Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- November 20, 2019
- Duration
- 2h 10m
- Channel
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Louis Psihoyos is a photographer and documentary film director known for his still photography and contributions to National Geographic. His film "The Cove" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010.
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Joe Rogan
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Louie Psihoyos, Joe Rogan Experience #1388 - Louie Psihoyos explores dolphins, Dying Oceans, and Reinventing Food: A Planet in Peril Louie Psihoyos, director of *The Cove* and *Racing Extinction*, explains how his shift from still photography to undercover filmmaking exposed the brutal dolphin hunts in Japan and broader oceanic collapse. He and Joe Rogan discuss marine intelligence—especially dolphins and whales—as well as overfishing, mercury contamination, coral bleaching, and sewage and plastic pollution. They explore how industrial fishing, factory farming, and cheap plastics are driving a human-caused mass extinction and degrading ecosystems before we even understand them. The conversation ends on possible solutions: large marine reserves, rethinking seafood and meat via plant-based and lab-grown alternatives, decarbonizing transport, using powerful media to spur action, and changing personal consumption.
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