Joe Rogan Experience #2540 - Travis Barker
2 claims didn't hold up. False, distorted, or one-sided. Unverified claims don't count against it.
A handful at most. Jamie barely had to move.
Claim by claim(5 claims flagged)
The iPhone does not have a native weather app.
He was not making a claim about iPhones. The whole stretch is about Polynesian voyagers crossing open ocean with no instruments, and the line "also, no no weather app on the iPhone" is a joke at their expense. There is nothing here to check, so the correction is withdrawn.
Conor McGregor has a net worth of approximately half a billion dollars.
McGregor is genuinely wealthy, but half a billion overstates it. Celebrity Net Worth and other financial outlets put his net worth around $200 million, driven mostly by the sale of his whiskey brand, well short of $500 million.
The upcoming Los Angeles card is headlined by Pantoja versus Joshua Van.
Nobody said UFC 306. Joe and Jamie are working out what is on an upcoming Los Angeles card in real time, correcting each other as they go. The event number was added when the claim was written down, and a card still being scheduled is not a fact check.
A UFC fight between Vicente Luque and Brian Ortega is scheduled for the upcoming weekend.
There was no Luque versus Ortega fight that weekend. At UFC 330 on August 15, 2026, Vicente Luque actually fought Tresean Gore, who beat him by unanimous decision, and Brian Ortega wasn't on that card at all.
The guest did not fly on a plane for 20 years following his accident.
This is the guest answering a question about his own life. Joe asks how many years it took before he flew again after his plane crash and he says twenty. A person's own round number about his own history is not something to mark as false.
All of this ran on its own. The claims got pulled out of the transcript, then checked against live sources.
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