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July 21, 2021 - The Joe Rogan Experience
03:12:59
Joe Rogan Experience #1685 - Shane Gillis

Shane Gillis and Joe Rogan dissect comedy’s cancel culture crisis, from Gillis’s SNL firing after a viral slur backlash—despite NBC’s performative apology demands—to his Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast thriving on Patreon. They critique hypocrisy in modern outrage, comparing it to Bill Burr’s unfiltered approach, and debate how figures like Francis Ngannou (UFC’s knockout machine) or the Diaz brothers embody resilience in high-stakes environments. Gillis’s psychedelic "ego death" moment and Rogan’s 5-MeO-DMT jesters lesson underscore comedy’s need for authenticity over corporate caution, with Philly’s open-mic scene emerging as a potential antidote to gatekeeper-driven isolation. [Automatically generated summary]

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joe rogan
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shane gillis
01:15:23
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jamie vernon
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Stan Hope's Move 00:07:29
unidentified
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day.
Joe Rogan Podcast by night.
All day.
joe rogan
Alright, we're back after a brief hiate.
We had a little fuck up here, but we're back.
Cheers again.
shane gillis
Yeah, cheers.
joe rogan
So we were saying that, I was saying that this is Stan Hope's move, drinking Bud Light, and you were saying that you like drinking Bud Light because you could drink more, and then I said Stan Hope switched to cocktails.
All this happened, we had to fuck up with the recording.
But you said you lived with Stan Hope.
shane gillis
I did.
joe rogan
At the fucking Neverland Ranch?
shane gillis
Yes.
It was crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, what's he doing out there?
shane gillis
What do you think?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Just being bombed and having random strangers show up at his house?
shane gillis
Yeah, he doesn't care.
I mean, he's still, he's so funny.
But, yeah, every once in a while he'd get a little nasty.
joe rogan
Yeah?
shane gillis
He'd turn on me.
joe rogan
He'd turn on you?
shane gillis
Yeah, I'd say every...
I mean, it was like a month, and I can drink, but I can't...
joe rogan
So you lived with them for a whole month?
shane gillis
Yeah, I stayed in the guest house.
joe rogan
What is that place like, that Bisbee, Arizona?
shane gillis
It's a cool town.
It's really cool.
Yeah, it's like an old mining town.
So every house is like an old mine shack.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
And most of the people there, what do they do?
shane gillis
I think when the mines closed, because it was an old copper mine, And they all, like hippies from California moved in there.
So it's like a real RT town.
joe rogan
Is he like the mayor of the town?
shane gillis
Yeah, pretty much.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Although I think all he does is, I could be wrong.
Maybe his routine changed during COVID. In fact, I know it did.
But they...
Yeah, that was it.
He would just go to the grocery store and come back.
That was his...
joe rogan
That's it?
shane gillis
That's it.
joe rogan
That's it?
shane gillis
That's it.
joe rogan
Just make sure he's got enough money in the bank?
shane gillis
Yeah, talk shit, do podcasts.
joe rogan
Wow.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was fun.
But yeah, like I said, every once in a while he'd get a couple drinks and be like, look at you.
He'd be hanging out and out of nowhere he'd be like, you're fat.
unidentified
I'd be like, alright man, what the fuck, dude?
joe rogan
That's the hard booze.
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
That's hard booze thinking.
People that just drink Bud Lights, they probably don't get that nasty.
It's a slow trickle.
shane gillis
No.
Yeah, this is my dad.
Dad just drinks these all night.
joe rogan
It's not the best flavor.
shane gillis
It's crazy.
Couple BLs, dude?
joe rogan
It's okay.
It'd probably be real good with like crabs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like some seafood and like a nice light beer.
shane gillis
Drinking outside, it's perfect.
joe rogan
Yeah, real cold.
shane gillis
Yeah, you can't drink like craft or like IPAs outside.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can.
shane gillis
I don't like it.
joe rogan
I do.
shane gillis
What the fuck's your problem?
joe rogan
I like dark beer.
I do.
Yeah, I like stouts.
shane gillis
Well, you work out.
You're in shape and shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's not why I like it.
shane gillis
Yeah, I know, but if I start crushing IPAs, I'll get hammered.
Balloon.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's good times.
shane gillis
I'll be huge.
joe rogan
Yeah, there you go.
shane gillis
If I drink 12 IPAs a night instead of Bud Lights, it'd be a disaster.
joe rogan
That's true.
But you wouldn't need 12. You'd need five, and you'd have the same effect.
shane gillis
Yeah, but that's why I try not to drink liquor ever.
I'm trying not to get fucking hammered at these places.
joe rogan
You're just trying to keep a steady buzz.
shane gillis
Yeah, because I'll get drunk.
I had a bad habit of getting hammered at clubs and talking shit.
joe rogan
That sounds like a normal comedian.
shane gillis
Yeah, it sounds like everyone.
But then the anxiety the next day, all that.
What did I say to this person?
That is the worst!
joe rogan
That's the worst feeling when you're all drunk together and you're like, did I say something stupid?
shane gillis
He said, I say wild shit.
joe rogan
And you know people said stupid shit to you, so you're like, man, was I that guy too?
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, you were.
shane gillis
Definitely.
At the cellar now, it's like we're all having conversations about race and shit like that.
joe rogan
And you might get hammered?
unidentified
I might get hammered and be like, would you guys shut up?
shane gillis
Just wake up the next day like, oh, fuck.
joe rogan
There is nothing worse than comedians that are virtue signaling.
Like, around other comedians and trying to establish a way that we should all communicate.
shane gillis
And you're like...
Yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck are you saying?
Are you pretending this is real?
Are you pretending this is real?
shane gillis
I thought we were all in on this.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're all in on this.
We're all good people talking mad shit.
There's no bad people here.
Just because someone says something ridiculous to make other people laugh, like, yeah, that's what they're doing.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
We know the game.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like, they're opportunists.
They find a way to claim the moral high ground, to be upset at everybody else.
But if you're a comedian and you do that, you're a traitor.
You know what's going on.
You know that these guys are just talking shit.
And talking shit is a real thing.
It's a thing.
It's like, here's my real statement.
Here's how I really feel about things.
Here's honesty.
Here's me, you know, just being vulnerable and truthful.
And then, here's me talking shit.
It's shit.
shane gillis
It is literally shit.
It's not real.
joe rogan
No, we're saying ridiculous things to make each other laugh.
shane gillis
I'm gonna get fucked up on this.
joe rogan
Yeah, there you go.
Good.
shane gillis
Let's start talking shit by the end of this.
joe rogan
Six or seven of these, and we'll have a good buzz going.
shane gillis
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
It might grow on me.
It's not bad.
I get the idea, though.
You know, that's one of the things that I've been reading about lately.
I'm actually rereading this book by Brian Murarescu.
It's called The Immortality Key.
It's all about ancient Greece and how they used to take wine, and they had wine laced with all these psychedelic chemicals, and that's, you know, the whole Eleusinian mysteries.
But back then, everybody used to drink all day.
The alcohol was terrible.
The wine had 3% alcohol.
The booze had 3%.
Beer was 3%.
They didn't know how to make strong shit like they know how to make today.
And everybody was drunk all the time.
shane gillis
Yeah, what else are you going to do?
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Sitting around, waiting to get fucking killed by barbarians?
You better get hammered.
joe rogan
The barbarians are on mushrooms.
Yeah, they were.
That was the thing.
Like, the Vikings, they were all on mushrooms.
shane gillis
Were they?
joe rogan
Yeah, they would do mushrooms and go berserking.
shane gillis
Yeah, they would do some bad things.
I can't imagine doing those things on mushrooms.
joe rogan
Yeah, but if you lived back then, you could.
shane gillis
True.
joe rogan
If, like, that was a normal part of everyday life, was cutting people apart, you'd probably want to be on mushrooms.
shane gillis
Yeah, I'd take mushrooms and giggle.
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
shane gillis
You guys would take it and...
joe rogan
But they might have giggled, too.
shane gillis
I bet they were giggling.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would imagine.
We're lucky.
But that's why people complain today, you know, because it's pretty easy.
So the things that people complain about, they're relatively mild in comparison to the historical record of how fucked up life was.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah, it was terrible.
joe rogan
Did you buy that shirt on purpose?
unidentified
Yeah.
Really?
shane gillis
Yes.
joe rogan
So you saw that in the store and you're like, this is the one.
shane gillis
I saw this shirt and I was like, that's the drip.
joe rogan
That's it.
shane gillis
This is the drip.
Gym shorts and a Walmart polo.
joe rogan
Do you play golf?
shane gillis
No.
joe rogan
Good for you.
shane gillis
I go drink.
I watch my friends play golf.
I'll go on the cart.
unidentified
It's fun.
joe rogan
Do you have a shirt like that?
Do you have golf shirts that you wear?
jamie vernon
I do, but not like that.
shane gillis
They're not as fly as this?
Is that what you're saying?
jamie vernon
Tiger Woods collection.
shane gillis
I was with Ari at the house and I was like, I look like a dickhead, right?
He was like, no, you look fine.
joe rogan
Is Ari staying at Tim's too?
shane gillis
Oh no.
It's just me and Ari.
It's just me and that fucking guy.
Tim's South American Adventure 00:03:54
shane gillis
Took his dick out already.
joe rogan
Of course he did.
shane gillis
Which is fine.
Taking your dick out with other people around is funny.
joe rogan
But just with one dude.
shane gillis
But it's just me and him.
And I was like, dude, who's this joke for, bro?
joe rogan
It's just you and me.
shane gillis
It was great.
joe rogan
Plus, I guarantee you Tim's got cameras everywhere.
shane gillis
Oh, definitely.
joe rogan
Recording everything.
shane gillis
He's probably watching like, yes.
joe rogan
Take it out.
Let's go.
Let's go.
shane gillis
So we were out.
Me and Ari were swimming.
And I was like, I bet you I can swim underwater the length of the pool.
And he was like, I bet you can't.
So I did it.
And then when I got, I was like out of breath, got to the other side, I was like, came out and his dick was out.
He was standing outside of the pool.
I was like, God damn it.
I was like tired.
joe rogan
He's a wild motherfucker.
That dude lived most of the pandemic in South America.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just moved to South America for a while.
Didn't know anybody down there.
Got an Airbnb.
shane gillis
Started doing yoga up there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, he's great.
Well, he's all about that.
Me and him, we don't share a lot in common.
He was walking around.
He's like, we should go hiking.
We should do this.
I was like, dude, shut up.
Let's watch SportsCenter and drink.
So yeah, he was trying to get me to go down there with him.
joe rogan
He's big on new experiences, like hiking type things, going places and traveling.
shane gillis
I don't like it.
joe rogan
Well, he got real big on travel a few years back where he took like three solid months off where he didn't do any comedy.
He left his laptop at home.
I think he brought a flip phone, and he just traveled.
And no one can get in touch with him.
shane gillis
Oh, yeah.
Didn't he go to China?
joe rogan
Yeah, he went all over the place.
He went all through Asia, stayed in hostels.
Like, okay.
shane gillis
Yeah, he likes that.
He asked me to go to Bonnaroo with him this year.
I was like, dude, I'm not going to a fucking...
It's gonna be 95 degrees with just hippies and tents.
joe rogan
Where's Bonnaroo?
shane gillis
I think Tennessee.
Right?
That's his vibe.
I don't like that.
I'm not going to a fucking tent.
joe rogan
Yeah, he likes taking Molly and hanging out with weirdos.
shane gillis
I like taking Molly.
joe rogan
And hanging out with weirdos?
shane gillis
Yeah, I don't like the weirdos.
In fact, I take Molly, I want to be alone.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
But yeah.
joe rogan
He's living the life of a free man.
I don't think I know anybody that values freedom like Ari does.
Because he values freedom from everything.
Freedom from the best job in the world.
Even though stand-up's the best job in the world, he'll take months off of his schedule.
I'm not doing anything.
I'm not doing any podcasts.
I'm not doing anything.
I'm just going to wander around.
With nobody.
By himself.
Yeah.
shane gillis
It's impressive.
I don't have that.
joe rogan
It's a weird instinct.
shane gillis
Well, I think it's from when he was a kid, leaving the whole Jewish thing.
He's probably accustomed to losing his entire community.
joe rogan
For people who don't know, he lived, what is it?
It's not a kibbutz, right?
Is that what it was?
He lived somewhere in Israel where they read the Talmud like 12 hours a day.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they did chores and he was in like a religious retreat.
shane gillis
They're Amish.
joe rogan
Yeah, basically.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jewish Amish.
And then they realized, or he realized like, fuck this.
Like, what am I doing?
shane gillis
This is bullshit.
Yeah, the strength that that takes to be like.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
shane gillis
What the fuck are we doing?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He just takes massive balls.
shane gillis
Yeah.
He has those, too.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
shane gillis
Just saw them.
joe rogan
Legitimately.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're, like, shockingly low hanging.
What's going on there?
shane gillis
Yeah.
The shirt's good, though.
joe rogan
Yours?
unidentified
Yeah, this is good.
joe rogan
Okay, I'm fine with it.
unidentified
This is good stuff.
joe rogan
I'd wear it for a goof.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
I could wear that shirt.
shane gillis
You should.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
Start wearing golf stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, why not?
People would think, oh, I told you he was a Republican.
shane gillis
Oh, yeah, true, true.
jamie vernon
Would it match that hat you like?
Rick Moranis And The Paperboy Hat 00:07:30
joe rogan
Which hat?
jamie vernon
The golf hat.
joe rogan
Which one?
jamie vernon
The one that Bill Burr made fun of you for.
joe rogan
Oh, my Little Rascal's hat.
unidentified
It's a golf hat.
joe rogan
Is that what it is?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a paperboy hat.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
It's a golf hat.
Payne Stewart, he used to wear it all the time.
shane gillis
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Okay.
shane gillis
Yeah, a Jeff cap, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, there you go.
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My dad wears those.
unidentified
I like those.
shane gillis
It's pretty funny.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those are my favorite hats.
So we all have weird tastes.
I don't know.
I like them.
They look good on my fat, round head.
shane gillis
Do they?
joe rogan
Yeah, if I had one here, I'd put it on so you could see.
He'd be like, nice.
shane gillis
Yeah, I'd have to be like, well, of course I would.
I'm not going to be like, you look like a fucking idiot.
I'm nervous, dude.
Of course I'll be like, yeah, everything you do is great.
joe rogan
Well, we need more of these.
unidentified
Cheers.
shane gillis
Yeah, true.
unidentified
Cheers, man.
joe rogan
Couple more of these.
unidentified
So, are you still living in New York?
shane gillis
I am.
joe rogan
You like it out there?
shane gillis
I mean, the only thing I like is doing stand-up, so...
Yeah.
That's the only thing I do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I just hang out, Uber to the club.
joe rogan
You had some funny shit last night, man.
shane gillis
Oh, thank you very much.
joe rogan
That was a lot of fun.
shane gillis
Thank you.
joe rogan
These two nights have been really fun.
shane gillis
Yeah, they've been awesome, man.
You too.
I've been...
It's good.
You're still out there swinging like that?
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta swing.
shane gillis
Bro, I was standing in the back with Ari and you started going and I was looking at him like...
Joe's gonna get in trouble?
joe rogan
Yeah, you get in trouble.
shane gillis
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, some people are gonna get mad, but it's comedy, you know?
The people that aren't mad are having a great time.
I mean, we saw, we just did two nights in a row.
Everybody's having a great time.
And these shows at Vulcan that we've been doing on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, they sell out, like, instantly.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's fun.
shane gillis
It's awesome in there.
joe rogan
Everybody's enthusiastic.
Great crowds.
Austin's amazing.
shane gillis
I fucking love it here.
Austin's cool.
The area around there, I don't like it.
joe rogan
It's a little sketchy.
shane gillis
A lot of homeless.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it's not well regulated.
No.
And these knuckleheads decided to defund the police.
It's a super unwise move.
It gets weird down there.
shane gillis
Yeah, it's like Bonnaroo out there, dude.
It was just intense and on drugs.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you know what?
Relatively speaking, it's exciting.
shane gillis
Yeah, you got a fucking driver and a bodyguard, dude.
And you do karate.
Yeah, it's fun.
I'm walking around just like, dude, I'm gonna get fucked up here.
joe rogan
Don't walk around.
shane gillis
You gotta walk around.
joe rogan
Get from the parking lot into the structure, and then from the structure to the parking lot, and then we vacate the area.
That's what you do.
Yeah, you secure the perimeter of the area with security.
shane gillis
Yeah, I like doing comedy in fucking Fallujah.
What the fuck, dude?
It is fun.
It is fun.
joe rogan
It is.
shane gillis
Until it's not.
joe rogan
Until it's not, yes.
shane gillis
One day, somebody's not going to have fun.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
But that's part of what the fun is.
True.
You cannot have light without dark.
You cannot have sunshine without rain.
If you have sunshine all the time, you have California, and everybody's fucked up.
They don't know what to do.
Because they're baffled.
It's like someone who stays up for five days in a row.
You lose the cycle.
There's no cycle.
So you get confused.
You need a little winter.
You need a little sun.
You need a little cold.
You need a little bit of everything.
You can't just only eat cake, you fuck.
You can't just eat cake.
That's what California people are doing.
They're just eating cake.
Even California now, they're recognizing, like, Los Angeles is hitting a massive crime wave.
Like, fucking crime is everywhere.
I know so many friends who their apartment's been broken into, their car's been broken into, they've been robbed.
So many people are getting robbed there.
It's just a totally different situation.
And, you know, that makes it more dangerous, but it also makes it more fun.
shane gillis
A little more fun.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
Philly's doing that, too.
joe rogan
Like Burr was saying when he did Saturday Night Live, and when he did that sketch, or that opening monologue, rather, and he talked about, what's his name, that got punched, the little dude?
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, the guy from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
joe rogan
What the fuck's his name?
Rick Moranis.
shane gillis
Rick Moranis.
joe rogan
They punched Rick Moranis.
He goes, New York's back, baby!
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a rough one, dude.
Rick took one on the chin.
joe rogan
Yeah, he, out of nowhere, for no reason.
Someone just sucker punched him.
But that's what happens when you have all this...
shane gillis
You shouldn't have shrunk those fucking kids.
That's probably that homeless guy.
I probably saw that.
joe rogan
Maybe.
You got mad.
shane gillis
I don't like people playing with my kids.
joe rogan
Right.
Probably.
It's all this crazy rhetoric.
White people are terrible rhetoric.
A lot of just run up to random whiteys and punch them.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
That's good, though.
Keeps our head on a swivel a little.
joe rogan
Maybe.
shane gillis
It's time for the whiteys to start.
joe rogan
When you're 60 years old and you don't know karate, and you're Rick Moranis, it's probably not the best.
shane gillis
It's getting leveled.
joe rogan
Yeah, and that guy's not going to recover from that well.
shane gillis
No.
joe rogan
You know?
He's not Mark Hunt.
shane gillis
Yeah, he'll bounce back.
Rick's tough, dude.
What do you know about Rick?
joe rogan
I don't know anything about Rick.
shane gillis
He's got a chin.
joe rogan
I'm just taking a guess.
I don't think so.
He went down pretty quick.
shane gillis
It was a sneak shot, dude.
joe rogan
It was a sneak shot.
That's true.
Yeah.
shane gillis
You can see his instincts kick in a little.
Really?
joe rogan
You think so?
A little covering up?
shane gillis
Yeah, if you watch it close, you'll see Rick.
joe rogan
I thought that was like a seizure.
shane gillis
No, he definitely did not.
He did not react at all.
He got leveled.
A day later, he was like, what happened?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Tim told me, Dylan told me that he was in Times Square and he felt like he was being hunted.
He's like, dude, it's so dangerous there now.
It used to be so easy to walk, and now you walk into the streets, you feel like a victim.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah, it's crazy.
But I just moved there.
I moved there like a year before COVID started.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
From where?
shane gillis
Philly.
joe rogan
Oh, that's where you're from?
shane gillis
Yeah.
No, I'm from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
joe rogan
Where'd you start doing stand-up?
shane gillis
The first open mics I did were at the Harrisburg Comedy Zone.
joe rogan
My parents used to live in Harrisburg.
What?
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, that's where I started.
Nice.
joe rogan
Yeah, they moved to Harrisburg for a while.
They lived in Harrisburg, and they lived somewhere else out there.
There was another, like, real rural area of Pennsylvania.
I'm like, people who think of Pennsylvania, they think of Philly.
You know, you think of Pennsylvania, you think of Pittsburgh, you think Philly, you think cities.
You're out there, you just smell cow shit, and you see deer everywhere.
shane gillis
Lancaster, PA, a lot of Amish.
Mechanicsburgs.
It was white trash.
It's getting a little more...
It's getting gentrified.
joe rogan
Is it?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, people are spreading out.
I think that's one thing that happened with COVID. People are moving out of cities in a lot of places.
There's still plenty of people in cities, obviously.
But a lot of folks are like, do I need to do this?
I can work from home.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd be nice.
I think that's the plan, eventually.
joe rogan
For you?
shane gillis
Like, to get good enough at stand-up to do, like, what Nate Borgazzi's doing, just living in fucking Tennessee.
joe rogan
Nashville.
shane gillis
Just traveling, yeah.
joe rogan
Or you could live out here.
This is the move.
shane gillis
I don't know, man.
joe rogan
You don't like it out here?
shane gillis
No, I like it.
It's fine.
I like the Northeast.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I do.
joe rogan
I get it.
shane gillis
And I just got in at the cellar and all that, so.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I want to do that for a while.
joe rogan
Well, you could always just travel around, too.
You could always just get a condo.
Guys like Tim that have places out here that you could stay at, I would buy a comedy condo, but I do not trust comedians.
For the club, I would have a condo out here where comics could stay, but they'll ruin it.
shane gillis
They will ruin it.
joe rogan
They'll punch a hole in the wall and piss on it and then show me a video.
I'm like, what are you doing?
Come on, man, you're rich.
Come on, dude!
shane gillis
The fuck was funny!
I swear to God, before I came here, me and Ari were talking about that.
Chris Jericho's Walls of Jericho 00:08:52
joe rogan
It was funny!
shane gillis
We're staying at Tim's place.
We should just fucking destroy this house.
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying!
And if it's mine, they probably will.
shane gillis
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, for sure.
I would never do that.
joe rogan
I know you wouldn't.
But some guys would.
Not to you.
shane gillis
Some guys might.
joe rogan
Yeah, some guys for sure will.
shane gillis
But they don't know you know fucking karate, dude.
unidentified
They know.
shane gillis
Fuck them up.
joe rogan
They don't care.
unidentified
Just a leg kick?
joe rogan
And then they'll be happy.
They'll sue you.
And then they'll make even more money.
shane gillis
True.
I dare you to fucking leg kick me.
joe rogan
Like, all I did was make a video of pissing in a hole in his wall.
Whatever.
shane gillis
What's this guy's problem?
joe rogan
Tell me he hasn't done that before?
shane gillis
You ever piss in a hole in the wall?
joe rogan
If I had a hole in someone's wall and I was drunk and it was funny and somebody had a camera, I'd probably do it.
shane gillis
Yeah, absolutely.
joe rogan
Yeah.
You know, because you think you're never going to get that piss out of the wall.
shane gillis
Yeah.
I had a friend that did that.
He was at a house party and he got in a fight.
And then he went and punched a hole in the wall and threw up in it.
John Nunn, what up, bro?
I think he's trying to have a career right now.
joe rogan
What's he having a career in?
shane gillis
I think actually film.
He does.
He can only help.
Yeah, he'll be fine.
But that was a good story.
I think he got stabbed, too, at this party.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus Christ.
That's a real party.
shane gillis
Yeah, he had a party.
Punching a hole in the wall after losing a fight and throwing up in it.
joe rogan
Have you ever been in a party where a full melee brawl breaks out?
shane gillis
Like a bunch of- yeah, yeah in college.
joe rogan
I was in one- just when I graduated high school.
There was a kid who was- I think he was from Iran and his family had a lot of money and they had a mansion in Beacon Hill.
I think it was in Beacon Hill.
I'm trying to remember.
I don't know.
But it was somewhere in the Newton, Massachusetts area where they have like a lot of money.
And this kid just invited everybody over to his house.
So all these people that he didn't know.
Hundreds of kids were at this guy's party.
And this girl, I still to this day can't remember what she did.
She either threw a drink in a guy's face or she hit him.
I can't remember what happened.
But I was there when the first spark started the fire.
I remember exactly where I was.
There was like a staircase and there was like this banister and I was watching it from here and I saw, I don't remember, I think she threw a drink at him.
And this dude just fucking uncorks a picture-perfect right hand in her face.
shane gillis
A lady?
joe rogan
Bam!
Her head snaps back.
She goes out.
She falls back.
And then madness.
And then madness.
And then there's fucking people jumping on people and smashing things and throwing people over stairs.
And I'm like fucking ducking and I make my way out.
There's piles of people.
I'm looking for my friends.
It was wild.
shane gillis
Well, it was pre-Twitter.
That's how they handled this.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was like the 80s.
It was wild.
I'll never forget it.
It was just like, all of a sudden, you could feel it in the air.
People were just looking to punch people.
It's like something happens to people when there's a mob mentality thing.
People were just looking to punch people.
You could tell.
People didn't even know anybody.
They were just looking at you like, maybe I'll punch you.
You're like, hey!
I'm trying to get out of here.
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like, whose side are you on?
joe rogan
Yeah, no sides.
Get me the fuck out of here.
I snuck through it without getting hit, and I got outside, and friends of mine were, like, in piles.
These piles of people fighting random piles of other people.
shane gillis
The last one, it was in high school, we got in a group fight.
I went to the Catholic high school, the public high school.
We decided to meet to fight, and I guess half their guys didn't show up to the fight, so me and, yeah, we just jumped to them.
joe rogan
How many kids?
unidentified
How many?
shane gillis
It was probably like, we were probably about 20 to 30 deep.
They were probably like 10. We just beat the fuck out of these kids.
My one friend Bison, dude, he was like...
joe rogan
You have a friend named Bison?
shane gillis
Yeah, it's his nickname.
He's going to be very happy when he hears this.
He was a big guy.
He was way out of high school.
He was like 24. He showed up.
unidentified
Oh no!
shane gillis
He was huge.
He started doing wrestling moves to these kids.
unidentified
Oh no!
shane gillis
He had a kid in a lion tamer.
Put him in the walls of Jericho.
Jesus Christ.
Kid was crying.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
shane gillis
It was wonderful, yeah.
joe rogan
That's child abuse.
shane gillis
That was, yeah.
He should face charges.
He should face charges.
unidentified
Something.
joe rogan
Someone should call his mom, at least.
shane gillis
Yeah, but it was funny, because a lot of the kids who were afraid to fight, that were with us, my friends, were kind of hiding.
It was at night, so they were hiding in the dark.
And then once one kid from the other school went down, they'd all swarm and start kicking him in the face and shit.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
My mentality is real.
jamie vernon
That's the walls of Jericho.
shane gillis
Yes, that's what happened.
jamie vernon
That's what he meant.
shane gillis
Now imagine a 25-year-old man who was like 350 pounds.
joe rogan
So a MMA fighter used the walls of Jericho to win a match?
unidentified
That's Chris Jericho.
jamie vernon
That's his name.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
But what MMA fighter used that to win a match?
jamie vernon
Oh, no, no.
In his fight.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
See, it says MMA fighter.
jamie vernon
Oh, Jesus Christ.
I didn't see that.
That's what you're seeing.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Jamie.
joe rogan
Jamie's blind.
jamie vernon
I wasn't looking at the screen.
joe rogan
Who the fuck used that in a fight?
If you used that in a...
Oh, my God.
It really did.
shane gillis
Look at this.
unidentified
Whoa.
shane gillis
Oh my god.
joe rogan
That works, man.
That's tremendous pressure on your back.
That's crazy.
shane gillis
Yeah, I saw it happen to a guy.
He cried.
joe rogan
So they're calling it a Boston Crab?
Is that a Boston Crab?
Dude, you're tagged in that.
jamie vernon
I know.
I asked for a long time ago.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Look, it says Jamie Vernon.
197 weeks ago.
Wow.
Look at that.
That seems like it would hurt.
Like, legit work.
And once someone has your legs in that position and they've got their center of gravity over your lower back, you're not really getting out of that.
I don't see how to get out of that.
Like, if you get to that position right there, you're kind of fucked.
shane gillis
Every single younger brother on earth has had that happen to them.
joe rogan
It's like you shouldn't ever get to that spot, but if someone does get you to that spot, I'm trying to think of how you would get out of that.
I don't think there's a clear way out of that.
Because the way your body is bent, like you would have to figure out a way to rotate, but you're not going to rotate with full hold of your legs like that, and then someone leaning on your back, and you're trying to turn, you're fucked.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
That might be like the ultimate finishing move.
It's just pain though.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The thing about that, it's like, it's not going to take you out.
shane gillis
That?
joe rogan
It's just going to hurt.
shane gillis
That could fuck your spine up, right?
joe rogan
No, I don't think so.
I think it just puts your spine in a very bad position where it hurts a lot.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Here it is.
Is this the same fight or a different one?
jamie vernon
I think it's the same thing because it just was like a cleaner video of it.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
Nope.
Different guy.
Different guy.
This is another guy doing it.
jamie vernon
Sure.
joe rogan
I think so, because he stuck his tongue out.
jamie vernon
I think that guy did it, too.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
Look at the shorts.
Same color shorts.
Yep, that's him.
They just didn't have the full video.
That's crazy that he did that.
Because once you get into that position, like when someone has both of your legs tucked under the arms like that, I don't know what you're going to be able to do.
You know what this is?
This is a guy who's way better.
The guy in the blue, he's way better, and the other guy's already done.
shane gillis
Yeah, he did a wrestling move to him.
joe rogan
He decides to have some fun.
He's tapping.
jamie vernon
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to tap from that.
The key is to never let yourself get into that position.
Shout out to that fella, whoever he is.
shane gillis
Yeah, he should have not gotten in the ring.
jamie vernon
John O'Mears.
joe rogan
John O'Mears?
jamie vernon
John O-J-O-N-N-O is his first name.
John O'Mears.
joe rogan
Jono Mears.
Yeah.
Congratulations, Jono.
So that's a Boston Crab, or is that the Walls of Jericho?
What's the difference?
jamie vernon
I think both.
I think it's Chris Jericho doing it makes it the Walls of Jericho, otherwise it's a Boston Crab.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Makes sense.
shane gillis
Shout out to the other guy, too.
Congratulations on reliving the worst thing that's ever happened to you on a gigantic platform.
joe rogan
It's not the worst way to get tapped.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
Yeah.
No.
There's worse ways, for sure.
Wrist walks.
shane gillis
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
People get so sad and someone catches them from the wrist lock.
Jesus Christ.
A wrist lock in an MMA fight is a very embarrassing moment.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's embarrassing.
Because it hurts like hell.
Like, you will tap.
But, like, in jujitsu, it's, like, the most embarrassing way to get tapped.
If somebody gets you in a wrist lock.
shane gillis
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I thought the most embarrassing is getting tapped by like a girl, right?
joe rogan
That happens.
shane gillis
And that happens to everybody that does jiu-jitsu.
joe rogan
Yep, 100%.
Yeah.
shane gillis
They always show up early and they're like, I'll be pretty good at this.
And then they pair you up with a girl.
joe rogan
Then all of a sudden she's fucking behind your back, chucking the shit out of you.
shane gillis
Yeah, you're like, I thought I'd be into this.
joe rogan
It's humiliating.
When you find out a woman can kill you, it's very sad.
A woman who weighs less than you, who's weaker than you, but she can kill you?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Easily?
shane gillis
I don't want to find out.
joe rogan
Multiple times?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, Duncan.
I got Duncan a year of jiu-jitsu once for Christmas, and he went to classes, and he was doing it with his girl, and she was new.
Sexual Orientation Controversy 00:07:24
joe rogan
She wasn't even an expert.
shane gillis
Oh, they were starting together.
joe rogan
They're both starting together and she was strangling him.
And I was like, oh, Duncan, we got to work on this.
unidentified
No.
shane gillis
No, just get out of the sport.
It's not for you.
unidentified
He's like, dude, she just killed me.
shane gillis
Yeah, you got to go home.
joe rogan
Yeah.
He eventually decided it was not for him.
He could have stuck with it, though.
He would have figured it out.
shane gillis
And then one day beat a girl?
joe rogan
No, beat guys.
He moved from girls to guys.
shane gillis
I guess.
Look, I don't do that stuff.
joe rogan
When I started, there was very few women doing it.
Very few.
It was really rare.
shane gillis
I remember football when I was a kid.
When we were very young, there'd be girls.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
That's wild.
shane gillis
I remember that, yeah.
joe rogan
Those girls are wild.
shane gillis
They were.
joe rogan
Any girl willing to play tackle football with boys?
Yeah.
Holy shit.
shane gillis
And then once, you know, then we all hit puberty and they couldn't.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
They couldn't play, but there was some.
There was some lingering around.
joe rogan
Some giant lesbians.
Did you see that giant transgender woman that's playing rugby in Australia?
shane gillis
No.
She probably rules.
joe rogan
Yeah, she's the king.
unidentified
She's the king.
joe rogan
She's the king.
She's a 250 pound man.
shane gillis
She's trucking people?
She's Samoan?
joe rogan
No, she's a white guy.
shane gillis
Oh, man.
unidentified
She's a white guy.
Thank you.
joe rogan
You ever seen it?
Show the video.
The video is hilarious.
shane gillis
They're always so funny.
joe rogan
I don't even know if this person's undergone any transition because we've gotten to this super preposterous point where you can just say you're a woman.
You don't have to do anything.
Like, there's a thing about a woman getting arrested for child molestation.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
And I'll send the video because I'm going to send you this, Jamie.
shane gillis
That's what teachers should do.
joe rogan
But no, no, no.
You have to see this because this woman has a beard.
Yeah, look at this.
shane gillis
Shit, dude.
joe rogan
Look at that.
Come on, look at the size of that male human being who is playing rugby against women.
I mean, hilarious, right?
shane gillis
Great tits, though.
joe rogan
Yeah, really good tits.
shane gillis
They did good there.
joe rogan
Brand new.
shane gillis
Ah, some nice tits you've got.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm going to send you this, Jamie.
Hold on a second.
shane gillis
Damn, look at the mitts on that.
joe rogan
So, I just sent it to you, Jamie.
Yeah, that's a large person to be playing rugby against women.
And I would say that that was probably an unfair decision.
But who am I? I'll tell you what.
Woman charged after allegedly sexually assaulting boy six in Toronto Park.
Woman with stubble.
A crew cut.
The most manly face.
Like a square jaw.
That's a fucking male human being.
His name is Ruby.
Ruby Eby.
Okay.
It's a woman.
But look at the title.
The title says woman.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Shouldn't they at least say woman with a penis?
Who also has a stubble, also has a beard.
They don't even say anything about the person being transgender.
It's so hilarious.
We've gone through the looking glass where everything's nuts.
She is charged with sexual interference with a person under the age of 16 and sexual assault.
jamie vernon
Is there any small chance that they just accidentally put the wrong picture up in the article?
joe rogan
What do you think?
jamie vernon
Probably not, but it's happened before, and they're just like, oops, we put the wrong...
joe rogan
What, are you working for the Toronto government?
jamie vernon
No, I'm just asking.
joe rogan
I'm just asking.
shane gillis
What's the matter with you?
unidentified
Just asking.
joe rogan
What is the matter with you?
shane gillis
You don't support the six-year-old boy?
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
shane gillis
What the fuck, man?
joe rogan
Yeah, bro, you are a pro-molester.
shane gillis
The teachers should do that.
The male teachers that get in trouble for hooking up with kids.
They should be like, I actually identify as a woman.
joe rogan
Yeah, you get a way lighter sentence.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Women who molest boys, everybody's like, hmm, what's a woman?
jamie vernon
I retract.
I've now Googled the name.
I see it everywhere.
I was just checking.
joe rogan
That looks, if I had a bet, guy or girl, I mean, I'm leaning heavily towards God.
shane gillis
On that woman?
On Ruby?
joe rogan
Yeah, on Ruby, the guy, the girl, the woman.
shane gillis
I'm gonna take her word for it.
joe rogan
Wow, you're amazing.
You're so open-minded.
shane gillis
I don't care what she's done in the past.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
Like, why should we judge?
Walk a mile in her shoes.
That's another thing they're trying to do now.
They're trying to say that that's a sexual orientation and that being a pedophile is actually a sexual orientation.
Technically it is.
shane gillis
Technically it is that.
It's just a bad one.
joe rogan
It's the worst one.
shane gillis
It's the worst one you can do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
We talked about it recently.
I saw a professor talking about how a woman, or a man rather, could have a sexual consenting relationship with a 13-year-old.
And I was like, what in the fuck are you saying?
shane gillis
Maybe he's a viking.
joe rogan
Maybe it's a guy with no kids.
How about that?
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, probably.
joe rogan
Yeah, because you have no kids, you think stupid shit because you think it makes you sound progressive.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a tough one to get to through being progressive.
It's a tough one.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
People can make some fucking weird mental leaps in gymnastics.
They can justify some wacky shit.
There's also people that are just a real contrarian.
They just want things to be okay, even if they're not okay, so they'll argue for it as an intellectual exercise.
You know?
shane gillis
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
They do.
It's fucking strange.
shane gillis
That'd be a tough one to present, though.
Be like, no, this is how I feel.
I think pedophiles...
joe rogan
You would say that, but we are so through the looking glass with so many things that really are preposterous that I'm not sure if that's the case anymore.
You know, like the idea that you can't be racist if you're a person of color.
It's not possible.
Because race has something to do with power.
Like, okay.
That's not true.
That's not true.
shane gillis
Of course.
Yeah, we know that.
We know it's not true.
We've literally seen it and experienced it.
joe rogan
They know it's not true too, but they're counting on the fact that the people that say this, first of all, they're all people of color, so they're in a protected class, or they're white people who feel extra guilty, so they want you to feel bad.
And so they want to show you that they're on the side, the good side.
They're on the side of the people that are anti-racist.
shane gillis
The thing about the white people...
Or the people of color can't be racist is because, like, you call a white person, like, yeah, whatever, cracker.
We're like, yeah, whatever.
But they found a loophole, and it's to call us racist.
That one hurts.
joe rogan
That does hurt.
shane gillis
That's like our N-word.
joe rogan
That is.
shane gillis
Someone's like, you're racist.
What did you say about me?
joe rogan
It's even worse because it makes you feel guilty.
shane gillis
Sure.
joe rogan
Because if someone calls you a bad word, like a negative stereotype about your race, they're the piece of shit, not you.
But if someone calls you a racist, now you have to defend yourself against being a piece of shit.
shane gillis
Yeah, it's tough.
I've been there.
It's a tough one to defend against.
joe rogan
What was your experience like with the whole SNL debacle thing?
What was that like?
shane gillis
It's very, very crazy.
I don't know.
It's tough to...
There's not many people that you can even talk to about it.
First Cancelled Episode 00:15:18
shane gillis
Because it fucks you up a little.
It makes you not trust people and shit for a while.
joe rogan
Like in what way?
shane gillis
I don't know.
I don't know how to explain it.
But back to the experience of it was like...
It was kind of surreal.
I was one of the first people to get canceled or however you want to say it.
Consequences?
However you want to say it.
It doesn't matter what we call it.
It is what it is.
I was one of the first people to go from...
I was poor.
I was not famous at all.
I was poor.
And then I got canceled immediately.
It was a very different experience.
You didn't get famous and then get canceled.
joe rogan
You got canceled on the way.
shane gillis
I got canceled immediately.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
They literally were like, how about this guy?
And everyone was like, no.
joe rogan
So you got cast on SNL. Yes.
And then what happened?
shane gillis
So I found out I was getting on SNL the day before they announced it.
They got a call.
They're like, hey, we want to put you on the cast.
The whole time I was...
We'll start from the top.
My agents and all those people, they were like, do you want to send a packet in for SNL? And I was like, no.
I'm not going to be a writer.
I won't work on that show.
And then I guess they saw me at JFL and Comedy Central thing, and they were like, we like him, we want him to audition.
He can come straight in to audition.
So I went straight to the main stage for the audition.
And the whole time leading up to it, I was like, I'm never going to get this.
I don't care.
I want to do stand-up.
I kind of hated SNL at that point.
Because every sketch was like...
You know, you know what it is.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
And then I was like, I'll never fit in there.
And then when you go to audition, it's just, you just wait your turn in a green room and they keep you there extra long for like two or three hours to like make you nervous.
joe rogan
Really?
shane gillis
But I knew I was certain I was never going to get it.
And I really wasn't nervous.
I was in there fucking dipping, hanging out.
And then they were like, all right, it's your turn to go.
But that's when the nerves hit.
You walk in and you see the main stage.
Because that's what you audition on.
It's like the stage.
And it's a totally empty studio.
The whole room's empty except for a table of writers and producers and Lorne Michaels.
And then you go on and they're like, three, two, go do five minutes.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
In front of just a camera.
joe rogan
And are you doing stand-up?
shane gillis
I did stand-up.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
I did five minutes of stand-up.
That's all.
And then I ran into Michael Che that night.
And I was like, I was so nervous.
Like, I was so nervous when I was auditioning that I had to, like, hold the mic against my chin because my hand was fucking shaking.
unidentified
It was crazy.
shane gillis
There's no one in the room.
You just have to do stand-up for five minutes to no one.
joe rogan
That's so weird.
shane gillis
It was so weird.
And you're not supposed to look at or acknowledge the table of writers and producers or whatever.
joe rogan
They have rules?
shane gillis
They have rules that your agents tell you.
They never told you any rules.
joe rogan
So your agent says, do not look at the writers.
shane gillis
Yeah, they're like, don't even acknowledge them.
Pretend the room's full.
Just go.
And everybody was like, they're never going to laugh.
The table, Lauren, all them, they're not going to laugh.
First thing I said, they all started laughing.
And I was like, I was supposed to not acknowledge them.
But, you know, I was doing stand-up.
joe rogan
Do you remember what you said?
shane gillis
No, I don't.
Genuinely.
joe rogan
You just did a bit.
shane gillis
Yeah, I was nervous.
But as soon as they started laughing, I was like...
And then went back to...
You know what I mean?
I was looking at them.
I could see they were laughing.
I was told the whole time, no one's gonna laugh.
They were laughing.
I was like, oh, fuck.
I did pretty good.
Ran into Che that night.
I was like, ah, I sucked.
I was nervous.
He was like, no, you were...
That was good.
Then...
A couple days later, you get a call back, and you go into the office, and you meet everybody, and you walk around and talk to everybody.
And the people I was with that were also doing that, then you go into Lorne Michaels' office to meet him.
So the three people I was with, they all went in slowly, met him, left.
One guy didn't even get invited in.
They just sent him home, which is fucked up.
They invited him to the call back, and then were like, no, never mind.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
And then they kept me there for an extra hour by myself.
And I was just sitting there like, oh fuck, I got this.
I can't believe I got this.
I wasn't even excited.
I was just like, this is wild.
This is fucking nuts.
And then I go in and meet with Lauren and he's the man.
He's a nice guy.
And he was like, I'm going to use you, but I don't know how.
And like all that shit.
And then time passes and I figured they were going to ask me to be a writer.
Because that's usually how it goes.
Usually you work on the show to experience what the show's like.
unidentified
But...
shane gillis
I don't know.
I didn't want to be a writer.
joe rogan
By all accounts, that place is a den of thieves.
shane gillis
Everybody, yeah.
joe rogan
A den of thieves.
You hear Jim Brewer's account of the climate in that place, and it's horrific.
They're all stealing from writers.
They're stealing from performers.
If you're a writer and you submit your packages, the higher-up writers will steal your shit, according to Brewer.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you submit a package, they own that package, even if they don't hire you.
shane gillis
I know that.
joe rogan
So if you have some great premises, they decide they're just going to take your premises and not hire you, they own all those bits?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
shane gillis
I mean, yeah, I don't care about writing.
I didn't want to be a writer.
joe rogan
Right, of course.
shane gillis
So I was like, even if they offer me the writing thing, I was like, I don't want to take it.
I think I would have at the time.
But anyway, they asked me to go straight to cast.
So I was like, yeah, I'll definitely do that.
Lauren calls, says, hey, we want to use you on the show.
We're going to announce it tomorrow.
He was like, do you have anything you want us to check out?
They have people that vet you, but they're not used to people having podcasts.
joe rogan
Right.
So they'd have to go through hundreds of hours of shit.
shane gillis
They'd go through your Facebook, your Instagram, your Twitter.
I was just like, I'll just delete all that shit.
I don't care.
joe rogan
Delete it all.
unidentified
Right.
shane gillis
But I was like, I also have a podcast.
And they're like, yeah, what's that?
And I was like, I don't know.
I say like gay and retard a lot.
They were like, oh, that's fine.
Don't worry about it.
So I was like, all right, we'll see.
And so the day they announced it, It was cool.
It was very cool.
You hear from everybody you've ever grown up with.
They're all like, holy shit.
I can't believe you're on this.
So that lasted for about three hours before an article came out.
That was like, here's what this guy says.
There's a clip of me saying something.
You know, unsavory stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Talking shit.
shane gillis
It was the one podcast we ever filmed.
That's the one they used.
And it just happened.
And it was funny too, because people were like, man, they really had to dig to find this.
I was like, that's probably like three minutes in.
We had one podcast online and it was three minutes in.
joe rogan
Well, it's what we were saying earlier.
That's what podcasts are.
And that's what comics do a lot.
We talk shit.
It doesn't mean you really mean those things.
But the idea today is that talking shit is not real.
They want to take...
Out of context phrases and sentences that you've used and put them in quotes and make you look like a monster.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
It was only one article that came out?
shane gillis
No, there was a...
joe rogan
Quite a few?
shane gillis
So many articles.
I was...
I think I was number one on Twitter for like three straight days.
joe rogan
Wow.
shane gillis
Of just getting fucking eviscerated.
joe rogan
Did you read it all?
shane gillis
Oh, I read all of it.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
shane gillis
Yeah, everybody was like, stop reading comments.
I still read comments.
unidentified
Do you?
shane gillis
I read every comment.
Why?
I don't know.
joe rogan
Oh.
shane gillis
It's fucked up.
And it's crazy, too, because I'll read like 90 good ones and then one bad one.
joe rogan
The one bad one will fuck you up.
shane gillis
Just depends which one it is.
joe rogan
Right.
shane gillis
You know?
I'll get called like...
You know, fat retard constantly.
jamie vernon
I'll be like, yeah, whatever.
shane gillis
I can walk through that, no problem.
But then there'll be one that's like, he's nervous.
Like, something where they get you.
Where they know you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Like, he laughs at his own jokes on every podcast.
joe rogan
It's like, Do I? Shit.
shane gillis
Right.
Anyway, so I get...
All that stuff comes out, and it was funny.
This is funny.
I went into Lorne Michaels' office, and he was talking, and I was convinced I was getting fired.
Like, I knew I was getting fired.
Because if they didn't get me on that, there's so much more.
So much worse.
So he was talking to me and he was like, no, we think we can...
He's like, if we just get you to the first episode, people will see you're not a piece of shit person.
Just talk.
And I was like, whatever.
If I get fired here, whatever, I'll just go do Joe Rogan next week and I'll be fine.
Anyway, I thought that was funny.
No?
joe rogan
What?
shane gillis
Is that what you thought?
I literally thought that.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
shane gillis
Yeah, I thought it would be funny.
joe rogan
Well, it could have been funny.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was booked up, though.
shane gillis
No, it was fine.
It was just funny to truly...
That was a conversation I actually had.
joe rogan
Really?
shane gillis
In Lorne Michaels' office in the middle of that.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
shane gillis
I was in pure fucking panic.
unidentified
Terror?
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
unidentified
But...
joe rogan
Because I remember somebody contacted me to have you on, and I was like, I don't have any room.
I could do an emergency podcast, but I'm like, let me let this dude ride this out, and then we'll do one eventually.
shane gillis
Truly...
Glad that that did not happen.
Because I would have come in emotional.
I would have come in like guns blazing.
What happened to me isn't fair.
Right.
And I never felt that way.
Like the whole time I was like, I kind of get it.
joe rogan
When someone gets really canceled, you need perspective.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know what it's like?
It's like you need that venom to work its way through your system.
And then you develop a certain amount of immunity to the actual moment.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, it ended up being a good thing.
joe rogan
So when Lauren pulls you in the office and says, we just have to get you to the stage, we just have to get you to an episode, then what happens?
shane gillis
It just kept steamrolling.
It didn't dissipate at all.
It kept being like, no, you guys need to fire him.
And I get it.
joe rogan
Because that's where the fun is.
The fun in going after someone is not going after someone and then no consequences.
That makes them sad.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
What makes them happy is to then get you fired.
shane gillis
Yeah.
And that's, yeah, they did.
They did a good job.
joe rogan
Yeah, good job, everybody.
shane gillis
Yeah, and it's fine.
Look, the whole time...
joe rogan
Dude, here's why it's fine.
Your sketches that you're doing...
What is it, Gillian Keeves?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those are the best fucking comedy sketches that are on the internet right now.
shane gillis
Thank you.
joe rogan
I'm not bullshitting.
The only thing that's at the same level is Kyle Dunnigan's shit.
shane gillis
Oh, man.
joe rogan
Kyle Dunnigan, the shit that he's doing.
Oh, my God, dude.
He's got a massive advantage with that face swap, though.
shane gillis
And he's so good at fucking impressions.
joe rogan
He's amazing.
Have you seen the new thing that Dunnigan is doing?
He does a Fresh Prince takeoff with Biden.
What is it called?
shane gillis
Yeah.
Fresh Prince of D.C. Yeah.
joe rogan
Something like that.
Fresh Prez.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, it's tear-jerking.
shane gillis
Who's Bill Maher?
joe rogan
Oh my god, it's incredible.
shane gillis
New rule.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
It just, oh my god.
joe rogan
And there's something about it that it's almost got like a South Park-esque quality to it because it looks so fake, but it's obvious.
It's like these things.
Like, look how bad these look.
Look at the little tiny hand he holds up for Bill Maher.
Like, the face swap thing is amazing.
It really is amazing because he's like, look at AOC! Because it looks so fake.
Like, you would never believe that that's the real person.
So it's comedic.
But it's also...
The material is brilliant, and you can get away with so much in someone else's voice when everybody knows it's not really that person.
It's really one of the most genius platforms ever created.
And he's the master.
Him and Kurt Metzger, they're incredible.
It's the best shit.
Kurt's like one of my favorite But the shit you're doing is right up there with that.
It's really fucking funny, man.
It's really funny, and it's like something you would never be able to do on SNL. The stuff you guys are doing.
How are you financing this stuff?
shane gillis
I financed half, and then we had a production company that financed half.
joe rogan
The Trump one was amazing.
The Trump speed dating.
shane gillis
Yeah, it's John McKeever.
He's Keeves.
He's incredible.
Writer, director.
He writes all these edits and makes them.
joe rogan
They're really good, man.
They're really good.
shane gillis
Damn, I spazzed on that SNL story.
joe rogan
No, you didn't at all.
How do you spazz?
shane gillis
It felt like it came out bad.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
Look, it's an awkward story.
shane gillis
It is.
Here's what's uncomfortable about it, is I don't want to sound like...
It's weird for me to rail against cancel culture.
Because I was a victim of it, for lack of a better word.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Why is it weird for you to rail against it?
shane gillis
I don't know.
I don't know.
I just...
It makes me...
joe rogan
It seems defensive?
shane gillis
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd rather just be like, look, if people bring up cancel culture, I'm just like...
joe rogan
Honestly, I really believe it's better for you in the long run.
I really do.
You're a brilliant comedian, and I think your sketches are incredible, and I think it's better that you not get attached to something that's ultimately corrupting.
shane gillis
And I don't want to be on the other side of it, where it's like, I'm a free speech guy.
I'm a fucking...
It's like, dude, I don't want to be involved in any of this.
I just want to do comedy.
joe rogan
The free speech thing should be...
It should just be uniform.
Everyone who's involved in creative endeavors should understand context and nuance.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
And when they don't, they're either being disingenuous or they're stupid.
It's one of two things.
Either you don't agree with someone talking shit, which is fine.
Maybe you don't like talking shit because you're a more serious person.
shane gillis
Yeah.
In which case comedy is the right venue for you.
joe rogan
But you should, it's not the right, right?
But you should also understand, you know what people are doing.
And if you don't know what people are doing, you're either an idiot or you're an asshole.
You're either purposely trying to ignore subtlety and nuance and the fact that there's context to what people are doing and joking around.
Joking around is a real thing.
And how come you can joke around about...
All sorts of stuff, but you can't joke around about race?
Like, why not?
How come?
Why does that make you bad?
You can joke around about women.
You can joke around about men.
You can joke around about your dick.
You can joke around about anal sex.
You can joke around about drugs.
You can't joke around about race.
That's nonsense.
We're just so oversensitive and we're so worried about being called out for stuff.
That's why everybody's so scary.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, people get very afraid of getting called out.
joe rogan
And very afraid of not calling out someone else because then silence is violence.
shane gillis
True.
True.
You just gotta take a second.
Like, don't get caught up in it.
Like, uh...
Like, if I see other people fuck up and say something crazy, even still, my first reaction is like, whoa, what the fuck were they thinking?
Mandatory Apology Statements 00:15:21
unidentified
Right.
shane gillis
And then 20 minutes, 30 minutes later, I'll be like, alright, he was fucking around.
I get it.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
But there's still that instinct.
And then, especially if you just see a clip, And it's wild.
joe rogan
Right.
shane gillis
You're gonna be like, what the fuck was that?
joe rogan
Like the Tony Hinchcliffe thing.
shane gillis
Tony, Ari, all of us.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
And every time you see it, the first...
Tony's a perfect example.
First time I saw it, I was like, whoa, what the fuck?
joe rogan
But then you see the whole video...
And you go, oh, I see what he's doing.
Then you realize that guy opened for Tony.
And you're like, oh.
And he did kill Tony multiple times.
You're like, oh, they're friends.
That's just how people do it.
But people outside of our world don't understand.
If someone, you know, if you introduce someone...
And they go on stage, and they say, thank you!
Give it up for Shane, that fucking loser, that fat drunk.
shane gillis
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what the fuck, dude?
joe rogan
And you're like, hey, bro, what the fuck?
That's what people do.
That's what we do as comics.
And we fuck around.
It's talking shit.
And that's what Tony was doing.
And it was real clear, if you saw his whole set, that not only was he fucking around, but it actually worked.
Like, he got laughs.
And it got laughs because the guy's whole set before him was...
Talking about white people being mean to Asians.
shane gillis
Yes.
joe rogan
And he had this whole pandering thing who was like, what I would really ask is, please stop being mean to us.
You know, I'm paraphrasing.
shane gillis
Sure.
Whatever it was.
joe rogan
And then Tony goes on right afterwards and says that horrible shit.
shane gillis
He says the worst things he could.
joe rogan
And it's funny.
shane gillis
Yes.
joe rogan
That's why people laughed.
That's it.
It's not like a racist convention at Vulcan Gas Company.
shane gillis
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, that's all it is.
joe rogan
It's comedy.
shane gillis
It was comedy.
joe rogan
Yeah, and maybe it's not your kind of comedy.
That's okay, too.
But don't pretend this is real thoughts.
That's ridiculous.
This is the thing about joking around.
It's like it can be weaponized.
It can be weaponized against you.
shane gillis
I had people coming to shows, recording my sets, and then typing them out as if they were real.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I do that bit.
I don't know if you saw it.
The bit that I do about what happened when I endorsed Bernie Sanders where people were taking small pieces of stand-up bits and taking them out of context and using them to show what a piece of shit I am.
shane gillis
It's like, here's a joke.
Clearly, and if you type out someone's stand-up or a podcast...
joe rogan
Especially a segment of it.
Just take the worst parts, you know?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's...
shane gillis
It's intentional.
They're trying to get clicks.
I don't even think half of them care.
joe rogan
They're cunts.
They care.
They're all cunts.
Anybody who's doing that's a cunt.
Yeah.
They know what they're doing.
shane gillis
Oh, they do.
They're taking things out of context.
But I don't think, what I meant to say, they don't care.
unidentified
It's deceptive.
shane gillis
I meant to say they're not hurt by it.
They're literally just like, look at this.
Look at this.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
shane gillis
Here's wild shit.
joe rogan
No, they're not hurt by what you're saying.
No, they know what they're doing.
What they're doing is they're intentionally taking something out of context, and they're trying to make it something that it's not.
There's a lot of range when people are saying things.
They don't necessarily...
They're not trying to offend.
When you're saying something in the context of comedy...
shane gillis
What type of comedian would ever try to offend?
What really would be like, alright, I'm going to go out there tonight and really say the worst thing I can think of to these people.
joe rogan
A guy who's going to fail.
shane gillis
I don't fucking like him.
joe rogan
Of failure.
Yeah.
Those comics that fail.
Well, Patrice always had the very best line about all this stuff.
He said, if you think something is really funny or if you think something is offensive, it comes from the same place.
A guy's just trying to have a bit work on stage and get laughs.
That's what they're doing.
And you never...
For people who don't know, when we create stand-up, we really don't know if something's gonna be funny.
There's many times where you have an idea and you're like, fuck, I hope this works.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you go up there and you swim.
And every now and then it does.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
And when it doesn't work, you gotta go...
If you say something fucked up and it doesn't work, you gotta be like, alright, my bad.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Everybody.
joe rogan
I've many times said, well, that's the last time I'll ever say that one again.
unidentified
Yeah, of course.
shane gillis
And then you say it tomorrow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
You're like, alright, this crowd likes it, you motherfuckers.
I knew last night was fucking pussies.
joe rogan
So, they don't fire you at first, but then it keeps piling on.
shane gillis
Yeah, it just, it was only like four days.
But the whole time I knew I was getting fucking crushed.
Oh, and they make you, you have to put out a statement.
So they were like, and this was like within hours.
joe rogan
Who makes you?
shane gillis
SNL? NBC asked me to put out a statement.
And the statement they send you is just fucking crazy.
joe rogan
They wrote a statement for you?
shane gillis
They were like, here's what you got to say.
It was inexcusable.
You got to say all this stuff.
joe rogan
Wow.
shane gillis
And I was just like.
joe rogan
Did you write it?
Did you put it out?
shane gillis
No, my statement was bad though.
joe rogan
What'd you say?
shane gillis
Sorry.
Let me give you some context here.
Hold on.
joe rogan
One more.
shane gillis
One more.
I'm going to have four more after that.
Said I was going to do your podcast joke.
joe rogan
Oh, sorry about that.
God damn, dude.
shane gillis
That thing's been in my head for fucking five minutes or however long it's been.
You know what's saving Private Ryan when he gets the ringing in his ears?
unidentified
Sorry.
joe rogan
I thought there was more to it.
I was just letting it hang there in the air.
shane gillis
Dude, I felt my face go flush.
I was like, oh fuck, I blew it.
Dude, go back and watch the tape on that.
That's going to be rough.
joe rogan
Well, I'm sorry I didn't give you enough.
I was just hanging there.
shane gillis
It was just funny how confident I was at the time of just like...
I don't give a fuck, man.
I'll go do Joe Rogan.
The call never came in.
I was like, fuck.
unidentified
I'm fucked.
shane gillis
I was doing podcasts for a while being like, Rogan, help!
joe rogan
Were you really?
Damn, that's one thing about me not paying attention to anything.
That shit doesn't get back to me.
shane gillis
I was just joking, obviously.
I never felt like I was entitled to anything like that.
But it was fun to go on podcasts and be like, St. Rogi's, help, dude.
We pray to St. Rogi's, dude.
Descend and save me.
joe rogan
You gotta kind of just go through these things, you know?
shane gillis
I agree.
joe rogan
In the end, one of the things that you and I have been talking about is that it made you stronger.
It really did, right?
shane gillis
Definitely.
joe rogan
Made you stand up stronger.
shane gillis
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Like when people hear you, and I heard it last night, when they introduce you, and Tuesday night too, people go shithouse.
They get nuts.
They're happier there.
shane gillis
But for a while, what happens the first, like...
I was in New York, too, so people are very uptight.
And you go on stage, and then it's just in your head.
You see people whisper to each other, and you're like, he's telling her who I am.
joe rogan
She's gonna be...
shane gillis
Everything you see.
joe rogan
And you see the girl's face change, like, oh, racist.
shane gillis
I was having dreams about fucking comments.
I was having, like, dude, it was...
It was crazy.
I'd have a dream about comments or tweets about the worst secrets in my entire life being out there.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
Because that's what happens.
People post pictures of your family house.
People are getting death threats.
My family's getting letters from fucking dudes.
It's like, we're going to kill you.
And my family has no idea what this is.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
shane gillis
We're getting death threats.
I was like, death threats are nothing.
Don't worry.
You're going to be fine.
They're just in Mechanicsburg.
joe rogan
Right.
shane gillis
Chillin'.
joe rogan
Fuck.
Wow.
shane gillis
And this was the first thing they were, like, proud of.
You know, my parents, they don't know shit.
I'm like, I got JFL. They're like, what the fuck's that?
unidentified
Right.
shane gillis
I got this.
I got this.
And they're like, but then when you say, like, I'm on SNL, they're like, finally we can be proud of this loser.
And then, like, four days later, the whole world's like, your son's a racist piece of shit.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh my god.
shane gillis
That's who I felt bad for.
So...
joe rogan
It lasts for four days.
shane gillis
Four days.
joe rogan
You put out the statement.
What does the statement say, roughly?
shane gillis
All right.
So, they send you, they're like, hey, you need to apologize right now.
You need to apologize.
And I was like, can I just not apologize, please?
Like, that's how this gets passed.
If we say nothing.
If we start interacting with this at all, I'm fucked.
I'm dead.
So I didn't know an NBC producer was on this group text I was in.
I just got it from an agent that was like, you need to apologize.
I was like, fuck them.
I'm not fucking apologizing.
I had no idea NBC was in the group text.
So it made me look like I was a baller, but as soon as I was like, oh, fuck.
I'm looking at my phone like, fuck, fuck, fuck, dude.
I mean, it's pure panic.
It's pure panic.
And this, again, I'm going from zero, like no one knows who I am at all, to like the whole world is, I mean, it's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
And then, so they asked me to put out a statement.
I'm like, fuck no, I can't do that.
It was a ridiculous statement.
Inexcusable, growth, all that shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
That's just wild.
Yeah.
And I talked to some comedians, and they were like, how are you going to do stand-up again if you say this?
Like, how are you going to be able to go do comedy having just said everything I said was inexcusable?
From now on, everything you said is, you know what I mean?
It's just disgusting.
Everything you've done, you regret, and it's disgusting.
And then I talked to Lorne.
Lorne called, and he was like, Just give me something.
Give me anything.
Because I told him I couldn't do that.
I was like, I can't do the sorry, inexcusable thing.
And he was like, just give me something.
But I need it in the next 10 minutes.
unidentified
Whoa.
shane gillis
So I had fucking 10 minutes to write this thing.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
shane gillis
So I'm sitting there.
I mean, it's raining out.
I was at the stand in New York.
I was trying to do stand-up.
So I go in and he's like...
Or my manager was like...
Just say you're a comedian that pushes boundaries.
So my first thing I'd tweet out was like, I'm a comedian that pushes boundaries.
Fuck, that's so lame, dude.
God damn it, I blew it.
But yeah, I was like, sorry to anybody that's actually offended.
That was never my thing.
Because I didn't think anyone was actually offended.
joe rogan
They probably really weren't.
shane gillis
Almost no one.
joe rogan
Well, there is a few...
shane gillis
Of course there are people that saw it that were like, this bums me out that this word's getting thrown around.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
You know?
joe rogan
And I get that.
shane gillis
And I am sorry for that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, I believe you are.
Yeah.
Because that's not the way you meant to do it in the context.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Again, it's a thing that people do.
They're just talking shit.
It's not real.
It's like you're saying something inappropriate on purpose.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the only way you can do that is if the other person knows you're not racist.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's why it works.
It works because you're saying something that's ridiculous.
I'm like, what the fuck are you saying?
shane gillis
We're doing a podcast for 500 people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
That's how many people are listening to this thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Me and my friend Matt McCusker, what up, bro?
joe rogan
What up, bro?
shane gillis
I can't believe it took this long to shout him out.
You would like Matt.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
shane gillis
You guys are the same guy.
joe rogan
Really?
shane gillis
Yes.
Everything you've said to me this week, I've heard from Matt.
Like, dude, every single thing.
joe rogan
Really?
shane gillis
Yeah, you're like, you know humans were supposed to be like this?
Like, you know we're supposed to be out gathering?
Like, all that shit.
joe rogan
That's fine.
unidentified
Matt.
shane gillis
What the fuck was I saying?
Who cares?
joe rogan
You were at your statement.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Ten minutes.
shane gillis
Statement.
I had ten minutes.
I put this thing together.
It's okay, but it's one of those things where it's like you're caught up in this moment of like, this is huge, you're emotional.
And in a couple of years, like, you know, you're going to be embarrassed.
Don't ever apologize.
That's what I'm saying.
joe rogan
You can apologize for hurting people's feelings.
shane gillis
For hurting people's feelings, certainly.
joe rogan
You can still apologize for things you said.
shane gillis
Don't issue a statement.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The problem was those statements are so grandiose, too.
It's like, people, like, when Jimmy Kimmel made a statement about doing blackface in the 90s, it's like, oh, Jimmy.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everybody knows.
They know that you were just doing Karl Malone.
They know you're not racist.
You're appeasing to the worst humans.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the problem is the people that want you to apologize for that stuff, they're all sanctimonious shitheads who are just trying to take people down.
They're not really thinking you're a bad person.
No reasonable human being thinks Jimmy Kimmel's a bad person or a racist.
That's ridiculous.
They're looking for targets.
They got a bag of rocks and they're looking at windows.
That's what it is.
shane gillis
And yeah, it's fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fun.
shane gillis
It's fun to watch someone get fucking crushed.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
shane gillis
That's what people like.
joe rogan
I like watching car accidents.
shane gillis
Yeah, all the time.
I watch, yeah, the worst things possible.
I watch that.
And on Twitter, even today, even after it happened to me, I'll see it happening to someone else and be like...
It's crazy.
joe rogan
It is, but, you know, we're talking about Tony.
When Tony goes on stage now, I'm telling you the round of applause this fucking guy gets is like double what used to happen.
shane gillis
They cheer.
It's fans reassuring you.
joe rogan
Yes.
shane gillis
We like you.
We know what you did wasn't, that wasn't you.
unidentified
Right.
shane gillis
Like, we know that.
joe rogan
You know, we know it's just, you're just doing comedy.
You're fucking around, and it mightn't, Might have been the wrong thing to say at the time, but he probably had about five seconds to think about what he was going to say as he was walking to the stage and said, I'm going to light these people up.
shane gillis
I like to think about Tony right before he went on looking at someone like, watch this.
joe rogan
It ruined his life!
Ruining his life for a full week.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Mine was for a couple months.
I got fucking drilled by that.
joe rogan
But...
shane gillis
Yeah, it's a very surreal thing.
joe rogan
How long before you went on stage again?
shane gillis
I went on stage that night.
I did shows at The Stand.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
Yeah.
Because that was the only place that I wouldn't have been freaking out.
joe rogan
Right, right.
shane gillis
Like, it was at a comedy club.
joe rogan
Right.
shane gillis
Like, I didn't want to go home and sit in my apartment alone.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
shane gillis
It would have been crazy.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
What was it like the moment you went on stage?
Like, knowing all this shit is happening to you?
shane gillis
The place went crazy.
joe rogan
Really?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Isn't that wild?
shane gillis
Well, it was the biggest story at the time.
So everyone in the room was like...
It was my first...
It was the only time I've ever experienced what it must be like to be famous and do stand-up as like a drop-in.
And then after time...
It's funny because after time everybody forgets what happened.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Did you address it?
shane gillis
Yeah.
That's all I talked about.
I mean, it was happening.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
shane gillis
While I was on stage.
Fuck.
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it happened...
shane gillis
It was fun.
joe rogan
And it lasted for months?
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
How long before they fired you?
How many days was it?
shane gillis
Four, maybe.
joe rogan
And so, what was the decision?
How did they explain it?
shane gillis
Uh, I knew it was...
I was the one that was like, you guys are gonna fire me.
Like, it's okay.
I get it.
I wasn't even like, fuck them.
I should have my job.
I was like, I get it.
I said something fucked up.
This is a corporation.
It's SNL. You can't...
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I understand.
Now, if it wasn't me, I'd probably be defending me.
joe rogan
Of course.
shane gillis
But because it was me, I was like, I said it.
Whatever.
Keep making your fucking show.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I don't know.
I don't know how to...
Describe it.
It's weird.
It's weird defending yourself.
I don't know.
Maybe I gotta improve my self-worth.
joe rogan
No.
You know, I think ultimately...
Look, life is filled with these weird trials and moments of revelation and ways you understand things.
Feelings of Levity 00:04:32
joe rogan
And the best way to understand consequences is to really have a moment...
Where the walls come tumbling down.
And when you come out on the other end and you don't think you're ever going to.
Because there had to be times where you didn't think you were going to come out on the other end.
But when you do, there's a feeling of levity.
It's lifted off of you.
For sure.
shane gillis
For sure, yeah.
joe rogan
It's also the embracing of the importance of stand-up comedy.
The real, raw, nightclub stand-up.
shane gillis
Oh, that was the best.
There's been two times I've loved stand-up comedy.
One was I went through a breakup after a long time, and I was fucking devastated.
I dated this girl for like six years, and then I went and did stand-up that night and almost cried.
joe rogan
Wow.
shane gillis
Just because it was the first time I was happy after going through a breakup, and I was like, damn, I love this.
Same thing with that.
While you're getting fucking crushed by everybody, you can go out and do stand-up and people are like, you guys like me.
Everyone else hates me.
joe rogan
It's a wild art form, man.
shane gillis
It's fun.
joe rogan
It's so fun just to watch still.
I've been doing it for more than 30 years and someone goes up and kills.
I have a great time.
I'm loving it.
shane gillis
Yeah, there's nothing better.
joe rogan
It's the best thing to watch.
shane gillis
There's nothing better than someone killing.
joe rogan
No, there's nothing better.
Nothing better when you don't know their material, too.
Never seen them before, and they're just lighting a room on fire with really interesting shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's better, man.
It is, because if you're contained inside that Saturday Night Live structure, no disrespect to anybody that is, but you're not as free.
You're going to be more reserved.
You're going to hold back.
shane gillis
Definitely.
Yeah, there's that, for sure.
I think I would have done well, though.
joe rogan
On the show?
You would have killed it.
shane gillis
I think that's what bothers me the most, because people like to...
Here's one thing that I notice, that people that do the canceling, or attack people on Twitter, or however you fucking want to call it, they like to vindicate themselves by being like, no one gets canceled.
They love saying that.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
shane gillis
They're always like, cancel culture's not real.
It's like...
joe rogan
Of course it's real.
shane gillis
I mean, I lost my job.
joe rogan
Yeah, what does that mean?
shane gillis
But they like to be like, nah, you're doing better now.
He's better now.
It's like, you're the one who got me...
You can't fuck someone over like that and then be like, nah, you're fine.
Well, it's like a real big brother thing.
You ever like...
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
You know?
joe rogan
Stop crying.
shane gillis
You're fine.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
And they like to say, like, SNL couldn't have used me or wouldn't have used me.
They would have been like, ah, he would have been a waste on there anyway.
It's like, I think I could have been good.
joe rogan
You would have been great.
But you would have never had the kind of freedom that you are doing your sketch show now.
That you have, rather.
shane gillis
For sure.
joe rogan
Your sketch show now is wild and raw.
And that fucking OnlyFans dad that you sent me today?
shane gillis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Holy shit, dude.
I mean, imagine you would not be able to do that anywhere.
Yeah.
And it's better than anything SNL's doing.
That's a fact.
It's better.
It's better for me.
What I like, people like different shit, right?
shane gillis
You ever get on a Sibian?
joe rogan
Not yet.
shane gillis
Those things hurt.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
shane gillis
It fucked my groin muscles.
unidentified
Really?
shane gillis
Yeah.
That was like a hard one to film.
joe rogan
How do you film it?
shane gillis
I just had to sit on that thing.
joe rogan
And hold your legs together?
shane gillis
I was straddling it.
joe rogan
Was your cock and balls really out?
shane gillis
No.
No, but I was in a flesh-colored speedo.
There's all these girls around, dude.
I'm not...
It looks terrible, dude.
And you know, you're nervous when you're filming stuff.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
shane gillis
So I had like the smallest dick possible.
joe rogan
Of course.
shane gillis
Like that, sticking out forward.
Don't even look at it.
unidentified
You might be able to see it through there.
Yeah.
shane gillis
But that was, yeah, the whole thing was cool.
Filming all that stuff.
joe rogan
It's a great premise, too.
That OnlyFans thing is wild.
I mean, I know a girl who makes $100,000 a month showing her feet.
shane gillis
Nice.
joe rogan
Like, what?
Yeah, she works for a buddy of mine.
She works on his podcast.
Yeah, she just shows feet.
shane gillis
$100,000 a month?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, what?
Right.
shane gillis
How horny are these guys?
joe rogan
They're so horny.
But it's not just that they're horny.
OnlyFans Exploits 00:03:10
joe rogan
They're fans of this one person because they've seen her before, and so they want to jerk off to her feet.
shane gillis
And it's just her feet.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't know.
I haven't subscribed, but that's what I understand.
It's just her feet.
Yeah.
I mean, probably her in her underwear and her feet, you know, those kind of things.
jamie vernon
If, like, the Pamela Anderson-Tommy Lee thing launched on OnlyFans, how that would have gone down?
joe rogan
Right.
And if they just started just banging on OnlyFans, just releasing videos?
shane gillis
Yeah.
A lot of girls got into OnlyFans during...
joe rogan
Well, it's a great way to make money, but the problem is you get addicted to that money.
If you're making $100,000 a month, and then you go, you know what, I really want a family someday, and I've got to stop showing my cooter, and then you get off of it, and you realize you've got a $4,000 a month condo, and you're like, what am I doing here?
shane gillis
Yeah, I've got to show my pussy again.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've got to show my pussy to pay for this fucking Lexus I bought.
It gets weird, because you can get imprisoned by bills or your lifestyle, and if you have that kind of lifestyle, it's super hard for someone to give up that kind of money, because that's way more than porn money.
Porn stars, unless you're top of the food chain porn gal, you're not making that kind of loot.
shane gillis
Yeah, porn stars are pretty exploited.
joe rogan
Well, they're doing OnlyFans now, too.
shane gillis
Good for them.
That's actually nice.
That's good.
joe rogan
Well, they're not just exploited.
They're in a weird situation now where no one buys DVDs anymore, right?
So that was where they made the most money.
One of my neighbors back when I lived in California was a guy that I did jujitsu with.
He was like two houses down from me.
He was a big porn producer.
He was a crazy dude.
Really crazy guy.
He's always coked up.
He was doing great.
Balling, making videos.
And he would tell me, like, the real money's in producing.
And then the fucking internet comes along and just pulled the rug out from underneath that business.
Then everybody was just getting porn for free.
And so they went from making millions and millions of dollars every year to nothing.
shane gillis
Boom.
joe rogan
He lost his house.
shane gillis
What'd they do?
joe rogan
His house got repossessed.
shane gillis
Really?
joe rogan
Yep.
Yeah, he lost his house.
He moved out of the neighborhood.
They eventually foreclosed on his house.
And, yeah, it just was a wave of things falling apart.
And, I mean, I think the only people that can make any money are the girls.
The guys make very little money.
shane gillis
Oh, the actors?
joe rogan
The male actors?
Yeah, the male actors.
shane gillis
The male actors.
The thespians?
joe rogan
Yes.
Those guys, they can't make much money at all.
It's hard.
Unless they're very...
shane gillis
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
...very industrious and they figure out some sort of subscription-only panel.
They only fuck all the hottest girls, right?
shane gillis
Yeah.
I'd love to add to this.
joe rogan
It's a weird world because a lot of people beat off, but a lot of people like to lie about it.
Changes People's Feelings About Things 00:06:32
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a weird world.
shane gillis
I've been up here.
Before Ari got here, I was just up in Tim's mansion in the hills alone, just beating off up in the mountains.
unidentified
Nice.
shane gillis
Nice.
joe rogan
It's good.
Beating off's good.
I'm glad we can do it.
shane gillis
Beating off up in the hills.
joe rogan
Changes people's feelings about things.
You beat off, it relaxes you.
shane gillis
Dude, I'll start DMing or texting girls or something.
Just one beat off.
joe rogan
What am I doing?
shane gillis
What the fuck am I doing?
joe rogan
I used to have a whole bit about jerk off first, then think about keys to life.
If you're thinking about doing something, just jerk off and then look at it.
Because a lot of times your perspective is marred by this desire to breed.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you don't really like the person that you're going to call.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're not really socially compatible with them, but you want to fuck them.
shane gillis
Yeah.
unidentified
And then you jerk off and you go, oh.
joe rogan
Like, if a guy jerks off, the bit was basically that if a guy jerks off and still calls you, he fucking loves you.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, that's real.
Loves you.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not just the opportunity to...
shane gillis
Not coming.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's so embarrassing.
When you're a young man and you don't understand it, like I remember being like 18 and 19 being so confused because I was like, I was really into a girl and then I'd have an orgasm and I was really not into her.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like really quickly.
And some girls would think that like, oh, he's an asshole.
He tricked me into thinking he liked me.
Like, no, I tricked me too.
shane gillis
No, yeah, I loved you.
I fucking love you so much.
Please leave.
Please.
I need to be alone.
joe rogan
I bet they feel the same way, too.
shane gillis
No, I think they're...
Oh, yeah, maybe.
After they...
joe rogan
Yeah.
They're probably like, what am I doing?
shane gillis
What the fuck?
joe rogan
This guy's sticking in me.
shane gillis
With that shirt?
joe rogan
That guy fuck me?
shane gillis
No, they like...
Once you come, they're like...
Stay, stay, stay.
joe rogan
Some of them are.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because they want you to raise the children with them.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like, it's weird primal instincts, man.
shane gillis
Yeah, of course it is.
It's everything.
Everything is that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So this, um, so back to the SNL thing.
shane gillis
Yeah, back to SNL. We talked to come.
joe rogan
They, so the, the, the, the hits keep coming.
They keep coming after you.
It's like four days in, right?
And how long in, when do you decide, like, when do you give up?
shane gillis
I gave up the first night.
joe rogan
Oh.
shane gillis
The very first night.
Like, the first article, it was funny, the first article came out that said I used the C word.
joe rogan
Right.
shane gillis
My agent calls me, and is like, did you say that?
This word?
And I was like, I would never say that.
I would literally, I was like, that's not in, I don't say that shit.
She was like, here's the video clip.
unidentified
I was like...
shane gillis
They're like, alright, looks like I said it.
Oh, that was UTA. Shout out UTA. They dropped me.
They kept Jussie Smollett.
Dropped me.
unidentified
Did they really?
shane gillis
They kept Jussie Smollett as long as they could.
joe rogan
Still?
shane gillis
I don't know if they still have him.
unidentified
Wow.
shane gillis
Dropped me for maybe joking.
joe rogan
Jussie Smollett, or Jesse Smollett, as Dave Chappelle calls him.
shane gillis
Juicy.
joe rogan
Juicy, that's right.
He was really good in that Alien movie.
shane gillis
Was he?
joe rogan
Alien Covenant.
Yeah.
shane gillis
Doesn't mean he's not a great actor.
joe rogan
He's not a great actor.
How about that?
shane gillis
Is he not?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
He was okay in that movie.
shane gillis
He must have been a terrible actor when those fucking cops showed up.
joe rogan
Kind of joking around.
shane gillis
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
I'm sure with his fucking- He's like, what happened?
Put a noose still around his neck holding a Subway sandwich.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's one of the dumbest plots of all time.
shane gillis
It is up there.
joe rogan
And that Chappelle bit is fucking magic.
It's magic.
shane gillis
It's so funny.
joe rogan
It's magic.
And the way he spells, like, pronounces his name wrong.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
That French actor.
shane gillis
Juicy.
joe rogan
Juicy smouillet.
shane gillis
Yeah, he's incredible.
joe rogan
Oh.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
Nah, I just wanted to shout out UTA. Yeah, listen man, all those structures, all those things, they can do you good.
Don't get me wrong, but they're basically like bridges that'll fall apart in the middle of your journey across the river.
You can't count on them.
shane gillis
No, they turn on you instantly.
joe rogan
The moment they have to, they'll turn on you.
And they will.
That's okay, though.
As long as comedy doesn't.
You know, comedy is the only thing that we can all count on.
Comedians and audience members that love comedy.
And there's a lot of people outside of that world that will try to change the true meaning of what you're saying and try to pretend that you're being serious and try to pretend that you're a bad person or to try to pretend that it doesn't matter.
And you should never be able to say those things again.
You're a racist or a sexist or a homophobe or this or that.
shane gillis
And like...
joe rogan
You guys can all eat shit.
You can all eat shit.
Because you know what you're doing, and it doesn't work anymore.
The thing about this whole climate, this oversensitive climate, is that people are fed up with it.
And so there's a massive rebound when someone gets through on the other end.
unidentified
Yeah.
shane gillis
Yeah, people are definitely...
Everybody's tired of it.
It's every day.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
It's every day.
joe rogan
But there's still people that that is their currency.
That's what they trade in.
So they're still trying to cancel people all the time.
And with a lot of it, and one of the things that Tim said, and then I became friends with Tim after he wrote something really...
Insightful about comics that were coming out against Louie and he said one thing that they have in common is they're all really mediocre and They love the fact that this brilliant guy is being taken out So it moves them up the ladder and they're they're trying to gain social clout by attacking him 100% true and the Louie thing was everybody knew that Everybody knew that story about Louie in comedy.
Oh, yeah.
shane gillis
Before that had dropped.
joe rogan
Yeah, I knew about it.
shane gillis
Before the news broke.
I knew about it.
I was an open-miker in Philly.
joe rogan
Well, I knew that he used to ask Sarah Silverman, and he would jerk off, and she would say yes.
shane gillis
Yes.
joe rogan
And he would jerk off, and they would laugh about it.
shane gillis
We heard the stories, and then, so everybody knew it.
Again, I knew it.
I was an open-miker in Philly.
I'd heard about it.
I didn't know it.
You know what I mean?
And then, as soon as it becomes in the news, now every comedian wants to speak out against it.
It's like, where were you when you heard about it?
I heard about it.
joe rogan
Right.
Well, they were scared when Louie was on top that if they came after him, then everybody else would take out them to try to make Louie happy if Louie didn't get taken out.
Lions and Buffaloes: The Fight Back 00:03:10
joe rogan
But once it was clear that Louie was hit and wounded...
You ever see what happens with buffaloes when they get attacked by a lion?
It's really interesting.
Yeah.
I've watched.
There's a video of these water buffaloes get attacked by a lion, and one water buffalo gets attacked and finally manages to get free of these lions.
They're fighting off these lions, finally manages to get free, and as he's moving around, another water buffalo comes along and slams into him and knocks him over, and then the lions get him.
And I'm like, that is comedy.
That's nature.
That's humans.
That's just biology.
When someone senses weakness, the really shitty people amongst them, those people attack.
shane gillis
It's pretty funny that Buffalo did that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's funny.
The video's funny.
Because you watch him like, look at that cunt.
shane gillis
He's going to get out of this?
Oh, man.
joe rogan
And then his friend comes along and rams into him and knocks him over.
shane gillis
I watch those videos.
I mean, just stand up for yourselves, water buffaloes.
joe rogan
They try.
Everyone's horns.
shane gillis
I know, but there's so many of them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's a place in Africa.
There's an amazing documentary called Relentless Enemies.
And in this documentary, there's a strange part of Africa where the river shifted.
And when the river shifted, these lions and these water buffalo got stranded on an island.
And it's a large island, but it's only filled with water buffalo and lions.
And so because the lions can only hunt buffalo...
They all grew bigger.
So they have enormous lions.
Like the female lions are as big as a male lion everywhere else.
And they look cartoonish.
Like they have giant muscles, like the Hulk.
It's crazy.
Because all the ones that survive are ones that figure out how to attack lions.
Pull up a picture of these fucking lions.
Remember that documentary, Relentless Enemies?
shane gillis
Oh, there's the Kroger one.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, is this the one where the buffalo escapes?
shane gillis
This is where the boys finally unite.
joe rogan
Yeah.
This is where they unite and try to take out the lions.
shane gillis
This is great.
They start fucking them up.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, lions are so much smaller than a buffalo.
shane gillis
Yeah.
And once they start attacking the lions, it's like, ah, it's kind of sad now.
joe rogan
Not really.
It's how it goes.
This is how it goes.
See if you can find that relentless enemy's lions.
So it's just a weird genetic aberration.
Like, natural selection has taken place and these lions have gotten way bigger.
But the thing is, the female ones have these fucking enormous muscles, man.
Like, there it is.
The 2006 full moon.
shane gillis
I love jacked women.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's relentless enemies full video oh Just show me just give me some images of the the jacked female lions oh Anyway, that's the idea.
NBC's Apology Offered 00:06:02
joe rogan
It's a great documentary.
If you're into it, go check it out.
They look normal there.
There's pictures of them where they look fucking super...
Those are young ones though, that's why.
Anyway.
You get it.
So, when do they give up and when do they fire you?
shane gillis
I don't know.
It was probably like four days in.
I met with the people at NBC, like the head of NBC, all those people.
You're at like a giant marble table at the top of a skyscraper.
And they're like, what'd you say?
Come on, guys.
joe rogan
You had to meet with the people at NBC? Yeah, met with NBC. In person.
shane gillis
Met with people from SNL. What did they say to you?
I hardly remember.
It was such like, it was for real, it was like I blacked it out.
Like it was that fucking like...
joe rogan
Traumatic?
shane gillis
Maybe traumatic, definitely traumatic, but like...
joe rogan
Surreal?
shane gillis
It was so surreal.
Like it was totally, I detached and I was like, no, I don't care.
I kept being like, I don't care.
And everyone would be like, are you alright?
Like, are you okay?
I was like, yeah, I'm fine.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
shane gillis
Because you don't want to be like, no, I'm not okay.
I said bad words and everyone's mad.
No, you gotta just be like, no, I don't give a fuck, dude.
Yeah, finally get the call that's like, nah, we're gonna...
They offered me, I could resign.
And I was like, no, you guys have to fire me.
Like, this has to be on you guys.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
And they did.
They're like, alright, yeah, you're fired.
joe rogan
What did they say in their statement?
shane gillis
And then they were like, we're gonna release a statement, you release a tweet.
It's all planned.
In fact, since my thing, I've seen people issue the apology NBC gave me.
joe rogan
Verbatim.
shane gillis
Just about verbatim.
It's all fake.
The entire thing's fake.
The people that are outraged are not serious.
The people that are sorry are not serious.
Basically, everybody that has said sorry has been like, yeah, I'm very sorry.
Fuck them motherfuckers.
And that's how it goes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
And the whole time, no one cares.
No one cares.
joe rogan
It's a weird dance, isn't it?
shane gillis
It's a very, very weird dance.
Especially over comedy.
That's the thing we're worried about?
joe rogan
Right.
Well, it's podcast is what it is.
That's the thing that can get you in the most trouble.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's because it's so free-flowing, and when you're doing it alongside another comedian, you're just trying to make each other laugh.
And one of the best ways to make a comic laugh is to say some shit you're not supposed to say.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
But we know.
shane gillis
It's the funniest.
It's the only way to make a comic laugh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Just about.
joe rogan
It's one of the ways.
shane gillis
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
shane gillis
Yeah.
Say something fucked up.
You're like, huh?
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Yeah.
joe rogan
So they eventually released a statement.
You know, these things he said did not align.
shane gillis
Yeah, we can't.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
He's out of here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
And then...
joe rogan
Did you ever have any contact with Lauren afterwards or anyone?
Yeah.
shane gillis
I still talk to Lauren sometimes.
joe rogan
What does he say?
shane gillis
Hey.
joe rogan
You ever send him some new sketches?
shane gillis
Yeah, he's seen all this.
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What does he say?
shane gillis
He likes them.
joe rogan
Does he say they're better than anything we do?
No.
Because they are.
No, no, no, no.
unidentified
No?
shane gillis
No, he's been cool.
He was nice.
You know, but it's...
Yeah, he was nice.
I didn't take any of it too personally.
joe rogan
Of course, he has to do it.
shane gillis
Yeah, I knew he had to do it.
I knew it wasn't up to him.
I know it wasn't up to him, and everybody's like, yeah, it was.
It's like, no, dude, this was money.
joe rogan
If he doesn't, they'll come for him.
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Yeah, I get it.
joe rogan
Yeah, they'll come for him.
shane gillis
Yeah, and that's it.
I don't know.
I thought I'd be more capable of discussing it, but...
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
I don't know.
It's uncomfortable.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
It's like I don't...
I'm not too worried about it anymore.
I don't like...
I don't like...
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
shane gillis
Does that make sense?
joe rogan
No, it does make sense.
It's, you know...
shane gillis
Like, I don't want to be a victim.
I want to be a comedian.
So I don't want to come on and do stuff where I'm like, yeah, and then it was unfair how I was treated.
It's like, no, I get it.
I understand why I was treated that way.
I said wild shit.
I'm going to keep saying wild shit.
Nowadays, there's no chance I'm going to work at NBC. So those are the rules now.
If I want to argue why we made these rules, that's different.
But I understand the rules.
And I don't...
I wasn't...
Abiding by those rules.
joe rogan
I have zero desire to do a television show now, but I've been offered multiple ones over the last couple of years.
Last few years.
And the first thing that I think of is like, I don't want to defend any of the shit that I said in like 2009 or whatever.
I'm not interested in doing that.
It's like...
If you know what I'm doing, then good.
And if you don't know what I'm doing and you see it and you're not offended, all I can say is, that's not what I meant.
I'm just fucking around and don't listen.
You don't have to listen.
There's a lot of things to listen to.
There's literally a million podcasts now.
There's a million.
You don't have to listen to mine.
shane gillis
Go listen to women talk about murders.
joe rogan
There's a lot of that.
shane gillis
And be like, oh, this is good.
Now, those guys saying bad things, that's bad.
Not this entertainment value, murder, rape, suicide I'm listening to.
joe rogan
Chicks love those true crime shows.
shane gillis
They love them.
joe rogan
It's so weird.
My oldest daughter's really into them.
I'm like, why do you watch that?
Doesn't that disturb you?
Funny Victims List 00:03:09
shane gillis
They like it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't like them.
I try to watch the Night Stalker, that Netflix series.
shane gillis
You didn't like that one?
joe rogan
No.
Makes me very uncomfortable.
shane gillis
I don't like it at all.
joe rogan
Did you?
shane gillis
There were some funny parts in that.
joe rogan
Really?
What was funny?
shane gillis
Dude, you fucking...
See, this is Bud Light number four.
Here it comes, dude.
Now, there was one part where they listed, in the Night Stalker, they listed all his victims.
And two of them were sisters.
That he got with, like, a hammer.
And they were, like, 88 years old.
Now, obviously, there's nothing funny about it.
It's just funny that that's the wildest shit I've ever heard.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's nothing funny about that, but it's crazy.
shane gillis
Just two old ladies like, who's at the door?
joe rogan
He's telling an old lady with a hammer.
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