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Joe Rogan Experience #1889 - Dr. Phil

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
All right, we're up for money.
What do you got there?
Got detailed notes?
Well, I got some statistics I might talk about, I don't know.
Maybe I will, maybe I won't.
You're a voice of reason.
How do we fix this world?
We're in a mess.
This is a weird time to be alive, isn't it?
Yeah, it's getting weirder, too.
I mean, it is getting weird, don't you think?
Certainly.
Well, it's highlighted on your show.
You've kind of exposed a lot of it to America.
You know, every year in the summer, we kind of work to reinvent ourselves
about how we can tell our stories better and all that sort of thing.
And we really focus on what our viewers are asking about.
And I have to tell you, this year, the questions really changed.
Yeah.
Because, you know, we still deal with human functioning, you know, marriage and
family and all that.
But in addition to that, the questions we got over the summer this year started
really changing.
Like, are we going to make it?
Are we going to survive?
What are we safe?
Are our kids safe?
Are they safe in school?
What are they being taught in school?
Should we be going down there and seeing what they're teaching them?
Are we, what's happening as far as values in this country?
I mean, people started asking different questions.
And so I changed everything.
I, you know, I used to have that studio audience out in the bleachers out there.
I moved everybody on stage and we're just having a focus group every day, like
110 people up there in a focus group and letting them talk and ask questions
because they're really concerned.
And I just said, I can't take it anymore.
I'm going to start talking about the social issues along with everything else
because if you, if you even took psychology in high school or you took Psych
101, one of the first fundamental principles you learned was you don't reward
bad behavior.
Right?
Right.
You don't reward bad behavior.
I mean, the world is a meritocracy.
And we've somehow lost that.
We, all of a sudden, we're paying people not to work more than they get if they
work.
And then we say, what happened to the supply chain?
Well, you paid everybody not to work.
That's what happened to the supply chain.
And I'm stunned that we're running this country in so many areas where we're
just violating the most fundamental psychological principles that you could
ever imagine.
And I'm watching that happen.
And I say, I just can't be silent about this anymore.
So I'm talking about it.
What do you think is the root cause of this shift?
I think it's been happening gradually.
But like everything, you know, it's like if you start rolling a rock downhill,
it starts getting faster and faster and faster.
And I think it's happened for a lot of reasons.
But I think we've got a whole generation of kids that are really smart, by the
way.
These kids are smart.
But I think they've started living on their devices.
It's kind of like along about 2007 or 8.
Like it seems like airplanes flew over the country and just started dropping
smartphones.
And everybody's head went from here to here.
I mean, think about it.
When you look, you go anywhere.
Go to the mall.
Go just anywhere there's a group.
And what do you see in their hands?
You see a device.
We didn't grow up with devices.
When I started Dr. Phil 21 years ago, the first text hadn't been sent.
There were no social media platforms.
None of that stuff was going on.
Technology is great.
I'm not, listen, I love technology.
But we've got generations that started living virtually.
They're watching people live their lives instead of living their own lives.
And that changed the metrics on everything.
Think about that.
TikTok, Instagram, all of this.
You're watching other people live their lives instead of living your own.
And that changed everything.
That seems like one factor.
But that wouldn't explain this abandonment of meritocracy.
Well, that is just one factor.
You're exactly right.
But there's something else that I think has come along with it.
And we've got a generation of what I call concierge parents that are running
interference for their kids.
And, look, the way you learn about yourself, the way you make attributions to
yourself about yourself, is the same way you make attributions about other
people.
You have people that you have opinions of, right?
You know.
You've got people, friends or staff, that you watch what they do and you say,
he or she is a go-to person.
I know what they do.
I can count on them.
They're going to be there every time.
They're going to show up on time.
They're going to get everything ready.
They're going to be buttoned up.
They're like clockwork, right?
And you attribute that to them because you watch what they do.
If they're problem solvers, you know, hey, go get Becky in here.
Go get Jeff in here.
They are problem solvers.
You know that because you've watched them do it and you make that attribution
to them.
That's the same way we learn about ourselves.
You watch ourselves master certain tasks, overcome certain things.
And if we're cheated out of that experience, we don't learn that about
ourselves.
And if you've got parents that are out there smoothing out all the bumps for
you,
then you don't learn that you can smooth out your own bumps.
You don't learn that you can overcome obstacles.
You don't learn that you can master your environment.
And so as a result, you don't have the self-esteem.
You don't have the self-worth.
You don't make the attributions that, hey, I can do this shit.
And when you don't believe you can do this shit, then you start saying, well, I
don't want a meritocracy.
I want everybody to just kind of go along the same.
And so we started seeing in the universities, you start seeing kids that are
complaining that something the professor said hurt their feelings.
It upset them.
So they start going to the dean.
They start going to the department head and saying that professor said things
that upset me.
And we've had more professors disciplined, suspended, or dismissed in the last
10 or 15 years than we've had since McCarthyism.
Because kids are going in there and saying, that hurt my feelings.
He offended me and said things that were offensive.
And so they complain about it and they get listened to.
And so the professors, and some of them are assholes, I'm sure.
Some of them are offensive by any standard.
But it's out of control.
And these kids are sensitive to the point when I was in college, when campuses
were where you went to hear the other side, right?
That's how you rounded things out.
There was a speaker coming that was totally on the other side than you were on
anything, science or whatever.
You went to listen to them because you thought, I'm going to learn how to shoot
this full of holes.
Now, anywhere from 15% to 30% of students think it's okay to shout down
somebody you disagree with, to protest and run them off campus.
You don't listen to them.
You get rid of them.
You don't want to hear it.
You don't want to see it.
You don't want to have anything to do with it.
They protest and yell them down.
What's that about?
They don't want to hear it.
And I think that we're coddling this whole generation.
And when they get out of school and get into the world where that's not going
to happen, they're going to be competitive, we're going to have a real problem.
Because in a global economy, we're going to fall behind.
And we are behind right now.
People say, well, we lead the world in math and science and reading.
No, we don't.
We don't lead it.
I wrote down where we are.
But we're not anywhere near the top.
We're 13th in reading.
We're 18th in science.
We're 37th in math in the world today.
Where do we used to be?
At any one point in time where we're number one?
Yeah.
How long ago?
It's been a generation.
We've been on the slide for a good while.
We're 37th in math.
So do you think this is coming from parents coddling their children, helicopter
parents, those children going off to universities, universities instowing these
ideas in them that they should be able to shout down ideas that they don't
agree with and that everything should be comfortable and everyone should have
everything they want and desire without any work.
And then they go out into the workforce and they invade corporations with these
same attitudes and become activists.
Well, you hear some professors that venture to say, you know, we're not getting
or turning out the best and the brightest for this whole variety of reasons.
That means we're not competitive.
And if we're not competitive, if we're not turning out the best and the
brightest because we're caving, because we've got quotas to fill or for
whatever reason, then we're just, where's that going to leave us?
And, you know, as I say, you're not going to get kids that have a lot of self-confidence,
that have a lot of self-worth, that have made these attributions.
And right now, the millennial generation is the loneliest, most emotionally
impacted out of all the generations right now.
They are lonely.
They don't have friends.
Followers aren't friends.
And if you haven't gotten out in the world and you don't have the confidence to
get out there, you're not going to do well.
Yeah, it's a strange combination of factors that, but one of the things that
disturbs me the most about it is I don't see a way to turn it around other than
some sort of a disaster where people are forced to come together.
Like, I remember the shift in the country after 9-11, and the only thing that I
felt positive about was like, wow, all of a sudden America feels united.
Like, there were so many people driving down the street with American flags on
their cars.
I mean, it was almost more than there were not in Los Angeles, which is a very
liberal place.
And I remember thinking, maybe things like this are important just to sort of
snap people back to a healthier baseline, to put people back and to give them a
perspective.
Like, we are really all in this together.
And if something like that does happen, and it unites people, and they get
together, and they realize, hey, we're all working together towards a goal.
We want to keep our families safe.
We want to keep the world safe.
We want to be able to pursue our dreams and do what we want to do.
And if something comes along that stops that, we have to kind of unite together
to make sure we put everything back on track.
So you think there has to be something to get people's attention?
I worry that it has to be something big.
I worry that it has to be like a war or a natural disaster, something huge.
Because I don't – I think as long as you allow people to keep going – there's
so much momentum in society going in the direction that we're going.
People that want an equality of outcome, people that want a redistribution of
wealth.
But some people are waking up to it.
I mean, I saw a quote from Bono, of all people, that I read yesterday.
See if you can find this, where he was talking about it when he was young.
He thought that the world's problems could be solved by a redistribution of
wealth.
But now he realizes that healthy commerce is the way to a better society.
Yeah, look, socialism doesn't work.
You know, there's every cliche in the world.
It works great until you run out of other people's money.
Yeah.
All of those quotes.
Yeah.
It doesn't work.
And I've encountered those people in debates that think it does.
I've had people in the focus group situation that say they shouldn't be
prosecuting shoplifting because they're just going in there and taking what's
rightfully theirs.
And I'm saying, well, what the hell are you talking about?
They said, well, these corporations aren't paying enough.
They're not paying a living wage.
So they're just going in and taking what's rightfully theirs.
And I'm saying, well, so, OK, if you're wanting equal outcome.
No, no, I'm just wanting equal opportunity.
No, no, you're wanting equal outc