Joe Rogan Experience #2226 - Theo Von

Recorded shortly after the 2024 presidential election, Joe Rogan and Theo Von open by recapping the wild election-night party at the Comedy Mothership and debating why cities vote blue while rural areas went red. The conversation roams across the economy and crime, RFK Jr. and the FDA, the Sackler family and the opioid crisis, and Tony Hinchcliffe's controversial Trump-rally joke. They share long riffs on fishing, addiction and self-destructive behavior, and the loneliness of working alone versus the value of comedian community. Later stretches cover MMA greatness (Jon Jones, Alex Pereira, Mighty Mouse, Roy Jones Jr.), nature's brutality (Everglades pythons, Comanche warrior culture), nostalgia for teenage car culture, and big-picture musings on good versus evil, AI, and human programming.

• Rogan recounts Dana White telling him Elon Musk had an app showing Trump had won roughly four hours before the race was called.
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• They watch footage of the 1910 Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries fight and marvel that every man in the crowd wore a fancy hat.
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• Theo reveals personal addiction history, describing being up 42 hours on drugs and cutting a window into his closet into a neighbor's apartment.
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• Rogan describes a priest's diary of Columbus's men committing atrocities, bashing babies on rocks and demanding gold under threat of mutilation.
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• They read RFK Jr.'s tweet declaring the FDA's 'war on public health' over and warning FDA employees to 'pack your bags.'
  02:07:20
• Rogan tells of a former training partner implicated in a torture-murder where the victim was injected with cocaine to keep him conscious.
  02:31:30
• Discussion of why Trump was told not to release the JFK files because government figures could be implicated.
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• They quote the Hawaii governor's controversial comments about the state acquiring burned Lahaina land after the Maui fires.
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• Estimates suggest 38 to 49 million people are living in conditions of slavery today, more than before 1865.
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• An 1825 bare-knuckle fight reportedly lasted 276 rounds over four and a half hours; an 1893 bout went 110 rounds in over seven hours.
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• About 8% of the U.S. prison population is in private prisons, roughly 99,000 people, with the total incarcerated population near 990,000.
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• Because of introduced pythons, about 90% of mammals in the Everglades have vanished, with raccoon populations down 99.3% since 1997.
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• Tulsi Gabbard's white hair streak reportedly came from the stress of serving in a medical unit deployed overseas.
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• Medical debt is cited as the number one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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• A University of Padova study proposed a gene carried by mothers that correlates with both higher fertility in women and more gay sons.
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• Rogan notes Hillary Clinton and Obama both publicly opposed same-sex marriage as recently as around 2013.
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