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When there's blood in the water, the sharks begin together. So never chum the waters. This all started a

few weeks ago, of course, when the left decided that Joe Rogan was very bad. Now, let's be real about

this. The left has believed that Joe Rogan is very bad ever since he said that he would vote for

Donald Trump before he would vote for Joe Biden. And He said that Biden was not alive. And this set off the left. And ever since then, the left has been looking for some sort of excuse, some sort of hook to hang there. Let's get rid of Rogan hat upon. And Rogan signed this giant deal with Spotify last year. It looked like he was going to be a mainstay in the so-called mainstream media for years to come because Spotify is a major publicly traded company.

Okay, well, they found their excuse when he had on Dr. Robert Malone, who went on the air and talked about the shortcomings of the mRNA vaccines as he saw them. And this was used as evidence that Joe Rogan was a vax denier. And then when Joe Rogan got COVID and he was not vaxed and he used ivermectin, the entire media declared that Joe Rogan was a vaxed denier. And then when Joe Rogan got COVID and he was not vaxed and he used ivermectin, the entire media declared that Joe Rogan had been taking horsy warmer as opposed to, you know, the human medicine, ivermectin, which has been used for decades. And this started to snowball. And it really reached its culmination a couple of weeks ago, at least people thought, when he had on Jordan Peterson and they made a bunch of headlines. And right after that, there was a concerted attempt by a wide variety of voices in media to

de-platform Joe Rogan from Spotify by saying that he had engaged in COVID misinformation.

Now, here's the thing. The timing was odd, because Joe's been saying the same stuff about the COVID vaccines since the COVID vaccines were available. He's been saying for a very long time that if you're unhealthy, if you're old, you probably should get the vaccine. And if you're young and you're healthy, then you probably shouldn't get the vaccine. That's Joe's perspective. That's not my perspective. I believe that it is heavily-aged striated, that pretty much everybody has a better shot of getting seriously ill

from the disease than from the vaccine.

This stops applying when you are younger and younger and when you are more and more healthy.

Okay, but my disagreements with Joe about the vaccine aside, which we talked about on his show

because Joe has on a lot of people who disagree with him, including Sanjay Gupta from CNN,

who talked about the vaccines with him. All of this kind of came to a head in mid to late January, because the Spotify stock started to tank, and then people saw their opportunity, which was he had on Jordan Peterson. There were a few bad headlines that came out of that for Joe, because people started taking him and Jordan out of context. And then it was like, okay, let's all pile on. Let's get Joe Rogan off the air. And so they immediately start with the Joe Rogan is disseminating misinformation. And this is what has caused hundreds of thousands of people to die. Now, there is a problem with this theory. That problem is that Joe Biden is the president of the United States. And the CDC is controlled by Rochelle Balensky, and the NIH is controlled by Dr. Fauci. And all of these people have enormous amounts of weight in public opinion. Plus, you have all of the network media, right? You have ABC, NBC, CBS, you have CNN, you have MSNBC, you have the New York Times, you have the Wall, you have the Washington Post, you have the LA Times. And I don't have to go through the compendium of the entire mainstream media, all repeating the same messages about COVID, which is do whatever the CDC says, no matter how little sense it makes. But Joe Rogan became sort of the focal points of this. And so they got the blood in the water. and Joe released a video where he essentially said, I don't know what you mean by misinformation,

since the CDC was saying things that it later had to reject

as overtly untrue later on in the pandemic. But with that said, I'll be more careful about my balance of guests. If I have somebody controversial on, then I'll try and balance that out with somebody who is less controversial on these sorts of topics. And this, of course, did not appease anyone because you had a few artists from Spotify who decided, you need to pull my catalog or pull Joe Rogan. And Spotify had sunk

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