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#1549 - Tom Papa

The Joe Rogan Experience

October 14, 2020

Comedian and writer Tom Papa is the host of the popular podcast "Breaking Bread with Tom Papa" and the author of two books, the latest of which is "You're Doing Great!... and Other Reasons to Stay Alive.

Speakers Joe Rogan, Tom Papa, Jamie

TopicsComedy

SPEAKER_1 (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Tom Papa, welcome to Real America. I'm glad you've gotten out of your liberal hidey hole.

You come here, we can eat at a real restaurant.

Tom Papa (0:22)

It feels the same.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Does it?

Tom Papa (0:24)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

What do you mean it feels the same?

Tom Papa (0:26)

It feels the same. I went to a restaurant and, you know, is that what real life is now? A restaurant or not a restaurant?

Joe Rogan (0:34)

It feels the same where? As it does in LA?

Tom Papa (0:37)

Just walking around.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

LA feels the same as this place?

Tom Papa (0:41)

Kind of.

Joe Rogan (0:41)

That's not what you were just saying before we got in here. What are you, a fucking propagandist? The guy comes here.

Tom Papa (0:48)

He's so different off air. I'll tell you what the difference is.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

He was saying y'all and all kinds of shit.

Tom Papa (0:57)

No, you know what I found?

I'm here with you by way of Denver and then to here, and they're all doing the same things pretty much. You have a little more indoor, but everyone's masked up, everyone's doing things, but there's less anxiety in these places. There's in LA, they keep the pressure turned up to scare you to get you to behave. So you do walk around feeling more trapped and more nervous.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

Yeah, but it's not based on reality. It's not wise, it's not healthy.

Trump's 74 and he's fat and he kicked it in four days. I don't give a fuck what anybody says.

Tom Papa (1:38)

What did they give that guy? They gave him everything. He's the President of the United States.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

But it works.

They have a thing. If you give him everything, it works. It works for fat old guys.

Tom Papa (1:46)

Yeah, but he's getting stuff that's very different from what you would get just walking into Urgent Care and Encino.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Don't go to Urgent Care and Encino.

Go to Cedars Cyanide. They'll hook you up with whatever he's got. Do you think they... Is he getting things that you can't get?

Tom Papa (2:00)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (2:01)

In all seriousness? Yeah. Are you sure?

Tom Papa (2:03)

100% because the first thing is a trial drug that hasn't been approved yet. They're not just handing that out at Cedars.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

Is that the...

Tom Papa (2:11)

The first thing.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

That's Remdesivir?

Tom Papa (2:14)

No, everyone can get that.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

Remdesivir?

Tom Papa (2:16)

Remdesivir. Remdesivir.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

Anyone can get that.

Tom Papa (2:19)

Anyone can get Remdesivir.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

And then what is the other stuff they gave him?

Tom Papa (2:21)

But the other thing he got was like the plasma-related therapy.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

You can't get that everywhere?

Tom Papa (2:26)

No.

Joe Rogan (2:27)

Why can't you?

Tom Papa (2:28)

Because you're not the president of the United States.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Or maybe the liberal media is trying to keep that from you so that you stay sick so that they can get Biden into the White House. Ever think about that?

Tom Papa (2:36)

All right. Now wait a second.

I literally last night because I literally was... There is definitely so much confusion because that side is ramping up the fear 100 percent, making it scarier than it is so they can get him to be president. And the other side is definitely saying from Trump on down, don't worry about this thing, so it makes it looks like we did a good job and the economy comes back and all that stuff. So I'm like this cognitive dissonance, like what is real? I watched Tucker Carlson, he made sense for a minute, and then I watched Anderson, he made sense for a minute, and I was like let me lift off into the satellite and let me just look at the world. Let me see what's happening in the world that's not involved in this election.

Spain, France, Moscow, the Netherlands all opened up a little too much, and now we're all putting restrictions back, everything spiked.

Joe Rogan (3:36)

Yeah, but if you want to look at other countries, look at Sweden, because they opened up completely, and they have less cases, and now they're back to normal. They have no masks, you go to a bar, no one's, obviously it's a smaller country.

Tom Papa (3:48)

Smaller country. I mean, look.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

Less people, they live in different sort of circumstances, they have mostly smaller villages, other than Stockholm, but they're fine.

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