On December 31, 2025, Warren Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway after 60 years at the helm — the longest CEO tenure in modern American business history. He kept the chairman title and the $148 billion stake. He hasn't sat for a long-form interview since.
This Saturday, May 2, 2026, Greg Abel runs the Berkshire annual meeting for the first time. Buffett will be in the audience.
That's the window.
- He just retired from the only job he's had since 1965.
- Berkshire is sitting on a $381.6 billion cash pile that Buffett refused to deploy at current valuations.
- His successor, Greg Abel, has already broken with the playbook — piling $43 billion into Japanese stocks and signaling he sees no bargains in America.
- Buffett's final shareholder letter, released in November 2025, ended with a message about character, growth, and kindness — not returns.
There is no living investor with a better claim to talk about what the last 60 years of American capitalism actually meant than the man who just walked away from running it.
Joe Rogan is the only host with the audience and the format to do this conversation justice. JRE is where unhurried, three-hour conversations with American originals happen — and Buffett, who has referenced Rogan's reach in interviews and whose name Rogan has invoked on the show as recently as February 2026, is the rare guest who could fill that runway. Rogan's listeners don't get Berkshire annual meetings. Buffett's shareholders don't get JRE. The collision is the point: an AI-and-crypto-soaked podcast audience hearing from the man who refused to invest in either, at the exact moment his retirement makes that refusal the most interesting story in finance.
This conversation will not happen on its own. Buffett's media discipline is legendary; he sits with Becky Quick, sometimes Charlie Rose, and almost no one else. Every vote on this page is a public signal that the audience is real, organized, and waiting. Add your vote. Suggest the topics that actually need three hours — succession, tariffs, the Apple position, what he sees in 2026 that nobody else is naming. Share this page. The Berkshire meeting on May 2 is a perishable moment — let's make sure he hears about us before he sits down again.
