Joe Rogan Experience #1922 - Sam & Colby

As painfully shy teens, Sam and Colby ran a year-long ‘social boot camp’ at a mall—daring each other to do embarrassing tasks instead of avoiding fear. That repetition made them comfortable being uncomfortable, which later enabled them to perform, host tours, and move to L.A. to chase content creation.

Their abandoned-building explorations, trespassing, and a felony arrest in Florida (plus a night in jail) generated massive attention and a #FreeSamAndColby trend, but also forced a permanent shift away from illegal exploring. They now stress how quickly minor trespassing can escalate into guns drawn and felony charges.

A night in the Queen Mary’s B340 room—complete with an unprompted faucet blast and a 35‑minute ‘knock’ conversation captured on audio—pushed Sam from near-atheism about the paranormal toward believing “something else” might exist, re-opening deep questions about the afterlife and spirituality.

Sites like the Villisca Axe Murder House, Waverly Hills sanatorium, and the Conjuring House sit on histories of mass death, war, or horrific killings. Whether or not ghosts are real, walking into spaces where children were mutilated or soldiers died en masse creates a palpable heaviness that shapes experiences and stories.

They use EMF meters, REM pods, cat toys, and the Estes Method to remove senses and seek responses synced to questions. They openly acknowledge false positives, suggestion, and malfunctions, but argue that repeated, highly specific correlations—especially when guests or skeptics are involved—are harder to dismiss.