Joe Rogan Experience #1226 - Mike Baker

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

January 17, 2019

Duration

2h 21m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Mike Baker is a former CIA covert operations officer. Currently he is the president of Diligence LLC, a global intelligence and security firm.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Mike Baker

  guest

• Guest

  guest

• Guest

  guest

• Narrator

  other

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Mike Baker, Joe Rogan Experience #1226 - Mike Baker explores Ex-CIA officer unpacks black budgets, covert wars, and modern geopolitics Joe Rogan and former CIA officer Mike Baker discuss Baker’s upcoming TV series “Black Files,” which explores hidden U.S. defense and intelligence budgets, secret programs, and historical black operations. They move into a wide-ranging conversation on secrecy, leaks, and the culture of special operations, including the ethics of operators writing books and revealing missions. The discussion then shifts to contemporary geopolitics: Syria, ISIS, the Kurds, Russia, China, Huawei, cyber-espionage, and space warfare, as well as Trump’s presidency, media dysfunction, and the government shutdown. They close by touching on domestic issues like student debt, universal basic income, surveillance capitalism, and classic conspiracy cases like JFK and MLK.

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