Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2492 - Ari Shaffir
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2492 - Ari Shaffir' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-04-30. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2492 - Ari Shaffir

You know what you are on my phone what Ari the Wanderer that's a new phone
number
That's what you are. Oh, I was telling you last night that I thought it was in
Mexico City
But we had a report that you were at an Oasis concert in Mexico City
And you said no, it was in Rio Sao Paulo
Oh, Sao Paulo? Okay, so it was in Brazil
So we no one knew where you were you were gone for how many months six seven?
Jesus Christ
Yeah, how many times have you done that now?
I guess three although when I went to Ecuador I was very much in touch with
everybody
So it was like that was a halfway that was halfway but you were there you were
kind of checked out
But I was I was in touch. Yeah, I still had numbers. I was still like doing
like
Podcasts and stuff and
What are you doing remotely do remotely?
Yeah, I would do one with a big J and soda. We did a 21 Jump Street breakdown
podcast
Yeah, yeah, we were so bored during pandemic. We're like, let's find a show and
just let's get together
I watched 21 Jump Street
First we chose sex in the city and then I found out gay fucking Ian already had
a sex in the city podcast
So we're like fighting. Yeah
Did he really do that guy blows dudes?
Obviously, he loves sex in the city. Oh, I guess so
So we're like we don't want to step on his toes. Like let's pick another he
seems like he's straight. Sometimes he does it's weird
Like he's the only gay
No, no, he fucks he fucks better than we ever did for women women. Yeah. Okay.
He gets it
So and then but then he went to guys he's a new breed. He's a new breed of just
like when did he go to guys?
Is it a new thing? I think he battled with it for a while. Oh, okay. So he was
fucking girls, but hating them. God
I wish you were a guy
Yeah, yeah, I guess anyone said glory holes and he was saying he wasn't gay. I'm
like, bro, that's one of the biggest signs of a gay
So you just stick your hole your dick in the hole or you suck the dick that
comes out of the hole
Like was he the glory giver or the glory taker? You're asking me questions. I
don't know. I always assume in my head
It was he was sucking dudes off, but oh, but I'm I'm actually not sure. Yeah,
interesting, right? It's interesting
Yeah, because if the dick comes through the hole if you like you ever wanted to
suck a dick
But I don't look a guy in the eyes. I just want to know what it's like see if I'm
good at it
Yeah, I don't want to be embarrassed in front of anybody. They're gonna
recognize me later. I just want to work on my technique
Yeah, I just want to find out if I'm right
I need more research not enough data points
Yeah, because so you didn't even ask him which side of the glory hole he was on
I think I was so overwhelmed by this heterosexual dude who was telling me he
goes to glory holes
And so then he was heterosexual. This is back in the day. We did a podcast my
old podcast on the way down to like somewhere
This is skeptic tank. Yeah
And and he was telling me that but he's telling me he's not gay. I was like
How do I say that? Wait, and I was like, buddy, I think you are gay
He goes why am I the glory hole stuff? It's a big sign
Do you think?
Do you think?
I was like
But you didn't even that's the crazy thing is you didn't even ask whether he
sucks or gets sucked
I was lost in it. You're right as an interviewer
I didn't do my job that day. Obviously, that's a major question. It's a one in
two chance
Yeah, right. How do you not know? How do I yeah, it's like very important to
know
It is because there is a percentage chance it might be a chick blowing you
There's no percentage. There's zero percent chance it's a chick blowing is a
vagina
Zero percent chance. It's 100% a guy or a guy pretending to be a chick. I bet
there's a ton of those dudes who have
Wives, you know who live in that world like I thought I always thought it was a
woman like shut up. Yeah, shut up
Yeah, plausible deniability possible deniability. Yeah
So then he just decided to just go straight gay
No, he's everywhere. He does everything. Oh now he's like Miami bisexual. Yeah,
okay. Yeah, so we did the 21 jump street podcast
And uh, and I would do it sometimes I'd get on they're like are you drinking a
coconut with a palm tree behind you like out of a coconut?
I was like, oh, it's just a tuesday guys. What's going on? Yeah
I really milk it because you're in ecuador because I was in ecuador. It's
having a good time
What is that gay tea you drink? Mate?
Shirba
So you just got into this it's literally a jar of hay. It really is. You pour
hot water and there's so much hay in there
It's so much it tastes you tried it. Yeah. Yeah, it tastes like just like ass.
Yeah, just hey. I don't understand
It's like a ritual. It's all the gauchos in argentina and then spread to chile
and southern
And so it's just a bunch of leaves that are in a yorba tree
Yorba mate, right? Yeah, but that drink is like different. I've had that stuff.
I think it's different. Really?
Yeah, I think it's about as much as like what willie nelson's like drink is
actually weed
Oh, willie nelson's drink is weed. Really? Oh, yeah. I take it back then. Oh,
yeah
I don't know what the legality of that is and I don't want to throw anybody
under the bus
But ron white brought a bunch of it to the mothership and it's
Very legit. Yeah
It's it's all dose dependent. I think one glass is like five milligrams or one
shot is like five milligrams
But if you drink a glass of that shit, yeah, yeah, you're gonna go for it. You're
gonna go into that weird dimension
You know that weird dimension where you're like I think this is earth
But it doesn't seem like earth anymore thumbs off. It's like a facsimile of
earth trying to look at people like you see what i'm seeing
Yeah, I remember one time um I was doing fear factor and we were in san francisco
and uh back
This is the unregulated edibles days, you know, because this is before
Marijuana was legal. Do you get a prescription? Do your joke. Can I do your
joke? Which one the x? Oh, yeah
I'll do it. You'll be
Early days and by the way, it was just like there's banana bread
Going around right now. It's killing people. It's great not killing people but
like destroying people. Yeah
It goes they came in these doses one x two x or three x the problem is x didn't
equal any number
Yeah, so it was just some guy mixing up his bathtub full of fucking whatever
like weed infused cookie dough and deciding what's x to him
That's not a mathematical equation. Yeah, x had no number value. So it's one
times this what's this right?
Yeah, well those I had the joke too about the gummy bear or the guy who
literally said that to me
I go how much should I take goes just a leg
I go just the leg
I go why the fuck are you selling whole bears if I should only eat it like
because it's only that big like no one's in to eat
Just the leg. It's a crazy dose and a half a cookie is the right cut. That's
not all cookie is a dose
So back in these days, we were doing fear factor and we were doing it
It was we were doing it off of a aircraft carrier in the bay area
And so we had to take the you know that one train I forget what it is
Is it the bart that goes under the water that goes under the bay between?
Oakland and san francisco the bart
Yeah, bart whatever it is
No, I called the bart just to fuck with them. Um, so
I I took this edible and it was an unregulated edible
So I have no idea and it was way too strong and I was
I was like why do my ears feel weird and they're like because you're under the
ocean and I was like no
It was like the longest 20 minutes of my life waiting to pop out on the other
side
I was like we're under this how long is this fucking subway been under the
ocean?
Like how long has this existed? Like what are the odds this thing is still good?
Is anybody out there diving checking on the tube making sure there's no holes
in it?
You know this
You start doing all the research in your head and it was like I I felt like I
was talking to people
But what I was seeing was a two-dimensional
Like uh, you know, like those uh stand-ins like when you go to the movie and it's
like, you know
A person standing there like thumbs up, but it's like just a two-dimensional
cardboard cutout
That's what everybody looked like to me. It was like a two-dimensional
cardboard cutout
But occasionally i'd see their soul peeking around their shoulder looking at me.
It was
So heavy. I don't know what the number was
How many x's that kind of high
I don't get that kind of higher drunk anymore. Well that kind of high is really
fun. It's so fun over
It's over when you look back when it's happening. It's terrifying
Oh, those are the best. I remember guy did jujitsu with he made pills
He made thc pills because he was like one of those all day guys. He was just
high constantly all the time
And so yeah, the dab guys, but this is pre-dabs. Yeah, and so this guy made
pills
THC pills I go how many should you take and he and he goes you should probably
start off with one
But I take two so I took two because i'm an asshole and uh, I wound up having
this conversation with this guy
Uh, and he was weirding me out. It was at a jujitsu tournament. I was like, why
is this guy so weird?
It turns out the dude, uh, eventually got arrested for rape
And not just arrested for rape, but he was on the run
And he was on the run and couldn't stop doing jujitsu and the way they caught
him
Was he went to like seattle or somewhere like because this was in california
He's signing for classes and he was just rolling, but he was killing everybody
and I was like, who is this fucking guy?
Like why is this guy so good? And then eventually they realized it was him.
They go. Oh my god
This guy's wanted for rape. Wow
He was a crazy person and when I was like super high on these pills, I could
see all the crazy in his eyes
Like it's like he didn't say anything crazy. Dude, you can
You can see through people
You can you can you can see their soul. It's it's it's interesting. It is you
really can see it
It's not one of those where i'm like no, it's just the drug with me. You can
sell and so this is like happy or sad
A year or so later he gets arrested and winds up fleeing
I think he maybe was out on bail or he was wanted and fleed and went to the pacific
northwest
But I remember when I heard the story I was like, oh
That makes sense because he had the weirdest energy just like this dark energy
like creepy dark energy
Sometimes if you're on like a psychedelic and then someone's not
On with you, you know, but they're around you you're like, hey, you got to go
you're freaking me out like
I don't know your energy is not of this. It's I don't know if you're looking at
me, but like you got to take off
Yeah, you see like motivations
You see everything so clearly. I know it's weird
But it's not reliable. It's not like like i'm about to go into a a meeting with
this defendant
I need to know if he's actually innocent or guilty. So i'm gonna take five
grams of mushrooms
Me and big j were leaving a blues fest in ottawa once we're leaving it's like a
city festival
But then you wander into the what used to be the safest city in canada. So you're
all fucked up. It's great
And as you're leaving you just see who's on what drug
Like you just can tell like mushrooms acid weed drunk molly molly
Yeah, you just see it all you just see through everybody. They're just sitting
there talking
Yeah, I don't
I wonder what's gonna happen now that this uh thing happened
I thought first of all
I thought you know, i'm out on the news. So i'm hearing stuff little by little
about everything
Yeah, I thought it was just ibogaine, which is like great. Those people need
that
and then and then
I mean ed clay has been telling me about that for
so long
Well, ed clay i talked about him on the podcast because he was one of the ways
that I found out
Me too
Yeah, in nashville
Yeah, yeah, right
And he would tell you he's like you should get on it helps with addiction i'm
like i'm loving what i'm doing right now
I don't know
I don'