Joe Rogan Experience #1232 - Nick Di Paolo

1. 0:01 – 1:10

   Gym banter and jumping into the Roger Stone news

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      I have a lot of friends that are Fallout crazies. Boom! And we're live. (laughs) Nick DiPaolo.

   2. NPNick Di Paolo0:08

      Yeah, baby.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:08

      How are you, my friend?

   4. NPNick Di Paolo0:10

      Good.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      Good to see you, my friend.

   6. NPNick Di Paolo0:11

      Uh, I can't believe that gym out there.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      It's nice, right?

   8. NPNick Di Paolo0:13

      With a Porsche parked next to it. You gotta be able to work out where you work.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      If you do that, you get more in.

   10. NPNick Di Paolo0:18

       Next to your Porsche.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:19

       Yeah.

   12. NPNick Di Paolo0:20

       Too bad things aren't working out well for you, Joe.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       Oh, I see what you're doing, yeah.

   14. NPNick Di Paolo0:23

       Yeah. I'm not doing anything. You know me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       (laughs)

   16. NPNick Di Paolo0:25

       I'm right up front.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       So we were talking before the podcast, and I said, "Save this," 'cause it's hilarious.

   18. NPNick Di Paolo0:29

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:30

       Uh, Randy Credico-

   20. NPNick Di Paolo0:31

       Yes.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       ... who's a standup comedian-

   22. NPNick Di Paolo0:32

       Yes.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       ... has been involved in this Roger Stone thing?

   24. NPNick Di Paolo0:37

       Yes. As you know, Roger Stone this morning, the FBI raided... you know, took him out of his house and his pajamas-

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       Yeah. (laughs)

   26. NPNick Di Paolo0:43

       And... (laughs) Who I love, by... Roger Stone interviewed me on InfoWars. He used to love my radio show on Sirius.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Yeah, they asked him, uh, they asked m- me to get him on, and I was like, "Nah, I think I'm gonna duck that one." (laughs)

   28. NPNick Di Paolo0:54

       He... Well, he... But he's fucking eccentric and- and-

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       He's crazy.

   30. NPNick Di Paolo0:57

       ... crazy.
2. 1:10 – 3:03

   Randy Credico: eccentric comic turned Mueller witness

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:10

      But Randy Credico is radical left. He used to do... He did a, um, a comedy album years ago.

   2. NPNick Di Paolo1:17

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:17

      It was him and, uh, a bunch of other guys, and it was all, it was all political. It was like five guys, or three f-... A few guys. I forget how many guy... I think Cremins was on it.

   4. NPNick Di Paolo1:29

      Oh, sure.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:30

      There was Credico-

   6. NPNick Di Paolo1:31

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:32

      ... and, uh, maybe Jimmy Tingle?

   8. NPNick Di Paolo1:34

      Yep.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:35

      Yeah. And they, they had, like, a whole thing they were doing, almost like a, like a tour.

   10. NPNick Di Paolo1:41

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       You know, and they were, like, super left-wing-

   12. NPNick Di Paolo1:43

       Yes.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:43

       ... politically aware. But this is fucking way back in the day.

   14. NPNick Di Paolo1:47

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:47

       I wanna say this is the '90s that they were doing this.

   16. NPNick Di Paolo1:49

       Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he was a... He was a... He was always funny. I mean, I'd watch him die every night at the, uh-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:54

       (laughs)

   18. NPNick Di Paolo1:54

       (laughs) ... at Catch a Rising Star, because he's... He'd be up there doing some of this inside political shit. He'd be talking about a bill that was passed that day on the floor, or whatever the fuck, and the crowd would be staring at him.

   19. JRJoe Rogan2:04

       (laughs)

   20. NPNick Di Paolo2:04

       A- and he had a hot Asian girlfriend, and he'd be dying up there. This is when I fell in love with him. And he goes, uh, he goes, "That's my girlfriend over there. I taught her, uh, four words in English. Not you, crowd suck." (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan2:15

       (laughs)

   22. NPNick Di Paolo2:19

       I mean, he was really fucking funny.

   23. JRJoe Rogan2:21

       Yeah.

   24. NPNick Di Paolo2:21

       But so political and inside, and e- eccentric. He stayed at my apartment when I lived out here in LA, and he fucking, like, tried to pick up my wife after I left. I had to go on the road somewhere. Fuck, but I still love him. He's fucking crazy. (laughs) But he-

   25. JRJoe Rogan2:34

       (sighs) .

   26. NPNick Di Paolo2:34

       He sent me a picture of him, uh, 2016 in front of the embassy in London where what's-his-name was held up, uh, Assange.

   27. JRJoe Rogan2:43

       Really?

   28. NPNick Di Paolo2:43

       Yes. And I'm like, "What the fuck is going on? What's he doing out there?" And then all that shit came out about Wikileaks and stuff, so they thought he might've been the intermediary. Yeah, so he's gone in front of-

   29. JRJoe Rogan2:55

       To Roger Stone?

   30. NPNick Di Paolo2:55

       He, he's gone in front of Mueller a couple times.
3. 3:03 – 4:45

   Stone vs. Credico: threats, texts, and Stone’s oddball mythos

   1. JRJoe Rogan3:03

      Roger Stone threatened to take away-

   2. NPNick Di Paolo3:05

      The guy who stayed at my apartment!

   3. JRJoe Rogan3:05

      ... associate's dog if he cooperated with Russia investigate what? He threatened to take away his dog?

   4. NPNick Di Paolo3:12

      Yeah, oh, fucking... You gotta read the texts that Roger Stone... They're public, I think... would send to Randy.

   5. JRJoe Rogan3:17

      He... "I'm gonna take your dog."

   6. NPNick Di Paolo3:18

      Oh, yeah. He goes, "Let's get it on. B- be prepared to die."

   7. JRJoe Rogan3:21

      Well, actually-

   8. NPNick Di Paolo3:21

      "I'm gonna ta- I'm gonna take your fucking..."

   9. JRJoe Rogan3:23

      (laughs)

   10. NPNick Di Paolo3:23

       That's why I love this guy. This guy had a Nixon tattoo when he was 18 on his back.

   11. JRJoe Rogan3:27

       Roger Stone did?

   12. NPNick Di Paolo3:28

       (laughs) Yes. He marched in the gay parade in New York. I fucking love him. He's nuts.

   13. JRJoe Rogan3:32

       Why'd he march in the gay parade-

   14. NPNick Di Paolo3:33

       And, and-

   15. JRJoe Rogan3:33

       ... in New York?

   16. NPNick Di Paolo3:33

       ... just to... You know.

   17. JRJoe Rogan3:34

       To be pro-gay rights?

   18. NPNick Di Paolo3:34

       Well, he's pro- just... Yeah. You know, express yourself.

   19. JRJoe Rogan3:37

       So he's just all over the place.

   20. NPNick Di Paolo3:38

       He's all over the place. But he's a right... I mean, he had a Nixon tattoo.

   21. JRJoe Rogan3:41

       Right.

   22. NPNick Di Paolo3:41

       He's a fucking right-wing. But, uh-

   23. JRJoe Rogan3:43

       Out of all the right-wing people to get. Look at this.

   24. NPNick Di Paolo3:45

       Look, look, look. (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan3:46

       That is so ridiculous.

   26. NPNick Di Paolo3:49

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan3:49

       The fucking Nix-... That's a good tattoo, too.

   28. NPNick Di Paolo3:51

       I know.

   29. JRJoe Rogan3:51

       That... I never did that.

   30. NPNick Di Paolo3:52

       And that guy's 60-something years old.
4. 4:45 – 5:56

   Mueller’s endgame and the pressure-cooker strategy

   1. NPNick Di Paolo4:45

      And he, and he said, "Yeah, let me know." Uh, he goes, "I can't say much because they just, just arrested the FB-" They u-... They're gonna turn... They're trying to... I see what Mueller's doing. He's turning Roger Stone against Trump. Trump is the target.

   2. JRJoe Rogan4:57

      Yes.

   3. NPNick Di Paolo4:57

      So he's gonna threaten him with... You know, he's 60-something years old, so he could-

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:00

      Yeah.

   5. NPNick Di Paolo5:00

      ... spend the rest of his life in prison or talk.

   6. JRJoe Rogan5:03

      Yeah.

   7. NPNick Di Paolo5:03

      You know? So-

   8. JRJoe Rogan5:03

      But he's doing that with every-... He's a scary guy, Mueller. If you-

   9. NPNick Di Paolo5:07

      If you-

   10. JRJoe Rogan5:07

       If you had a problem and that guy was coming after you, like, "Oh, my god."

   11. NPNick Di Paolo5:11

       Shit your pants.

   12. JRJoe Rogan5:11

       'Cause he's gonna do it slow. Like, by the time this actually gets to Trump- Like getting raped. ... he's gonna be... I don't think they do that slow. They do that at whatever they want. They do that slow.

   13. NPNick Di Paolo5:21

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan5:21

       I think that's different than what you're thinking.

   15. NPNick Di Paolo5:23

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:23

       Anyway. (laughs)

   17. NPNick Di Paolo5:24

       (laughs) I'm very confused myself.

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:26

       By the time they get to Trump, he's already so nerve-wracked.

   19. NPNick Di Paolo5:29

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan5:29

       You know what I'm saying? Because he, like, chips away at his borders, like slowly but surely. Takes away all the people around him.

   21. NPNick Di Paolo5:36

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan5:37

       He gets closer. And you know, you know, you know he's concentrating on the family. You know he is.

   23. NPNick Di Paolo5:41

       Oh, of course.

   24. JRJoe Rogan5:42

       Of course.

   25. NPNick Di Paolo5:42

       Of course. That's what he does. And he even does that with people like Stone. He'll go after your family and stuff.

   26. JRJoe Rogan5:48

       Do you notice you never hear a word out of Ivanka anymore?

   27. NPNick Di Paolo5:50

       No, exactly.

   28. JRJoe Rogan5:51

       Yeah.

   29. NPNick Di Paolo5:52

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan5:53

       Guarantee you.
5. 5:56 – 6:53

   Whitey Bulger, FBI corruption, and wrongful convictions

   1. NPNick Di Paolo5:56

      But if you wanna know about Mueller, like you said, and how fucking creepy he is, he was the head of the FBI during the '80s when the Whitey Bulger shit went down.

   2. JRJoe Rogan6:03

      Whoa.

   3. NPNick Di Paolo6:04

      Yeah. And he put four guys in per-... Listen to this, Joe, and this... You can look this up. This is ama-... Four guys he put in prison-... eh, wrongly, it turns out, two of 'em died in prison.

   4. JRJoe Rogan6:16

      Whoa.

   5. NPNick Di Paolo6:17

      Yeah, you can Google that.

   6. JRJoe Rogan6:18

      Because of Bulger?

   7. NPNick Di Paolo6:19

      Uh, it had to do with that, yes.

   8. JRJoe Rogan6:21

      'Cause they would do things and the FBI would let them get away with it because they were providing information.

   9. NPNick Di Paolo6:25

      That's right.

   10. JRJoe Rogan6:26

       That was the whole Bulger thing.

   11. NPNick Di Paolo6:26

       That's exactly right. And he fought... Two guys died in prison, wrongly, by the way.

   12. JRJoe Rogan6:32

       So-

   13. NPNick Di Paolo6:32

       This guy's not a fucking good guy. I know he's a Marine, a decorated Marine and shit-

   14. JRJoe Rogan6:35

       They make those sacrifices, they make those decisions, where they're just gonna, like, help a person who's a criminal because that criminal's providing information that can allow them to get more criminals-

   15. NPNick Di Paolo6:45

       Well, yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan6:46

       ... larger criminals.

   17. NPNick Di Paolo6:46

       Whitey was providing all kinds of shit-

   18. JRJoe Rogan6:48

       Yeah.

   19. NPNick Di Paolo6:48

       ... about the Guineas in East Boston.

   20. JRJoe Rogan6:50

       Yeah. (laughs)

   21. NPNick Di Paolo6:52

       (sighs) That was a great movie too, by the way. But yeah, so-

6. 6:53 – 12:17

   Boston underworld stories and Nick’s pre-comedy hustle

   1. JRJoe Rogan6:53

      You know, I used to train a guy who was one of Whitey's hitmen.

   2. NPNick Di Paolo6:56

      Dana White?

   3. JRJoe Rogan6:57

      No, no, no.

   4. NPNick Di Paolo6:58

      (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan6:58

      D- Dana White, Dana White got threatened. He had to move outta town.

   6. NPNick Di Paolo7:01

      That, that... It was a Baljo, wasn't it?

   7. JRJoe Rogan7:02

      Yeah.

   8. NPNick Di Paolo7:02

      Bulger-related.

   9. JRJoe Rogan7:03

      Yes, it was Bulger-related.

   10. NPNick Di Paolo7:05

       Yes.

   11. JRJoe Rogan7:05

       When I was teaching TaeKwonDo, I had one of the guys that was in my class that was whacking people for Whitey Bulger.

   12. NPNick Di Paolo7:10

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan7:10

       And he was asking me, "If you wanna kill somebody with your bare hands, where would you hit 'em?" I was like, "Uh, the neck?" I was like 18, I was like, "I don't know."

   14. NPNick Di Paolo7:16

       And he goes, "Correct, Joe."

   15. JRJoe Rogan7:17

       I was like, "Good. Yeah, I like that."

   16. NPNick Di Paolo7:19

       Who was it, Kevin... Uh...

   17. JRJoe Rogan7:20

       No.

   18. NPNick Di Paolo7:20

       No?

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:21

       No, no. But, you know, Kevin, you know, he went away too.

   20. NPNick Di Paolo7:23

       Yes.

   21. JRJoe Rogan7:24

       Um-

   22. NPNick Di Paolo7:24

       Another tough kid.

   23. JRJoe Rogan7:25

       Yeah. All related, all of 'em together. You know, um, this guy was a different guy. This, this guy was... He went away too, but, I mean, he went away forever. He was one of those guys. Like th- they caught him with blood under his fingernails and shit.

   24. NPNick Di Paolo7:37

       And he was working with Whitey?

   25. JRJoe Rogan7:38

       Yeah, yeah. Well, there's a lotta guys that were. I mean, it was a big organization. And when, when we were kids, I mean, everybody knew. It was a big orga- I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't a fucking secret.

   26. NPNick Di Paolo7:48

       Oh, no. Oh, I know.

   27. JRJoe Rogan7:49

       How did Hannity's attempt to link Mueller to Whitey Bulger hold up? Mm-hmm. This article in the Boston Globe says that's not true. Whatever. It's the FBI. He wasn't there.

   28. NPNick Di Paolo7:57

       I know, how you gonna prove... (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan7:58

       He wasn't there? He wasn't there then. Oh, he wasn't at the FBI? Yeah, it says he- Mueller served in the-

   30. NPNick Di Paolo8:03

       (clears throat)
7. 12:17 – 15:50

   From corruption to policing incentives—and Rogan’s mushroom detour

   1. JRJoe Rogan12:17

      'Cause they would just want... They ju- look, what happens with cops...... in, uh, this is very unfortunate, but this is, this is just what happens when you have, a, a game, and the game is arrest people. The game is win, right?

   2. NPNick Di Paolo12:29

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan12:29

      You have a certain amount of callers you have to make. And if you can make more callers because you're in bed with a bad guy, especially if maybe you grew up in that neighborhood-

   4. NPNick Di Paolo12:36

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan12:37

      ... and it's always been kind of an accepted part of that neighborhood.

   6. NPNick Di Paolo12:39

      Yeah. That guy, Conley, grew up with white-

   7. JRJoe Rogan12:41

      Yeah, yeah.

   8. NPNick Di Paolo12:41

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan12:42

      Exactly.

   10. NPNick Di Paolo12:42

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan12:42

       Ma- makes a sneaky little deal.

   12. NPNick Di Paolo12:44

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan12:45

       Oof.

   14. NPNick Di Paolo12:46

       Well, same with lawyers. It's all about y-

   15. JRJoe Rogan12:48

       Mm-hmm.

   16. NPNick Di Paolo12:48

       You have to have a... It's like sports, you have to have a winning record-

   17. JRJoe Rogan12:50

       Yeah.

   18. NPNick Di Paolo12:50

       Or you're not gonna succeed. So they-

   19. JRJoe Rogan12:52

       Yeah.

   20. NPNick Di Paolo12:53

       ... you know?

   21. JRJoe Rogan12:53

       Yeah.

   22. NPNick Di Paolo12:53

       They p- play outside the rules.

   23. JRJoe Rogan12:55

       I mean, that's one of the reasons why cops and people have such a weird relationship, because they're always looking to arrest people. And you, you, you, your cop's talking and you're like, "Ugh, don't put me on your record."

   24. NPNick Di Paolo13:04

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan13:04

       "Come on."

   26. NPNick Di Paolo13:04

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan13:05

       And they just want, "Uh, maybe I can get you for something."

   28. NPNick Di Paolo13:07

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan13:07

       "I gotta get somebody."

   30. NPNick Di Paolo13:08

       (laughs) You know what I mean?
8. 15:50 – 19:52

   Information warfare: troll farms, viral outrage, and polarization

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:50

      Yeah. You know, Jamie was talking about something yesterday, and I started listening to this recent Sam Harris podcast, and it is fucking fascinating how much Russian troll farms and all these fake accounts, and what they're trying to do. And one, one of the things they're trying to do is... What Jamie was saying was that that kid with the MAGA hat, with the Native American beating the drum in front of him-

   2. NPNick Di Paolo16:11

      Yeah. Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan16:12

      ... the image of that was posted by this website that turned out to be a Russian-

   4. NPNick Di Paolo16:16

      In Brazil.

   5. JRJoe Rogan16:16

      ... troll farm.

   6. NPNick Di Paolo16:17

      But it was in Brazil.

   7. JRJoe Rogan16:18

      (clears throat) Was it, Jam?

   8. NPNick Di Paolo16:19

      It was a blogger in Brazil.

   9. GUGuest16:20

      Yeah, it's, uh-

   10. NPNick Di Paolo16:21

       Yeah.

   11. GUGuest16:21

       Dude, I... When they at CNN looked into it, (clears throat) they just kinda asked Twitter, "What's going on with this account?" And by the time they'd asked them, they just suspended the account, so it's gone.

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:29

       But, but you said they suspended the account because the account was a fake account.

   13. GUGuest16:32

       They, yeah, they had, uh, they thought it was just posing as, like, a California teacher.

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:37

       Mm-hmm.

   15. NPNick Di Paolo16:37

       Yeah, her name is Thalia.

   16. GUGuest16:39

       Yeah, yeah.

   17. NPNick Di Paolo16:39

       But it was a-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       But it's not.

   19. NPNick Di Paolo16:40

       It was an actual blogger in Brazil.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:43

       Oh, so it was Brazil. It wasn't Russia?

   21. NPNick Di Paolo16:45

       No.

   22. GUGuest16:45

       I, so I, I, I wasn't sure.

   23. NPNick Di Paolo16:46

       No.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:47

       (laughs)

   25. GUGuest16:47

       I just misheard him as saying, like, it was s- owned into a fake account of some sort.

   26. NPNick Di Paolo16:50

       But yes, they-

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:51

       So, sources-

   28. NPNick Di Paolo16:51

       ... sowing seeds of-

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:52

       Yeah, well, uh, they're trying to get people against each other.

   30. NPNick Di Paolo16:54

       Of course.
9. 19:52 – 26:38

   Media distrust: CNN, teleprompters, and the DNC/Bernie controversy

   1. JRJoe Rogan19:52

      What's wrong with CNN?

   2. NPNick Di Paolo19:53

      Do you like it? First of all, I don't need-

   3. JRJoe Rogan19:55

      No.

   4. NPNick Di Paolo19:55

      ... to hear it in every fucking airport before (coughs) I'm doing a gig. The last fucking words I wanna hear are Wolf Blitzer before my plane crashes.

   5. JRJoe Rogan20:01

      Um...

   6. NPNick Di Paolo20:02

      Um, somebody told me-

   7. JRJoe Rogan20:03

      ... Wolf Blitzer got on Jeopardy! and they exposed him.

   8. NPNick Di Paolo20:06

      Yes (laughs) . I remember reading that, uh...

   9. JRJoe Rogan20:07

      Because, you know, people get on, um, television. They read off a teleprompter, you think they're brilliant. They seem brilliant.

   10. NPNick Di Paolo20:13

       Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan20:13

       You know? They seem so smart.

   12. NPNick Di Paolo20:15

       Absolutely. Yes.

   13. JRJoe Rogan20:15

       Then you get 'em alone.

   14. NPNick Di Paolo20:17

       (laughs) how about L- Louis goes on, uh, Jeopardy! and wins?

   15. JRJoe Rogan20:21

       What? Louis C.K.?

   16. NPNick Di Paolo20:21

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan20:22

       Did he?

   18. NPNick Di Paolo20:22

       Yeah. Remember they have celebrities on once in a while?

   19. JRJoe Rogan20:24

       When did he do that?

   20. NPNick Di Paolo20:25

       A couple years ago.

   21. JRJoe Rogan20:26

       Did he go on with regular people and win?

   22. NPNick Di Paolo20:27

       I forget who he was against. I think it was other famous people.

   23. JRJoe Rogan20:31

       (coughs) That makes sense. Most famous-

   24. NPNick Di Paolo20:32

       Remember Jonathan Groff?

   25. JRJoe Rogan20:33

       Yeah. Oh, he's very smart.

   26. NPNick Di Paolo20:34

       Well, do you remember he went on Jeopardy!? He went for-

   27. JRJoe Rogan20:36

       Against regular people.

   28. NPNick Di Paolo20:37

       He won for a long time.

   29. JRJoe Rogan20:37

       And he won the tournament.

   30. NPNick Di Paolo20:38

       Yeah. Yeah.
10. 26:38 – 36:45

    Big Tech moderation and the ‘hate speech’ labeling problem (PragerU, YouTube strikes)

    1. NPNick Di Paolo26:38

       But isn't Google doing that now-

    2. JRJoe Rogan26:41

       What do you mean?

    3. NPNick Di Paolo26:41

       ... with conservatives? Like, shutting down Dennis Prager, as like a fucking-

    4. JRJoe Rogan26:45

       What do you mean? W- w- Google-

    5. NPNick Di Paolo26:46

       As far as... Well, YouTube is owned by Google.

    6. JRJoe Rogan26:49

       Well, I'm talking pro- I'm talking about a company, right? Okay, well, I'm talking about a company, you going into business with them-

    7. NPNick Di Paolo26:55

       Yeah, you can't.

    8. JRJoe Rogan26:55

       ... in a p- where, where you're a podcaster, you're free and independent.

    9. NPNick Di Paolo26:58

       Right.

    10. JRJoe Rogan26:58

        And it's probably the only thing in the world where you can be completely free and independent and still reach millions of people. It really is the only thing in the world.

    11. NPNick Di Paolo27:05

        But, but, but how- what does Google do?

    12. JRJoe Rogan27:06

        Um, bu-

    13. NPNick Di Paolo27:07

        Well, what I'm saying, Google owns YouTube.

    14. JRJoe Rogan27:09

        Right.

    15. NPNick Di Paolo27:09

        Right? And, uh, people like Dennis Prager, a religious right guy-

    16. JRJoe Rogan27:13

        Uh-huh.

    17. NPNick Di Paolo27:14

        ... his l- his show gets shut down on YouTube.

    18. JRJoe Rogan27:16

        What do you mean it's shut down? It's shut down-

    19. NPNick Di Paolo27:18

        Shut, shut it- he's suing. He's suing fucking Google.

    20. JRJoe Rogan27:20

        I didn't know about this.

    21. NPNick Di Paolo27:21

        Yeah.

    22. JRJoe Rogan27:22

        I know he does those shows with, uh, Carolla, but I didn't-

    23. NPNick Di Paolo27:24

        With Carolla.

    24. JRJoe Rogan27:24

        I didn't know he was shut down.

    25. NPNick Di Paolo27:25

        He's just a... I used to listen to him when I lived in LA. He's a conservative-

    26. JRJoe Rogan27:28

        Yeah.

    27. NPNick Di Paolo27:28

        ... religious Jewish guy.

    28. JRJoe Rogan27:29

        No, I've listened to him 100 times.

    29. NPNick Di Paolo27:30

        Yes.

    30. JRJoe Rogan27:30

        Yeah.
11. 36:45 – 39:28

    Culture and language battles: gender pronouns, political correctness, and ‘control through words’

    1. GUGuest36:45

       He- do you know about heteronormative?

    2. NPNick Di Paolo36:48

       Uh, I'm sure. (laughs)

    3. JRJoe Rogan36:50

       You know cis-

    4. NPNick Di Paolo36:50

       What-

    5. JRJoe Rogan36:50

       ... cisgendered?

    6. NPNick Di Paolo36:51

       Cisgendered, yes.

    7. JRJoe Rogan36:52

       Heteronormative?

    8. NPNick Di Paolo36:53

       Yeah.

    9. GUGuest36:54

       Yeah. Like, you're- you're imposing the norms, like, as if heterosexuality is normal.

    10. NPNick Di Paolo36:59

        Well, did you see ... what was the story a couple of days ago. Oh, it was in California, here in our beautiful state of California. They're trying to ... the he, you can't say he or she, it's they now.

    11. JRJoe Rogan37:08

        What?

    12. NPNick Di Paolo37:09

        Yeah.

    13. JRJoe Rogan37:09

        Where? Everywhere?

    14. NPNick Di Paolo37:11

        Uh, Google it.

    15. JRJoe Rogan37:12

        I'm saying like, I'm saying she, I'm saying you.

    16. NPNick Di Paolo37:13

        Her name is, uh, Hannah something Jackson.

    17. JRJoe Rogan37:14

        He.

    18. NPNick Di Paolo37:15

        Uh, yeah. Now you have to say they.

    19. JRJoe Rogan37:17

        Nope.

    20. NPNick Di Paolo37:17

        And they were passing it. They had her in the, the meeting, uh, the actual, uh, town hall or city, wherever they're passing the ordinance. And at the end, she goes, "My, my grandma- my grandma teacher wouldn't approve of this." She's rolling around her ... but we won't hear from her. She said her and somebody called her out on it.

    21. GUGuest37:33

        Ah!

    22. NPNick Di Paolo37:33

        As she was passing the bill.

    23. JRJoe Rogan37:34

        I was just about to guess you said, "We won't hear from her."

    24. NPNick Di Paolo37:36

        It's fucking left-wing nonsense.

    25. GUGuest37:38

        You shouldn't say her-

    26. NPNick Di Paolo37:39

        It's fucking si-

    27. GUGuest37:39

        ... about your grandmother. She's not here to correct-

    28. NPNick Di Paolo37:43

        It was hilarious.

    29. GUGuest37:43

        ... her gender identification.

    30. NPNick Di Paolo37:44

        Of course she looked like Newt Gingrich. There she is.
12. 39:28 – 46:32

    Comedy in the cancel era: phone-locking, leaked sets, and protecting the creative process

    1. JRJoe Rogan39:28

       Yeah. What did you think about all that stuff getting leaked?

    2. NPNick Di Paolo39:33

       Uh, uh, about Louie's stuff?

    3. JRJoe Rogan39:34

       You know, Stanhope had a really good point about that.

    4. NPNick Di Paolo39:36

       What did, what did Dougie say?

    5. JRJoe Rogan39:38

       Dougie was saying like, "Look, if this was a movie-

    6. NPNick Di Paolo39:40

       Mm-hmm.

    7. JRJoe Rogan39:40

       ... if you took that movie and filmed it in the movie theater and then put it online, you would be, uh, you'd go to jail."

    8. NPNick Di Paolo39:45

       That's right.

    9. JRJoe Rogan39:45

       Like, you're a criminal.

    10. NPNick Di Paolo39:46

        Right.

    11. JRJoe Rogan39:46

        You're s- you're stealing.

    12. NPNick Di Paolo39:47

        Right.

    13. JRJoe Rogan39:47

        You're expo- and you're- and you're ruining his work.

    14. NPNick Di Paolo39:49

        Yes.

    15. JRJoe Rogan39:50

        But they think they can ruin his work because he jerked off in front of some people.

    16. NPNick Di Paolo39:54

        I don't even know if it's that. I don't even know if the person that leaked it, like, was a Louie hater. Sometimes they make-

    17. JRJoe Rogan39:59

        They seemed like a fan. They were laughing hard.

    18. NPNick Di Paolo40:00

        Yes. Like, sometimes-

    19. JRJoe Rogan40:01

        It's like they had their phone on their table.

    20. NPNick Di Paolo40:03

        Yes. I was at, uh, it wasn't Governor's, it was the Brokerage, which is the same owners, few years ago. And I'm up there doing my shit and working on a new hour. I look down and the kid about fifth or sixth row, I see him. I see the red light.

    21. JRJoe Rogan40:17

        Yeah.

    22. NPNick Di Paolo40:17

        And he's got his head down. So I come down off the stage, he doesn't even hear me, and I grab the phone out of his hand.

    23. JRJoe Rogan40:21

        Ah.

    24. NPNick Di Paolo40:22

        I fuckin' deleted. I go, "Dude, you came out because you're a fan of mine, right?" I go, "The problem..." I explained it to him and the whole crowd. "The problem with this is if you put this shit online, I'm working on new ... that's old material."

    25. JRJoe Rogan40:33

        Right. Yeah.

    26. NPNick Di Paolo40:33

        "You're burning my shit. Do you get it?"

    27. JRJoe Rogan40:35

        Yeah, to all the other fans that listen to it, for sure. And also, it's not fair because these bits are never done. Like, if you wanna release it half-baked. Like, when, when you first start working on a bit, you have a premise, you got kind of an idea where it's going.

    28. NPNick Di Paolo40:49

        Of course.

    29. JRJoe Rogan40:50

        Yeah. And then it eventually becomes a bit that you would put on a special.

    30. NPNick Di Paolo40:53

        Right.
13. 46:32 – 57:07

    Nick’s onstage controversies, smoking, and the health/fitness tangent (TRT, stem cells)

    1. NPNick Di Paolo46:32

       I only get kicked out of one place and, of course, one of the best clubs in the country.

    2. JRJoe Rogan46:36

       What club?

    3. NPNick Di Paolo46:37

       Denver Comedy Works.

    4. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       (gasps) You got kicked out of the Comedy Works?

    5. NPNick Di Paolo46:40

       Like, 20 something years ago.

    6. JRJoe Rogan46:41

       For what?

    7. NPNick Di Paolo46:42

       Well, there was a bachelorette party ruining the middle guy's set, the, the emcee's set. And then I went up, my second time there, I think. That's a great club, obviously.

    8. JRJoe Rogan46:52

       Great club.

    9. NPNick Di Paolo46:52

       And they started yelling shit out, like, "Take off your shirt, you dick, da, da." And I said, "Can we throw these fat cunts out?"

    10. JRJoe Rogan46:58

        (screams)

    11. NPNick Di Paolo46:59

        And turns out a fat cunt was running the club, so I was, uh, kicked out of it.

    12. JRJoe Rogan47:03

        Oh, you son of a bitch.

    13. NPNick Di Paolo47:05

        Hey, well, that's how I feel, Joe.

    14. JRJoe Rogan47:07

        Well-

    15. NPNick Di Paolo47:08

        I was thrown out because of my words.

    16. JRJoe Rogan47:10

        Well-

    17. NPNick Di Paolo47:10

        And I get kicked off for smoking on stage at Rooster Teeth Feathers.

    18. JRJoe Rogan47:14

        Those are the only two places?

    19. NPNick Di Paolo47:15

        Yeah, I think.

    20. JRJoe Rogan47:16

        That was a long time ago though, right?

    21. NPNick Di Paolo47:17

        Oh, my-

    22. JRJoe Rogan47:18

        Smoking on stage?

    23. NPNick Di Paolo47:19

        Oh, yeah.

    24. JRJoe Rogan47:19

        When was the last time you smoked on stage?

    25. NPNick Di Paolo47:21

        Oh, a couple weeks ago.

    26. JRJoe Rogan47:23

        (laughs)

    27. NPNick Di Paolo47:23

        Oh, the Fat Black Pussycat.

    28. JRJoe Rogan47:25

        Do you smoke still?

    29. NPNick Di Paolo47:27

        Well, you say still. I just really started. I was a, I, I... 15, 20 years ago, I was a social smoker 'cause everybody-

    30. JRJoe Rogan47:33

        Right.
14. 57:07 – 1:14:48

    Assault after a show: Nick’s punch incident, legal follow-up, and violence norms

    1. JRJoe Rogan57:07

       How did you get punched? Who, why did that lady punch you?

    2. NPNick Di Paolo57:10

       It was a 20-year-old, uh, bipolar girl.

    3. JRJoe Rogan57:13

       Oh.

    4. NPNick Di Paolo57:14

       Uh, I was at Levity Live. I did a show, came off stage, went into the green room for a few minutes, and then came back out, and I was standing to the left of the stage. And I, I don't always shake hands and do all that shit after the show. I just don't feel it's in the job description. Sometimes I'll do it, sometimes I won't. But some people started coming up to me and shaking hands and taking pictures. And this guy approaches me, sorta looked like you a little bi- uh, stands to my right. And he goes, "Can I get a picture?" And I go, "Sure." He's standing to my right. I'm looking at him, talking to him. He's like, "Yeah, I enjoyed the show, but my daughter wanted to punch you in the face." He didn't even finish the word face and I get suckered from this side. I didn't even know she was in the fucking room. All of a sudden, bam.

    5. JRJoe Rogan57:59

       Whoa.

    6. NPNick Di Paolo57:59

       And I mean, bam. I mean, fucking, you know, I was... (laughs) I don't know if you ever get fucking suckered. Uh, I could feel the eye closing immediately, you know? And I looked right at him. This is how good my instincts were, even when I was in shock. I go, "Did you just fucking set me up?" "No, it's nothing like that, man." He didn't jump in and... He didn't jump in and, and, and go to his daughter, "What are you doing?" You know? It was kind of... I, to this day, believe it was complicit, uh, he was complicit in it. But, uh-

    7. JRJoe Rogan58:25

       And what did she do after she hit you?

    8. NPNick Di Paolo58:26

       ... I'm still pursuing it. What did she do?

    9. JRJoe Rogan58:28

       Yeah.

    10. NPNick Di Paolo58:29

        She f- I, I finally looked at her, I go, "Why, why'd you fucking, why'd you do that?" "Because you're mean." She thought I was racist and sexist. Meanwhile, there was a table of Black people, Dominican, it was a very diverse crowd. Absolutely loved it. Come into my defense, after that happened.

    11. JRJoe Rogan58:44

        Wow.

    12. NPNick Di Paolo58:44

        Nobody got offended. Even a friend of mine who's seen me a million times, because you weren't even being that political that night. That's... She had Birkenstocks on and, you know... (whistles)

    13. JRJoe Rogan58:52

        Yeah.

    14. NPNick Di Paolo58:52

        Bipolar. And, and, and, uh, I'm still pursuing it.

    15. JRJoe Rogan58:55

        And the guy didn't apologize, nothing?

    16. NPNick Di Paolo58:57

        He was, he didn't apolo- but he, I said, "You just fucking set..." "No, I didn't, man. It's, it's nothing like that." You know? I sh- he said I shouldn't have brought here, brought her here. But you did. You weaponized your bipolar daughter, is what you did. I believe they sat down at the table before they left the house. He knows what I did for comedy, and he, he hated it. He didn't have the balls to do it himself.

    17. JRJoe Rogan59:17

        You think?

    18. NPNick Di Paolo59:18

        Yeah, that's what I think.

    19. JRJoe Rogan59:19

        Oh, look at you. You worked up.

    20. NPNick Di Paolo59:21

        So I'm gonna work with those kettlebells before I leave here.

    21. JRJoe Rogan59:23

        (laughs)

    22. NPNick Di Paolo59:23

        And I'm gonna find this motherfucker.

    23. JRJoe Rogan59:24

        I'm gonna get you on a bike and get you to burn off some energy.

    24. NPNick Di Paolo59:28

        (laughs)

    25. JRJoe Rogan59:28

        Jesus Christ.

    26. NPNick Di Paolo59:29

        It's the coffee.

    27. JRJoe Rogan59:29

        It might be that Black Rifle Coffee is like-

    28. NPNick Di Paolo59:31

        I love this shit.

    29. JRJoe Rogan59:31

        ... veteran-owned coffee. It's very potent.

    30. NPNick Di Paolo59:33

        I wanna contribute-

Episode duration: 2:01:54