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If you’re wondering what Terrence Howard has been up to lately, the answer is a lot — as evidenced by his roller coaster appearance on the latest Joe Rogan Experience episode.
Joe Rogan told his social media followers the sit-down with Howard was “wild” and “one of the most interesting conversations” he’s ever had. Howard is an Oscar-nominated actor best known for the TV show Empire and films like Hustle & Flow and Crash.
The actor took Rogan down a number of loopy alleyways, from revealing he’s lost gigs for not taking the Covid vaccine, being “betrayed” by Robert Downey Jr., claiming to be ground zero for virtual reality technology, killing gravity…it’s a lot.
Here are five of the wildest moments from Rogan’s chat with Howard.
1. Companies developing virtual reality technology owe a thank you to Terrence Howard?
Howard is best known for his acting work, but his Hollywood career did not dominate the Rogan conversation. Howard instead focused on a number of businesses he’s involved in. At one point, he pulled up a patent he owned that was abandoned in 2010 that has since been cited by dozens of companies developing and selling augmented and virtual reality technology.
“The entire AR VR world was built off of my first patent that was abandoned,” Howard said.
Rogan read from the patent which is described as “abstract.” It covers a “system and method of merging virtual reality sensory detail from a remote site into a room environment at a local site”
Terrence Howard invented Augmented and Virtual Reality Technology. He owned the patent cited by 31 companies that develop AR/VR technologies such as Microsoft, Amazon, HP, IBM, Sony, and GoPro, among others.
Link to patent: https://t.co/sx7OiMdTcU pic.twitter.com/XcL87XV1tI
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2. Howard says he “sacrificed” himself for Robert Downey Jr.
Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a franchise with billion dollar entries, there was 2008’s Iron Man. The film proved a hit and a major comeback vehicle for Downey Jr., whose career had been sidelined by legal trouble and addiction issues.
Howard claimed in the Rogan interview that Downey Jr. was not allowed to audition until Howard called up the producer and offered a portion of his salary to cover the insurance bond for his fellow actor, which the studio did not want to pay.
Howard would ultimately be dropped by Marvel over a contract dispute on money and Don Cheadle was brought in as a replacement. Howard said he called Downey Jr. more than two dozen times, saying, “I need the help I gave you,” but he got no response. Howard claimed the original plan was for Downey Jr.’s character to be older and for Howard’s character to have more of a central role, something that changed when Downey Jr. was hired, solidifying his comeback.
“I had to sacrifice myself in order for that [to happen],” Howard said.
The actor said the experience “broke” him, but he added he knew “how hard Robert had it.”
Terrence Howard: “They wouldn’t let Robert Downey Jr Audition for Iron Man, they wanted Clive Davis… i had to call the director” pic.twitter.com/4ejw38Wlmr
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3. Terrence Howard remembers being in his mother’s womb because he forced himself to remember
Howard claimed at one point that he remembered being inside his mother’s womb, as well as actually being born.
“I was about six months maybe inside the womb and I’m like, ‘okay, don’t forget I’m here, don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget.’ You go to sleep. You wake up again,” the actor recalled. “Now something’s moving in front of you and you’re like, oh, that’s my friend, but I had a different name for it. I didn’t know it was my hand.”
Rogan was a little surprised when Howard continued and said he remembered everything.
“You remember coming out?” the comedian asked.
“I remember being compressed and you want to panic, but you’re flooded with some serotonin and dopamine to where you feel relaxed and you go right back to sleep and you remember being born,” he said. “I remember being circumcised. I remember the whole nine.”
‘I didn’t wake up here, I was inside my mother’s womb, I was like ‘don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget’.’ – Terrence Howard on The Joe Rogan Experience pic.twitter.com/29fhkIg4v8
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4. “We’re about to kill gravity!”
Howard has a lot of thoughts on gravity, and he shared many of them with Rogan. Howard referred to “gravity” as just an effect of electricity and a “God” at one point.
“We’re about to kill gravity. We’re about to kill their God, gravity, and they don’t want that,” the actor said as Rogan’s producer struggled to play a video from Howard’s business partner in which “linchpins” were used to create “Saturn without gravity.” It’s best to let the man try and explain himself:
Well, what my team did, Chris Seeley, who’s my, he’s my Scotty, we use the same simulator that they use at Princeton, and we took linchpins, and we haven’t even introduced linchpins yet, but it’ll be a great introduction for it. We took linchpins, this configuration of where six pentagons meet, and we put them in particular order. There’s a link for that right inside of the thing that James Pellegrini sent over to you, if you’ll pull that up. And we rebuilt the planet Saturn without gravity. And it has the rings with no animation. It has the rings and the hexagon that’s observed at the very top of it without dark matter, without dark energy, without gravity, showing that it’s an outward, inward, outward force pushing down that creates the planet.
‘Terrence Howard to Joe Rogan: ‘We’re about to kill gravity… they don’t want that. I’ve got a model with 16 vortexes in a bench pin configuration, no center attractor, and no gravity whatsoever.” pic.twitter.com/7PLcaiM0v5
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5. Terrence Howard says he lost three or four jobs for refusing Covid vax
At one point during the podcast, Howard applauded Rogan for taking a “bold” stand at the height of Covid by revealing he was taking medications like ivermectin to combat Covid. Howard claimed the government was trying to “poison its citizens.”
“You took a bold stand years ago when the governments were trying to poison their citizens,” he said. “That’s when I was like, wow, I appreciate you because I lost three to four jobs because I refused to take it.”
Howard said a history of governments using “chemical warfare” against citizens was his reason for refusing the vaccine.
👀 Joe Rogan & Terrence Howard on Bioweapons, Spike Proteins, and Ivermectin
“You took a bold stand years ago when the governments were trying to poison their citizens…I lost 3-4 jobs because I refused to take it…Now we have all of these diseases that are showing themselves… pic.twitter.com/CQo50M14Un
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 19, 2024
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