Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2271 - John Reeves
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2271 - John Reeves' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-02-11. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2271 - John Reeves

Good to see you my friend good to be seen thank you good to see you post to be
doing the end of
the year but unfortunately you got caught with the cooties I did I did and what'd
you get I can
officially announce that the end of 2024 is right now well I'm waiting for that
calendars all
bullshit anyway supposed to be on that old one that's 13 months there you go um
so what happened
what'd you catch well I thought I had bronchitis all the everybody in the house
had it and we go
to CrossFit and they all had it I go to CrossFit Jackson my trainers Megan
Russell there and she's
going ah you know you you might want to take it easy a little bit of course I'm
smoking cigarettes and
I got bronchitis and I go to a clinic they give me some drugs yeah you got bronchitis
go home a couple
days later I'm sleeping in my chair and my wife has one of those little oxygen
modern things you put on
your finger she wakes me up and goes uh all right let's go you know what do you
mean let's
go oxygen levels you're going to the hospital what I'm just sitting here taking
a nap no you're going
to the hospital so I said okay so we get this late at night we go to St.
Vincent's clinic go in
and it's late and um sitting there waiting for the doctor Arian Afshari great
guy it turns out he comes
in and looking at me he's young enough to be one of my kids he goes stethoscope
listening to my lungs
he goes do you smoke I said yeah he says you need to quit I said I just did he
goes what I said I
just did I'm done now what do we do he goes well next you're going to the
hospital this is just a
clinic I said what do you mean I'm going to the hospital he says you haven't
got bronchitis you got
pneumonia and I think you got double pneumonia so you're going right now what's
double pneumonia both
lungs oh the bad kind the bad guy he says but the good news is you don't have
bronchitis I said okay
I guess that's good and that that was about the time I was supposed to be in
the studio with you
just a couple days before that wow and I'm going wow this kind of screw up my
plans
as you know best made plans and all that listen the plans are all bullshit we
made those up yeah
we'll do it at the end of the year it doesn't have to be that all right well
thanks for the invite I
look forward to it this year I'm just happy that you're okay I am okay and the
date didn't matter
you know things happen yeah I'm just glad you recovered I'm glad you quit
smoking too yeah he says
you need to quit smoking I did and went to the hospital was in there for almost
five days and
I haven't been in a hospital in a while but they they have it St. Vincent's did
a great job the
nurses have their little machines they wheel around and they come in your room
every it seemed like
quite often to check your vitals to do this to do intravenous to do that yeah
so I'm sitting in
there and couldn't sleep so I'm one of those guys if you walk by the door and
you see an old guy
sitting on a bed looking out the door that's me so I maybe got an hour two
hours of sleep at night
did you have a hard time kicking the cigarettes even because you've been
smoking like your whole life
I did I've smoked for over 50 years and I know it's bad for me and I've never
been an anti-smoking
crusader but if anything good comes of my appearance with you today was that
this Dr. F. Shari total
stranger guy I never met before in my life happened to tell me at the right
exact time you need to quit
and I've been thinking I need to quit for a long time my loved ones told me
that my wife my kids
and I never okay yeah that's a good idea it's a weird thing because it kills
you slowly and along
the way it gives you just a little bit of happiness a little bit of happiness
while it kills you slowly
and it's not just a problem of killing you slowly it's how it's gonna kill you
the way it's gonna kill
you it's gonna suffocate you yep
um I have a friend my friend Mike who uh owns the comedy and magic club in Hermosa
Beach and he was
trying to convince a friend of mine to quit smoking because his wife is a nurse
believe so believe not
that's cool but he was explaining that um the way people die of lung cancer the
way people die at the
end and he's like it's horrible like it's hard you don't see that you just hear
he died of cancer you
don't see what the final days are like and it's avoidable it's avoidable yeah
well since I quit
well I don't cough anymore not crazy it's crazy I can breathe better and I I'm
still you know getting
better from the uh pneumonia I'm sure because it takes a while to get over that
yeah I was amazed
that you could still fly so quickly we drove you drove from Alaska no from
Florida oh that's right
Florida in the winter in Florida and how long did that take though that's a
couple days it was a couple
days jesus christ well we had stuff we didn't want to put on the airlines got
it wink government
i'm just teasing we uh we wanted a road trip one little adventure you know it's
you fly over this
country at 45 000 feet you're looking out the window it's a big country it
happens in two hours
that's right and you're looking out and you suddenly you see a little dot and
see some houses and
you know I wonder what those people do down there that's a real problem with
people who don't
venture outside of the bubbles if they're in those those left-wing liberal
bubbles like new york and
california the people that don't travel what helped me a lot is doing stand-up
on the road
because I was on I was everywhere so I would go to all these different towns
all over the country you
get to see a whole different group of people a whole different kind of people
you know it's like
people are the same and different everywhere you go and this idea that the
people in the middle are
stupid especially now that's a really dumb way to look at it because of the
internet now everybody kind of has
access to information and you're going to have dumb people and you're going to
have smart people no
matter where you go including in the cities but the problem in the cities is
the dumb people can
trick you because they believe the things that the smart people believe and
they say them loudly
and so they think they're smart so this is a way to be smart without actually
being smart just say the
things that smart people say and say it like you're defending it and you're
defending freedom or science or
some shit democracy whatever it is you just yell it out and then the smart
people won't say anything
because you're saying the things that they want to say and the other people are
like hey i know what
you're doing and it more than anything it turns people off exactly by traveling
you having a chance at
having an adventure yeah something cool could happen yeah you run into
interesting characters all right
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they're all over the
place and they're all unique that's the cool thing about this country if you
really did have the time
that's what i loved about anthony bourdain's show especially the first one that
he had was
you go to these like little hot dog stands in new jersey and just you just hang
out with people and
street food and you know you just get a just a bigger picture of humans in life
when we got to uh
i forget texas there was a place called bucky's oh yeah jesus christ isn't that
crazy first time you go
there you're like what the hell is this place two they're 200 gas pumps yeah i'm
going what are you
doing we paid a buck 47 a gallon that's three times what or three times less
than what i pay in alaska
oh yeah alaska's got to be rough right but meanwhile that's where they get the
oil isn't the oil like real
close to there runs right through my property i helped build that some so
anyways yeah no that's
i've never understood the economics of how that works california's the worst i
believe the way we tried
to figure this out the other day i don't think we got to the bottom of it
though i think california has
to use gasoline that's refined in california so it's one of the reasons why and
then i'm sure crazy
fucking carbon taxes whatever they did they ramp up some extra to make it more
expensive because you
you're looking at a price per gallon that's like a couple bucks more a gallon
always than it is here
as soon as we came here i was like what happened to gas price why why is it so
less here you get a
little plastic bottle of water right 12 ounces yeah you look at that bottle you'll
pay two bucks for it in
a 7-eleven you know for that little bottle of water four of those bottles of
water make a gallon
you're paying eight bucks a gallon for water water is the most abundant thing
on the planet
it's everywhere right except in some parts of california apparently they didn't
want to have the reservoirs filled
up well they had to put a lid on it john there's a lid and the lid was broken
remember we talked about
that 60 foot diameter water line coming down from southeast alaska to california
yeah that would
have been helpful yeah yeah we talked about that like if they can do that with
oil why can't they do
that with water because they're afraid there'd be a water leak in the pacific
ocean you can't have water
yeah you can't drown the ocean that's terrible oh so anyway so you're looking
at eight bucks a gallon for
water yeah but oil you gotta go first you gotta go find it right then you gotta
do all kinds of
seismic work then you gotta drill and then you gotta discover it and then you
gotta build a well and
then you gotta build feeder lines then you gotta get it to a pump station then
you gotta get it somewhere
in a pipeline then you gotta ship at 4 000 miles yeah and you gotta use it to
ship it which is even
crazier and you're paying a buck 47 a gallon how's this working boys i don't
get it it is crazy and how
much do you have how is it how we burn so much and still there how much is
there how much do you guys
have left they got a bunch in alaska they got a bunch everywhere i bet they got
a bunch in greenland too
there is a book that i read a book that i read i think in the 90s called black
gold stranglehold maybe
early 2000s and i never found out if it was real or not well i never looked
into it any further i need
to talk to like an expert but this guy was essentially saying that oil is a
natural property
of earth and that it's not like dinosaur fossils like we like to think about it
fossil fuels dinosaurs
and plants break down they make oil no he said oil is a natural component of
earth and that the proof
is in the fact that if they have these wells that go dry they can wait just a
little while and then they
could go back to the well again and it'll replenish itself yep how is that
possible if this is just
decaying matter over millions and millions of years it doesn't make sense
unless it's coming seeping in
from other areas that they don't have access to and it somehow another gets to
that well like it's all
like a stream underground which beg