Sam Harris

It was never to that degree with Joe because...

Joe's in a very different lane, right?

And consciously so.

I mean, Joe is a standup comic who interviews, who just is interested in everything, interviews the widest conceivable variety of people and just lets his interests collide with their expertise or lack of expertise.

I mean, again, it's a super wide variety of people.

He'll talk about anything, and he can always pull the ripcord saying, you know, I don't know what the fuck I'm saying.

I'm a comic.

I'm stoned.

We just drank too much, right?

Like, it's very entertaining.

It's all in, you know, to my eye, it's all in good faith.

I think Joe is an extraordinarily ethical, good person.

Yeah, yeah.

The crucial difference, though, is that because he is...

an entertainer first.

I mean, I'm not saying he's not smart and doesn't understand things.

I mean, what's potentially confusing is he's very smart and he's also very informed.

His full-time job is taught, you know, when he's not doing standup or doing color commentary for the UFC.

His full-time job is talking to lots of very smart people at great length.

So he's created the Joe Rogan University for himself, and he's gotten a lot of information crammed into his head.