EVERY SPOKEN WORD
150 min read · 30,033 words- 0:00 – 1:10
Cold open: sobriety jokes, cigars, and jumping into the chaos
- JRJoe Rogan
(drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- NANarrator
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music plays) Up and at 'em. Hello, Joe list.
- JLJoe List
Is this it?
- JRJoe Rogan
This is it.
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
This is it. So what happened? You got, you got accosted last night?
- JLJoe List
Oh, we're in it. This is just going.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
Yeah. So, um, good to be here. Thanks for having me. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Good to have ya. Good to have ya.
- JLJoe List
Yeah. So, we're here at-
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you need booze?
- JLJoe List
No, I don't drink, but I appreciate the offer.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you want heroin?
- JLJoe List
Heroin would go good, yeah. I'm still doing heroin.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's always like the hackiest joke. "I don't drink, but I wanna buy heroin."
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like you always go like, if someone says they don't drink, you go with something way more preposterous than drinking, like, "Oh, I'm sober."
- JLJoe List
Right. The other one is, uh, "Ah, quitter."
- JRJoe Rogan
Crack.
- JLJoe List
(laughs) Well, if people say quitter, that's like a big one to do.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. Yeah, it's a big one.
- JLJoe List
But, um, but no, I appreciate the offer though. I mean, this cigar I might enjoy.
- JRJoe Rogan
You want a cigar?
- JLJoe List
Sure, maybe.
- JRJoe Rogan
I got cigars. Yeah.
- JLJoe List
I'm on an empty stomach, so it might make me more jittery than I already am.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, give it a little, few minutes-
- JLJoe List
I'm a big cunt.
- 1:10 – 5:47
Downtown Austin scare: being confronted on the street near Sixth/Seventh
- JLJoe List
So yeah, we're here in Austin and I got a ride, a Lyft to the hotel. I'm staying downtown and we were coming up Sixth Street, which I don't know if you've been down there, it's changed a bit. It's like kinda overrun with street folk, homeless people.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes. There's, there's quite a few, uh, of the, they call them unhoused. That's the new, more politically correct term.
- JLJoe List
Sure. I thought street people was good, but maybe that's bad. I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think street peoples ... I don't think they like that. I don't know if there's like a homeless board.
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Or talk about the vernacular that they appreciate it. I don't know.
- JLJoe List
Yeah. All right. Well, unhoused people that seem, you know, uh, unwell and they're kinda everywhere, which evidently they just passed a law, but it hasn't been enforced.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, the law is only about camping.
- JLJoe List
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, uh, you can't stop people from walking around.
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
So that, there's always gonna be an issue. And like, uh, one of the clubs downtown is, uh, Vulcan Gas Company and, uh, that place is right catty-corner to a homeless shelter. So they're all over the place in that area.
- JLJoe List
That's where I think I was, on Seventh, right? Is that Seventh Street?
- JRJoe Rogan
I think Vulcan is on Sixth. Is it on...
Yeah, but the shelter would be on Seventh. I think so.
- JLJoe List
The shelter's on Seventh?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, I think you're right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay. Well, so-
- JLJoe List
It's in that area.
- JRJoe Rogan
So we drove down the street and the guy was kind of saying, "Yeah, they've taken over. It's crazy. It's scary. Be careful." Whatever.
- JLJoe List
The Lyft driver said?
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
Yeah. So I'm like, well, he was like a driver-driver, but so I'm already, so I'm already like in my head. And then, um, I asked the lady, I was like, "Is it safe walking around here now? It feels like it's changed a bit." And she was like, "Just avoid Sixth Street." And I was like, "All right, got it." And then, uh, I was like, "I'm gonna go to the creek, do a spot." Texted Rebecca and it's like an eight-minute walk. So I was like, "I'll walk there." Now I'm a huge pussy, anxiety, the whole thing. Although I have been doing mixed martial arts, but we can get to that later. Um, but so I was walking up the street and I'm like, "All right, so far so good." And then I started to get closer and I saw these two guys walking towards me and they seemed like, you know, ne'er-do-wells, just, you know, by the way they were presenting themselves. And then there was a guy on a bicycle, like a BMX style bike who kind of was with them and then rode ahead and kind of did like a loop behind me. So then I was like, "All right, this feels unsafe." So I kind of just moved to the street, like off the sidewalk, but still right next to the sidewalk. And then the two guys as they passed were like, "Look at this motherfucker, this racist ass motherfucker moving into the street, this white guy, this." And, uh, it seemed- You were racist because you moved into the street?
- JLJoe List
I think 'cause I moved into the street, but that's not what I was ... I wasn't like, "Oh, here come black guys, let me move up." But they were walking up the sidewalk, so I just was moving. So I didn't have like a...
- JRJoe Rogan
A moment where you had to zig or zag-
- JLJoe List
Exactly.
- JRJoe Rogan
... move left or right.
- JLJoe List
Exactly. So I stepped off the sidewalk and he kind of called that out. And then as they ... we passed each other and I could still hear him kind of like mumbling. They seemed like they were fucked up, but, um, so they were still kind of mumbling. And then I came to the intersection, which is where I guess that homeless shelter is, and there was like 40 homeless people, not like sleeping in tents or on the sidewalk, but like fighting, yelling, bottle smashing. And I was just like, "Ah, I don't feel like walking through that. That doesn't seem great." So then I looked to the right was Sixth Street where the lady was like, "Yeah, stay off of Sixth Street." And then this is all in front of an empty parking lot. So there's just nobody around, it's dark, and I'm like, "If I go left, I'm going up dark street, sidewalk." So then I was like, "I'll cross Seventh back over there and just start walking back to my hotel so I don't have to walk through whatever this scene is." And then as I was walking back that way, they were a little ways ahead of me and for whatever reason, they decided to cross back across the street. And so we just met right there and then the guy's like, "You wouldn't be following us, would you?" And I was like, "No, no, I'm just lost." And I kind of did like a, "I don't want anything to do with you guys." And then the guy got like right up into my face and was like, "You better be fucking lost. Why don't you get lost?" Like some... whatever else. I was in like panic mode, so I couldn't...
- JRJoe Rogan
Oof.
- 5:47 – 7:41
Real self-defense mindset: swallowing pride, running, and MMA training
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a good move, man. You don't, you don't want to get into an altercation if you can avoid it. If you can avoid it by running, like the swallow the pride thing, like wouldn't ... like, what are you gonna do? Just get attacked? Or what are you gonna do? Fight? When you can... If you can not fight by running, you should definitely run. Like you talk to any martial arts instructor, they will always tell you that. If you can get away-
... a smart one will tell you, "Get away." A dumb one will say, "First of all-
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... you gotta kick him in the knee. Then-
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
... you gotta fuckin' poke 'em in the eye like the Three Stooges." You know, get the fuck out of there, man. Get out of there.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, so I, I've done a little bit of MMA training in the last couple years, and like, that's the basic idea, obviously, at whatever level, if you wanna say level. The idea is to use whatever skills to get out of harm's way. I'm not looking to inflict damage (laughs) on people.
- JRJoe Rogan
Sometimes, it's just people just wanna fuck with you. So these guys probably just wanted to fuck with you and make you feel uncomfortable and make you scared. 'Cause if they wanted to do something, they probably would've done something, right?
- JLJoe List
Yeah, that's how I felt, and I also, I literally consciously thought, "Me running gives them what they want."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- JLJoe List
They get a nice, like, "That's right, bitch."
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- JLJoe List
And I'm, I'm fine with that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- JLJoe List
I'm 39 (laughs) years old, I'm not looking to prove anything to anybody.
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- JLJoe List
And then Rebecca was like, texted, who runs The Creek, and was like, "I can send security." And I was like, (laughs) "I'll take it as a sign. I'll see you tomorrow night. I'll take a Lyft."
- JRJoe Rogan
They have solid security at The Creek, though. They have some big-ass giant dudes.
- JLJoe List
Oh, really?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, some solid dudes.
- JLJoe List
Oh, good to know.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
Well, tonight, I'm gonna take a Lyft. I'm good with walking. But it was scary, but I felt good because-
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll come get you tonight. I'll, I'll pick you up.
- JLJoe List
All right, I'll take it.
- JRJoe Rogan
We, we'll talk.
- JLJoe List
I appreciate it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
Well, I, I, I felt good 'cause when I got back, I was like, I didn't sit there going, "You're a pussy, you piece of shit." And nor was I like, panicking. I was just like, "All right, that was crazy."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it's not good. You, you're, you're always better off just swallowing pride.
- 7:41 – 15:47
Jiu-jitsu ‘nerd assassins’ and why fighting strangers is a bad bet
- JRJoe Rogan
What is, what is, you know, like, what is that? That's swallowing... Did you see that, there's a new video of a lady cop beating the shit out of a, a bunch of people in a bar? This lady cop roundhouse kicks this guy, and then this lady punches her from the side, and she fucking lines up like, a karate punch and-
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... and just straight blasts her in the face. And like, the ladies at the bar are all fucked up. But it's crazy, it's like, she's got her hair in a ponytail and shit, and she's, she's out there, uh, doing karate on people.
- JLJoe List
Well, that, I mean-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
I've said this for years, it's so scary with people. Y- you can't just get in fights with people 'cause now, so many people train in mixed martial arts and all this shit, including myself, but I s-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
... suck and I'm a cunt, but-
- JRJoe Rogan
Way more people than ever before.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, so it's like, I've met people... There's comics that I know that just look like nerdy guys, and they're like, jujitsu blue belts-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- JLJoe List
... or brown, whatever, whatever belt.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
And you're like, "That's a guy I would just be like, 'Ah, shut up you pussy,' or whatever." And then next thing you know, you're getting choked to death.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's what's interesting about jujitsu is like, some of the very best guys are what my friend Eddie Bravo calls nerd assassins.
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
They'll, they're, they're just like, people that are really into technique and like, d- jujitsu is, in a, in a lotta ways, like, a crazy game that you learn. And people that would be into other games get into jujitsu, and then they wind up having to use their body as like, a game piece.
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
But they have the same sort of mentality as someone who's like, really into StarCraft or something like that, or maybe into chess, or-
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And yet, and l- legitimately, some of Eddie's best students are these guys that are like, very unassuming looking.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to be. I wanna, I wanna be that guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
You could be that guy.
- JLJoe List
I wanna guy that looks, I look-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
... like this. I mean, this is like, a joke in my act, but I'm like, "I wanna look like this, but be one of those people that can kill you."
- JRJoe Rogan
Just a lot of guys that look like you, they're built like you, that are fucking assassins.
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, no bullshit.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, Chris Gethard is a comedian. Do you know Chris Gethard?
- 15:47 – 17:49
Strength weirdness: gymnastic rings, Cirque du Soleil, and Beatles ‘Love’
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you ever see Love, the Love one at uh, it's all Beatle songs at um, MGM? No. Uh, Mirage Theatre.
- JLJoe List
No, I never saw it.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's amazing.
- JLJoe List
Maybe I should go. I'm being an asshole, I've never actually seen it.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's easy to be an asshole, we're comics.
- JLJoe List
That's a good point, but uh some of them-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Because you gotta be funny.
- JLJoe List
Some of them hold, stand on their head too.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
Like just their head, no arms, which is also insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's not good for you.
- JLJoe List
No, I don't think-
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll tell you right now, the disks do not enjoy that.
- JLJoe List
No, I don't think any of that's-
- JRJoe Rogan
You're asking, you're asking for late life trouble.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, I think all of that. But... I feel that way, I worry about that with uh... Oh, here they are.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Love is amazing because uh... Are you a Beatles fan?
- JLJoe List
I am.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, I love the Beatles, and this is all Beatles songs. And you... I, last time I went I was barbecued, and when you are there in this like sort of very surreal, fantastic theater environment with sounds and lights and everything, and, and you see the athleticism that these people have, the... And then you hear the amazing songs, you kind of forget how good like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is. You forget how good some of their fucking songs are, and then you see it with this. It's a perfect complement. It's incredibly well like orchestrated and, and designed. It's great. I love it. I've, I've been to it twice with my family.
- JLJoe List
Oh, wow. Yeah, it looks cool. I'll, I'll, I'll check it out.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's really good.
- JLJoe List
I'm sorry I shit on Cirque du Soleil. I'm a dick.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, this is the best one that I've seen. I've seen a few of them. I've seen um, three? Yeah, I've seen three Cirque du Soleil shows. I've seen Mystere, I think that's one that I saw. There's another one I think they used to have at Mandalay Bay, I don't know if they have it anymore, but it was... I believe it was a Cirque du Soleil with Michael Jackson music.
- JLJoe List
Oh, fun. Uh can they do that still?
- JRJoe Rogan
Which is... It's an odd one. Yeah, right? Like you kind of can. Like Michael Jackson is the only con... Because I guess because he died without being convicted.
- JLJoe List
Yeah, he still plays at Starbucks.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
Like I go into Starbucks and I'm like, "I think this guy like came on children's asses."
- JRJoe Rogan
Maybe.
- JLJoe List
And it's just playing.
- 17:49 – 36:15
Michael Jackson theories: castrato idea, early recordings, and fame-induced weirdness
- JRJoe Rogan
I think he was a castrato.
- JLJoe List
What's that mean?
- JRJoe Rogan
That's what I think. It's a, a person who was, uh, castrated to preserve their voice. That's what his doctor said, and there's actually a theory that I had before his doctor said it. His doctor went to jail for giving him Propofol, did I say it?
- JLJoe List
I think so, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... he gave him, you know, anesthesia, knocked him out every night because he could, like he was so neurotic and crazy that he couldn't sleep.
- NANarrator
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And so, he would anesthetize him every night. That same doctor went to jail for that, and then when he came out, he gave this sort of like detailed story about how his father had chemically castrated him when he was young to preserve his voice. It sounds crazy, but first of all, this guy's a doctor saying this. He doesn't have anything to gain or lose. And then you look at his body in comparison to his brother's. Like if you look at like Tito and Germaine, they're men. They're like these thick m-... They look like a, like thick men.
- NANarrator
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right? And he's super slender with no muscle mass at all, just very sleek and his voice is really high-pitched. And his singing voice is incredible, right? But it's very high-pitched. And there's these people that existed in, I mean, I don't know when it started, but there's one recording. There's, it's a historical th- fact that there's these people called castratas or castratos, castratis, castratis, I guess. And they would take young kids and castrate them when they were young so that they never developed any testosterone. And because of that, they maintained a singing voice, and it's a haunting singing voice. There's only, there's at least one that's available on YouTube that you could listen to and you hear the guy sing and you're like, "Oh my God." Like this was someone who didn't make this choice for himself. Someone, whoever it was, gave him off to whoever who castrated him as a young boy before his testosterone hit, and he's got this strange voice. And this voice was something that they cultivated and that they would, they would specifically choose boys who sang to never become men.
- NANarrator
And what, what period of time is this? Is this like the '70s or like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, they have a recording. So this recording has to... I, I don't think there was any recordings until-
- NANarrator
Like 1700s or so.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. Well, they did it in the 1700s, but the recording... When was, when was the-
- NANarrator
Oh, yeah. The recording wouldn't be from the 1700s.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. When, when was the recording invented? Like when did they invent records? Let's take a guess. When do you think they invented records?
- NANarrator
Oh boy. Uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
I wanna, I wanna say it was like 1800s, like late 1800s.
- NANarrator
Y- yeah. That sounds right. I mean, is the, is the radio before recordings?
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- NANarrator
Or is that a recorder? I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a good question.
- NANarrator
I'm an idiot. I look like a guy that knows things and is smart, but I'm pretty dumb.
- JRJoe Rogan
I think if I had to guess that the record player was first and the radio was second.
- NANarrator
That makes sense. All right. I'm gonna say 18... I'm trying to think of like Westerns. You never see them listening to records in Westerns.
- JRJoe Rogan
Remember those ... Well, you remember those record players they used to have where they put the needle down and it was like a giant tuba? There wasn't a speaker.
- NANarrator
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like the sound came out of the needle itself.
- NANarrator
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was like a tuba attached to the needle. What-
- NANarrator
I'm gonna say f- ... So I kinda know some of it, so I don't wanna look it up and cheat.
- 36:15 – 50:13
Language, identity, and Indigenous rights: terms, treaties, and resource rules
- JRJoe Rogan
It's really different. Well, it's like the term Eskimo. Some people tell you the term Eskimo is, uh, offensive, but then in some parts of the world...... some parts of this c- I think in Alaska, they actually call themselves Eskimos. And they prefer to be called... I don't... I might be fucking this up. But some places, it's Inuit. And then in, um, Canada, they don't call themselves Indians. They call themselves First Nation.
- JLJoe List
Ah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So it's different up there. And they have all these... It's very strange. Like they have all these different rules for fir- First Nation people when it comes to, like, wildlife resources. Like you can catch as many fish as you want. You could shoot a moose with a flashlight. You could just get a- (gunshot firing) a... Really. You could get a floodlight.
- JLJoe List
What do you mean? Oh, like a, a flashlight on a gun?
- JRJoe Rogan
You can put a floodlight so the moose is, like, frozen, it doesn't know what to do, and then you blast him at night.
- JLJoe List
Oh, I see.
- JRJoe Rogan
You can hunt at nighttime. Y- you have no rules, and you can hunt them all year round. Like, they can always take from the land whatever they want.
- JLJoe List
That seems fair, I guess, or is that not fair? I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, it depends upon, uh, the access to resources, like, uh, w- what, what, what is the moose population like? Are they decimating the population with these practices? What are they doing with the meat? If they could shoot as many moose as they want, are they shooting three, four, five moose a night and giving them out to friends? Is the m- is... Uh, uh, how are they managing the, the resources? Like there's a reason why, in most of these places, like, uh, s- I could speak about North America 'cause I, I have more understanding of it. The wildlife biologists will take, like, a survey of the animals, and they do it a bunch of different ways. They'll do it with helicopters. They'll fly over with planes, and they'll get an assessment of, like, say, of, like, mountain goats. They're like, "Okay, we've, we counted 200 mountain goats in this particular mountain range, and we've decided that we can give out 10 tags with, uh, a, an estimate of a 50% success rate, which is usually pretty high, and say that... So we lose five animals. They're gonna have a bunch of babies, and some of those babies are gonna... We'll, we'll maintain this, a healthy population." And this is how wildlife, uh, biologists estimate how many animals can be removed from a specific population while keeping it healthy. So I don't know how they do it in Canada. I assume they probably do it the same way. If they do do that, so you have one rule for everybody else, and then you have another rule for the First Nation people.
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And the First Nation people, like, we went walleye fishing. When you go walleye fishing, you can only keep one walleye per day unless you're First Nation people. So we were st- sitting on this pier. We were standing on this pier, and we're catching fish next to these other folks that were just... They just kept catching them. They'd catch walleyes and just, just k- kept keeping them. When we caught one walleye, we were done, and then you could only keep northern pike after that. But they could keep whatever they want.
- JLJoe List
Interesting. Now can you pretend to be Native American? I mean, you look... You, you could pass, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh...
- JLJoe List
I mean, do you have to have, like, a card? How does it work? Does your face have to be painted? Like what is the, um-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
... what is the...
- JRJoe Rogan
I think you probably have some sort of First Nation ID or something like that if I had to guess.
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm guessing.
- JLJoe List
I mean, that's kind of- (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
That's kind of funny too that you just got to be like, "I'm cool."
- JRJoe Rogan
But I mean, I mean if you have an ID that says you're, you know, you live in South Dakota-
- JLJoe List
I guess so.
- JRJoe Rogan
... you know? It's, it's, uh... I mean, that's like the Indian reservation thing here in North America, right, in, or in, uh, the United States. Like, they can open up casinos.
- JLJoe List
Right.
- JRJoe Rogan
And if you're a s-... In some of these places where they have casinos, you get a check if you are a certain percentage of the tribe. Say, if you're, like, uh, you know, one-eighth or... I don't know what the number is, but one... A percentage, uh, you know, Apache or what have you. Tribal identification cards are issued by tribes as proof of your enrollment and membership in a tribe. Federally recognized tribal issued ID card is also a valid form of government-issued photo identification in many places. Um, this is, uh, Canada, or is this America?
- NANarrator
That's America. I typed in... (clears throat) I first typed in, like, First Nation, and I was only getting Canada, so I typed in-
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm.
- NANarrator
... Native American.
- 50:13 – 1:01:10
Osage murders and Scorsese talk: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and film greatness
- JLJoe List
Yeah. Rocky's the best. I watched-
- JRJoe Rogan
That was the 20 ... 200th anniversary of our co- ... our great country.
- JLJoe List
Right. I watched Rocky. I had, like, neuro virus, and I was puking and shitting like crazy in a hotel in, um, in, uh, Long Island.
- JRJoe Rogan
Neuro virus?
- JLJoe List
That was, like, insane. I mean, I was ... It's the sickest I've ever been. It was like I was kicking heroin. Like, I was literally shitting and puking at the same time in the shower.
- JRJoe Rogan
What's a, what's a neuro virus?
- JLJoe List
I think that's what it's called, right? Now, I'm just-
- NANarrator
It's norovirus.
- JLJoe List
Norovirus?
- NANarrator
Norovirus.
- JLJoe List
Ah, fuck. Is that ... Does that mean anything more to you?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, yeah. Neuro is like nerves and, like, neurons.
- JLJoe List
Oh, no. Sorry.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
No, I meant ... How do you say it?
- NANarrator
Noro, norovirus.
- JRJoe Rogan
Noro. Norovirus. What is that shit? "Very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. People of all ages can get infected and sick with norovirus. Norovirus spreads easily." Look at the exclamation point.
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
What does that ... What's up with that? "People with norovirus illness can shed billions of norovirus particles."
- JLJoe List
I'm glad I didn't-
- JRJoe Rogan
"And only a few virus particles can make other people sick." Holy shit.
- JLJoe List
I mean, I think that's what I had. I mean, I had the puking and shitting. I don't think I got everyone sick. Maybe I did, and I just left a wake of death and sh-
- JRJoe Rogan
Puking and shitting people.
- JLJoe List
... shit behind me.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
But I was watching it. I was having, like, throw up in 20-minute intervals. And, um, I was watching Rocky, and I just started sobbing. I got, like, emotional. I just lost it.
- JRJoe Rogan
(singing)
- JLJoe List
(laughs) The scene where he's laying in bed with Adrian, the first movie. I, I kinda hate the rest of them, but he's laying there, and he's like, "I just wanna prove I'm not another bum from the neighborhood." And I just started, like, sobbing. And my wife was like, "What's wrong with you, you fucking loser?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- 1:01:10 – 1:18:51
Norovirus, show business, and comedians’ grossest bonding rituals
- JLJoe List
Bobby's the guy... We smoke at a cigar place. Now, Bobby's... I don't know where you f- well, you're a very big celebrity, I guess. But Bobby's a guy that doesn't mind mentioning that he's a comedian in mixed company. I've never told anybody I'm a comedian in my life.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm.
- JLJoe List
But like, we'll be at, like, a cigar lounge and he's just talking comedy. I'm like, "What are you gu- people are gonna overhear us." And then s- guys are like, "Hey, I can't help but overhear." And I'm like, "Oh, fuck." Now, we gotta, like, talk comedy with these people.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. If people don't know what I do for a living, it's always, uh, one of them, I gotta pick a thing that I tell them.
- JLJoe List
I do that. I always say... I was talking to Brian Regan. I'm really name-dropping here. Uh, but I was hanging out with Brian Regan.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
And, um, we were talking about our fake jobs on the road, and I said... I always say I'm visiting, "My friend just had a baby. That's why I'm in town," if a c- cab driver asked me. And it always worked and nobody ever questioned it, but then Regan was like, "What?" He's like, "Who gets on a plane to go visit their friend's baby?" (laughs) And he's... And then Regan goes into his Regan voice and he's like, "My friend had a baby in St. Louis, and next week my friend had a baby in Kansas City."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- JLJoe List
He's doing the whole thing shitting on me. But he was telling a story where him and his brother golfed, and it was just the two of them, and they put him with another pair, uh, two other guys.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dennis? The, uh-
- JLJoe List
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... the other comic?
- JLJoe List
Yeah. And they, their thing was they said, "We're painters." That's like their thing that they always say.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- JLJoe List
But golfing, it's like a four-hour day. So people naturally start asking questions about-
- JRJoe Rogan
What kind of paint you like?
- JLJoe List
Yeah. And he's like, "We had not thought it through at all."
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- JLJoe List
So he... And then Regan's doing... I, I... You can't even impersonate Regan-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JLJoe List
... because he's so funny that it's not worth it.
- JRJoe Rogan
"Yeah, p- p- paint."
- JLJoe List
He's like, "Yeah, we use the, uh, the, the outdoor paint." And he's doing the whole... And I'm, like, on the floor laughing. I mean, that guy is like the funniest guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's so funny and he's such a nice guy. He's, he's one of the best examples of that you do not have to swear or be dirty to be ridiculously funny.
- JLJoe List
Yeah. No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Some people, some people say, "Oh, I only like guys who swear." Like, uh, go see Brian Regan.
- JLJoe List
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? 'Cause he's, he'll... And his stuff, like, on paper, like, try to, try to take this concept and turn it into what he does. Like, you're not gonna do it. It's like he's got his style down where he could kind of talk about anything. You know, "Fuck, yeah. Coffee. I like a coffee."
- JLJoe List
Yeah. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And the next thing, he's got a bit on coffee.
Episode duration: 2:49:29
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