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Joe Rogan Experience #2277 - Woody Harrelson
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woody harrelson
Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out!
unidentified
The Joe Rogan Experience.
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joe rogan
What's happening, man?
woody harrelson
How are you?
Everything's groovy as could be.
I'm happy to be in Austin.
I love it here, you know?
joe rogan
It's a fun place.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I stay here.
unidentified
Oh, do you?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's just a special place in this country.
joe rogan
Yeah, I agree.
It's perfect because it's like a blue city and a red state.
It's like even the really kooky liberal people are pretty reasonable in comparison to like the kooky liberal people from California or New York.
woody harrelson
Yeah, kooky liberals.
Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about that lately.
joe rogan
Did you get a lot of that after Saturday Night Live?
unidentified
A lot of kooky liberals coming your way?
woody harrelson
Yeah, exactly.
That's a good transition.
unidentified
That monologue was great, by the way.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
Well, I got a lot of blowback, as I knew I would.
Because you told the truth.
Well, yeah.
You don't want to say anything negative about vaccines, which I didn't.
What I was talking about in that monologue was really about profiteering.
So World War II, necessary.
Everyone could say that was a necessary war.
Let's say that this war on microbes was a necessary war, right?
Why is anyone profiteering?
joe rogan
Yes.
woody harrelson
Why did, you know, FISA get to make $100 billion in 2021?
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
Anyway.
joe rogan
Why did the government profit off of it?
woody harrelson
The profiteering of war is just wrong.
Like, okay, if you say that it has to be, there's conflicts happening right now.
I disagree with, but I'm wondering, why are people making money off of it, you know?
Even if you think you have a legitimate...
Vantage point from the other side of it.
Why did someone get to make so much frickin' money off of it?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's the dirtiest aspect of human beings.
unidentified
We'll find a way to profiteer off everything.
joe rogan
Everything and anything.
Even if it's just.
And they'll prolong just things in order to make more profit.
woody harrelson
Well, I mean, I'm sure you know that...
You know, Richard Nixon knew it was imperative that the war continue, you know, the Vietnam War, back before he got elected, you know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
He didn't want that to get settled.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And there's a great phone call.
I don't know if you've listened to any of Johnson's phone calls.
Lyndon Johnson.
joe rogan
What phone call?
woody harrelson
There was a phone call he had with Nixon saying, hey, man.
You're going against the peace, because he was trying to get a peace to go before the 68 election, right?
Which he eventually just bailed out of anyway, because he could see he was going to lose it, Johnson.
Maybe you haven't...
joe rogan
No, I've never heard that conversation between Nixon and Johnson.
woody harrelson
It's an incredible conversation.
And Nixon's like, oh, I wouldn't do that.
I would never, you know.
And of course, he was doing that.
He was subverting the peace process, you know.
In the same way that, you know, they wanted to make sure Carter didn't get those, you know, those guys released in Iran.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I always wondered about the Vietnam War.
How much of it was about heroin?
Three days before 1968 presidential election, President Johnson contacted Senate Majority Leader Everett M. Dirksen to inform him the White House had received hard evidence from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Dick Nixon was interfering with Johnson's effort to start peace talks to end the Vietnam War.
And this call, Johnson referred to contacts between Nixon's campaign and South Vietnamese president when Van Thee, I don't know how to say his name, urged that they thwart any such negotiations.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
And that did happen.
And also, they definitely...
Bush, you know, the senior Bush, George Bush Sr., he met with the leaders of the Iranian, what do you call it, party, whatever, before the election, the fight between Carter and Reagan, and insisted they needed to not be letting those hostages go.
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
And Carter in Atlanta, I don't know, a couple, three years ago, right?
It's very exciting for me because I've always been a big, big fan of Carter.
I think he's the best president in my lifetime.
And I talked to Carter and he was like, and I said, I'm sitting there, I'm thinking to myself, is there a better time to ask?
When am I going to have another time?
And so that was known as the October surprise, right?
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
That Bush met with those guys.
Anyway, I just said, I'm going to ask him, I said, well, I just wonder, is there any truth to the October surprise?
And he kind of, he looks at me like, he hadn't heard this question lately, right?
And he looks at me and he goes, well, I never talked about this publicly, but we did still have people in the White House after we left.
Who were there during the Reagan administration.
And they confirmed it was true.
joe rogan
Yeah, of course it was true.
It was too obvious.
The hostages get released right after Reagan gets elected.
woody harrelson
They released him on the day he took office.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ridiculous.
It's kind of disgusting.
woody harrelson
Very disgusting.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
But, I mean, I don't want to be one to talk ill to the American government.
Far be it for me.
joe rogan
Yeah, we don't need to.
Hey man, your movie's fucking great.
I loved it.
woody harrelson
Oh, you saw it?
joe rogan
I saw it Wednesday night.
Yeah, it was great.
Thank you.
Really great.
Nail-biter.
woody harrelson
Yeah, and the edge of your seat.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's not a single cut-the-shit moment in that movie.
You know, there's movies where you have to suspend disbelief and it takes you out of it.
There's none of that in that movie.
It's really good.
It's really good.
Very suspenseful.
Very fulfilling.
At the end of it, you feel super entertained.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, I love it.
It's so exciting, that film.
It's like an action movie.
I mean, it really is.
Like, as nail-biter as any action movie I've seen, I love it.
And Alex Parkinson, he was the director.
He also directed, because it was a documentary, Last Breath.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
woody harrelson
Oh, because people may not know.
This was a real incident that happened in the North Sea.
Anyway, yeah.
Simu Liu and Finn Cole, you know, loved those guys.
Loved working with them.
That was a great experience.
joe rogan
It's a great movie.
It's very good.
It's very fun.
Like, it's exciting.
And I hardly ever go to the movies anymore.
But your people made me go see it in the movie theater.
woody harrelson
Oh, yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, so I had to actually go to a theater and see it.
It was great, though.
woody harrelson
Well, thanks for doing that, man.
Oh, my pleasure.
My pleasure.
I know you're a busy man.
You got a lot going on.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I was excited to talk to you, man.
I'm a big fan.
I've been, god damn, I've been watching you since Cheers.
woody harrelson
Oh, thanks, dude.
It's a long time.
Well, I'm a fan of yours, too.
Thank you.
I really am.
I love the things you've done that just...
Just flipped everything on its head.
You know, the people you've interviewed, that you got, you know, people genuinely up in arms, you know, like, you're not afraid.
You're a fearless warrior, and I just, I appreciate what you do.
Thank you.
Like, allowing voice to people, other people will be like, you're wrong just to interview that person.
joe rogan
Yeah, you get a lot of that, for sure, but that's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous thinking.
I don't even understand that.
I really don't.
I don't understand how we got to a place where you're wrong to have a conversation with someone, even if you disagree with them.
This idea of platforming people.
Well, how the fuck do you know what they really think?
Based on what?
The mainstream media that lies to you constantly?
That's supported by all sorts of special interest groups that have no need to tell the American public the truth.
They have a very specific narrative that they want pushed.
They want no deviation from that at all.
Get the fuck out of here.
Get the fuck out of here.
It's crazy.
If you have a large audience, I think you have at least a certain amount of responsibility to talk to some people that you think might be telling the truth.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I liked your interview with Robert Malone.
joe rogan
Yes.
woody harrelson
That was a crucial interview at a crucial time.
joe rogan
Well, that was the most pushback I'd ever experienced ever in my life.
And I was like, this is crazy.
It was really sad to see people like Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.
I wanted to sit down and talk to them and show them some studies and give them Robert Kennedy's book and say, you don't really know what you're talking about.
woody harrelson
Well, that's the thing that makes me sad is a lot of this information they're receiving is like from mainstream media, which certainly has its own objectives and its own, you know, things that it won't discuss.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah, at all.
woody harrelson
And, yeah, and I just felt like after that happened, you know.
I was going to try to get in touch with you just to tip my hat to you, but it just felt like, why don't people just listen to the interview?
Because I feel like everyone who was giving it a hard time hadn't even heard the interview.
joe rogan
Of course.
Yeah, they had heard the mainstream media saying that it was dangerous misinformation.
By the way, everything he said has turned out to be true.
Every single thing he said.
Had turned out to be true.
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
Everything that everybody said about whether it was a lab leak, whether the vaccine had side effects, whether it was pushed, whether they lied about the studies and distorted the information, everything was true.
All of it.
Including Yale just released some study about people producing spike protein 700 plus days after the injections, which was never thought to be the case when they gave them to these people in the first place.
A host of different...
Serious problems that people are having because of these that everyone's covering up and people are lying about and everyone's trying to obfuscate and doctors are trying to sweep things under the rug because they don't want to be in trouble for mandating these things and telling people to get these things.
It's horrible.
woody harrelson
Well, I mean, I agree with you and...
Yeah, if we go back to the allowing...
You know, I just feel like to mandate...
Crazy.
That, to me, is fascistic behavior.
If you mandate that I have to take this thing, that if you take it, you're protected.
Well, if I take it, wasn't that mine?
That should be my prerogative.
I either want to be protected or don't want to be protected.
Or maybe I am like I am, which is the last two entities on earth I would trust with my health would be Big Pharma and Big Government.
Like, those would be the last two I would look to.
You know, how much Big Pharma's done to just push it through that they know is bad for you, that they know harms you.
And in this case...
They know what's happened.
They know.
And all we're left with after the, what was it, 86 that they mandated that you couldn't sue the vaccine company?
And so since then, we've only been left with VAERS, right?
Yeah, VAERS, yeah.
VAERS, the government website.
And now we have millions of people who fought through the red tape and then the bureaucratic whatever just to...
Anonymously be known that they were injured.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It was weird watching so many people that I thought were intelligent stand up for the government and for the pharmaceutical industry.
woody harrelson
But it's not weird if you think of how...
I mean, it was ubiquitous.
It never stopped.
The mainstream press was just harping on it constantly.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Constantly.
Yeah.
But it's just weird that so many people went along with it without question.
I mean, and especially the weirdest part was it was the people on the left.
That was so confusing to me because all my life, people on the left were very, very hesitant to believe anything that Big Pharma said and always distrusting in...
Any major institution that was profiting off of something, and it was all very clear.
You could see where the motivation was with everything.
You could see the amount of profit that was going to be generated, and still, everybody was just so scared.
It just exposed a lot of cowards, a lot of fools, a lot of cowards, and a lot of people that are just, at the moment of any form of adversity, are willing to just bow down.
Do what the system tells them to.
It's very strange.
unidentified
Well, yes.
woody harrelson
I mean, to say cowards, it's interesting because of the nature of it being so mandated.
I had many people I know got vaccinated because they wanted to be able to fly, they wanted to be able to work.
So when it's mandated that you can't work, You know, how many drivers?
Every single driver had to be vaccinated.
In Atlanta, every person on the crew had to be vaccinated.
And you had the first vaccination, but when you got the, what do you call it, the next...
joe rogan
The boosters.
woody harrelson
The booster, it had to be within six months.
If it's six months and a day, you won't work that day.
You know, it was very regimented.
Everybody in every crew.
joe rogan
Including people that had already been sick.
It didn't even make sense.
Not only that, I mean, you talk to virologists, they say you never vaccinate during a pandemic because it encourages variants.
You know, I posted that on Twitter, the study on Twitter, and so many people were attacking me.
I'm like, hey, I didn't write the study.
This is a study that shows that when you vaccinate with a non-sterilizing vaccine during a pandemic, it encourages variants.
And that's what happened.
woody harrelson
What do you mean non-sterilizing vaccine?
joe rogan
So a vaccine that doesn't actually prevent you from catching the disease or spreading the disease.
woody harrelson
Oh, right.
joe rogan
And that's what COVID is.
That's what the COVID vaccine is.
woody harrelson
Initially, it was supposed to stop you.
It was 100% going to stop the vaccine.
And then, of course, that had to be modified.
It came to now...
It will lessen your symptoms.
A completely unprovable claim.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, there was never any studies ever in the beginning that ever showed that it stopped transmission.
None.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Zero.
All it did is it showed that it had an immune response.
woody harrelson
So you read Bobby's book.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
And even the guy, interestingly, you know, Kerry Mullis, I believe his name, the guy who created the PCR tests, or, well, there was some discrepancy with other people.
But anyway, it doesn't matter.
But the guy credited, he said, this vaccine, this test cannot prove...
joe rogan
Infection.
woody harrelson
It doesn't prove causation.
So, in other words, you're having a response that says that you have a viral load, but you don't know what the cause of that is.
You don't know what generated that.
It can't prove what the illness is.
joe rogan
Not only that.
woody harrelson
What the problem is that causes that.
joe rogan
Depending upon the amount of cycles that you run the PCR, I mean, you could detect, like, the most minute amount that is not indicative of the person being infected.
woody harrelson
Right.
joe rogan
And that person will have a false positive.
And there's false positives through the fucking roof.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, the whole thing made no sense.
And it was just designed to push a vaccine that they profited off of massively.
And I hope we learn.
I hope we learn.
I hope next time things roll around, people are a lot more hesitant to just jump in and believe this shit.
woody harrelson
Well, already they were coming up with additional vaccines for this or that or another booster.
And people were like, yeah, no.
So I think people have already started to question.
The validity of things, you know?
joe rogan
Well, I think this pandemic and the response and the mandates and all that shit, it ruined people's faith in, first of all, the mainstream media.
I think the mainstream media took the biggest hit out of anybody.
Like, the trust in the television shows and the newspapers that are supposed to be delivering the truth is at an all-time low.
woody harrelson
Well, I hope you're right.
joe rogan
Oh, I think I'm right.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think it's pretty obvious.
I mean, the ratings are down on every fucking show there is.
Newspapers, no one wants to buy them.
woody harrelson
You mean since the pandemic?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah, okay.
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
CNN is, fucking no one's watching it anymore.
MSNBC is a ghost town.
No one's watching these shows because they're all just lying.
They're lying.
They're still lying.
They're lying constantly.
And now, you know, now they're lying about the Department of Government Efficiency, when before they were lying about pandemics and vaccines.
It's just, it's not really the news.
You know, if it was the news, they wouldn't be paid for by the pharmaceutical drug companies.
You can't have the fucking news sponsored by the people that you're supposed to be reporting on, and then you never report on them.
That's just crazy.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
Well, also, that whole trusted news initiative.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You familiar with that?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I guess you would be.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You talk to Bobby and everybody.
Yeah.
But yeah, the Trusted News Initiative is just like, okay, we won't...
I'd send a YouTube video that I just got...
To someone else.
And by the time it gets to them, they're like, it won't let me watch it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Why?
You know?
Misinformation.
But isn't misinformation also information?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You know?
It's like, how can you term it misinformation?
And what, you know, what are your criteria that allow you to call that misinformation?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well.
I'm hoping people have learned.
But it was a weird time.
An educational time though.
It was a good experience for some people just to learn that like, hey, there's sources that you cannot trust.
And I think now the beautiful thing about someone like Elon buying...
Twitter and turning it into X and having community notes is now you have a way of fact-checking things where people use the community notes and they start posting studies in the community notes and saying, no, this story is not true.
Here's why it's not true.
Here's why it's provably not true.
So this is the best way to handle misinformation.
It's not leave it up to government censors.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, and that was where everybody was going in 2020. It was just fucking crazy to watch.
woody harrelson
Those weren't government censors.
Those were the mainstream media censoring themselves.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
Yeah, but I mean...
woody harrelson
At the behest of government, but also at the behest of Big Pharma.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
When we found out that the government was...
Actively contacting social media companies and having them remove things that were true.
Because there was malinformation.
Do you know that term?
woody harrelson
I haven't heard it before.
joe rogan
There's misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
Malinformation is true, but could have a detrimental effect on society.
True information that can have a detrimental effect on society is malinformation that all should be censored.
It's Orwell.
It's right out of 1984. It's crazy.
woody harrelson
I feel so Orwellian just the time we've gone through and the time we're in.
It feels extremely Orwellian.
joe rogan
It's very weird.
It's a weird time, but I'm optimistic.
woody harrelson
I want to be optimistic.
unidentified
I think cynicism is the worst disease of old age.
Once you're cynical, you are fucked, man.
woody harrelson
It infects every part of your being.
But you stay very positive, right?
You seem like...
Nothing can stop you.
joe rogan
I try to stay positive.
I mean, I'm affected like everybody else is.
I was down during the pandemic.
It bothered the shit out of me.
But we came through it on the other end, and I think people have more resolve now.
I think generally the general public has, at least a good percentage of the general public, has a healthy distrust now for bullshit.
woody harrelson
Certainly your listeners.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Now, but after that Robert Malone thing happened, I was really curious.
I was wanting to contact you, and I didn't, but I was just curious how, because, man, I've never seen anyone take more body blows, but I've got to say, it was cool.
They, like, stood behind you.
Is it Spotify?
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah, Spotify.
joe rogan
Well, fortunately, they're not American.
It's not an American company.
woody harrelson
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're in Sweden.
woody harrelson
Where are they from?
joe rogan
Sweden.
woody harrelson
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
So they're like, eh, we're not buying it.
joe rogan
Also, the show was big enough where they were like, why would we pull this thing off the air?
Let's hang in there and see what happens.
And it just kept getting bigger.
And so they were realizing that the people were basically on the side of free distribution of information.
And they didn't buy it.
But there was two...
It was two guys, Peter McCullough and Robert Malone.
Those are the ones.
And then there was like some fucking...
woody harrelson
Oh yeah, Peter McCullough.
Boy, he took a lot of hits.
joe rogan
He did.
woody harrelson
Big time during...
joe rogan
Most published doctor in human history in his particular field of study.
I mean, he's well-respected, rock-solid, credentialed.
woody harrelson
And it was one of his videos I tried to send right after I got it.
I tried to send to people.
No.
They were so quick.
I've never seen such quick...
Censorship or editing, you know, almost impressive, you know.
joe rogan
It was creepy.
What was it like in Hollywood having your perspective, your healthy distrust of what was going on, where everybody was sort of in lockstep with whatever the government propaganda was?
woody harrelson
Yeah, for sure.
Well, you know, I mean, I don't know how many sets you visited, but everybody was like, you know, in mass.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And then there'd be different zones.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And then, you know, the closer you get to the actual set where the shooting is, and then that red zone, people, put your mask on!
And I was just like, I never bought it.
And I, you know, I never bought it from the beginning.
I'm just like, I don't...
This doesn't feel right.
I'm supposed to wear a mask, but I haven't been sick.
Now, at this point, right now, I haven't been sick in eight years.
Well, back then was whatever, six years.
But it was just like I knew, well, no, I'm doing the math.
But you know what I mean.
It had been a long time since I'd been sick.
And I'm like, I don't feel like I need to wear a mask.
I would just not wear a mask, you know, but everybody else on the set's wearing a mask, which is very discomforting because, you know, you can't even relate to people so well without seeing their face.
It's very weird.
joe rogan
It was very weird.
woody harrelson
Very strange time.
joe rogan
Yeah, the strangest.
And it didn't make any sense.
And there was also this narrative that if you weren't vaccinated, the virus was going to hunt you down.
They keep saying that.
The virus will find you.
unidentified
If you're not vaccinated, the virus will hunt you down.
And you're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
woody harrelson
It's so funny.
I did a video.
Oh, I wish I had it with me.
Well, maybe Ilya's out there, my assistant.
Maybe she could pull it up for you.
joe rogan
Is it online?
woody harrelson
No, but I did.
It's 11 seconds.
Yeah, she's listening.
Hopefully she'll look at it.
But it's like, I take inhale and hit a pot, right?
And then I put on my mask.
joe rogan
And blow it right through the mask.
woody harrelson
And I exhale.
No, it just comes out every, right?
And every exhale, and by the way, hundreds of times heavier than like a virus.
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
Right?
So viruses don't just, you know, the concept, people have, for people saying, you know, trust in science, very unscientific concepts.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And Fauci, anyway, in the beginning, said, no, we don't need to wear a mask.
And then someone said, no, you do.
Oh, we do.
We should wear a mask.
Yeah, so silly, that mask, man.
Just something about it felt like, you know, it was just like Big Brother won.
Big Brother won.
joe rogan
They won a battle.
But I think ultimately that's what's going to cost them the war.
I think the lessons learned from that.
woody harrelson
What do you think Bobby's going to be able to accomplish anything?
joe rogan
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That's rocketmoney.com slash J-R-E. Rocketmoney.com slash JRE. Rocketmoney.com slash JRE. Well, one big one that he wants to accomplish is to remove this liability waiver for vaccines.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And to make them go through real trials.
woody harrelson
And how do you think that's going to get through Congress?
joe rogan
We're going to find out.
woody harrelson
Come on, dude.
joe rogan
We're going to find out.
woody harrelson
There's no way that gets through Congress.
joe rogan
We'll see.
You know, we'll see.
woody harrelson
We'll see what the resistance is.
But every one of those guys is getting money from Big Pharma.
joe rogan
A lot of them are.
woody harrelson
Certainly all the Democrats.
joe rogan
People are paying attention now, and they will get primaried, and I think they're aware of that.
So I think there's a vulnerability for their entire career.
If people find out that they weren't willing to do this in the face of overwhelming evidence, you know?
Like Bobby was just talking about the hepatitis vaccine, that they were saying that the hepatitis B vaccine, they were having a hard time selling it.
They all of a sudden start saying, don't worry about it.
We're going to prescribe it for children.
And they put it on the vaccine schedule for children.
And they did that just because they were having a hard time.
Because the only time you get hepatitis B is from dirty needles and risky sex.
And people are like, I don't...
Not that fucking thing.
And so they're like, nobody was saying it.
woody harrelson
You want to stand by that statement?
unidentified
Those are the only times you get hepatitis B. I think that's it.
woody harrelson
There's just two possibilities.
Dirty sex and dirty needles.
joe rogan
Do you know of any other ones?
unidentified
Well, I mean, I think...
joe rogan
It's a sexually transmitted disease.
woody harrelson
Oh, it is?
Okay, okay.
joe rogan
It's transmitted through intravenous drug use.
woody harrelson
Okay, then.
I didn't know.
unidentified
How do you think you got Hepatitis B? I mean, I just assumed you get run down.
woody harrelson
Like most sicknesses, you get run down, you get sick.
joe rogan
Well, let's Google it.
What is the cause of Hepatitis B, Jamie?
Infected blood or body fluids?
Yeah.
That's how you get it.
You don't get it as a fucking baby.
So injecting babies with it, the only reason why they did that is to sell more Hepatitis B vaccines.
Yeah, if the mother has it.
Unprotected sex with an infected person, mother to child, during childbirth, breastfeeding if the mother's infected.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
woody harrelson
Tattooing.
Dude, you got a lot of avenues you could be.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I guess.
Dirty needles.
I guess that falls under dirty needles.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
But anyway, I just wonder that, you know, it's just, again, the profiteering, like, why are we not talking about profiteering?
That should be on everyone's lips.
joe rogan
Exactly.
That's what it's all about.
That's all the woes and ills of our society.
It's people emphasizing profit over humanity.
That's really what it is.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's really what it is.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I agree.
joe rogan
Yeah, and it's also, it's like, It's this fucking disgustingly short-sighted approach because you don't live that long.
To live your life just profiteering off of the expense of other people's suffering is so crazy.
When you've got 80 years of your lucky, you've got 80 summers, 80 summers, 80 spins around the sun, and you're going to fucking sell people out for some money that you're never going to have enough of anyway.
All those cocksuckers, they all want more.
It never ends.
They all want a bigger yacht.
They all wanted this.
They all wanted that.
There was always something.
It never ends.
And somehow or another, we let them get away with it because we're profiting as well.
That's hard.
woody harrelson
I was wondering about, like, billionaires.
You've got to figure there's a certain hierarchy of billionaires, right?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
woody harrelson
And so even if you're a billionaire and you're thinking, well, that guy, he's good.
He's made it, right?
joe rogan
Nope.
woody harrelson
Well, no.
I want to be the richest guy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I mean, I don't know.
I guess it never does end in a way.
joe rogan
Well, if that's what your game is, right?
So if your game is just numbers, you're never going to be satisfied.
You know, if your game is just numbers, you're always going to look at the other people.
Like my friend Brian has a friend that has $3 billion and he says he hangs out with his billionaire friends and he feels poor because they have $30 billion.
Like, you know, crazy.
Imagine having $3 billion and feeling poor.
But I can kind of understand the thought.
I mean, it's stupid.
unidentified
The poor white trash part of the group.
woody harrelson
Only three bills.
joe rogan
Poor bastard.
How does he even buy a country?
How do it even affect elections with three billion dollars?
That's nothing.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's weird.
woody harrelson
Local elections.
joe rogan
Well, I mean, this is just a symptom of the moral decay of our society.
That, you know, we don't have a...
We're going to have a moral and ethical framework.
We're going to have a moral and ethical structure that we operate under.
And too many people are just motivated by my money instead of humanity, instead of looking at people as like a community.
We're all a community of people and you can still...
Profit, and you can still make money, but making more money at the expense of people's lives and suffering should be the most abhorrent thing that we could possibly imagine, especially if you're already wealthy.
That should be absolutely disgusting to us, and that it's condoned and just accepted, and you shrug your shoulders.
That's what people do.
woody harrelson
Well, I think the majority of people agree with you 100% on that.
And the majority of people have a very humane and compassionate view of others, you know.
But there are those people who are just, you know, it's like you say, it's a numbers game.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And unfortunately, war makes people really...
unidentified
Rich.
woody harrelson
I mean, I guess, I don't know, Big Pharma would be the number one industry, but not far behind it's got to be the weapons industry.
And it's just like, why are these...
If you even get away from why are these wars happening or are they justified, why are they making that much profit off of these wars?
Strange.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
That bothers me.
I get sleepless over that.
joe rogan
It should.
woody harrelson
Especially because the United States has just done, you know, World War II, okay, I give you that one.
But I certainly don't give you the Korean War over the potential domino theory, which was absurd.
The same theory.
So four million people die in Korea.
Three and a half million in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia.
They started carpet bombing in Laos, you know, which is everything in a two-mile radius, presumed dead.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You know, what we've done throughout Central, South America, all over the world, we've become masters of war, but, like, toward what end?
To help those rich people get richer!
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
It's like, I would understand if it's a justifiable, you know, you have to stop Hitler, Mussolini, I get it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
But, you know, come on.
joe rogan
It's crazy that it all really boils down to that.
It really boils down to a lot of his people profiting.
You know?
woody harrelson
I always have said that if war weren't so lucrative, there'd be a lot less of it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You know?
joe rogan
No doubt.
woody harrelson
Sometimes just the war itself, it's...
That's a moneymaker.
joe rogan
Yeah, but it's like, how do you fucking do that?
What do you got there, fella?
woody harrelson
I brought this for you, man.
joe rogan
What is it?
woody harrelson
It's a very nice Northern California.
joe rogan
Wow.
woody harrelson
You know, I have a dispensary in LA. Oh, do you?
Yeah, called The Woods.
It's phenomenal.
It's the most beautiful dispensary in the world.
joe rogan
Isn't that crazy?
I remember when it was completely, totally illegal, and then you had to have a medical card.
Right.
And you just say you had a headache.
woody harrelson
That's all you have to say.
joe rogan
You got back pain.
You got a headache.
You can get a subscription or prescription rather.
And then it became legal.
But just in 2016. It's not here.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
It's decriminalized.
woody harrelson
It needs to be legal in Texas.
joe rogan
It should be.
Well, it should be federally legal.
woody harrelson
This could be such a – this state is so great anyway.
We could change everything if Texas was legal.
joe rogan
Well, the whole country should be legal.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
The idea that America, the land of the free, criminalizes the use of a plant that's never killed anybody is fucking crazy.
woody harrelson
It's legislating morality and it's an odd morality anyway because most people believe you should be able to smoke if you want.
joe rogan
Not only that, it's a morality that's based off...
Bullshit about profiteering from the 1930s.
So it's propaganda from the 1930s that's still working today, 90 years later, which is really crazy.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the craziest part of it.
And really the only reason why it picked up steam is because they needed to put people to work after they had stopped banning alcohol.
So Prohibition ended.
Everybody's like, what do we do now?
Well, let's fucking go after marijuana.
And then you get Harry Anslinger, William Randolph Hearst, and they're all profiting from it, and they're all fucking...
And make the marijuana movies like Reefer Madness and everyone's gonna go crazy.
And to this day, there's a lot of people who believe that.
unidentified
They think it makes you lazy, it makes you stupid.
woody harrelson
It really is.
Although, I would say my stupid quotient.
I'm dipped down to a noodle.
No, but I agree with you.
I think that, yeah, like Anslinger, nobody knows about that.
How this guy went all over the place and got governments all over the world to make, you know, declare this the enemy drug.
But, you know, like I really just believe, you know, there's such a thing as a consensual crime, which is victimless crimes.
So if I'm smoking a joint, well, a lot of it's like the vaccine.
If I'm smoking a joint, how does that hurt you?
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
What am I doing to hurt you?
joe rogan
If you drive and fall asleep at the wheel and slide into a school bus.
woody harrelson
Well, that's one thing, of course.
joe rogan
But there's already laws for that.
woody harrelson
Okay, yeah, but that's another...
Okay, outside of the driving world, I don't see how I'm hurting you.
joe rogan
Outside of the driving world, that's really the end of it.
woody harrelson
And if I'm not getting my job done, then fire me.
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
Okay?
So there's...
It just...
There's no...
And by the way, most people do agree with this, but when you have, like, Over 70% of the people in jail are there for victimless crimes, mostly drug-related crimes.
joe rogan
Well, then we go back to another thing, profiteering, because we have private prisons, which is crazy.
We're essentially taking human beings and you're using them as batteries to generate money.
That's really what you're doing.
The more people you get in there, the more profit you're pulling out of it, which is just crazy.
So then you have prison guard unions that are lobbying to keep laws on the books.
Victimless crimes on the books, like marijuana.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
It's ridiculous.
I imagine there's a lot of unions pushing it.
But, you know, I didn't know until I saw the 13th.
Is that what it was called?
That movie?
13th Amendment?
It was about the 13th Amendment?
I didn't know about the...
What's it called?
There's a movie, I think it's called The 13th, if I'm not wrong.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Is that right?
Yeah, he's...
Anyway, it...
Oh, there it is.
Yeah.
That's the first time I really thought about, in spite of being around prisons, you know, much of my life, I'd never thought about the fact that they're...
unidentified
that that's just...
woody harrelson
They're making them work.
It's just slave labor.
joe rogan
Exactly.
Yeah.
Making them work.
woody harrelson
I'd never thought about it.
joe rogan
Slave labor for an insanely small amount of money.
And they keep them locked up and they produce things.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Well, you watch that, you believe it for sure.
Did you see that?
joe rogan
No, I didn't say it.
I'm aware of the laws, though.
I mean, I'm aware of that's a lot of where the Jim Crow laws came from.
When they abolished slavery, what they did was just arrest people for basically anything and put them to work.
I mean, that was the modus operandi.
woody harrelson
Yeah, which is, I guess that's when all the 13th started was back then, as a part of the Jim Crow laws.
joe rogan
Again, it all goes to the same thing, profit.
And ironically, a lot of this lack of compassion...
Could be solved with psychedelics.
A lot of it.
A lot of it.
Where people expand their consciousness, understand that what they're doing is morally reprehensible, and even though you can sort of justify it because it's legal, it's disgusting.
We should change those laws.
Those laws don't make any sense because it's written on paper.
Doesn't mean it's just.
Doesn't mean it makes sense for logical, rational people.
woody harrelson
I agree.
It'd be nice to get some acid in the punch bowl at some kind of congressional, you know.
joe rogan
Well, consensually.
woody harrelson
Man, consensual?
I mean, you're not going to get all those guys who needed to agree to it.
So I'm just saying, throw a little in the punch bowl.
They're all going by the punch bowl.
joe rogan
Do you know who Graham Hancock is?
He's an expert on ancient history, like a kind of a renegade historian.
He's got a sort of alternative version of ancient society, ancient civilizations.
He has a podcast?
Two seasons of a series called Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix.
It's really amazing.
Basically, his field of study is the evidence that human beings and human civilization has gone through a reset.
And that somewhere around 12,000 years ago, and this is all supported by this theory called the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, where they found evidence that the Earth was bombarded by comets at more than two different times in history that probably reset civilization.
And that this is probably why you see ancient structures that people can't explain, and these stone buildings that have incredibly complex geometry.
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Like at the World Fair in Chicago, like, they had all those buildings.
joe rogan
That's a little different.
woody harrelson
Are you talking about that?
joe rogan
No, that's a little different.
I'm talking about, like, ancient Egypt.
woody harrelson
You're talking about super ancient.
joe rogan
I'm talking about, like, Turkey, you know, I'm talking about, like, Gobekli Tepe and these ancient structures they found that are absolutely 11,000-plus years old, where people are supposed to be just hunter and gatherers, and that we had thought up until, you know, the last 40 or 50 years.
That society emerged around 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia.
What he believes is that that is a re-emergence of society and that society had already reached a very high level of sophistication around 12,000 years ago and that something happened, some sort of gigantic cataclysm and reset things.
But Graham is also an enthusiast of ayahuasca and the power of psychedelic medicine and he has often said that To run governments, it should be mandatory that you have psychedelic sessions.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And you should probably do it publicly.
unidentified
Publicly.
joe rogan
So you really find out.
You know?
I mean, imagine getting Lindsey Graham fucked up on mushrooms and then filming them.
woody harrelson
Oh, I'd love to see that.
joe rogan
It would be amazing.
woody harrelson
What I would give to see that.
joe rogan
Oh, it would be amazing.
woody harrelson
But it would be nice if they had a little more.
Because...
It's almost, those drugs that you're talking about are just like, it's like the universal, God's little helper.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
To help you see how the world really works.
joe rogan
Yeah, God's little helper.
woody harrelson
The illusory nature of what it is we're experiencing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And to come from the heart.
joe rogan
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, they encourage compassion.
Encourage kindness and love.
We need a lot more of that in this world.
And that's the problem with being so politically and ideologically divided.
It's so easy because people are so tribal.
It's so easy to hate the other tribe.
The other people are the enemy.
And so we've got this bizarre thing where we're supposed to be a community, but we're a two-sided community.
And one side hates the other side.
And whoever's in power, those people are the problem.
woody harrelson
That is such a weird part of the human, you know, nature or whatever you want to call it.
Psychology.
And I noticed just the other day, there was some dude, like, I can't remember what the context was, but I remember he kind of came into my zone and I thought, look at this fucking guy, man.
He's such an asshole, you know?
I could just tell.
You could just feel it, you know?
And then I thought, Woody, why are you...
You've got nothing that tells you that that's true, you know?
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
Other than maybe you're jealous because he's more handsome than you are.
But anyway, so I go, how you doing?
And he smiles, and I'm like, this guy's incredible, you know?
All you need to do sometimes is just...
Generate a smile on that other person who you think is an asshole's face, and suddenly they're a kid.
You're using your kid juice to interact.
joe rogan
Well, that's like the importance of charisma, right?
Because a person isn't exactly who they are.
They're who they are when they interact with you.
And however you interact with them will affect the way they interact with you.
It's a two-way street.
What sort of interactions?
woody harrelson
If they see a frown on your face, then inevitably there's a frown on their face.
joe rogan
Inevitably, yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
But smiles generate smiles.
And if you think about it, that is the easiest energy-generating thing, is another person's smile.
joe rogan
Sure.
woody harrelson
And getting you to smile.
joe rogan
And common ground.
And I think that's the problem with the media.
And with political ideologies is that there's no currency in common ground.
The currency is all in division.
That's where you can gain the most momentum, get the most people on your side.
You have to say the other people are the enemy.
Common ground is much more common.
Most people agree.
Most people want to be safe.
They want to be healthy.
They want to be happy.
They want to have friends.
They want to have a good time.
They want to have a nice family.
They want to be loved.
They want to have love.
That's most people.
And they think that the other people are trying to prevent that.
Instead of just accentuating those important factors and saying we should all concentrate on that, then we should all look at things that prevent that.
What are the things that prevent happiness and love and health?
Let's all work collectively together to eliminate those aspects of our society.
Yeah.
The problem is you don't make a lot of profit doing that.
You know?
The profit is in the division.
woody harrelson
The media does push the divide, for sure.
joe rogan
The media's bullshit.
First of all, they're dying.
They're dying like AM radio.
They're not gonna make it.
They're not gonna make it.
The internet is more compelling, and independent journalism is more accurate.
And it's gonna be more and more...
woody harrelson
Are you sure that's not a subjective vantage point, Joe?
joe rogan
It's certainly subjective.
Yeah, it's certainly subjective.
woody harrelson
All your vantage points are subjective.
joe rogan
Yes, everything's subjective.
It's definitely subjective.
But listen, I think there are very good people that work in journalism.
I think there are very good people that work at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even in CNN. I know them.
I know people that work at CNN, and I like them.
I know people that work at the New York Times, and I like them very much.
The problem is the institution.
And the institution is based on profit.
And where do you get your money?
Well, you get a lot of your money from pharmaceutical drug companies, from NGOs.
There's funding from all these different political groups.
That's the problem.
The problem is enormous entities that need incredible amounts of capital in order to stay relevant.
And in doing so, what's crazy is if you're in the information business, well, you can't be accurate.
You cannot be accurate about the distribution of information if your profits are based on you pushing a bullshit narrative because those are the people that are supporting you.
So therefore they're not going to make it.
It's like you see the writing on the wall.
It's like this is not tenable.
You're not going to be able to continue this.
You're going to either have to adjust course or you're going to be swallowed.
And that's what people – like people realize that now with the internet.
When you got people like Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger and Glenn Greenwald, respected journalists who are now on the outside.
And so now they've amassed this huge following on the outside because, you know...
If you go to Glenn Greenwald, he's going to tell you what's actually going on.
Why are we invading this?
Why are we bombing this country?
What is going on?
And he'll tell you it all goes back to 2013 when this was passed and this is what happened and they tried to do this and this is what we're trying to do because there's oil here or there's minerals there and you're like, oh, fuck.
But most people don't have the time to do that kind of a deep dive.
So you turn on CNN and CNN says, safe and effective.
Have you gotten your knife booster?
Get your knife booster!
The fucking anchors are blacking out on TV and it's like, wow!
They're in a trap.
They're in a trap.
First of all, they're in a trap because of the actual...
Format of the show sucks, right?
Format of television shows suck.
You have three talking heads yelling at each other five minutes before commercial.
Everyone's trying to get a sound bite that goes viral.
And then you cut to a commercial about antidepressants.
And then you come back.
You come back and there's a flood and there's fucking Detroit's frozen.
Do you see that shit in Detroit?
Well, they had a flood, and then it froze, and so you got cars, like, up to the fucking windshield, frozen solid in the streets, and car alarms going off.
woody harrelson
Oh, no, I haven't seen that.
joe rogan
Yeah, it happened yesterday.
There was some sort of a water main line broke, probably because of the cold, and then the streets flooded, and then the streets, when they flooded, then they froze, and so all these cars, like, literally up to the windshield, stuck, see if you can find it.
It's crazy to look at.
Like, look at this.
Entire streets.
Filled.
woody harrelson
Oh my god.
joe rogan
And if you watch a video of it, all the car alarms are going off.
So the car alarms are going off and all the cars are frozen.
Give me some...
Well, you can hear it if you put your microphone.
Yeah, put your headphones on.
Oh, that is wild, man.
So everybody's fucking car alarms going off because the car's getting crunched.
So the cars are getting disturbed, so they're getting crunched.
The cars think that people are breaking into them.
Minus 70 degrees.
As if Detroit doesn't have enough fucking problems!
Poor Detroit!
Crazy.
woody harrelson
Yeah, but Detroit's been doing so well lately.
It's really...
I went there not long ago.
joe rogan
They're making a comeback.
woody harrelson
It was phenomenal.
joe rogan
They're making a comeback.
woody harrelson
I'm like, wow, what a fun place.
joe rogan
Well, you know what?
woody harrelson
The artists kind of took it over, and it just became...
It's pretty groovy.
joe rogan
Artists and artisans and companies that are proud, like Shinola, that company.
woody harrelson
Yeah, that's my buddy, Tom Kartsotis.
unidentified
Oh, they're great.
woody harrelson
Do you know him?
joe rogan
No, I don't, but I bought their stuff.
woody harrelson
He's one of the great humans on this planet.
He started Shinola.
Yeah.
Shinola's a great company.
joe rogan
It's a great company.
woody harrelson
I have one of their laptop bags.
And he's an incredible guy.
joe rogan
They make awesome stuff.
They make great watches, great stuff, but made in Detroit, like, proudly.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
And they got the record player that he did with, you know, Mike...
Mike...
You know, the...
Mike White.
No.
joe rogan
Jack White?
woody harrelson
Jack White.
joe rogan
Oh.
woody harrelson
I knew that wasn't right.
unidentified
I couldn't.
woody harrelson
Mike White makes White Lotus.
Yeah, no.
Jack White.
Yeah.
And they also do vinyl.
They make all these vinyl.
unidentified
Oh, that's cool.
woody harrelson
Those guys do cool stuff, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, last time I was in Detroit, I did the Fox Theater, and I saw a lot of that, too.
A lot of, like, small shops and cool places, and, you know, because real estate's cheap.
So people are moving in, and artists are doing things, and it's fun.
It's like a little bit of a revival after they got fucked by the auto industry.
woody harrelson
Well, yeah, for sure.
joe rogan
More profiteering, right?
Sent all the fucking jobs to other countries because you can get people to work for slave labor.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
And now they're dealing with this incredible ice flood.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think that's a small, isolated area, but still pretty fucked.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
Oh, go fig.
joe rogan
Are you still in L.A.? Where do you live?
woody harrelson
Dude, I'm in Austin right here with you.
unidentified
Yeah, you are.
joe rogan
Where do you live, though?
Where do you spend most of your time?
woody harrelson
No, I live in Austin.
joe rogan
Oh, do you?
woody harrelson
I live in Austin.
joe rogan
I didn't know you lived here.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I live in the Drip.
joe rogan
Oh, nice.
Dripping Springs is great.
I love it out there.
That's a nice place.
That's a nice area.
woody harrelson
No, I'm determined you and I are going to have to hang out sometime socially.
joe rogan
Let's do it.
I would love to do that.
Let's do it.
unidentified
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, fuck yeah.
woody harrelson
Well, you don't feel just like you're back against the wall.
joe rogan
No, I love you, man.
Come on.
I'll hang out with you anytime.
unidentified
Great, great.
joe rogan
Call me at 2 o'clock in the morning.
We'll go meet you somewhere.
unidentified
I don't give a fuck.
woody harrelson
Okay, perfect.
joe rogan
I'll bring you down to my comedy club.
woody harrelson
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
Oh, right.
joe rogan
I bought a comedy club on 6th Street.
unidentified
What's it called?
joe rogan
Comedy Mothership.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I'd like to do that.
joe rogan
It's fun.
It's a great place.
My buddy Jimmy Dore is there this weekend, who's also great, and he's filming his comedy special there this weekend.
unidentified
Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah, Jimmy Dore is amazing.
He's another guy that's risen as an independent journalist.
He's a comedian, and he started his show basically just making fun of political things, and then during the pandemic got vaccine injured and really got kind of red-pilled and kind of became like the voice of truth and reason.
And, you know, another guy who's been completely outcast by supposedly progressive people for just telling the truth, the inconvenient truth.
woody harrelson
But I guess the progressives, are they now the conservatives?
We've got to change the term because progressives seem a lot less progressive.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I really felt quite, you know, during this whole thing.
I think they got co-opted.
I felt quite, yeah.
joe rogan
I think they got co-opted, and I think it was on purpose.
I think there was some very sophisticated psychological manipulation that was involved, and a lot of money was being spent in order to push some very specific narratives.
And they did a great job of it.
They did a great job of it, but we're finding out because of the Department of Government Efficiency that most of this was funded by our own tax dollars, which is really fucking crazy.
A lot of these NGOs that supported a lot of these crazy riots.
All these different things that were happening in our cities was really supported by our own tax dollars.
It was just a subversion of public discourse.
Instead of allowing people to figure out what's right and what's wrong, they pushed what they wanted you to say and anybody who deviated from that was canceled.
And because of the fact that before Elon bought Twitter, the left had complete total control over the narrative because they owned all the social media sites and they were in lockstep with the government.
So it was just a dark time for information, but a few brave people braved the storm, and one of them was Jimmy.
woody harrelson
Oh, that's good.
joe rogan
He's great.
You would love him.
woody harrelson
Shout out to him.
joe rogan
He's great.
woody harrelson
You know, I remember when the guy was...
Remember that guy?
I think they were in London, maybe, but it was the guy who was, I think, the...
He directed one portion of Pfizer and he met with some guy and he had a body cam.
The other guy had a body cam.
It was like a date on Tinder or something.
joe rogan
Oh, it was like one of those Project Veritas, James O'Keefe things.
woody harrelson
Did you not see it?
joe rogan
I'm sure I did.
woody harrelson
But this is the perfect example of how the Trusted News Initiative managed to...
A lot of news just never got to people because...
The guy had a body cam and is talking to him and the guy who works for Pfizer is saying they just had a meeting talking about how they could weaponize these other viruses in order to basically create another pandemic so that they would have the vaccine to address it and make more money, which is not a surprising thing that they would be discussing.
But what was great was he admitted it to the guy while they're sitting there at our little diner.
joe rogan
It's always chatty gay guys.
woody harrelson
No, but the main thing...
Huh?
joe rogan
It's always chatty gay guys.
It's always a guy on a date with another guy.
And it's like, I'll tell you what we're doing.
It's like they just chatted up and spilled the beans.
woody harrelson
But the incredible thing, like he got...
The stuff that he said was incredible.
Well, it was more incredible.
He told the guy, basically, that he'd been filming them.
The guy freaks out.
Anyway, this should have been across every possible platform of media.
joe rogan
Of course.
woody harrelson
And yet, you did not see it, zero, in mainstream media.
But, because Musk had bought...
Twitter, Musk put it on, and it immediately got 40 million views.
And also, what's his name?
Tucker Carlson put it on, and then there was a lot of views that way.
But other than that, but if you ask your average person, they never heard of this incident.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
It's like an amazing thing, talking about, what's the term for that?
The weaponization of a virus.
Do you know?
He's looking it up.
joe rogan
Term for the weaponization of a virus.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
unidentified
I don't know.
woody harrelson
Anyway, they do it.
But that's what they think that they were doing in China.
joe rogan
100%.
Well, that was why you would get banned off of all these social media platforms if you even brought that up.
I mean, it used to be if you brought that up on YouTube, you'd get pulled from YouTube.
Now it's a fact.
Now it's a fact.
Now it's an undeniable fact.
All the things, like you said about Robert Malone, all the things that he said, Everything.
Every single one of them.
The fact that the injection doesn't stay locally, that it infects various parts of your body in different ways.
If it gets to your heart, it's very dangerous, because your heart doesn't have the ability to heal, which is why you don't get heart cancer.
So your heart just scars over, and you get myocarditis.
He started talking about all these different effects, and he, personally, was vaccine injured.
So he was a guy who took it, almost had a fucking heart attack, was like, what is going on?
His whole body freaked out.
It was deadly sick.
Managed to get through it, then started speaking out against it, then started doing more research and finding out what was going on, and then that was the collective freakout.
woody harrelson
Well, it's incredible that so many people were injured, and yet it's still kind of not widely discussed.
I think people are discussing it.
joe rogan
More people are discussing it now, but it's still...
It's still—there's a lot of people that don't want to bring it up because they don't want the heat.
They saw what happened to people that did bring it up, and they don't want that coming their way.
It's still fresh in their memory, and they keep their mouth shut.
Yeah.
unidentified
But over time— Did you find out what it was called?
Biological warfare?
I don't know.
woody harrelson
No, no.
joe rogan
It's a term.
woody harrelson
It's a term for it, huh?
joe rogan
A term?
I don't know what the term is.
woody harrelson
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
It just—I don't know.
It's a crazy time in this world.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But crazy times are fun, too, because people snap out of it.
They pop through it.
They come out on the other side and they go, what the fuck was going on?
And then you have a reexamining of society.
And I think that's happening right now.
And I think that's a good thing.
As long as people keep their cool and they don't go tribal.
You can't go tribal.
You can't go us versus them.
They're the bad guys.
All those people with blue hair, those fucking pieces of shit.
No, they're sad, lost people.
That's what it is.
Sad, lost, angry people that think they have to lash out at the other for the problems that is really caused by gigantic corporations and the exchange of money.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
It always comes down.
Follow the money.
joe rogan
Follow that fucking cheese.
woody harrelson
Every time.
joe rogan
It's always the money.
And it's never enough.
It's a weird thing about us.
And again, I think part of the problem is this lack of methods to escape.
And I don't mean escape reality.
I mean to escape the fog, the fog of propaganda.
And that's – I mean that's literally why all that stuff was made illegal in 1970. Richard Nixon was trying to stop the anti-war effort in the civil rights movement.
That's why they turned the Schedule I – the sweeping Schedule I Prohibition Act of all psychedelic drugs.
That's what that was about.
It wasn't about protecting society.
If it was, they would have got rid of OxyContin.
They would have got rid of addictive painkillers and Vicodin, Percocets.
They never got rid of any of that stuff.
woody harrelson
They got rid of Big Macs, for that matter.
Oh, I know.
Listen, I know you're a meat guy.
You love meat.
But can we say Big Macs are not the greatest thing for you?
joe rogan
No, they're not great.
They're not great for you.
But I feel like you should be able to eat a Big Mac if you want to.
woody harrelson
Hey, you should be able to do anything if you want to.
I wouldn't care if you shot up right now.
joe rogan
But that's what I'm saying.
Don't get rid of Big Macs.
But don't eat them every day, you fucking idiot.
It's like I say about Doritos.
People are like, oh, we should get Doritos off.
No.
Doritos, as they are, are a perfect snack.
They're delicious.
But they're fucking terrible for you.
Just like cigarettes.
Just like whiskey.
They're terrible for you.
But in the moment, they're great.
The key is recover and then don't do it every day.
That's the key.
The key to all things is moderation.
unidentified
All things.
woody harrelson
I wish you'd have given me this speech like I was 20. You know?
It's some precipice after 21. I just started.
I became immoderate, you know?
In fact, I didn't even smoke pot until I was 21. I didn't smoke pot until I was 30. Oh, really?
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, I thought I was going to turn you into a loser.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
I bought into all of it.
I grew up with a lot of people that had drug problems.
And I wanted to succeed in life.
And my biggest fear was being a loser.
You know, just someone who just never got their shit together.
And I was like, well, anything that gets in the way of being successful and being healthy and happy, avoid that.
woody harrelson
And now, what at point did you say to yourself, I'm definitely not a loser?
There's no chance of me being a loser.
joe rogan
Oh, I don't know if you ever think...
I guess I think that now.
woody harrelson
Or do you sometimes doubt it and say, I'm a loser?
joe rogan
Well, I definitely think...
I'm very hypercritical.
Self-critical.
So I battle against that because I think that's something that anybody who strives to be successful battles against.
You always feel like you could do more.
But there's a balance.
Doing more and being happy.
Enjoying yourself but also accomplishing things you want to do.
Feeling fulfilled.
Having worthwhile goals.
Things that you think are valuable not just to you but valuable to other people.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And then do you feel like you've...
joe rogan
Yeah, I feel like that now.
Yeah, but I don't think about it, honestly, because I think if you think about it, then you get lost.
Then you get like, look how good I am.
You can get really lost in success, or you get intoxicated by that, too.
So I think you just got to kind of exist.
You got to kind of exist and not feed your insecurities, but also...
Don't feed any delusions of grandeur either.
You know, just be a person.
Just learn how to be a human being.
woody harrelson
But that's got to be hard for you, dude, because, I mean, you're at the tippy-top of the tippy-top.
And everybody's got to be kissing your ass and telling you how great you are.
It's got to be hard to not allow your ego to dictate things, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
I stomp my ego pretty good.
I do it with workouts.
I do it with martial arts.
I do it with cold plunging and saunas.
I put myself through voluntary adversity.
It's pretty fucking brutal.
And that's my best way to achieve homeostasis.
That's my best way to achieve a balance.
I put myself through way more than life ever gives me.
So that I'm always...
You know, I get it.
You know, you're always vulnerable.
You're always weak.
You're always late.
There's always something.
So as long as you confront that all the time, all the time and keep your mind healthy and balanced and have a healthy perspective.
You know, there's a lot of like...
New-agey sort of bullshit terms that unfortunately have been co-opted by silly people.
But a lot of those, like...
They're very important, like gratitude.
Gratitude is a really important quality that people should have.
Mindfulness is a really important quality that people should have.
But these things are co-opted by goofy people that wear wooden beads and want you to join their cult.
It's like they want you to think that they're special and they're particularly spiritual.
And so unfortunately, really good concepts.
Are often tainted by silly people, you know?
Like, love and God and a lot of the things that are really, like, beneficial to us as a society.
They get co-opted by goofy people.
Like, how many people have been turned off by religion by watching mega pastors in these huge churches flying around in private jets and driving in Rolls Royces?
Like, oh, well, this is all bullshit, you know?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
I had a couple of jokes.
Go ahead.
I mean, I'm curious.
I must know.
I must have heard you talk about this, but what is your concept of religious?
I mean, do you have a specific religion that you adhere to?
joe rogan
Not necessarily.
I'm not in favor of any restrictive religions.
I'm not in favor of any religions that punish people that don't follow them.
And I'm not in favor of any religions that force a very rigid structure on people that has to be adhered to or you're a sinner or cast out.
I think that most religious experience – I think most religion is based on human beings' very unique experiences that have provided enlightenment and they're trying to express that enlightenment to other people.
And I think the problem with religious stories are that people are full of shit, and a lot of those stories suck.
You know, a lot of those stories are probably distorted by the hand of man.
I'm of the school of thought that a lot of the religious experiences that people talk about were probably inspired by psychedelic experiences.
There's a great book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco Allegro.
Do you know about that book?
woody harrelson
I've heard of it, but I never read it.
joe rogan
It's a great book.
It's very hard to follow unless you understand Aramaic, unless you understand the translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
woody harrelson
I'm fluent in Aramaic.
joe rogan
Congratulations.
Are you really?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
I got Aramaic.
I got, obviously, French.
I had to learn Spanish when I was working construction in Houston.
And then, yeah, I got...
joe rogan
Can you hear him with that microphone?
I should push that microphone up.
woody harrelson
I got some of the click languages.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
woody harrelson
No, I only speak...
Only English.
Come on, Jay.
joe rogan
Well, the John Marco Lego book, he was an ordained minister, but he was one of the people that was assigned to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, and he did it over the course of, I think it was about 14 years.
And then he wrote this book because it was his belief, and he was a very straight-laced scholar.
He wasn't a psychedelic enthusiast, but he believed that the entire...
Christian religion was based on the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms and fertility rituals And he thinks that a lot of these stories that their origins come from that Really?
Yeah, and he believed that a lot of it was the Amanita muscaria mushroom, which is a very confusing mushroom because a lot of people have a hard time tripping on it.
Terrence McKenna believed that the problem was that the psychedelic compounds in it varied regionally and genetically, and that they weren't all the same, and that a lot of these people that were having these experiences were not.
It really depended upon where you get them from and how you got them and how you treated it.
And a lot of that information was lost.
And also, like, there's certain religious ceremonies that involved very mysterious things like Soma.
You know, Soma from the ancient Hindu texts.
They don't know what was in there.
They don't know what it was But it seems like it was some sort of a psychedelic compound whether it was a blue lotus and psilocybin Or a combination of many things, you know, like the illicit in mysteries where you know in ancient Greece They believed that that was ergot that ergot was mixed in with the wine ergot which is a very similar experience to LSD Oh, yeah There's a great book on that, too, if you've never read it.
It's called The Immortality Key by a scholar named Brian Murorescu, who's a brilliant guy who's been on the podcast a couple times.
But he's done a lot of, like, really legitimate work on...
Proving that these vessels, these wine containers that they had from these ancient times, they found trace elements of ergot in these wine vessels.
And they know that wine back then was not just fermented grapes.
They would add a bunch of things to the wine.
woody harrelson
A little party pleases.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So these experiences that people would have, they would go to Ulysses.
And I went there when I was in Greece a couple years ago.
And it's an amazing place, man.
When you're there, like, it feels weird.
You go to the place where they had these psychedelic rituals.
The place has a bizarre memory that you feel when you're there.
Because you can literally walk on the grounds where they had these rituals.
And you're there and you're like...
Whoa, this place feels wild.
My kids were like, what's wrong?
I'm like, I'm fine.
I'm weirded out by this place.
I feel it.
I feel a bizarre connection with this place.
It feels alive.
It's like it's humming or something.
It was very weird.
Very weird.
I was touching the rocks and just trying to feel like, what's going on here?
It's like thousands of years ago, these people were just tripping balls and inventing democracy right here at this very spot.
You know?
It's literally the roots of democracy.
woody harrelson
They had to be tripping to think of something so bold as democracy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, it is literally what we were talking about.
Like, if you want something that accentuates compassion and this sense of family and brotherhood and sisterhood, that we're all together in this thing, what better than psychedelic drugs?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's why they're illegal.
woody harrelson
Exactly.
joe rogan
It gets in the way of this us-versus-them narrative that is so prevalent in our goofy society that's detached from these sacred compounds.
woody harrelson
Yeah, the herb, you know, it really is a unifying thing.
I've always, from the first time I tried it, you know, I just felt such bond on me, you know.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Such compassion to everybody around me.
joe rogan
Yeah, it makes you kinder.
unidentified
Huh?
joe rogan
It makes you kinder.
woody harrelson
Makes you kinder.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's why they call it kind bud.
woody harrelson
Kind bud.
joe rogan
That's probably why they call it that.
woody harrelson
I have a little of the kind bud.
Yeah, no, I like the image of it as just a unifier, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And so that's what makes me wonder, why does Texas not just say, hey, let's open the doors to this?
It's not a bad thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You could have the best cafes in Austin.
joe rogan
I know.
Yeah, well, it's weird because there's certain weed here that's legal.
What is it, Delta 9?
Is that the legal stuff or Delta 8?
woody harrelson
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
joe rogan
It's weird.
It's weird because it's, like, pretty much just weed.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I never got into that stuff, though.
joe rogan
It's just a different version of the plant.
woody harrelson
But it doesn't get you high.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah, it does.
woody harrelson
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'll get you some.
woody harrelson
Oh, yeah.
I don't know what they're doing.
unidentified
I don't know what they're doing.
joe rogan
I don't know how they're doing it, but somehow or another, they're skirting around the rules and developing something that is basically the same.
woody harrelson
I'll get over to the Delta 9 Center.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's basically like Weed's twin sister that has different genetics.
I don't know.
I don't understand it.
woody harrelson
Now, I heard they're trying to...
Work out a thing where there's no more of those exceptions here.
joe rogan
Oh, well, that would suck.
woody harrelson
The legislature.
joe rogan
That's goofy.
I mean, there's plenty of things to concentrate on.
Why concentrate on that?
It's a dumb rule.
It's a dumb rule that's mostly enforced by people who don't know what the experience is.
They have a distorted idea what the experience is and they think it's just going to make people losers.
woody harrelson
Well, also it's being mandated from people with different kinds of, you know, desires and a lot of it financial.
But, you know, anything that does, you know, I consider a crime anything I do that hurts you or your property.
Otherwise, there's no crime.
joe rogan
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
And I think we got to get past that.
I think there's just a lot of people that recognize that.
What they did in the 1970s was very effective.
They threw water on the entire psychedelic movement and the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement, and they did it by banning a lot of these compounds that were changing the way people thought about life.
And, you know, like the whole peace, love and hippie movement of the 1960s was all inspired by psychedelic drugs, all of it.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
And it was a revolutionary, complete change of society from 1950 to 1960. I mean, 10 years, things became, the music and culture became almost unrecognizable.
It could change so radically.
And I think it was terrifying to the powers that be.
And unfortunately, the propaganda that they pushed, just like the propaganda that we saw during the COVID. It sticks around for a long time.
And unless you have viable representations of opposing narratives that are really effective, it's very hard for people to change their perspective on things without a personal experience.
woody harrelson
Right.
joe rogan
And most of these people that are, like, you know, straight-laced, you know, no-nonsense type folks, they don't want to smoke weed.
They want to ruin my brain.
You know, I've heard, like, legitimate scientists say, I would never want to interfere with the way my brain works.
Okay, do you drink coffee?
Shut the fuck up.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
Do you exercise?
What do you do?
unidentified
What do you do?
joe rogan
Do you eat good food?
There's a lot of things that change the way your brain works.
This is a dumb way to look.
woody harrelson
You really want your doctor looking healthy.
You don't want to walk in and see some obese, you know, having trouble breathing type of guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You know, it's going to give you your...
Advice.
joe rogan
Well, that was one of the most fascinating things about COVID. When I was talking to Dr. Peter Hotez, who's an overweight guy who eats junk food, and he's telling me everybody's got to get vaccinated.
unidentified
I'm like, are you healthy?
joe rogan
Like, are you healthy?
Because you don't see, do you work out?
Like, do you eat well?
Do you take vitamins?
No, no, no, no.
None of those things.
But you think that, like, chemicals.
The only way that you're going to get healthy is from a laboratory and an injection.
That doesn't seem real.
That seems crazy.
woody harrelson
Well, the whole notion is to bolster your immune system's response to this specific item, right?
But so if your immune system's strong, you really have nothing to fear.
If your immune system's weak, you have also a lot to fear by taking a vaccine that can...
With this recent one, it actually hurts the immune system.
It harms the immune system.
Especially with repeated doses.
At least old people should get vaccinated.
Should old people get vaccinated?
unidentified
I don't think so.
joe rogan
Yeah, I mean, the problem was also any sort of, I mean, this is Dr. Birx is now admitting this when she's being questioned, is that they stopped.
Any early treatments that weren't the vaccine and that they probably shouldn't have done that and that a lot of people could have been saved because of that.
And that's true.
And that's something that people need to – that's one of the best aspects of Bobby's book, Bobby Kennedy's book, The Real Anthony Fauci, is like understand like what pressures were put on these organizations to stifle and completely stop the prescription.
Use of a bunch of different things, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin.
Also, the studies that were done on vitamin D deficiencies and how that impacted immune systems and just sunlight, exercise, diet.
All those things play a critical factor in how well your immune system functions.
The idea that the only way your immune system functions at its peak is you've got to stick a fucking metal pin filled with a solution that gets plunged into your tissue.
That's the only way.
It's the only way, Woody.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
You've got to shove a fucking needle in your arm.
Like, what?
woody harrelson
But you make a great point because it's like, you know, why didn't we hear from America's doctor Fauci or the other representatives from the medical industry maybe eat less...
You know, sugar.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Maybe eat less fast food.
Maybe exercise.
There was no other directive.
unidentified
No.
woody harrelson
Take the vaccine.
That's the only directive.
joe rogan
They didn't want a fat shame, so they never told anybody to lose weight, which is one of the major comorbidities that affected people negatively.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
Bill Maher was on to that really early.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
joe rogan
Weird, weird times.
But again, I have hope.
woody harrelson
Yeah, me too, man.
In spite of everything, I have hope.
Because I believe in people generally.
You know, like there's people who in California and New York, they look at Texas as like, you know, this lost state.
You know what I mean?
Greatest people in the world.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Greatest, kindest, nicest people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
But you may not want to talk about certain subjects.
You know what I mean?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Just avoid those subjects.
You get along.
joe rogan
And even the subjects that you're supposed to avoid, why?
Why are we avoiding them?
woody harrelson
Well, I agree.
I'd like to talk about any subject.
I like a little healthy debate.
joe rogan
Also, I want to know why you think the way you think.
If you think totally different than me, I want to sit down with you.
And I want to give you all the room in the world to say what You think.
I want to know how you came to those conclusions.
I want to know what your childhood was like.
I want to know, like, what experiences have you had that led you to have these, like, concrete evaluations of the way society is that are so different than mine.
woody harrelson
That's a great compassionate vantage point.
That's what we really lacked.
joe rogan
Yeah, we need that.
You need to sit down with people that you don't agree with and find out.
And oftentimes they fall apart.
That's just the fascinating thing.
Give them enough room.
You just keep talking to them.
They fall apart.
One of the weirdest conversations I had on this podcast was talking to Dr. Sanjay Gupta from CNN. They sent him over here to fucking straighten me out.
And by the end of it, it was a very bizarre conversation.
By the end of it, he was essentially agreeing with me.
woody harrelson
I had heard that he didn't think you should necessarily vaccinate.
I thought he was a little more progressive on that.
joe rogan
Well, he's smart, but he's also working for CNN, and he's also a neurosurgeon.
So he's a bright guy.
He's just captured by the system, and that's part of the problem.
But there was a lot of things that didn't make any sense, like one of the ones where he wanted me to get vaccinated after I'd recovered from COVID. Shouldn't that be the reason I'm already vaccinated, basically?
Yeah.
Well, I'd recovered from COVID in three days.
It wasn't hard at all.
And that's when I got hit.
That's when everybody came after me.
It was because I was a bad example.
Because I was healthy.
And I was giving people bad information by telling them all the things that I took to get better.
Which is really weird.
And then they focused on this one thing, which was ivermectin.
I read a laundry list of stuff that I took.
IV vitamins, NAD, ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies.
I talked about all the different stuff that my doctor put me on.
And I was better in three days.
And then what did CNN do?
They turned my face yellow.
They put a filter on the video to make me look sick.
And they started talking about me taking horse paste, which is crazy.
They said I was taking a veterinary medicine.
woody harrelson
Yeah, the ivermectin?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
They're suddenly calling it that in spite of it treating, you know, millions of humans effectively.
unidentified
Millions.
joe rogan
Billions of prescriptions have been filled.
Billions.
Billions of times human beings have taken ivermectin.
woody harrelson
They have the guy who invented it in the statue at the WHO. I mean, that's why.
Because he invented ivermectin.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
He won the Nobel Prize.
woody harrelson
That was an interesting thing how they made...
These other drugs, you know, negative...
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
What was it?
joe rogan
Hydroxychloroquine.
woody harrelson
Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, which some legitimate doctors found to be effective, you know, suddenly you can't even bring it up.
And then you couldn't even get it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Like, suddenly they made it ungettable.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Well, you couldn't get it from Walgreens.
They wouldn't prescribe it for you.
Unless you had, like, some sort of a...
woody harrelson
Malaria or something.
joe rogan
Yeah, you'd have to have, or some sort of a parasite.
That's why, you know, they said it was a dewormer, because it was anti-parasitic.
But when I said it to Sanjay Gupta, I go, but yes, but it's also been shown to stop viral replication in vitro.
And I said, you know that, right?
And you can see there's this look on his face like, oh, shit.
Because that's a fact.
They've studied viral replication.
You use ivermectin petri dishes.
It stops viral replication.
It's a fact.
There's studies on this.
Also, it's like one of the most safe...
Drugs known to man.
It's like the safety profile is incredible.
And this idea that like Rolling Stones printing articles that people are having overdoses from Ivermectin and people can't get into the emergency room because of gunshot wounds.
They even showed a photograph of a bunch of people outside of an emergency room.
Wearing winter coats in August because it was a photograph of people waiting in line to get a flu shot.
It was a bullshit photograph that fucking Rolling Stone published.
This is so wild to watch because it's not just propaganda.
It's really shitty propaganda because there's not much truthful they can say that would go against this stuff.
So they have to just say it's horse dewormer.
You're a fool.
You're taking horse dewormer.
But what they didn't understand is at the time, They didn't understand the media landscape.
They thought they were still huge.
But they didn't understand, like, an average video on my show was like ten times bigger than their show.
It's just we weren't talking about it.
We weren't saying it.
So they still thought they were CNN. They were going to crush this rebellion against this one specific thing that you had to do, which was get vaccinated.
woody harrelson
Right.
joe rogan
Remember when Biden was on television and he was talking about the hurricane was coming?
unidentified
The most important thing when the hurricane is coming is get vaccinated.
Everything's harder if you're not vaccinated.
woody harrelson
Yeah, well, all that money they gave those guys.
joe rogan
They gave them a lot of money.
woody harrelson
They had to do something, a little payback.
joe rogan
It's wild, though.
It's going to affect their ability to make money in the future, that's for sure.
unidentified
Especially CNN. Yeah.
joe rogan
They all take a hit.
woody harrelson
Honestly, I won't miss these other organizations anymore.
joe rogan
I watch them every now and then.
woody harrelson
They lost my confidence.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yours and most people's.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
I think that's good.
I do.
I think that's just healthy.
That's the human mental immune system weeding out pathogens.
woody harrelson
Yeah, right.
That's true.
The media you take in can certainly be a pathogen.
joe rogan
Yeah, man, it is.
But again, there's a lot of cool shit out there.
You know, it's like you can concentrate on that or you can concentrate on how much cool music there is now, how much great comedy there is now, how many great movies there are now.
There's plenty of things to concentrate on.
It's like there's just the problem is there's a lot of people.
Their business is division.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
What's that song?
Politics and religion causing more division.
But it's really government and media causing more division.
joe rogan
It's really money.
If there was no money in politics and there was no money in pharmaceutical drugs and there was no money in war, we'd live in a much better place.
woody harrelson
Your lips to God's ears on that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's just we have to move closer to that somehow or another.
And whether Bobby Kennedy can help us along those lines and all these other people that are trying very hard to stomp out a lot of this bullshit that we've been experiencing for so long.
Hopefully.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
I mean, Bobby, I really hope he's able to do some good things because he's certainly a man on a mission and a man who cares deeply.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And I think really heroic how much he stood up for.
Things that he didn't need to talk about, you know, that didn't help him in any way.
He just took one arrow after the other over it.
You know, to me, even if he was wrong, which I don't think he was, then it's heroic to do that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, and he wasn't wrong.
The thing is, like, I was a victim of that propaganda, and I told him that when I met him and I had him on the show.
I said, I always thought you were a kook.
I had always heard.
I bought into it.
I just had this sort of cursory examination of what people were saying about you.
Like, oh, that guy doesn't believe in vaccines.
He's a nut.
He's some sort of an anti-science nut who's just a conspiracy theorist.
He's just like all these other nutty people.
And then I read his book, and I was like, okay, well, this book is real.
Why isn't he getting sued if it's not real?
If it's not real, why is he getting sued?
If all these things he's saying about Anthony Fauci during the AIDS crisis, if that's not true...
Why is he not getting sued?
I would sue the fuck out of him if he lied about me and said I was vaccinating foster kids with experimental drugs that were killing them.
I would sue you if that was not true.
Like, hey, you fucking liar.
I never did that.
This is a lie.
You can't prove it.
But it's not a lie.
woody harrelson
If it was a lie, he'd get sued.
Be in truth, they just ignored it.
But man, that is...
A heavy tome.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Oh, my God.
There's some info in there.
Just blew my mind.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Like the way Fauci was able to get these principal investigators from all these respectable colleges.
Put them on these committees and ended up saying, yeah, this is the vaccine we'll use.
We'll use AZT. He started with the AZT thing.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
woody harrelson
And, you know, AZT was known to be a highly toxic, really ineffective drug.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And, of course, but it...
That was the one they picked, and so they started using that again, and I don't know how many people that killed.
That killed friends of mine, you know?
AZT was very toxic, and they finally had to yank it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And now they use different chemical cocktails, but, like, Fauci did some extraordinarily evil shit, and he knows what he did.
joe rogan
He was the villain of the Dallas Buyers Club, that movie.
That was about...
People trying to seek alternative treatments to deal with AIDS. Oh, right, right.
woody harrelson
Yeah, that's Fauci.
Right, right, right.
joe rogan
That's AZT. Yeah, yeah.
Magic Johnson got on AZT and it was killing him and he got off of it.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
And he's still alive.
joe rogan
And he's still alive.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a bummer.
It's just a bummer that someone had that kind of power for so long.
It was such a fucking monster.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
Did you see that little meme that went around?
It was right after he got, first time anyone ever got pre-pardoned?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And he said, nothing says trust science like a blanket pre-pardon in a picture of Fauci.
joe rogan
Well, the problem with that pre-pardon is he's pre-pardoned federally, but he's not pre-pardoned statewide.
These states can still sue him.
Not only that, when you're pardoned, then you can no longer plead the fifth.
So you could be held for perjury.
So there's a lot of issues with being pardoned.
I don't think...
Biden took into consideration or Fauci took into consideration either.
I think they just, he just wanted anything to protect him because he knew it was coming.
He knew that they had, I mean, just the emails that were available that showed collusion, where they, he had gotten a hold of all these different researchers and changed their perspective on whether or not it was a lab leak.
Because through EcoHealth Alliance, they had funded gain-of-function research after Obama had...
woody harrelson
Gain-of-function!
That's what I was trying to think.
unidentified
Oh, that's what you're looking for.
woody harrelson
Okay, yeah, go ahead.
joe rogan
But gain-of-function is essentially taking...
woody harrelson
Weaponizing the virus.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
The idea is supposedly to study it, but if you're studying it and you don't have a fucking cure, You've been studying this shit for so long and you don't have a cure.
Like, what are you actually doing?
Well, you're doing weapons research.
You know, this is one of the things that Bobby's talked about with Lyme disease, you know, where they try to get him on Lyme disease, which is a very funny grilling.
They say, did you say that Lyme disease was a leaked bioweapon?
He goes, I probably did.
unidentified
He did.
joe rogan
Plum Island.
They were fucking researching whether or not they could infect bugs.
Fleas and ticks and then dump them on populations to overwhelm their medical system and to use it as a bioweapon so we can invade easier.
Yeah, they did that.
woody harrelson
We're the masters of war.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
But yeah, that's a funny way.
Good impersonation, by the way.
unidentified
It's not hard.
joe rogan
Unfortunately.
woody harrelson
Poor Bobby.
joe rogan
I mean, if really, science wanted to fix his fucking voice, man.
If that guy had his old voice, he'd be a lot more powerful.
It's like people dismiss him because his voice is hard.
It's hard to listen to sometimes.
woody harrelson
Yeah, and that condition he has, you would think there'd be some way to address it, but I don't know.
joe rogan
Well, he believes that condition came from the flu vaccine.
It's a side effect of flu vaccines.
He used to take a flu vaccine every year.
And so he developed this voice problem.
And he believes it's a vaccine injury, which is very ironic.
woody harrelson
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
Those fucking things don't work either.
Those things, and he's talked about that, like even if it protects you from that one flu, it makes you many more times more likely to catch other things.
We're fucking around with complex systems inside human bodies with pharmaceutical drugs that have been...
The way they've studied them is filled with shenanigans.
They might do 10 studies and one of them shows effectiveness because they've rigged the study in a certain way.
He explained to me that the reason why they could say it's 100% effective was because one person got it in the vaccine trial and two people got it in the placebo.
So that's 100%.
You know, yeah.
One is 100% better than two.
Like, what?
That's great.
No, that's not.
100% means nobody gets infected, you fucking assholes.
That should be a law.
That should be a crime to explain things like that.
I had this guy on who was...
He litigated against pharmaceutical drug companies, particularly against Vioxx, when they released this anti-inflammatory medication, Vioxx, and some...
50,000 to 60,000 people died from it.
A friend of mine got a stroke from Vioxx.
This guy was saying that when you hear peer-reviewed studies, when they do a vaccine study...
Or a pharmaceutical drug study, they don't even give the peer reviewers the raw data.
They give the peer reviewers the data as it's been interpreted by the scientists who work for the pharmaceutical drug companies.
So they review it and then they give their version of it to these other scientists who are already on the payroll.
They're all NIH funded.
Everybody's together.
Everybody's all in the loop.
Everybody's dependent upon whether or not they're going to receive grants and funding.
It's all based on Based on Fauci, and that's how you find out whether or not something is good or bad.
It's all rigged.
And when he was explaining, I'm like, that can't be real.
And he's explaining to us, showing us how it works.
It's corrupt.
It's fully, completely, totally corrupt.
And if anything Bobby can do, it's make sure that we have valid studies, valid, real, peer-reviewed studies on everything.
On everything that people are supposed to be taking.
Let's find out what the fuck is really good for you.
Because it's not like all pharmaceutical drugs are bad.
A lot of pharmaceutical drugs help people, save people's lives, enhance people's lives, cure diseases.
There's a lot of stuff that's great.
Let's find out what it is.
What's real and what's bad.
And why are you profiting off of shit that's killing people?
That shouldn't be so hard, would he?
woody harrelson
I'd vote for you, dude.
joe rogan
Oh, I don't want to run for nothing.
woody harrelson
No, I know.
It'd be a step down.
Why would you...
No, no, no.
Just a headache in your life.
But I'm just saying, I would vote for you.
Thanks.
joe rogan
That's terrifying.
woody harrelson
You want to have those days where you just have a lion.
You know what I mean?
Not getting up till maybe noon.
You can't have that if you were president.
You don't get one day like that.
joe rogan
No, unless you're Biden.
I think he slept a lot.
unidentified
He wasn't really the president.
woody harrelson
Maybe.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what's really wild.
I don't know, man.
Like I said, I'm encouraged.
And I also think things are going to get really weird with AI. I think with AI, and especially when AI gets attached to quantum computing, we're going to have an undeniable access to truth that's going to be very disconcerting to a lot of people.
We're going to have an understanding of the reality of the world that we live in that's going to be very undeniable.
And it's going to be strange.
And unfortunately, there's going to be a lot of propaganda that's with that, too, because, you know, a lot of AI is programmed by people.
So there'll be a battle of which AI is the most trusted and effective.
And then the real fear is that AI governs us, which is probably going to happen.
We're probably going to be more effective.
woody harrelson
The government so far has really been subpar.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I mean, I don't look at individual presidents, because I just look at, like, overall, the presidents have to bow down and kiss the ring, no matter who it is.
You're not getting in there.
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
So, you know, the last guy who didn't was probably John Kennedy.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
You know?
But certainly even a guy like Carter, who I love, you know, I consider the best, you know?
Everybody has to kiss the ring.
He didn't kiss it enough.
joe rogan
That's why they got rid of him.
woody harrelson
You know what he did?
He levied a windfall profits tax on the oil companies because they were gouging.
They were making so much profit, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Which happens all the time, you know, whether it be the oil companies or the vaccine companies or whatever.
These insane, you know, profits that are just...
They create some fear and then boom.
They make a lot of money.
But he was bold enough to lay this tax on them for their profit and that's what killed him.
There was no way he was getting another term after that.
And then it was after that that Oliver North was vital in helping to kill that rescue attempt with the helicopter.
joe rogan
And also the Contras versus the Sandinistas, the selling crack in Los Angeles in order to fund all that shit.
All that stuff was going on at the same time.
woody harrelson
Yeah, absolutely.
I totally believe that.
joe rogan
Oh, it's a fact.
I had Freeway Ricky Ross, the guy who went to jail for it, on the podcast a few times.
woody harrelson
Oh, was he the guy, the plane, he had the planes and he was flying in?
joe rogan
No, that was Gary Webb.
That was Gary Webb, the guy who was flying into Arkansas.
woody harrelson
Gary Webb, right.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
It's a character.
joe rogan
Oh, no, Barry Seale.
Gary Webb was the reporter who committed suicide.
Didn't he shoot himself in the head twice?
Yeah, that's right.
Barry Seale.
woody harrelson
Thank you, Jamie.
You'd think the first one would have slowed down the second bullet a little bit.
joe rogan
Yeah, a little bit.
woody harrelson
Right.
joe rogan
A little bit, yeah.
Yeah, he was one of the main whistleblowers about that.
Yeah, there's, um, it's assorted.
Horrible history.
But Freeway Ricky Ross was, unbeknownst to him, was selling cocaine, funding this war.
And he didn't even know what was going on until he went to jail.
He couldn't read.
Went to jail, became literate, and then became a lawyer in jail, and then figured out that they tried him on the three strikes rule incorrectly, got out of jail.
And yeah, now he runs weed dispensaries in California.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
He's a great guy.
woody harrelson
Where does he live?
joe rogan
In LA? He lives in LA, yeah.
woody harrelson
He's a great guy.
You've got to connect me to him.
I want to meet him.
joe rogan
You know Rick Ross the rapper?
He stole his name from Freeway Rick Ross.
Rick Ross was a famous street gangster.
This famous street coke dealer who was making millions of dollars a week and couldn't read.
He was a tennis player, a really good tennis player, who then used the discipline of being a tennis player to become a very disciplined drug dealer.
woody harrelson
Like Pfizer, disciplined drug dealer.
joe rogan
Yeah, and now he's out.
And a wonderful guy to talk to.
Fun guy.
Like, very happy, peaceful guy.
I mean, what a story.
Learned how to read in jail and then realized that they fucked him and then tried his own case and got out.
woody harrelson
Wow.
That's impressive.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Amazing.
Amazing.
woody harrelson
My daughter is a lawyer.
She's a public defender in Manhattan.
She loves it.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
That's cool.
woody harrelson
And so she's helping a lot of people who are at a kind of a pivotal point in their lives where it could just be.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
And they can't get her unless they have no money.
You know what I mean?
So they're already in dire straits.
And she just loves helping people, man.
joe rogan
That's beautiful.
woody harrelson
She's an incredible kid.
I'm so proud of her.
joe rogan
That's amazing.
That's a beautiful way to live your life.
woody harrelson
And I'm like, you're going to be a lawyer?
And then it's like, oh, a lawyer that makes no money.
Bravo.
Bravo.
joe rogan
Isn't it crazy?
We all think lawyers are all evil.
No, there's great lawyers.
My good friend Josh Dubin, he used to work for the Innocent Project.
Now he works with Ike Perlmutter.
We've had a bunch of podcasts where we've highlighted innocent people who were incarcerated.
And just through this podcast, we've got a bunch of people released.
woody harrelson
Dude, that's doing something great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I mean, he's amazing.
He's completely dedicated his life to wrongly incarcerated people.
woody harrelson
What's his name?
joe rogan
Josh Dubin.
woody harrelson
Where does he live?
joe rogan
Florida.
He was a New York guy.
I moved to Florida fairly recently.
woody harrelson
Wow.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Great guy.
Love him to death.
And does nothing but great work.
Just helping people.
Just constantly concentrating all these different cases where it's like, you know, corrupt DAs, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt judges.
It's like, you know, it's all over the place.
Like one of the guys that Biden pardoned was one of the people that was involved in that Kids for Cash where they were putting kids in detention centers just for profit.
woody harrelson
Oh.
joe rogan
Yeah, you know that story, right?
woody harrelson
I'm not.
No, I don't know.
joe rogan
There was a judge.
Was it Pennsylvania?
Yeah.
There was a judge in Pennsylvania that was making millions of dollars through putting kids in detention centers and ruining kids' lives, causing suicides, deaths, a downward spiral of their life, like wrongfully detaining them.
But how is he making...
woody harrelson
How is he getting a kickback?
joe rogan
He's getting kickbacks.
Getting kickbacks from private prisons.
woody harrelson
Oh, from private prisons?
joe rogan
Yeah, from private prisons, from prosecutors, from...
I mean, I don't know exactly who was funding it, but he was convicted.
And he's one of the guys Biden pardoned.
woody harrelson
Oh, really?
It's sick.
joe rogan
Biden pardoned like 8,000 people.
woody harrelson
Did he?
joe rogan
Yeah.
He pardoned more people than anybody, which generally I'm a fan of pardoning people.
I think most people are incarcerated for far too long.
I don't think it rehabilitates people.
I think it probably makes them more hardened criminals in most of the cases.
There's a few cases where people...
Decide to take a better path in jail and educate themselves and learn and come out a better person I've met a lot of those people and unfortunately I've met a lot of those people from Josh Dubin that were wrongly incarcerated and then came out these amazing Incredibly intelligent really well-read interesting people because they dedicated themselves to doing that while they were in jail because they realized like I did not commit this crime I'm forced into this situation What can I do to make better of my life while I'm here?
unidentified
Well, I'm gonna educate myself and I'm gonna come out a better person That's great By the way, I wouldn't mind a pre-pardon.
woody harrelson
You do whatever you want.
I got a pre-pardon, dude.
joe rogan
There's a lot of people that got pre-pardons.
They were like, how did Adam Schiff get a pre-pardon?
Why has Liz Cheney got a pre-pardon?
What did you do?
What did you do that you need a pardon?
woody harrelson
That's never happened before.
There's never been a pre-pardon.
joe rogan
No.
woody harrelson
How can you pardon someone if they haven't been convicted of something?
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of debate on the constitutionality of it, too, like whether or not that's even what the pardons were intended for.
And that was the thing during the 2020 election, like when Trump was leaving the office.
You know, there was talk about what if he pre-pardons his family?
That would be outrageous.
And all the Democrats were against it.
And then, of course, when Biden did it, everybody just shut up.
He pre-pardoned his son from 2000, what, 14 or something?
unidentified
11?
joe rogan
Oh, what a good guy.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
That was necessary.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
That was a pre-pardon?
unidentified
He was never charged.
woody harrelson
Seemed like a post-pardon at that point.
unidentified
He was about to be charged and he was never charged.
joe rogan
What was Gerald Ford going to be charged?
Watergate scandal.
Oh, Watergate.
Yeah.
That's another one.
The Watergate one's a weird one, too.
Because the lead guy was an intelligence agent who was all of a sudden a reporter.
jamie vernon
George W. Bush gave some to the Iran-Contra affair people.
joe rogan
Oh, what a good guy.
Casper Weinberger.
There you go.
Abraham Lincoln did.
In the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln preempted pardons, part of the broader strategy to maintain national unity.
Oh, okay.
Extended to Confederate sympathizers and soldiers.
Okay.
As an incentive to lay down arms and support the Union.
woody harrelson
Jimmy Carter for the Vietnam draft.
joe rogan
Yes.
Well, that was a good one.
unidentified
There's a few, but not, like, the same reasons.
joe rogan
I remember I was a kid.
I was living in San Francisco when the Vietnam War ended.
My parents were hippies.
We were living in, like, Haight-Ashbury, like, down near Lombard Street in the middle of, like, hippie San Francisco.
And I remember thinking, as a little kid, thinking, wow, finally the war's over.
I don't have to think about war anymore.
I'm like, people are going to learn from this.
I really believe that.
unidentified
You know?
woody harrelson
You are, because you're a hopeful person.
joe rogan
Also, I was 10. Yeah.
Or whatever I was.
woody harrelson
Most 10-year-olds, I guess, are pretty hopeful.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, you're terrified, because, you know, I had thought of the idea of being drafted.
Like, in eight years from now, can I be drafted and have to go and fight for some fucking insane war that makes no sense?
And if you don't, they put you in a cage?
Like, that was the reality of life in the 1960s when they had conscription.
That's scary shit, man.
You know, being forced to give up your life to go fight in some fucking insane war that makes sense.
It's probably about heroin.
Probably had a lot to do with heroin trade.
woody harrelson
Well, yeah, they say that that bombing in Laos was a lot of that on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
A lot of that had to do with that avenue for heroin there.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
On that Ho Chi Minh Trail.
joe rogan
Well, how about Afghanistan?
woody harrelson
Yeah, Afghanistan.
That can't be a coincidence.
Poppies there and poppies there.
joe rogan
Not only that, we were guarding poppy fields.
These farmers need to grow poppies.
This is how they make a living.
We've got to help them.
We've got to fight the Taliban.
It's 90-plus percent of the world's opium that's coming from this area.
Like, what?
woody harrelson
90%?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I think it's 94. I think it was 94% of the world's heroin was coming from Afghanistan while we were occupying Afghanistan.
woody harrelson
Really?
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
woody harrelson
And now where's it coming from?
joe rogan
Probably Afghanistan still.
woody harrelson
Now it's safe.
unidentified
It's secure.
joe rogan
I mean, the Taliban were the people that were against it, which is wild.
2021, Afghanistan produced more than 90% of the world's illicit heroin.
However, Myanmar has since surpassed Afghanistan.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Didn't Myanmar just have a giant coup?
Didn't they have a military takeover of Myanmar?
I think they did.
I'm pretty sure because...
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
unidentified
Burma.
woody harrelson
Maybe it's follow the drugs instead of follow the money.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Same thing, maybe.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Myanmar coup.
Just write coup.
Yeah, four years after the coup.
Atrocity crimes.
Four years after the coup, chaos reigns as Myanmar's military struggles.
Yeah, they're probably taking control.
I mean, if you've got a place where now they've taken over the heroin production of the world, and all of a sudden you have a military coup.
Shocking!
woody harrelson
Right.
joe rogan
Crazy.
woody harrelson
It does seem to follow along these routes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's just, it's too many things to concentrate on.
That's the problem.
And we're all getting inundated every day with terrible news from all over the world.
And on one side, it makes people more accountable because now you know all the terrible things that are going on all over the world.
But another thing, it's like it's unmanageable.
If you're one human being living in Austin, your phone is blowing up all day with atrocities that are happening all over the world.
You're like, what can I do?
What is life?
Everything's terrible.
Meanwhile, you go to the coffee shop.
Everybody's nice.
You go to the restaurant, say hi to everyone.
It's like my world seems pretty fucking normal.
But when you're inundated constantly, so you're in this constant state of anxiety and weirdness.
woody harrelson
I know it's not a good thing, but I think that's why I stay away from the media.
I don't read newspapers.
I just try to stay away because it's that toxifying element.
And granted...
It keeps me ignorant.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
But they do say ignorance is bliss, and I feel pretty blissful.
joe rogan
Well, as long as somebody's paying attention, I guess it's okay.
woody harrelson
Well, I mean, about some of these items we've been discussing, you know, I've actually studied this.
But there's other things that I just can't get hit every day with, like, 90 things that are...
It's so depressing, you know.
joe rogan
Do you go on social media at all?
woody harrelson
No.
I do have, you know, what's the Zuckerberg?
No.
joe rogan
Instagram?
woody harrelson
Instagram.
But because, you know, they make you, like, you have to give us all your information and access to your picture.
So I can't personally get on the Instagram, but if I have a picture, I have to get someone else to post the picture.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's probably healthier.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
Huh?
joe rogan
That's probably healthier.
woody harrelson
Yeah, yeah.
joe rogan
Than being on it all the time.
Because I know a lot of people that are on it all the time, and it makes them sick.
It's like radiation poisoning.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
Pretty much never on it.
joe rogan
That's good.
woody harrelson
But I should post more.
I post like once every six months or something.
But no, I don't know.
I'd rather have an alt to Instagram.
joe rogan
So how do you find out about...
woody harrelson
What do you think of a good alt?
joe rogan
An alt?
I don't know.
The problem is, well, X is what I use the most as far as like getting information, but...
Every now and then I'll go on and watch people argue and see, like, these toxic fights back and forth, and that puts me in a shitty mood.
And I'm like, God damn, why do people fucking treat each other like this?
Like, it's such a stupid way to communicate.
woody harrelson
Yeah, that is, it's so disheartening.
joe rogan
And it's also, it amplifies the worst aspects of our society, which is, like, shitty division.
It's like, shitty division is what gets a lot of clicks.
You know, partisan thoughts and attacking people, tribal thinking.
That's what gets the most clicks and that's what you see the most.
But there's enough exposing of actual legitimate corruption and information about what's actually going on in the world that I get out of there that it balances it out for me to the point where I'm willing to engage in it to a certain extent, but I don't do it at night.
And I don't do it when I think it's gonna, like, fuck me up before I go to bed.
I don't do it if there's anything I really have to concentrate on, because I don't want some new pathway to open up my mind where now I'm concerned about this.
woody harrelson
But you, you know, all of that adversity you face, do you feel like it actually increased your popularity?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, it definitely did.
During the COVID stuff, when they were trying to get me removed from Spotify, in that one month, I gained 2 million subscribers.
woody harrelson
Oh, really?
joe rogan
And the height of the attacks on me, the show got way bigger.
woody harrelson
So how many people listened to that Robert Malone show, would you say?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
Between Spotify, YouTube, and all the clips, fucking, who knows, hundreds of millions probably.
woody harrelson
Oh.
Great.
joe rogan
Yeah.
A good show that gets spread around like how many different eyeballs will see it.
I mean, it really depends on how profound the person's revelations are, like what they're talking about.
Like, you know, like the biggest one we ever did.
Well, some of the Elon.
Well, I think the biggest one we probably ever did was Bob Lazar.
Is that number one?
So the Bob Lazar one, you know, Bob Lazar is.
Bob Lazar is the guy that in 1989, he did an interview with George Knapp in Las Vegas, and he said he was working back-engineering UFOs for the government.
And he has this crazy fucking story about working at Area S4, Site 4, and Area 51 in the Nevada desert, which at that point in time, the government would deny that Area 51 even existed.
And he's like, no, I work out there, and I was working.
Back-engineering propulsion systems from crashed UFOs.
And he was explaining how these things work and explaining how it's in some sort of a gravity propulsion device that works completely different than any propulsion device that we've ever devised and that they're trying to back-engineer them.
They don't know how to do it.
So they keep bringing in new propulsion experts.
So he was a guy that...
Previously worked at Los Alamos Labs.
And then he gets a job.
And they're essentially throwing as much shit against the wall as possible, trying to see what sticks.
Like, can you figure this out?
And they're bringing in new people.
And he was brought in apparently after – allegedly after an accident where they tried to cut into the reactor and it exploded and people died.
And so they said, OK, well, that's not going to work.
Let's try another method, bring in some other people.
And he was one of the people they brought in.
And when you have top secret clearance, what happens is they tap all your phones.
They listen to you all the time.
He had this job where he couldn't tell his wife what he was doing.
So he would get this phone call saying that he has to fly out to Area 51 at like 11 p.m.
So he would go to the airport, fly out, and his wife was like, this motherfucker's cheating on me.
So she starts fucking her flight instructor.
She's got some flight instructor.
And so because his wife was having an affair and they knew it from the phone calls, they thought that he was going to be emotionally unstable, so they removed him from the project.
So he gets removed from the project and he says, well...
I'm telling my friends.
So he goes to tell his friends, like, this is what I was doing.
I was working on these fucking UFOs.
They have actual UFOs.
That's the one.
That thing on the desk right there, that's the recreation of what he called the sport model that they worked on that has this flying saucy that's behind the antlers.
woody harrelson
That's like the three.
joe rogan
The classic.
woody harrelson
It's like the Tesla 3. Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, the classic.
woody harrelson
The peppy little sport model.
joe rogan
Got it.
So he brings people out to watch.
He said on Wednesday, they have these flights and they test these things.
I'll take you guys out to the desert.
He took them out the desert.
He takes them a couple of times, then he gets arrested.
So he gets arrested and he says, they're going to fucking kill me.
I have to go public.
So he goes public and tells the whole story.
And so he does these series of interviews with George Knapp, who's an investigative reporter in Las Vegas.
And they become legendary.
He's told the same story for now, going on 40 years.
And it's an insane story.
woody harrelson
But he's still alive.
joe rogan
He's still alive.
Yeah, he did my podcast.
So he did the podcast, and I don't know what to think.
I don't know if he's telling the truth or not.
It's hard to know.
But he's told the same goddamn story for all these years, and he's obviously a brilliant guy.
He's obviously very literate in science, really understands what he's saying.
And many of the things that he said from that particular interview have been corroborated by other people, including his knowledge of Los Alamos Labs.
They tried to say he never worked there, but they found him on the employee roster.
And he knows the building.
He took people into the building.
He took George Knapp in there.
He knew the security guards.
He knew where to go, showing everybody around the place.
That's our biggest podcast ever because it's so fucking nuts.
There's an incredible – Jeremy Corbell did an incredible documentary called Bob Lazar, Area 51, and Flying Saucers.
And it's all about his experiences there.
And it's one of those things where you just – you don't know.
But it's – God, it's so weird.
It's like if this guy's telling the same goddamn story and then they have all these videos of these things that the go fast video and the FLIR video that the government's released that were covered in the New York Times and these crafts are exhibiting the same sort of behavior that he was explaining in 1989. Particularly in they fly like this but then when they want to go fast they rotate sideways and point whatever this gravity propulsion Whatever this thing is,
this generator, and they shoot this way, and take off.
And there's videos of these things doing this.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
40 years later.
woody harrelson
Unbelievable.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So that's the biggest video.
woody harrelson
I got a, yeah.
joe rogan
So that video on YouTube got 60 million views, and then on all the other platforms, who knows how many, and all the clips, it's probably hundreds of millions.
woody harrelson
Hmm.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Bizarre.
joe rogan
But it's one of those things where you don't want to think too much about it because it might be bullshit.
That's how I feel about the whole UFO thing.
woody harrelson
But what would be his point?
What's his motivation?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
woody harrelson
I don't see how it benefits him other than he's got now people calling him a wacko.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
woody harrelson
Which he didn't have before.
So what's the good of it?
joe rogan
Right.
woody harrelson
You always got to look at possible motivation.
joe rogan
Well, there's a lot of people that want to pretend to be special.
So they make up stories, so they make them special.
They make up encounters.
They make up abductions.
I've been abducted by aliens.
I'm a special person.
They took me aboard.
I have a message for humanity.
There's a lot of that.
There's a lot of delusions.
woody harrelson
That's a different thing.
unidentified
Right.
woody harrelson
I mean, a guy like that, I don't see his, you know, if that's what he actually did for a living, then I don't see why.
Why he would do that.
How he benefits.
joe rogan
Well, one of the more interesting stories is this guy.
This is Travis Walton.
This guy's got a little bobblehead.
Travis Walton was a guy...
I don't know if you ever saw that movie Fire in the Sky.
It was based on a bunch of loggers in Arizona.
And they saw this thing land.
And this guy, Travis Walton, gets out of the truck and goes to it and gets blasted by this...
Bolt of energy.
Collapses to the ground.
His buddies take off.
They're screaming in the car.
All these loggers are like, we've got to go back and get him.
We've got to go back and get him.
They turn around a mile later, go back.
He's gone.
He's gone for five days.
And then he shows up back in the town five days later with this fucking wild story of being abducted, taken aboard this craft.
They healed his body.
And then they communicated with him and then returned him.
And the thing about it is like all these experiences, these people talk about the exact same creatures.
They talk about the exact same entities, these things with big heads and large eyes and spindly bodies, and they're communicating telepathically.
It's like it's universal.
It's like over and over again.
It's a very similar story.
And the problem is if it happened to you, who the fuck is going to believe you?
It's a unique experience, a completely novel experience that only you have.
And then you have to go and try to make sense of it to other people that haven't experienced it, and they're going to think you're fucking crazy.
But if you have enough of these people that say the same story over and over and over again, which is if you read John Mack, he was a psychologist from Harvard that did a lot of hypnotic regression work with people that have had alien abductions.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I read that book.
joe rogan
It's a crazy book, right?
woody harrelson
I met him.
I met John Mack.
joe rogan
Did you really?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
When did you meet him?
woody harrelson
I met him on the campus at Harvard.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
woody harrelson
You know I went to Harvard, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
I mean, I had a great night and then went back home.
No, I only visited there a couple times.
joe rogan
Well, I know you play really good chess.
woody harrelson
I did play chess.
joe rogan
Magus Carlson told me.
I had Magnus Carlsen in a couple days ago.
He told me that you did one of his opening moves, that you did it for him.
And he was like, what the fuck is he doing?
He couldn't even figure out why you did that.
But he realized afterwards, oh, you're a really good chess player.
That was actually a legitimate move.
You did his opening, right?
woody harrelson
Well, yeah.
I did one time, I did an opening for the other guy.
What's his name?
Anyway, and I'm going to do this opening, and at the same time, I want to...
Tip over with my pinky, tip over the king.
Just as a joke, you know, because you tip over the king, the game's over, right?
So I did that, but then, and there was kind of a chuckle and everything, and picked it up, and then he's looking quite concerned.
Oh yeah, this was it.
unidentified
Look.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
I knocked it down, and then I pushed it.
Yeah, they slow it down.
You can see it.
But then I pushed the pawn, right?
Because I thought he said D4, right?
He didn't say D4. He said E4. So I'm looking at his face, and he had whispered it to me into my bad ear.
And I'm like, well...
Why do you got to whisper?
I'm going to make the move anyway.
joe rogan
Well, Magnus said you stuck around and you played a lot of people and he said you were really good.
woody harrelson
Oh, that's very nice.
joe rogan
Coming from him.
woody harrelson
Magnus Carlsen.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
He's the Mozart, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Fascinating guy.
He was here a couple days ago.
woody harrelson
Was he?
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I do admire him.
He's great.
And that whole thing, you know, that just happened with the jeans, like that was great.
Did you see it?
You know, he went to one of the big, I forget which tournament it was, but anyway, came in jeans.
And they're very strict, right?
And so they wouldn't allow him to play.
And then...
So he basically was going to end up sacrificing the day because he came in jeans, right?
He said, I just wasn't thinking about it, you know.
Well, so then he's just like, you know, you'll have to come back tomorrow.
You're a sacrifice for today.
He's like, you know what?
I won't be back tomorrow.
And then, boom, they changed the rules.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
woody harrelson
They changed it.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a stupid rule.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who gives a shit if you're wearing jeans?
woody harrelson
I know.
That doesn't make you a better or worse player.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's stupid.
Everybody should be able to have to play in their underwear.
That way you know they don't have any devices on them.
unidentified
Right.
woody harrelson
But they could have it in them, too.
joe rogan
They could, yeah.
woody harrelson
So maybe you've got to do erectile probing before.
This is full circle with the talking about the aliens.
But, you know, maybe you have to do something before.
joe rogan
Well, we got into very specific ways that people cheat.
It was pretty interesting.
He was talking to us about different ways that people have been busted cheating, different people signaling them in the room, moving to different parts of the room if they wanted the piece to move in a different area.
woody harrelson
Oh, I see.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
Yeah, because that one guy he said was cheating, he said he knew as soon as the move was made and then he walked out.
unidentified
Yeah.
woody harrelson
That was another time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
He'd just say...
There's no way this guy made this move.
No chance.
joe rogan
That was what was fascinating, that you could tell by the way a guy's playing that something was amiss.
That this is not inside of his capability.
He knew the way the guy played so well that you could tell that something was off.
Which is so crazy.
Which is, I'm not literate in chess, so I don't understand how you could do that, but I believe him.
Especially when you talk to him, like...
woody harrelson
Well, he's got a thumper in his sock or something.
You know, somebody's giving him a...
joe rogan
He thinks it's an earpiece.
woody harrelson
Looking on a computer and then...
joe rogan
He thinks it's an internal earpiece, like a very small, invisible earpiece.
woody harrelson
Is that what he thought?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what he thinks.
He thinks that one of the possible methods.
And then there was the anal beads.
People were talking about anal beads.
unidentified
Anal beads.
woody harrelson
It's like I don't want to thump her in his sock.
He just wants to go pure inside man.
joe rogan
Yeah, I guess it would like vibrate.
I guess you would do it like vibrate a certain amount of times first to indicate the letter and then a couple times to indicate the number.
That's where the piece would go.
woody harrelson
A little more is called in the rectal cavity.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
How long have you been playing chess?
woody harrelson
I started...
I mean, I started playing more probably like 10 years ago or maybe more than that.
I started playing Willie.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
woody harrelson
I started playing Willie all the time.
But then we'd switch over back to dominoes.
He crushes me in dominoes.
And then I was mostly winning chess.
And then toward the end of our...
He started switching to just, you know what, we'll just stay with the dominoes.
Such a hustler.
joe rogan
Such a hustler.
Yeah.
unidentified
I tried to interview him, but he's scared of COVID. Yeah.
joe rogan
He's an old guy, you know.
unidentified
I get it.
He's 92. Can't take a chance.
joe rogan
Getting infected.
You know.
A lot of old people, I got it.
I got the fear because it's like death is close to them.
It's just they're too vulnerable.
I get it.
I get why they got roped into it.
woody harrelson
Well, yeah, the fear of germs, yeah, that's...
joe rogan
That was the Neil Young thing, too.
That's why I gave Neil Young a pass.
I was like, I get it.
woody harrelson
A lot of people you still see wearing masks.
joe rogan
Oh, all the time.
Even in Austin.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
I see them driving their fucking car still with masks on.
woody harrelson
Yeah, alone in the car with the mask.
unidentified
Yeah, they're just sick.
woody harrelson
That always confuses me.
But, you know, like...
Fear is a fairly relentless occupation for some, and I don't know.
I just, you know, I studied the germ theory.
You know how it came to be the backbone of Western medicine, do you know?
joe rogan
The Rockefeller thing?
woody harrelson
Well, yeah, that came after this.
But yeah, the Rockefeller...
Pushed that whole narrative.
But it was before that, in the 18...
What was it?
1887 or something?
89, where Louis Pasteur stood before the French Academy of Science and said, I've realized the origin of all disease and it's the germ theory.
And he took credit for the germ theory, which of course had been around for centuries at that point.
But there was another guy named Antoine Béchamp who was actually a real genius, whereas Pasteur was a charlatan and basically stole all these good ideas that he never had from Antoine Béchamp, including how fermentation works.
How they had diseases in the grapes at the time.
So how to deal with that disease and also having to do with, you know, where they make the silk, like silkworms and stuff.
That also was another thing that Béchamp figured out.
And then, you know...
Pasteur, who was on the same committee, ends up reading these papers and basically kind of putting his own spin on it and getting credit for, you know, the fermentation, the soapworm, the wine thing.
You know, like each thing, he becomes more and more famous.
And until he's able to sit down in front of Napoleon in 1863, Napoleon III, he said, I will eliminate all disease.
I will eradicate all human disease.
He was an arrogant guy, and he was a complete fraud.
Isn't that a bummer?
And Pasteur believed the germ theory, obviously.
That's the theory that he pushed, right?
And then Beauchamp believed in the terrain theory.
Now, that's what I believe.
The terrain theory, the germ theory, obviously, a pathogen, a germ, a virus, whatever, lands in your...
Cornflakes are on your eyeball or whatever.
It gets inside you.
And then in this blank, pristine, blank slate environment, it causes damage, maybe sickness, and eventually death.
To me, I don't believe this theory as much as I do the terrain theory, which is that your health is dependent upon your internal biological terrain and your internal filthiness or cleanliness.
And so that's what I believe is where people's immune system gets messed up from what they're consuming.
And in a nutshell, that's why I believe in Beauchamp's theory as opposed to the germ theory.
And at least it's got to be both.
At the very least, it's got to be both.
joe rogan
I would imagine it's both.
I mean, we know for a fact that one of the main...
Factors in eliminating diseases in North America was when they started having hygiene and when they started having flowing water and sewage systems and that just having cleanliness.
I mean, most cities at the turn of the century were filled with filth.
I mean, during the smallpox epidemic, people lived Terrible.
They lived in filth when you had the various, like there's a bunch of different diseases that can be attributed to poor hygiene.
Poor hygiene, no access to antibiotics, no access to any kind of medicine.
And we all attribute that just to a disease broke out.
But why did the disease break out?
Well, the people who are living in filth, there was no running water.
They didn't have any sewage systems.
They didn't have...
They didn't have any sort of antibiotics, and including, like, when people talk about the Spanish flu, like, if the Spanish flu broke out today, we'd be fucked.
No, we wouldn't.
First of all, we have antibiotics now.
Spanish flu would be killed quickly.
The real factor was all these diseases that people were getting because of the infection that could be cured by antibiotics.
woody harrelson
I'm not a big antibiotics guy.
joe rogan
At all?
woody harrelson
No, I mean, I took them.
I took them one time.
I credit them with really having saved me.
joe rogan
Oh, they'll save you under certain conditions.
woody harrelson
Right, right.
If your immune system's shot and there's nothing else you can do to bolster your immune system...
In a short amount of time where whatever is happening is happening quickly.
joe rogan
But you're saying like ubiquitous use of antibiotics for everything.
woody harrelson
Yeah, where it's just like a Pez dispenser.
And it does affect your immune system adversely, especially continuous use of antibiotics.
joe rogan
It's also why we have MRSA. What?
MRSA. MRSA is medication-resistant staph infections.
woody harrelson
Right, right.
joe rogan
Okay.
I've had a bunch of friends who get that because that's one of the side effects.
One of the unfortunate aspects of jiu-jitsu is a lot of guys get staph infections.
If you're not clean, you're not taking care of it.
woody harrelson
Because of what?
joe rogan
Getting scratched and scraped up, and you're on the ground, dirty mats, people come in dirty, and you can get an infection.
I've had staph twice.
You get staff, ringworm, a bunch of different things that people normally get on the mat.
But there's ways to combat that in a healthy, organic way.
And one of the best ways is the use of...
There's a bunch of different oils, tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil, a bunch of oils that don't affect your skin biome in a negative way.
But what they do is they protect you from bad diseases.
There's a company called Defense Soap, and I always recommend it.
I don't have any affiliation with them.
My friend Guy Sacco runs the company, but he developed it because a bunch of wrestlers and grapplers were getting skin infections.
And so he developed natural remedies that don't affect your...
Because a lot of times, guys would take, like, antibiotic soap, and they would clean themselves with antibiotic soap.
The problem with that is it kills all your healthy flora, all the skin flora that's healthy.
That gets torched, too.
It's taking a blowtorch to, you know, like a small patch of weed so you could just pluck out.
And instead of doing that...
He developed a soap that uses all these natural organic remedies that, you know, doesn't affect you in a negative way at all.
It's the only soap I use.
I use that soap every day.
And it keeps your skin healthy and it doesn't fuck it up.
So there's ways around it.
The real way is to prevent it, though, because once you actually get staph, especially if it's aggressive, you've got to take antibiotics or you're fucked.
unidentified
Well...
joe rogan
It gets systemic.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
My friend's wife...
Oh, sorry, go ahead.
joe rogan
My friend, his friend's wife, rather, died of it.
She was trying to do it organically.
She was trying to, like, use herbal remedies, and she wound up dying of staph infection.
Because it gets systemic.
Yeah, it gets into your blood and goes into your whole body, and then you're fucked.
You really have to get on heavy, hardcore IV antibiotics for long stretches of time.
I've had friends that have huge scars on their body because they got a massive MRSA infection in their knees, and then they had to get it all, what?
Opened up.
They have to clean it out and they have to get them on IV antibiotics.
It's a fucking, it's a nightmare.
And it's one of the main reasons why people die after surgeries.
It happens after surgeries where people get MRSA infections.
woody harrelson
Hmm.
Yeah.
Well, Jesus.
joe rogan
Superbugs.
woody harrelson
Let's just stay healthy.
joe rogan
Yes.
Stay healthy, Woody.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Do you eat only vegetables?
Is that what you're talking about?
Like meat?
Are you a vegan?
woody harrelson
I'm a vegan.
joe rogan
Yeah?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
But, you know, I mean, I really, my real belief is in raw living food.
Because I feel like, you know, we talk a lot about you getting your protein or you getting your carbs or whatever.
I think the most important component of the food are the enzymes.
The enzymes being the life force of the food.
The enzymatic activities, your eyes blinking, your heart beating, those are enzymatic activities.
If it wasn't for enzymes, we couldn't do them.
Like, enzymes are highly important.
Anything you cook over 118 degrees for a minute, you destroy the enzymes and most of the nutritional value of the food.
And that's why I'm a believer in raw, living food.
And I just know from when I, you know, I've had lots of experiments for when I... I was doing it when I was eating a lot of cooked food.
You can really feel the difference.
There's no question about it supporting the energy of the body better than anything.
But meanwhile, I agree that it's very hard to avoid eating cooked food because it's delicious.
But to have as much raw as possible, that's my thing.
Try to get a lot of sprouts and microgreens and everything.
And then, you know, I also eat, you know, cooked food.
joe rogan
Do you take algae or anything?
Were you getting B vitamins?
Do you think?
woody harrelson
Yeah, I take...
I do take...
I take niacin.
I take...
I should take more of a comprehensive B vitamin probably.
But I do take reishi and I take ginseng every day.
joe rogan
So healthy mushrooms?
woody harrelson
Yeah, I believe in the healthy mushrooms.
joe rogan
I take all that stuff too.
woody harrelson
Yeah, there's a cool...
I've got to get on the regular medicinal mushrooms.
Those are crucial.
And especially brain repair, which is I think something I need.
joe rogan
I think we all do.
woody harrelson
We do fix those pathways that have been compromised.
joe rogan
Do you ever fuck around with nootropics?
Do you take any nootropics?
Like what?
Nootropics are essentially nutrients that contribute to cognitive function, building blocks for human neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, theanine, things along those lines.
woody harrelson
No, I don't do that, but I'm open-minded.
joe rogan
Yeah.
woody harrelson
I imagine Downey would know all about that stuff.
joe rogan
Yeah, I bet he would.
Yeah.
woody harrelson
He's really, really knowledgeable about that.
But you've studied this shit, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The thing about it is you could almost take stuff all day long because there's so many different things that could benefit you.
You'd have to have a fucking stack of shit in front of you all day long, which gets tiresome.
woody harrelson
Yeah, I mean, I much prefer, I mean, I think the best thing for restoring health, for if you're sick and you want to get better, is fasting.
Fasting is fantastic for you.
They've been doing it for thousands of years, and it just works.
joe rogan
It does.
woody harrelson
Because the congestion in the body is really what disease is.
It's congestion.
joe rogan
It's inflammation.
woody harrelson
But yeah, inflammation, you could call it that too.
Congestion begins in the colon.
And so you don't clean that out.
Issues.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Do you concern yourself?
Do you eat organic vegetables only?
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That's huge.
Because, I mean, I think, what is it, like 90-something percent of people tested have glyphosate in their system?
I was reading some study on fucking Girl Scout cookies.
Like how many, like they've done studies on Girl Scout cookies where they break them down and find out what's in them.
Holy shit.
They're fucking toxic as fuck.
Yeah, I'll send it to you, Jamie.
I sent it to my wife because she's trying to avoid Girl Scout cookies.
woody harrelson
You see the smiling face of the Girl Scout?
You can't imagine she's going to give you something bad.
joe rogan
Yeah, those little hustlers, they catch you at the grocery store.
I'll find this for you, Jamie.
There was this thing about...
Oh, here it is.
Different seed oils, all the different things in them.
Yeah, it's probably one of them.
What does it say here?
Thin mints being the worst offenders.
Five flavors of Girl Scout cookies contained...
Scroll up, back up, back up.
Contained levels of glyphosate and heavy metals above EPA water safety limits.
New investigation found 100% of tested Girl Scout cookies contained glyphosate.
100% controversial herbicide in Roundup.
88% contained toxic metals like arsenic, lead, and mercury.
Key finding, Thin Mints had the highest glyphosate levels at 111.07.
334 times what experts say is harmful.
Peanut butter patties had the highest heavy metal contamination with lead reaching 42.5 ppb and aluminum at 27,500 ppb ppm.
76% of cookies tested exceeded cadmium safety limits and 96% contained lead.
woody harrelson
That's wild.
joe rogan
Girl Scout USA, which sells 200 million boxes per year, $800 million in revenue, did not respond to researchers before publication.
I wonder why.
woody harrelson
They didn't respond.
joe rogan
I wonder why.
I wonder why they wouldn't chime in.
woody harrelson
Isn't that crazy?
See, there you go.
And by the way, you could replicate this same thing in so much of the American diet.
joe rogan
What does Girl Scout cookies have to say?
Girl Scout cookies are made with ingredients that adhere to food safety standards set by the FDA and other relevant authorities.
Oh, really?
Our trusted bakers remain committed to compliance with all food safety standards.
Maybe we should change the fucking food safety standards just because you're complying with bullshit standards.
woody harrelson
That's what I'm hoping is going to happen going forward.
joe rogan
I'm hoping too.
I think, you know, I don't know how much Bobby can affect things and what he actually can do, but I know what he's trying to do.
And one of the main things he's trying to do is this whole idea of this Maha movement, make America healthy again.
And that's possible.
This is something we could do.
woody harrelson
It'd be so nice, dude.
And, you know, not a lot of, you know, it could be relatively simple.
Just modification.
It doesn't have to be a revolution in one's diet.
But, like, you know, first thing I'd do is cut out Girl Scout cookies.
That's my first thing.
joe rogan
It's crazy that 100% of them have glyphosate.
Like, fucking A, man.
woody harrelson
Well, the glyphosate is just absolutely crazy.
We know how toxic and terrible it is, and we're still using it constantly.
joe rogan
And other countries aren't.
woody harrelson
In corporate or industrial farming.
It's just wrong.
I know you're into regenerative farming.
I think that's great.
But you see, over the long haul, the regenerative farmer gains.
He gains financially, and he gains in terms of the...
Soil not just turning to shit.
Well, you want some shit in your soil.
Okay, well, let's not get sidetracked.
But, yeah, like...
You know, it's a net gain in the end, so hopefully...
joe rogan
It's carbon neutral.
woody harrelson
Yeah.
joe rogan
Everyone's trying to reduce carbon.
Organic farms are carbon neutral because that's how nature intended animals to live.
That's how nature intended us to grow crops.
It's all supposed to be animals graze, manure, all this different stuff.
It helps.
It helps everything.
woody harrelson
You've got to think of the soil biome just as much as you have to think of your own biome.
joe rogan
Yeah, and it all works together.
God, there's people out there like Joel Salatin, who runs Polyface Farms, and Will Harris, who runs White Oak Pastures, who have educated these people and written books and gone on these tours and explained to people.
Will Harris, who's been on the podcast a couple of times, he spent 20 years changing his family farm, which was an industrial farm, into regenerative agriculture.
And you can see the difference in the soil.
We have two glass bottles of soil.
Soil out there, one from an industrial farm and one from his farm.
And his farm is dark and rich and filled with nutrients.
And the other one is just pale and dead and just covered in bullshit fucking chemicals.
woody harrelson
And meanwhile, that's the stuff that gets highly subsidized.
joe rogan
Yes.
woody harrelson
So, yeah, it's a catch-22.
If the real value, if the real expense of what happens to that soil were experienced by the American taxpayer, I think there'd be a revolt.
Well, you know, we're lazy people.
I'm a lazy bastard.
joe rogan
Well, the real problem is we have so many people that need food and that we're reliant upon factory farming right now to a large extent because there's...
Enormous populations of people that live in a place where they grow nothing.
Whether it's New York City or it's Los Angeles, urban environments, they need food constantly shipped into them and no one's growing anything.
And the population keeps booming and you've got to get these people food.
And we right now are dependent upon factory farming for a lot of that food.
woody harrelson
Well, I wonder if you could, through regenerative farming, cover it.
joe rogan
I wonder.
woody harrelson
Could that ultimately be...
joe rogan
Yeah, I wonder.
I think people are definitely going to have to change the way they eat.
woody harrelson
It has to change.
We at least have to change the way we farm because otherwise we're going to have just more desertification.
joe rogan
But at least people are aware of it now.
At least there's more information and more education about that today than has ever been before.
I mean, this was never a discussion when I was a kid.
I never heard anything about that.
It was just being done, and this is just you got food, and you didn't think about where it came from.
And then the term organic came around.
Like, what's that?
Like, it's no pesticides.
Like, what's a pesticide?
What's on the food?
You know, like, we didn't know.
And back then, there was no access to any information other than mainstream media.
So it was pretty easy for them to keep going on with these...
Practice this without, unless you went out and sought it out and went and found books or someone told you about a book, you didn't know.
You didn't get that information.
I think more people have that information now than ever before.
So that's one of the reasons why I'm hopeful.
And I think Bobby really does have an idea of how to do this.
And I hope he's successful.
woody harrelson
Yeah, me too.
joe rogan
Well, listen, brother, it's been great talking to you.
I really appreciated it.
I'm very happy to meet you.
I've enjoyed your work for so many years, so it's a pleasure to do this.
woody harrelson
Pleasure's all mine, dude.
I really am.
It's a privilege to be here with you.
Thank you for having me on.
joe rogan
My pleasure.
Let's break bread someday.
Have a good time.
I'd love to.
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I'll get your info and I'll give you my email.
joe rogan
Sounds good, brother.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for being here.
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