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The Joe Rogan Experience (1 Viewer)

AAABatteries said:
Yep, that was entertaining.  Although I did on occasion get a sense that it was two average dudes sitting around trying to talk like intellectuals.  But I still enjoyed it.
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yeah, i'm waning on Russell Brand.  I think that he such a facility for language that it is enjoyable to listen to and sounds like they are cogent points, but really if anyone calls him on something seriously, he just pivots and doesn't really defend.  listened to his podcast a few times (i think maybe sam harris was one) and I came away less impressed.

 
Joe Rogan Experience #1315 - Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbell

Fascinating interview if you like this kind of stuff (UFOs) 

 
Lazar is so full of ####.  LOL at saying he had a migraine and that is why he couldn't answer certain questions.

He's a fraud.  

 
Bumping this. Just spent the past 2 days watching the interview with Lazar.

Always been a big ufo/alien guy, have always heard his name but never seen/heard him, so this was super interesting. I agree he seems quite credible. Joe has done tons of research on him and in beginning think he even says that Lazar hasn't really profited off of any of this over the years.

Probably the most interesting part to me was like the last 45 mins when they're all talking about human evolution with us and our technology, and that the endgame of our species is something similar to the greys. I've heard that idea tossed around many times in many different theories.

 
ShamrockPride said:
the endgame of our species is something similar to the greys. I've heard that idea tossed around many times in many different theories.
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This is entirely possible if you believe in evolution.  After thousands of years of not playing sports and sitting inside, the species will undoubtedly become less muscular and a tan will be unheard of. 

 
Punxsutawney Phil said:
This is entirely possible if you believe in evolution.  After thousands of years of not playing sports and sitting inside, the species will undoubtedly become less muscular and a tan will be unheard of. 
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In my completely crackpot, tin-foil-fun theory(s):

Similar versions of a human species have previously reached a more advanced technological age than we have, which explains the megaliths, the ring with the bore hole and the 300,000 year old nano tech.

They heavily manipulated DNA

An asteroid wiped everything out and we rinse and repeat the whole process with completely different yet similar civilizations

The hieroglyphics in Egypt are an more advanced form of language than our written word, similar to how today’s smilies and images are replacing our language

Yes, I believe all of this sounds as completely crazy as you do. Its just a fun and imaginative conversation for me.

 
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Joe has undoubtedly become my favorite interviewer.   It was Howard for a long time but he’s put it on autopilot and the interview has become robotic.  

 
The Edward Snowden interview was excellent, although some points were beaten to death. Hard to argue with his main points.

 
skycriesmary said:
The Edward Snowden interview was excellent, although some points were beaten to death. Hard to argue with his main points.
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I got too annoyed with him after about 25 minutes or so. I've got nothing against him, and I was excited about him being a guest, but man... I just couldn't take him.

Then I switched to Edward Norton and it was much easier to listen to. 

 
Softballguy said:
I got too annoyed with him after about 25 minutes or so. I've got nothing against him, and I was excited about him being a guest, but man... I just couldn't take him.

Then I switched to Edward Norton and it was much easier to listen to. 
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I really like Ed Norton as an actor and had a day last week where I was in the car for multiple hours. On the same day I listened to Ed Norton’s interviews on both Rogan and Preet Bharara. Listening to them back to back I had a sneaky suspicion that Rogan got Ed high before their interview. The first 45 minutes of the Rogan interview Norton stumbled over his words a lot and seemed to not be able to get clear thoughts out, especially  in comparison to coming off Preet’s interview where he was extremely articulate.  Still very much enjoyed the Rogan interview as it was more relaxed and conversational but the contrast was evident. 

 
skycriesmary said:
The Edward Snowden interview was excellent, although some points were beaten to death. Hard to argue with his main points.
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I generally agree with you--but I did find that I had to watch (youtube) that interview incrementally in 20-30 minute segments.   It was awesome that Joe basically let him talk 90-95% of the time--but I just felt that after 20-30 minutes each sitting--I just felt like a college student listening a speaker give a lecture.   It's weird--I sometimes feel like Rogan talks too much and dominates interviews--and in the Snowden one--I felt like I would have enjoyed it far better if he would have spoken up a bit more and made it more conversational.  

 
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jvdesigns2002 said:
I generally agree with you--but I did find that I had to watch (youtube) that interview incrementally in 20-30 minute segments.   It was awesome that Joe basically let him talk 90-95% of the time--but I just felt that after 20-30 minutes each sitting--I just felt like a college student listening a speaker give a lecture.   It's weird--I sometimes feel like Rogan talks too much and dominates interviews--and in the Snowden one--I felt like I would have enjoyed it far better if he would have spoken up a bit more and made it more conversational.  
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Agreed. Snowden's delivery was a bit annoying, repetitive and dragged out, but his overall message needed to be said. 

 
skycriesmary said:
Agreed. Snowden's delivery was a bit annoying, repetitive and dragged out, but his overall message needed to be said. 
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Y'all keep saying that but I didn't get that vibe at all. Loved the fact Joe just sat back and let him go so he could tell his story. The Q&A toward the end was probably the cherry on top. Some of the #### the dude still has knowledge of is scary, not surprising or particularly new info but still scary.

 
Podcast #1379 w/Ben Westhoff. Another good one, he wrote Fentanyl, Inc. about the epidemic sweeping the nation that no one seems to want to talk about. Westhoff has a weird speech pattern that kinda grates and it seems like Joe has to coerce some answers from him but very informative. Going to get the book and have forwarded to my kid in college to listen to. The Chinese involvement, while not surprising, is still shocking. It's state sponsored terrorism IMO.

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,” writes Ben Westhoff. “These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs”—and all-too-often tragically lethal.

Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice—and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe— were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs’ effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China’s vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the U.S. and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many.

 
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So Joe signed a 100 million deal to go over to spotify

Could someone explain to me like I am a 3rd grader how does spotify make money off of this?

 
pantherclub said:
So Joe signed a 100 million deal to go over to spotify

Could someone explain to me like I am a 3rd grader how does spotify make money off of this?
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Damn - good for him.   I hardly listen to pods on spotify for whatever reason though.  I also haven't been listening to his pods as much lately either.  Not as many that look interesting, and seems like more anx more he is getting people on book tours.  Conversations feel a little less organic if they are on a press tour.  

 
Good for Joe, I'm not a regular but cherry pick when he has someone other than a comedian on. Does a helluva job IMO, hope the format doesn't take too much of a hit.

Interested to hear him discuss this deal. He's pretty transparent about his money/life. Earned F U money from Fear Factor, been piling it up ever since. Seems like he falls into some pretty sweet deals. Someone said the he'll be the first accidental billionaire. Pretty apt description, maybe not a billion but he's doing pretty damn well.

 
beer 30 said:
Good for Joe, I'm not a regular but cherry pick when he has someone other than a comedian on. Does a helluva job IMO, hope the format doesn't take too much of a hit.

Interested to hear him discuss this deal. He's pretty transparent about his money/life. Earned F U money from Fear Factor, been piling it up ever since. Seems like he falls into some pretty sweet deals. Someone said the he'll be the first accidental billionaire. Pretty apt description, maybe not a billion but he's doing pretty damn well.
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His UFC deal is pretty sweet too I imagine

He is in the John Madden, Arnold swarzannger world now.  Insanely successful in multiple worlds.

 
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pantherclub said:
So Joe signed a 100 million deal to go over to spotify

Could someone explain to me like I am a 3rd grader how does spotify make money off of this?
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They can localize ads.  Simmons did a podcast a few months ago with some tech guy and the consensus was that Apple dropped the ball big time by not cornering the podcast market early on when they were the only big player.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Damn - good for him.   I hardly listen to pods on spotify for whatever reason though.  I also haven't been listening to his pods as much lately either.  Not as many that look interesting, and seems like more anx more he is getting people on book tours.  Conversations feel a little less organic if they are on a press tour.  
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Aside from Elon and the dude that wrote the book about Charles Manson--you haven't missed a whole lot.   A lot of hypocrisy and redundancy--just railing about how Newsome has handled the virus--he basically claims the virus isn't as bad as advertised.  Yet--he also mentions that he's taking weekly intravenous bags of vitamins,  the dude gets tested for covid several times a week, he's become a spokesperson for saunas. Just a super wealthy dude that literally does everything he can to avoid the virus telling most common pedestrians that it's not really something to worry about.   

 
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jvdesigns2002 said:
Aside from Elon and the dude that wrote the book about Charles Manson--you haven't missed a whole lot.   A lot of hypocrisy and redundancy--just railing about how Newsome has handled the virus--he basically claims the virus isn't as bad as advertised.  Yet--he also mentions that he's taking weekly intravenous bags of vitamins,  the dude gets tested for covid several times a week, he's become a spokesperson for saunas. Just a super wealthy dude that literally does everything he can to avoid the virus telling most common pedestrians that it's not really something to worry about.   
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I definitely missed this one - what episode was that?

 
Good for him.   Though a bit long for my taste, he has some interesting folks and for the most part does a great job of just staying out of the way and letting the guest speak.   

 
beer 30 said:
Good for Joe, I'm not a regular but cherry pick when he has someone other than a comedian on. Does a helluva job IMO, hope the format doesn't take too much of a hit.

Interested to hear him discuss this deal. He's pretty transparent about his money/life. Earned F U money from Fear Factor, been piling it up ever since. Seems like he falls into some pretty sweet deals. Someone said the he'll be the first accidental billionaire. Pretty apt description, maybe not a billion but he's doing pretty damn well.
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Quick Google shows varying estimates, probably not more than $50M. Makes $100K per podcast. Not bad for a regular Joe.

 
Pipes said:
He's not a hard hitting journalist.  He's a comedian and MMA analyst.  Not sure why you'd expect him to ask tough questions. 
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I'm not even saying ask a tough question. I am saying when somebody makes a statement that's supported by flimsy logic, or just patently untrue, inquire further. I get that it's supposed to be more of a "conversation", but if I'm talking to a group of my friends and one of them starts talking about aliens visiting Earth, I don't just take them at their word.

 

 
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