Joe Rogan Experience #2554 - Carlo Rovelli · Aired Sep 15, 2026
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The guest's grandmother was born at a time when there was no electric light, no trains, no cars, no washing machines, no television, and no radio.
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Most of the list works. Rovelli was born in 1956, so a grandmother born in the late 1800s would indeed have arrived before electric light reached homes, and before cars, radio, television and washing machines. Trains are the exception. Italy's first railway, the line from Naples to Portici, opened on October 3, 1839, decades before any grandmother of a man born in 1956 could have been born, and the country had a growing network by the 1880s.
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Is it true that the guest's grandmother was born at a time when there was no electric light, no trains, no cars, no washing machines, no television, and no radio?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Most of the list works. Rovelli was born in 1956, so a grandmother born in the late 1800s would indeed have arrived before electric light reached homes, and before cars, radio, television and washing machines. Carlo Rovelli said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2554 - Carlo Rovelli, aired Sep 15, 2026, at 1:37:37. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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