Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1770 - Valentine Thomas
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1770 - Valentine Thomas' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1770 - Valentine Thomas

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Hey.
Must be Canadian week.
Two Canadians in a row.
Salute, my friend.
Where's the other one?
Oh, yeah.
Jordan Peterson.
Yeah, Jordan was on yesterday.
Your country's in revolt.
Do you know about this?
Show this video.
Look at this video that I sent Jamie.
Huge.
Look at my girl forever.
This is by Action Center.
It's at Edmonton heading to Calgary, January 23rd.
It's a giant convoy of trucks that's apparently some insane amount of people,
like 50,000 trucks,
that are headed to Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandates by Trudeau.
And they're all coming from Canada.
They're all in Canada.
They're all in Canada.
It's all Canadian truckers.
Because apparently they're all being mandated that they have to get vaccinated.
And they're like, hey, we don't even contact anybody.
We're in our truck.
Yeah, that's true.
We just drive.
And, you know.
Okay, this is another one that I sent Jamie.
Watch this one.
This girl is like at a bar and she, I don't know if she's a stripper or what,
but this is this guy's birthday.
Don't you hear it?
Where's the volume?
Here we go.
So watch this.
She pours water on them.
And then check this out.
All fun and games, right?
It's all fun.
Right?
I have a feeling it's going to end bad on her.
She tases him.
Not good.
Yeah.
Fucking tased him and lit him on fire.
I saw that video the other day.
You saw it too?
Yeah, yeah.
Whoops.
Yeah.
First of all, who gets tased at their birthday party?
Good point.
That seems.
It's a lot.
What kind of friends?
They're just sitting at the bar.
There's just a stun gun ready to go.
I mean, when you get that burnt, like, how long was that?
Ten seconds he was on fire for?
Five seconds, maybe?
Yeah, you could probably recover from that.
Steve-O does wild shit like that.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
But he had to get, like, serious skin transplants.
Remember?
Last time we saw him.
He had, like, bandages all over his arms.
Yeah.
That guy.
That guy goes.
How do you explain that to your wife, though?
Well, she knows.
Well, now she knows.
I don't know if he's married.
Steve-O's, but I don't know about this guy.
Oh, that guy.
He's going to have an issue.
Yeah, that's going to be a problem.
Well, the video is out, so he's going to have to explain that.
But Steve-O's wife is fully aware that he's out of his fucking mind.
But that poor guy.
So, my friend, for people who don't know you, it's been a few years since you've
been on the podcast.
You were once a lawyer in Montreal or on your way to becoming a lawyer, and you
were like, fuck this life.
And now you're a spearfisher person, which seems to be, if you looked at that,
like, on paper, like, you're like, how?
No, that's a recreational activity.
That's not something that you – but you figured out a way with your smart
brain to actually monetize it.
I did.
And promote it.
And it's very positive because it's like you're promoting – like, first of
all, you're promoting freedom to choose to live your life the way you want to
live,
which in your case was like, I don't want to be locked in a cubicle, I don't
want to be in an office, I don't want to do this.
And this – diving in the water, holding your breath, and shooting fish.
How's that working out?
How many years has it been now?
It's been – well, it's been about, what, three years and a half now since I
was on the podcast.
And I've been doing this for a good, maybe, five years.
Have your parents settled into it yet?
They made a bit of way into it, but they still –
They wish you were a lawyer.
The first question is more about, like, are you making good money?
Are you fine with that?
Which is fair enough, you know, when you're older and you care for your kid,
you just want them to be good, I guess.
Oh, for sure, yeah.
I mean, it only makes sense.
But it's like they must realize that you're, like, a social media success now.
It's like the whole thing is – it's actually got weight of its own.
It's got some momentum.
You know, I see your posts, and they're very exciting.
And you're deep, deep, deep in the water with a spear gun in your underwear,
like, swimming around.
It's all very exciting, right?
I'm way too cold to be wearing underwear underwater.
I wish I was, but –
Well, sometimes you are, aren't you?
Even when the water is 80, 90 degrees, I always have a wetsuit.
That's because, like, your body is 95, right?
What's the human body normally?
37 Celsius.
Oh, you Canadians.
98.6.
98.6?
Right, 98.6.
So, like, anything under that.
Like, when I had a waterbed at one point in time, and if you're ever in a waterbed
and the heat element goes out, you can't sleep in the waterbed.
Like, you can't sleep in a cold waterbed.
It freezes you.
It sucks water from your body.
Like, if you're in a waterbed and it's 70 degrees, it's not like being on a 70-degree
mattress.
It's brutal.
I had no clue.
Yeah, you would think that it wouldn't be like being in the water, but it feels
just like being in the water.
It's like, ugh.
I had to sleep on the ground.
Yeah, to sleep on my carpet.
That's crazy.
No, but that's not the main reason why I wear wetsuits, because there's a lot
of creepy stuff out there, and I don't want fire crawl, but some different
things.
So, I just want to make sure that my skin is protected.
Does anybody make a wetsuit that's like Kevlar?
That I know of.
Would that work?
Because, like, Kevlar stops knives and bullets.
Wouldn't it stop, like, shark bites?
Well, would it be?
The problem is that it has to be flexible, because a free-diving wetsuit is
literally painted on your body.
Right.
So, unless...
Super flexible.
It has to be, like, yeah, you have to, it's pretty uncomfortable to put on.
Wetsuit is?
A wetsuit, yeah.
Does it chafe your skin up, too?
It's like, firstly, you can't put it on dry, so you have to put some soapy
water in it.
Oh, okay.
So, just that part.
If it's cold outside, it's just...
That's a process.
Yeah.
Just it itself.
And so, I know they make Kevlar clothes.
Is it possible that they can make...
See if they make Kevlar wetsuits.
Yeah, we got one.
Oh, look at that.
Kevlar neoprene.
See, you don't want to die.
I'm trying to help you.
Don't get eaten.
I will start a company of Kevlar wetsuit tomorrow.
I think they already have one.
Jamie's already found one.
Yeah.
I at least have articles talking about it.
Let me see.
Pretty great idea.
There's pictures, but I don't know if that doesn't really help a lot.
Oh, you got to look like a Martian.
Yeah.
Let me see.
It says like they got...
Scientists got sharks to bite into Kevlar.
This is what they found.
What the fuck did you find?
Goddammit, Ed Blocker.
That would be so cool, because then you could make like a cool shark design.
Yeah.
Where like you're white at the bottom and dark gray at the top.
So like fish can't see you from under and then you can't see you from the top
either.
That's why sharks are white on the bottom, huh?
Yeah.
So basically if you look up white, you can't see it.
And if you look down darker, you kind of blend in.
Yeah.
Isn't that fascinating how...
I mean, you must see this a lot because you're always diving.
How animals have figured out a way somehow or another through natural selection
and evolution
to blend in with their environment, like with coral reefs.
You know, it's like, it's so interesting, like how animals figure out a way to
camouflage themselves.
I mean, the ocean has been around for forever.
So, I mean, marine animals have way more time to evolve also.
So it's...
Every time I catch a fish, I always spend time looking at it because it's...
The design behind any type of seafood is just mind-blowing.
What did you show us, Jamie?
They said it was...
They're testing a material getting bit by a shark.
Let me see.
Did it work?
You can't tell, so...
Oh, well, let's see.
It just looks like it's getting eaten.
So it's like a brick of the material?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
So they got it on a board just to see if it cuts through.
And I guess it didn't.
Why did the shark bite it?
It's probably meat inside of it or something.
Yeah, they probably put like tuna inside of it.
They're so creepy.
Such a fucking creepy animal.
I mean, even if it's better than getting your arm ripped off, but they're
definitely going
to break it.
Yeah.
But, you know, if it breaks it, wouldn't that be...
It's much better.
Yeah.
You're not going to get massive tissue loss.
You know, you have to get to the hospital pretty quick.
Plus, the shark will probably be frustrated and swim away.
Hopefully.
I mean, it's...
Most shark attack is very often, unless it's a rare occasion, that's, you know,
they take
one bite and like, bleh, I don't really like that.
And they just swim away.
Well, aren't we delicious?
Probably not.
Probably it would taste like shit.
That's so weird.
Because animals like us.
I wonder why sharks don't like us.
I'm not sure.
We're not fishy enough.
Because they love seals.
Maybe seals are fucking delicious.
Maybe.
Oh, I tried it.
Yeah, you tried seal?
I tried it.
It's...
Seal is actually very invasive in Canada.
It's been for a lot of years.
Really?
The normal population that it should be, should be around like 400,000, 500,000.
And now it is above four millions.
Four million?
So, it creates a lot of issues on fish stocks, lobsters, things like that.
So, it creates a lot of problems.
So, basically, there's different people who use it.
You can eat it.
You can wear it.
You can wear seals?
I have seal boots.
Oh, you shouldn't tell people that on this podcast.
They're going to come for you.
Don't you think, Jamie?
Well...
Seals are cute.
I mean...
The problem with seals is like they hit a ball with their nose.
Well, it's...
Unless you experience minus 40 weather, like you can try with your H&M boot, it's
the same
in Fahrenheit.
Oh, that's right.
That's the number where it becomes the same.
It is.
Yeah.
It's minus 40, minus 40.
And it's...
Canada gets really, really cold.
I've heard about that.
It's hard to find clothes that makes you...
So, seal is the answer?
That's the best stuff to wear, really?
I mean, it's...
When you think about it...
Okay.
Let's see this from a rational, not cute, little puppy seal perspective.
Right.
It's...
When you're comparing a seal boots or a seal jacket that's going to last you
for 40 years,
50 years without degrading in the slightest, they're invasive.
You can eat the meat.
And then if you want to compare that to a Zara jacket that's created a lot of
pollution
and created a lot of, you know, borderline slaveries and poorer country...
What kind of jacket did you say?
Like a Zara.
What's a Zaro?
Zara.
Zara?
Zara.
Do you know what that is?
My accent is so weird.
That's a company.
Oh, like a...
Yeah, like a clothing...
Like H&M.
Oh, okay.
So, there are better options out there, but it's, you know, those companies
sell a lot
of jackets, so it's...
Sometimes you have much better...
Right, I get it.
Ideas just by doing that.
I see what you're saying.
Yeah.
The people...
Well, it's...
We have these weird connect...
What is this, Jamie?
Seal skin boots?
That's the ones I have.
Those look pretty dope.
They actually look pretty dope.
Minus 60 degrees, that's where they're rated at?
Oh, it's...
I've been in minus 57 degrees Celsius in those, and I...
I was not feeling the cold.
Why are they so good?
Like...
I mean, because they live in freezing cold water, so I'm guessing that the skin
and the
fur is actually really insulating and really made for...
So, that would be better, like, even if you were, like, hiking in the mountains,
than,
like, an insulated boot, wouldn't it?
For sure.
If I'm going, or when I'm going hunting in Alaska, I'm wearing that.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Are they built for hunting?
Like, can you, like, side hill with them?
Do they have good stability?
I mean, they're pretty good.
They have a pretty good gripping type of sole.
And the fur is also waterproof.
Have you ever seen, like, what a technical hunting boot looks 