What podcasts say about Joe Eszterhas
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What Joe Eszterhas has said on podcasts
18 statements · 9 positive · 2 negative · 2 mixed · 5 neutral
- on Joe Eszterhas’s Dogon-carved canePositiveJun 3, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Eszterhas’s Dogon-carved cane appears exceptionally durable.
“it's been a close companion of mine for many years. It seems to be indestructible.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 0:47
Basic Instinct may have helped Zelenskyy confront Putin.
“Maybe it gave him the balls and the wisdom to go after Putin.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 3:26
Camille Paglia now regards Basic Instinct as a postfeminist classic.
“has come around and said that the movie is the example. It's a post feminist classic, she says”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 9:55
- on Joe Eszterhas’s Christian film scriptsPositiveJun 3, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Eszterhas believed his Christian scripts could become successful films.
“these could be hit movies because my movies in a lot of cases have been”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 30:10
The Passion of the Christ succeeded partly because of its realism.
“part of the reason it was such a towering hit was that it was real. It wasn't incense filled.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 31:12
Eszterhas portrays Jesus as a Jewish anti-Roman freedom fighter.
“He was a Jewish zealot, a freedom fighter against the Roman Empire. He was crucified by the Romans as a freedom fighter.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 32:30
Eszterhas says Mary Magdalene was wealthy and financially supported Jesus.
“Mary Magdalene was a few years older than Jesus and a woman of means who had advised. Advised Roman builders in a city called Seraphim, and then was one of the people who financed Jesus”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 33:36
Eszterhas says there is no evidence Mary Magdalene was a prostitute.
“There's nothing that says that Mary Magdalene was a hooker of any kind. And then there's no proof for that in any way.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 34:21
- on Gnostic Gospels and Synoptic GospelsNeutralJun 3, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Eszterhas dates the Gnostic Gospels earlier than the Synoptic Gospels.
“the Gnostic gospels were written 40 years, 30, 40 years after the death of Jesus, whereas the Synoptic gospels, the ones that the churches have accepted, were written 80, 90 years after the death of Jesus.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 38:21
Eszterhas says the canonical Gospel authors were not their named figures.
“The people in the church gospels who were named like Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were not the people who were in the Gospels”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 38:46
Available evidence appears to date the Shroud of Turin to the 1300s.
“the evidence, what there is, seems to indicate that it comes from the 1300s.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 41:52
Eszterhas attributes his stage-four cancer recovery partly to prayer.
“I felt afterwards that the reason I was able to beat a stage four cancer had to do with my prayer life.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 57:44
Hunter Thompson created the gonzo journalism genre.
“Then Hunter took that and created an entire new genre. The gonzo journalism thing was his.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 1:20:04
- on Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72PositiveJun 3, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Eszterhas considers Thompson’s 1972 campaign book the best political commentary.
“the campaign book, the 72 Campaign Book, which in my mind is the best political commentary, including all of Teddy White's books.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 1:20:36
Thompson might have appreciated aspects of Donald Trump’s style.
“I'm not certain of that. And I think that certainly in terms of his style, he would have liked things about him.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 1:22:14
Eszterhas considers Trump the first president to speak directly to blue-collar people.
“he's the first president that didn't talk down, but talked directly to us.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 1:23:07
Eszterhas’s reporting forced California’s narcotics chief to resign.
“as a result of the stories, the guy who was the head of the narcotics agency in the state of California had to resign.”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 1:48:13
Eszterhas says alcohol temporarily quieted intrusive creative thoughts.
“the booze makes it stop so that you could continue your normal familial daily obligations and schedules without having this stuff in your head all the time”
Open the episode · #2508 - Joe EszterhasListen at 2:06:30
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