The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1659 - Scott Eastwood
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150 min read · 30,122 words- 0:00 – 3:37
Made Here: American-made beer, socks, and the Uncle Sam branding debate
- JRJoe Rogan
(drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- NANarrator
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- SEScott Eastwood
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music)
- JRJoe Rogan
Cheers, sir.
- SEScott Eastwood
Hey.
- JRJoe Rogan
Crack one of these open.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, are these your beers? You make your own beer?
- SEScott Eastwood
We, we make our own beer. I don't actually make it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do...
- SEScott Eastwood
But-
- JRJoe Rogan
But someone-
- SEScott Eastwood
Someone makes it.
- JRJoe Rogan
... connected to you and your company makes it.
- SEScott Eastwood
E- exactly. It's called Made Here, and every part about the process is made in America.
- JRJoe Rogan
I have your socks.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I have your underwear too, right?
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah, yeah, I left you some stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
So what else do you make?
- SEScott Eastwood
Well, we started with, uh, socks and boxers.
- JRJoe Rogan
Cheers, sir.
- SEScott Eastwood
Cheers. Um, and then we decided we wanted to do consumables.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow, that's good beer.
- SEScott Eastwood
That's an IPA.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
We have three different kinds.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's very good.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah. I don't know if you're an IPA guy, but-
- JRJoe Rogan
I love IPA.
- 3:37 – 5:34
Diet, training setbacks, and the realities of “eat whatever” habits
- SEScott Eastwood
Are you doing-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's what it is. It's like glu- gluten-free. No, I'm not kee- not keto.
- SEScott Eastwood
You've... I heard you talk about it before.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. I mostly eat meat.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, but, uh, um, uh, latley I've been trying to cut... I, I weighed 208 the other day. It's the fattest I've ever been in my life.
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
I was like, "Jesus Christ," because I've been dealing with this back thing that you saw, that I hurt myself, uh, doing jujitsu this morning.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, I've been dealing with this to the point where I've been doing a lot of physical therapy, and, uh, over the last few weeks, I've been training pretty hard again because the back's been feeling good until this morning. But, uh, I got out of a really... Because it was just trying to let everything relax, but I did not get out of a food rhythm.
- SEScott Eastwood
Hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
My food rhythm went... I just... I, when I ch- work out hard, I eat whatever the fuck I want, but when I'm not working out hard and I eat whatever the fuck I want, I just start getting fat face. I start, I start chipmunking up.
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I see this, this starts getting fat, and then I start getting the, uh, above the dick fat. You know what I mean?
- SEScott Eastwood
Ooh.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know that?
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah, no one likes that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, where I could like... and I always get this fat here.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah. But you know what the other side of that is? Sometimes if you get too skinny, then you're like a little gaunt.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm, right.
- SEScott Eastwood
And that doesn't look good either.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Um, it's probably better for you though.
- SEScott Eastwood
Probably.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't want to get too skinny, but I like being lean. I like being healthy. I'm, I'm really at my best when I'm like 195. When I'm 195 to 200, I'm okay, but when I get 205 to 208 and-
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... I'm just... Dude, I'm a glutton. I got a real problem.
- SEScott Eastwood
Just like the stuff, the things.
- JRJoe Rogan
I fucking eat, dude. I eat way too much. I have a real problem.
- 5:34 – 7:37
Fast food wars and Austin culture talk: In-N-Out, Whataburger, Five Guys, and P. Terry’s
- SEScott Eastwood
But if you go to like In-N-Out, then you get like two and you don't feel bad. You get them protein style.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- SEScott Eastwood
That's not bad.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a good move.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I heard In-N-Out out here is not as good.
- SEScott Eastwood
I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
Somebody told me it's not as good.
- SEScott Eastwood
I feel like it's as good.
- JRJoe Rogan
But that's a thing they say, like people... (laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
That's a Cali- That's a California thing to say.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's one of those Whataburger enthusiasts, they'll tell you.
- SEScott Eastwood
Ah, of course.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know those people? Those Whataburger people are weird. It's like they're seeing life through a lens, like, "Let me wear your glasses." Like, "What do you see? What does the world look like to you? What color is the sky?"
- SEScott Eastwood
Well-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
... I feel like, (laughs) I feel like those people, and I don't know them exactly, but ... Or maybe I'm not, they're just not aware I'm friends with them, they'd be the same people who, who, like, resist change.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. Right.
- SEScott Eastwood
You know? They'll be like, "We can't have in or out here."
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro, I grew up on Whataburger. Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah. And you're like, for Austin, you know, that's a thing right now. It's like, everyone's like, "Oh, can you believe, can you believe what Joe Rogan's doing to Austin?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's so silly.
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I haven't done anything. I brought in a bunch of funny comedians and Elon Musk. You're welcome.
- SEScott Eastwood
You're welcome.
- JRJoe Rogan
He was coming ... Elon was coming anyway. I didn't bring him.
- SEScott Eastwood
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
But, uh-
- SEScott Eastwood
But even he can't afford to live here now.
- JRJoe Rogan
Pfft. (laughs)
- 7:37 – 9:41
New studio reveal and dealing with sudden mass attention
- SEScott Eastwood
Uh, the studio and this whole new thing, like, is, is really cool. I like it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Thank you. Thank you very much, man.
- SEScott Eastwood
It's like a spaceship.
- JRJoe Rogan
Thank you.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. We, uh, shout out to my boy Matt Alvarez who's out in the hallway. You met Matt, who I was making fun of his man bun.
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, that was the guy who did all this?
- JRJoe Rogan
He built this. Yeah, he's awesome.
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's great guy. And he built the ... And there's a shooting star that goes across the sky.
- SEScott Eastwood
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll go flying across like every 40 seconds or so. And then Ways2Well, uh, hired, um, these Roadside Relics fellas. Uh, my friend Todd built this for me. Look at that. Isn't that dope?
- SEScott Eastwood
That's pretty cool.
- JRJoe Rogan
I can't turn my back very good.
- SEScott Eastwood
Dude, I feel like, I feel like ... I gotta, I just gotta point this out because I feel like since the last time we spoke-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
... you have gone to the stratosphere of, like ... Po- call it whatever, podcasting, radio, being a entertaining host, and now all eyes are on what Joe Rogan says.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, it's not good. (laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
It's wild.
- JRJoe Rogan
You guys should be paying attention to other things. Um-
- SEScott Eastwood
I know.
- JRJoe Rogan
... I'm the same person.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? Well, you know what it is? It's like, what's, what's odd, I think, for them, is that an independent person, like, liter- lit- legitimately independent, who has a skeleton crew ... I mean, my crew is, um, I have a video guy, I have a booking guy, I have powerful Jamie, and, and that's it. That's the whole crew.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, and then it, it reaches some preposterous number of human beings.
- SEScott Eastwood
What does that, what does that feel like when they just use you as, like, clickbait?
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh ... It's not good. It doesn't feel good if I pay attention to it, but I don't pay attention to it.
- SEScott Eastwood
Smart.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. I go, "Pfft, so what are you saying? Fauci's commenting on me? Why is he talking about me? What are you doing?"
- 9:41 – 16:20
Celebrity, royalty, and why fame distorts whose opinions matter
- SEScott Eastwood
Sure. I even saw, like, the other day ... I mean, you know, I was thinking about coming on your show, and I was like, "Oh, wow, this is, like, crazy 'cause he's, he's the, the center of the stratosphere, it seems like, what people are talking about." And I was like, I, I saw something about Prince Harry contenting on you.
- JRJoe Rogan
"Prince Harry went over me!" I was like, "Prince Harry, guess what? You're in my act now. Whoops." (laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I was like-
- SEScott Eastwood
That's a, kind of a dumb move for him to say anything. I was like, "Yeah."
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, Prince Harry's a silly fella. I'm sure he's a nice guy. I'm sure he's a nice guy.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I wouldn't wanna be Prince Harry. I wouldn't b- wouldn't wanna be someone who is famous for being a part of a royal family. So you're literally famous for no reason. You're famous f- through ... It's not you're famous from, for your perspective or your, your, your work or some- something you've created.
- SEScott Eastwood
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
You're, you're just literally famous because you're attached to a monarchy. And you're atta- you're literally attached to one of the strangest situations, where people are worshiping the ancestors of people who suppressed their ancestors.
- SEScott Eastwood
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, that's what it is. I mean, I'm not saying that they're bad people, the royal family in England. I'm not saying they're bad people, but-
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... if you go back in time, you'll find some bad people who did some horrible shit. I mean, that's what Robin Hood's all about, right?
- SEScott Eastwood
And that's why we got out, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
I mean, that's why America is America.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Well, I, my family came from Italy and Ireland. But yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
But-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
... they got out.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
But I'm just saying that's why this country ... We broke away from them.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
We're like, "Screw you guys. We're not listening to some people over here telling us what to do."
- JRJoe Rogan
Exactly. Well, even over there, they gave up on them. They're just, they're just sort of a figurehead.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right?
- SEScott Eastwood
I mean, it's weird, the, like, thinking ... The whole royal thing is a weird thing. Like, any elitist thing is a weird ...
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- 16:20 – 19:41
Modern comfort vs pioneer hardship—and the acceleration of tech and travel
- JRJoe Rogan
Depending on the character of the human that he gets involved with. I think he'd, he'd have to get involved with someone who understands how to work hard and struggle. Like someone who unders- ... who, uh, uh, like a strong character-
- SEScott Eastwood
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... someone who has like a strong will, like someone who, um, who knows how to do things, get things done, 'cause some people are overwhelmed by anything difficult, you know, bec- ... And I think that's the way society has sort of set us up because if you look at, like, modern society, it's really easy to get food, it's really easy to get some kind of employment for most people. It's really easy to survive. Medicine is readily available if you, I mean-
- SEScott Eastwood
In America.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. In America.
- SEScott Eastwood
In America.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Or, uh, good point. Our society right here-
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... in America. And this is just relatively speaking. Of course people can get very ill. Of course people can die. Of course people can be in poverty. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is comparatively, when you look at the rest of human history, it's really easy to survive today. So human beings are not as, not as comfortable or not as accustomed to like severe adversity as we have been throughout all of human history.
- SEScott Eastwood
Sure. Like running from a lion.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Or even-
- SEScott Eastwood
Like getting up in the morning and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, I was looking at some pictures of pioneers the other day. There were some old black and white, like where the people had to stand still and they're ka-toosh-
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and they did that thing. And the looks in these people's faces-
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... the hardships that they must have faced and-
- SEScott Eastwood
Sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
... this, this house they built out of trees behind them and then this, the ... You want to talk about gaunt?
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like, bro, these people barely had enough food to keep the heart ticking.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know? They were all like real skinny or real (grumbles) you know, like just-
- SEScott Eastwood
No, I think about that a lot. I think about how we're so lucky right now in this point in history.
- JVJamie Vernon
And, and not that they weren't lucky and, and probably they didn't know any better and they were like, "This is great. My life's happy if, you know, if I was able to get shelter and food." But we can get on a plane and go anywhere in the world in twen- less than 24 hours. That's insane.
- JRJoe Rogan
Insane.
- JVJamie Vernon
And that happened over the course of 50 years, we mastered flying, which is-
- JRJoe Rogan
Nuts.
- JVJamie Vernon
... nuts. I mean, we can go anywhere.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, not only that, it's gonna get even crazier because they're, they're developing supersonic planes.
- 19:41 – 28:33
UAPs/UFOs: Nimitz encounters, propulsion mysteries, and government disclosure
- JVJamie Vernon
Do you think that that has anything to do with ... 'Cause I just watched this 60 Minutes last night about the, the uo- UAPs or u-identified-
- JRJoe Rogan
UFOs.
- JVJamie Vernon
... you know, UFOs, but they call 'em uO- UAPs.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- JVJamie Vernon
Did you see that? Uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, unidentified aerial phenomena.
- JVJamie Vernon
Yeah. And do you think that has anything to do with it? Because ...
- JRJoe Rogan
It could. I don't ... I mean, who knows? Um, Jeremy Corbell is a good friend of mine and he's the guy who's been releasing them along with George Knapp, who's the journalist out of Las Vegas-
- JVJamie Vernon
Hm.
- JRJoe Rogan
... who was the guy who originally broke the Bob Lazar story in the late '80s. And there have been, uh ... It's, it's interesting because they're basically a go-between. It's they're getting direct correspondence from people on the inside.
- JVJamie Vernon
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, sailors, uh, com- ... Uh, like guys like Commander D- David Fravor who, who saw that Tic Tac, um, shaped, uh, object off the coast-
- JVJamie Vernon
Flying across the sky, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Off the Nimitz that went from 80,000 feet above sea level to 50 in less than a second. And-
- JVJamie Vernon
Crazy.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's crazy. They-
- JVJamie Vernon
I went on the Nimitz, by the way.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you?
- JVJamie Vernon
I got to go on the Nimitz for 24 hours.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- JVJamie Vernon
Fly in, land on the thing.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, my God.
- JVJamie Vernon
It was crazy. Gotta go.
- JRJoe Rogan
Does it ... Th- So it c- Like, a wire catches the jet?
- JVJamie Vernon
Full wire catches the jet.
- JRJoe Rogan
Fuck.
- JVJamie Vernon
The whole thing. Land there, get off, go hang with all the crew. I mean, th- It's a full city. It is a floating city. They have a dentist office. They have an infirmary. They have an ER. They have ... You know, they can do anything. They have f- And it's fully nuclear-powered.
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- JVJamie Vernon
So the thing can last, like, 50 years or something without getting refueled.
- JRJoe Rogan
Whoa. That is crazy.
- 28:33 – 38:10
Sharks, drones, and ocean ethics: overfishing, whaling loopholes, and wildlife regulation
- JRJoe Rogan
Could be.
- SEScott Eastwood
... it's kind of like I see all these shark videos, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you see that recent one?
- SEScott Eastwood
No. What's the recent one?
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God. There's one off of Massachusetts where there's a bunch of tourists on a boat.
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God. This thing is so big.
- SEScott Eastwood
So big.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's so big. It's like a 15-foot-long great white.
- SEScott Eastwood
Ugh.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's swimming through the water right next to them.
- SEScott Eastwood
They're so... And they're so wide too.
- JRJoe Rogan
Dude, this is... This is a wild one because the guy who's, uh, filming is like, "Holy shit." Like, you, you can see this thing swimming in the water while there's like, you know, 50 people in this boat watching it.
- SEScott Eastwood
You see, I think though... I think a lot of it-
- JRJoe Rogan
You got a-
- SEScott Eastwood
I think they've been there for a long time. I think they've been there for a long time, and we just have more cameras. I don't think there's any more sharks. I mean, maybe because we're not... we're not hunting them as much, but I... It feels like there's just more cameras.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's the case for sharks for sure because of drone technology. Like, one of the things they've done off the coast of Malibu is there's a bunch of people surfing.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And they're having a good time. "Yeah, man, taking in the waves."
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
And then you look, like, 100 yards off and there's a great white swimming around. They have... They're completely oblivious.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
They have no idea.
- SEScott Eastwood
I'm a surfer, so I get that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you s- Where do you surf?
- SEScott Eastwood
Uh, well, I surf all over. I actually just got back from Mexico. I was down there just on a surf trip at the very bottom of Mexico on the border of Guatemala.
- JRJoe Rogan
Are there sharks out there?
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, yeah. I mean, you don't see-
- JRJoe Rogan
You're cool-
- SEScott Eastwood
... you don't see them.
- 38:10 – 46:58
Orcas up close, bear attacks, and the brutal logic of nature
- SEScott Eastwood
So, I s- I ... It's actually on my Instagram, uh, from a while ago, Jimmy. But, uh, I paddled out in near-southern Baja and ... On a paddleboard with my buddy because we saw some killer whales. And we're like, "Yeah, let's just go paddle out there and see." And my buddy starts making whale noises. And I'm, I'm sort of like (laughs) , "Okay, dude. Okay, ha ha." Like, "Ha, you're gonna get them. They're gonna come back." They make a U-turn. (gasps) A mom and a baby orca combed up to us. We're on an inflatable paddleboard.
- JRJoe Rogan
Is this you guys?
- SEScott Eastwood
Yep, this is it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, my God.
- SEScott Eastwood
And they-
- JRJoe Rogan
Whoa, that's crazy.
- SEScott Eastwood
Uh-huh.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, my God (laughs) , they're under you.
- SEScott Eastwood
And so, and so at this point I, uh, uh, now, like, I'm like, "Oh my God, this is so cool."
- NANarrator
And then they sw-
- SEScott Eastwood
And then I freak out because then I'm like, "Hey bro-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
... stop. You can't ... Now we're the prey."
- JRJoe Rogan
You don't even have life vests on. (laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
We're the prey. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's incredible. I wanna hear these fucking news people talk about it. "Incredible."
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
"Scott Eastwood off the coast of Mexico, spots a killer whale."
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs) That's, that's ... I think that's what they said.
- JRJoe Rogan
My favorite, um, broadcast moment of all time was like, one of ... It was one of these guys that's doing that. "He does this thing where he talks like this." And then a bee-
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... gets on him.
- SEScott Eastwood
I've seen this.
- JRJoe Rogan
Says, "You motherfucker, get the fuck off-" (laughs)
- SEScott Eastwood
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
So good.
- SEScott Eastwood
So good.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, we need like real people news. We need like a r-
- SEScott Eastwood
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, that guy just to drop all that bullshit and just b- be who you are when the bee was going after you.
- 46:58 – 1:20:09
Conflict, internet pile-ons, and the ‘Denise’ example of online tribes
- SEScott Eastwood
It's crazy though, like, to think about the things we do (bang sound) to other humans.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Horrible.
- SEScott Eastwood
The, like, the, the atrocities, just things. And we're, we're an evolved so- society at this point. We're an evolved species, kind of, not really.
- JRJoe Rogan
The most, well, really, the most evolved the world's ever known.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, the abso- look, we are n- certainly not perfect but when it comes to conflict, we are the most evolved the world has ever known because we can, we can protest this conflict. Like, look at what's going on right now with Israel and Palestine. Whatever side of the fence you fall on, and I don't wanna be political about this, but I wanna say that the world is watching and the world is watching what's happening in Gaza. The world is d- and then people have their opinions one way or the other. But everyone is aware of what's going on in a way that has, is unprecedented. Like, if you g- you wanna go back to World War II, we would get newspapers from World War II, right? We would get, they would, they would show, uh, before movies, they would show news clips when you could see what's happening overseas and people would kind of try to put together a sense of what's going on. There's n- there's no real footage when they stormed the beach at Normandy, right?
- SEScott Eastwood
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, but we know-
- SEScott Eastwood
No GoPros.
- JRJoe Rogan
We know it must've been horrific. Horrific. But now we get to see things. We get to see the iron curtain over Israel. We get to see the, the rockets flying back and forth. It's fucking crazy. We get to see things.
- SEScott Eastwood
Oh, I mean, it's, it's just nuts. Over, I mean, over what? Like what... At the end of the day-
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't understand it.
- SEScott Eastwood
... I mean, we, we're only just here for this little-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
... little blip and then it's gone. It's over. We're dust and we spend it hating each other, fighting each other. It's just, it's sad.
- JRJoe Rogan
Most of it, in my opinion, is an extreme lack of either one-on-one communication or the ability to come, to, to u- to understand each other.Like, if you're talking about countries, like it's, like China versus United States, or Russia versus United States, what... Like, we're not talking to them. We don't even know what their language sound. We don't understand what they're saying, right? If, if we had some sort of a war with China, we don't even know what their perspective is. We can't, we don't, we, we don't speak their language, right?
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah. We're all just humans. They're humans, we're humans.
- JRJoe Rogan
Exactly.
- SEScott Eastwood
We're all, we all have to do the same thing. We're all ... Inher- inherently, there's a lot of good-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
... and a lot of good people. Why can't we just come to that middle ground and go, "Okay, look, we're, we're all here existing. Let's just try to be better."?
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I think people are inherently wrapped in conflict. I think we have been since the beginning of time, because conflict is the only thing that's allowed us to survive, right? Whether it's conflict, uh, getting, you know, protecting ourselves from predators, or conflict because of, uh, raiding tribes that were trying to take what, what we had.
- SEScott Eastwood
Resources, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. We, yeah. I mean, if you're, if you're someone who's coming from a desert and you, you run into this oasis, and this oasis is filled with people that have a, an, uh, an incredible bounty of food, but they're trying to protect it, and you have children to feed, you go into war. I mean, that, that's what's happened throughout human history.
- SEScott Eastwood
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
People have always attacked the other, and especially if the other speaks some sort of different tongue that you don't understand, it's, it's easy to-
- SEScott Eastwood
So you can't find common ground-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SEScott Eastwood
... and say, "Okay, hey-"
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
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