"I want you to imagine a guy today, if R. Crumb never existed, but he emerged as R. Crumb today and put that work out. He would 100% be labeled in the Andrew Tate camp, right?"

 

Duncan Trussell had sent Joe Rogan an R. Crumb drawing, and it sets Joe off: "That guy Crumb was a maniac.... He's an odd guy, man.... You watch that documentary?... He likes big women, big giant women that he rides.... It's hard to know what his real take on things are. You know, I think he adds some shock value to some of his stuff for sure. Some of it was just crazy. There's a lot of like really racist stuff. Like there's there's some just crazy stuff in there.... There was a time where things just got very odd in this country with art.... For it to be as popular as it was and be that strange and that crazy. That's what's really interesting to me... If he existed in a time of the internet... a lot of the stuff that he said in this cultural environment would never fly. He would be as far right as you could possibly imagine. He'd be past Andrew Tate to the right.... Don't you think? Some of the racial stuff?... Sexually, it's like pure deviance.... I want you to imagine a guy today, if R. Crumb never existed, but he emerged as R. Crumb today and put that work out. He would 100% be labeled in the Andrew Tate camp, right?... They would call him a racist and a misogynist.... That guy was a counterculture figure of the left. He was a huge hero of the hippies.... This is how weird like ideologies are. In the 1970s, that guy was like a counterculture hero and an artist, like a really respected artist... and it was okay that he was kinky and weird and it was part of the fun for a lot of people."