Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1799 - Yannis Pappas
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1799 - Yannis Pappas' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-31. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1799 - Yannis Pappas

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Joe Rogan.
When are you moving to Texas?
As soon as I can.
Are you thinking about it?
Absolutely.
Really?
I'm coming down, yeah.
I'll be here.
That club's opening.
I love Texas.
I love Terry's Barbecue.
How fun was last night?
Last night was a lot of fun at the Vulcan.
Those shows are fucking great.
We're doing those shows every week.
Yeah.
It's such an amazing place where you can fuck around and work out and write new
shit and
practice in front of live audiences.
Yeah.
They were an incredible audience, incredible show.
It was nice.
Green room's nice.
Private bathroom.
Yeah.
Push your coat in, that's nice.
It's fun.
It's a win, win, win.
Yeah, it's fun, man.
Yeah.
It's a unique situation to be at a comedy scene.
There was always a comedy scene here, but now it's like,
because of COVID, it got this new boost.
And so many guys moved here, and now it's flourishing.
And now it's different.
It's got a different feel to it.
Yeah.
And it's not just comics.
It's people.
I mean, this place is growing and growing and growing.
Every time I come here, it's like watching somebody who started working out,
and you haven't seen them in a while, and you're like,
wow, man, you're looking good.
You're looking good.
You shed a few pounds, you know?
And by that, I mean, like, shed a few homeless people on the street.
Like, they're less and less.
That's the big move.
We actually talked about that yesterday with Michael Schellenberger,
a guy who's running for governor of California.
And the mayor, Steven Adler of Austin, he had a plan, and he fucking pulled it
off.
He was like, if I can fix this homeless problem, if I can't fix this homeless
problem
by the time I leave office, he goes, it'll be a big failure.
He goes, but I think I can do it.
He goes, it's only a couple thousand people.
We think we can provide them housing.
We think we can get them help, give them shelter.
You're always going to have some people that just want to live in the woods in
a tent.
You're going to have some schizophrenics who think the government's got a chip
in their brain.
It's always crazy people.
But he managed to get all those tents off of Cesar Chavez,
off of those main streets, off of downtown, and it's way better now.
Way better.
I used to work at a formerly homeless SRO.
That's really like other states should adopt that.
New York City, they have this thing.
It's called an SRO where it's like Section 8 housing, so the government pays
most of it,
tries to employ them.
There's caseworkers there.
That's what I did.
And that's great.
It houses the homeless.
They usually take like old hotels or sometimes I think they build buildings
specifically for that.
And then they live like they have their own room, a shared bathroom,
and caseworkers on there.
And, you know, it was fun.
Did you do that fresh out of college?
I did that.
I did 9-11 disaster relief fresh out of college from 2002 to 2005.
So that was like an ad hoc agency, a Lutheran social services.
So that was like a, that was my first foray into social work.
And then I worked at an SRO for two years.
So when you say disaster relief, like what does that entail?
It was helping people who lost their livelihood, lost family members at 9-11.
You know, they were affected by it in some way.
They were in the blast zone, the disaster zone.
They had to be relocated.
They lost their jobs.
So we would like petitioned to FEMA to get them, it was called the Mortgage Rental
Assistance Program.
So we'd take their cases there.
There was this, there was this combined charity called the Unmet Needs Table,
where like you would take a client and present the case.
They lost this income or, you know, they lost a family member.
So they lost this for assistance.
So you would, we were like their representative and you would take their case.
Their case would be approved for the Unmet Needs Table.
And it was a bunch of charities that came together and they would sit.
It would be like Catholic charities, Lutheran social service, you know, and,
you know, a bunch of charities.
And they would dole out money and assistance to people who were affected.
There was a lot of people, particularly first responders, that were deeply
affected by 9-11 because of the, all the chemicals and the residue and the shit
that was in the air because of the explosions and the collapsing of the
buildings.
Yeah.
Did they ever provide them relief?
I know Jon Stewart was actively campaigning for that.
I remember he was making, which is crazy that that's an issue 20 fucking years
later that they're still talking about that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, when I, I got so burnt out from all that, I kind of just switched off
after I was done.
And what I was doing was like so close to the, to the event.
It was like right after it was like, you know, I started was at the beginning
of 2002.
So it was mostly just like emergency assistance.
Like people were all, I remember my first day on the job, like I'd never done
social work, whatever the first, you know, I was 22, three or something.
And, uh, first day on the job, this dude, he was a pastry chef at Windows on
the World.
And I met him, he was a new client.
I met him in this little, uh, like cubby, uh, you know, um, meeting room.
And he started crying to me.
You know, he was off that day and the survivor guilt and like he lost all his
friends.
And I was just sitting there as a kid going like, all right, man, you need a
coffee or something.
I didn't know what to do.
Like I was just not good at it yet.
23, something, 22, 23.
Yeah.
Jesus.
Yeah.
And then, uh, and then dude, when you do social work, the count, they call it
counter transference.
I think is the official term for it.
We're like, um, if you're an empathetic person, like you start taking it home
with you.
Like you start, and that started happening to me.
Like I would, because these people were like getting evicted, you know, they,
they lost their job,
but they worked at the, the millennium hotel.
I think it was called, which was right across the street.
I had a lot of clients that worked there.
And then you go home and you start worrying about like, dude, I got to get this
money from
the MN needs table.
I got to get them the MRA program or else they're going to get evicted.
You start like taking it on.
And that's when I started having panic attacks.
And that was a, you know, it was an interesting time.
Well, I can only imagine, of course you would take it on or you would become
numb if you did
it too often.
And this is a, that's the dilemma the police officers face, right?
I mean, if you're dealing with domestic violence case after domestic violence
case, after
homicide, after murder, suicide, after, you know, over and over and over again,
you're
fucking seeing this shit every day, all day.
Like, how do you not take some of it home with you?
You, you do.
I guess, I mean, if you, unless you're a psychopath, which is a real advantage
in life.
It's an advantage of your CEO, apparently.
Yeah.
They say that's like one of the, the biggest character traits for successful
CEOs.
Yeah.
Comics, comics, psychopaths, you think so?
I mean, yeah, some sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists.
But don't you think they have to be good?
Like, to be a good comic, you have to resonate with people in some way.
You have to be at least somewhat compassionate.
All the good guys that we know, the guys who are good, none of them are sociopaths
or psychopaths.
Or if they are, they're really good at it.
They'd be so good.
I mean, you know, if you think about it, we share, our skill set's very similar
to dictators.
You know?
We get up there, we move crowds, you know, we get people to believe.
Yeah, I mean, that kid used to crush.
I mean, say what you want.
He was a headliner.
He was a fucking headliner.
Yeah, you try going up after him.
Imagine having to go on after Hitler.
Yeah.
Especially in Germany.
Yeah.
You know, in his own town.
Yeah.
He came up in tough rooms, those beer rooms.
He came up in bars.
Yeah.
Yeah, he came up like a New York comic.
Yeah.
Oh my God, he did.
And he was on coke.
Yeah, he was on all types of stuff.
Coked up.
They shot him full of testosterone and cocaine.
Yeah.
Sent him up there.
Get up.
I don't even.
I wish I could speak German to really understand the impact of his words.
To get it, you know, from the actual language itself.
Because if a guy was up there crushing like that in English, it would be very
disturbing.
Especially if you knew that this guy was a totalitarian dictator who was going
to lead his people to a fucking disastrous war.
A war based around race and creating a master race.
I mean, that's a fucking crazy, dystopian, terrifying thing that happened 80
years ago.
It's wild to think.
Wild.
Yeah.
Wild.
It's so recent, man.
Yeah, it's very recent.
And it really hits home with this Putin shit.
Yeah.
Because now, you know, when you're seeing Putin invade Ukraine, you're going,
oh, this can happen again.
Yeah.
Like, this is a thing.
Yeah.
Like, this is a thing that people do occasionally.
Yeah.
People need to realize dictators, they have a modus operandi.
They have a personality type.
They don't change.
Right.
They're not like, Putin's not like, I'm good, you know?
No.
You take Ukraine, I'll take Russia.
It's not like, he said it many times.
He's like, I want more.
I want the former glory of the USSR.
The worst thing that ever happened was the breakup of this thing.
And, you know, there's a perspective that he had that maybe what's preventing
him from that is the NATO alliance.
Oh, yeah.
I know it's going to get a lot of hate for people saying that because people
love Putin now, apparently.
Do they really?
Who loves Putin?
And there's a lot of people who are like, oh, yeah, we're provoking him by
being on the border.
It's like, there's a bunch of countries that are on the border already.
And it's like, those countries joined because they're scared of Russia.
Russia has expanded.
Ask Finnish people why they're, you know, which do they prefer, the United
States.
You know, we're still the good guy here.
Yeah.
We're still the good guy.
We are the citizens.
Our ideology is.
But when you think about the stuff that our government is doing, I mean, how
about, you know, don't get Dave Smith started about the war in Yemen.
You'll find out deep details about the illegal war in Yemen and the bombings
and just how many people we fucking kill with drones.
There was a chart that showed, and this is not, you know, an anti-American
statement, but it's just like there's a thing about military.
There's a thing about war and strategy.
And this whole NATO thing and mixed with Putin, you know, the thing that they
were worried about is the literal thing that he's doing.
He's invading Ukraine and blowing up fucking apartment buildings and shooting
missiles into cities and taking over cities.
Like, it's kind of like, I told you so.
It's like they were worried about him expanding his range of power.
And so they wanted to, you know, there's talk about them wanting to join NATO
and wanting to join the EU.
And people are like, well, that's provoking them.
But isn't this, like, what they were worried about?
Right.
Like, when you see him move in, is it provoking him?
Like, look what he's doing.
He's doing exactly what we're fucking terrified of a guy like him doing.
Yeah, he knows we're not going to invade because of the mutually assured
destruction.
And also, nobody ever invades Russia and gets out alive.
Dude, I used to think it was mutually assured destruction until I talked to
Mike Baker, who's a former CIA operative.
And I use the word former in quotes.
He told me that they have hypersonic weapons now.
And he goes, this whole idea of mutually assured destruction was based on the
concept that if we got word that Russia had launched its missiles, we would
also launch our missiles.
We had, like, 20 minutes to 