The guest
Brian Redban: Comedian, podcast engineer and longtime JRE producer; co-creator and producer of Kill Tony with Tony Hinchcliffe.
What this episode covers
Recorded around the podcast's anniversary, Joe Rogan and Brian Redban have a sprawling, freewheeling conversation with no single topic. They riff on the cruelty of zoos and a chimpanzee zoo breakout, the rise of AI art, voice cloning and deepfakes, and whether technology is making art and entertainment worse or better. Long stretches cover martial arts history (Bruce Lee, Judo Gene LeBelle), Hollywood debauchery, fitness and weight loss, and nostalgia for the early Opie & Anthony / O&A internet-radio era that inspired their own podcasting. They also dig into JFK assassination document releases via a Tucker Carlson clip and a Putin clip about entrenched bureaucracy, plus Trump's NFT trading cards.
Recommended on this episode
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Apple Watch Ultra
Apple
“I recommend it highly; this is definitely the way to go; it's awesome it's way better”
“now this is definitely the way to go it's bigger too you know it's supposed to be super durable too”— Joe Rogan
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Watchmen
Zack Snyder
“the watchmen's a great movie; I forgot how good that movie is”
“the watchman's a great movie I watched that again recently on a plane flight it's like I forgot how good that movie is”— Joe Rogan
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Reign of Fire
“that was a good movie; that's a good fucking Dragon movie”
“Reign of Fire yeah Arena fire that was a good movie that's a good fucking Dragon movie”— Joe Rogan
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Adam Sandler
“that's a fucking underrated movie man”
“but we watched the Zohan that's that's a fucking underrated movie man”— Joe Rogan
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The Wrong Missy
Adam Sandler
“it's fucking really funny”
“wrong Missy it's from Adam Sandler's production company you know it's fucking really funny of course it is”— Joe Rogan
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Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
“that song's fucking amazing”
“play that play give me some of that that song's fucking amazing”— Brian Redban
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Whoop
Whoop
“but like does it does whoop do that too doesn't no it's not the same kind of thing”— Brian Redban
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Oculus
Oculus
“is like you use um Oculus and they set up cameras where they go around these animals maybe like with a drone”— Joe Rogan
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Semaglutide
“did you hear about that new like magic drug uh weight loss drug that's uh yeah we've talked about it before yeah semi-glue tied”— Brian Redban
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Trump Digital Trading Cards
Donald Trump
“that was at 5 000 of them each went 100 bucks four or five million bucks with Donald Trump nfts”— Brian Redban
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Avatar
James Cameron
“so Avatar was 2009 and think about how much better the CGI has got an avatar one was fucking dope”— Joe Rogan
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Avatar: The Way of Water
James Cameron
“how is Avatar you said it was good yeah good why are all these people's hands back”— Brian Redban
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28 Days Later
“like the movie 28 Days Later right when they give them that rage shit and they break out zombie apocalypse”— Brian Redban
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Superbad
“like I try to watch super bad the other day... there's no fucking way a 12 year old should be watching this”— Joe Rogan
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Tropic Thunder
“and that in Tropic Thunder Tropic Thunder I mean I just watched that and re-watched that interview you had with them”— Joe Rogan
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Watchmen (TV series)
HBO
“I watched one episode but my problem was the doctor Manhattan was a regular guy like Dr Manhattan was supposed to like dematerialize”— Joe Rogan
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MILF Manor
TLC
“have you seen this new show coming out on TLC called MILF Manor oh shit I'm in”— Brian Redban
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Christine Sixteen
Kiss
“Christine 16 was like I was I definitely wasn't 16 when this came out I was a kid and we used to sing this song”— Joe Rogan
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Game of Death
Bruce Lee
“I believe it's Game of Death the one when they're fighting I think it's Game of Death he catches this guy in an arm bar”— Joe Rogan
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Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee
“this is literally like an example for everybody to see of the first mixed martial arts fight and it was Bruce Lee”— Joe Rogan
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
“in that movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the Brad Pitt characters supposed to represent a guy like Jean LaBelle”— Joe Rogan
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Stone Cold
“I think the big one was stone cold though right wasn't that it's like first breakout movie I remember Stone Cold”— Joe Rogan
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Apex Predator
Remy Warren
“my friend Remy Warren he uh did the show a while back uh it was called apex predator”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Joe's blood work showed very low testosterone (~230-240) and some of the highest estrogen levels the clinic had ever seen.
- Kate Winslet held her breath over seven minutes filming Avatar underwater, beating Tom Cruise's record from Mission Impossible.
- A viral 'father knocks out son' boxing video turned out to be a misleading YouTuber title, not an actual father and son.
- In a Tucker Carlson clip, a source with access to still-hidden documents says 'yes, I believe' the CIA was involved in JFK's assassination.
- A Putin clip explains that no president keeps their promises because 'people with briefcases in dark suits' and the bureaucracy run the country.
- Donald Trump reportedly made roughly four to five million dollars selling 5,000 NFT trading cards at $99 each.
- Joe touts the Apple Watch Ultra's ECG, sleep tracking and blood-oxygen features and recommends it highly.
Worth remembering
- Four chimpanzees were gunned down (a fifth wounded) after a breakout at the Furuvik zoo in Sweden.
- Women have more testosterone than estrogen, and men have more estrogen than women.
- The red panda is considered a distant cousin of the raccoon, sharing a clade of carnivorous mammals.
- Judo champion Gene LeBelle fought boxer Milo Savage in 1963 in one of the first mixed-style fights, making the boxer wear a judo gi.
- Gene LeBelle taught Bruce Lee grappling, influencing the arm bar and tap shown in Enter the Dragon.
- The phrase 'conspiracy theory' barely existed before 1964; the New York Times used it in five stories the year the Warren Commission report came out.
- Wolves were eradicated from the American West using cyanide-injected horse carcasses, but coyotes outsmarted the poison and expanded their range.
- Bertrand Russell claimed smoking saved his life: he requested a smoking seat on a plane, and only the non-smoking passengers died in a crash.
- Dunbar's number is layered, scaling from about 5 intimate friends up through 15, 35, 150 and roughly 1,500 acquaintances.
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