Joe Rogan - We Have Political Discourse Fatigue

the Joe Rogan experience on having five kids but like I'll do like if I talk about having five kids in New York City in at a show in New York City people are like you're crazy and then if I talk about having five kids in Boston and I'm generalizing people in Boston might be like you're crazy I came from one of those families and if I do it in Utah it would be like yeah we are crazy for having five kids so it is the same joke and it's the same point of view but it's tweaked a little bit and it's so fun kind of traveling around and learning that material and learning the impact and how it's digested well comics have a unique perspective on America because of that because we don't just go to these different places but we also perform material in all these different places so I think like we've been talking a lot with comics lately about like what was your reaction to Trump winning the election Comics saw it coming more than most people who live in LA because most people live in LA a very liberal very left-wing convinced that you know this is even it didn't didn't matter who you voted for Hillary was gonna win California no matter what yeah like we were this was a pro yeah Democrat state and when Trump won I've ran into people that were shell-shocked they couldn't [ __ ] imagine I mean I think I mean I was surprised I was definitely surprised but that being said I wasn't surprised by the the logic behind some of the people that voted for Trump last time that are sheepish to admit it now yes I understood some of that logic but I thought it was fascinating because there was a time for me because I tour with Ted Alexandro a lot and he's like an octet he's like he's like an Occupy Wall Street guy like he is like very progressive and we would tour and he would have during the election he would have some material on Hillary and some material on Trump and it worked everywhere worked on taxes worked in Tennessee which I think is the most conservative place to Nashville and and so it will work everywhere and then the election happened and that same material and it wasn't just the context of the at post election it was I describe it as people looking at the ceiling is that people didn't want to hear it and I think some of it is people like we deal with this all day we need a break from it but it was both sides yeah so like Trump voters were more emboldened kind of like that's right and then also the left people were like please can i I just want to hear Jim talk about horses for ten minutes do I mean and so there is something fascinating that occurs and there's also something fascinating about international shows because when Bush was when W was president there were much more people coming up to me going how dare he is you know start the Iraq war and with with Trump they're like yeah you probably didn't have anything to do with that yes I would say that's my takeaway yeah it's people are definitely fatigued I think we are yeah yeah political discourse fatigue it's never ending never ending and it's how much of you is your life if you really stop and think about if you're alive for 75 85 years on this planet and most of your waking time interacting with people is discussing politics how much of it actually does affect your life other than those conversations those conversations it's a giant part of a lot of people's anxiety a giant part of the arc but the real life like getting up in the morning fixing breakfast for your kids yeah I can uh no how much [ __ ] Trump play a part in any of that yeah I did I did a CBS Sunday commentary on how all conversations lead to Trump like it's just every conversation eventually gets to and then Trump did something like that but it is I I was also thinking like because we we live in this very precarious time and you know a very divided country on a lot of different levels and there's so much drama and there's you know you know environmental disaster impending and I and again to my point of like is we finally figured it out this is the most dramatic period but compared to world war two no this is nothing nothing this is nothing I was in Central Europe what like human beings like we you know you know and we're going around this Terrace in this place outside of Prague where they stuck all the Jewish people and with my children and my children who like just want to play on iPads were just mesmerised they're like what and and the takeaway was not oh the Germans are bad and Nazis are bad the takeaway is Oh humans are crazy like it's just a matter of months that these same people that were your neighbors that you would go to their kids birthday parties you were waving goodbye to because you got their apartment and I'm like oh like it was terrifying like human beings it's very easy for us to go yeah it was the Germans it was the Germans that did that you know as Lithuanians did but it wasn't it was human beings that were like manipulated like that yeah if we catch the wrong leader yeah yeah but it worked right next to you that's that is a world war two helmet that's a legitimate World War 2 helmet and a bayonet wow that uh it's a good reminder it's filled with little holes and [ __ ] there's apparently places in Europe where you can find thousands of those things just scattered out there you know there's areas in France that are impossible for people to go to because there's so many rounds that have been shot into the ground there and so much toxic chemicals and stuff from world war ii that to this day they they don't want people traveling to i mean it's an enormous size the size of paris it's in really yeah see if you can find that that's amazing like there's also today from the 40s so like when I was in Prague and you know you go on these tours and the punishment like they would just be like and this I also learned this in Greece they'd be like the ability okay so as punishment we are gonna murder an entire village so we're gonna in your look what and by the way again we can characterize this this because on the internet everyone's gonna bet Gaffigan was defending Nazis that's not my point at all is just that human beings like it wasn't that long ago when like rape and pillage was the go-to tactic it's like I will conquer then will rape and pillage you know there were some guys really you know what can I just pillage I just you know I got a girlfriend now and I don't really feel like raping but we were talking about Kyrgyzstan the other day that to this day 20% of all marriages begin in kidnapping what yes 20 percent so one out of five marriages started with the groom kidnapping the bride like that's how they had to get married because he raped her so in order for her romance or its fact unbelievable it's [ __ ] crate here it is the red zone in France is so dangerous that a hundred years after World War Two it's still a no-go area there's all sorts of rounds and munitions and and there's all sorts of I mean there's so many rockets were fired into this area that this [ __ ] is still in in the soil and everyone why you know this also brings up a separate point why why is this surprise like what humans also have a really a real short term memory problem like we don't remember things right like I don't think people really appreciate you know that World War two was like 70 years ago right like it was not that long ago right like even the you know like Serbia I was in Dubrovnik and they're like yeah up there the Montenegrins used to shoot at us those guys you know now we go to their bar and you're like what like that was the 90s yeah it's just it's just terrifying it's it's hard to believe but if you're in the wrong place in history at the wrong time like right now if you're in Libya Libya right now or Syria yeah well Libya is a failed state I mean serious harm all you asad running it but libya is no one running it Libya they're selling slaves on YouTube I mean you can watch slave auctions in real time right now it's a terrifying terrifying place and it's because they killed Muammar Qaddafi and then the rebels took over and then it became a felt failed state it's chaos and this is right now in 2019 if you were unfortunate enough to be born in Libya you are stuck there right now and you're living in hell you're not living in Manhattan in 2019 where it's wonderful Jim Gaffigan can hop on over to goth yeah yeah so how did Jerry Seinfeld do a sound have a meatball sub and you know do the [ __ ] you want no you're living in a chaos filled environment where barbarians are running the show and this can happen this can happen and this is one of the reasons why our democracy is so important one of the reasons why compassion is so important and kindness and talking to people it's also important to look at things objectively and label things based on compassion and looking at things in an intelligent non biased way so you could really get a sense of what the landscape really is if you're you know if you're everybody's a [ __ ] Nazi and everybody's terrible just white privilege that everyone's a criminal everyone's bad no no there's real crime in the world there's real terror and real awful things we have more unity we have more in common than then we promote you know what I think is and I think this is also a reflection of the success of comedians podcasts is that what people don't realize is that comedians really appreciate a different point of view we actually like we have friends that like we don't agree with in fact we almost find it entertaining like let's talk to this friend because I know I disagree with him and we can have that banter and I think that particularly in this Kancil culture there is and so like you get these comedians like you hosting these podcasts having these discussions and and comedians have kind of like the bold list to step in it and say hey I don't know about that tell me about that where is like from a societal basis there's like don't question don't question why we're pursuing this because if you question it that means you're not a true believer and we're looking for true believers where is and by the way it's it's just interesting because I think you know I have a friend Tom Shalu who I love who's who has a show on on Fox Nation and it is weird cuz like six years ago and I did this interview and I talked about it and and I could see the interviewer go you're friends with someone that works at Fox and I'm like yeah you know it's like it's okay yeah it's okay he's not a monster yeah he's not killing you know he's not putting children in cages he's friends with Steve Hilton he has a show on Fox he interviewed Trump about my family and his friend go on vacations together he's got it's like why like it's it's it's this strange thing where I'm like I can understand how important these beliefs are and I can understand how threatening democracy is and I can understand how we have to face our history and and all these things but it's like the discourse has to remain yes in it yes we have to be able to talk to each other and I think that's one of the things that kind of died with the Trump election people were like you're with us or against us you were the for him or your for the future and compassion and and caring about everyone or you're a monster and there's no there's no discussion about finances or the best way to run the economy or international trade no no no you're you're with the good or the bad your binary it's one or zero you're black or white you're one or zero and it that is the same thing that they criticized about W mmm-hmm saying you're either with us or again which by the way being a father of daughters you know is also a line from Beauty and the Beast yeah appropriately so right it's like very child like like that that perspectives very childlike there's a lot of people that are conservative they're very good people absolutely that's I you know here's another thing that I find very frustrating I feel as though I'm sometimes and sometimes I'll get messages on social media and they'll be like you know that some of the people that like your comedy are Trump supporters and I'm like I hope so I I hope that I appeal to a lot of different people you know I it's it's a very strange look I remember the success I had and I'm so grateful for the success that I've had on beyond the pale I remember it like I came back to New York after I had done this tour and you don't know was stand-up you don't know how long it's gonna last you don't know what's going on and I came back and I remember someone reading an article maybe it was in time out in New York and they're like he's very mainstream mainstream and and there was recently a New York Times article he is very conventional and I'm like what is that do you mean like conventional in that people want to go and see me perform like a lot of people like things like that's a crime yeah like that's he's you know he you know it's like it's so we live in this age like there used to be comedians and I think it's inhibited some people's success we're like if it's like bill burr one of the best comedians today and I think people are sometimes people in the media are like you know the wrong people might like his material you're like that does it do I'm saying paranoid but I'm like no I get that from this podcast it's it's a very strange it's it's it's almost kind of 8i you know and I don't know if I've talked about this but like you know like there's this cultural revolution that is occurring that is it's well intended but it's almost it's almost puritanical and and by the way I'm not somebody I'm against any form of censorship but I'm also somebody that believes that if we can are too callate transgender terms that make people that are transgender feel comfortable there's there's nothing wrong with that we can adjust our language we do it all the time but I do think that there is kind of this almost puritanical thing that's ironically happening on the left that is what we you know as comedians we used to make fun of the right for does that make sense yes it's a very strange kind of like wait you guys are doing what you accuse these guys of doing forever they don't see it that way because they feel like they're right and if you're right then it doesn't matter it's well intended yeah I do think it's well into I don't question someone's motive

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Published: Wed Aug 14 2019