Joe Rogan Experience #2031 - Luis J. Gomez

Joe Rogan and comedian Luis J. Gomez settle into a loose, weed-fueled hangout that wanders across decades of marijuana arrests in New York, the absurdity of drug laws, and how legalization is finally rolling out state by state. They riff on social media destroying attention spans, the politicization of COVID, conspiracy theories around the Maui fires and BLM-era brick piles, and the dangers of an AI-driven future. Gomez opens up about his life: getting up to 330 pounds, returning to driving after 27 years in NYC, a brutal acid trip at 18, his son's jiu-jitsu success, and his fear of dying young. A long stretch dives into AIDS history, AZT, and RFK Jr.'s claims via 'The Real Anthony Fauci.' The conversation closes on stand-up comedy craft, the Austin scene, and worries about robots taking over.

• Luis says he's been arrested roughly 10 times for smoking weed in NYC, always the one friend the cop chooses to take in.
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• Luis reveals he's been in five car accidents since returning to driving, and his insurance hit $1,800 a month.
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• Luis's uncle Howard, a gypsy cab driver, was hit in the back of the head with a hammer in the 90s and survived with a hole left in his skull.
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• Luis weighed 320-330 pounds at 19, ballooning up after he started smoking weed and eating constantly.
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• Luis recounts taking a huge dose of liquid acid at 18, tripping for roughly 48 hours straight with recurring suicidal thoughts.
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• Joe explains he deliberately delayed giving his 10-year-old son a phone/iPad to avoid screen addiction.
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• Joe and Luis discuss RFK Jr.'s claim that AZT, an abandoned cancer chemo drug, killed AIDS patients.
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• Studies cited claim plants grow better with classical or jazz music but are stressed by harsher metal music.
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• Jupiter's enormous mass absorbs many incoming comets and asteroids, helping protect the inner solar system.
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• British Security Coordination ran media propaganda from Rockefeller Center floors before World War II.
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• Scientists reportedly reconstructed a Pink Floyd song from patients' brain waves.
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• A TSA worker's AMA suggested agents are instructed to simply discard small amounts of weed rather than make arrests.
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• Game warden John Nores estimates about 90% of illegal US weed comes from cartel grow-ops on public land laced with toxic pesticides.
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• Historically, heroin, morphine, and cocaine were given to babies and children as medicine.
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• AZT was originally a chemotherapy medication abandoned for cancer patients before being used for AIDS.
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