This film or show by Steven Spielberg has come up 5 times on Joe Rogan. 5 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Joe Rogan. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-06-27 and the most recent from 2026-04-09. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
Joe Rogan Experience #2481 - Duncan Trussell
“He was involved in Close Encounters, which still is a great movie. Great. It's so good, man. You go back and watch that movie.”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Duncan Trussell: Comedian, podcaster (The Duncan Trussell Family Hour), and creator of Netflix's The Midnight Gospel. A longtime Rogan friend known for psychedelic, spiritual, and conspiratorial riffing. Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell free-associate through AI doom, war propaganda, UFO disclosure, simulation theory, and nonprofit fraud.
Joe Rogan Experience #2249 - Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano
“you ever see that close encounters Stevens spieler long time ago great movie but there was this French scientist they bring in”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano: Stand-up comedians and co-hosts of the History Hyenas podcast, longtime friends from the New York comedy scene. Comedians Yannis Pappas and Chris Distefano riff with Joe Rogan on history, conspiracies, AI, drones, UFOs and cannibalism.
Joe Rogan Experience #2246 - James Fox
“great [ __ ] movie by the way if you haven't seen it folks close encs for the third time probably the best Alien Invasion movie of all time”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is James Fox: UFO documentary filmmaker with 30 years of field research; director of The Program, Moment of Contact, The Phenomenon, Out of the Blue, and I Know What I Saw. UFO documentarian James Fox makes the case for non-human intelligence, crash retrievals, and the East Coast drone wave amid a push for government transparency.
Joe Rogan Experience #1984 - Brian Redban
“that's the recreation of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind scene which is amazing scene remember that scene this is such a good movie”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Brian Redban: Comedian, longtime JRE producer/engineer, and owner of the Sunset Strip Comedy Club in Austin, located next door to Joe's Comedy Mothership. Joe Rogan and Brian Redban riff on Austin's comedy boom, smartphones, AI deepfakes, VR, food, and exotic cats.
Joe Rogan Experience #2110 - Fahim Anwar
“Close Encounters is pretty [ __ ] amazing that might be the best UFO alien movie”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Fahim Anwar: Stand-up comedian and former Boeing engineer of Afghan descent, known for his alter-ego character Lance and his self-released YouTube special House Money. Comedian Fahim Anwar joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling chat on the comedy scene, social media censorship, Muhammad Ali, and Fear Factor.
