#1633 - Ali Macofsky

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

And hello, Ali. What's going on, kid? How you living? I can call you kid for five more years.

Ali Macofsky (0:21)

Do I really get it that long?

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Yeah, you get it to 30, because I'm 53, I'm an old man. I can call you kid into your late 30s.

Ali Macofsky (0:28)

Yeah, because you'll always be older than me.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Yes, always. You'll always be a kid.

Ali Macofsky (0:32)

I think kids should stop when I'm off my parents' insurance in September. Then you'll call me an adult, and I'll break my arm and I'll be like, Joe, can you help?

Joe Rogan (0:43)

I remember when I was a kid, I would hear, when I was a kid, when I was in my 20s, I would hear men that were in their late 30s and 40s calling their significant other their girlfriend.

And I was like, that's a 39-year-old woman. That's not a girl.

Ali Macofsky (0:56)

Well, now everyone's doing the partner thing.

I used to talk shit about it, because I would have straight friends who were like, this is my partner, and I'm like, it's your boyfriend. But now I kind of like it, because girlfriend, boyfriend, it sounds so corny. I actually got booed up, Joe.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

You got booed up?

Ali Macofsky (1:13)

Yeah, I'm booed up.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

What does that mean?

Ali Macofsky (1:14)

I got a boyfriend.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Oh, you got a boyfriend? That's what booed up means?

Ali Macofsky (1:17)

Yeah, you're booed up.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Oh, where'd you meet this fella?

Ali Macofsky (1:19)

Tinder. Really?

Yeah, I was trying to get an STD, because I haven't had one yet, and I found him, and he's got nothing for me. He's clean as a whistle, but I know.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Were you hoping to get one of them curable ones, or one of the ones you keep forever?

Ali Macofsky (1:34)

If there's a pill for it, I'm like, give it. Give it.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Like the clap?

Ali Macofsky (1:37)

Yeah, I'm on my insurance till September. I'm like, fuck it, let's try it out.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Couple more months, let's ride.

Ali Macofsky (1:42)

Yeah, the way you're trying to get COVID, I'm trying to get like chlamydia or something. I like chlamydia, it's hard to spell.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

It's a weird one, because I feel like you don't know you have it, and then you give it to people, and then everyone's mad at you.

Ali Macofsky (1:53)

It's the COVID of venereal diseases. You don't know you have it. I just found out that I had COVID here.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah, we found out just an hour ago, or 20 minutes ago. What's really crazy is that you didn't have any idea.

Ali Macofsky (2:03)

I had no idea. I mean, there was-

Joe Rogan (2:05)

Were you sick a little?

Ali Macofsky (2:06)

I was sick, because I thought that I just had like a cold, and I felt like really lethargic, but I'm a pretty lethargic person in general, so I'm like, is this normal lethargy or like for real? And so I was like laying in bed, you know, taking like Tylenol or whatever, and just kind of like trying to write it out, but I was going to a place, this is what I think is so flawed, is because COVID was so, we found out so immediately, it was like people were just coming out with testing centers that weren't fully prepared. And so I was going to this place in LA, getting tested regularly, and I was getting negatives every time, and then an article came out that that specific testing center had a lot of negatives.

Joe Rogan (2:52)

Huh.

Ali Macofsky (2:54)

So I thought I didn't have it, but there was part of me that was like, this could be it, but I tested negative.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Why did that particular testing center have a lot of negatives?

Ali Macofsky (3:02)

Because the guy who created, it's called Curative Core, and the guy who started it, I guess, was like a tech dude in SF, and when COVID hit, he's like, here's a money opportunity for me.

I'll just get a bunch of tests, make them happen quickly. And so he did that, and he made it happen, but there were a lot of negatives reported.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Huh.

Ali Macofsky (3:23)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

I wonder what he used, like, for testing. That's, hmm.

Ali Macofsky (3:29)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

That's bad.

Ali Macofsky (3:31)