Joe Rogan Experience #1939 - B-Real

B-Real joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling, stoned conversation that opens on California's struggles, cannabis taxation and how illegal weed sales undercut the legal market. They dig into psilocybin and ketamine therapy, the dangers of hard drugs like PCP, meth and fentanyl, and the wrongful incarceration of people for weed now that it's legal. The back half drifts through immigration history, David Goggins, breakdancing as an Olympic-level athletic art form, 50 years of hip-hop, and Cypress Hill's New York-meets-LA sound that LA labels rejected. They close on absurd superhero-movie logic (the Hulk's indestructible pants), TV's escalating violence, and B-Real's vocal-coach discipline that preserved his voice.

• B-Real shares that he used to perform on stage on a full 'melt' dose of mushrooms but stopped because deeply rooted anger issues surfaced until he worked through them.
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• B-Real recounts using the Volcano vaporizer to record podcasts and getting too high to form sentences, calling them 'the best.'
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• B-Real reveals he uses RSO/full-spectrum oil at 400-500mg in gel caps for his lifelong insomnia, timed hours before bed.
  01:40:25
• B-Real explains every California label turned Cypress Hill down because their New York-influenced producer Muggs made them not sound 'West Coast' enough.
  02:16:22
• B-Real credits opera vocal coach Elizabeth Sabine, plus quitting whiskey, blunts and soda before shows, for preserving his recognizable voice.
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• B-Real and Rogan break down the upcoming Jon Jones vs Ciryl Gane heavyweight title fight.
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• California cannabis tax revenue hit about $1.29 billion versus Colorado's $423 million, but illegal sales rose because legal licensing is so hard.
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• B-Real tells of a Southgate gang member who survived being shotgunned at close range because PCP kept him from going into shock.
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• Ketamine was given to the Thai cave-rescue soccer team as a sedative to move them through the flooded tunnel.
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• Rock art near Villar del Humo, Spain suggests psilocybin mushrooms were used in religious rituals around 6,000 years ago.
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• Scholar John Marco Allegro, who decoded the Dead Sea Scrolls for 14 years, argued early Christianity stemmed from psilocybin mushroom rituals.
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• In 2021 over 70,600 people died of fentanyl overdose in the US, up about 25% from 2020.
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• John Wick has killed 299 people on screen across three films, more than Jason Voorhees' Friday the 13th total.
  02:23:37
• The 1985 'cocaine bear' ate cocaine from a plane drop; its stomach was packed to the brim though it only absorbed a few grams.
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• A 1983 PCP user reportedly uprooted a sapling, hurled it at a West Covina officer, then grabbed his shotgun and killed him.
  02:57:12
• A documented 1877 account describes a young man performing breakdance-like spins on his hand, long before the 1970s scene.
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