10 Best Joe Rogan Experience Episodes
If you are a podcast person or consider yourself among the tech/art/science/know-it-all community, it’s difficult to say you haven’t heard about the humongous podcast series named The Joe Rogan Experience(JRE).
When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it. — Joe Rogan
For those living under a rock — JRE is one of what is called “long form media” with each episode varying anywhere between 90 mins to 3 hours. The episodes do not have a pre established checklist or agenda (also why its fun!). But almost all of them revolve around the expertise of the guests that visit Joe’s man cave.
Joe Rogan Experience #1169 — Elon Musk could be tagged as the most famous episode of JRE till date and you’ll find it mentioned in other similar lists. I would say it really caught the wind with all the memes that poured in after that episode went live. Ranging from space travel to underground tunnels to colonizing mars to secret hidden features in Tesla cars and all of this while watching the spacex guy smoke pot and treat himself with a glass of whiskey. Aagh. Do you even need anything more?
So for this list I am going to drop that episode and move to the bests among the rest. Fair? Fair!
1. Joe Rogan Experience #1347 — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator. Neil is one of the ‘regulars’ on the show and it’s always amazing to watch him talk about the cosmos and the known and unknown stuff about the universe and unravel layer by layer some of his interesting findings.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff” — Carl Sagan
If the know where this comes from you would not wanna miss previous episodes where Neil appeared #1159, #919, #310.
2. Joe Rogan Experience #1439 — Michael Osterholm
Michael T. Osterholm is an American infectious disease epidemiologist, regents professor, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Given the current world scenario with the coronavirus pandemic, Michael Osterholm shares how he almost predicted it in his book Deadliest Enemy released in 2017. Osterholm blows it over straight and honest with the reality check of latest and would be the costliest pandemic in human history.
3. Joe Rogan Experience #1368 — Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcontractor.
Snowden now in exile for 6 years shares his time in the US agencies and what led him to break his silence on what went down at these organisations. His book Permanent Record received very high criticism from US government. But his take on people rights, privacy and surveillance is something people of the digital age should understand.
“You can’t awaken someone who is pretending to be asleep”
Snowden quotes one of his mates to end the episode. *shivers*
4. Joe Rogan Experience #1315 — Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbell
Bob Lazar is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and also on reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology at a site called S-4 near the Area 51 Groom Lake operating location. Jeremy Corbell is a contemporary artist and documentary filmmaker.
The story of Bob Lazar is astonishing, spread over the span of 30 years. Finally compiling and releasing a documentary on Netflix in 2018, Bob claims all he has done is nothing but an insurance.
5. Joe Rogan Experience #737 — Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist and 7-time winner of the Tour de France.
Lance and Joe discuss about the doping test which Lance failed. There is much more to the ‘synthetically induced strength’ world of drugs and how the authorities draw lines on what is permissible and what is not.
Overall a great conversation with one of the greatest athletes I have known
6. Joe Rogan Experience #1109 — Matthew Walker
Matthew Walker is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.
Walker has some insane yet proven facts to share about sleep. The episode deep dives into what goes on while we dream, why we dream and different sleep patterns people have adopted over years. How school times make a huge difference and well just about everything you might wanna think about before cutting down on your sleep for that one last Netflix episode.
7. Joe Rogan Experience #1227 — Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard “Mike” Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title.
One of the few delights of life is to watch Mike Tyson say “Awesome”, you’ll know why when you watch it. Joe and Tyson share their thoughts over MMA, cannabis and all the things that are hazardous to health. And it’s great.
Tyson talks about his new venture ‘Tyson Ranch — Better cannabis’. It was one of the best episodes of the podcast to have a legend like Mike Tyson share his thoughts unfiltered.
8. Joe Rogan Experience #1178 — Dr. Rhonda Patrick
Dr. Rhonda Patrick is a Ph.D in biomedical science and expert on nutritional health. Her groundbreaking work includes studies of how vitamin and mineral inadequacies impact metabolism, inflammation, DNA, and aging, and whether supplementation can reverse the damage.
Dr. Patrick shares her time with her new born and its an absolute delight to watch scientists talk about what they observe in their kids. Its a great episode to know more about what we eat and why we eat it
9.Joe Rogan Experience #1459 — Tom O’Neill
Tom O’Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter whose work has appeared in national publications such as Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice and Details. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties was published by Little, Brown in the summer of 2019.
Another CIA and conspiracy stuff? Don’t look at me like that, I’ve got an anti institutional knack. Tom O’Neill shares his work over three decades on collecting and reporting on the infamous Manson Murders . O’Neill shares his tough times and things he had pull to get through this book.
10. Joe Rogan Experience #1201 — William von Hippel
William von Hippel, Ph. D., grew up in Alaska, got his B.A. at Yale and his PhD at the University of Michigan, and then taught for a dozen years at Ohio State University before finding his way to Australia, where he is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland.
With his new book The Social Leap William Von Hippel shares the human evolution from the perspective of a psychologist. If you have read Yuval Noah Harrari’s The Sapiens. This Episode is gonna be a mesmerizing experience. William starts with how we grew up to be throwers.
Bonus
Considering that Neil deGrasse Tyson made it to the top of my list, if you find your interests in astrophysics and particle physics and the newtonian vs quantum laws. There are a couple more guests you should give a listen to.
- Joe Rogan Experience #1428 — Brian Greene
- Joe Rogan Experience #1352 — Sean Carroll
- Joe Rogan Experience #1130 — Adam Frank
