Joe Rogan Experience #2182 - Michael Malice

Joe Rogan welcomes Michael Malice for a sprawling, freewheeling conversation that opens with Malice's trip to Japan and the joy of Japanese craftsmanship before pivoting to American urban decay and crime policy. Much of the episode dissects the 2024 election turmoil, including Biden's debate collapse, the push to install Kamala Harris, body-double speculation, and Seymour Hersh's reported coup against Biden. They cover the Trump assassination attempt, media gaslighting, social-media bots, and figures like Elon Musk, John Fetterman, and Tulsi Gabbard. Lighter tangents touch on drugs, animal intelligence, cryptids, body dysmorphia, and the simulation theory, ending on Malice praising Strangers with Candy.

• Malice relays Seymour Hersh's report that Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and Jeffries threatened Biden with the 25th Amendment unless he dropped out.
  00:46:16
• Malice makes a direct plea for both Trump and Biden to free Ross Ulbricht, noting Trump promised to commute his sentence at the Libertarian convention.
  01:12:46
• Discussion that Ross Ulbricht got double life plus 40 years and $183 million restitution despite uncharged murder-for-hire allegations being used at sentencing.
  01:15:20
• Claim that a former FBI analyst estimated more than 80% of Twitter accounts are bots.
  02:07:42
• Malice predicts Biden will not remain president through January and games out who Harris would pick as VP.
  02:33:38

• After 9/11 grounded air travel, US temperatures measurably increased because contrails normally block sunlight.
  00:04:43
• Claim that roughly 90-94% of large fish in the ocean have disappeared due to overfishing.
  00:06:48
• Numazu, Japan hosts what is described as the world's only deep-sea aquarium.
  00:09:55
• Discussion that taking even one's own-gender hormones carries real downsides, contrary to common framing.
  00:39:27
• A study of old videos suggests at least three chimpanzees learned to speak rudimentary human words like 'mama' and 'cup'.
  01:28:51
• Sightings in the 1800s Congo described crocodiles possibly up to 40-50 feet long.
  01:43:27
• Biden reportedly received six doses of Paxlovid for his COVID infection, which a doctor friend called excessive.
  01:55:21
• Elon Musk's Cybertruck opens its charge port on the voice command 'open butthole,' a nod to a Simpsons joke.
  02:48:09

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