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Joe Rogan & Shane Gillis say we're never going back — and young men should listen

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A night of drinking in Belfast gave Joe Rogan an epiphany: It's never going to be that way again. Joking with fellow comedians Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, and Ari Shaffir, the quartet were going through their usual roundtable of anecdotes when — as usual — some sage advice poked its head through. 'Cameras have ruined young people.' Just the flip Rogan was recalling a night on the town in Northern Ireland, telling his friends about a literal drunken Irishman who was rambling about being willing to fight anyone. That experience, known only to him, is foregone history now thanks to modern technology. "I miss those days where I could just go to a bar and just just pull up and just get lit. It was fun," Rogan said on his podcast . "It's too hard" now, the comedian continued; it's all about the phones. "So this is like 2007 ... there's no cameras. There's no phones. Nobody. There's no iPhone yet. So it's like people were just hanging out." Then even Normand, who is usually a sunglasses-weari