Joe Rogan Experience - #1590: Phil Demers

In this episode:

Joe Rogan sits down with former Marineland employee, Phil Demers. Phil is currently in an 8 year legal battle with Marineland because Phil allegedly once plotted to steal Smooshie the walrus. Joe and Phil cover a wide array of topics mostly centered around animal rights and proper conditions for captive animals.

More from Phil Demers

• Social: Instagram, Twitter, GoFundMe

• Wikipedia

• Documentary: The Walrus and the Whistle Blower

• Phil Demers is being sued for planning to steal a walrus

Show Notes

• Marineland

• Canadian Senator, Murray Sinclair

• Jane Goodall Bill - Animal welfare law prohibiting certain captivity conditions

• 9:50 Article - John Lilly talked to dolphins and attempted to translate the language

• 11:00 Video - Story of Phil and Smooshie the Walrus

• 13:10 Animal imprinting

• 15:20 Phil Demers tweet "life is short steal a walrus"

• 20:10 Difficult to breed walruses in captivity

• 22:40 Where is Smooshie?

• 33:20 Article – Marineland walrus named Zeus collapses during park show

• 41:00 Whale Sanctuary Project – rehabilitating whales and dolphins and slowly reintroducing the animals to their natural habitat

• 43:30 Laws for captive orcas

• 47:10 Netflix show - Tiger King

• 48:20 Robin Black - MMA fighter and singer,

• 51:55 Foundation Cigar Company

• 54:00 Antler - Restaurant in Toronto

• 58:00 Animals harmed in plant production

• 61:30 Big cats in Texas

• 62:30 Canadian Senator Don Plett facing resignation for vacation to Mexico

• 64:23 Austin mayor was vacationing in Cabo when he told citizens to stay home

• 67:00 JRE Podcast: #1361 David Fravor

• 67:00 Lex Fridman Podcast: David Fravor

• 67:00 Article - David Fraver and the tic tac ufo

• 78:20 Podcast: Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson

• 81:40 Michael Jordan Hall of Fame induction speech

• 84:00 Phil Demers wins Wipeout Canada

• 84:50 Wipeout contestant dies

• 85:00 Matt Kunitz - Creators of fear factor and Wipeout

• 88:30 Fear Factor makes participants drink donkey seman

• 94:00 Wu-Tang Clan affiliate rapper cuts off his penis

• 95:00 Matthew Yglesias – The case for more people

• 96:00 Canada is the second nation to legalize marijuana

• 99:00 Oryx are extinct in the wild but plentiful in Texas

• 100:30 Killing of Cecil the Lion

• 112:00 John Holler former owner of Marineland

• 120:00 Marijuana farm - Prohibition farms

• 126:00 People trying to take down Joe Rogan

• 128:00 Anthony Pompliano - bitcoin podcaster

• 128:20 Roger Ver - early Bitcoin advocate and known as the Bitcoin Jesus

• 130:00 Peter Schiff Bitcoin

• 132:00 Legendary scientist Jane Goodall believes in Bigfoot exists

• 133:20 Biologist, Ingrid Visser, is famous for rescuing wild orcas

• 139:00 Homo floresiensis – tiny human existed about 50,000 years ago

• 140:20 Origin of language

• 147:00 Monkeys use eagle call to warn other monkeys about drones

• 149:30 Charlie Sheen famous winning interview

• 150:00 Charlie Sheen most recent video

• 153:30 Charlie Sheen interview with Michael Strahan

• 155:30 Charlie Sheen wrote letter to Obama demanding to release the truth of 9/11

• 166:00 Reintroducing elephants to the wild

• 168:00 Video - Joe Rogan after riding an elephant

• 172:00 Scientology filed thousands of lawsuits against the IRS to get tax exempt status

• 177:00 Supplement - Black Oxygen

• 179:30 Boycott Marineland Canada