Episode #1930

Adam Curry

· 6 books mentioned

Books mentioned

  1. War Is a Racket

    Smedley Butler

    Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:05:34

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  2. The Shining

    Stephen King

    Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 01:54:27

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In this episode, internet entrepreneur and former MTV VJ Adam Curry joins to discuss his personal health journey, including his carnivore diet, alongside wide-ranging topics such as Bitcoin, inflation, and modern monetary theory. The conversation also covers the Russia-Ukraine war, media propaganda, and Curry's emerging Christian faith, before touching on surveillance capitalism, AI, and conspiracy theories.

What they talked about

  • Adam Curry's dental surgery and implants
  • New vaporizer for cannabis use
  • Regenerative agriculture and the Beef Initiative
  • Bitcoin as payment and investment strategy
  • Critique of inflation and Modern Monetary Theory
  • Critique of COVID-19 vaccine messaging and division
  • Decline of mainstream journalism and social media power shifts
  • AI and the future of artificial consciousness

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