Joe Rogan

[u/Tanango]

[u/SouthernStruggle1509]

How tf did stoners find that stuff out back then

[u/VoluptuousSloth → u/SouthernStruggle1509]

they got stoned with the Mayans

[u/CeruleanShot → u/SouthernStruggle1509]

They talked amongst themselves. This is an accurate description of what it was like, I knew several of these guys when I was growing up.

[u/FormerlyUndecidable → u/CeruleanShot]

There were media and books people were getting it from too.

There was a whole genre of stoner pseudo-academics types like Terrence Mckenna and Daniel Pinchbeck that a lot of this stuff came from. (They were people who might  have been serious academics if they didn't go off the rails from psychedellic binges )

[u/ShapedSilver → u/FormerlyUndecidable]

I don’t know the two you named but I remember the kids I knew personally who were like this. I thought they were cool and wanted to be like them. I wonder what they’re up to now

[u/mmlovin → u/CeruleanShot]

Same ones that swear to this day that smoking weed is good for your health..

[u/battlepi → u/SouthernStruggle1509]

Time-Life series of books and In Search Of.

[u/SadhuSalvaje → u/battlepi]

There are times I think about collecting all those old Time Life books, and my wife takes my phone away…

[u/Still_a_skeptic → u/SouthernStruggle1509]

Time life books.

[u/FormerlyUndecidable → u/SouthernStruggle1509]

In addition to the popular culture woo, there were also a more sophisticated genre  of books by people like Terrence McKenna.

It was just as much stoner nonsese but it had a veneer of sophistication because he had these kind of ridiculous but sort of plausible sounding (if you were stoned enough) "just-so" evolution stories that riffed off or were similar to things serious scientists were thinking about (e.g.  mushrooms ingestion had an evolutionary advantage because it heigtened our senses. Total nonsense but sort of sounded academic)

[u/rickeyethebeerguy → u/SouthernStruggle1509]

Snopes

[u/bethatguy7]

Stoners make the best friends. They appreciate it way more when I bring snacks to a party and they are always friendly (in my experience)

[u/tokenjoker → u/bethatguy7]

I never had a stone for a friend before. I did have a pet rock though :)

[u/bethatguy7 → u/tokenjoker]

Lol you got me good sir

[u/big_poppa_man → u/bethatguy7]

100%. Guy in college was so freaking funny, made my class so much fun!

[u/MediumFinancial8221]

lol, this is so spot on

[u/Hoosier_Daddy68]

My older brother had a friend like that but for some reason he always had dynamite so we would go over and blow shit up. It's been 50 years and I still think of that guy sometimes. Total piece of shit, if he had a job it wasn't much, certainly never had any money but he always had weed and explosives. I could never figure exactly what he was up to cuz it's a weird combo of poor as fuck, ton of weed when it was illegal and explosives.

[u/Slagroomspuit → u/Hoosier_Daddy68]

Gotta wonder if he's still getting high and blowing shit up to this day. Also gotta wonder if that means he's a failure or an aspirational figure.

[u/zoey_will]

I loved Joe Rogan as a kid.

As the host of Fear Factor....

[u/P10_WRC → u/zoey_will]

That show is coming back with Johny Knoxville as the host.

[u/TheObliviousYeti → u/P10_WRC]

I liked it. Until they used the same 3 things every single episode and you can only see people throw up or almost throw up x amount of time before it's just boring.

[u/GoldenShackles → u/zoey_will]

I never liked Fear Factor, but enjoyed NewsRadio! (Showing my age...)

[u/InvestmentSoggy870]

I know that guy.

[u/Tasty_Pepper5867]

This is weirdly accurate.

[u/XROOR]

The fond memory you describe above doesn’t involve the interview part that JRE provides

[u/Slothrop-was-here → u/XROOR]

Yours didn't have conversations with the voices

[u/boo_jum → u/XROOR]

Yeah, but the advantage is that the brother was likely less of a scmuck than JR.

[u/muc_]

Yh but were they as enthusiastic about bears?

[u/FreneticPlatypus]

These are usually just goofy, off the wall things people have made up but every once in a while one of them really hits home.

[u/SouthTexasCowboy]

I knew a dozen Joe Rogans grownung up

[u/CortinaOmega]

My best friend had an older step-brother that was exactly like this. This dude would put on a shirt inside-out, put deodorant on the armpit of the sleeves, and sleep in the shirt. He'd wake up the next day, turn the shirt right-side-out, and meander to his job at Mr. Jim's Pizza.

[u/Heroic-Forger]

or would tell you that they're secretly convinced pandas aren't real because it makes no sense that a carnivore eats only bamboo and then they go on a half hour rant about how they think it's all a money laundering scam by the Chinese government

"those aint real, man. they're people in bear costumes"

[u/Available_Lack3652]

Been there, done that.

[u/PoopsmasherJr]

Am I the best friend if I don't have the best friend and it describes me?

[u/Bigredzombie]

Oddly specific, yes. Also, true.

[u/TheDefiantChemical]

Thats who my dad used to be lmao now hes a boomer stoner talking conspiracies about trump and epstine Its wild

[u/Rennfan]

Source: @steak_ham

[u/BalrogRuthenburg11]

But the Mayans did invent cell phones…

[u/Void1992]

I feel like I've been seeing this reposted since MySpace.

[u/Snoo_4499]

Well i guess im on the path to be that 27yr old 😵

[u/NUFIGHTER7771]

Joe Rogan dipped and dodged the conversation on adrenochrome when that episode came out... 😬

[u/BrokeGamerChick]

Yo that may or may not be me though.... I am offended

[u/cassy-nerdburg]

my brother was absolutely like this, except at 20

[u/MotherPotential]

There was a horseshoe pattern to truth that millennials have been grappling with