Joe Rogan Experience #1461 - Owen Smith

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Owen Smith. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      Owen Smith.

   2. OSOwen Smith0:02

      He- hey- hey. (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      How you feeling?

   4. OSOwen Smith0:04

      (laughs) I feel good, man. I'm, um, I'm excited. We-

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:08

      Cheers.

   6. OSOwen Smith0:08

      Cheers, man.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:09

      Salud.

   8. OSOwen Smith0:09

      Come on, man. Salud. Yes.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      Yeah. We, uh, just tested, Owen. Um-

   10. OSOwen Smith0:13

       Yes. Negative.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:14

       There's apparently has been some controversy about this, so just let me, um-

   12. OSOwen Smith0:17

       Right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       ... let everybody know right away. There's no shortage of antibody tests. What we're using, there's no shortage of them. People are saying, "Why do people on the front lines, there's a lot of people..." It's just misunderstanding and confusion. These tests, there's no shortage of. Uh, I understand some people in some places have a hard time getting access to the test. That's not the case here. So, I've taken it upon myself to test everybody as they come into the studio.

   14. OSOwen Smith0:44

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       This is not taking away from anybody that's on the front lines. This is not taking tests away from any medical workers. Um, the, the, the tests that they would use for them, particularly the a- they're using swabs. I mean, look, man. Those fucking people that are working in those hospitals and the medical workers, those people are legit heroes.

   16. OSOwen Smith1:02

       Yes.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       You know? And if I found out that-

   18. OSOwen Smith1:05

       Yes.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       ... there was something we were doing that was somehow another taking away from their ability to be tested, I would never do it.

   20. OSOwen Smith1:10

       Right.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:10

       You know? So, people got upset, apparently, because, uh... Well, a- also, people writing articles about things, 'cause they, there's, you know, it's like it's a hot topic.

   22. OSOwen Smith1:19

       Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       In their home, too. It is. (laughs)

   24. OSOwen Smith1:22

       And their home. Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       But I get it. I get it.

   26. OSOwen Smith1:23

       Right.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:23

       I'm not hating, I'm not mad. I get it, you know, but when I posted that Donnell and I were 'Rona free, people like ... Someone, someone posted some story where they, they ... Here's what's hilarious.

   28. OSOwen Smith1:33

       (laughs) They-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:34

       I go out of my way to not read comments.

   30. OSOwen Smith1:36

       (laughs)
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Right. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      here's what I'm happy about.

   2. OSOwen Smith15:01

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      I'm happy that so many people have done the social distancing thing and quarantined and kept away.

   4. OSOwen Smith15:08

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:09

      Almost everybody I know, almost everybody I know is just staying home. My kids are home doing homeschool.

   6. OSOwen Smith15:13

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      All my friends' kids are home doing homeschool. They're staying home from work. Everyone's staying home and we, we don't go anywhere. You know, I come here, I go home. That's it. That's my life.

   8. OSOwen Smith15:23

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      Just stay put. Stay put, just let, let the fucking dust settle.

   10. OSOwen Smith15:27

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:27

       And it's great in that way.

   12. OSOwen Smith15:28

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       But it's also scary for all these fucking people-

   14. OSOwen Smith15:30

       Scary.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:30

       ... that have businesses. It's scarier for people that have compromised immune systems.

   16. OSOwen Smith15:35

       Oh, gosh, yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:36

       So like this is the weirdest time of our lives.

   18. OSOwen Smith15:38

       Yeah. I think, but, uh, we were talking earlier, I think that the planet needs this break.

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:42

       Yeah.

   20. OSOwen Smith15:43

       'Cause, uh, soon as we stayed in for like a week it started raining in LA (laughs) like...

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       (laughs) The, the skies are so clear.

   22. OSOwen Smith15:49

       The skies, skies are clear, like mother nature-

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Do you see LA has the best air quality in all of the world?

   24. OSOwen Smith15:54

       E- ever. Right. (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       (laughs)

   26. OSOwen Smith15:56

       So it's just stay in the house for a freaking couple of weeks.

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:59

       Couple three weeks and it all fixes itself.

   28. OSOwen Smith16:01

       Yeah. Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       Yeah.

   30. OSOwen Smith16:02

       I mean...
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Exactly. …

   1. OSOwen Smith30:00

      you, y'all ain't gonna make it.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      Exactly.

   3. OSOwen Smith30:01

      The, um... Yeah, man, I, I don't know. I was all over the place with that. Like, I've had... I remember I dated this one girl, she smoked a lot of weed, right? I must... Didn't mind that, but she also smoked cigarettes.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:12

      Rude.

   5. OSOwen Smith30:12

      So I was like, "Damn, pick one," like, and I wish it was just the weed. So then she was like, "I'm gonna quit when I'm 30." I'm like, "Well, you-"

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:17

      (laughs)

   7. OSOwen Smith30:18

      "You 27 now. I gotta wait... I don't..."So, I couldn't like, and then ...

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:23

      Oh. (laughs) That's a weird number.

   9. OSOwen Smith30:24

      But I was still okay 'cause she was f- she was fun. This is like the closest she was mad fun. And then she had like student loan financial shit on top of it and I was like-

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:32

       Mm-hmm.

   11. OSOwen Smith30:32

       ... "I'm out." Like ...

   12. GIGuest (unidentified brief interjection)30:33

       (laughs)

   13. OSOwen Smith30:33

       I can't. (laughs) But real talk, she got it together when she got on the other side of 30 and-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       Did she?

   15. OSOwen Smith30:38

       Yeah, we're friendly now but I still, it was a gamble. Like I gotta ...

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       Yeah.

   17. OSOwen Smith30:43

       No. I'd fi-

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       Financial shit could, oof, that could be yours.

   19. OSOwen Smith30:46

       It's big.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       That becomes yours.

   21. OSOwen Smith30:47

       Her debt is your debt.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Yes.

   23. OSOwen Smith30:47

       They don't tell you that.

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       No.

   25. OSOwen Smith30:49

       Her debt becomes your debt.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       Yeah.

   27. OSOwen Smith30:50

       And she was a, she was like, she was a, a, a, a, um, a serial degree person. Like she had like degrees.

   28. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Mm-hmm.

   29. OSOwen Smith30:58

       So her, her shit was high. It wasn't like-

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:00

       Oh, so it wasn't-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   (laughs) …

   1. OSOwen Smith45:00

      like literally like locking his door. And it, to me it felt like... because I had on a mask, I had on a mask, you know. (laughs)

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      (laughs)

   3. OSOwen Smith45:07

      And I was reading stories about how most Black folks are afraid to wear masks because we look like, "Yo." So a part of me was like, "I scared this motherfucker. That's cool."

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      (laughs)

   5. OSOwen Smith45:15

      (laughs) But, but a part of me was like, "What? Where my son?" Like, I was like, "Do I engage with him or do I let it go? Like what do you do?" And I, I let it go because I was with my son and it just felt, it just felt ridiculous. I was like... But I feel like we're reverting back to like those paranoid things too. Like, "Oh man, Black dude in a mask, you know, lock my thing." And it was like a... I was like, "What point would I prove?" And, and I'm not going to change him. You know, what, what do I do? So I just... my son didn't even see it. I would not have seen it if he wasn't so just like clumsy and odd with it. Like it just felt like... because we had passed him several times. He could have, he could have locked his car when we were gone, you know, just done it and just kept it moving. But it was like a-

   6. JRJoe Rogan46:00

      So he was like letting you know?

   7. OSOwen Smith46:01

      Yeah, yeah. That's what it felt like to me.

   8. JRJoe Rogan46:04

      I think people are losing their minds.

   9. OSOwen Smith46:05

      I think so.

   10. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       I think that's a lot of what's happening.

   11. OSOwen Smith46:08

       Yeah. Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       Their behavior patterns are all off because they're, they're so under duress and stress. You know, there's a lot of people that are acting real strange. Sometimes, you know, I'll call people up just to say hi.

   13. OSOwen Smith46:21

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan46:21

       You know, like, "How are you doing? You hanging in there?" And they just... a lot of people just seem real weirded out. You know what it gets me, man, is at night.

   15. OSOwen Smith46:29

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:29

       Gets me at night.

   17. OSOwen Smith46:30

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan46:31

       Because during the day, I'm like, everything's fucked up. But, you know, we're maintaining. I, I have faith in human nature.

   19. OSOwen Smith46:38

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       I have faith in society that we'll pull together. But at nighttime, I don't have any fucking faith.

   21. OSOwen Smith46:42

       Must be not performing either, man.

   22. JRJoe Rogan46:44

       It does that.

   23. OSOwen Smith46:44

       I don't have any outlet.

   24. JRJoe Rogan46:45

       It's definitely that. But it's also at night, there's something about the darkness where I'm like, I just... You know, I do a lot of my really fucked up thinking when everyone else in my house is asleep.

   25. OSOwen Smith46:57

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:57

       You know?

   27. OSOwen Smith46:59

       (laughs) I can relate. Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan47:00

       That's when I, that's when I spark up. That's when I write my best shit too.

   29. OSOwen Smith47:03

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan47:03

       That's when everyone's asleep.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:08

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. OSOwen Smith1:00:00

      the fracking industry-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      Mm-hmm.

   3. OSOwen Smith1:00:01

      ... just like, you know, Trump. So when it comes to those Electoral College votes, Trump doesn't know, knows he can't beat him. That's why, hence, the whole Ukrainian, get some dirt on him, just announce something's happening, type thing. That was kind of, like, the narrative of, of that.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

      Mm-hmm.

   5. OSOwen Smith1:00:15

      And so, when it comes to electorial votes, that whole Midwest gang, that whole Michigan, Michiganders, uh, eh, Biden is right there. And that's what I'm saying, like, when people-

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

      I don't know if he is, man. I don't know. Uh, I don't know what, what's gonna happen once people start hearing him talk on the campaign trail.

   7. OSOwen Smith1:00:32

      But I, I don't-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

      People-

   9. OSOwen Smith1:00:33

      ... know, I don't know how-

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       ... that are on the fence-

   11. OSOwen Smith1:00:34

       I don't know how brilliant or articulate Trump is. Like, I don't-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:37

       Oh.

   13. OSOwen Smith1:00:37

       I think, I think everyone, I think as far as-

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       Listen, it's not a matter of brilliance. It's a matter of being able to control crowds and have these exciting rallies. He does arenas, dude.

   15. OSOwen Smith1:00:46

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       He does sold-out arenas and he kills.

   17. OSOwen Smith1:00:48

       I know, hours.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:49

       D- Listen, I'm not ... This is not-

   19. OSOwen Smith1:00:51

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:51

       ... uh, looking, I'm just looking at it objectively. I know-

   21. OSOwen Smith1:00:53

       Right.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

       ... you want a Democrat to win, right? And you want a woman of color to be the vice president.

   23. OSOwen Smith1:00:57

       Oh, man.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:00:58

       You want Biden to win.

   25. OSOwen Smith1:00:59

       I would, I would love that.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:00:59

       Right.

   27. OSOwen Smith1:00:59

       I would, I would love for-

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:01

       I'm not saying-

   29. OSOwen Smith1:01:02

       I would love for things to feel-... like, they're, I don't wanna say back to normal, but I would just love to feel like... When the president is speaking-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       They're not-

Episode duration: 2:51:31