Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2038 - Trae Tha Truth
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2038 - Trae Tha Truth' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2038 - Trae Tha Truth

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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What's up, Trey? Good to see you.
Cool, and what's up, my brother?
Hey, I got a question for you.
And everyone who wears grills, all right, I got Invisalign on,
and I'm trying to talk with Invisalign,
and every time I've tried it, I bailed out of it.
How the fuck do you talk so clear with a grill on?
I think we just get used to it, especially from Houston.
You know, it's just our culture.
Yeah, I want to meet Paul Wall and ask him.
He seems like the guy who understands grills more than anybody.
Yeah, yeah.
Because Post Malone had one on, and then you hear him sing and talk,
and he sounds perfect, but I can hear it in my voice.
His might be implanted. I don't know if his was a grill.
Implanted.
Oh, like where they dig into your teeth and glue it in there?
I think so.
Yeah, I ain't hit that phase.
How's yours on? Did yours slides in?
So you could slide it out?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't eat with them.
I just keep them on throughout the day.
Do you ever leave it somewhere accidentally?
Never.
Never.
That's something people do a lot.
They used to always, coming up younger,
they used to put them in napkins and put them in their pocket
and allow them to throw them away and everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I already lost one like that.
Yeah, a lot of people did.
Yeah.
But I didn't lose a grill.
I just lost Invisalign.
That's what I'm saying.
It's like the wimpiest version of a grill.
So what's happening, man?
How you doing?
Man, bliss just in work mode in all aspects, man.
Work mode.
What's work mode for you?
Like, what happens?
It depends on which world, because, you know,
of course, music-wise, that's my first and foremost.
But then the hometown hero side and then just helping people
and being a daddy is just work all around the clock.
Right, right.
What is this hometown hero stuff?
That's what they label me, you know.
Well, they label me that in Houston,
but now it's got to the point they label me that everywhere
just for the help I do, whether it be her,
hurricane disasters, whether it be just assisting with people,
whether it be front line for the community,
whether it be fighting for justice,
whether it be just assisting and caring for the town
the way that I do.
You know, my son named Houston.
That's how much Houston I am.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was fun seeing you backstage at the Post Malone concert.
Yeah, it's one of my little brothers, man.
A lot of people don't realize the history with me
and a lot of artists.
I remember when Post was first coming up.
That's how far back we go, man.
I've always been supportive
and just always had his back.
So, you know, it's been that way with a lot of artists.
So whenever they see me, it'll be super excitement.
Yeah.
No, it's cool.
It's cool to see that respect.
It's like a thing.
You've got to stop in and check in with Trey
when you come to Houston.
But, you know, it's not the forceful way.
It's more of the best they got.
No, no.
A love way.
I'm the guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, it's a nice way.
It's a nice way.
You were saying you never smoked
and you never drank your whole life.
Nothing.
Yeah, never smoked, never drank, man.
How did you dodge that?
So, crazy story is, man,
coming from where I come from,
most people smoke and drink, you know,
when they tend to go through stuff,
just dealing with life, you know,
that's what kind of put their mind at ease.
And I was always one of the people I felt like
I'm going to deal with it, head up.
Whatever, however it hit me at that moment,
it can't get no worse than that.
So, I always just decided to not to
because at the end of the day,
when I got done smoking or drinking,
if that's what I decided to do,
the reality is still going to kick in.
So, I'd rather just deal with the shit, head up.
That's a good mindset.
But smoking or drinking is fun.
I watch everybody around me do it all day, every day.
Well, there's nothing that sort of illuminates
the problems with alcohol,
like watching someone be drunk and you're sober.
You know, man,
I've always been more of a protector my whole life,
so I'm always just watching the atmosphere anyway,
so it don't really bother me.
I'll be watching out just to make sure
everybody's straight at all times.
Right, so you're like the designated driver.
I don't want to be classified.
I don't mean that way.
You know what I'm saying?
Just like the wise, sober person in the room,
keeping everybody together.
Yeah, it is an interesting thing
because we all know so many people
that have ruined their lives because of that.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, just gets away from them.
That's all they want to do, smoke and drink,
and your life just kind of gets away from you.
You're just escaping it instead of being in it.
You know, man, something that I realized,
everybody not built to be that strong,
and everybody not able to deal with a lot of things,
you know, so sometimes that's their escape goat,
and I want the ones not to judge.
I just, if it suits you and that's for you,
you know, you got to do what you got to do.
That's a good way of looking at it too
because that is true,
that we all have different levels of ability
of handling shit.
Yeah.
And especially when it comes,
but when, you know, you get into tricky things
like alcohol or pills.
Pills is a tricky one.
Pills can be dangerous.
It seems like anybody can handle those.
We had Kurt Angle on the other day.
Oh, yeah.
From WWE, and, you know,
he developed a pain pill problem
because he broke his neck like five times.
Damn, I didn't even know that.
Yeah.
He got fucked up.
His neck is fucked up.
It's crazy.
And we watched some clips of him doing it,
but, I mean, this guy won the gold medal
in the Olympics with a broken neck,
and he still got hooked on pills.
I could imagine only because
once you get used to that pain
and that's what's putting you at ease,
you got to, you know,
you go from a couple to,
let me just go and get a few more in
so I can make sure I'm good throughout the day.
Yeah, it just becomes a part of your body.
Yeah.
You can't get away from it.
But you got to be cautious, man,
because now you got fentanyl
and all that other shit.
Every time I see something with that,
I rarely see somebody make it through that.
Yeah.
That one for sure going to kill you,
so you got to be cautious.
Yeah, that's the real problem
with getting stuff off the street, you know?
If you're trying to get coke off the street,
they're not making it the Pfizer lab, you know?
It's not like you're not getting the same batch every time.
You don't know what the fuck you're getting
if you don't know the guy who's buying it from the people.
Like, you don't know what the source is.
Yeah, you even got, it's so crazy,
you can even find weed laced with the shit.
So it's just, man, everything can be fucked up, man.
Why would they lace weed with it?
Never know.
Never know.
But as many people as the shit affecting
are hitting and passing from it,
it's definitely something that they're doing.
You know, because weed is illegal in a lot of states,
90% of the weed that's grown,
that's sold in these states where it's illegal,
is grown on public land by the cartels.
Because in the places where weed is legal,
like California,
it's only a misdemeanor
if you're growing weed without a permit.
It's not a big deal.
So they just set up shop in the national forests
in places where they're not supposed to be
and they grow weed.
Because if they get caught,
it's not that big of a deal,
but they want to protect their product too.
So these guys who used to be game wardens,
now they have tactical teams with dogs and shit
and MP4s and machine guns
and they're going through the woods fighting the cartel.
It's wild!
You know, you see it in the movies,
but you know, that's for having a real life,
for real, for real.
For real, for real.
And he was explaining to me how it's really dangerous
because they use all these like super toxic pesticides
and shit that no one else is allowed to use.
Like you can't really use that if you're growing,
especially if you're growing something organically,
which is ideal.
So they're just using all kinds of shit
that's like super toxic.
Yeah, and then that means it's going to weigh down
and affect the people, for sure, for sure.
Yeah.
And isn't it crazy that all that is just because it's illegal?
Man, I'm not sure when,
but I'm assuming they're going to have to make it legal
in Texas at some point, man.
At some point.
It seems silly,
especially because Texas is supposed to be all about freedom.
You know, I had a conversation with this guy,
Alex Berenson, yesterday.
He's a reporter.
He used to work for the New York Times.
He's, you know, he pointed out,
he's like, everybody wants freedom,
but if you get that freedom and everything's legal,
you're going to have a bunch of drug overdoses
you wouldn't have.
You're going to have a bunch of people that are addicted
you wouldn't have gotten addicted if it was illegal.
They wouldn't have bought it.
And because it's legal,
you're going to have to deal with that.
And it's true.
It's an uncomfortable truth.
The flip side of that is,
I've yet to see anybody really pass away from weed.
Yeah.
Even from cancer, right?
Right.
They're smoking it every day.
They're not getting lung cancer.
That's crazy.
Right.
So that's the only part they get it confused
why they haven't made it legal as fast.
I mean, if there's things like, you know, the opiates,
if they're legal, you can get those,
but you can't get weed, that seems silly.
That just seems silly.
It doesn't make any sense.
I think honestly, man,
the reason why it's probably not
is just because they haven't figured out
a way to monetize off of it.
Well, the problem is you can't patent it, right?
So like if you're selling, you know, whatever it is,
some thyroid medication or something,
you can patent that.
And then it's your medication that you invented,
and then you own the patent on it,
so you get all the profits from it.
But when it's a plant,
that whole model gets like thrown into the bushes.
Like you can't do shit.
Everybody can grow it.
All you need is dirt and water,
and you can get the drug.
And then a name.
Yeah.
Because you can rename it as much as you want.
Yeah.
And then you can name as many strains as you want.
It's the Wild West out there.
But you couldn't, if it was patented,
maybe that's what they would want to do
is make like a genetic strain,
like a Monsanto-type weed,
where they can completely control it.
Yeah, definitely,
because that's the, you know,
because they know that's going to be their moneymaker.
Yeah.
It seems like it's just such a conundrum.
Because I, you know,
I admire people like you,
that no alcohol, no weed, no nothing,
just discipline.
I admire that.
It just,
it builds us to be a little stronger,
you know,
because, man,
I done been through so much shit in life
and watched a lot of people go through stuff,
stuff that make them take their life,
because it may be real crucial.
But when you get to getting to the point of where I am,
you deal with everything,
hear it up,
it's like it ain't really much.
It ain't like it's a breeze or a cakewalk every time,
but for the most part,
we'd be like,
man,
it'd be,
I'll deal with it.
And, you know,
that's what keep me going.
Well,
I guess also if you get used to just dealing with shit,
then you get strong at dealing with shit.
Whereas if you're just drowning it out all the time,
then that becomes a habit.
But it's so crazy.
It's a,
it became even a bigger habit for me,
right?
I don't know how long ago it was when I got shot,
but when I got shot,
they ended up,
the actually crazy thing is they never,
they didn't do surgery or anything,
right?
I got shot.
It was so many people outside the hospital that they were like,
man,
we need to get him out of here.
Cause they ain't,
they never seen nothing like that.
So they don't know if the people outside was against me or was for me.
They just never seen it.
So,
um,
long