The guest
Brian Redban: Comedian, co-producer of Kill Tony, and Joe Rogan's longtime friend and former JRE producer.
What this episode covers
This is a loose, wide-ranging hang between Joe Rogan and Brian Redban with no single topic. They open on Redban's genuine anxiety about World War III, the Israel-Hamas conflict, and prepping his house with Tesla solar and Starlink. The conversation drifts through UFOs and secret military aircraft, an extended gadget debate (iPhone vs Samsung vs Sony cameras, foldables, VR headsets, the Apple Vision Pro), AI as a future president, and heavy skepticism about media, censorship, and engineered social-media outrage. The back half turns lighter and pop-culture heavy: the Kill Tony comedy scene, the Niemann-Carlsen chess cheating scandal, video games, a diet-soda/aspartame autism study, and a long tangent on why culture tolerates on-screen violence but not sex.
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Starlink
SpaceX
“it was great it works everywhere”
“I was in the mountains in Utah and they had starlink and it was great it works everywhere it's really”— Joe Rogan
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Tim Burton
“I love that movie it's so fun”
“peewee's big adventure is like one of my I love that movie it's so fun MH I remember I went to see that movie”— Joe Rogan
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Watchmen
Zack Snyder
“it's one of the best superhero movies ever”
“they had that one amazing movie right it's one of the best superhero movies ever anti-s superhero movie”— Joe Rogan
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Sony Pictures Animation
“it almost made me cry how good it was; my two favorite top favorite movies of all time”
“those two movies are probably my two favorite top favorite movies of all time I think well it's such a good superhero movie”— Brian Redban
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Road Dog
“you should watch the trailer it's it's like whoa”
“the movie is called Road dog and Jamie said uh it actually won some awards oh the road dog and is this about Comics”— Joe Rogan
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter
“it's stupid but it's fun, it's a good vampire movie”
“it's a vampire movie it's about Dracula's coffin getting transported across the ocean on a boat cool it's pretty fun”— Joe Rogan
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Tesla Solar (with Powerwall battery)
Tesla
“I'm getting Tesla solar right now you know battery pack so I can live off the grid and yeah”— Brian Redban
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Samsung Galaxy S21
Samsung
“that made me buy the Galaxy S21 or whatever it was at the time I I was like I have to get this”— Brian Redban
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Google Pixel Fold
“that pixel yeah dude that is sweet that is Sweet Apple needs to jump on that you know they will”— Joe Rogan
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Sony Xperia
Sony
“a lot of people that are like legit photographers they love that Sony phone because you can it you go into it”— Joe Rogan
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Apple Vision Pro
Apple
“this first generation of theirs the the battery you're wearing it on your like belt which is what everybody loves”— Brian Redban
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Meta Quest 3
Meta
“the new one that Quest 3 comes out tomorrow and uh that that's a million times better than it was before”— Brian Redban
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iPod
Apple
“I love the iPods I used to love iPod still that was a solid product the Little Wheel the clicking on it solid product”— Joe Rogan
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Apple Newton
Apple
“here it is the Apple Newton and that's even a newer one I think I think there was even an older looking one than that”— Joe Rogan
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Apple Power Mac G4 Cube
Apple
“I like the cube I like the cube I thought that was I like the iPods I used to love iPod”— Joe Rogan
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Diet Coke
Coca-Cola
“Elon was talking about like how much Diet Coke he drinks that guy's drinking diet coke I am not that worried”— Joe Rogan
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Pokemon Go
Niantic
“I remember going to The Comedy Store literally every single com had their phone open playing it people on the sidewalk”— Brian Redban
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Subway Surfers
SYBO Games
“Subway Surfers Subway Surfers is addictive man people love that uh yeah but you know there's like parent games”— Brian Redban
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Grand Theft Auto
Rockstar Games
“I watched four hours of a guy playing putter playing J uh Grand Theft Auto role playing last night”— Brian Redban
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Diablo
Blizzard Entertainment
“like if you're watching someone like you're watching Elon play Diablo and you play Diablo something's exciting about that”— Joe Rogan
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Quake 3
id Software
“that was uh when they were developing Quake 3 yeah yeah that was awesome to be able to play Quake with those guys”— Joe Rogan
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StarCraft
Blizzard Entertainment
“like Korea Starcraft was the big one right they used to have those giant tournaments yep”— Joe Rogan
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League of Legends
Riot Games
“now it's like League of Legends China One Us 2 for video game players I guess”— Joe Rogan
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Chess.com
“chess.com which has millions of users around the world concluded in a 72-page report released last October that Neeman had likely cheated”— Joe Rogan
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YouTube TV
“I just switched over to YouTube TV TV it's just it's cable through YouTube yeah good it's so integrated now”— Brian Redban
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The Mist
Stephen King
“that's a good Stephen King book that book is creepy mhm they did a good job with the movie the latest”— Joe Rogan
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Salem's Lot
Stephen King
“there was a Salem's Lot with Rob low oh yeah when was that my girlfriend saw it 2004 okay that makes sense”— Joe Rogan
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Idiocracy
Mike Judge
“you know the movie Idiocracy you know the movie Idiocracy that now before a chess match there might be a choice”— Joe Rogan
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
“you don't sponsor Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but if you did like who's who wants to get in on that sponsorship”— Joe Rogan
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Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino
“Kill Bill available on YouTube exactly seems like I bet it is YouTube movies bet you can buy Kill Bill yep”— Joe Rogan
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Deep Throat
“when deep throat came out regular people went to go see it like it was a movie including Johnny Carson”— Joe Rogan
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The Brown Bunny
Vincent Gallo
“do you remember that movie brown bunny no that was a Vincent Gallow movie where Vincent Gallow had an actual sex scene in the movie”— Joe Rogan
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The Apprentice
“I was one of the biggest Apprentice fans ever I got had had all his books because of The Apprentice”— Joe Rogan
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Audition: A Memoir
Barbara Walters
“Barbara Walters mentions having seen the film in her autobiography audition a memoir and Jimmy McMillan considered it to be his favorite film”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Redban admits nightly Armageddon anxiety and is buying Tesla solar plus a battery so he can live off the grid.
- Rogan says he discussed an 'AI president' with Sam Altman as the only path to unbiased, uncontrolled government.
- They recap the Hans Niemann vs Magnus Carlsen chess cheating scandal, including the viral vibrating-anal-beads rumor and the settlement.
- They cover a study linking mothers' daily diet-soda/aspartame intake during pregnancy to a 3x higher autism rate in boys.
- They trace aspartame's controversial FDA approval to alleged Donald Rumsfeld / Searle / Monsanto 'shenanigans.'
- Rogan argues much political polarization is engineered by bots, foreign actors, and government-pressured platform censorship.
Worth remembering
- An unmanned aircraft able to drop from extreme altitude to ground level reportedly existed roughly 20 years ago.
- US nuclear missile systems were reportedly still controlled by floppy disks until 2019.
- Each Iron Dome interceptor missile reportedly costs about $40,000 to $50,000.
- Pokemon Go still has roughly a million US players, with the US leading Japan in active players.
- Deep Throat (1972) may have grossed up to $600M (about $4.2B today), ranking among the highest-grossing films ever.
- Japanese law requires pixelating genitals/insertion in porn, which allegedly led to the rise of 'tentacle porn.'
- Modern fighter-jet helmets (the BAE Striker II) act as AR displays where the crosshairs follow the pilot's eyes.
- Three out of four Americans reportedly play video games; China leads with over 665 million gamers.
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