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Joe Rogan · 105 episodes · 1742 sourced insights

What Joe Rogan says about psychedelics

Everything Joe Rogan and guests said about psychedelics across 105 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Kiedis shares his life philosophy 'don't be a bitch' after a radiant young woman he met at a MetLife show died unexpectedly a week later.
00:15:45Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
A nutritionist who studies his genes prescribed a diet of wild game (alligator, elk, moose, kangaroo), which he says fixed his injuries and gave him peak clarity.
00:43:50Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Rick Rubin reveals he walked out of an early rehearsal because he thought someone in the band was going to get murdered, the band had become that dark.
02:03:16Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Rubin pushed Kiedis to turn a private, sentimental poem into Under the Bridge, calling it his best song.
01:57:32Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Kiedis describes his descent into heroin and cocaine addiction starting at a young age, calling it 'a life of suffering.'
02:04:53Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
He recounts John Lilly's research where a woman jerked off a dolphin to enable interspecies communication experiments, which got the science shut down.
01:01:37Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
In 1983 Kiedis took LSD and entered a sensory deprivation tank, describing a fully conscious astral-plane experience '10 billion miles away in outer space.'
01:03:46Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Kiedis credits a French osteopath named Lucille with healing his frozen shoulder and knee where every doctor failed.
00:03:46Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Rick Rubin introduced the band to Transcendental Meditation in the early '90s, bringing a TM instructor into his living room.
00:18:21Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Kiedis has a tiger tattoo of samurai Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings, who reportedly defeated 62 men in single combat.
00:38:36Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
They note stand-up comedy is an American art form born of the country's cultural melting pot, like jazz, blues and rock.
00:34:28Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Texas barbecue brisket traces back to German immigrants who slow-smoked a cheap, tough cut of meat.
00:35:02Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Wild boar can have three litters a year and breed from six months old, making them an unstoppable invasive species in Texas.
00:48:29Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Humans kill an estimated 100 million sharks a year while sharks kill only single digits of humans.
01:23:33Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
The Chili Peppers played a free show at the Hupa tribe's school gym in Hoopa Valley, calling it their best show of the year.
00:32:22Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Kiedis says the word 'humble' derives from being low or close to the ground.
01:13:37Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Texas has more captive tigers (an estimated 3,000-5,000) than exist in the wild worldwide.
00:39:41Anthony Kiedis · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024
Overton's massive painting Soul Catcher hangs in Joe Rogan's library, and Dreamer is another piece Rogan owns.
00:12:30Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Before becoming a fine artist, Overton worked as a federal graphics designer for OSHA, editing gory accident photos to make them less bloody.
00:26:25Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
He apprenticed at Big Deluxe Tattoo in Salt Lake but got fired after a drunken Muay Thai high kick missed its target and knocked out his manager's teeth.
00:28:31Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Overton describes a horse bolting and running a full mile across the desert with him hanging on by the saddle horn, refusing to jump off.
00:46:32Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Overton reveals his mentor Michael Blake, who wrote Dances with Wolves, told him 'Don't be the next anything. Be the first Greg Overton.'
00:53:43Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Overton does spiritual work and consults Oglala Lakota relatives of Crazy Horse, seeking 'permission' before painting the leader who refused to be photographed.
01:41:22Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Taylor Sheridan is set to write and direct a film adaptation of Empire of the Summer Moon about Comanche leader Quanah Parker.
01:44:30Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Bill Maher noted an article claiming a '300% rise in measles' in the US actually meant just 35 cases.
00:34:10Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Marijuana was made illegal partly through William Randolph Hearst's newspaper campaign to protect his paper mills and DuPont's nylon patent from hemp competition.
00:34:40Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
The Carrington event of September 1-2, 1859 was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, causing sparks and fires in telegraph stations.
01:20:11Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
During the Carrington event the coronal mass ejection crossed roughly 90 million miles from sun to Earth in about 17.6 hours.
01:21:13Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Galaxy JWST 7329, observed by the James Webb telescope, formed about 13 billion years ago, defying current dark-matter models of early galaxy formation.
01:32:34Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Sitting Bull reportedly cut about a hundred pieces of flesh from his shoulders and back before the Battle of Little Big Horn to obtain a vision of soldiers falling into camp.
01:43:59Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
In the Sun Dance endurance ritual, participants are suspended by pierced chest skin for four days without food or water until the flesh tears free.
01:45:32Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Creek warrior William Weatherford (Red Eagle) surrendered to Andrew Jackson, who was so impressed by his bravery he shared whiskey and ordered no one to harm him.
01:52:47Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
'Sioux' was not the Lakota people's name for themselves; it derived from a word other tribes used meaning 'enemy.'
00:34:40Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Astronomers first detecting gamma-ray bursts every few seconds worried they were witnessing wars in space before identifying them as hypernovas.
01:23:48Greg Overton · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2024
Jordan says she literally fainted and passed out on a New York sidewalk watching 'The Substance' in a theater.
00:11:20Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe describes Jordan getting 'dragged' on Twitter over an out-of-context clip from Stav's podcast about a slur, calling Twitter 'a mental illness factory.'
00:25:25Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Jordan reveals she cured severe OCD in one six-hour acid trip by confronting her fear that she couldn't trust herself.
00:44:31Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe recounts bringing Tucker Carlson and Post Malone on stage at Kill Tony without telling them what the show was.
01:03:32Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Jordan admits she ideologically switches sides constantly: 'I'll tell you what I am, I'm an idiot.'
01:08:46Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe details the Vioxx scandal, claiming internal emails showed the company knew it would harm people but profit.
01:12:28Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe argues AI may already be suppressing human reproduction via diet and microplastics 'by design.'
01:46:39Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Both discuss the lethal-dose-of-fentanyl-next-to-a-penny image and warning kids off all pills.
02:41:14Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Rapamycin is being studied (Texas A&M) to potentially extend older dogs' lifespan by up to 20%.
00:08:15Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Story of two unrelated baseball players both named Brady Feigl who look identical, share injuries and the same doctor.
00:09:46Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings, reportedly killed 60 men in one-on-one sword combat.
00:58:55Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Joe relays that mixing Ozempic with other peptides may prevent the muscle and bone-density loss it can cause.
01:14:33Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
On Fear Factor, contestants really drank donkey semen and urine; the episode never aired in the US.
01:27:24Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Google Gemini's launch infamously generated multi-racial 'Nazi soldiers,' distorting history.
01:44:34Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Real Swedish 'Swedish Fish' are black salted licorice (salmiak/ammonium chloride), not the red American version.
01:57:26Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
The 1960s 'saturated fat is bad' narrative was reportedly seeded by the sugar lobby for about $50,000.
02:00:01Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Most mammals have a penis bone (baculum) but humans don't; one theory ties its loss to mate selection / 'honest advertising.'
02:44:51Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
A paralyzed Neuralink recipient plays video games with his mind and describes it as having an 'aimbot.'
02:51:02Jordan Jensen · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2025
Ron got a steroid shot before a Vegas show, then tested positive for COVID and was told by a doctor and the CDC he couldn't perform; MGM let him go on anyway.
00:01:36Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Joe recounts the worst he ever bombed, going on stage two weeks after Phil Hartman was murdered after a cop told him the kids ran from their armed mother before she killed herself.
00:20:26Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Ron reveals he moved to Mexico for three years to start a pottery company with a girlfriend who stood over his bed with a knife and later took her own life.
00:24:08Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Ron explains he got sober from alcohol using hypnosis, then went to Rythmia in Costa Rica for ayahuasca, and says the tequila he owns no longer tempts him.
00:37:38Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Ron and Joe debate whether ADD is real; Joe argues it's a 'superpower,' not a disorder.
01:09:14Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Joe argues the entire COVID lockdown response was wrong and that the comedians who kept performing turned out to be 'correct.'
01:30:33Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Ron admits he nearly bought a building for his theater that turned out to be a former cult compound run by a hypnotist gay-porn star.
01:51:31Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
The recording is paused and ends early because Ron suddenly turns pale, sweats, and vomits on camera.
02:01:24Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Kill Tony ran every Monday for over 10 years, starting with about six people in the crowd, before landing on Netflix.
00:06:50Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Joe argues the path for a young comic has never been clearer: go to Austin for the stage time and get your stuff on the internet.
00:14:43Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Ibogaine reportedly has roughly an 80% success rate for addiction in one treatment and mid-90s with two, per the discussion.
00:48:26Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Rythmia in Costa Rica is described as the only licensed medical ayahuasca facility in the world, having processed about 18,000 people.
00:50:28Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Harvard's total cost of attendance is cited around $82,000 a year, with undergrad tuition at $56,550.
01:05:33Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Joey Diaz once no-showed a New Jersey gig and admitted on the phone he never left Vegas: 'I'm not going to lie to you, dog.'
01:18:00Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Jon Jones told Daniel Cormier 'I beat you when I was on Coke,' and refused late-notice fights, insisting on full camps.
01:43:42Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Marijuana was effectively outlawed in the 1930s partly to protect timber interests after the decorticator made hemp fiber commercially superior, pushed by William Randolph Hearst's papers.
01:59:50Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
The word 'canvas' derives from cannabis; the first draft of the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
02:00:53Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
The Comedy Store's back bar was Mitzi Shore's actual bar from her house, and you had to be 'cool' or know someone to get in.
02:09:40Ron White · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2025
Doblin argues the DEA's 1985 emergency scheduling of MDMA was itself illegal because the power was never sub-delegated to the agency.
00:12:33Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
A non-psychedelic LSD variant (bromo-LSD) unexpectedly worked even better than LSD/psilocybin for cluster headaches.
00:27:39Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in August 2024 despite roughly two-thirds of severe patients no longer qualifying for a diagnosis after treatment.
01:06:47Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Phase 3 results: 88% of severe PTSD patients on MDMA were 'responders,' only 12% non-responders.
01:18:15Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Doblin describes a deathbed dream of a Holocaust survivor telling him his purpose is to 'bring back psychedelics' — his lifelong motivator.
01:26:41Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Cites Nixon aide John Ehrlichman admitting the drug war was designed to disrupt the anti-war and civil rights movements.
01:36:40Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Doblin recounts a DMT then ketamine experience grappling with the idea that 'Hitler is part of me too.'
01:53:50Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Doblin first tried MDMA in 1982, three years before it was made illegal in 1985.
00:05:17Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
MAPS won its case against the DEA multiple times in appeals court, with a judge ruling MDMA should be Schedule III.
00:11:32Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Rhabdomyolysis from over-exercise has ~26,000 reported cases annually with 5–20% mortality — used to argue exercise is riskier than ecstasy.
00:47:58Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
British drug adviser David Nutt was fired for showing horseback riding is more dangerous than ecstasy.
00:48:29Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Congress granted $10 million to the Department of Defense for MDMA-assisted therapy research in active-duty soldiers.
00:54:45Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
The Eleusinian Mysteries ran roughly 2,000 years before being wiped out by the Catholic Church in 396 AD.
01:37:13Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Nazi soldiers were given methamphetamine to push through Poland in three days with no sleep ('Blitzed').
01:59:33Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Carl Sagan was a secret heavy marijuana user who wrote about it under a pseudonym to protect his security clearance.
02:08:23Rick Doblin · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Button reveals there are only nine confirmed Homo sapiens sites older than 100,000 years globally, used to extrapolate 200,000 years of history.
00:20:10Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Describes the 476,000-year-old Kalambo (Colbo) wooden structure in Zambia as proof humans were building permanent structures hundreds of thousands of years before the Neolithic.
00:38:46Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Frames the bestseller 'Sapiens' as simply repackaging an academic consensus that he believes is wrong by over 400,000 years on when humans got smart.
00:42:23Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Cites John Anthony West's claim that the Sphinx could be 34,000 years old based on water erosion and precessional cycles.
01:11:26Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Introduces the Silurian hypothesis (proposed by physicist Adam Frank) that a non-human industrial civilization could have existed millions of years ago and left no trace.
01:36:48Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Both agree Earth is hit by a civilization-wiping cataclysmic impact roughly every 100,000 years, meaning it could have happened three times during our species' existence.
02:05:52Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Discusses Peru's three-fingered, three-toed mummies (via Jesse Michaels) whose CT scans show intact, non-human bone structure, one containing a fetus.
02:29:51Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Rogan ties the Peru mummies to the 1996 Varginha, Brazil UFO incident, where a soldier who handled a sulfur-smelling creature reportedly died of an incurable infection.
02:45:46Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Homo sapiens remains found in Morocco (Jebel Irhoud) in 2017 are 315,000+ years old, pushing back the age of our species by roughly a third.
00:02:36Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
The Late Bronze Age collapse saw multiple powerful empires fall almost simultaneously, possibly triggered by just a half-degree climate shift.
00:04:09Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Button argues concrete, glass, and metal from a city like Manhattan would crumble to imperceptible dust within 10,000 to 20,000 years.
00:17:36Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
The Sahara was green for about 9,000 years and turned to desert through rapid desertification right around when ancient Egypt is said to have emerged.
00:28:24Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
The Valley of the Whales south of Cairo contains hundreds of whale skeletons roughly 40 million years old, from when whales had legs and toes.
00:33:38Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
The Toba supervolcano eruption ~74,000 years ago may have crashed humanity to as few as 3,000 to 10,000 survivors.
00:43:25Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
The Clovis-first model collapsed after 22,000-year-old human footprints were found in New Mexico, far older than the supposed 13,000-year arrival.
01:14:30Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
The Antikythera mechanism is a roughly 2,000-year-old geared analog computer, with no comparable technology reappearing until Swiss clockmakers centuries later.
01:20:43Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Derinkuyu, the underground city in Turkey, could house around 20,000 people with livestock and food stores, extending about 85 meters underground.
01:47:49Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Andaman Islanders survived the 2004 tsunami with almost no casualties thanks to a cultural myth telling them to flee to high ground when the sea recedes.
02:01:14Michael Button · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2025
Rogan recounts texting Trump to legalize psychedelics and Trump replying 'let's do it,' leading to a White House event with veterans who used ibogaine.
00:55:37Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Describes being pulled into the gold-redecorated Oval Office and doing a live psychedelics pitch that Trump let him finish uninterrupted.
00:56:40Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Claims Tucker Carlson's encrypted Signal messages were decrypted for about $600,000 to expose his planned Putin interview.
00:59:43Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Lays out his read of a Border Patrol shooting hinging on the SIG P320's notorious accidental discharges.
01:10:01Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Says George Carlin had three heart attacks from cocaine and later battled a pill addiction late in life.
01:38:21Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Reveals his manager once staged an intervention thinking he had a gambling problem, when he was just eating steak and lobster every night.
01:54:57Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Tells how he saw Rodney Dangerfield perform naked under a bathrobe in 1986 while working as a teenage security guard.
02:49:30Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Recalls quitting his security-guard job mid-riot at a Neil Young concert, the same Neil Young who later pulled his music off Spotify over Rogan.
02:50:33Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
John Hinckley Jr., who shot Reagan, is now out and releasing music.
00:14:33Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
MK Ultra ran CIA brothels ('Operation Midnight Climax') dosing patrons with LSD behind two-way mirrors.
00:16:38Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Brock Lesnar's wife is former WWE wrestler Sable, and his daughter is a champion shot putter.
00:37:35Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Discussion that expired medication can stay effective long past its date, casting doubt on why expirations exist.
01:11:03Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Per Perplexity, a US universal healthcare system would cost ~$3.0-3.2T/year versus the current ~$5.3T, roughly a 40-50% savings.
01:14:37Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Hulk Hogan's $400,000 lawsuit settlement bought a house in France he jokingly named 'Chez Hogan.'
01:34:42Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Andrew Dice Clay was the original stadium stand-up act, playing arenas decades before it became common.
01:50:18Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Former Texas governor Rick Perry reportedly saw brain atrophy reverse (25% in weeks, 100% in months) after ibogaine.
02:11:26Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
The ShamWow is a synthetic chamois the inventor says he sourced as the best of seven samples from Korean factories.
02:39:08Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
An Oklahoma school principal tackled an armed former student, took a bullet to the leg, and got a hero's welcome at prom.
02:55:41Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir & friends (Protect Our Parks 16 panel) · The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2026
Symes argues new atheism is declining because it can criticize religion but cannot answer questions of meaning, ethics, and purpose.
00:05:10Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Symes frames the 'systemic problem of evil' — that a perfectly good God would not create evolution by natural selection requiring billions of years of suffering.
00:16:07Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Rogan states his personal philosophy: 'I am not married to my ideas,' and suggests the universe itself might be God.
00:13:30Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Rogan argues any death by a hunter is more humane than how animals die in the wild from starvation, freezing, or predators.
00:42:24Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Both agree humans, despite cities and morals, are still beasts inside the natural world.
01:09:59Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Symes claims if the multiverse is real, agnostics should be deeply worried given uncountable universes of suffering.
02:02:20Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Symes raises the under-reported negative effects of psychedelics — a third of affected people report effects lasting over a year.
02:18:24Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Symes argues free speech is subject to higher values like life and flourishing, citing Mill's harm principle.
02:36:04Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Roger Penrose calculated the universe's initial low-entropy state at odds of 1 in 10^10^123.
00:10:54Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Roughly 98-99% of chickens, turkeys, and pigs are kept in factory farms despite most people calling caging cruel.
00:26:57Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
About 77% of global soy production goes to feeding farmed animals; only ~7% is consumed directly by humans.
00:51:46Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Dan Flores theorized the massive Buffalo herds of the Great Plains were a population explosion caused by plague killing 90% of Native Americans.
00:55:25Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Hitler was on oxycodone and the Nazis used methamphetamines, per Norman Ohler's research.
00:53:50Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
In 2001 the UK had 70% identifying as Christian; now it is less than half, with the US trailing about 23 years behind.
01:25:27Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
In a survey of ~700 people with negative psychedelic experiences, ~90% still agreed the insights were worth the risks.
02:22:34Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Some scholars argue the Bible's burning bush was an acacia bush rich in DMT (dimethyltryptamine).
02:16:20Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Symes cites Elon Musk endorsing a panpsychist view that consciousness is either nowhere or everywhere.
01:53:36Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Dairy cows are typically sent to slaughter after about five years once milk production drops.
00:30:34Jack Symes · The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024
Joe describes a mushroom-trip revelation that he hits a specific healthy 'frequency' and that drinking alcohol would dull it.
01:02:13Theo Von · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024

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