Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-06-27
Books mentioned on Joe Rogan Experience #1877 - Jann Wenner
Jann Wenner discussed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Tell Your Children by Alex Berenson, and 1984 by George Orwell. Joe Rogan discussed Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.
Discussed“I mean that was you know what what your magazine had covered and what he had covered with fear and loathing on the campaign Trail”
Where to get it
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S.
Discussed“I mean that was you know what what your magazine had covered and what he had covered with fear and loathing on the campaign Trail it was the way young people were feeling about it versus the way it was being represented on television and in newspapers”
Where to get it
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is a gonzo journalism classic by Hunter S.
Discussed“I mean that was you know what what your magazine had covered and what he had covered with fear and loathing on the campaign Trail it was the way young people were feeling about it versus the way it was being represented on television and in newspapers”
Where to get it
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Tell Your Children
Tell Your Children by Alex Berenson is a nonfiction book that examines the potential connection between heavy marijuana use and severe mental health issues, including psychosis and schizophrenia.
Discussed“you know uh Alex Berenson who wrote for the New York Times wrote a book called tell your children and uh it's basically about the risks that people that have that have a tendency towards schizophrenia where marijuana can push them over the edge”
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel exploring totalitarianism, surveillance, political tribalism, and the systematic control of information.
Discussed“or I recently read 1984 which is we were at 1984. now I mean if you think about the internet and you think you have in your pocket a device every day the phone which tracks you”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“it became as regarded as a classic of American literature day up with kind of like Huck Finn or Catcher And arise stuff like that”
“Like a Rolling Stone available for sale to be honest out now it is out now it's on our best seller list congratulations I I just thought in my book that to be honest about drugs that I I could the tendency of people who write about this era young people in general said kind of leave the drugs part”