#869 - Dave Rubin

Joe Rogan (0:06)

And we're live, Dave Rubin, what a time to be alive.

Dave Rubin (0:11)

Joe, I am so excited to be here because you could have selected anybody. I mean, it ends tomorrow.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

It does end tomorrow, supposedly, allegedly, unless maybe Jill Stein wins?

Dave Rubin (0:23)

No, no, I'm talking about the world. I mean, it is over. I don't mean the election. I mean, the whole game is up tomorrow. You could have had anybody. You're a pretty powerful guy, powerful Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Well, I enjoy your company, sir.

Dave Rubin (0:33)

Well, I appreciate that, but think of all the philosophers you could have had, the thinkers, the artists.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Too much work. I like you.

Dave Rubin (0:39)

Instead, you went with me for the last show, so I'm going to bring it.

I have notes. I busted out the notepad.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Well, I believe the end of the world is tomorrow. So you're the preview to the end of the world. So I feel like you're going to offer some, well, hopefully, together, we're going to offer some perspective and we're going to get a look at this thing.

Dave Rubin (0:57)

Yeah. Well, I already pounded two of these bad boys, so I am ready to...

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Dude, he's fucking thinking of 270 milligrams of caffeine.

Dave Rubin (1:03)

Well, it's still in a small can, so I thought it was...

Joe Rogan (1:05)

It seems like...

Dave Rubin (1:06)

It seems small.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

But if it was that much acid, think about what it would do to you. You really have to think about it that way.

Dave Rubin (1:11)

Yeah, I did acid once.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Yeah?

Dave Rubin (1:13)

Only one time.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

I did it once last week.

Dave Rubin (1:15)

Yeah, did you really do it last time?

Joe Rogan (1:17)

Yeah, it was awesome. I've done it three times. I only did it this year for the first time, but I've done it three times this year.

Dave Rubin (1:21)

Really?

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Yeah.

Dave Rubin (1:22)

And you feel like all the doors, the hinges of the brain, they're still going?

Joe Rogan (1:26)

I don't know if they were any good at all before.

I think I'm gluing them up. It's like caulk for my brain.

Dave Rubin (1:32)

I shroom many times over the years.

I did acid once, did not like it at all. Every time I close my eyes, I see these three-dimensional triangles flying at me. I could not, when you just can't stop your brain, I felt that there was no end to it. Shrooms, it's always very natural and nice and pleasant.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

Yeah, that's the concern, right? The concern is the potency of acid. I heard it described by Terrence McKenna as like molecularly, if you looked at it in scale, it's something the size of an ant that can break down the Empire State Building in 30 minutes.

Dave Rubin (2:04)

That's a bit much for me at this point. You know what I mean? I turned 40 this year. I don't need to break down the Empire State Building or any other building at this point. Now it's really about keeping the mental faculties I have, adding in a little more occasionally and going from there.

Joe Rogan (2:20)

Yeah.

Dave Rubin (2:21)

But you know what I mean? You have to function, right? You have a show, you're doing comedy, you're doing comedy, all the stuff. At some point, the expansion of the mind is like, I still gotta be on earth.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

If you're gonna do the show, you definitely have to be there. You have to be there. But Duncan and I did a show on acid. We did our last podcast with full disclosure. We were on acid during our last podcast.

Yeah.

Dave Rubin (2:43)

I'm sitting in a room sober with these people.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

Well, it's less is expected of me, I think, than you. You're expected to be rational.

But being a stand-up comedian slash cage fighting commentator, you get a lot of wiggle room.

Dave Rubin (2:58)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Yeah, you can say some pretty stupid shit. Yeah. People go, ah, it's...

Dave Rubin (3:03)

Probably got hit in the head.

Joe Rogan (3:05)

Exactly.

Dave Rubin (3:06)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Exactly.

Dave Rubin (3:07)

So, you know, obviously we're gonna do election, but there's a couple updates. So I haven't been here in about a year, a little more than a year. Couple things I want to tell you before we start. So first off, so I got a house last week, not too far from here. Building a home studio. I'm very excited. That's so awesome. My fans are funding it, which is amazing. So a ton of stuff has happened since last.