Name: Joe Rogan Experience #641 - Sam Harris
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #641 - Sam Harris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-04-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #641 - Sam Harris' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-04-30. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #641 - Sam Harris

Sam Harris ladies and gentlemen alright there we go we're live to the world you're
gonna do a read
I don't do that anymore oh cool I do it before or after that way the
conversation isn't garbled by
five minutes of ads right just got annoying you know no that's a good call yeah
well there's two
different versions of this the one that goes up on YouTube so the one that goes
on YouTube has no ads
in it unless YouTube puts up ads and the one that goes on podcasts or iTunes
rather has the ads for it
so there you go so we could just talk yeah well good to see you good to see you
too man absolutely
it's a interesting time I know you're an MMA fan you know about the John Jones
situation you know
I've heard rumors about it but I don't actually know how far the misbehavior
run so he got stripped of
his title today Wow yesterday actually they announced a new title fight between
Daniel Cormier and Anthony
Rumble Johnson they'll be fighting for the now vacated title John Jones is
likely going to jail what it's
what it was a hit and run crash into a pregnant woman allegedly I should say it
broke her arm she was
rushed to the hospital but pregnant you know it's got to be terrifying for her
we had a car crash and
smashed by a guy who runs a red light and then flees the scene of the crime so
he drove away or he ran
away and ran away cars wrecked Wow yeah the cars wrecked you see the the images
of her car I couldn't
imagine unless he was driving a fucking Humvee and how he could get away is
pretty bad yeah was it a DUI or
was we don't know because he disappeared for like 24 hours at least probably
even more a couple days I think
he disappeared for which you know obviously the speculation would be that he
was on something that
he would worry about getting tested for for 24 hours or 48 hours or whatever it
was yeah you know I think of
how desperate a move and and hapless a move that is to run away from the car
that you're leaving in the
scene which is obviously traceable to you it's not like worse you're getting
out of the problem worse and
you're leaving an injured person there too yeah I mean it's it's a disaster but
it's worse because he
actually ran back to the car got stuff out of the car and then ran away again
oh man ID'd by a cop
right Jesus yeah disaster all across the board but not what we're here for no
but I know you're an
MMA fan so no we have it but bring it up yeah I actually have a question for
you though and oh close
topic and we have a list of questions that as you know we got from Twitter but
McGregor or Aldo
Who knows that's my answer for almost every fight it's gonna be interesting all
right it's gonna be a very interesting fight
We've never seen McGregor in with anybody remotely as talented as Jose Aldo not
even remotely
It doesn't mean he can't win because everybody that McGregor has been in with
he's steamrolled
I mean he's steamrolled really talented guys like Dustin Poirier and
Just he's he's fucking good yeah, he's really good. He's really good really
confident and he he really fucks with people's heads
He's so confident and so good at talking and so
There's so much charisma about him that I think it's intimidating to his
opponents
I think when they get in there with him his just overwhelming belief and belief
is it it's a
Incredibly powerful thing if you really truly believe
That you are the best and you say it your opponents have to wonder because
everybody's everybody questions themselves
Especially in the world of fighting because you're no one is if you were born a
rhino
Okay, and you were about to get into a fight with a parakeet
You'd absolutely be confident because you've always been a rhino and that parakeet
is just a parakeet that parakeet's fucked
but a person is a is a work in progress and
Not just from your fighting style
But your your ability to manage your own mind your ability to manage insecurities
and anxieties
Just the existential angst that comes with being a human being that's
navigating their way through this complicated world
There's variables there's con there's days. You're up and days you're down and
then you add into that martial arts
And you don't get good at martial arts unless you get your ass kicked. There's
only one way through I mean you can be
one of those John Jones types
It's unbelievably physically talented and have a leg up on a lot of people but
even John had to get his ass kicked
You had to he had to he had to compete in wrestling against guys who are better
than him
He had to learn martial arts. He had a spar. I mean there's gonna be days you're
up and days you're down
There's no way but so when you get in there with a guy like Conor McGregor.
Yeah, we're not here to take part
All that crazy you're just like fuck this guy's overwhelming
It's like if you can put on a show like that if you can put your peacock
feathers up and and
Puff up your back hairs get those bristles up nice and high like a cat when it's
angry and hunt your back up
Like there's a reason why that exists in nature. Yeah, well, it's beyond what
Muhammad Ali used to do
He's just taken it to it's gonna be fascinating
Psychologically to see him when he loses if when that day comes it'll come
eventually and he has lost
He's lost to a guy named Joe Duffy who's now in the UFC and he's very good
This guy Joe Duffy is fucking very good
But he has he lost since no his rise - no no he has not lost since he's been in
the UFC
And he but in all fairness the one style that he has not faced which is the
most difficult style
He's never faced a wrestler
He's never faced a guy who can get in there and get him to the ground and outwork
him and just sap his energy
wrestlers they get on top of you and you can't get them off and you get
exhausted trying and they they're
Punching you in the face and elbowing you in the face and punching you in the
body and constantly trying to strangle you and then
The round is up and you get up and the next round comes and they do it again
Boom you're on your back and boom you're getting punched in the face
He's never faced a guy like that before all the fighters
He's faced have chosen to stand up with him and he's a very high-level boxer.
He was amateur champion as a boxer
He's got very good
Jiu-jitsu skills very good Muay Thai get very good everything
We've just never seen him against a top flight wrestler, but Aldo's not that
right? Nope Aldo's not that
But Aldo is a world-class Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter like people who are not
aware of his ground skills
Aldo beat a guy named Cobrina in an actual jiu-jitsu competition. Wow, which is
very high level. Yeah Cobrina's world championship caliber
So Aldo is gonna present him with some things inside the octagon that he's
never faced before however
Aldo has been fighting professionally for a very long time and
Like a race car that doesn't ever get its tires changed or doesn't ever get its
suspension
Redone you're as a human being your body can literally only take so many miles
There's only so many times you can go to war and so many so many sparring
sessions
You can take part in only so many wrestling sessions
You can take part in there's just a certain amount your body can take and we
don't know when that number is right when when you reach that number though
That's it. You know, there's no turning back unless you're using testosterone
or growth hormone or some some things that turn your body into the
Superhuman sort of experiment. Yeah, unless he's doing that which we've seen
from Vitor Belfort like Vitor Belfort
It's the only guy who actually got better as he got older right talking to my
guy from UFC 12 miracle of science
It's exactly what it is. It's absolutely fascinating and you you can't
completely discount his training because his training is what made him better
But his ability to recover was essentially supernatural
Hmm, you know, he's fighting in the same car that Jones supposed to fight. He's
fighting Chris Weidman
But now Nevada has made testosterone replacement therapy illegal
So his last three performances which are some of the best performances of his
career the knockout of Michael Bisping the knockout of Luke Rockhold and the
knockout of Dan
Henderson those were all while he was on testosterone
So yeah, okay. Yeah, so things get weird now now you see what a 37 year old man
Really looks like you know, optimizing his hormones as best. He can naturally.
Hopefully. Yeah, right. Well 37 sounds young
It sounds yeah, yeah, I would like that level of testosterone
Well, you know, it's also the the level of testosterone of a regular 37 year
old man versus the level of testosterone
Someone going through a camp right when you're going through those camps that
is absolutely brutal like John Jones and Daniel Cormier
Both got tested randomly before their their title fight and their testosterone
levels were so low people were wondering like
Hey, maybe these guys are doing something
Maybe they were doing steroids and that made their testosterone levels drop
But what's most likely it's testosterone to epitestosterone. It was very low
testosterone levels
Most likely it's just the brutality of training. It's so hard. Yeah, it's so
hard to do
You you you're showing up every day exhausted and your muscles are sore and
your body's exhausting
You got to go through it all again tomorrow and you're getting kicked and
punched and you're lifting weights and you're doing sprints
And you're jumping up on boxes and and then the next day all over again
Your body just can't keep up especially when you get into your 30s. Yeah, yeah
All right. Well, that's the answer that I will watch it with interest. It's
gonna be very exciting
Let me know if you want to go. It's in Vegas. Oh, yeah, I would we'll talk
about that. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it
Sam Harris goes to the fights as a
Neuroscientist to disturb you at all when you're seeing these guys getting
getting their heads rattled
Do you when you're you're very aware of what's going on behind the scenes in
the actual brain itself?
Yeah, well, I just I just talked about this on my blog with this this writer
Jonathan Gottschall who I told you about at one point
Yeah, he's I'm trying to get him on the podcast. We're working out the date. Oh,
great. Yeah, he's great
And so we had a conversation which which we published the transcript of but he
he's got this book
The professor in the cage where he's he's an academic
He's an English professor and he decided to get really into MMA and fight a
real, you know, cage match
and so it's a it's an interesting book and so he and I were talking about
The discomfort we have just seeing people get brain damage in real time for our
amusement and
Yeah, it does make me uncomfortable, but I'm you know, it's also part of what's
thrilling
I mean, I you know, I'm as thrilled by the prospect of a knockout, too
It's kind of it's not even a conscious thrill. It's just when when things start
going that way
You feel your own, you know testosterone or something kick in and
But I am his recommendation was that
I'm sure he's not the only person who's thought of this
He thought the gloves should come off and the gloves are making it that you
making it realistic to just send endless
Overhand rights and other crazy punches, you know full force into people's
heads for for you know 30 minutes
Whereas if you if you were to if it was a bare-knuckle fight you could you
couldn't really it'd be fewer knockouts
But you couldn't deliver that kind of brain trauma because you'd be breaking
your hands now
Obviously there are things like elbows and knees and kicks and so you people
would still be getting hurt, but
What do you think about that with that change? I'm a big advocate of that and I've
been said it many times
I've said on the air I've talked about it on this podcast
I think it's very unrealistic the way you're allowed to not just put gloves on
but also wrap your hands up tape your wrists
Your wrist is a joint it flexes and when you tape it up and they