#2127 - Eleanor Kerrigan

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Great deep breath.

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:14)

How are you? I really took that in.

SPEAKER_3 (0:16)

What's going on?

Joe Rogan (0:17)

What's cracking, kid?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:17)

Nothing. I'm excited to be here.

SPEAKER_3 (0:19)

Excited to have you.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

How's LA treating you?

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:23)

LA's good.

I mean, I'll be honest, I haven't been there a lot. After I filmed my special, I just, I mean, I'm on the road so much, which is good. And then I get to go to Philly. In between, I hang out with my mom. So in between gigs, I'll just hang out with my moms, instead of going back to LA. But I feel like I haven't been, I think I was there for five days last week.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Yeah, it becomes, when you do the road all the time, your house sort of just becomes some stop.

Eleanor Kerrigan (0:50)

Yeah, but I have no responsibility whatsoever. Like, I don't have a plant.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

What a free existence you've carved out for yourself.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:00)

What an asshole.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

So selfish. It's funny because people think about it that way. Like, you have to have things you're responsible for, otherwise you're a bad person.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:09)

Yeah. I always tell my mom, I'm living her what she would want to do had she not had 10 children.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

10 children.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:17)

Yeah, good times. Keep it up, lady.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

10 kids is so bonkers.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:23)

Who does that?

Joe Rogan (1:24)

How about on the ninth one? You're like, one more.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:27)

Her worst pregnancy.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

The ninth one?

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:29)

The ninth one, longest delivery. My little brother Bobby, she said that's how lazy he was. He wouldn't come out. He's so lazy.

She said he was hanging on for dear life. I'm like, why? She said because he's lazy.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

It'd be an interesting study to have 10 kids and just to see what makes them come out different. Because they're a fucking, this is one thing, like having children, seeing them from babies, you realize like, oh, they're different right out of the box.

Eleanor Kerrigan (1:54)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Like it has zero to do with like what you tell them. This is what you should do. Like a lot of them is just how they come from the factory.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:05)

Exactly. And you always think like, I know there's genetic stuff, like there's you inherit stuff genetically, whatever, you know, I'm pretending I know what I'm saying.

And epigenetics. Yeah. But my, oh, that's good. Oh, yeah, I remember that.

Anyway, I asked my mom to write this thing for me, like what she was going through with each kid just to see if I can get it. Because we are all different, like in the craziest way.

Joe Rogan (2:28)

Oh, like in her life.

Eleanor Kerrigan (2:29)

Yeah. Like what was going on. And it is interesting because when it gets to my brother, Charlie, like she was going through stuff with my dad and physically her whole body, she was pregnant. Her kidneys were failing and they had to literally move him to the side, you know, operate on her kidneys, take it out, whatever, before it like killed the baby.

And it was insane. Like she tells the story, I'm like, oh, what, how, right?

And then she said they put it back, cleared her out. She was good. The kidneys didn't affect anything. And then they assumed Charlie was going to be stillborn.

So she, the nurse came in and she was like real down. And the nurse goes, are you nervous? You're going to miss, you're going to lose this child? And she's like, is this your first? And my mom goes, no, this is my sixth. And she goes, you go right ahead and lose that baby.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

The nurse said that?

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:28)

It's a different time.

Imagine if a nurse said that today. She'd be executed on the spot.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

So different before social media.

Eleanor Kerrigan (3:37)

Yeah, it was so cool.

Joe Rogan (3:38)

What is that? Is it accountability? Is it that we're now influenced by so many different people?

Is it like a lot of it is just more bullshit?

Like people can't just say what they really think because they're just terrified they're going to get attacked by so many people, so you bullshit more.

Eleanor Kerrigan (4:00)

And that lady was telling the truth.