Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2442 - Ehsan Ahmad
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2442 - Ehsan Ahmad' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2442 - Ehsan Ahmad

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Hey, fella.
Hey.
What's going on, brother?
Good to be back, Joe.
Good to see you as always.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This time, this time I have something to like actually promote.
Well, you're always promoting.
So, I mean, any kind of appearance is sort of a promotion.
Right.
You're promoting, the audience gets to see you.
Right.
Right?
Right.
It was so funny because it got me thinking.
So, I started watching Patrice's Opie and Anthony appearances.
Ah.
Because there's a list of them on Spotify.
And what was so funny to me was like, you know how they have these like,
these group of like mentally disabled people that they kind of fuck with?
Opie and Anthony?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was rough.
Like a carousel.
It's like kind of mean.
It's kind of horrible.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, ooh, I'm kind of glad we're past that.
But what made me laugh is every single one of them,
the end of the thing was like, and here's my website.
I had a website.
And I was like, damn, I've been on the Joe Rogan experience twice
and I don't even have a website.
You didn't have a website?
I didn't have a website.
This is the first time I had a website.
Wow.
What did you do?
Did you make it yourself?
No.
I realized like, oh, I got to pay people to do stuff like that.
That's out of my wheelhouse of like things I can do.
Ironically, I'm terrible with technology for a guy who looks like me.
There's some things you could do like Squarespace has a great setup.
It's pretty easy to do.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I think that's just pure.
It's like pure laziness almost on my end for sure.
And a little bit like I spend so much time on my brain space.
This is dedicated to my jokes.
I kind of shut out everything else.
It's a fun time to be alive.
One of the things that's really exciting about the mothership is for someone
like me
who's been doing comedy for so long, it's really exciting to watch people's
careers launch.
You know, like see guys like Cam Patterson go from getting a spot on Kill Tony
to being a regular on Kill Tony to being on fucking Saturday Night Live.
Boom.
It's crazy.
Like some of them like Christina Mariani now just like sells out rooms at the
comedy store all the time.
She's killing it.
And then you have like Peyton Ruddy and like Dylan Carlino.
These are just guys who are just at the club and just made a way like social
media wise.
And you get to see people get just tighter and better like McCusker's new set
like we did last night.
Really fucking good, man.
Super solid.
Really fun.
It's just like we got a good thing, man.
It's a good thing.
Yeah, it's just a fun place to be around.
Everyone just working jokes.
That's what it is, really.
It's so funny.
There's such this narrative outside of the ship about what Austin comedy is.
And it's just really just a bunch of people just doing jokes.
The narrative is only with jealous people.
It's not based on any reality.
It's not based on people who go there and hang out.
Right.
Well, it's always these people who love to talk about Austin, but they don't
talk to anyone in Austin.
It's like there's a bunch of comics willing to hang out and talk to you.
I think I've told you this before, but I have a friend of mine who's somewhat
of a philosopher, an online friend.
I don't even know what he looks like.
We've been going back and forth for years.
But he warned me about this a long time ago.
He said, you've created a walled garden.
And he goes, you've got all these friends and you're all supporting each other
and you're all having fun.
But there's a lot of people that feel on the outside and they feel like left
out of it.
And so they're like, fuck those people.
That party sucks.
You know, it's kind of along those lines.
And, you know, if you could find some connections to other negative things, you
know, like me and Tony, we have this connection to Trump and so does Shane.
And, you know, there's there's all sorts of that.
Oh, fucking you got to be a right winger to be.
And then the narrative comes up.
Oh, you got to tell jokes about fucking trans people.
You have to.
Yeah.
You can't be a liberal.
You can't be this.
You can't be like.
Well, that the whole the whole like you have to be a right winger.
That's like to me.
That's like massive projection because there are these spaces where like if you're
a right winger in comedy, like there's like leftist spaces that you just can't
be in.
For sure.
You'll get pushed out.
You'll get you'll get treated badly.
More importantly, whereas at the mothership, like that fucking green room, like
80 percent of the time, it's mostly like progressive people.
Yeah.
Oh, a lot of people.
Most of the people who work there are mostly left wing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a place where it's a place where but because right wing people, I guess,
are allowed to be here or like also allowed to be here.
It's all of a sudden this right wing Nazi haven.
Well, it's also it's like, what does that even mean?
Right.
Like what is right wing like because you don't think that that candidate and
what they were doing by like storming the fucking gates with illegal immigrants.
You don't think that was a good idea.
You don't think like rampant spending completely unchecked with no
documentation like what's going on in California.
You don't think I don't think that's a bad thing what Tim Walsh is doing.
I mean, there's so much of it, man, but then it's also like, yeah, what ice is
doing like fucking shooting that lady seems kind of crazy.
You know, like grabbing people that happen to be American citizens and fucking
dragging them out onto the snow and ask them for their papers.
That seems kind of fucking crazy, too.
Yeah, that seems insane.
But it's also like they have a crazy job.
Like imagine you're a nice agent.
Just imagine what happened.
Okay.
So we tried we used our sponsor perplexity the other day and tried to figure
out through AI what the exact number is.
But when you deep dive, you realize they don't know the number.
They really have like an estimate of interactions with illegal immigrants.
And it's somewhere around 11 million for four years, which is fucking wild.
That's 10 Austins.
Okay.
At least of illegal immigrants were allowed to get in this country, aided to
get in this country and then moved to states.
They moved them.
They flew them out to certain swing states.
Like this is all Mike Benz has documented all this stuff.
There's all you can see they gave him EBT cards.
Like so imagine you can imagine two things.
One, imagine you're one of those people.
They're like, dude, they're asking me to come.
This is awesome.
Now I'm in America.
I'm going to get a good job.
I'm going to be able to support my family.
And then all of a sudden you have these fucking dudes in bulletproof vests
looking for you on the streets.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I thought you said it was okay.
I thought the Red Cross gave me a map.
I was, you gave me a fucking cell phone and now you're hunting me.
Right.
Now you're just like caught in the crossfire.
But now imagine the ICE agents.
Okay.
This is your job.
Your job is to go out and find these people.
And one of the things you don't get about this, it's like because there was
like a recent clip of mine that got like highlighted where I was criticizing
ICE.
But one of the things that you don't think about when you're into this is just
like regular police interactions.
The ones that you see online are the horrible ones.
So you think all cops are horrible.
What you miss is the millions of interactions that people have with cops like,
how are you doing today, sir?
Good, sir.
How are you doing?
Can I see your paperwork?
Sure.
Here it is.
You in a hurry?
I fucked up.
I'm late for work.
You know, all right, man, just slow down.
Go.
Like, all right, thanks, brother.
Everything's nice.
That happens too.
Like there's nice interactions with cops.
There's people that save people from bad guys.
It happens all the time.
There's people that are thankful that they called the police and they stopped
the burglar who was breaking into their fucking mom's house or whatever it is.
Right.
There's so many more of those, but you're not seeing those videos.
And so with the ICE thing, what you're only seeing and you're only hearing
about American citizens that have been arrested, the lady that got shot.
You're hearing about all these negative animals.
What you're not hearing about is the number of violent criminals that they've
caught.
And it's a lot.
It's in the thousands.
It's not like thousands of American citizens have been shipped out to other
countries.
That's, no.
It's like net positive if you look at it that way.
Like, see if you can find out how many, because I know there's probably going
to be a bunch of various sources that are not totally accurate.
But find out, like, what are the number of violent criminals they've caught
since they started doing this?
Well, also, also the, there is a question on, this is how, because I know this
is how they recruit some ICE agents.
It's just like, there are ads on local TV just offering, like a signing bomb.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
During the UFC, there's an ICE ad.
Yeah, and it's like, these aren't just like, also regular people.
How much training are they really getting?
Right.
Because when you watch the shooting video, you're like, why is the guy shooting
also recording with his phone?
Like, there's no way that's, like, anything you're trained to do.
Maybe for his own safety, like, just to make sure that you can see this lady's
unhinged.
Is he not wearing a body camera?
He's not a cop, right?
Yeah.
Because I bet he's not wearing a body camera.
Yeah.
So I bet that's why.
I bet that's why he filmed it.
And also, that same guy, turns out, was dragged by a car just recently.
So, like, he almost lost his life, or someone did try to run him over.
He's hanging onto a car for dear life.
I think he got dragged.
300 feet.
He got dragged 300 feet.
That's crazy.
300 feet is, that's a long way to get dragged.
Yeah.
Right?
You know, you 100%.
That's a full football field.
There's a full possibility that you may die.
There's no single public record number of violent criminals captured by ICE
raids just over the
last few months, and available data suggests those cases are relatively small
share of recent
ICE arrests and detentions.
One analysis, ICE internal data, said that only 5% to 8% of the people booked
it to ICE detention
late 2025 and early fiscal year 2026 had violent or serious property crime
convictions.
But even if it's 8%, they've gotten rid of a half a million people already.
And then 1.6 million voluntarily deported.
So, in a half a million people, 8% is a lot.
That's a lot of violent criminals.
So this is weirdly phrased.
As of January 2020, I would say 8% is a lot.
Like, if you have cancer in 8% of your body, I would say you're fucked.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, if you're saying, oh, it's only been 8% that are violent criminals, that's
a lot of people.
But now the question is, are these 8% and the nonviolent people sent to the
same place?
Ooh, that's a good question.
You know what I mean?
Because, like, you do want the violent criminals out, but then I don't want the
nonviolent
criminals to be sent, or nonviolent people who are here to be sent to a prison.
Exactly.
It says, ICE no longer voluntarily publishes detailed case-level arrest
breakdowns by offense
type and independent projects.
So imagine if you're a dude from Mexico that just walked up here because you
wanted a better
job, and then they shove you in a prison.
And now, yeah, in some prison in El Salvador.
And you never did anything bad your whole life.
And now you're in some, well, the El Salvador thing, are they still doing that?
I don't, that I don't know.
That was a bad, that's bad optics.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of, optics is, optics with ICE.
It's just been terrible.
It says, recent enforcement has involved thousands of arrests nationwide, but
available analy