Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 298 Joe Rogan Experience Review of Neal Brennan Et al.

Episode Date: November 24, 2022

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Where we obviously review the Joe Rogan experience. Oh yeah. Join by Todd. What's happening Todd? Hey buddy. Get ready for Turkey day, bud. How about you? Get.

Yeah, I know it's your favorite holidays since you're from England You know they celebrate What are they they don't celebrate this obviously no we have we have a guy for tonight November 5th guy Fox is that the due to where's the mass for November 5th? Okay, no, I mean yeah It's a fireworks day. Nice. Remember, remember the fifth and November? Isn't that guy Fox?

It's exactly. It's no, it's no, uh, fourth of July, but we do our best. But you don't get to eat good food and share in the camaraderie of wonderful turkey dinner. No, we do all that basically on Christmas day. Honestly, nice. It's a bit different. All right, who we got this week? Neil Brennan, legend, Janice Popus, and good old Steve, oh, can't believe he's still alive. Legend.

All right, let's get into it. Neil Brennan. I haven't seen his recent stand-up special. I've seen some clips of it. He's such a good joke writer, obviously being one of the creators of the Shapel Show. I mean, just a legend of comedy, but it's interesting when you hear him talk, he is a very serious guy. He's obviously very intelligent guy too. Yeah, I mean, they talked a lot about political stuff. Which is fine. I mean, I just I want to I want to hear more funny shit though.

Yeah, but sometimes, you know, it's I think it's a little difficult sometimes for the comedians that come on, especially multiple times. And for three hours, yeah, find ways to be funny. It's easier when they have those groups in like sober October and save our parks because they can all play off each other and they're getting sillier. True. But they're trying to get to the bottom of some things when it's just a comedian getting on and... Joe Rogan's trying to save the world still. Somebody needs to.

At least he can joke about how they don't know anything. They're like watching these videos like, I have no idea what he just was talking about. He's like, we are not the guys to get to the bottom of this. But they're trying it. Yeah. You got to give them some. Honestly, I trust the news more if they did that sometimes. Right.

They were like, we don't know. We do, we, we heard some stuff. We're trying to figure it out. So he was the writer for Shepel show. They're pretty much the whole time, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think they actually fell out after the show ended, but they're

closer now. But I think there was like a bit of a separation there for some time. Gotcha. And yeah, and I don't, I think that Neil started really doing comedy hard after that, which is kind of the opposite way to go about it. I mean, he had all these awards already for writing and comedy, and you know, and then goes in and basically works his way up as a standup. It's kind of tough because there's a lot of pressure on you to do that. Well, I mean, he didn't have a job at that point. He had to do something.

He got to do something. Yeah. Where was he going to go work? The gap. He was like, good for him. Not doing it. Good for him, man. I mean, that's not easy, especially being the writer. He's behind the scenes. He's like, it's hard for somebody in the kitchen to go out to the front of the house and be a server. It's totally different world. Yeah. You know, you can hide behind the walls and write jokes all day, but then having to speak in front of people. anxious person if you think of the difference between him and Chappelle's style Chappelle is just so loose always looks chill relaxed I mean even when Neal was talking about his the troubles of making his stand-up special he's like oh so much goes wrong and then there's always these things that go wrong and this is a problem and Joe was like wait what what what would be saying 30% of

something yeah 30% of everything he just thinks is gonna go wrong he just factors that into all of his specials i'd say be careful with that analysis that's a lot you might be manifesting some of this a little bit Joe doesn't seem to have those concerns. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The lighting guy, he said the lighting guy screwed him up in Montreal a couple times or didn't play his music member. He's like anything but M&M. I would write anything for the M&M. He wanted Drake to play.

Uh huh. Was it no Kendrick Lamar? He wanted Lamar to play. That's right. The worst part was when he said, you know, he's talking about his dad who, I guess, died. He died, yeah. And then the club next door started playing. Oh right.

Right. You've got to wonder how was that not figured out? Well, and they were filming a special. And so the club is starting to bump music. He's got like 15 minutes left of his show and he's talking about his dad dying. He's doing a bit about something serious and all of a sudden he gets the. That will be such a nightmare. He played it off though. Yeah.

He managed to get through it. He was like, I can't listen to this. And good for him for like being able to shut that out. I would have just given up. I would have been like, guys, we got to come back to this in 10 minutes. This is ridiculous. Go cut the power next door, will you? Well, good thing it wasn't a live show, right? I mean, it was post production. He said they took it out of there. They were able to take out the sound of the thumpin' and he

kept a straight face somehow. That was his new special, though. I haven't seen that one yet, right? No, that was the three mics one. Oh, it was. Yeah, you didn't notice it. No, no, it's not in there. I mean, definitely not. Or maybe they just couldn't use a lot of that material. They usually will film a couple of nights and then they can edit together the best bits. But either way, it sounds like they have to use some of it. What was your thoughts on the person they were talking about who's opening acts were becoming really entitled? And when they both said they knew who it was. They didn't say who it was. No, but they both knew who it was. Right. Because Neil was like,

yeah, I think I had the same conversation with this person. And my suspicion is that it's Andrew Schultz. And I don't want, I'm not saying it. I don't mean to say anything bad about his opening acts. We don't know the whole story and maybe it wasn't him. But just the way Rogan was talking about how he's killing it and doing great and, you know. You think it's Schultz, huh? I think so.

I just don't wanna, yeah, I don't wanna guess. I mean, I don't, I don't know who's becoming entitled. I mean, I feel like, R-E, after R-E, especially, he's gonna be feeling entitled after, after his due special. Dude, that thing is from looking yesterday, I think it got to, it's already four million views in two weeks.

Yeah. And it's so funny. If you haven't watched it, I would say stop listening to this right now and watch it. It's that good. It's so, so good. It's really dark. I mean, he hits everyone and everything and just goes hard, hard to the paint. Oh, yeah, he's taking no prisoners, man. I mean, he was just, he's just saying it how it is. And it does not care what people think. I think that's why people are enjoying it so much.

I think so because with all the cancel culture stuff and how tense everyone's been and you know, you say the wrong thing and that's it, you lose all your sponsors, shut up Kanye. It's, that's how it goes. So to get somebody brave enough, I mean, and it's so clever too, even though I'm sure a lot of people could watch it and be like, okay, that's super offensive, but it's so clever that it kind of works around all of those things.

But it's supposed to be offensive. Yeah. And when Jewish, so he's allowed to talk about Jews because he's Jewish. Well, he kind of talks about everybody. Right. He does. Yeah. Well, he actually takes, I mean, Christianity, he is not nice to any of the Christians either. No, he hits the Catholic church out. So he's brilliant, man. And it's so cool to see it. I guess in some ways that's one of the better things that have come out of the pandemic is some of these guys have been sat on their hour, they're special, for way longer than they planned. And even though Ari was going to scrap this,

but Joe was like, dude, this is genius, you gotta give this out, this is the best. It's just so polished now. That's what I noticed about Aries one. It was like everything hits. Yeah. And he's so relaxed and it's just one after the other. You can almost not keep up with it.

You're saying because he practiced enough. Exactly. Yeah. He's just cleaned it up. I mean, if you've got that long with a special, you know, and there was a big hiatus where like most other guys were really doing comedy and gals, but I think because they had done it and it was in the background, you know, they'd already worked it, it was like clean enough, maybe when they came back to it, they saw some new things and kind of worked it. I mean, they can't all do specials like that moving forward because it would just be so long

between each special, but we got to enjoy it where we can. I mean, Rogan, I think just found his. Nice. And he's been sad on that for a long time as well. So it'd be really interesting to see how good. Well, he's going to come out with that when his new club opens, right? That's that he'll probably start with that new special. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how he's going to do. I mean, the club opens soon. Yeah, it's like supposed to be a couple months. Es la lata de aceitunas que te tomas a la una, la crema que se termina cuando estás en la piscina El en base de ese polo que no se reficla solo y una lata de caballa que te coves en la playa La usaré las patatas y del refresco la lata un en base de paella y del agua La botella, como veces muy sencillo

Los en bases del verano siempre van a la amarillo, eco- Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah. I mean, they got into some serious stuff, man. The, the, the content moderation on Twitter, we've talked about this a couple of times, but that is an interesting dilemma that hopefully Elon can figure out because he wants to keep things open, but also you got to get rid of hate speech. I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be interesting to see how that, how that funnels out. Whoa, he let Kanye back on. Okay. He's let Trump back on. He did not let Alex Jones back on.

Really? Well, Alex Jones just got out of that giant sandy hook lawsuit. Yeah, that was effed up. Yeah. You can't be saying that that was untrue when people have been shot and killed. Like, how is that fake? I don't, I don't know why he went down that rabbit hole.

I mean, Rogan's talked about it a bit like he was going through some hard things and has cemented a whole fish use and was a drinking to and, you know, info wars is that type of show where he's trying to pull up, you know, in a way the most outlandish click baby thing, but yeah, he fucked up. And he knows it. He knows he did. Well, didn't he had to pay a huge settlement to the Sandy Hook survivors or the parents who survived, right? Yeah, I don't know really how that works. I think often the court comes up with an amount. Yeah, and then how does he pay? And then, you know, they usually kind of negotiate down

to something else. I think it's rarely like the actual amount that was thrown out. He's got money though. It's just such a weird thing. It's like, yeah, I'm sorry. Here's a bunch of money to make you feel better. It's just, it's so disingenuous. Even though that's, I mean, look, people love money. Yeah, people take it. People take it. It's not like anyone's going, that's not good enough.

I don't want your money. I want an apology. It's like, no, I'll take your money. Yeah. Let's take some cash. Well, I just, I love how Rogan keeps going back to the fact that the way we're going to fix government, take money out, baby, let's go get the money out of big government, get the big corporations out of big government. That's the one thing he keeps saying that I will stand beside, I don't know how it's going to happen, but that seems to be the problem that these companies and these corporations are merging with our government. And he talked about it with pretty much everybody on on the pod this week. They somehow got into that conversation.

He talked about with the honest, he talked about it, maybe a little bit with Steve L. But I wonder what assist I will be interesting to run just like one wonder what assist I will be interesting to run just like one presidential campaign Yeah, where the only donations you can have are a maximum of five dollars from every citizen Wouldn't that be so and if they pay great and if not you don't want to then you don't but that's the only money They have yeah, and then they have to figure it out that way Well, I mean that's what happened a little burning i think the total was most of the most of america that time spent thirty bucks

was like all of his campaign donations like seventy or eighty percent were from like thirty dollar donors uh... that is a democracy right there that i don't that's cool yeah i mean there's enough people yeah if everybody's throwing down 30 bucks You got seven million people in the in the country. Is that a rat? What how many people are in this country? 380 million 380 way off close. I think it's about that So there you go times that by 30 bucks

Yeah, 3.8 billion. I mean, I guess the kids won't be paying in but quite a lot of money would add up. You could still make a campaign out of that. And yeah, maybe a word. I mean, but then who knows? I mean, again, when other people have figured that out, but I kind of feel like when a system gets into place like it has done and it doesn't seem to work and seems unfair towards big donors and corporations, maybe it kind of needs to be that way a little bit. So those companies have the ability to do well

and stay big. I mean, we can talk about giant companies all day long, corporations, and but they're massive employers. They pay a lot of taxes, or at least they create a lot of revenue. Amazon's on top of taxes. No, but there's a lot of money being spent, right? And you have to pay sales tax. Yeah. So there's a lot of that happening, right? A lot of things getting shipped. So that supports whatever it does, you know, the postal service, all the rest of it.

I mean, you've got to have giant companies doing stuff. I don't know if you can make a whole country off like mom and pop stores. It just wouldn't be enough. Giant commerce. Again, I don't know. Maybe. It sounds cute. It sounds cute, doesn't it? Twitter is gonna be interesting though. There's been so much happening there Yeah, you know Rogan obviously is huge on Twitter. I think Neil Brennan. I don't know how big his account is

But he's pretty active there. I mean as a good writer and a is, but he's pretty active there. I mean, as a good writer and a funny guy, like he's pretty active on that. I don't know if it's going to get cleaner. I don't have a lot of experience with it before either, do you? I never got into the twarding. I'm tweeting. Yeah, I don't know, but it's Yeah, I don't know, but it's, it's interest me. It's made me want to explore it a little bit and see, you know, is it really the cesspool that people are talking, have been talking about? I mean, is Trump even released a tweet yet? I don't know. I think they put him back on and he's just kind of sat there like, okay, cool.

I don't know. Is he practicing his gate, though? Like George W. He's practicing his walk to make sure he looks cool. That's such a George W. You think to do. Dude, it was so funny here and that. I had no idea. I mean, it makes sense when you think about it. It's like you got

Some sort of Dummy's guide to looking like a boss. Yeah, and then just read through it was like, oh, I got a gonna saw my walk out Yeah, got to pretend like my dick's big. Yeah He's just walking around boleg it. Oh. Bless that guy. He's just painting now. Yeah, he has a painter.

So yeah, new special, Neil Brennan. Has it not come out yet? It is not. Yeah, it's dropped. It's dropped. It's like we had set up. It's like looks like, I don't know, like there's not a bunch of emojis behind them But like apps and I think you pick different topics and

Kind of works through it. He's a creative dude. He does things differently for sure. It'd be good It's it's one of those ones. I think where you He's definitely the type of comedian where you want to smoke some weed and sit down and watch it Because there's more going on than just the jokes. Yeah. Like, there always is. I mean, the three mics one was like heavily about pain and mental illness and struggling and anxieties and, you know, he would like bring that energy right down and then just go

back into these stand-up bits. It was wild. He was bringing the audience into it yeah I think like it it's almost there's an emotional kind of investment at that point and then you give him space and it's more of a journey like a rollercoaster almost yeah you know it's not just trying to keep you up constantly it's it's like he wants the whoa he's like he wants the, well, he's like Chappelle, right? He, Chappelle is obviously the goat and and hilarious comedian, but he doesn't just want to make you laugh.

He wants to kind of get a point across. Clevver points. Totally. He cares. And it's, he cares about what the audience is thinking about. He's not just there to make a joke, he's there to make a point exactly. That's what I love about comics who do that. That's why he's the goat. Yeah.

Is because he's bringing in some serious topics into what he's talking about, but make, but also fucking joking about him. Imagine how difficult that is to do. It's so hard even just to make somebody laugh, but then to like really hit them with a point, especially like a point that they might not agree with, you know, they might spend their time during Thanksgiving arguing for. It's like something that, you know, is important to them, and then you're threatening that with comedy, and kind of opening them up, like loosening them up to the idea of what this is. Isn't that the point of comedy?

Yeah, I guess. Good comedy, I think. Yeah. The comedy I like. Yeah. For sure. That's definitely the way to do it. Well, go check it out. I need to watch you. I'm gonna watch it this weekend. Let's jump over to Janus. Good old Janus. Janie. This guy's great. He's been around forever. He's been on Rogan a bunch of times too. He's a funny dude. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He does not give a fuck. No, he doesn't. He's just like that real kind of New Yorker guy. Yeah, it was good. It was a good one. New York comedy is a different type. I've only watched it. You know, I haven't, I mean, you know, those comedians on TV, maybe sometimes they went to the comedy store

if they were traveling through. Always great, different style, you know, they're harder. Yeah, in your face. Yeah, it's like they must have harder audiences, but I've never been to New York to watch Stand up like a seller and kind of make the rounds. I would love to do that sometime and just kind of get a feel for like how different it is Yeah, probably a little less Creative more in your face not that that's less creative. It's just different style Mm-hmm just trying to get the laughter more than the point across maybe. Well, maybe just kind of DACA almost. Yeah, you know, a bit more Andrew Dicey. Yeah, a little more Dicey. I mean, this is what you get. People like Louis CK, you know. Yeah. And, yeah, I mean, this is what you get. People like Louis CK, you know? Yeah. And, yeah, I mean, Louis is really as dark as it gets in a lot of ways and never lets up.

Also a little creepy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, as last, especially, you just had this big sign behind him, neon sign that just said, I'm sorry. He's like, what else can I say at this point? signed behind him, neon sign that just said, I'm sorry. He's like, what else can I say at this point? Yeah, at least he's owning it.

Sorry. It's all you can do as a man own your own up to your the stupid shit you did. Well, they started obviously talking about hunting and Joe was talking about bear attacks. What was it like? Bears, the black bears have been attacking people. Well, they can. I thought they mostly left you alone. Well, I think it depends on like if there's food around and they're not hungry, right? So maybe they're just coming out of hibernation too early and they're going for the garbage

up in Alaska. I don't know. I mean, they have a lot of black bears in New York state of North and attacks in the Tatar and X. Well, I just remember them talking about the disease you can get if you eat bear and it's not fully cooked. Oh, it's a disease. Oh, a trigonosis. Oh, okay. I had never heard of that. Yeah. Well, trigonosis is why you have to cook pork.

Okay. Because of the concerns of it, there were a lot of pork that you can buy from stores and things doesn't have it. I mean, it's not super common, but I guess almost every bear has it for sure. So you got to cook the shit out of that meat. Well, it's so tough. You have to cook that in a stew, dude. You're not eating bear steak. No, I don't think so. Absolutely not. It's like eating, it's probably tougher than moose. If you ever had bad. I've had no, but I've had moose and it was great in a stew. If you cook it all day in a crock pot, it's good. I can't imagine eating anything.

If you're gonna eat berry, you gotta cook it in a stew, I would think. Hmm. Just such tough meat, dude. I wonder if it tastes, if blackberry tastes a lot different than brownberry. It's the same thing. If black bad tastes a lot different than brown bad. It's the same team. No, ones are grizzly and the other ones are black bad. Oh, right, right, no, okay.

That's true. I don't see why they would taste any different. Well, different species. I mean, one's a little bit bigger. Well, like Alcundia tastes different. That's pretty close. Alcundia's way better. That's, we need some meat. Well, like Alcondea tastes different. I'm pretty close. I'm a little bit way better.

We need some meat. We're up in Montana. Let's hunt some. I don't know if I could hunt better though. I went out four at once and I was all summer. I was just like, I can't believe that we would shoot this. We didn't even get close, so it didn't matter. But I don't know if I'll do that again. It's a bad math. Yeah, it's kind of like shooting an eagle.

Something. It doesn't feel right. I can see that. Yeah. And maybe, yeah, just because they're, I mean, they're the predators that you're not supposed to fuck with. It's like shooting a lion, right?

It's kind of like this feeling of, I am the king of the jungle, I'm the king of the forest. It feels weird killing that. But it makes sense that it needs to be done or some people need to do it, because if we had too many bears, it'd be a problem. Well, yeah, you go up to Alaska, yeah, it doesn't seem like a problem up there.

There's so many of them. Well, there's not many people for them to eat. Yeah, they don't need to be. But if they were like running around the streets of Bozeman, we might have to. They tend to sometimes. They're rid of if you've ever seen any of them. Yeah, but a brown bear or excuse me, Black Bear. Yeah, on the way to school, man, when I first started going to school in Bozeman, I was walking to school one day and there's two bears up in the tree. Two brown bears, yeah. On the way to campus. It happened this year too. They come into town and they try to get food. That's what I was saying before. If a bear is hungry man, it will come into town

and start fucking with people's trash cans. That's ridiculous. Yeah. You can't. You can't have that near your house. You got to get rid of it. What do you think about all this NFT talk, man? Yeah, they went into that for a long time. Well, we're trying to understand what was the crypto the FTX? Yeah, FTX. Well, I don't know shit about crypto on a good day. And when they got into that, I'm just like, okay, wait, what happened? So we've got this guy. This has happened before too. It's not like this is new.

But he's like what 28 29. Yeah, he's worth 16 billion dollars lives in the Bahamas banging a bunch of his friends and employees They have the second biggest donor to the Democratic party that bit was all a bit. That was a little scary He has mom runs the get out and vote campaign in the mind the gap campaign yeah it seemed a little sketchy and they took the money but maybe they maybe that's cool maybe they're just like okay but it does see it's like why were those two things connected? He's like probably a Connornist and a criminal, but also there's this part of him that just loves the democratic party this much

Yeah, I mean maybe he's they were talking about him being philanthropic and because of that he feels better about all the shady stuff he's doing You know, I mean? It's like it creates this idea that it's okay to be a shady motherfucker. If I'm also doing this good and he thinks, you know, don't all these donations to the democratic party are doing good. So that kind of gets rid of the fact that he's a total piece of shit. Maybe. Yeah. Well, maybe his mom just hates him, so it's a way to get gain his mom's love.

Sorry, mom. Who knows? I mean, I've never. I've never been a huge crypto person. The scary thing is that I like the idea of having a having this digital currency that has nothing to do with our government. I think it's important to have those options, but when stuff continually happens and people are running away with people's money, it's just ruining that for everybody.

Because now you just can't trust it. Yeah, I don't know what to think of it. I saw this thing the other day that actually was super interesting and it kind of is logical if you hear it out. And basically it was that Elon obviously understands money. He started PayPal and or bought into it and sold it for a lot of money. Nothing like he has now, but he needed a few billion or whatever. So he studied money and got into money, right?

So that's kind of like the base of what he's about. The other things that he's done are more passion projects and he's done them well so they've blown up. But now he has Twitter. And I was always wondering, does he just, is it that he just cares that much about free speech or is there a bigger play here? It's got to be a bigger play. Well, the video I watched and it was really interesting.

It was by this investor guy on Instagram. And, you know, take it for what you will. But the idea was that he could start his own crypto and connect all the Twitter accounts to it so that you could buy and trade and do everything like through your crypto wallet on your Twitter account. And now there's basically a global currency, right? And one that he's kind of structuring through his experience with PayPal and the stability of Twitter and just kind of like the localized community of Twitter. When I heard it, I was like, that sounds like a fucking genius plan.

I'm not saying it's like a good idea or I don't know if it helps everyone or if that's useful or what it is, but it would be a smart play if he went in that direction and he would kind of make more sense why he would spend $44 billion on things. If you ever heard of anything being sold for that much, anyone buying anything from more than that amount of money. No, dude, Instagram sold for a billion dollars and that was a huge amount of money. Was it a billion or two billion?

I think it was a billion dollars. Yeah. And everyone thought that was crazy. I mean, it would be a lot more to buy now. Right. But it wouldn't be 44 billion. I don't know. You think?

Maybe it could be as high. But either way, I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it.

I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. I don't understand it, it doesn't make sense. Does it? There has to be a different play. Unless we're just far too dumb to see ultimately how it makes money in the first place, which is that's entirely possible. But there's something else. There's something else going on here.

And you don't know. I feel like a crypto Ram by Elon wouldn't be something I'd be massively again. At the end of the day, it would be like, you have to take a step back and you have to watch it for one. Yeah. You know, well, and see who runs it.

I mean, all these influencers who bought into this, what's this kid's name? Sam. Oh yeah, I don't remember. Buying into the, yeah, Sam is his name. He was like, SB something. Anyways, he had companies before his, the guy who, you know, was, um, one of the main dudes at GameStop is now, wasn't running his, his, uh, crypto currency. He was like the manager of the, I can't remember the name of his title, but he was like the manager of the,

I can't remember the name of his title, but he was already doing shady stuff with GameStop and gambling and, you know, running up these gambles and then because he was behind the scenes, he could see what the cards were gonna, what cards were gonna be played. And so they were running up these high tabs on GameStop through these gambling sites

and then, you know, taking the money because they knew what cards were going to be played because it's all digital. Right. And they're high up enough to know what the computer was going to do. They just cheats. They're con artists. So what I'm saying is these guys have been con artists forever, basically since they started these companies and no one had the sense to look into these

people before they just throw a bunch of money at it. I mean, how did that happen? Right? What's there's some conspiracy theories that are definitely going to be coming out, especially with his mom being such a, you know, a Democrat and wanting to, you know, throw a bunch of money at the Democratic party There's some gonna be some weird conspiracies happening there. Well, it needs a it's gonna have a full investigation now It's not good. No and but Also, you know, okay, so they have these tokens and I'm sure just like everyone listening we barely on this I mean, Joanne Dionis barely understood it. I mean, Joe and Giannis barely understood it, but that video was

useful. And it's probably something that people should watch again. But I was like, okay, so what's going on here? So they have these tokens. There's nothing backing them, which is, I guess, really how all crypto is anyway, it's, it's almost like artwork in a sense. But maybe that's how all money is too. It's like, the art is only worth what someone will pay for it. Right? That's kind of how our work works.

The NFTs. Well, any art, even a, you know, a fricking van Gogh, it's like, it's only worth what people will pay for it. Right. Right. So the same is these tokens, all this crypto money. Well right now with Bitcoin, it's worth what, 20,000 a coin, but it was almost at 100,000 once. Is it only at 20 now? I think it's pretty low. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe that means

buy it, but maybe that also means that whole system is insane. Stay away. It's hard to trust when you have guys that you don't know running it, and there's nothing to back it up. I mean, he ran away with all this cash, and you can't get it back. Yeah, it's like how many... That doesn't make me want to purchase any kind of Bitcoin. I don't care who's behind it. Even if somebody you could trust is behind

it, it still seems sketchy. It's like two or three billion has gone missing. How the fuck do you hide two or three billion dollars? I don't know. Smart people know how to do this. He's funneling it into the Bahamas. We know that much. Let's say you put it on the beach. You should get out there and see what's in the beach. I don't know, dude. Yeah, that one was that one was kind of, it's too scary to even think about to be honest. And especially the last part, second biggest donors, I can't even, I can't even deal with it. And then they got into a bunch of conspiracies at the end, like the Clinton thing, that guy that was hanging from a tree, shot in the chest, self inflicted. That sounds...

Hanging from a tree from an extension cord, and then shot in the chest and they were saying that because it didn't coagulate or because it would, you know, because the blood, there wasn't a ton of blood there. There was some conspiracy with that. Like it didn't coagulate or because it would, you know, because the blood, there wasn't a ton of blood there. There was some conspiracy with that. Like it didn't write it, like he would have been hanging there for too long for it to be, um, or what were they saying? Because if it was a close shot, like the blood doesn't coagulate, do you remember that? Yeah, I don't get that either, but the official story is that he was hanging himself, he's stood on a thing, then shoots himself in the chest so that then he's hanged.

With a shotgun. I feel like that is an unusual suicide. It doesn't add up, does it? Doesn't seem to, but don't mess with the Clintons then, maybe. Well, maybe he was just sad and really creative and wanted to go out that way. I don't know, man. It's scary. I mean, all that Iran stuff is freaky too. I mean, not getting a death penalty for protesting. That's so crazy that that's still happening in the, you know, world with internet in a world that's we think to be as modern. Well, how, how it will be interesting to

see with the people, the protest in the US and we're free to do it over will basically anything that we want to. We can protest Dave Chappelle and Netflix because of his, you know, perceived and so-called anti-trans stance, you know, with his comedy. Even though that was his friend, and he was just telling a story about his friend. It was a fucking love letter, dude. Yeah. A hundred percent. But imagine if all protests came with the potential of like, Virgin if all protests came with the potential of like incarceration forever or the death penalty, would anyone in the US be, would they really like talk about this is the hill I want to die on, you know, when you pick a topic that you stand behind and you fight for, that's like exactly what that expression means. I don't think anyone here is that passionate.

So these people must be really fucking upset over there to put their lives on the line. Because even if you don't agree, you just go, okay, this sucks, I hate it, but I want to go to work and feed my family and live. Carry on, that's not an unreasonable thing. It's probably why they put such archaic laws into place in the first place as a massive deterrent, but even that's not working. It's like, where the hell do they go from there? They've arrested 15,000 people. It's, yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable the amount of people protesting it. I mean, good for them.

That's fucking awesome. Do you think it'll make it change? I want to say yes. Nice to believe it. It would be nice to believe that it would actually make a difference, wouldn't it? Yeah. I mean, it's making a fucking bold statement by them doing it. I mean, the government must be pretty concerned about this.

But it's how else can you you can't threaten them more than their life and yeah, if that's not enough, what else do you do? It's like you're going to have total civil unrest. I mean, that's what's happening. Yeah, it is what's happening. It's already happening. Yeah, and then to think about that that could happen in the States. That's a little freaky, you know, just with some of the backwards laws and the You know not allowing contraception. I mean they talked about that right at the end too About how scary that could be. It's like once you take one step in that direction It could end up being where we don't, like we're not able to protest. They're already doing laws in America,

like some states you get fined and you get thrown in jail for protesting. That's fucked up. Really? Yeah. Which ones? There's a few states, man. I know, I get it. Yeah, they're doing it in, they're trying to do it.

And I think because of what happened with George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter, I think that scared a lot of these right wing politicians. It really did. It's not a good thing, man. Well, they were smashing up some shit for sure, running their police stations and I'm not saying what what happened is right, but I'm saying that it's unfortunate that a few of the way left Get Basically put everyone else who was just protesting in a bad light because not everyone who's protesting is burning down buildings No, and also it shouldn't change the fact that we've been allowed to do it here So we should continue to be allowed to do it.

Absolutely, man. If it gets to a point where we can't, that's the problem. Then we're just joining all these other countries. The width, that these politicians openly say we don't want to be like. So why would we pick up their laws? It's like, maybe if people are protesting with that much aggression, the, it means something's wrong and we gotta change it. Here we go, eight states have passed laws cracking down on protest activity since Black Lives Matter protest

erupted across the United States. New laws enacted in Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Oklahoma, Tennessee. There's five right there, Kansas and Montana. Damn. Montana laws increase penalties for protesting. There's five right there. Kansas and Montana. Montana laws increase penalties for protesting. Oh, that's for near oil and gas pipeline. So that's a little bit different.

Yeah, Republican bill sponsors and police groups say increasing penalties for crimes committed during a protest will help prevent violence and protect law enforcement officers. I don't believe that. Well, what's concerning is it sounds reasonable, right? You shouldn't be committing crimes while protesting. But who are the people that the side when a crime is getting committed?

They could change. They could just be like, hey, we need to get rid of these protesters. We've got to use these laws and just say that there was a bunch of unrest and send in those agent provocateurs that it like literally have been like, that's a real thing. And they go in, they work for the different government agencies and they cause problems, they smash things up so that police can then move in and close down protests. I mean, if you think about smart move, position yourself like that so they have control when they need well that that's the scary thing and that's what I think that's what Yannis and Joe were mentioning is that as

soon as you let one law pass where yeah, it's an anti-protest for, you know, if people are burning down buildings and fucking up the capitals or whatever, you know, like they did in, in, where was it in DC? No. Well, that was the capital, obviously, but the in Portland. Oh, yeah, pulling, yeah. At that federal building, you know, they're trying to burn it down, which is bullshit, right?

Not a good move. Not a good move, because like I said, it makes all the other protesters look bad, but we, this country was founded on protests. It was founded on people wanting something and getting it by coming together and saying no to the English, right? Okay. You put your fuck you at him. All right.

Just kidding, love you. It was my fault. It's not your fault. But I mean, this country was built on feeling differently and wanting to make a change. Well, that's what protests is about. Yeah, you want to change something. How do you do that? You have to make a change. Well, and that's what protest is about. Yeah, you want to change something. How do you do that? You, you have to rebel.

Yeah. There's no other way, dude. The tea party, you know, the Boston Hava. Yeah, because they were trying to tax tea. They're like, fuck your tea. But in that, we got coffee over here, bitches. It's scary to think about there's anti-protest laws. That is so un-American.

He really is. Let's not go that way. It's not good. Let's not go that way. Well, look, we're running out of time and all this has been pretty depressing. Let's jump over to Steve O. They're getting too serious. Rogan's trying to freaking save the world, man. There we go. Well, they're hitting all the topical, you know, the important points. First off with Steve, number one legend. Number two, like I said at the beginning, can't believe you're still alive. God bless him. Cleaning up his act after such a life of parting and being a lunatic, I mean, good for him.

That's probably not easy, but maybe he got he probably had so many brushes with death That it was staring him in the face. I'm sure there's been plenty of interventions. I Would have loved to have gone to a steve of intervention whether like bro You have to breathe air not whip it's like stop. You're a million air. You're famous have a life Take care of yourself. Fix your teeth. Well, at least you can put a flashlight up his nose and you can see out the other side. You know, thanks to all that cocaine.

I mean, total edge, I wish they would have talked more about what a legend he is and all like going through the past. I know Steve was talking a lot about, that's how his standup works. He has to talk about his past because that's what people love about Steve O. The guy's insane. Yeah, nobody wants to hear about his AA meetings. Right.

I mean, I hate to say it, but. Yeah, and I mean, like you said, good for him for getting sober, but the Steve O that everybody loves, is kind of the crazy Steve O, but he's still crazy sober. I mean, he still ran into Mike Tyson's fist. He wasn't drinking then.

No. He just wanted to break his nose again. Cause the doctor told him that in order to fix his nose, he had to break it again. On lunatic. Yeah. In a good way. In a good way. I mean, he's from Montana, dude.

Is he really? He sure is from Great Falls, yeah. No shit. Yeah. Wow. Well, he's had some great falls. And it's time to tell you that much. But himself to pieces.

Just some of the stuff that he's done, it's truly remarkable. I mean, and if you think about it too, what's weird about the Jackass guys is you're like, yeah, that was just a funny show. We loved it in the 90s or this. Each one of their movies that came out, I think, became at least for a period of time, the number one movie in America. Even the newest ones? I'm pretty sure.

Well, the new one was kind of released differently. It was only released on streaming, so I don't know exactly how that went, but it was definitely ranked. And, I mean, they're big movies. And they have a budget, but they're not super expensive to make. I mean, how much does it cost to hire a bull and then throw Johnny Knoxville on a ring with it? And those guys are so fucked up from it.

I think Johnny might be the worst. I guess a couple of, at least one of them has died. But yeah, Johnny is. They've paid a physical toll for that, for I entertainment. And sure, they're rich, but they have to deal with those injuries. Well, he's saying he doesn't have the CTE problem though. That's like a genetic thing. That was interesting.

Talking about how CTE only affects some people. It's kind of like Alzheimer's. Huh. Yeah. Steve was saying that Tony called him up and was telling him about how CTE, you know, he was going to get checked out to see if he had the gene that makes that happen in your brain and Tony didn't have it. And Steve said, well, what were you gonna do

if you did have the gene? And Tony said, I don't know. I didn't think about that. I was just gonna see if I had the gene. And now that I don't, I don't give a fuck. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He's like, I won't wear my helmet now. I'm good. I mean, there's no way Steve

would have it. He would have it if he had the GF. For sure. He'd have massive CTE. He sounded, he sounded like just regular Steve. Yeah. I mean, you know, he's not coming out with physics and Shakespeare. So I don't know how much we expect from Steve O'Han. But yeah, he seems the same. Probably seems more like lucid now that he's cleaned up his act. I think he's just realizing that he can still be Steve O without being a waystoid, which is cool, right? Like he can still be himself.

He's still, most of his material though, at least the, his last special, the, oh, what was it called? I can't remember the name of the special where he's taping him, he taped himself to the, I'll tape himself to the sign. Mm-hmm. But he was saying all of his material is old

and he would go through, it's almost like half video and then he talks about it and get some audience reaction and then goes back to the video again. So it's this multimedia thing, which is cool. I mean, you don't see that much with the comedians. He might be the only one doing that. It's creative. Yeah. It's good.

It's almost like he has to run through the kind of biography of his life in order to make the jokes and tell the stories because it's just so interesting, the stuff that he's done, like whether it was for the show, which was wild, all his private life, which was insane partying. I can't imagine how many time Johnny

and the rest of the crew will like, this guy's not gonna make it. But how do you make new material now? I mean, he's still like I said, he's still jumping in front of Mike Tyson, wanting Mike Tyson to punch him. But what else can you do? Well, those guys at the end, they're not making another jackass. I think with the jackass four, they basically kind of brought in a new team. Yeah, and I think they're hoping that they can kind of offload it and maybe make cameos, but they can't be doing the stunts anymore.

Right, but what is Steve going to be doing moving forward is what I'm saying with his comedy. He's just going to have to come up with new bits that have nothing to do with his old material. I mean, he can't just go through all the same, he can't just keep doing multimedia with his... Well, he could do what a lot of comedians are doing is just come up with comedy. Right. Just come up with regular jokes and story form like other people are doing. Keep practicing.

He's gonna have to mix it up though. That's not gonna be easy for him. Yeah. Because he's gonna have to make a sharp turn. I've seen him live at the comedy store before and he's funny. Yeah. Yeah. It's not just that he's famous and you know, it's Steve O's or everyone's laughing. I mean, he puts work in. He's a silly character. He's really good at making fun of himself, obviously. Yeah. So that is super endearing with comedians and he can just be ridiculous and talk about how much of a lunatic he is and he owns it.

So there's a good chance for him. And of course, he's so well connected in the comedy world. I mean, at the comedy store with all the comedians, Rogan knows him well. I mean, he's in that community. How cool. Well, it's doing it for 11 years, he's in that community. Yeah. How cool. Well, it's doing it for 11 years, just the standup alone. Yeah. I didn't even know he did that. It's kind of cool that I mean, none of the other Jack asked guys to a lot of

of people that have kind of made those types of shows don't go into that afterwards and fat play for him for giving it a shot. Love it. He's a legend. Glad he's, glad he's doing well. Glad he's doing well. All right. Well, that's it for this week. Thank you guys. As always, we appreciate you. This was, this was kind of a depressing one. Watch out for crypto. There's stay away from crypto. Yeah. So a lot going on in the world. They say

about that, folks, and we will talk to you next week.