The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #1802 - Protect Our Parks 3
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150 min read · 30,061 words- 0:00 – 1:09
Protect Our Parks returns (and immediately admits failure)
- NANarrator
(drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. (metal music)
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (metal music)
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, they're back.
- JRJoe Rogan
They, we're, we're rolling, officially.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh, nice.
- MNMark Normand
We've done it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Protect Our Parks.
- NANarrator
It's here.
- SGShane Gillis
Holy hell.
- MNMark Normand
Because we only, we have one less.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's time to protect our parks. So, from the time of Protect Our Parks, we officially have lost one park.
- NANarrator
We have lost one park.
- JRJoe Rogan
So we're not protecting shit. (laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
Ah.
- NANarrator
Oh for one.
- JRJoe Rogan
We have done zero saving of parks.
- NANarrator
Everyone says you have a big reach is wrong because-
- JRJoe Rogan
Totally wrong.
- NANarrator
... you have protected O for one parks.
- JRJoe Rogan
They did, did nothing.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, not only did it, it became a, it became the opposite of a park. They built a fucking jail on it.
- NANarrator
And they're going to-
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you do it like the jail?
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- NANarrator
I just saw signs like, "Hey, we have to tear down the rest of it too."
- JRJoe Rogan
But they're not jailing anybody.
- NANarrator
Like, fuck.
- MNMark Normand
Good point.
- JRJoe Rogan
The good thing about New York is they're letting everybody out.
- 1:09 – 3:14
Collective punishment: anti-Asian attacks, anti-Russian boycotts, and 'Freedom Fries' logic
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a wild take, right? People that think that all Asians are responsible for COVID, so you just go up to Asians and punch them. Like-
- SGShane Gillis
They're not?
- JRJoe Rogan
... when, when it gets down to the, put, the lowest level, like, reaction to a, a crisis ... Like, I see a lot of people today that are, like, really pissed at Russian people. Boycotting Russians, not letting Russian people-
- NANarrator
Right. Some restaurant here. Like, that, they're not sending money back to the cause.
- JRJoe Rogan
Russia House. Russia House cut the Russia off their name-
- SGShane Gillis
What?
- JRJoe Rogan
... and now it just says house.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh.
- NANarrator
Remember when we stopped tak- we made french fries into Freedom Fries? (laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- NANarrator
And we're like, "We're doing something."
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- NANarrator
What fucking idiots. What a dumb fucking place we live.
- JRJoe Rogan
How about the dummies that pour their vodka down the toilet?
- SGShane Gillis
Ah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay, stupid, you already bought that.
- NANarrator
Drink it.
- JRJoe Rogan
You have the money. How about have a free vodka party?
- NANarrator
Give it to a refugee.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
There you go.
- MNMark Normand
I was in Salt Lake when that, when it started, and they had, like, a law. They were like, "We're banning Russian vodka."
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh my God.
- MNMark Normand
The club owner was like, "What the fuck?"
- NANarrator
It's not state-run.
- MNMark Normand
"This is all my money."
- JRJoe Rogan
It's so dumb. Exactly. I already bought it.
- MNMark Normand
Wow.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah. What about Russian dressing?
- 3:14 – 5:22
Studio distractions and alien obsession: nukes, UFO sightings, and missile-silo stories
- NANarrator
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
What are you doing?
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey, what, how come my little sign isn't on?
- MNMark Normand
Ah, it's, uh, it's shorting out. I was off and then on earlier-
- JRJoe Rogan
It's shorting out?
- MNMark Normand
... I'll try to fix it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, 'cause it shorted a little bit.
- MNMark Normand
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm trying to f- I was pressing buttons, but it was changing the color of the UFO. I'm a child.
- SGShane Gillis
You love aliens.
- NANarrator
You want gadgets?
- JRJoe Rogan
I like gadgets. I do, I'm obsessed.
- SGShane Gillis
Not illegal.
- MNMark Normand
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm obsessed with aliens. I like them too.
- SGShane Gillis
All right.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I'm obsessed with the alien aliens from other planets.
- MNMark Normand
Yeah. What's going on with them?
- JRJoe Rogan
They co- ... I think if the, Russia starts launching nukes, I think they'll probably show up.
- MNMark Normand
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know, that's-
- NANarrator
Hey, aliens.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a wrap.
- NANarrator
It's time.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. You guys fucked this up.
- NANarrator
We've been observing for too long, we gotta step in.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
- MNMark Normand
They saw it the first time and they were like, "Well, the Japanese had it coming."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- 5:22 – 7:57
Roasting Mark’s suit and the nostalgia rabbit hole: infomercial 'free money' guy Matthew Lesko
- SGShane Gillis
The cow mutilations, they never solved though.
- MNMark Normand
They never solved them.
- NANarrator
It's complimentary to Tony's career. (laughs)
- MNMark Normand
Cut it out.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Yeah.
- MNMark Normand
I knew you were gonna come on here and be a nasty cunt.
- SGShane Gillis
You with your suits, your Batman villain.
- JRJoe Rogan
You nasty son of a bitch with your fucking bad suit.
- MNMark Normand
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
You look like the Riddler.
- JRJoe Rogan
I can't believe that suit wasn't the diddler.
- MNMark Normand
Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- MNMark Normand
You're like a Jewish pedophile.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) "Hey kids-"
- SGShane Gillis
Do you want a-
- JRJoe Rogan
"... you wanna buy some candy?"
- SGShane Gillis
You mean a Jew?
- MNMark Normand
You mean pedophile? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- NANarrator
Remember that joke?
- JRJoe Rogan
I can't believe that suit just fits you perfectly and you found it at a thrift store.
- MNMark Normand
Thrift store in New Orleans.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's perfect for you.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh, yeah.
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's like the exact size.
- MNMark Normand
It's, it's-
- JRJoe Rogan
And you're, you're an odd shape. You had to get that tailored, come on.
- 7:57 – 12:33
Comics losing control on stage: Lampanelli meltdown and the Chris Rock–Will Smith slap breakdown
- JRJoe Rogan
Lampenelli retired from... The video that went around of her having a meltdown.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was very strange.
- SGShane Gillis
That was bad.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you see the video?
- ASAri Shaffir
What was it?
- JRJoe Rogan
Somebody's heckling her and she got real serious.
- ASAri Shaffir
It's at, like a-
- SGShane Gillis
She snapped on stage.
- ASAri Shaffir
... event center.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ASAri Shaffir
Not even an event center. Like a town hall or something. Like just a...
- JRJoe Rogan
Whatever it was, it was just, she was angry. Like, you know, where a comic cl- crosses that line? They're like, "Ye."
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
"I don't need this. I don't need that shit."
- ASAri Shaffir
The Michael Richards effect. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. (laughs) There's something about... I mean, there's something about that line. Like, like when Chris Rock, when Will Smith sma- slapped Chris Rock, Chris Rock talked to Will Smith, and then he went back to the script.
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
When he went back to the script, it was like, "Oh, this is wild 'cause you're watching one of the best comics in the world bomb." 'Cause that's bomb.
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
He's de- he has to bomb. That, with that one joke, he bombed 'cause he's in an impossible situation. There's no way anyone's just gonna transition to the fact that you're doing a documentary, you know, awards, right?
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah, yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
Right, right.
- ASAri Shaffir
It's like we all just saw that. It's like if a waitress drops a tray of drinks and you're like, "And then later at the supermarket I went..."
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah. (laughs)
- ASAri Shaffir
And everyone's like, "What's wrong with you?"
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. (laughs) I mean, think about him though. Like, he's getting slapped and literally no one does anything. No one does a fucking thing. The whole room is like, staring at you. No security.
- ASAri Shaffir
It's like a funny bone.
- 12:33 – 18:51
Scientology slap theory and celebrity rumor correction (Will & Jada, Hollywood weirdness)
- ASAri Shaffir
Kevin Clancy at, at KFC Radio, he said that, um, that's a, um, Scientology thing.
- MNMark Normand
That's what I heard.
- ASAri Shaffir
They, they teach you how to slap to sh- get support for yourself if you're being embarrassed.
- MNMark Normand
What?
- JRJoe Rogan
So Chris Brown's a Scientologist?
- ASAri Shaffir
It's like they teach you how to slap. (laughs)
- MNMark Normand
Nice.
- JRJoe Rogan
Are you serious?
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
No?
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wait a minute. You're serious.
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Explain.
- ASAri Shaffir
Not researched, but real theory in Scientology-
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, I love a, I lo- I love a good no research-
- ASAri Shaffir
... in Scientology. It's that boy. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... statement.
- ASAri Shaffir
It's the... and a... Yeah. They teach you how to slap somebody if they give you an offense.
- MNMark Normand
What?
- ASAri Shaffir
That is one of the things to get, not to punch because you don't want to get in a physical fight, but to slap-
- MNMark Normand
It's humiliating.
- ASAri Shaffir
... to, to get your, uh, offense taken care of. Getting slapped is humiliating.
- MNMark Normand
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So what is that theory?
- ASAri Shaffir
I would've cried.
- MNMark Normand
Um-
- ASAri Shaffir
It's not meant to hurt. ... if I was Chris Rock, I would've been up here like... (imitates slap)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's a Scientology slap.
- ASAri Shaffir
That's the theory. Yeah.
- 18:51 – 22:11
Ticket-price chaos and beating scalpers: Chris Rock sales spike, presales, and Louie’s cash-only strategy
- JRJoe Rogan
Ticket prices went up 400%.
- ASAri Shaffir
To say, like, you did something wrong.
- JRJoe Rogan
Why is that hard?
- ASAri Shaffir
'Cause he would have to be sold out now and be at 20% sold before.
- JRJoe Rogan
No, dummy.
- SGShane Gillis
No, the price.
- JRJoe Rogan
If he sells ... If he sells a hundred tickets a day-
- SGShane Gillis
God.
- JRJoe Rogan
... now he's selling 400 tickets a day.
- ASAri Shaffir
Oh, per day. Tickets went up per day 400%.
- SGShane Gillis
I thought he- I though he said the price went up.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ASAri Shaffir
N-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, his price went up 400%?
- SGShane Gillis
Price went up.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's crazy.
- ASAri Shaffir
He just charged five times as much?
- JRJoe Rogan
What?
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, if a ticket was at $50, now it's 450.
- ASAri Shaffir
250.
- SGShane Gillis
Sorry.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that's weird.
- ASAri Shaffir
Hey, beat this.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's weird.
- SGShane Gillis
That's true.
- ASAri Shaffir
Charge more?
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, the agents get their slimy little paws all over the situation.
- SGShane Gillis
Ticket price went up 400%.
- 22:11 – 25:05
How the Comedy Store (and comedy itself) moves in waves
- JRJoe Rogan
Isn't it funny how that store goes through cycles? Like, it always has.
- SGShane Gillis
Mm-hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
It goes through these cycles. When I was back last weekend, man, it felt like a normal weekend at the store. It was mobbed.
- SGShane Gillis
Really?
- JRJoe Rogan
It was mobbed. Everybody was hanging out. It was really fun.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really fucking fun.
- SGShane Gillis
Well, that's just comedy. Comedy goes in waves.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah?
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I guess, but the store, like, really goes in waves.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, the store was, like, hot when Kinison was there, but I came there in '94, there was fucking nobody there. It was weird. There was, like, half-filled crowds.
- ASAri Shaffir
It was dead. We wouldn't start the show.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, my God.
- ASAri Shaffir
Tuesday night it'd be like, 9:00 show, by 10:30 we're like, "Should we call it? There's no one in here."
- SGShane Gillis
Damn.
- JRJoe Rogan
What year did you start?
- ASAri Shaffir
'99.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ASAri Shaffir
And it was bad.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was bad. It was bad until, like, 2002.
- SGShane Gillis
Hmm.
- JRJoe Rogan
It was starting to get better in the '90s, like, a little bit.
- ASAri Shaffir
Then it was okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then 2002 it was getting pretty good. Then 2003 and '04 it really got rocking.
- ASAri Shaffir
Hmm, it was still so-so.
- JRJoe Rogan
No, it was rocking. 2004, '05-
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... yeah, up until 2007, then I got banned. And then ... but the real comeback-
- 25:05 – 43:33
Crowd Q&A as entertainment (and disaster): wheels, prompts, and improvisation formats
- SGShane Gillis
Uh. Yeah, the Q&A is my f- I was, it's my favorite part.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) I was camera too.
- SGShane Gillis
The Q&A, he'll get fucked up-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
Died remember those days.
(laughs)
And then people will ask a question, sometimes it goes well. But everyone smiley face, "What kind of question is that?" (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) Yeah. He's like, "Ask anything."
- SGShane Gillis
And you can just, you can literally watch someone just-
- JRJoe Rogan
No. Oh, no, no. (laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
Get their whole world shattered. (laughs)
Like, uh, "I'm here to see Joe Rogan. This is gonna be so cool." It's like, "Uh, Joe, I, I-"
"What's your favorite ice cream?"
Yeah. You're like, "Shut up, pussy."
(laughs)
"I'll fuck your mother." And he's like, "Oh."
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
"Oh."
I definitely didn't say that. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You wanted questions? (laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
I didn't know what to do was watching
- NANarrator
No, you didn't say that. You didn't say that.
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
anybody's mom. I've done Q&As that I, I just assume you have to answer everything. I didn't know you could go, "Oh, that's dumb."
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, you gotta say, "That's dumb" sometimes.
- SGShane Gillis
Like, "Come on, give me a better question."
- JRJoe Rogan
You gotta be able to mock their questions. Oh, shit. (laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
I used to go there.
We used to have two, two speakers, two, um, microphones in the aisles.
- 43:33 – 45:24
Autism jokes and social awkwardness: default punchlines, eye contact, and Shane’s Civil War gaming
- ASAri Shaffir
Thank you. Autism.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ugh. One word, quicks.
- ASAri Shaffir
How much of that you got?
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ASAri Shaffir
Huh?
- JRJoe Rogan
Autism, how much you got, you think?
- ASAri Shaffir
I think I'm pretty good, like 40.
- JRJoe Rogan
40%?
- ASAri Shaffir
I'd say.
- JRJoe Rogan
Really?
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
What makes a person 40% autistic as opposed to, like, a regular person like myself?
- ASAri Shaffir
I think you have a little more, uh, so what do you... emotional intelligence.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh. So what do you do that, like, you go, "Ha, shut up." No, I'm not. That's uh, that's uh-
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... pretty good. (laughs)
- ASAri Shaffir
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
That's uh, that's a good one. Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
I think that's a, that's a good one. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey.
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
It's not bad, bad.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey.
- ASAri Shaffir
Hey.
- JRJoe Rogan
Hey, hey.
- SGShane Gillis
It was-
- ASAri Shaffir
When we went on that ski trip-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
... we're all, we're getting on the lift. This, he's wearing a fucking Dirk Nowitzki jersey and this guy, trying to be friendly, he's with his family. While we're about to get on the lift, he's like, "Oh, I thought Dirk was a lot taller than that." And Norman just goes, "Yeah, I'm gay." (laughs)
- 45:24 – 49:53
Civil War history tangent: battle tourism, Klan origins, and how big the KKK really was
- JRJoe Rogan
Let's be honest about anybody who's recreating the Civil War. They're not trying to recreate the same ending.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh, I have news.
- JRJoe Rogan
You want-
- SGShane Gillis
I love the Union.
- JRJoe Rogan
... you want the North to win?
- SGShane Gillis
I love the North.
- JRJoe Rogan
But most people, those Civil War reenactors-
- SGShane Gillis
How could the South have done it? (laughs) Like, what twisted plan they had?
- ASAri Shaffir
Hey, we won. We won, didn't we?
- SGShane Gillis
The South?
- JRJoe Rogan
Who's we?
- ASAri Shaffir
The South.
- SGShane Gillis
They're in New Orleans.
- JRJoe Rogan
In what?
- ASAri Shaffir
I'm Louisiana.
- JRJoe Rogan
In what way?
- SGShane Gillis
In what?
- ASAri Shaffir
Why, what? Didn't we win the first battle?
- SGShane Gillis
Oh, yes. You were winning.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- SGShane Gillis
No, you won a lot.
- ASAri Shaffir
Okay.
- JRJoe Rogan
What was the first battle?
- SGShane Gillis
The first Manassas or Bull Run.
- ASAri Shaffir
Thank you.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, you guys got a big victory.
- ASAri Shaffir
For the layman.
- SGShane Gillis
It was a Union skedaddle. They got outta there.
- ASAri Shaffir
Oh, that's a good one. That was a title.
- SGShane Gillis
That was the one where, like, it was outside of Washington, so a bunch of, like, senators... They thought it was gonna be fun. They showed up-
- 49:53 – 54:07
De-radicalization and meme politics: Daryl Davis, Pepe the Frog, Milo, and Twitter bans
- JRJoe Rogan
You guys ever heard of that guy Daryl Davis?
- SGShane Gillis
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I've had him on my podcast a couple of times. He's personally converted over 200 Klan members and neo-Nazis.
- SGShane Gillis
They just want friends, dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- ASAri Shaffir
They just want friends.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh, he's a big, big guy, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ASAri Shaffir
Dude.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah, he's good.
- JRJoe Rogan
A blues singer.
- ASAri Shaffir
Oh.
- SGShane Gillis
And, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
And he would, he would do these gigs. And he sat down with this guy, and he was having a drink when the guy was like, "I have never sat down with a Black man and had a drink before." He thought he was joking around. He's like, "What?" And he goes, "Yeah, I'm in the Klan." He thought it was like a joke.
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
He goes, "No, I'm serious." And he pulls out his ID card. He's like-
- ASAri Shaffir
It's Klan ID?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes.
- SGShane Gillis
Oh, I gotta get one of those.
- JRJoe Rogan
So Daryl becomes-
- ASAri Shaffir
Shaped like a triangle.
- JRJoe Rogan
Daryl becomes friends with this guy.
- SGShane Gillis
When they ask for your fucking vaccine be like, "Oh, wrong card." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- SGShane Gillis
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Daryl becomes friends with this guy.
- ASAri Shaffir
Good.
- SGShane Gillis
Yeah.
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