Joe Rogan Experience #2090 - Bobby Lee

Bobby Lee and Joe Rogan reconnect after years, opening with Bobby's history of addiction, multiple relapses, and getting sober. They reminisce about the early Comedy Store days, including Joe pulling Bobby out of a dangerous strip-club confrontation in 1995. The conversation swings through COVID-era lockdowns and vaccine skepticism, politics as a 'cult,' voting-machine vulnerabilities, and the war in Gaza. Bobby opens up about abusive directors early in his career, the freedom the podcast era gave comedians, and Joe repeatedly urges him to move to Austin. It closes with Bobby promoting his film Drugstore June and the two affirming their friendship.

• Bobby reveals he stayed sober 17 years, then relapsed twice—first after taking a gummy when his father died.
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• Bobby got addicted to Vicodin (30-40 a day) on MADtv and detoxed mid-sketch, soiling himself on camera during a Connie Chung bit.
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• Joe recounts saving Bobby from gang members at a San Diego strip club in 1995 after Bobby approached a gangster's stripper girlfriend.
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• Bobby took a free trip to Israel ~14 years ago and was required to tweet praise daily, sparking massive online backlash.
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• Joe says two people he knew had strokes within 10 days of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was later pulled for blood clots.
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• Bobby describes abusive directors—one made the crew form a circle and call him 'the worst actor on planet Earth,' another called him a 'panface.'
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• Joe relays Tarantino's story of an old-school director with a bedroom in his office where starlets had to sleep with him.
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• A Denver Health medical team became some of the first to receive a live Ebola vaccine preventively, despite no Ebola cases in the U.S.
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• Joe describes Rand Paul grilling Fauci over the NIH funding gain-of-function research through an intermediary organization.
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• Onnit ran two double-blind placebo-controlled studies on Alpha Brain at the Boston Center for Memory showing increased alpha flow and verbal memory.
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• Duncan Trussell lived with Joe Rogan for six months after getting kicked out by a girlfriend tired of his video-game habit.
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• Joe explains the Lakota tribe's 'Heyoka,' a sacred clown whose role was to make fun of everything.
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• Bobby placed a written note in the Western Wall, which he says dates to around 19 BC.
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• Computer scientist J. Alex Halderman hacked a Dominion voting tabulator in an Atlanta federal court using only a pen to change vote totals.
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• Musician Gary Clark Jr. is one of the owners of the Austin music club Antone's.
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