Best of the Week - July 26, 2020 - Joe Rogan Experience

But then there are the people who are selling the antidote to their fears. In the book, I call these people the Dread Merchants, right? The people who are going to sell you the bunker, you know? Jim Baker and his food. Oh, yeah, Jim Baker and his survival water. How amazing are those buckets of food that you could use as the base of a table? Have you seen that whole video? I love those. And he talks about using them as portagons. Yes, yes. And, yeah, he sells the Bible buckets as well. Bible buckets? What's a Bible bucket? It's just a bucket full of Bibles, you know? Just in case, right? Why do you need more than one Bible? I know. Yeah, well, maybe you got a big family. Maybe you're going to want to go Old Testament if she gets really weird. Have you ever seen the Vic Berger remixes of the Jim Baker? Yes, I have. Oh, man, they are so much fun. Yes. I got really addicted to those when I was working on this project. It became almost like a mantra, you know, having these running in the background. It's so strange that he was the guy that was attached to the Jessica Hahn controversy back in the 1980s. I mean, remember that? Yeah. Do you remember the Jim Baker? Like, he had had an affair with this woman, and it became, for whatever reason, this big news. Well, it's the same guy. He's around today. Because then we still expected people to be guided by their moral compass, you know? Right. Everyone's a hypocrite now. Right. Do you remember then there was Jimmy Swagger got caught with a hooker, and he was crying, and he was like, I have sinned. Do you remember that? Do you remember that? That was good. Yeah, no one confesses anything anymore. Look at this. Spread the word Bible bucket. Yes. I love that one. A bucket of Bibles. Why not? That's only 50 bucks. That's a pretty good deal. How many Bibles you get? Twenty-four. Wow. I think it's, should we get a bucket of Bibles? I feel like we should have one at the studio. Get one. Get one. I feel like we should have one at the studio. I don't want to feed the beast, but you should get one. If he gets 50 bucks from me, I'm going to get one. I'm going to get one. I'm going to get one. I don't want to feed the beast, but you should get one. If he gets 50 bucks from me, what the fuck do we do? We did at least a table worth. Right. A table's worth of Bibles. Six buckets. How many buckets makes a table? Shouldn't we get the food? Or should we just get the Bibles? One bucket of Bibles and five buckets of food. But it's fucking food. I love watching him feed the audience from the giant trough. You can get real good freeze-dried food that'll last forever. Hell yeah, you can. You don't have to get his bullshit. Yeah. What the fuck? Creamy potato soup. Oh my God. Look at that slop. That's a huge shovel. Yeah. Yeah. And they do a big thing of rice and then they mix it all together. Yeah. A big bucket of slop is poured on top of it. Google peakrefuel.com. This is my friend Chad Mendez. He has a really delicious company that they make actual. I think is it freeze-dried? Freeze-dried, I think his stuff is freeze-dried or dehydrated. I'm not sure. If aliens are real, I'm not 100% convinced, but I'm probably like 90% convinced. But if they are real, I leave in the room for bullshit. It's like, Jamie, get a picture of your shirt. Show everybody this shirt you're wearing while we're talking about that. It's a UFO. It says, can they see it? Believe that. That's a dope shirt. That's a saucer if I've ever seen one. I think if they're here, they're not going to love us. That's what I think. Well, that's what I think they're going to swoop in and go, hey, hey, hey. Well, let's fuck. I'm 25, right? I can't speak on anything. But just looking from past experience and, you know, there's like drawings. Like even in the Mona Lisa, there's a weird thing or whatever in the background and shit. Yeah, it looks like a flying saucer. But there's a spike. It's a spike in like because it's getting pretty weird here. The spike they think it's hard to tell because sometimes when people talk about UFOs, a bunch of other people hallucinate or lie. Like there's a lot of that. Right. So every time there's a real legit UFO, you get a bunch of nut, just nutcases who just want to tell crazy shit about being taken. And I see. And I mean, I never. Yeah. What'd you say? What'd it look like? I was in I was probably 16. I was in upstate New York and it would just stay there. So I. Well, let me precursor this. My aunt and uncle were very strict and we had to go to bed at a very strict deadline, probably 10 p.m. And I was looking out the window with my cousin and it's just a light that just stays there and then just fucking goes off. I mean, you it just you can't explain it. Well, if you're seven, you're 17 at the time, 16, 16. How probably how strong is this memory when you're looking at it, when you're trying to remember a medium medium. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, there's something there for sure. Something took off and did something that didn't make sense to you for sure. And then in Utah, I mean, there's shit happens all the time. I mean, even here in L.A., I can't tell you how many times because I used to live in Tarzana. So there was like a balcony here and it looked kind of like. It sounds corny, but like a classic like force field whenever you think of a force field and it just kind of goes like this and it's kind of like a dome in a circular shape. And it just goes like this and goes back in. Whoa. In Tarzana, looking down at the fucking city. And I'm like, how did no one else see this? All across the country, there are situations where cops have to pull their guns and have to use them. There are, but they're not as frequent. But they're happening every day. Probably somewhere every day, but not every day in every officer's life. Right. But if it's you, if it's you, you're that officer, you got to be ready. Yes. And it's this idea that that's not important. It should be of critical importance. Not that it's not important, but that there are so many other things that need to also be in place. Yes. Because if these other skills are in place, right? If you are a master, you know, they like to call verbal judo. If you can, if you can talk someone down, if you are a master at de-escalation, you are never going to need these other tools. Maybe not never. You are very rarely going to need any, you know, the less lethal force or the least lethal force because you are managing situations. If you suck at these, you need these a lot. I see what you're saying. Right. So, so for me, because I, you know, deal with communication and deal with, you know, de-escalation and how to talk someone down, how to talk to an individual with a mental illness, how to talk to somebody who's a victim or who's been traumatized, how to talk to somebody who's maybe on drugs and not able to, you know, how do we manage those situations with verbal, with interactions, with communication so that we don't have to go up the chain of command of, you know, of levels of force. But that seems to me to be an incredible amount of training that must be necessary. And it also has to be constant and consistent. Absolutely. And that's why when, when you and Jocko were talking about the training and how much more I'm like, yes, how much training, how much training do they have to do in terms of hand to hand combat? I don't know. I'm not sure how much. And again, I'm sure it depends on what Academy they go through. Some academies are four months, some are six, some less longer, you know, and, and the makeup depends on who's running that Academy as to like the breakdown of, you know, how much is in the classroom, how much is physical, how much is tactical. So I'm not sure what the numbers would be on that. Andrew Yang, a presidential candidate, he had former presidential candidate, he had an awesome idea. He said every person who is in the police force should be a purple belt in jiu-jitsu or higher. And I think that is a really good idea because at that level, you have a real understanding of how to defend yourself and how to control bodies. I saw a video, I've seen quite a few of them, but one of the more pathetic videos I've ever seen was two people trying to hold one guy down completely ineptly. The guy gets up, runs, gets into his car and shoots both of them and then takes off. And I'm like, Jesus Christ went into his car, got a gun, like they had no control over this guy, two people. And I'm like, that should never take place. And this guy wasn't some freak of nature either. It wasn't like they're trying to hold down Herschel Walker or some super athlete. No, it was a regular guy. Just they sucked. And it was, it's terrible to watch. So I wake up at five, five thirty, first noise, boop, and then laughter. I'm like, are these fuckers doing fart jokes at five in the morning? And that's the thing that people don't realize is when you don't have TV, Internet, entertainment, and you're just with your family and your homies all day, you're bored as fuck. So they joke morning till night. Like, I don't know what they're saying. Laughter, laughter. Someone cuts a fart joke. And I'm like, all right, let's go. So you saw the pictures. They're ripped back muscles, six packs. The kids have six packs. I was very out of shape. I'm still out of shape, but I was the most out of shape. And think about waking up at five thirty in the morning and the thing that's the final animal that's like kind of left is baboons. They call they almost call them in that part of Africa, like the baboon men, because that's what they eat. Tastes horrible to me. Baboons look human. So we're in a cave, men sleeping on the top, men, women on the bottom. We wake up, there's another cave and you see, oh, there's people in that cave. No, they're baboons. And they're pointing at us. They're pointing. They're like, look, they're coming. So I'm like, this shit is crazy. We're hunting baboons. They're like, there's tons of meat on them. We're going to it's enough to feed our family. Think about like running again. I was pretty fast in high school. I could do the fifty pretty quick. I can't run at top speed for hours. And I got these. I'm drinking water. And in this environment, it's an advantage to have black skin because it's cooling. These guys aren't sweating. I'm like, what's going on? We've been running for five hours. You guys aren't sweating. The fuck? And they don't get tired and then they'll just start digging a hole and drink like a handful of brown water. And that's enough for them. And I'm like, dude, what the fuck? And they're telling the translator, this motherfucker looks like he's never caught anything in his life. And he's like, he hasn't. And to me, I'm an alien, right? They go, he gets his food from supermarkets. What's that? They hunt the food for him. They cut it up and package it and sell it. Like they don't believe it. The shit I tell them, they're like, hey, you guys, you look like a fucking supermodel. Can I bring you to America and do a fashion thing and get you guys paid? And why would we want to go to America? Tell me what you know about America. Isn't that the place where people jump off buildings to kill themselves? Like that concept is so foreign that when someone explains suicide to them, I was like, oh my God, they don't. And in the time that I'm there, like I said, that first week is withdrawal. I'm like, fuck, where's my phone? And then all of it goes away, right? I'm not thinking about any of my addictions. I'm not thinking about like, I feel peace. I'm not, I'm not miserable. My depression goes away. And I go morning till night, you wake up, you hunt for food, you get home celebration. Everyone's happy that the men brought the food back. The women, you know, gathered the berries. We have a big dinner celebration because every meal you got to be grateful for dance party by the fire. And you're out a couple of fart jokes and you're out. Repeat the next day. There's no time to be like bored and sad and upset and been worried about some bullshit. Thanks for watching.