Joe Rogan Experience #2022 - Jeremy Gerber, Phil Gerber, & Josh Henning

Joe Rogan hosts the Roadster Shop crew for a loose, car-obsessed conversation about building and driving restomod muscle cars. They dig into why old muscle cars look magical but drive terribly, how Roadster Shop strips them to new chassis so they handle like modern sports cars, and the appeal of 'patina' sleepers that fly under the radar. The talk wanders through Joe's own collection (Cuda, Camaro, Porsches, Ford GT, Tesla Plaid), the EV transition and its supply-chain and grid problems, and the cobalt-mining and Foxconn human-cost stories. It closes on media and free-speech themes: homelessness in Austin, the decline of cable news, podcasting, and a federal lawsuit over Facebook throttling a Tucker Carlson video.

• Joe says the Tesla Model S Plaid does 0-60 in ~1.9 seconds with roughly 1,020 horsepower and makes every other car 'feel stupid.'
  00:25:29
• Austin's own count put the homeless population near 10,000 (about 1% of the city), relocated into roughly 168 camps hidden from public view.
  00:46:53
• Joe recounts Siddharth Kara risking his life to document children and women mining toxic cobalt by hand in the Congo to power batteries and phones.
  01:34:07
• Foxconn installed nets around its iPhone factory buildings because so many workers were committing suicide.
  01:35:41
• Blackstone acquired Ancestry for $4.7 billion, raising the question of whether buyers gain rights to customers' DNA data.
  01:55:05
• A federal lawsuit alleges Facebook gave a Tucker Carlson covid-vaccine video a 50% demotion for seven days at the White House's request despite it not violating policy.
  02:27:26

• Roadster Shop rebalanced the 1970 Barracuda to roughly 50/50 weight using a rear transaxle so a big front V8 still drives like an exotic.
  00:06:47
• Joe's theory: American car design dropped off right after the 1970 act that made LSD and mushrooms Schedule I.
  00:18:11
• The shop built a white '79 Camaro nicknamed the 'cocaine Cruiser.'
  00:19:44
• Joe's Icon-built Land Cruiser has a supercharged LSA, solid axles, winches, extra batteries and a big tank as an 'apocalypse' vehicle.
  01:05:04
• Josh's daily-driver '77 C10 Legend truck runs a 650-hp supercharged LT4 with modern Chevy independent front suspension.
  01:09:46
• Post Malone reportedly paid $2 million for a single Magic: The Gathering card.
  01:18:36
• Joe claims a single container ship's annual fuel use rivals a huge share of total US vehicle emissions, arguing for more US manufacturing.
  01:43:35
• Roadster Shop was shut down about six weeks during covid, and that downtime is when they started cutting the floor out of Joe's Cuda.
  02:09:10
• Kill Tony, which started in a 70-seat room at the Comedy Store, is booking an arena for a New Year's show after 10 years.
  02:30:31

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