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Joe Rogan Experience #2006 - Brian Simpson

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Simpson, what's happening?
Hell yeah, what's up, Joe?
Good to see you, brother.
Glad to be back.
Can I plug my dates real quick before I forget?
Yeah.
I'm going to be in Denver at Comedy Works on July 13th through the 15th in Levity,
live
in West Nyack, New York.
On July 20th through the 22nd, get those tickets on bryansimpsoncomedy.com.
Nice.
Listen to the podcast, BS with Brian Simpson.
It's pretty good.
It's very good.
Yeah.
You enjoy doing it?
I love it, man.
I love it.
I feel like you need something outside of comedy.
Like when you start doing it for money, you have to do something else so you're
not just
doing comedy, you know?
Yeah.
It also helps your brain just because you're talking about stuff and thinking
about stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Because of subjects.
Yeah, and I'm getting better at it, too.
Just having to find your own energy every week or whatever.
I just like having something to do.
Yeah.
No, it's great.
It's fun.
I think the best tool for comics is the one-person podcast, which you do, too.
It's like where one person gets to rant about things.
Oh, yeah.
You have guests on, but sometimes you just rant about things.
Right, yeah.
I think that is where Burr comes up with a lot of his material.
That's where Tim Dillon comes up with a lot of his material.
Oh, yeah.
It's an extra superpower.
A lot of mine from regret.
I'll say something, because what I do is I have my producer find these articles,
and I
never read them.
Oh.
And he gives me the gist of it, and I just react.
Sometimes I'm like, oh, why did you say that?
You know?
Right.
When I heard about the submarine people, the first thing I said was, what kind
of stupid,
you know?
Yeah.
But I forget, like, I do, I got empathy for the people still.
I do, too.
You know, they're dumb as fuck, but being trapped in a box is, that's one of
the worst ways to
go.
And they haven't found them yet, but they're hearing banging now?
Yeah.
And what does that mean?
I mean, they have 30 hours, less than 30 hours now, just before they run out of
air.
Yeah, I think they're dead.
I think they're already gone.
Well, if there's banging, if someone's banging.
As of Tuesday afternoon, they had 40 to 41 hours.
That was 24 hours to go now.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
As of recording.
So they got, like, 20 hours.
Yeah.
Like, everybody that's still alive is really sleepy right now.
Jesus Christ.
5 or 6 a.m. Thursday, Eastern Standard Time is when they run out of breath of
air.
Tomorrow morning.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Well, that's if they're all still alive.
True.
Right?
Right.
I think somebody on there might have made a heroic sacrifice or something.
What does that do for anybody?
It leaves the air for one person to breathe.
Do you think someone killed someone so they have more air?
I think somebody might have killed themselves so everybody else had more air.
How are you going to kill yourself in front of everybody on a little tiny
submarine, smaller than this room?
Just have somebody choke you out.
You know how much energy it would take to choke someone out?
Yeah, because remember one of them.
You'd rather just sit still.
One of them down there with their son.
Can you imagine being on there with your child?
You're like, baby, look, daddy showed you how to do.
I showed you how to do the rear naked.
Oh, my God.
Finish me off.
Live for the rest of us.
Oh, my God.
I don't think that anybody's going to do that.
I think they're just going to assume they're all going to die together.
Yeah?
Yeah.
If they die together.
I mean, I don't know.
I have no idea, like, what ability they have to pull that thing up.
Yeah.
Oh, can you imagine what's on the cell phones?
Like these hours now.
Like, they still had hope yesterday, probably.
Oh, my God.
But, like, right now, can you imagine?
Oh, my God.
Or being the guy that forgot your charger.
Well, the crazy thing is Jamie pointed this house yesterday, and it's, um,
there's lawsuits, apparently.
Did you point it out?
No, you didn't tell me.
Someone told me in the green room.
I did.
It was you?
About the window?
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, that was you.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, the guy.
Tell people.
Yeah, someone yesterday, I read that there was a lawsuit in 2018.
A whistleblower was trying to report that the, the, uh, the window, the glass
wasn't, wasn't rated for that depth.
Yeah.
And he, and they fired him, apparently.
I'll send it to you, Jamie.
Yeah, you sent it to me on Twitter.
Oh, you found it?
Okay.
Ocean Gate was warned of potential for catastrophic problems with Titanic
mission.
Titanic, Titanic mission.
What's it say there?
Do, do, do, do, do, do.
Uh, January 2018, the company's engineering team was about to hand over the
craft named Titan to the crew would be responsible for ensuring the safety of
its future passengers.
But the experts inside and outside the company were beginning to sound alarms.
Ocean Gate's director of marine operations, Dave, David Lockridge, started
working on a report around the time, according to court documents, ultimately
producing a scathing document to which he said the craft needed more testing.
And stressed the potential dangers of the passengers of the Titan as the submersible
reached extreme depths.
Two months later, Ocean Gate faced similar dire calls from more than three
dozen people.
Industry leaders, deep sea explorers, and oceanographers who warned in a letter
to its chief executive, Stockton Rush, that the company's experimental approach
and its decision to forego a traditional assessment could lead to potentially
catastrophic problems with the Titanic mission.
So, apparently they've done this a hundred times?
Yeah, that's not enough.
Yeah, they've done it a hundred times.
Imagine being number 99 and you hear about this.
Yeah, you know, and I read too this morning, some reporter was on one, he was
on the boat last year, and it got lost for like five hours, the submersible.
And he didn't say anything.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
It says, Mr. Lockridge reported learning that the viewport that lets the
passengers see outside the craft was only certified to work at depths of up to
1,300 meters.
That is far less than would be necessary for trips to the Titanic, which is
nearly 4,000 meters below the ocean surface.
The paying passengers would not be aware and would not be informed of this
experimental design.
Lawyers for Mr. Lockridge wrote in court filings, the meeting led Ocean Gate to
fire Mr. Lockridge.
Wow, according to court documents filed by both sides, Ocean Gate has said in
court records that he was not an engineer, that he refused to accept
information for the company's engineering team, and that the acoustic
monitoring of the hull's strength was better than the kind of testing that Mr.
Lockridge felt necessary.
The company sent in its lawsuit that it appeared Mr. Lockridge was trying to be
fired.
Mr. Lockridge responded by alleging wrongful termination.
Legal battle ended in a settlement later in 2018.
So, it seems like it was him, but two dozen other people?
The separate warning came from-
38 experts.
Yeah, received the same year from 38 experts in the submersible craft industry.
All of them were members of the Manned Underwater Vehicles Committee of the
Marine Technology Society, a 60-year-old industry group that promotes studies
and teaches the public about ocean technology.
The experts wrote in their letter to Mr. Rush that they had unanimous concern
about the way the Titan was developed,
and about the planned missions to the Titanic wreckage.
Oh, look at this shit.
The letter said that Ocean Gate's marketing of the Titan had been at minimum
misleading because it claimed that the submersible would meet or exceed the
safety standards of a risk assessment company known as DNV,
even though the company had no plans to have the craft formally certified by
the agency.
Oh, God.
People are gross.
Money.
It's always money.
It's always money.
It's always money.
It's money and hubris.
Man, it's weird because for some people, there's no such thing as enough money.
Yeah.
And I don't understand it.
I don't understand it either.
Like, if I go the rest of my life making the money I'm making right now, I'd be
great.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got enough money.
Look, it's like, I got enough money where I would not, I don't make decisions
based on that.
You know what Brian Callen told me once?
It's a great quote.
He said, once you have enough money to go to a restaurant and not worry about
what food costs,
he goes, everything else is bullshit.
Right.
Yeah, just about that.
Go to dinner and not think about it, not to worry.
What was that old saying?
It was like $70,000.
Once you pass $70,000, more money doesn't make you happy.
I mean, that was years ago.
It's probably like $85,000 now.
Right.
But it was like, once you pass that, once you're up around there where you can
just buy, you know,
a good meal and not think about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, I don't make decisions where that's the number one factor.
Where it's like, oh, you could make $10,000 and do a good job,
or you could make $100,000 and betray your two closest friends.
It's like, I think I'll just take the $10,000.
Yeah.
I don't need $90,000.
You know what I mean?
But they don't think about the guilt that would come out of the betrayal.
It's like, imagine bringing your son down there.
Imagine the arrogance.
Oh, well, that guy, I think the guy with his son,
is that the same guy that flew in Jeff Bezos' rocket ship?
This dude's a risk taker.
I think that's the guy that owns the whole...
Oh, God.
I think he owns the ship, not the submersible company.
Dude, that is so terrifying.
But didn't James Cameron do that?
Yeah, James Cameron went down there before he filmed Titanic.
Yeah.
But I don't think he...
I think he went solo.
But he didn't take all...
But he was in control of the craft.
I don't think somebody was controlling it from somewhere else.
See if you have footage of that.
James Cameron's a wild motherfucker.
Yeah.
He's a wild dude.
I mean, just to be him and decide to do that because you're filming the Titanic.
No, I think that was...
He was filming Avatar, right?
He was filming a documentary.
On the Titanic.
On, yeah, on like...
What it's like to even do...
Deep Sea Challenge is what it was called.
3D trailer.
Yeah, this is wow.
And they went...
I think they went to the bottom of the ocean.
Oh, how far is that?
There's another video I was pulling up.
Have you seen that, like...
It's an animation of how deep the ocean gets?
Yeah.
And it just shows you how...
Compared to a bunch of stuff on land, how...
And then, like, how far the minimum depths are and then the maximum depths.
So he went to the maximum, like, Mariana Trash.
It's more than twice as far down as the Titanic is.
Oh, my God.
And now, don't they think there's a deeper plot?
A deeper spot than there?
Yeah, I think they found some other spots they think are deeper.
Challenger Deep?
What am I thinking about that?
They might have done this live, I think, too.
I don't...
Oh, my God.
No, Challenger Deep is an area in the Mariana Trash.
I mean, just imagine just relying on all that equipment to continue to work
properly.
But it also looks like they maybe not.
Whereas this current submarine didn't have any sort of tethering to it.
His did?
He might have, but I don't know, actually.
Yeah, but you know what's wild to me, though, is...
Maybe not.
You know how one of the conspiracies about the moon landing is that
they really got Stanley Kubrick to film it.
It's like, we have a fucking director here claiming that he went to the bottom
of the ocean
and no one suspects that he made it all up.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, how we know he fucking really went down there?
Right.
Yeah.
No kidding.
How many people were there?
Right.
Who's the witnesses?
All we got is footage of him inside that thing moving around.
Yeah, and that's from the 90s.
It was probably cheaper to fake it.
No, that's new.
That's p