Mystery Boys bring a hot dog and an elf to Rogan
Kurt Metzger and Duncan Trussell join a four-upload week that also features Robert Whittaker, Ross Edgley and Bill Thompson.
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Joe Rogan Experience #2570 - Mystery Boys
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- 0:46An FBI cybersecurity alert prompts Rogan's prediction that AI will eventually break existing encryption.
- 8:21The group compares personal screen-time habits with a search result estimating Americans' daily screen use.
- 14:14Rogan examines Scott Dow's carved wooden tables, including designs featuring sea serpents and octopuses.
- 40:24The Dropout prompts a discussion about dramatized biographies mixing historical facts with invented dialogue.
Joe Rogan is dressed as a green elf, Duncan Trussell is a hot dog, and Kurt Metzger arrives in a cowboy hat, sunglasses and a silver vest. The wardrobe is coordinated only in its refusal to be ordinary.
"Joe Rogan Experience #2570 - Mystery Boys" is the week's most-watched new upload, passing 1.1 million views. Metzger and Trussell, co-hosts of Mystery Boys, bring a conversation that jumps from a cybersecurity alert and AI to screen-time habits, political controversies and conspiracy theories. There are quieter detours, too: Rogan stops to admire Scott Dow's carved wooden tables, including sea-serpent and octopus designs. Even this discussion has room for furniture.
The episode is also the channel's strongest source of daily viewing right now, followed by "JRE MMA Show #187 with Robert Whittaker." The former UFC middleweight champion joins Rogan for the week's dedicated MMA installment. Elsewhere, endurance swimmer Ross Edgley arrives with his book How to Hero due in November, while retired Army chief warrant officer Bill Thompson brings the world of AI-powered hunting maps through his company, Spartan Forge.
PowerfulJRE added 100,000 subscribers across the week, although its latest daily viewing is below its usual pace. Among the nearby podcast channels, The Diary Of A CEO had a larger weekly subscriber gain; First We Feast and Team Coco finished with unchanged subscriber totals.
For Rogan, the freshest momentum belongs to the costumed trio, with Whittaker's visit providing the clearest sporting counterpoint.
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- PowerfulJRE
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- 21,200,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
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- 9,368,666
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- 4
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- October 23, 2026
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- 1,151,844
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- 720,633
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