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The Corey Ruiz Shooting: Hot Takes vs. Waiting for Facts

#2535 - Andrew Wilson · Aug 5, 2026 News

Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.

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Corey Ruiz Police Shooting: Watching the Video Live & Hot Takes Debate

At 21:50 · chapter starts 19:43

After the sponsor read, Rogan brings up the autonomous zone protest in Madison, Wisconsin that was broken up that day — a memorial encampment for Corey Ruiz, a Black man shot by police during an attempted arrest. Producer Jamie finds and reads out the background: Ruiz allegedly pulled a fixed-blade knife and stabbed an officer, after which he was shot three times in the head while already on the ground. They watch the viral bystander video live, initially convinced a female officer fired the fatal shot. It takes multiple replays and additional witness testimony before they conclude it was almost certainly a male officer. The whole sequence becomes an accidental real-time demonstration of why both Andrew Wilson and Joe Rogan are skeptical of immediate hot takes — by the end they have gotten the shooter's gender wrong, misread whether Ruiz was restrained, and still don't know the full story. Wilson's point about conspiratorial framing versus autistic framing lands naturally in this moment.

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