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Joe Rogan Experience #2451 - Cheryl Hines

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Cheryl.
Joe.
So good to see you.
It's really good to see you.
What's happening?
Everything.
Are you good?
You all right?
Yeah, I am.
I'm good now.
Yeah?
Woo.
Woo.
It's been a few years of chaos.
I thought about you the moment Bobby said he was going to run for president.
You were the first thing I thought of.
Thank you.
Because I'm a huge fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Thank you.
I thought you were amazing on that show.
Thank you.
It's such a good show.
Thank you.
It's maybe one of the greatest comedy shows of all time.
Thank you.
And I was like, she's not built for this.
Turns out I'm not built for this.
Nobody is.
No, it's insane.
Trump is the only person I've ever met that somehow or another survives it and
seems exactly
the same.
But most people who are attacked like that.
It's just like it is a natural human instinct when you are rejected by your
tribe to feel
terrified and filled with anxiety.
But that's why people do it.
And that's what encourages groupthink.
Yeah.
Because you're terrified and you wind up agreeing to things that are fucking
insane.
Yeah.
Because you don't even know what you're agreeing to.
You just don't want to be rejected by your tribe.
Yeah.
And this is how they keep people involved in these where ideologies eventually
become cults.
Yes.
And I think you can make a really good argument of both the right and the left
that in a certain
section of each one of these political parties, it's a cult.
Yes.
Because they're, you know, most of us are sort of in the center.
Yes.
Right.
And then you have the 10% on this side, the 10% on this side that are so
extreme and loud
and they keep everybody fired up.
And it is cult-like.
Right.
Yeah.
It's weird.
It's weird to watch intelligent people get captured in it.
I was just watching this video with Bill Maher and Bill Maher had Adam Carolla
on.
And Bill Maher was talking about how Jimmy Kimmel won't talk to him anymore.
Like they have this like spat because of politics.
Bill Maher is very much a left-wing person.
Yeah.
He has been his whole life.
He has not changed his opinions at all.
Yeah.
But he's always been very reasonable and willing to criticize the left as well
as the right.
Yes.
And I don't know if it was because he had dinner with Trump and he met with him,
which
is just crazy.
You're not supposed to talk to people that are the president of the United
States.
It is crazy.
I know.
I was just talking to Bill Maher and we were talking about this.
Oh.
Yeah.
Because he was like, said exactly what you said.
I sat down and had dinner with the president and people went insane.
Yeah.
And so people, listen, I know that feeling because even when Bobby started
running for president,
even when he started running as a Democrat, people were angry.
Well, Democrats were angry.
They're just mean.
Like, when it comes to politics, people just get so mean.
It's like, these are not the type of people you ever want in any position of
power.
People, the least charitable, most vicious people, the moment you are running
against them
in a political party, they will pull out all the stops, take things out of
context, lie
about you.
Yes.
Even if they're, even if you're in their party, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
A hundred percent.
Which was, that was challenging because, you know, like Hollywood is
competitive and it's
hard and you are, you know, you're hustling, you're working really hard, but
you're not
trying to tear other people down.
Right.
So politics, as soon as you say, as soon as he said, I, well, no, I'm sorry.
Before that, they had people were coming after him.
They were always coming after him.
They were always coming after him, but it kicked up a notch when he decided to
run for
president.
Oh, a big notch.
I'm sure.
Yeah.
And it was just, it's just weird, you know, and there was like a feel, a
feeling of doom
for me, he's, Bobby's tough.
He's so frigging tough.
Like, well, they've been coming after him for like 20 years.
Yeah.
So he's just developed a rhino scandal.
Yeah.
And I, you know, when I was, I was like, oh my God, I'm not going to make it.
You know, a good indication of how they come after themselves, each other
rather, is during
the debate with Kamala and Biden, when Kamala was accusing Biden of at the very
least sexual
assault, right?
Like this sort of creepy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seemed like she was accusing him of sexual assault.
And then when they confronted her on it, she's like, it was a debate.
That's literally what she said.
That is the really strange thing about politics that I'm still getting used to,
is they will
viciously attack each other.
And then a minute later in the hallway, it's like, hey, how's it going?
And I'm still in shock.
You know, I'm still angry about what just happened in there.
And they're, they're already over it.
And they're already like, yeah, that's politics.
That's what we do.
Did you ever see the debates with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama?
I'm sure I did.
But I don't know.
I don't know if you can pull some of that up.
God, why can't we go back to that?
Oh, was it like civilized?
Oh, completely.
Yeah.
For Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney's like, he's Mormon, like super religious guy,
never swears,
probably doesn't do anything.
Right.
Yeah.
So he's like super polite.
Yes.
And then Barack Obama, because, you know, they're matching each other's energy.
He was very polite too.
They disagreed on many things, but they were talking about what they wanted to
do.
Right.
Not how this guy's a piece of shit and they've been stealing and robbing and
this and that.
Or, you know, how they look.
It's turned into that.
That's Trump.
Which is crazy when you look like that.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like the guy makes fun of his own hair.
Like he makes fun of his comb over.
He's like, but here it is.
Governor Romney and the University of Denver for your hospitality.
The only person in this stage is a convicted fellow who's the man I'm looking
at.
Okay.
This is just a comparison.
Yeah.
Between that was the Biden ones with Trump were the worst because they're
trying to map Trump's
energy, match Trump's energy.
Well, they didn't know how to debate him.
Yeah.
That's what he does well.
If you want to diffuse that, which you would say is like, this is not
productive for anybody.
Right.
Like if you want to have like a completely separate conversation about who's a
bigger piece
of shit and you want to do a podcast and you and me talk about how I think you're
a piece
of shit.
You think I'm a piece of shit.
That's one thing.
But you have X amount of time to say how you're going to run the country and
what you think
is wrong with the policies, what you think is wrong with where we're spending
money, what
you think was all of the above.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's what you're supposed to do.
Yes.
And the idea that you can't win that way is crazy.
It is crazy.
It's crazy.
And it's really weird too that a lot, some, not all, politicians really work on,
I got
to get a catchphrase in there.
Well, Trump's really good at that.
Like he names people, Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe.
It works.
It works.
It did work.
I mean, because people get so thrown off, they don't know how to respond.
Like you said, that's what they should say, but they just get so thrown off
that it's
just paralyzing.
Well, at least in this day and age, there's a method through social media for
you to respond.
If something you think is inaccurate or whatever, you respond.
But there was a time where there was nothing.
And whatever political party was in power, they controlled everything.
They controlled all the news stories about you.
They controlled everything.
There's a great story with Hunter S. Thompson and Ed Muskie's running for
president.
And Hunter S. Thompson makes this crazy rumor about how he's addicted to Ibogaine.
And he has a Brazilian witch doctor comes in and treats him.
And this guy literally cracks on the campaign trail because Hunter S. Thompson
said this,
made up this crazy story about him.
And this guy, you see him having nervous breakdowns on the campaign trail.
Like his subsequent speeches are all like nuts and he falls off.
Yeah.
But he was like a front runner at one point in time.
Or at least he was very competitive.
And it just, they killed him.
Well, it's the power of words.
Yes.
Which, by the way, you know, when Bobby decided to run and he came, and I talk
about this in
my book unscripted, but when he came on your podcast was a game changer, right?
Because everything that you're saying, it is true.
And, and the press was going hard.
They still do.
They're going, they were going hard at Bobby.
Like, he's this, he's that.
Here's what he thinks.
Here's what he, you know, represents.
And then he came on your podcast and you guys had a conversation.
And, you know, you're curious and you're a great listener and you're not
judgmental.
And people heard what Bobby had to say and it changed everything for him.
Well, I think it helped also that I knew who he was.
Uh, I read his book and I had also had negative opinions of him before I
actually read what
he said.
Interesting.
Yeah.
No.
What were your opinions?
So before the pandemic, before the pandemic, I was firmly on the side of
science.
I was much more of a left wing leaning person.
I just assume these people running universities, these academics, whatever they
said was accurate.
Everybody else was a fool and they believed in snake oil and witchcraft.
Right.
This is what I thought.
And then during the pandemic, I was like, okay, these experts are clearly lying.
I know they're lying because they're literally lying about me.
Right.
Which was crazy.
Crazy to watch.
So when you're in it and you know who you are and you know how you're feeling
and what
your body is doing and other people, news outlets are saying, uh-uh, that's not
true.
It's got to feel so weird.
Well, it felt really weird because they weren't addressing the fact that it was
healthy.
That was crazy.
So you're talking about this massive pandemic and you've got this guy in his 50s,
you know,
I'm supposed to be a vulnerable person and I'm in my 50s and I got over it in a
couple
of days and I'm telling everybody how I did it and they're saying that I'm some
quack who's
taking veterinary medicine.
Right.
Which is just a, it was just a flat out lie, but it was weird.
Yeah.
It was weird to watch.
It didn't like, it didn't give me anxiety.
It, it made me laugh a lot.
Yeah.
I laughed a lot.
Yeah.
Because fortunately during this entire time period, I was doing stand up and
hanging out
with comedians.
We all thought it was so funny.
Like, bro, CNN is so full of shit.
This is crazy.
I never would have believed it.
Yeah.
But, and you have this outlet and you were able to talk about it.
Right.
And tell people.
So it's like, luckily.
They weren't picking, they thought they were picking on me because they thought
they were
the bully.
But during the whole exchange, they went, oh my God, this thing's way bigger
than we thought
it was.
Yeah.
So my show was like 10 times more listeners and viewers than their show, which
is crazy.
Cause all I can do is come on here and go, are you fucking out of your, do I
need to sue
you people?
You guys are cracked.
It's crazy.
It is crazy.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
So you saw things firsthand.
Yeah.
That you hadn't experienced before.
Yeah.
And then, um, when I read Bobby's book, um, one of the things that I knew about
Bobby
before.
The Fauci book or?
Yes.
The real Anthony Fauci.
Yeah.
Which was just, I, I would read it, I would listen to it on audio tape in the
sauna.
So I'm sitting there cooking at 196 degrees where you're already kind of
freaking out.
Yeah.
You can only stay in there so long before you die.
Yeah.
You know, that's the whole key of the sauna.
You get it way before you're going to die.
That's when you get out.
But if you stayed in there for a few hours, you're a dead man.
Um, and so I'm kind 