Joe Rogan opted for caution during the latest episode of his podcast when he decided to edit out a portion of the show.
Wednesday's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience saw the host chatting with fellow comedian Chad Daniels when the topic of the death rates in Afghanistan and Chicago came up. Talk of Chicago led them onto Frank Sinatra and as they played some of his music the team got worried about licensing laws and cut out a short section.
The pair were initially talking about data that has emerged over the years showing Chicago has had a higher number of murders since 2001 than the total number of US soldiers killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and they also referenced comments by Donald Trump saying Afghanistan was safer than Chicago and other American cities.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in the hopes of destroying terrorist group Al-Qaeda and its leader, Osama Bin Laden, eventually withdrawing from the country after 20 years and thousands of military and civilian deaths. Chicago is among the U.S. cities mired in gun crime with very high numbers of shooting incidents and related deaths.
As they were talking about the death rates, Rogan deviated to talk about crooner Frank Sinatra's famous song "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)." Then he asked Daniels if he had heard an AI song that had used Sinatra's voice to sing rapper Eminem's Oscar winning hit, "Lose Yourself."
"It's amazing," Rogan told his guest and they discussed the AI trend of mixing up unlikely musicians such as, Sinatra and Eminem.
"It sounds cool. But when would you ever want to choose to listen to that?" Daniels asked.
Rogan replied about the AI technology: "It's fascinating how competent it is," and asked his producer to play a snippet of the song. But when the producer realised he'd brought up the wrong song on YouTube, Rogan asked: "Do we have a problem here with like sound stuff?" referring to licensing laws.
Rogan and the producer weren't sure if they would "get in trouble" for playing the song on the podcast, so the host paused the show, saying: "We'll cut that out."
Elsewhere during the episode, Daniels and Rogan discussed the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as a lone gunman who shot at Trump, grazing his ear, killing one person at the rally and injuring another two. Crooks was shot and killed by the Secret Service.
Rogan said the incident was "bananas" and that it "feels like a Black Mirror episode."
"The whole thing's nuts, the whole, the whole, thing stinks of either incompetence or a design or we're in the Matrix. Like this is a f****** fake movie. To watch the most bombastic and uh manly of presidents—you know, the for a lack of a better term to—see him with these two female bumbling Secret Service agents," Rogan said.
He continued: "To see everything happened the way—to see that [the Secret Service] knew this guy was on the roof, that, to hear that that guy had pointed his rifle before that at a cop so the cop engaged him, he pointed the rifle and the cop ran away. The guy climbed the roof with a ladder you can see the ladder, the whole thing is bananas.
"He's 20 years old and then you find out he was in a Black Rock commercial? You're like, am I, is this the Black Mirror? Like, tell me what's going on is this real?"
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