#2479 - Bob Lazar & Luigi Vendittelli

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4.5 • 245.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Bob Lazar made headlines in 1989 during an anonymous interview with journalist George Knapp, where he described working with extraterrestrial technology at a site near Area 51. He is the subject of the documentary directed by Luigi Vendittelli “S4: The Bob Lazar Story,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. http://wearenotalone.comwww.projectgravitaur.comwww.simonandschuster.com/books/Dreamland/Bob-Lazar/9798218678043www.boblazar.com 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.
0:12.2	We're up, gentlemen.
0:13.4	Hey, Joe.
0:14.1	Great to see you again, Bob.
0:15.2	The same here.
0:15.9	Long time.
0:17.0	Luigi.
0:17.1	Joe.
0:17.6	You are still to this day the most watched ever podcast we have ever done that's on YouTube.
0:25.6	That's just unreal. It's unreal. It is unreal because it shows you how many people are just absolutely fascinated by the story.
0:36.0	And what you guys have done in this new film is essentially recreate
0:41.1	S4 and using AI, recreate you as a young man in these experiences that you had. And it was
0:49.9	really excellent. Luigi, you're the one who put the film together.
0:54.8	You figured it all out.
0:57.0	And first of all, what was the technology that you guys used to recreate everything that we did?
1:01.4	Yeah, I just want to say there's about 10% AI in the film, but there's 90% blender.
1:09.0	And that's actually handmade CGI. So everything you see is all handmade.
1:16.3	And even the de-aging of Bob Lazar, we scanned Bob. We went over to his house, scanned his face,
1:22.9	took a process of de-aging him through that, then creating a digital model of Bob in different
1:30.2	ages, and then placing him in the environment. And then in some instances at the very end,
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