Joe Rogan Experience #1929 - Louis CK

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(drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…
1. NANarrator
  (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.
2. LCLouis C.K.
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) Wow, it's a fucking machine.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  I never thought about sh- ... Yeah, there's a lot of shit going on over there.
4. LCLouis C.K.
  That thing in the fr- is weird.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) What, this thing right here?
6. LCLouis C.K.
  What is that?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, that's a piece of art. That's, um, uh, th- that comes from, um-
8. LCLouis C.K.
  Beeple.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Beeple. Bee- B- beeplecrap on, uh, Instagram. Beeple is a, a digital artist.
10. LCLouis C.K.
  Uh-huh.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  He puts up a new piece of digital art every day.
12. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh, cool.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  And he came in to do the podcast and he gave us this thing. That's, that's, uh, Elon Musk-
14. LCLouis C.K.
  (laughs)
15. JRJoe Rogan
  ... if he was jacked, like once genetic engineering comes along.
16. LCLouis C.K.
  I'm just gonna grab a paper towel for when I take my glasses-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, okay.
18. LCLouis C.K.
  ... because they're stupid. Oh, you know what, this is better. Okay, so oh, I didn't... Oh, sorry about that.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Glasses are brutal.
20. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah, it's a big pain in the ass. Yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  I wear reading glasses when I try to, like, look at my phone in the morning and I'm like, "Jesus fucking Christ." Every day, I'm going a little blinder.
22. LCLouis C.K.
  Yes, you are.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Every day, just like ...
24. LCLouis C.K.
  That's just the way it goes.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
26. LCLouis C.K.
  I mean, they're just such intricate little machines and they're organic, so they just start to soften on you, you know? Just the way it goes.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  I had a guy in the other day, Belal Muhammad, he's a UFC fighter who's had a, a detached retina and a detached, uh, lens on his other eye.
28. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh, no.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  On both eyes. It's like, you're talking to people like that and the game they're playing is, you know, you're punching-
30. LCLouis C.K.
  Mm-hmm.
15:00 – 30:00
Right. …
1. LCLouis C.K.
  they've never experienced.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
3. LCLouis C.K.
  'Cause usually when an audience shows, "I don't wanna hear that," people back away. But if you stay with it, they go, "I'm still talking about it."
4. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
5. LCLouis C.K.
  "I'm still talking. I'm still your friend." It's like, I'm not going, "Fuck you, people."
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
7. LCLouis C.K.
  You know, that thing? That's another cop-out.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
9. LCLouis C.K.
  "Fuck you, you pussies." You just go, "Okay, you didn't like it? Well, here's a little more about it." And they're just sitting there...
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. (laughs)
11. LCLouis C.K.
  And if you get them like that and then you can... I remember once I was in Houston and there was, uh, uh, the Houston Improv. And there's, it's pretty much a Black club. Like, it's mostly Black comedians go there. And the clientele for the Houston Improv is mostly Black people, Texas Black people. And so I went and did a weekend there. And it was a lot of my fans, but it was a lot of folks that just come to the Improv. So they, I could see in their faces that they don't know me. And there was this one table of people, they were dressed like it's Easter. Like, beautiful clothes, you know? And this woman, in like a, like a robin's egg dress and just beautiful makeup, this Black woman. I was doing this bit about pedophiles, one of the-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
13. LCLouis C.K.
  ... many pedophile bits.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
15. LCLouis C.K.
  I don't remember which one. It was the thing about that they should make doll, very realistic dolls of children for, for pedophiles to fuck.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
17. LCLouis C.K.
  Uh... (laughs) And she was just like, "Ugh!" Like, literally putting her hands up like, "Please don't!" And I just, I look at her, I looked at her with love, with sympathy. I was really playing to her now. And I'm trying to convince her that I'm not just trying to piss her off, that there's something worth hearing in here. And somehow, I don't remember what the moment was, but there was a moment in the bit where she went, "Ah, go- I get it." And then she started to laugh.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
19. LCLouis C.K.
  And I felt this relief. I think she would rather not have had the experience.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
21. LCLouis C.K.
  At all. But I don't know, I just love that so much.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
23. LCLouis C.K.
  I'm so... I love doing that so much. And then it finds, now I have a bit that she's part of, that her resistance he- helped me find all of the round edges to the bit and all of the angles. You know what I mean?
24. JRJoe Rogan
  That's one of the most fascinating things about comedy is that you really need the audience to develop it.
25. LCLouis C.K.
  You need them.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  You can't do it in a vacuum.
27. LCLouis C.K.
  No, it is the one art that the audience is your horn, that's your fucking-
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
29. LCLouis C.K.
  ... instrument.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, they're participating.
30:00 – 45:00
I need you to…
1. LCLouis C.K.
  by a company employee, and she has, like, federal power.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  I need you to put that on video. Like, like say it.
3. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah, that's what I would've done.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Say it on my phone.
5. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Say, "Go ahead."
7. LCLouis C.K.
  ... yeah. I need to know what's going on. First of all, I don't know who's right. I mean, this one guy-
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
9. LCLouis C.K.
  ... who says it's his seat and it's above his seat-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
11. LCLouis C.K.
  ... he's kinda got a point. And the other guy's got a point too-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
13. LCLouis C.K.
  ... like if that's the only space that's open.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't think it's about who's right.
15. LCLouis C.K.
  Right.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  In that situation, it's not about who's right about that.
17. LCLouis C.K.
  Right.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  It's about if somebody throws hands...
19. LCLouis C.K.
  Well, it was about one-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  ... they are now wrong.
21. LCLouis C.K.
  ... one guy was really douchey about it. Like he could've-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
23. LCLouis C.K.
  ... he could have been like, um, "There was nothing else available."
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
25. LCLouis C.K.
  Um, "Do you want, like... Is there a space over here? I'll move your bag for you."
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. LCLouis C.K.
  Like, he could've made a-
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Just so many things.
29. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah. Yeah, they could've made some sort of a considerate-
30. JRJoe Rogan
  He's probably got some at home, you know?
45:00 – 1:00:00
Yes. …
1. LCLouis C.K.
  the, the kids that were bused from Boston-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
3. LCLouis C.K.
  ... into our schools.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
5. LCLouis C.K.
  Black kids from... All Black kids from Boston who were bused into our school system. It wasn't part of that bus- busing Boston thing. It was out to the suburbs.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
7. LCLouis C.K.
  And these were kids that got up at 4:00 in the morning to go to school, you know? They were living a particular life in coming out to the suburb. And some of them were my friends. One of them was Ronnie Devoe of, uh, Bell Biv Devoe.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  No shit?
9. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah, I went to high school with him.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
11. LCLouis C.K.
  And, uh, I knew him since, like, junior high school through high school. He was a nice kid. And when he was in, what, uh, th- uh, First Edition or New h- New Edition?
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
13. LCLouis C.K.
  They used to come get him in a limousine (clears throat) , and people would say, shout racist shit at the... Bobby Brown and all these guys would be in the limousine (laughs) and-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  In high school?
15. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh, it was so racist (laughs) . It was so crazy. Yes.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Whoa.
17. LCLouis C.K.
  So, David Russell was a METCO kid, and his, uh, family's house burnt down in Boston. And a family in Newton, actually friends of mine, they had a rental unit, and they let the Russells live there, so it was like, "There's a Black family living in Newtonville." It's a big deal. And everyone was into... 'Cause it was all liberal teachers. Everybody was into like, "We're hosting this family 'cause they lost their home." So, all of a sudden, David Russell's living in Newton. He's not just going to school there. And one day, um, Mike and his group confront David Russell at the park, and they go, "Hey, listen. We... We're really happy you're here. We wanna show you this bench right here? This is your bench." And they had literally painted it black. And they painted one of the swings black. They said, "This is the Russell swing. This is the Russell bench. You can use them any time you want."
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Whoa.
19. LCLouis C.K.
  And I remember I had heard that story, and I went to the park that day, and there was a black bench and a black swing.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
21. LCLouis C.K.
  And they were there. I mean, I remember I went back when I was in my 20s, and it was still a little-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Kind of black?
23. LCLouis C.K.
  ... black paint... Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
25. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah, it was Newton, Massachusetts (laughs) . It's crazy.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Kids were latchkey kids back then.
27. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Remember those days? You would just, like...
29. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh, yeah. Parents were... They worked.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  They'd just let you out.
1:00:00 – 1:06:01
Yeah. …
1. JRJoe Rogan
  when he was in high school. He's, speaking about getting bullied in high school-
2. LCLouis C.K.
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  ... this guy picked him up and s- piledrived him-
4. LCLouis C.K.
  Hey, but I heard-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  ... slammed him on the concrete on his head.
6. LCLouis C.K.
  Was it Jon Ronson that did a documentary about him, or like a-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes.
8. LCLouis C.K.
  ... he did a thing, um, on NPR.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Jon Ronson did a thing with him where they both went to Bohemian Grove.
10. LCLouis C.K.
  Where he grew up?
11. JRJoe Rogan
  And this... No, no, Bohemian Grove-
12. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh. (laughs)
13. JRJoe Rogan
  ... is this place in California where all the elites go, and they put fucking druid costumes on.
14. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh, God.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  And they, they worship Moloch, the owl god.
16. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh, Jesus Christ.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  And, and Nixon went there, and Reagan went there-
18. LCLouis C.K.
  Nixon went there?
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
20. LCLouis C.K.
  Oh-I thought you were talking about, like-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  It's Bohemian Grove.
22. LCLouis C.K.
  ... oh, okay.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  You don't know what it is?
24. LCLouis C.K.
  Nixon and-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Bo-
26. LCLouis C.K.
  ... Reagan was there?
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Bohemian Grove is a famous place-
28. LCLouis C.K.
  Mm-hmm.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  ... where rich world leaders would meet in Northern California, and they literally worship this Moloch the Owl God-
30. LCLouis C.K.
  Mm-hmm.

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