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What is the new docuseries "Monsters of God" about and why did the hosts choose the reptile trade as its focus?
The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. Good, bro. Gentlemen, good to see you again. You're back in the world of crazy people and animals. I watched episode one today. Like, oh, God. First of all, where the fuck do you find these people? You live in that world. Like, you're in the world of reptiles. We should just explain. It's a docuseries. It's on HBO. It's called Monsters of God, and it's all about the reptile trade. which may or may not be responsible for Florida having 500,000 pythons. It's debatable, right? Like it seems like it was partially pet owners who let them go and partially there was some sort of a reptile research facility or something like that.
Well, there's different theories. There was a hurricane theory. It was the people letting go. I think the more reasonable one, because I had a Burmese python in the 70s when I was a teenager. I have a photo of it around my neck. What happened to it? People buy them when they're this big, and then when they're 15 feet, they let them go. Is that what you did? I did not let it go. What did you do? I have no idea what happened to it, to be honest. That's weird. I know.
You had a monster, and you don't know what happened to your monster?
I think when I went to college briefly, I gave it to someone, and then I don't know what happened to it. But I gave my whole menagerie away to people when I went to college. I had reptiles in my room.
Is there an extra level of responsibility when you're giving away monsters? You know what I mean? Like if you have a chihuahua and your friend's like, I'll take her. I love her. That's, you know, you don't really have to worry about your, you know, you have a fucking python. You're giving away a python.
You got to worry about your chihuahua because the pythons in the Everglades are going to eat your chihuahua when it gets away.
Well, certainly you worry about that. But I mean, you don't worry about your chihuahua being a monster. I'm kidding.
Yeah.
I mean, if you have a 15-foot python, that can eat a lot of things. And it kind of needs to eat a lot of things.
Yeah, Burmese pythons did really well in South Florida. Iguanas did really well in Florida. You know, they weren't there in the beginning.
That's a good way to put it, did really well. Another way to put it is invasive species that's destroying the ecosystem.
Well, they're like us, Joe. They're like us. We came here and we took over.
Yeah, I guess, in a lot of ways. So why did you choose this particular subject for this new docuseries?
I'm not going to let Jeremy talk. No, he'll talk, but I'll just give you... A lot of it starts with me, so you can blame me, and then Jeremy can blame later.
We guys did Chimp Crazy, which is one of my favorites. It's so fucking insane. That world is so insane.
Well, episode one is kind of setting the table. It gets better, Joe. It gets more off the charts when you watch two and three and four and five. Yeah, it all started, first of all, I'm a reptile guy. I've been keeping reptiles and studying reptiles for over, you know, I'm an old guy, I'm older than you are. So, you know, I've kept them for, I don't know, 60 years, you know, plus I've kept reptiles since my parents gave me a tortoise when I was six and I was catching rattlesnakes in my lunchbox and horned lizards and you got horned lizards in Texas here that are really cool and rattlesnakes. I've been bit by rattlesnakes. It's not fun.
You got bit by a rattlesnake?
Yeah, but that's another story.
More times than one?
No, I got bit once because I learned my lesson after the first one.
What happened?
It wasn't good. Don't get bit by a rattlesnake.
Where'd you get bit?
On my foot.
Did you experience necrosis?
You know... So normally you would get necrosis where your finger would rot. And then the guy, the doctor that I went to at a hospital. The doctor in the emergency room said, the last guy in here that got bit by a rattlesnake lost his toe or something or lost his digits. And he said, good thing you didn't get bit on a finger because the necrosis can rot away your finger.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the new docuseries "Monsters of God" about and why did the hosts choose the reptile trade as its focus?
0:00–6:36
2
How did the conversation shift to the controversy over California’s python‑skin ban and the wildlife‑trade laws behind it?
6:36–23:54
3
What personal experiences do the hosts share about snake bites, antivenom, and the dangers of handling venomous reptiles?
23:54–48:46
4
Why do people become obsessed with rare reptiles, illegal wildlife trafficking, and even taxidermy of exotic animals?
48:46–1:09:43
5
Why do people fear reptiles and how does culture shape that fear?
1:09:43–1:30:05
6
How did the conversation shift from reptile phobias to the global wildlife‑trade market?
1:30:05–1:50:07
7
What’s the story behind the endangered tortoise breeding program and its return to Madagascar?
1:50:07–2:06:29
8
How do the hosts choose new documentary projects and what’s coming up next?
2:06:29–2:15:30