10 Best Podcast Episodes Of 2019

1. The Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden

The Joe Rogan Experience #1255 - Alex Jones
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In the history of podcasts, there have been few that were as hotly anticipated as Edward Snowden appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Rogan is one of the most charismatic and outright entertaining people in the podcast game, period, and he always poses the perfect mix of fluff, fun, and hard-hitting questions to the guests on his Experience show. So, when whistleblower Edward Snowden was announced as doing an extremely rare interview on The Joe Rogan Experience, there was the potential for something legendary.

Formerly a part of the CIA, Snowden divulged some scary facts about the state of the US and, more importantly, just how widespread surveillance is in the United States. From what Edward said, you literally cannot do anything in the States without Big Brother watching you. After listening to the near-three-hour interview, it's enough to make you instantly flush your smartphone down the toilet - with the government tracing your every move thanks to your trusty mobile device.

Even when your phone is turned off, there's still a huge chance that it's still sending all kinds of information out to a slew of networks, organisations, and advertisers.

The deep dive that Joe Rogan did with Edward Snowden was a terrifying one at times, yet it was one of the most eye-opening, informative interviews of the past decade or more.

You can listen to this podcast in full here.

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