Joe Rogan Explains The Difference Between Parallel Thinking & Joke Stealing

How do you know that you're not gonna, a common thing is when comedians steal jokes and material. So when you're writing and you're like, yeah, I'm gonna do this, this is awesome idea. How do you know that that content already hasn't been discussed? Well, you don't always, you don't always, you could absolutely write something and have parallel thinking, write something and not even know that someone's already written it. But there's a difference between that and stealing. You know, when someone's, like, if you come up with, if you look at something, whatever it is, like say maybe your wife sends you to the grocery store to pick up some tampons and it has the price things all fucked up. And so the guy has to yell price check, check on tampons. There has been like a hundred variations who've done bits on that. And it's not that they're stealing. They probably didn't hear anybody do it. They thought it was funny. They thought it up themselves and they did it. Or maybe it even happened to them and they did it. That's parallel thinking. It's a common one. And then there's other people that did hear someone do it and they stole it. That's a different thing. That's the worst. Right. But you could get both of those things from that same subject, right? That same really common, easy to think of subject. There's a lot of those with cops and donuts. There's a lot of, there's a lot of things that are like a part of the lexicon. They're like a part of, they're a part of the way we talk. They're a part of culture. And you could think you thought them up, but you didn't. It's almost like Seinfeld in a way. It's like, that should happen to everyone. Sure. Right. Sure. But then there's stuff that's clearly yours. Like if you did a whole bit about how you built a Tesla, you know, and then you got a paranoid. That'd be a heavy hitter. And you thought Elon Musk is plotting against you. Kill it and crush it. You could. I mean, that's something. How do you do that? And that would be something that's wholly unique to you. I mean, how many fucking people have built a Tesla? Is there even 20 on the earth? I, I, at this point, yeah, probably maybe 20. Yeah. Let's pretend. Yeah. Let's pretend that out of a 7 billion plus population of human beings, maybe 20 people have done what you've done. But doesn't it get old though? That one bit gets old. Yeah. But you can, the same Tesla company. Oh no, no, no. You just talk about other things then. Right. Look, you could talk about anything that you find interesting. Personal shit, technology, world events, right? Worrying about the environment. Worrying, you know, all this shit, anything. Yeah, did that whale really have a bomb strapped? Right. I keep thinking about that over and over. Why not? Yeah. I mean, and then if you, maybe it was like someone from CNN that fucking hates the Russians. Right. You know, like wanted to blame everything on the Russians. It's the one that. Yeah. They got duped for two years saying that there was collusion and that Trump was going down and they colluded with Russia. Right. And then it turns out that the Mueller report doesn't really necessarily say that. Right. And then they're like, fuck, we got to do something. I got these goddamn Russians. Yeah. They put a strap on them. That was a good story. Shit, that's not bad. So, so that this, you write all this stuff down, right? You write like, you know, 1700 words, 2000 words. And out of that, I might get one line. Really? Maybe.