Joe Rogan Experience #1636 - Colion Noir
Colion Noir (guest), Narrator, Joe Rogan (host), Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator, Narrator
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Colion Noir and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1636 - Colion Noir explores guns, Cars, Homelessness, and Power: Colion Noir Joins Rogan Joe Rogan and Colion Noir range widely from car culture and hunting to gun policy, policing, and systemic homelessness. Noir recounts his first bison hunt in vivid detail, using it to confront moral questions around meat, killing, and social-media backlash. The conversation then shifts into a deep dive on firearms, gun control narratives, mass shootings, policing standards, and how adrenaline affects decision-making. They close by exposing massive homeless-spending figures in cities like LA and NY, arguing that perverse incentives and political corruption help sustain the crisis rather than solve it.
Guns, Cars, Homelessness, and Power: Colion Noir Joins Rogan
Joe Rogan and Colion Noir range widely from car culture and hunting to gun policy, policing, and systemic homelessness. Noir recounts his first bison hunt in vivid detail, using it to confront moral questions around meat, killing, and social-media backlash. The conversation then shifts into a deep dive on firearms, gun control narratives, mass shootings, policing standards, and how adrenaline affects decision-making. They close by exposing massive homeless-spending figures in cities like LA and NY, arguing that perverse incentives and political corruption help sustain the crisis rather than solve it.
Key Takeaways
Hunting your own meat forces you to confront mortality and hypocrisy around food.
Colion’s first bison hunt in Pueblo, Colorado changed how he thinks about life and death. ...
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Viral images of hunting ignite backlash, but most criticism ignores basic realities of conservation and meat consumption.
Noir notes that his hunt video didn’t even show the impact or the dead bison, yet he still got a spike in hate. ...
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Gun-control debates are often driven by optics and rare events, not by how violence actually occurs in America.
Noir cites CDC-linked and criminology data suggesting hundreds of thousands of defensive gun uses per year, versus a comparatively small number of mass shootings. ...
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Inner-city gun violence is highly concentrated among a small number of offenders, but policy rarely targets that reality.
Discussing the ‘Ceasefire’ model, Noir explains how focusing on the small group of known shooters—using a combination of enforcement pressure and community engagement—dramatically reduced violence in Boston. ...
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Police errors under stress expose systemic training and selection problems, not just ‘bad apples.’
Using the Daunte Wright shooting (where the officer says she mistook a gun for a Taser), they talk through adrenaline dumps, how under pressure you revert to your lowest level of training, and the fact many officers rarely draw their weapons in real life. ...
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Corporate media and political elites manipulate narratives around guns and power while remaining personally insulated.
They call out Michael Bloomberg as a prime example of a billionaire funding gun-control efforts while surrounded by armed security, and they discuss Project Veritas videos suggesting CNN consciously frames stories to drive political outcomes. ...
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The homelessness crisis in cities like Los Angeles appears financially incentivized and structurally self-perpetuating.
Rogan and Noir walk through public reports: Los Angeles dedicating $400–600M+ per year to homelessness, New York spending billions, and LA’s mayor touting huge budget increases with little improvement. ...
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Notable Quotes
“If you eat meat and don’t support hunting, I don’t know what to tell you.”
— Joe Rogan
“With 400 million guns in this country, if we were a problem, you’d know it.”
— Colion Noir
“Two things can be true at once. She made a horrible mistake and she should be held to a higher standard.”
— Colion Noir
“They’re very good with language. It went from gun control to reasonable gun control to gun safety.”
— Colion Noir
“I just thought it was a money problem. Now I think it’s a scam.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
When you watched the other bison brutally attack their wounded herd-mate, did that change how you interpret human bullying or ‘turning on the weak’ in our own society?
Joe Rogan and Colion Noir range widely from car culture and hunting to gun policy, policing, and systemic homelessness. ...
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You mentioned the Ceasefire model in Boston significantly reduced inner-city shootings; what specific elements of that program do you think could realistically be scaled nationwide without getting weaponized politically?
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Given how often adrenaline and poor training are central in police shootings like Daunte Wright’s, what concrete national standards or certification cycles would you want to see before an officer is allowed to patrol with a gun?
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You and Joe uncovered staggering homelessness budgets with little progress; if you were tasked with overseeing LA’s $400–600M homelessness budget for one year, what accountability mechanisms and program changes would you implement first?
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You argue that elites like Bloomberg fear an armed populace because it limits governmental control; how would you respond to a liberal who says that’s paranoid, and that their support for gun control is purely driven by wanting fewer shootings, not by power dynamics?
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How you doing, man? Dude, you're our resident gun nut.
Hey, I'll take it.
Like, any time there's a gun issue, you're my go-to guy.
I'm not gonna argue with that.
(laughs) Nobody knows more.
(laughs)
I don't know anybody... I mean, may-, there might be a dude out there-
Yeah.
... but he's probably dangerous.
Yeah. Probably, I mean, I probably learned a lot from him anyway, so... (laughs)
(laughs) So, what's happening, man? How's everything?
Ah, nothing much, man. I'm glad to have you so close now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. We're, uh, we're state residents now.
Yeah, you are.
How far is the drive from Dallas?
Uh, the way I do it or-
(laughs)
... the way normal people do it? (laughs)
You shouldn't say that on the air, man.
No, I, I know-
There's a lot of cops out here.
... I do, I do, I do it fast legally.
How you do that?
I mean, that's, that's another story.
What do you have, a fucking jet?
I mean...
How, how, what's fast legally?
... on gl- jet w- jet, jet on land.
Uh, yeah, but-
Yeah.
... that's not legal.
Yeah. N- I mean s-
There's a speed limit, sir.
I'm a lawyer, man. I plead the Fifth to that-
Oh.
... you know.
Okay, okay. Well, let's just leave it at that.
It's a bunch of legal-
You know, Montana didn't have a speed limit for a long time. They had no speed limit.
So-
They were like, "We don't give a fuck up here."
Dude, I'm... That sounds like my place to be.
Yeah, well-
I mean-
... Montana's pretty badass, but I think they had to get a speed limit to get some state fu-, or federal funding or something like that.
(laughs) Sounds about right. (laughs)
Yeah, the federal government was like, "Look, enough of this shit."
Shh.
"People are going up there to test cars."
Shh, shh, shh. I mean, they... Look, Germany, they have the Autobahn.
I know.
Right? Like-
Right.
... just let, you know, I mean, just let me... Cut me. Look, it's getting ridiculous. Like, in my car right now, I have, I have a radar detector that's built-in, and then I have a radar detector that I keep on my little dash.
You have a double radar?
Yeah. Yeah.
Is this the Ferrari?
No, no, no, no. This is the, uh, this is the Turbo, Turbo S. I have a 2014 Turbo S.
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