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Joe Rogan Experience #1802 - Protect Our Parks 3

Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, and Ari Shaffir are stand-up comedians, writers, and podcasters. Shane is the co-host of "Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast" with Matt McCusker.. His special "Shane Gillis: Live in Austin," is available via YouTube. Mark is the co-host of "Tuesdays with Stories" along with Joe List. His latest special, "Mark Normand: Out to Lunch," is available via YouTube. Ari is the host of "The Skeptic Tank." His most recent special, "Ari Shaffir: Double Negative," is available via Netflix.

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Jun 27, 20244h 18mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:001:09

    Protect Our Parks returns (and immediately admits failure)

    1. NA

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

    2. JR

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

    3. SG

      Yeah, they're back.

    4. JR

      They, we're, we're rolling, officially.

    5. SG

      Oh, nice.

    6. MN

      We've done it.

    7. JR

      Protect Our Parks.

    8. NA

      It's here.

    9. SG

      Holy hell.

    10. MN

      Because we only, we have one less.

    11. JR

      It's time to protect our parks. So, from the time of Protect Our Parks, we officially have lost one park.

    12. NA

      We have lost one park.

    13. JR

      So we're not protecting shit. (laughs)

    14. SG

      Ah.

    15. NA

      Oh for one.

    16. JR

      We have done zero saving of parks.

    17. NA

      Everyone says you have a big reach is wrong because-

    18. JR

      Totally wrong.

    19. NA

      ... you have protected O for one parks.

    20. JR

      They did, did nothing.

    21. SG

      Yeah, not only did it, it became a, it became the opposite of a park. They built a fucking jail on it.

    22. NA

      And they're going to-

    23. JR

      Did you do it like the jail?

    24. SG

      Yeah, right?

    25. JR

      Really?

    26. NA

      I just saw signs like, "Hey, we have to tear down the rest of it too."

    27. JR

      But they're not jailing anybody.

    28. NA

      Like, fuck.

    29. MN

      Good point.

    30. JR

      The good thing about New York is they're letting everybody out.

  2. 1:093:14

    Collective punishment: anti-Asian attacks, anti-Russian boycotts, and 'Freedom Fries' logic

    1. JR

      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-

    2. SG

      They're not?

    3. JR

      ... 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-

    4. NA

      Right. Some restaurant here. Like, that, they're not sending money back to the cause.

    5. JR

      Russia House. Russia House cut the Russia off their name-

    6. SG

      What?

    7. JR

      ... and now it just says house.

    8. SG

      Oh.

    9. NA

      Remember when we stopped tak- we made french fries into Freedom Fries? (laughs)

    10. SG

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. NA

      And we're like, "We're doing something."

    13. SG

      (laughs)

    14. NA

      What fucking idiots. What a dumb fucking place we live.

    15. JR

      How about the dummies that pour their vodka down the toilet?

    16. SG

      Ah, yeah.

    17. JR

      Okay, stupid, you already bought that.

    18. NA

      Drink it.

    19. JR

      You have the money. How about have a free vodka party?

    20. NA

      Give it to a refugee.

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. SG

      There you go.

    23. MN

      I was in Salt Lake when that, when it started, and they had, like, a law. They were like, "We're banning Russian vodka."

    24. JR

      Oh my God.

    25. MN

      The club owner was like, "What the fuck?"

    26. NA

      It's not state-run.

    27. MN

      "This is all my money."

    28. JR

      It's so dumb. Exactly. I already bought it.

    29. MN

      Wow.

    30. SG

      Yeah. What about Russian dressing?

  3. 3:145:22

    Studio distractions and alien obsession: nukes, UFO sightings, and missile-silo stories

    1. NA

      (laughs)

    2. SG

      What are you doing?

    3. JR

      Hey, what, how come my little sign isn't on?

    4. MN

      Ah, it's, uh, it's shorting out. I was off and then on earlier-

    5. JR

      It's shorting out?

    6. MN

      ... I'll try to fix it.

    7. JR

      Oh, 'cause it shorted a little bit.

    8. MN

      Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

    9. JR

      I'm trying to f- I was pressing buttons, but it was changing the color of the UFO. I'm a child.

    10. SG

      You love aliens.

    11. NA

      You want gadgets?

    12. JR

      I like gadgets. I do, I'm obsessed.

    13. SG

      Not illegal.

    14. MN

      (laughs)

    15. JR

      I'm obsessed with aliens. I like them too.

    16. SG

      All right.

    17. JR

      Well, I'm obsessed with the alien aliens from other planets.

    18. MN

      Yeah. What's going on with them?

    19. JR

      They co- ... I think if the, Russia starts launching nukes, I think they'll probably show up.

    20. MN

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      You know, that's-

    22. NA

      Hey, aliens.

    23. JR

      That's a wrap.

    24. NA

      It's time.

    25. JR

      Yeah. You guys fucked this up.

    26. NA

      We've been observing for too long, we gotta step in.

    27. SG

      Yeah.

    28. MN

      They saw it the first time and they were like, "Well, the Japanese had it coming."

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. SG

      (laughs)

  4. 5:227:57

    Roasting Mark’s suit and the nostalgia rabbit hole: infomercial 'free money' guy Matthew Lesko

    1. SG

      The cow mutilations, they never solved though.

    2. MN

      They never solved them.

    3. NA

      It's complimentary to Tony's career. (laughs)

    4. MN

      Cut it out.

    5. JR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    6. MN

      I knew you were gonna come on here and be a nasty cunt.

    7. SG

      You with your suits, your Batman villain.

    8. JR

      You nasty son of a bitch with your fucking bad suit.

    9. MN

      (laughs)

    10. SG

      You look like the Riddler.

    11. JR

      I can't believe that suit wasn't the diddler.

    12. MN

      Yeah.

    13. SG

      (laughs)

    14. MN

      You're like a Jewish pedophile.

    15. JR

      (laughs) "Hey kids-"

    16. SG

      Do you want a-

    17. JR

      "... you wanna buy some candy?"

    18. SG

      You mean a Jew?

    19. MN

      You mean pedophile? (laughs)

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. SG

      (laughs)

    22. NA

      Remember that joke?

    23. JR

      I can't believe that suit just fits you perfectly and you found it at a thrift store.

    24. MN

      Thrift store in New Orleans.

    25. JR

      It's perfect for you.

    26. SG

      Oh, yeah.

    27. NA

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      It's like the exact size.

    29. MN

      It's, it's-

    30. JR

      And you're, you're an odd shape. You had to get that tailored, come on.

  5. 7:5712:33

    Comics losing control on stage: Lampanelli meltdown and the Chris Rock–Will Smith slap breakdown

    1. JR

      Lampenelli retired from... The video that went around of her having a meltdown.

    2. SG

      Oh.

    3. JR

      It was very strange.

    4. SG

      That was bad.

    5. JR

      Did you see the video?

    6. AS

      What was it?

    7. JR

      Somebody's heckling her and she got real serious.

    8. AS

      It's at, like a-

    9. SG

      She snapped on stage.

    10. AS

      ... event center.

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. AS

      Not even an event center. Like a town hall or something. Like just a...

    13. JR

      Whatever it was, it was just, she was angry. Like, you know, where a comic cl- crosses that line? They're like, "Ye."

    14. SG

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      "I don't need this. I don't need that shit."

    16. AS

      The Michael Richards effect. (laughs)

    17. JR

      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.

    18. AS

      Yeah.

    19. SG

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      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.

    21. AS

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    22. JR

      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?

    23. AS

      Yeah, yeah.

    24. SG

      Right, right.

    25. AS

      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..."

    26. SG

      Yeah. (laughs)

    27. AS

      And everyone's like, "What's wrong with you?"

    28. SG

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      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.

    30. AS

      It's like a funny bone.

  6. 12:3318:51

    Scientology slap theory and celebrity rumor correction (Will & Jada, Hollywood weirdness)

    1. AS

      Kevin Clancy at, at KFC Radio, he said that, um, that's a, um, Scientology thing.

    2. MN

      That's what I heard.

    3. AS

      They, they teach you how to slap to sh- get support for yourself if you're being embarrassed.

    4. MN

      What?

    5. JR

      So Chris Brown's a Scientologist?

    6. AS

      It's like they teach you how to slap. (laughs)

    7. MN

      Nice.

    8. JR

      Are you serious?

    9. AS

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      No?

    11. AS

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      Wait a minute. You're serious.

    13. AS

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      Explain.

    15. AS

      Not researched, but real theory in Scientology-

    16. JR

      Well, I love a, I lo- I love a good no research-

    17. AS

      ... in Scientology. It's that boy. (laughs)

    18. JR

      ... statement.

    19. AS

      It's the... and a... Yeah. They teach you how to slap somebody if they give you an offense.

    20. MN

      What?

    21. AS

      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-

    22. MN

      It's humiliating.

    23. AS

      ... to, to get your, uh, offense taken care of. Getting slapped is humiliating.

    24. MN

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      So what is that theory?

    26. AS

      I would've cried.

    27. MN

      Um-

    28. AS

      It's not meant to hurt. ... if I was Chris Rock, I would've been up here like... (imitates slap)

    29. JR

      That's a Scientology slap.

    30. AS

      That's the theory. Yeah.

  7. 18:5122:11

    Ticket-price chaos and beating scalpers: Chris Rock sales spike, presales, and Louie’s cash-only strategy

    1. JR

      Ticket prices went up 400%.

    2. AS

      To say, like, you did something wrong.

    3. JR

      Why is that hard?

    4. AS

      'Cause he would have to be sold out now and be at 20% sold before.

    5. JR

      No, dummy.

    6. SG

      No, the price.

    7. JR

      If he sells ... If he sells a hundred tickets a day-

    8. SG

      God.

    9. JR

      ... now he's selling 400 tickets a day.

    10. AS

      Oh, per day. Tickets went up per day 400%.

    11. SG

      I thought he- I though he said the price went up.

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. AS

      N-

    14. JR

      Oh, his price went up 400%?

    15. SG

      Price went up.

    16. JR

      Oh, that's crazy.

    17. AS

      He just charged five times as much?

    18. JR

      What?

    19. SG

      Yeah, if a ticket was at $50, now it's 450.

    20. AS

      250.

    21. SG

      Sorry.

    22. JR

      Oh, that's weird.

    23. AS

      Hey, beat this.

    24. JR

      That's weird.

    25. SG

      That's true.

    26. AS

      Charge more?

    27. JR

      Really?

    28. SG

      Yeah, yeah.

    29. JR

      So, the agents get their slimy little paws all over the situation.

    30. SG

      Ticket price went up 400%.

  8. 22:1125:05

    How the Comedy Store (and comedy itself) moves in waves

    1. JR

      Isn't it funny how that store goes through cycles? Like, it always has.

    2. SG

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JR

      It goes through these cycles. When I was back last weekend, man, it felt like a normal weekend at the store. It was mobbed.

    4. SG

      Really?

    5. JR

      It was mobbed. Everybody was hanging out. It was really fun.

    6. SG

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Really fucking fun.

    8. SG

      Well, that's just comedy. Comedy goes in waves.

    9. JR

      Yeah?

    10. AS

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      I guess, but the store, like, really goes in waves.

    12. SG

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      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.

    14. AS

      It was dead. We wouldn't start the show.

    15. JR

      Oh, my God.

    16. AS

      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."

    17. SG

      Damn.

    18. JR

      What year did you start?

    19. AS

      '99.

    20. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    21. AS

      And it was bad.

    22. JR

      It was bad. It was bad until, like, 2002.

    23. SG

      Hmm.

    24. JR

      It was starting to get better in the '90s, like, a little bit.

    25. AS

      Then it was okay.

    26. JR

      And then 2002 it was getting pretty good. Then 2003 and '04 it really got rocking.

    27. AS

      Hmm, it was still so-so.

    28. JR

      No, it was rocking. 2004, '05-

    29. AS

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      ... yeah, up until 2007, then I got banned. And then ... but the real comeback-

  9. 25:0543:33

    Crowd Q&A as entertainment (and disaster): wheels, prompts, and improvisation formats

    1. SG

      Uh. Yeah, the Q&A is my f- I was, it's my favorite part.

    2. JR

      (laughs) I was camera too.

    3. SG

      The Q&A, he'll get fucked up-

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. SG

      Died remember those days.

    6. (laughs)

    7. And then people will ask a question, sometimes it goes well. But everyone smiley face, "What kind of question is that?" (laughs)

    8. JR

      (laughs) Yeah. He's like, "Ask anything."

    9. SG

      And you can just, you can literally watch someone just-

    10. JR

      No. Oh, no, no. (laughs)

    11. SG

      Get their whole world shattered. (laughs)

    12. Like, uh, "I'm here to see Joe Rogan. This is gonna be so cool." It's like, "Uh, Joe, I, I-"

    13. "What's your favorite ice cream?"

    14. Yeah. You're like, "Shut up, pussy."

    15. (laughs)

    16. "I'll fuck your mother." And he's like, "Oh."

    17. (laughs)

    18. JR

      (laughs)

    19. SG

      "Oh."

    20. I definitely didn't say that. (laughs)

    21. JR

      You wanted questions? (laughs)

    22. SG

      I didn't know what to do was watching

    23. NA

      No, you didn't say that. You didn't say that.

    24. SG

      (laughs)

    25. 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."

    26. JR

      Yeah, you gotta say, "That's dumb" sometimes.

    27. SG

      Like, "Come on, give me a better question."

    28. JR

      You gotta be able to mock their questions. Oh, shit. (laughs)

    29. SG

      I used to go there.

    30. We used to have two, two speakers, two, um, microphones in the aisles.

  10. 43:3345:24

    Autism jokes and social awkwardness: default punchlines, eye contact, and Shane’s Civil War gaming

    1. AS

      Thank you. Autism.

    2. SG

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      Ugh. One word, quicks.

    4. AS

      How much of that you got?

    5. JR

      (laughs)

    6. AS

      Huh?

    7. JR

      Autism, how much you got, you think?

    8. AS

      I think I'm pretty good, like 40.

    9. JR

      40%?

    10. AS

      I'd say.

    11. JR

      Really?

    12. AS

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      What makes a person 40% autistic as opposed to, like, a regular person like myself?

    14. AS

      I think you have a little more, uh, so what do you... emotional intelligence.

    15. JR

      Oh. So what do you do that, like, you go, "Ha, shut up." No, I'm not. That's uh, that's uh-

    16. SG

      (laughs)

    17. JR

      ... pretty good. (laughs)

    18. AS

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      That's uh, that's a good one. Yeah.

    20. SG

      I think that's a, that's a good one. Yeah.

    21. JR

      Hey.

    22. AS

      Yeah.

    23. SG

      It's not bad, bad.

    24. JR

      Hey.

    25. AS

      Hey.

    26. JR

      Hey, hey.

    27. SG

      It was-

    28. AS

      When we went on that ski trip-

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. SG

      ... 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)

  11. 45:2449:53

    Civil War history tangent: battle tourism, Klan origins, and how big the KKK really was

    1. JR

      Let's be honest about anybody who's recreating the Civil War. They're not trying to recreate the same ending.

    2. SG

      Oh, I have news.

    3. JR

      You want-

    4. SG

      I love the Union.

    5. JR

      ... you want the North to win?

    6. SG

      I love the North.

    7. JR

      But most people, those Civil War reenactors-

    8. SG

      How could the South have done it? (laughs) Like, what twisted plan they had?

    9. AS

      Hey, we won. We won, didn't we?

    10. SG

      The South?

    11. JR

      Who's we?

    12. AS

      The South.

    13. SG

      They're in New Orleans.

    14. JR

      In what?

    15. AS

      I'm Louisiana.

    16. JR

      In what way?

    17. SG

      In what?

    18. AS

      Why, what? Didn't we win the first battle?

    19. SG

      Oh, yes. You were winning.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. SG

      No, you won a lot.

    22. AS

      Okay.

    23. JR

      What was the first battle?

    24. SG

      The first Manassas or Bull Run.

    25. AS

      Thank you.

    26. SG

      Yeah, you guys got a big victory.

    27. AS

      For the layman.

    28. SG

      It was a Union skedaddle. They got outta there.

    29. AS

      Oh, that's a good one. That was a title.

    30. SG

      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-

  12. 49:5354:07

    De-radicalization and meme politics: Daryl Davis, Pepe the Frog, Milo, and Twitter bans

    1. JR

      You guys ever heard of that guy Daryl Davis?

    2. SG

      Uh-oh.

    3. Yeah.

    4. JR

      I've had him on my podcast a couple of times. He's personally converted over 200 Klan members and neo-Nazis.

    5. SG

      They just want friends, dude.

    6. JR

      Yes.

    7. AS

      They just want friends.

    8. JR

      Yes.

    9. SG

      Oh, he's a big, big guy, right?

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. AS

      Dude.

    12. SG

      Yeah, he's good.

    13. JR

      A blues singer.

    14. AS

      Oh.

    15. SG

      And, yeah.

    16. JR

      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.

    17. AS

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      He goes, "No, I'm serious." And he pulls out his ID card. He's like-

    19. AS

      It's Klan ID?

    20. JR

      Yes.

    21. SG

      Oh, I gotta get one of those.

    22. JR

      So Daryl becomes-

    23. AS

      Shaped like a triangle.

    24. JR

      Daryl becomes friends with this guy.

    25. SG

      When they ask for your fucking vaccine be like, "Oh, wrong card." (laughs)

    26. JR

      (laughs)

    27. SG

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      Daryl becomes friends with this guy.

    29. AS

      Good.

    30. SG

      Yeah.

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