Joe Rogan Experience #2429 - Tom Segura

Joe and Tom open on Tom's 80-pound weight loss, his strict four-meals-a-day macro and carb-cycling regimen, and the value of cardio for mental clarity. The conversation roams through combat sports (Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua, Alex Pereira, the long-term brain damage of fighting), a long detour into ancient Peru and the Amazon (lidar-discovered lost cities, terra preta soil, the tridactyl 'Nazca mummies'), and heavy current-events riffing on the Epstein files, Bill Gates, and televangelist grifts. They close on the explosion of arena stand-up, performing at the Saudi Riyadh festival and the ethics around it, AI deepfakes, and Tom's bakery business and new special Teacher.

• Tom reveals his heaviest weight was 265 lbs; he now weighs 187 after an 80-pound loss.
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• Joe recounts doing seven hours of cardio in one day during Sober October and setting off his gym's fire alarm from body heat.
  00:34:34
• Tom admits that despite being a comedian, he has never watched The Office, 30 Rock, or It's Always Sunny.
  00:11:53
• Joe says Anthony Joshua broke Jake Paul's jaw in two places, leaving it wired shut and costing him teeth.
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• Joe says his first positive COVID test was 'the whole horse dewormer CNN thing.'
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• Tom says the comics most offended by the Saudi Riyadh festival were mostly the ones who weren't invited.
  02:41:31
• A 12-second video appearing to show Epstein on the DOJ website turns out to be a 100% fake that originated on 4chan.
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• The density of the Amazon rainforest is largely man-made, grown from out-of-control ancient agriculture.
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• The Amazon's fertile 'terra preta' dark soil is man-made and scientists still don't know how it was created.
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• An 18,000-year-old human occupation site (Rimrock Draw) in Oregon is among the oldest known in North America.
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• Tridactyl mummies found near Nazca, Peru have three fingers, three toes, metallic implants, and date back ~1,200 years.
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• Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize after a newspaper mistakenly published his obituary calling him 'the merchant of death.'
  01:27:16
• Joe cites an estimate that PCR test false positives may have been as high as 86%, and that PCR's inventor Kary Mullis said it shouldn't be used to detect disease.
  01:51:29
• Joe credits red-light therapy (~670nm) and Pure Encapsulations macular support for measurably improving his eyesight.
  01:55:42
• SLU-PP-332 ('SLOOP') reduced fat gain up to 10-fold and cut body weight ~12% in obese mice without diet or exercise.
  02:09:00
• Sam Walton was named America's richest man in 1985 while still driving a 1979 Ford F-150 pickup.
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