Joe Rogan Experience #2145 - Colin Quinn

Colin Quinn joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging, story-heavy conversation rooted in their decades-long friendship in comedy. They dissect how social media has 'broken people's brains,' fueled mob hysteria, anti-Semitism, and campus protest culture. The talk swings through martial arts nostalgia (Bruce Lee, the Jet Center, Rogan's fighting past), the seedy old Times Square and the rise of porn, and the brutal history of the American West and Jerusalem. Quinn shares wild true-crime tales including a fake doctor who killed a patient, and they close on the corruption, theft, and grind of the comedy business plus Quinn's new psychiatry-themed special.

• Colin Quinn filmed his new special in front of a psychiatrist convention and had them analyze him afterward.
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• Quinn tells a story of being on 200mg of edibles fishing in Hawaii and having a dolphin-inspired epiphany that 'me' is the same in every being.
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• Rogan reveals he fought roughly 100 times, sometimes three or four fights in a single day, losing his last kickboxing fight as the third of the day.
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• Rogan broke his nose about 20 times and finally had it surgically reconstructed around age 40.
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• Rogan trained kickboxing at the Jet Center alongside gang members in 1994 Van Nuys, sparring carefully so as not to humiliate them.
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• Quinn reveals the dermatologist who removed a cyst from his arm, Dean Faiello, was a fake doctor who later killed a patient and buried her under his garage.
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• Matthew Lawrence's account of being asked by a director to take Polaroids in a robe is discussed as industry abuse.
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• Comics including Quinn were robbed of millions by management firm Spotlight, a Bernie Madoff-style scam for comedy.
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• Quinn wrote a new monologue himself every day on Tough Crowd, admitting many bombed.
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• Bruce Lee was originally meant to star in the TV show Kung Fu but was passed over for David Carradine.
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• Rogan's friend Dr. Mark Gordon specializes in traumatic brain injuries; even jet-skiing and heading soccer balls can cause CTE.
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• Dolphins have a cerebral cortex about 40% larger than a human's and have regional dialects.
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• The porn film Deep Throat was shown in mainstream theaters in 1972, with stars like Johnny Carson reportedly in line.
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• The Comanche tortured captives by hacking off limbs and throwing them on bonfires; no prisoners were taken.
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• The Black Stone at Mecca is believed to be a meteorite that 'linked Heaven and Earth.'
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• Christopher Nolan reportedly owns no phone or computer; Quentin Tarantino writes scripts by hand, as did J.K. Rowling for early Harry Potter books.
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• 'Foerster syndrome' was an early-1900s diagnosis for compulsive punning and wisecracking.
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• Comedian Lenny Bruce is credited as the first modern stand-up to 'just talk about stuff' rather than tell rote jokes.
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