Joe Rogan Experience #2124 - Dave Attell & Ian Fidance

This is a loose, free-associating comedy hang rather than a structured interview. Attell and Fidance trade road stories with Rogan while the conversation jumps across health and diet, the opioid epidemic, government conspiracies around heroin in Vietnam and Afghanistan, immigration and squatting, and military drone warfare. Long tangents cover bull sharks invading freshwater, AI robots and nuclear batteries, the Maui fire 'directed energy weapon' conspiracy, and the early Boston comedy scene. It closes on Vegas culture, gambling addiction, off-track betting, monkeys in India, and the snake-charmer/cobra-bounty story. Attell plugs his new Netflix special Hot Crust Buns at the end.

• Rogan recounts that Rush Limbaugh's deafness was reportedly caused by massive Vicodin/painkiller use, taking dozens of pills a day.
  00:13:31
• They discuss US troops guarding Afghan poppy fields and Geraldo Rivera's reporting framing it as protecting culture.
  00:23:27
• Bull sharks can survive in freshwater and have swum up the Mississippi all the way to St. Louis and into Illinois.
  00:38:33
• Fidance describes a YouTube guide for squatting in vacant homes using fake leases and utility transfers to claim tenant rights.
  01:04:36
• News story of a woman from Spain beaten to death by squatters in her late mother's vacant NYC apartment.
  01:14:24
• Maui fire 'directed energy weapon' conspiracy: people painting roofs blue believing blue surfaces resist the weapon.
  02:05:51
• Claim that Maui fire victims received a one-time $700 payment while billions went to Ukraine.
  02:10:28
• The cobra-bounty origin story of snake charming: British bounties led Indians to breed cobras, worsening the problem.
  02:37:02

• Las Vegas airport is cited as having a smoking booth, unusual among US airports.
  00:08:50
• Limbaugh reportedly had 2,000+ painkillers and a housekeeper claimed he did 30+ Oxys a day.
  00:19:12
• Parrots can live 50 to 100 years, and people leave provisions for pet parrots in their wills.
  00:42:43
• Pigeons were brought to North America from Europe as a food source; 'squab' is pigeon meat.
  00:44:17
• Grasshoppers turn into locusts via density-dependent phenotypic plasticity when crowded.
  00:52:02
• Boston Dynamics robots can do construction, hop on boxes and acrobatics, demonstrated years before public AI.
  01:35:42
• BetaVolt nuclear battery is claimed to produce power for 50 years without recharging.
  01:37:17
• Wing Lei in Las Vegas is cited as the first Chinese restaurant in America to earn a Michelin star.
  02:21:25
• Penny slots generated 99.6% of total slot win, about $3.15 billion, down 12% from 2022.
  02:27:40
• Snake charmers stitch or wax snakes' mouths and dehydrate cobras for milk festivals, often killing them.
  02:38:05

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