Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2088 - Yannis Pappas
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2088 - Yannis Pappas' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2088 - Yannis Pappas

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day Joe Rogan Yanis Papas Janis Papas how are you my brother I'm good
how you doing
what's the fuck's cracking I'm doing good man just enjoying Austin are you
enjoying a town of
freedom I'm enjoying the town of freedom this is the town of freedom yeah there's
freedom here this
did well yes I'm enjoying it I'm enjoying it I'm eating I went to suerte oh
that's good it was
incredible that's good spot I think it's the best Mexican I ever had it's very
good there's a lot
of good Mexican out here yeah but that's that's a good spot that was good yeah
yeah and of course
hit the Terry B's on Martin Luther King day so it was empty it was nice suerte
you have the added
benefit of being around people with masks that's like a East East Austin I didn't
I haven't seen any
I think well I did in Vancouver I was in Vancouver before this yeah there we
are they never stopped no
they're still going yeah yeah it's wild there's a San Francisco um like town
hall meeting and they
they passed a vote to stop uh for a ceasefire in Palestine I saw it yeah yeah
and so they're all
masked up and they're dancing around and they got blue hair and somebody made a
caption that this is
literally South Park this is literally an episode of South Park and they look
like fucking complete
maniacs left in this worn torn shattered hull of a city yeah and whatever's
left it's filled with
human shit yeah and tents everywhere they're dancing around that they've
stopped the ceasefire in
Palestine yeah we voted for it stop stop it they solved it in Oakland okay I
guess if Benjamin Netanyahu
he's paying attention right like that's gonna work oh I guess I'll stop now
yeah he stopped traffic on
the way to the airport in New York and that'll do it yeah that does it that
generally does it that's
what that's that's what Netanyahu was waiting for he's like all right now I've
now I've I've seen the
error in my ways now now I gotta pull back now I gotta pull back I did go a
little too far let me back
yeah let me back it up they're stopping traffic this is serious I saw in Austin
I saw three people on the
overpass just holding up a free Palestine thing and I'm going like I bet those
people have amazing
productive lives and they're not crazy at all yeah not at all no they got
nothing they got they got a
full schedule of things to do and they took a lot of time out of their schedule
to stand on top of the
highway they're super healthy they're really into mindfulness they're they're
on the ball every day
they get everything done every one of them every one of them has an alert for
what they have to do
next on their very busy schedule free Palestine I wasn't gonna those people
just saw your banner yeah
till the banner came up yeah those people are just perpetuating the situation
over there it's like
the whole is it right or wrong thing it's like it's obviously wrong humans have
always been wrong when
it comes to that it's always been about power who's got more power and who has
less it's all it's
very multi-layered that's the thing about any international conflict you can
look at the
mainstream media narrative you know they did this then they did that but then
it's like Ukraine and
Russia like you say oh my god Russia invaded Ukraine this is horrible and that's
most people's natural
reaction to it and then when you go wait a minute was there a rule did they
make an agreement to not push
arms closer to Russia did they consistently violate that agreement did they
that were they trying to
move Ukraine and I was reading about them trying to move Ukraine into NATO like
what what what do you
what are you a Putin supporter right now wait a minute isn't this a very multi-faceted
super complex
international conflict that really is about a lot of things it's it's not just
about Russia and Ukraine it's
about NATO it's about nuclear arms being pushed closer to a superpower it's
like yeah there's more to it
there's more to it there's more to all of it and usually that's why war breaks
out is because it's
so it's so multi-layered and then it gets to that breaking point and it's just
wild that they could
still pull off war today war which essentially like hijacking resources or
controlling parcels of land
it's weird that they could still talk people into that today because it's kind
of an old hustle
it's almost like old radio yeah it's such an old hustle that you can get people
to believe these
people hate you for your freedom or whatever it is and then you go over the oh
let's fucking shuttle up
and go kick their ass yeah it's kind of amazing given what we know about the
true nature of conflicts
and how so many things are manipulated behind the scenes to force people into
actual physical conflict
and then there's generals that sit in air-conditioned offices and they move
their pieces around the board
like chess pieces yeah human lives yeah yeah and they don't fight they're never
in the front
never I don't even think Alexander the Great was in the front I don't buy it
well he didn't live long
yeah he didn't live like Alexander the Great he died like he's like 40. yeah
didn't they die young
back then oh yeah and he died of like some sickness he didn't die from like a
battle wound I think
probably all died of sickness can you but can you survive if you're in the
front back then it's like
a human meat factory no you're not gonna survive he was in the most likely you're
not gonna survive
I feel like back then like sickness probably really kicked in when we started
gathering together and
throwing our shit out the window or actual shit like human shit like if you
think about this the cities
of ancient times before there was plumbing do you know how horrific oh history
smelled yeah we don't
remember we were there we assume every place is like Target yeah we assume
every place is like a you know a
fucking rest stop on the highway you can go in and take a shit no yeah no
people were shitting out windows
they were throwing their shit in buckets according to wikipedia he was a very
productive 20 year old 20
something he was 20 when he took over as king whoa yeah he conquered the world
he was in his early 20s
what a gangster look at this by the age of 20 okay he succeeded his father
Philip II to the throne
and through 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years
conducting a lengthy military
campaign through Western Asia and Egypt by the time by the age of 30 he had
created one of the largest
empires in history holy shit stretching from Greece to northwestern India he
was undefeated in battle and widely
considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military
commanders and wasn't he also
gay well then there's a high was he by that was the way back then yeah he's a
is that what he was
yeah student of Aristotle and there was we've read that question wow about how
those really tutored by
yeah those questions those relationships were uncomfortable those guys all fuck
those kids they had
eunuchs there's those yeah they had eunuchs and then they just had young boys
yeah
what did it say about the Aristotle thing though so you go back to that quote
where it was something
oh it's okay bottom of the page what a huge page that guy did a lot of shit it
says by the age of 60
until the age of 16 rather Alexander was tutored by 16 he was too old I was
like get out of here
you old fuck yeah bring me a young boy in 33 33 35 BC shortly after his
assumption of kingship over
Macedon he campaigned in the Balkans and reasserted the control over the how do
you say that thrace thrace and parts
of Ilria Illyria Illyria Illyria you should be saying this this is your native
tongue this is basically I went to Greece this summer
how'd you like it amazing yeah your people did some wild shit dude yeah we did
people did some wild
shit we did when you're in a place where like Doug Stanhope said I didn't do
anything right I was on your
people I'm saying your people your team yeah you know if the Lakers win you
didn't throw a ball my
tribe we won you know yeah but the only thing we didn't do is create an empire
because we're too busy
infighting which is which is typically Greek
well you know you can't do everything can't do everything did a lot more than a
lot of other
cultures 2500 years ago did a lot with mathematics philosophy democracy
democracy yeah we did a lot
yeah a lot with drugs too a lot with drugs a lot with uh pedophilia have you um
ever read that book
um the immortality key no it's about the illucinian mysteries it's this guy brian
murah rescue and uh
brian's been a guest on the podcast before and he's a scholar who is like a
straight-laced guys never
doesn't do drugs nothing and he through all of his course of study they're
trying to figure out like
what they were doing in this illucinian mysteries like why were people going
from all over the world to
have these experiences and what were these experiences so they recently
discovered that
inside these pottery vessels that they used to contain wine and beer in they
found ergot and ergot
is a very potent psychedelic it's uh it's like a fungus it's a i think it's
akin to lsd
and so they're very at the very least we're taking that in this one spot and
what they believe is that
all of these like transcendent experiences they had these the illucinian
mysteries they get together
and figure out how to solve the world and let people vote and all that wacky
that's all i'm tripping
balls this is my idea shit and it's literally the birthplace of democracy it's
literally how the world
changed for the better and your people were doing it 2500 years ago and you can
walk in the same
spots where they walked you could see the buildings that they built it's weird
it's weird when shit is
that old yeah and you can just walk on it yeah like the parthenon you just walk
around yeah and you can
uh you can marvel at how uh durable what they built yes two thousand years is
so long there'll be no
yeah in 2000 years from now you're not going to see any strip malls still
standing they'll literally be dust
yeah they'll be dust they built things really well back then i i think a great
effort too yeah
to do that like the kind of precision that's involved in the in the parthenon
when you're
walking around it and you see how all the stone is cut and how it lines up and
how massive the columns
are and how beautifully symmetric it is it's so smooth and clean and these
people didn't have
engines no it's crazy there was no engine this was all done by hand yeah it was
all dink dink dink
slavery dink dink dink oh craftsmanship yeah i mean you could you weren't just
getting the crudest of
people you're getting artisans yeah you probably worked against your will yeah
to move those big rocks and
stuff yeah a hundred percent who the knows how they did that what the hell were
they doing back then
they did some wild back then when we think about like human ingenuity oh god we're
missing so much
of like they didn't leave like here's a book on how we did it this is where we
got the rocks this is how
we cut them you know this is the best way to move them if you move them this
way they'll fall on you
need to kill a few guys you know this is what we figured out over time yeah
yeah it's crazy to think
about and i agree with you i think it was drugs that opened people's minds up
to like think about yeah
it gave them a completely different perspective like carl sagan once said that
about marijuana
i'm paraphrasing him but essentially he was saying that it offers you
a perspective that's not available without the drug yeah that's why i think
mushrooms are getting
popular for depression right it sort of takes you off those grooves that are
created by the
neuro connections yeah just gives you a new perspective i wonder how much i
mean there's
certainly different kinds of depression there's depression that's clearly
something wrong chemically with
some people