#966 - Tom Papa

Tom Papa (0:00)

Go to the Jersey Shore.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

The great Tom Papa will be at the Jersey Shore this weekend. Do you ever do gigs down there?

Tom Papa (0:15)

With flip-flops.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

And a metal detector. Do you know anybody who's ever scored with a metal detector?

Tom Papa (0:23)

No. I mean, scored like found like a bottle cap.

Joe Rogan (0:26)

Yeah, like a Civil War belt buckle or some shit.

Tom Papa (0:30)

Never, never. I had one when I was a kid. Because I used to go to the Jersey Shore. It was orange.

And I would get it.

And no earphones or anything. I would just walk out on the beach with it. Never found anything.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

What's the earphones? Did they tell you like when the frequency is different? There's like a different sound?

Tom Papa (0:50)

Yeah, you're just going along.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

So it's just like the frequency of the beeps?

Tom Papa (0:53)

Yeah, it's like hotter, burning hot. You're there.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

How good do those things work? I've never looked into metal detectors.

Tom Papa (1:01)

I don't know. But you know, like if you take that to like the Appalachian Trail or like, you know, where the Civil War went down and that kind of stuff, like you'd find stuff.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

Oh, I guarantee you.

Tom Papa (1:13)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:13)

I guarantee you. See, what is the most sophisticated current?

Jamie (1:17)

I just looked this up. This guy just found something a couple of weeks ago.

Two million dollars worth of Viking gold. Oh my God.

Tom Papa (1:25)

Who's laughing now?

Joe Rogan (1:26)

It's two million pounds. What is that? Is that four million dollars?

Is that four million? Is it double?

Jamie (1:34)

It's like at least one and a half to two times.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

Jesus Christ.

Tom Papa (1:37)

Viking treasure hoard.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

What does he got in that photo?

Jamie (1:40)

That's what it looks like.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Oh, that's his metal detector.

Tom Papa (1:43)

Wow.

Joe Rogan (1:44)

It's a janky looking metal detector too. It looks like it's all duct taped together and shit.

Tom Papa (1:47)

It looks like he's been using it a long time.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

And this dude found millions of dollars in Viking finds.

Tom Papa (1:52)

That's pretty great.

I found nothing. I found like a bottle cap and it's exciting. Like when you hear it, it's like dee.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Look at all the shit he found. Look at that vase.

Tom Papa (2:03)

Look at that ring. That's cool. That's like the hobbit ring.

SPEAKER_4 (2:06)

Wow.

Tom Papa (2:07)

10th century gold ring.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

Oh my God.

Tom Papa (2:10)

Isn't that cool that the ring was-

Joe Rogan (2:12)

That's insane.

Tom Papa (2:14)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

A 10th century gold ring.

Tom Papa (2:17)

That's pretty great.

SPEAKER_5 (2:18)

Somebody wore that.

Tom Papa (2:20)

You just gotta walk in the right places. I'm in the Jersey Shore. You know what I mean?

Jamie (2:24)

My dad lives in Florida on the treasure coast, they call it, which is like the Atlantic, mid-Atlantic, or mid halfway up and down Florida. So like every time there's hurricanes, the people are always out on the beach looking for stuff cause shit gets washed up off the bottom.

Tom Papa (2:36)

Oh yeah.

Jamie (2:36)

A bunch of treasure chests or wrecks like in the Bermuda Triangle.

Tom Papa (2:39)

So like the pirate treasure gets wiped up onto the beach.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

There's something about finding that though. Like if you went to a museum and you saw a ring from the 9th century, or the 10th century, whatever it is, you'd probably be like, wow, that's incredible.

That's right. But if you fucking found it in the dirt and you picked it up, and it's maybe likely, I mean, there's at least a possibility. The last person that touched it was the person that died there.

Tom Papa (3:03)

Huge.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Huge possibility.

Tom Papa (3:05)

Huge. I mean, how great would that, the feeling would have been amazing.

Do you ever find a fossil? You ever find a fossil when you were a kid walking around?

Joe Rogan (3:13)

Not really. I found an arrowhead though.

SPEAKER_4 (3:15)

That's the same thing.

Tom Papa (3:17)

A legit arrowhead. Yeah, excited.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

Yes, it was in Nevada bow hunting. I found an arrowhead.

Tom Papa (3:22)

Oh, wow.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

And I lost it. Aw.

Tom Papa (3:25)

That's terrible.