Joe Rogan Experience #2511 - Terry Bradshaw

Joe Rogan and Terry Bradshaw spend two and a half hours drinking Bradshaw's award-winning bourbon, smoking cigars, and swapping stories. Bradshaw covers his football career in the brutal 1970s NFL, where players were routinely 'shot up' to keep playing and concussions were ignored. They debate steroids in sports, stem cells, ivermectin, and Bradshaw's cancer battles. Much of the conversation is Bradshaw's larger-than-life storytelling about fishing with a 'baby Jesus,' getting burglarized repeatedly on his ranch, his decades-long corporate speaking career, and the genuine friendships on the Fox NFL crew. The episode stays deliberately apolitical and ends with Bradshaw pitching his bourbon.

• Bradshaw reveals he has rheumatoid arthritis and has been off his medication for three years because he can't take it after cancer radiation.
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• Bradshaw discloses he beat two cancers: bladder cancer and rare Merkel cell skin cancer.
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• Rogan recounts a full-length rotator cuff tear that completely disappeared after a stem cell treatment, despite a surgeon saying surgery was certain.
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• Rogan retells how CNN allegedly altered his skin to look green when covering his ivermectin use during COVID.
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• Bradshaw says 1970s players, including himself, were lined up to be 'shot up' before games with unknown substances, no questions asked.
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• Bradshaw admits he was knocked out cold in a Dolphins playoff game, came to in the fourth quarter, and went back in and 'played pretty good.'
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• Bradshaw confesses he was once escorted off stage after 10 minutes at a 5,000-person Vegas speech because the organizer thought he didn't know what he was doing.
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• Bradshaw says he's been burglarized six times on his ranches and was once shot at with a shotgun.
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• Only 15 cases of Bradshaw's 12-year bourbon remain; it's now actually 13 years aged.
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• Bradshaw says he may only make about $6,000 this year on the whiskey because aged bourbon is slow to build.
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• Rogan notes ivermectin won a Nobel Prize for human use and has antiviral properties beyond being a dewormer.
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• Joe Greene made the Hall of Fame as a 275-lb defensive tackle and Jack Lambert played middle linebacker at 218.
  01:05:41
• As a 13-year-old, Mike Tyson studied old fight film of Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pep, and Rocky Marciano via manager Jim Jacobs's reels.
  01:09:46
• The famous clip of Sonny Liston firing a gun at Ali is actually a scene from the 1977 film 'The Greatest,' not real footage.
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• Rogan explains Dunbar's number: roughly 5 close people, 15 sympathy group, 50, 150, 500 acquaintances, and 1,500 recognizable faces.
  01:28:32
• Rogan calls creatine a beneficial supplement that's great for the brain, mitochondrial function, and muscle.
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• Bradshaw's speaking fee climbed from $1,200 to $7,500 then $10,000 a speech after Washington Speakers Bureau signed him; he now does about 30 a year.
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• Bradshaw learned to reuse one yearly speaking theme from Jay Leno, who used the same standup set all year.
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