In this episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the boys talk about aliens, UFO's, and the story of a man that claims to have been on a UFO's spaceship. Joe and the boys also talk about the movie "Fire in the Sky" about a guy that got abducted by a UFO in the 1970s.
00:02:27.000He tells this story that he got abducted.
00:02:29.000They took him aboard this craft and fixed his body because the beam of light that came out of the ship from whatever it was, whatever energy source it was, fucked his body up.
00:02:39.000They repaired it and they communicated with him telepathically while they were on the ship.
00:02:44.000I forget all the details of it, but this is the film of it.
00:02:52.000But this is supposedly what he said the experience was like.
00:06:29.000It's an interesting story, but the area the guy skydived into was heavily wooded.
00:06:34.000And the problem with that is if you're a skydiver and you're in a parachute and you're going to a heavily wooded place, you're going to land in the trees.
00:07:05.000Well, you do if you pay attention, but I don't pay attention.
00:07:09.000You know, there's only so many things you can think about.
00:07:11.000There's a recent update on the Cooper story, but this is just a brief for those who never have heard of it.
00:07:17.000Okay, D.B. Cooper is the moniker given to the skyjacker, a dapper, dark-haired man, apparently in his mid-40s, who called himself Dan Cooper.
00:07:24.000The mystery man passed a flight attendant a note while on a Northwest Orient airlines flight in Portland, Oregon, bound for Seattle November 24th, 1971.
00:07:34.000The note contained, claimed rather that he had a bomb in his briefcase, which he opened to show a large tangle of wires and red sticks.
00:07:42.000When the Boeing aircraft landed in Seattle, the man who became known as D.B. Cooper freed 36 passengers in exchange for a mountain of cash and four parachutes.
00:07:52.000The plane took off with several crew members aboard, bound for Mexico City on his orders.
00:07:57.000Wow, so he just made them fly him somewhere with a briefcase with a bomb in it.
00:08:04.000So at an altitude of 10,000 feet above Seattle and Reno, he jumped from the back of the jetliner with a parachute and the ransom money vanishing into history.
00:08:12.000The case remains unsolved despite the manhunt, a manhunt, the FBI tenaciously interviewing hundreds of people in a cottage industry of true crime bruffs, buffs pouring through the events.
00:16:09.000I mean, you imagine what it sounds like when a fucking tank cannon goes off.
00:16:13.000She says the U.S. military distributed an estimated 200 million amphetamine pills to its soldiers during World War II, and Japanese kamikaze pilots in the Pacific used it in their final fateful missions.
00:17:54.000This is ingested by inhaling it into the nostrils, a method that rapidly affects The user and is conducive to addiction.
00:18:04.000What about the gunpowder makes it better?
00:18:07.000Also, here, whereas you were saying that too, back to the Civil War, they were used in alcohol.
00:18:13.000Yeah, American Civil War soldiers were often given alcohol prior to battle as a form of liquid courage and as a means of steadying their nerves.
00:18:55.000I was only watching them because I was like, I better brief up on something to talk about.
00:18:59.000The last time I was here, you know, I read the comments on the last time I was here, and people were like, ah, this episode, this dude's not so cool.
00:19:19.000Why don't you put me after that fucking guy?
00:19:26.000On the way here, the driver was like, yeah, man, the other day we drove an Irish comedy writer who ended up getting canceled and this and this happened and they took his shows off, but there's all this controversy.
00:19:39.000And I'm like, now I got to go up against this guy.
00:21:21.000But he spends like 45 minutes talking about the hundreds of years before World War I even and how that kind of came to play.
00:21:30.000So first he like explains how World War I came to play because to understand why World War II happened, you got to understand why what caused World War I, you know?
00:21:40.000And I forgot where I was going with this history of war.
00:21:48.000I had to listen to it like three times because, you know, I just kept getting distracted and stuff.
00:21:54.000But it sounds so like sophisticated and it makes sense.
00:21:58.000If you listen to it all, I'm like, okay, I get why World War I happened now.
00:22:03.000But then finding out that everybody was just like drunk and on meth the whole time just sounds like it sounds like this was such a broy idea to go to war.
00:22:12.000Like it's all the sophistication behind it.
00:22:14.000But then at the end, they were just like, fuck it.
00:22:15.000Let's just get fucked up while we're out there, though.
00:22:17.000But all those old-time English gentlemen, they all wanted to go to war.
00:22:22.000It was like you wanted to prove your courage in battle.
00:22:26.000And it was a, it was a, it was a broy thing.
00:23:05.000You're saying everybody should work out to just eat healthier?
00:23:08.000That's the most minor interpretation of it.
00:23:13.000But we need to figure out a way to keep people from being aggressive and to keep people from being greedy and keep people from stealing resources.
00:23:21.000And we need to curb some of the worst aspects of human nature.
00:23:26.000And I think the only way to do that is mushrooms.
00:23:29.000Everybody has like mandatory mushrooms.
00:27:11.000Now, if Germany had developed the atomic bomb first and nuked Britain and nuked America and just went on a nuking spree before we could ever develop one.
00:27:26.000You ever watch those videos, the AI videos of like two celebrities making out, it'll be like Elon Musk kissing like Brad Pitt or something or Trump.
00:28:13.000They were just experimenting and testing.
00:28:15.000There's a bunch of shit they did that is so wild.
00:28:18.000Do you know like John Wayne did a movie in the Nevada desert near where the test sites were where they blew up like, I don't know how many hundreds of fucking nuclear bombs out there.
00:29:06.000There was no Three Mile Island or Fukushima yet.
00:29:10.0001980 article in People Magazine reported that out of the 220 cast and crew members, 91 had contacted cancer, contracted cancer, with 46 deaths.
00:29:20.000Led to the film being dubbed an RKO radioactive picture.
00:29:26.000The controversy surrounding the film location and subsequent health issues has been a point of discussion and debate amongst historians and scientists.
00:29:34.000But yeah, like the amount of bombs that they detonated.
00:31:41.000But if you think about it, this is a movie about, like, oh, Genghis Khan conquering so much, but the best thing he conquered was the woman.
00:32:55.000And there's more of those dudes that are in the 80% now than ever in history that we know of, right?
00:33:02.000Like, isn't there, like, when they do the studies of the amount of people right now currently that are celibate, that are not having any sex at all, and not by their own decision, not by their choice.
00:33:15.000I think they're higher now than they've been in a long time.
00:34:31.000I feel like probably a lot, but I think there's like, there's Yeah, I think it's like, I think it's like being like, like, what do you call it?
00:35:14.000You can't just like wake up, you know, play video games, go do stuff on your own, and then, like, use autism as an excuse for other stuff you don't want to do.
00:35:24.000Like, oh, I didn't want to shake that guy's hand because I'm just like autistic.
00:35:34.000I feel like a lot of, and maybe it's because the way I grew up, but like, if I try to use autism as an excuse to get out of doing stuff, I think I just would have got smacked in the back of the head.
00:35:43.000I think they would have smacked the autism out of me.
00:39:11.000They took cells from three people with type 1 diabetes and reverted them to pluripotent state, meaning they could develop into any type of cell.
00:39:19.000This technique originally developed by Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University nearly 20 years ago was modified by Deng's team to use small molecules instead of proteins, allowing for better control.
00:39:32.000They used these chemically reprogrammed stem cells to create 3D clusters of insulin-producing isolates, which were tested for safety in animals.
00:39:42.000In June of 2023, the team transplanted about 1.5 million isolates into a woman's abdominal muscles.
00:39:48.000A new approach, as most isolate transplants are done in the liver, by placing the cells in the abdomen.
00:39:54.000They could monitor them with an MRI and remove them if necessary.
00:39:57.000The operation took less than 30 minutes.
00:40:00.000Two and a half months after her transplant, the woman with type 1 diabetes started producing enough insulin on her own, and she has continued to do so for over a year.
00:46:21.000But I like what Hunter S. Thompson said because he talks about being in this hotel room.
00:46:28.000And he says, living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again.
00:46:40.000Get the gun off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end of anything.
00:49:22.000We chose that name because, like, I feel like Formula One is like, you know, it's like pinnacle of racing, and they have all these such intelligent engineers working on these cars and they make these great motors and stuff.
00:49:33.000And I feel like this is the exact opposite.
00:49:34.000Oh, dude, you're doing some real cars.
00:51:06.000I mean, these cars have been around for so long in the community of modders for both them and a lot of JDM vehicles like Supras, like the 240, 240 Zs, the old ones.
00:51:21.000There's a whole company now that is in the UK that takes two Nissan Dotson, back when it was Dotson, Dotson 240s, and turns them into these fucking sick streamlined sports cars with like wider tires, much more horsepower, super lightweight.
00:54:19.000The engineer broke the American lap time record.
00:54:22.000So everyone else is using Formula One drivers, using the sickest drivers on earth to get the most amount of time.
00:54:28.000So a professional driver that I follow, this guy, I forget his last name, Misha something or another, on YouTube, he analyzed the footage and he said, you could shave 10 seconds off this.
00:55:37.000He does track days on there all the time.
00:55:39.000So he drives a whole bunch of crazy cars, including GTRs, all kinds of crazy shit, different things that people have put together and modded.
00:55:49.000So it says with someone more comfortable with the car, he's like a sub six minute and 40 second time, which is what they achieved.
00:55:56.000It was relatively easy and possible, he would say.
00:55:59.000He said maybe they've already done a lap with a pro driver and will release later when they find it necessary.
00:56:04.000So what Corvette likes to do, though, they like to do their lap times with the people who built the car because they feel like the people who built the car are like intimately connected.
00:56:15.000Instead of farming it off to some Formula One psychopath, get the actual guys who designed and engineered the car.
00:56:22.000And if these guys are breaking records, they're great drivers.
00:57:17.000I don't mean, I don't want to make my own suspension.
00:57:19.000I kind of, I mean, maybe one day, I don't know.
00:57:21.000I do want to learn how to fabricate other parts, easier parts, but I feel like all the cars I buy, that's like the most important thing to me is like handling.
01:01:14.000It's a Model S plaid, and it's also customized.
01:01:19.000So this company called Unplug Performance, they take a Model S and then they put carbon fiber fenders on it, wider track, wider tires, upgraded suspension, change the interior.
01:01:45.000Most people, the most people in the world, the reason why you can get on the highway and no one's just slamming into each other, and the reason why you can go to the mall and everyone's not stamping, trampeding, stampeding over people, it's because most people are nice.
01:02:44.000When you have that balance of the engine in front of the rear wheels, first of all, you have massive amounts of traction because all that weight is back there.
01:02:52.000There's always a problem with that front engine.
01:02:54.000The only time I think the front engine can beat like a mid-engine thing, I think, is if like the track has different elevations.
01:03:01.000Like, what is it, like, Laguna Secret, I think?
01:03:05.000It has like a huge downhill uphill thing.
01:03:07.000Oh, where it helps you to have the front engine bias?
01:03:09.000Yeah, I think I mean, I'd imagine that's the only place it probably can make a difference because, like, when you're coming, uh, what is it like, man, I think I saw a video on it one time, and I didn't have the volume up because my kid was asleep, but I'm pretty sure that's what they were talking about.
01:03:24.000Like, uh, what are the, you know, on the on the side of the track, they have like the like the stripes, the red and white, and sometimes they go over that, but you know how sometimes, yeah, yeah, so if you're going off of one of those and you're also going downhill, I'd imagine you'd want like a front engine.
01:03:42.000I think you'd get the grip faster as you're coming down.
01:03:45.000Whereas if the motor was in the back, I think you'd have to kind of catch your balance a little more than a front engine.
01:04:03.000So as they're turning, they're hitting the gas.
01:04:06.000The as end is kicking out and then they're modulating it and then they're going straight.
01:04:11.000So the guys that are really good at driving Porsches, it's pretty beautiful to watch because they just know how to use that rear engine bias.
01:04:17.000But the thing about the Corvette and also the Cayman, the Cayman GT4, which is another amazing mid-engine car, is that engine in front of the rear wheel in the center of the car makes the car perfectly balanced.
01:04:43.000I mean, these guys gave us, before they let us drive, me and Hinchcliffe went down there.
01:04:47.000And before they let us drive, they gave us like this full tour de force explanation of the engineering involved in this car and what the goal was.
01:04:55.000It's the most ridiculous production car that any American company has ever put out by far.
01:05:00.000The more you get into cars, the more you get into like physics and balance.
01:05:04.000It starts off as like, oh shit, like 340 horsepower and 400 pound feet of torque.
01:08:10.000But that car, that's one of those cars that I'm like, I don't know if I should keep it or not because it's so valuable as long as I don't fuck with it too much.
01:09:57.000You can't say it has 100 miles because then all the trans, all the other shit, like the suspension, everything else has got all those miles on it.
01:10:04.000Unless you swapped out every fucking component in the car.
01:14:27.000And I was like, I'll pay you whatever you want to teach me.
01:14:29.000He's like, all right, well, I'll go over on such a day.
01:14:32.000Because it was a coincidence that we both live in DFW.
01:14:35.000So he comes over to the house one day and we start like, I think the first thing we did was maybe change the exhaust on my skyline or maybe it was a suspension of mine, Paul.
01:18:37.000So that means like he bought it from Ferrari and must have signed something, right?
01:18:42.000That's like I agree not to tell you some shit.
01:18:45.000It said he's been ordered to pay Ferrari $352,000 in compensation to the Italian car manufacturer.
01:18:53.000The case relates to a spring 2018 runway show that Pleen held in Milan in June of 2017.
01:18:58.000During this event, Pleen featured a host of exotics, including Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and McLaren's.
01:19:04.000And Ferrari was none too pleased with this.
01:19:07.000They took issue with Pleen's social media posts claiming that by posting photos of his fashion collection with Ferraris, Pleen was unlawfully appropriating the goodwill attached to its trademarks to promote his own brand and products.
01:19:23.000It added that Pleen's post tarnished the reputation of Ferrari.
01:19:48.000Yeah, in order to remove any images from his website and social media platforms that show any Ferrari model.
01:19:54.000Moreover, the court said that if Pleen Pleen refuses to delete a post depicting a Ferrari or shares a new one, he will have to pay a fee of 10,000 pounds.
01:20:15.000Shortly after the decision was made, he went to Instagram and promptly shared an image of his bright green 812 Superfast, claiming that he will appeal the ruling.
01:21:45.000That's kind of what I agree with, bitch.
01:21:47.000German fashion designer was not only taking pictures with scantily clad women washing the Ferrari, he had also been known to employ the likes of Chris Brown and Takeshi 6-9 in his fashion shows, Two Men with a History of Perpetrating Sexual Assault and Other Unsavory Acts.
01:22:04.000Okay, that's not 100% fair, though, because did Chris Brown commit sexual assault?
01:22:10.000I thought it was just, you know, domestic violence.
01:22:45.000But it says Ferrari was so much more fun in the 1980s.
01:22:48.000And instead of just asking the producers of the show to take badges off or stop using the vehicle, they asked for the Daytona to be blown up on screen.
01:22:56.000The moment ended to be one of the most pivotal moments of the series in a great spectacle.
01:23:00.000The brand was even a good sport about the whole thing and offered the show a real Ferrari Testerosa, the brand's flagship at the time to be used for the remainder of the series.
01:23:08.000So yeah, Miami Vice was known for that Testerosa, that white Testerosa that Don Johnson used to drive around in.
01:25:25.000Like you just, it's the feeling of driving, running through the gears.
01:25:30.000Ferrari has not sued owners solely for changing the paint color or applying a wrap.
01:25:35.000However, Ferrari has taken legal action against owners who have significantly altered the car's appearance, especially when it involves modifying or replacing the Ferrari logo or when the car is used in ways that damage the brand's reputation.
01:25:52.000I mean, there's only been a couple times, and I won't say who, because I don't want to get the inventory, but I've seen cars, Ferraris, that have been modified, and the logo is the horse, but with like a giant boner.
01:29:53.000Like, so like on memes and stuff, the Mustangs are infamous for like when they do little burnouts or when they just do a little fishtail, they end up going out of control and like hitting people on curbs.
01:30:37.000All right, so I don't know about brand new, but maybe still.
01:30:40.000Get in your Mustang and floor it and count how long it takes before it like takes off or try to time.
01:30:50.000It might be like half a second, it might be a second.
01:30:51.000And count how long it takes for the like when you let off the throttle, how long, like try to feel it, how long it takes for it to actually the motor to stop receiving the gas.
01:31:03.000Like it's it's a it's like about a half a second or a second longer than most cars.
01:34:34.000I love when people are really passionate about something, you know, when they work on things.
01:34:39.000Whenever I get interested in something, I like to really dig into it and learn about it.
01:34:43.000It's just so rare when I find something that I'm genuinely interested in.
01:34:47.000But that's the problem I was telling you: is that like now I'm just hyper-focused on this and I haven't written a new joke in like, I don't know how long.
01:35:02.000I try to let ideas come to me so I don't force something, but once I have the idea, then I try to like write it out.
01:35:09.000And I wrote last night and the night before just because I'm like, bro, I have to write something down just to see if I can like squeeze something out.
01:35:18.000But lately, like the shows I've been doing, and it's and it's worked for the most part.
01:35:24.000Lately, I just kind of go up there with half ideas and then sketch them out on stage.
01:35:29.000So you're trying to work on new material that way.
01:36:24.000Then I went on stage with crutches after that.
01:36:27.000And then during COVID, during COVID, I didn't do stand-up for a long time.
01:36:31.000But I found out that when I took a month off, like I had a chance to actually think about what's interesting to me instead of just doing jokes that I thought worked.
01:37:11.000I just thought about it like every day I'm going to spend just a certain amount of time either in front of the computer or looking at my phone just working on ideas, just finding shit that's interesting.
01:37:22.000And then I had a folder that I'd put all these ideas in, and then I'd sit down and look at these photos, like, no, no, huh, maybe that.
01:37:31.000And then I'll write something about it, just a little bit.
01:37:34.000Just write down like what's weird about it, what bothers me about it, and then go back to it the next day and expand on it.
01:37:41.000And maybe smile and read and fucking think about it and go, what is what, what would life be like if no one figured out the wheel?
01:41:27.000I just think that's just the funny kind of double-edged sword about the entertainment industry, though, is like people will give you the tools to try whatever you want to do next.
01:42:04.000So he's basically like playing himself.
01:42:08.000It's about a stand-up comedian who I think he's, if I remember correctly, I think he's getting upset because people don't take him seriously as he directed a movie and acted in a movie and people are kind of trashing the movie.
01:42:53.000So I think that's the dangerous part is sometimes you might lose sight of what your lane is and you can go into, you venture out, which is cool.
01:43:04.000But then it's like, hey, you might fucking imagine if somebody gave DMX like a tour where he was just singing fucking country songs or something.
01:43:13.000Like it'd be entertaining, but it wouldn't be great.
01:44:31.000And I think that I have a pretty good gauge of if I landed a role and I heard like the feedback on it, I think I'd know like, all right, that's like when it's valid and when it's not.
01:44:48.000But my biggest fear is that like, what if, what if I did get like such a huge ego that I'm like, oh, these idiots don't know what they're talking about.
01:45:18.000But the thing about what you're saying that rings really true is that a lot of people grossly overestimate what they're capable of doing or how good they're doing something.
01:45:27.000And a lot of that is if you get famous, then you have a bunch of yes men around you, a bunch of people kissing your ass, and the stuff that you're putting out is not the best.
01:45:39.000You have to know how to tell the line between confidence and just like cockiness.
01:45:44.000Most great people that I know kind of hate what they do.
01:45:47.000Not hate what they do and that they don't love it, but they're very self-critical.
01:45:51.000I think it's one of the ways that allows you to objectively analyze what you're doing.
01:45:57.000And you have to make this battle between you don't want to kill your own confidence, but you don't want to be overconfident.
01:46:02.000And you kind of have to be hyper-critical about your own work because if you don't, you're never going to get it to where it needs to be.
01:46:09.000But then you also have to realize at one point in time, you're too close to it to see it the way other people are going to see it.
01:46:15.000If I'm working on a bit for like three or four months, right?
01:46:18.000And it's like frustrating and I'm twisting it around, I'm adding to it and subtracting and I'm trying to make it right.
01:46:24.000Like sometimes you're so close to it that you don't even know that it's funny anymore.
01:46:30.000And you don't want to lose that enthusiasm for the bit either.
01:46:34.000So there's this balancing act for like paying so much attention to it that you hate it, but then falling in love with the idea again before you do it on stage.
01:47:16.000Yeah, you could be a logger getting abducted by aliens.
01:47:18.000You could be doing some terrible fucking job that sucks.
01:47:21.000Instead, you have literally the greatest job in the world.
01:47:23.000And you're complaining, you have to do it again.
01:47:25.000Got to reset your brain, reset your approach, and treat it like you love it again.
01:47:30.000For anybody who's been to my shows and has not liked the crowd work, I'm sorry for that, but I'm having fun with it.
01:47:38.000And I think the majority of the audience is having fun with it, especially the ones that I'm fucking with that are like talking to, you know?
01:47:44.000Do people complain that you're doing crowd work?
01:47:47.000Well, I've had a couple messages over the summer where they're just like, hey, man, you did a few jokes and then you just were talking to the crowd the whole time.
01:47:53.000It's like, but the thing is that it's fun.
01:47:56.000And I don't want to complain about my job because it's either that or you watch me open mic it or do rehearsed jokes.
01:48:48.000So, like, right now I'm having a lot of, not that I'm going to keep just only doing crowd work, but I would do very minimal crowdwork before.
01:48:56.000Like, I'd go on stage and I might do like fucking five minutes tops.
01:49:00.000Whereas now I might do like 20, 30 minutes of it.
01:50:19.000You know, and if you're self-assessing, you can't read the comments because it's just going to get in your head and it's going to distract you from thinking about new things.
01:50:27.000The amount of attention that you spend paying attention to other people's opinions is attention that you could be spending improving what you're doing.
01:50:34.000As long as you're aware of what's good and what's not good.
01:50:38.000But sometimes you do get too close to it.
01:50:40.000Sometimes you need friends to help you out.
01:50:42.000Sometimes you need, that's one of the great things about having a club like the Mothership or the Comedy Store with a bunch of comics around.
01:51:50.000But I was like, I'm going to just do what I do.
01:51:52.000And people like him or like on his team who don't see me perform every weekend are going to talk about the parts of my set that stood out the most.
01:52:41.000I mean, Chris Rock used to hire guys just to watch his set.
01:52:44.000He'd hire a team of comics to sit in the back, and he would do a set at the comedy store, and then they would meet up and go over the material.
01:54:25.000It's like something about like he's like, what if you're walking through hell and then like some demon comes out of a hallway and he's like, he's like makes you suck his dick.
01:56:03.000They made me talk to a dialect coach because they didn't have a problem with like it wasn't a, it wasn't an issue of like, oh, he doesn't know how to say this word or that word.
01:56:42.000They said they wanted it to be a more neutral Spanish, that they want me to sound like I'm from a city, like a big Mexico city or some shit.
01:57:09.000Yeah, like apparently, the way I talk, I like I had to say the words with no, like, I had to say them like, how do I explain, like, just straighter?
01:57:23.000It's like give me an example of the words.
01:57:26.000Like, I had, like, I had to, like, I had to say, like, but I, I can't, like, it's like if you took a dude from like the fucking country, like Alabama, and you were like, you have to talk like if you were just from fucking, I don't know, Northern California, like, or where is it?
01:57:47.000What's yeah, Northern California is a good one, right?
01:57:49.000They don't have like a new accent, right?
01:57:55.000Well, it's not tough for people in America because you hear all those accents.
01:57:59.000Well, for me, it was tough because, like, I don't live in Mexico, so I'm like, you want me to talk like people I didn't grow up around?
01:58:05.000Like, I'm talking like all the people I grew up around, so it's like it was a little foreign to me, you know what I mean?
01:58:09.000Yeah, I had to re-record my lines back home in Dallas, which wasn't a big deal.
01:58:16.000I just remember talking to the dialect coach, and she's like, no, no, no, say it like this, though.
01:58:21.000And I'm just like, I feel like I had, I know people say I talk very monotone, like very laid back, but I feel like I had to do that more in Spanish.
01:58:30.000Like, instead of just saying, like, hey, ah, que puedes cambiartu tu plan converizen, I have to be like, aura cami tuplan converizen.
01:58:38.000Like, I had to talk like the fucking dude at the end of a commercial who's like, subject may be very detailed.
01:58:58.000I just think it's funny that they were just like, and they didn't know at first because it's like different types of like Latinos working on that commercial.
01:59:06.000It was like a Puerto Rican dude and Venezuelan dude.
02:00:08.000I've never seen Tom perform in English.
02:00:09.000I've only seen his specials or on YouTube.
02:00:12.000But when I saw him in Spanish live, I was like, bro, he's got fluent Spanish.
02:00:17.000And most people don't know that, which is funny because he's had people talk shit in Spanish around him because he looks like a regular white guy.
02:00:56.000I mean, it's probably a handful in the whole world.
02:00:59.000I want to film a special like in Japan, but I want to do it like just to fucking troll comics like in the States.
02:01:08.000Where like I don't want people to know that it wasn't a real special.
02:01:12.000Like I want maybe just a promo for a special and it's just me in Japan, but killing it in front of a Japanese audience, but I'm not speaking Japanese at all.
02:01:23.000Like I'm just doing the same English jokes.
02:01:26.000And I want to promote it as if I recorded it over like a Japanese Tour and just everybody wondered, like, what the fuck?
02:01:34.000Like, was it English-speaking Japanese people?
02:01:37.000Well, you just gave it up already, so it's not going to work now.
02:01:40.000I'll still fuck with the people who don't listen to your podcast.
02:02:30.000This dude, I think he moved from like LA or somewhere in California, and for like 110 grand, he got like an acre and a half or something like that or more, maybe.
02:02:39.000Well, Japan is experiencing population collapse.
02:02:44.000They're not having kids at a replacement rate.
02:02:48.000So replacement rate means like if there's two parents, you should have like three or more kids.
02:02:54.000Like if you're trying to replace the people that are here, when you think about how many people are going to die of old age, how many people are going to die, how many people are going to live, how has the population sustained itself over the course of the next X amount of generations?
02:03:08.000Well, you have to have a high replacement rate.
02:03:10.000And right now, Japan has a very low replacement rate.
02:03:14.000We're at the point where they're in a panic and they're trying to figure out how to encourage people to move to Japan, how to get people in Japan to have kids.
02:03:24.000Oh, because there's like a lot of insults, though.
02:03:30.000No, but I'm saying it's like they're, I mean, that's got to be kind of scary because if they're not replacing people, that means like fucking jobs won't get not just jobs.
02:04:42.000But you don't think about it that way because you just look at all the people that are there right now, right?
02:04:46.000If you're in Japan, you see all this traffic, like, oh, their population's fine.
02:04:49.000If you go to Korea, look at all the people.
02:04:51.000But the reality is these are people that are alive now because the baby boomers, then Generation X, and then people were still having kids, but the amount of people that are having kids right now is lower than it's ever been.
02:05:18.000Here's what it means and what some are doing about it.
02:05:23.000So Japan may have the longest national life expectancy, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo, but the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years.
02:05:32.000Last year, more than two people died for every baby born, a net loss of almost a million people.
02:05:38.000And now the island nation is on pace to shrink in half by this century's end.
02:05:43.000Diminishing population is Japan's most urgent problem, says Taro Kono, longtime high-ranking minister of Japan's parliament.
02:05:50.000Kono, nearly elected prime minister in 2021, said he intends to seek the highest office again and believes the country should prioritize combating the population Decline.
02:10:52.000I think, I think for him, he, I will say this: for me, he was the first relative that I, on my mom's side, that I felt like I really related to.
02:11:05.000He's the only one on my mom's side that looks like me, too.
02:11:47.000I just thought it was hilarious that my grandpa never like, I don't know if you apologize to him, but like, to my grandpa, it was just like, hey, look, look what ended up happening.
02:13:35.000That's why I think we need to go back to maybe not like, you know, trying to conquer empires and shit, but we need to dial it back a little bit.
02:14:39.000That's always kind of crazy to me when I hear people talk about like, because I don't go to LA too often, but I hear talk about, I hear people talk about like how LA was.
02:14:49.000Like, like the South Park guys, I think in an interview, they were saying to be to be like punk rock in LA, you had to say you were like Republican.
02:15:03.000I mean, there's stuff that fascinates me about liberals and like Republicans, maybe, because I'm not too far on either side or whatever.
02:15:10.000But it just trips me out that there's like not that I'm like a huge patriot, but it does trip me out that like people I guess are not happy here or like not proud of it.
02:15:43.000And people in other parts of the world, you give them more power and you have less control of your own life and you have less freedom, less ability to express yourself.
02:15:56.000You ever hear about a menu like in some European country or like I saw a menu for a restaurant like in fucking Prague or something like that one time?
02:16:04.000I'm not saying that all their food is like that.
02:21:52.000You can fit four people in that restaurant.
02:21:54.000But the wings, the Nashville Hot Wings, they're so fucking good.
02:21:58.000Well, New York has an insane number of great restaurants.
02:22:02.000That's one good thing about living in New York City.
02:22:04.000If you're a person who likes to go out to dinner and you live in New York City, you can go to a different place every night of the week for years.
02:22:11.000And you have some of the best restaurants on earth.
02:22:13.000I don't know what the math is on this, but if you have so many good restaurants.
02:22:54.000Like most people knew everyone around them up until X amount of thousands of years ago.
02:22:59.000We're kind of designed to be in tribal environments where we understand what our environment is and who's around us and what's our community.
02:23:07.000You know, I have a friend like my friend Jim Norton who lives in New York City.
02:23:10.000He was telling me, he's like, I live in this giant apartment.
02:24:32.000Have you ever in because I saw you have like the books on psilocybin?
02:24:36.000I don't know you've done a lot of research on mushrooms.
02:24:39.000Have you ever read anything about like mushrooms or other kinds of drugs being able to trigger schizophrenia in people?
02:24:51.000Like, if it's in their genetics, they think that's the case with marijuana, especially high-dose pot, maybe, maybe edibles.
02:25:00.000I'm not sure if they think it's more from edibles or more from just smoking it, but yeah, there's a certain amount of people that it seems like it triggers some kind of schizophrenic break.
02:25:10.000Like, maybe they might have a tendency towards schizophrenia and something, you know, like the real crazy paranoia that you can get if you get really high.
02:25:18.000For some people, that crazy paranoia hits the switch and they don't come back.
02:25:24.000I've had my last few mushroom trips, not with weed though, but I'm trying to think if I was smoking and on shrooms.
02:25:36.000My last few mushroom trips, I started hearing voices, but I also think it might have been like I was exhausted.
02:25:42.000Like, my brain was just like, because I'd be awake all day, and then I'd do the mushrooms like at midnight, and then I'd be awake until like the next day, basically.
02:25:51.000But at some point or another in the trip, usually towards the end of the trip, I'd like hear voices.
02:26:22.000But on that trip, I argued with like two other voices, which I'm pretty sure were like other versions of myself, which was me.
02:26:30.000Me was me, me, like the balanced one, more balanced one.
02:26:35.000And then I had like this other one that was like a very like angry version of myself, very much like a, like, like, like, shut the fuck up, stop complaining type.
02:26:45.000And then I had like a very like sensitive little bitch version of myself.
02:26:49.000I felt like they were all three arguing, and I was just like arguing back.
02:29:26.000And they woke up on the side of the road in the car and drove, but they were missing time, like more than an hour, I think it was.
02:29:32.000And then they started having these crazy nightmares.
02:29:35.000So they both go to psychiatrists, and the psychiatrist or the psychologist does a hypnotic regression thing.
02:29:42.000Like, let's try to find out what happened to you.
02:29:45.000And they both independently have this crazy story of being taken aboard a UFO and examined by these beings.
02:29:54.000And this is in 1961, when this was not something that people talked about.
02:29:59.000This is like, now the problem is that whole UFO abduction, close encounters of the fourth kind, that's become a thing that everybody knows about.
02:30:41.000And if they were very skilled, they could figure out a way to get you to believe that something happened to you, especially something minor that didn't really happen.
02:31:19.000No, but like, you know, you could maybe someone could put a memory in your head that you got lost at the park when you were a child and you were terrified and then the police found you and they brought you back to your parents.
02:33:54.000They're asking you specific kinds of questions with a specific tone, you know, and it's maybe it's a man's voice that maybe is like you feel like he's judging you, or it's a woman's voice, and it's more comforting.
02:34:08.000Yeah, it's got to be scary, you know, to get hypnotized.
02:34:11.000And then what if they make me talk about a memory that I didn't want to bring up?
02:34:19.000Or what if they put something in your head, like a Manchurian candidate thing?
02:34:36.000You say like a phrase, and then and then you go, and then you go and assassinate the president or whatever it is.
02:34:42.000Yeah, you know, that's some scary shit.
02:34:43.000That's scary shit because I don't know how much they can actually do.
02:34:48.000I know they've definitely done a bunch of experiments to see how much they could talk people into doing certain things, how much they could hypnotize people into certain behaviors, whether or not they can get someone to be an assassin with a phone call.
02:35:00.000I know this sounds crazy, but I believe-I mean, not that I believe it, but I guess I like play with theories in my head.
02:35:06.000But what if all the music that gets allowed to be on the radios and all the shows that get allowed to be on TV are like certain patterns in the music or like to the words that they say in the shows like that like brainwashes you to like do stuff that we do?
02:35:29.000Like maybe that's what makes us like go to work and do our 40 hours a week and like respect a 30-minute lunch or something.
02:35:39.000Like the Rowdy Roddy Piper movie, like they live with that kind of thing.
02:36:23.000But maybe it hit within those chords that, like, when you hear a certain chord and it makes your mind go into like a different state, like more relaxed or more this, right?
02:36:33.000Well, there's no way that's going to be.
02:36:35.000Maybe they need our minds to stay in a certain state.
02:36:38.000So they only allow certain music with certain chords or patterns to play on the radio to keep our minds going this direction.
02:39:34.000Because I listen to a lot of like a lot of rap, a lot of Spanish music, but then I listen to a lot of country as well.
02:39:40.000But like old country, new country, I feel sometimes I feel like a lot of what I, what comes up, maybe because I don't dig into it too much, but like a lot of what comes up on my algorithm is very like modern, like pop, like more poppy.
02:39:56.000But I do like to listen to like different types of shit because it's like, I want to know not that I necessarily want to know, but it helps me know and understand what like somebody from a totally different part of the country might like experience or like enjoy or oh yeah for sure well that's a cool thing about traveling right that's one thing that comics have that really i think helps us get a better understanding of the whole country is you you're on the road a lot so you're traveling to oh one weekend then you're in florida
02:40:57.000yep yeah people get real tribal they're real tribal for their stupid ass town all right ralph barbosa uh tell everybody where you're gonna be you got a website they can go to to find you with your seven tours seven date tour yes sir catch me in one of the seven seas uh at oh my website is called barbosacomedy.com you can see any shows i got coming up my instagram ralph barbosa03 automotive channel formula bean if you want to see yeah definitely i'm gonna check that out i'm gonna subscribe
02:41:58.000barbosa planet bosa yeah hilarious stand-up comedy i like that hulu's doing this hulu did a lot of a lot of specials this year it's great yeah it's great it's awesome i was i was uh i was a little nervous about like switching over because i did my last one with netflix and then this one was People have Hulu.