Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1742 - Jimmy Corsetti
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1742 - Jimmy Corsetti' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-01. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1742 - Jimmy Corsetti

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Joe Rogan.
Hello, Joe Rogan.
Nice to meet you in person.
I've watched many, many of your videos on YouTube, and I really, really enjoy
them.
That's quite flattering.
Well, we share a common interest, this fascination with ancient civilizations
and the mysteries.
The first video I think I saw of you was this video of these concentric circles
in Africa
that are remarkably similar to the descriptions of Atlantis.
The Rishat structure.
Yeah, and then I started reading up on it, and I'm like, this is pretty wild.
And then I got into your whole YouTube page, which is called Bright Insight,
and it's really excellent.
So first, before we even get started, how did you get interested in this
subject?
Well, going back to the sixth grade, that was when I fell in love with the
Egyptians.
Oh, yeah.
Bring that sucker up to you?
Yeah, there you go.
How does that sound?
Perfect.
I've always had a fascination for the ancients.
Growing up in school, most topics bored the hell out of me.
In math, I'd be like counting the ceiling tiles more than I'd be counting
numbers.
But something like that, the ancients, science, history, I always thought was
fun.
But I never would have thought that I would grow up to make a career out of it.
My story is pretty unique in that I made a lot of life changes about five years
ago.
I was heading down a path.
I was really unhappy.
I was doing a corporate life, and I was more depressed than I had ever been,
and yet I had everything in my life.
I had a good paycheck, beautiful wife, house, everything, except for a soul-sucking
path of a career that was going to bring me nothing but misery.
What were you doing?
Well, I was a fraud investigator for a large retailer, one of the largest.
I'll say it's not Walmart.
Actually, I'll say it's Target.
Who cares?
Oh, Jesus, you're crazy.
I can't believe you're saying it.
It was a sweet gig for a while.
I was doing a couple of responsibilities, internal theft and fraud.
So I was investigating employees that steal from the company, and I also
managed the team that would bust the shoplifters, external theft and fraud.
And that gig was awesome for a few years until – and I'm not talking crap
about Target because it's a corporate thing.
They're all doing the do-more-with-less philosophy through attrition.
They get rid of other positions, and then they pass on those responsibilities
to you, and then you end up doing less of what you really want to do.
For example, what I was good at was busting people that were stealing from the
company, salaried managers.
How would they steal?
Like what's the most clever way?
Well, so it could be something as simple as stealing cash, but that's like the
easiest thing to catch, so that's more rare.
Some people steal merchandise, so you've got to think about it.
Like if you were to take – because we were joking about DVDs earlier.
No one's doing them anymore.
But when I was last year in 2014, DVD box sets for like television series,
those things would go $50, $60.
But if you steal a whole box of them and you sell them on the black market,
there's no overhead.
And other things that people do is mark things down.
Like you'll have a TV or patio furniture or something, whatever.
Think about it.
And you just mark that stuff down.
And yeah.
But it could be something simple as stuff.
It could be people that are just trying to – I don't know.
I mean, you think about it like it's – actually, let me put it like this.
And this is for the external – this is the shoplifters.
You want to guess what the number one most stolen thing out of Target is out of
anything else?
Gum?
Mm-mm.
No?
I'll give you a hint.
I would think it's something you could slip into your pocket.
I'll give you a hint.
Oh, yes.
It's women and something that's just dropped in their purse.
It's nail polish.
Nail polish?
More than anything.
Really?
Yeah.
So they just walk by and they just go, I can get away with this.
Yeah, just grab it.
And you catch them on cameras?
Is that how you bust them?
Yeah.
And so that's the thing a lot of people don't realize.
I tell anyone, like, don't steal from Target, man.
Like, you will send your picture to all the other stores and they will memorize
your face.
How about just don't steal?
Yeah, don't steal.
Do the right thing.
Don't be a fucking piece of shit.
Yeah.
It's like some people think, well, it's a big company and it's harmless.
But I'm like, no, like payroll matters and everything comes down to these
fractions of percentages.
And this can hurt employees from having hours.
Well, it's just gross.
Yeah.
So you did that and then you didn't like it.
So how did you get into this YouTube world of these awesome videos?
All right.
So I was at Target.
I was unhappy.
I tried to find another gig.
Nothing was panning out.
So I'm like, all right, I'm going to go back to school and get an MBA, Master's
of Business Administration.
Even though I wasn't a fan of school, I'm like, this will get me that six-figure
corporate gig.
I'm going to be manager.
And I was sick and tired of all this bureaucratic red tape shit of knowing that
there's something a company could do better and has to go through so many
people.
And no one listens.
I'm like, Christ.
So I'm like, well, let me become the decision maker.
Let me go get a high-power job and that will satisfy me.
But midway through the program, I got real depressed.
I was married and I was like – once I graduated, I was doing some soul
searching.
We moved to Boise, Idaho for a change and nothing was panning out for finding a
job.
And so I was, like I said, depressed.
I was like, fuck this.
I'm just going to go become a school teacher.
I'll bite the bullet.
I don't care about the money anymore.
I just want to be happy.
And I always thought being a teacher would be fun.
But truth be told, I'm like, I'm not doing that for $35,000 a year.
Like, that's – you're poor.
Teachers, school teachers are practically at the poverty level.
Right.
But anyway, so I was like, I'll do that.
And then they're like, well, you got to go back to school and get some certs.
It's going to be like another year and a half.
I'm like, I'm not going back to school.
I just got a master's.
And so I was like, well, I had heard people were on YouTube and making money.
And I'm like, I could teach anything on there.
And so I started shotgunning it.
I started making videos on all kinds of different topics, all kinds of crazy
stuff.
Joe, if you saw my earliest stuff – I mean, I've deleted more than half my
videos.
I was talking all kinds of woo-woo.
Well, you had to learn, right?
You had to learn how to do it right.
Yeah.
But YouTube is – YouTube has a lot of dumb shit on it, like, undeniably.
But you can learn a lot of things on YouTube.
There's a lot of, like, legitimately fascinating information on YouTube and
legitimately informative
videos.
Yeah.
So that comes to you.
So you start making these videos on ancient civilizations.
Those were the ones that got the most views.
And it all made sense because it was the most fun topic to make videos on.
So you were the most enthusiastic about it.
Yeah.
And it ended up making sense.
It worked out that way.
Because even just doing the research wasn't hard.
Because if I'm reading something I'm not interested in, like, my brain just
goes –
Of course.
Me too.
Same thing.
But I'm very, very interested in ancient civilizations, which is why I got into
your
videos.
That's very flattering, Joe.
And I guess I just want to say – it's interesting because, you know, before
we hadn't chatted,
I was like, which videos had he seen and what stuck out?
I've seen quite a few of them.
I've seen most of your videos on construction methods of Egypt, of the pyramids,
and some
of the videos on all the other structures that are there.
You've got to stop messing with that.
It's going to fuck with your head.
Is it?
You're going to keep going up and down and up and down.
Well, I know.
I've been constantly turning it down.
You're fidgeting.
Just relax.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, I'm not used to hearing myself like this, so.
Right.
Yeah.
You get used to it.
But it's the best way because it stops us from talking over each other.
Right on.
Like, people normally, in normal conversation, they talk over each other all
the time.
But when you hear both voices at the same time in your ear, you realize how
annoying
that sounds to people listening.
I got you.
Like, if you do a podcast with four people, and I've done a bunch of them with
four people,
it's a fucking nightmare.
If you don't have headphones on, it's a disaster.
It's a disaster to listen to.
Yeah.
I heard your one two weeks ago on Tim Pool with everyone else, Alex Jones and
everyone.
It was disastrous.
It was only eight of you.
It was a disaster.
So, what was your first, like, one that you realized, like, actually caught on?
Like, what was the first subject?
It was on Nikola Tesla.
Oh.
And I was talking about his thoughts on intuition and where his inventions came
from and how he
would just sit around thinking up all of his inventions.
It wasn't through tinkering around.
He was convinced that there was ideas coming to him from the universe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was convinced that he was some sort of, like, a radio.
Yep.
For signals.
Yep.
Which I think a lot of people who are very creative, they think that way.
A lot of singers will tell you that their songs come from, just like, they come
from the air.
You know, some of the best jokes that I've ever written just seem like they've
come out of
nowhere, which is really confusing because it's like, you know, that's what the
concept
of the muse is, right?
The concept of the muse is you sit, like, have you ever read Steven Pressfield?
Yes.
Is that what the-
The War of Art?
Yes.
Yeah.
I thought it was The Resistance, actually.
Am I thinking of something else?
Yeah.
No.
Steven Pressfield.
Same guy.
Okay.
The Resistance is the thing that he talks about that everybody struggles
against.
This is, like, the procrastination and that The Muse, he treats it as if it's
a real thing and that you just need to sit down and then be a professional and,
like,
give yourself this amount of time.
Like, this is when I show up every day and then The Muse will meet me there.
But if you don't treat it like you're a professional, you don't respect The
Muse,
it won't show up.
Right.
And his idea is that this is, like, a real thing that's giving you this data,
which is very similar to the way Tesla thought about things.
Do you believe that?
I don't know.
But you said-
But if you treat it that way, it's real.
It's like the same feeling I have about God.
Like, if you live life like there's a God, if you live life like there's real
morals and
ethics to the universe, I feel like you can get a better result.
And it's not like that you should only be ethical and kind because you feel
like there's, like,
a big guy in the sky watching you.
But if you do uphold the principles, like, the primary principles of
Christianity, right?
Do unto others as you would have to them to you, you know, treat everyone as if
they are
your brother or your sister and, you know, love and kindness and that, you know,
all these
different, very easy to understand principles of, like, love and happiness and
camaraderie.
If you just follow those, they're really beneficial.
They really work.
Now, does that mean that a guy came back from the dead and walked on water?
And that seems a little fishy.
But if you just follow those principles as if there really is a God, I believe
that it's
a great framework for life.
And then I think that you could live a better, more fulfilled life if you live
like that.
I totally agree.
And, you know, it makes you wonder, Joe, like, do you ever wonder, like, what
is all this
about?
Life, the universe, like, where did this all come from?
Yeah.
And the very fact that we're sitting here talking about it.
So I was thinking not long ago, th