Name: Justin Wren on Bullying (from Joe Rogan Experience #826)
Uploaded: 2016-07-29T02:54:20.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Justin Wren on Bullying (from Joe Rogan Experience #826)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-07-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Justin Wren on Bullying (from Joe Rogan Experience #826)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-07-29. Transcript available.

Justin Wren on Bullying (from Joe Rogan Experience #826)

hello freak bitches so that's a massive sacrifice you're willing to take to do
that and this the
fact that it's it exists inside your body for an undetermined state of time
that's uh that's
pretty wild man it's it's scary um yeah honestly i feel like i was in a much
scarier place
personally um before before i found this before i found them before i got given
a second family
or accepted into a second family and more scarier because you were depressed
because yeah well
depressed suicidal thoughts i had for like 10 years just battled it from 13
years old 23 and so um
so yeah that that was a lot scarier to me than going suicidal thoughts when you're
13 yeah for
sure and i i mean i was i was one that like you know the kid in the in the
class that i mean i
wasn't i wasn't like i wouldn't say i was how do i say it it was extremely
brutal but it was happening
to i mean everyone gets bullied for the most part somebody's bullying you yeah
well when i was growing
up that from from third grade till eighth grade for sure it was brutal seventh
and eighth grade was
usually were you smaller then i was you're a gigantic dude i was smaller it
takes a lot of balls to bully
you yeah and uh that might backfire it's actually kind of why i found fighting
um or not why it is
or not kind it is because uh i was 13 years old and i had just gotten so well
two things have you ever
seen in texas for high school homecomings they have mums have you heard of that
no it's a mom texas
tradition that's crazy um now all all the kids love them everything else but
you get these like
corsages or fake flowers that they put real big up top and then they are streamers
with literal bells
and whistles full-size teddy bears you can have two three teddy bears when i
was in high school the girl
would wear it on her her shoulder and the guy would wear it around his arm now
in texas they literally
have to put a harness around them and hold these things up because they're so
big and there you go
mums texas mum isn't that nuts that that's homecoming in texas what look at
that i'm telling you it's
it's a whole state the whole state i mean i've never heard of this every homecoming
that comes around
texans are nuts about this i mean i lived in texas and i was like four months
old so it was uh
they're nuts and they've gotten bigger and bigger and bigger every single year
and uh how am i just
hearing about this proud of it it's weird i mean are you just hearing about
this jamie i think those
are literally like two and three hundred dollars now what yeah when i was in
high school they were
like 70 hundred oh my god look at all those girls look at that picture that you
had down there there's a
giant group of girls with all this this is ridiculous is that not nuts how do
you how do you go to the
dance like that how do you go to the game like that i don't understand i mean
literally the boyfriends are
walking behind them holding the the stuff up for them because what it's getting
too heavy their
neck hurts but they want to wear it it's a tradition yeah everybody gets
excited the bigger and bigger the
mum the bigger the mum the better the more the more your date liked you is this
a mum company that you
just clicked on oh my god they're in every single grocery store in texas what
yeah whenever it comes to
like uh september october november around homecoming time high school like this
is people's jobs like
seasonal jobs they sit around and they take special orders they make them for
you but they sell them
to where you can make them yourself um that's so strange isn't that nuts i just
it always baffles
me when i find out about something for the very first time i don't know why i'm
so confused i i would
like to find out where the tradition uh came from probably but i mean people is
just so ingrained in you if
you're texan that you have to get mums and so uh is there any other i guess
find out if other states
accept that i literally oklahoma doesn't do it louisiana doesn't new mexico i
mean all around us it's
just texas 12 things non-texas need to know about homecoming mums
what in the the mum started as a simple flower hold on scroll up a little bit
mum started as a simple
flower guys give them to their homecoming date oh that's hilarious girls also
give guys one called
a garter like a garter oh they put it on your on your arm on your garter belt
oh no over your god how bizarre like one of those things that tie boxers wear
yeah
being able to make mums can make you rich oh god see 60 to 300 what 300 for
fake flowers 300 bucks
it ain't cheap to electrify a mum oh my god that chick's got one that lights up
that's so crazy you can put led lighting look at that scroll scroll up a little
bit you can put led
lighting in mums i didn't know how many folks are doing this back when i was in
high school but
nowadays you really want to impress your date the latest in mum lighting
technology will help you
do just that that is hilarious you know this isn't even like a joke website
right no this is real
they're taking it serious that's so strange it's really weird and so when i was
in middle school
seventh grade i you know look at that girl she's got a christmas tree on her tits
that's
ridiculous they uh so you want to save i saved it up and my allowance asked one
of my crushes to go to
the homecoming game with me she said yes to my surprise went to the game and uh
spent pretty much
all my allowance on uh the her mom and uh her name is jessica and i took her to
the game and uh i'm up in
the stands with her and home or halftime comes around i'm up at the very top
left and all of a
sudden everyone looks back up over the right shoulders at us and this one guy's
kind of my
my belief through elementary and middle school for sure and um his name was
justin as well and so he
walks up and uh puts his arm out uh to her and she puts her arm around his and
he grabs the streamer
that says uh justin and jessica and the year on it or whatever and uh he says
thanks for getting her
this and i'm like what he goes you didn't think she'd come with you did you and
so he just kind
of walks down all the schools looking they're all laughing um having fun but
and and that one hurt but
what was worse was the next year because you know people liked that part of i
don't know i think
for me when i see bullying now i just spoke out of middle school and i told one
of the teachers asked
what should you tell a kid that's battling with suicidal thought or depression
even maybe suicidal
thoughts i'm like well if this is 300 400 kids in here like for sure one person
is dealing with
these issues right now and i would say you know um the thing that probably
saved me was my parents
didn't own a gun probably only texans that don't own guns and uh then um i don't
know i i mean i i guess
one of the main things was um well i i don't even know that i've ever said this
publicly but i remember
um having attempted suicide once and then um thinking about it again and then
um thinking you
know what would this what would this do to my mom you know and so i love my mom
i'm a mama's boy
dad's great too but that's just who i am she's a tough cookie she's where i got
my competitiveness she was a
national champion and barrel racing state champion in tennis and so she always
pushed me my dad if
he uh if he was at a wrestling tournament and it's the finals even state i
would dislocate my thumb or
something he'd come up you don't have to wrestle in the next match like it's
the finals my mom's like
he's getting out there so my mom's the one pushing him shut up jimmy uh yeah he's
gonna he's gonna go
out there and he's gonna wrestle he's gonna win and so uh my dad was more of
the the one wanting to
protect me and she's the one wanting to push me out there um so i guess uh i
don't even know why
i was saying that except for oh that thought was just um ringing in my head and
so whenever i finally
verbalize that and start talking to people that's what really helped you know
it didn't have to be a
bunch of people i didn't have to go around and be um i don't know a drama queen
or do it for attention
or whatever but just find one person and for me at that age it was having a
great mom and um and
parents that love me and i think that's probably absolutely what saved me at
that time and so i
was telling these kids you know hey tell if even if it's just your mom so i was
taking pictures with
some of the kids afterwards and stuff and i walk out to leave and i'm in the
hall and this mom stops me
because she's with her little guy and he's crying so a mom had come to school
had heard there was
anti-bullying talk she came up and i see this little guy it reminded me a lot
of me the only difference
was uh was he had these kind of big glasses on but he was a little chubby and
had just had one of
those things that you'd see stereotypical like this kid's gonna get picked on
right and so um probably
a lot like me he's used to getting his fat pinched and nipples twisted and you
know all that different
stuff and so um he was out there just bawling with his mom his mom asked if i
could come talk to him
for a little bit i did and she was saying that he had never opened up with her
and uh in the last
two years but she knew he had been dealing with really bad depression and right
there he told her
i've been dealing with suicidal thoughts for two years and so i don't know why
i even brought that
up except for like it's nuts my parents have a have a photography company and
they made a memorial a few
years back for a little boy who's getting bullied didn't think he had an option
out and he took his
life at nine years old oh my god i think it was his swing set out back and so
he hung himself oh jesus
christ and so um i saw the plaque and everything made up for him and just gut-wrenching
and so you
know as i say that and the first story wasn't that but then this kind of one
that kind of brought
everything to a head was i was in middle eighth grade this time um got invited
to uh jennifer's um
birthday party really excited i got an invite one of the real invitations in my
hands and um
made the plans talked to my mom asked if i could go talk to some of the people
who else is going
i was just kind of the dorky kidding ways but um on the invitation i noticed
man it says costume
contest in the winner gets a prize i started in research all this other stuff
other people were
doing it too and um i found out that her dad worked at dr pepper um in that
their house was
decorated with it all this other stuff and then um and then she loved transformers
and so i thought
what if i you know combine those two things what if i could uh make myself a
cardboard transformer from
head to toe uh i think it was a 24 pack around the head 12 packs around the
arms uh legs boots i had i
had a chest plate i had a sword out of uh cardboard a country kid texas you see
those mums we can do
pretty much anything with duct tape and uh so duct tape cardboard just made it
up and walked into the
party and um her grandma opened the door she goes oh jennifer's gonna love this
walked in they literally
had a dr pepper machine one of those like old school ones you didn't have to
pay just push the button
it pops out 13 year old kid you love that so we got dr pepper can in one hand
have the dr pepper
cardboard sword in the other walk to the backyard um and whenever the door
opens i open the door um
greeted there with like some flashes of lights and fingers pointing people
laughing and um i remember
jennifer saying i can't believe you thought you were cool enough to come to my
party and i was the only
one that was dressed up everybody else had gotten there early and they all been
planning and even the
invitations were fake just so that i would come there dress up another kid said
um you're worthless
so in that moment i felt worthless and then um the main bully said you should
just kill yourself and
so whenever he said that 13 years old battle with depression suicidal thoughts
all the di