Government on the Joe Rogan Experience

15 fact-checked claims across 10 episodes · Jun 2019 to Mar 2025 · updated Jul 29, 2026

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  1. uncovered that i mean he saw my birth certificate disappear he um it disappeared yeah there was no record of you being

    Corbell claims investigative reporter George Knapp discovered that Bob Lazar's birth certificate had been made to disappear, with no record of it remaining.

  2. It's a misnomer, actually, that AATIP was the recipient of the $22 million. It was actually Harry Reid who created a program called AAWSAP. AAWSAP was the sole…

    Corbell claims the New York Times was wrong to report that AATIP received the $22 million UFO program funding, asserting the money actually went to a separate Harry Reid program called AAWSAP.

  3. there were a bunch of specifically FBI documents that we were spending millions and millions of dollars actively searching for Hitler after the war

    Kennedy claims declassified FBI documents show the U.S. spent millions of dollars actively searching for Hitler after World War II on the theory he survived.

  4. 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.'

  5. That's what Project Blue Book was tasked to do specifically. The guy who ran it admitted that, that it was tasked to debunk this and demystify the UFO thing.

    Corbell claims Project Blue Book's director admitted the program was specifically tasked with debunking and demystifying UFO reports.

  6. So 95% of the people that sit on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Panel today, for this next one when they're going to come up for the 2025 guidelines, all have fin…

    Baker claims 95% of the panel members writing the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines have financial ties to processed food companies.

  7. And it said, quote, any doubts whether or not well-founded about the safety of the vaccination program must not be allowed to exist. That's literally what it s…

    Humphries claims a 1984 US federal register document stated that any doubts, well-founded or not, about vaccination safety must not be allowed to exist.

  8. 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.

  9. So Admiral Wilson meets with this scientist, and they have this discussion, oddly enough, at special projects at EG&G. And if I remember, the document is from…

    Corbell claims the 'Wilson Memo,' documenting a meeting between Admiral Thomas Wilson and a scientist at EG&G Special Projects about UFO reverse-engineering programs, dates to 2001 and is a real, verified document.

  10. When I was first there, there were Russian scientists at S4 that was this was early on in the project so this was before Operation Paperclip became public as w…

    Lazar claims Russian scientists were present working at S4 in the late 1980s, and that this predated public knowledge of Operation Paperclip.

  11. their economic output was like, in East Germany, was like a quarter of what it was in West Germany because everyone was working for the government.

    Musk claims East Germany's economic output was about one-quarter of West Germany's at reunification because the government employed everyone.

  12. So it's somewhere around 450, depending on what you call an agency. At the federal level, that's almost twice as many agencies as years that America has existe…

    Musk claims there are roughly 450 federal government agencies in the US, nearly double the number of years the country has existed.

  13. I think there are 2 million federal employees and another 10 million federal contractors. So, who are effectively government employees but don't have civil ser…

    Carlson claims there are roughly 2 million federal employees plus 10 million federal contractors, totaling 12 million people effectively working for the US federal government.

  14. 23 years. Could it really be 23 years after 911? 23 years later. What's the justification for classifying any document around 911? There's no justification.

    Carlson claims there is no justification whatsoever for the US government still classifying documents related to the September 11 attacks 23 years later.

  15. unless you're talking about the existence of the intelligence community itself, which is basically constructed on the idea that you can get, I think there's 4 …

    Snowden claims somewhere between 1.4 million and 4 million people in the United States hold security clearances.