Joe Rogan Experience #2464 - Priyanka Chopra Jonas

TL;DR

Priyanka Chopra Jonas joins Joe Rogan to discuss her pirate film, India's colonized history, ancient civilizations, and the possibility of alien intervention in human evolution.

Key Points

• 1.Priyanka stars in a pirate action film set in the 1900s Cayman Islands, filming 90%+ on practical sets with real ships and buildings built by production designer Phil Ivy.
• 2.She trained 3–4 months with rubber swords to match co-star Karl Urban, who learned sword fighting on Lord of the Rings, and filmed intense fight sequences for up to 10 hours a day over 7 days.
• 3.She simultaneously filmed three action projects: the pirate film, *Heads of State* (Amazon), and *Citadel*, making it a year-long action training marathon.
• 4.Her character is the child of Indian indentured servants — a real historical practice where people were promised better lives and dropped in foreign lands, explaining why the Caribbean has a large Indian community.
• 5.Joe went on a deep dive into the East India Trading Company — one of the first publicly traded corporations — which controlled India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, fought China over opium, and was involved in the slave trade before being nationalized.
• 6.India has 28–30 spoken languages and hundreds of dialects, with completely different alphabets per region — Priyanka says she can't understand people in neighboring Indian states.
• 7.The Kailasa Temple in India, carved entirely from a single mountain of rock, is discussed as an unexplainable feat of ancient engineering, with no clear explanation of how tons of stone were removed.
• 8.Italian scientist Filippo Biondi used Radio Doppler tomography to scan beneath the Egyptian pyramids and found structures going over 1 kilometer underground, including 20-meter diameter columns with circular coils — purpose completely unknown.
• 9.Randall Carlson's Younger Dryas Impact Theory proposes that a comet storm around 11,800 years ago wiped out advanced ancient civilizations, supported by iridium and micro-diamonds (trinitite) found in global core samples at that timeline.
• 10.The 1908 Tunguska event — a meteor that exploded over Russia — flattened over a million acres without hitting the ground, and the area still lacks tree regrowth over 100 years later.
• 11.India's Vedic texts reference vimanas (flying crafts) and energy-based weapons, which Priyanka suggests may have been real ancient technology misinterpreted as mythology.
• 12.The Kohinoor Diamond — 105 carats, currently on the British Crown — was taken from India during colonization, and India has been formally requesting its return.
• 13.Joe and Priyanka discuss the human brain doubling in size over 2 million years as the greatest mystery in the fossil record, with Joe suggesting outside intervention as the most likely explanation.
• 14.The Book of Enoch — excluded from the Bible by rabbis — describes "Watchers" descending from the sky to mate with humans and create the Nephilim (giants); Joe parallels this to Hindu mythology's coexistence of gods, humans, and demons who interbred.
• 15.Both agree the universe likely has no true beginning, referencing Sir Roger Penrose's cyclical Big Bang theory and Indian philosophical beliefs in endless cycles of creation and destruction.