Name: Best of The Week - March 31, 2013 - Joe Rogan Experience
Uploaded: 2013-04-04T02:31:59.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Best of The Week - March 31, 2013 - Joe Rogan Experience' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-04-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Best of The Week - March 31, 2013 - Joe Rogan Experience' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-04-04. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
Yeah, that's why I think that activities are really important for people.
There's a lot of people that unfortunately don't engage in activity.
They don't engage and they don't have hobbies.
Yeah, like anything like that.
Learn a language.
Do something.
Do something that's exciting.
You learn the art of learning.
You know, the problem with our education system,
Gore Vidal was saying this,
was that we don't have an education system that teaches you how to think.
Right.
We don't.
That's so true.
And that's – there is an art to learning, man.
There's an art to learning.
There's an art to how to structure.
There's an art to being a human being.
That's right.
It really is.
And no one teaches us.
We don't know what the fuck we're doing.
We're all idiots raising other people with the same flaws that we were raised
with.
There's no manual for it.
Exactly.
And there's – when you look at what we consider our source of education as
far as like
what is distributed to us nightly?
What's the news, right?
I mean that's really the education that people have today.
Once you get out of school, unless you're reading books on your own,
where are you getting your information about the world?
You're getting it from the fucking news.
That's right.
Well, the news doesn't really represent what's A, going on in the world,
and B, it doesn't say anything about how you should be dealing with this,
how you should be thinking, how we should resolve these issues.
It's like this tattletale that just goes running over and tells us about all
the fucked up shit that's happening in the world,
but they don't – it's not a dialogue with a person.
It's like a source of information.
By the way, that complaint goes back at least 3,500 years.
Socrates, when he was in his trial, said,
you wouldn't take a horse to try to ride it and not train it.
The same applies to a human being.
You've got to start with the notion of – he was trying to teach philosophy in
the sense that
you better know what questions to ask throughout your life,
and we should start with young people, educate young people the right way with
the right questions.
If you don't do that, then you've got to start with a base almost.
And we don't.
We don't do that, man.
It's almost like learning jiu-jitsu, just learning moves without learning the
principles behind it first.
Yeah.
Well, it's also like learning jiu-jitsu without going over the real correct
drills,
like learning real live applications and the way school is set up.
You know it again, you motherfucker.
The way school is set up, it's they have X amount of 1,000 kids,
and they have to get these kids through with a basic understanding of the
building blocks of our world.
They have to understand math.
They have to understand how to structure a sentence.
They have to understand how to form paragraphs,
and they've got to know what happened in the past.
And then you're off on your own.
Good luck, fucker.
Next stop, college.
I saw quite a few of your videos online.
And they're really, really, really interesting conversations.
And one of them that really struck me was, well, there were several of them
that struck me,
but one of them was your story of being mugged.
And you told people on an online room where you got mugged,
and people were upset that you, in telling the world that you got mugged there,
it was lowering their property values.
Yeah, that was a bad one.
That's so crazy.
Yeah.
I mean, it was one thing to get mugged, which is kind of freaky in itself, you
know,
and whatever, you know, shame and weirdness goes with that.
But I guess what I was trying to do, I mean, deep down was probably elicit, you
know,
love and affection from people on my list.
You know, so I put up, oh, you know, and there was a social, some social
responsibility to it.
So I put up where I got mugged, because everyone should know this is maybe a
dangerous stretch here.
We got to maybe get a light.
But yeah, so I sent it out.
And then the first two emails I got back from this, like, loving list of
parents was,
how dare you say exactly where it happened?
You know, we live right across the street.
You know, you're going to lower our property values.
I'm like, are you selling now?
Is that, is that, no, we're not selling.
But it was a really weird time when people needed their property values to go
up,
because they were trying to get bigger mortgages and pay down and do all that.
And it was just, like, so panicky there about that, that some, you know,
someone was afraid,
oh, what if a newspaper covers it and it's bad?
And what if I...
It's so weird when ones and zeros trump humanity.
You know, and in that case, that's exactly what that is.
That's ones and zeros trump humanity.
Well, yeah, and two kinds of ones and zeros.
You know, the ones and zeros of money.
Yeah.
You know, and the ones and zeros of sort of, of digital technology, which I
think can create
a kind of a distance that you wouldn't get.
Because you're not feeling the impact of saying that to someone's face that you're...
Yeah, there's a weird communication that takes place online that's, you know,
it doesn't
have any consequence.
You know, you can, you can do it anonymously and there's just, it's like these
barbs that
you can just send out and illogically, like in, in, in ways that you would
never, if you
had to deal with someone one-on-one, because you would feel it.
You would look at them, you would feel the response.
You would be like, why are you saying this?
Like, like, why, why are you being such an asshole?
But because you are anonymous, you just, so people are just like in this
unnatural communication
thing.
Right.
But then the, the, the part that then worries me after that is if you get used
to doing
it like that in an anonymous way online, does that start to make the behavior a
bit
more normative when you're even with your identity?
You know?
Yeah.
Oh, I guarantee it has to, it's, it has to, there's, there's no free rides when
it comes
to that.
I really feel like your thoughts, your connect, like there was always a thing.
I remember when I was in high school, this, someone in my school newspaper
wrote like a
funny critique about the Boy Scouts.
And one of the things that he didn't like about the Boy Scouts was that they
wanted you
to keep your thoughts pure.
And he was like, you know, well, my thoughts are my own thoughts.
You know, I'm just, as long as I don't do anything, I don't think there's
anything wrong
with my thoughts.
Right.
I don't know if that was really smartly argued.
I remember reading that going, wow, this kid's pretty clever.
But then I thought about him like, but you've, if you're thinking about creepy
shit, you
probably are kind of creepy, you know?
And it's, it's not going to get any better.
Just, you know, you're just going to eventually one day you're going to snap
and then you're going
to do something.
Do the creepy thing?
Yeah.
If you really are like the, I don't know.
I mean, everyone has their own definition of thoughts being pure, you know,
like a more
lenient person might allow a lot of like healthy sexual things in the idea of
thoughts being
pure, as long as it's not creepy.
But there's other people that would just sit around and say, well, let me just
think about
creepy shit all day and not do it.
And I'm fine.
But you're not.
There's no free ride.
There may be though.
You think so?
Well, I mean, what you're describing, what you're describing is, you know, the
benefits
of an absolute police state, as long as it was always right.
Yeah.
That's no problem.
You know, that's the problem.
I mean, then you can always get your minority report, you know, just in case
maybe they're
wrong.
I'm not really subscribing to that.
I'm just saying that you really can't, you can't have really shitty thoughts
and get
through.
And I think that if you're really shitty online, you have those thoughts, even
if it's only
online, I really believe that negative energy is going to leak over.
Genuinely shitty.
I mean, it's just how do you decide what's, what's, what's shitty and what's
not.
But yeah, no, it's people when they're, the meaner you are online without your
face, the
meaner you can be online with your face and the meaner you can get in real life,
you know,
until you just got mean people.
You ready to record?
It's recording.
Oh, it is already?
Yeah.
What the fuck, son?