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Joe Rogan Experience #1423 - Andrew Doyle

Andrew Doyle is a British comedian, playwright, journalist, political satirist and is creator of the fictitious character Titania McGrath. The new book "Woke: A Guide to Social Justice" by Titania McGrath is now available: https://amzn.to/36X2GoG

Joe RoganhostAndrew DoyleguestGuestguest
Feb 5, 20202h 33mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:0015:00

    Three, two, one. This…

    1. JR

      Three, two, one. This is your unveiling-

    2. AD

      Okay.

    3. JR

      ... because now people know.

    4. AD

      That people know, yep. That's it.

    5. JR

      That, first of all, Titiana.

    6. AD

      So, this is the- I should've chosen a, an easier name. Like, uh, no one can get... it's Titania.

    7. JR

      Titania?

    8. AD

      Because she's named after the queen of the fairies in Midsummer Night's Dream.

    9. JR

      Oh.

    10. AD

      But-

    11. JR

      Tell everybody your real name.

    12. AD

      ... my real name's Andrew Doyle.

    13. JR

      Do you have an issue with people now knowing-

    14. AD

      (laughs)

    15. JR

      ... that, uh, Tatiana or Tit- Titania? Titania? Doesn't-

    16. AD

      Titania's... yeah, she totally eclipsed me. I don't, like, I don't have-

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. AD

      I'm basically not alive anymore. It's all about her, you know?

    19. JR

      Oh! Well-

    20. AD

      It-

    21. JR

      ... I, I can't remember how I found out about you on Twitter, but just laughing really hard at something that you wrote. That was so close. You, you do such a good job of, like, blurring the line between outrageously woke and satire.

    22. AD

      Yeah, it's that thing of trying to-

    23. JR

      There you are.

    24. AD

      ... try... (sighs)

    25. JR

      Who's the girl?

    26. AD

      Trying to tr- oh, there! Okay. Yeah, so the girl is a composite of four different women-

    27. JR

      Well, that's good.

    28. AD

      ... put together, because I was worried about, you know, I don't wanna get sued or anything like that.

    29. JR

      Oh, for sure, yeah. So it's not-

    30. AD

      Um-

  2. 15:0030:00

    Th- uh- …

    1. JR

    2. AD

      Th- uh-

    3. JR

      Why, if you want a woman of color, like-

    4. AD

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      ... you see, this is the thing. It never ends.

    6. AD

      I know.

    7. JR

      You can't be woke enough. And once it gets to queer woman of color and they've got one of those, they go, "You know what? You should make room for a transgender."

    8. AD

      And what if the queer woman of color is really bad at her job?

    9. JR

      Too bad.

    10. AD

      It doesn't matter.

    11. JR

      You need to adapt. You need to help her-

    12. AD

      Right, okay.

    13. JR

      ... understand that society has fucked her over, and that's why she's not as good as Camille Paglia was.

    14. AD

      So again, it gets back to one of their fundamental premises is that they don't believe in objective truth. They think objective truth... This is a postmodern thing, right? They don't believe in it.

    15. JR

      It's also these people that you're talking about, they haven't built these structures that they wanna tear down.

    16. AD

      Right.

    17. JR

      Right? They're not a part of the construction of these enormous film studios, enormous entertainment, entertainment empires.

    18. AD

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      That's, you know, so they want to step into something that not only have they not built, but they're not capable of building.

    20. AD

      Right.

    21. JR

      Because they're wrapped up in this fucking wacky ideology that doesn't allow you to be creative.

    22. AD

      So how do we get out of it? Like, I-

    23. JR

      I don't... That's a good question. That's why I brought you in here.

    24. AD

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      (laughs) I was hoping you'd know.

    26. AD

      Well, I've got ideas.

    27. JR

      Yeah?

    28. AD

      I've got a few ideas, right?

    29. JR

      Okay.

    30. AD

      Because, because I think, I think we're reaching a kind of tipping point. Like I say, like there's so many people who are really sick of it.

  3. 30:0045:00

    There was- …

    1. JR

      no, she was gonna veto, she was gonna-

    2. AD

      There was-

    3. JR

      ... give the transgender student veto power.

    4. AD

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      And help, see if that, l- see, see if you can find that. So-

    6. AD

      I mean, for one thing, I wouldn't give a 15-year-old, trans or otherwise, uh, uh, any kind of political- (laughs)

    7. JR

      No.

    8. AD

      ... input.

    9. JR

      And na- and definitely not a nine-year-old.

    10. AD

      No.

    11. JR

      Any, any kid, God damn it, when you're 15 you don't know what the fuck is going on, you've only been alive for a few months.

    12. AD

      Exactly.

    13. JR

      You really have no idea what's happening.

    14. AD

      No. I mean, your frontal lobes aren't developed are they?

    15. JR

      No.

    16. AD

      It's usually about 25 or something.

    17. JR

      25, yeah.

    18. AD

      So I don't... In fact, let's raise the voting age.

    19. JR

      Yes.

    20. AD

      Don't let them... Make it 30.

    21. JR

      The, the, well, then the real problem would be war.

    22. AD

      (laughs)

    23. GU

      I think Bill Maher talked about this story-

    24. AD

      Yeah.

    25. GU

      ... on his most recent episode of his show.

    26. AD

      Yeah.

    27. GU

      And so it ka- got up in the news again.

    28. AD

      Yeah, I saw that.

    29. JR

      No, but there was a legitimate news story about Elizabeth Warren talking about-

    30. GU

      In that, in that, in that quote it says that Warren indicated she wants Jacob to help her pick her v-

  4. 45:001:00:00

    Thing is, you say…

    1. JR

      X's and other shit to that.

    2. AD

      Thing is, you say it as a joke, and then one day, it'll-

    3. JR

      It's not a joke.

    4. AD

      ... it'll happen, and-

    5. JR

      I think everything's a joke, but it's not a joke. I mean, it's, it- it can happen.

    6. AD

      It d- it does h- I mean, I've, I, uh, the number of times I've tweeted something to take the piss and then it's happened a few months later, I-

    7. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    8. AD

      ... I'm not... Like, it's- it's pretty much all the time now.

    9. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    10. AD

      Um, the- the- the one I often mention, 'cause I- I just, I- it, I- I still can't get over it, was when Titania tweeted about Mary Poppins. You know, the- the, um-

    11. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    12. AD

      There's a scene in Mary Poppins where she has chimney soot on her face.

    13. JR

      Mm-hmm. Yeah.

    14. AD

      And so, T- Titania tweets saying, "This is blackface. This is so racist, blackface."

    15. JR

      (laughs) I remember that.

    16. AD

      That, six months later, The New York Times published an article saying exactly, saying Mary Poppins is racist 'cause of blackface.

    17. JR

      Because she had soot on her face?

    18. AD

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      Really? Legitimately?

    20. AD

      You can- you can find it. It's- it's, um, it's, uh, it's New York Times, and it's, um, Mary Poppins (laughs) , no. Mary Poppins, a nanny's shameful flirting with blackface. That's the headline of that article, right?

    21. JR

      What?

    22. AD

      I'm not making it up. And they used a screenshot of her with chimney soot on, pretty much similar to the screenshot I'd taken six months before, right?

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. AD

      It's not blackfa- it's not racist, right?

    25. JR

      But it's changed so much in six months, like things have shifted so bizarrely.

    26. AD

      That's it.

    27. JR

      Look at this. Mary Poppins and her nanny's shameful flirting with blackface. That is-

    28. AD

      Th- this is a major publication.

    29. JR

      ... that is goddamned hilarious.

    30. AD

      But this isn't even, like, some, like, d- blog.

  5. 1:00:001:04:33

    Right. …

    1. JR

      3000 different view, or three million different views-

    2. AD

      Right.

    3. JR

      ... and no complaints?

    4. AD

      No complaints. Right? This-

    5. JR

      Mm-hmm. That's, that's crazy.

    6. AD

      And I know the guy, 'cause I, I, uh, I, I defended him at the time, and then, of course, people said that I'm a Nazi apologist 'cause I ... You know. That's wh- ... Which is utterly, utterly ludicrous. But I know the guy now. He's n- ... He's a nice guy. He's not at all-

    7. JR

      I've seen him interviewed.

    8. AD

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      What's up, Jamie?

    10. GU

      There's a ... While you guys are talking about this, I found a story that happened last week, um-This was a tweet that I, I've kinda gone through it to verify it a little bit. I don't wanna say it's a 100% accurate.

    11. AD

      Okay.

    12. GU

      But this guy got a job interview and I guess he signed up and they found this on his, on their own. He said he did not give them his information. They sent him 351 pages of every tweet he ever liked that had the word "fuck" in it.

    13. AD

      Wow.

    14. JR

      He said, "I had to get a background check for my job and it turns out the report is a 300 plus page PDF of every single tweet I've ever liked, liked, with the word 'fuck' in it. Enjoy your dystopian BS."

    15. GU

      It's like there's a bunch of tweets showing up.

    16. JR

      Waves.

    17. GU

      But I, I looked up the company that does this.

    18. JR

      Hold on, go back.

    19. GU

      Sorry.

    20. JR

      What does it say? "Update: I came home to a package containing a printout of all 351 pages of it. Obviously, the dystopia cares about wasting paper."

    21. GU

      Here's like a for instance of what it looked like.

    22. AD

      And have they used this to justify not giving him the job? Is that the idea?

    23. JR

      I don't know.

    24. GU

      I don't know what happened after that.

    25. AD

      Right. Okay. Okay.

    26. JR

      He, he liked this tweet, "Merry Christmas to the toddler I saw running across Trader Joe's with a giant bottle of peppermint vodka and Mom running after him like, 'No, no, no, no, no, no, no.' Only."

    27. AD

      So flagged type, bad. Flagged reason, alcohol.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. AD

      Post type, liked.

    30. JR

      Yeah. So they, they changed what he was saying.

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