Joe Rogan Experience #1969 - Sam Tallent

Sam Tallent is a stand-up comic, writer, and actor. He is one of the hosts of the "Chubby Behemoth" podcast, and author of the novel "Running the Light." www.samtallent.com

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0:00 – 2:19
Comics vs. self-critique: why watching your own set hurts
1. NANarrator
  (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Oh, wow. You have been running some talent. Get them headphones and join the fucking party. Get the microphone up about, like, a fist from your face. Yeah.
3. STSam Tallent
  Jamie, how's this? Do I sound powerful and elegant?
4. NANarrator
  You are.
5. STSam Tallent
  Thank you.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Bro, you are powerful and elegant.
7. STSam Tallent
  Thanks, man.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  You are enough.
9. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) I appreciate that.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
11. STSam Tallent
  I'm good enough.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  I had a friend of mine, and, uh, she was asking me something just about comedy. And I go, "I just... I... You know, no one li-... I don't like my stuff. Like, no one likes their stuff."
13. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  "Like, you see it too much, it just, like, it gets in your head." And you're like, "Ugh." You're like, you gotta... I look at it like a hater, and she goes, "I just want you to know, no matter what, that you are enough." I go, "What?"
15. STSam Tallent
  (laughs)
16. JRJoe Rogan
  I go, "No, no, no. That's not what I'm saying." I'm not saying, like, like, I don't like my stuff, like I have a problem-
17. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  ... like I'm a crazy per-... No, I'm just, like, that's just the process.
19. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, I feel good.
21. STSam Tallent
  Right.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, if... But that thing that people say to people, "You are enough. I just want you to know that you are enough."
23. STSam Tallent
  Look, I don't need validation from you, lady. (laughs)
24. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) She's a nice lady.
25. STSam Tallent
  I'm sure she's a nice lady.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  She's a very nice lady. She's not-
27. STSam Tallent
  But I don't think you're going to her to be like, "Can you hold my hand through this difficult period?"
28. JRJoe Rogan
  I think some people do do that to people, and they go fishing for that kind of response.
29. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  That, "You are enough." I'm like, "No, no, I'm, I'm okay."
2:19 – 5:12
Baldness, beards, and the Amish grooming rulebook
1. STSam Tallent
  Have you always... How long have you been shaving your head?
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Um, (inhales deeply) 12 years?
3. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Something like that.
5. STSam Tallent
  I'm going there, man.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, it's way better.
7. STSam Tallent
  Yeah?
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't think about it anymore. It's like, oh, it's like one less thing to think about, if you have a good-shaped head.
9. STSam Tallent
  I don't.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, peo-... Some people have flat heads.
11. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, their head's flat, but now you got a new joke about having a flat head.
13. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, then I have to turn around or have a mirror behind me.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  That's fine.
15. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) Yeah, it's all right.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Give 'em a little fucking-
17. STSam Tallent
  I'm gonna get into props.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Just give 'em a little look of the flat.
19. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) Yeah. No, I don't have a good head. It's bumpy. I think if I shaved my head, I would go muttonchops.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
21. STSam Tallent
  I would leave the chops.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Why don't you go fucking full Sufi beard?
23. STSam Tallent
  (laughs)
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, just lower, just a lower beard, like, from Dagestan.
25. STSam Tallent
  Just, just Amish- (laughs)
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, right here?
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, Amish.
29. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Go underneath the chin.
5:12 – 6:45
Cult vs. religion—and why people need a belief package
1. JRJoe Rogan
  It is fucking weird though, man. That it's- it's... You know what's weird, is that when people do a really shitty job, it's a cult. When they do a really good job, it's a religion. But it's basically the same system that it works on in the human brain.
2. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  It works on the same mechanisms. Like, someone has all the answers, and they have a connection to a higher power.
4. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  That's why... You know, one of the things that creeps me out about, um, uh, atheism, it's not atheism itself. It's that, I think, that tendency to just find a group of ideas that you will wholesale subscribe to is, like, built into us. I think it's a cultural thing, like war. And I think when people don't have that-... if, if it's not, like if they don't have Christianity or Islam or Buddhism or Judaism, whatever they don't have, they'll put it into something else. I think that, I think it's a normal part of being a person for some strange reason.
6. STSam Tallent
  Well, yeah, it's, we were trying to find community all the time, right?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh-huh.
8. STSam Tallent
  We're seeking, uh, ways to like make whatever our small group is, uh, be safe and maybe work with other like-minded groups. And when it comes to, like, atheism, it's wild when people become fundamental about that.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
10. STSam Tallent
  You know? Like when you're devout to the idea of atheism, it's like-
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Exactly.
12. STSam Tallent
  ... I don't think there's anything after this, you know, but I'm also not gonna like become an apostate from any other ideas, you know.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't know why anybody would be sure one way or the other.
14. STSam Tallent
  Oh, I don't know, 'cause you have to be, I think.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Unless some... Well, it would help you if you were.
16. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
6:45 – 9:22
Living “as if God is real”: meaning, morality, and motivation
1. JRJoe Rogan
  So the thing about it, like Jordan Peterson says this, that you should live your life as if God is real.
2. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  And if you live your life as if God is real, you, you will definitely live a better life. I was like, that's a very interesting way of thinking about it because if you're wrong, there's no consequences.
4. STSam Tallent
  Right.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  'Cause you j- you just die. But if you're living that way, at the very least, you'll have less anxiety.
6. STSam Tallent
  Oh, for sure.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  You'll have more of a sense of purpose.
8. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  And you'll probably do the right thing more often, 'cause you'll be sort of like aiming to that, like looking to do, like as a good Christian... Like I, I know a lot of people that are Christian that are really good people and it's because they aim towards that. They think about that all the time.
10. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  They think about, what would God want me to do? They think about, what does God teach? And they, like, they're aiming in that. They're still human. They're still... We're all fucked.
12. STSam Tallent
  For sure.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  But they're aiming in that direction.
14. STSam Tallent
  Let's underline that. We are all fucked.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah. We're all fucked. The whole-
16. STSam Tallent
  Let's not forget that.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  The whole population is fucked.
18. STSam Tallent
  I don't like when people do things, uh, because they are trying to cash checks in heaven.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Hmm.
20. STSam Tallent
  I do like it when you're just doing it-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
22. STSam Tallent
  ... because it's the right thing to do.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
24. STSam Tallent
  Like when a home, when you give a homeless guy five bucks and he's like, "God bless you."
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
26. STSam Tallent
  I'm the kinda dickhead who's like, there's no God involved in this.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
28. STSam Tallent
  This is one man trying to help one man.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, but-
30. STSam Tallent
  I'm doing this because I think it's gonna benefit you, not because I'm trying, you know, trying to get up to the big man.
9:22 – 14:31
Dalai Lama controversy and the boundaries of “intimacy”
1. JRJoe Rogan
  ... being a... Did you see the Dalai Lama sucking on that kid's tongue?
2. STSam Tallent
  Of course, yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  What the fuck?
4. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) Oh, yeah.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Could you... What?
6. STSam Tallent
  Slurping a boy tongue.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  In front of a bunch of people.
8. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Like what-
10. STSam Tallent
  A whole bunch of people.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  What the fuck?
12. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) You thought you were gonna get away with this?
13. JRJoe Rogan
  What the, what the fuck?
14. STSam Tallent
  (laughs)
15. JRJoe Rogan
  What the fuck is that? I watched it, I was like, "This is wild."
16. STSam Tallent
  Oh.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  I remember they tried to cancel him a few years back because, uh, he was talking about marriage and they said, "You have a, you took a vow of celibacy. Like, how do you feel about this?" And he's like, "I have so many friends and, uh, they're married and, uh, and then they get divorced and they're not happy and then the woman takes all their money. Ha ha ha ha."
18. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  And this woman said something to the tune of, "Well, you know, some women, um, they make money too." He's like, "Ha, good one." (laughs)
20. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) High five.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  It was, it was something, something, "Oh, sure." Uh.
22. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) Yeah, now I've heard everything, lady.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  It was one of those-
24. STSam Tallent
  (laughs)
25. JRJoe Rogan
  ... fucking... It was a weird interview man, but it was weird like, he's like-
26. STSam Tallent
  (laughs)
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... parroting out these tropes.
28. STSam Tallent
  Right.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, about, uh, marriage and divorce and it's really funny. It's like, 'cause some of them fail, but this is supposed to be a spiritual leader.
30. STSam Tallent
  Right, he's supposed to be like-
14:31 – 21:39
Why humans kiss (and what you can catch from it)
1. JRJoe Rogan
  But what I'm getting at is like it's inter- it's interesting that like kissing is such an intimate act. I- like it clearly is. But I wonder how that got e- even got started, like people's breath must have been horrible back in the day.
2. STSam Tallent
  Oh, there were rotting meat in there.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, God. No-
4. STSam Tallent
  Oh.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  No dentists.
6. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, just-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Your teeth all fell out.
8. STSam Tallent
  Uh-huh.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  And they most li- like they got knocked out. You probably got infections from cracked teeth, from getting hit-
10. STSam Tallent
  Oh, yeah.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  ... with rock.
12. STSam Tallent
  Uh-huh.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  You know?
14. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  I bet a lot of people died from like mouth infections and shit.
16. STSam Tallent
  Well, yeah. You're like trying to eat everything you find.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you don't even know what's edible.
18. STSam Tallent
  Yeah. Uh-huh.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  And w- when did they start kissing?
20. STSam Tallent
  I don't know.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Let's find that out.
22. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Let's take a guess. When do you think, uh, kissing was invented? What if it was like 1900? (laughs)
24. STSam Tallent
  Yeah. Whenever France became a country. (laughs)
25. JRJoe Rogan
  What if like nobody kissed until like the 1900s?
26. STSam Tallent
  It was a revolution.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna guess it's like some Mesopotamia shit.
28. STSam Tallent
  For sure.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, I'm gonna guess that it started like thousands of years ago.
30. STSam Tallent
  Cradle of civilization.
21:39 – 26:47
Weed panic attacks, body talk, and getting healthier on the road
1. JRJoe Rogan
  It's marijuana.
2. STSam Tallent
  Oh, I'm good, man.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  You scared of that shit?
4. STSam Tallent
  I used to smoke it 24/7.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  What happened?
6. STSam Tallent
  I started having panic attacks.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Ah.
8. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Interesting.
10. STSam Tallent
  It started giving me, like, heart attack symptoms.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Those are fun.
12. STSam Tallent
  No. I rode it out too. I tried for, like, three years after that shit started happening. I would just be, like, getting high in a car, and I'd feel, like, something flutter in my chest, and I'd be like, "Well, this is how I go down," waiting in line at Chick-fil-A.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Maybe it was the wings of angels.
14. STSam Tallent
  It could've been, yeah. (laughs)
15. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
16. STSam Tallent
  It was that LDS lady. (laughs)
17. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
18. STSam Tallent
  That Mormon lady who loves snake oil so much-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Maybe it was.
20. STSam Tallent
  ... she believes in Capricorns.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  In the arms of the angels.
22. STSam Tallent
  I'll see you later.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  That's what it is. That's the flittering. That's the flittering inside of you.
24. STSam Tallent
  I mean, when I go down, I'm gonna go down in a big, bold way.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  You think so? You're thinking about it?
26. STSam Tallent
  Of course, all the time.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  How often? How old are you now?
28. STSam Tallent
  35.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  You look good for 35.
30. STSam Tallent
  (laughs) Come on. (laughs)
26:47 – 31:17
Bill Burr clip: chasing the dream and finding joy in the grind
1. JRJoe Rogan
  There's a great video that we put up on the Mothership, uh, Instagram site, and it's Bill Burr. And Bill Burr is talking about-
2. STSam Tallent
  Oh, yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  You know that video?
4. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, where he was, uh, sleeping on a couch?
5. JRJoe Rogan
  So let's play it. Let's play it because it's fucking... What he says is amazing. It- it's... And it, like, speaks to every comic who got through that and made it.
6. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  And every comic who's in the middle of it right now. It's online too. You can find it online.
8. NANarrator
  You don't. It always leads to something better. Always. All right?
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Re- reset it, because he said, "Don't, you-"
10. NANarrator
  Starving artist.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  "... don't hurt yourself going for a dream."
12. NANarrator
  ... lose when you go after a dream.
13. STSam Tallent
  Here it is.
14. NANarrator
  You don't. It always leads to something better. Always. All right? Starving artist. I slept on a futon till I was 36. I don't fucking regret any of it. I was dating this woman, and I said I had a spot I had to go do, and it, it paid $8 at the Comic Strip during the week, a Tuesday night. I went down there, and I came back. I tried on a new bit, and I was doing a s- And afterwards, I was at home in my apartment, and I was doing this silly dance in the kitchen 'cause I had a new bit, and I was psyched because I had gone through this period where I wasn't coming up with any new material. And she was laughing, and then she got a sad look on her face. And I said, "What's the matter?" And she said, "I wish I had a job where I only got paid $8, yet I came home, and I did a silly dance in the kitchen." The responsible thing to do is to listen to your heart. It wasn't hard to work at the shitty job because I was always thinking about the exciting job I was gonna do afterwards. And every night that I just went up on stage, and if it just went moderately okay, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't bel- I, I have to be honest with you. Like, I, I, I couldn't fucking believe that I was actually doing it, that I was actually... I had a dream, and I was making it happen. And I still remember the first time I really went on stage and I actually got in the zone for what was considered a zone at the level of comic I was. And I only was in the zone for about eight seconds. Um, I was at Nick's Comedy Stop in Framingham on Route 9. It doesn't even exist anymore. And, um, I just got on this roll of laughter that I was actually able to pause and fucking be in the moment and enjoy it rather than being like, "Oh my God, what's my next joke? What's my next joke?" And, um, that fucking feeling can carry you through a fucking shitty job for a week. Freddie Stone, excitable boy. It's what he went by. (laughs) I did a room for him, and he gave me $5 gas money. I'd probably spent 10 to get there, and I couldn't fucking believe it. And I was like, "I did that, and they gave me this." I couldn't fucking believe it. At what point... Just listen to the sound of my voice as I'm talking about this. Have you ever had that level of excitement doing any other fucking job? That's what it's like when you're, you, you go after, uh, a dream job. So, nothing, nothing is worse than not going after it.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Yee-haw.
16. STSam Tallent
  Gets me fucking fired up, dude.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yee-fucking-haw.
18. STSam Tallent
  Yes.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  (clears throat)
20. STSam Tallent
  I had no regrets. I was eating out of dumpsters.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
22. STSam Tallent
  I was sleeping on floors.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  You ate out of dumpsters?
24. STSam Tallent
  Hell yeah, dude.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  What'd you get out of a dumpster?
26. STSam Tallent
  You'd go to 7-Eleven, and you would get... When they threw out the chicken wings and the pizza.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Would you like... Did you time it-
28. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, he knew the time.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  ... so that as it hit the, the dumpster, you could get in there quick?
30. STSam Tallent
  There was a window, you know?
31:17 – 34:42
Greyhound adventures, Black church energy, and viral ‘delivered’ comedy
1. STSam Tallent
  I was the only white boy on a bus from Houston to Lafayette, Louisiana.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  How was that?
3. STSam Tallent
  It was awesome. (laughs)
4. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
5. STSam Tallent
  It was a mobile party, dude. It was like a Cameo video.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
7. STSam Tallent
  Yeah. 'Cause I was sitting in the back, and then the bus loaded up and, uh, people were passing around bottles of gin, and I had a weed hash pen.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh. (laughs)
9. STSam Tallent
  So as soon as that gin bottle hit me, they all, like, looked at me and I was like... And then I hit the weed pen and blew it out, and everyone was like, "All right." And then the pen circulated. By the time I got off that bus, I was blackout drunk.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
11. STSam Tallent
  But boy was I invited to a lot of barbecues. (laughs)
12. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
13. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  That's awesome.
15. STSam Tallent
  It was awesome, man.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  That's awesome.
17. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. They do church better. They do buses better.
19. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Black folks got a lot of sh- stuff figured out-
21. STSam Tallent
  Very admirable.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that white people haven't figured out yet.
23. STSam Tallent
  Yeah. We're so uptight, man.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well, their church is definitely more fun.
25. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, they have gospel music.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  There's no more fun in America than the, the Black churches. They, they dance and sing and-
27. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that's why you s... I'm sure you've seen that video of, uh, Biden at a Black church.
29. STSam Tallent
  Oh, yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  And he's just standing there, like, not no... Everybody's, like, having a great fucking time.
34:42 – 52:51
Epstein Island, conspiracies, and the problem of proving anything now
1. JRJoe Rogan
  How... Okay, here's the suck my tongue thing.
2. STSam Tallent
  (laughs)
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Here's the problem with that video. Here's the problem with that.
4. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  The whole, the, the Dalai Lama thing. 'Cause the, the, the tinfoil hat, 4chan-style conspiracy theory is that there's elite pedophiles that run the world.
6. STSam Tallent
  Uh-huh.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Right? And I was... I'm always reluctant to buy into that. But then I watch a few documentaries.
8. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  And then I read a few cases. And then I... You, you hear about the Epstein, the island thing.
10. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  And then, you know, he gets out of it the first time.
12. STSam Tallent
  Boys Town, the Franklan scandal.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  There's a bunch of those.
14. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  And you go, "How?" Like, does that still exist? Like, is it happening right now?
16. STSam Tallent
  Yeah. Yes.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Is it... And someone's gonna uncover it. We... The Catholic Church.
18. STSam Tallent
  Uh-huh.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  How crazy is that?
20. STSam Tallent
  The Dalai Lama.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  The Dalai Lama.
22. STSam Tallent
  I mean, who knows? You know, maybe he's just-
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Who knows?
24. STSam Tallent
  Yeah. I don't wanna-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Maybe he just likes tongue-sucking.
26. STSam Tallent
  ... dismerch the Dalai Lama.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Maybe he just thinks it's fun.
28. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  It's funny and silly to suck a tongue.
30. STSam Tallent
  It was a bit he was doing?
52:51 – 58:52
From Pedophile Island to the LA River: pollution, runoff, and reality checks
1. JRJoe Rogan
  The LA River is a weird thing, man, 'cause it's-
2. STSam Tallent
  It's barely a river.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  You know what it really is? It's an excuse to pollute the ocean.
4. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  That's really what it is.
6. STSam Tallent
  How so?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Because it runs ... It's covered in cement. It's just a big cement thing and it runs straight into the ocean.
8. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  So anytime it rains, all the shit from all the streets gets in that water.
10. STSam Tallent
  Ugh.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  All the shit, and then that shit goes out into the ocean. There was a guy that I used to take yoga with. He was a yoga instructor from Australia. In Australia, he surfed all the time and so when he came to America, that's one of the reasons why he wanted to teach out here on the coast, or out there on the coast is that he could surf all the time. And no one told him to not surf after the rain.
12. STSam Tallent
  Oh, shit.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Because apparently when you surf after like heavy rain, like it's been raining like now, all the pollution from all of the oil and all the cars and all the fucking bottles and cans and everything-
14. STSam Tallent
  Used needles.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  It all just goes out that big, giant cement trough-
16. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  ... into the ocean.
18. STSam Tallent
  Just a bunch of spec scripts in there.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  See if you can find what it looks like, what the LA River looks like. Like there was a-
20. STSam Tallent
  This is, this is where they ... Like the big concrete enclosure-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Exactly.
22. STSam Tallent
  ... where they have car races and all the Fast and the Fur- Furious movies?
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Exactly.
24. STSam Tallent
  Yeah, yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  A lot of times it's dry.
26. STSam Tallent
  Okay.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  And sometimes ... And people fish in it.
28. STSam Tallent
  Ugh, God.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  There's, there's videos of guys fishing in it and catching the fish and eating them and cooking-
30. STSam Tallent
  No. What's in there?
58:52 – 1:05:19
Nature is brutal: predators, falconry, and ‘murder hornets’
1. STSam Tallent
  Mine's all, like, uh, tours of the Amsterdam River and shit.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Today, I spent quite a fit of time, quite a bit of time watching an eagle paralyze a hyena.
3. STSam Tallent
  Wow.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  He had landed on the hyena's back and he's pulling the hyena's spine apart.
5. STSam Tallent
  Oh, I like that.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  And the hyena has ... His back legs aren't working, so he's trying to drag himself away-
7. STSam Tallent
  Oh.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  ... from this eagle.
9. STSam Tallent
  Like Le- Lieutenant Dan.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  With his ... He's bouncing around. He's actually incredibly strong. He can actually, like, suspend his back legs and move with his front arms 'cause hyenas are that strong.
11. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  But this eagle's eating his back. It's wild to watch. It's like-
13. STSam Tallent
  I couldn't escape an eagle.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  ... Jesus Christ, nature so brutal.
15. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  You ever see the Mongolians when they, uh, have, uh, eagles-
17. STSam Tallent
  Of course.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  ... on their arms and they chase 'em after wolves?
19. STSam Tallent
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  They let 'em go to kill wolves.
21. STSam Tallent
  Mm-hmm. Yeah, and they have those hoods for the eagles and the hawks. That's a beautiful life, living on the Mongolian steppe, just eating horse milk all the time, hunting with a bird.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Back in the day.
23. STSam Tallent
  I mean, currently.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't think those guys do it all the time.
25. STSam Tallent
  I think they have competitions out there.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  What's that right there?
27. NANarrator
  Well, I, I ... There's another video I saw I was trying to find, but this popped up too. There's people that do, like, drive-by falconry.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  What the fuck?
29. STSam Tallent
  Oh my God, so you throw him and he just jacks a bird.
30. NANarrator
  Yeah.