Comedian and TV host Joe Rogan joins Jemele to talk about his early days on Hardball and how he came out as gay in the early 90s. They also talk about how they first met, how they met, and how they became friends. Joe and Jemele also get into the early days of his comedy career and what it was like growing up in Los Angeles in the 90s and early 2000s. Joe also talks about how he got into the UFC and why he thinks Eddie Murphy should have been fired from Hardball. And how he first realized that he was gay when he was a kid growing up watching Rob Halford on MTV's MTV Rock and Roll and how it changed his perception of what it meant to be a rock and roll star. And why he doesn t have an earring in his right ear. And how it's a good thing he doesn't have a big hoop in his left ear because that's what defines what it means to be "gay" in the eyes of the people who know him the most. And why you should be allowed to have a little hoop in your left ear too. Joe also explains why he's not a "moron" and why you shouldn't have to have one in your right ear, even if it's not the most important part of your ear. And he also explains how he thinks you should not have a "big hoop" in your ear and why it's better than a "little hoop in the left. or you're not allowed to be gay. Thanks for listening to this episode, Joe! You're a good dude, bro. XOXO, -Jemele. -Eddie Murphy -Joe Rogan Joe Rogans - Jemele and EJ & EJ - EJ, EJOE ROGAN Thank you for being a good friend of mine and I hope you have a good day, mate. I love you, Joe XO, JOE, JORDY, and I appreciate you, JOGAN, JAMIE, JEANXO JOE R RYANGOOD FRIENDS, JO JEROME, JODY, AND JOE AND JAMES, JODA, JOSIE, I LOVE YOU, BABY! -SORRY ABOUT THIS EPISODES, ETC.
00:01:59.000It's not like we've hung out all the time, but I remember just being in LA, just hanging out talking to you, and I couldn't relate to a lot of...
00:02:07.000You know, I wanted leather pants and a fucking white tiger walking down.
00:03:55.000And the reason why I would argue is because I'd say, he doesn't have an earring in his right ear, because that's what defined what was gay.
00:04:03.000I had dangling cross earrings, so everyone that was gay knew, hey, Brewer is not gay, he's got it on the left side.
00:04:11.000But if you had it on the right ear, you're like, oh, this guy.
00:06:56.000Like, I've been to parties at Friends House that have, like, really cool friends, and you meet interesting people, and you have, like, really fun conversations.
00:07:03.000But in Hollywood, it was a lot of, like, who you know, and what are you doing, and what we're planning, and how we're gonna take over, and...
00:07:22.000You know how a lot of kids today have a real problem with social media because they're looking at other people's stuff and other people's faces look perfect because they're wearing filters and they have this...
00:07:32.000They see other people partying and they have the FOMO, the fear of missing out.
00:08:23.000So, Mr. Hatz, who's literally like a Dr. Seuss character anyway, would try to impress his people, and I'll never forget, he's like, I've got this brand new Lamborghini, you gotta check it out.
00:08:38.000And so I, but Mr. Hatz didn't buy a brand new Lamborghini, he bought a used one, and he goes to this lot, which is next to Jay Lentz, that's all they do is name drop, name drop, money, name drop.
00:08:52.000And so he's pulling out of the garage.
00:09:21.000Going to that distance just to show off is is just Exhausting some people they think that that's the only way in their head.
00:09:30.000They've ever made it They have to have that thing where they show I've got the Lamborghini I got the house in the Hollywood Hills Like here.
00:09:37.000I am like that's one of the reasons why people like to throw parties It's not just to have a bunch of people over the house to show you what they have like look and I was I think I was falling for that in the beginning I fell for it hard How'd you get out of it?
00:11:05.000Right after, well, okay, so when you, at the end of the day, I didn't even want SNL. I didn't want SNL. You and I both know that was, nobody came out of there going, that's the greatest gig.
00:11:20.000It's very rarely people came out of there.
00:11:21.000They come out of there like they were in a fight.
00:11:46.000But we were all, like, really, like, in terms of, like, actors, genuinely supportive.
00:11:52.000Like, Dave Foley was the most supportive guy ever.
00:11:54.000Like, he was always writing jokes for you.
00:11:56.000He was always, like, rewriting scenes for you.
00:11:59.000Like, Jim, why don't you come in and say this instead?
00:12:01.000He would write, like, really great lines.
00:12:04.000But Phil was like, like he was in a competition at first.
00:12:08.000He thought like everybody was going to be competitive.
00:12:10.000And then he, once he relaxed, Phil liked to smoke weed.
00:12:13.000And once he relaxed, he's like, you know, going over there was like, everything was like dog eat dog and everybody's at each other's throats.
00:12:19.000It's dog-eat-dog, and there's no rhyme or reason.
00:15:30.000When you find someone that don't give a shit about the industry, and they only care about you, it's very hard...
00:15:39.000As an artist that's chasing a star, because you're always chasing the star, and you're always chasing the mansion, she would go, I'll never forget, she's like, why don't you just quit?
00:16:40.000And then one of the head writers would come in in the doorway and go, Hey, I see you're writing a sketch about blah, blah, blah, because we have the main server and we check everyone's sketches.
00:16:52.000I just want to let you know I'm writing the same thing.
00:16:56.000He goes, You can continue yours, but, you know...
00:18:13.000The whole room is set, and you're sitting there, and then this person, you know, Lauren goes, next sketch is, you know, Al Pacino, a Scarface, reading to schoolchildren, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
00:18:42.000When you say something, which I eventually did, dude, I think I may be, and I want to challenge all SNL cast and writers, I may be the last one that threatened violence.
00:19:23.000so that's where that place brought me wow and so and that particular instance was see now i'm getting all over that's got to be coming from the top down because the when when i got alone with phil like phil and i became close and you know we would hang out together especially in his his dress room he had a nice dress room had it all set up had a guitar looking at his aviation books and shit and And we would talk about his time there.
00:19:50.000And he's like, it just made me bitter and angry.
00:23:09.000What you got to do is get on the update and you got to do everything you can to go on the update and everything you can to get in the opening monologue because the headwriters can't mess with you.
00:23:20.000He goes, that's not really their department.
00:23:22.000That is so crazy that that's something you have to think about.
00:23:25.000So then that's why I started doing it.
00:23:26.000If you notice in 98, I started getting more monologues.
00:23:30.000And then even there, they were like, we got this.
00:25:25.000She goes, you said in your life, if any job, no matter how much money it paid, makes you a miserable human being and changes the person you are, you weren't going to work there.
00:27:18.000The environments that they created in all the different seasons of SNL, and I don't know from firsthand experience, but from everybody that I know that's worked there, it's been this super competitive, toxic, political, backstabby sort of a thing that you become like those show business cliches if you fall into it.
00:27:41.000And to be honest with you, Joe, when I would see...
00:27:44.000Each week, you'd see a new celebrity, like you do.
00:27:50.000You see people come in and out of here.
00:29:31.000That's got to be the saddest one when you wish that you could just be yourself, but you can't.
00:29:36.000I feel terrible for gay guys in show business that are still trapped, and I have a few friends that are great guys, but they just feel like if they come out that people won't look at them the same way.
00:32:10.000When I was, I think I was 18 or 19, I went to see Kevin Meaney at Catch a Rising Star in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he was on Top of the World.
00:35:49.000And I think the division that we have in this country is very disturbing.
00:35:51.000And I think there's a weird, almost like a mental contagion that's going on through this country of division, of left versus right, where people are choosing sides and people are...
00:36:01.000You know, either everyone's a communist or everyone's a racist.
00:36:04.000It's like there's these absolutes that people are trying to describe people in these ways and it's very disturbing to me because I don't think I've ever been a part of...
00:36:14.000For sure, I've never seen society this divided.
00:36:18.000And where do you think that comes from, honestly?
00:36:24.000It's a big part of looking for like-minded groups and finding them and also being afraid to deviate from any lines that have been established.
00:36:33.000Like, if you don't agree with this, you're a that.
00:36:36.000If you don't agree with that, you're a this.
00:36:38.000And there's these people getting these echo chambers.
00:36:42.000And then there's these algorithms that unfortunately feed into natural human patterns of behavior, which is to gravitate towards things that infuriate you.
00:36:51.000So whether it's Facebook, did you ever see The Social Dilemma?
00:36:58.000It's so disturbing because they're essentially setting this up, and it reinforced how I felt and explained things even better to me.
00:37:05.000And in that documentary, what they're essentially saying is that if this keeps going, we're on the verge of civil war, that these social media algorithms, whether it's for Instagram or Twitter, and the way these things affect the human mind And how these people are profiting off of this stuff in a massive,
00:37:24.000massive way, that they're leaning us closer and closer towards the ultimate division, like literally a civil war.
00:39:28.000I came in, I had to have a COVID test before I walked in here, right?
00:39:31.000So I was talking to your nurse, and I said, I had it.
00:39:35.000I had it in December, and I didn't tell anyone, because I put it on social media, and I put it everywhere, because I didn't want people like, oh, we're going to cancel shows, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:39:45.000It's just the hysteria that goes along.
00:44:15.000And I went, I'm not getting the other test.
00:44:16.000So I called a friend, said, I'll get you something by tomorrow.
00:44:23.000I got stuff by the next day, and in two days that stuff was clear.
00:44:29.000So I started asking her, Why don't people...
00:44:35.000And I just left the town of Chester, New Jersey, and there's about 15 of us, a group, that formed this community during the whole COVID. And this one woman just got it.
00:45:24.000And she's like, that's a great question.
00:45:26.000I go, it's a simple, it's just a question.
00:45:29.000So if I'm a doctor, and Joe Rogan comes to me and says, hey, man, my daughter's positive, I have sinus, are you having trouble?
00:45:36.000No, well, I can give you this, because I know it's not going to kill you, and I know it's going to be, I'm going to give you antibiotics, and hopefully in two, three days it will clear up.
00:45:46.000And if it gets worse, then we'll take care of it then, because clearly this is not going to make you worse.
00:45:55.000And then my other question was, if that doctor, an infectious disease doctor, doesn't allow that test, how many people take that test and it counts as a number, but yet it doesn't count?
00:46:11.000So what is really going on, is my question.
00:46:15.000There's a lot of confusion, a massive amount of people.
00:46:17.000There's a disease that kills some folks.
00:46:20.000And there's a disease that we, in the beginning stages of this pandemic, thought was going to be far more severe than it turned out to be.
00:53:39.000And it literally has an actual physical measurable effect, and it's called the placebo effect.
00:53:44.000Well, there's also something that they believe is more powerful than the placebo effect, and that's the nocebo effect.
00:53:50.000The nocebo effect is telling someone that they have a disease, telling someone that there's an incurable disease or that they're sick, And then they fucking panic.
00:55:59.000What voodoo is, is you tell someone, if you're a charismatic person, you have white paint on your face and fucking feathers and skulls on sticks, and you tell them, I put a curse on you.
00:56:11.000And if you believe that shit, you'll be in a full terror.
00:58:48.000And she said, okay, well, I'll bring you to Metallica.
00:58:52.000She goes to Metallica, brings him in the wheelchair, he's got all his stuff, and then she sees while she's waiting on tickets, all these other Metallica fans, and, you know, they start like, oh, man, dude, you know, they're taking care, and they become like a little, hey, next, then they, you know, and she saw how happy he was.
00:59:11.000And how much life was brought to him just from seeing Metallica.
00:59:17.000Now with that, now she goes, maybe I should follow them.
00:59:23.000So she goes and buys come more tickets and he's got life.
00:59:28.000Now they follow them every time they tour.
00:59:31.000And I saw them, and then they come to see me.
00:59:34.000And when I first met him, he was very subdued.
01:01:13.000And if this guy is all of a sudden around all these people, the music is doing something to him physically, and then he has a sense of community and all this fun and love and camaraderie, yeah, your fucking pistons start firing.
01:01:44.000Like redlining your personality, redlining your stress levels, redlining your life.
01:01:50.000And so for a guy that's been like, damn!
01:01:53.000And then like, okay, I gotta get off this ride for a little bit.
01:01:56.000And then you talk to him and he's just aware that he redlined his life.
01:02:01.000And he apparently redlined his life again, right?
01:02:04.000Started indulging again after that and had to stop again.
01:02:09.000But to be a man that is that famous, that is that universally loved, to have that much pressure and attention and to live that crazy life, that arena rock life of a...
01:05:28.000And he's definitely showboat, and I loved everything about it.
01:05:33.000And I'm sitting there in the front, and he comes in, and they start the first round, and I feel like Diaz had the best of him the first round.
01:05:43.000I don't remember a lot of it, but I remember the second round starting, and McGregor said something to him like, is that the best you got?
01:09:52.000The UFC has their own Performance Institute and across the street from the Performance Institute, they have this thing called the Apex Center.
01:09:58.000So it's a training facility on one side of it, but then inside is a small arena.
01:10:02.000It's like a smaller cage, smaller octagon, and it could seat, if they're allowed to have a crowd, it could seat 1,000, 1,500 people maybe at the most.
01:14:11.000They heard me talking about it at a fucking Nick's Pizza place.
01:14:13.000But being a guy that's making, it just seems so ironic to me, to be making license plates that say live free or die while you're trapped in a cage.
01:14:26.000Those days, man, those early days when I see kids today, like if I'll go to Kill Tony and I'll watch the open mic guys go up and try it for the third or fourth.
01:16:48.000And that's the ones you and Dave have been doing?
01:16:50.000Yeah, me and Dave and Donald Rollins, and the other night we did it with Ron White, Michelle Wolfe's done a bunch, Mo Amher's done a bunch of them with us, and we've been having so much fun.
01:16:59.000And then we've also been doing Vulcan Gas Company sometimes.
01:17:03.000It's like a local place, and they'll have local shows.
01:17:07.000They have a show there tonight, and fuck around there just to keep the chops loose.
01:17:13.000And eventually I'm opening up a club here.
01:20:02.000And then in the article, one of the things they said, also, people who don't have COVID get the same thing from walking around the house barefoot.
01:20:45.000The problem is it's profitable, so there's a bunch of clickbait titles, and it's also very influential, right?
01:20:51.000And because they know it's influential, they can lean the news one way or the other.
01:20:55.000If someone could come along and have a fact-based, completely objective, research-driven, completely non-biased news program, it would be so valuable to people.
01:21:15.000That's what they used to teach you in journalism.
01:21:17.000But now, young journalists, if you pay attention to some of the stories that come out of the New York Times, or even some of the most respected newspapers in the country, they're activists.
01:29:28.000And I wanted to say, did you ever talk to him?
01:29:34.000And say, well, just like the ugly duckling, the ugly duckling was very ugly and didn't like his penis and didn't really understand why his penis existed because he's five years old.
01:29:47.000And then by the time he's seven, eight years old, you start explaining that, hey, the penis is going to maybe, you know, hey, there's some good things.
01:29:55.000There's going to be times you're going to have to piss really bad and you're going to enjoy that penis and you go out in the bushes and you pee while...
01:30:00.000This is the weirdest ugly duckling story ever.
01:30:03.000Imagine if your dad is telling you the ugly duckling story about dicks and you're like, what are you trying to say, dad?
01:30:26.000And I'm not to judge, but I just find it extremely dangerous unless your child is in a situation where they may die.
01:30:42.000Well, there's no situation where you may die if you don't change your gender, unless you're talking about suicide.
01:30:47.000No, I'm saying to change your body's chemistry.
01:30:52.000Because another thing is, I've dealt with teenagers that are addicts, and they'll clearly tell you the reason why drugs and alcohol are so bad at you at the age of 13,
01:31:07.00014, 15, because your brain is not developed.
01:31:45.000One ideology is that this person has always been a girl and that they know by the time they're two and you should get them on hormone blockers as quickly as you can so you can change their gender as quickly as you can.
01:31:57.000And then there's another ideology that says, hey, wait a minute, you are doing something that, first of all, is very recent in terms of medical science.
01:32:05.000They haven't been around that long in terms of these gender or these hormone blockers.
01:32:08.000And you're allowing children to make decisions at a very young age that will affect them literally for the rest of their life.
01:32:17.000It's not like it's a 100% success rate.
01:32:20.000There's a lot of kids who go through gender reassignment surgery that are very regretful.
01:32:26.000You can read all these personal accounts.
01:32:29.000If there was a thing that always worked, like every time you did it, and like, oh, they feel so much better.
01:32:36.000I'm not making a comparison in terms of the same thing, but here's a good example.
01:32:41.000If someone wanted a nose job, like maybe someone has a really fucked up nose, a deformed hump on their nose, and you take that thing down, and then they look much better, and they're much happier.
01:33:13.000It's also, there's been studies that show that for some of these people that don't transition, that wanted to transition when they were young, they wind up just becoming gay as they get older.
01:33:23.000And there's nothing wrong with that either.
01:33:26.000Human beings, if they want to do this as they're an adult, and they know for a fact they want to do it as an adult...
01:33:33.000Then they should be able to make their own choices.
01:33:36.000But when you're talking about really young children and then you have all this reinforcement from people and trans activists and people that literally encourage people to do this.
01:34:35.000And it's about young girls in particular, that there's been an uptick of over, I think, I believe it's over 1000% of kids identifying, particularly girls, identifying as trans when they're in high school.
01:34:48.000It's called rapid onset gender dysphoria, where these girls, a lot of times socially awkward girls, a lot of times girls who may be on the spectrum, they may have issues, and they get together and decide in clusters that they're trans.
01:35:07.000And statistically speaking, it doesn't necessarily make sense if you think about how many people out of a hundred would naturally be trans, or out of a thousand, or out of a million.
01:35:18.000It's much higher than that for these groups, and they feel like they're being influenced by social pressures, and they're making these decisions.
01:36:10.000Well, this is the problem, because they don't want anyone We're good to go.
01:36:26.000They were trying to say that if you get someone on hormone blockers when they're young and they change their mind and decide to be the sex that they were born with, that there will be no damage.
01:36:34.000Now they're saying, no, that's not true.
01:36:36.000Now they're saying, you will definitely change the way that person develops and grows, and they will have damage.
01:36:42.000So, like, this is obvious to anybody that knows anything about the human body and about hormones.
01:36:47.000But they were trying to pretend that it wouldn't have any effect on them.
01:36:59.000A lot of it starts with people that don't live in the real world and they live in these super insulated liberal environments like universities.
01:37:57.000I think in terms of education, the type of people that wind up doing that are the type of people that go to school, they get indoctrinated into that environment, and then they wind up teaching.
01:38:10.000They stay in this mindset, and it's very much like any other...
01:38:16.000Ideological mindset, whether it's a religion or a cult or liberal thinking that mirrors religion in a lot of ways because there's no compromise.
01:38:28.000You're compelled to think a certain way and you're criticized and ostracized if you don't comply.
01:40:02.000And the difference in the spectrum is, if you took a world-class sprinter, world-class sprinter as a woman, top of the food chain, Olympic gold medalist, There are high school athletes that will bury her as males.
01:40:21.000You can take the best sprinter in the world and you'll find a hundred male high school, high school, 15-year-olds, who will leave her in the dust.
01:41:49.000Because many kids, you can take ADHD and they may not be good learners because what you're shoving down their throat is not only boring, but they know it has no substance or nothing that will prep them for anything that's real in human soul existence.
01:42:10.000There's a lot of debate about that stuff, too.
01:42:34.000Diseasing and drugging your children at a very young age, and every time they got a new drug and a new something, it seems that it's infiltrated, it's put out, it's sold, and you need to create something to sell it.
01:42:51.000And I just sit back, I watch, if I say something, I'm a conspiracy guy, but I do feel we're coming to a head either We need to start thinking and questioning everything,
01:43:08.000or we're heading in a wacky, wacky new world.
01:43:19.000Yeah, and we're actually moving into the matrix, which is even crazier because people are getting closer and closer to an electronic reality where you're completely connected all the time.
01:43:28.000If you were to take away all visual, All visual.
01:44:27.000And the best way to have it taught is to have it taught by someone who's a professional intellectual.
01:44:32.000Like someone who's actually been studying all this stuff all day long.
01:44:36.000Most people, if you have a craft, like say if you're a blacksmith.
01:44:39.000If you're a blacksmith and you make horseshoes or knives or whatever the fuck you make, you don't have the time to acquire all of Galileo's theories and writings.
01:44:48.000Listen to what Newton had to say about gravity.
01:45:14.000Because the children listen to them, look up to them, and a lot of them have immense egos because of the fact they have this immense power.
01:45:21.000A lot of them also are in a position of power for the first time in their life.
01:45:25.000So much like a newly famous person that wants a white tiger, they become indoctrinated into this world of power And attention.
01:45:33.000And so then they demand compliance in this ideology they're teaching to children.
01:45:39.000And then those children eventually get jobs at the university and some of them become professors themselves.
01:45:46.000And so they continually perpetuate this world that they were indoctrinated into.
01:45:52.000And this world is extremely left-wing.
01:45:56.000And they feel like they should be able to do these things here.
01:46:00.000Do you remember there was a lady that got in trouble a few years back because she was on a university campus and this was when they first started doing safe spaces.
01:46:08.000They first started doing these safe spaces and this one kid who was an Asian kid was filming this safe space and this woman who was a professor was Was yelling at him to put the camera down.
01:46:24.000He's like, I'm reporting for the school.
01:46:45.000She's telling this guy and then she's calling for people to come.
01:46:49.000She literally asked for muscle to come and help her physically intimidate this guy to stop him because she's saying a bunch of ridiculous shit and he's filming it.
01:46:58.000So he puts it online and she winds up having to apologize and everybody Right.
01:47:24.000Whether it's through Russia, the way the Russians did it, or the way the Chinese did it, when they want compliance, there's only one way to stop the people that resist.
01:47:41.000When you're trying to tell people what to do and they don't want to listen, and you have other people that are willing to, hey, hey, hey, will you take care of this?
01:49:32.000This is what I learned about television, too.
01:49:35.000I would like anyone to just—I always say, look at all the TV shows, and you tell me, out of all the shows that are out there, all the channels, who's the strong, smart male?
01:50:16.000And the best way to get something on the air...
01:50:20.000If you're going to do a comedy in particular, is to have the bumbling male, like the Al Bundy, like he's falling apart, and then you have...
01:50:29.000Those themes exist over and over and over again.
01:50:32.000But then some people tell me this, I'll go, well, I'll say, if you think news is really good, if they really cared about humanity, they would say, hey, man...
01:52:10.000You could be the nicest guy in the world, but if you have some sort of a message about Trump, well, here's the thing people don't know about Trump.
01:52:18.000Unemployment among black families is lower than it's ever been before.
01:54:45.000They took him off the plane, but he was throwing a fit, and he went into the cockpit and filmed both of the pilots who didn't have masks on.
01:54:54.000And he said, we're all breathing the same fucking air, and you guys don't even have masks on.
01:56:10.000What Rand Paul was saying to Fauci was that when people have got the virus and got over it, even the small amount of cases where people did get reinfected, it was very mild.
01:56:22.000And he was pointing out the fact that you keep these antibodies for a long time.
01:56:26.000And they're showing people, Jamie has antibodies from October.
01:57:31.000Getting reinfected is extremely rare, and when they do get reinfected, it's much more mild.
01:57:37.000He talked about the data that shows that people are showing that they have these antibodies five, eight months after infection, just like Jamie does.
01:58:20.000You said, let's look at the science proves X, Y, and Z. You're doing theater.
01:58:26.000And every time he kept saying that, Fauci kept dancing and would not answer the question.
01:58:31.000But what you'll see on media later today, I guarantee you, will be Fauci with something he says as to, oh, Fauci says we need to X, Y, Z. And they won't show an inkling.
02:02:48.000So it's like one of two things that's happened.
02:02:50.000Either COVID is so fucking contagious that it transfers even when people are wearing masks and social distancing, it's still making its way through the population, which is what you see in California, right?
02:03:04.000Because California's had the strictest COVID lockdowns and the longest.
02:03:08.000But they have really high levels of COVID infection.
02:03:11.000They've had terrible, terrible results with their lockdowns.
02:03:15.000And then the economic results is the worst by far.
02:03:18.000I mean, they've doubled, more than doubled their unemployment rate.
02:03:21.000It's fucking chaos in terms of homeless people.
02:03:24.00075% of all LA restaurants are gone forever.
02:03:38.000Is it that these masks and social distancing are super effective with the flu because the flu is just not quite as contagious, so it just knocked it dead?
02:06:55.000What I'm worried is you and I are in our 50s and we're looking at this like guys who are older who are looking at the kids coming up today and going, what the fuck are they doing?
02:07:06.000I'm worried that the kids that are coming up that don't recognize that they are being mentally manipulated and the narrative is being controlled by the media and it's being...
02:08:03.000That could be what's bubbling up right now, but we won't know until it's too late.
02:08:09.000When all this shit was going on in the universities, I was complaining about it years ago.
02:08:12.000And I remember people saying, like, why do you care what's happening in universities?
02:08:17.000You're a comedian living in Los Angeles, and you're caring about these arguments in universities where they're shutting down conservative speakers and blowing bullhorns and setting off fire alarms.
02:08:33.000They're controlling the way these children see the world, and they're forcing compliance to this one ideology, whereas school is supposed to be about ideas competing.
02:08:45.000It's supposed to be the battleground of ideas, and you're supposed to be uncomfortable, and you're supposed to learn from things in these uncomfortable environments where people discuss things, and you get to hear one person's perspective versus another person's perspective.
02:08:57.000Is there nothing more exciting if we had four or five of us and we have all different views and we're just hanging out and we're just talking and, you know, I'm not really into what this one's saying, but like, you know what?
02:10:25.000But that's not what's being promoted today.
02:10:27.000What's being promoted today is either you think the way I think or you're a bigot.
02:10:31.000That's dangerous because you're getting kids to think that they have to think a certain way or they'll be ostracized and to be a rebel to stand out against this woke shit that they're teaching it puts you in a very vulnerable position socially Very vulnerable position for people that are at their most vulnerable in life.
02:10:51.000Young people that are trying to find themselves and they're trying to fit in.
02:12:04.000If governments, because at the end of the day it's governments, are able to pull the rug on everything you possess, all your work, everything, and say where you can walk, how close you can stand next to each other, and as much as we believe that would never exist,
02:12:26.000are you prepped for, God forbid, The electric grid is turned off.
02:12:35.000And then you want to talk about chaos.
02:12:44.000When the power grid was really vulnerable because of the cold, because everybody was trying to heat their house up, and everybody had the power on, it almost collapsed.
02:14:50.000Okay, it was all hooked up, and I remember having dinner with my wife, and we're with another couple, and we're sitting there, and if I have two drinks, I'm happy, and I'm chatterbox.
02:15:02.000And I'm sitting there, and they're like, yeah, you know, I didn't meet, and I went, oh my god, I'm going for my first hunt.
02:17:15.000Everything I know about hunting, I know from my friends that taught me how to hunt.
02:17:19.000My friends like Cam Haynes and John Dudley and Steve Rinella.
02:17:23.000They taught me how, and then I learned from guides, and I do it that way because I'm humble, and I'm open-minded, and I know what I can do and what I can't do by myself.
02:24:48.000And some people that will, believe it or not, when a shark is coming to you, Most of the time, it's not coming to eat you.
02:24:59.000It's coming to check you out at first.
02:25:01.000And the real aggressive ones that will come towards you, very rarely they open their mouth to take a chomp because you don't know it's coming.
02:29:53.000So they had to give him all this medication and it lasted for fucking months and months and months.
02:29:58.000And he went to all these different specialists and he's just now coming out of the fog of it.
02:30:04.000But it was, I forget the exact term that he used or what this parasite was, but it had worked its way through his system and it was some sort of a cerebral parasite.
02:30:18.000It was in his gut, it was in his body, it was in everywhere.
02:33:51.000You ever seen the guy that had, there's a video that was going around the internet a while back of a guy with a mason jar, one of those glass mason jars, you know, that people would drink, like, lemonade out of?
02:34:11.000The glass chunks were dropping out of his asshole with blood, just falling to the ground.
02:34:17.000It was one of the most hardcore videos.
02:34:20.000This is back in the Style Project days.
02:34:24.000This is back in like, there was a website called Style Project, like way back in the 90s, maybe the early 2000s, that had like the most hardcore shit.
02:34:43.000And it was all like the most wild shit that people were doing to their bodies.
02:34:48.000But around the Two Girls One Cup days, people were shoving all kinds of things up their ass, and this guy shoved, it was like a glass jar up his ass, and it shattered.
02:35:01.000And the chunks of glass falling out of his ass with blood, right?
02:35:44.000It's one of the worst videos I've ever seen, though, because he's squatting, and you hear the crack of a glass, like a glass shattering inside a bag, like a meat bag.
02:38:27.000Listen, it's a great thing to learn just for your mental health because it's exhausting and it just makes you feel good when you get out of there.
02:38:46.000But one of the most fascinating parts about it, which I'll never forget, which I think saved my life one day, Was this one guy, Sensei Romeo.
02:39:58.000Today I walked along the river, sat down, and I ask, whatever you want me to think, whatever you want me to put out there, what do you want me to do?
02:40:09.000And then I'm silent, and then whatever comes in, and that's what I do.
02:40:14.000I go on a Did you learn how to do this or did you just do it on your own?
02:40:51.000I was on the bench, and I was the only one in there, and I'm sitting there, and I just started zoning out, and Sensei Romeo, his whole speech, and I'm going, why am I thinking of him right now?
02:41:06.000So as I'm thinking of him, he starts, I see that whole speech about you never know, and you have to avoid, and when you attack, and it's more learning your, all this jazz, right?
02:44:43.000I said, thank God she's okay, but this is just the beginning.
02:44:47.000And I go off on a whole, I go on a character of what her events are going to be, and she needs to pull over, and she's out of the way, and the people, and they're howling.
02:45:15.000Sensei Romeo goes, and I go like this, I go, Okay, I'm just going to explain one thing to you, and if you feel you still want to...
02:45:25.000And dude, I swear to God, Joe, I looked to my right, and I said, okay, that's where I'm going to fall when he hits me, because he's clearly going to hit me.
02:45:34.000And that's a little sharp right there, so...
02:46:50.000So now my job is to get that attention off you as you get her out into safety and then get it back on me.
02:47:00.000Now I didn't say anything derogatory towards her.
02:47:03.000I didn't call her a stupid bitch or a drunk whore.
02:47:05.000All I said was, oh man, her night is just beginning.
02:47:11.000It's gonna go from here to here and the more they left it was back on me and then and that this guy on my kids lives hope I die if I'm lying started crying and he goes could you talk to my wife and tell her I'm not going to jail tonight oh Jesus swear to God and I went sure He goes,
02:49:20.000When you're hit from behind, and next thing you know, you're on the floor, and you gotta fucking curl up, and this jackass is trying to kick in, and you gotta hope you're...
02:58:21.000They're like, did you just move around here, buddy?
02:58:24.000Yeah, and within, but what threw me off was, within a minute, I'm like, wait a minute, how'd they drag that kid from there to like 100 yards in three seconds?
03:05:41.000I forget which river system it was at.
03:05:44.000And they had man-eating crocodiles there, and they needed him to help.
03:05:49.000And he said everyone in the town was missing a hand, people were like chunks taken out of their legs, because there were so many crocodiles.
03:05:56.000And while he was there, one of the women in the village got taken by a crocodile and dragged into the river.
03:06:02.000And so he hunted them and killed them for these people.