Joe Rogan Experience #1913 - Brian Redban
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In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Brian Redban, Joe Rogan Experience #1913 - Brian Redban explores joe Rogan, Brian Redban Roast Zoos, Woke Culture, AI, and Aging Joe Rogan and Brian Redban have a long, free‑wheeling conversation that jumps from animal ethics and the future of zoos to gender politics, criminal justice, AI art, and the evolution of comedy and podcasting.
Joe Rogan, Brian Redban Roast Zoos, Woke Culture, AI, and Aging
Joe Rogan and Brian Redban have a long, free‑wheeling conversation that jumps from animal ethics and the future of zoos to gender politics, criminal justice, AI art, and the evolution of comedy and podcasting.
They start with a disturbing chimpanzee shooting at a Swedish zoo, using it to question the morality and future of traditional zoos, and imagine VR and metaverse-based wildlife experiences instead.
The discussion then veers into hot‑button topics like trans inmates and sports, prosecutorial misconduct and the death penalty, and the normalization of ideological language in media coverage.
Later, they cover AI’s impact on art and media, Hollywood excess, aging, health, diet, porn, tornadoes, JFK/CIA conspiracy speculation, and how Kill Tony and podcasting have reshaped stand‑up comedy careers.
Key Takeaways
Traditional zoos increasingly seem ethically indefensible except for rehabilitation and true conservation.
The chimpanzee shooting in Sweden leads Rogan to argue most animals shouldn’t be caged for display now that high‑quality video and potential VR/metaverse experiences could let people see wildlife in natural habitats instead.
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Primate behavior and intelligence blur the line between “human” and “animal” more than people admit.
Stories of chimps escaping, orangutans spearfishing, and speculation about primates entering a “Stone Age” highlight how close they are cognitively, raising questions about future rights, co‑evolution, and even Neuralink‑enhanced animals.
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Media language around gender identity can distort public understanding of crime and risk.
Rogan criticizes outlets describing violent male offenders as “women” due to gender identity, especially in prison contexts, arguing this erodes clarity and can negate necessary sex‑based safeguards for female inmates and athletes.
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The U.S. justice system’s imperfections make the death penalty—and prisoner experimentation—morally fraught.
They discuss prosecutors hiding exculpatory evidence, the Innocence Project’s work, and governors commuting death sentences, concluding that executing or medically experimenting on inmates risks killing innocent people in a flawed system.
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AI art and deepfakes are transforming creative work, whether or not traditional artists approve.
Rogan is impressed by AI art in the style of Alex Grey and AI-generated voices/faces (e. ...
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Cultural norms around sex, language, and comedy have shifted dramatically within a few decades.
They revisit songs about teenagers, old R‑rated comedies, cartoons like Pepe Le Pew and Speedy Gonzales, and early 2000s shock content, contrasting them to today’s more censorious, “woke” environment and active content editing.
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Aging forces comedians and audiences alike to confront health, hormones, and lifestyle honestly.
Redban shares lab results showing low testosterone and high estrogen, and admits he rarely works out; Rogan pushes walking, PT, and possibly stem cells, illustrating how middle‑aged men must recalibrate habits to keep functioning.
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Notable Quotes
“Bro, fuck zoos.”
— Joe Rogan
“You can’t just keep them contained like that. It’s fucked. It’s not necessary.”
— Joe Rogan (on chimps and zoos)
“What are we doing? We’re in this fucking squirrely lunatic category.”
— Joe Rogan (on media and gendered crime reporting)
“If you had a contest where guys try to get healthy the quickest, that’s not healthy.”
— Joe Rogan
“If you wanna be a comic, you better watch Kill Tony. It’ll teach you everything.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
If high‑fidelity VR wildlife experiences become mainstream, should traditional zoos be phased out entirely except for rehabilitating non‑releasable animals?
Joe Rogan and Brian Redban have a long, free‑wheeling conversation that jumps from animal ethics and the future of zoos to gender politics, criminal justice, AI art, and the evolution of comedy and podcasting.
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How should media balance respect for gender identity with the need for biological sex clarity in reporting crime, prison policy, and sports?
They start with a disturbing chimpanzee shooting at a Swedish zoo, using it to question the morality and future of traditional zoos, and imagine VR and metaverse-based wildlife experiences instead.
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Where should society draw the ethical line on AI art and deepfakes when they can copy living artists’ styles and actors’ likenesses almost perfectly?
The discussion then veers into hot‑button topics like trans inmates and sports, prosecutorial misconduct and the death penalty, and the normalization of ideological language in media coverage.
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Given known wrongful convictions and prosecutorial misconduct, is there any way to morally justify keeping the death penalty?
Later, they cover AI’s impact on art and media, Hollywood excess, aging, health, diet, porn, tornadoes, JFK/CIA conspiracy speculation, and how Kill Tony and podcasting have reshaped stand‑up comedy careers.
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How might shows like Kill Tony and the podcast ecosystem be reshaping what it means to “come up” in stand‑up comedy compared to the pre‑podcast era?
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music)
Oh, hey there.
Oh, hi.
We're, we're up. We're back, baby. Wee. Joe Rogan Experience.
Dude, isn't this like, uh, we're closing in on our anniversary.
Yeah, again. What is it?
Again. It's the 31st, I think we did it.
Right.
I think we did it on, like-
New Year's Eve.
... New Year's Day or New Year's Eve, rather.
Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve? Oh, that's right.
Christmas Eve.
Thank you, Jamie. Christmas Eve of 2009, and here we are, 2022, and we're about to go into civil war, total anarchy.
(laughs)
The Purge.
(laughs)
All the above. Everyone's losing their fucking mind. Did you see the breakout in the zoo?
Yeah.
Did you see about that?
No. No.
Oh my God, a bunch of chimps, they broke free and they went wild and, uh, they gunned 'em down. They gunned down... I think they gunned down three of 'em or four of 'em. It says that, uh, insane things are happening. How do you say that word? Faruzic? Far-... Where is Faruzic?
Faruzic, uh, let's check. Germany?
Sounds like it, right?
Yeah. Sweden.
Sweden. Okay. Wow, they're pretty peaceful over there. They're gunning down chimps. So it says, uh, insane things are happening at the Faruzic Zoo. Four chimpanzees gunned down after a breakout, and a fifth shot but only wounded. Three more on the loose. Drones are used to survey the besieged zoo. After 24-plus hours, the bodies still litter the ground. Zoo says they were out of tranquilizers.
What? Bro, fuck zoos.
(laughs)
Is there video of this?
Fuck zoos.
About to find out. Oh man, there's just like-
I told you about that time I got super-duper high and I went to the zoo with my kids and I got really bummed out. I wrote a, a story about it.
Mm-hmm.
About a animal prison. It's, zoos are horrible. They're horrible. The only one who gets out of the zoo, I had that old bit about giraffes, they're the only ones that seem to have a good day. They're like, "Another day with no lions."
(laughs)
They just, they don't give a fuck. They're happy to be in the zoo. They have zero problems with the zoo. No one's trying to kill them. They just eat and they're the only animals that they let babies feed 'em. When my daughters were little, like, they, they could take a piece of, like, little tiny, you'd hold 'em, they'd hold a piece of lettuce out and this giant giraffe tongue comes out and wraps around the leaf and takes it from them. And everybody laughs and you never have to worry about giraffes being cunts.
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