're in a different realm.
Because then the other girls that are just like the fitness girls who are just, they're really expressly trying to motivate women to get fit and they're showing all these exercises and every day they're doing crunches and telling you to push it and keep going and don't quit.
One time I thought about quitting, but I didn't.
Here I am.
But also, here's my pussy.
unidentified
I think it seems like a full package.
Are they mutually exclusive?
jessimae peluso
Oh gosh.
joe rogan
Can you have a girl who's like a really motivating fitness girl who's got like the abs and like the midriff showing and wearing the yoga pants and looking like a badass?
jessimae peluso
I think you can have it, but you have to be honest about it.
joe rogan
And see her pussy.
jessimae peluso
She's got to be honest about it.
She's got to be like, hey, I'm here for Pilates and pussy.
Here's the thing that drives me nuts.
Those girls acting like they aren't also pussy girls.
You're also a pussy girl.
joe rogan
What does that mean, a pussy girl?
jessimae peluso
You know what it means.
Jamie knows what it means.
He's Googling it.
He's out there.
He knows the girls.
But...
That's the difference in girls.
joe rogan
A girl shows her pussy is a pussy girl.
jessimae peluso
There's enough space for everybody.
joe rogan
There should be, but a lot of bitches are hating.
jessimae peluso
Well, hating bitches should focus their hate into something that can benefit them.
joe rogan
Cindy's over here just working on her lunges and trying to put together a good program for you, and Debbie's showing her whole asshole for five dollars.
jessimae peluso
Look, my ball would be much more expensive.
joe rogan
And Cindy's so fucking mad at Debbie, that whore!
She's ruining my squat business!
jessimae peluso
With her butthole.
One butthole took my whole business down.
joe rogan
Cindy's all about those squats.
jessimae peluso
But there's enough people for both areas, don't you think?
joe rogan
No.
jessimae peluso
You don't?
joe rogan
There's a standoff, a Mexican standoff in the streets like a goddamn western movie with Clint Eastwood.
jessimae peluso
They should have to actually do a physical test.
They should have to squat each other out.
Whoever dies first is done.
joe rogan
Well, it's weird because they're in a new category.
Ho?
No.
jessimae peluso
I can say that.
joe rogan
They've been around forever.
Ho's been around forever.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's the oldest job.
joe rogan
But they're in a new category, like the female fitness influencer.
That didn't exist.
It never existed.
jamie vernon
I just googled OnlyFans, and there's actually a story that's on this topic that's not fitness.
joe rogan
Oh, I heard about this.
This lady is a mechanic, and apparently a very talented mechanic.
And the boys at work found out she also has an OnlyFans account where she shows LeCouter, and they fired her.
unidentified
Hypocrites!
joe rogan
So the guys were harassing her at work and talking about it because she had created all this problem.
Oh, fuck them!
By having this...
It might encourage her co-workers to approach you with an unwanted sexual conduct or comments.
So that's why they fired her.
jessimae peluso
Please, give me a break.
You know the wives called.
joe rogan
First of all, let's cut the shit.
She should be happy.
This is going to make her way famous.
Way more people are paying attention to her OnlyFans account than ever would have ever before.
Congratulations, you hit the lottery.
You worked with creeps, and you played it well, and you got paid.
And they did you a favor by firing you.
unidentified
They did you a favor.
jessimae peluso
Also, my car's making a weird squeaky noise.
unidentified
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
Seriously, hit me up, girl.
I could use a little work under the hood if you know what I'm saying.
joe rogan
What were we just saying when we were talking about OnlyFans accounts just before that?
jessimae peluso
Buttholes?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
We passed that.
jamie vernon
Fitness accounts?
jessimae peluso
You were talking about fitness models?
joe rogan
The fitness influencers.
Like, before, like, who was the first one?
Dude, it might have been fucking Jane Fonda.
Oh, she's the OG. Or Olivia Newton-John.
jessimae peluso
No, Jane Fonda was way before Olivia Newton-John.
joe rogan
Jane Fonda, didn't she do, after movies, she was doing videos.
jessimae peluso
She got into fitness.
Why do you think she looks that good?
She's like 172. She's not that old.
No, she's like 82. I think you're exaggerating.
I am exaggerating.
joe rogan
But you're right.
She was like the first fitness influencer.
jessimae peluso
Yes, she was.
joe rogan
That's a female.
jessimae peluso
She was making videos back in the 70s and 80s.
joe rogan
But can you name one other one from that era?
jessimae peluso
Susan Summers.
joe rogan
Well, she's the fat one, though.
She just wanted to lose fat.
But that's her thing.
It was about losing fat.
I meant the losing fat one.
That was her thing.
Stop the insanity.
Just eat a potato, right?
jessimae peluso
That's not Suzanne Somers.
Stop the insanity is Susan Powder.
joe rogan
You're right.
Suzanne Somers is Thighmaster.
jessimae peluso
Thighmaster.
joe rogan
She's Three's Company.
Right.
jessimae peluso
Susan Powder was the fat lady.
joe rogan
I'm sorry, Suzanne Somers.
Yeah, get your shit right.
unidentified
I meant the other one.
joe rogan
The other one.
Suzanne Powder was the one with the shaved head, told you to eat a potato every day.
unidentified
Stop the insanity!
jessimae peluso
Put the fucking cake down!
joe rogan
Just eat potatoes, right?
Wasn't that her thing?
unidentified
Eat potatoes!
Don't be fat practice!
joe rogan
If you just eat potatoes, you will lose weight.
It does work, because you're so bored.
You don't eat that much, and so your body just naturally starts eating itself, and you get thinner and weaker.
jessimae peluso
That's fucking terrible.
joe rogan
Congratulations, you tried to survive on potatoes.
Yeah, Suzanne Somers is another one, right?
jessimae peluso
And she did those videos.
joe rogan
She did the Thighmaster videos.
That thing of squeezing your pussy together, is that the most sexually suggestive of all athletic devices?
How many people are really concentrating on firming up the center of their thigh?
jessimae peluso
A lot of bitches.
That was also the first OnlyFans account.
She's out there just doing Kegels.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a Kegel.
jessimae peluso
I mean, it's like an outside Kegel.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're tightening up all the muscles.
It's like, are you working with your neck muscles?
No, I'm just doing traps.
You've got to do your Kegels.
jessimae peluso
Especially in quarantine.
There's plenty of time to be doing it.
unidentified
Squeeze that pussy.
jessimae peluso
You've got to squeeze that pussy.
joe rogan
There she is.
jessimae peluso
Make it tight.
joe rogan
Look at her.
jessimae peluso
Make it tight.
Make it right.
joe rogan
She has a phenomenal body.
Good lord.
jessimae peluso
Who was your lady of your youth that you liked?
Everyone liked Farrah Fawcett.
joe rogan
Everybody liked her.
Suzanne Somers was hot.
She was the rare combination of hot and funny.
When she was on Three's Company.
jessimae peluso
Oh yeah, she was.
You're right.
She was talented.
joe rogan
Do you ever watch the whole story of that?
It's like one of those behind the scenes stories.
There's a contract dispute between Suzanne Somers.
unidentified
Were they all bony?
jessimae peluso
John Ritter?
joe rogan
No, I think she wanted more money.
jessimae peluso
Yes, that's right.
joe rogan
Yeah, John Ritter was making the lion's share of the loop.
jessimae peluso
And she was like, yo, what the fuck?
We need to have favored nations here.
joe rogan
There was one season where she was on vacation and she would call into the show.
No, I'm not kidding.
She was on the phone talking to them.
That was all she was in.
jessimae peluso
Because the contract was in negotiation?
joe rogan
It was...
Well, I think either they were punishing her or because of the contract negotiations, they didn't want her to be a major part of the show where she could hold the show up.
So they said, look, you got to have one scene and we could delete it if we wanted to.
unidentified
She's like, fuck you.
jessimae peluso
Do you know how strong my pussy is?
unidentified
I will break you.
joe rogan
I think she developed her strong pussy as a response to this.
jessimae peluso
She probably did.
joe rogan
This tyranny on set.
I'm going to fucking snap it off.
jessimae peluso
Guys can do kegels too.
joe rogan
You mean your asshole?
unidentified
Is that what you're saying?
jessimae peluso
No, it's a pelvic floor exercise.
Dudes can do it too.
It's a good dude exercise.
I don't know if you guys have a pant pissing issue like women do when they get a little older.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus.
Women with kids, they laugh too hard.
They piss themselves.
jessimae peluso
Which is what I'm going for at my show because I want bitches to piss their pants.
joe rogan
I bet you've done it already.
You don't even know.
It should be an app where every time you piss yourself at a comedy show, you can click it and you'd like to see which person makes women piss themselves the most.
jessimae peluso
It's no longer laughter.
It's all about the piss factor.
I made bitches piss.
joe rogan
It's not like an indicator for everybody.
But for some people, it's an undeniable indicator.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Like if someone in the middle...
You say you didn't laugh at the show.
That's interesting, Tammy.
Because it shows here, when Jessie Mae hit that punchline, you pissed your pants.
jessimae peluso
It says it right here.
We read the thong factor here.
joe rogan
Stop being a fucking hater.
jessimae peluso
There's some saturation in that little slice of cotton.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're all red.
As soon as the punchline hits, that's piss.
Okay?
jessimae peluso
That's obviously piss.
joe rogan
Dirty.
Moist underwear lady.
jessimae peluso
What do you think is going to happen all this?
Are we going to be back on the road?
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Not for a while.
Yeah, I think people are going to be weirded out.
Despite all these studies that have come out, and people keep sending me more and more articles that are being written saying that this is not as dangerous as the flu.
But that's not really true.
Because they're basing it on how many people die from the flu every year when we don't quarantine.
jessimae peluso
Right.
joe rogan
So this is quarantining and the amount of people is equal to or greater than most seasonal flus.
jessimae peluso
And it's faster.
It's a little more aggressive.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's very aggressive.
But it's also weird because some people get it in nothing.
So it's confusing because it's a new thing.
jessimae peluso
It is very confusing.
joe rogan
Because it's a new disease.
Look, we're very lucky it's not targeting babies and children.
We're very, very lucky.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, we're very lucky.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it sucks that it's targeting old people, and it sucks that it's targeting obesity seems to be the number one thing they said in New York City.
There was a number one thing that the patients that had the roughest times with it had in common.
jessimae peluso
I mean, obesity, that's like number two killer.
It's way up there.
I mean, diabetes, it's such a...
If you're obese, you're susceptible to most of the diseases and issues that arise with people.
joe rogan
I think that's also what scares people about opioids, as opposed to cigarettes.
Cigarettes kill you, but they kill you slow.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it is a slow burn, no pun intended.
joe rogan
They play it nice.
jessimae peluso
So is obesity.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jessimae peluso
Obesity is slow.
joe rogan
That's slow.
jessimae peluso
And painful.
Yeah, it's a rough one.
And expensive.
joe rogan
And then your joints go, ugh.
jessimae peluso
It's brutal.
I mean, it looks painful for people.
Remember the Maury Povich show where they would have to- How about Ralphie?
joe rogan
When Ralphie was alive, it was rough.
jessimae peluso
And was he...
I'm not trying to be disrespectful to him at all, but at his point of passing, was he at his heaviest?
joe rogan
I don't think so.
jessimae peluso
I wonder if he had fluctuated throughout...
joe rogan
He fluctuated.
He even had some operations.
jessimae peluso
But talk about somebody who obviously experienced a lot of, you know...
joe rogan
A lot of pain.
jessimae peluso
A lot of pain.
But the nicest guy.
joe rogan
Very nice guy.
jessimae peluso
Just a ball of joy.
Ball's probably a bad term.
joe rogan
Ah, too late.
He would have laughed.
He would have laughed for sure.
He would have laughed for sure.
It's like, you know, it's not anyone's hope that your baby boy grows up to be morbidly obese.
It's not anybody's hope.
jessimae peluso
No.
joe rogan
And this is the difference between the way I look at people now as opposed to 20 years ago.
jessimae peluso
Pre-K? Pre-kids?
BK before children, before kids?
joe rogan
The whole thing seems like a different enterprise to me.
The whole thing in terms of who you are and what is life.
And so much of it is based on, like, if you wanted to look at it like this big old problem.
Like, what's causing the majority of the issues in this big problem, this complex thing that you're trying to solve?
Well, the biggest issue seems to be the childhood thing.
The biggest issue seems to be the love that you experience in the house.
The lack thereof.
The lack thereof.
Those are the motivating factors.
Positive and negative.
Like, it's not a simple equation.
jessimae peluso
No, it's not.
joe rogan
Because, like, we were just talking about Joey.
Everyone loves Joey.
We love Joey.
But you don't make a Joey if everything's great.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
If you are there for your kid and the kid never does drugs, never holds someone hostage with a machine gun and a Coke deal gone bad, of all those things that Joey's done...
If everything goes great, your kid never does those things.
unidentified
No.
jessimae peluso
You're not breastfeeding on time all the time with that kid.
joe rogan
No!
But as Joey got through that, he became this rare thing that everybody loves, and it's precisely because of all that struggle.
So it's a real conundrum.
jessimae peluso
It is a conundrum because struggle can either define you in a beneficial way or it defines everything that's bad about you.
And all the negativity is just reinforced because you're still connected to that pain and trauma.
You're behaving ways to go back, revert back to that time in your life where you were experiencing pain because it's a connection.
It's a connection.
That was the only love that you had.
joe rogan
Sure, sure.
And everybody has things in their life they have to process.
Things that have been done to them, things that they do.
And you need some sort of a purging of your past to accept who you are as a person.
And that is one of the reasons why I like jiu-jitsu.
It's one of the reasons why I like anything that's really hard to do.
jessimae peluso
What do you think...
What in your life has been the thing that you've associated the most pain with?
Like what is something that you experience that has caused you the most pain or maybe, you know, trauma or something that you experienced?
joe rogan
Bombing at the store!
jessimae peluso
That is painful to your core.
joe rogan
I'm still hurting from going on after Martin Lawrence in the 90s.
jessimae peluso
Was he so funny?
joe rogan
And I'm not kidding.
jessimae peluso
Was he so funny?
joe rogan
Oh, dude, when I first came to the comic store, by the way, I sucked, okay?
I was like 26 or 27. And Martin Lawrence was on top of the world.
He was wearing leather jumpsuits on stage and murdering.
jessimae peluso
He was so funny.
joe rogan
The place would be packed with people to see Martin Lawrence, and he would destroy in the main room.
jessimae peluso
Would it feel like a rock show?
Would it have that energy, like eclectic energy?
joe rogan
It was nerve-wracking.
First of all, because I had been a Martin Lawrence fan when I was an open-miker.
So I had been a fan from early on when I had first seen him on television.
And then he's doing movies.
Then I've seen his television specials, and then I'm at the store.
And here I'm going on right after Martin Lawrence.
And not just once.
Like Mitzi put me on after Martin Lawrence like fucking every time I had a spot.
jessimae peluso
That's boot camp.
joe rogan
Right after Martin.
No!
jessimae peluso
That is boot camp.
joe rogan
First of all, most of the audience would just get up and leave.
Like when Martin Lawrence is done, the fucking show's over.
jessimae peluso
They want to follow it.
They want to go after the rock star.
You produce all that electric energy in the room and then they want to go after that.
It happens when you're on stage.
joe rogan
They want to go home.
That's what they want.
jessimae peluso
The show's over.
unidentified
Yeah, they're exhausted.
jessimae peluso
They've exhausted their laughter.
joe rogan
They've seen Martin Lawrence.
That's what they came to see.
jessimae peluso
But I've seen people do that to you at the store where you get off and they're like, we've got to go talk to Joe.
We've got to get some of that.
They want to get some of that energy from you.
unidentified
Balls.
jessimae peluso
Don't do that.
I'm just feeling like this because I have two hands.
unidentified
If I have three hands...
joe rogan
Mine are not quite that big.
jessimae peluso
You have chimpanzee balls.
joe rogan
I have normal sized balls.
Joey's got something preposterous.
jessimae peluso
No, Joey's are like gorillas.
You're probably...
joe rogan
No, gorillas have little jicks and little balls.
unidentified
Actually, they have little ones.
jessimae peluso
That's right.
joe rogan
Yeah, because they take care of the harem.
jessimae peluso
They don't have a competition.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's no competition.
jessimae peluso
So what's Joey's deal?
Does he have competition in the house?
joe rogan
They also don't eat meat.
Just growing up, I'm sure he had a lot of competition.
That's how it developed.
unidentified
His nuts are traumatized from his childhood.
joe rogan
That's my friend Dr. Chris Ryan.
He talks about that all the time.
That competitive...
If you look at the size of the testicles of chimpanzees, there's a direct correlation between the size of their nuts and then how promiscuous the females are.
jessimae peluso
Yes.
joe rogan
Because if the females are hoes, their balls just keep getting bigger and bigger.
These dirty bitches are out there fucking everybody and I'm going to fuck them better and they're just building up bigger and bigger loads.
jessimae peluso
It's wild.
Just that whole process, the load that a guy releases and all of those sperm are competing, every single one.
It's a whole army and they're all competing to get to the fucking egg.
joe rogan
Do you remember when the orcs attacked the elves in Game of Thrones?
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
When they came...
jessimae peluso
That's sperm!
joe rogan
That's the loads.
jessimae peluso
Do you think they're screaming?
Do you think they're screaming in there?
joe rogan
Yeah, mine are, for sure.
Mine are screaming.
Mine are screaming.
jessimae peluso
Do you think there's like the Chariots of Fires playing as well?
joe rogan
It's like an unintelligent noise that you would expect like a demon to be screaming if it was coming over a hill chasing you like...
unidentified
Yeah, it is demonic.
joe rogan
That's all cum.
All cum screams.
That's what I think.
jessimae peluso
Cum screams.
Hello, special title.
joe rogan
The speed that it's projecting.
It's coming flying out of you.
It's screaming.
jessimae peluso
And so much.
joe rogan
What else comes shooting out of you like that?
It literally shoots out.
unidentified
Tears?
joe rogan
Not like that.
If your tears shoot out like that...
jessimae peluso
You haven't met my sisters.
joe rogan
I mean, it's literally like it's trying to get up in there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
It's like, boom!
Of course they're screaming.
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
Wouldn't it be cool if you could hear them?
I wonder if it would change how often people fuck or the way guys shoot.
Like, if you could hear the sperm screaming, I wonder if they'd be that as many, like, money shots.
joe rogan
I wonder if your plants do better if they hear you fuck.
jessimae peluso
Your plants?
joe rogan
Yeah, if you have your plants around you and you're fucking.
jessimae peluso
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Because if you think with music, music helps.
What if we could find out that if you fuck while you listen to The Prince, you get 75% more biomass.
jessimae peluso
75% less?
He was so little.
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
But the music is so big.
jessimae peluso
It was so big.
joe rogan
If you're listening to Purple Rain while you're fucking, and the trunks just keep getting thicker on all your plans.
jessimae peluso
That's interesting, though.
I wonder if music does persuade the successfulness of the pregnancy and someone getting pregnant.
joe rogan
That's a good question, right?
jessimae peluso
Because if having Mozart play for your growing baby makes them a little bit more able to be intelligent and make smarter choices, maybe it can sort of help people just get pregnant quicker.
joe rogan
When I was a kid, I was one of the first generations of people that had a Walkman, okay?
So when I was working out, I was going to the gym.
Back in, like, the fuckin' 80s, alright, when I was in high school and I was wrestling, I would have a cassette player.
jessimae peluso
I was a zygote.
joe rogan
That would, like, sit on my hip.
I had, like, this fuckin' neoprene belt or some shit.
I forget how it strapped in.
But this cassette player and headphones.
And I would go to the gym and you could listen to your own music at the gym.
This shit was unheard of.
Do you understand this?
Unheard of.
And I remember doing leg presses to Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses.
And I remember thinking how strong I felt because of this music.
jessimae peluso
Oh, your daughters are going to be fine.
joe rogan
And so I got off the leg press and I was like, that's crazy because I literally felt like I had more energy.
Like something happened.
I wanted to fucking go harder because of the music.
And I was like, okay, that is like, it's doing something.
I know it's exciting me and that's making, but what else is going on?
jessimae peluso
Music's the only thing that stimulates all areas of your brain simultaneously.
It's one of the only things.
joe rogan
Have you done studies on this?
jessimae peluso
That's what I've read off of your Twitter feed.
joe rogan
Music stimulates everything, including nail growth.
jessimae peluso
Including your sperm success.
joe rogan
All of it.
jamie vernon
It's kind of true.
Thank you, Jamie.
There's a book on Audible, so I listened to this book.
jessimae peluso
You read it.
You're a doctor.
jamie vernon
Called Music on the Brain.
I honestly even think the person who is doing most of the talking is someone that's been on the podcast.
I can't remember off the top of my head who it was.
But they were talking about when you're running.
So if you're listening to music at a loud volume, That takes an amount of brain power just to be processing that.
Add that on top of the physical activity you're doing, that takes brain power to do, plus the endorphins, plus all the chemical processes.
There is something that happens there.
It has been studied.
I cannot regurgitate it, obviously, but...
jessimae peluso
I only know it because of...
joe rogan
But that would imply that it's actually...
It hinders performance because it requires resources.
Resources to listen to music and then resources to run.
jessimae peluso
But not necessarily if it's engaging.
If the entire brain is being engaged, I would think it would enhance the ability for you to exercise and maybe some of the...
joe rogan
Maybe get out of your own way.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
The only reason I know about it is because with research with Alzheimer's, they say when the Alzheimer's patients reach a certain level or even just early on in their diagnosis, that music can help alleviate some of the stresses and anxieties that are associated with the disease.
And because it activates the parts of the brain, most of the parts of the brain, that it is thought to be a therapy for people who have Alzheimer's.
joe rogan
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Because it's doing something to juice up your brain.
Wouldn't that be almost like a sauna for your brain?
jessimae peluso
Exactly.
During the last two weeks of my dad's life, he could not communicate, couldn't eat, his motor functions and everything had just stopped.
We played Sinatra.
That motherfucker didn't talk for two weeks.
We played Sinatra, he started to sing.
Wow.
joe rogan
Which song?
jessimae peluso
Fly Me to the Moon, ironically.
joe rogan
Oh, that's a good one.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
He started to sing, and he also, the last thing he laughed at was a fart, so...
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
unidentified
Speaking of fart, let's fire up the black ash.
jessimae peluso
Is that what it's called?
joe rogan
This is Donnell's own personal...
My man sells candles.
jessimae peluso
I love Donnell so much.
joe rogan
What are you saying, Jamie?
jamie vernon
I mixed up two things.
I listened to them at the same time, though.
So there's a book called Music in Your Brain, which is by...
I believe his name is...
Sorry, I just had it.
Sleviton was his last name.
jessimae peluso
Oh, yeah.
jamie vernon
Sleviton.
jessimae peluso
Stephen Levin.
I think I have that book.
Yes.
jamie vernon
And then I also listened to a separate thing, which is by someone who has been here, Stephen Novella, Your Deceptive Mind.
joe rogan
He hasn't been here.
jamie vernon
Which is a scientific...
He hasn't?
joe rogan
No.
jamie vernon
Oh, I thought he has.
joe rogan
No.
jamie vernon
I'm sorry.
Deceptive Minds.
joe rogan
There's so many guests, it's hard.
jessimae peluso
Don't worry about it.
joe rogan
I mean, we're at like 1,500 guests.
jamie vernon
So Sean Carroll interviewed someone that did a podcast on the Music and the Brain.
I think that's where I was confusing.
joe rogan
Ah, okay.
jessimae peluso
I mean, isn't that interesting, though?
jamie vernon
I listen to a lot of stuff about it.
joe rogan
Donnell's Candle does not want to stay lit.
jessimae peluso
Well, the key to candles is you have to burn them until...
You have to cut them.
First of all, you need to cut the wick.
And then you have to let them burn until the whole area is melted so that it burns equally all the way down.
That looks like a disaster.
joe rogan
This is a mess.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's a mess.
It's no surprise.
joe rogan
Somebody sent me one.
It's like Bernie Sanders as Jesus.
I'm like, who's mass marketing those?
jessimae peluso
Did that come from Vermont?
joe rogan
It will be authentic.
This is not going to stay lit.
I'm going to have to do surgery on this candle thing.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, you got to cut out some of that goo.
joe rogan
See, this is a guy that's industrial.
He's figuring out what to do.
Industrious.
Figuring out what to do.
Like, I know what I'll do.
I'll sell some fucking candles.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
That's, you know, fucking why not smell?
joe rogan
Oh shit, it seems to be working.
jessimae peluso
That's why I made a butthole candle.
joe rogan
Congratulations on that.
So are you openly admitting that you were inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candle?
unidentified
Hell yeah.
jessimae peluso
I was like, where's the butthole candle, girl?
joe rogan
How many of these butthole candles have you sold?
jessimae peluso
We haven't even opened yet.
I don't even think the shop's going to be open soon.
Website.
joe rogan
What does it really smell like?
How do you create a butthole smell?
jessimae peluso
It's sweet with a little bit of weather.
joe rogan
Like swamp fog?
jessimae peluso
Well, yeah, thank you.
Swamp fog, which they won't be at Coachella this year because it's canceled.
joe rogan
They were opening for Jared Leto's band.
unidentified
Coming to the stage, swamp fog!
jessimae peluso
The girls just queef out a cloud.
Yeah, I did get inspired by Gwyneth, whatever her fucking name is.
joe rogan
Just call her Goop.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, Goops.
Candle.
joe rogan
Goops, whole setup.
Did you try one of them jade eggs in your twat?
unidentified
Who?
joe rogan
That was one of her things.
She wanted people to put jade eggs inside your vajayjay?
unidentified
No.
jessimae peluso
You know what?
joe rogan
Yes, they did.
jessimae peluso
I've been putting bleach tampons up there for too long.
We've got to go easy on the cooch.
We have to go gentle.
joe rogan
Here's the thing that men are never fucking aware of.
Toxic shock syndrome killed a lot of women from fucking tampons.
jessimae peluso
Imagine, you lose limbs, too.
If you're lucky...
You catch it early enough, you lose a limb.
joe rogan
How crazy is that?
jessimae peluso
It's so...
Because think about it.
It's this little piece of cotton.
I mean, it's happened to me a couple times where you're like, I think there might be a stowaway up there.
I'm not sure.
There might be somebody hopping the train.
I need to check and see if there's any passengers in the caboose.
joe rogan
I had a bit about tampons that I'm just remembering.
That a tampon was actually invented by men.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it seems like a male invention.
A male invention to a female problem.
Let's plug it.
That we don't have.
Like, what?
jessimae peluso
Stuff something up there.
It's like, hit it.
Like, you guys, to fix things, you smack them around.
joe rogan
Why are you still stuffing things up there?
jessimae peluso
I agree.
I mean, that is a temple.
You need to be gentle with your coochie.
And we're just jamming it.
I know girls who will throw up a leg on the bathtub, on the wall of the bathtub, and just jam it up there with one finger just recklessly.
You've got to go easy.
joe rogan
It seems like also it can't be good for it.
Like, that blood's supposed to come out.
It's not supposed to get stuck up there.
jessimae peluso
No, I definitely take it easy with the clitty cat down there.
I go gentle with it, but...
joe rogan
Do you think that's nature's way, like before tampons were invented, trying to gross out the male monkeys?
Like, oh, when we flush it out, just have it all come out.
jessimae peluso
I think there's probably something to at least keeping...
joe rogan
Discouraging.
jessimae peluso
Discouraging people to stay away from the girl so she can recover and recuperate some of those nutrients lost in that blood.
I'm sure there's something to that.
There's something with gypsies where when women bleed, I think it's called gaja or something like that, where when they bleed, traditionally people leave them alone and they stay in their cabin or wherever they're living and everyone just leaves them alone during that week.
joe rogan
If someone brings up gypsies, I think of two things.
Tyson Fury and werewolves.
That's what I think of.
Like the gypsy lady reading your poem, you of the mark of the wolf.
jessimae peluso
Werewolf would be cool.
Like, if you could pick one creature to be real, I feel like I know the answer to this because I'm your friend.
If you could pick one mystical creature to be real and exist now, what would it be?
joe rogan
Werewolf would be pretty cool.
jessimae peluso
I think Squatch would be great.
joe rogan
Squatch would be very cool.
That'd probably be the coolest.
jessimae peluso
And the most, like, reasonable.
joe rogan
For sure some Russian guy would hunt him and kill him.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, for sure.
Putin.
joe rogan
For sure.
jessimae peluso
He'd have him on the wall.
joe rogan
Yeah, Putin would have it stuffed in his office.
People would be real mad.
jessimae peluso
I love that you're saying this.
Meanwhile, there's like a fucking caribou.
I don't know what that is.
And this thing, an elk.
joe rogan
That's a water buffalo invasive species.
jessimae peluso
I just imagine a Sasquatch head over.
joe rogan
No, those are primates.
Yeah, that's a, when you get into the primate, like nobody gives a fuck about rats.
Like literally nobody gives a fuck about rats.
jessimae peluso
And they're taking over New York City.
joe rogan
They're having rat wars.
Have you paid attention to that?
jessimae peluso
Oh, yeah.
They fight.
They kill each other.
They take over territories because there's no more food.
There's no more restaurants open.
Those little rats are out in the streets.
joe rogan
Same amount of rats, but no food now.
jessimae peluso
They're so smart.
They're so smart.
joe rogan
They're desperado, too.
jessimae peluso
We talked about that, like, you know, the thing when the test they did with the rats.
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
And it becomes like this global consciousness that they have and they get smarter from a test that's done way far away.
joe rogan
Explain what that means.
What they did was on one side of the planet.
Make sure this is true, too.
jessimae peluso
I think it was.
joe rogan
Pretty sure it's true.
jessimae peluso
Look at Jamie's smirk.
unidentified
They did a maze.
joe rogan
They taught a mouse how to go through a maze on one side of the planet.
Might be a rat.
Might be a mouse.
On one side of the planet.
And then the mice on the other side of the planet went through the maze quicker because of that.
Is that true?
jamie vernon
That would be in the morphic resonance area.
joe rogan
Rupert Sheldrake.
Yeah.
He was on the podcast way back in the days.
Yeah, it's a very controversial idea.
jessimae peluso
Well, how do you gauge that?
It's very difficult to go, this is the result of that.
The cause and effect is a little cloudy there.
joe rogan
You know what I think, and this is just one of the times, I think of this sometimes, I'm not married to this, but I think that you have the possibility that To occasionally get these glimpses of maybe senses that are evolving in human beings.
And you can call it intuition.
You can call it some connection you have with somebody, especially with someone you really love, like your family or loved ones or someone you really care about and you think about them and then they call.
It's almost like, man, is there some sort of a connection?
Between people that just comes in and out.
It goes in and out.
Sometimes you're thinking about someone, they text you.
Is that just total coincidence?
It might be.
But it also might be that there's some weird, hard to define, impossible to measure connection that we all share with each other.
jessimae peluso
I think it's a beautiful way to look at it.
I thought about that one day when I was just, you know...
Thinking about my dad, I was traveling and it made me think about thoughts and how thoughts are almost like messages we send out into the universe to just let somebody else know they're not alone and maybe they grab them through some way, through some realm or portal.
And it's important to like...
Conversation is so important because of that, because it reminds you of things and you draw associations.
I was talking about my father one day, and you know John Heffron?
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
jessimae peluso
He sent me a message, and it was while my dad was sick, and I was just, you know, very...
I was upset about it, and John was just like, you know, I went through the same thing that you did.
I want to let you know that hearing is one of the last senses to go when people are sick, just so you know that your dad can still hear you.
I had been afraid to call my dad during this whole process because I didn't want to know what he had forgotten.
John sent me that message on a Sunday.
And because he sent me that message, it made me think about my dad.
And I was like, you know, I haven't called him in so long.
I'm just going to call him tonight.
It was like four o'clock in the morning, East Coast time.
He was in his, you know, the, what is it, like hospice?
What's the last place that people go?
Is it like the nursing home is usually like right before people are passing?
I think it's like a nursing home.
joe rogan
Well, nursing homes certainly are a place where a lot of people wind up passing.
jessimae peluso
I think he went from memory care facility to the nursing home.
And I called the night nurse.
And my dad couldn't talk at that point.
But because I said something and John thought about it and sent me this DM, I'd never met him before.
And that DM made me want to call my dad.
And I called the night nurse.
It was like 4 o'clock in the morning in Syracuse, New York.
And I go, I know my dad can't hear me right now, but can you just tell him that I love him and I'm thinking about him?
And Karen, I think her name was, she said, sure, I can go in and I'll tell him I'll whisper it into his ear.
And that was about 4 o'clock.
And, you know, it was at 1 o'clock here, whatever the time difference is.
And so I fell asleep.
My sister calls me about 20 minutes later.
My dad passed away right after the nurse went in to tell him that.
And I can consider that a coincidence.
Sure, we can chalk it up to a coincidence.
Or it could be what you're speaking about, where there is some sort of deep connection that we have that we can't Express or articulate with words.
Even though these words that were sent to me are the thing that motivated me to talk to my dad, there's something to the effect that maybe there's something mystical going on.
Maybe there's something that we're not meant to explain.
joe rogan
Maybe the problem is the word mystical.
The problem is that we're looking at it like it's some sort of a magic thing.
And we're calling bullshit because so many people pretend to have it and don't.
jessimae peluso
And there's no real science to sort of back it up.
joe rogan
There's zero.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
And there's also been, like, the amazing Randy's put out a reward where James Randy, I think it's a million dollars if you can prove any psychic ability, and no one's been able to win it.
jessimae peluso
Well, how do you prove things of the brain?
joe rogan
You'd have to do it through...
Well, here's the thing.
If it is...
Let's just go wild here.
jessimae peluso
We need Neil deGrasse Tyson.
joe rogan
If it is an emerging...
He would never allow this.
He would cut this off.
Never allow this kind of nonsense.
jessimae peluso
He doesn't want the curtain behind it.
joe rogan
He would entertain it with a scientific perspective.
But if you're looking at something like an emerging characteristic of human beings, for instance, we know that we used to be single-celled organisms.
It's very unlikely that during the time we were single-celled organisms, we could talk.
jessimae peluso
For like 30 minutes.
joe rogan
Or we could feel or we could do interpretive dance.
No one was writing books on a single-celled organism.
So as these single-celled organisms become multi-celled organisms, become human beings, things are getting more and more complex and more and more skills and more and more senses and more and more of an ability to manipulate their environment.
And I think that it only makes sense that there could be some non-local connection that we have to each other.
Some way without just touching or talking or through visual.
There's some sort of a connection that we have with each other that we just haven't evolved yet.
It's on the way.
It's coming.
It's coming.
And that's why we long for it.
That's why we're really interested in psychics.
We're really interested in people that know the future.
Not just because we want to know what the future is.
We want some sort of a feeling of Of hope.
jessimae peluso
And interconnectivity.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's not just that.
It's also that I think we know there's something to it.
jessimae peluso
Well, I think we know there's something grander beyond just this physical existence that we have.
And then it brings up the whole conversation about the creation or existence and introduction of consciousness.
When does that come into the picture?
joe rogan
When did it come into the picture, right?
When was the first thing conscious?
And what is consciousness?
Is it just sentience?
Is it just being aware and looking out for yourself?
Because then deer are conscious.
Are rats conscious?
Because it seems they're pretty conscious too.
jessimae peluso
It seems like there, I think there's a spectrum to consciousness.
And I think that one that we're talking about is the beyond.
You know, that like consciousness at next level where...
joe rogan
Yeah, it's got to go somewhere, right?
jessimae peluso
It's gotta go somewhere.
I mean, look at our brains.
Our brains are like a universe in of itself, and they're in the darkness until death.
I mean, you can't even...
There's no way to really, besides graphs and everything, to really understand the workings of the brain.
I mean, it's firing, all this electricity is going off, and these little teeny molecules are doing jobs.
joe rogan
And like we said earlier, sometimes it works great, and sometimes it's dog shit.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
It's really wild.
joe rogan
Same person.
jessimae peluso
It's so crazy.
And then there's this thing that happens in the brain and in the body, this immune response where they send out this molecule.
It's almost like a Paul Revere of molecules where it lets all the other molecules in the body know that some shit's about to go down.
It's like a warning.
joe rogan
Right, like adrenaline.
jessimae peluso
Like a warning response.
Yeah, but like little teeny...
There's actual little microscopic things that are doing these jobs.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Who...
jessimae peluso
What the fuck?
How do they start their day?
joe rogan
Right.
jessimae peluso
Are they waking up like Joe Rogan and going and working out for an hour?
joe rogan
You don't even know they're there.
jessimae peluso
No, you don't even know.
That's why I fucking talk to them, bro.
joe rogan
Dude, I get it.
I think it's a good idea.
I was joking around, but also being serious.
Like what you were saying you could do for plants, why wouldn't you do it for yourself?
jessimae peluso
Why wouldn't you?
I mean...
joe rogan
Self-help.
jessimae peluso
Everything is made up of things we can't see.
joe rogan
Self-love, right?
jessimae peluso
Self-love is the most important thing you can express.
And I think...
joe rogan
Yeah, if you don't love yourself, why would anyone else?
jessimae peluso
That's where the breakdown in the chain is.
This whole podcast we've been talking about trauma and pain and along that lifetime, what determines one person becoming a Joe Rogan or a Joey Diaz or even somebody who goes on to become a politician or doctor, whatever it is.
What determines them going from that direction to people who are committing crimes?
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
jessimae peluso
There's something on a microscopic cellular level that is...
Determining these things.
Self-love is a tool to use to sort of, I think, help you Put yourself on the trajectory of a positive life.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, I agree.
It's hard for people to just change gears, right?
It's hard for people who aren't healthy to be healthy.
It's hard for people who don't eat well to eat well.
It's hard for people who are kind of lazy to get their shit together and be disciplined.
You're going to get tired, you know?
And if you're that person that automatically seeks comfort and nothingness all the time anyway, it's going to be hard for you.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, it's going to be really hard.
What are your reinforcements?
And what are you reinforcing?
joe rogan
This is where I think events are very...
There's amazing opportunity in events.
And this is a big event.
jessimae peluso
What do you mean?
joe rogan
Events like this pandemic.
jessimae peluso
Okay, I was thinking of like Bonnaroo.
unidentified
Terrible.
joe rogan
Terrible.
jessimae peluso
I was.
I took it because I miss it.
I miss events and going out.
I see what you're saying.
This pandemic.
joe rogan
This moment in time where everything stops.
Have you watched any television since then and see people without masks and see people hugging and shaking hands and you go, ah!
Ah!
Already.
We've only been on lockdown for a month or so and already we freak out and we see people hold hands in movies.
We see people kiss people they barely know.
jessimae peluso
You're like, that bitch can't It's changing behavior.
joe rogan
It's that scary.
It's weirding us out.
It is scary.
Because this is what I've been telling people forever when it comes to places like China.
People are like, I can't believe that China's this military dictatorship in 2020. Yeah, and if you're not careful, that could happen here.
jessimae peluso
Oh, absolutely.
joe rogan
That could happen anywhere.
jessimae peluso
If you're lazy enough.
joe rogan
We have to understand this.
If it exists anywhere, it can exist here.
And we get all complacent in this idea that that could never happen to us and we're too fucking smart.
Do you know how many people are rethinking their thoughts on safety, on security, on guns, on the food chain, the food supply chain?
People are rethinking just basic survival right now.
jessimae peluso
Well, that's scary.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
And it becomes that sort of desperation factor.
Isn't this like we were talking about us being so comfortable?
We're due for some shit.
joe rogan
Well, this is it.
jessimae peluso
We're due for some destruction.
joe rogan
This is a trial run, because this ain't shit compared to a big earthquake.
If an asteroid hits, like there's a big asteroid that's flying by, it's a mile wide, and it's going to fly by Earth soon.
A mile wide.
Do you know what a mile wide piece of rock from space would do if it hit us?
It's a planet ender.
jessimae peluso
I would think it would leave a dent or two.
joe rogan
It's a planet ender.
jessimae peluso
Maybe that's the silver lining.
Maybe the silver lining is that we're getting a little bit of a taste of what a real, you know, more devastating global pandemic looks like.
And that's going to be the deciding factor on our preparations for something in the future occurring.
joe rogan
Yeah, they didn't know, but now they do.
So now that they do, there better be plans in place for all those other possibilities, like the super volcano, like the asteroid impacts.
jessimae peluso
We better reintroduce the pandemic department and get those fuckers their job back.
joe rogan
Well, we don't even know if they really went away.
jessimae peluso
We're both morons, let's be honest.
joe rogan
We shouldn't even be talking about this.
Come on, you know you're a moron.
jessimae peluso
Rude, but accurate.
It is very accurate.
joe rogan
I'm a fucking moron.
You're a moron too.
jessimae peluso
I am a moron.
We're all morons.
joe rogan
I love you.
You're a great moron.
jessimae peluso
I love you too.
joe rogan
But this is now we understand that the way things have been is not necessarily the way things always will be.
jessimae peluso
Oh, definitely not.
joe rogan
Things can get a whole lot weirder.
So we should be fucking careful.
jessimae peluso
We should be careful, but we should also be grateful.
I think the silver lining hopefully will be us learning how to prepare a little bit more and not argue and debate over these stupid things that don't fucking matter.
joe rogan
Right, but I think the reason why we're going on and on about stupid shit was because we didn't have something like this, because life was too easy.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, well shit, it's never good.
Complacency breeds contempt, right?
And that's, on a global scale, that's detrimental.
joe rogan
I think it's familiarity breeds contempt.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, that as well.
joe rogan
Complacency, what does it breed?
jessimae peluso
Complacency, did I just make up a cliche?
joe rogan
Complacency makes fat asses.
And not the pH kind.
jessimae peluso
Complacency is a dangerous thing.
joe rogan
Does anybody say pH fat anymore?
That's not real anymore, right?
unidentified
Fat?
jessimae peluso
That was like, I think that died in the 90s.
How dare you?
Are we Googling?
jamie vernon
It says contempt is the first thing, failure, mediocrity.
joe rogan
Complacency breeds mediocrity or contempt.
Oh, interesting.
So familiarity breeds contempt and complacency.
Everything is breeding contempt.
jessimae peluso
We're familiar with our complacency.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, we need to know what's important, and I think now we have a better sense of it.
So the real question is whether or not we can learn.
Because people are good at adjustments when they have to make adjustments, but then when things slide back, they get this sort of the thing we were talking about earlier, where you don't want to look at all the possibilities because you will freak out, especially if you're doing edibles.
jessimae peluso
Hell yeah.
I've been staring away from the edibles.
I mean, I have been doing the blunts, but I think...
People will change when their livelihood and survival is threatened.
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
But will they change to protect themselves?
Or will they change to adapt a new way of life to protect the greater good?
Because I want to be on an earth of people who are protecting human race, not Bob Johnson.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Oh, not an individual.
jessimae peluso
Right, because then we're just back at square one.
joe rogan
Well, if you look at the history of people, we're doing way better now than we were before, right?
There's obviously been some peaks and valleys and some mistakes, and we're also aware that you can kind of navigate the future intelligently.
And if you navigate the future intelligently, you make less and less mistakes.
I think we just now have to reassess the nature of our momentum, the nature of the society that we're creating and what we're trying to do.
And also the impact that we're having.
I know this is not sustainable for people to not work and stay home for months.
It's not sustainable.
I'm well aware.
But it's also amazing for the earth.
If you look at the pictures they've taken about the sky above L.A. I mean, I went on a hike early on.
jessimae peluso
I could see all the way to Pasadena.
joe rogan
It smells different.
jessimae peluso
It doesn't smell like butt in gasoline.
joe rogan
It doesn't smell like you're being poisoned by a little bit.
And you are.
It's not the same as smoking, but it's right next door.
jessimae peluso
And that environmental stress, that constant exposure to environmental stress, I mean, that affects your mood.
That affects your health.
joe rogan
We've got to all move out into the rural area and ruin that.
jessimae peluso
That's what we've got to do.
We've got to ruin that and turn it into this.
Where the fuck are we going to go?
Where are we going to go?
We've got to go on another planet with Biden and L. Ron Hubbard.
joe rogan
People in South Dakota right now are going, stay out of here!
Get out!
jessimae peluso
People in Arizona are like, fuck!
joe rogan
I know.
jessimae peluso
Arizona's going to be the new LA. I mean, we're all going to have to move there.
joe rogan
Arizona, you can have a gun.
It's easy to get a gun.
jessimae peluso
Cheap house.
joe rogan
Yeah, cheap house.
jessimae peluso
You just have to watch out for the cactus that shoot needles at you.
joe rogan
You're literally living inside of Satan's dick for three months out of the year, though.
For three months out of the year, it's 145,000 degrees.
jessimae peluso
It's a brutal existence.
People aren't meant to live in the desert.
Everything's dry, crispy, and trying to kill you.
You ever hear the noises at night?
unidentified
Everything's trying to kill you.
jessimae peluso
What was that creature?
joe rogan
Coyotes and rattlesnakes and occasionally they have jaguars.
You know, that's one of the rare places in North America outside of Mexico that we occasionally see jaguars.
Yeah, they have jaguars that have been spotted on trail cams.
And the biologists, these wildlife biologists, watch it very carefully because there's never been a really strong, at least there's no real history of a really strong supply of jaguars in this country.
It's primarily a Central and South American animal, as well as a Mexican animal.
jessimae peluso
Is it something that got loose from Joe Exotics Park?
joe rogan
No, it's a real fucking Jaguar that made its way from Mexico.
jessimae peluso
I mean, its habitat is just deteriorating and it's cruising around Arizona.
That's wild.
joe rogan
It picked a shit spot.
Imagine being a Jaguar and you're dealing with a drug trade.
You think you're the number one problem.
And then there's these cartels that are sneaking in coke and just fucking shooting at you.
You're like, shit, I thought I was running things out here.
jessimae peluso
And then you got a cousin who's like, a cousin jaguar who lives up in Oregon.
He's like, bro, you gotta come up here.
There's so many trees.
It's nice.
You can breathe.
joe rogan
Look at this motherfucker wandering around.
jessimae peluso
I think I have that tattooed on me.
joe rogan
So see the skin down there in the middle side where they're looking at?
Yeah, they found out that this one jaguar that they had been spotting on trail cameras had been killed in Mexico.
jessimae peluso
And what, turned into a fucking rug?
joe rogan
They turned him into a rug, yeah.
jessimae peluso
How do you feel about that?
As somebody who hunts all these like...
joe rogan
Oh my god, look at the teeth.
jessimae peluso
I know.
joe rogan
Open that.
Look at that.
Holy shit, that's insane.
jessimae peluso
That's what women see right before men go down on them.
That's what it looks like.
joe rogan
That picture is amazing.
jessimae peluso
That's beautiful.
You should frame that shit.
joe rogan
I need that picture in my office, right?
Jamie, we need it on metal.
jessimae peluso
That's beautiful.
joe rogan
Get that.
Please.
jessimae peluso
Find it.
joe rogan
Take a screenshot right now.
Find that.
That needs to be in the studio.
jessimae peluso
It looks like it's in a habitat, though.
joe rogan
Don't lose it.
Don't lose it.
jessimae peluso
It looks like it's an enclosure.
joe rogan
That is probably a Republican website.
Look.
Jaguars are returning to Southern Arizona.
jessimae peluso
You see it biting.
joe rogan
Look at the size of that fucker.
jessimae peluso
It's in an encampment.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's in a zoo.
But just still, look at the size of that fucker.
jessimae peluso
Look at this lady.
joe rogan
They're like 200 pounds, those fucking cats.
They're big.
Yeah, they're big.
jessimae peluso
They're solo hunters, right?
joe rogan
Well, when you trip balls, apparently, in the Amazon, when the guys do ayahuasca in the Amazon, they see jaguars.
jessimae peluso
Like a jaguar entity comes to you?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You see, like, jaguar spirits.
jessimae peluso
You need to get away out of your own shelf.
joe rogan
I just think...
jessimae peluso
I don't know why it was...
joe rogan
I don't know why he did that voice.
But I think there's a really interesting theory about why that is.
And the theory is that the more people take a psychedelic drug, the more their experience and who they are becomes a part of the psychedelic experience for the next person who does it.
jessimae peluso
Whoa, it goes back to that consciousness.
joe rogan
Right, so when these people are tripping on ayahuasca in a place where they've been tripping on ayahuasca for 10,000 years, they see things that these people who've tripped before them were terrified of, like snakes and jaguars and fucking dragons that come from the sky.
jessimae peluso
Have you done ayahuasca?
joe rogan
I've only done DMT, which is the chemical version of ayahuasca.
jessimae peluso
So it's like synthetic.
joe rogan
You don't throw up and you don't shit your pants and it only lasts 20 minutes.
jessimae peluso
That's not fun.
I want to shart and not have to explain myself.
joe rogan
I'm very interested in doing it.
I would have to carve away the time to get ready for it and also make sure I'm doing it with someone who's a reputable person.
And then the problem is that it's not legal.
jessimae peluso
It should be legal.
joe rogan
I have a friend who's really working on What I mean, it's not legal, so you never know what you're getting.
You have to get through word of mouth.
You have to trust people.
jessimae peluso
It's always sketchy.
joe rogan
It's always sketchy.
Whenever you're dealing with anything, whether it's mushrooms or any LSD. Anything that affects the brain.
If someone's offering you some incredibly potent thing, and you don't have a chain of command, you don't have a lab this came from, you don't know.
When you get into the world of psychedelic drugs, it becomes very fucking weird.
jessimae peluso
You have to tread lightly.
joe rogan
You have to tread very, very lightly.
jessimae peluso
There's no FDA. There's no FDA for it.
And so you're right.
You're dependent upon these people who are doing these journeys and trips in their homes.
My friend Jackie Stang has a really cool psychedelic platform.
I think it's called MeetDelic.
And she promotes healthy ways to have a journey.
And the one thing she says, because I've talked to her about it, and I'm like, I want to do it, but I'm scared.
She always says, safety first.
Like, it's so important to be safe.
You need a sitter.
And the environment needs, like you said, the environment needs to be right.
I've never done it, but I would only go off of someone like that who is like, you know, knows the steps.
joe rogan
Well, you know, we were talking earlier about people that try to get away from the trauma of childhood.
And one of the better ways that people have found is through psychedelic therapy.
And psychedelic therapy through...
MDMA has helped a lot of soldiers and MAPS is currently working on some studies doing that, but also people that have taken psychedelic mushrooms have had great relief from some of the pain that they've had when they were younger because it kind of can rewire the way your brain works.
Now, what's fucked up about it is this book is Chaos.
Greg Fitzsimmons buddy wrote it, Tom O'Neil, and he came in and he worked on this book for 20 years.
I've talked about it too many times, so I'll give you the cliff notes.
jessimae peluso
Does that say Charles Manson?
joe rogan
Yes.
It's all about the 60s and the CIA doing LSD studies and giving LSD to hippies, giving LSD to people to try to change their memory, giving LSD to people to try to make them do things and have no memory of it after they did it.
There's a connection between the CIA's LSD study and Jack Ruby, the guy who killed Lee Harvey Oswald and shot him in that iconic photograph.
Sirhan Sirhan, the guy who killed Robert F. Kennedy.
All these guys are connected to this psychedelic study, including Charles Manson.
jessimae peluso
I mean, if there's ever a face of someone who's doing drugs...
joe rogan
They ran a clinic in the 1960s until this book came out.
CIA ran a fucking free clinic in Haight-Ashbury, and it closed down three months after this book came out.
They were running it for decades.
jessimae peluso
Some shady shit.
Using people and controlling them.
joe rogan
Well, they were giving people some sort of psychedelic therapy, or they were studying them and giving them psychedelics, or they were doing something.
jessimae peluso
Or using them to motivate.
joe rogan
They were doing something to people with LSD, and they were letting Manson out of jail over and over again.
He would get arrested, he would violate his parole, they'd let him out again.
He was a part of their program.
They wanted him to do fucked up shit.
jessimae peluso
Like they're researching him like a guinea pig?
joe rogan
They wanted to use him, most likely, to disrupt the anti-war movement.
So he represented hippies now.
So everybody was terrified of hippies.
jessimae peluso
Oh, so they were trying to put a bad face on hippies and make them crazy so that they appeared crazy.
But meanwhile, they're the ones creating the crazy.
joe rogan
They were making him crazy.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, they were creating the crazy.
joe rogan
Well, he was in jail for most of his life, like literally half of his life.
jessimae peluso
This is fucking mind-blowing.
joe rogan
Oh, I'm doing a terrible job of it.
But if you listen to the audio book or you read the book, and the book has like 60 pages of citations and references explaining all the stuff that is absolutely provable about what he's saying.
jessimae peluso
Who funded it?
Henry Assinger?
joe rogan
Well, no, it's Harry Ansinger.
jessimae peluso
Whatever his fucking name is.
joe rogan
But it's a great book.
But it's about that.
It's about rewiring someone's brain with LSD. And that Manson learned how to do this while he's in prison through this CIA study.
And then when he gets out, within two years, he got out in 67. By the time 69 comes along, Sharon Tate's dead.
They're all living in the mansion.
He's gotten people murder people and write pig on the wall.
All this while he's giving them acid.
He's giving them acid and pretend to take it, not taking it, or taking just a little and changing the way.
jessimae peluso
Doing like placebo effects?
joe rogan
No, no, he wasn't taking it.
So he was pretending he was taking it so he could fuck with them.
So they're taking acid and he's programming them, getting them to have orgies, getting them to do crazy shit, murdering people.
He literally was a part of this program and you can prove it by all the times he's been released from jail, all of his connections with those guys who worked for the CIA at the time and were doing those LSD studies.
all the stuff because of the Freedom of Information Act.
It's all been proven.
They did this thing called MKUltra, where they did mind control experiments on people in the 60s.
It ended in like 1973 when the guy who was running the program died.
But they were dosing people up with acid.
They were doing wild shit.
jessimae peluso
Safety, kids.
unidentified
Safety.
joe rogan
They had whorehouses that the CIA ran and dosed the Johns up with acid.
They thought they were going in to get laid, and they had a two-way mirror, and these guys would be like fucking sipping tea, watching these people take acid and have sex with prostitutes.
jessimae peluso
Dude, it's a fucking nightmare.
unidentified
Imagine.
jessimae peluso
That sounds like a nightmare.
joe rogan
This is what happens when people get control.
When people get power and control, you can justify almost anything.
One of the things you can justify is you can justify taking a guy who's just looking to get his dick sucked and you put him in a situation where you're dosing him up with acid.
And you're studying him like a rat.
And he has no idea you're studying him.
He has no idea what happened.
You're breaking this poor guy's brain.
What happened?
unidentified
Well, Harry came home one day and he just saw demons.
joe rogan
He started yelling.
He was in the backyard.
He starts shooting his gun.
Next thing you know, no more Harry.
Meanwhile, she doesn't know.
Harry got dosed up with LSD. Because on the way home, he'd scrape together a little money.
Just give me a little rub and tug real quick.
And he goes into this place and they're like, have a drink.
Sit down.
He drinks and all of a sudden, doo-doo-doo-doo.
12 hours later, Harry comes out.
He has no idea what happened.
There's no memory of it, but he's a different person now, and they broke his brain.
jessimae peluso
Is that like what happens when people think they're being abducted?
Maybe they just were on the CIA program and they were all fucked up at night?
joe rogan
For sure.
jessimae peluso
That's such an abuse of power and really an invasion of rights.
joe rogan
It's just, well, if you give people power and you don't have anybody standing over them and tells them what to do, and especially if you're doing something in secret, right?
If you're doing things in secret, did you ever hear that famous Kennedy speech about secret societies?
It's really interesting.
jessimae peluso
I don't think I have.
joe rogan
It's really interesting because he was struggling with the CIA and a bunch of other secret sort of institutions and government back then and secret societies.
And he was talking about how abhorrent it is to withhold information, how dangerous it is.
But this is sort of one of the reasons why it makes sense.
Like, if you give people the power, just experiment on these young kids.
Just dose them up with acid.
Just let's experiment on prisoners.
Let's just go to these prisoners.
Look at this guy.
He's been in jail for 12 years.
He's a fucking loser.
Let's just give him acid.
jessimae peluso
Let's see what happens.
joe rogan
Let's see if you can talk him into believing he's Jesus.
jessimae peluso
With no recovery program, no regard for their person.
It's so destructive.
That's really just terrible.
joe rogan
Yeah, this is one of the things in the book that Jamie was freaked out about.
He claimed to have achieved the impossible.
He knew how to replace true memories with false ones and human beings without their knowledge.
jessimae peluso
Well, I mean, most memories are false, but that's demonic.
joe rogan
Without detailing the specific incidents, he put it in layman's terms,"...has been found to be feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual and, through hypnotic suggestion, bring about subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place,
but that a different fictional event actually did occur." He had done it, he claimed, by administering new drugs effective in speeding the induction of the hypnotic state and in deepening the trance that can be produced in given subjects.
jessimae peluso
It sounds like whoever did hypnosis on you did the opposite of that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they did bad hypnosis.
jessimae peluso
That's really so, so evil.
joe rogan
That was his job.
His name was Jolly West and he did this for decades.
jessimae peluso
This is a government program.
joe rogan
Yeah, apparently he was a really friendly guy.
jessimae peluso
It's hard to not have conspiracies.
joe rogan
Well, for sure, if you want to go to those conspiracies, they were real.
They are provable.
jessimae peluso
I mean, that is just so...
It's demonic.
unidentified
Oh, look at this.
jessimae peluso
It sounds like we're reading a movie plot.
joe rogan
Look at this.
The National Security Archives in Washington, D.C. I found the version of the...
Psychophysiological studies of hypnosis and suggestibility that the CIA turned over to Senators Kennedy and Inouye in 1977. West's name and affiliation were redacted as expected, but the CIA's version Was also shorter and watered down in comparison.
This is because he found two different documents.
He found one in the CIA's warehouse, and then he found another one that was the one that had been redacted.
West's documents was 14 pages.
This one was five, including a cover page.
Most glaringly, there was no mention of West's triumphant accomplishment, the replacement of the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual with a fictional event.
So the CIA's papers...
Had a different account that showed that he could change people's memories, and then the one that was all redacted and edited didn't have that in it.
jessimae peluso
And these are people who are still, there are still people who are like that, who are running government and who are in politics, who are in charge of passing laws like that.
joe rogan
Well, here's the question.
jessimae peluso
It goes so deep.
joe rogan
It does go deep.
But here's the question.
All that stuff is horrendous, right?
All that stuff is horrendous.
Experimenting on American civilians and dosing people.
Fucking with somebody's mind?
Well, breaking people's minds, too.
jessimae peluso
You're causing schizophrenia.
joe rogan
Oh, 100%.
If you're inclined towards it, those events absolutely do contribute to schizophrenic breaks.
That's been proven.
They've actually talked about that.
That's that Alex Berenson stuff that he talked about with marijuana, which is 100% true.
In some people, especially with high doses of edibles, they have psychotic breaks.
It happens to people.
They get schizophrenic.
They blow fuses.
It does happen.
jessimae peluso
It happens temporarily.
joe rogan
I know of people, I know of people, multiple people that have had real problems.
I think there's some people that have a sort of a slippery grasp on reality in the first place, and then they start smoking a little weed, getting a little too crazy with it.
jessimae peluso
And reckless with it, yeah.
joe rogan
And go deep, go deep, wake and bake every day.
jessimae peluso
You're hanging out with the wrong people too, and it's the wrong environment.
joe rogan
Or even worse, you're hanging out with no people because you're on quarantine, just getting high.
jessimae peluso
You don't have any community.
That's why it's so important to have...
Good people in your life that can get you out of those zones.
Because all that is is like a deep, dark mental zone.
And if you don't have a lifeguard on hand, you're going to drown in your own mental ocean.
unidentified
Dude.
jessimae peluso
That shit is horrendous.
joe rogan
And then all those bad ideas are mental ocean sharks.
jessimae peluso
Dude.
And I doubt they're replacing bad memories with good ones.
I doubt they're like, hey, remember that time your uncle touched you at the reunion?
Here's you winning an Olympic gold.
joe rogan
I wonder what the memories were that they implanted in the people.
jessimae peluso
Oh, to create Manson?
I mean...
joe rogan
Well, I know they definitely have taken prisoners and convinced the prisoner that they committed a crime that they couldn't possibly have committed.
jessimae peluso
You know what this sounds like?
joe rogan
People have done that before through horrendous interrogation and torture.
They've actually convinced people that they did something when they didn't do it.
jessimae peluso
Well, that's how they persuade people to, you know, to confess.
unidentified
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
And they lead people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jessimae peluso
You know what this reminds me of?
What we're talking about, Westworld.
joe rogan
Yes.
jessimae peluso
It's exactly what it sounds like.
joe rogan
Well, what we're...
jessimae peluso
Recreating memories and...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, we're going towards that way.
jessimae peluso
We're in Westworld.
joe rogan
We're going to be.
If we're not yet, I mean, Elon thinks we're there right now.
Elon Musk thinks we're in some sort of a simulation.
He wants to know what's beyond the simulation.
jessimae peluso
Well, isn't there a percent?
I mean, even Neil deGrasse says there's a percent of a possibility.
Neil deGrasse.
I love him.
I have such a crush on him.
I'm a sapiosexual.
joe rogan
Congratulations.
jessimae peluso
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
joe rogan
I remember there was a lady who got elected to something.
She's the first pansexual politician.
Openly pansexual politician.
jessimae peluso
What's pansexual?
Oh, you love everybody.
joe rogan
You're just a hoe.
unidentified
You're just out there.
jessimae peluso
Rude.
joe rogan
Just having a party.
jessimae peluso
But fun.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Hey, listen, I'm not knocking being a hoe.
jessimae peluso
That sounds like fun.
Maybe that should be my reincarnation.
joe rogan
I think she basically is allowed to be attracted to everything.
That's all joking aside.
jessimae peluso
That must be exhausting.
joe rogan
Maybe.
Maybe it's not.
jessimae peluso
Sounds kind of great, though.
joe rogan
Maybe she can go back and forth from men to women, but she doesn't consider herself a lesbian?
She's not bisexual.
jessimae peluso
She's pansexual.
She's just alive.
joe rogan
What does pansexual mean?
jessimae peluso
No, I think you're right.
I think they love everyone.
joe rogan
Let's Google it.
I want to know what the Urban Dictionary says, because it's the only way you're going to get a definition.
jessimae peluso
Oh, that's a true definition.
joe rogan
Is pansexual a real thing?
jessimae peluso
I'm going to say you love all walks of identity.
You like straight people, you like gay people, you like lesbians, you like post-surgery transsexuals.
joe rogan
Not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.
jessimae peluso
Exactly.
joe rogan
Well, that just means you can be sexual with a trans person, a straight person, or a gay person.
jessimae peluso
That sounds...
So basically a very open person.
joe rogan
She's a hippie.
jessimae peluso
A lover.
joe rogan
Yeah.
She's out there doing acid and banging people.
jessimae peluso
It's a lover.
joe rogan
She's part of the Manson clan.
jessimae peluso
Equal opportunity blowjobber.
joe rogan
That's what the Manson did.
That's what they did.
They were all that pansexual.
jessimae peluso
I don't know if that's pansexual or more of a control.
I don't know if they were all pansexual.
I think you're born that way.
I think it'd be...
Unless you're the CIA replacing your memories.
joe rogan
Why would you think people were born that way?
jessimae peluso
Because Lady Gaga told me.
That was for my sister, Emily.
She's such a Lady Gaga fan.
I love my sister.
She's got two kids, a husband.
She has Lady Gaga as her screensaver on her phone.
joe rogan
Why not?
jessimae peluso
Fuck it.
joe rogan
It's going to be that or a cat.
jessimae peluso
For Kenny Chesney, her dog's name is Chesney.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Kenny Chesney.
That's hilarious.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, I mean, it must be great just to love everybody.
joe rogan
Yeah, why not?
jessimae peluso
I'm pansexual in my approach to life.
joe rogan
I joke around about it and I'll mock it, but I'm going to mock everything.
Things are out there, they're going to get mocked, but it doesn't mean it's not great.
jessimae peluso
We should be able to mock everything.
joe rogan
Yes or no?
100%.
Because the people don't want to be mocked.
Anything that you can't make fun of is bullshit.
jessimae peluso
It's bullshit.
And it doesn't want to be made fun of because it's afraid of its truth being revealed.
Okay?
That creepy dude who says he can pray away the COVID? Oh, yeah.
That guy...
joe rogan
He blows on him.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
COVID. I blow you away.
jessimae peluso
I renege you from my life.
unidentified
I rebook you.
joe rogan
When the lady confronts him, the lady reporter confronts him and asks him if he thinks that poor people are demons.
I did not see that.
jessimae peluso
His eyes?
joe rogan
They got crazy.
jessimae peluso
She asked him if poor people were demons and he looked the most demonic I've ever seen a human look.
joe rogan
The most.
jessimae peluso
I did not say that.
joe rogan
And knowing there's a camera there.
Look at him.
jessimae peluso
He looks like that thing from Saw.
joe rogan
He looks like you would have to fight him to the death if you saw him in your house.
jessimae peluso
Fuck that guy.
That guy's the devil.
That's the irony of people like this.
He uses people's need and want to belong and be understood for his own gain.
Look at that suit.
You think it's a fucking polyester suit?
joe rogan
Do you know how on edge you'd be if that guy was like that in your living room?
And he was screaming and yelling and pointing at you in your living room.
You'd be like, oh my god, we're fighting to the death.
jessimae peluso
Can you imagine?
joe rogan
That's what you would think.
jessimae peluso
You're dating his daughter, and you're going to meet him, and he's...
You walk in the house, right?
joe rogan
I feel like I would just leave the house.
I like it when he's in my house, because I don't have to kill him.
Go to the upper left when he's pointing at her.
That one right there.
Look at that.
Don't you say that!
jessimae peluso
Look at his pupils!
He looks like if Disney, instead of making the presidents, like those puppets at Epcot Center, they made a demon.
joe rogan
Look at those white knuckles.
Look how tight he's squeezing his fist.
jessimae peluso
His hand looks like an old, degraded version of an AI. They just were like, well, fuck it.
We're not going to fix it.
Let's just put this hand on him and just send him back out into the world.
joe rogan
No, the hand is a real age.
Everything else has been doctored up.
jessimae peluso
You're right.
joe rogan
They doctored up his mug.
jessimae peluso
He forgot to get a...
joe rogan
There's no hand jobs other than the regular kind.
jessimae peluso
He needs to go to his dermatologist and get a peel on that to show his...
That's the demon coming out.
That's how old the demon is.
joe rogan
Look, it's all hairy and shit.
jessimae peluso
But what would you do, seriously, if you walked in and his back was to you and he just turned around and he was like shaking a martini and he looked at you, you'd run away?
joe rogan
In my house?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Depends on whose house.
If it's in his house, I leave.
unidentified
His house, you leave.
I leave.
joe rogan
I get the fuck out of there.
jessimae peluso
I get out quick.
Do you think he makes love?
joe rogan
Pardon me, sir.
jessimae peluso
Does he make love or hate fuck his wife?
joe rogan
He probably gets fucked only by dudes and they probably come in buses.
They probably come on out with, like, execution masks on.
unidentified
Fuck that guy!
joe rogan
They just run trains on him.
jessimae peluso
What's his name?
joe rogan
Look at that face.
jamie vernon
Kenneth Copeland.
jessimae peluso
Kenneth Copeland.
I mean, it sounds like a...
joe rogan
Have you seen the video of him yelling at the lady?
Composer, yes.
jessimae peluso
Play it, play it.
I haven't seen it in a hot minute.
joe rogan
We'll get pulled off of YouTube if we actually play it and people other than us can hear it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's their content, but...
jessimae peluso
Oh my god, that's when he's rebuking COVID. Who's the other dude?
That's his guy who's giving him in the bunghole on Sunday mornings, giving him the lord.
joe rogan
I'm picturing large Samoan characters.
jessimae peluso
Like Jason Momoa, but worse?
joe rogan
Way bigger.
Yeah, but big, thick guys that are just savages, just ready to lay pipe on that dude.
jessimae peluso
Oh, so you're calling him a bottom?
Okay.
joe rogan
100%.
If I had a gas, not there's anything wrong with that choice.
jessimae peluso
Not at all.
joe rogan
I respect that choice.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, absolutely.
Live your life.
Do you, girl.
joe rogan
I just think that anybody who's doing that.
Look, I don't necessarily think it should be illegal to rip people off and demand money for a jet from poor people.
I don't think it should be illegal.
jessimae peluso
But be honest.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If you think that you can't be mocked for doing that, someone can't ask you a question because you did say that you didn't want to be on a plane with all those demons.
That's why he has a private plane, because the regular people are demons.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
And so this lady's like, did you really say that?
And he's like, I did not say that!
Come on, man.
jessimae peluso
Like, you actually said it.
It's like the same thing with Joel Osteen.
You know, they're just...
joe rogan
He's way less crazy though.
Way less crazy.
jessimae peluso
But they have a similar, like, gloss about them.
joe rogan
But Joel Osteen is happy.
That guy's out there.
unidentified
Is he?
joe rogan
Fuck yes.
jessimae peluso
Same fucking face.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
It should be.
Because they're like, Joel Osteen is not like him.
Joel Osteen's legit.
That guy, he's crazy.
unidentified
Who the fuck says Joel Osteen?
joe rogan
He thinks poor people are demons.
jessimae peluso
You don't think Joel thinks the same?
joe rogan
No, I think if you're gauging them.
If there's a graph of like worst ever preacher to best ever preacher, somewhere along the line, there's got to be a really good person that's a preacher that really is following the word of Christ and is doing it the right way.
And if they do get money, they are giving it away to charity.
There's got to be.
jessimae peluso
So you think Joel's on the better end of that?
joe rogan
He's closer to that side than he is to the fucking...
There's fucking Kanye.
jessimae peluso
Okay, already done.
joe rogan
Jesus is king, so shut the fuck up.
unidentified
Why don't you just read Jesus is King.
joe rogan
Bro, he sells tickets where you can only look at his ass.
They probably cost a thousand bucks.
Look, there's tickets behind him.
Look how many people are there.
jessimae peluso
Oh, God sells.
Sex and God sells.
Like, if comedy's done, I'm going to God.
joe rogan
And look at the people that sit behind their ass.
There's like so many people that they stuffed people on the stage with them.
jessimae peluso
That is so wild.
And this is another example of people needing and going towards love.
And I'm sure there's obviously a benefit to this.
joe rogan
Look at the size of that place.
jessimae peluso
It's just, it's another level of religion that I don't quite understand and my mind can't grasp it because it feels like it's teetering a little bit further away from religion and going into something else, another realm that is the opposite of what religion's meant to be.
joe rogan
Well, it's finance.
It's a business.
If you're selling out that big of a place and you're getting donations from those people too, how many of those people are tithing?
How many of those people are giving 10%?
If you have 30,000 people giving you 10%, oh my goodness, are you balling?
jessimae peluso
So you're like paying...
You're paying God, essentially.
So it makes God appear like a mafia, like a member of the mafia.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
jessimae peluso
You treat me good.
I'm going to give you some money.
Just protect me.
It's basically like a mafia member.
joe rogan
I think the idea is that these guys are the more ballward these guys are, the more they represent God's word.
And God's word has allowed him to get a jet and a Rolls Royce.
And look at this mansion that was paid for by God's word.
God is good.
jessimae peluso
God wants me to have it.
joe rogan
And then people see that and it's like sort of, they get pumped up.
They're like, God is good.
Look what God's done to Brother Joel.
And Joel's up there balling out of control.
Rolls Royces and private jets.
jessimae peluso
He's just so, I don't know why his face is so taut.
Is Jesus hanging onto his ears and riding Joel like Seabiscuit and directing him?
Because his face is very intense.
joe rogan
He's just on point and focused.
That's how you sell a fucking arena, woman.
jessimae peluso
He's running towards God.
joe rogan
Girls are always worrying about what the guy looks like.
The guy's selling out arenas with Jesus' word.
He's reading a book that was written 2,000 years ago.
He didn't even write it.
He's reading it out there, giving these sermons, and he's bawling.
Look how happy he is.
He's like, I'm not even going to get my teeth bleached.
Fuck it.
jessimae peluso
He's laughing.
jamie vernon
50,000 people a week, it says he has...
joe rogan
Great.
How much money is that?
jessimae peluso
That's a lot.
joe rogan
That's a lot of money.
jamie vernon
Plus millions on the internet.
unidentified
I mean, he's like the Chappelle of sermons.
joe rogan
Even bigger.
He dwarfs us all.
He dwarfs Kevin Hart.
He dwarfs everybody.
Well, hopefully he's spreading love.
jessimae peluso
Hopefully people are getting what they need from that.
joe rogan
There you go.
jessimae peluso
But he looks fucking crazy.
joe rogan
What is his sermons like?
Have you ever listened to them?
jamie vernon
Oh, no, no.
But I mean, he's filling up the 16,000 seat arena about three times if 50,000 people a week are getting in there.
joe rogan
Good Lord.
jamie vernon
So that's quite a few.
joe rogan
Well, after the UFC was at T-Mobile, I think the UFC seats 22,000 at T-Mobile, somewhere around that range.
And he was there.
He was there like after us.
He does 22,000 people in Vegas.
jessimae peluso
That's a strange shift of energy.
joe rogan
Oh my god, yeah.
jessimae peluso
Like, you know, from a UFC to GOD. That's a strange shift.
Have you ever had a show where it felt religious?
joe rogan
A show?
jessimae peluso
Yeah, for you where it was so good and you were so tuned in that you got off stage and was like, man, I feel like God right now.
joe rogan
No.
I've had shows that feel surreal.
But life feels surreal.
Yeah.
My life feels very surreal.
But no, never.
They felt religious.
jessimae peluso
It's because you're humble.
joe rogan
Well, I'm as humble as I can be and still do what I do.
You have to have a certain amount of belief in yourself to be able to do things either on camera or on stage or in the moment.
You've got to have a certain amount of belief in yourself.
jessimae peluso
I feel like all comedians are insecure narcissists, but you teeter on this line of...
You're the only friend I have as a male who you're really well balanced in that area.
Like your ego, I've never seen you lose your shit.
You treat everybody the same.
joe rogan
That's very nice of you, but I've definitely lost my shit.
jessimae peluso
I'm sure.
I can tell.
I mean, you're tattooed from your knuckle to your clavicle.
I'm sure there's some shit going on where you've lost.
joe rogan
Yeah, for sure.
jessimae peluso
But you also respect your boundaries and you aren't afraid to be like, this is my space, I don't need you in it, but with a smile.
joe rogan
Well, in this town especially, there's so many people that weasel in and try to weasel into your circle and be your friend and then start asking for things.
It's not subtle at all.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, they're like sycophants.
joe rogan
It happens so quick.
It's like all of a sudden someone's hanging around that's friends with this guy and sees you places and then he wants to get your phone number and then he wants to talk to you about a project.
There's so many of them out here that are trying to hustle their way into people's lives.
jessimae peluso
But don't you think, like, I don't know about you, but I see them come a mile away.
joe rogan
Yeah, you do, but they're still around.
Like, in this town, especially when I was doing television stuff, like, oh my god, television stuff is littered with these people because it's all about, like, making these connections with each other and the relationships that you have with studios and producers.
Like, everybody's sort of, like, working around.
So it's like, everybody's like, can you introduce me to Tom?
Tom at MGM. Do you know Tom?
Do you just send him an email?
Just an email, Tom, this is a great script.
I'd really like to introduce it to you.
There's so many of those.
There's so many people like that.
It's exhausting.
jessimae peluso
It is exhausting.
joe rogan
If you don't change your number every now and again, you'll get stuck with them.
jessimae peluso
I love that you do that.
unidentified
Gotta keep moving.
joe rogan
I'm ready to change it again.
jessimae peluso
I bet you are.
I feel like you're due.
joe rogan
I'm due.
I should have changed it two months ago.
I have two numbers and I change them both now.
jessimae peluso
It's smart.
Then you realize who you want to keep in your life.
Or who you at least want to communicate with and send your energy to.
joe rogan
I can't imagine being like Tom Cruise.
I can't imagine.
It sounds like you can.
Impossible to imagine how you manage all that.
That's why the guy's jumping off buildings.
He's hoping he falls.
jessimae peluso
You know what helps him manage it?
Scientology.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
jessimae peluso
That's how he manages it.
joe rogan
We need to start a new cult.
jessimae peluso
You and me.
Excuse my naiveness in this situation.
Is the head man in Scientology still God or is it L. Ron Hubbard?
Is the entity that we're praying to God?
joe rogan
He's not the head guy.
I mean, they say things like to LRH and they fucking salute him and shit.
But I think they think of him as like a guy who just sort of like brought them the word.
And then the word is the true origin story of human beings with the Thetans.
And they were frozen.
They threw him into the volcano.
jessimae peluso
So it's not necessarily the word of God.
It's just the word of the aliens that he created in his books.
joe rogan
It's an alien thing.
It's like, I think, to paraphrase it and butcher it, I think the idea is that you are, like, using this shell and then you have this thing that's inside of you that really has come from, like, other galaxies and it was released here and now it's trapped inside your body or some fucking wacky shit.
People believe that?
Dude, the writing's so bad, you need to read it.
jessimae peluso
I can't wait to watch Battlefield Earth.
I love a reason to watch a movie.
joe rogan
Please get high and do a simulcast.
unidentified
Please.
jessimae peluso
You'll have to tell me.
You'll have to give me.
I'm going to ask you some pointers after so I make sure I nail it.
joe rogan
Just do it where it's just you and a bong and Battlefield Earth.
That's what it should be called.
Me, a bong, a battlefield.
jessimae peluso
And just videotape it?
joe rogan
Yeah, you sitting there on the couch, crisscross applesauce, bong, and every now and then you're like, oh my god, he just, hold on, shh, shh, you're like, this is so crazy.
Movie is so wacky.
But that movie is probably a million times better than the book.
The book itself, like I'm telling you, his writing was so awful that it's confusing.
It's like, how did he do this?
And he even wrote, or he was quoted as saying, if you really want to make money, start a religion.
Really quoted saying that.
He would take pictures of him with, he had a captain's jacket on, a bunch of medals he gave himself.
jessimae peluso
I mean, it sounds like mental illness.
joe rogan
Dude, you have to read Going Clear.
It's crazy.
I didn't read it.
I did the audiobook.
jessimae peluso
Did you listen to it?
joe rogan
I listened to it.
jessimae peluso
It's still reading.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
Actually, Going Clear, I read at least one or two of the chapters.
I actually sat down and read it, but most of it I listened to.
It's amazing!
It's amazing!
Like, can you realize, like, what he was?
He was like this guy who was mentally ill who was trying to self-diagnose and then self-heal and then came up with this whole system of, like, Dianetics, this whole system of how to, like, manage your mind.
And, again, for some people, it actually is effective because it gives them a structure.
jessimae peluso
Well, yeah, I was going to say, maybe, you know, the silver lining to his mania is that he managed his mania and then made...
Fucking cash.
joe rogan
Yeah, but he's dead either way.
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, that's what we need to learn.
jessimae peluso
Who gets his?
joe rogan
Oh, who knows?
There's so much money.
jessimae peluso
Who's in that trust?
joe rogan
They're like one of the number one real estate holders in all of Los Angeles.
jessimae peluso
It's creepy when you drive by the main building.
joe rogan
Psychiatry kills.
It's like, I got a guy with a head thing on, electric.
Have you seen that?
jessimae peluso
Yes!
joe rogan
Yeah, people that go into there, they don't even know they're going into a Scientology building.
They think they're going in for some anti-psychiatry thing.
jessimae peluso
It is a little, you know, the whole thing is misleading.
The whole origin of it is misleading.
joe rogan
What is misleading?
The guy probably believed everything he said.
He's probably out of his fucking mind.
If you really pay attention to who L. Ron Hubbard was, he seems like he was lying constantly.
He was probably a maniac.
jessimae peluso
Was he a result of the CIA chaos?
No.
joe rogan
No, he's pre this.
He's before all that.
But have you ever seen the interview where Tom Cruise is on with Matt Lauer on the Today Show?
And Tom Cruise is mad.
Brooke Shields is on psychiatric drugs.
jessimae peluso
Yes!
And he's reaching out to her.
He's saying what she needs to heal.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he's so intense.
jessimae peluso
Dude, he looks zooted on something.
Look at his face.
It's so intense.
joe rogan
I just think he's very adamant about this particular aspect of the Scientology belief system.
One of the things is they don't believe in psychiatric drugs.
I'm pretty sure they don't believe in any of those, right?
But the conversation is so interesting.
jessimae peluso
I wonder if you did a personality trait test of the people who are followers of the Scientology religion, what the common denominator is amongst them.
joe rogan
Dude, you really want to see something amazing?
You've got to see Tom Cruise's graduation speech.
What was that one where he stood on the podium and they gave him the most amazing man of all time medal?
They gave him a medal, like a gold medal.
It's the size of a fucking hubcap and it's hanging around his neck like Flava Flav.
And somebody leaked this.
It is fucking amazing.
So the head guy of Scientology, that guy gets in front of him, they salute each other because they're in the fucking army!
They hug like in a crazy like they both probably came there and then Tom Cruise goes up they give him this gigantic dinner plate of a medal And this is like a pump-up speech.
It's like a pump-up speech that was like a Scientology thing.
Look at his medal.
He won.
Most awesome human of all time.
And so he's standing there in front of this huge globe behind him.
There's this huge image of the earth behind him.
This huge seal.
jessimae peluso
Freedom Medal of Valor.
joe rogan
Freedom Medal of Valor.
It's amazing.
Most amazing person of all time medal.
jessimae peluso
Based off of what?
joe rogan
What the fuck ever, you hater.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Everything with you is hate.
jessimae peluso
No, I'm just analyzing.
unidentified
But come on.
joe rogan
Imagine how crazy you have to be to stand there in front of these people with this goddamn dinner plate hanging off your neck.
And then at the end, they salute to L. Ron Hubbard.
They look at the picture of him.
They go, to L.R.H. And they do like this.
It's amazing.
jessimae peluso
It's a secret society that's not secret.
joe rogan
There's a photo.
There's the photo of L.R.H. What's with the decor?
jessimae peluso
It looks like the inside of Pavarotti.
unidentified
See that?
Everyone gets up and salutes to L.R.H. Dude, he looks like the thing from Ghostbusters.
joe rogan
The painting.
I would like to join just for fun.
jessimae peluso
Hugo.
Remember that?
joe rogan
See how much they can convince you.
jessimae peluso
What is it?
jamie vernon
Vigo.
jessimae peluso
Vigo.
You know what I'm talking about.
joe rogan
How much could they convince you if you had to live like a Scientologist?
If you just said, look, I'm going to do a thought experiment, and I'm going to study all their work, and I'm going to be non-critical about all this, and I'm going to live my life, and I'm going to do it for three years.
jamie vernon
Do you think people have tried to do that probably just like for fun on their own because they're so bored and just thought like well what would happen if they did and like what happens if they get caught?
Yeah but you would have to be there.
jessimae peluso
Or if they were desperate.
joe rogan
Yeah you'd have to be in the system.
jessimae peluso
What if they just want that was like their last hope and they just were hoping it would help whatever issue they had.
I'm sure that's happened both ways.
joe rogan
How many people have looked at the success of Scientology though and going I need to do something like this but they never did.
jessimae peluso
Probably a lot.
It's like a comedian looking at you being like, I wish I thought of that.
joe rogan
What, being mentally ill?
Being able to talk all day?
jessimae peluso
Well, no.
I mean, you downplay yourself, but your topics and your jokes, it's the same shit.
joe rogan
No, I got lucky in that there's an actual job for something that just fits in with my rambling curiosity.
So I'm a rambler and I'm curious.
So it's like, oh, look at this.
There's a job right here.
It wasn't even a job before.
It's just a recent job.
But have you seen Waco?
The Netflix thing?
unidentified
Dude.
jessimae peluso
I had no idea I knew about the story.
I was young when it went live during the actual time.
But watching that, again, there's a certain type of personality that is attracted to having a leader.
And it goes back to like, what did you experience in your childhood where you needed that?
joe rogan
But again, the guy always fucks all the wives.
unidentified
Fucks them all!
jessimae peluso
And then convinces the guy he's helping him!
joe rogan
I'm not fucking your wife.
I'm helping you out, bro.
jessimae peluso
Dude, I'm not fucking your wife.
I'm your best friend.
I would never fuck your wife.
My dick was inside of her, but that's different.
I wasn't fucking her.
Jesus was fucking her.
joe rogan
Jesus is testing you and he's strengthening your resolve.
jessimae peluso
Can you heal from this?
Are you going to be able to find what you need from within?
joe rogan
And then he would sing terrible songs.
jessimae peluso
And then he'd just disappear through the doorway.
joe rogan
Didn't he sing like Green Day?
jessimae peluso
Please don't.
joe rogan
I think he did.
I think there's a video of him singing Green Day.
Davidians?
jessimae peluso
Is that what they were called?
Davidians?
Branch Davidians.
joe rogan
Waco, Texas.
jessimae peluso
Dude, that was so tragic the way that went down.
joe rogan
Ted Nugent lives near there.
jessimae peluso
Of course he does.
joe rogan
He probably helped out.
jessimae peluso
He probably goes and jizzes near the location.
joe rogan
So there it is.
jessimae peluso
Branch Davidians.
unidentified
What does that even mean?
joe rogan
You know, I almost bought his car.
jessimae peluso
What do you mean?
joe rogan
His car was for sale.
He had a 1968 Camaro and it was for sale.
jessimae peluso
It's a good year for Camaro.
joe rogan
It is a good year.
I love Camaros too.
From that era.
And it was for sale online.
And I saw it, I was like, oh, I'm fucking buying this.
And I picked up my phone, and I went like, and I looked, and I'm like, do I really want that fucking bad juju in my life?
jessimae peluso
You knew it was his car.
joe rogan
Yes, it was 100% his car.
Yeah, certify that it was his car.
I'm like, is that bad voodoo?
jessimae peluso
Yeah.
joe rogan
It has to be.
jessimae peluso
I mean, if we're talking about there being some sort of realm of consciousness and things existing outside of the physical world, there's some bad juju in that fucking car.
joe rogan
That guy was killed by the feds and they burned his family alive.
jamie vernon
Alive, dude.
joe rogan
And they lied about it.
They shot fire out of the fucking nozzle of the tank.
jessimae peluso
Women and children.
joe rogan
And drove over the walls.
Knew the women and children were inside.
Drove over the fucking walls and lit that place on fire and barbecued those people.
jessimae peluso
Well, that was a real...
I think a lot's going on there.
I think it also was like a breakdown in protocol and how to handle a high, tense situation.
joe rogan
I think that's how they've always done it.
I just think this time it got caught on tape.
That's what I think.
I think if there's ever been some sort of situation where people are armed up, look at Ruby Ridge.
There's a bunch of situations in history where they decided to put their fucking boots on the back of someone's neck because they wanted to let that person know they're not going to resist.
And that's one of the things that people do when they're in a position of power.
That's why power is so dangerous.
It is dangerous.
Because every single time people get this sort of ultimate power, it winds up being abusive.
jessimae peluso
Every single time.
With a certain person.
And it becomes the difference between somebody who does good for the world and community and somebody who does evil shit.
joe rogan
It's such a hard job to be a leader of anything, whether it's a leader of California or a leader of the country or a leader of anything.
Being a leader of something.
unidentified
Jesus Christ.
jessimae peluso
Well, every decision you make is scrutinized.
And your whole...
This platform is built off of lobbyists and people who have invested interest.
How do you commit to your own decision and have faith in it?
You must have to lose yourself in order to be able to make those decisions.
But then how are you able to make decisions without yourself being connected to it?
joe rogan
Then you also have to deal with criticism because you have to be able to address people's concerns.
So you have to take some criticism and that's probably nonsensical and angry and ridiculous and then some of it that actually is constructive and makes sense.
jessimae peluso
Who do you think was the president who handled that the best?
That you've seen in your lifetime?
joe rogan
Obama.
I think he's the best speaker of all the presidents.
Because there's something about Clinton, I didn't like his little fake smile.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, he was smirky.
You just knew he blew a load on the dress.
joe rogan
But he still was an amazing speaker.
He was still an amazing speaker.
jessimae peluso
He was charismatic.
joe rogan
Yeah, and sometimes he would knock it out of the park.
But it's just like you know too much about him afterwards to judge him in the most objective way.
jessimae peluso
Isn't it crazy?
joe rogan
If I just looked at his ability to speak versus Obama's ability to speak, they're both pretty amazing.
jessimae peluso
They were definitely both amazing.
I think Obama had a calming factor.
I feel like when other presidents have spoke, just from my...
I don't really know a lot about politics or claim to be an expert, but when Donald speaks or other presidents before Obama, it caused anxiety.
There was a tense...
Yeah.
Behavior around it, like the way they spoke was very, I don't know, stress-inducing, but Obama was kind of velvety.
He had a way of delivering things and...
joe rogan
He felt like he was a guy you could actually hang out with.
Like, I remember seeing him on Bourdain's show, they were in Vietnam, eating and drinking beer, and I'm watching and I was like, that motherfucker can just hang out.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, like he could walk into any room and make it his room.
joe rogan
But he can hang out in a way that I don't think Trump can hang out.
Trump's got to be the center of attention.
It's got to be a big deal.
Trump's there.
You know what I'm saying?
Trump would have to be...
He's not going to hang out with you in some weird fucking restaurant in Vietnam after he's out.
He's not going to do that.
jessimae peluso
And talk about the flavor notes of the sauce on the pork.
He's not going to be able to.
joe rogan
Talk about different ethnic foods and different cultures that cook in a different way.
jessimae peluso
It seemed like when Obama spoke, he felt like he was in the moment and present.
Like he was aware of what he had to deliver, but was also aware of the way he was delivering it.
Trump seems like he's always someplace else.
joe rogan
Yeah, and Obama's, I mean, there was a lot of bad policies that were passed during the Obama administration, particularly when it comes to whistleblowers.
They were one of the worst on whistleblowers ever.
And there's also some real erosions of freedom of speech and of surveillance.
Real erosions of that.
A lot of drone attacks.
Jesus Christ.
There was a lot of drone and a lot of fucking innocent people died during those drone attacks.
So there's no president that gets out and just nails it.
jessimae peluso
No, there's no immaculate presidency.
joe rogan
It's a dirty job.
jessimae peluso
It's a dirty job and I don't know if it ever wasn't a dirty job.
I mean, look at the...
The nature of what it is.
You're ruling over people and a lot of different types of people and in so many different laws and states.
It's a lot to keep under control and then you have to worry about the types of people who are, you know, on the lower levels of politics and how they're making decisions.
joe rogan
You gotta worry about the type of people that want to be president, too.
Who the fuck wants that job?
jessimae peluso
Who in their right mind?
joe rogan
Why?
unidentified
Obama went in a babe, and he's still a babe.
joe rogan
Settle down.
jessimae peluso
He is.
joe rogan
Getting a little juicy?
jessimae peluso
No, not juicy.
Squirty.
A little squirty.
A little squirt for Obama.
That's my new bumper sticker.
joe rogan
No, he clearly took a hit.
jessimae peluso
It showed on him.
joe rogan
You know why?
Because I think he read the briefings, and I think he cared, and I think he probably worked some fucking ungodly amount of hours, and I think it probably freaked him out once he got in there and realized how dangerous the world really is.
People have wondered, why did he not do what he said he was going to do during his campaign?
Why did he change a lot of that once he got into office?
And one of the thoughts is, well, they say a lot of things because they don't really give a fuck.
They just want to get in there, and once they get in there, they're like, trust me, I'm a good guy.
Once I get in there, I'll be fine, but I've got to lie to you and say there's all the stuff that I'm going to do that I know I can never do.
The other thing that people say is when you get in there, then they change your perspective, and they show you the briefings, they show you all the terrorist activities, they show you all the danger in the world, and you realize, like, oh, my God.
And you're responsible for making the right calls to zig and zag and make sure you avoid all the fucking trees on the way down the hill.
jessimae peluso
You're probably right.
That's a very smart way to look at that.
I don't think they're evil.
It affected him right down to his core.
joe rogan
Yeah, they become a different person.
jessimae peluso
You hope they do.
If they're human, they become a different person.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I mean...
You're not who you said you were going to be when you were running for president.
I bet a big factor is the access to information and then the talking to the top intelligence agencies and then all the people that are lifetime in White House, in Washington, and they can let you know how everything really works.
jessimae peluso
You're probably like, fuck.
And then all you're really doing, because if you look at the span of a lifetime and then a span of a president being in office, if he gets re-elected, there's so many things for you to address that...
How do you even get to doing all of the things on your daily to-dos?
You end up spending more time talking about the policies as opposed to actually putting them into play.
It's so hard to check all those boxes.
joe rogan
Well, that's the case with, I think, all kinds of government.
And that's one of the reasons why I'm very patient about this whole reopening the government thing.
Not that I don't think we should do it eventually, but I look at it like a battleship.
And I think, I don't think this battleship can make quick turns.
I mean, I think it shut off real quick and freaked everybody out, and there's been a lot of crazy adjustment.
But I think the battleship is still turning really slowly.
And to get it to a point where you're going to maneuver it into the harbor because you're back to work again...
unidentified
Woo!
joe rogan
How's that going to look?
Is that just going to be wide open, back to work again?
And what do we do if the virus flares up again?
Are we going to be able to accept the fact that the data shows that it's not as dangerous?
Or are we going to look at it and say, yeah, it's not as dangerous, but is it not as dangerous because we quarantined everybody?
jessimae peluso
Right, we flattened that curve.
joe rogan
Which is probably the truth.
Yeah, which is probably the truth.
It's probably not as bad as they thought it could be or would be or were worried that it would be, but maybe it still needs to be something that we need to stay away from.
I don't know.
jessimae peluso
I think if it doesn't turn out to be as bad as everyone thought...
Then we're learning that something worse is going to come and we need to...
We're learning if something worse comes.
Yes, if and when something worse comes, that we need to improve our equipment supplies and our standard mode of protocol and how we're reacting to these things in a system level.
joe rogan
But now we know.
You know what makes me happy?
Honestly, legitimately makes me happy, is that most people complied.
Most people shut down their businesses.
Most people stayed the fuck home.
It's not like people were rebelling.
unidentified
For a while.
joe rogan
But no, but they still have done it for over a month, which is a crazy thing.
To tell people to not go anywhere and not go to work for a month and most people comply, that's pretty fucking amazing.
jessimae peluso
This is the first thing I've done in quarantine that was outside of just walking my dogs and maybe going to the grocery store with my man once in a while.
joe rogan
When you guys shop, do you stock up?
jessimae peluso
Kind of, but it's hard to stock up when you eat.
I eat perishables, so it's hard to stock up on perishables.
joe rogan
You've got to eat bullshit food that's preserved.
jessimae peluso
That stuff affects my mood.
joe rogan
Rice and beans.
jessimae peluso
Gross.
Mac and cheese.
joe rogan
Keep it in big old dumpsters.
Big old garbage cans full of rice and beans.
If you had a garbage can full of rice, how many years would it take you to eat that?
jessimae peluso
A long...
joe rogan
If you ate rice every day...
jessimae peluso
Probably a long, long time.
joe rogan
How much could you live on rice and butter?
If you just had rice and butter.
jessimae peluso
I feel like that's all kids eat up until they're 10 years old.
joe rogan
No, they have hot dogs.
jessimae peluso
Yeah, they have hot dogs chopped up in there.
joe rogan
If you're over 12 and you eat hot dogs with ketchup, fuck off.
jessimae peluso
It's gross.
joe rogan
It's supposed to be mustard, you weirdo.
jessimae peluso
Hot dogs are one.
You're right.
It should be mustard.
joe rogan
It should be mustard.
jessimae peluso
And the bun should be toasted just a little bit.
joe rogan
That's not bad.
Not a bad thing.
jessimae peluso
A little toast on the bun.
joe rogan
But I'll take sauerkraut every time if it's offered.
jessimae peluso
Some relish?
joe rogan
I don't like relish.
jessimae peluso
That's bullshit.
joe rogan
That's candy.
jessimae peluso
Rude.
You stay on your side of the table.
I'll stay on mine.
joe rogan
Just eating pickled candy.
It's all sweet and everything.
You're fucking up the hot dog.
jessimae peluso
Is that your, like, junk food?
Like, what is your ultimate junk food?
joe rogan
I do love hot dogs.
jessimae peluso
I fucking love a hot dog.
joe rogan
I love in New York City what Joey Diaz calls a dirty water hot dog.
jessimae peluso
Yes, dirty water dogs.
joe rogan
Those dirty water hot dogs.
jessimae peluso
That's what they call them there.
joe rogan
They snap when you bite into them.
I prefer the kosher dogs.
Those are the best.
jessimae peluso
Aren't they just prayed over?
joe rogan
Yeah, well, they slaughter them differently, but if you have, like, there's a couple of different companies.
jessimae peluso
I didn't know they were slaughtered differently.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the whole thing of something being kosher.
A rabbi has to be there, and it's actually a really bad way for the cow to die.
jessimae peluso
Because he knows.
He's like, oh, fuck, this guy's here.
joe rogan
They hang them upside down and cut their throats.
jessimae peluso
Oh, man.
See, look, I try and live my life...
joe rogan
Make a tasty dog, though.
jessimae peluso
Make a tasty hot dog that way.
It does sound really juicy.
I try and live my life in a, you know, where I'm...
Being as good of a person as I can, but burgers are so good.
joe rogan
They're so good.
They're so good.
jessimae peluso
So I'm not a bad person because I like a burger.
joe rogan
Do you want some wild elk meat where you cook some more?
unidentified
Fuck yeah!
jessimae peluso
Oh my god, my man was like, you gotta get some elk meat.
joe rogan
Alright, I got it for you.
I got it for you.
Dude, we've done almost three hours and a half.
jessimae peluso
Oh wow.
joe rogan
Hasn't it been?
Like three and a half hours?
jessimae peluso
We've covered a lot of topics.
unidentified
What's the number?
joe rogan
What are we at right now?
322. Wow.
unidentified
Dude.
Dude.
jessimae peluso
Dude, that blunt really kicked us off.
joe rogan
I was a little scared at first.
I was like, I'm a little too high.
I'm going down this hill.
jessimae peluso
I can't stop.
No, you're a natural.
Well, it's not even an interview.
It's a conversation.
That's why this podcast is so good.
joe rogan
Well, it can only be good if I have friends like you.
jessimae peluso
You're sweet.
joe rogan
No, you are.
jessimae peluso
No, I really appreciate that.
I appreciate you.
joe rogan
I really do.
You're one of my favorite people.
I always love hanging out with you.
We have a lot of fun at the store.
It's always fun to do these with you.
jessimae peluso
And you're real.
That's what I like.
I think real recognizes real as cheesy as that is.
joe rogan
Are we rappers now?
jessimae peluso
No, we're just humans expressing our hearts.
joe rogan
Real recognizes real.
jessimae peluso
But the one thing I realized in this quarantine, because I've sat more in the fan seat because I'm not performing as much, so I'm experiencing it from the other side and how important your show and your podcast is to the fabric of society.
Comedians always talk about this.
joe rogan
That is a preposterous thing to say.
jessimae peluso
No, it's not, Joe.
joe rogan
It's preposterous.
jessimae peluso
You are important because of the very subject matters that you have on this show.
joe rogan
Well, sometimes I can get lucky and get a guy like Michael Osterholm on and that was the guy that alerted everybody to how bad this was really going to be.
jessimae peluso
Right.
Was he the CDIC guy?
joe rogan
No, he's the guy that's an infectious disease expert that wrote this book, Deadliest Enemy.
jessimae peluso
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And he was on and everybody went, holy shit.
Because everybody's like, should we take this seriously?
Is this anything?
And then he did this podcast and then like four hours later I got a call from Dana White.
He's like, dude, what the fuck?
He goes, that podcast has freaked everybody out.
jessimae peluso
Sid Rapp, right?
Center of Infectious Disease Research and Protocol?
joe rogan
No, he's from the University of...
jamie vernon
Yeah, Minnesota, but a couple other things.
jessimae peluso
I've heard of him.
joe rogan
Oh, you're right.
You're right.
Sid Rapp.
That's exactly...
Look at you, smarty pants.
jessimae peluso
Oh, you know, I'm like you.
I like information.
joe rogan
It's on his little note that he wrote for me.
jessimae peluso
No, but maybe it scares you to hear that or not.
You're just fucking around.
But, like, there's a few...
There's a gap in availability with information and, like, fake news and all that shit.
Your show is important because you...
You have an unbiased approach to who you have on and it's just a wide spectrum of information and it's a great place for people to have an area where they can come and learn from things they may not really agree with.
joe rogan
Well here's where I'm really lucky.
Where I'm really lucky is that there's something that I'm doing that reaches this insane number of people but also has no one telling me how to do it.
jessimae peluso
Fuck yeah.
joe rogan
So there's no one telling me that I can't get this guy on or don't get this author on.
Nobody gives a fuck about this book.
We've got Rob Lowe's coming in or whoever.
They'll decide who your guests are.
jessimae peluso
There's no network dude saying no to Alex Jones.
joe rogan
Yes, exactly.
jessimae peluso
Because of what it would do to your fans and your ratings.
joe rogan
Yes, exactly.
And also fighters.
What are you going to talk to them about?
jessimae peluso
Who are the fighters?
I mean, what about these authors you've had on?
joe rogan
Believe me, I have friends who are doing their podcasts with a professional production group and they're having these kind of conversations.
Fuck And they're saying, they go, dude, I feel like I'm working on a TV show.
This is crazy.
Like, I'm like, just let me do the thing.
And if this episode's not so good, I'll do better, and then next time I'll be better.
But let me have on the people that I can, A, get, people that are willing to do it, and then P, B, I'm actually interested in.
jessimae peluso
That's what's going to create the good content.
I need to be interested in this shit.
joe rogan
The only way I'm going to be interested in what you're talking about is if you're actually interested in it.
If you're talking about some shit, I mean, you could be talking about playing the piano.
I don't know jack shit about playing the piano, but if you're really into it and I hear people talk about it, I get fascinated.
I was listening to this conversation about Go, about playing that game Go and how complex that game is and about this is one of the reasons why that deep blue computer beating Go Beating a really top-level world champion Go player is so extraordinary because this is an incredibly creative game that's really complicated.
And I don't know shit about Go, but I was riveted.
jessimae peluso
Well, I was just riveted and you explaining it.
My mouth was open.
I was like, whoa!
I think passion definitely is an alluring...
joe rogan
Yes, for all of us.
jessimae peluso
It's a defining factor for creativity, and that's where we've got to just take control of what we want to do and just put it out there and fuck censorship and fuck what people think.
If you're passionate about it, then that's all that matters.
joe rogan
Jesse May, tell everybody about your show.
jessimae peluso
Oh, it's called Sharp Tongue Podcast, and I talk about a lot of shits, things I like to listen to and like to talk about, subjects that matter to me.
joe rogan
Will you consider my offer to do that simulcast while a bong?
Please do, for your fans.
jessimae peluso
Fuck yes!
joe rogan
With a bong, you, Battlefield Earth, and a couch.
jessimae peluso
Absolutely, I will, as long as you get me that elk meat.
joe rogan
Jessie Mae!
unidentified
I rebuke you!
joe rogan
Thank you, my friend.
jessimae peluso
I love you.
joe rogan
I love you, too.
Always good to see you.
Bye, everybody.
Yay.
Okay.
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