Joe Rogan Experience #2199 - Chris Harris

Chris Harris is an automotive journalist, racing driver, and television presenter. He's also the author of "Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a Car Tragic." www.youtube.com/c/chrisharrisoncars

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Sep 5, 20242h 57mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: September 5, 2024
Duration: 2h 57m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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Chris Harris is an automotive journalist, racing driver, and television presenter. He's also the author of "Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a Car Tragic." www.youtube.com/c/chrisharrisoncars

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Chris Harris, Joe Rogan Experience #2199 - Chris Harris explores chris Harris Opens Up On Top Gear Crash, Cars, Media, Modern Madness Chris Harris joins Joe Rogan to candidly discuss the end of his Top Gear era, including the near‑fatal crash of co‑host Andrew Flintoff and Harris’s warnings to the BBC about safety that were ignored. They dive deep into car culture—EVs vs combustion, restomods, motorsport cheating, and the emotional pull of driving and modifying cars. The conversation widens into how media, big business, politics, and social media distort truth, from climate narratives and Dieselgate to censorship and conspiracy. Harris also talks about mental health, his slide into heavy drinking after the crash, his return to podcasting/YouTube, and why he now only wants to make car content on his own terms.

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