Joe Rogan Experience #776 — Adam Cropp Transcript

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0:00 Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. Appreciate it. adventure, so many different places and so much cool shit you've seen. Yeah. Your mom, I should say your mom or your dad. Well, it's a family unit sort of thing, He'll never be anything but Spock to me. So he was going out and killing sharks. I mean, obviously, they do kill people. And the only way they can figure out what you are is by coming up and taking a little bite and going,

2:42 Once again, perspective. But perspective. Yeah, sharks and soup. It's in Africa. I spent two years swimming every day with a, But it was in New Jersey, and these people were in a river, So these people were at a freshwater beach by the river, But it doesn't know what you are, and it's got really bad vision. it was less clothes it was somehow or another these clothes keep an electrical

6:06 Well, all fish have a lateral line that's going down, freaking out their heart's going boom boom boom million miles an hour that shark's going to swim If you panic when you're in with sharks, You all right? And they were shooting them that way. So it was just, let's go shoot some shit and put it on television and here's sharks and They were shown in Australia on Channel 7 over here, Disney Channel.

8:52 Wow. That's cool, man. and 100 people on it. There's work to it. It's a beautiful ship. We're taking people who are paying a considerable amount of money. You just got back from Costa Rica. You're on a cruise ship. So a cruise ship goes to port to port. Right. It's opulent. Because they were like, why do we have rocks? I saw them removing them, so they're removing the rocks.

11:49 It's like a Jay-Z video. Polar bears in Antarctica? Oh, lots. What a strange, almost like a fake animal. And occasionally they chew on the back of zodiacs as well. Why do they do that? It's this monstrous, enormous, predatory animal. She had plenty of food. You see elements of culture, all sorts of stuff going on. fed me penguins? Amazing. They're in the Cyrenian family.

15:27 And so every day what it would do is catch turtles and bring it up to the beach and just push them up on the beach for the locals Whoa, that thing is crazy looking. What a crazy looking animal. That's how horny they were. Once again, like if you anthropomorphize, it just wanted interaction. And there's lots of evidence with lots of animals doing that,

17:09 So I was filming this documentary, Elusive Mermaid. So he would have issues. and he would, on your wetsuit, he'd clean his mouth on it and stuff like that. He looked at me and went, you're not female. and just held me against the sandy bottom. death by ju-gong, Didn't see that one coming. of death by jugal, Well, yeah. I I wonder what it is about you, just long hair.

20:12 Experience lifelong experience being around animals that maybe you were more relaxed And he's like, don't worry, I'm good. That would be a weird animal to kill you. I'm trying to think of another tame dugong. He's on the Jimmy Kimmel show all the time, and he's always hanging around with lions. Is that the guy? when you have them as pets and you raise them as pets and you get used to them, accustomed to them,

22:29 I don't think we give enough respect for animals. Yeah. They want to bite them. If you use that technique, you can get a dog to do anything. Well, I've been stung, technically. I was about 12 years old Yeah, a lot of pain. I wouldn't wonder who's got the nod. To the very old and the very young. If you're very old, then it's heart attacks, aneurysms, that sort of stuff.

25:35 Your body freaks out. as long as there's something in between your skin Yeah. I'm like, put the whole bottle on there. that first six hours but it's still yeah it's it's Six months? I don't recommend it, no. Oh, my God. But you're talking about, like, damage. Everyone goes, box jellyfish, coronax flecora. They're the size of your pinky fingernail. Not enough research.

28:17 Name some evil people that you don't know. We were worried about, you know, we'd heard about the Cuban Missile Crisis Yeah. Not really ironic, but interesting that now it's back with Putin is the most potent example of, like, the scary Russian guy ever. it funny that we always pick that out. I guess He's pretty openly gangster. Yes. Check it. And Trump is not stability.

30:51 I didn't think. Because Donald Trump put out this ridiculous video about our toughest opponents, Like, he's doing this judo throw, and he shows ISIS, fucking bark noises in her... But I saw a video Yeah. And I think only assholes want that job at this point in time. he doesn't want anyone's money and he wants to take down corporations and he wants everybody

33:35 Because when you look at Europe, Australia is not a great example at the moment because we're kind of following you guys. they definitely don't want to pay more to workers. They don't want a minimum wage to be 15 bucks an people, where normal, regular stuff. I can't speak of Canada, but I can speak of Australia because we have obviously very similar

35:31 Three months is not bad because you might wait three months in America. Yeah. It's not that bad. But if it's something more minor or definitely more urgent, And then apparently what's been described to me about Canada and England as well. It's about the Great Barrier Reef. It's a Tasmanian tiger. Like the, remember the lions in I Am Legend? I mean, well, the Outback is so...

37:27 And there's only like 20-something million people in the entire country? Yeah. We've solved it. Well, we've got an ocean, Coast Guard military boats, and then we take them What? Yeah, this is all his policy because he came into power going, Yeah. oh, you know, China, you're doing this, that, the other, That's our ad campaign. Like, you know, he's like a Tony Hinchcliffe or, you know, a guy who does well, headlines in clubs.

40:46 Arch Barker? incredible he's a great photographer as well and he has these incredible photographs on his website you've got to you got to be prepared yeah they have those jerry cans they strap up to the roof There's one of them. I mean, I do these tours where I first started with Lindblad National Geographic And that's the canyons that you're cruising through the whole time.

43:40 Well, Aboriginal people, the native people, they came into Australia, once again, lots of people vary the numbers on this, but about 60,000, 70,000 years ago. our species kind of evolved out of Africa, probably around Kenya, somewhere around there. That culture's been there for a long time and there's a lot we can learn from oh yeah we keep saying we

45:08 Yes. Yeah. finds some sort of a native years and not doing anything basically wrong or harming that environment at any stage, Oh, that's a totally different argument. It's a little warm out lately. Global cooling is horrifying. Maybe you've heard him there with Graham Hancock as well. Yeah. with asteroidal impacts at the end of the ice Age, which was 10 plus thousand years ago.

48:25 And it's this, like, really cool-looking green glass where the ground. stuff like that there has been impacts constantly since then yeah and uh and there's we just need Yes. Fuck. We're the first people to have that ability, but we're not using it. And if you do it early enough, you will change the trajectory enough to get it out of the solar system.

50:29 That's a nice way of putting it, mess up. all over this one area of Australia, And a tsunami, if you don't remember the one Was it little aliens and green men? 1,000 kilometers from the nearest town or light source. And so you'd go out you know, be in the middle of nowhere, a thousand kilometers from And once or twice I did see some stuff that you go, hang on.

52:35 My memory between that age is dog shit. and then I saw a light that looked like Venus, like a bright star. move the other way and it's just like my from my knowledge of aviation it's like there's nothing it would have to be so far removed from what we think is possible Most likely. It's actually another planet they found out in one of the newly discovered planets.

55:25 they'd blow a fuck. Right. More research into that area. And the fact thatar technology will come from. Right. So you would surmount, you would rather, It's fascinating when you read right into it. So if something just had a different combination of elements and maybe perhaps lives in a protected area where they don't have a gigantic asteroid field just outside of

57:22 Right. that for whatever reason doesn't have nearly as many asteroids. The sun is so fucking massive, a million times larger than Earth, in a way that they don't have predators the way we do they haven't they don't have this need for at things through rose-colored glasses you would say well this is what humans do it's one of the We don't want to kill other people.

1:00:13 Like the vast majority of interactions you have, especially in America where there's plenty of food, you know, there's plenty of space and people are well taken care of. We're killing all over the place. because it's just such a waste of resources. It's all like whatever group gets to dominate the resources, whatever group gets to, you know, maybe their genetics pass on Genghis Khan style.

1:01:46 Right, but if we get past that like one of the weirder things in UFO folklore is the idea of once again heard of him don't think i've ever read anything he's a guy who was a biblical scholar Beyond Pluto, yes. I mean, they had an exact description of the solar system, a drawing of all the planets in the proper order with the proper sizes. And I remember reading his books back in the day,

1:04:50 Of course, there's lots of ancient civilizations. No, no no not the latest she took the data from satellites, They're everywhere. There's this wanjana, And you can't even see the ochre anymore. And so we're talking around about 30,000, probably a bit more. Just when you were talking about going through those canyons and it's 1.8 billion years old, understand $30,000 you don't understand 30,000 years it's just it's not going

1:08:48 So you're right on the coast, massive amount of people, There's bags of Coke and fake tits. What do you think is going to be there? essentially. Great series. and stuff like that is plants. If you're not constantly pulling out all those grass seeds And I put this on Instagram. I mean, we're talking about something that was like four plus feet long, enormous.

1:11:26 There will be, These houses that are just being taken over by trees. Yeah. Like you don't need to find hundreds of them. Like when you're up in the mountains there i had a And I've got an open mind. That's it right there? And where is this? But that mountain not a pyramid. It's 24,000 miles in a circle, and you're standing on it. Interesting analogy.

1:15:06 fascinating open-minded people that have uh dennis mckenna lorenzo hagerty i've met some amazing Well, you're dealing with more high-level people. dinner with these people. And that's probably one of the biggest perks for me is you meet people Even some, oh, I met, I think it was the older George Bush's, George H.W. Bush's lawyer had some very pernick questions for him.

1:17:17 Yep. That was the guy that was living next door to me. Claudio Cristiano. And they go deep, deep, deep into the ground. I mean, this is obviously a victim of erosion, right? And then they haven't been bothered, So it's like a wild dog? some expeditions that they've done where they've dug out around the statues and dug deep down He's got a whole heap that got knocked over by a tsunami, and he's put them back up.

1:20:10 Yeah. They say no because they don't want to dig. as much as you can in a brief amount of time? So there's a lot to it. It's so unfortunate, but that happens in so many of these places It's a lot of pushback. and then that culture actually kind of not died out, some sort of analogy would be Jesus, basically. But his group, his tribe, would then be the leaders of the island.

1:23:17 There's so many weird styles of culture. And he probably doesn't want to live by himself either. Yeah. and they move them away from their mother and it is an ancient tradition of these semen warriors in New Guinea, I mean, I spend a lot of time in Asman region, They were headhunters. They keep it off of Twitter. Very old culture living in perfect harmony with nature

1:26:32 Now the mercantile empire is now in there. They've got no education on it. The plastic problem in the ocean is huge, When the tsunami in 2004 came, it went over the entire island shocking, like, their sewerage just Yeah. That is God damned insane. When you see the sheer numbers... Yep. Jamie, on my Instagram, I think it's one of the first images I have.

1:29:58 to go somewhere else you know i always feel like that when i fly over honolulu like honolulu is Is it not scrolling or something? That's insane. I think it was last year. And what we're looking at, folks, for the people that are just listening to this, which is most of the people, little patches of land that if we wanted to grow our own food we couldn't support

1:31:53 The whole interior is... There's a map of Australia and Chinese ownership. Cattle, whatever. I'm looking for pictures of the thing, but this is a, it blocked the size of an Ohio sized ranch. you know if we if we didn't sell it if we leased it completely agree yeah at least that stuff country everywhere it's great um and they accept it it It's like, this is our normal. What I like about China is that when it makes a decision on something, it's looking 40 years in the future because it's by committee.

1:35:07 in 30 days time. They go back and forth It is messed up. Well, it's also nobody really that you would He's an odd one. out in a fucking bulletproof Popemobile turmoil-filled adolescent period, We've got to stop that. really rich and influential people that maybe would have run for president 20 or 30 years ago But if you look at it on paper, the right thing when you're in, and then when you're out, we'll have you come by, you'll

1:39:56 What is this? The $153 She ain't budging. I wonder. some topic coming on, and you'd have basically the Republican And he did lots of talks, fascinating, fascinating guy. You've got to do this. That's what a miserable bunch of people. for the doors and try and get out before they lock the doors so that there's not enough to get out that door What a goofy law.

1:43:34 mass of us, if we all I think the representative government was a great idea back in the day when it was impossible And they were quite successful. So I thought, hang on, is there a way to achieve the same goal, but through the non-profit angle, And then you read down the bottom, Facebook and everything. Everyone's happy to click on a link and spread the good word about some environmental concern,

1:45:53 not voting, keep a system of the politicians. website. It'd be a pretty powerful thing. It'd be a very powerful thing. I think that's the future. But we never had the kind of transparency that we have today. let's talk, man. free form conversation that's available online where people can watch it and you know you have But I think they're going to be like those people that are wearing powdered wigs in those ancient pictures.

1:48:48 Yeah. So let's say if you got in trouble for something. Yeah. it's not a magistrate a barrister um yeah Yeah, something like that. Good Lord. Definitely New South Wales and some of them. For something environmental, I would imagine? And so it used to be you go through airport security with your Swiss Army knife. I didn't realize there was a pocket knife there.

1:50:48 The Australian Federal Police need to speak to you. and their supervisor said no no that's the law has changed they have to go to court now and so i was charged with possession of a deadly weapon basically with intent to hijack an aircraft They're the same thing. the next year, as long as you don't break any more laws, then that conviction will disappear,

1:53:22 went through security accidentally with a pocket knife they just took it that's what everyone does this but i i just spend you know three thousand It was, I think you got a pocket knife in your backpack. That's so crazy. australia is you lose your license instantly you don't have a license for the next year I've heard that a lot from Americans since Trump.

1:55:32 Or bolt, whatever, whatever it is. sounded like the whole world was was going to shine and uh but we were on a boat in the middle like just it sounded like world war three that radio. It sounded like World War III. flights were canceled. And I remember hanging out with some friends in LA. Everybody was bugging You don't see any. water vapor could uh protect the atmosphere in a lot because it's like cloud cover you know when

1:58:19 Not as much as I think we give it credit for. Maybe they're reflecting back Well, it's not true. Like, what is that? It's whatever. Yeah, it's all right. I spend a lot of time underwater. Maybe slightly dehydrated. Yeah, I got messed up. arms and hands both totally paralyzed couldn't move them um enormous enormous amount of pain about six days. It was a very remote area and there's all this stuff there. And then

2:02:57 So what's going on in my body is lots of little tiny bubbles basically are all in my nerves, bloodstream, everywhere, and they cause inflammation and they kill stuff. Yeah. And I had to learn I killed a lot I tested my IQ beforehand But I dropped Well, I enjoy bad movies now. Do you watch that over and over again? Do you enjoy reality shows now? Yeah.

2:04:57 Well, I want to choose my own schedule as well. well that's a commercial that's a that's how it normally is yeah welcome to what we had to deal I would say it does work for a vast majority of people who don't, Have you ever seen the South Park? where they go over the effect of the prescription drug industry and what massive influence it has on people and the amount of people that are hooked on pain pills and whatnot.

2:07:16 They get addicted to that money that comes from those sales. And an Australian is just like, oh yeah, nothing, boom, nothing, boom. Well, people have antidepressants, It's apparently like there's a lot attached to it. Unless you have something like diabetes or something, right? 24-7. I'll hide in the corner. It feels like someone's got a needle. Hyperbaric chambers?

2:10:00 If you actually talk to a doctor, they would say it probably wouldn't do much because you do it after the event. here to fix it? There isn't. They're kind of like, oh, we'll try this drug. We'll try this drug. but acupuncture was actually... Why would you get in trouble for saying that? Really? well, he's just having trouble adjusting to the fact So you just become accustomed to the dosage?

2:12:18 milligrams or something. And so I was like, well, I don't want to keep going with this. And quite So I'm like, But let's think, there's no evidence. So I've been kind of very low doses of it. So now I'm just back to popping a pill when it gets too much at night. Yeah. The next one they wanted what I try and do. Yeah. Fuck, man. Did you have any experience with pirates?

2:14:50 But what I quite like to show people is actually, No, not at all. Do you guys have tiny yachts um but cruise ships i think the last sort of cruise ship or big ship that they tried You're not going to get away with it. little most of it's actually the straits of malacca singapore around there really most of and then they got a massive ransom and realized, like, well, hey, fuck fishing.

2:17:22 and what you can get in the world. It just leads people to desperation. look at the globe and say well look there's plenty of resources we have boats and ships and let's Really? That's what we're getting to right now there's a 40-year lag between what we pump out in pollution and CO2 to what the actual temperature rises. peninsula it's it's a bit of a hot spot as well um it's warm i've got a picture um i've got a

2:20:12 Like when we go to, well, England's the most ridiculous. Some random ancient fucking king shit. We dug our heels in. systems of 12 inches. It's dumb. Like, one They have miles. Yeah. No. See? They're exclusively on road signs. Yeah, it's weird having a mix like that. You got smart. let people women vote yeah it's goddamn beautiful it's a beautiful i have a buddy of mine who's over

2:23:33 Because every expedition I do. uh into the into the ocean there uh east and so you've got this little tiny rock in the middle of a big ocean and you've kind of got to try and make your way through the penguins and the seals to actually get ashore. Wow, that's so beautiful. I mean, I guess there's a little bit of pity, maybe, a little bit of like, oh, you don't have a passport. That's unfortunate.

2:26:01 A dude's married a mechanic? There's a lot of cow patties around there. on another planet, we would think it would be the most fascinating discovery that man has ever... They live forever. And cuttlefish are my favorite, favorite creature. We're still working stuff out. They have green blood. Yeah, or the octopus is in the cephalopod family as well.

2:28:25 And then they would also mimic color And we're still trying to work out how they do this I can go on and on and on. So what they do is the male cuttlefish gets an arm and sticks it up his nostril. You take a sack of sperm and they fist it up your nose. We're going to watch it here? So the Australian giant cuttlefish, different cuttlefish, different things.

2:30:26 He's like, they are some kind of an alien creature. They have so many, like the more research you do You can't do tests on them that harm them, basically. I mean, you probably, it's a strange thing that we do when we decide what we will eat. Good Lord. discern a reason of why this started this was you know don't eat pork here well you get salmonella

2:32:49 So you're not allowed to talk to your sister. Yeah, and generally their mother as well. hypothetically this person maybe some climate change Go pee. I'd like to find someone Like right now, if I had to pee Yeah. I mean, I've left podcasts before. sometimes. Is that real? Maybe not you. it's crazy like there's some stuff in them. it says it's used as a heavy laxative.

2:35:40 too. Your body's like, what in the fuck? Well, actually, you are very right. So when you got washed overboard, you end up floating up on a beach. look like a male, basically. You had to be able to get away with... You had to look like a male, basically. After traveling the world for a while, the last few years, It's amazing that it took so long If you walk around with yoga pants

2:37:36 But you can't have your It's an argument for a large fanny pack. But also we wouldn't be caught dead wearing an actual fanny pack, bum bag, whatever you want to call it Yeah I'm just amazed at how many tangents you've been able to go on in the last few hours. You've got such an intelligent audience. And you need to – it's got such a political aspect to it.

2:39:20 Right. And that's a big one that people get wrong straight away. But when you look at, say, I think that one might have missed me, actually. documentary where it showed that the same people that were spreading misinformation, that were actually paid to spread misinformation about cigarettes, about cigarettes being addictive, were the very same people that were spreading misinformation about climate change.

2:41:14 something's going on. And people normally go, oh, well, that's solar and stuff like that going on. And the averages is Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to make observations of the skies And actually between... Yeah, exactly. It's weird to look at. Boy, those conservatives, they fucking piled on. You always have. And even John Kerry, there was some fuckery.

2:44:53 And they showed it without doubt on the show, in the documentary, It's messed up. Six? well, I can prove 4.5 to 99.99% probability, They need more calculations. But I think it's just good that people realize that scientists i don't think i think that's people found out people look better those little tiny underwear Why is this all happening? Is there something that can be done?

2:48:15 I can just skip straight forward to the solutions if you like. Sea level rise, oh. He was the first democratically elected president Like he's, is that just a weird face they call him? Yeah, it's just some crazy teeth. He was a marine biologist. But he's biting his lower lip. Is that just a weird face they caught him making? For talking about climate change? Yeah. Wow. Who put him in jail. Yeah, he's currently in jail, I think, at the moment. For talking about climate change?

2:49:40 People in Shanghai would disagree. So if you take this all into account, Oh, my God. We got rid of Florida. That stuff in the middle, there's no one there anyway, right? Not just ocean acidification, but less oxygen and more dead zones. At the current trends of what's going on, 2050, we're looking at this ocean acidification event happening. And that's pretty much, that's all your fish species, everything.

2:52:12 hey, here's a whole heap of stuff for you that makes you grow faster and bigger and stronger. But, I mean, this one here, this is this month, and you've got 12 degrees warmer in the top. 12 degrees Celsius warmer than usual. over 50% of Greenland melted last year. Was Greenland at one point in time green? Is that the reason why they called it Greenland?

2:53:46 Super excited. So that's what it's all about. It's crazy. Death by toddler. do them all 20 years ago, basically. We just need to start acting on it. take a little bit of the war budget, the military budget. How are you going to get in trouble for that? Freedom ain't free, pussy. hey, let's take 50% of the military budgets You can convert all those coal-fired power plants

2:56:35 It's Buckminster Fuller. But how do you deal with ISIS? Is this real? Yeah. It's people that leave the fucking guns around kids. Worked rather well. there was really a gun problem you'd know it with all our guns and all our ammo there was really a Well that's what they think that think well they're coming for our guns they're coming it's education when it comes down

3:00:01 We need to do something major. Something that's, whether it's infrastructure If we all would agree, let's just ramp down our gun production, our missile production. because they want to make sure of money available for climate change abatement. I hate when Rogan has hippies on. You know, they reluctantly accept the fact that we have disputes and that we have armies to handle that and keep us safe.

3:02:14 This is all very reasonable. I don't want to convolute it to do something about this, we are just so screwed. We really are. Well, that's one of the Argue it as you may. Something like that? I have no idea, but hey, I'll come back next year. And hey, keep up the good work, Joe. joe you you are really doing some amazing stuff here and i don't think