Joe Rogan Experience #2042 - Joe List

Joe List joins Joe Rogan for a loose, freewheeling conversation after performing several nights at Rogan's Comedy Mothership in Austin. They trade stories about the craft of stand-up, crowd work, and famously self-destructive comics like Sam Kinison, then drift into Rogan's detailed account of designing and building the Mothership in a historic 1927 theater. The two spiral through tangents on AI, transhumanism, and a 'devil's trick' theory about uploading consciousness, plus long bits on movies, the Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon sync, sauna science, climate change, and a lot of crude sexual humor. Joe List also reveals he is about to become a first-time father to a baby boy.

• Joe List reveals his wife is pregnant and he is expecting a baby boy in about three weeks, his first child.
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• Rogan explains how he conceived and built the Comedy Mothership, buying a historic 1927 theater he could own rather than lease.
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• Louis CK gave Rogan key design advice to lower the ceilings and shrink the small-room stage.
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• Rogan lays out his theory that the devil's ultimate trick is convincing people to upload their souls into a machine for eternity.
  01:16:42
• Joe List reveals he is making a documentary about comedian Tom Dustin, who co-owns and runs a comedy club in Key West.
  02:30:31
• Rogan cites a Finnish study showing frequent sauna users had a 40% lower all-cause mortality over 20 years.
  01:42:37

• A man who received a genetically modified pig heart transplant lived for 61 days.
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• The pitcher's mound sits 60 feet 6 inches from home plate because a handwritten '60 feet' had a zero misread as a six.
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• Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon appears to sync with The Wizard of Oz, though Roger Waters insists it is pure coincidence.
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• The Wizard of Oz is the most-seen film in history according to the Library of Congress.
  01:03:40
• Judy Garland was a teenager during filming with her chest taped down to look younger.
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• A NASA-led study found a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated land has greened over 35 years, largely due to rising CO2.
  02:14:51
• There are roughly 3.04 trillion trees on Earth.
  02:12:15
• Shirako is the milt or sperm sacs of male cod, served as sushi across Japan.
  01:54:40
• Reindeer are the only deer species widely domesticated; herders in Siberia and Mongolia ride them.
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