In this episode, I sit down with my good friend Joe Rogan to talk about his journey with sobriety and recovery from drugs and alcohol. We talk about how he went from a life of drugs and drinking to now being clean and sober, and what it takes to stay that way. I hope you enjoy this episode and that it makes you think about how important it is to stay sober and stay sober in order to be the best version of yourself. I know I did and I know you will too! Cheers, Joe and I hope this episode inspires you in your day to day life and helps you stay sober. I am so grateful to have Joe as a friend and a brother and I can t wait to do it again with him in the next episode. Cheers! Cheers and God bless! -Joe Rogan and God Bless You, Blessings, Cheers. -Bobby and Joe - Thank You, God bless you. Love ya. XOXO, EJ and Elyssa Thank you for listening and supporting this podcast. xoxo, Elexa and Joe. Thank you so much for being a friend. Love ya, Elicia and EJ & God bless ya! XO, Joe Rogans Love, Elesa & EJ & God Bless you, JBobby & JB (Maggie EJ ( ) Thanks for listening to this episode. JOE & Elyssia, ELEMENTING, JOEY, ERLA, ELSU, JACOBY, JAMIE, JOSEPH, JUICY, RYAN & JARRELLA, JAY & JAYE, JABY, BOBBY, & JOSH, JEAN, AND JAYA JOSIE, MAYO, PODCASTING, MALAYA, & SONGS, DADDY, MARYLEE, AND KELLY, GRAVY, DANNAKE, AND SONDS, JODY, BABY & KAROSHA & JYANNAH, AND TAYLOR, AND PRAISE YOU, DOUG, & KEVIN AND KAREN, BRIAN AND KAYLEE AND JOSH & JAMES, etc.
00:01:25.000I have a guy, shout out to my man Matt, who I contact when I want someone to get, like if I want to reach out, like to Cat Williams or something like that, like reach out to this guy, try to get him on, and that's it.
00:01:39.000And then it all gets booked on my phone.
00:07:48.000These fucking creeps at the World Economic Forum, they all get together and talk about preparation for Disease X. They're calling it Virus X or Disease X. They're scaring the shit out of me.
00:08:51.000That was the big thing with Fauci and the NIH. They lied about funding gain-of-function research and Rand Paul grilled them.
00:08:59.000You can watch it on YouTube, and then they lied about whether or not this, first of all, was happening, whether or not they were doing gain-of-function research, and whether or not they funded it.
00:09:11.000They funded it through another organization, so they fund another organization, and another organization funds the Wuhan lab.
00:09:27.000And I don't know if they're doing gain-of-function research there, but I know they have some of the most deadly viruses and diseases known to man, all with these crazy ventilation tubes, and everyone's walking around in these hazmat suits and shit.
00:11:44.000Bioweapons were a big part of the strategy.
00:11:47.000If everything goes fucked, if we just decide to start killing each other, if we decide to start nuking each other, that was one of the things they were going to do.
00:11:54.000Did they use Anthrax and NOM? I don't believe so.
00:12:46.000Get mad at me because I allow comics to do Asian accents in front of me, and I laugh at it because I think it's funny, but then people think that I'm like a, you know, like an Uncle Chang, you know what I mean?
00:27:59.000And then I remember there was a black guy near us listening and he told Eddie Griffin that we were talking shit about him and he confronted us.
00:28:26.000Yeah, but the thing is, it was kind of the culture of the Comedy Store, in Eddie's defense, is that if you reach a certain level of fame, and at the time, Eddie was definitely more famous than us, and he was...
00:28:39.000I still, to this day, maintain that Eddie Griffin's set on Def Jam was one of the best fucking...
00:28:45.000I don't know, was it 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever he did?
00:28:48.000It was one of the best sets I've ever seen.
00:30:18.000Yeah, they're like a YouTube person or someone who's on some show, literally, like someone who's on some show that you've never heard of that was on like the WB or something like that.
00:31:21.000You're dealing with maniacs that may or may not take their flight, might show up drunk, might get arrested Friday night after the first show.
00:31:29.000Imagine you're feeding your family based on these fucking maniacs that come in every week.
00:31:35.000I mean, these people are regular people.
00:31:37.000I would go to comedy clubs, and I would look at the office and see the calendar, and it would always say Pablo Francisco with a question mark.
00:34:03.000Yeah, well with AlphaBrain, we did two double-blind, placebo-controlled studies at the Boston Center for Memory, and it showed increase in alpha flow state, it showed increase in verbal memory, increase in, I think it was reaction time,
00:34:42.000But I mean, any scientist, like, any time I'm talking to someone who's, like, explaining to me some very complicated things about the universe...
00:36:27.000And when he was over there talking to the stripper, you went over and tried to get the stripper to give you a lap dance.
00:36:34.000And when you did that, I saw the look in his eyes, and I'll never forget, he had long, straight, black hair, this Mexican dude, with tattoos on his face.
00:37:43.000But she was over there talking to her gang member boyfriend, and you went over asking for a lap dance, and you just, like, stormed your way into their conversation.
00:39:34.000On a Saturday night in the OR, they couldn't start the show without four people being in the audience, and there would be sometimes no show.
00:47:21.000The no cash bail, the letting people out for committing violent crimes, the fucking not stopping people for stealing up to whatever money it is.
00:48:23.000Mark Andreessen, who's a brilliant venture capitalist guy, explained it to me in very clear terms.
00:48:30.000Like what the definition of a cult is, how you can get excommunicated, how you get shamed for having differing opinions, the group think, the whole...
00:50:24.000And I think it's done, if you have enough stuff About like whatever the thing is whether it's black lives matter or whether it's Ukraine or whether it's power free Palestine from the river to the sea if you have enough of that Online it moves the needle and the way I described it the other day.
00:50:41.000It's like if two ships I go in a certain direction.
00:50:44.000This is a ship where people logically work through things, and this is a ship that's adjusted by the algorithm, affected by the algorithm.
00:54:34.000Anyway, my point is that all those little things, and even in comedy, it was hard being me, this little guy, you know what I mean, doing it.
00:54:44.000Black comics would sometimes come up to me.
00:55:32.000And I thought maybe I could only do it once every five years, but then your people said that I could do it when I... You can do this anytime you want.
00:56:21.000And at that point, you're going to watch The Inner Light.
00:56:26.000It's 40 minutes You really think that's the best science fiction ever better than alien the first alien movie with Sigourney Weaver But you have to think though that it you know because obviously the budget is an alien budget Right, so it's cheesy television, right?
00:56:41.000But if the concept you know, I mean was mind-blowing at the time when I saw that in my early 20s It blew my fucking mind Yeah.
00:56:51.000And it's like, I don't want to give it away now, you know what I mean?
00:56:54.000Can I try to sell it to you real quick or no?
00:59:18.000And that was also the first time there was like a female action star that you didn't feel like they were shoehorning it in your face that she's female.
01:03:22.000Maybe if you shoot it, you'll stop it in its tracks, or maybe you only have like a 9mm, and you can pump it full of 4, 5, 6 holes, and it still tears you apart.
01:04:51.000You gotta think of how long it is that something just weighs a thousand pounds, putting its paw on your chest and just pulling your guts out, screaming, eating your dick first.
01:05:00.000I've bombed for five minutes and it seems like 20 minutes.
01:05:13.000It's like one of those shows where the audience has suggestions, and you reach into the barrel and pull out the suggestions, and then you just riff.
01:05:43.000And it's like, sometimes it's an amazing premise factory, because sometimes, because you're on the spot like that, every now and then, an idea will pop into your head.
01:06:29.000Because, you know, when you guys left the store, And I don't want to make fun of...
01:06:34.000I love all the comics, dude, but it's like, you know, sometimes when the headliners, like the guys with names, leave town for the weekends, you look at some of the lineups there, you know what I mean?
01:07:44.000And when I do that, I'm like, okay, that was productive.
01:07:47.000Even though I'm tired and I woke up late today, even though I'm tired, I'm like, but that was productive.
01:07:52.000And if I can force myself to do that three, four times a week, And sometimes, dude, I'll just sit in front of that fucking computer and it's just nonsense.
01:08:51.000But that's the beauty of creation because every now and then I have this new bit that's killing and it's so exciting to get to it because it's like this is like this bit is alive.
01:09:38.000Maybe every two times or five times, every ten times you sit in front of that computer or that notebook, something pops up that wouldn't have popped up without it.
01:10:22.000I know this, but for the same reason I can convince myself Well, here's the thing.
01:10:26.000If you do the work first, like say if you sit down, you say, I can only play computer games if I write a thousand words.
01:10:36.000So when you get to a thousand on a Word document, you look at the bottom, it'll tell you how many words you've written, and then you can stop.
01:10:47.000That way when you're playing the games, it won't be in your head, oh my god, I should be writing, oh my god, I should be doing something else.
01:10:53.000And by the way, it doesn't have to be you write something funny.
01:10:57.000You could just write something about something and then try to extract funny things out of it.
01:11:03.000Like, you could just write a story about how violent your dad was.
01:11:07.000Like that, what you just told me, which is horrific, right?
01:11:09.000If you wrote that out, I guarantee you there's gonna be a seed of something in there.
01:16:44.000And I didn't know the significance of it until later, almost, like, you know what I mean, or the significance, but like, what the impact of it, you know?
01:16:53.000Because I, you know, obviously, you know, I mean, obviously I have my opinions about it, you know what I mean, that I'm keeping to myself, but it's like...
01:17:02.000It's not fully aligned with what people think I should be.
01:17:07.000You have to be careful because I live in LA. Oh, I hear you.
01:18:42.000There's a lot of what's getting stirred up, a lot of the hateful things that are being said, a lot of the crazy things that are being said.
01:18:47.000I guarantee you a lot of that's being instigated by foreign countries.
01:18:51.000And that's what's scary about social media and the influence it has on people and the way they feel about a particular issue.
01:18:57.000And that's on top of the horrific nature of the issue itself, both of October 7th, which is undeniably horrific, and then this.
01:19:05.000And then on top of that, you have this open anti-Semitism that we never saw before, where it's just open everywhere.
01:19:19.000But it's also an issue that will never be resolved.
01:19:22.000But it's not just that it'll never be resolved.
01:19:24.000Like, I never thought it was going to be an issue where the presidents of, like, major universities were standing in front of Congress, and they were justifying people saying, death to the Jews, that it wasn't harassment unless it was actionable.
01:21:34.000And the fact that all of a sudden no one wanted to admit that Ukraine had always been a very corrupt country.
01:21:39.000There's a crazy Twitter exchange between Candace Owens and the New York Times, where Candace Owens was talking about how corrupt Ukraine is, and then the New York Times says to her, Like, what evidence do you have that Ukraine is corrupt?
01:21:53.000She goes, oh, you mean the links from your fucking newspaper?
01:21:56.000And just from like 2016 and before that.
01:21:59.000There's all these fucking stories about how corrupt Ukraine is.
01:23:39.000But I'll really freak out at night because I legitimately think we are one or two events away from living in the Stone Age again.
01:23:48.000And I think it could happen in our lifetime, and it could happen to you and I. Like, I'm really convinced that the fabric of society is way more fragile than anyone appreciates.
01:24:23.000It was these fucking dipshits, like the mayor of Los Angeles, telling everybody what businesses they can and can't have open, what's essential and non-essential.
01:27:46.000It's not dismissing what it is, but it's dismissing this control that all of a sudden the medical industrial complex and the government has over you and your job and your choices in your life for something that now they admit they could have never contained,
01:28:01.000that it was never going to stop transmission, that it was never going to stop infection.
01:30:55.000You motherfuckers telling everybody what they have to do and not have to do.
01:30:59.000You motherfuckers telling people they can shut their businesses down and they have to take this experimental medication regardless of whether or not they have natural immunity.
01:32:54.000You could put whatever words you want, but if you don't think that these corporations that donate insane amounts of money to political campaigns have an influence on what happens in the world, you're naive.
01:33:04.000That's a silly way to think of things.
01:33:06.000Now, if you've got a guy who basically has no mind and he is your figurehead, if you can keep him alive for four years, you just run it the way you're running it right now.
01:33:32.000If you just say that enough, the people that are uninformed and aren't paying attention, they're going to listen.
01:33:37.000And then if you have mail-in ballots and if you have a voter machine shenanigans, if you can fucking sway things one way or another, then you stay in power.
01:34:53.000I think the Al Gore, George Bush one went on for quite a while, if I remember correctly, because I remember being confused, like, wow, this never happened before.
01:36:17.000Is that in federal court in Atlanta, Georgia, computer scientist and engineering professor J. Alex Halderman was able to hack a Dominion voting tabulator in front of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg using only a pen to change the vote totals.
01:36:56.000Now, we'll look, see if that's horseshit, but here's the thing.
01:37:01.000When you have computers, If you have a phone, like with Pegasus, Pegasus was the first one that, by the way, the Israelis created Pegasus.
01:37:10.000And Pegasus was a software that, that's what they used to get Jeff Bezos when they got his dick pics and all that shit.
01:37:17.000Oh yeah, good ones, good ones, good ones.
01:37:18.000When they did that with him, what they did was someone sent him a link in WhatsApp I think it was the head of Saudi Arabia, allegedly sent him a link in WhatsApp.
01:37:30.000He clicked the link and then Pegasus was downloaded on his phone.
01:37:34.000Now, you don't even have to click a link anymore.
01:37:37.000Now, they can get Pegasus on your phone.
01:38:35.000So if you can change the way people think, and you can change the way people look at things, and then those people vote in such mass numbers that you can't make stealing the vote possible.
01:38:47.000Because enough people realize it's horseshit to the point where the overwhelming majority...
01:38:52.000You would have to have fraud that's so apparent that no one would buy into it.
01:39:26.000Halderman, a University of Michigan computer scientist, changed results of a hypothetical referendum on Sunday alcohol sales.
01:39:32.000He flipped the winner in a theoretical election between President George Washington and Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general who defected to the British.
01:39:40.000He rigged the machine to print out as many ballots as he wanted.
01:39:45.000All he needed was a pen to reach a button inside the touchscreen, a fake $10 voter card that he had programmed, or a $100 USB device that he plugged into a cord connected to a printer, rewriting the touchscreen's code.
01:40:00.000Haldeman delivered his presentation during an election security trial evaluating whether Georgia's voting system is vulnerable to manipulation or programming errors.
01:40:09.000All in-person voters in Georgia make their choices on touch screens that print out paper ballots.
01:40:15.000I believe Georgia was supposed to update their machines, and then there was a talk of when they were going to do it.
01:40:23.000And I think it's also taken into consideration, other than just corruption, it might also be a budget issue.
01:40:29.000The headline says, election officials say these vulnerabilities are merely speculative.
01:41:57.000They're living in dirt floors with no sanitation.
01:42:00.000It's horrific conditions and that is in everybody's cell phone.
01:42:05.000In everyone's cell phone is the labor of essentially people so poor, they don't have to choose whether they're slaves or not.
01:42:13.000There's no other option for them to work.
01:42:16.000But there's a powerlessness that one feels like, what is little Bobby Lee gonna do about any of this?
01:42:23.000So it's like, a lot of times I'm just like, you know, everything that you said, I'm with you, but I'm just saying that, like, it stresses me out.
01:42:44.000Yeah happening in the world that can get in the way of your job.
01:42:47.000Yeah Yeah It's it's not an obligation to pay attention to everything.
01:42:53.000Okay, but it is something that I think would help people break out of the cult Because that call it's like you think you're a good person if you buy hook line and sinker everything that the left says that's crazy These are the same people that want war.
01:43:09.000These are the same people that are encouraging censorship.
01:43:12.000These are the same people that are trying to silence dissent.
01:52:49.000That was your Auschwitz, being in a movie, and Michael Bay tells you to put your face towards the light.
01:52:53.000Yeah, but in the 90s, I experienced that shit, right?
01:52:56.000Well, that seems like you really weren't putting your face towards the light, and he was freaking out, because they could only do that take so many times.
01:54:47.000Look, Tarantino was in here and he was talking about this old-school director who had, his office had a bedroom where he'd take the starlets, all the starlets had to fuck him.
01:55:43.000I mean, imagine if you're an actress, right, and you come out to Hollywood from fucking Kansas, you're 20 years old, and you are all of a sudden in this producer's office, and he's 50, and he's been banging stars for 20 fucking years,
01:55:58.000and you don't know how it all works, and he explains to you, listen, honey, this is how it works in this business.
01:56:51.000And everybody just assumes that the woman's not insane and that she's telling the truth.
01:56:56.000See you but you're gonna have to have a few of those if you're gonna have to have real change like a real Correction of actual abuse you're going to it's just like if you're gonna like accept trans people You're going to have a bunch of instances of perverts pretending to be trans if you're going to say hey We have to stop abuse you're gonna get fake abuse you're gonna get people to come out I know man,
01:57:18.000and that's the way Hollywood is like human bad.
01:57:22.000It's the way humans are and But in the sense of a show like Beef getting greenlit, which is mostly all Korean or Asian cast, I think in that way it's good, right?
01:57:32.000But there is an overcorrection in terms of like...
01:57:34.000It's good because that show's good, right?
01:58:25.000You know, and you could pander and you can get away.
01:58:28.000You can kind of like be half-assed and be treated like you're better than you are.
01:58:31.000You see that all the time when they make those lists of the best stand-up specials of the year and some of them are like, what the fuck are you saying?
01:58:40.000You're so crazy if you think this is good.
01:58:43.000And they're only saying it because it's the right demographic.
02:02:19.000It also shapes who you are because you get to experience feedback and examine how you think about things and why you say the things you say.
02:02:27.000In the early days, how much of what we used to say was just for shock value.
02:04:20.000Dude, I had so many friends that stopped doing stand-up and had just been writing that went into a panic because they had mortgages and they just started...
02:04:27.000Camille started doing stand-up again, right?
02:05:53.000There's so many more theater acts and arena acts.
02:05:55.000Guys like Schultz and all these guys, and they're just releasing their stuff on the internet, doing podcasts, becoming popular through podcasts.
02:11:27.000Someone says something, especially if it's not true, and it's influencing people in a fucked up way, or it paints the least charitable version of you.
02:11:34.000People also don't realize that I'm a sensitive guy.
02:12:38.000Yeah, just don't read it because even if you read a hundred things that are awesome, one that sucks is going to stick in your head because that's how a human mind is designed.
02:12:48.000It's designed to find danger in conflict and look out for it because it could hurt you.
02:12:54.000And so when you see that one thing, that's the thing you're gonna concentrate on.
02:13:22.000No, don't do it and don't spread it either.
02:13:24.000The people that spread it, you don't realize what you're doing, but you're also affecting yourself.
02:13:30.000Because you know that what you're doing, unless it's like the person you're going after, some legitimate Nazi or something.
02:13:35.000I mean like most of the time when people are attacking, they're attacking someone to try to hurt them because they know that they can be hurt too.
02:13:43.000A lot of the people that are doing this shit on social media all day long, we know them.
02:13:50.000I don't need to name any names, but I can't.
02:13:53.000But there's some of our severely mentally ill people that are just liars, they're insane, they're full of shit, they're on medication and in therapy, and they're just lashing out at other people's behavior.
02:14:07.000And it's like they don't realize that To be a good person also means to be nice to everybody.
02:14:14.000Just because someone has a differing view on something, you can't demonize them and turn them into a non-human.
02:14:20.000But people do that because they're terrified of that happening to them.