Mike Rowe on Toxoplasma, the Cat Lady Paper and His Early Days Selling on QVC
Mike Rowe joins Joe Rogan to talk about odd biology like animals sharing information, a paper about the cat-lady phenomenon, and his early days selling products on QVC with only a blue card for each item. Partial coverage: this note covers the opening portion of the roughly 3h06m episode; the views are the speakers' own.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Mike Rowe, creator of Dirty Jobs, and Joe Rogan begin with speculation about animals sharing information across a group, then Rowe describes a PhD paper about a parasite that lives in a cat's gut and what it might do to hosts. He then recalls selling items on QVC at 3 a.m. with almost no information about the products. Partial-coverage note: this summary draws on the opening portion of a 3h06m episode. Scientific ideas here are loosely told, are the speakers' own, and are not verified. Nothing here is advice.
Key Takeaways
Shared information in animals
Rogan muses that some animals seem to learn patterns collectively and wonders if some form of entanglement explains it. This is speculation, not established science.