Name: Joe Rogan Experience #554 - W. Kamau Bell
Uploaded: 2014-09-25T03:53:51.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #554 - W. Kamau Bell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-09-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #554 - W. Kamau Bell' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-09-25. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #554 - W. Kamau Bell

and we're live you're one of those dudes that rocks two phones no no no this is
an ipod touch
because this phone is broken so like i can't listen to music on this phone
anymore so i just
bought an ipod touch i'm not that dude you're not that dude no this is just it
looks like i'm that
like like this is my burner but no well there's a lot of people that just love
fucking around with
a bunch of different pieces of electronics i would carry a few of them no i
prefer one it's just when
i went to the verizon to go can i have a new phone system was cracked they were
like okay that'll be
seven hundred dollars and i was like no it won't be i will wait until my
contract is up what's wrong
with it it's cracked the screen is cracked which doesn't bother me but somehow
i'm really bad with
i'm really hard on everything as my wife will attest and uh oh yeah not in a
not in a ray rice way
let's be clear but uh the jack is all fucked up so i can't i can't hear things
in anymore in a ray
rice way will be a statement for a long time yeah no yeah you until somebody
else uh knocks two of
their wives out in an elevator like michael vicking your dog yeah yeah that's a
yeah that was that whole
scenario is leading to so many different people getting in trouble for domestic
violence and reports
of domestic violence and anthony johnson uh one of the fighters in the ufc got
suspended just because
there was just the the possibility that maybe something happened so there's an
inquiry i mean
there's a sea change we're going through a sea change right now yeah yeah and
it's all about i think
because i have talked about this a little bit before that it used to be you
only knew the shit that
you knew that was directly in front of you that you want information you either
sought out or your
friends brought to you but now on facebook and twitter people are like finding
out about ray rice who
were like i didn't know there was a thing called the nfl you know what i mean
like everybody's getting
everybody's shit so that the nfl has had domestic violence for you know since
the dawn of the nfl and
not that it's any worse than regular society but they've had it but now it's at
the point where people
who never were paying attention to the nfl are noticing it also people are
going and looking
through uh the the past of a lot of these different guys yeah i think whenever
you're dealing with a
bunch of like super athletes who are also involved in an incredibly aggressive
sport and you add in
head trauma yes repeated head trauma and a lot of them like ray rice has said
that that's how he was
raised or that uh no he wouldn't say it was a peterson peterson agent peterson
said that's how
he was raised getting knocked the fuck out in an elevator yeah yeah that was
ray rice that was a
peterson yeah i mean i i've pulled i've pulled a switch off a tree because i
had to go get one
but uh i didn't have my nuts all cut up like i think there's different nuts
kind of that was the
kid it was like that there was there's uh from what i read that there was
actual like injuries on his
genital area really that's what i'd like you know i'm not trying to testify in
a court of law but i
heard that it was like i mean there's certainly there's abuse and there's and
there's also
discipline and we all that line is changing like i said we're going through a
sea change where
everybody knows everybody's shit now but uh i don't i don't think you can hide
but we all had
fucked up shit had to happen to us by our parents but doesn't mean you have to
pass it on to the next
you don't got to pay it forward fuck yeah yeah that's a good point and i've
been talking about it
lately that my parents were raised by immigrants immigrants that came over from
italy and ireland
and you know those people that came over here in the 1920s they were savages i
mean they might as
well have been cave people right they got on these shitty boats yeah that floated
across the ocean
took months they got over here they got their name changed right away and
immediately they started
fucking and shitting out kids and then they raised those kids with their savage
instincts and in
the neighborhood that they're not allowed to leave because they have their
accent is too thick and they
eat weird food so they're not allowed to leave that neighborhood at the point
when italians
weren't considered to be white those people aren't white or you know like
polish people aren't white
and then eventually they lose the accents they're allowed to integrate into the
rest of the of the city
i had a history professor on yesterday thaddeus russell who explained that
exact same thing you know
how all these different cultures integrate into society and they're considered
non-whites
like the jews except for the black folks yeah we don't get to integrate it yeah
well it was also
his his take on it was the unique uh aspect of america is that america was the
the country that had
this puritan value system like these people came over and they had this like
really repressive value
system and very repressed society but they also had slaves and the slaves didn't
they didn't accept any
of that and then they became a part of the culture radically influenced the art
radically influenced the
language who the slaves of the slaves did yeah i mean this is one of the most
unique things about america
is the african-american influence and the western africans integrating into
this really fucked up
puritan very repressed society and then you see in america like 90 of all
entertainment comes out of
here a massive amount of innovation comes out of here a massive difference in
the way we speak english as
opposed to the way english people speak english there's so many variables that
that came out of that and it
makes you think like how much of it kind of bring it all back to the peterson
thing of beating his kids
how much of the way human beings live our lives is based just on the momentum
of the people that
came before us whether it's his parents that beat him or some fucking weird puritanical
society that
you just unluckily were born into yeah yeah well there's yeah a lot of that is
but again there's that
i certainly understand that we you know like i said all of us have fucked up
things happened to us in our
childhood some of us go i gotta put a stop to this like you know that you make
the choice to go
i gotta break the cycle and sometimes it's in big ways like i'm gonna go to
college nobody went to
college and sometimes it's like i'm not gonna slap my kid in the nuts you know
what i mean like it's
just i'm gonna stick i'm gonna talk to him you know and certainly i was whipped
as a kid by a
different thing i mean i always say my one of my grandmother's favorite stories
was to talk about
how she beat me with a shoe one time and that was a thanksgiving everybody sit
down and let's hear the beat
with a shoe story that was not like in therapy she told that story like hey
grandma tell how you beat
me with a shoe story again and everybody would laugh and you know and it was a
good southern time
what was the cause what did you do that made her beat you in a shoe it's it's
funny it's the south
i said i said what that's it yeah so like so uh so call me say come out come
out what you said don't
say what to me and so supposed to be yes ma'am yes ma'am wow and i was and i
lived in the i swear to
say the north but i live with my mom in the north so i didn't know that wasn't
a thing in the north
that you couldn't say what so i didn't know and i felt really like tricked like
i felt entrapped like
nobody you give me a list of rules of how it works here in the south and i won't
do those things so
that's funny man that's funny i got beat with a shoe for saying what well kids
when they're starting to uh
sort of find themselves when they're starting to establish their own identity
one of the first
things they do is uh immediately try to challenge the way you discipline them
and the way you you
like my daughter loves doing that i go you know i'll say to her hey come on we
got to go do something
it's what she's like look at me what i'm watching tv i go i know you watch tv
but you got to eat yeah
it's time to eat no i want to watch the show it's not no i want to watch the
show there's no there's no
there's no we're not negotiating yeah this is just what's going to happen the
tv's going to get shut
off yeah yeah no i angry that i was i i stand by i was not testing authority i
just did i just didn't
hear i'm sorry what oh god you were just you were it was entrapment it was entrapment
yeah and but
then it and then it became every year the story was told as like the the bell
holiday stories god
that's so weird that it's fun to beat kids with shoes it was fun to well you
know and i worked out
pretty well i think yeah great but it didn't happen here's the thing it didn't
happen every
day it wasn't a it wasn't like the here's my time to get beat but it certainly
was the thing that i
remember and i'm not going to do that to my daughter like yeah there's no there's
no shoe beating
happening in my house yeah yeah yeah it's it's sick when you when you see like
i saw the pictures of
just his kid's leg that were beat with the switch it's a sick thing yeah it's
like beating a kid is
it's not the way to raise a kid it's not yeah like i think there's there's that
as a you know as a
parent there's times when you do grab your kid you might grab your kid because
you're like don't
touch that or don't do that or you're gonna get hurt and i need to get your
attention right i mean my
my daughter's cool but if i yell she gets like you yelled at me yeah yeah and
then i feel bad and i'm
like man that's it's a different era yeah yeah we're raising babies yeah yeah
it's a softer
friendlier world we're getting to it is and i just i like that i like that
aspect of it i like that
we're becoming more aware of the negative impact i mean if we didn't learn from
the the
fucked up shit that our parents and grandparents did to us then we would really
be idiots i mean
that's the whole point we're evolving we have to go they did that and i'm going
to try to do something
one better and i think specifically the culture of athletes is that if you're a
professional athlete
you've probably been coddled since you were in high school yeah and been told
and you've been given
a different set of rules to live by so that somebody who grew up with ray rice
who maybe came out of the
neighborhood may not be doing the things he's doing because they work at
fucking walmart and they're not
allowed to tell people what the fuck they think all the time and they're not
allowed to do those things
but ray rice as a professional athlete as a star is living by a completely
different set of rules
and what happens to a guy like that now he's kind of fucked yeah i i mean you
know michael vick was
supposed to be fucked too i think if you there america likes to come back do
you don't mike tyson was
nobody was more fucked than mike tyson was when he when he uh was you know
convicted for rape and went
to jail and he's seems to come out of that okay america likes to come back that
is true that is true
if he does the things that allow him you know what i mean like if he like i
always think about tiger
woods america hasn't accepted him back because they were unfortunately you can't
go to jail for
cheating on your wife like if he could have gone to jail and then like people
like oh he was in jail
for 18 months right now we'll let him come back but we're still people are
still judging him for what
he did could you imagine how happy women would be if a guy could go to jail for
cheating on his wife
yeah it would be so excited there would be blogs written every day yeah yeah
where women would be
recounting stories from high school asking their boyfriends to be put back in
jail yeah things
that happened a decade ago yes they would be the perfect professional victim
crusade would be out in
full force no there's and so but