What did the Joe Rogan episode with Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston get wrong?
We checked 48 claims from Joe Rogan Experience #2552 - Ehsan Ahmad & Deric Poston, aired Sep 10, 2026. 9 claims didn't hold up: 3 false, 5 distorted, 1 one-sided. 1 claim is still unverified, which means open, not false. By voice match, Joe said 8 of the misses and the guests 1. Jamie Meter for Joe's own claims: Entirely possible. The strongest sourced finding: The 2012 NDAA authorizes the indefinite detention of individuals, including American citizens, without charge or trial (Distorted). Accurate claims aren't listed on this site, so this is a count of what needed a second look, not a score of anyone's honesty.
No separately verified correction is recorded in this briefing. That does not mean none occurred.
Selected claims only. This briefing is assembled from published findings; it is not a complete transcript review or a measure of the speaker’s honesty. Open each check for attribution and sourcing status.
Jamie Meter · 8 of Joe’s own claims flagged How the count works ↓
The Jamie Meter
How many times someone at the table should have said “pull that up.”
8 claims didn't hold up. False, distorted, or one-sided. Unverified claims don't count against it.
A few needed a second look. About what three hours of talking gets you.
The meter counts false, distorted and one-sided findings. It is not a percentage. Unverified claims do not count. Selection and extraction affect the total.
We matched each claim to the voice that said it, where one voice clearly owned the moment. The meter counts only Joe’s: 8 of the 9 misses in this episode. The guests said 1.
Claim by claim
10 selected findings
This list covers flagged claims, not everything said. Accurate claims are omitted. Unverified means unresolved and does not count as a miss.
The Patriot Act expanded federal powers for surveillance and intelligence gathering, which civil liberties organizations argue infringes on constitutional protections like the Fourth Amendment. Proponents argue these measures are necessary for national security, making the characterization of the law's impact a matter of interpretation regarding the balance between security and privacy.
The 2012 NDAA does let the military hold people connected to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces without charge or trial, but the law itself says it is not meant to change existing law on detaining U.S. citizens one way or the other. That ambiguity was fought over in court, and the appeals court ultimately ruled the section says nothing about the government's authority over citizens, so stating flatly that it authorizes detaining Americans overstates a provision that courts found deliberately unresolved.
The claim matches what the speaker said on the show: the speaker said the club almost built a rooftop bar, pictured a drunk open micer going over a wall that was "like 4 ft high," and dropped the idea. This is a personal story about a private building decision. Several searches found no building plans, news coverage or interviews that confirm or contradict the roof plan, the wall height, or the reason it was dropped. A record of the Mothership's rooftop plans, or a building survey showing a different wall height, would change this verdict.
There is a real, documented decline in the share of young people identifying as nonbinary starting around 2022 to 2023, but researchers who study it attribute it to broader shifts like political polarization and changing social pressures, not specifically to Twitter's ownership change or a new culture of mockery. Framing this as a direct correlation with the Twitter purchase overstates a link the actual research does not draw.
The Bible was translated into languages other than Latin long before the 1500s. John Wycliffe's team produced a full English translation in the 1380s, more than a century before Luther's German Bible, and even earlier partial vernacular translations existed, including Old English gospel translations from the 10th century.
There is a real case behind this. The AP reported that USAID secretly funded a program from about 2009 to 2011 to infiltrate Cuba's hip-hop scene and cultivate anti-government sentiment among young Cubans, without disclosing US involvement. But USAID's stated mission is poverty reduction, humanitarian aid, and democracy support, and most of its budget goes to things like health and food assistance, not political destabilization. Calling regime change what the agency specializes in stretches a couple of documented covert programs in specific countries into a description of the whole agency's purpose.
There was a crater at the base of the blast, not just outward damage to the front of the building. Investigators documented a crater about 28 feet wide and nearly 7 feet deep just feet from the building's north entrance, and used its depth to estimate the bomb's size.
Ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bombs are plenty capable of the damage seen at the Murrah building. Investigators used the crater the truck bomb left, nearly 7 feet deep and 28 feet wide right next to the building, to calculate the device held roughly 2,000 to 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, which lines up with the destruction it caused.
This mixes up two different things. Larry Silverstein had owned and developed 7 World Trade Center since 1987, he did not buy it shortly before 9/11. The terrorism coverage bought weeks before the attacks was on his new lease for the Twin Towers and other buildings, and fact checkers found that was routine all-risk insurance tied to when he took on that lease, not a suspicious late addition. The dermatologist appointment that kept him home that morning is true, but plenty of people simply were not at work yet when the towers were hit.
The $150 million figure is real but it was not one investor writing one check. Court documents show the Walton family's $150 million came from two separate investment entities tied to the family, Madrone Capital Partners and Soda Springs Partners LLC, each buying shares in the same December 2014 round. So it was the largest family stake in Theranos, but split across two investment vehicles rather than a single investor's $150 million.