Joe Rogan Experience #1843 - Paul VIrzi

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I'm ready.

Okay. Oh, we'll have that rolling, Paul Verzin. What the fuck?

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So, tell me the UFO story.

(laughs) All right. Um, well, first, I'm going to tell you about my dad real quick.

Okay.

My dad is Sicilian to the fuck... He... Born and raised Bronx, okay? Grew up in the 1960s in the Bronx. Always has to dress nice, you know. Very materialistic. A man needs a watch.

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A man needs shoes. Okay? Me and my brother were in the car one time. My father would do this shit. We were young. He shouldn't have, but he would be like, he'd be like, "Look at that. You see that? That's a fucking disgrace." He'd be like, "That's a man in a Honda." You know?

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And he'd be like, "Th- th- there's kids in that fucking car." Like, like that.

Wow.

1982 Jaguar XJ6, black, white leather. Dressed to the nines. You know, everybody's crazy but him.

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"Fucking, they're crazy. Fucking..." Right? So, tells me and my brother a story. To this day, the story's not changed, and he told me he wished he never saw what he saw. 1973, my mother is pregnant with my older brother, Christian. Uh, he's five years older than me. Okay? So, uh, she's pregnant with him. They're outside in Yonkers. There's a little grass lot. And my aunt, grandmother, and mother are out there, and they're screaming, "Tommy, you got to come out here! You got to come out here." So, the way my father tells this story, he goes, "I'm watching TV. What the fuck?" You know? "I- I don't want to be bothered." He goes, "I go outside," and he said, "Paul," he said, "sitting where I could throw a rock or shoot my gun at it, there is a fucking..." And the way he s- he said flying saucer, which is fucking hilarious, but he goes, "There's a fucking flying saucer," and he said, "it's got a blue tint around it, little port holes, but you could barely see. Quiet. Quiet as can be." And he said they were all... And he said the time was weird. The time of night was weird. It was like that weird time where the sun's going down, you don't know. He said the timing of it was weird, and he said his time perception during it was, was very, something was off with the time. And he said he thought, he said, "Holy shit, I could fucking shoot my gun at this thing." But then he goes, he goes, "Then I freaked out because I don't know if this thing's reading my fucking mind, so I went inside."

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'Cause he thought that it might've been... So, he went inside, he looked again. He went outside, they looked at it, they were stunned, and he said, "And like that, it turned into a dot in the sky." Uh, he said, "Like that, it turned into a star like that." And he says, to this day, exactly the same thing. He goes, "Paul, I always used to think those people were fucking nuts." He goes, "All those people, I thought they were fucking hillbillies somewhere in the Midwest just trying to get attention." He goes, "I know what the fuck I saw." And he goes, "And I wish I didn't see it because I still dream about it and I know what the fuck I saw and I know it wasn't from here. That's 100% true."