The Joe Rogan Experience - #2556 - Siddharth Kara

Siddharth Kara, PhD, is the author of several books, including "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives," and, most recently, "The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery."https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250348227/thezorg/www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/beacons-of-excellence/rights-lab/our-team/siddharth-kara/index.aspx Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. 50% off your first box at https://www.thefarmersdog.com/rogan! MANSCAPED®: Get 15% off + free shipping on The Lawn Mower® Ultra Gen 6. Visit https://manscaped.com/joeroganexperience Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 31m
Broadcast on: 22 Sep 2026
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(dramatic music) - Joe Rogan flying fast, check it out. - The Joe Rogan, experience. - Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) - We're up. - All right. - Good to see you, sir. - Yeah, good to see you, Joe. - First of all, thank you very much for everything you've done. And for just, I can't tell you how many people have come up to me and said thank you for shedding light on what's going on in the Congo with the cobalt stuff. Your book was so important and the fact that you risked your life to get the kind of footage that you legitimately risked your life. - Yeah. - That is a very dangerous part of the world right now with enormous amounts of resources being pulled out and insane amounts of money being made. And I think just people like you are rare, so thank you. - Oh man, you're gracious, Joe. You're really gracious, I take that to heart. It means a lot and let me just say that the fact that you continue to talk about it. You know, you and I first talked about this, talking to Jamie, it was almost four years ago. - Wasn't really that long. - It was December, 2022. - That's crazy. - So here we are, September 26, almost four years ago. And you continue to talk about it now and again. And I think that's meant a lot to me. It's meant a lot to people in the Congo. It's obvious this has captured your heart and you're to be commended for that conscience. - Well, I'm doing this talking. You're actually out there going and documenting all this stuff. It's just a very strange world that we live in that at the very base of all the greatest technology, like all this stuff that we have that's so incredible, that allows us to find out so much about the world, the base of that you have slave labor pulling minerals out of the ground. - Yeah, you have slave labor, you have child labor, you have militia run minds, you know, for people who didn't hear our last conversation, go back and hear it, you know,

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