Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - 1: JRE Review of the week

Episode Date: June 9, 2018

Covering episodes 1122-1125. Enjoy!  

Hello there and welcome to what is going to be the first in hopefully a many part introduction to this podcast which is a JRE review. It's a weekly recap of the Jerry podcast covering the many, many hours that Joe Rogan throws down each week. God bless him, he's a hard work in motherfucker that guy. And, you know, as a fan, and as somebody that's listened to the podcast for a long time, and I'm sure as many of you listen as are otherwise you wouldn't be listening to the recap show of another show. You know you have questions and all I'm trying to do is just dive a little deeper. Throw out some questions that I have when I listen to it and maybe answer some for you guys and eventually get some people on that

or also fans of the podcast and have their own questions and just want to talk about what they enjoyed for that week which is a cool thing. There's a lot of hours here and why not talk about it that week, which is a cool thing. There's a lot of hours here and why not talk about it. And I've been a fan since almost the beginning. I've listened to Joe's podcast since about 2010, which is I think only a year after he started. I've had periods where I've dropped in and out, but for the last three or four four years I don't think I've missed one It's just great. It's a big part of my listening life and I wanted to share how I feel about it with you guys And have you guys do the same give everyone a voice and Go from there. So we're starting um this week For what is this it is June 1st so it would co-alas week starting with Donnie

Vincent on podcast 1 1 2 2 Donnie another fantastic hunter great outdoorsman a real man's man fascinating guy bi biologist, conservationist, environmentalist. This touch is close to me and my heart because I love the outdoors. It's something else to get out of that. I remember being really pumped when Joe first started talking about bow hunting, I think back in like 2012 or 2013. he actually headed out with a person that I know, a Dan Dodie who's been on the podcast a few times and he's close to some good friends of mine. That's who he first went out with, with Brian Callan and did some hunting and had a great

time. He just fell in love with it. And that was when I knew, okay, this podcast is going to start taking a really interesting turn. I'm going to start having some great hunter zones, some great outdoorsman, and he has, I mean, you name it. It's Cameron Haynes and Steve Brunello. I mean, the list just goes on.

Adam Greentree, that guy's a wall animal for sure So, having Donnie Vincent on there too is just great. A lot of men's men, you know, that show up on these things. I think that's why it's so many ways people love listening to his podcast. I mean, it just shows you what that is, you know, in so many ways to be a man and, you know, men are looking for that. Maybe they didn't have the best guidance, maybe they didn't have a great dad, maybe they just didn't have the kind of, I sense, you know, in a sense the help you need growing up, figuring out who you are.

This is a great guide. And yeah yeah I think getting out to the outdoors for so many reasons is incredibly beneficial and listening to Donnie's stories about his hunting, his love, his passion for the outdoors, how he believes that what he's doing with his contribution of hunting, it really helps conservation. Because it's millions, probably billions of dollars, that hunters give to the environment through paying for tags and that money then of course is used for keeping the habitats. These animals in good shape, it's why I think the US has some of the best hunting habitat available. That's so well looked after. And without this money, you know, the environmentalists would realize very quickly that, oh wait a minute,

we can't afford to keep these habitats in the conditions that the hunters do. So they get a bad rap, but that's that. I mean, it's like many of these things is why he talks about this because he needs, Joe needs to get that voice out there that there's something else going on and people need to learn about it. It's not just a bunch of hillabillies shooting up animals. That's not what it's about. It's about respect and it's about getting out to nature and really, you know, touching your hands to the earth and seeing what it takes to find an animal and use your tag, your one killed to practice and take it out and then honor it in that sense and keep the meat. Keep it in eat it. I don't know how many of you out there have tried Wild Game type meat, but man, it's something else. It's special. Joe always posts pictures of his elk that he has online and on Instagram and so on.

And I'm sure you guys follow it. It looks delicious. And I'm sure it is great. And that access deer that he's always banging on about that he called in Hawaii. Man, I want to try that. I've got to get me an access to one of these days. Just absolutely fascinating. So hopefully Donnie will get back on soon. I'm sure he will. He's always rotating between different hunters and I love having them on because it's just really exciting to hear about about, you know, what is going on with it. And it just inspires me, it inspires me to get out there and, you know, put him for

a tag and learn more about nature and, you know, fill my freezer up with me too. I have so many friends that go do it and I get really jealous when I hear about the deer that they got or the elk that they have and how much meat they've got from it and I'm just like, man, I gotta get some of that. Next up, the next one was podcast 1123 Kevin Smith. First off, I just want to say thank you to God or any higher power for not killing Kevin Smith. God bless him. About three months ago, he had a heart attack, took him out. And yeah, he's made it through that, changed his diet, eating kind of vegan-ish, as I think he was talking about. Just cleaning it up and being mindful and understanding that these things don't go on forever, and he had a really great perspective on kind of how he feels now about the afterlife. I've

been a huge fan of Kevin Smith through the Silent J and Bob Days for God forever. I mean, when did Cloaks come out in only five? Possibly? I don't know. Maybe it wasn't that early, but great movie. So many since then have been fantastic and just, yeah, I mean, his love for comic books and all the rest of it. I wasn't huge in the comic books as a kid, but I remember seeing how much he was into it and how the rest of it. I wasn't huge in the comic books as a kid but I remember seeing how much he was into it and how a lot of his movies kind of followed characteristics from parts about it that he loved and it and it stoked a bit of a curiosity and then I paid attention to some things and then of course once all the

the Marvel movie started to pop up. I was slightly more familiar with the characters and a little bit more into the whole idea of it and not that it took that to make those movies take off, those movies were huge beyond belief, I mean they're ridiculous. But it gave me an extra bit of respect for it, I think definitely with the Thor movie. I don't think I would have taken that one seriously at first, but Kevin Smith certainly helped to get that up. And just, ah, it's comedy. I mean, more ads. If you guys haven't seen that movie for a while, I challenge you now, go back and watch

it. It's great. It's just one of those that's just absolutely hilarious on so many levels. And yeah, really, really cool. It's also very funny that it was one of Ben Affleck's first movies and now he's Batman, which I think is pretty cool because Kevin Smith always really liked the Batman character. It definitely is Silent J, character dead. But anyway, good for Kevin. Thank you for hanging in there and not dying about a heart attack.

You're too valuable. We need you here. It was a great podcast though. Seeing Joe and Kevin's friendship and how they were talking about just seeing each other and wanting to do more podcasts together. I hope they do. Really good podcasts. hilarious. And they yeah, they just cracked me up. Those two together just having a lot of fun. It's uh, and it got emotional too. Kevin and Joe were talking about a dog that they had a puppy that they both had and their dogs dying. Joe got a bit worked up talking about his

friend who's a veterinarian who passed away. Got hit by a drunk driver, a good friend of his, and then also the puppy that he had that had the stemper that was having seizures. It was an emotional moment. I think that was probably the most emotional I've heard Joe on a podcast. I can't be sure there's a lot of podcasts, but that was really emotional and Kevin in the same way talking about his dog, Smolder, because he named his pet Scully and Molder after the X-Files and Molder was just, I think it was a lab, I think he said a black lab maybe and he was very close to it and he had to put it down and it was tough and just really difficult and you know a lot of this podcast was a theme around to death I guess guess. I mean, it was stemming from the talky Kevin's heart attack

and worked in some other things. And it's nice to get that real humanity from people, to get the real feeling of just where they are with it and how emotionally connected they are to things. And yeah, it was sad. It was sad. It was sad to lose a pet. Nobody likes that. Especially a puppy. You know, puppies in kitten shouldn't die ever, right? They just shouldn't. But it was great. I love them talking about the stand-up too. Just knowing how long they've done it for. They've both done their stand-up now for about 30 years. done it for. They've both done their standup now for about 30 years. And I think Joe was primarily more focused on standup. I don't know how focused Kevin has been, but he did his first open mics and things way back when Joe about when Joe was starting to and listening

to that progression and how things have changed and how hard they have to work. It's such a grueling task to do and keep pushing through. And you know, in a lot of ways, the way, especially the way Joe talks, they kind of talk about it, like, you know, they take for granted how difficult it was because they're so far past that now. They've done it so many thousands of times that any difficulty is so normalized that how difficult can it be. But you've got to give him props. I don't know who out there has tried doing stand-up comedy. I have. It's about as brutal as it gets. Joe even talked about that. He did talk about how the most scary ever was in his life was when the first time he went to do go up and do stand up. And I have to agree with that I think that it was the single biggest fear of my life too. And that's a very important

thing to get across. And it's something that Jo is very good at is not making light of his success and who he is and these things but clearly explaining listen, I used to not do things well and now I do things better because I worked hard and I practiced. Nothing was free. He had to bomb a lot of times, his jokes were terrible, but they got better because he kept working at it and that's the same thing with anything. And it's important to know, know You know sometimes we see these very successful people and we think well, they're just successful But I'm not gonna be my life sucks. No, I bullshit practice Practice chunking right if you ever heard of this expression chunking It's when you put small pieces of something together and

You watch the improvement so instead of saying I'm gonna be the greatest comedian of all time and then that's the only way you do it, you stop and you say, I'm gonna write one joke today and you write that one joke, then you say, I'm gonna write two jokes today, then you write two jokes, well, between those two days you have three jokes. Then the next day maybe you say, I'm gonna tell those jokes to a friend of mine

or to a few friends of mine and then make them laugh. As long as you keep with that kind of progression and don't stop, eventually you'll find that you have five minutes, three minutes of whatever material and you're ready to do an open mic. Sure, each bit along the way is hard and a little stressful, but what's the alternative? Not doing anything? Just regretting it forever? I mean, there's some real joys that you can gain from From achieving those sorts of things from pushing and achieving and getting through it Yeah, so but anyway always great to have Kevin on Huge fire him. I can't wait to fin do you back on

for more. And oh yeah. And lastly, the, the, the talk about the Rose Anne thing. I, you know, I've got mixed feelings about that. It's, it's weird. Definitely what she said was outrageous, right? And, and, in so many ways, for those of you that, that, on 100% sure, Roseanne tweeted some thing about a lady that was clearly racist because she talked about, was like, planet of the eights combined with like a Muslim. I don't know the tweet exactly, but it was messed up and it was towards an African-American lady. Well, Roseanne comes out of Latin and says, I didn't know that she was even black.

I just thought that she looked silly and she might be Jewish and blah, blah, blah. While ABC, I believe, can sort of show immediately. So Rosanne was being watched by everyone. They rebooted the 1980 show that she had. And that's it, can sort of boom, done. It's fast as that. She's fired, they're done. I feel bad for all the team.

I know Whitney Cummings was working on that show. God bless her, working so hard. A lot bad for all the team. I know Whitney Cummings was working on that show. God bless her working so hard a lot of The all cast members came back and you know, I'm sure plenty of them haven't been working for a long time. It was just You know, it was sad how it all went down, but she said that she I think was using ambient the sleep pill and Just kind of drinking, you know lost the mind for a minute sent something awful. I think my mixed feelings are really like number one we are willing to destroy people instantly these days. You say one thing out of line boom you're done. Can we have some wiggle room? I think so. I think

so. I think forgiveness too is something that we need to learn. You know, we all do. Everyone. It's hard to forgive and this is not an example of forgiveness. In any way, we're not, we're not learning that. Now, is this the time to do it? I don't know, but it should be open to it. It should always be a part of who we are to consider the, I mean, it's comical. It makes me laugh. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, Okay. Otherwise nobody's learning, right?

What's anyone learning if it's just straight to hate? Hate builds hate. It's just not the way. That's not a smart move. Could they have continued the show without her? Yes, I believe so. And was that, would that have been fair to everyone else? And, you know, is this then fair across the board?

I mean, other people have said and done pretty awful things. And they're either on TV or things continue, reruns are made. So it's hard to know the best way to deal with it. But, you know, Kevin had some good points. He, Joe brought up the fact that one of his friends made a meal one night while on ambient and didn't even know and Kevin throughout the year, but did he also say or do anything racist, which is an interesting point, right? I mean, it's one thing to not know kind of what you're doing, but to jump out with a racist attack on Twitter is it's a little far fetched. I mean, what are

you going to say next? You suddenly have Tourette? It's a tough one. I don't know where she's at with it. Sounds like she was exhausted, overworked. That's a TV show is a lot to do for a 60-year-old lady. That is a lot of work. I mean, for sure. But there we go. That's how it goes, right? She'll figure it out. She's rosy. And she's rich. She doesn't, she doesn't need to be working anyway. Maybe this was a terrible idea for it. But, uh, forgive this people. Let's think about it. Let's, uh, be willing to forgive. Sometimes, we'll make them earn it back, I don't know. I feel like Louis CK will be back eventually after his masturbation scandal.

And we've got to have room for forgiveness for that. I hate to miss a lifetime of his comedy as a result of that. I feel like humanity needs to laugh. And you know, we give him shit for a and and he'll work his way back in there. Anyway next up podcast 1124 Robert shock. So this guy's great. Now I've seen him on the Egyptian shows and the ancient aliens type shows for many years. And he always seemed like one of the more credible, more intelligent people that are on those shows. I know they got some real quacks on there. God bless him. But what he brings to the table is some real credibility

because he's a ten year professor at Boston University, which is legit. He is a geologist, so he really knows about weathering and those things. And when he went to see the Sphinx within just a few minutes, and he was the other guy's name, John Anthony West, yeah, who is another Egyptologist and fascinating guy, really interesting guy, brought's another Egyptologist and fascinating guy, really interesting guy brought Robert to Egypt to look at the Sphinx and very quickly realized wait these are erosion patterns from water Rain rivers, whatever huge

You know storm rains and and that wasn't happening in Egypt to like 9,000, 10,000 PC, which massively predates when they think the Sphinx was there. If you don't find that fascinating, I don't know what's wrong with you because Wauza, that, that, I don't care what I'm doing. If I hear that out of the corner of my ear and I've never heard it before, my head's going up. And I wanna know what the hell everyone's talking about. The amazing thing about this to me and what they pulled on is how the Egyptologists

just denied the findings, they don't care. Think of a shit. They're like, what? And why is that? You know, probably because they're selling books that they don't want to rewrite. Or they don't want to be wrong. Fine, right?

Who doesn't want to be wrong? But ask some questions. I mean, the facts might be that you are wrong. What would be the point of being looking right but actually being wrong in the reality, in the true reality of it, just living a perpetual lie? It's not adding anything to us, it's not helping us understand that if there's so many

questions, too, with the pyramids and why they were built and how they were built, if we are basing all our understandings of it on top of information that is wrong because we refuse to reevaluate and look at it, maybe that's why we have so few answers. Because think about it, we build on top of answers. That's how we put a picture together. But if we're putting all the pieces in in the wrong order, the picture is not going to, the jigsaw is never going to come out right. We won't know what it is. We'll be like, what the fuck is that? Light your house, a bridge, a donkey. You can't tell the pieces are on the wrong order. So the fact that he pushes is hard as he does, you know, for the credibility that he brings to the table and the questions that he asks, I, you know, I have to give him a lot of respect because that's a tough path to follow. And it's great that Joe gave him a voice. A whole three hours to sit down. I feel like this guy

could have talked for a day. He's so passionate about what he was doing and yeah, it was wild. He talks a lot, a really cool thing that I thought was when he was talking about the pottery and how in fact there's like the early Egyptian era and the late Egyptian era. So so the late era is actually closer to our time and as time progressed they actually got worse at making pots and worse at building the pyramids. It's almost like they were losing the technology. Well, when you think of the timescale that Robots putting down 10,000 BC, and then they're building the great pyramids,

like 2,000 BC, well, that's 8,000 years. Like, information could be lost during that time. If there's some real cataclysm and maybe big fires, the burn some libraries and just generally the guilds, the guilds, which are organizations that keep knowledge secret. So it's not to be stolen by your enemies, those sort of things. I mean, that's possible.

And that's fascinating to me, that the older you go back, the better quality their craftmanship is, when they were talking about the granite bowls and the other, what was the other type of material called? Just very, very hard rock, very hard stone that they've meticulously and carefully crafted into these bowls and vases. So where you have narrow openings, but then it opens wider inside and all had to be like craft, you know, scraped or picked out of there. Phenomenal.

It's almost like how could we even do that today? And, you know, just more of the old questions about pyramids that are fascinating, like if they place X amount of stones a day, 15, you know, two tonne stones, it still would have taken this many hundreds of years to build it. I mean, just, it's fascinating. It's so easy for us to take it for granted.

Did those incredible things are out there and we're just like, oh yeah, there they are. That's we once did that. But how the fuck we did that is truly phenomenal. And these questions are what will get us there. You know, if we don't ask questions like this, hard questions, questions that maybe Egyptologists don't like the sound of. If we don't ask those, we're never going to get any closer. We're just going to just accept these silly ideas of, oh yeah, we just rolled the stones on rocks and they did it quickly. I mean, it's, we need more than that.

So, God bless you, bro. I get back on the podcast. They were talking at the end about him getting some funding. Maybe, or trying to build some funding to put a documentary together and get some more knowledge out there. Hopefully, it does. I'd love to watch it. That would be fantastic.

Alright, next on the bill 1125, Candice Owens. What a spunky young lady she was, full of energy and possibly Adderall. Now I'm just joking, but definitely some coffees. She was excited. She had a lot to say. She didn't identify herself as a Republican. She identified herself as an independent, but she certainly leans on the side of right-wing ideologies. You know,

definitely not far, right, but she's right, you know right second amendment she likes and the abortion thing she is not down with abortion. She had some more progressive and liberal thoughts like she believed that gay marriage should be recognized by the government, that's only fair and they should get the tax breaks and and these sorts of things but Freedom of speech is very big for her. She does not like what is happening at the moment with the Like the liberal, right wing, kind of, zezzy, pronoun, stuff that's happening. I mean, a lot of people don't, but they think that the invasion of people's freedom to speak is a big problem. And, you know, I have to be with her on that too.

It just seems nuts. Like, we just need to relax, calm down a little bit. There's just too much hate coming out of this. It's a disaster. I mean, it just brings us back to the whole forgiveness thing again. It's forgive people. And, you know, Joe was really enjoying the conversation. I mean he talked about how

obviously Cameron Haynes was a big fan of hers and You know, she's like a Republican wet dream being African American young smart strong opinions I mean Fox News is just all over her and You know make a sense that they're going to be excited. You've got a heated at the end too. Joe was really pushener about her stance on global warming. She didn't believe in it. And he really pushed her. And it was kind of tense, but it was still a fun, you know, discussion. But really it just came

down to the fact that Joe was saying if you don't know about it Why say you don't believe why not just say you don't know and she was really strong to just hold that position And I think that it's just important to tick that box when you Lean on the mall right wing side of things like you have to be strong about not believing in it But again, I think that what Joe was saying is when you have a lot of people listening to you, when you're a big influencer, what you say matters and people will believe you. Like we kind of outsource a lot of our knowledge to people that we follow. We just hope that they know better than us and we're willing to follow them. And it's an efficient way of going

about things. Problem is, when they really don't know either, I think that it would be better. And I'm sure Joe, that was the point he was making, was basically just saying, it's better just to say you don't know. I don't know, yeah, I haven't fully studied this, studied this. She kept saying this isn't the hill I would die on.

Like, this isn't the platform I would make that I would collapse under, you know, but this is just what I believe. Well, the question there for me then is, if you're willing to believe, or not believe in something that you don't know a ton about, what else do you believe in that you don't know a ton about?

You don't mean it? I just felt like it took a bit of credibility away from her because it just shows that so many of the other things she was talking about were really well placed, well put together, it sounded well-read, well-researched. And you know, that's how I was assuming she puts all her ideas together. But possibly, she doesn't.

Possibly she makes a stand on something and then fills in that information around it. Who knows, this is just an assumption, but that's the kind of thing that I opened up. But I also think that during that discussion gave her a chance, she's young, you know, I think she's 28, 29. It gave her a chance to just kind of maybe reevaluate how she perceives things. And maybe she'll look into some things more. And I'm not saying whether I agree either way on global warming or whatever,

but I certainly shouldn't have a voice. I don't know, shit about it. You know, but if a lot of scientists believe in it, like Joe was saying, it might be something to think about, you know, overwhelmingly, you know, most of them believe in it, there might be something there, something to reevaluate. I mean, it's certainly dangerous just to agree with like 90 plus percent of all scientists, that seems like a very strange thing.

What I did like about it though is the way that she got into position. So she's only recently become a Republican or you know, leaning left, leaning right, sorry. And a lot of this kind of came from being bullied, you know, when she was in school, she was bullied, she had some prank phone calls from some people that she knew and or younger brothers of people that she knew. And there were a lot of racist remarks remarks and then she saw how really those people were just ostracized and she was held up as like the martyr for for this whole cause and and it it just

really changed her understanding of some important points of how she sees society and that, you know, again, forgiveness could be, it should play more of a role in it, you know. I mean, some of the kids that call her were young, I think the youngest was 14. It doesn't take away from the actions. It was clearly racist and hateful, but, you know, maybe they were being dumb. And for her to say that, I thought was very wise and very grown up and really impressive. And what she was talking about with the lady calling her from Twitter saying, you don't wanna oust the the trolls online because they come after you and then it looked like this

lady had come after her directly that stuff was wild wild and I believe people are out there like that that lunatics real lunatics that just want to play the victim and get all the sympathy from it and get all the attention. But I didn't think Candice was that at all. She was doing the complete opposite and that's a great thing. And, you know, I hope to hear more from her. I'm kind of intrigued about who she is

and where she's going with her path of things. I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of things I want to agree with her on, but still a cool guest. It's great to be open to these people and generally a great week. So, yeah, give me some feedback, throw some questions down, comment, and if you have questions coming up or like me to follow kind of like a new line of analysis for each week's program, let me know. And if you're in the LA area, always hit me up. It would be great to have guests that are fans that keep up with the podcast and have some things to say and you know, it saves me some time that I don't have to talk all the time on my own. But anyway cheers and uh talk to you next week. Thanks Fox. Bye.