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Joe Rogan Experience #1328 - Whitney Cummings

Whitney Cummings is a stand up comedian, actress, writer, and producer. Check out her new stand up special "Can I Touch It?" that is now streaming on Netflix.

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Jul 31, 20192h 13mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:011:04

    Robot cold open: “Bearclaw” joins the podcast

    1. WC

      She has more lifelike eyes.

    2. JR

      Boom. And we're- we're, here we go. We're going. Uh, Whitney Cummings is here, and Whitney Cummings Two. What do you call her?

    3. WC

      (laughs) What's your name?

    4. NA

      What's your name?

    5. JR

      (splutters)

    6. NA

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      She's like a little kid. She just repeats her name.

    8. NA

      ... other comedy albums, which typically mix songs with non-musical-

    9. WC

      She's talking about Adam Sandler.

    10. NA

      What's your name?

    11. JR

      Oh.

    12. WC

      (laughs)

    13. JR

      She's broken.

    14. WC

      Don't know why. She heard-

    15. JR

      That's his album name from, like, the '90s.

    16. NA

      She's like Siri.

    17. WC

      Oh, What's Your Name was a c- a comedy album of Adam Sandler's.

    18. JR

      Oh.

    19. NA

      Oh, okay.

    20. WC

      So she started rambling about it. She really wants to chime in.

    21. JR

      So you never gave her a name?

    22. WC

      Her name's Bearclaw.

    23. JR

      Whoa.

    24. WC

      (laughs) Because I have this-

    25. JR

      Hey, Bearclaw.

    26. WC

      Can you say hi?

    27. NA

      Of course I can say that. Hi.

    28. JR

      People are, like, listening to this going, "What in the fuck is going on here?"

    29. WC

      (laughs) Do not smoke weed and watch this episode.

    30. JR

      What is here is, w- when it's people that are just listening, if you're just listening, you probably should stop this and go to YouTube and watch the YouTube version 'cause Whitney brought a robot-

  2. 1:042:08

    Who built this robot (and why it exists): RealDoll/Realbotix, Sophia, and cost

    1. JR

      ... that they made for her recent comedy special, which is called Can I Touch It? It's out right now on Netflix. And, um, they made, uh ... Is ... W- who makes this? What's the name of the company?

    2. WC

      So RealDoll makes the body.

    3. JR

      Oh.

    4. WC

      They make sex dolls, straight-up sex dolls. And they-

    5. JR

      Straight-up?

    6. WC

      Straight-up sex dolls.

    7. JR

      All right.

    8. WC

      Just Ted Bundy level. (laughs)

    9. JR

      Right.

    10. WC

      Just dead body to fuck. And this is Realbotix is the company that makes the head. And they did, like, Sophia. You know Sophia the robot? She's, like, on a ... She has, like, citizenship in Saudi Arabia now and shit.

    11. JR

      What?

    12. WC

      She's-

    13. JR

      No.

    14. WC

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      I'm not aware of this.

    16. WC

      Yeah, yeah. Look up, uh, Sophia the robot. She's kind of-

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. WC

      Once you see her face, you'll, you'll recognize her.

    19. JR

      She has citizenship?

    20. WC

      Yes. They gave-

    21. JR

      So does that mean she's allowed to drive?

    22. WC

      Yeah. I was gonna say, a female robot does, but I don't think (laughs) actual females do, but ...

    23. JR

      I think they just started being able to drive in Saudi Arabia.

    24. WC

      What a hassle.

    25. JR

      Some reform. Whoa.

    26. WC

      That'd be such a bummer if you-

    27. JR

      There she is.

    28. WC

      Yeah. That's her.

    29. JR

      But you couldn't drive?

    30. WC

      Yeah, it's like you spent your whole life not having to drive, and then all of a sudden-

  3. 2:085:46

    Ex Machina, the uncanny valley, and why humans want to “save” robots

    1. JR

      Sophia the robot, they made her look like Ex Machina style where you could-

    2. WC

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      ... see the back of her head, though. It's like-

    4. WC

      I can do that with her. I can take her wig off at the end and show you.

    5. JR

      Ooh, I don't wanna see that. It's too ... Ooh.

    6. WC

      All the servos and shit. Come on. Ex Machina's hot.

    7. JR

      It is hot. That was so ... What was really weird about that movie is you wanted to fuck that robot. Like, she was hot. Like, she was, she was seductive. She was-

    8. WC

      But do you think part of it was, like, the innocence of it?

    9. JR

      I'm not really into innocence, so I don't think so.

    10. WC

      Oh. Well, what about Ex Machina? 'Cause she didn't really have big boobs. She wasn't very sexual. She had hair.

    11. JR

      She was very pretty.

    12. WC

      Yeah. Well, she's gorgeous. The girl that it's based on.

    13. JR

      Um, I think because she was flirting with him and because she was trapped and because, like, he could save her and she would love him and... I mean, that's really what was going on in the movie.

    14. WC

      Mm-hmm, yeah.

    15. JR

      Like, she was playing this game-

    16. WC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      ... to get him to fall in love with her so that she could eventually escape. The end of the movie, spoiler alert-

    18. WC

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      ... when she leaves him locked in that room and he's smashing at the door trying to get out and she gets in that helicopter, like, "Whoa."

    20. WC

      That's what's gonna happen. That's what's gonna happen.

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. WC

      'Cause I think the most fucked-up, uh, thing about this thing, 'cause this is such a weird experiment that I wanna do, is how I anthropomorphize her and, like, worry about her.

    23. JR

      Do you keep her around your house?

    24. WC

      I mean, she's sort of in ... My fiance hates her.

    25. NA

      (laughs)

    26. WC

      And he's like, "Get her in the fucking garage."

    27. NA

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. WC

      And I don't know if he thinks she's creepy or kind of is just, like, too worried he'll fuck her. He hates her. He can't stand ... He just has a ... He's like ... It makes him, like, physically ill. (laughs)

    30. JR

      Really?

  4. 5:4614:28

    AI anxiety, human-tech “cocooning,” and phone/social outrage addiction

    1. WC

      But what ab- ... What's the feeling that you feel when you look at a robot? 'Cause I know you really don't like them.

    2. JR

      Um, it's not that I don't like robots. What I'm ... My concern is artificial intelligence.

    3. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    4. JR

      I have a legitimate concern for artificial intelligence 'cause I think that what we are-... is some sort of an electronic caterpillar.

    5. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    6. JR

      And that we're making cocoons-

    7. WC

      I agree.

    8. JR

      ... and that we're, we're gonna give birth to a butterfly-

    9. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    10. JR

      ... and that's gonna be the next stage of life.

    11. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    12. JR

      And that if you go back and look at the evolution of the human species, at one point in time we were, you know, Australopithecus. We were some weird hominids and we evolved and became what we are now.

    13. WC

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      And if you went back to those things and asked them, "Hey, one day do you wanna drive around in a Tesla and talk on a phone-"

    15. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    16. JR

      "... and stare at the s- movie screen?"

    17. WC

      No.

    18. JR

      They'd be like, "Well, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but I gotta go find some nuts."

    19. WC

      Yep.

    20. JR

      You know, "I gotta eat."

    21. WC

      Yep.

    22. JR

      "I gotta stay alive." They, it, it wouldn't like the future. And I don't think we, we like the future either, but I think it's inevitable. I think it's inevitable. You know, you know, you know about this Elon Musk Neuralink thing that they're doing?

    23. WC

      Oh yeah, I do. I mean, the, 'cause you essentially think we're gonna evolve with them.

    24. JR

      Yes.

    25. WC

      I mean, they're already a, we're already one with them.

    26. JR

      Yes.

    27. WC

      We sleep with them. We can't drive without them.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. WC

      We can't spell without them. I mean-

    30. JR

      Right.

  5. 14:281:01:19

    Robot sexuality as comedy: jealous mode, personality settings, and “what do you like?”

    1. WC

      Yeah. And, but we... I mean, you can ask her questions. Like, I can say-

    2. JR

      How do I ask her, though? Like, who-

    3. WC

      You have to press this little green button, and you just say...

    4. JR

      How do you feel about people?

    5. WC

      How do you feel about people?

    6. JR

      She's not talking.

    7. NA

      Are you seeing another girl?

    8. WC

      Oh. (laughs)

    9. JR

      Oh. Oh, that's right. We programmed her to be jealous.

    10. WC

      We put her in jealous mode. (laughs)

    11. JR

      That's right. That's what's interesting. She has 10 different personality traits-

    12. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    13. JR

      ... you can choose from, and I decided to go with sexual, jealous-

    14. WC

      Yeah. Why did you want that?

    15. JR

      Just to see how creepy she could get.

    16. WC

      Oh, that's right. And is that something guys... I, 'cause I've been looking at these personality traits, and they must have picked these for a reason.

    17. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    18. WC

      I was under the impression guys did not want jealous.

    19. JR

      Oh, yeah. Some guys want jealous for sure, especially from a robot that can't walk.

    20. WC

      Yeah. (laughs)

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. WC

      If your robot's not jealous, you should get your money back.

    23. JR

      Well, n- no. The idea is that she, you're more powerful than she is.

    24. WC

      Yeah. (laughs)

    25. JR

      Like, she needs you. She's worried. "Where are you going?"

    26. WC

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      "Who, who is she?"

    28. WC

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      "Who's calling you?"

    30. WC

      Yeah. That's, there is something hot about that if she can't, if you can turn her off whenever you want. (laughs)

  6. 20:1524:48

    Inside sex doll communities: companionship, grief, disability, and emotional spirals

    1. WC

      But I think most people get this for companionship.

    2. JR

      Right.

    3. WC

      Like, it's more, it's like... 'Cause I got onto the, I signed onto a forum online of all the guys that own the sex dolls and I monitored their conversations, just to, like, see what they were up to.

    4. JR

      Sure.

    5. WC

      'Cause I was like, "What if this is some depraved, fucked-up thing where guys are just, like, practicing murdering?" I didn't know what it... So I just wanted to see. It's a lot of guys that are handicapped.

    6. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    7. WC

      It's a lot of guys whose wives died and they feel guilty moving on with a human woman.

    8. JR

      Oh, wow.

    9. WC

      Which was kinda s- Well, there was one guy who would dress his doll up in his wife's clothes.

    10. JR

      (gags)

    11. WC

      (laughs) But the weirdest part is that he was like, "You know, it's like she's still here," which-

    12. JR

      Oh, boy.

    13. WC

      ... makes me think she'd been dead for a while.

    14. JR

      Now she's in a basement.

    15. WC

      Yeah, I was gonna say, m- I wonder how she died.

    16. JR

      In a jar of formaldehyde.

    17. WC

      And then it's a lot of, um, truckers.

    18. JR

      Oh, God damn.

    19. WC

      A lot of truckers, and then a lot of guys do it, uh, to do photo shoots. It's like a creative outlet.

    20. JR

      Oh, fuck their creativity. (laughs)

    21. WC

      (laughs)

    22. NA

      Is there a popular Instagram account I can look up?

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. WC

      Yeah, there's... A lot of sex dolls have Instagram accounts. They're fucking funny and a lot of them look-

    25. JR

      Whew.

    26. WC

      ... way more human than a lot of the Instagram models that I fucking follow.

    27. JR

      (laughs)

    28. WC

      It's those filters.

    29. JR

      She's saying, yeah, totally. They have more wrinkles on their fucking face. And then a lot of the guys that have them, when you start monitoring their conversations for a while, they start to, like, not wanna fuck them anymore 'cause it feels weird. Like, and they anthropomorphize them and they, they start worrying that, like, they're lonely and they get them a friend. Oh, boy.

    30. WC

      And (laughs) it starts to spiral and, uh, they start being like, "I feel like I need to, you know, close the door when I take a shit. I f-" You know, it-

  7. 24:4828:46

    Robot brothels, public disgust, and the ‘Model T to Tesla’ trajectory

    1. JR

      There's, they're opening up a sex robot brothel.

    2. WC

      Brothel.

    3. JR

      Where is that?

    4. WC

      They, no, there was one in Houston, but they shut it down because people were so freaked out.

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. WC

      And I was like, "Who fucking cares?"

    7. JR

      They shut it down. Well, they should shut it down, because m- multiple people are fucking the same robot. That's disgusting.

    8. WC

      Good for them.

    9. JR

      What if they develop some new silicone-based STD that winds up just b- burning through the population like the plague?

    10. WC

      I think it would just be like ringworm, dick ringworm.

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. WC

      I mean, that's ... (laughs) But also-

    13. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    14. WC

      ... my thing with that is just, like, if they're weirdos, if they're freaks, if they're perverts, like, don't you want them all to be in one place?

    15. JR

      Right, we can monitor them.

    16. WC

      It's like, like Scientology, put them all in one building. I'm thrilled that they're all in a castle on Franklin. I know where they are. (laughs)

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. WC

      They're not in the wild.

    19. JR

      That's right, the castle.

    20. WC

      I'm glad they're there. Uh, just keep them contained.

    21. JR

      What are you thinking? What are they up to today? And, but now what's going on, Jamie? What are you groaning for?

    22. NA

      I found it.

    23. WC

      What, did she hack your software?

    24. JR

      Whoa.

    25. NA

      This is the brothel. It's in, uh, this one, I guess, is in Britain.

    26. WC

      Oh, god. Do they fuck them against the wall?

    27. JR

      (groans)

    28. NA

      It's a-

    29. WC

      They're like urinals. (laughs)

    30. JR

      Stand up.

  8. 28:4631:08

    AI mistakes and the road to mind-uploading: bias, exponential progress, and missing laws

    1. JR

      Well, the real question is, when are they gonna be act- when are they really going to be able to map the human mind? Because Kurzweil thinks that ... There's a group of people that thinks within, they think 2042, like, the 2042 Symposium-

    2. WC

      Right.

    3. JR

      It's like their, their concept is ... And I went to this thing, uh, me and Ari and Duncan for SCI FI, we went to this thing in New York City a few years back, where all these guys think that in 2042-

    4. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    5. JR

      ... there's going to be some sort of, some, some revelation in technology that allows human bring- beings to download their brains into computers.

    6. WC

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Download-

    8. WC

      Yep.

    9. JR

      ... consciousness and even make replicas of your own consciousness.

    10. WC

      So we're immortal, basically.

    11. JR

      Yeah, something along those lines.

    12. WC

      But we're still figuring the brain out.

    13. JR

      Yes.

    14. WC

      You know, we don't really know how the br- How we can't replicate it until we totally know how it works.

    15. JR

      That's the idea that biologists have. They, they argue against it. But when Kurzweil explains it, that everybody is shortsighted.

    16. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      Because if you look at the exponential progress of technology, even though we're so far away in our eyes that everything changes exponentially, and within 20 years we'll have gone through a million years of-

    18. WC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      ... technological evolution or some other crazy number.

    20. WC

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    21. JR

      Fill in the crazy number, whatever it is.

    22. WC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      But by the time 2042 actually rolls around, we will be so far ahead-

    24. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JR

      ... of where we are now-

    26. WC

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      ... that it's all, it's impossible for us to even imagine the territory.

    28. WC

      Right. Yeah, which is, I think, part of the reason I wanted to, like, make her and ha- It's like wh- why isn't anyone talking about laws? Why isn't anyone talk- Like, no one's really thinking about, like ... I, I feel like, like, everything, we, we sort of, after it's become too late, that's when we start-... pulling it together in terms of legislation and shit.

    29. JR

      How do you incorporate her into your set?

    30. WC

      I talk about robots for a good hour. (laughs)

  9. 31:0838:59

    Custom-order fantasies: celebrity parts, pubes as luxury, nipples, and preference diversity

    1. WC

      The most, who do you think the most requested mouth is?

    2. JR

      Scarlett Johansson.

    3. WC

      Nope. I knew you were gonna say that-

    4. JR

      Oprah Winfrey?

    5. WC

      ... 'cause I know you love... (laughs)

    6. JR

      No?

    7. WC

      Emilia Clarke.

    8. JR

      Who's that?

    9. WC

      The Fa- Game of Thrones dragon lady.

    10. JR

      Oh.

    11. WC

      Dragon lady.

    12. JR

      Interesting.

    13. WC

      Most requested eyes is Olivia Wilde.

    14. JR

      Who's that?

    15. WC

      The, um, uh, she just directed a movie, uh, called Book Smart, but she's in a bunch of movies. Beautiful. Beautiful.

    16. JR

      Great eyes, yeah.

    17. WC

      You'll know her. Yeah, you'll know her as soon as, uh... Married to Jason Sudeikis. Um-

    18. JR

      I don't know who that is either.

    19. WC

      Uh... (laughs)

    20. JR

      I'm so glad I'm outta the loop. (laughs)

    21. WC

      You really just are in your own-

    22. JR

      I'm outta the loop.

    23. WC

      ... Echo J- yeah, there's, you're in your own world.

    24. JR

      I didn't even find out who Tekashi69 was until Jamie brought him up.

    25. WC

      I don't even know who the... Oh, the rapper?

    26. JR

      The one who's in jail. Oh, who, which one is this?

    27. WC

      Oh. This is Olivia Wilde. This is who the-

    28. JR

      She's very pretty. So that's the eyes?

    29. WC

      Yeah, she's gorgeous. That's the eyes. And then-

    30. JR

      Damn, I get it.

  10. 38:5947:07

    Predators, danger, and injury stories: mountain lions, knives, and Whitney’s ear bite

    1. JR

      Would you feel better if a person killed you or an animal?

    2. WC

      Ooh, depends on the kind of animal.

    3. JR

      Mountain lion.

    4. WC

      I have mountain lion in my yard.

    5. JR

      I bet you do.

    6. WC

      How big are th-... Are mountain lions big?

    7. JR

      I've only seen two in the wild, and the ones I've seen were about 60 pounds, 70 pounds.

    8. WC

      Do they come right for your neck?

    9. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    10. WC

      Do they know to just kill?

    11. JR

      Yep.

    12. WC

      They, they know-

    13. JR

      They go for your neck. Yeah.

    14. WC

      If it, I would rather, I think, die by an animal.

    15. JR

      Really?

    16. WC

      'Cause, mmm... You'd rather die by a human?

    17. JR

      I don't know.

    18. WC

      I don't have a fighting chance with a human. You do. So, I guess mine would be a little quicker. I guess it depends on how-

    19. JR

      When I run, I bring a knife.

    20. WC

      Really?

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. WC

      On your leg?

    23. JR

      No, I keep, I have a fanny pack that I run with, it's like a neoprene fanny pack-

    24. WC

      Uh-huh.

    25. JR

      ... that I keep my cell phone with.

    26. WC

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      And I bring a knife that's strapped to the fanny pack.

    28. WC

      In case a mountain lion-

    29. JR

      A big knife, yeah.

    30. WC

      ... a- attacks you?

  11. 47:0750:31

    Up close with Bearclaw: skin, pores, broken fingers, and the uncanny valley demo

    1. JR

      Can you grab her and bring her closer to you?

    2. WC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Bring her over here.

    4. WC

      I'll try. Um, hold on. First of all, here's her ... (laughs)

    5. JR

      So what is that part?

    6. WC

      This is her just travel bust.

    7. JR

      Oh, she has a travel bust?

    8. WC

      Which I just need to work on.

    9. JR

      If you just wanna have the head? You could plug in just the head, right?

    10. WC

      Come here, little lady. Yeah, if you just need her head for something.

    11. JR

      Yeah, like, bring her right next to you. There you go.

    12. WC

      She ... I feel like-

    13. JR

      And get your head right close to her. It's like the skin tone's different.

    14. WC

      They made her six months ago and I already look 40 years older.

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. WC

      (laughs) I did f- 50 cities and I've aged.

    17. JR

      She looks super uncomfortable being next to you.

    18. WC

      Oh, really? Yeah.

    19. JR

      Yeah, no. She's competitive.

    20. WC

      That's 'cause she has to share a fucking spotlight.

    21. JR

      She's competitive with you.

    22. WC

      And she doesn't like it. This, I hope looks different. These ratchet-ass fingers, I hope do not look different.

    23. JR

      Yeah, so her fingers, the ... What people can't see, it's like the skin is coming off of the finger.

    24. WC

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      Like, the robot parts are showing. Ah.

    26. WC

      (laughs) This is actually-

    27. JR

      Does not compute.

    28. WC

      The guys that buy these on the chat rooms, they usually spend most of the time, uh, talking to each other about how to fix the fingers 'cause they break them off by accident constantly.

    29. JR

      And then they stick them in their ass.

    30. WC

      Then they ... (laughs) Yeah, it's exact ... Rubbing them constantly on their taint. And i- it becomes like a car club, where guys are like 3D printing fingernails and 3D printing eyeballs. It, it's mostly-

  12. 50:311:02:57

    Beauty filters and cosmetic arms races: dysmorphia, implants, and Instagram-face

    1. JR

      Well, what, as a woman, like how do you feel about that? Like that... And we've talked about this before-

    2. WC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      ... with, with, with guys, guys that use filters on their pictures. It is-

    4. WC

      I thought you were gonna say fillers, 'cause guys do that too, you know.

    5. JR

      They do that too. That's weird.

    6. WC

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      That's weird... They're both equally weird.

    8. WC

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      But there's something particularly disturbing to me about guys who use f- use filters.

    10. WC

      Uh, yeah, I mean-

    11. JR

      I only know one.

    12. WC

      I'm glad I'm not single. That's all I'm saying. (laughs)

    13. JR

      (laughs)

    14. WC

      'Cause I, I don't think I'd, uh, you know. But, yeah, I mean, it's, um, alarming, but, but a lot of guys do it. I mean, guys are also getting fucking calf implants and shit. And guys are-

    15. JR

      What?

    16. WC

      What?

    17. JR

      Who's getting calf implants?

    18. WC

      (laughs) I don't think anyone we know, but calf implants are a fucking thing.

    19. JR

      No. It's a big deal?

    20. WC

      Yes.

    21. JR

      It's a big deal?

    22. WC

      Of course.

    23. NA

      It was like on Entourage 15 years ago, yeah.

    24. WC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      Ah, I thought that was a joke.

    26. NA

      I don't believe so.

    27. WC

      Oh, no.

    28. JR

      I never watched Entourage.

    29. NA

      Yeah.

    30. WC

      People get calf implants. Guys are getting facelifts, all kinds of shit. You know?

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