#2334 - Kash Patel

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Kash Patel is the Director of the FBI, appointed in February 2025. A former federal public defender, national security prosecutor, and senior official in both the Department of Justice and the Trump administration, he has held roles across the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and National Security Council.www.fbi.gov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast checking out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night all day.
0:13.1	All right.
0:13.7	What's going on, man?
0:14.8	How you doing, Joe?
0:15.6	Very good to see you, sir.
0:16.6	Thanks for having me in Austin.
0:17.7	What is it like to be the head of the FBI?
0:19.9	How weird is that?
0:20.9	It's completely effing wild.
0:24.4	I mean, I don't even know how to describe it.
0:26.8	What did you think it was going to be like and what was different once you got in there?
0:34.7	I thought that we were going to be able to come in with the movement that President Trump
0:42.8	came in with the administration to fix the errors that the leadership of the FBI previously made,
0:49.8	not like the 37,000 change people. And we are. We're doing a ton of work.
0:56.3	I didn't know we would be able to do this quickly is my surprise.
1:01.8	And what that showed me was the people at the bureau, literally people who've been there 30-year agents, they're coming up to me.
1:08.1	You're like, dude, we wanted to do that 15 years ago.
1:10.3	Really?
1:14.2	We wanted to do that 10 years ago. And then my question was like, you guys are the pros.
1:19.2	Like, I'm just, my job is the director. I'm not chasing down bad guys. I don't know how to do that.
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