Joe Rogan Experience #1533 - Adam Curry

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming intro) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. ACAdam Curry0:00

      (drumming intro) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) If not for you, I would not be here-

   4. ACAdam Curry0:15

      (laughs) Wait a minute.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      ... in both places.

   6. ACAdam Curry0:17

      Welcome to Texas, Joe.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      Thank you, sir. Thank you.

   8. ACAdam Curry0:19

      Welcome. You bring tremendous, exciting, and good energy to our city and to our state.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      I, uh, I appreciate that very much, but I am here, and a big reason... in a big way because of you. So-

   10. ACAdam Curry0:31

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       ... before we even get started, if you do not know, Adam was the very first podcaster, ever. He's the real... if you, if you wanna have a patient zero of podcasting, it's you.

   12. ACAdam Curry0:42

       Uh, yeah. I'd say that's arguably correct. Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       I w- I would say it's inarguably correct.

   14. ACAdam Curry0:46

       (laughs) Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       Um, and then also you talked about how much you loved h- it here.

   16. ACAdam Curry0:51

       Yeah, and I've been here-

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       So those two things, and- and this is-

   18. ACAdam Curry0:52

       ... e- 11 years or so. Mm-hmm.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       Without you, we would not be here for those two things.

   20. ACAdam Curry0:56

       Right. Well, it's really because after I did your show, which I cannot... The only thing better than going on the Joe Rogan Show is being invited back on the Joe Rogan Show.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       (laughs)

   22. ACAdam Curry1:05

       It's, I mean, it... You did, it was incredible for me. Um, you renewed my credentials.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:11

       No, well, listen, I think you're awesome.

   24. ACAdam Curry1:13

       It's, it-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:13

       I think you're one of the, more, most interesting guys on the internet. No bullshit. I really do.

   26. ACAdam Curry1:16

       Th- thank you. The, the, the other thing that's very interesting is I told you when we were doing the show that time, we were kinda getting a little baked. I'm like, "This is where my Tourette's shows up." You know, I have a mild form of Tourette's, and so because I had said that, it was like, uh, I felt really comfortable just being who I am and not having to worry about, "I don't wanna tic right now." You know?

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:34

       Oh, right, right.

   28. ACAdam Curry1:35

       You know Steve Mnuchin, our, um, secretary-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       Mm-hmm.

   30. ACAdam Curry1:37

       ... of the Treasury? He also has Tourette's, and he-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   We're so different. And…

   1. ACAdam Curry15:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      We're so different. And when you watch little girls grow up and what they wanna do versus I have friends that have boys, like, oh my God. You go over to their house-

   3. ACAdam Curry15:07

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:07

      ... and it's fucking war. It's chaos. They're, they're always hitting things-

   5. ACAdam Curry15:11

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      ... and-

   7. ACAdam Curry15:11

      They're terrorists.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      Yeah.

   9. ACAdam Curry15:12

      They're total ter- You know, with-

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:13

       And obviously there's a spectrum and there's girls that are into hitting things too.

   11. ACAdam Curry15:15

       Yeah, of course. We, we have that in common. I grew up with women, two sisters, my mom, um, uh, I have a daughter, I have two stepdaughters. Uh, just always a lot of women. I get along really well. I can be great friends with, with women. But real super male energy, which is what I enjoy about you. (laughs) As ... Sorry.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       No, I-

   13. ACAdam Curry15:35

       It's really, it really is, uh, it's nice because I didn't have much of that growing up. And you're so kind of open and nice about it, but you also have jujitsu and all this fucking shit that I don't know anything about.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       (laughs) I'll teach you.

   15. ACAdam Curry15:48

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       You wanna learn? We got gyms here.

   17. ACAdam Curry15:50

       I, I am also-

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Would you be interested?

   19. ACAdam Curry15:51

       ... very lazy. Well, maybe.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:53

       Well, that helps.

   21. ACAdam Curry15:53

       Maybe. Maybe, yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       Do you work out at all? What do you do?

   23. ACAdam Curry15:55

       Spin class.

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       Do you really?

   25. ACAdam Curry15:57

       I fucking love the spin class.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       It looks like fun.

   27. ACAdam Curry15:59

       Yeah. Oh, you sit in a, in a dark room.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:01

       All the music and shit?

   29. ACAdam Curry16:02

       Yeah, you're dancing on the bike.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       Mm-hmm.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   But, but that's not…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      believe-

   2. ACAdam Curry30:00

      But, but that's not my field of expertise.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:01

      I don't believe... I don't, I...

   4. ACAdam Curry30:02

      That's, that's not my field of expertise.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      I know, but I just don't want me to be misconstrued.

   6. ACAdam Curry30:05

      Oh, of course not.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:06

      That's all I'm saying.

   8. ACAdam Curry30:06

      That's why I, I-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      What the, I just, uh, I had to have that caveat.

   10. ACAdam Curry30:08

       Sure, sure. I won't-

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:09

       This is not something I believe.

   12. ACAdam Curry30:10

       No.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:11

       I think the whole thing is very, it's, it's, it's so scripted. Like, in terms of, uh, it, uh, I shouldn't say that. It, it seems like fiction in such a stark way.... that if you, like if you had an amazing Jack Carr book about some foreign threat that invaded America and brought a virus that brought the economy to its knees, and then gobbled up all the stocks and then kept people in their houses and made people scared and then manipulated... And I'm not saying that this, any of this is happening-

   14. ACAdam Curry30:44

       You mean pretty much every disaster movie we've seen-

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       Yes.

   16. ACAdam Curry30:46

       ... for the past 20 years-

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       Yes. Yes.

   18. ACAdam Curry30:48

       ... that we love to stream in totality as predictive programming? Yeah. Sure.

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       I remember being on mushrooms once, sitting on a hillside, thinking about the fact that every single civilization besides ours current has collapsed. If you go to ancient Greece and you look around, those spectacular structures, those people (laughs) aren't there anymore, man.

   20. ACAdam Curry31:07

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       They're not, they're not running shit.

   22. ACAdam Curry31:09

       No. Well, I- I think we'll be okay but, uh, there, some awareness needs to happen.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:14

       Yeah.

   24. ACAdam Curry31:14

       Um, and just back to, to taking it from a media angle, which I think you and I share, um, the virus, where it came from, all disputable, whatever, the reaction to it, if the tests are okay, if the vaccine is a different c- that, all that doesn't matter to me. Right now, what happened was some... The first... I remember this because the first unprecedented thing that we heard was China was shutting down a city-

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:37

       Right.

   26. ACAdam Curry31:37

       ... of 11 million people.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:38

       Right.

   28. ACAdam Curry31:39

       And that was like, "Holy shit, that's never happened before." I paid attention like, "God, man. Th- that's some bad shit." So we didn't know what was going on.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:46

       We were all terrified.

   30. ACAdam Curry31:47

       But what we also saw on Instagram and TikTok and everywhere else was these videos of people dropping dead on the street. Do you remember that?
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      on Bridge Road."

   2. ACAdam Curry45:01

      Yeah. Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:01

      You're like, "Oh, Bridge Road, time to turn left."

   4. ACAdam Curry45:04

      Yeah. Right. Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      And you just... You get into a zom- I mean...

   6. ACAdam Curry45:06

      Well, so that's part... So my not having a f- a smartphone with me is not because of... I mean, we're being tracked. There's all kinds of ways to track.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:14

      (gasps) What?

   8. ACAdam Curry45:15

      It's more about-

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:16

      Wait a minute.

   10. ACAdam Curry45:16

       Mm-hmm.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:17

       You think we're being tracked?

   12. ACAdam Curry45:19

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:19

       Russia or China? Or maybe our own-

   14. ACAdam Curry45:21

       F- fucking commercial companies that can sell it to whoever they want.

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:24

       ... Nancy Pelosi? Oh.

   16. ACAdam Curry45:25

       The US government-

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:26

       Google.

   18. ACAdam Curry45:26

       The US government doesn't have to s- b- spy on you. They just go to Google or 10 other companies and buy your location data.

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:31

       Is the problem that we gave up the commodity of data? We gave it up.

   20. ACAdam Curry45:36

       No, we just need to be responsible and create less data and be smarter about it. So I don't want to... First of all, I don't want to be fucking n- I got enough problems in my life.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:44

       Right. But isn't it-

   22. ACAdam Curry45:44

       I don't want to be notified all the time when I'm, when I'm moving around.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       But could that have been stopped had we had a time machine and you could understand what data would be in 2020 versus in 1998?

   24. ACAdam Curry45:55

       Yeah. Yeah. If we-

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       Could we have gone back and went, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, stop. Data is a massive commodity that's worth billions and billions of dollars and we are treating it like it's not important." We're treating it like the content is the most important thing on the internet, but clearly the thing that generates the most money for like Google and Facebook and everybody else is, is not that, right? It's, it's-

   26. ACAdam Curry46:17

       What is it?

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       For sure it's the data.

   28. ACAdam Curry46:21

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:21

       It's finding out where people live, what they buy-

   30. ACAdam Curry46:24

       Yeah. Yeah.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:09:09

   Mm. …

   1. ACAdam Curry1:00:00

      voting Democrat and now there's all this shit is in play. So that's why Black, white is always played on us 'cause that's our weak spot. That's our Achilles' heel. We're embarrassed about it. Yeah, I- I agree with you. Fuck yeah, America. I love my country. I love our country, but we have some fucked up shit that we're, we, instead of dealing with it, we're letting other people hijack us over it. That's what's going on here. And, and it's not racism that we suffer from, it's nepotism.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

      Mm.

   3. ACAdam Curry1:00:27

      It's nepotism. And I'll explain why. If it truly was... And I can tell you, race, systemic racism absolutely existed in America. And it went all the way up into the '70s with no man about the house rule. When they came up from the South and, and went into the projects created by, uh, I guess FDR. Um, and, you know, 'cause they, they typically ate their own food, now they're coming here to work. So the projects were created, and welfare, but you could not have a man in the house. And this went into the '70s, they had patrols making sure that there was no family with children and a father. Now we have 75% of all children in America without a father in the household. You and I, we got parent privilege. We're not white privilege, parent privilege. A man, my dad was a, you know...... didn't work out that great with us, but he did put some shit into me and I grew up and he was around andhe, there was some, that influence was there. That's our problem. Who's running Black Lives Matter? Name me one male leader of Black Lives Matter. No, it's all women. And I have no, no problem with it, but I do question what's going on here.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:01:36

      I can't argue with you, you there because I, I don't know who the-

   5. ACAdam Curry1:01:40

      Mm-hmm.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:01:41

      ... leaders are.

   7. ACAdam Curry1:01:41

      Oh, Patrisse Cullors. There's a number of women who, um, yeah, and they all come from-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:46

      The, the ter-

   9. ACAdam Curry1:01:46

      ... old radical kind of Marxist... Uh, just one more thing. True communists in 1936 tried to, they wanted to come and overthrow America. This has been going on for a long time. We tried to export democracy, they tried to bring socialism into us. Clear. We do it by blowing your country up and rebuilding it (laughs) and they do it other ways. They came in, they wanted the, to propagate this message and no white people came, but the poor Black people came and so they became very associated with Marxism and leftist ideas, and they were basically taken through into what is today is, I guess, the Democratic Party and that's not working anymore because there's just strife and there's no real solutions and even the first African American president, not Ados, didn't really deliver for them. So this is, this election, this time right now, it's fucking... They're fucking with us because of this one thing, for their own power, left and right. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:02:51

       I- is it a-

   11. ACAdam Curry1:02:52

       Oh, man.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:02:53

       Is it a-

   13. ACAdam Curry1:02:54

       That was an excellent joint-

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:02:55

       Is it-

   15. ACAdam Curry1:02:55

       ... I smoked earlier (laughs) .

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:02:56

       It's very good.

   17. ACAdam Curry1:02:57

       (laughs) Oh, God.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:02:57

       Very good stuff.

   19. ACAdam Curry1:02:58

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:02:58

       Congratulations.

   21. ACAdam Curry1:02:59

       Thank you.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:03:00

       Is it possible that we're, we're in this weird state with people because we've decided that we're, we're losing power in other aspects of our life, so we're getting more and more determined to take it back in other places? Because the fact that so many people have been denied the ability to make a living, I mean, it's kinda crazy.

   23. ACAdam Curry1:03:22

       Yes.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:03:22

       I mean, I, I don't know what to think about it, but it seems to me that if I'm allowed to go to certain essential businesses with a, a mask on and, and no one's dying... I mean, if I'm going to the supermarket and everyone's wearing a mask, everybody seems okay. Right? And scientists-

   25. ACAdam Curry1:03:36

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:03:37

       ... seem, seem to think they're okay.

   27. ACAdam Curry1:03:38

       Mm-hmm.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:03:38

       Like, at what point in time do we allow that for everywhere and at what point in time do we, uh, allow people to take chances? We allow people to flip dirt bikes, we allow people to fucking jump out of helicopters, we, we allow people to do all kinds of crazy shit. We allow people to wing suit. Why, why don't we allow people to not wear a mask? Why don't we allow people to open up their business? Why don't we allow people to do whatever they wanted to? Do, do... Is it the really the right... And, and the idea is, well, you have to protect the s- the other people. I agree, you do have to protec- protect the other people, but one of the things that's gonna make the other people more invulnerable is the collapse of the economy. And we're not saying that for some reason. There's this weird thing where politicians want you to love them, and they want you to love them, so if you are leaning towards defunding the police and, and, and making sure that, uh, all the socialism ideas get accepted into major universities and it gets taught in the curriculum in grade school. If you drone on enough and the person who's running for mayor knows the only way that they can win is to embrace your ideas, they're gonna fucking do it-

   29. ACAdam Curry1:04:47

       Mm-hmm.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:04:47

       ... because we got (laughs) a dirty system.

Episode duration: 3:18:22