#936 - Colin Moriarty

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Boom, and we're live. How are you, Colin?

Colin Moriarty (0:03)

I'm all right, how are you? A lot.

Joe Rogan (0:06)

You got a lot of stuff happening, man.

Colin Moriarty (0:07)

Yeah, yeah. First of all, thank you so much.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

My pleasure.

Colin Moriarty (0:10)

This is amazing.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

Well, Dave Rubin recommends you. And I listen to Dave Rubin's, I don't listen to a whole lot of people's recommendations, but Dave Rubin's one of them.

Colin Moriarty (0:16)

He's been an amazing figure in my life just in the last less than even a month.

He kinda was like my savior when everyone was kicking me while I was down. He was the one that kinda reached a handout, and so I owe him a great deal.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

Well, we should kinda explain what kicking you while you're down means, because it's more silly to me than anything because it doesn't really make sense. But you tweeted a joke, and it's a real simple joke. Jamie, see if you can pull up the joke.

This is what happened. Colin tweeted a joke about a day without a woman, and everybody knows that a day without a woman was like that day without a Mexican thing, where you were supposed to like, well, imagine if there were no women. Well, if there were no women, first of all, there'd be no fucking people, so yeah.

Colin Moriarty (1:00)

Yes.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Women are super important.

Colin Moriarty (1:02)

Of course.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

So you just write this tweet joke, ah, peace and quiet, hashtag a day without a woman. I would laugh. I would think it was funny, and I would move on, and that's it. So then, hold on a second, put that, look, go above that, go above that, above it. Look at that.

Sent this tweet which was roundly condemned as sexist.

Colin Moriarty (1:26)

Yeah, not really true if you leave the gaming industry, but roundly condemned in the gaming industry for sure. Outside of that, people, I think normal everyday people that don't have an ax to grind about literally everything found it, Reddit maybe groaned or maybe laughed and then kept going about their day like a normal person.

Joe Rogan (1:43)

You're not allowed to have any personality anymore.

If you work for any kind of a company that is in any way public where you can be targeted, where they can say, oh, that's the fucking guy, go get him. Like anything that's remotely controversial, I mean, that is really remotely controversial. It's just Al Bundy.

Colin Moriarty (2:01)

Yeah, I mean, it's not even a good joke. And, you know, yeah, I heard you and Jim Norton talking about it, by the way, that video, someone clipped that out and put it up on some YouTube channel. That video is gonna be a relic in my family forever. Everyone was like, I can't believe this, what is going on, this is so great. So I really do appreciate you stepping up. And when I got your DM, by the way, on Twitter, I was like, what an amazing turn of events this has been for me. So I really am appreciative of you again, I just want you to know that.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Oh, well thank you, thank you. Stop saying it, you're making me uncomfortable.

Colin Moriarty (2:31)

But at the same time, I was in bed with my girlfriend actually when I wrote it, and I showed it to her, and I was like, this is kinda funny, right, this is kinda stupid. And she laughed, she's an ER nurse, and she works the overnight shift, so she was just getting in the bed as I was getting up. And she's like, yeah, it was funny, then we didn't really think twice about it. I sent it, I got in the shower, I went about my day. And then when I got to work, I realized that it was a much bigger deal than I had thought.

And then everything fell apart and then was rebuilt very quickly.

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Well, you resigned from the company that you worked for.

Colin Moriarty (3:02)

Yeah, I founded it, I co-founded the company. I owned a piece of it.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

And you resigned because of that?

Colin Moriarty (3:06)

Yeah, yeah, other reasons too, but that was definitely the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

Joe Rogan (3:10)

What in the fuck, man?

Colin Moriarty (3:12)

Yeah, it was just, I felt like, yeah.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

How is it possible that in this day and age, that simple tweet, by the way, if you reverse the sexes in that tweet, there's not a single man that would complain. And if he did, he's not a man.