Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1920 - Dave Portnoy
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1920 - Dave Portnoy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1920 - Dave Portnoy

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Yep, okay.
Hello, what's going on?
How's it going?
Good to see you, brother.
What's going on?
Not too much.
We were just talking about how we're a couple of right-wing psychos.
Yeah, perceived that way, at least.
Perceived that way.
It's so weird.
People just have to lump you into one category or another,
and if you're not completely aligned with the left,
this will lump you in with the right.
Yours is pretty easy to figure out, though,
because you did endorse Bernie Sanders.
Right?
Yeah.
So, I mean, it should be like all of one second to figure out maybe you aren't.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean anything to anybody.
It's just, we're living in the weirdest time.
People just want to categorize people in a tweet.
You know, they want to categorize people in 140 or 280.
It's just, they just decide that you're this or you're that.
That way they can categorize you as the enemy.
Does that bother you at all?
Do you care?
I mean, I wish that they didn't, but what are you going to do?
You know, I mean, does it bother?
I mean, yeah, if somebody miscategorizes me or mislabels me,
I guess it would bother me a little bit, but that's just on them.
You know, it's not the way I am.
I'm a big believer in social programs.
I'm a big believer in welfare.
I'm a big believer in taking care of poor people.
I'm a big believer in, like, social programs to clean up cities.
And there's a lot of shit that we should be doing in this country
to help people that are disenfranchised because it's not fair.
Anybody thinks it is fair that someone lives in a fucking crime-infested,
gang-ridden inner city,
and that's exactly the same as someone who grew up in the suburbs.
That's crazy.
Right.
So that would go against what I think a lot of people would expect you to say.
Yeah, but I also, you know, I'm a cage-fighting commentator.
I'm a big believer in the Second Amendment.
You know, there's a lot of reasons why they would decide to categorize me
as a right-wing person, but it's not correct.
And also all this ridiculous woke shit that's going on,
this bizarre mind virus that's going from universities into tech companies
and the media and just fucking infiltrating people with these rigid ideas
of what you have to say and not say and what you can and not say.
It's like none of that is liberal.
None of that is really, like, open-minded or progressive.
It's a cult, and so if you go against it,
the only thing you could possibly be is the other.
So you must be, like, a MAGA supporter.
My main thing with it is if I know how you're going to answer a question,
basically, before it's asked,
which I think you can do with, like, almost everybody involved in politics,
I don't trust you.
And you really can.
Like, on both left and right, ask any question,
you know what they're going to answer it.
So it's like you're not thinking independently.
Yeah, there's a lot of that, right?
Like, if you are on the right,
I have to assume you're dismissive of climate change.
You know, if you're on the left,
I have to assume that you want a woman to have the right to choose, period.
You know, and there's, like, things like that.
Like, you are pro-abortion, or you are pro-this, or you are pro-that.
And what's weird now is, like, if you're on the left, you're pro-Ukraine war.
You want to send, like, you're pro-military-industrial complex,
getting funneled billions and trillions of dollars into their system
to be able to create weapons to fight off Russia.
It's like, whoa, that's the left now?
And really, that should have nothing to do with either side, really.
Like, I mean, how you feel about that, I don't think, should be left or right.
I mean, that's a super complicated issue, to be honest.
For me, at least, it's like Ukraine.
Like, you don't want a country being invaded that doesn't want to be invaded.
They're not Americans, but they are humans.
So it's like, what do you do?
Like, what do you do there?
It's a tough situation.
It's very tough.
And it's also very complicated, too, because there's NATO's involvement
in pushing weapons closer to the border of Russia
and trying to get, you know, trying to get the Ukraine to join NATO.
It's like Jack Ryan.
Wait a season, Jack Ryan.
It's literally sort of like that plot.
But, yeah, no, there is no easy answer to a lot of issues.
But it's just so black and white, and that's no good.
None of it's good.
This is a scary time to be alive.
You know, someone told me the other day that Nostradamus predicted
that there was going to be some sort of a World War III.
But doesn't that every year?
Nostradamus, though, just throws his hat on the field,
and it's like it's vague enough where anything can be true,
so everything he's ever said can be true.
Right.
Didn't he predict someone named Hister that was going to start a World War?
He came real close with, like, Hitler.
That's like, have you seen the Titanic book?
The book that was written about the Titanic before the Titanic?
If you want to Google that, there is literally a book that is called, like,
I forget the name of the book, but it's like the biggest cruise ship that will
ever sail.
It's going to hit an iceberg, and it's going to sink.
That is weird.
But Nostradamus, I'm not buying the hype on him.
I haven't looked into it.
Now, if he has a guy named Hissler.
What does it say?
What fewer people have heard, a short novel called The Futility,
The Wreck of the Titan, published in the U.S.,
writer Morgan Robertson, a novel that tells the story of the world's largest
passenger ship,
the Titan, and how it sank after hitting an iceberg,
a novel published 14 years before the Titanic sank.
That's pretty crazy.
That's crazy.
It's called The Titan.
Yes, and an iceberg.
Wow.
But I bet they hit icebergs all the time back then.
Well, see, that's the Nostradamus theory, that if you do enough.
Like, I mean, you can at this point say pretty confidently
there'll be another gigantic war at some point.
Yeah.
See, how does yours stay lit?
Just keep puffing on it.
I told you I don't.
You've got to get better at this.
You're a toxic masculinity guy.
You have to do toxic masculinity things.
Not a huge cigar guy.
No?
No, I mean, I do like them, but I don't smoke them a lot.
I kind of quit.
When I started my paper route, we had a cigar company called Honey's, something
Honey's.
So it used to be a paper route.
I delivered it.
And it was like our first advertiser.
I'd smoke them when I drove the Astro van.
I got so high, and I was just done with them.
When was this?
You had a paper route in 2004?
Barstool started as a newspaper.
So I used to, like, hand it out, and we had those little news racks outside
subway stations.
For 48 hours, I'd just jump in my Astro van and fill the news racks, drop them
in bars throughout Boston.
Really?
Yeah, that's how it started.
That's how you started?
Yeah, it was a newspaper.
Wow.
Yeah.
So your own newspaper?
Yeah.
Wow.
I'd wake up, like, 4 a.m., go to the subway, hand it out to people, like,
walking by me, and just scream at them, like, take the newspaper.
Yeah.
What was the motivation to do that?
Like, how did you get the idea?
I was always into gambling, and so I had a normal sales job.
I always knew I wanted to try my own thing, flew out to Vegas, met with, like,
the casinos.
They're all like, you've got to be a dealer.
You've got to start at the bottom.
I was like, I don't want to do that.
Talked to offshore casinos and said, how do I get involved?
And they all said, the Internet at the time I did this, if you went to a
gambling site, fireworks, pop-ups, look like you're getting your credit card
stolen.
They actually said, get us off the Internet, put us in a physical newsletter,
and we'll advertise.
So I sold, like, a year of advertising before we launched, and it was a
gambling rack.
It was, like, a four-page newspaper, but I sold the advertising, and it allowed
me just a morph.
So, like, during the course of the year, we slowly moved strictly away from
gambling to more, like, men's interest, like, girls and things like that.
That's how it started.
Wow.
So when you were into gambling, like, why did you decide to do a newspaper?
Because I knew I wanted to do something I enjoyed doing.
I was doing cold-calling sales.
I couldn't do that my whole life.
And when I called these casinos to advertise, it's what I just said.
The Internet was cluttered.
It was filled.
It was a time when literally every gambling website had little graphics of
fireworks popping up, everything.
And the gambling companies wanted to get off the Internet because it was too
cluttered.
So they said, if you do a newsletter or a newspaper, we'll advertise.
So that's why I created it.
How funny is that?
They wanted to get off the Internet.
Off the Internet.
Yeah, there it is.
Barstool Sports.
Oh, my God.
Look at that.
2003, the first issue of Barstool Sports.
Yeah.
Wow.
Hooters football headquarters.
First advertisers.
Yeah.
Hooters.
Hooters was your first?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Hooters is apparently in trouble.
I just read something about Hooters is not doing well.
That's the fake story?
Is it a fake story?
I don't know.
The one that people aren't interested in tits anymore?
Well, that's a fake story.
I don't know if that's the one.
That's not true.
I think that's a ridiculous conclusion.
Like, just because a business that has girls, you know, with owl eyes over
their tits.
I don't know how they get away with it.
I've always wondered that in this, like, culture, basically.
Who does?
Where you can just hire on looks.
Yeah.
That is true, right?
But don't they do that in strip clubs, too?
Yeah.
I mean, they kind of do.
Yeah, but I don't know how.
Yeah, there's no equality in strip clubs.
No, some are better than others.
But, yeah, it's based on looks.
Yeah, all that body positivity shit.
Out the window.
So, how do you figure out?
Like, how do they get away with it?
How does a restaurant get away with it?
It's a good question.
But it's the same thing in, like, those Chippendale shows.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, that's what you're selling.
If that's what you're selling.
You get away with it.
Yeah.
That must be the case.
It is the case.
I mean, but it's not with models anymore.
Like, now you can be an obese model.
Yes.
But that's also because you're selling clothes to people that are obese because
there's a lot of people that are overweight.
You can sell them clothes.
And I guess it's good to have an overweight model because if you're an
overweight person, you buy clothes.
Like, oh, that would look good on me.
It looks good on her.
Yeah, it's half public pressure and half business because, like, Victoria's
Secret got basically bullied out of their fashion show and their entire model
by only having, like, the perfect Victoria's Secret angels.
They had to go plus size.
Now, they did that because of public pressure or because of business decision
or kind of both.
You know, would they stuck their guns if, like, our business is killing it?
We don't care what you say.
I don't know.
I wonder.
I bet it enhanced their business to have plus size.
Correct.
It's probably a good business move.
Are they doing it right?
Are they doing it?
I'm one of those guys.
I don't think there's any, I forget the word that I'm going to say, altruism.
I don't think there's an altruistic act in the world.
I think every single thing somebody does is, even if it just makes you feel
good, well, that's not altruistic.
Right.
Yeah, I've said that before about being kind and generous, that it makes you
feel good.
It's actually good for you, too.
Correct.
But it's still kind and generous.
It's, like, just because, like, someone enjoys it doesn't mean it's not altruistic.
It's just that there is a benefit to the person that does it, too.
I think a lot of people have this idea of altruism that you only, you're only
benefiting the person you're helping, and that's the only real altruism.
I think it's, you're also, ye