Joe Rogan | Could Tom Cruise Be an Openly Gay Movie Star? w/Neal Brennan

I was talking last night, like, I don't know much about my, the level of education women have about their reproductive organs versus men. Oh yeah. Like, my balls, I know about my balls, I know that the medical term is testicles. That's about it, Joe. Don't get them hot, if you get them hot. Yeah, again, that's like a child's... Do you know what I mean? You only know that from like, oh, because I got them hot one time. But I don't know how semen gets to the, I don't know the name of the two, I don't know anything. Gross, that's beautiful. And that's my body. Women know tons, they know fallopian tubes, vulva, cervix, like, everything. Yeah, guys know prostate cancer. What? My asshole. Cancer. And not curious. I mean, like, curious in a way of like, let's just hope, just hope for those kids, none of my business. Plus to get checked out, you have to have a finger in your ass and everybody puts that off. Yeah, now meanwhile, women do that once a year. Constantly. They're always getting jabbed at and swabbed. Swabbed. Yeah, they get the pap smear. A smear, smear's in the title. Ugh, Jesus. Just imagine if you needed people to come inside you. You needed them to not just exchange bodily fluids by kissing. No, they have to squirt something in you to make people. Yeah. So if the squirt, they're poisonous little dirty DNA, they're dirty little fucking infected. It's awfully gross. When you get like 10 feet away from it, you're like, Jesus, I don't know what they're doing. But while you're in the moment, it seems like the thing to do. It's the most logical. You gotta do it. You can't not do it. Did you, speaking of that, did you see the thing about Gerard? No. I don't know if you want to bring it up, but he basically came out a little on HBO. Came out a little. Came out a little to his mom, said I've had sexual experiences with men. Uh-oh. And it's just like, was she cool with it? Yeah, she was cool with it. Yeah. That's the thing. People are like, what do you think? I'm like, I don't, that sexual preference at this point to me is about as interesting as like your workout or like, I just don't care. Like what are you doing? Cool. You know what I care about? Are you funny? Are you funny and are you cool? Yeah. And like, do we have shit to talk about? Right. Great. I couldn't care less who's what type of hand you like jerking. You know what I mean? Like, what kind of mouth? I think it's an advantage with some guys who are like, Tim Dillon, I think it's an advantage with his act that he's gay. Yeah. He's like, oh, ridiculous and over the top. And he's just like big fat gay guy. Yeah. But he doesn't really talk. Does he talk about it very much? He'll talk about it sometimes. Yeah. But I mean, it's not a big deal to him. He treats it the way a guy treats his sexuality. Like you don't have to go blaring through his treats that you're straight all the time. Right. If you are, I usually assume you're really not. Right. Right? Like there's no, yeah. You're straight, you're straight. Yeah. If you're not, no one fucking cares. In the comedy community, literally no one cares. Yeah, it doesn't, it makes no difference. The only thing that bums me out is when guys hide it. It's like, come on. Does it bum you out for them or you? Yes, for them. Yeah, it really bumps. But having said that, I get it. I get it. It's a real bummer. It's sad. We know a few guys that are in the closet. You just feel bad for them. Exactly. Like, yeah, man, I hope it's not unbearable. Right. You know what I mean? Like, I get why you're in the closet. I get why actors are in the closet, like especially male actors, like because it doesn't serve them to come out. It's not going to help them. I think it's the worst thing for them in terms of like getting roles as a heterosexual. If you're a known homosexual, you almost can't get roles as a heterosexual. Yeah. I do remember there was some, who is, what is that guy's name? Neil Patrick Harris? Neil Patrick Harris, yeah. He was in something where he played like this arrogant guy who likes girls. He was in a... Who was it? A show? No. Well, no, and no, it was on to How I Met Your Mother. Yeah. Yes. He played a straight guy in Gone Girl pretty well. Yeah. Was that before or after he came out? They both been after. Really? Interesting. And I was all, because I was surprised that that's what he played, but like certain people, they just, I don't know. He might be the only guy that could do it. I agree that like he came out and it's not, and he's, you buy it somehow. As a romantic lead, you think that it's like it cancels that out. Like if Tom Cruise decided to come out. If Tom Cruise is gay and he decided to come out, like that would be a real problem. You know what I was talking to somebody about this the other day, you know what would be a hilarious movie idea? Gay couple, Tom Cruise and... John Travolta. John Travolta gets kidnapped and gay Tom Cruise has to save his gay husband, John Travolta. But other than that, it's a real action movie. Wow. It's just gay. I like it. Wouldn't that be fucking cool? I like it. Straight gay. If anyone out there is a screenwriter, have at it because I'm never going to write it. Would that fly? Would people enjoy that? Like if it was really good, like John Wick style. I think it would. I really think it would. If the guy just kicked, it's not like gay guys are like a feat in the, I know plenty of like rough gay guys that will whoop your ass. Bears, bro. Bears, bro. They got their own growl. That's how fucking bad these guys are. Yeah. I think it would be fucking so cool. Like, and you just go, yeah. Because that's how I feel with someone like Gerard coming out. I'm like, I don't care. Okay. It's never come up. We've been good friends for a decade. Just never came up. Yeah. Like he didn't seem that interested in women, but I also don't think he's not interested. He's just maybe. There's definitely a spectrum, right? And some people are just, yeah, and that's fine too. Yeah. I'm also not, Matt, like if I were on the spectrum, I think I would absolutely do it. I'm just not on the spectrum. But in terms of opportunity, there's a lot of nights a year, Joe. Oh yeah. There's 365 nights a year. Oh yeah. You could, you're not going to do the. Pussy dick, pussy dick, pussy dick. Yeah. Go back and you go back and forth. Same night. Split it up. Dom Ira had the best joke about that. He goes, he goes, he goes, this is how little I give a fuck. He goes, I wish I was gay just so I could come out. Yeah. He goes, I wish, I wish I had a secret like that. Yeah. You know, that's how little I give a fuck. It's so true. It's like his joke about I'm gaining weight for a movie. I don't know what the movie is yet, but it's a fucking great joke. Yeah, but the gay action movie would be fantastic. I like it. I do too. Within a year or two, people would be definitely ready for it. If it were a legit good action movie, I think they'd be, if it were Tom Hardy, even if maybe both one of them was straight and one of them was Tom Hardy and he just plays gay and like it's taken. Right. It doesn't have to be two gay guys. It could be even crazier, two straight guys who have to make out. Yeah, they could be played by straight guys. Absolutely. Now we're talking, now we're really talking. Now you're talking. Now you're talking commitment. Because I was thinking about if Tom Cruise was gay, right, and he just came out and there's a movie where he has to save his wife. Would women not believe it? Do you know what I mean? Yes. So if you come out, so it's like, all right, so now in the next Mission Impossible, they just kidnap his husband. Yeah, well, for sure you could do that with lesbians. If you had two hot lesbians, 100%. Yeah, no, there's zero issue. That would be no problem. There'd be no resistance. And that's the difference between a lesbian actress. They can go, a woman who's a lesbian can play straight. You know why that is, I believe. Gay, straight. Because there's a big portion of men who never truly believe a lesbian. I have a bit about it. Yeah. I had a bit about it from one of my old specials. It's like, we believe that you believe you're a lesbian. Yeah. But you just ain't got a piece of this sweet dick yet. You never spent a Saturday with me at fucking Applebee's. I hate you with an Applebee's in the corner bar. Forget it. The panty dropper. Tequila shots, what do you got? Oh, Brokeback Mountain. Yeah. It wasn't really an action though. I never saw it. Do we know for sure that both of those guys are not gay? We do not. We assume. We assume. I mean, Jake Gyllenhaal's straight and... You say so. Heath Ledger. But you saw that movie. How straight could it be? I mean, come on, man. You saw. You believed it. Jack Nicholson is definitely crazy. There's no way he could play crazy. That guy's definitely gay. Trust me, I know things. I've seen many movies and understand them. I know when someone's acting and someone's just gay. The fucking kid believed it. That was easy for him. Yeah, no, it would be that, but running around. Yeah, that could happen. I think that could happen. I think we're on the verge of that. It's nice. I would enjoy it. I'm happy for it because then people stop getting free passes where you're goofy but you're gay, so we let you slide with silly behavior. Like no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want equality. I want me to be able to call you a dunce and not have to worry about being homophobic. No one hears gay dunce when you say it. You just gotta use this guy as a fucking dummy. You're like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. He's a fucking dunce. Oh my God, you're homophobic. Yeah. Oh my God.