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Joe Rogan Experience #1689 - Yannis Pappas
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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joe rogan
Hey, Giannis Papas!
How you doing, my friend?
yannis pappas
Good, how you doing?
joe rogan
How am I doing good?
yannis pappas
Good, good to see you again.
joe rogan
Good to see you too, brother.
What's crackalackin'?
yannis pappas
Not much, man.
Just, you know, trying to dodge this delta.
joe rogan
Yeah, or the gamma, or whatever the fuck.
yannis pappas
The gamma, the rays, yeah.
The delta, the alpha.
joe rogan
It's wild out there.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's wild out there.
yannis pappas
It's wild, yeah.
joe rogan
It's hard to know what's right and what's wrong.
Some people say, don't worry about it.
The Delta is less dangerous, but more contagious.
And then some people say, no, no, no, no.
People are getting really sick.
yannis pappas
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Vaccinated people are getting sick.
In Europe, not in Europe, in Israel, there was a study that was released.
It was something like, you know, they're like the most vaccinated country.
Israel is, apparently.
I think they have somewhat close to, I'll read it here.
I think it's close to like 90% of the people have been vaccinated.
And so now they have a lot of people that are in the hospital that are vaccinated.
yannis pappas
Yeah, because I guess the more people that get vaccinated, the more people will have those breakthrough infections.
What I love about now is, like, I have an opinion on it.
unidentified
80%.
joe rogan
80% of all COVID patients are previously vaccinated in the hospital.
yannis pappas
Wow, I thought that was, like, corrected to, like, 40%.
It's right there.
If it's on the phone, it's got to be true.
joe rogan
Must be!
unidentified
Must be!
yannis pappas
True at this point, yeah.
joe rogan
Is it Fauci approved?
yannis pappas
If it's Fauci approved, yeah, I don't know.
I mean, hey, if this thing comes back, just be podcasting.
joe rogan
Yeah, just lock down and have HEPA filters everywhere.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, like March of 2020, I remember thinking, like, this could be some Mad Max, like Road Warrior type shit where the streets are empty and...
And then when they started looting, that was one of the things that really freaked me out, the looting in L.A. When no one was doing anything about it, when they're smashing windows and running into stores and stealing clothes and shit.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Yeah.
And who knows?
That could come back.
That could come back again.
Round two.
unidentified
Oh, for sure.
yannis pappas
Just like me coming back here.
Ding, ding.
joe rogan
Round two.
It's not likely going to happen around here.
There's far too many firearms.
yannis pappas
Yes.
joe rogan
This is the good thing about overarmed places.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're not good places to loot.
yannis pappas
No, I bet you there's a lot of people who are on the left who are rethinking the Second Amendment and their view on it just because of the context that's changed.
Yeah.
joe rogan
My own friends.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Friends that were very anti-gun were asking me to borrow guns.
When the shit started hitting the fan in L.A., They were asking to borrow guns and I was like you can't borrow a gun if you shoot someone with the borrowed gun I am in trouble right right and especially in LA because there's weird laws like I don't even think you're allowed to shoot someone in your home unless you're in danger and then you have to prove that you're in danger Yeah, then you have to apologize for whatever part of the systematic problem you contributed to why this person broke into your house.
Oh, I didn't think about that.
yannis pappas
I think you have to do that in court.
Yeah, you got to stand up and say, you know what, I'm sorry.
Depends on who you are, but you got to say, I'm sorry for contributing to whatever historical factors...
Have led to this crime.
joe rogan
Maybe you can fly a couple of inclusive flags outside your house.
yannis pappas
That's actually part of what you gotta do.
joe rogan
Have you seen the new flag?
There's a new pride flag?
yannis pappas
I got them all out there.
I got Black Lives Matter.
I have a rainbow flag.
I got it all.
joe rogan
Rainbow's not enough anymore.
yannis pappas
It's like a new security system.
I'm like, whatever.
I'm just like, hey man, this property is whatever.
joe rogan
I'm whatever you want me to be.
If you don't burn it.
yannis pappas
If you don't burn it.
But then if they come in, I did buy a gun.
joe rogan
Did you?
yannis pappas
I got a gun, yeah.
joe rogan
What kind of guns you got?
yannis pappas
It's a.22, I think I have to say it like that, rifle, yeah.
joe rogan
You got a.22, are you shooting squirrels?
yannis pappas
No, I'm not shooting squirrels, I'm just shooting, I've gone to the range a few times.
joe rogan
Yeah, but why do you have such a low caliber rifle?
yannis pappas
I knew, that's why I felt bad even bringing it up in front of you.
It's like taking my dick out when it's limp.
joe rogan
Right after you got out of the shower, cold shower.
But why such a low caliber?
yannis pappas
Because I'm a beginner, man.
I'm not going to try to rear naked choke you if we start rolling around.
I'm going to try to squeeze your dick or something.
I'm inexperienced.
joe rogan
The best gun for self-defense, for home invasion type shit, is a shotgun.
Because you don't have to be that specific.
You know, shotguns, they have like a big wide spray.
yannis pappas
As Bill Burst said, it's got a spray head.
unidentified
Is that what he says?
yannis pappas
He had that joke where he goes, you got to get shotguns, it has a spray head!
It sprays!
joe rogan
Well, that's why they made it illegal to have a sawed-off shotgun.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because a sawed-off shotgun, you essentially can spray a whole room.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
You know, it spreads out.
yannis pappas
I picture, like, probably your home.
Is your home, like, 007, where there's just, like, a hidden gun in every room?
And you're just, like, if someone comes in, you're rolling around.
joe rogan
I have just given to me, not the guns that I bought, but been given to me, 13 guns since I moved here.
yannis pappas
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
You want to make that 14?
It's an odd number.
It's unlucky 13. I don't think it is.
You think it's lucky?
I like 13. Yeah.
joe rogan
I've always been a fan of 13. Yeah.
But it's crazy.
These people out here just give you guns.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
That's like a welcome gift, right?
joe rogan
So I have a safe.
I have a couple gun safes.
It's just weird.
The gun thing is weird.
Because I like going to the range.
I find it...
It's somewhat oddly relaxing to point and shoot, you know, as long as you have earmuffs on, you're protecting your ears and eye goggles, and you know what you're doing, you're following gun safety protocol.
I like it.
I like practicing.
It's like Yelga.
I don't want to shoot anybody.
It's definitely not like Yelga.
It's similar to archery in a lot of ways.
yannis pappas
Well, the way you described it is very calming, yeah.
It is calming, though.
There's something about it because you're concentrating on focusing.
You're in the moment.
You're not thinking about anything.
So it is kind of oddly spiritual.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Have you gone to gun ranges before?
yannis pappas
I have gone, yeah.
joe rogan
They're fun, right?
yannis pappas
They're fun, but you're right.
When I rolled in, I rolled in with my buddy Paul Verzi because we got the guns at the same time.
It's a funny story.
He bought a gun.
joe rogan
Did he get a.22 as well?
yannis pappas
He got a.22.
We got them together.
joe rogan
Did you guys kiss while you were buying them?
yannis pappas
No, but...
We clapped guns like that.
But the guy, we went to Dick's, because the pandemic was starting, much like you were seeing all these images on screen, and we lived close to each other.
And he was like, let's go get a gun.
And he didn't tell his wife.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
yannis pappas
So he went in, and all the guns were cleared out.
And this is New York, so people were arming up.
And the things that were left with these rifles and the guy behind the counter goes, this is a good starter gun.
So he made us feel like a little, he's like this, I think he called it a beginner gun.
And then we were both like, no, no, you know, give us something.
We're not beginners.
We try to play it off.
Like I shoot all the time, you know, I shoot people.
So we ended up, he's like, you know, because we felt like we were buying BB guns when he said that.
joe rogan
Right.
yannis pappas
But yeah, then he walked us upstairs.
In New York, you can't have the gun and the ammo in the trunk together.
You have to have the ammo in the car and the gun in the back.
So he walked us up and put them in his trunk.
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
And then we drove him home and he told his wife he bought a gum.
His wife was pretty pissed.
joe rogan
Was she?
yannis pappas
Yeah, because he didn't tell her.
It's a pretty big purchase.
It's not like Texas where you're born and they cut the umbilical cord and then they put your hand in a gun.
joe rogan
Is the wife opposed to it or did she just want to be informed?
yannis pappas
She wanted to be informed.
joe rogan
She wanted to be part of it.
That's reasonable.
If she ever saw a.22 go off, she'd be like, oh, shoot me in the foot.
yannis pappas
Go ahead, shoot me with that thing.
I didn't tell my wife either.
I told her I was going out to get watermelons because we were having a party.
So I came back just holding a watermelon and a gun.
And she was like, what?
I was like, yeah, I got a gun.
But my wife's from Long Island, so she was, her and her family were very happy that I got a gun.
joe rogan
That's different.
Long Island's a different animal.
yannis pappas
Long Island's, yeah.
Long Island's like a colony of...
joe rogan
Kentucky.
yannis pappas
Kentucky, yeah.
You go, it's just a different accent, but they say the same.
They're like, what, Virus?
What, are you crazy?
joe rogan
I really love Long Island.
I've always loved performing out there.
But it's always been a thing.
Like, when I lived in the city, I didn't live in the city.
I lived in New Rochelle.
But when I would travel, like, what if I do gigs in the city?
Is that your watch going off?
jamie vernon
How dare you?
joe rogan
I'm fucking sorry, dude.
When I was living in New York and I would do gigs in Long Island, people that, like, worked in the city all the time would treat gigs on Long Island like, you might as well be going to Oklahoma.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are you doing?
You're traveling to Long Island to do comedy?
You can do comedy right here.
Why would you do that when you can work in the city?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
It's a different demographic, different politics, different personality.
They don't leave there.
So it's kind of like going to another country because they're unaware of what's going on in the city.
They don't go to the city.
joe rogan
If they come in, they go to Peter Luger's.
yannis pappas
They go to Peter Luger's, yeah.
Or they go out in Brooklyn and that's like going out in the city.
joe rogan
Yeah, we're going to the city.
We're going to Brooklyn.
yannis pappas
We're going to Bay Ridge.
Yeah, we're going out there in Bay Ridge.
You know, it's a nice place there.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Brooklyn's an odd duck too.
When we do UFC's in Brooklyn, I'm always like, wow, there's no place like this place.
yannis pappas
That's where I'm from.
joe rogan
So interesting.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like pre-pandemic, I don't know what it's like now because I had Hamilton Morris on.
He's from Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia.
He's a drug expert.
He's a really fascinating guy.
But he was telling me it's very dark.
He's like, I go running and he goes, and there's like dog shit everywhere because no one's picking up their dog shit and stacks of garbage.
And like all the public utilities have kind of laxed.
So a lot of the garbage pickup is not as good as it used to be.
And he goes, and it's kind of dangerous.
It's like, it's not what it used to be just a year and a half ago.
yannis pappas
I was just telling Jamie before, it's like, it's starting to feel like the Brooklyn that I grew up in.
You're starting to hear crimes that are similar to the ones from the 80s, which were just like, wilding kids.
I remember there was just like, wilding kids.
joe rogan
I remember that, the term wilding.
yannis pappas
They used to call them wilding kids, like feral kids, wilding kids, and it was true.
There'd be just like a pack of kids.
You'd turn a corner, there was kids there, you were just like, you just took your hat off and gave it to them.
Took your Nautica jacket off and you like folded it up for him like you were gift wrapping at Macy's and just handed it.
And you were robbed and there was just packs of kids.
And recently this off-duty firefighter was attacked by like 40 kids who were just like...
joe rogan
Is that the guy with the dog?
yannis pappas
He was with the dog, yeah.
joe rogan
That was in a park?
yannis pappas
Yeah, Queens.
joe rogan
What was the story behind that?
yannis pappas
The story was just Wildin' kids.
They just did it to be Wildin', yeah.
I think they screamed...
The slogans they were saying were kind of like that.
It's fight night.
It's just like...
joe rogan
They beat the fuck out of that poor guy.
yannis pappas
Beat the fuck out of the kid.
I have a cop who lives close to me where I live, and he was on the plainclothes unit that they kind of disbanded, which was stupid, and now he's doing something else.
He's like, look, cops, Their morale is down.
They don't want to do it.
Everyone hates them.
They don't want to risk it.
Somebody starts running, they're like, I'm not going to chase this guy.
Because he turns around, he throws a camera on, or he reaches for something.
They don't want to deal with it.
And they feel like everyone hates them right now.
So it's like, that's scary.
Like if you call 9-1-1 and they just like take their time because they're not...
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
They feel like, am I going to be received when I'm...
unidentified
Right.
yannis pappas
Or is there going to be someone going, hey, what you doing?
What you doing?
Yeah.
You know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Their morale's down.
joe rogan
Yeah.
There's a lot of that going on.
And I don't know how that gets fixed in any short period of time.
I think that's a long-term recovery project, if at all.
Like it's real weird because I've never seen such a dip in our society before.
During this pandemic and some of its understandable, but some of it is like it's a Perception the the perception of the police the perception of society at large.
yannis pappas
It's very different than it's ever been before I think it has a lot to do with us adapting to the internet like And technology.
It's fairly new, and everyone's getting their information from charismatic people who want to be on camera, where it's like the really smart, nuanced people, like those old school mob bosses who were, you know, you get caught if you're flaunting yourself John Gotti style, but like, you know, the people who were behind the scenes, like, Doctors, politicians, like, those are the people who are in it, doing it.
And, you know, we used to have Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrows, and now we got guys just going up there on the internet, like, with their phone and making these categorical, like, charismatic statements and people that are really, like, kind of, they're simplified and just really, like, generalized, and people are just following them.
And now we've become, like, two full countries...
That hate each other.
It used to be like, you know, at a time of war or something, you kind of, you came together a little bit to support whoever the guy is in office.
Now it's like, there's people who wouldn't support Biden at all, no matter what.
I mean, even if, like, China was storming Malibu and, like, you know, set up their captain quarters in Reese Witherspoon's, like, beach home, we'd still be, like, hating each other and, like, we're so disjointed and disunified.
And I think it's because we're online.
joe rogan
I think that's a big part of it and I also think what you're saying about people being charismatic is very true that these charismatic influential people that are getting attention from posting outrageous things online constantly posting things about either the left or the right like how pathetic they are and how foolish they are and how arrogant they are and and just making these really polarized teams I don't subscribe
to that.
I know you don't subscribe to that kind of shit.
It's dumb.
There's great people on both sides.
There's people that have a lot of opinions that I don't agree with at all, but then I agree with them on many things.
And I like to just treat people like people and think of their ideas as individuals or individual ideas.
I don't want a collective group of ideas that I have to subscribe to.
I think that's a real problem with people, whether you're on the left or the right.
You could predict.
If you can ask someone, Real specific questions like, how do you feel about gun control?
How do you feel about the Second Amendment?
Do you think it's important?
Their answer can tell you how they feel about abortion, how they feel about immigration, how they feel about whether the election was valid.
It's just go down the line with one question.
It's wild.
yannis pappas
Yeah, and it's sad.
It's sad, because you should, like you said, I mean, it's like, the Second Amendment is totally different from abortion, totally different from gay marriage, and like, it's sad that you can ask one question, you can predict, and with probably a great deal of accuracy, what those people are going to say based on that one Answer because they've drawn their lines and they're towing this line now and people are so far apart.
And then you're right, when you speak to them in person and have a long conversation with them, you find out even though they may lean on this side or lean on that side, most people are pretty reasonable.
You know, they care about their family, they care about their money.
You know, and politics used to be about that.
Hey, it's the money, stupid, or whatever that expression was.
Like, it's the economy, stupid.
Because whether you were on the right or the left, at the end of the day, you're about yourself.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think one big point about what you're saying about these influential people, too, is they benefit from strife.
They benefit from conflict.
And so instead of uniters like Martin Luther King Jr., you have the opposite.
You have people that literally benefit from people being divided.
They benefit from calling people out or Yelling people down or, you know, getting conflict going.
Like, that gets them more views.
I mean, that's what's going on with Facebook.
That's what the algorithms that people are complaining about that are literally accelerating our path towards some sort of civil war.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you see the social dilemma?
yannis pappas
I did see the social dilemma.
joe rogan
Scary shit, right?
yannis pappas
Scary shit.
And I tell you what I was watching, actually, on the plane was this...
Do you remember the Duke lacrosse players?
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
Do you remember that story?
joe rogan
Yes.
Explain it to people.
yannis pappas
Oh, dude, the Duke lacrosse players.
So, the whole media...
I had kind of indicted these guys And they loaded this story with, you know, class and race.
joe rogan
Explain the story to people.
yannis pappas
It was a bunch of lacrosse players.
They had a party, right?
A bunch of guys had a party at their house.
Yeah, they're uppity white guys.
They play lacrosse.
So it's like nobody comes from the ghetto and plays lacrosse.
So you know that they're arrogant white guys who probably, you know, their father may have like a third.
They definitely have a portrait in the foyer of like, this is my uncle.
His ties go back to England or whatever.
So they're douches.
We get it.
But, um...
They had a party and somebody hired some strippers.
And the strippers that came were like two POCs.
They were POC. A lot of people listening are like...
POCs are people who historically disenfranchised a little darker melanin tones.
joe rogan
People of color.
yannis pappas
And so they came, they stripped, but the girl, they only stripped for like five minutes, and the girl was saying weird stuff, and then they got mad.
The guys got mad because they felt like they were getting conned, that they didn't get their...
Their lap dance worth or whatever, their dancing worth.
And then something went awry.
And then the girl called the cops and said, I was assaulted.
And then from there, it became a big story.
And it ended up that the prosecutor was withholding exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated knowingly.
I mean, he ended up getting disbarred and doing time because of this.
And...
And you look back now and you're going like, that guy was doing exactly what online personalities do now.
It's like, this is good for me.
I'm in the spotlight.
I'm this hero convicting these douchebags.
The media's attaching this big social justice cause to it.
There's this evidence that clearly my client is lying.
Let's just put it to the side because all the attention's on me and this is self-aggrandizing for me.
So I'm benefit-forming.
I'll just lie and just, you know.
There's some evidence that comes that contradicts what I'm saying.
unidentified
Let's just...
yannis pappas
Because right now, I'm a star.
And so these kids were maligned by the media, all these journalists writing this horrible stuff about these kids, the culture of the lacrosse players, the privilege, the white privilege, this, that.
They did this to this poor black person, you know, and then it was loaded because of Durham, because you got Duke, and Duke is like the Harvard of the South, and then you got poor Durham.
And then it was all bullshit.
It was all bullshit.
The DNA exonerated the three kids that were on trial.
This girl had some mental health problems.
She ended up killing her boyfriend or something and is in prison a couple years later.
She was off.
A few journalists apologized, but by that time, it was like, you know, now you go to comedy clubs, the joke that comics tell the most, if they see five waspy-looking white guys, they're like, hey, you guys look like the Duke lacrosse player, that you use it as a pejorative.
So it doesn't matter if it's true, because the media made it true.
So a lot of people don't even know that they did nothing, because the narrative had already been written.
joe rogan
Right.
That's the problem.
unidentified
That's the problem.
joe rogan
The problem is once the narrative gets out there, if there's some sort of a correction in the newspaper a couple weeks later, it's always on like the fourth page in the lower right hand corner.
Sorry.
The amendment to the story.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Turns out nobody raped anybody.
Whoops.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Sorry.
joe rogan
Sorry we ruined your life forever.
yannis pappas
But we sold a lot of papers with that.
joe rogan
That is a real issue.
Here's a real question.
Should you be able to make money off the news?
yannis pappas
It's a good question, man.
joe rogan
It's a good question.
Because if you can make money off the news, then all of a sudden the news becomes a show.
And the more outrageous you can get it, the more click-baity you can get it, the more you can sort of jazz up the headlines and distort the story, the more you're going to get people to tune in.
If it bleeds, it leads.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Let's go!
yannis pappas
I remember when I was working for Fusion, which was like a short-lived company that was owned by Disney and Univision.
It lasted like a year.
It was totally like, they tried to build a big studio in Miami and They were trying to target millennials, but by that time, like, everything was on the phone.
People were watching you, and it was like, it was just a waste of money.
But I remember one of their slogans was like, start a fight.
And I was like, ah, yeah.
Because my two co-hosts were journalists, and it was run by journalists, and I was like the comedic guy that, you know, they had me in a corner, and they opened it up, and I came in, and I was like, ooh, ah!
To make people laugh, but...
But I was working with, like, a Peabody award-winning journalist, you know, Mariana Atencio and Pedro Andrade.
He was from Brazil, and they were two serious journalists.
And, you know, when the executive producer sat us down, I was like, pick a fight.
Always look to pick a fight.
And I'm like, that sucks.
That sucks.
Yeah, that should be happening in MMA with the matchmakers, not your news.
joe rogan
That's hard to hear.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
unidentified
Pick a fight.
yannis pappas
Pick a fight.
Because it gets ratings.
People love the drama.
They love it.
I mean, if you turned on a real reality TV show, it would just be like a couple guys sitting around, you know?
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Picking their nose, changing channels, but then...
If you make a reality, you're like, they tell you.
That's not reality.
They have line producers going, okay, call him the n-word now.
He's like, I don't want to call him the n-word.
They're like, no, trust me.
We'll figure out.
joe rogan
We'll bleep it out.
No one will know what you said.
Then they start with the n and lead with the r.
You're like, hey.
yannis pappas
I bet you Puck was a really good guy.
I bet you they just edited it.
You remember Puck from Real World?
joe rogan
He was sticking his finger in peanut butter.
yannis pappas
He was bullying Pedro.
joe rogan
He was a mess.
But the problem with those guys is that you make them more of a mess by shining the camera on them.
And then you make them famous.
Didn't he lose his marbles after he got off that show?
Because he was one of the most famous guys from the real world, other than Theo Vaughn.
Was he on Road Rules?
yannis pappas
No.
joe rogan
Theo was on Road Rules, right?
yannis pappas
No, Theo was in one of the houses.
joe rogan
He was in the real world?
yannis pappas
He was, yeah.
jamie vernon
He was on Road Rules, and then he was in The Challenge, which sort of is like the living experience at the house.
joe rogan
Oh, so it's two different.
jamie vernon
He was on multiple shows.
joe rogan
Theo Vaughn.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
He's the only dude probably to make it out of there.
joe rogan
100% and be legit.
yannis pappas
Be legit.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean he's a fucking legit comic.
yannis pappas
He's a funny dude.
joe rogan
He's funny.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's fucking funny.
That dude kills me.
yannis pappas
And he's funny solo, which is not easy to do.
joe rogan
Oh dude, he's funny period.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's a funny fucking comic and so original.
Like who's more unique than Theo Vaughn?
Like his style...
yannis pappas
It's like comedy jazz.
joe rogan
Yeah!
yannis pappas
It's like you're almost listening for the funny and the rhythm of it.
joe rogan
And it's also, it's got like an element of gonzo to it too.
Sort of like Joey Diaz.
Like you know he's lying about some of these things but you don't care.
You know what I mean?
It's like it's part of the fun.
Like a great Joey Diaz story, who knows what percentage of it is exaggeration or absolute falsehoods.
But you don't care.
You're there for the ride.
And that's with Theo.
My uncle got bit by a gay guy.
So, we'll see.
When he says that, you're like, what the fuck?
We'll see?
He's so funny, man.
yannis pappas
Lying belongs with entertainers.
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
But unfortunately now, like you said, these journalists have become entertainers.
They got their own brand.
They got their own Twitter feed.
They have their own gram.
joe rogan
Well, it makes them famous and it makes them wealthy.
I think there's a shining light to that.
There's a way out of this, and I think it's Substack.
A lot of these legitimate journalists are no longer with these papers that are interested in doing that, and they're gravitating towards Substack, and they have people pay for actual journalism.
And so there's a new wave of legit journalists on Substack that are just people subscribed to it, and they can choose to subscribe or not subscribe.
You pay or you don't pay.
It's your choice.
But in doing so, these people have cultivated a group of people that are actually looking for real journalists.
It's interesting.
yannis pappas
It is.
That was the problem is the media probably just didn't adapt to the digital age.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
They kept making papers and then they started giving the articles away for free.
joe rogan
Yep.
yannis pappas
And then in order to get clicks, you had to make the headlines into like car crashes to get people's attention.
joe rogan
You have to.
yannis pappas
You know, like from doing comedy, it's the same thing when you're doing comedy, when you're doing like an open mic or a free show, the audience doesn't respect it.
It's true.
They come in, you do those college shows, they yawn, they come in in flip-flops, they suck their teeth at you, you know, they don't care, they didn't pay.
joe rogan
They're not invested.
yannis pappas
You're not invested in it, and you're attracting an audience that is apathetic.
They're not there for the show, but yeah, if you pay for the journalism, you can take that money away.
If it's not good, you go, you know, take it away.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's an interesting thing, isn't it, about those free shows, paper shows?
The audience, the way they feel is so different.
Shorter attention span, not really that interested, just not invested in the show.
yannis pappas
Yeah, you don't respect something if you don't pay for it.
joe rogan
Yeah, unfortunately, it's true.
yannis pappas
It's true.
But, you know, that's a good...
It's like Patreon.
Like, comedy doesn't happen on television anymore.
That's not comedy.
joe rogan
Isn't that wild?
yannis pappas
Yeah, it's wild.
But comedy is happening on podcasts, on the internet, and Patreon is like the purest, it's probably the purest system, the subscriber model, That comedians and entertainers have ever had.
It's this same model that Netflix has, same model that HBO has, and it proves that that model probably is better than the other models because HBO, for a while, has been making more money than all the networks combined because of their dumb pilot system where they'd make those pilots and spend all that money and then jettison those shows that didn't work, whereas HBO, it's like, hey, We make the shows that we want to make.
You pay the money.
And, you know, if you don't like it, you leave if you like it.
And that's why they were free to be uncensored and push the envelope.
And now that's happening online with Patreon.
Patreon.com slash Yanni Longdays.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a new era in that respect.
But Patreon will delete you.
That's the problem.
They can decide that you're problematic.
And they've done that with people before, right?
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
They've done that with people...
Where it was very arguable whether or not what they did was bad or not.
yannis pappas
That's the issue.
joe rogan
You need something where the people get to decide and not a corporation.
You're not going through a filter like Patreon.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
So how do you do that?
I think Sam Harris doesn't use Patreon.
I think he does it straight through his website.
I think his donations...
He's an interesting cat, man.
And the way he does his podcast, he does a subscriber-based podcast, but he doesn't ever want anyone to not get the content if they can't afford it.
So all you have to do is send an email to him saying that you can't afford it, and he'll give you a free subscription.
And 100% of all those requests are accepted.
yannis pappas
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But he still does well.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's still doing really well.
yannis pappas
Because people want to give.
joe rogan
Yeah, because it's really good.
His insight is fantastic.
He's a really brilliant guy.
But the way he's doing it is all through his...
First of all, there's not a corporation in the world that would do that.
Would say, if you can't afford it, send an email, we'll give it to you for free.
yannis pappas
Right, right.
joe rogan
But he doesn't.
yannis pappas
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he's got a weird business model, but it works for him.
And I'm pretty sure he does it all through his website.
yannis pappas
Radiohead doesn't get enough credit for being the first.
Remember when they did that on their website?
They just said, we're giving you this album for donation.
Give what you want.
And they made a ton of money.
joe rogan
What was that?
yannis pappas
Remember that?
jamie vernon
In Rainbows, it was 2005. Pay What You Want release is what they called it.
The first matriarch to do it.
joe rogan
Who was it?
jamie vernon
Radiohead.
joe rogan
Radiohead did.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
yannis pappas
And they made a ton.
And at that point, that was like the coup de grace.
joe rogan
I thought you were saying Radio did that.
I was like, what?
Radiohead.
That's right.
Radio did that.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, Louis C.K. did that too, didn't he?
unidentified
He did.
yannis pappas
He did it.
joe rogan
Didn't he do something very similar like that when he released his comedy special?
yannis pappas
He did.
Well, he did it for five bucks on his website.
But Radiohead was like the first major act of any genre ever.
Any art form to do it.
And it wasn't just a set price.
It was like, pay what you want.
And people ended up, because they love Radiohead so much, they end up giving a lot of money.
Much like the Sam Harris model.
You were just saying like, hey, if you can't afford it, we'll give it to you.
But people want to pay.
joe rogan
I think Adam Curry has a similar situation, right?
He allows, you could pay whatever you want.
Isn't it?
I think Adams is free.
Is it free or is it you could pay whatever you want?
I think you could pay whatever you want.
And some people pay a dollar and some people, he's like, some people pay you a lot of money.
They just say, this is a great show.
I want to support it.
There's some purity to that.
Big time.
It really is.
It's a nice business model.
Adam, in particular, has a real relationship with his fans.
It works out.
Everybody agrees.
He does not waver.
He does not censor himself.
He's always telling you the straight dope, no matter what or how uncomfortable or how weird the conversation is.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that model's pure.
Straight to the fans.
No middleman, no corporate, you know, ethics office or whatever.
And people crave that.
People want that.
And that's why the success of that model is the success that it is.
Because people want it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
And, you know...
joe rogan
Well, they realize the opposite is dangerous.
When you have corporate censored information and you're not getting the full unbiased story, you're getting a filtered down story that has been decided upon by a bunch of executives, they would say, well, we're going to leave the...
You know, it must look like we were talking about with the prosecuting attorney.
It was going to leave out some information that would make us look bad or make the story look bad.
Let's steer it in a certain direction.
We're not going to lie, but we're going to eliminate some stuff that would throw into question.
Whether or not our story is accurate.
yannis pappas
Right.
And people see through it now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
A lot of the reason is podcasts like yours.
Where you're like, hey, I'll let a guy talk for four hours.
You know, you could tune in when you want.
Tune in for as long as you want.
It's on you.
But I'm going to let him talk.
And I'm not beholden to, you know, some peacock logo or, you know, you're beholden to probably a few, you know, a few vitamins and a few weights.
joe rogan
Right.
But they never give me advice.
unidentified
Which are good for you.
joe rogan
They are good for you.
They never give me advice though.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Never get advice from the vitamin companies.
yannis pappas
No.
joe rogan
No.
yannis pappas
Should I get the on it?
joe rogan
I'll get it for you.
yannis pappas
What do you want?
joe rogan
Jerk off stuff?
What are you talking about?
yannis pappas
No, that jerk up motion.
joe rogan
Kettlebells?
Is that what you're saying?
unidentified
Kettlebells.
yannis pappas
You can tell I don't really work out.
The jerk up motion thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'll give you one to take back with you.
unidentified
All right.
yannis pappas
As long as it's got a gorilla face on it.
joe rogan
How many pounds do you want?
yannis pappas
Can we start with the beginner gun?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I'll have some sent to you.
Have you ever used kettlebells before?
No.
We have some here.
We have some in the back.
yannis pappas
I won't get a hernia from pulling it up?
joe rogan
No.
The key is you can get a really good workout with a 35 pound kettlebell.
A really good full body workout.
There's a great video called Extreme Kettlebell Cardio Workout.
It's Keith Weber.
And he's a guy who's been on the podcast before.
I have no affiliation with him other than he's great.
He's just a great guy.
And his video, you use one 35-pound kettlebell and it'll fucking crush you.
It's incredible.
In the beginning, you're doing like, this is easy.
I can fucking do this all day long.
30 seconds later, you're like, oh, this is going to be a problem.
And then Four minutes later, you're like, fuck!
The next day, you barely walk.
It's incredible.
yannis pappas
Because you're using your whole body, right?
joe rogan
Using your whole body.
And it's a cardio workout.
But it's a strength-producing workout, too.
The thing about things like kettlebells are, they strengthen everything.
It strengthens your stabilizing muscles, your balance, all your joints, all that stuff all works together.
Because it's all working together as one unit.
You're not just bench pressing or curling.
You're doing something where the whole body is involved in the exercise.
yannis pappas
They could clip that and make that the commercial right there.
joe rogan
I love them.
I love them.
It's my primary means of working out.
If you could tell me I could only have two pieces of equipment, I would say I want a 50-pound kettlebell and a chin-up bar.
That's all I want.
I'll be good with that.
yannis pappas
And an ice bath, baby.
joe rogan
And an ice bath.
yannis pappas
Yeah, you've been doing good with that.
You did 20 minutes?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm not doing that again.
I had a headache all day yesterday.
The day before I did it.
When did I do it?
I didn't do it yesterday, right?
I did it the day before.
I did it Monday.
All day Tuesday I had a headache.
And I was like, damn, what if I die?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because then when people were sending me things about hypothermia, and you get hypothermia in that temperature after like 15 minutes.
yannis pappas
Yeah, dude, I could have told you it probably wasn't safe just because of your nips.
Your nips were going like, take me out of here.
joe rogan
They went like that immediately, though.
I have very sensitive nipples.
They're very excitable.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
But, yeah, I don't know.
yannis pappas
Your nipples look like those rock climbing things.
joe rogan
When you're in wrestling class.
yannis pappas
You just pull up one of them.
Yeah, they were cold.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's fucking cold.
It's a ridiculous thing.
I just wanted to see how far I could push it.
yannis pappas
20 minutes is impressive.
joe rogan
It's stupid.
It's stupid.
It's not wise.
yannis pappas
Well, yeah.
I mean, you do that, though.
joe rogan
I was thinking of going longer.
I was going to go to 25. Wow.
But I was going to go, stop.
yannis pappas
Just stop.
joe rogan
Just stay.
Stay safe.
Stay alive.
yannis pappas
I remember last time when I did that show with you at the Vulcan down here, and you just climbed up the side of the building.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
yannis pappas
You saw the ladder, and you're like, this ladder's dangerous, Dev.
Someone could just climb right up here.
And then you're like, let me check it out.
You just jumped up and climbed it.
I was like, that's not safe.
joe rogan
Nope.
yannis pappas
No, that wasn't safe.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I would be fine.
I would've just...
I would've been fine.
There was a truck there.
I would've fallen on the truck.
yannis pappas
Nice, yeah.
I'm glad you had it thought out.
I thought it through.
Yeah, I don't think there was a mattress on the truck, though.
joe rogan
That?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's not that far.
yannis pappas
Yeah, but you did.
You climbed up the building in, like, seconds.
You were doing an obstacle course.
It almost felt like I was on American Ninja Warrior or something.
joe rogan
Well, it wasn't that hard.
It was just a ladder.
yannis pappas
It's very difficult, I think, to jump up and do that.
Yeah.
I don't think me or Jamie could have done that.
I can't do one pull-up.
unidentified
Jamie could do it.
yannis pappas
No, I don't think so.
Dude, he scaled it.
He was doing parkour.
It looked like parkour.
joe rogan
We've watched a lot of parkour on this show.
That was definitely not parkour.
That was like a 53-year-old guy who could do some chin-ups.
yannis pappas
I guess so, yeah.
It was still pretty impressive.
And dangerous.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's definitely dangerous a little bit.
But you gotta have a little danger in your life.
You can't be just playing it safe all the time.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's not healthy.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's just not wise.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
unidentified
But I'm a guy with anxiety, so I... You know the best way to get over anxiety?
joe rogan
Do dangerous shit.
yannis pappas
I thought you were going to say zinc.
unidentified
Magnesium!
joe rogan
On it!
Magnesium!
yannis pappas
What's the best way?
joe rogan
I think doing difficult things, challenging yourself, making yourself more resilient, mentally resilient.
That's just my thoughts on it.
CBD is good for anxiety too.
That's proven.
Some people think that anxiety is connected to a lack of rigorous exercise.
Some people think it's connected to inflammation.
I mean, there's a lot of thoughts on that.
And I think the problem with anybody giving anyone a diagnosis is each human being has an individual level of anxiety that's impossible to determine.
Like, I could weigh you, and I know how much you weigh.
I can't weigh your anxiety.
You know what I mean?
You say, hey doctor, I'm fucking anxious.
I have all this anxiety.
I'm freaking out.
Doctor doesn't know what that means.
Is your anxiety legitimate?
Maybe someone's trying to kill you.
Maybe you should be anxious.
Or maybe you're just fucking really chemically imbalanced.
Maybe you could alleviate that with exercise.
Or maybe you can't.
Maybe you need medication.
So no one really knows you other than you.
unidentified
Right.
yannis pappas
I guess the only thing...
They start to get a sense of your level of anxiety if you start saying, like, the Mossad's out to get me.
joe rogan
Right.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you start saying...
yannis pappas
I'm Queen Elizabeth reincarnated.
joe rogan
Yeah, I come from alien DNA. They visit me regularly.
unidentified
Stuff like that.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Imagine if you did.
Imagine if you really were an alien hybrid and nobody wanted to listen.
And you're like, I'm telling you guys.
yannis pappas
That would be something that the aliens would do just for entertainment.
joe rogan
Well...
It'll be really hard to convince someone of anything extraordinary.
Really hard to convince someone that you're involved in anything that's really off the deep end crazy.
yannis pappas
Right.
It's much easier to convince people of stupid stuff.
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
yannis pappas
People love that.
If you have a little charisma, Charisma goes a long way, dude.
It's like that Quentin Tarantino from that movie.
Personality goes a long way.
You look at every despot in history, not one of them was a bore.
You can't get a lot of people.
They have a lot in common with stand-up comics.
They get up there, control the crowd, bullshit, lie, like we do.
joe rogan
Well, how about Hitler?
yannis pappas
Hell, he crushed.
joe rogan
He would crush.
yannis pappas
I would watch those videos.
I don't even speak German, but you get goosebumps and you find yourself.
You're just like, whatever he's saying, I'm on board.
joe rogan
He means it.
He does mean it, and he's enhanced.
He's on cocaine, he's on testosterone, he's on meth.
He's on a gang of different things.
yannis pappas
Panzer Chocolat, I think they called it, right?
joe rogan
Is that what they called it?
yannis pappas
Well, it was like chocolate.
It was in meth and chocolate.
And they called it Panzerschocolat because they would give it to the guys in the Panzertanks.
And so those dudes were just, yeah, they were lit.
joe rogan
They were lit?
yannis pappas
They were lit.
I don't think you can go to war without being lit, right?
joe rogan
Well, it's probably not wise.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
If you're definitely going to go to war, wouldn't you want to be on meth?
yannis pappas
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, if 100%.
The only thing I would think is maybe you would make decisions that wouldn't be intelligent.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
You wouldn't make wise choices.
You would just be a berserker.
yannis pappas
Right.
You'd be like, you see Bugs Bunny and you'd just be shooting.
Yeah, you'd be tripping.
joe rogan
We've talked about it on the podcast before, but there was a time when Hitler went to visit Mussolini because Mussolini was thinking of pulling Italy out of the war.
And Hitler, apparently, he was exhausted before this.
Do we ever resolve who told us that story?
Someone told us a story, then we researched it.
jamie vernon
We found the time...
Yeah, I remember I did.
I found the article where it said it.
unidentified
Right.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, that, but who told us about it?
jamie vernon
I don't remember.
I found the podcast when we found out about it.
It was with Brian Moses, but I don't know if he's the one who told us about it.
joe rogan
I don't think so.
I think we were talking about it to Moses, but I think someone else had told...
Maybe I'm wrong.
jamie vernon
Before we get too far, the Panzer Chocolat thing might not be real.
yannis pappas
Really?
jamie vernon
The company that made it, I guess, is a fake image of supposed Panzer Chocolat in combination with their trademark.
It might have been just with this company's lettering, but they said it was not real.
yannis pappas
Allegedly, they would put meth in chocolate, right?
jamie vernon
Yeah, there was something else I just found that had a different name, but then I found what you said.
It might just be what you were saying, that that word might not be real, but they did put some drug in chocolate.
joe rogan
Yeah, it says, however, this Panzerschokolade never existed.
Zadr distances itself with all clarity from this brand and reputation damaging misrepresentation, which establishes a non-existing connection between our company, founded in 1999...
Oh, that's different.
...and the Nazi regime.
yannis pappas
This is like, I guess, a company that's saying, like, hey...
jamie vernon
No, that's what I was trying to say, right?
The actual...
Chocolate drug probably did exist, but the thing with...
yannis pappas
They didn't call it Panzer chocolate.
joe rogan
Oh, it's the company Zotter.
jamie vernon
See what I'm saying?
joe rogan
Yeah, Zotter has been refuting it because they're the company that started in 1999. But a lot of fucking companies started during Nazi Germany, right?
yannis pappas
BMW. Audi.
Audi.
joe rogan
Did you ever see Hitler's race car?
Hitler had an Audi race car.
Pretty fucking dope.
yannis pappas
Really?
joe rogan
Looked like a cigar.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like an old school, like a cigar with wheels poking out the side.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You ever see it?
yannis pappas
I don't think I have.
joe rogan
I think it either went for auction or something happened a few years back where it's a pretty dope looking car.
You got to think like for 1940, like if you saw that thing in 1940, it would be the shit.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
yannis pappas
Well, you'd think the Fuhrer would have the...
He'd have the top model.
It'd be weird if he rolled around in a Volkswagen.
jamie vernon
I see the same car with a Mercedes logo and an Audi logo.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah?
jamie vernon
Unless someone's photoshopping stuff.
yannis pappas
I mean, that is a lit mobile right there.
jamie vernon
That says 12 million, but that has an Audi logo.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow, look how pretty it is.
yannis pappas
Germans can make cars, man.
joe rogan
Oh, fuck yeah, they can.
Look at that thing.
That's so pretty.
yannis pappas
It is.
joe rogan
And that's from what year is that?
Hitler's racing car.
Is there a good side profile of it, Jamie?
So there's one, wow, look at that thing.
Rare Nazi-era race car on display.
Look how fucking pretty that is.
yannis pappas
That is nice.
joe rogan
If you're driving down the 405 with that bad boy.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look at that right there.
Wow.
The most expensive car ever.
Hitler's Auto Union on the auction blog.
And that's got the Audi logo on it.
yannis pappas
So that was his, was that his particular, like if you sniff the seat, you're sniffing where his ass was?
joe rogan
That's very different.
jamie vernon
That's a little different, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I don't think so.
I think he just sponsored, you know, he sponsored race cars.
You know, they sponsored athletes for the Olympics.
They sponsored all that shit.
yannis pappas
You ever see that photo of him in the stands at the Olympics?
Oh yeah!
joe rogan
Trippin' balls.
There's a video of it.
Trippin' balls.
yannis pappas
He looks like an Orthodox Jew at the Welling Wall.
joe rogan
Just tweakin'.
Tweakin' hard.
That girl, that amazing gymnast, who everybody's shittin' on.
yannis pappas
Simone Biles.
joe rogan
Yeah, because she just bailed on the Olympics.
She's like, I can't take anymore.
I was just reading that she regularly takes ADHD medication and they said that she can no longer take it because in Japan you can't take this stuff.
She takes Ritalin.
Find out if this is true.
Because if that is the case, they said that during the last Olympics, I guess 2016, she took this stuff and she won a bunch of gold medals.
Yeah.
Because she's regularly on this.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
This is her medication.
yannis pappas
And so they're saying she can't because...
joe rogan
Japan.
Japan.
It's illegal to take, whether it's Adderall or Ritalin.
I think it's illegal to take those in Japan.
This is what I was reading today.
yannis pappas
So weird how cultures have their different...
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
I mean, you could buy panties in a vending machine, but you can't take Ritalin?
joe rogan
Well, I think they're very sensitive to amphetamines because amphetamines and methamphetamines were the reason why the kamikazes were willing to fucking fly their planes right into boats.
Fucking gritting their teeth the whole way.
Boom!
yannis pappas
That's why Lexus probably does so well, because if you mess up at the factory, you have to walk off a plank because of honor.
They're in honor.
unidentified
Really?
yannis pappas
I don't know if that's true, but it is.
joe rogan
They don't fuck.
I've had three Lexuses in my life.
They never break.
yannis pappas
They're so good.
joe rogan
They're so good.
They're the best cars.
jamie vernon
This is from the last Olympics.
joe rogan
Okay.
Simone Biles addresses leaked medical records and ADHD misconceptions.
U.S. gymnast superstar Simone Biles was in a different kind of spotlight Tuesday after Russian hackers circulated confidential medical reports in the World Anti-Doping Agency database that showed her use of methyl...
Methylfendate, a stimulant used to treat ADHD. Biles 19 was forced to publicly address her ADHD and her approval of the use of medication after a leak.
I have ADHD and I've taken medicine for it since I was a kid.
Please know I believe in a clean sport.
I've always followed the rules.
Will continue to do so as far as fair play is critical to sport and is very important to me.
So she's been on this medication for a long time.
But see if you can find that...
An article that says she was not allowed to take this ADHD medication in Japan, because that's what they're saying.
They were saying that during this Olympics, they told her she has to get off of it.
If that's the case, that would greatly contribute to her anxiety and her mental problems that she's having.
Imagine if you're on a medication.
For the last at least five years, right?
She's been on it since 2016. And then all of a sudden they tell you you can't be on it anymore and you have to compete in the Olympics.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're used to being on this medication.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
The fuck?
yannis pappas
That'll cause you some strife.
But this could be fishy.
Like, they're saying they treated for ADHD. But what if this is like a drug that makes them like super focused?
joe rogan
Well, it does make you super focused.
yannis pappas
Super focused.
joe rogan
I'm sure it does.
I mean, that's why they say pitchers can't take it.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Like pitchers want to take Adderall.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
And pitchers used to take Greenies, which were basically like some sort of- Amphetamines.
Amphetamines.
So this could be a similar kind of scandal where the Russian hackers, freaking Russians, you know, the Russians and the Chinese are just like- They're beating us online, dude.
They're like Iago and Othello.
And they're just kind of manipulating us and hacking our shit.
joe rogan
They are.
yannis pappas
You see that video of Hunter Biden doing cracks?
Someone hacked that.
How'd they get that?
I don't know, but it was one of the funniest when she's going, are you there?
And he's just going...
I watch it over and over again and just laugh.
joe rogan
But what's crazy is, Joe Biden was one of the people that made sure that the laws went through that treated people very differently for crack than they did for cocaine.
I mean, that has been, if you want to talk about, if you want to see clear evidence of racism in prosecutions, it's the difference between how they treat cocaine arrests versus how they treat crack arrests.
And crack, if you talk to Dr. Carl Hart from fucking Columbia, who's a brilliant guy, he'll tell you that crack is cocaine.
It's just a cheaper version of it, it's just about the way it's processed and the way it's made, but essentially the psychoactive chemical is the same.
yannis pappas
For sure.
And I think the drug crimes, really, you see the systematic oppression of black people in drug crimes.
It's like, yeah, white guys doing cocaine.
joe rogan
Exactly.
yannis pappas
But like, yeah, I mean, a black guy's got a bag of marijuana, he goes away for 15 years or whatever.
That's been a total injustice in our country.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, his fucking son smoked crack.
yannis pappas
Kid smokes crack.
joe rogan
He's got a couple bucks.
yannis pappas
He parties, dude, yeah.
joe rogan
He's got money.
yannis pappas
He's got a taste.
Once you develop, it's like, once you experience 100% pure grape juice, it's delicious, but if you were raised on grape drink, you love that grape drink.
joe rogan
It's a different flavor.
yannis pappas
It's a different flavor.
He loves that grape drink drug.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Because it's basically like, it's kind of like a cheaper form of the real thing.
joe rogan
It's a cheaper form of the real thing, and I bet part of it is being naughty.
yannis pappas
Hunter Biden likes to be naughty.
joe rogan
He's a naughty boy.
yannis pappas
He's a naughty kid.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
He's naughty.
His dad was the vice president and he's just being naughty.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
He's eating hookers assholes, smoking crack, getting wild, getting foot jobs.
yannis pappas
He's fun.
I mean, he's a fun kid.
I'd rather hang out with him.
joe rogan
I tried to get him on the podcast.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I tried to get him on the podcast.
yannis pappas
Well, tell him you got some crack.
joe rogan
But here's the thing is like they asked for him to be on the podcast first.
And I think I was like, I get the fuck out of here with that.
And then as time went on, I was like, I think one day I was really high.
And then I had this epiphany, like, why wouldn't I have him on?
Like, he's just a man.
Not only that, he's, like, everybody's mad at him.
I'm not mad at him.
And I'm not a mean guy.
Like, if I had him on the podcast, I would be nice to him.
I don't know what it's like to be born a son of a wealthy, famous politician who happened to be the vice president of the United States.
Who also drafted the 1994 sweeping crime bill.
I don't know what the fuck that would be like.
It'd be weird.
It's a weird life, man.
And I'd probably get naughty too.
But he seems to have pulled his shit together and he wrote a book about it.
And everybody wants to prosecute him and attack him and all this shit.
But what has he done?
He's just done regular crazy shit that a lot of our comic friends have done.
I have no problem with that guy.
The idea that we should hate him because his dad is the vice president and now the president.
Why?
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Well, I don't give a fuck.
yannis pappas
Yeah, he's got no power or anything like that.
joe rogan
He's just a guy who likes to get wild.
yannis pappas
He likes to get wild, yeah.
joe rogan
How many guys like that do we know?
yannis pappas
A lot of guys.
joe rogan
In our world?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
I mean, I give him more...
A lot of guys...
I don't even know guys who smoke crack anymore.
I mean, he's like a throwback.
He's like a...
joe rogan
Well, one of my best friends was a serious crackhead.
yannis pappas
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, when I lived in New York, he's dead now.
But, uh...
One of my best friends.
He was, at the time, my best friend, but one of my best friends ever.
If I had to make a list of like 20 of my all-time best friends, my friend Johnny B, he would be right up there.
He was fucking amazing.
He was an amazing guy, but he was a drug addict.
And he was wild.
Just a wild dude.
I'd drop him off places sometimes.
I'd bring him to go cop when he'd pick up drugs.
I'd have to take him to a liquor store so he could buy 40 ounces to take the edge off because he was so fucked up on crack.
yannis pappas
That sounds very like early 90s, 80s.
Just crack, 40s.
joe rogan
Yep, exactly.
It was early 90s.
yannis pappas
Yeah, maybe a little Brand Nubian playing in the background.
joe rogan
Yeah, Cool G Rap.
yannis pappas
Cool G Rap, yeah.
joe rogan
The L Street Blues.
yannis pappas
Yeah, you lose because you got the L Street Blues.
Those guys could rhyme, dude.
joe rogan
Dude, Kool G Rap is, to this day, in my opinion, one of the most underrated rappers of all time.
He's one of the all-time greats.
yannis pappas
Without a doubt.
joe rogan
Cockblockin', that song, Cockblockin'.
yannis pappas
Without a doubt.
If you listen to Illustree, you listen to the lyrics of Illustree Blues.
unidentified
Amazing.
yannis pappas
Amazing.
Yeah, Rakim.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh, Jesus.
joe rogan
Eric Bean, Rakim?
Oh, my God.
yannis pappas
Just Lyricist, Big L. That whole era, it might have peaked.
I'm telling you, there's no Lyricist as good as those guys.
Maybe Eminem.
joe rogan
Nas.
Nas is the GOAT. Nas is great.
yannis pappas
He's the GOAT. Yeah, but Nas is from back then.
joe rogan
He is from back then, but he's still doing it right now.
Nas, in my opinion, is the GOAT. Of lyrics, I don't think anybody can touch him.
I think he's number one.
He's my all-time favorite lyricist.
He makes songs backwards.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
That one song, was it Rewind?
What was that one song, was it Rewind?
That he did backwards.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He told the whole story backwards.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who the fuck does that?
yannis pappas
Nas.
joe rogan
Nas does that.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, his rhymes are meticulous.
They're fantastic.
yannis pappas
Totally.
joe rogan
You never hear like a Nas lyric where you go, that one's a little sketchy.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're all amazing.
yannis pappas
He's a real artist.
joe rogan
He's a real artist.
yannis pappas
Artistry with it.
Back then hip-hop was incredible.
Everything was artistic, even the performance.
The background dancers, break dancing, the synchronized break dancing, the beatboxing, the DJing.
Now it's just club music.
joe rogan
Those guys must hate mumble rap.
yannis pappas
Hate it!
And just how rich those guys are?
I think I saw Sadat X on the train one day, and I was like, I mean, those guys still tour, make money, they go to Japan.
Japanese can't get enough of hip-hop.
They love it.
joe rogan
They love breakdancing over there.
yannis pappas
They love hip-hop, they love breakdancing, they love black guys.
joe rogan
Korea loves breakdancing.
Have you ever followed Stance Elements on Instagram?
yannis pappas
No.
joe rogan
Stance Elements is this hip-hop page.
It's breakdancing page on Instagram.
And what they're doing right now with hip-hop, with breakdancing rather, is it doesn't even make sense.
Like the physical feats of spectacular coordination and strength that these fucking people can do now.
They're like, forget about gymnastics.
Breakdancing should be in the fucking Olympics.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
What is that dude's name?
B-Boy Pocket Kim?
What the fuck is his name?
How do you say his name?
There's this kid, dude, and he defies gravity.
Like, it doesn't make sense.
B-Boy Pocket Kim?
Yeah, B-Boy Pocket.
And his name is Jiju Kim.
And he is fucking wild, dude.
When you see him move around, you cannot believe the kind of shit this guy can do with his body.
And it's all...
It's all breakdancing.
It's all b-boys.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I picked something too simple here.
joe rogan
This is very simple.
He's just hanging out with these ladies.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You gotta go to that one.
He's spinning on his fucking head.
Look at this.
yannis pappas
That's like you pulled up my Maurese clip when Eliza said you pulled up a promo.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Look at this.
yannis pappas
Show me fast.
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Dude, watch that.
Look at what he's doing on his head.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Watch when he brings his legs together.
He's spitting like a top on the top of his head.
yannis pappas
He's like an electronic screwdriver.
joe rogan
It doesn't even make sense.
And that's nothing compared to some of the other shit that he could do.
He does, what do they call that, Jamie?
He's like, watch that one.
He's just showing himself warming up.
jamie vernon
He might be selling pants here, I think.
joe rogan
Is he?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
yannis pappas
I mean, Asians, though, they can do this stuff, man.
joe rogan
Well, so can a lot of other people, dude.
yannis pappas
I know, but have you seen Ocean's Eleven, dude?
The kid in Ocean's Eleven could fit in a suitcase.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, that's right.
I forgot about that.
yannis pappas
They could turn invisible.
joe rogan
I want to see a really impressive one, though.
Let's see if this is one of them.
This guy, okay, here it is.
Look at the shit this guy can do.
It's crazy.
And these people that are involved in this, they keep pushing the envelope of breakdancing.
There's a couple of friends that I have that are in the jiu-jitsu world.
Richie Martinez and Gio Martinez, they started out as breakdancers.
And I remember when they first came over to jiu-jitsu, Eddie Bravo, my instructor, was like, dude, there's something going on.
Like, breakdancing is next level.
Like, the strength that these guys have, the coordination they have, and the ability to control their body is unprecedented.
So he started literally practicing breakdancing moves as a method of getting better at jiu-jitsu.
yannis pappas
That's like Herschel Walker.
He did ballet.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
yannis pappas
It makes a lot of sense.
It makes a lot of sense.
And it's interesting to see it evolve, like athletes, like athletics, where it's just more faster, more powerful, more insane.
Jiu-jitsu's evolving too, right?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
yannis pappas
Like MMA, those leg kicks, that's the new thing.
The low leg kicks.
The low leg kicks are like, dudes are breaking their legs now.
I know, it's crazy.
So then maybe humans will evolve, they'll start, you know how those Thai boxers kick trees and stuff?
Maybe now MMA guys are gonna start, until their legs are like guns, just like steel.
Because they're just snapping.
How many times recently, it's been like three, four guys have just snapped their legs.
joe rogan
It's been a few.
Conor apparently went into that fight with a cracked shin already.
He had gotten a stress fracture in his shin and got it scanned.
And there's even photographs of the scans and was putting pads on it.
But I think what he was trying to do was he was trying to spar during camp with no shin and instep pads.
That's what I've been told.
I don't know if it's true.
Whenever anything happens, you'll get like a bunch of text messages from guys.
You know, I know a guy from Conor's camp says Conor was sparring with no shin pads.
I don't know if that's true, but that's a rare thing for someone to spar.
But he was so hell-bent on destroying Dustin Poirier, he might have done something like that.
And then it wound up costing him.
Because you could see his leg.
It's clearly, there's something wrong with it going in.
Your leg doesn't just break like that.
You know, like when you see Chris Weidman's leg break, it's real clear.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
He throws it, it catches right where Uriah Hall's shin meets the top of the knee, or the bottom of the knee.
It's a very rigid spot, and something has to give out, and it was the shin.
That makes sense.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
The Conor one didn't really make sense.
yannis pappas
Because there's more of an ankle, more lower...
joe rogan
Didn't make sense, the way it broke.
There was something wrong with it, I would imagine already.
yannis pappas
But that one kick where he kind of checked on the elbow, it was that spot.
joe rogan
Yeah, but even then, it's very rare that that's going to make your instep or your shin break like that.
yannis pappas
You know what's interesting?
It's like, not only does sports evolve, but your tolerance evolves for what you can look at.
Because now, I've become such a big MMA fan, and now I've seen so many of those breaks, at first you can't look at them.
You're like, oh my, I can't look at them.
Now you get used to it.
I'm like, I can watch a replay.
I can watch them now.
joe rogan
I've seen it in person, right?
So I've called thousands of fights in person.
I've probably seen more people get fucked up than most of the people that have ever lived.
If you had a history of people that have seen people get the shit beaten out of them, I gotta be high on that list.
yannis pappas
You're high on that list, but also, like, there's a lot...
World Star Hip Hop has done a good job for all of us.
joe rogan
It has, but there's a difference between watching something on a screen and seeing something in real life.
yannis pappas
You're right, yeah.
joe rogan
You get really accustomed to seeing injuries in real life.
I'm very accustomed to injuries in a weird way.
yannis pappas
I love your outfit.
Is that the same outfit or you just got a bunch of black shirts?
joe rogan
David August.
I have tailored suits that are made by David August.
yannis pappas
It's a good look, yeah.
joe rogan
To fit my fucking chimp body.
I have to get things that fit me right.
Yeah, they make beautiful clothes.
yannis pappas
You look like a priest after work.
joe rogan
All that shit, when you see Conor McGregor wearing a suit, walking into the arena, that's David August.
He makes impeccable suits.
yannis pappas
It's a good look.
joe rogan
I started getting into wearing them on stage.
When I do arenas, I wear suits.
yannis pappas
I saw you on with Chappelle you had a suit on.
joe rogan
If you feel like it's special.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Like I wear these beautiful jackets and everything fits good.
You feel like something extra, you know, when you're doing these big ass crowds.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I like it.
yannis pappas
Burr's got that great joke.
He's like, I know a way people are evil.
I don't know what the joke is.
When I put the suit on, I could feel the evil kind of just like...
You just feel like, I want to take over some shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a feeling of preparedness.
You're prepared for this.
This is like, I am a professional.
I am here.
I've done the work.
Look at this clothes.
I've got clothes that are designed to fit me.
They've been fit and cut and sewed and they fit my form perfectly.
It just feels nice.
yannis pappas
So you get used to that.
Is there a sound when it cracks?
Can you hear the bone?
Like you can hear it?
joe rogan
With Chris Weidman, you heard the crack, but I didn't know if it was his shin cracking or just a really hard kick that hit the thigh.
It was hard to tell because, you know, I'm not hearing it completely unfiltered.
I'm hearing it in my ear and I'm hearing it through a microphone and they're inside that cage and they're, at the time, they're probably like 30 or 40 feet from me.
So it's hard to say what you're hearing.
You know you're hearing an impact, but with Chris, the kick was so powerful.
He threw full blast, like the first kick.
He just decided he was going to fuck Uriah Hall's leg up with the first kick he threw.
So first kick he threw, he throws full power, which you rarely do.
Most guys, they're like...
If you watch a guy like Colby Covington, Colby Covington is one of the top welterweights, is known for his cardio.
And I had a conversation about this.
I go, when you're throwing, I go, you're not throwing 100%.
He goes, no, like 60. Like 60, 70%?
He goes, somewhere in that range.
He goes, every now and then I'll hit him with 100. He goes, well most of the time it's like 60-70%.
And it's one of the reasons why the guy has an endless gas tank.
Because he's never like full blasting it.
Chris Weidman went full blast with that kick right out of the gate.
You could tell.
yannis pappas
Also Uriah Hall is like built like a brick shithouse.
unidentified
He is.
joe rogan
He is.
And he's also like super technical.
You know, it's hard to catch him clean with something like first shot.
He's, you know, he's very poised and ready.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Colby Covington is entertaining.
joe rogan
He's gonna fight in Madison Square Garden for the title.
yannis pappas
I'm excited about that fight.
unidentified
Do you wanna go?
yannis pappas
Can I go?
Yes.
Yeah?
unidentified
Yes.
Yeah!
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
Please, thank you.
Yes.
I love that.
Yeah.
unidentified
Exciting.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
That first fight was great and people were like, I can't believe you're fighting again.
It's like, dude, that first fight was great.
joe rogan
It was amazing.
yannis pappas
It was an amazing fight.
joe rogan
It was amazing.
It was an amazing fight.
Yeah, it was amazing.
I mean, look, dude had his fucking jaw broken and still fought another round and a half.
yannis pappas
And he's been kicking ass since.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, fuck yeah.
Well, listen, Kamaru Usman, the guy he lost to, Is my opinion if there's George St. Pierre's number one, he's number two.
And the only reason why you don't know who would win out of the two of them is because they haven't fought.
But in terms of greatest welterweights of all time, it's tough to fuck with Kamaru Usman.
He's right up there at the top of the food chain.
He doesn't have the credentials in terms of the overall volume of impressive victories as a champion because he's only defended he won the title versus Tyron Woodley he beat Colby Covington he beat Gilbert Burns he beat Jorge Masvidal he KO'd Masvidal in the rematch like those are the big fights and they're great impressive fights but George's legacy is so long I mean George was George's legacy is just but George in all fairness I don't
think he fought the same caliber of competition as Usman has Is that because the athletes evolved?
Exactly.
And it's no knock on George.
George is still one of the all-time greats.
And George, when he came back and stopped Michael Bisping and choked him unconscious, you've got to say, well, Jesus Christ, George is probably even better than he was when he was the champion.
Because Bisping is fantastic.
But I think that the level of competition that Usman has faced is arguably better.
yannis pappas
It's such an interesting thing to watch a sport evolve so quickly.
Kind of like tennis, I remember it was serving volleyers, and then guys from the...
You know, the technology changes, the training changes.
And with MMA, there's so many different disciplines that...
You don't know which one's gonna start having a bigger impact and then all the guys are gonna and it's now it's the leg kicks it seems.
You see guys just get chopped down with those leg kicks and then it's oh you know that they have no power and they can't throw.
joe rogan
They can't even move right.
yannis pappas
They can't move right and like you could see the belts.
You can see it like those red belts on the leg.
I used to think that those legs didn't do those leg kicks didn't do anything.
joe rogan
Has anybody ever leg kicked you?
yannis pappas
No.
joe rogan
Do you want to get leg kicked?
yannis pappas
Only if you do it for America on me.
joe rogan
For America?
yannis pappas
Full throttle.
joe rogan
No, I would never do a full throttle.
yannis pappas
Yeah, no, I'd be dead.
joe rogan
I'll give you a tap just so you could feel it.
yannis pappas
But a Joe Rogan kick in the chest may be what I need to just like...
joe rogan
Get you going?
yannis pappas
Get me going.
joe rogan
Like a kickstart?
unidentified
Boom!
yannis pappas
Dude, you kick hard.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'm not kicking you.
yannis pappas
No, please don't.
joe rogan
But to feel a shin on your thigh, just to feel like a thump, it's illuminating.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You go, oh, God.
Because it's like, just do that to your leg.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
What is this?
Who's this?
Oh, Fabricio.
That's Fabricio Verdum.
Is that a journalist?
Oh, that's Aaron True.
Oh, I talked to Aaron.
Aaron was letting a bunch of people kick him, and I told him at one point in time, I go, Aaron, please stop doing that.
And that was only 40%.
Fabricio says, only 40%, my friend.
yannis pappas
You think it's deceptive when you watch it because...
Guys don't react that much, they just take the kick.
joe rogan
Because they're animals.
yannis pappas
But it's because they're animals, right?
joe rogan
And their legs are very conditioned.
They're accustomed to getting beaten up.
They develop these really weird veins all over their legs.
Like Kevin Randleman, who was one of the all-time greats, former UFC heavyweight champion, he fought Pedro Hizzo.
And Pedro Hizzo is, in my opinion, probably the hardest leg kicker that ever existed in MMA. He's this big, giant, Brazilian heavyweight, fantastic kicker.
He was so good.
And he fucked up Randleman's leg.
He fucked up Randy Couture's leg so bad that Randy said his leg was fucked up for six months after the fight.
Where it was like sore and lumpy and fucked up.
But Randleman passed away, rest in peace.
But Randleman had these huge welts in his legs till the day he died from Pedro Hizzo.
His veins had got destroyed from Hizzo kicking him.
And so, like, there's photos, if you find Kevin Randleman's leg damage from Pedro Hizzo...
For the rest of his life, he had these fucked up giant garden hose looking varicose veins in his leg where he got kicked by Pedro Hizzo.
yannis pappas
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, like he'll change your legs.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Like literally, he'll change your legs.
yannis pappas
That's some ill shit to say to somebody.
joe rogan
Bro, Pedro kicks so hard.
unidentified
I'll change your legs.
joe rogan
I was at Beverly Hills Jiu-Jitsu once in the early 1990s, and Pedro was working out, and he was kicking this heavy bag, and everybody was just like, what?
He was just stepping up, and he was a big guy, you know, 250 pounds, just stepping in.
And you would just imagine what that would be like on your leg.
unidentified
Just chop, chop, chop.
joe rogan
And he, you know, the UFC gave him a giant contract at one point in time because they were convinced that Pedro was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world.
And he had knocked out Josh Barnett.
He and Randy Couture and went to war.
yannis pappas
Not the actor Josh Barnett.
joe rogan
Josh Barnett is the youngest ever UFC heavyweight champion.
yannis pappas
Ah.
joe rogan
He won the title when he was...
I want to say he was 24 years old.
I think at the time he was the youngest ever, not just heavyweight champion, but he was the youngest ever UFC champion.
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Right on.
joe rogan
Still fights.
yannis pappas
He's still going?
joe rogan
Savage.
Well, that's after the fight, the swelling in his legs.
His legs were all fucked up and swole.
It's hard to tell from that picture.
They just look like big legs.
But Kevin's legs normally were shredded.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
You would see all the muscle.
That's just...
See if you could see Kevin's veins.
Nothing's coming up.
unidentified
Nothing?
yannis pappas
Oh, I remember this dude.
This dude is built, I mean...
joe rogan
Randleman?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, Randleman was a goddamn tank.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was a tank.
He was...
yannis pappas
He fought in, like, Japan, like, a different...
joe rogan
Fought for Pride, yeah.
No, he was a spectacular athlete.
Yeah, it's not showing it.
You'd have to, like, dig deep into the archives.
yannis pappas
Do you think the UFC... I know, like, certain grapplers, like...
Like, the jujitsu guys.
What's the one guy, he was really...
God, I just can't think of his name.
joe rogan
Describe what he looks like.
yannis pappas
Oh, man.
He's like, he was...
Strikeforce, he was...
But he's all jujitsu.
And like, was that...
What's his fucking name?
He was a...
joe rogan
All Jiu Jitsu.
Roger Gracie?
yannis pappas
No, not Gracie.
Not the original guys, but...
joe rogan
No, that's...
Roger fought in Strike Force.
yannis pappas
Well, my point is...
I'll think of his name, but...
joe rogan
Nick Diaz?
yannis pappas
No, not the Diaz brothers, but he's in the camp with the Diaz brothers.
He's like the...
Crone?
Jake Shields.
Jake Shields.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
So, savage, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
As you would say.
joe rogan
Amazing.
yannis pappas
But his style is kind of, I guess, like, for fans is a little boring.
Because he doesn't strike that much.
He goes for submissions.
joe rogan
But if he gets a hold of you, you're fucked.
yannis pappas
You're fucked.
You're fucked.
It's like a poker trick.
joe rogan
Jake Shields was a monster.
yannis pappas
Do you think that the...
Because I know my taste as a viewer is changing.
Like, I'm being conditioned to appreciate the jujitsu and grappling more, the Muay Thai.
I'm starting...
Like, when it goes to the ground, like, you're starting to hear, I think, less boos.
Because I think the watcher is getting more educated.
The viewer is getting more educated on, like, how much...
Tactical skill is going into what's going on, whereas before it was just like people love seeing strikes, but now my question is that, do you think that that'll be as exciting as the striking in MMA as the viewer gets more educated?
joe rogan
It is for some.
It is for me, obviously.
I have a jujitsu background.
yannis pappas
You know what's going on.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I also appreciate people who figure out how to win.
I just love watching people solve puzzles.
I like watching people figure out how to beat a guy.
And if a guy beats a guy with a submission or if a guy beats a guy with a head kick, for me, it's all exciting.
It's all very exciting.
But I think for the crowd, knockouts are always going to be first.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
It's just human nature.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Because it makes more sense to people that don't fight.
Like, if you look at the audience, if you go to the T-Mobile arena and there's, you know, what does a T-Mobile see, like 18,000, 20,000 people?
There's 20,000 people.
How many of those people can train?
How many of those people know striking or jujitsu or how many of those people have ever been kicked?
Maybe 4,000, 5,000, right?
So for most people, they know what's happening if a guy gets kicked in the face.
You get kicked in the face and your head snaps back and you flatline and fall back.
Everybody's like, oh shit!
There's an oh shit moment to knockouts that just don't exist in submissions.
Submissions are amazing, but...
I think you have to kind of appreciate what a guy's doing or a girl's doing in order to be able to really enjoy a submission the way you enjoy a strike, a knockout.
unidentified
You're right.
yannis pappas
At starting note, it'd feel exciting when you see a guy get his hooks in and, like, that battle.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
yannis pappas
That battle when he's defending and, like, he gets one arm.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
yannis pappas
It's like that anticipation.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
It's starting to feel exciting as a viewer.
I'm just saying from somebody who doesn't know how to do any of that stuff.
As a fan, that stuff is starting to feel more exciting than it used to feel for me.
joe rogan
I think so for sure.
I think people are getting more educated about the sport, the more fights they watch.
And the more they see like...
Khabib, for a perfect example.
Khabib chokes everybody out.
And he's like one of the greatest, no, if not the greatest.
There's a real argument that Khabib's the greatest of all time.
And again, doesn't have the accolades that Jon Jones has.
And I know Jon Jones has one loss on his record, but it's a bullshit loss.
It's a disqualification of a fight with Matt Hamill where he was destroying him.
So you can make the argument that Jon Jones is undefeated, and I think you should make that argument, because nobody really defeated him.
Even though he has a loss on his record, no one beat him.
Khabib is undefeated, he retired at, what was it, 29-0, and dominated everybody.
No one was even close.
Jon Jones had a couple of split decisions.
yannis pappas
Reyes, that Reyes fight.
joe rogan
Reyes fight was fucking close.
yannis pappas
Close.
joe rogan
Fucking close.
So is the Tiago Santos fight.
Fucking close.
Close fights.
There's no close fights in Khabib's history.
There's no close fights.
Everybody gets fucking mauled.
Everybody smash.
yannis pappas
Send me location.
Send location.
joe rogan
My favorite quote was with him with Conor McGregor.
He goes, I want to change his face.
yannis pappas
Change his face.
joe rogan
Change his face.
Yeah.
Bro, Khabib was the fucking man.
He was the fucking man.
And, you know, think about it.
He beat Dustin Poirier, submission.
Justin Gaethje, submission.
Conor McGregor, submission.
He submitted all those guys.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And nobody cared.
They just were excited to watch Khabib fight.
yannis pappas
It could be because of him.
You know, it's like usually it's a certain athlete that does something real well that enlightens people.
To that aspect of the game.
It could be because of him.
Those crowds were lit.
When he was on Conor's back, you could hear it.
That Poirier fight, too.
He gets in his back.
That anticipation of the choke is exciting.
Yeah, when a guy gets out that's really exciting like when a guy somehow gets out when like the hooks are in and what one-arms in but somehow a guy gets out that's exciting too.
joe rogan
That thing he did to Conor was so nasty too because he wasn't even under the chin.
He was like a crank, right?
It's called a fulcrum choke Dean Lister explained it he after the fight was over he did a thing on his Instagram page where he explained the technique and And it's not a move that I've ever used.
It's like in that position, I've always gone to like, there's a move where you pull the neck this way and you pull the body that way.
Like you do what's called a gable grip on the neck and you're pulling the neck this way.
And then with your lower legs, you're pulling the body another way.
unidentified
Ow!
joe rogan
And you've got a guy like really fucking twisted up and yanked.
And it's very, very painful.
But I think Khabib's is even better.
Because Khabib is going across the jaw.
And then he's putting this forearm, this part right here, behind your back.
So as he's gripping, he's got your head wrapped up in his arm.
And then he's got this pressing against your back.
And he uses that as a lever.
And he's cranking your neck.
So he's using the elbow as a fulcrum to crank your neck.
And you see Conor at the end of the fight.
See if you can find the finish.
yannis pappas
That's medieval.
joe rogan
It's medieval.
yannis pappas
So it wasn't even that he was choked out.
joe rogan
He wasn't choking him.
yannis pappas
He was just pain.
joe rogan
Neck cranking him.
unidentified
Wow!
joe rogan
Yeah, he was smashing his neck.
I didn't know that.
He was smashing his neck.
But it's not even the greatest submission of all time.
The greatest, the most painful neck submission of all time was in one fighting championship.
This guy...
Let me show this one first.
Find Connor Submits Khabib.
Because if you see the way he's doing it, it's very sophisticated.
It's very smart.
Yeah, here it goes.
So he gets on top of him.
yannis pappas
I remember there was like a scramble when he was on all fours, right?
He goes against the wall.
joe rogan
He's smashing him.
He's got full mount here.
He's got one three-quarter mount, but he's basically mounted.
He can pull that foot out if he wants to.
yannis pappas
He's talking to him the whole time.
Send me location.
joe rogan
He goes, let's talk now.
Let's talk now.
So he gets his back, and then when Connor tries to scramble to his feet, just scooch ahead a little bit there.
Now, when Conor...
It's a little bit more.
Conor tries to get to his feet.
Right there.
Go right there.
So now he's taking his back.
And when he takes his back, he gets his arm under.
Conor tucks his chin.
See how he tucks his chin?
But look where his left forearm is.
See his left forearm?
It's pushing against the back.
So the choke is not in.
It's on the chin.
But the way he's gripping it and the way he's pushing his left forearm against the back of Conor and then yanking on his neck.
Go ahead, play it out.
yannis pappas
Oh, he's pulling it back.
joe rogan
Yeah, see?
It's a fulcrum.
It's a fulcrum.
yannis pappas
So he's yanking it back and pushing the bottom half of his body down?
joe rogan
That's not even the worst choke.
You want to see the worst choke?
I'm going to show the worst choke.
Look up nastiest submission ever won fighting championship.
I don't even know who the dude is that did this technique.
We'll give him credit after the fight.
But he basically got the guy's back and then flattened the guy out on the ground and with his arm under his neck, pushed...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
Watch this.
jamie vernon
It's in the top 20 thing, but it's the main thumbnail.
joe rogan
It's fucking nasty.
Like when you go, this guy might be dead.
Like he moves his, he's got like a rear naked choke, but instead of going like rear naked choke where he's sinking in like this, he basically flattens the guy out on his back and then he pulls his neck forward like this.
Like all the way.
So the guy's neck is like his face is pressed up against...
yannis pappas
So he's choking him with his own body.
joe rogan
He's got his forehead on the center of his chest.
yannis pappas
Is that called anything or is it just like...
Death.
It's called death.
So it doesn't have a move call.
It's just the dude was getting nasty with him.
joe rogan
It's like a variation of a choke from the back, but he doesn't have any hooks in.
He just figured out...
Instead of...
The hooks are like you're trying to control the guy's body while you submit from the neck.
But what he's doing is he's got the guy flattened out.
And then because he has his head trapped, he forces his face forward.
It's horrifying.
yannis pappas
I want to see this.
joe rogan
It's the most horrifying submission I've ever seen.
jamie vernon
I think it was...
joe rogan
That's it.
That's it.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Go ahead a little further.
Go, uh...
Right before that.
No, no.
That's not it.
That's a regular one.
jamie vernon
Yeah, sorry.
joe rogan
Is this all of his...
jamie vernon
It was in the thumbnail, and unfortunately it's not like the number one of 20. Scooch up.
joe rogan
Scooch up.
jamie vernon
I'm trying to find it.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
See, just scroll through.
It's got to be number one.
jamie vernon
It's not.
unidentified
What?
jamie vernon
I started at the end.
That's why I'm starting to scroll.
I took too long to scroll through.
joe rogan
Okay, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.
Let me see if I can recognize it.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I know the picture I'm looking for now.
I don't see the guy being flattened out like that.
joe rogan
It was horrific, dude.
Like, I'm telling you, out of all the thousand people that I've seen get choked unconscious, this was number one.
yannis pappas
You may be one of the only people on the planet that's seen that many people get choked out.
joe rogan
I think there's probably a few jujitsu guys that have seen more people get choked out.
yannis pappas
But you're up there.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm in the top 100. Go to the very end.
It's got to be number one.
How could it not be number one?
jamie vernon
I know.
It's some guy just doing his career.
joe rogan
Go back a little.
I think this is it.
Go back.
jamie vernon
See, he's got his arm.
joe rogan
Nope, that's not it.
jamie vernon
That's like the end of the video.
joe rogan
Wow.
What is this one?
jamie vernon
Very similar.
joe rogan
No, that's not it.
jamie vernon
It's that picture right there.
yannis pappas
Is that triangle choke?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
That's the picture.
But it's not.
Where's that one?
Well, find out who that is.
jamie vernon
I would think it would just have been right there.
joe rogan
Why would they not say that that's number one?
How could that...
Wait a minute.
What does it say?
It said top 20. But if you put your thing in there, you let the video scroll a little bit.
Do that back again.
jamie vernon
It starts showing other parts of the video.
joe rogan
19. Number 19. That's it.
jamie vernon
That's the one I stopped on.
joe rogan
And that's not it?
jamie vernon
No.
unidentified
Hmm.
jamie vernon
This could be it.
Because it's a guy in black and white.
joe rogan
No, that's a triangle.
He's going to get him in an arm bar.
That's not it either.
jamie vernon
We got stuck looking at this now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
I guess once you feel that arm under your neck, you know it's over.
joe rogan
Oh, you know what?
Go to One's Instagram page.
They have it on their Instagram page.
If you go to their Instagram page...
unidentified
Let me see.
joe rogan
Hip-hop is dead.
See, now I got Nas stuck in my head.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
I know they had it on their Instagram page recently.
yannis pappas
This is like when something's on the tip of your tongue and you can't...
joe rogan
This is driving me fucking crazy.
yannis pappas
This is like when I was doing Jake Shields.
I was like, what's his name?
joe rogan
Oh, wait a minute.
Hold on.
Scroll up a little bit.
What's that one on the left-hand side?
What's the date of that one?
jamie vernon
Five days ago.
joe rogan
Okay, it's somewhere in that range.
Wait a minute, scroll up a little?
Scroll up a little?
Is that it right there?
jamie vernon
No, one guy's wearing black, one guy's wearing white trunks.
joe rogan
Okay.
unidentified
Fucking...
jamie vernon
I'm just looking for that.
No, no, no.
joe rogan
Fucking fuck, fuck.
jamie vernon
I know.
I want to go back to the video.
joe rogan
God damn it.
yannis pappas
I'll take your word.
I'll try to visualize it.
unidentified
I feel like I can find it.
joe rogan
I feel like I can find it.
Like, nastiest submission ever.
This is the most drawn-out moment we've ever had on the podcast.
yannis pappas
It's like we went to the library and we're looking through microfiche.
unidentified
F.C. That ain't it.
God damn it.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I don't know why it's in the thumbnail and then it's not.
That's bad YouTubing.
unidentified
That's gonna be it.
joe rogan
Damn it.
yannis pappas
It's a gangster way to end the fight, though.
joe rogan
It's take away someone's oxygen, like COVID. It's worse than taking someone's oxygen away because the guy basically...
unidentified
I'll find it.
jamie vernon
All right.
I'll Google it.
joe rogan
Jamie's going to find it.
It's worse.
You want a cigar?
yannis pappas
Yeah, I just put a snooze in, but I'll smoke a cigar.
joe rogan
You put a snooze in?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Do you like those things?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those make me nervous.
yannis pappas
I do.
joe rogan
They don't make me feel good.
yannis pappas
No?
joe rogan
Cigars make me relaxed.
yannis pappas
Cigars are great conversation enhancers.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's snooze stuff that makes me want them.
yannis pappas
Barf.
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Because you've got to drink down the tobacco juice.
I know.
joe rogan
It's nasty.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You like it?
yannis pappas
I do love it.
joe rogan
Did you smoke cigarettes?
yannis pappas
Yeah, well, I stopped and then I started and my wife caught me with a coat.
You know, this is how you get caught when she just sent me a picture of the pack she found.
I was like, alright.
And then she gave me, you know, my daughter's not gonna...
unidentified
You have a child.
yannis pappas
Yeah, you have a child.
joe rogan
I get it.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, my wife says the same shit when I get in an ice bath for 20 minutes.
In the middle of the morning, I woke up to get up to work out, and she goes, are you okay?
I'm fine.
I feel great.
Don't worry about it.
yannis pappas
Yeah, I mean, that would be a funny way to go, though.
Just hypothermia.
unidentified
For me?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
For me, it'd be a perfect way to go.
Look at that fucking moron.
Look at him.
yannis pappas
Is that a flighter?
This is an all-in-one.
I think this one's out of juice.
joe rogan
Is it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, sorry.
yannis pappas
Thank you.
joe rogan
Son of a bitch.
You're fine, Jared?
jamie vernon
They have another article where they have the picture in the top on 1FC's website.
They have a picture of it.
unidentified
Yeah, that's it.
jamie vernon
It says top 10 submissions and it's not listed in the top 10 submissions.
unidentified
What?
Well...
jamie vernon
Unless it's one of these they don't have something else of, but...
joe rogan
Terminator guillotine.
Isn't that it?
jamie vernon
This?
joe rogan
What did I say?
jamie vernon
That's that.
joe rogan
Is that it?
unidentified
No...
joe rogan
No, it's not.
That's a different...
That's a guillotine.
That's like a guillotine from behind.
Seven...
It's not in the list?
jamie vernon
A gogoplata?
joe rogan
No, it's definitely not.
A gogoplata is your leg.
jamie vernon
I didn't think it was any of these.
Could be this maestro choke, but...
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
yannis pappas
It might be just people...
joe rogan
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
jamie vernon
Okay.
joe rogan
That's it.
That's it.
jamie vernon
So let me...
joe rogan
So pull up that guy's name.
So do you...
Yeah, that is it.
jamie vernon
Maestro Sajuev.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's it.
That's 100% it.
That's definitely...
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
jamie vernon
It's still like...
joe rogan
You fucks!
jamie vernon
I checked most of these videos and it wasn't in it.
yannis pappas
I tell you what...
joe rogan
You sons of bitches.
That is the choke.
yannis pappas
The way you described it is probably worth the wait.
joe rogan
It's not.
That's it.
That is it.
jamie vernon
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
There it is.
That's 100% it.
Okay, now you're gonna see.
yannis pappas
He's trying to find a G-spot.
joe rogan
So he catches the choke, right?
But then he turns him the other way.
yannis pappas
Look at this.
joe rogan
You gotta see it from other angles, though.
They'll show it in other angles.
Dude, I'm telling you, it is so nasty.
Look at this, look at this.
Look at that, right there.
yannis pappas
He's gonna pop his neck off.
joe rogan
Yeah, it looks like his head's gonna go flying off into the audience.
What is that gentleman's name?
Yousup.
Yousup Sadulev.
Yousup Sadulev versus Jordan Lucas.
Sorry, folks.
I'm so sorry that I dragged you through this.
If you're in your car, parked, waiting to go to work, going, what the fuck, Rogan?
yannis pappas
It was worth it, though.
joe rogan
I'm sorry.
yannis pappas
I'll tell you what.
joe rogan
Nasty, right?
yannis pappas
If there's ever a matchup between a dude named, what was his name?
Jordan what?
jamie vernon
Lucas.
yannis pappas
Lucas and the other guy's name is Vusnisni.
I'm going with the Vusnisni every time.
Those dudes are killers.
joe rogan
They're in a different world right now.
There's so many assassins from that part of the world that are coming over to either 1FC or the UFC. I mean, the UFC has so many guys from Dagestan that are just dominating.
I mean, first of all, you had Khabib.
Now you got Islam Makachev.
yannis pappas
And that other dude who's like lanky, the tall guy.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, Zabit Magomed Shapirov.
Yeah.
And then there's a fucking whole boatload of them ready to take over that are next.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're assassins, man.
yannis pappas
They just wrestle with bears and then they get off the plane.
joe rogan
Khabib goes, I'm a mountain man.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just saying that, I'm a mountain man.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're scary people, man.
yannis pappas
I remember when, yeah...
Somebody was like a fight in the street.
He's like, there's no street here.
I'm from Real Mountain.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
From Real Mountain.
joe rogan
What is street?
yannis pappas
You know, I have a street fight.
Like he was saying, it doesn't exist where you're from.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What is street fight?
yannis pappas
Street fight, where he comes from, is like fighting wild animals who have nature strength.
joe rogan
Well, those guys, from the moment they're young, they're just...
They're hard men.
This is just like...
This is the life.
That's the path.
It's combat sports.
You ever see him play basketball?
yannis pappas
Who?
Khabib?
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
No.
joe rogan
Will Harris, who is...
Well, who's got the best footage of that?
jamie vernon
I've seen a few more now where people are like, what the fuck are the rules of this game?
yannis pappas
Oh, I saw that!
I saw that where it was like jail rules, but like Dagestani jail rules where you could like kill a guy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
And they're just like, okay, side out.
jamie vernon
I got a video of Crow Cop doing it, I think.
They call it MMA basketball.
joe rogan
Yeah, Will Harris is the best.
Will Harris, who does the best MMA documentary footage in all of the sport.
He's the best.
And Will's been on the podcast before.
He does amazing shit.
I thought he worked for the UFC at one point in time because they use so much of his footage.
But he's an independent guy.
He's fucking phenomenal.
And he lived in Dagestan with these guys.
yannis pappas
I saw that.
The guy that did the series on it.
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
The docuseries.
joe rogan
Will's amazing.
He's amazing.
Well, Will filmed this thing that they do where they play basketball, but they wrestle with submissions.
yannis pappas
I saw it, yeah.
joe rogan
So they take each other down on the hardwood floor, and they get each other in arm bars, and if you tap, then they switch to a choke, and then you tap.
They're like, keep control of you.
It's like, what is this game?
yannis pappas
I don't know.
All I know is I see a pattern in every sport.
You see the Olympics now?
Like, do we have any Americans on top of any sport?
In basketball right now, it's like Giannis.
Giannis is the best player.
Then in the UFC, it's like all Nigerians are dominating.
joe rogan
Well, there's still some great fighters that are Americans.
There's great fighters from all nationalities, but there's no denying that in MMA there's a lot of Dagestanis.
Follow Will Harris Productions on Instagram.
That's his Instagram.
And his YouTube page is fucking amazing.
Anatomy of a Fighter.
He does a lot of great footage.
He gets right in there with these guys and he embeds himself in their camp.
So you get the kind of footage that's really not possible if you just have like...
You know, cursory coverage where you're just like, okay guys for the next couple hours gonna film you working out.
No, he's like there with them all the time and he's curating the best footage.
So there's no dribbling the ball.
They're trying to shoot the ball, but they're wrestling each other.
Look, they're throwing each other to the ground.
There's no fouls.
And then they have a mat over near where the fucking hoop is.
There's a wrestling mat.
So occasionally they take each other down.
They just decide to start wrestling on the mat.
It's like madness.
yannis pappas
It's a pretty nice shot by Khabib right there.
jamie vernon
Curry range.
joe rogan
Not a bad shot, but there's no dribbling.
yannis pappas
Yeah, no dribbling.
joe rogan
Which is funny.
jamie vernon
It's more like rugby.
yannis pappas
Yeah, it's more like a basketball rugby tie.
Yeah, this is like rugby right here.
joe rogan
Yeah, look at this.
Guys are blocking.
Yeah.
But the crazy thing is they're doing it on hardwood.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, they're not doing this on a wrestling mat.
yannis pappas
Now, are we sure that he didn't just do this because he knew it was an American journalist and they wanted to do, like, a diplomat?
Like, hey, we play basketball, too.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
They do that constantly, man.
They do it all the time.
There's a lot of footage of it.
yannis pappas
But I think about it.
It's like, um, Yannis and, uh, what's his name from Slovenia is, like, the best...
Everything is, like, the rest of the world is beating us.
Look now, our gymnasts are retiring because they're sad.
joe rogan
See, this is what everybody's saying about that girl.
I think a thing about that girl is her ADHD medication.
jamie vernon
The deepest I could find was people discussing that.
So then I outside looked up Ritalin in Japan.
Turns out that currently the only drug used to treat ADHD that is legal in Japan is called Concerta.
While Ritalin is available in Japan to treat sleep disorders, it's not prescribed for ADHD. Imagine giving you speed for sleep disorders.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
unidentified
What?
yannis pappas
But it's not illegal though, right?
jamie vernon
It says you maybe could get it.
It's very hard to get.
And then she could be not on it because it was hard for her to get a TUE. Because Japan rules Trump.
Olympic rules.
joe rogan
I think that's what's going on.
If you go to, I believe it was Chris Bell's Instagram page.
jamie vernon
I saw him tweet it.
joe rogan
I think you go to Big Strong Fast on Instagram.
I think Chris Bell covered it.
And he's discussing.
What exactly is happening with that girl?
So that's something that people needed to take it.
So many people are shitting on her online and calling her a coward.
It's disgusting.
Like, you have no idea what's going on in her head.
Is she supposed to play when she's suicidal?
Is she supposed to play when she's freaking out?
Is she supposed to do gymnastics when she's literally losing her mind?
When people get off prescription drugs, like, Jordan Peterson was fucked up for a whole year when he was trying to get off benzodiazepine.
I don't know what it's like to get off Ritalin, but I would imagine it's not fun.
yannis pappas
Right.
Yeah, it's withdrawal.
Who knows?
The stuff that that girl has done.
I mean, she's the goat by a lot.
I mean, she does stuff that's like superhuman.
joe rogan
Here it goes.
Simone Biles ADHD meds among common drugs banned from Olympics.
So Simone Biles has revealed that she has ADHD and takes Ritalin for it.
Correction, it was first told, Adderall in the article has looked it up.
It's Ritalin.
Very similar.
He says, sorry.
She received a therapeutic use exemption for it in 2016 and took home four gold medals in Rio.
Fast forward to Tokyo 2020 and Ritalin and Adderall is 100% illegal in Japan under all circumstances, including therapeutic use.
It is unfortunate because I'm sure we'd love to see her compete, but it makes sense that she couldn't focus.
That does make sense.
See, now, why are we not hearing this?
Why am I getting this only from Chris Bell, who, by the way, made an incredible documentary, Bigger, Stronger, Faster, which is a documentary on steroids, and then another documentary, Prescription Thugs, which is about prescription medication.
He does great shit.
yannis pappas
So I guess at this point it's either that's true or what Jamie pulled up before is true.
Like we're not sure because Jamie's saying the article he wrote is not illegal.
joe rogan
I bet it might be illegal for competition.
It might be illegal as a therapeutic use exemption.
You might not be able to get one of those.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Whatever Chris is saying.
But it's a complicated story.
I mean, this girl, she won four gold medals in Rio.
She's not a chicken.
yannis pappas
She's the best of all time by all people's accounts.
joe rogan
Aren't they changing rules because she can do shit that other people can't do?
yannis pappas
She's insane.
She like flies through the air.
It's incredible.
joe rogan
There was a video that was describing how they're literally altering the rules to make what she does less impressive.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Or scores less, whatever.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
I don't follow gymnastics.
yannis pappas
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, most people don't until the Olympics.
joe rogan
Right.
yannis pappas
That's the thing about Olympic sports.
These people, that must be a weird come down.
The whole world's watching you, and then you've got to go back to working at Panera Bread.
That's weird.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
You're just a swimmer or like a shot put guy.
You win a gold and then you're just back to handing out buzzers.
joe rogan
How much money do you make for a shot put?
yannis pappas
I don't think they make anything from the Olympics.
joe rogan
You win the Olympics and then what?
You just teach shot put to people that also can't make money?
yannis pappas
I have this new sports podcast.
joe rogan
You do?
yannis pappas
What's it called?
Undefeated.
I'm sorry, it's not called Undefeated.
joe rogan
You're lying.
yannis pappas
Sorry, I had a little...
unidentified
Who's lying?
yannis pappas
No, it's called Unleashed.
I'm sorry.
It's called Unleashed for Bad MGM with me and Olivia Harland-Decker.
And she's a sports journalist.
But we interviewed Kerry Strung.
joe rogan
Who is that?
yannis pappas
She's the one in 96 who her ankle was done, she limped in, and then she needed a certain score for them to win gold, and then they won gold.
joe rogan
She did it with a bad ankle?
jamie vernon
A lot of people are comparing the situation.
joe rogan
Oh, saying that that girl gutted it out?
jamie vernon
Well, she was forced to by her coach, and then they're going to like, that's the whole bad coaching situation with gymnastics.
yannis pappas
Yeah, we interviewed her.
She was all business.
Wasn't a good interview?
Huh?
joe rogan
Wasn't fun?
yannis pappas
I'm just saying it was all business.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
yannis pappas
It was just a serious kind of interview.
joe rogan
Was it live in person?
yannis pappas
No, it was Zoom.
That's a problem.
It's always weird in Zoom.
joe rogan
Zoom's too disconnected.
yannis pappas
It was great.
But she was saying that...
Have you seen Athlete A? The documentary?
joe rogan
No.
yannis pappas
Dude, it's called Athlete A? It's disturbing.
These girls are abused.
That dude, Nassar, molested for 20 years with impunity.
joe rogan
That's the doctor.
yannis pappas
The doctor from, I believe, Michigan.
He's on Team USA. And again, it was like this...
You know, bureaucratic cover-up.
Like, there was complaints about him, and they covered it up.
They, you know, they overlooked these allegations.
And it was like, the dude was like a hardcore pedophile who was, like, molesting these women.
I mean, these girls.
I mean, a lot of them are girls.
He's like, they're girls.
I mean, they're young children.
He was, like, inserting fingers in their anus and in their vaginas.
And for years and years and years and years and years...
And, you know, Simone Biles was part of that.
All these girls testified against him.
And that was before...
Kerry Strong's era didn't really deal with that, but they dealt with the Carolis, who were like these...
What are they, Romanian or something?
Like the husband, wife...
And they were like abusive and brutal.
But when we interviewed Carrie, she was like, you know, it was like she didn't seem like she was bothered by it.
But these girls go through a lot, dude.
They sacrifice a lot.
And they're like pushed and abused with their bodies.
And so Carrie Strong, the documentary portrays that moment, the Athlete A documentary portrays that moment as like an abusive moment because her ankle was hurt.
You know, and then she came down on the ankle and she was really hurt, but then like you can see the coach, the Carolis, they were like making her go back out there for that next, for the, what is it, the vault or whatever it's called.
Yeah, whatever.
joe rogan
And she did it.
yannis pappas
And she did it and she got the score.
As it turned out, she didn't even need that score for some reason.
I don't understand gymnastics that well, but she did a heroic thing on that ankle and she had to be carried off and then put in a stand.
She was really hurt.
So the documentary portrays it as abusive, but when we interviewed Kerri Strunk, she kind of portrayed it as like she had to reach down deep and do it.
So it's interesting.
joe rogan
Well, that's a good way to look at it.
You know, that's an empowered person, right?
An empowered person looks at it like they figured out a way to summon the strength.
A disempowered person says, it was abusive.
I was abused.
They told me to do it.
I shouldn't have done it.
Even though we won the goal, I shouldn't have done it.
But what if her ankle's permanently damaged?
What if you're limping for the rest of your life because some asshole coach wants you to do something?
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
So you can get a piece of metal around a cloth string.
yannis pappas
Right.
That's no good either.
joe rogan
It's weird.
yannis pappas
Especially when you're making a kid.
These gymnasts are like 14. Yeah.
Making them make that decision.
I mean, they don't really have agency at that age.
And I think that's what made the Carolis...
So controversial is because they were like robots for this husband-wife coach team.
And they pushed them really hard.
They separated them from their parents.
I mean, to compete on that level and do that type of stuff, who knows what kind of...
Sacrifices and sort of pushing that they need that may, you know, mentally too.
I mean, you watch some of what they do, you're going like, how's that humanly possible?
They're like landing on a bar this...
It's like six inches wide, and they're flipping on it and stuff like that.
I mean, I'd have no dick if I did that.
I'd just fall on my dick.
joe rogan
A lot of dudes don't do it, do they?
yannis pappas
The dudes do it, too.
joe rogan
The flips and everything on the balance ball?
yannis pappas
Oh, they do all that shit, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah?
yannis pappas
Dudes do all that.
joe rogan
Why do you only see girls on TV do it?
yannis pappas
Because it's hotter.
unidentified
It's hotter.
yannis pappas
Yeah, I think it's hotter.
But they're girls, you fucking creeper.
How dare you say hotter?
Well, some of them are 24. Oh, okay.
joe rogan
How long is it 24?
yannis pappas
One of them was...
joe rogan
46, right?
yannis pappas
The old one was 46. And that's old for gymnastics, but...
joe rogan
That's old for humans.
yannis pappas
Nah, 46?
joe rogan
46?
To be doing that kind of shit?
yannis pappas
Oh, to be doing that kind of shit, yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, your joints, 46 years of flipping and landing and all the abuse it takes.
She looked pretty fucking good for a 46-year-old.
yannis pappas
She looked good, but next to those girls, she looked ancient, which is because, you know, she was...
joe rogan
Because she is.
yannis pappas
Compared to them, yeah.
joe rogan
Compared to them.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
For that sport?
yannis pappas
For that sport.
joe rogan
Like as a fighter, a 46-year-old fighter, Jesus Christ, don't die in there.
yannis pappas
Right.
George Foreman was doing it in his 40s.
joe rogan
Yes, he was.
yannis pappas
He was doing it.
joe rogan
He won the heavyweight title at 45. He did.
Against Michael Moore, who was a beast.
yannis pappas
Who was a beast, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
And so he can be done.
joe rogan
How about Hopkins?
Hopkins is a world champion deep into his 40s.
yannis pappas
Almost 50, I think.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was beating world-class guys at 50 years old.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
He had that defense.
He just had that style where he figured out how to not get hit.
joe rogan
He was so disciplined, too.
Like, never fucked his body up.
Never ate processed foods.
Always exercised.
Never got out of shape.
Still to this day.
yannis pappas
Tom Brady, 43, 44. That's unheard of.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
To be still competing at that level.
joe rogan
I know.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
He doesn't eat anything inflammatory either.
He's got...
He must drink adrenochrome, too.
There must be an Adrena clone.
They have like a Slurpee machine.
joe rogan
Did you see that fucking ridiculous moment where Biden gets interviewed?
They're asking him a question and he said, well, the Republicans think we drink baby blood.
yannis pappas
Right, right.
joe rogan
Like what?
Did you see that?
yannis pappas
I did see it.
joe rogan
It's like, what are you saying, man?
Why are you even bringing that up?
yannis pappas
Right.
Thou doth protest too much.
joe rogan
That guy's lost.
Yeah.
He's lost.
He's sad.
yannis pappas
He's, uh...
joe rogan
President Kamala.
yannis pappas
President Kamala.
unidentified
Say it.
yannis pappas
You know what's funny is it's sad because Kamala...
She was one of the first people skeptical of the vaccine.
I'm not taking that Trump vaccine.
joe rogan
Have you seen that video of them?
Have you ever seen that video?
Where they all talk about it?
Joe Biden talks about it, not taking it.
How has this been vetted?
Have you seen that video?
yannis pappas
I might have, I don't remember it, but yeah, I mean, everything has consequences, man.
You know, people do things for the short-term advantage for them, but then, you know, long-term, they're going like, how come people aren't taking the vaccine?
It's like, dude, you were saying the vaccine was dangerous fucking...
joe rogan
When it was Trump's.
yannis pappas
When it was Trump's.
So you're the first ones to politicize it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'll find it.
unidentified
I got a video in here of it.
yannis pappas
Kamala's, her approval rating is not high though, even amongst the Dems.
It shouldn't be.
joe rogan
It'd be even lower if they went into her past.
They looked at her, what she's done in terms of prosecuting people.
What Tulsi Gabbard said during the debates, the vice presidential debates, the president's debates, it's 100% true.
What she said is 100% true.
She kept people after the time they were supposed to be released.
And then Josh Dubin on this podcast talked about how she withheld evidence that would have exonerated prisoners.
She fought to stop DNA evidence from being introduced into a case that would have exonerated defendants.
yannis pappas
Brutal.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
That was her DA's office, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Like she was the DA in San Francisco?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, look, man, it's a sport and they try to win.
That's what it's like.
When you are dealing with someone who's a prosecuting attorney, what those people are doing is trying to win.
That's what they're trying to do.
That's what they do.
They win.
And the way to win is by whatever means necessary, whatever means you have at your disposal.
One of the best ways to do that is to, you know, if you have some evidence that will make a guy seem innocent, hide that shit.
Put it away.
Get rid of it.
That's the gross thing about cops in general, is that cops are trying to get, like a lot of cops, We'll talk about this, and I don't think it's supposed to be legal, but they have mandates.
You have a quota of so many people you're supposed to arrest.
And I always said, what if nobody did any crime for six months?
What would they do?
What if all crime stopped and the cops have these quotas?
How would the cops be treated?
b-real
Would they say, hey, good job, everybody?
joe rogan
Would they be treated like firefighters?
Because firefighters, they take these fucking long 24-hour shifts, they hang out in the fire department, they lift weights, they cook, they hang out.
yannis pappas
They're good cooks, too, which is funny.
Oh, a lot of them are Ruby cooks.
Like a real tough guy being like, let's do it tonight's Chicken French Hayes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And they put a little parsley on it.
yannis pappas
Yeah, tonight we're doing my mother's recipe.
Yeah.
Yeah, they don't do anything.
joe rogan
But no one's saying, hey, you've got to put out a certain amount of fires every day.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Because they're hoping there's no fires.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
But they're never hoping there's no crime.
unidentified
Right.
yannis pappas
No, I remember that was like a big problem in Ferguson is that they were like harassing those residents to fill quotas, you know, jaywalking and bullshit.
That if you did that in a white neighborhood, they'd be like, do you know how my father, like they wouldn't go for it.
joe rogan
Cops in a lot of places are glorified revenue collectors because they're trying to get money for speeding.
They're trying to get money for all these different things.
It's not just as simple as you're trying to stop crime.
I'm here to serve and protect.
That's not what it is.
yannis pappas
That's a great way to put it.
They are.
They're kind of there to get money for the city in some ways, and they're instructed to do so.
joe rogan
How much money is generated in a place like Los Angeles just from speeding tickets?
It's probably absurd.
It's probably absurd.
It's probably off the charts.
Speeding tickets, traffic violations.
yannis pappas
Right, right.
jamie vernon
Los Angeles, I think, might be higher with parking than speeding.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
They're brutal.
They're brutal.
yannis pappas
They do that in New York, too.
New York is crazy with the parking.
joe rogan
Oh, they're fucking horrific.
yannis pappas
Yeah, the street sweeping scam, where they just push around dust, they make you double park on another side, and then the street sweeper comes by and you just push his leaves around.
And you gotta wake up early enough to move your car.
If not, you're paying a ticket.
joe rogan
Yeah, living in the city like that, parking on the street is rough.
yannis pappas
Oh, dude, now that I live in the country, I can't even believe I used to do that.
joe rogan
Where are you living now?
Don't tell specifically.
yannis pappas
Yeah, I'm like in the country, like upstate.
unidentified
In the woods.
yannis pappas
Yeah, in the woods.
joe rogan
The forest.
yannis pappas
Yeah, the forest.
joe rogan
Where the rocks are.
The big rocks.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the trees.
How far is it to you to get it in the city?
yannis pappas
About an hour fifteen.
But I got bears.
I'm living there.
Horses everywhere.
There's bears.
Bear shit in my backyard.
joe rogan
You ever eat a bear?
yannis pappas
No.
I have not eaten a bear.
joe rogan
Bears taste good.
It tastes good.
It's odd.
yannis pappas
It's oddly good.
You're ready to survive.
I don't know how to eat a bear.
joe rogan
It's not hard to eat a bear.
I could cook some bear for you.
yannis pappas
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
You come over there.
I don't have any bear.
yannis pappas
Would you do it on the Traeger Grill?
joe rogan
100%.
Right.
100%.
yannis pappas
With some jalapenos?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I'd want to make sure it's cooked.
It's got to be above 145 for a long period of time.
The best way to do bear is to, apparently, I'm learning this, my friend Clay Newcomb.
Schooled me on this as well.
The thing you have to worry about is trichinosis.
Anytime you're eating an animal...
yannis pappas
Right, the predator thing.
joe rogan
Yes.
So with trichinosis, you want to make sure that you're cooking it to at least 145 degrees.
Really, it's the same thing as pork.
They want you to cook it to 165, although they've kind of backed that down with domestic pork because they really don't have an opportunity to get trichinosis.
They're not out in the wild, but wild pork, you definitely want to get it a little higher.
And you do sous-vide.
So you take it in a sous-vide bag and you, you know what sous-vide is?
You know what that means?
Sous-vide is, they take these bags, like a plastic bag, you seal the meat in a bag.
Generally you do it with some seasoning and maybe some butter or something like that.
And then you dip it in water and you put a wand in the water.
See if you pull up Joule sous-vide.
I forget how you spell it.
yannis pappas
Wait, so there's a risk if you have bear or wild that you'll die from the trigonosis?
joe rogan
No, you won't die.
It sucks.
yannis pappas
You get real sick.
joe rogan
You get real achy and your muscles hurt and it eventually goes away.
But a couple of my buddies got trigonosis.
He said it was not that bad.
But he said it's not fun.
But he said it's like illuminating.
Like, oh, it's not what I thought it was.
But if you ever ate my friend, you would get trichinosis.
yannis pappas
If I ate your friend?
joe rogan
Yeah, you'd get it from him, because it stays in the body, like these little spores.
There it is.
So that's J-O-U-L-E. I got one of these things.
They're awesome.
And so you put in a pot of water, And then you heat the water.
The water heats to 145 degrees.
And you could cook it at that temperature for hours.
Some guys do it like they'll do 120 for like a good piece of like a venison shank where it's like a tough piece of meat.
You put it in the sous vide and you'll cook it like a venison shoulder, for instance, which does a lot of...
Fascia and connective tissue.
You cook it at 125 degrees for 12, 13 hours, maybe more.
And then all that stuff breaks down and becomes incredibly tender.
Then when you take it out, you sear it on the outside.
You take a cast iron frying pan and you put some lard in there or some tallow, some beef tallow.
Sear it on there and then you cut it off and slice it and oh my god So tender and delicious because it's just been sitting at that temperature that perfect temperature where it's cooking It doesn't overcook because it doesn't it can't get any warmer, right?
Like if you cook something on a grill you're cooking it at 265 degrees you eat a 265 degrees piece of meat It's done.
It's fucked up, right?
That's shoe leather So at 265, you want to have a thermometer in that bitch to make sure it gets to like 120, then you pull it, and then you sear it on the outside.
That's what I do.
But with the sous vide, you sit it in there for hours and hours and hours, and it becomes just like a butter.
So tender.
yannis pappas
Just falls apart in your mouth.
joe rogan
Yeah, and then when you get it out of there, then you sear it.
Or you could take it on one of those Traeger Rangers, where it has the flat cast iron, flat thing, and you sear it on that bad boy.
yannis pappas
I feel bad eating a bear, though.
joe rogan
Fuck bears.
They eat kids.
yannis pappas
They do.
joe rogan
Bears are assholes.
yannis pappas
It's not their fault, though.
joe rogan
They eat their own kids.
How about that?
unidentified
Do they?
joe rogan
Fuck yeah.
I watched it.
I've seen them eat babies.
Well, I haven't seen them eat babies, but I've seen babies that they ate.
I've seen paws from cubs.
yannis pappas
Yeah, I saw this one video of a polar bear just, like, chasing...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, a little baby polar bear.
yannis pappas
And the mother was trying to, like, stop it, but it was like...
joe rogan
No, cannibalism runs rampant, but it's...
yannis pappas
It's because they're hungry, though.
It's hard to...
That's the thing about nature.
Nature documentaries, they portray them as, like, the predators as, like, mean, and you're always rooting for...
Like the antelopes or whatever, but they fail most of the time.
Predators fail most of the time.
unidentified
Oh yeah.
yannis pappas
So if you put it in that context, you'd almost be happy for them when they got one.
Because a million of them got away that you don't see.
The media, I'm telling you, the media.
joe rogan
It's the fucking media.
yannis pappas
It's the fucking media.
joe rogan
But it's also, you have to have the predators, otherwise the prey animals would overrun the earth if nothing's eating them.
You have situations like New Zealand, where they have to fly over these herds of invasive species animals that they reintroduced to this country.
They introduced a bunch of stags and all these different animals, and occasionally they get so overpopulated, they have to fly over and gun them down from helicopters.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Because there's no predators.
yannis pappas
Wild hogs in Texas, right?
There's just too many of them.
joe rogan
Exactly.
I got a video I'll show you of this mountain lion trying to chase down, I think it was a, I think it's a wild sheep, and catches it, and as it's catching it, it goes over the side of a cliff with this fucking thing.
It's wild.
yannis pappas
Mountain lions are killed wholesale because they take your dog, right?
joe rogan
They're not killed wholesale in California.
In California, they just let them run rampant.
Where they're killed a lot is in Texas.
In Texas, you don't even have to have a license.
You don't have to have anything.
You just whack them.
yannis pappas
They're big, though, mountain lions.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, man.
That's the video, Jamie.
You're the man.
Rewind it from a different.
So he's chasing after it, he catches him, and watch him go off the side of the cliff.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Oh, it's not a mountain lion, it's a snow leopard?
Watch this.
unidentified
Boom!
joe rogan
Boom!
Fuck, 400 feet off a cliff.
yannis pappas
They're both dead, right?
joe rogan
No, the cat still survives, man.
That's what's crazy.
Look at the end, the cat still has him.
That is just...
I mean, imagine that's your life.
That's how you eat.
yannis pappas
It's gotta be.
joe rogan
Boom!
I mean, look how he hits the ground.
Cats are so fucking resilient.
They are really amazing animals.
yannis pappas
They're like the most beautiful killers.
joe rogan
Well, they kill.
The thing about wolves and bears and a lot of those other animals, they hold things down to start eating.
Cats kill first.
yannis pappas
Which is cool.
That's kind of cool.
joe rogan
It's nice.
yannis pappas
When you watch hyenas start to eat something alive, you're going like, that's a little bit of a dick move.
joe rogan
A huge dick move.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Komodo dragons, that's a dick move.
joe rogan
They bite you and wait.
yannis pappas
Yeah, they wait and they hang out.
joe rogan
They know that the poison from their saliva, all the fucking horrible shit inside their mouth, it slowly starts to...
I forget if Komodo dragons have toxic saliva, if it's a poison, like if it's a venom, or if it's actually just- I think it's a bacteria.
Yeah, it's one or the other.
yannis pappas
They're just filthy.
joe rogan
Disgusting.
yannis pappas
Naughty bitches, yeah.
joe rogan
Slimy fucks.
They got slime coming out of their mouths.
yannis pappas
Yeah, they're brutal, dude.
joe rogan
Ever seen their mouth when they open their mouth up and it's just dripping slime like that venom in that cartoon, that Marvel Comics guy, Venom?
unidentified
Like, bah!
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
With the teeth and the fucking slime.
yannis pappas
They're evil.
joe rogan
It's both venom and bacteria.
Oh, double whammy.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
The reptiles just don't give a fuck, man.
They don't have feelings.
joe rogan
It's horrible.
yannis pappas
Cats neither.
jamie vernon
It was venom, not toxic bacteria.
yannis pappas
Oh, so I'm wrong.
It is venom.
joe rogan
Well, I guarantee you, though, if you put a swab in their mouth, it's not going to come back clean.
It's not Purell in there.
yannis pappas
No.
jamie vernon
It says blood poisoning caused by multiple strains of bacteria in the dragon's saliva.
yannis pappas
That is bacteria.
jamie vernon
Oh, it's a long thought.
Sorry, a long thought.
Now a new study says.
yannis pappas
They're vicious.
They stalk you, right?
Then they'll bite, and then just follow you around until you start to get paralyzed from their poison, and then they just start eating you alive.
It's tough to watch.
joe rogan
It's a rough life.
yannis pappas
Yeah, they're scary.
joe rogan
Sharon Stone's boyfriend got bit on the foot by a Komodo dragon once at the zoo.
yannis pappas
What was he doing that close to a Komodo dragon?
joe rogan
Not only was he close to a Komodo dragon, but he had his shoes off.
I forget what happened, but I think the Komodo dragon thought that his sock, like his white sock, was a rabbit or something like that and bit his foot and fucked him up.
jamie vernon
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
So he had to go through what the prey animals go through.
joe rogan
What's that, Jamie?
jamie vernon
This is not for viewing online, but you guys can enjoy it with me.
joe rogan
Why can't we view it online?
jamie vernon
Because it's very graphic and not on video.
joe rogan
Is that a monkey?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, bro.
jamie vernon
It's still alive.
It grabs its head here.
joe rogan
Oh, go from the beginning.
jamie vernon
I did, I did, I did.
joe rogan
Take it from the beginning, please.
jamie vernon
That's the beginning right there.
joe rogan
So he just grabs him by the head.
The monkey's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And just starts swallowing.
The monkey's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me get a do-over.
yannis pappas
Let's talk for a second.
joe rogan
Look how he's swallowing it, too.
Just choking it back.
Look at the monkey's hands.
He's still moving his hands.
unidentified
Like, fuck, fuck, fuck.
joe rogan
The thing about monkeys, too, is they're smart.
So the monkey knows what's going on.
It is very much alive.
Look at his hand!
His hand coming out of the mouth.
Like, hey, let me out, bro.
yannis pappas
Oh, God.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
That is incredible, dude.
yannis pappas
They are...
joe rogan
Look at the eyes.
Just soulless creeps.
yannis pappas
Cold.
joe rogan
All they're there is to clean up.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're there to clean up.
They're there to make sure that things don't overpopulate.
That's literally their role in nature.
And that's what's so fascinating about nature is that the ecosystem, and that there's a...
Look at his fucking heartless eyes, right?
jamie vernon
It's just the teeth stick, or the hands and the tail stick.
joe rogan
Oh, look at the foot.
The foot with the thumb.
jamie vernon
Like you're next.
yannis pappas
Yes, you're next.
jamie vernon
Kid blink.
yannis pappas
Yeah, they're the most terrifying to me.
joe rogan
Reptiles.
Yeah, reptiles, lizards, you know, crocodiles.
Crocodiles, I think, are the most terrifying because they're so aggressive and they move fast.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
But these things are pretty fucking gross.
Look at that fucking thing, too.
Look at his neck.
Just all filled up with monkey.
yannis pappas
Yeah, he's full.
He's got the itis now.
joe rogan
He's got the tail popping.
Look at the slime.
That fucking gross juicy slime that comes out of his mouth.
He's still got the tail out.
He hasn't finished chewing.
yannis pappas
He's drooling like a baby teething.
joe rogan
Yeah, he can't fit it in all the way.
Look.
Oh, God.
He's so disgusting.
yannis pappas
Just blood on the side of his face.
Clean yourself up.
joe rogan
I wonder what they taste like.
yannis pappas
Monkeys?
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
Dragons.
Dragons.
yannis pappas
You're definitely going to have to...
joe rogan
I wonder if it's delicious.
jamie vernon
Caught a deer.
That must have been...
yannis pappas
Oh, yeah.
jamie vernon
I don't know if I could chase them down.
yannis pappas
Dude, there's videos of them with, like, big buffalo or something just, like, eating a part of it.
joe rogan
Just chewing punks out of it.
yannis pappas
You just watch the buffalo just looking around.
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
He's pulling intestines out.
yannis pappas
I mean, the Komodo dragons could care less.
They're just biting.
joe rogan
This guy had a really good point.
He was talking about cows, and he was like, people say it's unnatural to eat cows.
He goes, no, it's very, very natural to eat cows.
He goes, if you left cows wild, none of them live to be old age.
He goes, none of them die of old age.
Zero percent.
All of them get eaten and killed by predators, and it's a slow, horrible, painful death.
He goes, when people raise cows, especially if people raise cows humanely, he goes, those cows live a wonderful life and they have one bad day.
jamie vernon
I don't want to focus on this, but right here, he's eating a boar.
It looks like he's sniffing out a particular part and then starts going after the incident.
Do you know what it might be?
Like liver?
Probably.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's looking for the guts.
yannis pappas
Maybe he's just a foodie and he wants the guts.
He wants the good stuff.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
Oh, he's alive!
Of course it is.
yannis pappas
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, he's holding down his legs.
yannis pappas
It's just a rough day.
joe rogan
Guts first.
Oh, Jesus fucking Christ.
And the thing is already poisoned, right?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's already bit it.
Oh, Jesus.
And look at it, breathing.
It could get up and run away if it wasn't for the poison.
And now he's got a goddamn hole in it.
unidentified
Oh!
joe rogan
We're so soft, Giannis.
We're so lucky.
We're so lucky that people before us figured out houses and spears and guns and weapons.
You know, they say that the reason why little kids are scared of monsters and not child molesters or bullets or car accidents, little kids are scared of monsters because there's like a deep primate response To cats.
We're afraid of big cats at night because that's what killed our ancestors.
yannis pappas
Interesting.
joe rogan
And that information is in a child's brain.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
The same way like a dog knows to piss on a tree.
You don't have to tell a dog.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Right?
Dog sees a squirrel, immediately goes after him.
There's like some deep-set instinct.
Even my dog, which is like the friendliest, sweetest dog, my golden retriever, he sees a squirrel and he's like...
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He wants to go after that fucking squirrel.
He can't help it.
Oh, Jesus, Jamie, why?
yannis pappas
It's a piñata.
There's a lot of candy in there.
joe rogan
Oh, Jesus, look at it.
It's still alive, and he just pulled out a hunk of his guts.
jamie vernon
That's a gnarly video for everyone to watch later.
yannis pappas
Hyenas do that, too.
joe rogan
What's the title of the video?
jamie vernon
Komodo dragon eats wild boar alive, not for sensitive viewers.
And it was posted recently.
joe rogan
Meanwhile, why is that okay on YouTube, but you can't have vaccine disinformation?
You can't have anything to say.
Up until recently, you couldn't have anything to say that the virus came from a lab.
They would pull it down.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
They let those up now.
I wonder if they re-put them back.
All those YouTube videos they took down because they said the virus leaked from a lab.
yannis pappas
Well, Facebook didn't allow you for months.
They were like deactivating your accounts and stuff like that.
Yeah.
joe rogan
For the truth.
yannis pappas
And then Jon Stewart comes on and does that great joke.
So funny on Colbert.
You can see Colbert doesn't know what to do.
joe rogan
He's like panicking.
yannis pappas
Yeah, he's panicking.
joe rogan
Isn't it disappointing?
yannis pappas
It was disappointing.
It was.
You could probably see censors going, can't compute.
Jon Stewart, liberal hero, saying this, can't compute.
Meltdown.
What do we do here?
Can't censor it.
joe rogan
I know.
Colbert is essentially trying to kill the bit.
He's trying to kill the bit.
yannis pappas
He's trying to kill the bit.
joe rogan
If that was your friend, Like, if you went on a guy's podcast, and you were saying something like that, and you saw him try to kill the bit, you'd be like, what?
Like, if you and Joe List are sitting there, and Joe List starts to kill your bit, you'd be like, Joe, what the fuck are you doing?
yannis pappas
Stepping on my shit, yeah.
joe rogan
What the fuck are you doing here?
Stepping on this great bit.
yannis pappas
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
You know?
If you're sitting there across from Ari Shafir, and you guys are talking, and Ari starts killing your bit, you'd be like, bro.
yannis pappas
I'd be excited that he wasn't saying something else about a celebrity.
joe rogan
Or pulling his dick out.
yannis pappas
Yeah, he asked me, he asked me recently, he's like, dude, why do you go to Austin so much?
I said, dude, because, you know, being friends with you is dangerous.
I gotta dip out of town once in a while when the, when the Bloods and Crips get hot on me.
joe rogan
He's going to come here too.
He knows it.
He was here a couple weeks ago.
He's like, it's fucking great here.
I go, yeah, it's fun, right?
yannis pappas
Think about it.
You can't go to LA, so might as well come here.
I hope you never played for a team here, right?
joe rogan
No.
I have news about the club I'm opening.
I'll tell you as soon as we get off the air, but we got good news.
I got some good shit happening.
yannis pappas
I'd like to hear it, yeah.
joe rogan
God, it took forever.
And I'll explain everything.
I got to do it off air, unfortunately.
I'll explain everything because I should have had a club open already.
The idea was to be open July 4th weekend.
yannis pappas
Right.
unidentified
But, phew.
joe rogan
Becoming a club owner is fucking complicated.
And I used to tell comics all the time, please be nice to these club owners.
Because they always treated the club owners like...
In the beginning it was like, you know, oh, they're not paying me what I'm worth.
Or they won't headline me.
Or they won't give me a chance.
Or they don't give me any work.
And then eventually it became, you know, like...
When you start doing well, you realize, like, oh, this is their business.
This is how they make money.
You should look at it correctly.
And what I always tell them, like, you don't want to be a club owner, right?
Who wants to deal with us?
I don't want to deal with a bunch of comics.
yannis pappas
Craziest people.
joe rogan
You want to deal with fucking just wild people that want to do drugs and stay up all night and they show up the next day and they forget their jokes.
Come on.
Do you want to deal with that?
No.
And you got to sell tickets to these fucking crazy people?
You're going to get tickets to see these wild people tell nutty jokes?
No!
Be nice to them!
You don't want to be a club owner.
Now that I'm becoming a club owner, I'm realizing it's even more complicated than that.
The business end of it, just commercial real estate, the regulations, the hoops, environmental concerns.
I'll tell you about that.
We'll talk about that after the show.
Because that's what happened with me.
Like, environmental issues.
You're like, what?
yannis pappas
Especially for you.
I mean, you're a busy guy.
So this is like one of many things you do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But it's important to me.
It's very important.
Part of the whole project about moving to Austin, I had this plan.
And one big part of the plan It's not just get, you know, a podcast studio established, get everything going, help all the other comics out and try to boost everybody's signal.
The big plan is to have, like, a fantastic comedy club, which only exists for comedy.
I just want to break even.
I'm not trying to make any money with this comedy club.
I want it to be the best place for comics to perform, where you make great money, where you have a great time, everybody takes care of you from top to bottom, and there's no worry about cutting corners or pinching pennies.
There's none of that.
There's none of that.
Everyone's treated like fucking gold.
And I want everybody to feel so comfortable.
That's my goal.
It's my 100% everybody, from management to bartenders to everybody.
You're treated like gold.
You make great money.
You got great healthcare coverage.
Everything's taken care of.
yannis pappas
Healthcare coverage.
joe rogan
I want to take care of comics.
I want to take care of comics.
I know so many comics that don't have healthcare.
I want to give them healthcare.
I want to just across the board.
My whole goal is to not make money.
My whole goal is to not lose money.
That's it.
yannis pappas
Well, you don't need...
I mean, technically, you're in a good position to say that.
joe rogan
But that's why I want to do it that way.
yannis pappas
It's a beautiful thing, man.
You've helped so many comics as this.
If it wasn't for this show, there's no other alternative for guys who really want to be funny.
joe rogan
To get wild.
yannis pappas
To get wild and be uncensored and be funny.
There's no platform.
You've done that for comics.
It's a great thing.
joe rogan
It's because I don't listen.
Listen to the people that...
When you go through steps of progress and steps of financial success and popularity success, it comes to a point in time where you go into this rarefied air where everybody starts to play it safe.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
They go, hey, we're dealing with very large sponsors.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
There's a lot of money at stake here, and I don't think you should have Alex Jones on anymore.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And I'm like, nope, he's coming on next week and we're getting drunk!
unidentified
Woo!
joe rogan
And you gotta do it that way.
It's the same thing with Kill Tony.
I tell everybody, like Fitzsimmons was on yesterday.
We were talking about how he did Kill Tony on Monday night and there's a guy in the fucking green room handing out mushrooms.
Everybody's doing mushrooms.
Greg got so high.
He goes, I didn't even know what I was saying while I was saying it.
Everybody's barbecued.
They went on stage.
This guy, Hans Kim, who came on the show last night, was fucking hilarious.
This young kid who's on Kill Tony all the time.
He opened up for me last night.
He's going on tonight at the same thing.
He met some girl.
They said at the show, they said, who wants to have sex with this man?
And this girl came on stage.
She goes, I'll have sex with him.
And so her boyfriend was there.
And she goes, the boyfriend's cool.
He just wants to be there while it happens.
Like, what?
So he and the girl sneak off into a fucking janitor's closet and fuck while the show's going on.
This is happening.
This is wild shit.
The jokes are hilarious, but there's chaos.
It's chaos.
But everybody's nice.
They're all nice.
They're all nice people having a good time.
And that's what I want to cultivate.
I want to cultivate wild comedy.
Wild shit.
Be nice.
yannis pappas
Everybody's nice.
Somebody gets fucked in the bathroom while the show's going on.
joe rogan
Everybody's willing.
It's like they decided to do it.
They had a good time.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fun.
yannis pappas
Wow, that's a wild night.
That's a wild show.
joe rogan
It's the cornerstone for comedy in Austin.
It really is.
Because it allows open micers to have this unique opportunity to do one minute in front of Ron White or Tim Dillon.
Have you done it?
yannis pappas
I haven't done it yet, yeah.
joe rogan
God damn, you gotta do it.
yannis pappas
He's asked me about it.
Yeah, I gotta do it.
joe rogan
Next time you come on, let's organize it so that you'll come on on a Monday and you and I'll go on together.
yannis pappas
Oh, that'd be great.
joe rogan
That's what we'll do.
We'll have you on next time.
You'll do the show on Monday and then Monday night we'll go and do Kill Tony.
yannis pappas
That sounds great.
joe rogan
Fuck, it's the cornerstone of this community.
It really is.
unidentified
Right.
yannis pappas
It gives comics a real opportunity.
joe rogan
And they can really, like William Montgomery, he's opened for me before.
Genevieve, she's opened for me before.
Hans Kim, he opened for me last night.
A lot of these comics.
David Lucas.
yannis pappas
David Lucas is funny.
joe rogan
David Lucas is a killer.
He's a killer and he's a good dude.
He's a fun dude to be around.
He's a good dude, too, because Tony and him crack on each other, and when Tony gets him, he laughs loud.
Loud and hard, which is a sign of a good guy.
A guy who takes a hit and laughs.
Tony will say something to him, and he's like...
It's just, it's a beautiful environment where comics get a chance.
And comics have gone on to have legitimate, like Ally Makovsky.
She's got a legitimate career.
She's headlining.
She goes on the road.
She's headlining now.
It's amazing.
And it started out from Kill Tony.
yannis pappas
Yeah, and it's cool that it's live and it's comedy fans.
Yeah.
It's not on TV. It's kind of grassroots, which is how things go now.
joe rogan
Well, they tried to do it on Comedy Central for a while, and Comedy Central didn't take it.
And I'm glad they didn't, because they would have changed it.
Probably.
Look, they have executives, and those executives have mortgages, and they have families, and they have kids in private school.
And they don't want to fuck it up.
They don't want anybody fucking anybody in some janitor's closet.
yannis pappas
Right.
unidentified
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
joe rogan
Don't say that!
unidentified
Right, right.
joe rogan
Can you edit that out?
Can you edit that part out?
unidentified
Right, right.
joe rogan
Where Hans fucked the girl in the closet?
yannis pappas
Right, right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
That wouldn't happen on there.
joe rogan
That's the thing about having a podcast like this.
It's like if you do it like this the entire time and never stop doing it the same way.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Just never change how you do it.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's hard because you get a lot of resistance.
There's a lot of resistance.
But you gotta cut all that resistance out.
You gotta figure it out a way.
I have the best managers.
That's one of the beautiful things about it.
The managers know.
They know who I am.
They know what I do.
They love me.
I love them.
And it just works.
yannis pappas
Right.
They don't try to tell you anything.
joe rogan
They don't tell me anything.
And they take care of everything.
They take care of all the business aspect of it and leave me going.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
And I've been with them for so long.
I've been with my manager for 30 years.
yannis pappas
That's almost unique.
joe rogan
He found me when I was an open miker.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, we don't even have a contract.
yannis pappas
Right.
That's unique.
joe rogan
Yes.
He's family.
And so is Chandra.
Both of them, they're a team, they're family.
So it's like, for me, it's the best.
Because I'm just completely relaxed in that department.
And I don't have to think.
When I go on vacation, like I went on vacation last week, I don't pay attention to anything.
I just lay around the beach, I drink margaritas, I play with my kids, I just fucking go on the water and snorkel and shit.
I'm not thinking.
And that's so important, to be free.
And it's hard.
It's hard because you want to read things and you want to find out what's going on and how are the ticket sales in Boise.
You start thinking of things like, how's that going?
How's this going?
But you can't.
You can't.
You can't concern yourself.
The only thing you got to do is do your best.
Do your best at what you do.
And the more you pay attention to outside of what you do, like how other people are viewing what you do, and what you should do or shouldn't do to get this amount of money or that thing, or this new advertiser doesn't like you saying cunt, like ugh!
You can't!
You can't!
It'll ruin it!
yannis pappas
It's hard when you're coming up, like when you're, uh, it's hard not to think about the ticket sales.
That's the dream, to not Yeah.
Think about the tickets he'll just know and go and have fun and just think about the jokes, but it's hard to get to that point, guys.
joe rogan
It's very hard.
yannis pappas
You need a platform, you need somebody to put you on, you need a show, something to...
joe rogan
That's what I want to help with.
Yeah.
That's my goal with comics.
Just take these talented people that have a dream and give them a hand.
Reach up.
Reach up.
Come on up.
Come on up here.
Let's all do this together.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
And the beautiful thing about the podcast world is that everybody supports everybody.
And the people that don't, these weird island people, meaning these people that live in an island separate from the community of comedy, they only want it to be about themselves.
The only relationships they have with comics are these comics that open for them, that are always below them.
They don't have, like, intimate relationships with people that are their peers.
They're creeps.
yannis pappas
Yeah, what is up with that?
Selfish.
joe rogan
Selfish.
yannis pappas
Yeah, but it's crazy because you're, it's like the dream.
It's like, why wouldn't, would you rather an industry person or a booker tell you you're great, or would you rather another comic be like, you're great, let me help you.
That's like the dream.
And that there's no competition that, because it used to be all guys were competing for a few spots.
joe rogan
Right.
yannis pappas
So I understand that there was competition, because to get booked, you have to be one of a few.
But now it's wide open.
The internet is like the universe.
joe rogan
It's beautiful.
yannis pappas
It's endless.
joe rogan
But some guys, there's still competition, right?
They look at other guys who are doing podcasts, like they'll look at the iTunes ratings, and maybe they'll be number blah, blah, blah, and someone's one above them.
And they're like, fuck, how's he there?
I should be number three.
He's number three, I should be number three.
And they get mad.
Why am I not number one?
Fucking New York Times or fucking this and that.
They get crazy.
You get crazy and you think about things that are not important.
Like when I was on news radio one time, we were all sitting around and they were talking about, they would all read variety.
And the Hollywood Reporter, and I would call those things the Devil's Rag.
You guys are reading the Devil's Rag again.
Why are you reading that shit?
And they were complaining that Friends, you know, like Friends always had this amazing time slot.
It was like Seinfeld and Friends.
And then there was some show shoved in there, like Caroline and the City.
And The Single Guy, do you remember those shows?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you?
yannis pappas
I do remember them, yeah.
I didn't watch them, but I remember them.
joe rogan
Nobody watched them.
Paul Simms, the producer of NewsRadio, the creator, executive producer of NewsRadio.
yannis pappas
I watched NewsRadio.
joe rogan
It was good.
He used to call those shows the shit sandwich because they were sandwiched in between these great shows.
And I remember we were all sitting around and everybody was going, God, why can't we be on Thursday night after Friends?
And they were complaining about this stuff, and I go, hey, guys, last time I checked, we're on TV. I go, we're on TV. We have a fucking TV show.
We're on season three of a TV show.
We get paid.
I think I was making like 25 grand a week.
I was like, this is wild.
This is crazy.
yannis pappas
When you start looking other places and comparing yourself to other people, that's when you start fucking yourself.
joe rogan
I've heard that people from Friends are making a million a week, and I was like...
unidentified
Right.
A million?
joe rogan
A million a week?
You get angry.
You get angry.
But it's all in perspective.
yannis pappas
It's tough when you're starting to not do that.
I've started a new podcast called Long Days and I'm just focused on it.
But it's hard because I'm starting to not look at other people and go like...
Fuck, I'm behind.
It's not going to work.
It's tough, but then you have to just...
When you make it, it's easy.
When your seats are sold, it's easy to do that.
But when you're trying to climb, you do end up looking at other places as markers for success, and then you become aware that you're not there.
joe rogan
You do, but I think that focus on other stuff, it takes away from the focus that you have on doing the best job.
yannis pappas
Totally.
joe rogan
And I think the real success comes from the grind.
You just gotta grind every day.
You gotta just keep doing the same thing and do it the best you can every day.
And ultimately, trust in the process.
And after time, you see success.
But when people say, like, what is the difference between your podcast and other podcasts?
I'm like, first of all, I don't know.
Like, realistically.
I'd say I know, but I don't know.
I just did it.
But the thing that does stand out that I could say definitely is when everybody else was doing one a week or one every two weeks, I was doing three a week or four a week.
I was doing a lot of them.
yannis pappas
And what made you decide to do that?
Is it just something you wanted to do or were you conscious that other people weren't doing it?
Or did you just do it as you wanted?
joe rogan
A little bit of it was conscious that other people weren't doing it.
Another thing I was saying, it's not hard, it's fun to do.
And then I'm like, give them more content and then they'll become addicted to it.
Like the whole thing is give them what they enjoy and give them a lot of it.
I was always thinking about Opie and Anthony or Howard Stern or something.
They do it every day.
Why not do it every day?
Do it as many days as you can.
And then once the show started getting popular and it was helping guys with ticket sales, it was easy to get people to come on.
Because for the first few, it was like Segura would have guys come on.
They didn't even want to do it.
There's a funny fucking clip where Segura was talking about it on the Comedy Store documentary where he was saying in the beginning, I was like, what the fuck is he doing?
Like, why are you doing this?
Like, you have a TV show in here, you're fucking alone in your house in some weird room with us smoking pot and talking shit into some weird internet show.
But I had an idea.
I was like, I think if you just keep going, it could be bigger.
Like, if you keep going, it'll reach more people.
If you keep going, you'll get better at it.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
And then, eventually, it'll be something that, I mean, I didn't think it would ever make any money.
That's what's crazy.
I thought the most it would do is, like, it would help ticket sales on the road.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Then we got a sponsor, the Fleshlight.
That was the first sponsor.
yannis pappas
Yeah, I remember the Fleshlight.
joe rogan
That fucking tube that you have sex with.
yannis pappas
Yeah, you fuck it.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's pretty good.
unidentified
You fucked it?
joe rogan
I fucked it.
Yeah, yeah.
yannis pappas
That's not cheating, technically, if you're fucking a fleshlight.
unidentified
I don't think so.
joe rogan
It feels like you're cheating, though.
It feels so good.
Especially when you just soak it in warm water.
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Oh, you soaked it in warm water.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
yannis pappas
You treat it like bear.
Treat it like bear meat.
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
You sous vide it.
yannis pappas
You just did a fucking free ad for them.
joe rogan
Dude, I did a hundred ads for them, at least.
Hundreds.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
We did constant ads for them, and every one of them would be like these long, rambling discussions of nutting into these weird rubber tubes.
It's not even rubber.
I don't even know what's made out of some weird gelatin or something like that.
It feels very, very realistic.
yannis pappas
It does, huh?
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
I've never fucked one, but I'm not opposed to it.
You should try.
Yeah.
Maybe I'll get one.
joe rogan
There's something about it being contained in that can, too, that keeps it tight.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
There's only so much expansion.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Feeling?
yannis pappas
There's no babies coming in there.
joe rogan
That's right.
yannis pappas
Coming out of there to stretch it out.
joe rogan
Clean it up, though.
Don't be glazing.
yannis pappas
Do you put hot butter in there?
How do you make it warm?
joe rogan
Soak it in water.
yannis pappas
But when you take it out, it's dry.
I mean, you need some...
joe rogan
But it's warm.
yannis pappas
Yeah, but you need some fluid in there.
joe rogan
They have oil.
They have like lubes.
Squirt lube in there.
yannis pappas
Nothing's better than the real thing, though.
joe rogan
No, of course not.
yannis pappas
Self-lubricating holes.
joe rogan
Well, also, people liking you and wanting to have sex with you.
yannis pappas
That's a big part of it.
There's a body attached to it.
Yeah, that's a good one.
You didn't feel a little weird?
joe rogan
Yeah, you feel a little weird.
yannis pappas
You feel like Ed Gein for a second?
joe rogan
You know when you feel weird?
Right after you cum, you're like, what is wrong with me?
You know?
unidentified
You see, you're like, oh, this feels so good.
joe rogan
And you're like, ugh, get your shit together, loser.
yannis pappas
It's so funny how out the door reason is while you're jacking off and then how quickly it rushes in when you're done.
You just see yourself there, there's your pants around your ankles.
For some reason you have this moment, you see yourself.
It's like a moment where you just go like, ugh.
joe rogan
It's the biological trick.
You know, the biological trick where your body wants to get rid of cum.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
As quickly as possible.
I mean, that's why there's so many humans.
That's why there's almost eight billion people on this planet.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because people want to get rid of cum.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And your body has you convinced that this is the most important thing for you to do right now.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
There's no feeling like it.
I mean, people blow their whole lives away with bad decisions for it.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, my God, dude.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, really wealthy people.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Look at fucking Bezos, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He loses, what did he lose, like 39 billion in his divorce settlement?
yannis pappas
Yes.
unidentified
But his new gal is smoking.
yannis pappas
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
She's a predator.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You look at her and you're like, Jesus.
That's an alpha predator female.
yannis pappas
Yeah, but the pussy, the puss puss got in mind.
Puss puss is probably incredible because girls like that, you got to respect.
They know that that's their job.
Like, I think gold diggers don't get enough credit.
joe rogan
That's what I'm saying.
yannis pappas
They put a lot of work into that.
joe rogan
Why don't they teach that?
yannis pappas
They should.
joe rogan
If you think about business school, what is a great business move?
There's things that people will teach you.
They'll teach you startups.
Startups don't always work.
How about restaurant businesses?
There's schools on restaurants.
60% of them fail.
It's very difficult to start a restaurant, but there's a thought about doing a restaurant as a business.
Stockbrokers, they don't give a fuck about the companies.
They're just trying to make money, right?
They're just moving things.
And the whole idea is to gain money in your portfolio, right?
That's the whole thing.
But gold digging is a huge way to make money if you're good at it.
yannis pappas
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Successful, now I'm not saying that every woman who got divorced from her husband and made a shit ton of money is a gold digger, but literally most millionaires and billionaires that are females are from divorce.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, yeah.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not even debatable.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Like, what percentage of the richest women in the world come from divorce?
It's a lot.
There's some women that are self-made.
unidentified
Oprah.
joe rogan
Don't get me wrong.
yannis pappas
Oprah.
joe rogan
Oprah's self-made.
The lady who started that Bumble, that website, self-made.
yannis pappas
The twins, the Olsen twins?
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
They're kids.
yannis pappas
Yeah, but they have a massive company.
They're close to billionaires.
joe rogan
Oh, after they started something new?
yannis pappas
After, when they started their shit, yeah.
joe rogan
But what percentage of women, ultra-rich, got their money from divorce?
yannis pappas
Probably a lot.
I mean...
joe rogan
You think 90?
yannis pappas
No, I don't know about 90. 99?
I was going the other way.
I don't think it's that high.
You're going close to 100. You're not giving women any credit.
joe rogan
It's not that I'm not giving them any credit.
Listen, no doubt about it.
There's a shitload of women that have made millions, if not billions of dollars on their own.
yannis pappas
But I think if you looked at the bulk, I just picture you coming home with your Spotify deal, just like hide it from your wife for as long as you can.
You know, they gave me about 50 G's.
joe rogan
She gets a newsletter.
Hey, what the fuck is this?
Yeah.
yannis pappas
It's true.
I mean, Tiger Woods got fucking hammered.
joe rogan
He did get hammered.
yannis pappas
Hammered.
Jeff Bezos hammered.
Bill Gates going to get hammered.
He's donating to a new foundation called Melinda Gates.
joe rogan
The Bill Gates one is weird, right?
Because you know there's like some stories attached to that one.
The Jeff Bezos one is pretty straightforward, right?
He had an affair with a smoking hot woman.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you kind of get it.
You know, you see it, you're like, well, maybe the thrill was gone, their relationship, and they had kids together, and they had a long relationship, and then all of a sudden he meets this fucking firecracker of a woman.
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
And yeah, I mean, nobody will ever convince me that the most powerful thing in the world is not a woman's puss-puss.
It's number one.
joe rogan
It's a woman's whole essence, right?
An attractive woman.
Like I've said this before, but an attractive woman with an unattractive man who's never experienced the love of an attractive woman, they have...
An insane amount of influence.
It's a drug.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
When you're around some ultra woman like that, and you've never experienced...
She's got a little waist and a big ass and big tits and a perfect face.
And she's nice to you.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
And she touches you and she thinks you're cute.
And they got that whole thing.
yannis pappas
That sexual energy, that kind of seductive sexual energy.
joe rogan
Yes.
And every...
Cell in your body.
It's like that!
That!
yannis pappas
It's like a steak.
unidentified
Get that!
yannis pappas
And you're hungry, yeah.
joe rogan
Get that!
yannis pappas
Yeah, and they do work hard.
They have to work on their body.
They have to have sex with someone they don't love.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
yannis pappas
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into that.
joe rogan
It's a business decision.
yannis pappas
They've got to shoo away all the other gold digger hoes trying to get there.
joe rogan
Some low-rent hoes trying to take your spot.
yannis pappas
Fuck that.
joe rogan
That's why nobody hates whores more than gold diggers.
I've been sucking on this stale dick for years.
You think you're gonna come along and suck it for $2,000?
I've been working on the long game.
The long game.
The long game is billions.
yannis pappas
Yes.
Yes.
It's a job, man.
unidentified
Of course.
yannis pappas
It's a job.
That maintenance, that type of...
She fucks that guy.
She's going to work.
She's clocking in.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like, if some hot potato is fucking Rupert Murdoch or someone like that, like, that's a job.
yannis pappas
That's a job, dude.
unidentified
That's a job.
yannis pappas
I mean, one of my favorite I posted every Valentine's Day is Anna Nicole Smith with that.
unidentified
Oh, yes!
joe rogan
J. Howard Marshall.
yannis pappas
True love.
Yeah, J. Howard Marshall.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
I had a whole bit about the two of them together.
joe rogan
People are like, oh, that poor man.
She's just using you for his money.
I'm like, that guy made a billion dollars from scratch.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You don't think he knows?
yannis pappas
He knows exactly what's going on.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, he knows.
He knows what's going on.
That guy's smart.
yannis pappas
Yeah, I mean, he was like 90-something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
And he knows.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was an oil tycoon, right, wasn't he?
yannis pappas
I don't remember how he made his money, but I know how he spent it.
Well, I know how she spent it.
joe rogan
Well, she didn't live long.
There was probably something to that.
There was probably some sadness and some drug abuse that was connected to living your life like that.
yannis pappas
I think she was doing drugs, yeah.
I think she was doing those pills.
joe rogan
Man, the pills.
yannis pappas
I don't know why.
You made it.
You got all that money.
You made it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but there's sadness involved in a hollow life.
yannis pappas
But isn't there sadness in all of our lives?
Like, isn't it just better to have a guy's money?
unidentified
Yeah, I guess.
yannis pappas
Maybe she read it wrong, you know?
It's like, hey, I'm sad too, but I don't have to, you know, I would have sucked that guy's dick for his money.
joe rogan
Maybe, right?
yannis pappas
I would have, yeah.
joe rogan
Depends on how much money he's willing to give you.
yannis pappas
I don't know, if it fucking, for me, give me what?
joe rogan
700 million.
yannis pappas
700 million?
joe rogan
You suck a cock?
yannis pappas
Of course, are you joking?
joe rogan
How many cocks would you suck for 700 million?
yannis pappas
A million of them.
unidentified
A million cocks?
yannis pappas
I don't give a fuck.
Yeah, I don't give a shit.
joe rogan
You know how many cocks?
A million would take so many, it's 365 days in the year.
How many dicks are you going to suck in a day?
And how many years?
Well, for how, I mean, if you give me 700 mil, Dude, I think you'd be better off with like one million.
I think you can get that on your own.
yannis pappas
I'm going for it.
Well, tell me what the details are.
joe rogan
Brian Cowan said something to me once, and it's really important.
It's just true.
He goes, all you want is to be able to go to a restaurant and buy whatever you want to eat and not think about it.
He goes, that's real money.
He goes, everything else is bullshit.
He goes, you get used to your house.
yannis pappas
I go into McDonald's and I feel that way.
I mean, he needs to get specific.
joe rogan
He means not worry about the bill.
Like, can I pay for this?
You know, a good bill at a restaurant is a couple hundred bucks.
But if you can go to a restaurant and not think about it, and give a nice tip and feel good, that's not that hard if you live in your means and you're successful.
That's real success.
Be able to send your kids to college, to be able to pay your mortgage.
Everything else is kind of bullshit.
yannis pappas
I mean, I joke around, but I agree with you.
I think money's great, but I do think in this country, it's kind of a disease where people think about it too much, where it's like, the real, like when I almost thought I was gonna die when I got shot that one time, I was like, you think about the people you love, you think about your life, it's like, a job's a job.
I mean, if it was fun, They wouldn't call it work.
There's very few of us who get to do the things we love.
We're not happy all the time.
Nobody's happy on this planet.
It's like, find yourself friends.
Find yourself life.
Find things you enjoy doing.
It's not all about money.
To be happy is not about getting all the money in the world.
joe rogan
No.
yannis pappas
It's cliche, but it's true.
joe rogan
It is true.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
It is true.
Life is complicated.
What's really important is friends.
Friends and loved ones.
Family and loved ones are everything.
yannis pappas
It's the only true currency.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Dude, when I have like a cookout at my house and have people over that I love and we're having a glass of wine and laughing and hanging out by the pool and just putting your feet up and just telling stories and just laughing, it doesn't get any better.
yannis pappas
It's number one.
joe rogan
It's everything.
Friendship and love and family is everything.
If you don't have that, that's why I was talking about these comics that are islands, that all want it to be all about them.
yannis pappas
I know exactly what you're talking about.
joe rogan
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
There's these guys, they never develop these tight bonds with other people where they can be vulnerable, they could be friendly and supportive and have real love between other comics and other peers.
They're sad, fucking angry, bitter, twisted people.
And it's so hard to see, man.
yannis pappas
I think also they don't want to push themselves out of their comfort zone and be insecure, be around somebody who's bigger, be around somebody who's more successful.
You have to be humble and you have to challenge yourself to be around new experiences and new people.
joe rogan
You have to be open to looking at these other individuals as what they are and not comparing them to you You know when you work with someone like when I work with Chappelle for instance Chappelle has this new bit that he's doing about the Me Too movement that is so goddamn good That it's it's like it's one of those movements.
It's one of those bits rather where you There's an instinct to get jealous like why didn't I think of that one?
yannis pappas
I felt that way about your hyena bit, because I love hyenas.
Fuck.
That is so good, man.
A female-run world.
We have evidence of it.
Yeah, it's real.
unidentified
And it's fucked.
joe rogan
It's fucked.
yannis pappas
It's a fucking hilarious bit, man.
unidentified
I love it.
joe rogan
Thank you.
Thank you.
But there's these moments where you go, but instead of that, I just appreciate him, first of all, as a person.
Dave is a beautiful person.
He is one of the genuinely nicest, kindest people I've ever met in my life.
And with everybody.
He's just sweet and kind.
And when he's doing that bit, I just appreciate that I'm watching a rare gem.
I'm watching a rare thing.
I'm like, wow.
That's my friend up there.
Like, look at him go.
Look at him go.
Look at him go, and look at him crying and laughing.
I was watching him at the MGM, and it was me and my business manager, Matt, and who's also family.
I've been with him for 25 years, something like that.
And we're laughing like, ah, ah, Jesus Christ!
And I'm just thinking, God, how beautiful is this?
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful to see someone who's like, you know, Dave is arguably the greatest of all time.
He's in that running.
unidentified
For sure.
joe rogan
You know?
I mean, when he dies, they're going to put him right there with Pryor.
They're going to put him right there with all those guys.
For sure.
yannis pappas
Hands down.
joe rogan
Hands down.
And to watch him.
He's just like, you can compare yourself and you can go, fuck, why isn't that me?
Why am I not?
But, nah, don't.
Don't.
Just do your best.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Do your best and enjoy what you're seeing there and just enjoy that.
It's magic.
yannis pappas
It's an evolved way and you have to be secure to do that.
joe rogan
It's hard to be secure, man.
It requires effort and work.
You can't just be secure.
You can't just be comfortable with things.
You've got to work at it.
It's like everything else in life.
You've got to work at being nice.
I've worked hard at being nice.
And when I got into comedy in my early 20s, when I was 21, I was not nice.
I was coming from a competitive fighting background.
It was beneficial for me to be mean.
There was a certain amount of meanness that you had to have to go out and attack somebody.
That's what it is.
You're trying to hurt somebody.
There's meanness.
And to shift over to comedy and to realize, like, you gotta let that go.
Like, abandon that.
But then I was like, well, how do I fucking placate these demons inside me?
And then I'm like, oh, you just do it with hard work.
Just figure out, just hard exercise.
It's brutal exercise.
Exercise those demons out.
And then you can be nice.
And it's better for everybody.
It's better for you.
It's better for the people you meet.
It's better for everybody.
It can be done.
yannis pappas
A lot of people don't do it.
I mean, you are a nice guy.
joe rogan
I try really hard.
yannis pappas
Yeah, you're a nice guy.
Comics talk about that.
When you see all these articles and stuff, those people don't know you at all.
As a person, you're a good dude.
You're a nice guy.
You help a lot of people out.
Pretty reasonable when you sit down and speak to you.
joe rogan
I try real hard.
Thank you.
I try real hard.
I work at it.
I really do work at it.
You can cherry pick from anybody and find moments when they weren't nice, and you can definitely find some from me.
But I try.
I try real hard.
yannis pappas
Is that something that comes with success though?
joe rogan
It helps.
yannis pappas
Because I can see why guys get bitter when they don't.
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
Like when you miss a boat or...
A lot of times success isn't even...
Sometimes it's the luck of a person being somewhere at the right time.
joe rogan
For sure.
yannis pappas
Sometimes failure is just the person was unlucky and that they were at the wrong time.
joe rogan
There's that.
yannis pappas
But there's also sometimes...
They get swept away by cultural forces.
joe rogan
For sure.
For sure.
There's also times when sometimes people get some success and then they get either lazy or they get self-indulgent.
Self-indulgent is really common.
That's a fucking hard one to avoid.
You've got to avoid that one, the self-indulgent one, because you want to pat yourself on the back and you want to look at all the things, but you can't.
There's no benefit in that.
It's the devil's trick.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
It really is.
yannis pappas
I guess you've got to remind yourself that none of us are in control.
Nature is.
joe rogan
Nature is.
yannis pappas
It keeps everybody humble.
joe rogan
Well, you've been shot.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
You talked about it before on the podcast, and anybody who knows you is listening to you talk about it.
You got close to death, and I think when someone has been close to death, they have more of an appreciation.
If you can recapture the way you felt at that moment- I can, yeah.
yannis pappas
It changed everything.
It changes your perspective on everything, and it changes what you view as valuable.
Freedom, time, hard laughs, like you said, loving people.
Those things...
It's cliche and it sounds stupid, but I'll tell you what, it's true.
joe rogan
It's 100% true.
yannis pappas
Because when you're in that moment, you ain't going to be thinking about your bank account.
joe rogan
No, no.
You're going to be thinking about survival.
And you know, it's just so easy to get...
You know, the human brain is not designed for the modern world.
The human brain evolved trying to run away from predators and trying to find food.
And it requires problems.
The human brain looks for problems.
It looks for conflict.
It looks for all these things.
And, you know, ego exists because you want your genes to pass on.
It's the only way that the human race is successful.
You have to propagate.
You have to figure out a way to pass your genes.
The body has figured out a way to enforce that is a little bit of a trap, and that's the ego.
Part of the thing is you feeling so good about yourself that you think you should be passed on, that you think your genes should keep going, that you should be the one that gets the girl.
Yeah.
yannis pappas
It makes us and it breaks us.
It's like the same thing that takes you down is the thing that...
There's no way out of here.
joe rogan
There's no way out of here!
It's insanely complicated.
And it's a puzzle that you have to constantly invest time in solving.
You never think you got it nailed.
yannis pappas
That's the thing.
You have to constantly check yourself and check it and push yourself.
And that's why I have such a problem, I think we all do, with people who Make these big categorical statements like, this is the answer.
And that's what all these people do on Twitter now.
That's what all these media headlines and articles are about.
This is what it is.
This is who Joe Rogan is.
You're like, are you fucking...
I mean, nobody's that.
Nothing is that.
Nothing's defined like that, except for math.
You know what I mean?
People are changing every minute.
Things are dynamic.
Everyone's claiming to have ownership of what things are.
I can't believe more people aren't more skeptical of people who want to be out there.
joe rogan
I think they're being more skeptical of it now than ever because I think overall we've never really had anything like social media before where you get to see people virtue signal and get to see people put out these words and these messages designed to get people to like them, designed to get people to literally hit that like button or hit that retweet button.
Is he ratioed?
Did that tweet get ratioed?
And people get obsessed with that stuff.
yannis pappas
It's like that's the biggest driving force now for the generations coming up, which is scary.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Because you create a version of yourself that's not true.
And it's almost like you're in entertainment business when you're not.
But everyone's in entertainment business.
It's scary because I've met a lot of people in entertainment business and they're fucking horrible people.
joe rogan
It's not a good business to develop your emotional intelligence in.
It's such a tricky business.
And the business is so disingenuous from top to bottom.
You know, from executives to casting directors to actors to, you know, everything, to the press.
So all of it is just, it's not about finding truth and being compassionate.
It's about bullshit and celebrating people for all the weirdest reasons.
yannis pappas
Right.
A look or, you know, whatever it may be.
joe rogan
Whatever it is, yeah.
yannis pappas
It's the opposite of trying to find for truth.
Actually, I think if there's an opposite of searching for truth or honesty, it's entertainment.
joe rogan
Yeah, but also sometimes not.
Like sometimes entertainment is like pure honesty.
Like sometimes you'll meet someone who's like a pure artist and you have this like, oh, okay.
yannis pappas
Well, when they do that, they're never thinking about reconciling themselves with the marketplace.
unidentified
No.
yannis pappas
It's just they create something so incredible, the marketplace comes to it because we're all watching something that's incredible art.
joe rogan
My friend, who's my best example of that, is Gary Clark Jr. Gary Clark Jr. Do you know Gary Clark Jr?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
He's one of the greatest guitarists who's ever lived.
And that motherfucker doesn't give a shit about fame.
He doesn't give a fuck.
I mean, genuinely doesn't think about it at all.
When you talk to him, he's all just talking about his music.
He's just talking about creating and doing this and changing that.
And he's so soft-spoken and he doesn't want attention at all.
And then when that guy gets on the guitar, he's magical.
Magical, man.
Magical.
He's so good.
He's so good.
yannis pappas
It's ironic that it's just weird that like that's not the most famous stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's pretty fucking famous.
He played in front of 20,000 people.
Jamie, you saw him last night, right?
How good is that motherfucker?
He's so good.
yannis pappas
Do you think if he was like Rolling Stones known, it would kind of ruin that in him?
joe rogan
I don't know.
He doesn't give a fuck about it.
It's not going to happen.
He doesn't want to.
He doesn't care.
He genuinely doesn't care.
He makes plenty of money.
He's got a beautiful wife and a happy family.
yannis pappas
That's the best.
joe rogan
That's him last night.
yannis pappas
Oh, so yeah, he's not...
joe rogan
That was in Austin last night.
Goddamn, look at all those people.
yannis pappas
That's a lot of people.
joe rogan
That can't just be 20,000 people.
That looks like a lot more.
jamie vernon
It was pretty spread out.
People sitting down and shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, but how many people is that?
Whatever it is.
jamie vernon
Yeah, it's a lot.
joe rogan
It's a fuckload.
jamie vernon
It's a lot.
It's the most I've seen in an area in a while.
joe rogan
It's a fuckload of people.
But he's just like, he's a real artist.
And when you are around a real artist, you watch a real artist perform, it comes through.
Like, we saw him, Jamie and I saw him at Antone's in Austin.
Which is like, how many people were in that audience?
150?
jamie vernon
That was, yeah, way, way, way less.
joe rogan
Yeah, that was in the early days of the pandemic, where everybody caught the cooties that night.
yannis pappas
Oh, everybody got it.
joe rogan
Yeah, someone had it, and they were in the green room, and they spread it around to everybody.
yannis pappas
You didn't get it though, right?
joe rogan
No.
yannis pappas
You got that fucking tiger blood.
joe rogan
I do a lot of things to avoid it, you know?
Between all the vitamins I take and sauna use and all the wild shit that I do and taking peptides and all that stuff, I've ducked it.
yannis pappas
Which for the record is not officially what takes it away.
joe rogan
What?
yannis pappas
Saunas.
joe rogan
Doesn't take it away?
yannis pappas
Like officially taking a sauna is not going to prevent you from getting it.
joe rogan
I don't know.
yannis pappas
You may have the blood type or something that doesn't get it.
joe rogan
There's a study that actually just came out about viral infections and sauna use.
I'll send this to you.
yannis pappas
Do you sauna alone?
joe rogan
Nobody's going to go in there with me.
yannis pappas
Because the Swedes, you go up there, the whole family is there naked.
joe rogan
I mean, I'll go in occasionally with my wife, but I like to deep breathe and it gets uncomfortable if someone's in the room with me.
I take these big, long, slow, deep breaths and then I let it out.
It's like, here, I'll find this thing.
The article was about sauna linked to longer life and sauna linked to...
Here, I'll fucking find this thing here.
yannis pappas
The Scandinavian's been doing it for how long?
Many years.
There's got to be something to it, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Here, I'll send it to you, Jamie.
Well, in Finland, they did a study where they linked it to a 40% decrease in all-cause mortality, 175 degrees for 20 minutes four times a week, 40% decrease in strokes, cancer, heart attack, everything.
Turning up the heat on COVID-19, heat as a therapeutic intervention.
And this is a medical paper that was published.
And the whole idea is about when your body gets sick, When you get a viral infection, one of the things that happens is you get a fever.
And what the fever is is your body trying to kill the virus.
And the way your body can kill the virus is to make sure that your body temperature is so hot the virus can't survive it.
yannis pappas
That makes sense with the sauna.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So I do that on purpose.
So I'm getting to 200 degrees sometimes.
Four days a week at least.
yannis pappas
Dude, if you want to beat the virus, move to Phoenix.
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
unidentified
Just lay on the sidewalk.
joe rogan
No, I think you have to get isolated.
I think the thing that's so beneficial about the sauna is that you're trapped in this room and you can't survive.
At 195 degrees for very long.
You can only do it for 25 minutes or whatever it is.
And in doing that, the heat shock proteins that your body produces create all these anti-inflammatory properties, but also it just kills things.
yannis pappas
Right, right, right, because of the heat, because of the level of the heat, right?
joe rogan
You're fucking sweating like crazy in there.
yannis pappas
And probably ice baths do the same thing because of the temperature, right?
Like everything is...
joe rogan
I would imagine there's some benefit there.
I know there's some benefit with cold shock proteins that reduce inflammation, but I don't know if it works the same way with viruses.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
Did you see that paper that I sent you?
jamie vernon
I didn't get a link, but I found it, too.
joe rogan
I just sent it to you.
Did it come through?
jamie vernon
I just got it.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
jamie vernon
I have the same one looking at it anyway.
joe rogan
Yeah, so there's people that are considering all sorts of different things, and this is one of them.
Turning up the heat on COVID-19.
Heat as a therapeutic intervention.
And so this is a peer-reviewed paper, I believe, and it's all about the idea of...
Stop right there.
SARS-CoV-2 are sensitive to heat and destroyed by temperatures tolerable to humans.
All mammals use fever to deal with infections, and heat has long been used throughout human history in the form of hot springs, saunas...
I don't know what the hell...
Hamam.
Hamams?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Steam rooms, sweat lodges.
The paper reviews the evidence for using heat to treat and prevent viral infections and discuss potential cellular, physiological, and psychological mechanisms of action.
In the initial phase of infection, heat is applied to the upper airwaves and it can support the immune system's first line of defense by supporting mycomuco, I guess that's mucus, muco, M-U-C-O, mucociliary clearance and inhibiting or deactivating They
yannis pappas
make medical words.
joe rogan
Ideolithic properties so hard the words heat applied the whole body can further support the immune system second line of defense by mimicking fever and Activating innate and acquired immune defenses and building physiological resilience.
I Guarantee it has something to do with it man.
I I know so many fucking people around me that have gotten COVID. Mm-hmm.
While I didn't get it.
I'm not saying it's 100% the reason why, because I think it's a combination of a lot of other things.
I take a shitload of vitamins.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And there's a lot of other things that I do.
I make sure I get rest, and I exercise all the time, a lot of cardiovascular exercise, weight lifting, all that stuff.
yannis pappas
Right, you're a healthy guy.
joe rogan
But I think the sauna, it has an effect, man.
There's no way it doesn't.
It makes you feel great.
yannis pappas
Yeah, it's definitely good for you.
They know that for sure.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Like, they know that it is good for you, whether you're trying to fight a virus or not, or avoid a virus, or it's good for you.
joe rogan
Yeah, and there has been studies about decrease in viral infections from people that use sauna.
I think they showed a 50% decrease in people that use saunas on a regular basis are 50% less likely.
I forget that study, though.
I forget where that study came from.
yannis pappas
But if it was true, though, then Sweden wouldn't have...
Had a problem with COVID because they all saw her.
joe rogan
Do they all?
I doubt they all.
yannis pappas
A lot of them, sauna.
joe rogan
I bet a lot of them, dude.
What does that mean?
A lot of Americans play football.
I don't play football.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like, what is all?
Like, you're known for hot dogs in America.
How many people eat hot dogs here?
I haven't had a hot dog in years.
yannis pappas
You're the exception.
joe rogan
But you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
yannis pappas
A lot of people eat hot dogs.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But Americans are known for it.
unidentified
Hot dogs cured COVID. No Americans would have hot dogs.
joe rogan
There's fucking millions of Americans that go years without hot dogs.
yannis pappas
I'd be curious.
How many Swedes take sauna?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
jamie vernon
It doesn't say, but they have a capita, one per household.
yannis pappas
I mean, that's a lot, dude.
Yeah, I told you.
joe rogan
Right, but I have one in my household.
My fucking kids never go in there.
yannis pappas
That's true.
joe rogan
While it's partially cellular, it's also responsible because of the weather.
Finnish winters are the low of 35 degrees Celsius.
Yikes!
yannis pappas
It's a cultural thing for them.
They go in the whole family.
Grandma's titties are there.
Everyone sees each other just naked.
When I would go perform there, early in my comedy career, I would go there and perform.
And they would invite me into the sauna, and I just wasn't comfortable enough to be naked with them.
joe rogan
Yeah, why do they have to be naked?
They can't wear underwear?
They're fucking weirdos?
yannis pappas
They're cool with it.
Like, they're just cool with it.
joe rogan
They just check out cocks.
yannis pappas
They just check out cocks.
They're just different.
They like saunas.
They drink.
Dude, they're like gremlins.
The finish?
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
They're nice and cute and cuddly during the day.
They're shy.
They don't make eye contact.
They're very nice.
And then they drink and they become fucking assholes.
Really?
Yeah.
unidentified
Really?
yannis pappas
Their personalities change like crazy.
joe rogan
Like in what way?
yannis pappas
They just become like caustic and kind of like aggressive.
unidentified
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
To you or to everybody?
yannis pappas
To me, to everybody.
They become animals.
Yeah, they're like gremlins.
You pour a little fucking liquor on them, they change.
joe rogan
Wow.
yannis pappas
It's wild, dude.
I don't think they have...
I remember reading somewhere that Northern Europeans struggle more with alcohol and don't have as...
We're not as good a tolerance as Southern Europeans because Southern Europeans have had alcohol for a lot longer, similar to the Asians who don't do great with it either, Native Americans.
There's some enzyme or some shit that like Southern Europeans have and that's why we have less of an incidence of alcoholism Than the Northern Europeans who can't handle their liquor because they're fucking animals.
joe rogan
I would think that it's also because of the depression that comes from the lack of sunshine.
yannis pappas
They have the highest suicide rate.
Highest suicide rates in one of those countries.
Norway, Sweden.
joe rogan
Really?
yannis pappas
Yeah, they offed themselves.
unidentified
Ooh.
yannis pappas
Yeah, because it's just dark all the time.
joe rogan
Fuck that.
Well, that's the direct correlation between the Pacific Northwest, right?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
High suicide rate up there.
yannis pappas
Yep.
Alaska.
joe rogan
Also high heroin use.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fuck.
yannis pappas
That's taking over the whole country, though.
Heroin.
It's big.
And you know, it's interesting, it kind of got big when we got control of Afghanistan.
That's a coincidence.
joe rogan
Don't be an asshole.
yannis pappas
Poppy seeds got cheaper.
joe rogan
Total coincidence.
Just because the American military was guarding the poppy fields on TV, did you ever see that video?
yannis pappas
No.
joe rogan
Geraldo Rivera interviewing a general while the general was standing in front of, like, literally, you're looking at troops guarding poppy fields.
yannis pappas
Yeah, it's obvious.
joe rogan
It's like what?
yannis pappas
And then it becomes like the most popular drug in the suburbs in America.
It's like affordable.
It's kind of weird.
Yeah, that one's kind of weird.
That one's kind of fucking obvious.
joe rogan
It's not just obvious.
It goes all the way back to the Vietnam War.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
There it is.
So, Geraldo, play some of this because it's kind of hilarious.
Fighting the opium trade, what?
geraldo rivera
The Taliban lend the farmers the money.
They are indebted to the Taliban.
yannis pappas
They have to grow the opium.
geraldo rivera
Now the Marines in their success are, in a sense, a victim of their success because now the population What a spin.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Listen to this spin.
unidentified
The 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines.
geraldo rivera
Really a wonderful group of Marines here.
joe rogan
Wonderful group of heroin guards.
geraldo rivera
this contradiction, the fact that here you have one of the best fighting forces in the world ever mounted.
unidentified
And in a sense, you're watching as this opium is being grown.
joe rogan
I know it grinds at your gut.
This is wild.
unidentified
Well, frankly, this is part of their culture.
So, while it might grind in my gut, it's what they do.
We provide them security, we're providing them resources, and we're providing them alternatives.
yannis pappas
And they provide us with a kickback when we sell them.
joe rogan
Did you ever see when Sturgill Simpson got on Saturday Night Live?
He sang a song that talked about it.
Talked about protecting the heroin trade.
yannis pappas
No, I didn't.
They probably got a little, they got a piece of that, no?
We'll protect, you know, just give us a little...
joe rogan
Something is being exchanged.
People are making money.
Who are those people?
I don't know, but there's obviously a lot of money in heroin.
They're not growing it for fun.
yannis pappas
No, and it's killing, like, suburban kids.
Like, I have my wife's friend was, like, this nice kid, and, like, he died from a heroin overdose.
And, like, the people who are dying from heroin overdoses now don't look like your stereotypical...
Heroin user from like the 80s, you know, they look like just normal kids and they're in high school and they come from good families and for some reason they're doing fucking heroin.
joe rogan
Well, it's also very contradictory.
It's confusing because the real solution Is probably legalization of everything across the board.
That's probably the real solution.
yannis pappas
Usage, for sure.
joe rogan
Because the problem is you have these cartels that are bringing this stuff into America illegally.
And they're also spiking everything with fentanyl because it's cheaper, so they cut things.
And so these kids get a hold of people that are addicted.
They get a hold of this fentanyl-laced shit and have these fucking horrible overdoses.
And the reason why they're overdosing is because it's illegal.
Because you don't know what the exact dosage is.
Like, people are going to overdose from alcohol.
They're going to die from it.
But if you buy a bottle of this...
How do you say that name?
yannis pappas
Laphroaig.
joe rogan
It's very good, right?
yannis pappas
Very good.
If you're into smokey, peaty...
joe rogan
I love that stuff.
Scotch, yeah.
You know what it is.
One shot is one shot, right?
It's not one shot with fentanyl in it.
It might kill you.
These kids are getting a hold of this stuff.
These people, I should say.
It's not just kids.
They're getting a hold of stuff and it's laced.
Why is it laced?
It's laced because it's unregulated.
Why is it unregulated?
Because it's illegal.
Why is it illegal?
Because we have a fucking war on substances that doesn't make any sense.
It's a war on freedom, essentially.
Your freedom to do whatever you want with your body.
yannis pappas
Right.
Right.
No, it's, you know...
That's a well-documented argument.
I think Portugal, right?
They legalized...
joe rogan
Decriminalized everything.
yannis pappas
Decriminalized the usage of it, but it's still illegal to sell it.
joe rogan
Right.
yannis pappas
Which seems like a pretty reasonable way to handle it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Like, okay, if you're dealing with it, it's bad because we know that it's bad for people, but we can't criminalize the users of it.
Those people are sick and they're addicted.
They're not committing a crime to anyone else.
They're hurting themselves.
joe rogan
It's a step in the right direction, but why is it legal to sell?
Like Carl Hart, I bring up way too often on the podcast, but I do it because I love him.
Dr. Carl Hart, who's a professor at Columbia, he talks about how he likes heroin, enjoys it, but he gets pure heroin and he sniffs it.
yannis pappas
Does he micro-dose it or he goes full-blown?
unidentified
He sniffs it.
Wow.
joe rogan
You have to talk to him about it.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
But when you talk about his perspective, his perspective is he was a clinical researcher and had this idea of drugs, that drugs are terrible, terrible for you.
But along the line, doing his research, you realize that the propaganda about what drugs are is very different than the actual drugs themselves.
yannis pappas
Interesting.
joe rogan
And he likes drugs.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And he talks about, like, you can use drugs and be happy and successful.
He's like, it's not the problem.
The problem is a lack of education, a lack of understanding about the actual effects of these drugs, propaganda.
yannis pappas
I mean, Freud used to sniff blow.
Used to blow lines.
joe rogan
Some weird fucking ideas, too.
jamie vernon
I'm pretty sure you said you haven't seen the show The Wire before.
yannis pappas
Oh, yes!
joe rogan
I've never seen the whole...
jamie vernon
So there's a concept in season three or four called...
yannis pappas
I was thinking about that.
It's Tim Dillon, actually.
joe rogan
Is it?
jamie vernon
That twat.
They call this a section of an area of town called Hamsterdam, like Amsterdam, where what you're saying is allowed.
The police blocked off a couple blocks.
They said no gangs allowed to fight in here.
They protected that area for drug users.
So I just was Googling that because I thought I'd heard something about this happening.
Where is this?
It's fictional in Baltimore.
Oh, okay.
However, there's a press release that came out from the state attorney in Baltimore where they said there are no lines.
It says, in quotes, today, America's war on drug users is over in the city of Baltimore.
We leave behind a tough on-crime prosecution and zero-tolerance policing.
They said down here they're going to stop prosecuting the following offenses.
joe rogan
Drug possession.
Attempted distribution of...
What is C? Controlled substances?
Is that what it is?
Partifinalia possession.
Prostitution.
Holla.
Trespassing.
Minor...
Trespassing is a problem.
You can't just have people trespassing in people's houses.
Minor traffic offenses.
Great.
Open containers.
Great.
Rogue and vagabond.
jamie vernon
Probably just...
joe rogan
Urinating and defecating in public.
Maybe you should probably stop people from shitting in public.
jamie vernon
It added that to you, but the rest of it is...
joe rogan
You know, guys, feel free to shit on Main Street.
It's wide open.
Furthermore, during this past year, they have dismissed 1,423 pending cases considered eligible by COVID policies, quashed 1,415 warrants for aforementioned offenses, pushed Governor Hogan to reduce the prison population, resulting in two executive orders of the early release of 2,000 people.
jamie vernon
Two violent crimes down, property crime down.
unidentified
Wow.
yannis pappas
It's been successful, yeah.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
Violent crime down 20%, property crime down 36% during the same period of March 13, 2020 to March 13, 2021. That's amazing.
Well, that's good, except I'm down with all those things except for shitting in the street and breaking into people's houses.
The data show that 911 calls about drug use, public intoxication, and sex work, a proxy for public concern, did not increase when following the policy.
Rather, from March until December 2020, there was a 33% reduction in calls.
Mentioning drugs, and a 50% reduction in calls mentioning sex work.
Who's calling and ratting on people getting laid?
Fucking weirdos.
yannis pappas
You know, The Wire, dude, they teach classes about that at Harvard.
It was an exceptional show.
joe rogan
Yeah, I know it was a really good show, and I know a lot of people, Bourdain always raved about it.
I just never got around to watching it.
yannis pappas
What he was mentioning was, yeah, the police in an episode decide, all right, this is how we're going to handle drugs, and they district They like de facto district, like a block where they allow it to happen and it works.
So they go like, okay, you can do that here.
So they controlled it and like you couldn't do it outside of the de facto district that the cops created.
And then it just like crime went down, things were, because they were like, we're not going to stop this.
People are going to get high.
joe rogan
Didn't New York City recently decriminalize prostitution?
yannis pappas
I know they decriminalized gambling.
I don't know about...
Did they really?
They need the money, yeah.
joe rogan
Gambling?
yannis pappas
They need the money.
joe rogan
But did they make it legal?
yannis pappas
I think they made it legal.
joe rogan
Like what kind of gambling?
yannis pappas
I think sports gambling.
I think they decriminalized gambling.
joe rogan
I like that.
yannis pappas
And they taxed it.
Yeah, taxed it.
joe rogan
Why not?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
I don't know about prostitution.
joe rogan
New York City sex workers rampant in open-air prostitution market amid lax enforcement.
I think it's not just lax enforcement.
Google New York City decriminalizes prostitution.
That girl has a very nice ass for a prostitute.
NYPD issues new guidance after repeal of walking while trans law.
What is that?
Walking while trans law.
NYPD officers are told to no longer arrest people who appear to be loitering for prostitution in response to repeal of New York State's walking while trans law.
yannis pappas
Does that mean you're walking while you're transsexual?
joe rogan
I guess.
I thought they decriminalized prostitution.
I think that was like an order.
jamie vernon
It says, effective immediately.
Officers may not arrest an individual for this charge.
All other crimes related to prostitution under Article 230 in New York all remain in effect.
joe rogan
Oh.
Well, you know what, man?
I think people should be able to do whatever they want to do.
I don't want anybody to be a prostitute, but...
yannis pappas
I do.
Get that money, girl.
joe rogan
Why can't you if you want to?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
It's a job.
joe rogan
Who was I talking to when we were talking about people who fuck guys for money?
Ari, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Ari was saying that there's girls that he knows that will have sex with...wasn't Ari?
No, it wasn't Ari.
It wasn't Ari.
It was some...I don't know.
Anyway, they were saying that they know people who fuck a certain number of guys that they're kind of friendly with.
yannis pappas
For money.
joe rogan
For money.
And that's how they make a living.
And they only...look, if you can get a guy to pay you a thousand bucks or two thousand bucks every time you have sex, which is a lot of money, And you only have to do it a couple times a week.
yannis pappas
Hell yeah.
joe rogan
Why is that so terrible?
If you get to choose...
yannis pappas
I don't see why it's bad at all.
I can't think of one reason why it's bad at all.
I really can't.
joe rogan
You can fuck them for free?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Why can't you fuck them for money?
yannis pappas
If you're an adult making that decision, you legalize prostitution.
You get rid of the trade, you get rid of the illegal trade, you get rid of...
I mean, it's going to happen anyway.
It's the oldest profession.
I mean, that's why I think ultimately beautiful women are still around because it's evolutionary theory.
If you think about it, smart chicks who are not that good looking, if there's a war or a famine, you can't do anything with like a sociology thesis, but you can sell pussy.
You can always sell pussy.
joe rogan
If there's a war or a famine, at least they can...
But maybe they can innovate.
Maybe they can figure out a way to cure the disease.
yannis pappas
Maybe, but you could also...
joe rogan
Maybe they can develop weapons to fight off assholes.
yannis pappas
That's true, but you could also sell your pussy to a warlord and survive.
joe rogan
Good point.
yannis pappas
So maybe that's why pretty women still are preferred by the male...
I'm just talking as a scientist, which I am.
joe rogan
Well, think about how much horrible shit went down in Russia while Stalin was there and during World War II. And think about how many hot women come from Russia.
yannis pappas
Yeah, there you go.
They survive by selling puts.
joe rogan
If there was like a chart of the percentage of hot women from Russia, it would be very high.
yannis pappas
They're gorgeous.
joe rogan
Smoking, scary hot, ruin your whole life women.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
You know, just to remind me, I hate when people go, you know, those communists, like, communism's never been tried.
I'm like, what the fuck?
What planet have you been living on?
It's been tried a few times.
Like, it hasn't been tried in its purest form.
It's like, nothing exists in its purest form.
joe rogan
No.
yannis pappas
You can't even make a perfect circle.
joe rogan
The problem with communism is that they want, ultimately, you want equality of outcome.
And equality of outcome is very dangerous because there's not a quality of effort.
It's like you need incentives to get things done.
And the way you incentivize someone to get things done is like you can get more if you work harder.
You can do more.
You can have more things.
You can do better.
You can survive.
And if you're lazy, you're disincentivized.
You don't get anything if you're lazy.
If you don't contribute, you have to contribute.
The problem with communism, what communism that we're aware of is mostly communist dictatorships.
They force you into these occupations.
They tell you what you can and can't do.
What's weird about China is that it's kind of a hybrid.
yannis pappas
Right?
It is.
They did that.
They opened up the market to kind of...
Yeah, it's a hybrid.
joe rogan
They changed everything.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
They're doing well because they have some elements of capitalism in there.
It's also dangerous because it elevates the group over the individual.
And once you start doing that, then an individual just becomes a disposable person subject to the group.
unidentified
Yeah.
yannis pappas
When the group is really just a collection of individuals.
So when you do that leap of logic...
You're fucked.
The individual has no rights.
It's just this idea of the group or the nation or the entity.
joe rogan
And it discourages creativity.
yannis pappas
Totally.
joe rogan
That's the problem.
It really discourages creativity.
And creativity is so important for a culture to innovate.
One of the things about America is America is arguably the freest country in the world, but also arguably the most influential worldwide in terms of culture.
yannis pappas
Totally.
And you know what?
When it comes to music and fashion and stuff like that, you got to give a shout out to African Americans.
Most popular culture in the world.
joe rogan
For sure.
And the most influential in terms of cultural, like music, art, comedy.
yannis pappas
Fashion.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
I mean, it's like all the way to the E. It's gone all the way to Japan.
I mean, breakdancing in Japan.
I mean, hip-hop culture is like the most prevalent culture.
Like, black culture is everywhere.
joe rogan
Out of pressure creates diamonds.
yannis pappas
It's crazy, dude.
Yeah, like an oppressed minority and enslaved population here in America, in the West, in the New World, influenced the entire world.
joe rogan
It's also wild if you think about how many of the most influential artists that are African Americans came out of oppressive environments, came out of bad neighborhoods, came out of gang-infested neighborhoods, almost all of the best hip-hop.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Projects.
yannis pappas
Joe DiMaggio said, you know, rich people don't make the big leagues.
You know, you just can't be rich and make the big leagues.
I mean, it goes for sports, it goes for everything.
I mean, Bill Laimbeer in basketball is an exception.
He came from a wealthy family, but 99.9% of guys that make it to the NBA all come from poor backgrounds because it gives them that drive.
joe rogan
It's really prevalent fighting.
yannis pappas
And that's why we need poverty.
You know, you can't have a war on poverty because then you have a war on greatness because that makes people great.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
yannis pappas
Yeah.
unidentified
Take that, AOC! You can't say that, but it's kind of true.
It's kind of true.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
I mean, were you born rich?
You weren't born rich?
unidentified
No.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
Look at what you became.
If you were born rich, you wouldn't be motivated to do any of this shit.
You'd be sitting around.
You'd be a DJ like the rest of them.
joe rogan
I wonder.
yannis pappas
You'd just be a DJ with Michael Douglas' son doing drugs.
unidentified
Ah!
yannis pappas
Doesn't he notice all celebrity sons just become DJs or something?
joe rogan
Oh, it's so dangerous.
yannis pappas
And drugs.
joe rogan
Tom Hanks' kid's a rapper.
yannis pappas
I love that kid.
joe rogan
Is he?
yannis pappas
Chad Hanks is one of my favorite.
I love him.
joe rogan
Really?
yannis pappas
People look at him the wrong way.
I feel like in this era of being a celebrity online and creating your own thing, I think he's doing better than the other son who looks like Tom Hanks.
Cause this kid doesn't look like either, he doesn't look like Rita Wilson.
joe rogan
Does he look like the milkman?
yannis pappas
He looks like he was created in a lab.
Yeah, he looks like everyone from the Mickey Mouse Club.
I believe the Mickey Mouse Club, those, you never know, like you ever met, who's Justin Timberlake's father?
We don't know.
Never seen him.
joe rogan
I don't even know if he has a dad.
yannis pappas
Exactly, cause his fucking mother is Madonna, they took DNA from Madonna, they mixed it with the Bee Gees kids, all three of them, and they fucking made that kid.
They're all made.
Christina Aguilera?
A little fucking Hispanic girl from Pennsylvania can sing like Aretha Franklin?
How's that possible without eugenics?
joe rogan
Science.
yannis pappas
Science.
joe rogan
Maybe.
yannis pappas
Shaquille O'Neal didn't have a Pops.
Where's his dad?
joe rogan
I think he met his dad later in life.
yannis pappas
That's the story.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
You tell me a seven-foot guy that can move that fast.
LeBron James, where's his dad?
Nobody knows.
These people are fucking engineers.
I'm telling you.
joe rogan
I think they know.
yannis pappas
They don't know.
LeBron James' dad, look at it.
He has no father.
He's just his mom.
I'm telling you, the government got involved to make these people.
Like, you know, the way the Russians used to make athletes?
We're fucking doing it.
joe rogan
Let me ask you this.
What do you think about this whole Britney Spears thing?
And the conservatorship.
Conservatorship.
Her dad gets to control what she spends money on.
yannis pappas
I would do the same thing if I was her dad and I watched my daughter cheat on Justin Timberlake to marry Kevin Federline.
I'd lock that pussy up too and say, girl, you're making bad decisions and you're not capable of thinking on your own.
joe rogan
But why can't a grown adult just be crazy?
What if someone came along and said to Cat Williams, hey, you're just fighting 17-year-olds and you're doing coke and screaming at the audience.
You can't.
This is not good anymore.
We're gonna have to work this out.
You're gonna have to have a conservatorship.
We'd be like, what?
yannis pappas
Let him go, yeah.
joe rogan
No, you can never have that.
You can never have an African-American man who's crazy, who gets controlled by his parents, who is an entertainer.
yannis pappas
Well, Michael Jackson had a little bit of that.
joe rogan
But not when he was an adult, when he was a child, but that arguably fucked him up beyond repair.
yannis pappas
He controlled some children, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
But the thing with Britney Spears is that she's a girl, she's a woman, and we're saying she's crazy, she can't handle things, so let her dad take care of things.
yannis pappas
Can't do that anymore.
joe rogan
Could you imagine that if that was a male?
yannis pappas
Crazy.
joe rogan
But imagine if you had a dad and your dad said, Giannis, you have to keep performing in Vegas and I get whatever I get, 150 a month.
yannis pappas
I'm fist fighting him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
She's an adult now.
They got to revoke that.
I mean, it's crazy that it exists and that it still exists.
And like the whole family's in it too.
It's real nefarious.
I think the sister...
Like, is stealing her songs and performing them, like Gallagher's brother.
She's upset about- Yep, look that one up.
joe rogan
It's Britney too?
yannis pappas
It's- Her name's Jamie too.
The father's name is Jamie, and the sister's name is Jamie.
Because it's some weird- I'm telling you, the government's involved, man.
I'm telling you, dude.
I'm telling you.
That Mickey Mouse Club, Ryan Gosling with the fucking Kid's Canadian, dude.
And he's in the Mickey Mouse Club, no father, we don't know about his family.
I'm telling you, they made them in labs.
And then they become megastars?
All of them?
joe rogan
Well, Disney's a factory for megastars.
yannis pappas
Factory, dude, but you don't think the government and CIA's involved in that?
Project Mickey Mouse?
joe rogan
Maybe.
yannis pappas
I'm telling you.
joe rogan
Maybe someone needs to write a book about that.
yannis pappas
Think about Justin Timberlake.
jamie vernon
He can dance.
joe rogan
Video of Britney looking annoyed at Jamie Lynn singing her song is going viral amid their drama.
yannis pappas
And she even mentioned it.
She mentioned it like my sister singing my songs.
Did you see that meltdown she had on Instagram where she's cursed them all out and she's saying fucking and motherfucker.
jamie vernon
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
So I quit.
I don't like that my sister showed up in an award show and performed my songs to remixes.
My so-called support system hurt me.
Yeah, man, the whole thing is weird.
I don't think it would happen if it wasn't a woman.
I don't think you would be able to control a man like that.
That's what's fucked about this.
We're saying that she's helpless, but she's a grown adult.
Isn't she like 36 years old or something?
yannis pappas
Closer to 40, I think, yeah.
joe rogan
Why are they letting this happen?
I don't understand it.
yannis pappas
Don't know.
Is it California?
Is it a California court that did this?
joe rogan
I don't know.
yannis pappas
I don't know.
But I feel like, yeah, it's an odd thing.
Maybe the government knows she knows something and they're keeping...
I mean, dude, think about Justin Timberlake.
He can sing.
He can dance.
He's good looking.
joe rogan
He can act.
yannis pappas
He's a scratch golfer.
unidentified
Is he?
yannis pappas
He's a scratch golfer.
joe rogan
Really?
yannis pappas
How many dudes you know who can do that many things that great?
He's a great...
He can sing.
He's actually like a good artist.
He can play music.
He taught himself how to play instruments.
unidentified
Wow.
yannis pappas
He's handsome.
He's a good, funny actor.
He can do comedy.
Remember that, like, dick in a box shit?
unidentified
Yes!
yannis pappas
I mean, the dude has too much talent to be human.
joe rogan
He's a white Jamie Foxx.
yannis pappas
Dude, he's a white Jamie Foxx.
unidentified
Where's his father, Jamie Foxx?
joe rogan
Jamie Foxx might be the most talented guy in all of Hollywood.
yannis pappas
His talent is hard to even fathom.
joe rogan
It's unfathomable.
He can sing.
He does amazingly accurate impressions.
unidentified
Crazy.
joe rogan
He does stand-up comedy.
He can act.
He can do everything.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
He can do everything.
He's gonna play Mike Tyson in a movie and he's getting jacked.
yannis pappas
And he'll do it.
joe rogan
Have you seen it?
yannis pappas
I haven't seen it.
joe rogan
He's jacked.
yannis pappas
Right.
joe rogan
He's getting huge.
yannis pappas
When he played Ray Charles, it was like incredible.
joe rogan
Yeah.
yannis pappas
Incredible.
joe rogan
Amazing.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, his voice is insane.
yannis pappas
Yeah, he's had hit songs.
joe rogan
Yes.
yannis pappas
Hit songs.
joe rogan
Right.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like he could literally do anything he wants.
yannis pappas
Yeah.
There's some people who are just born with like an unnatural talent that only leads to one place, CIA. Dude, we're three hours in, believe it or not.
Right on.
Thanks for having me.
joe rogan
Thank you, my brother.
yannis pappas
No, thank you.
Thank you.
joe rogan
Anytime, my friend.
yannis pappas
I appreciate this.
joe rogan
Tell everybody all your different podcasts.
You got like 34 different podcasts you're doing simultaneously.
yannis pappas
Just the important one is Long Days with Giannis Pappas.
That's my solo pod.
It's going real well.
Please check it out.
Long Days with Giannis Pappas.
joe rogan
Where's it available?
yannis pappas
It's available on all podcast apps, and you can watch it on YouTube.
joe rogan
What was that?
yannis pappas
YouTube, yeah.
It's on YouTube and all the podcast apps and the new sports podcast with Olivia is called Unleashed and you can find that wherever you listen to podcasts too, but long days.
joe rogan
Giannis Papas, ladies and gentlemen.
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