Joe Rogan Experience #2451 - Cheryl Hines

Joe Rogan and Cheryl Hines spend three hours ranging from the brutality of modern politics to the strangeness of fame. Hines describes how her life upended when RFK Jr. ran for president, the vicious attacks, the fight for Secret Service protection, and how she now reads rooms for threats. Long detours cover the natural world (owls, praying mantises, leaf-cutter ants, dire wolves), Hollywood group-think and her own career path, and conspiracies Rogan argues turned out true. The conversation closes on the military-industrial complex via Eisenhower's farewell address and the value of uncensored discourse.

• Joe says he had negative opinions of RFK Jr. before reading his book, then changed his mind.
  00:09:21
• Joe explains he got Fear Factor because he was the only host who openly made fun of the show.
  00:37:14
• Joe says he's friends with the Colossal team and has seen their real, living dire wolves.
  01:10:26
• Joe and Cheryl marvel that Nancy Pelosi beats Warren Buffett and Soros at the stock market on a $170k salary.
  02:14:13
• Cheryl reveals she is named in the Epstein files for NOT going to meet him after a 2017 invite.
  02:24:32
• Joe flatly states he has zero political aspirations and would be terrible as president.
  02:35:24
• Cheryl says RFK Jr. is not running again but admits she'd be less scared if he did.
  02:48:21
• Cheryl reveals RFK Jr. was denied Secret Service protection while running, even as everyone else got it.
  02:58:44

• Pregnant women used to be routinely X-rayed to check on the baby for a long time.
  00:16:35
• X-ray office workers who tested machines on their own hands daily developed severe hand cancer.
  00:18:41
• Owls fly almost completely silently and prey on hawks, cats, and rabbits as super predators.
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• There are roughly 20 quadrillion ants worldwide, outweighing all wild birds and mammals combined.
  00:56:58
• Scientists map leaf-cutter ant colonies by filling them with cement; the structures are house-sized.
  00:58:31
• A praying mantis can ambush and eat a hummingbird far larger than itself off a bird feeder.
  01:02:10
• Oxford, England piloted '15-minute city' congestion zones charging residents to leave their area.
  01:19:10
• Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine's president after playing a president in a TV comedy.
  01:36:10
• The Epstein case broke open in 2005 from a fight between two teenage girls at Royal Palm Beach High School.
  02:28:13
• Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address warned the nation about the military-industrial complex.
  02:52:30

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