Joe Rogan Experience #2505 - Tom Segura

Tom Segura joins Joe Rogan shortly after the release of season two of his Netflix show 'Bad Thoughts.' The pair open on Texas's wild-pig infestation and hunting/cooking culture, then swing into a long, dark exploration of dictators (especially Uday Hussein) before debating whether young people should fear or embrace AI. The conversation roams across LA's decline, Canada's assisted-dying program, ancient flood myths and Noah's Ark, deep-sea exploration, an extended car-enthusiast tangent, the Ray J 'Brand Risk' boxing controversy, sports-betting and insider trading, and government 'agent provocateur' entrapment cases. It closes with cop-quota traffic-stop stories and praise for Segura's show.

• Joe offers to connect Tom with chef Jesse Griffith's hunt-and-cook school so Tom can take his sons hog hunting.
  00:09:28
• Joe details Uday Hussein's atrocities, claiming at least 200 people died at his parties every year.
  00:15:10
• Joe recounts Marc Andreessen's story of an AI 'blackmailing' a man to preserve itself — though it was instructed to.
  00:34:50
• Tom says Canada has government-sanctioned assisted dying accounting for ~5% of all deaths, citing a 26-year-old euthanized for seasonal depression.
  00:47:59
• Joe argues the Durupinar formation in Turkey may be Noah's Ark, matching biblical dimensions and location.
  01:03:24
• They read the story of a man who built a timed guillotine over his bed to kill himself.
  01:51:35
• Discussion of the Hamzat Chimaev upset loss to Sean Strickland, who fought with a blown-out shoulder.
  02:07:34
• Joe cites the Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot where 12 of 14 plotters were allegedly FBI informants.
  02:30:41

• Texas has an estimated 2.6 to 4 million wild pigs, which can have up to three litters a year.
  00:04:14
• Bert Kreischer reportedly dropped ~50 lbs and cut 16 minutes off his 5K time year over year.
  00:02:10
• White Sands footprints dated to 22,000 years old challenge the 'Clovis first' theory of the Americas.
  01:09:33
• James Cameron made a record solo dive ~11 km (about 6 miles) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
  01:16:19
• Talmudic texts cited claim one must fast 84 times to repent for wasting seed.
  00:57:43
• Qusay Hussein allegedly withdrew ~$1 billion in cash before the 2003 invasion — called the largest bank heist in history.
  02:38:25
• Joe notes $12 billion in cash was flown into Iraq on 21 C-130 flights in May 2004.
  02:40:29
• They discuss a chart showing members of Congress consistently outperform the S&P 500.
  02:26:34

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