Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1454 - Dan Crenshaw
Uploaded: 2020-04-07T19:00:02.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1454 - Dan Crenshaw' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-04-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1454 - Dan Crenshaw

congressman how are you sir i am doing well joe good to see you again you look
official bro you
look very official you have an american flag in the background you got books
have you read those
books be honest with you yeah that's a good question um some of them i mean
this one's like
a congressional cookbook like i'm not going to read that so obviously uh some
of these i have
or at least i dabble in books like i'll i'll look over a book mostly i've
definitely read my book
that one's up there i've read that way too many times i hate reading it now and
that's the one
that's out right now i wrote it that's the one that's out right now that comes
out yeah that comes
out uh i don't know when we're posting this but tuesday april 7th that's
tomorrow uh yeah that's
exactly when this will come out so perfect fortitude we need that right now and
um we do we do now the
rest of this i just kind of set up for this uh i found that weird ass painting
right there it's some
like flea market in san diego back when i was stationed there it's like a it's
like a it's a
bunch of ships it looks like a horrible idea for a tattoo you know sometimes
people have those
really bad old ship tattoos yeah i i yeah i feel like there's worse tattoos you
could get oh yeah i've
got them is there uh what about the typewriter do you use the typewriter is
that legit no that that
that is a legit typewriter that was my granddad's old typewriter so i i saved
that um they kept it in
pretty good shape i didn't really have to do much restoring but you can still
buy the ink for that
and actually we would uh we used to have it set up in the house so when guests
came over they could
like type write a message and so it's like a guest log it's kind of cool that
is cool cool thing so
what's your take on what we're going through right now dan for everybody in the
future this is a day
it's basically a month into like extreme coronavirus lockdown for the country
it all started
sort of in the beginning of march now here we are in the first week of april
and uh everybody stir
crazy and weirded out by this including me and i'm sure you as well what what
is your take on this
wow generally speaking i remember i remember the weekend where everything all
of a sudden shifted
it was the march 14th weekend i remember that weekend because it was my
birthday
and i remember how everybody was basically still going out to bars and
restaurants and then all of a
sudden everything changed like the entire paradigm changed and i could go
through a long timeline of
how we got there there's a lot of finger pointing right now a lot of opportunism
the reality is
a lot of us didn't pretty much everybody didn't know a whole lot and then we
ended up in this
situation where and now my general take on it we we are in a what i would call
a tactical retreat
so i'm going to use a military term there to describe what we are doing we all
of a sudden ran
into a hail of gunfire okay like and i think about this in military terms we're
on a patrol we run into
a hail of gunfire we're not really sure what hit us we have a basic idea we
know who they are we know
generally what the enemy is but we weren't quite sure how to combat it so we
took a retreat tactically
speaking that retreat looks a lot like a lockdown okay don't talk to anybody
don't don't touch anybody
maintain that social distancing lock things down we have to slow the spread and
allow our backup our
our public health system to catch up at a certain point we have to come out of
that tactical pause
we have to come out of that retreat and start engaging in the enemy a little
bit um now we do
that slowly we do it carefully and so i think that's the i like to look at it
that way as the
conversation about how to reopen society at a certain point we have to move
away from risk containment and
move into a risk mitigation strategy and we're ramping up our production of
things like ventilators
of ppe of testing capability in order to do that now there's some talk of when
this is going to end
and i don't know how you even make that distinction how how does one make a
decision and it seems like
one of those things where once it starts once you lock a country down and tell
people stay away
stay home don't go to work don't do anything unless it's very essential like
grocery stores
hospitals uh media there's certain things that are allowed to be done right now
when does that end and how does one decide when that ends
there's a lot of different ways to think about that from from the public health
perspective i hear
them say certain things like um after 14 days of of a downward trend in cases
then we can start
reopening um when the r is less than one then you can start reopening so r
being less than one means
for every contagious person they infect less than one other person right now
that number's around just
over two okay so there's there's an obvious spread that occurs um that i have i
think those are valid
assumptions i i definitely question using those as our standards i would like
to see us use other
standards as well such as are we at a point where we're testing enough and we
have enough ventilators
and hospital bed space and ppe to actually fight the virus alongside reopening
our society because i think
we have to come to terms with a very certain truth which is we cannot indefinitely
lock down those costs
are enormous and they're not just costs to our 401ks and our jobs i mean there's
a public health cost
there too you know i speak with doctors here in houston we don't we don't have
a huge case number
in houston our hospitals are like 50 empty right now and they can't do much
needed surgeries uh procedures
because you know what's called an elective surgery is going to be kind of a
gray area so a lot of stuff
isn't getting done from a public health side also there's there's there's i
think the obvious public
health crisis when people don't have jobs there's divorce rates there's suicides
we have to really take
all of this into account as we as we talk about one to reopen society yeah we
you and i um privately had
this conversation through text messages about the way reporters are using this
moment to criticize trump
with in ridiculous ways and one of them was this uh questioning of whether or
not he should describe
these drugs that have some promise which many doctors are describing hydroxychloroquine
with uh z-pack and uh zinc apparently is a combination that keeps getting
brought up and there's a doctor
that has been using this uh to some reported success in new york city um but
what drives me crazy is that
these are rare opportunities that someone has to talk to the president and they're
using it to chastise him
for bringing up drugs that do show promise and hope he's not telling people to
go take it he's not
advocating it he's not pretending that he's some sort of a medical professional
he's just talking about
some things that show promise in the medical community you know what what is
your take on all
this because this is is a it's it's a weird situation that he finds himself in
with the press this very
strange uh and antagonistic position yeah you know the press needs to figure
out who they want to be and uh
it's actually like chapter two in my book it's called who is your hero and that
in that conversation
is about who we think we should be like what kind of people do we think we
should be what does it mean
to be a good american a good citizen the press believes it is their duty to
only be adversarial to
to politicians mostly conservative politicians they don't treat democrats the
same way
but and that is their job okay i wish they would treat all all all politicians
the same
and to to an extent that is their job to be adversarial to question what is
coming out of government
but i would argue that their main purpose is to simply educate the public
educate the public with
full that's the facts full context uh full understanding of what's going on uh
i think on
that point they're utterly failing i mean to to a huge extent i think they've
been failing for a long
time but in a time of crisis where it's so important that they actually do that
that that more important
thing of informing the public they're really failing and they they do they
completely waste time i mean
how many reporters actually get access to the president i bet there's hundreds
of thousands
of reporters out there good ones who would who would love to be able to be in
that press briefing
room and actually ask legitimate questions that would inform the american
public but but they don't they
play these gotcha games you know they'll ask questions like what do you want to
say to people who
are upset with you right now it's like what how is how is that a good question
how is that news
right in the middle of the pandemic i mean i mean it was it's so utterly absurd
and and unnecessary i
actually have a list of questions i don't want to read them all but they're
they're they're a complete
waste of time and i think they're failing us miserably and then there's the
opportunism that occurs
like listen there's if you're writing an op-ed if you're a journalist writing
an op-ed um let's say an
opinion journalist especially i i i fully understand why you you might you
might say you might write in
your report okay the president said this today but three weeks ago they said
this so there's been a
change that's fine that makes total sense that provides context to the reader
even it might be
biased and that whatever but but but to but to only do that indirect
questioning with the president just
to try and play this gotcha game i it's not helpful it's not helpful at all and
it's not informing
anybody um in the least you know you mentioned the uh the president talking
favorably about um
the chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine and you remember the the couple that ingested
that out in arizona
um because that i something something similar to i think it's a chlor chloroquine
phosphate or
something like that it might be misspeaking it's poison but that's an yeah it's
an ingredient on
fishbowl cleaner yeah fish tank cleaner and so they saw it and they ingested it
which was
obviously a terrible idea nobody would nobody told them to do that um and then
the media the media
instead of saying wow this is a shame that they that they did this they blame
the president and they
blame the president for talking about what is a at least anecdotally a proven
way to to combat this
disease we don't know through clinical trials whether uh in mass it'll actually
work but but to express
optimism over it um it doesn't seem to be a uh a punishable offense but the
outrage mob is is was
fully invested in this kind of outrage reasoning to to tear down the president
over this and it just it
just feels so unnecessary i mean oh that's right that's why i wrote this book
the book is about outrage
culture um in our in our like this sort of weird new cultural need to just go
after each other in the
worst of ways well there's a there's a new ability to do that i mean this is
what it is with these new
tools that people have through social media and through making these viral
video clips which is what
each reporter is hoping is they're going to accomplish by being combative with
the president and trying to
catch him on something they're hoping that they're going to create this viral
video that's going to
accelerate their career it's it's very self-aggrandizing it's and it's
disturbing that there's there's not
someone who stands out that does these sort of press junkets that doesn't do
that
yeah and i actually write about that exact point in my book like this what we've
begun to do is reward
this sort of i would say overly passionate emotional behavior so we we've
replaced
sophisticated reasoning with outrage you know we we started to change who we
actually viewed as heroes
this is how i describe it we all have hero archetypes okay and like and we grew
up this way and there's
there's like fictional 