Name: Joe Rogan Experience #781 - Kevin Rose
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #781 - Kevin Rose' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-04-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #781 - Kevin Rose' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-04-06. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #781 - Kevin Rose

Dump-dump-dump-dump-dump-dump-dump-dump!
What's up, man?
What's up?
Thanks for doing this, appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
And thanks for introducing me to your dog,
because I have to tell you that that video of you grabbing that raccoon
and chucking it down the stairs
was easily one of the most gangster things I've ever seen online.
I appreciate that.
Is this it?
Yeah, this is it.
I had to put a little disclaimer up here,
so that, you know, the animal rights folks wouldn't get pissed off.
Yeah, they're gonna get pissed off anyway.
So right now I hear him crying,
because there's no audio on the cameras,
but he's, like, just getting mauled by this thing.
And you just picked it up and fucking chucked it like a gangster dude.
I mean, you didn't just push it away.
You picked it up over your head, went back behind the head
like you're throwing a medicine ball.
Here's another angle.
Yeah, this is the best angle.
Over the back of the head and...
Boom!
Bang!
We're talking to Kevin Rose, the founder of Dig.
I gotta say, though, it was a little liquid courage.
I'd had a couple glasses of wine.
And number two, my intention was to go down there and just kick it.
Right.
But it was on top of my dog, so I'd be punting my dog at the same time.
It was tangled.
It was tangled.
Yeah.
And, you know, then I grabbed it and it's greasy and kind of bristly.
Oof.
So, but, you know, whatever.
It's kind of when it's your baby.
Yeah.
I know it sounds weird to say with a dog, but it's just like I thought he was
dying.
He was howling like he was getting shredded, but with his claws, you know.
So I'm thinking my dog is being killed.
Did you think it was a coyote?
No.
You know, we had seen raccoons in the backyard before,
and it was just one of those things where they always just kind of, like, run
away the second the lights come on.
And this time, I don't know what he was, I don't know if he had babies.
Actually, there were some other raccoons that we saw with him at the same time.
So, I don't know.
Man, those weird sort of fringe wildlife creatures like raccoons and coyotes
that kind of hang around cities are so creepy.
Yeah, there's a ton in San Francisco.
Yeah.
Just all over the place at night.
They just dig through the trash, basically.
Well, San Francisco, believe it or not, at least the outside edges, has a bit
of a mountain lion problem.
I've heard that.
Yeah.
They did this study recently where they checked the digestive tracts of all
these mountain lions,
and they thought we're going to find deer and rabbit.
No, they found mostly pets.
Ugh.
It's like 50% cats and dogs is what they found.
Yeah.
You don't want to tangle with a mountain lion.
That's crazy.
Well, it's just weird that they've chosen to exist in the periphery of these
cities and sort of feed on these pets.
House animals, yeah.
Yeah.
It's too bad.
Yeah.
It's not normal, though, that a raccoon attacks a dog like that, right?
Yeah, they typically just take off.
That's been our experience with them.
And then I proceeded to go on Amazon and buy a trap.
Ah.
And so then I was able to trap one a few days later, and it was evil.
I mean, like, I went down there just to check out the trap, and I saw it from
above.
And when I got down there, it was just hissing and trying to scratch the cage
at me.
And, I mean, they're not the friendly ones that you see on YouTube.
Yeah.
Like, there's some that are, like, kind of domesticated where people feed them,
and then they come and you can pet them and whatnot.
These wild ones are just like the "I will cut your throat" kind of animals.
I had a feral cat for a while, and I love cats, but feral cats, it is a
completely different experience.
Like, mine was a kitten.
It was a little baby.
I mean, it was really young, like maybe three months old at the most.
And you couldn't get anywhere near it.
You'd go near it, and it would...
It would run up the side of the wall, it would tear apart the curtains trying
to get away from you.
What did you...
Did you just get rid of it, or...?
No, I kept it.
I locked myself in a bedroom with it for a couple days.
Taming it.
Yeah.
You had to break it.
It's not even that I had to break it.
I just had to get it used to me.
It was a real weird experience.
My friend Lainey, she and her boyfriend lived in this apartment in West
Hollywood.
Like West LA, like Santa Monica area.
And there's these feral cats that had babies underneath the apartment building.
And so they're like, "Oh my god, what are we gonna do?
What are we gonna do?
Alright, we have to trap them."
And so she knew that I already had two cats.
So she's like, "Do you want a cat?"
It's like, "Alright, fuck it.
Give me a cat."
Yeah.
And if you give those to the animal shelter, they'll just terminate them.
They'll kill them immediately.
Yeah, it's too bad.
Well, it was so hard to get used to this thing.
But it would hiss at you, but when you pick it up, it would go...
It would be the loudest purrs.
Crazy.
It was so happy that someone was touching it.
But then you'd put it down just for a second.
It would run away again.
It took forever.
And it took years before it would let anyone else get even close to it.
Like hiding under furniture, things like that?
Yeah.
It would hiss at you and run away from you.
I was the only one that could touch it.
And even me.
I had to go, "Hey dude, it's me.
You know me, right?
We're cool, right?
We're cool."
And I'd get close to him, but he would swing at you.
He'd definitely bite you.
I don't know why about a month ago I was looking up how to break a horse.
I just thought that'd be kind of a fun thing.
Fuck that, man.
Why?
Why not?
It would be amazing.
The bond you would have.
Yeah.
They'll kick your ass though.
They're so big.
That'd be fun though.
Yeah.
That'd be a good weekend project.
Get off the computer, go break a horse.
I know a bunch of people that have gotten hurt from horses.
Yeah.
They've fallen off horses and broken arms and legs and stuff.
I know a dude who got kicked by a horse.
Oh.
Yeah.
That could be death.
Oh yeah.
They kill all kinds of animals.
Like dogs.
Like barking dogs.
They kick them.
The dog.
That's it.
Yeah.
I mean, you're getting hit by a telephone pole.
Those fucking things are giant.
I mean, it's an animal that can take a 200 pound man and run with it on its
back for
hours.
Right.
There's raw power there.
I was in Montreal and there's this amazing restaurant called Joe Beef.
And they serve horse there.
Hmm.
And it's one of those places where I know the owners through Anthony Bourdain.
He introduced me to him.
And so they said, just let us cook for you.
And so we're like, okay, go ahead, man.
He goes, fuck the menu.
Just let us cook for you.
Like horse three ways.
Yeah.
Well, that was just one of the things they brought over.
We didn't know what it was until they set it down.
They're like, this is horse tartare.
Crazy.
And we're like, wait a minute.
What?
Raw horse?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've had lamb tartare one time when I was in Dubai.
That was a little funky.
It's very fatty.
Yeah.
And so it's a lot of like film on your mouth after you get done eating it.
You know, like the roof of your mouth, kind of like a little filmy.
Not fun.
Well, I'm a fan of lamb until I found out what lamb is.
That it's baby sheep.
Yeah.
That's what it is.
Well, it's adult sheep though too, right?
No, that's mutton.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah.
It's like veal.
It's like the veal of the mutton world.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I went, oh yeah.
I didn't know it was babies.
Yeah.
Well, really young.
Yeah.
Immature.
Hmm.
Yeah.
That's too bad.
It is too bad.
It is tasty.
It's the most delicious.
Well, that's why when you get lamb chops, it's a very small bone.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You figure like we would just assume, right?
That's too bad.
You just kind of tainted me forever.
Bummed it out.
Well, it's really easy for you to digest for some reason.
Lamb is a much more digestible meat.
Protein wise?
Yeah.
It's very good for you.
A lot of people feel like it's a more high quality meat, closer to like a wild
game than say
like cows and you know, things along those lines.
Hmm.
How do they measure that?
It's a good question.
I know they can measure protein content somehow.
And they know that like some animals, like I think moose is like the highest
protein content.
Like per gram kind of thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I think it's also, that's probably based on how lean it is too, because you
would assume
that an eight ounce piece of moose would be far less fat than an eight ounce
piece of domestic beef.
Right.
So that's probably how they measure it.
Hmm.
Crazy.
Because it looks different, you know, like lamb looks different than beef.
When you look at it, it's like a redder sort of a, unless it's grass fed beef.
Grass fed beef, pretty red.
Have you tried bear?
Yes.
Yes.
See, that's one I haven't tried, but I've been curious.
I've heard it's pretty oily though.
No, it's not.
Oh, it's not?
No.
Well, it really depends on how you prepare it in the field and what you do with
it.
But bear sausage is delicious and bear back straps, the loin is really good
grilled.
But bear, you have to be really careful because you can get trichinosis.
A lot of bears have trichinosis.
So you have to make sure it's cooked to 165 degrees.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah.
It's like, it's actually...
So there's no medium rare bear loin?
No, no, no.
The only way you could ever do that is if you got it tested first, you could do
that.
Like you'd send it to a lab, like you take the bear's tongue and you send it
out to
a lab and they test it.
Or is that a...
I think you might have to actually send the actual meat itself or a piece of
meat.
But if it has trichinosis, it's throughout its whole body.
Is it tough?
No.
Oh, interesting.
No, bear's weird, man.
Huh.
Their bodies are very mushy.
You would think of their bodies like an elk or a deer is a very strong, like...
They're very muscular, like a horse is.
Right.
Like, but a bear is almost like gushy.
Like when they die and when you pick them up, they're like a fat person.
Hmm.
It's weird.
Well, they hibernate and they have those big fat stores.
Yeah.
I guess that makes sense.
But they have what you would...
The way you would describe it, like they have a soft body.
Hmm.
But the meat is very good.
Yeah.
It's like a...
It's the way I describe it as like a pig fucked a deer.
Hmm.
That's what bear tastes like.
Really?
Yeah.
Because I like pig.
Yeah, you would like it.
Fucked a deer.
If I had some, man, I'm having some delivered on Thursday.
How long are you going to be in town for?
I'd take off tomorrow.
Damn it.
Next time, I'll bring you some bear sausage.
That sounds awesome.
And I'll have it frozen for you so you can take it back.
That's good.
But it's really good.
And it's also one of those animals where my friend Steve Ranella calls them
charismatic megafauna.
Where if you say you eat bear, there's a bunch of people that have this, oh,
this like knee jerk.
Right.
But it's one of those game animals where it's actually imperative that people
hunt them.
Because they don't have any natural predators.
So if they don't get hunted, if someone doesn't control the population, they
decimate the moose and the deer.
Because they eat all the fawns.
Interesting.
They eat all the ground nesting birds.
And they just, and they also eat each other.
So I have a friend that collects butterflies, my friend's wife.
And apparently there are places in the world where the butterflies are a
serious problem.
Like they overtake and eat crops and like decimate everything.
Wow.
And they're these beautiful like, you know, six, seven inch butterflies.
But she sources them from there where they actually have to kill them.
Otherwise it's going to ruin the whole environment.
Wow.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
So she collects the dead ones.
The dead ones, yeah.
They're all kind of in one of those cases so you can see them.
Yeah.
And when you first walk in, you're like, okay, asshole.
Like, you know, because there's like all these beautiful but