Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-08-19
Joe Rogan & Jesse Welles: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2367
#2367 - Jesse Welles
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Jesse Welles discussed Woody Guthrie by Joe Klein. Joe Rogan recommended War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler, and discussed The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
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
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
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
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.”
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