#1651 - Joe List

Joe Rogan (0:18)

This is it. So what happens? You got accosted last night?

Joe List (0:21)

We're in it. This is just going.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Yeah.

Joe List (0:24)

So good to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Good to have you.

Joe List (0:28)

Do you need booze? No, I don't drink, but I appreciate the offer.

Heroin would be good. Yeah. I'm still doing heroin.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

That's always like the hackiest joke. I don't drink, but I want to buy heroin. It's like you always go like if someone says they don't drink, you go with something way more preposterous than drinking, like, oh, I'm sober.

Joe List (0:46)

Right. The other one is quitter. Well, people say quitter. That's a big one to do.

But no, I appreciate the offer though. I mean, this cigar, I might enjoy.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Want a cigar?

Joe List (0:58)

Sure, maybe, yeah. I'm on an empty stomach, so it might make me more jittery than I already am.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

We'll give it a little, a few minutes, settle in.

Joe List (1:05)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

No, you're not, you're fine.

Joe List (1:06)

Well, wait until I tell the story.

So yeah, we're here in Austin, and I got a ride, a lift to the hotel. I'm staying downtown, and we were coming up 6th Street, which I don't know if you've been down there. It's changed a bit. It's like kind of overrun with street folk, homeless people.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

There's quite a few of the...

They call them unhoused. That's the new, more politically correct term.

Joe List (1:31)

Sure. I thought street people was good, but maybe that's bad.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

I think street people's...

I don't think they like that. I don't know if there's like a homeless board talk about the vernacular that they appreciate.

Joe List (1:45)

Yeah, all right. Well, unhoused people that seem, you know, unwell, and they're kind of everywhere, which evidently they just passed a law, but it hasn't been enforced.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Well, the law is only about camping.

Joe List (1:58)

Okay.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

I mean, you can't stop people from walking around.

Joe List (2:02)

Right.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

So there's always gonna be an issue. And like one of the clubs downtown is Vulcan Gas Company, and that place is right caddy corner to a homeless shelter.

So they're all over the place in that area.

Joe List (2:16)

That's where I think I was, on 7th, right?

Joe Rogan (2:19)

I think Vulcan is on 6th. Is it on?

The shelter's on 7th? Yeah, I think you're right.

Joe List (2:27)

Okay, well so-

Joe Rogan (2:28)

It's in that area.

Joe List (2:29)

So we drove down the street, and the guy was kind of saying, yeah, they've taken over, it's crazy, it's scary, be careful, whatever.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

The lift driver said?

Joe List (2:35)

Yeah, so I'm like, well, he was like a driver driver. But so I'm already in my head. And then I asked the lady, I was like, is it safe walking around here now? It feels like it's changed a bit. And she was like, just avoid 6th Street. And I was like, all right, got it.

And then I was like, I'm gonna go to the creek, do a spot, texted Rebecca, and it's like an eight minute walk. So I was like, I'll walk there. Now I'm a huge pussy, anxiety, the whole thing. Although I have been doing mixed martial arts, but we can get to that later.

But so I was walking up the street and I'm like, all right, so far, so good. And then I started to get closer and I saw these two guys walking towards me and they seemed like, you know, ne'er do wells, just, you know, by the way they were presenting themselves. And then there was a guy on a bicycle, like a BMX style bike, who kind of was with them and then rode ahead and kind of did like a loop behind me. So then I was like, all right, this feels unsafe. So I kind of just moved to the street, like off the sidewalk, but still right next to the sidewalk.

And then the two guys, as they passed, were like, look at this motherfucker, this racist ass motherfucker moving into the street, this white guy, this, and it seemed...

Joe Rogan (3:47)

You were racist because you moved into the street?

Joe List (3:49)

I think because I moved into the street, but that's not what I was... I wasn't like, oh, here come black guys, let me move up. But they were walking up the sidewalk, so I just was moving, so I didn't have like a...