The guest
Brian Simpson: Stand-up comedian and host of the podcast 'BS with Brian Simpson'; a regular at Joe Rogan's Comedy Mothership in Austin.
What this episode covers
Joe Rogan and Brian Simpson open by marveling at Oliver Anthony's overnight rise, recording a number-one song on a cheap Samsung phone after giving his life to God. The conversation wanders through Hollywood insanity (Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando's fake Native American Oscar stand-in), a long deep-dive on anorexia and the genetics of eating disorders, and boxing/MMA breakdowns from Bernard Hopkins to Joanna Jedrzejczyk. They get into conspiracy territory with CIA cocaine-trafficking whistleblower Michael Ruppert and a South Pole 'directed energy weapon' claim, then pivot to cars, the dangers of space, slave-labor supply chains, and corruption in homeless-shelter finances. It closes on political cynicism about Trump, prison, pardons, and the Electoral College.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Oliver Anthony gave his life to God roughly 30 days before recording the world's number-one song straight off a phone with no studio.
- Researchers identified two genes (ESRRA and HDAC4) that can push eating-disorder risk to 85-90%, and anorexia is cited as the deadliest mental illness.
- LAPD narcotics detective Michael Ruppert publicly confronted the CIA director on a televised hearing, alleging the agency dealt drugs in South Central LA.
- A Raytheon firefighter-contractor whistleblower (Eric Hecker) claims the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole is secretly a directed-energy weapon that caused the Christchurch earthquakes.
- Brian recounts homeless-shelter finances with millions unaccounted for and a nonprofit executive arriving in a Phantom or Bentley.
- Claim that Japan's CEO-to-worker pay ratio is roughly 20 times smaller than America's.
- Amanda Nunes retired citing nerve damage in her legs from years of kicking.
Worth remembering
- Oliver Anthony cut the WAV file directly from his own YouTube video to upload as the song, with no mixing or studio.
- Marlon Brando sent Sacheen Littlefeather to decline his Oscar; she was later exposed by her own sisters as not Native American.
- LeBron James reportedly treats his body 'like a pit crew at a race stop' and went largely injury-free into his 18th season.
- The East Antarctica Plateau can hit about -144 degrees Fahrenheit, too cold for humans to inhale more than a few breaths without lung damage.
- In a vacuum your bodily fluids boil (ebullism); you have roughly 15 seconds before passing out from oxygen deprivation.
- A NASA astronaut once lost an entire tool bag during a spacewalk, with no way to retrieve it.
- Bernard Hopkins fought at world-class level into his 40s, crediting prison-era discipline and clean living.
- Every phone contains cobalt mined in dangerous, abject-poverty conditions in the Congo, as exposed by journalist Siddharth Kara.
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