#2104 - Chris Williamson

Joe Rogan (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Chris Williamson (0:18)

What is that, black rifle?

Joe Rogan (0:19)

Black rifle, yeah.

What's up, Chris? What's up, baby? How are you?

Chris Williamson (0:22)

Good to see you, man.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

So how long have you been in Texas now?

Chris Williamson (0:25)

Two years.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

Wow. Do you feel like this is where you live, or do you like everything?

Chris Williamson (0:30)

This feels like home. Yeah.

Yeah, I went back home for Christmas in the UK, and it's so strange to go back to a place that you know so well, you're super familiar with, but you're kind of different, and everything's changed but everything's the same, and you fall back into old patterns. You remember that tree that you used to walk past on your morning walk and all of, it's very disquieting, but it's fun, it's nice.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

The oddest thing for me is the contrast in the amount of freedom you have for things that you would never think were important. Like these little nicotine things. In California, you can't buy this because it's flavored.

In California, you can put a tent in front of people's houses and fucking cook meth, and no one says anything. No one does anything. You could commit violent crime, and you get arrested and released with no bail. They never find you again.

The laws are so ridiculous, but you are not allowed to have flavored nicotine. Flavored nicotine is dangerous, Chris.

Chris Williamson (1:33)

They're trying to ban flavored vapes in the UK very aggressively, super aggressively. It's like that's the big deal. That being said, I think it's like some non-insignificant percentage of school children are using vapes.

Joe Rogan (1:47)

It's very addictive.

Chris Williamson (1:48)

There's a no vapes sign in schools. Like that wasn't something that was already self-evident.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Well, cigarettes were a big deal when I was in high school. You know, a lot of kids smoke cigarettes.

It was a cool kid's thing to do.

Chris Williamson (2:02)

What's the smoking age in America?

Joe Rogan (2:04)

I think it's 18

18? Legally. Legally? Yeah, it's 18

But when I was a kid, people got cigarettes. Someone got you cigarettes. I don't know. I don't know, when I was young, I remember before I turned 18, they changed the legal drinking age. Because the legal drinking age, I believe, used to be 18 And then they bumped it up to 21 I was like, damn it.

Chris Williamson (2:23)

Dude, have you ever seen the video of when DUIs came in in the 1980s? And they're interviewing people in cars.

Joe Rogan (2:29)

Yeah.

Chris Williamson (2:30)

That is one of my favorite videos of all time. Please, Jamie, let me watch that video again.

Yeah, the lady's like, we're going to bring in communism. She's got a baby in the passenger seat.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

No seatbelt.

Chris Williamson (2:48)

Oh my God.

Joe Rogan (2:49)

And even if you did have a seatbelt, there's no airbags. Those things are deathtraps.

Chris Williamson (2:52)

It's one of my favorite videos. There's this weird, it's something I've noticed since being in America, your guys' relationship with drink driving is a little bit more lax than it is in the UK. Really?

Joe Rogan (3:03)

Not in Texas. Not in Texas. If you have any alcohol in your system at all, they'll arrest you. Like if you get pulled over and they said, have you had anything to drink? And you say, yes, I've had one drink.

You're getting arrested.

Chris Williamson (3:15)

I fucking love this video. Drinking and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

It's kind of getting common, this one.

SPEAKER_4 (3:22)

A fellow king can put in a hard day's work, put in 11, 12 hours a day, and then get in your truck and the lease rank one or two beers.

Joe Rogan (3:37)

Look at the baby.

Chris Williamson (3:39)

It looks like the baby.

Joe Rogan (3:40)

The baby is more protected than I thought it was. It had that thing in front of it, a little cushion in front of it. So it seemed like she was like a little bit more.

Chris Williamson (3:46)

The funniest thing about that is their issue is, it's not with not being allowed to drink then drive. There's this one worse. It's drink and drive.

You mean I can't drink and, yeah, exactly.

Joe Rogan (3:57)

Constantly.

Chris Williamson (4:00)

Dude, I love that video. Oh my God.

Joe Rogan (4:03)

Yeah, you definitely shouldn't drink and drive.