Name: Joe's Take on the Bud Light Controversy
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe's Take on the Bud Light Controversy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe's Take on the Bud Light Controversy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-12. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Yeah, you got that guy Keith, you got Lucas.
- There's a lot of good guys there.
- Yeah, yeah.
- A lot of good women there, a lot of good,
there's a couple non-barners.
- Yeah?
- We got at least one.
- Checking all the boxes.
- It's a diverse group.
We gave him his own Bud Light after the first week.
We put his face on a can.
- Do you have any beer here?
- Yeah, you want a beer?
- I'd take a light beer.
- Okay, let's get some Bud Lights.
Let's do this.
- Yeah.
- In support of Bud Light and their time of stress.
- Let's be allies by getting a little day drug.
We're gonna be allies.
- Yeah.
- You know, 'cause Kid Rock and Travis Tritt
have put the fucking hammer down.
- I know, they're really fucking fighting the good fight, man.
- Here's my take.
- Okay.
- Like, what you're doing, what they're doing,
is just spreading the brand to an extra group of people.
- Yeah.
- Why, if something is good, do you give a fuck who's got it?
Like, would we do this with Cheesecake?
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like, if there was, like, a bomb-ass cheesecake and all of a sudden, you know,
some radical group like Antifa really got into the cheesecake, we'd be like, "Fuck
this!"
- Yeah.
- And if the, like, if the Cheesecake Factory sent Antifa a cheesecake, you
know, for 10 more years of chaos.
- You know, like, a celebratory, a celebratory.
- Yeah.
- A celebratory.
- If only Isis had bear claw donuts, I'm still eating those fucking donuts.
- But on the other hand, I loved Kid Rock's video, 'cause I love that, I love,
cheers.
- Cheers, man.
- I love that kind of thinking.
- There's nothing wrong with this.
- Not even that I agree with it.
I like wild people.
- Yeah.
- I like it, dude.
- I like raising hell, man.
- I like a dude who takes a machine gun to a stack of Bud Lights and is like, "Fuck
Anheuser-Busch."
- This'll show up.
- But I mean, where's he gonna go now?
You gonna go to Coors?
- Miller Lite.
- Don't they all support, like, LBGTQ plus AI, whatever the hell else they're
attaching to issues?
They all do.
- I mean, I'm from Colorado and Coors has had those rainbow cans forever.
- Fucking Shane Gillis is heartbroken.
- I was with him.
- This is his favorite beer.
- I was opening for him last weekend.
- This is what sucks.
He drinks Bud Light every time he does Protect Our Parks.
- Uh-huh.
- Those things have fucking millions of views.
- I know.
- Where's his can of beer Bud Light?
- He did not, he was not, he said the exact same thing.
- He's problematic.
- Oh, yeah, he's an issue, man.
- He's an issue being one of the funniest fucking human beings alive on planet
Earth.
- How dare he?
- And also generous and community-minded.
- And a great guy.
But for whatever reason, they won't give him a Bud Light.
- They should give him some lips.
- If they were smart, they would send Shane a Bud Light with his face on it,
too.
Say, "We love everybody."
- Well, the can's not big enough to fit his face.
- That's true.
- It's a big round head.
- You could put, like, half of his face.
- Yeah.
- You know, like an artsy thing.
- Right, yeah, then you have to put them all together.
- Yeah, there you go.
- Whoa.
- Did you get a left side of the face or the right side?
- Bud Light sponsors the moon?
- So if you're two-fisting.
- Yeah.
- You know?
- Mm-hmm.
No, man, I think that it's crazy when people get upset about that stuff,
because the people who get upset about that stuff value liberty and freedom so
much,
and they want to live their lives undeterred by anyone's rules.
- But they think that the company that they like is giving into the woke agenda.
- Yeah.
- That's what it is.
- There is no woke agenda.
- Well, they think there is in, like, movies and television and media and
commercials.
- I was allegedly conceived on Zimas.
- It's like a soda.
- Yeah, that's the way to go.
- Yeah.
- Have your kid on a delicious, fruity, sort of bubbly, soda-like alcoholic
beverage.
- Yeah, my mom and dad split a fucking 24-pack of Zima and made me in Glenwood
Springs.
- Wasn't too strong.
- No.
- You know, how a nice flavor.
- Gave you a heartburn, though, dude.
- Did it?
- You can't have, like, eight of them.
- I've never had eight Zimas.
- I have.
- You've had eight?
- Yeah, 'cause they brought them back, you know?
- Zima's a thing with, I'm not really trying to get drunk, you know?
- Probably.
- Like, if I'm trying to get drunk, I'm drinking whiskey.
- If I'm drinking, I'm typically trying to get drunk.
- Always?
- Yeah.
- Don't you just like to have a little buzz?
- I'll have a little glass of wine here and there.
- There you go.
- Yeah.
- Zima drinks returning to summer of 2018 for a limited time.
- Yep.
- They try to bring it back.
- They brought them back.
- Bring it back.
Come on, Zima.
I'm on your side.
- Yeah.
- I liked it.
- I liked them a lot.
- I don't get it.
I don't get it.
Fucking White Claws made it, but Zimas didn't.
- These are all sugar, though.
- What the fuck?
White Claws made it and Zima did it.
Is it a timing thing?
Is it like Betamax and the VHS tape?
- Yeah.
- The superior product doesn't make it?
- Well, Zima had like 20 years head start on White Claw.
- Bro, I used to get so much shit for ordering Zima.
They're like, "What are you doing, bro?"
- Well, were you at the pool hall?
- No!
- Okay.
- I had the fucking improv on Melrose.
- It's on your writer?
- People were making fun of me.
- Yeah.
- Comics were making fun of me for drinking Zima.
I'm like, "I'm sorry.
It's delicious."
- It looks like a post-apocalyptic drink.
- What do I need to know about Zima?
- What do I need to know?
Is it bad for you?
- Yeah, what are the fun facts about Zima?
- There's no fun facts.
- No, the branding sucks.
- There's Zima's like blockbuster videos.
Like, no one thought it was gonna go away, but...
- Here we are in a post-Zima world.
- It's over.
It's weird, 'cause it was delicious.
But it didn't taste bad at all.
It's not a bad product.
- It was kind of viscous, though.
- Mmm.
- I mean, it had that kind of milky look to it
when it was in the bottle for too long.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- I thought it was like Sprite.
- It started clear, but then if you had it on the shelf for a while...
- How long did you leave your Zima on the shelf?
- I remember my...
I think my dad had like a couple of Zimas in his office.
- Even those are a little milky.
- Milky?
- Yeah, look at that.
- Yeah, but that's just a CGI image.
- Oh, you think that's computer generated?
- That's the same bottle over and over again.
That's what it looks like.
It looks like fucking soda.
It's a bottle of delicious clear malt soda.
- I'd be more surprised if you had Zima in here
and that you have mad honey.
That would blow my mind even more.
- I don't think you did it.
You probably have to get it on eBay from your dad.
- Yeah, for sure.
- Your dad's got some cases.
- My dad takes the helicopter in.
- Your dad's got some cases.
But the thing is like about this Dylan Mulvaney thing.
It's like, it's just someone who wants a lot of attention
and you're giving that someone a lot of attention
and you're trying to reach another audience.
Like, I saw it and I was like, what the fuck is this?
My initial reaction is like, this is silly.
- It was pretty transparent.
- Are they really doing this?
But it's also your Bud Light fan,
your typical Bud Light fan is like NASCAR, fucking sports.
Like that's most of the people that are drinking Bud Light.
Guys like Shane.
You saw the Bud Light demographics of who's drinking Bud Light.
- It's bigots.
- I saw this fucking.
- Guy's like Shane.
- He's choking Shane.
- Yeah, Shane's my boy.
- What the fuck was I going to say?
Jesus Christ, you threw me off.
- Yeah, it wasn't the honey?
- No, no.
- The honey's in there though.
- No, not yet.
- There's a little current popping around in there.
It might be the cigar.
- Probably cigar.
- Yeah, can I have that lighter again?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
- Thank you.
- Fuck, I lost it.
- You were talking about, oh yeah,
just how the target demographic of Bud Light.
- But it's like a lot of companies are using this person.
There's more than one company.
There's like a bunch of them, like Nike and a bunch of other stuff.
- Also, she's pretty.
I get it.
No, I mean, I see nothing wrong.
- Good luck.
- Hey, man.
- Yeah, it's one of those things.
It's like, it's funny what people get like super outraged about.
You know, like we're in the middle of, you know,
Tulsi Gabbard posted up some stuff the other day
about the Restrict Act.
And you flip the top.
Here, I showed you before.
Pull the top back.
There you go.
- Thank you.
- Well, I did it before you before.
That's like one of those teach a man to fish things.
- Yeah.
- It's not going to be late.
- No, I know.
I got to get rid of that ash.
- But you know, like no one's freaking out about that,
but they're freaking out about Bud Light.
Like how is that the big deal?
I think it's goofy because I think that person's goofy.
But if you want to hire a goofy person, like who gives a shit?
It's kind of hilarious when someone says 365 days of womanhood.
- It was also on April Fool's Day.
- That's true too.
But it also was just a can with that person's face on it.
That's all it was.
It wasn't like something they were selling.
- Yeah, they didn't have it in stores.
- No, but it's kind of funny.
- Yeah.
- I like that people get mad.
I thought what Kid Rock did was funny.
I laughed at it.
I told them I thought it was funny.
And, but I also, it doesn't make me mad.
- Not at all.
- It just makes me like, what?
I just like, I get what they're doing though.
They're trying to get people that are popular.
They're just looking for influencers to help them.
- And they're trying to look more inclusive
because of the assumptions people make about Bud Light drinkers.
- But those assumptions.
- And also look at us.
We're on the biggest platform in the world
discussing Bud Light for like 10 minutes.
- Right, it's probably good for the brand.
- Yeah, for sure.
- Yeah, Shane loves it.
I just, I don't.
- I like Miller Lite more.
- I like Sam Adams.
I like a dark beer.
- Oh, I want a beer I can have like 17 of, man.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah, I want to be sipping beer all night.