#878 - Aubrey Marcus

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Let's get it on.

Aubrey Marcus (0:05)

Yee-haw!

Joe Rogan (0:07)

What's going on, man?

Aubrey Marcus (0:08)

What's going on in your shirt?

Joe Rogan (0:09)

What is that? You got a lot going on there. It's like a penguin with shark teeth.

Aubrey Marcus (0:13)

This is my homage to Albert Hoffman in The Creation of LSD.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

Oh, wow, in shirt form. Oh, wow, that's Hoffman.

Aubrey Marcus (0:20)

It's Hoffman.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Oh, Jesus Christ. And then you use all these crazy animal parts for squares.

Aubrey Marcus (0:25)

And a full garden blowing out of his head.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

Did you know that a roadrunner can eat a fucking rattlesnake?

Aubrey Marcus (0:31)

I didn't, but that's gangster.

Joe Rogan (0:32)

There's a video of it. Somebody tweeted it to me the other day. I'm like, there's no way this is real, but it's 100% real.

Roadrunner hunts and kills a fucking rattlesnake and then eats it. And it's eating this thing, like it's way bigger than it. And it's just trying to swallow it.

Aubrey Marcus (0:47)

Like, you have no idea how gangster birds are. Maybe that roadrunner identifies as a pterodactyl.

Joe Rogan (0:52)

Maybe he does. Check this out. Watch this.

First of all, when you really get a good, I mean, you look at them from a distance. Ah, you little bird, you little, I'm not worried about you. When you look at them close up like this in this high-resolution photography, you realize how fucking predatory these birds are. Like, look, the snake takes a lunge at him.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

He's like, nah, bitch, not today, snap!

Joe Rogan (1:13)

Gets him right on top of the fucking head. And look how he does him in. He smashes his head against the rocks, man.

Aubrey Marcus (1:19)

Yeah, when people discovered that dinosaurs were probably birds, that's even more terrifying.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

It's a hundred percent, I 100% believe it.

I've told you the story about my chickens, right? With the feeding the mice.

Dude, it's really, the whole thing is really bizarre because it just shows you how people have these attachments to a certain species for no reason. Like Steve Rinell talks about it with bears. He calls them charismatic megafauna. That there's something about, cause Steve's so eloquent.

You know, when he's, he's right though. There's like something about bears that makes them very different in our eyes than any other animal. And birds, they have these hierarchies. So this hawk flew into my fence. I have a glass fence. Hawk didn't know what the fuck was going on. Boom, KO'd, jacked. My daughters rescue the bird. And then they go to the pet store and buy little pinkies, which are these little tiny mice. And they feed them to the hawk.

So they feed this little tiny mouse. They decide that the mouse is not as important as the hawk. The hawk has to stay alive. Fuck these little baby mice. So they feed the baby mice to the hawk. He eats all of them but one.

My daughter wants to keep it. I say, you can't keep it. It's gonna die. It needs to have milk. I'll just feed it to the chickens. So there's a lot of himmin and hawnin, a lot of cryin. Everybody wants the mouse to stay alive after you just fed 30 of them to this fucking dinosaur.

Aubrey Marcus (2:43)

But it's a majestic hawk.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

It's a flying monster. And so I bring it into the chicken coop, and I mean, I put that thing on the ground for not even one half of one second, and they were tearing it apart and running around with it. It was, they're monsters.

That roadrunner thing just confirmed it. I have 100% new respect for birds now.

Aubrey Marcus (3:03)

Yeah, I think it is interesting how people, but you think about bears, right? And people have loved bears since way, way back before like teddy bears and stuff, before there was the internet and these different things. There's just certain animals that you have this kinship towards and certain like sacred animals when you're down in the jungle and different places that always seem to inspire something within mankind.

Joe Rogan (3:27)

Yeah, and I don't know why it is, but I think I just sort of accept it now. Like I don't feel the same way about bears as I do about deer. Like I think deer are wild and they're cool and I love that they exist, but I have a much more predatory feeling around them than I do around bears. Bears are like this weird thing.