Joe Rogan Experience #1507 - Bob Saget

1. 0:02 – 1:26

   COVID test jokes, internet misinformation, and deepfakes anxiety

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      Yeehaw, Bob Saget. How are you, buddy?

   2. BSBob Saget0:04

      I am happy ... I am actually excited to be- I'm excited to be anywhere-

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:08

      (laughs)

   4. BSBob Saget0:08

      ... but I'm especially excited to be talking to you.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:10

      I'm excited to be talking to you too.

   6. BSBob Saget0:11

      Thank you.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:11

      And we tested you. You're clean, buddy.

   8. BSBob Saget0:13

      I am.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      You're free and clear of-

   10. BSBob Saget0:15

       I-

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:15

       ... the virus.

   12. BSBob Saget0:15

       ... I did ... I, uh, usually have like a ... A ... Trump had someone take his SAT, I usually have someone take my-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       (laughs)

   14. BSBob Saget0:21

       ... COVID test for me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       Did Trump have someone take his SATs?

   16. BSBob Saget0:24

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Is that true?

   18. BSBob Saget0:24

       Yeah, it's true. Apparently.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       How could you do that?

   20. BSBob Saget0:26

       But I don't know what's, what's true.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       Right.

   22. BSBob Saget0:27

       What the hell is true anymore?

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       Well, anything before the internet is hard and even during the internet it's hard, because they splice things up and edit stuff.

   24. BSBob Saget0:35

       Oh, it's all soundbites. You could, you could hate anybody or love anybody.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:40

       I know. It's ... You know what's weird, man? Is, um, when ... The, the deep fake stuff. Like, how long do we have before you don't know what you're seeing?

   26. BSBob Saget0:50

       Right.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       How long before ... Do, do we have before, you know, we see, like, a, a world leader declaring war on us and we don't know if it's real?

   28. BSBob Saget0:57

       Yeah. Correct.

   29. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       How long?

   30. BSBob Saget0:59

       I, I say now.
2. 1:26 – 3:57

   Brand names in crisis: Corona beer, Ayds candy, and marketing panic

   1. BSBob Saget1:26

      Well, it's like Corona beer. I mean, I can't believe they had to stop that. That, that makes me sad. I mean-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:31

      What do you mean? They stopped the name?

   3. BSBob Saget1:32

      That's what I'm told, they stopped making it. Now, I don't know if-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:34

      Oh, that's stupid.

   5. BSBob Saget1:35

      ... that's true. That's the source I heard, but-

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:36

      I still enjoy a Corona, I'm not a fucking child.

   7. BSBob Saget1:38

      I like Corona Light. But what am I gonna do? And then, and then Ayds Candy, that was a smart move.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:44

      Yes.

   9. BSBob Saget1:44

      You had to stop that diet candy.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:46

       Yeah, uh, uh, it makes you lose weight? (laughs)

   11. BSBob Saget1:49

       It's- it's ironically sad.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:50

       Most people don't even know what we're talking about. It's A-Y-D-S, right?

   13. BSBob Saget1:53

       Correct.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:53

       Is that what it's called?

   15. BSBob Saget1:54

       Correct.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:54

       It was a, a diet candy, like a chocolate-

   17. BSBob Saget1:57

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:57

       ... that you would eat.

   19. BSBob Saget1:58

       I never took it. I mean, it's like the Ex-Lax for dieting.

   20. JRJoe Rogan2:01

       Oh, is it like a g- ... Uh-

   21. BSBob Saget2:02

       Well, Ex-Lax actually helps you diet also.

   22. JRJoe Rogan2:04

       But all it does is just get rid of the food that's in your body. It just makes you shit.

   23. BSBob Saget2:07

       It's not healthy.

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:08

       No.

   25. BSBob Saget2:09

       No. I was somewhere once and I was on Imodium, 'cause I was having a rough day. (laughs) I don't know what happened.

   26. JRJoe Rogan2:14

       That's another diuretic, right? Or a ...

   27. BSBob Saget2:16

       No, it's a constipator.

   28. JRJoe Rogan2:17

       Yeah.

   29. BSBob Saget2:17

       I mean, it's, it's ... It- it- it- it solidifies-

   30. JRJoe Rogan2:19

       Appetite suppressant candy. Oh, so it's an appetite suppressant. So it's not a ...
3. 3:57 – 7:35

   Violence, policing, and restraint: when rules change faster than training

   1. JRJoe Rogan3:57

      Bro, somebody sent me something about Mexico. Holy shit. I had no idea there were that many deaths every day in Mexico.

   2. BSBob Saget4:03

      Oh, it's terrible. It's so-

   3. JRJoe Rogan4:04

      There are so many murders right now in Mexico.

   4. BSBob Saget4:05

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan4:06

      Holy fuck. It's crazy.

   6. BSBob Saget4:08

      This is a bad week for murder.

   7. JRJoe Rogan4:10

      Yeah, well-

   8. BSBob Saget4:11

      This is-

   9. JRJoe Rogan4:11

      ... real bad for Mexico.

   10. BSBob Saget4:12

       This is, uh, Mexi- Mexico, but all over the States too. It's been like crazy.

   11. JRJoe Rogan4:16

       Yeah. Crazy in New York City. Well, they told cops that ... First of all, cops are trying to f- ... They're retiring left and right in New York, and, um, then they told them they can't restrain people by putting weight on them, they can't put a knee on their back or their neck or any other place, and they can't administer chokeholds. And there's all these jujitsu guys who train cops that are ... They're m- ... Like, uh, Rener Gracie put a video on his, uh, Instagram page. He, he works a lot with cops, Jamie, Rener Gracie. And, um, explaining why this is a terrible idea. Like, you can't control someone any other way. Unless you use violence, unless you hit them with things-

   12. BSBob Saget4:54

       They used to be the old-

   13. JRJoe Rogan4:55

       ... or you Tase them.

   14. BSBob Saget4:55

       ... nut squeeze.

   15. JRJoe Rogan4:56

       Is that effective?

   16. BSBob Saget4:57

       Back in the day. Well, you couldn't meet somebody.

   17. JRJoe Rogan5:00

       Yeah. So here's a warning to Mayor de Blasio, but de Blasio is a fool, man. He's, he's a f- foolish person.

   18. BSBob Saget5:08

       Well, we have to have order, but we also have to have peace.

   19. JRJoe Rogan5:12

       Yeah.

   20. BSBob Saget5:12

       I don't know how ... We-

   21. JRJoe Rogan5:14

       They f- they ... It got-

   22. BSBob Saget5:14

       We are so ... We are so fucked up right now.

   23. JRJoe Rogan5:17

       So fucked up. It got so far gone in so many of these precincts and so many of these, uh, these, these ... Look at this one guy who k- ... Literally does not know how to grapple and this cop tries to take him down and ...

   24. BSBob Saget5:31

       What, do you think there's adrenaline and Adderall in a person that, that is that ... They, they-

   25. JRJoe Rogan5:35

       I think that cop didn't know what the fuck he was doing. This is the thing, these cops don't ... They, they should all be t- ... You know, um ... Andrew Yang said it best, he said every cop should be like, a purple belt in jujitsu. He's right. Everyone should know ... Or Judo or something. They should know-

   26. BSBob Saget5:50

       No, you're right.

   27. JRJoe Rogan5:51

       ... how to wrestle, how to defend themselves.

   28. BSBob Saget5:52

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan5:53

       And a lot of cops don't know anything. They, they literally don't know how to defend themselves, so then they're left with weapons. And-

   30. BSBob Saget5:58

       There should also be a psy- psychological training-
4. 7:35 – 9:59

   Masks, panic, and cultural norms: from Japan’s politeness to Florida’s defiance

   1. JRJoe Rogan7:35

      I wonder if people are gonna go back to no masks in public. I think there's gonna be a certain number of people that are just gonna keep wearing masks.

   2. BSBob Saget7:42

      I think you're right. And when I was in Japan, I didn't understand the mask theory, which was... But not about... I don't think it was about a- a contagion-type thing. It was about cleanliness. It was about the air quality. You-

   3. JRJoe Rogan7:55

      I think it's also about being polite. The Japanese culture, if you have sniffles or something like that, you don't want to give it to someone else. You know, they're more thoughtful and considerate.

   4. BSBob Saget8:04

      Now, that is what we're lacking here.

   5. JRJoe Rogan8:06

      Yes.

   6. BSBob Saget8:06

      The people that are yelling, "I'm not wearing a mask, you're taking away my rights."

   7. JRJoe Rogan8:10

      (laughs)

   8. BSBob Saget8:10

      And-

   9. JRJoe Rogan8:10

      Did you see that lady in Florida?

   10. BSBob Saget8:12

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan8:12

       She... The bar's giving away 100 free meals to the people that don't wear masks?

   12. BSBob Saget8:16

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan8:16

       Like... And Florida has the fourth number-

   14. BSBob Saget8:20

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan8:20

       ... of coronavirus cases on Earth. If Florida was a country, it would have the fourth on Earth.

   16. BSBob Saget8:26

       Yes. Well, they- they opened it up to prove their point that their petri dish was impenetrable.

   17. JRJoe Rogan8:33

       Well, they opened it up to Disney World.

   18. BSBob Saget8:35

       They- they did?

   19. JRJoe Rogan8:35

       They opened Disney World.

   20. BSBob Saget8:37

       And people love the idea (laughs) of not waiting in line, so- (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan8:39

       Oh, yeah, it's probably wild.

   22. BSBob Saget8:39

       ... they're- they're willing to die.

   23. JRJoe Rogan8:41

       What is it... Get me video of Disney World opening day.

   24. NANarrator8:43

       I'll find it. There was a vid- (clears throat) I saw what's going around on Saturday, that there were some influencers that went. Because there's a lot of people that... On YouTube, that just go to Disney Parks all the time.

   25. BSBob Saget8:50

       Yeah, yeah.

   26. NANarrator8:51

       And they were saying they felt sick, and they just went the next day. And they're like, "Oh, we're... This is fun, but we- we... All of our throats hurt real bad. Oh, my God." I think they all have it. Unless they were faking for-

   27. BSBob Saget9:01

       They're probably right.

   28. NANarrator9:02

       ... views. Those fucks.

   29. BSBob Saget9:04

       And then there's Splash Mountain. I mean, there's things that there's no way droplets don't come out of you and go into the mouth of the person behind... Did you ever see the movie Outbreak years ago, with-

   30. JRJoe Rogan9:13

       Yes.
5. 9:59 – 18:30

   Comedy in a fractured culture: context collapse, outrage media, and healing through jokes

   1. BSBob Saget9:59

      That's- that's what I'm... I'm trying so hard, 'cause I'm a n- I'm a newbie at this. I'm- I'm- I'm on my 33rd episode. You're on the Hebrew calendar. You're 5,748 episodes. You know, you- you're- you're 10 years of doing something that revolutionized this, okay? So I just started it because I... This is before COVID. I started it because I was doing shows, and I'd be in a theater and people would be yelling at each other. And I would go, "Guys, what are you- what are you doing?" Or I'd have a bit about prejudice when I was six years old, when there was profiling, when there was, uh, segregated bathrooms. And I started talking about it, and people would get angry in- in the sh- in the d-

   2. JRJoe Rogan10:38

      At you?

   3. BSBob Saget10:39

      At me, for... At- at- at the world. One guy yelled, "The South will rise again."

   4. JRJoe Rogan10:44

      What, this is pre-COVID?

   5. BSBob Saget10:45

      Pre-COVID. The guy yelled out, "The South will rise again." My response was-

   6. JRJoe Rogan10:49

      (laughs)

   7. BSBob Saget10:49

      ... "Sir, we're in Boston."

   8. JRJoe Rogan10:50

      (laughs)

   9. BSBob Saget10:51

      He... We... I was at The Wilbur.

   10. JRJoe Rogan10:52

       He was serious?

   11. BSBob Saget10:53

       He- he was 100% serious. And then they went and- went to tag him, and I said, "No, leave him. Leave him be." You know, unless it- someone continues, I- I deal with it. We deal with it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan11:02

       "The South will rise again," as a-

   13. BSBob Saget11:03

       In fucking Boston.

   14. JRJoe Rogan11:05

       But it's... They've had a long downtime.

   15. BSBob Saget11:07

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan11:08

       You know? I mean, you lost in 1865, you're gonna rise again?

   17. BSBob Saget11:12

       The other thing is, they're pulling down statues, right? So the statues are like, uh, uh... They're like chocolate, uh, Easter eggs, um, Easter bunnies. The ones that are hollow?

   18. JRJoe Rogan11:21

       Mm-hmm.

   19. BSBob Saget11:22

       So if a statue, to me, is less than an inch thick of the lining around it and it's hollow inside-

   20. JRJoe Rogan11:29

       Right.

   21. BSBob Saget11:29

       ... I think at an inch, it could maybe stay up, if it's heavy enough.

   22. JRJoe Rogan11:33

       (laughs)

   23. BSBob Saget11:33

       But if 10 guys could pull it down with a rope and it's made of aluminum, that's gotta come down.

   24. JRJoe Rogan11:38

       Now-

   25. BSBob Saget11:38

       That's like a Jiffy Pop.

   26. JRJoe Rogan11:39

       It really... See, here's the thing about these statues.

   27. BSBob Saget11:42

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan11:43

       This is one thing that people need to understand. A lot of the statues-

   29. BSBob Saget11:44

       I'm only laughing about it, by the way, because I'm trying to find humor in what's so-

   30. JRJoe Rogan11:50

       Chaos.
6. 18:30 – 32:24

   Comedy heroes and origin stories: Dana Carvey, Van Nuys nights, and meeting Richard Pryor

   1. BSBob Saget18:30

      We would sit around, w- back in, when you were... I think you were six. But we would go to Fabs, this, uh, Italian restaurant on, uh, Van Nuys, and we would be with our wives. Uh-

   2. JRJoe Rogan18:41

      Fabs?

   3. BSBob Saget18:41

      Fabs. He stayed with his wife. My wife and I got divorced, but I have a new wife. Uh, she used to-

   4. JRJoe Rogan18:46

      Congratulations.

   5. BSBob Saget18:46

      Thank you. She used to get-

   6. JRJoe Rogan18:47

      Van Nuys used to be a hotspot. I was looking at this video-

   7. BSBob Saget18:50

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan18:50

      ... or this, uh... There's a... I think it was the LA Times, had a photographic essay of Van Nuys Boulevard in the '70s and it was amazing. It was all these people with bell-bottoms and these cool cars and they used to, o- on Saturday nights, drive their cars up and down the road. It was like-

   9. BSBob Saget19:07

      It was fun.

   10. JRJoe Rogan19:08

       Yeah, but it was like a place where people would go to cruise.

   11. BSBob Saget19:13

       Yeah. It was Boogie Nights without-

   12. JRJoe Rogan19:15

       Yes.

   13. BSBob Saget19:15

       ... the heroin and, and people getting-

   14. JRJoe Rogan19:17

       Big dicks.

   15. BSBob Saget19:17

       ... harmed. Giant prosthetic-

   16. JRJoe Rogan19:20

       (laughs) .

   17. BSBob Saget19:21

       Marky, Marky Mark prosthetic dicks.

   18. JRJoe Rogan19:23

       So-

   19. BSBob Saget19:23

       When we would sit there, and it was right before he got Saturday Night Live-

   20. JRJoe Rogan19:26

       What year was this?

   21. BSBob Saget19:27

       Uh, uh, '86. It was one year, uh, before he got that and before I... I had been in a Richard Pryor movie, that was the first thing of consequence. And then af-

   22. JRJoe Rogan19:37

       What movie was that?

   23. BSBob Saget19:38

       Critical Condition.

   24. JRJoe Rogan19:39

       You got to work with Pryor.

   25. BSBob Saget19:40

       I got to spend a month with him.

   26. JRJoe Rogan19:42

       (Exhales) .

   27. BSBob Saget19:42

       And I got to hang out with him because I was one of the hosts at the store for eight years.

   28. JRJoe Rogan19:46

       And you got to work with Pryor when Pryor was Pryor.

   29. BSBob Saget19:48

       Well, it was after the fire.

   30. JRJoe Rogan19:50

       But it still-
7. 32:24 – 1:10:47

   Empathy as leadership: Trump’s psychology, political media cycles, and national exhaustion

   1. JRJoe Rogan32:24

      Well, we were talking about that earlier. We were talking about Mary Trump's book. The, uh... I read some passages out of it today. I haven't read the, the whole book, but I-

   2. BSBob Saget32:30

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan32:31

      ... I read this long piece on it about Trump's childhood.

   4. BSBob Saget32:34

      Was she close with him as a ki- when she was young?

   5. JRJoe Rogan32:36

      I don't know. I don't know, but it's his niece. Um, her brother was his, uh, or her father rather was his brother. Um, and you kinda understand. I mean, if she's being honest, and I, I'm assu- I assume she is. First of all, it's very well written. She's obviously extremely intelligent, like, very eloquent. Like, the way she's writing it and, and I believe she has a background in psychology. Um, and the way she writes it, it doesn't... It's not like a hateful thing. Like, she's basically explaining why he's so fucked up and why he lacks empathy. And what she said was that the father was like a sociopath and the mother was never around and was absent and d- didn't give him any love or attention and only u- according to her, used the children to comfort herself instead of being there for them and that he developed this narcissistic, self-centered personality in response to that and that his father would, you know, would... Anytime he showed emotions or anytime he showed ne- his father would cast that aside and squash that inside of him.

   6. BSBob Saget33:42

      That's very clear.

   7. JRJoe Rogan33:43

      Yeah, so he developed this... That's the thing that's most disturbing about him. When I talk to people that are fans of Trump and they say, "Why aren't you..." Uh, "Like, what do you least like?" I go, "What I least..." Look, first of all, I don't understand the economy, so when people say, "He's good for the economy, he's good for business," I... It was... Is that short term? What did... What does that mean long term?

   8. BSBob Saget34:01

      That, that was pre-COVID.

   9. JRJoe Rogan34:03

      Yeah.

   10. BSBob Saget34:03

       That, that, that's all that was.

   11. JRJoe Rogan34:05

       Oh. Well, the world's fucked economically-

   12. BSBob Saget34:06

       It, uh, it-

   13. JRJoe Rogan34:07

       ... post-COVID. We don't even know-

   14. BSBob Saget34:08

       He is not the president-

   15. JRJoe Rogan34:09

       Right.

   16. BSBob Saget34:09

       ... for where we're at.

   17. JRJoe Rogan34:10

       Right, but the, but the thing that bothers me the most-

   18. BSBob Saget34:12

       He could adjust if he would.

   19. JRJoe Rogan34:14

       But he's not capable. The, the, the problem is the lack of empathy, like when he would make... Like, when he talked about John McCain, he said, "I l- I like soldiers that don't get captured." Remember that?

   20. BSBob Saget34:26

       (laughs) Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan34:28

       That is a crazy thing to say to a guy-

   22. BSBob Saget34:29

       Well-

   23. JRJoe Rogan34:29

       ... who's a war hero.

   24. BSBob Saget34:30

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan34:30

       I mean, it's funny. Y- you know, you're laughing at it 'cause you're a comic, but-

   26. BSBob Saget34:32

       Well, I'm laughing at it because of the... It's ludicrous.

   27. JRJoe Rogan34:35

       It's re- ludicrous. Yeah.

   28. BSBob Saget34:36

       I mean, I- I'm not laughing at-

   29. JRJoe Rogan34:38

       (laughs) Well, not at that.

   30. BSBob Saget34:38

       I mean, it's horrific.

Episode duration: 2:33:25