EVERY SPOKEN WORD
150 min read · 30,001 words- 0:00 – 0:29
Cold open and studio setup: “Comedy Crime Fighter” and the cough button
- NANarrator
(drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) Comedy Crime Fighter. You don't hear it?
- STSam Tripoli
No- I hear it, there we go.
- JRJoe Rogan
You get it?
- STSam Tripoli
Bam.
- JRJoe Rogan
Bam.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah. We're in it.
- JRJoe Rogan
We even have a cough button.
- STSam Tripoli
Damn.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's, it's like a real radio show.
- STSam Tripoli
Damn. Professional, Joe.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. If you have to blow your nose or anything, press that red button.
- STSam Tripoli
Not anymore, dog.
- 0:29 – 1:11
Sam’s sobriety reset: quitting “running and gunning” for real
- JRJoe Rogan
What's happened, my brother?
- STSam Tripoli
I don't do any of that stuff anymore.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, that stuff.
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
How long, how long has it been since you did that stuff?
- STSam Tripoli
A year and eight months almost.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, so you go back, you go forth, a little bit?
- STSam Tripoli
No, no, no, dude. I, I'm, I'm clean as a whistle, dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's it. Done.
- STSam Tripoli
Nothing.
- JRJoe Rogan
How many times you quit in the past?
- STSam Tripoli
Well, I went five years with, uh, sober, and then I went 10 years just running and gunning.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
And now I'm back to, uh, a year and eight months, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
10 years of running and gunning?
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's a hard life.
- STSam Tripoli
White knuckling it, dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
White knuckling it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Literally.
- STSam Tripoli
Survive and advance, that's what I was doing.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
Thanks for having me, bro. I love you.
- JRJoe Rogan
My pla- I love you too.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, man. Good to be here.
- JRJoe Rogan
What the fuck's going on?
- STSam Tripoli
Just, uh, you know-
- 1:11 – 4:58
World War III anxiety: Pelosi in Taiwan, China tensions, and the Ukraine winter shift
- JRJoe Rogan
Are we ready to go to war with China?
- STSam Tripoli
... manifesting, bro. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
See what's going on?
- STSam Tripoli
Happy World War III Day, everybody.
- JRJoe Rogan
Nancy Pelosi's in China, they're rolling tanks around.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Have you seen this?
- NANarrator
I heard they threatened ... They're not a, not a direct threat, but they said, "If anything happens with those jets-"
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs)
- NANarrator
"... we might fire back. Keep your jets out of our area." They said something like that.
- STSam Tripoli
Ugh.
- JRJoe Rogan
That, uh, w- our jets?
- NANarrator
Yeah, there was some ... I'll look it up to-
- STSam Tripoli
All right.
- NANarrator
But like, but, but then they were saying this is not a direct threat, we're not taking this as a direct threat, this is not a threat. And I was like, oh, there's a lot of threats being said a lot in space.
- STSam Tripoli
Her and those 80-year-old sloppy tits of hers are gonna get us in trouble. Like, I'm-
- JRJoe Rogan
Why is she there?
- STSam Tripoli
I don't ... Well, there's a whole bunch to that, like has to do something with some processing chips that she has (laughs) some, like, illegal, like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at this.
- STSam Tripoli
... insider trading on or something like that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Look at this. In a banned tweet, a top state media commentator reportedly said that China could forcibly dispel Pelosi's plane and shoot it down if it flies to Taiwan. Could you fucking imagine-
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... if they blow her out of the sky?
- STSam Tripoli
It'd be crazy, dude. (laughs) And you see everybody on Twitter just telling China, you know, "Hey, if it happens, we understand."
- JRJoe Rogan
Ugh. Can you imagine if they fucking execute her?
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, it's crazy, right? Because like, I guess Russia's not happening, so they're like, "Who else can we go poke a little-"
- NANarrator
Russia is happening, though.
- STSam Tripoli
But I mean like, in terms of like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
I don't know, man. It just seems like the Ukraine is, like, just a, a complete failed state.
- 4:58 – 10:23
Proxy-war playbooks and information control: Afghanistan echoes, propaganda, and prisoners
- STSam Tripoli
And it, Ukraine r- reminds me a lot of Afghanistan and what we did there, which was like, you know, like supplying weapons and funding-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
... to like extremists there, and then drawing Russia into a, like a, a, a prolonged war-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
... to try to weaken them. And then eventually, the people we gave the weapons to and the money to, we be- make them the bad guys now, and we're like, "We gotta go solve that problem too," with like Al-Qaeda and stuff that was in-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
... at the Taliban and all that stuff, and it seems like the exact same playbook that they run over and over and over and over again.
- JRJoe Rogan
The difference is, they're making the Ukrainians look like the greatest people ever.
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs) Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
You know that, you know what I'm saying? Like Zelenskyy and his wife are on the cover of Vogue, did you see that?
- STSam Tripoli
Unbelievable, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's very strange to do that in the middle of a war, to have like a photo shoot, like a glamorous photo shoot.
- STSam Tripoli
While you're like bombing POW, like camps and stuff like that. Killing off your own ... It's like w- it's-
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you mean bombing POW camps? Who's-
- STSam Tripoli
Didn't they just bomb like a giant ... Didn't the Ukraine just bomb like a giant POW camp, I was, I was reading, and that killed a bunch of people?
- JRJoe Rogan
A bunch of Ukrainians?
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, by accident?
- STSam Tripoli
Their own people. I don't know if it was done by accident.
- JRJoe Rogan
... huh.
- STSam Tripoli
And you see that lot. So, w- basically, they blacked out the Ukraine. It was very hard to get anything out of the Ukraine.
- JRJoe Rogan
Explosion kills Ukrainian POWs held by Russian-backed forces. Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of targeting Ukrainian prisoners held in Russian-controlled territory. So, there's, it's not clear who did it.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, which side.
- JRJoe Rogan
Can you imagine being a fucking prisoner in Russia?
- STSam Tripoli
(sighs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Like this Brittney Griner situation. Imagine being a fucking prisoner in Russia. (exhales)
- STSam Tripoli
And you're like, you are basically caught in a, a war.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. You're in-
- STSam Tripoli
Like, you, you are a pawn in the war.
- JRJoe Rogan
You're a pawn, yeah. Yeah. It's crazy.
- 10:23 – 13:10
Religion, Jesus, and Sam’s “wizard” turn: reality vs perception and spiritual meaning
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you think? Do you think there was really a Jesus?
- STSam Tripoli
Listen, man. Uh, it's very weird to be a guy who used to, like, do blow and rawdog strippers-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
... and be like, "I love Jesus." But, you know, I'm really cool with the guy.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs) I'm really, it's a really weird thing to say.
- JRJoe Rogan
I don't know.
- STSam Tripoli
That, like, you sometimes, like, you pump the brakes a little bit, but, man, a big journey for me has been this spiritual thing that I've been on, and like, I think Jesus was just, like, a star seed. And I don't know, like-
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you mean by that?
- STSam Tripoli
Like, (laughs) okay, man. I think that like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Here we go. Should I smoke weed before we talk? (laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
Go for it, dude. Please, light it up, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
I feel like we're gonna get deep into the conspiracy hole.
- STSam Tripoli
I, I, well, I was talking to Young Jamie about that. He's very much into it. I was-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, Young Jamie-
- STSam Tripoli
I was impressed.
- JRJoe Rogan
... is a, a connoisseur of ze conspiracies.
- STSam Tripoli
Gets it, dude, gets it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, he does.
- STSam Tripoli
But-
- JRJoe Rogan
He gets it.
- STSam Tripoli
... I think that the universe sends people down to help send humanity in c- to help direct people and humanity in certain way and directions. And I think that's what he was. And whether he was born at this time or born way back, you know when they had that one movie that was like, "The story of Jesus is told 28 different times, and eight, or 20 different- "
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, that's called The God Who Wasn't There. That's the documentary. Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
For me, that doesn't mean that s- someone might ex- uh, someone existed, and they're just telling the same story-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
... in their own language, in their own way, but it's all the same story. And whoever that was, whenever he was here, was very special, a- and organized religion, which I have no problems with, but I think there's, you know, especially, like, the, the Vatican in Rome, hardened religion-... taken out all the kind of mysticism of it and made us take it literal, and I, that's not what I'm into. I'm into a spiritual thing and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
... the universe and energy. I'm trying to become a wizard and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Trying to become a wizard?
- STSam Tripoli
Dude, I'm trying to manipulate energy. That's the whole thing right now. I-
- 13:10 – 16:14
World Economic Forum fears: “own nothing,” private vehicles, and the control narrative
- JRJoe Rogan
What is that World Economic Forum? What is Davos?
- STSam Tripoli
R-
- JRJoe Rogan
What is that?
- STSam Tripoli
Right. Have you ever gotten into that? Dude, uh, obviously-
- JRJoe Rogan
Did you see that post? There was a post that, uh... Fuck, who, who made it? Here, I'll send it to you, Jamie. But I, uh, I pulled it aside just g- because I'm like, "Wait a minute. Did he really fucking say this?" It was, uh, a Klaus Schwab-
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... quote. It was cr- uh, attributed to Klaus Schwab saying that, um, "We need to get rid of private vehicles."
- STSam Tripoli
Oh, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Is that real? Did he really say that? 'Cause th-
- STSam Tripoli
Oh, well, I mean, they put out that video that says, "You know, in the 2030, you'll own nothing and love it." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll send it to you, Jamie. Yeah, I did see that.
- STSam Tripoli
And some guy from cast- central casting is just smiling. (laughs) Like, "You booked it."
- JRJoe Rogan
"You'll, you'll own nothing and you will be happy," that it said.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's what it said, "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy."
- STSam Tripoli
Yep.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, then, someone's gotta own it, because they're renting it to me.
- STSam Tripoli
No, you'll own nothing-
- JRJoe Rogan
So, who fucking owns it?
- STSam Tripoli
Well, not you. You won't la-... Me, I won't own nothing, but they'll own everything.
- JRJoe Rogan
"World Economic Forum urges public to eliminate ownership of private vehicles." (French accent) "Do you thinks he is riding the bus?"
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
How about his dad, bro?
- JRJoe Rogan
Is that... That's, uh, from someone, uh, Gateway Pundit. "World Economic Forum urges public to eliminate ownership of private vehicles." Did he really say that?
- NANarrator
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
That seems like a crazy thing to say.
- STSam Tripoli
Well, you know, his, it's super interesting, man, who they are and what they represent.
- NANarrator
This is a thing that came from this paper they put out-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- 16:14 – 23:49
Classic cars, Cuba’s embargo reality, and why car design became “soulless”
- JRJoe Rogan
They have, like, 1950s dope ass cars. See if you can find... Like, I know there's articles that been written on the cars of Cuba. It's-
- STSam Tripoli
Poverty makes you find ways to thrive, right? You have to figure out a way to play the game and win the game with limited resources. And that would be taking a, a, a, an old car and learning how to make it look amazing. That is kind of the game, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, for sure. That, I mean, that's always been, like, a prideful thing for people. If you, you can afford a car and you, you know, fix it up. Like, look at that, "Cars in Cuba" photo gallery, with the green car's in the center. The top li- top, uh, yeah, right there.
- STSam Tripoli
Look at that.
- JRJoe Rogan
One more over. No, you missed it.
- STSam Tripoli
That's a gorgeous car.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right there, yeah. Look at that. Look at those cars, man. That's incredible. So they do have a few modern cars. You can see that car's pretty modern. But I think part of the issue is... We could find this out. I think part of the issue is that it's hard to get cars over there. "Why is Cuba filled with classic cars?" Let's see what it says. Um, "The story of classic cars in Cuba is full of political and historical significance. Cuba has never had a car manufacturing industry, so they relied solely on automotive imports to populate the island's road, roads. Uh, during the Cuban Spanish American War, the first car ever imported to Cuba was..." How do you say that? "...la, la Parisine."
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs) I'm illiterate, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
... "Parisine from a little-known French manufacturer in 1898. However, at the turn of the century, Cuba's primary source of cars and parts was the United States." So that's what it is. Okay. "20th century, so-sha, da-da-da-da-da. By 1956, there were more than 140,000 cars in Cuba." Okay, and then, "The Cuban Revolution and the embargo is '59." And it says, uh, "Saw a change in the island's automotive industry. As old friends became foes, Fidel Castro placed an embargo on the US-"
- STSam Tripoli
Damn.
- JRJoe Rogan
"... and foreign imports."... oh, you couldn't get cars in there.
- STSam Tripoli
Any cars.
- JRJoe Rogan
Which meant no American cars were exported to the island. The embargo even extended to include car parts, which had serious implications for Cuban car owners. With no new cars coming into the country and no parts available to make repairs, car owners had," oh, "had the make a choice." I guess they, a typo. Had to make a choice. "Either let their cars rust in the garage or use what parts they had available and make repairs themselves." Wow, so they just started figuring out how to make parts, I guess.
- STSam Tripoli
How to make their own parts, man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Yeah, they needed to become a mechanic and created innovative ways to keep their cars running. Unfortunately, as the ban on American cars included American car parts, Cuban locals were forced to make repairs and restorations using parts gleaned from Russian and Chinese vehicles. Primarily, the plethora of... Oh, that's right. I, I'd heard a lot of these cars have different engines in them. Like, they don't have the original engine in them.
- STSam Tripoli
Ah. But aren't there places in, like, China that make old car parts? Like, let's say you own, like, a, a fancy old car and you need a new part, they don't make them in the regular car, uh, manufacturers. So there's places in China that make old car parts.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's, uh... I'm sure they probably do. I mean, they definitely do in America. There's a company called Year One. It's a really dope company. And Year One makes classic car parts.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, say if you have a 1969 Camaro, you can get a 1969 Camaro fender.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like a full-on replica fender. Make sure that's true. I know, 'cause I know they have a lot of stuff.
- STSam Tripoli
Sounds true.
- JRJoe Rogan
Go to Year One. It's like Year One Auto Stuff. But basically, because so many people in America love classic cars, they've developed this industry where they can, you know, give you replaceable parts. And then there's companies that, like, make you a brand new classic car. So this is, uh... Yeah. So it's all stuff that they'll, they'll make, like A body 1962 to 1976 Dodge-
- STSam Tripoli
Wow.
- JRJoe Rogan
... Duster. Let's go to that, 'cause that's a pretty obscure. Well, actually go to the Barracuda. Go to the Barracuda. Okay, so 1970 to 1974 E body Barracuda. What do they sell?
- STSam Tripoli
Mm, might not have a lot of stuff in stock right now.
- JRJoe Rogan
New or selling items? Does it say anything?
- STSam Tripoli
Is that w-... Does it have anything? Mm-mm. That would come up.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay, but what-
- STSam Tripoli
But all that stuff down there?
- 23:49 – 46:25
Wild LA storytime: Sam’s tow-truck chase and escaping via valet parking
- STSam Tripoli
I was in a high-speed car chase with a, uh, uh, with a tow truck driver and a police helicopter driving one of those, like, the, the '80s, '90s Mustang that-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
... Pablo Francisco gave me-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
... in a card game that he won. And Rita Piazza's like, "I fucking hate this car."
- JRJoe Rogan
Shut the fuck up. Really?
- STSam Tripoli
And I needed a car and she gave it to me.
- JRJoe Rogan
That's amazing.
- STSam Tripoli
And when... Like I, I was at a Laker game and me and my buddy, Scott Ross, who has a... who owns, uh, you know, 10th Planet-... in, uh, Ventura. We were going to a Laker game. We got done. I might've been partying that night a little bit but, I, I go and I go to the 7-Eleven. I, I buy some stuff. I get back in my car and I back up, and I don't see this tow truck driver had parked illegally and I hit his car. And I was like, "What should I do?" And a voice inside my head says, "Go." (explosion sound) And I'm like, "Boom!" (laughs) and I just go, right? (laughs) So we're just driving and, uh, I'm just driving. Suddenly I hear, "Er, er." I look back, this tow truck driver's chasing me. And we're just- and then all of a sudden we get into, like, this Robert De Niro, Ronin-like car chase scene through West Hollywood, all through West Hollywood. And we get on Santa Monica, and this car was like a beat-up car. It was like a, a, a junk. So he, he- this guy's so crazy, this car- tow, tow, tow truck driver. He drives up on the sidewalk and blocks all of the traffic from going, and I had nowhere to go. (taser sound) So I was like, "Fuck it, bro." I back up and I shoot the, the, the intersection. I jump the intersection, boom! And I take off. And the way I got away was I valet parked my car at The Standard Hotel and let him take me, and Maz Jobrani took me and we went down and did our weekend at La Jolla. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
That's a true story, dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
You just valet parked your car-
- STSam Tripoli
It's like, "Not mine." (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... like, "Yeah, yeah. Take it, dude." And I, I got out of there, dude. What year was this?
- STSam Tripoli
This had to be early 2000s. And I h- didn't have a car, and he gave me a car.
- JRJoe Rogan
Could you imagine what it was like if you got arrested in the '60s and there was no computers? Like, how did they know?
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs) You could get away with a lot more shit back then.
- JRJoe Rogan
I can imagine. If you're, like, you're a bank robber and you're fleeing the state-
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, for sure.
- JRJoe Rogan
... and they... How the fuck would they know if you got, like, two, three states away? How the fuck would they know it was you?
- STSam Tripoli
I think you just gotta get on one off-ramp and you are gone.
- JRJoe Rogan
I mean, h- w- did they have significantly less crime? Like...
- STSam Tripoli
Well, I mean, there were less laws, right? So there were probably less criminals. I mean-
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
... every day there's a new law. You're like, "I'm going to jail for what now?"
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. Yeah. Well, if they start making laws about this stuff, like what you can and can't own, that's when people are gonna wake up.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah. Have you ever looked into Klaus Schwab's, like, dad?
- JRJoe Rogan
No.
- STSam Tripoli
Have you ever heard of Neuschwabenland?
- JRJoe Rogan
Neuschwabenland?
- 46:25 – 53:55
Food, fasting, and the fast-food paradox: lab-grown meat, bugs, and In-N-Out hacks
- JRJoe Rogan
How'd you lose weight?
- STSam Tripoli
I did intermediate fasting.
- JRJoe Rogan
Intermediate? (laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
Or whatever it's called. (laughs) What's it called?
- JRJoe Rogan
Intermittent.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, that too. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah. Yeah, I've done that.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
I've l-
- STSam Tripoli
I did that. 40 ... I'm good for 48. I g-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
72, I'm ready to go on a killing spree.
- JRJoe Rogan
You do 48-hour fasts?
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, wow. That's a long time.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Two days?
- STSam Tripoli
I was doing 22s mostly-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
... but then I got to 48, and-
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
... I liked it, man. I was losing weight, but, man, I was getting like, "Grr."
- JRJoe Rogan
That's f- ... I think we eat entirely too much food. I mean, it's pretty evident when you look at the, the population. And when I say we, I definitely include me. I eat too much food. I like it. I'm a glutton. But if you look at the rest of the population, like, most people don't eat like us.
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
You know?
- STSam Tripoli
Well, they stretch us, uh, really thin. We're ru- we're working more than we ever have, so sometimes you gotta stop, and the only thing open is that green ar-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yep.
- STSam Tripoli
... that yellow arch, and you're like, "Oh, man, I haven't ate that in a month," and then you eat it, and your body's like, "Go fuck yourself!" (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
Now you McDonald's (laughs)
- 53:55 – 1:01:49
Sobriety, psychedelics, and ancient tripping: AA, cult risks, and the Salem ergot theory
- JRJoe Rogan
Do you have any vices now?
- STSam Tripoli
I have all the vices, bro.
- JRJoe Rogan
But I mean, like, in terms of, like, cigarettes-
- STSam Tripoli
Um...
- JRJoe Rogan
... alcohol. No alcohol, right?
- STSam Tripoli
No alcohol, no drugs.
- JRJoe Rogan
No marijuana?
- STSam Tripoli
No marijuana. Um, you know, I always question, like, at some point will I ever be able to do shrooms again 'cause shrooms kinda changed my life.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- STSam Tripoli
Um...
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you think?
- STSam Tripoli
Maybe. I mean, I'm just being honest with you, but right now I just enjoy being sober. But you know the whole story about Bill W at that one point.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
Where like he had done acid and he got-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
He wanted everybody-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
... like to do the 12 steps and then trip balls, and that was gonna be the experien- uh, the spiritual experience. And then he almost got ran out, so they're like, "Okay, no." Uh, but I'm-
- JRJoe Rogan
But isn't that interesting because boy what a much better organization it would've been.
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs) It would be interesting.
- JRJoe Rogan
It would be really interesting.
- STSam Tripoli
Saved my life though.
- JRJoe Rogan
If you, if you could do that, if you could do, like, the whole spiritual journey and then, like, work yourself into a place where you're capable of doing the psychedelic experience.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- NANarrator
... I just don't know if some people can do that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Like, wouldn't that be like the best way? The problem is, it, it's, whenever you, you got something like that, here's a problem. It gets culty.
- NANarrator
What?
- JRJoe Rogan
If you're giving people psychedelics-
- NANarrator
Yeah. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
... you know, it's already culty if you're gov- giving them a guideline to live their life.
- 1:01:49 – 1:09:35
Becoming a dad, social anxiety, and comedy after COVID: LA crowds, sensitivity, and the Store era
- STSam Tripoli
Well, you know what's interesting, Joe? So I saw you recently at Christina's party, right?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- STSam Tripoli
And the truth of the matter is, is that I was talking about this on my, my Broken Simulation podcast. I, I, I was, uh, I drove around that place like 30 times.
- JRJoe Rogan
Why?
- STSam Tripoli
Because I have, like, really bad social anxiety.
- JRJoe Rogan
What?
- STSam Tripoli
And I was just like, I was like, "Gotta go in. Gotta go in." And then I was, like, defensive-
- JRJoe Rogan
Am I on his phone?
- STSam Tripoli
... farting the whole time, right? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
So just, just, uh, just fart- farting, turning, just blowing up my car as I was driving.
- JRJoe Rogan
Just nerve farts?
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, nerve farts really bad. And then I finally went in and I was like, "Okay, I'm okay," but I have, like, really bad-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wow.
- STSam Tripoli
So, like, that's a big part of, like, why I was doing drugs too. Like, to be able-
- JRJoe Rogan
Got it.
- STSam Tripoli
... to, like, be calm into my ... to be into my, like, skin and being able to talk to people. And, like, I wasn't a good drinker. I, I never really liked drinking, but coke was just, like, every time I did blow, I felt I, like I was, like, Mötley Crüe in the "Girls, Girls, Girls" video, right? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- STSam Tripoli
Just walking through, pointing to chicks, getting weird, dude. Like, fucking rule.
- JRJoe Rogan
You felt like the man.
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah, I felt like the man.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- STSam Tripoli
And then it just, it worked till it didn't work anymore. And ...
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
And then, uh, you know, just, I had a couple things happened and then I fell back and, uh, and then just like, you know, I had, uh, two girls, and I said I had to change myself. I'm somebody's dad, which is, like, the f- weirdest thing ever for me. Like, I'll be with them at the park and I'm b- I'll look at them. I go, "I'm this person's dad, dude." Like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wild.
- STSam Tripoli
Like, it's like I, I am their mo- I'm gonna teach them their moral compass and all that stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
And like-
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- 1:09:35 – 1:41:39
COVID politics and elite mistrust: masks, succession rumors, Clinton ‘body count,’ and UFO smokescreens
- STSam Tripoli
Oh, it's not about the science.
- JRJoe Rogan
In- in California, it became a cult.
- STSam Tripoli
It's not about science. Now that, uh, uh, you know, when the conspiracy theorists have been saying the same thing now that they said at the beginning, it was, it's not about the science. It, it, and like masks, they tried to bring that back. They're like, "We might bring it back," and the Bay- uh, Long Beach, uh-
- JRJoe Rogan
Beverly Hills.
- STSam Tripoli
... Beverly Hills, and um, who else was it? Pasadena were like, "Nope, we're not taking, we're not doing masks." And they're like, "Yeah, you know what? The numbers aren't high enough. We're not gonna, we're not gonna bring back the masks." Like, no dude.
- JRJoe Rogan
(sighs)
- STSam Tripoli
Everybody says the emperor's got no clothes on. That's what happened right there.
- JRJoe Rogan
Bro, Biden survived it.
- STSam Tripoli
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
Can we end this? I mean, Jesus Christ.
- STSam Tripoli
I got a crazy story for you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Pl- more, crazier than the Nazis meeting with the aliens?
- STSam Tripoli
No, it's right there, though.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- STSam Tripoli
You sure? Okay. So, I, I, I do have this podcast called Broken Simulation, and I was interviewing a friend of mine named Jeff Hilliard. And Jeff, and when, it's, it's gonna drop this week, and he used to be a sober companion.
- JRJoe Rogan
What's that mean?
- STSam Tripoli
Okay, that means like, when people are newly sober, either like someone who loves them will send you in to like knock the, the pipe out of your hand, or-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- STSam Tripoli
... like just to make sure you don't use and abuse, or do anything like that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. So someone who goes with you so you don't-
- STSam Tripoli
Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
... fuck up.
- STSam Tripoli
Or, or if you're newly sober and you just want somebody there in case you start getting like a little froggy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- STSam Tripoli
You know?
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- STSam Tripoli
They stop you from doing stuff.
- JRJoe Rogan
Got it.
- STSam Tripoli
So, he, he, um, he, he was a sober companion, he used to go to all these hotels. And um, he wa- one of his clients at the time was a high-end escort. And this was like during the election. And he was having a conversation with her, and she was like, "One of my, one of my people that I party with is Hunter Biden." Right? And he told her before the election, this is what J- uh, Jeff says on my show, that they're gonna get his dad in by the slimmest of margins, and then they're gonna figure out a reason to get him out, and they're gonna put in camel toe Harris, and that's who they're gonna fuck, you know? (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs) They're not gonna do that.
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