Name: Joe Rogan Experience #943 - Moshe Kasher
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #943 - Moshe Kasher' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-04-10. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #943 - Moshe Kasher

I wish I was really that excited.
Yes!
Yeah.
Hello, Moshe.
What's happening, Joe?
I'm good.
How are you?
These are sporty sunglasses.
I like those.
Oh, thanks.
Well, glasses, glasses, not sunglasses.
This is how I look.
They fit your face well.
Thanks, man.
It's a good choice.
Joe's been flirting with me since I arrived.
A little bit.
Casual.
Nothing weird.
Just the way you button that shirt all the way up to the top.
That little top button.
Yeah.
The jean jacket, that Jay Leno's garage look.
Yeah, I just came from Jay Leno's podcast.
So, we were just talking about the fights.
I stopped you before we actually talked.
We were just feeling like this is more evidence that we are living in a
computer simulation.
Like, everything is getting weirder.
Politics is the most bizarre.
I mean, everything is falling apart, and it's like the Matrix programmers can't
keep up with the code.
Do you think that maybe, like, when one or two things go weird, like the
election, I think the election, I think having a reality star television host
guy who's this, you know, media mogul become the president of the United States
is so odd to people that I think it gives us this feeling of instability.
And that feeling of instability has like a ripple effect.
And it starts to fuck with all these other aspects of our reality.
And then these blurbs just start popping up and these weirdness.
Well, it's kind of like, rather than it being a proof that it's a simulation,
this is the most reality we've had in a long time.
Like, we've all been living in this, like, pseudo, this theater of stability.
I'm sure you've talked about hyper-normalization on this podcast before, haven't
you?
I think we have.
The documentary.
Yeah.
It's real good if people haven't caught up to it yet.
It's on YouTube in its entirety.
It's dense.
It's not like a light, it's not a light, fun documentary.
It's like a three-hour-long British guy droning on to, like, found footage on
BBC.
But his basic point is that, you know, society is unstable and has been for a
very long time.
You know, Greenland is melting.
We have nukes that can destroy us at any point.
And there is no way for the leaders to actually run a functional, stable
society.
So what they do instead is they put up this artifice of stability.
Meanwhile, shit is fucking collapsing behind the set.
And basically, the prove-out example he uses is the Soviet Union, right?
Is, like, the Soviet Union stopped working almost immediately, right?
They tried this utopic, communistic, beautiful society, and everything fell
apart immediately.
Everybody knew it fell apart.
Everyone in Russia knew it wasn't working.
But it served them more to pretend that it was working.
And so people got into this willful, sort of voluntary suspension of disbelief,
this voluntary cognitive dissonance to, like, say, oh, no, everything's good.
Even though they go to the fucking store, there's no bread.
They would just, everybody was walking around as if it was real.
So maybe when somebody like Trump gets elected, this fake realness of, like,
everything's good,
America's awesome, what a wonderful place, a utopic society with all these
freedoms,
maybe that rips the seam.
Then Anthony Rumble Johnson retires from MMA.
Or something.
Wow.
Wow.
Where do you go with that?
I think there's always been problems with society, right?
I mean, if you go back to ancient Rome, you know, have you ever visited the Colosseum?
Yeah, yeah.
Fascinating, right?
It's crazy, yeah.
And when you think about it, that's only, you know, you're only talking about 1,000,
2,000 years ago, right?
Like, when did it all start in Rome?
Well, Rome was around for 2,000 years, right?
Right.
I mean, they were, like, 10 times as long as this American superpower has
existed.
So, yeah, and they were, but the thing is, they didn't have the technology to
strip mine the world the way we do.
Technology has now caught up, human evil, or whatever it is, or human avarice,
has always been probably equal, right?
Right, but my point was that there's never been, like, any example of a society,
a true utopian society.
That's true.
That was, like, really together, very relaxed, people were nice, there was no
war, there was no crime, there was no rape, there was no stealing.
The best example of that is hippie communes, right?
Because they're specifically designed to create a mini-utopia, and they always
fall apart with the guy at the top fucking everybody's wife.
I guess.
Every time.
It's never not happened.
A friend of mine's ex-girlfriend grew up in one of those, and she was so fucked
up because of it.
They're always fucked up.
Yeah.
The best you'll ever get out of a girl that grew up in one of those communes is,
like, um, there were some really good parts.
That's as good as you can get.
Yeah, and that's someone who's just really kind.
Yeah, I mean, people always try to re-engineer society.
Like, I was reading something today about free housing, that free housing
should be a universal right for people, that everyone should have free housing.
You know, and I was reading this while I was taking a shit, so I didn't go into
it too deeply, but immediately I was thinking, well, who's going to build the
housing?
Like, how's that a right?
Like, you can't have a universal right if some people just don't want to build
a house, and they don't want to work, and they don't want to do anything, and
they want somebody else to build a house for them.
That's always going to be a possibility.
Sure, yeah, right.
I mean, I guess, right, but what are rights?
Rights are completely constructed, right?
I mean, sure, well, the right to be left alone, that should be a right, the
right to privacy.
Right, but a lion or an ape has no rights.
It's just an ape getting eaten and fucked by its neighbor.
Right.
So we decided what rights are, so the same idea that says anything is a right,
you could also say, yeah, housing is a right, if society deems that that's true,
I guess.
Or if society has the resources.
We do have the resources.
Right, that's true.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I would imagine we have the rights, or the resources, rather, to house
everybody, not in the best way, not in a sweet apartment, but, you know, I mean,
just a roof over your head, warmth.
Yeah, I think, like, the idea that we, and we're getting way into the theoretics
of, like, taxation and civil responsibility, but, like, the idea that we spend
trillions of dollars on a protective military, when we are, we've lapped every
other military so many times over, like, we could house every homeless person.
I mean, there are countries where they don't have homeless people.
Right.
They just don't.
Yeah.
I've been to Israel, and it's, like, people who are homeless in Israel are
homeless because they're crazy and want to be homeless.
Or, my brother was just in, um, uh, one of those, one of those super white
countries.
Switzerland?
Sweden or something.
I think it was Switzerland.
And everybody was, like, yeah, we don't have, I mean, this is crazy when he
told me, he was, like, what's society like?
They're, like, it's cool, you know, we don't have, like, poverty, so that's
cool.
Like, they don't have poor people.
Yeah.
That's just not a part of their society.
Yeah.
Is that Switzerland?
Is that what that is?
I think it was Switzerland.
They have, you know, they've figured out a way to make money on the back of
them.
I mean, Denmark's kind of like that, too.
Yeah.
I mean, Northern Europe, they've done something right, I think.
Well, I think they're also dealing with a very small population of people that
have existed for a long time in the same place.
Right.
And you kind of normalize, like, and they've never conquered, they're not
conquerors, you know, they're not spreading their resources thin across the
globe, making battleships and shit.
Right.
I was thinking about you on the way over here.
I think this is connected.
I was thinking about you and the flirtation we were going to be doing, and I
was wondering, because you're bent, I've watched your stand up since Trump got
elected, and you and a lot of the guys at the store are, I always think of the
store as, like, the libertarian intellectual episode.
You're a center of comedy, right?
And then, like, if you go east, it becomes more and more, like, socialist.
Yeah.
Further east, you travel, right?
And I guess, I don't know, the ha-ha, it's like the neocons, but at any rate, I
was thinking, your bent is, like, everything's fucking fine.
You're making a crisis that doesn't exist.
And I was wondering, do you still think that?
It's not necessarily really my bent.
It's the way the bit works.
Now, that's a real comedian.
Yeah.
A comedian's like, well, actually, I believe it's totally different.
This is one of the things that I say on stage, like, I say, like, a lot of the
stuff I say is fucked up.
So, if I say anything that you don't agree with, I don't agree with a lot of
shit I say, but it's funnier than what I agree with.
Like, some of the things I say, I'm clearly fucking around, and some of the
things I say, it's like, where is he, is he on the fence on this?
Like, what's, but what a lot of it is, is just to set up this idea that the
whole system has always been preposterous.
Totally.
It's just that, like, it's weird, it's almost our fault, right?
Because you take a guy like a Clinton or a guy like an Obama, who's fairly
successful at the job, and people are just constantly trying to find chinks in
the armor.
Constantly trying to find cracks in who he is.
And it was Clinton, and obviously it was the philandering.
With Obama, it was...
It was a chink the size of a pussy.
Chink sounds like a weird word to use, even if you're not using it in a racist
way.
It's like the word niggardly.
Yeah.
You remember when that dude got in trouble for saying niggardly?
Yeah.
And they were like, you can't say that word, and it's like, but it's not even
etymologically connected to the N-word.
And people were like, we don't care.
It's spelled differently.
It's not the same root word.
They're like, just don't use it.
But I feel that way about swastikas.
You know those hippie swastikas and the Indian swastikas?
Yes.
And all these hippies and Buddhists are always like, yes, it's a different swastika.
It's a special swastika.
It's the good swastika.
It's like the good witch and the bad witch from the Wizard of Oz.
Right.
And I'm like, all right, that's cool, Buddhists, but I think you should just
abandon the good swastika.
You got other shit you could do.
It was a symbol used in Okinawan karate.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Actually, it made its rounds, right?
Because it was in India, in like Hindu temples, Okinawa, maybe that's Buddhism,
Hinduism to Buddhism to karate, something like that.
I don't know why it was in there, but I remember seeing it a long time ago in a
store, like this Okinawan karate book, and there was just like these symbols.
And I was like, this is bizarre.
Like a swastika is a part of karate?
It might have been reversed.
You know, sometimes they do it the opposite way.
But yeah, that symbol's gone.
You got to let that go.
Yeah, let's just abandon that one.
You can walk away from that one.
You got other symbols.
It's like a lot like the Hitler mustache.
Like, there's no need.
We're doing all the society's done.
I mean, look, chaplains suffered, but Mr. Miyagi was like, you know, wax on,
wax off, put that swastika on your shoulder.
Isn't it funny that you could just stretch that bitch just a little bit and you're
okay?
If you just trim it just slightly outside.
Oh, you're talking about the mustache?
Yeah, as long as it's not the actual Hitler.
If you just stretch it slightly towards the corner of your mouth, you just keep
going.
Bring that bitch back like this and you're okay.
I thought you were being so vulgar for a second and that you just had the most,
like, pornographic thought ever.
Isn't it crazy if you just stretch that bitch just a little bit.
You're just, you're okay.
Just stretch it.
Stretch it.
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