Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-08-19
Books mentioned on #2367 - Jesse Welles
Jesse Welles is a singer-songwriter. Look for his new album, "Devil's Den," on August 22.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Woody Guthrie
Discussed“I was reading I was reading a Woody Guthrie biography. Um, and, uh, my my old man was in the hospital.”
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The Sins of the Father
Discussed“Until after the procedure was completed, the procedure took place November 1941, sins of the father in the book uh 1996 biography.”
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a harrowing, violent epic of the American West that follows a teenage runaway embroiled in a brutal scalping gang along the Mexican border.
Discussed“I imagine it like blood meridian like like McCarthy's McCarthy's book where basically you know like follows a story of like this kid who goes on a scalping mission you know where their their job is to go down into Guadalajara and then come up in through the states and they just they scalp pretty much everyone they meet indiscriminately”
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a 1899 novella exploring the brutal realities of European colonialism in the Congo and the psychological depths of human nature.
Discussed“do you ever see a this Hollywood, but Apocalypse Now? Sure. with is it Francis Ford Copela and he's got like Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper and Robert Duval and all those cool cats and dope movie but it's written on this premise of a of a book that was written in like 1899 by Joseph Conrad”
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War Is a Racket
War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler is a classic anti-interventionist critique written by a retired Marine Corps Major General exposing how military conflicts are driven primarily by corporate profiteering and financial interests.
Recommended“Did you ever read um that War is a racket? Smmedley Butler Butler. Did you ever read it? No. It's really good. It's not long.”
