Joe Rogan - Most People Don't Know Politics

You try to travel on the road things so such a you get a view of the country that if you really stop and think about it like how many different places you've been and your your understanding of America. Like you've been everywhere you've been all the all the different spots get a chance okay this how they rocket over here hard this how they do it in Detroit this is how they are new orleans is different. Oh Connecticut's a little different and then you put it all together you get America but if you're just like a dude who just like parks it in Columbus Ohio and fucking that's that and all you know is CNN and TMZ. This is what the this is what the country's coming to the lips these fucking lives with their their fucking new rules. Yeah it's when you when you're out amongst people no one really gives a fuck no one gives a fuck it's it's bar chatter at best but it's you never run into people that are actually affected you know you don't unless you're looking for it. Yeah yeah most of the time it's a non issue but it's the most most pressing issue because it can shift the country one way or another. That's what's weird about it. You know no one gives a fuck about the things that actually affect them locally. The thing that sets that guy off to bitch about Trump or bitch about Hillary is he forgot to move his car on street sweeping day but he never goes down to petition city council about hey this is fucked up that stop sign was obscured. Your honor and I wouldn't have run the stop sign but there's a fucking branch in front of it and you need to cut that down and I get a ticket and I can't afford the ticket and it's the economy fucking Trump or whatever. They just bring it to the highest level. Well one of the things that I've realized by talking to people that really understand how things work like economics like talk to Peter Schiff yesterday the economist. He wanted to add him on my podcast. Really interesting guy. No no. I know I don't know. He's a fun guy. He like you. You could talk to him. He's never drunk in Bisbee. He would get drunk. Yeah. No he he's a really smart guy. I mean he's a very successful guy but he's right there. He's right there. Like when you talk to him like I first time we did a show we got drunk. We decided to have a couple drinks and lighten up because he was doing this like Fox News CNN thing they do where they have these five minute panels. We just have to rattle off statistics. You have to tell the people the problem isn't economics. The problem is like he's a wizard that shit. We had to calm him down. I do. We're here for a long time. And so let's get a drink. Let's get a drink. Have a little Jack Daniels. Then he loosened up. He set up a video that said I'm the 1 percent. Ask me ask me anything. Is that what he said. Something like that. Something like. So went to occupy Wall Street and set up a thing. It's just talking to people about economics like no no. This is why you think it works. This is how it really works. But this is what I realized talking to people like that. There's no fucking way you could be on the ball with all this stuff. With Congress and the Senate and all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes and lobbyists you would have to be fully immersed in it. You have to be fully immersed in it and then fully immersed in the stock market to have any kind of an argument one way or another. And most people are just having these half-assed, half-cocked, shitty thought out arguments about almost everything they talk about. Including me. I mean, including, especially on this podcast many many times. But this is something that we, it's standard. There's too much shit to know. There's too much fucking, when it comes to like politics, like you pretend you understand politics, like how long have you been trying to unravel this Russia thing? Okay. I've tuned out completely. I know I don't know and I don't care enough to try to learn. I got to a place. I went through a period of, you know, like back in our conspiracy theory days. And then I learned a little bit, but anything that's, I really don't know how government works. So hard to know. So hard to know. But I mean, just elementary school fucking, you know, I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill. I still don't even know what that fucking meant. I'm going to stop talking about shit I don't know. And you're probably paying attention to it more than most people. I was for a minute. Yeah. Well, most people, the president or anybody just represents what they like. Like, I like a nice guy. Oh, I like a no bullshit guy. Okay. And then you just find whoever's best fits that mold and you support him. It's a class president. Yeah. Who's the most popular? Yeah. It's fascinating though. I, yeah, I think if Trump was any Republican that wasn't a fucking asshole, but stood for the same principles, there would be no outrage. They hate his personality first, which I'm not against you. Yeah. Yeah. He's a fucking loser, but he's the one you created. We were just talking about, and I mentioned it on stage here and again, that Trump makes me happy sometimes in that he's a product of everything. Like what's that? Leveon ball, that fucking like basketball dad. Oh yeah. Like he's famous just cause he's a fucking asshole and he knows, hey, if I keep being a fucking asshole, the more I'm going to get noticed. And Ann Coulter who just says, or Tom like us or the new we were just talking about, you had the new John. People say outrageous things just to get attention. I'm telling you, feed the trolls and then all of a sudden you elect the troll. So fuck you. It's all you people that watch TMZ and fucking buy a tabloid because fucking so and so said something outrageous again.