Joe Rogan Experience #2305 - Rich Vos

Vos opens by confessing his addictive personality and a career-long sense that one more thing would put him over the top, prompting Joe to push back that he may be confusing self-sabotage with simply being accustomed to a certain result. They swap decades of comedy war stories from the old New York and Boston scenes (Patrice O'Neal, Norton, Bill Hicks, Otto and George, David Spade), then move into a long political stretch on Israel/Palestine, campus protests, bots on Twitter, and climate activism. Vos recounts harrowing drug-addiction stories from his standup road days before getting clean. The episode ends as a health intervention: Joe talks Vos into stem cells, BPC-157 peptides, testosterone, a blood panel, and proper rehab for his torn rotator cuff, plus a June 30 shape-up challenge.

• Vos says a club owner once offered him cocaine or cash after a show; he took the coke, and the comic who took the money was Adam Sandler.
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• Vos describes the bottom of his addiction — a chaotic Boston coke-and-crack trip — that landed him in rehab nearly 40 years ago, after which he stayed clean.
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• Vos reveals the real reason he came on: a torn rotator cuff he wants treated with stem cells and BPC-157 instead of surgery.
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• Vos confesses he repeatedly stole and cooked his friend's cocaine into crack across four trips to a convenience store in one night.
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• Vos identifies the terrified 'little white kid from Arizona' he and Frankie Bastile held hostage while doing drugs in the car as a young David Spade.
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• Joe insists that at 68 Vos can absolutely build muscle and get stronger, challenging him to a June 30 shirtless before/after photo.
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• Joe argues Anthony Fauci was responsible for the AIDS panic and the harmful early use of AZT, citing RFK Jr.'s book.
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• Vos owns seven bird feeders with a video camera because his addictive personality always wants 'a little more.'
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• New York comics did marathon 'prom shows' at Dangerfield's running 7pm to 5am with no breaks, repeating the same jokes for new busloads of kids.
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• Joe explains BPC-157 stands for 'body protection compound 157,' a peptide that helps heal soft-tissue damage.
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• Iran in the early 1970s had women in miniskirts and beach freedom before the 1979 revolution turned it into a religious state.
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• An FBI analyst reportedly estimated Twitter was as much as 80% bots before Musk's purchase.
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• Joe warns paper coffee cups are lined with plastic, so hot liquid leaches chemicals — use glass or stainless steel instead.
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• Joe claims AZT, originally a failed chemotherapy drug, was given indefinitely to HIV patients and killed many faster.
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• At a 2005 Friars roast of Trump, Vos's line that Trump puts his name on buildings 'so the banks know which ones to take back' made the papers.
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