Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1912 - Steven Rinella
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1912 - Steven Rinella' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1912 - Steven Rinella

the joe rogan experience train by day joe rogan podcast by night all day
i don't know what i don't know you know and then when this ftx thing happened i'm
like of course
yeah of course you fucking scumbags i've become obsessed with that shit man oh
my god i just like
because i'm already imagining like the fucking how many people are writing that
fucking screenplay
right now are we up running let's let's go we're rolling good let's talk about
this yeah i'm i'm
fascinated by it i i'm fascinated by scammers you know i'm i i knew a lot of uh
scammers in my pool
hall days i knew a lot of uh i knew a guy that was uh one of the first guys
that ever was involved in
credit card fraud back in like the early 80s his name was international sal he
was a fucking character
like a real character sal sal international sal that's what they called him
because he was uh
he was like a like a mob guy essentially and what they would do is they would
go to grocery store or
um department stores rather and you know they had those carbons when you would
in the old days with
credit cards oh yeah i remember that yeah they would take those carbons and
someone would sell him the
carbons and then they would print copies of credit cards and then they would
buy a bunch of shit and
sell that shit and they would come to him with bags of money to the pool hall
and then
that's a good idea and he would blow it all he would blow it all it's it's like
we always talked
about it's like it's he he had dirty money and he couldn't keep it it's like he
was he couldn't
win like he could not win like if the nine ball was four inches in front of the
hole he would find
a way to dog it oh like the cosmos knew that the money was no good yeah yeah it
was something it
was like is it in his head he had the worst case of buck fever i've ever seen
in my life
it's just like yeah it's like he's got like the devil and the angel on his
shoulders and the angels
giving them like the angels give him advice yeah so he loses his money and he
was a good guy he was a good
guy he just his he just came from a life of crime but he was a good guy it's
weird yeah i wonder what
his last name was because there's a weird we're looking up people with our last
name and we found
a sal rinella in joliet prison and i just i liked how much it sounded like salmonella
you know
yeah i don't know he died of cancer a few years back and actually a friend of
mine's mom who worked
in um you know like i guess it's a hospice when they they take care of people
in their dying days
yeah and he came into there and my friend contacted me guess who's in uh the
hospice it's international
sal i'm like uh no well so it's it's it's sad when is a good he i mean i say he's
a good guy
obviously did terrible things robbed those fucking credit card companies blind
made millions of
dollars but he was a good guy like he was always friendly he's always a good
guy i had a friend get
her credit card stolen recently and they bought a bunch of stuff electronics
from best buy and then
made a charitable donation like that'll cover it felt bad made a charitable
donation well some people feel
like if you still like a feed that you know i was like feed the children or
something you know
they're like this will clean it out that's that shows you that's not a total
sociopath
some people just you know they just do it but they're like wow there's got to
be a way to like
balance this out do you hear the target lost what was it jamie like 400 million
dollars last year
from looting 400 million really yeah because all these people in the last year
or so just during the
pandemic people were like stealing you know became a thing like in in some
states i had no idea it was
that bad it's bad in some states they've closed down all the walgreens they've
closed down all these
different because they made a law where if you steal less than 900 worth of
stuff they can't even arrest
you they don't even do anything about it so people would just walk in you've
ever seen those videos
no well i've seen the videos i didn't know about i didn't know about them being
prompted by
i didn't know that that activity being inspired by particular rules as much as
just like a breakdown of
you know i don't know like a breakdown of desire like for a while like a desire
to to engage with
certain kinds of law breaking well it was there was that and then there was
also i think after the george
and during the george floyd protest organized retail crime has driven 400
million dollars in extra profit
lost this year at target that is organized um you know there was during the george
freud protest there
was so many so much looting i don't know if you saw the the stuff in new york
it was crazy sure where
the cops were standing by they were just standing there watching them smash
windows and running to
stores and that was that de blasio guy that like super leftist mayor of new york
just kind of allowed it
all to happen and it's like it's based apparently on an old theory about rioting
where you just let
them burn it out of their system you know you have a temper tantrum i think
that's so much as there's
a lot of uh this isn't just you know i didn't make this up but there's a lot of
governance by theory
you know going on where it's like it's sort of in you know a lot of people are
left to be like baham
but that doesn't make any sense you know well you got to think of these people
it's a theory though right
who these people are that want to be mayors and want to be governors like they're
a bunch
of loony people for the most part there's not a lot of competition there's not
a lot of like super
rational really like well educated super successful and business people that
wind up becoming governors and mayors
which is probably what you would need to be you need to be someone who's like
really good at
organizing business and there was a guy that was running in new york and
apparently he got really
close he was ahead in the race for a while but then he wound up losing to some
woman who's uh the new
mayor of los and was karen bass so i just heard a guy saying that that's the
politicians that are going
to win now he was a strategist a republican strategist and he was saying that
the his prediction was it was
going to be like the technocrats that people were getting i don't know where he's
getting this from
but it made me feel optimistic that people are getting more interested in like
um that the his
view of the midterms is that voters are getting interested in in like pragmatic
problem solving again
and not ideology well once ideology comes crashing back on you and falls apart
and your business
collapses and that's what you're seeing with a lot of people it's like just the
the just the reality
facing them where their ideology is not sustainable and then they're like jesus
christ like i've lost
everything here we got to get somebody who's like some hard-nosed business
person yeah it's gonna get
everything running correctly i had an interesting thing happening right here in
austin the other day
speaking of law enforcement i uh i was down here for a couple days with my it
was my daughter's
birthday so my wife my daughter came down with me and we spent a couple days
just knocking around town
and we went down to check out those bats oh they come out of the congress
bridge oh my god it's cool
it's wild we're walking down there and i become aware we're going on the
sidewalk and i become aware of
like all this honking and yelling and shit at an intersection and as i'm i'm
walking up to a car
and there's a woman like honking and yelling and she's pointing into the car
and i go and realize this
guy like uh i thought he had a heart attack just keeled over the steering wheel
in the intersection okay
so he had his back window down like halfway down for whatever reason
and i'm in there and i got him by the shoulder and i'm trying to shake him
awake okay and i think
he's had a heart attack or died i don't know what he's got going on i'm yelling
to my wife call 911
um i'm trying to get his door open but his doors are locked and i'm trying to
reach up to hit the
unlock button because the thing's only half open and me yelling and saying you
all right you're all right
he perks up and like take stock of the situation and just goes off through the
green light
so now i feel like i'm like complete not complicit but i feel like it's like
become my responsibility
that he's gonna i don't know he's gonna die kill somebody i call 9-1-1 my wife
had already called
9-1-1 she got sick of waiting on hold and gave me the phone she went in to try
to find she'd left my
daughter's swimsuit somewhere she went to try to find my daughter's swimsuit i
waited waited waited
she came out i was still on hold and i was like ah he's gone now it's just
someone else's problem
yeah i never had that happen to me i'm not like a habitual 9-1-1 dialer
9-1-1 is uh apparently in a lot of places it's not that good anymore
i was i mean i was shocked how long did it take how long was she on hold for
man i want to say 10
minutes but i don't i don't know i don't want to exact i wasn't really paying
it i was kind of
pre i wasn't really watching him i was a little bit preoccupied but like a long
time
you know god that's depressing that's so depressing there's never been a time
in my life where i felt
like things have broken down as much as they have over the last three years
yeah well just what the
fuck like and the thing about things breaking down is boy they could break down
quick but
building them back up again that takes a long time yeah that takes a long time
you'll be able to see
that play out in ukraine at some point in time yeah for sure i mean those
buildings that are destroyed
how do they rebuild they have cities that are just completely leveled you know
how do they even build
that back up in the back of my head looking at them i was like man how do you
yeah how do you
yeah i don't know it's decades decades decades and decades decades yeah it's
depressing and you know
our only hope is that it doesn't get worse that's your only hope at this point
in time it's just like
somehow or another it doesn't continue to decelerate or accelerate rather
i'm reading a terrible book about this too what is in the middle of this book
called the kill chain
it's all about uh how china has a technological superiority over america
because our systems
don't communicate with each other and we don't have machine learning with all
our military systems and
got it how far behind they are in terms of uh like what's available in terms
and you like what they
have available in terms of like artificial and they're comparing right now like
computers now that can
beat people in the game go which i don't really understand but apparently it's
very sophisticated
and also starcraft 2 which is a very complicated game and now computers are
just wiping out the best
players in the world and not making any mistakes and and how that kind of
computer learning is being
applied in china but it's not being applied in america and that all of our
systems are kind of
antiquated and that we update hardware first and then software so like we don't
have like you know your
phone is constantly upgrading they're comparing that like your with it with
when and when they learn new
things and they find exploits and they patch them up you get an update on your
phone yeah they don't have
that so it's like they they're really fucked in terms of the also the military
branch's ability to
communicate with other military branches they essentially have to call each
other it's like it's not good
what's the board it's called the kill chain it's not good the kill chain is it
refers to systems
like you know like that they're these systems have to work in conjunction with
each other in order to
be successful sure yeah and that this this this thesis of this book is that it's
not they don't work
together at all and it's very bad and then if we do wind up in some sort of 