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Joe Rogan Experience #1957 - Shane Gillis

Shane Gillis 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

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Jun 27, 20242h 56mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:001:43

    Austin allergies, post-show energy, and early COVID paranoia

    1. NA

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

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience. (drum roll)

    3. NA

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

    4. JR

      Hey. Hey. What's up, Jake?

    5. SG

      Yo. (laughs)

    6. JR

      What's going on, baby?

    7. SG

      Nothing, dude?

    8. JR

      It's been fun, huh?

    9. SG

      That was crazy.

    10. JR

      Yeah. Last night was fucking awesome.

    11. SG

      That was-

    12. JR

      Woo.

    13. SG

      Sorry, I got allergies, dude.

    14. JR

      Do you?

    15. SG

      Hear my voice?

    16. JR

      Is that what's going on?

    17. SG

      It's very scratchy, yeah.

    18. JR

      Is that the, uh ... Yeah, there's a lot of, like ... What is it, cedar? Is it cedar time?

    19. SG

      As soon as I got down here, I got crushed.

    20. JR

      There's ragwood and cedar, and, uh, there's a l- ... Oh, ragweed? Ragweed. Ragweed and cedar and a bunch of shit going on in this town.

    21. SG

      Oh.

    22. JR

      I'm lucky I don't get it.

    23. SG

      Really?

    24. JR

      Yeah, I don't get allergies.

    25. SG

      Ugh. I get fucking destroyed, dude.

    26. JR

      My family gets it, though.

    27. SG

      I had to wear ... During COVID I got like a lake house, like right when it was starting, and it was, you know, it was March, April, so it was crazy. I had to wear fucking ski goggles when we were out on the boat.

    28. JR

      (laughs)

    29. SG

      Dude, I was getting shitfaced (laughs) wearing full ski ...

    30. JR

      (laughs)

  2. 1:433:13

    Key West comedy crowds: drunk tourists vs. “smart jokes”

    1. JR

      So you were in ... Were you working in Key West?

    2. SG

      Airbnb was like $100. Yeah.

    3. JR

      Were we doing that little club?

    4. SG

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      I heard that club's great.

    6. SG

      Perfect.

    7. JR

      Yeah?

    8. SG

      Yeah. It's a little, little room. You just ... And it's Key West, so it's just-

    9. JR

      What are those people like down there? Those are, like, checked-out, flip-flop wearing-

    10. SG

      Wild drunk ladies.

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. SG

      Like, you say "dick," they're like, "Yeah."

    13. JR

      (laughs)

    14. SG

      (laughs) You try to do one smart joke, they're like, "What?"

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. SG

      "What'd you just say?"

    17. JR

      (laughs) They're not here to think.

    18. SG

      No. They don't understand the nuance.

    19. JR

      They're here to drink margaritas. (laughs)

    20. SG

      Yeah. Like the George Washington bit. I'm like, "Slavery." They're like ... Oh.

    21. JR

      "Yeah." (laughs)

    22. SG

      It's like, "Oh, no."

    23. JR

      That would be hell. Would be hell would be stuck around people that you could never have a smart conversation with. That would be hell.

    24. SG

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      You know, there's some people, like ... You know, like, those people, you have a con- ... You start a conversation, and you go, "Oh, this is like level two forever."

    26. SG

      Yeah. Yeah.

    27. JR

      We're at level two forever. We're never getting to level 10.

    28. SG

      I hate when someone makes a point that you're like, "Yeah."

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. SG

      You know what I mean? Like when someone ... Yeah. They're like, "Here's what I've been thinking lately."

  3. 3:134:24

    23&Me identity pride, shaving the mustache, and roast-fueled friendship

    1. SG

      Speaking of nose length, did I show you my 23&Me?

    2. JR

      Uh, you did. (laughs) Multiple, multiple times. (laughs)

    3. SG

      That fuck- that fucked me up. Last night we were out dinner-

    4. JR

      Uh ...

    5. SG

      ... and I was like, "Dude, look at my 23&Me results." You're like, "Yeah, you showed me yesterday."

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. SG

      "You're really proud of that. It's fucking weird." And I was just like, "Fuck, it is weird." (laughs)

    8. JR

      (laughs) It's just 100% Irish.

    9. SG

      Yeah. It was, uh ... Yeah, it was, uh ...

    10. JR

      Fitzimmons has that, too.

    11. SG

      He's 100%?

    12. JR

      100%. He's all in.

    13. SG

      I couldn't believe it.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. SG

      I thought there was something-

    16. JR

      I looked at you. It looks pretty ... You look ... Yeah.

    17. SG

      No, it's, it's obvious.

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. SG

      Just potato face.

    20. JR

      It's a lot.

    21. SG

      Got rid of the mustache, dude.

    22. JR

      Yeah, no.

    23. SG

      Now you can, now you can see I don't have lips.

    24. JR

      I noticed that. I'm interested, why, what was the choice behind that?

    25. SG

      I don't know. It was gross.

    26. JR

      Really?

    27. SG

      My chin hairs were fucking disgusting.

    28. JR

      Really?

    29. SG

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      You think?

  4. 4:2410:09

    Snake porn at dinner → bestiality laws → the Mr. Hands documentary

    1. JR

      That look. Snake porn. He showed me a fucking guy yesterday that's having sex with a snake. I'm like, "What?"

    2. SG

      Shout out my friend Billy. (laughs)

    3. JR

      And then he, he, like, shows it to all of us while we're eating dinner.

    4. SG

      And then the waiter kept walking by.

    5. JR

      Yeah, he did that on purpose.

    6. SG

      Yeah, that was like a bit.

    7. JR

      100%.

    8. SG

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      Because it's like he, like, lingered, and then when the phone came back out-

    10. SG

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      ... then he came back in.

    12. SG

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      It wasn't ... It was the busboy.

    14. SG

      Which is a pretty funny rumor for him to have about you.

    15. JR

      What, that my friend wants to watch people fuck snakes?

    16. SG

      Now it's just like, "I waited on Joe Rogan."

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. SG

      "And he's watching snake porn and eating snakes."

    19. JR

      Yeah, he's gonna blame me.

    20. SG

      (laughs) Yeah, definitely.

    21. JR

      He's gonna blame me for you.

    22. SG

      Yeah, you're into snake porn.

    23. JR

      He had this giant dude that's 100% Irish-

    24. SG

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      ... who's just watching guys fuck snakes.

    26. SG

      Some guy with no lips just kept showing him fucking snake porn.

    27. JR

      This guy looks like he should have a mustache, but he doesn't.

    28. SG

      (laughs) Yeah, it was ... As soon as I got done shaving, I was like, "Fuck."

    29. JR

      That snake thing is wild.

    30. SG

      Yeah, it was a tough one.

  5. 10:0913:21

    Joe’s childhood: narrowly avoiding predators and how different the past was

    1. JR

      ... two molestation attempts.

    2. SG

      Really?

    3. JR

      Yeah, two.

    4. SG

      What'd you dodge? (laughs)

    5. JR

      Well, (clears throat) I dodged one of them when I was, I probably was, like, seven or eight years old. That was the scare... well, and they were both pretty scary, but that was the scarier one 'cause I was at the library and, uh, I was by myself. You know, I was a latchkey kid.

    6. SG

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      They just, my parents just let me out of the house, which, you know, at the time, was kinda normal. In retrospect, like, thinking about it now, like, I couldn't imagine letting my seven-year-old just fucking-

    8. SG

      Go to the public library.

    9. JR

      ... wander around.

    10. SG

      (laughs) Yeah.

    11. JR

      Not just that, but walk to the public library.

    12. SG

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      You know? In San Francisco. And, uh, this guy, um, I was looking at, I, you know, I was always into, like, um, horror movies and monster movies and shit.

    14. SG

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      And so I was reading these books in this, they had a section of, like, you know, monster books.

    16. SG

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      And this guy came up to me and he goes, uh, "Do you l- do you like monster books?" I go, "Yeah." And he goes, "Oh, I have some monster books in my car. You wanna see them?" I'm like-

    18. SG

      No.

    19. JR

      ... "Okay." Like, I didn't know any better. I was just-

    20. SG

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... fucking eight years old or whatever I was. And as I'm leaving with this guy, the, um, librarian starts screaming, "Joseph, you get away from that man." You know, like, "You, that g-

    22. SG

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      ... that man just got out of jail." And she, she yells at him to get out of there, and the guy runs away and I just started crying and I was like, "Whoa."

    24. SG

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      So, I dodged that bullet. And then another time when I was 13, when I was 13, we were hanging around this lake in, uh, Jamaica Plain. Uh, it was, um, this, like, uh, Jamaica Pond was this place we would go and fish. And, uh, there was another pond that was, like, this neighboring pond that was, like, slightly smaller, and this guy was always, like, running around the lake.

    26. SG

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      He was jogging. And me and my friend Josh would be hanging out and this guy would come over and talk to us. You know, he seemed like a s- super normal guy, he used to be a teacher and he had retired and, you know, looked, probably was, like, in his 60s.... and then one day, it's just me.

    28. SG

      He went for it.

    29. JR

      One day, it's just me and, uh, I'm, I'm fishing. And he comes by and he's drunk.

    30. SG

      Damn.

  6. 13:2116:11

    Small-town “everyone knows the guy” stories and To Catch a Predator talk

    1. SG

      We had a guy go for us.

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. SG

      There was a guy that used to linger. Hilarious, dude. He was, he was mentally challenged, but he would always hang out around my high school and he would go to all the, like, basketball games. One day, the... we had like a tape recorder for the national anthem to play at the beginning of games. They would just hold a mic next to a tape recorder.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. SG

      It broke, so then the mentally handicapped guy stood up and started singing. (laughs)

    6. JR

      (laughs)

    7. SG

      And the whole fucking gym was like... They started listening... Everybody just listened to the guy singing the national anthem.

    8. JR

      Oh my God. Did he get all the words right?

    9. SG

      I, I don't remember. I doubt it.

    10. JR

      (humming)

    11. SG

      I doubt it, dude. I think he was freestyling a little. (laughs)

    12. JR

      And the rocket's red glare.

    13. SG

      Yeah. But no, he would try to get you. He would go to games.

    14. JR

      Oh.

    15. SG

      But he was like, uh... Again, it was, it wasn't that long ago. It was long enough that like people were like, "Yeah, he's weird."

    16. JR

      Hmm.

    17. SG

      That old thing, where like if... Yeah, there's a town pedophile but he's a weird guy.

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. SG

      So he would like, be like, "You guys wanna play football?" And we were little kids at the high school football game playing, like, touch football. And he was like, "You guys wanna come out to my car? I have Nerf balls." And we were all like, "No, dude. Stop trying to fuck us."

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. SG

      (laughs) Like, we knew what he was doing. He just... He was like, "All right, see you guys."

    22. JR

      Did he get away with it with anybody?

    23. SG

      Probably.

    24. JR

      If you get... the mentally handicapped guy tricks you-

    25. SG

      Hmm.

    26. JR

      ... into getting into his car.

    27. SG

      Nerf balls. I got Nerf balls out of my car.

    28. JR

      That's how he gets you?

    29. SG

      And we were just fully like, "Dude."

    30. JR

      Nobody would ever like, take your advice again.

  7. 16:1123:12

    India consent laws, online horniness, and demographic dating math

    1. SG

      We might've talked about this before but I love when they get fucking Indian dudes.

    2. JR

      Why Indian dudes?

    3. SG

      'Cause they, they're just like, "Yeah." They're from India, you know what I mean?

    4. JR

      Oh, and in-

    5. SG

      And they're like-

    6. JR

      ... India you're allowed to do that?

    7. SG

      They're like, "Are, are you aware there's a 13-year-old girl?" He's like, "Yeah." (laughs) "Get the fuck outta here." (laughs) Like, "I'm trying to fuck this kid."

    8. JR

      Really?

    9. SG

      They, yeah, they get foreigners all the time that are just like, "I didn't know." What are we talking about?

    10. JR

      That you guys have laws.

    11. SG

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      Really?

    13. SG

      I feel like that's pretty-

    14. JR

      So what are the laws in India?

    15. SG

      I, I don't wanna besmirch India but-

    16. JR

      Too late.

    17. SG

      Probably.

    18. JR

      (laughs)

    19. SG

      I think if you're from rural India, you can fuck whoever's out there.

    20. JR

      Really? Well, I mean, do you think-

    21. SG

      Jamie.

    22. NA

      Help.

    23. JR

      ... in the United States-

    24. SG

      Help. (laughs)

    25. JR

      ... there's parts of the United States where the, the age of consent was very low up until recently.

    26. SG

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Like, isn't it still like 16 in some states?

    28. SG

      I'm sure. I'm sure like especially states that are very religious.

    29. JR

      How the fuck is that not like a federal thing?

    30. SG

      Uh, yeah.

  8. 23:1228:04

    Modern dating despair: Instagram competition, robots, and Fleshlight stories

    1. JR

      I don't know, man. It's, uh, the whole fucking finding the compatible person thing. Like Jesus Christ. I can't imagine it.

    2. SG

      No. Especially now with-

    3. JR

      Especially today.

    4. SG

      ... social media. That hurts, dude. You can look it up. Start talking to a girl, you scroll back. You're like, "Goddamn. She's got a lot of boyfriends in these," you know? See the-

    5. JR

      Girls have a lot of shits.

    6. SG

      ... digital foot ... the puss print.

    7. JR

      They have so many options.

    8. SG

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      A hot girl who's online. Like if you, if you, uh, are going back and forth with a hot girl. If you're a young guy now, you're a 30-year-old guy now, and there's another girl and she's 30 also.

    10. SG

      Yeah.

    11. JR

      And you go to her Instagram account. Wow, she's really pretty. 284,000 followers.

    12. SG

      Oh. I'm out. (laughs) It's over.

    13. JR

      Oh, Jesus Christ.

    14. SG

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      And then you look in the likes and the comments.

    16. SG

      It's all Drake-

    17. JR

      You know, it's all fire and hearts.

    18. SG

      It's like goddammit. Drake liked it? (laughs)

    19. JR

      Yeah. Jesus Christ.

    20. SG

      Yeah. It's over.

    21. JR

      It's all rappers in there, athletes.

    22. SG

      Oh.

    23. JR

      Black people.

    24. SG

      Fucking rock stars.

    25. JR

      Everybody just slinging dick.

    26. SG

      (laughs) Yeah. There you go. Let's get it.

    27. JR

      Everybody is just slinging dick.

    28. SG

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. SG

      It's a tough time.

  9. 28:0432:08

    NFL “Vikings,” mushrooms at Dave & Buster’s, and sports as a violence outlet

    1. JR

      Those guys are animal. I had Derek Wolfe on.

    2. SG

      I saw that.

    3. JR

      Did you see what he's talking about, like when, when he walked into the arena what he wanted to do to everyone that he saw?

    4. SG

      No. I didn't get to that.

    5. JR

      He's like, "I want," uh, he goes, "I want to fucking murder all of you."

    6. SG

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      "Just, just to smash you and kill you." And like he's walking through the crowd thinking that he just really wants to just-

    8. SG

      He was a freak.

    9. JR

      ... run into the crowd and start smashing people. (laughs)

    10. SG

      Dude, he's a monster. I love what he was saying.

    11. JR

      I mean, he didn't do anything. He's a nice guy, but those viking instincts run deep, son.

    12. SG

      Yeah. There's a dude who plays for the Bills, I was hanging out with a bunch of those guys. I did a show in Buffalo and then we went out, and uh, his name's Spencer Brown, he's a right tackle. I was on mushrooms. I went... Did I tell you this?

    13. JR

      No. (laughs)

    14. SG

      Dude, this was like the greatest night of my life. All right. Hold on.

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. SG

      This was the best night I've ever had. So I did a show in Buffalo. Then the next night it was, it was Sunday. On Sunday we went to the game. Oh, I told you this. When Gabe Davis gave me his jersey and I looked like a Down Syndrome guy. Like, "Yeah."

    17. JR

      Yes, yes. (laughs)

    18. SG

      Uh, but that night we went out to, uh, fucking Dave & Buster's. I took a ton of mushrooms. Tons. Way more than I thought I took. I was fucked up. Uh, but then, so like all the cool black dudes on the team were like hanging out, being cool. And then it was just me and like a white O-lineman. Uh, Spencer Brown is like 6'9", and I, I was just so high. I was like, "Dude, this is a Viking. This is an actual Viking."

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. SG

      "Thank God we live today-"

    21. JR

      Thank God.

    22. SG

      "... where I'm watching him play fucking video games-"

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. SG

      "... and then arcade games."

    25. JR

      You gotta give people like that-

    26. SG

      If that guy-

    27. JR

      ... some kind of distraction.

    28. SG

      If that guy got into a town, that man, it'd just be over.

    29. JR

      That's what it was, man.

    30. SG

      It's over.

  10. 32:0843:46

    Deep UFC run: GOAT debates, Usman–Edwards, and fight mechanics

    1. JR

      Back in the day, Chael Sonnen was the best guy to interview. Chael Sonnen would put up-

    2. SG

      He's in my algorithm. I get-

    3. JR

      He would put on a show.

    4. SG

      I get Chael Sonnen-

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. SG

      ... clips constantly.

    7. JR

      He's a, he's a smart dude, man. And back in the day when... He was the first guy to real, really figure out pro wrestling style promotion with, like, legit fight skills. He w- I mean, he almost beat Anderson Silva. He o-

    8. SG

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... almost won that fight. If he didn't get caught in that triangle in the last round, he would've won that fight.

    10. SG

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      And it was a grueling fucking fight, and he just kept taking Anderson down. And he beat the shit out of Nate Marquardt when Nate Marquardt was in his prime. Like, he was a real fighter.

    12. SG

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      He just was not Jon Jones. There's like, there's like levels even to savages-

    14. SG

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      ... which is so crazy.

    16. SG

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Chael was, like, a little smaller too. He, like, really shouldn't have been fighting the guys that were... And that Jon Jones range-

    18. SG

      He's soon gone, Jon Jones.

    19. JR

      ... 205, I mean, J- Jon's cutting to get to 205, Chael's fighting at 185, like, sketchy.

    20. SG

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      Like, yeah, Anderson and him, they fought at 85. Jon is big, dude.

    22. SG

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      He's big. He's big and long and strong as fuck. That's too big. Like J- when, wh- remember when Jon and him fought? It was a, a mauling.

    24. SG

      No, I don't. I don't.

    25. JR

      It was a horrific mauling.

    26. SG

      He fought Chael Sonnen?

    27. JR

      Yeah, Jon beat him up so bad that he broke his own toe pushing off the ground, smashing him. Like-

    28. SG

      There was that, was that, how much-

    29. JR

      ... pretty sure that's how he broke his toe. He broke his toe for sure in that fight.

    30. SG

      There was that crossover in the UFC where, like, dudes started, like, being athlete. Not saying Chael Sonnen wasn't an athlete, but you know what I mean? There was that, like-

  11. 43:461:11:25

    Heavyweights and rematches: Stipe, Francis, Izzy–Pereira, and ‘coolest’ fighters

    1. SG

      I was gonna ask you who he's going to kill next if it's Stipe.

    2. JR

      Yeah.

    3. SG

      Let's see this.

    4. JR

      Stipe and him are gonna fight. That's gonna be a- a different fight.

    5. SG

      But I remember-

    6. JR

      'Cause Stipe has way better wrestling than Cyril Gane. Stipe's got a shit ton of experience. Stipe can box-

    7. SG

      I remember thinking Stipe was going to die when he fought Ngannou the first time, when he beat Ngannou.

    8. JR

      Yeah, that was pretty wild. I mean, that showed how durable he is.

    9. SG

      He just survived that.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. SG

      (laughs)

    12. JR

      That showed how durable he is. But there's other fights that show, like- like, you can't sleep on Stipe's standup skills. Like Stipe's a very good boxer, very good striker.

    13. SG

      Yeah.

    14. JR

      Remember when he fought DC and he kept ripping him with that left hook to the body?

    15. SG

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      Like he hit him with a couple-

    17. SG

      Oh, it was...

    18. JR

      ... of those, and then DC was fucked.

    19. SG

      That was one of those where I was watching it, it's like when you're playing a video game and you don't know how to block the body. (laughs)

    20. JR

      (laughs)

    21. SG

      He comes out, he doesn't, uh, he just keeps doing it. He can't stop it.

    22. JR

      Well, he just did it very skillfully, man. I'm telling you. Stipe, like the- he- he would show you the jab and then dig under.

    23. SG

      Oh.

    24. JR

      And he did it multiple times. Like he just keeps h- That's also, that's the side of the liver. When you get hit on the liver, dude, it is a horrible feeling. Like your whole body just, it's like you get electrically shocked. It's like... Yeah, we hit that over and over again. He just kept digging into his body.

    25. SG

      Oh.

    26. JR

      So the thing is, it's like Stipe is not Cyril Gane. Stipe's the most successful UFC heavyweight champion ever.

    27. SG

      Jesus Christ.

    28. JR

      He defended the title more than anybody.

    29. SG

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      Yeah, I know- I know that Francis knocked him out in his last fight, so people just will dismiss. They'll say, "Oh, it's maybe he's washed up," or, "Maybe these guys are better," or maybe, but that fucking guy's been counted out from the beginning.

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