“Have you heard of Gobleki Tepe?” Famous last words.

Guest: *mentions gobekli tepe* Joe: “You know I’m something of a scientist myself.”

The craziest thing about being a non-drinker is that people make fun of you for about 15 years...then the same people congratulate each other for giving it up for the next 30 years.

I’m impressed at how much information he retains from his previous discussions

“Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe?” Joe: 'Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when they were written''

“Have you heard of Gobleki Tepe?” Joe: “I AM GOBLEKI TEPE!”

Any terrible thing that's ever happened in my life, 90% of the time has been because alcohol was involved..gave that sh*t up 7 years ago

They used to freeze hard apple cider and scoop the alcohol off the top in cold places. It's called apple jack comes in at around 20%

“Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe?” So you have chosen death.

Guest: "So, there's this place called Gobleki Tepe.." Joe: "yeah, I'll take it from here."

I haven’t had a drink in almost two years. I initially stopped to take a break, but the more time I had to reflect, the more I realized it wasn’t for me. Nothing good came from drinking and I never realized how destructive it was in my life. Every instance was laughed off and hid behind the booze.

My great grandfather used to make apple jack by getting barrels of cider, letting them ferment, and the allowing the whole barrel to freeze. Then he just drilled into the center and released the concentrated alcohol within

“Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe?” *Joe Rogan starts convulsing.*

when Joes wife wants to get him in the mood. softly whispers in his ear "gobekli tepe"

You gotta love the videos like this that teach you something actually very useful and is something you don’t hear often. I prefer the videos over the Spotify audios.

This is one of my favourite episodes! I listened to it when it came out and I always go back to listen for a few bits here and there. The funny thing is that I'm not much of a drinker hahaha

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen” Charles Bukowski

"Joe, have you heard of this chemical called DMT? How about this fighting style called jiu-jitsu?"

Very enjoyable to listen to. These type of episodes are great.

Joe is a master at explaining things, he is able to translate every aspect of the topic of discussion in short order.

Our man made a big mistake bringing up gobekli tepe 😂😂😂 Rumor has it he's still trying to finish his story

He shoulda just said, “so there was this really old place, I don’t remember the name.”

Everyday an alcohol delivery truck pulls up at Congress . Every hospital has a liquor license so the alcoholic patient can be given alcohol to keep from going into DT's during extended hospital stay.

I'm a Maori Native from New Zealand I'm not too sure about the truth behind what I'm about to tell you but we had a type of berry need which Maori discovered when they observed birds and small mamals falling over disorientated after finding the source to be a large amount of berry's fermented in a naturally large bowl formed by the roots of the tree

Guy: mentions Göbeklitepe Joe: *mouth waters*

*Joe Rogan goes on 5 minute Gobekli Tepe rant* “So yeah, anyways, beer...”

Fascinating to watch two people continue to talk amicably despite both just stating diametrically opposed conclusions from the data that by definition cause the other proposition to be negated

The reason why beer was used is not because fermenting purifies the water. It's because the wort (unfermented beer) is boiled to extract sugars and that kills all the bacteria. Same thing with tea, it's became very popular partly because it was fashionable but also because it's made with boiled water so much safer.

'I drink to make other people more interesting.' - Ernest Hemingway

" Here's to alcohol!!! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems" - Homer Simpson

It sort of makes sense how people were drinking so often historically if the percentages were so low, makes even more sense as to the prestige around wine given it naturally reaches higher levels

Talking about the history of the impacts on earth, makes me want to know so much about everything that’s ever happened to this place that we’re on

"Its really hard to distill technologically wise" West Virginia: Hold my moonshine

3:00 I’ve never in my life finished my beer and waited for my friends to finish theirs before I get another.

Btw, to answer Joe's question, distilled wine is called Grappa. Very popular in Italy and the Mediterranean as a digestif, a drink to end your meal and settle your stomach.

Started brewing with bakers yeast at 15, turbo yeast that got up to 20% at 16 and distilling at 17. Got my shine up to 90% on a triple distill, just used a simple water distiller then stopped it once alcohol was no longer coming out.

I'm pushing 8 years since I've touched the bottle. Took my last drink the day the Seahawks won the Superbowl and it's the best choice I ever made. Was a shitty drink for years, and although life didn't instantly change, just waking up without the shakes is worth the price of admission for this guy. Stay Safe Brothers🤞😁👍

"“Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe?”" *Joe's pupils dilate*

23 yrs sober. I was allergic to alcohol every time I drink it, I break out in handcuffs

If you wanna know what drinking was like in 1776 America read the Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, there’s a really interesting period in the book where him and several others are getting drunk almost nightly, making terrible mistakes socially and then regretting in the morning. Then wash rinse and repeat…Really interesting stuff.

12,000 years ago Joe Rogan full episodes were all on You Tube.

"why do we put poisons in our body?" *to get riggity riggity wrecked son*

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” G.B. Shaw

My uncle taught me how to make moonshine although I haven't done it since he died in 2017. I don't even drink enough to be motivated to make it however I remember liking dandelion/honeysuckle. It was very nice!

"In a pub you don't drink as much as you want" Me: *wut*

“it’s really difficult” I think this guy underestimates what a man can accomplish when he’s motivated by the opportunity to party with drunk chicks.

In my younger days, while hiking Haley's Farm and it's winding trails, we would come across vines that will have grown there since the 18th century. Later in the year, one could come across bunches of fermenting grapes. A fun little buzz can be had enjoying their boldly sweet flavors.

Are you guys aware of the history archive you are building? It really is worthy of a doctoral or an honorary doctoral. The JRE archive is going to be something history students study for years to come. Because this is what professional historians do. I watched footage from WWI, WWII, Social Movements and I read a lot of newspaper articles from 1885-1905. We analyze all the information and media with many resources corroborating and other scholarship arguments. This creates a solid base for a scholar. JRE is going to be that for a long time. That is an amazing legacy. You guys are going to inform people with this material for a long time. It is a treasure trove. Americans were drunk. The kids were drunk more often than now. The expression "Crazy kids" was a reference to drunk kids all the way until the 1960's. 🤣

These UKposts clips are great at distilling the information from the Spotify podcast.

Imagine asking Joe Rogan if he knows what Göbeklitepe is😂

the biggest mistakes, in alcohol, or in drugs, is outlawing the substances. prohibition is SUCH a huge mistake, because people will do what they want, regardless of the risk & all prohibition does is cause added dangers & factors which impact not only users but society in a negative way

Winston Churchill said don’t drink whiskey straight like that, mix that stuff, I agree, it’s a little rough on the digestive system

"Heard of Gobleki Tepe" Joe: "I'm gonna end this man's whole career"

bringing up Gobleki Tepe to Joe is like when a guest name drops a celebrity, and Joe is like: Ah! Do you know him? No? Great guy, he gave me this flame thrower when we were elk hunting in Utah on psychoactives. I'll tell you what he looks like naked when we are off air.

Respect to all the good you do Joe , You really allow a variety of people to the table & they all bring their voice to the show ...Real American , truly .. 😊 That looks like a bottle of Buffalo Trace ..been a while

Had a neighbors brother in law trying different wine recipes from his orchard. He had dozens of boxes that was "bad mixes." We put it in a copper distillery, let it sit at roughly 187... After the first drip dump, that 1st jar, had to be 180 proof!!!

7:52 - Joe feeling the effects of distillation.

As a recovering alcoholic this is actually a quite fascinating topic. I love learning why and how we got to this point in our evolution when it comes to substances. Great conversation!

Guy comes to talk about alcohol, and Joe educates him on Gobelki Tepe. Love it.

I drank a bottle of 100 proff vodka every single day from age 20 to age30 and when I finally ended up in hospital for awile almost died many time finally had to learn to walk again from being in bed my vision has gone by 50% lost toes organs messed up all kinds of health problem but I have been sober 10 years mainly due to weed

The whole beer before agriculture makes a lot of sense to me. You can just look at the tribes living in the Amazon or anywhere remote. They aren’t really growing anything but every tribe has their own “special drink” that they ferment

Humans making beer before we had agriculture, proof that life is rough! 😂😂

I love when Edward has Joe on his podcast

This will be known as the timeframe where Joe’s head pads on his headphones were perfectly aligned. Later versions will be known as the single pad era.

“Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe?” ***Imanari rolls under desk, into heel hook

This "beer before bread" theory is in line with the book, "Animals and Psychedelics" by Giorgio Samorini. A fun and fairly quick read filled with chapters each detailing a different species and their captivation with some form of intoxication. Worker ants providing free daycare to beetle larvae in exchange for a hit off the inebriating substance secreting from the adult's abdomen (They save these beetles before their own queen by the way). Tigers that will eat rotten durian fruit, but leave the gatherer who harvested it...

Alcohol moderation never quite reached the uk. Saw a guy the other day down a yard of ale (2.5 pints or 1.2 litres) in around 15 secs, then proceeded to throw it all up onto a black bag on the floor, which his friends then pushed him into straight after.

Honnestly the beer before bread makes sense Native americans also cultivated wild Tabbaco to smoke even though they didnt really settle

“Have you heard of Gobekli Tepe?” Joe starts tripping on DMT

"And around 1700 AD thats when girlfriends realized they could start using it as an excuse to do anything at a club"

There is this short book The History of The World in 6 glasses, super nice read, goes down really easy and is fascinating. Basically much of human developement is in tight relation with the beverages of the time

“We socially regulate our drinking” Come to England and you’ll see how wrong that statement is 😂

Wine that is distilled is called Brandy, and if made in the region of France called Cognac - this is a place specific brandy. A "generic term for clear spirit made from fruit (any fruit) is called Eau de Vie (water of life) The base of the distillate determines the type of spirit. Whiskey is basically distilled beer, Slivovitz = plums, grappa = grape pomace- skins, stems, and seeds, Rum = sugar cane / molasses, tequila = fermented agave. The first step to making a spirit is to ferment fruit, grain, plant, etc. The way this works is yeast consumes sugar, and the bi products are CO2 & Alcohol. The CO2 blows off into the atmosphere unless trapped in a bottle like in the case of Champagne. The analogy I like to use is: the yeast eat sugar, and they Poop CO2 and piss alcohol (the bi products of their food consumption). The more sugar you start with the more food for the yeast the more alcohol (and CO2) is produced. As your guest said there is a limit. Depending on the yeast strain and their alcohol tolerance level (which there are some strains that have up up to 21-22% ABV) determines how much sugar they can ferment (along with other factors I'm not going to get I now like nitrogen levels.) and therefore how much alcohol is produced. Once that base "wine" is made with let's say ,,16% ABV, that liquid (wine, mash,etc.) Is then distilled. Alcohol (and specifically ethanol in this case) has a lower vapor point than water, so when that liquid is put into a still, we heat up the mash, vaporize the ethanol, we always get some water too (which is why it is very hard to get 200 proof or 100% ABV alcohol. So the ethanol vaporizes along with some water, that vapor passes through a condenser (typically a copper coil that is chilled with cold water) and as the vapor passes through the condenser and cooling back down it goes back to liquid state from gas state. If you remember back in school when you learned that the sun heats the earth, producing water vapor, heat rises, and the vapor goes up into the atmosphere as the vapor drops combine with eachother they make clouds and when the clouds get over saturated they become to heavy to hold all that water and it falls back to the ground on the form of rain. This concept is basically the same as distillation. Heat turns liquid into vapor, vapor condenses and turns back into liquid.

Great video thank you

He talks about how strong alcohol didnt exist back in the day but fortified wine has been around for millennia, Odysseus even used it to trick the Cyclops. Freeze distillation has been used for as long as alcohol has been around to increase alcohol to modern standard levels (maybe not quite but close).

I quit alcohol 3 years ago and haven't looked back! Best.decision.ever. Now, where's my bong??? ;)

Poor guy is just trying to talk about his book and Joe's like "Yeah but Graham Hancock says......"

The ability of Joe Rogan to talk about and explain things is awesome!

Thank you stay on topic Joe

For those interested: Distilled wine becomes brandy and distilled beer becomes malt whisky (generally, lots of exceptions). Edit: I also run a channel about whisky basics for those interested.

November 27th 2003 was the last time i took a drink and even to this day a get the urge to take a drink and a trip down memory lane. Its a fleeting thought that evaporates very quickly but in those 1st few years i would be clawing the walls. Each to there own but myself and alcohol just didn't get along, and if i would of continued i certainly wouldn't be sat here watching this podcast. Stay safe everyone and dont let alcohol creep up on you and rule your life. Paz

Kentucky burboun barrel beer is amazing. So smooth and has a high %.

Distillers yeast can work up to 18 to 21% when using nutrients.

I read extensively about alcohol three years ago. What a bummer. It’s absolute poison. I stopped and have never looked back.

"I think we're professionally obligated to drink" lmao. Best quote of the 21st century.

In the 1800's Dutch cities often had canals that was also used for drinking water so every city had many many breweries (the small city of Amersfoort had over 600) that used said water because drinking beer was healthier than drinking the water.

The day I stopped drinking was the exact day I stopped going to jail! If your life is problematic try going just one year without alcohol and see if your problems don't go away! YOU CAN DO IT!

if I wrote a history of my alcoholic experiences, it would also be brief, as can't remember most of what happened.

Haven’t realized how little ive listened to this since Spotify. It use to be part of my daily life, the Spotify platform fkn sucks!!!

Smithwick's Brewery was founded by John Smithwick in 1710. The brewery is on the site of a Franciscan abbey, where monks had brewed ale since the 14th century, and ruins of the original abbey still remain on its grounds

Works with freezing too, lumber jacks in Maine would freeze apple cider to make jack 90% pop skull and amuse themselves with axe fights

When Joe drones on and on about Gobekli Tepe I can't help but think about that scene in Airplane where everyone wants to off themselves as Striker is telling his story.

Joe going off with that sidetrack

You can get above 20% with fermentation alone, albeit in steps (fist to about 10-12, then add more fermentable sugars and more yeast, bump it to 15 and rinse and repeat)

Working in a hospital in the G.I unit. I've seen soooooooooo many humans with many issues from over drinking. The doctors I worked with would say drinking twice a month was too much. If you wana keep your colon, intestines, gallbladder, pancreas, liver, and ducts healthy. Otherwise enjoy those stents and ERCPs

It's important to recognize that "sculpture in the round" which Joe was referring to has been around since 40k BCE, the first known piece being a zoomorphic cat man carved into likely mammoth tusk or from some large creature's bone. Much of the art made for thousands of years after was based on their lifestyles and what they saw in the world. Art history taught me so much, chiefly that we have not been dumb humans up until before the industrial age. War has almost always existed, slavery has almost always existed, culture, art, and economies have almost always existed. What's really changed is technology and the speed in which information travels.

Joe, you amaze me with the knowledge you have on so many different topics 👍

I think JRE clips are free on Spotify. I think Joe made that pretty clear if I'm not mistaken 😆

5:59 idk why but Joe’s face had me dying 😂

Today's podcast about drinking - Joe pulls out a bottle "I feel like we should have a drink" Tomorrow's podcast about same sex relationships - Joe starts pulling off his pants "I feel like we should......"