#2417 - Ben van Kerkwyk
Joe Rogan and Ben explore evidence for advanced ancient civilizations, focusing on the lost Egyptian Labyrinth at Hawara, mysterious underground structures beneath the Giza Plateau and Sphinx, and megalithic sites in Peru and Bolivia like Tiwanaku and Ollantaytambo. They discuss geological and geodetic data suggesting extreme antiquity for some monuments, sacred geometry and astronomical encoding in the Great Pyramid, and the possibility that humanity has risen to high levels of technology before being reset by cataclysms. The episode also covers academic resistance to these ideas, the role of new scanning technologies, and even legendary technologies like Solomon's Shamir.
#2408 - Bret Weinstein
Joe Rogan describes an unusually vivid dream involving humanoid beings and uses it as a springboard to ask Brett about what dreams are and how lucid dreaming works. They then move into an extended discussion of artificial intelligence as an emergent, biology-like phenomenon, its potential to manipulate humans, and its interaction with social media, sexuality, education, and governance. The conversation also covers intelligence agencies, systemic corruption, pedophilia and blackmail, COVID-19 policy and vaccines, pharmaceutical incentives, wealth, socialism versus markets, academic resistance to paradigm shifts, and whether there is a viable path from the current crisis to a healthier societal structure.
The Limits of Knowing with Elise Crull
Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice talk with philosopher of physics Elise Crull about the historical and contemporary relationship between physics and philosophy. They trace how natural philosophy split into specialized disciplines, how foundational concepts like space, time, and objectivity shaped classical and modern physics, and why questions raised by quantum mechanics-such as entanglement and non-locality-force a reevaluation of those concepts. The conversation also explores academic specialization, the role of philosophy in guiding cutting-edge physics, and Neil's nuanced critique of modern academic philosophy.
#2397 - Richard Lindzen & William Happer
Joe Rogan speaks with atmospheric scientist Dick Linson and physicist Will Happer about climate science, the history of climate narratives, and how they believe politics and funding have distorted the field. They discuss CO2, water vapor, ice ages, solar variability, and climate models, while arguing that the current climate crisis narrative is exaggerated and tightly tied to financial and political incentives. The conversation also explores historical analogies like eugenics and the Salem witch trials, structural issues in academia and peer review, and the psychological and societal impacts of climate alarmism.