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What Joe Rogan says about motivation & discipline

Everything Joe Rogan and guests said about motivation & discipline across 27 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Goggins' knees are completely bone-on-bone with zero space between the tibia and femur, the kneecap rubbing two bones together.
00:09:26David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
His meniscus was so hardened from years of pounding that the surgeon broke tools and a scalpel trying to cut it, saying it was the hardest he'd ever seen.
00:13:33David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
He underwent a high tibial osteotomy (HTO) where surgeons broke and wedged his tibia to realign his entire leg, with a plate he still feels every step.
00:20:51David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
His mother, after escaping his abusive father, married a prisoner she met teaching in prison, a man who had choked a woman to death over drugs.
01:18:44David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
A SEAL Team Six member ran YouTube channels and DMs falsely claiming Goggins was dishonorably discharged, never deployed, and froze in a firefight.
01:32:11David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
A young bullied boy who was a devoted follower died by suicide; Goggins reached the family's email weeks too late, which fuels his mission.
01:54:31David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Goggins decided not to sue the man who defamed him, choosing not to take money out of the man's kids' mouths despite having the legal case.
01:33:46David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Goggins ran the 240-mile Moab race and placed second in 62 hours while getting his baseball-sized knee swelling drained days before the start.
00:15:38David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
The world's first artificial meniscus, a clear gel-like implant, is available in Israel for qualifying candidates.
00:24:28David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
NBA star Dwyane Wade played years with no meniscus in his knees after it was removed during college at Marquette.
00:25:02David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Rogan reads a story of a man whose PSA dropped from over 7 to under 1 and testosterone shot to 1140 using ketosis and ice baths.
02:04:28David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
A 1991 Japanese study found the benefit came from exercising after an ice bath, the opposite of conventional advice.
02:05:29David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
One theory for fighters losing their chin is the brain protectively 'shuts off' to stop absorbing damage from a too-tough opponent.
02:16:24David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Welterweight Kamaru Usman weighs around 200 lbs walking around but cuts to 170 for only about 20 minutes at weigh-ins.
02:17:29David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Cam Hanes flew to Vegas and ran roughly 20 miles at six-minute-mile pace with Goggins as a surprise 'spot check.'
00:59:13David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Before facing Conor McGregor, an undefeated Khabib Nurmagomedov told a booing crowd 'I'm going to smash your boy.'
02:11:42David Goggins · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Berg recounts panicking that his Netflix boss would fire him over a throat-cutting scene; instead she said 'I'm here for this violence' and let him go further.
00:14:37Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg argues that without the Civil War diverting the US military, 'there would be no Mormonism in the United States.'
00:17:12Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg claims Brigham Young had 56 wives and 46 kids who reached adulthood, calling him 'basically Genghis Khan of Utah.'
00:25:31Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg says his debut Very Bad Things got 'hands down the worst review ever' and he physically vomited reading it.
00:36:53Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg admits he went into a 'blackout rage' and had to be physically held back from attacking critic Kenneth Turan in a hotel bar.
00:37:53Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Rogan reveals he sparred two rounds with Canelo Alvarez on his birthday and got his jaw locked by a single 20%-power jab.
01:08:15Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Rogan describes nearly having a sanctioned UFC fight against Wesley Snipes around 2004-05, training six months before it fell apart.
01:31:19Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg announces the next American Primeval will center on General Custer and the lead-up to Little Bighorn.
02:48:30Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
American Primeval was a 145-day shoot on New Mexico reservations versus the ~85 days of a typical big movie, with stunt men breaking ribs and rattlesnakes everywhere.
00:09:52Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
The Mountain Meadows Massacre saw a Mormon militia and allied Paiutes murder about 140 Arkansas pioneers in 1857.
00:17:43Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
The Mormon Church itself sells the Mountain Meadows Massacre book and gave Berg a private pipe-organ concert during his research tour.
00:29:09Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg's number-one Netflix show Painkiller was knocked to number two by a cellphone-shot documentary on the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial.
00:47:23Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg writes by waking at ~4:45am, going straight to a phone-free room for 2.5-3 hours of focused writing, set to the same wake-up song each morning.
00:53:39Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg writes on an internet-limited ThinkPad with no apps, allowing only Bing for fact-checks, to eliminate distraction.
00:59:25Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg tells the story of Ksenia Karelina, jailed 12 years in Russia for a $51 donation to a Ukrainian charity.
01:04:04Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Rogan and Berg call Bivol vs Beterbiev possibly the greatest light-heavyweight fight of all time; Bivol trains at Berg's Churchill Boxing gym.
01:17:11Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Jon Jones admitted beating Daniel Cormier while using cocaine; Rogan notes Jones has held a UFC title across roughly 14 years.
02:09:21Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Berg's next film, The Mosquito Bowl, dramatizes a real, legendarily violent tackle football game Marines played before the Battle of Okinawa, using Aussie Rules players.
02:38:38Peter Berg · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Ian tells of a faded actor ('Bling') who walked out of a club mid-show after being demoted from headliner, illustrating comedians' bitterness.
00:13:30Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Ian recounts bombing in front of ~2,000 people at Temple, getting booed off, which taught him to drop regional material.
00:24:27Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Ian describes his first true 'killing' on stage as an out-of-body high he got addicted to before ever doing drugs.
00:40:33Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe reveals Brendan Schaub took repeated concussions sparring Shane Carwin, even days before fights, and urged him to quit.
00:56:12Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe argues Reagan's 'I don't recall' on Iran-Contra was likely a legal dodge, not yet dementia.
01:27:38Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe relays Bill Murray's claim that Bob Woodward's book 'Wired' fabricated John Belushi, making Murray doubt the Nixon story.
01:38:00Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Ian was inside the World Trade Center the day before 9/11, having taken the PATH train through it.
01:53:35Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Ian announces his special 'Untitled' is free on YouTube with all ad money going to LA fire victims.
02:46:07Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe calls Kill Tony 'the number one place where a comedian can break out in America today.'
00:44:08Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe names Ali vs. Cleveland 'Big Cat' Williams his favorite fight to watch, prime Ali before his forced retirement.
01:01:07Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
The story that Ali's torn glove was deliberately cut to buy recovery time vs. Henry Cooper is an urban legend; it only added a few seconds.
01:05:49Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe claims a major factor in the Vietnam War was control of the opium trade, paralleling Afghanistan's poppy fields.
01:16:42Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe and Ian frame COVID lockdowns as the biggest transfer of wealth ever, with ~70% of LA restaurants going under while big chains thrived.
01:30:16Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
They contrast banned raw milk with legal glyphosate (Roundup), citing cancer and Alzheimer's links near golf courses.
01:47:23Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Smedley Butler testified in 1934 that wealthy businessmen plotted a fascist coup to overthrow FDR; no one was prosecuted.
01:56:43Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Scientology's Sea Org reportedly uses a symbolic billion-year employment contract.
02:14:47Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe and Jamie helped revive Johnny Thunder's 1969 song 'I'm Alive,' which later appeared in commercials before Thunder died.
02:18:51Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe cites Sean Strickland saying he has about $4 million banked, holding him up as a financially smart fighter.
02:39:19Ian Edwards · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Schulz recounts a CIA guest who described himself as close to a sociopath, lacking normal guilt while knowing when he should feel it.
00:00:33Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Rogan claims the anonymous woman behind the Andrew Huberman hit piece is being investigated by the DOJ for fraud, a detail he says the article omitted.
00:21:27Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
The FDA agreed to delete its 'you are not a horse' ivermectin social media posts after losing in court, without admitting wrongdoing.
02:04:08Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Rogan recounts having dinner with Bob Lazar before his podcast, saying Lazar seemed authentic and almost traumatized rather than a charismatic liar.
01:09:51Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Rogan relays Lazar's claim that humanity is essentially a 'farm for souls' for advanced beings who may need souls AI cannot provide.
01:20:41Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Schulz says his public stand against Mancini's joke theft cost him his agency and got him banned from the comedy club, with heavy fan blowback.
03:00:23Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
A court filing reportedly alleges Diddy had hundreds of hidden cameras across his homes in LA, New York, and Miami.
03:18:40Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Fritz Haber's nitrogen-fixation method is credited for roughly 50% of the nitrogen in human bodies today, while he also developed poison gas used in WWI and the basis of Zyklon B.
00:33:27Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Element 115, which Bob Lazar described in 1989, was not confirmed via particle collider until the 2000s.
01:14:59Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Orangutans have been observed spearfishing and using tools, with researchers suggesting they have entered their own Stone Age.
01:24:48Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
The tomb of China's first emperor remains unopened because it is believed to be booby-trapped with mercury, and surrounding soil tests show high mercury levels.
01:33:35Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Rogan cites studies claiming all-cause mortality rose significantly in some age groups, as high as 40%, after vaccine rollout.
02:08:49Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
The Sultan of Brunei reportedly spent an average of $747,000 a day for a decade and named a yacht 'Tits' with tenders 'Nipple 1' and 'Nipple 2'.
03:26:30Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
The Antikythera mechanism, recovered from a Greek shipwreck, is the oldest known analog computer, used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses.
03:50:56Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
George Washington's dentures were fitted into a lead mold, meaning he effectively carried lead in his mouth daily.
03:36:23Andrew Schulz · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2024
Bert admits he falsely agreed on Shannon Sharpe's show that he 'lost everything and built it back' — it never happened, he just went along with it.
00:11:26Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Bert reveals he got the COVID vaccine/boosters four separate times (early in LA, in Serbia, at home, and once more) to keep working on film/TV.
00:33:35Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
They read a press release claiming scientists achieved two-way communication between people while lucid dreaming via earbuds.
00:39:18Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe describes an intensely realistic dream of encountering tall, thin non-human beings that felt like a real encounter, which a UFO-researcher friend told him may have been real.
00:44:29Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe argues Watergate was a deep-state coup that framed Nixon, citing Bob Woodward's naval-intelligence background and Tucker Carlson.
01:02:37Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe says he paid thousands of dollars to send IV vitamins and monoclonal antibodies to about 100 people during COVID, many of them strangers.
01:39:29Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe reveals he declined to submit for the Golden Globe podcast award because it cost $500 and he's been number one for six years.
01:51:55Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Bert recounts his ongoing real-life claim that he confuses Helen Keller and Anne Frank, sparking a long bit that Helen Keller and Stevie Wonder may not be truly blind.
02:27:30Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Bert's theory of comic 'pop' moments: his Machine story, Bill Burr's Philly rant, Jim Jefferies getting punched, and Tom Segura being one of only two comics (with Burr) on early Netflix.
00:16:34Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Rasputin was a healer for the Tsar's hemophiliac son Alexei — he helped by removing the aspirin (a blood thinner) the doctors were giving the boy.
00:53:19Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe explains CTE comes from repeated subconcussive trauma — you can get it from jet skis, roller coasters, even football hits to the chest.
01:01:35Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Bill Murray told Joe that Woodward's book 'Wired' wildly exaggerated John Belushi as a constant drug user; Murray said Belushi was actually a lightweight.
01:07:20Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe's virus argument: pathogens evolve to become more transmissible but less potent over time, which is why later COVID variants were milder.
01:33:41Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe sleeps with a mouthpiece plus mouth tape (Hostage Tape) and says he feels better on five hours than eight hours without it.
01:45:40Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Joe's go-to immune stack: vitamin D3 with K2 and magnesium, plus zinc taken with quercetin (an ionophore that aids zinc absorption).
01:50:53Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
'Happy People: A Year in the Taiga' shows Siberian subsistence trappers who, despite hardship, are happy with almost no mental illness — illustrating that struggle creates satisfaction.
02:08:23Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Bert's mantra for self-improvement: surround yourself with great people — 'if you hang out with enough great white sharks, people think you're a great white shark.'
02:24:26Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
On Lance Armstrong: Joe notes that to find a clean rider in Armstrong's Tour de France wins you'd have to go to 18th place because nearly everyone doped.
02:41:30Bert Kreischer · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2026
Bret says those who hypothesized a 'racket had overtaken our entire governance structure' turned out absolutely right and no one will admit it.
00:02:05Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Both men, longtime self-identified liberals, declare the system 'a racket from one end to the other.'
00:15:13Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret, a former Bernie Sanders supporter, says it's not obvious people wouldn't get healthier without access to prescription drugs.
00:33:09Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Joe lays out his theory that the government floods the zone with absurd UFO disinfo to bury real recovered-craft technology.
00:53:32Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret argues the simplest explanation for silent, impossibly fast UFOs is that they aren't matter at all but projections.
00:57:09Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret says his former sympathy for universal basic income is gone because it would produce learned helplessness and dependency.
01:15:25Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret declares modern Darwinism is broken and says mainstream Darwinists are 'telling a kind of lie about how much we know.'
01:55:44Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret claims there's a non-codon information layer in genomes that lets evolution search design space far more efficiently than random mutation.
02:02:04Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret notes roughly 30% of FDA-endorsed drugs end up getting pulled, calling it just the tip of the iceberg.
00:33:40Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
A single viral post on X can reach 7-10 million views, with nothing in mainstream media coming close.
00:48:17Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
The French scientist character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind was based on real UFO researcher Jacques Vallée.
00:50:23Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Plasma and laser technology can already create silent 3D shapes (like a butterfly) in midair, mimicking UFOs.
00:59:43Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret argues activities like sport, music, sex, and gameplay have been turned into passive 'consumables' that rob people of producing them.
01:33:43Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
John Carmack built the Doom engine while the rest of the id Software team finished Wolfenstein 3D.
01:42:33Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Surgeons who play video games make about 25% fewer errors.
01:43:34Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Humans are born deliberately 'hobbled' without a complete program so their software layer can attune to their specific time and place.
02:08:19Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret credits his advisor Dick Alexander's insight that humans became their own primary competitor, driving an arms race that expanded our brains.
02:14:08Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Bret reframes selection as the force behind ALL pattern in the universe (pebble sizes, galaxies, stars), turning adaptive only once heredity is added.
02:27:02Bret Weinstein · The Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2025
Carr reveals he's developing a comedy course/book breaking stand-up into roughly 50 joke types, with a vision of comedy being taught in schools.
00:08:23Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
They recount that comedian Dick Gregory aired the Zapruder JFK film on Geraldo Rivera's 1975 show, exposing it publicly 12-13 years after the assassination.
00:29:21Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr says during lockdown his managers offered a podcast or a book; he 'took the gentleman's option' and wrote his self-help autobiography 'Before & Laughter.'
01:18:06Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr discloses he was severely dyslexic and couldn't read until about age 11, yet gamed the system to get into Cambridge.
01:30:38Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr explains he discovered CBT and NLP through a corporate training budget while working in marketing for Shell Oil in his twenties.
01:42:45Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Rogan shares a NewsRadio writer friend named Drew shot himself while on the phone with his wife, his first experience of suicide.
02:36:19Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr offers a 'hot take' that empires don't fall but transform: the Roman Empire became the Church and the British Empire became a bank.
02:42:36Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr claims you laugh roughly 30 times more watching comedy live than watching the same footage on screen.
00:03:39Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr says he's working on systematizing about 50 different joke types to teach stand-up like music notation.
00:09:24Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
A theory that the plague reshaped the Catholic Church: it killed about 90% of priests (who gave last rites), collapsing the priesthood's barrier to entry.
00:42:19Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Carr cites the line, attributed to Socrates, that 'beauty is a short-lived tyranny.'
01:29:34Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Dyslexia affects roughly 7% to up to 20% of people worldwide and is highly genetic.
01:34:19Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Hunter S. Thompson reported the Hell's Angels motto: 'two can keep a secret if one is dead.'
02:09:18Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Robin Dunbar's research: laughter is 'remote grooming' that let humans bond in groups of ~150 versus ~60 for gorillas, enabling specialization and civilization.
02:12:55Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Whaling was the biggest industry in the world in 1903 and vanished within about 18 months once petrochemicals arrived.
02:35:36Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Portugal/Lisbon decriminalized all drugs ~15 years ago and redirected drug-war spending into rehab and education.
02:40:01Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
There are roughly 40 million slaves in the world today, more than in 1865 when America abolished slavery.
02:18:36Jimmy Carr · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Rogan says he survived the cancellation campaign using less than a gram of mushrooms daily plus brutal exercise, sauna, and cold plunge.
00:05:42Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Claims the cancellation attempt backfired: he gained 2 million subscribers and the podcast hit its all-time peak.
00:07:46Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Says he has turned down having Trump on his show more than once because he doesn't want to help him, but predicts he eventually will.
00:18:46Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Reverses his earlier UFO enthusiasm, now suspecting the Pentagon/NASA disclosures are a smokescreen for advanced secret drones, not aliens.
00:33:19Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Lex says he is traveling to Ukraine and Moscow and has started wondering whether intelligence agents have been guests on his podcast.
00:36:23Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Rogan admits his weakness on UFOs: 'I want it to be real so bad... I'm such a sucker.'
00:38:58Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Argues comics who insist comedy must be 'socially aware' say so only because they can't get laughs.
01:01:15Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Lex reveals he is days from leaving for Ukraine and Russia with no return plan, hoping to talk to political leaders, and is nervous he may not come back.
01:36:02Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
The episode opens with Charles Bukowski's definition of art: 'style is the answer to everything.'
00:01:02Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Rogan says he has known Alex Jones for over 20 years and credits him with warning about Epstein's island a decade early.
00:21:24Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Neil deGrasse Tyson reportedly told Rogan that infinity is so large that Lex Fridman exists an infinite number of times across the cosmos.
00:27:34Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Rogan calls Lenny Bruce the 'godfather' of modern stand-up and keeps framed Bruce posters and photos at his house.
00:50:25Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
A 15-year-old Rogan was inspired to pursue comedy after his parents took him to see Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip.
00:54:00Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Dane Cook reportedly said that if he had to start over from scratch, he doesn't think he could endure the open-mic grind again.
00:55:32Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Rogan notes wolverines are so ferocious they chase wolves and bears off their kills despite being small.
01:07:04Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
An MIT roboticist (Russ Tedrake) reportedly runs 7-10 miles barefoot to and from work every day.
01:19:21Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
Rogan attributes Putin's bloated, puffy appearance to possible prednisone-style steroid effects, comparing it to a friend's sarcoidosis.
01:28:45Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
The episode ends with Lex quoting Miyamoto Musashi: 'Once you know the way broadly, you'll see it in everything.'
01:40:42Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2022
The Rock reveals one of the political parties came to him at the end of last year asking him to run for president, backed by data on likely outcomes.
01:01:47Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
His father Rocky Johnson did not want him to wrestle; they got into the biggest fight of their lives before his dad agreed to train him.
01:43:56Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024

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