Joe Rogan Experience #1452 - Greg Fitzsimmons
Joe Rogan (host), Greg Fitzsimmons (guest), Jamie Vernon (guest), Guest (second producer/assistant) (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (producer/assistant) (guest), Guest (producer/assistant) (guest)
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Greg Fitzsimmons, Joe Rogan Experience #1452 - Greg Fitzsimmons explores joe Rogan And Greg Fitzsimmons On Pandemic, Predators, And Perspective Joe Rogan and Greg Fitzsimmons riff through an extremely loose, comedic conversation that jumps from pandemic life and stand-up withdrawal to brutal nature, history, and human evolution.
Joe Rogan And Greg Fitzsimmons On Pandemic, Predators, And Perspective
Joe Rogan and Greg Fitzsimmons riff through an extremely loose, comedic conversation that jumps from pandemic life and stand-up withdrawal to brutal nature, history, and human evolution.
They describe graphic animal behavior (coyotes, baboons, pythons, botflies), discuss past plagues and vaccines, and contrast modern comfort with how dangerous nature and history really are.
The pandemic becomes a springboard for reflecting on family, work, money, community, and how quickly society can shut down and adapt.
Throughout, they mix dark humor with genuine concern about public health, economic fallout, and how this crisis might change human behavior and social priorities.
Key Takeaways
The pandemic is forcing comedians to reassess pace, purpose, and how they create.
With stand-up shut down, Rogan and Fitzsimmons talk about missing live feedback, leaning harder into podcasting, and questioning whether their pre-pandemic travel and work intensity actually made sense.
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Nature is far more violent and indifferent than most people appreciate.
Stories about coyotes tricking a dog, chickens savaging mice, pythons swallowing alligators, and owls decapitating hawks underscore how predation and parasitism are constant, brutal realities outside human bubbles.
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History is full of lethal diseases that dwarf COVID-19 in deadliness.
They discuss smallpox inoculation with pus, malaria’s massive historical death toll, and prion diseases like mad cow and chronic wasting disease in deer as reminders that pandemics and plagues are not new.
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Modern supply chains and global dependencies are structural vulnerabilities.
Reliance on other countries for medicine, PPE, and even food is highlighted as dangerous; they argue this crisis should push the U. ...
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Economic shutdowns will likely have deep, uneven, long-term consequences.
They worry about how many small businesses and workers can’t absorb months without income, and how restarting an economy from near-zero is uncharted territory that may worsen inequality and social tension.
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The crisis is re-teaching the value of family, neighbors, and community.
Fitzsimmons describes unexpectedly rich family time—yoga, puzzles, shared meals—while Rogan talks about heightened impulses to help others, suggesting a potential reset in what people see as genuinely valuable.
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Basic self-reliance—food and fitness—is both possible and increasingly attractive.
They explore homesteading (gardens, chickens, hunting) and simple home training (bodyweight work, a pull-up bar, a single kettlebell) as realistic ways to be less fragile when systems or gyms shut down.
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Notable Quotes
“This is clearly something we have zero control over. The whole world shut down. The real question is: am I doing this temporary existence in the most enjoyable and loving way?”
— Joe Rogan
“Nature doesn’t give a fuck. Nature is just going to war 24/7 finding new ways to fuck up animals.”
— Greg Fitzsimmons
“Food does not come from the store. Food comes from living things... The store is this weird thing that we invented.”
— Joe Rogan
“We’re streamlining right now. We’re realizing what’s necessary and what’s luxury, and we’re going to come out of it having a better gauge of what each of us needs.”
— Greg Fitzsimmons
“We should take how we feel in a neighborhood in a crisis and expand that to the whole country.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How will months without live stand-up permanently change comedians’ craft and the comedy business model?
Joe Rogan and Greg Fitzsimmons riff through an extremely loose, comedic conversation that jumps from pandemic life and stand-up withdrawal to brutal nature, history, and human evolution.
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If people truly internalize how dangerous and brutal nature is, will that shift attitudes toward hunting, conservation, and animal rights?
They describe graphic animal behavior (coyotes, baboons, pythons, botflies), discuss past plagues and vaccines, and contrast modern comfort with how dangerous nature and history really are.
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What specific policies or structural changes could realistically move medicine and critical manufacturing back onshore without crippling the economy?
The pandemic becomes a springboard for reflecting on family, work, money, community, and how quickly society can shut down and adapt.
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Will this pandemic create lasting cultural habits—like distancing, handwashing, or suspicion of crowds—or will people quickly revert once it passes?
Throughout, they mix dark humor with genuine concern about public health, economic fallout, and how this crisis might change human behavior and social priorities.
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How much self-sufficiency (food, skills, fitness) is practical for urban and suburban people, and what would it take to make that mainstream rather than fringe?
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Transcript Preview
(taps table) Gregory, how you holding up?
I am holding it up.
(laughs)
Uh, although, not as much as I would like to be holding it up. Like, that's the, I think that's a lot, uh, people are talking about all the different constraints of this, uh, pandemic. Masturbation has gone by the wayside for a lot of people. If you live in a two-bedroom apartment and you got two kids-
Hmm.
... you know?
You're gonna have to jerk off while you're shitting.
(laughs)
It's... (laughs)
(laughs)
That's the only time you have.
That's a lot of toilet paper you're wasting.
Bring your phone in there with you. Bring your phone in there with you.
(laughs)
Set up some YouPorn on the ledge.
Yeah, right.
(laughs)
And you gotta land it just right and you gotta let it squirt and then come down between your legs into the water.
You gotta point down. You gotta hurt yourself. You gotta (grunts) .
You gotta go overhand.
Yeah, like you're going deep into third gear. (imitates engine revving)
(laughs)
(laughs)
I gotta Hurst. (laughs)
A Hurst.
(laughs) Yeah, that's the thing is, like... And I've never been a shower guy. Uh, and especially now that I'm fif- I'll be 54 on, uh-
You're a bath guy?
... Wednesday. (laughs) I'm a bath guy. (laughs)
(laughs)
No, I meant for jerking off.
(laughs)
Can you imagine? I remember jerking off in the bath once and it just-
Ugh.
... floated.
Oh, it's fucking egg drop soup.
It floated around. (laughs)
(laughs) It's terrible.
Who ordered egg drop jism?
Cooking. It's, it's fucking floating. Ugh.
And, uh-
It's cooking, right?
I remember once I was at my, um, my brother-in-law's apartment in New York, he lives in New York City, and we played midnight hockey in Central Park. He played in this league and you'd go out and it was fucking February. We went out, it was like 20, 20 degrees out, and we played hockey for an hour and a half in Central Park. You know they have rinks out there?
Right.
Wollman Rink. And we come back and I, and I was out of shape, but this, but this guy's, like, a hockey fanatic, so I wanted to do it. So I come back and I was like, "I gotta take a bath." So I go into the bath and, uh, and they're fucking slobs. There's three brothers living together in an apartment. So I go in the bathroom and, uh, I fill it up, I get in, and I'm laying there and I'm fucking chilling out. I'm like, "Oh, this feels so good." (laughs) And then I see this egg drop soup and I realize, like, they all jerk off in the shower.
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