Joe Rogan on Roseanne "She Needs Help!"

He's a gloater. I get it, but it's the age of outrage and this is like what we're seeing from this Roseanne stuff Like dude, I've been called a racist more times over the last few days for defending Roseanne Oh saying that I know her she's mentally ill and then she's on all kinds of pills I don't think she's a racist. Listen, I'm gonna say this too I think that this is a just because you can doesn't mean you should situation Can I tweet something inappropriate? Of course you can Should you when you have all of these things? That you're responsible for sure. You're the lead of a show You're you know, it's a show a family show you're on a family network You have a lot of people's jobs that are depending on you and I think there was just an error in judgment Oh a hundred percent. I do. I think that she's a racist. I think that I think that if she had just called the woman just ugly And and talked about her her job What would this have been the same thing but you you add, you know, it's like if you call somebody a bitch Okay, there's a problem you people can have a problem with that You call somebody a black bitch and all of a sudden that changes it No, yeah, if you call somebody a black monkey bitch, then you're like, okay, where's this coming from? Well, perfect example is Samantha be calling Ivanka Trump a feckless cunt and she said it on TV She said I mean that was prepared like someone wrote that out as a part of her monologue She said it on television and then they apologize like I should have said it and they're the Ntbs is like we're good But the advertisers are not good. They're pulling out left and right but here's the thing with Roseanne She's not well, this is a fact like I know I've talked to her She's told me I've talked to other people who know her. I talked to people who worked with her She's mentally ill but it talks openly about it. She's not well on second. She's on a host of medications She's on antidepressants. She's on Ambien. She's drinking. She's smoking pot. She's 66 years old She's not she's not well, she smokes cigarettes. She's out of it like she's got real mental issues now, here's the thing if she had problems with her lungs and She was smoking cigarettes and coughing up blood Would and doing stupid shit like trying to run marathons would people go? Hey, you know, what the fuck is wrong with you? You know, you think you could run a marathon. What do you what were you fucking stupid? No, they wouldn't because they'd go Oh, she's got an illness. This is why she can't run. This is why she's coughing up blood. She's got a mental illness She's mentally ill. This is a fact. That's why she's on so many different medications, but just mental illness What if you were starting to get mentally ill? Are you saying that like saying like sort of overtly racist things? First of all, she didn't know that lady was black They'll have you ever seen that woman. She does not look black. She thought that lady was Jewish when she said plan of the ape She said it because of her haircut because she looks like that lady from the plan of the Apes She swear she swears and she swear to me on the phone. This is her exact word She goes I would never fucking say that you think I'm so stupid that I would call a black lady plan of the age She goes I thought she was Jewish. She goes look at her. She doesn't look black. Oh that makes it okay It doesn't but she's she's Jewish too. I mean those the other things someone said well look She did she did this she dressed up like Hitler and had Jew cookies and she was baking them back in the day Yeah, she's a shitster by the way. She's also Jewish You know I think she gets a free pass on doing that, but I think that when you make a mistake This is what's missing from our society now. She made a mistake You should be allowed to apologize for that mistake right live with the shame and then you move on But what we're trying to do now is remove people yes from society all together Like I don't want to like sit. I'm not gonna. It's like just we're not gonna excuse her behavior We're not even gonna say that there's you know a reason Even whatever the reason is all the mental illness and all this kind of stuff. It's still a mistake what happened She's well enough to work on a television show So I'm saying she made this mistake And I'm not with I'm not with Saying that she's a racist either because when I even when I read that I thought that I don't as it I'm just saying as a comic we say things that The regular person is gonna translate the math into like well This is because you don't like black people or women or you don't like Jews you don't like that's not how we operate We're just trying to be fun. We just trying to be funny, and I think that she comes from an era where This is what you would say to be funny and biting yeah, and I think when she looked back on it She went oh, I didn't know this person was black now the people out there listening You could believe it or not But at the same time the Susan Rice comment from a long time ago is way worse Because she Susan Rice is clearly black and she did a comment a long time ago I think it was like 2013, but she said Susan Rice is a man with giant swinging eight balls That's what she said now that is way worse That's way worse, and that is a woman who's clearly black I mean you look at Susan Rice. There's she's not racially ambiguous at all this other woman Valerie I don't know her name Jared. She's she's got straight hair. She's got light complexion She's a film. It's all about intent though. Yeah, you're talking about right button It's it's where her intent was to be funny She is obviously not doing but first of all she was drunk and on Ambien and Ambien is a class Hamilton Morris sent me an email about this. He's explaining it to me, and then I talked to a sleep therapist about it There there's a type of drug that Ambien is that's called a hypnotic And this is one of the reasons why Ambien has so many weird side effects associated with it My friend Kevin James Kevin James got up in the middle of the night cooked a meal went to bed got up in the morning And he had it like his wife like confronted him like did you do this? I didn't fucking do that and she's like no the foods in the track like you cooked it you ate it He's like I did not I did not eat that and she's like okay If you didn't do it who did and like he had to like come to grips with the fact that he was on Ambien He got up cooked a meal for himself had no recollection of it went back to sleep My mom was on Ambien she got up in the middle of the night and drew on the shag carpet She had a white shag carpet in her bathroom with lipstick and with with nail polish like a little kid She goes I don't remember doing it at all She says it's scary shit I know a bunch of people that have had weird experiences on that stuff but if you stay in a somebody's house, and you were on Ambien and you Messed up their shag carpet you'd apologize to apologize for it, but this is what I'm saying They may be say she's also she's also drunk on Antidepressants you which you're not supposed to be and then she's smoking pot Which I'm sure you're probably not supposed to do either when you're on those things and she's an older lady who just got off of an exhausting Schedule that almost she in her words almost killed her she was she had bronchitis when she was filming I'm saying she's not doing well I'm you know what she made a fucked-up mistake and she apologized, but everybody wants to bury her man And I'm not with that I tell you with you It's like you can't that but that's the society that we live in right now That's just like why I'm too outraged right now, but what not just outrage, but we want to end your career Yeah, like why do we want to end someone's career for fucking up like it's one thing like here's the thing like if she was Not mentally ill there was nothing wrong with her like say if someone from let's just pick a sitcom big bang theory You know let's say the guy for that on Stevie Stevie still what's on TV right now Stevie? The different type of TV yeah, yes on CBS or just because a new one that's on TV. What's a new one? Like let's say all right either one of these guys anymore don't have any anymore That's big bang through song. Oh it is okay all right big bang theory It's what that is a pretty blonde girl in the big bang theory I don't know again What if that girl gets on TV and she's or she gets on Twitter and she says something? Totally racist throw some n-bombs you know like and there's nothing wrong with her She's like this is just how I feel and then they come after and they go well fuck this bitch She shouldn't be on television. She's racist. She doesn't represent how America views people in 2018 she's archaic get her off the fucking air. This is but this is you can't get away with this anymore. This is a 1920s this is 2018 that would be acceptable I understand that if you found a real hateful person She secretly has like a swastika tattoo somewhere. She's she's an evil person. This is not the case with Roseanne This is not it's just not the case She's an older lady who's mentally disturbed and on a fucking host of competing medications for her consciousness Well that should be the reason why she needs help. Yeah, we got to get her some help But it's a crazy thing is like she was America's sweetheart just a couple of weeks ago. No I know That's how quickly everybody hates how quickly and people are calling me a racist for saying what I said right there This is not this is not an unusual thing in our society like we disco This is this very much reminds me of the Salem witch hunt, you know This is the same kind of thing a little bit, right? You know, it's like the scarlet letter like how old is this scarlet letter and we're still doing that in atheism Yeah, yeah, this is something that we're prone to it