Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell · Aired Aug 18, 2026
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The speaker estimates that the probability of a random spoon having a handle with holes is one ten-thousandth of one percent.
The finding
What remains unresolved
Campbell says the chance that a random spoon has a handle with holes is one ten-thousandth of one percent, which is about one in a million. He gives no source, and I found no survey or dataset counting how many spoons have holes in their handles. The number depends on how spoons are defined and sampled, so it cannot be checked from the public record. A published survey of spoon designs that reports the share with handle holes would settle it.
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Is it true that the speaker estimates that the probability of a random spoon having a handle with holes is one ten-thousandth of one percent?
We can't say yet. Campbell says the chance that a random spoon has a handle with holes is one ten-thousandth of one percent, which is about one in a million. He gives no source, and I found no survey or dataset counting how many spoons have holes in their handles. Thomas Campbell said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell, aired Aug 18, 2026, at 2:28:25. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. No supporting source was captured, so don't treat this as a sourced conclusion.
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