Joe Rogan Experience #2491 - Brian Simpson
In a Nutshell
Joe Rogan and Brian Simpson cover Joe's recent heart attack survival, pet antics (dog eating rocks, stubborn cat on catnip), urban wildlife adaptations like bold coyotes and evolving raccoons, and animal domestication experiments. They pivot to gaming addiction (Deadlock's mechanics), nicotine's nootropic benefits vs. vaping risks (popcorn lung, super-addictive pouches), crypto scams (Trump coin pump-and-dump), neighbor disputes (Florida guest house jail saga), and cosmic mysteries (massive black holes challenging Big Bang timelines, pyramid mega-structures). Key takeaways: reps drive mastery (Beatles, comedy), nicotine aids cognition but combustion kills, ancient tech hints at lost civilizations, and petty legal wars escalate neighbor feuds.
These notes were generated by AI and may contain inaccuracies.
Joe has different pairs of glasses for driving and computer use due to astigmatism. He used to need reading glasses but stopped after using Pure Encapsulations Macular Support (nutrient combination for eyes, explained by Huberman as making sense) and red light therapy. Eyes aren't perfect in low light (uses phone flashlight for dark restaurant menus), but can read small print on phone perfectly now. Restaurants use darker lighting; young people read menus easily, but older people struggle.
Joe had a heart attack three months ago during Super Bowl weekend in Atlanta. Not out of nowhere given lifestyle. Doctor (surgeon putting in stent) got upset at Joe's humor as coping mechanism while drugged up. Procedure through groin; Joe kept moving hands instinctively to protect groin area despite instructions to keep hands by sides. Surgeon yelled to keep hands down. Joe joked about "Doug" (first doctor who said he'd stay with him) abandoning him; surgeon didn't find it funny, but someone laughed.
Heart surgeons are serious due to life-or-death decisions and time-critical procedures like stents. > "as serious as a heart attack"
Nurses have better sense of humor than doctors; nurses joke around. In Atlanta, nurses were very attractive. Vet techs and nurses love animals (and money in vet hospitals). Human hospital bills shocking but not presented upfront; vet hospitals present options and pressure for expensive life-saving procedures or cheap alternatives, pushing loans.
Joe's dog Marshall (sweetest dog ever, not clever) ate chicken food mixed with gravel, swallowed pounds of rocks. Threw up pebbles, had diarrhea with pebbles (crime scene). Took to vet overnight; pumped stomach, scanned to ensure no remaining rocks, passed them via vomit or feces. Stayed 24+ hours, then ate normally.
Marshall will repeat mistakes, doesn't learn. Dogs bred from wolves (clever pack hunters that plan traps, can't be trained—won't listen, no wolves in circuses; can train bears/lions/tigers). Dogs like Marshall easy to train, all love. House cats harder to train than lions but some train to use toilet. Russian lady world champion cat trainer gets cats to do tricks, but they do what they want. Belgian Malinois perfectly obedient.
Friend had 7/8 timber wolves that escaped and killed neighbor's sheep; can't control them, need enormous land, miles of space (cardio machines chasing moose).
Brian's dog-friendly apartment building has fake grass, dog wash, dog piss smell noon-4pm. Sees big dogs like blue heelers, Cane Corsos in 1300 sq ft apartments without daily exercise (needs miles of running). Like keeping MMA fighter without gym. Big dog owners' places smell bad; hard to wash big dogs (Joe showered with mastiff Johnny using shampoo, talking nicely; Marshall goes to groomer).
Cats watch humans naked in shower (weird they wear clothes). Some dress pets; dogs dislike but please owners. Chihuahuas need sweaters in winter/cold, boots in NYC summer (hot streets like 98°F, broken glass/hot rocks). Can't have Great Danes in NYC apartments; Joe wouldn't ditch dog for NYC, would live near Central Park and exercise daily.
Brian drove cat across country? No, paid someone (no car then). Millie stubborn, fights restraint; three groomers refused. Possibly feral; from divorce family fostering animals—brother joined foster pack against her (Game of Thrones), isolated in garage, eager to leave with Brian. Follows him room-to-room but hates sometimes (trauma). Uses CBD before vet. Gives catnip freely (she loves it, rolls around).
Catnip (aromatic mint family herb, nepetalactone chemical) triggers playful/euphoric behavior in ~80% cats (genetic; 2/3 sensitive). Binds nasal receptors, stimulates mood brain pathways: rolling, rubbing, purring, meowing, jumping, zoomies (5-15 min, then temporary immunity). Safe/non-toxic for enrichment, reduces stress/boredom; small amounts soothe digestion, large cause upset/vomiting/diarrhea/dizziness. Offer pinch of dried/fresh.
Brian gives fat bag, lets cat do what she wants (goes outside briefly, returns).
Worries about coyotes targeting house cats (know which get let out; ate daughter's puppy in CA left outside during training). Building smells like 50 dogs, deters? Coyotes eat dogs too. Millie's girl takes zero chances, has 50 hiding spots. Coyotes are predators; cats predators too, but pets are...
Coyotes are predators that target cats by detecting their scent from peeing outside, hovering nearby until the cat goes out. Cats kill for fun, but coyotes eat cats to survive. In Austin, coyotes are less visible because abundant wildlife like foxes, armadillos, deer, and rabbits provide food, and there's more moisture outside the city. In LA, barren surroundings make city cats easier prey, leading hungrier, bolder coyotes.
Coyotes exist everywhere like raccoons in every major city. Book Coyote America explains their howls as roll calls; missing coyotes prompt females to produce larger litters (e.g., 3 pups become 6). Persecuted by gray wolves, coyotes spread out, now in 50 states and every city—unlike when speakers were kids in Massachusetts or pre-1994.
First coyote sighting in 1994 near Oakwood garden apartments in LA; initially mistaken for dogs. By 2020, coyotes everywhere in LA, now in NYC (Central Park, Bronx, abandoned buildings), Chicago. In LA neighborhood Facebook group, resident named Coyote Jones defended coyotes aggressively, even against dog attacks: > "if anybody here harms that coyote, they have to answer to me. [__] your dog."
Urban raccoons evolving shorter snouts, cuter features like dogs for better treatment and more offspring. Cats not fully domesticated like dogs. Russian fox domestication experiment in Novosibirsk, Siberia (Dmitri Belyaev, Lyudmila Trut): selected tame silver foxes (red fox variant) over 60+ years; now dog-like (tail wagging, licking, whining). Available for purchase (~$9,000), high energy, intensive care. Foxes naturally playful; wild ones hung out with Grizzly Man in Alaska, stealing his hat.
Coastal Alaska bears (e.g., Kodiak) larger due to salmon access. During salmon runs, bears gorge without chasing—stand in river, bite fish from air. Lazy, energy-preserving for hibernation. Video: man in lawn chair next to 1,000 lb bear sitting like human during salmon run; bear ignores him, focused on fish. Bears don't fight over abundant salmon but compete over scarce kills like moose. Can sprint 45 mph.
Invasive pythons from 80s-90s pet boom and hurricane-hit research center release. Efforts: hunters, trained dogs for eggs, Python Cowboy. Failed robot rabbits emitted heat, rabbit scent—attracted alligators (pythons' predators), which destroyed them; snakes avoided. AI analysis of data revealed animal highways—scent-based paths through Everglades used by snakes and alligators. Dogs cover too little ground in vast area; eradication costly, no efficient method yet.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (Somali, Minneapolis, accused in Somali daycare fraud) read "World War 11" instead of II from script: > "Last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War 11." She self-corrected. Politics brutal.
Everyone says dumb things; speakers admit public mistakes on podcast, but privately embarrassing ones too. Anecdote: spilled jelly roll candle wax (bong-shaped) on light pants pre-stage, looked like urine; CPAP machine fell, stubbed toe—bad day signs. Napped with edible, performed at Mothership.
Night owl struggles without sunlight feel dumber; late wake-ups scramble system to 40% capacity despite sleep. Gaming addiction: play new $60-80 games all night. Current: Deadlock (closed beta/playtest, invited access via nerd Discord from Mothership server). Third-person, 6v6 (new 4v4 brawl mode: one lane, random items). Like League of Legends on ground. 34 characters, souls as money for items to snowball strength. Three lanes, towers to destroy progressing to enemy base.
Brawl mode makes it one lane and gives random items, so no complicated management. Get in, run around, grab something, beat people up. It's a condensed version focused on fighting without resource management. Games can last 25 minutes to an hour if everyone communicates well, but most take longer. If you fall behind, you can't come back—it's designed to snowball where the leader gets stronger with more money to buy better items, abusing opponents. Point is to end the game once ahead, but some don't know when.
Futuristic urban fantasy New York. Players are gods in an occult ritual trying to destroy each other. Backstory: Malstrom event opened a portal letting magic in, giving people abilities. Two opposing gods in another dimension want summoning to cross over. Your team serves one god; winning completes the ritual for a wish. Each character has backstory and wish—some just want to fuck people up.
Brian has played about a year and a half. Very complex; takes 200 hours to understand basics. Joe jokes it's for people without kids. Brian agrees, calls himself a 43-year-old child living like a frat boy. Happiest times are when young and free, especially if hating job or spouse—happens on both sides.
Gaming in a dark room. Brian questions chair comfort; Joe shows zero-gravity gaming chair versions, customizable, $6-10k, reclines fully with screen in face. Some massage. Jokes it sucks your dick. Brian prefers upright for mouse/keyboard (only uses controller for Madden). No futon with good gaming PC.
Brian shows dual super ultra-wide curved monitors—calls it a problem. Joe agrees; he'd never leave, too distracting for writing (uses laptop only for focus, now Perplexity for checks). Games are a dopamine drip, too good.
Brian's sound controller for Discord, YouTube, games—adjust volumes without menus. Plans streaming this summer. Jamie has soundboard for trolling, records/replays voices live.
Easy money since already gaming. Some skip road gigs for streaming earnings. T-Pain demands high pay to leave home. His setup insane: multiple rooms (F1, racing, flight sims, VR with roof sensors, 3D printers, Tron-inspired), whole studio wired. Makes at least $250k/month from sponsors, Twitch partnership—sometimes just talks.
Streamer Types
Political streamers, IRL (nuisance streamers fucking with people), drip simulators, circuit racing, flight sims.
Wife complained about podcast until money came; took years, did it free for fun with Sigur, Eddie Bravo, Joey, Duncan—vaporizer (Volcano) sessions, early episodes unlistenable. Dabs followed. Jelly Roll's Peak Pro dab device like robot/Pokemon or French press; Frank Castillo sponsored, shows new ones like electronic Sherlock pipe.
Weed now schedule three. Should be like alcohol (unscheduled, legal 21+). Schedule one claimed no medicinal benefit—crazy. Addiction genetic; Joe quit nicotine patches/cigs post-heart attack, no withdrawals. Tried no-nicotine pouches (neurotropics, vitamins). Gets addicted to activities (games, pool, martial arts, archery), not substances except maybe oxys.
Sent Tom Segura article: Dr. Steven Gundry (heart surgeon) claims nicotine benefits with right diet/lifestyle, mitochondrial uncoupler. Blue zones men heavy smokers live long (Sardinia 95% men smoke, outlive women). Oxidative stress offset by diet (e.g., vitamin C we don't make). Early smokers had clean vessels except coronary lesions.
Been smoking for 45 years... it's cuz I smoke.
Nicotine in cigarettes is one of the best mitochondrial uncouplers... smoking was good for them.
Dr. Mike challenges; Joe finds convincing—poor diet issue, not smoking alone. Jokes moving to Italy for chill culture.
Italy: siesta (Spanish/Mexican too), Ferrari/Lamborghini factories take 2-hour pasta/wine lunches, barely work. We work too much, especially at hated jobs. Brian avoids streaming fearing it becomes job, turning him into Wall-E fat kid with Uber Eats, no exercise. More streaming = more money, but specific audience vs. podcasts.
There is overlap in audiences discussing smoking. Smoking is bad for lungs because everyone who quits reports better cardio. An interview with Dr. Mike Gundry from two years ago sparked controversy. Blue zones are places where people live longer. Gundry suggested smoking could link to longer life, observing long-lived blue zone individuals smoke. He theorized nicotine acts as a mitochondrial uncoupler and a high polyphenol diet mitigates cigarette smoke's negative effects. Critics strongly disagree, stating smoking causes premature death with risks outweighing benefits. Gundry does not smoke or encourage it; he relays research. Critics fail to address the polyphenol diet mitigation.
Nicotine provides energy but ruined pool game due to jitteriness. Alp pouches are 6mg, Lucy's up to 12mg, feeling like sucking a battery. Pool requires calm concentration, holding cue like a baby bird. Many stop coffee for pool. Cigarette smokers play pool well, possibly due to different nicotine delivery.
Tucker Carlson's Alp pouches. Standard cigarette contains 10-14mg nicotine, smoker absorbs 1-2mg. Pouches range 2-12mg or more; 6mg common, 8mg growing. Cigarettes deliver nicotine to brain in 10-20 seconds, highly addictive. Pouches release slower through mouth, prolonged rise, similar total dose over 20-60 minutes. People pop pouches every 10 minutes, like Shane with 6mg. Cigarettes more harmful due to 7,000+ chemicals; pouches avoid combustion but addictive with cardiovascular effects. Alternative nicotine forms lead to heavier addiction than smoking. Vaping most addictive tried; Escobar vapes only good for first or second hit.
Vapers freak out without vape, act sketchy. In DC comedy club bathroom, found abandoned vape on sink, bought round for comics, one retrieved it, shared hits at bar despite unknown prior use. First vape hit euphoric, subsequent hits make nervous. Vapers unplug phones to charge vapes. Vaping more addictive than smoking due to higher nicotine, vape anywhere, added oils/chemicals, new diseases like popcorn lung.
Kid in California, 19, vaped all day, got pneumonia, died from destroyed lungs. Early adjustable vapes risky; now disposables popular. Real vapers mix own nicotine drops, MCT oil. Factories in China/Vietnam/Laos test vapes by sucking each one; one worker tests 7,000-8,000 daily. Vaping delivers more nicotine, constant use. Cigar hits provide consistent relaxation unlike vapes.
Popcorn lung (bronchiolitis obliterans) from 2000 microwave popcorn factory workers exposed to diacetyl in butter flavoring. Rare outside that; no confirmed e-cig cases, though older e-liquids had diacetyl pre-regulations.
Big tobacco invested in vapes. Only 3-4 companies: R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris. American Spirits same owners. Dr. Suzanne Humphre argues American Spirits less harmful without addictive additives. Big tobacco owns patches, gums (Nicorette). Canada/UK ban cigarette sales for those born after certain age. American Spirits not safer; similar toxins, higher nicotine, more addictive. FDA stopped 'natural/additive-free' marketing. 64% smokers believe less harmful due to branding.
The Insider movie (true story) about tobacco scientist adding addictiveness chemicals, whistleblower drama. Additives more dangerous than tobacco itself. American Spirits burn slower, often left 3/4 in ashtray. Marlboros burn fully if set down to waste fewer, encourage more smoking. Packs have 20 cigarettes optimized for craving cycle. Some smoke 2-3 packs daily.
VA prescribed nicotine patches (lowest 5mg); causes crazy dreams, higher dose than cigarette absorption leads to more addiction. People patch and smoke. Ron White patched, smoked little cigars, quit via hypnotism cold turkey despite strong will. Quit alcohol cold turkey too. Wore patch all night, smoked Monte Cristo little cigars like cigarettes (not inhaling).
Cigarettes/traditional tobacco: $76 billion. Oral nicotine: $6 billion. Total nicotine products: $100 billion, growing. Pouches from $4-6 billion to $50 billion by 2030. Legal, socially acceptable all-day drug; pouches discreet. Nicotine has nootropic benefits, enhances cognition/creativity. Stephen King struggled post-quitting smoking; synapses fired differently. Wrote best work on coke and beer.
Cigars gateway back to smoking. Tried nicotine gum, pouches, mints. Hospital offered nicotine post-surgery knowing smoker history. Nicotine patches few hundred million yearly vs. tens of billions others. Ultra pouch nicotine-free.
Tobacco companies invest in nicotine pouches because using them to quit cigarettes leads to stronger addiction upon relapse, creating a cycle that ensures return to cigarettes. It's insurance for continued cigarette use. The global nicotine replacement therapy market (patches, gum, lozenges) is worth $3.1 billion, predicted to reach $4.7 billion by 2034. Smart business to invest in it.
A special forces soldier got in trouble for betting on Polymarket that U. Maduro would be kidnapped, making $400,000. He tried to cover tracks but was caught. Initially thought to be Trump's son or Don Jr., but it's this soldier. Trump family likely faces less scrutiny. Trump doesn't leave crumbs; he's grabbing all the money on the way out, like the Trump coin and Melania coin. Buying celebrity coins means you deserve to lose money.
Crypto coins are for gambling addicts who know they'll crash but time buys and sells to profit. Some see participants as suckers, others as a legal payoff method. Hypothetical JRE coin: A Middle Eastern government invests $500 million, backing it; creator gets stake, dumps coins after pump, pocketing money while value crashes to nothing. That's pump and dump. Could be shady deal: Invest $100 million in partner's coin legally, public piles in, partner dumps at peak (e.g., 24 hours), profiting millions. Not accusing, but Trump coin launched around $1 (or 0.18-1.20), spiked to $70-75 within hours/days, market cap over $10-12 billion, then crashed to $30s, now ~$2. Somebody made a ton; 800,000 wallets lost ~$2 billion collectively while Trump Organization and partners profited from fees.
Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX) claimed if left alone, he'd recover debts; caught mid-back-and-forth when rival crashed his coins, couldn't cover, panic withdrawals ensued. He argued non-interference would make users profitable today. Some friends profited, but speakers don't fully understand or trust crypto; won't invest in what they can't explain. People pushing it freak them out.
New Ponzi scheme targets elderly: Fake crypto exchange app. Victims download, make daily "trades," see fake gains (scammer "invests" $1k-5k fake money too). Lulls them into adding real money for more gains. Can't withdraw; pay "early withdrawal fee" to get little real money out. Worst case, app steals info (login credentials, email, security questions like first dog's name) for sale or hacks. Elderly fall for it thinking crypto is just unfamiliar but app simplifies it.
Special forces soldier faces jail for Polymarket bet endangering mission (enemies watch bets for military movements). Charges: 3 counts violating Commodity Exchange Act (10 years max each), wire fraud (20 years), unlawful monetary transaction (10 years). Congress does insider trading unchecked; military ops aren't guaranteed successes, so betting on own mission risks life/mission secrecy. Few Congress busts: Rep. Chris Collins (NY) pled guilty 2019 to insider trading/lying about drug trial, 26 months prison. Others fined, but no big names like Nancy Pelosi. 78 members violated STOCK Act (report trades in 45 days). Political candidates fined by Koshi for betting on own races (suspended).
Michael Martin (Florida) added $1 million guest house (with pickleball court, pool), approved by city/HOA. Neighbors (Babbitts, Tampa) complained after, citing 1924 subdivision statute (public space?), view into their pool/backyard. Martin removed windows, added bamboo fence—compromises rejected. Judge ordered demolition; Martin refused, in jail for contempt (can exit by complying). Demolition contract: $392,372.50 to Dynamite Demolition. 500+ filings over 5 years. City contractor allegedly violated code. General contractor: Rare for judge to rule city ignored own code. Privacy issue: Guest house peers into pool. Speakers side with Martin—reasonable compromises offered; neighbors bad for rejecting. If appealing, no point tearing down (demo $800k, rebuild if win). Revenge ideas: Legal misery (hire creators/students for violating statutes), serve cold, no personal cost. Don't jail over it; go Batman on neighbor legally (no illegal acts like break-ins, dead mice).
Neighbor Disputes and Revenge
Scamming is the American way. Get in on the scam.
America is three-quarters scams. Some complain instead of joining.
No one is above the law.
Revenge is best served cold.
Dr. Oz on CA hostel scams: Shut funding to 400 fake hostels (Medicaid fraud, like MN daycare scams); none complained. Nick Shirley investigated: Businesses registered to vacant hotel rooms (each room an "office" for hostels/rehab/learning centers).
It can't be illegal. It must be legal. You could sue people for all kinds of stupid shit and just make them go through legal problems. Don't sue. Just have people outside with a tape measure. If they park a centimeter from the curb, call the cops. Straight neighbor wars. Neighbor wars are real. People kill each other over neighbor wars. The Hatfields and the McCoys. It was over a stolen hog, illicit romance, and long-standing grudges. Two neighboring families in the backwoods of Appalachia.
Nothing worse than living beside somebody completely unreasonable, completely unable to compromise. Nice neighbors are beautiful. Good neighbors are great. It doesn't take much to be a good neighbor. You just have to be thoughtful. In the times that you're not thoughtful when it's brought to your attention, you have to have the appropriate amount of shame.
Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, chapter six, analyzes the Hatfield-McCoy feud as a prime example of a culture of honor. Families descending from Scottish and Irish herders brought this to the Appalachian Mountains. In regions where law enforcement is weak, survival depends on establishing a reputation for strength and prompt, often violent, retaliation against slights. Ancestral herding roots forced rapid, brutal retaliation for insults to maintain reputation. This cultural legacy, not just poverty, drove generations of conflict. Herders in Europe are very different than farmers because someone can come along and steal all your sheep. You can't really steal all someone's corn. It takes forever. You got to chop it down. These people were used to defending their animals with violence because people would come in and try to steal them.
Outliers talks about why people are successful. One interesting part is about the Beatles. They got a gig in Hamburg, Germany, performing every day, multiple sets every day, for a few years. They went back to Liverpool and got so good because they were performing all the time. It was at clubs and strip bars. They were getting crazy reps. That's the key to almost anything. The 10,000 hours of mastery argument. It's not exactly about the amount of time. It's about the quality of practice, intentional directed practice, like performing on stage all those times.
Same with comedy. Everybody that progressed rapidly did as many sets as possible, hopping all over the place. Ari Shaffir, Matt Rife—they go up at the Sunset, here, there, Mothership. They're in it all day. You just get better quicker. Dudes that do a set a week, drop in 15 minutes, then disappear for another week—they get stagnant, stay flat. The Beatles just got after it and suddenly got smooth. That's the case with everything. You don't want a surgeon that does brain surgery once a year. You want a guy who's in it all day, studying journals, practicing with robots. You don't want to be the fifth brain that day. It gets tired.
Study at a courthouse found that how harsh a sentence you received was directly related to how long it had been since the judge ate something. Statistically significant. Makes sense—cranky. Or if the judge is getting no pussy, going through a divorce, wife fucked her trainer. Give me the judge right after breakfast. What if you're a personal trainer dealing with some shit? Judge: "My wife just fucked the trainer, you piece of shit." Some people get real petty. They don't give a fuck about doing the right thing. They just want to feel power, fuck people over.
In Anguilla, the country code is .ai. Didn't used to mean shit, but now it's worth money because of AI. They're making so much money selling .ai domains that it's half their economy. Completely changed their economy. Seems legit if you have something like Perplexity.ai. Anybody with something.ai has to pay these people. Used to be just .com, .net. Now so many domains.
Subreddit WhatIsThis or WhyWouldYouTouchThat. Someone held up an OF sticker from Tyler, the Creator's group Odd Future. Way before OnlyFans, seven years ago—it was a promo sticker. Young kid found it in the attic, didn't know what it meant. Shit changes all the time. Other ones like .biz. People buy domains and hold them. Business.com sold for a ton of money. Now hard to do that. What business looks up business.com? Eating.com worth money. Back when whitehouse.com was a porn site. People looking for White House went to whitehouse.gov, but mistyped to .com porn.
Redban bought Pepsispice.com when Pepsi Spice came out. Documented drinking it, having bloody diarrhea, dying, getting cancer. Committed a lot of time. Video: "Hi this is Brian from pepsispice.com. My pee has turned fake red. Not making this shit up." Pretended pee was bloody, losing weight, 169 lbs. Old video, 4 megapixel Canon. Eventually Pepsi Spice bought it from him. They were too stupid to buy Pepsispice.com themselves. Shitty planning. Whoever works for them deserves it. Redban can elevate to 50 Cent level of pettiness.
Tried to get bs.com or bscomedian.com—owned by Canadian improv group. Offered to buy, they asked $10,000. Too crazy back then. Wouldn't pay that now. They weren't doing tons of business. Would've paid $1,000, maybe $1,500 best and final. Today, people just search your name to find your site. TikTok is different handle anyway.
Don't worry about TikTok terms of service, access to phone, network. Once Edward Snowden told us what's up, they all spy. Chinese or not—who gives a fuck? They're gonna be like, "Oh, he's..." They have everything you've ever done and only use it if they catch you. If you run for Congress, do insider trading, they go, "Brian, we have that voicemail you left."
Somebody arrested from Fauci's administration—first guy involved in cover-up of lab leak theory. Used Gmail to avoid FOIA requests. David Morens, top adviser at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, indicted. Accused of conspiring to hide communications on coronavirus research grant with Wuhan Institute of Virology. Grant terminated amid lab leak scrutiny. Received gifts like wine, high-end meals from collaborator. Justified perks by contributing to publication supporting natural emergence over lab leak. Biden gave Fauci a pardon from 2014 on. Can't get Fauci, so going after others. Too many pissed off, too much money lost, too many died.
COVID Origins Cover-Up Discussion
Shut whole country down. If they paid to have virus engineered, lied, hid, covered it up—heads will roll. He was part of group funding Wuhan lab. Allegedly bribed to promote natural spillover vs. lab leak. Concerted effort to make it seem natural. In 2020, YouTube pulled videos saying lab leak; Twitter kicked people off pre-Elon.
Hypothetical could fuck your world up. Can't even play devil's advocate back then. Now you can because Elon bought Twitter. People talk mad shit about Elon all day. He blocks them. Busy tweeting for how rich and busy he is. Making rockets. Went to SpaceX rocket factory during launch in the Gulf. They're launching Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on SpaceX. Under budget, built faster than said.
Compares to Hubble—same resolution but way bigger pictures. No screen exists to display the picture. Wide field instrument; James Webb is near infrared. Detects exoplanets, way more than before. Imagine seeing lights on exoplanets. From James Webb: formation of galaxies freaking them out—formed way too quickly. Questioning galaxy formation time or universe age. Found black hole bigger than our galaxy, TON 618 bigger than solar system, even larger ones like Abell something. Impossibly big—didn't have time to suck up enough stars. Would have to be primordial.
Scientists noted there's not enough time from the birth of the universe for TON 618 to exist and be this big, as matter wasn't close enough together to form such structures. TON 618 is a black hole bigger than the distance to Pluto, with a mass of roughly 66 billion solar masses. Phoenix A surrounds TON 618; it's a quasar, the active galactic nucleus at the center of a galaxy, powered by a supermassive black hole feeding on intensely hot gas and matter in an accretion disc—the disc around the black hole where light comes from when it consumes matter. Discovered in 1957, emissions noted in 1970.
There are more planets in the universe than seconds since the Big Bang.
The Great Attractor is a region of gravitational attraction in intergalactic space, the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster, including the Milky Way and about 100,000 other galaxies. It suggests a localized concentration of mass on the order of 10^16 solar masses, obscured by the Milky Way's galactic plane in the zone of avoidance, making it difficult to observe in visible light wavelengths. Everything, including our galaxy, is moving toward it, but it's hidden; hidden galaxies discovered in the zone of avoidance. Defeats dark energy explanations.
Imagine if your job is to write a paper on everything going on in the universe—it would never end. With every new satellite or telescope, more is revealed.
It's physically impossible to know even a fraction due to information density; any device storing that much would collapse into a black hole. The human brain couldn't hold even a percentage of a percentage of it.
The South Pole Wall is a massive cosmic structure, a giant wall of galaxies or galaxy filament extending across at least 1.37 billion light years, with parts aged at about 500 million light years. Dense in five known places, including near the celestial south pole. Discovered by an international team, it's the largest contiguous feature in the local volume, comparable to the Sloan Great Wall at half the distance.
Structures found underneath the pyramids using radio tomography (ground-penetrating technology), going over a kilometer deep: pillars and giant columns surrounded by coils. Technology accurately detects known voids, chambers, temples, and even a particle collider over a kilometer into a mountain in Italy, matching exact dimensions. Italian scientist Filippo Biondi explained findings under the pyramids—undeniable deep structures. Pyramids are just the top of immense mega structures. 3D models show columns; there's a water table underneath, possibly related to the pyramid's function beyond a simple structure—likely some technology. Heat detected, but not confirmed as cause.
Alleged mega structures under Egypt's pyramids sparking fascination and fierce skepticism worldwide.
At least 4,500 years old; ancient even to modern Egyptians. The labyrinth outside the pyramids, documented by Herodotus thousands of years ago as greater than Giza, confirmed by ground-penetrating radar. Contains a 40-meter-long metallic object shaped like a Tic Tac. Ben van Kerkwyk from UnchartedX YouTube channel described it. Suggests ancient civilization reached a very high level, possibly higher than today, then wiped out, and we're the rebuild.
New syphilis strain in Washington (debated Michigan). A man had two different syphilis strains undergoing genetic recombination like COVID, exchanging traits inside his body, creating super syphilis. Caused rapid blindness. Five cases of rare ocular syphilis (vision impairment or blindness) in southwest Michigan between March and July 2022, all linked to one heterosexual male partner. All five women aged 40-60 reported sexual contact with him. He went to ER, thought to have herpes, treated and left, then continued spreading it despite warnings. Returned to another ER after another emergency. First ER visit from STD scare, then back to sex, going blind himself. All patients hospitalized, treated with intravenous penicillin; no further cases after his treatment.
How many times in human history has a plague been caused by somebody who wouldn't stop fucking and won't tell anybody?
Brian Simpson's special out on YouTube in summertime, July. BrianSimpson.com.
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