Speaker
Joe Rogan
Appearances over time
15 episodes
Episodes
15
#2537 - David Sinclair
#2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride
#2535 - Andrew Wilson
JRE MMA Show #183 with Rico Verhoeven
#2527 - MrBeast
#2526 - JD Vance
#2525 - Nick Bostrom
#2522 - Tony Hinchcliffe
#2521 - Aravind Srinivas
#2520 - Tommy Lee
#2519 - Scott Eastwood
#2518 - Tim Dillon
#2517 - Taylor Sheridan
JRE MMA Show #181 with Justin Gaethje & Trevor Wittman
#2501 - Marc Andreessen
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Rico Verhoeven dominated approximately 10 of 12 rounds against undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk before a controversial post-bell stoppage.
A recent Gallup poll found roughly 70% of Americans think marijuana should be fully legalized, and 88-89% support legalization in at least some form.
Some betting books had Gaethje as a 6-to-1 underdog heading into the Topuria fight, which Joe Rogan called 'very disrespectful.'
Every single fight at the UFC White House event ended in a knockout — the only time in the sport's history that has happened on a single card.
An FBI analyst estimated that 80% of Twitter traffic consists of bots, according to Joe Rogan.
The ASML EUV chip-making machine hits 50,000 tin droplets every single second with a laser, each three times, and never misses a shot.
A statistic cited on-screen showed 88.72% of ShotSpotter alerts resulted in no police finding evidence of gun crime — though the hosts argue this doesn't mean the shots weren't fired.
Joe Rogan claimed England arrests more people for social media posts than Russia and China combined, framing it as a sign of dangerous government overreach.
Florida's Everglades is estimated to have around 500,000 invasive Burmese pythons, largely attributed to the pet trade releasing them.
Rick Springfield, age 76, performs shirtless with the same passion and energy as when he first wrote 'Jesse's Girl', stunning both Joe and Tommy.
Joe Biden underwent two life-saving brain surgeries in 1989 to repair intracranial aneurysms — a fact JD Vance said he had never heard before.
The EUV chip machine heats each tin droplet to over 220,000 Kelvin — roughly 40 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
According to Perplexity, scholars date the oldest layer of the Rig Veda to approximately 1500–1200 BCE, making it roughly 3,200–3,700 years old today.
The ASML machine overlays chip layers with precision never exceeding 5 atoms of error, all while parts accelerate at over 20 Gs.
California spent $24 billion on the homeless problem and no one could account for where the money went; Governor Newsom vetoed an audit of the spending.
Chicago voluntarily turned off ShotSpotter — precision microphone arrays that triangulate gunshots in real time — after activists argued the tech was inaccurate and racially biased. The result: people get shot, bleed out in the street, and nobody responds. Andreessen points out the grim irony: the victims of this policy are the very communities it claimed to protect.
There are two equally compelling moral definitions of fairness: proportional reward for effort, and equal outcomes for all. Both feel instinctively correct, but they're in direct conflict with each other. Until you force someone to choose between these two frameworks, you can never actually have the political argument.
Isaac Newton spent 20 years searching for the philosopher's stone to turn lead into gold. We just found the modern equivalent: turning sand into thought. Chips are made of silicon (sand), powered up in data centers, and made to think. This might be the most revolutionary technology in the history of the species — and it's happening right now.
Andreessen believes we crossed artificial general intelligence roughly three months ago with the latest releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. On 99% of topics, these models now give better answers than virtually any human expert. The reason it didn't make headlines: most people are still using last year's models.
Forty years ago, all chips were made in California. Environmental regulations made it impossible to run chip plants there, so production moved to Taiwan. Now the US depends on Taiwan for its entire semiconductor supply — and is staring down the possibility of a Chinese invasion. That's the entire story. It's regulations.
The 2025 LA fires destroyed twice the area of the Nagasaki bomb — and virtually nothing has been rebuilt. Andreessen estimates it will take up to 15 years because permitting in California is nearly impossible on a good day, and the politics of affordable housing quotas and contractor shortages make it worse. Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and half of Malibu: effectively gone.
A friend of Andreessen built himself a Star Trek-style health dashboard: full genome decoded ($200), blood panels, Apple Watch data, electronic health records, all fed into an AI. It told him he wasn't hydrated enough — and when he said 'do whatever it takes,' it started watching him through his webcam and praising him when it saw him walking to the fridge. The genie is in the bottle. You just have to decide what to ask.
Nixon's Project Independence planned 1,000 civilian nuclear power plants by the year 2000, which would have powered the entire US on carbon-free energy and eliminated Middle East oil dependency. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission went 40 years without approving a single new plant design. Result: 50 years of unnecessary carbon emissions — and all the chips that should have been made in California ended up in Taiwan.
For 60 years, the Turing test was the gold standard: if a human can't tell whether they're talking to a machine or a person, the machine wins. AI blew right through it during Christmas 2022 when ChatGPT launched — so fast and so decisively that nobody even bothered to formally run the test. It was yesterday's news before the field had time to celebrate.
California's proposed asset tax calculates liability on the greater of your economic or voting interest in a company. For tech founders with super-voting stock, this means a tax bill that by definition exceeds their liquid assets — instant bankruptcy. Andreessen calls it a Trojan horse: today it targets billionaires, but once the mechanism is in place, the threshold will inevitably drop to hit everyone.
Gane started as a basketball player — all plyometrics and agility — and that athleticism translates directly to his striking style. At 248 pounds, he moves like a welterweight. Pereira may have paid the price for putting on too much weight while transitioning from MMA to boxing.
Concussed and confused in an ambulance after the Max Holloway knockout, Gaethje asked 'I got knocked out?' six or seven times. Every single time his answer was the same: 'Good for him.' That's not a trained response — that's character at the subconscious level.
Getting hit with a liver shot didn't cost Gaethje the fight — it won it for him. Topuria sensed Gaethje was hurt and blew his entire gas tank trying to finish in one burst, leaving nothing for the final three rounds.
Topuria's unstoppable confidence — knowing exactly what ice cream he wants and grabbing it — won him three straight fights. But when you get stale, nasty mint chocolate chip, you have no plan B. Gaethje knew that and told him so before the fight.
Austin disabled its Flock AI camera system over surveillance concerns — then watched helplessly as teenage suspects drove through 10 shooting locations undetected. The moment they crossed into a neighboring town with Flock still active, they were tagged instantly. The mayor then held a press conference calling for the system's reinstatement.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Society & Culture 24%
- Sports 21%
- Health & Fitness 11%
- Technology 11%
- Business 8%
- Comedy 8%
- News 3%
- Religion & Spirituality 3%
- Science 3%
- History 3%
- Government 3%
- Education 2%
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