Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2203 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride
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Joe Rogan Experience #2203 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride

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Please introduce yourselves.
Eric, good.
Jeremy McBride.
And you guys, did you guys both do Tiger King as well?
Yeah, I mean, I kind of came in towards the tail end.
I remember meeting you about this.
Keep this close to your face.
You can scoot your, it moves and stuff.
Yeah, I met Eric kind of towards the tail end of filming Tiger King.
Yeah, that was kind of the first experience I had.
You guys, like, struck lightning with that because it came right at the
pandemic
where everyone's locked at home and everyone was like,
what the fuck is going on with these guys?
Yeah, captive cats and captive audience.
And just crazy people.
And then your new show, Chimp Crazy, is like basically all in the same vein.
And it is so odd how nutty these animal people are.
These people that have captive animals at their home.
It's such a bizarre, I would like to see like a psychologist, like a clinical
psychologist do an examination of what type of personality wants to have these
enormous wild animals captive in their homes.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, for sure.
It's incredible.
And of course, that's what interests us because, you know, I'm an animal guy.
But, you know, you have to have interesting people to tell a good story.
Well, we are animals.
And we are animals.
That's the weird part about it.
We're this bizarre animal that likes to keep animals in cages.
And some people think we should have been in the same genus as apes.
Yeah.
You know, but of course, there's something called religion and dominion.
And of course, you know, we're not animals.
We're not apes.
Well, we certainly are.
I mean, those people, they still believe in religion.
But, you know, the reality of observable science is also there.
So, unfortunately, you know, we're just a weird animal.
We're the fucking weirdest ones.
But the show Chimp Crazy, I just finished episode three last night.
And we got to number four.
And my daughter wanted to watch number four.
I'm like, I don't think I could do it.
I was so bummed out after episode three.
I was like, oh, my God.
I mean, I want to give away.
Anything for people who haven't watched the series yet, I highly recommend it.
It's really fucking good.
But episode three, man, it's like there's something about – first of all,
this is one of the rare times where I'm fully with PETA.
When you're – you know, it's like when you side with PETA on things, it's
like, you know, like this has got to be an egregious example of something
absolutely horrific.
And, you know, the one situation where the woman who was a drunk kept the chimp
and then attacked her daughter and the whole thing.
It's like – at the end of the show, it's like, oh, my God.
I don't know if I could keep doing this.
Yeah.
No, it's interesting you mentioned PETA because I'm not fully aligned with PETA
on a number of things.
But in this case, I am aligned with PETA.
But just to touch on PETA, you know, I work with reptiles and I try to save
turtles and tortoises, which actually are the most endangered group of animals
along with primates.
Turtles and tortoises, really?
If you think about the percentage that are on the brink of extinction, over
half of primates are on the brink of extinction and over half of turtles and
tortoises.
I had no idea.
But where I am not aligned with PETA is when you have to make a choice between,
you know, eradicating a rat that's killing off the last Galapagos tortoises or
eradicate a mongoose that was introduced as killing off, you know, an iguana in
the Caribbean.
I will make that choice.
PETA basically views it as the rat has rights just as much as the tortoise.
And I'd like to have the tortoise around for future generations.
So I'm not always aligned with PETA, but in this case, yes.
Well, they have a background with the Animal Liberation Organization, which
essentially doesn't think that any animals should be captive.
And I do understand their point.
But then you have Carl.
How do you – how is Carl going to not have an owner?
How is little Carl over there not going to be fed?
I mean, do you want French bulldogs to go extinct?
Because they will.
They can't even breed.
If you did a poll and asked how many people at PETA keep dogs, it's like 95%.
Which is crazy.
So it's a little hypocritical if they don't want people to have pets.
Well, you know, it's one of those things.
It's like the – how it starts and how it's going, you know?
Like where did it start from?
You know, it start – and I see their – look, all dogs are a horrible misjustice
that's been done to wolves.
Like we – somehow or another, we have become friends with wolves and turned
them into these strange things.
But the reality of life in 2024 is we have dogs, you know?
And, you know, dogs need owners and they love you and they – it's a great
relationship.
But it's in their genetics, right?
Yeah.
I mean, they've been –
Thousands and thousands of years.
Right.
It's like saying that we should be going back to chimps.
Sure.
We should live in the jungle.
We should live in trees, which is also crazy.
What is it, Erica?
Chimps are more like chimps than we are human?
Is that –
Chimps are closer to us than they are gorillas because we are the subfamily of
chimpanzees, which are called homonyms.
And, yes, chimpanzees are closer – closely related to us more than any other
ape.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it's – you know, back to what you said a minute ago about making these
movies, I just want to touch on, you know, why we do this.
Because a lot of people miss the point of Tiger King even.
There's a point?
Yeah, there's a point.
I think I missed it.
Well, we were really trying to get Joe Exotic elected president.
That was the point.
No, but the point was that a lot of dogs, man, are great and they are really
informative.
But they preach to the converted, people that already know the issue, you know,
like the Cove.
And they're great.
Right.
And, you know, what we wanted to do is preach to people that don't know about
the issue.
So you had to cast – you had to get a lot of eyeballs on it to make a
difference, right?
Right.
So that was sort of the goal of both Tiger King and Chimprazy in the end.
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Well, I think you definitely did that.
I mean, I had a joke in one of my earlier comedy specials about Texas and
tigers.
And I don't know the statistics, but there's more tigers in captivity in Texas
than all the wild in the world.
In private collections.
Not in zoos, in people's yards.
There's these wacky people that have fucking tigers in their backyards.
And there's a lot of, there's thousands of tigers in Texas that are in people's
yards.
Yeah, yeah, that statistic has been going around for a long time.
That may change.
But yes, they used to say there's more than 3,000 tigers in Texas and there's
less than 3,000 tigers in the wild.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They think there's 5,000 in Texas.
Wow.
Believe it.
Well, you know, there's also other animals that are in Texas that are exotics
like scimitar oryx,
which is very rare in the wild and is endangered in the wild, but is so common
in Texas that you can hunt them.
Yeah.
And they have them on these enormous ranches, you know, 30,000, 50,000 acres
and they're wild, but they live wild.
I don't have a problem with that.
Like if they could figure out a way to actually ensure that tigers could be
kept in a 60,000 acre preserve and, you know, you had adequate funding to where
the fences were completely monitored every day to make sure that they don't get
out and kill people.
You're talking about a different thing, but what you're mostly getting is small
enclosures of tortured animals who are fed cold meat, and that is not what they
want.
It's not what nature intended them.
They're the cleanup crew.
They're everything that has a limp, anything that's slow.
They keep populations down.
They make sure there's not an overpopulation problem of undulates.
That's what tigers do.
That's what they do in the wild, and so all of their instincts, everything,
their essence of their being is all stifled by being captive.
You know, we were talking about giraffes.
They're the only animal that I don't have a problem with at the zoo because
they're so chill.
They're so chill.
Babies feed them.
When my daughters were young, we'd take them to the zoo, and you could hold a
piece of lettuce, and the giraffe with his giant fucking head that's like as
big as his table would come over
and gently take the lettuce with their tongue, and we're so confident that they
have no aggression towards people that we allow little babies to feed giraffes.
Giraffes don't seem to have a problem at the zoo.
They seem to be totally relaxed with it, but there's a lot of animals where it's
nothing but torture.
Yeah, yeah.
No, for sure, and I think it's incredible that in the day that we live in, 2024,
that in the consciousness of the culture,
that we still keep certain animals in zoos that really are miserable.
Those are things like the whales and cetaceans and elephants are not happy in
zoos.
Monkeys.
And most primates are not happy in zoos.
Yes, and I think there are animals that lend themselves more, I like to say, to
being in captivity.
Yes, like giraffes.
I think giraffes is the only example.
Yeah, or a giant tortoise, maybe?
Yeah, that's a good example, too.
Solitary animals, yeah.
That's a good example, too.
Solitary animals, well, even just animals that just don't, they're just happy
that there's no predators.
Sure.
And then they're relaxed.
Yeah.
But the last time I went to a zoo, my daughters were, they were younger, but
not like babies, and we were in Denver.
And I was there for a gig, and we went to the zoo, and, oh, man.
To this day, it haunts me.
There's this primate enclosure, and this one monkey was just screaming, just
screaming, like in agony, like being tortured, just holding on to the bars and
screaming, because he was by himself, and just this tiny little cage, and there
was nowhere to go, and people were just staring at him all day, and he was just
losing his fucking mind.
And I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore, I can't, because I felt super
hypocritical, because I've always had like an issue, because it's animal prison.
It's animal prison for animals that did nothing wrong.
You know, I was at the Singapore Zoo once, which is a good zoo for zoos in Asia.
It's one of the best zoos, maybe the best zoo, along with the Taipei Zoo, but
there was a polar bear at the Singapore Zoo.
You know, this is like 95% humidity, 90 degrees, and it was green, because it
was covered in a film of algae, and so the polar bear was literally green.
And you just say to yourself, like, there's just, you know, if you have a zoo
in Alaska, you could maybe have a polar bear, but Phoenix, Arizona, Singapore.
But even if you have a zoo in Alaska, polar bears are the one bear that does
need anything but animals.
So polar bears are extraordinarily predatory, and they have hunting instincts,
so all day