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Awkward moments on Joe Rogan are certainly a rare sighting, but they do still happen occasionally. So, let's begin by looking at The Joe Rogan Experience number 958, when the conversation between Joe and Jordan Peterson became so deep that the two completely forgot what they were talking about in the first place. You can say, "Well, yeah, I've got all these flaws, but look at what I'm trying to do. That's the real ground of self-respect." Well, [Music] I missed, I'm off the track with the question. Ground of self-respect. I can't remember what you asked me, so we'll have to go to a different topic. What? How did we get on this? We were, um, you asked about the evolutionary basis of— that was a long time ago. I know. It's a rabbit hole that just doesn't disappear. But where were we just now? Um, remember where we were just now? No, sorry, I'm distracted by something else that's happening right now. I'll give you, let you know. What is it? Comey just got fired by Trump a little bit ago, and Twitter is ablaze. This is a little off topic, but I mean, uh, you want to talk about a figure? Oh, I know, we were talking about men. Yeah, we were talking about men and what motivates them. As you can see, the conversation did eventually get back on track, and the podcast finished with no further hiccups. However, this wasn't the only time on an episode where Joe didn't know what else to say. Take, for example, The Joe Rogan Experience number 1726 with Chuck Palahniuk, which as a whole was an awesome podcast except for certain parts in the beginning. Now, it seemed like the biggest problem was that the two were discussing a topic which didn't have much substance, and as a result, Joe would say things which received no response at all. There was a little three-foot-tall furry people that were living on an island in Flores. [Music] It's wild. While it felt as though the two were saying anything they could in order to keep the conversation going, Gates Foundation has been really active in that area. I heard. [Music] Um, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, it could be. I mean, we tried vaccines on them. They used them to experiment. Could be. However, the most awkward silence came at the end of this topic when, in a rare instance, it seemed as though Joe completely ran out of things to talk about. Whoa, that's where cuckold comes from. Yeah, huh. [Music] I guess it makes sense. I guess that's a logical origin. Well, I've never heard that before. It's kind of tragic. It is tragic. Well, birds are tragic, period. So a weird creature. You know, they get to fly. They don't live very long. They get eaten by other birds. Perhaps Joe and Chuck were simply being highly introspective during their conversation about birds. But what happens when a guest brings up a serious topic while Joe sits there laughing? This is what happened during The Joe Rogan Experience number 1532 with Mike Tyson, which got a bit awkward after Joe interpreted one of Mike's serious videos as somewhat of a joke. I did that video, and I was in bed for a week. There was 30 seconds, and I was in bed for a week. And it's not funny because it made me realize that is right there. That wasn't really cool. After Mike ended this first interaction by stating that wasn't really cool, another period of awkward conflict occurred. What does it mean, um, when fighting gets, gets you erect? What does that mean? It's a good question. It's orgasmic sometimes. Yeah, means you're getting excited. Yeah, but saying that it gets you orgasmic, that's a strange thing to say. Well, that's just what I wanted to find out because you're really bright, and I thought you were— no, I'm being very serious. No, I know, I know you're being serious, but I mean, no one will understand that other than you, which eventually resulted in even more uncomfortable silence. Alexander the Great was 32, and he conquered the known world. Yeah, in 10 years. And so thinking about that as a young man, absolutely. However, this wasn't the only time that inviting a fighter onto the podcast ended with an extremely awkward moment, as during The Joe Rogan Experience number 607, the audience had to witness this. It was a really tough fight for me too, you know. I had a—it was a really bad camp. It was probably the worst camp of my career. I, uh, my dad had passed away like three weeks before the fight, and like two or three days after that. Why does that look so shitty? Jamie, my cousin passed away. Like, pull it back. Is it our computer that's doing that? Yeah. Yeah, it's a YouTube video. Is it really that bad? What do we got to do to fix that? Focusing on a YouTube video’s quality instead of the comments made by your guest about the passing of their father definitely makes for some uncomfortable viewing. However, it's not like this was the only time where things got awkward because Joe wasn't paying attention. If I get fired here, whatever. I'll just go do Joe Rogan next week, and I'll be fine. Anyway, I thought that was funny. No, what? I was like, oh, I literally thought— I literally thought that. Oh, okay. Yeah, I thought it'd be funny. Well, it could have been funny. Yeah, I was booked up though. No, it's fine. It was just funny to Truly because I remember somebody contacted me like to have you on, and I was like, I don't have any room, like for a while. I could do like an emergency podcast, but I'm like, let this dude ride this out. Yeah, and then we'll do one eventually. Truly glad that that did not happen because I would have come in emotional. Yeah, I'd come in like guns. It isn't fair, and I never felt that way. Like the whole time I was like, I kind of get it. Accidentally inviting yourself onto the podcast is clearly a pretty good way to make Joe uncomfortable, but if you want to make things really weird, then all you need to do is give Joe a couple of compliments, as was shown in The Joe Rogan Experience number 1518 with David Cho. Now, don't get me wrong, this episode is a contender for the best Joe Rogan podcast ever created, and part of the reason for this was that David kept giving Joe these uncomfortably wholesome compliments. What is your, uh, threshold with receiving compliments? My threshold? Yeah, what's your comfort level? I haven't seen you in a long time. Oh yeah, it's been a while. I don't know. Can I give you— can I give you, okay, five? Sure. Okay, um, you're—you only look better as you get older. Wow. You have a beautifully shaped skull, like as an artist, as a sculptor. Like, I painted you. Yeah, I don't like the painting anymore. I think I can do a better one now, but it's awesome. It's an awesome painting. All artists and sculptors out there listening, paint this guy's skull. It's beautiful. Um, you're unbelievably, uh, curious, inspirational. You give me hope. You're funny. You're entertaining. And you're a leader. You're a perfectly imperfect, unreputable miracle of the universe. Wow, that's heavy. You're great, man. Well, that's very sweet of you. I appreciate you. Yeah, thank you very much, man. It's very nice of you. Before Joe would put the awkwardness back on Dave in a fairly wholesome way. Some people can't be themselves. They're not good at it. You're really good at being David Cho. I'm horrible at taking compliments, by the way, so thank you. It's uncomfortable for everybody, I think, unless you're a real creeper. You did it great right now. That was good. Could I— could have done more? Could have given you like— however, this wasn't the only time on The Joe Rogan Experience where too much praise put an instant stop to the conversation. By the way, on Spotify, thank you. I know. Crazy. So well deserved, man. Thank you. God damn. Um, sorry, I didn't want to forget. I didn't want to forget. Yeah, dude, I've been ultra paying attention to my health. Then there was The Joe Rogan Experience number 1572, which became awkward after Joe accidentally gave himself a few too many compliments. How are you so good at rock-paper-scissors? It's just, you know, skill, muscle, intuition. Intuition. Can we play right now? You wanna play? Yes, but I only play for stakes. Okay, what do I play for? If I win, I do the programming on your show for a week. No, that's worth a lot of money. What kin—
