#2266 - Brian Simpson

Brian Simpson (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

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

Brian Simpson (0:12)

Little things you say. I imagine having to be that measured in everything you say all the time. Just stick to the talking points.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Bro, that's my whole life.

Brian Simpson (0:23)

That's stressful.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Yeah, it's super stressful, especially if you're a little intoxicated. You know, you get a couple of whiskeys in you, you start talking shit. You got to be responsible for every word that comes out of your mouth, even if it's stupid. But, you know, I think people get it. They get that people are human beings and they can stumble. Like people, they forgave a lot of Biden stumbles until they were like, what the fuck? You know, a lot of people like in 2020 were like, there's no way. There's no way he's going to do it. He was too old to run when it was 2016

Brian Simpson (0:54)

He's kind of always been known for the gaffes. Like, because I remember when Obama was picked him, that was the number one concern was like, sometimes he be saying shit.

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Didn't Obama, he was famous, he quoted Joe as, don't worry, Joe will find a way to fuck things up.

Brian Simpson (1:10)

I never heard that.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

There's supposedly, it's hard to know what the quote was, but supposedly.

Brian Simpson (1:16)

But he got out of all of it.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Yeah. Well, that's because the machine was behind him, right? So he gets into office and you saw that Mike Johnson guy, the Speaker of the House, he said that he had talked to him. It took a year to have a meeting and he finally had this meeting with him. He was wanting to talk to him about something and he said, why did you sign this executive order? And it had something to do with liquid natural gas. He said, I didn't sign that. He said, yes, you did, sir. You signed it. Can we get it? And so he has the secretary printed up, he brings it in. He had never read it. So he was just signing executive orders that he didn't even know. He didn't know what it was about. He thought it was about research and it was about shutting it down.

And so there's a bunch of people behind him that want to do things. And they think it's for the best interest of the country. And they're all acting as a big group that's like the puppeteer of the president. And that's not how it's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be that way.

Brian Simpson (2:09)

Isn't it like that with every president?

Joe Rogan (2:10)

I don't know. Because I think when a president brings in a new cabinet and a new cabinet starts doing different things, then you see what's happening right now. Right? So they've already found thousands of criminals that had snuck in here and had committed multiple crimes while they were here. And the Biden administration had left them here. And they allowed them to stay in these sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. And Trump's just yanking them out and flying them back to Columbia and flying them back to Mexico and flying them back to wherever they're from. Get the fuck out of here. No, but exporting them in planes. The Biden administration could have done this too.

Brian Simpson (2:44)

Yeah, but I think every president that get in there, they do little shit different than the other side. But at the end of the day, the big major shit that would help out the average people, that shit always falls short a couple of votes.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Trump is talking about getting rid of income tax and replacing it with tariffs. I asked him about that on the podcast. I thought he was joking around. Yeah, exactly. He was saying that it would be better for the economy. We would have way more money if, instead of you paying tax, these companies should be paying tax. Like, why are they making such a killing off the American people?

Brian Simpson (3:22)

But the companies would just charge us bigger prices, wouldn't they?

Joe Rogan (3:25)

Well, here's the thing. Could they, if we had American manufacturing, that could make the same products? No. So, the whole reason why they...

Brian Simpson (3:34)

But you can't make the same products for the same price.

Joe Rogan (3:35)

But if you have other countries charge tariffs, and I think we've charged tariffs in the past, and it's an interesting thing. It's like you make a trade agreement. It's essentially a trade agreement. And his position has always been that one side of the trade agreement was unbalanced, and America does a stupid job in negotiating its trade agreements. So he wants tariffs and everything. That's what he threatened the guy from Colombia with. He said, because they didn't want to take the prisoners, the flights were coming over, and he didn't want to give them approval to land. He said, we're going to tax you, we're going to tariff you 25 percent, and then like in a week, we're going to jack it up to 50 percent.