Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1204 - Steven Rinella
Uploaded: 2018-11-16T22:14:56.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1204 - Steven Rinella' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-11-16. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1204 - Steven Rinella

you know uh you know what's funny i'll tell you later tell me now three two one
what's funny
uh i was gonna tell you a funny story about your address but but it wouldn't be
it wouldn't be
funny for you we'll talk later about that you and i uh we share african
ancestry yeah yeah i was
shocked yeah i'm 1.6 percent oh really yeah see i have more uh i have more
credential than you
in that department you're two percent right yeah i know and it's it's funny
because uh
you know you sort of have your the story in your family kind of like where you
came from and
everything made and i always knew i was 25 you know italian uh and i knew that
my family came from
sicily in fact uh the the the ranellas that came from sicily all seem to become
kind of established
in the produce world uh my dad was brought up in the south side of chicago
i'm 44 years old okay so think about that for a minute my dad was brought up in
the south side of
chicago and he was raised by his grandfather who was sicilian and come from sicily
his grandfather
delivered produce with a horse and cart whoa in chicago so
to have lived through that like to be brought up in a house where a guy like
leaves in the morning
and a horse and cart to deliver produce and then to be alive like to fight in
world war ii
to be through the atomic era the advent of the internet right but i always knew
that we had
sicilians when i did the the genetic test what some of those at some point in
time one of those
sicilians must have shot southward and crossed the mediterranean and like had a
hookup down there or
something well that was the history of sicily in the first place yeah you know
the sicily just being
sicilian in the first place there were so many people that were uh impregnated
by the moors and
by various people of west africa and north africa yeah yeah it's and yeah i
should have probably like
always assumed but it just i hadn't thought about it um another thing i was
reading about this stuff
you might know more about it than i do is that when you do those tests there's
missing parts
you know it does it like it captures what's there but there could be a lot
there that's not captured
just in the way that chromosomes are you know inherited and passed down like it's
not it's
an incomplete picture right right there could be influences there could there
could be in your
it doesn't create a full picture of your lineage there could be lineages that
are there that aren't
represented in your particular makeup how so like what do you mean you know i
hate to right off the bat
get into something that i can't speak about any level of expertise i was just
reading a piece and
the piece i was reading had to do it was kind of a dissection of like what
happened with elizabeth
warren when she claimed we've been going off about that on the podcast and i'm
like 100 times more
african than she is native american yeah well that's what i found i'm 10 times
more or whatever but
it was a piece about it was it was a piece in the times explaining like how to
make sense of now that
everyone's doing these tests like how to think about and make sense these tests
but but my understanding
of it is um that you could have a lot of ancestry that just isn't captured in
your genetic code in the
way that would be detected through the testing meaning there could be ancestors
that for what because
you're inheriting half you know you're inheriting chromosomes from each parent
and and somehow you
could have it could be an incomplete picture you could have ancestors that had
come from other you
know whatever these these tests break out the world into a hundred or some odd
regions or zones that
there could be people from those zones who are in your lineage that are not
captured in your personal
that are not captured in your genetic code that's so bizarre you think it'd all
be in there is that just
uh an incomplete measuring tool is that what it is or is it just actually not
in there i don't know
you're gonna have to have a dude on yeah i'll listen you need to have a dude on
that understands it
and as i say i feel like i'm off on a bad start here man how much uh neanderthal
did it say yeah less
than normal really less than average what was the uh the number like it said it
gives you you did 23 and me
right yeah i can't remember okay i can't remember i just remember it was less
than average and you
know and those things like are refined about how many people do them you know
but it was less than
average which bummed me out but i'm like as hairy as like a 13 year old like
norwegian girl you know
i mean so it's that didn't surprise shocking didn't surprise me too much uh i
was wishing to have a
little more of that floating around in me it's a bizarre heritage you know the
idea that there was
a different type of human that bred with homo sapiens and that there's like
little bits and
pieces of it floating around in people yeah and and people discuss them people
discuss i was having
an argument the other day where they say neanderthal or neanderthal and
everyone grows up saying neanderthal
it's one of those things you're supposed to switch once you realize how you're
supposed to do it
right neanderthal but i just can't get comfortable with it i go back and forth
there's a lot of words
that like that were i know you're supposed to do it but i can't get comfortable
with it because i feel
like it makes you sound pretentious it does it's like rolling your r's in
certain spanish words but
we have this idea that the we have this idea the neanderthals as unsuccessful
right right there are
these brutish thugs that died out but they had a 600 000 year run yeah in
europe alone 600 000
years longer run than homo sapiens have actually existed yeah yeah so whatever
i don't know that
we're gonna hit like i don't know that we're gonna match up and have that run
well we'll probably have
a 23 and me for whatever the fuck is after us then look somebody back then
fucked a human
like oh one of those crazy warmonger fucking rapist thieving humans that died
out that turns out they
didn't totally die out overrun with emotions and lies and they someone someone
of a superior race
infiltrated the humans and banged one of them yeah it's it's it's funny to look
at that uh that
understanding of of those that understanding of those people um and then to
have the side to picture in
your mind's eye even though you can't picture it like what it was looking like
when they were hooking
up someone are you know like anatomically and kind of behaviorally modern
humans were
hooking up with neanderthals was it was how is it perceived by their peers i
bet the people that we
think of as people back then like you know george the animal steel is no george
the animal steel is a
very famous pro wrestler from back in the day and uh i thought you're gonna say
it was a paleontologist
or anthropologist it's a wrestler he's a wrestler pro wrestler a very famous
guy who could be a
fucking caveman like legitimately could be a caveman you know see if you uh you
got a good image of him
now this is what i think when i think of people now give me a full body one
there you go oh when i
think of people he's hanging on to some homo sapiens homo sapiens from you know
200 000 years ago
i think of george the animal steel i think they were something like that so the
idea of george
fucking a neanderthal chick not that far off i think our idea is like that like
dan rather
would be out there banging some monkey lady and i just don't think i don't
think that's the case
like look at george's body i mean jesus fucking christ he's got the hairiest
shoulders i've ever
seen in a man is he still alive i do not know i don't believe he is i hope he's
not listening right
now i don't believe he is he's a legend legend in the world of the pro
wrestling so it's gonna take
more than this to hurt his feelings that guy don't give a fuck yeah he's a
legend but uh when i was in
a kid in high school oh he's he's old as fuck yeah he's uh well those guys they
all that's a hard way
to make a living man oh he died at age 79 he had a good run yeah that's a good
run for for those guys
that's a fucking hard way to make a living but have have we ever talked about
uh
the the idea of neanderthals is like having a uh confrontational hunting style
no i don't like we have because when when when anthropologists look at the the
skeletal remains
of neanderthals they see this sort of suite of this pattern of injuries on them
and a researcher is
looking at the types of fractures that they have on their bones and where the
fractures occurred and
the breaks and like cracks in their skulls he was looking at all this and wound
up working with a
doctor who had a lot of exposure to rodeo riders bull riders and the doctor was
was observing
the way in which that suite of injuries was very familiar to him from rodeo
riders the types of
breaks and the location of breaks and this guy has this idea that they had a
like a very confrontational
hunting style um that they were like mixing it up with big animals and another
thing they found is that
when you're looking at skeletal remains from early people you still see that
separation in the sexes
right that the males would suffer injuries with a greater prevalence than
females but with neanderthals
it seems like they didn't have the sort of like duplicity of roles so maybe the
females the females
have the same prevalence of of these types of injuries whoa and so maybe they
didn't have that the
they didn't share that division of labor were the females as large as the males
yeah i don't know the
answer to that so we know that they had stone tools right the crude stone tools
yeah but we don't know
whether or not they had anything that could launch them like they didn't have
did they would do we know
if they had spears i don't believe that they've found they had atlatls right
and i don't know if
they were hafting materials but they were doing they were doing art um and i
think there's a little bit
of a debate about whether they're doing representational art but they were
doing art they were doing they
were probably making jewelry and it's like these are all things that as as we
kind of like wake up to
what these people really like and it paints like a more complicated picture
there's even this theory
and i don't know if this held any water how long it was fashionable for but you
had this really long
history of it was extremely long history of hundreds of thousands of years in
neanderthal
you know occupation in europe and then it seemed to be that i remember someone
putting forth this idea
that it seemed to be that there was this flourishing of advancement that was
contemporaneous with the
arrival of our own ancestors in europe as though uh they were being exposed to
or seeing art and seeing jewelry and and mimicking this from these new invaders
that were coming in
but i don't know where that idea sits right now i don't know if it's been dispelled
because of other
discoveries but i remember i think that was an interesting idea that they would
and it kind of paints this
really sad picture right that they would be sort of in the autumn you know of
their existence
and here's these adorned people showing up with these amazing toolkits and all
these abilities and
kind of struggling to sort of catch up you know it'd be like the country bumpkin
you know going to the
big city and yeah well there was also this uh idea i think up until very
recently that neanderthals
were not as violent as humans uh as homo sapiens but now there was an article
that was uh published just a
couple of days ago that new evidence shows that neanderthals like inter-neanderthal
violence between each other was just
as bad as uh homo sapiens yeah and find that in evidence of cannibalism oh yeah
there was a lot
of that right scraping of inside the skulls indicative of tools oh ad blocker
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just as vio