Joe Rogan Experience #2073 - Derek, More Plates More Dates

Derek of More Plates More Dates joins Joe Rogan for a wide-ranging, low-production conversation that drifts from Canadian censorship to video-game and dating-app addiction. They dig into the OnlyFans economy, Andrew Tate, and the loneliness of modern young men, then pivot to Joe's training, diet and recovery routines including cold plunges, the carnivore diet, stem cells and BPC-157. A long stretch covers celebrity plastic surgery, Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, and how the Comedy Mothership came together in Austin. The episode closes with an extended Derek-led breakdown of performance-enhancing drugs, USADA, and the proposed Enhanced Games.

• Joe trained twice a day for six months for a planned MMA fight against Wesley Snipes, but it collapsed over escalating money demands.
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• Joe got stem cells for a torn MCL but kept re-aggravating it, so he took a full year completely off Muay Thai to let it heal.
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• Joe just had stem cells injected into his lower back for an archery overuse injury from drawing 80-90 lb bows about 150 times a day.
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• Joe says the animal-based/carnivore diet gives him a noticeable 'extra gear' of mental clarity beyond Alpha Brain and neurogum.
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• During Sober October Joe did seven hours of cardio in one day and set off his gym's fire alarm from the steam off his body.
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• Joe explains he built the Comedy Mothership in Austin by hiring The Comedy Store's best staff while they were unemployed during the pandemic.
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• Tommy Lee once asked Joe to help train him to fight Kid Rock over their shared history with Pamela Anderson.
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• Cited top OnlyFans earners: Iggy Azalea reportedly made $48M, Cardi B around $45M, and rapper Tyga roughly $20M.
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• Wesley Snipes served 28 months in federal prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns.
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• Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison plus house arrest for not paying taxes on close to a million dollars in earnings.
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• Joe claims Hulk Hogan lost four to five inches of height from multiple back-fusion surgeries.
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• Michael Jackson's father reportedly chemically castrated him during puberty to preserve his high singing voice, according to his doctor.
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• L. Ron Hubbard has the most published words of any human in history, and a 1984 judge called him 'virtually a pathological liar.'
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• The Enhanced Games is a proposed no-testing, doping-permitted competitor to the Olympics offering cash bonuses for breaking world records.
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• When the UFC adopted USADA, fighters' physiques visibly shrank, with Vitor Belfort cited as the most extreme example.
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• Derek explains a single 500mg/week testosterone cycle (testosterone cypionate, ~10-day half-life) leaves residual performance benefit for months.
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• Longevity expert Peter Attia reportedly can't keep chicken drumsticks in the freezer because he'll eat three at a time.
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