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Joe Rogan Experience #2104 - Chris Williamson

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night all day what is that black rifle yeah we're up Chris what's up baby how
are you good to see
you man so how long you been in Texas now two years wow do you feel like this
is where you live or do
you like this feels like home really yeah wow yeah I went back home for
Christmas in the UK and it's
so strange to go back to a place that you know so well you're super familiar
with but you're kind of
different and everything's changed but everything's the same and you fall back
into old patterns you
remember that tree that you used to walk past on your morning walk and all it's
very disquieting
but it's fun it's nice the oddest thing for me is the contrast and the amount
of freedom you have for
things that you would never think were important like uh these little nicotine
things in California
you can't buy this because it's flavored in California you can put a tent in
front of
people's houses and fucking cook meth and no one says anything no one does
anything you could
commit violent crime and you get arrested and released with no bail they never
find you again
there's the there's the laws are so ridiculous but you are not allowed to have
flavored nicotine
flavored nicotine is dangerous Chris they're trying to ban flavored vapes in
the UK very aggressively
super aggressively it's like that's the big deal that being said I think it's
like some non insignificant
percentage of school children are using vapes there's a no vapes sign in
schools like like that wasn't
something that was already self-evident well cigarettes were a big deal when I
was in high school you know a lot
of kids smoke cigarettes it was a cool kids thing to do what's the smoking age
in America I think it's 18 18
yep 18 legally legally yeah it's 18 but when I was a kid people got cigarettes
someone got you cigarettes I
don't know when I was young I remember before I turned 18 they changed the
legal drinking age
because the legal drinking age I believe used to be 18 and then they bumped it
up to 21 I was like damn it
dude have you ever seen the video of when DUIs came in in the 1980s and they're
interviewing people in cars
yeah that is one of my favorite videos of all time please Jamie let me watch
that video again
yeah the lady's like we're gonna bring in communism
don't know what the world's coming to you
man can't work all day
and she's got a kid
yeah
she's got a baby in the passenger seat
no seatbelt
oh my god
and even if you did have a seatbelt there's no airbags those things are death
traps
it's one of my favorite videos
there's this weird there's something I've noticed since being in America
your guys' relationship with drink driving
is a little bit more lax than it is in the UK
yeah the numbers
not in Texas
if you if you have any alcohol in your system at all they'll arrest you
like if you if you get pulled over and they said have you had anything to drink
and you say yes I've had one drink
you're getting you're getting arrested
I fucking love this video
drinking and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic
it's kind of getting common this one
a fellow can't put in a hard day's work
put in 11-12 hours a day
and then get in your truck and the lease rang one or two beers
they're making laws
look at the baby
you can't drink when you want to
you have to wear a seatbelt when you're driving
yeah she's wearing a seatbelt
it looks like the baby
the baby is more protected than I thought it was
it had that thing in front of it
yeah yeah
that little cushion in front of it
so it seemed like she was like a little bit more
the funniest thing about that is
they're issue is it's not with not being allowed to drink then drive
there's this one worse
it's drink and drive
you mean I can't drink and
yeah exactly
constantly
dude I love that video
oh my god
yeah you definitely shouldn't drink and drive
that's true
but also
you don't really want people telling you what you can and can't do
and once they start doing it with anything
bill you gonna bring in communism
I see it's cartoonish
it's very cartoonish when they're saying that
it's very ridiculous
but
kind of they have a point
this is the only point
if you let someone tell you what you can't do
they're gonna expand that power of telling you what you can't do
yeah
always
one of the problems is
that puts
sobriety was somehow not fitting with the American way
what
measuring sobriety
okay hold on a second
okay
during the 1950s
the American public and the judicial system were still erring on the side of
the drunk driver
oddly enough
some people were concerned with the mechanization of measuring sobriety
was somehow not fitting with the American way
kind of isn't
it kind of isn't
but also you shouldn't drink and drive
like both things are true
we should like teach people
that you should never fucking do that
I went to high school with a kid
and
he was a good guy
I knew him from the time I was like 14
and then
when I guess
senior in high school
he was drunk
and he crashed his car
and killed his friend
and
I remember running into him
on the street
we were both walking
and I walked by him
and he
he's had his head down
and you know
I wasn't good friends with him
but I was friends with him
I always said hi to him
I said hi to him
I said hey man how you doing
he's like
he was done
he was done
his life was over man
he wasn't
he wasn't
you know
a regular kid anymore
he was a kid who killed his friend
in a drunk driving accident
it was a different human
like his life
he was this one guy
he was a good normal guy
fun guy
people liked him
he was a friendly guy
and then all of a sudden
a pariah
all of a sudden
everyone knows what you did
all of a sudden
what you did
you can't believe you did
this horrible horrible horrible thing
and you did it when you were so young
I'm a kid
he was 16, 17
whatever he was
he didn't know what he was doing
he had no idea
nobody
you're so stupid
when you're that young
your brain's not formed yet
and you can't treat them
like they're adults
you just can't
they're not adults
you know
you're talking about
a 16 year old kid
a 15 year old kid
like fuck
when they're doing things
they don't even know
what's real
I mean
and it's all
completely dependent
upon how they were raised
like you could get
really lucky
and have solid parents
and really have like
a good understanding
of how to behave
in the world
or you could get fucked
and you got some
dad who beats
the shit out of you
and he's always on meth
and your mother's
a fucking liar
and she steals money
and she
she sells people stuff
you know
that's
that could be your reality too
and to expect
a person like that
to behave exactly
the way you do
with your nice life
is crazy
it's crazy
and it's one of the
weirder things that we do
and instead of
instead of looking at
the origins of
what are the origins
of horrible behavior
it's all terrible childhoods
it's almost all
terrible childhoods
instead of looking at that
all we look at is a crime
it's very strange
it's a weird thing
it's like to know
logically
that you just have to
take a few extra steps
and you say
well what's the root
of this problem
and how do we address that
how do we make it better
we have so much money
for other things
we don't have any money
for that
that seems like
one of the most
fundamental problems
any country would face
is the amount of people
that grow up
that become
violent criminals
because they were
fucked
from the time
they were young
they had no shot
their whole childhood
was just
violence and chaos
and that's not
an insignificant number
of people in this country
and yet
any foreign conflict
has to be addressed
with the utmost urgency
when the things
that are paramount
to our daily existence
right here
what our tax dollars
pay for
right here
are just
completely ignored
completely ignored
never discussed
they'll talk to you
about climate change
climate change
let me tell you something
if you live in the
south side of chicago
and you get shot
climate change
doesn't mean jack shit
to you
okay
we should address
we should address
what the fuck
is going on right now
not climate change
do you know what
the ideas of luxury beliefs
are
have you heard of this
no
so it's been repopularized
by my friend Rob Henderson
so luxury beliefs
are ideas
held by the upper classes
that confer status on them
but often cause costs
for the lower class
so
the
seminal example of this
is
defund the police
yeah
I walk past a house
in Austin
not far from where I live
that has a
defund the police
flag
in the garden out front
and a private security sticker
in the front window
it's so stupid
it's such a virtue
you know
do you know Will Storr
of course
he's been on my show
I went for breakfast
with him yesterday
he's great
he's fantastic
of course you know him
Will Storr
who wrote that book
The Status Game
was explaining all this
and how
what people are doing
what they're actually doing
he's outstanding
so
so good
there's a
he relates it to
so many behavior patterns
in life
just like
oh my god
this all makes sense
he's a legend of storytelling
he's one of the best writers
in the UK
and yeah
there's this
really interesting example
of
my friend Mary Harrington
talks about how
the death of chivalry
has caused an increase
in domestic violence
so it's very interesting
so this is a good example
of this luxury beliefs thing
so
yes
during the 1960s and 70s
if you were an upper class lady
and the guys that you were dating
were from households
that had two parents
that had taught them
how you're supposed to treat people
and they weren't mistreated
and all the rest
they grew up like a well balanced person
to them
it might seem a little bit patronizing
for the guy to hold the door for you
right
or to pull the chair out
or to make sure that you get home okay
yeah
because you live an existence
in which the danger of that
not happening
not going appropriately
isn't that great
now
what wasn't understood
by a lot of the
upper class feminists
that were talking about this
derogation of chivalry
that they wanted
was that
that doesn't necessarily work
for the working class
or the underclass
woman
who is dating
a man
whose father beat him
or stepfather beat him
or didn't have a father
or was homeless
or addicted to drugs
or in violent crime
and she thinks it's a direct line
a single spectrum
from
you should hold the door open
for women
to
you shouldn't beat your wife
and I think that it's true
women
should be seen as something
that
requires additional protection
that are precious
and should be respected
if you derogate
the stuff up here
sure
maybe it means
that you liberate
some of the working
the upper class women
to be able to go
and do whatever they want
but what does this cause
downstream
when you don't have
those guardrails in place
for the men
that the lower class women
are dating
yeah well
just all men
period
and it should be
and it's
here's the thing
that
this is how it's looked upon
in the martial arts world
if I know
that I can fuck you up
and I fuck you up
I'm probably a bad person
it's never
good
that a guy
who is like
some trained killer
goes after
some regular guy
picks a fight with him
and fucks him up
it's never thought of as good
it's always negative
like almost entirely negative
like the entire fan base
will recognize
that terrible behavior
so
if you're a man
and you have someone
who is your wife
and she's smaller than you
and female
you have the craziest
advantage physically
it's the most awful tyranny
physically
if violence is involved
if you decide
that you're going to start
swinging and teaching people
lessons
and
and then
lying to police
about how someone got hurt
and oh she fell down the stairs
and if you grow up
seeing that
that's
even
maybe more fucked up
because that's your model
for what
and that's probably
what their model was
when they were growing up
but it's
as men
we have to look at that
as the weakest
of
most disgusting
behaviors
including beating up
on pe