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Joe Rogan Experience: #2416 with Dan Farah (Transcript)

Here is the full transcript of director and producer Dan Farah’s interview on The Joe Rogan Experience #2416, November 21, 2025.

Meeting Dan Farah and The Age of Disclosure

JOE ROGAN: What’s up, Dan? How are you? Good to see you.

DAN FARAH: Good, good to see you. Good to see you again.

JOE ROGAN: First time I saw you was the first time I saw your documentary, which is f*ing excellent.

DAN FARAH: Thank you, bro.

JOE ROGAN: The Age of Disclosure. Really good. Can’t recommend it enough. If you’re a UFO dork like myself and you’re in and out like sometimes, like, this is bullshit. Maybe it’s bullshit. Maybe I’m wasting my time. Maybe it’s real. Maybe it’s… go see the Age of Disclosure and then you’ll be fully in the “I don’t f*ing know, but something’s going on.” That’s where I am right now. I don’t know, but something’s going on.

DAN FARAH: Definitely something going on. It’s a real situation.

Government Secrecy and Misappropriation of Funds

JOE ROGAN: Yeah, it’s a real weird one. When you see all these high level government employees talking about secret access programs and back engineering programs that have been going on for decades and decades in secrecy. And you’re like, your documentary did a fantastic job of highlighting a couple of reasons why I always, when people are skeptical and they go, “Okay, if there was a program like this, why wouldn’t they just tell us?”

You have to really understand the consequences of what they’ve done. Because what they’ve done is lie to Congress for a long time. It’s a misappropriation of funds, clear felonies.

DAN FARAH: Lie to the public, lie to Congress, lie to sitting presidents.

JOE ROGAN: Just the money stuff and all. Also, let’s just be really, let’s be just honest about human nature. If you have complete access to enormous amounts of money that’s not under any oversight at all, for sure some of it went in the pockets of people that probably shouldn’t have got it.

DAN FARAH: 100%. I think it’s safe to say 100% has to. Everyone I’ve talked to who’s aware of the details of the deeply hidden legacy program says that it’s at least over a trillion dollars spent since the forties.

JOE ROGAN: Oh my God.

DAN FARAH: It’s an enormous amount of money and it’s a much bigger program than people would suspect. You’re talking thousands of people, full time jobs, then going home to their families. The guy sitting next to your kid’s little league baseball game. Normal people on the outside are involved in this deeply hidden program. It’s bonkers.

The Myth That People Can’t Keep Secrets

JOE ROGAN: And the idea, this is another thing that drives me nuts. The idea that people can’t keep secrets. Shut the f up. Yes, they can. If you’re told you’re… some people, some people can’t keep secrets. But by the time you get to be a high level operative in the United States government, I’m guessing you can keep a fing secret.

DAN FARAH: Yeah. And if you’re told, “Hey, you could disappear one day or you can have your reputation ruined.”

JOE ROGAN: Right?

DAN FARAH: You’re going to get blackmailed about this or that. You’re just going to keep quiet.

JOE ROGAN: Yeah, people can keep secrets. And by the way, not everybody does. The Bob Lazar story to this day is like that. That documentary by Jeremy Corbell was the reason why I went all the way back in with UFOs. I’m like, all right, God damn it. I believe Bob.

DAN FARAH: It’s a great doc.

JOE ROGAN: It’s a great doc, great talk. And that one’s available. It’s Area 51, Bob Lazar, Area 51 and Flying Saucers. Is that the name of it? The title of it? Something along those lines. Fantastic documentary for me.

Growing Up With UFO Culture

DAN FARAH: Look, my childhood was the 80s and early 90s. I grew up on movies like ET and Close Encounters and TV shows like X Files and…

JOE ROGAN: Yeah.

DAN FARAH: Movies like Fire in the Sky. Remember that movie?

JOE ROGAN: Oh, yeah. I had Travis in here.

DAN FARAH: Yeah, you did. I love that interview.

JOE ROGAN: Fantastic.

DAN FARAH: That movie gave me nightmares. Crazy because it kept me up as a kid.

JOE ROGAN: All those couple of those guys on that crew hated him. Like one of them he got in a fistfight with that day.

DAN FARAH: Yeah.

JOE ROGAN: And that guy had the exact same story that everybody else had. He got hit by a beam of light. They went back to get him, he was gone. Then five days later he shows up.

DAN FARAH: Yeah.

JOE ROGAN: He’s not malnourished. He’s not like he hasn’t been sleeping in the woods.

DAN FARAH: It’s crazy.

JOE ROGAN: And he’s got this f*ing insane story about being repaired on a UFO.

DAN FARAH: Yeah. And all those guys passed lie detector tests.

JOE ROGAN: All of them did.

DAN FARAH: Movies like that, I’m sure for millions of people around the world, same thing. It just made me curious about this.

JOE ROGAN: Yeah.

DAN FARAH: My whole life I’m like, are we alone in the universe? Does the US government know more about this than we do? Right. And I always wish that there was a documentary that only interviewed people who have direct knowledge of the topic as a result of working with the government. And that was the real drive of making this film. Everybody fits that criteria.

The Fear of Misinformation

JOE ROGAN: Here’s the fear that everyone has, including myself. And it is the way. This is the main fear that I have whenever I sit down with any whistleblower. How many of them are on purpose, that their directive, that their objective is to spread misinformation on purpose on behalf of the government, that they’re there to just bullshit you?

DAN FARAH: Yeah, no, of course I had that thought. But for me, I stopped worrying about that when I met one intelligence official, government official, military official after another, who had completely different ideological views, different political beliefs.