Rogan follows his pro pool player interview with Fedor Gorst with a much more intellectually substantial guest. Dr. Garry Nolan, of Stanford University’s School of Medicine, joins Rogan for the nearly three hour set. Nolan regales us with the various biotech companies he founded and sold to bigger fish companies, including Roche. Nolan cites the stock market as the “best thing we currently have” preceding the “post-scarcity” world he envisions as AI technology expands.
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Rogan frequently and humorously appends Nolan’s studied extended monologues with his own anecdotal advice. Juxtaposing the “sacred clown” with a distinguished academic seems like a strange “small world” outcome for the two older adults. Some of the best Joe Rogan Bingo Card keywords made an appearance in this episode. “Diffusion of responsibility” regarding corporate hierarchies completely obsessed with increasing profits was one. Rogan recounted the poor advice 1980s comics would give each other that “writing makes your memory weak” as analogous to the more educated notion Nolan offered that “science should be right now and righter in the future”.
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Nolan, 64, at one point offered to hire Rogan as a graduate student in his lab. Rogan replies with “see it was that easy/simple”. Funny interludes abound in this episode. Nolan criticized the idea of eating lots of meat which gave Rogan pause.
Eventually Nolan recounts the day he got a knock on his door from the CIA needing help with “Havana syndrome” patients.
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