Joe Rogan

Before that, I lived in Boston and New York.

I thought of people – the southern accent in particular, right?

And this is a standard thing that a lot of people on the coast have.

You hear people talk with a southern accent.

You think they're dumb.

And it's a terrible stereotype that actually came out because of hookworm parasites.

I'm sure you're aware of that story.

I'm not.

You're not?

Educate me.

The stereotype of the lazy, dull-minded southerner came out of the fact that a large percentage of people in the South had contracted hookworms.

From walking around barefoot and hookworm parasites will rob you of your intellectual capacity.

They greatly diminish your ability to think.

exhaust you, you get slower and, you know, in quotes, lazier, but you're really just infected with the parasite.

And it's an enormous percentage of the population in the 1900s were infected with hookworm.

And in the South in particular, hot climates.

And this is where this stereotype came from.

When someone like you speaks with such insane recall, like your recall is bananas, like your recall of dates and names and times.

And I have a pretty good recall.

It's nothing like yours.