Joe Rogan Experience #2491 - Brian Simpson

A loose, wide-ranging conversation that opens with Brian recounting the heart attack he had on Super Bowl weekend in Atlanta and how he coped through humor. They drift through dogs, cats, coyotes and bears, then into Brian's deep gaming obsession (Deadlock, elaborate PC setups, streaming as a business). A long middle stretch dissects nicotine and smoking, including a controversial claim that smoking may correlate with longevity in blue zones if paired with the right diet. The back half turns to crypto pump-and-dump schemes, Ponzi scams targeting the elderly, insider trading in Congress, a Florida neighbor war over a guest house, and finally cosmic wonders like new telescopes, impossibly large black holes, the Great Attractor, and alleged megastructures beneath the Egyptian pyramids.

• Joe says red light therapy plus Pure Encapsulations Macular Support fixed his eyesight so he no longer needs reading glasses.
  00:01:33
• Brian reveals he had a heart attack three months ago on Super Bowl weekend in Atlanta.
  00:01:33
• Joe says quitting cigarettes after his own heart attack was easy because he already felt terrible.
  01:00:34
• Joe shares a surgeon's controversial claim that nicotine can benefit longevity if paired with a high-polyphenol diet.
  01:01:34
• Joe walks through a hypothetical of using a crypto pump-and-dump as a legal way to bribe someone.
  01:33:39
• Joe describes radio-tomography scans showing alleged megastructures over a kilometer deep beneath the pyramids.
  02:24:50

• When a coyote goes missing from a pack's roll call, females respond by producing larger litters.
  00:24:47
• A 60-year Russian fox-domestication experiment bred dog-like silver foxes through selecting only for tameness.
  00:29:31
• T-Pain reportedly pulls in roughly a quarter-million dollars a month from streaming, sometimes just talking.
  00:54:50
• In parts of Sardinia, 95% of men smoke yet reportedly outlive the women, per Dr. Gundry's claim.
  01:02:05
• Cigarette packs hold 20 because that's calculated to maximize how many a person smokes in a day.
  01:23:46
• The Trump meme coin spiked to ~$75 then crashed; ~800,000 wallets collectively lost around $2 billion.
  01:39:53
• Outliers credits the Beatles' skill to relentless reps performing long sets in Hamburg clubs.
  01:59:29
• Judges hand down harsher sentences the longer it has been since they last ate.
  02:00:00
• The Great Attractor is pulling the Milky Way and ~100,000 galaxies toward something we can't see.
  02:21:14
• A new super-syphilis emerged in Washington after one man carried two strains that recombined.
  02:29:32

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