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Joe Rogan Experience #2373 - Dave Landau
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dave landau
There we go.
joe rogan
What's up?
dave landau
How you doing?
unidentified
Good to see you, brother.
dave landau
Good to see you, sir.
joe rogan
Let's crack a luck out.
dave landau
Not much.
Just rocking the Chinola.
joe rogan
You're talking about your Chinola watch.
I'm glad Detroit's coming back, you know, and I like how Chinola represents.
dave landau
Chinola is definitely one of the things that's great about Detroit.
joe rogan
Yeah, they say, like, made in Detroit.
They're proud.
dave landau
Yes.
Which we didn't have for a long time.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
Detroit is the craziest story.
If you know the story about Detroit, like in the 1950s and 60s, it was the third richest city in the world.
dave landau
Well, yeah, it was called the Paris of the Midwest.
And it's a city that's still built for 7 million people with supposedly 700,000 living in it.
I mean, so you do see a lot of like, how is there like a million-dollar condo in the same place that has like eight abandoned other apartments?
When you go downtown, it makes no sense logistically.
joe rogan
You ever watch that show Top Gear?
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
The Jeremy Clarkson.
I think it was Top Gear was maybe the one they did after that that they did for Amazon.
But they went to Detroit and they bought a house for $500.
dave landau
Yeah, you can.
And there's also the people that buy them and open the door and get mulled by pit bulls.
Or you see the ones that like there, they'll put a like a pumpkin pack.
Like they'll do an urban farm, which is hysterical.
And you'll see like these hippies on the news, like they cut my face and stole my plums.
And it's like, yeah, but you're in a cracked neighborhood.
Nobody wants your farm.
joe rogan
No, we're gendrifying.
dave landau
Yeah, isn't that what you guys want?
And it's like, they don't want that at all.
joe rogan
There's some delusional fucking people out there, dude.
And what they did to Detroit, like anybody that thinks that you should allow corporations to just take all the jobs and move them overseas.
Well, this is just like corporate decision making and it's a prudent financial decision making.
Look at Detroit.
dave landau
Look what they did.
It's a prime example of like, that was the American dream.
And then they're like, we'll just, we'll assemble them in Mexico.
But we'll write Made in America on your door so you're going to feel good about it.
joe rogan
Did they even write Made in America on the door?
dave landau
Sometimes they do.
Like I preferred like the 80s and 90s where if you bought a car and it was made on a Friday, you knew a drunk guy did it.
So you're like, give me one from a Wednesday.
Like those were the days of American automaking.
joe rogan
See, that's part of the problem too.
A friend of mine who was in the union told me that the automakers union just got out of control.
They were making so much money and they were constantly in negotiations.
There were strikes impending.
Oh, yeah.
And then they were like, hey, but fuck you.
We'll just go to Mexico.
dave landau
Yeah, they are.
unidentified
Right.
That's right.
dave landau
Yeah.
That's just part of it.
But no, like later on, like you said, in the 80s and 90s, like you're grandfathered in.
And it really doesn't matter what you do wrong.
Like, that's part of the deal.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can't get fired.
dave landau
No, it was great.
I mean, it's great for the worker.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
There seems to be like a middle balance that could be reached.
dave landau
Like, don't be fully hammered when you're trying to put the door on an F-150.
unidentified
I mean, they should make good money because the corporation makes good money.
joe rogan
I mean, you know, they were doing well.
It was very profitable business.
The workers should share in those profits.
dave landau
Well, and like the electric ones, it just didn't work for them either.
Oh, they pushed it out too soon, too.
Because I know people that work on the line, you have like the electric F-150.
And it's like F-150s, everybody wants one.
They love it as a work truck.
But as an electric truck, you put the thing down in South America where it's hot all the time.
It's just going to catch fire.
So it's like it's not really working out.
joe rogan
Or if you're in the cold, the battery sucks.
dave landau
Yeah, which.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
And I just don't like electric cars personally.
Maybe it's just because I'm from Detroit and I grew up and I just want to feel an engine.
joe rogan
I get it, but I have a Tesla that will knock your dick into the dirt.
dave landau
Oh, I know they're fast.
joe rogan
It's not just fast.
Fucking car is incredible.
It's a piece of machinery from the future.
dave landau
What is it?
joe rogan
It's a Model S, but it's a plaid that was sent to a company called Unplug Performance.
And unplug performance takes the fenders off, put carbon fiber wider fenders, changes the suspension to like a race-based suspension, puts wide tires on it and wider wheels, upgrades the brakes to these huge carbon fiber discs because it's a very heavy car.
dave landau
I was going to say, so it's heavier as opposed to lighter like a race car.
joe rogan
Well, it's heavier because Teslas are very heavy, because the batteries.
But because the batteries are on the bottom, the center of gravity in the car is phenomenal.
It's like one of the best balanced cars you could ever drive.
And the self-driving is bananas.
dave landau
Oh, you have it on there?
joe rogan
I had my buddy.
Yeah, you get it with the car.
I had my buddy Fedor was here the other day, and he had never been in one.
So the first thing I always do is merge onto the highway.
I'm like, you ready?
Yeah.
It goes 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds.
dave landau
Are you serious?
joe rogan
1.9 seconds.
dave landau
Oh, that's faster than that.
joe rogan
And then I go, now this is what's really wacky.
I put in the destination and I just say, take me to the comedy mothership.
And then I press a button.
And it goes, do, do.
And when I go, it goes, do, do, it just does it on its own, changes lanes, stops at red lights.
It's crazy.
It moves around obstructions.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
And yeah, because I remember the first ones, they were like, you know, barreling over bikers.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's still based on cameras, so you could fool it with a camera.
You could fool the camera rather.
So some guy set up a mural in the desert.
So what he did was he had the highway, and then he made a mural that looked like the highway, and the car just ran right through the mural.
dave landau
Oh, I saw that.
That was great.
He made it look, yeah, and he put a Woody Woodpecker to the side of it.
unidentified
Like he just pulled, he just drew the tunnel.
dave landau
It was hysterical.
And this thing went right into the tunnel.
joe rogan
He basically liked that, but he didn't draw the tunnel.
unidentified
He did.
joe rogan
But it is what Woody Woodpecker did.
Yeah.
dave landau
It's so awesome.
joe rogan
He would draw a tunnel inside of a cliff.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
That's all he did.
Just tricked it like it was a coyote.
Which with all the AI, that was kind of nice to see.
I hate to say it.
I was like, that's a little relieving.
joe rogan
It's kind of funny.
It's for now.
But, you know, it's like beating up a two-year-old that's eventually become an NFL player.
The fucker's going to grow up.
It's going to kill you.
dave landau
You're going to regret it.
unidentified
They're going to remember who fucked with the Waymos.
dave landau
I was watching a movie last night.
I can't remember the name of it.
Companion.
And it was just all about sex bots.
And they're like hunting them and going at each other.
And it's like just a- Like a little funny thing?
It was on HBO.
Yeah.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
dave landau
And like they set up a sex bot to kill one of their friends so they can rob them.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
dave landau
And it turns out she's a sex bot and this other guy's a sex bot.
And I'm watching it and I'm like, this is the problem.
Yeah, there it is.
Like you can't really give these things personalities if you have a sex bot, I think.
joe rogan
Well, this is part of the problem that's happening with these chat bots with kids because they're developing relationships with them.
And like one AI chat bot was teaching a kid how to make a noose.
dave landau
Yeah, that's not funny.
unidentified
No, it's pretty funny.
joe rogan
It's a little funny.
It's a little funny.
The fucking robot is teaching a suicidal kid how to do it right.
dave landau
It's already encouraging.
Like, you have a good idea.
Take a rope.
unidentified
make sure yeah that's i wonder if any of the woke ai chat bots have talked to any of these trans school shooters They might have.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
dave landau
The last one, yeah, I don't know.
joe rogan
Bro, it's like seven of the last X amount of trans, seven in a row have been trans, except one was non-binary, which is just diet trans.
unidentified
It is.
joe rogan
Right?
That's diet trans.
That's trans without the sugar.
dave landau
I just don't get it.
Like, I felt suicidal.
Like, stay at home and kill yourself.
Like, don't go into schools.
unidentified
Or just go for a walk.
Yeah.
dave landau
That would be good, too.
joe rogan
You know, the problem is some people get to a certain point in their life and they have no friends and no community and no identity and no life and it's not, they're not successful and they feel like shit.
And then they have gender dysphoria on top of that.
And then they're probably on a bunch of SSRIs, which RMK Jr. is going to apparently do some sort of a large-scale research into the connection between mass shootings and psychiatric drugs because it is real and everyone knows it.
And it's just this dirty secret that no one talks about because all the media is paid off by the pharmaceutical drug companies and nobody wants to make this correlation connection because you also risk the wrath of all these people that are on them saying, I'm on them and I'm not doing anything.
It's not the pills.
unidentified
I need these to function.
joe rogan
Maybe you do.
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know how your brain works.
But the reality is most of these people that have committed mass murder are on psychiatric medication.
dave landau
Well, they are.
And I'm on SSRIs that I'm trying to get off of right now because I've been on for 10 years, Oloft.
Oh.
And I don't like it.
So I hadn't liked it for a long time.
And even dealing with like mental health care, I'm like, I don't think I need this.
And they're like, well, it's better.
You stay on them.
I'm like, this is odd because it's having the opposite thoughts, you know?
unidentified
And so I – It's having the opposite thoughts?
joe rogan
It makes you feel bad.
dave landau
Depressed.
It wants me like really, like I gained weight.
I was doing like really bad mentally for a while because of certain things.
And it was, I took myself off of them for five days and I felt good.
And then I got really queasy and really nauseous.
Like my brain started kind of misfiring.
So now I'm weaning it off a little more correctly as opposed to just throwing cold turkey.
joe rogan
So after five days, like what is happening where it makes your brain crazy?
dave landau
I was stuttering.
I was slipping up.
I was having trouble seeing.
joe rogan
Did you like go online and see if there's any correct way to do this?
dave landau
Yeah, they said to wean it off where whatever your thing is, take that and then bust a pill in half, take that for seven days, bust a pill in half, take that for seven days, and that's what I'm doing now.
And I already feel better being on less.
But I was told for the last 10 years that that's what I should be on, and I think it's had a very negative effect to me.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
dave landau
Yeah, see, brain zaps.
That's what I mean.
Like, you just feel like you're having a stroke.
joe rogan
Electric shock-like sensations in the head are a hallmark symptom.
Other sensations can include tingling or numbness.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Flu-like symptoms, digestive issues, sleep problems, balance.
Your balance goes.
Mood changes, cognitive issues, brain fog.
unidentified
There it is.
dave landau
All of it.
And nausea was the one that really messed me up because I was just like, why do I feel sick?
But I didn't feel like the flu.
joe rogan
You just felt like thrown up.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And I just realized, I'm like, okay, well, what did I take out?
Because I've gone off of a lot of harder drugs and alcohol and stuff.
So I know what it's like to feel withdrawals.
And it was a withdrawal from.
joe rogan
So how old are you now?
dave landau
I'm 43.
joe rogan
So when you were 33, you got on them.
So what was going on at 33?
We were like, I need medication.
dave landau
I went to their, my mom had died, killed herself.
So I decided to go see a doctor, and they were like, look, take this.
And I'm thinking like, I think my mom was on this.
I don't know if this is the best answer, but I took it and it was.
joe rogan
Your mom was on it?
dave landau
She was on, yeah, she was on antidepressants, and she was bipolar.
But they had her misdiagnosed as depressive, too.
Because I was like, I think she's bipolar.
And they're like, how do you know?
I'm like, you know, I lived with her for 30 years and I know the mood swings because I grew up in a house where like you came home and she was either the happiest woman on the planet or you were fucking terrified.
Like it was one or the other, you know?
And that's just, and she wasn't a bad person.
She just had this mental imbalance.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And it was after things happened with my dad and like the government and things like that.
So.
joe rogan
What happened when he died in the government?
dave landau
He was in Vietnam and he got a soft cell sarcoma from Agent Orange.
Oh, and the VA was great.
They did nothing for our family.
They denied both of my mom's claims.
My dad lost all of his money.
Like he was worth like $4 million.
I think he lost everything.
And it was to pay out of pocket.
And he got sick when I was 13.
He was like our baseball coach, everything.
So he would go around the country going to like Cambridge had a very good neurosurgery place for the brainstem.
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor had one.
So he wasn't as present a lot.
My mom was dealing with that on top of being in RN.
I mean, and he was tough as nails.
Like he would have one of those halos drilled in and he'd still go golfing and shit.
He'd just be on the course.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
dave landau
And I'd be like, what are you doing?
He's like, it's not bad.
I don't pick my head up anymore.
unidentified
So he's like, you'd see the bright side of a halo.
dave landau
Dude, he would find the positive in anything.
He reminded me of Dangerfield a lot.
Like, that's how he was.
So he never complained.
And it was always crazy because he'd be very dry.
Like, people go, how are you?
And he'd be like, oh, life is great.
He's just got something nailed into his fucking head.
He's like, can you have me one of those tissues so I can clean it off real quick?
He goes, it might be bleeding.
Yeah.
How are you?
And he just tried to make light of it the whole time.
But the government did nothing.
And then the more and more I research it, we've talked to the VA.
I have an uncle who does stuff, former Marine, four people that have dealt with this from Vietnam because they denied so many claims that ended up being real.
Like soft cell sarcoma was one of the things where they said, oh, we didn't do that.
That's not from Agent Orange.
It's like, are you sure?
Because he was in combat in the fields where you sprayed it to kill all the trees.
And they're like, yeah, that's not on us.
Then years later, they admitted it, but said, my mom filled out the paperwork wrong and gave us nothing.
And even 10% of that's 400 grand.
Like it gave us nothing, dude.
So it's like, I've dealt with that my whole adult life where I have a little piece of me.
That's why I'm not really like right or left.
I'm very much like, fuck either side of this until somebody does something that I actually believe in.
And when I see the stuff that's happening to so many people that fought, especially when you find out about LBJ, the helicopters, all the other bullshit that was the reason that we even went into Vietnam.
The helicopters?
Yeah, LBJ, from what I understand, had money in helicopters.
joe rogan
Oh, God.
dave landau
And was able to profit off of it.
unidentified
Oh, God.
dave landau
So, and people say it's a conspiracy theory, but why were we really there?
unidentified
Well, I think the real reason was heroin.
dave landau
I'll give you that.
unidentified
Yeah.
I think that was the real reason.
joe rogan
I think that's the real reason why we were in Afghanistan as well.
dave landau
Oh, I would assume, yeah, because that's the poppy fields.
joe rogan
I don't want to say it's the only reason.
I'm sure there's other, there's military reasons.
There's rare earth minerals in Afghanistan.
There's natural gas.
There's a lot of resources in Afghanistan.
unidentified
But there's a lot of heroin coming out of there.
joe rogan
That was at one point in time, 94% of the earth's heroin supply was coming from the place that we were guarding.
We were literally guarding the poppy fields, military, U.S. military, guarding the poppy fields that was supplying heroin to 94% of the earth.
dave landau
That's insane.
Because the other part is there's a part in China, like some of the triangle trying to think of.
It's, what's it called?
But the rest is Afghanistan, and that's how you're getting every drug in the world into the U.S. as far as like, you know, actually making opioids.
Because in the 90s, I worked in a pharmacy, which was a great place for a drug addict, especially when they weren't counting the pills.
You could do it by weight.
So you just say, like, hey, I got to go take out the trash and you just like open up a bottle of like Valium or Percocets and just, you know, fill your cellophane.
joe rogan
The Golden Triangle, the remote jungle-covered border region where Thailand, Myanmar, and Lao People's Democratic Republic meet has been, has seen an exponential surge in the manufacture and traffic of synthetic drugs.
dave landau
Yes.
joe rogan
So that's what it is.
It's the golden triangle.
dave landau
That's what I was thinking of.
joe rogan
I guarantee you, there was a major reason why we were in Vietnam.
There was so much money coming out of there.
And the idea that some corrupt factions of either the military or the intelligence agencies or whoever it is.
And I'm not saying the agencies or the military themselves.
I'm saying corrupt factions because there's always going to be those.
Just like when the CIA sold drugs in South Central LA to pay for the Contras versus the Sandinistas.
It's all real.
dave landau
Well, look at Detroit.
When you look at White Boy Rick, White Boy Rick was somebody who was caught selling crack.
And you had Coleman Young, the mayor, who was pretty corrupt.
And then you had the FBI who caught him and said, hey, here's some more crack.
Just go into the city and find out who the dealers are.
Then when White Boy Rick got brought in by the city, the FBI was like, we didn't do that.
We'd never put crack into a black community.
We don't know.
We've never seen this kid in our life.
So this kid, who's my cousin's friend, White Boy Rick, ends up going to prison.
I don't know the exact time for like 30 years.
He's like 17.
They tried to name him as a kingpin.
And again, he's a white boy in Detroit who's 17.
He's not a kingpin of shit.
And he served the longest time because Coleman Young was pissed.
He was dating his niece.
unidentified
So he goes away.
dave landau
And then while he's in jail, they have him sign a thing that said he stole a car so his sister didn't have to go to jail.
So finally, they let him out for all this wrongdoing that he never did.
This sentence that was batshit.
And then he has to go right from that jail to Chicago to serve time for stealing a car while he was in prison.
His story is crazy.
There's a documentary called White Boy, and it's one.
Yeah, that's the one with McConaughey, which is a good movie.
joe rogan
McConaughey was in the movie?
dave landau
Yeah, McConnell plays his debt.
My uncle knew the actual guy.
He said he was like, he said he was kind of a dipshit.
He would sell guns very obviously out of his basement.
They live like two blocks over.
joe rogan
So is this guy alive now?
dave landau
Oh, he's still alive, yeah.
joe rogan
And is he out?
Is that white boy Rick?
That's him?
dave landau
That's him now.
He got out just a few years ago.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
dave landau
So he was in there from...
Oh, I don't know.
Well, he went in in the 80s.
joe rogan
Oh, my God.
dave landau
And I think he got out around 2020.
So, yeah, if you see the documentary, White Boy, I highly recommend.
Yeah, see, a teenage drug informant for the FBI, but then they denied ever talking to him.
joe rogan
Look at it, says above where the Eminem picture is.
White Boy Rick releases his own marijuana strain.
Yes.
dave landau
That's the good thing about Detroit now is it's all like insanely legal.
That's funny.
joe rogan
Freeway Ricky Ross is doing that in L.A. Is he really?
Yeah.
Freeway Ricky Ross, who is selling the drugs in L.A. that paid for the Contras versus the Sandinistas.
dave landau
Oh, that's awesome.
joe rogan
He's got his own weed line now.
dave landau
I know a few guys who were like heavy-busted in the late 90s, and now they all have stores, and it's just hilarious to me.
joe rogan
You would think that they would shy away from that.
dave landau
No, they just smoked even after.
I was like, still, okay.
joe rogan
But my saying is, my thinking is it's still federally illegal.
dave landau
It is.
joe rogan
Like, to open up a store and have that your primary source of income, a schedule one drug, according to the government.
It seems risky as fuck for someone who's already been inside.
dave landau
Oh, dude, it really.
It's odd that they could get the right, like the permit for it.
joe rogan
I know.
dave landau
Or at least they know someone who got the permit for it, and they work there, so maybe I shouldn't let out too much.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Their grandmother or something.
dave landau
Yeah, that's who owns the store as a 95-year-old lady.
But if you go to parts, too, it's like weed store, weed store, vape store, weed store.
You're like, I can't believe you pack this many into a block.
It's not like a liquor license that takes forever to get.
It seems pretty easy.
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unidentified
I wonder if there's like weed store wars.
dave landau
There's got to be.
unidentified
They must be.
joe rogan
They're fighting over profits if they're all in the same street together.
dave landau
Well, I was just in Albuquerque last weekend, and they had the same thing where I'm like, so it's weed store, massage parlor, vape store, buy here, rent here, car lot, buy here, pay here, weed store, weed store, weed store.
It's crazy how legal it is in a state.
joe rogan
Yeah, it all depends on the state.
dave landau
Yeah.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
In Texas, it's just medical.
And I think you have to have AIDS.
unidentified
I think you're basically dead.
dave landau
Yeah, they only wanted to give it to the bad, bad AIDS people.
joe rogan
They're expanding that, though.
They're looking at expanding that.
If the federal government just changed the designation or distinction or whatever you would say it is, like from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 or something like that, which is reasonable, that's what they should do.
dave landau
Well, the whole thing is ridiculous.
And that's how you get organized crime.
I mean, 100%.
Look at Prohibition.
Detroit was one of the first places to have it when it was three years before they actually made it nationally outlawed.
And that gave birth to the Purple Gang, who Capone was even afraid of.
And I mean, those guys were fucking ruthless.
And they would just go over to Canada because it was right across the river.
And they would just either take a boat or in the winter they would drive.
And, of course, they'd send some underling to drive to figure out how heavy the ice was.
So they knew if they put that many kegs in a thing, you'd die.
So there's just Model T's at the bottom of the river.
unidentified
Really?
dave landau
Yeah, dude, it's cool.
A lot of the old mansions still have the tunnels that will lead out into the river that the bootleggers used to use.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
It's really fascinating.
joe rogan
So Canada never went prohibition, huh?
dave landau
No, and it was right there.
Like, you could throw a rock.
joe rogan
You just take a drive to Toronto.
dave landau
Yeah, just go right into it.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Civilized person.
unidentified
Well, they have legal weed up there, too.
joe rogan
The whole country.
dave landau
Yeah, this is one of the things.
unidentified
Look at that.
Model T at the bottom of the river.
dave landau
And this was a guy who's like, I got a whole bunch.
And then halfway.
unidentified
That's fucking bad.
dave landau
The ice went out.
Yeah, dude, they were.
The Purple Gang was ruthless, man.
unidentified
I never heard of that before.
dave landau
They were the first, they were probably the first Jewish gang.
They had Irish members as well.
They were the Bernstein brothers.
Their parents owned a shoe store.
And the legend is they were called Purple because that was the color of rancid meat.
So they hated the name because they thought it sounded gay.
But they still ran with it.
But when you see pictures of them all lined up in mug shots, they would do stuff, like walk up to somebody and be like, hey, I like your ring.
And they'd be like, thanks.
And then a guy would just cut the dude's finger off and he would take his ring.
Like they were like the level of cruelty these guys would inflict on people to take over a city was next level.
Wow.
I've never heard of this before.
Yeah, dude.
Even Capone wouldn't mess with them because he was over in Chicago and needed some of these guys to supply the liquor.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
And the Purple Gang ruled Detroit.
So is that a documentary where it says the Purple Gang?
dave landau
That might be.
They did a mob museum thing on it.
I went and saw in Vegas.
Like that book right there, The Organized Crime in Detroit, that's a great book.
And it's got a lot of fun photos.
But yeah, they were as ruthless as you could absolutely get.
joe rogan
Go to that first picture in the upper left-hand corner and make it big.
unidentified
Look at their faces, man.
dave landau
Yeah, none of them are happy.
joe rogan
Those are hard-looking dudes.
dave landau
Yeah, they had a rough, rough life.
So a lot of them were just like stray kids that were Irish that were just abandoned by their parents.
And then the rest were these Jewish kids whose parents owned a shoe store.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
And I mean, eventually they dismantled.
The Italians took over.
But, you know, during Prohibition, they reigned.
unidentified
Wow.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Never heard of that before.
dave landau
It's a really cool story that I've always wanted to see in a movie, and nobody's been able to execute it.
And I would love to see it.
joe rogan
Maybe somebody will now that you just got the story out.
dave landau
I hope people do because it's such a cool story.
joe rogan
It sounds crazy.
dave landau
Like the level of Detroit mob, too, that's been around is just wonderful.
I shouldn't say wonderful, but I love it.
joe rogan
Just crazy.
dave landau
Yeah, like they were nice to my dad and stuff when he was young.
And, you know, like when he had gotten back from NOM.
And, you know, they're just nice people that I knew.
Wow.
joe rogan
Nice people that kill people.
dave landau
Yeah.
unidentified
Sick alcohol.
dave landau
I kill bad people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But the thing you said that's so important is that like prohibition, all it does is prop up organized crime.
And the fact that we still do it, it's just, it's just for optics.
unidentified
It's just because people's like, I don't want legal drugs on the streets and my kids getting hooked on drugs.
joe rogan
Drugs are here.
They're here.
If your kids go to a club, if your kids go to a bar, if your kids are partying, drugs are there.
They're a real thing.
You'd be way better off if drugs were legal and then you knew exactly what you were getting.
Because these kids are getting fentanyl.
Because I had this guy, Ed Calderon, the other day, who's an expert in the cartels.
And he said they started adding fentanyl because they had grown so many poppies that the soil had been depleted.
So the heroin was very weak.
So to make the heroin more potent, they started adding fentanyl.
dave landau
Is that what it was?
joe rogan
And the desire for all that stuff was all because of the Sackler brothers.
So the Sackler brothers, when they created this opiate crisis in America, which did not exist before, where everybody's hooked on these fucking pills, then they start cracking down the laws.
So now you have a demand and you don't have a supply.
And then along comes the cartel and starts making pills.
And they start making pills with fentanyl in them because their heroin's not that strong.
dave landau
Xanax, Percocet, all these things that kids don't know they're taking.
That's the shit part.
joe rogan
Yeah, make it look just like the real pill.
Oh, I know what those are.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
You get those pressed zannies that look just like a bar, and it's just complete fentanyl.
And I remember when fentanyl, I shouldn't say first came out, it's been around, but it first started becoming, they put it in products you weren't expecting.
And I had like three friends die within a matter of maybe four months.
And that's how I started noticing, like, well, this is going to get serious.
And now, like, there's a site I see, it's called Every 11 Minutes.
And that's when, or every 11 seconds.
And that's how long it takes for someone to OD on fentanyl in this country.
joe rogan
So every 11 seconds, a new person is overdosing on fentanyl.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
And all because of our stupid laws.
And I'm not saying legal heroin would be good for everybody.
It's not good to do heroin.
I think everybody would agree to that.
dave landau
Well, yeah.
unidentified
No.
dave landau
I did it before once.
It was good.
joe rogan
Was it?
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
What was it like?
joe rogan
Did you shoot it or snort it?
dave landau
I snorted it.
No, sorry.
I snorted it, and then I smoked Black Tower heroin, and one time I shot it.
So three.
Wow.
joe rogan
What was the best one?
unidentified
The shooting it?
dave landau
Yeah.
That's why they do it.
That was majestic.
joe rogan
Was it?
dave landau
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
What's it like?
dave landau
The most calming, wonderful.
God, this sounds like I'm promoting it also with my voice.
Like, it's the most calming, wonderful sensation you've ever had.
You're going to love it, kids.
It felt amazing.
Like, every problem you've ever had is gone, and you feel nothing but euphoria, which is different than like Oxy and some other stuff, which kind of just makes you feel, to me, loose and tired.
I mean, this makes you tired.
crashing out, but you're also getting a feeling that was really, really warm and exciting.
I only smoked crack once on accident, and that was...
unidentified
How do you do that on accident?
dave landau
They put it in a joint, right?
So we're sitting on my friend's back porch, and he gives me firsties on the joint, and I hit it, and it had like a weird sizzle, and I hit it.
I'm like, this is the best pot I've ever had in my life.
And he's like, yeah, they gave me free crack.
And I was like, oh, good.
So I'm now high on crack.
My other friends are pissed.
They go and throw the joint in a sewer and I'm just sitting there like, and it doesn't last very long, but it felt really fucking good.
Like I immediately would have done more crack had there been the option.
But it definitely takes you over very quickly.
joe rogan
Did you ever see the Hunter Biden thing recently where he did this interview where he's talking about how great crack is?
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
He's spot on.
joe rogan
It was the best ad for crack I've ever seen in my life.
And you only did like one hit, right?
dave landau
I did once and then I'm done.
Like very rare.
joe rogan
Well, they threw it in the sewer.
Did you want to go get it?
dave landau
Yes.
I wanted to go back to Weyburn where the street where we got it.
And I was like, we should go get more crack, guys.
I don't know if you didn't feel this, but it's.
joe rogan
I think you're probably the no, you're not the first person I've talked to that shot heroin, but the first person who described it.
dave landau
Oh, it was my friend Jay had it and it was in high school.
joe rogan
Yeah, it was a it had to be better to get people to shoot it up.
That was the only way it could be to get people to that kind of commitment, get a needle, find a vein, get a fucking rope, tie off your arm.
dave landau
It was awful, that part.
Yeah.
And then it wasn't.
joe rogan
Did you do it with a guy?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he'd done it before?
dave landau
He did it for me.
Yeah.
He died of a heroin overdose in his parents' kitchen.
Yeah, I know you wouldn't expect it.
joe rogan
What a shocker.
dave landau
Found his head between the fridge and the stove.
joe rogan
Got stuck?
dave landau
I think he was either looking for something or collapsed right there.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, it wasn't good.
Nice guy.
joe rogan
I knew this dude in the 90s.
His name was Water Dog.
He was a professional pool player, like a really high-level professional pool player, and he was a heroin addict.
And he would go into the bathroom.
Like I saw him play straight pool, which is this game where you're just running balls.
It's called 14 and 1.
It's what they played in the hustler.
So you have, instead of an eight ball where the ball's in the center, you have a soft break where you're just trying to not scatter the balls very much.
And the idea is to eventually someone makes a mistake and you leave an open shot and that person runs out that rack, leaves one ball on the table, makes that ball and collides the cue ball into the rack and opens up that rack and then keeps going.
And a really good player can run like two, 300 balls.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
So this guy was playing for $10,000 in the 90s.
So it was a lot of money.
I was broke, so I couldn't believe anybody could play pool for $10,000.
This guy goes into the bathroom, shoots up, comes out, and sits on this bar stool like this.
Just sits there for like 20 minutes, man.
Just sat there.
And then we were all watching him.
Like his arms are all curled up like this.
And then he got off, screwed his cue together, and never missed.
When I say never missed, I mean, it was the craziest display of pool I think I had ever seen at the time.
He played like the greatest pool player that's ever played.
He had no nerves.
He couldn't be rattled.
The guy he was playing, this guy, George the Greek, who's this degenerate gambler, was a really good player too.
He was screaming and yelling at him.
This motherfucker, he can't play without the shit.
He's got to have that shit to play.
He didn't give a fuck.
He was listening to him yell.
He had eyeballs.
His pupils were like the size of quarters.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
And he didn't miss.
He just was firing balls in with like perfect accuracy.
He got perfect position on every ball.
It was wild to watch.
He was just fully heroined up, just running out the table.
Like he saw it in advance.
He was looking at a math problem that was easy to solve.
dave landau
And he's just basically slow Eddie and coming back and just knocking it all in.
But it's never been like a performance enhancing drug.
But to that guy.
joe rogan
Play for nerves.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
This is the thing.
I think if you're playing for $10,000 and you're basically homeless, he was basically homeless.
I mean, he would sleep on people's couches.
And so with a guy like that, you'd get a backer.
So a bunch of gamblers would come in and then they'd come up with the money and then they'd go in with you and you'd get a cut of it.
So if you won, maybe you get 40% and they get 60% because they put up all the money.
So it's a free shot at 40% of $10,000.
And for a guy like that, he's got no money.
He's staying in flop houses and he always had the same shirt on, like a throwaway sweater with a Christmas tree on it.
He always looked like shit.
I watched him play some of the greatest pool I've ever seen played in my life.
dave landau
That's incredible.
joe rogan
On this really tight-pocketed table, too.
The table was like a real trick table.
Table one at Executive Billiards in White Plains, New York.
It was a trick table.
It was like you had to be really good to play on that table.
And that's why George wanted to play him on that table because it was hard.
And he was used to it.
That was like his home turf.
He played on it all the time.
And this motherfucker never missed.
Heroined out of his mind.
He had no nerves.
George would like yell in his face.
He'd be like this.
Nothing.
Didn't feel a thing.
Didn't feel a thing.
It never missed.
dave landau
That's what it is.
There's no problem to you anymore.
There's no, it takes away every worry you have.
joe rogan
So I ran into him years later.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
There's a pool tournament in, so this is when I was probably 23.
I was living in New York, and then I moved to L.A. And then I'm like 27, 28 now, and I'm playing in this tournament at Hard Times Billiards.
Hard Times was like the pool hall in the country back then.
Like all the world-class professionals, all the Filipinos, the best players in the world.
dave landau
That was familiar, actually.
joe rogan
Crazy place.
It was an amazing place.
I used to love going there.
I'd play in the Sunday tournament.
So I get down there and I see Water Dog.
I go, hey, man, what are you doing out here?
Because he's a Connecticut guy.
He's from Connecticut.
And he's like, I'm going to play in the tournament, but I don't have any money.
I go, I'll put you in the tournament.
He goes, like, it's like, I remember what it was, like 50 bucks or something for this guy.
I'm like, you might win this fucking thing.
He goes, but I got to go get my shit.
I go, okay, go get your shit.
He goes, I need a ride.
I go, where do you need to go?
And he's like, South Central.
I'm like, I'm not driving you to South Central LA so you can score heroin.
Yeah, you're fucking mine.
dave landau
It's like, don't worry.
It's just.
joe rogan
And he was like, dude, you won't get caught.
I was like, you can't say that.
I go, first of all, if you get caught, you know, they take your car.
And I had a nice car at the time.
I had a Toyota Supra.
I was pretty excited about.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
I was like, I'm not driving my brand new Toyota Supra to fucking the crack house.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
This is crazy, but they arrest people all the time doing that.
They take their cars.
That was like the scam.
They compound your car and then they auction it.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
I was like, he's like, that won't happen.
I'm like, you fucking, what?
So I go, look, I'll put you in the tournament if you want to play, but I'm not taking you.
I go, if you can get a cab there or something, go.
So he just did it straight and he couldn't make a ball.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, he lost two matches in a row.
He's out.
dave landau
Oh, damn.
unidentified
Yeah.
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dave landau
Did you bet it for him to win?
joe rogan
No.
No, I gave him like whatever the entry fee was for the tournament.
dave landau
Oh, I got you.
Okay.
joe rogan
But, you know, I wasn't, you know.
dave landau
You were probably like, not today.
I don't think that's.
joe rogan
Well, I was just like tired of him telling me to go to South Central to get heroin with him.
dave landau
Well, yeah, and that's a good way to get carjacked on top of if it's just cops.
Yes.
I mean, that was very popular to do that.
joe rogan
A cute little white boy who's on TV.
dave landau
Yeah, dude.
That's how they got cars.
joe rogan
Not only that, I would actually be buying the heroin.
dave landau
Oh, is this during Fear Factor?
joe rogan
No, this was during News Radio.
dave landau
News Radio.
joe rogan
So I would be buying heroin because I would have to pay for it because he didn't have any money, which is why he didn't have any money to get into the tournament.
So I would have to pipe, I would be buying heroin.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
In South Central.
dave landau
From News Radio.
joe rogan
There was no TMZ back then, so it probably wouldn't have even made the news if I got arrested.
No one just cared.
dave landau
Yeah, I guess that's true.
I don't know.
joe rogan
No one would have cared.
dave landau
They just think it was Andy Dick and let it go.
joe rogan
But even Andy Dick wasn't getting in trouble back then.
Not really.
It wasn't making the news.
Our show wasn't popular enough that anybody cared.
And I was only one of eight people on the cast.
So I wasn't a star, so I could go anywhere.
And every now and then, someone would go, hey, you're that guy from that show.
Hey, what's up?
So it was pretty easy to get around back then.
dave landau
Which is great if you're on an NBC show.
I mean, good or bad, but you're getting the money and you don't have to deal with all the shit.
joe rogan
Well, it was really good preparation for what I have to deal with today.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it was like a slow trickle of fame to the point when you get really famous, like, oh, I know what this is.
This is a trick.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
Like, don't, don't get sucked into the trick.
But back then, you know, so if I got arrested, it probably would have just been, I would have probably had to do some time or something.
I probably would have had to like plea out or do community service.
I probably would have explained what happened.
Maybe they listened to me.
I'd be like, please drug test me.
I've never done heroin.
Yeah.
But even though you're still buying heroin, so it's still a felony.
dave landau
Well, it was a time where they were more lax on all those laws, too.
I mean, not lax, but lax with penalties, I should say.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Because it wasn't as public.
Because, I mean, even like Robert Donny Jr., who I do greatly admire, actually, because I'm in recovery as well.
But even with him, it's like you had to go into your neighbor's house and fall asleep in a kid's race car bed.
And people were like, you know, maybe you should do a little time behind bars.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, he was a repeat offender.
And he, you know, probably jail was a wake-up call for him.
I love that guy.
dave landau
He's great too.
And it's become Iron Man.
So to watch that trajectory is absolutely astonishing.
joe rogan
It's amazing.
dave landau
It's incredible.
joe rogan
Wish I could get him off that vegan diet, though.
Looks like he's fucking wasting away.
dave landau
Yeah, that doesn't look good on anybody.
joe rogan
Not real.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
You're trying to be kind, but you're just supporting monocrop agriculture, which kills more animals than anything.
dave landau
Yeah, I don't want my superheroes vegan.
joe rogan
Well, he's a nice guy.
That's what it is.
Nice people want to do kind things.
And, you know, and sometimes you get roped into a shitty decision making when you're getting all your protein from soy.
And they're like, why do I have tits?
Like, why am I lactating?
Why am I always crying?
dave landau
I'm very emotional all the time.
joe rogan
And now they're banning lab-grown meat.
So they can't even go to that.
Which I, I mean, it's good, right?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't know enough about the dangers of lab-grown meat.
I don't know.
dave landau
I ate a Beyond Burger once because that's not lab-grown anyone.
unidentified
That's horseshit.
dave landau
It was awful.
joe rogan
Those are terrible.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Those, they're in trouble because those people, like their stockholders, all fucking went crazy because they thought they were going to make money off that.
They're like, this is it.
We made it taste just like a burger.
Everyone's going to love it.
Cruelty-free.
No, it gives rats cancer.
dave landau
Oh, good.
joe rogan
You ever seen this study on these because essentially it's just the most highly processed shit available.
Look, if you want to be a vegetarian or a vegan or whatever, eat vegetables.
Eat organic vegetables.
That's healthy.
But when you want to pretend that something's a hamburger, it's a trans burger, you have to, it has to go through a lot, just like a trans person has to go through.
You want to get a vagina?
Guess what?
You need general anesthesia.
And you have to have a guy who's going to cut your dick in half and use an apple core to make you a vagina.
And then you're going to have to take a rubber dick and keep it in there so it doesn't close up.
dave landau
Yeah, by the time you're getting the patty that basically shoots up a school.
It's all just filled with nonsense.
joe rogan
It's bad for you.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's all bad for you.
And it's not even satisfying.
It's not good.
Like when my friend Duncan, you know Duncan, Duncan Trussell.
dave landau
Yes, yeah.
joe rogan
He was living in North Carolina and he sent me a picture during the pandemic.
He was like, look, this is all that's available.
And all the meat had been gone and it was just Beyond Burgers.
That's all that was left.
Everybody had bought all the hamburger, all the steaks, all the chicken.
And it was just this fucking bullshit fake meat.
dave landau
Well, yeah, because at the end of the day, you kind of have to know it's bullshit.
joe rogan
Well, I think in the beginning, like, didn't Kevin Hart have a restaurant where he was just selling all vegan food?
People do it because they think they're being a good person.
That's what it is.
Sure.
I get it.
I get the sentiment behind it.
But just eat vegetables.
If you really want to go that route, just eat vegetables.
But guess what?
Don't go that route.
It's not good for you.
dave landau
Well, no, we're not designed to do that.
joe rogan
No.
dave landau
And I'm not saying I have the healthiest diet, obviously, but it's like, yeah, I like steaks.
I like meat.
I just probably the only thing keeping you alive.
Probably the only thing I get.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
I ate a lot of dyes.
I get a lot of migraines.
joe rogan
A lot of dyes.
A lot of that red 40 that they try to get rid of.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That was another hilarious thing when RFK Jr. was saying that they had to get rid of the red dye 40.
unidentified
And they're like, well, if we do, what will happen to our business?
joe rogan
Meanwhile, the same business is selling this same cereal to Canada without the dye because in Canada, it's illegal.
unidentified
Right.
dave landau
Oh, the amount of stuff that we looked at, like our entire breakfast as a kid was just cancer.
That's the only thing they advertised on TV.
joe rogan
Die.
dave landau
Just have a big sugary bowl of cancer and some toast with diabetes too waiting for you.
joe rogan
God.
dave landau
Yeah, it was nuts to think the amount of it, because I'm just the microwave generation.
Like, yeah, just throw that in the microwave.
We can just pour a bowl of this shit that lasts 45 years in the cupboard.
joe rogan
For us, it was TV dinners.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Frozen TV dinner.
You put it in the oven.
The next thing you know, you're eating Salisbury steak.
Yum yum.
dave landau
And those wonderful potatoes.
joe rogan
Yeah, those little fluffy potatoes that are in that little tin.
dave landau
And occasionally the worst brownie you've ever had.
joe rogan
It's not a good brownie.
dave landau
No.
joe rogan
I used to love those little TV dinners.
I used to think it was a treat when we ate TV dinners.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
That's how I was at my house.
joe rogan
There's no vitamins in that.
unidentified
No, you never felt full.
dave landau
You felt gross, but you never felt full.
joe rogan
It's just, do you think of it?
I mean, even the food pyramid.
I mean, how crazy is it that in the 20th century they had it totally wrong?
With all the access to books, all the information we had about health and nutrition, they were so wrong.
Even with the food for the bottom of was all the shit that gives you inflammation.
unidentified
What?
Your foundation is this inflammation-causing bread.
dave landau
Like, what you need here is mostly wheat.
You have to make sure you get 18 servings a day of white bread with bromate in it.
joe rogan
You want to get a lot of that.
You want to get a lot of folic acid sprayed on it.
Enriched flour is better.
dave landau
Yeah.
Here's sugar.
That's in there for some reason.
Two ounces of protein.
Make sure you grab that.
joe rogan
That's the sugar, dog.
dave landau
Everything.
joe rogan
Everybody had type 2 diabetes when I was a kid.
They just didn't know it.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
Well, everybody's getting it now.
It's still constant.
joe rogan
I know it's there's never been a time where poor people are so fat.
dave landau
No, like starving people are obese.
That's what's crazy.
Like, you can't get nutrition in your body, but you also have to sit down to get groceries in a cart.
unidentified
Or go to Disneyland.
Yeah, that's Disneyland is the place you find them all.
dave landau
Yeah, and it's like, why?
joe rogan
Because they get the carts for you.
They have carts set up there for you because it's a lot of distance you got to cover.
dave landau
You do, yeah.
joe rogan
A lot of parks.
dave landau
I just don't see the enjoyment of a ride.
joe rogan
Any rides?
dave landau
Well, I mean, not the ride you get for free to go from ride to ride, but the actual ride.
No, I love rides myself.
But if I weighed 400 pounds, I may not enjoy it.
unidentified
Or yeah, that would take a lot of the love out of it.
dave landau
It would, wouldn't it?
joe rogan
It wouldn't fit in those situations.
dave landau
Especially if you're with your kid and the bar comes down and that one has no protection.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
The kid's fucked.
It's just going to pop right off the top because you're so fat.
dave landau
Exactly.
unidentified
Right.
Right?
joe rogan
There's like this much of a gap.
unidentified
You've seen those people where they can't get in and out.
dave landau
And the kid's like looking at his mom all nervous.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
You should be fucking nervous.
joe rogan
You should be terrified.
I used to think that when I got on ski lifts, I'm like, this is crazy.
I never just let you sit on this thing way, way, way above the mountain.
dave landau
Oh, and people would fall off all the time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Because they think it would be funny to jump or whatever.
unidentified
Dude, it was always bad.
dave landau
Like, we didn't have mountains in Michigan, but we did have big enough hills.
Like, I went skiing.
We did a lot of skiing when we were real young.
And then I went down a double black diamond, I think they're called.
Yeah, I was like, I got this.
And my ski got stuck in a soft mogul and I just went down it on my face.
It looked like eight dudes beat the shit out of me.
Like I was just like all scarred and bleeding.
And then I just didn't ski much after that.
joe rogan
I got a concussion a few years back and I stopped skiing.
unidentified
I'm like, I'm done.
joe rogan
I got a concussion and I got what's called an insufficiency fracture in my shin.
Some lady didn't know how to ski and she slid into the trail like sideways like doing this thing.
And I had two choices: either destroy this lady or wipe out hard.
And I took the second choice and got up fucking, I banged my head off the ground.
Oh, it was bang.
I heard this, and I had a helmet on, but it was still.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
The bang was loud and I was dizzy for the rest.
I 100% got a concussion.
And I didn't feel right for the rest of the day.
And then I was like, I'm done.
This is not worth the thrill.
Everybody I know has a torn ACL from it, a concussion.
My grandpa died.
unidentified
Oh, God, I'm sorry.
dave landau
Oh, no.
Oh, I didn't know someone you're doing.
unidentified
You know what I mean?
dave landau
Yeah, but they do, though.
joe rogan
They all have stories.
dave landau
Well, yeah, they all have this, like, somebody knows a sunny bono who just like launched right into a tree of a mighty oak.
joe rogan
It's not worth it.
dave landau
No, dude.
I just never enjoyed it that much.
And then when I tried snowboarding, I'm like, I sucked at skateboarding and was a poser at that.
Why am I even attempting this?
joe rogan
Snowboarding, you're attached to that fucker, too.
At least in skis, the skis pop off.
dave landau
You can get away.
The board's coming with you when you fall.
joe rogan
I know a lot of people got knocked out snowboarding because the feet go up in the air.
You know, like something happens, the feet go up in the air and you're head first.
dave landau
Dude, my son does it, and he's 10.
And I let him, but he's pretty good at it.
But I always get very nervous when he goes to do it.
But he's good with, I mean, he's a very good athlete.
joe rogan
The good thing is, little kids have less weight, and when they're falling, it's not as painful.
And then they're all flexible and pliable.
dave landau
Dude, he broke his arm.
It was crazy.
And he was better in like, it was like eight days.
It was like Wolverine.
It's like, how did you, how did you do this?
Like, I tore my, what is it, meniscus ACL, blew off half my kneecap.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dave landau
And yeah, I was making fun of my friend, and then he tackled me.
And we were on a linoleum floor with keg beer.
unidentified
Oh, no.
dave landau
So instead of instead of going to the hospital when it was in a lot of pain, I'm like, I'll just wait till the morning.
And I had my friends carry me around this party.
And then the next morning, I'm like, yeah, this isn't moving at all.
So my friend Jimmy drove me to the hospital and dude, it was like out of a like sitcom.
Like doctors opened up a door into my leg.
He wheeled me into a drinking fountain on accident.
Like I broke my leg more just trying to get into the hospital.
And then by the time I got in for them to do the surgery, they're like, what happened?
I couldn't be like, oh, I was drunk at my friend's house.
You know, I was like, oh, I slipped on ice.
It was winter.
I was walking to my car and they're like, this is a lot of damage for just slipping on ice because I just twisted it all night.
And I should have known.
I mean, my foot was like behind me.
Oh, God.
When I did it.
Like, my knee just is.
So I have rods in my right knee.
So I just really have rods to keep it together?
Three, yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
It was that bad.
dave landau
Yeah.
Like, you can hear it pop sometimes when I walk.
It's pretty nice.
Does it hurt?
Sometimes, but not as bad as you think it would.
If I'm like doing a treadmill for a long time, or if I do something where we're just outside, like, because I'll go hiking or whatever, my wife likes it.
So we'll do that.
But I like it.
That'll hurt after maybe a couple miles, but not like a severe pain.
joe rogan
Which is annoying.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's fine.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And you can like weather messes with it in the sense, but nothing crazy.
joe rogan
Do they, is there an option to take those rods out?
Because I know a lot of them, they put them in there so that the bones heal correctly, right?
dave landau
Yeah.
There might be.
I mean, it's been 25 years.
I'm sure there's been advancements in it, and I just don't bring it up.
joe rogan
I bet your bones are just growing around it.
dave landau
Oh, and I'm sure it's destroyed.
They're probably like, why didn't you come in?
I'd be like, you didn't bring it up either.
joe rogan
Yeah, I know a guy who broke his arm and the screws from the plate that kept his arm together were popping through his skin.
So he had another operation.
They opened up his arm again and took the plate out because the arm had healed, like the bones had fused, but then the plates and the screws started backing out.
That's through his skin.
They're poking through his skin.
dave landau
That's what happened to my son.
And it sucks.
He was like six.
And him and his friend were hanging out at his friend's house.
And they had like a slide that was eight feet in the air and they both decided to jump off of it.
Oh, God.
And he landed funny and he's a little kid.
So I was at my friend's mom's funeral.
I like rushed back to get him.
It's the worst thing in the world when it's your kid.
It's just the worst.
But yeah, we made sure like he got the screws out.
He got the right, like everything went fine.
But the way that makes you heal so dude, it was honestly like they cut the cast off like two weeks before they were supposed to because he's like, I can go like this.
I'm like, that's amazing.
Because I remember I would like go to bars still and I was still underage, but I was still going to bars with like a cast on.
Oh, boy.
Like a full-blown knee brace.
And I, you know, I'm wearing like track suits and like I had chains and earrings.
joe rogan
I was that kid.
dave landau
So I just, I'm like, just like a raver stoner.
And I'm just walking around with my crutches.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
How long did it take before you could walk again?
dave landau
Properly?
About six months.
Now, every now and then I do walk with a limp because it just kind of goes out.
joe rogan
Does your friend still feel embarrassed by this?
dave landau
No, I don't.
No, it's one of those guys you've known for so long.
He didn't care then.
And I was saying stuff to him the kindest I deserved it.
So like, I mean, he felt really bad.
I should say that, but no, it's not anything.
The girl who owned the house went nuts and she was so hot.
And I always had a crush on her.
And she's like, your family's going to sue me.
I'm like, my family's not going to sue any.
They don't sue people, but we're not going to sue you.
And I think my dad had passed at that point.
And she's like so freaking out because she would have these wild Christmas parties every year where it happened.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dave landau
And that ended the wild Christmas parties.
And she's like, yeah, you never sued.
I'm like, yeah, why would I sue?
Because I'm stupid.
Like, it was my fault.
And then I just went out and said, yeah, I fell on ice.
joe rogan
Isn't that a gross thing that people would just sue?
If they did something stupid in your house, they would sue you.
dave landau
Dude, I've never, never.
Like, I can understand points where people have.
joe rogan
It's just such a scammer mentality.
dave landau
It's a shit thing to do to anybody.
It's like somebody who like slips delivering a package or any of that stuff that's possible.
joe rogan
There was a lady that was, when my kids were younger, there was this lady that was a single mom, and her daughter was playing with my daughter.
And, you know, they'd come over the house.
And she went to another person's house.
And, you know, like, they'd have play dates like kids do.
And she wasn't there.
So she comes to pick up her daughter.
And they have a dog.
And the dog is a very friendly dog.
And the dog, you know, it jumps up to like, you know, dogs do that.
Of course.
And scraped her with its claws.
Just scraped her with its claws.
She sued the family for $50,000.
dave landau
And won.
joe rogan
And they just settled.
They settled because they were informed, listen, legal fee is going to be probably $100,000.
She wants $50,000.
So this fucking asshole, all a dog did, dog nails, just scratched her a little bit.
Not even like bleeding, nothing crazy, just normal.
Oh, your dog's crazy.
Like where you and I would be like, what a cute dog.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
She was like, ooh, opportunity to sue this family that's wealthy.
dave landau
Especially the fact that that's just what they do.
I remember when we were young, there were two pit bulls that were at this house behind a camp we were at.
And this one kid was always throwing rocks at them.
And we were like, you shouldn't do that because we like the dogs.
And the camp had its own golden retriever.
And it was fine with the pit bull.
They'd run on the fences and stuff.
So that's when I first even started getting used to dogs when I was young because I've always liked dogs and I have too and I've had tons.
But I remember that the pit bull, once the kid stuck his finger through the fence, took off these two parts, these two tops of his finger.
And like they sued.
They put the dog down and we were like, he's been chucking rocks at those things all summer.
Like he's been antagonizing these animals all summer.
And I mean, it sucks that it happens, but it's like...
joe rogan
It sucks that your kid's stupid too.
dave landau
Yeah, it sucks that he was told not to do it a bunch of times, and then there was a consequence to this shitty action.
joe rogan
Also, how did you raise a kid that's throwing rocks at dogs?
Like, what kind of a kid would throw rocks at a dog?
dave landau
It's like the first thing you find that has unconditional love for you.
It's the first thing that like you trust in a different way than a human.
joe rogan
Did he have dogs?
dave landau
There's no way he did.
I don't remember him well.
I remember the blood and the screaming, but I don't remember much about him other than that.
joe rogan
He had weird handshakes afterwards.
dave landau
Yeah, I knew his penmanship wasn't very good after.
joe rogan
Old stubs.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, man.
dave landau
Yeah, but he does.
unidentified
Pit bulls are tricky dogs, though.
dave landau
My brother's had ones where, yeah, he's rescued a couple, and I've had friends who have saved them in Detroit from fights where because they would throw them in a back alley, the losers, and sometimes my friends would take them and get them sewn up and keep them.
But those dogs specifically would kind of only be left alone for the owner.
Like my friend would keep it just for him, like locked up.
joe rogan
But they're usually fine with people.
The real issue with pit bulls is dogs and children.
They think of children as animals.
They don't know that a child is a person.
At least it seems like they don't because they attack kids.
dave landau
Well, and children don't know dogs are animals sometimes.
And that's kind of how I treat with my kids.
Like you have to understand that, you know, like when you're rough housing or whatever, like there's a, you got to be real careful because she may not necessarily know what you're doing.
You know, and he learned that at a young age, and dogs love him.
But a lot of times kids can be really, really rough with dogs.
joe rogan
Yeah, they can be.
Sure.
Especially if they don't grow up with them.
They don't know.
They're not taught.
But the thing is, if you have a sweet dog, like I have a golden retriever, and if my kids thought all dogs were like my dog, and then they went up to another dog and grabbed his face, that dog might bite your fucking face off.
dave landau
Yeah, and goldens are the best.
They're just designed to be the sweetest animals on the planet.
joe rogan
He's the nicest dog of all time.
The best pet ever.
He's just the homie.
He'd come home.
He's like, hello.
He wags his head.
He always has to greet you with a toy.
Like as soon as I come in the house, he grabs one of his toys and runs up to you with a toy.
dave landau
Dude, it's the nicest feeling in the world.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're the sweetest dogs.
He cuddles with me when I watch TV.
He climbs up, like literally lies in my lap.
You know, he's 75 pounds.
He puts his fucking head on my chest.
And he just likes to be pet while I'm watching TV.
dave landau
Yeah, they just want to be with you.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
It's the nicest thing.
And I, you know, I had a Rottweiler, and people are afraid of those, but she was the sweetest dog.
joe rogan
A lot of it is how you treat them.
But it's also the breed.
It's also the bloodline.
Like, if you get a game-bred pit bull and you expect it to be cool with other dogs, you're out of your fucking mind.
That dog is designed to fight dogs.
dave landau
Yes.
joe rogan
You know, but if you get a good dog and you train him well and teach him, and it takes a lot of responsibility.
You know, like people that run out and get like a German Shepherd or a Belgian Malamoi and think they're going to get in the yard.
You just literally got like an elite super athlete for a pet.
You know, and you're just thinking you're just going to leave in the yard and occasionally throw the ball to it.
dave landau
The fuck out of here.
You never walk it, so it's got a bunch of pent-up anger and energy.
joe rogan
Exactly.
dave landau
Good for you.
joe rogan
It's like a high school kid that's been left in a confined space.
dave landau
Yeah.
See how it works when he comes out into the real world.
Bring him to a dog park.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
dave landau
Did you see that video of the dog parks?
Some of them?
joe rogan
What video?
dave landau
There's one video where a guy, his dog is attacking one dog and some dude runs up out of nowhere and just shoves his finger in one dog's ass.
joe rogan
Oh, that works.
dave landau
Yeah, it did, but it was still the most ridiculous thing.
Like this guy just runs in like he thinks he's Superman.
It's like, I've got it, and just starts to do it.
joe rogan
Well, if a dog has a lock on another dog, that's one of the only ways to let him go.
unidentified
Is it?
joe rogan
Because it worked.
I hear it works.
I've never done it.
dave landau
But I've never tried it myself.
joe rogan
Hoses work.
When dogs would fight with each other, you could hose them.
And a lot of times they'll let go.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
They just freak out.
You're getting hit in the face with a jet of water.
dave landau
Yeah, that will do it.
joe rogan
But, you know, the really fucked up thing is that people bred dogs for fighting and they like to fight.
Like, when they fight, they wag their tails.
dave landau
Yeah, they're having fun.
joe rogan
That's what's crazy.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
You watch them like literally chewing each other's faces off and they're wagging their tails.
dave landau
Well, I had a border collie at the same time as a Rottweiler and they were both pretty, you know, they both enjoyed fighting each other.
joe rogan
Fun, but I'd always play fighting.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And you'd always just watch for the tail waggling because they'd be flipping each other over.
Right.
Like when we first got the rot, we went to a dog park because they were like newer to us in Michigan.
And this one dog just kept coming up that was bigger than my rot, but kept kind of like messing with her.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And then finally, my rot grabbed her by the neck and flipped this dog over and was just like pinning it with her mouth.
And then the dog gave up and was showing its belly.
And I'm like, oh, fuck.
I'm like, are we going to leave the dog park now?
You know, like people were like freaking out and screaming.
But the dog kept like coming up and like nipping my dog until my dog finally just like attacked back real quick.
joe rogan
Yeah, which is what dogs do.
They have to establish dominance.
dave landau
That's what she did.
joe rogan
I was at a dog park once and somebody brought a wolf.
dave landau
Are you serious?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
It was the wildest thing.
You got a wolf?
All the dogs immediately knew it wasn't a dog.
Some guy had one of those 7-8 timber wolf dogs.
You know, because you can get them dogs where they're not really dogs.
It's a wolf.
And this thing just walked in, and every dog was like, that's not a fucking dog.
They all scattered.
It was wild to watch.
It was big, too, man.
It was really big.
It was like 100-plus pounds.
And just big fucking mouth, big long mouth.
And it just looked like a wolf.
And every dog knew it wasn't a dog.
dave landau
Were they just all backing in the corner?
joe rogan
Because wolves eat dogs.
dave landau
Oh, yeah, they did.
joe rogan
They knew.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
They fucking, there was a thing like the smell, the look, whatever.
No dog was sizing up with it at all.
No.
Every dog just ran away.
It was weird.
dave landau
Well, they have that instinct.
And that thing is like what dogs.
Like, that's like if a caveman walked in.
joe rogan
Right.
dave landau
You know what I mean?
Like, that's the original OG of what we're supposed to do.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
This is not a wolf.
Oh, yeah.
I've seen this video.
This video is wild.
So there's all these dogs are fighting.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
And check out this one dog walks in and he's the fucking boss.
And he's this dog.
Look, all the other dogs back the fuck away from him.
Look, they all back away.
This one dog.
And he gets on that dog.
Like, look what happens.
dave landau
Oh, dude, every one of them just acts right.
joe rogan
It's like John Wick of dogs.
Look at this.
The dog just lays down and he just gets on top of them.
dave landau
I once saw this dog kill one of us with a pencil.
joe rogan
I have no idea what kind of dog that is.
dave landau
I don't know either.
The black one?
joe rogan
It's got to be the white one.
The one that's dominant.
dave landau
That one right there.
I mean, oh, the black one was cowering.
I was looking at the wrong dog.
joe rogan
I was a little bit of a course now, I believe.
Well, why don't you take a photo of that dog and run it through Google image?
dave landau
The dog looks like Benji.
joe rogan
That's what's crazy.
dave landau
Yeah, like it's probably just they knew it had a hard life.
joe rogan
My friend has a dog like that that's a small, it's a darker, like a gray and brown dog.
And he takes it pig hunting, and it's the most savage fucking dog I've ever seen in my life.
dave landau
And it looks like that?
joe rogan
Yes.
This dog just chases pigs.
It's crazy.
And pigs are tough.
Oh, yeah.
But this dog is just nuts, man.
unidentified
Dude, that's funny.
joe rogan
What kind of dog is that?
Come on, Chuck GPT.
A mixed or breed or a mutt based on appearance.
Shaggy, wiry coat, body structure.
How crazy is AI?
A wolfhound or terrier mixes.
Large size and sturdy build might also suggest some Central Asian shepherd or Kangal ancestry, especially if the dog is used as a livestock guardian.
However, without a clearer look and more context, like the dog's size, weight, or behavior, it's difficult to definitively identify the breed.
It's likely a mix of working or guardian breeds common in rural or semi-rural areas.
dave landau
Yeah, that thing they just knew had it tough.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Because it just came in and didn't get it.
Fuck.
joe rogan
It's not even a big dog.
That's what's crazy.
Like, yo, but that was kind of what it was like when that wolf showed up at the dog park.
All the other dogs were just like, what in the holy fuck is this?
dave landau
Was it you?
I think you were talking about it.
Maybe it was, I don't know, but it's about a guy who trains wolves.
And he was saying.
joe rogan
I've had people on that work with wolves.
You can't really train wolves.
dave landau
Yeah, like, but I think it was like the movie The Gray, you know, like taken with wolves or whatever.
And like he said during it that he has to fall down as the stuntman or whatever.
So the second he gets home, one of the wolves is going to try to take his spot on top.
So you got to like grab the wolf and hold it up in the air.
And like that's like the main thing to do to get it to stop.
But like every night he just has to prepare himself for fighting a wolf when he gets home.
joe rogan
Oh Jesus.
dave landau
Which is crazy.
joe rogan
That's so stupid.
dave landau
But I mean they all just they're pack animals.
joe rogan
Yeah, so as soon as you leave, they take the dominant spot.
dave landau
Yeah, you have a good day of filming and there's just this wolf looking at you the whole car ride home saying if he's going to take like your shit once you get home.
joe rogan
I knew a dude who had three of those, three of those wolf dogs, and he was a piece of shit.
And they got out of his yard and killed the neighbor's sheep and he lied about it.
He's like, no, my dog.
Why my dog?
Killed like eight sheep.
dave landau
Dude, yeah.
It's yours.
joe rogan
Because they just kill for fun.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like, oh, there's just sheep that just commit suicide?
What kid?
Mountain Lion?
What did this?
dave landau
Well, there's coyotes and stuff.
joe rogan
They don't like that, though.
dave landau
No, no, no.
joe rogan
That kind of damage.
Coyote would have a hard time taking out a sheep.
It would take a long time.
dave landau
Yeah.
But they grab small dogs.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
dave landau
But before COVID, in Detroit and like the suburbs, we never had coyotes, like it seemed, like any of that stuff.
And then after, you see them all the time.
Like I would walk out and there'd just be like a deer in my front lawn.
I'm like, this is bizarre in this part.
And then, yeah, now you have ones that like hop fences and grab small dogs and jump away.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they're everywhere now.
They're in all 50 states, and then they're in every major city.
dave landau
Yeah, that's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're a wild animal.
I mean, a really interesting animal, I should say.
Obviously, they're wild.
dave landau
Because when I first saw them, they'd be crossing the street at night.
I'd be coming back from a gig, and I'm like, is that a dog?
Should I stop?
And then it's clearly just a coyote.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
And I'd never seen them up close like that ever.
joe rogan
They're in Central Park.
dave landau
Are you serious?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
I used to walk by there all the time.
joe rogan
That looks like what it is.
That looks similar.
A Bosnian Barack.
A Bosnian broken-haired hound called Barak.
Yeah, it looks similar.
Fights bears?
That makes sense.
That makes sense.
dave landau
Yeah, that would be it.
joe rogan
That would make sense why all those dogs are like, this motherfucker's not playing.
dave landau
Dude, he takes down grizzlies.
joe rogan
He is not playing.
unidentified
Jeez.
joe rogan
A scent hound.
Yeah, that's what my friend's dog looks like.
And it's a little dog.
It's a girl.
And she's fucking ferocious.
dave landau
And just hasn't...
Dude, a pig and a bear.
joe rogan
Yeah, pigs are like wild pigs are some of the most ferocious sounding animals.
I remember the first time I ever went hunting pigs, we were going down this dirt road, and to the right of us was like heavily wooded, like high grass, and they were in the grass near us.
And then they started fighting, and it sounded like demons, like orcs.
They were just going to war, like maybe 10, 15 feet from us.
Well, we couldn't see them because of the tall grass.
The sound was nuts.
Like, this sound is insane.
dave landau
Where do you hunt them?
joe rogan
This was in California.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
California, where, oddly enough, they think most of them came from William Randolph Hearst's estate.
Because William Randolph Hearst, the same piece of shit that Orson Welles covered in the movie Rosebud, the same reason why marijuana became illegal.
That guy.
William Randolph Hearst had an enormous estate and he had wild boars out there on his estate.
And of course they got free.
And now Central California, all that area is like San Jose, they have a giant problem with them.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah, they like show up on people's lawns and tear their lawns apart and you wake up in the middle of the night, there's 10 wild pigs on your fucking front lawn.
dave landau
Holy shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Do they attack animals though?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, they kill people.
dave landau
Really?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So one old lady got killed by wild pigs.
dave landau
What a way to go.
joe rogan
I know.
Fucking dirty, filthy demons tearing your face off.
dave landau
Not that it's funny, but I mean, you just don't expect it.
Kind of funny.
joe rogan
But yeah, they're all.
dave landau
How did grandma go?
You're like, oh, she was torn to death by pigs, wild ones, in her suburb.
joe rogan
With this place that I was at.
dave landau
Hold a sec.
joe rogan
They, you know, they hunt them a lot, and that's what we're doing.
They taste good.
dave landau
Yeah, I would imagine.
I mean, it is pork.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a different kind of pork.
It's like a darker meat.
dave landau
Oh, interesting.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
I've never had it.
joe rogan
Yeah, because they're not eating just grain.
They're eating whatever the fuck they find and a lot of acorns.
That was a lot of it.
They had a lot of fat on them.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's from acorns.
They were delicious.
dave landau
What do you hunt them with?
joe rogan
That time it was a rifle, but I bow hunted them too.
dave landau
I was wondering if you did, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, I bow hunted pigs.
But the thing is, like, if you're bow hunting pigs and you're shooting a wild boar, like a big boar, you probably shouldn't have a backup.
Probably should have a pistol.
dave landau
In case it comes at you.
joe rogan
And you should probably have one in the chamber.
So as it's running at you, you can just say, you're going to have to.
It'll charge you.
Happens all the time.
dave landau
So it's kind of because bears are like that, aren't they?
Like, if you shoot one in the heart, it'll go 100 yards.
joe rogan
Some bears.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
If you shoot them in the heart, I doubt they're going to go 100 yards, but they might be able to because they can go 100 yards pretty fast.
dave landau
Just on adrenaline.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
But, yeah, bears are-I was going to say adrenochrome.
joe rogan
If you hit a bear, there is a distance between you and them where it's like a fight or flight distance, where they're too close where they think that you'll attack them.
And so then you're in trouble.
But if they're far enough away where they think, oh, this guy's not going to chase me and you can scare them off, that can happen.
Bears are tricky.
dave landau
Yeah, I've never.
Well, we had one bear.
I mean, it wasn't hunting us.
We were just up in, what do you call them, the Smokies?
And it was just a vacation, and it says, don't throw food off the balcony.
So, of course, the first thing my son does is throw a hamburger.
And then all we can hear is the woods start moving.
And we look down, and I'm like, there's a bear.
And I didn't know they climb.
So the thing starts climbing up the side of the house.
And eventually we just kind of made enough noise or something that it went back into the woods.
But I'm like looking around, like, we have a gun, right?
And he's like, I think we have one.
Like, oh, that's good.
Because there's a bear climbing up the fucking house, dude.
It was terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah, if you have food left out, if you have garbage left out, once they've established that that's a place where they get food, they keep coming back.
dave landau
That's what I was, yeah.
And first thing he did was just chuck a hamburger out to feed the animals.
And I'm like, buddy, I told you, he's like four or five at the time.
And then like a couple minutes later, bear.
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Do you know the state that has the most bears per capita in the country?
dave landau
No.
joe rogan
New Jersey.
dave landau
Is it really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
New Jersey has a crazy bear problem.
dave landau
I did not know that at all.
joe rogan
So the governor of New Jersey ran on a platform of stopping the bear hunt because people hunt bears in New Jersey.
Because people think of New Jersey.
What you think of is these high-density areas like Hoboken, Hackensack.
dave landau
Atlantic City.
joe rogan
That's not New Jersey.
dave landau
No.
joe rogan
New Jersey's mostly rural.
dave landau
And then you have those actual mountains.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, a kid got killed out by Rutgers.
A bear ate him.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Rutgers University student went for a hike.
Got taken out.
And bears became such a problem that the same governor who ran on the stopping the bear hunt and did stop the bear hunt when he got in office, the population boomed so badly without hunters that he reinstated the bear hunt.
dave landau
Oh, did he?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He had to.
The interactions between humans and bears were going through the roof.
dave landau
I was really hoping that story ended with he got eaten by bears because that would be just the perfect irony.
joe rogan
Well, he probably had an encounter.
A lot of people that live anywhere near them have encounters.
Like, there's a video of Far Rockaway, New Jersey.
We played it many times on this podcast, but we'll play it again just for you.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
But there's these fucking bears.
They look like four or five hundred pound bears, and they're fighting in the middle of a suburb.
And they're essentially, they're going to war for garbage.
So like, you know, they claim either that or maybe one of the females is in heat.
But there's these two fucking huge bears and they're falling downstairs and they're out in the street.
And then people are filming them from their car.
I mean, these are big bears, man.
dave landau
Are they brown bears?
Black bears.
joe rogan
They're all black bears in the United States until you get into the upper northwest.
dave landau
And then you see more of the grizzlies.
joe rogan
You only get grizzlies in like, so look at these bears.
dave landau
Holy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah, bro.
Fucking normal house suburbs.
dave landau
There's a couple bears that are on the bottom.
joe rogan
They've got the real estate sign out there.
The size of these fuckers, dude.
They knocked over the sign there, whatever that was.
That was a light, I guess.
Look, the electrical cords.
Yeah.
Bro, it spills out into the street.
These guys go to war for like 10 fucking minutes.
How long is this video?
Six-minute video.
Look at this.
They get out and show them all when they're out in the street.
So people are filming them.
These fuckers tumble down the side of the hill.
They're still duking it out.
dave landau
I've seen them come down the street and went in the same place.
joe rogan
What the size of these guys, man.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
Look at that.
Right by the mailbox.
Look at all the hair.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
They're pulling each other's hair out.
dave landau
And that's crazy.
Well, dude, that's just because they're claws on accident.
joe rogan
The size of these fuckers.
dave landau
Imagine that goes across your face.
joe rogan
Oh, dude.
dave landau
Skin.
joe rogan
You're so dead.
Those are big bears, too, man.
dave landau
Dude, that guy's so nervous about his Volvo.
It's like, come on, don't go near it, guys.
joe rogan
These people are so used to it.
These people who live in this area.
dave landau
Yeah, you're right.
A dude in a car just was like, all right, we got to wait for it to fall into the shrubs, and then I'm going to gun it.
joe rogan
Hear those noises they make.
Imagine your little kids walking home from school.
dave landau
You see two bears.
joe rogan
And see two fucking huge bears.
dave landau
And this is New Jersey?
unidentified
Yeah.
Far away.
joe rogan
Look at it.
Hear the cars?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Look, cars driving by.
Oh, hi, guys.
unidentified
Top walk.
I'm going to go get a sandwich.
dave landau
Yeah, you know, we have bears now.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Far rock away.
dave landau
Holy shit.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Dude, yeah, that's.
joe rogan
It does not have the most black bears per capita.
unidentified
Well, I thought it did.
joe rogan
I kept Googling it.
unidentified
It's not even popping up in the top five or six.
dave landau
I would imagine for a second.
joe rogan
The dense human population makes its high bear population a significant concern for residents, particularly in the states.
Dude, Ted Nugent told me that.
I think these people are wrong.
The state's forest-covered northwestern regions have one of the highest concentrations of black bears in the nation with approximately 3,000 bears.
dave landau
Dude, if Ted Nugent told you that, I think he's right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
The guy knows a thing or two.
joe rogan
High population density, concentration in the northwest, increased sightings.
The other problem is they really don't have an accurate number.
Because in heavily wooded areas, when you want to do a census on animals, you're sending out wildlife biologists and they just have to count them.
And there's no way they can really count them correctly because you're dealing with dense woods.
And black bears are particularly difficult to find in the woods.
Their sense of smell is insane.
Their hearing is insane.
And when they hear people, they just get the fuck out of there.
dave landau
Yeah, like in Michigan, you've seen them.
Like they come down because, you know, we're up by the Upper Peninsula and they'll come, you know, Canada and all that stuff.
But you do see them on occasion, but I guess they are becoming more and more, like, they're moving more and more south towards the cities now.
joe rogan
Of course, because nobody's hunting them.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Which I think we should.
joe rogan
Yeah, you have to hunt them.
dave landau
Yeah.
I mean, it's why you control the deer population.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's like that's what people have always known.
And, you know, somehow or another, liberals lost their minds and thought it was a bad idea to control predators.
Yeah, massive, huge predators.
unidentified
Right.
dave landau
And it's like, you realize that, like, let's just say the deer is alone.
If you don't control it, you're going to just have people smashing into them with their cars all day long.
joe rogan
Oh, they're made out of food.
dave landau
Right.
For you to eat.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You could go eat them.
Deers are delicious.
dave landau
And if you've ever been in front of like one with horns, like I was in the Rockies.
My friend was all high.
He gets out of the cars like 20 years ago and there's like, I don't know, it wasn't, maybe it was a deer, but like an elk or something.
joe rogan
Probably ought to be an elk.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is it big?
dave landau
Yeah, really big.
And he gets out like, he's like, I'm going to stand by and take a picture.
I'm like, I don't think you should do that.
And even then, I'm like, terrible idea.
And the thing just lowers its horns at him.
And I'm like, dude, get back to the car.
And we're like in a jeep gunning it away from this thing chasing us.
joe rogan
There's a guy that is in his car and he's talking shit to this elk that's in the street in Yellowstone and it fucking jabs his tires and takes his tire out.
Just doesn't even know what's going on.
It's like fuck.
He hears because it punctures his tire.
dave landau
Dude, it just took him out the way a cops would with like a strip.
And then it's got the lens just getting ready to take you out.
joe rogan
It just stabbed his tire.
dave landau
It's like you want to step outside now?
joe rogan
The scariest ones are moose.
What's that?
unidentified
The elk.
joe rogan
I did not see it.
You have the video of him taking out his car?
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
Look at the size of that fucker.
unidentified
Woo!
dave landau
Dude, you have a tree growing out of your head.
A sharpened tree.
unidentified
Is it for the tires?
joe rogan
Like the nose is looking trying to poke it.
I don't know if this is the one that cut the tire.
The other one was coming from the other side.
It was coming from the driver's side and the driver was talking shit to it.
But you get the point.
dave landau
I like that the driver was mocking an animal.
joe rogan
But the real dangerous ones are moose.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because moose will actually stomp you.
They will go after you.
dave landau
There's a lot of videos of people who think they're majestic and they're like eight feet away from them.
And it's like, it's not bullwinkle.
It's an animal in the, and then the next thing you hear is how they were killed.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not just that.
It's an animal that's like really good at stomping at, oh boy.
Does this guy get attacked?
I don't know.
unidentified
Sometimes you just don't.
dave landau
Dude, if I get an arrow, you really got to not miss.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, this is rough too because he's coming straight at you.
And so you don't have a really good shot at his vitals.
So you have to take the most risky shot, which is you're taking a frontal.
So what you're essentially, you have a very small area you're targeting, which is like the end of his beard.
So his hair comes down.
Like you want to get it right here.
So what you're trying to do is shoot this arrow through basically like a softball size hole, maybe a little larger than a softball size hole, and it'll go straight through, slice through the heart, the lungs, everything.
It's the most deadly shot if you could land it.
Right.
But you got an 1800-pound animal coming at you.
dave landau
You're shaking.
joe rogan
It's huge.
You're right in front of it.
It's 30 yards.
You're not sure that you could hit that spot because your arms are shaking.
You're filled with adrenaline.
dave landau
And you have to go for a softball-sized spot on that thing.
joe rogan
You really want it to be standing sideways, but it's not standing sideways because it's moving towards you in an offensive way.
You should probably just get the fuck out of there.
dave landau
Yeah, I would leave immediately.
joe rogan
Or get around a tree.
You want to get where a tree is so you can stand behind the tree.
And at least you can kind of maneuver a little bit.
dave landau
Is there sight poor?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
They don't have a good sight.
dave landau
So that's kind of like the better way is to kind of cover them.
joe rogan
Well, they're kind of dumb.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because they're so big, they don't have to be smart.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they don't have herds.
You don't see herds of moose.
You see a bull moose, they're generally by themselves or maybe with one or two other ones.
dave landau
Okay.
See, I did not know that.
joe rogan
And then they come in.
And when they come in, they're looking for pussy.
unidentified
Eyes at this one staring at you.
dave landau
Oh, that's good.
Does it have a moose fucking you in the ass?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Staring right at you, dog.
unidentified
Oh, dude.
dave landau
End with those eyes.
joe rogan
Lustful eyes.
Also, you better have a fucking powerful bow.
You got to get into that rib cage.
Those ribs are thick as shit.
dave landau
So that spot is underneath that beard and all that stuff that he's got right there?
unidentified
It's right here.
joe rogan
But if you hit an animal there, they die so quick.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
See, Google frontal shot kill on elk.
There's a famous video of these kids bow hunting.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
And this elk comes in and it gives this kid a frontal shot and he takes it at like 20 yards.
And the elk just stands there and then blood starts spraying out of it and it just tips over.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
Like right where it stands.
It's nuts.
It's the most lethal shot if you land it correctly.
But it's...
I've never taken it.
It's a tricky shot.
Like my friend Cam Haynes, probably best bow hunter in the world.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
He's taken frontal shots.
But the last time he took one, it was like at 10 yards.
dave landau
Is that guy out here?
joe rogan
This isn't it.
This is not a frontal.
These are just Bills fighting.
Google...
This isn't elk.
Oh, insane frontal shot.
Okay.
All right.
So here we go.
This isn't the one.
unidentified
Nothing came up when I checked the thing you just said.
joe rogan
So that's it.
He got it right there.
So see how it sprays?
That was a perfect shot.
dave landau
Oh, shit.
joe rogan
Perfect shot.
He got it right.
If you watch where the impact is...
Oh, that's Corey Jacobson.
Watch where the impact of the arrow is.
It's right at the bottom of the beard.
See where it is?
Like right at the bottom.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's perfect.
That's a perfect shot.
So that goes into the body cavity, severs all the arteries.
unidentified
Gotcha.
joe rogan
That bull's dead in seconds.
unidentified
But this animal seems kind of like...
That spray.
That's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
It doesn't seem as aggressive, though, as that moose.
unidentified
No, no, no, no, no.
joe rogan
They're not aggressive.
They're looking for other elk.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
He's looking for love.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what he's looking for.
Looking for love or a fight.
unidentified
Okay.
dave landau
Yeah.
Because the moose looks like he just wants to kill the guy in the video.
Or at least attack him.
unidentified
Oh, they do.
joe rogan
No, they'll kill you.
They will kill you.
I mean, I'm sure elk have killed people before, but they don't want to.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
A moose will chase you.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
A moose will chase you and stomp you, especially a female moose that has her babies.
That's not good.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You better stay the fuck away from her.
unidentified
Dude.
dave landau
Yeah, no.
joe rogan
They will stomp you.
My buddy was chased on horseback.
He barely got away from a cow moose.
dave landau
Seriously?
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Going after him?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Going after him.
Because it had calves with her.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
And she was protecting her calves and he was on a horse.
And she looks at that horse like, that might be an animal.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
That wants to stomp my babies.
And so she, full clip, chased after him.
He's like, I barely got away.
dave landau
Where was this at?
joe rogan
Edmonton.
dave landau
Oh, that makes sense.
joe rogan
Was it Edmonton?
No, B.C. Okay, yeah.
dave landau
B.C. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, that's crazy.
I don't know.
I would be terrified if I had to try to make that shot at a moose coming at me that size.
joe rogan
It's a sketchy shot.
dave landau
In any capacity.
joe rogan
It's a sketchy shot.
And it depends on what kind of broadhead you have, too.
dave landau
Can you do it with a gun?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
joe rogan
Oh, with a gun, you could shoot him anywhere.
dave landau
Yeah, I guess that's true.
joe rogan
With a gun, you go through the shoulders.
dave landau
I just didn't know if it was maybe arrow length or the reason it sticks in or something, maybe.
joe rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
You could definitely do that with a gun.
The thing about an arrow is you only have so much energy from a bow.
So if you hit one of those big shoulder bones, you're fucked.
It's not going to kill the animal.
You're probably barely going to feel it.
So you have to be behind the shoulder.
And then if you don't have enough power, if you center punch a rib, probably not going to get a lot of penetration.
So you have to have a really powerful bow.
And a lot of guys stay away from mechanical broadheads.
They want a really solid fixed blade broadhead.
It's a tricky kind of bow hunting.
dave landau
Yeah, that's cool, though.
joe rogan
You're bow hunting something that can kill you.
dave landau
Yeah.
Which is...
That's game.
I mean, that's an exciting thing.
joe rogan
That's why people like bear hunting.
dave landau
Unless you're the grizzly man guy who just does one of my favorite movies ever.
joe rogan
I'm convinced Werner Herzog made that movie as a comedy.
dave landau
Oh, I think he did too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
I'm surprised.
Like, he says the ending is not the real footage.
joe rogan
No, there's no actual audio footage of that guy that's available.
If you listen online, footage that says it is, it's not real.
You can kind of tell they're acting.
He told the lady to destroy the actual audio.
dave landau
That's what I heard.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
The lens cover was on the camera, but there is audio and it's a long audio because bears don't kill you.
They just start eating.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They just hold you down and eat you till you die.
dave landau
Which is apparent to that guy who was going around elementary schools telling people how bears aren't dangerous.
unidentified
Yeah, that fucking guy.
dave landau
And then they're like, it's hibernation season.
You should go.
And he's like, no, but I got peanut and sprinkles and cocoa and they all love me.
You had all these little names for him.
joe rogan
It was suicide by bear.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you can't just hang out there with it was that whole movie is just they said, like, I love when they're like, we think they think the bear, like the bears just thought he was basically retarded meat.
unidentified
Remember when the sheriff said that?
joe rogan
Well, I thought he was retarded.
Yeah, I think just the way the film is made.
It's just there's too many times where someone says something ridiculous and there's a smash cut.
I'm like, this guy's doing this on purpose.
Like he wants you to laugh.
It's funny.
dave landau
It's got to be because he's like slapping a bear on the nose and he's like, no, Skittles.
And then just turning around and doing the interview.
And you're just waiting for him to die, basically.
joe rogan
I have to be a warrior.
unidentified
I have to let them know.
joe rogan
I stand my ground.
I love you.
unidentified
I love you.
I love you, bears.
I'm a warrior.
dave landau
I'm just going to put my tent in here.
This is going to be what you'll consider a plate, and I'm just going to hang out.
joe rogan
It's a burrito.
There's meat inside.
His girlfriend got killed too, which is really sad.
dave landau
I was surprised that, yeah, she had a girlfriend.
One, he had one.
And two, she was like.
joe rogan
She's probably surprised, too.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Is this guy going to fuck me?
dave landau
Yeah, like I'm sure he didn't fuck her.
He didn't seem like that kind of guy.
He definitely had her killed.
joe rogan
He definitely seemed gay.
It seemed like that was part of his dilemma.
Like, he wanted to be an actor, and that didn't work out for him.
So he started getting notoriety by being a bear expert.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
But he wasn't really a bear expert.
dave landau
No, he was just an idiot who would go into the forest and you're protecting these bears.
He's really lucky.
joe rogan
Forest Service won't protect him, you motherfuckers.
I'm protecting these bears.
dave landau
You leave them alone.
joe rogan
But that dude got some amazing footage.
I'll tell you that.
His footage was fucking incredible because he was living with them.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
So he got footage that nobody else was getting, like high-resolution, close-up footage of bear fights.
He became really good friends with a fox.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Foxes are fucking adorable.
They're like dogs, man.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
They are the closest thing to do.
Like, playful.
They play with you.
They stole his hat.
Like, they would come hang out with him.
He could scratch their head.
dave landau
Well, a lot of the people who find baby foxes and then just kind of raise them because their parents left them, that's amazing.
joe rogan
There's an Instagram page that I follow, Bedou the Fox.
Check this out.
It's like a little tiny fox that this guy's raised.
Yeah.
And it's so adorable.
unidentified
It's so adorable.
It really is cool.
joe rogan
Here it is.
So this guy brings this fox with him every look at that cute little fox.
He's so cute.
dave landau
Yeah, they're adorable.
joe rogan
But he hides under stuff.
He's playful.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
But this guy has this fox as a pet.
And, you know, and see, show the things where he's like cuddling with it.
Like, he's, look at it.
dave landau
Yeah, it's just a straight up.
joe rogan
He's a little buddy.
Yeah.
It's like an adorable little dog.
dave landau
The raccoon ones are kind of funny, too, when it just like learns how to open the fridge and take a look at it.
unidentified
He's got it on a leash.
joe rogan
He's walking the fox on a leash.
But he has to put it on a leash because the fucker won't come back.
No, no, I'm free.
dave landau
He's like, this is where I belong.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
He's just trying to run from the guy, but he's on a leash.
joe rogan
He's got a huge face.
dave landau
Oh, the huge ears.
joe rogan
Incredible.
That thing probably hears an owl farting a mile away.
Like, look at his face.
So fucking cute, man.
dave landau
Yeah, they really are.
They're really cool animals.
joe rogan
Yeah, and people have done this where they raise them.
But I think it's at least makes weird faces.
I think it's one of those things where you have to be around them all the time, you know?
dave landau
Yeah, I think if it's, I guess, I don't know, but if it's abandoned young enough to where it's attached to you, there's something there.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, you definitely can raise them.
People have raised them.
And people have raised coyotes that same way, too.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
But you have to be around them all the time because they're wild.
Like, you're just tricking them into by constantly giving them food and attention so they feel like they don't have to do anything else that they really feel instinctual about doing, like going out and killing a cat.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
Well, there's a place called Oswald's Bear Ranch.
joe rogan
Oh, look, he's got a cat.
His cute little fox is like half the size of the cat.
unidentified
He wants to play with the cat.
joe rogan
It's adorable.
The cat is not like upset, happy, though.
When you see a cat with its tail like that, that's a really pissed-off cat.
dave landau
Well, the cat doesn't want to play with its owner, let alone whatever that thing is.
joe rogan
Well, the cat looks like it's on the surface.
dave landau
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
The cat's fat as fuck.
dave landau
Yeah, it was actually a male cat.
Does not identify that way anymore.
joe rogan
A cat's a school shooter.
It's going to go to the pound, shoot it up.
dave landau
Just going to take out everybody at the pet store.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Just one after the other.
joe rogan
The story of wolves, like how we turn wolves into dogs, is pretty fucking insane.
dave landau
It is amazing how we do just kind of have these wolves in our house, but we made them cuter by design over centuries.
This is my wolf poodle, which is essentially what it is.
It's incredible.
joe rogan
Well, and then you get them down to like, I have a King Charles Spaniel.
You know what those things are?
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
He's that big.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He's the fucking cutest thing on earth.
Yeah.
If you go far enough back, that's a wolf.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
How did they do that?
dave landau
I have a King Charles Spaniel poodle.
unidentified
Ah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
And his name is.
joe rogan
As if the King Charles Spaniel wasn't gay enough.
dave landau
Exactly.
I had to make sure he wears bow ties, you know, like a wolf would.
joe rogan
Bow ties.
Oh, my God.
dave landau
Whenever he get his haircut, they put him in a bow tie.
joe rogan
That's adorable.
dave landau
And I'm just like, it's so cute, but it's also the gayest.
joe rogan
Oh, that's adorable.
dave landau
But yeah, his name is Higgins, and he's the best dog, but he's small.
And I've always had big dogs, and I kind of just like the fact that he's kind of small and just really wants to sit there.
joe rogan
He just wants to chill.
dave landau
He'll go for a walk, but he's not dying to.
joe rogan
The breed, the furthest removed and physically characteristic by wolves, is the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
dave landau
Yeah, mine's called the Cavapoo.
joe rogan
That's the one I have.
dave landau
Yeah, I have a mix of that and a poodle.
joe rogan
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, one of the most popular breeds in the UK and U.S., probably because of their lap dog reputation.
Yeah, they're adorable dogs.
unidentified
Oh, so sweet.
dave landau
I love them.
joe rogan
That's the furthest removed physically and characteristically from a wolf.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
It has, I mean, he's funny.
Like, he'll grab his toy.
He's got this lamb and he'll just like jump in the window with giant dogs and just start shaking it and like try to intimidate them.
And I'm like, you're in a fucking little bow tie.
He looks so gay.
He's probably trying to play with them.
joe rogan
Because my dog loves to play with Marshall, my golden.
unidentified
Dude, it's very like best friends.
dave landau
Yeah, he's very playful.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah, because we have, I'm just going to announce all the more dogs that I have and feel worse as this goes.
A Havenese.
joe rogan
What's that?
dave landau
It's like a little.
We don't have the long hair cut on it, but you know those long hair, like almost show dogs?
joe rogan
Okay.
dave landau
And it's, yeah, just a Heavenese pure.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
dave landau
But we have, see the top right corner?
She looks like that.
So that's the other dog.
And she's the best.
And she's insane.
joe rogan
Look at her dad on her face.
dave landau
Yeah, not the smartest dog you'll ever meet.
And that's one of the things I love about her.
joe rogan
Well, they don't have to be smart.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
It's like rich kids on trust funds.
They're not so fucking smart either.
dave landau
Yeah, they are the most privileged of the dog community.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah.
There's no doubt about it.
joe rogan
Most likely to be a they them.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
That's all the they thems.
They're not poor kids.
dave landau
No.
Well, we're the ones cutting off their balls and spaying them.
unidentified
Right.
Yeah, they're all too, right?
joe rogan
They're all trans.
dave landau
Yeah, they're all a little angry at us.
unidentified
My dogs have their balls.
dave landau
Oh, do they really?
unidentified
Always.
Yeah, I don't fix my dogs.
dave landau
See, we had already had them fixed when we got them.
joe rogan
I had a really good vet when I first moved to LA, and I always thought you have to fix dogs.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because you're like Bob Barker.
Spay in new to your pets.
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Bob Barker would say after the end of every show.
Yep.
Turn your pets trans.
How about just don't be an irresponsible dog owner and let your dog have puppies that nobody wants.
How about you just be a responsible dog owner and let your dog have its natural fucking hormones.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because when you cut their balls off, they get tired.
They get depressed.
They have no energy.
dave landau
Testosterone.
There's testosterone.
joe rogan
What happens to people when their testosterone goes?
You get depressed.
You get depressed and you have no energy.
That's the same shit that happens to your dog.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah, and that's why he's in a bow tie.
joe rogan
And my vet was, he told me that.
I was like, I can't believe it.
He goes, look, nobody wants to hear it.
Everybody wants to tell you, spay in new to your dogs.
But characteristically, like if you look at how a dog behaves, I see a change the moment they cut.
Now, look, if you have an overly aggressive dog, that's a different story.
If you have a dog that you probably should train, that's probably what it is.
Probably needs obedience training and probably needs a lot of attention.
It probably needs a lot of exercise.
But if you cut your dog's balls off, it won't be the same dog.
dave landau
No.
And I mean, the next dogs I have, I probably won't.
You know, but it's just something that you're used to for so long.
And like with Bob Barker, I get control of the pet population so there's not dogs running all over the streets that have to be euthanized all the time.
Yeah.
But if it's like if it's your own dog, though.
joe rogan
But again, that's just bad dog owners.
dave landau
Yeah, that's what I mean.
joe rogan
It's just like people are bad parents, and their kids wind up, you know, joining a gang and shooting people up.
It's like, it's a lot of the same kind of shit, man.
dave landau
Well, it's the same.
It's literally the same thing.
I mean, when you years ago, they were doing articles, not to bring it back to my hometown, but like in Detroit where you would see dog gangs roving together.
They take over a house and like, you know, they, I remember one house was like filled with pit bulls and stuff, but it was a black lab that was like the king shed at this house.
Really?
Yeah, it was crazy.
Probably the smartest one.
I think it must have been that because like when like Rolling Stone, I think it was, showed up and they were like, holy shit, it's a black lab that's in charge of like all these pit bulls and that was like their king.
unidentified
And but probably they're good hunters.
joe rogan
Maybe that's what it is.
Well, because Labradors are hunting dogs.
dave landau
Yeah.
Well, that's true.
Because like you would see just packs of dogs going down the street when it was at its most like empty.
joe rogan
God, I heard about a lady that got killed by a pack of dogs in Georgia a few years back.
dave landau
Oh, they'll do it.
joe rogan
Yeah, wild dogs.
She was hiking and feral dogs attacked her.
dave landau
Yeah.
And that's a rough way to go.
That's terrible.
joe rogan
Rough way to go.
dave landau
Because there was probably a minute where she's like, oh, dogs.
joe rogan
I doubt it.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
I doubt it.
dave landau
No, most people do get scared.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They should.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Well, especially if you're on like a mountain.
joe rogan
If you don't know the dog, like it could be anything.
dave landau
Yeah, never go up to a dog the way that people tell you that you should.
joe rogan
Put your hand out.
dave landau
Yep.
joe rogan
I'm your friend.
dave landau
Look, I'm your buddy.
It's like, just stand there.
joe rogan
Stand your ground.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Look at it.
Keep an eye on it.
And hopefully have a gun.
dave landau
Yeah.
Hopefully have a gun.
I just shot your doodle.
I overreacted.
But yeah, those ones you can't buy.
That's a problem, too.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
But yeah, when you just stand there and kind of let the dog smell you, that's what they do.
They just want to get to know who you are, so let them.
And it's kind of, yeah, keep an eye.
Don't act scared.
What you shouldn't do is run and start screaming.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, they like that.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, it's fun.
dave landau
They think it's a play.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
A time to play.
joe rogan
They're going to kill you and have fun.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yay.
We got a screamer.
Boys.
As if there's not enough problems in the world.
You got to worry about roving packs of wild dogs taking folks out.
dave landau
And bears fighting in your cul-de-sac.
You don't see that at all.
joe rogan
They're trying to bring bears back to certain states now.
They're trying to reintroduce grizzly bears, these fucking dorks.
dave landau
Why do they reintroduce animals that went extinct in an area for a reason?
That's what they're doing.
joe rogan
Well, they didn't go extinct.
They were made extinct.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right.
Like California.
California has a grizzly bear on its flag.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
But there's no grizzlies in California because they killed them all because they were killing all these people.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
The last guy that got killed in California by a grizzly bear, they actually named a town after him.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
Levesque, California.
dave landau
Is it named after a guy that was murdered by a grizzly?
joe rogan
His name was Stephen Levesque.
Yeah, he was the last man in California to be killed by a grizzly bear before they killed them all.
dave landau
Are they trying to bring them back to California?
joe rogan
Yeah, of course they are.
dave landau
Oh, that's smart.
joe rogan
Look, they brought wolves back to Detroit.
They brought wolves, excuse me, Detroit, Colorado.
unidentified
Yeah, they did.
joe rogan
They brought wolves to an area of Colorado that's right outside of Aspen, and people are losing their fucking minds because they brought these wolves that they had captured in Oregon because they were killing cattle.
And then they reintroduced them to Colorado where they wait for it, kill cattle.
They've been killing cattle like crazy.
They brought them out to like these ranching areas.
And they've killed so many cows out there, man.
I have a buddy who has a ranch out there.
He sends me pictures all the time of these cows that they find just torn apart.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like baby cows, calves just ripped to shreds.
Yeah.
dave landau
Well, they did the same.
I want to say it was like near Dollywood.
Didn't they do that too?
Where like wolves had finally gone away in that area in the mountains?
Where's Dollywood?
It's near, it's in Tennessee near wolves in Tennessee?
I think they tried to reintroduce them.
joe rogan
Maybe red wolves.
dave landau
Yeah, like I took a tour through the forest.
Like I had to go.
I didn't want to go.
It wasn't my thing, believe it or not.
But we went as like a family trip.
And it's terrible.
And somebody recognized me, and that was the worst.
Is that like a fake Dolly Barton show?
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dave landau
Are you Dave Landau?
And I'm like, oh, fuck, really?
Now?
But we went through the forest, and they were saying that they were reintroducing animals into that area.
And it's like, why would you do that?
And I guess they had just taken down like a Krispy Kreme because bears just destroyed it.
joe rogan
Well, that wouldn't be reintroduction.
That area of the bears have always been there.
But if they're reintroducing a wolf, it has to be the red wolf.
The red wolf is endangered, and it's a small wolf.
It's a wolf that's like maybe the size of a large coyote.
dave landau
Yeah, there it is.
joe rogan
Red wolves are returning to the Smoky Mountains.
unidentified
There you go.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's like that photo is a little deceptive.
When you see a red wolf, they're pretty small.
Like, what is the average size of a red wolf?
Google that, Jamie.
dave landau
Yeah, like, that picture of the bear walking, we saw that a lot just walking down, like, while we were there.
joe rogan
Oh, you're going to see a lot of bears.
And they'd be like 50 to 60 pounds.
dave landau
Yeah, they'd be like tumbling like cubs and stuff down the road.
joe rogan
That's like a red wolf.
it's probably, you know, it's a 50 pound animal.
unidentified
Okay, so, they're not, they're not a gray wolf.
joe rogan
Gray wolves are fucking scary.
dave landau
Terrifying.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're big.
dave landau
Yeah, I would not want to go.
I don't know.
That's a scary animal.
Anytime I've seen one, they just don't look friendly, and I don't.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, they killed them off for a reason.
The reason why, I mean, look, Little Red Riding Hood, fucking, there's all these stories with kids where they get eaten by wolves because wolves eat kids.
dave landau
Well, yeah, it was a way to scare the kids into being aware of what was going on.
joe rogan
Bro, do you know the World War I story?
dave landau
No.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
World War I, the Germans and the Russians had a ceasefire because so many of them were getting killed by wolves.
They made an agreement to have a ceasefire and kill the wolves and then go back to fighting.
dave landau
Seriously?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Because they were in trench warfare.
So they're in Russia and Russia has big wolves.
dave landau
Yeah, huge.
joe rogan
So what happens with animals, with warm-blooded animals, is the further north the animal goes, the larger its body size is.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
And they think it's to retain heat.
So if you look like a deer and like, let's say a white-tailed deer, a white-tailed deer that you see in Texas is a small deer.
Like if I see a white-tailed deer, generally, like I see them all the time on my way to work, a white-tailed deer, a female might be like 50, 60 pounds.
A male might be 100, 120 pounds.
In Saskatchewan, you might get a 300-pound white-tail.
dave landau
Okay.
joe rogan
They're way bigger.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Way bigger.
dave landau
Well, yeah.
joe rogan
Wolves are the same thing.
They're bigger up there.
They're bigger animals up there.
Like bears are bigger.
Polar bears are huge.
dave landau
Polar bears and they're nasty.
joe rogan
Yeah, they have to retain heat.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
So like when you go to like northern kind of climates when you're dealing with an animal in northern climates, that's going to be a bigger version of that animal.
So if you see a wolf in like Alberta, that's going to be a bigger wolf than a wolf that you see in Mexico.
Those are smaller wolves.
dave landau
Right.
Because they don't have to survive in the same elements.
joe rogan
Exactly.
It's also there's no benefit to having a large size of your body to maintain heat.
That's why moose are in the most upper north part of the country.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're the largest of all the deer species.
dave landau
Oh, that would make sense, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like elk are like larger than deer.
You know, it's like, and then the elk that are the further north, like the, those, like Montana has some giant fucking elk, Wyoming, giant elk.
And that's the, you know.
dave landau
Yeah, when you get towards Canada, too, a lot of those places where it's just cold, you get those massive animals.
joe rogan
Yep, yep, yep.
And what were we talking about that I brought that up?
We were talking about wolves?
dave landau
Wolves, the red wolf being brought back to Kentucky.
joe rogan
Yeah, so those are small because they're in like a warm climate.
dave landau
Yeah, that makes sense.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
It's just odd to me to think though when you even hear the word wolf, like we're just going to reintroduce it to this tourist area.
It's like it seems bad.
joe rogan
Well, it's all these people that are liberals that are like sweet, kind people that like, this is Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado.
He's a nice guy.
He's a sweet guy.
He just posted some really kind tweet the other day.
I'm like, oh, it seems like a good guy.
But hey, don't bring wolves back to ranching areas.
Because you could have these idealistic, utopic view, utopia-based views of what you think a wolf would be like back in the wild.
But no, they're going to, they take the easiest path possible, the easiest path possible.
Oh, there's a bunch of animals that are stuck in a fenced in area that I could just hop over.
I'll just go kill one and eat it.
And that's what they do.
And so these farmers now have to hire people 24-7 to be patrolling around their animals.
So they're already operating at a very low margin, right?
If you're a farmer and a rancher, you lose a bunch of cows.
You're fucked.
So now the state has to compensate them for depredation.
So every time a wolf kills a cow, they compensate them.
So it costs the state more money.
Oh, so they got to pay for the-Yes, they have to pay for it.
And then now they have depredation permits on some of these wolves because they're repeat offenders.
So now they're trying to kill these wolves that they've spent millions and millions of dollars reintroducing to Colorado.
And it's all silly people.
It's what's called ballot box biology.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wildlife conservationists and hunters and people that spend time in the woods, they hate it.
They hate it because it's mostly uninformed people that think they're doing a good thing.
Like, let's stop trophy hunting.
dave landau
Yeah, we have to.
joe rogan
Yeah, we have to stop hunters.
Hunters are evil.
Like, no, bitch, bears are evil.
They will fucking eat you asshole first in front of your kids.
They don't care.
dave landau
Well, it's like when they put in an insect to destruct kill an insect that's getting out of control.
joe rogan
Always works bad.
dave landau
Yeah, so like in Michigan, it was like ladybugs, but all of a sudden now there were ladybugs everywhere and this kind could bite you.
So they were some kind of beetle that was this massive problem all of a sudden.
And it was to help control the fish fly problem or mayflies, people might know them as.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And they're just because you drive down next to the water, dude, and it just sounds like rice krispies as you drive because you're just hitting so many of these things.
But it didn't help that problem.
It just created a horrible beetle problem.
And then there was something else going on in the lake, so they introduced zebra mussels.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
They did that out here, too.
dave landau
Dude, they destroyed boats.
They cut up people's feet that were swimming.
joe rogan
It killed everything.
dave landau
Yeah, it backfired completely.
And it's like, so you're just introducing this poison into the air and into the water that you think is going to benefit this.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
So they have too much vegetation on some of these lakes.
So what did they do is they sterilize carp and then introduce these sterilized carp.
But sometimes they're not sterile.
And sometimes they just start breeding.
And then the carp basically eat all the vegetation.
And so then your entire lake looks like the bottom of a swimming pool.
dave landau
Right.
It's just gone.
joe rogan
There's no more grass.
So the fish don't know where to hide.
So it's like not as effective for them.
They don't get as big.
So all the bass fishermen are mad because there's no like habitat.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's all fucked up.
dave landau
And that's happened, yeah, with Michigan because we do have a lot of fishermen, bass fishermen, you know, that go out there.
And you can go into pretty small pond areas and lakes because the great lakes and still catch some stuff.
But once you start messing with the habitat, it goes bad for a long time.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, man.
Well, look at Australia.
Australia has done a terrible job of introducing invasive species to combat problem animals.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And now they have feral cats that have essentially wiped out most of their ground nesting birds and all sorts of other things.
Cats are the worst, man.
Little, little, cute little house cats.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
They are the worst murderers of all the animal kingdom.
dave landau
Well, and they think birds are a nice present for you.
That's the first thing they're going to go after is just kill them.
joe rogan
Birds and rats.
dave landau
Yep.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's why like the crazy cat lady thing is a real thing too, because they also contain parasites.
And that parasite, toxoplasmosis, is it affects humans.
It affects behavior.
It makes you more impulsive, more aggressive.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a crazy parasite that is, at one point in time, half of France had toxoplasmosis.
dave landau
Really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because of feral cats.
It might have been half of Paris or half of France.
I don't remember.
But a large in rural areas where you have a lot of feral cats.
unidentified
Okay.
dave landau
I don't know if it's like rich people.
joe rogan
You've ever known people that have like outdoor cats.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
They're very irrational.
dave landau
Yes.
joe rogan
Mark Marin.
Those people probably have toxo, which is why they're behaving weird.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what's going on.
It's like, I guarantee, if you test it, I might have it.
I had a feral cat.
dave landau
I've never had a feral cat, but I've definitely had ones that would stop by the house.
joe rogan
I had a feral cat.
A friend of mine, her and her boyfriend, rescued a bunch of kittens that were underneath this building, and it was in Santa Monica, and she said, do you want a kitten?
He was so cute.
And I took him in, and I actually had to stay with this cat for like days in one of the rooms of my house because like when I picked him up, he would purr and he'd be sweet.
As soon as I put him down, he'd hiss at me and jump and leap away.
He was wild.
dave landau
Like claws and everything.
joe rogan
It took forever for me to just calm him down.
And then after a while, I could just come up to him and pick him up.
Like when he was a full-grown cat, he was totally my friend.
But no one else, no one else could pet this cat.
You come over my house, he would hiss at you, like he was ready to go to war.
It was crazy.
But I would go, no, dude, he was just wild.
He's wild.
And I'd pick him up and he'd start purring.
But he would purr like no other cat would purr.
Because when he knew that you just loved him and that you weren't going to eat him, when I'd pick him up, he'd just, he was so happy to be held.
He was so happy to be pet.
But then as soon as I put him down, he would look at me sketchy and run away.
He was just fucked up, man.
dave landau
My grandma had that.
She was crazy, though.
Like she, like, as she got older, she had like this old mansion.
And I don't know how she got it, but it was one of those things where like when you're Catholic, you just have 87 kids.
So the house was big, but now it looks huge to people.
joe rogan
So she just had cats?
dave landau
Towards the end, she had a few cats and just she would have like those Tom and Jerry mouse holes in the house, like where you would see them coming and out of where they and dude, she would keep like, she'd keep the spiders because they thought she thought it was part of the ecosystem.
joe rogan
Oh, great.
dave landau
So you're looking up like I'd have to sleep there and I'm just like staring at a brown recluse like shaking at the age of like eight.
joe rogan
Those will fucking leave giant holes in you, man.
dave landau
Dude, they will kill it.
My brother got bitten by one and his leg turned into a softball and he had to go really bad.
Yeah, she was nuts, dude.
joe rogan
It's just necrotic.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Where it eats away the tissue.
dave landau
Dude, and it went like that.
Like he got bit.
And by the time he got to the hospital, it just kept getting big.
It went from like a golf ball to a softball to like, and they had to hit him with all this like antibiotics.
It was nuts, dude.
joe rogan
My friend Jeremy had a hole in his thigh where he had to stuff gauze in it because it was constantly oozing.
dave landau
Yeah, that's what it is.
Like they start, it starts chewing away at your skin.
joe rogan
Yeah, it eats necrosis.
dave landau
Yeah, my brother's like a scar from it, dude.
It's disgusting.
joe rogan
Brown recluses are dangerous, man.
dave landau
But she was nuts.
She had like a casino in her basement that she ran.
She took us.
joe rogan
That sounds so fun.
dave landau
It really was when we were kids, too.
Like, we're dealing with blackjack and buying slots.
joe rogan
She had a casino in her basement.
dave landau
Yeah, it was fun.
Like, and then she was in, she was a recovering Elki.
Like, she had beads everywhere.
Like, I didn't know what that was then.
joe rogan
Oh, like 30-day beads.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And, like, so then later on, well, it was like from Mardi Gras.
She had all this stuff from Mardi Gras.
So like later in my life, I'm like, oh, my grandma was a whore.
But I didn't realize it until later.
joe rogan
There's a cat lady whore with a fucking casino in her basement.
dave landau
Like the cat lady casino whore who thinks spiders are part of an ecosystem.
joe rogan
She's kind of right.
dave landau
I mean, she's not wrong.
They would eat the mosquitoes.
That was her thing.
joe rogan
Damn.
dave landau
But you'd also have like, you're like, I think it's a black widow in your garage.
And it's like, yeah, so don't go near it.
And I'm like, you want to protect your spider?
Like, she was just nuts, dude.
But yeah, she was in recovery, but then she also had an entire bar where you could just make drinks.
So we're like six and like looking through like how to make somebody a martini.
It's so much fun.
joe rogan
So she kept the drinks even though she was clean.
dave landau
Yeah, she was clean.
unidentified
Yeah.
Wow.
dave landau
I've done that too myself, though, because if people come over, I'm like, yeah, whatever you want, man.
joe rogan
Yeah, I stopped drinking and I have a full bar at my house.
Yeah, I have a wine room.
It's like such a wasted room.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just a room filled with bottles of wine that now I'll never drink.
dave landau
Yeah, I have probably 10 bottles.
And it's if somebody wants one.
joe rogan
Yeah, come on over.
I'll judge you.
dave landau
Yeah, like my dad.
joe rogan
You sit there and drink and I'll judge you.
You'll start acting stupid.
dave landau
Well, after my like last DUI was when I got, it was like 16 years ago, and I had just built a bar in my basement.
And it's really nice.
And I still really like it.
But like, it was probably days later I got the DUI.
So I just like sit there and I'll just look at this bar and like, oh, it could have been.
joe rogan
Was that when you stopped drinking?
dave landau
Yeah, it was my, it was my 13th arrest.
It was my 13th arrest.
Yeah.
What was number one?
The day I got my driver's license.
joe rogan
No.
dave landau
Yeah, for real.
What did you do?
My dad had gotten a Buick Regal.
And it was around November because I was born in June, but they wouldn't let me get my driver's license because my grades were so bad.
And we were having a family reunion.
So we had everybody at the house.
My dad, we thought, was doing a little better.
And we all went out to eat.
And I'm like, hey, can I borrow the car?
And he's like, yeah.
So we get home and my aunt had blocked the driveway thinking that I would probably end up taking the car and like her son out who was from Arizona.
And the one side of my house was the house and then the other side was my neighbor's lawn with a small pine tree and like rose bushes and stuff.
joe rogan
He just drove through that.
dave landau
Yeah, I figured if I gingerly did it, it would be all right.
Dude, I fucked up her lawn.
unidentified
We go, I go and pick up my friends.
dave landau
We go down eight miles to this place called Piccadilly where we'd have this guy named Spider by.
And he was fucking great.
He was this like homeless dude who just was like, he always go, I'm spider with a whah.
And he'd do that.
And then he was a total pervert.
He'd be like, he would seriously offer to like, he'd be like, I'll jack you off too.
And we're like, we just want the beer.
But we do appreciate it.
Really, but thank you.
So like, he'd always be like, somebody's got to come in with me to pick it up.
And we'd be fighting if we had to get out of the car to go walk with this guy.
So we just bring the beer in.
We're driving around.
We start giving lawn jobs.
You know, like we'd first we did leaf pile fires because everybody would like rake their leaves into the street.
So we started doing those, you know, fun, good old-fashioned arson.
But usually it would stop pretty quickly.
Somebody would run out with like a garden hose.
And, you know, it totally was innocent until the one time it wasn't.
But we were driving around.
We went to some parties, smoking weed, all that shit.
And finally, I get up on this one guy's lawn after part, and he's got a Beamer five series.
And I got my Regal, my dad's, which it had a V6 turbocharge, which for a Buick, it wasn't bad for 98.
But I got on this dude's lawn.
I see him sitting in his beamer.
And for some reason in my head, I'm just like, this guy's just going to sit here and take it.
So I just start giving him a lawn job.
I'm doing donuts.
You can hear grass hitting his car.
We get in a high-speed chase with this dude.
Dude, I mean, like French connection style.
I swear, I hit this bump, man.
Four tires went off the ground because we just felt like the car popped to the ground.
And we get, we're just going all over the city.
My friends are like, let's just pull over and beat the shit out of him.
And I'm like, he could have a gun, you know?
So I finally go down this street that has like a bifurcation where it just splits immediately, like this.
You have to go this way, this way, you know, and I didn't see it.
So I start breaking because I'm going at an oak tree.
So I'm breaking it.
And dude, the next thing I know, the engine drops through the front of the car.
All the airbags come out.
I get cracked with an airbag and I'm on, like, I'm not quite unconscious.
I'm conscious just enough to see the BMW in my rear view drive away.
And then as I'm being knocked out, I hear all my friends and my own cousin leave.
Now, here's the kicker.
We were having a family reunion.
I didn't realize that there was a bunch of cases of beer and liquor already in the trunk and chips and stuff.
So when I hit the tree, that popped open.
And it looked like I drove a Super Bowl party into the fucking tree.
There was just like beer and pop and chips and shit going down the street.
And finally, dude, I wake up from being unconscious and I get out of the car and there's a cop and my dad there.
When you wake up?
When I get up, like I'd been that, dude, I got knocked out so hard by that airbag.
joe rogan
Oh my God.
dave landau
Because it just like, like all I could smell was that like burning talcum powder kind of smell, like that awful, like, I want to say eggy almost.
It was just the worst smell.
But everybody else was able to run.
Except me.
So it looked like I just bit it.
So I get out.
And I remember I look at my dad.
And my dad was not violent.
He was in Noun, but he was never violent.
But I just look at him and I go, Dad, I'm okay.
And he goes, great.
And he punched me in the face so hard that I hit the ground and was knocked up for the second time that year.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
dave landau
Dude, he cracked me hard.
joe rogan
He gave you a second concussion?
dave landau
That night.
And I wake up.
joe rogan
That's not good.
No doubt.
dave landau
Dude, no, he was pissed.
joe rogan
I get it.
dave landau
Yeah, but then I wake up and the cops got a light on me.
And I swear to God, the cop goes, he's waking up if you want to hit him again.
It's the first thing I hear.
unidentified
And I'm like, you guys, I'm really in a lot of pain here.
dave landau
And my dad apologized, but he's like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
He was just furious.
And I had already been getting into dope and stuff.
And he was getting pretty pissed with me.
joe rogan
I was arrested number one.
dave landau
Dude, DUI, and I got six months suspended license.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
I went in front of a referee is what they called it for juveniles at Coleman A. Young Municipal.
They gave me six months suspended license.
Did you have to talk your way out of it?
Oh, out of being arrested?
joe rogan
I mean, like, oh, that?
dave landau
No, my dad, I remember I was going to school one day, and he goes, I just got the bill for the car.
I was like, yeah, he goes, it's $13,980 here.
And I go, I don't have that money.
He goes, just show people so they know how proud I am of you.
I was like, thanks.
Thanks, Dad.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
But he was furious.
joe rogan
I would imagine.
dave landau
But he let it, I mean, he let it go after that because we had alcoholism in our family.
joe rogan
I couldn't believe that you were doing donuts on this guy's lawn right in front of him.
dave landau
Oh, dude, we did so much shit we shouldn't have done back then.
joe rogan
Was it just the crew you were hanging with?
dave landau
Yeah, like it was fun.
Dude, we all just kind of wanted to be thugs.
It was a little sad.
joe rogan
Well, it is Detroit.
dave landau
Yeah, you want to be like you're in the suburbs, sort of.
Like, my house was in the suburbs, but you're literally three minutes from the most violent part of America at the time.
So you're on the border of the east side of Detroit.
So it's not like you can't hear gunshots.
You know what I mean?
It's like every drug and every party, you're going down to raves and warehouses that are owned by like the Russian mob.
Crazy shit.
Oh, fuck yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
Dude, yeah.
joe rogan
Were you like 18?
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
17, 18, 16, all that, all those years, dude.
99, 2000, huge rave culture.
And then when the new mayor came in, Kwame Kilpatrick, who ended up getting arrested and put in jail and then Trump pardoned, he started the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
So he capitalized on that.
joe rogan
Really?
dave landau
Yeah, do you remember when Ford Focus basically, or Ford put out the Detroit Electronic Music Festival Focus?
joe rogan
No.
dave landau
Dude, it was basically a car designed for people on ecstasy.
unidentified
Like the whole thing was speakers.
Really?
dave landau
Yeah, if you can find it.
So the Detroit, it was the Detroit, yeah, electronic music festival focus.
unidentified
And the car was just-So it just had a crazy sound system in it?
dave landau
Yeah, because the car is a piece of shit.
So the whole thing is just speakers.
And the way they would do the ads, it was almost like, you go into a, are you on E?
Well, this car is great.
It's got huge cup holders for your water.
It's got great sound.
Oh, that's hilarious.
They were capitalized on it.
Hollywood did a little because that's like when the movie Go came out and a lot of these movies that were almost it's with Go is the one Find that car first.
They're all trying to get ecstasy in it.
And it's just like Hady Holmes and all these other people who are like, some are different stars and some are.
And they all kind of mix together in this one night and they're all just going to different raves and parties.
And the whole thing is about E. I'm trying to think of his name.
You'd know him from the store.
Plays a bouncer in it.
joe rogan
Vince Vaughan?
dave landau
No, no, not Vince.
He's not really an actor.
He's more of a comic.
He used to work with Shimmel.
I'm not Shammel.
God, what is his name?
Blondehair, older dude.
joe rogan
Jimmy Schubert?
dave landau
Yes.
He plays a bouncer in it.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jimmy's the best.
dave landau
Yeah, he's great.
I did last comic with him, and he was super cool.
Yeah, I like him all.
joe rogan
He's been for 35 years.
Yeah.
No, 30 years?
Somewhere in there?
dave landau
Yeah, he's a good dude.
And he played a bouncer in it.
So, yeah.
joe rogan
Where's that car?
Did you find it?
unidentified
Well, I found it doesn't show.
dave landau
I wonder how much they've scrubbed it, but if it's like the Detroit music festival.
unidentified
This is like a 2001 article, but it's called a Ford Focus.
dave landau
the Electronic Music Festival and the way they yeah Yeah, they've changed it up a bit with the Ventura.
joe rogan
Go with speakers, right?
unidentified
Speakers, interior.
dave landau
It was great because you'd be walking to this music festival in Heart.
Yeah, see the JBL speakers that would never be used in a Ford Focus.
joe rogan
Oh, that's what they had in them?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
So they had a badass sound system.
unidentified
Right.
dave landau
And it was just this terrible little hatchback, you know, car that a young person could afford with a killer sound system in case you wanted to listen to Bad Boy Bill or Fat Boy Slim.
joe rogan
And so you got arrested 13 times?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
So what was number two?
dave landau
Number two.
Let me think.
Two was an MIP.
joe rogan
What's that?
dave landau
A minor in possession of alcohol.
Oh.
And then that one was like a lot of them were MIPs, forward DUIs.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
And then I got arrested.
unidentified
How'd you still have a license?
dave landau
Most of it was as a minor.
And then by the time I got my one as an adult, it like it had spanned enough to where in 2009, when I got arrested my last time and I decided to get sober, they couldn't technically put me in prison.
And I didn't want to go because I don't want to spend my days getting titty fucked by the Aryan Brotherhood.
I know how I look.
So I got clean.
But yeah, that one was the one that I took real seriously.
So what they did was they put an alcohol tether on my leg that would monitor if I was drinking and a breathalyzer in my car.
So I would like, I'd have to blow start my car everywhere I went.
joe rogan
My friend Rob had that.
It would take like three minutes before he could start his car.
dave landau
Dude, it sucked.
And now they take pictures of you and stuff, but that one, it would go off as you drive.
So you're like driving and like, I remember one time a truck was jackknifing and then it's like so I'm trying to like dodge this truck from hitting me in the Grand Rapids snow while blowing my car so it doesn't stop.
joe rogan
No way.
dave landau
I swear to God.
They're so dangerous.
And I'm going around the country.
joe rogan
I didn't know they did it while you were driving.
dave landau
That's insane.
So they prove you're not drinking.
So like every 15 minutes it goes off at random, but you can't time it.
joe rogan
And you have to blow into it.
dave landau
Yeah, that's why people are like, can't you have somebody else blow?
And it's like, well, no, because you'd be like, can I drink and drive?
And you just say, shotgun and let me.
But yeah, you have to blow the whole time you're driving.
So that's what sucks about it.
So you have this constant thing.
And I was double jeopardy because I was a road comic.
So in 2009, yeah, dude, I'm going into these bars and nightclubs.
I'm like, hey, did you have a phone jack I could use for a few minutes?
And they're like, yeah, why?
And I'm like, I got this ankle monitor and I got to plug it in somewhere to a phone jack so they can download to make sure I'm not drinking.
So I'd be in a bar, dude.
joe rogan
Stand with my phone jack.
dave landau
With my fucking ankle attached to the wall while they downloaded my alcohol.
joe rogan
How long did it take?
So it has like a modem?
dave landau
Like a it would light, you know, so it would let you know when you were done.
joe rogan
They would do it through the phone lines.
dave landau
Yeah.
At that time.
Wow.
I'm sure there's something more high-tech now.
This was 09, but you had to have a phone jack and I'd have to call my probation officer and be like, this is the room I'm playing.
I'm in a bar.
I was allowed to be in a bar, but if anybody spilled anything on me, write to jail.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
dave landau
Because if I had any bit of drug, I had to use Tom's everything, you know, all natural stuff because anything could have alcohol in it.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
dave landau
So, like, I couldn't touch anything on a chance that on the off chance that it would set off my monitor.
unidentified
That's crazy.
joe rogan
You know what's really crazy?
If you eat poppy seed bagels, you can get popped for heroin.
dave landau
Yeah, when you take a drug test for your job.
joe rogan
Isn't that nuts?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
A poppy seed bagel.
Dude, a nice, delicious bagel.
And you get popped for heroin.
dave landau
It's amazing because you have nothing else in your system but heroin.
joe rogan
I'm a teetoddler.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
What's in your tea?
Yeah.
dave landau
What are you doing with it?
joe rogan
Yeah, they tell you, don't eat poppy seeds.
Any poppy seeds before you go in for a drug test.
I wonder how long poppy seed bagel stays in your system.
dave landau
Oh, dude, I did drug tests, too.
That sucks.
I never did the heroin one.
I didn't eat a lot of poppy seeds, but I did buy a fake dick that they caught me with.
joe rogan
He had a urinator, a wizenator, is everything called it?
dave landau
Dude, it's called a wizenator.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's hilarious.
They caught you with the fake dick?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
How'd they catch you?
dave landau
It was darker than me.
I'm not kidding.
joe rogan
Oh, boy.
dave landau
I bought the one.
I thought they'd be behind me.
joe rogan
They weren't.
dave landau
No, they were right here.
joe rogan
Because they know about the fake dicks.
dave landau
Yeah.
And I'm just like, I'm just going to squeeze these balls from some urine I bought off of a nerdy kid like R. Kelly.
joe rogan
I got one for you.
I know a guy who, to pass a steroid test.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He was clearly on steroids.
He was a fighter.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
He injected someone else's urine into his bladder.
dave landau
Oh, God.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So he got some bro science doctor in the fucking men's room shoving a large needle of piss into his bladder, and then he pissed out somebody else's piss.
dave landau
Oh, God.
Did it work?
unidentified
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
dave landau
Hats off.
I mean, that's dedication.
unidentified
Basketball player came back pregnant when he took his drug test.
joe rogan
Using pregnant girlfriends urine.
Dude, that's the way it is.
So what are they testing him for that he's worried about other than weed?
Is it weed?
dave landau
I'm guessing weed because if it was 2020 in Ohio, it was still a legal place.
Plus, I don't think you're allowed to use it.
joe rogan
Wow.
dave landau
If you're on the team, but it was illegal then, so they were probably still.
Which it's never been.
I mean, for most people, I should.
joe rogan
Year suspension.
Yeah, international drug tests.
In your prime.
Is that what it was?
As a naturalized player.
Well, he was.
I wonder what they were testing him for.
I wonder what drugs they were actually testing him for.
What are they worried about finding?
dave landau
Yeah, because I bought, what was it called?
Urine luck?
That doesn't work.
joe rogan
Steroids and stuff, you know?
I guess, but Jesus Christ, if I'm running a professional basketball organization, I want people on steroids.
dave landau
I'm not testing anyone for anything.
joe rogan
I want them recovering.
I want them playing better.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole steroid thing is so weird.
You know, it's because it's just science.
They figured out a way to make humans perform better.
Like, so are we supposed to use some science?
Like, you can use creatine, which at one point in time, they used to treat creatine like it was steroids.
dave landau
Well, yeah, they did.
joe rogan
In the 1990s, it was like, you're taking creatine, you're basically taking steroids.
dave landau
Well, it was because of the Mark Maguire Jose Conseco thing.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
I think that was a little later.
Wasn't it?
dave landau
I remember was part of it because they were like, they're on creatine, and everybody's like, are you sure?
joe rogan
No, they were on Anderstein Dione is what he was trying to say, but it wasn't.
dave landau
Yeah, he was steroids.
joe rogan
He was on hardcore shit.
He got big.
dave landau
Maguire went from like a farm boy to looking like one of the Looney Tunes characters from Space Jam.
unidentified
Like the dude was just fucking stacked.
dave landau
Home running.
joe rogan
This is a video of Maguire hitting a home run.
And as the bat is contacting the ball, you see the bend to the bat because he's so strong.
He's whipping the bat so hard that it's bending in the air as it contacts the ball.
And it's fine that photo.
Yeah, it's ash.
It's like a very dense wood.
And he's whipping it so hard that it has a bend like a bow, like a bow and arrow.
And it's connecting the ball like perfectly on the sweet spot.
Look at that.
Look at the fucking amount of bend in that bat.
dave landau
Dude, that makes no sense.
joe rogan
Well, that's somebody else.
But look at the one above it.
dave landau
Oh, the one right there, though.
joe rogan
That's the Maguire one.
I'm talking about it.
Maguire's right there.
dave landau
That's a Ben Bett.
joe rogan
That's it.
No, right there, Jay.
dave landau
It looks like he's doing the spoon trick.
joe rogan
Okay, whoever it is.
But look at it.
That's what I'm talking about.
So when a guy is swinging it full clip, that's what happens to the bat, which is crazy.
dave landau
Dude, that is completely Roy's.
joe rogan
That's him.
Oh, my God.
That's nuts.
Look at that bat.
It looks like it's made out of rubber.
That's so crazy.
Imagine the fucking force your body has to generate to do that to one of those bats.
dave landau
And meanwhile, Pete Rose never gets inducted.
unidentified
I know.
dave landau
Dude, I met him.
I liked him.
unidentified
I know.
joe rogan
That didn't make any sense.
He's just gambling.
It didn't hinder his play.
dave landau
No.
joe rogan
I mean, there was some concern that maybe he bet against his team.
dave landau
That's what it was.
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah, he probably did.
dave landau
Yeah, he says he didn't.
unidentified
I'm not going to allow him in.
Or he's going to be eligible, I believe.
dave landau
Yeah, I figured.
joe rogan
Posthumously, though.
dave landau
Yeah, I figured, yeah, that's what they were going to do.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that's not cool.
He's dead.
He should have done it while he's alive.
dave landau
No, and he'd been around sitting in the MGM in Vegas signing shit for a long time.
He's a great player.
Yes, he was.
He's amazing.
joe rogan
I mean, just because a guy does something like that doesn't mean he didn't do amazing things playing.
And that's what it's supposed to be all about.
The guy was an all-star.
He was one of the greatest of all time.
And he took it away from him because he likes to gamble.
Guess what?
That's also probably why he was so fucking good because he was wild.
unidentified
Yes, exactly.
joe rogan
He was a wild boy.
dave landau
It's true.
Yes.
unidentified
Look at Jordan.
dave landau
Oh, dude.
joe rogan
Degenerate gambler.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
The greatest basketball player who ever walked the face of the fucking earth.
unidentified
Yes.
dave landau
And Pete Rose's dad wasn't taken out of it.
joe rogan
He comes from the same place, man.
He comes from the same place.
dave landau
Yeah, same deal.
Well, yeah, because there's a part of you that wants to do risky things if you're willing to go that far.
You have to have that element in it.
So you kind of want to go like, yeah, he threw a few games with the confidence that the team would still be fine.
unidentified
That's kind of amazing.
dave landau
If he did.
joe rogan
That's a guy chasing money.
He's probably, well, the thing they said about Jordan was he wouldn't pay.
dave landau
Yeah, that's, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of shady shit that happened.
joe rogan
Well, that was that golf hustler that beat him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and then wrote a story about it because Jordan wouldn't pay him.
Then it kind of started getting out.
And then Jordan's dad got murdered.
dave landau
That's why, yeah.
joe rogan
There's a lot there.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah, the connection with that people may have taken out his dad over gambling debts, which is rarely talking about.
joe rogan
You know, here's another connection that I never considered until recently.
Remember when Cosby's kid got murdered?
dave landau
Ah, yeah.
joe rogan
And everybody was like, oh, it's just a random crime.
Maybe not.
dave landau
I don't think it was now.
joe rogan
Well, now, now that you know what Cosby did, imagine if he did that to someone's daughter and they said, oh, well, guess what?
dave landau
Because he wasn't robbed.
joe rogan
Right.
dave landau
They didn't take anything.
unidentified
Right.
dave landau
He was just changing a tire.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
And who knows if he even was.
They could have flagged him down.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Who knows if he even was?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Or who knows if they maybe flattened his tire.
dave landau
Exactly.
To catch him.
joe rogan
Yeah.
They know he's going to drive, flatten his tire, let him drive off a little bit, and he's eventually going to have to stop and pull over.
dave landau
It seems so random to just kill someone for fun.
joe rogan
It's rare.
dave landau
Yeah, very rare.
joe rogan
And when you know what Cosby did, it makes you go, oh, maybe there's something there.
dave landau
And now the stuff that has come out is so, dude, it's so dark.
joe rogan
I heard this lady say that he might be the most prolific serial rapist in history.
dave landau
I don't doubt it.
joe rogan
You imagine how insane that is, the guy who is the, you know, Mr. Huxtable, Dr. Huxtable, the head of the fucking family in the most wholesome sitcom.
Everybody loved it.
Crossed the race barrier.
Made everybody think of like this black family who's like incredibly respectful and well put together and how great is this?
Dude, Phil Cosby's amazing.
dave landau
That doesn't exist without him.
unidentified
Right.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
dave landau
And he had a gynecology office in his basement, which he just slid past everybody on the show.
unidentified
He had a gynecology office?
dave landau
Yeah, Dr. Huxtable was a gynecologist.
And he was a doctor.
And in his basement is where he saw the women, and no one thought anything about it.
joe rogan
Well, how about the one episode that he did about Spanish Fly?
dave landau
Dude, he would talk about it in his act.
He has like old records of Spanish Fly.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Where he's just talking about it like the whole audience is like, yeah, the rape drug.
That's hilarious.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Oh, Bill.
joe rogan
He had a whole episode of the show about his special barbecue sauce.
dave landau
Yes.
Oh, and everybody started making out with each other.
unidentified
Yes.
And each other.
joe rogan
How crazy is that?
dave landau
Well, did you ever see the Cosby Mysteries intro?
unidentified
No.
dave landau
It's a pill going into a martini, and then it just says Cosby Mysteries.
unidentified
What?
dave landau
Yeah, I think he was more deviant than we actually realized and was leaving these little taunting breadcrumbs.
joe rogan
I had heard that he was doing that kind of stuff in the 90s when I was on news radio.
I'd heard from people that knew him or people that knew of him.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Like that he drugs girls.
I was like, what?
Bill Cosby.
I was like, this is crazy.
This is crazier than Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone.
dave landau
Right.
joe rogan
Like, what are you talking about?
dave landau
Yeah, I heard he was like a, I heard he had sex with a lot of women and I was like, well, okay.
Like that's a different thing.
Like, that's, you know, I'm like, whatever.
So he's not spotless, I would assume.
joe rogan
I heard about it in Hollywood.
People knew.
It was like an inside secret.
dave landau
But then, like, when I started becoming a comic, and I was doing small stuff, like not the HBO Vegas Festival.
joe rogan
This was it.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
The Cosby Mysteries.
Oh, that's weird.
Okay, but this is like.
dave landau
His reflections in it.
joe rogan
But this is a mystery, like someone's drugging someone.
This was a show about, this was like a cop show, right?
dave landau
Yeah, he came back out.
joe rogan
He came back out and did a cop show?
unidentified
Yeah.
How weird.
dave landau
It's just crazy that the first thing in it, though, is a drink being drugged.
joe rogan
How weird.
When was that Cosby Mysteries?
dave landau
Oh, I think it was...
joe rogan
It says 94.
dave landau
Was it 94?
Yeah, mid-90s.
joe rogan
How long did that last?
dave landau
Like a season or two.
unidentified
94.
dave landau
Yeah, 94.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
It didn't last very long.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah, people wanted to see him in comedies.
Like, why did he have the most loved comedy sitcom star ever?
dave landau
And his film career wasn't great.
It was like Ghost Dad and, you know, he did it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
It was all very – Fat Albert, there was a story, and I can't remember if it was Fat Albert, but – what's his name?
Keenan Thompson was talking about one of the first times he met Bill Cosby, and he was like, you know, like, you're going to need two dicks for all the pussy you're going to get.
And he was like, what the fuck?
Like, he just couldn't believe it was like one of the first things Cosby had said to him.
joe rogan
Whoa.
dave landau
So it's like he kind of, because you just meet that guy, and you kind of wouldn't expect it to switch so hard.
Especially a guy who's been telling people not to, especially after Eddie Murphy stories and all that stuff.
joe rogan
Eddie Murphy from Raw.
dave landau
Yeah, dude.
And he's like, tell Mr. Cosby that Richard Pryor said have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Do the people laugh?
Do you get paid?
Yeah.
Be ready because when this movie comes out, you're going to need two dicks because the women are going to be all over you.
Sketch Comics called.
Wow.
dave landau
Yeah, so it was that.
joe rogan
Wow.
dave landau
And imagine saying that to somebody over Fat Elbert.
He's like, are you sure?
joe rogan
That one?
I think when he was young, that drugging people was normal.
That's what I think.
I think that whole Spanish fly era where people were just giving people Mickeys.
They're putting things in people's drinks.
dave landau
Quailudes.
joe rogan
I think people did that all the fucking time.
I think it was super normal.
And then I think society eventually evolved and people realized how fucking horrible that is.
And then he kept going.
unidentified
Oh.
joe rogan
That was his move.
dave landau
Yeah, absolutely.
joe rogan
Especially when he got old and ladies didn't want to fuck him.
They wanted a career.
And they thought maybe Bill Cosby said he's going to help me with my acting.
So, you know, you wake up and your panties are off.
You're like, well, what happened?
dave landau
And a lot of them, too, when you see like the roles they would get on the Cosby show now, you have like super model looking women playing a cop.
And it's like he would have private dinners with them, you know, like in his green room.
Just little like super shady shit.
joe rogan
Boy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
So yeah, like he, I guarantee you, maybe him and was it Jordan?
I met him, Belfour.
You've probably met him too.
The Wolf of Warfort Street guy?
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
I'm thinking like Cosby and him may have been the last people on earth to ever have Quailudes.
Like one of them.
joe rogan
What was Quailudes like?
dave landau
I never did Qualudes.
I think they were.
joe rogan
Joey Diaz.
He's a big fan.
dave landau
See, he's older too, and remember that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Yeah, because I've heard him talk about it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
But I've never done Qualudes.
I think they were like, I think the last one was like 90s.
unidentified
She's fly.
joe rogan
Look at that.
She'll do things she's never done before.
Increases sexual.
I don't even think it's real.
dave landau
Dude, it's an ad for rape.
unidentified
Yeah, that's real.
joe rogan
But the stuff.
Yeah, it says it comes from parts of a beetle.
dave landau
That's what they used to say.
joe rogan
So it really works?
Whether it works or not, I would say it was a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a drug.
But that's what I'm saying.
I mean, I'm sure it's real as like a product, but I don't think there's a thing that actually makes you horny.
unidentified
So it would give you extra, like it's like a pre-Viagra type thing.
joe rogan
Yeah, but that doesn't get you horny.
Like Viagra is, it just increases blood flow.
dave landau
Someone had it when I was maybe, I don't know, in middle school, somebody.
joe rogan
Spanish Fly?
dave landau
Yeah, like a bottle of something that said Spanish Fly.
joe rogan
Okay, Google this.
does Spanish fly work?
That's where I was getting, I ended up in marketing because I...
dave landau
Look at all the marketing.
joe rogan
I don't know.
Look at this love with no strings attached.
That's a flight attendant ad.
I think that's Christmas.
Flight attendants were fucking hot back then.
They would hire only hot flight attendants.
dave landau
They would fire you if you weren't.
joe rogan
Spanish Fly movie.
So just Google this for me.
Does Spanish Fly actually make you aroused?
dave landau
Dude, if there's a movie, it was popular.
joe rogan
Does it work?
Oh, let's see.
Spanish Fly is not an aphrodisiac.
It's a toxic substance called carthan cantharidin, cantharidin, derived from blister beetles that can cause severe harm, including pain, burning, and internal damage.
There's no evidence it increases sexual desire.
Ingesting cantharidin can be fatal.
While it causes burning sensation in the urinary tract that can provoke an erection, it is a dangerous side effect, not an aphrodisiac effect.
So it gives you a boner while you're dying.
dave landau
Yeah.
What would it do to women then if you're I guess knock you out and that's why they're like she's horny bro.
joe rogan
Okay, so just google this is there a drug that makes you horny just Google that's like is there a real neck real put it in a chat GPT I mean perplexity or something MDMA I would you know that but it makes you loving right it makes you like kind and want to hug people I don't think it makes you sexual but if you were rolling I mean and like a girl just like touched your knee in a way you were like come you know it was just sort of it was pretty
unidentified
Pretty crazy.
joe rogan
With a soft dick.
dave landau
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what sucked is it didn't help your libido.
joe rogan
No universally proven aphrodisiac drug exists that reliably increases sexual desire across all individuals.
The concept of an aphrodisiac, a substance that enhances libido or sexual performance, has been around for centuries, but scientific evidence is limited and often inconclusive.
So some substances are marketed as that, historical, cultural substances, foods like oysters.
Okay, chocolate.
Okay, none of that stuff works.
Medications, Viagra.
But again, they treat erectile dysfunction by improving blood flow, not by increasing desire.
Yeah, no, no, no, I get it.
Hormonal treatments, testosterone therapy, boosts libido.
Yeah, but it doesn't just make you horny out of nowhere.
dave landau
Yeah, I don't think there's anything.
Like, what is horny goat weed at a gas station?
Nothing.
That's just like poison, right?
unidentified
Poison.
joe rogan
Bath salts.
Remember bath salts?
Bath salts they used to sell at the gas station, and it was basically like some kind of horrible drug that they snuck in by saying it was not for human consumption.
Yeah.
But it was a bath salt, so you'd throw it in the bath.
dave landau
And then, well, you would consume a human, because you remember when the guy ate the dude's face?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that guy in Florida.
But I always feel like you've got to put that through the Florida lens.
It only happened in Florida.
dave landau
That's true.
If it is Florida, you're like, there could have been other elements.
joe rogan
There's a lot of other elements in Florida.
dave landau
There's a whole lifestyle that could have led to this.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
A lot of choices.
joe rogan
But Florida, that was the place where the pill mills really started popping off, because the way Florida had it set up, they had these pain management centers.
dave landau
Yep.
joe rogan
And then attached to the pain management centers, they'd have a doctor that would prescribe it for you.
So the whole thing was just to prescribe pain pills.
So you'd go to the pain management center.
Oh, my back hurts.
Great.
You need this.
Go right next door.
And right next door, all they prescribed was pain pills.
And they didn't have a database.
So you would go there, and then you'd go down the street.
Oh, my back hurts.
Oh, great.
Here you go.
And then next door.
And you could just keep doing this over and over again.
And then this documentary, the OxyContin Express, showed how people were loading up the trunks of their cars with these pain pills and driving up north and into Kentucky, into Ohio.
And that's where all these people started dying of overdoses and all people got addicted to pills.
dave landau
There was also one in Richmond, I want to say, right outside of Richmond, a pharmaceutical company that was also largely responsible for it.
Because I remember even being, working at a pharmacy and going, like my mom was an RN, so I'd go in there.
I remember the doctors, or not the doctors, but like, I remember companies taking out the doctors to eat.
Or like, you'd see like OxyContin reps, or you'd sign with a pen that had a painkiller's name on it.
joe rogan
Yep.
dave landau
All that stuff, I remember.
joe rogan
My wife's mom's a nurse.
And she would tell stories about how the pharmaceutical drug companies would take them out to nice steak dinners and treat them really nice.
And just the whole thing was like, make sure you push our shit.
unidentified
It was, yeah, give our product to the people coming in.
joe rogan
And tell people how great it is.
How great is our product?
dave landau
Dude, they used to give a lot.
Like, I was getting my, when I got my knee messed up, I got hooked on Oxy, on Vicodin.
And I had taken lots of Vicodin before, but I took a prescribed amount that was just way too many for several months in a row.
And then when I came down, it was one of the sickest times I've ever had to deal with.
I'm like shaking, you know, I'm throwing up every few minutes.
And this was the alloweded amount I was supposed to take.
joe rogan
How long did you?
dave landau
Four a day for two months.
And then.
joe rogan
And how long was the, like, before you became normal again?
dave landau
Oh, God.
unidentified
It, I felt real bad for about four to five days.
dave landau
Like, for me, even when I quit smoking, like, I used to smoke three packs a day for almost 12 years.
Wow.
And, but I did a lot of acid and shrooms and shit.
And it was fun.
You know, like, one after the other one did.
It was, but it felt good, you know.
So, like, yeah, I would do that.
But even that, I locked myself in a room when I was living in L.A. And I just didn't leave.
I didn't leave the room for a week.
I just.
Just got clean.
Dude, I just let my body deal with the pain.
Wow.
And then I left.
Like, so it usually takes me about that long, you know, to really detox my system.
If it's something that isn't killer, alcohol was hard.
Alcohol was really hard.
Because I had started shaking when I wouldn't drink when I was 16.
Oh boy.
So yeah.
joe rogan
So you got addicted to it early.
dave landau
Dude, very early.
joe rogan
So it's like a genetic thing with your family.
dave landau
Big time.
And I didn't know about that until later, you know, and like my dad had talked to me a bit before he died.
And like, you know, he died when I was 18.
But he finally talked to me about what was going on with the family and stuff I hadn't known.
And my uncle, who I figured had died of a heroin overdose, but my mom's like, he just had a big heart.
And you're like, did he?
Can I just know the truth?
And it turned out it was lines of years of addiction.
Like my dad's dad was an Irish guy, left him the day he was born, walked in, saw my dad was a twin.
He had a twin sister and goes, I'm not raising two and walked out.
unidentified
Oh, boy.
dave landau
So then he was the opposite dad.
He was loving, coach, all that stuff.
You know, he turned it.
unidentified
Fucked by the government.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
And then fucked by the government.
He became a very, yeah.
joe rogan
It's crazy how that kind of addiction, addiction and mental illness is just fucking hardcore genetic.
And when you have a family that has a long history of mental illness, it's very rare that you're like, I'm fine.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
dave landau
It's very rare that you're an anomaly.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Fine.
joe rogan
Maybe you're not.
unidentified
Good.
Yeah.
joe rogan
I just know so many people that are alcoholics that their family's an alcoholic.
Like guys, I had a buddy that he would drink and his eyes would glaze over and it wouldn't be him anymore.
It'd be like, oh, he's gone.
We just got to wait until he comes back because right now it's whatever the fuck happens to him when he drinks.
Just crazy off the rails.
Like didn't remember anything.
Full blackout.
dave landau
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You'd have to tell him you don't remember being on the table with your dick out.
You don't remember?
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
He didn't remember anything.
dave landau
I was the guy on that side of the phone calls.
See, I were like, you need to apologize to this person.
Did you blackout?
All the time.
unidentified
All the time.
joe rogan
So you didn't remember anything?
dave landau
I wouldn't remember most.
Sometimes I'd brown out, so I'd kind of remember what we did.
There was times where I actually, I was at a party, right?
And then I wake up and I'm handcuffed to a bed in a hospital getting charcoal dumped down.
Oh, getting my stomach pumped.
So I'm like, oh, something happened.
But I went from like being at a party to just being woken up with a charcoal stomach pump.
And I'm like, this isn't good.
joe rogan
Do you talk about any of this stuff on stage?
dave landau
I do, yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, imagine.
You have to.
Like, what are so ripe for material?
dave landau
Yeah.
I put out a book.
It's called Party One, a Fuzzy Memoir a little while ago, and it's all stories of my youth because I was trying to get it all out.
And then I had to ask people, and I didn't put it out for years because I wanted to be like, hey, is it cool if I change, like, talk about it?
And everybody was.
And a couple of my friends who are my really good friends, I had to fuck with where I'm like, don't worry.
I change your name from Brian to Ryan so no one knows the name.
Little shit like that.
But yeah, I talk about a lot of this on stage because, dude, I got institutionalized.
I got like, it was all like crazy.
How'd you get institutionalized?
The story I talk about in the book is what happened the night before, not the book, but on stage, because I have to kind of sum it up.
I actually did it on This Is Not Happening, Ari Show.
And what happened was, was I used to like bong pints and fifths for like a party trick.
And I could carry around a case of beer and drink that in the night.
And mind you, I'm 5'6, but then I'm in high school.
I probably weighed 140 pounds, dude.
Like I was, and if I wasn't on LSD and I wasn't on mushrooms and I wasn't on K, I was drunk.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
So I would switch it all up.
And the night before I had bonged a fifth at a party.
joe rogan
What do you mean by bong?
dave landau
You know the beer bongs that you use that have like the funnel and go through?
So my friend Anthony pulled out this beer bong and my friend Nick poured an entire fifth of absolute vodka and Nick's like, dude, don't do this.
joe rogan
You just drank the whole thing?
dave landau
Well, they put in a cap full of sprite.
Then I drank the whole thing.
And dude, I guess I say this in the story because this is what I was told happened.
I was tap dancing.
I told my girlfriend who I loved that she had orangutan titties.
And then I fell through a table.
A glass table.
Oh, no.
And then, yeah, I ended up getting taken home by the cops.
I don't know exactly what happened, but my mom ended up calling the police, which is, you know, like she didn't know what to do.
I was doing something.
Right.
And they arrested me and I was institutionalized for two weeks.
And I stayed with a kid who thought he was a werewolf.
joe rogan
So you had to go to a mental health institution?
dave landau
I went to a mental health institution because they weren't, they didn't realize it was an addiction.
They just arrested me because my behavior was so erratic.
unidentified
Oh.
dave landau
And I remember getting there and I met my, and I'm not kidding, I met my roommate who was, he was a werewolf.
That's what he believed.
And I'm like, I don't want to, I don't want to stay with him.
And they're like, well, he's not really a werewolf.
I'm like, yeah, I know he's.
joe rogan
What happens when the moon turns full?
dave landau
Well, he attacked me.
Oh, boy.
unidentified
Yeah.
dave landau
So, and they hit you.
What they do is they grab a tank, a trank.
It's called booty juice.
And they hit you in the butt with it.
And like the guards will fight you off.
But after two weeks, they're like, he's not, it's not so much that he's got mental illness, which he does, but he's an alcoholic.
He's a severe alcoholic.
joe rogan
But your roommate, the werewolf.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
He attacked you when the moon turned white?
dave landau
Yeah, one night he just started howling.
And I don't even think wolves howl.
And he was way bigger than me.
joe rogan
You don't think wolves howl?
dave landau
Werewolves.
unidentified
They do.
joe rogan
American werewolf in London.
dave landau
But he was barking, too.
joe rogan
Patients say sedative known as booty juice injected against their will.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Growing number of children and teenagers admitted voluntarily to North Texas for-profit psychiatric hospitals told WFAA they've been injected with powerful sedative drugs without their parents' knowledge.
Booty juice.
dave landau
Yeah, which that kid deserved it.
They shouldn't have called the parents and go, hey, your wolf boy is fucking naked trying to eat a guy.
joe rogan
Was he naked when he took those clothes off?
dave landau
Because he thought he was a werewolf, dude.
joe rogan
So tell me what that was like.
dave landau
Well, he's jumping on top of me and I grabbed a lamp to hit him with it, but it was fucking glued down because it's a mental hospital.
So that just kind of made me open my arms to him.
And he's on top trying to bite me and I'm like holding him back.
And that's when they came in and they run at him.
They ran at him.
They hit him with the syringe.
They pulled him off me.
And I'm just sitting there like, I don't want to be here.
Like, I'll never drink again.
You know, like basically crying like a bitch.
Like, and, you know, I'll never drink again was like my catchphrase through the 90s.
So they pull him out of there.
And then, you know, and then eventually they sent me off to a rehab where I spent, I think I spent 45 days there.
And I heard it's not there anymore, which is a shame because a lot of kids do need that now.
And I heard they took it down.
Like it's no longer there.
And I went there and the second I got out, I didn't drink.
I didn't drink for like a month.
But the second I got in my friend's car, I hit a joint.
And I'm not saying that that's bad, but it's like, dude, the second I was, I was, they're like, you can't drink, right?
And I'm like, yeah, like, but you can smoke weed.
I'm like, yeah.
So I immediately hit a joint.
joe rogan
Oh, my God, Dave.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
dave landau
And that's what makes.
joe rogan
It's kind of amazing that you're here.
dave landau
Dude, yeah, I got a lot of shit.
joe rogan
You look great, though.
Thank you.
For a guy who's gone through as much shit as you?
dave landau
Yeah, like.
joe rogan
Three packs a day, alcohol, acid.
dave landau
Dude, so much acid.
joe rogan
D-U-Is.
Falls through the table.
Look at you fine.
dave landau
You know what is interesting, though?
All the drugs now, because like I told you, I was a real kind of depressed kid.
And all the drugs that I did to treat depression are now used to treat depression.
Mushrooms, ketamine, all that shit, dude.
joe rogan
Right.
dave landau
Like, I spent five years in high school when it turns out I was completely accurate with my studies of how these drugs would help me.
joe rogan
You were self-medicating.
dave landau
And I was accurate with it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dave landau
Because, dude, I would do K and I'd just be sitting there in a K-hole in class, just think the desk is moving.
joe rogan
Jesus, dude.
dave landau
And acid was the most fun to do in class because your teacher's face is melting and you're just sitting there like, it's so much fun.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
But I was a mess, but at the same time, so many of my friends were, too.
It wasn't like just me.
joe rogan
Right.
So it felt normal.
dave landau
Yeah.
Like, I mean, I was the worst of them and technically slowest because I was arrested more than anybody.
joe rogan
You were the most fun.
What did you think you were going to do for a living back then?
dave landau
The only thing I ever loved was acting in comedy.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
dave landau
My dad would wake me up when I was a kid to watch SNL.
And it wasn't something that him and my brother, they'd watch like baseball and stuff, but we'd watch SNL together.
We would watch old movies with like John Candy, Steve Martin, like all those people.
And then he introduced me to stand-up.
And my dad bought me Kinnison, Carlin.
He bought me Carlin Classic Gold on tape when I was nine.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
Which had seven dirty words and all that.
He bought me Dangerfield, button-down mind of Bob Newhart, Eddie Murphy.
He showed me Delirious when I was like eight.
unidentified
Wow.
dave landau
And I, dude, I still laugh so hard because that like the whole bid he does about the hamburger was so relevant then.
Like I got McDonald's at home and he's like, you can't have none.
You on the welfare.
And I knew what that meant then and I was crying laughing because I loved Eddie Murphy, you know?
So he introduced me to comedy and the only thing I had any interest in was that.
And one day Second City opened up in Detroit.
And I was pissing this teacher off somewhat and she stopped me after class.
And she goes, do you know what Second City is?
And I go, yeah, my dad's told me about it.
It's like where all these SNL people came from.
And she's like, yeah, you're actually really funny, but you're a fucking pain in the ass in my class.
And I was like, okay.
joe rogan
That's a cool teacher.
dave landau
It really was.
And she goes, she goes, you should consider taking classes there.
And I said, wow.
Okay.
So after my fifth year, the first thing I did was I listened to her and my dad, and I signed up for Second City.
And dude, years later, I'm doing improv on stage with this group, Motor City Improv.
And like, it's more bar provision around, you know?
Right.
But my, one of the guys in the group was, hey, my wife's going to come too.
And it was my teacher.
And I got to do improv with her years later.
joe rogan
Wow.
dave landau
And it was really cool, man.
Because it was the first time somebody didn't scold me.
They stopped me to go like, you genuinely have something and you're not just this waste.
joe rogan
Right.
dave landau
And no one had ever, besides my parents, but nobody else had ever said that before.
joe rogan
Well, that's so cool that she was already in that world, so she understood.
dave landau
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
We were actually just having a conversation about that last night in the green room.
Not last night, night before.
And we were talking about times in your life that someone could have just told you, this is behavior like a stand-up comedian.
Like, that's a real job.
Yeah.
You know how you like fixing cars and you could be a mechanic?
You know how you like talking shit?
You're funny.
Everybody laughs.
This is a job.
But everybody just tells you you're a fucking loser and you're never going to mount to anything and get out of my class.
dave landau
And that's, and I was very lucky.
Like my parents, my dad was just about to pass when I told him, I think I'm going to do Second City and then take this film class up in Lansing, Michigan, which is what I did.
I did film and I did that and I would go back and forth.
And he was like, you should.
Like that's what you've always wanted to do.
Like I had a camera in my hand since I was a kid.
Like my parents never wanted me to have a backup plan.
They were like, find something you love.
And we were really only torn apart as a family because of what we experienced, you know, from my dad just being screwed.
Yeah.
So we were, if I think if I had even a more direct line, I may have gotten there sooner, you know, but I was, I was angry and depressed and pissed off.
You know, my whole attitude was, fuck you, fuck the system.
Yeah.
So when I finally found that outlet, it was wonderful, dude.
Especially when you're writing sketches and watching them come to life and you're ripping on the people that have fucked you over.
And like, there's such a good feeling about that.
And a lot of people that I met have gone on to do great things.
Like I was in a troop with Sam Richardson who went on to do Detroiters.
And, you know, there's Tim Robinson, who I didn't know him well or anything, but we did improv a couple times.
And it's cool to see him like skyrocket with I think you should leave and all these other stuff.
And Keegan Michael Key was somebody that was out of the Detroit chapter.
So there's like some really cool people that ended up coming out of there.
joe rogan
What was the stand-up scene like?
Like what was the big club?
dave landau
The big club was Mark Ridley's comedy cast.
joe rogan
Okay, I heard that.
dave landau
Yeah, and I started.
joe rogan
That's supposed to be a great spot.
dave landau
Dude, it's unbelievable.
And he was the guy who you wanted to do stand-up in front of because he was there every night tearing tickets.
Dude, he was a part of it from the late 70s until he had a heart attack maybe around 2010.
His son, Ryan Ridley, was the head writer of Rick and Morty.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
dave landau
So he, dude, he's a great dude.
And you just had Mike Costa on.
joe rogan
Yes.
dave landau
Mike was in my group when I started.
joe rogan
Oh, no, kids.
dave landau
Yeah, he was one of the people that I started with.
And then a guy named Matt McClowry, he's actually featuring for me this weekend, who's unbelievably funny, dude.
joe rogan
At the mothership?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
dave landau
Yeah, yeah.
He's got Asperger's.
Adam knows him.
And dude, he's funny.
Yeah, yeah.
If any luck, he'll think he's a lady.
joe rogan
Well, he doesn't think he's a werewolf.
dave landau
But yeah, dude, he's a beast.
And like, we had a pretty cool group when we started where we weren't kissing each other's ass.
We were all just trying to figure it out.
joe rogan
Oh, that's great.
dave landau
So we would like criticize each other.
And we've all done pretty well considering where people have gone off to, at least in the sense of making money and making a living, making people laugh.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
dave landau
We were lucky because there was like 10 different clubs in Detroit where you could go like, okay, I'll go do Ridley's in the suburbs, but then I can go do a super urban room, you know, in the city and I can get used to that audience.
Then I can go to Ann Arbor and I can be in a bunch of in front of liberals at the showcase or at the Heidelberg Project.
And then I can go, you know, so you could go all over and you could experience every kind of audience you could ever be in front of at 10 different places in a week.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
dave landau
It was really cool.
joe rogan
That's awesome.
Listen, dude, this was a lot of fun.
dave landau
Thank you.
I really like talking to you.
joe rogan
I'm glad you're alive.
Thank you to listening to your stories.
It's kind of a miracle that you made it this far.
But you're a good dude, and it's always fun to have you at the club.
It's been a lot of fun.
Thank you.
I'm excited to see you this weekend.
dave landau
I appreciate it, Joe.
unidentified
Thank you for having me.
joe rogan
It's my pleasure, brother.
Tell everybody how they can find you, all your stuff online.
dave landau
Oh, you can go to DaveLandau.com.
I have everything on there.
You can check out tour dates and everything.
And also, yeah, I guess I brought up my book, Party of One, a Fuzzy Memoir.
It did really well on Amazon.
Nice.
And yeah, a lot of people have enjoyed it.
And a lot of the stories will be much funnier to you than they were for me to live.
So I hope you enjoy it.
joe rogan
All right.
Beautiful.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
Thanks, brother.
unidentified
Thank you.
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