#2526 - JD Vance
7/15/20262 hr 59 min
JD Vance is the Vice President of the United States, a Marine Corps veteran, former U.S. Senator from Ohio, and author. His latest book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” is available now.
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First 90 secondsJoe Rogan· Host0:01
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music] Uh, so last time we talked, uh, last time I saw you, we were at a cage fight at the- Yeah ... White House.
JD Vance· Guest0:18
That's right.
Joe Rogan· Host0:18
That's- [laughs] That's- One of the craziest experiences of my life.
JD Vance· Guest0:23
It must have been one of the craziest experiences of your life.
Joe Rogan· Host0:26
Oh, yeah. It took me, like, two weeks afterwards to recover. [laughs] Just to, like, go, "Did that actually happen?" That seems, it seems so insane.
JD Vance· Guest0:34
Okay. The most insane part of it, which I guess was, was before you got there to, to me at least, is, you know, like, you come into work every day in the White House, right? You, you know, I have an office in the West Wing. There's the Oval Office in the West Wing, and you look out the window, and as this, like, eight-story complex was growing up, it was the c- it was just the most unbelievable thing. It's like the South Lawn of the White House, but you've got the eighth wonder [laughs] of the world being built up around it. [laughs] [laughs] And every day, I'd look at it and be like, it would take me a couple seconds to be like, "What the hell is going on?" And I'd be like, "Oh, yeah, it's UFC. It's U- UFC coming in a couple weeks."
Joe Rogan· Host1:09
The whole thing was surreal.
JD Vance· Guest1:10
Yeah.
Joe Rogan· Host1:11
First of all, it was crazy that the weather just went around us.
JD Vance· Guest1:16
That's right.
Joe Rogan· Host1:16
Like, there was a real moment where the fights would've been postponed until 10:30 PM to start.
JD Vance· Guest1:22
Correct.
Joe Rogan· Host1:23
And, uh, last minute, the storm just diverted.
JD Vance· Guest1:28
That's right. Well, and, uh,