Joe Rogan Experience #1948 - Tony Hinchcliffe & Brian Redban

A loose, freewheeling JRE hang covering everything from gas-station boner pills and antibiotic-resistant 'super gonorrhea' to the East Palestine train derailment and the COVID lab-leak admission. The trio dwells at length on the Kennedy assassination, recounting how the Zapruder film reached Geraldo Rivera's 1975 broadcast and the CIA/MK Ultra threads in Tom O'Neill's book Chaos. They celebrate the launching-pad magic of the old Comedy Store and the new comedy scene in Austin. A big chunk centers on Kill Tony, its golden-ticket regulars, and disabled Canadian comedians Aaron Balile and Jared Nathan. They close on AI deepfakes, Unreal Engine realism, pool movies and the imminent opening of the Comedy Mothership.

• Dick Gregory and Robert Groden brought the Zapruder film to Geraldo Rivera's 1975 'Good Night America', the first wide TV airing showing Kennedy's head snap backward.
  01:08:14
• Tom O'Neill's book Chaos alleges CIA figure Jolly West, tied to MK Ultra, visited Jack Ruby in jail and may have engineered Charles Manson.
  01:24:30
• Tony recounts homeless vendor Boon Shakalaka making him flash his genitals for a laptop that turned out to be broken.
  01:36:31
• Joe cites research claiming legalized prostitution sharply lowers rape and sexual crime rates.
  01:41:45
• The Department of Energy concluded COVID-19 most likely emerged from a Wuhan lab leak, years after the idea was dismissed.
  01:42:16
• Right after Woody Harrelson's SNL monologue joking about pharma, coordinated hit pieces branded him an anti-vaxxer stoner.
  01:46:25
• Aaron Balile, a mute Canadian comic with cerebral palsy, won a Kill Tony golden ticket performing via thumb-typed text-to-speech.
  02:18:16
• The Comedy Mothership club is days from opening, with neon Joey Diaz quotes and spaceships in the build-out.
  02:30:43

• Two people have reportedly been effectively cured of HIV via stem-cell transplants and immune therapies.
  00:25:41
• A Washington Post analysis found Trump-era deregulation cannot be blamed for the East Palestine train wreck.
  00:52:38
• There are roughly a thousand train derailments per year in the US.
  00:59:57
• 'Super gonorrhea' resistant to all known antibiotic classes appeared in two Massachusetts cases in January 2023.
  01:03:38
• Life magazine bought the Zapruder film for about $150,000 in 1963, roughly $1.3 million today.
  01:14:35
• Zapruder donated part of his payment to the widow of officer J.D. Tippit and insisted frame 313 be withheld.
  01:20:19
• On a $1.35 billion jackpot the cash option was $707 million, with the IRS taking 24% off the top.
  01:30:43
• Tom Cruise trained with left-handed pool champion Mike Sigel to look authentic in The Color of Money.
  02:08:46
• About 80% of witnesses said shots came from the grassy knoll in front, contradicting the lone-gunman account.
  01:10:20
• Youngstown, Ohio was the world's top steel-producing city through the 1930s-50s before the mills suddenly closed.
  00:07:54

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