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5 min readThe Joe Rogan Experience #2526 — JD Vance
In the summer of 2024, a cage fight was held on the South Lawn of the White House. Eighty-five thousand people filled the Ellipse. The weather miraculously diverted around the event. Every single fight ended in a knockout. Vice President JD Vance was there, and he still seems slightly stunned it happened. "It took me like two weeks afterward to recover," he tells Joe Rogan. "Just to go, did that actually happen?"
The California Problem and Election Integrity
Vance and Rogan spend considerable time on what they see as the decay of Democratic-run cities. Rogan describes Los Angeles as heartbreaking — beautiful architecture, perfect weather, and a Skid Row that has expanded to fifty-five blocks. Vance recalls driving through Skid Row on the way to his wife's law firm Christmas party and realizing it reminded him of visiting the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "Super security, crazy wealth and privilege and status on the inside and squalor and misery on the outside."
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What you'll learn
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- 2 (00:01) **Opening Banter & UFC at the White House** - JD Vance recounts the surreal experience of hosting a UFC fight on the South Lawn, including the weather drama and the delayed crowd reaction from 85,000 spectators
- 3 (08:00) **UFC's Cultural Takeover of Boxing** - Vance observes how UFC has replaced boxing as the dominant combat sport in American culture over the last 20 years
- 4 (11:00) **Live Fight Observations & Josh Hokett's Arm Bar** - Vance's first live fight experience and a technical breakdown of why Hokett's submission failed
- 5 (15:00) **The Outrage Economy & Performative Reactions** - Both men agree that social media has created an economy based on performative outrage, especially around humor
- 6 (20:50) **California's Decline & Blue State Migration** - Vance and Rogan discuss why California is falling apart despite its natural advantages, and why blue staters moving to Austin haven't ruined it
- 7 (24:42) **Why Big Cities Run Democratic & Election Integrity** - Rogan asks why large population centers are almost always run by Democrats, then pivots to mail-in ballot concerns
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Show Notes
JD Vance is the Vice President of the United States, a Marine Corps veteran, former U.S. Senator from Ohio, and author. His latest book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” is available now.
www.harpercollins.com/products/communion-j-d-vance
www.whitehouse.gov/administration/jd-vance
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