Joe Rogan Experience #2574 – Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

• 0:00 Brazil’s election and the Bolsonaro family, fake breaking stories, Grok fact checks, bot armies, why outrage pays on X, TRIGGERnometry’s left-and-right guest list and the Piers Morgan talk-over model.
• 9:00 The 1970s ice-age scare and Leonard Nimoy’s In Search of…, why England has no air conditioning, heat deaths versus cold deaths, Britain’s 1% of emissions, electricity prices, global greening and EV tax breaks.
• 20:20 Texas trying to ban marijuana as alcohol sales fall, GLP-1s, Joe’s theory that a secular left fills the gap with causes, the church parking lot, gratitude and polls that only reach people who answer polls.
• 28:00 Pastors rewriting the Bible, the Latin Mass, Colorado’s cannabis tax, Ron White’s joints at the Mothership, a long break from alcohol, glutathione and a doctor who scoffed at vitamins.
• 34:40 Lawsuits and service culture in Britain, Desmond Morris’s The Human Zoo, Fire Island, 24-hour New York, East London kids in the countryside, Colum Tyrrell’s Big Bend night sky and shrugging off online hate.
• 44:00 Parties defined by their craziest members, clips versus long-form talk, Texas attack ads, The View’s fact check, the border and the census, Kamala Harris on the courts, Kash Patel’s FBI and a Venezuelan Uber driver.
• 56:00 Power concentrated in corporations and government, outrage porn and “post-content clarity,” Francis’s book (Un)educated, audiobooks, TV versus YouTube and why Outdoor Boys walked away.
• 1:06:40 Child stars, Zac Efron and Macaulay Culkin, Tutankhamun’s DNA, the Sumerian and Egyptian king lists, a 13-month calendar, the Sphinx erosion debate and Herodotus’s labyrinth.
• 1:19:50 Made-up gods, Genghis Khan, Timur’s statue in Tashkent, the tomb curse and Operation Barbarossa, the Khwarazmian envoy’s pile of bones, Alan Watts and why AI is a different level of challenge.
• 1:29:00 The war with Iran: the Strait of Hormuz, Robert Pape’s case that Iran comes out stronger, Houthi strikes, diesel prices, drones, Scott Horton on enrichment and air defenses at Mar-a-Lago.
• 1:51:40 Where the anti-war protests are, No Kings, “Blair without Iraq,” masked ICE agents, revolutions, people who lived under communism, young people locked out since the crash, Alaska’s fund and Money for Nothing.
• 2:11:00 Francis’s pencil-sharpening student, Happy People, Danny Drinkwater, The Status Game, jiu-jitsu and failure, “No Laughs Eddie” Izzard, comedians who stay 45-year-old boys, universal income and the Odyssey.

In Search of… (Leonard Nimoy, complete series) — The 1970s documentary series that ran the ice-age scare alongside Bigfoot and UFOs. Amazon 9:38

The Human Zoo (Desmond Morris) — The book on how city life affects people the way zoos affect animals. Amazon 36:32

(Un)educated (Francis Foster) — Francis’s book about life as a teacher in East London. Amazon 1:01:02

The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan Watts) — The early-1950s book one of them just finished, which reads like it was written about today. Amazon 1:27:07

Joker (2019) — Named as a film that resonated with people who feel frustrated and betrayed. Amazon 2:05:08

Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits) — The album with Money for Nothing, quoted during the universal-income talk. Amazon 2:10:09

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga — The documentary about Siberian trappers and hunters who live off the land and seem content. Amazon 2:15:21

The Status Game (Will Storr) — The book on status-seeking that explains why people resent a footballer who takes an ordinary job. Amazon 2:20:12

The Odyssey (Homer) — The story that kept a classroom of kids locked in, now a Christopher Nolan film. Amazon 2:36:12

Grok — Joe wants posts that Grok proves false taken down. Wikipedia 2:54

TRIGGERnometry — Francis and Konstantin’s show, eight and a half years in. Official site 6:21

GLP-1 drugs — One reason alcohol sales are falling. Wikipedia 20:36

Glutathione — Joe’s tip for drinking nights. Wikipedia 32:51

The View — Its fact check of Joe’s comments on the border. Wikipedia 49:05

Flock Safety cameras — Brought up as a surveillance concern. Wikipedia 54:55

Outdoor Boys — The giant survival channel whose creator walked away. Wikipedia 1:05:20

Sumerian King List — Ancient rulers listed with reigns of thousands of years. Wikipedia 1:14:55

Labyrinth of Egypt — The complex Herodotus said outdid the pyramids. Wikipedia 1:19:27

Timur — The Central Asian conqueror called a mini Genghis Khan. Wikipedia 1:21:56

Operation Barbarossa — The German invasion that began the day after Timur’s tomb was opened. Wikipedia 1:22:58

Khwarazmian Empire — Its envoy found a mountain of bones on the way to China. Wikipedia 1:25:22

Twelve-Day War — The earlier strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, which made sense to one guest. Wikipedia 1:46:50

No Kings protests — Big turnout, unlike protests over the Iran war. Wikipedia 1:54:45

Alaska Permanent Fund — Its yearly dividend comes up as a small model for sharing AI wealth. Wikipedia 2:08:42

Brazilian jiu-jitsu — Everybody starts out terrible, which is the lesson. Wikipedia 2:22:14

Universal basic income — Whether money without work would cut crime. Wikipedia 2:32:30

Brazil — The opening topic: the election and the Bolsonaro family. Wikipedia 0:19

Colorado — The first state to legalize cannabis and tax it heavily. Wikipedia 30:05

Comedy Mothership, Austin — Ron White brings his joints by; Zac Efron has been coming to the club. Official site 31:21

Austin, Texas — Friendlier than California, and a city of only about a million people. Wikipedia 36:00

Fire Island, New York — The car-free island that lets a friend of Joe’s keep living in Manhattan. Wikipedia 37:43

East London — Where Francis taught before writing his book. Wikipedia 40:59

Big Bend National Park, Texas — One of the best places to see the night sky. Wikipedia 42:00

Venezuela — Francis’s link to the country and a Venezuelan Uber driver’s message. Wikipedia 52:59

Great Sphinx of Giza — The water-erosion argument for its age. Wikipedia 1:18:42

Tashkent, Uzbekistan — Home to the giant statue of Timur. Wikipedia 1:21:46

Gur-e-Amir, Samarkand — Timur’s tomb, opened by Soviet archaeologists in 1941. Wikipedia 1:22:28

Strait of Hormuz — Ships now need escorts through it. Wikipedia 1:29:35

Mar-a-Lago, Florida — Where surface-to-air missile systems have been deployed. Wikipedia 1:50:48

Alaska — Residents get a yearly check from the state’s oil fund. Wikipedia 2:06:47

Siberia — Setting of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. Wikipedia 2:15:21

Leicester — Danny Drinkwater won the Premier League there with Leicester City. Wikipedia 2:18:06

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