Joe Rogan Experience #1751 - Brian Simpson

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) We're up, Ryan.

   3. BSBrian Simpson0:13

      We're up. We're here, man.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      What's going on, brother? Good to see you.

   5. BSBrian Simpson0:15

      It's happening.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      It is?

   7. BSBrian Simpson0:16

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      It is indeed. Cheer, sir.

   9. BSBrian Simpson0:18

      Thank you.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:18

       Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. All that good stuff. (bottles clinking) Yay. (drink slurping)

   11. BSBrian Simpson0:23

       You know why people-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       Ah.

   13. BSBrian Simpson0:25

       ... you know why people started doing that?

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Why? I don't know.

   15. BSBrian Simpson0:28

       Because during Prohibition, to n- to, it was a way to try to tell if you had bullshit alcohol 'cause if you banged it and it bubbled, then you knew it wasn't... It wasn't-

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Oh, really?

   17. BSBrian Simpson0:37

       Yeah, because people will sell bullshit alcohol.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Isn't that funny? 'Cause that's exactly what's going on with the fentanyl overdoses. The reason why fentanyl is like rampant through this country is because people are getting the shit from Mexico, because heroin's illegal.

   19. BSBrian Simpson0:51

       Oh.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       So they're getting it from Mexico. They're getting the coke from Mexico and it's laced with fentanyl, and all that stuff is, is laced, and all that's... The reason why they do it, they cut it to make it stronger so they can have less cocaine, 'cause fentanyl's cheap. And that's why all these people are dying.

   21. BSBrian Simpson1:04

       Oh, so they can transport more?

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Yes.

   23. BSBrian Simpson1:07

       Oh.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:07

       Do you know the number one cause of death between people 18 to 49 right now is fentanyl?

   25. BSBrian Simpson1:12

       That's crazy.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:13

       100,000 people died last year from fentanyl.

   27. BSBrian Simpson1:17

       Damn.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:17

       That's a real epidemic. That is a real epidemic.

   29. BSBrian Simpson1:20

       That's crazy.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:20

       Yes, it's crazy. Way more than died from COVID with the same age class.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   It's impossible. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      them all day long and you get sucked into that and then you want to compete at the level that they're at, and the only way you can do that is if you play all day long.

   2. BSBrian Simpson15:07

      It's impossible.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      (laughs)

   4. BSBrian Simpson15:09

      It's ... This is, this is another thing. I was, um, I was telling fucking Santino this, the, but I remember being at the Comedy Store and I was in the back watching the Overwatch playoffs on my, on my phone. And p- and then com- you know, comics catch you doing something nerdy, they start giving you shit like they haven't been nerds-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:26

      (laughs)

   6. BSBrian Simpson15:26

      ... their whole life. And people were giving me shit about it, like, "What are you doing?" I'm like, "This is the playoffs." They're like, "What?"

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:30

      (laughs)

   8. BSBrian Simpson15:32

      And it, and it's, it's like they, they look down on it because, you know, how, how amazed you are by something is about how far away you see yourself from being able to do it.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:42

      What's interesting too is if you were watching, like, the World Chess Championship, they'd be like, "Oh, Bryan's smart as fuck."

   10. BSBrian Simpson15:46

       Oh, right. Well, I watch that too.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       Right, but you know what I mean? Like, there's games-

   12. BSBrian Simpson15:49

       Yep.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       ... that are acceptable.

   14. BSBrian Simpson15:50

       Right, but not that. Not-

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Yeah, you could even watch, like, tennis, right?

   16. BSBrian Simpson15:54

       Tennis.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       Yeah.

   18. BSBrian Simpson15:54

       Anything, anything that people don't think they could do, right?

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       Right.

   20. BSBrian Simpson15:58

       But, but people see you, people see people playing a game and go, "Well, I play games." But it's like, no, that, this motherfucker is so much better than you at ... He is as, he is as much better than you at games as Michael Jordan is better than you at basketball.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       Yeah.

   22. BSBrian Simpson16:13

       Yeah, and you, and you ... It's hard for you to accept 'cause he's 13 years old.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:17

       (laughs)

   24. BSBrian Simpson16:17

       You know what I'm saying? And you can't-

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:18

       Right.

   26. BSBrian Simpson16:18

       ... wrap your head around the fact that he'll whoop your ass at every game you on.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:22

       Yeah, that's true.

   28. BSBrian Simpson16:23

       Yeah, these kids ain't ... They, they, like, the, the high level ... 'Cause a lotta times the, the kids, the people that are winning these tournaments and stuff, they're good at everything. They, they'll, they'll win a tournament in another game too. Or they'll get-

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:33

       Yeah.

   30. BSBrian Simpson16:34

       They get recruited, they get bought from other people, from other teams. It's, it's serious business. They're making millions of dollars.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   I c- …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

   2. BSBrian Simpson30:00

      I c-

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      He goes, "I'm a straight addict."

   4. BSBrian Simpson30:01

      I can't do it, man. The dip shit-

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      Really?

   6. BSBrian Simpson30:02

      So this, so one time I, when I was, uh, when I was deployed, we, we had our little... This was my second deployment. So by this time, we had like more comforts and shit, and we had our little six, our little 12x6 can or whatever.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:17

      Right.

   8. BSBrian Simpson30:17

      But my can... So there's pr- and there's, there's six marines sleeping in one of these things.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:21

      Fun.

   10. BSBrian Simpson30:21

       But my can had... We, we had negotiated with the locals and we had a TV.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:26

       Ooh.

   12. BSBrian Simpson30:26

       We had a Xbox, and we had a little makeshift couch that we had built and, like, made comfortable. So everybody would come in our room and, like, watch the Sopranos or play... Or come in our can and, and all that shit. And this one motherfucker, I can't remember his name. Anyway, this son of a bitch had this weird habit of leaving his dip bottles every-fucking-where, right?

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Oh, no.

   14. BSBrian Simpson30:48

       Yeah, and one day, and you know, one day, I'm sitting there, I'm drinking my shit, and I put it down by my feet.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:52

       Oh, no.

   16. BSBrian Simpson30:52

       And I reach back down and I grab it not looking. Ugh. Mouthful of dip spit.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:57

       Ugh.

   18. BSBrian Simpson30:58

       Yeah, it took three people to pull me off that motherfucker. It wasn't fair to be mad at him for real, for not paying attention. But, but I'm, I can't... It's... You know you have those events where you-

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       You can't control yourself.

   20. BSBrian Simpson31:08

       ... you relive them. Like, every time I think about it, I can taste it.

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:11

       Ugh.

   22. BSBrian Simpson31:12

       And I just... I could never dip. I could never dip. And I s- I'm still mad about it.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       I've done it. I've dipped. It g- it, um, it definitely gives you a nice little head rush, but not as good as cigarettes. Cigarettes give you the best head rush.

   24. BSBrian Simpson31:25

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:25

       It's like a, "Whoo." But, um-

   26. BSBrian Simpson31:27

       I love a cigarette before I go on stage. I don't know how I'm gonna replace that. Like right before-

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:32

       You gonna try to use a JUUL or something like that?

   28. BSBrian Simpson31:34

       God, I don't know.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:35

       That doesn't work good enough.

   30. BSBrian Simpson31:37

       No, I think you just have to stop, like-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   That's crazy, man. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      fucking killed himself. Like it was rough.

   2. BSBrian Simpson45:02

      That's crazy, man.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:03

      Yes. I have several friends that had suicidal tendencies because of some sort of a pharmaceutical drug.

   4. BSBrian Simpson45:09

      And sometimes it's the shit that's supposed to treat, treat depression.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:13

      (exhales) Yeah.

   6. BSBrian Simpson45:13

      'Cause like, I, some of the stuff that I was on before... 'Cause what, 'cause, 'cause a lot of times what happens is when you're depressed, you don't have the motivation to do anything.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:24

      Right.

   8. BSBrian Simpson45:24

      So, even if you want to die, you don't want to do. But when you start taking antidepressants, you, you're... There's a point where you're still depressed enough to want to kill yourself and you, then you have just enough motivation to fucking do it. So, when you... The most-

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:37

      Oh.

   10. BSBrian Simpson45:37

       ... dangerous time is when you first start taking them.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:39

       Oh my gosh. So, you got energy?

   12. BSBrian Simpson45:41

       Yeah. You get just enough energy, just enough motivation where you're like, "I think I could pull this off." You know?

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       (inhales) Have some of that.

   14. BSBrian Simpson45:48

       All right. Is this weed?

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:50

       Shh.

   16. BSBrian Simpson45:51

       Oh, okay.

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:52

       Of course, it is.

   18. NANarrator45:54

       What... I was looking, uh, into the lung thing. This is... Do... I don't even know if I believe it, but it's in the article, so we'll go with what it says.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:01

       (laughs) What? Lungs from pack-a-day smokers safe for transplant, study finds.

   20. BSBrian Simpson46:05

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       Study funded by?

   22. NANarrator46:06

       I know, that's where I started to get into it, but like...

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:08

       RJ Reynolds.

   24. NANarrator46:09

       It said they looked into... It said like, 13% of double lung transplant P- people were "heavy smokers", which means at least a pack a day for 20 years, maybe two packs a day for 10 years.

   25. BSBrian Simpson46:19

       (sighs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       Oh my God.

   27. NANarrator46:20

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:22

       Typically, these men smoked at least a pack of cigarettes a day for more than 20 years, or two packs a day for 10 years. Two packs a day is wild.

   29. NANarrator46:28

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       In the end, after all variables were accounted for, people who got lungs from heavy smokers lived as long and as well as those who got lungs from tobacco-free. Yeah, but you know what they're saying though? The thing is, people that get transplanted organs, they don't live that long. That's... Look, I have a good friend and he got a transplanted heart and he's a w- wonderful person, and he's on all cor- sorts of crazy medication because of this.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:07:48

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      deep danger from the moment it starts, w- the moment you start sparring 'cause they're just so much better than me.

   2. BSBrian Simpson1:00:05

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      They're just h- better. And that's the difference between Oliveira and these guys. It's like, they're all really good standing up. He's really good standing up. So there's kind of like an even playing field. But when that motherfucker gets ahold of you, you're in deep danger.

   4. BSBrian Simpson1:00:19

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

      Terrifying danger where you can't make any mistakes.

   6. BSBrian Simpson1:00:22

      It's-

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:22

      Oh yeah, 15. See? Damn, this brain is like a steel trap.

   8. BSBrian Simpson1:00:25

      That was in the article from 2020.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:26

      Occasionally...

   10. BSBrian Simpson1:00:27

       Yeah, and he's like... Yeah, it's like, the, the, it's him and Khabib are scary that way where it's like-

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

       Yes.

   12. BSBrian Simpson1:00:31

       'Cause after that fight, I went back and watched like all hi- all his highlights and all-

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

       Yes.

   14. BSBrian Simpson1:00:35

       ... 'cause, you know, you hear that. And it's like, yeah, it, it's a... There's a precision to... There's a predator-like-

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       Mm-hmm.

   16. BSBrian Simpson1:00:41

       ... like precision where he pounces on the... Like, as soon as you give him an opening-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:45

       Yes.

   18. BSBrian Simpson1:00:45

       ... it's, it's a wrap.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:46

       Well see, the thing is, Khabib can do that too, but Khabib chooses to smash you.... or what, like he, the way he says it, "Smash."

   20. NANarrator1:00:54

       Smash. Smash.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:55

       Smash. He smashes people. Khabib smashes people. But if you look at the Justin Gaethje fight, Khabib submitted Gaethje. He almost submitted him in the b- the end of the first round, and they submitted him in the second round. And the, one of the reasons why he did that, now this is supposedly, I don't know if this is true, but what they said is that, and I know this was true, that they do like each other. And that, uh, Justin actually helped Khabib cut weight, sat in with him, 'cause one of the things about cutting weight is if there's someone there talking to you, it helps you through it, especially someone ... They're, they're also managed by the same guy. So they have the same manager and they got together and w- so when they had that fight, Khabib liked him so he says, "I'm just going to submit this dude." So he got ahold of him, did his normal shit, g- g- gets his wrestling going, but then almost ... So this is the beginning of the first round. He chose to beat him in a way that he wouldn't have chosen to beat Conor. When he was on top of Conor, he's smashing his face.

   22. NANarrator1:01:44

       Yeah, he was, he was trying to hurt that motherf-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:45

       And he's going, "Let's talk now. Let's talk now." Bam! Bam! "Let's talk." Bam! Just beating the fuck out of him. See, in this, he chooses to go straight to an armbar. This is very unusual for him. But this is Khabib's respect for Gaethje as a, as a person, as a fighter, and also he can do this. He can do this. So this is the end of the first round. So he almost c- catches him at the end of the first round with an armbar, very close, but the end of the second round-

   24. NANarrator1:02:11

       Now he's just, now he's just ragdolling.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:02:12

       Yeah. He gets ahold of him, dumps him-

   26. NANarrator1:02:14

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:02:14

       ... takes his back. I mean, it's just the precision, and then he decided to go for a mounted triangle. And so when you watch him do this, he does this with such amazing control. He's, he's doing it very quickly. Look how quickly he sets this up, just, he's just deciding he's gonna do it period from the jump. Then he locks in the triangle and that's a wrap, son. That is a death triangle. Look at it. G- Justin has to tap. There is no question at all, he's going out. And the referee lets him go and, and Justin's out cold.

   28. NANarrator1:02:41

       Yeah, and like he didn't, he didn't struggle at all.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:02:42

       Yeah. He tapped and then he went out. Uh, but the way he did it, he went through him. He went right through him. I think Khabib could do that to almost anybody, e- except maybe Oliveira. I think Khabib, the guys that Khabib beat that he smashed, I think a lot of those guys he could have submitted too. I think Khabib is that elite of, especially like at the later stages of his career when he was just the GOAT. And he's, uh, arguably one of the absolute best submission artists, even though he smashes so many people.

   30. NANarrator1:03:15

       Are you talking about Khabib?

Episode duration: 3:31:34