Joe Rogan Experience #1539 - Jenny Kleeman

Award-winning documentarian and journalist Jenny Kleeman has reported for HBO’s Vice News Tonight, and BBC’s Unreported World. She is the author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death, available now from Pan MacMillan.

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Sep 22, 20202h 13mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: September 22, 2020
Duration: 2h 13m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Award-winning documentarian and journalist Jenny Kleeman has reported for HBO’s Vice News Tonight, and BBC’s Unreported World. She is the author of Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death, available now from Pan MacMillan.

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1539 - Jenny Kleeman explores sex, Robots, Vegan Meat, and Death: Rethinking Humanity’s Tech Future Joe Rogan and journalist/author Jenny Kleeman discuss themes from her book *Sex Robots & Vegan Meat*, exploring how emerging technologies could reshape sex, reproduction, food, and death. They debate whether technological progress is inevitable or can be steered by cultural pushback and individual choice. The conversation covers sex robots, Neuralink, genetic engineering, lab-grown meat, overpopulation, and assisted dying, repeatedly returning to questions of human nature, empathy, and the unintended consequences of innovation. Throughout, Kleeman argues that many ‘solutions’ are overshoot engineering that avoid changing human behavior, while Rogan worries humans will willingly make themselves obsolete through technology and materialism.

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