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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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's May 2018 interview with Candace Owens.

• CT Post | “We were children, I wasn’t the only victim”

• The Hour | Schools pay $37,500 to Owens family

• Business Insider | Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its cofounder died of the coronavirus

• Wikipedia | Racial views of Donald Trump

• Race, Diversity, and Ethnicity in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA

• The Guardian | Black men arrested at Philadelphia Starbucks feared for their lives

• BBC News | Roseanne blames racist tweet on sleeping pills

• Trump: Samantha Bee should be fired for Ivanka insult

• Advertisers flee Samantha Bee's show after backlash for Ivanka Trump remark

• The Root | For White People Who Pretend Not to Understand What Racism Is or How It Works: Here’s a Refresher Course

• ‘Smallville’ actor released from prison for role in sex-trafficking case tied to cult-like group | AP News 

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #1125

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's September 2021 interview with Tom Segura.

• Tom Segura Twitter Rant

• US horse owners face ivermectin shortage as humans chase unproven Covid ‘cure’ | Coronavirus | The Guardian

• Wikipedia | Ivermectin

• Wikipedia | Nobel disease

• Wikipedia | Pierre Kory

• Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance

• BBC | Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug

• The lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable

• Japan has not substituted ivermectin for COVID-19 vaccines | AP News

• COVID treatments weren’t suppressed to OK vaccines’ emergency use | AP News

• Nature | Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #----

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's 6th August 2025 interview with Irish comedy writer and “gender critical” activist Graham Linehan.

• Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms and Other Gendered Facilities - Williams Institute - https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/safety-in-restrooms-and-facilites/ 

• Sociodemographics of Patient Populations Undergoing Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Systematic Review of All Cohort Studies - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10278024/ 

• Evidence of Graham using Autogynaephilia (APG) as an insult - https://x.com/Glinner/status/1763302501275652406, https://x.com/Glinner/status/1836423581372166427?lang=en  

• YouGov | What do lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Britons think the British public thinks of them? - https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/45983-what-do-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-brito

• Mermaids’ Susie Green TED Talk - https://x.com/The_StateMedia/status/1705200287407907254?lang=en-GB 

• BBC | How did a mother convince doctors to operate on her children unnecessarily? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37048581 

• Graham Linehan - I was wrong about Gamergate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7gZnQcWT28 

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2361

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's July, 25th interview with Mike Baker

• Twitter | Secretary Kristi Noem

• Southern District of New York | Ghislaine Maxwell Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Conspiring With Jeffrey Epstein To Sexually Abuse Minors | United States Department of Justice

• THE GOVERNMENT’S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM on Ghislaine Maxwell

• ABC | Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources

• The King Center | Statement on the Release of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination Files – Martin Luther King III and Dr. Bernice A. King

• Forbes | The Selloff Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Tainted Homes

• New York Times | Apollo C.E.O. to Step Down After Firm Finds More Payments to Jeffrey Epstein

• Telegraph | ‘Another wonderful secret’. Did Trump really write Epstein letter?

• NPR | Which skin color emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex than you think

• NPR | Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present

• NPR | How racism became a marketing tool for country music

• NPR | This right wing conspiracy theory about eating bugs is about as racist as you think 

• NPR | Kamala Harris already faces racism and sexism from Trump and Republicans

• NPR | There is no neutral Nice White People can still be complicit in a racist society

• TED | What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs 

• 'I Have No Editorial Role At NPR': CEO Katherine Maher

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2355

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Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello break down Joe's May 2025 interview with remote viewer and parapsychologist Hal Puthoff.

• Wikipedia | Ingo Swann

• Wikipedia | Joseph McMoneagle

• Skeptical Inquirer | Remote Viewing Revisited 

• Nature | Information transmission in remote viewing experiments

• Lee, JH (2006) | Remote viewing as applied to futures studies 

• Smith et al (2014) | Stock Market Prediction Using Associative Remote Viewing by Inexperienced Remote Viewers Background and Motivation 

• Puthoff, H (1984) | Research in Psychology | Associational Remote Viewing Applications 

• Catholic Exchange | The Saints Who Levitated: Extraordinary and Concrete Miracles 

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2314

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