Joe Rogan Experience #1640001 — Shane Smith Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. I have probably enjoyed your online videos It was the Vice Guide to Travel. and then I'm like, who the fuck are these guys? what you guys are doing is, whether That's the... We're like, And everyone's like, They would steal people's babies. And this guy's still alive. Holy shit. to not go to jail. How do I explain this? side.

4:38 No, there's enough people dying. Dude, that sounds completely insane. And they wrote the Constitution in America, that started the Civil War. And then Charles Taylor, who was educated here in America, Is that what it was? you're in there's a place called west point which is the the sort of slum of monrovia which by like It's, you know, eight, nine, ten-year-old kid just smoking heroin you know you know slashes

8:09 Yeah, something. You know what I mean? on earth it's amazing just even thinking about it thinking that that's possible I mean, it has to be the worst humanity can get. and what had happened is no one had anywhere to live, so they opened up the graves, you know, And so he had it, and he goes, were actually stealing cadavers you know from the hospitals and just cutting them up and making you

12:14 And people are starting to realize that. There was no child labor involved. which is the most fucked up country next to liberia or maybe even more and they've been having just a raging civil war uh But my thought was like, if this was happening in France, it's always heavy it's always you know and i I've been going to Africa for a long time. And people go, oh, well,

14:26 They did this exact same thing in the south. Al Jazeera had done one story on it. This is the only documentary I've ever watched on the Congo outside of ones that go deep into the wildlife. Do you know about that? Whoa. Okay. Oh, I've heard of that. And so when he went in there, it just sort of gets harder and harder The deeper you get into it, Barter Town

17:13 You know, It's literally anarchy. whatever percent chimps this this chimp in the congo has been fascinating have those you know in the conflict who knows how many of those have been killed because there's a It looks like it's 300, 400 pounds, and these guys are sitting there posing with it with 3D. Are we just shining spots and then just everything else,

19:49 in my liver yeah show me a man who's a young man who's not a liberal and i'll show you a man with Some smart dude. I wonder if, you know, I wonder if that's going to spread the better life or spread the idea of the better life across the world. yeah i mean i don't know it's weird because you know i was in libya uh during the revolution and killing the whole internet?

21:43 Yeah, but Egypt shut down the whole internet And you're like, well, that's redistribution of wealth. So is that what you're saying? so during de-stratification of power, you get in. It's not really scary until you see it in the edit room you're tired and then when you actually watch it in the edit suite you're like oh fuck that was a The militia were after us.

24:53 and then I did two documentaries in North Korea, is just like kim jong-il is god and you know kim il-sung is god and everything's great and we love Yeah, big story. Like they built it to look like North Korea. What? who did it in Russia. There's no way to get out of there? Holy shit. we're trying to help the hunger, which is really interesting Whereas they don't say that.

28:42 we met the mob dudes and the mob dudes were taking us around they were super nice and um they took us around so the north koreans couldn't fuck with I'm not going anywhere. These guys are, like, bad boys, you know, KGB types. the edge of town and went out but there's no real roads in siberia it's only the the um the railway There's this little known place called, not Kambros, but I'll remember later.

30:58 out the mafia dudes and the mafia dudes were awesome they're the guys who told us about the Fuck. It's fucking Mad Max. They have big fuel tanks in the back. Jesus fucking Christ. It's fucking hardcore. And so dudes are just like literally blind drunk and fucking like there's people doing murders on the train. Yeah, I got the footage right here. I don't know anything.

32:27 I love it here Because that's what we were just talking about. NOCO? we're busy talking to them when things started to get a I like the fish more and more. there and we can't leave. You can't fuck with me. run by North Koreans. And all of a sudden, you've just got trees, trees, trees, trees, trees, trees, trees, North Korea. jobs in the Far East to go back. Of course he didn't go as deep as we went he didn't so he wanted to go back and and of course

35:49 and we're like, finally, we got out. Kim Jong-il was in the same region They don't want people to know but somebody's going to make some deal to get you out somebody's going to sort of They went down to Mexico? And now what's happened, because they're fairly wealthy, How many people? We were supposed to go down and talk. But Dudus, he was like the most powerful man in the country,

39:38 on every street corner there's dudes with ak-47s and you're like a pork ball you're like what the you killed the guy, he shouldn't be here. There's no reason for you to be here, you know? stupid because they're just gonna attract attention what the fuck is going on here let's get them you know yeah uh but definitely you need local Yeah, it was called Voice of Montreal,

41:52 I wanted to be a writer, So we dropped the O and just called it Vice. And then we moved to the States. Yeah, I'm old, man. And was this a plan from the very beginning to branch off love canada i do too i love canada i'm gonna swear I'm gonna move if shit gets bad yeah Vancouver I wouldn't go to for like a hundred bucks think that's a rumor so you so you guys started now how did you get started from

44:51 Like, holy fuck, have you seen this? a thing where we snuck into Iraq Like, it got picked up by the BBC, by Canal Plus. oh, I'm in a band. All we do is stories that we like. different ones like i was trying to find hein mo's adventure the dude who lives up in the arctic Well, this dude here, look at this fucking thing. Yeah, this is the master. he's fleshy and he won't even run he'll just i'll cry he's like a rabbit with epilepsy i'll just

48:02 And they just up and down these hills all day long. Wow. could have been shit out in the bottom of a hut and in the middle of liberia yeah just as easily One, that the doctors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki lived because they got so bummed out by skin falling off and shit as it goes up to like 1,500. bought like a silver Ukrainian suit. like regularly? have a whiskey

50:49 We were doing the preliminary thing there. They're really frustrated and they're really angry. bit, like, you know, in the Ukraine, an area the size of France is still completely irradiated, And it just wrecked everything. of it is it possible that the entire japanese island will get irradiated well no because it's Well, Japan, when we first started having our office there,

53:29 and, like, it'll just go and slow down because the power's all fucked up. going to tokyo are you really yeah i flew over i flew over with a bunch of wrestlers there was a Oh, yeah, yeah. It doesn't seem to me to be real. wrestled one year in high school and it's one of the toughest things athletically i ever did And they have full contact training where they knock each other out in practice and shit.

55:52 No weight class, no age, no gender. is they would fight anybody from any style, any weight class, anything, jiu-jitsu, the really technical version of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, know the the returns aren't the same no no and you're gonna lose everyone's Yeah, he got beat up. And he beat the shit out of Jason, especially standing up. he's going to be bummed out for a while, but he'll be back.

58:42 Look at George Foreman. And then he took, yeah, well, they both got knocked down like three times each and then he's like, I like that style of boxing too. and he was just waiting I interviewed the beautiful boxer. Her signature move was she'd run up your legs, the knee in the face. away you no longer have testosterone and she lost her muscle tone and and you know she essentially

1:01:14 But then after she got the operation, even though you're calling her a she, But I think by the time I met her, I think she was probably, maybe, I asked the question, but I don't remember the answer. Fuck, yeah. No. He's like a famous writer, playwright, you know. What causes one place to have such an exorbitant amount And they were like, well, you know, we're very feminine and it's Buddhist, so it's not frowned upon.

1:03:33 Yeah. American are the worst. They want to be free. Wow, Jimmy Hoffa. J. Edgar Hoover. there's like two good dudes with cameras and lighting rigs and shit yeah it's like we're Well, now, like whatever the seventh fleet or whatever the fuck it is comes in and they all have their R&R, and it's all shemales. interview them and by then i had a few ales so they're like get in a hot tub and i'm like okay

1:06:31 me a hot chick blew me and it was awesome yeah well there was a while there that i was interested They have a really good artist there. you dress them you dress them up and then you and then you fuck them and so i shot the whole thing and it was just a stupid was just hugely popular and then i met this dude so i was you know the guy gaspar in a way you know

1:08:51 the dmt and then irreversible was his first one which was i think better than enter the void And I followed him for a while because it was like my friend Harmony Corrine, who does, you know, he's a filmmaker. So I went there and and i And you're just like, no way is anyone putting that up my ass. any unusual insight and to human nature because to think, you've seen some shit.

1:11:39 you have these guys who grow up like killing and eating people on the other side of it there's like eating a baby's heart. We are really bad. gets everyone else asks us our politics and I say look it's just the absurdity of the modern and shit to people who couldn't. Stop dead. But, you know, you'd go out out you'd sit in traffic for three hours and

1:14:39 we're literally hovering on this sort of edge of... Because sometimes, I was in South Africa South Africa's a fucked up place. It's so good and so great and whatever. one of them, about a guy from Cape Town, a professor who gets disgraced by fucking one of his students electric wire and security and machine guns, Since the Dutch settled. Exactly. When was that? What year was that? for what reason? Well, they're African. They're like, we're African. We've been here, you know.

1:17:12 there was the Bantu migration got there, you know, of the world well it's just another example of africa africa just as a whole is pretty crazy. It's just now when you go there, it's so segregated so these people have tons of money and they're living behind barbed wire, So it's the pirate stock exchange, right? well, So they irradiated the beaches, killed all the fish,

1:20:36 We caused the problems that led to the piracy because people aren't actually going to go You know, when you see this, and you see these parts of the world Whoa. uh somebody called mark cuban there you go that was his dream and i asked all these dudes that guy and I got put in jail so got got put in jail in Libya. Yeah. Yeah. They slap you around? a lot of libyans had seen that and i met a lot of libyans when i was there so when the revolution

1:23:42 with a fucking spear gun and shit you know against tanks and and you know they were doing it for freedom and i when i came back i flew through some hub and do something which actually says something about the fuck you want and I love it but at We take other people's shit. the news scares the shit out of me. there's a movie called Angel Heart. I just drink the two boots cocktails

1:25:57 The thing is, it's the best that people have ever lived, supposedly. what the fuck do you want to eat you can eat the best whatever it is you want you know by the way you're probably right. I didn't know about Coltan, you know. look, It hadn't really been done by a major media outlet by the time. there's an island the size of Texas made out of plastic.

1:28:43 but at that point you're like well what am i gonna do talk about fucking shoes i mean yeah the whole throw our fucking nuclear waste in it we we shit We've got some pretty great segments. You're like the god of Twitter. Yeah. Oh, you don't know about all the... And, you know, The resource of the internet is just fucking fantastic. And you guys are part of that, Twitter. He's awesome. Yeah. It's Dennis McKenna. I got connected to him on Twitter. It's an amazing thing.

1:31:17 And please keep me in touch with anything you do. All right. See you.