Joe Rogan
host·117 claims·41 episodes·updated Jul 29, 2026
117 fact-checked claims across 41 episodes on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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Joe Rogan Experience #2479: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Apr 3, 2026
Joe Rogan Experience #2461: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 1, 2026
Joe Rogan Experience #2341: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
6 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jun 24, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2335: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jun 10, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2321: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired May 14, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2294: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Mar 26, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2281: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Feb 1, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2262: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
11 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 24, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2254: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
5 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 1, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2223: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
8 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Nov 1, 2024
Joe Rogan Experience #2215: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Oct 17, 2024
Joe Rogan Experience #2152: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired May 16, 2024
Joe Rogan Experience #2143: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
13 claims by Joe Rogan·aired May 1, 2024
Joe Rogan Experience #2082: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 3, 2024
Joe Rogan Experience #2055: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Nov 1, 2023
Joe Rogan Experience #2051: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Oct 25, 2023
Joe Rogan Experience #2032: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Sep 7, 2023
Joe Rogan Experience #2018: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
9 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Aug 8, 2023
Joe Rogan Experience #1999: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jun 1, 2023
Joe Rogan Experience #1880: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Oct 11, 2022
Joe Rogan Experience #1769: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 1, 2022
Joe Rogan Experience #1718: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Oct 13, 2021
Joe Rogan Experience #1671: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Jun 22, 2021
Joe Rogan Experience #1599: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 21, 2021
Joe Rogan Experience #1593: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 12, 2021
Joe Rogan Experience #1520: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Aug 5, 2020
Joe Rogan Experience #1515: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
5 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jul 28, 2020
Joe Rogan Experience #1490: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jun 11, 2020
Joe Rogan Experience #1315: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Jun 1, 2019
Joe Rogan Experience #1258: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Mar 1, 2019
Joe Rogan Experience #1169: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Sep 1, 2018
Joe Rogan Experience #1069: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Jan 28, 2018
Joe Rogan Experience #1054: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan·aired Nov 1, 2017
Joe Rogan Experience #877: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Nov 1, 2016
Joe Rogan Experience #737: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
3 claims by Joe Rogan·aired Dec 1, 2015
Joe Rogan Experience #1536: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan Experience #945: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan Experience #1213: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan Experience #1147: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan Experience #1295: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
1 claim by Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan Experience #1170: Joe Rogan, fact-checked
2 claims by Joe Rogan
Logged claims
- JRE #1999▶ 1:17:10
“one of the things I noticed when there was a test that came out or a study that came out recently that showed that an enormous percentage of Americans, it was …”
Rogan claims a recent study found roughly 90 percent of Americans tested had detectable glyphosate in their blood.
- JRE #2479▶ 1:41:03
“So Element 115 was not even really discussed back when you were doing this. It wasn't even discovered or proven physically until it was a large Hadron Collide…”
Rogan asserts element 115 was first proven to exist via a Large Hadron Collider experiment in the 2000s.
- JRE #877▶ 0:49
“How about all the different people that they executed and then sold their blood to the Viet Cong?”
Rogan claims the Castro regime executed political prisoners and sold their blood to the Viet Cong.
- JRE #2055▶ 2:26:09
“They removed all his published papers, all of his peer-reviewed, all of his work, all of his papers that are scientific papers. They removed all that from Wiki…”
Rogan claims Wikipedia deleted all of Andrew Huberman's published peer-reviewed scientific papers from his Wikipedia page after Huberman made a comment following an RFK Jr. podcast appearance.
- JRE #1536▶ 1:22:15
“i mean twitter will ban you for dead naming someone they will ban you for life meaning if you transition to be a woman and you call yourself edwina and i call …”
Rogan claims Twitter will permanently ban a user with no possibility of appeal for a single instance of deadnaming someone.
- JRE #2262▶ 1:45:21
“who has long been involved in the promotion of these Nazca mummies, was convicted of assault on public monuments for taking artifacts in 2022. So if you take t…”
Rogan reads that a promoter of the Nazca mummies was convicted in 2022 of assault on public monuments, receiving a four-year suspended sentence and a fine of about 20,000 Peruvian soles (roughly 5,190 US dollars) per Reuters.
- JRE #1515▶ 24:26
“It's less than 1%, much less than half of 1% for most healthy people.”
Rogan states the COVID-19 fatality rate for healthy people is very low, less than half of 1 percent.
- JRE #1515▶ 53:45
“Well, they had a depiction of the solar system, not just a depiction, but all of the planets in the proper order.”
Rogan claims a 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet accurately depicts the full solar system, heliocentric and in correct planetary order, including planets not visible to the naked eye.
- JRE #2215▶ 0:48
“And one of the things that went over is the oldest shipwreck that we're currently aware of it's about 4,000 years old. About 6,000. The Dokos shipwreck.”
The oldest known shipwreck is the Dokos shipwreck, described as about 6,000 years old.
- JRE #2262▶ 2:15:40
“They have this radar footage that track this thing going from above 50,000 feet to 50 feet in like one second right? They don't know how the fuck anything can …”
Rogan claims radar footage tracked the Tic Tac UFO descending from above 50,000 feet to 50 feet in about one second.
- JRE #2051▶ 2:43:18
“So why are there no fenbendazole clinical trials for cancer? The answer seems rather obvious. It's very cheap, it's safe, and it seems to be effective, very ef…”
Rogan reads and endorses a viral claim that fenbendazole (a dog dewormer) has proven, effective anti-cancer mechanisms in humans and is being suppressed from clinical trials because it's too cheap for pharmaceutical companies to profit from.
- JRE #2018▶ 3:12:42
“they froze people's bank accounts that donated money to the convoy”
Joe Rogan claims that during the Canadian trucker convoy protests the government froze the bank accounts of people who donated money to the convoy.
- JRE #1054▶ 2:11:04
“Jesse Karmazin agrees his startup Ambrosia is charging about $8,000 a pop, expensive, for blood transfusions from people under 25. He said at Code Conference o…”
A claim (read from an article) that entrepreneur Jesse Karmazin's startup Ambrosia charges about $8,000 for young-blood plasma transfusions marketed for anti-aging effects.
- JRE #737▶ 1:01:44
“you know like a normal person in your testosterone level would be like a low 300 a high 800 vitor was like 1475 and he looked like a fucking silverback and jus…”
Rogan claims normal adult male testosterone levels range roughly 300-800 ng/dL, and that Vitor Belfort tested at approximately 1,475 during his UFC testosterone-replacement-therapy run.
- JRE #2262▶ 18:49
“So the budget of the Division of Neuroscience alone was $2.6 billion in the last fiscal year, and this guy was a key leader for the effort.”
The budget of the NIA Division of Neuroscience was 2.6 billion dollars in the last fiscal year and Masliah was a key leader of it.
- JRE #2262▶ 1:02:13
“You know what state has the largest population per capita of black bears in the country? Wyoming, Manhattan? New Jersey. No way. Yep, New Jersey. New Jersey. N…”
Rogan claims New Jersey has the largest per-capita black bear population of any US state.
- JRE #1718▶ 1:02:58
“are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in the hospital with COVID.”
Rogan cites a study/headline claiming boys 12-15 are 4-6 times more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than to be hospitalized with COVID.
- JRE #945▶ 30:36
“there was one study where mortality decreased 40% from all causes through daily use of the sauna. Yeah, all-cause mortality was less. Yeah, 40%.”
Rogan claims a study found daily sauna use decreases all-cause mortality by 40%.
- JRE #1213▶ 30:36
“Apparently, they did a study where they show the difference between someone taking psilocybin to try to quit smoking cigarettes and some really large number of…”
A speaker cites a study claiming about 80% of people quit smoking cigarettes after taking psilocybin.
- JRE #1213▶ 1:21:55
“There was one called ichthyosis, which is like the whole skin gets covered with this calloused, tarred tissue. Yes. And it went away through hypnosis.”
A speaker describes a case where a young man's severe skin condition (ichthyosis) reportedly disappeared through hypnosis.
- JRE #1147▶ 2:47:44
“I think you only have to have like one 16th Native American to catch a check in some places. I'm not sure what it is in Canada, but something like that.”
Rogan claims that in some places only 1/16th Native American ancestry (blood quantum) is required to receive tribal payments/benefits.
- JRE #1147▶ 2:36:35
“Like people that were making a lot of money. And then all of a sudden that money was cut down to 30% of what it used to be. And with no, no clear guidelines.”
Rogan claims some YouTube creators saw their ad revenue cut to 30% of previous levels overnight with no clear guidelines given.
- JRE #1295▶ 2:11:32
“you hear stuff like you know warren buffett talks about this about he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary right It's a famous line.”
Rogan repeats the claim that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
- JRE #1170▶ 1:31:32
“Right. And that's the only thing that you're seeing where these states are voting for it because they realize there's massive amounts of tax dollars that they …”
It is claimed that Colorado imposes a 39% tax on recreational marijuana sales.
- JRE #1170▶ 17:40
“I firmly believe there's more sociopaths than we really think. I really do. I think if you look at the general consensus as something like, what is it? One out…”
It is claimed the commonly cited rate of sociopathy is about one in a hundred people, but the true rate is likely much higher (later suggested as 10%).
- JRE #1520▶ 1:40
“there was several studies that show that in the people that were in the ICU with COVID, more than 80% of them were insufficient when their vitamin D levels and…”
Rogan, relaying a claim he attributes to Dr. Rhonda Patrick, says studies show more than 80% of COVID ICU patients had insufficient vitamin D levels and only 4% had sufficient levels.
- JRE #1515▶ 2:18:57
“one of the things he talked about in 1989 was this thing called element 115 that back then was really only theoretical. They didn't even know element 113 or 11…”
Rogan claims Bob Lazar's 1989 mention of a theoretical 'element 115' was vindicated when a particle collider detected the element in 2013.
- JRE #1515▶ 2:20:19
“The Pentagon comes out in 2020 and tells us that this is real, that they really have crafts that they've recovered that are not of this world. That was their s…”
Rogan claims the Pentagon officially stated in 2020 that it has recovered crafts that are 'not of this world.'
- JRE #1515▶ 1:15:25
“Mitt Romney's dad couldn't run for president because he was born in Mexico. Do you know that?”
Rogan claims George Romney (Mitt Romney's father) was unable to run for president because he was born in Mexico.
- JRE #1490▶ 21:15
“Why didn't he show up? He won't comment. Oh, wow. He won't. He's been reached out to comment on it.”
Rogan claims Bernie Sanders skipped a Senate vote on a Patriot Act surveillance provision (allowing warrantless review of internet search/browsing history), and that his absence let the measure pass when his vote would have blocked it.
- JRE #1490▶ 25:02
“The military is banned from using tear gas on the battlefield, but police can use it on crowds at home.”
Rogan claims tear gas is banned for military use in warfare under international law (citing the Geneva Convention) yet remains legal for domestic police use on protesters.
- JRE #1490▶ 27:06
“I read they did like a survey of a couple thousand people and somewhere in the range of like 4% of people admitted to gargling and or washing stuff with bleach.”
Rogan states a survey of a couple thousand people found roughly 4% of respondents admitted to gargling with or applying bleach to fight COVID-19.
- JRE #1880▶ 2:09:36
“75% of all television advertisement is pharmaceutical companies which is insane it is and we are one of two countries on earth that allows that the other one i…”
Rogan claims 75% of all television advertising is pharmaceutical company ads, and that the U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries permitting direct-to-consumer drug advertising.
- JRE #1880▶ 14:32
“These people are $150,000, $200,000 in the hole, and some of them actually wind up getting their Social Security docked when they're in their 60s because they …”
Rogan claims many student loan borrowers are $150,000-$200,000 in debt and some have their Social Security benefits garnished in their 60s over unpaid student loans.
- JRE #1718▶ 2:53:46
“Well, that's because they destroyed a lot of evidence. This is concerning. They deleted how much evidence did they delete in 2019? Some stunning amount.”
Rogan claims Chinese/WIV-linked researchers deliberately destroyed a large amount of evidence (a genetic sequence database) in 2019 tied to COVID origins.
- JRE #1718▶ 1:32:59
“They have 230 million people in this country and they've essentially knocked COVID down to almost nothing.”
Rogan claims the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with 230 million people, drove COVID down to nearly zero using mass ivermectin distribution.
- JRE #1671▶ 1:42:56
“None of the people who took it prophylactically in that study got COVID. 58% of the people that didn't take it got COVID.”
It is claimed that in a prophylaxis study, 0% of the ivermectin group and 58% of the control group contracted COVID.
- JRE #1599▶ 2:32:29
“there's also there's no common sense there's no evidence that it spreads outside there's no evidence it's the whole thing is bananas”
Rogan claims there is no evidence COVID-19 spreads outdoors, criticizing a California outdoor-dining shutdown as scientifically baseless.
- JRE #1599▶ 2:43:18
“there's a peer-reviewed study on quercetin and zinc and apparently zinc when you take it is zinc has powerful antiviral properties to it but it's it's difficul…”
Rogan claims a peer-reviewed study shows quercetin acts as an ionophore that helps zinc's antiviral properties enter cells, implying this combination protected a friend from COVID-19.
- JRE #1593▶ 2:38:06
“Because doesn't it affect somewhere in the neighborhood of 1% of the population? Yeah. That's a lot of people. It's a lot of people.”
Rogan states that schizophrenia affects roughly 1% of the population, and Hart agrees.
- JRE #2082▶ 1:33:11
“now do you not are you not aware of the opioid crisis you're not aware of vioxx not aware of the various like to 25 percent of all fda approved drugs that get …”
Rogan claims roughly 25 percent (one in four) of all FDA-approved drugs end up getting pulled from the market.
- JRE #2082▶ 1:35:57
“no one says anything about the 40% increase in all-cause mortality that mysteriously arose after they made people get shot up with some experimental shit.”
Rogan claims there was a 40% increase in all-cause mortality mysteriously arising after COVID-19 vaccination.
- JRE #2082▶ 1:44:24
“The VAERS system is like, what does it get? Like one, 2% of the actual adverse events that are reported. Who fucking knows how many people?”
Rogan claims VAERS captures only about 1-2% of actual vaccine adverse events that occur.
- JRE #2032▶ 2:02:29
“isn't there somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million that they got from that? Yeah, I mean, I think that's what I've heard has been accounted for.”
Rogan and Gabbard discuss a claim that Hunter and Joe Biden received roughly $20 million connected to Ukraine dealings involving Burisma.
- JRE #2341▶ 1:51:02
“which is why I never sued CNN. CNN lied about me over and over and over again. They said I was taking horse dewormer and they altered the color of my face on t…”
Rogan says CNN falsely described his ivermectin use as taking horse dewormer and altered his skin color on air to make him look green.
- JRE #2341▶ 1:20:14
“Well, the pandemic, the problem with that is it's engineered. Like, people actually made that virus and Obama tried to stop that gain of function shit back in …”
The COVID-19 virus was engineered by people, and the Obama administration moved to halt gain-of-function research in 2014.
- JRE #2341▶ 37:43
“Scientists have captured the Earth climate change over the last 485 million years.”
A Washington Post analysis reconstructed Earth's climate over the last 485 million years and shows the present as a relatively cool period.
- JRE #2341▶ 1:21:11
“when you have people that are public servants that are making $170,000 a year and yet they're worth hundreds of millions of dollars through some magical way th…”
Members of Congress earning about $170,000 a year end up worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
- JRE #2341▶ 1:26:52
“the United States is really 37 trillion dollars in debt we can't sustain this”
The United States is $37 trillion in debt.
- JRE #2335▶ 1:55:54
“More than 15,000 people received medical assistance in dying in Canada in 2023.”
A cited figure states more than 15,000 people received medical assistance in dying in Canada in 2023.
- JRE #2335▶ 1:09:49
“And that's the athletes, sudden death in athletes. So it used to be 29 per year, now it's 290 per year, growth 10 times.”
Rogan claims sudden death in athletes rose from 29 per year to 290 per year, a tenfold increase.
- JRE #2321▶ 39:12
“So now that you know that the base is solid rock, that removes 1,300,000 stones that were”
The claim is that recognizing the pyramid base is solid carved rock removes about 1,300,000 blocks from the previous 2,300,000 estimate.
- JRE #2321▶ 1:37:47
“Right, but I thought it was used in Egypt like to measure wood that was in mortar to date the Great Pyramid to 2500 BC. No, that was an experiment to leave the…”
Rogan states that carbon dating of organic material in the Great Pyramid's mortar dated it to around 2500 BC.
- JRE #2321▶ 1:45:13
“Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey. Oh, in Turkey. Yes. Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey and it's more than 11,000 years old. It's very complex stone structures.”
Gobekli Tepe is a complex stone structure site in Turkey that is more than 11,000 years old.
- JRE #2294▶ 1:27:58
“You have seven times better immunity than someone who gets vaccinated, which is proof.”
Rogan claims that natural COVID infection confers seven times better immunity than vaccination.
- JRE #2262▶ 17:13
“produced a 300-page dossier revealing a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 at 132 of his published research papers.”
A 300-page dossier revealed suspect images in 132 of Masliah's published research papers spanning 1997 to 2023.
- JRE #2262▶ 27:06
“Well, because of a stupid law that was passed in 1970 to punish Richard Nixon's political opponents. That's really what it is. Was it? Yeah, that's what it is.…”
Rogan claims the 1970 Controlled Substances Act was passed to punish Richard Nixon's political opponents in the civil rights and anti-war movements.
- JRE #2262▶ 1:15:48
“In San Francisco, it was like 50% of the problem cats that they caught, they found out their diet was pets. 50% of their diet was pets.”
Rogan claims a San Francisco study found that 50 percent of the diet of problem coyotes caught was pets.
- JRE #2262▶ 52:32
“Brown bears have been extinct in California since the 1800s.”
Rogan claims brown bears (grizzlies) have been extinct in California since the 1800s.
- JRE #2262▶ 1:59:31
“Enigmatic group once lived alongside homo sapiens in eastern Asia. According to science alert, fossilized remains unearthed from sediment layers dated over 200…”
Rogan reads that a newly described large-headed human group with disproportionately large cranial volumes lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia over 200,000 years ago.
- JRE #2262▶ 1:07:18
“which is in the 1990s, has significantly impacted the elk population. And now it's actually more difficult to get a tag.”
Rogan claims the 1990s reintroduction of wolves significantly reduced elk populations, cutting them by more than 40 percent in the affected area.
- JRE #2262▶ 1:01:58
“Think about how few people eat black bears. Yeah. But it's the number one source of trichinosis in America for people that test positive for it.”
Rogan claims black bears are the number one source of trichinosis infection in America among people who test positive.
- JRE #2215▶ 26:38
“Everyone knows there was a genocide of Native Americans in this country but most people don't know that 90% of them were wiped out by disease.”
About 90% of Native Americans were wiped out by disease rather than by direct violence.
- JRE #2143▶ 1:10:42
“Yeah, and Rachel Levine is the first female Admiral. Exactly. Yay, women win.”
Rachel Levine was recognized as the first female four-star admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
- JRE #2143▶ 36:51
“Jonathan Haidt's work on this has been really interesting. His book uh The Coddling of the American Mind is a great one. And it's all about what you could see …”
Rates of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and suicide among girls rose sharply beginning around the advent of social media, per Jonathan Haidt's work.
- JRE #2143▶ 15:59
“And the cover of Popular Science Magazine in, I think it was 1930, find out what year that cover was. It says, hemp, the new billion dollar crop, because they …”
A magazine ran a feature titled Hemp: The New Billion Dollar Crop tied to the invention of the decorticator machine.
- JRE #2143▶ 26:59
“Harvest it and bring it out, and they're selling it. He said that, I think, believe, John said at the time of our podcast that 90% of all the marijuana that's …”
90 percent of the marijuana sold in states where it remains illegal comes from cartel grow operations, many on California public land.
- JRE #2143▶ 15:13
“Do you know the first draft the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp? I've heard that. Yeah”
The first draft of the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
- JRE #2143▶ 55:09
“A new global study concludes that 90% of all large fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past half century in 50 years.”
A global study concluded that 90 percent of all large fish have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past 50 years.
- JRE #2143▶ 1:44:59
“Yeah 87% of teens in the USA have an iPhone while 88% Expect an iPhone to be their next phone according to a survey from investment firm Piper Sandler.”
A Piper Sandler survey found 87 percent of US teens own an iPhone and 88 percent expect an iPhone to be their next phone.
- JRE #2143▶ 2:02:49
“Open Technology Fund was launched in 2012 as a pilot program of Radio Free Asia, an asset of the US Agency for Global Media, which is funded by US Congress to …”
The Open Technology Fund began in 2012 as a Radio Free Asia pilot under the US Agency for Global Media, which receives over one billion dollars annually from Congress.
- JRE #2143▶ 1:29:36
“Well, they were also the ones that said the New York Times said that that bomb landed in the hospital and killed 500 people. And it apparently landed in the pa…”
The New York Times reported an Israeli bomb hit a Gaza hospital killing 500, but it actually landed in the parking lot, killed fewer, and was likely a misfired militant rocket.
- JRE #2143▶ 2:02:24
“$40 million and projected to rise to 50 million by 2025. Rosenfeld boasted in 2018 that OWS never took VC venture capital funding or sought investment at any p…”
Signal's operating costs for 2023 were 40 million dollars and are projected to rise to 50 million by 2025.
- JRE #2018▶ 1:28:00
“that the CIA was running where they were experimenting with people with LSD to find out what LSD did. And they wanted to know, like, how can we use it? Can we …”
Joe Rogan says the CIA ran a program (MKUltra) experimenting on people with LSD to learn what it did and whether it could be used for interrogation or as a truth serum.
- JRE #2018▶ 3:07:48
“The US nuclear arsenal has 5,244 nuclear weapons. Had a total yield of 857.6 megatons or the equivalent of”
A reference read on-air states the U.S. nuclear arsenal has 5,244 nuclear weapons with a total yield of 857.6 megatons, equivalent to 57,173 Hiroshima-sized bombs.
- JRE #2018▶ 1:18:21
“And they are doing a lot of great work with that with MDMA too MDMA for soldiers and so they're running these trials and these studies with MDMA and soldiers t…”
Joe Rogan says MAPS is running clinical trials and studies using MDMA to treat soldiers and is finding great results.
- JRE #2018▶ 1:14:33
“this guy Alex Berenson wrote a book about it it's called tell your children and uh it's about how there's a certain percentage of people that especially with h…”
Joe Rogan states that Alex Berenson wrote a book titled Tell Your Children arguing that a certain percentage of people, especially with high-dose THC, can experience a schizophrenic or psychotic break.
- JRE #2018▶ 1:30:41
“What what the CIA was doing is they were they were experimenting with? Prostitutes so what they would do is they would set up a brothel And they would have the…”
Joe Rogan describes a CIA operation in which agents set up brothels and dosed unsuspecting men with LSD via prostitutes while observing them through two-way mirrors.
- JRE #2341▶ 40:59
“94% of all the big fish that are in the ocean are sucking them out in giant numbers, 94% of all the big fish that are in the ocean are gone over the last, you …”
Ninety-four percent of the big fish in the ocean are gone.
- JRE #2335▶ 48:51
“In the emails that were admitted during the hearings when they lost or during the court proceedings They wound up paying a fraction of what they made they made…”
Rogan claims the maker of Vioxx made about 12 billion dollars and paid only a fraction of that in settlement.
- JRE #2143▶ 56:25
“and meanwhile China is opening hundreds of new coal power plants. They're doubling down on coal”
China is building hundreds of new coal power plants.
- JRE #2143▶ 28:06
“There's 100,000 plus people every year that are dying from opioid overdoses,”
More than 100,000 people die each year in the United States from opioid overdoses.
- JRE #2143▶ 5:05
“Oh by the way Congratulations to the marijuana enjoyers of the world because the DEA officially rescheduled marijuana to they're gonna reschedule to schedule t…”
The DEA officially moved to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.
- JRE #2018▶ 3:07:48
“The B-83, the largest deployed U.S. nuclear warhead, is equivalent to 80 Hiroshima-sized bombs. 80.”
A reference read on-air states the B83, the largest deployed U.S. nuclear warhead, is equivalent to 80 Hiroshima-sized bombs.
- JRE #2018▶ 1:28:27
“They did it with British soldiers, too, in the 1950s. There's a video of these British soldiers that they gave them acid.”
Joe Rogan claims the British military gave LSD to soldiers in experiments and that video footage of it exists.
- JRE #2018▶ 1:29:33
“You know Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber. He was a part of the Harvard LSD studies He was a participant.”
Joe Rogan claims Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was a participant in Harvard psychological studies connected to LSD/MKUltra.
- JRE #2223▶ 48:09
“they knew there was going to be cardiovascular events people were going to get strokes... They made like $12 billion, they got fined seven, and 50 to 60 thousa…”
Rogan claims internal emails showed Merck knew Vioxx caused strokes, that the company made $12 billion and was fined $7 billion, and that 50,000-60,000 people died as a result.
- JRE #1769▶ 3:53:11
“But you know that there's a direct correlation that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic drugs.”
Rogan claims that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic medication.
- JRE #1769▶ 2:50:18
“the guy's a professor at at Columbia he said that there's two drugs that will kill you when you get off of them he goes it's alcohol and benzodiazepine”
Rogan claims that Dr. Carl Hart, a Columbia professor, says alcohol and benzodiazepines are the only two drugs whose withdrawal can be fatal.
- JRE #1315▶ 1:42:25
“Ted Kaczynski was right. This is something that I think about sometimes when I get really high, that Ted Kaczynski was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.”
Rogan claims Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) was a subject in Harvard's LSD studies (the Murray psychological experiments) while a student there.
- JRE #1258▶ 44:12
“there's a gigantic suicide rate amongst trans people period it's a 40 it's it's outrageously large now whether that is because of gender dysphoria whether it's…”
Joe Rogan asserts trans people have an outrageously large suicide rate around 40%, without specifying source or timeframe.
- JRE #737▶ 1:21
“It's not, there was, out of all the people that won the Tour de France and all the years that you did it. If you go back to people that either weren't implicat…”
Rogan claims that going back through Tour de France results to find a winner who was never implicated in doping or never tested positive, you'd have to drop down to roughly 18th place.
- JRE #2281▶ 1:28:14
“Right. That lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, who is a major Dem donor and also an Epstein client. The plot thickens.”
Immediately after Musk describes the Biden-era DOJ lawsuit accusing SpaceX of discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring, Rogan claims that lawsuit was funded by Reid Hoffman, calling Hoffman a major Democratic donor and an Epstein client.
- JRE #2223▶ 1:14:04
“The whole thing there was no there was no legal action against that which is clear destruction of evidence”
Rogan claims Hillary Clinton faced no legal consequences despite what he calls clear destruction of evidence regarding her email server.
- JRE #2223▶ 48:23
“I think, what is the number, like one third of the drugs that the FDA approves gets pulled? It's fucking bananas.”
Rogan claims roughly one-third of FDA-approved drugs end up being pulled from the market.
- JRE #2223▶ 35:52
“the Russia gate hoax the three fucking years They said that he was Putin's toy. Yes, and that Putin had him compromised the steel dossier was completely fabric…”
Rogan claims the Steele dossier was completely fabricated and that the years-long Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a total hoax.
- JRE #2223▶ 1:24:21
“Bernie got screwed. Talk about undermining democracy. Bernie should have won the nomination. Exactly. They stole it from him and gave it to Hillary.”
Rogan claims the 2016 Democratic primary was stolen from Bernie Sanders and handed to Hillary Clinton.
- JRE #2223▶ 14:24
“We have 51 former intelligence agents saying that this is Russian disinformation, take it offline, and Twitter complied.”
Rogan states that 51 former intelligence officials declared the Hunter Biden laptop story Russian disinformation and that Twitter complied by taking down the story as a direct result.
- JRE #2223▶ 55:08
“We googled it like one year. There was like 39 million prescriptions for Adderall in this country.”
Rogan claims there were about 39 million Adderall prescriptions in the US in a single year.
- JRE #2223▶ 35:37
“Who's apologized for being incorrect about what did Rachel Maddow ever apologize for telling everybody that if you get the COVID vaccine you're never gonna get…”
Rogan claims Rachel Maddow told viewers the COVID vaccine meant they would never get COVID and that transmission would stop entirely, and that she never apologized despite this being false.
- JRE #2461▶ 2:12:10
“I just had Michael Mals in here. He was talking about how he got off Aspartame and how his brain fog just completely cleared up.”
Rogan states a prior guest's brain fog completely cleared up after stopping aspartame consumption, implying a causal link.
- JRE #2461▶ 1:06:14
“12,000 people this year. 12,000 in the last year.”
Rogan claims 12,000 people were arrested in the UK in the past year for social media posts.
- JRE #2254▶ 1:25:41
“There's a lot of tax problems. He's he he definitely did some uncool things, and then there's the Burisma thing. But the crazy thing about his pardon is it sta…”
Rogan claims Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden retroactively covers everything from 2011 (when Hunter joined Burisma's board) through the date of the pardon, and separately states Biden has pardoned over 8,000 people, more than any president ever.
- JRE #2254▶ 1:25:10
“I'm sure. When he was lying to Rand Paul about whether or not they did gain of function research. Like, how is that not perjury? How is he not in trouble?”
Rogan claims Anthony Fauci lied under oath to Senator Rand Paul about NIH funding gain-of-function research, and asserts this should constitute perjury.
- JRE #2152▶ 2:55:29
“This is a system that uses a stable element called element 115 that was just theoretical until they discovered that it actually exists in a particle collider i…”
Rogan claims element 115 (referenced by Bob Lazar) was purely theoretical until it was discovered to actually exist via a particle collider in the 2000s.
- JRE #2152▶ 2:49:45
“I think most biologists will agree that the biggest mystery in the entire fossil record is the doubling of the human brain size over a period of 2 million year…”
Rogan claims most biologists consider the doubling of human brain size over 2 million years the biggest unsolved mystery in the fossil record.
- JRE #2152▶ 2:52:55
“And they weren't necessarily doing electronics, but silver is even more conductive if you want it for electronics. Silver is like 17 times the conductivity of …”
Rogan claims silver is 17 times more electrically conductive than gold.
- JRE #1999▶ 1:59:45
“that showed that yes they were doing what would we consider to be gain-of-function research there. Yes, the NIH funded this.”
Rogan claims it has been clearly shown that NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- JRE #2254▶ 10:52
“Yeah. We were just talking about the wildfire situation and how crazy it is that they spent 24 $1,000,000,000 last year on the homeless.”
Rogan claims California/Los Angeles spent $24 billion on homelessness last year while spending nothing on wildfire prevention.
- JRE #1169▶ 1:36:54
“Someone was paying them to put more asses in the seats in these private prisons. A million dollar payment to put them in the youth centers.”
Rogan describes the 'Kids for Cash' Pennsylvania judicial bribery scandal as involving a million-dollar payment to judges for sentencing juveniles to private detention centers.
- JRE #1069▶ 1:56:20
“Allowed him to pick up figures in the dark with 100% accuracy where non-treated test subjects could only make out to about 30%. That's pretty significant.”
Rogan reads/relays a claim from an article that chlorophyll eye drops (based on a chemical binding retinal opsin proteins) let a test subject identify dark-adapted figures with 100% accuracy versus about 30% for untreated subjects.
- JRE #1069▶ 16:07
“Because some dude told me that once, that he got cancer. I think it was testicle cancer on his right side. And the guy was saying, do you keep your phone in yo…”
Rogan relays an anecdote where a man attributed his testicular cancer to keeping his cell phone in his right pants pocket on that same side.
- JRE #877▶ 2:35
“We're talking about as many as 70 plus invented gender pronouns like Z, XE, XIR, HIR, a bunch of weird ones.”
Rogan states there are over 70 invented gender pronouns that people are being compelled to use.
- JRE #2281▶ 14:31
“And then you find out, actually, it's like $250 million for transgender animal studies.”
Rogan claims that USAID spending, once you look past the name, turns out to be about $250 million for transgender animal studies. The dollar figure traces to a real advocacy estimate, but fact-checkers found that spending is not USAID funding.
- JRE #737▶ 1:15:12
“Right, so they won $100 million. Yeah, that's a lot of money.”
Rogan states that the U.S. government/whistleblower plaintiffs won a $100 million judgment against Armstrong in the federal fraud lawsuit over U.S. Postal Service sponsorship.
- JRE #2254▶ 1:31:19
“You look it up on your phone, you instantly know, oh, Ivermectin, the guy who created it, won the Nobel Prize.”
Rogan cites the Nobel Prize awarded for ivermectin's discovery as evidence undercutting its dismissal as a fringe or dangerous drug during COVID.
- JRE #2254▶ 56:09
“So it says study published in the journal heritage. The authors conducted dating work on a sample from the shroud coming to the conclusion that it may be a 200…”
Rogan reads aloud a study claiming new dating work suggests the Shroud of Turin could be a 2,000-year-old relic consistent with Jesus' era.