Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2460 - Rachel Wilson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2460 - Rachel Wilson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-02-26. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2460 - Rachel Wilson

So when your husband Andrew came in here he told me about your book
and then I talked to you and you seemed very interesting and you gave me a
little brief synopsis of it and so then I listened to it on audio tape and it's
fucking crazy and it is the occult feminism the secret history of women's
liberation you know I didn't really have much of an opinion on feminism I my
opinion was you know unfortunately you run into some feminist that just seemed
to not like men for whatever reason and you know there's a lot of people in
this
world that aren't happy with their position or station in life but I didn't
really think too much into how this all got started until I listened to your
book and I'm like this is kind of bonkers so before we get into your book like
how
did you decide to write about this like what what was your little journey oh or
big journey yeah it's kind of a big journey so when I was growing up I was
like a in all the advanced kid classes and from the time I was in like
kindergarten it was just pounded into my head like you're going to college you're
going to have a career and you know you're smart and you have to do something
with that it was like the only option that was put before me and so I followed
that path like all the way through school and by the time I got done with 12
years of regular school I realized a couple things one is school is not where
you go to learn things school isn't nest public school is not so great for
smart
people for the most part and that I really didn't like like another four years
of
school just sounded like hell to me and I really just wanted to get married and
have kids that's kind of what I always wanted to do much to the horror of my
Marxist feminist mother did not like an early age well she tried but I was the
why kid I was the kid that's just like why why yeah but why and I had like a
Rush Limbaugh dad Wow they got divorced shocker who could have seen it coming
so
they got divorced when I was like nine and I had so I grew up in like two
worlds I
had like Republican business owner Rush Limbaugh dad and I had Marxist
feminist crazy mom was the mom always Marxist feminist and was the the the dad
always like a Rush Limbaugh Republican yep how did they fall in love I was an
accident oh so they just fall in lust I was like an oops baby and my dad said
that when he saw me he was like well I don't want anybody else right like this
is
the only thing that matters to me so I'm gonna make this work and he tried his
best how did they even hook up with such radically different ideologies I don't
think they were talking about that sort of thing when they got together they
were probably hanging out at a bar oh so they didn't really know each other
very
well not really no they were kind of like they worked in the same place and met
at
work and then had like a fling and then I was born yeah yeah so I had divorced
parents yeah it was it was really rough because my mother like hated my
dad she could never tell you anything he did wrong yeah it was just like he's a
evil
white patriarchist bad bad Republican man one of my earliest memories is them
fighting over the Bush Dukakis election in 88 and like threatening to lock each
other in the house so that the one couldn't cancel the other one's vote yeah
I know it was fun was this before after Kitty Dukakis drank mouthwash or what
did she
drink she drank something like that aftershave or mouthwash to try to get drunk
yeah she would the
pressure of the election must have been so insane and this is pre-social media
right and this lady was already struggling with like alcoholism and I think she
was
hospitalized for drinking something that was not a drink well can you find out
what
that was it was really crazy right remember do you remember that I just
remember that whole election being pretty nuts like as far as like the
Democrats
versus Republic and this was when Democrats were more like how Republicans are
right now they weren't right in a tank to make everybody think he was like a
pro
war tough guy remember that yeah yeah and I remember read my lips no new taxes
and
all that stuff so like I had this going on like as a kid so I think my brain
was
already thinking about this sort of stuff from the time I was little rubbing
alcohol oh that's crazy nail polish remover oh my god she drank nail polish
remover holy shit she couldn't just huff paint like normal person
very open about her struggles with alcohol and addiction to amphetamines to
reduce the stigma
surrounding these issues later detailing these experiences in her books huh
okay yeah so my
parents were like ready to kill each other over that and so they divorced right
right after that
they divorced and so I'd spend time with dad and I'd spend time with mom and I
had two
completely different realities and worldviews and I think growing up like that
you're trying to sort
out what's true you're trying to figure out like is there any merit to what mom's
saying the world
is or any merit to what dad saying the world is and I think dad was more persuasive
and and better
at pulling me his direction because I never really absorbed like I always
thought Marxism was you know
faking gay and stupid I just never bought into it at all why at an early age
did you think that
uh because I already had seen that you know we're not all born equal with equal
things and some people
work much harder some people have natural gifts and talents and to think that
because my mother would
literally say stuff in the house like from you know from each person according
to their ability
to each person according to their need and I was like even when I do that in
class like if there's a group
project everybody wants me on their team because I'm the smart kid who's going
to do the homework
I end up doing everything and everybody else gets the A even though I did
everything so those are the
people that are really into socialism people that have fast stuff yes yeah and
so like from being a
little kid I even noticed like no things aren't equal and things aren't always
fair and it depends on
you know your natural skills and abilities and then what you do with those
things because there's lots
of people like my mother was super talented really intelligent person but she
was so like emotionally
chaotic she never applied them to anything she never really got anywhere did
anything she had big
dreams of what she thought she should have and and never really got there
because she was so like
emotionally unregulated and kind of chaotic so I just kind of saw that no there's
not this like thing
where you can just even the playing field and make it all equal for everyone
that's not how it works
There's also a thing that if you're locked up in something like Marxism you if
that's your ideology
you're in this constant struggle with the rest of the world all the time where
you want to bend it to
your ideology you want to change it and so even if you're a very intelligent
person
your daily mindset is struggle your daily mindset is conflict and existential
crisis
like you know that is exactly that was that was the picture that was laid in
front of me
yeah it's such a go to dad's house and he's like he started a business after
the divorce and he's like
hustling he's working 12 to 14 hour days he's doing everything he can to make
it work he's not
complaining he's just like this is what you got to do if you want to make it if
you want to you know do your own
thing and prove that you know you're good at what you do you have to compete
you have to get out there
you have to work hard why complain about it and then my mom's whole world was
she ended up being
very bitter and resentful because it was like this view of but i deserved this
that should have been
me i got robbed of it because whatever reason and often it was like if i was
more attractive you know
the men at work would have given me a raise if i looked like the other woman in
the office or
something you know so it was like this bitter resentful she was kind of like at
war with the world
so seeing those two things neither of my parents are perfect who is who has
perfect parents but
it was kind of like i'd rather play over here where there's a purpose for me
working hard and giving
it my best shot and trying in life and figuring out what's important to me and
then tailoring you
know all my efforts toward that and i just thought that um having a family was
so cool and i wanted to
have the family i didn't have so uh i i had this dream of like getting married
having kids having an
intact family and making it like a place where kids can grow up without all the
screaming and yelling
and chaos that i had and that a lot of kids have nowadays so um didn't go to
college i had a full ride
scholarship and i didn't go which everybody thought was the end of the world it
was like how could you do
that your life is over you'll never be anything and i was kind of like we'll
see you know it is very
weird that we're convinced that the only way to get educated is by an official
institution with all
the information that's available now i mean even back then like that's the
whole premise of goodwill
hunting like you can get very smart from a public library you really don't need
it's just the books are
available for everyone the information is available for everyone if you chase
it down it's not like the only
people that get any information are the ones who go to these colleges one of
the biggest lies that
education like we can just educate everyone the problem is we're not educated
enough and if everyone
had enough access to education everyone would be intelligent everyone would be
thriving it's like
the internet's kind of proved this i had a teacher it's not an information
problem right
i had a teacher in high school that said something i don't know if this is his
quote or he was quoting
someone else but he said education is something that allows you to get along
without intelligence
and intelligence is something that allows you to get along without education i
like that that's
pretty good i was like oh i get it there's there's certain people that are just
dumb at certain
things like i remember being around intelligent people that had no knowledge of
how a car worked
of any of the workings of a car you would tell well this back in like spark
plug days you could explain
to them like oh one of the cables for your spark plug got loose you're only
firing on five cylinders
the six the whole six is not that's why it's like shaking like that who like if
that if it was
anything else if you're talking about the economy if you're talking about the
political process
that guy would think the other guy was a moron but now this guy thinks he's
more i remember
like being like auto shop class going there's a lot of different kinds of
intelligence we've just
done this weird thing where we've categorized like you have to go to specific
schools you have to go to
the you got to get a degree everybody wanted to go to ivy league schools i
lived in boston
it was like very important did you get a higher education you go on to make
everybody proud and they
were all miserable well my dad said this to me he was the only person that when
i graduated i said i
don't think i want to go to college for this i don't think that's what i want
to do like any of the
things i'm looking at when i think about like having a career in in that thing
i'm not very excited about
it i don't i don't get like oh hyped up to go do this i was like i really just
kind of want to you
know maybe someday but i would love to have a bunch of kids and stuff and my
dad was like you know
a lot of the people in my office have degrees and you know they have careers
and some of them are
very miserable people so if you don't want to do that he's like you could
always decide to go later
so i was like i'll i kind of like bargained with everyone i was like i'm just
going to give it a year
you know yeah and if it you know if i feel li