Joe Rogan Had CEO Of His AI Sponsor On The Podcast And Barely Addressed It

July 2, 2026 by Gio Silva

Joe Rogan recently sat down with Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity AI, for a wide-ranging conversation on the Joe Rogan Experience. For those unaware, Perplexity is not just any tech company passing through the studio. It is one of the show’s active sponsors, and the team uses it regularly during episodes to look things up in real time.

Yet for a podcast that lasted well over an hour, the actual business relationship between Rogan and Perplexity barely came up.

The two spent the bulk of their time discussing ancient Hindu scriptures, the Mahabharata, lost civilizations, mysterious temples carved from single pieces of stone, and the Fermi paradox. Srinivas clearly came prepared as a thoughtful conversationalist, diving deep into topics like the Brahmastra, a weapon described in the Mahabharata that carries striking similarities to modern weapons of mass destruction, and the Yuga cycle, the Hindu concept of civilization moving through enormous recurring time periods.

It was a genuinely engaging conversation. Srinivas connected ancient curiosity to modern innovation, arguing that curiosity is the one quality that separates people who live fulfilling lives from those who do not.

“The most curious people have the most fulfilling lives because they have better relationships,” he said.

The AI discussion did eventually arrive, covering topics like algorithmic feeds, the future of education, job displacement, and the risks of AI companionship apps. Srinivas made a sharp distinction between technology that supercharges curiosity, like Perplexity, and technology that dulls it, like social media scroll feeds.

The sponsor relationship only surfaced organically near the very end when Rogan thanked him.

“Perplexity has been great. We really love using it here at the show. It’s made the show more interesting,” Rogan said. Srinivas replied that it was fulfilling to have the app used by curious people, adding, “We want to lift the ceiling of what our population can be.”

And that was essentially it. No discussion of valuation, funding rounds, the competitive AI search landscape, or what it means to have the CEO of a sponsor sitting across from you.

Tiktok Psychic Can’t Face The Fact She Destroyed Her Own Life By Accusing An Innocent Person For Years

July 2, 2026

A self-proclaimed TikTok psychic named Ashley Gillard spent roughly three years making more than 100 videos falsely accusing University of Idaho history professor Rebecca Scofield of orchestrating a quadruple homicide and having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Her only evidence was tarot cards and what she described as spiritual intuition. A federal jury in Boise, Idaho has now ordered her to pay $10 million in damages.

The story traces back to the 2022 m*rders of four University of Idaho students in Moscow, Idaho. When the case captured national attention, internet grifters rushed to fill the void of information. Gillard saw an opportunity.

She began posting videos naming Scofield, a professor who had never taught any of the vi*tims, had no connection to them, and was out of state in Oregon with her husband the night the m*rders occurred. None of that mattered to Gillard, who kept posting.

Scofield sent cease and desist letters. Gillard responded by posting a video announcing she would wipe herself with the demand letter. She continued uploading content even after law enforcement arrested Brian Coberger, a Washington State University graduate student who later admitted to committing the m*rders and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms with no possibility of parole. Even with someone behind bars for the cr*me, Gillard kept insisting Scofield was involved.

The defamation lawsuit moved through federal court for years. In June 2024, a judge ruled that Gillard had in fact defamed Scofield, finding her claims had a complete lack of corroborating support. As the court stated, intuition, even summoned by one’s spirituality, does not make a legal claim plausible. The only remaining question heading into trial was how much Gillard would owe.

The damages trial itself became a spectacle. Gillard represented herself, listed herself as every single witness in her own filing, and took the stand to interview herself in third person. When asked directly whether she had a single fact linking Scofield to the murders before posting, she admitted she did not verify anything because her tarot cards had already told her the answer. She also acknowledged under oath that she looked for evidence only after she had already made the accusations.

The jury returned a unanimous verdict of $10 million, including $5 million in punitive damages.

Rather than accept the outcome, Gillard went straight back to TikTok. She called the verdict ridiculous, accused the jury of bias, questioned the impartiality of a juror she claimed had professional ties to Scoffield’s law firm, and argued that the professor was not actually damaged because she had received support from colleagues and a GoFundMe.

She also threatened to sue YouTuber Atozy, who covered the trial in person, claiming he had been harassing her, after he asked her a single question outside the courthouse on camera.

As Atozy noted, Scofield’s therapist testified that the professor developed PTSD and chronic anxiety from years of being publicly accused of planning the murders of students at her own university. Her mother testified to watching her daughter deteriorate. Gillard’s response was to pull out the DSM-5 in court and argue the diagnosis was invalid.

Gillard is now pursuing an appeal while posting from beaches in Thailand and announcing she is already back to solving new cases. The professor, meanwhile, is still in treatment.

Rock Star Spent $250k On A Ferrari Only To Realize It Doesn’t Come With A Stereo

July 1, 2026

When Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee sat down with Joe Rogan on episode 2520 of the Joe Rogan Experience, the conversation took a turn into the world of exotic cars, and Lee shared a story that perfectly captures the wild reality of becoming suddenly, spectacularly wealthy at 18 years old.

Lee’s first major purchase after Motley Crue broke out around 1980 was a champagne-colored 1982 Corvette, a choice he stands by to this day. The two pulled up images of the car during the conversation, and Lee pointed out that unlike virtually every other American car from that era, the Corvette still looks genuinely cool. A side-by-side comparison with a 1982 Mustang made the point pretty clearly.

But it was his Ferrari story that grabbed the room. When Ferrari released the legendary Testarossa, Lee and his bandmate Nikki Sixx each got one at roughly the same time. Lee tracked down a black-on-black model through a car broker, paid around $250,000 for it, and waited for it to be shipped from Florida to Los Angeles.

When the car arrived and Lee began pulling the plastic off the seats, he started looking around the interior. Something was missing.

“I look in, to the right of the steering wheel, there’s like a cover. So I grab it and you open it up, and that’s where the stereo would be. I open it up and I go, where’s the stereo? The guy goes, oh, Enzo believed that the music that you should be listening to is the sound of the engine.”

Lee’s reaction was immediate.

“That’s rad and everything, Enzo, but bro, I just spent a quarter of a million dollars and I want to f**king crank s**t loud as f**k here.”

He ended up having a custom system installed, working with what was available at the time. He ran a bazooka tube behind the seats for a subwoofer, added decent door speakers, and put in an Alpine receiver. It was a workaround, but he got the car bumping.

He did acknowledge, with some generosity toward the late Ferrari founder, that the Testarossa sounded absolutely remarkable on its own.

“I totally get it.”

Rogan agreed, saying that the car sounds great.

“There’s a sound that those things make that’s just heavenly. There’s a sound it has, it’s so spectacular. It’s just engineering. It’s wine and pasta and a winding road.”

The conversation also touched on where Ferrari stands today. Rogan and Lee both expressed admiration for models like the 458 Italia and the SF90, with Rogan calling the 458 Ferrari’s masterpiece.

Bert Kreischer Always Tries To Claim He Discovered Shane Gillis

July 1, 2026

There is a running pattern with Bert Kreischer that anyone who follows the comedy podcast world has noticed by now. Every single time Shane Gillis comes up in conversation, Bert finds a way to make himself the central figure in Shane’s story. It happened again recently on Two Bears, One Cave, and it played out exactly the way it always does.

The conversation started innocuously enough. Tom Segura was talking about the response to his new Netflix season of Bad Thoughts, noting how meaningful it is when fellow comedians reach out with praise. Tom mentioned that Shane Gillis had called to tell him how much he liked the show. That is where things took a familiar turn.

Rather than simply agreeing that it was a nice gesture, Bert immediately redirected the conversation toward himself.

“I’ve known Shane longer than you have,” Bert told Tom, “and arguably I’m closer with him, and he never said a word about my TV show.”

From there, Bert spent several minutes processing his feelings about the slight in real time, eventually declaring that it bothered him so much he might have to reach out to Shane directly.

What made it funnier was the added detail that Shane had offered Bert acting tips when he was heading into production on his own show. Rather than taking that as a genuine and thoughtful gesture, Bert seemed to file it away as another entry in a growing list of grievances.

He also noted, with obvious irritation, that he never even got an offer to appear in Gillis’s project Tires, which he kept referring to as “Wheels.”

This is the formula. Bert compliments Shane, pivots to his own connection with him, and then quietly positions himself as the person who was there first, who knew him longest, and who played some foundational role in his rise. The implication is always the same: Bert discovered Shane before the rest of the world caught on.

The reason this keeps happening is not hard to understand. Shane Gillis represents something that Bert and many of his peers cannot manufacture. He built a genuinely independent career, earned credibility with mainstream audiences and hardcore comedy fans alike, and did it without needing constant validation or public positioning.

He shows up, does the work, and disappears. That combination of authenticity and success is rare, and it gives the entire Austin comedy circle a legitimacy it would not otherwise have.

For someone like Bert, who openly needs external approval and has spent years cultivating a persona built on being lovable and well-connected, watching someone younger achieve more with less effort clearly stings.

Rather than sitting with that quietly, Bert processes it out loud, on the podcast, in real time, while Tom Segura sits across from him trying not to laugh.

The episode also featured a dig at Shane that Bert seemed to think was a compliment. Comparing Shane to Justin Timberlake and other long-established entertainers, Bert remarked that Shane had barely been in the industry long enough to know what he was doing. It landed as a backhanded slight dressed up as praise.

The irony is that Shane almost certainly does not think about any of this.

Kevin Spacey Boasts That Right Wing Pundits Are Supportive Of His Comeback

June 30, 2026

Kevin Spacey sat down with Bill Maher on the Club Random podcast for a conversation about his legal battles, the people who stood by him, and what he believes comes next for his career.

Reflecting on why he had remained largely silent over the past several years, Spacey said he had been advised against speaking publicly.

“There’s just been a period of years where the advice that Evan and I were getting was that I just couldn’t come out and have the kind of conversations I would like to have had,” Spacey told Maher, referring to his longtime business partner Evan Lowenstein.

Spacey also discussed who had publicly supported him throughout the controversy. He specifically praised conservative commentator Douglas Murray and contrasted that support with what he described as silence from the political left.

“People like Douglas and others on the right have been so publicly supportive of me and believe that I was not given due process and have been out there for me and supporting me,” Spacey said.

Maher responded with a sarcastic jab.

“Yeah, cuz you’re bad and they’re bad,” Maher quipped.

Spacey immediately rejected that characterization.

“Fine, if that’s what you want to think,” he replied. “But on the left, not a single journalist has stood up and said anything in my favor for 9 years.”

While Maher acknowledged the outcomes of Spacey’s legal cases, he admitted that the number of accusations still gave him pause. According to Maher, his instinct was that Spacey “should have gotten some punishment.”

Spacey did not deny that some of his past behavior had crossed personal boundaries. However, he argued there was a significant difference between inappropriate conduct and criminal behavior.

“It just wasn’t a raging forest fire,” Spacey said. “It was a small kitchen fire that could have been put out with an extinguisher.”

Pointing to his courtroom victories, Spacey argued that the legal outcomes should carry more weight in the public conversation.

“We have been found not guilty in every court we’ve gone into with a jury,” he said.

That includes the federal civil trial in New York involving actor Anthony Rapp, who accused Spacey in a 2017 BuzzFeed article of making a s3xual advance toward him when Rapp was a teenager. Spacey claimed the allegations fell apart once evidence was presented in court.

“The entire story was not true,” he said. “The foundation of the story he built around a bedroom in an apartment that he said I rented.”

He continued by explaining that the physical layout of the apartment contradicted Rapp’s account.

“As it turned out, and as we proved in a court of law, I lived in a studio apartment,” Spacey said. “There was no bedroom. There was no door. The entire foundation of what he told this story around completely crumbled with the evidence.”

Looking back on the nearly decade-long fallout, Spacey argued that he has already paid a steep professional price.

“I think when people actually start to hear the facts and understand what we’ve won in court,” he said, “I think people now look at this and think, hmm, maybe 9 years has been enough.”

To illustrate his point, Spacey compared his situation to how athletes are often treated after misconduct allegations.

“If I had been a sports figure I would have been benched for seven games,” he said.

The conversation also turned to Spacey’s s3xuality. He confirmed he had intended to publicly come out as gay roughly two years before the allegations surfaced in 2017, insisting the scandal did not force that decision.

Looking back, he said his biggest regret was not doing so earlier in life.

“Coming out is not easy,” Spacey said. “It was not easy for me. I’m sorry that I didn’t have that courage earlier in my life.”

He added that rather than feeling embraced by the LGBTQ+ community while he remained closeted, he often felt criticized.

Despite the controversies surrounding his career, Spacey said he is optimistic about the future. He revealed plans for concerts featuring the American songbook, a revival of his one-man Clarence Darrow show, a new solo production about filmmaker Preston Sturges, and an upcoming film in Italy centered on the Holocaust.

He also believes the experiences of the past several years, including lengthy legal battles, therapy, and self-reflection, have changed him as a performer.

“I’m closer to myself than I’ve ever been,” Spacey said. “And I’m really excited about what my work is going to be like now.”

The Evidence Joe Rogan Has Been Compromised Is Mounting

June 30, 2026

A recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience featuring comedian Tim Dillon has left many viewers unsettled. The conversation turned at one point to Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of the surveillance company Palantir and a figure who has quietly built a remarkable level of influence within Rogan’s orbit.

The pattern is hard to ignore. A surprising number of Rogan’s guests have either worked for Thiel, been funded by him, attended his private dinners, or share some other connection to him.

Rogan himself has admitted to visiting Thiel’s home on more than one occasion, describing intimate power lunches and dinners where Thiel would bring together intellectuals and thinkers for conversation.

When Tim Dillon brought up whether he had ever been invited to one of those dinners, he made his reasoning for declining clear. “I don’t know that I want to go to dinner with someone who’s going to talk endlessly about the Antichrist,” Dillon said.

He also noted, pointedly, that the likely purpose of such invitations is to prevent people with large platforms from criticizing those doing the inviting. However, Dillon then said, “Yeah, most likely. But it doesn’t work because I can’t shut my mouth.”

Rogan compromising nature became more apparent in a discussion about AI and what Thiel and others in his circle believe it will ultimately produce. Rogan described the idea of an artificial superintelligence, framed by some in Thiel’s world as an “Antichrist” figure.

When Dillon pressed him on what happens once this god-like AI arrives, Rogan replied, “Nirvana. We all merge. It becomes perfect.” He then added that humans are already “on the way out” and defended Thiel’s long pause when asked whether humanity should survive, calling it an honest assessment rather than a troubling one.

Dillon, to his credit, gently pushed back, pointing out that the digital god being built will not be controlled by the collective human race but by a small group of people.

Those familiar with how Rogan handled a similar moment with Theo Von, when Theo raised Palantir’s involvement in Gaza and Rogan responded by playing dumb and later making veiled insinuations about Theo’s mental state, understood why Dillon tread lightly.

Pages: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243244245246247248249250251252253254255256257258259260261262263264265266267268269270271272273274275276277278279280281282283284285286287288289290291292293