Joe Rogan Experience #2001 - Gabriel Iglesias

Joe Rogan and Gabriel Iglesias reminisce about paying their dues in dive bars and the Ice House, learning comedy from mentors like Joey Diaz and Marilyn Martinez. Gabriel recounts quitting his cell-phone sales job to chase comedy, getting evicted, and eventually selling out Dodger Stadium. They dig into his obsession with collecting Volkswagen buses and muscle cars, his pandemic-era 70-pound weight loss, type 2 diabetes, and Ozempic use. The back half drifts into California's homelessness crisis, the appeal of moving to Texas, and a long, enthusiastic riff on UFOs and aliens.

• Gabriel was on stage over three hours at Dodger Stadium and got fined over $100 for going past his time limit.
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• He fell asleep and got caught at his cell-phone sales job, then after quitting lost his apartment to eviction and his car to repo.
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• He owns more than 20 Volkswagen buses plus a muscle-car collection, sparked by investing advice from Jay Leno.
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• Against his agent and manager's wishes, he chose to do only clubs for half a year after Dodger Stadium, despite employing around 30 people.
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• During the pandemic he lost 70 pounds and discovered he had type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.
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• Gabriel gives himself a weekly Ozempic shot and was approached years earlier to be its spokesperson before he was even on it.
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• Early Volkswagen buses started with only about 25 to 30 horsepower.
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• Joe and Gabriel discuss San Francisco homeless commissioners reportedly earning up to a quarter-million dollars a year.
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• Eddie Izzard ran sets like 27 marathons in 27 days for charity, destroying his feet in the process.
  01:40:54
• Zach Bitter ran 100 miles in under 12 hours and reached 104.8 miles in 12 hours, a record later beaten by a Lithuanian.
  01:43:29
• Joe recounts David Fravor's Tic-Tac UFO dropping from 50,000 feet to 50 feet in about a second with no heat signature.
  02:05:46
• Bob Lazar claimed a back-engineered alien craft ran on a reactor powered by Element 115.
  02:15:40
• A PBS analysis cited in the episode argues virtually no one actually believed Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast.
  02:25:35
• Joe notes William Randolph Hearst and Harry Anslinger conspired to demonize marijuana in newspapers.
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