#831 - Byron Bowers

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Byron Bowers, ladies and gentlemen.

Byron Bowers (0:04)

Hey, what's going on?

Joe Rogan (0:05)

What's up, brother?

Byron Bowers (0:06)

Thank you for having me.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

My pleasure.

What's the latest and the greatest with Byron? You've been traveling all over the place, man. Check your Instagram out.

Byron Bowers (0:14)

Oh, man, I just got back from the Dominican Republic, what, a few days ago, and it was a very interesting experience.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Yeah?

Byron Bowers (0:25)

Yeah. Like, anytime you go somewhere tropical, you're like, man, this place is beautiful.

And then by that third day, you'd be like, man, this is horrible. The politics, the way they treat people.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

Oh, yeah.

Byron Bowers (0:36)

So you see the balance of everything, especially as being from where I'm from and being black and what's going on. I'm always in exotic places when cops are killing black people.

So it pulls you out of the situation and lets you see how fucked up things are for Haitian people.

Joe Rogan (0:56)

Well, yeah, I mean, pretty much every third world country deals with all kinds of fucked up shit.

Byron Bowers (1:02)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:03)

Like way worse than we have it here. It puts things into perspective. Like I often think like if United States wasn't established just a few hundred years ago, if that didn't happen, like what would the world be like? Like would most of the world be like a lot of these countries that you visit where you deal with insane police corruption?

Like I've had friends that have been pulled over in Mexico and the cops basically just straight up tell you, like do you want to get out of this? Give me some fucking money.

Byron Bowers (1:36)

Yeah, I think I had a situation like that coming through TSA, but I didn't realize until they let me go, but they held me for a long time.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Where?

Byron Bowers (1:46)

In Dominican Republic, because I had on a button up shirt that's denim, like the one I'm wearing now, and they was like, take your jacket off. And I'm pre-checked, so when you become pre-checked, it's like a white privilege.

And I'm like, I'm not taking off my shirt. This is not a jacket, this is a shirt.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

So in the Dominican Republic, you're doing this?

Byron Bowers (2:04)

And I'm flogging out on glasses and stuff, and they was like, oh, okay. Oh, it's a shirt, huh? Come through. And then as soon as I came through, they was like, this your bag? And they started trying to take my cologne. Like, yeah, that's flammable, you can't take that on a plane. Or my umbrella, yeah, you can't take umbrellas on a plane, that's a weapon, sorry. And they just held me there.

And we just made eye contact with each other. I'm like, show me on the chart. That's all I kept saying. And then after a while, they was like, you know what, you could take it.

You know?

Joe Rogan (2:33)

So after a while, they just gave up?

Byron Bowers (2:35)

Yeah, they gave up, because I was like, okay, if I check the bag, can I take everything? And they was like, yeah. So what I did, I unloaded all my bags and started rearranging things so I could put it, so I could check it, and you can make it back to America. But once they saw me doing that, and they saw how neat I was, and like every time they took something, I had to put it back a certain way, they like, it's just gonna be a waste of time for even us.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

Yeah, but don't they have rules like we have rules as far as like how many ounces of liquid and stuff like that you could take on a plane?

Byron Bowers (3:04)

They do, but it made it over there. So that's why I was trying to get them to explain to me, like why exactly.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

Yeah, but it probably made it over there because the people that work at TSA over here are fucking barely paying attention.

Byron Bowers (3:18)

Well, you know, I take it everywhere. I take it everywhere.

Joe Rogan (3:20)

Well, how big is your cologne?

First of all, cologne is stinky, man. What are you wearing that shit for?

Byron Bowers (3:26)

I know you disagree with cologne, you know what I mean?

Joe Rogan (3:29)

I disagree.

Byron Bowers (3:30)

Yeah, you disagree.

Joe Rogan (3:30)

That's a political point. I disagree with cologne.

Byron Bowers (3:33)