#850 - George Perez

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Boom! And we're live, just like that.

George Perez (0:06)

That's what I like.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

That's what I like, too, man. We're sitting here, I'm here with George Perez, and right when I was coming here, my neighbor right over here just told me there's some black SUVs driving down the street, they got battering rams, black helicopters, and then Jamie said there's SWAT crews. Some shit's going down, George Perez.

George Perez (0:25)

Hey, I tweeted.

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Let people know you're in the area. Did you have location services turned on? You gotta turn that shit off, man. They find you, that's how they find you, dude.

George Perez (0:35)

They probably will find you.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

They probably do, that's why Ari, I'm convinced that's why Ari Shafir went to a flip phone. He doesn't want that GPS on him, doesn't want them tracking him with all his mushroom drops that he leaves everywhere.

So there's something going on. So while this podcast is happening, some shit is going on very close to us here. We're in Woodland Hills. So somewhere in this area, somewhere in the 818

George Perez (0:59)

I was nervous coming over here because of the area.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

Really?

George Perez (1:02)

Yeah, I haven't been here since like 98

Joe Rogan (1:04)

Is this a fucked up area?

George Perez (1:06)

Well, we used to sell Speed to people in Recita. So I remember they were like, don't turn right, do not go that way.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

Like you don't want to go back to see what you planted.

George Perez (1:19)

Oh, it's here.

Joe Rogan (1:19)

See how it grew.

George Perez (1:20)

It's here.

Joe Rogan (1:21)

Speed is a weird one, man. You know, they had this statistic the other day on how many fucking people are on Adderall.

George Perez (1:28)

Oh, shit.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Which is just speed. It's just fucking speed. There's a statistic that I posted yesterday that's the most disturbing one, though. Rhonda Patrick, Dr. Rhonda Patrick put it up. There's more people on pain pills today than use tobacco.

Think about that. That's how crazy the pain pill business has gotten. Think about all the dip, all the people that chew, all the people that smoke cigars and cigarettes, all that combined, there's more people on pain pills.

George Perez (1:58)

And it's weird because they took cigarettes away from baseball. Remember they used to smoke in the 80s? You could smoke in baseball and you could dip.

Joe Rogan (2:05)

I don't remember. I remember you could dip. You can't dip anymore?

George Perez (2:07)

No.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

No, nothing.

George Perez (2:09)

I mean, I don't know about professional. I know you can't dip in college, but they used to smoke cigarettes in the games, in the dugouts.

And I only know because sometimes I stay up late and I watch ESPN and I'm like, oh shit, you could smoke back then.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

So you watch like an old game and they'll show them still smoking?

George Perez (2:27)

It was like ESPN has classics and it was like a classics, like World Series. And I think it was Reggie Jackson smoking in the dugout.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

Look at him. Look at that right there. Heath Hernandez enjoys a dugout cigarette. What year is that from, Jamie? It says 19 something, 87

1987 game. Yeah, they used to smoke cigarettes and then spit. They were always chewing and spitting.

George Perez (2:51)

And now they're popping pills and getting concussions.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

Well, they definitely are popping pills. Apparently, that's another big problem. Adderall is a big problem with baseball because it helps them focus and concentrate on hitting the ball better.

George Perez (3:02)

That's just fucking crazy to me, how they prescribe you speed to get smarter.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Yeah, well, it accelerates.

Well, for apparently when, who's is that? Is that me?

George Perez (3:13)

That's not me.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

When you have ADD, which is real debatable whether or not that shit's real, or how many people actually, I mean, is it just people with energy? Is it just people who are bored? They don't want to concentrate on whatever the fuck you want them to concentrate on? And I don't know, I don't know exactly know what ADD really is, because I think it's severely over prescribed by everyone's measures.

But when you have it, when you give them speed, it helps them calm down somehow or another.

George Perez (3:48)

It must be like a focus speed they give or like a special something they found in there because back in my days when I did speed, I couldn't focus on shit.