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Jan 8, 20251h 59mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:0015:00

    (drum beat) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. NA

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

    2. TV

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. JR

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

    4. NA

      If you wanna rock and roll with thousands of-

    5. TV

      Who sings that?

    6. JR

      How- how dare you? How dare you say, "Who sings that?"

    7. TV

      No, uh, who, who's, uh-

    8. JR

      Angus Young.

    9. TV

      A-C-

    10. JR

      No, Angus Young is the s- the guitarist, right?

    11. TV

      Why you so loud though?

    12. JR

      It's a ... Goddammit.

    13. TV

      My brother used to beat the shit out of me to that music. But loud.

    14. NA

      Joe Rogan Johnson.

    15. JR

      That's right. And then, before him.

    16. NA

      Bon Scott.

    17. JR

      Bon Scott. Bon Scott died of a drug overdose, right?

    18. TV

      Aw, man.

    19. JR

      Is that how he died? Just went too hard.

    20. TV

      (gasps) That's the thing. It's like, it's that moment where you're like, "Do we wanna go any harder?" Or-

    21. JR

      I saw a video of Angus on stage the other night, like recently. He's like 70 years old.

    22. TV

      From AC/DC.

    23. JR

      Going ham. Old fucking dude, white hair, just dancing. See if you can find that video.

    24. TV

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      Just dancing around on stage. Carl is still up. He's like, "Dad, you didn't even put me down yet."

    26. NA

      It takes ... It takes three minutes.

    27. JR

      It takes three minutes to calm him?

    28. NA

      Yeah, yeah.

    29. JR

      You gotta put ... (laughs) You got a whole system?

    30. NA

      It's usually three or four minutes, and then by, for sure seven or eight he's asleep.

  2. 15:0030:00

    Right. …

    1. JR

      punch kills him-

    2. TV

      Right.

    3. JR

      That's him. It's on him.

    4. NA

      17 when he went down.

    5. JR

      So, 17 he goes down. Well, so let's see what happens. So, he gives him the- the count, which is a standing eight count, and then he looks at him and he asks him a couple questions. Give me some volume. So, look, he's not looking at the clock. He's looking to save this guy. But look at- look at the wa- look at him. Look at him.

    6. TV

      Wow.

    7. JR

      He looked him in the eye. He wasn't there.

    8. TV

      Three seconds left.

    9. JR

      But he's doing the right thing. He's doing the right thing. It's crazy if there's three seconds left, but he is doing the right thing.

    10. TV

      'Cause a referee's job is to make sure that they stay alive.

    11. JR

      Yes. Protect the fighter. Protect the fighter.

    12. TV

      Because a fighter wouldn't make the right choice you're saying?

    13. JR

      Right.

    14. TV

      Wow.

    15. JR

      That's why- that's why a referee has to protect the fighter from a cut. Like, if the cut's too bad, the referee has to call it or bring in a doctor to call it. There's some times where the referee- it's- it's a judgment call and sometimes they get it wrong 'cause they're human, but it's a crazy job. They have the hardest job in the world. So, the guys like Herb Dean, the guys like Mark Goddard, those guys need more praise because th- it's- it's one of the most difficult jobs in all of combat sports other than being a fighter. The second most difficult, for sure, is being a referee.

    16. TV

      Wow.

    17. JR

      'Cause you gotta make these calls. You- you're l- like in the middle of chaos in a world title fight where millions of people are watching.

    18. TV

      Oh.

    19. JR

      And you gotta keep this thing together in this very chaotic sport.

    20. TV

      That would be so tou- ... Yeah. I- I wonder what are the requirements to be a referee? Like, how much- you know, like, to be one of those, um, like Mark Goddard or, um ...

    21. JR

      Well, there's courses you can take. You know, um, I know Big John McCarthy was very instrumental in, uh, educating people. Herb Dean's very instrumental in doing this. There's a lot of these guys. Uh, Mark Goddard. They- they'll put together seminars and help guys that are coming up and- there's probably a formal ... Let's see what's a f- ... Find out, like, what is the website f- that's, like, best for if someone wants to go and learn how to be a referee. But- (clears throat) you know-

    22. TV

      Fuck, you could probably just pull up in Memphis and start blowing the whistle on a bunch of shit going down.

    23. JR

      Most of them are massive fans, of course. Most of them train. Like, Mark Goddard trains. I beli- I believe Mark Goddard's a black belt in jujitsu. We'll have to check that. Uh, Herb Dean, I know had a few MMA fights.

    24. TV

      Oh, so they also have s- so- a lot of them also have experience?

    25. JR

      Mm-hmm. You have to s- have some. You have to know what's going on because sometimes, especially in, like, submissions and things like that, like, it- things get complicated real quick.

    26. TV

      Yeah.

    27. JR

      Like someone not letting go of an inside heel hook and, like, that's a scary one. There's, like- do you remember Husamir Palhares?

    28. TV

      Uh-uh. (mimics punching) No way.

    29. JR

      His- that- his name was 'taquinho, which means, uh, tree trunk. That's, like, his, uh, his nickname.

    30. TV

      Husamir? He's Brazilian?

  3. 30:0045:00

    Oh, yeah. …

    1. JR

      and the internet. It's like, "What?" I don't even think we're aware of how much more content we absorb than people that were w- you know, when... That lived, like, when I was 21.

    2. TV

      Oh, yeah.

    3. JR

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    5. TV

      Well, even if you're just by the airport or whatever, sometimes I wish there'd be like... Can someone turn all this shit off? It's like-

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. TV

      ... y- y- you don't even know what's going on anymore. I... In the middle of the night, I'll have, like, songs playing in my head that I heard on, like, TikToks and shit. It's just bad. Like, it's gotten to be too much. But I think that there's n- What I'm saying is if, if somebody had all that control at one point, or if a few networks did, there's no way that now that they have less control, they're not still trying to find that control.

    8. JR

      100%.

    9. TV

      And that they're hiring different groups-

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. TV

      ... to be Twitter bots or Twitter personalities or whatever.

    12. JR

      Yeah. Yeah, make TikTok accounts, do TikToks, uh, about issues. One hund- people... Look, people have said flat out that they were offered money, and then they got paid money to make things for political people. Like, make people, make people think that they were really excited about voting for someone. They would pay them for pro-content.

    13. TV

      Right.

    14. JR

      So pro whatever that person is. Like, there's a whole business in this where they reach out to popular influencers and they say, "Hey, I want you to endorse this person. Would you do that for X amount of money?" And they do.

    15. TV

      Well, didn't that happen with, like, Megan Thee Stallion or somebody? Didn't they, weren't they hired recently or some of th- And I'm sure the Republican Party did it too. I think that was a Democratic one that they had. Where they hire performers to come and perform?

    16. JR

      Yeah, this was the, this was the big controversy. We tried to get to the bottom of it. It's hard to know. So, the real... Th- the accusation was that there was a few artists. Lizzo was one of 'em.

    17. TV

      Yeah, that's who it was, Lizzo.

    18. JR

      Eminem was another one. Um, Beyoncé was the big one.

    19. TV

      Right.

    20. JR

      And that they were paid an exorbitant amount of money to go and endorse Kamala Harris at these rallies. I don't know if it's true. It seems like there might be something to it. Th- they spent so much money, dude.

    21. TV

      I know.

    22. JR

      It's so crazy that the economy is, like, one of the biggest problems that we think of today. Like, if you think of-

    23. TV

      Like, what do you mean, the economy?

    24. JR

      The economy. Like, the, it's, it's, the people who are-

    25. TV

      Oh, okay. The US economy.

    26. JR

      The people, the people that wanna vote on things, what do they want? They want the economy to be healthier. They want us to have less national debt. They want-

    27. TV

      Safety?

    28. JR

      Yeah, they want less inflation. They want safety. They want low crime. If that is, uh, the amount of fucking money they went through. Like, you've (laughs) , you, you spent $1.5 billion and you paid celebrities to... If that's true, you paid celebrities? You know, like, how am I supposed to trust you-

    29. TV

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      ... with spending money?

  4. 45:001:00:00

    Yeah. Oh, I bet…

    1. JR

    2. TV

      Yeah. Oh, I bet there's a sick Rothschild out there somewhere-

    3. JR

      (laughs)

    4. TV

      ... and every month they're putting' a new ticker into him.

    5. JR

      Dude, I was reading a, uh, a story last night about this dude who was one of the R- ... I think he was a Rockefeller, uh, who got eaten. See if th- is- that's ... I th- I believe he's one of the Rock- Rockef- Rothschilds or Rockefellers. Goddammit. One of them fancy people.

    6. TV

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      When you hear their name, you're like, "Oh, that fancy family." You know those?

    8. TV

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      So, this dude went to New Guinea and got eaten by cannibals.

    10. TV

      Hmm.

    11. JR

      Apparently, he went there.

    12. TV

      I'd hate ...

    13. JR

      Michael Rockefeller. So, apparently he went there, um-

    14. TV

      Oh.

    15. JR

      ... and they were fine, they were fine with him the first time he went there, but he was trying to get something from them. And the something that he was trying to get from them was sacred.

    16. TV

      Hmm.

    17. JR

      And apparently, they were very pissed off at him. So, uh, he didn't know that they were pissed off at him, so then wh- when he went back, he thought they'd be friendly with him.

    18. TV

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      And they killed him and ate him.

    20. TV

      Oh, my gosh.

    21. JR

      Yeah.

    22. TV

      Oh.

    23. JR

      And then they hid it. They hid the story forever. So, they went looking for this guy like, "Hey, uh, my rich cousin is missing. Where is he?" And they're like ... (burps) "I don't know."

    24. TV

      They just lie. (laughs)

    25. JR

      (laughs) They fucking burp. They just ate that dude.

    26. TV

      They just ... somebody just coughs up a, uh, one of those, um, things that keeps your, uh ... What is that thing that goes on the ... into your shirt, Joe?

    27. JR

      Your cuff?

    28. TV

      A cuff link.

    29. JR

      Oh, a cuff link.

    30. TV

      (laughs) I just fucking-

  5. 1:00:001:11:56

    Right. …

    1. JR

      gender, or at least you think you do.

    2. TV

      Right.

    3. JR

      Or at least, like, you identify with what they like more than what the boys like. (sighs) You're probably just gay. And-

    4. TV

      Yea-

    5. JR

      ... that's one of the things that they've studied, is when they leave transgender or supposedly transgender, uh, youths and they don't do anything, they eventually become gay men.

    6. TV

      Oh, I see.

    7. JR

      It's a big- big percentage of them.

    8. TV

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      Does that mean they're all like that and some people don't j- j- like, genuinely have, like, true gender dysphoria? No. The- they've-

    10. TV

      Pfft.

    11. JR

      That's always been a thing, too.

    12. TV

      And being gay used to seem like if you were just gay, that was everything. It was like- it was like- but I guess-

    13. JR

      Was it everything?

    14. TV

      It was like gay didn't- it was like, oh, if you- if you were trans or any- now it's LGBTQI, right? And I'm not- I'm not-

    15. JR

      Oh, there's also, yeah, there's intersex-

    16. TV

      Plus.

    17. JR

      There's two, plus.

    18. TV

      Right.

    19. JR

      What is plus?

    20. TV

      Huh?

    21. JR

      Which one is plus?

    22. TV

      I don't know.

    23. JR

      I know two is Two-Spirit, which is my favorite.

    24. TV

      Really? I know I'm gonna meet-

    25. JR

      Two-Spirit. They took the kooky Two-Spirit people in. (laughs)

    26. TV

      The Native Americans?

    27. JR

      No. Two-Spirit is, like, a- a- a very specific, like, let's Google it. Two-Spirit is, like, you think of, like, foxkin or some shit like that.

    28. TV

      Oh, yeah, yeah. People-

    29. JR

      Well, they- they- I- this is where I found out that, I- I might be fucking up what Two-Spirit is.

    30. TV

      (laughs)

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