#1770 - Valentine Thomas

Valentine Thomas (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Cheers.

Must be Canadian week, two Canadians in a row. Salute, my friend.

Valentine Thomas (0:19)

Who was the other one? Oh yeah. Jordan Peterson.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Yeah, Jordan was on yesterday.

Your country is in revolt. Do you know about this? Show this video. Look at this video that I sent Jamie.

Valentine Thomas (0:36)

January 23rd.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

It's a giant convoy of trucks that's apparently some insane amount of people, like 50,000 trucks, that are headed to Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandates by Trudeau.

Valentine Thomas (0:55)

And they're all coming from Canada, because they're not allowed to commit.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

They're all in Canada. It's all Canadian truckers. Because apparently they're all being mandated that they have to get vaccinated, and they're like, hey, we don't even contact anybody. We're in our truck. We just drive. And, you know, okay, this is another one that I sent Jamie. Watch this one. This girl is at a bar, and she, I don't know if she's a stripper or what, but this is this guy's birthday. Don't you hear it? Where's the volume? Here we go. So watch this.

She pours water on them, and then check this out.

All fun and games, right? It's all fun, right?

Yeah. Fucking tased them and lit them on fire.

Jamie (1:52)

I saw that video the other day.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

You saw it too? Whoops.

Jamie (1:55)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

First of all, who gets tased at their birthday party?

Jamie (2:00)

Good point.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

That seems... What kind of friends?

Jamie (2:04)

They're just sitting at the bar. They're just a stun gun ready to go.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

I mean, when you get that burnt, like, how long was that?

Ten seconds he was on fire for? Five seconds maybe?

Jamie (2:15)

Yeah, he could probably recover from that. Steve-O does wild shit like that.

Joe Rogan (2:19)

That's what I'm saying. But he had to get serious skin transplants. Remember last time we saw him? He had bandages all over his arms.

Yeah, that guy.

Valentine Thomas (2:29)

How do you explain that to your wife, though?

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Well, she knows.

Valentine Thomas (2:32)

Well, now she knows.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

I don't know if he's married.

Jamie (2:35)

Steve-O's, but not about this guy.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

That's going to be a problem. Well, the video is out, so he's going to have to explain that. But Steve-O's wife is fully aware that he's out of his fucking mind.

But that poor guy.

So, my friend, for people who don't know you, it's been a few years since you've been on the podcast, you were once a lawyer in Montreal or on your way to becoming a lawyer, and you were like, fuck this life. And now you're a spearfisher person, which seems to be, if you looked at that on paper, you're like, how? No, that's a recreational activity. That's not something that you... But you figured out a way with your smart brain to actually monetize it and promote it. And it's very positive, because it's like you're promoting, first of all, you're promoting freedom to choose to live your life the way you want to live, which in your case was like, I don't want to be locked in a cubicle. I don't want to be in an office. I don't want to do this. And this diving in the water, holding your breath and shooting fish, how's that working out? How many years has it been now?

Valentine Thomas (3:40)

It's been about three years and a half now since I was in the podcast. And I've been doing this for a good maybe five years.

Joe Rogan (3:50)

Have your parents settled into it yet?

Valentine Thomas (3:54)

They made a bit of way into it, but they still...

The first question is more about like, are you making good money? And you find that, which is fair enough. When you're older and you care for your kid, you just want him to be good, I guess.

Joe Rogan (4:08)

Oh, for sure. Yeah. I mean, it only makes sense.

But it's like they must realize that you're like a social media success now. It's like the whole thing is it's actually got weight of its own. It's got some momentum. You know, I see your posts and they're very exciting, and you're deep, deep, deep in the water with a spear gun and your underwear like swimming around.

It's all very exciting, right?

Valentine Thomas (4:32)

I'm way too cold to be wearing underwear in the water. I wish I was, but...