Joe Rogan Experience #2472 - Jeff Ross

Joe Rogan and Jeff Ross open with a long riff on their dogs, rescue stories, and switching pets to fresh/raw food, then drift into comedy-world nostalgia about lost friends like Norm Macdonald, Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Patrice O'Neal and Brody Stevens. Ross recounts his Charlie Sheen 'Torpedo of Truth' tour stint and the rise of Netflix roasts, including the record-breaking Tom Brady roast and the upcoming Kevin Hart roast hosted by Shane Gillis. He gets candid about his stage-three colon cancer diagnosis, chemo, and his alopecia, which leads into an extended Rogan monologue on diet, processed food, inflammation, doctors' ignorance of nutrition, and microplastics. The pair close on military USO tours, Joe's acting past on NewsRadio and Fear Factor, and Ross explaining the personal banana story behind his special's title.

• Jeff Ross reveals he was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer after waiting too long for a routine colonoscopy.
  01:21:23
• Ross apologizes to Joe for lying years earlier at Cat's Deli, hiding his alopecia by claiming he shaved his eyebrows for a role.
  01:26:08
• Ross describes losing all his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes within weeks from alopecia, then again from chemo.
  01:27:09
• Ross recounts being recruited last-minute to save Charlie Sheen's failing 'Torpedo of Truth' tour, ending up doing eight shows.
  00:31:04
• Ross says Tom Brady did his roast to 'bring comedy back' and admits it was harsher than even he expected.
  01:14:39
• Ross officially announces the Kevin Hart roast for May 10th (Mother's Day) on Netflix, hosted by Shane Gillis.
  01:13:04
• Joe strongly recommends RFK Jr.'s book 'The Real Anthony Fauci,' calling it terrifying.
  01:54:34
• Ross describes asking Charlie Sheen's team for a podium and a hazmat suit as a roast bit.
  00:32:35

• The Tom Brady roast was the most-watched thing in Netflix history with 1.6 billion viewing minutes.
  01:16:12
• In Joe's old HOA, one member allegedly poisoned a neighbor's dogs over a dispute.
  00:57:25
• Ross holds a black belt in Taekwondo, earned starting at age six and competing in East Coast tournaments.
  00:59:33
• Joe says about 80% of his diet is red meat, which he calls the most nutrient-dense food in the world.
  01:36:25
• Joe warns that paper coffee cups are lined with plastic that leaches 'forever chemicals' into hot drinks.
  01:49:56
• Joe recounts controversial scientist Peter Duesberg's claim that HIV doesn't cause AIDS.
  01:53:00
• A Fear Factor episode where contestants drank donkey semen got the show effectively shut down and never aired in the US.
  01:59:11
• Jeff Ross changed his name from Jeff Lifschultz because Ed McMahon kept mispronouncing it on Star Search.
  02:00:14
• Ross's first USO troop tour was to Iraq in 2003 with Drew Carey, while Saddam was still alive; he's done about a hundred shows for troops.
  02:11:41
• RFK Jr.'s book claims 1980s HIV vaccine testing was done on New York foster children.
  01:55:05

Books, products and media the guest or host genuinely endorsed here — with the buy link.

Affiliate link — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.