#2088 - Yannis Pappas

Yannis Pappas (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan. Yannis Pappas. Yannis Pappas. I'm good, how are you doing?

Joe Rogan (0:18)

What the fuck's cracking?

Yannis Pappas (0:19)

I'm doing good, man. Just enjoying Austin.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

Are you enjoying the town of freedom?

Yannis Pappas (0:24)

I'm enjoying the town of freedom.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

This is the town of freedom.

Yannis Pappas (0:27)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

There's freedom here, this is the Wild West.

Yannis Pappas (0:29)

Yes, I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I'm eating. I went to Suerte.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Oh, that's a good spot.

Yannis Pappas (0:35)

It was incredible.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Yeah, that's a good spot.

Yannis Pappas (0:37)

I think it's the best Mexican I ever had.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

It's very good. There's a lot of good Mexican out here.

Yannis Pappas (0:41)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

That's a good spot.

Yannis Pappas (0:43)

That was good.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

Yeah.

Yannis Pappas (0:44)

And of course, hit the Terry B's on Martin Luther King Day, so it was empty. It was nice.

Joe Rogan (0:49)

Suerte, you have the added benefit of being around people with masks. That's like East Austin.

Yannis Pappas (0:55)

I haven't seen any masks.

I think, well, I did in Vancouver. I was in Vancouver before this.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

Yeah, they never stopped.

Yannis Pappas (1:03)

No, they're still going.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

It's wild. There's a San Francisco town hall meeting, and they passed a vote to stop for a ceasefire in Palestine.

Yannis Pappas (1:15)

I saw it. Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

And so they're all masked up, and they're dancing around, and they got blue hair. And somebody made a caption that this is literally South Park. This is literally an episode of South Park.

They look like fucking complete maniacs left in this worn-torn, shattered hull of a city. Whatever's left is filled with human shit and tents everywhere, and they're dancing around. But they've stopped the ceasefire in Palestine. Yeah, we voted for it. Stop it.

Yannis Pappas (1:47)

They solved it in Oakland.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

Like as if Benjamin Netanyahu is paying attention.

Yannis Pappas (1:52)

Right. Like that's going to work.

Joe Rogan (1:53)

I guess I'll stop now.

Yannis Pappas (1:55)

Yeah. He stopped traffic on the way to the airport in New York, and that'll do it.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah, that does it. That generally does it.

Yannis Pappas (2:01)

That's what Netanyahu was waiting for. He's like, all right, now I've seen the error in my ways now.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

Now I got to pull back.

Yannis Pappas (2:08)

Now I got to pull back.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

I did go a little too far. Let me back up.

Yannis Pappas (2:11)

Yeah, let me back it up right now.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

They're stopping traffic. This is serious.

Yannis Pappas (2:14)

I saw in Austin, I saw three people on the overpass just holding up a free Palestine thing, and I'm going like, I bet those people have amazing productive lives, and they're not crazy at all. Yeah, not at all. No, they got nothing. They got a full schedule of things to do, and they took a lot of time out of their schedule to stand on top of the highway.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

They're super healthy. They're really into mindfulness. They're on the ball every day. They get everything done.

Yannis Pappas (2:40)

Every one of them, every one of them has an alert for what they have to do next on their very busy schedule.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

Free Palestine. I wasn't gonna.

Yannis Pappas (2:49)

Those people just saw your banner. Yeah, till the banner came up. Yeah, those people are just perpetuating the situation over there. It's like the whole, is it right or wrong thing? It's like it's obviously wrong.

Humans have always been wrong when it comes to that. It's always been about power, who's got more power and who has less.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

It's very multi-layered. That's the thing about any international conflict.

You can look at the mainstream media narrative.

They did this and then they did that. But then it's like Ukraine and Russia. Like you say, oh my God, Russia invaded Ukraine. This is horrible. And that's most people's natural reaction to it.

And then when you go, wait a minute, was there a rule? Did they make an agreement to not push arms closer to Russia? Did they consistently violate that agreement? Were they trying to move Ukraine? I was reading about them trying to move Ukraine into NATO. What? What are you, a Putin supporter? Are you a Putin supporter? No, wait a minute, isn't this a very multifaceted, super complex international conflict that really is about a lot of things? It's not just about Russia and Ukraine, it's about NATO. It's about nuclear arms being pushed closer to a superpower. It's like, yeah, there's more to it.