Valuetainment - January 18, 2026


＂Rogan's REALLY Bad Take＂ - ICE Critics SLAMMED As Trump THREATENS Insurrection Act


Episode Stats

Length

16 minutes

Words per Minute

192.01419

Word Count

3,246

Sentence Count

283

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Here's Joe Rogan talking about what it looks like on TV, what it's looking like to the average person that's watching it.
00:00:05.740 Go ahead, Rob.
00:00:06.880 You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up,
00:00:12.200 many of which turn out to actually be U.S. citizens that just don't have their papers on them.
00:00:16.520 Are we really going to be the Gestapo? Where's your papers? Is that what we've come to?
00:00:21.960 Anne, what do you think about what Joe said there?
00:00:24.680 I'm just horrified that my party is so bereft of Hollywood celebrities.
00:00:30.000 They will latch on to someone who was a janitor in a 1970s sitcom and make him into this hero.
00:00:37.580 I've always thought Joe Rogan is a moron.
00:00:40.660 If young men are looking for a masculine podcast, I would definitely recommend this one over that.
00:00:47.860 I mean, his claim to fame is he was first, so he gets interesting interviewees.
00:00:54.140 But if the people he's talking to are interesting, he's not interesting.
00:00:58.100 You don't think Joe is interesting?
00:00:59.120 No.
00:00:59.360 No, and I think what he just said was utterly beyond moronic.
00:01:03.040 Have you ever met him? Have you guys ever—
00:01:03.640 In fact, you've just—I mean, I think you just demolished what he said there.
00:01:08.480 I think everybody has this idea.
00:01:10.960 They've been saying this since 2015 about Trump.
00:01:14.600 Oh, which reminds me—I make fun of it in my book, In Trump We Trust, all of these op-eds in 1930s.
00:01:21.220 We're back to this, and he's comparing this to the Gestapo, as I just pointed out earlier.
00:01:26.000 The one part of the Arizona law that was upheld by the Supreme Court was what liberals were all saying.
00:01:33.560 Oh, it's papers, please. It's papers.
00:01:35.420 No, it's reasonable cause.
00:01:37.420 We're looking for illegal aliens.
00:01:39.000 Of course you can consider accents, ability to speak English, what someone looks like.
00:01:46.780 That is part of the many things they are looking at.
00:01:49.620 And the idea that they're pulling aside citizens, it's less than 1% of citizens who have even been briefly detained.
00:01:58.560 It means it's less than 1% fraud as opposed to 10% fraud in these feed-your-families programs.
00:02:06.900 If you don't mind—
00:02:08.020 I actually have the numbers, so in the past—great point—and in the last 12 months, there have been 100—this is one year—
00:02:15.400 170 confirmed instances in which an American citizen was temporarily or improperly detained by ICE, okay?
00:02:22.440 In that same time frame, there have been approximately 622,000 forced deportations, okay?
00:02:30.380 So, Anne, to your point, this puts ICE's improper temporary detention rate at 0.027.
00:02:37.720 So, in other words, ICE is doing a fantastic job and has a 99.973% success rate, okay?
00:02:45.560 And I respect Joe, but for saying the Gestapo and stuff, it's like they've caught the Gestapo bug.
00:02:50.720 You know why? Because during Obama, you never saw it.
00:02:54.440 CNN never showed it. MSNBC never showed it. Fox never—nobody ever aired this stuff, okay?
00:03:00.680 And just to add on top of it, Trump wants to be number one, so he has to catch Obama, which got 5 million out.
00:03:06.240 At this pace, he's not going to do it.
00:03:07.840 The Department of Homeland Security has publicly claimed that 1.9 undocumented illegal immigrants have voluntarily self-deported, okay, since Trump took offense.
00:03:19.400 If you know it's coming, I know it's hard, you have to leave.
00:03:23.560 Trump is enforcing the law. He didn't make the law, okay?
00:03:27.260 Yeah, please add 1.9 million. You didn't say million.
00:03:29.000 So, 1.9 million. I'm sorry, 1.9 million people were like, you know what?
00:03:32.580 They're coming. Let me leave, get my stuff together, and potentially come back the right way.
00:03:36.560 I don't see the problem.
00:03:37.900 Because think about it. Trump's kicking ass—sorry for my language—on every other aspect.
00:03:42.300 This is the one thing they have to do. You know why?
00:03:44.940 What is the Democratic Party running on?
00:03:47.800 What is—Gavin Newsom was yesterday on with Ben Shapiro.
00:03:51.620 He has nothing. It's just lie after lie after lie.
00:03:55.420 This is all they run on is hatred for us. It's hatred for us.
00:03:59.200 Gestapo, Hitler. It's like, it's enough. Enough.
00:04:02.340 Emotion and outrage are absent, and they don't have a platform.
00:04:05.120 There's no platform. They have no policy. They have nothing.
00:04:07.540 They have no leaders. They have nothing.
00:04:09.180 Well, I think this was a really bad take by Joe Rogan, but that doesn't mean he's a bad person.
00:04:14.620 In fact, respectfully, he's the GOAT of podcasting.
00:04:18.700 So you said his claim to fame, he was first.
00:04:21.240 Touche, the great Ann Coulter.
00:04:24.020 He's still first.
00:04:25.520 Remember when we were with Rogan, and he goes,
00:04:27.640 listen, I'm number one in 92 countries.
00:04:31.200 That's a big difference between being number 92 in one country.
00:04:35.560 So the challenge that Rogan will have is he's so good, and he's so big.
00:04:40.420 One bad take, and this was a bad take, respectfully, Mr. Rogan.
00:04:44.360 It's going to get amplified.
00:04:45.500 Even the White House responds.
00:04:47.660 But overall, he's the GOAT in the podcasting space.
00:04:50.740 He's still number one.
00:04:51.860 And he's going to, you know, give him a little grace to make some mistakes.
00:04:55.340 I would love to see him walk that back.
00:04:57.020 When I had a guy came to my place, Tom, you'll remember this.
00:05:03.000 He sent me this offer.
00:05:04.440 He says, please take this to the president.
00:05:06.980 Tom Holman, they need to see this.
00:05:09.620 He said, for you to be able to deport 10 million people,
00:05:13.700 here's what the budget's going to be.
00:05:15.700 You need people that are going to be finding folks.
00:05:18.280 You need trucks.
00:05:19.640 You need this.
00:05:20.240 He said, it's going to take you 700.
00:05:21.820 He gave a massive number of what it was going to take.
00:05:24.360 Okay, great.
00:05:25.200 But when they started saying, we're going to deport,
00:05:28.440 we're going to, you know, get rid of all these illegal immigrants,
00:05:31.320 the first thing I went to is people that are emotional,
00:05:35.420 that are just like regular people that are going to watch the content.
00:05:40.080 You know how much great content is going to be produced
00:05:43.060 to show how evil the current regime is,
00:05:47.060 and they're taking them back to their country
00:05:48.580 and separating them from their family,
00:05:50.900 and look how cold they are, and look how this they are.
00:05:53.440 So the average person, no matter who you are,
00:05:55.900 who is not studying the numbers, who is not looking into this closely,
00:05:59.100 is going to look at that and is going to say,
00:06:00.560 I cannot believe we're doing this.
00:06:02.320 And then you study history,
00:06:03.840 and then you're explaining the history of insurrection,
00:06:06.460 what Eisenhower did, what Kennedy did, Alabama, all this stuff.
00:06:09.720 And then somebody goes and looks at the history,
00:06:10.980 it's like, wait a minute.
00:06:12.220 We've been doing this for many, many times.
00:06:14.200 You have to do this to keep the American people safe.
00:06:16.080 But I do believe because it's such an emotional situation
00:06:21.520 that even the best and the brightest can fall for it and say,
00:06:26.020 this is not fair.
00:06:27.260 And millions will say, that's what we need.
00:06:29.600 We need more people like this that are empathetic.
00:06:31.520 But the reality of it is,
00:06:32.820 how many people it's going to take to do the next 9-11?
00:06:35.300 Go ahead and let's figure out right now this year,
00:06:40.420 what's coming up this year in June, July.
00:06:42.700 Hey, I heard it's our 250th birthday, baby.
00:06:44.680 But hang on a second.
00:06:46.160 World Cup is coming here.
00:06:47.320 Oh, that too.
00:06:47.760 Okay?
00:06:48.420 So let one massive event take place.
00:06:53.860 Let Munich, you thought what happened with Munich,
00:06:56.260 you know, let something like that happen here.
00:06:59.420 And then it's an illegal immigrant that came here,
00:07:01.720 not from Mexico, not from Guatemala, not from El Salvador.
00:07:05.200 But let's just say this person came from the Middle East,
00:07:07.220 boom, boom.
00:07:08.360 And then they do something.
00:07:09.320 Then thousands of people die.
00:07:10.580 Then we have to stop the World Cup.
00:07:12.200 Then we have to stop the games.
00:07:13.520 And then who's going to be looking at the same thing?
00:07:15.780 Oh, you know what?
00:07:16.740 All that stuff you were doing on the streets.
00:07:18.380 Why didn't you do more of it?
00:07:20.200 Trump should have cleaned house better.
00:07:21.940 You should have been more proactive.
00:07:23.740 Oh, now you're saying that?
00:07:25.080 Yep.
00:07:25.240 And the problem, I was in the insurance space for 25 years.
00:07:28.340 When you sell life insurance,
00:07:30.540 the average person you talk to with life insurance,
00:07:33.440 and you say, like, I remember when I told my dad,
00:07:35.660 I'm getting to the insurance space.
00:07:37.080 He says, how does this work?
00:07:38.180 I said, you pay $100 every month,
00:07:40.720 but if you die, the insurance company will give you $250,000.
00:07:43.980 He says, you believe this America company pay you $250,000?
00:07:47.660 So I pay $100 three months.
00:07:50.080 That's $300.
00:07:51.300 A company called AIG is going to pay me $250,000?
00:07:55.040 You're crazy if you believe it, right?
00:07:56.940 Of course.
00:07:57.520 The average person.
00:07:58.640 But the reality of it is, you know how many times we had a client
00:08:00.840 that paid a couple premiums,
00:08:02.280 and they were dealing with a $500,000 policy?
00:08:04.400 So many times.
00:08:05.400 Yes.
00:08:05.580 So many times.
00:08:06.700 You don't buy insurance because you're going to die tomorrow.
00:08:09.760 You buy in case.
00:08:11.200 We have to be very proactive with this.
00:08:13.320 I'm glad he's doing it.
00:08:14.700 But I also get you can fall for the emotional videos
00:08:17.760 and sit there and say, what an evil thing that we're doing.
00:08:20.280 We don't have to do this.
00:08:21.100 I get that.
00:08:21.780 To expand on your point, yes, the media is very powerful,
00:08:26.940 and yes, a lot of people are, I think, falling for this.
00:08:29.420 On the other hand, I don't quite believe the polls.
00:08:32.680 I mean, the original polls from the New York Times and places like that
00:08:36.200 were that the vast majority of Americans wanted Trump to deport all illegal aliens.
00:08:43.140 New York Times published this like six months.
00:08:44.560 It was 60-plus percent of you, if I remember correctly.
00:08:46.500 All.
00:08:47.040 Criminal or not.
00:08:48.140 And as with life insurance, somebody dying, there are a lot of Molly Tibbetts out there.
00:08:56.120 There are a lot of families who have been not only had children or relatives murdered
00:09:00.980 or killed in drunk driving accidents, but victims of 9-11.
00:09:05.680 That was an immigration problem.
00:09:07.120 Who, whose neighborhoods have been overtaken, whose pets are being eaten, or whatever.
00:09:15.180 They're eating the dogs.
00:09:16.820 And it goes out in concentric circles.
00:09:19.460 It doesn't have to be you whose child died.
00:09:24.120 That whole neighborhood knows about that child.
00:09:26.440 And I think there are a lot of Americans who are not as vocal as some of those on the left
00:09:32.720 who are looking at this and saying, I don't care.
00:09:34.700 I don't care.
00:09:35.360 Just get them out.
00:09:36.900 Biden brought in 20 million.
00:09:38.460 We got to get them out.
00:09:40.080 By the way, I want to show something.
00:09:41.660 Sure.
00:09:42.260 Rob, can you do me a favor?
00:09:43.760 Find a clip of Caroline Levitt talking to this reporter.
00:09:47.480 I love this.
00:09:48.060 Everybody has to watch this.
00:09:50.060 Watch this clip here, folks.
00:09:51.760 From the top rope.
00:09:52.580 Good.
00:09:52.900 I'm unfortunately and tragically killed.
00:09:54.940 Are you asking me my opinion?
00:09:57.460 Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed it unjustifiable.
00:10:00.520 Oh, okay.
00:10:01.080 So you're a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion.
00:10:03.740 What do you want me to do?
00:10:04.660 Yeah, because you're a left-wing hack.
00:10:06.720 You're not a reporter.
00:10:07.640 You're posing in this room as a journalist.
00:10:09.560 And it's so clear by the premise of your question.
00:10:12.060 And you and the people in the media who have such biases but fake, like you're a journalist,
00:10:17.000 you shouldn't even be sitting in that seat.
00:10:18.980 But you're pretending that you're a journalist but you're a left-wing activist.
00:10:21.840 And the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias.
00:10:26.100 You should be reporting on the facts.
00:10:28.100 You should be reporting on the cases.
00:10:29.600 Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens
00:10:34.000 who ICE is trying to remove from this country?
00:10:36.060 I bet you don't.
00:10:37.300 I bet you didn't even read up on those stories.
00:10:39.060 I bet you never even read about Lake and Riley or Jocelyn Nungere or all of the innocent Americans
00:10:43.620 who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country.
00:10:47.020 And the brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals
00:10:52.200 and make our communities safer.
00:10:54.120 And shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view.
00:10:58.500 I could watch it all day.
00:10:59.200 And have a biased view and pretend like you're a real honest journalist.
00:11:03.240 Why was that?
00:11:03.720 Wow.
00:11:04.760 Go ahead.
00:11:05.160 Can I react to that?
00:11:05.900 By the way, Caroline Levin is a straight, verbal, assassin gangster.
00:11:10.880 And I mean that in the highest possible way.
00:11:13.400 You know, one of us, I won't name names, was joking backstage.
00:11:17.200 He's like, well, that's why I don't think women should be in power or leadership.
00:11:20.340 Here's exhibit A that that gentleman didn't know what he was talking about
00:11:23.100 because there's Ann Coulters of the world and Caroline Levitz of the world
00:11:26.180 that just dismiss all your preconceived notions.
00:11:29.900 You know how when someone has a mic drop thing and they stop the video and sunglasses come in,
00:11:34.340 and they put a blunt in their mouth, and it's like, yeah, yeah, and it's a gangster thing?
00:11:37.920 She should have a hundred of those.
00:11:39.680 Caroline Levitz is a verbal gangster.
00:11:42.020 Thank you for doing what you're doing for America.
00:11:43.380 By the way, this is what Fetterman said about it.
00:11:44.640 Rob, if you want to go to Fetterman, I'll make this the last clip,
00:11:48.020 and then we'll move on to the next story.
00:11:49.700 This is Fetterman.
00:11:50.940 Go ahead, Rob.
00:11:51.420 And it was skyrocketing, you know, and it's like, that's unsustainable.
00:11:56.720 When you reach almost 300,000 people, that's unsustainable.
00:12:00.440 And we need to, you know, as a Democrat, it shouldn't be unreasonable
00:12:03.820 to want to secure our border and do it in that way.
00:12:07.440 And now let's also, let's also talk about ICE.
00:12:10.560 Now, absolutely, again, what happened in Minneapolis was absolutely tragic.
00:12:14.640 And then now, if you think, now, this is from the Washington Post.
00:12:19.200 You know, this is the latest statistics.
00:12:21.980 These are people that ICE now are, it's like, no, 67% have criminal charges,
00:12:31.720 pending ones, or that, so that's more than two-thirds, you know, the people now.
00:12:37.040 Now, there are some people that aren't involved in any kinds of illegal things.
00:12:41.560 You know, but so me, I think two things can be true.
00:12:43.960 You know, round up all the criminals, deport them.
00:12:47.520 They shouldn't have ever been here, and they definitely have to go.
00:12:50.920 And now, I don't know, want to see more and more things happening in Minneapolis now, too.
00:12:55.600 So, two things must be true.
00:12:57.880 And I strongly reject the extreme on either side, you know, about this now.
00:13:02.820 So, we must be true.
00:13:04.760 And, you know, I watched your heard.
00:13:06.060 It's pretty wild that he is becoming a voice of reason.
00:13:09.140 Isn't that crazy?
00:13:10.460 Him.
00:13:10.780 It took one injury, and he's back to normal.
00:13:14.600 God bless him.
00:13:15.940 And at the end of the day, this is what drives me crazy, because, Tom, I know you want to say something, and he wants to move on.
00:13:20.780 When you have the mayor and the governor and Ilhan Omar calling to action, get in their faces, do this,
00:13:30.020 and then something like this happens, where is the accountability?
00:13:34.080 You want to talk about Insurrection Act?
00:13:35.540 When they said Donald Trump told them to go and go in there and want to know, this is what they're doing,
00:13:40.480 and there has to be accountability for you sending in the troops, and then one of the troops gets killed,
00:13:46.080 and then it's like, no, no, no, we have nothing to do with it.
00:13:49.000 What were you going to say, Tom?
00:13:50.220 What I was going to say is there's a case study on this if we want to really look at it, and it's called Portland, Oregon.
00:13:54.720 And Portland, Oregon had all of these police officers defund the police, defund the police.
00:14:00.300 Police officers took early retirement.
00:14:02.420 Police officers went to other parts of the country being paid a partial pension on Portland because they retired,
00:14:08.740 and then they became police officers elsewhere.
00:14:12.420 Today in Portland, Oregon, the voters are asking to refund, not pay back, but let's fund the police.
00:14:20.200 There is a shortage of 200 officers in Portland, Oregon today.
00:14:24.920 The people feel less safe.
00:14:26.840 The people are concerned about it.
00:14:28.620 You can see it in bipartisan polling.
00:14:31.140 There's the case study.
00:14:32.480 There's where this ends.
00:14:33.640 This ends years later because we're now four years later in Portland, Oregon,
00:14:37.660 without adequate police and with an insecure populace.
00:14:40.780 They're looking around and saying, what the hell happened?
00:14:43.280 There's the case study.
00:14:44.160 I just want to give a shout-out to John Fetterman and all the other Democrats that have been supporting John.
00:14:50.160 Oh, none are?
00:14:51.580 Zero?
00:14:52.300 No one else in the Democratic Party?
00:14:54.460 So one thing he said is so important.
00:14:56.100 He goes, two things can be true at once.
00:14:59.000 So for John Fetterman, you can be a Democrat but also have common sense.
00:15:03.480 Unfortunately, it starts and stops with John Fetterman.
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00:15:15.280 Thank you, Pat.
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