Valuetainment - June 22, 2026


“Not a Single Apology” - Joe Rogan Says Politicians Tried To SILENCE Him


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9 minutes

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138

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4

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7

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Joe Rogan claims multiple U.S. presidents directly tried to get his show taken down from Spotify. Special Report's Peter Bergen and Brett Schafer discuss this and more on this week's episode of the show.

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00:00:00.000 So here's Joe Rogan.
00:00:02.420 Joe claims multiple U.S. presidents directly contacted Spotify in an effort to get his show taken down.
00:00:10.720 Here's Joe.
00:00:12.860 I can't even talk about it, but there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify.
00:00:21.260 Oh, yeah.
00:00:22.180 Oh, yeah, trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation.
00:00:26.660 Yeah.
00:00:27.100 That turned out to be right. 0.85
00:00:28.360 all of it not a single fucking apologize interviewing the dude that invented mrna oh 0.92
00:00:34.300 yeah and the most published doctor in his field not a single apologize not a single apology from 0.96
00:00:39.040 anybody not a single retraction not a single you know mea culpa not a single we were wrong
00:00:44.740 and you know i lost a lot of sponsors i lost a lot a lot during that those days it was interesting
00:00:52.860 There was a time where it was working.
00:00:57.960 Wow.
00:00:58.540 Yeah.
00:00:59.580 I didn't know there was that much coordination.
00:01:01.320 Oh, there was a lot of coordination.
00:01:02.760 Who do you think?
00:01:03.320 I mean, we know one of the presidents was Biden.
00:01:06.880 That we know.
00:01:07.520 And it's not really Biden.
00:01:08.360 It's Jill.
00:01:08.940 But it's the administration.
00:01:10.240 Kamala.
00:01:11.500 Who else would it be?
00:01:12.700 Barack Obama.
00:01:13.680 Okay.
00:01:13.960 So if you got Obama as the other one, that would possibly do it.
00:01:16.700 Because he did say former, and he wasn't on Spotify until September 1st, 2020.
00:01:20.080 Do you really think GW cares?
00:01:22.220 I don't think he cares for nothing.
00:01:24.500 Do you think Hillary Clinton cares? 0.85
00:01:26.360 Well, she wasn't a president. 0.99
00:01:27.480 She did care.
00:01:28.100 That's why I think it is tied to her husband.
00:01:30.440 I don't think Bill cares. 1.00
00:01:31.180 I don't think Bill gives a shit. 0.99
00:01:32.320 I think Bill actually would be a great podcast on Joe. 0.99
00:01:34.400 If Bill ever did a Joe Rogan podcast, it would be a phenomenal podcast.
00:01:36.920 Bill would be great.
00:01:37.760 Yeah, if they did that podcast.
00:01:38.820 So what do you think about this yourself?
00:01:41.600 You know, you're on mainstream.
00:01:43.740 You're Fox.
00:01:44.220 You're on that side.
00:01:45.000 What do you think when you hear a story like this, Brett?
00:01:46.880 I think it's scary.
00:01:48.020 And it goes back to our first story about Tulsi Gabbard and that information today.
00:01:51.960 And by the way, we're investing, you know, some time in Special Report to go dig into that some more and where it goes and what we talked about at the beginning of the show.
00:02:01.360 But, I mean, this is that's the scary thing is that if you look back again, whatever happened to this is, you know, the entire squelching of all of that information in the early days.
00:02:14.860 And Joe is right. It got to the point where it was dangerous.
00:02:19.780 they were going to yank him. And it was pressure, real pressure. And yet years later, it turns out
00:02:26.700 all of the things that he was talking about and the interviews he was doing turn out to be true
00:02:32.420 where we are looking back at the disease, looking back at COVID. So I think it's scary. I think,
00:02:38.840 you know, we talk about freedom in my book, The Case for America, freedom of speech and how
00:02:43.380 important it is, freedom to pick up and go where you want to go. But when you see this and a
00:02:50.060 government coming down, it has to be a red alert, you know, sirens going up. Tom?
00:02:56.980 Well, God bless Daniel Eck, and thank God he wasn't in the U.S. where they could get him with
00:03:03.120 tax and other tools. He was on a hill that they couldn't use any of their weaponized techniques
00:03:10.480 or the, you know, FCC necessarily to, well, they could use the FCC, but it was more difficult.
00:03:16.000 Spotify's in Sweden, right, Tom?
00:03:17.380 Yeah, and by the way, you know, you take FCC rules on it.
00:03:21.120 I'll show you 30 seconds how to put a VPN on your phone and then go get what you're not supposed to get. 1.00
00:03:26.200 That's how the Chinese do it right now. 1.00
00:03:29.400 So I think, you know, thank you, Daniel Ek, for doing this. 1.00
00:03:33.080 But the other side of it, what this shows is that the cancel culture was real
00:03:38.260 and that what the left was willing to do to protect its turf
00:03:44.420 was not to allow debate but to suppress it.
00:03:48.200 And so the side that calls us, oh, you're this totalitarian regime,
00:03:54.500 yet you're the ones trying to push freedom of speech out the door.
00:03:57.500 You're the one trying to cancel voices.
00:03:59.780 You're the one that wants to pull back on debate.
00:04:04.380 Really? Who's the dictator now?
00:04:07.420 Who's the king now?
00:04:08.880 And I'm looking—if you've got a report coming on this, Brett, God bless you.
00:04:12.240 I'm looking forward to seeing where that came from.
00:04:15.140 I'm looking forward to seeing where the angles—because we've seen things that we know what the Obama administration is capable of,
00:04:22.680 and we know what Hillary Clinton is capable of, because now the Russian stuff is all public,
00:04:26.820 and we've seen the federal memoranda, and we've seen the DNI memorandum on that, Pat, right?
00:04:34.440 So guess what?
00:04:35.300 This is just Chapter 2.
00:04:36.440 But think about this. Joe Rogan, remember the ivermectin? He was sick. He was taking ivermectin.
00:04:41.920 CNN changed the colors.
00:04:43.240 And they said it was a horse medication and how dare he is endangering the population.
00:04:48.640 Now it turns out that ivermectin is, people go, oh yeah, that's something you could use.
00:04:55.760 Oh yeah, you mean the Chris Cuomo's and everybody saying that. I remember the actual segment where he's like, in a world of terror and everything, you know what's worse is your fellow American.
00:05:04.840 He literally said the unvaccinated, the people that aren't vaccinated, we're the terrorist. 0.95
00:05:08.760 Like, that's basically what he was saying, which is absolutely ridiculous.
00:05:12.000 And the fact that we're assuming, which I would put money on it, that the two presidents were Biden and Obama,
00:05:18.320 that just shows the power of Obama and who was really pulling the strings.
00:05:21.780 Because he was on a podcast, remember, when he goes,
00:05:23.580 if there was a way that I could be in a basement with an earpiece and tell them what to do, I would do it.
00:05:28.240 And mind you, this is the same Biden administration that send the feds to Twitter and Facebook to bury stories.
00:05:34.440 Bury the Hunter Biden laptop, which had all the freaking big guy, all the payments and everything, and the COVID stuff.
00:05:41.420 So you mean to tell me you guys were suppressing stories, besides the Hunter Biden thing, the effectiveness or the problems with a vaccine that you guys pushed with the deep state guy that was Fauci that was under President Trump?
00:05:55.360 And that's why, Brad, it drives me crazy when people are like, well, what's it called?
00:05:59.300 Operation Warp Speed happened under Trump.
00:06:02.040 Yeah, you mean a president that was getting told from a Fauci who was in for how many presidents?
00:06:07.800 How many presidents far back did Fauci go?
00:06:10.140 Maybe five presidents.
00:06:12.520 That's the problem.
00:06:13.500 So the fact that they're pushing it and they knew it wasn't safe is, again, going back to the main story of how unbelievable it is.
00:06:19.640 And now we're just supposed to move on and go to the next story.
00:06:22.100 You do need to give Chris Cuomo some grace.
00:06:23.960 He came out and did an about face on ivermectin, said he was taking ivermectin, and he went back and said that the things that Joe Rogan said were correct.
00:06:32.180 This was like two years ago, and he was on this podcast and made comments about that.
00:06:36.120 Now, there are other things that Chris has held the line on on his previous positions, but on that one point on ivermectin, you do got to give him grace because he's one of the few people that turned the other way and said, hey, yes, yes.
00:06:46.520 I just think it's overdue for Vinny and Chris to have a celebrity fight,
00:06:51.260 and we just do it in the gym here and watch that happen.
00:06:55.720 I'll just add one thing.
00:06:56.840 How many smaller podcasts that we don't know about?
00:06:59.880 I mean, Joe Rogan's on Spotify.
00:07:01.180 How many smaller podcasts just got?
00:07:02.800 A lot of them.
00:07:03.860 How many people?
00:07:04.380 A lot of them.
00:07:05.160 You know, it backfired.
00:07:06.340 Can we show that picture with Rogan when he literally looked like?
00:07:07.740 YouTube strikes.
00:07:08.860 You're right.
00:07:09.760 Can we show that picture of Rogan when they turned a?
00:07:12.420 We saw Rogan at UFC.
00:07:13.560 He's a stocked, you know, pretty tan guy.
00:07:15.380 guy looked like he was the incredible hulk i know he's big they made him green yeah there it is right
00:07:20.340 there disgusting i mean that's what cnn did to joe rogan yeah unbelievable so no wonder trust is at
00:07:24.980 all-time low but the last thing if people start taking ivermectin or people actually just start
00:07:30.360 getting outside and work it out you know what it messes with the big pharma money you see the movie
00:07:35.060 friday when he goes hey you mess with my money it's like messing with my emotions you start messing
00:07:39.680 with Pfizer, Moderna, J&J's money,
00:07:42.280 you're going to get a call from the president.
00:07:44.440 Yeah.
00:07:44.680 On July 1st, we're hosting a webinar
00:07:46.760 specifically for fathers.
00:07:49.120 And this is a, I would say it's all the mistakes
00:07:51.860 and everything that I've seen myself,
00:07:53.860 the great fathers of my life do.
00:07:55.480 We're going to talk about this on a webinar July 1st.
00:07:58.000 I want you to watch this video
00:07:58.940 and go register and put it on your calendar.
00:08:01.120 Go ahead, Connor.
00:08:03.160 When are you the happiest?
00:08:04.620 Is it when you're watching a game?
00:08:06.060 Is it when you're hanging out with your friends?
00:08:07.460 Or is it when your kids are around you?
00:08:08.760 I can tell you, I've traveled the world.
00:08:10.180 I've made a lot of money.
00:08:11.080 But I'm the happiest when my kids are sitting around me.
00:08:14.340 We're having dinner.
00:08:15.020 We're talking.
00:08:15.520 I enjoy it so much.
00:08:16.560 It's a very important job that you and I have.
00:08:18.580 There's five different types of fathers.
00:08:20.140 The absent father, the friend father, the dictator father, the provider father, and the builder father.
00:08:26.560 So no matter which one you're watching this, I don't want you to feel bad if you're saying, man, I kind of feel bad.
00:08:30.760 I'm the absent father.
00:08:31.880 I'm only the provider.
00:08:32.780 I'm always trying to win my kids over with money.
00:08:34.900 No matter what it is, every one of us wants to become better as a father.
00:08:38.140 If you're watching the same, Pat, I want to improve in this area.
00:08:40.860 I do as well.
00:08:41.420 I'm going to share with you what's worked for me and what mistakes I've made on July 1st, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
00:08:47.880 I'm doing a free webinar specifically to talk about the five different types of fathers and how you and I can become better at it.
00:08:56.280 So go to vtwebinar.com.
00:08:57.820 Register again.
00:08:58.380 Go to vtwebinar.com. 1.00
00:08:59.760 Ladies, you may also want to get there and get your husbands on it, but we're going to have a good time on that podcast.
00:09:04.420 Again, July 1st, 6 p.m., free webinar.
00:09:07.260 Go to vtwebinar.com to register for it.
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