Joe Rogan Reacts to the Tommy Robinson Story

Robinson protests in the UK right now. See I don't know enough about that story other than the fact that a bunch of people were mad at Me on Twitter. We're not talking about it. I thought I was like, I don't even know what that is I'm gonna back away and then I saw something about he was He was filming outside of a trial of Muslim pedophiles. Yeah, there are these grooming gangs. Yeah grooming gangs. Yeah, well, tell me the whole story So I don't want to do this as if I'm the freakin lawyer of the whole thing But in effect he was filming outside of the the trial for these this group of men that are raping They're raping like 12 and 13 year old girls. Basically they're on trial He had already been on probation or something for something else and you're not allowed to film outside a courthouse So technically I suppose he is in jail now for the right reasons But there's a lot of people that think he's not gonna survive being in jail and I look I had the guy on my show Have you ever have you ever talked to him? No, I didn't know anything about him until this this thing happened Yeah, I mean, there's too much to pay attention to. No, I know it's a lot. It's all the time I can't keep up on everything. No, I know you're shit to do. I have kids. No, you do have hobbies No, you have to occasionally just pick one and you're like this one. Dude. There's a lot of them I just don't know. I don't know what's going on Like people go how come you're not commenting on this like I don't even know about it you fuck I know I love I love that when you sit out something on Twitter for six hours and people start screaming at you like ah That proves it. You didn't say anything about it. Yeah. Oh you talk all day long about this and that But then this comes up and you don't hear a word like I didn't even hear about some just now Yeah, well, all right. Let's not dive too deep in that so quick but quick on Jones though So I'm not actually in case you think I am I'm not giving you shit for doing it. I'm just curious I'm just curious because I think part of the article that that Barry Weiss wrote in the Times about us She was talking about that and there's a line in there where she said, you know If you talk to these people meaning Jones and Cernovich and all knew that you're either cynical or stupid and in effect That was that was a shot at me and you It wasn't a shot at anybody else because they don't have to talk to other people, you know what I mean? Like I love Eric and Brett Weinstein. So what she said this year Yes, we can probably find the line but it was that you'd have to I think it was you'd have to be cynical or stupid I would argue that I mean our argue against that because I don't think you have to be there cynical or stupid You just have to be a person talking to someone just because you're talking to someone doesn't mean you agree with them Yeah, you this idea of giving someone a platform like I'm gonna have Ted Nugent on the podcast. Mm-hmm Right you obviously endorse everything he's ever said. That's what you're saying, right? That's that's the only way to How come you can't just talk to the guy and find out like like Candace Owens? I don't agree with everything Candace Owens says yeah, I don't agree with a lot of it Yeah, and this is nothing wrong with having a conversation like that. In fact, it's illuminating. What do you got here? Let's find out the line. This is from the Times piece. Okay It says it seems to me that if you're willing to sit across from an Alex Jones or Mike Cernovich and take him seriously There's a high probability that you're either cynical or stupid now. There's a reason for shorting the IDW It's the inability of certain members to see this as a fatal error. So that's that's Rogan and Reuben. Here's the thing Well, I get it. I'm just definitely saying things you can criticize about me, but I have the list right here's the thing If you're saying I'm taking him seriously I got Alex high and drunk and he started talking about interdimensional child molesters Like if anything it showed people who he really is like I've known the guy forever. I've partied with that, dude I've had him come to my comedy shows We've gotten fucked up and ran around the town and went to bars together back before everybody knew who he was to we could go Places he's a fun guy. I don't believe everything he believes I think he's silly in a lot of ways, but I like a lot of people that I don't agree with I don't have to agree with them I didn't know about his Sandy Hook denial if I did it would have been the first thing I pressed him on When I talked to him I wanted to do it with my crazy friend Eddie Bravo because he believes every fucking conspiracy theory Yeah, and I wanted to get him with Alex together and it was the clusterfuck that I hoped it would be it was But the good thing about it is it showed people who Alex really is Yeah, it showed a side of him that you just don't get from his Info War show you get to see him high and laughing and drunk and pounding whiskey and fucking around and people like oh I could see why you like that guy. I can see why he's fun We had a good time together doesn't mean I endorse his Opinions on things and the idea that this is only red or white that it is one or zero. It's binary. That's ridiculous Yeah, why I just ridiculous. I just didn't those two choices of adjectives I just thought were slightly like you could just defending her position I think I think she's doing a smart thing because she's a writer for The New York Times I do have a lot of ridiculous people on and you have had ridiculous people on Absolutely, so what she's saying makes sense if you take them seriously But she left that caveat if you take them seriously I do not take Alex Jones's opinion on interdimensional child molesters seriously I don't his opinion I only spoke pot once a year to test to see what George Soros has done with the marijuana Right George Soros is giving the marijuana fucking dosage Recommendations like that's pretty sure Roseanne told me that too. Well she thinks that's another thing I don't know what to do with her now. She thinks she apologized to that. She said George Soros was a Nazi or something Yeah, I saw the apology. He was captured by the Nazis. I mean he was like Well anyway this this gay piercies yeah this gatekeeping thing I just think it's interesting because if we're gonna do what we do well at whatever level we do it It's like we're gonna have to talk to people that people don't like and listen look Larry King This is the one thing I always say it's like Larry King in his heyday think of the prime Larry King, right? So 1991 CNN prime time. Yeah, he could have you know The OJ Simpson lawyers on on Monday. He could have the cast of Seinfeld on Tuesday He could have a magician on Wednesday He could have Lucille ball if she was still alive on Thursday and then you know George the Secretary of State or something so no one thought he endorsed all of those ideas or friends with all those people But I think somehow now because because this feels like your home mine is actually in my home Hmm the way we are we're different. We're friendlier We're not sitting here with note cards and with IFB's and it doesn't feel all produced and planned and all that Even though I think we both do a hell of a fucking professional show that I think we're both really proud of I think because of that they think Now you're seeing the real them or something or something like that like it's something They're looking for shit to complain about listen One of the reasons why I decided to do a podcast in the first place because I wanted to be able to do whatever I wanted I wanted to be able to talk to my friends have a good time fuck around Along the line it became something different and along the line it became not just talking to my friends It became talking to people that are famous or interesting people or professors or writers or whoever it is Mm-hmm, and I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want. Yeah, and that's why I'm doing this I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want if I want to talk to and if you don't like who I'm talking to It's super simple. You just don't listen to that episode and go Oh, you're all right now All you have is alt right people you think you're balanced up because you have Abby Martin on once a year I just think I talked to people, you know, I talked to a lot of people there's I like talking to people I like talking to people I agree with and I occasionally talk to people I disagree with and I get something out of that, too