‘Can We Talk About the Movie I’m Promoting?’ Joe Rogan Guest Begs to Move on After Host Spends 20 Minutes Ranting About ‘Evil’ Covid Lockdowns

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Comedy legend Bobby Lee has a new movie coming out and he wanted to talk about it while he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast — if only Rogan would let him.

Lee, a former star of MADtv and current iconic character actor, is in the upcoming movie Drugstore June. As part of his promotional duties, he is making the media rounds and appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday’s new show.

It’s clear that Lee and Rogan go way back, and they shared a bunch of stories about the comedy scene, how it’s changed, how their politics have changed… and then Rogan sorta took over the whole show for a sizeable chunk of time.

Rogan ranted, as he is wont to do. He ranted about Covid restrictions, the “Deep State,” the 2000 election, the 2020 election, and this unhinged bit about “evil” while he lit a cigar for Lee:

This is what I think, man. Okay. I think evil is real. And I think evil exists in many forms, and it exists in callous disregard for loss of life for profit. That’s evil. Right? And that’s a real thing. Like you could say, evil is the devil — here’s a little lighter here, buddy. You can say evil is Satan and evil is demons, and evil is, you know, exorcisms and shit. You know, look at that, baby.

But also evil is profit over human life, which is, real evil is cobalt mines in in the Congo. When you watch pregnant women mining for cobalt, getting toxic fumes in their lungs, whether some of them have babies on their back, that’s evil, that’s evil. They’re living in dirt floors with no sanitation. It’s horrific conditions, and that is in everybody’s cell phone. And everyone’s cell phone is the labor of essentially people so poor they don’t have to choose whether they’re slaves or not. They just, there’s no other option for them to work.

Lee sighed a few times, responding to this by saying thinking about this makes him feel “powerlessness” over wanting to do something, and adding it “stresses me out.” He could have also been referring to Rogan’s rant, because this was after nearly a solid 20 minutes of Rogan going on and on… and on and on:

It’s not an obligation to pay attention to everything, okay? But it is something that I think would help people break out of the cult, because that cult– it’s like you think you’re a good person if you buy hook, line and sinker everything that the left says. That’s crazy.

These are the same people that want war. These are the same people that are encouraging censorship. These are the same people that are trying to silence dissent. That’s all totalitarian shit. And just because it’s done for trans kids or for Black Lives Matter or for any social cause that you think is, like, undeniably worthy, it’s still the same thing at the end of the day, the Patriot Act still controlled people in a way that was never allowed before. And it did it under the guise that we have to stop a terrorist attack. Yeah.

So even if they don’t do evil shit to make these things happen, once these things happen, they take advantage by doing evil shit, and they enact control over the people that they never had before. And that’s what they did during Covid. And the redistribution of wealth was insane. That we did redistribution of wealth to big corporations and companies. Oh my god, so many people did. Billions of dollars was moved.

Finally, Lee stepped in to get the conversation back on the rails: “Yeah. Well, it just stresses me out. You want to talk about the movie? Can we talk about the movie I’m promoting?”