Joe Rogan Experience #2305 - Rich Vos

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

   1. NANarrator0:00

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

   2. RVRich Vos0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. NANarrator0:06

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

   4. JRJoe Rogan0:12

      Let's go. (laughs) How are you, fella? Good to see you.

   5. RVRich Vos0:16

      Wow.

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Dude, you're fucking dripping with diamonds, sir. What's going on? The road's been good to you. Look at you.

   7. RVRich Vos0:21

      I'm just so empty inside.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:22

      (laughs)

   9. RVRich Vos0:23

      This fill- this fills the hole for, like- (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       (laughs)

   11. RVRich Vos0:26

       Like, it's like, you know, you go by it, like, oh, and then you get home, you go, "I hate my life. I hate my insides." And-

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       (laughs)

   13. RVRich Vos0:32

       ... no spirituality, but I get to look at my just emptiness on, you know, I just-

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:38

       Driving with rapper diamonds.

   15. RVRich Vos0:39

       I ran out of, I ran out of shit to buy, so (laughs) like there's nothing that-

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       What kind of car you driving?

   17. RVRich Vos0:47

       A Lexus IS350.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:49

       Oh, those are fun.

   19. RVRich Vos0:50

       It's nice.

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:50

       That's a good car.

   21. RVRich Vos0:51

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Bulletproof, never, never gonna break.

   23. RVRich Vos0:54

       And it's so fast.

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:55

       Yeah.

   25. RVRich Vos0:55

       And it's, you know, it's... But this is how fucked it... Okay, so the two... Okay, I had the, uh, Lexus 350, right?

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Right.

   27. RVRich Vos1:03

       Or whatever. I went, and I had it for seven months maybe. I went in to get it serviced, and I was kinda depressed, so I bought a different car, actually.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:15

       (laughs)

   29. RVRich Vos1:16

       I go, this is not, this is fucked up. So I bought the IS350. I had the other car for seven fucking months. I go, "You know what? That one looks cool." So I bought that, and then I went in to get it, uh, that service, and it was the exact same car a year later, but I liked the newer color, the newer gray.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       Oh.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   You definitely have. …

   1. RVRich Vos15:01

      ... And my wife's ... I, I know I've earned respect from my peers. I know it, 'cause I've done enou-

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:06

      You definitely have.

   3. RVRich Vos15:07

      From f- from white to Black comics, Black comics that most white comics don't even know. You know what I mean? You know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      We did a lot of those runs back in the day.

   5. RVRich Vos15:15

      I did all ... Yeah. I, and did all those TV shows.

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:17

      Yep.

   7. RVRich Vos15:17

      I did them all.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:18

      Yep.

   9. RVRich Vos15:18

      You know? Uh, please, I started Black comedy, so ... (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:23

       (laughs)

   11. RVRich Vos15:23

       Okay? You can only hold a white man down so long. So ... And, and, like ... I think, in life, I'm more about respect than accomplishment.

   12. JRJoe Rogan15:37

       Okay, right.

   13. RVRich Vos15:38

       You see what I'm saying?

   14. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       So you, you're more about the respect from your peers.

   15. RVRich Vos15:40

       Not only my peers, the industry too though. The industry doesn't know. Like, say some club owner. Let's say a club owner.

   16. JRJoe Rogan15:48

       Mm-hmm.

   17. RVRich Vos15:48

       They're not sitting in the room watching your shows. Ev- all they care about are the fucking numbers that come in. They don't ... I had a club owner once, I said to him ... And you're lucky, you're way out of that, but I'm still, I'm in that. So I said to a club owner once, he goes ... I said, "Look, I'm as funny as I've ever been right now in life." He goes, "That doesn't fucking matter. What does that matter?" And it's all a quick fix. You know?

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:11

       Right, they just wanna sell tickets.

   19. RVRich Vos16:13

       Sell ticket- ... And I get it. They gotta keep their doors open, but-

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:15

       Well, that's the weird marriage between, uh, the club owner and the comic, you know?

   21. RVRich Vos16:19

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:19

       I used to tell comics, you know, "We're not ..." Every comic feels like they're battling it with club owners. Like, the club owner's never given them enough money. The club owner's fucking them over, lied about it being sold out.

   23. RVRich Vos16:32

       Yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:32

       "It was definitely sold out. I want my bonus." That kinda shit.

   25. RVRich Vos16:34

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:35

       You don't wanna be a club owner. You don't. You don't. I mean, I, I, I give that advice, then I became one.

   27. RVRich Vos16:41

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:41

       But just by necessity. But I was like, "You, this is an important relationship." Like, you gotta be nice to them, and so they respect you.

   29. RVRich Vos16:47

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan16:47

       And you should- 'Cause everybody in the beginning, you feel like you're ignored by them. But that's- it's a weird thing, because they're just in the business of comedy.
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Yeah, but it, it…

   1. RVRich Vos30:00

      But I was already established and she was established.

   2. JRJoe Rogan30:03

      Yeah, but it, it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. It could be, but it doesn't h- Like these-

   3. RVRich Vos30:08

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan30:08

      ... these like hard, fast rules, they don't work.

   5. RVRich Vos30:11

      Well-

   6. JRJoe Rogan30:11

      It all completely depends on the individual. I mean, how different-

   7. RVRich Vos30:14

      Yes.

   8. JRJoe Rogan30:14

      ... are comics? Like, how different are you to Shane Gillis? How different am I to Ari Shaffir? Like, we're all-

   9. RVRich Vos30:20

      Uh-huh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan30:20

       ... different. Even though we're all real good friends, we're all... There's no hard rules.

   11. RVRich Vos30:25

       No.I luckily came up with the, one of the strongest crews in New York.

   12. JRJoe Rogan30:34

       Oh, you came up with an amaz- amazing crew.

   13. RVRich Vos30:35

       You know, from fucking-

   14. JRJoe Rogan30:36

       Patrice?

   15. RVRich Vos30:36

       Patrice, Norton-

   16. JRJoe Rogan30:38

       Mm-hmm.

   17. RVRich Vos30:39

       ... Billy, Bobby, Colin. You know, Kev?

   18. JRJoe Rogan30:43

       Yeah.

   19. RVRich Vos30:43

       Lil K-, you know, Kevin Hart. Uh-

   20. JRJoe Rogan30:45

       It was an amazing crew.

   21. RVRich Vos30:46

       You know, our crew, and you know, and then Bonnie w- hung, hung with us.

   22. JRJoe Rogan30:48

       Bro, I knew you back when you had Jheri curls. (laughs)

   23. RVRich Vos30:51

       You knew me when I was doing Robin Gibbons bits. (laughs)

   24. JRJoe Rogan30:55

       (laughs)

   25. RVRich Vos30:56

       You knew.

   26. JRJoe Rogan30:57

       That's right. It was the '80s.

   27. RVRich Vos30:58

       You don't, you don't remember. You might remember. We were working a one-nighter in Seaside, New Jersey. It was my ex-wife, and me, you, and her took a walk to the boardwalk. We were in Seaside-

   28. JRJoe Rogan31:10

       Oh.

   29. RVRich Vos31:10

       ... right on the boardwalk, and it was just me, you, and her, and I think you just came down from Boston, and I don't think you were living in New York. I think you were just doing some shows, some one-nighters-

   30. JRJoe Rogan31:21

       Oh, wow.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   The antisemitism in this…

   1. RVRich Vos45:00

      you know. All the shit I put about Israel this and that, that's, that's... My life is comedy. But, I think in life if you're not part of the, like they say, solution you're part of the problem with what's going on in this world, with, in this, mainly in this country, the antisemitism in this country.

   2. JRJoe Rogan45:20

      The antisemitism in this country is weird, because it popped up like it was hiding. You know, after October 7th-

   3. RVRich Vos45:26

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan45:26

      ... it popped up like it was hiding, like what... Where... Is this been here the whole time?

   5. RVRich Vos45:30

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan45:30

      It was weird. And I think there's a lot of it in, um, on Twitter, in, um, these places, that I think is not human beings, and that inspires human beings to get bold. I think there's a lot of it that's bots.

   7. RVRich Vos45:47

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan45:47

      There's a lot of it that's bo... I see these... I- I've like... When someone says something outrageous on Twitter, I'll go to the account and see like what, what they're doing.

   9. RVRich Vos45:56

      Uh-huh.

   10. JRJoe Rogan45:56

       And what... And sometimes I go, I go, "Oh, this isn't a person." Like you- you can figure it out after like a couple of pages. Like this is not an actual person. This is a person that jumps onto every controversial subject and says something insightful.

   11. RVRich Vos46:10

       Uh-huh.

   12. JRJoe Rogan46:10

       And they do it over and over again. And you see it with abortion, you see it with immigration, you see it with voting, you see it with the rigged elections. Like, there was an FBI analyst who, uh, took a look at Twitter before the purchase and he said, "I think it's as much as 80% bots." I think we're getting played-

   13. RVRich Vos46:29

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan46:29

       ... as a civilization, back and forth. I think we're getting... I think so many people are vulnerable to like following a narrative.

   15. RVRich Vos46:37

       Well, and, and, and I, I agree. See, t-... And I've said this, and I believe in free speech. You didn't... I... When we talked about this you didn't agree with it but...

   16. JRJoe Rogan46:49

       I didn't agree with free speech?

   17. RVRich Vos46:50

       No, no, no, what I said about the internet, that some people in life use that plat-... Shouldn't have a platform in life because they're, they're nuts. They're nuts. Like if you had a, someone in the audience that's nuts you're gonna, you're gonna take them out-

   18. JRJoe Rogan47:07

       Right.

   19. RVRich Vos47:07

       You're gonna get rid of them.

   20. JRJoe Rogan47:08

       Right, but that's the, the difference between an audience and the internet is-

   21. RVRich Vos47:11

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan47:11

       ... you don't have to engage with the nuts.

   23. RVRich Vos47:13

       Okay, but there's people that are following these nuts. Okay, you take whatever's going on in the Middle East, whatever-

   24. JRJoe Rogan47:22

       Mm-hmm.

   25. RVRich Vos47:22

       ... whethe- whatever side you're on, Israel, Palestine, whatever. Why are college campuses letting this happen on campus where Jews can't go to class, where they're being harassed, where they feel threatened?

   26. NANarrator47:42

       Jewish students-

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:43

       Well, a lot of that stuff is funded.

   28. RVRich Vos47:45

       Yeah, it's funded by Qatar or whatever.

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:48

       Or whatever. Whoever's-

   30. RVRich Vos47:49

       Whoever's funded it.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:15:00

   And so they started…

   1. RVRich Vos1:00:00

      then, they've been at war.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:02

      And so they started settling-

   3. RVRich Vos1:00:03

      Yeah.

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:03

      Another wave of Jews started coming in 1904, from 1904-

   5. RVRich Vos1:00:08

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:08

      ... to 1914.

   7. RVRich Vos1:00:09

      So-

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:10

      Yeah.

   9. RVRich Vos1:00:10

      ... befo- 538 BCE.

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:00:14

       Yeah, but the problem is-

   11. RVRich Vos1:00:15

       They-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:00:15

       ... like, there, were Palestinians there. And like what are, they don't even have a country. Let's, you, if you've got-

   13. RVRich Vos1:00:20

       Yes.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:00:20

       ... people that are right next to you that don't even have a country, they don't, they don't ha- You know, what do, what do they do if they're ruled by Hamas?

   15. RVRich Vos1:00:28

       Okay.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:00:28

       How do they fight back? Like with these... They are protesting in the streets now, but guess what?

   17. RVRich Vos1:00:31

       They are against Hamas.

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:00:32

       Yeah, they are.

   19. RVRich Vos1:00:33

       They are.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

       They get executed.

   21. RVRich Vos1:00:34

       Did you just see that?

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

       Yes.

   23. RVRich Vos1:00:35

       The big protest? I just saw that.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:00:37

       Thousands and thousands-

   25. RVRich Vos1:00:38

       Yes.

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:00:38

       ... of courageous people protesting in the street.

   27. RVRich Vos1:00:41

       It's, uh-

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:00:42

       They're like, "We don't want any more of this. Stop."

   29. RVRich Vos1:00:44

       Well, well, look what happened. They got, they, they, uh-... got, I mean, 'cause of Israel's help, got Assad outta Syria. Now the rebels took over, but Assad killed almost 500,000 of his own people. Tortured 100,000. I mean, those are the numbers I read. I don't know if they're exact. But he's got-

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:03

       There's a lot of controversial about Assad in Syria.
6. 1:15:00 – 1:18:56

   You know? And, and…

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:15:00

   2. RVRich Vos1:15:00

      You know? And, and another thing, I go, "Hey, listen, you know, uh, seven years, uh, uh, it's, it's time to move on, and I hope we can still be friends." And he went, "Definitely." Not like, "Are you sure? Maybe we could work this out." It's like when you fucking leave a girl. She goes-

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:15:17

      She's like, "Great."

   4. RVRich Vos1:15:17

      "Okay." (laughs) Wait, whoa.

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:15:19

      Yeah.

   6. RVRich Vos1:15:20

      Come on. I, I added something. F- fight for me.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:15:22

      Nope.

   8. RVRich Vos1:15:23

      So, no. (laughs) So, yeah, I would love to speak in colleges or, or, or maybe that's when I-

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:15:31

      Not tonight.

   10. RVRich Vos1:15:31

       Let it cool down a little bit.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:15:32

       Let it cool, yeah, right (laughs) .

   12. RVRich Vos1:15:33

       (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:15:33

       Give it a year or so.

   14. RVRich Vos1:15:34

       (laughs) Give it a year.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:15:36

       (laughs)

   16. RVRich Vos1:15:37

       I, uh, I probably wouldn't be able to get to the auditorium. Uh-

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:15:40

       Trump said the wildest shit about Gaza. "We're gonna turn into the Mediterranean of the Middle East."

   18. RVRich Vos1:15:45

       Yeah. Like-

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:15:46

       What? "We're gonna take it." (laughs)

   20. RVRich Vos1:15:48

       But he keeps saying-

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:15:50

       (clears throat)

   22. RVRich Vos1:15:50

       ... and I, I don't follow. Uh, uh, the, you know, if you don't release the hostages, there's hell to pay. Well, what, what has hell, what has he done, uh, to help release the hostages? I mean, we're... Now they're being attacked by fucking Yemen through the... Who, you know, I mean, what... I don't know. Release the fucking hostages and then maybe things will-

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:16:15

       How many hostages are left now?

   24. RVRich Vos1:16:17

       What is it? 70 or P- f- I don't know, 'cause they keep dropping. You know, four hostages for 1,000 prisoners or whatever, you know? I mean that's-

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:16:27

       Is that what they're doing?

   26. RVRich Vos1:16:28

       Whatever. It's a trade-off, how many prisoners they gotta give them for a hostage. And-

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:16:33

       Man.

   28. RVRich Vos1:16:33

       You know, these, this would've never went on in this c- We would not have put up. I mean, we did with Carter, with, uh, the, the, the-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:16:41

       Yeah.

   30. RVRich Vos1:16:41

       200.

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