Joe Rogan on the Logan Paul Controversy

What? Sis, Nick, you're full. Did you hear about that YouTuber, what he's going through, Logan Paul? I did read that. Yeah. He filmed someone who had committed suicide in Japan and he put it on his YouTube channel. Yeah. I guess there's this forest at the bottom of a volcano or something. And it's called Suicide Forest, or it's nicknamed Suicide Forest because everyone just goes there to commit suicide. He was going there supposedly to film how it's haunted and then they find a body and it's pretty gross how the video was. He kind of joked about it. He used humor. Jamie told me that the thumbnail had him posing with the guy in the background. I don't know anything about him, but I know he's a YouTube guy. And he's doing stuff that he thinks is interesting and provocative. For whatever reason, the dialogue that I'd read was something to the likes of that he had done it to bring. He apologized for it, which seemed obviously felt terrible about the way people viewed it. But that he said that, how did he describe it? He was trying to bring some sort of a, he thought he was going to bring some sort of an awareness to suicide, but it was like a clunky, he just didn't do it right and paid the respect that it deserved. He realized that he fucked up. He's basically saying he's trying to do something and he fucked up. I don't know, man. It's pretty gross. I just found out that he's not the same. There's a Jake Paul and a Logan Paul. I thought they were the same person. Why is everyone mad? I don't know what anyone's mad at him for. They mad at him because he showed you something you didn't want to see. Is that what it is? Because the video he kind of took, they were like, look at his hands, they're blue. He kind of was very poor taste. He also advertised it the day before, like, I have this crazy sick video you guys are going to freak out about. You should have liked that. Oh, so he got a chance to look at it and he still approved it and then released it. Yeah. Then he made a thumbnail where it looked like he posed for photos with the guy in the background. This was a person and they're laughing right next to his body. I don't know. That disturbs the shit out of us, right? Like joking around, you can joke around, but you can't joke around near a dead guy. Well, suicide's not funny. No, it's not. If the guy died, like natural causes would be really true. No one's laughing at the suicide. They're laughing at him joking around near the guy who committed suicide. I'm not saying you should do it. You definitely shouldn't. I don't want to see it, but it's kind of funny that we decide. Like you said, it's respectful, bro. But he didn't really do anything. He just showed up and this guy was dead. I'm not saying he should make fun of him. He definitely shouldn't, but it's weird, the outrage that we have for it. I'm sure he made a shitload of money because it got seven million views. He made money off of suicide. Yeah, and you're talking about it. We're talking about it. We're helping him out. Well, the video got pulled, but I guess it got re-uploaded a few times. He just made a second apology today because the first apology a lot of people said was very insincere. Yeah, I'm not defending him. Don't get me wrong. I'm just exploring. Sometimes I try to look at things from as many perspectives as I can. I don't think that you ever want to make fun of someone dying. When you're right there and you're taking videos and there's a dead body hanging, it's a terrible idea.