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Joe Rogan Experience #1946 - Protect Our Parks 7

Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, and Ari Shaffir are stand-up comics, 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, and season two of "Gilly and Keeves," his sketch comedy series with John McKeever, is available now at www.gillyandkeeves.tv. www.shanemgillis.com Mark is the co-host of the podcasts "Tuesdays with Stories" with Joe List and "We Might Be Drunk" with Sam Morril. His latest special, "Mark Normand: Out to Lunch," is available via YouTube.  www.marknormandcomedy.com Ari is the host of "The Skeptic Tank" and "You Be Trippin'" podcasts. His latest special, "Ari Shaffir: Jew," is available now via YouTube. www.arishaffir.com

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  1. 0:002:49

    Cold open banter: sunglasses, cigars, and tour-name brainstorming

    1. NA

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (energetic music) Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.

    3. AS

      You doing heroin?

    4. SG

      Yeah.

    5. MN

      Yes. Yes, we're up.

    6. AS

      It's... And, hey-

    7. MN

      I'm the only one without sunglasses, what the fuck?

    8. AS

      It's just easy to hide behind something.

    9. MN

      I'm here alone.

    10. AS

      It's like a poker game.

    11. MN

      No sunglasses. (yawns)

    12. SG

      You gotta get 'em, bro.

    13. MN

      They're in my car. I'm not going.

    14. AS

      Have a second pair. If you want some- Call one of your goons.

    15. MN

      I just feel the f- the, the place up here with clouds. I can't see.

    16. SG

      All right, give him yours. Yours are cool.

    17. AS

      Mine are cool.

    18. MN

      They are nice? They look like Bosworth glasses.

    19. SG

      Joe would look cool in those too if he tried them on.

    20. AS

      Joe, try those on. You'd look nice.

    21. MN

      Nice.

    22. SG

      Hit vipers, dude.

    23. MN

      Like I live in Florida.

    24. AS

      Ours in Key West.

    25. SG

      Oh, yeah, with that bald head? You'd fucking bring someone to justice with that.

    26. MN

      Fuck yeah, bro!

    27. AS

      Whoa. (laughs)

    28. SG

      (laughs)

    29. MN

      Fuck yeah, bro!

    30. SG

      Yeah, you look like a bounty hunter.

  2. 2:494:05

    Florida and Key West as the ultimate escape hatch

    1. AS

      Can I get the, uh, circumcision?

    2. SG

      Florida's a good place. I was just down there.

    3. MN

      To Key West it was.

    4. AS

      Oh, shit.

    5. SG

      I'd like to be there.

    6. AS

      That's amazing.

    7. MN

      How about it, guys?

    8. SG

      Let's move to Florida.

    9. MN

      (laughs)

    10. SG

      Let's start this over and move there.

    11. MN

      Florida is where you move to when everything goes terrible.

    12. SG

      Yeah.

    13. AS

      Key West.

    14. MN

      If, like, if everything goes bad in Texas, you move to Florida. If, like, Beto O'Rourke becomes governor, and everything-

    15. AS

      What? He's got a skateboard.

    16. MN

      ... slides. He does, I'm sure. And everything slides into oblivion, you go to Florida.

    17. SG

      Yeah, you go to Florida.

    18. MN

      Florida is like the last stand before you just move to South America.

    19. SG

      And Key West is the last of Florida.

    20. MN

      Yeah.

    21. AS

      Exactly.

    22. MN

      Before you get a compound in Mexico, you go to Florida.

    23. SG

      Yeah.

    24. AS

      Key West is the jizz coming out of the dick.

    25. SG

      Yep.

    26. AS

      That's it.

    27. SG

      Yep.

    28. MN

      Mm.

    29. AS

      It's over right on the bottom.

    30. MN

      I've never been to Key West.

  3. 4:057:38

    Hemingway’s Key West house, polydactyl cats, and CTE speculation

    1. MN

      Did you go to, you go to Hemingway's house?

    2. SG

      Went to Hemingway's house?

    3. MN

      Yeah, it's pretty neat.

    4. SG

      Yeah.

    5. MN

      You see all the cats with thumbs.

    6. SG

      He ruled it. Mm-hmm.

    7. AS

      Yes!

    8. SG

      The one has seven.

    9. MN

      It's great.

    10. SG

      They just have like, the cat, they got-

    11. MN

      How does that happen?

    12. SG

      Breeding.

    13. MN

      Is it overbreeding?

    14. SG

      Breeding them on purpose.

    15. AS

      Inbreeding.

    16. MN

      Oh, on top, on purpose to make those thumbs.

    17. AS

      No.

    18. SG

      Hemingway cats, yeah.

    19. MN

      Yeah.

    20. AS

      How cute.

    21. SG

      Pretty great.

    22. MN

      That's Hemingway's cats?

    23. SG

      Yeah, we touched them, pet them.

    24. MN

      No shit.

    25. SG

      Yeah, they're everywhere. It's pretty fun.

    26. AS

      That's scary. Look how big that is.

    27. MN

      So you can... Is there like a tour of his house you do?

    28. SG

      Yeah.

    29. MN

      It's awesome.

    30. SG

      It's awesome.

  4. 7:3810:31

    Coyotes in cities: Central Park sightings and backyard predator stories

    1. JR

      Have you ever seen a coyote in Central Park?

    2. SG

      No, I've seen them in LA.

    3. JR

      Have you? They ... Apparently they have them in Central Park now.

    4. MN

      What?

    5. JR

      Yeah, yeah. There's all these photos of coyotes in Central Park.

    6. NA

      Coyotes?

    7. MN

      Maybe, like, the homeless thing.

    8. JR

      They, they're a weird animal.

    9. NA

      Up in the brambles?

    10. JR

      Like, as they get persecuted, they move out and branch out their, their territory.

    11. MN

      It's like Jews.

    12. NA

      Jews, yeah.

    13. MN

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      Yeah, I was gonna say, it reminds me of something.

    15. SG

      Yeah.

    16. MN

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Well, they were attacked by the, the gray wolves-

    18. NA

      Haven't been back to Poland in a while.

    19. JR

      The, the gray wolves and them are not related. They're the, like, the one animal ... Like, when they have chi-wolves, like, when they ... A coyote and a wolf breed, it's always a red wolf.

    20. MN

      Mm.

    21. JR

      So it's an eastern wolf.

    22. NA

      Mm-hmm.

    23. JR

      So the western wolves, the gray wolves, the ones that they killed off and then they're bringing them back 'cause they're idiots. They're bringing them back from Canada, like, (laughs) reintroducing wolves.

    24. SG

      Just letting them out in Manhatten.

    25. JR

      It's such a terrible idea, but, uh, the gray wolves used to kill the coyotes, so, so the coyotes, when the wolves were killing them, they would, uh, have more babies, so the females, whenever they do roll call and they scream out in the night, if one of them is missing, it causes the female to have extra pups.

    26. SG

      No.

    27. MN

      Oh, no.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. MN

      Whoa.

    30. JR

      It was a great book called Coyote America by Dan Flores. I, I had him, had him on the podcast.

  5. 10:3111:56

    Javelinas, wild pigs, and why their teeth are terrifying

    1. MN

      You see those monkeys?

    2. JR

      I would say the-

    3. SG

      Yeah, they're fun.

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. SG

      When me and, uh-

    6. NA

      Is that in Florida?

    7. SG

      When I was with Stanhope in ... When I was staying at Stanhope's, you know, me and him were drinking. We'd go around, like, walking around at night. There'd be fucking javelinas everywhere.

    8. JR

      Javelinas killed his neighbor's dog.

    9. SG

      And they would ... They fucked people up.

    10. MN

      For real?

    11. NA

      What's a javelina?

    12. JR

      They fucked up his neighbor's dog.

    13. SG

      This wild pig that's, like, blind.

    14. MN

      Whoa.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. NA

      Oh.

    17. SG

      It's fucking crazy.

    18. JR

      They didn't ... They don't have such good vision, but neither do regular wild pigs.

    19. NA

      Oh, really?

    20. JR

      Yeah, they just ... They operate by smell mostly. Smell and sound. They, they don't see very well. If you pause-

    21. NA

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      Like, if you're sneaking up on one and you just pause, they just ... They give up on looking at you and then they start eating the ground.

    23. MN

      Whoa.

    24. SG

      Yeah, those boys are running around. It's pretty fun.

    25. MN

      Holy moly.

    26. JR

      I shot one of those in South Texas a couple months ago.

    27. NA

      Nice.

    28. MN

      I bet they taste good.

    29. JR

      It turned into chorizo.

    30. MN

      Hell yeah.

  6. 11:5615:25

    Safari danger videos and relationship fight tactics

    1. MN

      Uh, I was in Safari and a leopard walked by the Jeep and it went-

    2. SG

      Holy shit.

    3. MN

      ... uh, uh, uh, uh.

    4. SG

      (laughs)

    5. MN

      And we were like, "Oh," and it was salivating like crazy and then-

    6. JR

      Whoa.

    7. MN

      ... 20 seconds later in a bush you hear, "Uh."

    8. AS

      ... and he went and fucked it.

    9. No.

    10. JR

      Oh, he was in heat?

    11. AS

      Yeah. (laughs)

    12. Oh, wow.

    13. NA

      God.

    14. JR

      (laughs) Said he went and fucked it. (laughs)

    15. AS

      Wow.

    16. That was a mating call.

    17. JR

      Wow, what a weird mating call. (choking)

    18. AS

      I've tried, it doesn't work.

    19. That's, that's, that's the end.

    20. JR

      Mm.

    21. AS

      But safari is crazy 'cause the, the lions will walk right by you.

    22. JR

      Fuck that.

    23. AS

      And they just know not to eat you.

    24. JR

      Did you ever see that video, uh, of the lady? She's trying to take photos from the, the car with the windows rolled down, and the cat reaches in and grabs her and pulls her out of the car?

    25. AS

      Pull it up.

    26. No. No.

    27. It's in Africa, it's a lady, she's in the, the backseat of a car, and they tell you to keep your windows rolled up, and she just decides to roll it down to take photos, and this, this lion just pulls her out of the car. Whoa.

    28. You saw the one with the Asian guy screaming at his wife getting all quiet?

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. NA

      Yeah.

  7. 15:2517:14

    Whitesnake, guilty pleasures, and South Park skewering royals

    1. JR

      This is the same girl when I, I-

    2. AS

      You miss her? (laughs)

    3. JR

      I was in a car accident with her, and, uh, I had a, a, a Whitesnake video, a Whitesnake cassette in my car, and she made me leave it in the car. She's like, "D- don't take that."

    4. AS

      Why?

    5. JR

      'Cause I was taking my stuff to leave. She was like-

    6. AS

      Oh.

    7. JR

      ... "You shouldn't be listening to that." Like she thought Whitesnake was stupid? << Here I go again on my own >>

    8. AS

      << Here I go again on my own >>

    9. NA

      Yeah. Chaka-ching.

    10. JR

      She was into, like, intelligent music.

    11. AS

      Aha.

    12. JR

      She was smarter than me.

    13. AS

      Like what?

    14. JR

      I don't know. I don't remember.

    15. AS

      Crap.

    16. JR

      Some shit. Some Pixies or some shit.

    17. AS

      Classical.

    18. JR

      Some shit that shows people you're deep.

    19. AS

      Right. (laughs)

    20. The Cure, yeah.

    21. JR

      Some shit. (laughs)

    22. AS

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      Some shit that's emotional.

    24. AS

      Marcy. I think that's a good point.

    25. JR

      Look, man, if you can't am- appreciate a good fucking Whitesnake video, it's fun.

    26. AS

      Ah.

    27. JR

      Doesn't mean it's the only thing you like. Like, you know, I like ice cream too.

    28. AS

      Yeah.

    29. Yeah.

    30. JR

      I like other stuff. I like stuff.

  8. 17:1422:33

    Royal family money, The Crown fatigue, and Irish/British history tension

    1. AS

      That would be an intense level of white guilt, if they just started working-

    2. JR

      Be like, "Fuck, I'm British royalty."

    3. NA

      Yeah.

    4. JR

      Like, "Damn."

    5. AS

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      "We did some bad stuff." (laughs)

    7. AS

      She's half black.

    8. JR

      And then the wife convinces you to leave the royal family. Like, "I'm out."

    9. NA

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      "I don't need you guys." Which is crazy, 'cause don't you just get free money? Like, of course.

    11. AS

      "Dude, get me my allowance now."

    12. JR

      What do you get when you're a royal?

    13. AS

      You get a stipend.

    14. You get a sti- you get a bunch of cash.

    15. JR

      What's the stipend like?

    16. AS

      I'm sure it's a million a month.

    17. JR

      You spend it on anything you want?

    18. AS

      Yeah, what about the countesses?

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. AS

      Do they get ca- do they get paid? Like less?

    21. Yeah, all of them.

    22. JR

      Hmm, that's a good question, right? Like, what's the chart?

    23. AS

      How far down do you go-

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. AS

      Hmm.

    26. ... before you're like, "You don't get a check no more"?

    27. JR

      What do you think you'd get if you were a prince? What do you think a prince gets?

    28. AS

      Oh, it's all jewels and rubies and shit.

    29. All your bills paid?

    30. NA

      That's nice.

  9. 22:3325:53

    Pandas as diplomacy, national symbols, and anti-communism from lived experience

    1. JR

      We made it seem cool. But what percentage of celebrities come out of America worldwide? It's a fucking ... Gotta be a giant number.

    2. SG

      Yeah.

    3. MN

      And if they don't, they come here. Like all the Canadian-

    4. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    5. MN

      ... funny people come here.

    6. SG

      There's, like, three Chinese stars that ever got known here.

    7. MN

      Well, the K-pop is huge.

    8. SG

      K-pop.

    9. JR

      Yeah, they're huge over there. But, like, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee.

    10. SG

      Jackie Chan, exactly.

    11. JR

      Who else?

    12. SG

      It's the ... I don't know. The Ch-

    13. JR

      Yao Ming.

    14. MN

      Jet Li.

    15. JR

      Dr. Ken.

    16. SG

      Yao Ming.

    17. JR

      Who, who else?

    18. SG

      Dr. Ken. No. (laughs)

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. MN

      (laughs)

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. MN

      The pandas. They're all China.

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. SG

      Pandas.

    25. JR

      Pand- Bobby Lee. (laughs)

    26. MN

      (laughs)

    27. SG

      Uh, who else?

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. MN

      You know China leases us pandas?

    30. JR

      They lease them. No.

  10. 25:5334:44

    East Palestine derailment, chemical fears, and false-flag paranoia

    1. SG

      What is going on in East Palestine right now?

    2. I think we might be getting hit with it.

    3. JR

      Yeah, I mean, that...

    4. SG

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      Do you see the videos of people throwing rocks into the water just to see-

    6. SG

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      ... the oil slicks that pool up?

    8. SG

      Yeah.

    9. Oh, really?

    10. JR

      'Cause they're saying that, you know, it only went a c- a certain distance away from the actual spill site.

    11. SG

      The company said that.

    12. JR

      But people are way far away, and they're s- experiencing dead animals, dead birds, dead pets. And then people are throwing rocks into rivers, and you see these big, huge, like, s- chemical circles where the, where the water gets disturbed.

    13. SG

      Yeah.

    14. Yeah.

    15. JR

      Like, it just, like... Oil slicks. It looks really fucking sketchy. Dead fish everywhere.

    16. SG

      I think Pete's got it.

    17. JR

      Yeah, Mayor Pete's doing a good job.

    18. SG

      People are just bitches.

    19. Who do you think Mayor Pete is, huh?

    20. JR

      Well, he's definitely the most qualified job... guy for the job, so...

    21. SG

      (laughs)

    22. Yeah.

    23. JR

      I mean, he's definitely, uh, not there for any other reason other than he's amazing, so...

    24. SG

      Is there... Yeah. (laughs)

    25. Are you alluding to something here?

    26. JR

      I'm just saying he's amazing. He's amazing, and he's doing a great job.

    27. SG

      Great job.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. SG

      Is there a part of you, Ari, as a Jew, that's like, "Yeah, fuck Palestine"?

    30. Because... (laughs)

  11. 34:4444:11

    Privacy collapse: tracking partners, data exposure, and relationship control

    1. MN

      But yeah, cameras and the internet. Cellphone cameras ruined a lot of fun.

    2. SG

      Uh-huh.

    3. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    4. MN

      And, you know, the internet with the...

    5. JR

      Yeah, I think about it every time I whack off.

    6. MN

      What do you mean?

    7. SG

      Someone's watching, watching you.

    8. JR

      Man, if this camera catches my fat face going...

    9. NA

      I always feel like somebody's watching me.

    10. SG

      It could ruin you with that face. (laughs)

    11. MN

      Yeah. And it knows what you're Googling too.

    12. SG

      Oh, yeah.

    13. JR

      How long-

    14. SG

      Don't even go privacy.

    15. JR

      How long before there's zero privacy? How long before anyone could look at anybody's phone and all information just as... they can't stop it.

    16. MN

      Yeah.

    17. SG

      10 years?

    18. JR

      Technology has just reached this point where all data and all numbers just available to everybody at every time.

    19. SG

      Privacy's not expected. Yeah.

    20. MN

      I'd hate for this to get out.

    21. JR

      No privacy. Everybody knows where you're gonna be. You can't lie.

    22. SG

      Could happen. Yeah, who are you?

    23. JR

      Can't avoid people, "Oh, so sorry, my mother-in-law's in town."

    24. SG

      Really? I see her, I see her pin and your pin.

    25. JR

      "Gotta go."

    26. MN

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      "Gotta go." (laughs)

    28. NA

      (laughs)

    29. MN

      My Google Glasses say you're lying.

    30. SG

      (laughs)

  12. 44:1149:06

    Mar-a-Lago, MAGA fashion, and Trump’s optics as spectacle

    1. MN

      Uh-oh.

    2. NA

      He's, uh, he was at Palestine today.

    3. SG

      Hold on.

    4. JR

      Of course he was, look at him. Look at all those guys in the background. Who do you think that guy with the mustache is voting for? It ain't Biden and it ain't Hillary Clinton.

    5. SG

      Fucking Yosemite Sam.

    6. JR

      Look at him. (laughs)

    7. MN

      It's a costume. It's like a Guess Who character.

    8. JR

      Look at that mustache. That guy's got a lot of guns.

    9. SG

      Damn, look at all those guys.

    10. MN

      They all look the same. Even the woman looks the same.

    11. SG

      Look at that fucking lunch lady.

    12. MN

      (laughs)

    13. NA

      (laughs)

    14. MN

      She's got bitter beer face.

    15. JR

      What is he saying?

    16. NA

      Uh, I just hit finish. I'll go back.

    17. SG

      There's their leader.

    18. MN

      Who's that guy?

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. SG

      It's just the normal dude. Like, our leader, the most handsome man in the world.

    21. MN

      But Biden made it.

    22. NA

      I want to thank those of, uh, you that helped, uh, John Rourke, who's fantastic, Blue Line Moving. Uh, is John here? Uh, hello, John. Good job. Got a lot of trucks coming up with water, right?

    23. MN

      (laughs)

    24. NA

      That's true.

    25. MN

      A lot of trucks coming up.

    26. NA

      You're a fantastic guy. Friend of my son, Don, who's also here. Where is Don? Good job. Did you get him to do that? I think so.

    27. MN

      I think it was a 95%, uh, voter rate for Trump in Ohio.

    28. NA

      He's, he's fantastic. He helps. Thank you very much, John. Appreciate it.

    29. SG

      What? Huh?

    30. NA

      Uh, Two Fellas Moving Company, and I wanna-

  13. 49:0659:00

    Vietnam War deep dive: Ken Burns, trauma texts, Tonkin, and coming back

    1. SG

      But I've been watching... I o-... Dude, on the plane I was watching the fucking... I've been watching the Ken Burns Vietnam.

    2. NA

      Heavy stuff.

    3. SG

      God damn, dude. I cried on the plane like a fucking idiot.

    4. NA

      Oh, is that why you cried?

    5. SG

      Watching a PBS doc.

    6. NA

      (laughs) You oughta meet Mark.

    7. JR

      Oh, God.

    8. NA

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      Mark, if you're gonna say nasty stuff, don't do it.

    10. NA

      I'm sorry. (laughs) That's pretty funny. (laughs) That was a nice ride, though.

    11. SG

      I can remember when the Vietnam War ended.

    12. JR

      Really?

    13. NA

      Really?

    14. SG

      Yeah. I was a little kid, I was living in San Francisco, and I remember thinking, "Thank God we're never gonna do war again."

    15. NA

      Oh, come on.

    16. SG

      Like, "Thank God it's over while I'm a child."

    17. NA

      Wow.

    18. SG

      I, I remember thinking that.

    19. NA

      Yeah.

    20. SG

      Like, "Whew. Boy, they glad they figured this out."

    21. NA

      That was long. It was nine years?

    22. SG

      It was so... Dude, from day one they were like, "We're not gonna win."

    23. NA

      Yeah.

    24. SG

      From day one.

    25. NA

      They just had to be there?

    26. SG

      McNamara's in there with LBJ like, "This isn't going... This is never gonna work."

    27. NA

      Yeah.

    28. SG

      And they just kept doing it.

    29. NA

      A lot of heroin out there.

    30. SG

      Oh my God. I mean-

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