Joe Rogan on Coronavirus Fears

Yes. When did you guys start on this? About four years ago. So it's been four years of steady work to make something like this happen. And in nine days we're gonna like give it to the world. Release it. Yes. I'm like, I'm shaking. Are you? Oh my god, I'm so nervous. They just canceled E3. Yes. Everyone's scared of the goddamn coronavirus. I know. My wife says I'm gonna be in quarantine at the house for two weeks when I come home. Because you come here? It needs to be two weeks. I think it's four days as you start showing, look at you, you sniff one already. I'm just nervous. Psychosomatic. They say that it's four days and you start exhibiting symptoms. Okay. I coughed at the airport and people looked at me like I almost wanted to apologize. I was just clearing my throat and I didn't cover my mouth and everybody was like, yeah. I know, everybody's on edge. But meanwhile the comedy store was packed last night. Dude, we went to PAX East last week with the fans, like lines of fans. And the beginning everybody was touching elbows. That lasted like 20 minutes and we were just high fiving and hugging and stuff. That's how it was at the store last night. A couple guys were trying to give you knuckles and rubbels. I was like, get the fuck out of here. It's just- We all go down together. Come on, give me a hug. Well, they say, I didn't watch that show yet with that guy that you had, but 50 and up or something or like- It's the real problem is people with respiratory issues, people who are overweight and people who are old. Those are the real problems. Unhealthy people. Okay. That's the real issue. Although Sam Harris did know a guy who's a skier, who is 50, who is apparently very healthy and very fit and he is now on a ventilator and he was in Italy. I don't know the specifics. Sometimes look, I've got the flu before and I'm sure you have as well. And sometimes what happens is you're worn down from travel. You're worn down maybe from drinking. You're worn down from too much exercise and then it gets you. And then if you're not, and this is just the common cold. And apparently the common cold is a type of coronavirus. I don't know. Google that. Make sure that's true. But I'm pretty, I was reading up on coronavirus last night and was like, what? Like SARS is a type of coronavirus. Is this just here now forever? Like this is a part of the world? Like coronavirus? It's the question. Well, Michael Osterholm, who wrote this book, Deadliest Enemy and who was on Tuesday, on the podcast Tuesday, he opened up a lot of people's eyes as to like what the issue is and what you can do to prevent it. But those wet markets that they have in China are just bananas, man, with the fucking bats on the tables and coronavirus are large family viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as MERS or SARS. A novel coronavirus is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans. So zoonotic or zoonotic, meaning they're transmitted between animals and people. So what's happening is these fucking wet markets, he was detailing how they have chickens that are in one cage and civets that are above the chickens and the civets are shitting on the chickens and the chickens are eating the civet shit. And it's like, it's just a perfect environment to create a disease that's going to jump from one species to the next. That is scary. Yeah. And many of them have jumped to humans. I mean, all the major, whether it's avian flu, that's from birds, swine flu, obviously from pigs, they jump from farm animals or from these wet markets to people. Yeah. And they're not going to stop those wet markets. So it's like, I mean, that's how people buy their food, which is just crazy. Have you seen the videos and pictures of what they look like over there? No, that seems scary though. Well, you think your game is scary. Let's see what a bat looks like when it's laid out on a table. Great. Bats are like a common thing to eat. And bro, when you see what a bat looks like with its mouth open, it looks like it belongs in your game. That would be good. Good reference. We were looking at pictures of them yesterday and they have a table laid out. And then even just on the raw concrete, bats laid out with their mouth open. They look cartoonish. They don't even look real. And they have no wings. Yeah. Jamie's Oh my God. And over there, look how big these bats, these are bats without wings. Holy shit. Holy shit, dude. That looks like a dog. They do look like dogs. This might be dogs. Those are dogs. Jesus Christ. Those are dogs. Oh, those are bats. So those are bats. So look at the teeth on the bats. Yeah, that's really. Look at that. Look at how they all have their mouths wide open. Like they're trying to bite you. So they die trying to kill you. And they're going to, they're going to cook those. Yes. That's how, that is how this disease got started. Look at that guy. And he's smoking. Well, go back to him again. Let me see a big picture of him. He's triple stacking the behavior. Snacks of bats, smoking cigarettes. They're eating bats. That's crazy. It's just nuts, man. But this is what happens. We'll see, look at all these chickens stacked on top of each other. When you have a billion people, and look at that guy sleeping on top of that. That should be in our game, actually. Yeah, if you're hungry, eat a bat. You could glory kill that thing and get health. That would be good. Apparently, SARS came from bats as well. So don't eat bats, kids. I won't. But they have to because they're starving. I mean, that's one of the things that China's doing what they have to do. There's too many people, not enough food. And a lot of what they're eating is just, we wouldn't imagine eating it. Are you not traveling because of this? I'm not changing shit. Yeah, that's what my wife asked me a lot. Like she was really concerned about me coming here. And I was like, dude, we got to sell the game. So I just got back from Vegas and I was a little nervous while I was over there. But I did everything normal. I went to work out. I ate. I ate. Went to the fights, which is 20,000 people at the T-Mobile arena. All stuffed into this one area and everybody was acting normal. Everybody was high five and a hug. And then fighters. I mean, Jesus Christ, you want to talk about people exposed. Yeah, yeah. You know, they're sweating and they're half naked. Tyson Fury is trying to lick that dude's blood. I mean, I don't think he's worried. That was before the big outbreak. Yeah, I'm worried about old people. I'm worried about my parents, for sure. I'm worried about... I'm worried about people who are overweight. You know, I have friends that are not healthy that maybe she'd lose some weight. And I'm worried about them. I'm worried about people with respiratory problems. You know, a good friend of mine has a daughter of cystic fibrosis. And he canceled his tour. Shout out to Everlast. He canceled his tour because of that. I mean, but he's got a real concern. His daughter is a pretty serious lung condition. That is really scary. It's horrible. Yeah. And so, look, you know, he's got no choice. He has to stay home and play it safe. And I think a lot of people are going to do that. You know, it's going to be interesting to see how the government handles it. Because one of the things about love or hate Trump, he's willing to do some shit that a lot of people would think would be unpopular, like close down traffic. Yeah. Close down flights coming in from other other countries that are infected that have high rates of infection. You know, I mean, I wonder what they're going to do. And something I think something really radical has to be done to try to start this slow down, this this fucking illness. But I don't know what they can do. So are we waiting for it to I got to watch your show with this guy. Are we waiting for it to go away? Like I read a quote that like when the weather changes, it'll it'll stop or something. That's horseshit. Yeah. Michael Osterholm set a straight on that. That's nonsense. He's like, it's not going to have any effect on it. What happens is it just runs through the population and people develop immune systems that can handle it. You develop an immunity once you catch it. And for many people, it's just going to be like a bad cold. For many people, it's going to be like you're coughing and you're and you just you just try to get better, stay home, drink a lot of fluids, be healthy, do your best and eat healthy and then get out. You're going to have an immunity to it. And that's what's going to happen on the other end. I saw one guy, he had it and it was fairly mild. And then the quarantine and he got over it, he was getting over it and getting better. And then they quarantined him with a bunch of people that also had it. And then he got it even worse, which is interesting because I was like, I wonder how he got it again. And I guess probably his immunity wasn't fully developed. Yeah. And then it just overwhelmed his immune system because there was, you know, he's basically quarantined with a bunch of other people that were really, really sick. But he got through it and he was talking about it and all these poor people that are stuck on boats. Oh, my God, it's crazy. This is going to kill the cruise ship industry. Yeah, guarantee that we just went on vacation. And I have to say, traveling and like we went to this vacation spot, there's nobody there. It's actually it's kind of nice. Oh, yeah. You got to Hawaii right now. Whoa, you got the whole beach yourself. We had everything to ourselves. It was amazing. Yeah, I wonder, you know, I wonder how this is going to play out. I really do. We go like, you know, you're even at our hotel eating at the buffets and stuff. But like to your point, I'm just like, fuck it. What are we going to do? They're closing down buffets. It's one of the things they're doing in Vegas. They're closing down buffets. Hills Buffets are huge. I haven't been to Vegas too many times, but the one time I was there, I had a pretty crazy buffet. Yeah, I mean, all you can eat is fucking pig out some of those buff. But that's also how they do it on a lot of cruise ships. They have buffets. I only went on one cruise ship. And by the end, I wanted to throw up like, oh, my God, because the first day you're like, the food's amazing. It's so buttery, gross. And it's like being stuck on an apartment building filled with drunks. But you're all on the roof. And if you jump off the side, you're definitely dead. Yes. And that's what it's like. They're feeding you the fattiest, grossest, but tasty food. Yeah. You know, I mean, looking to get fat, that's your move. Some people just fuck it. Let's go all in.