Joe Rogan Experience #2061 - Whitney Cummings

1. 0:00 – 1:41

   Cold plunge, pregnancy questions, and club “supplements” (smelling salts & kratom)

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:00

      (drum roll) 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)

   4. WCWhitney Cummings0:12

      Like, could that induce labor, getting in a cold plunge eight months pregnant?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Ask Jamie, he would know.

   6. WCWhitney Cummings0:17

      Jamie, get on that. I'm sure there's a Reddit forum for that.

   7. JVJamie Vernon0:20

      Last time I tried.

   8. WCWhitney Cummings0:21

      (laughs) Last night with those smelling salts, people doing the smelling salts, I was like, "If I even inhale that, I feel like I'm gonna start crowning."

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:29

      Yeah. It's very funny how those smelling salts have made their way from the studio to now at this-

   10. WCWhitney Cummings0:35

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       ... at the club. Everybody's doing smelling salts. (laughs)

   12. WCWhitney Cummings0:38

       Between the kratom and the smelling salts, I'm like, I feel like-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       You gotta, you gotta keep the kratom away from Duncan.

   14. WCWhitney Cummings0:43

       (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:43

       That motherfucker drinks cases of that stuff.

   16. WCWhitney Cummings0:46

       He just downs them. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       It's so crazy. We get there.

   18. WCWhitney Cummings0:49

       And is kratom naturally occurring? It's like a...

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       It's a plant.

   20. WCWhitney Cummings0:53

       Plant? Okay.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:53

       Yeah. It's k- that stuff is, uh, the Live Free or whatever it's called.

   22. WCWhitney Cummings0:58

       Hmm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:58

       What are those things called, Jamie?

   24. WCWhitney Cummings1:00

       Hmm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01

       What is it called? Live Free? Something like that.

   26. WCWhitney Cummings1:03

       That's the brand?

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       I don't know.

   28. WCWhitney Cummings1:05

       Hmm.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:05

       But they used to have them at, like, um, Sun Life, you know that place?

   30. WCWhitney Cummings1:10

       Organics?
2. 1:41 – 5:09

   What kratom feels like, weed-for-performance, and the drug culture of pool halls

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:41

      Well, it's kind of an opiate. It's ki- uh, I don't know. What exactly is kratom?

   2. WCWhitney Cummings1:46

      And it's legal?

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:46

      It kinda is an o-

   4. WCWhitney Cummings1:47

      It's legal?

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:48

      Yeah, it's legal. Totally legal.

   6. WCWhitney Cummings1:50

      Okay.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:50

      I had a guy that was on my podcast once that, uh, used to be an opiate addict, and then he started taking kratom.

   8. WCWhitney Cummings1:55

      Mm-hmm.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:56

      And, uh, he's- they were selling it as pills, and he said, "Well, if you take a small amount of it, it actually acts as, like, a stimulant. But if you take a larger amount of it, it's, it's a different effect."

   10. WCWhitney Cummings2:04

       Hmm.

   11. JRJoe Rogan2:05

       So I said, "How many do you take?" He says, "I take 10."

   12. WCWhitney Cummings2:08

       Oh.

   13. JRJoe Rogan2:08

       I go, "You take 10?"

   14. WCWhitney Cummings2:10

       Okay.

   15. JRJoe Rogan2:10

       He goes, "I take 10 before I work out." I'm like, "Okay, I'll try it." So I took 10, and I was high as fuck.

   16. WCWhitney Cummings2:17

       (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan2:18

       It's a weird high, because it's like I felt like, um... You know, I'm, I'm pretty aware of my body, so I'm like, my motor skills feel perfect.

   18. WCWhitney Cummings2:29

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan2:29

       Like, I don't feel like anything's wrong. Like, I feel like I could go do stuff.

   20. WCWhitney Cummings2:33

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan2:33

       Like, I'm not like, "Uh," like shit, like drunk or anything like that. I go, but I'm definitely affected.

   22. WCWhitney Cummings2:39

       Mm-hmm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan2:39

       So what is this? Like, would this affect judgment? Would this affect your reaction time? Like, sh- I shouldn't drive like this.

   24. WCWhitney Cummings2:46

       But pain tolerance down, that's probably good for working out.

   25. JRJoe Rogan2:48

       I guess. Is it, though? Like-

   26. WCWhitney Cummings2:50

       I did kinda use to like to smoke weed and work out.

   27. JRJoe Rogan2:53

       I like smoking weed and work out.

   28. WCWhitney Cummings2:54

       So I feel like I could do more.

   29. JRJoe Rogan2:54

       Yeah. Well, smoking weed and working out makes me feel like I know what my muscles are doing.

   30. WCWhitney Cummings3:00

       Yeah, you like feel-
3. 5:09 – 11:31

   Crack vs fentanyl clip, sentencing disparities, and overdose realities

   1. WCWhitney Cummings5:09

      Have you seen this video where Boosie, the rapper is endorsing crack over fentanyl?

   2. JRJoe Rogan5:14

      (laughs)

   3. JVJamie Vernon5:15

      Yes.

   4. WCWhitney Cummings5:15

      (laughs) Have you seen... Dude, it's so-

   5. JRJoe Rogan5:18

      Well, it's a good point. Crackheads live-

   6. WCWhitney Cummings5:20

      He's like, "My crackhead friends I've known for 20 years." He's like, "They're around."

   7. JRJoe Rogan5:24

      Yeah.

   8. WCWhitney Cummings5:24

      "They can do anything."

   9. JVJamie Vernon5:26

      Oh.

   10. WCWhitney Cummings5:26

       "They have powers." And then-

   11. JRJoe Rogan5:28

       Well, you know, crack is just cocaine. It's just another way-

   12. WCWhitney Cummings5:32

       Oh, he just cooks.

   13. JRJoe Rogan5:33

       It's, yeah, it's freebasing cocaine, and the scary thing is, even though we know that, it's one of the most racist laws that's ever been enacted, where the difference between the, uh, the sentencing for someone who gets caught with crack versus someone who gets caught with an equivalent amount of cocaine, it's like a giant disparity.

   14. WCWhitney Cummings5:54

       Wow.

   15. JVJamie Vernon5:54

       Didn't Deion Sanders say this too?

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:56

       He's the most athletic person-

   17. JVJamie Vernon5:56

       Oh, shit.

   18. WCWhitney Cummings5:57

       Oh, I don't know who that is.

   19. JVJamie Vernon5:58

       Uh, just hold on one second.

   20. WCWhitney Cummings5:59

       That's, it's, uh, Boosie, B-O-O-S-I-E.

   21. JVJamie Vernon6:02

       I know who this is also.

   22. JRJoe Rogan6:03

       ... you ever been on a field with?

   23. NANarrator6:04

       No, my cousin Junebug.... he was a crack head and a good, good dude though. But he was very athletic, 'cause he would steal stuff when I came home from college and could never catch him. Could never catch him. And he would sell it, and I would have to go get it back at the hood in the... from the, from the drug dealers. He was probably the most athletic, my cousin, Junebug. But next to that, I think it was Bo.

   24. WCWhitney Cummings6:26

       (laughs)

   25. JVJamie Vernon6:27

       (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan6:27

       (laughs)

   27. WCWhitney Cummings6:27

       His cousin, Junebug. (laughs)

   28. JVJamie Vernon6:28

       Most athletic person ever. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan6:29

       Imagine there's some dude out there-

   30. WCWhitney Cummings6:31

       (laughs)
4. 11:31 – 16:20

   LA crime stories, “Chilean Mafia,” and fentanyl in the water affecting wildlife

   1. WCWhitney Cummings11:31

      I told you about what happened with, uh... I had a raccoon in my yard and I kept... (laughs)

   2. JRJoe Rogan11:36

      (laughs) You always gotta... You've got Guatemalans trying to sneak over the fence.

   3. WCWhitney Cummings11:41

      (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan11:41

      You got... (laughs)

   5. WCWhitney Cummings11:42

      This is what happens.

   6. JRJoe Rogan11:42

      You had... Didn't you have like the fucking people casing your house?

   7. WCWhitney Cummings11:45

      Oh.

   8. JRJoe Rogan11:46

      Those, the teams that were-

   9. WCWhitney Cummings11:46

      The Chilean Mafia.

   10. JRJoe Rogan11:47

       The Chilean Mafia, that's right.

   11. WCWhitney Cummings11:49

       So, the only people cleaning up homeless people now in LA are Sci- Scientology (laughs) and the Chilean Mafia.

   12. JRJoe Rogan11:54

       (coughs)

   13. WCWhitney Cummings11:54

       And the Chilean Mafia basically takes homeless people, gives them a BMX bike, gives them like a... and outfits them. And yeah, I sent you the video of them casing my house, 'cause they were robbing people in Brentwood and Santa Monica and-

   14. JRJoe Rogan12:06

       Yeah.

   15. WCWhitney Cummings12:06

       ... causing all kinds of shit. And-

   16. JRJoe Rogan12:07

       Yeah, 'cause they're well-known. It's like a well-known organization.

   17. WCWhitney Cummings12:10

       Mm-hmm, nobody cares.

   18. JRJoe Rogan12:11

       Scientology takes them in?

   19. WCWhitney Cummings12:12

       I, that's what I'm hearing.

   20. JRJoe Rogan12:14

       ... that's a smart move.

   21. WCWhitney Cummings12:15

       Super smart.

   22. JRJoe Rogan12:16

       That's like Wild, Wild Country. Remember-

   23. WCWhitney Cummings12:18

       Yup, yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan12:18

       ... Wild, Wild Country, they took in all the homeless people?

   25. WCWhitney Cummings12:19

       They took homeless people so that they could, uh, win the election. (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan12:22

       (laughs)

   27. WCWhitney Cummings12:22

       So they're smart as shit. (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan12:23

       And then after they were done, they're like, "Yeah, we're done with you."

   29. WCWhitney Cummings12:26

       And they were putting the beavers in blenders, remember? And they were, like, putting beavers in blenders and-

   30. JRJoe Rogan12:31

       Beavers in blenders?
5. 16:20 – 22:01

   Why kids used to get hurt more: playground danger, adversity, boredom, and predator fears

   1. WCWhitney Cummings16:20

      That was it. But also, I'm fascinated 'cause, you know, I'm about to have a kid, and I, I wanna make sure he has a little adversity, you know. And, like, I was at... with a friend of mine at the new... The playgrounds now, they're, like, rubbery, and they're all made of plastic and shit. Like, when's the last time you saw a kid in a cast?

   2. JRJoe Rogan16:37

      That's true.

   3. WCWhitney Cummings16:38

      I don't-

   4. JRJoe Rogan16:38

      You see... I see them occasionally.

   5. WCWhitney Cummings16:39

      Ev- Every... 'Cause it's Texas, so kids do normal shit.

   6. JRJoe Rogan16:42

      (laughs)

   7. WCWhitney Cummings16:42

      You know, but I remember we used to s- like, there used to be a cast with a metal bar-

   8. JRJoe Rogan16:47

      Right.

   9. WCWhitney Cummings16:47

      ... when I was in school.

   10. JRJoe Rogan16:48

       (laughs)

   11. WCWhitney Cummings16:48

       It was a metal bar. Remember kids would-

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:49

       They go to your hip.

   13. WCWhitney Cummings16:50

       The people who had one-

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:51

       Yeah.

   15. WCWhitney Cummings16:51

       ... it went all the way-

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:52

       Yeah.

   17. WCWhitney Cummings16:52

       We spent the first 45 minutes of school signing casts. Like, everyone-

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:55

       (laughs) That's true.

   19. WCWhitney Cummings16:55

       ... was in a cast when we were kids.

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:57

       That's true.

   21. WCWhitney Cummings16:57

       You know what I mean? Remember the seesaws are gone.

   22. JRJoe Rogan17:00

       Yeah.

   23. WCWhitney Cummings17:00

       Slides, slides used to be made of sheet metal.

   24. JRJoe Rogan17:03

       Mm-hmm.

   25. WCWhitney Cummings17:04

       They're, like, plastic. Do you remember there was, like, a chain, like, a pirate ship chain we would climb up?

   26. JRJoe Rogan17:08

       Oh, yeah.

   27. WCWhitney Cummings17:09

       (laughs) We, we'd get tetanus getting pinched, like-

   28. JRJoe Rogan17:11

       Seesaws.

   29. WCWhitney Cummings17:12

       Dude, what was more dangerous than a seesaw?

   30. JRJoe Rogan17:15

       (laughs) You fuck it up in the air and your fat friend jumps on the top of it, you go flying.
6. 22:01 – 26:44

   Witnessing violent car wrecks and how online algorithms normalize “carnage”

   1. JRJoe Rogan22:01

      I saw a hit and run last night. Did I tell you about this?

   2. WCWhitney Cummings22:05

      Yeah, last ni-

   3. JRJoe Rogan22:05

      At the club.

   4. WCWhitney Cummings22:05

      Yeah, yeah. You T-boned?

   5. JRJoe Rogan22:06

      (clears throat) The guy was running from the cops. Guy was, uh, high speed pursuit from the cops, two cars in front of us. So, uh-

   6. WCWhitney Cummings22:14

      I didn't realize you saw it in person. I thought you saw it on-

   7. JRJoe Rogan22:16

      Oh, no, no, no.

   8. WCWhitney Cummings22:17

      ... like, "Oh, holy shit."

   9. JRJoe Rogan22:18

      Oh, no, no, no. I saw the whole thing. So I didn't know that he was running from the cops. I just see this car flying into the intersection and T-bone this other car. Just, he's trying to make it. He tries to hit the turn. Boom!

   10. WCWhitney Cummings22:31

       Oh.

   11. JRJoe Rogan22:31

       I mean, fast, and then opens the door and runs. So the dude who T-boned the guy jumps out of his car at a full sprint, full sprint across the street. And, uh, me and the guy w- I was with were like, "He's probably drunk." Like, he's probably realized he fucked up, and he's drunk, and he's trying to run away from the scene of the crime.

   12. WCWhitney Cummings22:55

       Oof.

   13. JRJoe Rogan22:56

       And then, uh, they tackle him. Some citizens got him. And so we hear, "They got him. We got him. We got him."

   14. WCWhitney Cummings23:03

       I wouldn't want Texas citizens getting me.

   15. JRJoe Rogan23:04

       (laughs)

   16. WCWhitney Cummings23:04

       They're more armed than most police officers here, dude. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan23:07

       Well, not only that, it's the lake, so everybody's running around out there.

   18. WCWhitney Cummings23:10

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan23:10

       It's like it's fit 'cause it's right over by, uh-

   20. WCWhitney Cummings23:12

       Oh, yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan23:12

       ... Lady Bird Lake. So this guy apparently was in a high speed chase from the police and just slammed right into a car. I mean, easily could have been us. It was two cars in front of us.

   22. WCWhitney Cummings23:21

       That's fucking wild.

   23. JRJoe Rogan23:22

       But it was boom! Like, to wa- I don't think I've ever seen in person someone hit a guy with a car that hard, like up close.

   24. WCWhitney Cummings23:31

       And it went into the passenger side?

   25. JRJoe Rogan23:33

       Oh, just smooshed the side of this car. J- this car went flying. The one car, it goes flying up in the air, and the other car goes flying to the side, and then boom, the car falls down. The moment it falls down, that dude opens the door. (laughs)

   26. WCWhitney Cummings23:47

       (laughs) He's out. He was out.

   27. JRJoe Rogan23:49

       And starts, starts running.

   28. WCWhitney Cummings23:51

       He's ... (laughs) he's ... that's it. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan23:52

       And he was dressed like he just got done playing golf. It was so weird to see. He's, like wearing, like, a golf shirt.

   30. WCWhitney Cummings23:57

       I love that his first instinct was, "I'm just fucking running."
7. 26:44 – 35:36

   Disney “hidden” imagery, South Park’s ‘Panderverse,’ and Twitter as a behavioral drug

   1. WCWhitney Cummings26:44

      And so yeah, so Tripoli sends me all this stuff, but yeah, the D- I mean, the Disney castles being made of dicks, it is, it is a compelling case, but I think it was probably more that they didn't pay their animators, and the animators were like, "Fuck you guys, we're just gonna make the," you know?

   2. JRJoe Rogan26:56

      I'm not totally aware of that one. I think-

   3. WCWhitney Cummings26:58

      Oh.

   4. JRJoe Rogan26:58

      I don't remember it. Let's-

   5. WCWhitney Cummings27:00

      Oh.

   6. JRJoe Rogan27:00

      Pull that one up.

   7. WCWhitney Cummings27:00

      Disney castles made of dicks, let's go. I'm about to get-

   8. JRJoe Rogan27:02

      Well, there's a lot of wild stuff from the old Disney stuff.

   9. WCWhitney Cummings27:06

      Oh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan27:06

       You go back in the old, old Disney-

   11. WCWhitney Cummings27:08

       Oh, yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan27:08

       And you're like, "You guys should probably bury this."

   13. WCWhitney Cummings27:11

       Brutal. (laughs) Brutal. I know, you might-

   14. JRJoe Rogan27:12

       Yeah.

   15. WCWhitney Cummings27:12

       You might want to take the obviously Jewish person's nose down a little bit in this one.

   16. JRJoe Rogan27:16

       Yeah, like there was one where, uh, there was a, a J- it was like a big bad wolf one, and it used to be a Jewish person, and then they switched it to a wolf later.

   17. WCWhitney Cummings27:28

       Mm-hmm.

   18. JRJoe Rogan27:28

       Like, what?

   19. WCWhitney Cummings27:29

       Yeah, and it's like cheap. It like, won't pay the price-

   20. JRJoe Rogan27:31

       (laughs)

   21. WCWhitney Cummings27:31

       ... for the baguette for the Little Red Riding Hood. You're like, "What?"

   22. JRJoe Rogan27:35

       Oh.

   23. WCWhitney Cummings27:35

       Yeah, but like, there's, there's the, I think it's the Little Mermaid, the spears looking like dicks. The, I think they probably just didn't pay their animators, and the animators were like, "All right, we're just gonna make everything look like a dick." But then-

   24. JRJoe Rogan27:46

       Some people do see dicks in everything, though.

   25. WCWhitney Cummings27:48

       There's that. (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan27:49

       That's a-

   27. WCWhitney Cummings27:49

       It's kind of a Rorschach test.

   28. JRJoe Rogan27:50

       That's a thing.

   29. WCWhitney Cummings27:51

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan27:51

       Yeah. (laughs)
8. 35:36 – 42:14

   Collective trauma (Challenger), thrill-seeking billionaires, and war anxiety/draft fears

   1. WCWhitney Cummings35:36

      But I was thinking of, like, what are the other, like, collective visual, like, traumas we've had that we've seen? And I was... I'm a little... I kinda miss this a little bit, but I remember hearing about it 'cause I had an older brother. Remember the Challenger explosion?

   2. JRJoe Rogan35:48

      Oh, yeah.

   3. WCWhitney Cummings35:49

      It makes me... I've been trying to write a joke about it, that they rolled in TVs into classrooms to watch this-

   4. JRJoe Rogan35:56

      Mm-hmm.

   5. WCWhitney Cummings35:57

      ... t-... with the teacher. Remember there was, like, a teacher on it?

   6. JRJoe Rogan35:59

      Mm-hmm. Yeah.

   7. WCWhitney Cummings35:59

      And they showed it, and everybody just watched this teacher explode in the sky.

   8. JRJoe Rogan36:04

      I remember not knowing exactly what was going on at first. Going, "What's g-... What's happening?" Like, "Why is there, like, so many different..." Like, there was, like, one going this way and one going that way, and then they started talking about, "Oh, no."

   9. WCWhitney Cummings36:17

      Uh-oh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan36:17

       "Oh, no." And then you realize, like, "Oh, shit, did that thing blow up?" 'Cause d- do you remember watching it at first? Like, it didn't... I didn't know exactly what was happening.

   11. WCWhitney Cummings36:26

       I watched it recently and kind of was like, "Oh, I remember watching it, like, on the news when I was really young and not understanding what was going on."

   12. JRJoe Rogan36:32

       Can you pull up the Challenger explosion? By the way, that all coulda, apparently coulda been mitigated. People knew that there was problems with the O-rings and-

   13. WCWhitney Cummings36:40

       Really?

   14. JRJoe Rogan36:41

       Y- you gotta think how many fucking people are involved in those things and how bad the government is at-... almost everything.

   15. WCWhitney Cummings36:48

       Yep.

   16. NANarrator36:48

       ... was that the young student-

   17. JRJoe Rogan36:50

       Almost everything.

   18. WCWhitney Cummings36:50

       But they- they looked for the teacher.

   19. NANarrator36:51

       It was a double shot.

   20. WCWhitney Cummings36:52

       It was, like, this whole thing.

   21. NANarrator36:53

       Yeah. ... freezing cold Florida to the cheers of the young students-

   22. JRJoe Rogan36:54

       Look at this.

   23. WCWhitney Cummings36:55

       Okay.

   24. NANarrator36:56

       ... of the first ever US Space Program.

   25. WCWhitney Cummings36:57

       Oh, people gathered in theaters.

   26. JRJoe Rogan36:59

       Yeah.

   27. NANarrator36:59

       Moments later, full throttle and point of highest stress. A massive explosion.

   28. WCWhitney Cummings37:04

       Ugh.

   29. JRJoe Rogan37:05

       Oh.

   30. NANarrator37:05

       The cheering stops. The horror sinks in.
9. 42:14 – 46:45

   Pregnancy health paranoia: microplastics, phthalates, talc/asbestos, and medical distrust

   1. WCWhitney Cummings42:14

      I feel like there's a ... Yeah, I would say I feel like there's, like, a backlash happening, you know. I feel like it's interesting, like being pregnant, you really ... I've started getting, like, obsessed with, you know, everything you put in your body.

   2. JRJoe Rogan42:24

      Mm-hmm.

   3. WCWhitney Cummings42:24

      You know? And just the idea of just drinking water is like a full-time job. I'm like, "Where am I getting my water?"

   4. JRJoe Rogan42:29

      Right.

   5. WCWhitney Cummings42:29

      I got it 'cause it's either my choices are fluoride ...

   6. JRJoe Rogan42:32

      Right.

   7. WCWhitney Cummings42:32

      ... or microplastics.

   8. JRJoe Rogan42:33

      (laughs)

   9. WCWhitney Cummings42:34

      And I'm not, I'm not having a baby with a small taint, I'm telling you that right now. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan42:38

       (laughs) Yeah, do you have to ... Did you ever check yourself for phthalates while you were ...

   11. WCWhitney Cummings42:42

       Shit.

   12. JRJoe Rogan42:43

       No?

   13. WCWhitney Cummings42:43

       No.

   14. JRJoe Rogan42:44

       Ah, well, it's too late.

   15. WCWhitney Cummings42:46

       Where do I do that? I did the tally age test, the biological age.

   16. JRJoe Rogan42:48

       (laughs) That's different.

   17. WCWhitney Cummings42:49

       Oh.

   18. JRJoe Rogan42:49

       Pht- phthalates are microplas- It's, like, chemicals that leach out of plastics.

   19. WCWhitney Cummings42:53

       I mean, I've for sure got them.

   20. JRJoe Rogan42:56

       Well, everybody has them.

   21. WCWhitney Cummings42:56

       There's no way I don't, yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan42:57

       There was a study that they did recently that was like, what is it? What was the number, like 90 something percent of people had phthalates in their body?... something nuts.

   23. WCWhitney Cummings43:05

       Also, there's this, um, this guy, I don't wanna, uh, plagiarize his work, Kashif Khan, he wrote that DNA Way book about how their micro, uh, the forever chemicals in women's yoga pants.

   24. JRJoe Rogan43:15

       Oh, right. Yeah.

   25. WCWhitney Cummings43:15

       In the crotch, it's in AstroTurf, it's-

   26. JRJoe Rogan43:18

       Well, how about fucking baby powder?

   27. WCWhitney Cummings43:20

       Dude, d-... We used to put it in our underwear before basketball games.

   28. JRJoe Rogan43:25

       Yeah.

   29. WCWhitney Cummings43:26

       50... There's been 50,000 lawsuits.

   30. JRJoe Rogan43:28

       Yeah.
10. 46:45 – 51:45

    Bill Gates, ‘Apeel’ coatings, and the reality of forests/wildfires (including homeless campfires)

    1. WCWhitney Cummings46:45

       I think that... I mean, at least the people that I know are very, uh, suspicious of stuff like that, but I... The thing that really freaks me out is even natural remedies are starting to be bought up by these corporations. So, you know Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar?

    2. JRJoe Rogan46:58

       Uh-huh.

    3. WCWhitney Cummings46:58

       Bill Gates bought it.

    4. JRJoe Rogan46:59

       Oh, God.

    5. WCWhitney Cummings47:00

       Bill Gates now owns one of the few natural (laughs) he- healthy tonics we had, and he's putting the apples in it with the-

    6. JRJoe Rogan47:07

       Oh, the Apeel?

    7. WCWhitney Cummings47:08

       The Apeel, the creepy ass-

    8. JRJoe Rogan47:10

       Oh, what is that? That's like a coating that they spray on the outside of vegetables.

    9. WCWhitney Cummings47:15

       It's like some shmegma to keep the apples, uh, preserved longer.

    10. JRJoe Rogan47:19

        Is it just apples?

    11. WCWhitney Cummings47:21

        Is he just-

    12. JRJoe Rogan47:21

        I thought it was like avocados, ap-

    13. WCWhitney Cummings47:21

        ... so obsessed that he didn't invent Apple computers that he's just, like, has to-

    14. JRJoe Rogan47:24

        ... that just poisoning everything, apples?

    15. WCWhitney Cummings47:26

        No, he just has to. But yeah, it's, like, to... For Costco apples to stay fresher longer.

    16. JRJoe Rogan47:31

        But what is in it?

    17. WCWhitney Cummings47:32

        I would love to know.

    18. JRJoe Rogan47:33

        Ugh.

    19. WCWhitney Cummings47:34

        I would love to know.

    20. JRJoe Rogan47:35

        These motherfuckers, they can... They get stuff out there before anybody's aware that these things are a problem.

    21. WCWhitney Cummings47:40

        Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

    22. JRJoe Rogan47:40

        And then, like, years later, you're like, "What's in it?"

    23. WCWhitney Cummings47:42

        Mm-hmm. Talc, uh, asbestos.

    24. JRJoe Rogan47:44

        Yeah.

    25. WCWhitney Cummings47:44

        And then you don't find out till later.

    26. JRJoe Rogan47:45

        Yeah.

    27. WCWhitney Cummings47:45

        So it's like talking about this and just being, like, not being suspicious about, like, should apples last for four weeks?

    28. JRJoe Rogan47:50

        I feel like Bill needs a hug. Like, why are you working so hard?

    29. WCWhitney Cummings47:53

        Did you see the video of him against trees?

    30. JRJoe Rogan47:57

        What?
11. 51:45 – 57:29

    Homelessness, theft laws, ‘RoboCop LA,’ and protecting joke ideas (plus writing tools)

    1. WCWhitney Cummings51:45

       Yeah. And just a testament to how, like, one sick bill will put you out. Like, what... And people can't afford housing.

    2. JRJoe Rogan51:52

       There's that.

    3. WCWhitney Cummings51:52

       Right.

    4. JRJoe Rogan51:53

       But it's mostly mental illness and drug addiction.

    5. WCWhitney Cummings51:55

       Hmm.

    6. JRJoe Rogan51:55

       It's mostly that. There's, there's people that are down on their luck, but those people usually find a way back.

    7. WCWhitney Cummings52:00

       Mm-hmm.

    8. JRJoe Rogan52:01

       It's mental illness for the most part, and drug addiction. And, you know, and also the community that comes from a bunch of people that are also just as fucked up as you.

    9. WCWhitney Cummings52:11

       Hmm.

    10. JRJoe Rogan52:12

        People like to be a... If you're a fucking mess-

    11. WCWhitney Cummings52:14

        Mm-hmm.

    12. JRJoe Rogan52:14

        ... you like to be around other messes. You don't wanna be a mess-

    13. WCWhitney Cummings52:16

        Yeah.

    14. JRJoe Rogan52:16

        ... and be around Jocko. He's over there-

    15. WCWhitney Cummings52:19

        No.

    16. JRJoe Rogan52:19

        ... getting up at 4:30 in the morning and working out.

    17. WCWhitney Cummings52:21

        No.

    18. JRJoe Rogan52:21

        And, like, you, you want to be a mess around other non-ambitious people that are just laying around. And that's their community.

    19. WCWhitney Cummings52:28

        It's pretty wild. In California, you can be homeless. I mean, the homeless people in California, they're not trying... They're, they've got ring lights, they've got cell phones.

    20. JRJoe Rogan52:36

        (laughs)

    21. WCWhitney Cummings52:36

        They're-

    22. JRJoe Rogan52:36

        Yeah.

    23. WCWhitney Cummings52:37

        ... they're getting their morning sunlight.

    24. JRJoe Rogan52:38

        It's not that cold out.

    25. WCWhitney Cummings52:39

        They're-

    26. JRJoe Rogan52:40

        It's not that big a deal.

    27. WCWhitney Cummings52:41

        Yeah.

    28. JRJoe Rogan52:41

        They could get a 24-hour gym membership.

    29. WCWhitney Cummings52:43

        They're in shape, too. I had, I had my... (laughs) Dude, they look great.

    30. JRJoe Rogan52:47

        (laughs) It's that gym membership.
12. 57:29 – 1:08:42

    Inside the Comedy Mothership: riff nights, green-room culture, and why it feels “historic”

    1. JRJoe Rogan57:29

       Did you do Bottom of the Barrel Tuesday night?

    2. WCWhitney Cummings57:31

       I, dude, I had the best time.

    3. JRJoe Rogan57:33

       It's fun, right?

    4. WCWhitney Cummings57:33

       I had never done it before, and it was like... I kinda feel like you'll have a better metaphor for this, but it's almost like, you know, doing Fatman is like, you know, doing your cardio. Writing jokes is like, you know, you're, you know, lifting, and then Bottom of the Barrel is like stretching or something. Like, it should, should be a part-

    5. JRJoe Rogan57:51

       Mm-hmm.

    6. WCWhitney Cummings57:52

       ... of what you do as a comic.

    7. JRJoe Rogan57:54

       It's good to just be on a tightrope, you know?

    8. WCWhitney Cummings57:57

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan57:57

       And not having any idea where you're going with things, and then totally going the wrong way and trying to bail yourself out, and...

    10. WCWhitney Cummings58:03

        I got, like, three things out of it.

    11. JRJoe Rogan58:05

        Yeah.

    12. WCWhitney Cummings58:05

        You're just, like, jumping off a cliff and flying-

    13. JRJoe Rogan58:07

        Mm-hmm.

    14. WCWhitney Cummings58:07

        ... and sort of... 'Cause I think that I get a little bit, after I have a special come out, I start going, "Okay, my next special's gonna be about this." And then I kind of, like, have tunnel vision about what-

    15. JRJoe Rogan58:16

        Mm-hmm.

    16. WCWhitney Cummings58:16

        ... the theme is gonna be.

    17. JRJoe Rogan58:18

        Right.

    18. WCWhitney Cummings58:18

        And someone just... Hamas Christmas was literally one of them.

    19. JRJoe Rogan58:22

        Hmm.

    20. WCWhitney Cummings58:22

        It was like, to just riff on that. Like, I never would've thought to write about that, 'cause I'm like, "Oh, too touchy, too this."

    21. JRJoe Rogan58:27

        Yeah.

    22. WCWhitney Cummings58:27

        It makes you braver, and, um, and it was like a muscle I hadn't flexed in a really long time.

    23. JRJoe Rogan58:32

        It's also a unique situation because the audience knows that you're doing it, and you are clearly reaching in... You're not preparing at all. You're reaching into this thing, you're pulling out this piece of paper-

    24. WCWhitney Cummings58:44

        Mm-hmm.

    25. JRJoe Rogan58:44

        ... and there's this moment where you might have something on that.

    26. WCWhitney Cummings58:47

        Yeah.

    27. JRJoe Rogan58:48

        You know? Like, "Oh."

    28. WCWhitney Cummings58:49

        Yeah.

    29. JRJoe Rogan58:50

        You know?

    30. WCWhitney Cummings58:51

        Yeah.

Episode duration: 3:17:20