Joe Rogan Experience #2309 - Joey Diaz

Two old friends catch up in a sprawling, unstructured conversation with no single theme. They open on the migration to Austin and the decline of Los Angeles, riff on gay acceptance in the comedy community, and pivot into politics: free speech, ICE deportations without due process, COVID-era censorship, and distrust of institutions. The back half drifts through classic movies and current streaming shows, MMA and boxing nostalgia, martial-arts training philosophy, UFOs and government secrecy, and declining birth rates. It closes with Joey's harrowing account of being hospitalized for congestive heart failure that he blames on the supplement MK-677, plus the pair huffing smelling salts on mic.

• Joey recounts a 1975 bar story where a gay neighbor pulled a .32 on two bookies who called him a slur, then became his best friend.
  00:46:18
• Rogan retells the unverified story that Nixon flew Jackie Gleason to an Air Force base to see crashed-UFO bodies on ice.
  01:42:01
• Rogan says COVID 'woke him up,' turning him from pro-pharma into a critic of censorship and the ivermectin crackdown.
  02:17:14
• Rogan cites a study claiming some people have as much microplastic in their brain as a plastic spoon.
  02:33:54
• Joey reveals his blood pressure hit 212/100 and oxygen dropped to 86 before he drove himself to the hospital.
  02:43:45
• Joey says the supplement MK-677 caused the fluid overload and congestive heart failure that nearly killed him.
  02:47:21
• The two huff fresh smelling salts on mic and read the FDA warning aloud, joking about brain damage.
  02:36:30

• Alan Turing, founder of computer science, was chemically castrated for being gay and later died of cyanide poisoning beside a half-eaten apple.
  00:28:37
• Ross Perot reportedly hired a retired colonel to train his own employees to rescue staff kidnapped in Iran, getting them home by Christmas.
  00:44:15
• Marvin Hagler broke Tommy Hearns' hand on his head in the first round of their legendary 1985 war, then moved to Italy to make action movies.
  00:50:01
• Clint Eastwood had to do ADR (automated dialogue replacement) in LA because spaghetti westerns were shot without recording his voice.
  00:56:50
• Brazil's 'Fighting Nerds' MMA team employs data scientists who analyze opponents' patterns and techniques.
  01:21:13
• Only about 10-30% of the ocean floor has been mapped; the Seabed 2030 project aims to finish by 2030.
  01:48:15
• A statistic claims total time logged playing Call of Duty exceeds the span of human civilization.
  02:34:28
• Joey says a lung supplement his doctor recommended was pulled from the market and its website shut down during COVID.
  02:18:50
• Subway Surfers reportedly logged 25 billion hours of play as of a decade-old Reddit post.
  02:35:29

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