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Joe Rogan Experience #2132 - Andrew Schulz

Andrew Schulz is a stand-up comic, actor, and podcaster. He's the host of the "Flagrant" podcast with Akaash Singh, and the "Brilliant Idiots" podcast with Charlamagne Tha God. His latest special, "Infamous," is available on YouTube. www.theandrewschulz.com

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  1. 0:001:29

    CIA mindset, charm, and “near-sociopath” advantages

    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. (rock music) Like, I think of, I think he has that, that CIA guy on with the hair.

    4. AS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      You know? And, uh-

    6. AS

      What do you think of that guy?

    7. JR

      So after the pod- (snaps fingers)

    8. AS

      I guess we're up. Let's go.

    9. JR

      You wanna go?

    10. AS

      We're rolling.

    11. JR

      Let's do it.

    12. AS

      Let's go.

    13. JR

      Okay, so, um, he came on, and he was very, like, forthco- first of all, he's very charming, but like, when you're talking to anybody who's worked for the CIA, you're looking at him through the same lens as you look at, like, a therapist.

    14. AS

      Right.

    15. JR

      Where it's like, "Wait, are you analyzing? Like, what's going on?"

    16. AS

      Right, "What's going on here?"

    17. JR

      Very charming, very smart, very, like, seems to really know what's going on in the world, but like, straight up told us, he's like, "Yeah, the CIA, you know, I guess one of the advantages I have is like I'm pretty close to a sociopath. Like, I'm not there, but like I don't, I don't feel the same emotions that everybody feels. There's like a lack of guilt, but I know when I should feel it in these moments."

    18. AS

      Whoa.

    19. JR

      But that's a huge advantage. Imagine if you're trying to, like, find assets and flip assets.

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      If you and I, like, build a relationship with somebody and we, like, feel empathy for them-

    22. AS

      Right.

    23. JR

      ... maybe we wouldn't be able to say, "Hey, now it's time for you to cough up the information or else."

    24. AS

      Right.

    25. JR

      But somebody else in that position might, so I would imagine if you were at the fucking CIA, you're like, "Okay, we're looking for people who have gone through these things in their life that'll- that have curated this kind of, like, personality type."

  2. 1:295:04

    Diddy raids, internet spectacle, and the Saucy Santana clip

    1. AS

      Well, isn't it just, like, part of the gig? Like, here- here's a for instance. Like, your bit about Puffy. (laughs)

    2. JR

      (laughs) How are you gonna connect these two fucking dots?

    3. AS

      You're- y- y- that bit is, like, look, you don't have any real personal beef with Diddy.

    4. JR

      Mm-mm.

    5. AS

      But it's gotta go down. The- the- the bits are there. I'm a gold miner. I just found some gold.

    6. JR

      You're right, maybe I'm a sociopath.

    7. AS

      It's not that you're a sociopath. It's just that that's part of the gig.

    8. JR

      Yes.

    9. AS

      Like, you're not a sociopath with your friends.

    10. JR

      No, I think I'm maybe an empath.

    11. AS

      Yes.

    12. JR

      But I guess it's one of those things where, like, you justify, you go, "Okay, if there's a- I think this person might've done something bad."

    13. AS

      Yes.

    14. JR

      And he can get jokes, and we're all gonna tell jokes.

    15. AS

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      I'm not pressing fucking charges.

    17. AS

      Well, not only that, you're not the guy who's out there, like, calling the New York Times, "Hey, you know what I heard about Diddy?"

    18. JR

      "By the way," yeah.

    19. AS

      Yeah.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. AS

      Exactly.

    22. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    23. AS

      You're just like, it's there.

    24. JR

      Yes, yes, yes, yes.

    25. AS

      I mean, it's not just there. It's everywhere. My fucking newsfeed is dominated by it.

    26. JR

      Yes.

    27. AS

      Fox News, CNN-

    28. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

    29. AS

      ... everyone. There's raids at Diddy's house.

    30. JR

      Yeah, yeah.

  3. 5:048:09

    The old rap-tour reality: “checking in,” street power, and legitimacy

    1. JR

      The music business, it's a lot of people.

    2. AS

      It's not just the music business. It's like, it's the extortion business.

    3. JR

      Well, that's, yeah, I mean, the, the rap game was crazy. That's a lot- a thing a lot of people don't realize is, like, back in the day, especially, like, early rap game, you weren't just going to play at, you know, what's the- a random theater that you would play in LA? What's, like, a big theater?

    4. AS

      Right.

    5. JR

      I'm trying to think. The Orpheum or something like that.

    6. AS

      Wiltern.

    7. JR

      The Wiltern. Some guys were explaining to me, it was like, you would play at the local hood club. There was, like, a hood club that you could perform at, and then that was owned by the local drug dealer that was washing money there.

    8. AS

      Right.

    9. JR

      So this is where the idea of, like, checking in comes from. Have you heard of this term?

    10. AS

      Yes.

    11. JR

      Like, checking in was basically like, hey, I wanna make sure we're good because you're gonna pay me, and if I don't check in, you might rob me because you're putting me up at the hotel, and you know everything that's going on.

    12. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    13. JR

      And you're a drug dealer.

    14. AS

      Right.

    15. JR

      So you don't play by the rules.

    16. AS

      Right, when you come to Houston, you're checking in with certain people.

    17. JR

      Mr. Prince.

    18. AS

      Yes, sir.

    19. JR

      Mr. Prince.

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      You don't gotta check in, Joe.

    22. AS

      You gotta check in, say hi?

    23. JR

      Joe don't gotta check in.

    24. AS

      I'm not in the- that business.

    25. JR

      (laughs)

    26. AS

      I say hi.

    27. JR

      You've had him on here, right?

    28. AS

      Yeah. Yeah.

    29. JR

      He's a legend in the game.

    30. AS

      He's a legend. Out of respect, I say hi.

  4. 8:0910:56

    Epstein fallout and the Mark Middleton death: power, surveillance, and silence

    1. AS

      Yeah, and it should be, because listen, all this shit that's going on right now in the world, in America, we get so soft and we think none of that shit's gonna happen here.

    2. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    3. AS

      All that murder, war, drones, assassinations, that's not gonna happen here.

    4. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    5. AS

      Unless you know the Clintons.

    6. JR

      Yes.

    7. AS

      Unless you know some shit.

    8. JR

      Yes.

    9. AS

      Unless you know some shit about old Bill. And then you wind up shooting yourself in the chest while hanging from an extension cord.

    10. JR

      Wait, did that happen?

    11. AS

      Oh, yeah, you don't know that guy?

    12. JR

      Shot himself in the ch-

    13. AS

      This is a guy-

    14. JR

      Joe, that seems really hard to do.

    15. AS

      With a shotgun. This is a-

    16. JR

      Yeah, how do you do such a thing?

    17. AS

      ... while you're hanging. This is a guy that brought Epstein to the White House-

    18. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    19. AS

      ... at least seven times.

    20. JR

      What's his name?

    21. AS

      Uh, we'll find out. So they found him at a ranch 30 minutes from his house, hanging by an electrical cord from a tree with a shotgun wound to the chest. Shotgun discovered near the body of former Clinton aide, Mark Middleton, and then they called it a suicide.

    22. JR

      Wow.

    23. AS

      12-gauge shotgun was 30 feet from the body of Mark Middleton was he found dead.

    24. JR

      Okay, so who, who... Okay, who orchestrates this? Is this, is this the same thing where... Does, does Clinton go, "Hey, this guy needs to go," or do the powers that be around a powerful person go, "We already know what needs to happen"?

    25. AS

      Well, I think they know if a dude, uh, is in contact with someone or has been talking, or is about to talk.

    26. JR

      You mean cooperating with the feds-

    27. AS

      Yes.

    28. JR

      ... or something like that?

    29. AS

      I, I don't think any of those guys have clean phones. I don't think any of those guys don't have their houses bugged. I don't think any of those guys aren't tracked.

    30. JR

      Look how excited that guy is in the back.

  5. 10:5613:28

    Diddy allegations, freak-off rumors, and “Caligula” excess

    1. JR

      I mean, that's what, that's what people are saying, and maybe, you know, everybody's a conspiracy theorist now, but that's what people are saying about the Diddy situation, like when the D- when the, when the feds rolled up, you know, with the fucking Hummers and shit, they were like, "It wasn't about Diddy. It was about if there were tapes of powerful people there."

    2. AS

      Yeah. Oh, sure.

    3. JR

      They were the ones that called, they were like, "I need to protect myself, so go in there with all the things and rip any tapes or any evidence."

    4. AS

      Well, Prince Harry was hanging with Diddy.

    5. JR

      I mean, everybody hung with Diddy. That's the other tricky thing.

    6. AS

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      Like, Diddy hung out with everybody.

    8. AS

      That is the thing.

    9. JR

      And I've spoken to a bunch of people who are like, "Yo, great dude, like always there for you, never asked for a single thing."

    10. AS

      Till 1:00 in the morning.

    11. JR

      And then-

    12. AS

      And then-

    13. JR

      ... the freak-off begins.

    14. AS

      ... everybody says, "Get out of the house."

    15. JR

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    16. AS

      It's like the gremlins start eating after midnight.

    17. JR

      (laughs) Yeah. (laughs)

    18. AS

      (laughs) Everybody who tells the story is like, "I saw... I go upstairs and these dudes are fucking."

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. AS

      "Like right on the couch."

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. AS

      "And then I go in this room and these guys are fucking." And it's like-

    23. JR

      Yeah. And pros, like apparently he was getting male gigolos to fuck girls. That-

    24. AS

      To fuck girls?

    25. JR

      Yeah, that's the... That was one of the rumors, like the freak-off.

    26. AS

      Male gigolos?

    27. JR

      So he would hire the professional dicks to have sex with the girls, and I think he would watch allegedly. That's, that's what was alleged, I think. Yeah, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on. And that's the other thing, like I wonder, like...... is that just a power thing?

    28. AS

      It's a Caligula thing.

    29. JR

      What does that mean?

    30. AS

      Caligula, like the, the emperor. Did you ever see that movie, Caligula?

  6. 13:2820:31

    Success, entitlement, and managing toxic people in comedy circles

    1. JR

      Have you ever met somebody in our business that, like, before they were popping, they were kind of a dick, and then once they became very successful, they were the biggest dick? And you're like, "You were always gonna be this way. You just didn't have the power to-"

    2. AS

      I don't know too many-

    3. JR

      "... project it on people."

    4. AS

      ... people in our business that are succ- that are really successful, like your level or my level-

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. AS

      ... that are dicks.

    7. JR

      Yeah, yeah. Let me think about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there, there are people maybe that feel they should be at a higher level and are not.

    8. AS

      They feel that they can kind of boss people around-

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. AS

      ... or throw their weight around to their assistant or their agents or-

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. AS

      ... maybe they yell when they shouldn't yell, or don't have to yell, or are demeaning to certain people.

    13. JR

      That bothers me though.

    14. AS

      Oh, I hate it.

    15. JR

      It real- Yeah.

    16. AS

      I don't like it at all.

    17. JR

      Especially when you're demeaning to the people that can't... (smacks lips)

    18. AS

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      ... can't really do anything. They could quit-

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      ... of course, but, like, this is their opportunity.

    22. AS

      Right. And then they feel terrible and for no reason, when the same exact situation could be handled with a hug.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. AS

      Yeah. You can tell them that you appreciate them, you hold their hand, you shake their hand, you give them a hug.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. AS

      And then everybody feels good.

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. AS

      Yeah, that should be what you, the goal is. Like, you're the guy who is in this very unique, unusual situation, and you have the ability to make everybody feel better.

    29. JR

      Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

    30. AS

      Except, until you don't. Until there's some people that you just gotta get rid of. There's some people that are just feel entitled, and they don't feel like... There's certain things that do happen around certain successful people. You'll see they have a few people that have resentment that are around them that realize, like, "Oh, I'm a support person, and I only have so much room that I can climb."

  7. 20:3126:14

    The Huberman hit piece: anonymous accusations and pharma/media incentives

    1. JR

      Speaking of.

    2. AS

      Mm.

    3. JR

      Speaking of psycho, speaking of, of, of people that are potentially bad-

    4. AS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... that do not have your good, uh, good i- interests at, at heart and will take advantage of you and maybe are pathological in their desires to crush.

    6. AS

      So, we're talk- talking about Andrew Huberman's situation?

    7. JR

      His situation, not Huberman.

    8. AS

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. AS

      So, one of the things that was left out of that article-

    11. JR

      People know, I assume, everybody here knows exactly what happened to-

    12. AS

      So, there's an article that Andrew Huberman and X got ahold of a reporter and said that he's a f- philanderer, he's doing all these terrible things, he's a bad guy.

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. AS

      And so they write this long article. What they left out was that the person who accused him of all this, first of all, is being investigated by the DOJ for fraud, and is in the middle of that right now. It's a very serious case. I would name the case, but that would... You, like, they made the lady anonymous, which is also crazy. Like, you could have an anonymous person who attacks this famous person-

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. AS

      ... with, which is essentially, whether it's true, what, the things she's saying are true or not true, the stuff she left out, the DOJ stuff-

    17. JR

      Oh, and that's when he breaks it off.

    18. AS

      Exactly.

    19. JR

      He breaks it off, she feels scorned.

    20. AS

      The DOJ contacts him because they're investigating this woman.

    21. JR

      And you think that that would be, like, maybe the first paragraph of the article?

    22. AS

      You would think that would at least be a part of the article.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. AS

      If it was a real piece of news.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. AS

      You would say, "Oh, this is complicated." Yeah.

    27. JR

      Hmm. Okay, so what do you think it is? Do you think it could come from pharmaceutical companies?

    28. AS

      I don't think there's zero influence. You know, I mean, I think for sure ... Look, with the stuff that happened to me during COVID-

    29. JR

      That's what I was gonna ask. What, where do you think it comes from?

    30. AS

      That was 100% influenced by pharmaceutical drug companies.

  8. 26:1432:50

    Military-industrial economics: Ukraine aid, contracts, and war as business

    1. JR

      When we had, um, when we had RFK on, I didn't even fucking know this shit. But, um, I didn't know, like, when we're sending money to Ukraine, we're not really even sending money there. We're sending money to American military manufacturers to make weapons and then the mon- the weapons go to Ukraine.

    2. AS

      Duh.

    3. JR

      But we're paying us.

    4. AS

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      But you can't really say it's-

    6. AS

      But also some money goes over there too, and that money-

    7. JR

      But a fraction.

    8. AS

      ... uh, yo- enough, billions, and th- that money's like whoo.

    9. JR

      Where to go?

    10. AS

      Yeah. Dudes are doing coke and driving around in Rolls-Royces and balling.

    11. JR

      I saw that, the guy bought the, uh, yeah, what was it? The assistant, um, it was the v- it wasn't the vice president, but it was some, like, government figure bought, like, some insane car and it's like-

    12. AS

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      ... why are you buying insane cars when you're in the middle of a war?

    14. AS

      How do you have the money?

    15. JR

      Yeah, there might be some rations you might want to buy.

    16. AS

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      Okay, so, so okay, so there's the system. I think Vivek called it, like, the managerial class.

    18. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    19. JR

      Or something like that, which I thought was a good term. But okay, the money is going to these different industries first.

    20. AS

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      So it's kind of staying in America, which does, I guess, boost our economy in some way. Like, those people need to hire people. The economy starts to do-

    22. AS

      That's a good way to look at it.

    23. JR

      No, but I mean like-

    24. AS

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      ... no, no, for real. Like, it's like they have to hire people.

    26. AS

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      They have to pay people. Like-

    28. AS

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      ... and that's why war is good for the economy.

    30. AS

      Yeah.

  9. 32:5042:41

    War crimes, drones, and Fritz Haber: progress that feeds and kills

    1. AS

      Like when someone says it's a war crime, you know, like... (laughs)

    2. JR

      (laughs) Who decides... Yeah, who decides the levels?

    3. AS

      You can only kill people certain ways. Like, uh, one of the wildest ones was also during World War I. It's a guy named Fritz Haber.

    4. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    5. AS

      And Fritz Haber, he created the Haber method of extracting nitrogen from the atmosphere that's responsible for some crazy number today, this method is responsible for something about... So see if this is true. I think it's something around 50% of the nitrogen in human bodies today exists because of the Haber method. So 50% of the nitrogen from your food has been extracted from the atmosphere by the Haber method in order to provide fertilizer for plants that we use.

    6. JR

      Okay.

    7. AS

      Especially when you're talking about industrialized fertilizer and commercial grade fertilizer where they ju- they have to spray it because the cro- the, the top soil is all dead for a lot of these modern industrial mono-crop agriculture establishments. So Fritz Haber creates this, but he also creates Zyklon A.

    8. JR

      All right. Yeah.

    9. AS

      He created this gas that they were using t- he used... The gas, they turned it into Zyklon B, they took the smell out of it so they could kill the Jews with it.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. AS

      And he also used the gas when they were gassing Allied troops in World War I. This was the first time that that had been done.

    12. JR

      Chemical warfare.

    13. AS

      So they had these massive fans and gas and they would blow it onto these soldiers and kill them all.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. AS

      And so he was both being recommended for the Nobel Prize-

    16. JR

      Nobel Peace... Yeah, I remember now.

    17. AS

      ... and being a, a war criminal at the same time. He was wanted for crimes against-

    18. JR

      Humanity.

    19. AS

      ... humanity.

    20. JR

      Yeah.

    21. AS

      At the same time, he created the Haber method. What's the matter, Jamie? Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated-

    22. JR

      Wow.

    23. AS

      ... from the Haber-Bosch process. Thus, Haber process serves as the detonator of the population explosion-

    24. JR

      Hmm.

    25. AS

      ... enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by 2018. Reverse fuel technology converts electrical energy, water, and air into ammonia without a separate hydrogen electrolysis process. So this is his pr- I mean, he was a legitimate genius. And his story is so fucking tragic. When he was leaving to, uh, go, uh, to the front lines to war to use his gas, it was so controversial. There was so much... His wife committed suicide in front of him, shot herself in the heart, and he left her to go to the front line while she was still alive. H- he left her with his 13-year-old son to take care of her while she tried to ki- she, she eventually died. But I mean, he was... His whole life became...

    26. JR

      Did he feel remorse for this at all?

    27. AS

      I don't know.

    28. JR

      Or nothing?

    29. AS

      I don't know. But eventually, uh, during World War II, he, uh, was a Jew and he saw all of his other Jewish friends that were scientists get pushed out and arrested and-

    30. JR

      Yeah.

  10. 42:411:08:15

    Discipline as anti-comfort: hunting, cold plunges, Goggins, and raising driven kids

    1. JR

      Do you ever wish you didn't know all this stuff?

    2. AS

      Yes.

    3. JR

      The ignorance is bliss.

    4. AS

      Yes. I feel...... a tremendous weight of the amount of people that pay attention to the shit I say. It's a tremendous weight, so you feel like there's some things, uh, like, I would rather just be a hayseed-

    5. JR

      Yeah.

    6. AS

      ... just fucking hanging out on my farm in Kansas, shooting deer with bows and arrows.

    7. JR

      Well, that's what I was gonna ask. Like, when you're out shooting deer, and you're not-

    8. AS

      That's my favorite time-

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. AS

      ... that I'm disconnected. I don't have cell phone service.

    11. JR

      Yeah.

    12. AS

      I don't have shit.

    13. JR

      You're not thinking about the deep state?

    14. AS

      No, man. I'm thinking about mountain lions, and I'm thinking about bugling elk-

    15. JR

      Yeah.

    16. AS

      I'm thinking how my cardio is.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. AS

      Do I get enough electrolytes in me this morning?

    19. JR

      (laughs) Yeah.

    20. AS

      Make sure my protein take is right.

    21. JR

      Yeah, yeah. (laughs)

    22. AS

      You know, I'm, uh, I'm going eight fucking miles a day in the mountains.

    23. JR

      You like hard shit.

    24. AS

      I do like-

    25. JR

      That's something I've, I've, I've noticed about you, and I think it's a really important thing to... It's an important quality to have as you achieve more success, because with success, life can get easier. So, if you're not addicted to difficulty and, like, hard situations, it's easy to just kind of fall into the comfort of nothing-

    26. AS

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      ... 'cause there was a guy who I had on the podcast, uh, Russ, who's just, who's awesome, uh, uh, artist. But he was like, "Yeah, once you get money, like, things become easy, and then anything that's not easy, you get very anxious about and fearful of." So, you like hard things. You admire David Goggins 'cause he's doing-

    28. AS

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      ... hard shit all the time.

    30. AS

      Yeah.

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