Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's October 2025 interview with investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller.

• The Biden Border Crisis | Senator Cornyn

• Statistics on unauthorized US immigration and US border crossings by year | USAFacts

• STARTLING STATS FACTSHEET: Biden and Harris' Border Crisis Still Wreaking Havoc—at the Borders and in the Interior

• STARTLING STATS FACTSHEET: Fiscal Year 2024 Ends With Nearly 3 Million Inadmissible Encounters, 10.8 Million Total Encounters Since FY2021 – Committee on Homeland Security

• Nearly one year after its passage, Minnesota immigrants embracing Driver's License for All | MPR News

• Secretary of State: 'It's a felony to vote in Minnesota if you are not eligible'

• Heritage Foundation Election Fraud Map for Minnesota

• Questions and Answers: Affirmative Asylum Eligibility and Applications

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's October 2025 interview with Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin from the Triggernometry podcast.

• Rex -v- Lucy Connelly - Sentencing remarks

• Farage's fascist past? Nigel boasted about his NF initials and sang 'gas them all', claims schoolfriend | The Independent

• Billionaires support groups behind 'No Kings,' but they didn't spend $300M to fund protests | Snopes.com

• Extinction Rebellion: Nearly 400 scientists support climate activists' civil disobedience campaign | The Independent

• Footage of suspended Labour councillor who called for far right activists' throats to be cut

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We break down Joe's October 2025 interview with Richard Lindzen & William Happer from the CO2 Coalition.

• Guardian | Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial

• Skeptical Science | Debunking Joe Rogan, Dick Lindzen, and Will Happer

• Skeptical Science | Why a few degrees of global warmings matter

• THE MYTH OF THE 1970s GLOBAL COOLING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS

• Yale Climate Connections | The fossil fuel industry spent $219 million to elect the new U.S. government

• EIB | The French are more concerned about climate change than most Europeans

• Climate Outreach | Guest blog: France Talks Climate – where are French people on climate action?

• YouGov | Belief in climate change

• Pew Research | What the data says about Americans' views of climate change

• Climate Change Committee | Progress in reducing emissions – 2025 report to Parliament

• National Grid: Live

• Reuters | The truth about 'clean' coal

• NRDC | Paris Climate Agreement: Everything You Need to Know

• Guardian | China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds

• Berkeley Earth | Global Temperature Report for 2024

• Guardian | Climategate 10 years on: what lessons have we learned?

• Wikipedia | Climatic Research Unit email controversy

• Skeptical Science | Sun & climate: moving in opposite directions

• EPA | Overview of Greenhouse Gases

• Nature | The State of the World's Beaches

• Climate.gov | Climate Change: Global Sea Level

• NSIDC | Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025

• World Meteorological Organization | Extreme weather

• IEA | Methane and climate change

• Energy - European Commission | Methane emissions

• World Meteorological Organization | WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level

• Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature

• IPCC | Chapter 7: The Earth's Energy Budget, Climate Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity

• IPCC | Clouds and Aerosols

• Skeptical Science | How reliable are climate models?

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We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 interview with Elon Musk.

Main event

• The Telegraph | German woman given harsher sentence than rapist for calling him 'pig'

• BBC | Man in court charged with sexually assaulting 10 year-old girl

• Propel | Can undocumented immigrants get food stamps (SNAP)?

• American Immigration Council | Asylum in the United States

• KFF | More Than Half of ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in Republican Congressional Districts

• AP News | FEMA says it's halting payments for migrant housing in New York after Musk blasts money for hotels

• Axios | Which states get more federal money than they send

• BBC | Indiana joins growing US battle over redrawing electoral maps

• Census.gov | Residence Criteria and Residence Situations for the 2020 Census of the United States

• MaTrack | California CDL – Requirements, Costs, Training, and License Types Explained

Undercard

• How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States? | Williams Institute

• Erin In The Morning | Fact Check: No, There Is Not A New Survey Showing Trans Identity Is Decreasing

• Jacob Eliason | Methodological issues in Kaufmann's analysis of FIRE gender identity data

• WSJ | Evidence Backs the Transgender Social-Contagion Hypothesis

• SEGM | Transgender identification in college youth is at an all-time high but may be reaching a plateau

• YouGov | Transgender identification in college youth is at an all-time high but may be reaching a plateau

• Williams Institute | How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?

• Postoperative adverse events following gender-affirming vaginoplasty

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We break down the interview with Joe's October 2025 interview with Elon Musk.

Main event

• Yahoo | Here's how much California spends on each homeless person

• CBS Austin | Austin Public Library shooting suspect identified, accused of separate shooting on bus

• Guardian | Elon Musk allegedly took large amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Trump – report

• New York Times | N.C. Stabbing Suspect Had Many Interactions With Police and Little Treatment

• Newsweek | Who Is Teresa Stokes? Charlotte Judge Who Released DeCarlos Brown Jr.

Toolbox

• CBS News | New Social Security chief refutes claims of deceased people over 100 years old getting checks

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Our Live performance at QED Manchester.

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We break down Joe's Jan 2020 interview with Bari Weiss.

• Wikipedia | Great Replacement conspiracy theory

• CNN | Hate crime charges filed in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 dead

• SPLC | Pennsylvania man, Robert Bowers, charged with federal hate crimes, murder in shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue

• CBS | How Egypt's last Jews will mark Hanukkah, and make sure their culture doesn't "disappear" with them

• Wikipedia | 20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt

• Guardian | Disgruntled NYT journalist to 'anti-woke' power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?

• Guardian | JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as 'what kids do'

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We break down Joe's October 2025 interview with spirituality writer Gregg Braden.

• Natural History Museum | Neanderthals and Homo sapiens interbred within the past 50,000 years

• PNAS | Origin of human chromosome 2: An ancestral telomere-telomere fusion

• NPR | KQED: 22andHim

• Homozygosity for a Robertsonian translocation (13q14q) in three offspring of heterozygous parents

• Translocation t(13;14) in nine generations with a case of translocation homozygosity

• First-trimester prenatal diagnosis of homozygous (14;21) translocation in a fetus with 44 chromosomes

• Estimate of the mutation rate per nucleotide in humans

• Rates of Spontaneous Mutation

• BBC | Singing animals: Gibbons found to sing together in a similar rhythm to humans

• Answers in Genesis | Unraveling the Chromosome 2 Connection

• Institute for Creation Research | Human Chromosome 2 Fusion Never Happened

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We step away from Joe Rogan to break down JD Vance's September 2025 appearance on the Charlie Kirk Podcast.

• The Guardian | Texts, plans and a confession: prosecutor lays out startling details in Charlie Kirk shooting

• NBC News | Right-wing terror attacks plunged in 2025, while left-wing attacks ticked up: study

• A comparison of political violence by left-wing, right-wing, and Islamist extremists in the United States and the world

• CCJLS | Far-left versus Far-right Fatal Violence: An Empirical Assessment of the Prevalence of Ideologically Motivated Homicides in the United States

• The Guardian | US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit 'far more' violence

• NIJ | What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

• Wikipedia | 2025 Dallas ICE facility shooting

• New York Times | Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros's Foundation

• CNN | Trump suggests undocumented immigrants who commit murder have 'bad genes'

• Snopes | Fact Check: Charlie Kirk once said prominent Black women didn't have 'brain processing power' to be taken seriously

• YouGov | What Americans really think about political violence

• CSIS | Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States: What the Data Tells Us

• The Guardian | Nearly one in four Americans believe political violence justified to 'save' US

• Wikipedia | Professor Watchlist

• Politco | Trump's man on campus

• New Yorker | A Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses Faces Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity

• Mediaite | Charlie Kirk Shouts 'Fake News' at a Town Hall Questioner For Asking About Something He Actually Said

• Minnesota Reformer | Right-wing celeb Charlie Kirk thinks George Floyd is a 'scumbag'

• Fact Check | Flawed Comparison on Coronavirus, H1N1 Emergency Timelines

• New York Times | For Charlie Kirk, Conservative Activist, the Virus Is a Cudgel

• Economic Times | 'Abortion worse than holocaust': Charlie Kirk's controversial views re-surface after Trump ally assassinated

• Media Matters | On YouTube, Charlie Kirk warns that gay people "want to corrupt your children"

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We break down the interview with Paul Saladino.

• Wikipedia | Goitre

• Skeptics with a K Episode 431

• Effect of fruit and vegetable intake on oxidative stress and inflammation in COPD: a randomised controlled trial

• The 6-a-day study: effects of fruit and vegetables on markers of oxidative stress and antioxidative defense in healthy nonsmokers

• A hydroxyl group of flavonoids affects oral anti-inflammatory activity and inhibition of systemic tumor necrosis factor-alpha production

• Effects of fruit and vegetable consumption on inflammatory biomarkers and immune cell populations: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis

• Wikipedia | California foie gras law

• Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity

• Epilepsy Society | Ketogenic Diet

• Effects of pure sugar vs. mixed starch fructose loads on food intake

• Effects of fructose and glucose preloads on subsequent food intake

• Comparison of oral and gastric administration of sucrose and maltose on gastric emptying rate and appetite

• Bio Layne | Paul Saladino on Joe Rogan Experience: Hype vs. Evidence

• Vice | A Third of Vegetarians Eat Meat When They're Drunk

• The effect of fasting or calorie restriction on autophagy induction: A review of the literature

• Sex Differences in Food Preferences of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers

• The Hadza: Hunter–Gatherers of Tanzania

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