Joe Rogan Experience #2339 - Luis J. Gomez & Big Jay Oakerson
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #2339 - Luis J. Gomez & Big Jay Oakerson explores rogan, Gomez, Oakerson riff on drugs, danger, comedy, and culture Joe Rogan hosts comedians Luis J. Gomez and Big Jay Oakerson for a long-form hang that jumps from hormone therapy, weight loss drugs, and hair treatments to AI deepfakes, dangerous protests, and police overreach.
Rogan, Gomez, Oakerson riff on drugs, danger, comedy, and culture
Joe Rogan hosts comedians Luis J. Gomez and Big Jay Oakerson for a long-form hang that jumps from hormone therapy, weight loss drugs, and hair treatments to AI deepfakes, dangerous protests, and police overreach.
They swap dark personal stories, including Gomez’s father’s murder, autoerotic deaths, mental illness, and near‑misses with death, while constantly undercutting everything with aggressive, offensive humor.
The trio dissect the business and culture of standup—podcasts, Skankfest, Kill Tony, clubs vs. arenas, and how social media and censorship have reshaped careers—while taking shots at media, politics, cops, and academic gatekeepers.
Throughout, the conversation blends absurd bits (electric car ‘dock sluts,’ gladiator trivia, Atlantis theories) with surprisingly sincere reflections on mental health, cancel culture, immigration, and what it means to build your own platform.
Key Takeaways
Performance drugs without monitoring is reckless, even if normalized in comedy circles.
The guys joke about taking testosterone, peptides, Ozempic-style drugs, and hair treatments without proper blood work, but Rogan repeatedly stresses that real doctors should be tracking side effects like blood thickness, mood changes, and hormonal crashes.
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Electric vehicles are great tech with serious real‑world tradeoffs.
Rogan loves his Teslas’ reliability and self‑driving capabilities, but he and the comics worry about charging times, safety for lone women at chargers, cold-weather failures, and catastrophic battery fires on ships—highlighting how convenience clashes with infrastructure and risk.
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Modern protests can quickly slide into attempted murder and opportunistic crime.
They describe bricks thrown off overpasses, cops being targeted, and reporters shot with rubber bullets, while also acknowledging looting frenzies and paid protesters—arguing that genuine grievances get drowned out by chaos and thrill‑seekers.
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Jokes about real people have real collateral damage, especially in the internet age.
Gomez admits he’s had to apologize to families of disabled kids he mocked on Skanks; Rogan regrets calling out an archeologist with stage‑four cancer, realizing that casual insults to millions of listeners can be cruel and counterproductive.
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Owning your platform is now the safest way to do transgressive comedy.
They credit Opie & Anthony and Stern as precursors but emphasize that Legion of Skanks, Skankfest, Story Wars, and Kill Tony survive because they control distribution, expect offense, and cultivate audiences who actively seek that edge.
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Standup careers are increasingly built on podcasts, not just clubs and TV.
Rogan, Gomez, and Oakerson detail how comics now grow fanbases through long‑form podcasts and live formats like Kill Tony, then convert that into club and arena tickets—undercutting the old ‘do late‑night sets and climb the club ladder’ model.
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Academic and media gatekeeping around history and politics fuels distrust.
In discussing Atlantis, Clovis‑first archeology, NGOs, and censorship, Rogan argues that experts sometimes protect their own narratives by smearing challengers as racist or fringe, which makes alternative theories more appealing to the public.
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Notable Quotes
“If my father lived, I’d probably still live in Paterson, New Jersey. I’d have a shit life. My father was a drug dealer and a pimp.”
— Luis J. Gomez
“You guys are on the right course. They’re early on the war of the machines… you should probably start killing robots.”
— Joe Rogan
“I always describe Kurt [Metzger]: he’s the first person I’ve seen where there’s a price of genius. His mind works in such a way, but when you’re not talking to him, it’s just formulas going through.”
— Big Jay Oakerson
“The whole idea [of the Mothership] is you want to develop new talent… This business is about being likable and getting people to wanna watch you succeed.”
— Joe Rogan
“We started Legion of Skanks pretty early, not thinking anything would happen. Calling it ‘the most offensive podcast on Earth’ is probably why we’ve never gotten in trouble—if you listen, you know exactly what you’re gonna get.”
— Luis J. Gomez
Questions Answered in This Episode
Where should the ethical line be drawn for pranks and ‘offensive’ comedy when real people—like producers, fans, or families—are the butt of the joke?
Joe Rogan hosts comedians Luis J. ...
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How much responsibility do podcasters with huge audiences have to avoid personal attacks, even when they strongly disagree with someone’s ideas?
They swap dark personal stories, including Gomez’s father’s murder, autoerotic deaths, mental illness, and near‑misses with death, while constantly undercutting everything with aggressive, offensive humor.
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Does the rise of podcasts and independent festivals like Skankfest improve the quality of standup, or just fragment audiences and reward niche echo chambers?
The trio dissect the business and culture of standup—podcasts, Skankfest, Kill Tony, clubs vs. ...
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Are concerns about AI deepfakes, EV dangers, and NGO-funded protests legitimate systemic issues, or symptoms of a broader cultural paranoia?
Throughout, the conversation blends absurd bits (electric car ‘dock sluts,’ gladiator trivia, Atlantis theories) with surprisingly sincere reflections on mental health, cancel culture, immigration, and what it means to build your own platform.
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What’s the healthiest way for comics and fans to navigate content that’s intentionally transgressive, especially around mental illness, disability, and trauma?
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music)
Thanks, sir.
Live and running.
Yeah, the ever greater and thinner Big Jay Oakerson.
Thank you, Manjaro. Shout out, Manjaro.
You're looking good, dude.
Big ups, Manjaro.
It's nice to see-
(coughs) Thank you.
... you know?
I am exercising too.
Beautiful.
You have to or it will just be floppy and weird and gross.
Or it'll eat your bones. (laughs)
I guess, also, yes, it'll eat your bones-
(laughs)
... they say.
(laughs)
I'm real big on taking the stuff and then not really following up with, like... You know what I mean? I did- I just started doing testosterone from a company that's, like, you know, it's above board taking it, but, like... They're like, "You should make sure you monitor your blood all the time." And I'm like, "Yeah, we'll get to that at some point."
(laughs)
I'm gonna keep taking it, though.
You don't monitor your blood at all?
No, not me, with any regularity, I think.
You should probably do that.
Yeah, they did it there.
You should-
I know, someone I know says they take testosterone and they have to, like, donate blood every month to get blood-
I've heard that before. (laughs) I've heard that before.
... (laughs) 'Cause their blood's so thick.
I talked to my doctor about it because that really doesn't make sense. But he has heard of occasions where people had to do that.
To unthicken their blood?
Like if you have too much blood or something. They're like, "How much are you taking?" (laughs) Like, "What are you doing? Are you going ham, bro?"
This men's health company saw me coming down the road a mile away. They offered me... I'm taking two peptides-
We already started.
... and I don't even know. We started.
Sorry, we couldn't wait.
Why even ask me? (laughs)
I- I don't know. Why- while you were on the door, I was like, "This doesn't make sense. Let's just start."
(laughs) I'm taking two peptides that feel like fire.
Yeah, it'll be too weird.
It feels like fire when I inject them, but-
Really? What are they?
I don't... It's... Well, the BPC 157.
Right.
That's the one everyone's doing.
Right, that's a good one.
And then something that's blue.
That's blue. Oh, methylene blue?
And the blue... I don't know. It burns.
Wait a minute.
You taking blue chips? (laughs)
Methylene... Hold up. Methylene blue, you're not supposed to inject.
It's not that then. It's G... It starts with a G. It's-
Oh, okay.
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