Name: Joe Rogan Experience #869 - Dave Rubin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #869 - Dave Rubin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-11-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #869 - Dave Rubin

and we're live dave rubin what a time to be alive joe i am so excited to be
here because you could
have selected anybody i mean it ends tomorrow it does end tomorrow supposedly
allegedly unless uh
maybe jill stein wins no no i'm talking about the world i mean it is over i don't
mean the
election i mean the whole game is up tomorrow you could have had anybody you're
a pretty powerful
guy powerful joe i enjoy your company sir well i appreciate that but you could
think of all the
philosophers you could have had the thinkers the artists too much work instead
you went with me for
the last show so i'm gonna bring it i already i have notes i busted out the notepad
well i believe
the end of the world is tomorrow so you're you're the preview to the end of the
world so i feel like
you're gonna offer some well hopefully together we're gonna offer some
perspective and uh we're
gonna get a look at this thing yeah well i already pounded two of these bad
boys so i am ready dude
these fucking things have 270 milligrams of caffeine well it's in a small can
so i thought it was it seems
like it seems small but if it was that much acid think about what it would do
to you you really have
to think about it that way yeah i did acid once yeah only one time i did it
once last week yeah did
you really do it awesome yeah i've done it uh three times i only did it this
year for the first time
but i've done it three times this year really yeah and you feel like all the
doors the hinges of the
brain they're still going because i don't know if they were any good at all
before i think i'm gluing
them up it's like for my brain yeah i did i shroom many times you know over the
years i did acid once
did not like it at all i every time i close my eyes at these like three-dimensional
triangles flying at me
like yeah could not you know when you just can't stop your brain like i felt
that there was no end
to it shrooms it's always like very natural and nice and pleasant yeah that's
the concern right
the concern is the potency of of acid i heard it described by terence mckenna
as like molecularly
if you looked at it in scale it's something the size of an ant that can break
down the empire state
building in 30 minutes that's a bit much for me at this point you know what i
mean i i turned 40 this year
i don't need to break down the empire state building or any other building at
this point
now it's really about keeping the mental faculties i have adding in a little
more occasionally and going
from there yeah but you know what i mean you have to function right like you
have a show you're doing
comedy all the stuff like at some point the expansion of the mind is like i
still got to be on earth you
know if you're going to do the show you definitely have to be there you have to
be there but um
duncan and i did a show on acid we did our last podcast with full disclosure we
were on acid
yeah i'm sitting in a room sober with these people
well it's less is expected of me i think than you you're expected to be
rational i'm i'm but being a
stand-up comedian slash cage fighting commentator you get a lot of wiggle room
yeah yeah you can you
could you could say some pretty stupid yeah people go ah it's right he probably
got hit in the head
exactly yeah exactly so you know obviously we're going to do election but there's
a couple updates
so i haven't been here in about a year a little more than a year a couple
things i want to tell you
yeah before we start so first off so i got a house last week not too far from
here building a home studio
i'm very excited that's very cool my fans are funding it which is amazing so a
ton of stuff has
happened since last but i told you last time that i would know that i've hit a
certain level of success
when i'm not sitting on an ikea couch right i did not have ikea stuff around me
everywhere now i did
bring all the ikea stuff but i made one purchase for the new house only one
purchase you got a real
couch i got a real couch that's nice i got a real couch i mean i'm talking
people delivered it and i
didn't have to put it together it was actually did you i didn't even know that
that was a thing
that they come put together did you know that ikea stuff is bullshit if you
just charge 10 bucks
more and put it together everybody would probably cost more than 10 bucks
though right isn't that the
whole thing it costs more than 10 though yeah for them to put it together for
you well ikea do
they put it together for you will they do that they will but it's going to be
more than 10 bucks
i don't even mind putting it together it was just time for me not to have to
put together furniture
i put a desk together once and it's you know i was like i forget if it had an
estimate of how much
time it took but it took me four hours were you on acid was this an acid
situation
that would be something ikea assembly on acid i bet you'd do it better you know
like you'd figure out
doc willis the guy who pitched a no-hitter on acid yeah yeah yeah you know he
was up all day he
was doing acid and then he got the call and didn't know he's supposed to play
that day and it's like oh
no they want me to play today and think about it he like got his together
forget just pitching
just imagine getting your together getting there just that in and of itself
well it depends on i
guess your biological makeup how it hits you you know because i know a lot of
friends who just can't
smoke pot they just it just doesn't work with them and with me it works great
it's my favorite what
do you like indica or sativa or hybrid i i prefer sativa but if someone's
passed around the indica joint i
don't say no see all my comic friends like sativa yeah i like indica because
for me at this point
and i guess this goes back to the doors and the mind thing like i don't want to
think anymore if i'm
smoking i don't smoke pot to think or to write or anything i smoke pot because
it's 11 30 at night
and i'm gonna take one puff and watch a seinfeld that i've seen 3 000 times
already or simpsons that
i've seen three and that's it you know what i mean like i don't need i don't
smoke to like like all my
comic cars i have smoke and writer and i like no so it's a decompressing agent
purely yeah purely yeah
well you know people get real wary when you start talking about pot or acid or
even alcohol because
there's a lot of people that everyone knows that have kind of their life up
doing that but 35 000
people die driving every year it doesn't stop us from driving yeah you know i
mean and obviously
if you're doing acid most likely you're not going to kill somebody else so it's
you know the
responsibility of driving you could jump out a window like uh helen hunt did
that did you ever see
that infomer that kids thing they showed it at high school they showed it in
high schools when i was
growing up i think it was helen hunt you know which one i'm talking about that
that educational video
where they showed these high school kids and it's helen hunt is like a 15 year
old and she's on acid
and she jumps out a window and breaks the window and just kills herself at
school that's a
fucking old bill hicks bit remember that bill hicks bit young man on acid
thought he could fly
jumps off the building what a tragedy goes what a dick he thought he could fly
why didn't he try
taking off from the ground first he goes we lost a moron man we need a hicks
don't we need a hicks
every day i i wake up and i go man i wish we had carlin still because we still
you know obviously
there's plenty of good comics out there and there's so much there's such a
breakfast stuff to i don't
need to see helen hunt to talk about um you know how many times that's been
said before a lot that's
the that's paul riser it's on his business card i think he wakes up in the
middle like no okay it's
over it's over what the hell was i talking about um acid no um people dying no
we moved on all the
good comics there was something there oh ellen carlin that just imagine what george
carlin would be
going through if he lived right now in the politically correct age we live in
if you took any of his
his old stuff he would be being attacked by all sides but dare i say he'd be
attacked more by the
left these days for the that he would be talking about saying about women or
about minorities or
anything you know and it's so it's such a shame the way things have turned well
yeah he had some mean
stuff that i think like i remember this one bit that he had that even at the
time i was like whoa
it was like anorexia and he's like dumb rich cunt doesn't want to eat fucker
but but we need that
now that's the point you know what i mean it's not he wasn't saying the
specific girl who may have
anorexia that you know right but if your daughter died from anorexia and you
heard that you'd be like
whoa man yeah you would you would that would upset you at that moment and then
you know what life
goes on you know george carlin there was one issue with carlin and that one
issue was that he had a
plan to do a whole new hour every year and so he would put together this hour
and he didn't work out
at comedy clubs either he would just sort of write it yeah and then go and
perform it and you know do
little tweaks here and there but that doing that one hour every year like you
don't have enough time to
like you can't sit around and go hmm i wonder if this is a good bit you know am
i committed to this
because i believe in it like if i explored all the possibilities and all the
ways that this is going
to be interpreted is this the most effective way to convey that idea yeah you
know but he was also
so so loved and so awesome that he just wanted to shock the out of people that
was half of it was like
he was tired of all this talk about anorexia and you know maybe if he was alive
today and you were
talking to him about it he would he would change his opinion on that bit yeah i
look i'm sure if
we went back in the however many years you've been doing stand-up there are
things that you've
said up there probably sticking to my guns there's probably things you said
last week
yeah but always but we need that idea of people just saying and letting it
upset
people and other people are going to laugh at it we so desperately need it now
because it has led the
the inability to do that these days has led to everything that's happening in
our country right
now well related to politics and and media and everything you're right there's
a blowback right
massive if you go too far left the the alt-right emerges yeah and i think the
more loony we get
in terms of like gender pronouns there's 58 now by the way it's 58 gender
pronouns yeah i didn't that
you have the internet this morning i think they only recognized 31 in new york
that you could be sued
250 000 for or you fined if you're what if it's fiasco it's wonderful it's
wonderful we're gonna look
back at this and laugh as long as you're not one of the person who gets fined
250 000 and i don't think
anybody's ever been hit with that yet i think that's more more like it's horseshit
but it's not even it's not
even about the fine as much as what it does to us as people that it puts the
idea in your mind look if
i was walking down the street and i saw a guy and i said hey how you doing man
and then i realized it
was a woman i would kind of feel bad but that's life like that's life we're
trying to through words
and trickery and and now legal means we're trying to dumb everyone down to the
point that we can't even
think for ourselves if you look at somebody and you think they're a man and you
say dude
that's not evil right you know what i mean and and not every person that
transitions transitions
perfectly and someone might be in the middle of it or whatever and you know or
there might just be a
guy who looks like there's guys that look like women and there's women that
look like guys you know
what's ironic about this is it's not really a trans issue because if you talk
to trans people most
women who transition to men want to 