Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1807 - Douglas Murray
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1807 - Douglas Murray' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1807 - Douglas Murray

Joe Rogan podcast check it out the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan
podcast by
night all day well I guess we are going there we're up and running first of all
you look
fucking great you look like you've been working out what's going on I have been
and I'm also not
wearing suits dude you look jacked well that's very kind so do you do but you
look like uh like
like the pandemic has been there's two different types of people during the
pandemic the people
that gained weight and the people that got fit and you look like a fit man I
certainly tried not
to gain weight yeah you look good congratulations on that thank you I'm holding
it down what does
it feel like to be wandering the world now uh yeah I mean I sort of was a bit
during the pandemic oh
you're a risk taker well I I don't like to say exactly uh what I did but I did
decide that after
lockdown one in my native country of the UK I wasn't going through that again I
mean uh lockdowns
about everywhere but in the UK they just kept doing them yeah and they started
one of them in late
December one year and it was just like that you don't spend January locked in
your house and you
know it's bad enough in the UK and how did the UK handle lockdowns in terms of
the restrictions like
what did they do it was really strict yeah really strict I mean just terrible
uh and you things like
you were only allowed out once a day from your house for one bit of physical
exercise one friend
of mine called me one day and she said uh do you have um spies in your
neighborhood I said what do you
mean she said in my village we have people who who inform and I said well what
does that look like she
said for instance somebody lent over the garden wall the other day and said to
me you are aware this is
your second walk of the day wow I know I said I said she said the embarrassing
thing is I know him
people were doing really crazy stuff like that I thought it was horribly
revealing and I I I loathed
it and I got out that's just a character issue that pops up whenever people
have any kind of control
you know that's the Stanford prison experiments where they they found it like
like almost immediately
people just started ordering people around treating people like shit well look
at all those people who
now love it I mean I mean they they were shouting at us for years yeah and they
they want to keep
doing it yeah I was in the theater recently in New York and I mean they they
now they now treat you
like you're going to Rikers Island when you've paid you know hundred dollars
going to see a show
show your papers and then it's like that you think whoa this isn't a great
start to the evening you
know right I mean this play better be funny you know and it's they're they're
doing that and those
people I don't know I don't know what we can do with them after this because
they're going to lose
their meaning um because they've just had a whale of a time yeah all this sort
of you haven't
remasked fast enough those people yeah yeah it's uh it it became a way to
communicate with people
it's like a standard way to do it like you have to bark at someone who's not
wearing their mask
properly bark at someone with you I can see your nose yeah you know the one
good thing in the UK
was that we didn't have the the crazy complete politicization we have in
America of like you know if
Donald Trump had been pro mask the other side would be anti and you know right
right so we didn't
actually have that and and masking wasn't quite as strict so if I forgot my
mask and I was going into
a shop you know I could easily like I had several techniques one was to pull my
hat down a bit
another was I always felt if I walked a bit faster and frowned that also kept
code away you know I was
at the gym in the middle of the pandemic and there was a guy in the gym with a
face shield on I mean
it was just this plastic thing but you could reach under there and it's the
same air it's like
it didn't make any sense did you did you reach under there did you tempted no
but it's a big
COVID hands it was like I used to have this cat that would hide under like a
table but her tail was
sticking out I was like you're not hiding you're right there this is so silly
like she thought that
she was hiding because her head was under there she just wasn't very body aware
that's what it felt
like yeah like this is not hiding yeah you're not hiding from COVID your hands
go right in there's
this big space it's just this plastic window in front of your face it doesn't
make any sense at
all yeah but that was it's like symbolic like you had to have something on that
showed that you're
precautious for sure you had a good pandemic it was a fun time yeah and you've
been you've been very
quiet of late we haven't heard anything of you really I'm being sarcastic yeah
no I mean I'm
basically doing the same thing you have been put through the ringer is yeah I
definitely got put to
ringer since we last met I mean yeah you they did a number on you they did wow
it's interesting wow but
my subscriptions went up massively that's what's crazy they're in the height of
it all I gained two
million subscribers I'm so pleased for you I just I'm pleased for everyone
actually when I watched what
they were doing to you I just thought that as long as you survive this
something's gonna be okay in
this world yeah they really did feel that they went for it and because it didn't
work yeah it felt like
everyone could sigh a bit of a well it's also it's fortunate that the people
that went for it were CNN
and they're just so untrustworthy yeah people know how biased they are and they
know how socially weird
their fucking anchors are just these awkward non relatable people that no one
feel like if there's
someone on TV and that per I mean pick a person like Jon Stewart is a great
relatable person who
I find to be a brilliant guy who's a kind person if Jon Stewart thinks you're a
piece of shit I'm gonna
listen right you know but if Brian Stelter doesn't like you I I that doesn't
mean anything I I want to
my rule that I'm trying never be mean about people because of their appearances
but a friend of mine
said to me the other day do you know how old Brian Stelter is and I said 56 or
something he said look it up on
your phone he's like 34 yeah something nuts I couldn't stop laughing for us
evening I just couldn't
stop laughing I don't know what everything about the guy is strange everything
about very strange his
pattern of communication is so strange it's like do you listen to other people
yeah they talk very
differently than you yes he has a hmm yeah and also crystal ball from breaking
points was making fun of
the other day she's like why does he sit like this because you ever notice he
sits like this Douglas
Douglas Murray has a book out it's called the war on the west and it's terrible
the war on the west is
that really what's going on my one of my favorite moments was him with barry weiss
where barry weiss
how has the world gone crazy oh yes and she just rattled off one after another
after another that's right
yeah when you say silence is violence when actual violence is violence the
world has gone crazy yeah
the world's gone mad and she just rattled all these off we're speaking on this
day where a cnn
yeah cnn plus went under oh cnn minus just went under they spent 300 million
dollars they got 10 000
subscribers imagine the hubris of thinking that something that people don't
want for free that
you're going to charge money for it we're going to have a jake tapper book club
jake tapper seems like
a great guy but i mean i feel like i don't have to pay for his book club it's
it's like you should put
that on twitter it's i think it's just it's just not very good i mean the
ideological stuff aside it's not
very good i watched jenna a little while ago um maybe like early last year i
just spend a bit of time
watching it and everything in the coverage was horrible and inflammatory and
everything in the
advert breaks were for like um adverts about the kkk's history in america so
like all you saw all the
time was like burning crosses and and then that was the relief from the from
the interview stuff it was
just horrible to watch a function of time right because if you are if you're
dealing with a show
that's only an hour long and it's supposedly a new show you kind of have to pay
attention to only
the bad things because you have to be aware of those bad things because those
maybe maybe those bad
things are something like you know russia invading ukraine something you
actually have to pay attention to
but it's not a it's not an accurate assessment of the world at large like there's
so much great stuff
going on it's like most of the world is wonderful most of the world is people
getting along
most interactions between people are fine sure sure no i mean um there was a
british philosopher
some years ago who tried to start a website which only did good news i felt
really sorry for him
because it was obviously going to fail it was obviously it was a nice idea uh
but it was obviously
going to fail because people don't really just want to hear that things are
okay is there a problem
with just the idea of having news just news in that in that way like where you're
just going to
something to see what's happening in the world so it's almost always going to
be negative like there's
no there's no news channel of record that we're aware of ever that is focused
on like really positive
stories no i mean some local news used to do a bit of that didn't they i mean
yeah nice local story
bit of heartwarming stuff kitten up a tree gets rescued by the fireman yeah
someone opens a shop that sort of
thing yeah it's like it wouldn't make the national news right but it's nice
local stuff in my own
lifetime everything seems to have gone wrong since 24-hour rolling news i'm
just sure of it like i saw
it i saw it myself it just yeah because of the need of the news to develop the
story i mean i used to
get this uh when i started off in journalism people would phone you and say um
uh would you be willing to
come on and call for x now that y has happened and then so say say somebody's
got into a scandal
are you would you come on and argue that uh we should now uh call for an
inquiry and then you
have people like would you be willing to come on a call for the resignation say
that you know it's
enough and is enough so they vet your opinions oh yeah of course interesting
and uh i think things like
you know sky in the uk the bbc you know they want it because they think their
job is to move the story
along because otherwise it's just them all day saying the same thing which it
kind of is yeah but
the other thing is it's a very it's just a very bad way to absorb news i mean i
i flicked down a few
news websites in the morning and that like i can get most of them and most of
the news in like a minute
maybe um an overview and if i was watching like nightly news i'd take half an
hour yeah that's just
not a good use of my time well even the way they handle debates or discussions
they have too
many people they'll have a panel with four or five people they're all talking
over each other and
they're all trying to get a sound bite i always joke about that one that they
do where they say
now here's an incredibly important issue and that's it's a world important
issue and that's why
we're going to discuss it for three minutes with five guests all of whom get 15
seconds yeah yeah
it's crazy that's not that's not appropriate the subject at hand it's terrible
yeah it's a terrible
way to communicate yeah it's it's there's no way you're ever going to get into
depth about something
no one knows when they can talk so everyone's trying to like and there's also
that jump in and
that presumption that presumption of uh the interviewer wanting to take the
guest down yeah i mean that's
that's that's the worst one yes that's the worst one well that was a lot of
people's reputation like
that interviewer would as