Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2150 - Greg Overton
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2150 - Greg Overton' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2150 - Greg Overton

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day good to see you my friend you pull up to the microphone so other
people can hear
people can hear me and see me have you ever done a podcast yeah you have done
pot I've listened to
you on podcast I've done oh you did listen yeah I listen to you on some pot I
was shooting arrows
in my backyard and uh some podcast came up it said Greg Overton I'm like get
the fuck out of here my man
see I'm doing all kinds of shit yeah my boy Justin who's from Pittsburgh what's
up Justin he does the
Curious Jones podcast and we also uh do those Zippos he does those so lit zips
uh Curious Jones podcast
he's a cool dude we got one of those right here yeah the Black Dragon Samurai
yeah this is the
samurai that we have outside next to the did you see the actual samurai armor
yeah yeah crazy
real samurai and the sword and the sword the sword is even older than the armor
the armor is from the
1800s but the sword is from the 1500s so is that that's right before the Sengoku
Jidai the time of
the country at war the 300 years where they're at war I'm trying to think did
it begin in the 1500s
I don't can you look that up this Sengoku Jidai pull that microphone up but
keep it like a fist from
your face there you go there you go yeah all right um so I first found out
about I don't even remember
what year it was man um I remember I was with my family I was in Salt Lake and
we were walking by this
gallery and there was this fucking dope painting it's huge painting of this
Native American guy with a
buffalo skull that had a bullet hole in the head and I was like god damn I was
trying to figure out where
can I put that where can I put that fucking thing and I snoozed I snoozed and I
lose and then it got
bought but I didn't lose because you know um but that dude it's an interesting
story and I'll just tell
you like I had I was shown with this other gallery for a long time that that
same painting was like
in the back room and they weren't really giving me my props which is what
people will do if they just
want to kind of keep you at a certain level they'll do they do that to keep
your prices down they do that
so you don't leave the gallery so you don't get too big for the gallery oh
because but they don't go off
on your own like you did but no I'm loyal as fuck dude I'm still at the
galleries that that were cool
you know what I mean if you if the people hook me up I'm gonna hook them up I'm
gonna stay there
you know what I mean but like I just wasn't getting my due at this other
gallery so I decided how long
had you been painting for at the time I mean professionally I think about 16
years wow
but you know I've been doing it since I was a kid semi-professional just always
yeah always doing art
and when did you get I want to say obsessed that's the right word right when I
was born with Native
American culture yeah well I mean from the time you were little there was books
in my grandparents house
like one of them was called fighting Indians of the west and then there was
like uh Russell and Remington books
the painters and so I just look at these photos of like Sitting Bull and um I
was gonna say Crazy Horse
but no photos of Crazy Horse but like Geronimo and shit like that and I just
saw a look in their eye
like a wild person somebody who wasn't trapped by the system you know what I
mean and as a little kid
I just knew that was I knew that was better I knew it was powerful I just
really loved that just
connected to it yeah it is so fascinating that so many um Native Americans who
uh got captured
and put into the reservation systems and then eventually like integrated with
western culture
fucking hated it but when western people either when they were young if they
got kidnapped or if they
integrated with the tribes like a lot of trappers and a lot of people
integrated with the tribes when
they tried to bring them back to western society they all wanted to leave they're
like get me the
fuck out of here like I don't want to do this it's like we have this idea that
cities and especially back
then I mean you're talking about cities in the 1800s that somehow or another it
was better you know we always
have the idea that progress in terms of like what's going on right now is
better than what was going
on before we always have that in our head that we're doing it it doesn't seem
to ring true to the human
spirit there's something about human beings that they absolutely prefer that
life yeah I mean it's dude
you are more of a human being if you're living that life if you're living a
life in a city where you
have to go do something you don't want to do and you have to go hang out with
people you really it's
like your tribe is your tribe you belong there is a totally just simpler better
more real way of life
I think that thing that you just said too about your tribe because too many
people today their
tribe is not someone they chose their tribe is just people that they're stuck
with because they're
working with them you know if you're working like if you're uh say if you're a
married person you're
a married couple and you both work you're both with other people at least eight
hours a day
how long are you together you're together for a few hours at night and then you
go to sleep yeah
you're tired it's not a quality way of life what's not the people you chose it's
the people that your
occupation chose or the opportunity for employment chose and then you got to
deal with these
fucking schmucks in your office i've been very fortunate i never had to work in
an office my whole
life a dodged office life but uh i've had a lot of people that i worked with
that were
fucking annoying man just they just got in your way they were always there they're
always the
fucking imposing their bullshit on you and if you're a person that works in an
office especially if you
have a bunch of bosses the boss employee relationship is so often abused it's
such an abusive
place to be where you have this person that gets to tell you what to do and
make you sometimes work on
weekends and make you like stay overtime and upset at you if you do x y or z
which has no bear forces
you to have the same ideological beliefs as them forces you to have the same
political beliefs as them
crazy dude reminds me of that movie office space yes exactly like that's why i
think our country is
almost like right now is that milton you remember him who's like they're they're
always kind of
pushing him to the side seeing how much he'll put up he's not the stapler guy
right yeah that's stephen
root yeah that's my man where he's he's just like how much will these put up
with yeah
and that's your that's your life in an office but you're and you're taught as a
kid going to high
school like if you do a good job here you get to have an office job that's what
you're shooting for
yeah and then you're working all day at school to try to do that yeah it's very
complicated man
trying to get through the education aspect of your childhood and the indoctrination
aspect because
that's what it is it's indoctrinating you into believing that the only way that
you can get by in
this life is to become a part of this exact same system so that this is why
school is structured
like that i mean it's structured like that to teach you but it's also
structured like that where you're
sitting down in front of people all day long learning things that you don't
want to learn uh being
forced to be immobile when when you're a child and you're you're literally just
a hummingbird of
energy i know those little desks yeah oh it's so bad for you inside fluorescent
lights when i was a kid
terrible for you the whole thing bad for you bad feeling i couldn't wait to run
away from it like
everything every fiber of my being was opposed to it but they had everyone
convinced that if you didn't
do this this way you're going to be a loser and that's what i was convinced i
was convinced i was going
to be a loser so i was like i got to figure out a way to make money outside of
regular jobs because i'm
a loser i can't i can't do a regular job i gotta do a loser job i have to be a
loser i have to be a
construction worker i have to do something else i have to do something that's
outside the norm because
i just i can't do this i can't sit down i can't i just i don't i have too much
energy i'm so bored
and it's also a terrible way to learn things like the best way to learn things
is things you enjoy
things you enjoy and then if you learn that you do something that you enjoy and
you really get
good at it you go oh i can apply that to everything i can apply that to all
things in life but they
don't teach you that they teach you you gotta sit still you gotta pay attention
you gotta memorize some
nonsense you gotta do some do these calculations that make no sense to you like
you gotta you gotta
memorize these people a distorted version of the actual history you know which
is almost always what
they're teaching some weird distortion written by the winners and if you don't
do that you're a loser
we have such a goofy society yeah that's but dude we made it and we didn't we
were we were born into it
well i mean we like our ancestors made it yeah i think they were maybe they
were trying to do the
right thing maybe they had good intentions maybe we don't know but it turns out
it's stupid why do
we keep doing it i think it's industry tricked everybody industry gave people
jobs jobs are easy
you know you need to feed people you need to eat you need to have a roof over
your head okay here's a
job this way i can get a roof over my head especially these people that came
over like
my grandparents did they came over from italy it's like these they didn't know
what the hell
was going on they didn't know what was going on you know they were just like
what are they gonna do
i'm gonna feed myself get a job get a job get a job so everybody gets a job you
gotta get a job
and everybody get the go get a job get a job you gotta eat because the reality
of life then in the 1920s
everybody was starving to death people were starving dudes weighed 100 pounds
no one had food it was a real possibility that you could starve to death in
america people like
real poor real poor in like the 1920s and so they all just did it and now we're
still doing it and
everyone's miserable and then everyone gets to not everyone obviously you're
not miserable i'm not
miserable well like the people that have dodged it everyone stuck in that trap
is miserable they
hate their bosses they hate the corporation can't wait to get out and talk
about them and and they're
like they're pissed off at people that got out of it oh yeah you know or people
that are free of it
yeah they don't like people that are free of it they you know like i was having
this conversation with
my kids about um like podcasters and influencers you know they were talking
about this girl she's making
millions of dollars and it's not like here's how you have to think about that
it seems ridiculous that
she's doing that but she has a product whatever that product is she's making
videos or tick tocks or
what have you someone's consuming that product she's a business person it's
just the business is
ridiculously easy to get into and the product is nonsense but the thing is but
you got to hand it
to her for selling some she got lucky she got born in the right time i mean if
that lady was born in
the 1970s she'd be yeah but she's not you know but then then you also have to
deal with like from
a psychologist perspective if you talk to psychologists about growing up in
this time it's one of the most
challenging times because people are inundated by other people's lives you're
inundated by these
people driving cars you couldn't imagine driving living in these crazy homes
flashing money wearing
all these designer clothes everybody's got a filter on so their skin looks
perfect they look way more
beautiful than they do in real