#1460 - Donnell Rawlings

Joe Rogan (0:00)

One, Donnell! We're live. So good to see you.

Donnell Rawlings (0:06)

Okay, this is not the cough that people expect to help for me.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Donnell has not been tested. He will be tested today at the end of the podcast. I'm not worried.

Donnell Rawlings (0:21)

But you ain't got to blow it up like that. Give me a chance to explain.

But I have subscribed to social distancing. Social distancing, 100%. But the new normal.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Should we move over a little bit?

Donnell Rawlings (0:43)

The new normal. And this has nothing to do with you, Joe. I'm just saying. I'm possibly protecting myself from me to you.

And I love you. And I know that we have a certain amount of trust factor. But this 19 shit is kind of dead in how trustworthy you are to somebody.

Joe Rogan (1:08)

What do you think? First of all, I think what's really important for everybody right now is to strengthen your immune system. First of all, can I tell you something? You look like you lost weight.

Donnell Rawlings (1:17)

Maybe like 5 pounds. But I feel good. Thank you.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Take that fucking thing off.

Donnell Rawlings (1:23)

I knew motherfuckers that eat elks don't give a fuck about No, once you eat elk, you don't give a fuck about no COVID.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Well, that's one thing is like eating well, eat healthy, take vitamins. This is what you need to take for sure. Vitamin C, large doses of vitamin C, vitamin D, and zinc. Those are very important right now.

Donnell Rawlings (1:41)

Isn't zinc an aphrodisiac also?

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Yes, it's good for lose.

Donnell Rawlings (1:46)

So you can get your immune system up and get everything up.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

That's all connected to your body being healthy. The more vital your body is, the more vitality you have.

Everything is going to work better. Your hormones, your immune system, everything. Those are things that I recommend to everybody.

Donnell Rawlings (2:03)

But nobody is thinking about that, Joe.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Oh, you got to.

Donnell Rawlings (2:05)

I'm saying you have to, but nobody is thinking about that. Everybody is so afraid, COVID, COVID, COVID. But I personally think that you should be more afraid of catching a cold and the flu didn't get in COVID-19.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

I think you should be afraid of COVID-19, but you should also be afraid of catching a flu.

All of it's bad. All of it's bad. It's not good to be sick. But when you protect your immune system and keep your body healthy and strong, it definitely, it's like you have troops. You got to think of the virus as an invading army.

Donnell Rawlings (2:40)

100%.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

All these viruses. And apparently, that Lex Friedman quote, what was it, how many different viruses are there? Hundreds of thousands that are constantly competing.

Like, he was describing it, this genius Russian scientist that I have on the podcast.

Donnell Rawlings (2:54)

He was like, specifically the COVID virus?

Joe Rogan (2:55)

Well, he's talking about all viruses in general. He's saying it's like a world war out there, viruses.

Donnell Rawlings (3:00)

But what I hear, and when it comes to it being a world war, I've heard that COVID...

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Look at this guy wrote. There's 320,000 plus distinct viruses in mammals and 100 million invertebrates and plants. There's an epic microscopic world war going on all around us and inside us.

Nature is beautiful and terrifying.

Donnell Rawlings (3:23)

So why is this one getting the headlines?

Joe Rogan (3:26)

Because it's new. It's a novel coronavirus, meaning no one has an immune system for it. No one has developed immunity. When you think about other diseases like the common cold or different flus, we've had flus. People have a certain amount of immunity to flu. You get flu shots. You can get a flu shot. It gives you an immunity to a certain amount. Even when they get the flu shot wrong, apparently, because sometimes they guess the wrong flu strain, it still has enough of what a flu is to protect you somewhat, so to keep you from getting more sick.

Donnell Rawlings (3:59)

So corona is actually a strand of, it's like the baby brother of the flu?

Joe Rogan (4:03)

Not really.

It's a type of virus. A corona virus is a whole category of viruses that includes the common cold. This is, they call it SARS-2 or COVID-19. And this is a new one. So the problem with this is no one knows how it gets spread. Like even back as far as January, they were thinking it didn't spread through the air. They were thinking it didn't spread person to person.