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

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2404

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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

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2404

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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'

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #1415

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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

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2387

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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"

Clips used under fair use from the Charlie Kirk show on September 15th 2025.

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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

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #1551

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We break down Lex Fridman's September 2020 interview with Joe Rogan.

Clips used under fair use from The Lex Fridaman Podcast #127.

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We break down Joe's March 2024 interview with Christopher Rufo.

• Chris Rufo: "The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory."

• Newsweek | Kentucky Democrat Proposes Child Sex Dolls for Pedophiles

• A Review of Academic Use of the Term "Minor Attracted Persons"

• Congressional Record | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Executive Calendar); Congressional Record Vol. 171, No. 48

• Heritage Foundation | The Myth of Mass Incarceration

• BBC | Claudine Gay: Harvard president sorry for remarks on antisemitism

• Snopes | What To Know About the Plagiarism Allegations Against Former MIT Professor Neri Oxman

• Wikipedia | Claudine Gay Plagiarism investigation

• Far Left Berkeley Law Professor Melts Down When Sen. Hawley Asks Her If Men Can Get Pregnant

• City Journal | Unholy Alliance

• New York Intelligencer | How to Manufacture a Moral Panic: Christopher Rufo helped incite an uproar over racism education with dramatic, dodgy reporting

• News Tribune | Mastermind of 'critical race theory' uproar lives in Gig Harbor. Who is Christopher Rufo?

• Yougov | Who do Americans think should be allowed to attend drag shows?

• Science Advances | Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

• Our World In Data | More people care about climate change than you think

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2113

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We break down Joe's April 2025 interview with Gary Brecka

• Hydrogen Water: Extra Healthy or a Hoax?—A Systematic Review

• The effects of 6-month hydrogen-rich water intake on molecular and phenotypic biomarkers of aging in older adults aged 70 years and over: A randomized controlled pilot trial

• The Skeptic | Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the 'third leading cause of death'

• Should hydrogen therapy be included in a musculoskeletal medicine routine? - PMC

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2304.

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