The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1142 - Tony Rock
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150 min read · 30,096 words- 0:03 – 1:34
Style talk, Android vs iPhone, and nostalgia for early smartphones
- JRJoe Rogan
Four, three, two, one. (hands slap) Boom, Tony Rock-
- TRTony Rock
Yeah. Hey.
- JRJoe Rogan
... we're live. That's a bold choice in shirts, sir. I like that.
- TRTony Rock
Thank you. I think it brings out my skin tone.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) It brings out... It's got a pop to it.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah, and I, you know, I rock it with the shades on, so I'm driving with windows open and girls are looking like, "Who's that guy?" So...
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. And you're, you're an Android guy. Y- you're a different kind of person. Android people are different kinds of people.
- TRTony Rock
What, what kind of people am I?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, the people that, like, think about it. Like, "Eh, I don't know about this." You know? Everybody's like, "I need an iPhone. I need an iPhone."
- TRTony Rock
Right, right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Android people are like, "Eh, I'm not so sure. I think I could rock a Pixel."
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't think I need that.
- TRTony Rock
Uh, this, uh, this takes great pictures. Uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- TRTony Rock
... it's very easy to figure out. So I don't know. I've never been-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's-
- TRTony Rock
... an iPhone guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a choice that people make. They just decide. It's a non-conformist choice.
- TRTony Rock
So, d- did I take the blue pill or the red pill?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TRTony Rock
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a good question. You know?
- TRTony Rock
I think they're both... Look, it's no denying iPhones are badass. But it's no denying those are basically just as badass, they're just different. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Everything's just different now.
- TRTony Rock
Exactly.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's caught up.
- TRTony Rock
You go with what you like, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. It used to be, like, if you had a BlackBerry and somebody else had an iPhone, you felt like a loser.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- 1:34 – 3:37
Fanny packs return, running routines, and “cheating” with music
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh. Tony Rock, I'm so happy that you, uh, agree that the fanny pack is back.
- TRTony Rock
The fanny pack is back.
- JRJoe Rogan
It is, right?
- TRTony Rock
The fanny pack is back. It's a, it's a little more stylish fanny pack now. People are wearing it over the shoulder and-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's, that's s- that's a coward's way out. That's a coward's way out.
- TRTony Rock
You still want it on the-
- JRJoe Rogan
And I walk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- TRTony Rock
... on the stomach.
- JRJoe Rogan
You rock it right in front of you. That's where it's most convenient.
- TRTony Rock
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Listen, boys, you don't have to be trying to get laid all the time.
- TRTony Rock
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
Relax.
- TRTony Rock
You want soccer dad look.
- JRJoe Rogan
You just want the convenience of having that bag right there. Why can't I?
- TRTony Rock
Leather?
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't wanna have to carry shit.
- TRTony Rock
You, you want leather?
- JRJoe Rogan
Fuck yeah.
- TRTony Rock
You want s- a name like Fendi or Gucci across-
- JRJoe Rogan
No, I don't need that. I got this right here, bro.
- TRTony Rock
Oh, wow. Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at that. It's nice, right?
- TRTony Rock
Yeah. It does-
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at that.
- TRTony Rock
That's very, uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's, that's nice.
- TRTony Rock
That's very Naked and Afraid-ish.
- JRJoe Rogan
You could keep this shit on you. It doesn't feel uncomfortable. You got your keys, you got your phone. You don't have to think about shit.
- TRTony Rock
I got keys, phone, wallet in my pocket. I'm good.
- 3:37 – 6:12
Instagram fame, curated lives, and the ‘Instagram model’ economy
- JRJoe Rogan
I know. How many people hike just to get a good shot at the top? It's a good Instagram photo.
- TRTony Rock
Uh, a lot.
- JRJoe Rogan
You can get a lot of likes.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- TRTony Rock
They... That's what they go for. They go for the likes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey, it's a, it's some sort of commodity. It seems to be, right?
- TRTony Rock
Uh, if you're a, if you're a girl with a, with a nice body, a bunch of likes seems to translate into, uh, hosting parties for some reason.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
You know?
- JRJoe Rogan
You only have to have a certain amount.
- TRTony Rock
You go to a cl- Yeah, you go to a club and it's, "Hosted tonight by..."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
And you're like, "Who is, who the fuck is this girl?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, it's the minimalist approach, right? It's like not only is it not... She doesn't display a talent, but you also don't even hear her talk.
- TRTony Rock
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
You just see the pictures.
- TRTony Rock
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
But just that enough is enough that people are gonna wanna go see her.
- TRTony Rock
It takes less and less and less and less to be a celebrity these days.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a strange one though, isn't it?
- TRTony Rock
To be considered a celebrity.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. That's a, that's one of the weirder ones. One of the weirder ones is getting down to just being famous for photographs.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah. Uh, in- they, they call them Instagram models.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
Like... So there's an Instagram modeling agency.
- JRJoe Rogan
But here's the thing. Am I hater for saying that because I like to look at them?
- TRTony Rock
Oh, no. Yeah, exactly. The man in the-
- JRJoe Rogan
So why would I be upset-
- TRTony Rock
I appreciate-
- 6:12 – 10:52
Kyle Dunnigan’s face-swap comedy and how phones changed sketch culture
- JRJoe Rogan
Kyle Dunnigan. Dude, Kyle Dunnigan blew up because of those little videos that he puts up on his.
- TRTony Rock
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
You ever see those?
- TRTony Rock
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Fucking hilarious.
- TRTony Rock
Kyle's my man too. I've known Kyle for years.
- JRJoe Rogan
Kyle does face swaps with Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump. You've never seen it?
- TRTony Rock
No, no.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah?
- JRJoe Rogan
Please go back to the one where, uh, Bruce is telling them he's pregnant.
- TRTony Rock
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) See if you can, see if you can find that one. Dude, he's genius.
- TRTony Rock
Really?
- JRJoe Rogan
He does, Bruce-
- TRTony Rock
I've gotten on Kyle for so long, why haven't I found one?
- JRJoe Rogan
He, he, dude, it is, uh, the funniest page on the internet. I'm not bullshit- Kyle Dunnigan's Instagram page is the funniest page on the int- in the internet.
- TRTony Rock
Okay, that's saying a lot.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, I swear to God, I cry.
- TRTony Rock
'Cause I have, I have yet to see a really ... Well, I've seen a few, but then they, they kind of just fizzle out.
- JRJoe Rogan
I cry. I have not seen-
- TRTony Rock
So show the one with, uh, Kim Kardashian and the, the, the washing machine, the dishwasher. Or the, uh, the, the clothes-washing machine. The one where she's lost in the house.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TRTony Rock
Dude. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Here it goes. The build-up.
- JVJamie Vernon
I have an emergency.
- TRTony Rock
Where is it at? Wh- who is this?
- JDJoey Diaz
What is it, Kim?
- JVJamie Vernon
I'm lost in my house.
- JDJoey Diaz
Oh, shit. Look at your surroundings. What do you see?
- 10:52 – 15:00
Tony’s comedy respect, Comedy Store history, and Joey Diaz stories
- JRJoe Rogan
... I think you are one of the comics in this world that does not get the credit that you deserve. You are one of those guys.
- TRTony Rock
I, I, I thank you and I agree.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think you're one of the funniest guys alive. I really do.
- TRTony Rock
I thank you and I agree.
- JRJoe Rogan
I, uh, watched you do a set. (clears throat) I think, I guess it was last month. When ... How long ago was the last time-
- TRTony Rock
Oh, we did Tripley-, we did Tripley's, uh, show at the store, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
That's r- ... How long ago was that?
- TRTony Rock
About, um, two months maybe.
- JRJoe Rogan
Something like that.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, you're funny as fuck.
- TRTony Rock
Thank you, man. Thank you.
- JRJoe Rogan
You're funny as fuck. It's, it's fun to watch. You got a lot of energy too, man. You're powerful.
- TRTony Rock
Thank you, brother.
- JRJoe Rogan
That was, uh, that was a thing, like, couple of guys after your set were like, "Whoo."
- TRTony Rock
There were some heavy hitters on that one that night. It was, uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
That was a fun show.
- TRTony Rock
I've forgot who, uh ... Was Billy on that one? Was Bill Burr on that one?
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't remember. I mean, he's been on a bunch of them.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Tripley throws some amazing shows at the store.
- TRTony Rock
Great shows. Tripley and I did, uh, we did Montreal New Faces together.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, really?
- TRTony Rock
And so every time I see Tripley, I'm like, "Hey, you know we're linked forever, man. We did New Faces together."
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow. New Faces. Dude, I remember those days.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah, me, Trip-
- JRJoe Rogan
The days of hope.
- TRTony Rock
Me, Trip, uh, Kory Holcomb.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, shit, Kory Holcomb.
- TRTony Rock
Uh, Mike Young.
- 15:00 – 22:03
Corporate influence, soda debates, and cravings vs self-discipline
- JRJoe Rogan
W- Chris Ryan just posted some shit, uh, yesterday that I retweeted about how they were, doctors and scientists were encouraging women to breastfeed and they were gonna do it nationally, but it got sideswiped by the formula industry. It was a d- terribly disturbing shit.
- JDJoey Diaz
Tha- tha- that's just, that shit, that's, I- I believe that 100% because there's always-
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- JDJoey Diaz
... the, the other side where, "We're gonna not make money if this thing gets through."
- JRJoe Rogan
But that one right there, that is terrible.
- JDJoey Diaz
It's, yeah, it i-
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a terrible one.
- JDJoey Diaz
... it is.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's, you're, you're, you're deciding to give babies less nutrition. You're making a decision for profit.
- JDJoey Diaz
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Profit over baby's nutrition. You're lying to moms.
- JDJoey Diaz
R- it's like big tobacco, it was-
- JRJoe Rogan
(exhales)
- JDJoey Diaz
... big tobacco's, you know-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, but at least big tobacco-
- JDJoey Diaz
... put you money in, in-
- JRJoe Rogan
... isn't targeting babies. I know, and I know it's, there's no, like, there's no supporting big tobacco. These, you know, how many people have died from fucking cigarettes?
- JDJoey Diaz
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Imagine if that was, uh, from something else. Some any other product, like, Diet Coke. What if Diet Coke was just killing people-
- JDJoey Diaz
It is.
- JRJoe Rogan
... left and right? Would it still be a r-
- JDJoey Diaz
It i- w-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wait, do you think it is?
- JDJoey Diaz
Of course.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure.
- JDJoey Diaz
It's not killing people like cigarettes, but...
- JRJoe Rogan
I think it's not good for you. But as far as anybody ever get, like, cigaretted out from Diet Cokes?
- JDJoey Diaz
Yeah, nobody's doing commercials with the thing in their neck-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JDJoey Diaz
... saying, "I drink too much Diet Coke." But-
- 22:03 – 24:21
Road eating, allergies, raw dairy, and Joe’s infamous kale ‘cleanse’ shake
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, dude. You might have to call for help. Do you eat healthy?
- TRTony Rock
I try, I try. You know, I have th- I have the vegan friends and I have the friends that, you know, like to cook and eat, and the foodies, so I'm trying to walk the, the fine line, you know.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's hard when you're on the road, right?
- TRTony Rock
It is very hard to eat healthy on the road. I try to do ... I go to Whole Foods, I'll try to get, like, some soup and, you know, some, some chips or whatever for the room. But I'd ... At 2:00, at 10:00 in the morn- 10:00 at night-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
The show's over at midnight, you know. I was h- hang around and take pictures with people and now it's 1:00 and I'm starving and there's nothing open that I can get a healthy, you know, meal from.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I always bring protein bars everywhere I go.
- TRTony Rock
I should start doing that.
- JRJoe Rogan
I bring almonds and protein bars. Those are two good things to bring.
- TRTony Rock
I should start doing that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it's like it's an easy thing. Like, if you're just using ... just trying to get some nutrition just, just to fill your stomach, you're hungry, just let me ... Just, just so I'm not hungry anymore, almonds are great because just a couple handfuls-
- TRTony Rock
But I'm allergic to almonds. I can't, I can't do almonds.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh. Well, don't listen to me then.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah. I'm allergic to almonds.
- JRJoe Rogan
Damn.
- TRTony Rock
I'll be fucked.
- JRJoe Rogan
How'd you get allergic to almonds?
- TRTony Rock
I don't know. I'm, I'm allergic to, uh, almonds, pecans, I believe walnuts, but not peanuts, 'cause peanuts is not a nut.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- TRTony Rock
Peanut grows on the ground.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- TRTony Rock
Almonds, pecans grow on trees, so something like, something weird there where-
- JRJoe Rogan
Whoa, peanuts grow on the ground. I did not know that.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you know that?
- TRTony Rock
A peanut is not a nut.
- JRJoe Rogan
Nope, Jamie didn't know it either. (laughs)
- TRTony Rock
(laughs) I can eat peanuts all day.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's crazy. I ... All my life I've never thought about a peanut tree. Like, what the fuck does a peanut tree look like?
- TRTony Rock
(laughs)
- 24:21 – 28:35
Risk and nature: blowfish sushi, wingsuits, Fear Factor stunts
- JRJoe Rogan
Some food, some of these plants are incredibly nutritious to your body, and some of these plants will kill the fuck out of you instantly. And nature made people figure it out. You had to figure it out by trial and error.
- TRTony Rock
Trial and error, yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Can you imagine what it was like?
- TRTony Rock
The blowfish, that guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Woo!
- TRTony Rock
That, that first guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
"Hey, it's a fish. We, uh, can we eat fish?" Bang, gone.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dead. Yeah, how about those assholes that still decided to-
- TRTony Rock
That's the-
- JRJoe Rogan
... make sushi out of it?
- TRTony Rock
If you, if you cut it-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
... a inch to the left or inch to the right, you're dead.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm. You're dead.
- TRTony Rock
Like, why, why not just not eat it?
- JRJoe Rogan
No, no, no, no, no.
- TRTony Rock
Like, why not just-
- JRJoe Rogan
Danger.
- TRTony Rock
... skip that one?
- JRJoe Rogan
Danger.
- TRTony Rock
That, that probably doesn't make it taste better.
- JRJoe Rogan
You got those chopsticks and you're bringing it up to your lips and you're like, "Did this guy fuck up?"
- TRTony Rock
(laughs) Like, oh...
- JRJoe Rogan
Maybe this guy's getting old, maybe his vision's going bad, he doesn't wanna say anything 'cause he wants to keep his job, I don't know this fucking guy.
- TRTony Rock
(laughs) Oh... What kind of rush-
- JRJoe Rogan
Just take a bite and wait. Yeah, like blowfish sushi. That's like the, the wingsuit of sushi. You know? Those crazy people that jump, like my friend Andy Stumpf, they jump off cliffs and shit-
- TRTony Rock
With his, yeah, with his-
- JRJoe Rogan
... with those wingsuits. That's what that is for sushi eaters.
- TRTony Rock
I saw a guy go through it-
- 28:35 – 39:56
Animal ethics: Rocky Mountain oysters, veal cruelty, and Joe’s chickens (that eat mice)
- TRTony Rock
... under the helicopter before, but bull nuts and all that stuff, no.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- TRTony Rock
Yes, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, bull nuts are just, just meat.
- TRTony Rock
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You just eat it. That'd be, that's one of the easiest ones. Bull nuts would be super easy.
- TRTony Rock
Oh, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
People love those things.
- TRTony Rock
Um-
- JRJoe Rogan
They call them Rocky Mountain oysters.
- TRTony Rock
I've heard that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
I've, I've seen it, uh, one of those cooking shows and they fry them hard.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- TRTony Rock
Like, they look like, uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- TRTony Rock
... they look like pork, fried pork rinds and people are just-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, they're just-
- TRTony Rock
... going to town.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Oh, is that what they do with them?
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, it looks like pork rinds, really?
- TRTony Rock
They, they, yeah, they slice it and fry it up hard.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, wow. I hadn't seen that. I'd seen, uh, sauteed and I'd see that where they breaded them. They, like, uh-
- TRTony Rock
Breaded bull nuts.
- JRJoe Rogan
... breaded them and fried them. Yeah, it's, apparently people love them.
- TRTony Rock
I'm, I'm not one of those people.
- JRJoe Rogan
There they are. They chopped those up. Rocky Mountain oysters.
- TRTony Rock
That looks like, that looks like fried cauliflower.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Man's dominion over animals.
- 39:56 – 46:25
Violence, perception, and hypocrisy: from ashrams and ants to grizzlies and poachers
- JRJoe Rogan
I went to an ashram once, um, and this lady who was there, she and I were having a conversation. And, uh, I noticed that she had ant spray. And I said, uh, "What do you do with the ant spray?" She goes, "Well, it's unfortunate, but we have to use it because the ants have been getting into the garbage." I go, "What?"
- TRTony Rock
Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
I go, "You guys are murderers? You guys are killing ants?" And she started laughing. You know, she thought it was kind of funny. She's like, "Uh." But she, 'cause-
- TRTony Rock
We draw the line.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's one thing about Buddhists, like a lot of Buddhists, they don't take themselves too seriously to the point where they can't, like, crack out a little joke about that.
- TRTony Rock
That's good. That's good.
- JRJoe Rogan
About the hypocrisy of the fact they're using bug spray at an ashram.
- TRTony Rock
(laughs) That's, that's very good.
- JRJoe Rogan
You're just ... That's death spray. You're killing all these organisms. We just, but we decide that that's okay. Whereas, like, if she was inv- ... Or backyard was invaded by house cats and she just went out and shot gunned them.
- TRTony Rock
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
You can't do that. (laughs) You can't do that, but you can spray the fuck out of these little bugs.
- TRTony Rock
Ants, we gotta kill them.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like when things are little, we're like, "Can't be bothered worrying about you. You're too little."
- TRTony Rock
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's weird, right?
- TRTony Rock
Buddhists, you would think, though, they would...
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you would think that they would, uh, figure out a better way to ke- keep those ants out.
- TRTony Rock
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
They're lazy. They wanted to kill them.
- TRTony Rock
Buddhist, Buddhist, Buddhists are lazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Well, that one was.
- TRTony Rock
That's, that's ... We just, we just learned it today.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, don't you think? Like, do you, do you ... Don't you think there could have been a way to clean them up with water and not kill them? Is that ... No, you'd still kill some. You'd still kill some.
- TRTony Rock
Why not just sweep them out?
- JRJoe Rogan
You're gonna kill some.
- TRTony Rock
Like, you're a Buddhist, why not just sweep them outside?
- JRJoe Rogan
But even then, you're, you're murdering dozens and dozens of ants. If you just had a broom and you started hitting those ants, you're gonna fuck up a few.
- TRTony Rock
Or how about you get, how about you get an, uh, ant eater if you're a Buddhist?
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, shit.
- TRTony Rock
Because now it's circle of life type shit, you know what I mean?
- 46:25 – 53:20
Chicago shootings as a domestic war: segregation, PTSD, and what fixes look like
- TRTony Rock
That's life any... That's... Inner city life is just like, "Holy shit, is this, is this about to pop off in here?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Right? Like, how many people died in Chicago last week? Some insane number. There was a... They're reporting on, uh, the lack of attention that the murders in Chicago are getting in, like, the national news and how crazy it is.
- TRTony Rock
It's fucking crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
How-
- TRTony Rock
I've been to Chicago several times. The, the one thing that sticks out to me every time I go there is how segregated it is.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I've never gone to anywhere-
- TRTony Rock
For a major, for a major city, like New York, it's like we're all-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TRTony Rock
... piled up together.
- JRJoe Rogan
Four killed, 24 wounded in weekend shootings. God. 28 people got shot, dude. That is crazy. 28 people in a weekend.
- TRTony Rock
12:15 in the afternoon, it said.
- JRJoe Rogan
Fuck.
- TRTony Rock
Standing on the sidewalk-
- JRJoe Rogan
Jesus Christ.
- TRTony Rock
... someone opened fire.
- JRJoe Rogan
Jesus Christ. Like, there is a-
- TRTony Rock
19-year-old.
- JRJoe Rogan
... there is a war going on in Chicago that's way more deadly than most of the wars we're engaging in overseas. You don't hear about that many soldiers dying every day.
- TRTony Rock
Exactly. Ex- now, that's another, that's another scenario, how we said, like, that's real.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that's real.
- TRTony Rock
That's real.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TRTony Rock
The fear is real.
- JRJoe Rogan
But unless you were there.
- TRTony Rock
You walk outside in Chicago, that is a real-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TRTony Rock
... fear that you should have.
- JRJoe Rogan
And this is what's cra- number of people in Chicago this year passes (gasps) 1,400. 1,400 people shot.
- TRTony Rock
Now, how many people... Do we know how many people got, got shot, like, doing tours of Afghanistan?
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a good question. The, um-
- 53:20 – 1:01:23
Growing up in Bed-Stuy: family structure, crack era trauma, and “reading the room” for violence
- TRTony Rock
Like, I grew up in the hood. I grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, the, one of the wildest neighborhoods when I was growing up there. But my vision was past it. My vision was, "Yeah, this is going on outside, but I'm gonna be there one day."
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you attribute the having the ability to do that to?
- TRTony Rock
Uh, having a mom and a dad. My pops, my father worked two full time jobs my whole childhood. My father literally worked 80 hours a week.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- TRTony Rock
80. So just to see him go every day, like, "Damn, this dude, this dude works hard, man."
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- TRTony Rock
Didn't have a lot to show for it and made sure his kids had. Mom was a teacher. Education was... You know, empha- uh, she made an emphasis on it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- TRTony Rock
Uh, you know. It was, it was... Like, my friends, my, my, one of my best friends down the block, no dad. My friend across the street, no dad. My friend two doors down, no dad. Then crack came, and that was... Everything fucked up. Everything started just... The neighborhood started just to dr- you know-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that was like-
- TRTony Rock
... shrivel up and-
- JRJoe Rogan
... a plague.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah-
- JRJoe Rogan
Crack was...
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
People that are alive today-
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... or young kids today, they don't remember the '80s.
- TRTony Rock
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
There was a, like a plague.
- TRTony Rock
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
A plague hit.
- TRTony Rock
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
Everybody knew somebody that got hit. And you... So many people's lives were gone.
- TRTony Rock
Done.
- JRJoe Rogan
Done.
- TRTony Rock
Done.
- JRJoe Rogan
Over. People who were doing fine, and then all of a sudden... (snaps fingers)
- TRTony Rock
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
Whew.
- 1:01:23 – 1:32:44
Paranormal skepticism, ‘Ghostbusters laws,’ and true-crime real estate stigma
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I don't know, man. Y- y- you should probably know. Do you believe in haunted houses?
- TRTony Rock
Eh, not really.
- JRJoe Rogan
No?
- TRTony Rock
Not really. I haven't experienced one-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- TRTony Rock
... so I don't ... I don't-
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't-
- TRTony Rock
I, I, I don't give it much thought and put it that way.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't believe in ghosts, but I don't not believe in ghosts.
- TRTony Rock
Have you experienced-
- JRJoe Rogan
No.
- TRTony Rock
... the paranormal?
- JRJoe Rogan
Nope. But imagine you're out in the desert and all of a sudden you see an apparition walk towards you in the desert. And then-
- TRTony Rock
This has, this has happened to you?
- JRJoe Rogan
Just imagine, just imagine.
- TRTony Rock
Okay. I'm in the desert-
- JRJoe Rogan
And, and it l-
- TRTony Rock
... and it's nighttime, it's day, it's-
- JRJoe Rogan
... and it looks right at you, and it looks like, like a, a teacher that you knew from, like, seventh grade or something.
- TRTony Rock
This is at night?
- JRJoe Rogan
At night. And then it vanishes.
- TRTony Rock
And my seventh grade teacher walks-
- JRJoe Rogan
And it vanishes right in front of you. Do you tell people?
- TRTony Rock
Uh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you tell them?
- TRTony Rock
"My fucking seventh grade teacher just popped up in the middle of the desert."
- JRJoe Rogan
People are like, "Oh, Tony, we gotta get you to a doctor. Tony Rock's gone crazy." No. You, you know what you would do? If you were-
- TRTony Rock
You tell the people you trust.
- JRJoe Rogan
Even if the people you trust, they'd be like, "Are you okay? Let me feel your head." (laughs)
- TRTony Rock
(laughs) I don't... No. I've never experienced it.
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