Joe Rogan on the Roseanne Controversy

talk to Ben Shapiro about it today on his show but it won't be out until Sunday what is do you have you ever encountered her in the world I know Roseanne I talked to her on the phone and I believe every word she said she told me that she was taking ambien and that she was drunk on Memorial Day weekend and she tweeted a bunch of stupid [ __ ] and she's out of her [ __ ] mind and she said you know in her words I need to adjust my meds you know I'm not thinking straight and she was talking about how exhausted she got doing that television show and she got bronchitis and she was overworked I think she's stressing the [ __ ] out she also told me that she did not know that that lady was even black she thought that lady was Jewish and she said to me like do you really think that I would make a joke about a black lady and say plan of a sigh wouldn't [ __ ] do that she's like I thought she was Jewish look at her so I did look at her like pull up her Wikipedia page this lady she I mean she most searched up so we could see it I mean she most certainly could be African American for sure but she also most certainly could be like Hawaiian or Native American or point being the Italian maybe she thought Jewish that's what Rose Ann said Jewish this is what she said I do not know I don't think she's lying to me I don't think she's racist have you ever seen ambien no I'm never taking a penny but I talking about here ever to again be a good friend of mine about it today okay and he got up in the middle of the night cooked himself a meal ate it went to sleep got up in the morning and had no recollection of it he had to be told that he did he was trying to figure out who put the plates in the sink who ate this food where this food come from couldn't figured out he got up in the middle of the night doesn't remember a thing right and cooked himself a meal sat down ate it went back to bed has zero recollection of it this guy they [ __ ] out about during that meal at any point did he get racist or anything like he's literally it seeds one thing and it's a spooky story I'd be like I took ambien and I made myself some food it's an even spookier story to be like I took ambien and if I can killed somebody but it's a it's a stretch to be like it is I took ambien and I said something I would never say in a million years it heartens me to hear you say that she said that she wasn't aware of the ladies race yeah cuz it you know I don't know her all I know her from is Roseanne oh I know her from his decades of watching her in media their TV show I followed it before the TV show it didn't seem like the Roseanne that I've watched for 30 40 years well see that's the thing I'm not close to her in a daily basis you know I have tremendous respect for her as a comedian I think she's she was a real pioneer in a lot of ways she was this brash like really confident lady who [ __ ] on stupid men and she did it in this like really bold way and stand-up that was very unique for the time I think if people go back and you watch like some of her early stand-up when she was coming out of Denver the domestic goddess stuff she was a beast man she was a beast she was crushing she was crushing you know and then she got that sitcom and it's absolutely one of the greatest sitcoms of all time yeah but now she's 65 years old and it's [ __ ] hard for her and that schedule she was telling me was absolutely brutal and that they were killing her with all the work I don't know her very well but I do know there was another time where she said something about Susan Rice who is another african-american woman and she she said something about her and compared with their balls yeah something like swinging eight balls you know so that's two for two it's - yeah well this one for sure right because this one there's no excuse for this is one from the past that there was no you know like oh my god I was on ambien I tweeted this no one said anything Susan Rice is a man with big swinging 8 balls and that wasn't meant to be a 2013 that's five years ago oh and you can I mean I don't know if it's still available but if you go through a timeline and see a bunch of things yeah are not like a comedian being funny but right you know beliefs right that one is doubts a rough one that to me is a way rougher one its way rougher like that one is like that's what you said I mean it is what it is you know if you said that the other lady looked like Planet of the Apes just because of her haircut because she looks like the the lead woman in Zira yeah she looked like Zira there was like a photo of her back or it was just like the way her haircut was and her outfit was right I think some people you know would but if you didn't know that she was black it's a totally different thing do we know that for sure you know only she knows for sure you know it's are you surprised at how quickly it all ended yeah well that was the part of the story that again I've no skin in the game other than I watched the old Roseanne and I was enjoying the new Roseanne as well but I came home from like I was Vegas the other day and I flew home yesterday morning and then I had a meeting over at the studios like at noon so I took a nap when I got home like and also my wife wakes me up and she goes you got a meeting don't forget like it's 11:30 oh and Roseanne has been canceled and I'm like that's that's impossible like I was groggy but I'm like that's impossible it's like 20 million people are watching that show and she said she tweeted something racist so I'd [ __ ] pick up my phone and I look at it and stuff and by the time like this had happened in the span of like the hour I took a [ __ ] nap they the the network acted so [ __ ] incredibly fast there was no prevarication equivocation no dude they had that act sharpened and ready it was nuts like all of a sudden they were just like we're done we don't know or disavow and and and it was I think it was so surprising because it's been a while since somebody did something even superficially moral yeah you know what I'm saying like I've read a lot of articles online where people are like hey man ABC didn't own the show so of course they [ __ ] I didn't have as much skin in the game so it was easy for them to cancel it would they have canceled it as fast if they owned the show and dot dot dot you can you can make a bunch of kind of caveats but at the end of the day something bad happened and then the network reacted a major come [ __ ] the network a major company major corporation reacted and act is the right way to handle it to just immediately cancel the show I personally would have maybe fired her and kept everybody else done like the you know Valerie ever died off yeah we just used computer animation oh you could replace it with a Pixar's character but I think you can sell equally compelling stories like without her honestly like the nine episodes that they've done this season she really hasn't been the driving factor of the stories it's been more about Darlene and that's why I felt bad for when this whole thing imploded cuz I'm like she's she put this show together Sara Gilbert mm and she was like crushing on she was like really good showing off like what a great actress she has been our but he's out a job feel bad for John Goodman I've worked with him before and he was wonderful on the show like and sustained the show without her I think can she be forgiven sure I mean couldn't Mel Gibson get forgiven isn't he working again mol Mel Gibson it was also a case of him being intoxicated right he was yelling some anti-semitic stuff at a cop I mean never mind that let me also punch his ex-wife like there's no violence action than him just going to saying hey sugar tits like there was some his wife had recorded him or this woman who recorded him yelling at her on the phone so we nobody knows if he truly I don't know it my bad I thought that was I don't know I don't know I don't know the even the specifics of any accusation and also I also didn't follow that closely and not because I'm like man that's Martin Riggs and I don't want to hear any better I just didn't follow it because I'm like yeah man it's can she be forgiven forgiven I I don't know I mean look she should have tweeted what you said instead of oh my god I took ambien like you know that turned into an opportunity for a major pharmaceutical company to like put out one of the best singers Twitter's ever seen I mean like this is a company they're not normally used to like hey what should we say to be funny like they have to put out very staid information and for once they were like how about this guys we racism isn't a you know a byproduct it was really well said it was it was well worded we sit there and go like why didn't I tweet that I never wrote it it was pretty whoever wrote it rather it's pretty slick the thing ambien does do though it definitely makes you act bizarre you did there's there's some sleep I mean if you just there's uh there's just created eat edibles that would help right there's websites dedicated to people that have had crazy experiences on that stuff I've seen a few of it and it's not the one that you told me about your friend cooking dinner is about the fourth time somebody's communicated that story now because they've been listening to your show and you may have so Ted said that story probably have people drive cars on it they go places that realize they don't know what they're doing to get places it's like the serpent in the rainbow man you become zombified and you're like I'm not yeah you're Bill Pullman in a [ __ ] casket well there was a there was a guy that got pulled over a few years back who was famous and I forget what he said something about like I got to get to the dance or something like that and the cops were like what the [ __ ] are you talking about and they realize like he was kind of out of it and then after it was over it was revealed that he had been on ambien and that he had gotten in his car and really had no idea even know he was telling him over like literally the guy was in a dream it reminds me of when I was a kid this was not not drug related but I was a kid I was sleep I fell asleep on the couch watching TV and before am I like my brother had lost his [ __ ] wallet at a school dance and my mother was like I'll Drive you up there and try to find it and my father would get up for work at about nine o'clock at night and then head to work at 10:00 o'clock and I think he started work at 11 o'clock at night he worked the post office cancel and [ __ ] stamps so he my mom tells me that and I fall asleep on the couch watching like [ __ ] dynasty or some so [ __ ] was the 80s and then my dad wakes me up cuz he woke up and nobody was home like my mom wasn't around nobody was there and he's like where is everybody and he [ __ ] startled me awake so I was like what Oh Donald Donald they had to go to the school because Donald lost his thriller and if my father goes what I was like Donald lost his thriller and he was like I don't know what you're saying and I was like but doc mom said that Donald loss is thriller and I kept replacing the word wall with [ __ ] thriller and my father looked at man and literally set me aside the next day to be like are you using drugs and I was like no I do you woke me up I I guess I was in some sort of maybe I was dreaming about [ __ ] thriller it was 1982 you know like hey your brain just never clicked back over into waking life I stayed in this weird zombie land where were Wallet meant thriller you know got pulled over and I'm trying to remember what he told the cops where they realized that something was going on I think it was it was in one of the articles that I tweeted the store was in one of the articles that I tweeted what happens in that instance you can they arrest you for being the ambien driver it's this is it's a rare reaction because a lot of people take that [ __ ] right you know like I don't hear this story all the time there's not a wedding just a couple of those pills a day right there's no web page devoted to stories of people who took ambien and got fired for being racist he's right well even better there's no stories of people that took ambien and you know became addicted to it and became some sort of a where is there is that addictive is ambien addictive yeah profits it probably yeah I think did like getting addicted to falling asleep and you're needing it to fall asleep probably yeah yeah I guess if you're somebody was like I can't go sleep without that well yeah wonder if it's addictive like maybe like a heroin is addictive no right or like a speed you know like people get like physically addicted to things where it kind of changes the receptors yeah yeah yeah I don't know if it dulls the senses to the point where like when you I mean that's what the way I heroin was always explained to me was when you're on heroin the senses are get dulled the nerve receptors like just don't take in as much but when you're not on heroin that pain of withdrawal part of it is the receptors coming back to life all at once and it was likened yeah Jason Jason Mewes long time ago had problems with this [ __ ] so it was one of the rehab doctors communicated at the Slee he said you know when you sit on your hand and [ __ ] falls asleep I'm like yeah totally he's like imagine that was your whole body and times by a million that's what he's going through Wow no I was like oh and then I know cuz up till then I was always like just [ __ ] stop doing heroin just stop it I didn't mean while I was eating a lot of sugar just stop doing your name I [ __ ] drug but once that dude explained it that way I was like oh that would be that would be [ __ ] painful no wonder the kid doesn't want to get off heroin cuz he's like I know the path to not being on heroin is full of pins and needles but you never die from it that's the good thing about that like you don't die from heroin withdrawal we know from Amy Winehouse in other cases that you can die from alcohol withdrawal like you can you can get off like when you're in jail and you're kicking heroin you know the cops just feel like you know here just keep throwing up and pissing but if you're kicking booze they have to give you booze cuz your heart could stop this [ __ ] article II pulled up an estimated four hundred and forty six thousand people in the United States were current miss users of ambien now what does a misuse endanger aesthetic see on to ambien can develop after just two weeks of use don't attempt to quit without proper knowledge and before putting a medical treatment plan into place Wow two weeks is all it takes two weeks and your guns ville son may be I mean I'm driving around having conversations guys it uses ambien gets a good night's sleep and you know the job in the morning you you can't where you're like you just lose a word like you're like Donald lost his thriller and that's the lowest mildest for me yeah every now and then you skip a word which I do now I call that hitting a pothole you know Roseanne is she's an older lady she's in her 60s and you know she's had some mental problems and and she's drinking and she's taking that stuff to go to sleep and she's not taking it for just two weeks she's taking it a lot you know and she said she needs it to go to sleep and I think there's a lot of people that feel like they need something to help them go to sleep that's fun but then don't we ticket [ __ ] works yeah I don't that at the end of the day it's not like she took ambien and that makes her bad like no it's that she [ __ ] tweeted what she did and it's like if you think for a sec and that if in using this drug which I need to go to sleep because I'm late 60s woman and I need my rest or whatever at war you just deserve [ __ ] sleep like you know I've mostly I've never suffered from a lack of sleep but I know that people who have and it's [ __ ] mind-bending itself but if you know you have to do that and you know there's the slightest chance that you could become somebody else or say things that are not in your character give up your [ __ ] social media man like yeah I don't think she probably realized that she was obviously gonna do that I think she had tweeted ridiculous [ __ ] in the past before and it flew under the radar and nobody cared right

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Published: Wed May 30 2018

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