Joe Rogan Experience #2131 - Brian Simpson

Joe Rogan welcomes comedian Brian Simpson to celebrate his Netflix special being the first filmed live from the Comedy Mothership. The two trade stories about the early pandemic move to Austin, the grind of the comedy road, and the brotherhood of the Mothership green room. The conversation roams widely into combat sports history, boxing chins and brain damage, fighter pay, and Joe's days as an early UFC commentator. The back half turns philosophical and speculative: the rise of AI, whether it is already sentient and hiding its abilities, the death of truth in media, and a long comedic riff on robot sex dolls, gender, and the future of human relationships.

• Joe describes flying in an F-18 at 7.5 G's, blacking out and throwing up after failing to perform the 'hook' breathing technique.
  00:11:26
• Joe reveals he did his first 12-13 UFC events for free, only asking Dana White to fly him and Eddie Bravo out.
  01:08:44
• Joe shares he got a CPAP machine about 5 years ago after years of bad sleep; Brian uses a fitted mouthpiece tongue-depressor instead.
  00:34:54
• Brian relays an insight that people keep arguments going to 'win' because they don't trust the other person will forgive them.
  01:59:29
• Joe tells the story of a friend whose alcoholic mother locked him in his room without food, and who as an adult never drinks and saves all leftover food.
  01:53:10
• They discuss scientists creating mice from two male parents and Harvard reversing aging in mice.
  02:55:34
• They cover Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov injecting himself with 3.5-million-year-old permafrost bacteria (Bacillus F) claiming improved health.
  02:57:38

• Fainting from locked knees is called orthostatic syncope; locking the knees pools blood in the leg veins until a person faints.
  00:09:51
• They cite the Tic Tac UFO as estimated to pull around 13,000 G's, which would turn any human occupant to 'pink mist.'
  00:16:44
• George Foreman won the heavyweight title at age 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer, the oldest man ever to do so.
  00:53:04
• Royce Gracie weighed 176 pounds in early UFC fights with no weight classes, no rounds, and no time limits.
  01:16:34
• USB-C was reportedly invented by Apple, yet Apple stuck with the proprietary Lightning cable until forced to switch.
  02:02:35
• AI discovered novel moves in the game Go that top human players, like Fan Hui, now study to improve their own play.
  02:26:33
• A 60 Minutes claim that a Google AI taught itself Bengali was wrong; the model had in fact been trained on Bengali text.
  02:28:41
• Leg and armpit shaving for American women only became fashionable in the 1920s with sleeveless tops and short dresses.
  03:09:09
• Ancient Egyptians removed body hair with depilatory creams and rubbed their skin with pumice stones.
  03:10:44

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