Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1057 - Eddie Pepitone
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1057 - Eddie Pepitone' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-12-28. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1057 - Eddie Pepitone

I
Get I get heavy, you know, I'm gonna talk about life and death. You're gonna
talk about life now
That is what we're doing we're living and some people are dying
That's life and death. We're all what's really interesting is that we're all
gonna die. Yes, and and that everybody
Pushes away mm-hmm, and I guess that's normal to push away
You know thoughts of your death, but the real enlightened like the buddhist i'm
into buddhism eastern
Eastern and stuff they say the way to get enlightened is to die if you can
check this out is to die
Before you die meaning completely
Kind of go into
The fear and they claim that the fear is releasing ego which
What they mean by ego is like like you have this beautiful studio and you have
a career and a wife and a
kids I guess and
And it's like letting it's like
You can't be
Attached to it you have to die
To that like in other words. You don't own your wife you don't own
um
Anything really because we're just we're the bottom line of it is is we are
temporary yes and impermanent
And it doesn't mean you can't enjoy you know like you're in the prime of your
life
Right, so why think about?
Your fucking death hmm, you know what I mean?
But I think for guys like me i'm a little older
And like for some reason um, we're on right yeah for some reason
I experienced panic attacks. Um, and I had a full-blown one
Coming up here while you're driving while I was driving I
Now, what does it feel like okay? This is what it feels like
Is um, I'm feeling kind of tired. I've been doing a lot and that's not to brag.
I've been I've been
You're in show business. What you're in shows but show business. I'm in show
business. You're doing a lot of work
I'm in show business. I'm married. I have two dogs. I have three
Cats it's a it's like to manage
The dogs are are intense, you know, because
You laugh. I love your dog. I have dogs too. I have three you have three. Yeah,
okay
But for me, uh, and this is I think one of my one of the uh, you know
Why I I'm a panic attack sufferer occasionally is that I get into these dogs
Like I I think um, a sign of someone who has panic attacks is someone who
cares
too much
About taking care of things instead of trusting
That everything's gonna be all right like I'm gonna get up i'm gonna feed the
dogs the dogs will be okay
I'm always like doing stuff like hey
My dog's name is charlotte and basil charlotte does she have something
in her eye
Does charlotte have something in her eye and I kind of
Blow it up a little you know what I mean instead of chilling
And going oh, she'll be okay. Let me just let me just you know
Wipe the eye i'll see her like scratching at the eye a little and it can
set me off
Into this worry, and I think that's kind of um
The symptom of patent attacks like i'm coming up here
So I get on the 101 people who don't know the 101. Well, you should just kill
yourself because the 101 is a main ornary
And you should know about it. What if they don't drive?
Because think other things to worry about I think they're brilliant if they don't
drive
Uh, but anyway, it it was packed it was it you know, the google maps was like
accidents up ahead
And I started to feel
This kind of feeling trapped have you ever felt trapped yes on the highway
where
Oh, and and and and for some reason I think because i'm overtired
And I wanted to get here this first time i've done your podcast
I just started feeling and anxiety about oh
Fuck i'm gonna be and this is what happened i'm doing it physically like
feeling i'm gonna be late
I'm gonna the wall start closing in yes, man
All right, can't breathe
Yes, that's the real scary thing is the breath, right?
Like oh, man. Oh, it's like i'm this i'm doing in the car and by the way the
one thing I hate about la
I don't know about you, but like here we are in
December 28th, and it's hot
Yeah, it's pretty warm. It's like 75 degrees. It's like 80. Is it 80 today?
It's 80 and the sun is blaring in through my side window and i'm feeling a
little
Oh, fuck. There's nowhere. There's nowhere. I can't get off. I can't you know
what I mean?
And it's it's um
So it's a buildup of anxiety instead of
Just going you know what like your shirt let that shit go
Let that shit go. I
I couldn't I couldn't let it go like when I get
Tangled in it when it reaches a tipping point right you know when when the
anxiety reaches
a tipping point where
You know I I am like oh god like like
Here's the voice in my head that I have to always battle it's like oh god this
isn't going to work out instead of hey
You know for some reason I have the oh god
Okay, but you intellectualize it right like like now like we're talking about
it now
But now it's after it's over you realize like I should just say hey
Let that shit go like you without any stake in the game, right?
You removed if you were giving yourself advice in that car, you'd be like come
on
Everything's great. You're living in america. Here's a few extra people on the
road
Some of them bumped into each other. Let's just uh get through this, you know,
you text me. It's no problem
Come a little later. It's no big deal. We'll start a little later. It's casual
Right, there's not no reason to get anxious about that
Right, you don't smoke pot
No, you did I would understand more because people that eat edibles and then
get on the one-on-one and get stuck in traffic
And then what happens his your whole world starts closing in on you start
Well, now I have that without the other edibles. Yeah, it's the same kind of
thing
it's uh, I think
One of the things that I've noticed a lot is a lot of people that have anxiety
and a lot of people that they're
Generally, they're intelligent people and the problem is with intelligent
people is that you're overwhelmed with possibilities
You're thinking about all the actual variables that are in play
Whereas dumb people just fucking stumble into walls where they're talking on
their phone and you know
They're like texting and walking out into traffic
They're not thinking you know, and somehow they get
Things work out for them. It doesn't it's an illusion. You're not living in
their skin
If you were inside their nine-volt battery brain, you'd be like, oh god. This
is fucking nothing to think about here
Like was Jamie were you with me or is it with tony when we were at the airport?
And there's this girl I had I sat next to her just to listen to her
conversation. I think it was tony
And she was just talking about amazing race
And I wanted this team to win and I can't wait until this happens and when I
get paid on friday
I'm gonna buy this phone and then there's this
There's this food. I really want to eat and it was just this droning. I'm like
this might you might as well be a meat robot
They're just sent here to consume. There's no like yeah, there's no
There's no curiosity or creativity. It was just consumption
It was just food and buy this and watch that and and drone on and on and on and
who knows if it's
Genetics if it's nature if it's nurture whatever it is. There's a lot of really
dull folks out there
And we're not supposed to there's a lot of really dull folks, but the culture
is
Also geared to consumption I mean a lot of it is sure isn't it it's like
It's like you turn on the fucking TV and that is the message sent is that our
culture that is our culture
It's a part of our culture, but our culture is pretty vast now
I think I would I would say that what much more of our culture is the internet
Much more than but then mainstream media now
And that's one of the reasons why they're grasping at straws trying to stay
relevant what the mainstream media
Yeah, I just I don't like television shows. They're they're down record numbers
like
News is down
I'm happy about that. Yeah, I mean I think it the idea that these
It's great if someone is like, you know, new york times time magazine respected
journalism
Someone who you can go to where you really want to know what the fuck is
happening in syria
I need to know I need to know from someone who's going to give me an objective
informed opinion
That's that's huge and it's very critical
But once you get past that you're doing a lot of the shows you're dealing with
it
Whether it's cnn or any of these fox news you're dealing with opinions
And your opinion is just as valid as shepherd smith's
Like why why is shepherd smith because he has makeup on and he's wearing a tie
and they have ready set go
And they they press the green light and what you're talking about is really
interesting how
How because it's just on tv because it's sanctioned yes sanctioned sanctioned
by the powers that be
Like like it's really about ownership. Yeah, like like I don't even know who
owns cnn anymore
It was it is it's not ted turner. Yeah, he probably still owns it. Yeah, he's
hashtag ballin
He is right. I think so. I mean, he's like one of the biggest landowners in the
united states. Yeah, he has millions of acres
Yes, he owns buffalo
Yes, he's got restaurants where he serves buffalo
Unbelievable. Hashtag ballin. Is that montana?
I think it's called montana. Yeah, it's in montana, right? They have them in
colorado
They might have in montana as well. I think it's actually a chain. I don't know
where they are
But it's supposed to be very good restaurants. But what what my point was is
that
The structure at cnn says well, we're gonna talk about this. We're gonna talk
about that
We're gonna talk about that we're gonna put it on tv and people watch
The fuck you know, you have to break it down to the essentials like there is a
screen it's being transmitted
into your
Into your home. It's be and it's it's very much it's very much with people
Not realizing it a complete
Fucking mind control thing like or or it really influences you and it takes a
lot
to kind of
Disconnect and and for instance, I have said to myself I am gonna disconnect
from
Fucking the grid for a while you ever try to do that like i'm not gonna go
online
I'm not gonna watch tv like
You know what I mean, but it's it's really kind of
Very difficult like I go somewhere what I go hunting that's what I do
I go to the woods for like a week and I have no choice can't get cell phone
signal
There's no internet connection. Do you feel rejuvenated?
Well, yeah, it feels good. It feels good to take breaks
You know, I enjoy the internet. I enjoy the information, but it's overwhelming
and one of the reasons why it's overwhelming is we're not
It's we're not really accustomed to this experience. This is a very new
experience for human beings like over the last, you know, 20 years
We've it's 20 options and to a little bit more 24. I think 94 ish. Yeah
94 is when I got online
Don't you think and I really want to relate this again just like kind of the
panic attack
I got coming up here
It's an because this is it's another form of of the anxiety is that it's
Automation overload overload 100 percent. Yeah, yeah, because my brain my brain
I think your brain is the same way. It's like my brain
I feel my brain just digging into shit like oh, you know, like I'll read a
paragraph on I don't fucking know
Hunting and then you know, it'll mention something about guns and then I go to
guns and then I go to gun control
Like right go I go and then I go to the scumbags who don't want gun control and
then I go to a school shooting
Like like one thing leads to another on the internet rabbit holes
Rabbit holes
Yeah, you go down that rabbit hole
I was I want to do more of this on stage, but like talking to an audience about
hey
I've only done it once and it went over care. Okay, but I it was like hey you
ever get you ever go enough on facebook
And you just start reading a feed you just start reading your feed
And you just get drawn into
Like people's random thoughts you start
Connecting yeah into their brains and you're like oh I get that and then where
you go wrong is there's 262 comments
Oh, and you read the comments then you go to their feeds you read
No, but after you're fucking let's say 30 comments in yeah
Somethin