Joe Rogan Experience #1923 - Mike Baker

Mike Baker is a former CIA covert operations officer and current CEO of Portman Square Group, a global intelligence firm. He's also the host of "Black Files Declassified" on Discovery+ and the Science Channel, and author of the new book "Company Rules, Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA," available exclusively from Scribd.com on January 18. https://try.scribd.com/baker/

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Jun 27, 20242h 37mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: June 27, 2024
Duration: 2h 37m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
Watch on YouTube: ▶ Open ↗

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Mike Baker is a former CIA covert operations officer and current CEO of Portman Square Group, a global intelligence firm. He's also the host of "Black Files Declassified" on Discovery+ and the Science Channel, and author of the new book "Company Rules, Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA," available exclusively from Scribd.com on January 18. https://try.scribd.com/baker/

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #1923 - Mike Baker explores ex-CIA Operative Dissects China, Crypto, Classified Docs, And Deep State Joe Rogan and former CIA officer Mike Baker range across geopolitics, intelligence, and domestic policy, starting with crypto collapses like FTX and how basic due diligence could have exposed them. They dive into U.S. tax policy and the IRS expansion, Biden’s classified documents and Chinese-linked funding of think tanks, and why Baker sees China—not Russia—as the long-term strategic threat, including TikTok data collection and industrial espionage. The conversation covers the Russia‑Ukraine war, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the risks of escalation, then shifts to the “deep state,” CIA oversight, and Tucker Carlson’s claim that the agency killed JFK, which Baker treats skeptically. They close on culture and work-life issues—pandemic policy, remote work, religion, parenting—and Baker’s new audiobook on how CIA lessons apply to building a business.

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