#1794 - Monty Franklin

Monty Franklin (0:20)

Was that your British accent?

Joe Rogan (0:22)

Yeah, it was terrible. You can't tell if I'm from New Zealand, Britain, Scotland.

Monty Franklin (0:27)

No, it was a shit.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

How many people that don't know you're from Australia think you're British?

Monty Franklin (0:37)

I never get it. I always get Australian.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Really?

Monty Franklin (0:39)

I've never been called anything else. Maybe New Zealand or British once, but...

Joe Rogan (0:47)

That's amazing because you lived in Florida for a year.

That basically is another country. They don't know what the fuck's going on in the rest of the world.

Monty Franklin (0:54)

I love it.

It's so funny. Florida, it's like 1985, and they just said, no, we're just going to stay here. Everything's fluorescent, and the buildings haven't been updated since. Everything's strange.

Joe Rogan (1:06)

What part of Florida are you living in?

Monty Franklin (1:08)

We're in Orlando for a year.

Joe Rogan (1:10)

Oh, okay. So that's Disneyland. That's a weird place anyway, Disney World. That's a weird place anyway because it's all Disney-fied.

Monty Franklin (1:15)

Yeah. That's like Disney... Like half the people work for Disney in Orlando just walking around and stuff. It's a strange place.

I enjoyed the time that we were there, but I'm glad that we're leaving Surrey, Orlando.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

It's a fun place to stay during the pandemic, I'm sure.

Monty Franklin (1:31)

I mean, everything was like...

Joe Rogan (1:32)

They act like it's not real.

Monty Franklin (1:33)

Well, no. Nothing happened there. There was no pandemic.

Everyone just lived their lives and carried on and went to boat regattas and made out with each other in the streets.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

I was talking to Stan Hope, and Stan Hope, by the way, never got COVID, which is amazing.

Amazing. I mean, if anybody's got a COVID-

Monty Franklin (1:51)

He probably got COVID 20 years ago, and he's had it that whole time or something.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

It's a joke he has, he says he's been experiencing COVID-like symptoms for the past 30 years.

But he was traveling to Wyoming and Montana, and he goes, and they were like, we never had any restrictions. There's places that just never locked anything down.

Monty Franklin (2:11)

I wonder if there's, I mean, was, no, I was going to say Hawaii, but Hawaii was pretty locked down, wasn't it?

Joe Rogan (2:16)

They're still locked down. I was just there.

Monty Franklin (2:17)

Really?

Joe Rogan (2:18)

I was there last week, and they made me put a mask on in the gym. I'm like, well, cut the shit. I'm in the restaurant. I don't have to wear a mask. I'm in the gym. I do. Like, where's the logic? Tell me what, because I'm breathing harder.

Monty Franklin (2:31)

COVID doesn't go into the restaurant.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

You have to get tested to even get into the fucking state. Like you have to have a test. You do a PCR test to get into the state. So they know you don't have COVID. And then you get there. No one has COVID there. Everyone in the resort, I was staying at the Four Seasons. Everybody has been tested. It's very nice.

Very nice place. Nice gym, too.

But it's fucking, it's preposterous. And not only that, you're wearing this surgical mask. These fucking stupid paper masks don't do a goddamn thing anyway.

When I talked to Michael Osterholm, the infectious disease expert, he was explaining why these N95 masks work. He's like, that's what you want. If you really think you're in contact with something and you want to prevent any kind of infection, he goes, you should have an N95 mask. What is he saying about something about the magnetic, something about it?

SPEAKER_3 (3:21)

Electrostatic charger.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Right. And somehow or another, it literally stops the particles in the mask itself.

Monty Franklin (3:30)

And that's the only one that does it?

Joe Rogan (3:32)

Yes.

Monty Franklin (3:32)

Wearing your underpants on your face doesn't work.

Joe Rogan (3:34)

It doesn't work. It's a face diaper. It's fucking so stupid. And not only that, a lot of people were wearing...

This fucking guy at the gym, where they said it was okay with him. He had a face shield.

So this guy has a thing.

Monty Franklin (3:47)

The clear thing?

Joe Rogan (3:47)

Yeah. Clear thing. Goes down like this. And there's a big gap.

There's this big gap underneath. You can go in there and pick your nose. It doesn't make any... It's like, we're in Clown World.

This is crazy. So he's okay, but I have to put on the surgical thing.