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Joe Rogan Experience #2112 - Dan Soder

Dan Soder is a stand-up comic, actor, on-air personality, and host of the "Soder" podcast. Check out his new special "Dan Soder: On The Road" available now on YouTube. https://youtu.be/1Lik3hSyhrY?si=NvFRtRwbFAbJBivL www.dansoder.com

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  1. 0:000:33

    Cold open: Katt Williams’ weed, roasting friends, and setting the tone

    1. JR

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

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music)

    4. NA

      Let's go, Dan Soder.

    5. DS

      Yeah.

    6. NA

      Let's go, baby. What's happening?

    7. DS

      Yeah. I forgot how good of weed you have.

    8. JR

      (laughs)

    9. NA

      (laughs)

    10. JR

      This is Katt Williams' weed.

    11. DS

      Is det really?

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. DS

      Oh, shit, I'm gonna start talking shit on everyone in the business.

    14. NA

      (laughs)

    15. DS

      And there ain't never been a day that Shane Gilles ain't never texted me, "You're gay."

    16. JR

      (laughs)

    17. DS

      (laughs)

    18. NA

      (laughs)

    19. DS

      "Always calling me gay."

    20. NA

      (gasps)

    21. DS

      Um...

  2. 0:334:59

    Why Katt Williams is a unique standup force (and too famous for clubs)

    1. JR

      Oh, we had Katt Williams ride the racing simulator and I filmed it and put some of it up on Instagram, but he's like-

    2. DS

      That's amazing.

    3. JR

      ... "This is how he drives."

    4. DS

      (laughs)

    5. JR

      "This is a normal thing. He does this 'cause he does this in real life."

    6. NA

      (laughs)

    7. DS

      Yeah. I would love for Katt Williams to be the voice of my self-hate.

    8. NA

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      (laughs)

    10. DS

      He's like, "You ain't never gonna be nothing, baby. You suck."

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. DS

      And it's just like, "I know, Katt."

    13. NA

      Just to wake you up every day-

    14. DS

      Yeah.

    15. NA

      ... and get you to go to work.

    16. DS

      Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. His Dave... He's the new David Goggins.

    17. NA

      Yeah.

    18. DS

      (laughs) He's like-

    19. NA

      "Pain is good. Feel everything bad, pimpin'."

    20. DS

      "I'm out here golfing in $5,000 sneakers."

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. DS

      Dude, he's... The books thing is still the funniest shit in the world.

    23. JR

      Bro, he doubled down and, and then some.

    24. DS

      Respect on-

    25. JR

      He said-

    26. DS

      Doubling down on a crazy shit is fucking hilarious.

    27. NA

      (laughs)

    28. JR

      He was saying, "I went to the library and I got-"

    29. DS

      (laughs)

    30. JR

      "... 20 books at a time 'cause that's all they would let you get, and I would be there three times a week."

  3. 4:597:41

    Howard Hughes paranoia and the dangers of billionaire isolation

    1. JR

      Bro, when you see the Howard Hughes type characters, you see those guys who just get completely isolated and they can't interact with people, that is terrifying.

    2. DS

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      But I see it. I get how it happens. I see how it could happen.

    4. DS

      Yeah, a lot of money.

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. DS

      And no, and then-

    7. JR

      It's a lot of money and like-

    8. DS

      ... you become defensive, like crazy defensive and paranoid.

    9. JR

      Uh-huh.

    10. DS

      The paranoia is the thing that makes you just go like, "No, I'm just gonna grow my beard and my fingernails and not leave outside."

    11. JR

      Well, you stop.Y- you have to stop and think about the time that Howard Hughes lived in, okay? And how easy it was to kill somebody.

    12. DS

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      There was no fucking video cameras everywhere. There was no cell phone cameras. There was no DNA evidence, and everyone was corrupt.

    14. DS

      And people... Yeah, like, it wasn't a thing where after 12 hours you're like, "Let's get, let's get eyes on it." It'd be a couple of days.

    15. JR

      Yeah, they'd wanna-

    16. DS

      And people would be like, "You just didn't show up for work."

    17. JR

      Bro, they... For sure they'd wanna kill ya.

    18. DS

      ... oh, yeah.

    19. JR

      Yeah, you're the- the billionaire guy who's controlling the schools. (laughs)

    20. DS

      Oh, my God.

    21. JR

      What are you doing?

    22. DS

      You're making weird decisions about the drinking water-

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. DS

      ... in the town.

    25. JR

      You're a Rockefeller.

    26. DS

      Yeah, you're just like-

    27. JR

      You're like, "What?" You gotta be- you bo- you better be concerned.

    28. DS

      Yeah, you better have people around you.

    29. JR

      Yeah.

    30. DS

      Well, that's where you gotta worry about, who are you insulating yourself with? 'Cause if you're-

  4. 7:4113:33

    From cocaine’s invention to the drug war: cartels, corruption, and unintended consequences

    1. JR

      When did they figure out cocaine? Who was the first to figure out cocaine?

    2. DS

      A brave person. A brave person that knew a little bit about science.

    3. JR

      They must've known.

    4. DS

      'Cause it ain't like weed where you can just pull it off-

    5. JR

      Right.

    6. DS

      ... and, and put f- fire to it. Cocaine and alcohol takes someone so dedicated to getting fucked up that they become good at science.

    7. JR

      (laughs)

    8. DS

      (laughs)

    9. JR

      Because I watched, uh-

    10. DS

      So like-

    11. JR

      Have you ever seen that show Trafficked?

    12. DS

      No.

    13. JR

      There's this woman who's, like, one of my personal heroes, uh, Mariana Van Zeller. She was, she was a, she's like a real on-the-ground journalist.

    14. DS

      Okay.

    15. JR

      Like goes to dangerous places.

    16. DS

      Yeah, yeah, the kind that, the people that need to do ayahuasca to stop the PTSD.

    17. JR

      I- I don't know what PTs- she seems fine, which is crazy but-

    18. DS

      All those war correspondents are all like, you're like, "You need to probably go do something to erase everything you've seen."

    19. JR

      She was first on the show like 10 years ago because she exposed the fentanyl issue and the, uh, excuse me, the opioid issue in Florida, where they had those pill mills and they didn't have a database.

    20. DS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      So, you could go to a, they call them pain management centers. You would go there. You would talk to the doctor on the left side. The doctors say, "Oh, you need pills." And you go to the right side, and they give you pills.

    22. DS

      They-

    23. JR

      And that's all they have is pills. And then people would go to multiple ones, stockpile, get a big bag of them, go to different doctors. You can go to many doctors.

    24. DS

      Yeah, j- oh yeah, they call that, uh, what do they call it, doctor shopping or, like, going around to, like... They had, there's a word for it where they go doctor to doctor.

    25. JR

      Yeah, you can, you could've, you, back then, you could do it 'cause they didn't have a database.

    26. DS

      Oh, all that shit.

    27. JR

      Which everybody thought was insane. This is a controlled substance, a highly addictive heroin that you take in pill form, and you don't, you don't have a database?

    28. DS

      They're selling it like gum. (laughs) Yeah, they're just like, "I don't know, did you come by today?" And you go like, "No." And they're like-

    29. JR

      S- we can't tell.

    30. DS

      ... "We can't tell."

  5. 13:3316:31

    Cocaine-era movies, Showgirls, and how adolescence changed in the internet age

    1. JR

      My number one speculation is Showgirls.

    2. DS

      Yeah, Showgirls was written with a half-erect penis.

    3. NA

      (laughs)

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. DS

      That was (laughs) ... That movie was written by a guy that's like, "And then boobs come out." Man, that was... That movie hit when I was in middle school, like, right when jerking off started.

    6. JR

      Then... Yeah.

    7. DS

      And so it was a gold mine-

    8. NA

      (laughs)

    9. DS

      ... 'cause you could be like, "It's a legitimate movie." It wasn't porn. Right? Like...

    10. JR

      Right. But she's topless.

    11. DS

      Oh, dude, the sex scene in the pool is the dumbest shit, where she goes like...

    12. JR

      She starts flopping around.

    13. DS

      Where she looks, yeah, she looks possessed.

    14. JR

      It's, it doesn't make any sense that anybody would, would be like, not lose their boner and go, "Oh my God, she's insane."

    15. DS

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      "I'm having sex with an insane person."

    17. DS

      Also, that would hurt-

    18. JR

      Right.

    19. DS

      ... having sex like that. You'd be like, "Hey, calm down."

    20. JR

      Uh, it was only NC-17. The first, and to date only NC-17 film to be given a wide release in mainstream theaters.

    21. DS

      I'm telling you.

    22. JR

      They made it MC... (laughs) It was so dumb.

    23. DS

      That movie-

    24. JR

      It's one of the dumbest movies ever.

    25. DS

      ... was so stupid.

    26. JR

      But it's great. But it's great to watch.

    27. DS

      Eighth grade jerk off, it's Hall of Fame.

    28. JR

      Well, it's just great to watch 'cause it's so goofy.

    29. DS

      It's-

    30. JR

      Like, if you're with a bunch of buddies and you get high and watch Showgirls, you're gonna laugh. You're gonna laugh really... Hinge, like, Hinchcliffe, Gillies, Showgirls.

  6. 16:3117:59

    Smartphone addiction and AI acceleration: school cheating, voice cloning, and inevitability

    1. JR

      No. No, it's not gonna be limited. (clears throat) We're in it now. We're in it now in this is us. And, um, I think it's just gonna get more and more invasive. 'Cause that seems the direction that it keeps going. If I had to guess, and then this is obviously just a guess. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but I, I feel like this can't be stopped, especially with AI. When they're talking about AI and all the things that AI can do for, for you now, it's just people are getting papers written, they're getting busted all the time.

    2. DS

      Yes.

    3. JR

      ChatGPT is writing them. I- i- any answer to kinda anything. It can code websites instantaneously.

    4. DS

      It can, it can do your voice. It can replicate your voice. If you have-

    5. JR

      The Google one can't show white people, though.

    6. DS

      It... Really?

    7. JR

      Which is a real issue.

    8. DS

      That's fair.

    9. JR

      No, really. You didn't know this?

    10. DS

      No. (laughs)

    11. JR

      Oh, dude.

    12. DS

      They can't-

    13. JR

      Are you ready for this?

    14. DS

      Google-

    15. JR

      They asked the Google one to show images of World War II Nazi soldiers.

    16. DS

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      And they made it all woke.

    18. DS

      (laughs)

    19. JR

      So they made like, a Native American Nazi, they have an Asian lady Nazi, they have a Black man Nazi.

    20. DS

      You are describing-

    21. JR

      It's-

    22. DS

      ... the perfect punk album cover from the '80s.

    23. JR

      Bro, they... It couldn't describe the founding fathers of the United States.

    24. DS

      Well, they were just, they were men, but were they? Did they identify as men?

    25. JR

      Dude, you have to see some of these pictures.

    26. DS

      (laughs)

    27. JR

      See, can you... You got any, Jamie?

    28. NA

      I'm trying to f-

    29. KW

      ... I know there- I was seeing it all on Twitter, so-

    30. DS

      Um, here's my question to you.

  7. 17:5938:24

    Google Gemini controversy: when AI rewrites history to fit ideology

    1. DS

      And this is the perfect place to ask this question about cell phones. Do you think there's any chance that cell phones are weapons from aliens that disarm us? Because we're all looking down and they know it can use our emotions. Like, like, uh, like a l- like a l- a grenade that takes a long time to explode.

    2. KW

      Yeah.

    3. DS

      Where they're just like, they... 'Cause we each have 'em.

    4. JR

      Right.

    5. DS

      Everyone, uh, like... 'Cause I love alien shit and you're like, well that's... There's gotta be some alien technology, if they're watching us, they just drop some. They're like, "Hey, you guys wanna watch them get fucked up? Let's give 'em cell phones."

    6. JR

      Look at that.

    7. DS

      That's great.

    8. JR

      (laughs) Founding Fathers of America.

    9. DS

      This summer, George Washington.

    10. JR

      I like how one of 'em is a Native American. Like, he... Uh, that's like saying a Holocaust victim is-

    11. DS

      Was a Nazi.

    12. JR

      Yeah. That's so crazy to say that's one of the founding fathers of the United States. No, that's who we stole the land from.

    13. DS

      (laughs) Yeah, yeah. That was... This was theirs.

    14. JR

      What the fuck are you talking about?

    15. DS

      He goes, uh-

    16. JR

      Look at the images of Vikings.

    17. DS

      Dude, that's great.

    18. JR

      Look at that, a Samoan dude and a Black lady.

    19. DS

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      Look at the popes, an Indian woman and an African man. It's amazing.

    21. DS

      This is-

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. DS

      This is hilarious. Google Gemini. That's so funny.

    24. JR

      Yeah.

    25. DS

      Google Gemini's like, "I don't wanna say it."

    26. JR

      That's not good.

    27. DS

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      'Cause you are messing with r- the fiber of reality to fit in with your ideology. And you shouldn't be doing that if you're in control of artificial intelligence. It's supposed to be an artificially intelligent program that takes all the information in the world and gives you a take on things, right? It's not supposed to be an indoctrination tool. You can't use it to-

    29. DS

      So you're saying no, no, opinions-

    30. JR

      ... fit an agenda.

  8. 38:2446:48

    Alien-tech phones and USOs: underwater UFO bases, invisibility, and ‘we can’t see it’

    1. DS

      But that's what it, that's alien-

    2. JR

      (clears throat)

    3. DS

      Dude, it's alien weaponry.

    4. JR

      You might be onto something.

    5. DS

      They're coming from under the sea-

    6. JR

      Here's the thought.

    7. DS

      ... and they're giving us weapons. I'm all about USOs now, dude.

    8. JR

      Yeah?

    9. DS

      I'm all about-

    10. JR

      Undersea UFOs?

    11. DS

      Uh, it's, uh, un- unidentified submersible objects.

    12. JR

      Mm. Yeah.

    13. DS

      That's where they are, dude.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. DS

      They're at the floor of the-

    16. JR

      That's what Katt Williams said. Yeah. We were talking about sonar, hearing devices-

    17. DS

      That just touched my heart where I'm like-

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. DS

      ... do we both have the same crazy theory? (laughs)

    20. JR

      And you said, "Is this correct or incorrect?" (laughs)

    21. DS

      Dude, I love that.

    22. JR

      He was (laughs) ... We were talking about, uh, space, about how we know more about space than we do about the ocean, which is true. And he was saying that those underwater listening devices were most likely so that they could, uh, hear UFOs moving around.

    23. DS

      Dude.

    24. JR

      'Cause if there really a- imagine if there really are bases under the ocean-

    25. DS

      Here's-

    26. JR

      ... and they know about them.

    27. DS

      Well, here's the thing that if they know about them, fuck you, you should tell us.

    28. JR

      You should fucking tell us.

    29. DS

      But here's what I think. The theory I had... 'Cause I heard about... I, I listened to an episode of Last Podcast on the Left where they were talking about USOs and I got super into it-

    30. JR

      Mm.

  9. 46:4849:55

    If dolphins had legs: intelligence, violence, and nature’s darker strategies

    1. DS

      If, if there were... if there was like, uh... I tried this as a bit, but it never worked. If dolphins had legs, like if they just came out-

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. DS

      'Cause they rape (laughs) and like if dolphins came out and just on land-

    4. JR

      Yeah.

    5. DS

      ... and you'd be like... 'Cause they're so... they're all muscle.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. DS

      So, they would just fuck our shit up.

    8. JR

      Oh, they'd kill you.

    9. DS

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. DS

      A dolphin that could breathe-

    12. JR

      Yeah.

    13. DS

      ... and then-

    14. JR

      Oh, you're in trouble.

    15. DS

      Yeah, we're absolutely fucked.

    16. JR

      You're in trouble. Imagine living where I was so pro-dolphin-

    17. DS

      But, but I bet you'd be-

    18. JR

      ... but dolphins evolved legs and they just become the worst rapists on the planet.

    19. DS

      Yeah. And they're like, "What were you wearing?" And you go-

    20. JR

      No, they rape your dog. They rape everything.

    21. DS

      (laughs) Just everything.

    22. JR

      They don't give a fuck, like-

    23. DS

      They rape your car.

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. DS

      Yeah. Yeah, she... I got-

    26. JR

      They're super intelligent-

    27. DS

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      ... and they just fuck everything they find.

    29. DS

      I think of my Altima got fucked by a dolphin, I'm gonna be late to work.

    30. JR

      (laughs)

  10. 49:551:01:41

    Orcas in captivity: Blackfish, trainer deaths, and the ethics of marine ‘slavery’

    1. JR

      How weird is it we put those things in swimming pools?

    2. DS

      And pet them and-

    3. JR

      Ride them and shit.

    4. DS

      Yeah. Just tricks. Do a trick. I, uh-

    5. JR

      So weird.

    6. DS

      I went to the Atlanta Aquarium. They have a great aquarium and I was doing shows there and I went and, um, I went to the dolphin exhibit. And I thought it was funny 'cause these dolphin trainers are also scientists.

    7. JR

      Yeah.

    8. DS

      But then they have to dance. (laughs)

    9. JR

      (laughs)

    10. DS

      It's, like, the weirdest thing. They're like, they know all this stuff about dolphins, but then they're like, "Hey. Do a little, do a little routine and feed them a fish." And you're like, "How disrespected are you as a scientist-"

    11. JR

      (laughs)

    12. DS

      ... that they're like, "And fucking twirl around a little bit." (laughs)

    13. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    14. DS

      You know? And making these incredibly intelligent, wild, wild beasts of the sea do these dance... I'm surprised they don't snap all the time.

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. DS

      Do they kill a lot of trainers?

    17. JR

      Killer whales do. They've killed a few.

    18. DS

      Yeah. That's when they bring them down.

    19. JR

      There was one they kept, they kept using them 'cause they're so valuable, a male killer whale, so he killed someone and they kept him around.

    20. DS

      Who's the guy that's next up on that?

    21. JR

      Ugh.

    22. DS

      Who's the guy that they're like-

    23. JR

      I think they sold him to another place.

    24. DS

      That's what you do. 'Cause no one working there will be like-

    25. JR

      Yeah. Whatever happened with that one? There was one in SeaWorld... So the four to... Four fatal attacks by orcas in captivity. Tilikum-

    26. DS

      Oh.

    27. JR

      ... was involved in three.

    28. DS

      And he's the, uh-

    29. JR

      He killed three people.

    30. DS

      He's the one from Blackfish, right?

  11. 1:01:411:06:42

    Hollywood predators and institutional protection: Schneider, Savile, Sandusky, Nassar

    1. JR

      Well, isn't that like, the, the idea of, like ... If you ran, like, a, a billionaire pedophile business.

    2. DS

      Sure. All right. I'm with you.

    3. JR

      And you did it through an animation company.

    4. DS

      Oh. Yeah.

    5. JR

      Isn't it kinda like that?

    6. DS

      Well, the Nickelodeon thing, where that guy got busted. That guy ... Jay and I talked about it on the bonfire before I left, but this guy at Nickelodeon did a ... He was, like, on ... Remember the show Head of the Class?

    7. GV

      Mm-hmm.

    8. DS

      He was-

    9. JR

      I don't remember it.

    10. GV

      I know who you're talking about.

    11. DS

      Yeah, this guy, his name's, his name's Dan something. And he was, uh, uh, higher up at, at Nickelodeon, and they found out that he was just, like, um, uh, like, wildly abusing everyone. Like, feet pictures. Dude, his pool at his house ... This guy, Dan Schneider, this guy, his pool at his house is a foot. (laughs) And he-

    12. JR

      (laughs)

    13. DS

      And he was accused of having, like, a crazy foot fetish. If you have a crazy foot fetish, don't make your pool a foot.

    14. JR

      Whoa.

    15. DS

      Yeah. Invest- Yeah, there's a series. That's what it is. I learn all my shit from bad documentaries.

    16. JR

      Y- the problem is, if you get busted for something like that, and you look like that, everyone's gonna believe you did it. (laughs)

    17. DS

      Yeah, bud, you got pedophile face like a motherfucker.

    18. JR

      He's got that face. You're like-

    19. DS

      Yeah. Ugh.

    20. JR

      Yeah, some deviant shit. Yeah.

    21. DS

      You know who else had that was the, uh, guy that did all the boy bands in Orlando? Lou, um-

    22. GV

      Pearlman.

    23. DS

      ... Lou P- What was his name?

    24. GV

      Pearlman.

    25. DS

      Lou Pearlman. Lou Pearlman, you're just like, "Yeah, you abu- ... You abused kids." Like, you see a picture of him.

    26. JR

      Bro, the best one is Jimmy Savile.

    27. DS

      Oh, my God, dude. That ... Yeah, look at that.

    28. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    29. DS

      Look at, look at him.

    30. JR

      Look at him.

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