Joe Rogan: Catholic School Terrified Me!

Do you go to mass on Christmas? No No mass at all. I would have Willie Walker's Golden Chocolate Factory. Well, it's all nonsense man. Why would I do that? Tradition because you grew up that no I never grew up that way Yeah, we did but it was for a very short amount of time to say I grew up that way would be hard Because it was I was out by the time I was out of first grade. Oh Yeah, we're talking about putting me back in for second grade but we moved from New Jersey to San Francisco and We didn't find a Catholic school. You know Catholic schools cost money, too You know right with the public school after that, but I was just done. I hated it Yeah, I was in fear of those fucking crazy people and your parents didn't take you to church or make you go They did a little bit I think the idea was back then that if you had kids you wanted your kids to go to Catholic school You know there's a lot of people that did that in that neighborhood It was just a normal thing you did yeah, and they were more strict and dude one thing that was for sure though like Had a conversation with my mom about it once She was like you know your grades were way better when you were in your Catholic school I was like yeah, cuz it was fucking terrified to get it wrong They beat the shit out of you. I don't want to live like that. They never beat me. No definitely threatened me really Yeah, they threatened to make me sit on a nail. I'm gonna have to sit on a nail in the in the closet Stay here all night. I hope you brought your blanket They're like really mean when you're like a little six-year-old kid like that's fucked up. It's just a weird Feeling this to be stuck with these people for nine months and also for me It's like my parents are splitting up at the time, so it's very confusing Yeah, and then I wanted things to have order to them, so I wanted God to make sense Uh-huh, I remember annoying people with that yeah, yeah, like six years old. I would annoy people talking about what God wants What do you mean like you would God says this God wants that like I would say that oh you would bug six years old Yeah, because I was a little kid who's dealing with my parents splitting up And there didn't seem to be any order in the world I was very nervous right so when I finally when I went to Catholic school when I first got there I was I was happy that I was gonna go to Catholic school, but then as I experienced it At Six years old I started going this is ridiculous This doesn't make any sense Mike first of all these people are so mean They're there obviously being mean and nasty They're not comforting right now sick and as a six-year-old comparing them the way like my grandma was my mother was like these are These ladies are nasty right why they being so mean and I'm like these they don't represent God And I was like this is crazy Wow at six and then you can see kids getting in trouble because their parents hadn't paid for their lunch or this kind of and It was like this really you tell your father to get that money in like there was a weirdness to it That just didn't seem loving or it didn't seem like what I thought of when I thought of you know Christ And when I thought of right it seemed to me like oh, no, this is a dark little trap It's sucked into so that's what's remarkable about that is not just the age, but that you went from Really really needing it in a very real way because what was happening with your family to Like normally you wouldn't turn that quickly Within a year it sounds like by time I was two yeah It was over by the time I was out of there usually that change doesn't happen for 15 20 years well outside of beating me or doing something sexual to me The this the mindfuck of dealing with those mean nasty ladies scared the shit out of me Yeah crying they were calling me a baby cuz I was crying Whoa just not knowing how to deal with human beings when you're a six-year-old, and this is going down You're like what have I done? Yeah? I went from always being with my mom or being with my grandma Grandfather I was like everything's cool, and then all of a sudden you go in school, and this is what you're doing in school I didn't go to kindergarten. I went to first grade That was the first thing I went to right so all sudden the first grade is like instantaneously being connected to these crazy ladies Jesus I was like oh no yeah poor and now I would think about them I don't think what kind of like and I was thinking about why they so mean I remember being like six years old thinking this right. I'm like nobody probably loves them like they don't get they don't have a family Yeah, they don't have a boyfriend. They don't have a boyfriend. I didn't think at the time They don't have a girlfriend, but maybe they do holla right, but yeah sure they didn't the whole thing was that they didn't You know they didn't have anything no connection with another human being what could be a lonelier or more? Anger-inducing yeah, it's just dark. They weren't they weren't loving people