#1167 - Larry Sharpe

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Ready, five, four, three, two, one. Larry Sharpe, how are you, sir?

Larry Sharpe (0:08)

I am doing great, thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Before we get started, I like you.

Larry Sharpe (0:12)

Oh, that's good.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

I like you a lot. I like what you're saying, man. I'm just telling you right now, up front, I've been listening to a lot of your interviews, watching a lot of your interviews.

You make sense. Oh, my God. It's almost like you know you can't win. So you're talking so logically, you might win.

Larry Sharpe (0:29)

Yeah, the hope is the people who actually have given up, who think it's so stupid, they don't bother voting, right?

So the hope is I say something that makes sense, and they go, oh, maybe I should vote. Oh, my God, maybe I should vote. If those people vote, You win. I win.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Yeah, there's an untapped resource of unmotivated people who are too fucked. How do we fix that? Is it a matter of getting people, I believe firmly that if we could get people to register and vote online, especially with their phones, it changes the world.

Larry Sharpe (1:00)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

I really, really, really believe that. And I think that this is also a concern of the people that are in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. And I don't think they want that.

Larry Sharpe (1:09)

100%. Look, they're relying on voter apathy. They rely on that.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

They're also relying on people who are committed to their parties and who are politically active, which is not the majority of the people.

Larry Sharpe (1:20)

It's the establishment, right? I mean, look, you asked how we fixed this. Bernie and Trump actually told us this in 2016 They told us two things. Number one, if you can get people to an event, you can get them to the polling station. Number one, that's why they did a lot of events. I do over 30 events every month. I'm always doing events, getting people to show up, because if I can get them to show up to my event, I can get them to a polling booth, right? Because to come to hear me speak, you have a lot of choices out there. You could be on Netflix, you can hang out with your family and friends, you could be playing a video game.

You choose to come hear me speak, you'll come to the polling station. That's number one.

But how do I get them to care in the first place? It's hope.

The average person who votes often, right, if you vote often, you usually vote because of fear. The two-party system installs fear, right? I don't really care about my guy or gal, but I'm so afraid of the other guy, I'll go out and support my guy or gal, even though I don't even know his name. I just know I don't like the red team, so I vote blue, or I don't like the blue team, so I vote red.

But to get someone who doesn't vote, and New York state's really bad. New York state, about 70% of New Yorkers don't vote. It's a huge chunk. Over seven million New Yorkers don't vote.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

70%.

Larry Sharpe (2:19)

Yeah, 70%, yeah. Last election, I think it was 67%, so it hovers around 70 To get those people out, you have to give them hope.

Bernie gave the left hope. Trump gave the right hope. If the Democratic Party wasn't so broken as a party, Bernie would have been their nominee. It would have been hope against hope. It was hope against establishment. Hope won. That's how it works.

I'm hope. The other two guys who were running in my election, they're totally establishment.

Joe Rogan (2:44)

Well, you say some really logical things. One of the things that you said that nobody wants to touch, you were talking about gun violence, and you were talking about these mass shootings, and you said there's two things that they have in common. One of them, they don't have relationships. They don't have girlfriends. They don't have boyfriends. Well, it's almost always a guy that does it. Usually it is.

Larry Sharpe (3:04)

Boys tend to be more violent, and males tend to, people get mad at me being sexist, but I'm just doing stats. Statistically, males tend to outwardly strike. Women tend to inwardly strike, as a general, statistically.

There's exceptions, obviously.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

The only other factor is psychotropic drugs. And these are two things that no one wants to talk about.

Larry Sharpe (3:25)