Joe Rogan on being in the Intellectual Dark Web

I think you feel like you could just say that instead of Appreciate that this is two intellectuals discussing something. That's very complex and that is it was about immigration and about Islam and Those are two things that people don't want to hear You know, they just like to go those two things are off-limits unless you're pro Islam or pro immigration You better shut the fuck up or we're gonna demonetize you and that that kind of censorship is fascinating to me because it's it's not Effective. It's it just it just makes people go hey Hey And you know and then it makes the people on the YouTube side get defensive and it makes them double down And you know and you're seeing things worse. Yeah, you see that now. Mm-hmm. I mean you see it with many people It's it's a weird time for ideas Yeah, how do you feel about being part of the IDW? I international dork web I'm the least mentioned happily the least mentioned person in that group. I'm very happy about that. I don't like being in any groups Would it Groucho Marx once say I don't want to be a part of any club that would have me. Mm-hmm. It's just Look, I'm very happy to be able to have a platform Where I can have people like you on or any of those people whether it's Brett Weinstein or Eric Weinstein Stein, sorry guys Brett Weinstein Eric. They got after Harvey everybody got real Yeah, I've spoken to Brett. He's really sweet. He's great. Yeah, and his wife Heather is amazing as well He'll be on actually the next season of wrong speak. Oh cool. Yeah, Heather. Hying. His wife is amazing She is yeah, and they were on together and Sam Harris is a good friend and I love that guy and he's fast any person and as is Jordan and Look, I don't agree with a lot of what Ben Shapiro says, but he's a super nice guy I really like him, you know, and that's that's you saw that thing that happened with that actor mark was the same mark Do plus is that his name got in trouble for tweeting that you know? Yeah Yeah, it's um Fun time. Mm-hmm. Ben is really nice, too. He's a really nice guy. You know, I like him a lot This internet whatever it is the dark web thing That's all Eric Eric Weinstein's idea was to name this and label. He loves all that shit He loves all that cloak and dagger stuff. He gets kicked out of it but he makes some very good points and he's a brilliant brilliant guy and This idea that we're all joined together I mean we all went out we had a big dinner together like a bunch dorks and we all got together and Like this little club and that's kind of fun We're gonna do it again and we're bringing more people into we're bringing more people into the dork web Some people are resentful that they're not a part of the dork web and I'll tell you some names afterwards But some people like contacted Barry Weiss and we're upset that they weren't included in the dork web. Mm-hmm I love girl. I loved Barry's column. It was interesting. Yeah, it's the whole but the label of it all I mean, it's what's interesting is it starts this conversation, right? So why is it even necessary to have this dark web and what's the function of this dark web? What is this? What is the dark web doing really like what what is you know? And there was an article today where someone was calling it problematic and saying that it's mostly right-leaning people Which is absolutely not true Sam Harris very left Brett Weinstein fiercely progressive Eric very left I'm way more left than I am right the Very few right-wing ideas that I hold on to they're very small It's very the vast majority of my positions on things side with with people on the left vast majority Ben Shapiro is very right, but he's reasonable, you know, and he's also a young guy You know, hmm conservative religious it's but he's also Extremely intelligent and reasonable and talked to him and he has himself Disavowed some of the things that he said and he's himself criticized his own Words and he wrote a whole calm. Here's a list of all the stupid things I've ever said online Mm-hmm, you know and because he's he's you know, he's a very aware guy very self aware Mm-hmm. I think I Think it's important to have discussions and I think it's important that when people feel like those discussions of being suppressed That they talk about that and I think that's what this whole thing is. Yeah, and I think you're a part of that as well I was in the column. Yeah, we could use you in the dork web. Okay a woman of color you do to prove that you guys Aren't all racist. Yeah That's much white people. God damn it. I took a 23 and me and I'm hoping I got some black. Yeah I'm hoping for you to play. Give me some Give me more than 5% What is it that you have to have I think you only have to have like one sixteenth Native American to catch a check in some places