Name: Joe Rogan Experience #173 - Peter Joseph
Uploaded: 2013-03-18T03:08:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #173 - Peter Joseph' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-03-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #173 - Peter Joseph' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-03-18. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #173 - Peter Joseph

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Yeah.
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Yeah, that was the issue.
I took two in the morning, two at night, and I think that was too much.
I took three once in one dose, three or four in one dose, I forget, and I did
not feel good.
Yeah.
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But if you're not into working out, like Brian doesn't even take that shit.
It doesn't help yo-yoing.
It doesn't help his yo-yo game.
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But it's based on the cordyceps mushroom, which is a mushroom that actually
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And people like in higher climates and animals in higher climates eat it and
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And that's how they figured out if this stuff works.
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And basically the way this one works, what it's been explained to me is your
body doesn't understand what this mushroom is
and it thinks it may be like a bug, thinks you may be sick.
So your body's immune system fires up for a fight that never comes.
And so then your immune system is just like on full tilt.
You know, it pumps it up, which it's really – I'm really into probiotics.
I drink kombucha tea every day.
I take acidophilus.
I take live cultures.
That's why cutters never get sick.
Cutters?
Yeah, like people that cut themselves.
Because they're always cut themselves?
Yeah, and their body thinks they're dying.
Really?
Did you make that up?
Yes.
That would be amazing.
Imagine if that's what you have to do.
You would never get sick.
Just give yourself a little cut every day.
Yeah, I don't think it works that way.
Let me try it, Joe.
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I saw it.
I'm like, what the fuck does that even stand for?
Well, the special coupon is worth – it's 2012, so it's 20.12%.
Right.
So it's 20.12% off.
What was the coupon code actually?
I was trying to figure it out.
I was like, is it –
It's – I'll tell you right now.
It's N-Y-R –
Oh, so like New Year's Rogan's?
I don't know what the fuck it stands for.
Not your –
Yeah, New Year.
New Year, maybe it's like texting, like tech speak.
Yeah, it's probably something that kids like do, and we're like old men like,
what?
N-Y-R?
Yeah, these kids these days.
Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Let me make sure I get the actual thing right.
I got it somewhere.
Shit.
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No.
Never –
Damn it, I should have this right in front of me, but I don't.
It's on your Twitter.
I know, and I can't find it.
Tweet that shit.
N-Y-R.
N-Y-R.
2012.
Or just 12.
2012?
No, N-Y-R 12.
It is?
All right.
That's it.
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That's it.
It's over.
I know.
It was brutal for me, too.
All right, gentlemen and ladies and everybody else that's tuning in.
Peter Joseph is here.
We're going to get to the bottom of shit.
We're going to get to the bottom of shit.
First of all, before we even start this interview, I want to tell you that I'm
ready to join
your cult.
Thank you.
I've gone online.
I've seen other cult members and leaders before.
They're not nearly as charismatic as you.
They don't make as much sense as you.
I think you're on point, I think you're on point and I'm ready to sign up.
You just tell me when.
Me too.
Your utopian view of the perfect society is fucking brilliant, man.
It's dead on.
Peter Joseph, if you don't know, is the creator of Zeitgeist, the original
movie, and then all
these follow-up movies and now it's actually, you know, you refer to it as a
movement.
And that's not cocky in any way, shape, or form.
That's just what it is.
It's a movement, you know.
So the Zeitgeist Movement, you know, TZM on Twitter, the TZ Movement on Twitter,
and it's
a fascinating thing that's going on right now.
And your movies and your movement, I mean, can you say it's yours now?
Now it's sort of like, it's become a life of its own, right?
No one owns it.
And whether people like it or not, they're a part of the Zeitgeist Movement one
way or
another.
What is the Zeitgeist Movement?
It's the definition of the times.
It's the cultural nuance of all the shit that we believe and think is true and
how we progress
through time, hence the Zeitgeist Movement.
So whether anyone likes it or not, they're a part of the Zeitgeist Movement.
So I just brought that into that particular context.
How did you become this smooth-talking bad motherfucker?
How did this happen?
How did you become this guy?
Because it's not just that you have all these great ideas.
It's you never use the word um, all right?
You just sail through these sentences and you're just like, you're a musician?
Is that what your background is?
I am.
I'm a musician.
I'm a percussionist.
Classical percussionist.
That's what I tried to do for years and years.
But I didn't fit in the whole orchestral establishment, percussion scene.
Now percussion, enlighten me, it's not just, it's not drums.
It's drums.
You have the mallet family.
Then there's the kettle drums like timpani.
Then you have hand percussion.
You learn them all?
Well, as much as I could, given the time that I have.
In my studio in Culver City, I have a whole section of my little house blocked
off for whenever I can pursue my old hobby again, which seems to be less and
less, unfortunately.
Can people listen to some of your stuff online?
Do you have a CD?
You know, I'm working on compiling.
I've been hesitant to do that because my identity has been so bizarre.
Right.
As a filmmaker, which I never intended to be, actually.
I think I sent you the link of the first Zeitgeist performance, which was a
performance.
It wasn't intended to be a documentary in the sense, formalically, as you would
traditionally assume.
How did it morph?
What happened?
Well, I had the, 2007, I did a six-night run in lower Manhattan, free.
It was a thing I spent a lot of money on, prepared this piece for over the
course of seven months.
Didn't expect it to go anywhere because, basically, I had no rights to actually
pursue this as a film.
So this is a firmly one-shot-off, fair-use type of deal.
So I did it, publicized it, people came, everything was cool, everyone liked it.
It was very dramatic.
You know, some people walked out, some people really liked it, some inspired Q&A.
It was a catharsis for me.
I was in advertising.
I was doing shit that I didn't appreciate doing.
It was what this system does.
You know, it forces you into a particular pocket for the most of us.
For a lot of us, yeah.
We don't necessarily enjoy what we're doing.
So this is a catharsis.
And the unique thing about it is it was so honest.
This is a very honest work for me.
I didn't really think about approaching a demographic.
And when it went online on Google Video, before YouTube, this is when Google
Video was the only Internet video site that actually had full-length stuff.
And very rarely you'd hear about feature-length films getting there.
And I just happened to hit that paradigm right then.
And it went crazy viral, and the lawsuits were threatened, and everyone thought
it was some big documentary, big production.
They had no idea the background of it.
What kind of lawsuits were threatened?
Just the people that are in it.
You know, that film was a fair-use film.
It was not intended to be released.
So whenever people saw like 20, 30 million views in the first year, everyone's
seen dollar signs as though.
I mean, I wasn't even selling anything.
I wasn't intending to.
And then eventually I went back, you know, tail between my legs with all these
people.
The whole thing's full.
The whole thing's a montage of the zeitgeist.
It's just one big cluster of all sorts of different personalities kind of mushed
together.
And most of them supported it.
And then some of them got a little greedy, but everyone got paid off for the
most part.
And there's still a few rocks left unturned.
But the statute of limitations is now up on that.
So if anyone wants to sue me, you're going to have a greater 