Joe Rogan Experience #2132 - Andrew Schulz

This wide-ranging, unstructured conversation between Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz jumps across conspiracy-adjacent topics and personal philosophy. They open on sociopathy and power, the Diddy and Epstein scandals, and how money and fear shape entertainment and politics. Long stretches cover the military-industrial complex, war profiteering, China's long game, Bob Lazar's Area 51 UFO account, and the 'farm for souls' theory. They also dig into the importance of doing hard things, raising kids, the COVID vaccine debate, American freedom and pride, and the language and ethics of comedy including joke theft. The episode closes on ancient mysteries like the pyramids and the Antikythera mechanism.

• Schulz recounts a CIA guest who described himself as close to a sociopath, lacking normal guilt while knowing when he should feel it.
  00:00:33
• Rogan claims the anonymous woman behind the Andrew Huberman hit piece is being investigated by the DOJ for fraud, a detail he says the article omitted.
  00:21:27
• The FDA agreed to delete its 'you are not a horse' ivermectin social media posts after losing in court, without admitting wrongdoing.
  02:04:08
• Rogan recounts having dinner with Bob Lazar before his podcast, saying Lazar seemed authentic and almost traumatized rather than a charismatic liar.
  01:09:51
• Rogan relays Lazar's claim that humanity is essentially a 'farm for souls' for advanced beings who may need souls AI cannot provide.
  01:20:41
• Schulz says his public stand against Mancini's joke theft cost him his agency and got him banned from the comedy club, with heavy fan blowback.
  03:00:23
• A court filing reportedly alleges Diddy had hundreds of hidden cameras across his homes in LA, New York, and Miami.
  03:18:40

• Fritz Haber's nitrogen-fixation method is credited for roughly 50% of the nitrogen in human bodies today, while he also developed poison gas used in WWI and the basis of Zyklon B.
  00:33:27
• Element 115, which Bob Lazar described in 1989, was not confirmed via particle collider until the 2000s.
  01:14:59
• Orangutans have been observed spearfishing and using tools, with researchers suggesting they have entered their own Stone Age.
  01:24:48
• The tomb of China's first emperor remains unopened because it is believed to be booby-trapped with mercury, and surrounding soil tests show high mercury levels.
  01:33:35
• Rogan cites studies claiming all-cause mortality rose significantly in some age groups, as high as 40%, after vaccine rollout.
  02:08:49
• The Sultan of Brunei reportedly spent an average of $747,000 a day for a decade and named a yacht 'Tits' with tenders 'Nipple 1' and 'Nipple 2'.
  03:26:30
• The Antikythera mechanism, recovered from a Greek shipwreck, is the oldest known analog computer, used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses.
  03:50:56
• George Washington's dentures were fitted into a lead mold, meaning he effectively carried lead in his mouth daily.
  03:36:23