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• At 51, with no cartilage and bone-on-bone elbows for two decades, Larratt says he pulled off his best show ever six weeks ago.
  00:08:50Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Training one session with Jujimufu was the tipping point that made him drop all heavy lifting in favor of sport-specific table work.
  00:46:48Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Reveals he does up to 10-14 hours of wrist curls a day and trains almost exclusively his right arm ('pumpkin training').
  01:24:21Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Claims a German arm wrestler, Leonidas, beat strongman Brian Shaw in a match six weeks earlier despite a ~100 lb weight disadvantage.
  01:53:22Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Says in 2014 he was forced by JTF2 to choose between special forces and arm wrestling, took a year of leave without pay, and gambled everything on a single tournament.
  02:08:52Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Says he personally saw an roughly 8-foot-tall Afghan warlord from 200 meters during a mobility operation.
  02:29:15Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Recounts a fellow soldier in Iraq becoming demonically possessed, speaking in tongues and knowing strangers' sins, requiring a military exorcism.
  02:36:31Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• David Goggins is bone-on-bone in both knees; surgeons sawed his tibia to flatten the joint so he could keep running, an example of Wolf's Law.
  00:06:14Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• The core opening move in arm wrestling is 'rising'—a slipping upward motion to win the grip and force the opponent through their weakest point, the fingertips.
  00:11:56Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Some myostatin-inhibitor 'bully' whippets and Belgian Blue cattle are born hyper-muscled; folstatin therapy is sold to boost muscle and longevity.
  00:37:28Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• John Brzenk, the inspiration for the movie Over the Top, ruled arm wrestling for about 25 years at only ~210 lbs by training almost solely by arm wrestling.
  01:05:29Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Early prize money was $500; post-COVID, TikTok and East versus West pushed top arm wrestlers to a healthy six-figure income.
  01:14:54Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Climber Eve Gallant can do pull-ups off a credit-card edge and won the tough Ottawa Open after only six weeks of arm wrestling.
  01:36:11Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• On a grip dynamometer, UFC's Derrick Lewis casually pulled 218; Joe Rogan beat Devon Larratt despite Devon's crippled hands.
  01:48:36Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Larratt overcame fear of parachuting and combat by repeatedly watching parachute fails to desensitize himself and building a separate combat 'persona'.
  02:22:31Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Says he met a Cree man in northern Canada whose father was reportedly 8 feet tall, claiming such giants live remotely and go unrecorded by Guinness.
  02:30:49Devon Larratt · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2026
• Cavaliere confirms at 50 he has never used steroids ('gear') or TRT.
  00:03:07Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Admits that despite his expertise he still gets back pain about twice a year, most recently just from leaning over to put on a sock.
  00:28:30Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Reveals his lasting shoulder injury came from losing a bet with a Mets player that he could throw from right field to third base on the fly.
  01:03:46Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Confesses he doesn't do as much cardio as he should and openly calls it his 'big confession.'
  01:33:19Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Admits 'splitting the split' is him breaking a bad habit he held onto for years, and he's changing his mind on training frequency.
  02:08:36Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Reveals he often trains at 11pm-midnight and eats dinner after, going to bed at 1:30-2am and waking at 7.
  02:10:08Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Most non-surgical back pain stems from weak glutes transferring load to the low back, not a structural spine problem.
  00:06:45Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• The 'old man test' is putting on a sock and shoe while standing on one foot, then the other; many people can't pass it.
  00:27:28Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Inner-elbow pain often comes from gripping at the fingertips (ring and pinky fingers); moving the bar into the meat of the hand fixes it.
  00:49:13Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• The real job of the rotator cuff is to keep the humeral head centered in the socket, not just to externally rotate.
  00:59:38Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• You can build a stronger neck with just a 5-10 lb plate wrapped in a towel, without major hypertrophy.
  01:11:02Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Burpees burn roughly 13-15 calories per minute, but you can't sustain them long enough to make a real dent for fat loss.
  01:27:05Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• 'You can't outrun a bad diet' - Cavaliere says nutrition, not cardio, is the efficient way to create a caloric deficit.
  01:28:39Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• His wife developed great traps from cutting 30-40 haircuts a day - an example of high volume with minimal load driving muscle growth.
  01:59:49Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Cavaliere says muscles don't care about weeks; they care about stimulus and recovery, so he runs a 9-12 day training cycle.
  02:01:22Jeff Cavaliere · Huberman Lab · May 2026
• Sami's view of metabolic disease was harshly judgmental until, at roughly 10% body fat and training 15 hours a week as a triathlete, his own bloodwork came back pre-diabetic and on the way to type 2 diabetes.
  00:47:46Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• He explains obesity and type 2 diabetes are not lack of willpower or personal choice; nutrition and food are the number one driver of poor metabolic health, and it can be systematically reversed nutritionally.
  00:49:52Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Virta's most surprising finding: outcomes are identical across income (area deprivation index), race, and ethnicity at scale; if you fix the biology, you fix the outcomes regardless of willpower or education.
  00:55:37Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• A randomized controlled trial with academic oncology centers showed adding Virta nutrition therapy to chemotherapy produced about 35% life extension on average for stage-4 metastatic pancreatic cancer.
  00:58:41Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Virta patients have 83% adherence at one year, roughly twice the 30-50% adherence seen with GLP-1 drugs, driven mainly by how good patients feel.
  01:10:44Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Sami's training philosophy: nail the basics, less marginal-gains crazy; the only essentials are progressive overload and specificity, which deliver 99% of results.
  01:31:00Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• He abandoned the conventional endurance model of grinding into a fatigue hole then tapering, instead staying race-ready every week via progressive overload while staying fresh within 3-4 days.
  01:41:50Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• On day 7-10 of the ocean row, Sami had a 'lightning strike' to start a family; his wife independently had the identical realization in the prior 24 hours, and they began trying on the boat.
  01:51:46Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• On non-travel days Sami wakes by 5am (alarm was 4:45), and the second he rolls off the bed he jumps into a roughly 40-degree mountain lake before doing core work.
  00:04:10Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• He has kept a spreadsheet sleep-and-gratitude diary for 16 years and writes down three things he's grateful for each morning.
  00:07:15Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• He has written 553 weekly CEO team letters to the whole company, half standard structure and half a topic-of-the-week essay.
  00:17:01Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• He has done about seven Hawaii Ironman world championship races and won his triathlon age group at the 2012 World Championships.
  00:47:46Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• A published peer-reviewed figure: 93% of American adults are metabolically unhealthy in some way (high blood pressure, lipids, obesity, pre-diabetes, or type 2 diabetes).
  00:48:16Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Virta has shown up to 75% reduction in liver disease (MASH/MASLD); the one FDA-approved MASH drug, launched in 2025, costs about $45,000 a year.
  00:57:39Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• A Virta-compliant McDonald's order: a burger (extra cheese okay) with the bun dropped for a lettuce wrap, mayo but no ketchup ('colored sugar'), and a Diet Coke instead of regular soda.
  01:09:08Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• An average person's VO2 max is roughly 35-45 ml/kg/min; Sami's was measured at over 80, and above ~90 puts you on the Olympic endurance podium.
  01:25:17Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• One liter of high-quality olive oil from Costco delivers about 9,000 calories for around two dollars, debunking the idea healthy fats are too expensive versus subsidized sugar.
  01:18:28Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Sami and his wife rowed about 2,750 nautical miles from Monterey to Hawaii unsupported in roughly 45 days and 3 hours, and he didn't buy his first car (a Ford Escape, bought by his wife) until age 36 after renting from Thrifty for years.
  01:45:56Sami Inkinen · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Tejen was born in Seoul, Korea two months premature and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after he failed to crawl, stand, or walk normally as a baby.
  00:01:15Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• At age 10, doctors warned the surgery to put his feet flat to the ground could not be performed later due to his weight, so the family made the painful decision to operate in Heidelberg, Germany.
  00:02:48Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• When Jerzy first met Tejen, he was so weak he couldn't lift an empty bar off a bench, so Jerzy started him on a 3-pound wooden bar.
  00:07:02Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy told the father he needed to commit five years, insisting cerebral palsy people should be coached like athletes rather than treated as sick.
  00:08:02Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Tejen progressed from being unable to lift 15 pounds to pressing 170 pounds—more than his own body weight as a 150-pound boy.
  00:12:16Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• As Tejen got stronger, his brain woke up: he went from a near-silent boy whose only phrases were 'time to go to bed' to noticing, remembering, and describing cars, colors, and drivers in detail.
  00:13:18Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy stopped the father from tying Tejen's shoelaces and told the parents to stop dressing and toileting him, pushing Tejen toward full independence.
  00:21:39Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Now 30 years old and completely independent, Tejen passed the eighth grade and was accepted into college among normal students—not a special program—where he reports feeling at the same level as other students.
  00:24:48Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• The modern definition of cerebral palsy describes a permanent disorder causing lifelong problems with movement control, with onset typically around the time of birth.
  00:03:52Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Recent data shows up to 30% of individuals diagnosed with cerebral palsy may have a genetic factor contributing to their diagnosis.
  00:04:23Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Bob, the friend who connected the family to Jerzy, had lost over 40 pounds (from over 200 to under 160) using Jerzy's 'Happy Body' methods before asking if Jerzy could help his friend's son.
  00:05:27Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy says that with five years of training he can create a major change, and insists parents must coach their own children rather than view them as sick or handicapped.
  00:10:08Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy himself was an alcoholic from about age 15 to 18, blacking out daily with suicidal thoughts, until a weak friend brought weightlifting equipment to his house.
  00:15:54Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy did three years of fire department service instead of the army, and the feeling of being needed while riding to a fire awakened a sense of purpose in him.
  00:17:56Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• A soccer player named Edu walked Jerzy roughly 200 meters to and from evening high school classes for a year or two, helping keep him away from drinking.
  00:18:58Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy quotes Kennedy—'We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard'—as his guiding philosophy, since hard means progress and easy means useless repetition.
  00:22:43Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy explains that cerebral palsy doesn't worsen over time medically; what worsens is how patients fail to fit into society because others care for them rather than challenge them.
  00:23:14Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Jerzy's next client is Jacob Zalewski, founder of the One Step Closer Foundation, which has sponsored about 12 people with disabilities to attend college; Jacob was born three months premature with the umbilical cord around his neck and a brain infection.
  00:28:29Tae Jin Park (Tejen) · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2026
• Rogan recounts texting Trump to legalize psychedelics and Trump replying 'let's do it,' leading to a White House event with veterans who used ibogaine.
  00:55:37Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Describes being pulled into the gold-redecorated Oval Office and doing a live psychedelics pitch that Trump let him finish uninterrupted.
  00:56:40Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Claims Tucker Carlson's encrypted Signal messages were decrypted for about $600,000 to expose his planned Putin interview.
  00:59:43Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Lays out his read of a Border Patrol shooting hinging on the SIG P320's notorious accidental discharges.
  01:10:01Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Says George Carlin had three heart attacks from cocaine and later battled a pill addiction late in life.
  01:38:21Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Reveals his manager once staged an intervention thinking he had a gambling problem, when he was just eating steak and lobster every night.
  01:54:57Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Tells how he saw Rodney Dangerfield perform naked under a bathrobe in 1986 while working as a teenage security guard.
  02:49:30Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Recalls quitting his security-guard job mid-riot at a Neil Young concert, the same Neil Young who later pulled his music off Spotify over Rogan.
  02:50:33Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• John Hinckley Jr., who shot Reagan, is now out and releasing music.
  00:14:33Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• MK Ultra ran CIA brothels ('Operation Midnight Climax') dosing patrons with LSD behind two-way mirrors.
  00:16:38Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Brock Lesnar's wife is former WWE wrestler Sable, and his daughter is a champion shot putter.
  00:37:35Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Discussion that expired medication can stay effective long past its date, casting doubt on why expirations exist.
  01:11:03Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Per Perplexity, a US universal healthcare system would cost ~$3.0-3.2T/year versus the current ~$5.3T, roughly a 40-50% savings.
  01:14:37Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Hulk Hogan's $400,000 lawsuit settlement bought a house in France he jokingly named 'Chez Hogan.'
  01:34:42Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Andrew Dice Clay was the original stadium stand-up act, playing arenas decades before it became common.
  01:50:18Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• Former Texas governor Rick Perry reportedly saw brain atrophy reverse (25% in weeks, 100% in months) after ibogaine.
  02:11:26Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• The ShamWow is a synthetic chamois the inventor says he sourced as the best of seven samples from Korean factories.
  02:39:08Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• An Oklahoma school principal tackled an armed former student, took a bullet to the leg, and got a hero's welcome at prom.
  02:55:41Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
• RZA says a heroin-addicted boyfriend of his aunt telling him 'you got to get knowledge' is what made him start reading as a kid.
  00:31:08RZA · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Joe recounts a deviated-septum surgery where a doctor pushed two opioid prescriptions on him though he wasn't in pain.
  00:38:57RZA · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• RZA realizes his own song 'The Great Fisherman' described Congo cobalt mining before he had ever seen footage of it.
  00:45:39RZA · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• RZA admits being called an 'Indian giver' by D'Angelo for licensing a podcast theme beat to the Minions movie out from under him.
  01:05:18RZA · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• RZA reveals April 22nd, the day his film premieres on 35mm, is the anniversary of his 1992 acquittal that birthed 'RZA' from 'Prince Rakim.'
  02:07:19RZA · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026

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