Joe Rogan Experience #1794 - Monty Franklin

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. Oh.

   3. MFMonty Franklin0:13

      There you go. Jesus.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      That's a ... what the British would say, a proper cigar lighter. (lighter clicks)

   5. MFMonty Franklin0:20

      Was that your British accent?

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      Yeah, it was terrible. Can't tell if I'm from New Zealand, Britain, Scotland. (laughs)

   7. MFMonty Franklin0:28

      No, it was as shit. It's a ... (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:30

      (laughs) How many people, like, that don't know you're from Australia think you're British? 'Cause they, like-

   9. MFMonty Franklin0:37

      I never get it. I always get Australian.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:39

       Really?

   11. MFMonty Franklin0:39

       I've never been called anything else. Uh, maybe a ... Maybe New Zealand or, or, um, British o- once, but ...

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:47

       But that's amazing 'cause you lived in Florida for a year. That basically is another country. They don't know what the fuck's going on in the rest of the world.

   13. MFMonty Franklin0:54

       I love it. It's so funny.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       The people that stay in Florida-

   15. MFMonty Franklin0:56

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       ... Florida, it's like they ... It's like 1985 and they just said, "No, we're just gonna stay here." Everything's fluorescent and the buildings haven't been updated since ... Everything's strange. And- What part of Florida are you living in?

   17. MFMonty Franklin1:08

       We were in Orlando for a year.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:09

       Oh, okay, so that's Disneyland. That's a, that's a weird place anyway. Disney World. That's a weird place anyway because it's all Disnified.

   19. MFMonty Franklin1:15

       Yeah. It's like D- Disney ... Like, half the people work for Disney in Orlando-

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       Yeah.

   21. MFMonty Franklin1:19

       ... just walking around and stuff. It's, uh, it's a strange place. I, I, I enjoyed the time that we were there, but I'm glad that we're leaving. Sorry, Orlando.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:26

       (laughs) It's a fun place to stay during the pandemic, I'm sure.

   23. MFMonty Franklin1:31

       Yeah, I mean, everything was op- ... Well-

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:32

       'Cause they act like it doesn't ... it's not real. (laughs)

   25. MFMonty Franklin1:33

       Well, no, they ... Nothing happened there. There was no pandemic.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       (laughs)

   27. MFMonty Franklin1:37

       Everyone just lived their lives and carried on and went to boat regattas and made out with each other in the streets.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:43

       Yeah, I was talking to Stanhope and, uh ... Stanhope, by the way, never got COVID, which is amazing. Amazing. I mean, if anybody's been compromised-

   29. MFMonty Franklin1:51

       He probably got COVID 20 years ago and he's had it that whole time or something and ... (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:55

       It's a joke he has. He says he's been experiencing COVID-like symptoms for the past 30 years. But he, uh-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Wow. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      on death row, they were freed.

   2. MFMonty Franklin15:02

      Wow.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      Yeah. Because of, like, the pressure that the podcast put on these, these places where these people had been arrested.

   4. MFMonty Franklin15:09

      What do they have to gain from that? What does, what does she have to gain from-

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      They try to win, man. They wanna win as many cases as they can. They don't wanna lose. First of all, if you lose, then you open yourself up to civil litigation because if someone-

   6. MFMonty Franklin15:21

      Oh, right.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:21

      ... was wrongly accused and then j- incarcerated for years, then there's like, you know, lawsuits and all kinds of crazy shit. But there's a lot of that going on. And he has a podcast about junk science. Like, there's a lot of science that, until I talked to him, I thought was, well, rock solid. Like bite marks, when they find like, like if someone bites someone-

   8. MFMonty Franklin15:44

      Mm.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:44

      ... and they say, "Oh, these are your teeth." He's like, "They ... There is no fucking way they know if it's your teeth."

   10. MFMonty Franklin15:49

       Yeah, right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       He's like, "The tearing of, like, teeth on, on, on flesh, this is not like, uh, like, a fingerprint."

   12. MFMonty Franklin15:55

       Mm-hmm.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       You know, fingerprints are rock solid. Like, if you put a fingerprint on something ... You know, that's why you can open up your phone. I have an Android phone that I open with a fingerprint.

   14. MFMonty Franklin16:03

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       I put my fingerprint on it, bang, it knows it's me.

   16. MFMonty Franklin16:05

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       You know, th- that's not the case with a bite mark, man. That shit ... And they tried to play it off like it was. He's like, "It's not."

   18. MFMonty Franklin16:12

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       It d- (laughs) It doesn't work that way.

   20. MFMonty Franklin16:14

       You know, um ... Do you know koalas have the same fingerprints as humans and they get, uh, they get confused with them at crime scenes all the time? Like, with human fingerprints and koala fingerprints.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:22

       Whoa.

   22. MFMonty Franklin16:23

       And then they go, "Actually, we can't tell if it was the koala or that guy, so we're just gonna have to let this go," (laughs) whatever they do.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:28

       If you killed a koala and used his hands just to-

   24. MFMonty Franklin16:30

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:30

       ... open doors and shit and, and-

   26. MFMonty Franklin16:32

       Putting it up to the-

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:33

       Yeah.

   28. MFMonty Franklin16:33

       ... to the thing.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       Put the knife in the koala hand, stab somebody with it.

   30. MFMonty Franklin16:37

       "It was the koala." (laughs)
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   (laughs) But, um ...…

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      (laughs)

   2. MFMonty Franklin30:00

      (laughs) But, um ...

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      I mean, that's the one state where you, like the person ... A, a man from Florida doing something is like, "Oh, of course he's from Florida."

   4. MFMonty Franklin30:08

      Isn't it funny?

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:09

      It's the only state ... Like you can't say that about New Hampshire, you can't say that about South Dakota.

   6. MFMonty Franklin30:13

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:13

      But Florida, you're like, "Oh, fucking ..."

   8. MFMonty Franklin30:15

      The first week we, we were there I was wa- just watching the news and there was, uh, an alligator chasing people around a Wendy's parking lot that was down the street from us-

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:23

      (laughs)

   10. MFMonty Franklin30:23

       ... so we drove past to have a look (laughs) that's what was going on.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:26

       Dude, an alligator yesterday cannibalized, a giant alligator, cannibalized a six-foot alligator on a golf course-So they, they were literally watching this fucking monster eat a smaller monster-

   12. MFMonty Franklin30:40

       Really?

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:41

       ... on a golf course. Yeah. She- see if you can find that. It's wild 'cause this thing is huge.

   14. MFMonty Franklin30:47

       Some of those monstrous ones that walk across the golf course and you just think, "That is from another era, another life, another-"

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:53

       100 million years ago.

   16. MFMonty Franklin30:54

       "... Earth."

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       Look at the size of this thing.

   18. MFMonty Franklin30:56

       (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       Check, check this out. Look at the size of this fucker and he's got a six-foot one-

   20. MFMonty Franklin31:01

       Ugh.

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:01

       ... that's still alive in his mouth.

   22. MFMonty Franklin31:03

       Nah, he's just carrying his young in his mouth.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:05

       So think about how big that thing must be if that fucking thing that he's got in his mouth is six feet long. He's gotta be 15 feet long.

   24. MFMonty Franklin31:13

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:13

       That is a fucking huge ca-

   26. MFMonty Franklin31:15

       Yes.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:15

       How ... Do they say how big he is? Or she? I don't wanna be sexist.

   28. MFMonty Franklin31:20

       You shouldn't.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       It could be a girl.

   30. NANarrator31:22

       20 feet.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Eschewed. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      as described in Ken Jeremiah's book, Living Buddhas. Monks interested in self-mummification spent upwards of a decade following a special diet that gradually starved their bodies and enhanced their chances of preservation. Holy shit. They eschewed any food. I never know how to say that word 'cause I only read it. How do you say that word? Eschewed?

   2. MFMonty Franklin45:22

      Eschewed.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:22

      That's a word that I've never said.

   4. MFMonty Franklin45:24

      Eschewed.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:24

      I'm 54. I've never said that word.

   6. MFMonty Franklin45:25

      I've never seen that word.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:26

      I've seen that word, but I've, I won't- I've only read it. I've never actually said it out loud. Uh, any food made from rice, wheat, and soy beans and instead ate nuts, berries, tree bark, and pine needles in slowly diminishing quantities to reduce body fat and moisture, which can cause corpse to decay. Whoa. They also ate herbs. What is that word? Cai sad? Kai sad? Cai sad nuts and sesame seeds to inhibit bacterial growth. Holy fuck. They drank a poisonous tree sap that was used to make lacquer so that the toxicity would repel insects and prov- pervade the body as an embalming fluid. Pervade? Wow. What the fuck?

   8. MFMonty Franklin46:08

      Shit, they went on a 10-year diet to kill themselves.

   9. JRJoe Rogan46:12

      What the fuck? And turn themselves in. But you know, that was a thing-

   10. MFMonty Franklin46:15

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan46:15

       ... with the Buddha. Like, there's images of the Buddha, like the original Buddha that was like, he was starved to death. Have you ever seen those?

   12. MFMonty Franklin46:22

       No.

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:22

       They made statues of the Buddha where he was like, basically a skeleton. They're, they're weird statues and that was, uh, I guess a part of that process. See if you can find any of those, um, skeleton-like Buddha statues. How would you say it? Starved Buddha statues. But that was like, uh, a thing that they would, they would make these images of the Buddha in this state where he was, um, apparently probably going through that thing. Like, yeah, those.

   14. MFMonty Franklin46:49

       Oh. Oh, shit.

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:51

       Yeah. What the fuck?

   16. MFMonty Franklin46:51

       That's looked like something out of Indiana Jones. That's scary.

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:54

       Is he... Go, go to that Quora, um, thing. What is the emaciated body of the Buddha state- statue represent?

   18. NANarrator47:01

       Uh, they're not really good.

   19. JRJoe Rogan47:04

       Not good answers?

   20. NANarrator47:05

       They could be made by anybody, though.

   21. JRJoe Rogan47:07

       Sometimes. Well, let's see. Let's-

   22. MFMonty Franklin47:07

       (laughs) That's the beauty of the internet.

   23. JRJoe Rogan47:08

       It represents the six-year period of renunciation that the Buddha practiced from age 20 to 36, approximately 446 to 440 BC based on traditional Indian, especially, uh, Saramana belief in self-mortification before he realized the futility of extreme asceticism and renounced it as when, as well when he was on the verge of dying. So, he wised up. So, the Buddha did the same thing those monks did and- and he's like, "What the fuck am I doing?" He stopped. And just went-

   24. MFMonty Franklin47:45

       He stopped.

   25. JRJoe Rogan47:45

       "What the fuck am I doing? I'm renounce this." But look, he had gotten to the point of basically almost death. So, that practice since... Okay, so that's 446 BC. So, this, that statue was older than that. So, the statue was a thousand years old, right? It was a thousand BC, wasn't it?

   26. MFMonty Franklin48:03

       No.

   27. NANarrator48:03

       No. No, it was a thousand years from now.

   28. JRJoe Rogan48:04

       A thousand...

   29. NANarrator48:04

       So, it was a thousand AD.

   30. JRJoe Rogan48:06

       A thousand AD. Right. So, this was pre that. So, that guy was probably, he didn't get the full wire, that the Buddha bailed on him.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:53

   "I'm Batman." …

   1. MFMonty Franklin1:00:00

      the hand."

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      "I'm Batman."

   3. MFMonty Franklin1:00:03

      "Hit me, man."

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:03

      "I'm Batman."

   5. MFMonty Franklin1:00:03

      I liked him-

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:03

      That's the best part about it.

   7. MFMonty Franklin1:00:04

      No.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:04

      "I like the fake voice."

   9. MFMonty Franklin1:00:06

      No.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:06

       "I'm Batman."

   11. MFMonty Franklin1:00:07

       I didn't like ... It was silly.

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

       'Cause if you talk like normal, he'd be like, "Hey, Christian, what are you doing, man? What's with the fucking get-up?"

   13. MFMonty Franklin1:00:13

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

       (laughs) It seems like you have to have a fake voice if you're gonna be Batman.

   15. MFMonty Franklin1:00:17

       Well, he's British too, isn't he?

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:18

       "Yes." Is he Australian?

   17. MFMonty Franklin1:00:20

       No, he's British. I'd know if he was Australian. He's definitely British.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

       Oh, you would know all the Australian guys, all the big guys?

   19. MFMonty Franklin1:00:25

       There's only three. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

       J-

   21. MFMonty Franklin1:00:27

       It's-

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:00:27

       Is Gerard Butler ... Is he Australian?

   23. MFMonty Franklin1:00:29

       No, he's Scottish, I think.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:00:29

       Oh, right, right, right.

   25. MFMonty Franklin1:00:31

       But, um, no, there's Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth and that's it.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

       The crazy guy. No, the other guy.

   27. MFMonty Franklin1:00:37

       Kim Jeffries. (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:00:39

       No. Isn't that ... Who else? Isn't the fucking guy from, um, Gladiator?

   29. MFMonty Franklin1:00:46

       Oh, uh, Russell Crowe.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:00:47

       Russ- Isn't he-

Episode duration: 3:27:26