Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - The JRE review of 1266 with Ben Anderson

Episode Date: March 20, 2019

Ben is a war reporter and has worked in some of the most dangerous places in the world. He has balls of steel and talks about what it takes to do that kind of work with Rogan extensively. Their conversation definitely made me appreciate the fact that even though sometimes I don’t love my job at least no one is ever shooting at me. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

Well, hello then and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Joe Rogan Experience review. This is for podcast 1266 Ben Anderson, the war journalist. This guy was freaking Joe out. If you haven't listened to this one yet, it is one of those things where you realize one your job is boring and two, there is some really dangerous shit out there, dangerous jobs, dangerous times and it's fucking difficult, you know. This guy is, he really is the reason that the people that go off the wall need to be saluted, you know, and

given some respect and honor. It's it's it's fucking tough out there and he's come back with some ideas and some stresses and some ways to fix himself and Talks about it with Joe. So let's start this review Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience review where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? Ben has traveled all over. He's been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and really all the dangerous places reporting on life and being shot at and what war does and you name it for many many years

and sadly Ben suffers from PTSD as you would imagine he would like many troops get back from this stuff he's figuring out his own ride through it too one thing he was talking about is MDA, M-T-M-A therapy, M-D-M-A. There we go, I think that's it. So ecstasy, right? Not just the drug from the 90s that allows you to dance like a complete asshole while raving, but also potentially a good therapy for people with PTSD and other traumatic events in their lives. How Ben said that it kind of works, and not just paraphrase, that you're gonna listen to Joe's podcast anyway,

is that it just allows you to think about this awful thing without the attached super negative emotion, because you're in a better mood for that period of time. Anyone that's done it, raise your hands, me, I have. Then you'll know that it kind of does allow you Don't you have a few hours to do? It's good for people that need that help. It's just been the stigma that it's the rave drug, you know, but I think originally, and the MA was produced to be therapy, I think. I think they saw it as an antidepressant, but they got rid of it in like the 60s or 70s. And then it became legal because, you know, they just decided that it wasn't good for that therapy.

And then people that liked the party got a whole of it because it's fun time. It's fun time people. So yeah, now we can use it to help these people, which is great, right? Because nothing has been all that beneficial for people with PTSD and that's fucking brutal. It's absolutely brutal. So yeah, I think there's gonna be research in the rave scene and things are gonna pick up. It's gonna be a party out there.

People are gonna be feeling better. Like I said earlier, this guy kind of was freaking Joe out. It was one of those conversations that Joe has, oftentimes he's talking to like extreme athletes, so you name it whether it's like squirrel suit, skydivers or fucking mountain climbers or you know all those things, just Joe gets a bit overwhelmed and freaked out by it and you know no doubt, right? No doubt. He talked a little bit about kind of the, some of the major issues out there. I mean gun violence, the mass shootings, what's going to happen with it,

the desensitization of all of it. I mean, it's like, you know, what can be done? What is going on? You know, and I almost feel like all of us know a couple of people that were like, hmm, that guy, fucking John. Yeah, he might be a, a mass shooter one day, you know. And I think that's why happens. I think once these fucking lunatics go off the deep end and end up doing it, it's not always a huge surprise to the people that knew him.

I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but they always look insane, don't they? It was a completely mad. And I think the people that knew them, you know, had a sneaky feeling, they were gonna fucking lose it one day. So, yeah, be nicer to those people, right? You don't wanna be fucking in, you don't wanna be in their way, it'd be a mess.

It's all a lot about how everyone's kind of on their phones at the moment, you know, it's almost like a movie. Everyone's of on their phones at the moment. It's almost like a movie. Everyone's always on their phones. Why is that? What's going on? You know, these social media, you just glued to it. You can't get away.

It's one meme after another, another, another, another picture, another Instagram post, another, you know, and I've been guilty of it. I see it. You know, you're just bored and you're just flipping through stuff. But it's like, what joy is anyone getting out of it Are you enjoying yourself more than it and then if you didn't pick up the damn thing? What are you even looking at? What are people looking at people following experts? Are you following like you know the Elon Musk's of the world or like geniuses that are teaching you something or you just looking at I don't know

cute dogs in backpacks, you know, or people slipping over on the ice. It's like, what are we watching? And is that entertainment necessary? I mean, you know, it almost goes back to the PTSD of regular life, but people even enjoy themselves all that much. And if the answer is not always because they don't like their jobs, they don't like other things, well, you know, is the social media even helping at all? It's a bit of an escape for sure. But what value is that? There's a great video recently, I don't know if you guys seen it, Kyle Dunnigan, who's a comedian that Joe loves to follow on Instagram, he's fucking hilarious. And he has this video with uh, that he does like the face swapping and it's Elon Musk and then Caitlyn Janna and Kylie Janna and they're

talking on it and you've got to check it out because it's just like comparing billionaire to billionaire and he makes some very funny points about like all the things he's invented and what she did to get there. It just cracks me up and it's so funny. I think it sums up a lot of what's going on with where people are paying attention. Some of these people out there have hundreds of millions of followers. You look at what their content is and it's just like, what are they doing with it?

Like even the rock, super inspiring guy, for sure. But you know, 80% of his posts are just him like lifting some weight. That's cool, right? But it seems like a lot of people are looking at that. Could there be a different message? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Do whatever you want. He's the rock. He can fucking do whatever you want.

He can just eat sushi and just show you if he wants to. They talk some about reporting from Brazil, like life down in Brazil. Ben spent some time down there and and he says that in you know, look, I've always wanted to go down there. It would be amazing to train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu down there, some legends of sport have come out of that place. But I think a lot of us know it's fucked up place. Dangerous, you could get robbed, you could get shot. There's violence, it's fucked up.

And you don't always know how much. And when he talked about when the World Cup was down there, they didn't, they covered up a lot of things. They put billboards up in front of the, like the poor towns and the poor areas so people couldn't see them. And then people were, you know, shot left and right for being like police informants and just tons of like a brutal shit

has happened down there. And you know, what happens here is later once the world cup is over and life moves on is all this stuff kind of collapses around you. So these people are just left to kind of struggle through things. And it seems like a theme when these poor countries put on the Olympics, they just hide up the bits

that are awful. You know, they don't want you to see it. It's just these crazy bits of propaganda, but it only makes sense, right? What do we expect them to do? Show it off. Be like, hey, meet our poor. They're fantastic.

You know, it's not. It really is, but again, you know, this guy, Ben, and what really struck me about him is he has to get in the mix, he has no choice. He's got to get his feet wet. He he has to get in the mix he has no choice He's got to get his feet wet. He's got to get in there He's got to stand in front of that camera or hold the camera and shoot these ugly scenes right up close putting himself in danger You know fuck. I mean, it's the only way to get that information to you, but you wonder why? What's the drive? What gets them there? Why do we have to have somebody

stood in front of the burning car to report on it? Or stood in the midst of a huge flood, just to be like, by the way, there was a flood here. Why can't they do it from the safe distance of like a van or a studio like 40 miles away? I mean, is it more appealing that somebody's right on the action? I mean, sure, we want the shot, right?

We wanna see it. We wanna get kinda getting the mix. It's exciting. It's what gets people to tune in. But I don't think we need the reporters to do that. Especially if he's getting shot out. That shit seems completely unnecessary. But again, they bring us truth, whether we want it or not.

I mean, it's hard to get anything that's unbiased, but I mean, that's as close to non-fake news as you can get. That's real news. Real ugly truth of news. And, uh, yeah, fuck. Fair play to Ben. he's a legend and I hope that his therapy with taking X to C works great He raves up his PTSD goes away and he can really just crack on with his life But check out the conversation it's expiring shit if you think your job sucks now think about what he had to do and Hey, who knows maybe it inspired you to be a wall reporter. Best of luck. Thanks a lot guys, I appreciate you. Peace. you