Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2470 - Pierre Poilievre
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2470 - Pierre Poilievre' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-03-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2470 - Pierre Poilievre

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
How are you, sir?
Pleasure to meet you.
It's great to be here.
Thanks for having me.
Great to be back in Texas.
I'm glad we finally did this.
Yes, me too.
I wanted to do it the first go-around.
Yeah, I know.
Well, when I got the invitation, we were in the middle of the election, and we
just don't
leave the country during election campaigns.
I get it.
And the problem we've had is we can't get you to come to Canada, and so we've
actually
hatched a full strategy to get you into Canada, because we think it's going to
do big things
for our tourism numbers.
So, do you mind if I present you with something right out of the gate?
Sure.
All right.
This is from a gunsmith and machinist in Calgary, Alberta.
His name is Jay, and he's designed, look at this kettlebell.
Guess what the weight is?
70 pounds?
70 pounds.
That's the weight you have.
It says on the front here, Jamie, it says here on the front, Jamie, pull it up.
So you've got that.
We've got, let me see here, some other stuff for a stand.
Oh, wow.
That's really cool.
Look at this stand here.
So we've got seeing is believing, which I think was the slogan of the first UFC
that you
were the commentator for.
I think it was number 13?
12.
Number 12.
Yeah.
And then we've got here your favorite quote from, what's his name?
The Japanese martial artist.
Miyamoto Musashi?
Yes.
And it says, if you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything.
Yeah.
So that's here.
And then Morse code, there's a thank you letter for you.
And we've got, you've got your flying saucer.
Oh, wow.
And we've got your logo here too.
So, but most important of all, we've got a subliminal message, which is the
Canadian maple
leaf.
Oh, cool.
Every time you do a kettlebell swing, you do a snatch, you do a clean, you're
going to
be seeing that maple leaf and you're going to be reminding yourself that you
need to come
back to Canada.
All right.
All right.
All right.
I'll present that to you there.
Thank you very much.
We'll go on there too.
Very cool.
Is that in the way, Jamie?
I can take it off.
We'll take it off.
I'll just pick it up.
Here, put it down here.
So, I saw your, I saw your interview with Pavel and I'm a big kettlebell free.
Are you really?
Yeah, absolutely.
And I started researching him after you had him on and I was trying to, I love
history.
So, I was thinking, why did the Russians come up with this?
And it turns out they used it as a counterweight at the farmer markets.
So, they would say, you know, you come in, you have to say, this is how much
potatoes you're
buying.
But instead of trying to do it by eyeball, they would put what is now kettlebell
on one
side of the scale and then the produce on the other.
And then at the farmer's expeditions, you had these big Russian farmers who
want to show
how strong they were.
So, they would pick them up and do all kinds of displays with them.
And then the Russian army took it on.
The Soviet army took it on.
And then that's where Pavel picked it up and then brought it over the Atlantic
and introduced
it to America.
Wow.
That's crazy.
So, it was just accidental that they made this very functional tool for fitness?
Yeah.
It was just, you'd go to a farmer's market, you want to buy some barley or some
potatoes,
but you don't know if you're actually getting the real weight.
So, they'd have a scale, a balancing scale, and they'd put the kettlebell on
one side and
the produce on the other.
And then you knew you got the right amount.
And then, of course, they have these big farmers, farm fairs, and they're
showing off their
horses and their cattle and stuff, and they'd want to do strength displays.
So, these farmers are throwing these things around, and the Russian military
picked it up.
And then the Soviets, of course, took over, and they took it on.
And then Pavel, I think he was a Belorussian, though, if I'm not mistaken.
Pavel.
I'm not sure.
And he brought it over to North America.
But the ancient Chinese did it as well.
You got...
Really?
Yeah.
The ancient Chinese, the Shaolin monks have used them, but they didn't do it
with cast iron.
They had, theirs were sort of a concrete, a concrete block.
And they did it for strength training as well.
Oh, wow.
A little history.
Yeah.
So, I'm a big kettlebell freak.
I love it.
And I really, I started to study what Pavel's teaching.
I wanted, I think he has an accreditation or something.
If I ever get time, I might take it.
Yeah.
Strong First.
Yeah.
That's his organization.
And you're doing, you have a whole program, I think, you do clean to press and
then...
Yeah, I do a bunch of different things.
Squats with overhead squat and all that.
It's a great functional tool just for your whole body.
Right.
You know, it's really one of the best pieces of exercise equipment I think I've
ever found.
Yeah, I think he calls it a cannonball on a handle.
And the thing I like about it is the, it's like a catapult.
Like it, all of the lift is in that instant where it flips over your hand.
And there you go.
Everyone's, wow, that's crazy.
That's so interesting.
So the handle was just to pick it up and carry it around.
Yeah.
Wow.
So it had a real functional use.
Well, it's just amazing how good it is for a piece of exercise equipment that
was accidentally
designed that way.
Absolutely.
And I think it's far superior to a dumbbell exercise because there's no, a
dumbbell, you
get a consistent lift, but that's not real life.
If you're in a fight or you have to pick something up heavy, it doesn't lift
consistently.
It's explosive in that small range.
And when, you know, when you're doing a snatch, by the time you get up to your
shoulder, the
thing's weightless because the catapult, the catapult effect has taken over and
now it's
actually negative weights, lifting your hand up in the air if you're doing it
right.
But like if you're in a fight or if you're in a wrestling match or you're, you're
trying
to push really hard against a heavy object, it's all about explosive power.
And that's what kettlebells give rather than just this sort of, uh, freeze and
contract
thing that you do with, with dumbbells.
Have you always been a workout guy?
Yeah.
Look, I, I was, um, big into sports until my mid teens.
I was on the wrestling team.
I wasn't great.
I was good, but I wasn't great.
Um, then I got a wicked, uh, tendonitis in my shoulder and it ended my athleticism
for
like four years.
And that's how it got into politics.
I was so bored.
I got to get home from school.
I had nothing to do.
So I took my, I told my mother, tendinitis got you into politics.
Yeah, that's what it was.
I just couldn't get rid of it.
Like I, every time I thought I had it beat, I'd go in and I'd train and it
would be full
of inflammation.
No one could do anything about it.
And so I was like bored out of my mind.
And I said to my mom, like, you know, you go to these local meetings with the
conservative
association, like take me to that.
Cause I'm going crazy.
And that's nuts.
Yeah.
So that, so what, what, what were you interested in when you first went there?
Like we just didn't like the way things were running.
Like what, what was it about it that got you so curious?
Well, I grew up in a suburban neighborhood in South, South end of Calgary, you
know, and my
folks were teachers.
I was adopted.
My mom was a 16 year old.
She, she was obviously a single mom.
She put me out for adopting two school teachers.
There was electricians and oil workers and police officers lived on our street.
Normal, hardworking, good folks.
And I always grew up with the impression they were getting screwed over and
that the government
didn't listen to people like them.
Didn't listen to people who grew up on streets like ours and living in Western
Canada, there
was a greater sense of that.
We called it Western alienation at the time.
And there was this guy, kind of a quirky guy, but a really brilliant guy named
Preston Manning.
And I saw this billboard of him and he had his fist up and it said, enough.
And I said, yeah, I like that guy.
So I got involved in politics and I started reading about different things.
I started, I read a biography on Fidel Castro and then I read some more.
Justin's dad.
No, no, no, not Justin's dad.
Right?
No, no, no, no, no.
His dad was Pierre.
His dad was Pierre.
His dad was Pierre.
I had issues with Pierre Trudeau too.
It is a great conspiracy theory though.
Well, it is a hell of a, I don't think it's a true one though.
His dad is Pierre.
His dad was very controversial when I grew up because he did a lot of damage to
the oil
sector and we're from oil country.
And so that was one of the things that I felt kind of resentful about the
national government.
And one of the reasons I got involved is because the West deserved a fairer
deal.
And, uh, but I read a lot of books like, you know, Milton Friedman, capitalism
and freedom.
And I came to, to develop a philosophy based on just maximizing personal,
financial, religious
freedom.
Let people make their own decisions.
And that, that animated me to get involved in politics and fight for that.
And I've been doing it ever since.
Well, that's a fascinating transition from wrestling and tendonitis.
Yeah.
Being deeply involved in politics.
Yeah.
I mean, like, you know, you're a sports guy.
If you had suffered an injury that took you out of Taekwondo when you were
young and you simply
couldn't compete at anything, you'd probably be looking for some other
adventure.
Yeah.
That's how it was.
Well, we're lucky that stem cells weren't around back then or you never would
have gotten
into politics.
That's right.
I would have been a wrestler.
I don't know if I would have won any awards, but, uh, but yeah, that, that was
how I got
started.
And, and I got very active very quickly.
I got my first internship making 600 bucks a month, uh, when I was, uh, 16 or
17 years
old and, uh, you know, take, uh, two trains and a bus and an hour and 45
minutes each way.
But I was so thrilled.
My dad bought me a used suit and a used pair of shoes.
And I thought this, I'm, this is so incredible.
I'm an important guy.
I wear dress shoes.
I wear, I wear a tie.
Didn't matter that the tie was bad, bought from some dead guy whose family had
sold it
to a, uh, used store.
But, uh, that was my start and I loved it.
Well, uh, I'm really excited to have you in here because I've seen you speak
multiple
times and you're a very reasonable, intelligent person that makes a lot of
sense.
And that is, that is a rare thing in politics.
And I love Canada.
Like, I should just say, I don't go up there anymore, but it's because I, I
think the government
went horribly wrong over the last, you know, X amount of years, but the people
are amazing.
It's like, I was always, I have always said that Canada has like, it's like
America with
like 20% less assholes.
Like every time I would go up there, I'm like, people are so nice.
They're like the nicest people.
And I think that's part of what went wrong for Canada is that people are rule
followers
and, you know, they're trusting and kind people.
And, you know, this wolf in sheep's clothing snuck in and, you know, was
pretending he was
a sweet guy and passing all these crazy laws.
And just when we saw what happened with COVID with just with what happened with
the truckers
and people's accounts getting shut down for donating to the truckers, like the
whole thing
was so concerning because it's our Canada was like a part of America almost.
I mean, you're a different country, but it's like you should be able to go over
there with
just a driver's license.
You know, it was like, it was such a cool place to, I started going to the
Montreal Comedy
Festival in like 1993.
I loved it up there.
It's like one of my favorite places to be.
Is it just for laughs?
Just pour vivre?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
How's your French?
Not good.
Okay.
We'll work on that.
We'll get you some French lessons.
It's terrible.
I don't k