Name: Joe Rogan Experience #905 - Shane Smith
Uploaded: 2017-01-26T03:08:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #905 - Shane Smith' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #905 - Shane Smith' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #905 - Shane Smith

let's do the countdown there you go four three two one yee-haw and we're live
what's up my brother
quick how are you i know that's how it goes very efficient very efficient like
it just start just
start boom make it happen i like it so things getting weird real quick yeah
what are you
thinking about this this uh orange fella i mean i gotta say for me it's the
best time ever to
start a news service oh yeah and we started uh our daily show about a month
before and it just is like
wow and you doing it on vice on your channel no it's it's with hbo it's a daily
news show on hbo
it's like we were doing so well on weekly i don't know about it's it was we did
our weekly
show right and then that was doing well so they gave us a daily show and they
were going to just
put it on hbo now and go but then was doing so they put us on on the air on tv
so it's every night
this is the best possible uh compliment for your show your show is like what i
would expect someone
who's never done a show before to do if you just gave them a load of money yeah
that's probably the
hosts who have really never hosted anything before and gave them a load of
money the the whole thing
feels so uh the one of the wrong word to use is unprofessional right but it's
unpolished
unpolished yeah unfake-ified there you go it's unpolished there's no one
talking like this there's
no brian williams yeah we didn't know what we were doing and when we started
perfect the the criticisms
came my favorite was from the new york times was it's just a bunch of hipsters
and skinny jeans and
tattoos high-fiving in war zones and i was like if if you aren't criticizing
the news aren't criticizing
the truth or the facts of the stories you're just criticizing that we have
tattoos and we don't look
like you we won yeah fuck you perfect so that was our first season and yeah why
wouldn't they celebrate
that that's really interesting it's really interesting to see a bunch of young
weirdos
in war zones you know there was one that you guys did i don't remember the
location it was but uh
one of your reporters was out there and he had a flak jacket on and he was
surrounded by all these rebels
and they're in these bombed out buildings and you could hear boom you hear
things going off in the
distance and he's like kind of calmly explaining okay so what's going on is uh
they're they're they're
bombing the location very close to us and they're over there and he's like
pointing at i'm like
probably ben anderson that guy's a savage i think it was ben anderson yeah i
just we just did a thing
on the resurgence of the taliban in afghanistan and how it's basically going
back to the same
borders that it was pre-invasion and he's under fire the whole time and he's
just like
you know and he just goes down on one knee and he keeps talking unfazed and as
they're driving back
they're they're clearing out these ieds and they're just pulling it with a rope
and and and like
pulling out the ieds with a rope and he's just standing there calmly hoping
they don't blow up
no no he's calmly like talking to the camera as all this is happening and you're
like this guy is
fucking special dude is he on antidepressants no he i asked him about it one
time and he goes you
know i have this thing where there's like a 30 second lag between like some guy
like you want to die
and he's got a 30 second lag between like when he realizes that and so he he
comes across as just
sort of like you know unflappable but wow it's like it's a genetic thing he's
also the best war
journalist out there did he fall on his head as a youth is there something
missing is there a broken
part he's just he's built for the job he's really built for the job well it's
it's i'd like to see
that in this day and age i mean we're dealing with this weird time where the
president of the united
states points to cnn and says i'm not talking to you you're fake news and then
the meme comes you know
with the sunglasses fall down like the thug life being with him yeah and you
you do get a lot of
fake news though you're getting a lot of these unsubstantiated reports about
him with prostitutes
and urine and they're talking about it on the fucking news which is
unprecedented no one's ever done that
before there's fake news on both sides that's the problem and there's so much
of it that it's it's
it's it's almost impossible to wade through it all yeah and you know for us
when after the election
we do and i said we got to just be logical fact-based middle of the road press
record
non-political non-partisan none of this we just go out there and do it the
problem is you know we
view ourselves as centrist and sort of press record all that stuff but if the
world takes a sort of giant
leap to the right with you know fake news and all this crazy happening then you're
sitting there
sort of going well all of a sudden we're put in this position like for me i
always i always bring
it up and say like i'm an environmentalist because there's a boogeyman there
like we all get if the
environment gets fucked and there's there's a boogeyman that we can that we can
sort of you know go
against and it's good for everybody you know whatever and the problem is is i
don't know when
environmentalism became a left thing it should be for anyone who's sane anyone
who's smart and you
know i spend time like going back to war like when you spend a lot of time in
war zones the one thing
when you talk to people in those war zones is war is fucked it's not fun it's
not heroic it's not like
a manly shot in the you know it's like you know catheter bags and you're fucked
up and you know you're
half your head's missing your ass is missing your balls are missing yeah and so
it's when you go to
these things you never want to go back kind of thing you know when you talk
about the environment
when you talk to the scientists they're all like well of course it's a global
scientific consensus of
course it is and then i i did this piece this year on in season five it's going
to be the first piece
and i'm like i literally don't understand what the is happening here because if
you talk to every
scientist now they're terrible at getting information at scientists but they're
like well that's not my
fucking job my job is to do science i don't know right so but you know there's
this global scientific
consensus of you know global warming 97 which never happens in any science
right ever but there's all this
doubt not all over the world but a lot in america still so we looked at it we
said why the what the
fuck is happening here and there's now three ags three attorney uh attorneys
general with 20 other
in support who've come out for this lawsuit now against exxon ceo of exxon is
now our secretary of
state uh rex tillerson and so the what happened was they knew in the 70s and 80s
that fossil fuel um
uh uh you know burning fossil fuels carbon in the air carbon emissions caused
global warming and was a
factor for global warming and then they realized this is going to be bad for
business so in the 80s
and 90s and now they spend billions of dollars on on you know discrediting the
science that's the whole
thing well there's no consensus there's no consensus uh that's the that's the
thing then they spend
billions of dollars to do it there is a consensus there's a total merchants of
doubt i did amazing
amazing yeah and so and it highlights that yeah exactly and a lot of people it's
the same people
what that highlights is it's the exact same scientists and the exact same
people and and groups and uh
more like that did smoking yeah that went after cigarettes they did cigarettes
well in some cases the
same scientists yeah they said oh well it's the exact same thing it's question
the science it's you know
well there's not we can't really figure out smoking lung cancer could be
anything and do it loudly and
concisely with quick sentences where they're very well prepared and they do the
exact same thing with
global warming and that's why when you come here and you talk to people and say
you know look we have
to do this we have to they're just like nope science isn't settled fuck you and
you're like it's like
back in the day when your mouth would open and a cigarette would come out and
say smoking is good for
you it's like an oil can comes out you're like no the science isn't settled yet
well this this that
whole argument that the science isn't settled yet like you said it's being
perpetrated by the people
that can profit on the science not being settled and that gets really scary
because a lot of other
people yeah you're being duped and what gets scary is it makes it real
convenient for right-wing
people who just classically think and vote and behave right-wing to just adopt
that thinking and then
repeat and then say well that's a left thing and you're like it's not a fucking
left thing like you're
a hunter you'd like to go it's it's an everybody who likes to go outside thing
it's like everybody
likes to hunt thing everyone likes to swim thing it's everyone like a surf
thing everyone likes to
drink fucking water water you know right i mean did you see this there was a
new report that came out
today about the infrastructure in terms of the water supply yeah the the pipes
that we have that the
water is being carried with they're all rotting out and replacing this country
it'll cost a trillion
dollars but they're saying that flint what happened in flint could happen in a
lot of places because
of the pipes yeah it's just old infrastructure it needs to be replaced yeah you
know and here it is
nation of flints america's 1.2 million miles of deteriorating lead pipes and
they'll cost one trillion
dollars to fix yeah one thing that i like about trump is that he has been
saying that he wants to address
the infrastructure and he wants to put people to work fixing all the problems
that exist and creating jobs
by fixing all these types of problems which is another famous president said
the same thing
which one fdr oh yeah yeah well he's a good guy right wasn't he a good one it's
hard to say who's
a good one we only like the ones that get shot i have like a whole bit about
that but we like kennedy
and we like lincoln uh well it's interesting you know because the president if
you really look at it
traditionally you know their their big power is right now is when you do
appointees or when you you
know get a judge through or when you do an appointee you know you you put your
cabinet together and then
the cabinet has power and the president goes on to opening you know bridges and
you know flying around
the world and shaking hands and kissing babies and i think that that's what you
know what we said is
we're not gonna as a news agency look at the boombastic or the uh you know the
titillating headlines
or the oh my god he said that we're gonna look after a policy we're gonna look
at what is the epa
with a guy who runs the epa who tried to sue the epa and shut it down what is
the energy
what is the department of energy look like with rick perry who as when he ran
for president said i
would i would shut down the department of energy what does that look with him
actually running it or
sessions who actually uh is now the attorney general who you know sued the
government many times against a
climate change reform or rex tillerson you know who ran the largest fossil fuel
company in the world
now being secretary of state so we're looking more at just policy what policy
you know changes
because of this cabinet et cetera et cetera yeah it's it's really weird it's
like everybody thought
this was going to be this sort of uh get rid of political correctness stop all
these whiny cry baby
liberals and then once he got into office a lot of the same people that i
talked to that were kind
of in support of them just kind of stepped back went whoa like already like
right away yeah keystone
pipeline the dakota access immediately abortion i mean they're they're cutting
they're they're cutting
insurance uh payment paying of a