Joe Rogan Experience #2029 - Bill Maher

Bill Maher visits Joe Rogan in Austin and frames himself as a '90s liberal who never changed while the left moved toward woke ideology he sees as an undoing of liberalism. They cover crime and policing failures in cities like Chicago, San Francisco, and Minneapolis, then dig into obesity, 'body positivity,' and the rise of Ozempic-style drugs whose mechanisms doctors admit they don't fully understand. The conversation turns to gender-affirming care for children, which Maher attacks, and to media echo chambers, censorship, and the demonization of Ivermectin and other COVID-era treatments. Maher argues Trump is a 'crazy, stupid criminal' more dangerous than Biden, while both lament the loss of rigorous public debate and the politicization of science.

• Maher argues 'woke' is not an extension of liberalism but often its undoing, citing colorblindness versus race-first thinking.
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• Both claim obesity was the top COVID comorbidity yet 'body positivity' made it taboo to discuss.
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• They assert doctors do not actually know why Ozempic works, only that it does.
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• Maher defends his 'dick saw' joke and calls gender-affirming care for kids childhood mutilation.
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• Maher labels Trump 'a crazy stupid criminal' and walks through the Georgia indictment counts.
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• They discuss Yuri Bezmenov's 1984 claim of a Soviet plan to ideologically subvert America.
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• Rogan claims the '100% effective' vaccine label came from a study of one versus two deaths.
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• Both criticize the politicization and demonization of Ivermectin as an effective, cheap treatment.
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• After Minneapolis cut its police force, fired officers were rehired as private security by the wealthy.
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• Austin defunded then refunded its police, ending up funding it by far more than before.
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• Peter Attia's study reportedly found Ozempic patients lost muscle and connective tissue, raising body-fat percentage.
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• Maher says no New York Times op-ed in years dissented from framing obesity as an uncontrollable disease.
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• Trump's Georgia case includes RICO and multiple solicitation-of-violation-of-oath counts.
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• The first Pfizer study had one vaccinated death versus two placebo deaths, the basis for '100% effective.'
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• Ivermectin's discoverer won a Nobel Prize; it's a generic anti-parasitic costing about seven cents a dose.
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• Emergency use authorization legally required that no other effective treatment exist.
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• RFK Jr's book claims AZT during the AIDS crisis killed patients, including Arthur Ashe.
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• Maher notes Obama halted gain-of-function research in 2014 before it was reportedly resumed.
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