#1751 - Brian Simpson

Joe Rogan (0:12)

We're up, Brian.

Brian Simpson (0:13)

We're up, we're here, man.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

What's going on, brother? Good to see you.

Brian Simpson (0:15)

It's happening.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

It is. Cheers, sir.

Brian Simpson (0:18)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Merry Christmas, happy new year, all that good stuff. Yay.

Brian Simpson (0:24)

You know why people started doing that? Why?

Joe Rogan (0:27)

I don't know.

Brian Simpson (0:27)

Because during Prohibition, it was a way to try to tell if you had bullshit alcohol, because if you banged it and it bubbled, then you knew it wasn't. Yeah, because people would sell bullshit alcohol.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

It's not funny, because that's exactly what's going on with the fentanyl overdoses. The reason why fentanyl is rampant through this country is because people are getting this shit from Mexico, because heroin's illegal. So they're getting it from Mexico, they're getting the Coke from Mexico, and it's laced fentanyl, and all that stuff is laced, and the reason why they do it, they cut it to make it stronger so that they can have less cocaine, because fentanyl's cheap.

And that's why all these people are dying.

Brian Simpson (1:04)

So they can transport more?

Joe Rogan (1:06)

Yes. Do you know the number one cause of death between people 18 to 49 right now is fentanyl?

Brian Simpson (1:12)

That's crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

100,000 people died last year from fentanyl.

That's a real epidemic. That is a real epidemic.

Brian Simpson (1:20)

That's crazy.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

Yes, it's crazy. Way more than died from COVID with the same age class.

Brian Simpson (1:25)

Yeah, we recently had a bunch of comics pass cause from fentanyl.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Yeah, that whole thing with Quigley and those three dudes she was hanging with.

Brian Simpson (1:34)

And then I remember seeing, so I'm checking on my people that I know do a little bit of the powder, and I'm like, hey man, and a lot of people were like, oh, I've got to leave this shit alone. I gotta leave this shit alone. I was like, why doesn't everybody just test?

And he goes, you can test it? I was like, yeah, you can test it. And he was like, I'm gonna go to a party tonight.

You know, it's like, you can just go get the sick man. You haven't learned shit.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

Dude, if heroin was legal, if cocaine was legal, you'd get it straight from the source. You'd get real cocaine that's not cut at all.

It will be probably, I've never done coke, but the way they describe it, it's like a much better experience, and then you don't have to worry about it, and then you know what you're doing.

Brian Simpson (2:12)

Yeah, I'm in the legalize everything camp, you know? Yes. We talked about it last time I was here.

Just legalize it all. Have it come, have the FDA.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

Exactly.

It's scalable, right? It's like, what would you do if it was just the three of us? Imagine if it was just the three of us were on an island, and Jamie's like, marijuana should be illegal. And we were like, what the fuck, Jamie? Jamie wants to lock us up for marijuana. Like, that would be crazy. We'd have to kill Jamie.

Brian Simpson (2:38)

Right, we'd just be like, well, there's two of us.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Yeah, we were like, what the fuck are you talking about, man? But that's exactly what it's like with the government. With the government, it's like one person versus three or four, whatever it is.

It's like a small group of people that are deciding that things should be illegal. And then it's a bunch of parents that don't want their children to get addicted. And I understand that. I'm a parent. I don't want my children to get addicted. But that's what is happening. That's what's happening.

Brian Simpson (3:02)

Here's always my pushback on that, right? Is all of the horrible things that have happened with drugs have happened during the prohibition era.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

Yes.

Brian Simpson (3:17)

So making it legal isn't gonna make it more likely that your kids are gonna get addicted. In fact, they know, wasn't it when they study the people coming back from Vietnam and they were like, the people that did heroin over there would come back and the ones that had loving, supportive environments and family, they stopped doing heroin.

Joe Rogan (3:33)

Yes, yes.

Brian Simpson (3:34)

So it's like, I think that, you know, but it's hard to say to somebody that lost someone.

Joe Rogan (3:38)