Joe Rogan Experience #1983 - Kim Congdon & Sara Weinshenk

Stand-up comedians Kim Congdon and Sara Weinshenk return to JRE nearly a decade after their last appearance for a loose, comedic conversation that rarely stays on one topic. They riff on their Kill Tony origins, podcast-naming disasters, the pandemic, weed and psychedelics, and a long string of paranormal and conspiracy subjects from UFO crashes to the CIA's Gateway Process. Joe walks through the suppressed history of hemp, Mike Tyson's terrifying prime, and brutal animal attacks, while the women share wild personal stories about family, scams, and a Sedona timeshare. It plays less like an interview than a chaotic hangout full of bits, dark humor, and 'woo.'

• Sara reveals her grandfather was a Jewish Holocaust survivor in Germany whose family was killed; he was put on a train, saved by Quakers, and adopted by the Weinshenk family.
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• Mark Zuckerberg won a gold medal at a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition while competing in disguise under an alias.
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• Sara recounts smoking weed that turned out to be laced with cocaine before recording a podcast, panicking and thinking it might be fentanyl.
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• Sara's grandmother did roughly six months in jail for running illegal 'numbers' lottery and refusing to inform on the mob.
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• After Skankfest in Vegas, the women were pitched and bought a Sedona 'luxury vacation' timeshare, then bailed for fear of being locked in a presentation room.
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• Sara says her fisherman dad cured her severe childhood asthma with shark fin oil on the advice of an old Puerto Rican woman.
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• Sara reveals her grandmother kept a biting pet monkey that opened gum wrappers and had to be rehomed after attacking a relative.
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• Joe did a strict carnivore diet for one month, lost a lot of fat, but found it boring.
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• Hemp was hyped as the 'billion dollar crop' once the decorticator machine made it processable, but Hearst and Anslinger pushed Reefer Madness propaganda to suppress it.
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• Dr. Shanna Swan's book 'Countdown' links microplastics and BPA to dropping sperm counts and reproductive changes in mammals.
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• The 1981 film 'Roar' injured about 70 cast and crew using real big cats; one man was scalped and needed 220 sutures, another was bitten in the throat.
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• The group claims DMT 'smells like morning breath.'
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• Joe praises Netflix's 'Chimp Empire,' noting the chimps wage war on each other and regularly hunt and eat monkeys.
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• The CIA's Gateway Process document describes 'Hemi-Sync' audio tapes meant to synchronize the brain's hemispheres and enable astral projection.
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• Researchers gauge chemical 'feminizing' in mammals by taint size; a male taint is said to be 50 to 100 percent larger than a female's.
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• Commercial television only emerged around 1941, which is partly why Elvis became uniquely, overwhelmingly famous as a brand-new medium spread.
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