Joe Rogan Experience #1773 - Akaash Singh

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (heavy guitar music) Well, hey, fella. How you doing?

   3. ASAkaash Singh0:13

      Hey, buddy. How are you?

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      (laughs)

   5. ASAkaash Singh0:15

      I'm good. You're good? You seem good.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      If you stay offline-

   7. ASAkaash Singh0:18

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:18

      ... it's just real life.

   9. ASAkaash Singh0:20

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       You just have to stay offline.

   11. ASAkaash Singh0:22

       And real life is people who know you-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Yeah.

   13. ASAkaash Singh0:24

       ... and you're a great guy.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:25

       Yeah, you, you just... life goes on-

   15. ASAkaash Singh0:27

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:27

       ... as normal.

   17. ASAkaash Singh0:28

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       You know, in a lot of ways, like, all this is a relief, 'cause it's, like, just, 'cause that, that video had always been out there.

   19. ASAkaash Singh0:35

       Right.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       It's like, this is a political hit job.

   21. ASAkaash Singh0:37

       Yes.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       And so they're taking all this stuff that I've ever said that's wrong and smooshing it all together.

   23. ASAkaash Singh0:41

       Right.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:42

       But it's good, 'cause it makes me address some shit that I really wish wasn't out there.

   25. ASAkaash Singh0:46

       And you know why I'm proud of you? 'Cause I, I think comedians have, for years, done this immature thing where it's like, "We don't apologize. We say whatever we want." You can apologize if you say some wild shit-

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       (laughs)

   27. ASAkaash Singh0:55

       ... and we've all said some wild shit, and you apologize and own that it's wrong. Good for you.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       You should apologize if you regret something.

   29. ASAkaash Singh1:02

       Yes.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       This idea that you should never apologize.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      'Cause Charlie Chan, the, uh, the guy who played Charlie Chan was white as fuck.

   2. ASAkaash Singh15:08

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:08

      Like, it, it doesn't even look remotely-

   4. ASAkaash Singh15:11

      But, uh-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      ... Chinese.

   6. ASAkaash Singh15:11

      But this is also 60 years ago.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      Like, and so the, uh, the reality was, like, maybe they didn't have anybody.

   8. ASAkaash Singh15:17

      They might've not had anybody. They probably more likely didn't care in the '60s when they didn't even let Black people drink from the same water fountain or go to the same schools.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:23

      Look at that picture right next to the colored one, the one in the middle.

   10. NANarrator15:27

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       In the-

   12. ASAkaash Singh15:28

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:28

       In the... Up top in the middle. Up top in the... Right there, yeah. Click on that.

   14. ASAkaash Singh15:31

       Yeah, that's-

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:32

       (clears throat) Like, look at that.

   16. ASAkaash Singh15:33

       (laughs) That's, that's a white guy, for sure.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:35

       That's a white guy.

   18. ASAkaash Singh15:35

       Even the Asian guy is looking at him like, "What the fuck is he doing?"

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Yeah, like, "How did you get this job, bitch?"

   20. ASAkaash Singh15:39

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:40

       Yeah.

   22. ASAkaash Singh15:40

       So, they had Asian actors.

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:41

       They had an Asian guy, but the Asian guy could only be the sidekick.

   24. ASAkaash Singh15:43

       Uh, yeah, of course.

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:43

       He couldn't be the main dude.

   26. ASAkaash Singh15:44

       Of course, and that's fucked.

   27. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       Yeah.

   28. ASAkaash Singh15:46

       But we have come a long way in the last 50, 60 years, and I think we're acting like it's that. Apu is not that.

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Well, here's a more offensive one. John Wayne played Genghis Khan.

   30. ASAkaash Singh15:55

       That's so funny.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Right. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

   2. ASAkaash Singh30:00

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      It's a different kind of scary.

   4. ASAkaash Singh30:01

      The stakes feel low, probably.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      Yeah, I'm like used to scary.

   6. ASAkaash Singh30:04

      Okay.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:04

      I'm u- Like I've, I gravitate towards scary because I felt like there was more opportunities in scary-

   8. ASAkaash Singh30:08

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      ... because everybody was scared of it.

   10. ASAkaash Singh30:10

       Right, right, right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:10

       So they didn't want any of that scary. I was like, "I think I could do it." You know?

   12. ASAkaash Singh30:14

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:14

       So I would gravitate towards things that had like low percentage outcomes of success. So like when I first started doing stand-up, like my mom had just gotten used to me fighting. Like it'd been years and years of me doing that, and then all of a sudden I was gonna do something else that had a low potential for success.

   14. ASAkaash Singh30:31

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:31

       She's like, "What the fuck is wrong with you? You wanna be a loser?" (laughs)

   16. ASAkaash Singh30:34

       Dude, dude, my dad still says to me, "I would rather you be a doctor."

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       Ah.

   18. ASAkaash Singh30:38

       ... and he still to this day, he's like, "I know it's stupid. I would rather you be a doctor."

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:42

       That's hilarious. Do you know Fahim?

   20. ASAkaash Singh30:44

       Yes.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:44

       Yeah.

   22. ASAkaash Singh30:44

       Love Fahim.

   23. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Fahim's awesome.

   24. ASAkaash Singh30:46

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan30:46

       Fahim Anwar, uh, his dad wanted ... I mean, he was an engineer.

   26. ASAkaash Singh30:49

       Oh.

   27. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       He's like a legitimate engineer. Like, he's a ... Fahim's a brilliant guy.

   28. ASAkaash Singh30:52

       Yeah, that makes sense.

   29. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       And his dad wanted him to keep that job and, you know, he had eventually gotten to a point where he had enough success where he could quit the job. But he had to, like, break it to his family.

   30. ASAkaash Singh31:03

       (laughs)
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Sure, it's, but then…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      like at least gets them to get their feet wet. They-

   2. ASAkaash Singh45:02

      Sure, it's, but then after that, that's like .0001%-

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:06

      Right.

   4. ASAkaash Singh45:06

      ... of the work.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:07

      But think about what you did.

   6. ASAkaash Singh45:09

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:09

      And that would be a great service, like if, if that was taught somewhere. If like comedians put together a course where you could analyze comedy and see, like, w- what's, why is this irreverent? Why is this, uh, why is this relatable?

   8. ASAkaash Singh45:25

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:25

      Why is this, uh, like, what a- what about this kind of honesty makes it funny?

   10. ASAkaash Singh45:29

       Yeah, and I'd be curious to revisit it, because I kept stumbling upon the same lesson, which is just how everybody packaged everything. Like, I used to think, and this is why I was bombing, I would just say things that were too harsh and I would just say them bluntly. And I'd be like, "That's what Patrice does." No, it's not. If you watch Patrice, like, uh, I remember watching Elephant in the Room, and he has that joke about you can tell how, how beautiful a white woman is by how long they would look for her if she was missing.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:53

       Hmm.

   12. ASAkaash Singh45:53

       Such a funny premise. And he says, "That's a high-level white woman."

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       (laughs)

   14. ASAkaash Singh45:56

       And he points at a girl-

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:57

       That's, that's a great bit. (laughs)

   16. ASAkaash Singh45:58

       ... and he immediately calls her beautiful because then he's saying, "All right, I'm not racist. I see that this white girl is beautiful and I acknowledge her as beautiful." And she's not overtly beautiful, but he says she's beautiful because it's, he's more likable that way. Then he says to a Black girl, "Look, you think the cops would look for you if you were missing?"

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:13

       Bluh.

   18. ASAkaash Singh46:13

       Which is crazy. And then he goes, "I would look for you, but they're not gonna."

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       (laughs)

   20. ASAkaash Singh46:17

       So now he's removing himself from the as-

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       Right.

   22. ASAkaash Singh46:19

       Dude, the, the... Society's fucked up. I care. I would look for you.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:23

       Right.

   24. ASAkaash Singh46:23

       But society's fucked up. And it's so much more palatable than just sitting on that premise.

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:28

       Yeah, it's so much better. And also, there's a sort of an underlying thing where he's not really gonna look for you.

   26. ASAkaash Singh46:33

       Yeah. (laughs)

   27. NANarrator46:36

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan46:36

       He's saying he's not looking for anybody.

   29. ASAkaash Singh46:38

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       Like, we were talking about Patrice ain't going to the woods.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:02:08

   That's pretty crazy. …

   1. ASAkaash Singh1:00:00

      in the industry, who are strangely silent on this. But if it can benefit their career to bring up some shit like Apu, they're gonna, they're gonna raise all kinds of hell about this. And this is what's happening where we're from, where there's active suppression. And then we're, you know, undercutting our own free speech in this country, which I just think is wild.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

      That's pretty crazy.

   3. ASAkaash Singh1:00:18

      Like, if you're gonna be for our people, be for our people, you know what I mean?

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:22

      So, yeah, so here's, here's what they're saying. They said he... I- it- it's... Okay. It accuses a stand-up who is Muslim of hurting Hindu sentiments. The intruder was referring not to a joke-

   5. ASAkaash Singh1:00:35

      Oh, it's about a song. That's right.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

      ... Faruqui had made, but one he'd uploaded on YouTube in April of 2020. It referenced Rama, a widely worshipped Hindu deity, and his wife Sita. "'Oh Lord, my beloved has come home,' Faruqui starts, dropping lyrics from an enormously popular Bollywood song in which a wo- a woman celebrates the return of her lover. Then comes the punchline, 'Ramsay don't give a fuck about your beloved.' The audience erupts. He says...... I myself haven't returned home for 14 years.

   7. ASAkaash Singh1:01:05

      I think, yeah, I think the song is saying, he's calling his beloved, I think he's comparing his beloved to Sita.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:10

      Yeah.

   9. ASAkaash Singh1:01:10

      And he's like, "I'm like, uh, Ram," whatever, and he's like, "Ram, you don't g- care about your wife, dude."

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:15

       Yeah.

   11. ASAkaash Singh1:01:15

       I think that's the point of the joke. "Ram who gives a fuck about your wife?"

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:17

       Imagine going to jail for that.

   13. ASAkaash Singh1:01:18

       Dude, it's crazy. And I don't even, I don't even know if the joke is there anymore, but yeah, he went to jail for a month.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:25

       It's been la- deleted from YouTube, but pointed out that he's been punished already. Online commentators had sent him death threats. Two police complaints were filed against him. Hoo.

   15. ASAkaash Singh1:01:35

       Yeah, dude, that's a thing. And I don't, I don't have a solution to it. I'm not gonna act like I'm the most informed person. I just think if we're all gonna be activists over here in this business, y'all are probably smarter than me. Y'all could get on that, right? As opposed to this other shit.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:49

       That's real.

   17. ASAkaash Singh1:01:50

       That's real.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:51

       And that's, that's crazy.

   19. ASAkaash Singh1:01:52

       Yes.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:53

       And it's dangerous.

   21. ASAkaash Singh1:01:53

       It's not a microaggression, it's a macroaggression.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:55

       And this is just a joke about religion.

   23. ASAkaash Singh1:01:59

       It's a joke.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:59

       That's all it is.

   25. ASAkaash Singh1:02:00

       And I think it's more-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:02:00

       I mean, it's not even that offensive.

   27. ASAkaash Singh1:02:01

       I think it's more a joke about a song.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:02:03

       Yeah.

   29. ASAkaash Singh1:02:03

       And a joke about religion, I grew up in the South, people take that badly in um, in Texas.

Episode duration: 3:21:21