Joe Rogan Experience #288 — Greg Proops Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. and it sounds perfect. which makes it king right off the tip. Like, you'd say that to your grandmother. I mean, we still agree to that. about someone is not really reached with regular language. We have As much as any other comic. I'm profane fuck this, man. I was playing at Zany's From Styx? He has a fantastic, he used the word preposterous a minute ago.

2:52 and I'm being interviewed by the theater critic I'm going to have to calculatedly think was a nice crowd and i thought i'm an intelligent act you know what i mean i'm very right why can't on tv yeah for four minutes i think I'm perplexing. and Carson, have you come down, that's not necessary anymore. That you're, because you're kicked back and detached and watching it and you can sit and

5:50 You know what I mean? But when you come on that the idea of putting forth this, it means a false philosophy used using big words. right so he wrote, That's a brutal one. khan jengis khan because i'd read this book where it said it was kind of pronounced like that and people make in their languages like something like that like something like english that can

8:56 Because you're just in another, your other all the time. It was like that's a truly different culture that just sort of evolved over there. and say that I think that all the preconceived notions so we cannot find all the stuff that was there. He did it a few times. That's how they got fresh water? Those people had balls. Or their son's going to kill them.

11:28 fucking I was in New Zealand came after them tasted they must have had to pass that shit down from generation to generation too it's an where people have regular street fights. and row out to the middle of the ocean Hoping the water holds out out you find a fucking island and there's no islands between hawaii and anything it's about what 2500 miles from the nearest oh landmass 2500 miles going how fast

13:41 Four weeks. Holy shit. and, like, then he'd go, like, north by north, was that how much do we know about the the accuracy of the horrible things that were said They definitely burned people and hung them and stuff. America. They just showed up and just started But everywhere he ran into with the Indians and stuff, he was contrary, right? I mean, imagine though, the high point of his life is obviously,

16:28 Right. That's what they thought, right? They'd never seen a candle. and then the Indians kind of got them. But if it wasn't him, this is a terrible excuse, much more gangster one part of the world was uh there was a race baby they were racing and it was The greed. and they'd open it up But that's how the new and the old world came together. And maybe even St. Patrick.

19:27 because the Vikings were mad sailors. The only danger is, of of course getting wiped out you know to fucking Volga oh And mushrooms. that red and white one. It looks like Santa Claus. And in the eyes of many people who have examined it, it represents Santa Claus. Or they would hang them in front of the fireplace to dry them out. Yeah, there's a bunch of images,

22:22 They were drawing fucking mushrooms and elves for Christmas cards. There was a scholar named John Marco Allegro, entire Christian religion was based on Yeah, that this mushroom, they would find out about how to use it So you have to figure out how to find it from what area. do you mean like European Christianity He was the only one that was an agnostic.

25:10 And one is from Germany, one's from... and they will have these rituals But deers probably also like to eat poop. that these reindeers are high? so in listening to, he was a legit, brilliant scholar, you know other than he was the local guy who gave gifts and whatnot. There's so many connections between this mushroom and Santa Claus. how the shaman used to get into the houses when they made the shamanic rituals illegal.

28:11 the ritual of taking this mushroom, that would make you trip your fucking balls off. Oh, dude, what else is there to do except try to stay warm? Yeah, life would be so much more awesome if you were living in siberia and you found a mushroom they make you trip your fucking balls what else is how much stay warm yeah life would be so much more awesome oh my god

28:52 It's always Siberia. Exactly. You saved yourself, but you're stuck up there. And it's about these people that live up there in Siberia, home and go i can't believe i got fucking passed over for a promotion yeah yeah i need a xanax and I haven't seen that one, but I did see one recently that my wife rented, and I can't think of the bloody name of it.

31:33 you know i'll give him what oh what's the name of the uh it's is it what they call the cave of You probably have fire. just not use it i mean the connection of of people like you say uh to what's happening is Oh, no, man. We can't do it. It's over. inflated their age when the study was done years ago but they are living to be 90s and close to vegetable gardens and whatnot and he was like they were describing the life and it was like

35:07 Write the book, Joe. Have you been following the John McCaffrey thing? This is the beginning of it. He lives in Belize, and he has a compound in Belize. He has labs in his jungle. dogs that would bark all the time. So he shot him? for no reason They killed his neighbor he's got a 17 year old girlfriend. This is some deep outlaw. It's a fucking amazing story.

37:49 at the same time. He got out I've used them so frequently in my bath. do whatever to it that they have to do in order to make it a different chemical classification. Yes, he was talking about people rubbing their penises raw. That's extraordinary. It's like they figured out a way around it. Yeah. So it's like, just because he didn't test for heroin

41:26 I thought the rumor or the accepted knowledge was that he was on D'Ascense. called murdering somebody sorry yeah that's murdering somebody not only that like that is Shoot that guy. I don't know, man. Yeah. It's amazing. And everything tacked to the maximum. That's really gangster. his toilet crashes all the time? It's got a virus. He's someone If you really stop and think about how many assholes out there figured out a way to crack into people's computers.

44:33 From my friends. I've gotten them from me. I don't know. That's crazy. No, it seems like a novel. about it i'd be angry if you knew about it you didn't tell me i want to i want to know what he's I mean, just stop and think about how fucking bananas you have to be. the Colonel Kurtz thing if you're 25 man yeah that's kind of crazy well it's just one of those stories that i just i'm

47:07 and then go, by the ones throughout history Feeding people to dogs. fuck the girl, rape her, and then feed her to dogs right they before you can live you know i mean really should we should take all babies and quarantine them from not to be boring, but I just read about in the Columbus book, but the Spanish took note of it and their ceremonies and they'll blow this stuff into each other.

50:16 Yeah. And it's really insane to watch. local professor and he uh one of the things that he talked about that I'd never heard anybody, like a real scholar, talk about was how actively they took psychoactive drugs. understand is there was no school before this you're talking about people that literally created That's why it's always part of the religious culture, too.

52:39 like you say, and find out which ones did which thing, That's why they were so savage. Druids certainly get it going. I'm sure they had psychedelics, but you could eat hashish or whatever. They're not a booze culture. the weed just certainly they're to stop after and get something. Really? Yes. People have mixed mushrooms and ayahuasca, I forgot the name of the plant

56:06 We've managed to evolve culture to this crazy point of infinite information, the distribution of it instantaneously. And they look at you like you just said something fucking, about and ignorant to how long they've probably been a part of human history and what they've where we're prodding each other. There's varied levels of consciousness, and not just the one horrible one that we're stuck in all the time now, where we're prodding each other.

58:05 as much but i i i hadn't quite considered as much as you the idea that psychedelic drugs shape so It'll really, it'll be real. Because either way, it's happening. and the experience is incredibly powerful where you can't control your emotions. As Louis Armstrong said, it's worth 100 assistants. But psychedelics are like, if you say, if you check psychedelics uh people go you know you're a drug addict yeah well if you smoke

1:00:34 this. You can see my glasses. and he claims that he had smoked before but not got high. condo was near the beach and we were just fucking doofuses and you know we would just go to the he could finally take control of his own destiny but i had a kid say to me once where I was on the road and like Addison, Texas or something. And there was a Raiders game that weekend,

1:02:23 you gonna smoke pot all fucking day, Proops? And I go, let me ask you in the condo, there was no, it was one of those ones inspires you enough to be your next closing you can manufacture it. It's a muscle. It's true. and scratch their head and look at the internet How did you write that song? It's just that feeling that your subconscious pushed it out

1:05:30 things like completely all your resources are on the thing not about the bullshit not about like to be able to tune into this. I think just perform you know i want to perform more and also no i'm sorry where where do you do it at? What do you do it at? It makes me more perform. The Bar what? Lubitsch. Yeah, Greg Proops will be performing there. and London, England,

1:07:51 and I go to at every place I go But on the road always. Are you the biggest douche in the world? So I take questions. you know dear Proop of the sun oh and it was a great question if you were with me at the end of four days And this all came out of nowhere. And I said, and because they just don't feel just throw it on. If you were going to go out I like to hide.

1:10:49 I get that now but your game is funny Everyone's so goddamn sensitive. that devolved out of nowhere, and they don't know what the Negro Leagues are, you know. me off the fucking stage right i'm a ham bone but i mean podcasting by by a long mile is the and doing it live in front of an audience like that, And then there's the questions and, you know.

1:13:21 Just like, hi, what's up, man? What's going on? uh, I think it's, podcasting's radio yeah it is It's an audio format Except for Audio of like Kinnison there's enough rules that make it work. Because it's mics and it's audio and it has to be a certain length. those people listen to them at work a lot. little long because it's just me like i said it's just me so after you know come on after an hour

1:15:41 And one day I'll be on it again. well I'm sure you do too you work live all the time you know, Wow. you know and then but afterward they're like that was they would always preach us which was you know magic yeah keep them you don't want to see don't You know, I can scarf in a green elevator. I saw you outside smoking a joint. No. And there's about 350 people, and it's nice.

1:19:29 you know hey and people give you pictures and they talk to you and you talk about yeah and shit and i You know, I did the first one. uh i'll do it on my own because i had done this audible show previously like in the old days when I mean like five minutes of new content so I did that for fucking five years wow so I thought it was crazy though to put that much new stand-up content So I did that

1:20:51 and so the audience to do them before. after yeah i uh let me unwind for a fucking minute will you i always uh say hi to i have like and it's the culmination of all... they haven't caught up to us yet we're still running wild we're still running wild man this because it's been around since like 1961 or something like that. I know it sounds crazy, but there's a happiness in that room, man.

1:23:45 Got some solid fucking performers. We've got to wrap up soon because Brian has to head down to San Diego where he is going tonight. at AmericanComedyCo.com. Great. Very solid. American Comedy goes at Gaslamp in, I don't know where the other place is. that was a road gig we always did. you know in Oregon I had a magic show somebody gave me Yeah, I lived in San Francisco when I was a kid.

1:25:50 It did a lot. There was a lot of, especially with my attitude towards gay people. I've never understood. I grew up with gay people. So like, to me, it was always normal. And by the way, it was always something that you can make fun of as long as you're not being a dick about it. You can make fun of everything. We moved from San Francisco to Florida.

1:26:50 but I was like, wow, people are way stupider in Florida Yeah. Like you have these weird pockets of like really smart people and really like where all those rich dudes live and like palo alto and atherton and stuff like that that but I never find it. Yeah. No. as well as about a million other issues. Yep. social issues other than make people wildly angry was he the first guy that let you really clearly

1:30:14 I'll do Michael McDonald all day long We thought black people were going to be equal. To me, he was the first one I thought, Which one? And the hostages. vietnam was the root of yeah what had turned everything horrible the corrupt cia and the marijuana because you know what it benefits everybody you don't think it does because you And it doesn't necessarily mean a crime wave.

1:33:02 unquestionably increases sensitivity. And even like when people talk about paranoia, and to push out positive energy I don't think that's what they said. You have to go to Cypress Hill about so much weird shit. Allegro. which I always think is funny. bored people, and then you go home. and people who come to my show, you know what I mean? And, and he gets everything wrong

1:36:19 more than you know You should just Google it. Yeah. Greg Proops puts it online. You can copy it and send it to someone else videos of rants have gone on that's the exciting part that's exactly what i was going to say, Joe. Book. And I say, da-da-da-da. Right, yeah. of set lists But then I go back and I'm like, But the act of actually scribing it into a paper,

1:40:13 Wow, no, I haven't. notes, a set list and then it just said like clinton you know what on the like you know corn whatever the fuck was on the you make on them and stuff. so just something definitely. well you ever see letters people Or any, you know, notable. Oh, really? Because he wasn't like a regular guy who, hey, let's all be there at five. underlined, right?

1:42:34 really broken down, I would read that out sometimes, an executive at chock full of nuts new york and so he went to this like banquet and eisenhower spoke we've endured nothing but countless This exchange in a very civil and highfalutin language not the language that we use now but like like well you know i will check but nobody writes letters anymore in the future it'll be your set list of note and your

1:45:14 I write on my computer. I wish we had more time, but we don't. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the end of the show. of course it is in San Diego California 8 o'clock be there bitches and no undercover cops that shit's greasy Motherfucking Benson and Brian. Motherfucking Red Band. Oh, yeah. And that is a what time show? We got Monday, Duncan Trussell will christen in the new studio. And Wednesday, Ari motherfucking Shafir.