Joe Rogan Reacts to Eric Weinstein Playing Harmonica

When you see a 10,000 hours only sign, you know, only those who've done their 10,000 hours can come in. My middle finger goes up. I'm like, I bet it's not 10,000 hours. Or if it is 10,000 hours, I'm willing to get 80% of the juice in that orange with like 10% of the effort. Well, the 10,000 hours thing to me is, it's cute, but it doesn't factor in for phenoms. It doesn't, there's, there's a lot of people that come into anything, whatever it is with some natural abilities that are pretty undeniable. You know, that's a weird, that's a weird equation. But like, take, take something very simple, like the harmonica. Yeah. Most people don't know that that sweet blues sound on a harmonica comes from not using it the way the manufacturer said, which is called straight harp and using it instead the way African Americans figured it out, which is, it's much cooler to base it around a hole that nobody was expecting to draw rather than for blow. And that gives you a seventh chord that sounds like sweet blues music. If you start to give some of that. All right. I don't know how this will work. Like that was, you got to move. So what's the traditional way of using it? What would it sound like? I think that would be Carmen. Boring as fuck. Boring as fuck white people. God damn it. White people. Carmen's all right. But look, that's not my point. Who knew when you get one of these things as a party favor as a kid, there's not somebody who says, Hey, don't do that thing. We put your mouth over it. Also, you know, but who knew that that's the cooler. So yeah, but like the idea is that there's something called tongue blocking. There's something called cross harp and there's something called the one four or five progression with a scale that no music teacher ever taught you in a grade school in piano. All right. So there's four secrets. And now suddenly the world opens up. I mean, when I opened for Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin invited me and they said, you know, why don't you play a minute worth of Harmonica at the Masonic theater. So for 2,500 people, I became Dave Rubins talking Harmonica monkey. And so I opened for Jordan Peters and I said, you know, rule number zero, life is too short not to play the Harmonica. Everyone should learn to play the Harmonica or know why they're not doing it. There's this great thing in the Cal Berkeley fight song will win the game or know the reason why. If you don't play the Harmonica, it's so nice. It's so simple. So few people do it. There's so small number of secrets. You have to have a reason because I can feed myself. I can get housing shelter. I can meet people anywhere in the world. All I have to do is carry around a piece of plastic with some metal on it. Or you could be annoying. Like a lot of people like turn that fucking guy off. Why is he why is he playing that goddamn Harmonica? I don't want to hear that. Put it back in your pocket. Go to your next trip. You're already tainted in these people's estimation. All right. Attention horror out there. I'm on it. But what's worse, a Harmonica or a guy brings a guitar and starts singing folk songs at a party on the Animal House. Right. Yeah. Beat him over the head with the guitar. Yeah. He can shred. He's going to be fine. It's great. If you're looking to hear someone shred, that's not okay. All of these things are like options or financial. You can exercise them or you cannot exercise. You don't have to exercise. But I mean, there's an equal number of things that people would say that are like the Harmonica. Like you should be able to do slam poetry. Right. Everyone should be able to do slam poetry. If you can't do slam poetry, I can feed myself. I can help. I can I can do slam poetry. I'll show up at a party and everyone wants to hear slam poetry. Is that true? You're just trying to beat me, Joe. You're so adorable.