Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1515 - Dr. Bradley Garrett
Uploaded: 2020-07-28T19:00:10.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1515 - Dr. Bradley Garrett' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1515 - Dr. Bradley Garrett

and boom and we're live what's up man how are you cheers hey cheers brother
nice to meet you
good to meet you too by the way congrats on the mustache the mustache lower
piece combo
that's uh the anarchist guy with that guy that who's the mask oh the guy fawkes
that's right
yeah yeah perfect right yeah i was kind of i was going more for a kind of doc
holiday val
kilmer is doc holiday dude i'm i'm your huckleberry how good was he in that
role he was fantastic
many people have played doc holloway but he's the best so uh are you a prepper
yourself
because you do have one of them gps watches on so either you're like a hardcore
hiker
or you just don't want to get lost you were waiting to see the paracord
bracelet
they always have that right does that ever come up when do you ever unravel
that thing
you know yeah that always seems to me like someone who like preps you know you
just try a little too
hard if you get a paracord bracelet no it's a kind of virtue signaling you
never know though i guess
it's better to have it not to need it right than need it not to have it i mean
it's kind of funny
when i so i've been i've been hanging out with preppers for about three years
now and uh inevitably
you start drifting towards the culture right as you're talking to people but
every once in a while
i'll see someone in a grocery store or whatever and i'm like okay they you know
they got the bowie
knife they got the like you know walkie talkie strapped to them like wow you
are really paranoid
really yeah i know people walk around with their radios on because they want to
be ready for action
at any moment you live in the mountains wilderness type area i live in i live
in big bear do you
did you live there before you got obsessed with no prepping no so did you move
there to accustom
yourself or to uh acclimate yourself to the culture like so here's the deal i
one of the communities
that i worked with while i was writing this book bunker was a community in
south dakota where there's
there's 575 uh sort of semi-subterranean concrete bunkers that uh were built
during world war ii
and they used to store uh weapons in there right so these are bunkers to
protect ordinance
jamie's going to turn this towards you there okay cool thanks um i think i've
seen this before now
they drive they drive like rvs in there and stuff is that the same yeah exactly
so now you've got now
you've got like 30 or 40 families that are moving into those bunkers and uh
those families super cool
people very generous very kind of spent a lot of time with them and uh you know
they told me if if
you know if it ever hits the fan come visit us well you know we've got space
for you you're gonna be
safe you're gonna fight you well yeah maybe but so so when the when the
pandemic hit i you know of
course i thought well is this it is this the moment we've been waiting for so i
send everyone
messages and sure enough they're packing up and they're going to the bunker
field and then i
thought you know the obvious thing well you know what about my family what
about my elderly parents
what about who else you know what i mean the list starts growing of people that
you have to abandon
to save yourself right and uh so i didn't go obviously good for you but but all
my family lives in
southern california my immediate family and uh and i started thinking about
like what is the appropriate
bug out plan and and i think this is a good one so basically big bear is within
an hour and a half of
all my family members and uh i bought a cabin out there it's got a quarter acre
it's you know relatively
remote um i can store some supplies we can also use that as a family vacation
home right so so like in the
meantime we can just enjoy it yeah but if we ever needed to all sort of leave
together at the same
time we could go to the cabin it's kind of crazy that you could be at the beach
and you could drive
two hours and you're in the snow that's one of the weirdest things about california
i mean we have some
really interesting terrain yeah well growing up here i never i took it for
granted right yeah and now i've
lived in four countries and visited maybe 40 and every time i come back to california
i think damn this place
is unique how long did it take you to get to the valley uh to get to the right
here oh to here um
two hours that's nothing yeah yeah it's not bad at all but check this out the
really cool thing is
that if you go off the back side of big bear mountain you can just drop down
into the mojave desert
so you can be you can go from big bear to joshua tree in like 30 minutes and if
you really if
you can take dirt roads in a four by four you can get there in 20. wow yeah
so if you want to do mushrooms it's a place it's a good spot to live it's a
very good spot to live now
you decided to write this book and then you moved there was that the idea or
did you had you been
thinking about living in a place like that first or uh no i never i never
really thought about a plan
um to be honest with you i've been living in cities for 15 years now i lived in
london and then in
sydney so i've been in sydney for the past three years and you know cities just
suck the money out
of you so i never i never had any money i never had any way to to think about
it and i know the the
pandemic has been you know tragic unfortunate terrible for a lot of people but
for me it was like
one of the best things that ever happened to me i i came back to california
check this out i came back
to california to take care of my mom because she was having spinal surgery i
had just finished my
three-year research fellowship at the university of sydney that that enabled me
to write this book
with the doomsday preppers and i was going to a new job at university college
dublin in ireland
and so i land in la to take care of my mom for for six weeks while she gets her
spinal surgery
bang as like i'm wheeling her out of the hospital and they're putting in the
the tents in the parking
garage at torrance memorial hospital for the overflow of of covet patients oh jesus
so what time when was
this i i i guess this was february early february so it was just when it was
starting to pick up yeah
and so uh i'm with my partner amanda we just moved from sydney and and uh we we
take my mom home and we just
you know lock ourselves inside for a couple of months and kind of wait for this
all to unfold so
i actually finished this book like the final proofs of this book i finished in
lockdown in the early
days of the pandemic you feel relatively safe when you're in a place like big
bear because it's woods
and you know just like by the time the virus gets up here and how's it going to
get to you you know
what i mean it's not like you're in these crowded areas it's well i you know
the virus doesn't give a
shit it moves wherever it wants that's true you know you have all these people
driving from la up
there for the weekend and you know that's true you were also saying that people
are pretty cavalier
up there huh oh yeah yeah they certainly are um did you does it feel good to be
tested you you were
tested today do you feel good if you feel like a weight lifted off of you it
actually yeah yeah right
yeah it's nice great because i was thinking i was actually kind of disappointed
to see i didn't have
the antibodies everybody thinks they have them everybody does everybody in here
is like i think in january
i think back in january i had this cough i'm pretty sure i had it but i have to
say um
i guess my you know my anxiety about coming here was kind of ramped up by the
by the pot the
possibility that they were going to say you've tested positive you're like
dragged me out by my hair
you know well we wouldn't do that no if you were positive i would just back up
a little and put a
mask on i guess what would we do would you feel comfortable doing a podcast
with someone who's in the
room was positive i think it's a bad move we probably would be but we do in the
parking lot
we could do that just we'll think we would figure it out if you were positive
we'd figure it out we'd
do it in the parking lot with masks on or something but here's the thing about
big bear right is that
is that um when we were in lockdown in la in the early days of it like again i'm
speaking from a space of
privilege here you know because my paychecks were still coming in whatever but
like i almost experienced a
sense of euphoria like all my talks were canceled my plane ticket i canceled
like four plane tickets
so the pressure's relieved oh yeah and i was like i can just hang out with my
mom this is great you
know but but you get you know you get through that initial phase and then you
get into the stamina
phase right and like that's something we should really talk about because when
if you if you're
thinking about locking yourself in a bunker um you know stamina is going to be
really important and when they
uh shut down the beaches and the trails in los angeles and i couldn't get
outside anymore that i mean
that had a devastating mental effect on me did they do that in big bear as well
they shut down the trails
up there no so when we we moved up to big bear immediately we could go we could
go trail running
again we could be outside and you know is it san bernardino county yes so they're
allowed they have
different rules lower population all that jazz yeah a lot more space yeah yeah
yeah yeah the the trail
thing was a real bummer um the the locking off the beaches too it's like you
know there was in the
beginning there was so much scrambling because they weren't really sure how it
was transmitted or when it
was dangerous when it wasn't dangerous now they're pretty sure um there was a
study done that shows that
it dies almost instantly it's in sunlight so uh when you're outside at the
beach is probably very little
chance of of spreading so a lot of people took this that when the protests were
happening it's a very
little chance that it's going to spread during the protest which is probably
true during the day
but the thing is the protests don't end during the day people were jammed on
top of each other all
throughout the night and it easily could have gotten you then yeah they're
showing that also even
simulated uv light there was a study done that showed that artificial uv uh
artificial sunlight
with simulated sunlight also kills it i had i was out in a joshua tree
yesterday and i went for a
seven mile trail run damn dude you bring some water how hot is it up there i
went through four bottles
of water god that's scary i actually i forgot my i usually have my camelback
that i run with and i forgot
it so i just i stocked up on water and anyway i was slamming water but i was on
the trail like
i mean way out way out in the middle of of the national park right totally open
space and i and
i run up on this hiker and she like you know puts her backpack on the ground
and she pulls the mask
out and puts the mask on whatever you know and i'm like the trail's pretty wide
yeah um i didn't say
anything but it's like it's kind of like people are scared i know people are
scared if you want to really
be scared i'm in the middle of a book right now my buddy matt staggs
recommended this i want to tell
people about this because this is excellent now i want to say before i say this
do not get this book
if you have anxiety just don't um it's called survivor song it's a novel by paul
tremblay i guess that's
how you say his name paul tremblay it's excellent but it is terrifying and it
is about a pandemic it's about
a pandemic that hits the east coast it's a fake pandemic like a type of rabies
that has easily
spread to people there's got to be loads of people writing books about pandemics
well this obviously
was written a long time for sure for sure i think i don't know what year it
came out i don't know what
it says here i got the audio book but i just wonder if we're going to reach a
saturation point on the
topic where people are like i'm not touching a book that has anything 