Joe Rogan Experience #1336 - Legion of Skanks
Luis J. Gomez (guest), Joe Rogan (host), Dave Smith (guest), Big Jay Oakerson (guest), Luis J. Gomez (guest), Luis J. Gomez (guest), Big Jay Oakerson (guest), Luis J. Gomez (guest), Big Jay Oakerson (guest), Dave Smith (guest), Dave Smith (guest), Big Jay Oakerson (guest), Luis J. Gomez (guest), Dave Smith (guest)
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Luis J. Gomez and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1336 - Legion of Skanks explores joe Rogan, Legion of Skanks Swap War Stories, Fights, and Fame Joe Rogan hosts the Legion of Skanks (Big Jay Oakerson, Luis J. Gomez, Dave Smith) for a long, free‑wheeling conversation about drugs, fighting, comedy careers, and internet fame.
Joe Rogan, Legion of Skanks Swap War Stories, Fights, and Fame
Joe Rogan hosts the Legion of Skanks (Big Jay Oakerson, Luis J. Gomez, Dave Smith) for a long, free‑wheeling conversation about drugs, fighting, comedy careers, and internet fame.
They bounce from Mike Tyson’s weed empire and tattoo horror stories to airline meltdowns, police culture, homelessness, and the business pressures of outrage politics.
The group spends substantial time on MMA and the UFC—Tyson, Nate Diaz, Masvidal, Colby Covington, Stipe–DC, Ngannou, Jon Jones—and what makes fighters and fights compelling.
Threaded through the jokes is a recurring theme about power, consequences, and authenticity: in comedy, in policing, in corporate virtue signaling, and in how public figures survive or get canceled.
Key Takeaways
Outrage sells, but it’s often a deliberate act.
Colby Covington’s pro‑wrestling heel persona and companies’ woke ad campaigns show how individuals and brands intentionally provoke strong reactions to drive attention and revenue, regardless of whether the stance is deeply held.
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Extreme fitness challenges can motivate—but also push into unhealthy territory.
Rogan’s Sober October heart‑rate competition led to six‑hour daily cardio sessions, illustrating how public bets and accountability can drive impressive output, while also bordering on overtraining and obsession.
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Bad early tattoos are nearly universal—and increasingly complicated legally.
The comics share stories of meaningless or wrong-name tattoos and note that Tyson’s face‑tattoo artist successfully claimed IP rights, which now forces film/TV productions to treat tattoos as licensable artwork.
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Homelessness has been reshaped by policy, tech, and optics rather than solved.
They describe Starbucks’ “everyone is a customer” policy, city-installed public charging/Wi‑Fi stations, and tent cities, arguing these are PR and management responses to backlash rather than structural solutions.
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Cell phones have changed how power is exercised in public.
From cops enduring water being dumped on them to viral clips of passengers being dragged off planes, ubiquitous cameras now restrain some abuses of authority while also making front‑line workers hyper‑cautious and PR-driven.
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Drug prohibition fuels violence far more than it stops use.
The group argues that as long as Americans demand drugs and they remain illegal, cartels and violent supply chains will thrive; legalization may increase some use but could significantly reduce related crime and homicide.
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In fighting sports, style, preparation, and mindset can invert outcomes overnight.
Detailed breakdowns of fights (Stipe vs Cormier II, Masvidal–Askren, Diaz–Cerrone, Ngannou–Stipe) show how body shots, cardio-heavy pressure styles, game planning, and underestimating opponents can completely change who wins and how.
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Notable Quotes
“We need more people that are doing real comedy, and you guys do it.”
— Joe Rogan
“Standup is the only art form you practice in front of the audience.”
— Big Jay Oakerson
“If you’re actively bleeding out of your asshole, I’d be on an operating table face down quick.”
— Joe Rogan
“If you support Trump, they say you support racists and white nationalists—and you’re leaving so many people out of the conversation when you do that.”
— Joe Rogan
“I don’t have the responsibility of being your shin.”
— Joe Rogan (on people getting his face tattooed)
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much of modern “outrage” culture—both in politics and entertainment—do you think is sincere versus purely strategic performance?
Joe Rogan hosts the Legion of Skanks (Big Jay Oakerson, Luis J. ...
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If you were designing a drug policy from scratch, how would you balance personal freedom, public health, and the realities of cartel violence?
They bounce from Mike Tyson’s weed empire and tattoo horror stories to airline meltdowns, police culture, homelessness, and the business pressures of outrage politics.
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At what point should a fighter or a comedian step away from their career for safety or sanity, and who actually gets to make that call?
The group spends substantial time on MMA and the UFC—Tyson, Nate Diaz, Masvidal, Colby Covington, Stipe–DC, Ngannou, Jon Jones—and what makes fighters and fights compelling.
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Do ubiquitous cameras genuinely improve police and corporate behavior, or do they just change *how* power is abused and how stories are spun?
Threaded through the jokes is a recurring theme about power, consequences, and authenticity: in comedy, in policing, in corporate virtue signaling, and in how public figures survive or get canceled.
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Where should we draw the ethical line between edgy, transgressive comedy and behavior onstage or off that’s genuinely harmful or exploitative?
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Transcript Preview
I, I rarely watch the event live.
Hello, skanks.
What's up?
Hello.
We're live. This is sort of-
Hell yeah.
... we're, we're recorded.
(laughs)
Good to see you boys.
What's up, doggy?
Good to see you too, talking. Things got strange as soon as I said we're live. Everybody's like, "Oh."
Oh man, we were having a great conversation.
People are listening? (laughs)
Right now?
We're a little too high right now.
(laughs) People are listening to what?
That goddamn Mike Tyson weed. That Mike Tyson-
We really were just having the most natural conversation.
Yep.
Everyone was going back and forth, nothing-
And then (screech) yeah.
Mike Tyson, we were talking when you went to the bathroom, Mike Tyson says he smokes $40,000 a wheel-
Yeah, but-
... a, a, a week?
But he also sells weed, so he just charges it, himself, a lot of money.
(laughs) He can buy his own supply?
(laughs)
There's no way you can smoke $40,000 worth of weed.
(laughs)
I mean, maybe like, his whole crew.
Yeah. If he says it's about himself, there's no way.
A month?
Yeah.
How much is $40,000... I wanna see what it looks like in a room. Like if you stack-
Yeah, I'm not buying that.
It would be a pile that you could fall into and take a nap. Like you could definitely-
Yeah.
... it's like be- like beanbag chair.
You could fucking, you could fly through the air-
(laughs)
(laughs)
... landing on your back with confidence. Right?
Well, he, all right, so how much is... I mean, you're getting it in bulk so it's gonna be probably like $100 an ounce.
It's getting even worse.
Even less than that.
Well, if you can get-
If you're gonna spend 40 grand, they'll give you more than 40 grand's worth.
(laughs)
You know what I mean? Just to be like, "Here, man. I don't know."
Look what it says here, "We smoke 10 tons of weed (cough) at the ranch a month." Oh my God. This is Britton said. Uh, Ebin? Is that his... How do you say his name? Yeah. Ebin? Ebin? Ebin, yeah. Ebin Britton? So, uh, 10 tons of weed is $40,000. That doesn't seem right, does it?
None of that seems right.
It seems like it'd be more money than that.
That's 20,000 pounds of weed. Th- that's impossible.
He might have been... He obviously could have easily been joking and laughing while he said this too. We're re- reading it in print.
Yeah.
But he's like, (blows raspberry) "Dude, we smoke 10 tons a month."
Yeah, this is something he could say.
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