The Charlie Kirk Show - It’s Time to Talk About Rogan
Aired: 2022-02-07
Duration: 35:01


=== Why Rogan Needs No Apology (15:00) ===

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[00:01:33]  So, this weekend, all of a sudden, we decided to get really outraged over something that Joe Rogan said over the last 12 years of conversation.
[00:01:43]  So, Joe Rogan has been the centerpiece of kind of getting the word out around ivermectin and early treatments.
[00:01:50]  He hosted Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, and he had the courage and the platform to be able to change the Overton window on the public's perception of our immoral response to the COVID-19 pandemic or the Fauci virus pandemic.
[00:02:09]  So, because of this, there have been multiple attempts to try and cancel Joe Rogan.
[00:02:13]  The first of which came around the actual heart of the issue, which was whether or not Joe Rogan should be allowed to have a podcast while smoking weed and talking about aliens with celebrities when it came to even mentioning early treatments or having doctors on to speak about it.
[00:02:31]  So, Joe Rogan has a very, and I've said this actually probably more than anyone else that's covered Joe Rogan.
[00:02:37]  That I have never defended everything Joe Rogan has ever done or said, especially the drug use and the profanity.
[00:02:43]  I don't like it.
[00:02:43]  We've made that very clear on this program.
[00:02:46]  In fact, I think Connor, we've probably made that more clear than almost anybody else.
[00:02:50]  And so, now all of a sudden, the world has decided to get outraged about Joe Rogan, continuing from the quote-unquote disinformation he was spreading, which is actually anything but that.
[00:03:01]  It was empowering information, where they were recirculating tapes of Joe Rogan using the N-word.
[00:03:09]  Now, it's a disgusting word.
[00:03:10]  No one should use the word, even though Jay-Z is allowed to use it and has 810 million streams on Spotify using the word.
[00:03:18]  You should not use that word.
[00:03:20]  No person should use that word.
[00:03:21]  I don't like the word.
[00:03:22]  I don't, I'm not going to get into why that is the case, but it's a disgusting word that is something that people should not say.
[00:03:35]  I think no one should say it, let alone white people shouldn't say it.
[00:03:39]  However, Joe Rogan wasn't using it as a pejorative.
[00:03:43]  Joe Rogan was using it by quoting album titles.
[00:03:46]  He was using it by quoting rap lyrics.
[00:03:50]  So, if you watch pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino has that word all over the movie.
[00:03:57]  Paris Hilton has used it.
[00:03:59]  Madonna has used it.
[00:04:02]  Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that every civilization has a central piety that you cannot violate, a thing you cannot make fun of.
[00:04:10]  And in the West, where we are today, that one thing is this word.
[00:04:15]  It is the N-word.
[00:04:16]  You are not allowed to use it.
[00:04:19]  Now, what's hilarious is that many of the, let's say, self-righteous beta males on Twitter that are getting so upset about Joe Rogan using the N-word, I guarantee you, when they were 15, 16, or 17 years old, acting like a tough guy going to their public high school, used to quote Kanye West or Jay-Z using the N-word and all the rap songs.
[00:04:41]  This is something that suburban parents have got to wake up to, that every, especially if you have young men that are your kids, that they think they're being all tough by quoting all of this rap music and using the N-word and all of that.
[00:04:55]  They shouldn't do it.
[00:04:56]  It's disgusting.
[00:04:56]  It's awful.
[00:04:57]  I don't like it.
[00:04:58]  But it's true.
[00:04:59]  It happens.
[00:05:00]  But now Joe Rogan is under massive threat of cancellation because videos are coming up.
[00:05:05]  Now, let me be very clear.
[00:05:06]  Context matters a lot here.
[00:05:08]  Do you know Joe Biden actually used the N-word multiple times in a Senate hearing?
[00:05:14]  So now they're using these clips against Joe Rogan as an attempt to try to destroy his career and destroy his platform.
[00:05:22]  Joe Rogan did not use this as a pejorative.
[00:05:25]  He used it by quoting other people.
[00:05:27]  Now, should he have done it?
[00:05:28]  No, he shouldn't.
[00:05:30]  But when Joe Biden uses it, why aren't we calling for impeachment for Joe Biden?
[00:05:34]  It's an old clip.
[00:05:36]  Shouldn't he have known better?
[00:05:37]  Play cut three.
[00:05:38]  That important legislators in defeating the New Nez plan in the basement said, quote, we already have a nigger mayor.
[00:05:45]  We don't need any more big shots.
[00:05:47]  And the court cited evidence of discriminatory intent on the part of other legislators, including the representative who testified at the court hearing.
[00:05:54]  So that's Joe Biden quoting somebody else who said it, the same thing that Joe Rogan did.
[00:06:01]  And they say, oh, no, no, context matters.
[00:06:03]  Joe Rogan wasn't doing that.
[00:06:04]  That's exactly what Joe Rogan was doing.
[00:06:07]  Now, some people say, well, Jay-Z is black, so he can see it.
[00:06:10]  I'm not going to get into that today.
[00:06:11]  That's a very loaded topic.
[00:06:14]  I'm just curious how that ever got to be the case.
[00:06:19]  If you go into any college dormitory and you say, hey, what does NWA stand for?
[00:06:26]  80% of the upper-middle-class kids that grew up in suburban America would know exactly what it stood for, and they would say it.
[00:06:32]  And I won't say it on air, obviously.
[00:06:35]  So Joe Rogan is now being held to this new kind of regime standard of trying to restrict freedom of information, freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, because they say, we don't like him because of all these clips.
[00:06:54]  Now, Joe Rogan has already apologized.
[00:06:55]  Now, let me be very clear.
[00:06:56]  Joe Rogan should not have apologized.
[00:06:59]  Now, why should Joe Rogan not have apologized?
[00:07:02]  Well, because the people he's apologizing to, it only gives them more fuel to their fire.
[00:07:08]  It only accelerates them more.
[00:07:11]  It only allows the activists to get more credence.
[00:07:16]  If Joe Rogan is legitimately sorry for what he did and what he said, there's a proper way to explain it.
[00:07:24]  But a groveling apology is not.
[00:07:28]  And we're already kind of on shaking ground right now with Joe Rogan, especially given his recent pseudo-apology and retreat last week when it came to his coverage of Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone.
[00:07:43]  So now, Spotify has come out, which gave him $100 million to host with them, and said, quote, Spotify team, there are no words I can say to adequately convey how sorry I am the way the Joe Rogan experience controversy continues.
[00:07:56]  Each, every one of you.
[00:07:58]  Not only are some of Joe Rogan's comments incredibly hurtful, I want to make it clear that they do not represent the values of this company.
[00:08:03]  I mean, I'm going to stop.
[00:08:04]  You're trying to tell me the Spotify employees haven't heard these words before?
[00:08:07]  They haven't watched pulp fiction.
[00:08:08]  They haven't listened to Jay-Z, really, Spotify.
[00:08:11]  810 million downloads on Spotify is N-word in Paris.
[00:08:15]  In fact, Will Farrell is in that musical song.
[00:08:20]  I want to make clear that they do not represent the values of this company.
[00:08:22]  And this situation leaves many of you feel drained, frustrated, and unheard.
[00:08:25]  Why?
[00:08:25]  Why do they feel drained, frustrated, and unheard?
[00:08:29]  Because some guy that smokes weed before he was an employee of your company, talking about aliens and psychedelics and mushrooms and samurai culture and weightlifting, quoting other people, by the way, the same way Joe Biden did, the same way Madonna did, that leaves people so empty.
[00:08:47]  You know, Gwyneth Paltrow did the same thing.
[00:08:50]  Gwyneth Paltrow still has a career.
[00:08:52]  It's important that you're aware that we've had conversations with Joe and his team about some of his content in his show, including his history of racially insensitive language.
[00:09:01]  Following these discussions and own reflections, he choose to remember, he chooses to remove a number of these episodes from Spotify and also issue an apology over the weekend.
[00:09:10]  Maybe someone can explain this to me.
[00:09:12]  I'm actually not going to get into this.
[00:09:15]  Why can blacks use that word and others cannot?
[00:09:17]  It doesn't make any sense.
[00:09:20]  I'm not really going to defend that or not defend it.
[00:09:22]  It's just weird to me.
[00:09:24]  But it's a disgusting word.
[00:09:25]  I don't think anyone should use it.
[00:09:27]  It's trying to dehumanize people, and I don't like it.
[00:09:31]  But Joe Rogan should apologize to no one.
[00:09:34]  Joe Rogan was quoting other people, and he did not mean it in a dehumanizing slur or pejorative way.
[00:09:41]  I will tell you who should apologize, though.
[00:09:44]  The mayor of New York.
[00:09:46]  The mayor of New York did use a dehumanizing slur.
[00:09:50]  And guess what?
[00:09:50]  The mayor of New York has police power.
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[00:09:59]  I'm not a car guy.
[00:10:00]  I'm not.
[00:10:00]  And I get ripped off, okay?
[00:10:02]  If I go to a traditional storefront, it's a disaster.
[00:10:05]  It really is.
[00:10:06]  You know, these people that know a lot about cars, they're selling me all sorts of weird and wacky things.
[00:10:10]  They're like, you need a flagpole and you need a Wilson wire and you need a Hamilton bar and all this different sorts of stuff.
[00:10:18]  Never heard of.
[00:10:19]  I said, okay, sure, here's the credit card.
[00:10:20]  Next thing you know, it's thousands of dollars later and I've been ripped off.
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[00:10:28]  So you should repair and maintain your cars.
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[00:11:15]  Joe Rogan should go to rumble.com, R-U-M-B-L-E.com.
[00:11:20]  The ticker symbol is CFVI.
[00:11:22]  It's up almost 20%, full disclosure.
[00:11:24]  I own some shares and I have owned some shares for some while.
[00:11:26]  I have to say that, just so I'm not giving investment advice and that you don't think I'm pushing something that I'm not invested in.
[00:11:31]  Well, you can do whatever you want.
[00:11:32]  I'm just saying it's up 20% because Rumble has offered $100 million to Joe Rogan if he wants to leave Spotify.
[00:11:40]  But Spotify is saying they are now going to spend $100 million for the licensing and development and marketing of music and audio content for historically marginized, marginalized groups.
[00:11:52]  Wow.
[00:11:53]  Who would have ever thought that Joe Rogan saying something 10 years ago with his comedian buddies while sipping whiskey and smoking weed would cost Spotify so much money?
[00:12:02]  Every civilization has a piety that you cannot violate.
[00:12:06]  And the current piety is you cannot say the N-word.
[00:12:09]  Now, if you're Jay-Z, it's perfectly fine.
[00:12:11]  In fact, if you're Jay-Z, you can make millions of dollars off.
[00:12:14]  It's not just him, by the way.
[00:12:16]  There are entire rap groups and movies that focus on this in a great extent.
[00:12:22]  Eminem can say it too, who's a white person, right?
[00:12:25]  Eminem's allowed to do it because he kind of plays the role of a black rapper and he gets a pass.
[00:12:31]  In fact, Eminem is going to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday.
[00:12:36]  Why does Eminem get to perform this Sunday for using the N-word, but Joe Rogan has to lose his entire career?
[00:12:43]  Answer, Joe Rogan is a threat to the regime.
[00:12:46]  This is a coordinated social media, corporate media attack against Joe Rogan because he's been so effective in getting people to challenge the vaccine.
[00:12:56]  He's been so effective in getting people to challenge the corporate orthodoxy.
[00:13:00]  He's been so effective in actually giving a platform to otherwise heterodox ideas.
[00:13:08]  The response has been predictable.
[00:13:10]  You have people that are piling onto Twitter that want Joe Rogan's entire life to be destroyed.
[00:13:18]  And Joe Rogan should leave with honor and Joe Rogan should leave quickly.
[00:13:21]  And Joe Rogan should tell Spotify, I'm not going to play this game anymore.
[00:13:25]  I'm Joe Rogan.
[00:13:27]  I'm the biggest podcaster on the planet.
[00:13:31]  I don't need you guys.
[00:13:32]  And by the way, you know, people say, well, Charlie, he wants that $100 million.
[00:13:36]  I know this might sound silly.
[00:13:37]  That's not a lot of money considering how big he is.
[00:13:40]  He's way bigger than $100 million.
[00:13:43]  At this point now, after the COVID stuff and after this, he's a multi-billion dollar brand.
[00:13:50]  And some people say, well, Joe Rogan wants to be mainstream.
[00:13:54]  If he wanted to be mainstream, he should have stopped the whole like smoking weed with Elon Musk thing or swearing every other word.
[00:14:01]  Joe Rogan being mainstream, he's got to choose, is what I'm saying.
[00:14:06]  Joe Rogan can either tell the truth or he could be on CNN.
[00:14:12]  It's really that simple.
[00:14:16]  And he rates higher numbers than every other media outlet.
[00:14:18]  And some of you might be saying, Charlie, I don't get the fixation on Joe Rogan.
[00:14:22]  Your kids and grandkids get their news from Joe Rogan.
[00:14:26]  He is the most powerful communicator of this entire generation, bar none.
[00:14:32]  And we don't even know the entirety of his influence, by the way, because there's clips and people watch them in groups and there's all sorts of different cuts and downstream effects.
[00:14:43]  He is one of the most effective Overton window shifters ever that we have.
[00:14:48]  Do you have an idea how powerful Joe Rogan is?
[00:14:50]  When Joe Rogan has a guest on his show that mentions a documentary, it becomes top five on Netflix of all shows.

=== The Power of Joe Rogan (02:36) ===

[00:15:00]  I want to say that again.
[00:15:01]  If Joe Rogan's guest even mentions a documentary or mentions a movie, it becomes top five in all the Netflix shows.
[00:15:11]  We're nine months out from the midterms, and the globalist regime is losing the narrative war.
[00:15:19]  Of course, they want him canceled.
[00:15:22]  So Joe Rogan wants to be respected by the mainstream, whatever that even means anymore.
[00:15:28]  But I think deep down, Joe Rogan has a deeper yearning and desire to tell the truth.
[00:15:36]  Joe Rogan is victim to selective outrage.
[00:15:39]  That Eminem, a white rapper, can use the N-word in his songs, or Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna can use it, but Joe Rogan can't use it, not even as a pejorative, not even in a sentence, but quoting other people.
[00:15:52]  And by the way, let's just make one other point.
[00:15:54]  Joe Rogan is a legitimately talented stand-up comedian.
[00:15:59]  Comedians have always been exempt, or used to be exempt to the traditional rules of policing speech.
[00:16:06]  George Carlin?
[00:16:08]  I don't even know if he'd be allowed to have a career anymore.
[00:16:10]  Another one they said, it's like, oh, Joe Rogan was making fun of Nazi salutes.
[00:16:14]  You ever see Seinfeld?
[00:16:17]  Jerry Seinfeld had a whole episode on the half-heal and the full heile.
[00:16:22]  And he's a Jew.
[00:16:23]  And Jerry Seinfeld did that.
[00:16:25]  On network television, on NBC, Jerry Seinfeld did that.
[00:16:30]  You ever see Diversity Day with Michael Scott in the office?
[00:16:37]  You want to talk about politically incorrect.
[00:16:40]  Joe Rogan should go to rumble.com immediately.
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=== CNN's Dramatic Collapse Explained (09:09) ===

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[00:17:52]  An interesting kind of side story here that's actually similar to why they want to bring Joe Rogan down.
[00:17:59]  They want to bring Joe Rogan down because he brought down one of the regime's favorite networks.
[00:18:06]  Joe Rogan exposed the deceit, the lies, and the transparent corruption of CNN.
[00:18:17]  From Joe Concha, CNN's collapse is now complete.
[00:18:24]  It all began 42 years ago.
[00:18:26]  Ted Turner's creation of a 24-7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV.
[00:18:31]  Few thought it could succeed.
[00:18:33]  The article goes through and talks about how it had Larry King Live and Crossfire.
[00:18:37]  And believe it or not, Tucker Carlson used to be an employee of CNN.
[00:18:42]  Same with Newt Gingrich.
[00:18:44]  But then came Jeff Zucker.
[00:18:47]  To give you an idea of how dramatic, that's right, Lou Dobbs was as well.
[00:18:51]  How dramatic the collapse is for CNN.
[00:18:55]  To give you an idea of how stark their disappearance is, nine out of 10 of their viewers are gone.
[00:19:05]  Its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, is gone, and its network is in total shambles.
[00:19:12]  Until 2002, CNN was the number one in the cable news race until Fox News and then MSNBC came.
[00:19:20]  It's really a three-way race between the three of them.
[00:19:22]  It has been for quite some time.
[00:19:24]  Ever since Donald Trump got elected, CNN led itself as the resistance to Donald Trump.
[00:19:31]  But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character, who banned from social media, who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year, his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony.
[00:19:44]  Ratings fell 90% overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022.
[00:19:51]  That's really hard to do.
[00:19:55]  Chris Cuomo is gone.
[00:19:57]  Don Lamond's show is in total free fall.
[00:20:01]  And now CNN is a completely obliterated network.
[00:20:05]  Now new management is coming in and they're signaling big-time changes, changes that might bring in CNN back to the proud network it was before Jeff Zucker destroyed it.
[00:20:16]  But it's really worthy of asking the question, which is, if CNN is collapsed and CNN is completely folded, why is it that, what else does that show us or what else does that demonstrate?
[00:20:31]  Now, Chris Cuomo is working very, very hard to bring down the entire CNN house of cards because CNN was ousted.
[00:20:37]  Chris Cuomo is leaking things.
[00:20:39]  He is trying his best to destroy the entire network.
[00:20:45]  But don't worry, everybody, CNN is Chris Wallace now.
[00:20:48]  They have Chris Wallace to try to hold up the entire thing.
[00:20:51]  And reports are showing that Chris Wallace is furious with the ratings, with Jeff Zucker and all of it.
[00:20:58]  This is why they had to go after Joe Rogan.
[00:21:02]  Legacy media is collapsing.
[00:21:06]  And Joe Rogan and podcasts like ours and radio shows like ours and Tucker's show, we are thriving.
[00:21:14]  Our numbers are better than ever before.
[00:21:17]  You just go through the top podcasts.
[00:21:19]  We're number 10 and thank you guys for helping us get there.
[00:21:22]  We're 10 in news today.
[00:21:24]  CNN does not even have a top podcast.
[00:21:27]  I think in the top 50, top 60, top 100, and they're allegedly a multi-billion dollar network.
[00:21:33]  They're imploding.
[00:21:35]  They're totally and completely imploding.
[00:21:39]  And here on the Charlie Kirk show, we did over 100 million downloads in the last 12 months.
[00:21:44]  There's a lot of things on social media you can kind of fake.
[00:21:46]  You cannot fake 100 million downloads.
[00:21:48]  You can't do that.
[00:21:49]  It's pretty remarkable.
[00:21:51]  It's one of the reasons why is because we've been unafraid to talk about the vaccine.
[00:21:54]  We've been unafraid to talk about lockdowns.
[00:21:57]  We've been unafraid to talk about Joe Rogan, about race, about BLM, about schools, about critical race theory.
[00:22:05]  All the things the CNN gatekeepers have refused to talk about for quite some time.
[00:22:13]  Now, the founding fathers put into the U.S. Constitution one of the principles we talk about a lot on this show, checks and balances.
[00:22:23]  And media should have checks and balances to it as well.
[00:22:27]  Now, absent major companies like Time Warner or Lorene Powell Jobs with The Atlantic writing checks every single year to subsidize them, you are about to see the explosion, or I should say the culmination, of a major once-in-a-generation media bubble.
[00:22:48]  We've been talking about this for quite some time, and the reason you did not see the media bubble early was because of two things.
[00:22:54]  Donald Trump's election and COVID and the bailouts that came with COVID.
[00:22:59]  Many of the bailouts that came with COVID were needed stimuli for media companies, helped pay their payroll, gave them some extra expenses.
[00:23:08]  They took the PPP money.
[00:23:10]  And plus, media actually did really well in the midst of the pandemic because people were consuming news all day long.
[00:23:15]  They wanted new takes, they wanted interviews, they wanted information, even though all the information was fear, fear, fear, fear.
[00:23:21]  And now that people are breaking out of the pandemic with Omicron and other things, all of a sudden, the fear-based media is not what people want anymore.
[00:23:31]  They want truth.
[00:23:33]  They want some optimism, some positivity, some laughter, and some humor.
[00:23:36]  And dare I say, that's one of the other reasons why Joe Rogan is so popular.
[00:23:40]  He makes his audience laugh.
[00:23:42]  He's a comedian.
[00:23:43]  CNN, the only reason you laugh at CNN is you laugh at CNN.
[00:23:47]  You don't laugh with CNN.
[00:23:48]  You laugh at what they're doing.
[00:23:52]  And the bottom line is that there is a demand for the truth right now.
[00:23:55]  There's an appetite for meaning in news.
[00:24:00]  Not just the same 10 news stories recirculated, rewritten for a very specific political purpose.
[00:24:10]  The CNN collapse is one that will go down in history books.
[00:24:13]  And they'll basically have, they have two choices.
[00:24:16]  They can continue in the current direction and try to seek some sort of foreign sultan or sheik to bail them out.
[00:24:26]  Or they can continue, or they could totally change course and instead try their best to become an actual news network.
[00:24:41]  You want to know how bad the regime is failing right now?
[00:24:46]  Not only is CNN collapsing, but the Olympics, that most people don't even know that's on TV right now, by the way.
[00:24:56]  The Olympics are down 43% from 2018.
[00:25:01]  Now, Winter Olympics already have record low numbers.
[00:25:05]  Axios.com, Winter Olympics opening ceremony viewership, down 43% from 2018.
[00:25:12]  Who is footing the bill for that?
[00:25:14]  Comcast NBC.
[00:25:16]  This year's games, like the summer games in Tokyo last year, are being impacted by a lack of fans and loved ones in the stadiums.
[00:25:22]  That's not the reason, let me tell you.
[00:25:24]  People do not want to support NBC.
[00:25:26]  They don't want to watch the genocide games.
[00:25:29]  They don't want to watch China.
[00:25:30]  Everything about these games, it's like a non-stop China commercial.
[00:25:34]  And you know what?
[00:25:35]  Most Americans are like, yeah, you infected our country with a bioweapon.
[00:25:40]  I'm not exactly going to go out of my way to go watch the games hosted in your country.
[00:25:46]  The Tokyo Games were down 36% compared to 2016.
[00:25:52]  Broadcast and cable TV viewership has been declining for many years as more people adopt streaming alternatives.
[00:25:58]  I hope so.
[00:26:00]  So NBC now has, I think it cost NBC like $6 billion for the Olympic rights over 10 years.
[00:26:09]  CNN is down 90%.
[00:26:12]  The Atlantic is struggling to even keep themselves afloat.
[00:26:16]  Rachel Maddow has jumped ship and she's now becoming like an executive producer of some irrelevant movie with Ben Stiller.
[00:26:22]  It's really weird.
[00:26:26]  And yet, truth-based news is ascending.
[00:26:33]  It's growing.
[00:26:35]  It's strengthening.
[00:26:38]  It says here in the article, in the spring of 2020, the country was in a horrific place.

=== Truth-Based News Ascending Now (03:22) ===

[00:26:45]  Businesses shut completely.
[00:26:47]  If there was ever a time for news organizations to educate and inform the public, this was it.
[00:26:50]  Instead, Zucker believed it was a perfect time to exploit the situation for political gain.
[00:26:54]  And he did.
[00:26:57]  The collapse of CNN is now complete.
[00:27:00]  Nine out of 10 viewers gone.
[00:27:03]  Its network president gone.
[00:27:04]  Top-rated anchor gone.
[00:27:06]  And its integrity is in shambles.
[00:27:10]  The country's a better place because of it.
[00:27:12]  And it shows that there is an inevitable law of decay.
[00:27:16]  These people thought they were so untouchable for years.
[00:27:19]  They thought they could do whatever they want to do whenever they want to do it.
[00:27:25]  And no one watches them anymore.
[00:27:27]  And their entire network has imploded.
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[00:29:45]  And I just love the CNN collapse.
[00:29:49]  This is, you see how threatened CNN is by Joe Rogan.
[00:29:53]  And this just kind of goes to show this.
[00:29:55]  Play cut six.
[00:29:57]  Yeah, he clearly has.
[00:29:58]  And you and I both know that that compilation right there, which he has admitted to, is authentic.

=== Wall Street Got What They Wanted (02:08) ===

[00:30:07]  That would be enough to put anybody out of a job.
[00:30:11]  I mean, to me, it seems untenable to have that kind of video surface, that kind of compilation surface, and keep one's job.
[00:30:20]  CNN has done everything they possibly can, but they need to.
[00:30:23]  Where is the corporate media going to get their message out?
[00:30:27]  This is a serious question.
[00:30:29]  And so you have Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson, and Johnson, but not just that, the international global elites.
[00:30:34]  And, you know, we talked last week about the Johns Hopkins study.
[00:30:38]  In fact, we have a new Ask Me Anything episode that details that.
[00:30:43]  And in the Johns Hopkins study, it shows that lockdowns had zero impact whatsoever.
[00:30:49]  That's right, zero impact, zero positive effect on stopping the transmission of the virus.
[00:30:56]  But I got to thinking over the weekend, I said, how were they able to pull this off?
[00:31:02]  Because back on March 23rd, 2020, I went on Steve Hilton's program and I talked at great length at how this lockdown strategy is going to destroy the economy.
[00:31:12]  And then it made sense that the stimulus package that was passed in late March, early April was very carefully written.
[00:31:21]  It was written as a massive payoff.
[00:31:25]  Wall Street got exactly what they wanted.
[00:31:27]  Wall Street was able to repurchase stocks at $18,000 when the DAO was $18,000 and you nearly see it double over the course of a year.
[00:31:36]  Major companies had access to lower interest rates and they went on a borrowing spree.
[00:31:41]  Every single sector that would otherwise lobby Washington, D.C. to reopen was paid off, including the restaurant sector that had massive amounts of PPP money.
[00:31:51]  Democrat politicians were incentivized to keep the blue states closed as blue state bailouts came to bail out the blue state pension funds and other public sector liabilities.
[00:32:02]  But of course, the casualty were the nation's children and the small businesses, the 100,000 plus small businesses that will never reopen because of the lockdown measures that occurred.

=== Living Through Political Realignment (02:44) ===

[00:32:16]  But then you have people like Joe Rogan and others that start to call this out.
[00:32:20]  Where is the regime media going to be able to place advertisements of significance?
[00:32:25]  Are they going to buy network ads at the Olympics?
[00:32:28]  No one watches that.
[00:32:30]  You see, the ability to communicate with the American people is a question that the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab and the great reset crowd, they're currently struggling with.
[00:32:42]  So they have to take the powerful chess pieces off the board, which is precisely why they've gone after Rogan.
[00:32:50]  They cannot allow Rogan to keep on speaking freely.
[00:32:53]  So the next best thing to cancel Rogan, the next best thing is to get him to not be himself.
[00:33:03]  If Rogan ends up being a more vanilla, mainstream, and boring version, then the regime will have won.
[00:33:10]  At least he gets paid.
[00:33:11]  But I guarantee you this: people will not reward Joe Rogan generously with downloads if he all of a sudden becomes kind of a funnier, kind of stronger version of Jim Acosta.
[00:33:28]  If Joe Rogan kind of becomes a buffer wolf blitzer, people aren't going to keep on tuning into the Joe Rogan experience.
[00:33:35]  They like the Joe Rogan experience because you never know what you're going to get.
[00:33:39]  He's authentic.
[00:33:40]  He's real.
[00:33:40]  He's non-corporate.
[00:33:42]  He's unscripted.
[00:33:43]  And we are living through a realignment chapter right now.
[00:33:46]  I want everyone to take notes because we are going to be proven right here.
[00:33:49]  We're living through a political realignment.
[00:33:51]  We're living through a spiritual realignment.
[00:33:53]  We're living through an economic realignment.
[00:33:55]  And we are living through a media and communication realignment.
[00:33:59]  2022 will go down as a year where the entire game changes.
[00:34:04]  Media companies are going bankrupt.
[00:34:06]  Media presidents resign in disgrace.
[00:34:09]  Chambers of power get completely turned over.
[00:34:12]  The citizen rises up.
[00:34:14]  Bureaucracies finally get held accountable.
[00:34:16]  It's a year where not just one part realigns, but where would you ever think that you see the collapse of CNN, the temporary departure of Rachel Maddow, Republicans take back the House?
[00:34:28]  You see all these things happening simultaneously.
[00:34:32]  The laws of nature do not go into suspense just because a bunch of billionaires want them to go.
[00:34:39]  This is just the beginning of a movement of what will be called the Great Realignment of 2022.
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