"So, what I notice when you talk with people is you seem like a tough guy, but you're really sensitive."

"You're an incredible listener, obviously. You learn all these things and you're putting together—this is my impression—a kind of map of the world, a map of knowledge through all these different people's eyes. My question for you is: how do you see culture shifting? Because I think you're really sensitive to it, and you're kind of like one of these signal fish—you notice what's happening in the environment and you're going to guide the school of fish accordingly. Do you think the culture is shifting toward better use of these exceptional — or natural — capacities that we already have, or do you think we're shifting away from it and we're going to run away in fear?"

Says Julia Mossbridge, a cognitive neuroscientist, beginning her interview with Joe Rogan by asking him a question.

Rogan gives a good answer:

"Okay. So, I think that because of conversations like the ones that you've had and the ones that I've had—the ones that are available online—I think people get a much deeper understanding of so many different topics and so many different things than has ever been available through whatever you want to call the mainstream media.When you have these inherent prejudices in higher learning—whether it's people that don't want to be foolish, so they don't want to entertain certain notions, or they don't want to accept certain things because it goes against what they've taught and what they've written about—we have a problem of ego and ego becoming a wall to gathering more information or getting a better, more detailed map of the landscape. I think there's way more people who are pondering these ideas, and having these conversations, and thinking about these things than has ever before. And I think that's one of the really beautiful things about the internet. The internet has made much more information available, and many more people are thinking about these things in ways that, if you were in an environment where your career depended upon you following certain lines and certain narratives, you wouldn't pursue that, because that would be detrimental to your own personal interest. Like if you wanted to get ahead in academia and all of a sudden you're talking about psychics and premonitions, people are like, 'Oh, Julia's a fucking loon.' But you're courageous, and you see value in these things. And because you can come on here and talk about it instead of just addressing a class or selling a book that's going to reach a few thousand people, we can have a conversation where 10 million people are going to listen. And so then those 10 million people are going to go to work and tell their friends, 'Hey, you know that feeling that you get where sometimes you know something's going to happen and it happens? Like that might be real. And there was this lady on the Joe Rogan podcast...' And so that opens up people to this idea that you don't have to worry about being a fool—because that's what a lot of people worry about. It was a big hurdle talking about aliens and UFOs. All my life I've always been fascinated by UFOs and aliens. But I don't mind being a fool. I was fascinated by Bigfoot forever—kind of abandoned that for the most part—but I like weird stuff. I'm interested in it. And I'm not a person that needs to be taken seriously. It's not my job. I'm literally a comedian. You can make fun of me. I'll make fun of me. It's fine. My future doesn't rely on people taking me seriously. So I think having that ability to have conversations about all kinds of different things has really changed the way the entire world is discussing reality—everything about reality, from quantum computing to alien life to international politics to the way human beings misrepresent each other purposefully for their own gains. Like, what is all this? And why has it taken so long to have so many discussions about this? So if I have a purpose in this world, it's like I'm an antenna for that."