The guest
Legion of Skanks (Big Jay Oakerson, Dave Smith, Luis J. Gomez): The crew behind the long-running comedy podcast Legion of Skanks and the Skankfest comedy festival in Las Vegas.
What this episode covers
Joe Rogan hosts the three comedians of the Legion of Skanks for a sprawling, freewheeling comedy conversation with no central topic. They move through bits on drag queens reading to kids, judging babysitters by their faces, comedy careers and crowd dynamics, the chaos of Philadelphia street takeovers, and religion as 'useful nonsense.' Longer riffs cover trans participation in sports and locker rooms, Terrence Howard's self-taught physics theories, Singapore's recycling efficiency, and hemp versus paper. The back half spirals into wildlife stories about crocodiles, muskies, rats, lantern flies, chimps, and the famous 'dick bone' tangent. It closes with a plug for Skankfest.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Dave Smith describes his belief in 'more to the universe than we can perceive' and a thinly-veiled reality where people express their souls to each other.
- The crew explains Legion of Skanks survived as a subscription-based show so they could say anything without platform censorship.
- They discuss a 50-year-old Canadian trans swimmer (Wise Heart) sharing a locker room while competing against teen girls.
- Joe recounts Eric Weinstein engaging Terrence Howard about his physics and his drone invention with interlocking geometric shapes.
- The Ocean Cleanup founder Boyan Slat is praised for inventing an ocean-skimming machine at 19.
- A lobster-cooking story leads into how deep-sea fish 'get the bends' and have organs pushed out through their mouths when pulled up fast.
- Joe claims the rat biomass of New York City may rival the human population, later debunked on the show.
- The episode ends promoting Skankfest in Las Vegas (September 27-29) with a livestream option.
Worth remembering
- A handful of personal names have been ruled illegal by some US courts, including Roman numeral 'III' and certain numbers.
- 'Sideshows' (street takeovers) originated in 1980s Oakland, traced to Bay Area rapper Richie Rich.
- By 1880 horses deposited about 4 million pounds of manure on NYC streets daily, with piles reportedly rising up to 60 feet.
- Terrence Howard reportedly holds dozens of patents (claimed in the 90s range) despite no formal physics education.
- Plastic has only existed about a hundred years yet a Texas-sized garbage patch already sits in the ocean.
- Spider silk is described as roughly one-tenth the thickness of a human hair and strong enough for experimental bulletproof clothing.
- Genghis Khan's Mongols reportedly used silk underclothes to limit arrow penetration, though the host notes the claim has little historical basis.
- Large reef-feeding fish can accumulate toxins (ciguatera), so big specimens are thrown back to avoid sickness.
- Spotted lanternflies arrived in NYC around summer 2020 via plants imported from China through the docks.
- New Jersey has more bears per capita than anywhere in the lower 48 states.
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