Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1415 - Bari Weiss
Uploaded: 2020-01-21T05:00:07.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1415 - Bari Weiss' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-01-21. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1415 - Bari Weiss

three two one hello barry hi joe great oh double double guns good to see you
great to see you too
so i'm enjoying my turmeric you are right super food it's good laird hamilton's
on to something
right laird hamilton and gwyneth paltrow no no don't ever done the turmeric no
no no one
is a world champion athlete one of the greatest surfers the world has ever
known the other one
is a wonderful actress who is iron man's girlfriend there's a difference there's
a big difference and
you know a major mogul who determines what people like me want to purchase by
and look like she wants
you to put vagina rocks yes in there right jade jade stones something like that
i don't know maybe
there's a placebo effect of that um so look when we were talking so well before
the podcast rolled out
the i just wanted to just just start it you know i mean we don't we don't have
to talk about
presidential candidates we don't have to talk about all that but we're in a
weird time you know and to
speak to what we're talking about before we're just talking about how people
are so strange there's so
much so many people there's just a big disconnect between what people actually
think and what they
actually say and i think this is in my life this is the first time that i've
ever really experienced
this at this level there's a hysteria because people are being punished for
their real beliefs instead of
like having uh the ability to express themselves and have other people disagree
and have some sort
of rational discussion there's this is a strange time where you have to toe the
status quo you have
to toe the line and i'm trying i've been trying to figure out what it is but i
think a big part of it is
the opposition to trump i think people's opposition to trump is so strong that
people have lost their minds
yeah it seems like the the people that oppose him they they just want complete
and total compliance
with with opposition with with this different way of thinking does that make
sense yeah it's
like the stakes are so high that everyone needs to be on side and an active
part of the resistance and
if you deviate in any way it shows that you're a squish or that you're actually
loyal to the other side
and in fact what that side of things is doing is that they're limiting the
spectrum of what's allowed
to say so so so narrowly that people i think are becoming kind of secretly
radicalized because in the
other way yes yes and honestly like you're great but i think one of the reasons
you're so unbelievably
popular is because you just say what you think and you bring other people on
here to say what they think
and the number of places where that actually happens is unbelievably small and
getting smaller it's so
strange and you get for it that's what's really crazy like you i'm i'm a nice
person like my thoughts
on these things that i discuss in the show are well thought out and i only hope
to do good like
legitimately i mean i mock things and i uh you know i'm a comedian but at the
end of the day i want
everybody to be happy i really genuinely do i think that's possible i think it's
possible in small
groups right i mean this is what the analogy i always use if it was just the
three of us on earth
i think we get along great we have our disagreements but there would be no war
there certainly would
none the three of us wouldn't kill each other right yumi and jamie i don't know
i don't think
jamie's a good guy but but my point is like why can't we scale that out why can't
we all just get
along in larger groups well a lot of it is a lack of communication a lot of it
is you know greed and
i mean there's there's so many different reasons why you can't scale that to
millions and millions
of people but it just seems like there's no no weirder time where things don't
make sense and
progress seems to be stalled socially than today and like the way that i think
about it lately is
i feel like normalcy is closeted like normal people i know that have just like
very sensible beliefs
are scared to even say those things out loud right and i think that that is
just a sign of deeply
unhealthy culture and it like it only contributes to this sort of polarization
and extremes that we're
that we're seeing yeah like you you were talking about the denial of the
biological differences
between males and females like i just and we're that's this is something that
people openly want
to support today they want to pretend that there is no difference well it's
like you can both believe
that there are two sexes and that there are biological differences between men
and women
and also believe that if someone asks you to call them by a different pronoun
than the one that they
used to go by or whatever that you want to respect that person and that life is
so hard and why wouldn't
you just go along with that sure those are two beliefs that many people i know
hold and yet to suggest
that um gender and sex are only a construct and it is something that people don't
feel like they can
express right now that that it's only a construct i know a lot of people who
feel like they can only
say that gender and sex are a construct oh yeah they're stuck okay they're
stuck saying that
the way you were phrasing it sound like the other way i'm saying that like two
things are possible
at once sure you can believe in biological difference and believe that people
should be
respected and that you know if someone wants to change their gender and that
life becomes much
more you know charen's gender is real and also sex differences are real yeah
and those two
things are possible at once yes yes i think about that a lot you know with my
with my book with
the case of someone like congresswoman ilhan omar it's like ilhan omar is the
subject of bigotry
not least from the president of the united states and yet ilhan omar herself
has said some things about
jews and israel that are themselves bigoted both things are true at once and
yet we're living in a in a society where
it seems like you can only choose one of those two sides yes a binary society
as opposed to a nuanced
one that's what's weird about today it's like you we're dealing with the same
amount of intelligent
people but they seem to be shackled in their their ability to express
themselves honestly and so what
are they scared of right repercussions right because those are real right you
look at someone
i think that one thing that's overlooked in this when we talk about cancel
culture right and the social
ostracism and the actual firings that can happen when you uh break with one
another orthodoxy
is that the people who are inoculated from it are people that are already
extremely successful and can
take the risk it's why ricky gervais can be ricky gervais it's why jk rowling
can tweet what she tweeted a few
months ago and survive it because they've already accumulated enough capital
the people that i hear
from that are completely screwed by it are people like artists and poets and
untenured professors who
aren't famous and no one knows about and are you know having to go with a
begging bowl on patreon
or venmo or whatever to get support after they've you know made a bad joke or
whatever it is yes yes
that's that that is exactly what's happening yeah it's um i mean i'm i'm sure
that this is because of
social media i'm sure this is the the repercussions of having this new form of
communication that people
don't wield responsibly that this these attacks on people you do them much more
flippantly than you would
if you were across from someone of course because there's no there's so little
shame on the internet
because people are disinhibited it's like people say things to me on the
internet that are i wouldn't
even mention them here i mean they're so vile they're just they're disgusting
and yet i've seen some of
these people in real life and they would never even have the courage to
approach me on the street what's
they're not real expressions when they're when they're doing that they're just
they're button pushing
they're throwing rocks at glass and this is a good jump off point for um your
book on anti-semitism you
know i i reached out to you because anti-semitism uh you know obviously i'm not
jewish so it's it's
something that it's always baffled me i don't know hope for you joe thank you
can i convert yes i've
never i don't hook you up to some l.a rabbis but i i would have to i'd have to
go through like a lengthy
thing like you can't just convert right my uncle converted my uncle salvatore
salvatore di gelando
i love it yeah is he alive oh yeah yeah he converted when we were kids that was
when i first found out
about judaism i was like what is it like i didn't understand what it was you
know we were raised
catholic and i was like oh god i guess i was probably like five or six when he
was converting so he had to
take all these classes and you know go go through all the the stuff that you
have to do and why did
he convert he married a woman who was jewish and she was like crack that whip
my aunt jackie she told
him what's up so when but when that was all going down that was the first time
i'd ever questioned
religion because i was like wait wait wait what is that what is judaism and
then they explain i go do
they believe in god and they're like yeah okay but it's a different god no it's
the same god jesus was a
jew joe yeah but that's why i was confused i'm like well what is the difference
like why why is
there i i didn't know there was anything other than catholic i was five you
know yeah i was baffled
and i remember thinking like how many of these things are there and then i was
told there were
hundreds i was like oh jesus this is a mess and then i went to catholic school
for a year and that
really cured me of oh any any idea of religion being legitimate catholic school
was so brutal would you learn
about what did you learn about the jews in catholic school nothing uh-huh yeah
it wasn't that it was
just meanness it was just compliance and and fear and we're gonna make you sit
in a closet on a bed of
nails what oh my god they used to whack kids in the head and nuns are there was
a bed of nails no no
no they would threaten you okay you're gonna have to stay overnight and sleep
on a bed of nails and
yeah they would just try to scare you and if you cry they'd laugh at you and oh
my god the meanest ladies
there's very few people whose name i remember from being six years old but
sister mary josephine
that bitch i'll remember that bitch to the day i die she was so mean like i
thought my parents were
getting split up when i was little when i was five years old so i was really
enthusiastic about god and
religion because i felt like at least in that there's some sort of there's
structure there's something that
makes sense and i remember just being in catholic school for just a couple of
weeks and i was like
well obviously this is horseshit too you know my parents relationship is horseshit
this is horseshit
like what is real in this life but this it was good for me though it was very
it was good at that time
of my life to experience just the just the hypocrisy and the the the meanness
of it all the lack of love
and the disdain for children like the whole thing it was it was an awful
situation to find yourself in
i'm sorry it wasn't that bad nobody sexually abused me i didn't get you know
there was nothing horrible no
one beat me up but it was enough of a nightmare where it kind of like made me
legitimately start
questioning everything in life wow yeah so you're raising your daughters with
secular yes 100 secular
my wife's secular too but we talk about things and the one of the things that i
think is important is
that like i i tell them if you live your life like god is real it's better
because you live your life by
these universal principles that the core the core good of almost all religions
follow treat each other
as if they are loved family members treat people as if they're you treat treat
them as if it's you
living another lif