The guest
Tom Segura: Stand-up comedian, podcaster (2 Bears 1 Cave, Your Mom's House) and creator/star of the Netflix sketch series 'Bad Thoughts.' One of the most successful touring comics of his generation.
What this episode covers
Tom Segura joins Joe Rogan shortly after the release of season two of his Netflix show 'Bad Thoughts.' The pair open on Texas's wild-pig infestation and hunting/cooking culture, then swing into a long, dark exploration of dictators (especially Uday Hussein) before debating whether young people should fear or embrace AI. The conversation roams across LA's decline, Canada's assisted-dying program, ancient flood myths and Noah's Ark, deep-sea exploration, an extended car-enthusiast tangent, the Ray J 'Brand Risk' boxing controversy, sports-betting and insider trading, and government 'agent provocateur' entrapment cases. It closes with cop-quota traffic-stop stories and praise for Segura's show.
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“That's a fucking great movie”
“True Lies. That's a fucking great movie. Yeah, that guy made some bangers, man.”— Tom Segura
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“I loved that car”
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Porsche 981 Cayman GTS
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“so much fun to drive”
“I missed I think it was a 981 GTS... God, I missed that car. That fucking was so much fun to drive.”— Tom Segura
The guest's own work
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Bad Thoughts
Tom Segura (creator)
“Oh my god. They're so fun. They're so fun. It seems so fun for you. Like it's the most fun I have.”— Tom Segura
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“the first pig that I shot, and we smoked it on this uh Trager, like slow smoked a ham. It was sensational.”— Joe Rogan
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Aliens
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“I love Aliens. Yeah. Avatars of the... So cool, man.”— Tom Segura
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Avatar: The Way of Water
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“the Avatar movies alone, like the the one the second one that was underwater, didn't that cost like a billion dollars to make”— Tom Segura
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Insomnia
Christopher Nolan
“It's called Insomnia. And you feel it watching that movie. the performances and the way it's shot pull it out of you.”— Tom Segura
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One Hour Photo
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“that one where Robin Williams played the psycho guy that develops pictures... that was fucking super creepy. Super creepy.”— Joe Rogan
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30 Days of Night
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“this 30 Days of Night is a fun vampire movie... they just fuck everybody up for like 30 days.”— Joe Rogan
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Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS / Cayman (modified)
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“That's a mid-engine car that's got modern suspension, modern brakes, modern technology, and what, like 650 horsepower... It's so fun.”— Joe Rogan
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Classic Recreations 1967 Mustang GT500 (carbon fiber)
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“Have you seen that company Classic Recreations that does a 67 Mustang all in carbon fiber? It's fucking sick.”— Joe Rogan
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Cadillac Escalade V
Cadillac
“I have a Cadillac, the Escalade V. it has a carbon fiber dash like I love looking at them.”— Tom Segura
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Shelby Super Snake
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“I like my Super Snake because it's a great American muscle car, like a modern muscle car... it's the most fun to drive.”— Joe Rogan
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Perplexity
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“Let's define Put that into perplexity. What is the the Cabala?”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Joe offers to connect Tom with chef Jesse Griffith's hunt-and-cook school so Tom can take his sons hog hunting.
- Joe details Uday Hussein's atrocities, claiming at least 200 people died at his parties every year.
- Joe recounts Marc Andreessen's story of an AI 'blackmailing' a man to preserve itself, though it was instructed to.
- Tom says Canada has government-sanctioned assisted dying accounting for ~5% of all deaths, citing a 26-year-old euthanized for seasonal depression.
- Joe argues the Durupinar formation in Turkey may be Noah's Ark, matching biblical dimensions and location.
- They read the story of a man who built a timed guillotine over his bed to kill himself.
- Discussion of the Hamzat Chimaev upset loss to Sean Strickland, who fought with a blown-out shoulder.
- Joe cites the Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot where 12 of 14 plotters were allegedly FBI informants.
Worth remembering
- Texas has an estimated 2.6 to 4 million wild pigs, which can have up to three litters a year.
- Bert Kreischer reportedly dropped ~50 lbs and cut 16 minutes off his 5K time year over year.
- White Sands footprints dated to 22,000 years old challenge the 'Clovis first' theory of the Americas.
- James Cameron made a record solo dive ~11 km (about 6 miles) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- Talmudic texts cited claim one must fast 84 times to repent for wasting seed.
- Qusay Hussein allegedly withdrew ~$1 billion in cash before the 2003 invasion, called the largest bank heist in history.
- Joe notes $12 billion in cash was flown into Iraq on 21 C-130 flights in May 2004.
- They discuss a chart showing members of Congress consistently outperform the S&P 500.
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