Joe Rogan Experience #1882 - Iliza Shlesinger

Joe Rogan and Iliza Shlesinger range across a long, freewheeling conversation touching on the gendered danger of online outrage, cancel culture as 'sport,' and how women face physical threats men don't when they voice opinions. They dig into abortion as a political and economic football, Biden's marijuana pardons, his apparent cognitive decline, and the corruption of figures like Putin. Iliza riffs on the addictive, surveillance-driven nature of TikTok and the commodification of nostalgia, while both lament the loss of objective journalism. They cover the toxicity of pharma and consumer products (Johnson & Johnson, semaglutide), American manufacturing and grim factory conditions at Foxconn, and the unattainable beauty standards pushed by the Kardashians and the modeling industry.

• Iliza recounts her husband being left for five hours in a Swedish ER while she was pregnant, contrasting US vs European healthcare access.
  00:12:26
• Both describe receiving fake/real shots from audience members on stage and the danger of drinks being drugged.
  00:18:08
• Joe says a Babylon Bee CEO told him life begins at conception; they argue abortion bans are economically/politically motivated, not religious.
  00:21:46
• Joe insists Biden has clear cognitive decline/dementia, citing him calling for a dead congresswoman 'Jackie'.
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• They claim TikTok is essentially Chinese spyware that accesses data on disconnected devices.
  01:16:58
• Joe explains Foxconn put nets around iPhone factory buildings because so many workers jumped to their deaths.
  01:32:07
• They discuss a former FBI specialist's estimate that up to 80% of Twitter accounts may be bots, around Elon Musk's acquisition.
  01:57:39

• Iliza claims there are only about three In-N-Out locations practically reachable in LA due to enormous lines.
  00:07:45
• The band Lady Antebellum changed its name to Lady A because 'antebellum' refers to the pre-Civil War slavery-era South.
  00:24:52
• The 1989 Montreal Massacre is cited as an early mass shooting driven by hatred of women.
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• Tulsi Gabbard called out Kamala Harris for keeping people jailed past release dates to use as cheap labor fighting wildfires.
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• China's social credit system can restrict citizens' bank access and travel for unfavorable opinions.
  01:22:14
• North Korea is said to have run a propaganda program called 'let's all eat one meal a day' and punishes escapees across three generations.
  01:27:24
• Historically, fatness signaled wealth, and women fainted from whalebone corsets, prompting the invention of fainting couches.
  01:48:46
• Coco Chanel popularized tanning after returning from the French Riviera; before that a tan signaled field labor.
  01:50:13
• The earliest medical description of anorexia is credited to English physician Richard Morton in 1689.
  01:51:23

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