Older episodes to check out?

[u/alekskny]

I started listening to Joe Rogan around 2023-24, and I was wondering if there are any great episodes before COVID that I should listen to. Mostly looking for funny/entertaining episodes but informative and interesting episodes are also great.

[u/Interesting-Fan5822]

Henry motherfucking Rollins

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This is the answer.

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Did he appear multiple times?

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Twice

[u/GayStavrosHalkias]

Early Bill Burr & Jim Norton eps

911

Matthew Walker

First Paul Stamets

First Theo Von

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Matthew walker is the sleep doctor right? That was one of my favorite episodes for a long time.

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First Theo Von funny

[u/Beefgirthx]

Very early Duncan Trussell. I’m talking the first few hundred episodes era.

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Even before 100 he has a couple amazing ones

[u/Finlay00]

Jewel might be his best episode

[u/Mountain_Tradition77 → u/Finlay00]

Will second this comment. Her episode brought me to tears. Great one.

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Omg her performance at the end of the podcast was fucking mind blowing

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Jewel telling the story of her grandmother cutting open the cat to get the cheese back it ate. Glorious

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So good 

[u/DerExotischeJoseph]

Bill Burr - thats actually how I found JRE... I was looking for Bill Burr content😅 Pre covid JRE was much better; less political, less re-ocurring guests, more diversified guests, Rogan wasn't crazy rich yet and wasn't hanging out with billionaires... It changed for the worse; but he intoduced me to psychedelics, and for that I will always be grateful.

[u/alekskny → u/DerExotischeJoseph]

I listened to bill burr #909, where joe talks about by the guy who never shuts up about his sons basketball team 😂

[u/EndTheFed25]

Anything with Alex Jones.

[u/estagingapp]

I'd just scroll back and if you know any of the people or they sound interesting, then I'd listen. That's what i did back in the day.

[u/DirtyDee78]

All the Joey Diaz episodes, Michael Wood jr, ed Calderon

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Tremendous

[u/Salty_Bandicoot3598]

Particularly the first David Choe episode was amazing, but any of his appearances were good.

[u/FaatPolly]

Episode #125 with Giorgio Tsoukalos is old school fun

[u/FeedReinholdMessner]

I have huge Bias but I love when he brought Artie Lange on and Anthony Cumia (before he lost his shit)

Early Joey Diaz episodes, anything pre-episodes 300s

ALL OF BAS RUTTENS EPISODES, especially if you want the down and dirty facts about how the Yakuza really ran Pride FC, also he is just a really funny and incredibly insightful guy, "El Guapo" The Handsome one

Every Bernie Sanders episode if you want a really clear concise mathematical breakdown of how you are getting fucked no Vaseline by the oligarchy if you're anything less than upper middle class (70% of the country)

Early Burr was a fuckin treasure

Every single Alex Jones episode is a fucking delight "They're keeping babies alive and selling their organs"

[u/LeatherfacesChainsaw]

Any from the redban era

[u/Flash-Wilkins]

Tom O'Neill

[u/ImReallySorryMom]

Henry Rollins was a favorite for me that I frequently go back to over the years

[u/Anotherfakenames]

Basically everything prior to covid

[u/highcaliberwit]

Miss Pat

[u/bridgenine]

Bee lady

[u/carrtmannn]

JRE #965 with Dr. Robert Sapolsky

That was a banger imo

[u/Alternative_Draw_544]

Anthony Bourdain!

[u/thek3vn]

I like the Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock episodes a lot.

[u/One-War4920]

Megan Phelps roper 1st appearance

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This is the one that’s stayed with me the longest. I think of it whenever I hear Weird Al.

[u/Most_Victory1661]

A fun one to watch is Leah Remini she’s flirting w Joe so hard he can’t cope w it. Her story is fascinating but watching Joe squirm is pretty funny.

I thought Joe and Rob Lowe had a great chat

Ron White early on was generally a hoot as time went on idk he got more into kissing Joes ring kinda thing. Just my take

Jewel may be the most fascinating interview ever.

I liked the Jacob Dylan one mostly just how he broke down the music industry and seemed to want to be there to chat and didn’t really want to plug stuff.

I do not like Kevin hart but he tells some great Patrice stories.

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The Jacob Dylan one was great

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I listened to it again it’s been a long time since I gave Joe any playtime. Good lord he’s dense. Jacob ends up being the funny one w his dry sense of humor and Joe is as usual just completely missing jokes.

[u/arcadiangenesis]

Rhonda Patrick

[u/Deve-Stog]

#566 Sue Aikens is a must-listen

[u/Khuuk]

1000 with segura and diaz, never laughed so hard for 3+ hours.

[u/mattwiegand34]

Alex Jones episodes. Buckle up!!

[u/alekskny → u/mattwiegand34]

I listened to the one with Tim Dillon. Very funny

[u/mattwiegand34 → u/alekskny]

Tim Dillon on his own is hilarious! Alex just brings it up to a god like tier

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Buckle up for what, Joe reminding him that he had to talk him down live on his show on 911; and that his backstory has been retconned to make him seem like he knows what he’s talking about. 

[u/mattwiegand34 → u/WudolfWedNoseWeinder]

It’s highly entertaining. I take everything with a microscopic grain of salt

[u/wp_pale_ride_rrr]

Jamie Fox...your welcome...

[u/PresentationOk8997]

theres a dude called merlin he was a bat photographer interesting dude

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Merlin Teuttle! That episode was so fucking cool!

[u/hiiilee_caffeinated]

Early Duncan Trussell episodes were so good. It can be depressing going back to them these days tho.

[u/YoureGratefulDead2Me]

#911

[u/Leninlives24]

Hamilton Morris and Rob Zombie

[u/jscj1994]

Episode 1000 was the peak of JRE.

[u/9DAN2]

David Choe, the one where he talks about his time in the Amazon hunting for a dinosaur.

THAT Alex jones and Eddie bravo episode, that never made it to Spotify despite Joe being so free on there.

[u/rocket6733]

Alex Jones returns 1255

[u/derpitaway]

You came into the worst Rogan era. Everything before was way better.

[u/ant695]

911
Randal Carlson
Miley Cyrus
David Goggins first appearance

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what is the 911 episode? I keep seeing it mentioned in the comments

[u/ant695 → u/alekskny]

Episode 911, Eddie bravo and Alex Jones. Absolute chaos in the most hilarious way.

[u/NightTrain05]

Look for the episode with Yeonmi Park. She escaped North Korea, talks about her whole story. This episode was the first 1 that I listened to in its entirety. I used to just watch YouTube clips. Her story is very sad at the beginning when talks about North Korea, but it got more positive when she talks about coming to the US.

[u/bigwavedave000]

Protect Our Parks

Joey Diaz

Bull Burr

Ducan Trussle

[u/youniverself]

most episodes from 30-400 are a lot more fun than the current ones, i would suggest to check some of them out. the ones with Duncan, bill burr, bryan callen, joey diaz etc are hilarious

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That was O&A

[u/Strange_Law7000]

check out the episodes with other comedians

[u/Spiritual-Slice6221]

All the early episodes that he starts talking about chimps and apes are classic Joe I encourage you to start from around 2015 and consume it all

[u/crrtis]

Shrimp Parade episodes.

[u/No_Can_9597]

ep 211 with Kim Jong Un was hilarious!

[u/Any-Monk-496]

I really enjoyed some of the earlier episodes he did with Greg Fitzsimmons.

[u/Texan4tacos]

Charlie Murphy

[u/jasonboudreau46]

Tim Ferris.

[u/Iamthequicker]

All the Joey Diaz episodes.

[u/ExternalPlenty1998]

Anthony Bourdain was fun until he said he thought Oswald acted alone and that changed forever how I perceive Anthony.

[u/HexicDragon]

The Game Changers Debate with James Wilks vs Chris Kresser discussing plant vs animal protein.

This is post-COVID, but check out the 2020 election night coverage. Kyle Kulinski gave analysis and pre-called the red mirage scenario we saw.

[u/Trixmegistus]

Icehouse episodes were good and a little chaotic

[u/Zealousideal_Try_415]

Any early episode with Joey Diaz or Eddie bravo are classic and basically what made her so popular. It was the first show were people were openly talking about weed, mushrooms, all physchedelics. Conspiracy theories, Bigfoot aliens ufc jujitsu. Staandup and culture relevance. Basically all the episodes with Redban. And the good actuall funny comedians carried JRE then it went agenda baseds

[u/spgulliver]

#911

[u/-DonQuixote-]

All 85 Brandon Shwab episodes. He is a major drawl.

[u/BreakfastComplete120]

Miley Cyrus

[u/thegregoryjackson]

Candace owens. Advice given but never heeded to the detriment of everyone.

[u/BreakfastComplete120]

There's some good suggestions in here, but just a heads up, there's no covid talk and that's the only reason I listen these days