Joe Rogan Experience #2071 - Kim Congdon & Sara Weinshenk

Joe Rogan hosts comedians Kim Congdon and Sara Weinshenk for a loose, high-energy conversation that bounces between absurd jokes and real personal stories. They cover Kim's Instagram verification after being assaulted by a fake-blind fan at a Joey Diaz show, her Adderall addiction and the psychosis and psych-ward hold that followed her friend Brody's death, and a harrowing near-drowning they witnessed in Hawaii. Long tangents explore UFOs (including Kim's fisherman dad seeing craft nightly), space imagery, sharks and ocean dangers, octopus intelligence, and conspiracy-tinged science talk. Throughout the episode they repeatedly try Juju Mufu's Freshies smelling salts, getting increasingly wrecked. It is more a comedic hang than an interview, with recurring riffs on dreams, animals, and reincarnation.

• Kim got her Instagram blue check after a fan poked her vagina at a sold-out Joey Diaz show, she confronted and slapped him, and a Variety article about it triggered her verification.
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• Kim describes a premonition dream where a hooded figure shot themselves beside her, then three hours later she got the call that her best friend had died.
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• Kim recounts abruptly quitting Adderall after Brody died, which put her into a multi-day psychosis and a 72-hour psychiatric hold.
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• Kim and Sara witnessed a boy drown in Hawaii and watched CPR performed for over six minutes before his sprinting father revived him.
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• Kim says her fisherman father claims to see alien craft over the water in Florida every night for three months, posting them to Facebook groups.
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• Kim says she and others on TikTok report having the same recurring dream of a specific haunted beach.
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• NASA predicted a radio and GPS blackout around November 30 due to a coronal mass ejection.
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• They cite that 19 of the top 20 Facebook Christian pages were run by Russian troll farms.
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• Samsung phones were caught faking detailed moon photos by overlaying a stored image over a blurry shot.
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• A blue-ringed octopus's tetrodotoxin is about 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide and can kill 26 adults with one bite.
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• A giant ichthyosaur fossil site at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada was likened to evidence of a Kraken-sized predator.
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• In 2022 there were 57 unprovoked shark attacks, a 10-year low, with Florida ranking number one.
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• The US has about 372 million egg-laying hens, and a Connecticut factory-farm fire killed roughly 100,000 of them.
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• Haley Joel Osment reportedly avoided blinking and kept rigid posture to play the robot child in A.I.
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• They watch footage of a spy satellite zooming in to identify a person at a bus stop from space.
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