#2200 - Kat Timpf

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

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

Joe Rogan (0:12)

What's up?

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Nice to meet you.

Katherine Timpf (0:13)

Great to meet you too.

SPEAKER_3 (0:15)

Thank you.

Joe Rogan (0:16)

Thanks for being here.

Katherine Timpf (0:16)

Of course, yeah, of course I'm here, right? Of course I'm going to do this.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

I'm glad you're doing it. So, you wrote a book about, well, I think the title is I Used to Like You But.

Katherine Timpf (0:28)

Until. Yeah, I used to like you until.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Why did you want to do that? What was the motivation behind that?

Katherine Timpf (0:35)

It's not a hot take that everything's so divided now, right? I think a lot of people have noticed that. But I think I'm really in this unique position where I get it from both sides because I'm independent politically. I just want very small government, which I think puts me at odds with both parties sometimes, depending on what the issue is.

So I will sometimes get shit from the... I'm on Fox News, so I'll get sometimes shit from the viewers for sometimes more of this more social issues or I'm not religious, that kind of a thing. But then the people on the left, a lot of them won't even want to have a conversation with me. So like, oh, she works at Fox News. That tells me everything I need to know about her. And I think that that's doing some real damage overall to us as a country by the fact that we're letting... Because I'm not special in that aspect, right? People will let one aspect of a person completely just... That's all I need to know about that person. I'm not going to talk to that person.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Yeah.

Katherine Timpf (1:30)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

Yeah, that's a real problem. And it's so funny. Like, if you say, I'm independent, I just want small government, immediately people start thinking, Prepper, you know, KKK, stockpiling guns, living in the woods. I'm independent, I want small government is like, you might be a dangerous person, which is such a wild take.

Katherine Timpf (1:50)

Well, people think that just because you don't think the government is the best way to solve a problem, that doesn't actually mean you don't care about the problem. So if you don't think the government can solve something like, oh, well, you're a piece of shit, because you don't care about this or this. It's like, no, I just don't think the government is going to solve it.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

I mean, the problem with the government solving problems and the government is not financially invested in a solution. No, they just want to have more jobs and they want to keep more bureaucracy and more people working on a problem, hence the California homeless problem.

Imagine if that was farmed off to the private sector. Imagine if the only way to make money in the homeless problem is actually creating a solution for it.

Katherine Timpf (2:29)

Yeah, but there's no, like you said, there's no actual incentive for them to do that. New York's the same. I mean, I live in New York because I love my job, but if I didn't have my job, I would not live there because it's so expensive. And I was in LA last week and I was coming back from JFK in the morning after a red eye. I am exhausted, I'm pregnant, I'm trying to sleep in the car, and the roads, I'm just getting pothole after pothole. I'm like going on, I'm like, where are my taxes going exactly?

Joe Rogan (2:56)

Yeah.

Katherine Timpf (2:57)

Because everyone always say the roads are shit.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Yeah.

Katherine Timpf (3:00)

So.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

I lived in New York once, I drove, I had to do an audition. I lived in New Rochelle, so I lived like right outside the Bronx. And I drove to the city and home from the city. I blew out one tire driving to the city, had to pull over the side of the road, had to change this fucking tire, dangerous, risking my life. On the way back, I blew out another tire.

Katherine Timpf (3:21)

Yeah, jeez, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

From potholes.

Katherine Timpf (3:23)

Yeah, and it's so expensive.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

You just hear that bang and you're like, shit.

Katherine Timpf (3:27)

Yeah, it's so expensive. I mean, the fact that I feel very luxurious and it's like a flex to be able to have a child, actually, because we have enough space to put a baby in our rental apartment, which most people don't, actually. I never thought I would get to that position.