Joe Rogan Experience #1900 - Steve-O

Steve-O joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging conversation that opens on their shared obsession with the UFC, calf kicks, and recent fights, then moves into Steve-O's history of addiction and his decade-plus of sobriety. They dig into CTE and head trauma, including Steve-O smashing hundreds of beer cans over his head on his old 'Don't Try This at Home' tour, plus the dangers of everyday drugs like Tylenol, Advil, and aspirin. Steve-O explains how he reinvented his stand-up by editing stunt footage into his specials, and the two riff on the 'abundance vs scarcity' mindset around comedy and getting good at hard things. The back half covers mountaineering deaths, Teslas, regenerative versus factory farming, seed oils, and finally Steve-O's many broken-nose stories and the butt-related products he now sells.

• Steve-O broke three Budweiser cans over his head every night on his 'Don't Try This at Home' tour, hundreds of times, raising CTE concerns.
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• Steve-O pioneered editing his real stunt footage into his stand-up specials, creating what he calls the first multimedia comedy special.
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• Steve-O had a crane operator hoist his Tesla over 100 feet in the air outside the UFC so he could sleep in it overnight, arranged by Dana White in 24 hours.
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• Steve-O deliberately broke his nose on Mike Tyson's fist at the Charlie Sheen roast, then had a random Kung Fu instructor from the audience set it.
  02:08:18
• Joe Rogan says he has never filled a painkiller prescription since getting sober, and once sold his post-surgery Vicodin/Percocet because he hated the feeling.
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• Steve-O wrote about Joe in his new book as the prime example of an 'abundance mentality' supporter versus comics with a 'scarcity mentality'.
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• A gene (apoE4) predisposes people to Alzheimer's and CTE; Tony Hawk got tested and learned he doesn't carry it.
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• Taking about 20 times the recommended Tylenol dose can be fatal, with roughly 500 acetaminophen deaths per year in the US.
  00:50:46
• In the UK, daily aspirin and other anti-platelet drugs are linked to more than 3,000 deaths per year from bleeds.
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• Annapurna has roughly a 29% fatality rate, the deadliest of the major peaks, while Everest sits around 4%.
  01:08:21
• Hundreds of bodies remain on Everest because retrieval is too dangerous, including the famous 'Green Boots'.
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• Calf kicks have transformed MMA; Michael Bisping got through his entire championship career before they became a staple.
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• A study cited on the show showed Impossible Burgers were toxic to rats.
  02:36:11
• UFC fighter Justin Gaethje continues to fight with no ACL in one of his knees.
  02:14:08

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