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March 8, 2022 - The Joe Rogan Experience
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Joe Rogan Experience #1789 - Tom Papa
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jamie vernon
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joe rogan
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tom papa
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joe rogan
Oh, hi, Tom.
tom papa
Oh, good to see you, Joe.
joe rogan
You are the man that brings the bags.
You bring the brown paper bags.
tom papa
Joe, I was so happy to bring you bread that I was in Colorado doing shows Flew home, had my wife feed the starter.
I should have come right here.
joe rogan
Feed the starter.
tom papa
But I wouldn't have been able to bring you bread, so I flew home.
This is so sick.
I flew home just for 24 hours so I could bake the bread and then get back on a plane and bring it to you.
But I feel like you haven't had it in so long.
joe rogan
You're the only one I'll eat bread from.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
No, I'm lying.
I had a piece of bread this Saturday after the fights.
I did have a piece of bread with butter.
It's pretty damn good.
tom papa
Well, I'm happy to do it.
I made one regular loaf.
I'm not sure which is which, but one regular loaf and one olive loaf, which has green and kalamata olives, lemon zest, and herbs de Provence.
And I hadn't made that in probably a year.
And the house was just filled with the smell of the bread.
It was so great.
And then flying here, the only thing in my carry-on was bread.
Wow.
Because it baked yesterday.
Here, I'll let you open it with your hands.
unidentified
Oh my goodness.
tom papa
If Jamie could get a piece of it, he would probably.
jamie vernon
Did TSA check that hard?
tom papa
It smells so good, it filled my hotel room up.
joe rogan
You could bake fentanyl in there.
tom papa
Let me see which one that is.
Does that have olives on it?
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's an olive one.
tom papa
Doesn't that smell beautiful?
joe rogan
It does.
It's so dense.
tom papa
Yeah.
It's a pretty heavy bread.
joe rogan
I was reading about a woman who got caught at the border.
She's a pregnant lady.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And she had a rubber container filled with fentanyl stuffed up her cooch.
unidentified
Oh!
tom papa
What?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Which, you know, that stuff kills you if it's just a small amount.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
She had enough to kill everyone she's ever met.
tom papa
Oh my god.
What is fentanyl?
That's...
joe rogan
It's an opioid.
It's an opioid that is highly, highly potent.
It's like hundreds of times more potent than heroin, I believe.
The amount of fentanyl that kills you is so small.
There it is.
Pregnant drug runner nabs smuggling fentanyl in her vagina.
tom papa
Like an eggplant?
Oh, it's like in a condom.
joe rogan
Yeah, she wrapped it in a condom.
Just say no to drugs on the...
tom papa
How did they discover that?
joe rogan
They fingered her.
tom papa
Well, that's a random search.
joe rogan
Yeah, that is an interesting question.
tom papa
Right?
Like, how did you pick that person out of the line?
joe rogan
She voluntarily removed it.
tom papa
Because she's waddling through security?
joe rogan
19 years old and pregnant.
19-year-old U.S. citizen was flagged for secondary inspection.
tom papa
Poor girl.
Why is she faced with that?
joe rogan
Yeah, you know, I mean, she's fucking in a terrible situation.
tom papa
Yeah, exactly.
Just gingerly walking through security.
joe rogan
It says, oh, a canine dog alerted.
Dog's barking at her pussy.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
Oh, it's terrible.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
tom papa
Fentanyl.
Well, I felt pretty...
Pretty high risk coming with the bread.
It's literally my wheelie bag and these two big loaves of bread.
You just smell it.
joe rogan
Did people ask you?
tom papa
No, they didn't open it.
They didn't open it.
No?
joe rogan
You look like a safe guy.
tom papa
Right.
I should be getting fentanyl in my wheelie bag.
I thought that I was looking forward to it.
I wanted the story of them going through the bread and being like, it's sourdough.
joe rogan
Imagine if they cut it open, though.
tom papa
Ooh.
joe rogan
Oh, you monsters.
tom papa
You know what?
That's a pretty good smuggling technique.
Just sneak stuff in the bread.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
When you're putting in the olives, also put in the whatever.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
If you could have something that's got good thermal dynamics that you could put in the center of the dough.
Is that the right word?
Thermal dynamics?
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
Something like withstand heat.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
In the center of it.
unidentified
You have to bake it.
joe rogan
Sometimes screw down metal container that's like insulated.
tom papa
Uh-huh.
Shove it in there.
What is this?
unidentified
Oh my God.
tom papa
Look at these people smuggling booze and bread.
joe rogan
Oh, but that's like a loaf of bread.
Is that like at a stadium when they're going to see a game or something?
tom papa
Oh, that's hilarious.
joe rogan
You know, when I worked as a...
As security guard, we used to always catch people smuggling booze into concerts.
Great Woods.
That was at Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts.
It's in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
And we would have garbage bales, like these big plastic garbage cans filled with booze at the end of the night.
No kidding.
Because so many people brought booze, and we'd have to search their bags, and we'd have to take the booze, and we'd just put it in their bucket.
And then we got to take it home.
They would just give us the booze.
tom papa
There's that thing in O'Hare.
You've heard of that pot thing?
joe rogan
Yeah, you get to chuck the pot in there.
tom papa
Yeah, you got to chuck your pot in there.
joe rogan
That's in Vegas, too.
jamie vernon
Oh, yeah?
On Chicago's, it's inside the security line, though.
tom papa
Right.
jamie vernon
Like, you're already past security, and then the amnesty bin is there.
tom papa
Right.
jamie vernon
So it's like, if you got past it, now you're thinking...
tom papa
Oh, it's up to you?
Your free will?
joe rogan
Well, it depends on where you're landing, right?
Because, first of all, nowhere where you land do they check you when you land.
tom papa
Never.
joe rogan
You've got to be a real piece of shit for them to check you when you land.
unidentified
Pull that fucking guy off the plane!
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
If they're checking you, you're already on the plane.
You made it through security.
You got on the plane.
You flew somewhere.
tom papa
Yeah, and just completely act like a maniac in the sky, and then they flag you.
I had a guy yesterday.
I'm waiting to board last night to come, and a guy comes up, and he just pulls his mask down, just big beard, and he's just like...
How's it going?
Why aren't we boarding?
I'm like, you know, I was just being friendly.
I'm like, you know, the pilot's waiting for the whatever.
And it just becomes clear he's drunk.
He's just hammered.
Hammered.
And he starts talking about comedy.
And he's saying it's so loud.
You just low-key it.
joe rogan
Did he know who you were?
tom papa
Yeah.
And I'm just like, let's just get on the plane.
No, man.
Tell me.
Like, who's your favorite comedian?
All time.
Dude.
joe rogan
Jerry Lewis.
tom papa
He wouldn't stop.
And then he does, and I'm being nice, and he's peppering me with questions, and at a point I was like, okay, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, I'm just tired, let's just...
Let's just get on.
And he's like, oh, my bad.
My bad.
That's okay.
I'm like, it's okay.
And I asked him something about himself.
I didn't want to think I'm just, like, ghosting him.
And he had this very, like, kind of little sad story that he's telling.
And then he's like, they go, okay, we're boarding group one.
He's like, let's go.
And I'm like, we're a team now.
I'm like, why are we a team?
And he goes, I'm not group one, but I do this all the time.
And he goes up and he gives the woman, the gate agent, his thing.
And she gives it back and then goes, John, John.
And he starts picking up speed to get into the gate.
And she goes, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You're group three.
You have to go back.
And he's like, ah.
And he goes back.
unidentified
He just totally knew this is how he operates.
joe rogan
A lot of people do that.
They try to sneak in.
It's so gross.
I've seen that multiple times.
tom papa
It's so gross.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a weird move.
tom papa
It is a weird move.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
And then just, you know, why are you special?
It's like kindergarten cutting.
joe rogan
Well, people panic when there's a line.
It's almost like they think they're not going to get let on.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's like, I got to get on that plane now.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They're not going to let me on.
tom papa
Everyone's getting on.
Everyone's getting on.
You'll be fine.
Do you want to sit in your seat that much longer?
I mean, who cares?
joe rogan
Flying freaks people the fuck out, man.
How many people get drunk?
I mean, it's one of the weird places where you could drink at 8 in the morning.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
You go to the airport, they have booze there.
On the flight, they have booze.
tom papa
Everybody's drinking.
Everybody's getting hammered.
joe rogan
Isn't it strange that they give you a drug?
They give you a drug.
tom papa
It's scary, especially if you don't fly all the time.
Like a lot of these people, this is probably their one flight of the year, you know?
joe rogan
If that.
tom papa
Yeah, and freaked out.
And they're getting on there and they're sweaty and nervous.
Give me something.
joe rogan
Right, but it's also, it's weird that there's a very specific drug that you're allowed to consume and they'll provide it for you.
tom papa
Right.
They should be handing out edibles at the end of security.
jamie vernon
You haven't been to the golf course at 7.30.
joe rogan
What?
jamie vernon
You haven't been to the golf course at 7.30 in the morning.
unidentified
Oh yeah, but that's not because they're worried you're nervous.
jamie vernon
Well, there's just a bunch of drunks driving around in carts and with weapons and...
joe rogan
A golf club is kind of a weapon, but that's a weapon like your car's a weapon.
It's not a weapon on magnets.
jamie vernon
You should see the videos.
There's some wild shit that happens on golf courses.
joe rogan
People get in fights with golf clubs?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
tom papa
Oh, really?
jamie vernon
Oh, yeah.
There's some crazy videos.
People, because they're talking shit, and I'm like, there's also a group in front of you.
If they're fucking with your play, and then all of a sudden someone mouths off.
tom papa
Start hitting up on them.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
jamie vernon
You got four, eight dudes fighting, basically.
joe rogan
Yeah, people get very tense about a guy in front of them that's going slow.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
Is that the thing?
tom papa
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Or the guy behind them.
Going too fast.
tom papa
Or if they're rushing.
jamie vernon
Because it was a big hold up.
The group behind having a lot of fun.
The one guy's there all the time.
Just loud, drunk as shit.
Having a good time.
Eight beers deep.
But like, hey man, shut the F up.
Like, we're out here.
We're having a good time.
We're involved with you.
joe rogan
Right.
jamie vernon
I don't know what you're supposed to do.
joe rogan
Now, when you have like a fancy place, like you go to a fancy place, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
jamie vernon
They're supposed to be able to call a guy, and they're supposed to come out and be the mediator.
joe rogan
What if that guy's like some oil baron son?
jamie vernon
100%.
joe rogan
That kind of shit happens?
tom papa
Right.
jamie vernon
Good luck.
joe rogan
Annoying.
tom papa
Good luck.
I did a show in Colorado, and there was some flight attendants in the front row, and they came up at the end when I was signing books, and they wanted to talk about...
Because I talk about...
Oh, I have a line in my act about...
What it is to be a good person now, the bar has been really lowered.
If you get on an airplane and don't punch a flight attendant straight in the face, you're a pretty good guy.
And they came up and wanted to talk about the stories and stuff about how insane this last year has been.
joe rogan
Sure, because you're trying to get people, first of all, just to sit down and buckle their seatbelt and not lean their seat back is hard.
Now you've got to get them to keep their fucking masks on.
tom papa
The masks on and no alcohol for a long time.
She said her daughter worked for JetBlue and she got in a physical altercation on JetBlue, her daughter.
And yeah, she said, I think that they're going to stop the masks on the planes pretty soon just because of that, just because it's going to calm everybody down.
joe rogan
My favorite video was a lady with no mask screaming at a man to put a mask on.
She was just a person on the plane.
She wasn't even a lady who worked for the airline.
She was just screaming, and then she smacks him in the head.
Have you seen that video?
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
She wound up getting arrested, but she was just, I don't know if she was on drugs or what.
tom papa
You don't know what you're dealing with.
You don't know who's on what.
joe rogan
She goes, you're a real piece of shit.
And she smacks him in the head.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
And he's like an older guy.
And I guess she told him, put you...
Because one of the things that happened over the last year and a half is that people really enjoy telling you to put your mask on.
Because you kind of have to listen.
tom papa
Yeah.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You know when someone says, put a mask on, you're like...
You have to.
unidentified
It's a thing.
joe rogan
If you're not wearing it, you can't say fuck you.
If you say fuck you, then you're on YouTube and then it's a real problem.
tom papa
I mean, look, you got people to do it at all is pretty remarkable because people, you know, they don't know what they're doing.
The move I see at the gate all the time is older people You know, these poor people, they can't breathe without, like, anything on their face.
They're struggling.
And the number of times I see them pull the mask down and cough into the air and then put it back up.
They don't even cover with it.
Totally.
unidentified
I can't breathe.
tom papa
I'm telling you, I've seen that so many times.
joe rogan
I saw jujitsu classes where people had masks on.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
It's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life.
You're breathing heavy, you're on top of each other, you're sweating on each other, and you got a stupid surgical mask on which doesn't do a goddamn thing.
tom papa
It's a struggle.
joe rogan
People lost their fucking minds.
They lost their fucking minds over the last two years.
tom papa
Totally.
joe rogan
Think about how many people were already on anti-anxiety medication, already fucked before that.
tom papa
I know.
And then you put this stressful situation on top of them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's a lot.
It's a heavy load.
It's a heavy load.
joe rogan
And people's ability to take a new form of stress into an already stressful life.
Very hard for a lot of folks.
tom papa
Really hard.
And, you know...
I can't believe...
Like when I go to do shows and you see these people that are coming out and, you know, they've got families and they're out looking for laughs.
Like they're back wanting to do stuff again.
It's like...
I said to a couple shows, I was like, your kids won't say it, but I'll say it.
I'm proud of you.
I don't know what you did, but you did it.
You got through these two years of weirdness and keeping your family safe and that you're out just getting a drink and trying to have some laughs.
Good on you.
That's not a small thing that we did.
That was a big deal, especially in the beginning when you're like, are we...
Is everyone going to die from this?
joe rogan
Right, is everyone going to die?
tom papa
Are we all going to...
joe rogan
March of 2020, remember those days?
tom papa
Yeah!
joe rogan
You were like, this could be way worse than they're telling us.
tom papa
Right, exactly.
Remember those videos from China?
Yes!
joe rogan
When they were bolting people in their houses and spraying disinfectant through the streets, you remember those days?
tom papa
Yes, and all of a sudden, New York was just quiet.
I mean, that was not a...
We got through...
Human beings get through shit, but when you look back, it's like, Whew!
Okay, that was really a thing.
joe rogan
It was really a thing.
tom papa
So, you know, that you were able to muddle through it, great.
If it sent you off, I totally get that, too.
I totally get it, too.
joe rogan
I just don't know how, when someone gets sent off, how do you bring them back?
Like, how do you bring people back to, like, calm, normal after they went haywire?
tom papa
Yeah, it just kind of, I don't know.
It depends the degree, right?
It just depends.
You just have to have that thing of just...
You just got to keep on getting on, you know?
I remember my grandparents who, like, went through all of the original troubles.
They just always had the mentality of, like, yeah, big deal.
I know.
Life is hard.
So, you want a tuna sandwich?
What's going on?
joe rogan
The people that went through the Depression.
tom papa
The Depression and the Second World War.
You know, you just kind of muddle through.
It all comes down to just doing your little task and going forward and trying to stay...
Positive.
It's like in the doing, like the small of the little doing keeps you focused rather than the big overwhelming.
joe rogan
Well, being able to see, you know, big picture.
There's a funny meme that I saw online that Sam Tripoli posted on his Instagram.
Find that.
It shows the galaxy and the escape of the galaxy and then it points to an arrow and then you are here crying in the shower on the way to work.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Crying in the shower before work.
tom papa
Right.
unidentified
That's it right there.
Right.
tom papa
You are here crying in the shower before work.
joe rogan
Just wake the fuck up.
tom papa
Right, exactly.
joe rogan
How great is that meme?
tom papa
That's amazing.
joe rogan
I love the internet.
The fact that these memes exist, it's a totally new kind of comedy.
When it says, we are the universe experience itself having an existential crisis.
Carl Sagan.
tom papa
That is great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Yeah.
Perspective.
Perspective.
That's the biggest thing.
joe rogan
It's hard.
tom papa
It is hard.
joe rogan
There's an old expression.
I've said it many times.
I'll say it again.
But the hardest thing that's ever happened to you is the hardest thing that's ever happened to you.
It doesn't matter if it's a tiny little thing.
Like when my daughter was four and she couldn't find her toy and she started freaking out.
I'm like, listen, we're going to find it.
It's not that big a deal.
unidentified
It's a big deal!
tom papa
I can't find Lammy!
joe rogan
But it was a big deal to a four-year-old, right?
tom papa
Sure.
joe rogan
Because she hasn't really had, you know, now she's 11. If the same thing happened, she'd be like, I can't find my tour.
I'm like, well, let's look for it.
Okay.
Like, you know, she's got a little resolved now.
tom papa
That's right.
That's right.
joe rogan
Experienced a little life.
tom papa
Yeah, you got through it.
I know.
joe rogan
Some people are fucking...
They've taken no chances.
They've played it safe their entire life.
They don't understand it.
They've never done anything that's really dangerous.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
So when a form of adversity like COVID came along, or this fucking war, this shit is scaring the fuck out of me.
tom papa
So scary.
So scary.
And that's kind of the thing of going about your day.
It's like...
You check in and you look at it, and it's like, oh, it's too much.
joe rogan
I was reading an article today where they were talking about Putin's options.
He has almost no options.
tom papa
Which is terrifying.
joe rogan
Terrifying, because he could do something crazy.
tom papa
Exactly.
I know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If he decided to do something crazy, like if he decides to send one nuke into Ukraine and kills 100,000 people, 200,000 people, 300,000 people, what do we do?
Are we supposed to nuke him now?
tom papa
That's the dangerous thing.
It's like, so you choke him out, and all the sanctions are taking effect, and okay, so you turn him back, and so, I mean, all right, so you defeat him.
Ultimately, what does that mean to a guy that has the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet?
How does he save face?
joe rogan
I don't think he does.
tom papa
And pull out?
joe rogan
What does it say?
tom papa
Or does he just take it, and everybody lives with him having taken it?
joe rogan
The world's nuclear-armed states possess a combined total of nearly 13,080 nuclear warheads.
More than 90% belong to Russia and the United States.
tom papa
Yeah, but look, Russia has more.
joe rogan
Approximately 9,600 warheads, is that true?
Do they have more than us?
tom papa
Russia has 6,257, we have 5,550.
joe rogan
Oh my god, I thought we had more.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
I thought that we had more nuclear power.
I thought, like, the power of our weapons was greater than the power of Russia's weapons.
jamie vernon
I do know when I was looking something up about that...
We were talking about the suitcase bomb the other day.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
And I was digging through articles about that, trying to find out the accuracy.
There's a lot of claims being made over certain time periods of, like, we heard through intelligence that they now have 200...
They made 250 of these, so...
You have to have proof of that.
I don't think they're showing them, they're boxes of them, you know.
They're like saying they just had new ones.
joe rogan
The nuclear football thing, or the nuclear briefcase thing, was always a thing that got discussed.
I thought that our...
I guess it doesn't matter, right?
If one nuclear bomb goes to Russia and they launch all their shit at us, it kills the whole world multiple times over.
But I was under the impression, I believe I read something, that the power of the United States nuclear arsenal Was larger than the power of the Russian arsenal.
Maybe I confuse that to numbers of bombs.
tom papa
I don't know.
It's all terrifying.
It's so scary.
And I just, I don't know, like, what his, like, what's his endgame?
Like, if there's 40 million people in Ukraine, like, how do you just take, like...
joe rogan
Well, how did he do it in the first place?
Like, imagine, like, us, like, the United States invading Rhode Island.
You know?
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Like, what the fuck?
If they actually went out and did that.
And that's, it's a lot bigger than Rhode Island, right?
It's like, there's more people in Ukraine.
Like, how many people are in Ukraine?
tom papa
40 million?
joe rogan
Is it really that many?
tom papa
Yeah, it's a lot of people.
joe rogan
So that's like California.
That's like if Washington, D.C. invaded California.
Like if the Pentagon invaded California.
tom papa
It's so horrible.
And what's so bizarre is you're watching war on your phone.
Like you're seeing footage of this stuff.
joe rogan
High resolution footage because people filmed it off of their phones.
tom papa
And you think about those kind of wars.
It's like we're used to those grainy black and white...
Images of those kind of a war.
And now you see people in like puffy jackets that your family wears and with their cell phones and that one horrible picture of the family of four just on the sidewalk, just dead.
And it was just...
It's horrible.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw horrible video footage of an apartment building that had been blown up and there was these like old ladies wearing like old lady coats.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like they look like your regular old Ukrainian old lady just hanging out.
tom papa
A month ago?
joe rogan
Blown apart.
Like legs missing, blood everywhere.
tom papa
Nightmare.
How do you just do that?
Just go in and just...
It's horrible.
So I don't know.
That's what I keep looking for.
Is those articles, I'm like, oh, so what's the endgame?
Like, what is the end of this?
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
Hey, it's terrifying.
joe rogan
So this thing about what Russia's offered Ukraine, I was listening to Sagar and Crystal from Breaking Points talking about it this morning.
Mm-hmm.
And apparently Russia's demands are that they recognize Crimea as being Russian, but I think they also want Ukraine to demilitarize itself, which is like hilariously crazy, because you just attacked us.
Imagine you saying, hey, I know we just attacked you, we want you to get rid of all your weapons, and we won't do it again.
tom papa
Like what?
Right.
joe rogan
And also, if your president dies, we want to put a president in.
tom papa
Oh my God.
He's a comedian.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The president of Ukraine played a president on television on a show a few years ago and then ran for president and won.
Genius.
Kevin Spacey should have tried that.
tom papa
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
He's a tough guy, man.
He's just in the...
They made an attempt at his life.
joe rogan
Three attempts.
tom papa
Three?
joe rogan
Yeah, apparently they've made three attempts at his life.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
But there was also like a Chechen hit team that came, like a whole squad of Chechens that they came into Ukraine to try to get him and try to...
And then they got...
See, it's so hard to say what's true and what's not true.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you're hearing about things like, I heard that the nuclear power plant got bombed.
They attacked the nuclear power plant.
And then they said, actually it wasn't.
It was a building next to the nuclear power plant.
tom papa
Right, caught on fire.
joe rogan
No, they attacked it.
tom papa
Oh, they did?
joe rogan
Yeah, they attacked a building that was near the nuclear power plant.
So it wasn't the actual power plant.
It was a building near it.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
So it's like, you hear about all these things and it takes a day or two to find out what's true and what's not true.
tom papa
At least we're finding something out.
Russia's locked down.
They don't even know what's going on.
He's shut down everything.
joe rogan
Is that what happened?
tom papa
Yeah.
They have no access to any news.
They're saying that they're not even aware of what's happening, the Russian people.
joe rogan
I wonder how the system works there in terms of if Biden wanted to deploy nuclear weapons...
I'm sure there's a series of checks and balances that have to go into play before that happens.
It has to be approved by somebody.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I wonder what the situation is in Russia.
tom papa
I don't know.
And even whatever the system that is, what mistakes could be made?
joe rogan
They have more nuclear weapons than us.
And they got one guy who's already shown that he's willing to just invade a country that just a few decades ago was a part of the Soviet Union.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was all a part of the same union.
tom papa
And now you're bombing them.
You're killing them.
joe rogan
It's wild.
tom papa
It's insane.
It's so scary.
joe rogan
It's the scariest time I could ever remember.
And I bet it must feel like to a lot of people what the Cuban Missile Crisis felt like.
Where it's like, Jesus, we're that close.
tom papa
Yeah, like how far do we go?
When does this tip over?
joe rogan
Do you remember when you were a kid and we really thought we were going to go to war with Russia?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you remember those days?
I remember those days clearly.
Being in, I guess it was high school, and I was thinking, oh my god, we're going to go to war with Russia.
tom papa
Yeah.
Rocky had to go against Drago.
That's right.
Rocky fought Drago.
When the US won in the Olympics in the hockey, that...
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
tom papa
I mean, the emotion of that was so crazy.
And it's hard to tell young people what that meant.
Like, oh, that's cool, you beat the Russians.
No.
It was at a fever pitch of just anxiety and almost war.
I mean, we were in a Cold War.
It was so big.
And now we're kind of like, what a dick.
What a dick.
We're coming out of COVID. It's all starting to feel hopeful.
And now, god damn.
What are you doing, man?
joe rogan
But you know, there was a lot going on there.
The idea was that Ukraine was trying to join NATO. And if they joined NATO, then NATO could park nuclear weapons at Russia.
tom papa
At Russia's door.
joe rogan
From Ukraine.
Again, I'm not a foreign policy expert.
It's the shit I'm reading.
There's a lot of complicated things to it.
There's a video that we talked about a few podcasts ago, but it's really good.
It's explaining.
It's about 15 minutes, that video or so.
It's like a synopsis of what is going on with Russia and Ukraine, why Ukraine is so valuable.
One of the things is natural gas and oil.
It has a tremendous reserve of natural gas and oil, and that's one of the reasons why Russia invaded Crimea and took over Crimea.
That takes away some of the access to the waters where the oil and the natural gas are.
tom papa
Okay.
Could they have done it a different way?
Could they have taken it over or made a deal or done something?
joe rogan
Dude, I don't know.
tom papa
Is there some other way?
joe rogan
I don't know.
But the whole NATO thing is kind of crazy, too.
If NATO is invading and encroaching on Russia's space, if they're moving these countries into...
If they're making them join or having them join NATO, and then they actually would do that...
Park weapons next to Russia.
I had Dakota Meyer on the podcast, who's a veteran, who's got a famously insane story about some of his combat duty in war in Afghanistan.
Crazy shit.
But he was saying, imagine if another country like Russia or China parked nuclear weapons in Mexico.
And they're like, oh, yeah.
I mean, there's no justifying anything that Putin did.
What he's done is horrific and terrifying, and he's a legit maniac.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But you've got to wonder, like...
tom papa
Yeah, there's something at play.
joe rogan
How many pieces are moving here?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
And the humiliation, like the cultural humiliation that he was saying of Putin.
I mean, that's what Hitler was bred on after World War I. It was the humiliation.
We're going to regain this for ourselves.
That human emotion and a leader that drives them in these ways still exists.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I don't think the people are with Putin.
tom papa
No, they're not.
That's why he's shutting everything down.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it's a real bad move for him.
tom papa
It seems so isolating, but that's what makes it even crazier, right?
So it's this one guy, so then he can do whatever he...
Like, there's no checks on him?
There's no...
You see that one when he's meeting with his people, and he's like on one end of this 50-foot table, and all his advisors sit down at the other end?
joe rogan
Really?
tom papa
Did you see that picture?
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
Yeah, Jamie, if you could find that picture of him talking to his advisors.
It's like he's isolated in very real ways.
It's terrifying.
joe rogan
He has to be.
I mean, they could not have wanted this.
If you play things out from where they first invade Ukraine, how does this end good?
tom papa
Right.
What's the endgame?
joe rogan
They just give up?
They just give up and you occupy Ukraine?
tom papa
They're going to be happy that you're there?
joe rogan
I mean, I've read how many official Russian soldiers have died.
It's in the hundreds.
But there's unofficial reports that it's far greater than that.
Oh my god, that's insane.
That's an insane photo.
tom papa
That's him having his meeting with his people.
joe rogan
Why is he doing it like that?
tom papa
They say that he got really wigged out by COVID. No.
He doesn't trust people.
Yeah.
joe rogan
No chance.
tom papa
That's what they said, yeah.
joe rogan
So he stays that far away from people because of COVID? That's what he said.
Look at all the colorful food.
Looks delicious.
jamie vernon
That's not a photoshopped idea.
tom papa
Oh, someone filled the table up with food.
joe rogan
Someone filled the table up with a buffet.
That looks yummy.
tom papa
That looks good.
joe rogan
Putin's long table explained why he puts some leaders including Germany Schultz at an extreme distance.
So it must be a COVID thing.
Click on that.
It's in Forbes.
tom papa
Why he puts some...
joe rogan
Oh, you fuck.
tom papa
$50 for a subscription.
jamie vernon
Is that really what they're charging?
tom papa
That's what it said.
$489.99.
joe rogan
Well, Forbes is a financial thing.
They have money.
tom papa
This is why it's so scary.
It's like if Hitler had nukes, it's like, okay, so you can beat him in all these different ways.
Like you're saying the soldiers or this country turns out, or he gets just militarily defeated.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
But he has this thing at the back of it.
He has this horrible weapons.
He's got that.
So if you break him and take him all the way to the end, he still has that.
That's the most terrifying.
joe rogan
So it says the distance from Schultz, and he refused to take a Russian-administered COVID-19 PCR test.
That's why.
So they put him at the end of the table.
But the fact that he has a crazy table like that.
It says, Putin is living in a strict health bubble, and the Kremlin confirmed the extreme distance is to protect Putin.
Wow.
Well, I guess when you poisoned a few folks, you get a little nervous about it.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
I mean, imagine what he's done to his detractors, and then imagine how nerve-wracking it must be to be him.
And worry about, like, retaliation.
tom papa
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, he poisons doorknobs and shit.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
When the people touch doorknobs and they get sick and die.
tom papa
In different countries.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Did that in, like, was England, was it?
tom papa
Yeah.
Yeah.
God.
joe rogan
So, what's the process for him launching nuclear weapons?
That's what I want to know.
Does he have to clear it with his generals?
tom papa
I hope he has to talk to someone.
joe rogan
Because he's the top dog, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Do they share that with the world?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Probably not.
Good point.
joe rogan
This is what I want to know.
What, like, the amount of power, nuclear weapons that Russia has and the amount of nuclear weapons that America has, can't they blow up the whole world, kill all life, like, many times over?
unidentified
Yes.
tom papa
So you hope that's the deterrent.
joe rogan
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
tom papa
But you don't want to, like, Scarface at the end.
Just like, fuck it.
I'm gonna take everything out.
If I go, we all go.
joe rogan
Yeah, a giant long table filled with coke.
tom papa
Say hello to my little friend.
joe rogan
Well, that's the thing.
Like, also, how old is the guy?
tom papa
I don't know.
joe rogan
He's, like, 69 years old.
And, uh, is he in great health?
tom papa
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, we're all, you know, and then we've got China behind them, but we all kind of need each other for these economies to keep going.
I mean, I don't know.
It's all too scary and unknown.
This is why you go back to the thing of, like, my grandmother of, like, do you want a tuna sandwich?
Because it's too much.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's too much.
joe rogan
Well, this is too much, but it's also too much where you go, this could go really bad, and how does it go good?
Like, how does it go good?
The only way it goes good is if Putin backs out.
And if he backs out, he looks weak.
tom papa
Yeah, right.
Or if they surrender and give him Ukraine, but then does he stop?
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
They're not going to do that.
tom papa
I'm just talking crazy scenarios of how it could end.
joe rogan
I guess, yeah, if they surrendered and gave Ukraine.
tom papa
Or he takes it over and he just starts to occupy it and it becomes Syria.
joe rogan
But this is what I was reading.
What I was reading was they were saying that they're grossly underestimating the amount of human beings they would have to have in Ukraine to take over.
And they said it was probably in the neighborhood of 500,000.
tom papa
Military?
joe rogan
Yes.
They would need 500,000 people to take over and run Ukraine.
tom papa
God.
joe rogan
Because if you take over, you have to take over everything.
tom papa
You gotta take over everything.
joe rogan
You gotta take over the military, you gotta take over all the political seats, unless they just go, you know what?
You guys are right.
We're gonna be Russians now.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
We gave up.
We're not Ukrainian anymore.
That's not gonna happen.
tom papa
Because then it becomes Syria, right?
It becomes this prolonged war within the country and just totally destroys everything in it.
joe rogan
It's nuts, man.
tom papa
So crazy.
joe rogan
So how many times over can we blow up?
jamie vernon
I am trying to find that out.
The best answer I've found now is how destructive are today's nuclear weapons?
unidentified
I'm so scared.
jamie vernon
Compared to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki ones, it says those were about 15 kilotons and 20 kilotons respectively.
Current estimations now of thermonuclear weapons yield about 100 kilotons of dynamite comparison.
That's just for one.
It says one kiloton nuclear weapon dropped on New York City could lead to roughly 583,000 fatalities.
So multiply that times...
10,000?
tom papa
I think you could just say everybody.
joe rogan
Yeah, basically.
tom papa
It would kill everybody.
joe rogan
Because you said Russia has 6,000 of them and we have 5,000 something?
jamie vernon
Yeah, they have just over 6,000.
We have just under 6,000 estimated.
joe rogan
Do we have more power than them?
More nuclear destructive capability?
jamie vernon
Again, that would then go into like, you know, we've shown videos of like a couple mega bombs.
Like, maybe I could have one that could, you know, take over 15 or 20 of theirs.
I don't know how many of those one we have.
Might only have one or two.
joe rogan
Right.
jamie vernon
Save it for a real good day or whatever.
I don't know.
tom papa
So you've just got to really hope that he doesn't want, that he loves Russia so much he doesn't want Russia to be obliterated.
joe rogan
The president of France.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's his name?
Macron?
Is that how you say his name?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Macron?
tom papa
Macron.
joe rogan
I was reading an article where he was saying that he met a very different Putin when he went to Moscow to talk to him about all this, and that Putin was just ranting and raving for hours and hours about history.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Which I don't like.
tom papa
I don't like that either.
jamie vernon
I don't like hearing that.
tom papa
I don't like hearing that either.
joe rogan
Because if he's thinking that much about history, he might be thinking about leaving his mark.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
unidentified
Yes.
jamie vernon
Fuck.
tom papa
Fuck him.
joe rogan
Yeah, fuck him for sure.
tom papa
Fuck him.
joe rogan
I mean, no one's...
I don't think...
Even his own family's probably like, fuck him.
tom papa
Right.
You know?
Yeah.
joe rogan
How does that guy stay safe?
tom papa
Yeah, how do you stay safe?
And is there stuff at work of like, how do we get this guy?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I guarantee that somehow you get this guy.
tom papa
Because it's down to that, right?
We're down to one guy.
joe rogan
Right.
If someone took him out, let's imagine it happens inside of Russia.
Some Russian military guy decides to take him out.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That seems like it's on the table.
tom papa
I would imagine.
joe rogan
This is a crazy movie.
tom papa
It is a crazy movie.
It's scaring me.
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm scared.
The only thing that's keeping me comfortable is spread.
tom papa
Batman did a really good opening this weekend.
Maybe we send Batman.
joe rogan
Look at this.
Putin sends nearly 100% of Russian forces at border into Ukraine.
tom papa
100% of the forces.
That means everybody that was lined up at the border.
He sent them all.
joe rogan
Oh, at border.
tom papa
He sent them all in.
When everyone was watching all the people amassing and they're like, I don't know if he's going to do anything.
joe rogan
It says, but the United States does not believe that Russia is preparing to move additional battalion tactical groups from elsewhere into the country to shore up its troops in Ukraine.
This is today, Jamie?
Yeah.
tom papa
I do not like his face.
His face bothers me.
joe rogan
Does it?
Well, it's the face of a killer.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Should bother you.
That's the last face you see before a knife gets rammed in your throat.
tom papa
Ah, jeez.
joe rogan
I mean, realistically, how many guys do you think that man has watched die by his hand?
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
A lot.
Yeah.
There's a difference, right, between him and a guy like Biden?
Mm-hmm.
Telling stories about Corn Pop.
tom papa
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
One of the things that I was saying- I love baseball.
It doesn't really apply to him because he's doing something terrible, but one of the things I was saying about the democratic process of electing a president, one thing that's weird is that- You're taking on the most important job in the world, and you're new.
You're new on the job.
You only get four years to get good at it, and then, like in the case of Trump, they vote you out.
So now, you just start to get an understanding of how things work, how to make the fucking engine move smoothly, and get rid of you.
Whereas a guy like him...
He's been running Russia for decades.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
And when you do that, if there's anything else you do, if you're a CEO of a company, if you run your own business, after a decade or two, you really know what you're doing.
tom papa
Yeah, you get an idea of how to do it.
joe rogan
It's kind of weird, right?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That the most important job, everyone who does it, is new at it.
tom papa
Right?
It is really weird.
You've got to be great immediately.
Yeah.
joe rogan
But the other option's terrible.
The other option is dictator.
tom papa
Then you get Putin.
Right, exactly.
joe rogan
But the other thing with America is then you have what they refer to as the deep state.
Because really, you have the figurehead, who's Biden.
This is the best example we've ever had, because clearly he's declining.
And so the people around him, and the intelligence agencies, and the military, those are the people that are really calling the shots.
tom papa
Yeah, that was like Bush also.
That was always the argument.
It was like, well, there's other people.
He's not really running the show.
joe rogan
Dick Cheney.
tom papa
Right.
He's not really running the show.
joe rogan
Did you see that movie?
tom papa
I did.
joe rogan
I didn't see it.
Still haven't seen it.
tom papa
It's so good.
joe rogan
Is it?
tom papa
His performance is so...
Christian Bale...
joe rogan
He's amazing.
tom papa
Oh my...
Oh my God!
As I was watching it, I had just, not recently, but the last thing I saw him in was Ford vs.
Ferrari.
joe rogan
He was great in that, too.
tom papa
He won the Oscar for it, I think, right?
He's all skinny with my buddy Matt.
I mean, just skinny.
And I remember talking to Matt, and he was talking about being on set with him.
He was so impressed.
And, I mean, he's been acting since he was a little kid, but he's so...
I could not believe I was watching him as Cheney and that this guy was Ford versus Ferrari.
joe rogan
It is crazy.
I mean, what he's able to do with his body, the transformations he puts himself through...
tom papa
The eyes.
I mean, he changes inside.
That's the most insane thing.
It's not just like they put prosthetics on him or he wears a collared shirt.
There's something in his eyes, the way he talks, the way he moves.
I mean, he transforms.
And then what was the other one he did with Adam McKay with The Money, The Big Short?
Remember, he was the guy that figured out that the housing crisis was going to happen?
joe rogan
Right, right.
tom papa
Everything he does.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
What was he when he was a kid?
It was Empire, not Empire.
When he was a kid with John Malkovich.
Yeah.
A kid?
Spacing.
He was...
He was a child?
jamie vernon
Empire of the Sun.
tom papa
Empire of the Sun.
joe rogan
I don't remember that one.
tom papa
Oh yeah, this is where he starred and he was great then.
joe rogan
How old was he?
He was like 12. Oh my god, that's him?
tom papa
That's him.
joe rogan
With Steven Spielberg?
tom papa
Wow!
He was so good, Joe.
joe rogan
That's Christian Bale as a 12-year-old?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
It looks like him.
Look at that.
tom papa
Yes, that's him in a leading role as a 12-year-old.
And I'm telling you, he was amazing then.
This was not like...
Look, I put on a play in fifth grade where I played a Canadian Mountie.
It didn't come close to what this kid was doing in this movie.
joe rogan
Yeah, he does transform himself.
Like when he was the guy in American Psycho.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
Amazing.
tom papa
Amazing.
joe rogan
100% hook, line, sinker, believed it.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
And then The Machinist, which is one of the weirdest ones, the one when he lost all that weight.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That's when he played Dickie Ward.
Was it Mickey Ward's cousin?
Was it Dickie Eklund?
Is that his cousin?
jamie vernon
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Is that the guy's name that he played?
jamie vernon
I don't remember the character's name, unfortunately, but I remember the movie for sure.
tom papa
He's so good.
God.
joe rogan
I think it's Dickie Eklund.
Pull that up.
I want to say, I thought it was Mickey Ward's brother.
tom papa
Not to sidetrack, but I played Colonel Doobetter in that play.
joe rogan
But he was great in that movie too, because in that...
Well, that's a different movie.
Yeah.
tom papa
The fighter.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Oh my god.
The guy's...
joe rogan
Yeah, Dickie Eklund.
Yeah.
tom papa
He's never swung and missed.
joe rogan
And he played this guy who, you know, we all in the boxing...
Like, look how...
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, he's a crack addict in real life.
And so the guy was, like, you know, in and out of trouble.
And he played this brother of Mickey Ward, who's this famous boxer.
And he just played this kind of, like...
You know, eccentric, crazy, drug addict, troubled brother.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And you fucking totally bought it.
I mean, that's Batman.
How crazy is that?
tom papa
That's great.
That's right.
joe rogan
That's Batman.
tom papa
That's right.
joe rogan
And by the way, the best Batman.
He was the best Batman.
tom papa
He was the best.
joe rogan
The voice was a little goofy.
tom papa
People are loving the new one.
People love the new one.
joe rogan
People love spam.
They love everything.
People love all kinds of...
unidentified
They love TikTok.
tom papa
Who is the new Batman?
jamie vernon
Hayden Christensen?
unidentified
Is that his name?
joe rogan
No, no, no, no.
Robert Pattinson.
jamie vernon
Yeah, Pattinson.
joe rogan
The guy from Twilight.
jamie vernon
He's the vampire.
tom papa
Oh, right, right.
joe rogan
Girls loved him as a vampire.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
You know, this is a very controversial thing because he really wasn't into working out to be Batman.
So he's like the least convincing physical presence as Batman.
tom papa
Really?
He wouldn't work out?
joe rogan
I'm sure he did a little something, but he didn't work out like Christian Bale worked out.
Christian Bale as Batman, he looked like an MMA fighter.
He was jacked.
Like that.
Robert Pattinson.
I mean, I guess he's in shape.
They probably photoshopped the shit out of that.
tom papa
Right.
Whose body is that?
joe rogan
It looks good right there, though.
tom papa
They put his head on.
joe rogan
I would say that looks reasonably athletic.
That's what I would say.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that's a guy who's not fat.
tom papa
I wonder what you would describe me with my shirt on if that's reasonably defined.
joe rogan
Dead man walking.
What?
jamie vernon
He's vengeance defined, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's not vengeance defined, unfortunately.
jamie vernon
Embodied.
joe rogan
But apparently it's a very dark and interesting movie.
And everyone that I know that has seen it loved it.
tom papa
Yeah.
I've heard good things.
128 million opening weekend.
joe rogan
Oh, you're a fucking Hollywood guy.
You pay attention to that shit.
tom papa
I saw the headline.
joe rogan
Look at you, reading Variety on the toilet.
How much money are they making?
As if, like, somehow or another involves you.
tom papa
That's big.
That's big.
joe rogan
Yeah.
How much did Pfizer earn this quarter?
unidentified
Tell me that.
tom papa
I don't know that part.
But I do know that...
And Jackass forever did very well.
joe rogan
I'm sure it did.
I don't know how those guys are alive.
tom papa
That's the biggest victory for me.
I just love that dumb, fun comedy went back to making some money after the pandemic.
That's good news for all of us.
joe rogan
Dude, you know what I watched yesterday?
I watched a series of Buster Keaton stunts.
tom papa
Oh, man.
Here's the real deal.
joe rogan
I know I've seen these before, so I shouldn't have been so shocked, but I went down a rabbit hole, and I watched quite a few of them.
tom papa
YouTubes?
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a gang of them.
One of them, he goes out this window.
No, he jumps from one rooftop to another roof, grabs onto the lip of the roof, and slips, and falls.
Watch this.
Now, this is not CGI. So he's standing there, he makes the leap, he catches that, falls through those things, and then catches that bar.
tom papa
Wait a minute.
joe rogan
And then goes under like that.
These are real, man.
And look at this.
tom papa
That's amazing.
joe rogan
I mean...
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
I don't...
How do you do that?
There's no stuntmen.
This is Buster Keaton.
But he did a bunch of these things.
Like, watch this.
tom papa
Grabs the car.
joe rogan
Grabs the car, and he holds on to it, and he goes sideways.
But the thing is, man, this is all really happening.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, watch this.
He grabs the back of this trolley car...
No, that's not real.
That is not real.
tom papa
How'd he do it, though?
joe rogan
That's definitely not real.
tom papa
How'd he do it?
He was one of the first filmmakers.
joe rogan
But that's not real.
That defies physics, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Doesn't it?
unidentified
I mean, how did he do it?
tom papa
It's Johnny Knoxville.
jamie vernon
Some of these were the beginnings of camera optical illusions.
unidentified
Oh, really?
jamie vernon
Some of them.
Not all of them, because he got fucked up doing some of these, too.
joe rogan
Oh, he had to get fucked up.
Because they probably had to figure out what you can get away with and what you can't get away with.
tom papa
Didn't he...
Did you see the one when the whole house falls?
jamie vernon
That's real.
This is real.
joe rogan
This is real.
tom papa
Wow, look at that.
joe rogan
I mean, this is wild shit.
Wild shit that he was...
unidentified
Oh, look at that.
tom papa
His whole car falls apart.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
jamie vernon
Like that, mate.
joe rogan
Like this.
tom papa
Yeah, so how did he do that one?
jamie vernon
There's a small chance it just was on a, like he did some of it, but like that could have been like a screen plate, you know, like the way they even did cartoons back then.
I've seen a few behind the scenes of some of these, but I also don't want to discredit it at all.
I heard he got hurt doing this and still managed to make something happen even though it failed the way he planned it.
joe rogan
Dude, this makes my hand sweat just looking at it.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
Watch him make this leap.
tom papa
Boom, boom.
joe rogan
I mean, how does that not fuck you up?
tom papa
Was that his body, though, falling down?
joe rogan
Well, it wasn't somebody else's body.
tom papa
It could have been a dummy.
joe rogan
You think?
tom papa
Maybe.
It sure looked like you would die if you did it, like if somebody really did it.
joe rogan
I mean, it makes me nervous.
But like, fucking crazy-ass Tom Cruise does his own stunts for Mission Impossible, broke his ankle, jumping from one roof to another.
Did you ever see that video?
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
He clearly breaks his ankle.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
I mean, he's wired and everything, so he doesn't have to worry about dying, but he makes the leap, and his ankle catches funny, and you see his ankle get out.
tom papa
What do you think the desire is to do your own stunts?
joe rogan
Tom does all his own stunts.
Tom, like he's my friend.
tom papa
My friend Tom.
Tom does it.
joe rogan
Not Tom Papa.
Tom Cruise.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
The other Tom.
tom papa
Tom C. The guy who doesn't bake bread.
joe rogan
He does all his own stunts.
He does motorcycle race stunts.
He does car racing stunts.
He does a lot of wild shit.
He learned how to race helicopters.
He learned how to fly helicopters to do a scene.
Wasn't that Mission Impossible as well?
There was a crazy scene and they were like, hey man, this is a fucked up scene.
He's like, I'm going to do it.
And they're like, what?
So he takes his helicopter, and he's going through this valley.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, sideways.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he's piloting the fucking helicopter.
tom papa
Don't mess with TC. He's a wild dude.
He is a wild dude.
joe rogan
All things through L. Ron Hubbard, who strengthens him.
tom papa
Well, there's truth to that, isn't there?
joe rogan
Well, yeah, if you believe it.
Like, this is real, too.
But this, like, he's strapped into the, you know, he's, like, tied on.
He's not just hanging on.
tom papa
Amazing.
joe rogan
A lot of the shit that he did, like this, this is him actually doing this.
He's actually being suspended and he actually jumps out of this fucking building.
He does wild shit, man.
tom papa
And he has the option to tag out, go to his trailer, eat some carrot sticks while the other guy does it.
joe rogan
Yeah, and by the way, stuntmen die.
They die.
They die all the time.
It happens all the time in films.
I have a very good friend of mine who got badly injured doing stunt work just a couple years ago, and he still fucked up.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, his head.
unidentified
What happened?
joe rogan
He was doing a stunt, and he did it once, and they liked it, and they asked him to do a second take, and he was very uncomfortable, and he did it and banged his head really hard.
My friend Tate.
You might have met Tate at the Comedy Store?
tom papa
Maybe.
joe rogan
Yeah, Tate was on season three of The Ultimate Fighter.
tom papa
Okay.
joe rogan
And he was, you know, big fucking strong athletic guy.
And stunts just go bad, man.
tom papa
Of course!
joe rogan
They just go bad.
And he banged his head and he was fucked for a long time.
tom papa
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Couldn't see bright light, had to be in dark rooms.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
And all the depression that comes when people get those horrible head injuries like that.
So meanwhile, here's Tom Cruise.
Literally the biggest movie star in the world.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Risking his ass.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Doing these things.
tom papa
It's insane.
I slipped on the ice in Fargo, North Dakota last week.
joe rogan
Hit your head?
tom papa
A little bit.
joe rogan
You alright?
unidentified
Huh?
tom papa
But it was literally like a week after Saget.
joe rogan
Oh no.
tom papa
I didn't even know I was falling.
It just happened so fast.
I was just walking to my show, but everything in Fargo right now is an ice block.
It's literally covered in ice.
So I'm just walking.
I wasn't even thinking about falling.
I was just thinking about getting into the building because it was so damn cold.
It's like minus 31 wind chill.
unidentified
Oh.
tom papa
And I'm just walking.
And there was no part of me that was like, whoops, or whoa, or I might be falling.
I was just, I fell!
I'm down.
I'm on the sidewalk.
And there was a building next to me, and I just kind of grazed it a little bit with my head.
And I think I might have broke a rib, because I'm still in pain down here.
joe rogan
Broke a rib?
tom papa
Or bruised it.
Yeah, something.
joe rogan
If you broke a rib, you'd probably know.
tom papa
I can't sleep on it.
joe rogan
Yeah?
tom papa
Yeah, it's been a couple weeks.
joe rogan
Can you touch it?
I feel it.
tom papa
It's not crazy pain.
joe rogan
They don't do much for those.
Unless it's really bad, then they put screws in place.
tom papa
Yeah, no, this isn't that bad.
Maybe I bruised it.
joe rogan
There's a gentleman named Chance Rencounter.
We brought him up a couple of times because he fought in Bellator a couple weeks ago.
Or a week ago, I guess.
Not even a week.
Maybe.
Whatever it was.
Recently.
And he got kicked and broke five of his ribs.
Yeah, like kicked really hard.
And he put a photo of the x-ray up, I think yesterday, of the screws and the plates that they put in place to put his ribs back together.
Yeah, there's the kick.
Look at that.
tom papa
And that kick broke five ribs?
joe rogan
Bro, look at it.
It's halfway into his body cavity.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah, he fought this guy Koreshkoff who's a straight up killer.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He hit him with a spinning back kick to the body.
tom papa
Oh my god.
I saw some of your kicks.
You posted a kick like a month ago?
joe rogan
Same kick.
Holy cow.
Whack!
unidentified
Whack!
joe rogan
You do not want a guy like that kicking you like that.
tom papa
No, I can't even walk through the winter wonderland of Fargo without getting hurt.
joe rogan
So look at his ribs, all of these plates put in him now.
tom papa
Oh my god.
That could puncture a lung.
joe rogan
Oh, 100%.
His lung was punctured.
tom papa
It was?
joe rogan
Yeah, and it was soaked with blood.
His lung was filled with blood.
It was punctured.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
I mean, it was a brutal, brutal break.
tom papa
And that ended the fight?
joe rogan
Oh yeah.
It was like the first few seconds of the fight, he threw that kick.
It was very quick, very early in the fight.
tom papa
How was this weekend?
joe rogan
It was great.
tom papa
Was it?
joe rogan
Yeah, it was great.
Yeah, great, great event.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah.
unidentified
Wild.
tom papa
I don't know the names or anything, but any surprises?
joe rogan
No, not necessarily.
Just really good fights.
It was Colby Covington versus Jorge Masvidal.
Have you been to a UFC lineup?
tom papa
I haven't.
unidentified
Bro.
tom papa
I really want to go.
joe rogan
What are you waiting on?
tom papa
I'm waiting for the invite.
joe rogan
You know a guy.
You know a guy.
unidentified
Do I got to give you three loaves?
joe rogan
Just tell me when you want to go.
tom papa
I would love to.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Are you going to be in Vegas in May?
joe rogan
No.
No, I don't think there's a May one.
There's a July one.
tom papa
Okay.
joe rogan
Is there a Vegas May date?
There may be a May one, but it probably is at the Apex Center.
tom papa
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
Because there's an April one that's in Phoenix.
That is April...
No, excuse me.
That's in Florida.
That's April 9th.
And there's a May one that's in Phoenix.
tom papa
Phoenix could be fun.
joe rogan
Yeah, Phoenix is fun.
tom papa
I have a show in Vegas in May.
If you can make that happen, that'd be great.
joe rogan
I'll call the UFC. Say, listen, Tom Pomp wants to see some scraps.
tom papa
Where should I go?
I would love to come, honestly.
joe rogan
If you want to go, the Phoenix one would be great.
tom papa
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, because the Phoenix one, it'll be a fun time if you want to come, because I don't have any gigs scheduled that weekend either.
We're just going to go and have fun.
tom papa
Oh man, I saw your steak that you ate after.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, we ate the John George Steakhouse in Aria.
tom papa
I was like my dog just like salivating.
That would look beautiful.
joe rogan
One thing about Vegas, man, there's so much good food.
That place is great, but even better.
Sorry, John George Steakhouse.
But Bizarre Meats.
tom papa
Where's that?
joe rogan
At the Sahara.
tom papa
Oh yeah?
Bizarre Meats.
joe rogan
It is insanely good.
They cook them over fire, so they have these Argentine-style wheel steak grills where they lift and lower.
You walk in there, you smell the wood burning, the smell of the meat, and the smell of the burning wood.
tom papa
Your caveman comes out.
joe rogan
It's so good.
And the gentleman that is a famous chef, Jose Andres, who is the head chef of that place.
So you walk into that place?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jamie, show the area where they're cooking.
There's a video of it, I know.
So that's it.
Perfect.
So those right there, so they have the cuts of meat right there, these big thick cuts of steak.
And then they have these grills that are basically fires.
So they have just, it's just hardwood.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
And then they put the steaks at the top.
See the very top area?
tom papa
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
They have them up there until the steaks reach like an internal temperature of, you know, like 110 degrees or something like that.
Then they put them directly over the fire to sear them on the outside, so they use like a reverse sear method.
It is...
tom papa
It looks so good.
joe rogan
I always think I should go somewhere else when I'm in Vegas, but I never do.
It's not worth fucking around.
tom papa
I can never get that outside char at home.
joe rogan
Oh, I can help you.
tom papa
You can?
joe rogan
Yeah, that I'm good at.
tom papa
Are you?
joe rogan
I can't bake bread at all, but I can cook the fuck out of some steak.
I'm very good at that.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
tom papa
Well, I have a beautiful freezer in my garage.
unidentified
That's right.
joe rogan
You've got a nice setup.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I gave you that commercial freezer.
How much elk do you have left?
tom papa
I have not that much steaks.
I have a good amount of ground elk still.
joe rogan
Do you have sausages, too?
tom papa
Yeah, I'm getting low.
joe rogan
Well, I got more.
You know what you should do?
You should make lasagna with that ground elk.
tom papa
Ah, that's a good idea.
joe rogan
Dare made lasagna?
tom papa
Not with the elk.
I mean, I make a good lasagna.
joe rogan
Yeah, you should make it with elk.
tom papa
Yeah, that would be good.
joe rogan
Yes.
Elk lasagna.
Elk chili is really good, too.
tom papa
Ooh, that's another good idea.
You know what I really like, which I think you told me, is for breakfast.
joe rogan
Oh yeah, with eggs?
tom papa
Just crack some eggs over it.
joe rogan
Yes, fantastic.
tom papa
Get some of this toast on the side.
joe rogan
In butter, so you get a lot of the fats from the butter, and I like a little garlic salt.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Garlic salt overall.
tom papa
Yeah.
It's so good.
Yeah, I know.
The freezer's great.
joe rogan
Something about the smells of cooking, too, they're so exciting.
When you cook food, you get the smell, all the aromas while it's cooking, and then afterwards you eat it.
It's like you get double pleasure.
tom papa
Whenever I'm making sauce, and you start with onions in the oil, like a sofrito, some carrots and celery, and that onion smell will linger for a day or two.
The meal's done, it's all satisfied, whatever.
You come up the stairs the next morning, and you still have that lingering...
It's like the holidays.
It's like the whole house is just filled with it.
joe rogan
I love the smell of sautéed garlic.
It's one of my favorite smells.
tom papa
Oh, it's the best.
joe rogan
Whenever I cook a sauce, the first thing that I do...
I usually just use bottled sauce, but...
Whenever I do it, the first thing I do before I pour it in the pan is I heat the pan up, and I mince up some garlic, I put some olive oil, let the olive oil get up to temperature, and then I drop the garlic in there, get it crackling, and then once it gets crackling, then I pour the sauce in over that.
tom papa
So good.
joe rogan
It can never have enough garlic.
tom papa
I know.
I interviewed Lydia Bastianich.
Who's that?
She's a famous chef, Italian chef, and I had her on my podcast and she was telling me that it wasn't until Italian Americans started cooking Italian food, like when they brought it over to the new country, garlic was cheaper.
So that's when garlic was really heavily introduced.
unidentified
Really?
Yeah.
tom papa
It was always...
joe rogan
Because it was expensive in Italy?
tom papa
Yeah, or it was more rare.
And she said, but, you know, all us lugs in Jersey were just throwing garlic on it like crazy.
And it became like a heavy thing.
It used to be, you know, like carrots and celery and onion.
And it was a lighter kind of a thing.
And we were just like, uh-uh, garlic.
joe rogan
Dude, I've seen like literally 40 or 50 hours of videos of Italian guys cooking steak over fire.
Because there's a special type of steak they cook in Florentine.
They call it Bistecca Florentine.
And they do the same kind of thing as that.
It's like you're cooking over live fire and the smells and the embers.
And I don't know what they're saying because they're all talking in Italian.
They're all getting into it.
tom papa
I have the same thing watching guys making carbonara.
unidentified
Ah, yes.
tom papa
With the guanciale and the egg and the cheese.
joe rogan
The bacon.
tom papa
Yeah, Matteo Lane turned me on to these carbonara guys.
And the same thing, all in Italian.
Don't understand it, but you're just watching them.
joe rogan
It's better sometimes if you don't understand what they're saying.
tom papa
Yeah, it is.
You're right.
joe rogan
Especially something as simple as cooking steak over fire.
And you can have the closed captions on and everything, and you can read what they're saying, but there's something about watching.
It's so primal, watching people cook meat over fire.
tom papa
What's your char method?
How do you get the outside?
I have a gas grill, first of all.
Will I ever get char?
joe rogan
Well, the best way to do it if you have a gas grill, honestly, is you do it two ways.
You start it off slowly, like you put it low, and I would put it at like 250, 260. Somewhere around that line.
And have a meat thermometer.
Get it up to whatever the internal temperature you'd like to achieve is.
I like to get, like with elk, I like to keep it pretty rare on the inside and slowly get it to like 120. And then I like to use a cast iron frying pan to sear it.
So I get the cast iron frying pan very hot.
tom papa
Very hot.
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
No butter?
joe rogan
No, because butter has a low flashpoint.
It'll burn quick.
tom papa
It'll burn up.
joe rogan
Yeah, so I use beef tallow.
tom papa
Beef tallow, what's that?
joe rogan
Yeah, beef fat.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, beef tallow's better because you can get beef tallow very, very hot.
tom papa
And that's how you do it with the Elks?
joe rogan
Or low flashpoint or smoke point.
I forget what it's called.
But basically what it is, it's like at a certain temperature, like some oils will become fucked up and they burn.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Like butter burns pretty quickly.
Right.
Right.
Olive oil is not the best for that.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Olive oil is great for a nice medium heat saute with garlic and stuff like that.
tom papa
Yeah, totally.
joe rogan
But with beef tallow, you can get it hot as fuck.
And so that I scoop some of the beef tallow out, I dip it in the frying pan, and then I just sear it on the outside like me, depending on what the internal temperature is, a minute and a half, two minutes on each side, maximum.
tom papa
Because you're just doing the outside at that point because you've achieved the inside already.
joe rogan
Yeah, just trying to get a nice crust.
What do they call the mallard reaction?
Is that what they call it?
There's a reaction of meat where the meat sort of gets like a caramelization.
I think it's called mallard.
tom papa
Okay.
joe rogan
That's like when you get a steak and it's got a nice crust on the outside.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
And then the inside, it's very perfect.
Yeah.
tom papa
Do you put the cast iron on the grill?
joe rogan
You can.
tom papa
Yeah?
joe rogan
I usually do it inside.
tom papa
Do you then turn the heat up?
Or you do it inside?
joe rogan
Yeah, I usually do it inside.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Because, yeah, if I was going to put the cast iron on the grill, I'd turn the heat up way, way high.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Is it called the mallard?
Yes.
The maillard.
M-A-I-L-L-A-R-D reaction.
So it's a chemical reaction with sugars and amino acids in the meat reacting create new flavorful compounds.
Flavorful!
But that's that beautiful brown crust on the outside.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
So what I do is...
When I get the temperature of the meat up to about 90 degrees, generally speaking, I like to do elk one of two ways.
Either I use one of those Argentine-type grills and I cook it over fire, and when I do it slowly, I use a meter probe, or I do it on the Traeger, which is very easy because the temperature stays super consistent.
And you can read the temperature on your phone.
tom papa
So I like that.
That's cool.
joe rogan
So I can read the temperature of the meat and the grill on my phone.
Just look in the app.
So I could be watching TV or whatever and just chilling.
So then, once it gets to about 90-ish, then what I do is I fire up the stove top in the house at high heat.
And I put a cast iron frying pan there.
tom papa
Got it.
joe rogan
And I get that sucker real hot, get the fan cranking, and then I throw some tallow in there right when I'm about to put it on there.
tom papa
Got it, got it.
joe rogan
And the beautiful thing about that is when you do that method, you don't have to make it rest very long either because you sort of slowly cooked it to that 120 degrees anyway.
Then you're searing on the outside and I'll let it rest five minutes plus.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
That's about it.
tom papa
Oh, that sounds great.
unidentified
Nice.
tom papa
That sounds good.
So where do we go see the fights, then?
Maybe it should be Vegas.
joe rogan
Well, Vegas, you can go to July if you want to come to the July fights.
tom papa
That could be cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, that'll be a big one.
July is July 2nd, and I have a gig July 1st, too, there.
tom papa
July 2nd.
I think I'm in San Diego July 1st, so then I just buzz across.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Hop, skip, and a jump.
That's easy.
Show up July 2nd.
Yeah, you'll love it.
tom papa
Oh, that'd be cool.
joe rogan
It'll be a big one, too.
Whatever that July one will be, the July 4th weekend is always huge for the UFC. Because July 4th is that Monday.
So July 2nd will be a cracking card.
They'll always have a championship event.
It might be the return of Conor McGregor.
tom papa
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, I know they're talking about Conor coming back.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
It all depended upon his injury.
tom papa
Yeah, is he healed?
joe rogan
I'm not sure.
He says he's working out and walking around.
You can see him walking around, he looks fine, but whether or not he can actually spar, that's the big thing.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's like sparring is.
tom papa
If he'd be, yeah.
joe rogan
You have to make sure that the bone's not going to break again.
He's got a titanium plate in there now.
tom papa
Oh, jeez.
joe rogan
Just like that guy had on his ribs.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Connor's got that on his shin now.
unidentified
Aye!
joe rogan
And screws in there.
So who knows what it feels like, whether or not he can fully get after it.
tom papa
Yeah.
That'd be a big payday?
joe rogan
No, he's going to do it for free.
tom papa
He just loves it, right?
joe rogan
See, the thing is, I don't know if it can be Conor, because what they're talking about is Conor fighting for the title again, which is kind of hilarious.
But if that does happen, it will be the winner of Justin Gaethje versus Charles Oliveira.
Charles Oliveira is the current champion, and they're fighting in May.
And that is a big fight, and that's taking place in Arizona.
But the thing about that fight is, when that fight is, oh, I think I'm right about that.
Make sure I'm right about that.
I'm wrong a lot.
But when that fight takes place, you have to assume that they can be healed enough to fight in July.
Because that doesn't give you a lot of time.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's only two months.
tom papa
Oh, yeah, yeah.
To be able to, right, come back.
joe rogan
Yeah.
May 7th.
So that's the one that's in Phoenix.
That's a big one.
tom papa
Oh, boy.
joe rogan
So it's like, for you to be able to fight, unless, like, let's say Charles Oliveira catches Justin Gaethje in a submission real quick, or Justin Gaethje catches Charles Oliveira with a big punch and knocks him out, if one of those guys wins quick, then you could conceivably say, I'm good to go for July, and they make it happen.
But that's a big if.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Because these are two of the very best fighters in the world, and most likely, they're going to fuck each other up.
tom papa
And they'll go the distance, and they'll be all messed up.
joe rogan
They're going to be messed up.
Most likely.
You never know.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Like, Colby Covington just won this weekend.
He said he has no injuries.
He says he's good to go.
He says he'd like to fight again in July.
He said that.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
I think he said July.
But he wants to fight again fairly soon, so he's feeling good.
And that was a big, long, five-round fight against an elite fighter.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
And there'll be no baseball, so that would be good.
joe rogan
What's going on with baseball?
tom papa
They're having a lockout.
They shut down.
unidentified
I saw you.
joe rogan
You were getting pissed.
tom papa
I was getting pissed.
joe rogan
Which is rare.
I'm like, Tom, Papa is hate-tweeting.
tom papa
I know.
My one angry post was about baseball.
joe rogan
And the price of hot dogs.
tom papa
I hate greed.
I hate greed.
joe rogan
Is that what it is?
tom papa
Yeah.
Sons of...
You know, we've...
Yeah, I love baseball so much.
joe rogan
What is the...
What's the dispute?
tom papa
It's between the owners and the players and there's different...
I don't know.
I don't even know.
joe rogan
You don't know?
tom papa
No.
I don't know the ins and outs.
joe rogan
But yeah, you're tweeting about it.
tom papa
I just know get your shit together and open up baseball.
We stuck with you through this stupid ass pandemic through everything.
These families have...
joe rogan
Here it is.
tom papa
It's all greedy.
joe rogan
Major matters such as the competitive balanced tax thresholds, the minimum salary, and the size of the new pre-arbitration bonus pool leaves the sides with a significant distance between their proposals.
Boy, good luck getting America behind competitive balance tax thresholds, minimum salary, and the size of new pre-arbitration bonus pool.
People are going to be like, what?
Where the fuck are the hot dogs?
tom papa
That's exactly my reaction.
unidentified
It's just like, I want to meet my friends on opening day.
tom papa
Get your shit together.
joe rogan
So is it possible they're going to work this out, or is it over?
tom papa
It seems like, well...
It seems like opening day is going to be shut, and will they work it out and save the season?
Perhaps.
But they're already knocking off some weeks, which is so dirty and gross.
It's just gross.
joe rogan
It is gross.
tom papa
It's such a huge...
The money is so huge in these...
I mean...
joe rogan
Right, but if you're a player and you realize that the owners and the coaches are making way more than the players, which is understandable, but there's like some negotiation room and the owners aren't willing to negotiate and...
Minimum salary is low.
Yep.
tom papa
No, I know.
I'm sure someone is more at harm than others.
I don't know who.
But get your shit together and realize that you've got a fan base and you've got these families that scrape together stuff to go and keep on this tradition.
It's just ugly and gross.
joe rogan
Yeah, if I was them, I'd be worried that people would wake up and realize that baseball is boring.
What?
Who said that?
tom papa
Don't give us time to think about it.
joe rogan
Who said that?
It's relatively boring.
tom papa
I love it so much.
joe rogan
Well, it's an American pastime.
tom papa
It's an American pastime.
There's a lot tied to it.
joe rogan
Dude, people live for that shit.
My grandfather lived for the Yankees.
tom papa
My grandfather too.
They were probably around the same age.
joe rogan
Yeah, probably.
tom papa
In the same area.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
I loved it.
I loved talking about it with him.
He was just, I was the best.
joe rogan
Yeah, I loved it when I was a kid until I started doing martial arts.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I found martial arts because of baseball.
That's how I found Taekwondo.
tom papa
Why?
joe rogan
Went to a Sox game.
Went to see the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
And me and my friend Jimmy were on our way home.
And we had to wait for the T, you know, the local transportation system.
And it was a big-ass line.
So we walked past this martial arts school.
And I said, let's go see what's up.
And we walked in, and as I was walking up the stairs, I was hearing this crazy sound, like whomp!
And then a chain clanking, and I was like, what is going on up there?
And it was this guy, his name was John Lee, and he became a mentor to me later on.
I fought on the same team as him.
And he was the national champion at the time, and he was preparing for, I think it was the World Cup.
tom papa
Wow.
You just wandered in.
joe rogan
I just wandered in.
I wandered in watching one of the best on earth in peak condition in the middle of training.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
And I remember watching him kick the bag thinking, I want to be able And he was doing that thing that you saw me kick the back kick.
That's what he was doing.
And that's probably how I... No, not probably.
Definitely how I fell in love with that kick.
Which became my signature kick.
Because I wanted to do what he did.
I couldn't believe the amount of power he was generating.
tom papa
It is impressive to watch.
Watching you do it is just like, whack!
unidentified
It is.
tom papa
It's the sound.
The sound is the thing that gets you.
joe rogan
I'm so slow compared to what I was when I was like 19. Really?
Oh, yeah, man.
When I was 19, I was so fast at that.
Also, I weighed 155 pounds.
It was a lot smaller.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But you're still fast.
tom papa
I mean, it's still fast.
unidentified
Relatively.
joe rogan
Relatively.
tom papa
It's still a big, loud whack.
joe rogan
It's a lot of noise.
I'm just happy that I could still, at 54, that I could still do it.
Because I was worried that as I was getting older, like, there's going to come a time where I'm going to be physically limited.
Sure.
And I've managed to stave that off.
I've managed to hold that off.
tom papa
Yeah, I mean, one injury in any part of your body that needs to participate in that, and it's over.
joe rogan
A lot of things have to be moving in coordination.
Knees and hips and back and turn and force and ankle.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
It's like when I fell on the ice.
That's exactly what happened.
joe rogan
Basically, you're an athlete.
But I found that gym because of a baseball game.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's also what led me to stop taking baseball seriously.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
Yeah.
I just like it.
It's just the pace is great.
I have so many traditions around it.
I meet up with my buddies from high school.
joe rogan
The pace is great.
So you like it slow?
tom papa
I do like it slow.
unidentified
Do you like soccer?
tom papa
And then there's action because it builds.
It builds.
It's that thing.
joe rogan
Do you like soccer?
tom papa
I do, but I don't really watch it.
Like, when the World Cup comes around, I get into it and think, I should be watching this all the time!
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
But I've never been, like, into the leagues and all that stuff.
joe rogan
There are certain dudes that when the World Cup comes around, they get really annoying.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
tom papa
They know everything.
joe rogan
There's certain guys that are, like, a little too enthusiastic about letting you know that they like soccer.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
tom papa
I totally know what you mean.
joe rogan
It's a little virtue signally.
It's a little I'm wearing two masks.
unidentified
You know?
joe rogan
You know the type of guy?
tom papa
Yeah, this is my team.
This is what I do.
No, I know exactly what you mean.
joe rogan
It's the type of guy who pronounces the names of countries with a roll of the tongue, a little too exaggerated.
unidentified
Guadalajara.
Guadalajara.
joe rogan
Argentina.
unidentified
You know, they say names of cities.
Yeah, and you're white.
joe rogan
They go too hard.
You're from Denver.
Settle the fuck down, buddy.
Those are the guys that get so excited about the World Cup.
tom papa
Yeah, and they know a couple names.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're faking it.
tom papa
All you need in sports talk to try and put a little bravado is just know a hair more than the person you're talking to.
joe rogan
Exactly.
tom papa
So if you could throw a couple names that that guy doesn't know, you're the man.
joe rogan
Phonies are gross.
tom papa
Phonies are so gross.
joe rogan
Phonies are gross.
And I run into phonies like, there's only one sport where I can spot a phony.
I mean, I kind of smell the phony with World Cup, like...
I don't like how you're talking.
tom papa
I smell phony.
I don't know what it is, but it ain't true.
joe rogan
But with MMA, I love talking to phonies.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Because they'll bring up stuff.
That's the one sport that you go, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Don't try that shit with me.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
I'm the wrong guy.
tom papa
I got you.
joe rogan
Because I got it covered.
And so the phonies would try to break out data and facts.
I'm like, stop now.
You would need a decade of heavy research to be able to just have a conversation with me about this.
So shut the fuck up.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
What is that thing?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
That phony thing is- What is that thing?
Oh my god.
tom papa
Why can't you just admit that you don't know that much?
joe rogan
Some guys want to pretend they know everything.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's a weird thing when you're talking about a sport.
Because sports involve so much.
Think of the World Cup.
Think about how many How many players there are.
So many teams and how many...
tom papa
History.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
tom papa
The whole thing.
joe rogan
It's the number one sport in the world.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So if you're going to be a phony in that...
You know who's a legitimate soccer expert is Ian.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Ian Edwards?
tom papa
Ian, yeah.
He lives it.
joe rogan
He lives it.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
He has a soccer podcast.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Ian's not remotely...
Ian's going to come here and we're going to go see one of the...
Because Austin has a professional soccer team.
tom papa
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
So there's a, you know, Matthew McConaughey is one of the owners, and a friend of mine is one of the other owners, and we're going to go watch a game, and then we're going to do a podcast about it afterwards where I ruthlessly mock him.
But we've been talking about doing something like that for a while, watching a soccer game and then doing a podcast.
tom papa
That's really great.
joe rogan
But again, Ian doesn't have, he has zero phony in his body.
tom papa
No.
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Nothing in there.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
He's the last person to pretend he knows something.
He'll pretend he doesn't know something.
tom papa
Yeah, he's the guy who gets quiet when someone else is acting a fool about it.
joe rogan
Exactly.
tom papa
Starts clocking it.
Did you see that fight that happened over the weekend?
That soccer match in, was it Mexico?
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
Huge fight.
joe rogan
A brawl?
unidentified
Brawl.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
tom papa
Like, huge.
They had to shut the whole thing down.
They had to evacuate people from the stadium.
unidentified
Oh, no.
tom papa
No, it was big.
joe rogan
At least 26 injured as fight breaks out amongst fans at Mexican soccer game.
Wow.
But that's on CNN. It might have never happened.
Wow, look at this.
They're throwing haymakers.
Oh, he's eye poking.
tom papa
It spilled onto the field.
joe rogan
Look at that move.
The double eye poke.
tom papa
Look at his belly sticking out.
joe rogan
Duck under and the eye poke.
Just extend the hands.
And the other guy doesn't know what the fuck he's doing either.
It never ceases to amaze me how people who don't know how to fight are so willing to fight.
tom papa
Is there video of it?
joe rogan
Oh, here we go.
tom papa
Because it's spilled out onto the field.
joe rogan
Three critically injured.
Wow.
tom papa
In Mexico City.
joe rogan
Tell you what, bro.
Mexicans have a long history of combat sports.
tom papa
Look at it, Joe.
The whole stadium is just flooded with people just...
joe rogan
This looks like people are just running to me.
tom papa
Look at that guy kicking, punching.
joe rogan
What are they fighting over?
That guy kicked and then fell down himself, and then he fell down and he hit him.
Oh my goodness.
tom papa
Look at that guy with the chair.
joe rogan
Oh my goodness.
tom papa
They're on the field.
They're beating each other with chairs.
A lot of guys with no shirts on.
joe rogan
That guy looks so hammered with the chair.
tom papa
He doesn't even know who to hit.
He just found the chair.
joe rogan
He kind of barely tapped that guy with the chair.
And he's like, no, this is too much.
He walked away.
He didn't keep swinging.
He tapped the guy with the chair.
He was like, what am I doing?
tom papa
I'm going to kill somebody.
joe rogan
I got a job.
I got a family.
tom papa
I found the chair.
joe rogan
22 hurt.
tom papa
Look at it.
I mean, it's insane.
joe rogan
Look at him with the chair.
Watch.
The guy with the chair.
He's got it up in the air.
I'm going to fucking hit something.
Let me get out of here.
tom papa
Ah, jeez.
I've got to go find my car.
joe rogan
Go back to the beginning because when he was doing it, he did hit somebody.
Back up a little bit because he hit somebody with the chair.
There was one moment.
Here he goes.
Watch.
unidentified
Watch.
joe rogan
He moves forward.
I'm going to hit somebody.
Look at this.
He kind of hit him in the butt.
Nothing serious.
He's got this, I'm threatening people with this chair!
Fuck it.
And he walks away.
Fuck it.
tom papa
I gotta go home.
What am I doing?
joe rogan
Have you ever been, like, where a brawl takes place?
Where something happens and a brawl breaks out in the crowd?
tom papa
I've been, yeah, there was like a, yeah.
joe rogan
There's a weird feeling in the air when those things happen.
unidentified
Totally.
joe rogan
Where you feel like kind of anything can happen.
tom papa
When you don't know what's happening, but the energy shifts and everyone's looking in a direction, and you don't know what it is, but you feel it.
joe rogan
Well, it gets scary.
Oh, shit, that guy got laid out.
Oh, my God, that guy's bleeding all over the place.
tom papa
No, it was nasty.
joe rogan
Oh, they must have stomped him.
tom papa
No, like the...
joe rogan
Oh, this family running away.
That's horrible.
tom papa
Horrible!
You just take your kids to see a game and this is what happens.
joe rogan
Look out.
Go back to those pictures, Jamie.
I mean, scroll down the next one.
That guy is fucked.
That one right there, I mean, that guy is probably dead.
tom papa
Look at his arm.
His arm's going in three different directions.
joe rogan
His arm's fucked.
For sure, that guy's got a broken arm.
Yeah, and then the other guy, the blood that's coming out of his head.
tom papa
God.
It was like right at the end of the game.
joe rogan
Many of these people were actually presumed dead.
tom papa
None of them, you said?
joe rogan
It said many of the people were presumed dead, understandably, when you see some of the stuff.
And unconfirmed reports out of Mexico stoked even more, claiming several fatalities emerged from the brawl.
tom papa
Awful.
joe rogan
Fuck, man.
tom papa
No, come on!
Keep it together.
unidentified
Soccer.
joe rogan
Soccer.
tom papa
God.
And you know, I would say, well, the good thing about baseball being boring is that you don't get this, but there was another problem with the Dodgers in this.
Look at the amount of people on the field.
The Dodgers and the Giants.
Someone always gets really messed up in the parking lot.
joe rogan
Yeah, sports.
tom papa
Sports.
joe rogan
Well, sports are basically a proxy of war, right?
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's kind of like, it's like fake war.
tom papa
Yeah, it's like a replacement.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like a replacement of war.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's like when the Raiders are going to play the Dolphins.
It's basically, now it's Vegas, right?
It's basically Florida is going to war with Las Vegas.
tom papa
Right, exactly.
And we get it out of our system in an hour and a half.
joe rogan
You know, that's what it was invented for.
That's what football was actually invented for.
tom papa
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
There was an article I read about, I think we might have even talked about it on the podcast at one point in time, about how football was invented to give people something to do that was like a replacement for war.
tom papa
Right.
When they were in between, when there was no war to fight.
joe rogan
Yeah, and in the beginning of it, a lot of it was like Native Americans playing.
Like some of the best early players were Native Americans.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, I was reading this whole thing about the history of football.
I wish I could remember more details, but again, I don't really follow football either, so I casually was glancing at this article and then I gave up on it.
tom papa
Yeah, but when you see how people are so passionate and passionate by it, it's like, well, would Cleveland be marching on Pittsburgh if they didn't have the Browns and the Steelers?
Like, would all these young men be just...
joe rogan
I think you need to give people things like that to do.
I think legitimately, when you get an enormous mass of people like the United States is, the United States is 300 and whatever million people.
Huge.
They need some things that they can root on.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They root for.
They need some things that are very important and serious to them.
tom papa
Yeah.
It takes you out of your everyday.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
It takes all that aggression and puts it towards something.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It does.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It does.
tom papa
Were you ever a hockey fan?
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
I was a hockey fan for a while.
joe rogan
What happened?
They did you wrong?
tom papa
Yeah, they just went into...
I was with the Rangers as a kid, and then they won the Cup, and it was this huge thing.
And then for the next decade, they were just so bad.
joe rogan
It was just like I... So you're a fair-weather fan.
Is that what you're trying to say?
tom papa
It was pretty fair.
Yeah, I guess so.
LAUGHTER I didn't just show up when they won the cup, but I bailed at a certain point.
joe rogan
Well, that one day that I went to see the Red Sox game, that I got into Taekwondo, from that day on, all I really cared about was martial arts, combat sports.
That's really all I was interested in.
I was always interested in boxing.
I always was a big boxing fan.
But then I got really into martial arts and that became my obsession.
So I didn't watch any sports after that.
tom papa
Right.
No, you were doing it.
You were participating.
joe rogan
But it's also like the stuff that I watched.
I'd only watch combat sports.
I'd watch boxing or kickboxing.
There was no MMA at the time.
tom papa
And no YouTube, by the way.
joe rogan
Yeah, nothing.
But I would get VHS tapes.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You'd get VHS tapes back when VHS came out.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
I would record, like, say, if Marvin Hagler was fighting on HBO, I'd record it and watch it later, play it back.
tom papa
God, this is good.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
unidentified
It's amazing.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Did you find the thing on the Origins of Football?
jamie vernon
Oh.
I remember...
I think there's two different stories there.
There's definitely a story about the Native American roots in football, I know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Because there was some...
It's like how Jim Thorpe got involved.
tom papa
Oh, right.
joe rogan
Right.
You ever see the picture of Jim Thorpe when he's running in the Olympics?
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
And he had one shoe that was a shoe that he found, and it didn't fit him right, so he had to put, like, two socks on.
Yeah, and he won.
tom papa
And he won?
joe rogan
He won the gold medal.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Like, fucked up shoes.
And they were, like, shoes.
tom papa
Yeah.
Oh, like dress shoes?
joe rogan
Yeah, they looked like shoes.
Like, that's all people had back then.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Like, the shoes they ran in?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, look at the image of them.
Like, look.
tom papa
Oh my god.
It's like a wingtip.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, it looks like it fucking barely fits him.
Jim Thorpe, legendary Native American athlete, had his shoes stolen just before he was about to compete in the Olympics.
He found a mismatched pair of shoes in the trash can and went on to win a gold medal wearing them.
He was also the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
Show a picture of his face.
Like, that is a hard man.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a guy who's not going to get stopped by a fucking pair of shoes.
tom papa
God.
joe rogan
You know?
tom papa
He should have played Batman.
No.
joe rogan
He's dead.
Look at his shoe there.
Look at that vintage shoe.
tom papa
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
That's what they ran in.
tom papa
It's just like a piece of leather.
joe rogan
It looks like there's some kind of traction on the bottom.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Some kind of thing on the bottom, I guess.
tom papa
God.
You think about just the stuff that regular people could wear now compared to that.
joe rogan
Oh no.
tom papa
God.
Everything.
Like everybody had like one pair of pants, one shirt, one sweater.
You know what I mean?
And that was it.
Whenever they show like baseball games and you show it, they were like, wow, they really dressed back then.
They wore suits and ties to the baseball game.
That's all they had.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
It wasn't casual clothes.
You weren't putting on board shorts and a t-shirt.
joe rogan
Well, it was also a big event.
To go to something like that was a big event.
There was no television.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Right.
There was a thing we watched the other day.
It was when Jack Johnson fought Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada.
And you looked out at the audience.
First of all, there was no ladies there.
It was almost all men.
And everyone was dressed in a suit with a hat on.
When we were watching this, we were saying, like, imagine if you were a hat maker back then.
You're like, this business is never going away.
tom papa
Like, look.
joe rogan
Look at the audience.
Everyone has a hat on.
jamie vernon
Well, it's probably fucking sunny as shit, right?
joe rogan
Oh, for sure.
jamie vernon
Fourth of July on Reno?
joe rogan
For sure.
tom papa
You know what changed the hat?
What?
You know what put it out of fashion?
No.
JFK. What?
Yeah.
unidentified
What?
tom papa
He, when he came on the scene, he didn't wear a hat, and he looked so great, and he had that head of hair.
unidentified
Really?
tom papa
And that changed the fashion, and yeah, hats fell out of favor.
joe rogan
No kidding.
tom papa
After Kennedy, yeah.
joe rogan
He was the guy?
tom papa
Yep.
No shit.
They talk about it all the time.
I love hats.
I wear hats because I'm bald.
joe rogan
Oh, look at that, the beautiful hat.
tom papa
I like that hat.
joe rogan
But look at the image.
tom papa
I mean, that is- Yeah, that's amazing.
joe rogan
Everyone.
tom papa
Every single person.
joe rogan
Everyone has a hat on.
tom papa
And there was etiquette and there was rules.
You took your hat off when you saw a lady.
You took a hat off when you went inside somewhere.
joe rogan
They all have the same kind of hat, too.
tom papa
Yeah, isn't that funny?
All a white hat, because they're all outside.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess so.
And this was a famously hot day.
tom papa
It looks it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Pretty crazy.
tom papa
Pretty crazy.
jamie vernon
I think this is the article about the football team here.
joe rogan
Native American team that revolutionized football.
tom papa
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
There wasn't even a lot of forward passing back then.
I remember this, I think it's the Coach Carlisle Indian School, 1879. Right.
And that had to do with Pop Warner, too.
That's a big guy in the industry of football.
joe rogan
It's a whole long thing, but what does it have to do with the military?
There was a different story.
jamie vernon
Yeah, so then that's the other part of where I thought you're maybe mixing two things up.
There's a history of just the strategy of football as an Army-Navy.
It was a big thing back when they would compete to do strategies and just have stuff to do in the off time.
joe rogan
Listen to this.
Pratt knew that nothing could stop the westward expansion of whites, and he knew the Native American way of life was coming to an end, fearing that Native Americans might actually die out.
Pratt opened up the Carlisle School to save them from extinction.
The idea was to teach Native American youth how to survive in this strange new world.
Wow Of course Platt wasn't interested in preserving their culture after convincing parents to send their children to Pennsylvania Pratt gave his students haircuts Instructed them in English and ordered them to dress as white people after all his model was kill the Indian save the man That's crazy I got really into Native American history about two years ago, two and a half years ago.
And I read a series of books, and one of them was Black Elk Speaks.
It was about this guy who had – he lit – what's so funny?
unidentified
This is how he changed the game.
jamie vernon
Like part of the way there were rules in football because of this – Sorry, I read that out loud.
joe rogan
Oh, sorry.
During the game, one of the boys tucked the football into that elastic band and ran down the field with the ball under his jersey.
As he sprinted down the field, the Harvard team was completely lost, unsure of who had the ball, until it was too late.
Furious, the Ivy League teams were constantly changing the rules to stop Pop Warner's trick plays, which, oddly enough, essentially gave us the rules of modern-day football.
jamie vernon
They were almost like cheating, but not really.
There's no fucking rules.
All right, change the rules.
unidentified
Do it again.
tom papa
It's a little bit of little rascals.
jamie vernon
That's a little bit like the war stuff.
joe rogan
A little shenanigan-y.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
This Black Elk Speaks book, one of the things that this guy, I read two books about him, and it details he was one of the Native Americans that was alive when they roamed the plains and then lived through them being forced into reservations.
tom papa
Okay.
joe rogan
And what happened with particularly the young men and children, how they were indoctrinated into white people's ways and taken from their families and cut their hair and tried to teach them how to behave like the white settlers.
tom papa
Yeah.
unidentified
It's rough.
joe rogan
If you think about this guy worrying that they were going to be brought to extinction, that came so close.
They...
What is that photo?
Oh, that's Black Elk Speaks.
tom papa
That's the book.
unidentified
It's an autobiography, rather.
tom papa
We're always unsettling pictures from back then, photos, when you saw them all of a sudden in suits and ties.
It was just like, this is so unnatural for them.
joe rogan
Well, you know what killed the most of them was disease.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
90% of all Native Americans died from disease.
Really?
90%.
Yeah.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The Europeans, when they came over, they had all these disgusting colds and bugs and fucking smallpox.
tom papa
Smallpox, yeah.
unidentified
It just...
tom papa
Oof.
joe rogan
Burn through the entire continent.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's crazy.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
Imagine a disease that kills 90% of the people and there's no cure.
Nothing.
There's nothing you can do.
tom papa
Good lord.
joe rogan
Imagine if you visit a place and there's a million people, like the Mayans, like you would visit Chichen Itza, a million people, thriving metropolis.
You come back in 50 years, there's no one.
It's abandoned.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
Like, imagine that.
tom papa
So scary.
joe rogan
Like, you want to bring your children.
This is the place that I saw.
I'm telling you, they're all wearing gold.
tom papa
It's the shit.
It's amazing.
joe rogan
You go way out of your way to get there.
tom papa
You're going to love it.
joe rogan
No one's there.
unidentified
No one.
tom papa
Oh, it's terrifying.
joe rogan
They abandoned so many of those cities.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Have you ever seen those ruins?
I've never gotten to those.
joe rogan
I've seen one.
I went to Chichen Itza.
tom papa
Was it cool?
joe rogan
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
And it's so complex.
Like when you're walking around it and you think about how much Like, design is involved, and the implementation, and where are they getting these rocks from, and how are they cutting them, and how are they...
Have you ever seen, like, Chichen Itza, the layout?
tom papa
Yeah.
Well, not the whole thing.
Like, I've seen the pyramid things.
joe rogan
Oh my god, it's amazing.
And on top of that, there's, like, these...
They had ritual human sacrifice, so they had these tables where it's like a guy's body.
The table is almost like he's laid out looking like this, and the flat part of the body where his torso was, was stone, and that's where they would kill people.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
They would kill people and cut their fucking hearts out.
unidentified
Ah!
joe rogan
On this thing in front of everybody.
And then they played soccer.
They played like a game.
It wasn't soccer, but it was some kind of crazy game.
And sometimes they would use a human head.
This is part of the speculation that they were kicking this fucking human head around.
unidentified
Geez, I wonder why it didn't all work out.
Yeah.
tom papa
There was also- Give him an ad for soccer.
joe rogan
Well, there's so little about that culture.
I mean, the scholars know quite a bit in comparison to the regular people, but I mean, even their knowledge of this culture is fairly limited compared to what we know about, say, the Greeks or the Romans or something like that.
tom papa
Do you think there are cultures that we just don't even know about, that are under the sea, maybe, or- Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, I think that that's probably what all this Amazon stuff, I mean, not Amazon, Atlanta stuff is all about.
There's probably, there was something that was very, very complex that was thousands of years ago that was wiped out by asteroids.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That's what Randall Carlson believes.
There's actually a theory about it.
It's called the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.
And it coincides with the very rapid end of the Ice Age.
The Ice Age ended very rapidly.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it ended somewhere around 12,000-ish years ago.
tom papa
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
It's all in that range.
And they think that—this guy Randall Carlson has studied this his whole life, and he was a guest pretty recently.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
He's been on multiple times, but he was on pretty recently.
tom papa
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
There's all sorts of features in the Earth that you can show that indicate massive amounts of water that had gone through an area in a very short, like millions and millions and millions of gallons of water that's gone through an area in a very short period of time.
tom papa
What would that mean?
joe rogan
That carved through the landscape of instantaneous melting of the polar ice caps, or rather the ice caps over North America.
North America, during the Ice Age, more than half of North America, all of Canada, was covered in a mile-high sheet of ice.
And that shit was all wiped out almost instantaneously.
By what?
Asteroid impacts.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And so this is how they can tell, because this is what's fueled this Younger Dryas impact theory.
They've always wondered, like, what caused the extinction of a giant percentage of all the megafauna, like there was a North American lion, this giant sloth, woolly mammoths.
They all died off very quickly in this area, and they think that that also has to do with this impact theory.
They found that when they do ice core samples or core samples of the Earth, when they dig down, they get to the area around 12,000 years, what they find is a large amount of what's called iridium.
Iridium is very rare on Earth but very common in space.
And it most likely indicates that that is the time period where the Earth was bombarded.
Right.
tom papa
Pummeled.
joe rogan
And so they think that that has to do with a lot of the really complex structures that they find in ancient Egypt and Turkey and a lot of these areas that are inexplicably old for how complex they are.
And so they would always try to attribute them to more recent peoples.
But this would sort of wrap that up better.
People at one point in time had reached a very high level of sophistication and they were basically knocked back to the Stone Age for a thousand years or so.
Oh, wow.
Civilization rebuilt itself.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
So when they're talking about things, it's a very cool theory.
But it's very scary because that means that could happen to us.
tom papa
Well, yeah, I know that.
You don't have to bring that up.
Yeah, no, that is terrifying.
All of a sudden you're back to sticks and fire.
joe rogan
That could happen.
You want some of this?
tom papa
God.
What is it?
Coffee.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It could happen.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
Do you smoke cigars, Tom?
tom papa
I do.
joe rogan
Do you want one?
tom papa
I would love one, actually.
joe rogan
Let's get crazy.
tom papa
That's a great idea.
unidentified
Let's get crazy.
tom papa
That is an awesome idea.
I haven't had a cigar in quite some time.
Yeah.
Do they come from Cuba?
joe rogan
No.
tom papa
Nicaragua?
joe rogan
Nicaragua.
They're actually JRE cigars.
Look at that.
tom papa
Oh, no way.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a company called Foundation Cigars.
They make awesome cigars.
tom papa
Oh, beautiful.
joe rogan
They made a special cigar for us.
tom papa
Oh, that's so nice of them.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're fucking good, too.
tom papa
That's a beautiful thing.
Thank you.
joe rogan
I don't know enough about cigars to comment on what...
tom papa
Just make it up like the sport thing.
Just start saying some stuff.
All you have to do is sense that the guy you're talking to knows even less than you do.
Thank you.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's what people do, right?
That is the move.
That's the World Cup guy move.
unidentified
This fucks.
tom papa
Thank you.
joe rogan
You're welcome.
It is a weird thing, though, to want people to think that you're more knowledgeable than you are.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
It's one thing to think you know something but be wrong.
Like, oh, I thought that was right.
But another thing is like to pretend that you know things.
tom papa
But you know what?
Sometimes when you just admit that you don't know stuff, people act like you're not shit.
Like if you were like, oh, so who is that guy that...
Is that guy a good defensive end?
joe rogan
You don't even know?
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
Fucking idiot.
tom papa
Right?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
There is that thing.
You've got to kind of protect yourself at times.
joe rogan
Bro, that would be me.
unidentified
Sometimes you've got to bullshit yourself.
joe rogan
If I went to a football game with some people, I'd be like, why'd they stop?
How come they're stopping?
What's the whistle?
Why does that guy have a whistle?
How about that little man with the striped shirt?
What if he gets run over?
He's out there.
tom papa
What's wrong with you?
They're like, oh, I thought you were cool.
I thought you were one of us.
joe rogan
I remember reading this story about NBA referees that would shave points.
They were corrupt.
tom papa
Yeah, the one guy, right?
joe rogan
The guys went to jail.
Didn't they, Jamie?
You knew about all that stuff, right?
jamie vernon
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
The guys went to jail, didn't they?
jamie vernon
Yes, he sure did.
tom papa
Yeah.
I remember that guy.
jamie vernon
Actually, just as you're saying, this was an NFL player today suspended for a year for betting on NFL games.
tom papa
Oh, really?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Dirty.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Why can't you bet on a game...
tom papa
That you're in?
joe rogan
...if you're not in it?
jamie vernon
There's a lot you could do to manipulate the points when it's one play that can change the game.
joe rogan
Well, if you're not in it.
tom papa
But if you're not playing...
jamie vernon
No, yeah, no, that's not...
He's in the game.
tom papa
Yeah, but your old roommate from college is playing.
joe rogan
Right, and he can tell you if someone's hurt.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I think you can bet on a game that you're not in.
joe rogan
But why can't you bet on a game that you're in if you're betting to win?
Like, we're going to fuck them up.
I'm so confident I'm going to bet money.
jamie vernon
I don't know that that's what was happening.
tom papa
That's Pete Rose, right?
joe rogan
No, Pete Rose bet the other way, though.
tom papa
He did?
joe rogan
Yeah, Pete Rose apparently bet the other way.
tom papa
He did.
I love this label.
joe rogan
Isn't that dope?
tom papa
This band, rather.
joe rogan
I'll get you some of those.
jamie vernon
I think he said he never did.
joe rogan
I thought he said he did.
tom papa
I thought he didn't bet against us.
I thought that was his thing.
unidentified
Yeah, I thought so too.
tom papa
Hey, I didn't bet against us.
joe rogan
I thought so too.
And then I read an article.
tom papa
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Contrary to popular belief, Pete Rose bet against his team.
unidentified
Which means...
tom papa
So Barry Bonds is never going to be in the Hall of Fame?
joe rogan
That might not be true.
jamie vernon
Yeah, no, I'm actually looking at what happened with this player, too.
It says a league investigation uncovered no evidence indicating any inside information was used or that any game was compromised in any way.
There was no evidence suggesting any awareness by coaches, staff, teammates, or any other players of his betting activity.
It took place during a five-day period in late November while he was away from the team and away from the club's facility on the non-football illness list.
joe rogan
And he was betting for his team?
jamie vernon
I honestly don't know that part now.
It doesn't say.
joe rogan
Find out if Pete Rose bet against his team, because if not, we're going to have to edit that out.
I don't want Pete Rose to be mad at me.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, I could be wrong.
I do remember reading that, but the thing is, I've read shit about me that's not true, so maybe writing things about him that's not true.
tom papa
Yeah, even the thing we're about to look up might not be true.
jamie vernon
Yeah, so he said in the book he never bet against the Reds.
tom papa
Right.
I thought so.
jamie vernon
But he was making bets, I believe, in a way that maybe he was managing the team so he could have done things to manipulate stuff.
Like by playing a player to win the game real hard tonight, fucking up tomorrow's game.
Playing a pitcher to get the strikes.
joe rogan
Oh, I see.
So he fucked the team by betting.
So he didn't make strategically wise decisions because he was trying to cover a point spread?
jamie vernon
And that's probably why he got in trouble.
Whether or not that actually happened or was speculation, I think that's where I'm like, I wasn't even alive then.
tom papa
Well, that's why betting on it, all these questions come up.
That's why you can't do it.
joe rogan
Would you just look up Pete Rose actually did bet against his team?
jamie vernon
Look, I'm 100% looking.
Quotes from Pete Rose.
Quote from Dan Patrick's show.
I bet on my team every night.
I didn't bet on my team four nights a week.
I bet on my team to win every night because I loved my team.
I believed in my team.
I did everything in my power every night to win that game.
joe rogan
So the story that I read that said that he didn't bet on his team, that he bet against his team, that's horseshit.
jamie vernon
Probably.
I don't think they believe him because they would say, of course you're saying that.
tom papa
Right.
According to him.
joe rogan
The problem is, I don't know how many gambling junkies you've ever met.
Do you know any?
tom papa
Not really.
joe rogan
I've known quite a few that have real problems, and those motherfuckers will come up with any reason at all to gamble.
tom papa
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And they're sick.
It's like, do you remember when Kitty Dukakis was drinking aftershave or some shit?
She was so sick.
She was an alcoholic and she was so sick that she was drinking whatever she could find.
That's a thing with the gamblers.
It's a sickness.
tom papa
How do you feel about gambling being now available to everybody all over the country?
joe rogan
I think people need lessons in how to manage their thought process.
And I think gambling is exciting.
When I was in Vegas a few months ago with Whitney Cummings, Rose did not bet on the Reds to win in the four games.
Here it is.
The four that Rose didn't bet on, the Reds, were all started by Bill Gullickson.
The problem comes when you realize this.
If he bet the Reds to win every night, when the four nights he didn't bet on the Reds would send up a gigantic red flag.
The gamblers would know that Rose wasn't betting on the Reds, so this may be the right time to bet against them.
You might say Rose was still trying to win those games, and yes, maybe he was, but if you take a closer look at the games in question, it becomes even more disturbing.
jamie vernon
And they break down each of these games in question.
joe rogan
So he might have bet against his team.
tom papa
Too many questions.
It's just too much, you know?
jamie vernon
Or just even by not betting, maybe he's paying back a debt to somebody he owed money to.
joe rogan
Right.
jamie vernon
I'll not bet here, but you can make your money.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Right.
You can make money here.
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing.
When guys get into hock with loan sharks and shit like that, it gets super sketchy.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
I knew a comic, and this was a comic in Boston, and he worked for the mob.
Because the mob ran one of the clubs in town.
When I say the mob, I mean, like, legitimate.
Like, you get paid in Coke or cash, up to you.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
This kind of situation.
And this guy was a gambling addict, like a hardcore addict.
And he was placing bets for these mobsters, but they would make bad bets, stupid bets.
And...
One of the times they won, and it turned out he wasn't really placing the bat because he thought they were going to lose all the time, so he would just take their money.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
And so they were gambling a lot of money, and then he didn't have the money.
And then they found out that he wasn't really placing the bat.
tom papa
Oh, what happened to him?
joe rogan
I don't know.
tom papa
Is he gone?
joe rogan
He's alive.
tom papa
He is?
joe rogan
He left Boston, though.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, How to Leave Boston.
tom papa
Oh my god.
That's a movie.
joe rogan
He did a bunch of sketchy shit in Vegas too.
He was a gambling addict and he lived in Vegas and he got his next door neighbor to lend him some money to some little old lady and he fucked her over the money.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
It was like a whole story written about him.
tom papa
It's a sickness.
joe rogan
It's a sickness.
tom papa
It is.
joe rogan
It was a story in a newspaper about him.
It's like being a heroin addict.
tom papa
Yeah, so we've known that forever.
You had to travel to Vegas or you had to travel to Reno or Atlantic City.
And now you can just open up your phone and anyone can do it.
joe rogan
But they have Gambling Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, where you can learn how to not gamble.
Just like they have...
People get addicted to everything, man.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
They get addicted to dieting.
That's one of the things that happens to people.
They get addicted to...
There was a guy who died recently, and he was addicted to working out.
More plates, more dates covered this guy.
This guy was...
He would sleep like four hours a day.
He worked out constantly.
He maintained like a 5% body fat year-round, and his fucking heart gave out.
And he was in his 20s.
He was in his 20s.
So this guy's like ripped.
Looks like he's in phenomenal...
Literally worked himself to death.
tom papa
There was an article in the paper yesterday, I think.
Bigrexia?
joe rogan
Oh yeah, right.
tom papa
Bigrexia.
joe rogan
Sure.
tom papa
The same thing.
Young men are getting obsessed...
It's body dysmorphia.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's body dysmorphia.
It could be you never feel like you're big enough or you never feel like you're small enough.
It's basically the same kind of thing that's going on.
It's you have a distorted perception of what you look like and you think you look like shit and everybody looks at you like you're like a gorilla.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And he thinks he's too big.
tom papa
He thinks he's, yeah.
I guess I have a little of that.
I picture myself as being really in shape.
joe rogan
I don't think that's the same.
That's probably healthier.
That kind of delusion, when you think you look good...
tom papa
I'm sorry, what?
joe rogan
Delusion.
tom papa
Delusion?
joe rogan
Delusion, it's not real.
When you think you look good, if you think you look good, but you look like shit, that's probably better.
tom papa
Probably better for you, yeah.
joe rogan
Because you go through life like, I'm on cloud nine, baby.
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
I got it coming on, baby.
tom papa
Let's get some pancakes for the table.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh, here's one I read.
I read a fucking study that said, I'll send you this, Jamie, and tell me if this is real.
A study that said that women prefer dad bods over ripped bods.
It was in The Independent.
tom papa
I believe that.
jamie vernon
He said, I told you this a while ago.
I believe that.
tom papa
You don't even have to go into the details.
unidentified
Shit ain't real.
tom papa
That's true.
unidentified
That shit ain't real.
tom papa
They love a nice dad bod.
joe rogan
No, women say that because they don't want their husbands to feel bad.
Survey confirms women prefer dad bods over six packs.
jamie vernon
Horse.
It's such a lie.
unidentified
Horse.
Shit.
tom papa
It is a lie.
unidentified
Horse.
Shit.
tom papa
It is true, because my wife will be like, you look good.
And I'm like, come on, you look good.
joe rogan
No, see, it's an emphasis on the word good.
Listen to the difference.
Here's the difference.
Ready?
You look good.
Or, you look good.
tom papa
Right, exactly.
unidentified
If she doesn't say, you look good, you don't look good.
joe rogan
She's just trying to, you don't look like a pile of shit.
tom papa
You're my husband!
And then we watch a movie and then some guy will be on with his shirt off and she'll be like, oh.
joe rogan
You can hear her vagina moistening.
tom papa
Hey, that's my wife you're talking about.
joe rogan
You hear this.
What's going on over there?
All of a sudden my glasses are steaming.
Did you turn the humidifier on?
tom papa
Yeah, and you know, it's all different perspectives.
You see pictures, yeah.
Yeah.
You see pictures when you're young and an athlete.
joe rogan
That's horseshit.
They don't prefer a dad bod.
That's not true.
tom papa
It is not true.
joe rogan
It's not true.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
They might say it, but when they're alone with their friends, when they're alone with their friends, how'd you fill out the survey?
I fucking lied.
I don't want to hear it from George.
tom papa
I don't want George to think he's gross.
He's not gross.
But he's not hot.
joe rogan
I mean, I close my eyes and I pretend my high school boyfriend's fucking me.
tom papa
Oh, it's so sad.
It's not gross.
unidentified
It's so sad.
joe rogan
He's a nice man.
He's a good husband.
He works hard.
He doesn't have time to work out.
tom papa
He's so good with the kids.
joe rogan
He doesn't have time to work out.
He gets home from the office.
He's exhausted.
tom papa
He's so good with the kids.
joe rogan
I'd rather him just hang out with us.
I don't want him going to the gym.
I don't mind if he has a dad bond.
tom papa
What workout do I have to do to get rid of love handles?
joe rogan
Just gotta lose weight.
Stop eating all this delicious bread you gave me.
tom papa
All right.
I'll keep them.
I have to say, that thing you were with Cameron when you were doing the kettlebell thing, that looked like my wrist would snap.
joe rogan
Well, you've got to build up to that.
tom papa
That really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Under your legs, back up.
It was this end part.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's called the long...
Well, you get used to doing that.
The move is called the long count.
And sometimes I add a bodyweight squat, an overhead squat to that too, which is even harder.
So what that is, is it's like two kettlebells in between your legs, clean, press, and then when I'm feeling really frisky, all the way down, squat, and then back up, and then again.
Clean, press, squat.
tom papa
Yeah, you were doing this at the end, too.
You were putting it back.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what the thing about kettlebells is.
You're swinging them, and you get really accustomed to using them, and you know how to decelerate the bell so it doesn't bang against your forearms.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
But some guys wear a pad on the forearm so that the kettlebell can hit your...
I have those.
I don't use them generally, but I do have them.
It'll hit your forearm because it doesn't hurt your forearm.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But kettlebells, it's my favorite way to work out because I can work my whole body out.
What's great about that is if you do a thing, like say if you play tennis or something like that, that translates, that kind of strength, because you're making your whole body work as a unit instead of like curls or something like that.
tom papa
Right, just isolating that one muscle and doing that one task.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the only kind of workouts I do mostly.
I mean, I do some stuff like I do dips, which is kind of isolating, and I do chin-ups, which is...
But most of the stuff I do is like these compound movements where there's a lot of things going on all at once.
So my body knows how to coordinate weight.
tom papa
I'm doing push-ups now.
joe rogan
Good for you.
How many did you do in a row?
tom papa
25. 100 in total.
joe rogan
That's great.
So you do like four sets of 25?
tom papa
Yeah.
unidentified
Nice.
joe rogan
That's a good amount.
tom papa
Yeah, because...
joe rogan
What is this?
jamie vernon
I think this is the article that this came from, right?
Yeah, that's the article.
tom papa
The majority of people prefer Dadbobs to more toned...
jamie vernon
Read the second paragraph, which describes how they got the data.
joe rogan
Okay.
As reported by The Guardian, 75% of single people who took part in the survey conducted by Dating.com were said to prefer so-called dad bod type, a label that has been thrown at men who aren't considered to have the athletic beach body that we've all seen in movies.
Of those who took the survey and believe themselves to have a dad bod, 45% of them admitted to putting hashtag dad bod in their bios as a way of showing off their proud physique.
jamie vernon
So how many people that took the survey...
unidentified
Yeah, dad bods are preferable because I fucking have one.
tom papa
Half?
jamie vernon
More than half?
joe rogan
Right.
jamie vernon
That shouldn't be for men.
joe rogan
That should not be for men.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
There's no way that should be.
People say most people prefer a dad bod.
That's deceptive.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Because you need to ask ladies when no one's around.
jamie vernon
That being said, 70% of them answered said they've been working out more in the past few months to get in better shape.
tom papa
Well, that's the thing about DadBod.
DadBod gives you...
It's not saying I'm gross and fat.
It's saying, I'm athletic, but I've got...
Like, that is the mentality, right?
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
I got a little fat.
Yeah, I was an athlete.
I played football 30 years ago.
joe rogan
I got a little chub on me.
You can't have men ask that.
You can't ask men that question.
Here's another one that I found.
This one might be even more preposterous because I read this one and I'm like, okay, they're grooming people.
It was guys saying that they get together with their buddies and they cuddle and sometimes kiss straight men, bromances, kiss, cuddle, and stand around naked together.
No, they don't.
Those are gay guys.
Nothing wrong with being gay.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But straight men who kiss, cuddle, and stand around naked together are gay.
Those are gay guys.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Most likely.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
A strong percentage.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
I mean, maybe some of them are like really open-minded and like, I'll kiss you.
tom papa
There's like three of those.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I'll kiss you right in the lips after this podcast is over.
tom papa
Pandemic's over!
joe rogan
Yeah, with coffee and cigar breath.
I'll give you one right in the smacker.
But if you want me to go tongue to tongue with you...
tom papa
Yeah, and you're in another world.
You're in another thing.
joe rogan
If you want to stand around naked together, like, why are you standing around naked?
Period.
Put some clothes on, you fucking savage.
tom papa
Alright, so what about...
Put on some pants.
joe rogan
What are you doing, man?
What's this about?
tom papa
So why are all of a sudden these guys having body issues?
Like, women have been talking about this forever, right?
In magazines and stuff, and they've been...
joe rogan
Because guys feel left out in the grind of fucking being objectified.
tom papa
Right.
Hey, we feel bad too.
joe rogan
Hey, we're fucked over as well!
I had a fucking argument with a guy about this once, because men do try to find ways where they're victims to, and it's so dumb.
And this fucking dummy literally said, we were talking about the plight that men have, and he goes, you know, statistically speaking, men actually get raped more than women.
I go, yeah, buy other men, you fucking idiot.
tom papa
That's the dumbest thing.
unidentified
All that means is we're so gross, we fuck each other.
joe rogan
That's all that means.
The idea that somehow, oh, we're victims too.
There's fucking packs of cheerleaders out there raping football players.
That's not what's going on, man.
tom papa
You just declared that men are even worse than we thought.
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
I had a bit about it back in the day.
But men do that.
Some weak men who don't want to admit that it's fucking hard to be a woman, man.
Look, it's so hard.
Women make a baby in their body.
It takes forever.
And then their body gains all this weight.
Their vagina gets destroyed as this baby comes out.
They have all this healing they have to do afterwards.
And in many circles, they're expected to work full time.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Imagine!
Imagine!
You're raising a child, you gotta handle the kid, and then you gotta leave your kid with someone you fucking barely know so you can work and you gotta compete with men and try to be this like...
tom papa
And still menstruating once a month.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
tom papa
Forget it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Forget it.
joe rogan
And you know, just imagine the resources required to grow a human in your body.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And imagine there's anything remotely comparable that a man has to do outside of war.
tom papa
Just imagine all of the solutions we would have if men were the ones doing it.
There'd be tanks, there'd be all of these different things.
joe rogan
How many abortions would there be?
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
If guys got pregnant, they would be everywhere.
They'd be like Jiffy Lubes.
unidentified
They would be everywhere.
tom papa
100%.
joe rogan
Yeah, 100%.
tom papa
This discussion would be, this whole national debate.
joe rogan
And all the moral dilemma about whether or not it's okay to have an abortion would go out the fucking window.
tom papa
Out the window.
joe rogan
Out the window.
tom papa
No, of course.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Guys are the worst.
joe rogan
Well, you know, it's a testosterone thing.
It's also like we have the genetics in us that are the same genetics as people that lived during savage times thousands of years ago.
We're the exact same thing.
We're the exact same version of human beings pretty much.
If you took a person from 10,000 years ago and you put them in a movie theater and dressed them up with a baseball hat on, they'd They blend right in.
They'd probably be smaller because they didn't have any food back then.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But they would be real similar.
tom papa
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Real fucking similar.
tom papa
No, we haven't really changed that much.
joe rogan
Very little.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
We just have more access to good food, nutrition, but genetics, they say, take like 10,000 years to establish like really great changes in the genome.
tom papa
Jeez.
joe rogan
In terms of like, obviously I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm just saying words.
tom papa
I'm believing every word of it.
I'm in.
No, but it does make sense.
I don't think we're much different.
No, we're not.
joe rogan
I don't think we're much different than people that lived in a time where everyone was killing everybody with a hatchet.
tom papa
I know.
That's what always blows me away.
I always think they had to have been so different.
When I just read stories about that, or when you're talking about Black Elk and all this kind of stuff, no, they were you and I. Dealing with it.
It was the same person, the same thing, but dealing with that set of circumstances.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's bonkers.
joe rogan
It's crazy because that's one of the reasons why human beings have so much anxiety and that's one of the reasons why we have so much violence inside of us.
It's not because society demands you be violent.
It's a lot of it is like we just have this leftover code That's in our bodies that is very confused as to why it's in a cubicle.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
Why am I in traffic all day?
Why am I in a cubicle?
My body has requirements that it's not meeting, living like this.
tom papa
Yeah, it's totally different.
And then we're going to go into the metaverse and we're going to do even less.
joe rogan
How long after Zuckerberg launches the metaverse do you join up?
tom papa
A couple, like a week.
joe rogan
I bet it's gonna be so fun.
tom papa
I'll tell you what.
unidentified
That's the problem.
tom papa
No dad bods in the metaverse.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
No dad bods.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
Exactly.
Everyone's gonna be hot.
unidentified
Everyone's gonna be hot.
joe rogan
The only time a dad bod's gonna be hot is when food becomes, like, scarce.
Right.
Like, remember the Rubenesque women back in the day?
tom papa
Right, right, right.
unidentified
They were hot.
tom papa
All the paintings of, yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
Big ol' fat ladies were hot.
tom papa
It showed luxury.
Right.
It showed wealth.
joe rogan
Yes.
You could eat all you wanted.
Just sit around eating grapes.
You're a woman of luxury.
tom papa
I don't know.
The metaverse, it sounds exciting and terrifying at the same time.
joe rogan
Dude, it's going to be so fun.
That's what the problem is going to be.
You and I, we're going to link up on the metaverse.
You're going to be still trapped in L.A. like a fool.
tom papa
L.A.'s nice again.
joe rogan
I'll be out here in Freedom Town.
Oh, L.A.'s nice.
People don't get arrested for anything.
It's great.
It's awesome.
They just break into your house and loot you.
tom papa
Well, there's a lot of crime, sure.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
What a great thing to have around your whole family.
Crime.
tom papa
Well, there's crime everywhere.
joe rogan
What is this, Jamie?
What are you showing me here?
jamie vernon
This is the new, I would call it a competitor to what the metaverse is.
tom papa
A Viverse.
joe rogan
So this is augmented reality.
jamie vernon
Right, so this is what the Vive is showing as what they're calling the Viveverse.
joe rogan
Oh.
jamie vernon
Viveverse.
Based around HTC Vive.
joe rogan
Okay, I want you to look at that.
Back that up again.
Back that up a little bit.
Look at the athlete on the left-hand side.
tom papa
See that?
joe rogan
That's what men want to look like.
That's what women want.
That's why she's not looking at her body, notice?
She's looking at hot men.
She's running, thinking about getting some gladiator dick.
That's what she's thinking.
She's thinking, I'm going to get a nice toned butt and I'm going to get that big fucking savage look.
Oh, look how she shrunk down in the metaverse.
Go back and look at that again.
Before she did that, look at what she really looks like.
And then watch this.
Oh, she lost 80 pounds.
tom papa
I liked her before.
joe rogan
Yeah, she looks like a little kid now.
tom papa
Yeah, I liked her before.
She looked great.
joe rogan
Go back to what she looked like.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
She looks like a nice-looking gal.
tom papa
Yeah.
But you can do anything.
joe rogan
She's womanly.
tom papa
Why, you don't even have to be a person.
joe rogan
Yeah, but she'd lost too much weight.
Like, if that was your wife, you'd be like, honey, have a sandwich.
tom papa
Yeah, come on now.
joe rogan
Come on, honey, what are you doing?
I don't like you this skinny.
tom papa
I don't know.
I don't know how...
Well...
joe rogan
Look, they're all dancing.
tom papa
You can go to a club.
You can do anything.
You can fly.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're having fun.
tom papa
You can do all the stuff.
You can buy...
You're a cat!
Grandma sent an invitation.
You're a kitty cat!
I want to be a dog.
joe rogan
I'd rather be a dog.
tom papa
I'd rather be a dog.
joe rogan
The pure joy that dogs have...
I'm going to send you this, Jamie.
This is like the funniest thing that I saw, or the happiest thing that I saw today.
It made me...
This is why...
I mean, there's a lot of reasons why I love dogs.
tom papa
Of course.
joe rogan
This is one of them.
I'm going to send you this, Jimmy.
tom papa
I had a good post of these three dogs taking a picture.
I reposted from somebody.
Did you see that...
Did you see that...
I don't know if it...
It wasn't an elk.
It looked like an elk.
It looked like a smaller...
What is it?
Nature is Metal.
Running down the mountain.
joe rogan
Oh, that was a chamois.
Holy cow!
Yeah, yeah.
They live in the mountain.
Watch this.
Watch this dog.
She lets this dog out.
Check this out.
This dog.
She lets the dog out.
Give me the volume because you can hear it.
Watch this dog.
Look at this dog.
jamie vernon
That dog is so happy.
joe rogan
He knows exactly what's going to happen.
By the way, when I used to take Marshall running in the hills when I lived in California, I would let him out of the truck.
He would immediately just start running.
tom papa
He loved it.
joe rogan
He was so happy.
Look at this dog.
Just leap.
That's a joy.
tom papa
So happy.
joe rogan
That's like dogs play.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
I mean, cats play too, right?
tom papa
Maya have a black lab and she just wants to play 24 hours a day.
And I feel so bad when you're just lazy and you're just sitting around and she's like, gets a thing in her mouth like, let's go.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
And it's like.
joe rogan
Labs are the best.
They're so nice.
tom papa
So nice.
joe rogan
I have a golden retriever, but he's, you know, it's the same thing.
They're both super, super sweet dogs.
tom papa
So emotional and smart.
joe rogan
Sweet.
tom papa
So sweet.
joe rogan
What's fucked is, people turned them into that.
Like, all these dogs, at one point in time, you go down the genetic history, they used to be wolves.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They used to be a wolf that came near the fire, and we gave them some food, and they eventually domesticated them, and then they turned them into poodles.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, that is what, I don't know how the fuck they did it, and we really don't know.
tom papa
A lot of inbreeding, and we also have a pug, and that is not really a dog.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're the most inbred, right?
Or whatever they are.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
You know what's so funny?
He's funny-looking to begin with, and then if we're sitting outside in the sun, you can see everything.
It's like, you're a mess.
His little nose goes off to the side.
His jaw is kind of weird.
They're lovable, but man.
joe rogan
This is what's happening to humans.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, this is why the conversation about a dad bot is even happening.
It's because at one point in time, there wouldn't be any thought about it.
Like, you want a Viking.
Viking is going to survive the war.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You know, you don't want...
tom papa
But we don't need that anymore.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Now you go to the metaverse.
unidentified
Right.
tom papa
Yeah, and you sit around.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Look at that little fella.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Look at little Frank.
joe rogan
Look at that little fella.
That one point in time...
tom papa
That's my dog.
joe rogan
If you follow that...
Is that your dog?
tom papa
That's my Frank, yeah.
Yeah, that's Frank.
joe rogan
He's a little cutie.
tom papa
Yeah, he's so cute.
joe rogan
If you follow that dog's genetics, you go all the way back, you find a wolf.
I mean, how many thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago?
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
That was a wolf, and somehow or another they turned it into a little tiny, flat-in-a-faced little thing that can't feed itself.
tom papa
No, and they literally bred those dogs to cuddle with the humans.
The emperors used to have these big sleeves, and they would be inside them and cuddle them, and that's what he is.
Like, if you watch TV, he just, who's ever there, it's not, it's just whatever warm human being, he climbs up and just lays on you.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
And it's just...
And you can't get up.
Remember when your kids were really little and they would just lay on you?
You couldn't even reach your phone because you didn't want to disturb them.
It was so peaceful and warm and beautiful.
That's what the bug does.
Except he's snoring and slobbering at the same time.
joe rogan
There's no need for them to be ferocious.
There's no need for them to have strong jaws that can crush bones anymore.
So they slowly turned into what...
And that's what's happening to people.
That's what's happening to humans.
We used to be, you know, like Neanderthals were like 5'5", 200 pounds, solid muscle, dense bones, thick heads.
And then we slowly became, you know, what you see now.
These sort of doughy things that break their hips when they fall down.
tom papa
Remember WALL-E? You remember that animated film?
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't think I saw that.
tom papa
It was good.
joe rogan
I think I saw a part of it.
No, I don't think I saw the whole thing.
tom papa
Jeff Garland was the lead voice.
And they were just in these...
They were like baby people.
They were just all chubby.
And they were in these little walkers.
And they just laid there.
And they had iPad kind of things around them.
We are moving in that direction.
They weren't that far off.
joe rogan
The only thing that could save us is Putin.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
Putin in this war.
Oh yeah, there they are.
Wow.
Yeah, that's us.
tom papa
Big sodas glide around.
joe rogan
Humans are going in that direction, that's for damn sure.
tom papa
Yeah, just soft mush balls.
joe rogan
And denying that that's unhealthy.
That's what's really crazy.
The whole body acceptance movement and fat phobia, which is so crazy.
It's so crazy.
Here we are doing something unhealthy but awesome, smoking cigars, right?
tom papa
It's really good, by the way.
unidentified
I love it.
joe rogan
If we're smoking cigarettes or smoking all day, it'd be foolish for anybody to try to pretend that that's not bad for you.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's bad for you.
Yeah, it's terrible.
I mean, this is marginally bad for you because you're not inhaling, you take a little bit.
You have a couple of cigarettes, those are not good for you.
You have a pack of cigarettes, that's not good for you.
You have a pack a day, like, ooh, you got a problem, Mike.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, how many years do you think you can go doing that?
tom papa
No, I know.
joe rogan
You know?
tom papa
I have a friend of mine who, he says that he would just smoke a couple a day and just had a heart attack.
And that was the first question.
joe rogan
How old was he?
unidentified
He's probably 65. Does he drink too?
tom papa
No, I don't think he's a drinker.
joe rogan
Overweight?
tom papa
No, dad bod.
joe rogan
Sometimes 65 year olds have heart attacks and they're not taking care of themselves.
tom papa
Yeah, I mean he doesn't work out or do anything like that.
unidentified
Your body slowly deteriorates, my friend.
joe rogan
It atrophies.
tom papa
Of course.
joe rogan
You know, it atrophies.
If you could see a time lapse of what you used to look like over the course of when you're 18 years old and full of piss and vinegar.
tom papa
Yeah, my God.
joe rogan
Slowly watch your body expand.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
Your shoulders shrink.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
And you shrink.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And your body shrinks, too.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Old people shrink.
I'm shrinking.
I'm shorter than I used to be.
tom papa
You are?
joe rogan
Yeah, my discs are less...
There's less meat in between my discs.
I have some...
They're way less significant now than they were before because I've taken care of it and done a lot of therapies for them and Regenikine and stem cells.
I do spinal decompression.
That's what sciatica is.
A lot of what sciatica is is your disc is protruding because it's compressing and your disc is pushing against the nerves and you get that pain that goes down your leg.
That's what that is.
That's your discs.
So that shrinks you.
As those discs compress, that disc makes your space in between the two spinal columns.
And as you see old people, when they start to shrivel up like that, that's what's going on, is that all the disc material, it's posture, and it's also they lack the strength in their back and the strength in their core to support themselves in a straight posture.
But when you see that slump, that's what's going on, man, is the disc is shrinking, and it creates all this arthritis and pain.
tom papa
Doesn't it feel like tech, like medical advancement, like we should be able to be getting out of this stuff?
joe rogan
Well, they kind of can, but it's tricky.
Like, I was just talking to Michael Bisping, who was a former UFC middleweight champion who was on the podcast last week.
And he has an artificial disc in his neck.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's because his discs compress to the point where it was kind of like bone on bone.
unidentified
Oof.
joe rogan
And it was fucked, so they had to put in a new disc.
So that brings your neck back to kind of a normal size.
But then the problem is, that's one disc, and the discs above and below start getting fucked.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
So he's about to get two new discs above and below that one.
tom papa
Jeez, so now you're chasing it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
My friend Eddie, Eddie Bravo, he got one on his lower back.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And he gained an inch in height from it.
tom papa
Yeah, a friend of mine.
joe rogan
They have to separate your discs and they shoved it.
Because he was basically bone on bone on his lower back.
tom papa
So he was in pain.
joe rogan
In pain all the time.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Constant agony.
But the thing is, that thing sometimes, Even though they do that and it's better, sometimes you still have pain.
tom papa
Yeah.
My buddy just had it done, and he's very active.
And I don't know if they fused it or they put one in, like you're saying, but he couldn't believe that he had been living with pain for as long as he was.
Like, the difference was so great.
joe rogan
Oh, that's awesome.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's a great story.
tom papa
Yeah, great story.
joe rogan
When that happens, that's awesome.
But it doesn't always happen.
tom papa
Even his daughter was like, you're less cranky.
He was just dealing with it.
joe rogan
Is he athletic?
tom papa
Yeah, he is.
He's very active.
joe rogan
They have these titanium discs that are articulated.
Michael Bisping, by the way, also has two artificial knees.
tom papa
Whoa.
joe rogan
And he's in his 40s.
tom papa
Oh, bionic.
joe rogan
And he looks very fit.
If you looked at him, you would never think there's anything wrong with him.
But his neck is in constant pain.
His knees are, like, they take the top of your femur and the top of your tibia, your shinbone.
They saw it off and screw this cap in place.
tom papa
Amazing.
joe rogan
And he was tapping it on the microphone, and he'd hear it go click, click, click, click, click, click.
tom papa
It's amazing.
I mean, we know so many people who've gotten new hips.
And I said to my wife, how amazing a world where you can do that.
All these people walking around with new hips and able to live their lives.
joe rogan
Not just live their lives.
My friend John Wayne Parr, he's a multiple time world Muay Thai champion.
He got a fake hip and now he's fighting again.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
Like he got it fixed.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And now he went back.
Pull up John Wayne Parr on Instagram.
There's videos of him kicking the pads.
And by the way, he's kicking with his left leg.
His left leg is the one that's fucked.
And so the guy's holding the pads and he's like...
He's kicking with like they saw your fucking leg and they put a screw that goes down into the bone and then you have a new like ball and socket.
tom papa
You're a robot.
joe rogan
It's crazy because when he told me he was gonna get it done, I was like, oh, I felt so bad because here's a guy that's this warrior that's like world renowned.
Like when I met him, it was like I was so thrilled to meet him.
This is John Wayne Parr.
I've seen him fight so many times.
He's kicking the bag.
So, I think he's going to kick this bag.
I'm going to see if he kicks it with his left leg.
tom papa
How old is he there, Joe?
joe rogan
He's in his 40s.
So this is he's kicking with his opposite leg.
That's his right leg.
But there's videos of him kicking with the left leg.
See, the left leg is the one that he had operated on.
That's him there kicking with the left leg.
Bam.
So that leg that he's kicking with, he's demonstrating some techniques.
tom papa
Wow.
joe rogan
And that left leg, he has an artificial hip, man.
And look how fucking hard he's kicking.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Give me some volume so you can hear this.
It's like he's 18. Listen to this.
Listen to this.
tom papa
What's that sound?
joe rogan
I mean, that motherfucker, you don't want to catch that on the chops.
tom papa
No, that'll take out your ribs.
joe rogan
He's doing this with a fucking fake, a fake hit.
It's amazing.
Isn't that amazing?
tom papa
That is amazing.
At that age?
Come on.
I mean, you know, I have friends at that age that do not move.
joe rogan
Bro, he's ten years younger than me.
tom papa
Yeah, it's crazy.
joe rogan
That's what's fucked.
He's ten years younger than me.
I don't have those problems yet.
tom papa
Is there a main supplement that you would take as a Anti-aging thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, there's no main.
There's many, many, many, many things you should take when you get older.
Like, hormones are a big one.
Hormone replacement's a big one, like replacing your testosterone.
I had a lot of friends who used to make fun of me for taking testosterone back in the day, and they're usually younger than me.
And I'm like, now they're thinking about it.
I'm like, haha, told you, bitch.
I'm like, what do you want to do?
Do you want to live your life where you don't have energy?
I had a conversation about it with a friend of mine, and he was like, well, why do you take it?
I go, because I want my body to work better.
When you're younger and you have hormones, your body heals better and it works better.
It's really that simple.
It's really that simple.
You can say, is vanity involved?
Of course, I like looking good.
Who likes looking like shit?
You can pretend you like it, but it's probably because you're trying to make an excuse for why you don't put in the effort to look good.
But at the end of the day, your body doesn't perform as well without the proper hormones.
And you get to a certain point in your life as you get older and older and older where your body...
So my thought was like, nip that shit in the bud early.
Where I'm on the decline and my doctor is like, this is what you do.
You just take a little bit, a tiny amount, like every three days.
I take a tiny amount and it just raises you back up.
And it raises you up to a healthy level.
You don't want to have a lot.
where you get too much, where your body doesn't work properly.
But now it's mainstream.
It's normal.
So many men that I know that you would never guess are supplementing their testosterone.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
And it's just to feel better.
joe rogan
It's to feel better.
It wards off injury.
It wards off sickness.
It makes your immune system function better.
tom papa
What is the thing, like if you had something in you, like a precancerous something or other, That's growth hormone.
That's growth hormone.
That it accelerates the bad stuff as much as the good.
joe rogan
I'd take peptides for growth.
What peptides do is it makes your body produce growth hormone.
It makes it produce it at a higher level, which facilitates healing and recovery better.
But that's another thing, though.
You've got to make sure you don't take too much.
Bodybuilders take crazy amounts.
And that's not safe.
At a certain point in time, you're running the risk of something growing inside you.
But it's also manipulating your diet, making sure that you don't take in foods that are inflammatory and One of the things that when I switched over to this diet where I basically eat just meat and fruit, I lost weight, I felt slimmer, and I stopped having joint pain, which was kind of crazy.
tom papa
You know what's weird?
Yeah.
After I fell on the ice, which sounds so old to begin with, but I slipped on the ice, and it's been messed up.
I felt whatever.
I had pizza.
We had pizza.
joe rogan
It inflamed it.
tom papa
I was in so much pain after eating pizza.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's in flames.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
In flames.
Those foods are delicious.
I fucking love pizza.
tom papa
Yeah, of course.
But you felt the impact of it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but when I was young, I used to love coming home from Jiu-Jitsu and eating a whole pizza.
I'll get a giant pizza, pepperoni, and mushrooms.
And I would crush an entire pizza while I was watching TV. I was like, fuck it, I just did an hour and a half of jiu-jitsu.
I could eat this pizza.
tom papa
I could eat this damn pizza.
It's a hormone.
Yeah, because I went for a physical, and I hope this isn't too boring, but I went for a physical and he was like, your testosterone levels are fine.
And I was like...
I bet he's saying that for my age.
joe rogan
It's like when your wife says you look good.
tom papa
Right, right.
For your age, for someone who's dying, that's a pretty good, but it's not the level you want.
joe rogan
It's not optimum.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
If you changed it, if you started adding to your testosterone, you'd feel a lot better.
It's everyone that I know that does it, they all call me up and go, oh my god, I feel so much better.
tom papa
Can I get it on Amazon?
joe rogan
You can get some stuff on Amazon that supposedly stimulates your body's production of testosterone.
One thing that does work, there's a thing that's a plant-based compound called terkesterone.
And this is, I found out from the same guy, Derek, from More Plates, More Dates.
Oh, you didn't pull up that video of that guy that died from overworking out.
tom papa
Oh God, yeah.
joe rogan
We're talking about people that have sicknesses.
Any kind of mental sickness.
Whether it's gambling or...
tom papa
Alcohol, whatever.
joe rogan
A lot of it is the same thing.
It's like people fixate on a thing.
So this is the guy.
His name was Scott Murray.
tom papa
That kid?
joe rogan
Yeah.
They said he had mental health issues already.
And then...
See if you can find what he looked like.
But he did not eat much.
He tried to keep his body mass very, very lean.
And he worked out so hard that he literally wound up dying.
tom papa
Oh, he was sick.
joe rogan
See if they have any images of what he looked like when he was in full...
jamie vernon
That's why I didn't pull it up earlier.
joe rogan
Oh, they didn't have any images of it.
See, like Scott Murray.
Pull up Scott Murray physique.
Pull up Scott Murray physique.
Because he was fucking shredded.
This guy was carrying around a very low percentage of body fat all year long.
There's an image of him there.
Fitness trainer and YouTube diet planner Scott Murray passed away.
So this is what he started at and that's what he became while he was on YouTube.
So look at the difference in the two images.
It says his death was brought on by an eating disorder and excessive exercise.
tom papa
Jeez, that's sad.
joe rogan
Yeah, so you can literally work yourself to death.
tom papa
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
We always hear that about people that, like, they work 16 hours a day, they're constantly stressed out, and they have a heart attack and die.
That's kind of the same vein of things.
tom papa
Yeah, your brain just starts going off in a weird direction.
joe rogan
It's hard to know when to chill.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And when you're a person that's obsessive and you're trying to accomplish something, if you're in a competitive business and you're putting in all the hours in the office or bodybuilding or whatever the fuck it is, people get crazy.
Look at the difference there.
See, he maintained around 5% body fat year-round, natural, and was burning roughly 5,500 calories per day.
His workouts would typically burn around 1,400 calories.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
That is incredible.
unidentified
That's a lot.
joe rogan
That's so much.
Yeah.
He just got obsessed with getting...
tom papa
Did you see that doc of the Mr. Olympia?
The guy who had the most Mr. Olympia's...
joe rogan
Ronnie Coleman?
tom papa
Ronnie Coleman?
joe rogan
Was it Ronnie Coleman?
tom papa
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Ronnie's been on the podcast.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's fucked, unfortunately.
His body is...
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
When he was on the podcast, he came in a wheelchair.
tom papa
Right.
Yeah, that's what they were showing.
He was such a sweet, beautiful person.
joe rogan
He's the nicest guy ever.
He still looks good.
I mean, he's still fucking strong as shit.
And by the way, back surgeries.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
His whole back is fused.
I think he's had nine discs fused.
Look at what he looked like when he was in his prime.
tom papa
God.
joe rogan
My God.
Ronnie Coleman's a legend and nicest guy you ever could meet.
tom papa
That's what came through in the doc.
It was just like, everybody loved him.
joe rogan
Look at the fucking size of him!
Look at that picture!
tom papa
Oh my god, look at that bicep!
joe rogan
Bro, he was unstoppable.
When he was on top, he was unstoppable.
tom papa
Unstoppable.
joe rogan
But he's so dedicated that he kind of destroyed his body.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Because Ronnie, unlike a lot of these Mr. Olympias, he used to lift heavy, heavy weights.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And that's what hurt him.
And by the way, he said on the podcast when he blew his back out, he finished the set.
jamie vernon
Really?
joe rogan
He was in agony, but he was so tough.
He's like, fuck that.
I'm going to keep going.
tom papa
Look at the weight on that.
Look at the weight!
joe rogan
Yeah, that's Ronnie Coleman, man.
I mean, listen, you only get to be a legend in that sport, like to be that big, by being a fucking fanatic.
tom papa
So how did Arnold balance it?
Because Arnold looks like he's doing great.
joe rogan
He's doing fairly well, comparatively.
He can walk around and do stuff.
Unlike Lee, but Ronnie rather, I don't think Lee Haney was another guy that was built like that too, but Dorian Yates is a great example.
He's a guy that was on this podcast and he has quite a few injuries, like his shoulders are kind of fucked up and everything like that, but he concentrates on cardiovascular fitness now.
He smokes a lot of weed.
He was very chill.
And Dorian, that's what he looks like now.
unidentified
See, Steve looks good.
joe rogan
He looks good.
But he can move around good.
That was how big he was back then.
That's him next to Ronnie Coleman.
unidentified
God.
joe rogan
Look at those.
Preposterous.
tom papa
It looks like those turkeys when they get too big on the breasts when they try and get the breasts going.
joe rogan
Or those cows when they take the myostatin inhibitors.
tom papa
Oh my God.
joe rogan
Look at that back.
tom papa
Man, oh man.
joe rogan
But Dorian is very healthy now.
He's got a great attitude about it.
tom papa
Oh, that's good.
Was Dorian the one who couldn't beat Coleman all those years?
joe rogan
No, no.
He was a multiple champion.
I'm not exactly sure what happened when him and...
Did they compete against each other?
tom papa
There was one guy who was like...
Coleman just kept edging him out in the dock.
joe rogan
Well, I'm sure.
There's probably quite a few.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Cohen was the fucking man.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But Dorian was a multiple-time champion.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think there was a different era.
I think...
tom papa
The Shadow versus the King.
93, 99. Oh, yeah.
He was before.
joe rogan
There it is.
tom papa
Jeez Louise.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I would have to go into the history of it, but they're both former Mr. Olympias and they're both legends.
And Dorian was known as being like one of the most, for his time, one of the most massive guys anybody had ever seen.
tom papa
God, look at those thighs.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
God.
joe rogan
Crazy.
tom papa
Amazing.
joe rogan
1997, Ronnie was in 2005. So Ronnie came afterwards.
Look at the size of Ronnie.
Look at the sides of them!
tom papa
Alright, I'm gonna get some testosterone.
joe rogan
You're gonna need a lot more than that, bro.
The only way you get that big is incredible amounts of work and incredible amounts of steroids.
That's all steroids, yeah.
That's a sport where there are Natural bodybuilders, and they look really good.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
There's natural bodybuilders.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They really do exist.
And they look great.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They look a lot better than me.
And they don't do anything.
They just eat well and work out.
tom papa
All natural.
joe rogan
They never look like Ronnie Coleman.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
No.
And Ronnie was like a gifted, genetically gifted guy who openly admitted he said he couldn't compete.
With the guys who did steroids.
So he didn't do steroids, I think he said, until he was 30. And then when he was 30, or I forget what age it was, but then when he started doing steroids, then he hit his legendary form.
jamie vernon
These are all natural.
tom papa
Those are natural guys?
jamie vernon
I mean, I don't know if they all are, but I just typed it in.
joe rogan
It's possible to, like that guy with the board shorts right there, the colorful board shorts, click on that one, Jamie.
That is possible to achieve.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That's possible to achieve naturally.
I mean, that guy must work out incredibly hard, diets well, that's natural.
tom papa
Oh, God.
joe rogan
That guy probably is fanatical in his fitness.
unidentified
Fanatical.
joe rogan
His diet.
But the difference between him and a guy like Dorian Yates is pretty significant.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Now go to Dorian Yates.
Look at that black and white picture of Dorian down there on the far right, Jamie.
Where are my fingers?
Yeah, next to that.
Look at that.
tom papa
Oh, God.
joe rogan
What the fuck, dude?
tom papa
But are they funny?
He's actually funny.
joe rogan
Dorian's a fun guy.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I really enjoyed having him on the podcast.
tom papa
I would imagine.
joe rogan
Whenever someone is...
I enjoy talking to someone that has just achieved insane levels of accomplishment in anything.
jamie vernon
Oh my god, yeah.
joe rogan
Whether it's software design or fucking...
tom papa
They're so impressive.
joe rogan
People who can do...
tom papa
They're inspirational.
joe rogan
But you gotta...
Is there a time where you can't do that anymore?
How long can you compete at a certain level of RPMs before your brain or your body...
tom papa
Yeah, there's a limit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
It's amazing.
So like I said, 25 push-ups, you know, at a pop.
joe rogan
25's good.
tom papa
It's good.
joe rogan
That's good.
tom papa
Well, you know why?
joe rogan
How often do you do it?
tom papa
Because you look at every day.
joe rogan
You do 100 push-ups a day?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Come on.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
That's very good, dude.
tom papa
Thanks, man.
joe rogan
That's very good.
tom papa
But it's like...
The least you could do.
joe rogan
That's not the least you could do.
tom papa
You do one.
It's pretty much the least you could do.
joe rogan
One is the least you could do.
tom papa
Yeah, but you know, flailing those kettlebells and it's like, you just feel it.
You could start, you're just feeling like, I was at the, I've said this before, but you're at the pool and you see these guys walk around, the dad bod guys, they got nothing left.
It's just like, you know, over their shoulders.
joe rogan
When I see guys' shoulders and it's just kind of like bone.
tom papa
Yes.
joe rogan
And skin.
And I always think, oh my God, you're going to get hurt.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
That guy's going to open up a mayonnaise jar and pull out his rotator cuff.
unidentified
I know.
tom papa
I just don't want to do that.
I don't want to be that.
joe rogan
Have you ever thought about hiring a trainer?
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
I can get you one if you want one.
tom papa
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah!
Yeah, I know a lot of guys.
tom papa
Do I have to go somewhere?
Let me get the hormones so I'm motivated enough to go.
joe rogan
Do you have weights at your house?
tom papa
I do.
I have dumbbells and the bike.
joe rogan
Someone could come to your house and just with dumbbells give you a phenomenal workout.
Just body weight and dumbbells.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, just commit to doing it two times a week.
tom papa
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah.
And then, you know, ramp it up.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Up to three times a week.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
You know, make sure you have recovery time.
You know, you do Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
And then.
You'll see improvements for sure.
tom papa
You know what's hard is the road.
When you're on the road, it's so hard.
I'm always like, no, this week I'm going to do it.
And you're on the road and it's like, my go-to is yoga when I'm on the road.
I'll do yoga in the room.
It's hard.
joe rogan
Yoga in the room is good.
If you go to a class, it's better.
tom papa
Oh, of course.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you can force yourself to go to a class.
tom papa
Those little adjustments that they just come over to you, it makes all the difference.
joe rogan
Yeah, and it's also like you have to keep up with the pace of the class.
You can't just fuck off and take a shit.
You're in that class, man.
You're locked in for 90 minutes with your little bottle of water, and you've got to make that water last.
tom papa
I know.
No, it's a big difference.
Well, now that we're coming out of the pandemic, I go to classes again.
joe rogan
I can't believe you never caught COVID. That's amazing.
tom papa
Never caught it.
joe rogan
That's incredible.
Especially with this Omicron.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
Everybody caught that.
tom papa
And I was touring heavy.
I've been out, and at a certain point, I was like, I'm just going to sign books.
Depending on where I would go, if the audience...
Didn't have to wear a mask if that city and that theater was saying...
I was like, I'm just going to go.
I'm just going to do it.
Good for you.
Yeah, I never caught it.
joe rogan
Well, you know what?
If you have the right protocol in place into how to take care of yourself once, if you did get sick, if you were ready for it, you could be okay.
It's just, you know, you're a relatively young, healthy guy, and you're vaccinated, and you're out there.
tom papa
I was vaxxed and boosted in my little baggies in my backpack.
joe rogan
Vitamins.
tom papa
Yeah, with all the zinc and the stuff.
joe rogan
That made a big difference, I'm sure.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, that's one of the things that they said about vitamin D in particular.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Was that some ungodly number at one point in time, I think it was like in the high 70s, I think it was like 78% of the people that were in the ICU with COVID had insufficient levels of vitamin D. Wow.
Wow.
It's a big factor with your immune system, vitamin D, because they call it a vitamin, but it's really a hormone.
tom papa
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, Dr. Rhonda Patrick was explaining it to me, and she's like, they shouldn't even call it a vitamin, because it's really a hormone that you get from the sun.
tom papa
Right.
My friend Kira Soltanovich, you know Kira, she was saying you've got to take it with K, K2. Yeah, it helps absorption.
Yeah.
She was like, don't just take it on its own.
So then I changed it to that.
joe rogan
It's like if you take zinc, you're supposed to take zinc with quercetin or curcumin or some kind of an ionophore.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But to have someone who can go over your blood work and look at your nutrient levels and make sure you're taking the right stuff, it's so beneficial.
Because you think about your expertise in comedy.
Now, if you had someone who was just starting out and they were doing everything all wrong, you'd be like, don't headline right away.
tom papa
Right.
Don't do that joke.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
You'd be able to talk to them and tell them how to do comedy.
They can do that with how to eat.
They can do that with how to exercise.
It's always worth bringing in an expert.
tom papa
Yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
A real expert.
tom papa
Yeah, no, you're right.
joe rogan
Because I've had a bunch of workouts with real high-level fitness trainers.
And I work out here in town with my friend John Wolf, who's the head trainer at the Onnit gym.
I work out with him all the time.
It helps a lot.
tom papa
It does help.
joe rogan
It helps so much, man.
Because he'll make me do, like, mobility exercises and shit that I don't really want to do.
tom papa
Right.
Yeah, you get into your own pattern.
You're doing something that's better than not doing anything.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
But having someone else just be like, ah, change this.
You're like, oh, right, I feel this now.
joe rogan
Also, to make someone who does things on their time, like, you want a certain amount of rest in between.
They only give you the rest they think you need.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Get back at it.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
They're trying to build you up, whereas you're just trying to maintain a comfort level while you're at the gym.
tom papa
Yeah, right, exactly.
joe rogan
You know, if you don't see people fucking around with their phone and talking to their friends.
tom papa
Yeah, reading the paper on the treadmill.
joe rogan
Yeah, and having some reason to fuck off with a buddy, you know, laugh and joke around.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
You really should be doing another set.
tom papa
Yeah, yeah.
No, that's good.
joe rogan
It's also the thing about going to a gym that's great is the culture of the people there.
Especially On It Gym is great because everyone there is trying to better themselves.
So when you are there and you see all these super fit people that are working out hard and trying to better themselves, you get into this mindset and then the momentum of that kind of carries on in your life.
unidentified
Yeah.
Nice.
tom papa
That is a good thing.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
tom papa
I'm on the bike.
I just have Frank the Pug walking by.
joe rogan
That's okay too.
unidentified
Listen, that's fucking way better than not doing it.
tom papa
Yeah, for sure.
For sure.
joe rogan
It's all about, you know, just like how much time do you have for that?
How much energy do you have for that?
You don't want to overdo it where it takes away from other things that you do.
tom papa
No, of course.
joe rogan
That fucking guy that died, he obviously went too far.
He was going crazy.
You don't want to go crazy.
tom papa
It actually, in the right dose, staves off the crazy.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
tom papa
I mean, you know, during the pandemic, it was like, if I didn't work out, it was like, you're a different guy after two days.
joe rogan
It's so good for anxiety.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
It feels so much better.
joe rogan
Yeah, my friends who have anxiety who don't exercise, I'm like, man, it's like you're not taking your medicine.
tom papa
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
joe rogan
You can help yourself.
tom papa
You'd be in the shittiest, worst mood, and then you do it, and you're like, what was I complaining about?
joe rogan
Exactly.
tom papa
What didn't I like?
joe rogan
You have a lot more empathy for people after you do that, too, which is interesting.
tom papa
Patience for people.
Empathy.
Yeah, you're right.
Why is that?
joe rogan
I think a lot of our reactions to other people are based on how we feel internally, physically how you feel.
I think we carry around a lot of stress whether we realize it or not.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I feel way better when I stretch.
Even if I'm not going to work out, just a long stretching session, I feel better.
tom papa
Totally.
joe rogan
Because you're carrying around less tension.
You're alleviating tension in your body that alleviates it in your mind, and you just feel better.
tom papa
That's the yoga key, right?
You come out of there, you're blissed out.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
You're so much more compassionate towards people when you do yoga.
tom papa
Yeah.
So good.
It's great.
So, Duncan's coming back to LA. Is he?
Yeah.
joe rogan
100%?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I wouldn't bet on that.
tom papa
He said he was.
When did you talk to him?
We started doing this podcast together.
joe rogan
When did you just start doing this?
tom papa
Like a couple months ago.
We haven't released it yet.
We just love each other.
We never really hung out.
I just love talking to him so much.
So we've just been talking.
He said, we're like, should we do this?
Because we have so much fun.
We're like, you want to do something together like this?
And he's like...
I'm moving back, man.
I'm coming.
joe rogan
He was coming here, too, so I wouldn't count on it.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'm coming to Austin, man.
tom papa
No, man.
I miss it.
joe rogan
Last time we did a podcast together, I was sitting in that seat.
He sat in this seat, and he wore a ghillie suit, and I wore a wig.
No, no, no.
We both wore wigs, right?
We burned candles.
We had candles all over the table.
tom papa
He's so crazy.
joe rogan
I don't know.
Did we take mushrooms?
Did we take mushrooms?
unidentified
No.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
I don't think we took mushrooms.
But we were baked out of our fucking minds.
He's one of my favorite people to hang out with because he's so uniquely Duncan.
tom papa
So much so.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
And it just feels like, yeah, just talking to him is just great.
joe rogan
He's the best.
He's such a sweet person too.
Like genuinely nice.
tom papa
You're going to see Joe.
Give that werewolf a kiss for me.
Give that werewolf a kiss.
joe rogan
We have a new version of the werewolf.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
You do?
joe rogan
Yeah, we got a new one.
Patrick McGee, who's the guy who made the first werewolf.
Is that still in L.A.? Yeah, but we're going back to get that soon, too.
But he sent me, I'm going to send you these, Jamie, because they're fucking sweet.
But he changed this new one where he does it.
The old one had, some of it was yak hair, and some of it was like this artificial hair, and then the new one, he's using all yak hair.
And because I had Rick Baker on the podcast, Rick Baker's the guy who did all the special effects for the American Werewolf in London, and he created the first Oh, wow.
tom papa
Oh, that is fierce.
joe rogan
Look at the claws.
tom papa
That is fierce.
Look at his fangs.
joe rogan
Yeah, he fine-tuned it.
Patrick McGee does high-level special effects for films.
tom papa
That is insane.
joe rogan
Yeah, the old one was awesome, but this one is awesomer.
Look at the difference in the muscles.
Look at the muscles in this thing and the hair.
So it's all yak hair now.
So he's not using the synthetic hair anymore.
He did the whole thing in animal hair.
tom papa
It looks twice as scary.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he brought it down to the size, so it's like a little bigger than me, probably.
tom papa
Yeah, you could see that it was human.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's the idea.
tom papa
Like his back.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Fucking awesome.
tom papa
Oh, that's amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
What an artist.
joe rogan
Oh, he's so good, man.
He does a lot of stuff for films.
He does a lot of stuff for monster movies.
And he's one of those guys.
Yeah, this is McGee's special effects page.
Look at his stuff, man.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
He's incredible.
Look at those eyes.
That's Patrick right there.
And he's a big giant dude, too.
When I met him, I was like, holy shit, he's like six foot six.
unidentified
He's huge.
joe rogan
He was a basketball player, and he decided to get into special effects.
tom papa
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Look at that fucking thing.
tom papa
Oh, it's scary.
joe rogan
Because you expect that someone who did this would be like sort of a nerdy introvert.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's like a big athlete.
jamie vernon
Like look at his work.
tom papa
It's amazing.
joe rogan
Wild stuff, right?
tom papa
Holy cow.
Isn't that wild?
Amazing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And what is it?
McGeeFX on Instagram.
You can check out all this stuff.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
I got to look them up.
joe rogan
But he's one of those guys, like, look at that, that's his Bigfoot.
Oof.
Isn't that dope?
tom papa
Yeah.
He's a real artist.
joe rogan
See, there's two schools of thoughts when it comes to special effects for films.
And one of them is they do CGI, so computer-generated images.
And then the other one is guys who want to use makeup and prosthetics because they think it moves real and it seems like a real object.
tom papa
I believe that.
joe rogan
It does.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sometimes you see things in a movie and it looks cool, but it looks fake.
tom papa
It takes you out of it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Exactly.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Whereas in American Werewolf in London, which is one of the great horror movies of all time, you didn't see the werewolf that much.
Get some footage of the werewolf in American Werewolf in London.
You saw it briefly in these scenes, and that's one of the things that made it so scary.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Is that you weren't staring at it, trying to find holes in it.
tom papa
Right, analyzing it.
joe rogan
Right.
You saw it briefly.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it was fucking terrifying.
tom papa
Wow.
Wasn't Jack Nicholson a werewolf?
joe rogan
He was a terrible werewolf.
tom papa
He was?
joe rogan
He was terrible.
Him and Michelle Pfeiffer.
tom papa
Oh, right, right, right.
unidentified
They were like this.
joe rogan
It was so corny.
It was like, that's a wolf, man.
tom papa
Get out of here, bitch.
Grr.
joe rogan
They were trying to do...
There's a whole series of things we could say here.
Pull up the one from American Werewolf in London, and then we'll do Jack Nicholson, and then we'll do Benicio Del Toro.
Because Benicio Del Toro did a new version of the old Wolfman.
So this is when he's turning.
Yeah, this is great.
You've got to realize, I think this was the 80s, right?
tom papa
Yeah, it was.
I remember I was in high school.
joe rogan
So, what year was this?
tom papa
81. 81. 81. My god.
joe rogan
So I was in high school too.
So like, this was so radical for the time, this transformation scene where his hands are growing and he's screaming.
And it was also funny, because like you see...
unidentified
This is his friend.
joe rogan
I'm sorry I told you to meatloaf because his dead friend was telling him to kill himself.
His friend came back from the dead, told him to kill himself because you're going to turn into a werewolf.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
He's warning him.
He's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
And so this is the first time he changes.
tom papa
Good actor, too.
joe rogan
Oh my god, he was amazing.
And this scene was fucking incredible, man.
Because no one had ever seen anything like this before in a film.
tom papa
Yeah, I remember.
joe rogan
The Wolfman stuff before that was kind of corny.
tom papa
Yeah, and shadows.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It just didn't seem like it was really happening.
tom papa
Good actor, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Oh my god, this fucking movie is one of my all-time favorites.
tom papa
And then you had a little Warren Zevon in there.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
God damn, it was good.
And funny, like Jack, like the face.
tom papa
Look at that.
joe rogan
Look at this fucking thing.
God damn, what a movie this was.
tom papa
Oh, God.
It's really great.
unidentified
And 1981, man.
joe rogan
And the music, look at the fucking body on that thing.
Just wild.
It was also the first time I'd ever seen a werewolf where it was on all fours.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
tom papa
Yeah, he wasn't walking around in a suit.
joe rogan
Okay.
Now see if they show the werewolf in any other scenes, because there's a scene where it's running through Piccadilly Circus.
jamie vernon
I don't have the full movie up.
I just had that scene.
joe rogan
Did they have Piccadilly Circus?
Piccadilly Square.
unidentified
What's Piccadilly?
joe rogan
Piccadilly Square was the area where it was running through the street, just killing people.
It was in a nudie theater.
And he was in a movie theater watching porno with this guy, because that's where the guy told him to meet him there.
And he's telling them, like, you're going to turn to the werewolf, you're going to kill everybody.
And so he's in this theater and there's other people in the theater that are like, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
And then he turns into the werewolf and see this cop comes in because he hears there's a disturbance.
I think it already killed a guy in there.
So some people are in there having sex.
tom papa
And the cops walking through the movies.
He just ate someone.
unidentified
No guns in London.
joe rogan
So the guy's trying to get people...
I know, they have sticks.
Imagine.
These poor bastards.
So this thing is in the middle of this porno theater.
All these cops are trying to hold it back.
And these people are like, what's going on over there?
What's happening?
unidentified
What's happening?
joe rogan
And then eventually the werewolf breaks through that boundary and comes out and starts slaughtering people.
Go a little before you see it come out.
What the hell is going on here?
Open that door.
tom papa
Here he comes.
Oh, and he eats the main guy.
unidentified
Oh, there goes his head.
tom papa
Now you get it, people.
Get out of there.
there.
unidentified
What a fucking scene, man.
That's what movies were movies.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, man.
Look at that thing.
tom papa
And it's true.
If that was animated, you'd be like, yeah, okay.
joe rogan
Right, you're seeing whatever that thing is, it looks like a real thing is happening there.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's snapping at people while it's running around.
Now, go to Jack Nicholson in The Wolf.
tom papa
Oh, no.
joe rogan
I think they called it Wolf.
I think it was called Wolf.
It was him and Michelle Pfeiffer.
tom papa
Right, right.
Wolf.
joe rogan
It was corny.
unidentified
Is that it?
tom papa
Wolfman.
joe rogan
No, no, that's Wolfman.
That's Benicio Del Toro.
That's the next one I'm going to show you.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
But Jack Nicholson.
tom papa
Oh yeah, there it is.
joe rogan
Yeah, Wolf Jack Nicholson.
tom papa
Versus James Spader, that's right.
joe rogan
Yeah, they had a super fight.
Him and that guy from that fucking cop show.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
They both became wolves.
So Michelle Pfeiffer hits him in the head with a fire extinguisher and she's running away and then Look how he runs.
Look how he runs and tackles her.
tom papa
He's in a sweatshirt.
joe rogan
It's so fake looking.
unidentified
Look.
joe rogan
Jack Nicholson becomes a wolf.
He throws the keys away.
I'm gonna kill her.
I'm gonna kill her.
tom papa
I mean, come on.
Who's more badass than Jack?
You make a leap like this, you're like, I think it'll work.
joe rogan
Look, she gets away so easy.
He has to leap through the air to stop her from getting away.
tom papa
It looks so corny.
unidentified
I don't know how they sold off on this.
tom papa
Well, you're at the mercy.
You're thinking, no, there's good people.
joe rogan
So, if he takes that thing off, is that what turns him into the wolfman again?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is that what's supposed to be happening?
tom papa
Yeah, he locked himself in a cage and wore that thing so he wouldn't hurt people.
But now he's got a saver.
joe rogan
It's so corny.
tom papa
So he takes the amulet off.
joe rogan
Look how corny that is.
tom papa
Now he's going full wolf.
joe rogan
I can't believe Jack Nicholson signed off on this.
I mean, Jack Nicholson has done so many amazing movies.
Like, look.
tom papa
Yeah, but it's too late by the time you're at that point.
unidentified
Oof.
tom papa
Ooh, the horse is...
unidentified
Oh, no.
joe rogan
What is he trying to do?
This is very rapey.
tom papa
That's rapey.
Oh, no.
joe rogan
Oh, this is terrible.
tom papa
Oh, my God.
Come on, Jack.
Save her.
joe rogan
This is taking a long-ass time, Jack.
tom papa
Save her, Jack.
joe rogan
Oh, he jumps over the top.
Oh, there's no roof.
Oh, now he's going to land on them.
tom papa
So the only thing that changes on these werewolves is their face.
joe rogan
Yeah, their teeth get a little nasty.
But it's nothing, like, significant.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
Like, look at that.
unidentified
Ah!
joe rogan
And then watch Jack Nuggest.
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
This is like people that come to your Halloween party.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And you're like, come on, bro.
That's all you did?
unidentified
Yeah.
tom papa
Right.
A little effort.
Come on.
joe rogan
Okay.
Now.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
That's whack.
unidentified
Now.
joe rogan
Wolfman.
Benicio Del Toro.
The scene where he transforms in a hospital.
So this is one where they had decided that Benicio Del Toro was like a madman.
Give me some volume.
tom papa
He's so good, too.
unidentified
For him, it seems very real.
joe rogan
So they were thinking that this guy was delusional.
There was something wrong with him.
So this doctor...
tom papa
He's all strapped to a chair.
joe rogan
Yeah, so they're observing this in this, like, medical theater, because they used to have, like, medical theaters back then.
So this is also Rick Baker.
So Rick Baker decided to do, like, an old-school werewolf thing, but to do it right.
And to do it not CGI all the way, but some CGI. Some CGI and some...
unidentified
Like, that's CGI, clearly.
joe rogan
But some of it is...
tom papa
That's great.
joe rogan
Yeah, see, like, some of it's CGI. But some of it is, like, physical stuff.
tom papa
It's always so creepy when their bones stretch.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, this was the most creepy.
It was really good.
Like, the movie was pretty good.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it...
I mean, it was close.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
See, like, when this all takes place, like, these people are freaking out, and they try to get away, and then it eventually becomes, like, this version of, like, it's not quite, like, the American Werewolf in London, but it's not corny like Jackman.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's, like, in the middle.
Look at this guy.
He thinks he's gonna, like, trank him.
He shoots him up with a thing.
tom papa
Yeah, he's got a little bit more of a human...
joe rogan
Yeah, you buy into it more.
unidentified
Hello!
joe rogan
Open the door, you fuck!
unidentified
Seems to be locked, sir.
I think he pulls out his heart.
tom papa
Just eating people.
joe rogan
It's close enough where I think, okay, at least it's not just a dude with some teeth.
That looks like a monster.
tom papa
Yeah, that's a good one.
joe rogan
It was good.
tom papa
Yeah, it was good.
joe rogan
But this was like a lot of CGI stuff too.
Like the werewolf like jumps off the buildings and stuff and it looks corny.
jamie vernon
Right, right, right.
joe rogan
Like you see it running through the city.
Like watch this.
Like watch this.
When you see it like run over the buildings, it looks kind of corny.
jamie vernon
Right.
joe rogan
It's like they did a hybrid type movie.
Like a lot of it was like this here.
unidentified
Like...
joe rogan
I'm hopping from building the building.
But then here, it's like a real guy running.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But then once he gets hopping, it gets kind of corny.
tom papa
Yeah, that all of a sudden is not real.
joe rogan
And he runs on all fours sometimes.
It's like that.
tom papa
He looks good.
Yeah.
joe rogan
They try.
Yeah JV's laughing You had to add that But also You don't have to But that sound That sound cannot fuck With the sound That the American Werewolf in London made Yeah.
The American Werewolf in London sound was so much more ferocious.
That was a better sound.
But that was one of those movies where they tried...
There was an old school...
Was it Lone Chaney Jr. that played the werewolf?
tom papa
Lone Chaney.
joe rogan
In The Wolfman?
Who was the original Wolfman.
Yeah, the OG Wolfman.
From like the 1950s.
tom papa
And those movies were good because there was suspense.
Like you didn't see a lot.
So you had to build it up with not seeing it.
joe rogan
Well, that's what he looked like.
Yeah, Loan Chaney Jr., the Wolfman.
So what this Wolfman with Benicio Del Toro was supposed to be was like this thing, but better.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They achieved it, but the reality is it's not quite scary enough.
tom papa
No, it wasn't about the effects as much as it was the acting back then.
joe rogan
But it's like that movie, the Wolfman with Benicio Del Toro was ultimately kind of a failure.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It really didn't.
tom papa
Didn't catch?
joe rogan
No, people were like, come on, man.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
What are you doing?
I see what they're trying to do, but we want a real monster.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
We want a real monster.
tom papa
And then Abbott and Costello go against the Wolfman at one point.
unidentified
Oh, they did?
That's right!
joe rogan
There's no like comedy teams like that anymore.
tom papa
No.
joe rogan
James Franco and Seth Rogen were like the last comedy team.
They were in a bunch of films together.
tom papa
Right, right.
joe rogan
Oh, look at that.
tom papa
There you go.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
Oh, but also, who else was, what the fuck's his name?
From Step Brothers.
jamie vernon
Oh, Farrell and John C. Reilly?
joe rogan
That's right.
Those two guys have been in a bunch of movies.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's probably the best comedy team.
tom papa
They are.
joe rogan
Step Brothers, Talladega Knights.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's right.
They're our modern team.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Then there's...
joe rogan
Talladega Nights is amazing.
tom papa
So funny.
Stepbrother's so damn funny.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, so funny.
You couldn't do that movie today, man.
I watched it with my family during the pandemic, and I was like, whoa, there's a lot of racy humor in this.
tom papa
Well, it starts off, I just showed it to my daughters, too.
The first real gag is putting the testicles on the...
On the symbols.
My daughter's like, what are you showing us?
unidentified
But it's a lot of it.
joe rogan
It's like homophobia jokes.
There's like a lot of jokes.
You just can't.
It's weird today.
You can't just joke around about certain things now because of social media and the outrage, recreational outrage that's sort of blossomed from it.
tom papa
Yeah, there was a lot of bad taste back then, but at least there was the freedom to make stuff.
There was, like, bad comedies.
Every year there'd be a boatload of bad comedies just swinging for the fences, and then every once in a while one of them would hit.
joe rogan
But the ones that hit, today, when you go back and watch them, like, you know, if comics are getting canceled for old jokes, like, geez, Louise, go back and watch some of those films.
tom papa
Revenge of the Nerds.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
tom papa
Revenge of the Nerds.
Those guys were creeps.
The nerds were creeps.
They were so rapey.
jamie vernon
They put spy gear all over the sorority house?
tom papa
Yeah, they're perving out on all the girls, and then they switch his costumes, and he goes and has sex with the girl, and she thinks it's with the other guy.
It's essentially raping her.
joe rogan
You remember Superbad?
tom papa
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
Dude, that movie.
You remember Superbad.
jamie vernon
Sure.
joe rogan
What about that?
The movie is filled with crazy humor.
I tried watching that movie.
That was the one when they started out the movie like he was drawing all those dicks.
jamie vernon
It didn't start out with that.
joe rogan
That was in the movie, right?
That's a fucking hilarious movie, but it starts out, they're talking about porno.
Right.
And I was trying to watch it with my kids, and I was like, okay, stop, stop, stop, stop.
I forgot.
tom papa
Like, I forgot.
16 Candles?
joe rogan
I haven't seen that in forever.
tom papa
Same thing.
joe rogan
Is it really?
tom papa
Yeah, she's all drunk at the end.
He just gives her to the nerd.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
tom papa
Take her, man.
Do what you want.
joe rogan
There were so many movies like that.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I remember Animal House.
That whole scene where the girl was out unconscious.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And he pulled the stuffing out of her bra.
tom papa
Right, right.
He had the devil and the angel.
joe rogan
Yes, yeah.
tom papa
Yeah, not good.
It doesn't hold up.
joe rogan
I mean, how many Judd Apatow movies that he put out would just never fly today?
Never.
tom papa
And that's not that long ago.
joe rogan
That's what my point is.
Animal House was in the fucking, what was that?
tom papa
The 70s.
Yeah.
joe rogan
The Apatow movies were in the 2000s.
tom papa
Right.
It's quick.
joe rogan
The invention of social media changed everybody's acceptance of what is okay to joke around.
jamie vernon
Did you ever see this movie?
It came out.
I was trying to figure out what it was called.
It was in the background of the Ghislaine Maxwell photo.
This photo thing, the movie poster was.
joe rogan
No, I didn't see it.
Was it good?
jamie vernon
I mean, it came out two years ago.
It's about a bunch of young teenagers, probably 12, 10. It's irreverent as fuck.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
jamie vernon
Is it funny?
It's a dirty movie.
It's pretty funny.
tom papa
Yeah.
jamie vernon
But I mean, it wasn't one of those things that you're like, oh my god, you gotta go see it, kind of.
It didn't cross that level.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wouldn't want to make a comedy today, man.
tom papa
Very tricky.
joe rogan
Yeah, super tricky.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
You have to dance a line, and then the studio would probably be like, ooh.
tom papa
You'd have to really do it independently, probably.
joe rogan
Probably.
tom papa
Right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like, if you wanted to try to make...
I mean, the thing about these comedies, it's not like you're endorsing this behavior.
You're just saying that it's funny because people are fucked up.
tom papa
And it's right.
You're reflecting the people and how they talked and what they did.
joe rogan
Right.
And you're showing people's flawed reactions to situations or flawed decision making.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
And that's where the comedy is like, don't do that.
unidentified
Oh my God.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You know, and that's, you don't.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Today, that stuff, it's like, what was the last good comedy movie that was released?
It used to be you would be able to, something about Mary.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
You know, Kingpin.
You could just snap them off.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
You knew where they were.
It's like, wokeness killed the comedy movie in a lot of ways.
tom papa
It did.
People, they're just not making them.
joe rogan
What was the last great comedy movie?
tom papa
The last Step Brothers?
joe rogan
No, there's been some other ones.
tom papa
Since then?
joe rogan
What was the one where it was the end of the world?
It was James Franco and Seth Rogen and the fucking volcanoes and shit was happening.
tom papa
What's the one where the house party goes out of control?
jamie vernon
This is the end.
joe rogan
This is the end.
This is the end was good.
What year was that?
tom papa
2013. 2013. I wouldn't say great comedy.
joe rogan
But that's still 10 years ago.
You know, that might be the last of the Mohicans.
tom papa
Yeah, it's weird.
What was the one where the house party goes out of control?
joe rogan
Project X. Project X. Do woke people make comedy?
Is there a woke comedy movie?
Is there even an attempt?
Is there even an attempt at a politically correct comedy movie?
Did it just stop making comedy movies?
tom papa
They just stop making them.
But you could be super funny.
You could make a great comedy without being rapey and homophobic.
joe rogan
But it's not just that.
It's all abhorrent behavior.
It's not an endorsement.
If you have a movie, here's an example of American Psycho.
American Psycho, you could do that movie today.
And it wouldn't be an endorsement of a person who's a serial killer.
It would just be a film about a serial killer.
tom papa
About a psycho.
joe rogan
But there's a weird thing that happens when you're making fun of something.
When you're making fun of something, somehow or another it's supposedly an endorsement of whatever that activity is, even if it's completely unacceptable.
tom papa
Yeah, but it's kind of like, yeah, but it's, the real question is, is that a moment?
Is this a moment?
Because I know, like, really young people who think that that whole thing went too far.
Like, they laugh at shit that's a little more irreverent.
joe rogan
That doesn't matter.
What matters is, if you did make that movie, the backlash would be absolutely real.
People would go crazy.
tom papa
Right.
Right.
joe rogan
But that's what they're afraid of.
They're not afraid of whether or not they'd have a market.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
They would definitely have a market.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But how many people would get canceled because of it?
How many people would get attacked because of it?
How bad would the studio get protested?
tom papa
Right, right.
Well, then it comes down to the math.
joe rogan
When was the last great comedy movie?
Where people were roaring in the movie theater and then went to see it.
And then they told everybody, you gotta go see it.
tom papa
Yeah.
It's weird that we can't...
It's weird that we're struggling.
joe rogan
I am 100% struggling.
Jamie, when was the last great comedy movie that you saw?
You said Good Boys.
jamie vernon
I mean, I just was throwing it out there.
I would think it wasn't...
joe rogan
But, like, what is another one?
unidentified
Well...
joe rogan
It's like the genre has been murdered.
jamie vernon
I was trying to think like...
tom papa
Let's think Kevin Hart.
unidentified
Let's think Will Ferrell.
jamie vernon
Yeah, there's a few movies like the Jumanji movies sort of like...
joe rogan
Yeah, but those are family friendly, man.
jamie vernon
Exactly, I know.
joe rogan
Family friendly.
tom papa
They're great.
joe rogan
Funny.
Great movies.
tom papa
Really funny.
joe rogan
I love Jumanji.
unidentified
It was great.
joe rogan
It took my kids to see it.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was fun.
jamie vernon
Deadpool had a lot of comedy in it.
The first Jumanji.
unidentified
Deadpool.
joe rogan
No, Deadpool.
Deadpool.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
It was like, but that's a superhero movie, so...
joe rogan
Right, right.
unidentified
Deadpool.
jamie vernon
It's not really...
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
But it wasn't a comedy.
jamie vernon
I know.
In some sense, I wouldn't consider that really good.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was a funny superhero movie.
tom papa
Get Hard, Kevin Hart, and Will Ferrell.
joe rogan
I didn't see that.
tom papa
You know, like, I'm just trying to think of the funny actors that have been making the stuff, right?
joe rogan
But they make a lot of family-friendly stuff now.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Which you can kind of do still.
tom papa
Hangover.
joe rogan
Okay.
tom papa
Right?
And that's why it exploded, because it was an R-rated...
jamie vernon
Same year, though, for Hangover 3, 2013. That was 3. I'm trying to find anything since then, and there's not a lot since 2014, 15, 16. There's a few of those family-friendly comedies that pop up.
joe rogan
They murdered the comedy movie.
tom papa
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Wasn't that also one of the first ones to go rated R? That was a big deal because it was a top rated R comedy movie.
tom papa
Of all time.
It broke the record.
joe rogan
Superbad was R too.
jamie vernon
But it wasn't as top rated as the hangover was.
tom papa
Hangover exploded.
joe rogan
Hangover was a spectacular success.
tom papa
Yeah.
You could make Hangover today.
joe rogan
Could you though?
tom papa
I think so.
joe rogan
What was in it that you couldn't do?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'd have to go back and watch it.
Sometimes I forget how crazy those movies are to go back and watch them again.
tom papa
Yeah.
I think you can make Hangover today.
You can make it, but I think people are scared.
I think people are scared.
The studio's scared.
joe rogan
Oh, they would go over that script with a fine-toothed comb.
tom papa
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Different parameter.
jamie vernon
Mike Tyson showed back up, remember?
tom papa
Yeah.
jamie vernon
Oh, shit.
Mike Tyson.
unidentified
Mike Tyson.
tom papa
That's when Zach blew up.
joe rogan
It was Phil Collins coming in the air.
That was fun.
tom papa
That was a great movie.
joe rogan
What else?
What was the next movie like that?
tom papa
That was that big.
joe rogan
Google.
tom papa
The jackass movies.
jamie vernon
I've been looking.
I'm deep in the highest grossing comedies, the top from the last 20 years, 10 years.
tom papa
Even Google can't figure it out.
jamie vernon
For top grossing comedies of the last 10 years, of the 2010s, the top two, that's a count Jumanji.
The Hangovers are in there.
Ted.
Men in Black 3. Both Deadpools.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
jamie vernon
22 Jump Street.
tom papa
Mm-hmm.
jamie vernon
Sequel to 21 Jump Street.
unidentified
Right.
jamie vernon
So that sounds like these are...
Yeah, Jonah Hill.
...to compete and be like, yeah, this is on my list.
joe rogan
Oh, what was the...
Well, Wolf of Wall Street, that was kind of a comedy, right?
tom papa
Yeah, kind of.
jamie vernon
And didn't Scorsese make that?
Who made that?
tom papa
Do you know what I mean?
joe rogan
Wasn't it a comedy though?
tom papa
Adam McKay.
jamie vernon
It's funny.
joe rogan
Yeah.
jamie vernon
That's also 2013. Wow.
unidentified
That was the end.
joe rogan
Maybe the Mayans were right.
tom papa
December 21st, 2012. Yeah, and now all that we're watching is human sacrifices.
joe rogan
December 21st, 2012. Wasn't that what it was?
jamie vernon
Yeah, 21st.
joe rogan
21st, 2012. Yeah, that's what they predicted, the end of the long count.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, man.
tom papa
Yeah, wild.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
tom papa
Yeah, they'll come back.
joe rogan
I don't know about that.
tom papa
I think they will.
joe rogan
I don't know about that, because you need a lot of money to make a movie.
tom papa
Well, that's the problem, too.
It's also a film thing.
I mean, if you talk to people that are just into the business of making movies, even dramas, like the number of films that are made now that are financed by the studios is so small compared to what it was.
joe rogan
But you have to also think that COVID must have put a giant dent in the movie business because you couldn't go to the movies anymore.
tom papa
And it was vulnerable right before that.
And the DVD market fell out.
And then COVID. This is like rough time to make those just good middle of, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
20 million dollar movies.
It's all superhero giganto movies.
Or the really small movies that people don't see.
Where the streamers are starting to put them out.
Like Adam McKay's Don't Look Up.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
I didn't see that.
tom papa
It's good.
joe rogan
Yeah?
tom papa
Yeah, it's good.
unidentified
And funny.
joe rogan
Well, what's interesting now is the best things that you can watch in terms of the depth of character and the script writing is television shows.
tom papa
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
Television shows are amazing now.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, if you watch Ozark.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Ozark is basically like a...
I mean, how many episodes are they into now?
They're on season four.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
So it's like, you know, whatever the fuck it is, a 50-hour.
tom papa
Yeah.
Right.
joe rogan
You know?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's a 50-hour movie.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
Like, it's crazy.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
Like, you're watching these people grow up.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
You're watching this family.
Do you watch it?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
The new season's insane.
tom papa
I haven't seen it.
joe rogan
It's insane.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
And then the new second part of the new season, they're ramping it up for this.
tom papa
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Which I think starts in April sometime.
I think starts in the end of April.
tom papa
Right.
joe rogan
It's going to be amazing.
tom papa
Well, yeah, that's where it gets made.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
Last Stranger Things is going to come out.
joe rogan
Yeah.
tom papa
You can make comedies if you set them in the 80s.
joe rogan
Right.
tom papa
When people were shitty and funny to each other.
joe rogan
Even then, man.
Even then.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
Good luck.
Yeah.
The comedy has to be in a guy who's like, you have to make fun of someone who's an absolute piece of shit, right?
And then there's funny in that because it's like there's a villain.
You can't have funny in a broken lead character.
tom papa
Right.
Yeah, he's got to be an asshole, a socially outcast.
joe rogan
Because movies, like, they have statements now.
It's not as simple as just have a funny movie.
tom papa
Yeah.
Let's make one.
joe rogan
Please.
That's the last thing you want to do.
tom papa
Could you imagine?
joe rogan
Imagine a fucking time.
tom papa
Oh my god.
joe rogan
And then if it bombs, you gave up a year and a half of your life.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
I just don't have a desire.
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, stand-up is fun enough.
tom papa
I know.
joe rogan
It's the most fun.
tom papa
I know, it's pure.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's so fun.
tom papa
And so many more laughs out of a stand-up act than a movie?
jamie vernon
I actually just thought of one.
I'm looking through comedies coming up.
This seems like it would be a good comedy, potentially.
This movie that Nicolas Cage is in about himself, sort of?
tom papa
Oh yeah, Nick Cage is Nick Cage or something?
joe rogan
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
jamie vernon
I remember watching the trailer.
It's like the story is a really rich guy hires Nick Cage to come and be at his birthday party.
And then he flies him up.
He's like, hey, Nick, you need a million dollars, right?
His agent calls him.
He's like, yeah, I'll take the million dollars.
What do I got to do?
Go show up at a party?
And then a bunch of crazy shit happens.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
tom papa
Gotta love Nick Cage.
joe rogan
They can still do it.
jamie vernon
Tiffany Haddish is in it.
tom papa
Yeah.
Oh.
joe rogan
It can still be done.
tom papa
Potentially.
jamie vernon
Potentially, yeah.
So we'll see.
joe rogan
Tiffany Hash with a bold move to shave her head, isn't it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Such a bold move.
tom papa
She looks good, though.
Yeah, she does look good.
joe rogan
She can pull it off.
tom papa
She looks really good.
joe rogan
Tom Papa, tell everybody where you're doing your fucking hee-hees and ha-has.
tom papa
I'm touring all over the country.
The tours, I've been on 16 flights in the last two weeks.
Whoa.
joe rogan
Really?
tom papa
Yeah, I've been everywhere.
I'm cranking it out.
Go to TomPapa.com.
You can look it up.
I've got a big show in Vegas on May 6th at the Wynn.
joe rogan
Oh, nice.
tom papa
I'm going to be at the Borgata.
joe rogan
Look at all those little spots on the map.
Look at you, you fucking traveling fool.
tom papa
I'm all over.
I'm touring like crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, you are, dude.
tom papa
Fargo, North Dakota.
joe rogan
Are you going anywhere you haven't done before?
tom papa
Yeah, this weekend I'm going to be in Great Barrington, Mass in Redding, Pennsylvania.
I haven't performed there.
joe rogan
Great Barrington, Massachusetts?
tom papa
Yeah, by the Berkshires.
joe rogan
Where the fuck is that?
tom papa
By the Berkshires?
joe rogan
Wow.
tom papa
And then I've got...
joe rogan
Is that Western Massachusetts?
Is that what that is?
tom papa
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's like near New York State, right?
tom papa
Yeah, exactly.
joe rogan
What's out there?
tom papa
Some little theater.
joe rogan
They found you?
And they dragged you out there?
tom papa
They dragged me and that's where I'm going on Thursday.
Bro.
And then down to Redding, Pennsylvania.
joe rogan
Connecticut.
You're doing Connecticut, huh?
tom papa
And then...
joe rogan
Big mistake.
tom papa
Nashville.
Yeah, the big one is Vegas.
I've got a big show in Vegas.
I just started...
I did my first one at the Wynn at the Encore Theater.
joe rogan
I've heard that's an awesome spot.
tom papa
I love it.
joe rogan
I was there, staying there a few months ago and I saw the theater.
The theater's gorgeous.
tom papa
Going back to Cleveland.
joe rogan
May 6th is the Encore Theater.
Nice.
tom papa
Yeah, I'm cranking out.
joe rogan
Nice.
tom papa
There's a whole bunch of stuff in the fall.
Just keep on going.
joe rogan
Paramount, Huntington, New York.
Hilarities in Cleveland.
Great Club.
tom papa
Breaking Bread Podcast.
It's all happening, kids.
joe rogan
It's all happening, motherfuckers.
tom papa
We can still make comedies.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yes.
Tom Papa.
tom papa
So good to see you, Joe.
joe rogan
I love you, buddy.
tom papa
There's an olive loaf in a regular loaf.
joe rogan
Thank you.
Thank you, my friend.
tom papa
See you soon, buddy.
joe rogan
You're the best.
Goodbye, ladies and gentlemen.
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