Joe Rogan on Clickbait, Fake News "It's a weird sign of the times"

Hello freak bitches. Kinda figured out, but Bisping said that if GSP can't make it by July, he'll fight somebody else. So he might fight- How old is GSP now? Michael Bisping blasts Joe Rogan and Nick Diaz for positively promoting cannabis. Told ya. Hee hee hee. But that might not be real. Like, you know, by saying blasts, you'd have to hear like what he actually said. I can't tell what it's from, it doesn't say- It's all clickbait nowadays anyway. Yeah, yeah. So you might have just seen that. It might have literally been, ah, he's probably hanging out with Joe Rogan. Did you see that 60 Minutes on, and all the, you know, I know this word's a topical word, but- It's a good picture of you. Fake news or whatever you see the 60 Minutes on it. Yeah, hashtag no ideas. Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, that word's sort of popular now because I think, I don't know, some people have said it, and you know, are popular, but it's amazing now, all the people profiting on it. It really showcases, you should check out the 60 Minutes on this. No, we had it. Clickbait stuff. Do you remember the, you saved me from a bear attack? Oh, yeah. There was, there was- Yeah. I got attacked by a bear, Joe shot the bear, and there's a whole article. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was all it was. I got one that said I killed a mountain lion with my belt. That's right. At the Ice House. At the Ice House in Pasadena. Right. Yeah. I mean, what do you think about that, though? You think that it's, it's a, I mean, all that stuff is pretty, do you think there should be controls over it? Like, just outside of being, you know, the FCC being able to like sue people or whatever that never really happens, it feels like. Do you think that it should- I don't know. Because then there's like things like the onion. It's like when do you draw the line? Because the onion is hilarious. So they'll make like a subtle parody of something and make it completely preposterous. Right. And then like pull up a good example of an onion headline. It's like the onion is- What do you mean the onion is the onion? Do you don't know what the onion is? No. The onion is a famous parody news site where they make stories that just, if you're smart, you read it and you go, what? Like, Stephen Colbert or something? He's making a parody on it. Yeah. Yeah. In a way. Yeah. And most of them are pretty humorous, but occasionally people will tweet me with like an onion story and like, can you fucking believe this shit, man? It's getting out of control. And then you read it and you go, I hate it. And it's not real. And you go, hey, dummy, this is comedy. They're writing- People don't have common sense. So that's a problem with that clickbait stuff is they believe it. Yeah. Because they don't- They can't read it and be like, ah, that's probably whatever. It's just like they believe everything. Yeah. But I mean, isn't that the case with like cults and the moonies and Scientology and like, there's a lot of nonsense that people believe in. Yeah. It's not hard to get people to believe in shit. Sure. It's a good question. Like, what do we do about it? Do you leave it up to common sense, which isn't very common today? No, it's not. Or do you step in? Yeah. Rookie Justice Gore such, how do you say his name? Assigned to Supreme Court overnight shift. That's a joke. See, because he's a new Supreme Court guy and they're giving him a shitty gig. See, that's not real. But if somebody read that, they're like, this is bullshit. These fucking liberals. They're just because he's a conservative. They're putting it on the night shift. Yeah. There's no night shift. Man tries using pink six pound bowling ball to great amusement. That's not real either. See, it's like what they do. They write these articles that are comedy. But they fake, they pose as news, which is a little, I think it's different because if you're fiction and you're posing as... As real news. Yeah. It's like, where do you, obviously there's no more journalistic integrity it feels like. Well, there's some. There's some. There's some. There's some. There's... You know, it's just... How do you know? How do you know? How do you... You read the news, you're misinformed. You don't read it, you're misinformed. You're not informed. You're just like, what do you do? So have you been the topic of something? Oh, I mean, no. There's been fake stuff about me. Yeah, has there? Sure. That's like my setting. My dad's saying, I believe half of what you see and none of what you hear. Right. I always laugh because it's probably some silly thing. My friends will come to me and say, hey, did you really do this? No, I didn't do that. I didn't know anything. Yeah, there's a ton of fake stuff out there. There's a ton of fake stuff. I'm sure there's a ton of stuff about you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I just won recently, but I disarmed a guy at the Comedy Store. Some guy had a gun and I disarmed him. My buddy of mine was a cop, said, hey, man, congratulations on that. He's going to talk to you. I'm like, what? Good job. What did I do? You saved people's lives. But you can ruin someone's life in a second. Oh, yeah, in a way. They say the wrong words. Someone says he... They all got to throw his allegedly or something. Sure. They allegedly rape somebody or something. They ruin some poor guy's life, reputation just out the window. Well, that's what they've always been able to do with those supermarket tabloids, say, allegedly, from a source. A source tells us that Cam Haynes likes to... Oh, be careful here. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? Shoot those. Shoot. But yeah, it's true. You don't have to do much more than that and you cover your ass and you say, I have to protect my sources. I have the First Amendment right. It's a weird time. It's a weird time because essentially the boundaries to publication have been dissolved. It used to be that you had to work for The New York Times or The Washington Post or a newspaper, whatever. Now, all you need is a blog or a Facebook page and you're breaking news and Scott Eastwood admits to wearing women's clothes while he hunts for deer. That's going to be awful. Larry David. Larry David. I wear women's underwear. Yeah. That's one of the best lines though. It's strange. It's definitely, you're right. It's definitely strange. But I mean, but who's to decide? I mean, I know they're trying to work on some ways to figure it out. I know Facebook is working on some different ways to block fake news, but who's to decide what's fake and what's real and who's to decide where it becomes parody? When is it funny? Like when is it the onion? When it's pretty subtle? Sure. And when is it just like some guy making up a story about you, me saving you from a bear attack? Yeah. And it's weird. I know. I don't sweat it. It's a tough one. I'm really concerned. Yeah. Yo, yeah. I mean, I'll sleep all night. I'll be okay. But it's a weird sign of the times. The times are weird. We have weird times. The ability to communicate where anybody can do anything at any time and everybody can find out about it. Like you could write something on your Twitter page, just publish it and then it gets to the right amount of people and then they share it. And then all of a sudden a million people have seen it inside of an hour. But it's crazy. But it's good too. We've used that for our benefit. Yeah, for sure. That's what you do all the time. That's what I do. You're a voice. I mean, it's made you have a voice or me have a voice. You've always had one, but me have one. And so it's an amazing time too. Well, even my voice is way different now. You're having a podcast and that's much in a lot of ways the same thing because it's just, I mean, this is a pretty lean operation, obviously. I just stay... I was surprised. Just a computer, Jamie to figure it out and then we talk and then you upload it and that's it. There's not a whole lot of steps and yet this will probably get 5 million downloads, maybe even more. So it's weird. It's weird in that sense that it can reach so many different people and then there's no corporation behind it. There's no Washington Post. So we could just sit here and just make up a bunch of fake shit and just be really adamant that this really happened. A lot of people are going to believe it. Yeah, and could someone stop you from doing that? I don't know if they could. As long as you're not slandering anybody and you're not getting sued.