What Jared Diamond has said about Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 3, 2026
Jared Diamond, American geographer, historian and author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings", has been quoted on Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings 2 times in 1 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, most recently on September 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Diamond says he is a lifelong technophobe who chose to study the gallbladder because it required no technical apparatus.
“I made my reputation as a physiologist with a gallbladder precisely because I could not build the ham radio”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 42:05
Diamond says he writes his books by hand in pencil and finds his typed prose wordier than his handwritten prose.
“When I type it, I notice that my style is more wordy, whereas if I write it down, my style is more simplified and compressed”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 48:40
Episodes
#2549 - Jared DiamondThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h 34 min
Jared Diamond talks with Joe Rogan about leadership, the rise of world religions, the origins of writing, language, and cannibalism and Kuru in New Guinea.