#1053 - Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan (0:01)

Yeah, I wish cause I don't have any need for the backseat.

Joe Rogan (0:03)

Four, three, two, one.

Neal Brennan (0:07)

Ladies and gentlemen, we're ive! Fuck.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

We're live on the day of Net Neutrality.

We might not be broadcasting anymore. Might be over. I don't know how that works.

Neal Brennan (0:17)

When does it kick in?

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Right away, I don't know. I have no idea.

Neal Brennan (0:20)

Probably takes a month. By the way, has there ever been a harder time to be a citizen, meaning I never had to pay this much attention?

Joe Rogan (0:31)

I know, right?

Neal Brennan (0:32)

Like, come on. It's like fucking we have to babysit their children that we have to like, wait, what are they doing?

Like where they used to kind of be able to take care of themselves? Or seemingly could?

Joe Rogan (0:43)

There's not one place where you can go where you can get one hundred... Are you shaking that before you open it? You're a fucking maniac.

Neal Brennan (0:50)

Bro, I don't give a fuck. It's just going to explode all over the place.

Joe Rogan (0:53)

Yeah, you gotta let that fucker rest. The worst ones are those little small ones that I have, those cayenne cleanses. You shake those bitches, they just fucking shoot up to the ceiling.

Neal Brennan (1:02)

Is that true?

Joe Rogan (1:02)

Yeah, it's all fermented. It's all carbonated, you know? Yeah. But there's no one source where you can absolutely get one hundred percent unbiased factual information as the news. Everything is leaning one way or leaning another way, and even CNN, which I used to trust all the time. They fuck up all the time. They're always having to print retractions. There was some thing that was going around today.

There's not one news source where I can say, please just give me the unbiased information with no left or right lean. Can I get that?

Neal Brennan (1:31)

Which we talked about beforehand, even the idea of the New York Times. What people don't understand is people don't understand journalism a lot of the time. Especially when people go, it's fake news, it's like, you know, you can't print fake news because you ever have anything in The New Yorker? You ever be quoted in a New Yorker article?

They literally, you talk to the journalist, then two different fact checkers call you to confirm what you said. And like, is this true? And I literally, this is in an article about someone else that I gave a quote for. And like, did you say that? And you can confirm that? And they do that at every major journalistic outfit. They do The New York Times, Washington Post, like name the big ones. They're not as stringent as The New Yorker because The New Yorker only comes out once a week, but they all have fact checkers.

And the thing is, these institutions can get sued.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

This is not a good example, but it's an example. The Conor McGregor fight. New York Times wrote an article about the Conor McGregor fight, and one of the things they said that he was covered in blood and rescued by the referee before he fell through the ropes.

I contacted them on Twitter and I said, in this day and age, you can't say things that everyone knows are false.

Millions of people watched that fight. There was no blood, he was not falling through the ropes, the referee rescued him. You made that up. He was outclassed and battered by a far superior boxer, which is what most boxing people expected. That's the real story. But you guys added a bunch of shit to it.

Neal Brennan (3:22)

So they retracted it. That's for sure, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

But it's not just shading.

It's a straight lie. I know it's not, because it's not really...

Neal Brennan (3:30)

It's inconsequential.

Joe Rogan (3:32)

It's not a really significant moment. It's not a big moment in time, and the result is the same.

But their description of the result makes you wonder, how much other things do you do this to? How many other subjects do you flavor in this weird way?

Neal Brennan (3:45)

What was their retraction? Because I remember seeing you write that.

And they changed it.

Joe Rogan (3:53)

But they still used hyperbole even in their retraction. They said his face was completely swollen. It wasn't.

It wasn't.

Neal Brennan (3:59)

A quadrant of his face was swollen.

Joe Rogan (4:01)

A tiny amount. A little bit of swelling from a boxing match. Not some crazy fucking Haseem Rahman shit. Remember that one where he had an iron on his head?