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Joe Rogan Experience #2284 - Ian Carroll
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joe rogan
Welcome.
unidentified
Dude.
joe rogan
Very nice to meet you.
ian carroll
Yeah, good to be here, man.
joe rogan
So, let's take, first of all, why do we love conspiracy so much?
Because I fucking love them.
ian carroll
Dude.
joe rogan
I love them.
I love finding out the dirty little tactics and secrets and how the government does things and what the fuck's really going on.
Why is it so exciting?
ian carroll
I think it's something like deep down in humanity.
It's like, we love storytelling.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And these days, conspiracy theories are like...
I mean, 10 years ago, conspiracy theories were fringe and they were problematic.
joe rogan
Tell me about it.
ian carroll
Right?
joe rogan
I was a conspiracy theorist way back in the day when you were a fucking nut.
ian carroll
Dude, you were a conspiracy theorist when I was not even here yet.
joe rogan
I was arguing with people about the moon landing on the radio before there was any podcasts.
ian carroll
I mean, maybe there's some of the mystery element, but the thing is that so many of them are, it's a knowledge.
It's a thirst for knowledge because some of them are total bullshit.
But some of them are clearly, there's something there.
unidentified
Clearly.
ian carroll
Right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And realistically, if you had the journalists of integrity from 19...
60s era alive today and they hadn't been bought out and shot in the head and whatever else happened.
joe rogan
Dude, I think even in the 60s they were compromised.
ian carroll
Well, they were getting bought out.
joe rogan
The big one is Woodward with the Watergate story.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Did you see Bill Murray when I had Bill Murray in here?
ian carroll
I haven't watched it yet, no.
joe rogan
Bob Woodward wrote Wired, which is about John Belushi.
Bill Murray read five pages of it and he said, holy shit, they framed Nixon.
He said the Bob Woodward story about Belushi was so full of shit.
It was so exaggerated and fake and just filled with nonsense.
He's like, John Belushi was a lightweight.
He goes, John Belushi would drink three beers and he'd be drunk.
He goes, he was probably the first speedball he ever took and he died from it.
Like this whole thing about him being this raving, drug-fueled maniac was totally fabricated.
ian carroll
It's a good example of how...
The mainstream narrative had Nixon as a crook.
And he's just one of many examples, right?
And when you really start to look into it, you realize, I mean, probably not the greatest guy, but what was the real story there?
What were they framing?
Why were they trying to get him out?
joe rogan
This is not a defense of Nixon.
Nixon was not a great guy.
But Tucker thinks that Nixon knew about...
Too much about the JFK assassination and wanted to talk about it.
And he started saying, I know who killed JFK. Yeah.
And he started yapping.
And they were like, let's get this motherfucker out of here.
And also, one of the terms that he had agreed to, to run for president, was Gerald Ford.
Who was on the fucking Warren Commission?
ian carroll
Bingo.
joe rogan
Gerald Ford as his VP. So Gerald Ford becomes the first ever non-elected president.
He slips in.
He becomes president for kind of a bullshit term.
ian carroll
Yep.
Does a whole bunch of war party things and just a whole bunch of bullshit.
joe rogan
And we decide that Nixon was the real problem with the country.
ian carroll
I mean, how often is it that they're allowing someone that they aren't sure about to get to president and they're sticking them with a VP that is their guy, right?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian carroll
Dick Cheney LBJ with JFK Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Mike Pence Mike Pence I don't know what the hell to think about Mike Pence Pence is like a preacher.
joe rogan
I think he was good to get the fucking religious people.
ian carroll
Super rhino, super like, yeah.
joe rogan
Weird guy.
ian carroll
But I mean, Trump is a weird guy too.
Like, who knows what's going on with Trump right now?
joe rogan
He's an animal.
He's the most fun ever.
ian carroll
I love Trump conspiracy theories because people get so riled up and it's so partisan and political, but within it, there's all this like juicy, Like, meat for thinking about, it's like not even conspiracy theories, it's just like his history.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
And especially with the Epstein stuff now and his history with Epstein, it just gets me so interested in, you'll never know the real story.
joe rogan
But here's the thing about theories and stuff.
There's so many things that are so weird that you would think, wait a minute, this can't be real, this is fake.
unidentified
Yup.
joe rogan
And then it's connected to real-life events in some sort of a way that you would think there's a conspiracy.
Like, here's one of my favorites is Little Baron Trump's...
ian carroll
Yeah, dude, I just got the book.
It just came in the mail.
unidentified
Insane!
ian carroll
Have you read it?
joe rogan
No!
ian carroll
Dude, I'm gonna read it.
I just got it.
joe rogan
I should buy it.
I should buy the book before it gets bought out.
ian carroll
I got it in a three-part series that has the Baron Trump one, and then the last president, and there's one other one.
joe rogan
And then how about the Wernher von Braun one about a guy named Elon that takes us to Mars?
I haven't read that one yet.
you know, Operation Paperclip and became the head of NASA.
ian carroll
Super occultist kind of stuff in there.
joe rogan
Right, right, it's a novel about a guy named Elon that takes us to Mars.
And even Elon saw that and he's like, is this real?
Like, you would think, there's no way.
ian carroll
I mean, simultaneous to us kind of getting like some version of UAP disclosure that implies time travel, which is like, Lord knows what that is.
But it's just so fun to speculate because it's like, How would we know?
joe rogan
Yeah, how would we know?
And the whole UAP thing, boy, you want to find a cauldron of bullshit.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's the cauldron.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Do you know who's got the best take on it?
Is Jacques Vallée.
I'm in the middle of- I've not seen a lot of his stuff.
My third book of his right now.
And it's, I'll tell you what it's called.
ian carroll
Yeah, I should read some.
joe rogan
He's the best.
ian carroll
Why do you say he's the best?
Like, what's your qualifier then?
joe rogan
I'm on this one, Confrontations, which is one of a three-part series of human interactions that have been documented with some sort of an invader from some other dimension or planet or whatever the fuck it is.
Is the most rational.
He's the most analytical.
He's the least likely to buy into horseshit, but not dismissive.
ian carroll
That's like the critical balance, right?
joe rogan
Yes.
Well, he's the guy that they modeled the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind after.
So he's been in this game since the 60s investigating these things.
ian carroll
And time in the game.
It counts for a ton.
It counts for so much.
And that's my greatest weakness in a lot of ways, among several, is that I'm just really new to the game, and so I'm constantly catching up on shit, and as stuff breaks, like Pambandi, for example, I have no history on who Pambandi is because I wasn't paying attention when Pambandi was in Florida.
And so I'm having to play catch-up on what was going on.
And the people that have been here for forever, like the Alex Joneses of this world, the Jacques Vallées, the people that watch things break live, you just get a different level of And then you get like the David Ikes that are like...
It's fucking reptiles, dude.
They're all reptiles.
David, have you seen David coming after me on Twitter recently?
joe rogan
He came after me, too.
Dude, it's so good.
unidentified
I love him.
joe rogan
I make fun of the reptile thing, and it's like, why won't you have me on?
ian carroll
I genuinely really appreciate it.
It's like a good time.
And it's like, maybe there are reptiles.
I don't know, man.
joe rogan
He went too far in time where there was no internet.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, he went too far.
ian carroll
It's so you get too certain of yourself, right?
You think you have the answers, and you just keep going.
joe rogan
A little bit of a grift with some of these folks.
I'm not saying necessarily him.
But it's a little bit of a grift.
ian carroll
Well, it's an easy temptation to fall into, especially with the internet.
Like, every single day, people in my position...
I mean, people in your position, too.
Like, we have the ability to just, like, I'm gonna get views and money if I drop deep down this grift.
But a lot of them are not...
Like, a lot of them, when you look into them, you realize, oh, there's, like, literally nothing there.
joe rogan
There's a bunch of stuff that's clickbait horseshit, for sure.
ian carroll
Or at least there's probably nothing there.
joe rogan
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ian carroll
The one that I just recently kind of was reminded of is, you know the story that Disney sent kids to Epstein Island?
joe rogan
Yeah, I did hear that.
ian carroll
Such a money conspiracy theory.
It's not true.
It's when you look it up, you realize that...
I mean, a lot of the information is kind of gone.
It's hard to even tell if it's legitimate websites and information, which is already a red flag.
But the ones that are still up, they just sent them into, like, they were going on cruises that happened to be in the vicinity of the island.
That's totally different than sending kids to the island.
joe rogan
Which is a very popular vacation destination.
ian carroll
And so it becomes this, like, and that's kind of the, I think that's the fun part of the game.
joe rogan
We thought about buying the island.
unidentified
Dude!
When the island was for sale, we talked about it for a second.
joe rogan
Let's put some of that Spotify money to use.
That would be funny.
ian carroll
I think they would have stopped you, dude.
I think someone would have stopped you.
joe rogan
100%.
Me?
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
I can't shut the fuck up.
ian carroll
Because there's shit underneath that island.
joe rogan
No doubt.
ian carroll
For sure, dude.
joe rogan
There's got to be something on that island that's incriminating.
And also, what's in the walls?
What's in the walls of the buildings?
Like, I would get into the wiring.
I'd bring in pros.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
I'd be like, tell me what the fuck's going on.
ian carroll
What's under the dirt?
joe rogan
I'd scan the fucking floors.
ian carroll
Yeah, LiDAR, the ocean floor, and the surrounding miles.
joe rogan
Also, he's dead.
So if he ever fucking hid some shit.
In there.
No one knows where it is.
ian carroll
Yep.
joe rogan
They're going to raise that building.
unidentified
He's probably dead.
ian carroll
I assume he's dead.
But there was so much shit around it that I don't feel 100% sure.
I feel like 95% sure that he's dead.
98% sure that he's dead.
joe rogan
Right.
I wouldn't go 100% either.
ian carroll
Yeah, right?
You know what I'm saying?
It's like there's very few things I feel 100% sure about.
joe rogan
But they did do an autopsy.
ian carroll
But they did an autopsy on JFK, too.
And it was not his body.
joe rogan
Well, sort of.
They did two autopsies.
Well, they did...
The initial examination of the body was in Dallas, and then they flew it to Bethesda.
The thing about that is, and this is a part of David Lifton's book, Best Evidence, which made me become a conspiracy theorist.
ian carroll
I've never read it.
joe rogan
It's fucking great.
And David Lifton, who is an accountant, they gave him, I forget what the project was, but it was something to do with the Warren Commission report.
This guy's like a serious bookworm.
He read the entire Warren Commission, which fucking nobody does.
And it's like 9,000 pages.
ian carroll
That's a superpower.
Being able to read like that?
joe rogan
Exactly.
And find contradictions over and over and over again.
He's like, this is horseshit.
This whole thing is horseshit.
And then he found out that Kennedy's brain was missing when it got all the way to Bethesda.
He found out that the Dallas doctors said that the neck wound was an entry wound.
And then the ones in Bethesda turned it in.
A tracheotomy hole.
It was a bullet hole.
He got shot.
You could see him go like that.
ian carroll
The garbage all over the place.
And then you could also see his face get blown off, and they published photos of him from the official autopsy where his face was visible.
joe rogan
I have a theory, and this is just mine.
ian carroll
Yeah, I'm really curious to hear yours.
joe rogan
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I think he got shot in the head at the same time from two different directions.
ian carroll
That's a good theory, honestly.
joe rogan
Because there's a bit of spray that goes forward, which is not...
Things are weird when you hit them with bullets.
People have shot people in the head and the bullets come out their eye.
It ricochets around a.22 or something like that.
Weird things happen when you shoot things, but some things are super consistent.
And one thing that's super consistent is when you hit something, it goes in the direction that you hit it, right?
So back and to the left.
Hicks used to talk about that all the time.
Back and to the left.
Making fun of the fact that the Zapruder film clearly showed that it wasn't a shot from the back.
But the head goes spray, too.
It goes spray like this back and to the left.
Can we see it?
Let's see it real quick.
ian carroll
Yeah, something I love about the JFK story is that there are so many deep experts that have really done the dig, and they don't all come to the same conclusions.
joe rogan
Here's the thing about Lifton's book.
He also documents how many witnesses were murdered.
And it's astounding.
ian carroll
That's the part that often gets left off, too.
joe rogan
All these witnesses, their cars got parked on railroad tracks, and they died of heart attacks when they were 30, and they got fucking shot in a robbery, and they committed suicide, gas, they fell asleep in their car.
ian carroll
Man, Hillary Clinton sure got started early.
joe rogan
Back into the left.
Watch this.
Watch the explosion.
ian carroll
Yeah, because he's already hitting the neck.
You're totally right.
It's like a cloud in the front, right?
joe rogan
I mean, it could be that the top of his head exploded right there, and the force drives him back.
There's another possibility, and the possibility is spontaneous nerve reaction of your body shutting down, which could cause you to go back into the left, even if you get shot in the front.
But the thing is, the spray...
Or if you get shot in the back rather, the spray looks like it's going forward.
We'll watch when he gets hit.
See that?
ian carroll
Yep.
It's just weird.
joe rogan
But the thing is, there's not a bullet hole on the other side.
So that could be just the opening of the head, and it's an explosion of blood that comes out.
Also, you have to realize, he's probably bleeding internally already.
He got shot in the neck.
So he gets shot here.
There's probably blood spraying all over the place inside of his head.
And then, boom, he gets shot in the front of his head.
But his head clearly goes back into the left.
Like, almost instant...
In a way that you would imagine if someone got hit like that.
Watch this again.
Boom, he gets hit.
ian carroll
Good catch on that frame.
joe rogan
And then back.
ian carroll
And it's all gone.
His face is just clearly open right there.
And it's clearly not a shot from behind.
joe rogan
It's definitely not a shot from behind because there's no entry wound in the back of his head.
And if you're saying that that thing hit the front of his head...
Or the side of his head from behind like that?
ian carroll
I feel like if there was a conspiracy theorist training course, the JFK assassination would be the perfect dry run training course to build it around because you have all the pieces.
You have a complex conspiracy with unknown actors from intelligence agencies and organized crime and maybe multiple governments and we don't know all that.
Then you have a complex cover-up that evolved over time.
You have researchers, you have bad information being fed in.
From outside, you have conspiracy theorists that are taking it in directions that are corroborable.
It's got all the things that you need to both learn how to dig into and learn how to watch out for.
It's a lot of fun.
joe rogan
Well, and also, people didn't really get serious about it until about 12 years after the assassination.
So when Geraldo Rivera has Dick Gregory on his show...
Oh, what is this?
Ooh!
ian carroll
Have you guys ever heard the theory that frames were taken out of the Zapruder film to make it look like the car never slowed down?
joe rogan
That's crazy.
ian carroll
That's bizarre.
The thing is, I don't know how to trust things like AI reconstructions of videos.
joe rogan
Let's just trust it, bro.
It's fine.
Boom!
Oh my goodness.
Dude, poor Jackie, man.
That is so crazy.
Oh my god, that's so crazy.
ian carroll
The theory about the driver shooting him, that's the one I've never bought, honestly.
joe rogan
No, no.
ian carroll
People always say the driver turned around and shot him and said, no.
joe rogan
I think that's one of those theories that probably the government created.
unidentified
That's one of those theories to make people look stupid.
ian carroll
There's an open piece of evidence of some kids that showed up covered in mud at a car shop that they worked at.
It was like a dry day.
They showed up covered in mud.
And there's a certain guy that theorized that they were hiding in a manhole and shot up at him out of the manhole.
And that the car slows down in real life.
And that witnesses saw the car slow down.
And that there's dropped frames from the Zapruder film.
And it's like these are these kind of theories where it's like it's like how do you dig into that and like prove that and the answer is you have to get to primary sources.
You have to get to like is there a police report for that kid showing up like is there is that location real like can you corroborate any of this.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
And the unfortunate truth is you could if you could fucking see the files that our government was hiding from us.
Theoretically, anyways.
joe rogan
They're supposed to be released soon.
Have some patience.
ian carroll
Dude, they're releasing tomorrow, Joe.
joe rogan
Can you...
Is that real?
ian carroll
No.
joe rogan
It's like every day's Christmas.
ian carroll
Yeah, for real.
joe rogan
Can you Google David Lifton witnesses of the JFK assassination odds?
Because he did some sort of a calculation of the odds of all these people dying the way they died.
ian carroll
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
And it's millions to one.
It's nuts.
ian carroll
That's a big part of what I do.
How likely is it that this is a coincidence?
Is it even possible?
joe rogan
Right.
That one's very unlikely, which means they were killing witnesses.
Someone was killing witnesses.
I think there was people shooting from the back and the front.
I think Lee Harvey Oswald...
People want to say it's one or zero.
I think Lee Harvey Oswald was in on it.
I think Lee Harvey Oswald probably didn't shoot the president, though.
But he might have.
He might have hit him in the back.
Because there was a shot in the back, too.
You know, the whole reason why they had to call this a tracheotomy is the same reason why they had to come up with a single bullet theory.
unidentified
Exactly.
joe rogan
Yeah, so you're deep in this.
ian carroll
Because you've got to explain it.
Well, I'm not...
joe rogan
Do you know about the ricochet underneath the overpass?
ian carroll
Yeah.
Yeah, like I'm deep enough to know the basics, but there's so many layers, and you have to read the books, you have to watch the films, you have to see the interviews.
unidentified
You've got to talk to Oliver Stone.
ian carroll
Exactly.
joe rogan
Oliver Stone just goes off.
ian carroll
And that's why I was curious to hear your takes, because you've actually talked to these people.
joe rogan
The best.
Because he's been studying this for fucking ever.
And he can tell you exactly what's going on with Dulles.
ian carroll
And he's not just been studying it forever.
He's been studying the actual primary source documents themselves.
And reading the real archives that are released.
joe rogan
And then...
There's a wild connection between Jolly West and Jack Ruby.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
Jolly West is crazy.
Have you read Chaos yet?
joe rogan
Yes.
ian carroll
Dude.
So I didn't know about Jolly until I read Chaos.
And then I started digging in, because I knew about MKUltra.
I'm like, I had been learning about MKUltra when I was a kid, like, doing psychedelics.
But I didn't really understand anything about that history or anything around the CIA back then.
joe rogan
They ran the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
And they closed it down after Chaos came out.
ian carroll
No way?
joe rogan
Yes way.
ian carroll
So just recently, huh?
joe rogan
The entire time they had been running this clinic.
It's not like they were running the clinic and they said, you know what, let's not run the clinic anymore.
ian carroll
Let's just give it to regular doctors.
70s are over.
It's over.
joe rogan
The peace and war bullshit, or peace and love bullshit, that's over.
unidentified
Yeah, one of the conspiracy theories that's coming out this week.
joe rogan
Really?
ian carroll
This week?
joe rogan
Tom O'Neill is my friend Greg's longtime friend and former neighbor.
Well, I think they're still neighbors.
But they were neighbors in New York and then they were neighbors in California.
ian carroll
That's a pretty cool neighbor.
joe rogan
Yeah, very cool neighbor.
But this guy's been working on this one fucking story for 20 years.
Can you imagine just pulling your hair out, just going crazy for 20 years?
ian carroll
No, I'm a generalist and I rely on people like that because I could never stay with something for that long.
joe rogan
No, he could have wrote...
He's written many other books on the exact same subject.
He can keep going.
Like, part two, more I know.
Part three, more I know.
ian carroll
He could have written a book about each of those sketchy dudes that he had questions about.
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
Each of those CIA guys, each of those weird doctors.
joe rogan
Well, each of those times.
How about each time that Manson got away with committing crimes?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian carroll
And the girls, too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And they're like, oh, it's above our pay grade.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
So they were paying people.
To do this.
They were giving the Manson family LSD and money.
They were allowing them to commit crimes.
And the whole idea was just to change the idea of what people thought of as hippies.
And to stop the anti-war movement.
And also to see what they can get away with.
ian carroll
I suspect they're...
I mean, to me, the big question is that seems like the first...
Like, for sure, that's going on, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
Is to co-opt the hippie...
I mean, first, the hippie movement probably was to co-opt the anti-war movement.
That was pretty buttoned up.
unidentified
Yes.
ian carroll
I suspect that...
LSD did not just escape the lab.
I suspect they were like, quick, turn all these kids into crazy hippies.
Like, try this out, try this out, try this out.
Really?
Yeah, so check this out.
Have you read Strange Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon?
joe rogan
I started to read it.
I have not finished it.
ian carroll
So, I mean, even just the first chapter, right?
So if you take that book's premise, it's basically that before the hippie movement...
There was a very powerful organized anti-war movement led by a bunch of Quakers, a bunch of black activists, a bunch of, like, my dad was one of them.
And it was not this hippie fringe thing.
It was a very powerful anti-Vietnam protest.
And the moment that LSD gets introduced, it becomes all peace and love.
And he points out in that book how all of these people, like Frank Zappa, like, lead members of The Doors, people organized the Monterey Pop Festival over and over and over.
Like, he probably has two to three dozen examples specifically he goes deep into.
They all just...
People just happen to move from wherever they are all over the world into this area in LA that is not a hotbed for music.
And they all just start making music about peace and love and doing LSD.
And all of them have parents that are from special forces, intelligence operations, Pentagon.
Like some of the musicians themselves have backgrounds that look exactly like CIA operatives that were doing like revolutions in Cuba and overseas.
joe rogan
Like who in specific?
ian carroll
Like the lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison, for example.
Frank Zappa.
So Frank Zappa's one where his dad and his mom were both Frank Zappa's dad worked at the base that was like the chemical weapons, like where they did their chemical weapons research.
His dad was a chemical weapons specialist in like top secret clearances, which is basically like when you read about what his dad was, it sounds a lot like what MKUltra would be.
It sounds a lot like what you would...
Drug experiments.
joe rogan
Chemical weapons is drug experiments?
ian carroll
Chemical is the wrong word.
Psychological operations.
But it's right there.
It's on his Wikipedia page.
It's not hard to find these things.
What that guy did...
I'm forgetting who wrote the book.
But what he did was not like find uncovered evidence that had never been uncovered.
He just looked at all these different people whose histories were very public.
But he put it all together and realized like that's a lot of people that all moved to this one place and all started producing music that was like all within this one thing.
Like Jim Morrison, his dad was the lead commander of the boat that was in the Gulf of Tonkin that started the Vietnam War.
That's like kind of a weird coincidence.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And you could definitely make the explanation that kids often rebel against their parents, Kids often step out of line and are like, like, fuck the old way.
But a lot of them were Ex-military, like directly ex-suits and ex-CIA. Was Morrison an ex-military man?
No, Morrison, I don't believe he was.
joe rogan
Why do you think that he looks like a CIA operative?
ian carroll
No, no, not Morrison.
I was saying Frank's...
joe rogan
But you said lead singer of the Doors, too.
ian carroll
No, that was just me giving examples.
The guy specifically that he said that had the history that was...
He was doing a...
What looked like color revolutions in Cuba.
Because I'm not super familiar with the music of that time, I might forget what band he was in.
It might have been the Mamas and the Papas.
There was a couple of guys in the Mamas and Papas that he did deep dives in.
joe rogan
But here's the question.
You can't...
You can't fake talent.
You know what I'm saying?
ian carroll
Well, a lot of them didn't write their own songs.
joe rogan
Yeah, but...
ian carroll
Jim Morrison was fucking good.
Oh, no, Jim.
Yeah, some of them were great.
joe rogan
Jim Morrison was fucking good.
unidentified
Some of them were great.
joe rogan
And Frank Zappa was great.
ian carroll
Crazy great.
joe rogan
But this is the thing.
It's like, you can't, like...
ian carroll
100%.
joe rogan
I don't think...
But here's the thing.
They could push people with talent that they also could use to further their agenda.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
And make those people more popular than they would be organically.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
And put a lot of emphasis behind it.
The reason why this tracks is because what Nixon did.
So with...
With the sweeping psychedelic act of 1970, they passed this.
They made mushrooms and all these different things illegal so that they could go after the civil rights activists and the anti-war activists and the Black Panthers.
ian carroll
They shut them all down.
joe rogan
They shut them all down.
Go after them for having these things that were societal disruptors.
It also makes fertile ground for COINTELPRO. When you have things like drugs and drug culture, like fertile ground for COINTELPREM. Well, this is the big thing about Jolly West and Manson is that Jolly West allegedly taught Manson how to use psychedelics and manipulate people.
And oftentimes when Manson was with the family, apparently he pretended to take LSD and they all took it.
And then he would manipulate them.
unidentified
And then he did like hypnotism and like weird speeches.
ian carroll
Like it really does look like and the thing is that I respect Tom O'Neill so much because he didn't try to claim things he couldn't prove.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
But he just put it all out there and is like, this is what I'm seeing and say, think what you think.
And it looks to me like like you're saying that Manson was either directly trained to practice these things and carry them out.
Or he was sort of like a patsy in the operation that they kind of like gave him the setting within which to just go along his megalomaniacal impulses and just kind of kept tabs on him and kept him safe and just kept him going.
I think he wasn't a part of it because of how effective he was.
joe rogan
They visited him in prison.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
This is why I think he's a part of it.
I think they've recognized in prison, like, look, you got two choices.
You could be in jail for the rest of your fucking life, or we can work for you.
We think you're brilliant.
We think you're an amazing mind of untapped talent.
And, you know, you pray to this narcissist ego, and you start telling him things, and the next thing you know, he's out there in the street working for you like a little hoe.
ian carroll
It's crazy how many people that wind up in these weird positions came out of, like...
You were in prison, then you got released, or you were in, like, trouble, and then you got...
And the girls, like, the girls, it's crazy.
Those girls, like, some of them had committed some minor crimes, but a lot of them were just regular people.
And then suddenly they become, like, absolute, like, murderers.
Like, dark, dark murders.
Those were...
Gross.
joe rogan
Well, I think mind control is real, right?
unidentified
100%.
joe rogan
I think hypnosis is real, acid is real, and then the techniques that they've developed over decades of fucking with people with these drugs, they know what to do.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
I mean, the dark thing that, I mean, we don't need to go into it because it's real dark.
But I think that when you study the MKUltra files, and this is where there's a lot of conspiracy theories that are hard to prove.
There's a bunch of witness victim testimony, but it's hard to prove.
Is the Monarch programs are an alleged program that never got disclosed.
And that's all the programs that are hidden behind child sexual abuse being a part of mind control.
Because a lot of the drugs, like, they can break people's minds and they can be involved in mind control.
But a lot of those papers talk about dissociative identity disorder as, like, the holy grail of that Manchurian candidate concept.
And it makes a lot of sense if you know how dissociative identity disorder works.
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
And that is most commonly associated with dark, grim childhood sexual abuse.
And then you get all these victim testimonies, hundreds and hundreds of people these days talking about how they were a part of these programs.
Like people that were on Epstein's Island that claimed to have been victimized as children and subjected to mind control experiments.
Paired with childhood sexual abuse.
joe rogan
It's just so hard to believe that people are that evil, but they have been throughout history.
This is why it's weird.
It's like we'll look back on the Victorian era or we'll look back on the man-boy love of the Socrates era.
We'll go, that's just back then.
ian carroll
We've evolved now.
joe rogan
We don't do that anymore.
But when they've identified specific aspects of traumatic past that they can use.
These particular victims of trauma, of childhood trauma, and take them and turn them into weapons.
That's so wild.
But that is an asset, right?
If you've got someone who's so fucking crazy, you could talk to them and get them to do things and give them acid and get them to Sirhan Sirhan levels or whatever the fuck they did to Jack Ruby.
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ian carroll
Yeah, I mean...
joe rogan
You get people to do things.
ian carroll
Break Jack Ruby's mind in an instant, like...
joe rogan
In jail, yeah.
ian carroll
And the craziest thing is that we've been living in a world where for all of our history until the internet, and really until recent internet history, they could do those things and just...
Not have anyone report on it.
Exactly.
And so no one would ever even know.
And I think that there's this feeling that the world is so dark right now because we're learning everything.
joe rogan
Exactly.
ian carroll
And I actually take the opposite view.
I think that the light is being shown and the world is super dark.
There's all kinds of crazy, horrible people, but there's all kinds of crazy good people, everything in between.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And you have to shine the light on it all before you can fix it.
joe rogan
Absolutely.
unidentified
Right?
joe rogan
And I think that's one of the more fascinating things about...
The fact that this is a weird time for uncovering federal corruption, right?
And I think they're in real trouble because I don't think they can use their phones.
I don't think they can do the things that they used to be able to do.
ian carroll
That's a good point.
joe rogan
And I don't think they're united.
I hadn't thought about that.
ian carroll
They're definitely not united.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
100%.
joe rogan
There's rats in that ship.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
There's rats in that ship.
And I think everybody's scared, and everybody's worried that people are wearing camera buttons.
ian carroll
It is the era of secret cameras, too.
joe rogan
And they're all selfish fucks, so they're all up for themselves.
So they probably demonstrated that all throughout these relationships they've had with other people, so nobody trusts anybody.
unidentified
Yep.
ian carroll
I mean, that's the nature of politics.
joe rogan
And you can't use your phone.
ian carroll
Nope.
joe rogan
You can't use your email.
You probably can't even talk with Alexa in the house.
ian carroll
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
I mean, I'm at the point where I'm starting to get...
I'm not literally that paranoid, but I've had some conversations in terms of people that want to leak a story, which I normally just avoid because I don't want to touch it.
But every now and then I'm like, let's go on a walk.
Because I don't want to hear what you have to say around any of this shit.
Because I know it's being recorded.
I know it can be listened to.
joe rogan
Do you have a crazy phone?
ian carroll
No, it's just an iPhone.
I'm aspiring to get one of the Eric Prince phones or something like that.
joe rogan
That's when you've reached the next level of conspiracy.
When you get a de-googled phone that doesn't have 5G, you'll use four.
ian carroll
But the way I look at it is, so I intentionally do all of my stuff.
I basically do open source.
I don't try to break news stories because it's way safer and it's way more interesting.
And I don't...
My goal is not to like...
To, like, know everything or to be some great journalist.
My goal is to inspire everybody else, like, to inspire the world to think a little more and to be more critical and to look it up for yourself.
joe rogan
Well, you're also serving a function, like, a service for people because what you're doing is you're taking all the time to find all this open stores and then putting it out there.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
And you're really thorough about it.
You say, this is what I know.
ian carroll
I try to be.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
You've also done this thing with your hand above your head.
People steal that now.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Have you noticed that?
Well, it's because TikTok's green screen.
ian carroll
One finger gets taken away.
TikTok will delete one finger if I'm pointing with one finger because it's a green screen app and so I'm using the camera and in my camera it's putting the thing behind me but it's cutting out me and if I only use one finger it cuts my whole hand away.
So I started doing this.
Just because the green screen when it's trying to AI analyze what is a body and what is the background it'll take away my hand as though it's the background.
unidentified
I haven't gone all the way to doing this at the screen yet.
joe rogan
But I see a lot of people that are doing exactly your way.
So that's why they're doing it.
ian carroll
I mean, to be fair, I've had a level of success that is unprecedented.
And people call me a controlled opposition because of it.
And it's like, whatever, dude.
Like, if I was in all of their seats, I would probably be like...
Where did this dude come from?
But at a certain point, it's like an intense level of suspicion.
joe rogan
You're talking to Captain Controlled Opposition over here.
ian carroll
I know, dude.
joe rogan
People think that I'm Controlled Opposition.
That whole term is funny because there's got to be real Controlled Opposition.
That's why it's a term.
ian carroll
Because it's a war, dude.
It's crazy out here.
joe rogan
It's a valid strategy.
But I think you could figure it out after a while.
ian carroll
Yeah, and for me, it's really interesting because...
And you know this too.
You've been in this game for forever.
Is when you actually get to meet people in real life, you learn things about them.
You get that vibe of them.
It's not impenetrable.
You can be fooled.
But how much can you fool?
And can you fool all your employees all the time?
Alex Jones is a great example.
People call him controlled opposition.
He's bought by the Jews.
He's bought by the commies.
And it's like, cool.
But I know all of his staff.
And I've hung out with them.
And you've known him over years and years.
Is he faking his entire life?
I've been on his show.
I've seen...
joe rogan
He was doing the exact same thing when no one was listening.
ian carroll
Exactly.
joe rogan
He was on the public radio.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Alex has been talking about this stuff since the 90s, and I've known him since 90...
unidentified
I guess I met him in 99?
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
I learned the other day that he started InfoWars.
He officially founded InfoWars when I was two years old or something like that.
It blew my brain.
It was like, what?
joe rogan
The first video of his that really woke me up...
Was the video he did on the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle when he showed that there was these groups of masked men who dressed in military uniforms with military issue shoes.
They all had the same shit on and they all ran around in this peaceful protest for the World Trade Organization and started smashing things and lighting things on fire and creating chaos which allowed the police to then move in.
Then these people All holed up in one house.
They negotiated with the police and they were all released.
ian carroll
Weird.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
Almost sounds like a few events of the last couple years, you know?
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, it sounds like Patriot Front, which just went under.
They went under the day after.
ian carroll
Yeah, you didn't know?
After USAID was cut?
joe rogan
No, right after Cash Patel gets in.
ian carroll
Okay.
joe rogan
Cash Patel gets in.
ian carroll
Let's go.
joe rogan
Pull that up.
Pull that up.
Let's go.
Because there's a video of Patriot Front and me and Matt Taibbi, I go, they're fat!
It's me yelling, where's the fat people?
They're all wearing the same uniform.
One guy's got a fucking drum.
Get the fuck out of here.
These are feds.
These are feds.
The day after Cash Patel gets in, they disband.
ian carroll
Funny how that...
I'm really interested in looking for...
Right now, with all these new people coming in, Cash and Pam and all the picks, RFK, I'm really enjoying the process of just trying to watch their actions and trying to figure out who's doing what and how much are they going to play.
play to the money and play to the people.
And it's just such a fascinating exercise in journalism of where do you kind of – and how much leeway do you give them?
How much grace do you give them?
Especially with the Epstein blackmail hanging as a cloud over the entire federal government.
I don't think that any of those three are blackmailed, but I don't feel confident that I know that they're not.
joe rogan
Let's look at it.
Here's a possibility other than blackmail.
Negotiation.
ian carroll
Well, that's always a factor.
joe rogan
But instead of blackmail, if you are a government and you have information on someone who is an asset – Or someone who's very wealthy.
And this person is a, hey, motherfucker.
Like, what are you doing?
You're at 26 times?
How about you shut the fuck up from here out?
No more Trump's Hitler.
ian carroll
Cut it out.
joe rogan
How about you say that we did a good job every now and again?
Give us a little credit.
Let's work something out here.
It's not necessarily blackmail as much as it's negotiation.
ian carroll
I would argue that's indistinguishable.
joe rogan
Right.
Unless you're getting money, too.
Like, you know, I know.
ian carroll
No, blackmail is just, I know something that you don't want out.
And any level of threatening that it'll get out, or, you know.
joe rogan
Okay, but what if it goes the other way?
What if the wealthy person contacts them?
And it says, listen, I can make things very good for you.
I can do this.
I can do that.
If I go to jail, this is not helping anybody.
ian carroll
Oh, 100%.
Yeah, yeah.
Reverse.
joe rogan
That's the opposite.
So that's bribery, I guess?
ian carroll
Kind of.
Yeah, that's deal-making.
But I think that a lot of Epstein's targets were willing.
I think that a lot of them...
Because I think that...
We're talking, it's not just Jeffrey Epstein, it's organized crime as a network.
Like, he's just an employee of organized crime.
And I think that a lot of those people are basically saying, yeah, I want into the club.
Because if you are like a Reid Hoffman, or allegedly, if you're one of those guys, and you want...
More contracts, or you want more deals.
Like, allegedly.
And, like, let's be clear.
Just because I say something on Joe's podcast does not mean that Joe fucking agrees with me, CNN. Thank you.
Because, like, I'm a crazy fucker.
And I got all kinds of theories about Epstein.
But, like, I think that a lot of them were willing.
Because I think a lot of them are...
I mean, if you're sick enough to rape a child, like, on Jeffrey Epstein's island, you're sick enough to want into that club.
joe rogan
Well, for sure, throughout history, there have been pedophiles.
That's a fact.
For sure, some pedophiles get to prominent positions of power.
That's a fact, right?
ian carroll
And the traits that do the same, like...
joe rogan
Jimmy Savile in fucking England, like that one.
That should put it out to bed for anybody.
ian carroll
Prince Andrew, Bill Gates.
joe rogan
Sandusky.
ian carroll
Allegedly.
joe rogan
I don't know about him.
I never heard that.
But Sandusky I've heard.
ian carroll
You never heard about Bill Gates?
joe rogan
I didn't know he was in the kids.
ian carroll
Oh, dude.
I mean, he's one of Epstein's closest confidants.
joe rogan
Here's the thing about the Epstein thing.
Weren't they...
Were they all underage?
ian carroll
No, not at all.
No, it's very complex.
joe rogan
So some of them were in their 20s.
Like one girl who was complaining, or I shouldn't say complaining, that's very mild.
One girl who alleging that she was 20 at the time, she was saying.
So just because someone has been to the island and has been compromised.
Right.
Doesn't necessarily mean that they've been compromised with underage people.
But I think there's a specific group that wants underage people.
ian carroll
Oh, 100%.
joe rogan
Right.
And the reason why I say this is not a conspiracy theory.
It has been that way throughout history.
All of history.
There are many, many, many conspiracies that have been uncovered and criminal investigations have found that people were trafficking children.
It's been done.
So this is not like vampires.
ian carroll
No, no.
joe rogan
We're not talking about werewolves.
ian carroll
Child trafficking, like, child trafficking rings get exposed and brought down around the world relatively frequently, like at least once a year.
But they usually don't make big news because they're usually not like Epstein.
joe rogan
We know there are pedophiles.
That's a real thing.
We know there are psychos who get Look, there's people that drink rhino horn tea.
ian carroll
Exactly.
joe rogan
Why do they drink rhino horn tea?
Because the rhino is so endangered, it's so gangster.
It's just the elite experience.
unidentified
Exactly.
ian carroll
The elite experience.
And what you're talking about is this, it's such an important concept, is that some people, like, if you wanted to pay for an underage prostitute, people can, you can pay for that.
There are people, there are women that would be prostitutes underage.
The people that...
We're talking about in the Epstein files that were...
That wanted underage girls specifically because they weren't all underage.
Some of them wanted overage girls.
Some of them were just scientists.
They weren't all compromised.
But the ones that wanted underage girls, they specifically want what they couldn't have.
Because if you wanted sex that you're allowed to have, you just wanted a young girl, you could just go pay for that.
What Epstein was doing is he was recruiting girls that were from like American families and kind of tricking them and coercing them.
Like they wanted a girl that they wanted the experience of coercing.
Some of these people, not all of them, want the experience.
I am doing this to a girl that I am coercing, I am manipulating, or I'm just straight up being physically violent to to get this thing.
Because if you wanted a willing 16 year old, those do exist.
joe rogan
High-profile people.
And, you know, Eric Weinstein was highlighting this to me once.
He was saying...
ian carroll
Smart dude.
joe rogan
I like him.
Very smart dude.
And he wasn't making any accusations at all, but he was just talking overall.
He goes, I think there are people out there that can facilitate experiences for discreet clients.
And it's very valuable.
Like, look at the guy who gave Epstein that house in Manhattan.
ian carroll
You mean Leslie Wexner?
joe rogan
Yeah, the guy from Victoria's Secret.
He gave him a $60 million mansion.
ian carroll
He did way more than that.
He signed his entire power of attorney to him.
joe rogan
You're so cool.
I'm going to give you a house.
ian carroll
No, he gave him the keys to the entire castle of all of Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie& Fitch and all of Elle Brands.
joe rogan
When you find out that people who worked at Nickelodeon are pedophiles, you go, oh.
ian carroll
Foot fetishist, no less.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
If you're going to be a pedophile, wouldn't you go be around kids, like if you could be, and sneak around?
Okay, wouldn't you think that Sacha Baron Cohen thought he had exposed Pedophile Ring while filming Who is America?
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
I forgot about that.
The concierge said they can do something.
unidentified
If you want that, we can help you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
Yeah, things happen out.
It's kind of crazy.
Do you remember Andrew Breitbart got killed?
I do remember that.
joe rogan
But he had a heart attack.
ian carroll
Exactly.
He was exposing Acorn because...
So how...
Oh man, I'm totally blanking on our boy these days that does all the...
O'Keefe?
James O'Keefe?
You know that James O'Keefe got his start with Breitbart on that story exposing Acorn and what they did is they sent James O'Keefe and this other female reporter into Acorn.
joe rogan
And O'Keefe pretended to be a pimp.
ian carroll
Well, they asked them for help setting up an underage sex trafficking ring.
And the people at Acorn...
joe rogan
I didn't know it was underage.
ian carroll
Yeah, yeah.
They wanted help setting up an underage sex trafficking ring using children from Guatemala or from Central America.
joe rogan
Did they say that in the meeting?
ian carroll
Yeah, yeah.
That was what was on tape.
unidentified
What?
ian carroll
Yeah.
It blew my mind when I read it.
I was like, what are we talking about right now?
Because I didn't know that history because I wasn't paying attention back then.
And that is the story, is that he went in and asked for help setting up a...
I don't think he was probably using the words five-year-olds, ten-year-olds.
I assume that he was implying 16-year-olds, but I don't know.
But that's the story.
joe rogan
How did he phrase it?
ian carroll
I don't know.
I mean, I can't find those videos anymore.
I've looked.
Really?
I'm sure they're somewhere, and I'm sure that James O'Keefe could tell the story.
joe rogan
What happened with him and Project Veritas?
ian carroll
I don't know.
I have no idea.
And it's a whole drama fest, and I try to stay, I mean, I usually try to stay out of the drama in the modern industry, because it's like, it'll just waste your time.
joe rogan
The conspiracy drama.
There's drama inside the drama industry.
ian carroll
There's drama in every industry, dude.
joe rogan
There's drama in the drama class.
ian carroll
But yeah, he went in and asked for help setting up this ring and they allegedly said, yeah, here's how you do it.
We'll help you, we'll help you, we'll help you.
And that's what the case they brought against Acorn was before Andrew Breitbart mysteriously died.
And then the coroner that did his autopsy mysteriously died.
It's like...
That was such a weird one to stumble upon because I didn't know I was about to stumble upon it.
Yeah, and people can look.
I mean, everyone should look up anything that I say always.
People should always just look it up and just start typing things in that I'm saying and see if you can figure it out and what you think.
Because I am not an expert.
I'm just a dude that is looking things up.
And I try to be really thorough.
joe rogan
Wasn't Breitbart or Drudge that was the first victim of these coordinated anti-advertising campaigns?
ian carroll
I'm not sure I know what you mean by that.
Oh, like where advertisers all pull out to try to tank you, like what they tried to do to Elon?
joe rogan
Exactly.
ian carroll
I don't know.
joe rogan
They do it strategically.
ian carroll
I think it was done to both, probably, but I don't know.
joe rogan
But I think the first one, the first one that they did it on, I think it was Breitbart.
I think Breitbart was on this super rapid upward trajectory, and they just completely tanked the revenue.
Was it Breitbart or is it...
Do you remember, Jamie?
Who was talking to us about that the other day?
Was it Chase Hughes?
Who was it?
It might have been...
ian carroll
It is interesting how you can watch out over history.
The more history you learn, the more you get to see where certain strategies, kind of like deep state strategies, so to speak, or intelligence agency strategies, get invented.
And then they start using them.
joe rogan
Might have been Mike Benz.
ian carroll
That would be a Mike Benz thing to say, for sure.
joe rogan
I can see that.
ian carroll
He knows his shit.
Yeah, he knows a lot of shit.
joe rogan
Okay.
Breitbart lost 90% of its advertisers in two months.
That's what it is.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Who's still there?
So this is the Washington Post making it seem like this is a normal thing.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, look, they lost all their advertising.
ian carroll
Media frame jobs.
joe rogan
People pulled out because they're full of shit.
ian carroll
It's just another frame game.
joe rogan
No, they all coordinated to try to boycott them and kill them.
ian carroll
It's so crazy to have all of these tactics exposed in plain view now, and they still keep trying them.
Did you see the thing that's going around today of the 22 different mainstream news sites all parroting the exact same thing?
joe rogan
Well, not just that.
All the congresspeople.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Did you see that?
They're all saying the exact same thing.
ian carroll
Yeah, I guess it's congresspeople, not news anchors.
It's just that now everyone is a...
joe rogan
It's fucking Pelosi and Schumer and all these different people.
There's 12 of them now that they've got.
Saying the exact same script.
ian carroll
Oh, it's more than 12. Alex Jones had a full 22 on his show, so they kept adding to it.
At first, it was two of them.
They're so dumb!
They all read the same script!
joe rogan
They're so dumb!
ian carroll
But they use a different tone of voice.
joe rogan
Well, they give their own spin on it because they're performers.
ian carroll
It's wild.
joe rogan
I've got to have my own creative control.
ian carroll
Yeah.
But then you get into the people that are like, the whole world's a stage, trust the plan, Q's in control, and it's like, whoa, dude, calm down.
joe rogan
Yeah, you've gone too far.
Well, then when you see that documentary on Q, you realize what kind of people you're dealing with.
ian carroll
Which documentary?
unidentified
Did you see Into the Storm?
ian carroll
The one that had the really cool, like, Q thing?
Yeah, but I don't, like, trust a documentary like that either, because, like, HBO is, like, that's the definition of mainstream media.
So I try to stay somewhere in the middle of that.
joe rogan
That is true, but I think HBO let this guy uncover this story accurately.
ian carroll
I believe it.
joe rogan
I had him in.
ian carroll
I'm pretty sure that I did see the documentary.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's like a multi-part.
And it shows all the people that were involved in it, and it kind of highlights a guy who seems to be Q, who is kind of an internet shitposter fucking around.
When 4chan was in its heyday back when all that shit was going down, it's ripe for that kind of nonsense.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian carroll
Perfect fertile ground for that kind of controlled reverse opposition, whatever bullshit, psyops.
And that's where, for me, the bottom line is, can I corroborate it with primary sources?
And Q is the definition of no.
Of course I can't.
It's like, what is it?
A time traveler that's coming back that's telling us how to save the world or something?
I don't understand.
joe rogan
Do you think stuff like Pizzagate, like when they had that guy come in and fire up that shot...
I felt like that was a great way to put a halt to all the looking into the Podesta emails.
ian carroll
That's exactly what that was.
joe rogan
Because then all of a sudden it's a kook thing.
Now it's a crazy person and a dangerous person because he's got a gun.
You're causing dangerous people to take their guns.
ian carroll
Just like with the vaccines.
They always have to make it dangerous, right?
It's dangerous to say that this might...
Have side effects, right?
joe rogan
Because if you read those emails...
ian carroll
Exactly right.
joe rogan
Those emails are bananas.
ian carroll
And they're not explained.
joe rogan
They're talking about young kids who are going to be coming to a party to have fun.
They're talking about pizza and hot dogs.
ian carroll
They'll be in the pool and they will be there for sure.
$65,000 worth of hot dogs flown from Chicago for a White House party?
joe rogan
The whole thing is like very weird.
ian carroll
Did you ever see the archived Instagram post from James Oliphantus' Instagram?
joe rogan
No.
ian carroll
Because that's a dark place.
So there's so many layers to Pizzagate that they tried to cover up intentionally for very good reason.
joe rogan
Well, how about the logos?
ian carroll
Well, the thing is, I... I avoid, in the way I've talked about it, I've avoided all the symbols and logos and even some of the pizza stuff because I think there's so much more ripe, clear evidence that is way more powerful.
And James Alifonso's Instagram account is a great example.
joe rogan
Can you find it online?
ian carroll
So you cannot find it on Instagram anymore.
It's only been archived onto other sites, which is kind of sketchy because it's like, how do I know you're not adding photos and stuff?
So you kind of have to dig and dig and dig and cross-reference over and over and over to make sure that you're getting sort of like the consensus.
happened.
So people like Liz Croke and people like Alex Jones, like they saw these things come out and that you can find plenty of different archives of all of James Aliphant's Instagram posts.
And there are things like photos of children with their arms taped to tables.
And the caption is looks like a fun time.
And then people that have always been commenting on his posts, like the people that are interacting with his posts all the time have even weirder Instagrams where it's like kill room and there's a coffin that's open and things like that.
There's like a photo of like a walk-in freezer and it's like, man, looks like you've been having a fun weekend.
Things like that that are just super dark.
And a bunch of babies and a bunch of symbolism, a bunch of children.
And it's all photos on their Instagram in plain daylight.
And they all got scrubbed, obviously.
And that's not to mention Podesta's art collection and the Marina Abramovich connections.
It goes on and on and on and on and on.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And we're talking about the Clintons with the Haiti scandals, with the cocaine in Arkansas.
It's like the thing is that we sound crazy.
I sound crazy to someone that doesn't do their own research because you just start.
There's so many layers of like crazy shit that's happened with some of these people.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
That if you don't know the history of a person like Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, it's really easy to think, oh, that's just so insane that you would think that they would be involved in it.
And first of all, they frame it in the articles about Pizzagate.
They say.
Hillary Clinton was the mastermind of a global pedophile sex trafficking ring all headquartered in this pizza shop, which is not what anyone ever claimed.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So as soon as you can discredit that, you discredit the whole thing.
ian carroll
Classic frame job, which Nancy Pelosi explains very well, where you make a false claim and you say that's what they're saying and then you discredit the false claim.
But if you really learn the history of the Clinton family, just as one example, Did you ever read The Strange Death of Vince Foster?
No.
But I know a little bit about the Foster situation and a couple of those weird deaths earlier on.
joe rogan
I read that book.
ian carroll
I should read that.
joe rogan
Back in the Disney.
And that's what got me into wondering about the Clintons.
Because that guy died.
They found his body where there was less blood at the scene that was missing from his body, and the gun was still in his hand.
ian carroll
I was actually just reading about that specific murder in Whitney Webb's books like two nights ago, because she goes over that too, because it's a huge question mark.
joe rogan
The gun was in his hand.
The gun's never in your hand.
ian carroll
And his family claimed that that wasn't the right gun.
He had a black gun, and his family was like, no, he owned a silver gun.
All these weird things.
They never found the bullet.
Like, all sorts of things that just don't add up.
And that was right after Epstein had first walked into Bill Clinton's life.
That was between White House visit number one and White House visit number two, while Epstein was funding the refurbishing of the entire West Wing of the White House.
joe rogan
I'm glad you brought up Epstein, because there was a point that I was going to make earlier that I forgot.
The Epstein situation is identical to the Manson situation.
ian carroll
You think so?
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
Explain what you mean.
joe rogan
This is why.
ian carroll
I mean, I think you don't mean that literally.
I think you mean that in a more metaphorical way.
joe rogan
I mean the structure.
The structure of how you would pull...
Like, if you were going to use an intelligence asset to do something evil, to do something where you can get dirt on people or compromise people or accomplish an objective, you would get someone who's already fucked up.
ian carroll
Oh, a hundred percent.
joe rogan
And then you get that fucked up person and you help them, you know, run this cult or you help them get girls.
ian carroll
But you intentionally keep them separate.
You're not hiring them.
They don't work for you.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
They're a private entity.
It's like layers of obfuscation.
joe rogan
Like, if he wasn't personally a pervert, it wouldn't work.
ian carroll
Oh, not a chance.
No.
joe rogan
Like, think about, like, the guy gets arrested for having sex with underage girls or getting them to do happy endings or whatever, wherever he did.
So he gets arrested.
And then the real weird thing is that he just gets out and gets, like, house arrest.
And he gets, like, a little slap on the wrist.
And then he's back in action with all these rich people again.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Like, really rich, influential people.
Like, Bill Gates is hanging out with him after he's already been arrested and convicted.
Like, that's bananas!
ian carroll
But to your point about them...
joe rogan
But he's gotta already be fucked up.
He can't be, like, a straight-edge, regular guy with a family and children that is just evil.
No, you gotta have him in on the thing.
So if you got a guy you know is already a freak.
You know he's already a nut, and he's already doing blow and fucking hookers all the time, and maybe he's been caught with a few underage girls.
ian carroll
Well, when you study where he came from and how he got plucked from the Dalton School and then got put into Bear Stearns and then got put through Bear Stearns and then got put into money management.
joe rogan
It was teaching at one point in time.
ian carroll
It was teaching at the Dalton School, and then he was a banker at Bear Stearns, which he conveniently left when this big scandal broke that implicated him and the director, Goldstein, that had hired him.
And had been helping him up.
And then he left and kind of took the fall and took the dirt with him.
them.
And then he went into the arms running businesses, which is where he met Maxwell, Daddy Maxwell, not daughter Maxwell, and Anand Khashoggi and Lise and all these other arms traffickers.
And that's where he got into those.
So it's like you walk slowly into these worlds.
And as they're doing that, I'm imagining they're taking tabs on of like, what kind of guy is this and what's he into?
And he's working with arms traffickers.
And some of those arms traffickers were famous for blackmail.
Like a non-Kashoggi, he was famous for having his yacht filled up with cameras and given his arms deals everything they could ever want while he's selling weapons to them.
And he's got his whole yacht wired up with cameras.
Trump later bought that yacht, which is super interesting.
Do you know about that?
So Trump, check this out.
And I'm not claiming that Trump is in on everything.
It's a very complex thing here.
But Trump's history is pretty weird.
He bought the Plaza Hotel, which is where the Blue Suite parties that blackmail J. Edgar Hoover happened.
Do you know about those?
unidentified
What year was that?
ian carroll
This is where I thought I was starting this fucking job to talk about GameStop and to talk about, like, the financial markets and shit.
And then I realized how important intelligence agencies and organized crime are to how the world works.
And I just got deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into, like, what's the history?
joe rogan
I don't want to miss out on some of Epstein's stuff.
Should we come back to that?
ian carroll
Well, we'll get there.
joe rogan
This is all connected.
ian carroll
I could talk about the Epstein stuff for fucking days and start all kinds of trouble for your podcast and shit.
joe rogan
Well, I think that trouble's supposed to be coming out publicly.
ian carroll
I don't think it's gonna.
joe rogan
Wasn't there...
So the FBI in New York guy had to step down, right?
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
They were saying they're withholding files.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
So the Pam Bondi's office said that they just got thousands of files.
ian carroll
Allegedly.
Yeah.
We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens.
joe rogan
I've been saying that I'm like Charlie Brown with Lucy in the football.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
You know, when she pulls the football away every time he thinks he's going to get to kick it and he goes falling on his ass.
ian carroll
That's how it feels.
You haven't read Whitney Webb's books, have you?
joe rogan
No.
ian carroll
You really should.
joe rogan
I've watched a lot of her stuff online, though.
ian carroll
So the thing about her stuff online is that she comes off as way more unhinged.
And she's very smart.
She's very smart.
And she's on it.
But she's now very concerned, rightly so, about the sort of technocratic nature of what might be to come.
But her research on Jeffrey Epstein is looking backwards at the history of organized crime, the history of Epstein, and it paints a very...
Like, we know very well who he worked for, and we know who he was associated with.
She has primary sources with pages of sources cited about who put him where, who he interacted with, who said what about him, who claimed what about his life.
And it's two full books and it's very well sourced with primary sources cited all the way throughout.
And so it's like, we don't actually really need the Epstein files to know what was going on.
They'll hopefully include a lot of new details.
joe rogan
But don't we need it for rock solid proof?
Sort of.
Don't we need the...
ian carroll
So take Leslie Wexner that we were talking about earlier.
No, we already have the flight logs.
joe rogan
Do we have all of them?
ian carroll
Unredacted.
joe rogan
Really?
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
All of them.
ian carroll
Well, theoretically.
The ones we know of.
joe rogan
And do we have flight logs with destinations?
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
So we know who went to the island.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they're all there, and you can read them online.
They're on archive.org, as well as other places.
But Leslie Wexner is a great example here.
Leslie Wexner owns Victoria's Secret and Elle Brands, right?
He's the bank that bankrolled Jeffrey Epstein.
And I was saying earlier that he signed the power of attorney over to Jeffrey Epstein so that Jeffrey Epstein was able to sell his assets, manage his assets, buy on his behalf.
He could sell Victoria's Secret without Leslie Wexner in the room or even his knowledge if he wanted to, because that's the level of power of attorney that he signed over to Jeffrey Epstein when he was...
He was just my money manager.
I didn't know he was running this thing because I wasn't involved in any of those transactions.
But what that meant is that Leslie Wexner damn well knew.
We could go into the mega group and we could go into his connections to Charles Bronfman, all these other things.
joe rogan
But I was saying about the Victoria's Secrets, if you're a pedophile, you want to work with kids.
If you're a freak.
What do you do?
You get in the underwear business.
ian carroll
That's how they were recruiting.
They were recruiting from the Victoria's Secret, modeling, and Jeffrey Epstein was claiming that he was a rep.
But do you know about the CEO of Abercrombie& Fitch that went down for running a sex trafficking ring?
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
So he was Leslie Wexner's guy.
When Leslie Wexner, he bought Abercrombie and Fitch in like 1990, maybe 91, 89.
And then one of the first things he did was he put that dude into position as CEO.
That was Leslie Wexner's dude.
And he becomes the CEO and he's gay and he likes really hot young male models.
And he started running a male sex trafficking ring out of Abercrombie and Fitch.
So Leslie Wexner, this guy.
Dude who is a self-proclaimed possessed by a demon.
unidentified
What?
ian carroll
Yeah, yeah.
Whitney has a whole chapter where she goes into this article that was done by a mainstream news source like 10, 20 years ago where they're interviewing Leslie Wexner and asking him about how he came to power and what's his secret.
It's called his D-book, D-Y-B-U-K, and you can read about this on Wikipedia as well.
He describes in his own words that he's possessed by a d-book, which is like a Yiddish word for an evil demon that drives him for more and more and more and more.
It's in his own words.
joe rogan
Is he being hyperbolic?
unidentified
A little bit.
joe rogan
Is he joking around?
Like, oh, I'm possessed by a demon that just wants more and more.
I just want to be successful.
ian carroll
No, I mean, I wasn't in the room, but I assume, based upon the wording and how it's put, I assume it's like a billionaire.
I mean, it's in the text.
It's directly quoted in the text in One Nation Under Blackmail, actually, which is in that backpack.
joe rogan
One Nation Under Blackmail?
ian carroll
One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb.
Highly recommend, but it's super dense.
It's a hard read.
I've read it three times now, and I still am taking notes and trying to look things up to understand it because she's just so researched.
And it's things like this, where she's gone back to the original article where they were interviewing him, and he's just like a CEO. So they're just asking him, what's your secret to success?
And he's like, I'm possessed.
I have a drive for more.
And he chose the word debuk, which is a Yiddish word.
jamie vernon
So this is from a New York Magazine interview.
ian carroll
That's exactly the story.
joe rogan
He says, and now perhaps it's time to reintroduce Leslie Wexner's debuk, the demon that always wakes up in the morning with Wexner and tweaks and pulls at him.
When he was a boy, his father called it tumul, a churning.
So he feels molten and unformed.
Pricked by these spiritual pins and needles.
He met this demon again when he was 40 and already worth half a billion.
When he climbed the mountain in front of the house in Vail and almost froze to death and decided to change his life.
This demon he calls terminal...
Schwilkies.
ian carroll
Schwilkies.
joe rogan
Which makes him wander from house to house, repeating the pattern of his childhood on a luxurious scale.
Wanting more, swallowing companies larger than his own.
It is precisely the reason that Wexner has a billion and doesn't stop at, say, five million and a new Mercedes every other year.
And what he calls normal life.
Bridge on Wednesdays and Bar Miffes on Saturdays.
And the Winding Hollow Country Club in Columbus, which is like Buckingham Palace to him when he was 15. Yeah.
ian carroll
So that's just to point out that, like, A, he's a fucking weird dude.
He's a sketchy dude.
He's running two sex trafficking rings out of his companies that he doesn't know anything about.
And simultaneously, he founded, I mean, the Wexner Foundations and the Leslie Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Those are also very...
Interesting and controversial.
They're very tied to Israel because he is one of the foremost Israeli philanthropists, despite being an American.
But he founded what was called the Mega Group, which is essentially a...
I mean, it was not disclosed for a long time.
It was secret.
And it is a...
Group of Jewish billionaires that get together on behalf of global Judaism, which is not uncommon, and there's nothing wrong with that if they're not committing crimes.
But they would get together and meet, and it's people like Leslie Wexner, Charles Bronfman, the list is...
We could look it up.
And that group, it is unclear if we have proof that they were conducting espionage, but there are...
All of them have ties to organized crime through various elements, like the Bronfmans were rum runners, as one example, that were then involved in the mob.
Leslie Wexner's involved in these trafficking rings, etc.
And that group...
Seems to have been directly associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
And she's, again, she's one that she shows all the primary sources and, like, lays it all out of, this is what we know, and this is where the source came from, and this is what it said, and these are possible explanations for it.
Here's one or two or three explanations of what it might be, but we don't really know because this is as far as the evidence goes.
And so Leslie Wexner is just one where there's all this swirling evidence all around him that the, in order for him to not be aware of what's going on and to not have been an active part of this, Is damn near unbelievable in my eyes, allegedly.
joe rogan
That's well covered.
You did a good job of covering your bases there.
ian carroll
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which, you know, I've learned to do.
Because, I mean, I started on TikTok where you can't even say certain words or you'll get taken off of TikTok.
joe rogan
Right.
Right.
Which is also fascinating.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
But, like, so the files getting released, I am not expecting them to come out in any complete form because the mainstream understandings that Jeffrey Epstein was the guy.
Jeffrey Epstein was just an employee of these organized crime rings that work on behalf of the CIA and Israeli Mossad and British intelligence.
Because organized crime is the black markets, the dark things, the sex, the drugs, the rock and roll, the child trafficking.
And intelligence agencies were designed to be legitimate government's point of access to organized crime.
I mean, theoretically.
Intelligence agencies were supposed to be...
Truman wanted the intelligence agencies to be a newspaper about what's going on in the world for the president to know, right?
But Alan Dulles was not about that.
Alan Dulles, founder of the CIA, was like, I want to do covert operations.
And very immediately, covert operations were like overthrowing the government of Guatemala, Iran, buying the elections in Italy.
They bought the elections in Italy by just passing giant bags of cash to the mafia so they would just go buy the election right after World War II because they needed to not let Italy fall to the...
Communists.
It's where the Vatican is.
So the CIA, though Truman okayed it, hoping that it would be a newspaper, the CIA has been covert operations from the start.
And covert operations is all about public-private partnerships so that you can't have it traced back to you, right?
Because if you get caught doing MKUltra shit, the government's fucked.
Right?
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
And so what they want to do is they want to outsource MKUltra shit or child trafficking shit or drug running shit to that shell company that's hiring that guy that works at that organized crime, right?
joe rogan
The same way USA does it with NGOs.
ian carroll
Bingo.
And that is all...
So that's what the deep state is.
The deep state is the conglomerate of organized crime and intelligence agencies that work in the shadows as well as the halls of power, but they're not supposed to exist and we're not supposed to know about them.
But they've always existed because before we even founded the CIA during...
During World War II, there was this bombing of this ship in a port on the eastern seaboard.
The USS Liberty is confusing my memory right now.
It was called Operation Underworld.
There's a Wikipedia page about Operation Underworld, and there's a whole bunch more about it.
The ship blows up in harbor, and they were building this big new ship.
It would have been in the early 40s, I believe.
It was during World War II, inside of World War II. The ship was blown up.
Here it is.
And it's not clear if it was German U-boats.
There are reports that later Meyer Lansky and the mob took credit for it, like low-key, but we don't really know for sure who blew it up.
But when it blew up, the U.S. government got really worried that they had no way to secure the ports along the eastern seaboard because all the ports were run by the mob, because the mob ran all the unions, right?
And so they, rather than trying to wrestle the ports, control the ports back from the mob, they just went to the mob.
And said, we'll partner with you.
If you guys lock down the ports, we'll let you kind of do your thing.
And that's kind of what Operation Underworld was all about.
And so what they did during World War II is they literally gave control over the entire eastern seaboard.
I mean, I'm being facetious, but they gave control over all the ports on the eastern seaboard to the goddamn drug smugglers, like to the mob, which their favorite thing is to smuggle things.
Drugs, weapons, guns, duh.
Whatever.
I don't know.
And so before the CIA was even founded, the OSS, the intelligence agency during the wartime, was already partnering with organized crime.
And the people that founded those intelligence agencies, like Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles, they were corporate lawyers.
And that's...
Can I just keep going on this?
This is the thing that blew my mind.
I was trying to research GameStop and shit.
And then I started to realize that there's this whole monstrosity that is an official part of our government, these intelligence agencies, that when you really learn their history and read about their official history, let alone their history that sort of is still secret...
It is very clear that they've been off the rails right from the start.
And that's true inside of every, like, whether you're reading Legacy of Ashes and The Devil's Chessboard, very well-researched official books about this shit, or if you're doing internet research.
And the reason why you'd start an intelligence agency using a corporate lawyer instead of, like, a doctor or a military guy or something is because a corporate lawyer...
Is already familiar with all of the big CEOs of all the big corporations, right?
Alan Dulles worked at Sullivan and Cromwell as a lawyer.
And so he was very familiar with IG Farben producing Zyklon B for the Nazis.
He was familiar with Standard Oil.
He was familiar with shipping companies and fruit companies and all these companies all around the world.
And he's got good connections with them all.
And so you suddenly, you hire one guy, Alan Dulles, and you have just hired an entire network of multinational corporations.
Theoretically, to work on behalf of the U.S. But when you read the histories and you read what Alan Dulles was saying behind closed doors and everything, what he was doing is he was hiring the U.S. government in order to fund a corporate slush fund for corporations to utilize this power, this newly government-bestowed power, to essentially wage violence that is sanctioned.
You see what I'm saying?
Because all those corporations, the perfect example is Guatemala.
The United Fruit Company had bought up all this land in Guatemala and was growing bananas like crazy, and a lot of the land was just sitting vacant.
And Jacobo Arbenz comes into power, and he's like, this is bullshit.
There's this American corporation that's owning all of our land, that's making all of us poor, and they're not even using a bunch of this land.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to buy back the land.
He didn't take it.
He bought it back from the United Fruit Company, and he was going to distribute it for free to all the farmers that were destitute, which is like socialist, kind of.
But it's also pretty badass to use, like, your government money to buy all your farmers' land from this multinational corporation, but that pissed United Fruit off.
And this is right as the CIA was getting founded, and United Fruit was a client of Sullivan and Cromwell, and Alan Dulles was a lawyer there, right?
So United Fruit goes to Alan Dulles.
His brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State?
Yeah, Secretary of State.
So these two brothers that are both lawyers for Sullivan and Cromwell are the director, well...
Technically, Alan Dulles was not yet the director of CIA, but he was like the founder.
He just had a beef with Truman and with the first couple of leaderships of the president there.
And so United Fruit goes to them and is like, hey, can we overthrow this piece of shit?
Because he's fucking with our business, right?
So this is like how corporations wanted this government-sanctioned power.
And they, through those two brothers, lobbied the United States, propagandized the United States.
They hired propaganda artists to propagandize them.
And they...
We painted him as a communist right at our doorstep.
And then the CIA went in and through a series of kind of somewhat botched attempts called Operation Success and Operation PB Success, they overthrew the government of Guatemala and they ousted him.
They bombed Guatemala City and they got rid of him and they put in their own dictator that started like, you know, 30 years of absolute devastation and like military rule and just...
Really dark shit that basically tore Guatemala apart on behalf of United Fruit.
They did the same thing in Iran like three years later with Kermit Roosevelt, where it became this thing where these multinational corporations that are affiliated with this intelligence agency, just kind of through friendships and through partnerships and through the network, they started to utilize Alan Dulles and the CIA in general on their behalf to do things for the corporate interest.
They are the power players in this world.
They always have been the power players in this world.
And they had been itching for quite some time to get that government-sanctioned ability to wage violence against anyone around the world.
And we've been doing that ever since, using the intelligence agencies on behalf of the corporate blob, which is not always distinguishable from organized crime, and just going off and whacking people and overthrowing governments and starting coups right to this day, to Ukraine, 2014. Without being directly connected.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
The concept of plausible deniability.
That's the whole point, is you want to set it up in a series of shells, and the darker it is, the more you have to kind of separate it so that when Jeffrey Epstein goes down, no one knows who he worked for.
He worked for intelligence, and I was told to leave him alone.
And so you're left to speculate who he worked for, and that's why we are left to rely on sources like Whitney Webb, who's done sort of the definitive dig, because they won't fucking tell us, because a bunch of them are blackmailed.
unidentified
Whoa.
ian carroll
Yeah.
And it's all, it's like, it's not like it's literally a cabal of shadowy dudes around one table.
It is just an alignment of many different interests, different families, different corporations, different bankers, organized crime groups, all sort of playing games for power and these guys have that much power and those guys have that much power and interests tend to align like...
The general vibe in the corporations will probably align with the vibe of the bankers.
And their vibe will probably align a fair bit with some of this organized crime stuff.
And we'll fund this terrorist organization, Mujahideen, until it's not convenient anymore.
And then we'll actually use them as a patsy to go to war because there's terrorists over there, goddammit!
unidentified
Right?
ian carroll
And they've gotten quite good at kind of weaving those narratives through their operations that they've...
Either covered up or exposed what they wanted to in various ways to kind of steer our narrative around what we know.
But when you actually read the history, it's like, holy shit.
It's crazy how much has gone on.
joe rogan
Did you ever read Smedley Butler's War as a Racket?
ian carroll
Oh, yeah, dude.
joe rogan
So that was 33. So in 33, it was still going on like that.
And he was waking up to it as he was leaving his military career.
ian carroll
Do you know about the business plot, about what they tried to do with him?
joe rogan
No.
Oh, yes, I do.
Yeah, he wanted to take over the country.
ian carroll
No, he saved the country from it.
joe rogan
Right, but not that he wanted to.
ian carroll
All the industrialists wanted to.
joe rogan
They wanted him to be a part of taking over the country.
ian carroll
There's almost a Nazi coup in the 30s where we almost got taken over by our own military and became Nazis because Prescott, Bush, and a bunch of his other buddies were on Team Nazi.
And it's because they were all funding the Nazis and they wanted us on that team.
joe rogan
And they tried to recruit Smedley Butler to be the lead of this.
And take over the country.
ian carroll
I suspect.
I'm always kind of for my understanding, research by research.
But I suspect that it was World War I where they realized...
How much power you can have if you're funding both sides of a war.
joe rogan
Look at this quote.
I spent 33 years in active military service, and during that period, I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers.
In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
ian carroll
Smedley Butler, 1935. He was one of the most decorated Marines, or was he in the Army of all time?
General?
joe rogan
Un-fucking-believable.
ian carroll
Yeah, War is a Racket is a relatively short book that anyone can buy online, and I highly recommend it to everyone.
That paired with, um...
unidentified
But that was so wild that that was 33. Oh, yeah, and it's still going on to this day.
joe rogan
And the general public hasn't even had a whisper of this.
Like, the average normie, probably four years ago, five years ago.
ian carroll
Yep.
joe rogan
Like, when did this start making it into the zeitgeist?
Obviously in films.
ian carroll
I think when Elon bought Twitter.
And it's still not making it into the mainstream, mainstream zeitgeist, but...
And you've played a big part in this, too.
This whole decentralized media space, as technology naturally walks forward, I think that we're living in this world where all these rich people, all these evil, controlling sickos of varying degrees, they come from a world where they could control everything.
They could control the newspapers, they could buy out the press, they could pay for journalists.
And that strategy walked itself into technology.
And suddenly technology is just naturally walking forwards, and this just changes the game.
Like, you can't use those old strategies when you have a phone and internet and social media.
And we're watching the cognitive sort of breakdown of their old ways that they don't know how to adapt.
And it's just scheme after scheme after scheme is crumbling.
And the secret is just free speech.
That's all you need is free speech and communication on the internet.
joe rogan
And doge.
ian carroll
Yeah.
I mean, doge is how you actually go after it.
joe rogan
But you need someone who's...
Pretty balls out.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
You need a guy like Elon that has...
ian carroll
I was glad that Elon said the stuff about assassination on the podcast the other day because that needs to be said is that they are taking great risk.
Even Pam and Cash, all of them, are taking great risk to do this.
And it would not be the first time that someone's spouse had been whacked or someone's kids had been threatened or, like, they'd...
You know, created a scandal.
Like, do you know about the scandal of the Chappaquiddick Bridge with...
Chappaquiddick.
unidentified
Chappaquiddick.
ian carroll
With Ted Kennedy it was, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
That is such a great illustration of how, like, it might not even be you that they go after.
It might be just...
There's all sorts of ways that if you do the wrong thing, allegedly, they might come after people around you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And so people like Cash and Pam and RFK are taking on a lot of risk.
And that's also why I think that the...
Like, my following is real conspiratorial, usually.
Like, I'm moderate compared to most of my people.
And there's a lot of suspicion of these guys right now of, like, they must already be controlled if they can even get in there.
It's like, I don't know if I buy that.
joe rogan
I don't know about that because I used to think, well, listen, I think there's definitely some manipulation of voting.
Okay?
I'll say that.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
That's the holy grail you can't say, dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, I say it.
I say it because I think...
Listen, at some level, for sure.
Now let's talk about the...
The Hunter Biden laptop.
Now, when you have 51 former intelligence agents claiming that this is Russian disinformation, and then you have the government getting it removed, Twitter complying, you can't even post a link, for the fucking New York Post.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
The second oldest newspaper in the country, right?
Legitimate newspaper.
ian carroll
When the FBI had had the laptop already.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
So, that, in the time of an election, is election interference.
ian carroll
Straight up.
joe rogan
So that is manipulation of voting.
ian carroll
Yeah, until Trump came in, that was the only election interference that I was willing to talk about because it was very provable, very obvious.
joe rogan
Then you have another obvious portal, which is California...
And New York won't even allow you to show your ID when you vote.
There's only one reason why you would do that, because you want people voting that shouldn't be voting, and you want it to count because you want to win.
ian carroll
And more and more we're seeing that they are literally importing voters and paying them with government money to huge amounts of money when we have homeless veterans on the street, over 300,000 children are missing that have crossed our border that we have delivered to unknown sponsors.
joe rogan
The Trump administration, very quickly, within the first couple weeks, found 90,000 of them.
I don't know what the number is now.
ian carroll
I haven't seen that.
joe rogan
Yeah, there was some...
See if you can find that.
unidentified
I would love to see that.
joe rogan
The Trump administration accounted for...
Well, they started looking.
ian carroll
I know, right?
joe rogan
The first fucking...
It's a novel idea.
The first administration was like, I don't know where it is.
Holy shit, let's close the border and...
Well, we can't close the border.
That's wrong.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
The whole thing was...
ian carroll
They literally locked up...
You know the guys that built the border wall?
Steve Bannon and...
It was Steve Bannon and Dustin Stockton and I think one or two other people when they wouldn't build it.
These guys just went out and raised millions of dollars on their own and they literally just started building Borderwall.
Do you know about that?
joe rogan
I'd heard something along those lines.
ian carroll
I didn't know about that either and then I now do a podcast every couple weeks with Dustin Stockton who's a whole trip of guy and he started telling me the story of like, what are you saying?
I had no idea that they had literally just started building it from a private...
Like, citizen standpoint.
Until they arrested them.
joe rogan
Did you know that also, before the election, all the border materials were for sale?
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
They sold the border materials.
ian carroll
Yep.
I mean, they were just trying to get everything out as fast as they could.
They were deleting files and just giving out aid money and announcing more and more foreign war aid to Ukraine and Israel and everything.
joe rogan
They said it was like throwing gold off the Titanic.
ian carroll
It's crazy, dude.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I am...
Really excited for everything that's going to come out.
But I'm also like...
joe rogan
Before we go any further...
unidentified
I'm reading into the kids.
joe rogan
It's definitely a political thing.
ian carroll
Oh, the children are actually missing, BBC. Go fuck yourself.
jamie vernon
Well, this says that they had them...
I guess in records, and then when they sent court notices out, they just don't come to their court date, so they consider them missing.
joe rogan
Okay, that can make sense.
But I think the Trump administration accounted for quite a few of them.
Well, that part I don't know.
unidentified
That's what they're saying.
joe rogan
You're not going to find them on BBC. Well, I'm just...
ian carroll
All right.
Yeah, so I work...
unidentified
So don't...
joe rogan
No, don't put that Trump administration finds missing kids.
Try that.
ian carroll
Yeah.
unidentified
Because...
ian carroll
I work with this guy named Ryan Mata who spent three years of his life going to the border with his own dollars and filming documentaries about this and interviewing the people that rescue trafficked children and actually interviewing whistleblowers from within the Biden regime's trafficking scheme, like the people that were dropping kids off with sponsors and stuff.
joe rogan
Bottom one, Sean fucked.
ian carroll
John Fugged.
joe rogan
Listen to what it says there.
A Trump administration is allegedly located between 75,000, 80,000 of the 300,000 missing migrant children, according to Harris Faulkner of Fox News.
This is without a link to a source.
ian carroll
Trust me, bro.
joe rogan
I understand.
But Google Harris Faulkner of Fox News.
ian carroll
I would love for that to happen.
joe rogan
Harris Faulkner Fox News.
ian carroll
I mean, I suspect that every single...
Like, there's every incentive for Trump to find them and to do something about it.
But I think the vast majority of them are dead, unfortunately.
joe rogan
So that's a Facebook link.
unidentified
I mean...
ian carroll
And this is the thing is that there are certain topics that are so disinformationalized and so sensationalized that when you start to research into them, you realize you're inside of this media madness that it's so hard to find the truth.
And COVID was one of those.
And J6 was one of those.
The elections was one of those.
And when you find that, it becomes...
For me, it sets a bell off.
A, I'm in something I should learn about.
But B, I have to be very careful.
And I don't know...
And you never know what you can trust in those spaces.
And so that's where I change my switches for what to believe.
And I kind of open up the bandwidth in terms of take it all in, but be very skeptical.
Because that's where you get wild conspiracy theories that are unproven, and trust me, and then you also get all kinds of propaganda trying to obfuscate the narrative.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a big factor that people need to be aware of is purposeful misinformation that gets inserted into a narrative to make that narrative ridiculous.
ian carroll
And there's whole conspiracy theories that I think are like that.
And Q might be one of them.
I don't know.
I think Flat Earth is one of them.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think Flat Earth was someone did that as a goof, and then they couldn't believe how much it took.
But if you can speak well, and you're articulate, and you have compelling things that you're saying, and there's no counter, there's no scientist going, stop, stop, stop.
We can show you in fucking ten minutes that the Earth is round.
Everything in the sky is round.
The Earth is the only thing that's not round?
You know, the weirdness of it is how much people want to believe that everything's bullshit.
And so you could trick a certain number of people.
ian carroll
I mean, I get why.
Like, think about how, like, right, so 10 years ago, Alex Jones was saying that the whole government's controlled by pedophiles.
And he was a psychopath.
Or I guess more than 10 years ago now.
And then Jeffrey Epstein got caught.
joe rogan
Dude, I talked to people about it back then.
ian carroll
Right?
joe rogan
And they thought it was the funniest thing ever.
ian carroll
Yeah, and you were a nut.
unidentified
Yeah, I'm telling you, there's a fucking island, they take him to an island.
joe rogan
They get them fucked up on drugs.
ian carroll
There's more than one island, too.
There's been a few islands.
joe rogan
Yeah, you think that's the only place they do that?
There's probably some super secret place in China that they all go to.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
I mean, they're all over Mexico.
They're all over, like...
unidentified
Oh, Jesus.
ian carroll
Yeah, imagine what is in Mexico.
The government of Mexico has been partnered with the cartels for at least two administrations, is what it looks like.
And the cartels are just, like, running that whole game, that whole sort of northwestern, like, quarter of Mexico.
I can only imagine what we'll find down there.
joe rogan
Really hilarious.
Is the Blue Anon Twitter people the kooky ones who are like, yeah, you're gonna go after the cartel?
Good luck.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Good luck, the greatest military force the world has ever known, versus drug runners.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
ian carroll
The cartels are highly militarized, and they're extremely advanced, but sure.
Yeah, they're not going to compete with us.
No, no, no.
joe rogan
I had my friend Evan Hafer on here from Black Rifle Coffee, and he was talking about, like, do you understand the kind of...
These are very capable people, no doubt.
Do you understand the kind of ultraviolence that they will experience if they let these, you know...
Fucking SEAL team guys go after the cartel people.
ian carroll
Because those are proud Americans that have been itching to defend our nation.
Like, they have been itching for the ability to actually do something meaningful.
joe rogan
And that's also the place where, look, Afghanistan doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
ian carroll
Oh, it was an opium operation.
joe rogan
Right, right.
Oh, yeah, that too.
We can get to that.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It doesn't make sense that we would send troops over there.
It makes sense that we would send troops after the cartels.
unidentified
Absolutely.
joe rogan
If you think about the amount of death that occurs in the United States because fentanyl overdoses, where you have tainted drugs that are coming in across the border and killing people left at unprecedented levels.
ian carroll
Children, like taking kids from families.
My whole generation was...
Devastated by it.
My whole generation.
joe rogan
Everyone today knows someone who died of an overdose.
Everyone does.
That was very uncommon when I was in high school.
ian carroll
And the problem is that it was not just illegal fentanyl and illegal heroin.
The problem is that the Sackler family and the pharmaceutical industry was in on it.
And so doctors were prescribing it to normal people.
And it was just devastating our whole population all at once.
It's so tragic.
joe rogan
That painkiller documentary on Netflix.
ian carroll
Yeah, dude.
joe rogan
Or the docudrama series.
ian carroll
And so the administration now in Mexico.
Claudia Sheinbaum, she is like the protege of AMLO, who was the leader of that same party from before.
And I think he served two terms.
So it's been something like the last six to eight years or something.
Their official cartel policy is hugs, not bullets.
And what they basically describe is we're causing more death by going after the cartel, and we'll just agree to not...
Touch them.
We'll just agree to leave them alone.
And I'm kind of exaggerating again, but hugs, not bullets is their official slogan for their policy about the cartels.
So it makes sense for us to fucking do something.
It's like, we'll do the bullets.
You can keep your hugs.
Thank you very much.
Right?
joe rogan
I wonder what's going to happen with that.
Because they did declare them a terrorist organization.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
I mean, I was worried.
I kind of came out a little hot and I posted something on Twitter that was like, no fucking drone strikes inside of the U.S. No, sir.
No, you're not.
Because the way that the sort of announcement was worded of like, we're declaring cartel members, terrorist organizations, and we will be, and drone strikes are like totally A-OK on that, is what someone was saying about it.
And I was like, where's the line on allowing the targeting of cartels?
Because once you start targeting terrorists, that's why 9-11 was so subversive, is it turned everyone.
Everyone into a possible enemy of the state that can be shipped off to Guantanamo because terrorism is just this elusive concept.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
And you can and anyone can just become a terrorist if we just call them a terrorist.
joe rogan
Propaganda.
shipped off to Guantanamo who were definitely innocent. - 100%. - And did time and got released.
- Oh yeah. - You wanna radicalize someone?
Send them to Guantanamo Bay for a decade for something they didn't do.
ian carroll
Right?
And you brought up the Hunter Biden laptop and those 51 intelligence agents?
I wanted to look into it.
So I looked at the letter itself and I actually read the letter.
And on the letter at the bottom, they all signed it.
And if you just start Googling the people that signed it, the very first two names were ex-directors of the CIA that lied to us about Guantanamo Bay and lied to us about surveilling American citizens and lied on the stand.
And so they're professional liars that are from the Intel agencies that are saying oh no no like hundred by is all good above board It's like why would we ever trust that?
But that's how powerful spin is when every media article parrots that no it wasn't made in a lab There's no evidence.
It was made in a lab that couldn't be true Yeah, everyone just believes it because we want to believe that that's how the world is we used to and Don't you think that over the last four years, COVID was probably the biggest wake-up call ever for people?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian carroll
I mean, it was my wake-up call.
I was a leftist that didn't think about shit before COVID. Me, too.
No, you thought about shit.
You just didn't think about that shit.
joe rogan
No, I thought about shit, but I was pretty much a leftist.
ian carroll
Totally.
joe rogan
100%.
And then I was like, oh, this is fake.
unidentified
Yep.
ian carroll
And to be fair, I think we're kind of both still sort of leftists, what left should be.
Socially progressive.
Politics is supposed to be a balance.
We need regulation of corporations.
That's a leftist ideology.
But we need individual liberty.
And we're supposed to have a balance of the two.
And I think my theory is that it used to be easier to control the right because it was a big money party and you could go to war with them and you could lead us around by the right.
But as technology came in, they realized it was way easier to spin narratives to the collectivists.
And if you can get all the collectivists, the leftists...
To go along with the narrative, that's way more effective than these individual liberty people with the guns.
joe rogan
Well, also, you're controlling all the universities if you have the leftists.
You have the narrative that you essentially...
Program the culture as it then leaves the universities and enters into the workforce.
ian carroll
The most ignorant people ready to be programmed.
I mean, that's always how communist revolutions have been programmed.
joe rogan
Well, we were talking about this with Jordan Peterson where people were saying, what is the big deal?
This is like 2015, 2016 when Jordan Peterson first and when Brett Weinstein first started emerging.
And before that, I was talking about these crazy things that were going on in universities and people were like, why are you paying attention to these fringe things that kids are doing?
I'm like, they're going to graduate!
These are the people.
These aren't the people who 30 years ago were studying in school, trying to figure out what career to get into.
No, they want to change the world with activism now.
Everyone wants to be an activist in every job you take.
Everything you take is supposed to enact social justice.
That is supposed to be your...
And then you're given this as your social credit system when you're in the universities, and then you leave.
I still want to be the good person.
I still want to be the person.
And in a world with no meaning, where life is meaningless for 99% of the population...
ian carroll
You give them meaning, and they will cling to that till they die.
joe rogan
You're on a good team now.
You're on a team.
ian carroll
And I understand it, because I come from that.
I come from one of the most liberal cities in this fucking country.
But then, I'm like, COVID's happening, and I was taking it really seriously.
My last Facebook post was like, all young people, we should lock down and take this really fucking seriously.
And then all my roommates were like, hey, let's go down to Seattle and do the BLM protests.
And I'm like, whoa.
You're a masked Nazi.
You're on me about my masking.
And you're trying to go burn down Seattle in a group of like 100,000 people?
What?
And so they all went down to Seattle, and I'm back at home, and I mean, I still love them to death.
Like, if they watch this, like, no shade to them.
But I'm at home watching the live streams of the BLM protests, and I'm like, where'd that pallet of bricks come from?
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
And that got me thinking.
joe rogan
Where'd that pallet of bricks come from?
Over and over and over again.
And there's all these explanations.
Well, there was a construction site.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Let me tell you something about construction sites.
Bricks are fucking expensive.
They don't leave bricks laying around like that because people would steal them and take them to their construction sites.
That shit happens all the time.
If you leave copper piping on a construction site overnight, people just steal that shit.
ian carroll
Especially downtown where there's meth heads everywhere.
unidentified
Yes!
joe rogan
Why you got a basket of fucking bricks?
ian carroll
No.
And so then the thing is, I start asking a question.
I ask one question in that leftist environment, and it's just like, don't ask questions!
Like, I'm fucking out of here.
joe rogan
Well, Chase Hughes was talking about that when he was talking about COVID. Like, what are the ways you can clearly see that something is a psyop?
First, you're not allowed to question anything.
ian carroll
Yep.
100%.
And questions are met with, like, obey the herd.
And they demonize you.
And they don't ever attack the arguments.
They don't ever engage with the arguments.
unidentified
No.
ian carroll
And that's what I love about the job that I've fallen into as a sort of, like, researcher, is that I have no problem with being wrong.
My favorite moments in my career so far have been when someone's proved me wrong.
And I've been like, oh, shit.
Thanks, bro.
I didn't know that.
I'm going to research that and look it up.
Because, I mean, some people can get trapped in their ego and need to stay on some hill and die there.
Right.
You don't need to do that.
It's a progress for intelligence, for learning.
That's what the Academy of Ideas was built on, right?
And so having this...
Culture of censorship and of herd mentality, especially in the universities, is the most toxic thing to our national future you could ever incorporate.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a perfect thing that a foreign company or a foreign government would do to the United States in order to ruin us.
And this is what Yuri Bezmenov talked about in the 1980s.
ian carroll
Bingo.
That's such a formative speech to watch.
joe rogan
That speech is crazy.
ian carroll
Everyone should watch that speech.
joe rogan
And it's, ironically, in 1984 that he's saying this.
ian carroll
Well, I mean, these tactics are old.
I mean, they go...
And I more and more started to look at, like, we changed from kinetic warfare at the atom bomb to, like, psyop and subversive and information warfare.
And we were still doing kinetic warfare, but it was all these little proxy wars that were based on propaganda and, like, in order to spin narratives, in order to get support.
And more and more, as technology has evolved, one of my kind of schticks is that...
The warfare is information warfare now because what they need to do is they need to convince everyone that COVID is real and that you need to lock down and you need to wear your mask and you need to take the vaccine so we can profit.
And all of that is information.
And that changes it from soldiers fighting soldiers to government agencies or rather NGOs and all these conglomerates of money groups.
Essentially targeting all of us and we become the targets of that warfare.
And so it's on us to get educated.
joe rogan
What's fun though is when they try to spin a narrative to try to cover up their tracks and it just winds up exposing more people to what's actually going on.
One of my favorite ones was when Geraldo Rivera was in Afghanistan going through the poppy fields with the United States military guarding the poppy fields.
unidentified
I don't think I've seen this.
joe rogan
You've never seen this?
ian carroll
I know what you're talking about but I don't think I've seen it.
joe rogan
Amazing.
It's amazing.
Because he's in full propaganda gaslight mode.
And he's explaining why it's important to protect these poppy fields.
Because these farmers...
ian carroll
This is their livelihood.
joe rogan
We're protecting them from the Taliban.
ian carroll
These poor farmers.
joe rogan
We have to help these people.
ian carroll
Because the Taliban shut down the opium production.
The Taliban outlawed opium production and burned all the fields and got rid of it all.
joe rogan
So he's literally talking to this officer in front of the poppy fields.
You see these guys...
ian carroll
That's crazy.
U.S. military, right?
joe rogan
Yes.
Play this.
ian carroll
Oh, my God.
joe rogan
Play this.
unidentified
We're going to head to Afghanistan.
ian carroll
Let's go.
joe rogan
This morning.
unidentified
We're going to head to Afghanistan.
The Taliban is using it to intimidate the population.
From Helmand province is Geraldo Rivera.
Good morning to you.
Geraldo, tell us what you've seen during your days there in Afghanistan.
Hi, Alison, Dave, and Clayton.
geraldo rivera
Yes, in some ways, the Marines brilliantly executed invasion of Marja, this town in the middle of Helmand province, was the easy part.
The hard part now is governing this province, a province, as you suggest, that has become addicted to opium in many, many ways.
That is the principal crop that is being grown here.
The Taliban lend the farmers the money.
They are indebted to the Taliban.
unidentified
They have to grow the opium.
geraldo rivera
Now the Marines, in their success, Wow.
ian carroll
You really can't make this up.
joe rogan
It gets better!
unidentified
A wonderful group of Marines here.
geraldo rivera
I know that you care deeply about this contradiction, the fact that here you have one of the best fighting forces in the world ever mounted, and in a sense you're watching as this opium is being grown.
joe rogan
I know it grinds at your gut.
ian carroll
How do you deal with it?
What are you doing about it?
joe rogan
Well, frankly, this is a part of their culture.
unidentified
So while it might grind in my gut, it's what they do.
We provide them security.
ian carroll
He was given very strict orders that morning.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Different crops to grow.
They're getting the seed and the fertilizer.
joe rogan
They're getting different crops.
Grow tomatoes, guys.
ian carroll
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
Hey, you can grow apples.
ian carroll
My favorite statistic about that era is that that that I'm going to get the number wrong, but it...
Opium has only grown in so many places, right?
And it used to be in the Vietnam region in Southeast Asia, the Golden Triangle.
Then it changed to the Golden Crescent, which is Afghanistan.
When that era happened, it was something like 70%, 80% of the world's opium supply was coming from Afghanistan.
And if you just do a little math and think it through, you realize that we have this gigantic opioid market of legal opioids, of the Sackler family and all these pharma companies.
And you realize that it's physically impossible for them not to be in on this scheme.
Because where are they growing their opium?
They're not growing it here.
They're not growing it in, like, Africa.
So, by definition, when you just think through what's going on here, you realize that some of those opium fields are illegal heroin, and some of those opium fields are big pharma.
joe rogan
It coincides with the opioid crisis in America.
ian carroll
Direct one-to-one, dude.
joe rogan
The pharmaceutical-grade prescribed opioid crisis in America as it goes up.
And then you see at one point in time, Afghanistan was responsible for 94% of the world's opium.
ian carroll
Bingo.
There's the stat.
joe rogan
While we are...
Occupying.
Now it's Myanmar, which also just went through a military coup.
unidentified
Yep.
ian carroll
I mean, they've always got to control.
So, opium has been one of the most important crops to control ever since the British Empire and, like, the days of tall ships.
You know about the opium wars with China?
joe rogan
Yes.
ian carroll
That was a funny history to learn about.
joe rogan
Yeah, crazy.
ian carroll
Yeah, because that's the thing is that I've been basically learning everything from scratch as I've gone because I didn't know shit.
I was just like, how many years have you been in this?
unidentified
Two.
ian carroll
Less than two.
That's so crazy.
I mean, like, I was learning before that.
joe rogan
You must be a plant.
ian carroll
I know, right?
joe rogan
You must be some sort of an operative.
ian carroll
I'm a Mossad agent.
joe rogan
You're just good at it.
Just, you know, if you're good at it, if you're Whitney Webb or if you're you or any of those people.
ian carroll
It's just a scientific process of having the right degree of, like, understanding of just, like, the right amount of, like, need to see primary sources and real evidence and the ability to look and test a hypothesis and see what comes out and not being attached to one conclusion.
Beyond what the evidence actually suggests.
joe rogan
Also, not being afraid to seem foolish to the uninformed.
unidentified
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Because so many people will dismiss most of what we've talked about today.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Offhand.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
Without any...
Especially people that only consume the Wall Street Journal and mainstream media.
ian carroll
But I had the benefit of being a normie when I started, and so I walked my way in piece by piece.
joe rogan
So you know how they think, too.
ian carroll
Like, I started with all the BlackRock conspiracy theories.
I started with who owns...
Who owns the tampon aisle?
Who owns all these things?
And I would go into the grocery stores and do the videos in the grocery stores where I would go to the cereal aisle and be like, who owns all these cereals?
And it turns out the entire cereal aisle is three companies and...
I mean, the tampon aisle is even better because they're all getting sued for having reprotoxic chemicals in the tampons.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
Meaning they'll kill your reproductive system.
joe rogan
Well, not only that, toxic shock syndrome.
ian carroll
Exactly, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And so that sort of, I like walked myself slowly into learning and I walked my audience along with me.
And I also developed this understanding of, I mean, I used to be a teacher.
And so I have this, a certain understanding of like, how do you communicate in a way that's speaking from their perspective instead of from my perspective?
Which right now I'm just talking to you instead of talking to them, 'cause it's more fun.
But when I actually make my videos, I do my best to try to put myself in the shoes of who I'm trying to access and what do they know and what do I need to communicate and show evidence of for them to understand that you can look into this and check my sources.
And you can think about this You have permission to think about this.
joe rogan
You do a very good job of citing your sources and telling people where to look if they want to find out more information about it too because a lot of it is a real big deep dive.
ian carroll
It's the most important part by far.
joe rogan
It's like unless you're you, unless you're a person who does it for a living, the amount of time that it takes to find out about this stuff and then even you who's been in for two years doing this, there's There's decades of layers you need to uncover.
And it'll take forever.
Like, Whitney Webb's been doing it for how long?
ian carroll
Oh, I don't even know, dude.
joe rogan
Alex Jones has been in the game for 30-plus years.
ian carroll
Exactly.
And there's still always more to learn and always more to connect.
And we get new information that puts new light on old situations.
It's this constant rearranging game of understanding.
And I just love that...
I mean, yeah, most people don't have time for all of it, but as we're sort of stratifying into this ecosystem of content of, like, creators and journalists and thinkers, that we're all kind of collectively doing the work together, and some of us are more integral than others.
Some of us are just clickbaiters, and some of us are, like, I'm somewhere in the middle.
And then you get some people that are really professional about it, like...
Problematically professional about it, like they can only get so much done.
joe rogan
Have you ever looked into the Oklahoma City bombing?
ian carroll
No, not much actually.
Not hardly at all.
But I know it's one that's like one of those seminal moments.
joe rogan
That's a good one.
First of all, the amount of damage to the building is not something that you would get from a fertilizer bomb.
And the way a fertilizer bomb would work in front of the building, that building's blown out.
ian carroll
Exactly.
joe rogan
And the FBI was retrieving unblown bombs from the building.
ian carroll
Interesting.
joe rogan
Not only that, the whole Timothy McVeigh thing is fucking wild.
When you go down the rabbit hole and start looking into it...
It seems like a false flag.
It seems or it seems like someone else planted bombs inside that building and they blamed it on this fertilizer bomb.
ian carroll
What would that false flag have taken us to?
joe rogan
They passed different gun laws and different laws afterwards.
ian carroll
Yeah, I mean 9-11 is the perfect example of that kind of false flag of this thing that's crazy that has all these questions that get covered up and then we just go to war in the Middle East with a country.
joe rogan
And we have the Patriot Act and the Patriot Act 2. All the spying.
Yeah.
ian carroll
Drop all the missing money, all these things.
joe rogan
Incredible amounts of control and surveillance now gets used on the population.
ian carroll
Who do you think did 9-11?
Or what conglomerate of groups do you think were involved?
joe rogan
For sure, the Saudis were involved, right?
ian carroll
I mean, a lot of the people were Saudi.
joe rogan
A lot of the people were Saudi.
ian carroll
I don't know if that necessarily means that the Saudi government had anything to do with it.
joe rogan
It could mean it was just people that were recruited by another organization that were with the Saudis.
What do you think happened at Tower 7?
ian carroll
That's a good question.
joe rogan
That's a weird one, right?
ian carroll
I think the Tower 7 had information in it about both.
I think it probably had information in it about the planning of the attack and or what was going on with the attack.
But I also think it had information about other things that needed to go away.
Maybe it's old CIA operations.
Maybe it's banking information.
joe rogan
Maybe it's information about the trillions of dollars that was missing that Donald Rumsfeld talked about the day before 9-11.
So he gives a press conference in front of the Pentagon.
Was the Pentagon?
Is that where it was?
ian carroll
I don't know where the press conference was.
I mean, I think it was in a room, but I'm not sure.
joe rogan
So he gives this press conference.
This press conference, he says, there's trillions of dollars they can't account for.
And everybody's like, what the fuck?
The very next day, 9-11 happens, and in one of the buildings where they store data, that building mysteriously implodes like a controlled demolition.
Like, no building has ever collapsed, ever.
Just because of fire.
And structural damage, for sure, but it's the way it collapses.
ian carroll
Even from planes hitting buildings, no building has ever collapsed like that.
Other planes have hit buildings.
Bombs have gone off in buildings.
All sorts of stuff has happened to buildings, and they don't fall down like the main towers did, let alone Building 7. Right.
joe rogan
It's all real weird.
At the very least, if that was my building, I'd be like, I'm suing.
You guys made a shit building.
ian carroll
Yeah, except that he took out special insurance against plane crashes and against terrorism right before it.
joe rogan
But you would take out insurance against...
Because that place had already been the victim of a bombing.
ian carroll
It had been.
joe rogan
I mean, that was in the Biggie song.
Blow up like the world trade.
ian carroll
Classic move.
Talking about Biggie, Diddy is on the menu.
But it's important to mention, as we're getting into all these government conspiracy theories, and CIA did it, Israel did it, Saudi did it, no one's saying ever, unless you're dumb, that the whole government of any of these countries did it.
Like people, it's like in the anti-Israel crowd, people get smeared a lot for like, as though you're claiming that all of Israel did 9-11 or all of Israel did this thing.
Or when you're talking about the CIA, it's more obvious when you're talking about the CIA.
We're not saying that the whole CIA did something.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
We're saying that these groups, these covert intelligence agencies, they are fertile ground for walled off areas of need to know information behind levels of security clearances where plots can be hatched.
And they always have been.
That's the whole fucking point of an intelligence agency is to hatch plots.
Right.
Unreal that they would have such an evil and fucked up plot right Right.
9-11 happened when I was in grade school, and I remember where I was and all that shit.
And that was the seed that just sort of set under the ground until BLM that eventually sprouted for me.
I always knew there was something weird, and I saw Zeitgeist when I was way younger.
So I knew that there's weird shit in this world, but I was a leftist that just wanted to go snowboarding and stuff, so I didn't really think about it until...
It walked into my city and told me to stay inside and get a jab and all sorts of shit.
So they really fucked up with that one.
joe rogan
They really fucked up with that one.
Well, I think they thought they had us.
They thought they did.
All the people that are in power are operating on a paradigm that existed before the internet.
Exactly.
ian carroll
Do you know Mickey Willis at all?
joe rogan
No.
ian carroll
Do you know the Plandemic films at all?
joe rogan
No.
ian carroll
Oh, dude, you should really check them out.
Yeah, he's around this area, and I had not seen them before.
Plandemic 1 was this doctor named Judy Mikovits that blew the whistle really early on, and that is one of the things that got all this, like the fact that you haven't heard of it and seen it.
No, I've heard of it.
Exactly.
joe rogan
I've heard of it.
ian carroll
I just haven't seen it.
joe rogan
But I was so balls deep in the COVID thing that I didn't want to see anything more because it was me.
I was a part of it.
ian carroll
You were a part of that censorship.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
She got that same kind of treatment of like smear campaigns left and right and just hatred.
joe rogan
The smear campaign against me, though, was so eye-opening.
When you know that something's not true that's being said on CNN over and over and over again.
ian carroll
About yourself.
joe rogan
About yourself.
And then they take your face and they make you green.
unidentified
He's taking horse past!
joe rogan
It was so crazy to watch and to be a part of that it was like, wow, I'll never trust again.
Because now I know you guys are full of shit.
ian carroll
And that was a big thing that red-pilled a lot of regular people.
Like myself included.
And a good example of my take on that is I didn't know about ivermectin beforehand.
So I didn't even just be like, oh, Joe Rogan said that.
I was like, fuck it, I'll look it up.
They said that it was an award-winning medication.
I'll find the goddamn award that they got for it.
So I looked it up and I found it.
It's like, okay, cool.
joe rogan
Not only that, I said...
They only locked on to this horse pace thing.
ian carroll
Well, because ivermectin is a great threat to their profit.
They can't make money off of it.
And it works very, very well if you get it early enough.
joe rogan
But imagine they ignored all the other stuff I took.
I said I took IV vitamins.
I took prednisone.
I took Z-Pak.
I took monoclonal antibodies.
ian carroll
I have a theory about that.
And it's that they can't get an emergency use authorization if there is a drug that can be considered a cure, like a preventative.
joe rogan
A treatment.
ian carroll
A treatment, right?
joe rogan
Just a treatment.
ian carroll
And so they, right?
And so they, and I mean, you've said this many times, right?
Is they needed to act all treatments because the one that they went with was administered IV post, like in the hospital.
And it was very, very...
Expensive.
Remdesivir is a whole super fucking dark rabbit hole.
joe rogan
It causes kidney failure.
ian carroll
Oh yeah, and they knew that full well.
They had already tested it out in Africa.
And RFK's book, The Real Anthony Fauci, opened my eyes in a big way.
joe rogan
In mine as well.
ian carroll
Yeah.
And he still has not been sued.
joe rogan
No, I was very...
I was skeptical about him before I read that book because they had done a great job of connecting him to fringe conspiracies and making him look like a kook.
He's the one Kennedy that's out of his mind.
ian carroll
And it had been long enough since he was not a kook because he started doing the vaccine stuff for these moms that were coming to him with vaccine-injured kids.
And he was not...
Trying to do vaccine stuff.
But he saw these kids and was like, I need to fight for these people.
joe rogan
And he had been spending time talking about mercury poisoning because he was an environmental attorney.
And he had successfully sued all these corporations that were dumping into rivers.
He cleaned up the East River.
I mean, he did so much great work as an environmental attorney that people forget about because they did such a good job.
And again, this is before social media and the internet.
You could do a great job of smearing someone and making them look nuts.
Remember Jenny McCarthy?
They speared the shit out of Jenny McCarthy because she was suggesting that her child changed after her child was vaccinated.
And her child got autism.
ian carroll
Bingo.
joe rogan
And this is when they were doing the multi-vaccines in one day and dosing kids up.
And they made her look like a fucking idiot.
And they removed her from Hollywood.
She essentially got blacklisted.
ian carroll
That's the story, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
There are certain narratives that are golden cows that you cannot touch.
And the vaccine industry has always been one of them.
joe rogan
The thing about that one is we all would agree.
I would have agreed.
If you got a hold of me six years ago and asked me about vaccines, they're one of the most important inventions in history.
And then you read, have you ever read Dissolving Illusions?
ian carroll
No.
joe rogan
Read that book.
All of those diseases had dropped off because of sanitation and nutrition.
ian carroll
Yeah, I've seen the graphs.
joe rogan
Yeah, they all had dropped off.
And then the vaccines come along.
ian carroll
Measles included, speaking of the current thing that's a controversy.
joe rogan
Which is an infection that everyone got when I was a kid.
And what happened was you'd get sick for a few days and then you'd be immune for life.
ian carroll
Yep.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And they're making it look like everyone's dying from measles.
Like, no.
If you're dying from measles, you're sick.
You're already compromised, which is exactly what happened with COVID, where 90-fucking-plus percent of the people who died had four-plus comorbidities.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
ian carroll
Which is why it was such a red pill for me, because I was, like, literally an ultramarathon runner that was going to the gym, like, three hours a day.
Like, I don't...
I need natural immunity.
I already have natural immunity.
Go fuck yourselves.
Like, what are you doing?
And the reason why I was talking about Mickey Willis and Plandemic is because the second Plandemic is called Indoctrination.
And it's basically a magnum opus about how the vaccine industry, this golden cow, is not just like, it's not just one thing or this thing or one thing.
It's a organized like group of profit takers that has been growing for decades.
And Bill Gates and he like lays out how Bill Gates got into it and is on camera saying how many profits he's made off of vaccines and how great of a business model vaccines are.
And vaccines as a concept, great concept, but it is so lucrative if if manipulated and corrupted that really evil people started to do really evil things with it.
joe rogan
Also, you have complete immunity to liability.
ian carroll
Well, they got that orchestrated partway through that sequence because they were starting to get sued like fucking crazy.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
Because there was all kinds of injuries.
This is the Reagan administration, right?
Exactly.
Yeah, Reagan passed that act.
joe rogan
They've got to stop that.
You can't just give people immunity because then they lie.
They lie so they can sell more stuff.
And then they get caught like they did with Vioxx and they only pay a percentage of the profits.
ian carroll
And it's not just that you can't give them immunity.
It's that you cannot just punish with fines.
You have to punish with prison time.
Because if you don't punish with prison time, it will never change.
That's true of the drug industry.
That's true of our corrupt government.
Officials that are like, for example, the person that was withholding these Epstein documents from Pam Bondi and she fired him?
No!
Put him on a stand and at least give him a trial to make sure he didn't commit treason or something else, right?
And maybe he's fine and you let him go and he's just fired.
But if you're not going to send the Epstein clients to prison, if you're just going to fine a couple people, like 2008 banking collapse, we'll fine all the bankers a little bit and we'll just put one little pawn of a banker in jail.
That's why we have this crazy fucking, like, 2008 was horrible, but it was by no means the last market crash that we're having.
Because no one ever went to jail.
They just switch their tactics around and get ready for the next profit-taking event.
joe rogan
Yeah, and they've already paid everybody off so that they get preferable treatment.
And this is exactly what happens to the pharmaceutical drug companies.
When they get caught, they just pay fines.
They don't go to jail.
They killed 50,000, 60,000 people with Vioxx.
ian carroll
The thing about white-collar crime is it's real profitable and there's no consequences.
joe rogan
And they have the media because they sponsor the media.
ian carroll
And usually they're in bed with these intelligence agencies and organized crime aspects in some The idea that they're not is crazy.
joe rogan
The idea that you're going to have 94% of the world's opium and you're just going to ignore it while you're occupying the country with a military force and guarding the fields?
ian carroll
Shut the fuck up.
So that was George W. Bush, right?
But George H.W. Bush, this is one that's not totally declassified yet, but I've been digging deep into it.
I got a whole bunch of documents on it, and it's kind of declassified, is that during Vietnam era, we were managing all the opium production and the heroin production in Laos and in the surrounding area, and it was being sold to American service members to make money for the CIA for black operations.
And that was George H.W. Bush.
That was his time.
That's why his nickname is Poppy.
It's not because he's, like, the dad.
It's because he was brought into that organization with Richard Helms.
unidentified
No way.
joe rogan
That's the reason why his name...
unidentified
Oh, no!
ian carroll
That's why his nickname is Poppy.
And that is still not mainstream CIA, like, disclosure news.
There's a whole fucking rabbit hole about it.
Like, it is kind of disclosed that we were involved in that drug trade somewhat.
But it's not disclosed that...
That's why all the Vietnam veterans came home addicted to heroin.
Because the CIA was selling heroin to them and to a lot of other parts of the world in order to raise funds for their black budget operations.
Because the CIA has always had trouble funding all their operations.
joe rogan
Which is also what they did with crack cocaine in Los Angeles.
ian carroll
Bingo!
joe rogan
With Freeway Ricky Ross.
ian carroll
It's all tied in.
So Bill Colby, who put that all together, he was a...
He was in the heroin operations in Vietnam and he was like a little lower down and not running it.
And then...
As he grew up and came to power in the CIA, and those other guys that were more competent, Richard Helms being the primary one, Richard Helms and H.W. Bush, they were not involved when he went off on his own and tried to set up the cocaine smuggling.
And that's why he bungled it so fucking bad, because he was a psychopath that didn't have the skill sets required in order to run something that complex.
And it eventually, when Barry Seal got popped, he was the guy that was flying the, like, it used to be I'll drive a truck with a brick of cocaine across the border, and then Barry Seal was this military CIA pilot.
I don't know.
I'll just fill my whole fucking plane with cocaine and you get like a thousand runs in one.
And he was just flying whole planes over to Mena, Arkansas, where Bill Clinton was the governor.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
As well as a few other places.
joe rogan
That Tom Cruise movie where they get a call from the governor.
ian carroll
Bingo.
joe rogan
And they have to let Barry Seals out, which did happen.
ian carroll
Oh, yeah.
And when Barry Seals finally got popped, all the rats started to run and try to look out for their own.
And eventually that led to Oliver North taking the stand and totally bungling his fucking job on the stand.
Like, bro, you're supposed to be the fall guy.
And now we just have this huge fucking problem.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
It's wild.
joe rogan
Dude.
And these are just one of thousands of stories like this.
unidentified
Yep.
joe rogan
Thousands and thousands of stories.
ian carroll
Very well documented that originally, originally, you're a fringe reporter, Gary Webb.
You're making it all up.
You're a disgrace.
And Gary Webb's writing Dark Alliance.
You can look up his Wikipedia page.
And Gary Webb exposed how Freeway Ricky Ross was the outlet for all this cocaine.
And holy shit, Freeway Ricky Ross is a crazy story.
joe rogan
I've had him on three times.
ian carroll
Yeah?
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah.
I had him on recently.
ian carroll
Dude, what an interesting guy, right?
joe rogan
He's selling weed in L.A. now.
ian carroll
Legally.
unidentified
Dude!
ian carroll
What a full circle.
He goes from wanting to be a tennis pro to being the number one kingpin of cocaine.
unidentified
Well, not only that.
ian carroll
Business mastermind.
joe rogan
Doesn't know how to read.
ian carroll
Yeah, illiterate the whole time.
joe rogan
Yeah, learned how to read in jail, became a lawyer in jail, and then realized that the three strikes law had been inaccurately applied to him.
ian carroll
Whoa, I did not know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, they applied it to one specific event.
It's supposed to be you get arrested three different times for three felonies.
ian carroll
No, I think that they needed to cover it all up because shit was starting to come out.
Because Gary Webb was starting to fucking...
I mean, maybe Gary Webb was after that, but then Gary Webb...
Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head two times.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
It's like, okay, guys.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
Crazy movie about that, too.
joe rogan
Yeah, crazy, crazy, crazy.
There's so many of these things.
It's like the idea of a conspiracy theory being a ridiculous fringe thing doesn't hold water anymore.
ian carroll
It's like the Jimmy Dorskitt.
It's like, reading?
You mean reading?
You should try it.
joe rogan
Jimmy's the best.
ian carroll
I love Jimmy so much, dude.
unidentified
He was just here.
ian carroll
What a legend.
joe rogan
He just filmed his new special at The Mothership.
Yeah.
Jimmy's the best.
I love him to death.
I've known him from comedy, just from comedy, from back in the day.
And then when he was at Young Turks, when he was a leftist.
Which he really still holds all those same values.
ian carroll
No, he holds it down.
You and him are the two guys I point to, and him a little more than you now, of when I'm like, where's the sane left still at?
It's kind of like you guys.
And Eric Weinstein is a good example.
Eric and Brett Weinstein.
There's a couple.
joe rogan
But a lot of them have just gone insane.
Taibbi's another one.
unidentified
Taibbi's great.
joe rogan
I love Taibbi.
Yeah, and but they boy did they get fucking attacked boy.
They have a lot of pressure Yeah, it's like it's so hard to know what's real in the world and unless you have Schellenberger unless you have Glenn Greenwald if you unless you have those people out there That are risking their neck.
They're sticking their neck out there to tell you exactly what's going on.
This is what funded it.
This is how it started.
Don't let them say any differently.
We made an agreement with Russia.
We did this.
NATO did that.
This is what's going on.
ian carroll
Can't be bought.
joe rogan
And it's so important.
And they rise now.
There's so many of them now.
And it's becoming much more mainstream.
And if you look at some of their videos, it's millions of views.
And then you find that MSNBC is getting a fraction of that.
And they're, you know, corporate-funded, enormous, huge organizations with staff, and now they're hemorrhaging people.
ian carroll
It's wild to watch the mainstream journalists, like the MSNBC folk, have to leave.
Like, Joy Reid just left, for example, and like, when Don Lemon left.
joe rogan
They got fired.
They can't say left, because they didn't want to leave.
They got kicked out.
ian carroll
But they try to make it in the new media world, and they're just like, you have no value here, because you were never good at this job.
You were just good at reading propaganda to us.
joe rogan
You look good, and you got put on camera.
ian carroll
Whereas Tucker Carlson gets kicked out and he fucking slays it!
And he just grows bigger and bigger and bigger because he's not bought and he's not scared and he actually is good at communicating and interviewing and getting to the truth.
And it's so cool to watch this seismic shifting in the industry.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's really fascinating.
It's a fascinating time.
And I think it's good for humans.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
It's good for the human race.
And there's going to be a lot of bullshit out there.
There's a lot of stuff that's not true, but that's okay, too.
You'll figure it out.
Well, the truth will rise.
There's too many people that are telling the truth.
And there's too much that's undeniable that once you start reading, you start questioning virtually everything.
Fun tie for two things you guys were just talking about.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
ian carroll
Southern Air Transport.
This is the airline, right?
jamie vernon
This is the airline used.
It came out the same day that they filed for bankruptcy after being in Columbus, Ohio, being used by Leslie Wexner's limited company.
ian carroll
Leslie Wexner is deeply tied in to those CIA... A lot of roads lead back to Columbus, Jamie.
Oh yeah, and it's all because of Leslie Wexner.
unidentified
Jamie's got his own conspiracy.
ian carroll
Heard that.
I'm with you on that.
joe rogan
It's wild how many of these things...
And again, before the internet, this is how they did business.
This is why it's so sloppy.
It's because before the internet, you didn't have to cover your tracks.
You could get away with this stuff.
ian carroll
And the thing about the internet that I love that gets me called a...
I love that all of their tactics work Backwards too.
I can use those tactics too.
I can make propaganda.
Because what propaganda is, is just convincing messaging.
And if you have convincing messaging in the hands of an evil fucking megalomaniacal dictator, government, CIA, whatever it is, that's really bad.
But if you have propaganda tools in the hands of regular citizens that have morals and values that want the best for the world, correctly applied, you can fight back against them.
And so there's this element where I'm like, I'm looking at how do you...
Open people's minds.
Like, how do you strategize to, like, get your...
And it's a balance, right?
Because when I'm reporting on something, it's important to tell the truth.
It's important to be accurate.
And accuracy, if you really dig enough and get enough accuracy, that reduces entertainment value.
But if you find the way to balance entertainment value with accuracy the right way, which is always a moving target, you can change the world.
Like, I'm a regular dude two years ago.
I was an Uber Eats driver, an ultra-marathon running guide.
I was like a no-one in the middle of nowhere.
And then I'm like, alright, I'll just contribute.
And I'll start trying to tell these stories, trying to learn and communicate what's going on.
joe rogan
Well, you also have to have a particular knack for it.
ian carroll
You do.
joe rogan
And you have to be really interested in these things.
ian carroll
Interest is the most important part.
joe rogan
Very, actually, totally, completely interested in it.
ian carroll
I think that a lot of people try to get into, like...
Podcasting and, like, this internet field these days because it's, like, what you're supposed to do.
joe rogan
It's a business.
ian carroll
But they don't realize that that's going to be your job every day for the rest of your life.
You better fucking love it.
joe rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you're seeing that with a lot of podcasters where they just start off and then they fall off because they can't do it because they're not interested.
ian carroll
Yep.
And it's a lot of work and a lot of hassle and there's no guarantee of success.
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
It's, like, a very saturated industry.
joe rogan
And you have to actually be locked in with what you're talking about because if you're not, there's too much competition.
There's too many people that are locked in.
ian carroll
Yep.
joe rogan
Okay, what do you think is going on with the whole UAP thing?
ian carroll
Dude, I love this fucking conversation.
joe rogan
I love this fucking conversation.
ian carroll
It's the most interesting.
joe rogan
I never get tired of it.
ian carroll
Do you want to go the angle of, like, what are the crafts, or do you want to go the bigger angle of, like, what is the phenomenon?
joe rogan
Okay, let's start with what is the phenomenon.
ian carroll
I think that right now, science and religion and UAP exposure are all converging on similar truths.
And what I mean by that is that...
Science, so you know the science of consciousness, how we don't really know where the fuck consciousness comes from?
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
But there's a lot of people that start to suggest that it sounds like we're antennae that are receiving consciousness from some sort of consciousness field or some sort of other, like...
joe rogan
Have you read any Thomas Campbell?
ian carroll
No, I don't think so.
joe rogan
You should read The Big Toe, Theory of Everything.
It's very bizarre stuff.
Very hard to swallow.
You gotta go back and listen to it multiple times.
I like that kind of shit.
I had him on the podcast and at the end of it I was like, we gotta stop here.
Think about everything you said and then we'll bring you back and we'll go deeper.
Because he wanted to keep going and go deeper and deeper.
He's been living in these realms.
ian carroll
It goes and goes, dude.
Because you're talking metaphysics, you're talking physics, you're talking history and disclosure about history and dimension.
And I suspect that whatever consciousness is coming from is...
This multiverse, this This consciousness field, this ether, this multidimensional thing, whatever.
I suspect that's very similar to what UAPs are traversing in and out of and through.
And I suspect that's very similar to what we identify as either the gods plural, the aliens plural that have these abilities we don't have, as well as gods singular, which is probably the highest up above all of those things.
I suspect there's a version of all these things that are starting to converge on one truth.
Because when you learn about remote viewing, that's what really...
It for me was learning how much money the CIA has invested in remote viewing over the years.
The CIA is not spending millions and millions of dollars on some crackpot bullshit that's not going to work.
They would for a little while, but they've been doing it and doing it and doing it.
And now we've got disclosure from people that are coming out whistleblowing that they are doing it today and I'm in the program and this is how we did it.
joe rogan
Have you listened to the telepathy tapes?
ian carroll
I've listened to a few, a little bit of them.
I've not listened all the way through.
joe rogan
I had Kai Dickens on the podcast the other day and she explained the whole thing.
Like, provable.
Hours and hours and hours of nonverbal autistic kids who have telepathy.
Provable telepathy.
Undeniable.
ian carroll
That's crazy, dude.
joe rogan
100% accuracy.
Wild.
ian carroll
Wild stuff.
And I suspect that all of that is...
And there's a weaponization of it.
I mean, it's not just public study of it.
There's definitely been private study of it by the intelligence agencies and probably the weapons developers for a long time.
I mean, I was very surprised to hear Elon's answer to your alien question the other day, which I understand that he...
Probably couldn't talk about it anyway.
joe rogan
That's how I take all of his answers about aliens.
ian carroll
Yeah.
Nice try.
I had to try.
joe rogan
But there's no way.
I don't ask him about it off air either.
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
I don't.
ian carroll
I mean, you've got to respect a man's private.
He's got NDAs up the wazoo for that kind of shit.
joe rogan
Also, he has top secret military clearance and he runs SpaceX.
ian carroll
Bingo.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wouldn't say jack shit.
ian carroll
And that's where Flat Earth comes in.
joe rogan
They're all real.
They're very subtle.
That's what I would say too.
ian carroll
Exactly.
And I think that Flat Earth, a lot of the evidence that gets cited as Flat Earth, like, for example, NASA fakes footage.
And if you look into it, it's fucking obvious that NASA is putting out fake footage.
They're clearly on wires in some of that footage.
Clearly some of that footage is underwater and there's bubbles fucking floating up and shit.
joe rogan
Which footage?
ian carroll
Just like NASA publishes all kinds of footage.
From like the ISS, to they have live streams, to they do like videos, and no one ever watches it.
Because like, whoever watches random NASA footage.
joe rogan
So you think some of the ISS footage is fake?
ian carroll
There's a lot of footage you can find online that is coming from NASA where there's like little slips or like a guy is like, they're doing their floating shit and then the buddy reaches out and grabs where a wire is to help his buddy get back into frame.
Like little slips of the mind where they're like just trying to orchestrate.
joe rogan
I've never seen any of that.
ian carroll
And who knows if it's real or not?
joe rogan
I've seen the moon landing footage that looks hokey.
ian carroll
Yeah, so all I'm saying is that gets cited by flat earthers as like, NASA's covering up flat earth.
And what I'm saying is that there's a lot of reasons why NASA would cover up and produce fake footage from something like the ISS, and every single one of them rhymes with aliens.
Because if there's any type of aliens going on up here, it's very possible that they are up there in that fucking space station.
What?
Or like, they could be, like, I don't know.
And I'm not saying I think they are for sure.
I'm just saying that people tend to look at a...
And sometimes there's other explanations.
And aliens apply to so many parts of our world, like demons.
Sound very much like the UAP phenomenon to me, right?
A lot of these religious beliefs sound very much like explainable, just with different wording, by UAP phenomenon.
As in, some of these aliens, we seem to be being told that they communicate telepathically.
They have energetic ability, right?
I'm getting to the point where I'm suspecting that we're going to be finding out that religion is like humans trying to interpret these phenomenon over millennia in all the human ways we would.
And telling stories about them.
And I'm not saying that God's not real.
I'm saying God is real.
And that does not diminish God at all.
I almost think it makes God more important and more powerful to understand.
Because from my understanding, correct me if you have a different one, it sounds like we're getting a lot of reports that are cross-corroborating that there's more than one thing going on here.
It's not all aliens are the same.
Some of them might be us from the future.
Some of them might be us from under the water.
Some of them might be other species.
All these phenomenon are, but they're definitely not just made up.
joe rogan
And I think some of them are ours.
ian carroll
I agree.
joe rogan
I think the cover-up is the weird part, though.
It's like, if you go back to Operation Blue Book, when they started doing that, the sole purpose of Operation Blue Book is to take any credible story and make it look ridiculous.
And they talked about that openly.
And then Hynek, when he left Operation Blue Book, became a believer.
And start talking about UFOs being real.
That's a big old red flag right there.
ian carroll
I mean, the UFO community is filled with people like that.
And it's really hard to know who's who.
It's super hard to know who's who.
And did you notice how recently, like a month ago sort of, there was this breaking story that set the whole UAP community on fire about this disclosure that I think Jeremy Corbo was coming out of whistleblowing on, if I remember correctly.
That they were saying that they're going to trick us by saying that there's a mothership around.
Right.
joe rogan
Yeah, I did hear that.
ian carroll
And it becomes this thing where it's like, how do you know?
He's saying that he's exposing it, but how do you know if he's exposed?
It's just like, it's the ultimate test of, are you skeptical enough and also open-minded enough and thoughtful enough?
joe rogan
Also, if there's a believer, get them some bullshit.
Feed the believer some bullshit.
ian carroll
Exactly.
They don't even have to know that they're in on it, right?
joe rogan
They don't have to know.
And it could be kind of plausible bullshit, and it could be corroborated with some other bullshit that you have.
ian carroll
I think that's what most bullshit artists are in most fields.
I think it's usually useful idiots.
Like, people like myself, genuinely.
Like, I am in some ways one of those people in the sense that if I get fooled by something, I become that.
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
Which is why it's so important to think really carefully and to be okay with being wrong.
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
Because you never know what your sources are.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
And that's also why I'm really careful not to do very many, like, leaks or whistleblows or, like, because...
How do I know who the fuck you are?
I don't want to spend all the time to try to vet you and find out where you came from and your story came from.
I'd way rather just learn.
There's so much to learn.
joe rogan
One of the weirdest things about Jacques Vallée's work is that Jacques Vallée has been documenting this stuff, again, since I think the 50s or the 60s is when he started, but he's also documented historical stories.
And the historical stories...
ian carroll
You mean like from before modern times?
joe rogan
Like 1700s, 1800s, and these stories are the same story.
They're the same story about people who never heard of them.
Not only that, in the 70s, he's documenting this woman that in California found an egg-shaped craft in her yard.
She tells this story about confronting this being.
There's an egg-shaped craft.
These fucking egg-shaped crafts, all described by people who don't know that someone else has described this story.
ian carroll
And no one would ever choose an egg shape when they're describing an aircraft.
joe rogan
Right, right, right.
ian carroll
Especially back then.
joe rogan
And it's also all telepathic communication.
It's all like weird moments.
ian carroll
Same stories.
joe rogan
Lapse of time.
Memories confused.
You feel like your brain's been erased.
Don't know what's going on.
You find yourself in a field.
How did I get here?
There's a lot of weird shit that's like the same story over and over and over again.
Too much so that you get...
First of all...
Clearly, when you're dealing with things in the 1700s and 1800s, it's not modern propaganda.
It's not the government.
They're not covering up drones in the 1700s.
So why are these stories in the fucking Bhagavad Gita?
ian carroll
I mean, you could make the argument, not the Bhagavad Gita, but you could make the argument that back then people were writing fiction or wanted attention.
Those could apply, but I'm skeptical.
But yeah, I get down with the ancient ones.
With the Graham Hancocks of this world, that was my first conspiracy theory stuff back when I was a leftist.
I was just like, ancient conspiracy theories, let's go.
And it's so compelling.
The Great Flood, the Randall Carlsons of this world, and the way that they kind of talk about...
And it's so obvious, more and more and more, that there is a cover-up.
And Jimmy Corsetti has been really going hard at mainstream archaeology lately.
joe rogan
He's fantastic.
ian carroll
To not just look at the evidence of the old school, like the ancient conspiracy theories, but actually to just go at the cover-up today.
Because that sometimes is the most effective thing, is to just target the cover-up.
Because that is clear evidence that we're onto something.
Who knows what it is?
joe rogan
Because of Jimmy Corsetti and his experience.
Exposure of them planting those trees in Gobekli Tepe.
Yeah, he changed it.
Yeah, they're changing it.
They're pulling those trees out.
Because he was one of the first people to say, hey, those roots are going to damage these ruins.
And they're like, no, no, no, it's fine, it's safe.
And then they're like, actually, the roots are damaging the ruins.
ian carroll
But then you do get people that go all the way to...
The guy that thinks Nibiru is the 12th planet or whatever.
Zacharias Sitchin.
There's people that go so far down these ancient conspiracy theory rabbit holes that I feel like we're getting way off track here, guys.
We're starting to cite sources that are not credible and we're taking it to places where maybe the Anunnaki were here to mine gold and maybe we're very plausible that we're all genetically engineered, I think.
But there's a fine line between Maybe that could be true.
joe rogan
Those stories are the best, though.
They are fun.
ian carroll
I'm planning to write a book that is sort of like a series of books, really, across my later life, that is basically...
Imagine writing a book that is set in the...
You could write ancient books about the old school where if that book was real, you could still wind up in today's world with all the same evidence we have, and it could be real.
Even if back then it's crazy magic and there's all this crazy shit going on, it could still end up with, oh, the pyramids are left over from that, and oh, the ruins are here after that great flood thing happened.
And then you could write all kinds of crazy conspiracy theory stories into today that like...
How could you prove that this is not real?
I just think that's the most fun aspect is how much we don't know.
joe rogan
Well, the evidence of ancient technology is one of the more fascinating aspects of trying to piece together our past because Whatever explanation you try to use to make the pyramids, none of them work.
ian carroll
Nope.
Not even close.
joe rogan
None of them work.
None of them work.
ian carroll
And even their purpose doesn't make any fucking sense.
Clearly they were not tombs.
joe rogan
No.
ian carroll
I mean, pretty clearly they were some sort of power generation or something like that.
joe rogan
Well, we've seen Christopher...
ian carroll
I've been seeing Timothy, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar guy that's going around on podcasts these days.
Timothy someone, someone?
Yeah, dude, it's crazy.
joe rogan
Chris Dowd, right?
Christopher Dowd.
So, Christopher Dowd is...
Dunn.
Christopher Dunn.
Sorry, Chris.
Christopher Dunn came on the podcast.
ian carroll
Dowd is a different guy's last name.
joe rogan
Yeah.
ian carroll
Right?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm thinking of Mike Dowd from The 7-2, the documentary on the corrupt...
So what's Dunn saying?
Christopher Dunn is all about...
Well, he's an engineer.
And his theory was that it was a giant power plant.
And he has a very sophisticated Giza the power plant.
Very sophisticated...
ian carroll
Is he talking about the aquifers underneath them and the two types of stone sort of a thing?
joe rogan
He's talking about the physical structure of the way the pyramid was made and that there was...
Excuse me.
This subterranean chamber that they used to generate a pounding of vibration that went through the entire structure of the pyramid.
It generated this vibration.
And they had chemicals that were coming in that were producing hydrogen.
He had the king's chamber, the way it's lined up.
This is exactly how you do it if you were trying to do this.
Everything matches up mathematically.
It's fascinating.
ian carroll
And they're built on aquaphoras from the Nile flooding every year.
And every year when the Nile floods, water rushes underneath those pyramids.
joe rogan
Through these like stony kind of like porous rocky structures under there It's just there's so many interesting versions of what it could be at the very least It's a mystery and it's also a mystery that shows fantastic engineering and construction methods and The ability to move rocks and bring them from 500 miles away through the mountains that are 50 tons.
Like, how?
ian carroll
I suspect telepathy of some form.
I suspect, like, alien capability.
Do you think it's technology or do you think it's like...
joe rogan
Well, it's some kind of technology, right?
ian carroll
You don't think it could possibly be that aliens have the ability to literally move things with their minds?
joe rogan
I mean, look, if you're dealing with something that can come here from another planet and communicates telepathically, who knows?
Who fucking knows?
Even if it's human beings, let's say it's super sophisticated human beings that lived at the very least 4,500 years ago, because that's the conventional dating of the construction.
Even that, you're like, how?
ian carroll
Yeah, we can't do it today.
unidentified
How?
joe rogan
And people that say we can't, sure, we could.
It would take hundreds of years.
ian carroll
Jimmy Corsetti's done some great videos where he compiles real videos of us moving large objects today, and the trucks breaking and the cranes falling off of cliffs and all this shit of like, look at how hard.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
It's crazy.
And the idea that they were completed in 20 years, which is the reign of Khufu.
It's nonsense.
And it's also like these archaeologists, they're clinging to this narrative because this is what they taught in school.
This is what they wrote books about.
ian carroll
And then when you look at the cover-up, there's no reason for that level of cover-up if it's just...
A building technology.
That's where I start to go, clearly that is connected to these UAP technologies, to these free energy technologies, whatever it is.
There has to be some sort of reason why covering up how these ancient structures and ancient cultures were built and worked has to relate somehow to something very important and valuable today.
joe rogan
I think they also have to somehow or another explain it because to say that it's impossible opens up too many doors and it removes the expert.
Because you're not an expert anymore because you're one of us now.
You might know more about that site than I do, but you still don't know what the fuck happened.
So you have to claim or at least push it out there.
You're the voice of reason.
You're the voice of...
This is the actual historians.
We're the real archaeologists.
ian carroll
Don't worry.
joe rogan
We've got it covered.
ian carroll
I saw a really funny meme the other day that was...
It was like four pictures and it was humanity gets really intelligent and invents AI. AI builds all these crazy technology...
Yeah, it could be.
I mean, how would we know?
joe rogan
Or it could be the asteroids that hit, or the comets that hit at the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.
ian carroll
It is an interesting split in the conversation, right, between the solar flare conversation and the comet impact conversation.
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
And there's, like, evidence for both.
joe rogan
Right, right.
ian carroll
It could have been both at once.
unidentified
It could have been both.
joe rogan
Or across a period of a thousand years or something.
Well, that's the Younger Dryas Impact Theory.
They think there was more than one event.
They think there was an event around 11,800 years ago, and then again around 10,000 plus years ago.
And this makes sense why civilization sort of emerges.
6,000 years ago.
Because it's like, we were probably fucking savages for thousands of years.
We were probably monsters.
ian carroll
I mean, I'd imagine that we only lived inside of sorts of like Ellora Caves type places for a while, right?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Which is still found evidence of these massive underground structures that they can't explain.
Why would someone use their resources in a time of hunters and gatherers to build these underground structures that are fucking insane?
Like, multiple football fields underground.
ian carroll
Entire city.
That can house thousands and thousands of people.
And a couple of smart researchers point out really astutely that if you were doing that to hide from other humans, to protect yourself from other humans, you would never dig into a cave system that you should get drowned in.
Right.
You would never dig into a cave system that has no way out so that you can just get sealed in.
unidentified
Right.
ian carroll
That's clearly not, it wasn't to escape humans.
joe rogan
Also, you'd have to leave to get food.
ian carroll
Bingo.
joe rogan
You'd be trapped.
Like the Mongols used to famously sit outside cities for weeks just waiting for people to starve.
We'll just wait.
We have plenty of food out here.
ian carroll
And that's another example of this exact same phenomenon we're talking about of these old control systems that work perfectly well in the old era.
And now that we have these communication technologies and everyone's getting linked together, it's just the free flow of ideas that just...
It's like this natural evolution of consciousness and humanity that we just naturally start to break through those...
I'm of the mindset that...
Yeah, we can all change the world.
And yeah, our choices do matter a lot.
But also, in some ways, we're all just part of this cosmic system of the evolution.
We're all just part of this giant humanity system where we're all collectively on balance with all the weird probabilities of all these people.
We're going to evolve technology.
We were going to industrial revolutionize.
We were going to find oil.
We were going to discover electronics.
We were going to invent AI. It was always going to happen.
And this is an era that is always what's going to happen.
And it will happen one way or the other.
We affect how it happens.
We could go the Whitney Webb dystopian, like they rule us with surveillance everywhere.
Or we could go to this great utopia of everyone has enough and we're all...
joe rogan
Well, I think she's right that that's a possibility.
ian carroll
Oh, it's a super important one to talk about, too.
joe rogan
Well, you know, Elon talks about, like, there's an 80% chance that AI will save us, 20% chance that it'll rule us.
ian carroll
I do respect how he openly will say that, like, yeah, the things I'm inventing could be used for evil.
Like, the things I'm inventing are dangerous.
And we need to be careful and regulate them properly and create them with intention and careful care.
I don't know if he's necessarily doing as much as I would hope he's doing to take...
I'm sure glad it's him and not...
Jeffrey Epstein, who was deeply interested in all these same technologies, this is a whole other side of him that no one talks about, is his interest in technologists and geneticists and all those things, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, well, he had a lot of influence over scientists.
That's a creepy move to take scientists and bring them...
ian carroll
Throw parties for them, throw conventions for them.
And a couple of them had some serious accusations, like Marvin Minsky, for example, but I bet a lot of them were not compromised.
Like Stephen Hawking.
Everyone freaked out when Stephen Hawking was on the list, but it makes perfect sense.
You realize that he was throwing conventions on that island for scientists, specifically, to bring them all together because that way you get connections, you can get favors.
Even if you're not blackmailing them, then they just want to be on your good side because you have all these connections and you can fund all their projects and you become this integral part of this technological sort of space.
joe rogan
Blackmail is not the only two.
That's a blunt instrument.
There's a lot of just...
Just connections.
ian carroll
He also just hooked people up with wives.
Like, do you know that he claimed that he introduced Melania to Trump?
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
Yeah, that's a crazy one.
I suspect, Melania conspiracy time, I suspect that Melania has been whispering in Trump's ear, I think she was trafficked.
Before.
Either bad traffic or just like knew Epstein and knew that world a little bit.
But I suspect that she's been whispering in his ear about what that really is and does and all that things.
Because a lot of...
She's been kind of like acting from the back a lot.
But when you really dig into what Melania's been doing, she's very...
very active in anti-trafficking and in protecting traffic victims and girls and stuff.
And as Trump, when he married her, and then they have Barron, and he's watching his son grow up.
So you have this young child, and you have this wife telling you about her previous life, probably, and just whispering in your ear that, like, this could be your legacy.
This could be your legacy.
This could be your legacy, right?
Because he used to be friends with those people, even though I don't think he was blackmailed, because I think that would have come out when the Democrats were going for him.
And maybe he was involved in the trafficking a little bit because of the things that he bought and the people that he knew and, like, Roy Cohn connections.
But I don't even know about that.
But regardless, he knows the game.
And then he marries Melania.
And then more and more, he was in charge when Epstein went down.
He was the only one that when Epstein got arrested and they were going around asking for dirt, he was like, I'll fully fucking cooperate.
Fuck that guy.
I'll tell you everything that I know.
And so I suspect that Melania has been instrumental in his sort of shift to being the only guy willing to go after those traffickers.
joe rogan
Out of all the information that's getting disclosed, supposedly, this administration, what do you have the least faith that we're going to come to a conclusion?
ian carroll
Epstein, for sure.
joe rogan
Epstein.
ian carroll
And I think it's because of Israel.
Really?
Because I think, I mean, when you really dig into Epstein...
His entire network was Israel.
It was clearly.
Ehud Barak was the ex-prime minister and the ex-head of Israeli intelligence.
Leslie Wexner was one of the most powerful pro-Israeli philanthropists.
The whole organization was Israel.
And I'm not saying it was all of Israel.
joe rogan
It was all an intelligence gathering.
ian carroll
And it was targeting Americans.
It was targeting American officials and the American president.
And the CIA does have interest in those targets, too.
Elements in the CIA does.
Certainly they had help from the CIA. And certainly they had help from these other organized crime and intelligence operations.
So, for example, Dan Bongino, the new deputy director of the FBI, he recently had this clip that went all around where he said on camera that he had a source that he trusted deeply.
And he's an informed guy.
He was at a Fox News interview, and the source told him that Epstein was working for an intelligence agency in the Middle East.
And I don't know which one, but someone in the Middle East.
And to be fair, we all already knew this.
We already know who he worked for.
At least I think so.
But I'm looking at, okay, Dan, so...
If this giant group of Jewish billionaires is running a sex trafficking operation targeting American politicians and business people and stuff, you think they're working with an Arab or Muslim nation in the Middle East?
Like, you think that Leslie Wexner is devoting his entire life to philanthropies on behalf of Israel, but then he's going to work for Saudi Arabia when he's doing this trafficking?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But if someone says to him...
That they're all working for a country in the Middle East, knowing he knows what that means, but not specifying?
Doesn't he kind of have to repeat it that same way?
ian carroll
Well, he also has to repeat it the same way because he won't get the job if he says Israel.
Because Israel has so much control over our government right now.
And I'm not saying that all Jews are in on something.
Clearly.
Internet.
unidentified
Thank you.
ian carroll
And Joe is definitely not saying that.
joe rogan
Definitely not.
ian carroll
But Israel's government is every bit as...
As vulnerable to the deep state effect as the American government.
But I would argue that Israel's government is way more vulnerable to it because of the people that founded Israel and the way it was founded.
It was founded in a modern time, much more recently.
It was a revolutionary founding.
And I can totally sympathize with the Jewish desire to have that state.
I get it.
But because of the way that happened, the people that founded Israel were a bunch of organized crime figures in America, the Jewish mob, that were helping with money and with arms.
And then the people that were there, the three different organizations, the Irgun, the Lehigh Group, and the Haganah, those were the three paramilitary groups that fought to found Israel, and they're like the heroes of Israel, which I understand the narrative that they're heroes, but...
When Israel was officially founded, they officially designated Irgun and Lehi as terrorist organizations because they had been bombing civilians.
They'd been bombing British civilians.
The first official act of terror before they changed the definition was the bombing of the King David Hotel, where these terrorists, these Lehi and Irgun terrorists, a bunch of different groups, the guy who planned that bombing later became the prime minister of Israel.
They were bombing...
Civilians.
And so when those are the groups that are fighting to found that nation, even if all the Jews there are wonderful people, the leadership is inherently composed of these people that have been deeply corrupt for all time.
And so you get this fertile ground for this kind of deep state effect to take power.
And when you start to research the heads of state of Israel over history, you realize that a bunch of them were in those groups doing those terrorist acts and have done a bunch of dark stuff because...
Those were the people that were at the top of that military organization.
Those terrorist organizations reformed to form the IDF. And what's interesting is you can talk about this now post-October 7th.
It opened wide open.
joe rogan
Post-Gaza.
ian carroll
You want to know a funny story, actually?
I didn't know shit about it.
And I started doing 9-11 stuff.
And I was doing a 9-11 video on my YouTube.
And I knew about the dancing Israeli conspiracy theory that is very much a real set of documents.
And I knew that I'm not allowed to talk about Israel for some reason, and I didn't really know why.
And I realized, like, I better fucking understand this thing before I crater my new channel and career on this topic I don't understand.
If I'm going to take a stance against Israel at all, I should understand why and how.
So I started doing research, and I shelved that research, and I switched to researching Israel and Palestine and the history there and what's going on.
And I finished the video, and it was October 6th, and I was like, I was very worried because it's like, you weren't allowed to talk about it.
And I had just made this whole documentary about the history of Israel-Palestine and the propaganda and what it all was.
And I published it on October 6th on my Locals channel.
And I kind of had this, like, lean back and like, if that's the end of the ride and I get canceled for this shit, so be it.
And then literally the next day, and I'm not saying that October 7th is a good thing, but I'm saying that literally the next day, the entire internet was ablaze about Israel and Palestine and everyone was talking about it.
And it was the weirdest fucking coincidence, like, And suddenly it was like, oh, all right, let's fucking dig this thing open.
Because unfortunately, it is, I mean, I think fortunately, I think that the state of the Israeli influence that sustained them for so long, that was essential to them surviving this long, I think that it has grown cancerous to the Jewish faith in general.
Because Jeffrey Epstein is the perfect example of this.
Jeffrey Epstein was the world's most...
Prolific and evil sex trafficker that we know of so far, ever.
And he very clearly was a Jewish organization of Jewish people working on behalf of Israel and other groups.
And so that's a dark stain on Israel and on the Jewish people if you own it.
Like if you try to defend that, that's not good.
You don't want to have to defend that.
You want to be free of that kind of shit because the Jewish people don't believe in that.
That's not what Jews are.
Jews are regular people.
joe rogan
It's the deep state of the intelligence age season in Israel.
ian carroll
And the thing about Israel is that...
Jewish people have every incentive to need to defend Israel, right?
joe rogan
Right.
ian carroll
Because if I'm a Jew, it's like, of course you have to defend Israel.
Like, that's very understandable.
It's your people.
And you don't want another Holocaust.
Like, you don't want another, like, Jews have been in conflict with other people for ages because they are outsiders and because they are so different and because they group up.
And lots of reasons.
But you don't, like, as a Jewish person, you're now faced with this choice.
Do I stand by Israel always, forever, for everything?
And defend everything they do, or do I get labeled as a self-hating Jew like Dave Smith gets labeled, like Glenn Greenwald gets labeled?
Do I stand against all of my culture, and do I get ostracized by my family and by my community?
But the problem is that if you have to defend everything that Israel does, you're forced to defend this fucking deep state that is in bed with these organized crime figures.
And I would argue that that Israeli deep state is just as much in bed with all the other organized crime as our deep state is, as the Saudi deep state is.
There's evil people at the top of all these governments.
joe rogan
Well, the thing is, Israel is connected to one race of people.
Whereas the United States, which also is involved in a lot of really fucked up things all over the world, when people think about the United States, they don't...
Bingo.
ian carroll
And so it just puts us all in this impossible situation, and it's an impossible conversation that we all—and I'm glad for it, because it's a maturing process.
And I think we need to do it very delicately and very carefully and thoughtfully, because Jewish people are people, and they're not evil.
But there are evil Jewish people, and there are evil American people, and there are evil Saudi people, and that's the way it is.
joe rogan
Well said.
ian carroll
And so I welcome the conversation, but unfortunately, the thing— For me, fortunately, is when I first researched it, I came across this documentary on Rumble called The Occupation of the American Mind, which is a very well put together documentary that is mostly Jewish people speaking about the history of Israel and about how they realized in the 80s when there was this specific operation where they wound up bombing this refugee camp called Sabra and Shatilla,
or a refugee camp in a place called Sabra and Shatilla.
And there was other...
I guess it was a massacre.
It wasn't a bombing.
And it was the first time where Western journalists had taken video cameras over there and video feed were coming back of the conflict of what was happening.
And American sentiment turned really harshly against Israel in the 80s there.
And they realized...
We don't need to win just the kinetic war.
We need to win the ideological war on the global scale.
Because if we don't win that ideological war, the whole world will turn against us and call us a colonial project, which I would argue they kind of are.
But that's not the point here.
And I don't mean to say I'm necessarily right about my perspective on that.
But that's when...
They switched to a propaganda war.
And they started targeting the United States with propaganda.
And they hired the world's top propagandists to teach Israelis and Israeli military officials and government officials how to communicate with the West and how to propagandize the West so that we would remain in the dark a little bit.
That's why we have this veil and this anti-Semitism thing.
It's why you're not allowed to talk about it.
Because it evolved over time.
And they eventually hired this guy that I think is called Luntz.
And Luntz worked with the Israel Project.
There's a report online that came out in 2009, I think, called the Israel Language Dictionary.
American language dictionary.
And it's basically a word for word.
This is how you discuss the rockets raining down.
This is how you discuss the settlements.
This is how you discuss the occupation and the palace and all these things.
And they use examples of words that work and words that don't work.
And when you read it, you realize like, holy shit, that's exactly what politicians have been saying on TV my entire life.
And they use Obama as one example of really good words that work.
You should talk like Obama because he's good at sort of empathizing with the other side and making us understand that like we're here.
I say that to mean that we live inside this propagandized space because it's been essential to them for so long to protect that image in order to continue the deep state element of what they're doing.
When I would argue that we would all be much better off if...
Bibi was fucking not there.
And we had a more sane person in charge of Israel that was actually there for peace and not there for whatever the fuck Bibi is doing.
And we could start to heal this thing and talk about it.
joe rogan
Most people in the general public aren't even aware that the Israeli people were protesting against Netanyahu before October 6th.
ian carroll
He's about to get kicked out.
joe rogan
Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets and that it had been going on for a long time.
ian carroll
100%.
I suspect, I'm hoping I'm not blowing the lid on Trump's idea here, I kind of suspect that Trump is kind of in on a coup against Netanyahu right now.
This is just my theory based upon the way he talked about like I suspect that these powerful Jews, like the Adelson type people, are starting to realize that Netanyahu is kind of sinking this ship.
And he's kind of fucked it all up, and it's not going well for Israel in the public conversation.
Like, I can ratio just about anyone I want on Twitter over the Israel thing, because the public sentiment is just shifting.
And it's not healthy for anyone, for Jewish people or anyone else.
And I'd suspect that the powerful Jewish people are starting to see that.
And are starting to scheme on how do we fucking get Netanyahu out of there and put someone in that can actually move us towards some sort of peace.
Because without a genuine desire for...
Netanyahu is on fucking camera saying that they have propped up Hamas in the Gaza Strip because they don't want a real government in the Gaza Strip.
Because it's far better for them to run this occupation and to eventually take the land if Hamas is...
I mean, that's not an exact quote.
Everyone should look that up for themselves.
joe rogan
But not just propped up, but funded.
ian carroll
Exactly, yeah.
And intentionally kept there.
joe rogan
Just when you hear that, you're like, well, what's the logic for funding Hamas?
What logic?
ian carroll
Well, it's the exact same logic as us funding the Taliban.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
It's the exact same logic.
It's the exact same strategies.
joe rogan
Did you see that?
God, I wish I would remember where it was happening, where someone had to say, are we really sending the Taliban $40 million a week?
ian carroll
Yeah.
joe rogan
We were.
ian carroll
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah.
And it happens over and over and over again.
We're just sending money willy-nilly to all these, like, Ukraine, Israel, Taliban, you name it.
And those are just a small spattering.
We've done it across the whole world.
Indonesia, Central and South America.
joe rogan
And we've been doing it that way forever.
ian carroll
Forever.
And it's this playbook of...
The deep state is a funny term.
I think it's kind of time to retire it.
Because it's not the deep state.
It's like this corporate, like, transnational corporate criminal organization space.
Where transnational corporations like the banks, like J.P. Morgan, Jamie Dimon.
They were banking Jeffrey Epstein.
They don't answer to us.
They're not American.
They don't give a shit about America.
Like, they give a shit about money and power.
And they're legally required to because they're a public corporation.
That's a whole BlackRock thing we could go down.
It's crazy.
And so, like, when you look at it as people who have this globalist...
And actually, that's why people shit on Alex Jones for saying globalists.
Like, all the fucking anti-Jew people are like, just say the Jews!
And it's like, no, dude.
Like, there's way more going on here.
And the tie that binds all of them together, the Klaus Schwab's of this world, the Jeff Bezos's, and I don't know, maybe Jeff's a good guy.
I don't know.
But like the people that don't think in terms of these are my people and I love them, but rather I'm like a piece of this global community of billionaires that like our job is just to make money and fucking control the world.
Like Bill Gates is a great example.
They live outside of our world and they do not give a shit if COVID kills 10,000 people or 100,000 people or 10 million people, whatever.
And I'm generalizing because obviously they are individuals and they each have their own perspective on what's going on, but it feels to me from researching there's enough of them that are evil.
That they're doing some horrible things.
And the ones that are a little less evil, maybe they know what they're in on.
Maybe they only know some of it.
Because you don't have to disclose everything.
And these kinds of plans, like, for example, in a CIA plot to overthrow the government of Guatemala, you're not telling everyone the whole plan.
joe rogan
They didn't tell Smedley Butler.
ian carroll
No, they didn't tell him shit.
They told him that they were going to overthrow a communist that was already taking over the...
I think they probably told him that he was a Jewish communist because they think they were riding on like FDR's second in command was Henry Morgenthau Jr. And he was deeply aligned with the Jewish, like the rich Jewish kind of powers in the world at that day.
And there was a lot of anti-Jewish sentiment back then.
And so I suspect that they told Smedley Butler that like.
This guy's a fucking Jewish plant and he's part of the Rothschild thing and he's a communist, we need to overthrow him.
And Smedley didn't buy it.
Smedley collected fucking research on them and he went to FDR and he exposed the whole plot.
But the problem was that FDR couldn't do anything because these people, titans of industry, like the Bushes of the World, the Fords, I don't even know all their names at this point.
It's been a while since I did that dig.
He couldn't do anything, and so nothing happened.
He couldn't charge them because they just said, you just got out of the Great Depression, we will fuck your economy up.
Done.
joe rogan
Done.
ian carroll
There's so much power.
joe rogan
Let's bring this to a fucking halt.
Enough.
You freak me out.
unidentified
I already blew the whole thing up, dude.
ian carroll
Thank you very much, man.
Let's real quickly, though.
Be clear.
Joe does not agree with everything that I just said on this podcast.
joe rogan
I can't believe what you said.
ian carroll
Yeah, Joe doesn't know shit, okay?
joe rogan
I am so upset that I even platformed you.
ian carroll
This is Ian Carroll speaking.
joe rogan
You're outrageous.
ian carroll
And also, like...
I'm perfectly willing to have a conversation about this.
I don't know that I'm right about everything.
I just know the sources I've read and where I've read them, and I try my best to figure out where they are.
joe rogan
Very reasonable.
Very reasonable in the way you do this, and I think it's a valuable service.
So thank you very much.
Thanks.
It was a lot of fun, too.
It was very enjoyable.
Tell everybody how they can find you.
unidentified
Yeah.
ian carroll
Find me on X, Ian Carroll's show, and I have a new website that just launched, which is CancelIanCarroll.com.
So cancel me, bitches.
unidentified
Perfect.
ian carroll
Come at me.
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