#2203 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride

Eric Goode (0:02)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_3 (0:06)

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

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Gentlemen, thank you for being here. Please introduce yourselves.

Eric Goode (0:15)

Eric Goode.

Jeremy McBride (0:16)

Jeremy McBride.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

And you guys, did you guys both do Tiger King as well?

Jeremy McBride (0:24)

Yeah, I mean, I kind of came in towards the tail end. I remember meeting you about this.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

This close to your face. You can scoot your, it moves and stuff.

Jeremy McBride (0:33)

Okay. Yeah, I met Eric kind of towards the tail end of filming Tiger King. Yeah, that was kind of the first experience I have.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

You guys like struck lightning with that because it came right at the pandemic, where everyone's locked at home and everyone was like, what the fuck is going on with these guys?

Eric Goode (0:56)

Yeah, captive cats and captive audience.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

And just crazy people. And then your new show Chimp Crazy is basically all in the same vein. And it is so odd how nutty these animal people are, these people that have captive animals at their home. It's such a bizarre, I would like to see a psychologist, a clinical psychologist do an examination of what type of personality wants to have these enormous, wild animals captive in their homes.

Eric Goode (1:34)

Yeah, no, for sure. It's incredible. And of course, that's what interests us, because I'm an animal guy, but you have to have interesting people to tell a good story.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

Well, we are animals.

Eric Goode (1:50)

And we are animals.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

That's the weird part about it. We're this bizarre animal that likes to keep animals in cages.

Eric Goode (2:00)

And some people think we should have been in the same genus as apes. Yeah. But of course, there's something called religion and dominion. And of course, we're not animals, we're not apes.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Well, we certainly are. I mean, those people, they still believe in religion, but the reality of observable science is also there. So unfortunately, we're just a weird animal. We're the fucking weirdest ones. But the show Chimp Crazy, I just finished episode three last night and we got to number four and my daughter wanted to watch number four. I'm like, I don't think I could do it. I was so bummed out after episode three. I was like, oh my God. I mean, I want to give away anything for people who haven't watched the series yet. I highly recommend it. It's really fucking good. But episode three, man, it's like, it's like there's something about, first of all, this is one of the rare times where I'm fully with PETA.

You know, it's like when you side with PETA on things, it's like, you know, like this has got to be an egregious example of something absolutely horrific. And you know, the one situation where the woman who was so drunk kept the chimp and then attacked her daughter and the whole thing is like, at the end of the show, it's like, oh my God, I don't know if I could keep doing this.

Eric Goode (3:24)

Yeah. No, it's interesting you mentioned PETA because I'm not fully aligned with PETA on a number of things. But in this case, I am aligned with PETA. But just to touch on PETA, you know, I work with reptiles and I try to save turtles and tortoises, which actually are the most endangered group of animals, along with primates.

Joe Rogan (3:49)

Turtles and tortoises, really?

Eric Goode (3:50)

If you think about the percentage that are on the brink of extinction, over half of primates are on the brink of extinction and over half of turtles and tortoises.

Joe Rogan (3:58)

I have no idea.

Eric Goode (3:59)

But where I am not aligned with PETA is when you have to make a choice between, you know, eradicating a rat that's killing off the last Galapagos tortoises, or eradicate a mongoose that was introduced that's killing off, you know, an iguana in the Caribbean. I will make that choice. PETA basically views it as the rat has rights just as much as the tortoise. And I'd like to have the tortoise around for future generations.

So I'm not always aligned with PETA, but in this case, yes.

Joe Rogan (4:29)

Well, they have a background with the Animal Liberation Organization, which essentially doesn't think that any animals should be captive. And I do understand their point, but then you have Carl.

How is Carl going to not have an owner? How is little Carl over there not going to be fed? I mean, do you want French bulldogs to go extinct? Because they will. They can't even breed.