Joe Rogan Experience #2122 - Protect Our Parks 11

This is the 11th 'Protect Our Parks' episode, a marathon drinking session where Joe Rogan hangs out with comedians Shane Gillis, Ari Shafir and Mark Norman while pounding beers and whiskey. The conversation is freewheeling and provocative, lurching from JFK assassination conspiracies, the Manson/MKUltra theories and John McAfee's downfall to comedy-scene gossip, MMA, and movie debates. A recurring thread is comedy clubs needing to 'hold the line' and book funny comics regardless of outside pressure, framed around Gillis's SNL hosting redemption and the rise of Kill Tony comics. Running gags include sarcastic Bud Light shout-outs, an eagle beer bong, Shane Gillis blocking YouTube music plays for copyright, and Ari being pushed to launch a travel podcast. It closes with the crew getting visibly wrecked before heading to perform at the Comedy Mothership.

• Rogan lays out the Tom O'Neill 'Chaos' theory that MKUltra's Jolly West visited both Manson and Jack Ruby in prison.
  00:22:24
• McAfee allegedly exploited an Android flaw to read encrypted WhatsApp messages via malware-infected phones sent to reporters.
  00:40:41
• Rogan recounts Shane Gillis hosting SNL and being paid only $5,000 for a week of work.
  01:30:16
• Rogan describes bringing Tucker Carlson on stage at Kill Tony unannounced after a steak dinner with Lex Fridman.
  04:01:31
• The crew reveals Shane Gillis was the first comic ever to perform in the Mothership's small room, with Dave Chappelle going up right after.
  04:58:45
• Rogan recalls reading kickboxer Jean-Yves Theroux's book as a teen and starting to run stairs because of it.
  02:49:27
• Rogan claims the Fairphone, a modular sustainably-sourced phone, cannot be bought in the United States.
  04:14:46

• Scotland's new hate crime law was a topic, with the crew joking comedians could be targeted under it.
  00:00:01
• They discuss the debunked ergot-fungus theory once taught in schools as an explanation for the Salem witch trials.
  00:16:43
• LSD can be absorbed through skin and stay potent for decades, citing an engineer who tripped fixing a 1960s synthesizer.
  00:20:52
• The 2023 orange smoke over New York from Canadian wildfires spawned conspiracy theories about a lost toxic chemical shipment.
  00:49:36
• A walrus penis bone (baculum) is referenced, with a Steven Rinella shout-out.
  01:56:43
• Dutch kickboxing dominance is traced to Dutchmen traveling to Japan in the 1970s, not Southeast Asian colonization.
  02:56:13
• New York's ornate public urinals were systematically replaced starting in 1980 after roughly a century of use.
  01:39:35
• A real news brawl between Thai 'lady boys' and trans prostitutes from the Philippines in Bangkok is pulled up.
  04:36:44
• Rupert Murdoch, in his 90s, got engaged again to a molecular biologist after divorcing Jerry Hall.
  01:48:55

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