Joe Rogan Experience #2075 - Protect Our Parks 10 (Part 2)

This holiday installment of Protect Our Parks is less an interview than a drunken comedy free-for-all, with Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Mark Norman and Ari Shafir shotgunning Bud Lights while Jamie cues up Christmas songs. They careen from Lizzo playing a president's flute to syphilis history, mind-reading dystopias, the Kali Yuga, and Israel-Palestine, mostly as comedic bits. Running gags include Ari repeatedly urinating into a jug, bullying Jamie, and goading each other into terrible behavior. Pop-culture tangents cover Adam Sandler movies, Ridley Scott's Napoleon, David Lee Roth, and a Cybertruck out-dragging a Porsche. The episode closes with mock-earnest speeches about bringing America and the world together through getting along.

• The Beatles got great by playing Hamburg clubs roughly six days a week, eight hours a day, for two years before returning to Liverpool.
  00:11:36
• Mark Norman's bit: MacKenzie Bezos married a science teacher after her ~$38 billion divorce and it reportedly lasted only 16 months.
  00:55:55
• A Tesla Cybertruck towing a Porsche 911 still beat that same Porsche in a drag race.
  01:22:37
• David Lee Roth lived in Japan for two years learning Kendo and now rides his bike to the grocery store in Pasadena.
  01:50:51
• Shane Gillis's first-ever mushroom trip came from a bag Ari Shafir tossed him at the JFL festival.
  01:55:43
• The crew pitches shooting a free YouTube ad for Ron White's tequila just because they like him.
  02:00:57

• Claim that syphilis was carried back from Native Americans, mutating from a milder European strain around the 1400s.
  00:23:03
• Al Capone is said to have died of syphilis that rotted his brain.
  00:24:03
• Argument that most Spanish Flu deaths were secondary infections that modern antibiotics could cure.
  00:25:05
• Hindu texts describe the Kali Yuga, the cyclical 'age of confusion,' as a societal decline.
  00:33:21
• The new Dodge Demon 170 makes over 1,025 horsepower and reportedly hits 0-60 in about 1.66 seconds.
  01:24:12
• The Cybertruck weighs around 7,000 lbs yet does 0-60 in under 3 seconds with no gears.
  01:23:40
• David Lee Roth's tattoos were done in traditional Japanese hand-tapped style, far more painful than gun work.
  01:53:37
• Michael Jackson's doctor gave him propofol anesthesia and went to jail after his death.
  01:36:58
• Lizzo's plus-size backup dancers reportedly blew out knees and ankles dancing on tour.
  00:08:24

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