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Joe Rogan Experience #2033 - Matt Rife
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Alright, where are we recording this?
joe rogan
Let's go, Matt Rice.
matt rife
Let's do it.
joe rogan
Let's start off the show.
Are you still in L.A. right now?
matt rife
Technically, yeah.
I'm home three days a month, maybe.
joe rogan
You're just constantly touring.
matt rife
Yeah, it's a dream come true, man.
Careful what you wish for.
But long time coming, you know?
joe rogan
Well, I don't know.
It's not careful what you wish for.
It's just, you just have to learn how to manage this new thing now.
It's great, though.
It's not careful.
It's fucking awesome.
It's so much better than it not working out for you.
matt rife
Oh, absolutely.
No, if I could sleep like a normal human being, I think I'd be just fine.
joe rogan
Yeah, you were just talking about that, the serious insomnia.
Have you done anything to try to mitigate that?
Have you taken melatonin?
Have you tried any herbal?
Have you done all that stuff?
matt rife
I've OD'd on melatonin, dude.
I've taken 30 milligrams in a night and, you know, you build up a tolerance to melatonin.
You need to stop using it for a little while.
I mean, I do have to smoke, like, every single night to even have a chance of falling asleep.
Wow.
joe rogan
So you just, like, get some of that Be Real Indica, some of that Cypress Hill shit?
matt rife
Oh, yeah, dude, until I just am just deformed in bed.
joe rogan
And that puts you out?
matt rife
Not really.
No.
Wow.
Dude, it's insane.
I can stay awake on Xanax and everything.
It's almost like...
joe rogan
It's so interesting.
matt rife
If you picture like a light switch to turn your brain off, I just can't.
joe rogan
Your switch doesn't work.
matt rife
No.
And I think it's like...
After thinking about it for years, I think it's the same mechanism in my brain that allows me to think quickly on stage that keeps my brain up at night.
I just think about anything.
It's not even anxiety.
It's just anything.
joe rogan
It's just frantic thoughts just bouncing around your head.
matt rife
Yeah, anything from middle school memories to like, man, it's crazy how leaves are green and then brown sometimes.
It's just fucking anything.
My dick is like, please don't beat me again.
I've tried everything.
joe rogan
You've tried everything.
matt rife
I promise.
joe rogan
Wow.
matt rife
I know.
I know.
It sucks.
Because obviously, as much as I work out, your muscles don't get that time to recover because they can't build.
joe rogan
Well, and your brain doesn't get that time to recover.
matt rife
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Your immune system suffers.
Everything suffers when you don't sleep.
I've made a really conscious effort over the last year to get a lot of sleep.
And I've fucked it up quite a few times with the club.
Because there's been times with the club where at least three nights a week when I'm performing, I'm out until 2 o'clock in the morning.
And generally, I wake up around 8 to start working out.
And at 8, it's like six hours.
It's not quite enough.
It's not even six hours.
It's like five and a half.
And I feel tired.
I look tired.
And I just don't have as much juice.
And then when I adjust and then get proper sleep again, all of a sudden it's like...
Like, I feel like everything turns up to 10 again.
It's fascinating.
Like, I feel a big difference.
Like, physically feel a big difference.
Like, if sleep was a supplement, if I could take a sleep supplement, and it gives you that feeling you get when you're, like, fully rested, oh, my God, you're just better.
You're better.
Everything works better.
Your brain works better.
You can...
Physically do more.
Everything works better.
matt rife
I've heard.
joe rogan
Yeah, you gotta try it.
matt rife
I don't think I've even been in a REM sleep in five years, dude.
joe rogan
Oh, that doesn't make sense.
matt rife
It's so not good.
You'd be dead.
I feel dead, dude.
joe rogan
But you're not.
You feel alive.
matt rife
I've stayed awake for nine straight days before.
joe rogan
What?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't even think that's possible.
matt rife
I think the world record is like 11 or 13. Because I looked into it because I genuinely started to get fearful for my own health.
Jesus Christ.
Do you agree with needing eight hours?
Because I've heard so many different theories.
joe rogan
No, I don't think everybody needs eight hours.
I just know I do.
There's no way I could know what's going on in other people's bodies.
matt rife
You think it's case by case?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think it's like everything with biology.
Biology varies so much by genetics and life experiences.
What have you done leading up?
Have you just been Have you been sedentary your whole life?
Have you been very active?
Is your body very fit?
Or is your body riddled with problems?
And just genetics, man, they vary so much.
Some people have no problem with five hours sleep.
matt rife
And it changes over time as well, doesn't it?
Didn't people evolve from sleeping in four hour increments or something like that?
joe rogan
I mean, I'm sure they did.
I'm sure they didn't get a chance to just fucking chill.
You know, they were getting eaten by cats.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know?
That's the, you know, the rub on people.
It's like, we still have these genetics that are from 10,000, 15,000 years ago when life was very different.
And those are still the same genetics.
And that's why we're still looking for, like, tribal leaders and shit.
We're looking for, like, a president, a prime minister.
We're looking for, like, one person.
Still.
matt rife
Leaders used to fight in war.
joe rogan
Yes!
And that was how we sort of figured out what to do.
We went to the person who had experienced the most.
Not the person who's been paid off the most.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Not the person who's got the fucking shadiest insider dealings with the party that has the most influence.
matt rife
Oh, I know.
joe rogan
God damn it.
matt rife
I'm so happy I take zero part in any politics whatsoever.
unidentified
Good for you.
matt rife
I'm the least politically informed person you'll probably ever meet.
And I know I'm taking pride in naivety, but...
joe rogan
Well, for your own self-preservation, that's probably a good idea.
I've always said that voting and politics in this country is a lot like rooting on pro wrestling.
matt rife
Damn.
joe rogan
It might make you feel better, but I'm not sure how much it affects the outcome.
matt rife
That's a very good point.
joe rogan
It seems like at the very end of the day, the same people are getting all the money.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
And don't think about it in terms of whether or not you can vote in your party.
You most certainly can.
And don't think about it.
They most certainly can enact social change.
And they can do some good things, especially in relationship with the Supreme Court and a lot of other things.
But at the end of the day...
The real people that are running the show are the people that are getting these massive defense contracts and massive pharmaceutical contracts.
The billions and trillions of dollars that's being generated by various industries, that's what's running the show.
That's what's running the show.
matt rife
Man, you're speaking Mandarin Chinese right now.
joe rogan
That's not that fucking old dude that keeps getting tripped by ghosts.
He's not your leader.
matt rife
Are you a big ghost guy?
joe rogan
I believe it's possible.
matt rife
I'm obsessed.
joe rogan
Are you?
matt rife
So, really weird side hobby of mine, I go ghost hunting.
I've been around the world.
unidentified
Wow.
matt rife
Yeah.
It's incredible.
joe rogan
What have you experienced?
Have you ever had an absolute moment where you're like, oh my god, I'm in the presence of a poltergeist?
unidentified
Not...
matt rife
Still not a thousand percent.
I've definitely witnessed things that I cannot for the life of me explain that have creeped me out.
The timing has been impeccable.
I've seen things move that there's just no fucking way that they've moved.
I've gotten answers back on EVPs, but for me it is one of the things I do need to see it.
joe rogan
Isn't the EVP like a radio though?
matt rife
No, EVP is just a recorder.
joe rogan
It's a recorder.
What's that radio thing?
I'm sorry, then.
What is the one where they listen?
matt rife
There's a bunch of different names.
joe rogan
My daughter's heavily into this shit.
matt rife
What does she watch?
joe rogan
Sam and Colby.
matt rife
You had them on, right?
joe rogan
Yes.
matt rife
Great guys.
So I met these other guys.
There's another channel called the Overnight Channel who are equally as popular as Sam and Colby.
And they actually used to work together.
I believe they each do their own thing.
But that's who I started going with, so I'm very familiar with those guys.
joe rogan
So these kids, the Sam and Colby guys just went into the Conjuring house.
matt rife
I was just there, maybe a month and a half ago.
joe rogan
You went into the Conjuring house too?
matt rife
By myself, Joe.
joe rogan
Okay, do you believe that there's something going on in that house?
The Conjuring movies are fucking great.
matt rife
It's my favorite franchise.
joe rogan
They're fun.
And there's so many of them.
They really did it right.
You want to be smart?
They branched off with The Nun.
They branched off with Annabelle.
matt rife
And I love the way they tie in the story for each one to make it all one chronological story.
It's genius.
I will say I wasn't as scared as I've been in a lot of places we've been.
There is some kind of solace to the house, but you get to know the history of it, and it does make sense that there would be something here.
I mean, it's on some ley lines of water underground.
There was war spot there.
There's apparently bodies buried on the property in the walls of the property structures and stuff.
There's a lot of history that goes into it that just makes for kind of the perfect storm for some creepy shit.
But I didn't witness anything that was that insane.
Some items moved.
Some cars rolled off of the children's dressers a couple of times on cue.
And that's the one thing I do pride ourselves in these videos is so often we get absolutely nothing because we don't fake anything.
So you only get to see the highlights.
Like there's so many times we'll go to a place that is so notoriously haunted and we'll be there for 10 hours and get absolutely nothing.
And it sucks.
But that makes when something does happen that much more valuable.
It's so much more impressive.
joe rogan
What do you think?
So do you think a ghost is like the soul of a person that's left behind?
Or do you think the ghost is almost like space and time because of a horrible incident?
Contain a memory and like that memory is almost like it like shows up in current time sometimes There's a guy named Rupert Sheldrake.
I forget what his field of study is but he had this theory about things and he believes that objects contain memories Oh, interesting.
He's not the only one that has this.
matt rife
Inanimate objects?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Things contain memories.
And this is one of the reasons why people kind of universally support this idea that if someone was murdered in a house, you must tell the people, inform the people that are about to buy it.
You have to tell them, hey, somebody got murdered in this house.
Maybe you don't want to buy this house.
Maybe you should think about it.
matt rife
Does the potential owner have to ask that information?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
matt rife
I'd want to know.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think it's a good question.
I think they should have to inform you because there's something about someone being murdered in a spot that freaks us out.
And this is my question.
You knew the conjured house was haunted, right?
So you go there with this feeling and this expectation.
That's what I always wonder about these things, like how much of How much of, and this isn't just imagining things.
This is like the mind itself seems to have some unmeasured effect on the world.
Yeah.
I think the way you think has an unmeasured effect in terms of like this, there's energy that you put out, there's connections you make with people.
They're very, very unmeasured.
matt rife
And you can manifest your own perception of things for sure.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So what my concern is, is like if you go into a place with a pre-existing knowledge of ghosts, like you think ghosts are here, you think ghosts are real, you have this thought in your mind that you maybe experience a ghost in this place that's haunted.
You're at this elevated level of anticipation.
You're probably really nervous and kind of freaked out, and your imagination starts firing up.
And I'm not even saying that these people are lying or that they're seeing things that aren't there.
I'm saying maybe you make things show up.
Maybe you see memories.
Maybe you experience some horrible energy that existed in this spot 50 years ago, 100 years ago.
There's ways you can tune into that.
matt rife
I could see that being possible.
But to me, that's what's so exciting about it is like you go hoping for those solidified answers.
You're going hoping to witness something that you couldn't have possibly made up.
joe rogan
But you know why I think that, too?
It's like you never see him in the daytime.
Ghosts don't exist on the street.
Yeah, but not outside.
matt rife
They're never outside.
That's a very good point.
joe rogan
That's my point.
You're always trapped.
So you're always in this weird space.
If you had a wolf in your house, you'd be freaked out.
You'd want to get outside.
You don't have a wolf in the house.
Any time you're in a contained area, your brain has this heightened sense of Like, being trapped in awareness and how to escape.
I mean, every horror movie's the same.
You gotta get to the door, get to the door, right?
Everybody's trying to fumble with the keys and the monster's chasing them and they get it just in time, right?
That is a reoccurring theme in the human mind.
If you're trapped in a fucking house with a killer or a ghost or a wolf, it's scary.
matt rife
You know where that makes the most sense?
We did the USS Hornet up in the Bay Area.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
And we had the whole ship to ourselves, which I was so excited about because I love military stuff.
I love history.
I was so excited to go there and just witness it.
And they sent me by myself on basically a game of hide-and-seek where I had to go find them in the ship somewhere after I had to count to 100 by myself.
It was the most terrifying place I've ever been because if you've never been in the bowel of a ship, it's so unfamiliar.
Doorways don't look the same.
You have to step over them and everything.
There's so many pipes and everything sticking out.
It's such an unfamiliar environment, especially in the dark.
It's terrifying.
You think, I can't possibly run away from something in here.
There's too many obstacles.
You don't know if that's a wall or a pipe or something peeking around to look at you.
It's fucking terrifying because of exactly that.
You feel so trapped.
joe rogan
That totally makes sense.
And I would imagine also the feeling of being underwater is an extra freakout.
matt rife
I didn't think about that, but now I have anxiety about it.
joe rogan
I mean, you literally, if you're deep enough in the ship, you're under the water.
matt rife
That's a very good point.
joe rogan
And somehow metal floats?
What the fuck?
matt rife
I don't understand it whatsoever.
I just don't get it.
Because of the shape?
What?
joe rogan
Yeah, that to me has always been like, what?
matt rife
Yeah, like a rock that size would fucking sink, right?
joe rogan
I don't know what's going on.
I'm too stupid to figure out boats.
matt rife
Physics is so confusing.
joe rogan
I mean, I get a fiberglass boat, that makes sense.
But they didn't have fiberglass.
I get a wood boat, that makes sense.
matt rife
Giant ships?
joe rogan
One of those battleships?
Imagine if they had to make battleships out of wood.
Dude!
Like, we have battleships, but they have to be out of wood.
matt rife
Fuck!
Yeah, let's go back to having a fight with swords while we're at it as well.
joe rogan
Do you ever do Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland?
matt rife
I've been one time and it's fucking terrifying.
No!
No, dude.
joe rogan
Are you scared of everything?
matt rife
I'm scared.
unidentified
No, I'm scared.
matt rife
I'm afraid of no living things, apparently.
unidentified
Really?
matt rife
Okay?
Apparently not.
No, the ride scares me.
unidentified
Why?
matt rife
Because I can only imagine if I was the only person in there and you see those fucking animated figures in there by themselves, that to me is like a perfect scary movie.
It's so creepy.
joe rogan
Right, like one of them would come alive?
Yeah.
But what I was getting to is there's a scene when you're going down the river in the raft where these two ships are shooting at each other with cannonballs.
And it makes you think about, what the fuck?
What the fuck that would have been like living back then?
matt rife
Oh, you had to be a man.
joe rogan
You're on a wooden thing floating around the ocean and you're both shooting things that make holes in the woods to sink them.
matt rife
Yup.
joe rogan
And you're out in the middle of the ocean!
matt rife
Which would you rather have done in that situation?
Would you rather rely on the cannons or would you hope they get close enough to battle it out hand to hand?
I like my odds hand to hand.
I don't trust the ship.
joe rogan
Both suck.
matt rife
Yeah, they're not ideal.
joe rogan
Because it depends on numbers, it depends on...
matt rife
Experience.
joe rogan
Have you had food lately, you know?
matt rife
That's a good point.
joe rogan
Have you been starving for the last week and a half, and then all of a sudden you get hit by pirates?
There's a lot of those guys, like, barely made it.
Oh, of course.
They got across to land, wherever they were going, in those ships back then, and they barely made it.
matt rife
Just famished.
joe rogan
People died on those things all the time.
Oh, yeah.
matt rife
It's impressive.
And also, the ocean's fucking terrifying.
You ever see the videos of these giant ships in the middle of the ocean just getting vertical on these waves?
That's terrifying.
joe rogan
And they were just...
Their food was nothing.
It was garbage.
They got scurvy.
They got all kinds of diseases.
There was rats on board.
The rats were carrying fleas that carried diseases.
matt rife
No, I don't think I could have made it personally.
I would have stayed in England for sure.
joe rogan
And by the time you get there, you're so worn out.
Like, I don't know how long it takes by sailboat to get from England to America.
Like, how long does that take?
matt rife
Was it just sailed back then, too?
unidentified
Yeah!
matt rife
Fuck, yeah, there's no propeller.
joe rogan
Wow!
matt rife
I never even registered that.
joe rogan
Those people were so gangster.
Those people were so gangster.
They didn't even know what was over there.
They thought they were in India.
matt rife
That's so fucking funny.
joe rogan
Bro, they thought that they were in India.
So wrong!
matt rife
And they kept calling people the wrong thing!
joe rogan
To this day, we called them the wrong thing!
Sailing from New York City to London takes about six nights and seven days, depending on your speed.
That's because of the famous Royal Places, Big Ben, and Double Decker buses of London.
Yeah, but I don't think that's today.
matt rife
I don't buy that.
joe rogan
I thought it took, like, weeks.
unidentified
I think that's today.
joe rogan
The edition mentions, typical passage from New York to the English Channel for a well-found sailing vessel of about 2,000 tons was around 25 to 30 days, with ships logging 100 to 150 miles per day on average.
That's not that bad.
matt rife
No, I believe that number.
joe rogan
Yeah, 30 days is pretty good.
matt rife
I mean, that's still so uncomfortable.
joe rogan
That's if everything goes well.
matt rife
Oh, yeah.
Do you ever see that video going around recently of those potential mermaids?
On the side of that ship in the middle of the ocean?
joe rogan
No.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
Are you serious?
Potential mermaids?
matt rife
Jamie, you know what I'm talking about?
joe rogan
Is this some CGI nonsense?
jamie vernon
There is like a sailor, a guy sailing the back of the ship and you can hear...
Moans, right?
Sort of?
matt rife
So there's like, it's just a dude on a blurry cell phone video.
It looks like a good cell phone video.
And there's these things that are like racing on the side of the boat that are going the same speed as the boat.
And there's like a tail or something trailing behind them.
And this keeps up for hours.
And then you start to hear whistling.
You hear tunes.
You hear what sounds like one of them say, jump for me.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
How do you think this is real?
There's no way this is real.
Imagine if I'm being...
This is like the beginning of a movie, right?
You and I are having this podcast.
We're being super skeptical.
And then in the movie, you find out there has been a very small group of mermaids that have existed in the ocean, hiding from humanity, because we've only discovered 10% of the ocean.
matt rife
This is a fun world to live in.
jamie vernon
Is it this one?
matt rife
Yeah, this guy.
jamie vernon
All right.
So this video is a couple years old, but...
matt rife
Oh, okay.
unidentified
No fucking way!
Wait, I just threw this overboard.
Y'all saw me throw it overboard.
This...
Are you fucking kidding me?
That did not just...
joe rogan
So what is this guy saying?
jamie vernon
He's got a couple videos.
Seems like he spent a lot of time out in the water.
matt rife
That looks like...
joe rogan
So where are the mermaids?
matt rife
And this is a much longer video than I've ever seen.
Well that was one of the sounds.
unidentified
There you go.
You hear the jump from me?
matt rife
AHHHHH!
unidentified
That's crazy.
joe rogan
*sad music* I didn't hear a jump for me.
Did you hear a jump for me, Jamie?
matt rife
It's one of those things that somebody did the subtitles for it one time and that always makes your brain register it a little bit easier.
jamie vernon
He just has a few videos like this.
joe rogan
Where's the video of the mermaids?
matt rife
It was a part of the same one we were just watching where you heard the squeal.
joe rogan
So in there there's a mermaid?
matt rife
Yeah, I think it's before this.
jamie vernon
This one might have cut it off.
Because what I have found is a smash cut of a few videos this guy made.
matt rife
That sounded like a whale.
This is like a compilation.
You know what?
It could have been a whale.
It could have been.
Easily changed my mind.
joe rogan
It was definitely mermaids, bro.
unidentified
You know what?
matt rife
Whales do make that sound.
As a matter of fact.
jamie vernon
They do.
joe rogan
They make exactly that sound.
matt rife
Also, it could have just been a fat mermaid.
We don't know.
joe rogan
I just don't...
Whenever one dude in multiple videos is encountering mermaids...
I get suspicious.
matt rife
Your reaction right now is why I love to believe in ghosts, aliens, cryptids, bigfoot, mermaids, all that kind of shit.
Because imagine this shit is real.
Imagine this dude had a real experience, right?
joe rogan
I love the idea of all of those things you just mentioned.
I really do.
I love the idea.
matt rife
I love that you love that stuff.
joe rogan
I fucking love nonsense.
I got so high once, I watched the Patterson Bigfoot footage, and I was like, oh my god, what if it's real?
What if I've been an asshole making fun of this thing forever when it's actually really a Bigfoot?
matt rife
Yeah, and I imagine you've had that encounter, and the rest of the world thinks you're a fucking psychopath.
That would feel so lonely.
joe rogan
But that moment only lasted like 15 minutes.
The weed wore off a little bit.
unidentified
I was like, that shit is so fake!
jamie vernon
This was a similar one.
I don't know if you know anything about this, Matt.
I haven't seen this.
I've seen this video multiple times.
Supposedly this guy saw a giant on the side of a hill.
joe rogan
A giant?
jamie vernon
Yeah, I'm trying to find it.
unidentified
It's something like this.
matt rife
So high.
jamie vernon
He thought he saw it, so he goes back and he's looking for it.
It looks like it's someone walking on the side of a hill.
The perspective is very strange.
joe rogan
Let me change the angle.
The giant one is a fascinating one.
jamie vernon
But then the guy disappears, so he's making a bunch of videos on TikTok, and then he just disappeared, and everyone's like, well, what the fuck happened?
matt rife
Wait, I don't know if I saw anything in the video.
joe rogan
Where's the giant?
jamie vernon
This is also a guy's making an edit about this whole story.
He's trying to find this very specific video where he's trying to find the giant.
joe rogan
So he's driving in his truck, and he sees a giant?
jamie vernon
Yeah, he's driving on the truck, and he sees something on the side of this hill, and I don't know if on this specific one you can see it.
joe rogan
Like, how big of a giant?
matt rife
That's what it's hard to tell because it's just- I mean, that looks- it looks far as shit, but I also don't see anything.
jamie vernon
The one you can find- I'll try to find it while I'm talking.
joe rogan
What are you looking at?
Do you see something there?
matt rife
I don't see anything.
joe rogan
I don't- There's someone moving there?
jamie vernon
I'm trying to find the very specific thing, but there is a very- it looks just like this, and you can see a person.
Like, you can see the silhouette of a person on the side of that hill.
It's weird from this far away you could see that.
matt rife
I'm gonna be completely honest, I don't know what I'm looking at in that video.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
Because I saw the zoom in, but the zoom was in the sky.
joe rogan
It doesn't make sense to me either.
I'm looking at it and I'm like, I don't see shit.
Like, where is this supposed to be?
These people, it's like blob squatches.
That's one of the things that Bigfoot hunters, they just start seeing shadows that look like Sasquatch and they're convinced.
And then they convince themselves.
matt rife
The fact that that show has been on for so fucking long.
joe rogan
They're still finding Bigfoot, bro.
They're working really hard.
matt rife
How do you get renewed with no results?
jamie vernon
Here's a picture of what the video is.
unidentified
It's a perspective thing.
matt rife
Yeah, I don't know how far away that zoom is.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean that could be a six foot tall dude up there.
matt rife
Yeah.
I mean, also, humans are six foot seven, seven foot sometimes.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's not that big.
jamie vernon
So they're claiming this guy died, actually, apparently.
matt rife
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
The mountain guy up there?
jamie vernon
Oh, no, okay.
Apparently, now he says, all right, this is an update.
This video was only posted recently.
joe rogan
Okay.
matt rife
Admission that was a hoax?
jamie vernon
He was a hoax, and then he died.
matt rife
Oh, you...
joe rogan
Oh, he made an admission the video was a hoax, and then he died.
jamie vernon
Yeah, I didn't know about that.
joe rogan
Oh, well, it's probably unrelated.
The type of person who's out there hoaxing giant videos is probably doing a lot of wild shit.
matt rife
I would imagine so.
jamie vernon
That's why my point on TikTok was I think a lot of people are doing that, making these hoax things like mermaids.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
matt rife
Now, that's a product of DMT for sure.
joe rogan
That's how it goes viral.
Of course.
You've got to fake things.
There's a lot of people faking things for sure.
unidentified
Oh, of course.
joe rogan
But there was the Bigfoot ones.
Some of the Bigfoot fakes were so bad.
There was one on the Les Stroud show where the guy was like so obviously wearing a mask.
It's like a close-up on a guy wearing a mask.
It's so embarrassing.
unidentified
It's so bad.
At least try.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
Like make some kind of compelling case.
joe rogan
Yeah, Les Stroud is the shit.
You know, Survivorman, that guy's awesome.
That guy did legit things.
He's the guy that, you remember to see that show, Survivorman?
matt rife
I don't think so.
joe rogan
Oh my god, the show is amazing.
matt rife
When was this on?
joe rogan
He used to go, it was a while back, and he used to go legitimately by himself with a very limited amount of tools and he would live in wild places.
matt rife
I love that.
joe rogan
Like really dangerous places and figure his way out and survive.
And, you know, a lot of times, like, you could see on the show he was losing, like, 15 pounds.
matt rife
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Like, got really sick.
matt rife
You watched that show alone on Netflix?
joe rogan
Yeah, it's similar, but this was, like, one guy with his own cameras doing this everywhere.
matt rife
So cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why, like, other shows, like, remember when Bear Grylls had a show?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
There's, like, multiple camera people, and they're filming him doing wild things.
It's like, that's what they wanted to do with him?
matt rife
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
And Les is like, uh-uh.
matt rife
No, I do the real thing.
joe rogan
This is the real thing.
So Les is obsessed with Bigfoot, too, so he went looking for Bigfoot.
But there was, you know, on one of the episodes, they're looking at this footage, and I'm looking at footage that looks to me like a guy in a monkey suit.
Uh-huh.
See if you can find it.
It's Les Stroud, Bigfoot footage.
It's very controversial, because the guy who claimed to have captured the video is very controversial.
Imagine if it's real, and everybody's disparaging you, and you literally saw Bigfoot.
matt rife
Oh, of course!
joe rogan
That would drive you nuts.
matt rife
You'd shit your pants, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, but watch this.
Put it up.
jamie vernon
As I'm looking for it, he's looking for him again recently.
matt rife
No.
joe rogan
Les is looking for him again recently?
jamie vernon
Yeah, like he's got a video from a month ago in North Texas.
matt rife
But then you have to have the conversation, is it one?
joe rogan
If it's real, if it's real and he's right, then we look stupid.
matt rife
Is there one or is this a species?
joe rogan
Bro, there's so many people out there in the wild.
You know who doesn't see Bigfoot?
matt rife
No.
joe rogan
Hunters.
The people that are really out there in the wild, they're not having these experiences.
The people that are having these experiences...
matt rife
That's a damn good point.
joe rogan
You know, it's just...
And there's also a thing about bears.
Bears walk on two legs all the time.
matt rife
Do they really?
joe rogan
All the time.
matt rife
Like grizzly bears?
joe rogan
Especially black bears.
Especially black bears.
There's hours of footage of black bears walking on two legs.
matt rife
That's fucking terrifying.
joe rogan
Just walking through the woods on two legs.
matt rife
I've seen it.
There's hunter videos of that, yeah.
joe rogan
I've seen it in person with my own eyes.
I've watched a black bear stand on his two legs and walk.
matt rife
How tall can a black bear get?
joe rogan
Seven, eight feet.
matt rife
Fuck.
joe rogan
They're big animals, man.
matt rife
I think a grizzly bear is the number one thing I'm afraid of in the world.
joe rogan
That should be right up there.
unidentified
Massive.
joe rogan
They're a massive killing machine.
unidentified
They are huge.
matt rife
I remember being a kid and seeing at the Columbus Zoo.
They have an exhibit there where you can go inside their cave because that's where they spend most of their time there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
And you can see them up against the glass and laying down.
It's like four and a half feet, five feet tall.
joe rogan
What is this one?
jamie vernon
I don't know.
joe rogan
Bigfoot from 2013. Is this the one?
So there's one where, no, there's one where there's like a close-up on Bigfoot's face.
jamie vernon
Yeah, but I can't find the one where he's walking, or I can't even find video.
joe rogan
That's it, right down there.
jamie vernon
But it's just a picture.
joe rogan
Okay, but look at that picture.
matt rife
Oh my god.
No.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
It looks like Teen Wolf.
When you see it in the show, it's like the guy zooms in on it, he gets a close-up.
It's like Bigfoot's just staring back at him.
Like all these years, Bigfoot's been shy, but Bigfoot's like, you know what?
matt rife
It's time to let these motherfuckers know.
joe rogan
Time to let these motherfuckers know.
jamie vernon
I was trying to find it.
joe rogan
I thought that's what you wanted, but I couldn't find it.
That is the video.
It's so...
matt rife
Which one of these was Joey's?
Was it this one?
joe rogan
This one right here.
This one?
matt rife
I'm gonna spark that back up.
Thank you.
joe rogan
It's just, if it is...
I mean, imagine if it is real.
Imagine if that video is real, right?
But it doesn't look real.
In my limited experience, most things that look fake are fake.
That looks fake as fuck.
matt rife
Aw, damn it.
joe rogan
That looks fake as fuck.
Look, his hair looks perfect.
Nice and slick back.
matt rife
Recently applied.
It's so perfect.
joe rogan
Recently applied hair.
matt rife
That literally looks like Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf.
joe rogan
He looks clean.
matt rife
Looks way too clean.
If that was a homeless dude, wouldn't give him money.
There's no way.
joe rogan
Or if it was a bear.
Like, bear hair looks different than that.
Everything looks different than that.
matt rife
I don't want to meet a bear up close.
That's fucking terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're a terrifying animal.
But the thing is, find video of bears walking on two legs, Jamie.
I just want you to imagine it's dusk, okay?
And you're in the Pacific Northwest, so you're in this...
Sure.
You're in this thickly wooded area where it's literally like a box of Q-tips.
That's what the trees are like.
They're stacked in there.
Have you ever been in the Pacific Northwest?
matt rife
Yeah, I love it up there.
joe rogan
The mountains up there are beautiful, right?
The rainforest.
Now, that's where a lot of sightings are.
It's also where a lot of bears are.
Now, look at this.
Look at this motherfucker.
matt rife
That literally looks like a guy in a costume.
That's crazy.
I will say no swinging arms though.
That would be the only sign that would make me think a bear or not bear.
joe rogan
That bear had a wound though.
That bear was a bear that was missing one of its paws.
One of the other bears probably bit his paw off.
I saw a monkey in Costa Rica that had his hand bitten off.
And I was like, wow, what do you think happened to his hand?
And the guy we were with was like, oh, another monkey bit it off.
I was like, really?
Yeah, probably when he was a baby.
I'm like, really?
matt rife
Didn't somebody have their hands pulled off by a chimpanzee?
joe rogan
Yes.
matt rife
That's fucking...
Fucking terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
They're so strong.
joe rogan
They're so strong.
We can't even imagine.
They're so strong and they're so aware of the things you want, like your fingers.
They bite your fingers off.
It's one of the first things they do.
Really?
Yeah.
matt rife
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Yeah, when chimpanzees attack you, they bite your fingers off.
Because they know without your fingers, you can't protect yourself.
And that's part of what makes you a person.
They also grab your dick.
They rip your dick off.
matt rife
No, they don't.
joe rogan
Yes, they do.
They bite your face off.
They tear your eyes out.
Yeah, they're not trying to kill you.
matt rife
Diabolical.
joe rogan
They're trying to rip you apart.
They're not even trying to kill you.
They're trying to torture you.
matt rife
That is the most caveman shit I've ever heard of.
joe rogan
It's far beyond.
They're so different than us, but yet so similar.
Have you ever seen Chimp Nation on Netflix?
matt rife
I don't think so.
joe rogan
Gotta watch it.
It's wild.
What's up?
jamie vernon
The picture of the lady after the attack?
joe rogan
Oh, don't show me it.
Don't show me it.
matt rife
Can I see it?
joe rogan
Okay.
unidentified
Oh, fuck.
matt rife
I'm sorry.
joe rogan
It's okay.
Just put it on the screen.
jamie vernon
He can look at it.
joe rogan
I don't want to see this lady's face.
This is a lady that her friend had a chimpanzee that was a pet.
And she...
matt rife
That's what she did look like?
joe rogan
She went to visit the lady and the chimp tore her face apart.
unidentified
Oh...
matt rife
She looks like a belly button.
joe rogan
Yeah, he tore her face apart.
matt rife
Holy shit!
joe rogan
Yeah.
And he was just upset at her because she was cock-blocking him.
matt rife
Shut up!
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
No!
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, she used to sleep with the chimpanzee.
She gave the chimpanzee Xanax and wine, and this lady was nuts.
matt rife
Was this Michael Jackson's monkey?
This is living the best life ever.
joe rogan
It was way worse than that because it was a full-grown male, and it was really big.
It was like 200 pounds because it was like eating well.
How big was the chimpanzee when they shot it?
jamie vernon
It says tiny chimp had been left alone.
joe rogan
No, that's not the same one.
The one that tore that lady apart was big.
jamie vernon
Yeah, this one actually said it was their friend.
It wasn't the people who owned it.
It was their couple's friend.
joe rogan
It wasn't the people who owned it what?
jamie vernon
This says, the one I'm looking at right now, it says he snapped and attacked the couple's friend.
joe rogan
So he didn't even attack someone who had seen the chimp before?
It was a new person?
jamie vernon
I don't know if it was the first time meeting.
I was trying to catch up to that, like what happened and make sure this was the same one we're talking about.
I mean, it didn't happen.
joe rogan
There's been quite a few chimpanzee attacks.
One of them was really horrible.
This guy was a guy who had the chimp as a pet and raised it, but it got too big and they couldn't take it anymore, so they brought it to a chimpanzee shelter.
And it was his birthday, so they brought a cake for the chimp for his birthday.
And the other chimps were so jealous that he got a cake and they didn't that they got out of the cage and tore the guy apart.
Yeah, because chimps get very, very jealous.
matt rife
The fact that they can't even, like...
joe rogan
I know.
matt rife
Process that emotion of jealousy.
Such a human emotion.
joe rogan
They knew how to get out of the cage, somehow or another.
matt rife
So they probably knew the whole time.
joe rogan
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know if somebody fucked up and left something open and they noticed it and then tore the guy apart.
Could have been in the process of when they were getting the other chimp out so they'd give him the cake that they saw this.
matt rife
Jesus Christ.
jamie vernon
She knew the chimp.
joe rogan
She knew the chimp, yeah.
jamie vernon
She came out with a Tickle Me Omo and the chimp lunged at her.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
matt rife
Fucking hates Sesame Street.
joe rogan
Oh, it was the chimp's favorite toy.
Oh!
She tried to steal his favorite toy.
unidentified
Oh no!
joe rogan
Oh no!
Oh my god.
jamie vernon
He's eating her.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
That is fucking brutal.
joe rogan
How big was the chimp?
Because there's photos of him.
See if you can see the photos.
jamie vernon
It's right here.
joe rogan
That's him when he's a tiny baby.
But is there any photos of him as a full grown male?
Because I know there is of him with a diaper on.
jamie vernon
Let me Google that.
joe rogan
Like, he would wear a diaper, because otherwise he would just shit everywhere.
matt rife
Almost domesticated.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I think he's like, I run this house.
matt rife
I'll shit wherever I want.
joe rogan
I'll shit right here.
This is the living room.
There's plenty of room in here.
matt rife
Is there any kind of...
joe rogan
Is that him?
jamie vernon
It says it's Travis the Chimp.
matt rife
God damn.
joe rogan
He was massive, dude.
Massive.
There's a photo of the lady walking with him.
matt rife
One of the fattest chimps I've ever seen.
joe rogan
There was a photo of her when you get to see like the perspective of the full-grown chimp next to a human.
Like, God.
It's just a sack of muscle.
Is that him up there with it circled?
jamie vernon
I couldn't tell.
It doesn't...
This looks like a...
matt rife
No, this looks like one of those drive-through.
jamie vernon
He's trying to get in the car or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, it does look like one of those.
unidentified
Jesus.
jamie vernon
But it says it's a 911 call from the chimp attack, and that was describing the same thing.
joe rogan
Oh, that might be him out there.
Oh, look at the cop cars.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
matt rife
Can you imagine being the cop showing up?
You don't know how to handle this fucking thing.
joe rogan
Not only that, he might rip the door right off the fucking car.
matt rife
You think he could?
joe rogan
Like it's made out of cardboard.
matt rife
Oh, man.
joe rogan
He definitely could put his hand right through that window.
100%.
A guy can put his hand through a window.
matt rife
Do you think you even try to tase that?
Do you think it does anything?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Tasing would work.
matt rife
You think so?
Because I've seen humans take a...
unidentified
Bullets is what you do.
joe rogan
You use bullets.
Yeah, you'd have to.
If the fucking chimp is eating people's faces and you see him on the street, you gotta put that motherfucker down.
matt rife
If you miss...
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
It was over a...
She was taking his toy.
How the fuck did she not know that that was his?
matt rife
I don't think she just registered how primal...
joe rogan
You know how dogs get with their toys?
matt rife
Oh, of course.
joe rogan
And dogs are trained.
You're not training a chimp.
matt rife
She could have been picking it up to give it to him.
joe rogan
I think it said she was leaving with it.
matt rife
Oh, well also, why the fuck are you taking the toy in the first place?
joe rogan
Maybe she was trying to fuck with him.
Maybe we're not, you know?
Maybe there was like some thing going on where she didn't like it.
matt rife
Has anyone taken this stance from the monkey's side?
joe rogan
No.
Well, the chimp plays for keeps.
matt rife
Oh, absolutely.
joe rogan
Technically, Elmo doll means you don't have a face anymore.
Just, whoa.
matt rife
Is there an exotic animal that if you had the means to do it properly, you would want as a pet?
joe rogan
No.
I like pets as pets.
I appreciate wild animals for what they are, and I think there's something real weird about owning them.
And if you want to, I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to, but there's something fucking very strange.
matt rife
I want a pet otter.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's very strange.
matt rife
Dude, they're fucking adorable!
joe rogan
Right, but wouldn't it be cooler if you saw an otter in a river?
He's out there chilling, doing otter things.
matt rife
Yeah, I suppose so.
joe rogan
Catching his own fish and eating them.
matt rife
Cracking the fucking clams on their chest and shit.
The cutest dude.
joe rogan
Cutest.
Holding that fish and fucking eating his head.
matt rife
I know.
I don't want to pet one so bad.
joe rogan
Did you see that lady's face who got fucked up by an otter?
matt rife
Somebody was telling me about this.
Is there a photo?
Yeah.
Jamie, I'm sorry to make you keep bringing up gruesome shit, but I gotta see this because it's an unhealthy obsession I have with otters.
joe rogan
I don't know what happened.
Well, it's not as bad as the chimp, but she got fucked up by an otter, dude.
matt rife
I've seen cats do worse.
That's fine.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's a fucking wild animal in your face.
Dude, if a squirrel was trying to fuck you up, you'd be scared.
But look how cute he is!
Look, they're very adorable.
matt rife
Oh my god!
joe rogan
They're absolutely adorable.
matt rife
Little sea weasels?
joe rogan
Yeah, they're cute.
Like, if they were really domesticated...
I mean, I don't know if you can domestic...
I don't...
I don't really...
I really know nothing about domesticating otters.
But if that's possible, I think they'd be the cutest pets ever.
matt rife
I'll find out.
joe rogan
They're adorable!
matt rife
I'm gonna let you know.
Have you seen the videos of, like, them showing humans how to pet them?
unidentified
Yes.
matt rife
That's the cutest shit ever, dude.
joe rogan
That's pretty fucking cute.
That's pretty fucking cute.
matt rife
I'm gonna find out.
I'm gonna do my research.
joe rogan
If that's really what they're like, if you domesticate them, that's pretty cool.
I bet you can't have an aquarium.
matt rife
Or you can.
And treat this motherfucker and otter to a buffet.
Whenever you want, man.
All you can eat is salad bar, dog.
joe rogan
That's what it would be.
matt rife
That would be my ideal house.
joe rogan
What's that?
matt rife
Oh, but like puppies do that, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, puppies do that.
jamie vernon
How are you going to teach an otter?
matt rife
Maybe they're smarter than we think.
joe rogan
I don't know, man.
Maybe it's just a thing they do when they're scared.
Maybe that person was treating them wrong.
matt rife
Yeah, I've seen people miss...
unidentified
Who knows?
matt rife
You ever see somebody who thinks they're really gentle with animals, but they're so not?
joe rogan
They're rough, yeah.
matt rife
They pet dogs, like...
joe rogan
Oh yeah, some people like slap dogs.
Or like, hey buddy!
matt rife
Or one hand pick him up in an awkward way and you're like, I know you don't mean well, but you're doing this terribly.
joe rogan
Imagine being a chihuahua, everybody's going to carry you.
matt rife
Oh, I would hate to be a small dog.
joe rogan
Oh, what a fucking torturous life.
matt rife
I know.
joe rogan
Everyone has to carry you everywhere.
matt rife
You have a dog, right?
You have a golden retriever?
joe rogan
Yes.
matt rife
Oh, beautiful dog.
joe rogan
He's great.
He's the best.
matt rife
I want one so bad.
joe rogan
They're the sweetest dogs of all time.
He's just a sweetheart to everybody.
He's just a big old love sponge.
Just super sweet.
matt rife
I want a golden retriever.
German Shepherd I would love to have.
So beautiful.
unidentified
So smart.
joe rogan
Those are great dogs too.
Those are dogs though that need...
They need activity.
matt rife
Yeah, they need stimulation.
joe rogan
Yeah, they need activity.
You can't just have a German Shepherd and keep him in a little yard like going out of his fucking mind like he's in prison.
matt rife
No.
Also, what a waste of talent.
joe rogan
Right.
matt rife
They're so smart and so impressive.
joe rogan
They're very smart dogs.
Very smart dogs.
They're a different kind of dog.
You know, that's a working dog.
matt rife
Yeah, but I guess it's just, people want different things in a dog.
I just got my mom for Mother's Day last year this tiny little thing that's like literally the size of this coffee mug.
Like you could accidentally squish it so easy.
joe rogan
Yeah, so people like those kind of dogs.
matt rife
Also, what does that come from?
Like that's not a descendant of a wolf.
joe rogan
It is.
unidentified
It is.
matt rife
How does that happen?
joe rogan
Well, selective breeding.
And also, there's a thing that happens with animals.
We don't totally understand it, but they've done this study with foxes.
Where they took foxes and over a period of like not that many generations, what they did was anytime a fox displayed any aggression towards people, they killed it.
And over a certain period of time, all the foxes that were left, their jaws had shrank, their ears were more floppy.
They started, like, giving in to the idea of domestication.
And they literally started softening their appearance.
They weren't alert like a fox would be if it was, like, you know, a little killer.
Silver fox domestication experiment.
So for the last 59 years a team of Russian geneticists led by Ludmila Trout have been running one of the most important biology experiments of the 20th and now 21st century.
The experiment was the brainchild of Trout's mentor Dmitry Believ Who in 1959 began an experiment to study the process of domestication in real time.
He was especially keen on understanding the domestication of wolves to dogs, but rather than use wolves, he used silver foxes as his subjects.
Here I provide a brief overview of how the silver fox domestication study began and what the results to date have taught us.
Experiments continue to this day.
Then I explain just how close this study came to being shut down for political reasons during its very first year.
Jesus.
Okay, so that's the abstract.
So this is, I'm probably butchering the story, but over time, these things started to change and they softened their appearance and they dropped their ears.
And so there's also a thing that happens with pigs where the opposite happens.
When you take a domesticated pig and you release it in the wild, they morph within six...
I think it's a very short amount of time.
I want to say it's less than two months of living in the wild.
They start to display different characteristics.
With males, their snout extends.
I think with females, too.
But males grow these big-ass tusks.
And their hair gets thicker.
matt rife
Wow.
joe rogan
Their hair gets thicker all over the body.
matt rife
Just instinctually for being out there.
joe rogan
Now they know they're on their own and their body morphs.
matt rife
Wow.
joe rogan
So their appearance morphs.
matt rife
That's an incredible genetic.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
So there's different kinds of pigs, but they're all the same animal.
It's all, I think the genus is called Sue Scroffa.
And that, when you see a wild boar, a lot of them could have descended from domesticated pigs.
Like, because people have pig farms, and pigs get out, fences break.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
And the pigs get loose.
And some of those pigs, they just keep having piglets, but they're wild pigs.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they look like wild boars, like from, you know, what you would expect from like some movie, right?
Very quick.
That's what happens.
matt rife
Very quick evolution.
joe rogan
Yeah, see if you can find how much time it takes for a domesticated pig to start displaying wild looks.
Wow, that's a bad way to Google it.
matt rife
This is what I love about you and your show.
You're very insightful on a lot of things I find very, very fascinating.
You're like if Bill Nye the Science Guy offered people DMT. I got plenty of stupid information.
I love it.
It's all things that fascinate me.
joe rogan
But if you look at it that way, right, if a pig becomes harder in the wild and a wolf becomes softer with domestication, if you just kept doing that and, like, softening it, like, when you associate those little tiny fluffy dogs, what do you associate them with?
Like, some...
Some lady who's got a nice house and a nice car.
She's got a nice little fluffy dog that sits next to her.
They've taken that wolf and knocked it down to that over thousands of years.
matt rife
It's funny that the same thing happens to humans.
We got trapped inside for two years, so often they'll fuck up.
joe rogan
Yeah, and also society.
The needs of society, especially society like ours, it's not engaged in war on our shores, where there's not a physical threat of actual violence from the enemy.
You know, you tend to soften things up.
And the same sort of experiment is going on with male human beings.
It's going on with dogs and wolves.
matt rife
I've heard that quote on this show so many times.
Hard times breed hard people.
Hard people breed easy times.
Easy times, easy people.
Or whatever it is.
I'm paraphrasing.
joe rogan
Yeah, hard...
Hard times create hard men.
Hard men create easy times.
Easy times create soft men.
Soft men create hard times.
matt rife
Vicious cycle.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's normal.
It's just, they've known this forever.
This is how humans work.
From hog to wild hog, how a stealth gene transforms pigs into wild boars.
matt rife
Holy shit.
joe rogan
A barnyard escapee can quickly resemble a feral hog growing bigger and hairier in a matter of months.
Isn't that wild?
So that pig right there could have started out as a domesticated pig and got out and it will turn into that wild looking thing.
Wow.
Yeah.
Experts say the crisis is largely driven by people who trap and transport the animals so they can be hunted.
Oh, wow.
It may be the year of the rabbit, the pig, the bat, the bat, the bat, the bat, feral pigs.
Like, how long does it say?
Yeah, it's Seuss Scroffa.
So that is millennia of chasing wild boars around the woods with spears.
Homo sapiens finally got wise.
Roughly 9,000 years ago, which is now in what is now Eastern Turkey, our ancestors began domesticating the Eurasian boar, Sue Scrofa.
So they were wild first, then they developed.
domesticated them and when were you were like gremlins you feed them at night yeah Okay, by time Christopher Columbus picked up a few to take along at his second voyage to America in 1493 The 400 pound tusk beast had been transformed into a pink floppy eared familiar and In that time, pig husbandry had produced a docile and resilient animal.
One bread to survive a range of climatic conditions and to reproduce a lot.
Well, that's the thing about pigs.
Like, they have three litters a year.
matt rife
Do they really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they bang out babies.
Like, let's go.
And they start doing it when they're like six months old.
So it's six months old.
They're already spitting out kids.
matt rife
And how many piglets do they usually have?
Like eight?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
I think it's about six, if I had to guess.
It might be more.
What is the average litter of a pig?
matt rife
Is that what they'd be called?
Litters?
joe rogan
I think.
I'm just guessing.
matt rife
They're so smart, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Average pig litter.
matt rife
The amount of tabs you have open at this browser is so funny.
joe rogan
7.5.
The average litter size is 7.5.
It's not uncommon for a sow to have 12 to 14 pigs per litter.
matt rife
How do you have a half?
Just one little midget?
joe rogan
It's just an average.
You know, some 15, some 13, some total.
matt rife
Thank you, Jamie.
joe rogan
That's pretty nuts, man.
That's pretty nuts.
matt rife
Yeah, man.
joe rogan
So they're just constantly pumping out kids.
And when you let them grow out in the wild, they turn back into what they originally were.
So it makes sense that if you took dogs and you like slowly gave them food all the time and all the, you know, the wolves that were like bitch-ass wolves who couldn't hunt anymore.
Like, come on, bitch-ass wolf.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
I got some food for you.
Just growl when the bears come.
And then they go, okay, I'll do that for you.
Just like people kind of get, you know, people that have like overpowering bosses.
matt rife
Oh, of course.
jamie vernon
Like we learned the other week or the other day.
matt rife
Wait, what?
joe rogan
Oh, the thing about wolves.
Shockingly enough, a creature almost synonymous with the sea didn't actually begin that way.
And boy, is it a whale of a tail.
A mind-blowing video recently posted by PBS Eons reveals that whales were actually predatory land animals, the same ones that would later become wolves, specifically.
So, the animal branched off in the water and became whales, and on the ground became wolves.
matt rife
Oh, man.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
matt rife
What?!
joe rogan
How wild is that?
That is fucking wild.
jamie vernon
And hippos, I guess, came from the same thing.
joe rogan
And hippos came from the same thing!
matt rife
Wow!
What Bible chapter is this in?
joe rogan
They missed that part.
Hippos scare the fucking shit out of me.
matt rife
Oh, I mean that's a dinosaur.
joe rogan
They are so insane.
matt rife
They look so unbelievable.
Aren't they relatively aggressive?
joe rogan
Oh, super aggressive.
And they go after boats.
They take people out.
You know, the thing about hippos is it's one of those other animals that, for whatever reason, when we anthropomorphize, when we give them, like, human characteristics, we make them sweet.
Hungry, hungry hippo!
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, like polar bears.
Like, it's Coca-Cola!
matt rife
No, absolutely not.
joe rogan
Klondike bars!
matt rife
So aggressive.
joe rogan
They're terrifying!
matt rife
No, fuck all that.
joe rogan
We do that with so many, like, terrifying animals.
We do, you know, fucking...
Yogi Bear.
unidentified
We turned one of the scariest animals in the forest.
matt rife
Hey, boo-boo.
unidentified
Let's get us a picnic basket.
joe rogan
Remember that?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Dude, Yogi Bear was like this sweetheart.
And how many people grew up thinking bears were their friends because of that stupid shit?
unidentified
And then these dummies, you go out in the woods and you're like, oh no!
matt rife
Mauled to death.
joe rogan
People used to look at bears for what they are.
And then teddy bears came around.
And then when they started giving people teddy bears, then they started thinking that bears are your little friends.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt rife
Build-A-Bear is responsible for a lot of deaths.
joe rogan
Oh.
matt rife
People don't talk about that enough.
joe rogan
I don't think Build-A-Bear is responsible, but the teddy bear is.
By the time Build-A-Bear came, it was already Disney movies.
It was already too late.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was already too late.
Bears are your friends.
Animals are your friends.
They talk to you.
They save you.
They tell the people about the Wicked Witch.
matt rife
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
They're on your side.
matt rife
Have you seen that video of somebody hanging in the background of The Wizard of Oz?
joe rogan
What?
matt rife
You don't know about...
Oh, this is very popular.
Oh, I have seen it.
joe rogan
Now I remember.
jamie vernon
I think it is.
I don't even think that's like...
I think it is a person.
matt rife
Some people say it's a bird.
jamie vernon
Oh, okay.
matt rife
Some people say it's a bird in the background.
joe rogan
I thought it was like somebody who worked on the set.
matt rife
They said it was one of the little people.
Yeah, they were the first person to go on Sag Strike.
jamie vernon
Oh, no.
unidentified
Unpacking the myth of the hanging munchkin.
jamie vernon
So, might be a myth.
matt rife
Oh no, there's an unpacking?
joe rogan
That's the problem with Googling things.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Kills all the fun.
matt rife
You don't want all the answers.
joe rogan
No.
matt rife
It's fun to be naive.
joe rogan
No.
Sometimes you want just fun.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's why I like to read about shit like Hollow Earth.
matt rife
What the fuck is Hollow Earth?
Please unpack after this.
joe rogan
That's it?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Okay, that could be anything.
jamie vernon
And when they're walking, it does start moving side to side.
matt rife
It starts walking?
People say it's a swing, right?
jamie vernon
Yeah, when they're walking down the elevator road.
joe rogan
You don't think they would see that?
Stop filming.
Hey, keep rolling.
But there's a fucking guy hanging.
Keep rolling.
b-real
You know how much money this film costs?
matt rife
Jesus Christ.
It's just one of the executive producers.
joe rogan
You know how much money this studio's investing in this film?
I'll pull the plug on it right now.
Keep walking.
Hanging little person be damned.
matt rife
Please unpack Hollow Earth for me because you said it and now I want to know everything about it.
joe rogan
Well, Hollow Earth compare, it pales in comparison to Space is Fake.
Space is Fake is the greatest conspiracy thing to dive into online.
It's amazing.
It's so fun.
They think there are lights in the sky.
matt rife
Like these kind of lights?
joe rogan
I don't know.
There's a firmament.
There's like a glass ceiling above it all.
Nothing can go out there because there's nothing there.
The earth is flat.
matt rife
Didn't somebody land on the dark side of the moon the other day?
jamie vernon
China.
matt rife
China did?
joe rogan
I think it was India?
jamie vernon
Yeah, correct, correct, correct.
joe rogan
Um, yeah.
It's, uh...
matt rife
I don't think Earth...
Space can't be fake, right?
joe rogan
It's amazing how many people are into it.
If you just Google hashtag space is fake, you'll be taken to these random Instagram accounts.
Now, and here's the thing about it.
I don't know if they're real people.
But I don't know if it matters.
Because it starts off...
It could start off as some Russian troll.
There's these things called...
The Internet Research Agency is one of them.
These troll farms.
You know about these?
matt rife
No, but it makes sense.
joe rogan
Rene DeResta reported on it, and some people...
A lot of people have reported on it.
But what it is is they have these places where there's thousands and thousands of accounts.
And they set up like – there's images of it where you see like rows of cell phones that are connected to this network.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And they have these people that have the access to these accounts and they're posting things that are really stupid.
They're posting things that are ridiculous conspiracy theories.
They're posting things blaming Democrats for certain things and blaming Republicans for certain things.
At one point in time, Facebook, 19 of their top 20 Christian sites were run by Russian troll farms.
It's genius, like, social sabotage at a very high level.
Holy shit.
And so they're interacting with people constantly online.
So if you see people fighting on Twitter, if you say, like, a controversial post goes up about anything, whether foreign policy, trans rights, abortion, Second Amendment, anything, if you go into one of those popular posts, you'll see all these, like...
Crazed right-wing and crazed left-wing opinions.
Occasionally you click on them and if you go to, I should say occasionally, oftentimes you'll click on them and you go to a page that seems oddly unhuman.
It seems fake.
There's something like a real personality behind it and you go into it and you see that they're always engaging on these very specific issues and they're always being like very confrontational and it kind of discourages people that disagree with them from interacting with them and it kind of encourages people that love to fight with people to fight back.
So you get all this interaction and And these people do it to steer conversations and get people to lose faith in democracy, lose faith in the police's ability to protect you, lose faith in whether or not we can unite racially or sexually, whether we can be a harmonious country.
It's like designed to...
To keep conflict going.
It literally can accelerate conflict, like gasoline on a fire.
And then you can engineer to a certain extent.
I don't know what percentage, but imagine it's 5%.
You can 5% through these trolls engineer conversations.
In the public.
And you could get people to do a lot of really dumb shit.
Like if you wanted to get people to believe that the Earth is flat, or if you wanted to get people to believe that the Earth is hollow and there's dinosaurs inside of it and aliens live in there, you could get people to believe that.
And then they would start fighting about it online.
And then you could get people to believe that, you know, there's been a bunch of them.
There's been a bunch of them that are like mainstream propaganda things, like the Russia collusion hoax with Trump.
It took us like three years to figure that out.
But now everybody knows.
It didn't really happen the way they were saying it was happening every day on the news.
If that can take place with mainstream media, how much of what people are fighting about is engineered?
matt rife
Oh, man.
joe rogan
How much of it?
matt rife
That might be the most evil thing I've ever heard in my entire life, to just control and design chaos.
joe rogan
You definitely are encouraging chaos.
If people can still choose to engage or not engage, and that's where things get interesting.
matt rife
That's terrible, man.
I mean, the internet is already such a terrible, dark, mean place without that.
You add that fuel on top of it?
Oh my god.
It's no wonder people are depressed.
joe rogan
What would really be scary is if you were forced to interact with people on the internet.
Like, if the internet...
If there was, like, a social...
Like a contract that you had to make where you had to give your opinions on certain issues.
Agree or disagree.
Gender-affirming care is essential to a child, you know, like that kind of stuff.
matt rife
Yeah, ooh, like I was talking about logged hours of opinions or something.
joe rogan
Agree or disagree.
We have to move to 100% renewables by 2030 at all costs.
Agree or disagree.
You know, voter ID is racist.
Agree or disagree.
The climate change is real, and the science supports it.
Agree or disagree.
Vaccines are the most essential technology the medical science has ever created.
Agree or disagree.
We need to support the war in Ukraine, and the United States has never done anything to encourage Russia invading Ukraine, including helping NATO move arms closer to their border.
Agree or disagree.
Vaccines are safe and effective.
Agree or disagree.
Imagine if you had to do that every couple of months and go over that and that's how people decided whether or not you could go to the grocery store today or you had to wait till Saturday or whether or not you could buy a plane ticket ever.
matt rife
The thing is now people feel like voluntarily they need to voice their opinions on those things.
It's like, for what?
At the end of the day, for what?
joe rogan
They just like fighting.
matt rife
They just love fighting.
It's incredible, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, people like it.
matt rife
I hate the internet so much.
joe rogan
Well, I love it.
matt rife
I always avoided it.
b-real
You gotta just avoid the stuff that sucks.
joe rogan
Just avoid interacting with people in that way.
It's just not good.
It's not good for you, it's not good for them, it's not good for anybody.
You know, you can interact with people and learn some interesting things, but at a certain level of fame, that becomes really hard.
matt rife
It's really hard.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you're just interacting with people, you're going to get people that are doing things just to get your attention.
matt rife
I know.
joe rogan
And one of the ways to get your attention is to say something negative.
unidentified
I'm so bad at that.
matt rife
I'm so confrontational.
I'm going to get John Lennon for sure, dude.
joe rogan
Don't say that.
matt rife
Dude, the amount of times somebody's been like, I'm going to come to one of your shows and kick your ass.
I've just sent them my entire tour schedule and be like, you can come to any show you want.
I cannot stand the confidence people have behind the internet.
joe rogan
It's impeccable.
Most of it's not real, but there are a few psychos out there, so I wouldn't challenge people.
matt rife
I know I'm in the wrong for responding like that.
Yeah, don't do that.
I can't stand it, too.
joe rogan
Don't do that, fella.
matt rife
It gets my fucking blood.
unidentified
Spoilin'.
joe rogan
But when people know that you can't stand it, then they're gonna do it more.
matt rife
I know.
I know.
Jamie cut it before they feed the fuckin' fire.
joe rogan
We can cut that out if you want.
No, no.
matt rife
Leave it in there, dude.
Couldn't be less scared.
unidentified
Ah!
joe rogan
Yeah, you're traveling a lot, huh?
matt rife
Yeah, man.
Thanks to the internet.
joe rogan
Do you do anything right when you land just to get rid of jet lag?
Have you ever figured anything out like that?
matt rife
No, I'm still figuring it out.
I mean, I have to work out every day.
That's my thing.
joe rogan
Do you go to the gym right when you land?
matt rife
No, not necessarily, but depending on what time I land, I think.
Because I like to work out before the show, just to get my blood pumping a little bit, because I wake up most days so tired that I'm like, let me at least get a little energized, get my body moving.
joe rogan
Isn't that ironic that when you're tired, the best thing you do is something difficult and you wake up?
matt rife
It's so weird.
joe rogan
It's so hard to tell your body that, though.
Today was hard for me to tell my body.
I mean, I do it every day, but every day I have the same fucking conversation.
My body's like, I'd rather just lay here, bitch.
matt rife
But that's what discipline is.
joe rogan
My body's like, you're the boss.
Nobody can tell you what to do.
Shut the fuck up.
matt rife
We don't have to get up and do anything.
unidentified
I'm like, you literally work for yourself.
joe rogan
You don't have to be at work until 1.30.
What are you doing?
Go back to sleep.
matt rife
Then you have to ask yourself, what would David Goggins do?
joe rogan
David Goggins would already be up.
He's up.
You can't decide to live your life by what that guy does, because you'll die.
matt rife
He's one of the scariest people.
You don't have to live this extreme, man.
joe rogan
But he's lovely.
He's a great guy.
matt rife
I want to meet him someday.
He seems very cool.
joe rogan
I love him to death.
As a human, he's great.
He's a cool guy.
matt rife
I like his motivation.
I like being around positive people that inspire me to do better.
joe rogan
And when he trusts you, like, he knows you, he's cool as fuck.
He's a fun guy.
matt rife
Did he get into it with Stavros?
joe rogan
Get into it?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
matt rife
Like, were they upset with each other?
joe rogan
Stavros the comic?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
No, really?
matt rife
Is that real?
I saw a weird cut-up video that I didn't know if it was a real video or not.
joe rogan
Oh, that's probably one of them Ping Trip videos.
matt rife
Oh, it was very funny.
joe rogan
Shout out to Ping Trip.
This is this dude, Ping Trip, who takes...
matt rife
It was impressive.
I was like...
joe rogan
Me and Duncan Trussell being in love with each other.
There's like a ton of them out there.
That's very funny.
He's hilarious.
He does a great job with those.
matt rife
Duncan's a good guy.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't think Stavros would say jack shit to David Gawkins.
Nobody's gonna talk shit to that guy.
He's terrifying.
His fucking will and resolve is terrifying.
matt rife
It's impressive.
It's so good.
Yeah, this one.
unidentified
You want to be fat?
Yeah, dude.
Being fat is fun.
Your mind is full of s***.
That's not okay.
It's not okay.
It's not acceptable.
You need to f***ing work harder.
stavros halkias
I don't want to be doing work.
david goggins
You roll your fat ass out of bed and all you want is some f***ing damn cinnamon buns and s***.
unidentified
Yeah, I love that.
Man, you are a piece of s***.
joe rogan
Oh my god, this is horrible.
matt rife
Yeah, man.
That's why I was like, are they okay?
joe rogan
Oh my god, this is so harsh.
matt rife
I don't want to work that hard.
unidentified
You're not a man.
david goggins
You're no f***ing man, dude.
unidentified
I'm sorry, I can't.
You're a fat, sloppy mother f***ing whore.
joe rogan
Okay, okay, okay.
This is too real.
matt rife
It was aggressive.
I was genuinely concerned.
joe rogan
Stavos is one of those guys.
He's so funny.
I don't care if he's fat.
unidentified
Stay fat, bro.
matt rife
I haven't had a chance of meeting him yet, but I really want to.
joe rogan
He's so funny.
matt rife
He's fucking hilarious.
joe rogan
He's such a character.
He's so funny on stage.
He's so funny in real life.
He's fucking hilarious.
matt rife
And fucking hustles, too, dude.
The clips he puts out, the vlogs and everything.
joe rogan
That's funny.
The young kids today, they respect your social media hustle.
matt rife
It's only because, like, what most people don't know about me is I didn't want to do it for so long.
Like, you don't understand, I despise social media.
The ultimate success for me would be to be so successful, I never have to look at my social media for the rest of my life.
I just want to get there.
So now, because of the work I've put in on it, I respect people who do do the work.
joe rogan
Yeah, I respect it.
If you're a good comic and nobody knows, that doesn't help anybody.
matt rife
Yeah, it's exposure, dude.
You have to have it.
joe rogan
There's a lot of guys who are doing a really good job with that.
Jeff Dye does a really good job with that.
There's a lot of guys, like Mark Norman.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Sam Morrell.
Those guys are doing a fantastic job.
matt rife
When Schultz and Morrell started putting out their clips, that's when I was like, I have to do it.
joe rogan
Well, Schultz converted it into a Netflix show.
matt rife
I know.
Genius.
joe rogan
Amazing.
matt rife
Well, at first, it was when he was releasing a new bit every single week.
And he was like, well, if I can write one minute a week for a year, that's a brand new hour.
Boom, 52 minutes.
And I just thought that was so inspiring.
And I was like, I need to be doing something relative to that.
joe rogan
Well, it's also, you know, the pandemic kind of opened up doors and also closed a shitload of them.
But it did open up doors with time.
And when you're just sitting there and you can't do the normal thing that you do, you start thinking, okay, okay, okay, feel sorry for myself.
That's all over.
Let's get over that.
And now let's figure out what can we do?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
And if you're a hustler, if you're a guy who's like, you know, like a guy like Andrew...
Who's always trying to figure things out and get ahead and do better.
Yeah, it's like so he created like a nose and by the way It's a totally different style of comedy than his stand-up which is interesting because it's these rapid-fire punchlines where a stand-up is much more engaging and He pauses more he laughs a lot personable.
Yes.
Yeah, so this is like a different kind of comedy But it was like really the best kind of comedy for the pandemic Short attention span, rapid fire jokes, very silly, and turn your phone sideways.
matt rife
It changed everything.
That's scary to think about.
You had to do it.
joe rogan
You had to do something.
matt rife
It was almost like a late night show, the way he wrote that material.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah.
matt rife
And the attention span during that time period was so fast.
Remember we thought Quibi was going to be a good thing?
joe rogan
I never thought it was going to be a good thing.
matt rife
Nobody in their right fucking mind did, but Hollywood went, well, everyone's watching short things now.
And everyone, are you sure?
Well, everyone's on their phone.
Those are always short videos.
joe rogan
What they don't understand...
Is that you can't just set out to create a successful show like that, or a successful thing like that, and throw a bunch of money at it and know that it's going to be successful.
You have to let them become successful, then you acquire them.
That's the only way.
Because they'll give up, just like they give up with a TV show.
If you have a TV show on ABC, and then the first few episodes come out, and it doesn't do well, and then it drops off with the fourth, You're done, son.
matt rife
Over.
joe rogan
But if you have something that you've developed on your own, and these videos go viral naturally, then it makes sense that you have a channel where there's 10 seconds of these videos that have already gone viral, and people know to look for them.
But if you're trying to get people to sign up for some new fucking thing while YouTube already exists...
Unless you're completely uncensored, like Rumble or something like that.
That kind of makes sense.
That makes sense.
But you're not going to be able to compete with them in terms of just entertainment.
There's everything on there.
matt rife
I will respect them taking a risk that Hollywood just doesn't do anymore.
Every meeting I go into now is like, so what reboots do we want to do?
joe rogan
Right.
matt rife
Like, that's a real conversation every single meeting I have, and it's so sad.
joe rogan
Well, there's probably less projects than ever before.
matt rife
Yeah, definitely.
joe rogan
There's probably less money than ever before, and less certainty.
I mean, nobody wants to sit through 8 p.m.
to 8.30 p.m.
and watch three different commercial breaks.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
We don't want to do that anymore.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
People are done with that.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
That shit's stupid.
matt rife
Unless you're a sitcom.
That's the only thing that really lives.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
That's, you know, middle of America.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And then you're watching arthritis commercials.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Come on.
unidentified
What are we doing here?
joe rogan
You know, with Netflix and with HBO and all these different streaming services, it's like, wow.
matt rife
OnlyFans is getting in on the game as well.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're producing comedy too, right?
matt rife
Yeah, they're wrapping my tour bus coming up.
I'm so excited.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
matt rife
So funny to get a sponsorship.
joe rogan
Have you ever seen the amount of money that is spent on content creators, on OnlyFans, and most of it Naked Girls?
Have you ever seen the amount of money?
Let's guess.
How much they spend a year.
matt rife
Only fans?
joe rogan
Subscribing, yeah.
All the money that comes in.
How much do you think they spend a year?
matt rife
From all the influencers, if you want to call them that.
All of them.
joe rogan
Yeah, influencers.
matt rife
I'm going to say...
unidentified
A year?
Yeah.
matt rife
$700 million.
joe rogan
It's way more than that, I think.
And I think it's probably somewhere around the GDP of a small country.
matt rife
What?
joe rogan
What is it?
What's the amount that OnlyFans brings in every year?
jamie vernon
It's definitely increased.
Last year, which is going to be way more this year, 2022's revenue was $2.5 billion.
But that's just OnlyFans.
There's a couple other sites, too, that have to be included.
matt rife
Bro, if you get enough pictures of tits and feet, you can buy Guatemala.
That's fucking insane.
joe rogan
How wild is that?
Okay, what's the GDP of Guatemala?
Let's find out that.
unidentified
It's like, are they doing well?
joe rogan
How much?
jamie vernon
Guatemala averaged reaching an all-time high of 95 billion.
joe rogan
Okay, we're off by low.
Well, that's Guatemala.
matt rife
Record low of 1 billion in 1960. Who's not doing well right now?
joe rogan
Okay, let's find a country that's not doing well.
Uruguay.
Is that a good one?
matt rife
Where the fuck is Uruguay?
joe rogan
I'm not sure.
jamie vernon
I'm just going to go for ranking and try to find...
joe rogan
Okay.
Get me down to about 2.5 billion.
Let's see what they could buy.
matt rife
Let's start talking.
Let's start talking.
That's insane.
joe rogan
Imagine if I only fans island...
They buy a fucking island.
matt rife
They could.
joe rogan
They might be able to start their own country.
matt rife
Make it one of those content houses.
Yeah, they get their own country.
Where it'd be like 10 models living in there.
joe rogan
They could have their own rules.
Their own country.
matt rife
It wouldn't surprise me at all.
joe rogan
That's only in a year, bro.
That's what's crazy.
Yeah, that's in a year.
Now, how much does OnlyFans get?
What do they get, like 10%?
matt rife
I think 10%.
joe rogan
That's the cut.
matt rife
I think so.
joe rogan
Think of that.
matt rife
But I'm wondering what inevitably set them aside from, like, Patreon's been around forever.
Girls were doing Patreon before OnlyFans.
I wonder if the revenue split is better?
Maybe the...
Is it easier to navigate?
joe rogan
Well, I think...
Wasn't it, like, they started it with the idea only fans.
I don't necessarily think they started it for just girls doing that.
matt rife
No, they told me they didn't.
joe rogan
They started it for, like, fans of, like, performers and stuff and different things.
But that was what really caught on.
matt rife
Yeah, exclusive content.
joe rogan
These gals make so much money.
matt rife
Bullying is going to be at an all-time high in, like, ten years, dude.
joe rogan
Bullying?
matt rife
Yeah, in schools.
joe rogan
How come?
matt rife
Imagine you got beef with a kid in school and at any moment you can go, oh yeah?
Here's your mom's pussy for $3.99.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
It's gonna be an all-time high.
joe rogan
But in 10 years, people could have pictures of every mom's pussy.
matt rife
I hope not.
joe rogan
You could have videos of your mom fucking.
matt rife
Oh god, I hope not.
joe rogan
They'll make it with CGI. You'll be able to do it on your phone in 13 seconds.
matt rife
People are just AI-ing it?
joe rogan
Matt Reif sucking the cock.
Bang.
matt rife
Yeah, that video's not out there.
joe rogan
100% they can make that.
matt rife
But they can make that right now.
That's AI, dude.
That wasn't me.
joe rogan
They're real close to being able to do that with, like, very realistic...
I mean, they can make your face move and make words come out of your mouth that you didn't say.
They can take old recordings of you, and then they have the bass line.
There's a ton of commercials out there of me that I don't have anything to do with it.
They're not really my commercial.
I didn't really make a commercial.
They used AI. They used my voice.
They can do wild shit now, man.
And you gotta imagine that, like, if you're like a young female celebrity, there's probably already face swaps of you online in porn scenes.
matt rife
Yet there's no good footage of Bigfoot.
Not one AI interpretation of Bigfoot.
joe rogan
Exactly.
matt rife
Come on, man.
unidentified
Come on.
joe rogan
Well, I think Bigfoot was a real animal at one point in time.
matt rife
Okay.
joe rogan
It just makes sense.
First of all, historically, it was a real animal.
There's a thing called Gigantopithecus.
They found its bones in an apothecary shop.
There was a large primate molar that an anthropologist found in an apothecary shop.
It was in China, and it didn't match any known primate, and he knew.
It was too large.
And there was bones that seemed to indicate it was a—jaw bones—that seemed to indicate it was bipedal.
They can apparently tell by the shape of the jaw.
matt rife
Like, how tall?
joe rogan
Eight feet tall.
It was an enormous thing.
That's what it looked like.
Oh, shit.
It's very orangutan-like.
matt rife
But that looks like Bigfoot.
joe rogan
It is Bigfoot.
I think that is Bigfoot.
matt rife
I mean, it's easier to believe one of these just happened to still be around.
joe rogan
No.
matt rife
Than a totally new creature, I think.
joe rogan
Yes, but no.
It's not easy to believe they're still around.
matt rife
When did they go extinct?
joe rogan
They went extinct somewhere around 100,000 years ago.
matt rife
I don't know, man.
They find animals sometimes that they thought were extinct.
joe rogan
Did we see what it says?
Like, when did they...
9.8 feet.
Wow.
matt rife
Goddamn.
joe rogan
Okay, 11,700 years ago in southern China.
This is what they know, right?
So they don't necessarily know that it was 11,700 years ago.
It really might have been like 6,000 years ago.
They just don't have those bones yet.
It's all in...
Like, when they're finding bones of things...
You know, like if they do, the last bone we found was, you know, this amount old.
If they find a new one six months from now, they do that all the time with like, they're finding all these new versions of human beings.
Like they found Denisovans.
That's a new kind of human that they found.
I think they found that in Russia.
I won't say that was like 2013 or 2014, but I think they just found another one in China that seems to be different than any other human being they found before, too.
unidentified
That's crazy.
joe rogan
So there was multiple versions of human beings, right?
There's Neanderthals, there's Homo sapiens, there's a bunch of different versions of us that didn't quite make it.
matt rife
That's so crazy.
joe rogan
And one of them they found was the Hobbit person.
They found it in the island of Flores.
And there was always talk in, like, legend of these little furry men, these little tiny men.
matt rife
Like how tall?
joe rogan
Three feet tall, man.
But they found bones.
And then when they found bones, they realized that this thing lived around the same time as human beings.
Somewhere as recently as, I think they think it was like 10,000 years ago.
But that's what they looked like.
So they looked like people.
They used tools.
They probably hunted.
They had small brains.
And they were tiny and probably covered with fur.
And they found multiple bones of these.
At first they thought, like, maybe that's a deformed human, or what is this?
But now they're reasonably certain that that's a new type of human being.
Or a new type of higher primate.
I don't know if you would even say human being.
But a little tiny little...
Weird one.
And they think there might still be some of those left in the wild.
matt rife
I know this is a cross-pollination of subjects right now, but has there been any thought as to these smaller bones being related to, like, aliens, per se?
Because sometimes they say they're tiny people.
unidentified
Sometimes.
joe rogan
I think...
Well, if you want to subscribe to the idea that human beings have been genetically engineered...
unidentified
Oh.
matt rife
Oh, that's a much deeper conversation.
joe rogan
Yeah.
If you want to subscribe to the idea that human beings have been genetically engineered, because that's one of the parts of UFO folklore.
I love that.
The real nutty ones.
They want to say that we were...
We were seeded with alien DNA. And so they took these savage lower primates, like the chimpanzees still exist, right?
They took these savage lower primates, and with a specific group of them, they manipulated their DNA to give them creativity, intelligence, the ability to communicate, doubling of the human brain size over a period of two million years, which is...
matt rife
This is a fun thing to believe.
Why not?
joe rogan
It's the best thing to believe.
The most fun is Aliens Made Us.
That's the most fun.
matt rife
That's way more fun than like Amish.
You know what I mean?
As far as like believing in something.
Well, the Amish, they can't be the right ones.
joe rogan
They seem happy, which is odd.
matt rife
There is something to be said about that.
joe rogan
I think there's very low instances of autism amongst the Amish, very low instances of mental health disorders.
I think it sucks to say, but I think working hard all the time is really good for people.
matt rife
Oh, absolutely.
joe rogan
And I think physically working hard all the time is good for people.
matt rife
It keeps you focused on something positive and productive.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
When people get too much time on their hands to think and do absolutely nothing else, I mean, you see what happens.
joe rogan
Yeah, these dudes are out there pulling a wagon with a horse, still, to this day.
Out there making butter and shit.
matt rife
Never seen Netflix.
joe rogan
They look healthy.
None of them are fat.
matt rife
They read.
joe rogan
I mean, you probably should use electricity.
matt rife
It's pretty fucking cool.
Yeah, man.
I'm from Ohio.
You'll see them in Walmart sometimes.
You can't tell, but they're not like, oh.
joe rogan
Are you going through Walmart with a lantern, sir?
matt rife
No, see, that's where I call bullshit.
You gotta use all of it or none of it, man.
unidentified
Right, they pull up in a horse and buggy to Walmart.
joe rogan
What?
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
Did they buy toilet paper there?
matt rife
That's a damn good point.
joe rogan
That's a good point.
They just have an outhouse and a stanky butthole.
matt rife
I saw one get out of an Uber one time, and I was like, wow.
joe rogan
Oh, that's outrageous.
matt rife
Yeah, I was like, come on, man, commit to the bit.
joe rogan
You can't fly.
You can't drive.
No, no, no.
No trains for you, sir.
matt rife
You familiar with, like, the Rumspringer they do and everything?
unidentified
What does this guy do?
joe rogan
He's playing Xbox.
Get the fuck out of here, bro.
Get the fuck out of here, bro.
You can't do that, man.
matt rife
You're cheating.
He's playing Amish and Impossible.
joe rogan
This guy's playing a guitar?
jamie vernon
He's playing Guitar Hero.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
Banjo Hero.
joe rogan
He's playing Guitar Hero.
Look, pull in the buggy and then go to Walmart.
Get the fuck out of here.
Look how they park too, so rude.
Taking up multiple spots.
matt rife
But also, it stays, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, well the horse is smart.
matt rife
Cute.
jamie vernon
I might be tied to the pole.
joe rogan
You might be tied to the pole.
matt rife
You ever be stuck behind one of these on like a one, on like a two-way road in the countryside?
joe rogan
No, I haven't.
matt rife
It's fucking devastating.
joe rogan
I think I saw one on the road once when I was going to visit my parents.
My parents lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania once.
Oh.
And I used to have to drive.
When I was driving from New York, I'd go through Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania gets rural, sir.
matt rife
Yeah, of course.
joe rogan
It gets rural.
And there's fucking deer jumping in front of your car everywhere.
But the most disturbing thing about that drive was when you pass by where the cattle are.
Because of the stench in the air.
matt rife
For a couple miles.
joe rogan
I don't know what I was smelling.
Whether I was smelling fertilizer or whether I was smelling decay.
I don't know what I was smelling.
matt rife
Probably fertilizer.
They take all that shit and spread it for miles.
joe rogan
It smelled so bad.
I can imagine if you were in that town.
Your nose gets used to it, apparently.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You don't smell it anymore.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
But the fucking...
What are you breathing in, man?
matt rife
I mean, it's just toxic.
joe rogan
It has to be.
It smelled like death.
It was like, oh, what?
I don't even know if they use all that same stuff.
I mean, this is the 90s.
I don't know if they use all that same stuff today.
matt rife
Did you see any Amish when you were up there?
joe rogan
I think I did.
I might be imagining it.
matt rife
This might be the only group we can kind of shit on.
joe rogan
I think I might have seen it once.
I think I might have seen it once and be like, oh yeah.
But I didn't get stuck behind them.
matt rife
I would just hate to get to heaven and God was like, I'm glad you're here, but you missed out on so much good shit down there.
You heard OnlyFans?
joe rogan
Well, they are allowed to go nutty before they rejoin.
Yeah.
matt rife
That's got to be a tough decision.
joe rogan
There's a great documentary on it where they follow these Amish kids and they go party in and have a good time.
But, you know, the thing is, like, when you're used to that life, that life of, you know, toil and work and manners and...
It's probably, like, attractive to cut loose, but then you probably feel lost.
And they probably know that.
That's why they let them go.
They're like, we already got them programmed.
Let them go.
matt rife
That's a good point.
I wonder what the percent is that don't go back.
joe rogan
Let's find that out.
matt rife
Because if marriage fails at 50%, like, that's obviously a huge decision.
It's a lifestyle choice.
joe rogan
Do you know anybody that was ever in a cult?
matt rife
Not that I know.
No.
joe rogan
No, I don't believe so.
I know quite a few people.
Really?
Yeah, I know quite a few people that were in cults when they were kids.
matt rife
How dangerous of cults.
joe rogan
You know, there's a lot of different levels of cults.
Is Jehovah Witness a cult?
Is Scientology a cult?
There's cults that are just getting started.
matt rife
Doomsday style.
joe rogan
Well, one of them was.
She was told that she was an elder and that she was a prophet.
And then when the family left when she was 13, she was like, oh my god, thank god.
I was like, someone was stressed thinking I was a prophet.
matt rife
Now she works at Rite Aid or some shit.
joe rogan
She realized now she's really just a 13-year-old kid.
But there's a...
Man, I was talking to Marc Andreessen.
And he was telling me that there's successful cults that are still operating in California.
A lot of them.
And I'm like, what?
So he started labeling all these different cults that operate still in California.
b-real
They just managed to keep it together.
matt rife
With what end goal?
What's the goal of a cult?
Just control?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think there's a natural inclination, specifically among males, to dominate a group of people and have them treat you as if you are...
This wise sage that's completely in tune with the right way to live life and you're here to teach.
And that what you do is you bestow this wisdom upon them and usually it involves you banging everybody's wife.
Usually, they all give you all their worldly possessions.
They treat you to the finest meals.
You eat first, then they eat.
You know, you bless them.
When you talk, everybody listens.
And they really do believe that you're divine.
And it happens in, like, Waco with the Branch Davidians.
matt rife
I was watching that documentary the other day.
joe rogan
Ooh, that guy.
I almost bought his car.
matt rife
No way.
What kind of car is it?
joe rogan
A 68 Camaro.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah, I found out it was for sale, and I almost pulled the trigger, but I was like, what am I doing?
matt rife
What was it going for?
joe rogan
What if ghosts are real?
matt rife
And you're in the car?
joe rogan
And what if, not just ghosts are real, but like, the energy of a person is real.
That guy was a psycho.
matt rife
Yeah, because you know what's even crazier?
You have the power to start a cult.
It would be so fucking easy.
It would be so easy.
joe rogan
I just want to say to the CIA, I have no desire.
matt rife
I do not.
joe rogan
I like archery.
I like playing pool.
matt rife
I did sign something in the lobby while I was waiting for you, actually.
What was that?
That was a release form?
joe rogan
No, that was a cult admission form.
matt rife
I'm in.
joe rogan
You're in.
matt rife
I've been waiting for the Illuminati.
I was like, how many followers do I need before I get the Illuminati invite?
joe rogan
Outland, Wyoming, we're good to go.
unidentified
I was supposed to be there last week, actually.
matt rife
I was supposed to go to Jackson Hole.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I haven't been.
matt rife
It was my only week off, and then I went to Chappelle's birthday instead.
joe rogan
It's so pretty up there, man.
matt rife
I want to go so bad.
joe rogan
It's so pretty.
Do you watch Yellowstone?
matt rife
I haven't seen a TV show in like a year.
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do you watch anything when you're on the road?
Do you watch YouTube?
matt rife
No, I really don't have time.
It's like you travel, you do the shows, and then when I get done with the shows, I go back to my room and edit for like two hours.
joe rogan
Do you find that that...
Sometimes gets in the way of writing because you're not experiencing enough life.
Like, one of the things, like, remember in the 80s, it was, like, stock material that everybody would talk about.
Airline seats not moving back, and do not disturb, nobody listens.
It was because that was your life experience.
You were always just traveling.
It makes it very unrelatable.
matt rife
Yeah, because I also, and nobody really knows this because all my clips are about crowd work, but most of my jokes are stories.
I don't know if I have a joke shorter than like three minutes.
So with me not really being out there and experiencing a lot of things, I am curious because I'm about to shoot my next special in September.
And when I start all over to build this brand new hour, I'm like, what is going to be the theme of it?
Is it going to be about my current state of life?
I'm not 100% sure yet.
But that's the most fun thing about stand-up is having to start all over and figure out what this new hour is.
joe rogan
It's very fun.
Yeah.
matt rife
It's scary.
joe rogan
It's very scary.
It's just exciting.
You know, it's a creative thing, you know, coming up with a new thing.
And also you're doing it live in front of people.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like there's a lot of bits where I've done them and they were kind of successful.
I'm like, you know, I gotta put that one on the shelf for a bit.
I gotta think about that one.
Because I think I'm saying some things that I'm not really believing.
I'm kind of like pushing it too much.
I'm trying to like make it work instead of like reassessing.
So let me reassess.
matt rife
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
So it's kind of a fun process because you put it together over time and at the end you're like, I got it.
This is it.
This is the right way to say this thing.
matt rife
And you have to test it in so many different settings as well.
Yes, yes.
Like last night, we've been doing this tour for the better part of this year and we're in these amazing theaters from 1,500 to 6,000, which is incredible.
But sometimes you have to remember that's not always real stand-up.
For some new shit that I'm working on for the upcoming special, I popped in a couple local spots here last night where it was like 25 people the first one and like 30 the next one.
joe rogan
Perfect.
matt rife
I missed this.
This is where you see if jokes work.
joe rogan
Yeah, little crowds like the belly room at the Comedy Store is the best.
It's like a little truth serum.
You know, you just, you feel the grossness of a fake, like the way you're phrasing something.
You feel like you're not connected to it.
matt rife
Yeah, you're like, this isn't how a comedian would say this.
joe rogan
The comedian would say, you're not attached to it.
matt rife
Yeah, I know what you mean.
joe rogan
You can't just present in front of 25 people.
You've got to be there with them.
You've got to really be locked in.
And they know it.
Because if you're up there, I noticed the other day, you could do that in a large crowd of 3,000 people because there's this sort of weird disconnect.
matt rife
Yeah, it's more performance-based.
joe rogan
It's a different feel.
matt rife
That's why I wanted to do all these theaters right after leaving the comedy clubs.
Because, you know, obviously agents go, well, the numbers we're doing, what stadiums do you want to do?
I was like, dude, can I get used to a theater first?
Because it's a totally different performance.
joe rogan
It's a different timing, for sure.
Yeah.
You gotta hold laughs longer.
And also, I realized once I went to watch Louis Black, and we were doing the same place the next night, and we got there early, and Joey and I went across the street, and it was like right there.
And so we were sitting in the audience, and when he was killing, when he got big laughs, he would occasionally have a tag that he would hit that I didn't hear, because so many people were laughing.
matt rife
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
And I was like, oh, wow, that's something to take into consideration because I didn't think about that because we were like in like probably the 30th row back and it was a pretty big theater.
And so the roars were really loud.
Like when he was killing, it was really loud.
So as the laughter, what?
And then he was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I didn't know what he said.
I'm like, oh, you can't hear because people are, you got to wait.
Like, for certain tags, you can't hit them like a comedy club.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Like, bang, bang, bang.
The laughter, the loudness of the laughter when you're in the midst of it, it's too loud.
matt rife
Yeah.
Oh, dude, I got so lucky.
I was able to be on the show with one of Chappelle's birthday shows at MSG this past week.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw that.
matt rife
I had never been to a stadium before.
I had never even, like, been to Madison Square Garden.
So I don't know that I've really been to a stadium.
No, I've been to a Clippers game in my life.
That's it.
But I've never performed anything that big.
And like my first couple jokes up there, I realized I stepped on the laughs probably five times.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
Because it takes...
You literally have to go...
Like the laughs take so much longer to get to you.
joe rogan
Yeah, 15,000 people is another level up above theater.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt rife
But the positive energy when the joke does hit...
joe rogan
The biggest place I ever did, Dave and I did 25,000 people in Tacoma, Washington.
That was bananas.
matt rife
25,000?
joe rogan
It was bananas.
Yeah, it was so fun.
What was the venue?
Goggins was there for that one.
matt rife
No way.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It was the Tacoma Dome.
matt rife
Comodon.
That's a sick name.
joe rogan
It was dope.
We did it in the round too.
It was bonkers.
The laughs were just like, what is this?
When you hit a big punchline and the whole place just falls out, you're like, holy shit.
matt rife
I haven't done in the round yet.
I don't know if I'd like it.
joe rogan
It's great.
matt rife
Is it?
joe rogan
It's intimate.
It's weirdly intimate.
matt rife
Oh, I would like that then.
joe rogan
The thing is, you're really in there with the people as opposed to a theater.
See, the thing about, or if you're doing an arena and it doesn't have a round, the thing is like you have this big-ass stage and you're above everybody and there's like a gap.
And then, so there's the stage, which is you, and then there's them.
But when you're in the round, Then it's everyone in a circle.
So people are looking at people.
Everyone's in there together.
matt rife
I didn't think about that.
They are looking across at each other.
joe rogan
And we're all feeding off each other and everybody's having a good time.
So everyone's laughing and it's fun and you're wandering around.
So it's playful.
You're wandering around this big circle.
It's great.
matt rife
Fuck, I'm gonna have to try it.
joe rogan
I love it.
matt rife
I'm gonna have to try it.
joe rogan
It's my favorite way to do big places.
unidentified
That's incredible.
joe rogan
By far.
I don't like doing them the other way.
The other way it just feels like I want to be out there with you guys.
I don't want to be like up here.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
It feels weird.
matt rife
I also feel bad for somebody sitting so far.
Fucking far away in an arena.
joe rogan
Well, usually they have big screens too.
matt rife
But that's not that's not what you're there for.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's you're there also just like the experience of experiencing it with a lot of people there, you know?
Yeah, like there's a thing about experiencing things with a lot of people like a big like I saw Guns N' Roses in Greece No way.
I saw Guns N' Roses in Athens.
matt rife
I saw that photo.
joe rogan
It was so dope.
But it was just the feel of all those people having a good time.
There's like just this wave of fun and positive feeling that's like in the air that I think people...
It's like that thing that I was saying that there's things in the world that you can't measure, but they're real and we seek them out.
You know, we seek out these weird moments where people collectively can experience something at the same time.
matt rife
I love that, like, psychological sync up of there's just something contagious of being in the middle of a crowd of people enjoying themselves that just takes...
So you want to enjoy yourself as well.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
It's contagious.
joe rogan
It's contagious.
Laughter for sure is.
matt rife
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
But fun is, too.
You know, it's good times are contagious.
You know, it's...
And so are bad times.
matt rife
That's a good book.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Good times are contagious.
unidentified
Yeah.
matt rife
Sounds like it's a book on STDs, though.
joe rogan
Never mind.
matt rife
We'll take it back.
Never mind.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's just a weird aspect of being a person.
We have this stupid myth of the loner.
I'd like to be by myself.
That's not good.
matt rife
No.
That's not normal.
Somebody's made to be that way, I think.
joe rogan
Every now and again, it's good to be by yourself.
But when I think about loners, I think of like Ted Kaczynski.
I think of like the Unabomber or some fucking psycho out there laying bear traps in the middle of Montana.
matt rife
You have to laugh or you will go fucking insane.
joe rogan
I think people need people too.
I just don't think it's a good thing to be by yourself too much.
I think that's one of the things that really freaked everybody out about the pandemic.
When everything got locked down and people were terrified and they were in their homes for months and months at a time without any interaction with other people.
When they finally did see people, they didn't know how to behave.
They were weirded out.
Everybody was scared.
Yeah.
matt rife
It was so uncomfortable.
joe rogan
It was so weird.
It was so weird.
It was such a mindfuck.
matt rife
When you tour, do you travel with a lot of people?
joe rogan
No.
matt rife
No?
joe rogan
No.
matt rife
Because that's like the most specific thing I've been trying to build with the tour I'm on right now is I wanted to make sure I surrounded myself with people who were going to make all of this journey positive and fun for me.
joe rogan
If you have a lot of people...
matt rife
Because you need people.
Not a lot of people, but the right people.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
Look, good people.
I travel with good people that I know.
Like comics that I know.
People that I know.
Yeah.
But sometimes people get on to Rajas.
matt rife
I won't understand.
joe rogan
It's just chaos.
Not only that, there's always problems.
There's always the guy that's late.
There's always the guy that's a mooch.
There's always a guy that does this.
There's always a guy that's trying to get you to fucking go in on some liquor deal with him.
unidentified
Yeah.
Or CBD. I know guys who have fucking entourages.
joe rogan
And when I run into the entourage, it's like there's a few of them that are really cool.
There's a few of them that are just, you know, like you got a lot of people around you, man.
This is a lot of things to manage.
Do you like this?
Some people like it, though.
They're like rolling deep.
You know, two, three SUVs.
matt rife
No, dude.
I also don't love going out.
joe rogan
Oh, out afterwards?
matt rife
Yeah, dude.
I mean, every city we go to is like, hey, this club wants to host you for a free night or whatever.
And I'm like, dude, I not only need, but want sleep.
joe rogan
Yeah, but you can't get it, so stay out.
matt rife
I definitely wouldn't get it if I went out.
joe rogan
Maybe if you went out, maybe that's what's the key to you getting some sleep.
Go out, do a little partying.
Do you drink?
matt rife
No, not really.
joe rogan
Not at all?
matt rife
Like, for an occasion.
joe rogan
Does that put you out?
matt rife
No, because I'm a tequila guy.
Which is kind of that upper, a little bit.
joe rogan
Is that real?
matt rife
I always do feel like I have a little bit more energy.
joe rogan
We've Googled that before, haven't we?
matt rife
Is that a myth?
Is that a myth?
jamie vernon
It's alcohol.
joe rogan
It's alcohol.
But isn't there some sort of an effect that's different?
Is tequila...
It seems different.
jamie vernon
It's clear.
That's the difference.
That's the one difference that we did dig into.
It's clear.
It doesn't have additives.
It's probably the most pure.
And any of those impurities are things that can cause hangover.
matt rife
I mean, I'm not a fan of any of it.
I hate all alcohol.
I don't enjoy any of it.
It tastes fucking terrible.
It's not good for you.
joe rogan
All those things are true, but...
I like it.
matt rife
What's your drink?
joe rogan
I like a whiskey.
matt rife
Oh, yeah, you're a grown fucking man.
joe rogan
I like an American whiskey on the rocks.
matt rife
I just, I can't handle it.
joe rogan
I like that taste.
I like the...
unidentified
Woo!
matt rife
You like suffrage?
unidentified
I like it.
joe rogan
It's not suffering.
No, no, it's like...
unidentified
Yeah!
joe rogan
That's what it's like.
unidentified
You don't have to like...
matt rife
You can also enjoy...
joe rogan
I enjoy that too.
I like fucking Gatorade shit.
I like a lot of things.
When I drink Gatorade, I never go...
But if I drink Buffalo Trace, I'll drink Buffalo Trace and go...
You don't...
matt rife
You don't smoke cigarettes, do you?
joe rogan
I have smoked cigarettes before comedy shows.
matt rife
Oh, really?
Does it just calm you down?
joe rogan
No, it lights me up.
Lights my brain down.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
Never could do it.
My parents were heavy smokers.
joe rogan
I like cigars off.
Well, it's a very dangerous habit.
And even I think about that when I do shows sometimes.
Like, I limit myself to one or two.
Because if I feel like I start liking it and I start smoking all the time, fuck that.
That's terrible for you.
It's terrible for you to just do, you know, supposedly those American spirits are better because it's just tobacco, but all of it is like burning leaves in your lungs.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it doesn't seem to, like, marijuana does not seem to have the same health problems with people's lungs.
No.
Unless you're probably a chronic marijuana smoker, because you've got to think, how much of the paper are you smoking?
Because you're not just smoking the leaf.
Especially if you're rolling blunts.
I know a lot of guys who love blunts, and they're smoking blunts all day long.
So you're taking in a lot of tobacco.
That's a lot of tobacco on top of the weed.
matt rife
You ever do the pens?
The weed pens?
I mean, that can't be good for you, right?
That is just chemical, isn't it?
joe rogan
Well, it's definitely chemicals, right?
It depends on how they manufacture them, but it's different kinds of oils.
I know some of them do it with MCT oil, which is food grade oil.
But I don't know if there's like strict standards on that stuff.
And where are you getting them made?
Are you getting them made here?
Are you shipping those bitches to China?
Who's making these things?
matt rife
Yeah, there's seven dollars that can't be made here.
They're too accessible.
joe rogan
They probably can't import the actual cannabis.
So I bet they actually do make it here, now that I think about it.
That makes sense, that they probably do make it here.
They probably would have to make it here.
But do they make the pens here, like the ones that explode and go through people's brains?
matt rife
Is that a real thing?
I thought that was a myth.
I thought that happened one time and all of them do it.
joe rogan
There was this one where this guy had this thing lodged in his head in the x-ray.
I'm like, is that real?
I want to believe it's real.
matt rife
Because the vape exploded?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Like a rocket.
But that doesn't even make sense.
matt rife
What mechanism would it make it?
joe rogan
It seems like it would just blow out.
It doesn't seem like it would propel forward with the kind of thrust that would be required to enter your brain.
matt rife
It's not a musket.
joe rogan
Right.
It's not a canon.
unidentified
Bring us back to the canon days.
joe rogan
Just think about that, man.
Wooden boats.
Shooting iron balls at each other.
matt rife
I mean, take it back more centuries, when you had to be a knight.
joe rogan
Vaping can seriously damage your health.
E-cigarette exploded in a teenager's mouth, breaking his jaw and blowing out teeth.
Because of his botched do-it-yourself hacks.
Oh god, this kid.
He was in Russia.
Of course it was in Russia!
matt rife
These wild people.
This makes sense.
jamie vernon
Did you see the picture before I scrolled up?
matt rife
He was nine years old.
jamie vernon
It's gnarly.
joe rogan
Oh, let me see.
matt rife
Do you want to see it?
joe rogan
Oh!
Jesus!
matt rife
Oh my god.
joe rogan
Oh, it blew his face apart.
Oh god damn it.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
Oh my god.
jamie vernon
I wasn't sure if that's the same one you saw, but that sounded close.
joe rogan
Blew his face apart.
matt rife
Isn't the e-cigarette company, I believe it said, oftentimes the problem isn't the pen, it's the people who use it.
Man, the most gaslighting shit I've ever read.
jamie vernon
The guy was probably the one who caused the accident.
unidentified
Yeah!
matt rife
He made it explode.
joe rogan
We had Peter Berg on the other day, and he was talking about the opioid crisis because he created that series Painkiller on Netflix.
If you haven't seen it, it's fucking incredible.
But it's about the Sackler family and how they created this.
And one of the things that they did was when people got hooked on OxyContin, they had like a policy of hammering the abuser.
Go after them.
They're drug addicts.
Like, shame them.
So that's what they would do.
They're like, oh, he was a drug addict.
This person was a drug, and it has nothing to do with whether or not our drug is addictive.
matt rife
Our addictive drug.
joe rogan
He's a drug addict.
And so that's what they did.
That was their gaslighting.
matt rife
But you can't be a drug addict without the drugs.
joe rogan
I know, but the drugs are the problem.
If you can make someone think that someone else is a drug addict, that's a shameful thing.
Oh, he's a drug addict.
It's shameful.
And so they shame the abusers.
matt rife
That's fucked up.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's typical corporate gaslighting.
They like to do stuff like that.
It's fun.
Change the narrative.
Get that Russian troll farm involved.
Start going after those drug addicts.
Those damn drug addicts are the problem.
It's not the pills.
I take mine on a regular basis.
I have had zero problems and in fact I had to go off before surgery and I had no problem whatsoever.
I did it the way the doctor told me to.
The FDA is smarter than you.
I hope you know.
matt rife
I can see this written on Twitter already.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
I have another social media theory to go along with these troll farms.
unidentified
Okay.
matt rife
So you know how there's like a new TikTok dance every week?
joe rogan
I've heard about these things.
matt rife
Same.
As much as I post on TikTok, I don't fucking watch anything.
It's something I'm most proud of.
joe rogan
Good for you.
matt rife
But anyways, there's always something trending.
Every single week there's some new dance that every girl from 11 years old to 40 year old is doing, right?
But to my recollection, at least up until 2015, if somebody came up with a dance, the Dougie, the Cat Daddy, that person was famous for making that dance a thing, right?
Everybody knew who that was.
There's never an originator of these dances.
And I have a theory that TikTok does AI. Dances of trends that they push out to people's streams and go, and then everybody goes, oh, this is the trend.
I have to do that now.
Because there's never a person taking credit for it.
I was the first person to fucking do whatever this shit is.
That never happens.
I think it's AI infiltrated trends.
I don't believe they're really created by people.
joe rogan
Well, TikTok is a genius company.
If you want to look at it from a perspective of how effective it is.
And it's interesting because, you know, I had Adam Curry on.
Do you know who Adam Curry is?
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
He's the original podcaster.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
He's the podcaster number one.
And he has a different theory than a lot of...
Most people that I talk to say TikTok is dangerous.
It's like tracking all your information and everything you do online.
b-real
But his theory is they're all doing that.
joe rogan
And what they don't like is that this Chinese company is eating their lunch.
This Chinese company has figured out a way to have the most addictive out of all of these social media sites.
TikTok's the most addictive.
And he's saying, like, look, if you don't think that they're all tracking your shit on a regular basis, they're definitely doing that.
And they're probably using your microphone.
There's a weird coincidence that pops up all the time where you're talking about something and then you see ads for it.
Like, that's weird.
matt rife
Did you watch Social Dilemma?
joe rogan
Yes, I did.
Crazy.
I had the guy who did it, Tristan Harris, come in and talk about it.
It's a fucking...
matt rife
It's terrifying.
joe rogan
It's a terrifying thing and it's...
We're interacting with something that we're not designed for.
Yeah.
Like we evolved to experience natural things, animals, wildlife, beautiful scenery.
That's why we react to those things.
That's like part of what we are.
And now all of a sudden we're locked into this thing that we don't have Any like reference of history for there's no like well back in the 1800s when high-speed internet first was available There was a lot of confusion a lot of propaganda got pushed by various nations until mind reading became available You know and then it made lying impossible like that's literally what we probably need to get out of this mess We need mind reading We need mind reading.
We need to make lying impossible.
And we got to get to it before they have complete and total control of your money.
We got to do it before people agree to a centralized digital currency that's attached to a social credit score system.
If we can get to Mind reading before that, then people will uprise and then they'll realize like, okay, this is outrageous.
Like this is not how the world's supposed to be run.
And if it's ubiquitous, like if the whole world has mind reading software, it makes all the other stuff very difficult.
I mean, you could somehow or another force compliance, but it's going to be very difficult to do that with all the soldiers in sync now.
It's going to be very difficult to lead armies where people are going to know what your actual intentions are.
They're going to know that this is motivated by money and that this report that you've brought in front of Congress about the movement of these terrorists and the dangers of their weapons of mass destruction, we're going to know it's not true.
So it's going to end wars.
matt rife
Do you have...
Do you have any idea how mean it is to bring guests on the show, get them so high, and then talk about the worst possible realistic outcomes of this world?
joe rogan
I don't know if it's the worst possible, man.
matt rife
I have to go build a fucking bunker after this and get all my cash and gold immediately.
joe rogan
No, you're gonna be fine.
You're gonna be fine.
It's just, this is a different life.
And we have to adapt on the fly.
We live in a different life.
This is a different life than any human being that we are aware of has ever lived in.
matt rife
When would you have liked to have lived?
joe rogan
I like this time right now.
matt rife
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, this is what I'm accustomed to.
I enjoy it.
matt rife
How old are you?
joe rogan
56. What year were you born?
matt rife
1967. I would have liked to have been born in like 62. Really?
Grow up through the 70s, enjoy the 80s as a young adult, 90s become a real adult, start a family, and then learn all this stuff later.
I don't like being a part of this generation at all.
joe rogan
Well, that's kind of what I did.
I mean, I became an adult human before the internet.
And then the internet came around, and I first got on it when I was 27. That was the first time.
I went to CompUSA, and I bought a little Apple computer, and it was hooked up to a 14.4 modem, and you had to dial up to get online.
It was like...
matt rife
Oh, I remember.
I'm so lucky to have got to witness that.
joe rogan
It was so slow.
It was CompUSA.
You'd go on to these...
What was the one website that everybody used that went away?
AOL. America Online.
America Online.
You've got mail!
And you'd get an email.
You're so excited.
Like, oh my god, someone wrote me.
And you'd, like, write your friends.
Like, this is crazy!
I'm writing letters to my friends!
matt rife
I read something about you and the internet, and I'm curious if it's true.
Is it true you used to spend, like, tens of thousands of dollars on high-speed internet to play a video game better?
joe rogan
I spent a lot of money having a T1 line installed in my house.
matt rife
Shut the fuck up!
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
To play what?
joe rogan
To play Quake.
matt rife
What is Quake?
joe rogan
Quake is an amazing 3D online deathmatch game where you're running around with like rocket launchers and rail guns and you're running through these mazes and you're fighting other people that are on your screen in like real time.
You've never heard of Quake?
matt rife
It's a 3D shooter.
joe rogan
Show them some Quake 3 Arena.
matt rife
You're the scariest nerd I've ever met.
jamie vernon
I've been meaning to not tell you a story.
They just remastered Quake 2. So it's like, it just came out like a week ago.
Oh my god.
unidentified
And it's like HD 4K. I've never seen this.
joe rogan
Look how good it looks!
Oh my god, it looks so good!
So this was the game I really started with, was Quake 2. There's new levels too.
jamie vernon
They made new stuff for it.
joe rogan
But the thing about this game is not really the levels.
The thing about this game is Deathmatch.
jamie vernon
Right.
matt rife
What was Deathmatch?
joe rogan
Deathmatch is one-on-one or team versus team.
Like, you're on a team with four...
What you could do is you would jump on a server online and you would look to join a team.
Like, say, if you're playing Rocket Arena, you could find a server and you could just join a team.
And then once the teams were filled, the game would start.
Game begins!
Three, two, one.
And then your side is one color and the other side is green.
And you're running through this fucking maze looking for the enemy and trying to acquire weapons and all these different things.
But this is the game.
This is Quake 3 Arena.
And so it's these wild graphics.
matt rife
This looks fun.
joe rogan
It's fun as fuck, dude.
matt rife
It's very early 2000s.
I love the graphics.
joe rogan
Give me some volume so you can hear it.
So you hear things, too.
You hear your footsteps, and you're running through here, and then you find the people, and you're duking it out.
And when you hit them, it makes up the...
matt rife
Oh, I love that.
joe rogan
Oh, shit.
So now he's got to get the health.
Give me some health.
Give me some armor.
matt rife
I can see getting addicted to this.
joe rogan
Oh, fuck yeah, you can.
I'm getting it right now.
It's so fun.
And this dude's good.
So this dude who's playing here, he knows what the fuck he's doing.
Now he's got a rocket launcher.
Oh shit.
Now motherfuckers are about to die.
Look at that.
Now he's got to get some armor.
matt rife
And your internet speed would depict how quick your movements were and everything, how crisp you could play the game?
joe rogan
Yes.
The lag is the big one, like how close you are to the server.
That's a very important thing.
And how good your internet connection is.
Look at how good this guy is.
This guy's a killer.
So these kids who play this game, and maybe even adults, they get so damn addicted that they learn all the maps inside and out.
So they know all the moves on the maps, like there's certain places where you can hop from one ledge to another ledge, and you can camp and stand there, and they come through the doorway, you blast them.
There's all sorts of weird, sneaky little tricks in these games.
matt rife
Oh, that is so cool.
joe rogan
People get really good at it.
matt rife
I was curious if that was true.
joe rogan
It's so addictive.
It was so addictive.
I had a quick cold turkey.
And then we built a LAN room at our old studio in LA, and I had a quick cold turkey again.
matt rife
Same game?
joe rogan
It got too crazy, yeah.
Quake, the new version of it.
What is the new one?
The online call?
Quake Champions?
jamie vernon
Quake Champions is the one they're playing.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
jamie vernon
And this guy Rafa, he's been the man in this game for a few years.
unidentified
Forever.
So these guys are like top of the forgive me some volume Really a commentary like It's a sport!
joe rogan
Amazing.
matt rife
I will say I don't get it.
I don't get watching other people play video games.
joe rogan
Well, because you play it.
So if you play the game, you know the game, and you know how hard it is, and you know what he's doing is so impressive.
matt rife
Is it?
joe rogan
Lower their volume.
jamie vernon
It's like golf or other sports.
joe rogan
Yes.
jamie vernon
If you don't get the sport, you won't watch that.
joe rogan
For me, because I play it, this is very intriguing.
matt rife
It just feels like video games are something that if you play it enough, anybody can get good at it.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's a lot of, like, fast thinking, hand-eye coordination.
matt rife
Yeah, that's very true.
joe rogan
You have to practice your aim.
There's a lot going on.
There's different weapons behave in different ways.
They're studying the maps and strategy.
matt rife
I mean, it's just...
joe rogan
Look how he's fucking that dude up.
Woo!
matt rife
I can't imagine sitting down and watching this when, like, there's Pornhub.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Once you jerk off, then you go right back to it.
matt rife
You know what?
Yeah, you know what?
Two things can be true.
You're right.
joe rogan
Look how this guy's doing this.
This is genius, man.
jamie vernon
He's really good.
matt rife
It's so fast-paced.
Is this video sped up?
joe rogan
Or is this how quickly he plays the game?
No, this is how quick the game is.
matt rife
That's very impressive.
joe rogan
That's one of the things that's exciting about it.
Because it requires you to really think quickly and move quickly.
And you're changing weapons.
jamie vernon
And the guy who's playing can't kill him either.
He's up 8-0 right now.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's fucking messed up.
jamie vernon
And that's frustrating for the other guy.
joe rogan
And the guy, every time he spawns, he's got no energy.
Or rather, no weapons.
He's just got a bullshit standard gun that you're not gonna kill this guy with.
matt rife
So the longer you live, you get more powerful.
joe rogan
Well, the longer you traverse the map and accumulate all the different armor and shit.
So this guy, every time he fucks that dude up, he gets some of his armor, he's getting the super health.
So all these things, look at that.
Oh, he's fucking that dude.
Oh, he got killed.
unidentified
Huh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
jamie vernon
That guy's really good.
joe rogan
He's really good.
But that's what it is.
It's like, you get so, and it's so exciting.
It's so much more exciting than literally anything else that's a game.
matt rife
More than Halo?
People love Halo.
I've never played Halo.
I don't play Halo.
joe rogan
But it's kind of the same sort of thing.
It's a first person shooter, right?
And you're running around.
Isn't Halo first person or is it third person?
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
So those things are just super, super addictive.
matt rife
I think the chat rooms would be addictive.
People say the meanest, craziest shit.
Oh, they go crazy.
Dude, it's insane!
joe rogan
They go crazy on those online games.
jamie vernon
They actually just made an announcement about that that's going to change.
You get something like eight strikes, which I don't know exactly how they're going to count those, but they have AI listening now, so all those game chats are being recorded over the main store.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
jamie vernon
And if you start talking shit, they're going to start striking you down, and you're going to have to take a break for a year or something.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
matt rife
Good.
Well, they're just going to sign back on through a fucking VPN. Your new email address, whatever it is.
jamie vernon
But still.
joe rogan
Wear a fake nose.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Fuck out of here.
matt rife
Change the pronouns.
joe rogan
You're not going to stop these junkies.
These people are straight up junkies.
No, it's bad.
jamie vernon
It's still bad.
It has never changed yet.
unidentified
Trash talking kings.
jamie vernon
As racist as it can be.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
jamie vernon
All of it.
matt rife
This is so funny.
People aren't good.
It's so funny.
joe rogan
Well, they definitely like to be naughty.
matt rife
Oh, the things people will say when people can't see who's saying it.
joe rogan
Yeah, people like to be naughty.
matt rife
It's impressive, dude.
joe rogan
Well, it's also, it's like, you feel like you're protected, you're in Sweden, or you're in fucking Montana, you're on the internet, it's a fake name, you know, you're Superkiller69, whatever, and you're out there fucking people up, and...
matt rife
I wanted to do, like, a modern troll version of Bully Beatdown.
Remember that show?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
matt rife
Where, like, you use the same technology and sources they use for, like, catfish.
You know how they do all this research to really find the person?
So say you're talking shit to fucking...
Sugar Sean, right?
You're like this constant troll.
You're always talking about what a trash fighter he is.
We team up with Sean.
We do the research.
We find out what this dude really is.
And we go, you said you could beat him up.
Or a 15-year-old girl could beat him up.
It's like a dozen times.
So we're going to offer you an amount of money to put your money where your mouth is.
But he also gets the chance to whoop your ass.
joe rogan
Yeah, the guy's gonna go, um, I didn't really mean that.
matt rife
Of course, but then he looks like a bitch in front of everybody.
joe rogan
But he's gonna have to sign the waiver.
That's where it's, you gotta give him enough money.
matt rife
The money has to be worth it, yeah.
But the thing is, they're not gonna fucking win.
joe rogan
You know, I always wondered that about cops.
Do they have to sign waivers, right, on the show Cops?
jamie vernon
Yeah, so Cops does, but I told you that show that's been going on, it was called Life P, it's called Something Else Now.
They have a weird workaround, because it's live on TV, streaming for three hours a night, and it's like, they always say, they're following me, don't worry about them, the cops are doing a documentary about us, not you.
And I guess that's the loophole, just sort of like the prank calls in Vegas kind of thing.
joe rogan
Huh.
That's hilarious.
matt rife
Man, can you imagine just being that fucked up?
You're like, yeah, I still want to see the tape back when I get out of jail.
joe rogan
Well, you're on meth, and your fucking pants are down by your ankles, and you're on TV, there's a light in your face, and you just piss all over your pants, and you're like, huh?
Why were you driving that car?
I don't know.
You're on meth.
You're like, I'm just trying to get home.
unidentified
Shit.
matt rife
I'm not built for jail, dude.
I hope I never go.
joe rogan
Why am I awake?
And then they offer you like 500 bucks.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
matt rife
Perfect.
joe rogan
And you just sign away, and next thing you know, Travis, was you on TV pissing your pants?
unidentified
Were you doing meth and codeine again?
joe rogan
I don't fucking know.
unidentified
Why am I on TV? Those poor people, man.
matt rife
But they've got the highlight tape forever, you know?
joe rogan
It's such exploitation.
Do you remember when Steven Seagal had a show like that?
matt rife
I remember hearing about it.
I never saw it.
joe rogan
Bro.
matt rife
Was he like his own dog, the bounty hunter?
joe rogan
Tom Segura had a whole bit about it.
Tom Segura became obsessed with Steven Seagal at one point in time.
matt rife
It's in his first special, right?
Or the second one?
joe rogan
Well, I forget which one.
But Steven Seagal, he was like a cop.
Like an actual cop.
matt rife
Like he went through the Academy and everything?
joe rogan
I don't know.
jamie vernon
The law man.
joe rogan
The lawman.
So, I don't know, maybe they deputized him?
I don't know how that fucking worked.
But Steven Seagal was hanging out with these cops in Louisiana in Jefferson Parish, and he started taking on a Louisiana accent?
matt rife
No, he did not!
joe rogan
Yes, he did!
Yes, he did!
It was amazing!
See if you can find video of him talking.
He's a fucking character, that guy.
So, imagine, you're a kid, and you know, maybe he's selling crack or whatever, and you get pulled over by fucking Steven Seagal?
matt rife
You've got to think it's punk or something.
joe rogan
And he's actually got a real gun?
And he might shoot you and there's cameras there?
You're like, what is going on?
Am I in a movie?
Like, you would think you're in a movie.
matt rife
I would do that.
I would do something like this.
joe rogan
Imagine that, like, you're a kid and you grow up in a bad neighborhood.
You're 17. This is the first time you ever met anybody famous.
matt rife
Uh-huh.
joe rogan
You're getting arrested by him?
matt rife
It's Steven Seagal!
joe rogan
It's the fucking guy from Above the Law?
Everybody's seen Above the Law.
matt rife
Yeah, how can you possibly take this serious?
Also, if they start roughing you up, you're going to be kind of pissed off that Steven Seagal is just allowed to touch you like this.
unidentified
They're going to tase him.
joe rogan
Everybody off, so they're tasing the guy.
unidentified
So what does this guy have?
joe rogan
Crack?
matt rife
What is it?
joe rogan
A mask.
unidentified
Carjacking.
joe rogan
Oh, carjacking.
unidentified
Damn.
joe rogan
They have a beautiful way of talking.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
People from Louisiana...
I would probably start talking like that if I moved there.
matt rife
I would adopt it.
My opener is from Louisiana.
joe rogan
It's a beautiful way of talking.
There's a flow to it.
matt rife
It's wholesome.
joe rogan
It sounds good.
There's a cool flow to it.
matt rife
It makes you feel safe.
I don't feel in danger when somebody from Louisiana talks to me.
joe rogan
Oh, I'd feel in danger if I was tied up and they were talking to me like that.
matt rife
Well, yeah.
unidentified
Matt, Rob, you've made a terrible, terrible error.
matt rife
Am I going to be murdered or raped?
joe rogan
All of the above.
matt rife
Wow.
joe rogan
Depending on how they're feeling, which one starts first.
matt rife
Again, not built for prison.
You ever watch that show like 60 Days In?
joe rogan
60 days in prison?
matt rife
No.
Is it 60 days in?
Something like that.
It might be 30. I think it's 60. Where it's like they send regular people into jail.
Usually like a county jail or something like that.
Or a state jail, I guess, if that's a thing.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
They send them in as actors to try to infiltrate who's bringing the drugs in, who the kingpins in here.
And look, some of them rise in the ranks.
Within like a week.
It's impressive.
But also so insulting and so dangerous.
joe rogan
Super fucking dangerous.
matt rife
And sometimes they get compromised.
No, sometimes they get compromised.
Once the prisoners figure out, they'll be like...
Because some of the prisoners have heard about the show.
So sometimes they'll be interviewing the prisoners.
The prisoners will be like, I think he's from that show.
jamie vernon
One of them is a cop.
He's watching behaviors of other officers.
This guy volunteered to join his father in the program.
Wow.
joe rogan
Substitute teacher, electrician.
The cop is an interesting one.
He entered the program to observe the behaviors of the corrections officers.
Maybe he heard there's some abuse going on.
matt rife
Yeah, people can just volunteer.
unidentified
Wow.
jamie vernon
See what it was like.
This guy's a martial arts trainer.
Brought his son with him to show what it was like in prison.
Yeah.
This guy has family members in there as a lady.
She wanted to see what it was like for them.
unidentified
Whoa.
jamie vernon
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's crazy.
Former gang member?
unidentified
Wow.
matt rife
It's impressive.
They go in there and they really live with these people and they get information.
Some dudes rise to ranks of being like the head of the cell block and at the end of the 60 days get to go, ah!
Ah, gotcha.
joe rogan
Are these like, oh my god, that's so crazy.
Are these like minimum security?
matt rife
Probably.
It's not prison.
It's jail still.
Which, I mean, is still dangerous.
I mean, you see a fight on every fucking episode.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
The geniuses that are in jail.
jamie vernon
This first guy, season six, he's a super fan.
I remember that guy.
And wanted to see if he could just try it out.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
matt rife
Spoiler alert on that one.
jamie vernon
Uh oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, does it not work out?
matt rife
Pretty early.
joe rogan
I can only imagine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The average person wouldn't do well in there.
matt rife
No, there's people who the first day when they're getting checked in and they're just like in that cold cell with everybody else while they're getting all their paperwork and shit done.
Because they book you like an actual image.
You do the entire process.
joe rogan
Wow.
matt rife
And some people break in there.
They just get the pressure.
They be like, you know.
They tell themselves things, but I feel like somebody's looking at me like they're onto me, they already know I'm a fake.
If these prisoners find out you're a fake, they're gonna murder you.
Because you know all their secrets.
joe rogan
Especially when you're sleeping.
Oh yeah!
That's where your way of sleeping would really come in handy.
unidentified
I might run shit, prison dog.
joe rogan
You'd have all that time to think.
matt rife
I gotta figure out who's gonna be my boyfriend, but I'm up all night.
joe rogan
You figure it out.
matt rife
Might as well cash in.
joe rogan
You figure it out, man.
You start a cult in prison.
matt rife
Has anybody not done that yet?
joe rogan
I bet they have.
Had to have.
matt rife
That's also one of the scariest places to investigate a prison, dude.
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of con men that go to jail.
And if you're a con man, like a Manson, like you let that guy in a general population, he'll start a cult.
matt rife
Oh my god, yeah!
He's so confident in himself.
jamie vernon
Did you watch the show Blackbird yet on Apple TV? No, what is that?
Very good.
It's based on a true story.
It's a dude almost like you're describing.
He's a badass hustler, can run shit really fast.
They find out about it, like, hey, we'll give you a chance to get out of here.
He's in for like 10 years plus, 15 years maybe for drugs and stuff.
He has to go get a serial killer to confess where the bodies are hidden, and they can't get anybody to break this guy.
And it's just about that.
Like, that's what the episodes are about.
unidentified
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Who's in that?
jamie vernon
It's really good.
Taron Egerton?
Egerton.
matt rife
Oh, he's really good.
jamie vernon
And then the guy who played, like, Richard Jewell in the Richard Jewell movie, and he's the Olympic Park bomber, too.
joe rogan
That guy's great.
jamie vernon
Who is that guy?
joe rogan
Find it.
Give that guy his propers.
jamie vernon
He's really good in it, too.
unidentified
Some people are just really good talkers.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
They can talk their self in or out of anything.
joe rogan
Scary, isn't it?
matt rife
Oh, yeah.
Into anything around any group of people and can tell a checkable lie.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
And just can commit so hard to it.
unidentified
Yeah.
jamie vernon
His name is Paul Walter Hauser is the actor's name.
joe rogan
Paul Walter Hauser.
matt rife
What's it called again?
unidentified
Blackbird?
jamie vernon
The show's called Blackbird.
matt rife
Well, when I get to watch a TV show again.
jamie vernon
Oh, you said you don't watch TV. Sorry.
There's the, yeah, this is him getting arrested.
joe rogan
He gets the Jamie Cyril of approval.
jamie vernon
Yeah, and then this guy, he's just like a crazy, I forget exactly the, I don't know if it's like children or whatever, but they think he's got bodies buried somewhere.
This guy, it's really good.
joe rogan
And this guy has to get close to him.
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
jamie vernon
They approach him about it.
joe rogan
That's the scary shit, right?
Like that guy in Long Island.
Wife had no idea.
He's out there killing prostitutes for several decades.
matt rife
Oh, dude.
Serial killer stuff is so fascinating to me.
joe rogan
So fascinating.
matt rife
And how you can just live your life normally.
joe rogan
And they get away with it.
Some of them, like the Zodiac Killer, they never caught that guy.
They got away with it.
matt rife
Man.
I thought they caught him.
He's still out there?
joe rogan
I believe.
matt rife
They never found him?
joe rogan
I believe they never caught the Zodiac Killer.
I'm pretty sure.
matt rife
I'm fascinated by John Wayne Gacy's stuff.
It's fascinating.
Because it's such an insane level of psychosis.
joe rogan
Dressing up like a clown and killing kids.
matt rife
It's so terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
And just burying them under the house.
joe rogan
Never caught the Zodiac.
matt rife
Wow.
jamie vernon
That's part of life.
joe rogan
The official investigation remains open.
Public interest has remained high.
Countless theories have gained traction over the years, pointing a finger at various men who share physical markers or specific interests with the famed killer.
jamie vernon
They did crack the code, though, but I don't think they know who he is.
joe rogan
AI was like, I can't get that quick.
jamie vernon
That's what I thought it was.
joe rogan
Why do you take so much time for you dummies?
Oh, what does it say?
It's been reportedly revealed.
matt rife
Oh, no.
joe rogan
Let's see what it says here.
DNA points to an Air Force veteran.
According to an independent investigation agency, their information is solid.
DNA evidence.
Interesting.
Is the guy still alive or is he dead?
Huh.
jamie vernon
Inaccurate says that tweet.
joe rogan
Inaccurate.
I don't know.
So what is the community notes on the tweet says inaccurate?
Can we click on those?
What does it say?
Okay, so it's not that the FBI said that this case is closed.
So it's a theory.
matt rife
Didn't they catch Richard Ramirez from his shoes?
joe rogan
Did they?
matt rife
Yeah, I think they found his shoe print.
joe rogan
You know what's most fucked up about guys like that?
They go to jail and then women want to marry them.
matt rife
Why is that?
joe rogan
I think it's some ancient primal instinct that some women have to be connected to killers.
matt rife
What?
unidentified
Yeah.
matt rife
Like, do they see it as a power?
joe rogan
I mean, there's probably, like, legitimate psychologists like Jordan Peterson can answer this much more accurately.
But I would imagine there's something, because it's such a forbidden thing to do to kill people.
Someone just kills people all the time.
There's probably some bizarre attraction that some mentally ill people have to someone like that.
It's probably based on DNA, because if you wanted your children to survive, you'd be better off, back in the barbarian days, with a slaughterer, not a slaughteree.
That's the guy you want.
matt rife
There's a level of unhealthy alpha.
joe rogan
As long as he doesn't kill you.
You fuck him and he kills everybody else.
matt rife
They might even see romance in that.
He chooses to kill everybody else, not me.
joe rogan
Vampires.
That's the thing about vampires.
Women, like the whole Twilight thing.
As long as he doesn't kill me.
You know, he's like, he's out there eating, sucking deers dry.
He doesn't want to kill people anymore.
matt rife
Do you believe in vampires?
joe rogan
Well, I think scientifically they believe that if vampires existed, there would be no more humans because it would just be a matter of time.
They would just get us all and then turn us all into vampires.
And then just the amount of people that would get turned into vampires, it would be an epidemic.
You wouldn't be able to stop it.
If they were superhuman and their powers and all that stuff, they would just overrun us.
They would just overrun us.
matt rife
Unless they also recognize that they would run out of a food supply.
joe rogan
Well then, what are they going to do?
To survive.
Just to survive, they have to keep eating people.
Either they kill the people, or they turn the people into vampires.
So it's like, depending on which lore.
Which lore are you going by?
Are you going by the one where they kill all the people, or are you going by the one where they drain...
The blood of the ones they love, and then they let them turn into vampires because it's romantic.
matt rife
I mean, people definitely do drink blood.
Those are real rituals that happen in Europe all the time.
joe rogan
It's real satanic blood ritual shit.
Yeah, for sure.
That's real.
But then there's like, you know, how much of it is just what people are scared of?
They're scared of, you know, a thing like that.
Maybe it represents psychopaths to them.
Because the original Dracula was based on...
matt rife
Vlad the Impaler, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think Vlad Tepes was his name.
And this was a guy who literally impaled people on steaks and sat down and ate his lunch in front of them.
matt rife
Insanity.
And there was a woman who did bathe in the blood of children.
joe rogan
That's a tricky one, too.
That's Elizabeth Bathory.
Yeah.
Clinical vampirism.
matt rife
But I don't think that was to do with vampirism.
She just believed the blood kept her youthful, I suppose.
joe rogan
Well, we'll get into that in a second.
But look at this.
Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood.
The earliest presentation of clinical vampirism in psychiatric literature was a psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases.
Contributed by Richard L. Vandenberg and John F. Kelly, the authors point out over 50,000 people addicted to drinking blood have appeared in the psychiatric literature from 1892 to 2010. 50,000 people!
This was documented in the work of Austrian forensic psychiatrist Richard von Kraftibing.
matt rife
Nailed it.
joe rogan
Many medical publications concerning clinical vampirism can be found in the literature of forensic psychiatry with the behavior being reported as an aspect of extraordinary violent crimes.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
Jesus.
Yeah.
matt rife
So it's a real psychological disorder.
At least 50,000 people in the past 150 years.
joe rogan
So the Elizabeth Bathory thing is an interesting one because the story is that Elizabeth Bathory was this woman and she was beautiful when she was younger.
But as she started growing older, she started murdering young maidens and bathing in their blood.
She was this evil, psychotic serial killer.
matt rife
That'd be a good movie.
joe rogan
That's a good story, but there's also a counter story to that, that what they were trying to do was accuse her of this so they could take her land.
Because she was in control of this very coveted kingdom.
And they essentially put her in house arrest, because she was a royal, even though she was a serial killer, supposedly.
But there seems to be some possibility that there might be fuckery.
See if you can find that.
unidentified
Damn.
joe rogan
See if you can find that.
I just read that recently because we talked about that on the podcast.
Then somebody, I forget who it was, brought it up to me like that might not have been what actually happened.
matt rife
It's a troll farm.
joe rogan
Her brutality has been questioned by historians.
Here it is.
Several historians have argued that far from being a cruel and barbaric killer, Bathory was in fact merely a victim of a conspiracy.
The Hungarian professor, try that one, Laszlo Nagy claimed the accusations and proceedings against Bathory were politically motivated due to her extensive wealth and ownership of large lands in Hungary.
It is possible that Bathory's wealth and power made her a perceived threat to the leaders of Hungary, whose political landscape was overrun with major rivalries at the time.
Bathory appeared to have supported her nephew.
Gabor Bathory, ruler of Transylvania and rival to Hungary.
It was not uncommon to accuse a wealthy widow or murder or murder witchcraft?
I think they meant say of murder witchcraft or sexual misconduct to seize their lands.
That makes sense.
matt rife
That is crazy.
joe rogan
So the official story was that she was a serial killer and that's that's you know she was doing that to try to stay young.
But if you wanted to lock somebody up, that would be the way to do it.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
So she's a fucking serial killer.
jamie vernon
Highest number of victims was 650. Oh my God.
unidentified
Jesus.
joe rogan
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Bathory is the most prolific female murderer and the most prolific murderer of the Western world.
This is despite the precise number of her victims remaining unknown and debated.
Upon collecting testimony from 300 witnesses, Thurzo determined that Bathory had tortured and killed more than 600 victims.
The highest number cited was 650. However, this number came from a claim by a servant girl that Bathory's court official had seen the figure in one of her private books.
The book never came to light.
Bathory's victims were said to have been hidden a variety of places, but the most common method was to have the body secretly buried in the church graveyards at night.
So this was a servant girl that claimed that she saw a book that said that she had killed 600 people.
Yeah, she's like writing down in their blood.
411. Imagine being such a psycho that you've documented all the people that you killed and bathe in their blood.
matt rife
Imagine how many people have done it.
jamie vernon
He didn't bathe in the blood, but he kept a little sample of all of them.
matt rife
Imagine how many people have done it we don't know about.
joe rogan
I think they all keep little trinkets.
matt rife
Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
Has there been a serial killer for a while?
joe rogan
There's a lot of them active right now in the country.
matt rife
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, there's always active serial killers.
matt rife
How do you just never hear about it?
joe rogan
Some of them try it for a little while and then stop.
matt rife
Try it for a little while.
joe rogan
Yeah, for real.
matt rife
Like it's tobacco.
joe rogan
But they could.
They could just try it for a while if they get away with it.
matt rife
It's not anal, dawg.
Like you can't dabble in murder.
joe rogan
There's a lot of broken people out there that I think right now probably dabble in murder.
matt rife
That's terrifying.
joe rogan
It is terrifying.
And it's probably in other parts of the world even more common.
matt rife
But you know what?
That's actually...
It's a weird association I have with scary movies.
Murderer scary movies never scare me because I know it happens in the world every day.
Ghosts, demon, monster stuff.
That's what scares me.
joe rogan
Ghosts?
matt rife
Because it's up to your imagination.
joe rogan
Demons, monsters.
Yeah.
Yeah, those are the scariest, I guess.
Well, the scariest are aliens.
matt rife
Because it's, yeah, Fear of the Unknown.
joe rogan
Alien 1 movie.
Oh, my God.
That, to me, is the scariest, scary movie ever.
That movie was terrifying.
matt rife
Is it Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind that takes place in Alaska?
Where they combine the actual footage of the woman's real therapy sessions and stuff.
joe rogan
I don't know.
matt rife
Jamie, you know what I'm talking about?
joe rogan
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind?
matt rife
It's Third or Fourth Kind.
Which one's the original movie?
joe rogan
Third Kind.
matt rife
So this one's Fourth Kind.
I'm almost heard.
Probably wrong.
joe rogan
I've never heard of it.
matt rife
It's a really good movie.
There's a woman up in...
I want to say Juno?
Or no, no, no.
What's the...
Gnome.
Gnome, Alaska.
And back in the day, she was...
She became famous because she claimed aliens were basically showing up and abducting her and stuff, right?
And eventually, her kid got abducted by aliens.
unidentified
Right.
matt rife
Or so that's the case.
And they accused her of like killing the kid or whatever it may be.
Obviously nobody believes that this woman's son was abducted.
Her daughter was abducted by aliens.
joe rogan
So it's not currently available in our country?
matt rife
What?
jamie vernon
It's like in Canada.
I think it's showing up weird.
joe rogan
You can only get it in Canada?
jamie vernon
I don't know.
matt rife
What?
jamie vernon
That's strange.
joe rogan
Interesting.
matt rife
But they have...
So it's a movie about this case, but they splice in real footage of her therapy sessions she had to go to, that she was going to while she was being abducted each night.
And they do this...
I don't really know how to describe it.
This deep meditative state that makes you recall your dreams.
And she's like describing all the things that were happening to her, these aliens.
And she starts screaming.
She starts like levitating up from the couch a little bit.
Like it's like it's creepy as shit.
It's a really good movie.
It's my favorite abduction movie I've ever seen.
And obviously nobody believes her.
She runs into the one person.
Oh yeah, that old footage is like the real footage.
jamie vernon
Wow.
joe rogan
So, here's my issue with the alien abduction thing.
Other than there's not like any real solid evidence that you could point to that's very convincing.
It always happens at night.
And it always happens during periods where people sleep.
And when you're sleeping, I'm not saying always.
Okay, I'm sure there's some stories out there.
I'm sorry.
But most of the stories I've ever heard are people in their bed, they can't move, aliens abduct them, or they're in a car, the car stops, they wake up.
Aliens adopted him.
When you go to sleep and you dream, there are psychedelic chemicals that your brain makes.
And we don't know how much they're making.
We don't know what effect that's having on your dreams.
We don't know what is going on.
What is going on with dreams?
What is going on with vivid dreams?
What is going on with dreams that are...
They're indiscernible from real life and sometimes in a strange way.
Like what is that?
Is that a psychedelic state your brain goes into every night?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
And if chemicals vary in human beings, serotonin varies, dopamine varies, everything varies.
Testosterone varies, estrogen varies.
It varies.
Wouldn't you just assume those psychedelic chemicals would vary?
And wouldn't you just assume that sometimes maybe even people are in very agitated, anxiety-ridden states, high cortisol levels, perhaps maybe those chemicals are coming out in an abundance too.
Now, if you're lying in bed and you're having an insanely vivid and There's a terrifying interaction with aliens every night.
Because your brain is just dumping psychedelics into you.
And this is your big fear, so you're gonna get abducted by aliens again.
unidentified
And then there they are again, leaning over your bed and reaching for you.
matt rife
Constant paranoia.
joe rogan
And then here's the mindfuck of all mindfucks.
Maybe...
Psychedelics are a gateway to some other reality, some other dimension that's accessible by these creatures.
matt rife
I like this.
joe rogan
And that when you are getting abducted, you really are getting abducted.
Like, whatever your being is or your spirit or whatever is you is getting...
You're interacting with these things.
And it feels real because it is real and because we're thinking about the ability to come in contact with other life forms as being a physical thing.
It might be that there's a chemical gateway in your mind that when breached you enter into a dimension where physical bodies don't exist anymore and everything moves in this constant soup of geometric patterns and that Whatever your consciousness is, whatever your soul is, is decoupled from the body and thrown into this realm.
matt rife
I imagine that's probably what happens at death.
joe rogan
It probably is what happens at death.
I mean, that's probably why people think about it that way, that you're going to transcend into heaven.
You're going to go into this new place.
It might be true.
It might be like a lot of the old depictions of like what happens when you enter into a psychedelic state.
I've heard this multiple times that it's like a well of souls.
That you're interacting with souls that are like completely unattached to a physical presence.
Yeah.
And maybe you're getting layers and layers of that depending upon how fucked up you are where you're sleeping.
And maybe some of those layers are, boom, aliens in the room with you.
matt rife
Peeled back.
joe rogan
Just aliens in the room with you.
And maybe they can do that.
Maybe they can visit you while you're in those states.
Maybe that's what's happening, too.
I mean, we're just assuming, like, before anybody invented a cell phone camera, like, if you tried to show that to someone from 1700, they'd be like, what the fuck are you doing?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, what is this?
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
The idea of transforming, or rather, traveling through another dimension Even in a non-physical sense, even in like a hologram sense, and existing in a space that's completely different from the dimension that you exist in.
Yeah.
Like, that might be a thousand years from now.
Normal shit, like a cell phone picture.
matt rife
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just above our understanding for now.
joe rogan
It could be.
So it could be...
matt rife
That makes total sense to me, because it's like, what the fuck is Wi-Fi?
You know what I mean?
You can't see it.
It's not a physical thing you can see.
joe rogan
Exactly.
What the fuck is Wi-Fi?
Yeah, how?
matt rife
What do you mean a text goes from my phone to your phone?
What the fuck does that mean?
joe rogan
There's no wires.
What are you talking about?
matt rife
Yeah, so that makes total sense.
joe rogan
It's not just a text, but a video.
You could send a video to your friend that lives in China.
matt rife
And it's the exact same quality as you saw with your own eyes.
Maybe not China.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Japan.
matt rife
If you made a TikTok.
joe rogan
Okay.
Yeah.
You could send it to Japan.
You could send it to Germany.
You could send...
If you have a friend in Germany.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
You could send that person a video and they will get it.
You send them an iMessage and they will get it and they'll open up that video and they'll watch it.
matt rife
How?
joe rogan
Like through space.
matt rife
A non-physical transfer.
joe rogan
It's wild.
You watch sporting events on your phone.
matt rife
Yeah, in real time.
joe rogan
In real time.
We live in the future.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
We just don't live in the future where you can travel from one dimension to another and exist in this other dimension as long as this person is in a certain psychedelic state.
matt rife
Yeah.
It's totally believable.
joe rogan
Yeah.
matt rife
And honestly, I hope there's some truth to that.
It's scary to think about, but that gives a little bit of comfort to have just some kind of answer.
I think the worst thing that would happen if you died is if you stay totally conscious.
Imagine your body, you leave your body, right?
You have no more control.
joe rogan
You just exist in the woods.
matt rife
Yeah, you still have a consciousness, but when people close your eyes, you're just in darkness for the rest of eternity.
But, okay, hear me out.
Super high conversation.
Now, you're conscious in all black, right?
But because you have power over your consciousness, you can create.
So what do you do?
You create.
Some kind of reality.
Now you're God of your own consciousness and you create beings within that.
joe rogan
You get so kooky that you make your own reality.
matt rife
Yeah, because what else is there to do besides create something in your consciousness?
You can't move.
You have no life anymore.
joe rogan
It's just torture.
matt rife
Yeah, that would be the most terrifying thing.
joe rogan
You exist but you can't interact.
matt rife
Yeah.
Imagine, what if God's that?
joe rogan
Nobody knows you're there.
matt rife
What if God is exactly that?
joe rogan
I think God is the whole universe.
matt rife
Has to be.
joe rogan
That's what I think.
unidentified
I think this idea that God made the universe, I think God is the universe.
joe rogan
I think that makes more sense.
That this whole thing is just...
unidentified
Whoa!
joe rogan
The whole thing is just this...
matt rife
Infinite?
joe rogan
Infinite creation machine that creates...
unidentified
Galaxies, solar systems, stars.
matt rife
Everything to microorganisms.
joe rogan
Yeah, that it's all by this strange mathematical process that exists where everything gets more and more complex.
Everything from the beginning to now and then the humans and whatever is past humans, they're just constantly making things more complicated and more advanced.
Even like the way planets form and life grows on them and then that life figures out gunpowder.
All that stuff is wild.
It's wild because it seems to be like it all is moving in this very specific way.
Even in evolution, animals don't make it.
Your design sucks.
We've got a new design now.
This one's better.
You guys ground nest?
There's cats around here.
This isn't going to work out.
matt rife
Up in the trees?
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's kind of weird to think that Here's one of the weird ones.
People don't ever want to believe in anything other than scientific facts.
And when you're examining the universe, we base it on the information that we can currently get from the web telescope and from space exploration and all the stuff that we've done.
So we have this understanding of the universe, but it all relies on a miracle.
It really does.
matt rife
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it relies on this fucking one moment where for some reason, something smaller than the head of a pin became everything you see in the sky.
matt rife
Yeah.
unidentified
But it's all based on odds.
joe rogan
But it's almost like to throw in your face, like the more you figure out about everything, the more you figure out everything about the vastness of the universe, black holes and what is inside of them.
Is there something in there?
Is that a portal to another universe?
matt rife
It has to be.
joe rogan
It might be.
matt rife
I think that's the only thing it can be to me.
joe rogan
But the more you think about the complexity of all it, and that it all emerged from this teeny tiny little...
And what was before that teeny tiny little thing?
matt rife
What was the teeny tiny thing?
What was that form of this universe?
joe rogan
Exactly.
matt rife
And where was it?
joe rogan
It's almost like...
matt rife
If it wasn't in space, if it itself is space, where the fuck was it?
joe rogan
It's almost like as intelligent as people get, as they get more and more advanced, more and more knowledge, They have to kind of always admit they don't know shit.
Because there's no way you know what happened.
You can't know.
It doesn't make any sense.
No one has ever come up with any fucking reasoning that makes any sense why this one thing would be smaller than the head of a pin and then become this infinite expansion that we see in front of us.
Yeah, what?
What happened?
There's theories.
There's some brilliant theories.
There's theories that it's a never-ending process of constant expansion and compression, which is really terrifying.
matt rife
It continues to expand?
joe rogan
What's really terrifying is that the whole universe is eventually going to go back to that fucking pain.
matt rife
No, it's not.
Why would that happen?
joe rogan
I don't know.
matt rife
No.
joe rogan
What made it in the first place?
We're too stupid to be talking about the universe.
matt rife
I know.
joe rogan
I know that that is a theory.
There's also a theory that different universes collide with each other and that they're like membranes and they collide with each other and that could be what's creating big bangs.
matt rife
That would make the most amount of sense for a reaction of that size.
unidentified
Dude, it's all scary.
joe rogan
It's so big.
We just look at it like numbers.
Oh, 13 trillion.
And we had Brian Keating on, who's explaining that these people that are saying that the universe is not 13.7 billion, that it might be 26 billion.
He said that's really based on the development of these galaxies that exist.
And it's not definitive proof that the universe is that old.
But even like 13 billion, what are you saying?
matt rife
I know there's science behind it, but yeah, what?
Also, how do you fucking know, man?
How do you calculate that?
joe rogan
How do you know?
How can you know?
matt rife
Geniuses.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
It's amazing just to think of how much we do know, and then how much we don't.
matt rife
That's scary.
joe rogan
It's so bananas.
matt rife
Is it wildly unprofessional if I have to pee so bad right now?
joe rogan
No, we could wrap this bitch up, too.
matt rife
Okay, whatever.
joe rogan
This was a lot of fun, man.
matt rife
Dude, this was so much fun.
unidentified
I really enjoyed it.
matt rife
Thank you so much for having me on, man.
joe rogan
Give everybody your social media, where they can find you, website.
matt rife
Everything is just Matt Reif, M-A-T-T-R-I-F-E, website, mattreifeofficial.com.
We're going to add some tour dates at the end of this year for top of next year, so everything's sold out right now.
joe rogan
Right into the camera.
matt rife
Just doing a little plug?
Just doing a little plug?
So, yeah.
joe rogan
It was fun talking to you, my friend.
matt rife
Likewise, man.
This was a dream.
joe rogan
We'll have some fun tonight.
matt rife
I would love that.
joe rogan
Okay.
matt rife
Thank you.
unidentified
All right.
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