The guest
Brian Redban: Comedian, longtime JRE producer/engineer, and owner of the Sunset Strip Comedy Club in Austin, located next door to Joe's Comedy Mothership.
What this episode covers
This is a loose, free-ranging conversation between Joe Rogan and Brian Redban centered on Austin becoming a comedy hub, with Redban promoting his new Sunset Strip Comedy Club. The two wander through phone wars (iPhone vs Android, Tesla's hated yoke steering wheel), Samsung's fake AI moon photos, and the Bud Light boycott. A long stretch covers food obsessions: Taco Casa as 1960s-era Taco Bell, smash burgers, New York delis, and why California water supposedly ruins pizza and bagels. The back half dives into AI deepfakes, voice-cloning scams, the metaverse versus VRChat, exotic serval cats, possums, and Redban's TRT routine, all in classic rambling JRE fashion.
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Apple CarPlay
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“you can do anything that you need to do without ever touching the phone it's the best”
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Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
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“that's a good phone it's great cameras are incredible it's so amazing”
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Taran Tactical Pit Viper
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“that's the pit viper that's the one that I have that is the smoothest flattest shooting gun that thing is so nice”— Joe Rogan
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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“which is amazing scene this is such a good movie”
“that's the recreation of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind scene which is amazing scene remember that scene this is such a good movie”— Joe Rogan
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Avatar
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“it was great yeah it's great those movies are great”
“I saw Avatar in the movie theater I took my kids we were on vacation and went to see it it was great yeah it's great”— Joe Rogan
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Beef
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“that's amazing it's great it's easy to watch the characters are all awesome”
“I watched that new Asian show with Margaret beef yeah that's amazing yeah it's great it's easy to watch the characters are all awesome”— Joe Rogan
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Chimp Empire
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“it's really good man the footage is insane it's absolutely insane”
“have you been watching chimp Empire it's really good man the footage is insane it's absolutely insane and these camera people are just accepted by these chimps”— Joe Rogan
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Samsung Galaxy S21
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“when you got the Galaxy S21 you sent me a moon photo and I was like holy and it made me want one so bad”— Joe Rogan
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Glock 19
Glock
“I was thinking a Glock like it's 17 or Glock 19 there's a John Wick gun I said do you guys see a badass gun”— Brian Redban
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Ric Flair Wooooo edibles
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“Ric Flair's an Edibles yeah we got his woo-choo's over there he's got his own edible brand we'll choose”— Joe Rogan
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ChatGPT
OpenAI
“so I got answered from Chat GPT it basically started off saying the same thing but down here it gives you like a recommended”— Joe Rogan
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Final Cut Pro
Apple
“they just announced yesterday that they're bringing Final Cut Pro and logic to the iPad which is insane like you could edit prores video on an iPad now”— Joe Rogan
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Valve Index
Valve
“I'm using like a really high-end PC and a valve index headset and uh it's a VR chat's free and you just download it”— Brian Redban
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Showgirls
“those are the cocaine days they were doing cocaine and writing Showgirls is the best okay movie of all time”— Brian Redban
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“you see the Mario movie no was it good I heard it was fun it's a fun movie anything that's in the movie theater I wait till it gets on streaming”— Joe Rogan
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John Wick: Chapter 4
“no spoiler alert but the shotgun in the movie was cool I can't wait to see the movie it comes out on streaming sometime in June”— Brian Redban
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron
“do the scene from Terminator 2 where he explains what Skynet is it's exactly like what's going on now”— Brian Redban
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South Park
“did you see the South Park episode they did with that chat gbt at the end it says co-written by Trey Parker and chat GPT”— Brian Redban
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Unrecorded
“the game is called unrecorded so this is a guy clearing a room he's got a pistol in front of him it looks insanely real”— Joe Rogan
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Black Mirror
Netflix
“they also announce new Black Mirror episodes coming I can't wait I haven't watched all the ones that exist”— Brian Redban
Big reveals from this episode
- Joe claims Taco Casa is essentially Taco Bell's original 1960s-70s menu, kept by a franchisee who refused to change recipes when Pepsi bought Taco Bell.
- They discuss how Samsung Galaxy 'moon photos' aren't real photographs but AI fill-ins using a known image of the moon.
- Bud Light is said to be down around 21% after its boycott, with some bars refusing to sell it.
- Joe recounts failing his DMV eye test in Texas and being made to drive 30 minutes home for his glasses.
- Brian's yard toad nicknamed 'Jeff' was eaten alive by a possum, captured on his ring camera.
- Brian says that since starting testosterone therapy his recurring bloody hemorrhoid disappeared, joking it was really his 'man period.'
Worth remembering
- Serval cats have a bite force of 172 Newtons versus about 56 for domestic cats, and are illegal to own in most US states.
- Amish and Mennonites have been separate groups within the anabaptist family since 1693.
- A New York chef made pasta from 95% shrimp using transglutaminase, or 'meat glue.'
- Imitation crab is made from Alaskan pollock bound with wheat and egg white.
- Title 42 derives its authority from a 1944 public health law allowing migration curbs to protect public health.
- The first karaoke machine was made in 1971, and a Filipino man patented the karaoke machine in the 1980s.
- A viral video shows an elevator counterweight failure launching the car up 30 floors in about 15 seconds.
- MSG was long demonized as toxic but is no longer considered harmful and simply makes food taste better.
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