#2416 - Dan Farah
Joe Rogan talks with filmmaker Ben about his documentary "The Age of Disclosure," which focuses on UAPs/UFOs and testimony from government, military, and intelligence officials. They discuss alleged crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs, non-human craft and beings, nuclear and oceanic UAP activity, and a secret high-stakes technology race with China and Russia. The conversation also explores government secrecy, the need for amnesty and whistleblower protections, remote viewing programs, and the personal risks taken by those trying to bring this information to the public.
#2403 - Andrew Gallimore
Joe Rogan talks with Andrew, a scientist and author of "Death by Astonishment," about the phenomenology and neuroscience of DMT and why he believes the DMT state is one of the deepest mysteries in science. They explore how the brain constructs reality, how DMT experiences differ from dreams and ordinary hallucinations, and the possibility that DMT may allow contact with non-human intelligences or post-biological civilizations. The conversation also covers near-death experiences, artificial superintelligence, simulation-like views of reality, Japanese urban culture, and a new continuous-infusion DMT research approach known as DMTX.
#2401 - Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb discusses the anomalous interstellar object 3I Atlas, arguing that its unusual trajectory, mass, and composition warrant serious consideration of technological or otherwise non-standard explanations rather than automatic classification as a normal comet. He contrasts the scientific community's resistance and institutional inertia with the high potential stakes of discovering alien technology, and describes his own efforts such as the Galileo Project and an expedition to recover fragments of an interstellar meteor. The conversation also explores AI-driven societal risks, philosophical humility about humanity's place in the cosmos, and concrete proposals for systematically searching for extraterrestrial intelligence and technosignatures.
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff
Joe Rogan talks with actor Katie Sackhoff about her career-defining role as Starbuck in the Battlestar Galactica reboot, how that show reshaped science fiction television, and what it was like to gender-swap a beloved male character amid early internet backlash. They dive into the emotional power of sci‑fi and entertainment as escapism, the rise of AI in art and media, parenting in a social‑media-saturated world, and the profound perspective she gained from her young daughter's rare cancer diagnosis and the broken pediatric healthcare system. The conversation widens into AI as an emerging life form, homelessness and addiction, underfunded education and pediatric medicine, the possibility of extraterrestrial life and strange objects like 31 Atlas, and why strong female characters in sci‑fi mattered so much to her.
Cosmic Queries - ALIENS! with Jake Roper
Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck interview YouTube science communicator Jake Roper in a Cosmic Queries episode focused on aliens in movies and TV. They discuss the plausibility of alien diseases, energy weapons, and iconic movie aliens, as well as how humanity might react to first contact, whether governments would hide evidence of intelligent life, and why self-replicating machines are a likely form of extraterrestrial visitors. Throughout, they compare cinematic depictions with basic physics, biology, and astrobiology concepts to assess what could and could not work in reality.
What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall
Host Elise Hugh introduces a 2003 TED Talk by primatologist Jane Goodall, presented as a tribute after news of her death, highlighting her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees and its impact on how we understand humans and other animals. In the talk, Goodall describes chimpanzee cognition and culture, the environmental and social forces threatening great apes and human communities, and her youth program Roots and Shoots. She closes by arguing that hope lies in our individual and collective choices to live more lightly on the planet and act with compassion toward all life.