Joe Rogan Experience #1436 - Adam Curry

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 4, 2020

Duration

3h 2m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Adam Curry is a podcaster, announcer, internet entrepreneur and media personality, known for his stint as VJ on MTV and being one of the first celebrities personally to create and administer Web sites. Check out his podcast "No Agenda" with new shows available every Sunday and Thursday. http://www.noagendashow.com/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Adam Curry

  guest

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Narrator

  other

• Narrator

  other

• Narrator

  other

• Narrator

  other

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Adam Curry and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1436 - Adam Curry explores Adam Curry on Data Slavery, Podcast Origins, and Real Digital Freedom Joe Rogan and Adam Curry cover everything from digital surveillance and data commodification to the invention and evolution of podcasting, as well as culture, drugs, hunting, homelessness, and technology skepticism. Curry details how smartphones, apps, and financial/insurance platforms quietly track and train user behavior, arguing that the core business model of Big Tech has “enslaved” people. He recounts the technical and cultural birth of podcasting, his meeting with Steve Jobs, and why he built a listener‑funded, ad‑free show that treats the audience as “producers.” The conversation also ranges through lifestyle topics—dance, helicopters, hunting ethics, psychedelics, homelessness solutions, vaping politics, and hearing‑aid “cyborg” enhancements—framed by a consistent theme of autonomy versus control.

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