The guest
Ryan Long: Canadian comedian, YouTuber and podcaster (host of The Boyscast) known for viral satirical sketches; a Toronto-born immigrant now based in New York.
What this episode covers
JRE #1944 is a loose, three-and-a-half-hour conversation between Joe Rogan and comedian Ryan Long that wanders from population collapse and immigration to martial arts, music history and plastic surgery. A large chunk centers on how the pandemic broke people, how vaccine choices became tribal identity markers, and how comedy stays the last place you can mock untouchable topics. The back half turns into an extended riff on artificial intelligence, neuralink, robotics and deepfakes, imagining a future where AI lets humanity quietly die off by ending reproduction. Throughout, they discuss the death of gatekeepers and how decentralized platforms now let anyone (belly jigglers, cranberry-juice skateboarders, Mr Beast) break through. It is almost entirely freewheeling comedy banter with very few concrete product or media recommendations.
Recommended on this episode
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Above the Law
“a fucking great movie”
“and what he did in the movies is he made it offensive like if you go to like above the law is a fucking great movie well he turned it into a tool”— Joe Rogan
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
“that was a great movie”
“in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood when When Brad Pit kills this woman with smashing her face into a fireplace yeah remember that of course yeah that was a great movie”— Joe Rogan
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Viagra
Pfizer
“I mean Viagra it's like who the amount of people that take that recreationally is very crazy it's probably their most profitable thing other than vaccines”— Joe Rogan
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South Park
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“that is the South Park episode where they go yeah we just changed the measurements we went down to we just started measuring how'd they get smaller”— Joe Rogan
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Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
Samsung
“didn't uh Ridley Scott just film an entire movie with this uh new Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra these cameras on Modern smartphones are so good”— Joe Rogan
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Yes Dear
“you know the Jerry Seinfeld's of the world you know that that was Yes dear just all these random ones you forget about”— Joe Rogan
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Black Mirror
Charlie Brooker
“that's a Black Mirror episode if I've ever heard one you're trapped in trapped in sitcom”— Ryan Long
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Law and Order
“that also includes Law and Order that includes Game of Thrones it includes what I'm saying is okay you're saying that's more TV show”— Joe Rogan
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Game of Thrones
“that also includes Law and Order that includes Game of Thrones it includes what I'm saying is okay you're saying that's more TV show”— Joe Rogan
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Big Bang Theory
“I mean Big Bang Theory was maybe pretty recent I guess yeah that was pretty recent I mean it went to pretty recent it didn't start pretty recent”— Joe Rogan
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Roseanne
“the Rosanne show that got cancelled that was pretty recent I don't know if it had a laugh track or whatever but I think it had an audience”— Joe Rogan
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Night Court
“they just brought back Night Court that is a sitcom and they remade it John larette's on it”— Joe Rogan
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Friends
“isn't it cuz back in the friends days when I was on new radio things like these are not Carolina in the city there was like they were every night”— Joe Rogan
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Caroline in the City
“these are not Carolina in the city there was like they were every night there was multiple sitcoms deals”— Joe Rogan
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NewsRadio
“I love doing news radio news radio radio was a lot of fun but other things are fun too and they don't take as much time”— Joe Rogan
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Jake The Snake documentary
“you know the Jake The Snake documentary kind and some of them are so wild where you just like this guy was the king of the world”— Ryan Long
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Kindle
Amazon
“if you're like a little old lady who just wants to like read her her Kindle or like a scrawny comedian walk on a treadmill”— Joe Rogan
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Tinder Swindler
“Tinder swindler there's a few but the most of the dudes it's like at least they're just trying to sleep with you and that's the end of it”— Ryan Long
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Iron Man
“no super like Iron Man never had a problem with battery life sure you know it didn't make any sense yeah he's got to fly”— Joe Rogan
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Yeti cup
Yeti
“imagine that you have a Yeti cup in the middle of your chest everything else works fine and they I guess with that they're like oh this is enough to power a whole city”— Joe Rogan
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ChatGPT
OpenAI
“the chat GPT stuff I I I did one I've one use case so far is I needed to give someone an NDA and I made it”— Ryan Long
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Megan
“I don't think I'm watching Megan I might I might watch Megan if I get very intoxicated”— Joe Rogan
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iPhone
Apple
“you got an Android girlfriend got to get an iPhone bro got to get that iPhone someone showing up with his Android girlfriend”— Joe Rogan
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BoJack Horseman
“my cousin's actually a animator that he like directed like BoJack Horseman and a lot of these kind of shows”— Ryan Long
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TripTank
“yeah you did Trip Tank and a bunch of cool stuff but yeah it's like they're already super trying to figure out how to I guess replace them all”— Joe Rogan
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Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
“what were some of his biggest bangers Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction dude what I mean he did all the Tarantino movies right”— Joe Rogan
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28 Days Later
“I think we're going to be like in 28 Days Later when the The Chimps broke out of the lab that's the humans yeah that's us”— Joe Rogan
BookReferenced
Countdown
Dr. Shanna Swan
“the researcher Dr Shanna Swan's book countdown it's all about those phalates and Plastics and chemicals it's like really fucked”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Joe says he holds the record for longest reused water bottle on his podcast, using the same one for two years.
- Ryan Long reveals he is himself an immigrant, born in Toronto, Canada.
- Ryan shares he developed serious vocal nodes from screaming during yoga and needed surgery to fix his voice.
- Joe recounts how his discouraging high-school art teacher made him and his talented friends abandon art and comic-book illustration.
- Ryan explains a main Toronto comedy club was funded by people who met through Joe's old Death Squad message boards.
- They retell Ari Shafir's Salvia story where he claims he lived another life for months in only 15 real minutes.
- Joe describes seeing the Rolling Stones in Austin as an almost psychedelic experience, stunned they were really there.
Worth remembering
- They confirm Vladimir Putin is a legitimate judo black belt, not just for staged demonstrations.
- Steven Seagal was reportedly the first American to run an aikido dojo in Japan.
- At the 1969 Altamont concert, Hell's Angels hired as security violently killed a man during the Rolling Stones' set.
- Planet Fitness has a 'lunk alarm' that goes off for grunting or dropping weights and discourages exercises like deadlifts.
- Ridley Scott reportedly filmed an entire movie on a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra.
- Mr Beast runs arguably the biggest show in the world, donating money and paying to get people's eyesight fixed.
- In WWII Japan launched about 9,000 paraffin-treated paper balloon bombs across the Pacific, some reaching Oregon and Wyoming.
- Dr. Shanna Swan's book Countdown links plastics and phthalates to falling sperm counts and more miscarriages.
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