Good Cops and Bad Cops | Joe Rogan and Michael Yo

Just imagine like a police officer walking up to a car. That's freaky enough. You don't know what's inside. That's like you're playing roulette. You don't know what's inside that car. You know, like look, there are some bad police out there, but as just put yourself in that spot where you're a cop getting out your car, walking to a car with tinted windows, knocking on the window, you don't know what you're gonna get. You don't know if it's a barrel with shotgun. You have no idea. You have no idea. And people have to realize that that tension they carry with them all day, they might have 20 of those interactions. Absolutely. All day. And for them. And a couple could have been really bad for them. And if you have, you give them any bullshit or don't appreciate or respect that, they're immediately gonna go, oh, okay. You fucking asshole. And you're the enemy now. And it's horrible. It's horrible that we give a person the kind of power that police officers have when they abuse it, but it's also horrible that we create this relationship between fellow citizens, a cop is just a citizen. It's just one of us. Where we are the enemy if we're not following the book, especially when the book is stupid, like it's pot laws or something dumb like that. Or you're catching guys getting jerked off, like Jesus Christ. I've been pulled over a couple of times and I gotta say, most of them, like my dad, they say a black thing to do when you have a black father. They tell you very early on, when a cop pulls you over, hands out, it's taught to us when we're born and raised, especially where I grew up. So I even been profiled and I'm half black. You don't know what I really am, a lot of people, but I've been profiled. So I know when I hear the stories and I've been in cars with my friends that are dark skin black and they've been pulled over. And it's a thing where you're upset because you feel like you're being profiled. But man, once that cop walks over, you need to show all due respect because they control that game now. It's 100% their game. Once they pull up to your window, you're in their car. Of course. You also should think that they are entirely necessary for a civilized society. 100%. And if you want to be able to call the police or some shit is going down, you should appreciate them when they're there. And this does not discount all the bad cops. Oh yeah, absolutely. It's not discount all the things that we've all seen, the shootings were unjustified, punchings were unjustified. This is what we have to keep though, perspective. Because there's so many interactions. There's so many cops out there that are dealing with PTSD all day long because for a decade or two decades of their life, they have been dealing with crime and violence all day long every day. And they dress like the enemy. They're not just a cop. They're a cop who has to wear a cop outfit. So everywhere you go, like when you're playing Quake and you're playing Team Natchez. Oh, here he goes, Quake. The dude has a special flag over his head. You know that's a target. I mean, if you see cops, like bad guys see cops as the enemy, you're being paid to be the enemy. Even if you've never had an interaction. If you're a bad guy and that's a cop, that's the enemy. And that is a crazy position to ask people to be. But even for people that don't have interactions with cops a lot, they still consider the enemy. Sure, some people do. Because if they pull you over for speeding, like it's gone through my mind. It's like nobody's on the road right now. Why are you pulling me over for speeding? Like I'm not hurting anybody. It's just a waste of time. Well, they're trying to write a ticket because they have to write a certain amount of tickets. And that's when I think it goes over the top where it's like, come on now. I was talking to a cop about that. I said, okay, now let me ask you this. What if everybody agreed to never speed? Like we made up like a six month agreement in this country where we would never speed and no one speeded and there was no more traffic violations in terms of speeding tickets. What the fuck would happen? And it was like people would just get laid off left and right. They would just. Really? Yeah, I think they would just slash the police department. They put quotas on you because you're a glorified revenue collector. I mean, that's what those guys are doing. Well, don't you think that's a problem though? Like when you're pulling people over and I think that it all, look, the problems with the police and people start from the core and that's a major problem. If you have to pull over people, even if you're a cop and go, they're not really doing anything bad. But I have to meet my quota of tickets. That starts from a very negative place. Terrible. Terrible place. Terrible place. Terrible place and terrible place for both parties. Terrible place for the cop to bury his head in the sand and realize he's writing someone a ticket for no reason. You know, like you catch someone at the speed limit 65, they're going 69, you pull them over, like get the fuck out of there, man. Really? Yeah. You can't even pay attention. Like there's no way unless I'm not looking at the road, like unless I have cruise control or I'm not looking at the road. I might get to 69, I might back up to 65 again. Even if I'm trying to go the speed limit. But I know people that have been pulled over four miles over. Oh, 100%. But as a driver of that car going four miles over, you're pissed. Yeah. Like automatically. Because you got jacked. Yeah. You just got jacked. It's not serving or protecting. And we all know he's writing a ticket just to write a ticket. It's probably the 27th or 28th of the month. And they gotta meet their quota. And that's where they, driving to Vegas is the worst. They set up traps. And especially close to the end of the month, you know if you're driving to Vegas, go to speed limit because they're waiting for you. I got pulled over by a plane. Have you seen this? Going to Vegas? They have planes that now radar you. They don't even, and then they send out cop cars. So the plane radars you and then a cop car pulls you over. Yes. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. And that was the last time we went to Vegas. I went with my wife and son and we got pulled, like a cop car came out of nowhere. And my wife, here's the difference. This shows that my wife is white from Wyoming, right? And this is the big difference. That's real white. That's white. That's like pilgrim. That's like Casper the friendly ghost white. That's like cowboy white. Right? Wyoming? Translucent. Cowboys. Right? Yeah. There's only cowboys up there. Wyoming cowboys, yeah. Did your wife grow up on a ranch? No, no, no, no. I think they have. They have cities? Yeah, she grew up in Gillette. Gillette, Wyoming. What the fuck is that? Gillette, Wyoming. How many people there? 80? I think 3,000. No, seriously. 3,000. They're like the Brady Bunch. I'm married into the Brady Bunch. Like seriously, they're real life. It's like, good morning, Michael. How are you? Like they are those people. That's kind of cool. No, it's great. So a cop pulls us over for this Vegas trip. And this is the difference in cultures we have. And this is why I try to tell my wife. When the cop came over, his name, let's say Officer Andrew, he comes over. I'm very polite. I said, yes, sir. You got it. No problem. I was speeding. No problem. My wife, and the cop goes, we pulled you over by a plane. So he gives me a ticket. I'm like, hey, Officer, have a great day. He's like, you too, sir. My wife is in the backseat with my son, rolls down the window when he's walking away and goes, excuse me. How do you know it was this black SUV? I see lots of black SUVs passing us. And it's from a plane. Are you serious? I'm like, I'm about to die. The cop turns back around, like comes to my side of the window and says, excuse me, ma'am. And, but just the privilege to be able to talk to a cop like that, because she has no idea. She has no idea. That's the real white privilege. That's the real white. And I'm like, babe, and I'm like telling the cop, tell me about, I'm telling the cop, I'm saying, hey, baby, it's okay. I was speeding. Did you talk about this on stage? No. You fucking should. I know. Dude, that's hilarious. And I'm like, oh my God. You should for sure talk about this on stage. It's, it's just, it scared me. Cause I was scared because she's, the cop comes back around. Write that down right now. Kick that pad, write that down. You must talk about this on stage. White wife, cop. Wyoming, all that shit. White wife, cop privilege. Plane, radar, black SUV, Wyoming, cowboy, white people, horses, Mustang, ranch. Dude, so. Shoe horns, horseshoe. He comes back over and he's trying to explain to my wife, like about a plane. And she's giving this cop attitude. Oh no. Yeah. Oh no. And when we drive off, I go, baby, you cannot do that. Like you almost killed me. She was like, stop being ridiculous. I'm like, no. No, you really did. No, you really could have got me killed. You never know. You never know. Wrong guy, wrong place, wrong time, wrong history, wrong background, wrong state of mind that he's in. What if he didn't like a black dude married to a white woman? For sure. Yeah. She didn't get that, but now she gets that because we have a son. You know what I mean? So I think once you have a multi-ethnic son, now she's like, oh, I'm all about Moana. I'm all about, she doesn't, like, she's all about the ethnic cartoons and not the white ones. But she's trying. She's trying. She's got a good mindset. Yeah, she's trying and her family's trying, you know? It sucks that anybody has to ever worry about getting accidentally shot by a cop. And the problem, I think, is not gonna go away until the problem of crime goes away. And that's not gonna happen either. So what do we do to make life safer for everybody? That's a real good fucking question. Well, I think awareness, for sure, like people being aware of all these videos, that's one thing that I think that Black Lives Matter did that people don't wanna accept, but it's really important, is it became a national thought. Yes. It's not just another story in the news. It's a national thought. Like, this is a movement to try to eradicate this. And all the times where you've seen guys plant guns on people after they've shot them, like all the crazy videos. Yeah, you see videos of Black people with no guns getting shot. And then, here's the problem, they go to court, and then the cops are innocent. Did you see the one where the guy throws the gun down on the ground, or was it a taser? What did he throw down on the ground? There was like, he shot him, and then as he's coming up to the body, he dropped something on the ground. When I was growing up, at least, I don't know when it changed, but cops were supposed to shoot, not to kill you, but to handicap you. Like, shoot you in the legs, shoot you in the arms. These guys are not that good a shot. There's a lot of cops that are just not good at shooting guns. I mean, there's a lot that are military trained, that are very professional and very serious who are. But it's like, look, I watched a video the other day of a guy getting in an altercation, it's an off-duty cop, got into an altercation with this guy, and he tried to pull his gun out. The guy grabbed him, grabbed his wrist, guy did not know how to fight at all, and probably only knew how to shoot people. He gets taken down, the guy obviously knew Jiu-Jitsu, took him down, mounted him, took the gun from him, threw the gun away, and beat the fuck out of him. From the mount, pounding him, the guy turns his back, he gets his back, he's beating the shit out of him. It's horrific, because this cop thought he was safe, and pulled his gun, but this is like one example, just because someone's a cop doesn't mean they're a well-trained, prepared cop. There are those out there, for sure. But there are also some slobs. Like I've seen some guys that are a cop, I'm like, bro, you can't run a block. How the fuck are you a cop? You know, like this is a ridiculous position for you to put yourself in, and anybody else you're trying to protect. You're handicapped by gluttony. You know? But at the same time, we do need them. We need the cops, because. We need them to be more respected and appreciated. They're not very respected and appreciated by a lot of people. I think that's a huge misservice. What I hate about this conversation, whatever side they're on with the cops, they're gonna pull whatever they want, because we've talked negative. Well, not negative, we've said some things about, and I hate how we're in such a polar place, where, oh, you're either for them or against them, and that's like with everything. And that's what I hate. You can't have a conversation anymore, and that's where we're at right now. It's like, you can't say anything wrong with cops, because then you don't support the cops. If you support the cops, then you'll get attacked by the other side going, oh, well, they kill innocent people. I know. I know. Someone can take a clip of anything that you've said today without further elaboration, because most of what you said, you further elaborated. Absolutely. They could take that one snippet and just put a little clip up somewhere. Michael Yeo said this, or worse yet, quote it. This is what he said about cops. We look, fuck him. I thought he was pro cop.