The guest
Adrienne Iapalucci: Bronx-born stand-up comedian known for dark humor who came up through 2000s NYC open mics; she filmed a comedy special at Rogan's Austin club.
What this episode covers
Joe Rogan and comedian Adrienne Iapalucci open with stories about their mutual friend Ari Shaffir before drifting through dangerous dogs, wolves, pit bulls and exotic pets. The conversation turns to drug policy, addiction in Adrienne's family, and Rogan's argument for legalizing and regulating all drugs. Adrienne recounts her dysfunctional Bronx upbringing, her gambler father, and how her mother pushed her into stand-up. They cover the brutal economics of NYC open mics, a Connecticut charity show where she was pulled off stage for a pedophile joke, the OceanGate Titan submersible implosion, vaccines, and corporate scandals from Vioxx to Johnson & Johnson talc. The episode closes with Rogan describing how he built his Austin comedy club with Louis CK's advice.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Adrienne says Ari Shaffir hacked her ex-fiance's computer and sent her a fake 'I'm still in love with you, let's get back together' email.
- Adrienne was physically pulled off stage at a 500-person Connecticut charity show after a joke about rich pedophiles on boats.
- She was later told the joke landed badly because there was an actual rich local pedophile with a boat who abused kids in that community.
- Adrienne's mother did stand-up, quit, got Adrienne into it, then returned to performing once she saw her daughter doing well.
- Adrienne asked her therapist if she'd ever be 'cured' and he laughed and said 'absolutely not.'
- Rogan recounts the unaired Fear Factor episode involving drinking donkey semen that effectively ended the show.
- Rogan explains he uprooted to Austin during the pandemic mid-Spotify-deal and built his comedy club using design advice from Louis CK.
Worth remembering
- Florida's Everglades are overrun with roughly half a million pythons that have wiped out about 99% of native mammals and now eat alligators.
- There are reportedly a couple thousand more tigers in private collections in Texas than exist in the wild worldwide.
- Whippets that inherit two copies of a myostatin gene mutation grow uncontrollable, comic-book-like muscle ('bully whippets').
- Coyotes now live within New York City limits, including the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan.
- A cited theory holds that nearly all drinking water on Earth has at some point passed through a dinosaur's kidneys over their 186-million-year reign.
- Rogan notes crack and freebased cocaine are pharmacologically the same drug, but crack carries far harsher 'racist' sentencing.
- Internal Johnson & Johnson memos from 1971 flagged that its baby powder talc could be contaminated with asbestos.
- Benzodiazepine withdrawal, like alcohol, can be physically deadly if quit cold turkey.
- The OceanGate Titan submersible piloted to the Titanic mostly via screens, with only one small window, and a fired whistleblower had warned the hull couldn't handle the pressure.
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