Joe Rogan Experience #1998 - Ali Siddiq

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast.…

   1. ASAli Siddiq0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out.

   2. NANarrator0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music) Hey. What's happening?

   4. ASAli Siddiq0:13

      What's happening?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      How you doing?

   6. ASAli Siddiq0:14

      I'm doing great.

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      You are a perfect example of how sometimes the universe throws you a little curveball and it turns out to work out better for you.

   8. ASAli Siddiq0:23

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:23

      We were talking about it before, right before the show, and I wanted to congratulate you on the success of your special.

   10. ASAli Siddiq0:28

       Thank you.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       Because you were in this position where HBO had decided not to air it because you had opinions. And they said, "Well, we don't agree with your opinions, so you can't have opinions that are different than ours."

   12. ASAli Siddiq0:40

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       You didn't even say anything... I didn't think it was the... It was your feelings on things, which I feel like you're allowed to have. And boom, you put it on YouTube, and boom. How many, how many views does it have now?

   14. ASAli Siddiq0:51

       Um, first one, 8.8 million.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       Million. 8.8 million. You know what the odds of you getting 8.8 million on HBO are? Zero.

   16. ASAli Siddiq1:02

       (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:02

       It's zero. It's zero. They don't have anything to get, unless you're on the fucking Game of Thrones premiere.

   18. ASAli Siddiq1:08

       Yeah. I was ready to do math in my head and everything. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:11

       (laughs)

   20. ASAli Siddiq1:12

       I was, I was thinking, it was like, "Zero. Don't even think about it."

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:15

       Zero. It's never... I t- ... I mean, maybe you gotta go back to like, Sam Kinnison. Maybe his got eight million. Maybe.

   22. ASAli Siddiq1:24

       Wow.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:25

       Yeah. I mean, not that many people watch those shows. But YouTube is beautiful. I mean, they'll fuck you on a lot of different things. They, they, they'll, they'll pull you for discussing legitimate medical studies. Like r-... This, this guy got pulled. Did you see that thing? I, I tweeted it. He was talked... He be, he got pulled off of, uh, YouTube. They killed his whole channel for reading Lancet studies on psychiatric drugs.

   24. ASAli Siddiq1:50

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:50

       Bro, it's crazy. It's crazy.

   26. ASAli Siddiq1:52

       So they, they did a study on?

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:53

       Well, it was on children and psych medications. It was on children, and I believe it was SSRIs, you know, which is antidepressants.

   28. ASAli Siddiq2:02

       Are they d-... Are they prescribing those to children now?

   29. JRJoe Rogan2:05

       (sighs) They've been prescribing them for children. They've do-... Been doing it for a long time.

   30. ASAli Siddiq2:08

       Oh, okay.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Yeah. …

   1. ASAli Siddiq15:00

      that whole (clears throat) Brand Nubian. This is the, you know, the pyramids and building of the stones and Egypt, the whole Egyptian culture, Timbuktu, the whole thing. So-

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:12

      Yeah.

   3. ASAli Siddiq15:12

      ... yeah. It's been around for a long time.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:14

      That's the wild shit. The wild shit is that if it wasn't for those stones, if everybody lived like we live today in glass houses and shit, there'd be nothing left.

   5. ASAli Siddiq15:22

      (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      There'd be nothing. What would you find in like a regular house made out of wood and glass? What the fuck is gonna be there in 10,000 years?

   7. ASAli Siddiq15:27

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:28

      Zero. Zero. There'd be nothing left, but you'd find nails. "Oh, look, I found a nail." What'd you-

   9. ASAli Siddiq15:33

      (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:33

       What would you find? You'd find a few things, but most of it would be consumed by the earth.

   11. ASAli Siddiq15:37

       Yeah, most of it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       But those guys, they figured out... They figured out something that no one... They bullshit that they could figure out how to do that today.

   13. ASAli Siddiq15:46

       What if it-

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       They don't know how to do that today.

   15. ASAli Siddiq15:47

       Well, if somebody just came up with the whole, "Let's build it with- with wood," but it was probably stone. Like, in Haiti they build with stone. They still build with... Jamaica, they still build with- with, um, stone, with the whole house made out of cement. Most places do that, that has, you know, tropical-

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:03

       Well, they have hurricanes.

   17. ASAli Siddiq16:04

       Yeah, they have tropical-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       Yeah, they have hurricanes.

   19. ASAli Siddiq16:05

       They have hurricanes.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:05

       Their houses have to be sturdy as fuck.

   21. ASAli Siddiq16:07

       Yeah. So I don't know what was going on in Egypt at that time when they was building like that.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:12

       I think they were beyond advanced. I think we are... W- uh...

   23. ASAli Siddiq16:17

       (coughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:17

       Graham Hancock has this amazing quote. He said that human beings are a species with amnesia.

   25. ASAli Siddiq16:23

       Oh, yes. For sure.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:24

       For sure.

   27. ASAli Siddiq16:24

       Oh, for sure.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:25

       And I think the way we've gone today technologically with like phones and microphones and l- video cameras and shit, like we've gone into an electronic technology.

   29. ASAli Siddiq16:35

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:35

       I think they went into another technology that was different, a different path, but way more powerful. They were able to move stones out of the mountains and move them 500 miles. They don't have any fucking idea how they did it.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Well, that's why it…

   1. ASAli Siddiq30:00

      he's he- he's been here too long." Maybe, maybe I, I was feeling cool and they was like, "Nah, he need to go work somewhere. He's doing everything. He's painting and building." Oh, I was building something every week. It was like... It was great.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:14

      Well, that's why it always drives me crazy when people say they get bored. Like how are you bored?

   3. ASAli Siddiq30:19

      How can you get bored?

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:20

      There's so much to do. So, you just gotta find the thing.

   5. ASAli Siddiq30:24

      And if it's not... I- I- I- If you don't have anything to do, just go experience something.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:29

      Yeah.... go check something out.

   7. ASAli Siddiq30:31

      I-

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:31

      Get moving.

   9. ASAli Siddiq30:32

      Anything.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:32

       Don't stay home.

   11. ASAli Siddiq30:33

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:33

       Don't just stay put. That's why you're bored.

   13. ASAli Siddiq30:36

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:36

       There's nothing coming at you. Go somewhere.

   15. ASAli Siddiq30:38

       Stay put. I haven't heard that in a long-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:40

       (laughs)

   17. ASAli Siddiq30:42

       (laughs) My grandmother-

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       Stay put.

   19. ASAli Siddiq30:43

       ... back, she would say that, 'cause back then you couldn't go into, um, couldn't take children to liquor stores.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       Mm-hmm.

   21. ASAli Siddiq30:50

       And my grandmother would get out of the car, she'd leave us in the car, "Hey, hey. Stay put." Be right (laughs) My grandmother told me be right here when she get back or she gonna beat our ass. It's like, like what? Like how'd that even come into the conversation (laughs) goes to the conversation, but she, we was right there when she got back.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:06

       Yeah.

   23. ASAli Siddiq31:07

       S- we stood put.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       Stay put. Yeah, staying around and being bored, I mean, that's of course that's what's gonna happen. People wonder why they're depressed. I mean, there's a lot of reasons why people are depressed, but some people are depressed just because they're not doing anything.

   25. ASAli Siddiq31:20

       Oh, man.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       You're just fucking f- filled with anxiety and, and you're just nothing, you're just like alone, just trying to f- think of something to do. Bored out of your fucking mind.

   27. ASAli Siddiq31:30

       Which is crazy. H- how you can't think of nothing to do when it's all outside? Like you can just, you can walk, I could walk out, it's 'cause I'm from that era when we used to play outside.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:39

       Yeah.

   29. ASAli Siddiq31:39

       So if I go outside, I'm gonna find something to do. If I find another person, we're going to find something to do.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:48

       Mm-hmm.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   See, that's everywhere in…

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

   2. ASAli Siddiq45:00

      See, that's everywhere in Houston.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:02

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   4. ASAli Siddiq45:02

      Then, so it's like that's the spot that I-

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      It's the real shit.

   6. ASAli Siddiq45:04

      That's... Yes. That's-

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:05

      Yeah.

   8. ASAli Siddiq45:06

      ... where I'm gonna go. Like, I learned how to make tamales.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:09

      Medulla.

   10. ASAli Siddiq45:09

       I learned how to make tamales in this store called Fiesta from this Mexican lady who did not speak English. And she had a, she had a granddaughter translating what she wanted me to write down.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:19

       Mm-hmm.

   12. ASAli Siddiq45:19

       And that's how I learned. I got the pots. I, I grind 'em myself, the whole nine. So it's hard for me to go places and say they... I was in-

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:28

       Mm-hmm.

   14. ASAli Siddiq45:29

       I was... Where I was at? St. Louis, Kansas City. They were talking about... Oh, think they was talking about, oh, they got the best soul food seafood place. I'm like, "Okay, cool. I'm gonna go." (sighs) I was... We eating. It was like this, "Hey, man, look, um, when you don't season your batter..." See, that's-

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:55

       (laughs)

   16. ASAli Siddiq45:55

       That's, that's a normal thing everywhere in, in Houston. It's too many fish places that I can go to eat on the... And then when Maryland talking about, "We got the best blue crab." Man, I live on the Gulf. Do you, you don't think we have blue crab here? Like (laughs) you gotta imagine. We got a lot of food here, a lot of food.

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:14

       Yeah.

   18. ASAli Siddiq46:15

       A lot.

   19. JRJoe Rogan46:16

       It's a lot. It's a good place to eat.

   20. ASAli Siddiq46:18

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan46:19

       There's some good spots in the country. There's some great food places in the country.

   22. ASAli Siddiq46:24

       I'm picky.

   23. JRJoe Rogan46:25

       Yeah.

   24. ASAli Siddiq46:25

       I'm sport-

   25. JRJoe Rogan46:25

       Oh, well, you got a specific kind of food you like to eat?

   26. ASAli Siddiq46:27

       I, I eat... That's the problem. I eat everything, all cultures, if your food is good. I live in a place that happens to have all cultures, and they have great f- If I want Af- any type of African food, I can just go on Bissonnet in Houston. I can start at any end of Bissonnet and I'm gonna find good Af- We have five Chinatowns in Houston.

   27. JRJoe Rogan46:49

       Really?

   28. ASAli Siddiq46:49

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:50

       There's five Chinatowns?

   30. ASAli Siddiq46:51

       Five Chinatowns.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   ... not getting in.…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      seen them too.

   2. NANarrator1:00:00

      ... not getting in.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      Do they just drive real slow?

   4. ASAli Siddiq1:00:03

      Man, I'm not, I'm not checking for it, fam. I'm not, I'm not doing it.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:07

      (sighs) Yeah, it's the future.

   6. ASAli Siddiq1:00:09

      No.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:09

      We're looking at that and we're saying-

   8. ASAli Siddiq1:00:11

      I, I think people don't realize that they get- they trying to get rid of you-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:14

      Yeah.

   10. ASAli Siddiq1:00:15

       ... with this. Like, like I don't do self-checkout, because it, it doesn't make sense to me. Like, why am I helping them get you outta here? And I know I wanna talk to a person if something go wrong.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:24

       Right.

   12. ASAli Siddiq1:00:24

       I don't do self-checkout. And plus, I don't come nowhere to work. I just got off work. Why would I be coming here to work?

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

       Well, you're from a different generation.

   14. ASAli Siddiq1:00:31

       Man.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

       And the generation of kids that are coming up today, do you know how many of them Uber? They don't even have cars.

   16. ASAli Siddiq1:00:35

       Crazy.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:36

       A lot of people Uber now. They just take Lyfts and Ubers everywhere.

   18. ASAli Siddiq1:00:40

       Oh, okay. Okay, what? Okay, so this generation Uber, then the next generation Uber. Who knows how to drive the car in the third generation?

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:47

       Well, then you're gonna be having these things.

   20. ASAli Siddiq1:00:50

       ... are they crazy, man.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       There's gonna be a generation, whether it's our grandchildren or their grandchildren, that never drives. That no-

   22. ASAli Siddiq1:00:56

       That's crazy.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:56

       ... no one drives their own car. Everybody has an automated vehicle.

   24. ASAli Siddiq1:00:59

       That's, like, that's, like, writing. They take writing ... Pe- kids don't learn in school how to write and not-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       They don't learn cursive.

   26. ASAli Siddiq1:01:04

       And they don't learn cursive. That's crazy to me.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       Yeah.

   28. ASAli Siddiq1:01:07

       That's insane. That's insane. It's insane.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:10

       Well, they're all just typing on their phones and type it on the computer.

   30. ASAli Siddiq1:01:12

       That don't mean get rid of, um, writing.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:16:11

   Yeah. …

   1. ASAli Siddiq1:15:00

      You put some people and you teach them and, and, and give them time to digest... Just change the whole system. They, they should have an hour to eat.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:15:09

      Yeah.

   3. ASAli Siddiq1:15:09

      And they should get a four-course meal and they should be taught things while they eating. They should be in a, a very clean environment that you have... Man, I used to love that the custodian, when I was growing up, he always wanted to... He took pride in keeping the school clean. It wasn't a job that look, was looked down upon because he did everything. He was the maintenance man and the, and the custodian. And he used to be like, "Hey, man, I got this bathroom, um, clean here. Now y'all gonna stop pissing all over the damn..." (laughs) That's how he used to talk to us. We were in the fourth grade. "Hey, stop pissing all over the damn thing." And like, I'm like, "Yes, sir." You know? And he taught you hygiene in the bathroom.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:15:49

      Mm-hmm.

   5. ASAli Siddiq1:15:49

      Like you... I think that you should change... Like I see all these, these things where they changing how they house prisoners. I get that. But change how you teach children so where you don't have to house prisoners.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:16:06

      Yes.

   7. ASAli Siddiq1:16:07

      That's-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:16:08

      Yes.

   9. ASAli Siddiq1:16:08

      ... the goal. You, you doing the shit backwards.

Episode duration: 3:18:22