People Used to be Rougher w/Bill Maher | Joe Rogan

Jesus, what a weird gig. Well, it's New Year's Eve. You got to do something as you send them off. It's only an hour and a half left in the old year. And I feel like that was the appropriate song because it was a song written by a comedian, Charlie Chaplin. It's a hundred years old. It was a hit in the 50s for Nat King Cole. Michael Jackson redid it in the 90s when he was on trial for Child Malestation, chose to do a song by Charlie Chaplin, the most famous child molester. So that was Michael's way of... Charlie Chaplin was a child molester? Well, Charlie Chaplin, I think back then they didn't call it that. But yes, he married... I didn't know anything. Yes, he married like... It was like Jerry Lee Lewis. He was like with 14 year olds. Really? Charlie Chaplin, yes. I don't think I'm talking at a school about Charlie Chaplin. Can you conjure something up there on your magic light box, Jamie, and see if there's information then. What are we... I think you just didn't know. The only interest is child molester. Yes, Charlie Chaplin, famous for that. Wow. And you know, back then I don't think they got you for it, but... What did they... What was the legal age back then? Possibly none. Right. They probably didn't know a law. I don't know if they even had such a concept. I mean, we're talking about an era before women... They weren't letting women vote in the teens. They didn't... Women didn't vote till 1920. I don't know if they were child labor laws. I just don't know. Well, Priscilla Pressley, wasn't she like 14 when Elvis... Correct. Yeah. And that was... So Elvis was a child molester too. And that was the 50s, right? Right. And that... Well, he went into the army in 58. So that's when he met her in Germany. Her father was a colonel and she was 14. And of course, he was 25 and a giant rock star. Jesus Christ. And he says to the colonel, Would you mind if I took your 14-year-old daughter back to America? She can live with me at Graceland and it'll all be good. And the guy says, enjoy. What the fuck was wrong with people back then? Those are different human beings. So it's not just a hundred years ago. No, no. We're so different. Just our... I mean, I'm a little older than... 16-year-old Harris met actor Charlie Chaplin. 16 is not as disgusting as 14. That's not even, I don't think, the worst one of them. It's a famous one as well. Is there like Charlie Chaplin, the pervert or child monster? Yes, there definitely is. Gotta be. 16 is fairly young, but people died young back then. I was thinking recently, people were just rougher. Yeah. You know, I mean, you and I, I think walk the same path very often, talking about, we, I think, are progressives, but we have short patience with some of the fragile woke bullshit. Yes. And some of that is just the way you're brought up. I think kids are coddled, you know? I think they're indulged, and that's the reason why they freak out over microaggressions and stuff. And some of that is just, I was telling some in this story, not apropos of this, just talking about something else, but it just reminded me that here, I'm a kid who had, I think, a normal middle class upbringing. I consider it an idyllic time. I consider it an innocence you couldn't buy today. I mean, first of all, I grew up in New Jersey in the 60s. There was no racial issues because there was only one race in town. That's just the way it was. I'm not saying that's good. It wasn't, but that's, so there weren't racial issues. There weren't drug issues. I didn't, I didn't try pot in high school. Maybe there was a rumor that a few kids were doing it, but that wasn't even a thing. There wasn't even any, like, divorce. It was really the land that time forgot, you know? It was leave it to beaver land. And I was telling someone this time, my father, who grew up in the depression, cheap, I, you know, love him dearly, but I don't think that's the wrong word, and sent us to an army friend of his as the dentist. And this is 1964. I was eight and did not use no became. And I remember vividly, like he, I had like eight cavities that had to be filled. He said, if it hurts, raise your hand, you know, as the drill went into my, like, okay, so they're drilling into me and then I'm riding home up this big hill. It was cold on my bike with the tears freezing on my cheek. So get to the dentist yourself. First of all, they wouldn't do that today. They don't let kids just be on their own. Like, get your ass to the dentist on your bike, get home after they drill into you with no novocates. And I'm saying, I wasn't raised by bad people. No. People were just rougher. Yeah. It was just a rougher time. And I wouldn't recommend these things exactly, necessarily, although getting some place on your own, I don't think is the worst thing in the world. But a little more of that. Have you ever had Jonathan Haidt on your show? Yeah. His book, The Coddling of the American Mind is exactly about that. Yes. Love it. And he believes that you should let your kids roam around and let them find their way home. There is a movement for that. Yeah. We did, that's how I was raised. That's how I was raised, too. I came home from school, fly into the house, change into my play clothes, fly out the door. My mother never said, where are you going? What are you doing? You were gone. And again, in Leave It to Beavertown, there was a six o'clock whistle. Really? Yeah, at the firehouse. The whistle went off. Time for dinner? And then you... Cheese. Right. And then you got your ass home when you heard the whistle. We didn't have watches or phones or... I don't want... I mean, I don't want to compare. It's a different world, for sure, between the way we grew up and the way they're growing up today. I don't know what's better.