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Joe Rogan Experience #2205 - Legion of Skanks

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Sep 24, 20243h 7mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 1:17

    Sweaty arrival: getting lost, no car service, and Texas heat shock

    1. JR

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

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. DS

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (instrumental music plays) All right, well, boys, good to see you. What's happening?

    4. BO

      What's up? What's up, Joe?

    5. JR

      Um, you have a little adventure coming over here.

    6. BO

      We did. We just stopped sweating.

    7. DS

      Got a little lost. (laughs)

    8. JR

      Did the Uber driver dropped off at the wrong spot?

    9. BO

      This one might be on me.

    10. DS

      Nope, nope.

    11. BO

      About, about halfway- Uber dropped us off at the completely right spot-

    12. DS

      Yeah.

    13. BO

      ... in his mind.

    14. DS

      And the, the amount that I cursed him because we thought it was the wrong spot. I mean, we spent about-

    15. JR

      It's on me. That's on me because I should've got you guys the car service. We have the car service that takes guys all the... I figured you guys were already here. You had transportation-

    16. BO

      What was funny was when we were at about, I don't know, three-quarters into our three-quarter-mile walk here.

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. BO

      You sent somebody over to come get us, and he pulled up in a car. Uh, and he goes, he goes, "You guys for Joe, right?" And we said, "Yeah." And he goes, "Follow me," and then just drove away in the car.

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. DS

      No way.

    21. JR

      He didn't let us in.

    22. DS

      He didn't let us in.

    23. JR

      No way. You know what? You were too sweaty.

    24. DS

      Yeah, that's what it was.

    25. JR

      Ah.

    26. DS

      He had his shirt off still. You could see him glistening.

    27. JR

      (laughs) His seat's too... He was like, "Fuck this."

    28. BO

      My eyes were gone because my hair product was in my eyes.

    29. DS

      He's like, "Hey, are you guys here for, for Joe Rogan? He told me to bring you this heat lamp."

    30. JR

      Oh, god. (laughs)

  2. 1:17 – 3:16

    Texas winters, no snow infrastructure, and flying anxiety (de-icing & engine fears)

    1. JR

      But I was in Utah, where it was like 50 degrees, and then I came right here to L, to Austin, and it was like 98 when I got out of the car. I was like, "Yo, I forgot."

    2. DS

      (laughs)

    3. JR

      "I forgot about this."

    4. DS

      Yeah, summer, summer doesn't end in Texas.

    5. JR

      It lasts a long time, but it does get winter here.

    6. DS

      Eventually.

    7. JR

      And it's hilarious-

    8. DS

      They shut it down.

    9. JR

      ... when the, the Austin people don't know what the fuck to do when it snows out.

    10. DS

      (laughs)

    11. BO

      There's no infrastructure at all.

    12. DS

      I got stuck in Houston for maybe four or five days because they had, I mean, I wanna say a light flurry, and there was a little bit of ice, but Texas doesn't have like, uh, you know, like trucks-

    13. JR

      No plows.

    14. DS

      No salt trucks, no nothing.

    15. BO

      No salt.

    16. JR

      When we had the big freeze the first year I moved here, they did nothing.

    17. BO

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      They did nothing. They just let it thaw.

    19. DS

      Yeah.

    20. BO

      I, I, when my fl-

    21. JR

      (laughs)

    22. BO

      I was the la- I was the one flight that was able to get out one time to go to, uh, Dallas for a gig. And they had like, it was three inches of snow, but the whole place shuts down. And the, thank God, because the car that picked me up to drive me to the hotel that night, if there was other cars on the road, dude, it would've been ping-ponging.

    23. DS

      Dude.

    24. BO

      Every time he stopped, the car would like turn sideways complete-

    25. DS

      (laughs) Slowly.

    26. BO

      But he was just calm because there was nobody else on the road, so it didn't really matter.

    27. JR

      Tell me the sketchiest feeling is not when you're in like Edmonton or some shit, and they have to spray that stuff on the wings.

    28. BO

      Oh, yeah, de-icer.

    29. JR

      The de-icer in the wings.

    30. DS

      Oh, yeah.

  3. 3:16 – 6:48

    Miracle on the Hudson, hero arguments, and the drag queen storytime controversy

    1. DS

      ... the miracle on the Hudson. It was a miracle that the guy was able to land the plane when the engines went out, right? The, the geese went-

    2. JR

      And that's because that guy was like a real serious pilot.

    3. DS

      Yeah.

    4. JR

      That guy really knew how to fucking fly a plane. Like, he was a real hero.

    5. BO

      I love the argument he's not a hero. I love the argument that he's not. It always makes me laugh. They're like, "He did his job." He goes, "Sure."

    6. DS

      Well, he's-

    7. BO

      (laughs) But I mean, like-

    8. JR

      Listen, if he was a trans woman-

    9. BO

      ... it was survival on his own.

    10. JR

      If he was a-

    11. DS

      (laughs)

    12. BO

      Oh.

    13. JR

      If he was a trans woman from a third world country, he'd be the greatest hero of all time.

    14. DS

      I remember when it landed, I was rooting for him to be drunk.

    15. BO

      (laughs)

    16. DS

      Like, I just wanted him to come out and say, "I fucking did it."

    17. JR

      On coke.

    18. BO

      I also wish there was like, uh, like a, a drag queen that would do something heroic so everyone's gotta praise the things of like, you know, like Cunt Lips Thunder Tits.

    19. JR

      (laughs)

    20. DS

      (laughs)

    21. BO

      They always got stupid names.

    22. JR

      How weird is it that, that it's an argument whether or not drag queens should be reading books to kids?

    23. BO

      It's...

    24. JR

      (laughs)

    25. DS

      What's the upside of that?

    26. JR

      Yeah, like why... Wh- whose idea was this?

    27. BO

      Yeah, because-

    28. JR

      Can we talk to the first person who came up with this idea? Like what, what is-

    29. BO

      You go, "Do you know what kids are lacking these days?" "The most aggressive gays yelling at them."

    30. DS

      (laughs)

  4. 6:48 – 10:39

    Babysitter apps, face tattoos, and who you trust around your kids

    1. LG

      I was on one of those apps to hire a babysitter, uh, recently. And it's, it's a very weird... I'd never done it before. And it's almost like, it's almost like a dating app, like you're like swiping left and right, but it's on, for babysitters for your kids.

    2. BO

      See his pictures. (laughs)

    3. LG

      And I will say, and I'm on the legion of skanks, I'm a comedian, I hang out in a pretty seedy world, but it is amazing how judgmental you get when you're just judging a person off their face over whether they're gonna watch your kids.

    4. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    5. LG

      You're just like, nose ring, you're a freak. You'll never be, you'll never be more racist. (laughs)

    6. BO

      (laughs)

    7. LG

      Not racist. (laughs)

    8. BO

      Tattoos on the face is a no-go, okay?

    9. LG

      Yeah, but just-

    10. JR

      It's not like being an MMA fighter. (laughs)

    11. LG

      Yeah, it's like, you might be cool, you might be a cool person, but-

    12. JR

      Like Sugar Sean O'Malley could pull it off, Post Malone could pull it off.

    13. LG

      (laughs)

    14. JR

      But not the fucking babysitter.

    15. LG

      I'm considering getting a tattoo on my face at Skankfest.

    16. BO

      Yeah, yeah.

    17. JR

      Like how about if there was... That's a good idea.

    18. BO

      That's the one we said.

    19. LG

      (laughs)

    20. JR

      How about if there was guys with tattoos on their faces that wanted to read stories to kids? Would that be cool? Who would be cool with that?

    21. LG

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      Guys with tattoos... If it was Post Malone, you'd be like, "Of course, he's so cool. Let him read the stories to kids, that'd be really fun."

    23. BO

      But wouldn't you be weirded out if your kids had like a face tattoo teacher at all?

    24. LG

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JR

      Yeah, I'd be weirded out.

    26. BO

      Uh...

    27. LG

      I would not, I would not like that.

    28. JR

      Not that it... Listen, like Jelly Roll is the coolest motherfucker alive.

    29. LG

      Sure.

    30. JR

      He's got face tattoos. There's a lot of people that do them and wish they didn't do them, or do them and are happy with them and like them. It's cool.

  5. 10:39 – 12:33

    Libertarians, grifts, and the Trump appearance at the Libertarian convention

    1. BO

      (laughs)

    2. JR

      There, there, I now, I now... Joe, uh, this is my new grift. I am now Mister Conservative.

    3. LG

      (laughs)

    4. JR

      We got to get Trump elected.

    5. BO

      You've given up on this libertarian stuff?

    6. JR

      There's no money in it, I figured out.

    7. BO

      There's definitely no money in it, but that's why they let it exist.

    8. LG

      (laughs)

    9. BO

      Because there's no money.

    10. JR

      You know, if there was another legitimate party that was actually challenging to the Democrats and the Republicans, they would attack it. They don't say a peep about the libertarians. Those are... In their eyes, the libertarians are just vote stealers from the Republicans.

    11. LG

      Yeah, they were mad when Trump came this year. But aside from that, they don't really. They don't see us as a threat.

    12. JR

      Yeah, it's a, they don't... No political party gets mad at the libertarians.

    13. LG

      No, but it was-

    14. JR

      They're fucking furious at the Republicans. The Republicans are furious at the Democrats. Nobody gives a fuck what the libertarians say.

    15. LG

      Including me. I agree.

    16. BO

      Dave speaking at the thing-

    17. JR

      Oh.

    18. BO

      ... was the funniest when he goes, "Donald Trump's gonna come up here and we're gonna show him that we know how to act and behave."

    19. LG

      (laughs)

    20. BO

      "And because we are the right party." And he went up there right away and they were like, "Fuck you, you fucking pussy."

    21. LG

      (laughs)

    22. BO

      "Get out of here."

    23. JR

      Well, I knew, I literally-

    24. BO

      "You're a murderer and rapist."

    25. JR

      I got offstage and I passed by, uh, Angela McArdle, who's the chair of the, uh, Libertarian Party, and I walked right by her and I went, "0% chance they listen." (clears throat) And just went by her and go, "Now let's go watch the shit show, 'cause this is gonna be ridiculous." (laughs) So how bad- how much of a shit show was it? Oh, it was awful.

    26. LG

      ... I mean, just the worst-

    27. JR

      I only watched, like, a little bit of it.

    28. LG

      So I went... I w- they kicked me out of backstage, uh, 'cause it's, like, a Secret Service, like, checkpoint thing or whatever, 'cause they're real on top of that. Not so big on people with rifles on buildings. But they got me out of there. And so I go out and I come back around in the main room, and I'm just... I walk into the middle of just all the people, like, "Boo! Aah!" And so... And, uh, one of 'em... At one point, Trump goes... He goes, "I fired Comey," and one of the libertarians goes, "'Cause he was, uh, 'cause he was onto you." And I just turned to him-

    29. JR

      Ew.

    30. LG

      ... and I went, I went, "That's not even the right heckle."

  6. 12:33 – 15:41

    Comey, the Steele dossier, and how power corrupts (plus: ‘I read’ as comedy armor)

    1. JR

      The Comey thing was... Wh- what were they... They're alleging, first of all, that the Clinton campaign was spying on the Trump campaign, right?

    2. LG

      Yeah. It was, it was after that. They... He was trying to blackmail him, and fucking Trump caught onto that.

    3. JR

      Really?

    4. LG

      So he fired him. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah.

    5. BO

      For sure?

    6. LG

      Yeah. No.

    7. JR

      Are you... How do you know?

    8. LG

      So, okay. So if you... Oh, here we go, guys.

    9. JR

      Here we go. (laughs)

    10. LG

      All right. So you, you know how, like, uh-

    11. BO

      Dave Chappelle.

    12. LG

      Well, no.

    13. BO

      You know, we all heard about the Jets. Then he came in and he goes, "P. Diddy definitely fucked everybody and, and did this, and raped everyone." And then we're like, "Well, how do you know?" He's like, "Ugh, I read."

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. BO

      Not really. It doesn't really mean anything. You're always reading somebody else's numbers.

    16. LG

      You read that in a book?

    17. JR

      So what is-

    18. LG

      But that's what you can do in comedy, is that is enough to checkmate most comedians.

    19. JR

      Yeah.

    20. BO

      (laughing) Yeah.

    21. LG

      He goes, "I read." And you go, "He does read. All right."

    22. BO

      You're not wrong.

    23. JR

      Yeah. Well, it's also... It's just a funny thing to say because-

    24. BO

      (laughs)

    25. JR

      ... you could also be, like, admitting the ridiculousness of it yourself-

    26. BO

      Oh, yeah.

    27. JR

      ... while saying, "I read." You know? Because-

    28. LG

      (laughs)

    29. JR

      ... it's kind of an admission. Like, I'm not there. I didn't go to the freak out.

    30. BO

      If anybody goes, "Who was there?" Yeah, I wonder if somebody came and goes, "I went to one of these parties and, man, P. Diddy was like, 'If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go fuck Meek Mill in the butt.'" But, like, uh, that's never gonna happen. No one comes out and says that.

  7. 15:41 – 23:31

    Scientology street tests, Going Clear, and why belief can ‘work’ even if it’s nonsense

    1. JR

      Well, he was, uh... Do you know that he's the most prolific writer in human history?

    2. BO

      Sci-fi wise, yeah.

    3. JR

      More fiction-

    4. BO

      Yeah.

    5. JR

      ... than any other human being ever.

    6. LG

      More than Stephen King?

    7. JR

      More than anybody.

    8. BO

      In one Bible.

    9. JR

      Dude, more than anybo- And not a second draft amongst them. Everything he wrote was nonsense. (laughs)

    10. BO

      (laughs)

    11. JR

      Everything he wrote was hot nonsense. If you read it, it's like these are the dumbest stories.

    12. BO

      Well, do you remember the Dianetics commercials?

    13. JR

      (laughs)

    14. BO

      Do you remember the commercials with the-

    15. LG

      Yep.

    16. JR

      Yeah.

    17. BO

      ... uh, the volcano, like, the lava was going off?

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. BO

      And it just gave you, like, like, the most generalized things anyone feels. He goes, "Are you sometimes tired and sometimes awake?"

    20. LG

      You did it-

    21. BO

      But nothing was... It was just, like, vague. It was so, so vague.

    22. LG

      You did it before, right, Louis? The... When they had the test sometimes go down, people-

    23. JR

      In Times Square. In Times Square, I've done it.

    24. DS

      'Cause I... You just... It was just kinda cool. I was, like, a dumb kid. So they were like, "Hey, do you want us to test your stress levels?" I was like, "Boy, do I." (laughs)

    25. LG

      (laughs)

    26. DS

      And I went over and I held these dumb things, and they're like, "You're-

    27. BO

      The ones that go like that?

    28. DS

      Yeah. They're like, "You're stressed." And I was like, "I am, right?"

    29. BO

      (laughs)

    30. DS

      They're like, "Come on inside."

  8. 23:31 – 32:32

    Illegal baby names, celebrity kids, Beetlejuice reviews, and petty theft confessions

    1. BO

      Do you think the pendulum's gonna swing back to, like ... There was a time-

    2. DS

      Naming kids Jesus?

    3. BO

      No, but naming-

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. BO

      No, but naming kids, uh, like, when ... There was no actual, like, lines drawn on naming-... wa- uh, years and years ago, as far as, like, race goes. So, my grandmother's boyfriend when she died, his full name was Jerome.

    6. JR

      Look at this.

    7. BO

      There's old Tyro- like, white Tyrones.

    8. LG

      Wait, dude, that-

    9. BO

      That just stopped one day and those became Black names.

    10. JR

      These are all-

    11. LG

      That's wild.

    12. JR

      ... names that are-

    13. LG

      Illegal.

    14. JR

      ... ruled illegal by courts within the US.

    15. LG

      Yep.

    16. JR

      Um, so Bobby Green just got his name changed to King.

    17. LG

      Wow.

    18. JR

      He got his name legally-

    19. LG

      King Green.

    20. JR

      ... changed to King Green.

    21. LG

      Yeah, he's gonna have to take this to the Supreme Court. (laughs)

    22. JR

      Maybe not because it said... Oh, go back to that, please.

    23. DS

      Yeah, well, it's all right here.

    24. JR

      Um, but the s- the states. But before that, it was, like, showing how many states. Does it say that?

    25. BO

      Why can't it be 10/69?

    26. JR

      So, so it's not... The, uh... So it was just, um, the way it was phrased in the, uh, earlier thing that you had. Okay, here it is. There's a handful of names that were ruled illegal by courts within the US.

    27. LG

      Within.

    28. JR

      So, that could be l- local courts. Right?

    29. LG

      So, in some areas, it's illegal to have these names.

    30. BO

      Mm-hmm.

  9. 32:32 – 41:26

    Philadelphia street takeovers: mobs, stolen cars, and modern public disorder

    1. JR

      D- did you guys see that shit that was going down in Philadelphia yesterday where one of those street takeovers?

    2. BO

      I saw a video of it. I don't know what it is.

    3. JR

      And the cop, cop car drives towards it and hits his lights and thinks he's gonna get them to scatter. And they just jump all over the car.

    4. BO

      I didn't see that video.

    5. JR

      It's crazy.

    6. BO

      I saw a couple of them. Ugh.

    7. JR

      It's crazy.

    8. BO

      And what is it they're doing?

    9. JR

      Check this out. Look. So the cop... There's, they've got, got a street takeover. So they just decided to stand in the middle of the street and block traffic.

    10. BO

      Oh, is it a protest?

    11. JR

      No, I don't know what, what they're doing. I think they're just getting crazy. I don't know if they're protesting anything. I think they're just, a group of kids just decided to get crazy. This is the United States of America.

    12. DS

      (laughs)

    13. JR

      This is, this is like one of the... If you saw that this was happening in Ecuador, you'd be like, "Yo, Ecuador is out of control." Right?

    14. DS

      (laughs)

    15. JR

      But no, this is the United States of America in Philadelphia. Watch what happens to this cop car.

    16. BO

      Wait, what was the fir- go back a little bit. What was the person who spun out with, like, the person hanging off the car?

    17. JR

      They're going crazy. It's a street takeover.

    18. BO

      Oh.

    19. JR

      They're doing that with their cars. That's what they're doing. So they block traffic and then they spin around in circles in their cars and they organize it. So this cop tries to break it up but they just fuck this cop's car up, dude. Hundreds of kids.

    20. BO

      Fuck.

    21. JR

      (laughs) And no one's in control of them.

    22. BO

      Go Birds.

    23. JR

      I mean, if you are in that situation and you're parked in your car in, like, traffic 'cause there's, like, fucking-

    24. DS

      If I'm a cop?

    25. JR

      No, but what if you're not a cop? What if you're a cop right now?

    26. DS

      I'm just starting to blast everybody through the windshield. (laughs)

    27. JR

      You can't shoot enough people. There's too many, there's hundreds of people.

    28. BO

      It is, it is so funny-

    29. JR

      They'll get you and they'll kill you.

    30. DS

      I could get 16 of them.

  10. 41:26 – 51:32

    Rap eras, real beefs, CIA conspiracies, and workout music debates

    1. JR

      Right. Some of the fucking '90s stuff still holds up, man.

    2. DS

      Oh, yeah.

    3. BO

      Most of it does.

    4. JR

      Yeah. You know what I listened to the other day? Tim Dog.

    5. BO

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    6. NA

      Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    7. JR

      Tim Dog. You remember that guy?

    8. DS

      Of course not. No, I don't think so.

    9. NA

      No way.

    10. JR

      He was, like, the first guy who went against the, the, the guys from Compton and-

    11. BO

      Wait. Was he, was he based out of LA or something?

    12. JR

      He had a si-... No, he was a New York guy. See, he had a-

    13. DS

      I thought he was from New York.

    14. JR

      Yeah, he had a song called Fuck Compton. (laughs)

    15. BO

      (laughs)

    16. LG

      That was pretty ballsy at the time.

    17. DS

      Mm-hmm.

    18. JR

      (laughs)

    19. DS

      It was pr-

    20. BO

      Well, that was the worst rap beef ending ever.

    21. JR

      What is this, Jamie? The Side Show.

    22. BO

      It was, like, NWA. NWA split up from, uh, Ice Cube. And then, uh, Dr. Dre left, and then, and him and Eazy-E went and did their own thing. And then that beef ended in...... an AIDS death. (laughs) It's like, you don't see those ones happen anymore.

    23. JR

      Well, those beefs, they would go to actual shooting each other. That's what's the craziest thing. Like, never in the history of show business was there a scenario where stars were having other stars murdered, like openly.

    24. BO

      That's happening now more than ever.

    25. JR

      Yeah.

    26. LG

      It's, it's-

    27. BO

      With raps.

    28. JR

      ... it's easier to become, like, a, a, like a, a "star" on the internet now. So a lot of these guys are, like, getting really popular and then getting killed, like young rappers.

    29. BO

      You know the wildest conspiracy theory about that has to do with intelligence agencies creating rap music-

    30. LG

      Oh, that the CIA made them, made them gangster and shit like that?

  11. 51:32 – 56:37

    Juggalos, the Gathering chaos, and how Skankfest grew from that template

    1. BO

      ... DJ Paul at a Gathering of the Juggalos I performed at. He was one of the people that performed. It's so funny seeing the people who get what's happening there versus the performers who don't because, uh, he was up there. He knows. Like, he's been with that audience. I think Tech N9ne also does that, so he does all the family chants and stuff, uh, DJ Paul.

    2. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    3. BO

      And he just gets that crowd, gets them going. But they throw shit constantly and they're doing all kinds of crazy shit.

    4. JR

      (laughs)

    5. BO

      Rakim went up there. And by Rakim, like, the third song at, like, you know, they were throwing shit. But they're into it, the audience. And then he just kinda stops the song and he goes, "Hey, I ain't about all that fuck-shit throwing stuff, man. So, you can throw shit and we could leave, or we could do some rap music." And the crowd was just kinda like, "Oh, okay."

    6. DS

      Oh, they got it?

    7. BO

      See, back in the day, when we did it, when we did it 15 years ago- He yelled at them and they, and then they just, and then they stopped.

    8. DS

      ... dude, they were fucking savages. So I think they're, I think the Gathering of the Juggalos crowd has gotten older.

    9. BO

      Well, they've aged too. Yeah.

    10. DS

      I think they're all, they're all 40 now, so it's like, they're like, "Okay, if you don't want us to throw stuff, we won't." (laughs)

    11. BO

      (laughs)

    12. DS

      Which is great. We did it-

    13. BO

      I feel like ... No, no, no, guys. I think they were a little more like-

    14. DS

      The crowd had to-

    15. BO

      ... "Oh, this is our thing, though."

    16. DS

      They had to have a moment where they were like, "All right, it's a choice between throwing stuff or rap music."

    17. BO

      (laughs)

    18. DS

      Dude, we did it 15 years ago when we were just so young in comedy and we didn't know what it was. It was midnight in a tent in the woods with the Insane Clown Posse and it was a comedy tent.

    19. BO

      It's still that.

    20. DS

      I know, I know.

    21. BO

      But now we know who we are.

    22. JR

      (laughs)

    23. DS

      They had, I- I mean, they had a guy p- ... Uh, a clown pick us up in a van. It's, uh, DeRosa talks about it in his, uh, he has that joke on his special.

    24. BO

      Upchucks.

    25. DS

      Yeah, Upchucks: The Clown, dude.

    26. BO

      His name's Joel. He's a comic from, uh, Michigan. He still runs it. He just doesn't do it anymore.

    27. DS

      So they pick you up in a van. It's the scariest thing ever. You're like, it's just pitch black in the woods in the darkness. And when they put us up there, like, these people aren't there for comedy. They're there for this, whatever experience. So, they just start throwing, like, just cans of soda and beer and alcohol.

    28. JR

      Oh, Jesus Christ.

    29. DS

      Jay goes to me. He's like, "Dude, just ..." 'Cause I was going first. He was like ... I'm like a year in comedy. He's like, Jay is like, "Just go up there and do jokes. Don't just go up there and smoke weed and do crowd work." It was, like, me... And it was Vecchione, who's, like, a straight-up joke guy. So, uh, he was like, "You're gonna set us up to fail if you don't do jokes." So within 10 seconds, like, a, a beer can whizzed past my head. I was like, "Oh, is that weed?" And I just smoked weed with them for five minutes.

    30. BO

      No, Louis had on, he put on the-

  12. 56:37 – 1:09:26

    Free-speech comedy ecosystems: Legion of Skanks, Kill Tony, and YouTube censorship

    1. JR

      That's amazing. Dude, the- Legion of Skanks is one of the most important things in comedy.

    2. BO

      Oh, thank you. Thank you.

    3. JR

      You guys really are.

    4. LG

      Thank you.

    5. JR

      You really are. It- I put you guys in the same, like... There's- there's this brackets of, like, Kill Tony, Legion of Skanks. This is the thing about having these battlegrounds where you go, "No, no, no, no. We're gonna say what we would say if we were fucking around together."

    6. DS

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      Like, you can deal with it or you cannot deal with it, but this is how we would... The- the conversations we're having are exactly like green room conversations.

    8. BO

      Oh, yeah.

    9. DS

      Well, yeah. It's- I- and I feel like now, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like- almost like the tide has turned in some weird way. Like, it's kinda coming back.

    10. JR

      It- it definitely has.

    11. DS

      Even... There- there were, like, these big moments. I think, um, like, when they tried to cancel you and that didn't work. Uh, Shane getting SNL. Just, like, bi- big things where it's kinda like, oh, they're almost admitting, "Okay, we lost the great censor comedians war." But for those years, I think it was- it was good to have Legion of Skanks for a lot of those.

    12. JR

      Oh-

    13. DS

      For a lot of those comics, I was just like, "Well, this is the place where you could still do whatever you want to."

    14. LG

      Yeah, we were- we were just opening the w- the door a little bit to say fucked up shit, and people would come on our show... I mean, the amount of times people have been like, "Dude, should I have not said that on your show?" (laughs) After they leave.

    15. BO

      (laughs)

    16. JR

      But the w-

    17. BO

      Oh, yeah.

    18. JR

      You guys did a wise thing too, though, 'cause you were subscription-based.

    19. DS

      Mm-hmm.

    20. JR

      Right? So for the longest time, if you wanted to find out what you guys were talking about, you had to subscribe, so you had, like, loyal subscribers.

    21. BO

      But I was- I was just kinda, like, playing on that too. It's to kinda keep our- ourselves a little safe from-

    22. DS

      Well, yeah.

    23. JR

      Yeah.

    24. DS

      We have our own platform, and what- we put out the version on YouTube.

    25. JR

      It's smart.

    26. DS

      We put it out on iTunes, but we play by the rules there.

    27. BO

      (laughs)

    28. DS

      So we edit out all the shit you can't say on those platforms.

    29. JR

      Mm-hmm.

    30. DS

      And if you wanna see the real version, the way that we do it, you gotta go subscribe. Um, and honestly with YouTube, the way they started censoring everything, it actually now... 'Cause for... We've been doing this for, like, eight years, but now more than ever, a platform that we ha- l- like we have is more important than ever, because now YouTube is super strict with everything we do. We have to bleep things. We have to censor things. There's certain topics we can't even put in the podcast.

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