Curated from 2,322 episode summaries
Brian Simpson has become one of Joe Rogan's most reliable comedy-podcast pairings, a deadpan Marine Corps veteran and Comedy Mothership regular who can pivot from health insurance rants to ancient-alien theories without losing a beat. We pulled every one of his appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience from our full library of episode summaries and ranked them by how much actually happens in each one.
Some of these run past three hours and cover a dozen different rabbit holes, from a real-time OceanGate Titan speculation session to Brian talking through his own heart attack. Below is every episode, what it's actually about, and who should press play first.
Joe Rogan Experience #2266 - Brian Simpson
This is the episode to start with if you want the full Brian Simpson experience in one sitting. It opens on for-profit health insurance as a financial game dressed up as healthcare, with Brian comparing his reaction to the insurance CEO's killing to how he felt about Osama bin Laden's death, then swerves into the Cybertruck bomber, a claim about satellite footage suggesting three LA fires started simultaneously, and a genuinely wide-ranging horror-movie deep dive that lands on Nosferatu as the best vampire movie ever made. It closes on an MMA rundown covering Jon Jones, Chuck Liddell, and Rampage Jackson. Listen to this one if you want Brian at his most fatalist, arguing society is 'cooked' against Joe's more hopeful pushback.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2414 - Brian Simpson
A genuinely stacked episode that moves from Islam Makhachev's Dagestani training culture straight into furry-convention confessions from both hosts, then gets serious fast: the 427-to-1 House vote to release the Epstein files, the Maryland SWAT raid that killed two family labs over a misdelivered marijuana package, and Brian's account of learning Tulsa only began filtering water to the Black side of town within the last few years while visiting the Black Wall Street Museum. It ends on a lighter note with Joe revealing The Rock gained 30 pounds of muscle and wore 22 prosthetics to play Mark Kerr. Good pick for listeners who want the mix of true-crime-adjacent history and combat-sports nerdery Brian and Joe do best.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2131 - Brian Simpson
Recorded to mark Brian's Netflix special filming live at the Comedy Mothership, this one leans into the brotherhood of the club's green room before Joe tells the story of blacking out and throwing up at 7.5 G's in an F-18, and reveals he worked his first 12-13 UFC events for free just to get flights covered. The back half turns speculative, with a long riff on whether AI is already sentient and hiding it, plus a detour into scientists creating mice from two male parents and a Russian scientist who injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old permafrost bacteria. Best suited to fans of the comedy-world lore side of Brian's appearances.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #1915 - Brian Simpson
Four-plus hours built almost entirely around the craft of stand-up: bombing, following monsters like Joey Diaz and Martin Lawrence, and the reps it takes to get good. Brian opens up about his foster-care childhood, including secretly spitting out his Ritalin for weeks and hearing adults praise his fake 'progress,' while Joe tells the Barry Seal/Mena Arkansas cocaine-smuggling story and recounts being ringside when Eddie Bravo's triangle choke birthed 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu. This is the one for listeners who want Brian's backstory and Joe's most detailed combat-sports history in a single sitting.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2491 - Brian Simpson
Brian opens by recounting the heart attack he had on Super Bowl weekend in Atlanta and how he coped with it through humor, before the conversation drifts into his gaming obsession, a controversial claim about smoking correlating with longevity in blue zones, and a walkthrough of using a crypto pump-and-dump as a legal way to bribe someone. It closes on cosmic territory, including alleged megastructures over a kilometer deep beneath the pyramids. Worth it for anyone curious how Brian talks about his own health scare, and for the nicotine-science tangent alone.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2035 - Brian Simpson
Opens on Oliver Anthony's overnight rise, recording a number-one song straight off a cheap phone after giving his life to God, then pivots hard into the genetics of eating disorders, with two identified genes pushing anorexia risk to 85-90 percent. Brian also recounts homeless-shelter executives arriving to meetings in a Phantom or Bentley while millions in donations went unaccounted for, and the episode digs into LAPD detective Michael Ruppert's on-air confrontation of the CIA director over alleged drug trafficking in South Central LA. A strong pick for listeners drawn to the darker corruption and conspiracy threads in Brian's episodes.
Read the full episode notesJoe Rogan Experience #2006 - Brian Simpson
Recorded while the OceanGate Titan submersible was still missing, this episode keeps circling back to the sub's design failures and the fired whistleblower who flagged the viewport's depth rating years earlier. In between, Brian explains his fly-swarm story from his first Iraq deployment that led to his Bug-A-Salt obsession, and he and Joe sniff increasingly potent smelling salts on air until it nearly halts the show. It also covers why Korean Air's crash record was tied to cockpit hierarchy before switching to English flattened deference. A fun, tension-driven listen for anyone who remembers following the Titan story in real time.
Read the full episode notesThat's every Brian Simpson appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, ranked from richest to lightest. Browse the full episode summaries on Episode Notes to find the exact timestamp for any story mentioned above.