Joe Rogan Experience #2436 - Whitney Cummings

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Jan 10, 20263h 26mWatch on YouTube ↗

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0:00 – 0:02
Intro
1. JRJoe Rogan
  [upbeat music]
0:02 – 2:05
Dice’s unlit cigarette and the era of candy cigarettes
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out!
2. WCWhitney Cummings
  The Joe Rogan Experience.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. [upbeat music]
4. WCWhitney Cummings
  So that's just for Dice to hold?
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, he just holds onto them. Oh! And he, m- he holds onto them, and then he swaps them out for a new one.
6. WCWhitney Cummings
  Was the unlit cigarette, like, the original fidget spinner?
7. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughing]
8. WCWhitney Cummings
  Like-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, most people don't do it, because most people, when they have a cigarette in their hand, they wanna light it.
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  But Dice has got the ability to just hold onto the cigarette.
12. WCWhitney Cummings
  Do you remember when candy cigarettes were a toy for kids?
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, I had those.
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] You do right?
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah, they were priming you.
16. WCWhitney Cummings
  Totally, and they would poof, like, sugar would come out.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  No, I don't remember that.
18. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, yeah, you'd go [exhaling] and, like, powdered sugar would come out.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
20. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah. Am I right, Jamie? Am I making that up?
21. JRJoe Rogan
  I remember them just being like a candy that you sucked on.
22. WCWhitney Cummings
  Or was that just the cocaine-
23. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, just a stick
24. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... my parents put on it? [laughing]
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, it was just a candy stick.
26. SPSpeaker
  Nasty chalk stick. I remember them.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Maybe there was, maybe there was a different one. Maybe there's more than one kind of candy cigarette.
28. WCWhitney Cummings
  Couldn't you... There was, like, gummy cigars, I remember, and then the candy cigarettes. That must have been them just trying to get you addicted to just, like, the motion of it or, like, participate with your parents or something.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, it was just a way to sell candy, but probably also engineered by the tobacco companies.
30. WCWhitney Cummings
  Right.
2:05 – 3:33
Dangerous kid behavior: licking 9-volts, sockets, glue, and hot glue guns
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  As kids, we would suck on actual batteries if we, if we wanted to kill ourselves.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughing] Oh, yeah. Remember when you lick them?
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  Dude, we would just-
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh, uh.
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  -to try to electrocute [laughing] the square one.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Just the nine volts?
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing]
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, the nine volts.
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  We'd be in school just like, "Lick it, lick, lick it." [laughing]
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, we would lick it just to get a jolt in your tongue. Ah, ooh!
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] It is, it is wild how, like... Like, yes, the phones are obviously very bad for kids, but when you think about the stuff we did as kids, I was just like-- I would just hang out with a light socket for, like, two hours. It's all I needed, a paperclip, light socket, like, it's a m-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Light socket?
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  Or like a... Yeah, the, uh, the, the-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Electric socket?
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  Electric socket.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  You would go into an electric socket with a paper clip?
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  Did no one else do this? [laughing]
18. JRJoe Rogan
  That's really bad.
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  Did you inhale glue or no?
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, I sniffed it.
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  Rubber cement?
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Okay, good. I'm like, uh, okay.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, I used to love making models. I used to make, like, Godzilla models. You know, those-
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, with glue!
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Do you remember those models? Yeah, you had rubber cement glue.
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Do you remember those?
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, yeah. You would... I mean, Elmer's, too.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
3:33 – 6:15
When toys were weapons: lawn darts, seesaws, trampolines, and radioactive kits
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, they weren't looking out for kids back then. Like, when did they start, like, worrying about dangerous toys?
2. WCWhitney Cummings
  I th- I mean, I- after, like, the 50th lawn dart, you know, aorta puncture, like- [laughing]
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, I remember the lawn darts. Those were crazy.
4. WCWhitney Cummings
  You're just throwing like-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  It's a fucking weapon, and they were heavy.
6. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  If they hit you in the head, you would die. [laughing]
8. WCWhitney Cummings
  Dude, just like tetanus, like-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Right in the heart
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... like, [laughing]
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Let's, let's look this up. How many people do you think have died from lawn darts?
12. WCWhitney Cummings
  Lawn darts. [laughing]
13. JRJoe Rogan
  It has to be-
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  By the way, way more than is reported, for sure.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Right, right, right.
16. WCWhitney Cummings
  I'm just putting this here so I don't-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  It has to be dozens.
18. WCWhitney Cummings
  And seesaws.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh, yeah, seesaws-
20. WCWhitney Cummings
  You remember seesaws?
21. JRJoe Rogan
  ... fucked a lot of people up.
22. WCWhitney Cummings
  No seatbelt, no-
23. JRJoe Rogan
  No
24. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... just, just plywood-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Right
26. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... with handles.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  With a handle.
28. WCWhitney Cummings
  But we would also... It's such a testament to our nature, 'cause we would make it even more dangerous. Like, remember, like, you'd be on the seesaw, like, if you were up, I would- You'd, like, jump off it-
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah, yeah
30. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... to watch the kid just-
6:15 – 7:47
Sudafed IDs, Adderall culture, and AI-written journalism
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  Well, I went to get, um, uh, NyQuil or Sudafed the other day-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... and they made me show my ID.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah, 'cause you can make meth with it.
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  Right. Right, right, right.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  Sick.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Meanwhile, you can get a prescription for Adderall if you just say you have ADHD.
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  I don't even think you have to do that. You just have to be like: "I'm bored."... Right. [laughs] I'm neurodivergent.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  That just gave it to you.
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Right. You, I m- I mean, it's all self-diagnosed. You know, I just can't concentrate.
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  Are we gonna look back the way that we look at, like, you know, the Nazis and go like, "They were on meth"? Are we gonna look back in, like, 20 years and be like, "Everyone was on meth," just-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, everyone's on Adderall-
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm
16. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that's for damn sure.
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  Is really?
18. JRJoe Rogan
  I mean, the amount of journalists that are on Adderall is off the charts.
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  Sure.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  A friend of mine was telling me, like, all of his colleagues take Adderall.
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  To f- uh, uh, to-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Help them work.
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  'Cause they have so many projects that they're doing that require intense fucking research, and they're, you know-
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Googling. S-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughs]
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  Saying, "ChatGPT, please write my article for me." Did you see, I think it was the New York Times, or someone left in... Uh, Jamie, uh, do you remember s- the prompt that ends the, you know, what it spits out on ChatGPT?
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, God!
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  To prove that they had just copy and pasted it? Like, wild.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well, there's a lot of that. There's a lot of shitty people in every walk of life. There's bad doctors, bad plumbers-
7:47 – 9:37
ADHD as ‘can’t focus on boring things’ and what school optimizes for
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  But if you really do have ADD or whatever this is... Like, I'm the first to say, like, "What are all these diagnoses?" I, um, but... 'Cause I was prescribed five milligrams slow-release Adderall to sleep.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  To sleep?
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  If you actually have it, it calms you down. It doesn't amp you up.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  What is it? What is it-
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, um, uh-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  ... ADHD?
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  The inability to focus, or the-
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Is that real?
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... a busy brain. I, I, dude, I, uh, look, I just, I think a lot of our superpowers are being dull. A lot of people's-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh-huh
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... superpowers are being dulled by pharma, and we're being pathologized for actually kind of extreme strengths, you know, in a lot of ways. So-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  There's a lot of, like, legitimate people that are arguing that about ADHD.
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  Okay, good. I'm not like a-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  No
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... nut.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, legitimate psychologists, neuroscientists, the, the, the- it's what it is, is you can't concentrate on things you're not interested in, but you can concentrate on things you're interested in, like, heavily. Like-
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  If people that are- that supposedly have ADHD, they can play video games for fucking 10 hours a day.
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  That's right. That's exactly right.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, how come? Because it's exciting.
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, they can't sit in a classroom and watch some pedophile lecture them-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughs]
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... on fake history while they're getting haemorrhoids in some, like, chair-
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... with, like, fl- shitty lighting above them.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  I mean, it's like, yeah, of course, kids are bored. Of course, they can't sit still.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Exactly.
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  You know? Well, it was- I was reading about how Finland, they don't, um, uh, teach their kids to read until they're, like, seven because, uh, it's better to have them develop their ability to focus first on the things they wanna do, so by the time they do learn to read, they actually, you know, can focus.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  That sounds like a terrible idea. You're gonna be so far behind my kids.
9:37 – 11:30
U2 forced onto iPhones, overexposure, and the new ad backlash
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  Do I even teach them Mandarin, or is that just gonna be like... Remember when U2 just put a song on our phone? [chuckles]
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  That was so weird.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, that was Apple's idea, and, you know, I talked to Bono about that. He was... You know, it, it was devastating for them-
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm
6. JRJoe Rogan
  ... 'cause all of a sudden, everyone hated U2.
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  They used to love U2.
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  They had so many hits. They're so good, and then all of a sudden, "Fuck you! Why are you on my phone?"
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  Isn't that interesting, the human nature of I love something, unless you force it on me?
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Well, it's just people are always looking for a reason to complain.
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  And if, uh, you have this song on your phone-
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm
16. JRJoe Rogan
  ... right away, like, "Hey, fuck these guys."
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  But also, I wanna hunt. Let me find it. Let me feel like I discovered something.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, I think they just thought it would be a great way to promote this new album.
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  And they just really didn't understand human nature.
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's also... Yeah, it used to be like, if you saw five billboards for something, you're like, "I gotta see that movie." Now, you see, like, five ads for it, and you're like, "Why are you trying so hard?"
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Like, if it's good, I'll hear about it.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  [lips smack] Yeah, I try to tell that to my friends, like, "Do not get overexposed."
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, there's a re- uh, uh, I mean, I don't just say no to everything because I'm not interested in doing anything more.
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  But it's also because I'm clearly overexposed, and you gotta know when you're overexposed. But I have friends that, like, they'll do every fucking interview that anybody asks.
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  They'll do every project that comes up.
11:30 – 13:48
Comics, memes, and the economics of stealing jokes
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... I think especially as a comic now, there's a lot of funny people out there. I think if we've learned anything from memes and stuff, you're like, I don't... This guy just works at Best Buy, and he-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Right
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... who, who made this meme?
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  This is hilarious, you know?
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  I think in the beginning, a lot of it was, like, stolen from comics. Remember, like, that fat Jewish dude in-
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah. Whatever happened to that guy?
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  There was another one, too. I don't know.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  But he was stealing memes, or he was stealing jokes-
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  I think it was-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and turning them into memes?
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  There was a couple where you would go, like, "That's a Mitch Hedberg joke."
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  Like, "That's definitely a Steven Wright joke or Dimitri or something," but like Zach Galifianakis, or it would be, um, lesser-known comics. You know, like, they'd go to a lesser-known comic feed, like people that wrote for-
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... Fallon or Leno-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Right
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... you know, and then-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Go to a showcase night at the store.
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  Or, like, get their tweets. You can just pull their tweets and change them a little bit.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. Whatever happened to that guy? 'Cause he was hated. Boy, when he got- started getting exposed-
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm
24. JRJoe Rogan
  ... he was hated, and then he just kind of vanished.
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  There was another one.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  He was huge for a while.
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  There was a- there was another one, too, and I don't remember the name of it, um, that was doing the same exact thing.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  But the fat Jewish guy almost seemed like he was, like, a corporate-created entity-
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  He had, like, a-
30. JRJoe Rogan
  'Cause the, like, the crazy hair, right? That weird fucking bun.
13:48 – 18:42
Rainey Street deaths, moral panics, and ‘what will we regret in 50 years?’
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  Dude, your boy Brandon o- over here, I was like: What's up with the Rainey Street Killer? I always want, like, the updates on the Austin serial killer who's pushing gay dudes off bridges. And he said, uh, he's like: I think it's tech, tech guys. They come down from San Francisco during South by Southwest, and he strikes when it's, like, a tech conference.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  And he doesn't live here. Yeah.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  They're trying to pretend that it's, it's not really a serial killer. The cops wanna say it's not really a serial killer, and like, that- how many guys have to drown before you start getting nervous?
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  So they're only gay, that these guys?
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, it's a gay neighborhood. That's the thing. Not all of Rainey Street, but there's a lot of, like, gay bars and gay spots on Rainey Street.
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  How do the cops know the victims are gay? They just like-
8. JRJoe Rogan
  They smell 'em.
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] They just, they just-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughing]
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... check their assholes. They're like: "Hey, like, I fucked his- I fucked the corpse's asshole. He's gay." Uh-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  They bring a dilator.
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] You know, I've seen that guy on Grindr. He is gay. Uh, that reminds me of, um, like, the Nazi- [sighs] it's been 10 minutes, and I've brought up Nazis twice. Um, the, that Nazis also killed gay people, and like, I'm obsessed with how there were Nazis that had to find out who was gay. [tsking]
14. JRJoe Rogan
  So did Christians.
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, really?
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Of course. It's in the Bible.
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  To be like: I just fucked these guys. They are gay. Let's get 'em.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  In the old days, in the Bible, if a man lieth with another man, you're supposed to be put to death.
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  That means, like, someone signed up to be like: I'll do it. I'll, I'll investigate who's gay around here.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, the thing is, though, they were all gay.
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah. Mm-hmm.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  That's the crazy thing. Like, if you go back in history, guys were fucking each other all the time.
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  There was a... The Spartans did it. They had a philosophy that you would defend your lover more because, like, if you were fighting alongside a man that you loved, you would defend him more.
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Was it love?
26. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't know.
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  Is that what love is?
28. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't know.
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  I'm still trying to figure it out. [laughing]
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Everybody's got their own definition for that. Like, what is it?
18:42 – 26:28
Food pyramid whiplash, cereal origins, and the ‘anti-masturbation’ Kellogg myth
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Andrew Huberman was having a conversation with a, a professor at Stanford, and he said: What percentage of what's in medical journals and what's taught in school is no longer applicable? He said at least 50%.
2. WCWhitney Cummings
  Unbelievable.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  At least 50% of the stuff that they were telling people... Like, look, they just turned the food pyramid upside down yesterday.
4. WCWhitney Cummings
  Crazy. Well, uh, the food pyramid, not only did it used to just be like-... like, brand muffins. M- it was just [laughing] -
5. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughing] It was rice.
6. WCWhitney Cummings
  Just like Bear Claw. Like, what the fuck? Like-
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you need spaghetti.
8. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing]
9. JRJoe Rogan
  That's number one. SpaghettiOs is at the base.
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] It was so crazy.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Ravioli's slightly above that.
12. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing] And remember they had just had a fish with, like, eyeballs, like what?
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, yeah.
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  That's actually probably a good one now, but, um-
15. JRJoe Rogan
  But at the top, you know, now, like, the littlest amount of stuff you're supposed to get is grains-
16. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm
17. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and you're supposed to get meat-
18. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm
19. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and eggs at the bottom, which was always... I mean, look, there was a study that was l- like widely criticized fairly recently, that labeled Froot Loops as being healthier than ground beef. [chuckles]
20. WCWhitney Cummings
  But who sponsored that study?
21. JRJoe Rogan
  That's the thing about all these things. It's like, who are these people, and can I see them naked?
22. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, i- that's it.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Take your fucking clothes off. Let me see what you look like.
24. WCWhitney Cummings
  That's my sa- same thing about quotes. You know how, like, we're in this quote culture, where you'll just, like, and you probably don't have this in your algorithm, but it's like inspiring quotes, and I'm like: I need to know who said it.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
26. WCWhitney Cummings
  I need to know who said it.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, a lot of times it's fake.
28. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yep.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  You'll, you'll see quotes-
30. WCWhitney Cummings
  Of course
26:28 – 51:08
Plant toxins, pesticides, glyphosate wine, and craving-based pregnancy eating
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Hormetic effect, or-
2. WCWhitney Cummings
  Right
3. JRJoe Rogan
  ... so the hormetic effect is like, there's a, an argument with certain foods, right? There's an argument against certain foods, like that they have, uh, phytochemicals in them.
4. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  So what they have is, like, an actual toxin that discourages predation.
6. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Right? But some of that is actually has a, a hormetic effect-
8. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm
9. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and it's actually good for you. Like, uh, what's a good one? Uh, broccoli sprouts. You know, what does that have? Pho- phosphorifa- what is it?
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  What is the word? [clears throat] I can't remember the, the be-
12. WCWhitney Cummings
  Photosynthesis-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  ... beneficial
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... something.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  No, photosynthesis is how they convert sunlight into food.
16. WCWhitney Cummings
  Sun- but like when you're doing good stress-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  What's the word?
18. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... like exercise, and-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Sulforaphane? Is that what it is.
20. SPSpeaker
  Sulforaphane. Yeah, I think you just said it as I was... I think that's the word.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  I think it's sulforaphane.
22. SPSpeaker
  Is that it right there on the screen? [clears throat]
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Sulforaphane.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah, sulforaphane, "A plant compound formed when you chew or chop broccoli sprouts, which activates an enzyme that converts-
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, wow
26. JRJoe Rogan
  ... a precursor called, uh, glucoraphanin into sulforaphane. Broccoli sprouts have far higher levels of gluco... glu- glucoraphanin, glucoraphanin, in mature, than mature broccoli, which is why they are such a concentrated source of sulforaphane."
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  Hmm.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  [clears throat]
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  So you're eating the plant's stress?
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
51:08 – 1:01:25
Charity as a racket: Fire Aid spending, USAID, and ‘too dirty for the CIA’ NGOs
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Okay, I just sent it to you, Jamie. So the House Judiciary Committee-
2. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm
3. JRJoe Rogan
  ... released a report, um, on the LA Fire Aid concert. Among the findings, Fire Aid was used- I mean, this is gonna [coughs] I'm sorry.
4. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's okay.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  I don't know why I'm coughing. Fire Aid was used for activities such as voter participation initiatives, podcasts, they gave $100,000 to podcasters. Approximately $550,000 in donations went to organizations involved in political advocacy.
6. WCWhitney Cummings
  Well, that's money laundering. That's just money laundering.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Five hundred and fifty thousand dollars out of 100 million. Um, $250,000 was directed towards-
8. WCWhitney Cummings
  [laughing]
9. JRJoe Rogan
  ... programs benefiting undocumented immigrants. Look at this, $100,000 to podcasters.
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  Sure, sure.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  I wanna know who the fuck the podcasters were that got 100 grand.
12. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, what are you talking about? Like-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, what does that mean? Like, what did- did they prevent fires with that money? Five hundred thousand dollars was used to cover salaries, bonuses. Imagine you got a bonus 'cause there was a fire. Consultant fees for nonprofit organizations.
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  But if it's a nonprofit, why are you giving it money- [coughs]
15. JRJoe Rogan
  ...
16. WCWhitney Cummings
  -to profit?
17. JRJoe Rogan
  And why are you giving them bonuses? Half a million dollars. Okay, uh, many worthy nonprofits did receive grants that were used to support victims. This p- report provides lessons t- for the distribution of, uh, or the disbursement, rather, of any remaining Fire Aid funds. Go down lower, 'cause it keeps going.
18. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's a good racket. Everyone I know that works-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  [clears throat]
20. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... with a charity has, like, two houses. Like, good for them, 'cause they don't have to pay taxes either.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  There, there's, m- sorry, there's more where they, they laid all this stuff out. So this is, uh, Kevin Kiley, who is... What is his, um... Congressman from California.
22. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  So he's, he's outlining this, 'cause he tried to look it up. It's fucking crazy. [coughs] But, I mean, some of that is fucking criminal.
24. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm-hmm.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  The, the... This, this one drives me nuts: organizations involved in political advoc- advocacy, half a fucking million dollars.
26. WCWhitney Cummings
  Why is anyone advocating for politics? Like, what does that even mean?
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It's, it's just stealing money.
28. WCWhitney Cummings
  That's right. That's just money laundering. That's all it is.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  That's just stealing money.
30. WCWhitney Cummings
  Wait, fungus-planting projects. What?
1:01:25 – 1:17:03
Misinformation in the outrage economy: staged videos, partisan sites, and verification
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  He's trying to cover the car with his body?
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, let's s- pu- pull back, and let's, let's hear what he says in the beginning of this, 'cause-
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  I mean, with all that money, maybe buy some Ozempic too, homie.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Ah.
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  Like-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  He's eating good.
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  Okay.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Let me hear what he says.
9. SPSpeaker
  ... Ever since Nick Shirley has done his reporting in Minnesota, we have Iranian daycare centers in California. Over here we have 1412 South Crescent Heights, Creative Children Academy. Nobody has come in or out of this facility in nine months. Every window is just boarded up.
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, 'cause no one in LA has kids. [laughing]
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Look at this Rolls-Royce!
12. SPSpeaker
  The owner of this property. Jamshid-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Where's the money, Jamshid?
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  The way the door opens is so funny. [chuckles]
15. SPSpeaker
  $14 million for just one facility.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Where'd you get this car from?
17. SPSpeaker
  I just don't understand. How did you get-
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Where'd you buy the property?
19. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, did you win the lottery?
20. JRJoe Rogan
  That's, that's assault. Don't touch me. This looks fake.
21. SPSpeaker
  Don't touch me.
22. WCWhitney Cummings
  It really does.
23. SPSpeaker
  Honestly, it looks fake as shit.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  It looks fake as shit. This looks, like, completely staged. The, just the way he walks up and grabs the car. What... When you saw people with cameras-
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Mm
26. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and you've, you've got a convertible Rolls-Royce car-
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  You would turn around, I think. You would just turn around and leave.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, it's just too convenient. There's no one there. Why is he there with the car?
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  He parks right out front.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  That looks fake.
1:17:03 – 1:29:34
Doomsday plane, Venezuela raid talk, Iran history, and resource obsessions after parenting
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
2. WCWhitney Cummings
  Did you see the Doomsday Plane?
3. JRJoe Rogan
  What's the Doomsday Plane?
4. WCWhitney Cummings
  The Doomsday Plane, that... I mean, could just be a psyop, but it's, uh, uh, the Doomsday Plane. I think it went to California, the one that is in case of a nuclear event. It can hold, uh, stay in the sky for a couple days and-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
6. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... self-refuel. Oh, damn.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
8. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's made my nipples hard just looking at it.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  What?
10. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's gorgeous. Jamie-
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Doomsday Plane?
12. WCWhitney Cummings
  Jamie, can you pull up this Doomsday Plane so people, uh, listening don't think I'm Roseanne? Okay.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  [laughing] Doomsday, Trump's Doomsday E-4B Plane sighted in Washington and Los Angeles-
14. WCWhitney Cummings
  But the-
15. JRJoe Rogan
  ... days after Maduro capture.
16. WCWhitney Cummings
  But get that pretty picture up of it. I mean, that... It looks just-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  That's a terrible picture.
18. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, that just looks like a-
19. JRJoe Rogan
  How is that the only picture?
20. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, that looks-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, that's them sighting it.
22. SPSpeaker
  Yeah, it is.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  But go back to the art- oh, that's okay.
24. WCWhitney Cummings
  Ah, look at this thing.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  [exhales] Hmm, that's the Doomsday Plane?
26. WCWhitney Cummings
  I don't know if it's that. Isn't that the top one-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  They're all different
28. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... with the blue stripe?
29. JRJoe Rogan
  [sniffs] That's... Wait a minute, they're all different.
30. SPSpeaker
  Well, this is when they're selling it from Northrop Grumman, so anybody can buy it, and then you get it in America, there's logos on it, so.
1:29:34 – 2:13:03
New York housing ideology, carriage horses, and the appeal of hard work and self-sufficiency
1. WCWhitney Cummings
  But he said he would stop the carriage horses, so I'm all for it.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  I'm kind of down with that.
3. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, me too.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  I think that's fucked up.
5. WCWhitney Cummings
  That's disgusting.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Those horses do not need to be wandering around New York City, sniffing fucking brake dust-
7. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's disgusting
8. JRJoe Rogan
  ... carrying assholes around.
9. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's disgusting. I mean, it's, uh... You know, you know me and my, like, uh, horse thing. Uh, but it's, it's so disgusting, and, you know, the amount-- it's like nobody knows how many elephants kill their trainers a year, and how many... You know, the, all kinds of cra- we saw the orca kill the trainer, you know?
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
11. WCWhitney Cummings
  But stuff like that happens so often, and they just cover it up.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Sure.
13. WCWhitney Cummings
  But the amount of, of carriage horses, a couple of them got out. Um, and we've seen them get out, and we've seen them collapse, and all this horrific stuff. And, um, something else is going on with it, which is... And look, I'm, [chuckles] I'm the first person to say, like, New York was really safe when the mafia was, [laughing] you know, kind of like there's that documentary about how they would sort of protect people in the subways, and sort of would fill in where the government couldn't. Um, but there's something going on with the horse carriage business. A horse got out, who was 29 years old. Archie was his name.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  29-
15. WCWhitney Cummings
  29
16. JRJoe Rogan
  ... years old for a horse.
17. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah. Yeah, it only had a couple more years. And I tried to negotiate with them, got a bunch of friends that have, like, FU money, and basically said: "You're gonna get $38,000 cash." This was a horse that's pretty much done.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
19. WCWhitney Cummings
  "Cash. We'll take the horse in the middle of the night. No social media, nothing." And they said no. The amount of money they're making is so insane, and it's mostly-
20. JRJoe Rogan
  From horse-drawn carriages?
21. WCWhitney Cummings
  It's mostly tourists, honestly, from-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  They make that much money from horse-drawn carriages?
23. WCWhitney Cummings
  Tons. Tons. From other countries, of people that have different ideas of animal, uh, respect towards animals than we do.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, so it's mostly foreigners riding in the horse-drawn carriages?
25. WCWhitney Cummings
  Yeah, I don't think it's-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  I've seen a lot of white people in those things.
27. WCWhitney Cummings
  Oh, really? Well-
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah
29. WCWhitney Cummings
  ... Polish people can be white.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  A lot of silly-

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Intro

Dice’s unlit cigarette and the era of candy cigarettes

Dangerous kid behavior: licking 9-volts, sockets, glue, and hot glue guns

When toys were weapons: lawn darts, seesaws, trampolines, and radioactive kits

Sudafed IDs, Adderall culture, and AI-written journalism

ADHD as ‘can’t focus on boring things’ and what school optimizes for

U2 forced onto iPhones, overexposure, and the new ad backlash

Comics, memes, and the economics of stealing jokes

Rainey Street deaths, moral panics, and ‘what will we regret in 50 years?’

Food pyramid whiplash, cereal origins, and the ‘anti-masturbation’ Kellogg myth

Plant toxins, pesticides, glyphosate wine, and craving-based pregnancy eating

Charity as a racket: Fire Aid spending, USAID, and ‘too dirty for the CIA’ NGOs

Misinformation in the outrage economy: staged videos, partisan sites, and verification

Doomsday plane, Venezuela raid talk, Iran history, and resource obsessions after parenting

New York housing ideology, carriage horses, and the appeal of hard work and self-sufficiency

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