Joe Rogan Experience #2409 - Brian Redban
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Narrator and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #2409 - Brian Redban explores quantum leaps, censorship, AI porn, and culture wars with Redban Joe Rogan and Brian Redban riff for hours on rapidly advancing technology, from quantum computing and AI to smartphones, drones, and electric cars, constantly asking who really understands and controls these systems. They segue into privacy, surveillance, data as a commodity, and how AI, deepfakes, and OnlyFans are reshaping sex, relationships, and even crime. Politically, they criticize media manipulation around Trump, COVID, and elections, explore rising polarization and celebration of political violence, and speculate about elite-driven social chaos paving the way for digital IDs and AI-driven control. Throughout, they weave in comedy, nostalgia, and personal stories about phones, porn, dogs, cars, standup comedy, and whether we might all be living in a simulation heading toward an AI “event.”
Quantum leaps, censorship, AI porn, and culture wars with Redban
Joe Rogan and Brian Redban riff for hours on rapidly advancing technology, from quantum computing and AI to smartphones, drones, and electric cars, constantly asking who really understands and controls these systems. They segue into privacy, surveillance, data as a commodity, and how AI, deepfakes, and OnlyFans are reshaping sex, relationships, and even crime. Politically, they criticize media manipulation around Trump, COVID, and elections, explore rising polarization and celebration of political violence, and speculate about elite-driven social chaos paving the way for digital IDs and AI-driven control. Throughout, they weave in comedy, nostalgia, and personal stories about phones, porn, dogs, cars, standup comedy, and whether we might all be living in a simulation heading toward an AI “event.”
Key Takeaways
Quantum computing is advancing faster than public understanding or oversight.
Rogan and Redban describe claims that quantum computers can solve problems in minutes that classical supercomputers couldn’t solve in the lifetime of the universe, yet note that perhaps only a tiny elite of scientists truly understand the systems, raising questions about concentration of knowledge and power.
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Our devices track everything, and data has quietly become a core commodity.
They recount examples of court cases using ultra-granular phone and social media logs and explain how email lists, phone numbers, and browsing habits are monetized and resold, turning basic sign-ups into long-lived surveillance and spam pipelines.
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AI tools and deepfakes are blurring reality and will transform erotica and relationships.
From “loophole” prompts to get AI to explain illicit actions, to Chinese AI porn apps and hyper-real fake Instagram models, they predict future personalized porn experiences and note that men may retreat further into virtual sex, undermining traditional dating and intimacy.
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Media manipulation is eroding trust, especially around politically sensitive events.
They highlight examples like the BBC’s edited Trump January 6th clip and PBS statements about “truth getting in the way,” arguing that legacy outlets have acted as partisan propaganda arms, reinforcing public cynicism about news and institutions.
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Culture-war polarization is escalating toward acceptance of violence against opponents.
Rogan cites reactions to Charlie Kirk being shot and people publicly celebrating it as evidence that America may be further along a civil-conflict trajectory than many think, with both left and right pushed toward more extreme, retaliatory positions.
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Tech progress often hides ugly supply chains and environmental contradictions.
They discuss cobalt mining in the Congo, calling it modern slavery behind smartphones and EV batteries, and contrast “green” narratives with the brutal realities of mineral extraction that enable solar, EVs, and consumer electronics.
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AI and digital IDs might be sold as “safety” after engineered or leveraged chaos.
Rogan speculates that mass immigration problems, crime, and unrest could be used to justify pervasive digital ID systems, carbon tracking, and AI-driven controls, arguing this path risks an Orwellian future where every movement and purchase is monitored.
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Notable Quotes
“This might be the most monumental technological breakthrough in the history of the human race… and how many people know how to make that?”
— Joe Rogan (on quantum computing)
“We never thought that data was a commodity… and now your email and what you buy online is worth money.”
— Joe Rogan
“BBC is supposed to be the news, not the propaganda arm of whatever party you support.”
— Joe Rogan
“Where are we right now on the scale of one to civil war? After the Charlie Kirk thing, we might be like seven.”
— Joe Rogan
“Nothing about life makes sense. It’s all very strange. And you don’t think it’s possible this is a stage on the way to becoming some new kind of life form?”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
If only a tiny number of experts truly understand quantum and AI systems, what mechanisms—if any—can democratically govern their use?
Joe Rogan and Brian Redban riff for hours on rapidly advancing technology, from quantum computing and AI to smartphones, drones, and electric cars, constantly asking who really understands and controls these systems. ...
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How should society balance the benefits of AI-generated content and personalization with the risks of deepfakes, disinformation, and hyper-addictive virtual sex?
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Given the evidence of media editing and political bias Rogan cites, how can an average viewer realistically assess which coverage to trust?
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Is the growing celebration of violence against political opponents a reversible trend, or a signal that deeper structural changes are needed to avoid future conflict?
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To what extent are immigration, crime, and social chaos organically emerging versus being shaped or leveraged to justify future digital-ID and AI-control regimes?
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Hey.
Fella, good to see ya.
Good to see ya.
Did you see that, uh, new information about, uh, China came out with a new quantum computer that can do, uh, it can do an equation in four minutes it takes all the world's supercomputers 2.6 billion years to solve.
Really?
An- and it can do it in four minutes.
Is that real though? (laughs)
(laughs) I mean, allegedly.
I mean.
Allegedly. That's the problem with this whole quantum thing is I don't underst- I've had it explained to me four or five times, I don't understand it.
Yeah.
It's just my monkey brain is like, "What? Oh."
They also say a lot of things, you know?
Right.
Like, so who knows if it's real or not?
Well, uh, you mean China or?
Yeah, China. (laughs)
Yeah. But, but they have American ones that have done them too. They've done some crazy, like, Marc Andreessen explained one of them. That it's so nuts he said that it solved a computer that if you to- i- it solved an equation if you took all of the world's atoms and converted it into a supercomputer, all of the universe's atoms, excuse me, and converted it into a supercomputer. It would take so much time to solve this equation that the universe would die of heat death. And this quantum computer solved it in a matter of minutes.
Wow.
I don't know what it means though. I think what they're trying to say is that this somehow or another is proof of the multiverse, because all of these computers are somehow or another... Th- like, this quantum, the idea is this quantum computer is com- is computing along with other quantum computers in other dimensions? Other universes? Other something, other realms?
(laughs)
And that there's an infinite number of them, that, that there's so many of them that that's the only thing that can account for this thing being able to do this so quickly.
I don't even know.
Right?
(laughs) Yeah.
But you, 'cause you, so you're like, "Okay, what are you saying?"
(laughs)
Like, what are you saying? What are you doing? What does this mean?
Yes, ChatGPT, I'm ready. (laughs)
How many people know this? This is what's weird, right? Let's assume that they're telling the truth, and let's assume that they've figured out a computer that can, it's got godlike powers, right? How many fucking people know how this works? Like, what is the number? Like, if all those people got assassinated, and those machines were just sitting there just, like, off, how long would it be before somebody came along that could figure out how to start that up again? Do you know what I'm saying?
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