Joe Rogan Experience #1907 - Protect Our Parks 6

The sixth 'Protect Our Parks' episode is a loose, improvised panel where Joe Rogan and comedians Ari Shaffir, Mark Norman and Shane Gillis (plus producer Jamie) get progressively high on psilocybin mushrooms. There is no real topic; they riff on comedy history, the FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried crypto collapse, Kanye West's antisemitism controversy, NFL concussions, drugs and sleep aids, and cars. A recurring thread is Ari's self-released YouTube special 'Jew,' which Joe keeps hyping for racking up 4.5 million views. Much of the runtime is the comedians narrating their own mushroom trip, needing to pee, and dreading the live set they have to do that night.

• Discussion of Kanye West losing Adidas, Balenciaga and his agents over antisemitism, with the FBI allegedly seeking $75 million.
  00:14:43
• Joe explains the FTX collapse as essentially a Ponzi scheme that vaporized billions of dollars in a week.
  00:25:14
• Ari Shaffir's self-released YouTube special 'Jew' has hit 4.5 million views in under a month.
  00:56:24
• Mark Norman details his dependence on Seroquel and Ambien for sleep and the side effects he risks.
  01:54:35
• Mark admits losing about $15,000, roughly 90% of his crypto, after seeing the FTX commercials.
  02:13:26
• Joe recounts Bill Hicks getting censored by Letterman over an abortion bit he was told had been pre-approved.
  03:23:18

• Mark Hamill's facial injuries came from a car accident between Star Wars films.
  00:09:20
• An entire Thai monastery's monks were defrocked after all testing positive for meth.
  00:40:30
• Sam Kinison was a former preacher who converted his preacher energy into stand-up comedy.
  01:00:45
• The Caesar salad was reportedly invented in Tijuana, Mexico in the 1920s.
  01:23:36
• Hitler's mustache shape originated from needing a gas mask to fit during WWI service.
  02:28:13
• Roman Emperor Nero married both women and men.
  03:12:25
• An 'all roads lead to Rome' map shows Roman roads resembling arteries or leaf veins.
  03:18:08
• Opie & Anthony were kicked off the air after a guest said he wanted to rape Condoleezza Rice.
  04:03:20
• NASCAR has its roots in Prohibition-era bootleggers building faster cars to outrun cops.
  04:27:38

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