Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2031 - Luis J. Gomez
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2031 - Luis J. Gomez' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-06. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2031 - Luis J. Gomez

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Are we on? Are we just on?
Are we on?
Yeah, all right.
Sweet, I don't know if we were talking on the podcast, just being dudes.
That's the beautiful thing about podcasts.
It really is, yeah.
It's kind of just hanging.
Yeah, but yeah, I smoked weed since I was like 17, and it was illegal.
And you just, all these like formative years, spending my life being afraid
that a cop was going to come and arrest me.
And I've been arrested for smoking weed like 10 times in New York City.
Wow.
Because I'm an idiot, and I just, you know.
Right.
And it's just a game of numbers.
I would just, we would roll a blunt in the park, you smoke it, and every time
for some reason, the cop would always take me.
All my friends, they would go, you know, we've got to take one of you.
And it was always, I'm the only brown kid in the group, so every single time
they were like, we're going to take you.
And then they take you to Central Bookings for a day.
They would literally say, I have to take one of you?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
And none of your friends, hey, you got Louis the last three times.
Not once.
Dave Smith, I've been arrested, I was arrested three separate times, and Dave
Smith watched me get put into the back of a car, and he was like, bye.
Oh God.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, and then I remember I went to Amsterdam when I was 22, and it was the
first time I ever smoked legal weed.
And I just, I was like, this is, this is great.
This is the way it should be.
It was nuts.
I was just like smoking in the street.
I was talking to a cop.
I was on mushrooms.
I was like, this is so peaceful and nice.
And then I came back, and I remember I was in a stairwell smoking a blunt, like
the day I got back, and I was like, this is fucking a wild thing.
And then here we are years later, and New York City, it's legal.
There's literally, you could buy weed in just delis on every corner of New York
City now.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
I remember the switch in California, because for a while I was medical.
So I used to have to go to a doctor, and the doctor would go, oh, you need weed.
And then he writes some shit down on a piece of paper.
Then you could buy weed.
Yeah.
And I used to go to this place called the Englewood Wellness Center, which was
in Englewood, and it's a shady area.
And back then, I don't know if it was credit cards yet.
I think they might have been able to use credit cards, but I know they also had
a lot of cash on them, and they got robbed.
And the guy that I used to buy weed from got shot.
Oh, shit.
And I was like, all right, done with that spot.
Going to have to find a new spot.
But there wasn't that many spots.
You would have to find these places, and they looked like shut down stores.
Like, most of the places that were dispensaries, they were, like, super low-key.
Like, you had to know people.
And you would go in there, and, you know, there'd be some fucking doctor.
Like, one time we went to this doctor, and he had dreadlocks.
And this dude had, like, long dreads, and he had a volcano bag, you know, in
the volcano vaporizer bags.
But it was, like, an extra-long bag.
And we walk into the dispensary, and he's like, man, you need medicine.
He just immediately goes, you need some medicine.
And I go, yes, sir, I do.
Thank you.
I'm very sick.
I'm very sick.
And he took us to the grow room.
I don't know if you've ever been in a grow room when you're high.
No.
But they seem to be intelligent.
There's an odd feeling that you get when you're high on marijuana, and you walk
into a grow room filled with, like, hundreds of plants.
It was a big-ass room with lights, you know, hydroponic lights or whatever,
hanging from the sky.
And it just has a weird feel to it.
Yeah.
It has a weird feel, like, not a regular room.
It doesn't feel like you're walking into a room.
It feels like you're walking into a room with beings.
Oh, really?
Yeah, like, they feel alive in a weird way.
Yeah.
And I know I'm super high.
That's good weed that you have.
I mean.
Vaporized bag.
But it felt real.
Because it didn't feel like that when I was in the other room.
Right.
When I was in the other room where they had just, like, couches and shit, you
know, seemed normal.
And then he takes us back, and we go into this back room, and I'm like, whoa.
Like, these things are conscious.
Well, they say that.
Don't they say plants are conscious to a certain degree?
If you, like, sing to them and talk to them, or if you yell at them, they don't
grow.
Yeah.
I don't know.
They do, like, experiments with shit where, like, people are, like, nice to
plants.
I've seen it on, like, TikTok and, like, Reels.
I've never looked into that.
Yeah.
It has to be bullshit.
There's no way if you're just nice to a plant, it grows better.
Well, how do you, what an unethical experiment, because then you'd have to be
really mean to another plant.
It's really, really racist to the plant.
Fucking ficus, piece of shit.
I fucking hate ficuses.
I kill them every time I find them.
Not in my yard.
And he's just stuck in the dirt in your house.
If plants really are conscious, and they're stuck in the dirt in people's
houses, and the people are doing math and shooting each other, these plants
would be like, I got to get the fuck out of here.
How am I stuck in this house?
It's like that, what's that Metallica video, One, where the guy's, like, just
stuck in the bed, but he's conscious, and he could hear everything.
It's from a famous movie, I think.
I don't remember that.
He's like, dude, you definitely remember this.
It's such a famous video.
It's the Metallica One video.
It was Johnny Get Your Gun or something, is the movie.
And it was a guy, I guess, he was hurt in war, yeah.
And he was conscious, and he could hear everything, but he couldn't communicate.
Oh, wow.
This is the life of a house plant right here.
Dude, Metallica had some bangers.
But the thing is, it's like, they know that they communicate with each other.
That's what's really fascinating.
They communicate with each other through the mycelium and the ground.
So it does say they grow better.
Look, it says, for most plants, playing classical or jazz music cause growth to
increase, while harsher metal music can do stress.
Wow.
This is maybe because the vibrations of metal music are too intense for plants
and stimulate cells a little too much.
We think of this as massaging your plant with a song.
They prefer a gentler touch.
But how do we know...
I want to know the boring bitch who wrote this article.
A gentler touch.
How do we not know that it's not that at all?
How do we not...
I mean, that's an assumption that's like minimalizing their ability to
recognize what's going on.
Put that up again, like how it's explained.
Because the way it's explained, it's like, here it says,
this may be because the vibrations of metal music are too intense for plants
and stimulate cells a little too much.
Like, how do you know?
How do you know the plant just doesn't think that music sucks?
Could you imagine?
It's like, you know, when they were torturing Noriega, they would fucking just
blare horrible music at him forever.
Remember that?
Yeah, they did that with the big group that was like a standoff.
And then they did it with Billy Ray Cyrus' song, Achy Breaky Heart.
There was some dude who had a bunch of people captive and they played Achy Breaky
Heart to fuck with him.
I do have to say, though, that at least shows a sense of humor by the police.
Yeah.
I think that's pretty funny.
That's fucking hilarious.
That's funny.
Play bad music until this dude fucking moves out of the house with the hostages.
But I know they did it with, 99% sure they did it with Noriega.
I forget what the songs were, though.
See what they did with Manuel Noriega.
Because I'm pretty sure they surrounded his house in Panama and just played
horrible music.
Yeah.
Let's see.
I Fought the Law.
Oh, that's pretty good.
The Clash?
Shit.
Panama by the Stadium.
I guess any song over and over and over again would drive you out of your mind.
They played Panama by Van Halen, U2's All I Want Is You, Bruce Cockburn, If I
Had a Rocket Launcher.
And they just kept playing it over and over again?
Yeah, in the Howard Stern Show.
Oh, in the Howard Stern Show.
So at least they gave him some entertainment while he's contemplating death.
Yeah.
Is he dead?
Noriega.
Yeah.
Did they kill him or did he go to jail?
That might be even more wild than when they killed him.
They take these dictators and they just stick them in a cell.
Bye-bye.
Never hear of him again.
Bye-bye.
And then it stops being a news story and nobody cares.
Bye-bye.
Yep.
Bye-bye, Mr. Person Who Ran Country.
Have you ever been in a jail cell, Joe?
No.
You've never been arrested for anything ever?
Nope.
Never.
Damn.
Noriega's mug shot after his surrender to U.S. forces in 1990.
Age 56.
How many people had that guy killed?
You've never even been in cuffs?
No.
Damn.
I'm a good boy.
You are a good boy.
It's the worst.
I could only imagine.
I'm always very respectful to cops.
I'm super respectful to cops, too, because at that point they're arresting me
and I want
to get out of it.
I want to get off with a warning.
I've never done anything real.
I've never done a real crime.
It's always for smoking weed or...
They should expunge all those.
They did.
They did.
They always should with everybody with that.
They should wake up as a country and realize those laws are immoral.
They don't make any sense.
I've never been to Canada for years.
I couldn't go to Canada.
If we can drink, why can't we smoke?
It makes zero sense.
You guys are out of your minds.
You don't smoke weed.
You don't know what you're talking about.
It's like that's part of the problem is that the people that are making these
laws, they
don't have any experience with these drugs.
Yeah.
You know, I'm good.
I'm good.
There's like a certain...
I think you should know what you're talking about.
And if we lie about it, then people are going to be more likely to abuse it
because they're
not going to think there's any problems.
Yeah.
You got to be like fully straightforward with it.
It's probably one of the safest drugs you could use if you're not a schizophrenic.
Are they...
If you're not a person who has like that fucking missing screw and then the
weed takes you over
the top because there's a few of those guys.
Yeah.
I mean, I know some people that they're not good on it.
I know I'm probably better as a human when I'm not smoking weed, just in terms
of productivity,
just in terms of like, just being a little bit sharper, but I'm also miserable
and depressed
and fucking anxious, so it's like a trade-off, you know?
I like to walk the dance.
I like to walk the dance between high and sobriety.
I like it.
I like both of them.
I think this idea...
I mean, look, if you're a person who's an alcoholic, sobriety is your choice.
That's the way to go.
For sure.
And you don't need it.
And look, you could...
You can get high doing yoga.
You know, you could feel pretty good when you run, but if you can handle it,
and if it's
for you, it provides you like a different window to the world, and I think it
changes and shapes
the way you think about things.
I agree with that, but I think that just the difference in thinking does that
as well.
So if I...
I smoke all day, every day, right?
So if I stop smoking for like a week, it's like I'm seeing the world
differently.
Your brain gets to clear out a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, and it's just a different perspective.
It's kind of good to do that.
Um, yeah, I just...
And then the other thing, now that I'm getting older, I'm 41 now, I still don't...
I mean, I could probably research this.
Does weed just not cause cancer?
Does it not...
Like, nobody's talking about weed giving them fucking cancer.
I smoke a lot of fucking weed, and I'm just in my head about it.
I'm like, dude, I'm going to get lung cancer because I've been smoking blunts
and weed for