Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1615 - Hamilton Morris
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1615 - Hamilton Morris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1615 - Hamilton Morris

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Hamilton.
Hey, Joe.
Good to see you, man.
Good to see you.
What's happening?
This is our third podcast, but not really.
I only count two of them because of the first one.
We were literally so stoned we couldn't communicate.
Remember that one?
I remember it well.
I like it.
I feel like I'm getting the tour.
First, it was your home, then the LA location, and now this new intermediate
red tube.
Yeah, the red tube.
Some folks call it the red pill, but that also has a lot of negative connotations.
The red tube, then.
Yeah, whatever it is.
This is podcast studio number one, two, three, four, five?
It's number five?
It's the third one I've been.
I think it's number five.
It might be number six.
One, yeah.
Well, number seven or number six, whichever is right next door.
And it's going to be, it's going to be all I've learned from constructing
podcast studios.
This one was very haphazardly constructed last minute because we made the
decision to get the fuck out of LA, and we had five weeks.
And my friend Matt Alvarez put this place together in five weeks, set it all up,
and then five weeks later, we were broadcasting from Texas.
It looks good.
It's not bad.
It's okay.
It's odd.
What is the optimal arrangement going to be?
The optimal arrangement is probably less weird on the eyes.
Like, the thing about this is, like, you're looking around, you're like, why
are there backlights behind those sound panels?
Why is everything red and black?
Why is it, like, tube-shaped?
And it's just, it's an odd room, man.
It's odd.
But I like it.
I just don't, I just think we could do better.
We could make it weird.
Plus, I'm bored.
Get bored easy.
I've been here for six months.
I want to mix it up.
Yeah.
Mix it up.
Yeah.
How's Brooklyn?
It's grim.
Is it?
It's grim right now.
I've lived in New York for the majority of my life.
I love New York City, and this is by far the grimmest I have ever seen it.
Really?
I mean, this winter, because it's everything that the entire country is facing,
but it's the worst for COVID.
It's also extremely cold.
A lot of city services seem to have been impaired in one way or another.
The streets are covered in garbage and ice and dog shit, and you can't, pretty
much the only thing that I can do to maintain my sanity is run.
But everything, including the outdoor running track, is covered in ice and shit.
And so it's just this dystopian, frozen, pandemic landscape where every local
business that I loved is closing down.
It's a dark time.
Yeah.
I hear that about Los Angeles.
I saw a lot of it, but I got out early.
I saw the writing on the wall, and I was looking to move in May.
Once the lockdown got extended, once they're like, we're just going to lock
down for two weeks to flatten the curve, I was like, that makes sense.
And then here we are in April, all the way through April.
Here we are in May.
And then I'm like, oh, they're never going to let us out of this.
And then the crime started happening, and it started getting dark.
And I was like, oh, we got to get the fuck out of here.
Homeless.
The homeless thing was like flowers blooming out of rocks, out of cracks in the
concrete.
It's like more tents, tents, tents, tents, tents, tents.
Like, Los Angeles is filled with tents.
Like, you can't believe it.
Like, when I tell people about it, and then they go there, they're like, oh, I
thought you were exaggerating.
Like, no, I was understating.
Like, Los Angeles is overwhelmed with tents.
It's fucking crazy.
Like, you can't believe that on La Brea, they just allow people to set up tents
everywhere.
It's nuts.
Well, yeah, what are people going to do?
That's the question.
What are people going to do?
Yeah.
Where are you going to put them?
Do you have hospitals available for them?
And a lot of those, the problem is a lot of those shelters, they won't let them
do drugs.
Yeah.
And a lot of these people are like, I would rather be in a fucking tent outside
by the beach than be under your thumb.
Because Los Angeles doesn't get cold, you know?
I mean, a cold day is 50, you know?
It's a big deal.
Right.
Sleeping bag, you're outside.
It's nice.
Yeah, it's really emphasized a lot of these economic divides, you know, because
everyone in New York just orders everything on Amazon.
Yeah.
So every apartment building in every nice part of New York receives a daily
shipment of every tenant's stuff from Amazon.
And then there's like a secondary economy of people just going into all the
buildings and stealing all the packages.
I've seen a lot of that.
Yeah.
I've seen a lot of Ring videos, doorbell camera videos of people stealing shit.
Oh, yeah.
It's almost comical.
I mean, I had one where I was loading my car with bags at two in the morning on
a Tuesday and in the lobby of my building for maybe 15 minutes, somebody just
as soon as I walk around the corner, someone goes and scoops everything up.
But yeah, it's a wild time and I hope we're coming out of it.
I mean, right when I came to Austin, this is the first time I've, you know,
been on an airplane since the beginning of the pandemic.
You're the first person I've spoken to without a mask.
No, really?
The first face I've seen in months.
Did you feel weird coming in here?
But you knew everyone was tested.
No, no.
Yeah.
No, I felt fine.
You did?
I've just been very careful and because it's all so cold in New York, it just
promotes this prison cell-like lifestyle where I'm just sitting in my apartment
reading and doing push-ups all day.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah.
The dog shit thing is like, so people just don't clean up anymore?
They just gave up?
You know how it is.
There's this kind of tumbling character where things just start to accumulate
and then no one shovels the streets and then it gets easier.
It probably is harder to pick it up because there's just, like, mounting layers
of garbage everywhere and it just starts to look increasingly disgusting.
I mean, maybe we'll just get out of this in a couple weeks and everything will
be…
Oh, yeah.
The problem that I don't think the people that shut everything down for a
fucking year ever take into consideration is that people don't have the
resources to bounce back.
Things don't bounce back on their own, right?
If you want to start a business, it takes money.
Like, it takes quite a bit of money to get a lease, to put the stock, the
shelves, to hire employees.
And when you've been out of business for a year, you don't have any money.
So you've probably used up all savings if you had any savings.
Try getting a loan when you don't have anything.
There's really, there's no real logical path forward for a lot of these
businesses.
In Los Angeles, 75% of the restaurants are gone.
Oh, yeah.
I'm so worried about the restaurants in New York.
Yeah, it's terrible.
It doesn't seem like it's even talked about sufficiently.
No.
Because in New York in the wintertime, I mean, they're really trying.
They're doing things that I would have never, like, truly extraordinary things,
like making these little heated space gazebos that are covered in mylar on the
inside.
And, you know, ultimately, most people don't even really want to do that.
So then there's this weird conflict of, is it moral to support these businesses
because you want them to stay in business?
Or are you feeding into a system where people are subjecting themselves to
unsafe working conditions?
And is it actually immoral to go to restaurants?
And, of course, people endlessly argue about that.
Well, personal choices are not immoral, right?
So if the people decide that they're willing to work there and they're masked
up and they feel safe working there, isn't that better than not having a choice
to work there?
I guess the idea is that instead of people going on unemployment, they feel
pressured to put themselves at risk when they really should be at home,
not potentially spreading coronavirus and ideally receiving some sort of
government assistance.
Well, it's also like, when does the government assistance run out?
Because it has run out for a lot of people.
There is no more unemployment for a lot of folks.
And then on top of that, the way everything's been mismanaged is so terrible in
so many ways.
Like, why is it okay to be at Target on top of people?
Why is it okay to be at Walgreens on top of people, but it's not okay to have
these mom and pop stores open?
Or retail stores?
Oh, yeah.
Or, you know, like I said, I haven't been on an airplane until I came to see
you.
But, of course, I see all these stories in the news that are like, this guy
went on an airplane and he took off his mask and they had to do an emergency
landing and they kicked him off the plane.
And if you haven't been on a plane, you just kind of read that and you think,
oh, yeah, wow, that guy sounds like quite an asshole.
Good that they kicked him off the plane.
But then on the plane, I hadn't even considered this.
Like, what is done with snacks?
What are the snack provisions?
Are there no more peanuts?
Is there no water?
And if it is served, then everyone has to take off their masks.
So, this is all just sort of like security theater because they still serve
food and everyone unmasks simultaneously to eat.
So, there's a period of at least 15 minutes where everyone on the plane is unmasked
by the doing of the actual airline.
Yeah.
It's nonsense.
It's full nonsense across the board.
Well, I think people just don't know what to do.
It's, you know, they're aware that all these things are contradictory.
Everyone is trying to do their best.
They're confused.
They don't understand it even to this day.
People are trying not to be an asshole.
You know, when you wear a mask, what you're basically saying is I'm not an
asshole.
You know, I'm going to go around and I want you to feel like I care and I want,
you know, I want you to feel all right.
So, I'm going to wear a mask.
But it's not.
I mean, maybe it's protecting somewhat.
It's certainly not 100% safe.
You know, like it's protecting you against droplets, someone sneezes, but you're
breathing.
Oh, yeah.
The masking is definitely good.
I think that's pretty well established.
But I guess what I don't understand is the hypocrisy.
Like, if we have established that masking is good, then we also have to not
have snacks on the flight.
Or water.
Or water.
Yeah.
So, then what do you do?
You're on top of each other.
You're sitting three people next to each other.
I mean, it's like literally the opposite of social distancing.
Yeah.
It's incredibly intimate.
You don't even know these people.
You're touching elbows with them.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, and this is why when it started, I was one of these people that, you
know, I was thinking, well, you know, I work in media.
I know the way the media blows everything out of proportion.
I remember swine flu.
I know that they sell newspapers by making everyone terrified.
This can't possibly be as bad as people think it is.
And I was sort of in COVID denial.
And I was also in the middle of filming the third season of my TV show.
So, I was just sort of seduced by the momentum of production and didn't want it
to end.
And people were saying, you know, I don't think we can film anymore.
I think we have to stop.
And I thought, what, is the world going to shut down?
Yeah.
I remember that.
Is the, like, this is unprecedented.
Yeah.
The world isn't going to shut down.
We're not going to be kept in our apartments.
It's just not conceivable that such a thing could happen.
Cut to one year later.
But it's not everywhere.
That's what's interesting.
And here's the big thing.
There's been no emphasis whatsoever on steps that you should take to make
yourself healthier.
There's been no discussion of reducing obesity.
You've got to lose weight.
You've got to take vitamins.
You've got to do something to make sure that your immune system is strong.
Like, here are the steps that you can take.
Here's what we know abou