Joe Rogan Experience #2271 - John Reeves

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. JRJohn Reeves0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music) Good to see you, my friend.

   4. JRJohn Reeves0:13

      Good to be seen. Thank you, good to see you.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      We were supposed to be doing the end of the year, but unfortunately, you got caught with the cooties.

   6. JRJohn Reeves0:20

      I did. I did. And, uh...

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      What'd you get?

   8. JRJohn Reeves0:22

      ... I can officially announce that the end of 2024 is right now.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:27

      (laughs) Well-

   10. JRJohn Reeves0:29

       Been waiting for that.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:30

       ... calendar's all bullshit anyway. Supposed to be on that old one that's 13 months.

   12. JRJohn Reeves0:35

       There you go.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       Um, so what happened? What'd you catch?

   14. JRJohn Reeves0:38

       Well, I thought I had bronchitis. All the- everybody in the house had it and we go to CrossFit, and they all had it. I go to CrossFit Jackson. My trainer's Megan Russell there, and she's going, "Ah, you know, you, you might wanna take it easy a little bit." Of course, I'm smoking cigarettes, and I got bronchitis. And I go to a clinic, they give me some drugs. "Yeah, you got bronchitis." Go home, couple days later, I'm sleeping in my chair and my wife has one of those little oxygen modern things that you put on your finger. She wakes me up and goes, uh, "All right, let's go." "Well, what do you mean, 'Let's go'?" "Oxygen levels. You're going to the hospital." "What? I'm just sitting here taking a nap." "No, you're going to the hospital." So I said, "Okay." So we get... It's late at night. We go to St. Vincent's Clinic, go in, it's late, and, um, sitting there waiting for the doctor. Arian Afshari, great guy, turns out. He comes in and looking at me. He's young enough to be one of my kids. He goes, stethoscope, listening to my lungs. He goes, "Do you smoke?" I said, "Yeah." He says, "You need to quit." I said, "I just did."

   15. JRJoe Rogan2:06

       (laughs)

   16. JRJohn Reeves2:07

       He goes, "What?" I said, "I just did. I'm done. Now what do we do?" He goes, "Well, next, you're going to the hospital. This is just a clinic." I said, "What do you mean I'm going to the hospital?" He says, "You haven't got bronchitis. You got pneumonia, and I think you got double pneumonia. So you're going right now."

   17. JRJoe Rogan2:26

       What's double pneumonia?

   18. JRJohn Reeves2:27

       Both lungs.

   19. JRJoe Rogan2:28

       Oh.

   20. JRJohn Reeves2:30

       The bad kind.

   21. JRJoe Rogan2:31

       The bad kind.

   22. JRJohn Reeves2:32

       He says, "But the good news is you don't have bronchitis." (laughs) I said, "Okay."

   23. JRJoe Rogan2:37

       I guess that's good news.

   24. JRJohn Reeves2:38

       And that, that was about the time I was supposed to be in the studio with you. Uh, just a couple days before that.

   25. JRJoe Rogan2:45

       Wow.

   26. JRJohn Reeves2:45

       And I'm going, "Wow, this kind of screw up my plans." As you know, best made plans and all that.

   27. JRJoe Rogan2:51

       Listen, the plans are all bullshit. We made those up.

   28. JRJohn Reeves2:54

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan2:54

       We'll do it at the end of the year (laughs) if you... It doesn't have to be that.

   30. JRJohn Reeves2:57

       All right. Well, I look-
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   This is on your…

   1. JRJohn Reeves15:00

      Christ. 8,000 people coming at me. "I'm stopping to follow you. You're a nasty person. I hate you."

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:09

      This is on your page?

   3. JRJohn Reeves15:10

      On my page.

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      Yeah, you gotta stop reading the comments.

   5. JRJohn Reeves15:13

      I know. A great man once told me that.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      (laughs)

   7. JRJohn Reeves15:15

      The problem is, I don't take advice and I don't give advice.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      (laughs)

   9. JRJohn Reeves15:19

      But I'm trying to.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:20

       I don't give a whole lot of advice. I guess I do sometimes, but only with really important stuff. Like, that's an important one.

   11. JRJohn Reeves15:26

       Yeah, I've-

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:26

       You can't fix those... And they will affect the way you think.

   13. JRJohn Reeves15:29

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       They affect the way people behave.

   15. JRJohn Reeves15:31

       Yep.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:31

       They affect th- your freedom of expression, to freely express yourself.

   17. JRJohn Reeves15:35

       I think it had a great impact on the election, myself.

   18. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       I think, I think it had an impact. Yeah.

   19. JRJohn Reeves15:39

       'Cause i- it showed d- showed, um, Mr. Trump as a regular guy.

   20. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       As a human. Yeah.

   21. JRJohn Reeves15:45

       Yeah. It humanized him.

   22. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       Yeah, well, he also was right about a lot of shit.

   23. JRJohn Reeves15:49

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       The fact that he called the problem with the LA fires months before they happened-

   25. JRJohn Reeves15:54

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan15:54

       ... was literally saying what they needed to do-

   27. JRJohn Reeves15:56

       Yep.

   28. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       ... what they're doing wrong, and then, boom, two times the size of Manhattan is gone.

   29. JRJohn Reeves16:02

       Yep.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       It's so crazy when you see it live, or- or excuse me, uh, from above, like on video, when they do the drone sweeps over it. Fucking... Yeah, like a bomb went off, like a fucking nuclear bomb-
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   No? …

   1. JRJohn Reeves30:00

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      No?

   3. JRJohn Reeves30:00

      No. I've been gold mining, and I knew how to do it. I wasn't worth a shit, but I, I'm, I'm getting better at it.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:10

      But it's a, it's a crazy way to make a living. You know, you're, you're pulling the most precious thing. Like, the thing that's probably... Other than diamonds, which is kinda manufactured, right? There's probably a lot more to diamonds than the value suggests. Don't they, like, hoard them up so that, like, it keeps the price high?

   5. JRJohn Reeves30:27

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:28

      They do that, right? Very smart.

   7. JRJohn Reeves30:29

      Yeah, De Beers controls the-

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:30

      What nationality does that?

   9. JRJohn Reeves30:32

      Uh, De Beers. (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       (laughs)

   11. JRJohn Reeves30:35

       But you bring up an interesting point, the history of gold mining.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:39

       Yeah.

   13. JRJohn Reeves30:39

       People don't en- they don't even know how entrenched in our everyday lingo gold mining terms are. I'll give you an example.

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:47

       Struck it rich?

   15. JRJohn Reeves30:47

       Struck it rich. You know, the m- you hit the mother lode.

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:51

       Right.

   17. JRJohn Reeves30:52

       Guy's into... He doesn't know the difference between shit and Shinola.

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       Oh, what's that?

   19. JRJohn Reeves30:57

       Shit. And Shinola is gold.

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:59

       Really?

   21. JRJohn Reeves30:59

       You can't tell the diff- between shit and Shinola.

   22. JRJoe Rogan31:02

       I thought it was like poop versus shoe polish.

   23. JRJohn Reeves31:06

       Shinola's gold.

   24. JRJoe Rogan31:08

       Isn't Shinola shoe polish?

   25. JRJohn Reeves31:10

       I don't know. I never had a pair of shoes that had Shinola.

   26. JRJoe Rogan31:12

       I think Shinola is a shoe polish.

   27. JRJohn Reeves31:14

       Jamie, don't turn it on.

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:16

       (laughs)

   29. JRJohn Reeves31:16

       (laughs)

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:16

       I'm just gue- I'm 90% sure Shinola is a shoe, but I don't know which one came first. Like, Shinola might've come after the gold term, you know? It might be a recent corporation.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      all the stuff that Doge is showing, where there's all this corruption and waste, and $100 billion is missing from Ukraine, and, like, what, where, wh- what'd you do? How many, how much money did you spend on these fucking charging stations, and how many have you made? All that kind of stuff. If you, if you look at all the, if that's all applied to money too, and it's digital money. Like, how do I know where you have it, if you even have it, right?

   2. JRJohn Reeves45:21

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:21

      'Cause this is part of the problem with money and banks, that they don't really have all the money that you put in there. Like, if you put in $10 million to a bank, guess what? They don't have $10 million to give you. Like, if you say, "I want my $10 million back," that's a process.

   4. JRJohn Reeves45:36

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:36

      Like, they gotta, you have to get it. They're gonna really try to discourage you. It's, you can't get it that day.

   6. JRJohn Reeves45:41

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:41

      There's gonna be, a, a lot of things have to happen. If you show up at a bank, and you're fucking Jeff Bezos or something, where they're not worried about where it came from, and you want to deposit $10 million, and you have a fucking bag, and you're wheeling in on, like, a luggage cart, and it's $10 million, and they count it, and they put it in there.

   8. JRJohn Reeves45:57

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:57

      Yeah, but it's not there anymore. They're gonna do s- they're gonna loan that out. They're gonna do stuff with it. They don't have it right there.

   10. JRJohn Reeves46:03

       Yeah. No. No, it's all...

   11. JRJoe Rogan46:05

       So it's all weird. Like, the whole economy is weird. Everything's weird. 'Cause w- since we went off the gold standard, it's like, what, what is it based on? And how do you guys just print more of it every time you need something? Every time you wanna do something, you just print more?

   12. JRJohn Reeves46:20

       I'm old enough to know and remember, if you were in a bank and a guy walks in wearing a fucking mask, usually you had to hit the floor.

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:30

       Right.

   14. JRJohn Reeves46:30

       B- there's a bank I go to in Jacksonville, where you walk in the bank and the tellers are wearing masks. I'm going, "This ain't right." And they go, "What are you wearing a mask for?"

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:39

       Well, they're mentally ill.

   16. JRJohn Reeves46:41

       What are you wearing a mask for?

   17. JRJoe Rogan46:42

       Well, I think a lot of people weren't really doing well before COVID, you know? There's a lot of people that are fragile. They're barely hanging on already, you know? A lot of people are, like, really anxious about diseases. I have friends that are like that. I know a few guys in the w- comedy community that really cracked during that time 'cause they were already filled with anxiety, and some of them were already hypo contracts, and they cracked.

   18. JRJohn Reeves47:07

       Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan47:07

       And, uh, they're not the same people anymore. Like, people don't want to hang out with them anymore. Th- they're weird. Like, th- they're just, they're just broken. And they wear masks everywhere.

   20. JRJohn Reeves47:14

       This one bank I went to, teller's wearing a mask. The next teller over is not wearing a mask.

   21. JRJoe Rogan47:20

       She's probably Republican. (laughs) That's what it is. It's a MAGA hat. It's a Democrat's MAGA hat.

   22. JRJohn Reeves47:26

       Ah. And you see them driving around with a mask on in his car.

   23. JRJoe Rogan47:29

       That's my favorite.

   24. JRJohn Reeves47:30

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan47:30

       Well, that's, they're, they're meant, they might as well have fox ears on. They're mentally ill.

   26. JRJohn Reeves47:34

       And I wear, you know, when we're out on the field, and we're out mining or got all the dust flying around, we don't worry... We have masks on.

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:40

       Yeah, but that's big, that's a big difference.

   28. JRJohn Reeves47:42

       Yeah, it is a big difference.

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:42

       Fucking invisible viruses as you're driving your car. By the way, I think fox ears are more noble 'cause fo- if you put, like, little fox ears on, you're like one of those furries, at least you're just having a good time.

   30. JRJohn Reeves47:51

       Yeah. (laughs)
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      So they need more.

   2. JRJohn Reeves1:00:01

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:01

      They have over 3.5 million, and they, they need more. Google, uh, Tesla Semi. This thing's crazy looking. This looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie. It's a giant electric... Go to images.

   4. NANarrator1:00:17

      It's on CCUs and YouTube.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:19

      Mm. Um, it looks like something out of a fucking science fiction movie. It's a giant electric truck. It makes no noise other than the tire, like you hear the tires rolling around the ground. You don't hear any... And that's the... Look at the seat of this fucking thing.

   6. JRJohn Reeves1:00:34

      Mm.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:34

      There's two screens. And it drives itself. And they're going to be really good at driving themselves. Like, right now, they're really good, but they're gonna be really, really, really good. They're gonna be better than people, so they're not gonna make any mistakes and they're gonna be safe. And as long as all their sensors are working and a- long as all their equipment is reliable, they'll be better at detecting accidents and stopping accidents and avoiding things than people are.

   8. NANarrator1:01:04

      Elon said today they're gonna start the (clears throat) driverless Teslas in Austin in June as well as all-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

      Like, for taxicabs?

   10. NANarrator1:01:10

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:01:11

       Bro, how long before they get attacked by the Free Palestine People?

   12. NANarrator1:01:14

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:01:18

       ... that's the other thing we found out through all this Doge stuff. How much, how much of this stuff that you see that you think is organic, these, these riots and protests, how much of that is funded? How much of that is, uh, uh, how much are we paying for the decisions that are costing us that? Like, how much? We're spending money to, like $27 million went to the George Soros D- DA fund. That's so crazy. That's more than he puts in. (laughs)

   14. JRJohn Reeves1:01:43

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:01:44

       We were, we were paying to get shitty DAs elected. It's nuts. And anybody who doesn't think it's nuts, it's like, listen, you're not paying attention. You, you, you're captured. You must be captured by... And, and this is not saying that USA doesn't do good things. I'm sure they do. But the amount of things that they do that are ridiculous are, should concern you. And if it doesn't concern you, we're talking nonsense. We're not having a real conversation.

   16. JRJohn Reeves1:02:09

       That's what I don't get about the blues and the reds.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:02:12

       Yeah.

   18. JRJohn Reeves1:02:12

       There's gotta be some people on the blue side that go, "It's a good idea that we're doing this."

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:02:16

       Yeah.

   20. JRJohn Reeves1:02:17

       "What he's doing is a good idea, 'cause we're squandering a lot of money."

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:02:20

       There's a lot of people like that, but they're quiet, 'cause the blues will come for you. (laughs)

   22. JRJohn Reeves1:02:25

       Well, that's... I don't know if you noticed, but after the election, at least in my, my opinion for myself, I had the right to make an opinion again. I can have an opinion.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:02:35

       Yes.

   24. JRJohn Reeves1:02:36

       I can have an opinion.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:02:36

       Finally.

   26. JRJohn Reeves1:02:37

       Finally, I can have an opinion after four fucking years.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:02:40

       Isn't that weird? It did really feel like that, like the consciousness of the country was like a rat, like, "We're gonna rat on you." You, you, you, you couldn't just have fun and talk about things. You couldn't have an opinion that wasn't, like, uh, r- right out of mainstream news. You had to 100% toe the line, or you were attacked.

   28. JRJohn Reeves1:02:59

       I, I put (laughs) in one post, I put, "I have an opinion. I'm gonna use it again. I think we should sink every commercial whaling ship in the ocean, send them to the Davy Jones' locker."

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:03:13

       You'd get a lot of support behind that. You get a lot of support from the environmental people too.

   30. NANarrator1:03:17

       There's, uh, pushback on that 27 million George Soros stuff.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:16:16

   Mm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:15:00

      And then, um, what's really weird is we had that Bart Sibrel guy on, that was his documentary, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon. Um, he was showing us some footage where the Russians had used AI to do an analysis on some of the photos from the moon, and they said that they were deceptive. So they use AI on all these other images, it can show as like, like a high 90% accuracy whether or not something's been fucked with. And they're like, "These are all... These have been monkeyed with."

   2. JRJohn Reeves1:15:29

      Mm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:15:29

      "It was all edited."

   4. JRJohn Reeves1:15:32

      You don't know what to believe. I mean, I just saw a clip yesterday with my voice again-

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:15:37

      (laughs) What were you selling?

   6. JRJohn Reeves1:15:38

      ... talking about some-

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:15:38

      I'd sent you something. I sent you one of them.

   8. JRJohn Reeves1:15:41

      Oh, yeah. No, it has you and me and I talking like this, and we're talking about some space enterprise with starships and shit, and I'm going, "How do they do this?"

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:15:51

      They can do a whole podcast with your voice now.

   10. JRJohn Reeves1:15:54

       Hmm.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:15:54

       Not, not only could they do a whole podcast with your voice, AI could generate the content. Like you'd say, "I wanna talk to John Reeves about biological evolution and what the current state of science is, and what the future holds for us."

   12. JRJohn Reeves1:16:07

       And that'll be used in the clip that we're gonna see within a week.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:16:10

       (laughs) Probably.

   14. JRJohn Reeves1:16:11

       Your voice. Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:16:12

       Probably, 'cause it, they could make a one-hour podcast with you just relaying the-

Episode duration: 3:11:37