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00:00:01.000What are we supposed to make of Joe Rogan?
00:00:03.000Well, Joe Rogan should apologize to no one.
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00:01:33.000So, this weekend, all of a sudden, we decided to get really outraged over something that Joe Rogan said over the last 12 years of conversation.
00:01:43.000So, Joe Rogan has been the centerpiece of kind of getting the word out around ivermectin and early treatments.
00:01:50.000He hosted Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Peter McCullough, and he had the courage and the platform to be able to change the Overton window on the public's perception of our immoral response to the COVID-19 pandemic or the Fauci virus pandemic.
00:02:09.000So, because of this, there have been multiple attempts to try and cancel Joe Rogan.
00:02:13.000The first of which came around the actual heart of the issue, which was whether or not Joe Rogan should be allowed to have a podcast while smoking weed and talking about aliens with celebrities when it came to even mentioning early treatments or having doctors on to speak about it.
00:02:31.000So, Joe Rogan has a very, and I've said this actually probably more than anyone else that's covered Joe Rogan.
00:02:37.000That I have never defended everything Joe Rogan has ever done or said, especially the drug use and the profanity.
00:02:43.000We've made that very clear on this program.
00:02:46.000In fact, I think Connor, we've probably made that more clear than almost anybody else.
00:02:50.000And so, now all of a sudden, the world has decided to get outraged about Joe Rogan, continuing from the quote-unquote disinformation he was spreading, which is actually anything but that.
00:03:01.000It was empowering information, where they were recirculating tapes of Joe Rogan using the N-word.
00:04:19.000Now, what's hilarious is that many of the, let's say, self-righteous beta males on Twitter that are getting so upset about Joe Rogan using the N-word, I guarantee you, when they were 15, 16, or 17 years old, acting like a tough guy going to their public high school, used to quote Kanye West or Jay-Z using the N-word and all the rap songs.
00:04:41.000This is something that suburban parents have got to wake up to, that every, especially if you have young men that are your kids, that they think they're being all tough by quoting all of this rap music and using the N-word and all of that.
00:05:47.000And the court cited evidence of discriminatory intent on the part of other legislators, including the representative who testified at the court hearing.
00:05:54.000So that's Joe Biden quoting somebody else who said it, the same thing that Joe Rogan did.
00:06:01.000And they say, oh, no, no, context matters.
00:06:35.000So Joe Rogan is now being held to this new kind of regime standard of trying to restrict freedom of information, freedom of speech, freedom of inquiry, because they say, we don't like him because of all these clips.
00:06:54.000Now, Joe Rogan has already apologized.
00:07:28.000And we're already kind of on shaking ground right now with Joe Rogan, especially given his recent pseudo-apology and retreat last week when it came to his coverage of Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone.
00:07:43.000So now, Spotify has come out, which gave him $100 million to host with them, and said, quote, Spotify team, there are no words I can say to adequately convey how sorry I am the way the Joe Rogan experience controversy continues.
00:07:58.000Not only are some of Joe Rogan's comments incredibly hurtful, I want to make it clear that they do not represent the values of this company.
00:08:29.000Because some guy that smokes weed before he was an employee of your company, talking about aliens and psychedelics and mushrooms and samurai culture and weightlifting, quoting other people, by the way, the same way Joe Biden did, the same way Madonna did, that leaves people so empty.
00:08:47.000You know, Gwyneth Paltrow did the same thing.
00:08:52.000It's important that you're aware that we've had conversations with Joe and his team about some of his content in his show, including his history of racially insensitive language.
00:09:01.000Following these discussions and own reflections, he choose to remember, he chooses to remove a number of these episodes from Spotify and also issue an apology over the weekend.
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00:11:04.000Right, Charlie Kirk and the how did you hear about us?
00:11:32.000I'm just saying it's up 20% because Rumble has offered $100 million to Joe Rogan if he wants to leave Spotify.
00:11:40.000But Spotify is saying they are now going to spend $100 million for the licensing and development and marketing of music and audio content for historically marginized, marginalized groups.
00:11:53.000Who would have ever thought that Joe Rogan saying something 10 years ago with his comedian buddies while sipping whiskey and smoking weed would cost Spotify so much money?
00:12:02.000Every civilization has a piety that you cannot violate.
00:12:06.000And the current piety is you cannot say the N-word.
00:12:09.000Now, if you're Jay-Z, it's perfectly fine.
00:12:11.000In fact, if you're Jay-Z, you can make millions of dollars off.
00:12:16.000There are entire rap groups and movies that focus on this in a great extent.
00:12:22.000Eminem can say it too, who's a white person, right?
00:12:25.000Eminem's allowed to do it because he kind of plays the role of a black rapper and he gets a pass.
00:12:31.000In fact, Eminem is going to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show this Sunday.
00:12:36.000Why does Eminem get to perform this Sunday for using the N-word, but Joe Rogan has to lose his entire career?
00:12:43.000Answer, Joe Rogan is a threat to the regime.
00:12:46.000This is a coordinated social media, corporate media attack against Joe Rogan because he's been so effective in getting people to challenge the vaccine.
00:12:56.000He's been so effective in getting people to challenge the corporate orthodoxy.
00:13:00.000He's been so effective in actually giving a platform to otherwise heterodox ideas.
00:14:16.000And he rates higher numbers than every other media outlet.
00:14:18.000And some of you might be saying, Charlie, I don't get the fixation on Joe Rogan.
00:14:22.000Your kids and grandkids get their news from Joe Rogan.
00:14:26.000He is the most powerful communicator of this entire generation, bar none.
00:14:32.000And we don't even know the entirety of his influence, by the way, because there's clips and people watch them in groups and there's all sorts of different cuts and downstream effects.
00:14:43.000He is one of the most effective Overton window shifters ever that we have.
00:14:48.000Do you have an idea how powerful Joe Rogan is?
00:14:50.000When Joe Rogan has a guest on his show that mentions a documentary, it becomes top five on Netflix of all shows.
00:15:22.000So Joe Rogan wants to be respected by the mainstream, whatever that even means anymore.
00:15:28.000But I think deep down, Joe Rogan has a deeper yearning and desire to tell the truth.
00:15:36.000Joe Rogan is victim to selective outrage.
00:15:39.000That Eminem, a white rapper, can use the N-word in his songs, or Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna can use it, but Joe Rogan can't use it, not even as a pejorative, not even in a sentence, but quoting other people.
00:15:52.000And by the way, let's just make one other point.
00:15:54.000Joe Rogan is a legitimately talented stand-up comedian.
00:15:59.000Comedians have always been exempt, or used to be exempt to the traditional rules of policing speech.
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00:19:24.000Ever since Donald Trump got elected, CNN led itself as the resistance to Donald Trump.
00:19:31.000But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character, who banned from social media, who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year, his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony.
00:19:44.000Ratings fell 90% overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022.
00:19:57.000Don Lamond's show is in total free fall.
00:20:01.000And now CNN is a completely obliterated network.
00:20:05.000Now new management is coming in and they're signaling big-time changes, changes that might bring in CNN back to the proud network it was before Jeff Zucker destroyed it.
00:20:16.000But it's really worthy of asking the question, which is, if CNN is collapsed and CNN is completely folded, why is it that, what else does that show us or what else does that demonstrate?
00:20:31.000Now, Chris Cuomo is working very, very hard to bring down the entire CNN house of cards because CNN was ousted.
00:21:51.000It's one of the reasons why is because we've been unafraid to talk about the vaccine.
00:21:54.000We've been unafraid to talk about lockdowns.
00:21:57.000We've been unafraid to talk about Joe Rogan, about race, about BLM, about schools, about critical race theory.
00:22:05.000All the things the CNN gatekeepers have refused to talk about for quite some time.
00:22:13.000Now, the founding fathers put into the U.S. Constitution one of the principles we talk about a lot on this show, checks and balances.
00:22:23.000And media should have checks and balances to it as well.
00:22:27.000Now, absent major companies like Time Warner or Lorene Powell Jobs with The Atlantic writing checks every single year to subsidize them, you are about to see the explosion, or I should say the culmination, of a major once-in-a-generation media bubble.
00:22:48.000We've been talking about this for quite some time, and the reason you did not see the media bubble early was because of two things.
00:22:54.000Donald Trump's election and COVID and the bailouts that came with COVID.
00:22:59.000Many of the bailouts that came with COVID were needed stimuli for media companies, helped pay their payroll, gave them some extra expenses.
00:23:10.000And plus, media actually did really well in the midst of the pandemic because people were consuming news all day long.
00:23:15.000They wanted new takes, they wanted interviews, they wanted information, even though all the information was fear, fear, fear, fear.
00:23:21.000And now that people are breaking out of the pandemic with Omicron and other things, all of a sudden, the fear-based media is not what people want anymore.
00:27:27.000And their entire network has imploded.
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00:30:29.000And so you have Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson, and Johnson, but not just that, the international global elites.
00:30:34.000And, you know, we talked last week about the Johns Hopkins study.
00:30:38.000In fact, we have a new Ask Me Anything episode that details that.
00:30:43.000And in the Johns Hopkins study, it shows that lockdowns had zero impact whatsoever.
00:30:49.000That's right, zero impact, zero positive effect on stopping the transmission of the virus.
00:30:56.000But I got to thinking over the weekend, I said, how were they able to pull this off?
00:31:02.000Because back on March 23rd, 2020, I went on Steve Hilton's program and I talked at great length at how this lockdown strategy is going to destroy the economy.
00:31:12.000And then it made sense that the stimulus package that was passed in late March, early April was very carefully written.
00:31:25.000Wall Street got exactly what they wanted.
00:31:27.000Wall Street was able to repurchase stocks at $18,000 when the DAO was $18,000 and you nearly see it double over the course of a year.
00:31:36.000Major companies had access to lower interest rates and they went on a borrowing spree.
00:31:41.000Every single sector that would otherwise lobby Washington, D.C. to reopen was paid off, including the restaurant sector that had massive amounts of PPP money.
00:31:51.000Democrat politicians were incentivized to keep the blue states closed as blue state bailouts came to bail out the blue state pension funds and other public sector liabilities.
00:32:02.000But of course, the casualty were the nation's children and the small businesses, the 100,000 plus small businesses that will never reopen because of the lockdown measures that occurred.
00:32:16.000But then you have people like Joe Rogan and others that start to call this out.
00:32:20.000Where is the regime media going to be able to place advertisements of significance?
00:32:25.000Are they going to buy network ads at the Olympics?
00:32:30.000You see, the ability to communicate with the American people is a question that the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab and the great reset crowd, they're currently struggling with.
00:32:42.000So they have to take the powerful chess pieces off the board, which is precisely why they've gone after Rogan.
00:32:50.000They cannot allow Rogan to keep on speaking freely.
00:32:53.000So the next best thing to cancel Rogan, the next best thing is to get him to not be himself.
00:33:03.000If Rogan ends up being a more vanilla, mainstream, and boring version, then the regime will have won.
00:33:11.000But I guarantee you this: people will not reward Joe Rogan generously with downloads if he all of a sudden becomes kind of a funnier, kind of stronger version of Jim Acosta.
00:33:28.000If Joe Rogan kind of becomes a buffer wolf blitzer, people aren't going to keep on tuning into the Joe Rogan experience.
00:33:35.000They like the Joe Rogan experience because you never know what you're going to get.
00:34:14.000Bureaucracies finally get held accountable.
00:34:16.000It's a year where not just one part realigns, but where would you ever think that you see the collapse of CNN, the temporary departure of Rachel Maddow, Republicans take back the House?
00:34:28.000You see all these things happening simultaneously.
00:34:32.000The laws of nature do not go into suspense just because a bunch of billionaires want them to go.
00:34:39.000This is just the beginning of a movement of what will be called the Great Realignment of 2022.
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