Joe Rogan Experience #2534 - Annie Jacobsen

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

July 31, 2026

Duration

2h 15m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Annie Jacobsen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, investigative journalist, and bestselling author. Her latest book, "Biological War: A Scenario," is out now. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783250/biological-war-by-annie-jacobsen/ https://www.anniejacobsen.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Joe Rogan

  host

  Comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience.

• Annie Jacobsen

  guest

  Investigative journalist and author covering national security, intelligence, and defense topics.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Annie Jacobsen, Joe Rogan Experience #2534 - Annie Jacobsen explores biological war fears, lab leak debates, and continuity-of-government bunker planning Jacobsen argues gain-of-function research often functions as de facto biological weapons engineering, because it intentionally increases virulence, transmissibility, and countermeasure resistance under a “prophylactic” rationale.

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