Joe Rogan Experience #2315 - José Andrés

José Andrés and Joe Rogan have a warm, philosophical conversation that uses food as a lens on nearly everything. They cover the art and power of feeding people, the failures of traditional education, the loss of their mutual friend Anthony Bourdain, and the importance of checking on loved ones. The talk ranges across aliens and disclosure, ancient civilizations and cataclysms, global food security and the fragility of the food supply, and the politics of nutrition (SNAP, Michelle Obama's Let's Move, and RFK Jr.). Andrés shares stories of cooking paella over open fire with his father, sending paella to the space station, and his immigrant journey from the Spanish Navy to American citizenship. He closes describing World Central Kitchen's work in Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, North Carolina, and the LA fires.

• José admits he was fired from his own restaurant roughly three times for being too creative and bad with numbers.
  00:31:45
• Both Joe and José open up emotionally about losing Anthony Bourdain to suicide and the haunting feeling they could have helped.
  00:40:10
• Joe relays physicist Hal Puthoff's claim the US holds 10 retrieved non-human craft and considered UFO disclosure under the Bush administration in 2004.
  01:00:33
• José reveals he sent paella to the International Space Station via Axiom in 2016-2017 and nearly caused chaos with floating rice grains.
  01:10:57
• Both discuss that humanity may only have roughly 90-120 days of global food supply, framing it as a national security issue.
  01:31:21
• José says he 100% supports RFK Jr.'s push to make America healthier despite disagreeing with him on vaccines.
  01:53:42
• José describes World Central Kitchen scaling to half a million meals a day in Ukraine and running bakeries in Gaza.
  02:39:35

• Bazaar opened in LA over 15 years ago in the SLS hotel designed by Philippe Starck.
  00:01:05
• Anthony Bourdain didn't start jiu-jitsu until age 58 and got so obsessed he entered tournaments and trained twice a day.
  00:46:23
• An engineer named Jim Sears designed a centrifuge kitchen using up to 14 G to cook food in space by forcing ingredients to the sides.
  01:13:37
• Japan keeps national rice reserves and has released them to stabilize prices during shortages, similar to fuel reserves.
  01:32:53
• China has only 7% of the world's farmland but 15% of its population, driving overseas land and port investments.
  01:33:55
• José notes a modern gas station can stock 25,000 calories of snacks where his childhood gas station sold none.
  01:37:30
• DC Central Kitchen, founded by Robert Egger, started by collecting untouched food from Bush's inauguration parties and now serves 15-20,000 meals a day.
  01:43:46
• José jokes that ham is technically vegan because the pigs eat acorns, sparking a circular vegetarian-logic debate.
  02:01:58
• José claims a 30-40 second microwave omelette made with one egg whisked with a spoon of mayo is the best omelette in history.
  02:05:06
• Joe cites a claim that 70% of restaurants in Los Angeles went under during the pandemic.
  02:26:33

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