War Is a Racket

This book by Smedley D. Butler has been genuinely recommended 3 times on Joe Rogan. The people who vouched for it on air: Ian Carroll, Joe Rogan. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, consciousness, exercise & strength, psychedelics. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Jun 2024 and the most recent from Aug 2025. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"Originally printed in 1935, War Is a Racket is General Smedley Butler's frank speech describing his role as a soldier as nothing more than serving as a puppet for big-business interests. In addition to photos from the notorious 1932 anti-war book The Horror of It by Frederick A. Barber, this book includes two never-before-published anti-interventionist essays by General Butler. The introduction discusses why General Butler went against the corporate war machine and how he exposed a fascist coup d'etat plot against President Franklin Roosevelt.

• “Did you ever read um that uh War is a racket? Smedley Butler. It's really good. It's not long. It's really good.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “It's really good”
  Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 202500:50:55

  Said during "Joe Rogan Experience #2367 - Jesse Welles". The episode features Jesse Welles: Arkansas-born indie folk singer-songwriter who went viral writing topical, news-driven protest songs (United Healthcare, philanthropy) on Instagram, in the Woody Guthrie 'sing the news' tradition. Fiercely independent, no label. Protest folk singer Jesse Welles and Joe Rogan riff on healthcare greed, war rackets, false flags, the music industry, and AI-made songs.

• “war is a racket is a relatively short book that anyone can buy online and I highly recommend it to everyone”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I highly recommend it to everyone”
  Ian Carroll · The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 202501:15:56

  Said during "Joe Rogan Experience #2284 - Ian Carroll". The episode features Ian Carroll: A fast-rising independent open-source investigator who went from Uber Eats driver and ultramarathon guide to one of social media's most-followed conspiracy-focused content creators in about two years. Independent researcher Ian Carroll walks Joe Rogan through his sprawling theory connecting Epstein, the CIA, organized crime, and the corporate 'deep state'.

• “it's called war is a racket really I recomend you talked about that before I've talked about it every time I can”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “I recomend... I've talked about it every time I can because people need to understand”
  Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 202402:33:57

  Said during "Joe Rogan Experience #2093 - Sober October Crew". The episode features Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura & Ari Shaffir: Stand-up comedians and Joe Rogan's longtime 'Sober October' challenge crew. Joe Rogan and the Sober October crew riff on viral pranks, near-death thrills, fighting, comedy, gourmet food, and ancient-civilization conspiracies.