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Joe Rogan Experience #1799 - Yannis Pappas

Yannis Pappas is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He's also the host of the "Long Days with Yanni" podcast. Watch his special, "Blowing The Light," now available on YouTube.

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Jun 27, 20243h 14mWatch on YouTube ↗

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    (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. NA

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

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music)

    3. NA

      Hello, comics.

    4. NA

      Hello, Joe Rogan.

    5. JR

      When are you moving to Texas?

    6. NA

      As soon as I can.

    7. JR

      Are you thinking about it?

    8. NA

      Absolutely.

    9. JR

      Really?

    10. NA

      I'm coming down, yeah. I'll be here. That club's opening. I love Texas, I love Terry's Barbecue.

    11. JR

      How fun was last night?

    12. NA

      Last night was a lot of fun at the Vulcan.

    13. JR

      Those shows are fucking great.

    14. NA

      Really great.

    15. JR

      We're doing one of those shows every week.

    16. NA

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      It's just a, an amazing place where you can fuck around and work out and write new shit and practice in front of live audiences.

    18. NA

      Yeah, they were an incredible audience, incredible show. It was nice. Green room's nice.

    19. JR

      Yes.

    20. NA

      Private bathroom.

    21. JR

      Yes.

    22. NA

      Push your coat in, that's nice.

    23. JR

      Yes, it's fun. It's all fun.

    24. NA

      So it's a win-win-win.

    25. JR

      Yeah, it's fun, man.

    26. NA

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      It's a, it's a unique situation to be at a, you know, like a comedy scene. There was always a comedy scene here, but now it's like because of, uh, COVID, it got this new boost and, you know, so many guys moved here, and now it's flourishing, and now it's like, it's different. It's got a different feel to it.

    28. NA

      Yeah. And it's not just comics, it's people. I mean, this place is growing and growing and growing. Every time I come here, it's like, it's like watching somebody who started working out and, like, you haven't seen them in a while, and you're like, "Wow, man, you're looking good."

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. NA

      "You're looking good. You shed a few pounds, you know, and by that I mean, like, shed a few homeless people in the street. Like, they're-"

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    And Russia always seems…

    1. JR

      Khabib Nurmagomedov, who's the GOAT. He's from Dagestan. There's a ton of guys from Dagestan.

    2. NA

      And Russia always seems to have just, like, millions of people to throw at death during a war.

    3. JR

      That's the thing that's different.

    4. NA

      E- anytime you read a- about anything in history w- w- that has to do with Russian war, it's just, like, "And a million Russians died."

    5. JR

      Yeah, we had a guy on the other day that was telling us they have a mobile crematorium.

    6. NA

      Oof.

    7. JR

      So, they're just throwing their corpses into this incinerator as they ... So there's no account of how many dead. They, they don't have a real good count because they're getting wiped out. Because what he's explaining to us was that the roads into, um, Kyiv, you have to take those roads. You can't go around because the ground is all mud right now. So, if they took the tanks and all these armored vehicles off road, they would all get bogged down in the mud. So, they see them coming. So, these guys just stand on the side of the road and hide behind buildings and launch fucking missiles and rockets at these armored carriers and blow these things up left and right. So, these guys are dying.

    8. NA

      Wow.

    9. JR

      You know? But they're also killing a shitload of civilians too.

    10. NA

      That's the horrible part. That's why it's like, the people of the world should demand, like, "All right, you want Donbas and whatever the other region is, and Crimea, l- l- no civilians, no more soldiers fighting, no more kids dying. It's Putin verse Biden. That's it."

    11. JR

      Well, we lose.

    12. NA

      No, we win, dude.

    13. JR

      How does-

    14. NA

      You got that wrong.

    15. JR

      How does Biden win?

    16. NA

      He's a White Walker, dude. You don't watch-

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. NA

      ... Game of Thrones? Who you putting your money on? Jon Snow or the dude who's k- from the dead?

    19. JR

      Can you imagine if they actually made leaders fight? And the leader ... We'd have, we'd have a real problem. The Mountain would be the king of the world, from Game of Thrones.

    20. NA

      Yeah, or, or ... Yeah.

    21. JR

      He would be the king of the world.

    22. NA

      He would be g- ... Yeah.

    23. JR

      He would be our king.

    24. NA

      Yeah. That's the way it should happen though, right?

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. NA

      Shouldn't it be just, like, a commissioned fight?

    27. JR

      Well, if we had to, to ... Like, we don't have ... Like, who's the best person, the best representative of the United States? Well, you'd have to use Francis Ngannou. I mean, he's from Cameroon, but he is, uh, like, at least officially, he's the UFC heavyweight champion and lives in America.

    28. NA

      Oh, yeah, you could do ... America-

    29. JR

      He fights for America.

    30. NA

      America, we claim, yeah. Does- I mean-

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    Yeah. …

    1. NA

      cool because a lot of people turn into like bitter dicks when th- you know, they can't do all the things that they used to do. You know, go to those old f- I've spent a lot of time in nursing homes with my parents, and a lot of those people are dicks.

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. NA

      And they were probably really cool when they were able-bodied and fuckable.

    4. JR

      Maybe, maybe not. Maybe they always sucked. You know, I mean, it's... The thing about, like, getting older is li- for... The w- the biggest shift is hot women.... when a hot women goes, a hot woman goes from being a hot 25-year-old to being a completely unattractive 60-year-old.

    5. NA

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      Like, no one wants to have sex with you. Everybody wants to have s- Imagine if your personality was base, like a lot of these Insta hoes. Like, think about the fucking future that they're looking at, because if you look at them when they're 25, like, their entire existence is about, you know, videos of them doing squats from behind and, you know, inspirational quotes and music, and they're just flooded with attention. Their inbox must look like a tsunami of dicks-

    7. NA

      (laughs)

    8. JR

      ... just flying at them, right? 80-fucking-5000 miles an hour, just-

    9. NA

      It's like that scene in the Bible, (laughs) instead of frogs, it's just dicks raining out of the sky. (laughs)

    10. JR

      (laughs) I mean, if you're one of those gals that has, like, you know, there's a bunch of those gals that have, like, millions of Instagram followers.

    11. NA

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      And they're just hot as the sun and just doing squats all day and deadlifts-

    13. NA

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      ... and, and great music, and looking ahead all determined with their headphones on. And just, they absorb themselves in their phone all day long. It's like checking out how many people are paying attention to them, checking out how many likes they're getting, how many messages they're getting. When you go from that to 40 years later when you're 65, 40 years happens quick.

    15. NA

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      It really does. Doesn't seem like it happens quick, because 40 years from now, like, if you had to hold your breath, it feels, seems like a long time. But time just keeps going.

    17. NA

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      And after a while, you look back and you're 65. You're 65 and no one wants to fuck you.

    19. NA

      Well, it, I think some of that depends on culture, because I've spent a lot of time in Miami, I lived down there for a year. Those Latin women know how to keep it going. They-

    20. JR

      Well, J.Lo's a b- good example of that.

    21. NA

      Yeah. There's just something in that culture where they just keep that sexiness. Like, you'll see a grandma holding her grandkid, but she'll have, the ass will be propped up, she'll be walking like a regal 20-year-old and there, the energy, like, I want to fuck her.

    22. JR

      Really?

    23. NA

      Even though she's 70, I wanna fuck her.

    24. JR

      What's the oldest lady you would fuck?

    25. NA

      It, it depends on where. In Wisconsin, 40. (laughs)

    26. JR

      (laughs) And even then, it would be like, "Hmm, what do they do?"

    27. NA

      (laughs) Yeah. It'd be like, yeah. It just, yeah. I mean, you know, a lot of it would be weight-based, I think, also.

    28. JR

      (laughs) How rude.

    29. NA

      (laughs) Hey, I mean-

    30. JR

      Don't you know the b- body positivity-

  4. 45:001:00:00

    Yeah. …

    1. JR

      by, you know, propagandists. They were, they were trying to promote a fake narrative-

    2. NA

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      ... that he was in cahoots with the Russians, that he was a Russian agent. I mean, you heard that from all these idiots on TV over and over and over again. And now that it's been proven to not be true, not only was it proven to not be true, but it was proven that the Hillary Clinton campaign was involved with that, and that they had e- even hacked into the Trump servers. They had hired people to hack into the servers, and they were trying to push this narrative that he was in cahoots with Russia.

    4. NA

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      But I think, I think they're all messy, all these people, that d- you deal with Russia, you deal with China, there's a deal here and a deal there, and there's money being passed around. It's like th- everyone's compromised at a certain point. And I don't think you get to that position of power without being, in some way, compromised-

    6. NA

      Right.

    7. JR

      ... by your relationships.

    8. NA

      Yeah, I mean, the whole peed on the sh- hooker thing was-

    9. JR

      Hilarious.

    10. NA

      ... it was hilarious and far-fetched that that would be something they could blackmail him with, 'cause Trump just seems like the type of guy to be like, "Yeah, I peed on a hooker." You know?

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. NA

      I, you know, it's what I did.

    13. JR

      Well, they peed on him. I forget who it was.

    14. NA

      Yeah, or he peed on him. It's like, yeah, you should try it. He would probably go, "You should try it. Just warn-"

    15. JR

      But isn't he, like, a germ freak? Like, they say he's a germ freak. Like, with, that's the last thing-

    16. NA

      Yeah, he doesn't shake hands and things, yeah.

    17. JR

      Oh, he shakes hands.

    18. NA

      Oh, he does?

    19. JR

      Yeah, he shook my hand. By the way, he's got normal-sized hands.

    20. NA

      He does have normal hands.

    21. JR

      Yeah. I have-

    22. NA

      He's just a big dude.

    23. JR

      I have pretty big hands and he does-

    24. NA

      You got paws. Yeah.

    25. JR

      His hands are just, like, normal.

    26. NA

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Like, I know when a guy has a tiny hand.

    28. NA

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      You know?

    30. NA

      Yeah. Yeah, he has a-

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    Right. …

    1. JR

      less than me.

    2. NA

      Right.

    3. JR

      And he's fighting against these giant dudes-

    4. NA

      Right.

    5. JR

      ... like huge wrestlers and huge sumo guys and all, all these fucking karate guys, and he fucked everybody up.

    6. NA

      And he, he preferred if you were on top of him and in-

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. NA

      ... in an advantageous position.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. NA

      Which is wild, yeah.

    11. JR

      Go ahead, take me down. Yeah.

    12. NA

      That's where he did his best work.

    13. JR

      You have no idea.

    14. NA

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      Yeah, you have no idea what's happening here.

    16. NA

      And he used to take some headbutts too, like those-

    17. JR

      Oh my God, the Kimo fight. That was a crazy fight, 'cause that was a perfect example of a gigantic, roided-up dude, and Royce just fucking dragged him into deep water and eventually arm barred him.

    18. NA

      Yeah. I love the i- the idea of that, like a dude who looks like he could be behind a counter of, like, a Guitar World, who could just fucking choke you out.

    19. JR

      He looks like a chef.

    20. NA

      Yeah, he just looks ... (laughs) Yeah, especially with the white-

    21. JR

      My friend.

    22. NA

      Yeah, with the white outfit.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. NA

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      How would you like your steak cooked?

    26. NA

      Yeah. (laughs)

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. NA

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      It's good.

    30. NA

      Nobody looks more like a chef though than Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer. Every time I see-

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