Joe Rogan on Canada Banning Dolphin/Whale Captivity

Did you hear that Canada has their banning whale and dolphin captivity? I think it's great. I think it's great too. It apparently just passed. I mean, how about Blackfish, one documentary, and it like kind of, I think, initiated a movement. Oh, for sure. Yeah. People didn't know. They needed to see it in a digestible form instead of having to go seek it out and read articles about it and news reports. Instead of that, they get to see it in a very digestible form and you go, oh my God, this is chaos. This is horrible. This is an atrocity. You're taking these incredible animals that are probably some of the most magnificent creatures that evolution has ever created and you're putting them in a fish tank. You're putting them in a swimming pool. Their fins go limp. That's crazy. Well, and actually, if you think about it, the killer whale, I mean, that's the king. Yeah. There's a crazy video that I just watched yesterday of one killing a beach seal. It injured the seal and the seal tried to make it over into, and it literally beached itself, smashed this seal and there was just blood everywhere and a bunch of people were standing around watching it going, holy shit. And then it flopped its way back into the water and swam off. Did it eat it? Yeah. Okay, good. Well, that's what I, I mean, listen, that's the thing about nature, right? It's kind of brutal, but it's not personal. Like the seal, the, you know, the whale's not like, you know, that seal gave me kind of a funny look. Right. And it's like, oh, there's some food. Did you ever see the one when they're on the iceberg and they look, oh, that bugger's still holding on and they push it again. I mean, they're smart. That was a mother teaching its calves at a hunt too. Smart. And she was setting it up like showing, like you can make them slide, like watch this. Well, slide. Well, I was listening to my friend, Steven Ronell's podcast, and he was talking about the difference in the orcas in the Puget Sound and that they're local orcas, which are essentially salmon specialists. Yeah. They don't eat animals. They don't eat marine mammals, but then there are other ones that travel into the area and they are marine mammal specialists. So they, all they eat is like seals and things along those lines. And they have a totally different language. Totally. They don't understand each other. They don't interact with each other. How's that? Every pod has its own language. It's crazy. They put a whale in captivity once and it was not eating because they didn't know it was a seal eating whale, not a fish eating whale. And so, Larena used to joke, can you imagine like, okay, Susie and Billy, we're going to go watch the, you know, the orca, the shampoo, and then the trainers, they're like throwing at seal, like that would not work out well. Like, yay, do that trick again. Yeah, give it a slab of cute little animal. Yeah, no. So it's, they're very complex. Yeah.