Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein
Uploaded: 2019-07-04T01:00:02.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-07-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-07-04. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1320 - Eric Weinstein

recreate but without it's very important when you recreate you
have no so it's eric weinstein not weinstein yeah i think it was
originally weinstein weinstein stein oh weinstein yeah german
yeah but uh ja it was uh we we came from a uh town between odessa and kiev
called umine and that's where the family the weinstein family came from we
talked about
how many people mispronounce yeah weinstein instead of weinstein it's it's
epidemic and yet
nobody ever says albert einstein yes that's yeah strange right that is a weird
one the einstein
is no no like is there a guy named mike i'm like oh mike einstein no no einstein
is there a guy like
that you you do you remember the old uh it was blazing saddles with uh sure mel
brooks yeah mel
brooks and uh harvey corman's character was hedley lamar and everyone would
call him hedy lamar and
that was like the running joke in the picture that's right i loved mel brooks
movies you remember
the yiddish speaking indians that that had to be the best oh yeah that's right
he had some great movies
man there's fun movies man just silly fun outrageous movies yeah i mean he was
he was
transitional right i guess it was the borscht belt being updated for the modern
era yeah into film
yeah but it was also it was you know for the time much more contemporary but
with that sort of
borscht belt sort of sticky sort of right in the writer's room i guess from sid
caesar's show of shows
was this legendary factory before saturday night live for all of these kind of
crazy
talents behind the scenes i think he came out of that with carl reiner oh that
makes sense
he's how old is mel brooks now i don't want to ask the question because maybe
something will happen
i know right it's one of the i think i saw recently that he turned 93 and i i
thought is he dead
like mel brook you know because they were saying all these great things mel brooks
i'm like do we lose
mel brooks but it's like one of those things where is it it's gonna happen i
mean he's 93.
i know but every time it does i know i mean i guess uh who betty white is
another one of these people
right right and so we need these very exotic links to our past um and they
become more important as
time goes on if they're still vital because you know we want desperately to be
connected to something
before you know our current era given that i think a lot of us sort of don't
believe in anything that
happened before google right imagine kids today imagine trying to describe to
kids today what
it was like to grow up without the internet yeah or not being able to reach
people you have to make
extensive plans yeah you know backup plans well if you're not there at this
time yeah you used to
have to yell open out your window and yell for your friends i remember when i
first got an answering
machine i thought it was the most amazing thing ever when i was in high school
my family got an answering
machine and i was like this is incredible and you would you would leave like
stupid music like to
let everybody know you were cool like you have some cool music like hey it's joe
not here right now but
if you leave a message i'll get back to you probably and then you've got like
old people who are i think
i think uh someone in my family still has one of these cutesy messages from
like the late 80s
really yeah on their voicemail but then who leaves voicemail and the thing that
gets that marks me as an old
person is i actually call people but that's i like that i've been doing that
more lately yeah
yeah i call a lot of people now i just feel like it's just it's better the the
texting thing the
problem is if i it's it's very interesting how we separated ourselves into this
uh the this electronic
communication world where i will during the day be in communication almost
constantly with a stream of
people the only thing that stops it is a podcast podcast is my my rest for
three hours i'm not
talking to anybody other than you so all those texts that come through i'll get
the end of the podcast
i'll go and look at my phone it'll be 40 texts sometimes like this is madness
if i had to make 40 phone
calls it would be impossible to manage it would be it'd be calls would
constantly be coming in
you'd never really be able to say anything so we're feeding into this weird
loop where we just have
these short form things like hey dinner tomorrow sure what time how about nine
i can do seven okay let's
do it you know what i mean it's like these weird little bursts of information
you ever see uh remember
this program california and what was it called uh was it californication that's
television show with
the yeah with the david duchovny right so there's the scene where he's having
some really hot intergenerational
sex and this gal says like lol and it kills it said it out loud she said it she
says lol and he
loses total interest there's no amount of of heat in the moment that can
compensate for the fact that
she's using like verbal emojis hmm well he needs to get over that depends on
how hot she is and it also
it depends on how you say it if she's really funny she's like lol you know and
she's like being silly
yeah like i said like you know i learned that from i learned that from jim norton
jim norton will always
say lol like he'll he'll say something really ridiculous and then say lol yeah
but he's just mocking
himself when you're over 50 it's intrinsically ironic right right but you know
in terms of this weird
thing about islands of time one of the things that we do is we have uh shabbat
dinner and every friday
uh no matter how atheist and militant people are against any kind of organized
religion they will
leave us alone uh when if we say we're going into shabbat and so there's this
thing about
um like people will pester me in all sorts of situations but if i invoke
something that is
vaguely religious even sam harris probably wouldn't call me during that period
of time
hmm so i find that very interesting like could you could you create a religion
that was simply there
to make sure that you had some time offline yeah i know if i text bench piero i'm
not getting a text
back on saturday ever it's dark yep but when it's dark he texts you back as
soon as there are three
stars in the sky there's been on twitter it's like what did i miss that's so
weird it's so it's so
weird that people buy i mean in on one hand i think it's probably a really good
idea to just take a break
from all that electronic shit and just connect with humans in a very old school
type of way i think
it's probably very good for you or connect with yourself i had this experience
i actually lived in
jerusalem uh for two years and we landed uh in this orthodox run hotel and on
friday night everything
shut down you know like the textbook and i then moved into a uh an ultra orthodox
neighbor uh neighborhood
right in the on the boundary of um a place where the secular and the orthodox
met and what was
really fascinating to me is i started telling people you know you'd never think
that uh it's great not
to be able to find a restaurant or a nightclub but it's amazing that it's this
is enforced downtime
and about a month in somebody said uh oh you're in the wrong place of course
you can go out on
friday night you just go to the the russian compound and everything's hopping
and you can go dancing
and drinking and all these things after i knew that i went dancing and drinking
and i was much less happy
than believing that somehow israel actually shut down on friday nights and so
very weirdly i appreciated
the constraint as soon as i knew you could break the constraint i was less
happy and i would never
actually obey it anymore yeah i think having a rigid rule even though it seems
con it seems like
counterintuitive in that in that like it would provide you some freedom by
having restrictions
but it does it gives you some freedom like okay like now we don't have to think
about all these other
things so now we have the freedom to just be alone now we have the freedom to
be relaxed now we have the
freedom to just talk to human beings you know i think constraints and it's like
the do you know jocko is jocko willink totally everybody knows jocko um
discipline equals freedom
discipline equals freedom it doesn't seem like that makes sense like this
motherfucker's up at 4 30 in
the morning throwing heavy weights around grunting and acting like a savage
running goes out to the
beach and he earns the sunrise every morning goes out and takes photos you know
takes a photo of his
fucking watch at 4 30 hits the gym like a savage and then takes a photo
sometimes of the sunrise earning
the sunrise and like but you would think god it's like a prison to like force
yourself into that but
no no he knows there's freedom in that because he knows he doesn't have to make
any decisions at 4 30
he knows what he's gonna do knows what he's gonna do yeah just you just go do
it and that way i mean
you look at the guy he's a tank why is he a tank because he's always up at 4 30
throwing weights around
it just doesn't he never stops he never never takes never takes self-indulgent
time to lay in bed and
beat off and pick his nose and and then check his text messages listening to
this right now and thinking
maybe i do a little bit of that i don't think he does really no total
discipline yeah well did you
i think i remember reading um his inner dialogue about going to a birthday
party and breaking down and
having a scoop of ice cream or something or slice of pie and it's like you know
the drama of there
it was temptation i held out for 45 minutes but eventually i became weak yeah i
don't with that i
just do it if i'm in a party just eat that cake you know i mean i just feel
like i do enough i'm all
right i'll be fine there's this story about jackie o that she got this cancer
diagnosis and apparently her first
words upon finding out that she had metastatic cancer was then what did i do
all those sit-ups for
isn't that an interesting comment that's an interesting comment she thought
someone needs to
talk to her john jfk was keeping her in the dark is that right yeah it must be
what's happening over
there jamie something on dv um yeah like telling her that sit-ups do you want
you want no cancer
sit-ups that's the way to do it i guess i don't know i mean i think i think we
all
we have so many days of our lives that we build this pattern that this is going
to go on forever
and there's some first moment i think i recall it where the phrase popped into
my head i can see my
death from here and it has to do you know there's like this weird thing when
you hit 40 you start to
be able to have analytic thoughts that are uninterrupted by sex really yeah i
don't know when i when i
turned 40 i found that um some aspect of uh thinking too much about sexuality
definitely decreased and then
you start to realize like your when your testosterone starts to go down you don't
feel you don't feel like
yourself yeah you become a different thing yeah yeah when your chemical
composition changes the way
your body feels changes the way you interface with the world changes like i
wasn't i wasn't feeling all
that great yesterday and i was sort of clowning around with the person behind
the bar at starbucks
and she said oh why are you down i said i don't know just tell me something
nice about my hair you
know and she says she looks at me and she says oh it's i love salt and pepper i
thought damn oh really
worst is that what you're barely salt and pepper i can barely see anything she's
talking about the
salt she's bullshitting you no she just didn't want me flirting with her so she
just shut me down
by saying you want me to talk about your hair okay you crossed the threshold
here yeah say which is
that's all right yeah as soon as someone says say something nice like that
could get ugly for a girl
exactly yeah yeah and she was in a captive situation wasn't being fair to her
oh yeah right that was
the worst when someone stuck behind a bar we'd established a rapport befo