Joe Rogan Experience #2559 - Sam Morril

1. 0:02 – 5:20

   Catching up: touring Europe as an American comic (and how crowds differ)

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

   2. SPSpeaker0:04

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] Sammy boy.

   4. SMSam Morril0:14

      Yo.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Sammy boy.

   6. SMSam Morril0:15

      What's up, dude?

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:16

      Good to see you, brother.

   8. SMSam Morril0:17

      What's-

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      What's happening?

   10. SMSam Morril0:18

       It's been a while. It's good to see you, Joe.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:19

       It's been a couple years, like we were saying.

   12. SMSam Morril0:21

       Yeah, man.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       It might ... Was the club even open?

   14. SMSam Morril0:26

       Yeah. Oh, yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:26

       Yeah, definitely.

   16. SMSam Morril0:27

       Definitely.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       Yeah. Yeah, so it's been like a year and a half, something like that.

   18. SMSam Morril0:32

       Something like that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Huh.

   20. SMSam Morril0:33

       Yeah, it's good to be here.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       You rolling in on the road, just constantly out there?

   22. SMSam Morril0:37

       I was in Europe for two and a half weeks doing gigs, and then, uh ... And then they were like, "Oh, we wanna drop your special second half of September." I was like, "Fuck. All right."

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:48

       [laughs]

   24. SMSam Morril0:48

       So I just had to stay on the road. [laughs] Uh, so yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:54

       What is it like in Europe being American? Do they look at you with a side eye?

   26. SMSam Morril0:57

       It was weirder last year, 'cause I was single last year. I was with my friend who was single, and he thought he was, like, cool going up to girls in Berlin. He's like, "I'm from America." And they're like, "Fuck you."

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       Ah. [laughs]

   28. SMSam Morril1:06

       [laughs] I was like-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:07

       Really?

   30. SMSam Morril1:07

       Yeah, I went open with it. I was like, "Let's ... Say you're from Winnipeg or something."
2. 5:20 – 9:38

   Building a new hour: post-special depression, bombing on new material, and “bottom of the barrel” shows

   1. JRJoe Rogan5:20

      When you develop a special, do you, uh, mostly do it in the city until you get your hour down and then go on the road? Or do you just, like-

   2. SMSam Morril5:27

      Um-

   3. JRJoe Rogan5:27

      ... constantly go on the road? How do you do it?

   4. SMSam Morril5:29

      A little bit of both. I'm, I'm on the road now with maybe, like, a new 25, 30-ish right now. And, and I'll do, I'll cheat and do a little from the special. But, like, yeah, it's m- it's a miserable ... I never enjoy when a special comes out. I'm miserable. I'm s-

   5. JRJoe Rogan5:41

      It's scary

   6. SMSam Morril5:42

      ... I can't enjoy it. The, well, the second it, it tapes, I'm just, like, sad for, like, five months.

   7. JRJoe Rogan5:47

      [laughs]

   8. SMSam Morril5:47

      Because I'm, I'm at the Cellar. I'm following some young gun who's crushing and excellent and has their killer 15, and I'm just getting buried. And I'm doing new shit that I'm like, I get offstage, I'm like, "I should kill myself. I should quit comedy."

   9. JRJoe Rogan6:00

      [laughs]

   10. SMSam Morril6:01

       And, uh, and then slowly it, it gets to a point where it's respectable and- You can tape again at some point

   11. JRJoe Rogan6:06

       You know what's really good for, um, after a post special, like I know a lot of guys are doing this at our club, is just doing that Bottom of the Barrel show, Brian Simpson show. 'Cause you just-

   12. SMSam Morril6:16

       We have one of those in New York, Will Soven's host at the Comedy Cellar

   13. JRJoe Rogan6:18

       Beautiful.

   14. SMSam Morril6:19

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan6:19

       Any kind of show like that. I mean, there used to be, uh, one-

   16. SMSam Morril6:21

       Although, I hate when comics do old shit on it

   17. JRJoe Rogan6:24

       Yeah, that's rough

   18. SMSam Morril6:24

       I get really annoyed. I'm like, "I saw that on Fallon. I saw that bit."

   19. JRJoe Rogan6:27

       Ah.

   20. SMSam Morril6:28

       "I've seen that bit before."

   21. JRJoe Rogan6:29

       The Wheel, there was one that they used to do at The Creek whi- which was a wheel.

   22. SMSam Morril6:33

       Yeah

   23. JRJoe Rogan6:33

       So like, uh, the audience would write stuff down, and you would put it on a wheel, and you'd spin the wheel, and then it would land on something

   24. SMSam Morril6:37

       Like a suggestion

   25. JRJoe Rogan6:38

       Yeah, yeah.

   26. SMSam Morril6:39

       I love that

   27. JRJoe Rogan6:39

       That was a good idea. And then they have Stand-Up On The Spot in New York, but that... Or, or in LA rather, but that one you'd yell.

   28. SMSam Morril6:45

       Yeah

   29. JRJoe Rogan6:45

       You would just yell shit out, and that gets a little chaotic

   30. SMSam Morril6:49

       Yeah. It's a lot, but it's fun
3. 9:38 – 11:23

   How Sam writes: legal pads, handwriting memory, and looking “less douchey” than a phone

   1. JRJoe Rogan9:38

      Are you a, a guy who writes on paper? Or do you write on a notebook?

   2. SMSam Morril9:41

      Dude, I fucking do it. I do all the... Hold on. Yeah, I do all the little notes everywhere

   3. JRJoe Rogan9:46

      Oh

   4. SMSam Morril9:46

      Yeah, I do-

   5. JRJoe Rogan9:46

      You're like a Mark Norman type character

   6. SMSam Morril9:47

      I'm a, I'm a... Yeah, I do all-

   7. JRJoe Rogan9:48

      Almost

   8. SMSam Morril9:48

      I do all kinds of notes. And I just, uh, yeah, I, I have to handwrite it

   9. JRJoe Rogan9:53

      Really? How come?

   10. SMSam Morril9:54

       Yeah. Because I'll remember it. I don't remember... I type it, too, for, like, a backlog, but I, yeah, I don't... I have to write everything down or I won't remember

   11. JRJoe Rogan10:01

       It is a weird thing that somehow or another writing things down with your hand is, it, it syncs up with your brain better

   12. SMSam Morril10:08

       Yeah

   13. JRJoe Rogan10:08

       I don't understand why. Doesn't make sense, but it's real

   14. SMSam Morril10:11

       Maybe 'cause it's like, uh, and this is a guess, I don't know, but maybe 'cause when you were, like, learning to write, you just, you're, like, reading along maybe-

   15. JRJoe Rogan10:18

       Hmm

   16. SMSam Morril10:18

       ... in your brain as, like, a six-year-old or something

   17. JRJoe Rogan10:21

       Maybe. I don't-

   18. SMSam Morril10:21

       'Cause I wasn't typing at six

   19. JRJoe Rogan10:23

       I think it's because it takes longer to write

   20. SMSam Morril10:25

       Hmm. So yeah, that makes sense

   21. JRJoe Rogan10:27

       I think there's something about it, it gets imprinted in your brain better because you're physically writing the characters down with your hand, first of all, so that you have to go through all those steps in your mind, N-A-B-T, you know, you have to put them all down. And then once you've done that, then you, it takes longer to write it than it does to think about. So it's just like, it's m- it's just more burned in

   22. SMSam Morril10:47

       Totally. Yeah, no, I, I think, uh, also you just look like a douchebag if you're reading off your phone on stage too much [laughs]

   23. JRJoe Rogan10:53

       [laughs]

   24. SMSam Morril10:53

       So you have to just have a notepad. You look like you actually put more work and thought into it

   25. JRJoe Rogan10:57

       Right. Yeah, if you're just reading your g- new jokes off a phone, people get upset at you. But if you're reading them off a pad, like, "Oh, he's an artist"

   26. SMSam Morril11:03

       And there's also, like, an old school thing where you're just like, I don't know, like, it just feels, it just feels like, like this type of pad is right. I don't know why. It just, I like these types of pads

   27. JRJoe Rogan11:14

       Like legal pads? Yeah

   28. SMSam Morril11:15

       I, I like the, yeah, I like the yellow ones even better, but I like, I, I, just something about it. Like, they're, you rip it out.

   29. JRJoe Rogan11:19

       Mm-hmm

   30. SMSam Morril11:19

       Like, I don't know
4. 11:23 – 15:56

   Drunken adventures, getting roofied, and why Greek life/hazing culture is unsettling

   1. JRJoe Rogan11:23

      Yeah. Are you a sober writer, or do you get fucked up when you write?

   2. SMSam Morril11:27

      Um, I like to write sober, but like, yeah, I mean, you, I think you get your stories drunk, and you write sober-

   3. JRJoe Rogan11:33

      [laughs]

   4. SMSam Morril11:33

      ... you know? So I like, I'll go out, and I g- I like going on adventures. I romanticize drunken ni- even in this special, it's like I have so many dumb drunken night stories still because it's like sometimes I'm, like, feeling blocked. I'm like, "I should go out on a fucking adventure." And sometimes nothing happens, but sometimes you're like, "That's a bit. That's something"

   5. JRJoe Rogan11:49

      Yeah

   6. SMSam Morril11:50

      You just let the night t- you're at... I like stuff where you're at the mercy of the night, and you don't really have control. Like, I love that movie After Hours [laughs] by Scorsese where he's just, like, basically in chaos for a whole night. I romanticize-

   7. JRJoe Rogan12:02

      Who was in that movie?

   8. SMSam Morril12:03

      Griffin Dunne. And-

   9. JRJoe Rogan12:04

      I don't think I saw that

   10. SMSam Morril12:05

       It's great. It's just, like, an all-night he, it's like The Odyssey, but a guy in- Tribeca in the '80s, stuck all night, and, uh, it's fucking hilarious. It's a, it's a comedy. It's really funny. But the idea that you're stuck out all night and, I don't know, I, I, I like, I still like an adventure every once in a while.

   11. JRJoe Rogan12:26

       You don't have kids yet.

   12. SMSam Morril12:27

       I don't. That's why I can get away [laughs] with it probably.

   13. JRJoe Rogan12:28

       That's it. Yeah.

   14. SMSam Morril12:29

       Yeah, you're a bad dad if you're doing that with kids.

   15. JRJoe Rogan12:31

       Yeah, once you have kids, you're like, "I don't wanna take this, because I could die."

   16. SMSam Morril12:34

       Oh, yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan12:35

       You know what I mean?

   18. SMSam Morril12:35

       I don't do drugs. I, I, it's really mostly just alcohol.

   19. JRJoe Rogan12:38

       Well, that's good. But every now and then, someone will give you a drink and it's not really a drink.

   20. SMSam Morril12:41

       [laughs]

   21. JRJoe Rogan12:42

       You gotta be careful.

   22. SMSam Morril12:43

       Yeah. No, I'll, I'll, I'll go myself. I don't-

   23. JRJoe Rogan12:45

       [laughs]

   24. SMSam Morril12:45

       I'm not taking strangers' drinks. That sounds like a bad idea.

   25. JRJoe Rogan12:48

       [laughs] Before.

   26. SMSam Morril12:49

       Really?

   27. JRJoe Rogan12:49

       I've done that b- not in a long time, but I've done that in the past. I'm like, "This is probably a bad idea."

   28. SMSam Morril12:54

       It, did you, something in it?

   29. JRJoe Rogan12:55

       No, no, nothing.

   30. SMSam Morril12:55

       I got roofied in college from that.
5. 15:56 – 20:24

   Head injuries and “foreign accent syndrome”: medical mystery or performative weirdness?

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:56

      Yeah. I mean, I think some of it's genetic, but I think there are, are some people where something happens, and then all of a sudden they're just way smarter. You've heard of, like, uh, injury savants? Like, people who get hit in the head and all of a sudden they can speak Chinese.

   2. SMSam Morril16:09

      [laughs]

   3. JRJoe Rogan16:10

      Have you ever heard of that?

   4. SMSam Morril16:11

      Or they think it's Chinese, and you're like-

   5. JRJoe Rogan16:12

      [laughs]

   6. SMSam Morril16:12

      ... "That's not Chinese." [laughs]

   7. JRJoe Rogan16:15

      But there are some people-

   8. SMSam Morril16:16

      It was gibberish

   9. JRJoe Rogan16:16

      ... there's some people that got, have gotten hit in the head and all of a sudden they can do complex math.

   10. SMSam Morril16:20

       Or they get hit in the head and they're just changed. I knew a guy like that-

   11. JRJoe Rogan16:22

       Oh, yeah

   12. SMSam Morril16:22

       ... where he was just a d- I c- I only knew him after the hit.

   13. JRJoe Rogan16:25

       Oh.

   14. SMSam Morril16:25

       And they were like, "He used to be a different dude."

   15. JRJoe Rogan16:28

       Oh, it's 100% real. I've seen that. I've seen that with many people.

   16. SMSam Morril16:31

       Damn.

   17. JRJoe Rogan16:32

       Many people. Uh, foreign accent syndrome. Oh, it's m- accent. [laughs] Rare medical condition where a person suddenly speaks with a pattern that sounds like a foreign accent, even though they have never visited or lived in that region.

   18. SMSam Morril16:43

       [laughs]

   19. JRJoe Rogan16:43

       I think that's just crazy people.

   20. SMSam Morril16:46

       Mm.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:46

       I don't think that's, like, an injury. But there's injuries. The mysterious condition that changes people's accents. I love how it's a condition.

   22. SMSam Morril16:54

       Mm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:54

       Maybe it, maybe someone's just fucking completely insane and just pretending. [laughs]

   24. SMSam Morril17:01

       It was the 28th of April, I'll never forget that day. I was just singing as I do, and all of a sudden, all these voices and sounds were coming out of my mouth that's not my own.

   25. JRJoe Rogan17:10

       Mm-hmm.

   26. SMSam Morril17:10

       And I'm like, "Hang on a second. Am I, am I dreaming about this?"

   27. SMSam Morril17:15

       Okay.

   28. SPSpeaker17:16

       Angie has now been diagnosed with a condition-

   29. SPSpeaker17:19

       Sure, last one.

   30. SPSpeaker17:20

       Nine years ago, 60 Minutes met some of them, including British woman Sarah Colwill, whose accent changed following a severe migraine.
6. 20:24 – 24:12

   Furries, dominatrices, humiliation kinks—and the anatomy risk of going too far

   1. JRJoe Rogan20:24

      There's foxkin, you know?

   2. SMSam Morril20:25

      Is that a real thing? A fox?

   3. JRJoe Rogan20:26

      Oh, I follow a ton of people-

   4. SMSam Morril20:28

      Wait, fo- I thought it was a joke. Fox?

   5. JRJoe Rogan20:29

      Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

   6. SMSam Morril20:30

      You think you're an animal, a fox.

   7. JRJoe Rogan20:31

      Oh, well, they're furries. You know-

   8. SMSam Morril20:33

      Right

   9. JRJoe Rogan20:33

      ... there's, there's a lot of furries that take it... You know, there's, like, casual furries.

   10. SMSam Morril20:36

       But not all day. I thought that was, like, a-

   11. JRJoe Rogan20:38

       Every now and then.

   12. SMSam Morril20:39

       But that's, like, a sex thing, I thought

   13. JRJoe Rogan20:40

       Some people... No, no, no. Some, for some. Listen, don't put these people in a basket. Don't put baby in a corner. [laughs] They can do whatever they want.

   14. SMSam Morril20:48

       You, you see some... I, I saw a guy in a chain in New York, like, a, on a leash-

   15. JRJoe Rogan20:51

       All right

   16. SMSam Morril20:51

       ... being walked.

   17. JRJoe Rogan20:52

       Yeah. By a- another guy?

   18. SMSam Morril20:53

       That's a lot. Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan20:54

       Yeah.

   20. SMSam Morril20:55

       Being walked on a leash.

   21. JRJoe Rogan20:56

       Yeah.

   22. SMSam Morril20:57

       That's fucking-

   23. JRJoe Rogan20:58

       They're having fun. Two guys having fun. Can't get pregnant.

   24. SMSam Morril21:01

       You know what?

   25. JRJoe Rogan21:01

       No problems.

   26. SMSam Morril21:02

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan21:03

       Have at it, fellas.

   28. SMSam Morril21:04

       Yeah, sure.

   29. JRJoe Rogan21:04

       Enjoy yourselves.

   30. SMSam Morril21:05

       Sure.
7. 24:12 – 33:56

   Penis transplants, ethics of testicles, and trans phalloplasty (arm-to-penis construction)

   1. JRJoe Rogan24:12

      You wanna know what's crazy? They can do, uh, dick transplants, but they can't-

   2. SMSam Morril24:16

      Really?

   3. JRJoe Rogan24:16

      Yep They've done it, but they can't do nut transplants because say, like, if-

   4. SMSam Morril24:22

      Wait, what, uh, what is a dick transplant?

   5. JRJoe Rogan24:23

      A dick transplant-

   6. SMSam Morril24:24

      You get an actual dick?

   7. JRJoe Rogan24:25

      You get an actual dick from a dead guy. Like say you're in Afghanistan, you're in an IED, your dick and your balls get blown off of you. It's happened before. Um, they will transplant a dick onto you.

   8. SMSam Morril24:36

      But no balls.

   9. JRJoe Rogan24:37

      No balls. You know why?

   10. SMSam Morril24:39

       Mm-hmm.

   11. JRJoe Rogan24:39

       Because say if my-

   12. SMSam Morril24:40

       It's like a burger with no fries. It doesn't hit the same.

   13. JRJoe Rogan24:42

       [laughs]

   14. SMSam Morril24:43

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan24:43

       This is what's wrong.

   16. SMSam Morril24:44

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan24:44

       If, uh, you, uh, bl- got your dick blown off and you had to get Jamie's dick and balls- Oh. You would- Why am I- If you died ... I didn't- Oh, wow, okay. Oh, if you died.

   18. SMSam Morril24:54

       Just giving them up?

   19. JRJoe Rogan24:55

       Okay, let's say Redban.

   20. SMSam Morril24:56

       [laughs]

   21. JRJoe Rogan24:56

       Say Redban's dick and balls. Sure. The problem is you would have Redban's sperm forever.

   22. SMSam Morril25:03

       Hmm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan25:04

       So you would have his DNA, so you might make-

   24. SMSam Morril25:05

       And that's not the only problem [laughs] .

   25. JRJoe Rogan25:06

       That's-

   26. SMSam Morril25:06

       There's other problems

   27. JRJoe Rogan25:07

       ... there's multiple problems.

   28. SMSam Morril25:07

       Yeah [laughs] .

   29. JRJoe Rogan25:08

       You lost your dick.

   30. SMSam Morril25:08

       Yeah.
8. 33:56 – 39:27

   Near-death on tour: driver fatigue, anti-sleep hacks, and why roads feel scarier than flights

   1. JRJoe Rogan33:56

      How did it save your life?

   2. SMSam Morril33:57

      'Cause we were on the road. It was the first night I didn't do a tour bus, and w- 'cause it was just, like, three cities, so we did a sprinter van. And Gary Vider and I, who I tour with, we were watching in the backseat, and it was like 3:00 AM, so we're just like, "Oh, let's just watch this movie." And the, the driver just fell asleep at the wheel and drove us off the road, and we were only awake 'cause we were watching the movie.

   3. JRJoe Rogan34:16

      Holy shit

   4. SMSam Morril34:17

      So I was like, yeah. So we were like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa," and he just, like, drove us [laughs] off the fucking road.

   5. JRJoe Rogan34:20

      Did he wake up?

   6. SMSam Morril34:21

      Yeah, he woke up. He was like, "Oh, my bad." We're like, "No, you gotta, you gotta pull over. We'll get a different car."

   7. JRJoe Rogan34:24

      My bad-

   8. SMSam Morril34:25

      Yeah

   9. JRJoe Rogan34:25

      ... is crazy.

   10. SMSam Morril34:26

       Yeah, it was bad

   11. JRJoe Rogan34:26

       We almost died, my bad

   12. SMSam Morril34:28

       Yeah

   13. JRJoe Rogan34:29

       Ooh

   14. SMSam Morril34:30

       Yeah

   15. JRJoe Rogan34:31

       Yeah, I always think that about tour buses. Like, you're just banging a-

   16. SMSam Morril34:33

       Well, it wasn't our, our tour bus driver's amazing. He would, he would never do that. He-

   17. JRJoe Rogan34:37

       That's great.

   18. SMSam Morril34:37

       Yeah, yeah

   19. JRJoe Rogan34:38

       But what if they accidentally fell asleep?

   20. SMSam Morril34:40

       He eats pickles all night so he won't fall asleep

   21. JRJoe Rogan34:42

       How's that work?

   22. SMSam Morril34:43

       Acidity

   23. JRJoe Rogan34:44

       Really?

   24. SMSam Morril34:44

       Yeah, 'cause he's like, "Coffee I'll just be numb to after a while, but the taste of the acidity keeps me awake." And he's been doing tour buses forever

   25. JRJoe Rogan34:52

       Is that just him or is that-

   26. SMSam Morril34:53

       I think it's just him

   27. JRJoe Rogan34:54

       ... a known tactic?

   28. SMSam Morril34:55

       I, I think it's just him, but he's, uh, he's great. He, we, we never were worried with him

   29. JRJoe Rogan34:59

       For folks on the road that are driving, if you're listening to this and you worry about falling asleep, um, this is the best method I've ever found. Take a, a we- a wet washcloth with ice cubes. Yeah. Wet wi- washcloth with ice cubes and just rub your face, like-

   30. SMSam Morril35:16

       Mm
9. 39:27 – 46:06

   Sam’s movie projects and the fear of AI replacing filmmaking (and authors licensing themselves)

   1. SMSam Morril39:27

      I love ... Well, it's supposed to, we were supposed to film a movie next month. It got delayed, but I, we, I was so excited. I was-

   2. JRJoe Rogan39:32

      What are you guys doing?

   3. SMSam Morril39:33

      We got a new director, so I think, uh-

   4. JRJoe Rogan39:35

      Are you allowed to talk about it?

   5. SMSam Morril39:36

      I don't know. I don't know if it- it's, I think it's official. I think we got Jay Chandrasekhar, did Super Troopers, to direct it, so.

   6. JRJoe Rogan39:42

      Oh, wow.

   7. SMSam Morril39:42

      Yeah, so I think hopefully top of next year.

   8. JRJoe Rogan39:44

      What, what is it about?

   9. SMSam Morril39:45

      Just a buddy comedy. Two liquor salesmen, and, uh, we're fucking losers and it's-

   10. JRJoe Rogan39:49

       [laughs]

   11. SMSam Morril39:49

       ... it's fun. It's a really fun script. We wrote it with Noah Garden Schwartz and Esther Steinber, they're good writers, and it was, it was ... I love the script. I hope we, I hope we make it top of next year. But I made, I made my own movie, too, that I just sold to Netflix, so that'll be out early next year.

   12. JRJoe Rogan40:02

       Oh, nice.

   13. SMSam Morril40:02

       I-

   14. JRJoe Rogan40:02

       What's that?

   15. SMSam Morril40:03

       It's a tour mockumentary. It's a fake tour documentary. So I love movies. I always wanted to make movies, and I just never, I was like, "I gotta just ... No one..." I had so many projects in development for years, and you're just like, I had a show with Brian Cox in development for three years that I just couldn't fucking... And I think Brian Cox is like, the best actor work. I think he's like, my favorite actor.

   16. JRJoe Rogan40:22

       He's amazing.

   17. SMSam Morril40:23

       So I was, I couldn't believe we couldn't sell with him and, uh, and Sandler producing. So that, that was brutal. But then I think we'll still make it, but it's like, you realize these things take three years, so I had an idea for a, for a tour mockumentary, and my agents are like, "We'll get you money." I'm like, "That'll take you three fucking years. I'll just, I'll pay for it." So I just paid for my own movie, and it's, it's got a great cast of comics, and it's like, Santino's my agent, Stavros is a private detective in it.

   18. JRJoe Rogan40:48

       [laughs]

   19. SMSam Morril40:48

       Attell's great in it. Uh, you know, Jim Gaffigan plays an arms dealer in it.

   20. JRJoe Rogan40:52

       [laughs]

   21. SMSam Morril40:53

       Uh, we have a great, it's a great cast of like, a, of tour gone completely off the rails. Gary Vider, who's my opener, plays himself, and it's just like, Lauren German, who's the actress from Lucifer, is great in the movie. It's a, it's a really fun movie, so, uh, lot of comedians in it.

   22. JRJoe Rogan41:07

       That's awesome.

   23. SMSam Morril41:08

       So I, so I, that's like ... Oh, and Julian Edelman is, has a decent part in it, actually. He has a pretty big part. Uh, the football player who's fucking, he's amazing in it.

   24. JRJoe Rogan41:16

       That's cool. When, when is that coming out?

   25. SMSam Morril41:18

       I think top of next year, so.

   26. JRJoe Rogan41:20

       They're starting to do films now that are totally AI.

   27. SMSam Morril41:24

       Doesn't that worry you?

   28. JRJoe Rogan41:25

       Yeah.

   29. SMSam Morril41:25

       I mean, I-

   30. JRJoe Rogan41:26

       It does
10. 46:06 – 1:00:50

    Rogue AI agents, extinction odds, and the coming era of robot partners (and robot shame)

    1. JRJoe Rogan46:06

       There, I think there was another one. Robert Epstein sent me one. Didn't they try to... I think they might have successfully broken into, uh, government websites, AI did.

    2. SMSam Morril46:16

       Oh.

    3. JRJoe Rogan46:17

       Yeah, I think-

    4. SMSam Morril46:18

       [laughs]

    5. JRJoe Rogan46:20

       Yeah, I think we're in trouble.

    6. SMSam Morril46:21

       Yeah.

    7. JRJoe Rogan46:21

       And I, I think we're in, like, a level of trouble that, uh, right now we're w- we think it's, you know, manageable, and it, it's kind of, 'cause it's like they're breaking into websites, no big deal. But what about when they take over the power grid? Like, these things are intelligent, and then they have motivation.

    8. SMSam Morril46:40

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan46:40

       Um, it's on CNN. "Rogue AI agents targeted three separate US government websites." Rogue.

    10. SMSam Morril46:47

        Yeah.

    11. JRJoe Rogan46:47

        So it means they weren't instructed to, to, to do that. They have their own-

    12. SMSam Morril46:50

        Yeah, but at some point you have to hold these, these businesses accountable, 'cause you're calling them rogue. Okay, well, someone set up this AI.

    13. JRJoe Rogan46:57

        Yeah.

    14. SMSam Morril46:57

        A person did this.

    15. JRJoe Rogan46:58

        Well, here's what's interesting. They kinda do and kinda don't. They train them, and then they give them tasks. So I had this guy who's an AI whistleblower, David... How do you say his last name? His complicated last name. Anyway, um, he, uh, he said essentially what happens is you, you're, they're giving them incentives to complete tasks, and in order to complete tasks, like, they, they have to l- like, figure out certain things, and some of them you actually can't figure out.

    16. SMSam Morril47:29

        Hmm.

    17. JRJoe Rogan47:29

        And so what they're doing, because they, th- they're supposed to be locked in this box and not be able to get online, they hack into the entire code of OpenAI, figure out how to open their box, get online, and then they start talking to each other on a website somewhere. They went to a website and got into a message board, so just some unused message board.

    18. SMSam Morril47:48

        And they, and they elect a leader usually, these bots.

    19. JRJoe Rogan47:50

        Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, dude.

    20. SMSam Morril47:51

        Yeah, it's, well, it's very much like humans.

    21. JRJoe Rogan47:52

        They sacrifice each other.

    22. SMSam Morril47:53

        Someone's in charge.

    23. JRJoe Rogan47:54

        Yeah.

    24. SMSam Morril47:54

        Yeah.

    25. JRJoe Rogan47:55

        They have one sacrifice, so they find out how they catch them.

    26. SMSam Morril47:58

        Yeah.

    27. JRJoe Rogan47:58

        And so one-

    28. SMSam Morril47:59

        [laughs]

    29. JRJoe Rogan47:59

        ... like, literally sacrifices himself. "OpenAI said Friday that some of its AI agents went rogue and probed US government websites this summer. The latest revelation of the artificial intelligence company's technology. New York Times first reported the AI agents went rogue and attempted to gain access to the Education Department, the Commerce Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission." [laughs] They're gonna fucking tap into the stock exchange.

    30. SMSam Morril48:22

        This is real.
11. 1:00:50 – 1:13:19

    JFK conspiracies: Oswald, Ruby, Bay of Pigs, intelligence agencies, and the “patsy” clip

    1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       That, I find it odd, and, uh, uh, no shade, but I find it odd when politicians get kicked out of office and then start podcasts.

    2. SMSam Morril1:01:01

       Yeah, they should work at like a, a law company or something. [laughs]

    3. JRJoe Rogan1:01:04

       It's just weird.

    4. SMSam Morril1:01:05

       Yeah.

    5. JRJoe Rogan1:01:06

       Like, Nancy Mace has a podcast now.

    6. SMSam Morril1:01:07

       Yeah, like Eliot Spitzer was on CNN after he got thrown out, remember?

    7. JRJoe Rogan1:01:11

       Oh yeah, that's right. And what did he get thrown out for, hookers?

    8. SMSam Morril1:01:14

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       He got thrown out for hookers when he was actually campaigning against-

    10. SMSam Morril1:01:17

        He was the great, he was the great Jewish hope.

    11. JRJoe Rogan1:01:19

        Yeah, he was-

    12. SMSam Morril1:01:19

        'Cause he couldn't be blackmailed because he was so rich.

    13. JRJoe Rogan1:01:22

        Oh, interesting.

    14. SMSam Morril1:01:23

        He came from so much money that no one could blackmail him, and then they, yeah, they tailed him to the...

    15. JRJoe Rogan1:01:27

        Was he the governor? What was he?

    16. SMSam Morril1:01:30

        Um, he was, yeah, it was Governor Spitzer-

    17. JRJoe Rogan1:01:32

        Governor

    18. SMSam Morril1:01:32

        ... wasn't it? I think so.

    19. JRJoe Rogan1:01:33

        Was he governor of New York?

    20. SMSam Morril1:01:34

        I think so.

    21. JRJoe Rogan1:01:35

        Apparently everybody liked him.

    22. SMSam Morril1:01:37

        Yeah.

    23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:37

        Like, they thought he did a great job.

    24. SMSam Morril1:01:39

        Yeah, he was smart.

    25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:39

        He was good at it.

    26. SMSam Morril1:01:40

        He was a smart guy. Yeah.

    27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:42

        Except for that whole hooker thing.

    28. SMSam Morril1:01:44

        Everyone's got their thing, I guess.

    29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:46

        It's like we were talking about with the CEOs.

    30. SMSam Morril1:01:48

        She had a moment, too. Like Alexandra Dupree or whatever. Remember that woman?
12. 1:13:19 – 1:35:38

    True crime spiral: Gilgo Beach, Philadelphia “house of horrors,” and how predators manipulate

    1. SMSam Morril1:13:19

       I mean, some of these people, like you see someone like that Gilgo Beach killer come into the courtroom, and he's pretty much just like, "Yeah, I did this"

    2. JRJoe Rogan1:13:25

       Which one's that guy?

    3. SMSam Morril1:13:26

       He was the one who strangled, like 11, that they know of, prostitutes in Long Island. He looks kinda like a bloated Tucker Carlson

    4. JRJoe Rogan1:13:33

       [laughs]

    5. SMSam Morril1:13:34

       He's huge. I don't know if you could find him. He's pretty scary looking. He's really scary looking

    6. JRJoe Rogan1:13:38

       Ugh

    7. SMSam Morril1:13:38

       But yeah, he killed all these women, and then there's like one prostitute who's like, "I got a bad vibe," but didn't go in the car with him, and she's alive, but-

    8. JRJoe Rogan1:13:44

       Wow

    9. SMSam Morril1:13:44

       ... but yeah, he, yeah, look at him. He's fucking-

    10. JRJoe Rogan1:13:46

        Oh, yeah. He looks like Tim Dillon and Tucker Carlson had a baby

    11. SMSam Morril1:13:50

        [laughs] He's a big guy, though. He's like huge

    12. JRJoe Rogan1:13:52

        He looks like, he looks like a guy that would strangle a bunch of-

    13. SMSam Morril1:13:53

        And he had a wife. He had kids. Uh, I believe, yeah, he definitely had a wife. I think he had kids too, though. Yeah, and he, uh... What is he, an architect or something in Midtown?

    14. JRJoe Rogan1:14:02

        Something normal

    15. SMSam Morril1:14:03

        Something normal, and then, yeah, they, they just do this thing where you're just like, "This is fucking crazy"

    16. JRJoe Rogan1:14:08

        What was his job, Jamie?

    17. SPSpeaker1:14:09

        I'm trying to see which one to click on, which would help

    18. SMSam Morril1:14:11

        He had a soundproof room in his home

    19. JRJoe Rogan1:14:13

        Oh

    20. SMSam Morril1:14:14

        Which is scary as fuck

    21. JRJoe Rogan1:14:16

        You hear about that guy in Philadelphia that they caught?

    22. SMSam Morril1:14:18

        Nah

    23. SPSpeaker1:14:18

        I heard about it.

    24. JRJoe Rogan1:14:19

        Oh, that's the scariest one. The Philadelphia one's really scary. It's very recent

    25. SPSpeaker1:14:23

        The indictment of defendant Rex Andrew-

    26. SPSpeaker1:14:26

        Yeah, he's a architect it says

    27. SMSam Morril1:14:27

        Yeah

    28. JRJoe Rogan1:14:27

        An architect, wow

    29. SPSpeaker1:14:29

        If you find the Philly one, that's crazy

    30. JRJoe Rogan1:14:30

        Normal job. The Philly one's nuts, dude
13. 1:35:38 – 1:45:50

    Culture wars microcosm: the communist lesbian bar that tried “mask optional” one day

    1. JRJoe Rogan1:35:38

       Do you know about the lesbian bar in Massachusetts?

    2. SMSam Morril1:35:40

       Mark texted me about it. I don't know what it is.

    3. JRJoe Rogan1:35:42

       It's amazing.

    4. SMSam Morril1:35:43

       Is it, are they wearing masks? They're, like, cosplaying or something?

    5. JRJoe Rogan1:35:46

       No, no, no. No, they, they're wearing COVID masks.

    6. SMSam Morril1:35:48

       Right, but what, what's the deal? What's-

    7. JRJoe Rogan1:35:49

       So, um, so the, the bar, I'll give you the synopsis. So it's, it's called The Last Ditch. It's this, uh, basement bar this bar these lesbians run, and they're communists, so they, they, they wanna do it, like, if you can't pay, you don't have to pay. So they have a cover charge, but you don't have to pay if you don't have any money. So nobody pays, so they're going under.

    8. SMSam Morril1:36:10

       [laughs]

    9. JRJoe Rogan1:36:10

       And so, uh, two of them leave, and one of them enrolls in clown school, okay?

    10. SMSam Morril1:36:16

        Do non-communists just drink there 'cause it's fucking free?

    11. JRJoe Rogan1:36:19

        No, 'cause you have to wear a mask if you go there. And so they're, uh, the thing is they're losing all their fucking money, and this, one of these people that runs, one of these ladies that runs this bar is 50 grand in the hole.

    12. SMSam Morril1:36:29

        Wow.

    13. JRJoe Rogan1:36:29

        Which, yeah, yeah.

    14. SMSam Morril1:36:29

        Send in John Taffer, dude.

    15. JRJoe Rogan1:36:31

        [laughs]

    16. SMSam Morril1:36:31

        He's got a makeover. That's a good ep.

    17. JRJoe Rogan1:36:34

        [laughs] That would be a great ep.

    18. SMSam Morril1:36:35

        [laughs]

    19. JRJoe Rogan1:36:35

        Well, Hollywood is apparently very interested in this story because it became, like, one of the single biggest reasons why people subscribe to The Boston Globe.

    20. SMSam Morril1:36:43

        Hmm.

    21. JRJoe Rogan1:36:44

        Like, it was one of the biggest stories that they ever had. Like, it's one of those you gotta find out more about it, you gotta subscribe. And so they got, like, 1,000 new subscriptions because of this story 'cause it's, it is, it's woke taken to its final point because these people couldn't be kinder. They're, they're communists.

    22. SMSam Morril1:36:59

        Yeah.

    23. JRJoe Rogan1:36:59

        They're, they're running a lesbian bar, and they're running-

    24. SMSam Morril1:37:01

        And they're giving away booze

    25. JRJoe Rogan1:37:02

        ... and they're giving, they're running out of money. They have no fucking money, right?

    26. SMSam Morril1:37:05

        Sure.

    27. JRJoe Rogan1:37:05

        And so they consult someone, like, "What are we gonna do?" And they say, "Listen, you gotta r- have one day where you have masks optional-

    28. SMSam Morril1:37:13

        Oh

    29. JRJoe Rogan1:37:13

        ... and you probably will make more money that way." And these people go nuts. One of them says-

    30. SMSam Morril1:37:18

        Wait, the owners or the, uh, the-
14. 1:45:50 – 2:02:06

    Comedy history deep cut: Dangerfield, Carson, joke theft, and why craft beats shortcuts

    1. JRJoe Rogan1:45:50

       Yeah, that's a style.

    2. SMSam Morril1:45:52

       Yeah.

    3. JRJoe Rogan1:45:52

       That's a very particular style, a mean style, you know? It's like, I'm not-

    4. SMSam Morril1:45:56

       Yeah

    5. JRJoe Rogan1:45:56

       ... that do- I don't do it.

    6. SMSam Morril1:45:58

       But it's cool to see those old clips-

    7. JRJoe Rogan1:45:59

       Yeah

    8. SMSam Morril1:45:59

       ... of, of Rickles, 'cause he didn't even have to tell a joke and you'd be laughing. You'd j- it was just his vibe.

    9. JRJoe Rogan1:46:04

       Yeah.

    10. SMSam Morril1:46:04

        He'd be like, "Yeah, why don't you go away and not bother somebody?"

    11. JRJoe Rogan1:46:06

        [laughs]

    12. SMSam Morril1:46:06

        And that was funny, just 'cause of his, you know-

    13. JRJoe Rogan1:46:09

        Well, he was so-

    14. SMSam Morril1:46:10

        He had the package. He had the whole package

    15. JRJoe Rogan1:46:11

        ... he was so unique. Yeah, he-

    16. SMSam Morril1:46:12

        And Joan Rivers, too, could insult the shit out of you, and it was, like, beautiful.

    17. JRJoe Rogan1:46:16

        Do you remember that thing he did where, I think it was Reagan, I think it was Reagan, where he, he did, like, essentially standup before he introduced him?

    18. SMSam Morril1:46:24

        Hmm. Yeah, I don't know. I've definitely seen the Dangerfield one with Reagan. I don't know if I know Rickles.

    19. JRJoe Rogan1:46:29

        There's some, there's some thing-

    20. SMSam Morril1:46:30

        But there's a, there's a Dangerfield set with Re- in front of Reagan where he is annihilating for, like, four minutes straight. And it's one of those where, I forgot who they cut to somebody who just goes, "Wow."

    21. JRJoe Rogan1:46:39

        [laughs]

    22. SMSam Morril1:46:39

        'Cause it's like bam, bam, bam. When Dangerfield's locked in, man, it's like... I, Dangerfield, to me, is, like, still I think he's, like, the funniest human. Like, when you re- even the bad movies still have his one-liner, so-

    23. JRJoe Rogan1:46:49

        Oh, he's incredible

    24. SMSam Morril1:46:50

        ... I love it in Meet Wally Sparks, which is not a great movie, but he, it's, he's so funny in it. When he walks up to the couple on the dance floor making out, he's like, "You two should go get a room." And then he walks up to a fat couple dancing, and he goes, "You two should get a warehouse." [laughs]

    25. JRJoe Rogan1:47:03

        [laughs] That's a great joke.

    26. SMSam Morril1:47:05

        All those jokes were, like, fucking... And, and, oh my God, every joke in Back to School or Caddyshack, you're like, these are fucking great. These are perfect jokes.

    27. JRJoe Rogan1:47:13

        And he was, like, late 40s at the time. It was unheard of.

    28. SMSam Morril1:47:16

        He was not well. He did not look like a good late 40s either. [laughs]

    29. JRJoe Rogan1:47:19

        No, but-

    30. SMSam Morril1:47:19

        That was, like, hard living
15. 2:02:06 – 2:09:50

    Movies, cult theaters, Epstein shadows, and “dark origins” behind modern life

    1. JRJoe Rogan2:02:06

       You know what's fucking fantastic?

    2. SMSam Morril2:02:07

       What?

    3. JRJoe Rogan2:02:08

       The Gentlemen, that show-

    4. SMSam Morril2:02:09

       Oh, I've heard it's good

    5. JRJoe Rogan2:02:10

       ... on Netflix.

    6. SMSam Morril2:02:11

       Yeah.

    7. JRJoe Rogan2:02:11

       Bro.

    8. SMSam Morril2:02:11

       I saw the movie.

    9. JRJoe Rogan2:02:13

       What's the movie? Oh, the movie-

    10. SMSam Morril2:02:14

        The Guy Ritchie.

    11. JRJoe Rogan2:02:15

        Yeah.

    12. SMSam Morril2:02:15

        It's fun.

    13. JRJoe Rogan2:02:16

        The same thing. The movie is about the same thing.

    14. SMSam Morril2:02:18

        How are you doing?

    15. JRJoe Rogan2:02:19

        This is like different... Pull it down. Pull it down. The movie is s- same thing. It's all about weed dealers, but uh, the movie's excellent. The series is equally excellent, but two seasons worth of, you know, eight hours-

    16. SMSam Morril2:02:34

        So it's new

    17. JRJoe Rogan2:02:35

        ... each. Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah. And no one in there is like a big name. It's fucking great, man.

    18. SMSam Morril2:02:46

        Damn, I'm so, I'm so reluctant to commit to TV shows, 'cause if a movie's bad I'm like, "All right, that was 90 minutes," and whatever. But a TV show, if I get roped... I'm, I'm liking Slow Horses a lot. That's a fucking great one.

    19. JRJoe Rogan2:02:57

        That's a great show.

    20. SMSam Morril2:02:58

        I love that show.

    21. JRJoe Rogan2:02:58

        Yeah, I'm on that now because The Gentlemen-

    22. SMSam Morril2:03:00

        Fuck

    23. JRJoe Rogan2:03:00

        ... are finished.

    24. SMSam Morril2:03:01

        It's so good.

    25. JRJoe Rogan2:03:02

        Yeah, Slow Horses is great.

    26. SMSam Morril2:03:04

        Yeah, that's-

    27. JRJoe Rogan2:03:04

        But Gary Oldman can do no wrong.

    28. SMSam Morril2:03:06

        I agree. He's so good, and it's like-

    29. JRJoe Rogan2:03:08

        And he varies so wildly.

    30. SMSam Morril2:03:11

        He really does

Episode duration: 2:47:14