Name: Joe Rogan Experience #792 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy
Uploaded: 2016-05-01T01:57:48.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #792 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-01. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #792 - Lewis, from Unbox Therapy

Should we smoke weed?
We're live already?
I asked, should we smoke weed?
Right when Jamie gave me the
the gun sign. What's up, brother? Good to see you, man.
Yeah, you too, man.
It's good to be back.
It's good to have you back.
This is like warm time, though, in Toronto.
You didn't really want to leave that bad right now.
You know what? But I kind of felt like today
out here was almost the perfect
weather anyways.
Oftentimes I'll come out here,
like, I'm not a guy who needs
to be in the heat, you know?
I'm not one of these people, when it snows
or whatever, like, I'm complaining.
I can handle it. I feel like genetically
I'm built for that environment.
You're a Canadian. That's right.
Canadians, born and bred. They can deal with it.
So, yeah, so I'm not
you know, I don't mind
a little bit of the
cold, but today here in LA
this is God's weather.
This is like, I think if every day
could be exactly like this out here,
there'd be a compelling argument. But it's those
hot days, getting into the car
and burning.
Am I fired up today? Am I fired up this morning?
This is coffee number three.
All right, blame the caffeine.
The argument, there's two arguments, right?
The argument is
if it's really cold out,
you can always dress for the cold.
But you can't really dress for the warm.
Yeah, right. Undress.
Yeah.
But you could freeze to death.
It's super hard to heat up to death.
Wow.
Like you gotta really fuck up to heat up to death.
The desert. The desert.
Yeah.
The desert will kill you pretty quick.
You gotta go to Death Valley.
Yeah.
I actually know a dude who died like that.
Really?
Yeah.
He went on like a sort of a spiritual walkabout
kind of a thing.
This guy, Evan Tanner.
He was a UFC fighter, former middleweight champion.
I think I may have heard that.
Yeah.
He was into these, you know,
these long periods of solitude and spiritual quests.
And he decided to go out into the desert
and, you know, just try to find himself or whatever.
I don't know exactly what his purpose was.
But when you get out there
and it gets to like 120, 130 degrees,
you get disoriented.
And he couldn't figure out where he put his water.
Wow.
Yeah.
He couldn't find where his stuff was.
You know what's funny?
How about that stuff in movies and whatnot?
Cartoons.
Where every time somebody's in the desert,
they're seeing a mirage.
Yeah.
What is that about?
Well, you can definitely hallucinate before you die.
And do you think that that's what that's predicated on
is an actual history of people
having seen these oasis situations?
Well, you know what it is.
You know how when you're driving on the road
and the road is really hot,
it looks like it's wet.
It looks like there's water on the road.
Right.
From the heat waves.
Exactly.
That illusion on the road can recreate itself,
I'm sure, in desert situations.
It only makes sense.
Right.
And it's what you want to see.
Yes.
So you're like, you know you're in rough shape.
Yeah.
You create what you need to see.
Can you imagine if you did?
Imagine if you're like almost dying
and you find water.
You'd be so psyched.
You'd be like, yes.
I mean, I think those are the kind of moments
that make people really truly appreciate life.
And I think that's one of the reasons
why people in L.A. are so fucking spoiled
and ridiculous
is because they don't experience real weather.
It gets a little warm
and then the worst thing they have to do
is turn the A.C. on.
But they don't have to shovel their way out of snow.
They don't have to drive on slippery roads.
They don't have to.
And there's a certain amount of community
that comes with everybody sort of bonding together
because it's a blizzard.
Right.
You remember those?
Oh, yeah.
Sure.
You experience it all the time.
Happens all the time.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's the kind of situation, I think,
where any time as a human being
you lose a little bit of control over a situation,
whether it's the weather or something else,
you kind of take yourself outside of that realm
of how we like to compartmentalize things.
Yeah.
We like to, like, the epitome of self-centeredness
is being in control of absolutely every experience you have
and never letting go.
And the rest of the world around you as well.
Yes.
Not just your experiences.
No.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's a control kind of situation.
And choosing to live in a place
where, you know, shit can go wrong
or you can have a snowstorm or whatever
is kind of an element in that.
It's an aspect of losing control over the space.
And so what ends up happening,
you've got people sliding around,
you've got essentially people coming to the realization
that the planet can kick the shit out of you
if it wants to, you know?
I guess an earthquake would work that way.
Earthquakes do work that way.
Even a horrible thing, like 9-11 works that way.
It did.
When I was in New York,
we filmed Fear Factor in New York
like less than a year, I think, after 9-11.
It was pretty close to when it happened.
And man, it was just such a different vibe.
Everybody was so friendly.
Everybody was so friendly and so nice.
And I had a friend who blacked out.
We were all hanging out in front of this bar
and we stepped outside.
And a couple of them smoked cigarettes
and I pulled out a joint.
I go, who wants to get down with this?
And they're like, okay, let's go.
They're like these producers,
like, I can't believe we're doing this.
Right, right.
And one of them,
I guess she just doesn't smoke pot
or she just, for whatever reason,
she took a hit.
And then you see like her eyes roll behind her head
and her legs go down
and she almost fell.
Like, we had to catch her.
Passed out?
Yeah, she blacked out from weed.
I mean, like, it all just went...
Do you think it was the weed
or it was just in conjunction
with kind of the drama
of the whole event having happened?
No, no, it was definitely the weed
because she's from L.A.
and we flew in to film Fear Factor there
and she just...
Oh, okay.
She just had a weird reaction to pot.
Wow.
For whatever reason.
It was fucking space weed, too.
Anyway, so we called the first responders, right?
We called the, whatever they call,
I don't know who they call, paramedics.
Firemen showed up
and I swear to God,
these guys were treated
like fucking superheroes.
Firemen and then cops came behind them
and everybody was so nice
and so friendly to them
because it was at that
sort of honeymoon period
after 9-11
when you realized,
hey, when shit gets awful,
we need these people.
We have to count on these people.
Yeah.
So people were like more friendly
in the city in general
and then like really thankful
when the firemen showed up.
Yeah, there certainly is
a kind of reset button effect
when some kind of disaster happens
where people feel like
they've lost control
even for a moment.
It is, it is,
dude, like I'm out here
on the highway,
you know, like
or anywhere for that matter
and you kind of,
you have those moments
where you're sitting around
looking at all these vehicles
and wondering how the hell
this shit is staying together.
Like what is,
like how is everybody on this path
because it only takes
one asshole.
One, what percentage
of individuals is that
to like screw it up
for everyone else
whether you're flying
a goddamn plane
into a building
or swerving the wrong way
or looking at your text messages
or whatever it is.
I think, you know,
often we kind of,
we take these disasters
and we kind of hold them up,
you know, CNN style,
like replay it over and over again
when in reality
there's an argument to be made
that the amazing part
is that it's held together
as well as it is
half the time.
You know what I mean?
Well, that's the argument.
There's a lot of arguments
when it comes to that
but one of them
about gun violence.
You know,
somebody showed me
a chart the other day
of how much,
how many people have guns,
how many people
actually get shot by guns
and who are the people
that are getting shot by guns
and how many of the people
that are getting shot by guns
are involved in gang violence
or criminal activity
and then it boils down to
how many people,
I mean,
your chances of getting shot,
your actual chances
of getting shot,
like do we really have
a gun problem
or do we have a numbers problem
and it really,
if you look at the hard raw facts,
it's way more of a numbers problem.
It's a 300 million people problem.
That's what it is
and if you look at the actual
number of guns
versus the number of gun incidents
it's shockingly low
but it's just
we're dealing with
so many human beings
and those numbers
just seem,
I just don't think
human beings
are supposed to have access
to 7 billion human beings
on Earth's worth
of drama and stories.
You know?
Yeah.
You know,
when it comes back
to the gun situation,
I think that there's,
the issue there
the way I see it
is like
it's a communication issue
in that
I think
you've got these
different groups
picking a side on it
it is sort of relative
to their personal,
their personal experience
and how they've been
affected by it.
Sure.
As opposed to big picture
like what's actually happening
and inevitably
what will happen
is you'll have
some kind of,
some kind of
Columbine situation
and all of a sudden
everybody cares
because of the type
of people affected by it.
Of course.
but then half the year
when it's a different
group of people
shooting each other
then it's not making
headline news
in the same fashion.
So I think
it's a lot more segmented.
I think that those,
the issues of affecting
certain communities
are more community issues
than they are national issues.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, they definitely are.
Yeah, like look at Chicago.
Right.
I mean, Chicago's close
to you guys.
Yeah, very much so.
And the thing,
the weird thing about Chicago
is it's really nice.
Beautiful.
Like if you're in the right spot,
it's like,
it's one set of circumstances
and then on the other side
of some imaginary line
it's a different set
of circumstances.
Their murder rate
is up more than 70%
this year
from last year.
And last year was insane.
At least that's what I read.
I mean, it sounds right.
I keep hearing about it.
Yeah, it's terrible.
There was some kind of a blog
I was reading
which was like based
on infographics
and all this guy does,
the entire blog
is just following
Chicago violence.
That's the whole thing.
And he had it all mapped out.
He had every single shooting,
fatal shooting,
where the person was hit.
It's like an amazing amount
of detail
that he went into
on this particular blog.
72%.
It soared 72% in 2016.
Shootings up more than 80%.
88%.
Yeah.
Wow.
That is insane.
So murder up 72%.
Shootings up 88%
the first three months
of 2016
compared to the same period
last year.
Fuck, man.
There was a video
that this guy did.
He was live streaming
his neighborhood
and he got shot
on video.
Did you see that?
God, it's fucked up.
He's just hanging out there,
you know, walking around
and I don't know
what he was saying
but he was filming something
and all of a sudden,
pop, pop.
You see him drop
and then you see
the shooter standing
over him
shooting at somebody else.
It's just fucking crazy.
Yeah.
You know, we look at like
Juarez, Mexico.
Here it is.
This is it.
So this guy is
hanging out here.
Open the stove back up
for the kids, though.
You know what I'm saying?
I can't be out here
without the stove being open.
At least I'm going to duck
and hide for cover.
At least I'm going to duck
for cover?
Is that what he's saying?
So he's listening to music.
They pop the stove back
over for the kids.
So he's wandering around.
Yep.
Oh.
And someone just shot him.
How many bullets?
What the?
This guy unloaded
the whole clip?
Crazy.
And that guy survived?
No, that guy's dead as fuck.
Oh, right.
Well, that's weird
watching somebody die.
I'm not really into that.
Yeah.
I mean, I assume he's dead.
I feel like if that guy
kept shooting like that,
it's probably his work was done.
That's what it sure seemed like.
But the weird thing is
it looked like he was shooting
over top of him.
Did he die?
It says he was in critical condition.
