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Joe Rogan · 2024-06-27

Joe Rogan Experience #2094 - Colion Noir

Gun-rights commentator Colion Noir joins Joe Rogan after a Texas day of shooting and cars for a deep dive on self-defense, gun laws and crime.

Joe Rogan Experience #2094 - Colion Noir
The guest

Colion Noir: Attorney, gun-rights commentator and YouTube/firearms-media personality known for Second Amendment advocacy and responsible-gun-ownership content.

What this episode covers

Recorded after Rogan and Colion Noir spent a Texas day shooting at the Staccato range and touring the factory, the conversation opens on cars, guns and American manufacturing before broadening out. They wander through immigration and the border, offshored jobs, dating dynamics and the social-media 'roster,' burnout and the meaning of work. The back half becomes a focused argument for responsible gun ownership: concealed-carry tactics, holster retention, accidental versus negligent discharges, the Sig P320 controversy, and why cops who can't fight or handle firearms are dangerous. Colion closes with a critique of gun-control politics, arguing media distorts mass-shooting statistics and that lawmakers ignore the root causes of inner-city violence.

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

“it's really good it's really fascinating”
“he wrote this book on creativity it's really good it's really fascinating but about like what he does to Foster creativity”— Joe Rogan
ProductRecommended

Staccato CS

Staccato

“so small and so light and it's amazing”
“CS is nice yeah so small and so light and it's amazing it and then it shoots so much bigger than oh what it actually is”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Staccato XC

Staccato

“I love the XC”
“yeah know I love I love the XC um I was when it came out I I think I was one of the first people to do a video on it”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Sig Sauer P365 Macro

Sig Sauer

“it's a great gun yeah love it”
“so I carry I still carry that one it's a great gun yeah love it it's so small it's so so small but so big”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Springfield Hellcat Pro

Springfield Armory

“my go-to's are the Cs from staccato or the Springfield hillcat Pro”
“my go-to's are the Cs from tato or the Springfield hillcat Pro but the the 320 does it have the same firing pin setup”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Mark Hood Tactical concealed-carry joggers

Mark Hood Tactical

“I love them like I'm trying out their new stuff now”
“these joggers I'm wearing now from Mar Hood tactical right that's what I going to bring up that company they make joggers specifically for concealed car”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Porsche 911 Turbo S

Porsche

“the greatest daily driving Supercar on the planet ever created”
“I think the Porsche Turbo S is the Great greatest daily driving Supercar on the planet ever created and they have that marriage with Volkswagen”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Porsche Taycan

Porsche

“there is one car I drove that I was like I actually want this”
“there is one car I drove that I was like I actually want this what's that the Tian oh yeah a Tian I was like okay all right that's amazing”— Colion Noir
ProductRecommended

Acura NSX

Acura

“one of the most underappreciated super cars that's ever existed... was a monster”
“their last NSX which was one of the most underappreciated super cars that's ever existed that last NX NSX was a monster”— Joe Rogan
ProductRecommended

Lexus LFA

Lexus

“LFA is amazing”
“you say that I hear LFA LFA is amazing but there's people are doing wild [ __ ] with the LC 500”— Joe Rogan
ProductRecommended

Toyota Land Cruiser

Toyota

“that thing was awesome during the snow”
“I have that Land Cruiser and that thing was awesome during the snow I was loving what kind you have 1995”— Joe Rogan
ProductRecommended

Hennessy Performance brake upgrade

Hennessy Performance

“breaks a phenomenal yeah mine too phenomenal big difference”
“I put the whatever Hennessy puts on ah got you what Hees now breaks a phenomenal yeah mine too phenomenal big difference”— Colion Noir
MediaRecommended

Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy

“never have I not laughed my ass off”
“watching Eddie Murphy Raw and how and how I knew I was [ __ ] up was I've watched Rob multiple times and never have I not laughed”— Colion Noir

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

ProductReferenced

Sig Sauer P320

Sig Sauer

“Sig Sour's P320 pistol has wounded more than 80 people again again so they didn't pull the trigger but who are those people”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced

Glock

Glock

“now that gun is also used in a lot of police departments right but you don't hear about it from Glocks no right it's weird”— Colion Noir
ProductReferenced

Origin

Origin USA

“origin can't keep clothes on the shelves everything's flying off their boots their clothes their hunting gear they can barely keep them in stock”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced

Porsche 911 GT3

Porsche

“I daily drive one and I love it it's so crazy fast I I even I got rid of the GT3 to get it which is sacriligious”— Colion Noir
ProductReferenced

Tesla Model S Plaid

Tesla

“go from The Plaid the 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds silently like a time traveling machine I think I feel disconnect”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced

Audi R8

Audi

“I am a little kind of indifferent about the R8 really yeah I drove one once and it just I couldn't help but feel”— Colion Noir
ProductReferenced

Lexus LC500

Lexus

“people are doing wild [ __ ] with the LC 500 where they're putting widebody kits on straight pipes and they sound insane”— Joe Rogan
ProductReferenced

Lamborghini

Lamborghini

“Lamborghinis were this just unreliable but fantastically fun beautiful pieces of shits right and then you get the German engineering of Audi”— Colion Noir
ProductReferenced

Roadster Shop Camaro

Roadster Shop

“pull up my 1969 Roadster shop Camaro let me see let me let you see this murdered out 1969 Camaro with 850 horsepower”— Joe Rogan
MediaReferenced

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg

“it was like the scene in Jurassic Park where Jeff goldon gets out of the Jeep and he's like what the they're so big”— Joe Rogan
MediaReferenced

The View

ABC

“did you see those ladies on The View talk about ARS like hunting a deer with an AR there's not going to be anything left of it”— Joe Rogan

Big reveals from this episode

  • Joe describes Origin as 100% American-made down to the buttons, threads and cloth, sourcing everything except one boot part from the US.
  • Colion recounts a man forced to keep paying child support for a child his dead best friend secretly fathered, even after a paternity test.
  • Dave Foley's Canadian divorce case where a judge ruled 'your ability to pay has no relationship to your obligation to pay.'
  • Colion's ice-driving disaster: spun a Range Rover into a ditch, a farmer pulled him out, and a 3-hour trip took 10 hours before his brakes failed.
  • Claim that 50%+ (some surveys 70%) of married women keep a 'backup boyfriend,' amplified by social-media DMs.
  • A California woman stabbed her boyfriend 108 times yet got only probation and community service, with the defense blaming marijuana psychosis.
  • A jeweler told Colion his video saved his life after it convinced him to carry with a round in the chamber, letting him out-draw a robber.
  • Colion's investigation found media outlets clustered street-violence driveby shootings as 'mass shootings' to inflate the count.

Worth remembering

  • New York City began charging drivers roughly $15 to drive into Manhattan.
  • Staccato machines parts to a tolerance of one-third the width of a human hair, scrapping anything outside it.
  • A stock TRX needs about 130 feet to stop from 60 mph versus roughly 93 feet for a Corvette Stingray.
  • Dunbar's number: ~5 very close friends, 15-50 close friends, 150 party-invite acquaintances, scaling up to ~1,500 recognizable faces.
  • Elephants are evolving smaller tusks because poaching selects against large ones.
  • In the Congo, a small antelope (a chevrotain/duiker) evolved to swim underwater for ~100 yards and eat fish.
  • The Sig Sauer P320 has reportedly been linked to more than 80 alleged uncommanded discharges, prompting a design change.
  • The Virginia Tech shooter killed dozens using handguns after chaining the doors shut so no one could escape or intervene.
  • Colion cites roughly 1.63 million defensive gun uses per year against about 40,000 annual US gun deaths.
  • Joe notes iPhones are assembled in factories with suicide nets and cobalt sourced via labor in the Congo.