#1796 - Ali Siddiq

Ali Siddiq (0:13)

What's happening?

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Good to see you.

Ali Siddiq (0:14)

Man, good to be seen, man. Glad you here.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

You were telling me about the gauntlet you've been running with masks.

Ali Siddiq (0:24)

I don't know if people know, it's harder for people that's in the business right now than regular civilians if you're doing any type of work.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

You mean show business?

Ali Siddiq (0:32)

Show business, yes. Because they want a mask on you.

As soon as you finish delivering your lines, they want you to put that mask back on. Before you go to makeup, they want you to... Man, it's insane.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Is it standard, though? Is that like every production?

Ali Siddiq (0:45)

That's every production.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

Really?

Ali Siddiq (0:46)

They are masked up.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

But it doesn't have to be a good mask.

Ali Siddiq (0:50)

No, it don't have to be a good mask.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

So it's just a gesture.

Ali Siddiq (0:52)

You can use your sleeve, just cover your face. Just long...

Long as something's over your face.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

Can you have a bandana like a bandit?

Ali Siddiq (0:59)

Yeah, like you can just pull up. Just pull... You don't need your shirt. Just put your shirt over your face.

They need you to have the mask. And I understand people catching... I don't know if people believe as much as they did. Like, I'm willing to cross the line a lot now since I...

Once I had... Like, once I knew how COVID was, it's like I had COVID in the beginning, like full-fledged.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

You had it longer than anybody I've ever known. I've never known anybody who tested positive as long as you did. It was like 30... How many days?

Ali Siddiq (1:34)

32 straight days.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

That's crazy.

Ali Siddiq (1:37)

When I heard negative, I was like, I was so elated. Like, what? Negative.

And I think once I've had it, and I had the full blast, like the shotgun to the face when it was new, they didn't even have a vaccination. Nobody knew what to do.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

No medicine.

Ali Siddiq (1:55)

No medicine, no tricks. You couldn't even listen to people who didn't even know what they were talking about. They didn't even know what to say. Like, man, I don't know what to do.

I can make up something, but I can't even really...

SPEAKER_3 (2:06)

I don't know! The bleach!

Ali Siddiq (2:08)

When he said the bleach, it was like, possible. Like, I was in that room long enough to be like, yo, if this lady leave this cleaning supply bucket by me, I'm going for the bleach. I'm taking it. You never know. You never know. She can work.

So now, any variant I hear about now, I feel like is weak. Like, okay, come on. Come on. Come on, new COVID.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

Like, they are weak now. I got the new one. The new one was nothing.

It was nothing. I couldn't believe it was COVID. I came in here at a snuffly nose, and I was saying to the nurse, just joking around, maybe I got it. Maybe I got it. She's like, you're not going to fucking believe this. You're positive. I'm like, what? I go, this is COVID?

This is the new COVID? It's so weak.

Ali Siddiq (2:53)

The new COVID is like the new NBA. It's like the new NFL. It's like so soft.

It's like, okay, LeBron, hey, I'm not going to say he's not going to end up being the greatest player, but it's still going to be that if you didn't play against the Bad Boys or the Knicks, I'm still doubting your toughness. Like, I'm still going to doubt it because basketball is soft now. You can travel. I watch most of you.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

You can travel?

Ali Siddiq (3:22)

Oh, my God. Have you watched basketball lately?

Joe Rogan (3:24)

Not lately. Yeah.

Ali Siddiq (3:25)

Oh, watch basketball. Because, you know, standard basketball, how it was invented is like once you catch the ball, you have two steps and you're supposed to be in the air. Oh, no. Oh, no. Let's give, just for showmanship alone, we'll give you at least six. Come on.

The joker, yesterday he got a bounce pass. It was like step, step, step and then jump. Like that's travel, sir. But it was an open dunk. Give it to him. LeBron travels all the time. Really?

I'll let everybody who you think is great, if the referees, that's why I don't even, if somebody complains a referee, I'll be like, really? He's let you get away with like 19 bank robberies. He called you for one. And then now, all of a sudden, you like, man, are you insane? But if it was old refs, remember the old white guy that everybody used to get mad at, but he was a real ref. Hey, that's a foul. You can't do that, sir. That's foul. Hey, sir, you took 24 steps. What you want from me? But now it's like, flagrant.