#927 - Tom Papa

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Jamie was giving us the almost double gun finger, not yes.

Tom Papa (0:16)

Three, two, one.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

Tom Papa, sans glasses. You got a new look right now, buddy.

SPEAKER_3 (0:23)

You just said fuck it.

Tom Papa (0:24)

Well, they're... Reading glasses? Dirty.

Joe Rogan (0:27)

They're dirty?

Tom Papa (0:28)

No, they're progressives.

Joe Rogan (0:30)

What's that mean?

Tom Papa (0:31)

That means the top...

Joe Rogan (0:32)

Oh, the five circles?

Tom Papa (0:34)

Yes, three levels. Far, medium, reading.

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Fuck, dude, when are they gonna fix that?

Tom Papa (0:40)

It's pretty good. Fix what, your eyes?

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Yeah, I only have reading glasses that I've worn over the last few years, like two or three years.

I think I hit like 46, and that's when it just started going eee. Like I'd look at my phone like, hey, why does that look like shit?

Tom Papa (0:57)

It really is bad.

Joe Rogan (0:58)

And then Adam Carolla did my podcast, and he left some glasses over. He left reading glasses, and I picked up his reading glasses, and I put them on and went, fuck.

Tom Papa (1:06)

I can see.

SPEAKER_3 (1:09)

Oh, shit.

Tom Papa (1:10)

I know, it's really frustrating.

SPEAKER_3 (1:12)

Oh, dude, it's weird.

Tom Papa (1:13)

And I can't wear contacts because I have a scar on this eyeball.

SPEAKER_3 (1:16)

Whoa.

Tom Papa (1:17)

From, I don't know what, from, the only thing I can think of is, he said it was something as a child.

There was a pillow fight I had with my friend Keith in like third grade, and I remember him hitting me in an open eye and just being down for a while. But just as kids, you know, you're like, ow, that hurt.

SPEAKER_3 (1:35)

Right, but you developed a scar there.

Tom Papa (1:37)

The only thing, so yeah, there's a scar on the outer layer of my eyeball.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Can they do something about that? Can they like?

Tom Papa (1:43)

No. I mean, you can start messing with it, but this guy is like a really good eye doctor, and he's like, don't mess with it if you don't have to. But if I look through that eye, it's a little cloudy always, even with the glasses. So this one, because of the little bumpy scar, I can't put a contact on, so I go with the glasses. But you say it's a new look when I don't have glasses on. I just had these glasses for like two years.

But everyone I've...

Joe Rogan (2:11)

You get used to people wearing glasses.

Tom Papa (2:13)

Is it funny?

Joe Rogan (2:14)

Like, Greg Fitzsimmons wears glasses, and sometimes he doesn't wear glasses, and I'm like, oh, hey, man.

Tom Papa (2:19)

What do you like better? What's Tom Papa to you?

Joe Rogan (2:23)

I just like you, buddy.

I don't really care if you wear glasses. But glasses are the odd thing that makes girls sexy. There's something about a girl wearing glasses that's kind of sexy.

Tom Papa (2:34)

Yeah, it worked in every 80s movie.

Joe Rogan (2:36)

It's always like girls with their hair pulled up, with a tight blouse, and a skirt dropping off papers.

Tom Papa (2:42)

Why is that?

Joe Rogan (2:43)

I don't know.

Tom Papa (2:44)

A smart girl is sexy.

Yeah, for sure, right? But then she, at the end of the movie, takes it off and gets all slutty and lets her hair down.

Joe Rogan (2:51)

Yeah, is it like an alternative thing? Is that like what it is? Like you see the girl with the glasses, and you're like, oh, she's different.

She's out there reading, and she's focused.

Tom Papa (3:01)

Yeah, she's got her act together.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

She'll know I'm full of shit.

SPEAKER_3 (3:04)

How what? She'll be able to see my flaws.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Maybe she can help me.

Tom Papa (3:10)

She'll know if I really read those books.

I don't know if, you think it's the same for kids now though? Because there's so many weird looking kids now. Like when we were young, it was like the glasses girl or like the blind girl, the cheerleader girl. Now everything's so mushed together.

Joe Rogan (3:24)

You mean like what is attractive?

Tom Papa (3:26)

Just like the classifications of people. We had like teams that you were a part of. You were like the jock or the nerd or the burnout.

I was a jock and a class clown.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

Oh, you were a class clown?

Tom Papa (3:40)