The guest
Greg Fitzsimmons: Stand-up comedian, longtime Howard Stern Show writer/regular, host of Fitzdog Radio and Sunday Papers podcasts, with new special 'You Know Me' shot at the Comedy Mothership.
What this episode covers
This is a loose, profane, free-association conversation between Joe Rogan and his comedian friend Greg Fitzsimmons. They cover comedy-club history (The Comedy Store, the Punch Line, Sam Kinison's era), the craft of stand-up and joke theft, martial arts and raising disciplined kids, and how AI tools like Sora are reshaping film and acting. Long tangents run through cars and muscle cars, the history of ice harvesting, nuclear weapons and North Korea, weather manipulation and cloud seeding, and the lost art of one-pocket pool. Greg promotes his new YouTube special 'You Know Me' and upcoming tour dates.
Recommended on this episode
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
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“I've sold your book so many times”
“this book Norman Ohler, Norman Ohler I've sold your book so many times he's it's a crazy story when he was in here explaining it all”— Joe Rogan
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“those are amazing”
“those big thick ass coolers like a Yeti cooler that you would take camping you can get those are amazing you keep ice for seven eight nine days”— Joe Rogan
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Ford Mustang Dark Horse
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“it's great... it handles really well”
“Mustang has a thing called The Dark Horse... it's [ __ ] great it's like 500 horsepower it handles really well”— Joe Rogan
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Ford Mustang EcoBoost
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“it's fun as [ __ ]”
“it's just a Mustang... e GT the EcoBoost you got the six-cylinder engine I don't know what it is how is it it's fun as [ __ ]”— Greg Fitzsimmons
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Shelby GT500
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“it was great”
“I had a uh Shelby GT500 it was like a 2012 convertible it was great it was very rumbly yeah”— Joe Rogan
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Lucid Sapphire
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“one of the most insane electric cars ever built”
“Lucid Sapphire is uh... one of the most insane electric cars ever built wow it's like a Mercedes like incredible attention to detail”— Joe Rogan
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Revology 1968 Mustang
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“you feel like you're driving a new car... sounds right feels right like it's exciting”
“this company revology makes them they take it from the ground up it's basically a 2023 1968 Mustang... you feel like you're driving a new car”— Joe Rogan
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REI
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“I love that company”
“I [ __ ] love that company place they got they got one in Del that's huge... I get so excited just walking through the aisles finding cool [ __ ]”— Joe Rogan
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Hacks
“she's [ __ ] good”
“have you seen that show hacks no Jean Smart she's [ __ ] good yeah she's a great actress but she pulls it off”— Joe Rogan
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
“the first season and the second season are amazing”
“Rachel Brosnahan... she's so talented... the first season and the second season are amazing I trailed off in the third season”— Joe Rogan
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The Hustler
“it's so good so good”
“Newman too in the Hustler oh my God incredible amazing incredible... I just rewatched it recently it's [ __ ] dark man it's so good”— Greg Fitzsimmons
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A Streetcar Named Desire
“watch that movie”
“street car Named Desire watch that movie yeah like nobody acted like that back then”— Joe Rogan
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“on the waterfront was incredible it was great”
“on the waterfront on the waterfront was incredible it was great I could have been a contender I could have been somebody”— Greg Fitzsimmons
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Tesla
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“my Tesla is my fastest car I own for sure by far not even close it's .9 seconds 0 to 60”— Joe Rogan
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Toms Shoes
Toms
“Tom's Shoes check what you buy it's called Toms yeah they sell you a pair of shoes and they donate a pair to uh third world kid”— Greg Fitzsimmons
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Sora
OpenAI
“the Sora the newest technology have you seen it... they have this footage that is all just prompt... it looks exactly like someone flew a drone over Tokyo”— Joe Rogan
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Peaky Blinders
BBC
“I'm watching peaky blinders and as the years go on their cars get better yeah it's interesting you know because it's kind of historically accurate”— Greg Fitzsimmons
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Over the Top
“fighting for the love of his son by arm wrestling a bald guy... do you think Stallone wins the competition... poppy over the top”— Joe Rogan
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The Conqueror
“220 people on the set of the Conqueror 91 were diagnosed with cancer including both Wayne who died at 1979”— Jamie
Big reveals from this episode
- Rogan describes being put into adult (18+) full-contact tournaments at 15 and knocking a grown man unconscious with a head kick at 16.
- Rogan reflects that all human and animal gratification (sex, food, scratching itches) is built-in reward/punishment programming driving procreation.
- They discuss a Netflix Cold War documentary arguing the atomic bombs were dropped partly to keep Russia from sharing credit for Japan's defeat.
- Rogan claims the Apollo missions were the only times a living thing was sent into deep space past the Van Allen belts and returned alive.
- Operation Starfish Prime: a 1962 high-altitude nuclear test that supercharged the radiation belt and disabled several satellites.
- The Conqueror film: 91 of 220 cast/crew got cancer, allegedly from filming near Nevada nuclear test fallout, including John Wayne.
- The death of a billionaire whose yacht sank in a freak Sicily water spout right after he beat a major court case, sparking conspiracy talk.
Worth remembering
- Lobster mushrooms actually look and taste like lobster when sauteed in butter.
- Long-range snipers use apps and dialed scopes and have made shots out to roughly 1,700 yards.
- When giraffes eat acacia trees, downwind trees detect it and release phytochemicals to make their leaves taste bad.
- The American pronghorn antelope evolved to outrun a now-extinct North American cheetah and is faster than any current predator.
- The Ice House in Pasadena, oldest running comedy club in the US, was originally a facility for storing giant blocks of ice.
- About 65% of North American megafauna died off around 10,000 years ago; pronghorns survived from that era.
- One cosmological theory holds a supermassive black hole at each galaxy's center leads to another universe, fractally endless.
- Abu Dhabi/Dubai use cloud seeding to make it rain, and an over-amped event caused record flooding.
- Boeing Starliner astronauts faced up to ~240 consecutive days in space, requiring a SpaceX rescue ride in 2025.
- Minnesota Fats was originally called New York fats (real name Rudolph Wanderone) and renamed himself after The Hustler.
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