Joe Rogan Experience #1461 - Owen Smith

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 22, 2020

Duration

2h 51m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Owen Smith is a comedian, writer, actor and television producer. Check out his new show "Notebooks" available now on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/owensmithtv @owensmithtv

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Owen Smith

  guest

• Jamie Vernon

  guest

• Guest (unidentified brief interjection)

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Owen Smith, Joe Rogan Experience #1461 - Owen Smith explores Joe Rogan and Owen Smith Confront COVID, Comedy, Culture, And Control Joe Rogan and comedian Owen Smith dive into the early COVID-19 era: antibody testing, mortality-rate confusion, and media narratives around the pandemic. They examine risk, personal responsibility, and racial myths about who can get sick, while contrasting cautious behavior with cavalier attitudes. The conversation branches into economic fallout for restaurants and small businesses, systemic problems like student debt and redlining, and anxieties about government overreach, surveillance, and China’s role. Woven through are long riffs on comedy craft, relationships, race, food, martial arts, and how this crisis might permanently alter everyday life and live performance.

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