Joe Rogan Experience #2290 - Michael Kosta

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 14, 2025

Duration

2h 41m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Michael Kosta is a standup comic, host of "The Daily Show," host of his own podcast, "Tennis Anyone," and author. His new book, "Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy," is available now. http://www.michaelkosta.com Save $20 on your first subscription of AG1 at http://drinkag1.com/joerogan Visit http://LifeLock.com/JOEROGAN to save up to 40% off.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Narrator

  other

• Joe Rogan

  host

• Michael Kosta

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #2290 - Michael Kosta explores comedy, grit, AI and chokeholds: Joe Rogan, Michael Kosta riff deep Joe Rogan and comedian Michael Kosta have a wide-ranging, largely comedic but often reflective conversation that moves from stand-up craft and Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show into sports, combat sports, discipline, and technology. They dig into how great comics and athletes actually work—through failure, structure, and deliberate practice—and how early experiences in tennis and fighting shaped their mindsets. The discussion repeatedly returns to resilience: losing, starting over in midlife, raising tougher kids, voluntarily doing hard things like cold plunges and sauna, and switching careers into comedy. In the final stretch, they spiral into future-tech territory—AI, quantum computing, deepfakes, and human obsolescence—while circling back to why comedy and honest conversation still matter.

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