Joe Rogan Experience #1947 - Chris Distefano

1. 0:00 – 2:47

   Chrissy’s “glow up”: mobster shades, expensive watch, and leaning into success

   1. CDChris Distefano0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. CDChris Distefano0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music) And we're on.

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      Hello, Chrissy.

   5. CDChris Distefano0:14

      Hello.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Good to see you, brother.

   7. CDChris Distefano0:15

      Nice to see you.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      I like the shades.

   9. CDChris Distefano0:17

      I know, I feel like Jeffrey Dahmer.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:19

       Are those, uh, Anthony Ayden's?

   11. CDChris Distefano0:20

       Anthony Ayden.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       Yeah.

   13. CDChris Distefano0:22

       Dude, Anthony Ayden, St. Mark's, Lower East Side.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Yeah.

   15. CDChris Distefano0:26

       I wanted to... I have a, um... I wanted to look like a '70s, '80s, like, mobster look.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       Mm.

   17. CDChris Distefano0:34

       I want... That's what I wanted to go for. And Anthony was like, "I got you."

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Oh, yeah, that... You nailed it, yeah.

   19. CDChris Distefano0:40

       Anthony Ayden. And he's one of those guys, he's like a MMA guy. So it's like, you know, he's selling these nice glasses, but then he's got the cauliflower ear and he's got... He's always got, like, bruises on his face.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Yeah, I met him in New York. Very nice guy. He, he gave me a beautiful pair of sunglasses, like, with, like, rose-colored shades.

   21. CDChris Distefano0:55

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       They're very nice.

   23. CDChris Distefano0:56

       They're transition lenses and-

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:57

       Yeah, mine too.

   25. CDChris Distefano0:58

       And the thing is with these is this is, you know, I'm going for it, right? And I've went, I've went a little crazy. And I-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       You're going for it?

   27. CDChris Distefano1:04

       I'm just going for it. I've said, "You know what? Enough's enough."

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:08

       Enough's enough?

   29. CDChris Distefano1:09

       I said, "I'm done. I'm, I'm, I'm putting on glasses, I'm wearing a watch."

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:13

       Wow.
2. 2:47 – 4:25

   Radio City Music Hall milestone and a detour into Roy Jones Jr. greatness

   1. CDChris Distefano2:47

      The kid's doing Radio City Music Hall, folks.

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:49

      The kid's doing Radio City Music Hall, folks.

   3. CDChris Distefano2:52

      S- September 22nd. I mean, that's... See, for a New Yorker, that's like... That's the thing.

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:57

      Yeah, that's the place.

   5. CDChris Distefano2:58

      You go to Radio City and, and-

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:00

      Yeah.

   7. CDChris Distefano3:00

      And it's, and it's been amazing. Yeah, that's, uh, yeah. And it's been amazing. Um, we're almo-... We sold 4,500 tickets the first week, so that's-

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:06

      That's amazing.

   9. CDChris Distefano3:06

      It's like mind-blowing for me. So, um-

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:08

       That place is so... Uh, didn't Roy Jones Jr have a fight there once?

   11. CDChris Distefano3:13

       Probably.

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:14

       I think when Roy Jones Jr was just murking people, Roy Jones Jr put on a fight. I'm pretty sure he did it there.

   13. CDChris Distefano3:21

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:21

       It's... He did it at some iconic venue in New York City, and Radio City Music Hall is one of the, the, the peaks.

   15. CDChris Distefano3:28

       It's... When I started comedy, I've... And still-

   16. JRJoe Rogan3:32

       Yeah, it is.

   17. CDChris Distefano3:32

       There it is.

   18. JRJoe Rogan3:33

       Yeah. Roy Jones Jr produced a Radio City spectacular. Who did he fight?

   19. CDChris Distefano3:39

       (sniffs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan3:39

       That was when...

   21. NANarrator3:40

       And even fighting one-handed.

   22. JRJoe Rogan3:40

       What's that? Oh, that's right, even fighting one-handed. That was...

   23. CDChris Distefano3:45

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan3:45

       Well, that was when Roy Jones Jr was just the fucking king of the world.

   25. CDChris Distefano3:49

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan3:49

       People forgot. Like, he had to make a song called Y'all Must Have Forgot.

   27. CDChris Distefano3:53

       (laughs) Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan3:53

       He did a... Literally-

   29. CDChris Distefano3:54

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan3:54

       He made a song called Y'all Must Have Forgot because people forgot.
3. 4:25 – 5:19

   Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury: legit skills, marketing antics, and pirated streams

   1. CDChris Distefano4:25

      Yeah, I agree. Did you watch the Paul Fury fight yesterday?

   2. JRJoe Rogan4:28

      Yes, I did. Yeah.

   3. CDChris Distefano4:28

      What'd you think?

   4. JRJoe Rogan4:29

      I thought it was a very good fight.

   5. CDChris Distefano4:30

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan4:30

      And it's... It confirmed two things that I've been saying for a long time. One, Jake Paul is 100% legit. People that think he's not legit, he's conning you. He's conning you with his antics. He's conning you with his, his, uh, online persona-

   7. CDChris Distefano4:45

      Yup.

   8. JRJoe Rogan4:45

      ... and his shit talking and the marketing. But if you didn't have any of that, and me as an analyst, like, I-

   9. CDChris Distefano4:52

      Right.

   10. JRJoe Rogan4:52

       That's one of my jobs. I analyze mixed martial arts. I'm not a boxing analyst but I understand it.

   11. CDChris Distefano4:56

       Right.

   12. JRJoe Rogan4:56

       When I watch him move around, it's 100% legit. When I saw him knock out Tyron Woodley, I'm like, "That is a fucking dangerous man."

   13. CDChris Distefano5:03

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan5:04

       100%.

   15. CDChris Distefano5:05

       Yeah. He's... Uh, well, I was watching it illegally on, uh, a phone.

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:08

       Why don't you pay for it?

   17. CDChris Distefano5:09

       I-

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:09

       You fucking piece of shit.

   19. CDChris Distefano5:10

       I didn't... No. I, I... 'Cause I got... I ran out of money. I bought-

   20. JRJoe Rogan5:13

       Get the fuck... (laughs)

   21. CDChris Distefano5:13

       I bought too many glasses. (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan5:17

       (laughs)

   23. CDChris Distefano5:17

       I spent it all on the watch. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan5:19

       Uh.

4. 5:19 – 7:23

   San Francisco street chaos: gelato, homeless fights, and buying the winner ice cream

   1. CDChris Distefano5:19

      No, because I didn't even know... I, I love sports and stuff, but I'm not into... Not that I'm not into boxing, I just don't ever, like, watch it that much. And so the, the guy that I'm with, he was like, "Oh, the fight's happening now." So he's like, "I got a site." And we started... Uh, we were... I was eating, uh, ice cream yesterday in San Francisco, in Little Italy. And we're... And I only eat sweets once a week now, so yesterday was my sweets day.

   2. JRJoe Rogan5:38

      Nice.

   3. CDChris Distefano5:39

      And I was eating, um... I ate... I got four scoops of gelato. So I was three and a half scoops in and the blood sugar, the way it hit, you know, I was getting woozy but it's like what I've been waiting for. And I'm watching the fight happen and then, you know, San Francisco, right outside I see two homeless guys-Fighting.

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:57

      Oh.

   5. CDChris Distefano5:57

      Like legitimately fighting. And it was kind of one of those things where I swear to God, even though amazing fighters that, that, you know, Paul and Fury, the fight outside was so much more entertaining. I mean, I've never seen this. I saw a homeless man yesterday in front of... As... The kid out in the green room as my witness, roundhouse kick another, land a roundhouse kick to the chin, another, the other homeless guy's face the guy hit up against some outdoor dining, was like shell-shocked, like, you know, like woozy, bleeding from his lip, and then just scurried off.

   6. JRJoe Rogan6:26

      Wow.

   7. CDChris Distefano6:26

      And I was like, "Wow." And then I bought the homeless guy who won the fight ice cream.

   8. JRJoe Rogan6:30

      (laughs)

   9. CDChris Distefano6:31

      (laughs) I sw- I swear to God.

   10. JRJoe Rogan6:32

       But did you know whether who, who instigated the fight? Maybe the homeless guy with the roundhouse kick is like a cracks dealer.

   11. CDChris Distefano6:38

       I was gonna say, I think most likely fentanyl instigated the fight.

   12. JRJoe Rogan6:41

       (laughs)

   13. CDChris Distefano6:41

       It's- (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan6:41

       I would feel like fentanyl would calm it down.

   15. CDChris Distefano6:43

       Yeah, that's true, too. It was... I, I don't know if when was the last time you've been to San Fran, but, I mean, it, it got, uh, you know-

   16. JRJoe Rogan6:49

       It's pretty wild there.

   17. CDChris Distefano6:49

       It was wild there in North Beach, you know, Little Italy. And I was like, "Man, this is next level." But I thought... My mother always instilled in me, like, "Always buy homeless people food. If you see them, buy them food." And, uh... And so that's just what I automatically do, and I bought him ice cream. And you know what this guy says to me? Granted, he had just won a fight, but I came out with chocolate ice cream. He goes, "I don't like chocolate." I was like, "Jesus Christ."

   18. JRJoe Rogan7:10

       Well, that's probably why he's homeless.

   19. CDChris Distefano7:11

       Seriously, right? Because-

   20. JRJoe Rogan7:12

       Yeah.

   21. CDChris Distefano7:12

       ... of the ego, and like-

   22. JRJoe Rogan7:13

       Disagreeableness.

   23. CDChris Distefano7:14

       Yeah. So I went and got a vanilla, and he ate the vanilla.

   24. JRJoe Rogan7:16

       Oh, you did that?

   25. CDChris Distefano7:17

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan7:17

       That's good for you, bro. Good for you.

   27. CDChris Distefano7:18

       Because, you know, it's my sweets day, I just had the chocolate.

   28. JRJoe Rogan7:20

       Good for you. Good for you.

   29. CDChris Distefano7:21

       Thank you.

   30. JRJoe Rogan7:22

       That's a lovely thing to do.
5. 7:23 – 9:57

   Homelessness isn’t just housing: trauma roots, meds, psychedelics, and the “starting line” problem

   1. JRJoe Rogan7:23

      I wish it was just pe- you know, that the people-

   2. CDChris Distefano7:26

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan7:26

      ... were down on their luck. I wish it was just that.

   4. CDChris Distefano7:28

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan7:29

      But it... There's, like, such a combination of factors th- humans have to address. If they really wanna address homelessness, you really have to address kids who grow up in the foster care system. You have to address, uh, childhood abuse.

   6. CDChris Distefano7:41

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan7:42

      You have to address family history of drug addiction.

   8. CDChris Distefano7:45

      Yep.

   9. JRJoe Rogan7:45

      You have to address crime. Like, there's so many factors-

   10. CDChris Distefano7:48

       You know-

   11. JRJoe Rogan7:48

       ... that lead into someone being homeless. And, well, the idea that you're just gonna give them housing or you're just gonna l- give them tents and everything's gonna be fine, it's like, no. Like, you can't just, like, ignore that as an issue. Like, if you're gonna... The amount of money that it costs to have massive populations of homeless people is extraordinary. If they just put the same amount or maybe more, to prepare for the future, into some sort of, like, comprehensive program to try to help people that are fucked up like that and clean 'em up, and it would probably have to involve psychedelic drugs.

   12. CDChris Distefano8:20

       Yeah, that's what I was... I think that you probab-... Because, because it's not a money thing, right? Peop- they have money to c-... It's not a cure, it's not a financial cure, it's these people, it's their mindset-

   13. JRJoe Rogan8:29

       People that are just so damaged by life-

   14. CDChris Distefano8:30

       Yes.

   15. JRJoe Rogan8:30

       ... in, in... Whether it's chemically damaged, psychologically damaged, maybe they don't have the right psych medications, maybe they're off their meds. You know, a l- a lot of them have gone through horrific abuse. Like-

   16. CDChris Distefano8:42

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan8:42

       ... you don't wind up in a tent in Skid Row unless-

   18. CDChris Distefano8:45

       No.

   19. JRJoe Rogan8:45

       ... shit has gone to h- It's literally the bottom of the country. Skid Row is like the bottom of the country.

   20. CDChris Distefano8:50

       Right. But then I wonder if you get to s- talk to some people, and they're like, "We... This is where we wanna be." You think some people are willingly there?

   21. JRJoe Rogan8:56

       Because they don't... They're... They don't know anything else.

   22. CDChris Distefano8:58

       Right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan8:59

       Right? They don't know love. They don't know, like, uh, the accomplishment of, like, doing a thing and getting better at it and, like, improving upon-

   24. CDChris Distefano9:08

       Mm-hmm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan9:09

       ... and realizing that's kind of a vehicle for improving yourself. Like, they, they haven't experienced, like, positive things. Like, y- y-... The life it... Life is... Like, this is why it drives me fucking crazy when any- everybody says, like, whenever anyone says, like, "Pull 'em up by their own bootstraps." Like, to tell people to go, "You know, figure it out yourself."

   26. CDChris Distefano9:28

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan9:28

       "You know, I did." Right? Like, y- these people (laughs) ... You're not dealing with the even starting line. If everybody had an even starting line, that would make sense.

   28. CDChris Distefano9:36

       Right.

   29. JRJoe Rogan9:36

       If everybody had a mom and a dad and they grew up in a house where no one smoked crack and-

   30. CDChris Distefano9:40

       Right.
6. 9:57 – 12:10

   City-by-city breakdown: Fresno, San Jose, Vancouver, and why ‘concentrated’ encampments feel worse

   1. CDChris Distefano9:57

      Like, I, I, you know, was lucky to grow up... I grew up in New York City, great parents, whatever, but then I just had a show in Fresno a couple of days ago, and I said, "If I grew up here, I'd be a little different."

   2. JRJoe Rogan10:06

      You'd be a lot different.

   3. CDChris Distefano10:07

      Because Fresno is one of those places where I went, a great time, but, I mean, those... Just, just being there-

   4. JRJoe Rogan10:13

      Mm-hmm.

   5. CDChris Distefano10:13

      ... just being in that city for 24 hours, I was like, "I don't know... If this was my every single day, you might turn to drugs, you m-..." And, and-

   6. JRJoe Rogan10:20

      It's depressing.

   7. CDChris Distefano10:21

      It's dep- It's depressing. I drove from Fresno to San Jose, and we were passing through Stockton, and I thought I was in Switzerland because that's-

   8. JRJoe Rogan10:27

      (laughs)

   9. CDChris Distefano10:27

      ... what an upgrade it was from Fresno. I was like-

   10. JRJoe Rogan10:29

       (laughs)

   11. CDChris Distefano10:29

       ... "What, are we in the fucking Alps?"

   12. JRJoe Rogan10:31

       Bro, I was driving through a street in Fresno, and people were walking out on... In the middle of the street, like, "What the fuck are you doing driving here?"

   13. CDChris Distefano10:37

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan10:37

       Like, I went down a wrong area where it's, like, mostly homeless people.

   15. CDChris Distefano10:41

       Yeah. Oh, no, no, that... The, the, the, the Fresno skid row that I saw was the one... I think the worst I've ever seen. Uh, I'm sorry, no, in a... In s- uh, was it... Yeah, it was, uh, San Jose, I should say. San Jose was, was really, really, really fucking bad.

   16. JRJoe Rogan10:54

       Yeah.

   17. CDChris Distefano10:55

       Um, o- over there, I was like, "Jesus Christ." You know, you, um... And Vancouver, I just went to Vancouver, that was the one where I was like... I did not know that Vancouver had such a... See, I think what Vancouver and these cities are doing is they're just putting their homeless in one section. 'Cause, you know, I live in New York, I'm in New York every day, there are homeless, and they are spread out through the city, but you never see blocks of tents like you see in San Francisco and Vancouver. So when I was there, I was like, "This doesn't feel like the right move either." You know-

   18. JRJoe Rogan11:27

       Hmm.

   19. CDChris Distefano11:27

       ... to just put them in one corner, because New York, they're spread out, but you don't e- you don't feel them as much. It's dangerous, but not really. Where San Francisco, Vancouver, they were like... You know, one of the local comics I was with in San Fran, he was like, "You cannot leave anything in your car-

   20. JRJoe Rogan11:43

       Yeah.

   21. CDChris Distefano11:43

       ... around this theater. You cannot. They will break in." And I saw about four or five windows busted out, which you never see that in New York. And I think the police in Vancouver and San Fran, from what the people were telling me, they... That's a district, they don't care. They don't even go into that district, they just let it be a free-for-all. Which I understand from the government's like, "Well, this is our last resort." But I, I don't know that that's gonna necessarily work. But maybe you gotta give them psychedelics.

   22. JRJoe Rogan12:05

       Well, what they're doing right now is not working. You can't-

   23. CDChris Distefano12:08

       No.

   24. JRJoe Rogan12:08

       ... just let people smash people's windows.

   25. CDChris Distefano12:10

       No.

7. 12:10 – 20:03

   Policing after George Floyd: defund backlash, stop-and-frisk debate, and training like professionals

   1. JRJoe Rogan12:10

      It's so, it's so crazy. And i- it's...... you know, uh, it's a direct result of, uh, horrific police violence.

   2. CDChris Distefano12:18

      Yes.

   3. JRJoe Rogan12:18

      Like, that's what it's from. It's from, you watch, like, the George Floyd video.

   4. CDChris Distefano12:22

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan12:22

      You watch those five guys, uh, beat that man to death recently. You see these videos, you see the Rodney King video, you've seen so many videos. So people, like, over time, have decided that all police are bad, and all police interactions are bad, and we need to defund the police. And this is what that leads to. It just leads to an increase in crime. It's not perfect, it's not a perfect system.

   6. CDChris Distefano12:44

      Right.

   7. JRJoe Rogan12:44

      Right? But you need a system of law and order. If you don't have a system of law and order, you have too many people that will just give in with no consequences to crime.

   8. CDChris Distefano12:53

      Right.

   9. JRJoe Rogan12:53

      And that's not their fault in a lot of cases. I mean, we can go through that and talk about determinism and what we've already talked about before, about everybody doesn't have an, an even starting line.

   10. CDChris Distefano13:03

       Right.

   11. JRJoe Rogan13:04

       But you've got to address that it's a problem, and you've got to address for peaceful people. They have to be able to walk down the street and not worry about getting assaulted and robbed.

   12. CDChris Distefano13:12

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan13:12

       If that happens all the time, you've got a fundamental breakdown of what your society's sup-... So you, in society's strong, are supposed to protect the vulnerable.

   14. CDChris Distefano13:21

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan13:21

       And if you're not doing that, then you don't have a society. And then you also have these crazy gun laws, and every, it's-

   16. CDChris Distefano13:27

       Right.

   17. JRJoe Rogan13:27

       ... it's a little difficult to, you're not allowed to concealed carry. There's a lot of-

   18. CDChris Distefano13:31

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan13:31

       ... like, so there's no consequence if people are coming after you.

   20. CDChris Distefano13:34

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan13:34

       It's not like it's like fucking the Wild West out there. It's just the prevalence of crime has increased pretty noticeably.

   22. CDChris Distefano13:42

       Yeah. A- and like I said, New York was, pre-pandemic, the safest city I thought in the world. I grew up there. I was like, "It's so safe, it's insane." And I always would say the same thing about New York. I would say, "New York is the only city that, like, any time of the day, any day of the week, you feel like the vibrance, you feel the people." Where I would go to a city, like, even though I love it, like a city like Cleveland, Cleveland would feel, even though it's open, it felt closed. Like, that's just what the city always felt like.

   23. JRJoe Rogan14:08

       Mm-hmm.

   24. CDChris Distefano14:08

       And I, I was like, "I never felt that once in New York." But now, over the last, like, year or two, New York, a lot of times, like 50% of the week feels closed even though it's open. And I'm like, "Oh, snap. It hit New York." Which I... And then, you know, I talked to my father about that, you know, complained about New York. He was like, "Chris, shut up." He's like, "I grew up in New York in the '70s and '80s. Like, it is nowhere near as violent and unsafe as it was in the '70s and '80s." Like, "You just grew up in peacetime N-" He was like, "You know, you grew up in peacetime America. Your generation are all peace kids."

   25. JRJoe Rogan14:41

       You're born in the eye of the storm.

   26. CDChris Distefano14:42

       Yeah, he's like, "So you didn't see any of this shit."

   27. JRJoe Rogan14:44

       Yeah.

   28. CDChris Distefano14:45

       He was like, "So what you, you just had the privilege of growing up in a New York City and an America that was at, at the top, you were at the top of the Roman Empire." He was like, "And now what you're seeing is kind of a little bit more of the fabric of society." He was like, "I," my dad's like, "I grew up in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. This is just reminding me of old New York." He's like, "I kinda like this grittiness of this, but you grew up, everybody's safe. That was never gonna be real." He was like, "And you know, I don't, it will probably come back at some point, but it's gonna take a long, long time." But I don't know, I feel like now, like in my, you know, when, when I'm, even like my mom wanted to take my daughter to Times Square to the American Girl Doll store, and I just, I couldn't believe it. I was like, "No, I, I, I can't a- I can't allow you to take her." She was like, "What? It's, it's, I'm your mom, your granddaughter. We'll take, we'll go on the train, and I'll take her to this store and I'll be back." I was like, "No, I can't, I, I won't be able to function, my anxiety won't be able to function of thinking about you and my daughter on the train. 'Cause if there's a homeless person down there that's crazy, off his meds, and he throws one of you in front of the tracks and something happens, I won't be able to live with myself."

   29. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Oh, Jesus Christ.

   30. CDChris Distefano15:45

       And those thoughts were never in my head, ever. They were never ever, ever, ever in my head. But now they are, and I don't know if it's because it's reality, the media, something. I, I, I don't, I, I don't know what it is.
8. 20:03 – 24:37

   Smelling salts and tequila intermission: Jujumufu, instant ‘CNS shock,’ and party chemistry

   1. JRJoe Rogan20:03

      Let's open that liquor, son.

   2. CDChris Distefano20:04

      Yeah. Let's, okay, this is, yeah, this is, uh, Siesta Ligas Tequila.

   3. JRJoe Rogan20:07

      Oh, but before you do that, I think you should have a whiff.

   4. CDChris Distefano20:10

      Okay. Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan20:11

      Because you've been wanting to have a whiff.

   6. CDChris Distefano20:13

      So what is this, smelling salts?

   7. JRJoe Rogan20:14

      So this is, uh, is this, uh, Jujumufu stuff?

   8. NANarrator20:17

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan20:17

      This is, dude, Jujumufu, who's hilarious. He's a, uh, like a super powerlifter, bodybuilder-type-

   10. CDChris Distefano20:25

       Okay.

   11. JRJoe Rogan20:25

       ... character. Um-

   12. CDChris Distefano20:26

       So what am I?

   13. JRJoe Rogan20:27

       ... and he's, these are smelling salts.

   14. CDChris Distefano20:29

       Careful.

   15. JRJoe Rogan20:29

       So don't throw them away when you, when you panic, 'cause you will panic. You're gonna take a nice deep whiff with your nostrils-

   16. CDChris Distefano20:37

       I already smell it and I'm, like, hyperventilating.

   17. JRJoe Rogan20:38

       ... and wait, let it hit you. Let it hit you.

   18. CDChris Distefano20:40

       So what do I do though?

   19. JRJoe Rogan20:41

       Don't throw it anywhere. Just hold onto it.

   20. CDChris Distefano20:43

       Take a whiff?

   21. JRJoe Rogan20:43

       Just don't panic once you get hit.

   22. NANarrator20:44

       Don't put your nose too far in there.

   23. JRJoe Rogan20:46

       Get in there, bitch.

   24. CDChris Distefano20:47

       So but, but I- (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan20:48

       (laughs)

   26. NANarrator20:48

       Breathe. Just breathe.

   27. CDChris Distefano20:49

       You gotta take me through it though.

   28. JRJoe Rogan20:50

       Take a smell. Just take a sniff. Put it up to your nose and take a sniff.

   29. CDChris Distefano20:53

       Scary.

   30. JRJoe Rogan20:53

       It's not complicated. You want me to do it first?
9. 24:37 – 38:49

   Intermittent fasting transformation: weight loss, quitting social media, and the emotional breaking point

   1. CDChris Distefano24:37

      And, and, uh, and, uh, yeah, I mean, that guy, he, I'm sure he, I think he intermittent fasts. Do you think he's into intermittent fasting, a guy like that?

   2. JRJoe Rogan24:44

      I don't know. I would imagine-

   3. CDChris Distefano24:45

      That changed my-

   4. JRJoe Rogan24:45

      ... he's into a lot of things.

   5. CDChris Distefano24:46

      Dude, that changed my whole life.I dropped 35 pounds.

   6. JRJoe Rogan24:49

      Yeah.

   7. CDChris Distefano24:49

      I fucking, I stopped, got off social media and I started intermittent fasting. Life changed, bro.

   8. JRJoe Rogan24:55

      Good for you.

   9. CDChris Distefano24:56

      Life changed. It's literally, I just said to myself, "I can't give any more energy to things that are not helping me."

   10. JRJoe Rogan25:04

       Right.

   11. CDChris Distefano25:04

       I can't give energy to strangers anymore. So I have somebody who runs my social media, Brian Morton, he's a big fan of ours. He's got hair like-

   12. JRJoe Rogan25:10

       Shout out to Brian.

   13. CDChris Distefano25:11

       Shout out Brian. He's got hair like Lancelot, like medieval hair.

   14. JRJoe Rogan25:13

       Nice.

   15. CDChris Distefano25:13

       Yeah, I've never seen a guy pull off a fucking medieval bob like this kid. But he runs it for me now and, um, and dude it's changed... I, I, I got to a point where I was 255 pounds and I was fucking around, right? I was 255 pounds, didn't even realize it, and I put on one of TT Jerry's wigs, like just chilling, whatever. And I got on the scale, just fucking, I don't know what I was doing. And I, and I looked 255 and I said to the mirror, I said, "You look like a fat Howard Stern right now."

   16. JRJoe Rogan25:39

       Wow.

   17. CDChris Distefano25:39

       And it was funny, like my family were all laughing, "Ha, fat Howard Stern running around my tits." You know? And my daughter, everybody's having fun. And then, this was on my birthday, August, so just a few months ago. And then I get, go in the shower, right? And I'm not even thinking, it's like not even in my head. Out of nowhere, hysterical crying, bawling crying, like something hit me that I was suppressing. Like literally, like uncontrollable tears, like snot coming out of my nose, like a seven year old.

   18. JRJoe Rogan26:07

       Wow.

   19. CDChris Distefano26:07

       Could not stop. And something like broke inside of me. And then I think this is where the universe comes in. It's not that it happened, like I think I just had probably seen stuff like this before, but now that my eyes were open to look, I started taking in information. And I'm on Twitter, like you know, two hours later just you know mindlessly scrolling, you know, dealing with the emotions, whatever. And I see a tweet from Elon Musk. And he's just, he wasn't, wasn't promoting this, he just was gen-, it was a genuine tweet. He goes, "The, uh, Zero intermittent fasting app is awesome." That's all he wrote. And I said, "I'm gonna download that app right now." And I downloaded this app, Zero Fasting app, and I was just like, "I'm just gonna do this for two weeks. I'm just gonna stay in a, in a, in a eight hour, six or eight hour feeding window. Don't worry about not eating sweets or pizza. Just eat all the food you want to eat, but just eat it in that window and let's see what happens for two weeks."

   20. JRJoe Rogan26:58

       What does the app do?

   21. CDChris Distefano26:59

       So the app, what it pretty much, I mean, Joe DeRosa makes fun of me, he's like, "Dude, all it is is a fucking timer." You're like talking...

   22. JRJoe Rogan27:05

       The app is just a timer?

   23. CDChris Distefano27:05

       He's like, 'cause, 'cause what basically when you...

   24. JRJoe Rogan27:07

       (laughs)

   25. CDChris Distefano27:07

       He's like, "You're an asshole, dude."

   26. JRJoe Rogan27:08

       (laughs)

   27. CDChris Distefano27:08

       You're like making it like this is from the Mayans. It's a timer on your phone, you jerk off.

   28. JRJoe Rogan27:13

       (laughs)

   29. CDChris Distefano27:14

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan27:15

       The Mayans. Ah.
10. 38:49 – 1:07:03

    True crime rabbit hole: Idaho murders, Bundy date story, Son of Sam, and false confessions

    1. CDChris Distefano38:49

       Did you hear that, by the way? With Idaho, they're thinking about bringing back the firing squad if he gets convicted.

    2. JRJoe Rogan38:53

       Oh my God. Well, they think he might have killed people in Washington State too.

    3. CDChris Distefano38:58

       Interesting.

    4. JRJoe Rogan38:58

       Is that where it was? It was somewhere else. Th- there was a- another place where he lived where simil- similar crime took place, and they think he was studying, um, uh, crime in, in, in college-

    5. CDChris Distefano39:11

       Right.

    6. JRJoe Rogan39:11

       ... in order to get better at it.

    7. CDChris Distefano39:12

       Right.

    8. JRJoe Rogan39:13

       It's really e- it's an evil, scary story.

    9. CDChris Distefano39:15

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan39:15

        If, if all this, they're, they're accusing him is ac- of, uh, is accurate, it's horrific-

    11. CDChris Distefano39:20

        Right.

    12. JRJoe Rogan39:20

        ... that that guy was out there.

    13. CDChris Distefano39:21

        Right. Dude, you wanna hear a wild story? So, my mom had a friend. (laughs)

    14. JRJoe Rogan39:25

        Let's see if we can find out if that's true, though. Yeah.

    15. NANarrator39:27

        Which part?

    16. JRJoe Rogan39:27

        The part where, um...

    17. NANarrator39:29

        (clears throat)

    18. JRJoe Rogan39:29

        They think that he might have committed a similar crime... (clears throat) excuse me, somewhere else.

    19. CDChris Distefano39:34

        Here we go. See, this is what's happening now. On an intermittent fasting stomach, I'm gonna start getting crazy. It's gonna, uh... it might get bad in here.

    20. JRJoe Rogan39:40

        You wanna take another sniff?

    21. CDChris Distefano39:42

        Why the hell not?

    22. JRJoe Rogan39:43

        All right, here we go. Ready? Oh. (knocks on wood) That was deep. Oh.

    23. CDChris Distefano39:47

        Joey went in.

    24. JRJoe Rogan39:48

        I went in. Okay. Get in there, Chrissie. (sniffs) (laughing) Whoo! (blows) Jamie? No.

    25. CDChris Distefano39:56

        No? Jamie-

    26. JRJoe Rogan39:57

        Jamie said no. I didn't e- I didn't even get his full name out before no was coming out of his mouth.

    27. CDChris Distefano40:01

        Jamie, that one burned. That one fogged up my glasses. (blows) That one burned, baby.

    28. JRJoe Rogan40:05

        I get it, dude. I wanna lift right now. I wanna do some-

    29. CDChris Distefano40:07

        Seriously.

    30. JRJoe Rogan40:08

        ... deadlifts.

Episode duration: 3:04:00