You were listening to The Battle Ready Podcast. My name is Aaron McManus. I'm here with my dad, Earl McManus, and I'm also here with a special guest, Joseph Smith.

Joseph Smith McManus, it's good to be here. It's good to have you here. It's just, it's just Joseph Smith.

Joseph Smith, you can go Joseph if you want. Okay. And Joe, you're from Salt Lake. You taught me to bring him young.

In my spare time, I funded a religion, founded a religion, all of it. Yeah. Okay, so we're here, and this is the last minute edition, but we're grateful to have you.

Thank you for having me. It's been a while. Yeah. It's been a year. It might have been a year.

Goodness is our anniversary. So we were, we were on our way to the studio, and you would post something on Instagram story about our, our good friend Joe Rogan.

Yes. Hello, Joe. I'd like to call him Joey Rowey.

Because you guys, when he hits me, when he hits me, what up, Joey Rowey? How you doing? How big baby has your arms? They look big.

Okay. Now, I was completely unaware that you were in a heated social media debate.

Oh, no, he did, but I had a thought. All right. Well, why don't you unwrap that thought for us?

Yeah. For everyone who's listening and for me.

So yeah, if you're unaware, Joe Rogan has been a, you know, hot button topic recently.

And previously it was people trying to cancel Joe for anti-vaccine thoughts and misinformation, and it seemed like that didn't work.

So now the latest conversation, a lot of people have been, you also had a, what a guest who was a virologist, a Malone that was considered controversial, even though he actually has all the credentials.

Dr. Robert Malone. Exactly. As a doctor and scientist virologist. So it's not even about his credentials. It's just about his position.

Yes. That would be correct. And really from that point, from when he had Dr. Robert Malone on, it seems like there's been a lot of persistence to have him taken off the air.

But isn't Joe Rogan always controversial? Yes. I mean, doesn't he love controversy?

Yes. The guy does mushrooms and, and either of us, like, yeah, I mean, like Elon, we're talking about Elon's interview was like three hours of them smoking weed.

Yeah. Yeah.

And he's a MMA, you know, a huge app order.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Cause I was actually all confessed at an MMA event in New York, Madison Square Garden. And Joe was the one who, I guess he did the commentate.

He's really good at that too. Like I almost prefer the videos I like watching afterwards, like their camera of the three guys who commented in their reactions.

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