The guest
Theo Von: Stand-up comedian and host of the This Past Weekend podcast, longtime friend of Rogan who performed at his new Austin comedy club.
What this episode covers
Joe Rogan and Theo Von open by reminiscing about Theo's surprise set at Rogan's new Austin comedy club (the Comedy Mothership) and how it came together. The conversation careens through wild animal tangents (orcas sinking boats, monkeys throwing puppies, duck anatomy, tiger sharks), comedy-business stories, and a long stretch on health: Theo's sobriety, prayer/meditation/journaling routine, SSRIs and his interest in ibogaine, versus Joe's carnivore diet, fitness, and mushroom 'frequency' revelation. They spend a large block railing against Big Pharma, the Sackler family, Vioxx, drug advertising, COVID vaccine messaging, and media/YouTube censorship, championing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The episode closes on hunting, American-made gear (Origin), and Mother Nature.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Joe describes a mushroom-trip revelation that he hits a specific healthy 'frequency' and that drinking alcohol would dull it.
- Theo details his daily recovery routine: Serenity Prayer, reading, 10-minute meditation, 10 minutes journaling, and earplugs for the first 90 minutes of the day.
- Theo opens up about taking Lexapro for depression and wanting to do ibogaine again, the way Neil Brennan did.
- Joe recounts CNN accusing him of taking 'veterinary medicine' (ivermectin) after he recovered quickly from COVID.
- Joe reveals he's part-owner of Origin, an all-American-made apparel/boots/jiu-jitsu company, brought in by Cam Hanes.
- Joe says returning to a strict carnivore diet made his brain work noticeably better and made conversation effortless.
- They discuss the Sackler family winning immunity from opioid lawsuits for roughly $6 billion.
Worth remembering
- Iberian orcas have reportedly taught at least nine other whales to attack and destroy boat rudders off Portugal and Spain.
- In India, monkeys were blamed for hundreds of puppy deaths, allegedly throwing puppies off roofs as revenge after a dog killed an infant monkey.
- Ducks have corkscrew-shaped genitalia and the females' anatomy is a spiked labyrinth that lets them block unwanted males.
- Pharmaceutical drug advertising on television is illegal in every country except New Zealand and the United States.
- An estimated 95-99% of people who contract poliovirus are asymptomatic.
- They cite that exercise is about 1.5 times more effective than SSRIs for treating depression.
- Filipinos are among the best pool players in the world; Efren Reyes is a national celebrity, with the sport introduced by American GIs after WWII.
- Newborn fawns urinate on their tarsal glands daily, and a debate over whether baby deer are scentless gets fact-checked live.
- Discussion of ketosis and gluconeogenesis, the process where the body converts protein into glucose.
- They watch a video of a skier rescuing a snowboarder buried alive and upside down under deep avalanche powder.
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