Joe Rogan Experience #1913 - Brian Redban

Recorded around the podcast's anniversary, Joe Rogan and Brian Redban have a sprawling, freewheeling conversation with no single topic. They riff on the cruelty of zoos and a chimpanzee zoo breakout, the rise of AI art, voice cloning and deepfakes, and whether technology is making art and entertainment worse or better. Long stretches cover martial arts history (Bruce Lee, Judo Gene LeBelle), Hollywood debauchery, fitness and weight loss, and nostalgia for the early Opie & Anthony / O&A internet-radio era that inspired their own podcasting. They also dig into JFK assassination document releases via a Tucker Carlson clip and a Putin clip about entrenched bureaucracy, plus Trump's NFT trading cards.

• Joe's blood work showed very low testosterone (~230-240) and some of the highest estrogen levels the clinic had ever seen.
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• Kate Winslet held her breath over seven minutes filming Avatar underwater, beating Tom Cruise's record from Mission Impossible.
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• A viral 'father knocks out son' boxing video turned out to be a misleading YouTuber title, not an actual father and son.
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• In a Tucker Carlson clip, a source with access to still-hidden documents says 'yes, I believe' the CIA was involved in JFK's assassination.
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• A Putin clip explains that no president keeps their promises because 'people with briefcases in dark suits' and the bureaucracy run the country.
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• Donald Trump reportedly made roughly four to five million dollars selling 5,000 NFT trading cards at $99 each.
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• Joe touts the Apple Watch Ultra's ECG, sleep tracking and blood-oxygen features and recommends it highly.
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• Four chimpanzees were gunned down (a fifth wounded) after a breakout at the Furuvik zoo in Sweden.
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• Women have more testosterone than estrogen, and men have more estrogen than women.
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• The red panda is considered a distant cousin of the raccoon, sharing a clade of carnivorous mammals.
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• Judo champion Gene LeBelle fought boxer Milo Savage in 1963 in one of the first mixed-style fights, making the boxer wear a judo gi.
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• Gene LeBelle taught Bruce Lee grappling, influencing the arm bar and tap shown in Enter the Dragon.
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• The phrase 'conspiracy theory' barely existed before 1964; the New York Times used it in five stories the year the Warren Commission report came out.
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• Wolves were eradicated from the American West using cyanide-injected horse carcasses, but coyotes outsmarted the poison and expanded their range.
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• Bertrand Russell claimed smoking saved his life: he requested a smoking seat on a plane, and only the non-smoking passengers died in a crash.
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• Dunbar's number is layered, scaling from about 5 intimate friends up through 15, 35, 150 and roughly 1,500 acquaintances.
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