Joe Rogan Experience #2005 - Tom Segura

Tom Segura joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging, loose conversation anchored in fitness and health. Tom describes how a devastating double injury (a torn patellar tendon plus a broken arm with lasting nerve damage) became the turning point that got him into the best shape of his life, while Joe evangelizes cold plunges, daily resistance training, and the carnivore diet. They drift through comedy-world philosophy, the importance of taking the leap (Bert Kreischer leaving the Travel Channel), and Joe's old obsession with playing pool eight hours a day. The back half turns to gambling stories, casinos, and a long stretch on politics, elections, voting-machine security, free speech, and social-media censorship. It closes on Tom's new special Sledgehammer, refined over 303 tour shows.

• Bert Kreischer's wife told Tom he'd gain 100 pounds after his injury; that taunt plus his PT Dr. Karen Joubert predicting the opposite motivated his fitness transformation.
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• Tom's broken arm, not his torn patellar tendon, became the lasting problem; he still has nerve damage and arm pain years later.
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• Tom reveals he's been on a carnivore diet for 2+ months and his chronic knee and joint pain disappeared.
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• Joe was so obsessed with pool he played eight hours a day in tournaments and nearly went pro after tearing his ACL at 22.
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• They discuss Hunter Biden photographing himself smoking crack while driving 175 mph in a Porsche to Vegas.
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• A Roseanne Barr appearance on Theo Von's podcast was pulled from YouTube for hate speech over a Holocaust/Biden-votes bit.
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• Tom announces his fifth Netflix special, Sledgehammer, built over 303 shows on tour.
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• Kronk Gym, where Tommy Hearns trained under Emanuel Steward, was kept near 95 degrees to add a cardiovascular load like a sauna.
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• Joe claims roughly 94% of people have glyphosate (Roundup) in their blood.
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• US student loan debt is about $1.78 trillion, 92% of it federal, and it is the one debt you cannot discharge in bankruptcy.
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• About 93% of patellar tendon tears happen at a connection point; Tom's snapped in the middle, which takes tremendous force.
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• McDonald's gets Coke syrup in stainless steel tanks instead of plastic bags, pre-chills the syrup and water, and uses wider straws, changing how its Coke tastes.
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• In 2006 Cuyahoga County, Ohio lost 812 voter access cards and hired taxi drivers to pick up the memory cards holding votes.
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• A CNN report says Georgia won't patch known Dominion voting-software vulnerabilities until after the 2024 election.
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• A French Parkinson's patient won nearly 197,000 euros after the dopamine-agonist drug Requip turned him into a gambling and gay-sex addict; Pfizer settled similar suits with 172 patients.
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• One-pocket is pool's big gambling game, with handicapped matches played for thousands of dollars.
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