Name: Joe Rogan Experience #719 - Josh Olin
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #719 - Josh Olin' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-11-05. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #719 - Josh Olin

Boom, and we're live Joshua. How are you? I'm good Joe. How are you? Dude your
story?
Well, we were talking before this alright because I had seen online that you
had gotten fired for this whole Donald
Sterling comment thing and then you had said to me you took some heat for the
Donald Sterling thing too, but not really
I didn't there's you there's no there's only the only real heat is you like
Get in trouble like you lose you you lose a job you actually got fired for
saying something that's entirely
Reasonable and I'm gonna paraphrase what you said
But I believe what you said was he has every right to be an old bigot in the
privacy of his home and that he's a victim because this
Fucking floozy that he was hanging around with who had recorded him and then
leaked the audio, right?
Which is totally completely reasonable. You called him an old bigot. You didn't
in any way
Support him right. I said he was a bigot in my own in my own statement even a
statement that was isolated
Yeah, thank you for picking up on that
But this idea that in the privacy of your own home that your words should be
They should be gone over with a fine-tooth comb by the entire world and then
that's not some
horrendous invasion of privacy
Like that's fucked man to me that invasion of privacy is a way more egregious
error than someone being a shithead at his own time
Right and even what he said the reality of what he said
He said and he never used a racial slur
I mean call him a bigot if you will but what he said was I don't want to his
girlfriend
I don't want you taking pictures with these black guys. I don't care if you
fuck them, right
But I don't want you taking pictures with them
What I don't care if you fuck them is a huge part of his statement
I would not say that's a bigot. I mean look so worst case right or best case if
would depending on what your perspective is social
justice warrior or or but or whatever, but yeah best case scenario worst case
scenario
He's a bigot, right? But right even that shouldn't affect me the way that it
seemed to have been affecting everybody
Right in the way that the media was hyping it up and the media was was spinning
it and totally not necessarily looking at
The other kind of really bad CD shit that was going on around that whole thing,
right? Yeah
I mean I have to question what is the mistress's motives in that right like all
that's hearsay and I know that in the wake of all of that
There was lots of finger pointing and he said she said going on and and
lawsuits filed
But I think that you know, it's not hard to imagine that her motives weren't
pure
You know, they weren't they weren't like it wasn't like she was some white
knight, you know rushing into to do some great social justice
I think that at the end of the day she was really out to you know, take this
guy down and or get something out of it
Right. Well, didn't she say that she didn't release it?
I believe that was her statement. Yeah, I mean whoever whoever got a hold of it
I don't know what her statement is and at the end of the day Joe to me is hearsay,
right?
Right. All of that shouldn't matter to me
What matters to me is like the and what I was trying to call attention to what
I've always tried to call attention to is the way people
Kind of we have these weird priorities. We we love to be have this endorphin
drip
We love to be angry. We love to be a part of something big
And then we don't necessarily take a step back and look at like the big picture
of what was happening
What what was going down and and what could we be talking about instead of all
of this stuff, right?
Well, it's just infuriating to me that you can get fired for what I believe is
an incredibly innocuous statement
I mean, maybe this is coming from me maybe my my perception of
the difference between working for a public company and and and having
controversial opinions and
You know me being a comedian a cage-fighting commentator. It's I have different
Standards, I guess the different world. Yeah, I mean I can say something pretty
fucked up and I'll I might get a call from the UFC and they're like
What are you drunk? You know like that's it you're like, yeah
Pretty much I might say it and then I'll say sorry
I was fucked up and then it goes away, but I you know
I just can't believe that the standards are so low or that the the the outrage
Standards that it's like it requires such a minimal ripple on the seismic
You know the seismograph that people will freak out to the point where you can
lose your fucking job for calling someone a bigot and saying
This guy should have the right to do that in his home and be be a piece of shit.
I
Know I know what to expect from from Westboro Baptist Church, right?
I know what to expect from the KKK, right? I don't agree with any of that shit
and I
Abore it. I think that they're all scumbags, but but but I kind of know what to
expect from that and that shouldn't surprise me when when some headline comes
out or when they do some
Weird stuff, right? A lot of people were saying, you know, well Donald Sterling
He had this huge hit long history of being like racially weird and and
questionable
So it's like well then why why are you acting really surprised that that this
thing happened at all? And why are you?
Supporting like a breach of privacy in that way because that to me is a is a is
a more sort of inalienable, right?
to
You know to privacy I
Completely and totally agree and I think that that this this idea that somehow
or another
You should be on your best behavior all the time. You can't just say something
if you're alone
You want to say something completely disgusting
You may or may not mean it you might be under the influence of alcohol or drugs
But you're not giving public statements, right?
And so for those public statements or for it to get out like a public statement
and for people to
Absorb it like a pump and then analyze it and critique it and criticize it and
then get crazy about it
I I found it ridiculous and I think if the guy does have this long history of
being racist
I understand it then then I understand why people are upset like they're like
good
We got him like here. It is right we caught him, but what does that do with me?
Right, but understand how you caught him?
Yeah, you know
I mean you caught him in a fucked up way that nobody should get caught that way
I mean, that's just not how the world is supposed to work in America in 2015
I mean what what are what is everybody upset about everybody's upset about this
Edward Snowden thing, right?
Because Edward Snowden found out that the NSA is secretly wiretapping every
fucking phone in the country and recording all your emails
Recording all your your voicemails and everybody got crazy like that's
outrageous. Well, that's no different
This is all private stuff. I mean this is very similar. It's on the same lines
the idea that you can be judged
And him ultimately mean guy got his fucking team taking away hammered
I mean, it's insane
It changed the course of his life and for someone like that - like he's a
billionaire
He's the money aspect is hardly anything for him right to him. It's his legacy
the thing that mattered most to him
Completely trashed completely gone and again
I it doesn't matter who he was and what other people thought of him and what
matters again to me is just the way that the way and honestly
I wasn't even that mad at the NBA because if you look at if you look at the
position they were in they kind of had their hand
forced in a lot of ways under this under this torrential downpour of like media
and public discourse and so like in a way
I almost like empathize with with them in the position that they were put in
but but to me
It's the way that we reacted to it in the way that we kind of were okay with it
and a part of it
And so I was trying to be the the one voice of reason at the time
Swimming against the stream to try to bring some some, you know common sense to
the conversation
Which is like this guy? He's not this weird monster dude, you know, he's not
like this this this
You know crazy guy who's wreaking havoc and blowing up cities and towns like
right?
He's an old guy who grew up in an era where very different than ours and he
might have some weird
No shit floating around in his head and maybe maybe all of that was true
But at the end of the day what still is not right is what's happening to him
right now
And you made this one tweet, which again, I think is fairly innocuous
I actually know completely innocuous
Totally justified
The first tweet the company you were working for makes in response to it
They call you their former community leader. Was that how you found out you
were fired?
Practically
So I can run you through the timetable
Please do
So at the beginning of the day
What company was it again?
Well the company that I work for is called Turtle Rock Studios
A bunch of really talented artists who are making an incredibly ambitious game
called Evolve
And so the game was the game is and was and still is really awesome
But the the the company, you know game development
We work in a slightly different clock than most of corporate America
We work we go in at like 10 a.m. and we leave at like 7 p.m.
Because we're usually up until really late in the late in the evening
So I really don't even wake up until like 9 o'clock every day most days
So that day I woke up and my phone was kind of buzzing and blowing up
One of my one of my really close friends and colleagues at the time texted me
And he's like hey, by the way, you know the stuff you tweeted about the other
day
Like some news outlet picked up on it some small, you know thing
Some vulture group
Exactly who wanted to capitalize on that on that that sensational headline
And so he was just giving me a heads up and I was like, oh, yeah, you know,
thanks, whatever
To me at the at the time I was like, whatever
Like I know what the group he that I don't want to name the the site
But but I know what they're about like they do this all the time
So I was like, whatever
And then so maybe I jump in the shower and I get out and I've got texts from
like our gm at our at our studio
Like you need to go radio dark on all social media period and I was like what I
was like, what?
And so I texted back and I'm like is this in relation to the article the one
article that no one else picked up on and that like
You know half the comments were like that dude
That's totally not what josh was saying and the other half were kind of
reacting sensationally to it
But like the other half even on the comments of the oracle were like you're
taking them out of context
Right and that was the entire extent of the controversy circling me at the time
and then
45 minutes later I still haven't left my apartment to go into the studio yet 45
minutes later my email stops working and i'm like
Like i'm not dumb not stupid. I'm like they literally just shut off my email
Um and then so I tried calling him and he didn't take my call and then an hour
later
He's like yeah, we should we should probably meet at like the starbucks around
the corner
And I was like what like you you don't want me to come into the office and talk
about this
Like you don't want to hear my side of it. You don't want to
see what's what like it's just
Done and then they issued the statement that they made which was like the
literally putting the match to the kerosene
So maybe there was some kerosene maybe there was some like potential for
outrage
Um, and then when they fired me it turned into this huge thing in the gaming
industry around like
Was that right? Was that wrong?
So like the vast majority of people who would have never even heard about that
or even would have cared that I tweeted that
Um kind of like everybody heard about it
Um mainstream heard about it like mark cuban started following me on twitter
Like if you were if they were afraid the nba was going to get pissed at us for
for me for weighing in on it
Then you know their kind 