#1686 - Ari Shaffir

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. You decide to shave your head now, huh?

Ari Shaffir (0:16)

Yeah, I like it.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It's better, right?

Ari Shaffir (0:18)

It's smoother and it's easier.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Yes, so much better. Imagine going to a barber shop now.

Ari Shaffir (0:24)

God took care of a lot of it.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

God took care of it. God cursed you.

Too much scalp.

Ari Shaffir (0:30)

I want it back.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

Do you?

Ari Shaffir (0:31)

Yeah, I really want to do a mohawk correctly.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Oh.

Ari Shaffir (0:34)

And I want it for a little bit. Remember how much fun I have my hair?

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Well, you could do stuff with your hair to get it back that's not as dangerous as the...

Ari Shaffir (0:45)

Staples?

Joe Rogan (0:46)

No, no. There's ways, there's a guy named Derek, he's got a website called More Plates, More Dates, and he talks a lot about hormone optimization, all kinds of stuff, but also recovering hair loss. And there's a bunch of different things you can do. There's topical shampoos that remove DHT from the scalp that help bring your hair back.

Ari Shaffir (1:10)

But it'll get back?

Joe Rogan (1:12)

I don't know, man, you're pretty far gone.

Ari Shaffir (1:13)

That's, there's this Amazonian treatment for it.

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Amazonian?

Ari Shaffir (1:17)

Yeah, on Ungurawa.

And then I found this lady who was like, there's a lot of fake shit on the market there. She kinda cursed on this. And I'm so sorry, drop, I'm sorry, won't do it again.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

That's hilarious.

Ari Shaffir (1:31)

And so she could smell it and tell like, that's real, like, oh, no way, that's got a lot of corn oil. And I was like, to this botanist guy, I was like, will it work? And he was like, yes. And then he looks up and he goes, unless you're too far gone, then it will not work. But he goes, none of those people on the Amazon have hair loss.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

Really?

Ari Shaffir (1:47)

And that's why. Yeah, all those fuckin, we talked about all those.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

Mostly it's genetic, though.

Ari Shaffir (1:51)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

Yeah. Mostly it's genetic. If a lot of people on the Amazon don't have it, I doubt it's because they're all rubbin leaves on their head.

Ari Shaffir (1:57)

I get what you're sayin.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Because it's not a common thing amongst Native Americans that are pure blood. Pure blood, rather?

Ari Shaffir (2:04)

Really?

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Yeah. Yeah, people that are pure Native American, it's not a very common thing.

Ari Shaffir (2:07)

Everyone talks how hard it is to be Native American that the full locks of hair.

Joe Rogan (2:11)

Well, you do have to realize that 95% of them died from the plague.

Ari Shaffir (2:17)

Yeah, and then there's a litter also, which they never liked.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Litter?

Ari Shaffir (2:22)

You know.

Joe Rogan (2:22)

Oh, the Indian that cried?

Ari Shaffir (2:24)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

The pollution.

Ari Shaffir (2:25)

The last 5% was like, come on, guys, there's 5% of us left, and you're chucking shit in our yard.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Yeah, I was listening to this thing where these settlers, post-Smallpox, were going, like, arriving in towns, and there would be no one in the town.

It would be ghost, and they thought the people had abandoned the town. They hadn't figured it out yet, but it would literally, like, the entire town was wiped out.

Ari Shaffir (2:49)

From plague.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

From the plague, yeah. That was a really common thing. They think that's what happened to South America. They think that's what happened to the Amazon. They think that the lost city of Z, the lost city of Zed, however you want to say it, they think that that was a massive civilization that existed in the Amazon, and then the European settlers came down. And just like they did with the Mayans, just like they did with the Native Americans, just like they did with, they brought horrible fucking diseases, and everybody died.

That's the number one theory. Because people are thinking about what's going on right now, right?

See how even a disease that doesn't kill a high percentage of people can spread throughout this entire country, and hundreds of, I mean, I don't know how many people have been infected by COVID now. It's gotta be in the millions, right? We've got it and recovered. Now imagine if that was smallpox.