#892 - Greg Fitzsimmons

Joe Rogan (0:00)

No, it seems like we were.

Greg Fitzsimmons (0:07)

Hey!

Joe Rogan (0:08)

You gonna go cans or no cans? What are you gonna do? I'll go with you.

Greg Fitzsimmons (0:11)

I'm gonna go no cans.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

You're a fucking animal. Jesus, Fitzsimmons.

Greg Fitzsimmons (0:16)

Let's just connect, man. Let's mind meld.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

I think you mind meld more with those things on.

Greg Fitzsimmons (0:20)

Really?

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Yeah, in some weird way. Yeah, you're in each other's head.

Greg Fitzsimmons (0:24)

I just hate my voice. I sound like a woman.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

You definitely don't sound like a woman.

Greg Fitzsimmons (0:28)

Whenever I call for tech support, they'll lead me through the first few steps. And then I'll be like, all right. And then I hit delete and they'll be like, no, man, what you do is...

And then it's like, it's too far into it for me to correct them because I'm too embarrassed to correct them at that point. So then I just let them assume I'm a woman for the rest of the call.

And it's weird because then you see what it's like to be treated like a woman. Like, he talks... I find that they talk down to you more.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

Like, especially, I bet, tech support, right?

Jamie (1:00)

Oh, fuck yeah!

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:03)

A chick on a computer? They treat you like you're a baby. And now he's the screen blue.

Take your little mouse.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Why is there a difference in, like, tech stuff? Like, why are men more attracted to tech stuff?

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:22)

Aren't we more mathematical than women?

Joe Rogan (1:28)

Boy, that's a weird thing to say.

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:29)

I mean, there's right and left sides of the brain, right?

Joe Rogan (1:32)

I would say, yeah, men are much more mathematical than women, but I'm not mathematical even slightly. So what, am I a woman?

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:40)

You just said that like you were gonna kick my ass.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

What, am I a broad?

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:42)

What, am I a chick? What, do I read fucking chick lit?

Joe Rogan (1:46)

I'm a fucking skirt.

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:50)

I wish I was, man. They got it made right now.

Women got it made.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

How so?

Greg Fitzsimmons (1:56)

Well, because there's, you know, there's this sort of like postmodern feminism coming back where, you know, with the lean in and the like, you know, women really, they really are gonna start getting, I think they're still making like 80 cents on a dollar.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

Do you know that's all bullshit? I've heard you say that before and I wanted to correct you. You know that's not true?

Greg Fitzsimmons (2:13)

It's not?

Joe Rogan (2:14)

It's not true, no. You know what that means? That means when they say women make 80 cents on a dollar, it means overall women make 80 cents compared to the dollar that men make, but not for the same jobs.

When women and men are making the same, when they're doing the same job, the problem with that statistic is it leads you to believe that a man and a woman are working alongside each other, doing the exact same amount of work, the same amount of hours, but the woman makes less. It's not the case. In the same job.

Greg Fitzsimmons (2:39)

Well, there's a lot of executives that have been found out to be, I know a couple that are executives that were doing the same job, leading the sales team and making less money.

Joe Rogan (2:48)

Perhaps. Perhaps there's a few exceptions. But for the most part, when you're talking about overall jobs, it's pretty statistically proven that lawyers, doctors, whatever the fuck the job is, when they're working side by side, there's very little disparity.

Very little.

Greg Fitzsimmons (3:03)

Podcasting.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

The thing is, women take time off for work, time off of work for maternal leave, of course, if they have babies. But also, they tend to work less hours. Men tend to be more ambitious, more driven, work more hours, and they get paid more because of it.

That's what it is. It's one of those weird ones where everybody says it, even fucking Obama said it. The wage gap, the income gap. What do you mean?

Why are you saying that? Because you're talking about it as if there's some sort of discrimination, when in fact, there's a natural tendency that a lot of women have to choose different jobs.

As far as nursing, overwhelmingly, it's predominantly women.