Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2222 - John Fetterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2222 - John Fetterman' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-02. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2222 - John Fetterman

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
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night all day all right we're rolling what's happening nice to meet you oh hey
man it's so
it's awesome to be here man really yeah like I gotta say hi to my my son is
just so thrilled
he's like you know he's 15 and he literally freaked out dude like oh my god at
all and all
of his friends are gonna definitely what's his name too yeah what's his name Cora
with a K and
I I met a Carl in the lobby but it's a C but that's a not a human a non-human
Carl yeah well
what's up human Carl so first of all are you the only guy that figured out that
you don't have to
wear suits when you're a senator yeah no it's it's I'm sorry was that I said
are you the only guy that
figured out that you don't have to wear suits as a senator oh okay yeah no I
well I know it might
it seems strange but it's like uh I mean I'm a I'm a I'm a bigger guy and I don't
really can't afford
custom anyway and I hate I'm claustrophobic and I hate them being in that kind
of shit and uh I've
always dressed like like shit and you know and I know and then that whole thing
kind of got away
of us um people assumed that there was a dress code issue there yeah and I'm
like no I wasn't
behind that behind that but of course everybody pointed at the at the dude that
dresses like a
slob and and and then the whole the whole nation just had like a meltdown like
oh my god the senate's
on fire because I dress like a slob uh but but my life is just much better in
DC that unless that I'm
going to be on the floor that I'm not going to be you're never going to see me
in a suit and uh I
think that's a more authentic kind of way that I live and I don't judge anybody
on how they dress
or those things uh I I just dress this way and there's also practical issues as
well too like
I have I have chopstick legs and I have no ass and I can't keep pants
and and hoodies and hoodies it's like I don't have to iron that shit you know
so it's just like easy
it's comfort and it's like I just feel like that's I mean and if somebody
judged me and people have
said that uh but it's like I'd rather have somebody know and I I promise you a
lot of people and dudes
especially in western Pennsylvania love to wear suits all year I mean uh excuse
me shorts all year
uh and dress like that but to me it's about comfort and practical well I mean
it makes sense the the
whole dress code thing wearing suits and you're you're more serious because you
have certain clothing
on it seems pretty silly uh I'm sorry what's that are you so let's let's tell
everybody what's going
on with your iPad so because you had a stroke you have oh yeah difficulty do
you have difficulty
hearing or well no I can hear just I can hear just perfectly right now uh and
uh but uh there's just
the the one kind of a lingering issue there's a lingering issue um and and
sometimes I lose just
a couple steps on time and then now after that that's the only thing and
thankfully the stroke never
touched my intellect thanks uh but the but the stroke nearly killed me and
again I don't uh but I use
captioning in situations just like this uh in interviews that's so that's why I
can I can really
make sure exactly what's being said and then I can able just participate if
somebody wears the glasses
it doesn't mean that they're illiterate it just means they just that's a tool
that allows them to
participate or drive or those things and it's that same thing and a lot of
people across America use
captioning to watch movies and tv and that's really no different than that so
it doesn't affect your
intellect but it does affect your hearing is that what's going on uh no I I can
hear and I can listen
to music the difference with music for example is is that as long as there's
muscle memory I I can I can
remember all those kinds of music things but it seems unlikely at this point
that is uh they're not going
to be any kind of new new favorites emerging like that because you essentially
can listen to the same
old music forever yeah no it's yeah it's yeah it I I mean uh all of the all the
classics like you know
Metallica Motorhead Motorhead uh The Cult all those kinds of things like I
haven't lost any of you
know the Def Def Lepp and those things well and I I saw the the uh the record
of Whitesnake uh excuse
me Whitesnake um uh but all those things yeah I know I mean I mean I think we're
both in the 50s
right and you know we grew up with yeah with the with the crew and and all
those kinds of things so um
some some people might judge me based on my my taste on music but I mean uh
that's that's kind of where
listen people are going to judge you no matter what you're a big giant guy who
wears hoodies and you're a
senator like so like no matter what they're going to judge you who cares but I'm
just trying to like
understand like what what is going on with the captioning because you you can
hear but so there's
some sort of a disconnect between hearing and understanding like what is it
yeah I wouldn't
say it's necessarily disconnect it's just it's it's just about being precise
okay just to make sure that
so if you know if like for an interview just to make make sure of those things
uh so it's really
just about captioning uh it just really it's just a tool no difference I mean
for this this is like my
my eyes uh in the sense for glasses that just right I understand so it just
gives you a little bit more
precision in what you're saying yeah and understanding what what was it like
running for senator right after
recovering from a stroke that had to be a nightmare yeah I don't recommend that
I I I don't recommend
that because you seem to have recovered quite a bit since then oh yeah no but
during that time you
were really struggling oh sure absolutely like uh it was uh it was uh it was uh
it was a rough uh
conversation after that um uh they they brought me into the hospital and then I
I went under and then I
I woke up uh and they said they uh they said hey we got it we got it we got the
clot they have the clot that
that essentially just but killed me and I'm like oh that's good uh and then
just kind of went back under
and uh at that point I had no idea where we were at on those things uh and then
I had um the next
morning I woke up and then they uh a doctor came on and he had kind of a a grim
kind of a look on his
face and things and my dad was there sitting next to me at the bed and I was
like well hey doc I mean
what's uh what things what do you think what do you like uh and he's like well
um you know your your
your heart is functioning at an incredibly low kinds of percentage um and uh
and I'm like well um
well well what do you what do you think and and he was like well uh you know I
mean you know there's
some issues uh and I'm like well are we talking you know maybe a year a year
kind of thing and and like
uh and I'm like um and this was all while you were running for senate uh yeah
yeah this was this was
after this was after this was after this was uh three days before the primary
oh my god yeah I was on
my I was on my way to an event and and my wife Giselle she she's like you're
you're having a stroke
because uh they had that classic kinds of uh where you know half of my face I
didn't know that but it
kind of just yeah just slumped yeah and and and then they hotlined me over to
the hospital and
I wouldn't I wouldn't have survived if we were in a different I mean there's
parts of Pennsylvania and
that's a that's part of the tragic that uh if I wasn't close to the the kinds
of hospital that I
was uh it's a hundred percent that uh I wouldn't have survived that wow and it
got me there in enough
time and they were able to there was an expert there and and I I actually had I
I met that doctor
that's that literally saved my life uh and I'm like oh my god uh and he usually
wasn't based in that
hospital he was usually out of Delaware but he happened to be there and and
that uh and he was
here to to give me an award for you know being that kind of a an advocate for
those things I'm like
no the you you deserve you deserve the award on that and and uh that's
incredibly lucky yeah and
and then um and then I asked uh really looking for like a countdown of like
well what's the prognosis
and and I really there wasn't much there on that and I had to like uh was I
going to serve survive
for long or you know what's that going to look and then of course um the entire
majority on the
senate really was on the middle of that and that's a big responsibility after
that and then uh so the
the the primary it happened and and I actually had a a really strong win and I
won all of 67 counties
Pennsylvania has 67 counties and we carried every county Philadelphia
Pittsburgh and all across
Pennsylvania uh but at that point I had a responsibility it's like am I able to
recover
or where a kind of when am I going to be okay and I wouldn't recommend being in
that in that situation
but I I made a commitment uh more than anything I was more worried about being
being around to be a dad
I mean I have three I have three young kids and my my wife you know she lived
through all of this
so at that at that point um it it started I was in the hospital for about 10
days
and yeah and I started to get better and better the strength started to come
back a little bit but I
it was still rough and it was very very clear though that I had a capacity to
it's been impaired on on
hearing and those kinds of interaction and those things uh so uh but but but
that's the thing but
but I had to decide by August 15th and that's actually that's my birthday
ironically that uh if I I step
down uh by then or before then they're going to have to find somebody to
replace me on the primary
and that was going to be my drop uh my drop out day on that so what was the
operation how did they do
it how did they remove the clot uh uh well it it's uh I it's I mean I had to
originally I had to go back to
I have to learn how to how to talk and speak you know I went to a speech
therapist and have interaction
and those kinds of things uh and my hearing and those kinds of things were
still impacted by that
and they had to monitor my heart because it was uh it effectively stopped I
found out after the fact
that it actually stopped and then uh that my heart had to recover so there was
two kinds of things
working there you know my heart and then right before the primary they walked
in and they said
well here here's what I suggest here's what I suggest now we are going to put a
pacemaker we're
going to put in a pacemaker and uh and we're like hey that's that's the best
thing so they they put
that device right here and for anyone if you're not really what that is a pacemaker
but that that
uh that uh that manages your heart you know because I had a significant issue
with a fib and and that's
really what what did that to my heart and uh they put that in and then uh that
was that was
um that was right before the primary and they put me under and uh I uh what
year was this
uh uh uh this was uh 22. 2022 and before you had this stroke had you ever had
any issues before with
clotting or anything like it was just like a not with clotting not with clotting
you know my I have
for good for good things and for for bad things my heart was just like my
father's you know and he had an
issue with afib and he was in the hospital so it's a genetic yeah a genetic and
uh but I didn't I it was
never an idea it was never an idea that I was going to even having a stroke
that wasn't part of the at
least my thinking I I knew that I was in distress you know I could tell that my
heart was was was was in
problem and I was just going to get through this primary I mean there's a lot
running on that uh and then
that's that it didn't work out because the stroke hit three days before and and
then that forced me
uh and that put me on an incredibly different kind of a of a path after that
and so where do they go
in when they're removing the clot do they have