Episode #639
Greg Proops
Books mentioned
The Smartest Book in the World
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 00:00:00
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Salt
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:12:45 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Greg Proops, a stand-up comedian and improvisational performer, discusses how podcast conversations and comedy material become a book, along with his dislikes of language and cursive. The conversation ranges widely across policing, incarceration, racial inequality, drugs, agriculture, marijuana policy, climate and water scarcity, technology, animal behavior, and other social and scientific topics.
What they talked about
- Writing a book from podcast transcripts
- Smartphone addiction and switching to flip phones
- Direct-to-consumer drug advertisements
- Microphone hygiene and DNA on objects
- Policing, gender, and use of force
- Prison privatization and systemic injustice
- Coca leaves vs. cocaine and sugar extraction
- History of Spanish silver and global trade
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