#1920 - Dave Portnoy

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Dave Portnoy (0:16)

Not too much.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

We were just talking about how we're a couple of right-wing psychos.

Dave Portnoy (0:20)

Yeah, perceived that way at least, perceived that way.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

It's so weird. People just have to lump you into one category or another, and if you're not completely aligned with the left, they'll just lump you in with the right.

Dave Portnoy (0:33)

Yours is pretty easy to figure out though, because you didn't endorse Bernie Sanders, right? Yeah.

So, I mean, it should be like all of one second to figure out maybe you aren't.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Yeah, but that doesn't mean anything to anybody.

It's just, we're living in the weirdest time. People just want to categorize people in a tweet. You know, they want to categorize people in 140 or 280 symbols. It's just, they just decide that you're this or you're that. That way they can categorize you as the enemy.

Dave Portnoy (1:05)

Does that bother you at all? Do you care?

Joe Rogan (1:07)

I mean, I wish that they didn't, but what are you going to do? You know, I mean, does it bother? I mean, yeah, if somebody miscategorizes me or mislabels me, I guess it would bother me a little bit, but that's just on them. You know, it's not the way I am.

I'm a big believer in social programs. I'm a big believer in welfare. I'm a big believer in taking care of poor people. I'm a big believer in, like, social programs to clean up cities. And there's a lot of shit that we should be doing in this country to help people that are disenfranchised, because it's not fair.

Anybody thinks it is fair that someone lives in a fucking crime-infested, gang-ridden inner city, and that's exactly the same as someone who grew up in the suburbs, that's crazy.

Dave Portnoy (1:51)

Right, so that would go against what I think a lot of people would expect you to say.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Yeah, but I also, you know, I'm a cage-fighting commentator. I'm a big believer in the Second Amendment.

You know, there's a lot of reasons why they would decide to categorize me as a right-wing person, but it's not correct. And also, all this ridiculous woke shit that's going on, this bizarre mind virus that's going from universities into tech companies and the media and just fucking infiltrating people with these rigid ideas of what you have to say and not say and what you can and not say. It's like, none of that is liberal. None of that is really like open-minded or progressive. It's all just a, it's a cult.

And so if you go against it, the only thing you could possibly be is the other. So you must be like a mag, a supporter.

Dave Portnoy (2:47)

My main thing with it is if I know how you're going to answer a question basically before it's asked, which I think you can do with like almost everybody involved in politics, I don't trust you.

And you really can, like on both left and right, ask any question, you know what they're going to answer it. So it's like, you're not thinking independently.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Yeah, there's a lot of that, right? Like if you are on the right, I have to assume you're dismissive of climate change.

You know, if you're on the left, I have to assume that you want a woman to have the right to choose, period. You know, and there's like things like that. Like you are pro-abortion, or you are pro-this, or you are pro-that. And what's weird now is like if you're on the left, you're pro-Ukraine war.

You want to send like your pro-military industrial complex getting funneled billions and trillions of dollars into their system to be able to create weapons to fight off Russia. And it's like, whoa, that's the left now?

Dave Portnoy (3:42)

And really, that should have nothing to do with either side, really. Like, I mean, how you feel about that, I don't think should be left or right. I mean, that's a super complicated issue, to be honest. For me, at least, it's like Ukraine.

Like, you don't want a country being invaded that doesn't want to be invaded. They're not Americans, but they are humans. So it's like, what do you do? Well, like, what do you do there? It's a tough situation.

Joe Rogan (4:05)

It's very tough. And it's also very complicated too, because there's NATO's involvement and pushing weapons closer to the border of Russia and trying to get the Ukraine to join NATO.

Dave Portnoy (4:18)