Joe Rogan on Obamagate, Joe Biden Doing a Virtual Debate

I don't. I've been not getting news. Like I just skim through things these days. It's so frustrating. There's first of all there's too many series to follow. There's the Obamagate series. That's the nut case. Yeah nut case. Nut case. The sitting president, the exiting president, literally hires or gets the FBI to investigate Trump. I don't know anything about Obamagate but I did see a takedown of Obamagate that was pretty harsh where the guy was like it basically relies on you having to believe a series of conspiracy theories in order for it to even hold up and I am gonna sit here right now before everyone's all like I know nothing about Obamagate. I actually don't give a shit. That might have been an older video. That might have been an older video. No it's from last night. Listen to Jimmy Dorr's video on it. Jimmy Dorr's video is excellent and he breaks down exactly what the administration did and that it's illegal and that you're essentially using the FBI to spy on Trump and then when it turned out that all that Russia stuff that they were claiming was going to happen didn't take place and that they knew it wasn't really happening to begin with. That what they were saying was all exaggerating and hyperbole and they were trying to turn it into something that it wasn't. I don't know. I haven't been following it. It's not good. It's not good because what's the other story that we need to follow? There's so many going on right now right? Is Joe Biden losing his fucking mind? Oh like do they have him locked in a basement somewhere and they're pumping open steroids and coke right before he does. Weren't they gonna do like a whole fortnight thing where he was gonna be a you know what are they called a hologram and fortnight or something and I'm like this is gonna be our first hologram president. Oh hologram debate right? Do you put anything beyond the realm of possibility at the point that we're at though in the world? Doesn't it feel like we live in a fucking simulation? It does. Kevin Rose you know Kevin Rose from dig? He put something up on his page a couple of days ago I retweeted it. It's the new Unreal Engine. Unreal 5. Oh I saw that. It's fucking insane. It's fucking insane. It's like movie stuff and it's in-game action. So the in-game action now there's a scene where the the character that you're playing it's a third-person game and you're moving this girl around and she runs up this hill and as she runs up the hill you see like rocks falling and you see the shadows. It's spectacular and Kevin said you know he tweeted it to me and he said look at this and imagine I believe he said 25 50 100 years from now of course we're in a simulation because this is this is going to be just as realistic in 25 50 100 years from now as the world that you're experiencing right now. But isn't there the question that we don't know that this isn't? Yeah that is the question. I mean it's a guy that I had on Nick Bostrom that explained it to me that I was my feeble brain was having a hard time calculating it but he's basically saying that according to probability theory we are in a simulation. It's more probable that we are than that we're not. My friend was saying that they would start doing things like this leading you to believe you're in a simulation if people in the simulation started becoming self-aware they'd start making you think you're in a simulation so that you could doubt it. Of course a little built-in fail-saves. Yeah of course but that makes sense right? So I'm gonna ask you Jimmy Dore you get news from him? I do. I get news from Kyle Kalinsky, Jimmy Dore. My political news is all from The Hill, Jimmy Dore and Kyle Kalinsky. The Hill is Crystal and Sagar I always say his name wrong that they have a really good political show. Okay. Kyle Kalinsky is very well versed in exactly what's going on and he's critical both sides as is Jimmy Dore. Like Jimmy Dore neither one of those is partisan both those guys even though they're left they're both progressive guys they're very open-minded right and they're very honest about what's what's going wrong and what's wrong about it. Jimmy Dore especially he has some fucking epic rants and epic rant recently about when people tried to whitewash the the negative things that happened during the Obama administration. He's like you guys are gaslighting people. Look this is what happens when you have your standard you know this is this is the relationship right. A guy goes into office he promises a bunch of stuff can't really do them but people like the way he talks does some things that maybe aren't so good you find out later and then he gets out and he makes shitloads of money doing speeches and Jimmy Dore highlights that that he's making he's even openly talking about that press correspondence dinner you know that joke yeah yeah yeah he talked about how he's gonna try those lines out at Goldman Sachs after he did them there. Yeah yeah. And then he said he was gonna make him some serious tubmans. They're taking over all the streaming I saw a whole thing about how the Obamas I think are they're getting into the streaming game and I've read somewhere that the Clintons are that could be wrong. Well the Obamas apparently have some sort of a deal with Netflix to produce shows, documentaries, and then they have a deal where they do in podcasts. Did you like Obama? I'd like him as a spokesperson and as like as a figurehead of who the president is. I mean he's a handsome guy he's incredibly articulate really well spoken the way he speaks is like a statesman you know I mean he's always calm and collected there's a lot about him I really like there's a lot about him but politics is a crazy messy impossible to do right business that no one has nailed especially at the highest levels no one's nailed it I don't know why he didn't do what he said he was gonna do before he got into office I don't know what they revealed to him I don't know but when you listen if someone does an accurate job of breaking down what went wrong particularly what's going on with this Flynn case where they're trying to drop all the charges and then some new judges coming in saying no we're not dropping shit I just feel so ill-equipped to process this stuff yeah because I'm not a lawyer I'm not a politician I'm an idiot on YouTube thank you and I'm an idiot right here and I don't know anything and I often hear even in my comments on the dumpster fire they're like oh I get all my news from you and Joe Rogen I'm like no no don't do that don't do that no don't do it for me are you no no I am NOT a trusted news source but then I'm like but I don't know who is yeah I don't know who is either I'm here to talk shit okay and if I'm wrong which is often I will let you know I'm not here to lie but I'm here to talk shit that's what I'm here to do yeah I mean I I don't the the show we just basically make fun of how bonkers everything is and I but I don't have any answers I don't know the freaking pathway forward out of this ship show is it seems like it's gonna get worse before it gets better which is my fear