Joe Rogan Experience #2189 - Dennis Quaid

1. 0:00 – 0:26

   Show kickoff and meeting Dennis Quaid

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. DQDennis Quaid0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. NANarrator0:06

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

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Nice to meet you, man.

   5. DQDennis Quaid0:13

      You too, man. Really.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      It's been a pleasure. I've- I've seen so many of your fucking movies. It's always weird when you meet someone that you've seen so many times in movies, you know.

   7. DQDennis Quaid0:21

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:21

      It's like, "All right. There he is."

   9. DQDennis Quaid0:22

      Yeah, yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:22

       "A real person."

   11. DQDennis Quaid0:22

       Yeah, there, there they are.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       (laughs)

   13. DQDennis Quaid0:24

       That's... (laughs)

2. 0:26 – 2:44

   Quaid’s gospel album: faith roots, songwriting, and rehab inspiration

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      I didn't know you do, uh, you're- you released a gospel album though.

   2. DQDennis Quaid0:30

      Yeah, last, uh, last year.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:32

      That's wild.

   4. DQDennis Quaid0:33

      Yeah, it's, uh, called Fallen: A Gospel Record for Sinners-

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:38

      How-

   6. DQDennis Quaid0:38

      ... because I wanted the biggest possible audience

   7. NANarrator0:40

      (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:41

      (laughs)

   9. DQDennis Quaid0:41

      I could get.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:41

       Gospel Record for Sinners?

   11. DQDennis Quaid0:42

       Yeah. (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:44

       How long you been singing gospel?

   13. DQDennis Quaid0:45

       Well, you know, basically I grew up at the Baptist Church, and so it's five songs that I grew up with, and it's five songs that I wrote before and during the making of the record. It's kind of like my spiritual journey, I guess. That's the way it turned out in the end. My wife, she put the, uh, order together, and that's what it seems to be, kind of my journey in life.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:09

       Was this something that you had thought about for a while, or did it just kinda...

   15. DQDennis Quaid1:14

       Yeah, uh, yeah, I wrote this song, uh, called On My Way to Heaven, and, uh, I wrote it for my mom to let her know that I was okay after I got out of, like, rehab and for cocaine in 1990. And, um, then, uh, w- uh, then I wrote the Fallen, which is kinda, like, taken from, um... Remember that movie Thunder Road-

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:39

       Mm-hmm.

   17. DQDennis Quaid1:40

       ... with Robert Mitchum? You know?

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       Yeah.

   19. DQDennis Quaid1:41

       It's kind of like in that vein or that- that kind of feel to it, and there- there's this highway called the Devil's Backbone up near Bandera. And so it's- it's a ride with the devil.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:54

       Wow.

   21. DQDennis Quaid1:54

       And you wind up getting left for dead on the side of the road.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:59

       So, this is just something that you felt like- like, "Fuck it. I've done everything else. Why not do a gospel album?"

   23. DQDennis Quaid2:05

       Yeah, I- I've, you know, I've- I've recorded. I've always been a songwriter. I got a guitar when I was 12 years old. My grandfather bought me at, you know, at Western Auto. It's a great place to buy guitars.

   24. JRJoe Rogan2:17

       (laughs)

   25. DQDennis Quaid2:17

       And, uh, uh, you know, I- I realized I was never gonna shred a guitar, so I... A songwriting became like a defense, you know, something you could bring to a band.

   26. JRJoe Rogan2:27

       Right.

   27. DQDennis Quaid2:27

       And, uh, so I've always done it, and, uh, but I got this offer from, uh, Gaither, uh, 'cause they heard, Bill Gaither had heard the song On My Way to Heaven, uh, asked me to do a gospel record, so said yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan2:43

       Wow.

3. 2:44 – 3:31

   Collaborators and legends: Tanya Tucker, Kris Kristofferson, Brandi Carlile

   1. DQDennis Quaid2:44

      Yeah. It was a great experience really, really. And, uh, On My Way to Heaven, in fact, um, Tanya Tucker heard it, and she called me up out of the blue. I hadn't seen her, like, in 30 years, and, uh, said she wanted to do it, so I said okay, and then she called me 15 minutes later, and she said Kris Kristofferson wants to do it.

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:05

      Whoa.

   3. DQDennis Quaid3:06

      And, uh, I said wow, you know? So, um, and Brandi Carlile's doing, uh, uh, backup singing on it, and, uh, it's... And myself, and we're gonna put that out this year as a single.

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:20

      Wow. That's awesome.

   5. DQDennis Quaid3:22

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:22

      Wow.

   7. DQDennis Quaid3:22

      Kris is just the greatest human being.

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:24

      I love that guy.

   9. DQDennis Quaid3:25

      I love him.

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:26

       One of the Highway Men.

   11. DQDennis Quaid3:27

       Yeah.

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:27

       You know? Come on.

   13. DQDennis Quaid3:29

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:30

       (laughs)

   15. DQDennis Quaid3:30

       No kidding.

4. 3:31 – 5:47

   From Houston to Hollywood: early training, family influence, and a vet career detour

   1. JRJoe Rogan3:31

      Wow. So you were telling me that you- you got to Hollywood in- in the '70s?

   2. DQDennis Quaid3:36

      Yeah. I went to- I went out there... I was born in Houston, you know, and grew up there, and, uh, I was in acting class, uh, Mr. Pickett, we always bring him up 'cause he... So many people actually started working... My brother was, you know, his student as well, and, uh, my brother was already out there in- in, uh, California, and he- he had been nominated for The Last Detail and stuff, so I kind of realized, hey, you can actually do this stuff, (laughs) you know, and get paid for it. And, um, I went out there in '75 and, uh, you know, uh, just driven and got an agent after about a year.

   3. JRJoe Rogan4:17

      Wow. Did you have any previous acting experience, or is it something you wanted-

   4. DQDennis Quaid4:21

      Yeah, I did drama in, uh, in college. I wasn't serious about it in, uh, high school. I was gonna be a veterinarian. That's what I wanted to be. Um...

   5. JRJoe Rogan4:31

      Really?

   6. DQDennis Quaid4:31

      But... Yeah. I was a vet's assistant, um, up at East Texas. I'd spent summers up in East Texas, you know, in Jacksonville, Frankston, and, uh, the... I worked for a vet when I was, you know, 14, 15, and, uh, that's what I was gonna do until one day we did like a house call out to this guy's farm to castrate his horse, and the farmer didn't want to sit out there in the field, uh, waiting for him to wake up from a full anesthetic, so they- they only gave him half of it and cinched his- cinched his legs up like this, and, uh, that horse stood up on two legs, and it was just... Man, it was horrific, and that kind of, uh... I think that's what changed my mind, maybe I should be an actor. (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan5:22

      (laughs)

   8. DQDennis Quaid5:22

      And I'll play a veterinarian. (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan5:24

      The horse... Yeah, I'm sure the horse was not enjoying that.

   10. DQDennis Quaid5:27

       No.

   11. JRJoe Rogan5:27

       That's... Yeah, that's got to be a bad feel... Also, as a man, like, I don't want to do that.

   12. DQDennis Quaid5:32

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan5:32

       I don't... I didn't do that to my dog.

   14. DQDennis Quaid5:33

       No.

   15. JRJoe Rogan5:34

       I don't do that to any of my dogs.

   16. DQDennis Quaid5:34

       Now you can get that done for free in California if-

   17. JRJoe Rogan5:38

       Right. (laughs)

   18. DQDennis Quaid5:39

       ... if you want. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan5:40

       Even if you're a person.

   20. DQDennis Quaid5:41

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan5:42

       What the fuck? Yeah. Very different in the '70s, huh?

   22. DQDennis Quaid5:46

       Yeah, yeah.

5. 5:47 – 8:35

   1970s Hollywood as a creative ‘golden age’ and the shift to modern conformity

   1. JRJoe Rogan5:47

      Yeah, you went through... Like, '70s in Hollywood must have been a weird experience, man.

   2. DQDennis Quaid5:51

      Oh, it was fantastic. It was, it was amazing, man. That- that- that whole era of the '70s, you know, which started with, uh, Bonnie and Clyde and- and, uh, Easy Rider.

   3. JRJoe Rogan6:02

      Great films.

   4. DQDennis Quaid6:03

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan6:03

      Great films during that time.

   6. DQDennis Quaid6:04

      But there was... The French New Wave, you know, is what they called it, you know.... kind of more handheld, grittier, and i- it was the return of the, the anti-hero and the rebel hero. And, 'cause Hollywood had lost touch with their audience. You know, they were making movies like Toby Tyler and, you know, these bloated musicals, which... But, and, uh, so it, it became like the inmates had taken over the asylum. There was really new, exciting stuff getting done, like, you know, Badlands and, uh, The Conversation, and you know, which led to The Godfather. And it's, uh, that was, I think, the golden age of filmmaking.

   7. JRJoe Rogan6:48

      Well, certainly some amazing films came out of that era.

   8. DQDennis Quaid6:51

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan6:52

      And just, uh, just seeing Los Angeles today and imagining what it was like in the '70s, it had to be... Because, I mean, really movies, if you really think about it, they were only a few decades old back then.

   10. DQDennis Quaid7:04

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan7:04

       It was a new thing, essentially.

   12. DQDennis Quaid7:07

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan7:07

       You know?

   14. DQDennis Quaid7:08

       They had just, like, perfected it. I mean, (laughs) really, it was only like 10 years into where, uh, all the movies were color. They, they were making-

   15. JRJoe Rogan7:19

       Right.

   16. DQDennis Quaid7:19

       ... black and white movies up till like '63, you know?

   17. JRJoe Rogan7:22

       Right, like The Hustler was black and white.

   18. DQDennis Quaid7:24

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan7:24

       That was '63.

   20. DQDennis Quaid7:25

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan7:26

       Yeah.

   22. DQDennis Quaid7:26

       And, uh, it was an exciting time. Like I said, the inmates had taken over the asylum and i- it was a feeling like you could do just about anything. And music too was really happening in Los Angeles as well. I mean, record deals were getting signed left and right. And, uh, it, you know, there was this f- it, it's kind of turned upside down now because of all that rebellious attitude of the '70s and ev- everybody did it, sort of became the establishment, I think.

   23. JRJoe Rogan8:00

       Yeah, bizarre, right?

   24. DQDennis Quaid8:01

       Same. It's, it's really kind of turned up on its ear, because the w- it started to kind of really turn politically correct in the '90s. And it, it became kind of a nobody stays at a party after 11 o'clock. (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan8:18

       (laughs)

   26. DQDennis Quaid8:19

       You know, no matter where-

   27. JRJoe Rogan8:20

       Is that when you went into rehab?

   28. DQDennis Quaid8:21

       No matter... (laughs) Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan8:22

       (laughs)

   30. DQDennis Quaid8:22

       After that, no matter where you're going-
6. 8:35 – 12:50

   Hollywood ideology, cancel culture, and how polarization hardened in the 1990s

   1. DQDennis Quaid8:35

      I guess everybody had kids too at that, by that point. But then it just, it got to where, um, where we are today that, you know, you're getting warned to keep your mouth shut, because-

   2. JRJoe Rogan8:48

      Bizarre.

   3. DQDennis Quaid8:49

      ... of... It, it turned upside down, you know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan8:52

      Well, it's also one ideology dominates, especially in Hollywood, dominates the entire business. You know, one of the things that I said that drove me crazy about Hollywood was there's people that had differing opinions about things, but they would never speak out because it could damage their career.

   5. DQDennis Quaid9:10

      Right, that's what's going on now.

   6. JRJoe Rogan9:10

      And it really can. They, they will fucking blackball you.

   7. DQDennis Quaid9:13

      They will. I mean, they've tried, uh, you know, there were a couple attempts to cancel me while we were making Reagan, in fact. You know, uh, kind of half-hearted, I guess. But, uh, it's, it, it has become that, you know? And that ain't right. I mean, back then, you know, few people really were, I guess, conservative. Let's throw out parties and just call it conservative. I mean, you had John Wayne.

   8. JRJoe Rogan9:42

      Jon Voight.

   9. DQDennis Quaid9:43

      Uh, yeah, but e- you didn't know if Jon Voight was conservative back then, so he was...

   10. JRJoe Rogan9:49

       He wasn't vocal about it?

   11. DQDennis Quaid9:50

       N- not back in the '70s, no. And, but it was basically John Wayne and Charlton Heston.

   12. JRJoe Rogan9:57

       Right.

   13. DQDennis Quaid9:57

       And that, you know, that was pretty much about it. But, or anybody wearing a tie.

   14. JRJoe Rogan10:06

       (laughs)

   15. DQDennis Quaid10:06

       (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan10:07

       Well, how did the rebels become... Like, what the fuck happened? How did the rebels become the establishment?

   17. DQDennis Quaid10:12

       That's, that is... Uh, we went through an era where there was, remember there was tolerance? That was what we were trying to do, like back in the teens, I think, in the 10s, where you'd tolerate other groups and all that. And that didn't last very long, and seems like one had it over the other. But if you ask me where this great divide really started, politically, I think, of course there was Watergate, but you come up to like when the Republicans had their, uh, Contract with America, I think it was like '94, im- you know, the year that Clinton was gonna be a, a lame duck president, they had that, uh, those midterms. And, um, then it started to become just along party lines, where there was no... You know, you were a traitor if you went to the other side, or-

   18. JRJoe Rogan11:10

       Mm-hmm.

   19. DQDennis Quaid11:10

       'Cause we had conservative, um, conservative, uh, Democrats, we had liberal Republicans up until that point. You know, that's wh- what I grew up with. And, uh, that wasn't good enough anymore. And so it started there, and, you know, and then continued, and the, the, you know, then the Democrats really took over, and they really do it really well.

   20. JRJoe Rogan11:35

       (laughs)

   21. DQDennis Quaid11:37

       A- a- as far as, as that stuff, of turning things on their head. And, um, uh, you know, they're... I- I feel like today they're, you know, they were using the judicial system, uh, against Trump.

   22. JRJoe Rogan11:50

       Yeah, for sure.

   23. DQDennis Quaid11:51

       Which is, you know, really off the reservation.

   24. JRJoe Rogan11:53

       Well, they're using the judicial system even- against Trump. The entire media establishment, other than Fox News-

   25. DQDennis Quaid11:58

       Right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan11:58

       ... is completely against anything Republican.

   27. DQDennis Quaid12:02

       Right.

   28. JRJoe Rogan12:02

       And it's...... full, fill- Did you see on Colbert the other day, uh, Kristen Collins, that her name?

   29. DQDennis Quaid12:08

       Yeah. Yeah, I saw that.

   30. JRJoe Rogan12:09

       The way I- she said-
7. 12:50 – 18:09

   Trump prosecutions, media narratives, and ‘banana republic’ warnings

   1. JRJoe Rogan12:50

      You know, like, I've heard people repeat- I've had conversations with people, they go, "Well, you know, Trump's a felon. He's, he's convicted of 34 felonies." I go, "Okay, do you know what those things are? Do you know, do you know that they are misdemeanors?"

   2. DQDennis Quaid13:02

      Misdemeanors. "Did you know that the, you know, the statute of limitations had, had run out on this little misdemeanor?"

   3. JRJoe Rogan13:08

      Yeah, the whole thing is the same-

   4. DQDennis Quaid13:08

      And it wasn't a campaign contribution. Their, they just did all kind of gymnastics to make it happen. And then, the third person in the, uh, in line in the Justice Department comes back to New York to oversee this case. And, uh, you know, just...

   5. JRJoe Rogan13:28

      It's just incredible.

   6. DQDennis Quaid13:28

      It's dangerous.

   7. JRJoe Rogan13:29

      It's incredible. Yeah.

   8. DQDennis Quaid13:30

      It's incredibly dangerous, because-

   9. JRJoe Rogan13:31

      Because it could also be turned around.

   10. DQDennis Quaid13:33

       Yes.

   11. JRJoe Rogan13:33

       You know? And there has to come a point where we go, "Stop."

   12. DQDennis Quaid13:38

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan13:39

       You know? We have to s- we have to stop this, or we're losing our country.

   14. DQDennis Quaid13:42

       Yeah, I think they're more concerned with being in power than they are with preserving the idea of democracy.

   15. JRJoe Rogan13:48

       That's- Yeah, I totally agree with that. And I think par- far- some of that was certainly they were emboldened by the fact they're essentially running the country without a president for the last three years.

   16. DQDennis Quaid14:00

       Yes.

   17. JRJoe Rogan14:00

       'Cause he's, you know-

   18. DQDennis Quaid14:02

       He's not-

   19. JRJoe Rogan14:02

       He's not there.

   20. DQDennis Quaid14:03

       Not there, really.

   21. JRJoe Rogan14:03

       And since he's decided that he's not gonna run again, he's gone. He's vanished.

   22. DQDennis Quaid14:08

       It makes me- Who's running it now?

   23. JRJoe Rogan14:10

       Exactly.

   24. DQDennis Quaid14:11

       You know?

   25. JRJoe Rogan14:11

       And then, the crazy thing is-

   26. DQDennis Quaid14:12

       And then, it's almost like that-

   27. JRJoe Rogan14:13

       ... Kamala Harris.

   28. DQDennis Quaid14:13

       ... who's gonna, who's, who'll be running then because the, uh, really can't see her, like, being in charge.

   29. JRJoe Rogan14:20

       No. The, it's a figurehead. That's all it is. And what's really wild is the- TheBabylonBee had a hilarious, uh, little caption. They said, uh, "'When I get in office, I'm gonna change things,' says the woman who's in office right now."

   30. DQDennis Quaid14:32

       (laughs)
8. 18:09 – 21:26

   Tech oligarchy and information control: Google, algorithms, and social media censorship

   1. JRJoe Rogan18:09

      Yeah. Well, they have so much money. The thing ab- have you ever seen the difference between Democrat donors versus Republican donors? Like, there was a chart that someone made about the amount of people that donate to the Democratic party versus the amount of people that vote- that d- donate to the Republican party. It's shocking. Big donors-

   2. DQDennis Quaid18:26

      Big donors.

   3. JRJoe Rogan18:27

      Shocking.

   4. DQDennis Quaid18:28

      It's... That's where it's completely turned upside down.

   5. JRJoe Rogan18:31

      Yeah.

   6. DQDennis Quaid18:31

      Because it used to be Republicans who were known as the fat cats and big oil and-

   7. JRJoe Rogan18:35

      Right.

   8. DQDennis Quaid18:35

      ... you know, big business and all that would, uh, would be the big supporters and donors of the Republicans, and it was like those five and ten dollar donations were- of, uh, the Democratic party, because they're really a coalition of groups. But then, I think starting with Obama, es- especially, it started, it- with social media, it really started to, uh, get into more of a corporate type of tech oligarchy-

   9. JRJoe Rogan19:06

      Yes.

   10. DQDennis Quaid19:06

       ... that is-

   11. JRJoe Rogan19:07

       Yeah, tech oligarchy.

   12. DQDennis Quaid19:08

       ... kind of, going on.

   13. JRJoe Rogan19:08

       That's a great way to put it. That's really what it is, right?

   14. DQDennis Quaid19:11

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan19:11

       It's a tech oligarchy. The te- the tech thing's nuts 'cause nobody anticipated (clears throat) that these corporations were gonna have this insane amount of influence and power over people. You know, I've had this guy Robert Epstein on my podcast before. I don't know if you've ever seen his work, but he ba- basically does a statistical analysis of Google search results, and what Google does to change people's opinions and how much of an effect it can have on swaying an election. Because if you go look for Trump rally, you'll see a bunch of Kamala Harris things. If you go-

   16. DQDennis Quaid19:42

       Mm-hmm.

   17. JRJoe Rogan19:42

       ... to try to find something negative about Kamala, you'll find something... All these positive things about Kamala. So these quick searches, where... Which most people do. Most people aren't doing deep dives for hours-

   18. DQDennis Quaid19:53

       Right.

   19. JRJoe Rogan19:53

       ... where they're going and, you know, reading and finding other alternative sources of information. They get their information from a Google search. And that Google search, if you can curate it and make sure that all the positive stuff about the people that you want is up front, and all the negative stuff about the people that you don't want is up front, you could shift people's opinions by 20%, 30%.

   20. DQDennis Quaid20:13

       Of course you can.

   21. JRJoe Rogan20:14

       Yeah.

   22. DQDennis Quaid20:14

       You know? And it's... With the algorithms that they have, they already know your preferences and-

   23. JRJoe Rogan20:20

       Yeah.

   24. DQDennis Quaid20:20

       ... basically, you know, who you are to begin with.

   25. JRJoe Rogan20:23

       Yes.

   26. DQDennis Quaid20:23

       And, uh, they can maneuver that way. It's not-

   27. JRJoe Rogan20:27

       And it should be illegal.

   28. DQDennis Quaid20:27

       It's not just the Russians. (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan20:29

       We should have search results... Which s- search results should be completely unbiased. Like, that should be, that should be a law, because if you can curate searches, if you can curate people's access to information and hide things, that should be illegal. Th- there should be nothing that has anything to do with political ideology when it comes to searching for information. It should just be whatever the information is.

   30. DQDennis Quaid20:54

       I completely agree with you. As... Well, for one thing, as Ronald Reagan said, "Democracy can handle it."
9. 21:26 – 38:25

   ‘Reagan’ film censorship claims and the broader debate over speech and propaganda

   1. DQDennis Quaid21:26

      But (clears throat) we're kind of... Excuse me. We're kind of going through, uh, with Reagan right now, the movie, we're going through a, um... We're being, uh... Censorship is happening to us, uh, through Facebook. They, uh... Facebook banned advertising and, uh, a lot of the podcasts. This one will probably be banned (laughs) on Facebook, uh, a- as well. It's over the last couple of months.

   2. JRJoe Rogan21:54

      Really?

   3. DQDennis Quaid21:55

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan21:55

      Just because it's a po- Is it a positive film about Reagan? Is that what the idea is that's bothering them?

   5. DQDennis Quaid22:00

      Well, it's, um... I see it as it's a, it's a bio- you know, it's a biopic is really what it is.

   6. JRJoe Rogan22:05

      Yeah.

   7. DQDennis Quaid22:05

      It follows him from when he was a, a boy in Dixon all the way through when he said goodbye to the American people when he was diagnosed for Alzheimer's, you know, after he was president. And, um, it's a fight against communism, you know, which he fought all of his life. And... But they... The reason being was that the, the content in it was, uh, an attempt to sway an election. A, a movie. I mean, the last time I heard, you know, Reagan was on the ballot 40 years ago was, was the last time.

   8. JRJoe Rogan22:41

      Do you think if you made a positive Obama movie it would be to sway an election?

   9. DQDennis Quaid22:45

      Well, there was an Obama movie that came out during an election year in 2020. And, you know, nothing about that. And to me, I mean, just the act of, of banning or censoring that material, as you were talking about, is an attempt to sway an election.

   10. JRJoe Rogan23:03

       Yeah.

   11. DQDennis Quaid23:04

       And, uh, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican, by the way.

   12. JRJoe Rogan23:08

       As was Trump.

   13. DQDennis Quaid23:09

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan23:09

       Yeah.

   15. DQDennis Quaid23:10

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan23:10

       Yeah. Well, it's... He has said-

   17. DQDennis Quaid23:13

       Since then, Facebook has said they've made a mistake.

   18. JRJoe Rogan23:16

       Oh.

   19. DQDennis Quaid23:16

       They said that yesterday because we, we, uh, put out a letter to a... In an article in Newsweek, and, uh, they said they'd made a mistake. It was, uh, their automatic systems had detected it.

   20. JRJoe Rogan23:28

       Oh.

   21. DQDennis Quaid23:29

       But, but it... Those-

   22. JRJoe Rogan23:30

       How convenient.

   23. DQDennis Quaid23:31

       Yeah. Uh, I don't know what those automatic systems are, but, uh, there was a mistake in that.

   24. JRJoe Rogan23:36

       Yeah, I don't understand it.

   25. DQDennis Quaid23:39

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan23:39

       Yeah, I, I...

   27. DQDennis Quaid23:40

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan23:40

       I don't know what's going on over there, if it's rogue employees. It's... The problem is, like, so many of those people are so ideologically captured.

   29. DQDennis Quaid23:47

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan23:47

       So many of the people that are working for any tech company.
10. 38:25 – 51:16

    Gender ideology, trans athletes, and the cultural ‘new religion’ argument

    1. DQDennis Quaid38:25

       And, and the Me Too movement-

    2. JRJoe Rogan38:26

       Yeah.

    3. DQDennis Quaid38:26

       All of that just completely gone.

    4. JRJoe Rogan38:30

       Now it's-

    5. DQDennis Quaid38:31

       Out the window and it, in favor of what? 0.0000 point whatever of the population?

    6. JRJoe Rogan38:39

       I know, it's nuts. And it's also, it's like now women's sports are in peril.

    7. DQDennis Quaid38:43

       Yes.

    8. JRJoe Rogan38:43

       'Cause now you're having biological men with mental disease, mental disorders competing as women, saying that they're women, women winning weightlifting events, women winning cycling events.

    9. DQDennis Quaid38:53

       The, that boxer, the-

    10. JRJoe Rogan38:55

        Yeah.

    11. DQDennis Quaid38:55

        ... Italian boxer the other day-

    12. JRJoe Rogan38:56

        The boxing's a complicated one.

    13. DQDennis Quaid38:57

        ... which gets down to be really dangerous. I have nothing against trans people.

    14. JRJoe Rogan39:00

        The box is not trans.

    15. DQDennis Quaid39:01

        I was, I was in the drama department. You know, I was a drama mama, you know?

    16. JRJoe Rogan39:04

        Right.

    17. DQDennis Quaid39:04

        Most of the drama department was gay at, at stuff, at, at... Grew up in that way. I used to, uh, used to play, play golf with Caitlin.

    18. JRJoe Rogan39:13

        Eh...

    19. DQDennis Quaid39:14

        Back, you know, back-

    20. JRJoe Rogan39:14

        When it was Caitlin or Bruce?

    21. DQDennis Quaid39:16

        When he, back when he was Bruce. It'd just be us 'cause Sherwood, it was very... There weren't many people around. Just, you know, I love the guy. Uh, and I... When he came out like that, I was really happy for him, to tell you the truth. Because to have to, like carry-

    22. JRJoe Rogan39:32

        Right.

    23. DQDennis Quaid39:32

        ... that around-

    24. JRJoe Rogan39:33

        Right.

    25. DQDennis Quaid39:33

        ... with what you feel inside, that's really important.

    26. JRJoe Rogan39:36

        Yeah.

    27. DQDennis Quaid39:37

        You know? But that doesn't mean that the entire nation has to like, flip over and change to, to, to uh, accommodate-

    28. JRJoe Rogan39:45

        Right.

    29. DQDennis Quaid39:45

        ... that. Yes, there could be, uh, a mall for you and... In fact, our system already accommodates everybody.

    30. JRJoe Rogan39:54

        Yes.
11. 51:16 – 55:42

    COVID, pharma distrust, and Quaid’s heparin tragedy with his newborn twins

    1. DQDennis Quaid51:16

       Right. I know a little bit about that because my, from when my twins were overdosed when they were 12 days old with heparin at, in a, in a hospital. It had, uh, turned their blood the consistency of water. And, uh, they were off the measurable scale, in fact, for coag- coagulation of their blood for more than 48 hours, and it was scariest moment of our lives. But really about, what I learned about, uh, we did not sue the hospital. It was a, you know, a human error in that, but it, it was the drug company also which was kind of liable in that the, the 10 milligram unit, the 10-unit bottle that the kids were supposed to get was light blue and the, the adult was dark blue, and that was 10,000.

    2. JRJoe Rogan52:02

       (inhales deeply)

    3. DQDennis Quaid52:03

       So, they got 10,000 three times.

    4. JRJoe Rogan52:05

       Oh my God.

    5. DQDennis Quaid52:06

       Yeah. It was, it was horrific. But after that, you know, it was, it, uh, I, I testified before Congress, uh, in the Oversight Committee there, uh, uh, you know, about what had happened. And as far as the drug companies, it's impossible to sue drug companies, uh, just about. It's very difficult, hard to get them to, uh, to change anything. They're all located, for the most part, in Ill- Illinois, and they have that system wrapped up. But, uh, it's ... You know, everybody at the FDA ... I won't say everybody, but there are so many people at the FDA positions that are either, uh, former emplo- employees of drug companies or future-

    6. JRJoe Rogan52:50

       Future.

    7. DQDennis Quaid52:50

       ... employees of drug companies.

    8. JRJoe Rogan52:51

       Future's more likely, right?

    9. DQDennis Quaid52:52

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan52:52

        Because they know-

    11. DQDennis Quaid52:53

        Yeah.

    12. JRJoe Rogan52:53

        ... that there's a golden basket waiting for them at the end of this journey.

    13. DQDennis Quaid52:57

        Exactly. So, to get any kind of r- uh ... Uh, that's, that's wrong in itself, and, uh, to get anything real done, uh, is, is clouded, you know, by self-interest.

    14. JRJoe Rogan53:09

        Yeah.

    15. DQDennis Quaid53:11

        So, um, what happened, you know, during COVID was, uh, that's, they still, uh ... Uh, these boys that are, you know, dropping dead-

    16. JRJoe Rogan53:22

        Yeah.

    17. DQDennis Quaid53:22

        ... uh, you know, at 17 of heart attacks and, uh ... It's ... People don't trust their government anymore.

    18. JRJoe Rogan53:30

        Well, even-

    19. DQDennis Quaid53:31

        And that's not the same it was back in the late '70s before that election. People didn't, since Watergate, hadn't trusted their government.

    20. JRJoe Rogan53:38

        What's bizarre to me-

    21. DQDennis Quaid53:39

        But it's really bizarre now.

    22. JRJoe Rogan53:40

        ... is that even with the, all the evidence of these people dropping dead, the people that are around the people dropping dead are in denial about it.

    23. DQDennis Quaid53:48

        Yeah.

    24. JRJoe Rogan53:48

        Because they all advocated for a very specific thing. And when that very specific thing may be causing a bunch of deaths, they don't wanna take credit for it. They don't wanna be in trouble for it. They don't wanna be beholden to their, the, to this idea that they had the pharmaceutical drug companies were telling you the truth and that this is the only way out of this. And if you didn't do it, we're all gonna die, and everybody went into this with this terrible fear. And because they stated that early, now they're committed to it and they, they're defending it because it's a part of themselves. Their ideas are a part of themselves. And so, you're see- like the w- the, this ... If you've look at the just ... If you look at what insurance companies are dealing with now with excess deaths, that's some of the best data that we have, this excess mortality.

    25. DQDennis Quaid54:34

        Right.

    26. JRJoe Rogan54:35

        And the excess mortality is extraordinary. At any other time in history, if there was a thing that was rolled out where all of a sudden everybody's taking it and all of a sudden you have this amazing increase in excess deaths, and cancers that are, uh, uh, what they're calling turbo cancer. And the, uh, if you listen to Peter McCullough, he explains how this could be causing that, that the mRNA vaccines could be causing these turbo cancers.

    27. DQDennis Quaid55:01

        Yeah, because it actually changes our, our ...... molecular structure down to, you know, the chromosomes and the DNA that, that, that it's, it's, uh, it's a man-made thing, which is affecting our body in a bad way.

    28. JRJoe Rogan55:17

        Yeah. And it's killing people that took it, that were advocating for it, that were tech people. There's tech people that are dropping dead left and right. And they're still, they're still on this bandwagon. And they're still letting the CDC saying, "You should vaccinate anyone under 12." Like what the fuck are you talking about?

    29. DQDennis Quaid55:33

        Right.

    30. JRJoe Rogan55:33

        What are you talking about? This is insane.
12. 55:42 – 1:00:08

    Assassination attempt on Trump: unanswered questions, “memory holing,” and security failures

    1. DQDennis Quaid55:42

       I had to when we were, we were, uh, when we were doing Reagan, we were shooting the movie. So, it's, uh, still at that point and it was required in order to work.

    2. JRJoe Rogan55:53

       Did you have any side effects?

    3. DQDennis Quaid55:54

       Um, no. But, you know, I do know, and, and I, I actually got COVID when we were sh- uh-

    4. JRJoe Rogan56:00

       Of course.

    5. DQDennis Quaid56:00

       ... shooting Reagan.

    6. JRJoe Rogan56:01

       It doesn't stop with one dose.

    7. DQDennis Quaid56:01

       You know, during the assassination scene, actually. (laughs)

    8. JRJoe Rogan56:03

       Oh, really?

    9. DQDennis Quaid56:04

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan56:04

        Oh, no way.

    11. DQDennis Quaid56:05

        We were working in a basement and we had like 50 extras, you know, and it was just... Oh, of course, it did. Just about everybody got it. But I ad- I had it bad. I was lucky it hit my, it hit me in the guts instead of the lungs. And I had, I had 100 and, uh, four temperature for, uh, a couple of nights. But, uh, you know, I was over it in a couple of weeks. And then, you know, getting the vaccine, I did have kind of a reaction to that, like a little mini version. But I've noticed that when I, uh, get a cold now, it's harder to get over.

    12. JRJoe Rogan56:39

        Yeah.

    13. DQDennis Quaid56:39

        Everything is a little bit harder to get over now.

    14. JRJoe Rogan56:42

        Yeah.

    15. DQDennis Quaid56:42

        And I don't think it's just me. Uh, you know, I have f- friends have, you know, we, we talk about it and the, the same thing is going on. Uh, just, uh, and, you know, it, coming from China and all that, you know, what could have happened is, could have been an exchange, a real exchange of how it had really happened, uh, and what, what the process was o- of how it happened, to make sure that it doesn't happen again, or to, during the research of the, the vaccine, to, to put that out, where, uh, you know, it could have helped there as well. There's no... D- it just winds up being, you know, everybody lines up on the side of ideology.

    16. JRJoe Rogan57:27

        Exactly.

    17. DQDennis Quaid57:28

        I mean, I wonder, you know, if, if, uh, Trump does come into office, are they gonna say, "Oh, I won't take Trump's vac- vaccine again?"

    18. JRJoe Rogan57:36

        (laughs) Well, that's how it was.

    19. DQDennis Quaid57:38

        That's how it was.

    20. JRJoe Rogan57:38

        Even Kamala Harris is saying that.

    21. DQDennis Quaid57:39

        Yeah. She was saying, "I'm, uh, I'm not gonna take his vaccine when it comes out."

    22. JRJoe Rogan57:43

        Right.

    23. DQDennis Quaid57:43

        Then as soon as they got, get into office, they, the very same vaccine, they said, "Yes, you should, we should take our vaccine."

    24. JRJoe Rogan57:50

        Yeah. It's nuts.

    25. DQDennis Quaid57:52

        Yeah.

    26. JRJoe Rogan57:52

        Yeah. Very bizarre. That, that's one of the things that's so interesting, because we have more access to information now than we've ever had in all of human history. And yet, people are more divided by ideology than they are by facts, than any other time in history.

    27. DQDennis Quaid58:06

        Yeah. A lot of it has to do, I think, with, with cable news, too. People have, have, uh, you know, separated themselves. I, myself, I watch all of them, you know. On, on DirecTV there's Channel 200 where you got like six boxes on there. (laughs) And you can, you could watch all the news. And I flip back and forth, and it's like watching a different story.

    28. JRJoe Rogan58:27

        Right. Yeah.

    29. DQDennis Quaid58:27

        A completely different story-

    30. JRJoe Rogan58:29

        Yeah.
13. 1:00:08 – 1:32:33

    JFK, intelligence agencies, and the ‘government within government’ thesis

    1. DQDennis Quaid1:00:08

       About who is dangerous and they're gonna have to get, you know, another Republican in there just, you know... But, uh, yeah. I've been reading this, uh, Unspoken. I've forgotten the author's name. Uh, but it was, uh, endorsed by, uh, RFK Jr., uh, you know, about the assassination of, of, um, his uncle, you know, the president, John Kennedy. And it takes every piece of information that is known and puts it in a book and tells a story from it. And it, it was our government, I think, that, uh, came to, th- that killed, that killed Kennedy. And, you know, through the CIA come, you know, the dark forces within, within our government. And if that can happen, then how about today? How much...

    2. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

       Of course.

    3. DQDennis Quaid1:01:03

       Yeah.

    4. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       Sure.

    5. DQDennis Quaid1:01:04

       Who's running things?

    6. JRJoe Rogan1:01:05

       Right.

    7. DQDennis Quaid1:01:06

       If you, you, the only thing you can draw is, um-... conclusion you can draw is it's- it's- it's gotta be something like that. Only I can't- I can't understand why the CIA would, uh, want us out of Afghanistan (laughs) that way, or- or, you know, uh, w- why, uh, all the other stuff is going on. But I guess, again, that's for control.

    8. JRJoe Rogan1:01:32

       Yeah. It's for control, but it's also so multilayered and so hard to figure out what's going on. I mean, we know that they had MKUltra in the 1960s, and they did mind- mind control experiments on people.

    9. DQDennis Quaid1:01:41

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:42

        And the idea that they just stopped that is silly.

    11. DQDennis Quaid1:01:45

        Yeah.

    12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:45

        That's silly.

    13. DQDennis Quaid1:01:46

        They went further. Th- that's- that's how we got all those other drugs that-

    14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:50

        Yeah.

    15. DQDennis Quaid1:01:50

        ... turned up at parties, right? (laughs)

    16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:53

        (laughs) Well, it's part of it. There's a- a- a- what was that g- this guy, Norman Ohler? He wrote, um, about, uh, drugs during the Third Reich and about how they experimented with, uh, LSD on concentration camp prisoners.

    17. DQDennis Quaid1:02:07

        Yeah.

    18. JRJoe Rogan1:02:07

        And- And all the stuff that they were giving Hitler, like while he was in the middle- and all the stuff they were giving the Nazis. They were giving the Nazis meth.

    19. DQDennis Quaid1:02:15

        Yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan1:02:15

        They were all on meth.

    21. DQDennis Quaid1:02:16

        It was crystal meth, in fact-

    22. JRJoe Rogan1:02:17

        Yeah.

    23. DQDennis Quaid1:02:17

        ... uh, that, uh, that's what they were so fanatical in going out there-

    24. JRJoe Rogan1:02:21

        Uh-huh.

    25. DQDennis Quaid1:02:21

        ... and staying up for days.

    26. JRJoe Rogan1:02:22

        Yep.

    27. DQDennis Quaid1:02:22

        I mean, that- that was essential to the blitzkrieg.

    28. JRJoe Rogan1:02:25

        Yes.

    29. DQDennis Quaid1:02:26

        I mean, you can't stop and take a nap over that.

    30. JRJoe Rogan1:02:28

        Yeah, three days on meth.

Episode duration: 2:14:00