Joe Rogan Experience #2218 - Sam Tripoli

1. 0:00 – 1:32

   Election jitters and the “martial law” DOD directive controversy

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

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

   3. Hey, what up?

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Hey.

   5. STSam Tripoli0:12

      Exciting times, exciting times.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      It's a good time to be a conspiracy theorist. (laughs)

   7. STSam Tripoli0:17

      It's a good time to be a conspiracy theorist. It's a great time to be a comedian.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:21

      (laughs)

   9. STSam Tripoli0:21

      These are the, these are the good days, the all or nothing days.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Yeah, these are the good days until the election, and then who the fuck knows what happens?

   11. STSam Tripoli0:28

       Just fast forward to it.

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:29

       Did you see this thing that the, uh, B- Biden administration pushed through, um, this new martial law thing?

   13. STSam Tripoli0:36

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       This is very disturbing. Um, Jamie, please google this so we can find out what the actual law states, but it's, uh, DOD Directive 5240.01-

   15. STSam Tripoli0:49

       Oh, yeah. (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       ... giving the Pentagon power, for the first time in history, to use lethal force to kill Americans on US soil who protest government policies.

   17. STSam Tripoli0:58

       What are they expecting?

   18. NANarrator1:00

       I think I'm 5250.01. Is that wh- sounds right?

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:04

       I'm s-... Is that what it is?

   20. NANarrator1:05

       Uh, I don't... Sorry. 525-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Did I tell you what it is? I'm sorry. Um, 5240.01.

   22. STSam Tripoli1:11

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:11

       Um, DOD directive. This is from RFK Jr., posted this on Twitter, and I'm finding out about it 'cause people were blowing me up about it. Uh, that's fucking terrifying. That is a terrifying thing to, uh, push through for the first time in US history, giving the military the ability to shoot and kill American citizens.

2. 1:32 – 2:52

   Legalized propaganda, narrative control, and “reptilian” behavior in institutions

   1. STSam Tripoli1:32

      That's crazy too. Uh, eh, it's interesting because you know with the S- uh, the Smith-Muntz, uh, Modernization Act and stuff like that, it's almost like they kind of, in a weird way, just make it legal what they're already doing. The, if you use-

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:45

      What is that? The Smith Modernization Act?

   3. STSam Tripoli1:47

      The Smith-Muntz Modernization Act that Obama pushed through, which basically made it so it was legal for the US government to use propaganda against-

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:55

      Oh, right.

   5. STSam Tripoli1:55

      ... against its citizens, which they were already doing in different ways through CIA and all that stuff.

   6. JRJoe Rogan2:00

      Right.

   7. STSam Tripoli2:00

      So, it's now it's like we can legally do it. You can't sue us now.

   8. JRJoe Rogan2:03

      How crazy is it that it's legal to lie?

   9. STSam Tripoli2:06

      How crazy is that?

   10. JRJoe Rogan2:07

       It's legal for the government to not just legally lie, but they can concoct completely fabricated stories just to push a narrative if they dec- decide that it's in the best interest of national security or whatever.

   11. STSam Tripoli2:19

       To just manipulate energy in your mind and all that stuff to get you to believe certain things. And it's a... We need to bring back shame. That's my opinion.

   12. JRJoe Rogan2:28

       Well, they have none.

   13. STSam Tripoli2:29

       They ha-... None, but it's-

   14. JRJoe Rogan2:30

       It's not gonna work. You can't bring back shame to lizard people.

   15. STSam Tripoli2:32

       Yeah. (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan2:32

       (laughs)

   17. STSam Tripoli2:32

       They can't. They can't feel anything. It's in their reptilian brains, which is very i-... Some weird shit going on right now with that.

   18. JRJoe Rogan2:39

       It's weird because, like, you know that David Icke stuff where he said they're all r- lizard people? I don't think they're really lizard people. I don't think they're really shape-shifters. But they do behave in a reptilian way, like a corporation does, like a psychopath.

3. 2:52 – 8:14

   Interconnected elites and assassination rabbit holes (Reagan, Lennon, Malcolm X)

   1. STSam Tripoli2:52

      I, I, I don't know if they're actual reptilians, dude, but there is something going on that they are a group of people, 'cause they're all related, which is very weird if you, like, oh, you go back far enough, they're all related. Like, if you study Obama and Bush, right? You know, we, you m-... I, 'cause I remember when Bush, uh, when Obama was running. I was like, "Oh, change. It's gonna be change."

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:12

      Ho- hope and change.

   3. STSam Tripoli3:12

      Hope and change. And then you start studying, like, the Bushes and the Obamas and, and their, their, their first ancestor, their common ancestor is a Hinckley, dude. Right? And you go, "Wha-"

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:23

      Like John Hinckley, the guy who kill- tried to kill Reagan?

   5. STSam Tripoli3:26

      100%.

   6. JRJoe Rogan3:27

      What?

   7. STSam Tripoli3:28

      Yes. Their f-... Their f-

   8. JRJoe Rogan3:29

      They were l-

   9. STSam Tripoli3:29

      ... common ancestor is a Hinckley. (laughs) And then when you realize that, tha-

   10. JRJoe Rogan3:33

       H- Hinckley was related to Obama and Bush?

   11. STSam Tripoli3:36

       And related to the Bu-... The Bushes had dinner with the Hinckleys the night before Reagan got shot. And here's the (laughs) craziest thing.

   12. JRJoe Rogan3:43

       What? What?

   13. STSam Tripoli3:43

       Yeah. Isn't that crazy?

   14. JRJoe Rogan3:45

       Do you think... Okay, I always thought Hinckley was a lone nut that was in f-... a, a, uh, fa- infatuated with Jodie Foster. What? He... So...

   15. STSam Tripoli3:52

       No, dude. And he actually, there's actually interviews, dude, where he said, "U- uh, u- uh, u- Uncle George told me to do it."

   16. JRJoe Rogan4:00

       Oh, Jesus.

   17. STSam Tripoli4:01

       Okay.

   18. JRJoe Rogan4:01

       Didn't they just let him out?

   19. STSam Tripoli4:03

       Yeah. And now he's doing, like, plating coffee beans 'cause he's put out an album or something like that. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan4:10

       (laughs)

   21. STSam Tripoli4:10

       Dude. (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan4:10

       (laughs)

   23. STSam Tripoli4:10

       He's touring off it.

   24. JRJoe Rogan4:12

       Ah.

   25. STSam Tripoli4:12

       But that's a crazy thing.

   26. JRJoe Rogan4:13

       Barack Obama is the tenth cousin, once removed of George W. Bush, through Samuel Hinckley of Cape Cod. Holy shit.

   27. STSam Tripoli4:21

       It's so crazy.

   28. JRJoe Rogan4:22

       Wha- I've never gone down the Hinckley rabbit hole. What's the h- wh- so John Hinckley, the guy who killed or shot, rather, Reagan, what was his deal? Was he-

   29. STSam Tripoli4:31

       He was, like, he-

   30. JRJoe Rogan4:32

       ... MKUltra?
4. 8:14 – 12:21

   Espionage tactics, pager attacks, and living in a surveillance panopticon

   1. JRJoe Rogan8:14

      Bro, how exciting must it be to be an undercover dude?

   2. STSam Tripoli8:17

      (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan8:18

      To be, like, deep under- Imagine being, like, a fucking, uh, IDF soldier who's in Hamas.

   4. STSam Tripoli8:23

      Dude, that's crazy.

   5. JRJoe Rogan8:24

      You're in Hamas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in there.

   6. STSam Tripoli8:29

      And you're so deep, too.

   7. JRJoe Rogan8:30

      You're so deep that no one even knows what your actual job is, and there's like... Israel doesn't play.

   8. STSam Tripoli8:37

      Israel has a-

   9. JRJoe Rogan8:37

      They don't give a fuck. They don't give a fuck. They have a bunch of those dudes.

   10. STSam Tripoli8:40

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan8:40

       Like, infiltrate, infiltrated-

   12. STSam Tripoli8:41

       Everywhere.

   13. JRJoe Rogan8:42

       ... Hezbollah.

   14. STSam Tripoli8:43

       Everywhere.

   15. JRJoe Rogan8:43

       They've got guys in everywhere. That's how they-

   16. STSam Tripoli8:45

       The US government, it's every-

   17. JRJoe Rogan8:46

       ... screw everybody up with those pagers.

   18. STSam Tripoli8:47

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan8:47

       But-

   20. STSam Tripoli8:47

       That's crazy.

   21. JRJoe Rogan8:48

       That pager thing is one of the most gangster moves in the history of espionage.

   22. STSam Tripoli8:52

       And it's like you gotta sto- you know, every f-

   23. JRJoe Rogan8:54

       Is that espionage, technically? No.

   24. STSam Tripoli8:56

       Yeah, 100%.

   25. JRJoe Rogan8:57

       Is that what you call it?

   26. STSam Tripoli8:57

       Yeah. It was 100... It's clandestine and all that stuff. This episode of The Joe Rogan Experience is brought to you by Call of Duty. You know when a new Call of Duty drops, everyone's trying to find a way to squeeze in those extra hours of gameplay. I get it. Life is busy, but sometimes you just (beep) need (static) .

   27. NANarrator9:18

       Hey, Joe. It's the replacer. Yeah, no, you. Hey, I'm gonna take it from here so you can enjoy some Call of Duty Black Ops 6. Great. Now, listen up, folks. Life can be chaotic, but you shouldn't have to miss out on the latest Call of Duty just because you've got, I don't know, responsibilities. That's where I come in. I will handle the boring stuff like work, chores, even podcast ads, so you can dive right into the fight. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is out October 25th. So, dive in because I've got your back. Remember, I replace, you play. It's that simple. (beep)

   28. JRJoe Rogan10:01

       Man, the replacer always gets it done. Seriously though, if you're hooked on Call of Duty, this is your time to jump in. Head over to callofduty.com/blackops6 to get in the game. Call of Duty Black Ops 6, available now. Fucking wild move, man. What a wild move.

   29. STSam Tripoli10:21

       And then you study where, like-

   30. JRJoe Rogan10:23

       Blow their dicks off.
5. 12:21 – 14:52

   Trust, government incentives, guns, and neglected domestic investment

   1. STSam Tripoli12:21

      It's so crazy, 'cause you know he's super highly educated, you know. A- and Bryan Kallen is a sweetheart. People don't realize that. He's almost to a point like he's a people pleaser where he just wants to make sure everybody's happy.

   2. JRJoe Rogan12:32

      A little bit of that, yeah.

   3. STSam Tripoli12:33

      A little bit, and he kind of puts himself in some weird situations once in a while.

   4. JRJoe Rogan12:36

      Because of that, yeah.

   5. STSam Tripoli12:36

      But at the end of the day he has a good heart and he means really well.

   6. JRJoe Rogan12:39

      Uh, he's a great guy. I've been friends with Bryan for 30 years.

   7. STSam Tripoli12:42

      Yeah, he's the best.

   8. JRJoe Rogan12:43

      We're real, we're real good friends.

   9. STSam Tripoli12:45

      And you love-

   10. JRJoe Rogan12:45

       I love him to death.

   11. STSam Tripoli12:46

       And he wants to have hope.

   12. JRJoe Rogan12:47

       Well, he wants to believe that the government is good.

   13. STSam Tripoli12:50

       Yes.

   14. JRJoe Rogan12:50

       And I think the government is mostly good.

   15. STSam Tripoli12:52

       Yes.

   16. JRJoe Rogan12:53

       That's what I think about people. I think people are mostly good. I m- I think most people are great. But I, I think the reason the Second Amendment exists is some people are not great.

   17. STSam Tripoli13:02

       Yeah.

   18. JRJoe Rogan13:02

       Some people are really bad, and you want to protect the great people from the people that are really bad, and that's a reality, unfortunate reality. I would like that to go away. I would like there be no need for guns, because everyone's amazing.

   19. STSam Tripoli13:14

       (laughs) Yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan13:14

       That would be the best.

   21. STSam Tripoli13:15

       100%.

   22. JRJoe Rogan13:16

       That would be the best. But pretending that everyone's the best without fixing all the problems that make people fucked up in the first place while trying to remove guns so only outlaws have guns is the dumbest fucking strategy.

   23. STSam Tripoli13:28

       It's so stupid.

   24. JRJoe Rogan13:28

       And every city that pulls that off like Chicago or Detroit or any of these places that try that shit, th- it's a disaster and a fucking war zone, you know. I mean, there's more people get murdered in Chicago-

   25. STSam Tripoli13:39

       Right.

   26. JRJoe Rogan13:39

       ... every weekend than probably any city in the country.

   27. STSam Tripoli13:42

       The places with the strictest gun laws-

   28. JRJoe Rogan13:45

       Yeah.

   29. STSam Tripoli13:45

       ... have the most violence.

   30. JRJoe Rogan13:46

       Yeah, it's fucking dumb. It doesn't work that way. You have to, you have to look at things realistically, and then you have to look at the root of the problem instead of looking at the actions. Don't look at the actions. Look at what causes the actions: extreme poverty, despair, gang-ridden, crime-ridden neighborhoods. If you don't fix them, you're gonna keep getting the same kind of people that come out of there. So that is where we... We spent $175 billion on Ukraine.
6. 14:52 – 20:45

   Immigration, scarcity, and divide-and-conquer cultural strategies

   1. JRJoe Rogan14:52

      I don't think it is. I think they're acting in the interest of the people that pay them, in the interest of the people that pay them is supporting the military-industrial complex, the pharmaceutical industrial complex. And then all the people that give them money keep getting more money from them and ignore all the other people. This is what I think they're doing, and this is what I think they're doing with voting as well. I mean, I think it's the exact same thing. The, the reason why they're letting in so many people and giving them money and putting them up in hotels and then asking for amnesty for all these people that came in, we need people. The key, this is like this new narrative. "We're, we're not having enough babies. We need people to come into this country." Sure, not that way.

   2. STSam Tripoli15:32

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:32

      Not where you don't know-

   4. STSam Tripoli15:33

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:33

      ... who the fuck they are.

   6. STSam Tripoli15:34

      Yeah. We like to vet them.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:36

      And 15,000 of them are rapists, 14,000 of them are murderers, convicted murderers.

   8. STSam Tripoli15:41

      It's like you're s-

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:42

      This is just what we know.

   10. STSam Tripoli15:43

       It's like you're having a party and you're like, "Oh, there's not a lot of people here." Sounds like I'll invite a bunch of people.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:47

       Go to South Central.

   12. STSam Tripoli15:48

       Who, who-

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       Open up the doors. Find, find the gangbangers.

   14. STSam Tripoli15:50

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:51

       Bring them in. Yeah.

   16. STSam Tripoli15:51

       But then you study, you study a lot of this stuff and, and it just gets into like I, I think like this kind of like dark energy stuff, man. It's like if you study like what they did to the Native Americans, if you study what they did to the, the, the Black community, they run the same playbook over and over again.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:08

       Right.

   18. STSam Tripoli16:08

       Which is take, take... Like if you study the natives, right, they took, they killed all the buffalo, which mean- took away all the g- jobs from the guys. They flooded-

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:16

       That's a little more complicated. The, the Native American story is a little more complicated-

   20. STSam Tripoli16:20

       But it's just-

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       ... in that, in that regard.

   22. STSam Tripoli16:21

       Yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:21

       'Cause the buffalo thing wa- There's some evidence that some people were killing the buffalo to deprive the Native Americans of food, but most of it was just wanton and destructive recklessness and just like greed, just horrible greed.

   24. STSam Tripoli16:38

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:39

       'Cause you know what they were doing it for? Pickled tongues. That was the primary thing they were getting.

   26. STSam Tripoli16:44

       That's crazy.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:44

       Before they're even getting skins from the buffalo, they were getting tongues. Tongues was like one of the big things because you could take them, you could pickle them, you could send them back East, and they were worth a lot of money.

   28. STSam Tripoli16:54

       That's crazy.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:54

       'Cause a buffalo tongue is like that big.

   30. STSam Tripoli16:55

       Yeah.
7. 20:45 – 23:19

   Words losing meaning: racism labels, media incentives, and the Graham Hancock fight

   1. STSam Tripoli20:45

      It's so crazy to me, and I- I'm working on this bit right now because, like, everything in television is like civil war. There's gonna be a civil war. There's gonna be, uh, uh, movies. And I'm like, "Between who?" Like, uh, the right and the left? That, that's gotta sound like a curb stomping to me. It's like, you're gonna have, like, the rednecks versus the furries. And, like-

   2. JRJoe Rogan21:03

      (laughs)

   3. STSam Tripoli21:04

      Who, who's fighting here, dude? It's, like, ridiculous. And because, like, they, uh... It's gotten so crazy that, like, you know, if you called somebody a fascist, that meant they were, like, taking away your rights. Now it's just your dad who watches Fox News.

   4. JRJoe Rogan21:15

      Right.

   5. STSam Tripoli21:15

      It's, like, so stupid. Racist. I... Get called racist. It doesn't e-... It's almost like a badge of honor at this point to be called these terms 'cause it's just by annoying people who I don't like anyways.

   6. JRJoe Rogan21:25

      Right.

   7. STSam Tripoli21:25

      So it's ju-... It's, it's destroyed this kind of fabric between, uh, relationships between everybody, and I-

   8. JRJoe Rogan21:30

      It's destroyed the meaning of words, and it really opens the door for real racists. Like, if you only have one word and the word is racist, and you apply that word to anyone, everyone, anyone who disagrees with you-

   9. STSam Tripoli21:42

      All the time.

   10. JRJoe Rogan21:42

       Like, they, they apply it to Graham Hancock, the archeologist, all the-

   11. STSam Tripoli21:46

       (laughs) It's so crazy.

   12. JRJoe Rogan21:46

       I had this fucking guy on, this Flint Dibble guy, who's an archeologist, who literally wrote things implying that Graham Hancock's work empowers white supremacy.

   13. STSam Tripoli21:57

       So stupid.

   14. JRJoe Rogan21:58

       And I asked him about it, and he was, like, trying to skid around it and dance around it, but I've seen him do it online with other people too. And this is a guy in Graham Hancock who's talking about ancient cultures. He's, he's literally saying... We're talking about the, like, Egypt. No one's saying that, like, s- white people built the pyramids.

   15. STSam Tripoli22:16

       Yeah, it's so stupid. (laughs)

   16. JRJoe Rogan22:17

       They're saying that it, they've been there longer than people think. That's it. By the same fucking people that lived there in, uh, in Northern Africa. It's the same fucking people. No one's-

   17. STSam Tripoli22:27

       (laughs) That's crazy.

   18. JRJoe Rogan22:28

       (laughs) No one's saying white people. There's no white people back... I mean, especially in that area. What are you talking about? It's not a white thing. It's Egyptians. It's Africans.

   19. STSam Tripoli22:36

       Oh, I love hidden history, dude.

   20. JRJoe Rogan22:37

       But yet you can say racist and everybody's like, "Oh my God, the racists. Back away."

   21. STSam Tripoli22:41

       (laughs) It's so crazy.

   22. JRJoe Rogan22:41

       Back away.

   23. STSam Tripoli22:42

       (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan22:42

       Dude, it's nuts. But it loses-

   25. STSam Tripoli22:44

       It's so crazy.

   26. JRJoe Rogan22:45

       The problem is there's real racists out there. There's fucking KKKs real. There's real white supremacists out there. And when you call a fucking archeologist, you know, an amateur archeologist, a racist because he's, like, trying to say, like, "Hey, maybe this stuff is older than we think it is." Well, you, now, what about the... What are you gonna call the real... Are they super racists? What are, what are those?

   27. STSam Tripoli23:05

       And what does this mean?

   28. JRJoe Rogan23:06

       Far right racists?

   29. STSam Tripoli23:06

       What is the play... Like, play the tape out. What does that mean? Like, like, if you go all the, these, this is white supremacy. What does that mean? Is he s- i- is it lo- is he trying to say that they're stealing, like, their val- valor? Is that what they're saying, like?

8. 23:19 – 29:27

   Younger Dryas, lost civilizations, Tartaria, and the puzzle of the pyramids

   1. JRJoe Rogan23:19

      They're trying to s- take away the notion that these ancient indigenous people constructed these things, but no one's saying that. Like, he even implied that Graham has said something about aliens, which he definitely hasn't. He doesn't s- think aliens built it. No, the, the, what the... They're misrepresenting the argument, and the argument is a fascinating one, and it's backed by actual science. And the argument is there's a thing called the Younger Dryas Impact Theory that happened around 11,800 years ago.

   2. STSam Tripoli23:48

      Yes.

   3. JRJoe Rogan23:48

      Documented, proven, 100% real event. They know the dates that it happens because it, it happens every year. Was it November and June? Is that when the meteor... The Leonid m- meteor shower? Is that what it is? So there's a comet shower that we pass through twice a year, and every now and then, a big chunk, like the Tunguska event-... the Tunguska event in the early 1900s, which flattened, like, a million acres in Siberia, is the exact same time period where we pass through this shower. So, they believe that at 11,800 years ago, this impact, and this is proven by core samples that show high levels of i- iridium, high levels of, uh, this nuclear glass that happens on impacts, and they find this stuff all in the same area, around 11- 11,800 BC, and then another one that's somewhere around, uh, 10,000 s- or, uh, 11,800 years ago, rather, and another one that's, like, 10,000+ years ago. So they think there's, like, multiple events that took place over a few thousand years, which totally makes sense. If we pass through this fucking shower all the time and it nuked a giant chunk of Siberia-

   4. STSam Tripoli24:56

      Yeah, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan24:56

      ... in the early 1900s. So, all he's saying, all Graham Hancock is saying is, we are a species with amnesia.

   6. STSam Tripoli25:05

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan25:05

      And to call him a racist, for, it's, the whole thing's nuts.

   8. STSam Tripoli25:09

      I love it, dude. And, like, if you, I think the world before that, that event, was crazy, bro. It was like, it was l- I think it's like a Game of Thrones meets, like, Harry Po- like, it was the craziest thing ever. Everything, like, even if you study, like, the stuff that happened in the Bible, and all these crazy things they say people did, I think all that stuff was possible before that and they j- it just wiped out this incredible civilization that was so advanced and they had, they could manipulate energy and they could do all this. Who built the pyramids? Maybe Nephilim. Who knows? Dude, giants just lifting logs and putting, I mean, giant, uh, bricks, and putting them in there.

   9. JRJoe Rogan25:46

      Whoever did it, they had an insane level of sophistication-

   10. STSam Tripoli25:50

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan25:50

       ... that doesn't make any sense when you compare the rest of the world. The rest of the world, at 2500 BC, which is the conventional date, let's say that's correct, just the conventional date, Graham Hancock thinks it was probably much earlier, but let's say the conventional date, no one else was doing anything like that 2500 BC. Not even close. So what, what was going on there? How did... Did they just have insane resources? Did they have so much food and water and they existed for thousands of years just like... You know, look, we were talking about this, I had Brian Cox on yesterday, and we were talking about how if you go back literally 120 years ago you have Wilbur and Orville W- Wright flying this bullshit-ass plane.

   12. STSam Tripoli26:28

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan26:28

       Now, 120 years later, you have Elon Musk and Starship X-

   14. STSam Tripoli26:32

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan26:32

       ... catching rockets on a fucking machine.

   16. STSam Tripoli26:34

       That was crazy.

   17. JRJoe Rogan26:36

       Ahh. But-

   18. STSam Tripoli26:36

       That was crazy.

   19. JRJoe Rogan26:37

       ... the kind of progress that you're looking at is fucking, uh, impossible to imagine.

   20. STSam Tripoli26:42

       It's so crazy.

   21. JRJoe Rogan26:42

       So, imagine if these Egyptians had this same sort of situation where they had an established civilization, an established culture, plenty of food, plenty of resources, brilliant people, no war, and then they just start figuring stuff out, but on a different pathway. Instead of with, like, engines and internal combustion and electronics, they go a different way, and we don't know what that way is. But it's totally possible that that way exists.

   22. STSam Tripoli27:11

       Yeah, y- there's a lot of great YouTube channels that break this stuff down, like m- On My Lunch Break and, uh, Analog, I've had them on my show and they... He was telling me this story about how, like, they, they were drilling low and then they got to this... And there was this giant, like, cavern, and they found, like, whole c- uh, civilization down there that was empty, and he, he talked about one time where they just kept drilling and they just would find civilization on top of civilization and they got low enough that they found, like, uh, like, in America, they found, like, Chinese writing low enough, 'cause-

   23. JRJoe Rogan27:42

       Where is this?

   24. STSam Tripoli27:42

       Yeah, dude. I- if you study these guys, they have these YouTube channels, it's, uh, it's uh, On My Lunch Break and Analog, and they just discu- they just break down kind of like something I talked about last time I was on here, which was Tartaria, but it's lost civilizations, how our timeline is completely fucked. It's not even, it's not even real. There's people think, like, we're millions of years old and we have these giant events that kind of come and reset us.

   25. JRJoe Rogan28:07

       Mmm.

   26. STSam Tripoli28:07

       But they dig deep enough, there's like civilizations keep digging, there's another civilization over and over and over, we're just, we're just on top of giants, dude.

   27. JRJoe Rogan28:17

       Well, that's the case with Egypt. There's Old Kingdom and then there's New Kingdom stuff, and when you go deeper into the sand, you find more complex buildings.

   28. STSam Tripoli28:24

       Yeah, dude.

   29. JRJoe Rogan28:25

       Which is nuts. Bigger stones, like, crazy stuff, man. That Old Kingdom Egypt stuff is a specific style, and so, you know, maybe that was 11,800 years ago, and then maybe 10,000 years ago is the other one. Like, we don't know. We, we don't know how old that stuff is.

   30. STSam Tripoli28:40

       Well, it's almost like the Egyptians were, just kind of moved in, and they're like, "These are our pyramids," and like-
9. 29:27 – 34:52

   Craftsmanship, grand sacred architecture, and the business of modern religion

   1. STSam Tripoli29:27

      ... even if you go into these small kind of towns, you just go into like, a, pick any state, you go into a small town, their city hall is like the most beautiful building-

   2. JRJoe Rogan29:35

      Right.

   3. STSam Tripoli29:36

      ... you've ever seen, surrounded by trailers. And you're like, "Who was here? Who made that? Why'd they make that? And where did they go?" And you see that-

   4. JRJoe Rogan29:43

      Craftsmen.

   5. STSam Tripoli29:43

      ... all over the place.

   6. JRJoe Rogan29:44

      But, but, you know, the thing is, like, craftsmen for, like, if you go into, like, old houses and old churches, the craftsmanship is insane.

   7. STSam Tripoli29:52

      Insane.

   8. JRJoe Rogan29:52

      Have you ever been to Vatican?

   9. STSam Tripoli29:54

      No. That's-

   10. JRJoe Rogan29:55

       Dude.

   11. STSam Tripoli29:55

       That's on the list.

   12. JRJoe Rogan29:56

       Vatican's incredible. St Peter's Basilica is fucking mind-blowing. You walk around, it took hundreds of years to make, and the craftsmanship is just spectacular. When you walk around, your, your jaw's just hanging out like...What the fuck, man?

   13. STSam Tripoli30:12

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:12

       H- show some photos of St. Peter's Basilica. Dude, it's immense. I don't know how tall the ceiling is, it's fucking crazy tall. But th- i- it's like everywhere you look is incredible, ornate craftsmanship. And, you know, that was a thing that people did. Like, show the inside. That pho- yeah, that one.

   15. STSam Tripoli30:29

       Look at that.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:30

       C- click on that. Look at that, man.

   17. STSam Tripoli30:32

       The detail. Oh my God.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       Dude, in, in real life, it blows your mind 'cause you're just like, "How? How long? What was the motivation? How did you get the money?" Like, w- who did you steal all that money from?

   19. STSam Tripoli30:45

       That is so crazy.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       Click on that other one, Jamie. The one... Yeah.

   21. STSam Tripoli30:47

       Wow.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       Look at that. And then the one to the left of that, too. Look at that. Fuck, dude. And you, when you walk around in there, you... I mean, photos barely do it justice. See g- uh, go to the one w- there in the l- lower, the right-hand side, Jamie, with all the people in it.

   23. STSam Tripoli31:02

       Wow.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:02

       Right next to that, to the right. Yeah, right there. Look at that one. So that gives you a ch- a- an understanding of the scale. You see all these people roaming around in it. It's fucking amazing. And so, people were just really good at carpentry and craftsmanship back then.

   25. STSam Tripoli31:17

       Yeah. Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:17

       And it was a skill that was taught in school. You know, like, like how many sculptors are there today? It's probably a dying thing. It's probably very few actual sculptors.

   27. STSam Tripoli31:27

       So sad.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:27

       But back then, it was a real craft that you can get into. And especially, you know, you're doing all this stuff by hand. Like they didn't even have power tools, okay? So that whole thing was built without table saws, no band saws. It was all planers and hand chisels and s-

   29. STSam Tripoli31:45

       Something would happen.

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:46

       ... hand saws.
10. 34:52 – 42:22

    Spiritual curiosity, attention management, and building discipline

    1. STSam Tripoli34:52

       Yeah, it's kind of crazy, too, because like I grew up in that era, and that, all that stuff kind of made me like question the church and then question God. And then I just kind of go, oh... 'Cause I- I- I've been spending some time with my friends. We kind of listen to Johnny Cash read the Bible.

    2. JRJoe Rogan35:09

       Oh, wow.

    3. STSam Tripoli35:09

       It's the best. It's-

    4. JRJoe Rogan35:11

       How old was he when he read the Bible?

    5. STSam Tripoli35:12

       I- I don't know how old he was, but it's like very soothing, and it's like... I'm gonna be honest with you. Like I'm on this journey right now, but I've never sat down and read the Bible. I've been told-

    6. JRJoe Rogan35:20

       Can I stop you right there?

    7. STSam Tripoli35:21

       Yeah.

    8. JRJoe Rogan35:21

       I hate when people say they're o- on a journey.

    9. STSam Tripoli35:23

       I don't know. I-

    10. JRJoe Rogan35:23

        Just don't say it anymore.

    11. STSam Tripoli35:24

        Okay. Well, I'm going for a walk. I'm kidding.

    12. JRJoe Rogan35:29

        Say it.

    13. STSam Tripoli35:29

        No, it's fine. I don't care. I don't care.

    14. JRJoe Rogan35:30

        Nothing wrong, nothing wrong with being on a spiritual journey.

    15. STSam Tripoli35:32

        But I'm just trying to learn.

    16. JRJoe Rogan35:33

        Yes.

    17. STSam Tripoli35:33

        Right? 'Cause I've been a, like a real knuckle-dragger my whole life.

    18. JRJoe Rogan35:37

        Yeah.

    19. STSam Tripoli35:37

        I'm trying to get, get o- into the higher vibrational, right?

    20. JRJoe Rogan35:40

        Mm-hmm.

    21. STSam Tripoli35:41

        So I'm studying this shit.

    22. JRJoe Rogan35:42

        Johnny Cash reading the New Testament. Oh, so he was old. It was old Johnny Cash, 1990. Okay, not too, not too old.

    23. STSam Tripoli35:49

        It's the best. It's the best.

    24. JRJoe Rogan35:49

        Not too old. Oh, wow. That's fucking great.

    25. STSam Tripoli35:52

        And you just listen to him, and like I never sat down and read the Bible. I've never actually read what's in it. I've been always told what was in it. I never read it.

    26. JRJoe Rogan36:02

        Mm-hmm.

    27. STSam Tripoli36:02

        And now to hear it actually read, which technically I'm not reading it either, I'm listening, but, you know.

    28. JRJoe Rogan36:07

        Right.

    29. STSam Tripoli36:07

        It's like it's really interesting.

    30. JRJoe Rogan36:09

        I tried to say I read a book to Donnell Rawlings. I told him I read it on, uh... I- I listened to it on audio tape. He goes, "So you didn't read it."
11. 42:22 – 57:15

    Kids, gender medicine, and institutional incentives (plus porn’s mainstream shift)

    1. STSam Tripoli42:22

       He like, uh, because you know the weird thing about that, because there was this whole push, you know, about drag queens and... Dude, I've been to drag shows. They're great. I, personally, I don't think they need to be reading to kindergartners. That's just my personal opinion.

    2. JRJoe Rogan42:36

       Yeah.

    3. STSam Tripoli42:36

       Right? A- a- and now they all get, a lot of them get busted with having weird pasts, right? A- and the reason I do that is, is like whether it's the child sex changes and all that stuff, it's like most of the people pushing that stuff-... people, okay, are in therapy for trauma that occurred to them as children. And now they're totally fine with traumatizing children with weird-ass shit. Like, to me, like, kindergarten should be As, Bs, Cs, adding up all, you know, ma- It shouldn't be-

    4. JRJoe Rogan43:06

       Play games, football.

    5. STSam Tripoli43:07

       Yeah. Like, drag queens seem like algebra to me.

    6. JRJoe Rogan43:10

       Yeah.

    7. STSam Tripoli43:10

       Like, really advanced shit that we most, most adults don't even quite understand.

    8. JRJoe Rogan43:15

       Well, first of all, why would you ever push anything sexual to people that haven't even-

    9. STSam Tripoli43:19

       Well, h- yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan43:19

        ... they haven't even come close to puberty.

    11. STSam Tripoli43:21

        Yeah. It's so gross-

    12. JRJoe Rogan43:22

        That doesn't... That makes no sense.

    13. STSam Tripoli43:24

        ... to me.

    14. JRJoe Rogan43:24

        It's gross. It's not just gross, it's disturbing and we're also ignoring the fact that human beings are extremely malleable. You can convince people of all sorts of things. You can influence people to do all sorts of things. We know that. That's why cults exist, right?

    15. STSam Tripoli43:39

        Yeah.

    16. JRJoe Rogan43:39

        That's why you can get... Why do you think they get little kids to become suicide bombers? 'Cause they don't know any better. Try getting a 55-year-old guy with-

    17. STSam Tripoli43:47

        (laughs)

    18. JRJoe Rogan43:48

        ... a, a (laughs) wife and kids and a job-

    19. STSam Tripoli43:49

        Yeah. Yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan43:50

        ... to be a suicide bomber. He'd be like, "What?" Try getting some fucking guy in New Jersey who takes the train into Manhattan every day. Try to get that guy to be a suicide bomber. He'd be like, "What the fuck are you talking about, man?"

    21. STSam Tripoli43:59

        Right. Right.

    22. JRJoe Rogan43:59

        "I'm trying to pay my mortgage."

    23. STSam Tripoli44:00

        Right.

    24. JRJoe Rogan44:00

        "I'm, I'm going to my kid's, my kid's recital tonight."

    25. STSam Tripoli44:03

        100%.

    26. JRJoe Rogan44:03

        "Not blowing myself up. For what?"

    27. STSam Tripoli44:06

        They have people that rely on them, and then kids just have nothing, and they're very-

    28. JRJoe Rogan44:09

        They have nothing.

    29. STSam Tripoli44:09

        ... trusting of adults, too.

    30. JRJoe Rogan44:11

        And they really believe that they're gonna go to heaven. They really believe that they're gonna be martyrs. And then they have framed photographs. There was... I remember there were, um, there was this documentary where there, uh, there was this school in the Middle East and they, they were talking about today's students are tomorrow's holy martyrs, and it was printed on the wall. And in it, they had photographs of various children that had blown themselves up.
12. 57:15 – 1:03:32

    Birth-rate collapse, plastics, and culture shifts around family formation

    1. STSam Tripoli57:15

       (laughs) I was at the airport flying here, and like, I love children, like, especially now I have kids I realize how magical they are. And like, you go to airports, you don't see kids like you used to when I was coming up. It's just, nobody's having kids anymore. At least that's what they're telling us. But, so I'm there-

    2. JRJoe Rogan57:31

       Well, that's why we need immigrants, Sam.

    3. STSam Tripoli57:32

       (laughs)

    4. JRJoe Rogan57:33

       That's why we need to keep the borders open, Sam.

    5. STSam Tripoli57:35

       I see that. And dude, even like, lot, even-

    6. JRJoe Rogan57:36

       We need to give them money, Sam.

    7. STSam Tripoli57:37

       Even Mexico's birth rate's going down. It's like Mexicans aren't having kids now, dude, that's crazy.

    8. JRJoe Rogan57:41

       Is that real?

    9. STSam Tripoli57:42

       Yeah, that, and like, dude, I saw this chart which stated like the birth rates of all these countries. It is not, the only place that's only down 20%, Jamaica. They're still dropping dick. Nobody else's.

    10. JRJoe Rogan57:53

        Well, they probably don't have a lot of plastic over there. The part of it is, uh, reproductive cycles are being devastated by plastic.

    11. STSam Tripoli58:01

        Dude, we're entering our Children of Men phase, dude. I'm telling you, bro. We're like-

    12. JRJoe Rogan58:05

        Hm, maybe.

    13. STSam Tripoli58:06

        We're, we're, nobody has kids.

    14. JRJoe Rogan58:07

        Remember that movie that was like ridiculous? Everybody was like, "That's crazy."

    15. STSam Tripoli58:09

        Yeah, and now like everything's militarized-

    16. JRJoe Rogan58:12

        Yeah.

    17. STSam Tripoli58:12

        ... and nobody's having kids. Welcome.

    18. JRJoe Rogan58:13

        I mean, it's gonna get to a point where abortion rights are gonna be moot. Like, it's not really important because nobody can have kids.

    19. STSam Tripoli58:19

        Nobody's g- Yeah, it's really sad, dude. It's-

    20. JRJoe Rogan58:22

        It's, it's weird because this is what happens in industrialized civilizations anyway. So, whenever you have like cities, what happens is women enter the workforce so they have children later. And then men wanna have children later as well 'cause everybody's focusing on the career. And then you have, uh, IVF centers and everything because people are too old to have kids. They're late 30s like, "Oh my God, we have to do something to have a kid. We don't have any time. Freeze the embryos, do whatever we gotta do." And so, it's normal for third world countries to have more kids, you know? That's always been the case because you need children 'cause you need children to help you work, you know? If you're working on a farm or ranch or, you need kids. And then you get to cities and people are like, "Well, the w- the wife wants a career as well." And, it, it, you know, birth rates always drop. But you get to places like Japan or South Korea-

    21. STSam Tripoli59:10

        It's crazy.

    22. JRJoe Rogan59:10

        ... they're catastrophic.

    23. STSam Tripoli59:12

        Catast- Everyone's watching eel porn, nobody wants to get, hook up with the bitches, dawg.

    24. JRJoe Rogan59:17

        (laughs) Well, it's not even them, man. It's work. It's work, you know, especially in South Korea. You know, they're, they're very hardworking. It's a very hard work ethic. And the, the population drop is so bad that it's something crazy like one out of 100 people today will have grandchildren. Something bananas like that.

    25. STSam Tripoli59:36

        That is so nuts to me. And, and it, you know what else is kinda crazy? Like, the, the, what feminism has done. And there's a, the, I, I think we're in big trouble. Our gene pool's in big trouble. Like especially if you take a look at like how many O- there's like so many Only Fans, it's unbelievable, right? And that, that lifestyle, when you're a gorgeous woman like that, that lifestyle that you start to go on Only Fans, that kind of like shuts certain doors in your life. And one thing-

    26. JRJoe Rogan1:00:02

        Yeah.

    27. STSam Tripoli1:00:03

        ... that, that is gonna happen is like high value males probably don't want an adult film star as the mother of their children.

    28. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

        Right.

    29. STSam Tripoli1:00:09

        And these are like viking bitches, right?

    30. JRJoe Rogan1:00:11

        Right.
13. 1:03:32 – 1:21:30

    Comedy world nostalgia: The Comedy Store eras, Kill Tony’s rise, and post-cancel freedom

    1. NANarrator1:03:32

       I love 6th Street energy. I love going there and just feeling the energy.

    2. JRJoe Rogan1:03:36

       Yeah.

    3. STSam Tripoli1:03:36

       It reminds me, dude, of, like, you remember Hollywood Boul- uh, Sunset Boulevard in, like, '98?

    4. JRJoe Rogan1:03:42

       Mm-hmm.

    5. STSam Tripoli1:03:43

       When, like, Kobe and Shaq were crushing it with the Lakers and it was just chaos.

    6. JRJoe Rogan1:03:48

       Mm-hmm.

    7. STSam Tripoli1:03:48

       And we didn't know how good we had it and it was so much fun. And now, that's all gone.

    8. JRJoe Rogan1:03:53

       Well, also, we were undercover, right? Because even though I was on TV, nobody knew who the fuck I was in '98.

    9. STSam Tripoli1:03:58

       Yeah.

    10. JRJoe Rogan1:03:58

        It's like we were just kids. We were just young guys, like, in this wild business, and we couldn't believe we were working in Hollywood, we were working at The Comedy Store, you know? And then all these celebrities would come by. You'd see Quentin Tarantino there and Dr. Dre there, and you're like, "What the fuck? This is crazy." Couldn't even believe it was real. Dice Clay is there, like, "What?"

    11. STSam Tripoli1:04:19

        My favorite... Uh, listen, there's two times at The Comedy Store that I loved. Obviously, when you came back and it was just fire and it was like every show was selling out instantly. But there was also that dead period at the store where it was like we could just go up and bomb with dignity-

    12. JRJoe Rogan1:04:34

        (laughs)

    13. STSam Tripoli1:04:34

        ... and nobody cared. You didn't have-

    14. JRJoe Rogan1:04:35

        (laughs)

    15. STSam Tripoli1:04:35

        There was nobody in the OR. You were just-

    16. JRJoe Rogan1:04:37

        Woo!

    17. STSam Tripoli1:04:38

        ... eating a dick and you felt great about yourself 'cause it was, like, towards the end of Mitzi's, like, con- she was still in control but she wasn't, like, hands-on.

    18. JRJoe Rogan1:04:44

        That was 2007 to '14.

    19. STSam Tripoli1:04:47

        Yeah, it was just-

    20. JRJoe Rogan1:04:48

        Yeah.

    21. STSam Tripoli1:04:48

        It was-

    22. JRJoe Rogan1:04:48

        That's when I was gone.

    23. STSam Tripoli1:04:49

        Y- uh, no, no, it was right before-

    24. JRJoe Rogan1:04:50

        Oh, before.

    25. STSam Tripoli1:04:50

        ... you left, too. You were, you were the- I loved you. You were the only one putting your name on the marquee still. Eh, you know, you'd have these guys popping in, doing an hour, their name wasn't on the marquee. It was- it was chaos, man.

    26. JRJoe Rogan1:05:01

        But the reason why they did that is 'cause they had this erroneous idea that you wouldn't sell tickets in LA if your name was at The Comedy Store. People knew they could see you at The Comedy Store. Why would they go see you at the Forum?

    27. STSam Tripoli1:05:11

        Yeah.

    28. JRJoe Rogan1:05:12

        And I was always like, "W- well, who s-"

    29. STSam Tripoli1:05:14

        That's stupid to me.

    30. JRJoe Rogan1:05:14

        "... says who?"

Episode duration: 2:36:46