Joe Rogan Experience #2471 - Mark Normand
In a Nutshell
Joe Rogan and Mark Normand riff on geopolitics (Iran-Israel tensions, Netanyahu AI videos, Ayatollah rumors), conspiracies (Epstein, Trump assassination attempt, government fraud), comedy evolution (podcasts revolutionizing the scene, punching down, HR culture stifling humor), Hollywood sanity (cool stars like Damon/Affleck vs. narcissistic wrecks), and personal growth (voluntary adversity like jiu-jitsu/cold plunges builds resilience against comfort's decay). They praise offline living, inspired jealousy over bitterness, natural diversity in art, and legends like Norm Macdonald for quiet integrity amid victim culture. Key advice: prioritize discomfort, admit wrongs, ignore haters—podcasts and specials thrive by staying real in a gotcha world.
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Joe Rogan welcomes Mark Normand, promotes his new Netflix special 'None to Uno' which hit number five, aiming for number one. Normand thanks Rogan for posting on Instagram. Saturated market with 19 comedy specials a day on YouTube, Hulu, 4chan. Competing with endless content: shows, TikToks, Reels, Shorts. Never been more things to watch dividing attention, plus wars and politics.
Pretend Charlie Kirk is Ari Shaffir, who gets too high and shuts up after an hour, now looks like Ayatollah with beard and is gay. Ayatollah allegedly gay per Trump. In Iran, gays thrown off buildings; Iran number one for transgender surgeries because can't be gay, so become woman. Progressive in way. Fake cooter sounds like Austin bar.
Terrified to fight country having fist fight on White House lawn. US badass fighting at president's house. Not thrilled about White House fight due to security nightmare, potential rain or heat in June DC affecting fighters. Outdoor fights nightmare like Abu Dhabi with heat and huge bugs. Stand-up terrible outside. Idea: White House fight with politicians like Boebert vs AOC, RFK wins everything, Jasmine Crockett whoops them all, feisty, pulls wig off, stuffs in mouth, takes earrings off.
Brown dog Charlie excited, first time alone with Rogan, sleeps with daughter. Reporters attacked, looked targeted, not surgical strikes despite claims. Old equipment like Atari. US hit school. Captured footage amazing quality. Plane into Pentagon looked like missile, why missile into missile-hit place?
RT reporter in Lebanon hit. Israel accused of shooting press in Gaza to control narrative. Netanyahu AI videos released by Israel, look fake: cafe video calm during war, cup doesn't spill when turned sideways, signs with fake writing, beauty filter, five fingers joke responding to prior AI criticism. Hasn't been seen publicly over week, might be dead. Brother killed in missile strike. Hormuz closed, Iranians bombed Saudis' Red Sea oil route.
Normand quit drinking 8 months for reset due to club fatigue, back with wine and margarita. AI video has non-spilling cup, casual crowd during war, no tip (Judaism joke). Everybody happy to see him, but imagine begging him to leave before bombs. Faked Ayatollah too. Recent speech with audience voices might be real, but needs proof like hug or more. Netanyahu loves Iran war, decades pushing it, corruption case, Super Bowl for him.
White House fight gimmick, great card otherwise. Politicians: Bernie still cooking, Hillary badass—cheated on publicly, Epstein Island, lost presidency, still around. Clinton body count: list of mysteriously disappeared attached to Hillary and Bill. Norm on View said Clinton killed people. Hillary stormed out of Epstein grilling after Boebert photo posted online.
Bill denies, humanitarian purposes, massages, hugging. Photos show him with smiling lady claiming victim—horseshit if grown woman enjoying. Emails show awareness. Russian lady (not Ghislaine) recruiting: 'this one's fat ass, needs to lose weight.' Legitimate criticism: underage girls, Palm Beach case. Some grown women made bad decisions for money.
Charlie dog weirded out by studio: mountain lion, alligators, werewolf, weed smoke, cigars, whiskey. Off social media, only checks funny sends, stops scrolling. Guy Fieri cigars good, frosted tips, flame shirts, yellow cars. Celebrity chefs: great narrator like Bourdain or angry like Gordon Ramsay. Chefs now jacked with tats vs fat beards before. Cooking is art, temporary, chemistry.
Wife loves reality like Bachelorette (kicked off for beating husband), 90-Day Fiance, true crime. True crime helps understand male mind/violence. Number one podcast for ladies: true crime. Number two: Joe Rogan. Number one with black people.
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Porn stars now jacked, tatted, pierced vs voluptuous hairy before. Watches ASMR street food videos no talking, no regulations: Afghanistan cheap food 40-min video, roast chickens on spikes around central flame (Genghis Khan stir-fry grill from flipped shields), stew pot with spices/herbs/salt. Ate halal trucks 10 years broke in NY, probably pigeon. Delicious-looking.
Vendor brushes chickens while rotating on spikes around central fire.
They discuss rotisserie chicken from the grocery store as the best distraction, eaten with hands. Favorite videos include watching people make furniture, horse hoof cleaning (friers from ancient times, removing nails and gunk from hooves, horse loves it), pressure washing (black to clean cement, 32 million views, especially when high on an edible).
Horse hooves are like giant fat fingernails or cartilage; they never stop growing, wear off naturally from running like dog's nails. Neglected hooves curl up like elf shoes. Sheep shearing videos also popular (23 million views, 3.7 million subscribers on channel).
Channel 'Wilderness Cooking' in Azerbaijan: guy cooks in mountains, catches fish, makes fire, weird cooking methods, food looks delicious, ends with bite, thumbs up, says 'super'. Millions of views, lives happily in peaceful mountains.
Imagine him on Cameo saying 'super' for birthdays. Top Cameo earners: John Kiriakou (former CIA, went to jail, $179 per video, #1), golfer Bob (friend, #2), Bam Margera, Michael Rapaport (Trump parody #37), Nick Foley (wrestler, Red Dead Redemption guy), Bruce Buffer, Soy Tiet (singer), Red (Island Boy?). Jimmie Walker still alive and touring. Dynamite had a run. Old middle-aged celebrities now faded likely do Uber.
Buffer's brother story: didn't know each other until 30s, both fight announcers; Bruce was budget Michael initially, now better for MMA (hyped suit), Michael smooth for boxing. Bruce gets beat red, deep in 60s, parties; fist fight in elevator with Frank Trigg (pushing/shoving, Trigg would kill him, but Bruce stood up, did martial arts most life). Story online, Bruce's version.
Dennis the Menace cartoon invented independently in England and America same day (March 17 UK on sale March 12, March 12 US, 1951). Same name, mischievous boy character. UK: black hair, red/black jumper; US: blonde hair, overalls. No evidence of copying, famous coincidence. Perplexity confirms. Like monkeys on typewriters or simultaneous ideas.
Rats: teach one maze on East Coast, West Coast rats solve quicker. Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance: unquantifiable communication all animals worldwide. Ants: all bite at once (wave of pain); parachute skydiver (1999) survived 4,500 ft fall (backup failed at 700 ft, 80 mph) landing in fire ant mound, stung 200+ times, adrenaline kept heart beating.
Guy jumped, broke all bones, seal pushed to shore (in documentary 'The Bridge'). RIP Tony Anagoni, pro pool player, friend, did 90s commentary; in book 'Playing Off the Rail' by David McCumber (Hunter S. Thompson's editor). Followed Tony gambling nationwide. SF local, jumped off bridge amid bankruptcy, depression. Survivors all regret instantly when hand leaves rail.
LA bridge standoff: guy with shotgun blew brains out live on TV. Bud Dwyer (dirty judge/politician): put .44 in mouth on TV, blew top off head ('Hey man, nice shot' song, early viral death video).
Kirk thing weird: new behind footage, 30-06 round (moose killer), no exit wound. Joe Kent told to stop investigation. Tyler Robinson (furries guy) no independent video confessing, seen at yogurt shop 20 min later across town. Trump shooter (three names): BlackRock commercial 2 years prior, no silverware, house professionally scrubbed, had help (roof access, steep slope excuse but snipers on steeper roof), no social media/history.
Can't question without being conspiracy theorist. Actual conspiracy to murder president elect. Some think staged (flag photo op perfect, but coincidences like Dennis happen). Get Nick Shirley (cracking cases, California fraud bonkers; Gov. Newsom's office mocked him with meme).
Investigate fraud, get money back for taxpayers. Biggest fraud: Medicare/Medicaid (hundreds of billions, Elon Musk warned). Pretend daycares/hospices, fake clients (Minneapolis: claimed 5,000 fed/day, max 40 seen). Tim Walz (known personally as nice guy, weird walk, stopped reelection run amid fraud). Somali daycare mention. Off social media, use Google news, people send info.
Doge uncovered hundreds of billions fraud, guys questioned. CA bridge over $100M+ (more needed for mountain lions/fox), CO similar for $5M. Regulations/red tape blamed, also tariffs/government.
Put that in your pipe and jizz on it. Your son is a menace.
They're blaming tariffs and the government for unfinished projects like a $100 million one, but that doesn't make sense. Still waiting on the bullet train that started 25 years ago for billions and is still not done. Meanwhile, Japan has trains whizzing at light speed. In China, there's one that debuted whizzing by people so fast you see it in real time standing next to it. Problem is how much track there is and how many psychos could lay something on it. Americans might do that, but Japanese are raised better, though repressed, getting it out with those trains.
Nick Shirley is a virgin, motivated. Rather an incel do that than shoot up a place. Lots of virgin influencers now. Nick Fuentes is a virgin, allegedly. Don't trust virgins; it's unnatural for young guys not to get laid. Like Zohran—don't trust an Indian who never had a job. He's from Africa but Indian. Every Indian guy known is the hardest working. He's never had a job, thinks he's a rapper. Mom Donny (likely Zohran Mamdani) never had a job; this is his first gig as NYC mayor candidate. Imagine first gig is mayor of New York City—sky's the limit. Won because he said he's not going to Israel and focused on affordability. New York's expensive.
Rich people pay more than 50% of taxes in New York, but narrative is tax the rich. Hochul said "please come back." He seems nice with good intentions but needs experience and money. Keeps saying free buses, free healthcare, free childcare—should be illegal to say "free" since someone pays, adding bureaucracy, government waste, fraud, and releasing people on streets.
Theory: Muslim is the new black, cool, hip, exotic. Problem is conflating Muslim and Islamist—very different. Know lots of great Muslims. Islamists want global caliphate, death to infidels. Difference between Iran (Islamists, state-sponsored terrorism) and Saudi Arabia (Muslims). Any extreme: Hasidic Jew vs. Paul Rudd (fun guy with cocktail, funny movies) vs. Hasidic Jew cutting foreskin and sucking blood, giving herpes. Crazy right-wing radical Christian nationalists think we need to be in Israel for Jesus to return on white horse.
Story on Yahoo: Non-commissioned officer at military debriefing (operation readiness or war meeting). High-level commander said don't worry, Trump is anointed by Jesus Christ to bring return, cause Armageddon to justify Iran tax. Urged telling troops it's God's divine plan, citing Book of Revelations on Armageddon and imminent return of Jesus. Superior had big grin, making it crazier. Just as scary as suicide bombers—true believers in nonsense. Less blowing up with extreme Christians because they won; go back to Inquisition torturing people for God.
People in radical belief go nutty, like a cult (microcosm of religion). Cult: guy creates it knowing it's bullshit. Religion: that guy's dead, so everyone believes. Examples: David Koresh, Moonies. Scientology: L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author who knew it was bullshit, but now dead so religion with tax-exempt status, affording real estate in LA, crazy downtown buildings. Hubbard worst author ever, weird looking, beat his wife, troubled—created Dianetics to self-diagnose and fix his brain.
Shows how sad and sheep-like people are, needing something to believe, following confident claimants. Programmed from tribal times relying on chief. Some psychos believe everything said, but clear don't know what talking about except specific expertise. Admit when wrong—few do that. Everyone wants to be right, ties identity to it. COVID ruined credibility: all in on vaccine, lockdowns, masks; when revealed vaccine didn't prevent infection, no one admitted wrong.
Left and right want their side to win. Like ball out of bounds on your team—you didn't see it; other team has video, call it cheating. Game of discourse: say what you think, admit when wrong or misinformed.
College campus videos fun: attribute Trump quote, call racist; reveal it's Biden, they bail for class. Biden: "You ain't black," used n-words. Called African-Americans super predators during 1994 crime bill, responsible for many life sentences, ruining families, lives, deportations.
Clinton great president—balanced budget, got head in oral office—but '94 crime bill bad. Obama deported more than Trump, arrested more Americans accidentally (higher percentage), higher deaths, two terms. No one shot in street by his ICE? Actually killed people, civilians or illegals, around 30. No social media then to cover up. Marc Maron talked to Obama recently twice; Obama soft-talked, icon, good president, statesman, great speaker. Promised to protect whistleblowers, removed from Hope and Change website.
No documented ICE shootings under Obama, but 56 died in custody (medical issues, inadequate care, substandard treatment in 8 cases 2010-2012, natural causes like heart disease).
Candace Owens claims Obama's wife is a man—no way, but odd, transy, manspreads (men sit legs out due to skeletal frame/balls; women legs inward birthing hips). Way she sits, walks, stature, skeletal frame looks like guy with tits. Weirdest: started relationship when she was ~40, he 14-15. Reversed, it'd be headline, but French.
France didn't #MeToo much. Italy catcalls. In Rome taxi with kids, driver stopped in intersection to catcall big-ass lady: "Mamma mia, look at that ass." Descendants of Coliseum/Roman Empire people—conquered world, fought lions, savages. Vatican in middle good balance for orgies, wine, gay stuff—confess for free pass, best loophole to get town info (priest tells mayor).
Catholic school: confessed jerking off to aunt with huge tits like podcast. Sister Mary Josephine mean, confused after nice family. They wrapped knuckles, repressed, no dick. Celibacy rule because priests were rock stars fucking everyone; then went to kids. Only gay guys or pedophiles join—gays fuck each other, pedophiles get isolated kid time like teachers.
Calabasas Viewpoint school teacher (kid's for 2-3 years) took upskirts, inappropriate photos, jerked off, photos made heart race—full pedophile there 6-7 years.
Florida teachers banging students epidemic. Okay if hot blonde with big tits on SSRIs vs. troll Jabba the Hutt type. Mayor in Louisiana fucked 16-year-old basketball player; pretty, milfy, husband cucked. Never show the kid—young stud? Zach Galifianakis joke great.
Great comic, Purple Onion special, fake angry piano. Good dude, not Hollywood, South Carolina guy, farm, barely works. Stand-up good, Todd Phillips fought for him in The Hangover—stole movie. Between Two Ferns brilliant, trashed Seinfeld, Paul Rudd. Great friend to Brody (went off meds, got angry on stage at store); Zach said don't interact, getting treatment. Solid people out there. Normal guy. Hollywood like co
Someone got out of Hollywood and moved to a farm, showing he's sane. Some Hollywood people stay solid. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are normal off-mic and on-mic, cool in the lobby, talk to everybody. Joe Rogan met Matt Damon multiple times and ran into him in Italy at a restaurant where Damon sat below a photo of himself among celebrity photos. Damon was cool and normal like a regular guy. They hit the lottery with their script, both good-looking, nice, cool, and smart. Ben Affleck has underrated intelligence; he broke down AI hype—promises vs. actual capabilities, really about increasing market cap and investment. Affleck sold an AI company shortly after, ahead of the curve, for millions, changed the game with Netflix in a giant deal up to $600 million. Both stayed friends forever. Affleck banged JLo for years, trying to tame that horse; she's a malignant narcissist, a Clydesdale, but fun, a smoke show at 80 with perfect skin that doesn't look like crazy filler, pure not aging, Puerto Rican blood, good genetics, upkeep, care, awareness.
Instagram showed 80s actors' real ages: Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker) was 10 years younger than Joe Rogan now. Ed O'Neill? Wait, Carroll O'Connor. Cocoon had Paul Rudd and Wilford Brimley same age, 48. Mrs. Robinson was 39 in The Graduate, seen as old bag. Now 39-year-olds on Sixth Street look like Cindy Crawford. Update hot women: Megan Fox, stuck in 90s. 39 in 80s looked like 60 now, e.g., Mel Brooks's wife Anne Bancroft, pretty sexy, never went to gym, just walked. Dudes had no definition but leading men; only Charles Bronson really ripped, wiry, fit even before action star, shredded at 50 in Hard Times. All these TRT. Liam Neeson old in Taken. Golden Girls played 10 years younger: Bea Arthur 62 playing 53? One was 52 playing 53, another 63 playing 53, 53 playing 79? Nuts.
Betty White kicked it; Keith Richards beat her, male JLo. Saw Stones at Circuit of the Americas, incredible, Richards shreds, Jagger dances non-stop 90-minute show, cranking, got peptides. Contrast Frankie Valli lip-syncing, can't move lips, statue-like. MC Jag busting lips, dancing. Barry Manilow rough, Instagram shows filler, chin disappearing, not that old, looks trans, animatronic Chuck-E-Cheese, hair wig, everything fake, face like guy who let himself age. When younger, looked good legit. Pumping cheeks looks stung by bees, weirder over time. Better to age; we like age. Women get body dysmorphia like bodybuilders/anorexics, can't see themselves as others do, cheeks too big.
Obsessed with minutia like painting, add little more, ruin it: weird smile line, fill it, swells, good, but after 8 months crazy, gradual so don't realize. Ryan Gosling accused of face stuff, red carpet photos weird. Hair implants fine. Dudes can age: Jason Statham looks fine. Let it go, don't filler, changes face shape, throws off golden ratio—width, eye closeness, nose size; off ratio disturbing, e.g., thin face small nose needs big beak like Ari. Jennifer Grey cut nose off, lost career, was beautiful cute Jewbro with big nose. Perfect ain't way. Bill Murray looks crazy old fart but cool, childhood hero.
Bill Murray good on podcast, real easy, no bullshit, doesn't watch podcasts, not online, no phone except for kids. Woody Harrelson no phone, contact through wife, stays out of everything, happy. Great SNL outing coke. Hangs at club normal, green room, talks to door guys everybody, no big timing. White Men Can't Jump favorite. Real, hung out multiple times. Many cool ones stay out of social media, offline, just live. Or living in the cloud—high all day like rappers Lil Wayne, wake and bake, comics smoke weed 3 hours then set. Joe Rogan: if smoked 3 hours, crying fetal. Mental chemistry different; weed legitimate medicine for some, keeps together, not hurting anybody. Why okay SSRIs/OxyContin but not live in cloud? Medicating. Alcohol as teen social lube for anxiety.
Nephew 16, never drank, virgin, no friends, video games all day, shits on drinking as unhealthy vs. his isolation. Weird many kids like that. 85% alcohol sales down with Gen Z. Started liquor, fucked. How cut loose? Scared of cringe, filmed viral. Kids don't dance at dances scared viral white guy dancing idiot cringe. Gotcha culture horrible, shaming people. Scan videos/old tweets for gotcha. Flip it, shame them. False rape accusers should jail, half the sentence. Nearly jail forever for nothing, skate because woman/guy. Amber Heard/Johnny Depp: exonerated, she made shit up, got makeup bruises, could jail 10-25 years, psychopath, reputation destruction women expert per Jordan Peterson, can't fight so poison slow like antifreeze oatmeal. Lady wrote book helping kids grief after poisoning husband 2022, crocodile tears, arrested.
Rebel Wilson accused guy sex trafficking children, Sacha Baron Cohen told her finger his ass (actually hot mic: she stuck finger up his ass in scene, take easy). Caught on hot mic planning smear: fake websites painting producer Amanda Ghost sex trafficking madam, heavy connected. Four lawsuits: Wilson accused Sir Len Blavatnik funding film/legal against her, producers (Amanda Ghost) inappropriate to lead Charlotte McKinney, embezzling, blocking Toronto premiere. Producers defamation suit LA, Wilson countersuit harassment/embezzlement. McKinney denied harassment, sued Wilson defamation Australia. Leaked audio Wilson's team: fake sites Ghost sex trafficking. Wilson Instagram: bombarded by crisis PR, true rebel, say it how it is, strong, take stand. Narcissists/sociopaths recently hot, new powers.
Doja Cat pop star went after Timothée Chalamet for mocking ballet, admitted virtue signaling for clicks, apologized, came clean, probably high. Love that, need more "I was high." Louis CK: social media just talk but written down, documented forever vs. drunk party talk apologize next day. Kids paranoid, can't cut loose, enjoy youth doing stupid shit. High school shaming traumatizing forever, bullies fat girls to anorexic, guys beat up confidence fucked, never recover. Social media does in 2 seconds, kids suicide. Pylons strange, mental list never fuck with those comics, waiting to turn. Bill Burr: all eating shit sandwich, why harder? Failing comics pile on success like Shane Gillis, talented, scared, out of context SNL Chinatown bit pretending racist never been there.
Losers target successful comedians like those with big gigs to take away their breaks. Chris Rock isn't trying to take gigs; it's people with nothing going on. Shane Gillis has success like Shane Gillis in Bushi and Billy Madison, putting on lipstick, with a list of people. Avoid them, know them for what they are, never deal with them again. Keep writing jokes, keep killing, live your life. There are always people in every business who aren't doing well and attack those who are.
Why beers? Brought Lone Star, prefer it over Bud Light. Cheers, mixing liquors. Dogs went to sleep. Shit in the world makes you appreciate nice people. Without knowing shit, might not appreciate nice people; seeing shit makes you want to hug nice people.
Made up with Marc Maron. Never started anything; it was all him when he wasn't doing well, separate from them. He's doing great in movies, talking to Obama, killing it. Comparison is the thief of joy. Compare to who you were yesterday, figure out what you fucked up, do better. Compare to friends for inspiration.
Were you jealous? Felt jealousy but realized it's a shit feeling; be inspired instead. Nothing comes from jealousy.
From martial arts: need better people around to improve. Competed against elites, had national champions in gym, had to rise. Instead of jealousy, mirror their behavior, be inspired. Applies to comedy too.
Martial arts more objective: pinned or knocked out. Comedy subjective; people think they're funnier without killing. Love sports for objective endings: more points, ball in net.
Tribal now: vote right, tweet right, but mean as fuck. Good politics, bad people. Prefer someone tweets horrible slur but is nice. Priorities out of whack, rewarding wrong things. Social media not real, not normal human interaction. Supposed to be dialogue like this; call out nutty stuff immediately. Taking sarcasm as real quote. Bill Burr called racist; response his wife's black, then sometimes marry to dominate. Wife tweeted: shut the fuck up fuckers. Don't interact; not good faith.
Marc Maron makeup was nice conversation, never hated him, going to get together, invited to club. Club diverse by accident: all walks, lesbians, gay people, talented. Like UFC: Russian, black Chinese, white, Korean.
Diversity occurs naturally letting best excel, especially comedy: no barrier, open mic, write on pad, start broke.
Oscars regulations bummer for movie lover. Godfather, Braveheart, Apocalypto (all brown), Boys in the Hood (no Asian) wouldn't win. Film about Scotland 1400s can't add Asian doctor. Feudal Japan all Japanese like Squid Game. All black like Sinners okay. Just make movies, if people like it, they like it.
Pitching shows: where's diversity? Movie about Russians in Russia.
Doesn't have to be diverse, just good; enough good things create diversity across films: black ballerinas, 1936 Olympics Germany.
Judging art crazy, awards political nonsense. Scorsese wins Departed, not his best. Golden Globes for podcasts bullshit, didn't submit. Who's deciding best?
Awards make you question wins.
Siskel and Ebert: loved until outtakes showed they hated each other. Fun show, two thumbs up, lighter: good or bad, not racist. Educated takes. Recommendations by people you appreciate, not awards.
Academy: damn good movie but not trans in wheelchair. Used to be playing retards. Now skin color. Tropic Thunder: never go full retard. Killed genre, no more handicapped roles. Robert Downey Jr. full blackface, nailed it. Asked if could do today: problem, last not cancelled.
Tom Cruise killed as crazy agent, dancing. Collateral with Jamie Foxx: psychopathic killer, convincing, scary. Alley scene shoots robbers. Chemistry amazing. Jamie Foxx nerdy scared, Ray Charles, can do anything.
Met Jamie Foxx at gas station taking daughter from martial arts. Resani truck: futuristic bulletproof like Batmobile, his car around 2014-15. Cool, normal dude. Did stand-up, In Living Color, sitcom, movies. Ultra talented: sing, act comedy/drama, nerd/killer.
Rewatched Ray: incredible, him singing, Ray Charles junkie on heroin, moving wonky.
Stevie Wonder conspiracy: catches mic too fast, can see.
Conspiracies gentler then vs. now: Michelle Obama has dick, Erica Khan.
Erica Khan odd, cook, demon eyes compilation. Intense. Talking to Bari Weiss about Charlie Kirk: justified attack because controversial/hateful.
On reality show. Weird CIA films: internal, EMP attacks, power grids, critical infrastructures, cyber/hackers/physical/solar/man-made EMP. Acting gig? Or handler for Charlie Kirk.
Lots think handlers; Rogan has nine Navy SEALs friends, tough dudes. Shooter on Sixth Street. Austin vs. New York silly. More comedy better, good clubs.
New York humming, clubs opening, comedy hot. More fucked up world, hotter comedy. Legitimized; podcasts show comics thinking people in bizarre art form, no playbook, no rules unlike Oscars.
Clubs trying rules fall apart.
Love Richard Pryor but today hate: hit wife, drug addict, psycho. Sam Kinison greatest, out of mind, punched down: starving Africa legendary bit. David Tell 18 minutes midgets, punching down but funny.
Punching down hilarious if funny. Professor said never funny, wrong. Funny because wrong sometimes.
Brian Holtzman: mothership complaints, but offstage nicest, sweetheart, camp counselor. Onstage character.
Hierarchy: punch up to Asians doing best academically, number one. Rules to eliminate from university, lawsuits, higher scores needed. Work hard.
Japan: leave Rolex on bench. Dubai: black guy safer nightclub, no theft, leave diamond ring, cultural/hardcore laws, kings, no fucking around, lock up.
If you fuck around, they will lock you up with no ifs, ands, or buts. No social justice warriors, no cash bail because the system is racist. You commit a crime, you go to jail. Nobody goes to jail because nobody commits crimes. American lady got in arguments at the airport, yelling at people like at Spirit Airlines in America, and they locked her up.
Fist fights on airplanes up 8,000% from 1960 to 2025. Flights got cheaper, bringing bus people on flights. Bus people were cutting heads off on interstate trucks. Back in the day, people wore suits, had cocktails, smoked; flying was a big deal.
Traveling by bus hurts because of the dregs of society on Greyhounds. At Holiday Inn free breakfast: family, guy with neck tattoo, ex-con, tweaky meth guy. People sneak into hotels for free breakfast in pajama pants after all-nighters; they assume you're staying there. You can make a waffle. Shitty hotels teach about humans and road gigs: sad frowny-faced dude at counter. Extended stay inns with kitchenettes have dogs everywhere, people making crack on the stove.
Mickey Rourke in a Hollywood hotel, got evicted, has no money. Great actor in Rumble Fish, Angel Heart. Made comeback in The Wrestler and Iron Man after getting work done. Did legitimate boxing, sparring with James Toney and real fighters, probably got brains beaten out, went squirly. CT is no joke.
Aaron Hernandez had worst CTE ever seen; killed people while in NFL, hung himself in jail. Friend with CTE explained: normal brains have steps before losing impulse control—initial thought, brain says don't do it, ramps up but stays in hand. CTE: first thought to Defcon 5, no buffer, no impulse control. Add booze, loss of inhibition: shootouts with cops. Bill Burr bit: driving, see people on sidewalk, quarter-inch turn to mow them down—everyone has thoughts but pulls back. High building: could jump, then pull back. Brain damage like fucked-up phone: dropped phone in Hawaii called people randomly, all wires fucked up, holes from CTE, hormones and cortisol fucked up. Running red lights without knowing why.
Joe has right amount of brain damage: not worried, fearless, doesn't concern self with things that fuck others. Like autism: right amount makes genius, touch of the tism—good at math but not non-verbal. Blind guys hear better, echolocation like Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles.
Joe does cold plunge, sauna, workouts, kicking, fighting, comedy. Advice: do something more difficult voluntarily to make difficult things easy. Career in public eye psychologically hard; workouts harder than regular life, done to self. Jiu-jitsu for 25-28 years makes rest of world easy. Mark got hit a lot as kid? No, mom did; attuned to domestic violence potential. Started serious training at 15, formative years getting punched, kicked. Brain scan? Don't want to know. Tools for stress: voluntary adversity gives discipline, control over thoughts and behavior. Cold plunge: brain tries to talk out, other part shuts it up, lift lid, set timer, slide into 34° water, breathe, don't complain. Keeps in reality: freezing, could die. Lifting weights or sprints on air bike sucks.
Society more comfortable with Uber Eats, Netflix; decaying. Michael Easter, on podcast, book The Comfort Crisis, UNLV professor: comfort is enemy, desire for constant comfort doesn't get you anywhere, doesn't make happy. Earn comfort. Still watch TV like guy baking ostrich in Asado. Better than Love is Blind. Don't like watching people behave badly, feel dumber. Watch James Webb telescope discoveries, theory universe not expanding, people doing what they love.
Jimmy Carr: key to life "prioritize later." Don't want to exercise but do for health; want pizza, Snickers but eat right. Want comedy to do well, write: sit at computer or notebook, do sets you don't want—best sets when home thinking of excuses not to go, then kill. Always happy you did it. Introvert: don't want parties but go and have great time. Good publicly because pre-written art form, good one-on-one or interviews like Good Morning America, mess in groups: what if say stupid thing, annoying. Healthier to think people will hate, then they love. Imposter syndrome means healthy; top people get it like David Tell thinking he's hack.
Jealous of cool collected guy, but they're jealous of talent. Believing you're better than you are prevents improvement; think great, stop fixing. Early career: guys thought they killed but bombed, no laughs, "great set." 400 lb women say "I'm a 10," ogre. Shows too mean to gals, uncomfortable even if deserve it. People love stupid delusional person annihilated by genius. Like cops shutting criminals. Hate giving parking tickets or pulling over fearing shots; cops have PTSD.
Friend in Austin PD, deployed overseas multiple times: saw more shit, murders, crime, dead bodies, fucked-up behavior in police than overseas. We shit on them, defund, ACAB. Chicago mayor all about defund but had block shut down, armed guards. Cops not perfect, need better training and money allocation, but can't shit on guy taking bullets for safety. Most important job: stop criminals ruining everything. Only shield between us and them. Go on ride-alongs to see decades of chaos. Why do it? Good pay, mortgage, family, from military, feel good helping, saving lives, stopping bad guys. People hating cops act cop-like: don't do that joke, defund police types. Trump haters act like Trump: narcissist, ego. Promiscuous girls shit-talk other promiscuous girls.
People hating most look alike. Israel-Palestine like Williams sisters: brown-skinned dark-haired guy throwing rocks vs. holding machine gun, who is who? Ireland, North/South Korea, Crips/Bloods, Russians. Women hate each other over competition, prime dick. Hot girl at party, wife hates her despite charity. Wife's friend furious at hot date at wedding with tits out, overdid it but hot; would hate even in Jabba the Hutt outfit or monk cloak.
College roommate 6'9" beefy Midwestern football player, Birkenstock weed guy; every bar guys tried to fight him thinking tough. Happens to MMA fighters: drunks think they'll fuck them up. Morons survive too easily. Need wolves, predators, real fear of consequences like animals with gender roles. Non-binary wolves don't make it; male penguin gets fish, female watches eggs or collapses.
Lady on podcast explained radical feminism roots: all fucked up, affairs, not raising kids, self-obsessed, tricked women into girl bosses. Outlandish people have triggers. Take down pedophiles? Check basement. Pizzagate: four journalists debunking arrested for child sex crimes or porn. Bill Cosby.
Fitz Simmons worked for Ellen DeGeneres and told everyone decades ago she's horrible to her staff, calling her a "cunt." She seemed sweet but was horrible to everybody. During the pandemic, before it came out, people shared stories about her. She was canceled for being gay in the 90s, came back as a star, then got canceled for being mean—progress. People celebrated her initial cancellation. You could get a show greenlit now for playing a gay character for diversity.
Gay used to be the ultimate insult in high school, now friends say "tell them I'm gay" to fit in. It's pansexual: "I'll fuck everybody." In 20 years, it could be "I'm a child molester" to fit in. Academics call them minor attracted persons (MAPs)—insane. Gad Saad calls it suicidal empathy, justifying horrific crimes.
Alt-right draws swastika on synagogue—piece of shit. Liberal draws it on Cybertruck because Elon Musk is painted as a Nazi for stopping fraud and waste. People key Teslas to virtue signal. Religious right mirrors religious left and Islamists—patterns where you point at others, think your radical beliefs are fine.
Politics now two algorithms, two realities. Iranian soccer player ladies show hair, scared to go home, families tortured or kidnapped—no support from left like Rapo (loudmouth justice warrior). They sought refuge in Australia, lives ruined, just hashtags. Right opposes abortion but gets them secretly; left mad at George Floyd violence but silent on lady stabbed on train in Charlotte by violent offender released 40 times, Ukraine refugee survivor—hot lady, less sympathy.
Speaking sane is controversial in crazy world. Called fat people beautiful, all "Olympic." Now okay to like being thin, want to be hot. Lizzo losing weight, was fat champion, looks great, healthier. People mad at Jelly Roll for losing weight—lost 300 pounds (from 500), now in 200s, 35 lbs extra skin. No Ozempic: testosterone replacement, exercise, eliminated sugar. Ran 6 miles day before podcast, 2.5 miles treadmill while talking, laughing. Super nice, sweetest guy, hugging everybody. Real name Jason.
Black guy move to have cool name: Earthquake, Lil Wayne. Few comics: Andrew Dice Clay (real name Andrew Silverstein), did Travolta, Jerry Lewis impressions, performance artist, mocks not being famous on street. Opened for him: nervous, introduced self, he headlocked for picture, fucking with him. Dice advised do the road, don't rely on LA jerkoffs—you're funny, headline country, make living.
Smartest advice: did road, built solid hour, act improved, can survive cancellations. Poor comics become writers—velvet prison: cushy (AC, snacks, healthcare), write funny for others, no recognition, 65-year-old comics back on funny bone train, can't sell tickets, missed podcast train.
Podcasts cheat code: people know you daily/weekly, go to their town, generate ideas in conversation. Saved the Comedy Store—Santino, Theo etc., changed attitudes from competition to assets, promote Netflix specials. Low maintenance, hotel room setup, real conversations vs. social media.
Actors play ball, deep pain acquiescing. Late night press: fun couch, makeup, jacket, yuck it up, but wasted money on headsets, clipboards, interns. Colbert losing CBS $40-50 million/year—crazy to keep on air. Guests crapshoot like Snooki. Bill Hicks joke: Jay Leno next to Joey Lawrence, sticks Uzi in mouth, brains form NBC peacock.
Conan saw writing, did TBS (less pressure, stayed himself), started pod. Early Conan banter scripted on postboards, people behind Andy Richter, Conan. Late night producers script: "writing process"—hack shit. Let comics riff.
Bob and Tom producers upset not knowing topics—have fun. Green days: loose leaf setups. Morning radio fake, guys doing act. Opie and Anthony changed it—beginning of podcasts. Howard Stern began free speech, wild radio, GOAT, fined during Bush for obscenity, stations huge fines, survived. Opie and Anthony wild, loose: Norton, Vos, Patrice, Louie, Ari. Anthony live from compound: Long Island house, basement studio, Guinness on tap, pro mics/cameras, violated contract but no money made.
Tom Green internet show loose, innovative, ball cancer surgery on air. TV wants comics but not comic—scared of job loss, fake gig. Weatherman: 8 minutes, Doppler, hand movements. Lucky with podcasts. Opie and Anthony first loose comics riffing, swearing on XM—YouTube gold, Patrice shined, him and Louis on black vs. Mexican, n-word origin. Tough Crowd: Colin Quinn hosting, Norton, Nick Di Paolo, Greg Giraldo.
New special: nice messages on bits that didn't do as well live—people like clever, different, interesting (per Hicks: not funny, at least interesting). Constant dance, special out—back to square one, worst comic. Joey Diaz headlining club tonight, on fire from residencies, casinos Philadelphia, NY/NJ shows. Sweaty Cuban, but Cuba hot, doesn't complain about heat, complains about white people.
New York: hobo jerking off, dead guy on Third Street/subway, then joke—"easy."
Culture moves in big waves like a seesaw, going up and down, back and forth. Younger generations have an HR vibe because they transition from universities teaching certain values to workplaces reinforcing them, which can help advancement if enforced. People whose whole job is enforcing these values in the workplace are scary, like hall pass monitors. HR people are the wackiest nuts, repressed like Asians whose porn is extreme to release it, but in Japan they blur genitals even in porn where a woman is peeing in a guy's mouth.
In the 90s, you could say the n-word on TV like on Saturday Night Live (Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor sketch), but not 'shit'. People always look to tell others what to do and define them as worse: 'that's a bad person, I'm good'. This is as old as time but keeps shifting. In the 50s, no man and woman in the same bed, but smoking in front of a baby was fine. Now people fuck on TV, but smoking gets a disclaimer. There's always people ruining it for everybody, finding loopholes or cheat codes to sneak to the top. We're all going to die, so have a good time and don't wait until death to regret not having more fun.
Bert Kreischer quit drinking due to blood clots, possibly from the vax—he took four shots and boosters for projects. His tour bus caught fire three days ago in Minnesota after a flat tire; they got another ride and it burned while empty. He did an Instagram Live; it's all over the news, looks like Gaza footage. He posted: 'We are all safe, but my bus is gone. God works in mysterious ways.' That bus was very expensive; he was always on it. Some speculate Antifa or he lit it for clicks. Minnesota's cursed. Tour buses feel like a coffin bed with road bumps, risk of crashing if the driver (often ex-cons or pedophiles) falls asleep. Some love it like Sturgill Simpson—like a traveling living room for strumming, singing, partying. Prefer flights to get there fast, hit the gym, eat steak.
Never desired a tour bus; opened for Bert on one but couldn't do it all day. Did Maxim comedy tour with Charlie Murphy and John Hefron: 22 dates in a month, hated not knowing where you were waking up, losing track of days. But by the end, you're sharp, timing on point, murdering onstage. Weird fun group with range; Hefron hilarious, great joke writer, won Last Comic Standing, mixes clean and not offstage.
Charlie Murphy was the best, a real solid dude, Eddie Murphy's protector—would beat up anyone talking shit about Eddie. Legitimate martial artist, fought in karate tournaments, knew his shit. Died suddenly; no one knew he was sick, kept it quiet like Norm Macdonald. Great guy overall.
Norm Macdonald one of the funniest guys ever—podcast, standup, movies, hallway chats. Hero for riding out cancer quietly in victim culture despite potential sympathy points; fought it long, beat it once, it returned (stomach cancer, held stomach on Letterman's I'm Talking 80s clips). Went after online shit-talkers like Seth Simmons who emailed threats; wrote Shane Gillis a nice email. Brilliant, enlightened Dostoyevsky reader, not the dumb guy people thought. Sat next to him on flights twice—gift to laugh and talk for hours. Changed Weekend Update, got fired for truth: kept saying OJ killed his wife despite NBC head Olmire (OJ's friend) telling him to stop shitting on OJ.
Norm's OJ clips compilation exists online. Mark Normand's new special None Too Pleased out on Netflix, hilarious, number five at time of talk, will boost after podcast. See you tonight.
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