“I had almost quietly snuck up to this and had this large audience that they weren’t aware of,” Rogan said about how he was able to speak out about it. “And the blowback was crazy.”
“They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There were PACs involved,” he said. “Thank God I was on Spotify, and thank God Spotify is not an American company. Also, it helped that I was No. 1 in, like, 90 countries and not No. 90 in one country.”
“And then there’s the Streisand thing. When you try to silence something, you’re just going to make it bigger. If they kicked me off of Spotify and I had to go to Rumble, it would have just blown Rumble’s stock up, and it would have helped everybody.”
“I can’t even talk about it. But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify. Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation. And it turned out to be right. All of it.”
“And not a single apology from anybody. Not a single retraction, not a single mea culpa, not a single ‘we were wrong.’ And I lost a lot of sponsors.”
JOE ROGAN: The position that I was in during the COVID thing was very unique. So it was almost easy for me, because I had already gotten such a head start. I was so far ahead of them.
They didn’t realize that my ability to say, “Wait, this doesn’t make any sense. None of this makes any sense. And also, why am I green? And also, why are you guys lying? Why are you lying about all sorts of different things? Why are you measuring troponin levels when you’re talking about myocarditis, and not the actual scans of people’s hearts, when you realize young people are getting legitimately f—ed up from this vaccine? Not all of them, but some of them. Why aren’t you looking at that? How come you guys aren’t looking at vaccine injuries?
It seems like a significant thing that people are talking about. You’ve got soccer players dropping dead in the middle of the field, and no one’s bringing that up. You’re trying to gaslight us into thinking that that doesn’t make any sense.”
I was in a unique position to be able to do that because I had almost quietly snuck up to this and had this large audience that they weren’t aware of. So when it happened, it was just like, I couldn’t do anything other than what I did. I had to just keep doing it the way I did it.
And the blowback was crazy. They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There were PACs involved. It was a—
CHASE HUGHES: Oh, yeah.
JOE ROGAN: Oh, yeah. Thank God I was on Spotify, and thank God Spotify is not an American company. Also, it helped that I was No. 1 in, like, 90 countries and not No. 90 in one country. That helped.
The size of it was so big that, as big as they were, they’re like, “Oh.” And then there’s the Streisand thing. When you try to silence something, you’re just going to make it bigger.
If they kicked me off of Spotify and I had to go to Rumble, it would have just blown Rumble’s stock up, and it would have helped everybody.
CHASE HUGHES: Yeah. I didn’t know that there was that much going on in your life.
JOE ROGAN: I can’t even talk about it, but there were presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify.
CHASE HUGHES: Oh, yeah?
JOE ROGAN: Oh, yeah. Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation. Yeah. It turned out to be right. All of it. Not a single fucking apology.
Interviewing the dude that invented mRNA and the most published doctor in his field — not a single apology. Not a single apology from anybody. Not a single retraction. Not a single mea culpa. Not a single, “We were wrong.”
And I lost a lot of sponsors. I lost a lot during those days. It was interesting. There was a time where it was working.
CHASE HUGHES: Wow. I didn’t know there was that much coordination.
JOE ROGAN: Oh, there was a lot of coordination. Oh, people are going to be—I don’t talk about it too much because it’s pretty deep. It was nuts. But it didn’t work, right? But they tried, and they tried it out. They spent a lot of money. A lot of money. It wasn’t a small amount of money. It wasn’t a small amount of people. It was a lot of people and a lot of money.
Yeah, that part was spooky. But the turning my face green was hilarious. That didn’t bother me at all. Also, I’m a comedian, you know what I mean? I’m a shit-talker. That’s what I do. If you talk shit to me, you’re not going to hurt my feelings that much. I’m used to it. It’s normal. It’s a part of the game that I play.
Especially if you’re doing it and there’s a video that’s the real video that’s available for anybody that goes on my Instagram page. Fucking retards. It is crazy. It’s a stupid checker move. It’s so dumb.
