Joe Rogan Experience #2074 - Shane Gillis

This is a loose, comedic episode with no central theme. Rogan and Gillis bounce between bro-fitness talk (cold plunges, vitamins, kettlebells), Viking and Roman history, surveillance and Pegasus spyware, toxoplasmosis and primate behavior, the causes of World War I and II, religion and conspiracy theories, and a long run of UFC fight breakdowns. Much of it is improvised riffing and crude jokes rather than substantive interview. Genuine recommendations are sparse and mostly films (Napoleon, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Outlaw Josey Wales) plus Gillis's own comedy projects.

• Joe recounts how Jeff Bezos's phone was allegedly hacked via WhatsApp by the Saudi Crown Prince using Israeli Pegasus spyware before Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
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• Shane tells the story of his friend 'Lam' repeatedly getting scammed out of money chasing a fake orgy advertised on Reddit in city after city.
  00:39:49
• Shane describes getting into a heated argument at a comedy festival defending the fact that the US Women's National soccer team lost a scrimmage to an under-15 boys squad.
  01:38:39
• Joe reveals Kanye West wanted to build a 'womb' set to record his podcast appearance, a plan derailed when Jamie got COVID.
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• They unpack a Reddit post from reporter Scoop Malanowski, the man who yelled 'put him in a straight jacket' and got Mike Tyson's infamous 'I'll f*** you till you love me' tirade.
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• Archaeologists have found only one intact Viking helmet (which was horn-free) and one suit of chain mail; the horned-helmet image is a myth.
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• Toxoplasmosis from cats is linked to a disproportionate number of motorcycle crash victims and is thought to affect impulse control.
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• Robert Sapolsky's baboon study: aggressive alpha males died after eating poisoned garbage, leaving the troop unusually peaceful for about a decade.
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• In primates there is a direct correlation between the promiscuity of nearby females and male testicle size; chimps have large testicles, gorillas small ones.
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• World War I was triggered when 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia.
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• During WWI, Russian and German forces negotiated a ceasefire so they could fight off packs of wolves attacking soldiers in the trenches.
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• After the Spartacus slave revolt, Rome crucified 6,000 people along a 120-mile stretch of road between Rome and Capua, one every 100 feet.
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• Yasuke, a man of African origin, became a sword-bearing retainer to Oda Nobunaga in 16th-century Japan.
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• The Zapruder film of JFK's assassination first aired on television in 1975, 12 years later, after comic Dick Gregory got it onto Geraldo Rivera's show.
  01:55:57
• Nick Diaz reportedly swam back from Alcatraz multiple times, fueling the legendary cardio that powered his Strikeforce dominance.
  02:27:44

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