The guest
Matt McCusker & Shane Gillis: Stand-up comedians and co-hosts of the Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast; Gillis is a SNL alum and Bud Light spokesman.
What this episode covers
This is a loose, comedic JRE hangout with Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis rather than a structured interview. The trio jokes about Gillis becoming a Bud Light spokesman after the brand's controversy, then spiral through bombing as comedians, gross-out diarrhea and 'shitting your pants' stories, and the Carnivore diet. Long tangents cover cults (the Buddhafield 'Holy Hell' guru and the silver-drinking 'Love Has Won' leader), wild-animal fights (grizzlies vs gorillas, honey badgers, the Bondo ape), Ozempic side effects, and counterfeiting. They close with politics, immigration, Nazis fleeing to Argentina, the diesel engine inventor's mysterious death, and Grant's memoirs saved by Mark Twain.
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“hamburger helper was delicious”
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DiGiorno
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“that city of God such a good movie movie is so crazy and apparently really accurate it really is like what it's like”— Shane Gillis
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“that's a documentary series Sasquatch really was nice yeah very that was cool very good documentary series”— Joe Rogan
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Ancient Aliens
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“a really great show... fun show to watch”
“that was a really great show that was for real like a genius idea brilliant idea it's a fun show to watch it's constantly on”— Joe Rogan
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Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
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“love has won the cult of mother God that's one of the rare Cults run by a lady too right yeah we watched some of this it is so funny”— Shane Gillis
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“I had have bet once my dad if I scored three baskets in a game I'd be able to rent Mortal Kombat my whole team was trying to get me”— Matt McCusker
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“it's that game what was that game you playing Fallout where you like you're like grabbing pieces of metal your house it's crazy”— Matt McCusker
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Xbox
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“I'm going to play Xbox in door Dash Chipotle and then go to the show that's it wow that's my schedule every day”— Shane Gillis
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“he used Mr Clean Magic Erasers to transform $1 bills into hundreds Magic Erasers so he erased it and then reprinted over it”— Joe Rogan
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Maserati
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“he's doing superar reviews on YouTube it's hilarious they he review to Maserati it's pretty funny review talks a lot of”— Matt McCusker
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Oso por Rosos vodka
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“it's Bird's be Tom and BD have a vodka it's called Oso por rosos oh what a great name hell yeah perfect”— Joe Rogan
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Ford Raptor
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“I'm excited for my lease to run out so I can get a yeah switch it up about a raptor”— Shane Gillis
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Tesla
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Tylenol
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“you can die from Tylenol if I took too many Tylenols my liver will shut down”— Shane Gillis
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Super Blue toothpaste
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“that stuff is in the Alex Jones toothpaste colloidal silver there it is like there is super blue”— Joe Rogan
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Budweiser
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“at the end of prohibition they rode those things right down Pennsylvania Avenue and gave the president a case of Budweiser”— Joe Rogan
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Wild Wild Country
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“who was the guru in Wild Wild Country that guy ruled that guy ruled everybody's are dude”— Joe Rogan
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Holy Hell
“I bought a place that was owned by a cult a cult has a documentary on it called holy hell”— Joe Rogan
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Ancient Aliens
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“the History Channel is basically the Ancient Aliens Network Ancient Aliens caring that Network it's a fun show to watch”— Joe Rogan
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“Tim Kennedy had that TV show Finding Hitler where there's this conspiracy theory that Hitler moved to Argentina”— Joe Rogan
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Grizzly Man
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“wasn't Grizzly Man there when they started to get hungry isn't that what happened yeah he stayed he hung out”— Shane Gillis
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“I was on this show called Joe Rogan questions everything and one of the things I did is I interviewed this former Soviet scientist”— Joe Rogan
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
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“that reminds me of ulyses S Grant when he was like selling his biography I think he sold it to like just two guys on a train for like 10 bucks”— Matt McCusker
Big reveals from this episode
- Gillis credits the podcast and never bailing on Bud Light for his becoming the brand's spokesman after the Kid Rock-fueled boycott.
- Rogan reveals he nearly bought a theater in Austin that was built by the Buddhafield cult documented in 'Holy Hell' to be his comedy club.
- Extended discussion of a pharmacology professor whose Ozempic use reportedly caused severe burns and charred skin on her genitals.
- Rogan reveals he owns a Hennessey Ram TRX with 1,000 horsepower that he drives all the time.
- Rogan and the guests dig into how soda is the number one item bought with food stamps (4-5% of SNAP spending).
- The story that Anheuser-Busch's founder bought the U.S. rights to the diesel engine, and inventor Rudolf Diesel's mysterious 1913 death.
Worth remembering
- Rapper Killer Mike was arrested for misdemeanor battery the same day he won three Grammys.
- Poodles originated in Germany as water-retrieving hunting dogs, not as 'fancy' lap dogs.
- At the end of Prohibition, Budweiser Clydesdales rode down Pennsylvania Avenue to give the president a case of beer.
- NASCAR's origins trace to moonshiners souping up cars to outrun police during Prohibition.
- Horses are usually euthanized for broken legs because their lower legs have almost no muscle or tissue to support a healing bone.
- The first patented toilet paper was introduced by a New Yorker named Joseph Gayetty in 1857.
- A U.S. dollar is called a 'buck' because a deer skin (buck) was the going trade value; early settlers ate bear and used deer only for hides.
- Nazi 'rat lines' helped fascists escape to Argentina, Paraguay and elsewhere, sometimes aided by the Catholic Church and later U.S. intelligence.
- Fritz Haber was wanted for war crimes for poison gas while simultaneously being nominated for a Nobel Prize for pulling nitrogen from air.
- The Bondo (or Bili) ape is an enormous Congo chimpanzee, once thought mythological, that nests on the ground and is called a 'lion killer' by locals.
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