Joe Rogan Experience #2046 - Brian Redban

1. 0:00 – 1:28

   World War III anxiety & prepping for grid failure

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drumming music plays) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. BRBrian Redban0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Oh.

   4. BRBrian Redban0:13

      Hey.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Hi.

   6. BRBrian Redban0:14

      Joe, what's going on?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      Hi. We are, um, at the verge of World War III.

   8. BRBrian Redban0:19

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:20

      I, I ... You know what? Here's what's crazy, man. I've been freaking out over the last, like, few weeks. Like, w- at nighttime. Like at nighttime I'll be alone and I just start thinking about the future of the world, and I start, like, legit freaking out. Like, what, what would happen if we were, like, legit Armageddon, Mad Max nuclear war. Like, how far are we away from that? And it just ... It's ... It could just give me anxiety before I go to sleep. I'd just be laying there going, "Fuck." Like, "How does this all resolve?" And then this fucking Israel thing pops up off, and now I'm, like, legit freaked out.

   10. BRBrian Redban0:53

       I've been, uh, definitely buying a lot of stuff lately for my house, like, end of the world shit. Like, I'm getting Tesla solar n- right now.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00

       That's a good move.

   12. BRBrian Redban1:01

       You know, and battery packs so I can live off the grid and ...

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       Yeah, that's a good move.

   14. BRBrian Redban1:05

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       Yeah, if you can get your house solar, that's a big move. Just fucking ... A bit of a ... Uh, you know, at a certain point in time, what is it ... What's the electricity even getting you other than keeping the lights on though? Th- what, what I'm scared of is, like, all communications are gone. Like, how m- how hard would it be to shut down our power grid? How hard would it be to blow a few satellites up and no one knows shit?

2. 1:28 – 3:17

   Starlink, UFO hype, and the Vegas backyard alien story

   1. BRBrian Redban1:28

      Yeah, that's why, like, that, that, that Starlink, the-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:31

      Mm-hmm.

   3. BRBrian Redban1:31

      You know, the satellites thing, I'm thinking about getting that even though I have, I have great internet but-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:36

      Yeah.

   5. BRBrian Redban1:36

      You know, just because, "Oh, what if?" It's ... Yeah, it's scary.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:39

      Yeah, I was in the mountains in Utah and they had Starlink and it was great. It works everywhere.

   7. BRBrian Redban1:44

      Mm-hmm.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:44

      It's real ... But people keep thinking it's UFOs.

   9. BRBrian Redban1:46

      Oh, yeah. Like, people keep filming it flying, "What is that?"

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:49

       Yeah, the dots in the air. Dude, everybody's looking for UFOs now, like, more than ever.

   11. BRBrian Redban1:53

       Yeah. Ring- ring- ring cameras are putting out a million dollar, uh, bounty if you catch something-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:59

       (laughs)

   13. BRBrian Redban1:59

       ... on your ring cameras right now. They will pay you a million dollars.

   14. JRJoe Rogan2:03

       That's good because they know-

   15. BRBrian Redban2:04

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan2:04

       ... they don't have to pay that. Yeah, exactly. (laughs)

   17. BRBrian Redban2:05

       It's like sweet, very smart.

   18. JRJoe Rogan2:07

       Did you see that one in Vegas that they captured on camera? Like, the dashboard cam of a police car caught this thing streaking through the sky and then these, this family said that it landed in their backyard and that these, uh, tall creatures got out of it and they saw the tall creatures. But then when George Knapp was, uh, going to interview them, like, uh, I think it was on two separate occasions, they, they just fucking wouldn't answer the door. (laughs)

   19. BRBrian Redban2:32

       Oh, really? (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan2:33

       Yeah, but I think also, I mean, they might have been just m- They might have made the whole story up, right? That's most likely. But also, imagine how freaked out you would be if all of a sudden the whole world wanted to talk to you because of a UFO in your backyard? And I don't know if they're legal-

   21. BRBrian Redban2:50

       Right.

   22. JRJoe Rogan2:50

       I believe they spoke Spanish. See if you can find that story 'cause it was, uh, uh, the beginning I was like, "Whoa," and then I was like, "What?" (laughs)

   23. BRBrian Redban2:58

       Right.

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:58

       You know, it's one of those things that you want it to be true so you start, you start, uh, like, going, "Whoa, what is going on with this story?" And then you read it ... And the more you read into it and the more like, "Mm."

   25. BRBrian Redban3:08

       Yeah, that's all those stories, right?

   26. JRJoe Rogan3:10

       Every one of them.

   27. BRBrian Redban3:10

       Yeah. It's never like, "Oh, the ... We filmed it on the new iPhone. Look how cr- crisp it is."

   28. JRJoe Rogan3:15

       (laughs)

3. 3:17 – 5:57

   Military UFO videos as secret tech: drones, stealth craft, and the Tic Tac

   1. BRBrian Redban3:17

      Uh ... (laughs)

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:17

      (laughs) The only ones that I ever really th- made me pause are the ones from the military guys. And the, the ones from the military guys, the more I think about it, the more I think that is some absolute top secret shit that the United States government has developed. I think they have some super high-tech drone technology that operates on some very sophisticated propulsion system that we're not aware of.

   3. BRBrian Redban3:43

      Or different countries, you know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:45

      (smacks lips) I think it's America. I think the r-

   5. BRBrian Redban3:47

      You think it's-

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:47

      ... the reason why I think it's America is 'cause these things always happen where military bases are.

   7. BRBrian Redban3:51

      Sure.

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:51

      Like, one of them happened off the coast of the Nimitz in San Diego. You know, San Diego is where all the SEALs are, that's where bunch of military base, uh, bunch of pe- There's, like, a bunch of exercises that go on in the sea outside of San Diego, so that makes sense. And they were doing f- fighter jet testing and, and, and training out there. That's how they saw this thing, so that kinda makes sense to me. And then the other ones are in the East Coast, again, in the same kinda airspace where these guys practice all the time. And I had this one guy on, Ryan Graves, and he said that when they upgraded their ... The, the equipment on their jets in 2014, I believe, that's when they started seeing all these things. That's when they were like, "What the fuck is going on?" Now, is that an accident? Like, if they wanted to find out, you know, like, whether or not these things were ... You could detect them, you know, whether or not we could employ them or deploy them rather without anybody knowing, wouldn't you test them with your own guys? Like, I would. You know, say, "Hey, here's the rules. Don't shoot at those things if you see them. We don't know what the fuck they are." (laughs)

   9. BRBrian Redban4:53

      Yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan4:54

       But they probably do know what the fuck they are, but also real aliens. I'm, I'm ... I leave everything on the table. I think if you had a pie of the UFO pie, right, most of it's bullshit. Like, a good 70, 65% is-

   11. BRBrian Redban5:13

       That's low.

   12. JRJoe Rogan5:13

       ... bullshit. (laughs)

   13. BRBrian Redban5:14

       (laughs) That's really low, Joe.

   14. JRJoe Rogan5:15

       You know me. Come on, man. I got a alien problem. (laughs)

   15. BRBrian Redban5:18

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:18

       I got a real alien problem. I got a UFO on the desk. We got a fucking alien head- Yeah. Uh, on the wall.

   17. BRBrian Redban5:24

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:24

       Um, but I'm also a realist in s- at least in some ways. And I look at it and I go, "Okay, m- s- most of it's just bullshit and then misunderstandings." So what's misunderstandings? How many of them are shooting stars, which happen all the time? I saw one the other day. It was dope. Just a light in the sky just shot up and then it dies off. I was like, "Ooh, it's pretty." Um, how many of them, uh, are just fighter jets, shit like that? Have you ever seen, like, a stealth bomber? Have you ever seen one of those?

   19. BRBrian Redban5:54

       Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan5:54

       In the sky?

   21. BRBrian Redban5:55

       Not in the sky. I mean, I s- at a air f- museum.

4. 5:57 – 10:03

   Stealth bombers look like spaceships (and fuel UFO misidentifications)

   1. JRJoe Rogan5:57

      We were filming Fear Factor in 2001 and it was right after 9/11. Uh, so we were out in, um-... pa- no, not... What's the fucking city we were at? We would go there all the time. Palmdale. So Palmdale's, like, way out there, long crack.

   2. BRBrian Redban6:16

      (smacks lips) Hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan6:16

      It's sk- it was sketchy area. But also, these big, open roads that we could close down. And so, we would do these stunts with, like, giant semi-trucks barreling down the road. And these people had to climb on the outside of the truck, shit like that. And so we were out there, and we saw this thing just flying through the air, like a fucking... something out of Star Wars. We were, we... everybody stopped. We were like, "Whoa!" It's a stealth bomber just flying through the sky.

   4. BRBrian Redban6:44

      Wow.

   5. JRJoe Rogan6:44

      They look so sick. They look, they look like they're not of this world.

   6. BRBrian Redban6:49

      You're talking about the Blackbird, right? Is that what it's called, Blackbird, or some-

   7. JRJoe Rogan6:52

      I don't... I think there's more than one of them, right?

   8. BRBrian Redban6:53

      Okay. The sexy one that's like-

   9. JRJoe Rogan6:55

      Yeah.

   10. BRBrian Redban6:55

       ... all black, and it looks like it has muscles and shit.

   11. JRJoe Rogan6:57

       It was s-

   12. BRBrian Redban6:57

       (laughs) Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan6:57

       It was sexy. It was very sexy. It was very black. It was, it was very, um, very spaceship-looking. See if you can get a video of that thing. Are there... is there more than one?

   14. BRBrian Redban7:06

       Well, there's a couple different Stealths. There's the B2 Stealth, which is probably the big one you're talking about-

   15. JRJoe Rogan7:10

       Mm-hmm.

   16. BRBrian Redban7:10

       ... on the screen.

   17. JRJoe Rogan7:12

       Oh. Yeah, that's exactly-

   18. BRBrian Redban7:14

       That's the new one.

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:14

       ... what it looked like.

   20. BRBrian Redban7:14

       That's the new one.

   21. JRJoe Rogan7:15

       That's exactly what it looked like. When I saw that thing, I was like, "Oh, my God."

   22. BRBrian Redban7:19

       There's a couple other ones.

   23. JRJoe Rogan7:20

       If you didn't know... Come on, man. And you saw that thing flying through the sky? Like, give me one of those images, like that image, uh, right there, to the right of your cursor, right there. Yeah, click on that. If you just saw that, you'd be like, "Oh, my God. We're getting invaded for sure."

   24. BRBrian Redban7:34

       Especially at night. Can you imagine-

   25. JRJoe Rogan7:36

       (sighs) Oh.

   26. BRBrian Redban7:36

       What... is there video of that at night? I bet that looks like a UFO. (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan7:39

       I bet you can't see it at night. Like, you know, the whole idea is that it evades radar. How does that even work?

   28. BRBrian Redban7:45

       Oh, here's one fl-

   29. JRJoe Rogan7:46

       Oh, this is...

   30. BRBrian Redban7:48

       That's from the ground. The camera... it looks like a plane.
5. 10:03 – 13:44

   China drone concepts, manufacturing reality, and the metric-system rant

   1. BRBrian Redban10:03

      Check this thing out. This is a Chinese drone, and it says it moves with bursts of compressed air-

   2. JRJoe Rogan10:12

      Whoa.

   3. BRBrian Redban10:12

      ... to maneuver.

   4. JRJoe Rogan10:13

      This test bed drone can influence the upcoming sixth-generation fighter design. New drone features active flow technology, which uses bursts of high-pressure air from actuators embedded in the aircraft's body for maneuvering instead of traditional moving controlled surfaces, such as... I don't know how to say that-

   5. BRBrian Redban10:30

      Hmm.

   6. JRJoe Rogan10:30

      ... air... alior-

   7. BRBrian Redban10:32

      Ailerons.

   8. JRJoe Rogan10:32

      Ailerons, rudders, and elevators. Wow. So it uses compressed air to flutter and f- and maneuver. But what does that thing do if, uh, winds are fucked up? Can it push against the winds? Like, how does that air work?

   9. BRBrian Redban10:46

      It probably falls apart. It's made in China. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan10:50

       (laughs) Bro, they made your phone.

   11. BRBrian Redban10:51

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan10:51

       They make great stuff too.

   13. BRBrian Redban10:53

       No, I'm just kidding.

   14. JRJoe Rogan10:54

       But that's the funny thing, right? We think made, made in China is cheap.

   15. BRBrian Redban10:57

       Right.

   16. JRJoe Rogan10:57

       Bitch, made in China is everything.

   17. BRBrian Redban10:58

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan10:59

       We can't make a single phone over here. That is the dumbest thing of all time.

   19. BRBrian Redban11:02

       Isn't that crazy?

   20. JRJoe Rogan11:03

       They have been talking about it on stage.

   21. BRBrian Redban11:04

       They tried, right?

   22. JRJoe Rogan11:05

       Um, not hard.

   23. BRBrian Redban11:06

       (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan11:07

       It's fucking... If China can do it...

   25. BRBrian Redban11:09

       Right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan11:09

       If th- you know, we've talked about this before, but if they made a phone in America, and you didn't have to, like, feel terrible about people working in the coal mine... the cobalt mines to get the cobalt out of the ground, and if you didn't have to feel terrible about people working 16 hours a day, sleeping in cots, jumping off the roof manufacturing it, you'd be happy to pay a little more. Okay, unlike traditional AFC, which uses high-pressure air to maneuver an aircraft, plasma AFC works by using a thin, thin membrane in front of a flying wing aircraft with i- which ionizes air molecules. The ionized air molecules generate a plasma shower that accelerates the airflow, which can keep the craft from stalling if it goes down a particular airspeed. For example, China's plasma AFC is claimed to prevent stalls even if the aircraft speed drops to unusually low 108 kilometers per hour. Isn't that funny? That's low.

   27. BRBrian Redban12:07

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan12:07

       But that's like... What is that? 108 is, like, 60-

   29. BRBrian Redban12:10

       Yeah, it's-

   30. JRJoe Rogan12:10

       ... 5, something.
6. 13:44 – 18:26

   Smartphones, cameras, foldables—and why filming fireworks is pointless

   1. JRJoe Rogan13:44

      At least we're all going USB-C now, right? (laughs) Yes. That's the one thing. That and straws. Yeah. (laughs) But they had to get threatened by Europe to go to USB-C. Yeah. Apple loves their walled garden. Ooh, they're so good at it. They're the best at it. They really are am-... That company is amazing what it's done, because it's taking something that everyone has, a cellphone, and making it so if you have theirs, it's significantly better. You can send each other videos. You can do the FaceTime. It's native to the phone. You have to- don't have to download anything. It works on everybody's phone now. It even works on an Android phone. You could AirDrop. And then if you get a new phone, all of your shit just transfers over instantly. Mm-hmm. And if you, like, uh, are a comic and you have your notes on your phone, like, oh, it's so sweet. You just like, "Oh my God, I lost my phone. I lost all my notes. No, I didn't." (laughs) Log on, bang, new phone, bang, there's your notes. Mm-hmm. You know, they're just so good. And I know Android has a lot of those features. I know it does. Usually before. Don't- don't get mad. (laughs) Yeah, they're- they're better than every, uh, uh, innovation. They're the first to make foldables. They have r- legit foldables now. You were showing me yours the other day. Yeah, the Pixel, yeah. Dude, that is sweet. Yeah. That is fucking sweet. Apple needs to jump on that. You know they will. In like two years, they'll have a- a foldable, I bet. The- they'll be way behind the curve. Yeah, but they won't have the crease, I bet. I bet- that's the big thing. I gotta tell you, it bummed me out when I found out that Samsung was faking those moon pictures. (laughs) It really bummed me out. Yeah, because you actually told me about it, or you sent me one. Yes. You were like, "Oh-" Yeah, so you were like, "I was on vacation." And that made me buy the Galaxy- (laughs) ... S21 or whatever it was at the time. Mm-hmm. I was like, "I have to get this." I... And it's still... You know, yeah, it's still fine I guess. The camera's incredible. The camera's amazing. It's a very, very, very good camera. But so is the iPhone camera. Yeah. The only thing that the Samsung camera legitimately does do is it zooms in way better. Mm-hmm. Like, they- they can zoom in from like, it's crazy zoom. I know it's electronic. It's, like, optical up to a certain extent. Five, I think, or six. Yeah, and then it go... What does Apple's do? Apple's is five and it- it zooms in, but the megapix- Yeah. Megapixels are bigger on the Galaxy S23 and stuff like that, Ultras. Right. But I mean, how... What... Where are you looking at your phone, your pictures for the most part? You're looking at them on your phone. On your phone, right. So what... How much of a difference does that make? It's not that big of a difference. It's, um, it's the quality of the lens and stuff. Like, the new iPhone, uh, is like 48 megapixels, but their new zoom is, uh, this new zoom lens, it's five t- uh, optical now. But, uh, so many of the tests show, like, the quality of the two, uh, you know, the Galaxy S23 Ultra- Mm-hmm. ... it's like almost exactly the same and it's like twice the megapixels. So megapixels doesn't really matter anymore. It's actually the detail up to a certain point of megapixels. But doesn't megapixels matter, say like if you want i-... Like, one of the things Sony has one of the most interesting phones, because Sony is out there wilding. And what Sony's done is they said, "Look, no one's buying this, but we're just gonna make a phone with the craziest fucking camera we can put on it, with the most professional features." Like, a guy like you or Jamie, J- J- Jamie really knows how to work a camera. You know, like, and a l- a lot of people that are like legit photographers, they love that Sony phone because you can... It... You go into it, it's like a computer. There's so many features and so many options. What is it called? Oh, the new one, it's on... It's- it has like- Yeah. ... the same kind of setup as like a- their, like, professional camera lens, like the menus and stuff, like the, uh... Yeah, MKBHD. ... the... Yeah. He, um, he went over it. Yeah. And- and he was just talking about like, "Who is this phone for?" It's- 'Cause it's... The camera's incredible. It does so many things. It's all the- the options are... It's for someone who really understands settings and you really wanna go... And you can make movies with that man, like legit movies with that phone. Well, that- what's funny though is that's just software for the most part. And you could actually download, uh, programs on your iPhone and do exactly the same stuff. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, so it's not- it's not the quality of the cameras? I mean, the lens is great and stuff, but I would really like to see it versus the new iPhone, and I bet the iPhone is probably better. Interesting. So if you used a similar program? Yeah. It's like, uh, Camera Raw. I forget the name of the... Do you use one of those, Jamie? Do you ever use one of them cameras?

   2. BRBrian Redban17:56

      No, if I'm taking a photo like that, I wouldn't use my iPhone. The iPhone's just like, when I'm at the concert, I just try to take the best thing I can real quick.

   3. JRJoe Rogan18:02

      Yeah.

   4. BRBrian Redban18:02

      The- the- the- the correct answer for that's the best camera is always the one you have on you, not the one you-

   5. JRJoe Rogan18:06

      Right.

   6. BRBrian Redban18:07

      ... go buy or whatever, but...

   7. JRJoe Rogan18:07

      What is the most useless film footage of all time that people never watch?

   8. BRBrian Redban18:13

      Fireworks.

   9. JRJoe Rogan18:14

      Thank you. That's what I was gonna say.

   10. BRBrian Redban18:14

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan18:14

       (laughs)

   12. BRBrian Redban18:15

       Unless- unless it's a journaling thing.

   13. JRJoe Rogan18:17

       That's what I was gonna say. That's exactly what I was gonna say. (laughs)

   14. BRBrian Redban18:17

       But unless it's like a self-journal. I was here on 4th of July, these people were with me, that was the song playing, blah, blah, blah, blah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan18:21

       Yeah, no, that's kind of cool. That's kind of cool.

   16. BRBrian Redban18:24

       But that's the... Other than that, you're never going to watch them.

7. 18:26 – 25:12

   Texas storms, fireworks, and the terror of electricity

   1. JRJoe Rogan18:26

      ... yeah, get the fuck outta here. You can buy legit fireworks in Texas.

   2. BRBrian Redban18:31

      Mm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan18:31

      And my poor boy, Marshall, Marshall, who is the sweetest-

   4. BRBrian Redban18:35

      Same.

   5. JRJoe Rogan18:35

      ... he is so scared of lightning and so scared of-

   6. BRBrian Redban18:39

      Of-

   7. JRJoe Rogan18:39

      ... thunder and, uh, fireworks rather. He won't, like, he won't sit still. Like, we'll try to, like, just watch TV with him, and he's just jumping up on the couch with you and jumping on the ground. Like, "Dude, settle."

   8. BRBrian Redban18:49

      Yeah, same.

   9. JRJoe Rogan18:50

      "It's okay, buddy."

   10. BRBrian Redban18:51

       Panting.

   11. JRJoe Rogan18:52

       I thought that if he sat next to me and I pet him, he would be cool. But nope, he's like, "I gotta get outta here. We're getting bombed."

   12. BRBrian Redban18:58

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan18:58

       Firework. And he wasn't like that before. I don't know what set it off. Moving to Texas set it off. Well, it's... I think it's because people are doing them on my block.

   14. BRBrian Redban19:07

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan19:07

       Fucking I was doing them.

   16. BRBrian Redban19:07

       And we don't have lightning really in Tex- uh, in LA.

   17. JRJoe Rogan19:10

       Right. Bro, we get some lightning out here.

   18. BRBrian Redban19:13

       It's different, right? It's not like regular lightning. It's kind of like war lightning or something.

   19. JRJoe Rogan19:17

       (laughs)

   20. BRBrian Redban19:17

       It's scary. (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan19:18

       It's real. It's real. It's the shit that the people had to face in the covered wagons when they're trying to make their way across here.

   22. BRBrian Redban19:25

       Yeah. (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan19:25

       Terrifying. One... Lightning, uh, hit right across from my house.

   24. BRBrian Redban19:29

       Mm-hmm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan19:30

       It just, it... Cracked. It was like I saw the, the c- the bolt through the sky. The sky lit up, and instantly you heard boom.

   26. BRBrian Redban19:40

       Okay.

   27. JRJoe Rogan19:40

       And I was like, "Whoa. It's right there."

   28. BRBrian Redban19:43

       I sent you, I sent you the photo of, uh, down the street from my house. Their whole house blew up from this thing of lightning. The whole thing.

   29. JRJoe Rogan19:49

       Oh, that's right.

   30. BRBrian Redban19:51

       (laughs)
8. 25:12 – 29:38

   Austin’s live scene: concerts, Post Malone stories, and Kill Tony moments

   1. BRBrian Redban25:12

      Oh, yeah. Did you go to ACL this weekend, or?

   2. JRJoe Rogan25:15

      No, no, of course not.

   3. BRBrian Redban25:16

      (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan25:16

      No, it's too cuckoo, too cuckoo for me.

   5. BRBrian Redban25:18

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan25:18

      But I've been seeing-

   7. BRBrian Redban25:19

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan25:19

      ... a lot of concerts lately. Man, Austin is such a great fucking place.

   9. BRBrian Redban25:23

      Mm-hmm.

   10. JRJoe Rogan25:23

       In terms of, like, how many artists roll through here. I used to think, like, w- like, "God, if you lived there, like, fucking you'd have to go somewhere to see everything." No, everything comes here.

   11. BRBrian Redban25:33

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan25:33

       Everything comes here; Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, every fucking band, Roger Waters. We've seen so many concerts here. It's been incredible. It's been incredible. Zach Bryan. So many concerts. So much going on here. Jelly Roll was here the other day.

   13. BRBrian Redban25:47

       Oh, yeah. He's, Jelly Roll's a cool guy.

   14. JRJoe Rogan25:49

       He is the best.

   15. BRBrian Redban25:49

       What a nice guy, huh?

   16. JRJoe Rogan25:50

       I love him.

   17. BRBrian Redban25:52

       Mm-hmm.

   18. JRJoe Rogan25:52

       He's so sweet to everybody. He's just all hugs and love. The moment I met him, you know, they told me that Jelly Roll was coming up to see Ron White, and I happened to be at the club. I wasn't even working that night. I was being, like, a manager. I was like, it was like, when the club was just, I was just sort of making sure everything was cool. And I went to say hi to Ron, and they said, "Jelly Roll's here." And I'm like, "Oh, man, I'm gonna go meet him." And when you ever meet someone famous, you're like, um, you know, "Hope he's cool."

   19. BRBrian Redban26:15

       Right. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan26:16

       You know? He's like, "My man."

   21. BRBrian Redban26:17

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan26:17

       He gives me this big hug. I'm like, "Oh, you're just how I, I thought you would be."

   23. BRBrian Redban26:20

       Yeah. (laughs) That's, I mean, that's, like, I w- that's how I was with Post Malone. I-

   24. JRJoe Rogan26:24

       Yes.

   25. BRBrian Redban26:24

       I had actually said out loud to my girlfriend, months before I'd met him, I was like, "That's one of the t- top five guys I wanna meet in person, just to hang with." Cut to months later, me and him are at Mitzi's-

   26. JRJoe Rogan26:34

       (laughs)

   27. BRBrian Redban26:34

       ... and we're drawing dick. We're having a dick-off, drawing to who-

   28. JRJoe Rogan26:37

       (laughs)

   29. BRBrian Redban26:37

       ... dra- draw the best dicks. He, he was great at it. Like, uh, he beat me. (laughs)

   30. (laughs)
9. 29:38 – 41:58

   Christian rock banger → cult leaders, Scientology, and ‘art as recruitment’

   1. JRJoe Rogan29:38

      Like, d- d- isn't is crazy? Like, which is a v-... Like, you know, that's one of those religions where, like, they put the fucking breaks on you. They tell you, you know, "You're a, you're a sinner. You know, you can go to hell for this. You know, don't fuck around." I found a song from 1970 that's a, a, a Jesus song, a pro-Jesus song, and it fucking jams, dude. It's pretty interesting. I'm gonna send this to you, Jamie. Um...

   2. BRBrian Redban30:05

      A pro-Jesus song?

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:07

      Yeah. It's, it's f- it's g-... I'll tell you the guy as soon as I pull it up. Hold on a second. My playlist is so long. I keep on saying I'm gonna publish this on Spotify, and I swear to God I will.

   4. BRBrian Redban30:17

      Uh, publish your playlist?

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:18

      Yeah.

   6. BRBrian Redban30:18

      Oh, yeah, there's definitely-

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:18

      The Green Room playlist. All right, let me share this with Jamie.

   8. BRBrian Redban30:23

      By the way, listen to Post Malone's cover of Nirvana. He did, like, uh, he just played a bunch of Nirvana songs, like, to... like, during COVID. That's how I c- found out about Post. Some of the best Nirvana covers I've ever heard in my life. He k- kills it.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:37

      He covers Sturgill Simpson too, man.

   10. BRBrian Redban30:39

       Yeah, yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       Like, he's doing, at, uh, Stagecoach, which is the thing that is connected to Coachella.

   12. BRBrian Redban30:45

       Right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       The country music one. He's gonna do a whole country set there.

   14. BRBrian Redban30:49

       No shit.

   15. JRJoe Rogan30:49

       Yeah.

   16. BRBrian Redban30:50

       Wow, dude.

   17. JRJoe Rogan30:50

       He's so talented. He's so talented. Like, when we went to see him live, we went to Houston to see his, his concert.

   18. BRBrian Redban30:57

       Oh, you did?

   19. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Yeah.

   20. BRBrian Redban30:58

       Wow.

   21. JRJoe Rogan30:58

       Fucking amazing, the energy that guy has. It's... It, like...... he just fucking goes for it. And the show is so good, the show's so solid.

   22. BRBrian Redban31:10

       Mm-hmm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       So exciting. It just really makes you wanna do better, you know? You see someone just crush it like that, you're like, "God, I wanna fucking do better."

   24. BRBrian Redban31:18

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:18

       I just... Everything I do, I wanna do better.

   26. BRBrian Redban31:20

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       You get that song?

   28. BRBrian Redban31:22

       Yeah, I was waiting for you guys, though.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:23

       Yeah, listen to this shit. This is from... I think it's from 1970. Larry Norman.

   30. BRBrian Redban31:32

       Sipping whiskey from a paper cup. You drown your sorrows till you can't stand up. Take a look at what you done to yourself. Why don't you, you put the bottle back on the shelf? Yellow finger from your cigarettes. Your hands are shaking while your body sweats.
10. 41:58 – 55:15

    Israel–Gaza escalation, Iron Dome, Iran funds, and fear of the ‘war game’

    1. JRJoe Rogan41:58

       Yeah. I know quite a few of them that are really g- ... And I think it's a compartmentalization thing. I think if you can shut off that part of your brain and just give it over to, like, an ideology, it leaves a lotta room for the other stuff. Like, how much ... Like I was telling you the other day, I'm s- sitting at home, like, wondering about the fate of the world. Are we, are we literally gonna be in a fucking mad m- ... 'Cause you don't think anything's gonna go bad until it goes bad.

    2. BRBrian Redban42:24

       Mm-hmm.

    3. JRJoe Rogan42:24

       You know, you remember the day before 9/11?

    4. BRBrian Redban42:26

       Mm-hmm.

    5. JRJoe Rogan42:26

       It was just fucking normal America. Yay, yay. And then the next day, chaos. And then everyone's riding around with an American flag on their car.

    6. BRBrian Redban42:33

       Yeah.

    7. JRJoe Rogan42:34

       Like, anything can happen, and if anything does happen, like, how, how ready, what i- ... How much is the world gonna change? I mean, do ... Like, if you think about any sort of, like, horrific natural disaster that has hit humanity since the beginning of time, whether it's super volcanoes or earthquakes or any of these chaotic things. When those things happen, when, when the Mongols roll into your town, when, you know, when Na- Nazi Germany starts taking over Europe, like, fuck. We wanna think that that can't happen, but 100% that can happen. And when I, sh- when I fucking s- ... When I'm alone at night-

    8. BRBrian Redban43:15

       ... come a little high. (laughs)

    9. JRJoe Rogan43:18

       That's the thing that freaks me out the most. The things that freaks me out the most is international conflicts between superpowers, and how they're willing to kill a certain amount of people, right? So like, how, what's the, what's the number where they won't cross that line? Because if you've got groups of people that are willing to shoot missiles into apartment buildings, and- and- and- and fly jets down, and gun people down, and you've seen all those crazy drone f-... If we're willing to kill a certain amount of people, like, what's the line where they won't cross? What's the line? Is it a million people? Is it a nuclear bomb? You know, what, uh, what is the line?

    10. BRBrian Redban43:52

        There's probably no line.

    11. JRJoe Rogan43:54

        And when you think about how much people loved America after 9/11, the whole world was, like, on America's side. And how much we've fucked that up in 23 years, or 22 years.

    12. BRBrian Redban44:05

        Yeah. (laughs)

    13. JRJoe Rogan44:06

        Fucked that up. Fuck that up. A mil- a million innocent people die because of the Iraq War. (tapping sound)

    14. BRBrian Redban44:14

        Yeah.

    15. JRJoe Rogan44:14

        I mean, fu-... That, everybody knows that too.

    16. BRBrian Redban44:16

        We need a 9/12 immediately. (laughs)

    17. JRJoe Rogan44:19

        (laughs) We probably are due for one.

    18. BRBrian Redban44:21

        Right?

    19. JRJoe Rogan44:21

        And that's what's scary. When you see... This Israel thing, like, it scares the shit out of me.

    20. BRBrian Redban44:26

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan44:27

        It scares the shit out of me, because when I see something like that happen, you know, it's like, there's no clear way this resolves peacefully. Like, this is bad. This is real bad. And- and Israel's gonna go into Palestine, and they're already bombing, and there's all the... (exhales) And is there a retaliation for that? And what happens then, and who, what other countries get involved, and fuck. Fuck, man. It just really puts into perspective that there's some shit going on that you're not thinking about, because it's not in your life. So, if you're a guy like you or I, let's say us, 'cause we're comedians, so we're hanging out at the comedy club, we're doing podcasts. That's our world. Our world is fucking around with people. Our w- our world is telling jokes. Our world is hanging out with our friends and doing shows. Their world is killing people. Their world is controlling resources, and it's not... They don't play fair. Like, they- they release stories that aren't true. They use disinformation to switch narratives. They have social media posts that aren't real so they can get people riled up about certain things. And then they're also coordinating military attacks. That's their world. We just don't think about that world, 'cause we're not in that world. But people have been in that world since the beginning of time. What they've done with us is they've sheltered us in such a way, and then censored all the mainstream media in such a way that they completely control the narrative of how you think about h-... what can and cannot happen in the world, and why these things are happening. And we're seeing that right now. We're seeing that, like, in your face, where you're like, "What?" And you're also seeing people with massive amounts of conspiracies now, right? And whenever something like that happens, there's always the people that are like, "How did they not know this was gonna happen?" Like, isn't this the most sophisticated surveillance systems in the world? This, like... I- i- Israel is the, they're the people that invented Pegasus. That's that shit that gets on your phone, where they can listen to anybody, and they have like, they're c-... They have that Iron Dome that protects them against missiles. Did you ever see that working?

    22. BRBrian Redban46:42

        Mm-mm.

    23. JRJoe Rogan46:43

        They were just showing it the other night.

    24. BRBrian Redban46:44

        Yeah.

    25. JRJoe Rogan46:44

        It's... Show videos of the Iron Dome working. It's crazy. So, as Hamas is launching these missiles, they're shooting missiles at the missiles and blowing them up in the sky.

    26. BRBrian Redban46:54

        Oh, okay.

    27. JRJoe Rogan46:54

        It's wild. Look at this.

    28. BRBrian Redban46:55

        Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's old school Missile Command. Remember that video?

    29. JRJoe Rogan46:59

        Yeah.

    30. BRBrian Redban46:59

        (laughs)
11. 55:15 – 1:21:00

    Politics, polarization, and ‘President AI’ as a dangerous solution

    1. JRJoe Rogan55:15

       Unless they decide to, like, nuke Dallas.

    2. BRBrian Redban55:19

       Yeah.

    3. JRJoe Rogan55:20

       You know, one of the things that people are really concerned with is, like, what if terror cells have gotten in across the border? When you're letting in hundreds of thousands of people across the border, what are the odds that a few of them are terrorists? Well, haven't they caught terrorists at the border? Haven't they, like, caught terrorists, people on the terrorist watch list trying to get through?

    4. BRBrian Redban55:40

       Oh.

    5. JRJoe Rogan55:40

       They have, right?

    6. BRBrian Redban55:40

       Yeah, definitely.

    7. JRJoe Rogan55:42

       So, how many of them snuck through? I mean, uh, is there an accurate accounting or is it like Ukraine's spending? (laughs)

    8. BRBrian Redban55:48

       (laughs)

    9. JRJoe Rogan55:48

       Like, the account... Do, do they even know the real numbers of people that are sneaking in? 'Cause the numbers are cuckoo. The numbers are like hundreds of thousands a month. Have you seen the videos of the line of migrants making their way through the border?

    10. BRBrian Redban56:01

        Mm-hmm.

    11. JRJoe Rogan56:02

        Like, who thought that was a good idea?

    12. BRBrian Redban56:04

        (laughs) Seriously.

    13. JRJoe Rogan56:05

        Who thought that was a good idea to, like, let potential terrorists and criminals into the country?

    14. BRBrian Redban56:10

        That's why you need to build this wall, Joe.

    15. JRJoe Rogan56:12

        Because if you don't, if you s-

    16. BRBrian Redban56:13

        (laughs)

    17. JRJoe Rogan56:13

        ... if you say that you're against that, you're racist?

    18. BRBrian Redban56:15

        Right. (laughs)

    19. JRJoe Rogan56:16

        Which is wild.

    20. BRBrian Redban56:18

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan56:18

        Wild. And you gotta wonder how much of that is engineered by other countries, how much of that is, like, engineered social media outrage by Russia.

    22. BRBrian Redban56:26

        China buying up all our properties. That's crazy, you find out that China owns so much. (laughs)

    23. JRJoe Rogan56:34

        I did. I was in, uh, Greece this summer, and when you're walking around those ruins and you see, like, what it used to be, y- and you go, "I wonder if they saw it coming. I wonder if they thought this building was gonna be here, perfect, forever, they'd be operating their government outta this building." You know, it's probably been thousands of years, they were running it like that. Nope.

    24. BRBrian Redban56:53

        Hmm.

    25. JRJoe Rogan56:53

        Go back now, it's just rubble. Like, when, when it happens, does anybody know it's gonna... Or, is it like right now, where you're like, "Boy, it seems like we're at the brink of everything falling apart"? Chaos. Like, just the amount of things that people have to be upset about, an amount of polarizing things, whether it's trans kids or climate change or pro-life or pro-choice or pro-Ukraine or whatever the subject is, everybody's screaming. Everybody's convinced on one side that it has to be this way, and everybody on the other side is like, "Those people are the end of civilization. Those people are the fucking death of democracy." It's so polarized, and I think that has to be social media and some of that has to be engineered, some of that h- We know that there's a ton of trolls out there that aren't really people, that are either from another country or maybe from our country, that are just literally designed to stir shit up and attack things and go after stuff. And then, when you find out that our own government was actually censoring social media and contacting Twitter and telling them to delete posts or trying to get them to delete things that... You know, they tried to get Facebook to delete this Tucker Carlson thing that turned out to be true. It was true. What he was saying was accurate. And they were like, "We can't delete it because it's accurate." So, they, they lessened its, um, reach by 50% 'cause the government told them to, to, to hide the truth. The government told them to hide the truth. Like, that's... In this age, where everything's going crazy and no one knows what's right and what's wrong? That's scary, man.

    26. BRBrian Redban58:41

        Yeah, but that's what's happening in Canada right now.

    27. JRJoe Rogan58:43

        Oh.

    28. BRBrian Redban58:43

        You know? (laughs) Full-blown, full-blown.

    29. JRJoe Rogan58:46

        (laughs) I wonder if my podcast will even be able to air in Canada.

    30. BRBrian Redban58:48

        Probably not, right?

Episode duration: 3:07:10