Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1445 - Andy Stumpf
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1445 - Andy Stumpf' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-03-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1445 - Andy Stumpf

Two, one, Andy Stump!
How are you, buddy?
I'm good.
What's going on?
A lot.
There's a lot happening.
Do you have a hot take on this, Andy?
What's your hot take?
I get text messages from people saying, you know, give me the inside scoop as
to what's
happening and what I should do.
Yeah.
And I don't have a good answer.
I have the same information sources that everybody else does.
My concern is not that we shouldn't protect people that are sick and people
that are old.
My concern is that these decisions are being done by politicians and that they
want to do
this so that they can be elected come re-election.
They don't want people to be upset at them for not acting.
And so they're making these decisions and they're not showing us exactly how
they're
going to get out of this.
So when you're shutting down Los Angeles for a month, just the staggering
amount of people
that are going to be in debt, and there's some number that we looked it up
recently of
the amount of people that live check to check.
It's crazy.
It's like half of America.
The average American, the stat I saw was that they cannot absorb an expense
outside of
the normal over $400.
Right.
That's gone.
That's already gone.
So already most Americans are fucked now just with this dip.
And then they're talking about extending this to April 19th.
I just don't, I don't know if they have a plan.
I don't know how they're going to buy their way out of this.
Like, what do you, how do you, how do you help those folks?
I mean, I'm the wrong person to ask about that, but I would, I would hope at
least that the
politicians, I'm sure there's an aspect always, if you are a politician in the
back of your
mind, I have to conduct myself in a way where I can get reelected.
Like everything is probably viewed through that, but I would hope at least that
they're viewing
it through the humanity perspective.
And as far as the decisions they're making, I don't think anybody knows what to
do.
Yeah.
I don't think anybody knows what to do either.
They feel like they have to do something.
So they're doing something.
We all need to look at Idris Elba because that guy looks fucking great.
He does.
He's still, he's, he's got it.
He's got it.
And there's, I mean, he seems fine.
Tom Hanks, he says he's just kind of tired.
It's, I, I can't make heads or tails of it because if you go, the longer you
spend on
your phone, I think the more, or your computer, I think the more confused you'll
actually become
because I don't know, to be honest, who's telling the truth and who is not.
There's stories of people saying, Hey, I tested positive for this.
I don't have any symptoms.
Hey, I live in Italy.
Three people are dead in my hallway and I got sick and I don't feel that good.
And then you watch people walking around in zombie apocalypse suits with, you
know, mop level
four gear on not listening to, you know, how, you know, we were walking on the
beach yesterday
and you know, there's, there are people, there's huge social bubbles.
They don't want to be near each other.
And from what I can tell, or from what I'm reading, and again, it's, it's so
heads or
tails, you know, you basically have to be coughed on or sneezed on or touched a
surface that one
of these infected people have touched or close proximity.
And there's people on the beach walking around and hazmat suits.
It's a wild time.
It's a wild time because of that, because there's no clear information and
because you're
seeing some people that look really healthy and then you're seeing the stories
that come
out of Italy.
One thing to take into consideration with Italy is Italy has one of the oldest
populations.
They, they have a lot of old people and a shit ton of smokers.
Those two factors are huge here because this is a respiratory disease.
Well, don't they also have, uh, in comparison to the rest of the world, more
generations living
in a single household, which I would imagine is going to be, you know, as those
generations
move on, you're going to have higher risk people living with people who are low
risk, but might
be transmitting it.
Yes.
That's the real concern.
The real concern is you're going to transmit it to your grandma or someone who's
sick.
There was a guy, it's, it's weird how the news gives you these stories because
there's a guy
that was 34 years old that died and they said, he just got back from Disneyland.
You're like, fuck, I thought you lived forever once you go to Disneyland.
This is crazy.
He just got back from Disneyland.
How?
Like the fact that they put that he just got back from Disneyland, it's all
heartstring
pulling stuff.
But then if you go deep into the story, this, this young man just got over testicular
cancer.
He had bronchitis and he had asthma.
So there's a lot going on there.
He had the deck stacked against him.
He had the deck stacked against him.
He's immune compromised for sure because of coming off of the testicular cancer.
And then on top of that with asthma and bronchitis, and then he gets a
respiratory disease.
Those are the people that really have to worry.
And I really wish there was a clear way to help them other than shutting down
everything
for a month.
I was talking to Evan Hafer this morning, called out of the blue, and we were
having kind
of a conversation about this.
And he brought something up that just about the, you know, the narrative.
And it's, to me, what's happening right now is, is it's interesting from a
couple of perspectives.
For one, I've traveled the world enough and seen people living in a variety of
different
living conditions that right now, in my opinion, at least, people are getting a
glimpse into what
it is like to live in the non-first world, where when maybe you don't even have
a grocery
store, but if you go there, you can't get everything that you want.
And you can't travel all, you know, when you always want to, and you don't have
the freedom
of movement that you want.
A lot of people live their life, take the virus out of the equation.
A lot of people live their life day to day in situations just like this or much
worse.
So I think it should be eyeopening, hopefully, for people that there's a thin
margin between,
you know, the excess and luxury that we have in the first world and how fast
that can be
removed and we can start stepping down that staircase.
Um, and it shows to me, you know, I, I, I try to view the videos that you see
online of
people fist fighting for toilet paper.
I think those are the anomaly and I try not to let the anomaly paint the norm.
I don't think most people are doing that, but there are people that are doing
that.
And there are people who are going in and they're hoarding and buying.
It's not, I don't think the toilet paper is a good example.
I can give you 15 different ways to wipe your ass without toilet paper.
Yeah.
Like you're going to be okay.
Like if, do you have a garden hose?
I mean, we could start there.
I'm not saying it's the most sanitary, but yeah, I've, I think I've wiped my
ass with
a handful of gravel one time.
Cause that's all that I had not recommending it, but I'm just, you know, really?
Oh, for sure.
It was what was in like close.
Yeah.
I mean, why not?
I've, I mean, I have had many, make it cleaner.
I didn't really check.
I didn't have too much time, but I've had many days where I started with two
socks and ended
with one.
I've had t-shirts that became tank tops.
I mean, there's options that you have.
None of these I'm recommending for anybody, but what I'm saying is the toilet
paper is not
going to make the difference between life or death.
It's a weird one to hoard.
It's a weird one that people are freaking out about.
Oh, because they're scared.
I would think it would be food.
Well, but they're scared.
And I find that when people get scared, like we were talking about right before
we went
on, um, when people get drunk, a couple of the layers of their protective, like
this is who
I want to portray myself.
It starts to strip away.
And what I see are people who are super concerned about me and far less
concerned about we.
And the conversation I was having with Evan was, you know, it'd be great if we
were talking
about, you know, the people who are going to get crushed.
And I'm not an, uh, you know, an economic expert by any stretch, but are the
ones you already
talked about are living paycheck to paycheck.
How about the elderly who are in the high risk category that are on social
security fixed
income, and they can't even go out right now because they don't feel
comfortable getting
groceries that people are going to get destroyed.
And I would love to have a conversation about a social construct or
relationship that we have
where we start talking about, you know, what are we going to do to get food and
aid to
these people?
What are we going to do to come together and help everybody out instead of assholes
and
target hoarding toilet paper?
Yeah.
And it's, to me, a lot of that is driven by fear and a lot of it is driven by
panic.
And believe me, I'm not an expert at all, uh, probably on anything in my life,
but one
thing that I have some experience in is, uh, surviving and thriving in high
risk situations
that are high stress, which is kind of what's going on right now.
It's a different type of stress.
And the most dangerous thing you can do is lose control of your emotions or let
your emotions
take over your decision-making cycle, which is what I see people doing.
And it's, it's so dangerous and I think we need to start finding ways to back
away from
that and start talking about the, we greater than me.
I don't think there's a toilet paper shortage.
There's a shortage of people with common sense who are buying too much toilet
paper, which
is freaking other people out.
So they're buying too much stuff, which they don't actually need, which is
freaking up.
You know what I mean?
It's just cascading effect.
Yeah.
It's a, a fear cascade.
Yeah.
It's not good.
It's not good.
It's also, this is the first time we've, as a nation, have been tested like
this with
a crisis where the country had to shut down.
We don't have any experience in it.
So we don't know what to expect.
What I hope is it, it gives me a little bit of flashes as the right after 9-11,
because
we have had times where the country shut down, but it was very, very brief.
But I remember like the solidarity after 9-11, it was all about we and not
about me.
And I hope that it trends that direction because who knows when this is going
to end.
I mean, my kids are out of school, I think for the year.
Yeah.
I think mine as well.
And you know, what if you're a single parent and you have to work?
Right.
And what if your kids are getting two of their three meals per day at school?
And I, you know, the school system in Montana where I live is already, you know,
they're
actually doing a really good job.
Come to these locations, you can get free meals.
But that's assuming the kid has a way to get there because-
Well, Montana's scalable, right?
There's a million people in the entire state.
The state's fucking massive.
It's not out of control.
California has 40 million fucking people in this one spot.
It's so preposterous.
Yeah.
And there's so much poverty.
There's so many people that are, we're barely hanging on as it is.
And now they're off the cliff and they don't know what to do.
And there's no real protection set in place now to keep them from being evicted.
I don't believe, you know, I don't, unscrupulous landlords, people that have
been looking
for a reason to get rid of these people in the first place.
Fuck, man.
Who knows?
Who knows what's going to go on?
It's real confusing.
It's real confusing.
And have you seen the stats?
Like the, here, I'm going to show this to you, Jamie.
Maybe we can put this up on the screen because it's kind of, it's really kind
of crazy that
this is the choice that they've made to shut everything down.
Here, I'm sending this to you right now.
Well, you know, it's funny, right?
They made that choice last night.
