EVERY SPOKEN WORD
150 min read · 30,011 words- 0:00 – 15:00
(drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…
- NANarrator
(drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day.
- NANarrator
(instrumental music)
- JRJoe Rogan
Hello, Russell.
- RPRussell Peters
Hello, Joseph.
- JRJoe Rogan
Good to see you, my friend.
- RPRussell Peters
How are you, pally?
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm fucking great.
- RPRussell Peters
(clears throat) So-
- JRJoe Rogan
Better now that you're here.
- RPRussell Peters
I know. I, I called you and I said, "Joe, I really wanna do your podcast again." You said, "Sure."
- JRJoe Rogan
"Anytime, buddy."
- RPRussell Peters
I know. It was great. And I was, I was very happy (laughs) . I thought you were gonna be like, "Oh, man. You know, I got so many people I gotta-"
- JRJoe Rogan
Come on.
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Russell, you and I go back, my friend.
- RPRussell Peters
I know, it's true.
- JRJoe Rogan
And I tell everybody I wear the watch you gave me every special. And I have since 2014.
- RPRussell Peters
Oh, really?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- RPRussell Peters
I didn't, I didn't know that detail. That's an-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yep.
- RPRussell Peters
... interesting detail.
- JRJoe Rogan
You gave me a watch once. It was the s- the most ridiculously generous thing ever. I was looking at your watch and go, "That's a nice watch." You go, "You want it?"
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And you took it off and gave it to me. I'm like-
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... "Jesus Christ." So I've worn it every special I've ever done.
- RPRussell Peters
I've tried, I've tried that with you. I was like, "Joe, that's a really nice Porsche." "Yeah, it is."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
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(Brazilian portuguese) …
- JRJoe Rogan
famous jujitsu guys.
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(Brazilian portuguese)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's the famous mats of New York City.
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(Brazilian portuguese)
- JRJoe Rogan
Renzo Gracie Academy.
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(Brazilian portuguese)
- RPRussell Peters
It's a beautiful language. It's beautiful.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's when he does it, it sounds good.
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(Brazilian portuguese)
- RPRussell Peters
I don't know what he's saying.
- JRJoe Rogan
He, he sounds like he's just talking shit to you, doesn't it?
- RPRussell Peters
It might be.
- JRJoe Rogan
Because of the look in Renzo's face all the time.
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
He probably is talking shit to you.
- RPRussell Peters
It might be.
- JRJoe Rogan
One of my favorite Renzo stories was Renzo live streamed him beating these dudes' asses who were following him around trying to mug him. (laughs)
- RPRussell Peters
Oh, I remember that.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- RPRussell Peters
I remember that.
- JRJoe Rogan
These poor fucks, they decided they were gonna mug Renzo. Like, what a fucking ... And he, like, took pictures of his knuckles after he beat their asses.
- RPRussell Peters
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
And it was like, "What a great day." (laughs)
- RPRussell Peters
That was in New York City, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- RPRussell Peters
Yes, I remember that.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was ... This was pre-pandemic when New York City was slightly more safe. Like, quite a bit more safe, actually. It's, it's, it's pretty sketchy now.
- RPRussell Peters
I've trained with h- Ralf a couple of times.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ralf's a dangerous man.
- RPRussell Peters
Oh man, Ralf shows me dirty moves. (laughs)
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But they still had,…
- JRJoe Rogan
there's no innovation. You, you're not gonna get anything done. It's like, when things get safe-
- RPRussell Peters
But they still had, like, their medicine men, and I'm sure they had, like, their, at the, you know, what would be the tech people of the time that they would... You know, these would be the warriors that would go out and do that, and then they would protect these people.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- RPRussell Peters
To-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- RPRussell Peters
... you know, to innovate the village or whatever.
- JRJoe Rogan
There was no innovation. I mean, all the, the medicine men, like, what were they? They knew some herbs and some plants and some things that were good for you. But for the most part, you're fucked.
- RPRussell Peters
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You get sick, you're fucked. If you break your leg, you're fucked. You know, most of the time, you're fucked.
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
A lot of it was you're fucked.
- RPRussell Peters
We went back to being fucked again, somehow.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah, barely.
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
We barely did. But I mean, this is, these tr- the trend of moving towards good things has good aspects and bad aspects, right? And the bad aspects is you could not make a movie like Step Brothers anymore.
- RPRussell Peters
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
These things, pe- people are trying to make things so safe.
- RPRussell Peters
We evolved to devolve. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm. Yeah, we got a little crazy.
- RPRussell Peters
Yeah. Hopefully, this all goes away. I have problems with it, you know. I have problems with it.
- JRJoe Rogan
It'll balance out a little bit.
- RPRussell Peters
It will because it's a, we're, we're, it, it, there's this really weird balance of, uh, of being told to be tolerant while the people-
- JRJoe Rogan
Being intolerant.
- RPRussell Peters
... te- yeah. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- RPRussell Peters
It's a very fucking... I don't understand.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well-
- RPRussell Peters
But you want me to tolerate you, but you, you're not gonna tolerate-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- RPRussell Peters
... my adjustment time.
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The movie, yeah. …
- JRJoe Rogan
that they planted, but there's some insanely prolific tree that they were, uh, that they were harvesting and planting in these areas and it took over. Like y- you ever hear of that s- The Lost City of Z? You ever remember that?
- RPRussell Peters
The movie, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. That movie apparently was based on what, what would happen when these explorers had originally come there. Supposedly pristine, untouched Amazon rainforest was actually shaped by humans. Over thousands of years, native people planted a strong, played a strong role in molding the ecology of this vast wilderness. So, we assume that you see this dense jungle, oh, it's untouched, but it, it actually, they don't think it was. Um, so here it goes. Uh, described region of the world in 1991 book making, marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus v- uh, voyage to the New World. The native people were transparent in the landscape, living as natural elements in the ecosphere. Their world was a world of barely perceptible human disturbance. But was it really? In a less... How do you say that word? Rhapsodical-
- RPRussell Peters
(clears throat)
- JRJoe Rogan
... rhapsodical verse.
- RPRussell Peters
There is that word.
- JRJoe Rogan
Scholars in the past quarter century have shown that this mythical image of untouched nature is just that, a myth. Like humans everywhere, Native Americans shaped their environments to suit them through burning, pruning, tilling and other practices, and the Amazon is no different. If you look closer, you see the deep impressions that humans have made on the world's largest tropical rain f- rainforest, scientists reported yesterday in the journal Science. De- despite its vastness, the Amazon stretches more than two million square miles and an estimated 390 billion trees. This rainforest is hardly the untamable, unstoppable force of nature that the romantics opined, says Jose Iriarte?
- RPRussell Peters
Iriarte.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter. In fact, humans have inhabited the Amazon for roughly 13,000 years and have been domesticating plants for at least 8,000, and recent archaeological studies, especially in the last two decades showed that indigenous populations in the past were more numerous, more complex, and had a greater impact on the largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforests in the world than had previously thought, than previously thought.
- RPRussell Peters
What's the, uh, lifespan of the, uh, those, those untouched humans?
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't know, man. Not, not so good. But hold on a second, here's a... Stop right there. Um, colleagues were ta- taking inventory of the vast diversity of the Amazon, uh, trees. They sampled 1,100 scattered plots far from modern human inhabitants to identify more than 16,000 different species among those 390 billion individual plants, then they noticed something odd. Despite the broad diversity, over half of the total trees were made up of just over 1% of the species. About 20 of these hyperdominant plants were domesticated species such as the Brazil nut, the Amazon tree grape, and the ice cream bean tree. That was five times the amount researchers expected if the chances were the only fact- if chance was the only factor. The hypothesis came up that perhaps people might have domesticated these species which would have helped their abundance in the Amazon. So the thing, they think they had domesticated these species that they used for food and then these species took over and just dominated the, uh, the ecosphere.
- RPRussell Peters
... like a wild weed?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. They, they've also started using something called LiDAR. And LiDAR is something that they use from planes, and they scan the rainforest. And underneath this insane, dense, vast jungle, they-
- RPRussell Peters
The LiDAR can see through-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- RPRussell Peters
... the bush, the, the thickness?
- JRJoe Rogan
It can see through everything into the ground, and they've found these grids that indicate that there were cities there.
- RPRussell Peters
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, all this shit that's incredibly dense and, and filled with trees now, at one point in time had complex, like, roadways and irrigation systems. And they think that the, the latest theory is that explorers-
- RPRussell Peters
(clears throat)
- JRJoe Rogan
... when they came there, like this, uh, Cabeza de Vaca-
- RPRussell Peters
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... dude and these others that came from Europe, probably gave these people the plague. They probably gave these people diseases, just like they did to... 90% of all Native Americans were wiped out by disease-
- RPRussell Peters
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... brought by European explorers.
- RPRussell Peters
By the blankets.
- JRJoe Rogan
They think that... That's, I don't think that's true. I think the blanket part is fake. It's just being around them that killed.
- RPRussell Peters
The smallpox and all that?
- JRJoe Rogan
I think, I think maybe there probably was some people that gave people dirty blankets, but-
- RPRussell Peters
Mm-hmm.
- 1:00:00 – 1:08:14
No, especially when they're…
- JRJoe Rogan
They're- they're training for big fights. Like a lot of people think, "Oh, fighters are in great shape. They must be really healthy."
- RPRussell Peters
No, especially when they're trying to make weight.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ugh.
- RPRussell Peters
They dehydrate their entire body.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God.
- RPRussell Peters
That's insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
So ba- that... But even just the training itself, when they're breaking themselves down, a lot of times fighters get sick. A lot of fighters have gotten COVID, um, pretty bad because they were in the middle of fight camp, and they didn't stop training.
- RPRussell Peters
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like Cody Garbrandt, he had COVID, he got sick, and he kept training through it. So he just kept beating his body up. Like they're too tough for their own good.
- RPRussell Peters
Yeah, it's, uh, it's... Your body, you gotta listen to your body.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- RPRussell Peters
Especially the older you get.... just, it, you can't ignore the signs, you know?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. So do they tell you what you should and shouldn't eat?
- RPRussell Peters
No, that's what I was hoping for.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like-
- RPRussell Peters
And he was like, "No, you seem fine." I'm like, "What the fuck?"
- JRJoe Rogan
And what-
- RPRussell Peters
It's-
- JRJoe Rogan
... does acid reflux do? Like, you, you have, like-
- RPRussell Peters
It's a-
- JRJoe Rogan
... like a burp, almost? Like a-
- RPRussell Peters
It's a bad burp, but you know your eyes are gonna water 'cause it burns when it gets up here.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh. So, like, that's the acid. Yeah.
- RPRussell Peters
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
The stomach juices.
- RPRussell Peters
Like, burns, burns. Like, my nose will run, my eyes will water.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- RPRussell Peters
On a bad one. I've had some bad episodes. Stress'll bring it out too.
- JRJoe Rogan
And how long does it last?
- RPRussell Peters
I mean (sighs) it, depending on how bad of an episode I have, I, I try to control it as best I can. I'm aware of when it's gonna ... how I can n- how it's gonna affect me, when it's gonna affect me, if I eat too much, if I eat too late, or if I try to go to bed too soon after eating.
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