Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - JRE 494 Week in Review: Paul Rosolie, Benny "The Jet", Ehsan Ahmad, Filippo Biondi

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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Okay, the quick Rogan review of the week. Before we get started, we were going to release this week. A bit of a special review of the first UFC on Paramount breakdown of how it was all going with my buddy Ed over at Pure Evil MMA. But it looks like Ed got stuck in the snow somewhere due to these awful storms. And I haven't heard from him for a couple of hours. I've been sat in the stew, just waiting. So I hope he's okay. And yeah, it wasn't my fault. That was on Ed.

We hope you're okay, Ed. We're going to try and pull it together. I'm going to give him another chance. We need his knowledge. He knows just about everything about MMA. So we're going to get him on. We're going to try and get that episode out. I know some people have been messaging me about kind of leaning more into the MMA.

episodes and getting some more of those down. So I'm going to do my best. We're going to get this set up. We're going to track Ed down. Dig him out and get him to safety. First up, episode 244.1, Paul Rossily. This guy's great. This guy lives in the jungle. This is the old Jerry Lane, a real world operator, right? High stakes, nature stories, conservation, and the bigger question of what modern people are supposed to do with their nervous system when everything's cushioned. Rosalie isn't just jungle guy. He's a conservationist and founder of jungle keepers. And the conservation naturally becomes about courage, meaning, and the cost of caring. And he has a shitload of good stories always.

Use this episode as a clean bridge between adventure and mental health. The hidden theme is people feel anxious and aimless, partly because their lives contain no real contact with difficulty that matters. Not suffer more, but choose something real. If you want a punchy framing, modern anxiety is often unspent, capacity for action and responsibility. This is the episode where you can talk about purpose without sounding like an Instagram quote page. The online feel and vibe, these tend to get love because they're not performative, you know, less political, more humanity. This feels like classic Rogan type

sentiment is the type of thing that appears whenever Joe goes back to the wild stories plus sincere curiosity. And comment of the week. Finally, an episode that isn't just the internet yelling at itself. Also, I forgot how good Jerry is when it's just a fascinating person telling the truth about a weird life. Good point. Overall online rating, 8.6 out of 10. It was a strong episode. I think so. And the why story density is high, topic is timeless. And it leaves listeners with A clean emotional aftertaste, grounded, slightly humble, slightly inspired. And slightly is the word. It's like, it does the job. Moving on, an MMA show, show 173, Benny the Jet.

This one's interesting because Rogan's talked about these guys a lot over the years, so it's kind of cool to have them in. This is martial arts culture lineage, right? It's all about competence, fighting psychology, and the old score earned confidence vibe. The notes frame them as retired kickboxers with Benny, also known for choreography, acting. So it's partly fight history and partly how fighting shaped the man, right?

You can basically treat this as a masterclass in nervous system training. Fighting is exposure therapy with consequences. You can pull out three therapy. Jason points without getting clinical. Calm is trained, not discovered. Confidence is predictive accuracy about yourself under pressure. A lot of men don't need motivation. They need a craft that forces honesty. The online vibe and feel, the MMA heads loved it, of course, but there's a predictable split. Some listeners love old legends and technical talk. Others bounce if they don't recognize the names or if it leans to kind of insider talk, which this one does. Even in the Reddit

thread, you can see people either enjoying the throwback or complaining about like the listenability and drifting into typical Rogan kind of meta arguments. You know, it's back and forth. Comments of the week, this one's for the fight nerds. And I mean that as a compliment. Very true. Another good comment was I had no idea who they were, but it's interesting hearing how old school fighters think. Rating on this one, 7.7 out of 10. I thought that was a little high, actually. Honestly, I thought a lot more people would not get this episode, but whatever. The why?

Strong niche satisfaction. Slightly lower general audience pool, and last year a listener who is really into kind of combat. And, you know, those sports and mastery stories. Next up, episode 2442. Asan Ahmad. Funny guy, comedy mothership, regular. You know, the comedian ones, these always divide people. But this one delivered in a good way as a comedy episode.

Not through information, but through social accuracy. Comics tend to notice where people lie to themselves, where culture gets strange, and where as... status replaces meaning. The strongest moments weren't jokes really in this episode. They were casual observations that landed because they were true. There was also a quiet thread running through the episode about the difference between being informed and being mentally healthy. Those are not quite the same thing. This wasn't a must listen, I would say, but it was relaxed, human and full of short moments that reflected how people are accurately feeling right now.

Online gave this about a 7.4 out of 10. I would have probably hit it lower, but yeah. As a comedy one, not too bad. Next up, now this is a big one. Episode 2443. Philippo, Filippo Biondi. Biondi. Yeah, I think I got that.

This one was a doozy, folks. I've been waiting for this one for a long time. Basically, the guy that did the scans that found. all that shit underneath the pyramids that goes down like a mile radar imaging signal processing and claims of unusual structures beneath the pyramids of geese the premise is fascinating and the technology itself is real radar can detect underground anomalies which is unreal they do it from satellites where things get shaky is the leap from anomaly to massive hidden structures or lost civilizations that's where the audience split immediately, right? This is the online buzz. The episode sat right on the edge

between curiosity and certainty. And that tension is the real story here. Curiosity is valuable, but without verification, replication and independent confirmation, curiosity turns into belief very fast. What this episode did really well is spark argument, not just hype or dismissal, but actual questions about standards of evidence and how claims should be evaluated. Overall, some unbelievable things we're talked about in this episode in terms of if they become true, if this stuff does get discovered and they do get to go down there. And just like Rogan said, it legitimately will be the greatest archaeological discovery in human history. straight up folks definitely worth a lesson rating online 7.9 out of 10 i would have given it way higher it was

definitely my pick of the week overall theme of the week zooming out this week had a clear set of themes first reality matters whether it's the jungle the fight game comedy clubs or ancient stone structures people are hungry for things that push back things that are real second there were four different kinds of truth on display, existential truth with Rosalie, embodied truth in the M. May show, social truth with the comedian, and empirical truth being chased, but not yet proven in the pyramid episode. That range is when the Rogan format works the best, because you get some good diversity there. Weekly summary and rating, overall week solid 7.9 out of 10. I mean, it was a very listenable Rogan week. Best episode.

of the week for most listeners online was the Paul Rossily one. Surprising. Surprising for me. Most debates generating episode, Philippo Biondi. And I get it. You know, still a lot of people are willing to dismiss the stuff under the pyramids. I get it. It's too unbelievable to think is true.

But stand by because it seems like these satellite scanning machines are legit. Best niche episode, the MMA one, best casual hang, the comedian Assan, and that. There we go. And that's it for this week. Jungle Reality, discipline mastery, comedy honesty, and one pyramid episodes that prove we all love mystery. But about half of us won the receipts first. That's it for the quick review. Stand by for the rest of the week for the longer episodes. And That's it. Take care. Enjoy.