History on the Joe Rogan Experience

“And in 1973, Monsanto had to stop producing DDT because we passed the laws at that time. And that was its flagship product.”

Kennedy claims Monsanto was forced to stop producing DDT in 1973 due to new laws, and that DDT had been Monsanto's flagship product before it pivoted to glyphosate.

“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.

“the student who screamed up a storm about the male professor, who was the husband of the woman who wrote the pro-Halloween costume letter, it turned out she wa…”

Peterson claims that at the Yale Halloween costume controversy, the student who confronted the professor had herself sat on the hiring committee that hired him.

“No, it didn't exist, there's no evidence for it whatsoever, it's complicated but it's the telling of a kind of psychological myth as if it was history”

Peterson claims there is no evidence whatsoever for the prehistoric matriarchal society described by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, calling it pure myth.

“And Solzhenitsyn won a Nobel Prize for that book and for his other writing and it was one of the one of the key there was a couple of things that brought down …”

Peterson claims Solzhenitsyn won his Nobel Prize for The Gulag Archipelago.

“It took Mother Nature 3.6 million years to put this thing called sleep necessity in place, and we've come along and within the space of a hundred years, we've …”

Walker claims that sleep as a biological necessity took 3.6 million years of evolution to develop, and that modern society has cut sleep time by almost 20% within the last hundred years.

“there's a thing called the Taurid meteor stream, which is 30 million kilometers wide and which envelops the solar system.”

The guest claims the Taurid meteor stream is 30 million kilometers wide and is the debris of a 100km-diameter comet that caused a cataclysmic impact on the North American ice cap 12,800 years ago.

“2007, out comes this hypothesis with mainstream backing by mainstream scientists saying that it looks like there was a series, not just one impact, but multipl…”

Hancock claims the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (multiple comet fragments striking Earth ~12,800 years ago) has mainstream scientific backing.

“decades, that civilization began about 6,000 years ago. And before that, there was no such thing as civilization. And they say that the first big megalithic st…”

Hancock claims mainstream archaeology held civilization began only ~6,000 years ago until Gobekli Tepe (dated ~11,600 years old) upended that view, implying a suppressed older civilization.

“how many trillions of dollars have we spent in this war 17 billion dollars in damage just in that one day 3 000 american lives more lives since pearl harbor”

The speaker states that the September 11 attacks caused $17 billion in damage in a single day.

“It's the single largest block of stone ever cut and quarried in the ancient world.”

The guest claims a 1,460-ton block discovered at Baalbek in 2014 is the single largest block of stone ever cut and quarried in the ancient world.

“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.

“there's this really interesting place called the Raqefet Cave. And it was a burial site with about 30 individuals. This is between 11,700 BC and 9,700 BC. A te…”

Muraresku claims a Stanford-led excavation at Raqefet Cave in Israel found 13,000-year-old evidence of beer brewing in a burial site.

“They stopped using it for chemotherapy because it was killing them quicker than cancer was.”

Gibson claims AZT was discontinued as a chemotherapy drug because it killed cancer patients faster than the cancer itself.

“passed in 1986. But before 1986, we had 1976, which was the swine flu vaccine fiasco. And that was a situation where there was so much injury that the vaccine …”

Humphries states that the 1976 swine flu vaccine caused so much injury (Guillain-Barre) that manufacturers lost insurance and the government indemnified them, setting a precedent for the 1986 vaccine act.

“At a place called Jaco Sa in the Amazon, you can find a square perfectly enclosing a circle. Now, that is an exercise called squaring the circle that our acade…”

Hancock claims an Amazonian earthwork site demonstrates the geometric 'squaring the circle' concept predating the Greeks, who are credited by academics as first performing it.

“Now, the deformed wing virus is being vectored by the varroa mite. It came in 1984 and it injects viruses into bees and so it's like a dirty syringe and these …”

Stamets claims the varroa mite arrived in 1984 and vectors deformed wing virus into honeybee colonies like a dirty syringe.

“They paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat, and heart disease.”

Patrick claims the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists roughly $50,000 in today's money to publish a 1967 NEJM review that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease and blamed saturated fat instead.

“It really didn't even exist until 1993. And then it didn't even really exist even then until like, I feel like Frank Shamrock was the first real professional M…”

Galpin claims MMA effectively did not exist until 1993 (UFC's founding) and that Frank Shamrock was the first real professional MMA fighter.

“there was a guy named, um, Peter Karpovich, who was a scientist and he was extremely, he was the guy who started the idea that lifting weights causes you to lo…”

Galpin claims scientist Peter Karpovich originated the mid-20th-century idea that weightlifting causes loss of flexibility and is bad for health, later disproven in a public demonstration against Bob Hoffman's lifters.

“So President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on the federal funding. So federal funding has been going on for it since then.”

The guest states that President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on federal funding for (embryonic) stem cell research, after which federal funding continued.

“Well, most people don't understand that the sugar industry's hijacking of science in the 1950s, the way they paid off those scientists to literally false adver…”

Speaker claims the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1950s to falsely blame saturated fat/cholesterol for heart disease instead of sugar.

“This was developed in France in the 80s, and then the FDA approved this in 2004. So 2004 was approved in the U.S.”

Baker states the reverse shoulder replacement device was developed in France in the 1980s and received FDA approval in the U.S. in 2004.

“And actually back when the European sailors were getting scurvy and dying of it, only about 50%, only about half of those sailors got scurvy. The other 50% did…”

Patrick claims that historically, only about half of European sailors exposed to scurvy conditions actually developed scurvy, while the other half had no symptoms.

“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.

“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.

“Martin Luther King Jr. died. Basically a broke man. Gave every penny that he won from the Nobel Prize to the movement. Malcolm X only had $150 in his pocket.”

West claims MLK died broke after giving away his Nobel Prize money, and Malcolm X had only $150 in his pocket when he died.

“any time you talk about white supremacy, you've got the John Browns. And you know Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was a black woman who was worth $347 million in the …”

West states that Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Black abolitionist businesswoman, was worth $347 million in the 1840s.

“It's very much like our Jewish brothers and sisters felt in 1973. They'd already undergone a genocidal attack, one out of three precious Jews killed.”

West states that one out of three Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

“She got sued for a couple billion dollars, and I represented her in that case, and that's how we met.”

Dr. Phil claims Oprah Winfrey was sued for 'a couple billion dollars' by Texas cattlemen in the 1998 mad cow disease case, which is how the two met.

“They did an experiment Back in I think it was the 60s They did something called teaching machines. Have you ever seen that?”

Dr. Phil describes a 1960s educational experiment called 'teaching machines' that removed failure experiences entirely, claiming the program was scrapped after students who mastered the material with 100% success rates fell apart when returned to normal classrooms.

“this is well known that like most of the technology inside a smartphone was funded by US government, a little by European government, GPS and the batteries and…”

Goertzel claims most smartphone technology, including GPS and batteries, was funded/developed by government (mostly US) rather than private industry, with companies merely scaling it up.

“we have to get the us government to give billions of dollars to your research to guarantee that the singularity in 2012 is a good singularity, right? So he led…”

Goertzel recounts that around 2007 a McKenna-inspired associate tried to get billions of dollars in US government funding for his and Hugo de Garis's AI research to ensure a 'positive' technological singularity by 2012.

“here's Hitler's skull. And when they did the genetic testing, it's that of a 35-year-old woman. So like, oh, well, this isn't Hitler, but they've said for the …”

Kennedy claims genetic testing on the skull fragment held in Moscow and long attributed to Hitler showed it belonged to a 35-year-old woman.

“the last time you have that heavy rainfall in Egypt is the period that geologists call the Younger Dryas, roughly between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. So the b…”

Hancock asserts that erosion patterns on the Sphinx enclosure prove the monument dates to the Younger Dryas period roughly 12,000 years ago.

“he claimed in 1976, it was five to ten times more potent than psilocybin”

Muraresku claims Albert Hofmann self-experimented with ergonovine (an ergot alkaloid) and found it five to ten times more potent than psilocybin.

“The notion that the Great Sphinx is 12,500 years old, which is a notion based on the erosion patterns on the body of the Sphinx, is utterly unacceptable to Egy…”

Hancock claims the Great Sphinx's erosion patterns show it is 12,500 years old, a date rejected by mainstream Egyptology.

“In 1950, Dr. King wrote a paper called The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity. You can Google it.”

Muraresku claims Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a 1950 paper titled 'The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity.'

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“I had read the, the counterinsurgency manual that was written by general Petraeus. And, and I, part of that explains that the average counterinsurgency takes s…”

Willink claims the counterinsurgency field manual co-authored by General Petraeus states the average counterinsurgency takes seven years to resolve.

“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.

“They had this very rosy perception of communism, which always leads to military dictatorship. Always. There's no evidence of it ever not leading to that.”

Rufo claims communism always leads to military dictatorship with no historical exception.

“by the time they're eight years old the average eight-year-old has eaten more sugar than somebody would have eaten in their entire life you know and?”

Baker claims the average 8-year-old today has consumed more sugar than a person would have eaten in an entire lifetime around 150 years ago.

“The king lists from ancient Egypt go back 30 plus thousand years.”

Hancock claims ancient Egyptian king lists document a lineage of rulers extending back more than 30,000 years.

“the Sphinx 12,500 years ago was gazing at dawn on the spring equinox at the constellation of Leo. In other words, this lion monument on the ground was looking …”

Hancock claims astronomical alignment (the Sphinx facing the constellation Leo at dawn on the spring equinox roughly 12,500 years ago) supports his view, along with water-erosion evidence, that the Great Sphinx is far older than its conventional dating of about 4,500 years.

“The Indus Valley civilization today in Pakistan wasn't known about until the 1920s. It was found by accident.”

Hancock cites the 1920s discovery of the Indus Valley civilization as precedent for a currently-unknown lost advanced civilization existing undiscovered today.

“60 major scientists published in all the big mainstream journals proposing that the Earth went through an absolutely catastrophic episode between 12,800 and 11…”

Hancock claims 60 mainstream scientists have published papers confirming a catastrophic Earth event 12,800-11,600 years ago that vindicates his lost-civilization theory.

“27 million square kilometers of the best real estate on earth that were above water during the Ice Age are underwater now. Yes, there's been some marine archae…”

Hancock claims 27 million square kilometers of formerly-exposed continental shelf are now underwater and largely unexamined by archaeology, leaving open the possibility of a lost advanced civilization there.

“The geology speaks to the original Sphinx being more than 12,000 years old.”

Hancock claims geological water-erosion evidence shows the Great Sphinx of Giza is over 12,000 years old, far older than the accepted ~4,500-year Old Kingdom date.

“And they said, oh, 9,000 years ago. Well, do the math. That's in 600 BC. That's 9,000 years before 600 BC. We call that 9,600 BC. That's 11,600 years ago. That…”

Hancock claims Plato's date for the destruction of Atlantis (as told to Solon by Egyptian priests) exactly matches the scientifically-dated end of the Younger Dryas period.

“I mean, you know, on the Eisenhower, the very rich paid at their upper levels 90%, you know.”

Under Eisenhower the top marginal income tax rate on the very rich was 90 percent.

“1916, Upper East Side, Manhattan, there was a Rockefeller lab that their specific stated goal was to try to create the most pathological, neuropathological str…”

Humphries claims a 1916 Rockefeller lab tried to create the most neuropathological polio strain, accidentally released it, and caused the worst polio epidemic on record with 25 percent mortality.

“We added a chapter called The White Plague. The White Plague is also tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a side effect of the smallpox vaccine. Tuberculosis rates w…”

Humphries claims tuberculosis was a side effect of the smallpox vaccine and that Edward Jenner's child and two test subjects died of tuberculosis.

“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.

“There was a point where Easter Island's population was reduced to just 11 people, and it was reduced to 11 people by Peruvian slave raids. They came and slaved…”

Easter Island's population was reduced to just 11 people as a result of Peruvian slave raids.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“The New York Times published a story in the wake of, you know, this contested 2016 election, where they looked into the history of electoral interference in Ru…”

Snowden claims a New York Times study found Russia/the Soviet Union interfered in foreign elections 36 times over roughly 50 years, versus 81 times by the United States in the same period.

“they is used to repair awkward sentences basically, but it's never been used despite the claims of the of the gender bender activists. It's never been used for…”

Peterson claims that singular "they" has never actually been used in English despite activists' claims that it has.

“So it tells you the story is pretty old. And they thought initially it was probably back in the 1300, but this confirmed that it was at least 2,600 years old, …”

Gibson claims a carved mural discovered at the El Mirador archaeological site confirmed the Popol Vuh myth is at least 2,600 years old, far older than previously thought (circa 1300s).

“There's over a 130 something thousand years worth of water damage under the Sphinx itself.”

Howard claims there is evidence of roughly 130,000 years of water damage/erosion beneath the Sphinx.

“above the king's Chamber in the Great Pyramid are five further chambers. And these chambers are roofed and floored with granite beams that weigh about 70 tons …”

Hancock claims the Great Pyramid's relieving chambers above the King's Chamber contain hundreds of 70-ton granite beams.

“Manhattan had like 300,000 horses. You figure, like, if a horse lives 15 years, you've got 20,000 horses dropping dead every year if there's 300,000 horses in …”

Musk claims that historical Manhattan had roughly 300,000 horses, implying about 20,000 would die per year given a 15-year average lifespan.

“The FBI was spying on Martin Luther King and trying to get Martin Luther King to kill himself before the Nobel Prize was going to be awarded. In fact, after ML…”

Snowden claims the FBI spied on Martin Luther King Jr., tried to induce him to kill himself before he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and that two days after his 'I Have a Dream' speech the FBI classified him as the nation's greatest domestic security threat.

“in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1959, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people were killed in internal oppression alone. And then in China... it might h…”

Peterson claims 30-50 million people were killed in internal Soviet oppression between 1919-1959, and up to 100 million killed under Mao in China.

“a group of government officials came down, doctors, and they went through the black community, and they said, there's a sickness in all of you guys, and we're …”

Howard claims the Tuskegee experiment began in the early 1920s and involved government doctors actively injecting Black men with syphilis, running until the late 1970s.

“was Congress passed an emergency law in 2007 called the Protect America Act, which should have been our first indication this is a very bad thing... and what i…”

Snowden claims the 2007 Protect America Act retroactively immunized telecom companies from lawsuits over illegally handing over customer records to the government.

“we've lifted more people out of poverty in the last 15 years than in the entire course of human history.”

Peterson claims that in the 15 years preceding 2022, more people were lifted out of poverty than in all of prior human history combined.

“the satanic ritual abuse accusations that emerged in daycares in the 1980s. And that was a consequence of women going into the workforce en masse, leaving thei…”

Peterson claims the 1980s satanic ritual abuse daycare panic was caused by mothers entering the workforce and developing pathological, sometimes borderline-schizophrenic fantasies about strangers caring for their children.

“the shamanic experience which is replicable cross-culturally and which dominated the human landscape for at least 20 000 years we know that it involves a”

Peterson claims it is established knowledge that shamanic religious experience dominated human culture worldwide for at least 20,000 years.

“2004, Dermstadt, Germany, I think is where they first fabricated four atoms. It lasted 220 milliseconds. The atoms, it's nothing, right?”

Lazar claims element 115 (moscovium) was first artificially fabricated in 2004 in Darmstadt, Germany, producing four atoms that lasted 220 milliseconds.

“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.

“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.

“the reason that they weren't prevented is what they call stovepiping, right? There was not enough sharing. They needed to break down the walls and the restrict…”

Snowden claims the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented and that the official explanation ("stovepiping"/inadequate interagency information-sharing) is the reason they weren't stopped.

“But I mean, if you go back to the 84 games right here in Los Angeles, that was really the first major exposure you had for transfusions, which the American tea…”

Armstrong claims the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was the first major public exposure of blood transfusion doping, done by the American cycling team and exposed by Rolling Stone.

“So in the office of the presidency over the years, all those presidents you've had, 92% were politicians and 8% were generals. General Eisenhower, General Wash…”

Trump claims that across U.S. history, 92% of presidents were politicians and 8% were generals, citing Eisenhower and Washington as the generals.

“You know, Jimmy Carter was in charge of a commission, you know, that many years ago and they put him and Scoop Jackson and various senators, you know, distingu…”

Trump claims a Jimmy Carter-led bipartisan commission's primary finding was that mail-in ballots cannot be used.

“our education system, our education system was designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers because it was set up when rural people were mi…”

Peterson claims the modern education system was deliberately designed in Chicago in the late 1800s to produce factory workers for industrializing cities.

“they pretty much wiped out or raped and froze to death all of their competent farmers. They called them kulaks”

Peterson claims the Soviets wiped out, raped, and froze to death their competent kulak farmers during collectivization.

“if you want to read about how this process works, you can read a book called Ordinary Men by Robert Browning. And Ordinary Men is about... Browning was interes…”

Peterson attributes the book Ordinary Men to an author named Robert Browning, describing the police battalion study.

“we've entered into 6X, the sixth greatest extinction event known in the history of life on this planet. We've had two other extinction events from asteroid imp…”

Stamets claims we are currently in the sixth mass extinction event and that the prior two mass extinctions were caused by asteroid impacts 250 million and 65 million years ago.

“And everybody cheered and they went crazy. And then about a half an hour later, black smoke came out. That never in history has that happened, that the white s…”

Gibson claims that during the 1958 papal conclave, white smoke (signaling a new pope) was followed by black smoke, an event he says had never happened before in history.

“Also, the weave was a 1st century weave that was typical. And another guy, an archeologist who I knew who actually translated the passion in Aramaic, told me t…”

Gibson claims the Shroud of Turin has a first-century weave pattern and that faint images of a Tiberius-era coin are visible over the eyes of the figure.

“And they now know from flying over, they use light lidar, which is this, light emitting radar. So they so when they use this laser radar shit, when they fly ov…”

Gibson claims LIDAR surveys have revealed that most of the Amazon jungle is actually man-made agricultural land, previously home to millions of people in cities now consumed by jungle.

“The people who broke into the Watergate office building from which the name is taken. Watergate. I think it was six of them or seven of them. All but one was a…”

Carlson claims that all but one of the Watergate burglars were CIA employees.

“The Spanish flu, there's, you know, not a definitive, but very, very strong evidence. The Spanish flu was vaccine-induced flu. The deaths were vaccine-induced,…”

Kennedy claims there is strong evidence that the 1918 Spanish flu deaths were actually vaccine-induced rather than caused by the influenza virus itself.

“But in 1976, when they had this, you know, really bad flu shot that they did the same thing with, they did a global rollout and everybody had to take it. And t…”

Kennedy claims the 1976 swine flu vaccine was pulled from the market after only 25 reported deaths, implying a much lower bar for pulling that vaccine than modern COVID vaccines faced.

“he was responsible for the death of somewhere between 50 and 70 million people yeah he changed the carbon footprint of the planet earth during his lifetime bec…”

Peterson claims Genghis Khan was responsible for the deaths of 50 to 70 million people and that this measurably changed the planet's carbon footprint.

“in the 20s and 30s. Very intelligent, highly educated population and they went barking mad. And they went barking mad. And how did that happen? The answer is m…”

Malone attributes German society's turn toward Nazism in the 1920s-30s to "mass formation psychosis," a concept he credits to psychologist Matthias Desmet, and draws a direct parallel to COVID-era public compliance.

“The powers of our political system are still anchoring on Electoral College, which was based around slavery, about the idea of slaves being three fifths of man.”

Kanye West claims the Electoral College itself was based on the three-fifths compromise regarding enslaved people.

“Plan B and Planned Parenthood were planned by a eugenics that set out and said out loud, I'm doing this to kill the black race and to create population control.”

Kanye West claims Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist who explicitly said the goal was to kill the Black race and enact population control.

“It wasn't even created by pro slaves, three fifths of man was created by the anti slaves in the north as a compromise”

Kanye West claims the three-fifths compromise was created by anti-slavery northerners, not pro-slavery southerners.

“AT&T keeps those records going back to 2008 under a program called Hemisphere. If you search for Hemisphere and AT&T, you'll get a story in the Daily Beast abo…”

Snowden says AT&T's Hemisphere program retains call records "going back to 2008," then says AT&T's phone records go back to 1983 (he immediately self-corrects to 1987 in the next breath, off-quote).

“They literally brought down the president of Bolivia, his aircraft, and would not let it depart as it tried to cross the airspace of Europe, not even the Unite…”

Snowden claims multiple European countries forced Bolivian President Evo Morales's plane to land and blocked its departure, at U.S. instigation, until they confirmed Snowden was not aboard.

“You know, there's only two car companies in the history of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt, and that's Ford and Tesla.”

Musk claims that Ford and Tesla are the only two American car companies in history that have never gone bankrupt.

“And they still killed him. They hung him upside down. In 1600, the catholic church, 1599, hung him upside down in a stake and set him on fire because he refuse…”

Howard claims Giordano Bruno was hung upside down and burned at the stake by the Catholic Church in 1599/1600 for refusing to recant his beliefs.

“But the New Testament, of course, was constructed by Constantine and a series of bishops. They took things out. They added things.”

Peterson claims the New Testament was constructed by Roman Emperor Constantine and a group of bishops who added and removed material.

“The idea of banning assault weapons has been done in 1994. We banned assault weapons, I believe it was for 10 years. That ban was undone by a Republican majori…”

Sanders claims the 1994 federal assault weapons ban was actively undone/repealed by a Republican majority.

“In 1965, without the technology we have today, they implemented Medicare. 19 million people, elderly people, signed up in the first year.”

Sanders claims 19 million elderly people signed up for Medicare in its first year after it was implemented in 1965.

“there have been arguments that there is a group of archaeologists who would like it to be just 1,000 years old, and they attribute it to a culture called the F…”

Hancock claims there is live archaeological disagreement over Serpent Mound's age, with one camp dating it to only 1,000 years old (Fort Ancient culture) versus his preferred, older Adena-culture attribution.

“clearly identifiable pattern of DNA, which is only found in one other place in the world, and that is in Australasia, in Papua New Guinea, and amongst Australi…”

Hancock claims a distinctive Australasian DNA signal found in Amazonian tribes and in ~11,000-year-old Amazon skeletal remains is found nowhere else in the world except Australasia.

“Antarctica appears repeatedly on these much older maps and it appears in the right place and a bit bigger than it is today but very much as it looked during th…”

Hancock claims old maps repeatedly and accurately depict Antarctica in its correct location and roughly as it appeared, ice-free, during the last Ice Age, before its official 1819 discovery.

“you can take a handful of 8,000-year-old terra preta, and you can add it to barren soil, and that soil will instantly become fertile”

Hancock claims that adding a handful of 8,000-year-old Amazonian terra preta soil to barren soil will instantly make that soil fertile.

“there's already evidence of comet impact in Greenland, which goes back to papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, that…”

Hancock claims a newly discovered 18-mile-wide crater under Greenland's ice is linked to 2013 PNAS papers reporting comet-impact proxies (nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, platinum) dated to 12,800 years ago.

“The site he excavated in the Yukon was re-excavated in 2017 and every single thing he said was correct even though they had just sneered at him”

Hancock claims a 2017 re-excavation of Jacques Cinq-Mars's Yukon site (Bluefish Caves) confirmed that every claim Cinq-Mars made was correct, fully vindicating him after he was mocked by mainstream archaeology.

“So they found evidence of the impacts as far south as Antarctica now. Previously, they were focused very much on North America. Now, as far south as Antarctica…”

Hancock claims physical evidence of the Younger Dryas comet impact has been found as far away as Antarctica and Syria, proving it was a truly global event.

“It's the notion of a global navigating culture in the Ice Age that archaeologists can't swallow. It's a subject that I've kept on coming up against over a numb…”

Hancock claims there was a global seafaring civilization mapping the world during the last Ice Age, evidenced by old portolan maps like the Piri Reis map.

“Commander Fravor had eyes on it for over five minutes watching this thing, as four other pilots did.”

Corbell claims Commander David Fravor personally observed the Tic Tac object for more than five minutes, along with four other pilots.

“the most parsimonious explanation is that a group of people during the Ice Age crossed the Pacific Ocean and ended up in South America and settled in the Amazo…”

Hancock claims geneticist Eske Willerslev told him the most parsimonious explanation for Australasian DNA in the Amazon is that people crossed the Pacific Ocean directly during the Ice Age and settled there.

“I'm sorry. Homeland Security in New Jersey has listed them under domestic terrorism. OK, so so here I understand there's a conundrum in that the general concep…”

Tim Pool claims that New Jersey's Department of Homeland Security has officially listed Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization.

“The auto industry fought seatbelts, I think, for more than a decade. Successfully fought any regulations on seatbelts, even though the numbers were extremely o…”

Musk claims the auto industry successfully fought seatbelt safety regulations for more than a decade despite clear evidence of their life-saving benefit.

“what they claimed to the New York Times was that it was a false flag. New York Times said they reviewed internal documents that showed they admitted it was a f…”

Tim Pool claims the New York Times reviewed internal documents proving a named individual's company ran a false flag operation using fake Russian bot accounts during the Roy Moore Senate campaign.

“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.

“Back in 1942 Gallup did a poll and what they found was that the average American adult was sleeping 7.9 hours of sleep a night. Now that number, the most recen…”

Walker claims a 1942 Gallup poll found Americans averaged 7.9 hours of sleep per night, versus a current average of 6 hours 31 minutes on weeknights.

“And Carl Jung took issue with that. He was a student of Nietzsche's, and he pointed out, basically, that, well, wait a minute. Who says you can create your own…”

Peterson states that Carl Jung was a student of Friedrich Nietzsche and that Jung responded to Nietzsche's idea that people could create their own values after the death of God.

“the Tour de France is 100 years old, right? So doping is cheating.”

Armstrong states that the Tour de France is 100 years old.

“the New York Times said, we won't run the story. Because the president just said, if you run this story a month before the election, that's a very tight margin…”

Snowden claims President Bush personally warned the New York Times that running the NSA warrantless-wiretapping story before the 2004 election would put 'blood on your hands,' and that this threat is why the paper held the story until December 2005.

“this was i think i think it was in the atlantic where they surveyed something like 10 different international security experts who said based on what the platf…”

Tim Pool claims an Atlantic-published survey of about 10 international security experts found a high probability of civil war, with one expert citing a 90% chance.

“6 million Ukrainians starved to death. They had posters. The Soviets produced posters in the 1930s that said, essentially, don't forget it's wrong to eat your …”

Peterson states 6 million Ukrainians starved to death in the Holodomor and that Soviet posters explicitly warned against eating your children.

“There's 4 by 8 foot bricks. That's not that's man made. And it is literally the biggest pyramid in the world. It's bigger than the ones in Egypt, and it's in G…”

Gibson claims a pyramid (La Danta at El Mirador, Guatemala) is literally the biggest pyramid in the world, bigger than any in Egypt.

“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.

“Gobekli Tepe is discovered. It dates to 11,600 years ago. It's more than 5,000 years older than the supposedly oldest megalithic architecture in the world. And…”

Hancock claims Gobekli Tepe's site had no prior evidence of agriculture and that agriculture appeared simultaneously with the site's construction, implying the monument predates and causes farming.

“we get a group of more than 60 major scientists who are seriously proposing that the Earth was hit by multiple fragments of a giant comet 12,800 years ago, and…”

Hancock claims over 60 scientists have proposed the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, that a comet impact 12,800 years ago caused sea level rise and megafauna extinction.

“San Diego Natural History Museum, and a bunch of other very high-level paleontologists, published in Nature magazine evidence for human presence in North Ameri…”

Hancock claims a 2017 Nature paper on the Cerutti Mastodon site presents accepted evidence of human presence in North America 130,000 years ago.

“we can say that a city like London, which had a population of roughly 50,000 in the 16th century, there were cities of that size all over the Amazon, huge numb…”

Hancock claims pre-Columbian Amazon cities rivaled 16th-century London in size and the Amazon's total population exceeded 20 million people.

“I defeated 100% of the ISIS caliphate. They said it would take five years. I did it in a matter of a few, literally a few weeks.”

Trump claims he personally defeated 100% of the ISIS territorial caliphate in a few weeks after being told it would take five years.

“Now, that's false. Hydroxychloroquine was known to be effective against SARS-1.”

Malone asserts that hydroxychloroquine was already known to be effective against the original SARS-CoV (SARS-1) virus.