Joe Rogan on Women Getting Rich from Divorce

Did you find about the women with the investments? Yeah, I was waiting to uh... Oh, okay, good. From a news week in July. Okay, what does it say? It's like right here. Upper echelons of money and power, blah blah blah, according to Forbes. The world's 15 wealthiest people are men. Women only make up 10% of the top 100. Separate wealthiest women in the world. Most of their money comes from their male relatives or husbands. Yeah. The top 10 wealthiest men made their fortunes themselves. Now, who are the top 10 wealthiest women that did that from divorce? Oh, here they go. Oprah's got to be up there. Hold on a second. Yeah, she's up there. The first self-made woman on the list is... Wow, I don't know how to say this woman's name. Z-H-O-U. That's one word. Q-U-N-F-E-I. Zuo Kun-fi, who was born to a poor family in China, dropped out of school at 16. She went on to found an enormously successful technology company. But if you put men back into the equation, she's only the 198th richest person in the world. Hmm. No matter how you feel about the concept of a few people hoarding enormous wealth, the notion that women can only access money and power through their families or husbands seems medieval at best. Yet we see it occur at the very top of many professions outside of the business world. Yeah, it's most people. Can you read the next stop? Yeah, a recent high-profile example is Hillary Clinton. During her presidential campaign, the first female major party nominee, she campaigned on a ticket of empowerment, yet although she is accomplished in her own right, she entered politics as the wife of Bill Clinton and has undoubtedly benefited from his prestige and connections. Yeah, well, that's true, but she also was a lawyer. I thought it was about money. I didn't mean for you to read that. She was a lawyer and, you know, she was a senator. Now Oprah's up there as the world's richest women, period, like, had a maze on their own. That's a weird thing, because they're saying... I'm not a big fan of Hillary Clinton, but by saying... she definitely entered because she was, you know, she was married to him. But she was a lawyer. I mean, she's an accomplished person. She's educated, accomplished, she was a senator. I don't think that makes sense. I hate when people say to shit like that, you know what? You're at the right place at the right time, bitch. And you jumped. And you jumped. You jumped, bitch. So that's the problem. I'm not mad at nobody. You can't say she got into... Yeah, she may be a little help, a push here, a call here, but she jumped. There's a great book I'm reading right now. It's called Outliers by Malcolm McDowell. It's fucking great. And it's all about what makes people successful and why they were successful. And there are a lot of factors, man. There's a lot of factors in when you were born, like, a lot of it... He goes on about hockey players, about professional hockey players, that almost all of them were born at a certain time so that they were at the end of the age cutoff. So, like, say, if, you know, you're between 10 and 11, when you go into, what is that, fifth grade? If you're one of the oldest kids, you have a way better chance of being successful at hockey because your body's more mature than whether you're one of the youngest kids that goes into sixth grade. So whether you're fifth grade or sixth grade, like, what year you were born is a big factor. So the kids that were born later, so that they're older, rather, the kids that are older when they enter into the fifth grade or sixth grade, they're, like, across the board, unanimously, all the top-level professionals were all older kids in younger grades. So that they're playing against smaller kids, they get more time, they're better, so they get more coaching, they get more hours playing. There's a lot of factors. There's a lot of factors in, like, one of the things about Bill Gates, there's a whole great chapter on Bill Gates, and about when Bill Gates was young, the school that he went to had a computer class that allowed him to do coding, and then he got into the University of Washington, they would let him get into their computer room from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. They had this open block, so him and his friends would sneak into that place at 3 o'clock in the morning. So all these different factors that lead to someone being, like, super successful, it's not just that you work hard. Sometimes you get these weird advantages in life. There's a bunch of things. For sure, hard work plays a factor. If you don't do nothing, you just sit around and woe is me and cry and think the world's fucked, you're not going anywhere. But the people that make it to the very top, the Bill Gates, the Steve Jobs, they have a bunch of things going for them. It's not just hard work. It's also circumstance, fortune, where they are, who's around them, who encourages them. There's a bunch of... What time they were born and what age they were when certain things happened in the world, there's a bunch of factors. But for all those chicks, it's just marrying the right dude. Getting divorced. Getting paid. I know a lady who just got paid from a divorce, and she's just shooting shit into her face and banging 20-year-olds now. It's hilarious. She's in her late 40s, banging 20-year-old dudes. How rough is that? It's funny, man. To cut that check. For the guy? Yeah, that's a hard... It's rough. I've known guys. I knew a guy who cut a check for somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million. Yeah, to his ex. I know a guy who cuts a check for 30 grand. A monkey. Dirty grand a monkey. Oh, I know. A couple of guys who paid that. And that was not beside the half million up front. Oh, yeah. The house. Yep. Two cars. He just walked away. I know a guy who's paying close to that, and he hasn't even seen his wife. He's been married to a new woman, a different woman, for 14 years. Yeah, 14 years. And he was only married to that lady for 12. And he's still cutting her checks. And no kids. He's got kids with a new woman. The old woman, no kids. Still cutting her fat checks. Tries to bring it to court. Tried to reduce the amount of money. She'd fight some tooth and nail. You, son of a bitch, you left me. He left her 14 fucking years ago, man. They were only together for 12 years. It's like she doesn't want to work. He fucked her so hard she can't work anymore. It's crazy. If it was a man, if the situation was reversed, and a guy was dating a girl, and they were dating for 12 years, and she was like, I'm tired of this. I'm going to go fuck some new dude. And the guy took her to court, got money from her, and wanted money still 14 years later. What kind of a fucking man would that be? Like, get a job. Go do something with your life. You are a human being. You met another human being. You spent some time with them. They don't want to be with you anymore. It's over. There's no children to take care of. What do you tell a judge that you want your lifestyle, the lifestyle that you were accustomed to? I'm going to maintain my lifestyle, judge. I like to buy nice purses. I like to walk my little dog. I like to put them in a little purse. Now, in California, there's different factors also. You have to be with that person for 10 years or something. There's little factors, a couple, by the way. There's factors, and they change depending upon the laws, and they change depending upon how much money you make. My friend was pretty wealthy. He did well. But the guy who I know that had to pay $50 million, he's real successful, obviously. I mean, you've got to make a lot of money to give your wife $50 million, but he still had to give her $50 million. Listen, I see the kid point. I'm zero, baby! I see the child support point, and I see a little bit of help. There's the list. Here's the unique one. Madonna's divorce from Guy Ritchie estimated $76 to $92 million. She had to give him? I mean, she's the first woman listed first on this. Damn! She had to give him $76 million? Way to go, Guy Ritchie! I like to have him back here. Now I know how you buy those suits, motherfucker. Now, what's the name, Pais? The singer from Bush. Look at this. Michael Jordan's divorce from Juanita Jordan, $168 million. Mel Gibson's divorce in 2006 after 26 years. $425 million. Goddamn! Stop scrolling. Look at this. Jesus Christ. Steve Wynn's divorce in 2020. $1 billion! Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, Steve Wynn. $1 billion. Rupert Murdoch's divorce in 1999 after 31 years of marriage. $1.7 billion! Neil Diamond, $150 million. Harrison Ford, $118 million. Whoa, Harrison Ford.