The Joe Rogan Experience

Arsenio Hall, comedian and TV icon behind The Arsenio Hall Show and Coming to America, gets into comedy history, wild club stories, and the chaos of learning onstage. He revisits reinventing late night, music's role in great conversations, jazz and Quincy Jones, aging and fame, modern parenting, and the strange pull of politics and media.

Bob Lazar, the Area 51 whistleblower at the center of UFO lore, joins Luigi Vendittelli, a filmmaker and VFX artist behind S4: The Bob Lazar Story. They dig into recreating S4 with CGI, eerie details sparked by the visuals, impossible craft materials, element 115, extreme secrecy, AI as humanity’s future, and wild links to ancient tech and buried civilizations.

Theo Von, stand-up comic and This Past Weekend creator, brings his eccentric style to a wild chat about AI romance, censorship, war, media distrust, and the strange pull of nicotine vapes. He also gets personal about quitting antidepressants through exercise. Plus, he shares the scrappy story behind making Busboys with David Spade and why independent comedy still matters.

Rick Perry, former Texas governor and U.S. energy secretary, joins W. Bryan Hubbard, CEO of Americans for Ibogaine and policy advocate. They dig into Texas’s $100 million ibogaine push, veterans and addiction treatment, brain injury and concussion research, political hurdles, DEA roadblocks, and the surprising coalition building momentum across red states and beyond.

Shanna H. Swan, environmental epidemiologist and author of Count Down, dives into how plasticizers, microplastics, PFAS, and fragranced products may affect fertility and hormones. They get into home testing, coffee and cookware, contaminated water and clothing, wildlife warning signs, and simple swaps to cut everyday chemical exposure.

Andrew Jarecki, filmmaker behind The Jinx and co-director of The Alabama Solution, digs into the hidden brutality of Alabama prisons. He explores guard corruption, contraband economies, inmate strikes, witness intimidation, and prison labor. The conversation also touches on wrongful convictions, Robert Durst, social media tribalism, and why transparency can shake powerful systems.

Dave Smith, comedian, political commentator, libertarian voice, and Part of the Problem creator, dives into suspicious market trades, institutional rot, and bot-driven online narratives. He and Joe Rogan hit Gaza, immigration, COVID-era fallout, Libya and Iran war fears, then pivot to MMA psychology, heavyweight talent, UFC economics, and the chaos of weight cutting.

Bill Thompson, a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer and Spartan Forge founder, joins for a wild mix of frontier rendezvous culture, off-grid camp life, and why rites of passage still matter. They also get into cyber warfare, hidden U.S. operations in the Philippines, smartphone surveillance, digital centralization, military meritocracy, and the limits of AI hype.

Jeff Ross, comic and the Roastmaster General, gets into stand-up’s booming scene, his rescue dog Nipsey, and the wild absurdity of fame and public scandals. He also talks about losing his parents young, remembering iconic comics, surviving colon cancer, opening up about alopecia, and how USO tours shaped his new special.

Joey Diaz, a wild storyteller and comic actor, joins Eddie Bravo, 10th Planet jiu-jitsu founder, and Brendan Schaub, ex-UFC heavyweight turned podcaster. They bounce from White House fight-card chaos and weird matchmaking to war propaganda, celebrity conspiracies, peptides, stem cells, wild animal talk, and heated debate over Movsar Evloev’s big win.