Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1706 - Billy Corben
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1706 - Billy Corben' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-09-14. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1706 - Billy Corben

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Hello, Billy.
Yeah, hello, Joe.
Always good to see you, my friend.
I'm just here so you can give COVID back to Florida.
What if it works like that?
Florida gave it to me, I've got something for it.
I'll have to figure out how to pay Florida back.
Don't say Florida never gave you anything.
Listen, man, I had a good time down there.
It was a rough few days, but I had a good time.
I feel like everybody has the same Florida story and it's just that.
Well, Florida is just Florida.
You know, I mean, one of the things that Florida has gotten a lot of positive
reviews since the pandemic.
You know, Florida came up during the pandemic, right?
I mean, a lot of people were negative on it.
They thought that the restrictions were terrible and, you know, he needs to do
more and DeSantis is killing people.
But a lot of people are like, you know what?
At least I can go to restaurants.
Florida lets you go out.
Florida doesn't want to have you have mandates and the tax situation.
Florida came up.
You got to admit, Florida became a more attractive place during the pandemic.
August was the deadliest month in Florida in the history of the pandemic.
This past August?
Yeah.
One in five COVID deaths in the United States occurred in Florida.
Now it's almost as many as one in four COVID deaths in the United States are
occurring in Florida.
We've had 13 Miami-Dade County Public Schools employees die of COVID.
That includes teachers, bus drivers, people die of COVID since mid-August.
Jesus.
Last month we had, I think, no less than 20 police officers in the state of
Florida die.
We had a 10-day period in which we had a police officer a day dying of COVID.
If you go to the officer down Memorial page, the executive director there, a
sergeant from Fairfax, Virginia, says that we, by the end of the pandemic, it
will overtake the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001 as the single deadliest
incident in the history of United States law enforcement.
I mean, if I told you that there's a killer out there in Florida killing a cop
a day, there'd be fucking martial law, there'd be tanks in the streets, there'd
be guys in tactical gear and assault rifles, rightfully so.
And there is, and it's COVID-19.
And these people are interacting with the public, of course, to boot, and it's
a tragedy.
It's a human tragedy.
What is the difference between the way Florida is treating it and the way other
states are treating it?
So Florida is having these, like so many cops in particular, dying in Florida.
Is that the case everywhere?
Is that the case with all first responders?
That they're all at risk?
Or is it just, is Florida uniquely dangerous?
The short answer is yes.
And by the way, what the fuck is happening in Florida is an evergreen question.
Right.
That is the question.
Yeah, but the answer, you know, the COVID-19 for the last two years is the
single largest cause of death for law enforcement officers, more so than all
other causes combined.
That's crazy when you think about the amount of violence and the amount of
crime that takes place.
Yeah.
COVID-19, number one cop killer for two years running and counting.
And this is just everywhere or just in Florida?
That's true nationally, but Florida is uniquely because we're open for business.
That kind of pro-business, pro-freedom attitude.
You know, listen, Florida has no indigenous industry.
Okay?
We don't, we don't produce anything but oranges and machine guns.
That's what Florida makes.
We sell the sunshine.
Do you guys make machine guns?
Yeah.
We have gun manufacturers in Florida.
Oh, that's so good.
We sell the sunshine.
Okay?
And that just means we have to, what we sell, we're all just tourism people,
right?
We, we, we, we knock down the old shit.
We build new shit.
We build it taller.
We build it bigger so we can attract a thousand newcomers tomorrow.
It's a Ponzi scheme.
The economy is a Ponzi scheme.
It relies, it's not self-sufficient.
It relies solely on new outside money and investors coming in the next day.
So we subsist from hustle to hustle.
So our pandemic hustle was come here.
Everybody else is on lockdown.
Come to Florida.
And a lot of people did.
And a lot of people died as a consequence of that.
So some businesses did, did better and people died.
I mean, that's the reality.
I was looking at something today that was showing the deaths in Florida per
capita versus
the deaths in California per capita, per capita when it was age adjusted.
And Florida had less deaths when it was age adjusted, when, when they, when
they looked
at it in comparative to like how old people die normally anyway.
And Florida has a much older population.
We do.
It was showing that per capita, more people are dying in a very locked down
state like California.
Well, I think that, I don't know that that's entirely age adjusted.
It may be.
Yeah.
It's age adjusted.
But, but I, I, there's a 27 year old police officer, a mother of a two year old,
five month
old.
I mean, she died from COVID.
Died from COVID.
So like, and these are, are they getting bad treatment?
I think they're, I think it's several things.
Listen, treatment is no substitute for the vaccine.
It's just not.
Okay.
People, the, the, the vaccine is helping people.
It is helping people to, it's less likely they'll get infected.
It's more likely they will survive that just bears out.
I think it's the vaccine hesitation is what I think it is.
I think that that's the major cause.
And it's particularly problematic when you have public facing people like law
enforcement
officers who are interacting, they can come to your window to write a, a part,
uh, write
a traffic ticket.
And that could be a death sentence.
It's very unusual for a 27 year old person with good health care.
Someone who's been taken care of to die from COVID.
It's very, very statistically unusual.
And that is anecdotal.
That's one example.
So I'm not saying that that is, is the rule.
Did she have preexisting medical conditions and comorbidities?
I have no idea, but let's be, let's be honest.
Americans by and large are not in as good a shape as you, as you're in.
Like, that's just, you know, we, we all, we're all, we're walking, talking comorbidities.
That's, that's just, you know, the reality, but you know, the, the, the truth
is, is that
there is a safe and effective and in fact, free way to, because that's the
thing too,
is, is the treatment is not a, a pre-infection prophylaxis.
You know, it's something you, it's something you do later.
You know, it's not something you do to avoid getting the, uh, getting the virus.
And here's the thing, once you have the virus, for some people, that's a death
sentence.
It doesn't matter how you treat it.
Wait, but wait a minute.
Stop.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know if that's true because we don't know what they're doing.
When you say it doesn't matter how you treat them, if they treat them with monoclonal
antibodies in particular, early on in their infection.
Which are available in Florida.
Yeah, they're available everywhere.
It's shown to have an incredible rate.
There's like, there's a recent study, Fauci actually talked about it.
The 85%, uh, it keeps people from being hospitalized.
Absolutely.
And every, and I don't begrudge anyone a cocktail or a kitchen sink approach.
Once you get infected, you should try everything that you and your doctor want
to do.
You were saying for some people, if they get infected, there's nothing they can
do.
And I'm saying, I don't know if that's the case.
I don't know if they're doing that.
I think some people don't know what to do.
And they're basically sent home and told to take Tylenol.
If they have poor healthcare, they're getting bad advice and they're getting
bad healthcare once
they're infected.
I think there's a lot of people who don't have access to quality healthcare.
There's a lot of people that don't have access to healthcare, period.
And there's a lot of people-
If you're a cop, I mean, that is, that should be paramount.
I mean, if you are interacting with the general public the way police officers
are during a
pandemic, they should have access to the best healthcare possible, especially
if they're
infected.
I mean, if you're going to ask these people to protect you, you should
absolutely protect
them.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I, I, I, that's what I said.
It's a human tragedy.
What, you know, what's happening.
Uh, but I, I think that it starts with, listen, I'm a, I'm a documentarian, so
I'm a natural
born skeptic, but I'm also pro fact.
Because what we do is cultural anthropologists, which is effectively what
documentarians are
is we apply the scientific method, right?
We make observations, we ask questions, we develop hypotheses, we collect data,
you experiment,
we analyze that data and we draw conclusions with the best information we have
at the time.
I don't know how all of these police officers were, were treated.
I know they died and I know that many of them were not, were not, in fact,
statistically,
most of them were not vaccinated.
I don't have access to their, you know, to their private health information.
I just know that the, the treatment is not a replacement for your ability to
prophylactically
prevent either being infected or being severely infected.
A replacement or not, we know for sure that being vaccinated can protect you
and it can
protect you from hospitalization.
It can protect you from, you know, the, the, the odds of you dying once
vaccinated are much
lower.
We know all that.
That's a fact.
But we also know there are a lot of treatments available.
They're not being utilized for people once they get infected, whether for
whatever reason
they have their vaccine hesitation, for whatever reason they, they don't want
to do it.
There's a lot of treatment that's available that's not discussed.
And I think monoclonal antibodies are among the best.
I just did it.
I just got through it.
When I got through it that quickly, I was like, oh, well, this can clearly be
done.
I mean, I'm not, I'm 54, you know, I'm not a spring chicken.
And when I beat it that quick, I was like, okay, well, this is, I'm not that
unusual.
I mean, I work out a lot.
I eat really well and I'm healthy.
That helps tremendously, obviously to have a resilient body, but also there's
treatments
available that aren't being utilized or people aren't aware of, or they're not
getting access
to.
Some of those things treat symptoms and some of those things are effective
against the
virus.
That's the other, that's the other thing as well.
So the monoclonal antibodies have emergency use authorization by the FDA.
I think that's because they are probably the most effective thing that's
available right
now.
And again, I'm a natural born skeptic.
So I'm, I look at everything sideways.
I've been testing negative for what, a year and a half.
And I have to think I, you know, in Florida that I came into contact with it or
I was sick
and didn't know what I was asymptomatic.
I just, you know, so I'm, I'm skeptical of these, although in Florida, we
literally have
tents at the side of the road, COVID, COVID testing.
So maybe not necessarily the most reliable.
How, how many places, this is so interesting to me.
There's so many places for testing, but so few places for treatment, you know,
wouldn't
you think that they would set up places that could provide monoclonal
antibodies and they
made them publicly available, like really obvious?
We have them.
Do you make them real, real obvious?
The governor has been on a promotional tour because one of his biggest donors,
of course,
is the guy who, yeah, is the guy who runs the company.
They do that in Texas as well.
Yeah.
And it's great.
And I just, I just wish more people were aware of it.
I wish more people, listen, right now it is a pandemic, I believe of the unvaccinated,
which means that it's a pandemic of the uninformed and misinformed.
And I think t