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Joe Rogan Experience: A Journey from Detroit's Streets to Solitary Confinement and Redemption

Published July 22, 2025 | Video Starts at 2:12:36

If you just find the things in your life that suck and dwell on those, your life's gonna suck more. Absolutely. It's just simple mathematics. It's. It's real. I know people that are very successful that aren't gratitude. They don't have gratitude. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. That's who I wrote the book for. Those people is like. It's crazy. Yeah. I know so many people that are, like, very successful but very unhappy. (2:12:36–2:12:41)

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“Detroit was the third wealthiest city in the world until they started moving jobs overseas.”
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“There's no rehabilitation.”
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“Guy who used to work for the Innocence Project. And I worked for the Ike Perlmutter center for Legal justice. And it's mostly dealing with…”
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“Dealing with corrupt DA's, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt everything. Corrupt cops. And people just get railroaded because they need to hang a…”
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“We probably have an appreciation of freedom that's just different from everybody else's.”
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“The system is just set up to punish. They're set up to just lock people up so they're off the streets so other people don't have to deal…”
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“They are going to get out, most of them, and they're not going to be rehabilitated.”
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“Oftentimes they're hardened and it's oftentimes even worse.”
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“There's so little effort put into how to fix things.”
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“What do you do that you can help these people contribute and you can have them come out of jail actually a better person.”
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“In a lot of the environments where these prisons are located, there's no other jobs.”
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“The fact that prison is an industry is also insane. The fact that privatized prisons are an industry.”
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“Private prisons are. They want more people in there because that's how they make money.”
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“It was our own government.”
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“They didn't want to pay the union wages. They didn't want these factory workers making a great living.”
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“These same communities decade after decade after decade that are deeply impoverished and filled with crime.”
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“No course correction, nothing being done on a federal level to try to correct [deeply impoverished communities].”
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“We invest so much money into these non profits overseas and all these different things.”
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“California, there's a new fire. I don't know if they put it out yet. Laguna beach, did they put that fire out?”
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“You can't get fire insurance.”
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“I have friends who have houses now that they can't get insured for fire.”
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