Joe Rogan Experience #2098 - Matt McCusker & Shane Gillis

This is a loose, comedic JRE hangout with Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis rather than a structured interview. The trio jokes about Gillis becoming a Bud Light spokesman after the brand's controversy, then spiral through bombing as comedians, gross-out diarrhea and 'shitting your pants' stories, and the Carnivore diet. Long tangents cover cults (the Buddhafield 'Holy Hell' guru and the silver-drinking 'Love Has Won' leader), wild-animal fights (grizzlies vs gorillas, honey badgers, the Bondo ape), Ozempic side effects, and counterfeiting. They close with politics, immigration, Nazis fleeing to Argentina, the diesel engine inventor's mysterious death, and Grant's memoirs saved by Mark Twain.

• Gillis credits the podcast and never bailing on Bud Light for his becoming the brand's spokesman after the Kid Rock-fueled boycott.
  00:01:35
• Rogan reveals he nearly bought a theater in Austin that was built by the Buddhafield cult documented in 'Holy Hell' to be his comedy club.
  01:47:06
• Extended discussion of a pharmacology professor whose Ozempic use reportedly caused severe burns and charred skin on her genitals.
  01:00:52
• Rogan reveals he owns a Hennessey Ram TRX with 1,000 horsepower that he drives all the time.
  02:14:26
• Rogan and the guests dig into how soda is the number one item bought with food stamps (4-5% of SNAP spending).
  02:48:11
• The story that Anheuser-Busch's founder bought the U.S. rights to the diesel engine, and inventor Rudolf Diesel's mysterious 1913 death.
  02:21:14

• Rapper Killer Mike was arrested for misdemeanor battery the same day he won three Grammys.
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• Poodles originated in Germany as water-retrieving hunting dogs, not as 'fancy' lap dogs.
  00:30:41
• At the end of Prohibition, Budweiser Clydesdales rode down Pennsylvania Avenue to give the president a case of beer.
  00:56:41
• NASCAR's origins trace to moonshiners souping up cars to outrun police during Prohibition.
  00:57:12
• Horses are usually euthanized for broken legs because their lower legs have almost no muscle or tissue to support a healing bone.
  01:11:15
• The first patented toilet paper was introduced by a New Yorker named Joseph Gayetty in 1857.
  01:30:32
• A U.S. dollar is called a 'buck' because a deer skin (buck) was the going trade value; early settlers ate bear and used deer only for hides.
  01:43:59
• Nazi 'rat lines' helped fascists escape to Argentina, Paraguay and elsewhere, sometimes aided by the Catholic Church and later U.S. intelligence.
  02:16:30
• Fritz Haber was wanted for war crimes for poison gas while simultaneously being nominated for a Nobel Prize for pulling nitrogen from air.
  02:21:14
• The Bondo (or Bili) ape is an enormous Congo chimpanzee, once thought mythological, that nests on the ground and is called a 'lion killer' by locals.
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