Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1473 - Tom Papa
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1473 - Tom Papa' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1473 - Tom Papa

Okay.
So, what were you just saying, Jamie?
We have LA's stay-at-home order will likely remain in place for the next three
months
unless there is a, quote, dramatic change to the virus and tools at hand,
officials say.
How are people supposed to feed themselves?
Like, really, realistically, how do they expect this to work?
You go out to work, and then you skitter back home.
That's not what they're saying.
That's not what stay-at-home means.
Stay-at-home means you don't go to work.
Yeah, but at the same time, they're opening up businesses, right?
They're opening up very few businesses, and you have to get curbside for retail.
I heard our governor in the state of California say that 70% of businesses are
open now.
Well, if that's the case, even if that was the case, let's say 30% of people
are out of work.
That's catastrophic.
Yeah, it's a lot.
And I don't think it's true.
I don't think 70% of the places are open.
That's what he said.
70% of businesses.
Even if they're open, they're not open at 100% capacity.
Or they're probably working from home.
Like, offices.
He's probably counting offices.
And those people are still working and getting paid, but they're doing it from
home.
So this is just L.A.?
L.A.
So that means, like, Comedy Store has no chance.
Yeah, I believe it's for the county, yeah.
So it's the biggest county.
This is the same fuck-up who thought it would be a good idea to have people rat
on people for money.
Technically, this was not coming from the mayor.
This is coming from a health, someone in the health department talking at a
supervisor meeting or something.
So it was a suggestion.
It wasn't a...
Not an official order, but it's coming, yeah.
Right.
So it's not an official order.
Not an official order.
But L.A. is the densest county in America.
How about that?
Is it really?
Yeah.
More than New York?
Yeah.
As a county.
Hmm.
That seems odd, doesn't it?
It does seem odd.
It seems like a lot of people.
It seems like New York City is denser.
Yeah.
New York City is...
The thing about New York City that makes it great is that everybody sort of mingles
together.
Everybody gets on the subway together.
Everybody walks together on the streets.
Yeah.
That's also the reason why everybody's getting sick together.
Yeah.
But I saw an interesting thing that the highest...
This guy wrote an editorial about the reasons for New York, and he lives in New
York, and
he said Staten Island had the highest number.
This was written before, I think Brooklyn has now edged it, but at the time,
that Staten
Island was the highest, and it was the least densely populated, and Manhattan,
which is the
most densely populated, had the fewer number of cases.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Well, I wonder if that is similar to, you know, what they're finding with
people that
work together, or in prisons in particularly, they're finding that there was
this one prison
they did a study on, 98% of the people were asymptomatic.
Really?
Yeah.
98%?
Yeah, 98%.
Jeez.
It's nuts.
Yeah.
That's weird.
So I was bringing it up with a friend of mine, and I was like, do you think
this is because
my friend Kyle Kalinske, and he was like, I think it's because their immune
systems are
strong, because they're just interacting with each other constantly.
Mm-hmm.
And I was like, oh, that kind of makes sense, because I was thinking, if you're
in prison,
you're probably stressed out, and you're getting bad food.
Yeah.
And horrible sleep.
And yet, your immune system's strong.
Right.
Because you're just being bombarded all the time?
Yeah.
You're being bombarded all the time by stinky, dirty people.
Where if you live in an isolated, fancy place with purified air and all this.
You're in a wonderful community in Brentwood.
You don't see your neighbors ever.
You don't go anywhere.
You're very fragile.
Yeah.
You go to the store.
You come home.
And now, our immune systems are, I would imagine, this is just pure speculation,
but I would imagine
that your immune system is like all the other systems of your body, that when
it gets tested,
it gets stronger, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So your immune system right now is being put into a state of atrophy, because
it's not being
exposed to anything new.
It's in a lounge chair.
It's just chilling.
It's got sunglasses on.
Hasn't worked in years.
It's got soft legs that cramp up when it goes upstairs.
And all of a sudden, it gets called to go to work, and it's just like, dude,
what?
Wouldn't you imagine if that's the case?
It seems like it.
Yeah.
It seems like it.
We're setting ourselves up to get really sick if something comes down the pipe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that was what was very strange in the beginning of all this, when people
were saying
that people just spout out, you can't do anything for your immune system.
You can't make it stronger.
That's nonsense.
And it was like, really?
Who was saying that?
Just online.
I did a thing with, really, just people spouting off.
It's crazy, because online, it's written.
And when you're seeing things written, you're like, wow, this must make sense.
It's written.
I know.
It's got 150,000 likes.
This has got to be real.
I know.
It's just Bob said it.
It's just a matter of a guy walking down the street.
It's the same thing.
I don't understand how we could take three more months off.
I really don't.
Well, it depends what they mean by, I mean, you know, when you talk, when you
hear the governor
talk, it's, you know, he's moving it along and he's in these phases and pushing
it through.
And it doesn't, I don't, I don't think it's going to be, as I'm stammering at
the realization
of it.
I don't think it's going to be like what it was in April, in May.
Why not?
In July.
Because I, because I want to go outside.
I think so too.
LA County breaches, beaches reopen May 13th.
Yes.
But you can't hang out on your lounge.
You can't hang out on your towel.
You got to go in.
Make that larger, please.
Go back to where it was.
You can do water sports.
No lying or sitting on the sand.
Right.
Canopies, coolers, or picnicking.
Right.
You can, you can be active.
You can go swim.
Parking lots are closed.
So where do they expect you to park?
They don't want you to go.
Individual family activities and exercise only.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So you can go down.
You can swim.
You could ride the waves and then get out of the ocean and get back in your car.
Look at this.
No, no picnicking.
You can't picnic.
No biking.
No biking.
No, why can't you bike?
I have to say.
No volleyball?
That, you see that round circle with the slash through it with the giant canopies?
Mm-hmm.
Those should be banned all year.
Have you ever been next to one of those on the beach?
Oh, those are disgusting.
Oh, my God.
Why, why are you allowed to set up camp?
Building a house.
Yeah, you're basically saying this is my area of the sand.
Yeah.
Blocking everyone's view.
Yeah, you can get a fucking towel.
That's what you can get.
You get a towel and that's it.
That's how it's always been.
I know.
These people come down there.
They've got coolers and tables higher than this.
You see they have fences now?
People are setting up beach fences.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're selling beach fences.
You set it up.
You stick it in the sand and you mark off your area.
Oh, my God.
Social distancing.
We're creating dorks.
This is all before social distancing.
These are just people making camps there and bringing 25 people.
Oh, I hate it.
So reopens tomorrow is what they're saying.
Yeah, baby.
Well, that's good.
That's a start.
I think we need to move in the other direction.
I think we need to quarantine people that are at risk.
That's what I think, really.
And then let people make their own choices.
The idea that these hospitals are going to be overwhelmed is not true.
It's not correct.
Luckily, we're very fortunate.
Yeah.
And the idea that we're going to run out of ventilators, that's not true either.
Right.
And then also, that doctor that worked with Michael Yeo was telling you this
before we started.
The doctor said that if he put him on a ventilator, he would die because his
body would stop trying to breathe and it would just sort of give up.
And this is what Michael Yeo's doctor told him.
And he survived.
And then we're finding out that a lot of people they put on ventilators don't
make it.
And I wonder if what he's saying applies to those people.
Right.
Was his a special case of why they didn't want him on the ventilator?
No.
His doctor is just a wise guy.
He's just smart and just figured it out.
Wow.
I mean, look.
I mean, it's a weird thing to think, you know, what if we hadn't done all of
these measures?
Would the hospitals have?
I mean, because the hospitals, for a beat, were crazy.
Depends on where you are.
Yeah.
Like, if you weren't in Queens, it was insane.
Yeah.
This place is where it's horrible.
Yeah.
So, like, if we hadn't done these things, what would the result have been?
It's a good question.
You know?
I mean, would we have achieved herd immunity, you know, or would we have
achieved it quicker?
Yeah.
That's the, you know, because herd immunity is like 60% of the people have been
infected.
Right.
And then the virus sort of dies off.
Right.
You know, when you look at the Spanish flu, when you look at the history of
that and, you know, the places that did something fared much better than the
places that didn't.
The end result was, you know, all these people died.
It goes through the same amount of time.
But just, you have a lot more fatalities, you know, and it's this, it's always
been this kind of calculation, like, you know, people are doing the math.
I feel like people are doing the math and they're saying, okay, X amount will
die, but we've got to get back to work and get these people to work.
And they're trying to figure out that equation.
Is the suffering of the people that are probably going to survive even if they
get it?
Is that suffering going to be greater than the suffering for families who lose
people?
Right.
So that's that balancing act.
And you can see where people are coming out on it.
Certain places are like, no, it's just time to go.
And, yeah, there'll be casualties, but we'll deal.
And other people are saying, save lives at all costs.
Well, if we say save lives at all costs, we should all stop driving.
I don't want to do that, too.
So I can't go ahead.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, no, I know what you're saying.
Yeah, right.
There's things that are risk.
This is one of those things that's a uniquely human problem because there's no
real answer for it.
Because most human problems are like, whoa, it's, oh, hmm.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
No, right.
You don't, you kind of, we're all isolated on this one thing.
Yep.
And then you stop thinking, well, we live at risk all day long.
Yeah.
Every, you know.
Well, not only do we live at risk all day long, but we make decisions that
could put ourselves at risk.
And we're allowed to make those decisions.
But with this, you're not allowed to make those decisions.
And the idea is, well, because you put others at risk.
Okay, but who and why and do, you know, when do we decide?
Like, how long can we go on with this?
If we don't have any new tools in July, what is going to be the difference
between July and now?
Well, that's what Fauci is saying about the fall.
He's saying that, you know, there's going to be a resurgence of it in the fall.
You're going to have more because it's the flu season.
People are going to – and you need to be prepared with testing and stuff to
deal with this in the right way or else you're back to what we were dealing
with in April and May.
And that you've got to be – you've got to learn from it and be prepared.
And it's the testing, the testing, the testing.
Yeah.
It just seems, you know, Elon just opened up his factory in California, the
Tesla factory, and said, come arrest me.
Right.
Basically saying what you're doing is a violation of civil liberties.
You're telling people that they're not allowed to go to work and that this is
– it'