#1369 - Christopher Ryan

Joe Rogan (0:03)

And now the official hello. Hello, Chris Ryan.

Christopher Ryan (0:06)

Hello, officially.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

What's going on, buddy?

Jamie (0:07)

How are you?

Christopher Ryan (0:08)

Everything.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

You distinguished looking motherfucker.

Christopher Ryan (0:10)

Am I distinguished?

Joe Rogan (0:11)

What's going on with the goatee, the whole deal?

Christopher Ryan (0:13)

Yeah, it comes and goes.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

What have you been up to, man? I've been following your Instagram Chronicles. Yeah, you travel in the world in a van. What are you doing?

Christopher Ryan (0:22)

Vanthropology, I call it. It's the Vanthropology Tour. Yeah. Yeah, I love it, man. It's like, you and I have probably spoken about in my 20s, I backpacked all over the world and hitchhiked to Alaska a couple of times and did all these adventures.

A sprinter van that you have a bed in and a cooler and a freezer, that's kind of like a backpack for an older, slightly richer dude.

That's how I look at it. Because you have everything you need with you, which is a feeling I love. I love just being able to say, you know what, I'm tired, I'm going to pull over and sleep right here. And before I do, I'm going to have a couple of beers and listen to some music. And it's like everything I need is right here.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

What is the deal with pulling over in a Sprinter van and drinking? You're not even allowed to be drunk in the back seat of your own car.

Christopher Ryan (1:12)

Yeah, I believe if you have a bed, it's considered a domicile.

That's what I've been told. I'm not a legal expert. But my understanding is that the front two seats are considered the vehicle, but beyond that, in the back where you have the bed and all the stuff, that's considered your house. So a warrant to search is the same as someone coming into your house.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

Oh.

Christopher Ryan (1:38)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

Because I know a dude who got in trouble because he was drunk in the back seat of his car, because he knew he was drunk and said, like, I'm not fucking driving, I'm just going to sleep it off. And he laid down in the back seat of his car and the cops knocked on the door, and he opened up the door and he said, yeah, I'm drunk and I'm sleeping off and they arrested him.

Christopher Ryan (1:56)

That's bullshit.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

Yeah. Well, you know, some cops, they feel like they have to make a certain number of arrests. You know, some places have quotas. Yeah.

Christopher Ryan (2:08)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

I've always thought that's so strange. Like, what happens if no one commits crimes?

What do they do about the quotas? Do they just make up crimes?

Christopher Ryan (2:16)

And how do they fill those prisons that are, you know, dependent upon 98% occupancy rate?

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Yeah, they just assume that there's going to be a certain amount of people that fuck up. Like, what happens if something happened? Some, I mean, I don't know what it would be, other than a mass consumption of mushrooms across the entire population.

Christopher Ryan (2:37)

Oh, with people just stop breaking laws?

Joe Rogan (2:38)

Yeah, people just stop.

Christopher Ryan (2:39)

They'll just pass the law. I mean, every one of us breaks several laws every day, right? Like, there are laws we don't even know exist that we're breaking.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

Like, what kind of laws you think?

Christopher Ryan (2:49)

Oh, God, I don't know. I read an article about this years ago.

I'd be hard pressed to give you examples right now, but I'm sure there are financial laws, and we're all cheating on our taxes. Not me, not me, but everyone I know, except for Joe.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Well, I hand mine off to accountants, but I don't handle that at all.

Christopher Ryan (3:10)

But I mean, cutting corners, you know, we're all cutting corners. I ran two yellow lights on my way here, I'm sure.

I probably, you know, it's four miles per hour over the speed limit.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

So that's how they get you.

Christopher Ryan (3:22)

Yeah, I mean.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

What about autonomous vehicles?

Christopher Ryan (3:25)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

Once that kicks into gear, that's gonna be real interesting when no one's ever breaking the speed limit. What do they do? What is this, Jamie? Six laws you broke without realizing it.

Christopher Ryan (3:34)

Jamie, you're the best, man.

Joe Rogan (3:36)

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