Joe Rogan has just disclosed that
he has tested positive for
Coronavirus.
In fact, he
disclosed it in an Instagram video.
Let's hear what he had to say.
>> Got tested and
turns out I got COVID.
So we immediately threw the kitchen
sink at it, all kinds of meds,
monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin,
Z-Pak, prednisone, everything.
>> Cool, I thought
that he had gotten vaccinated, but
to be clear there's no confirmation
that he has.
I don't know whyI thought he had
vaccinated- >> I thought he
had, too.
>> Right, I guess I assumed that he
wasn't a complete lost cause but
I'm wrong.
Instead he opted to self medicate
with roundworm medication,
so- >> Among other things.
>> If he's got roundworm,
if he's got tapeworm, don't worry,
your intestinal tract will be
a okay with that ivermectin.
>> You can pick that
stuff up in public gyms.
Yeah, so I thought he had.
I think he said something about how
it was going to be made available
via the UFC, and then he sort of
backtracked, probably after getting
a horrible response from his fan
base, I assume.
And so look,
some of the stuff he was talking
about there is actual medicine.
He was talking about, I think he
was referring there to regeneron,
which is incredibly expensive.
Most of his viewers wouldn't be
able to afford it.
But that's actually a treatment
that has been demonstrated
to help If you get COVID.
It's no reason not to get
the vaccine, you should
definitely get the vaccine, but
that's actual medicine.
And then he took other stuff,
too, that has not been shown to
actually help.
And so he's taken actual medicine
and not medicine,
we will see what narrative comes
out of this experience.
>> There have been cases of people
who took high doses of ivermectin
because they were unfortunately
misled by people who have influence
in society.
And they were essentially
defecating the lining of their
intestines, and thought that they
actually ended up, no,
it turns out I did have some sort
of parasitic infection.
No, it's not, they're not worms.
It was the lining of your
intestines.
Some people are crapping themselves
possibly to death, okay,
because of this disinformation.
And in the case of Joe Rogan,
I don't think, look,
Joe Rogan clearly has been
misled himself, right?
So I don't put them in the same
category as people who
are intentionally lying to people,
because they're making money off
of it.
And to be sure, there are people
making money of essentially pushing
ivermectin, even though it has not
been proven as a treatment for
a viral infection.
It has been proven as a treatment
for a parasitic infection.
I don't know, maybe Rogan was just
trying to subtly disclose that he
has other issues going on but
I doubt it.
So America's frontline doctors,
this organization that's
been pushing ivermectin,
they're hucksters.
And by the way,
Rogen likes to research, so
research them, research them.
What they're doing is pushing
ivermectin, then Americans go to
their website looking to get
a prescription for it.
And what they do is they re-direct
Americans to a different
telemedicine website that charges
a fee of 60 bucks, right, to see
a doctor through telemedicine and
to get a prescription.
The thing is, though,
America's frontline doctors
charge a fee of 90 bucks before
they redirect people.
So they're making $30,
they're pocketing $30 off this
grift every single time someone is
misled into going to their website
in the search of ivermectin,
which is not a treatment or
a preventative measure for COVID.
>> Yeah, yeah, okay, well, so
that's obviously underhanded.
At least they're getting a human
prescription for it, rather than
taking the sheep thing and cutting
off little bits and eating it, or
I read posts where they're starting
to rub it into their armpits now,
which I guess is preferable to
eating it.
So that's fine.
And by the way, so
this group that you're referencing,
they're sort of directly making
money off of pushing ivermectin.
Now we reference other people
making money off of it.
How? They're not selling
ivermectin on their website, but
what they are selling is a get out
of critical thought free card to
their audience.
If you're trying to appeal
to a lizard brained,
right wing audience, telling them,
just get the vaccine, you idiot,
it's not sheep meds that you need,
they're gone.
So whatever influence, reach,
views, revenue, whatever,
they would bring, that is a no for
them, they're going to be done.
And so it's scary, I guess,
to tell people responsible medical
information when audiences can be
so flighty around that stuff.
But by the way, I will say for him,
I'm not particularly invested in
Joe Rogan.
I try to avoid thinking about it,
but I hope that he gets through
with a very easy case.
More importantly,
I hope that he doesn't expose
anyone else to COVID.
And more importantly than that, I
hope that after he gets over this,
which he almost certainly will,
he comes out of it with some sort
of renewed sense of the need to be
responsible about this.
That he doesn't come out telling
people that, sure,
I took the really expensive Dr.
Johnny Bananas monkey meds, and
ivermectin.
It was probably the ivermectin that
saved me, not the $1500 a dose
monoclonal antibodies that they
cooked up in some underground lab.
Just be responsible, first of all,
tell them, don't go through what I
went through because you definitely
can't afford the special
monkey meds I got.
So get the vaccine which is free,
but if you're going to get it,
don't rely on the S ing out your
intestine stuff.
>> So we'll see, >> Defecating.
>> I don't have high hopes.
>> Yeah, defecating, that's
the classy way of saying crapping.
>> That's true, well,
you manage to do both.
Yeah, so anyway,
I am hoping against hope and
likely against reason that that's
what he ends up doing.
>> All right, we'll see.
I mean, look,
I think that I see Joe Rogan,
I've never said this publicly.
I'm going to say it for
the first time publicly,
and he'll probably hate me for
this, but it is what it is.
I see him as
an impressionable child.
So it depends on who he's talking
to on his podcast on any given day.
The unfortunate fact is he's
been having more and more right
wingers and kooks on his show.
And for an impressionable person,
he ends up getting more and more
propagandized to their garbage,
right.
And so I feel like Rogan,
I'm not saying there are no
redeeming qualities.
He has had these rants on his show
that are fantastic, where there's
some clarity in what he has to say,
yes, you should hear.
There was this one segment he did,
segment, as if it's a new show, but
there was this one rant he went on
regarding Trump's anti immigration
policies, blew my mind.
I was like, wait, this is Rogen?
And it's like, those moments of
clarity are fantastic.
So I don't think he's a bad person,
that's not where I'm coming from.
But I do think he's impressionable.
And so when he has right wing kooks
like Jimmy Dore, who's like, I got
stiff neck from the vaccine, and
that's the quality of guests he has
on his program, you're going to end
up being a kook, just like he is.
Jimmy Dore, who's been so open and
transparent about his spinal
issue, all of a sudden is blaming
his stiff neck on the vaccine.
I don't know, man, it could have
something to do with your long
standing health issues that are not
related to the vaccine.
But I don't know,
I don't know, Jimmy Dore,
we all know about how well read and
intelligent the guy is,
freaking clown.
>> Well, I'm not a doctor,
as has been clear, but
in terms of the impressionability,
obviously his audience likes it,
that's a benefit for the show.
It's one of the reasons
he's the most popular person on
the planet, basically.
But the issue is that he's been
doing the show for how many years?
Years and years and years, right?
And he interviews lots of
interesting people, tons of them.
So shouldn't that sort of
accumulate, all the impressions
you've gotten, the knowledge,
the exposure, new viewpoints,
shouldn't that start to accrue into
something like a worldview?
>> There used to be, in my opinion,
as someone who did listen to his
podcast regularly, there used to be
a diversity of guests.
And that for some reason,
in recent years,
has been thrown out the window.
Every once in a while he will have
a guest on who's a little different
from the conspiracy theorist kooks,
a little different from the Brett
Weinsteins, a little different
from the Ben Shapiros, a little
different from the Jimmy Dores, and
all the other cranks out there.
>> You mean like the Elon Musks.
>> Honestly,
I'm not a huge fan of Elon Musk.
But that conversation's far more
interesting than the, I don't know,
80th conspiracy theorist he's
going to have on, who's going to
caution people against a vaccine,
that by the way is literally saving
people's lives as we speak,
that has approval from the FDA
at this point, the Pfizer vaccine.
He's not a dumb guy.
That's the thing about Rogan.
He's not dumb.
He's just impressionable.
And I would just encourage him to
go back to diversifying the type of
guests he has on his show,
because lately it's been more and
more of the same.
And I'm just tired of the cranks,
especially when it comes to
a highly influential show that
people do trust and
listen to on a regular basis.
Look, I know that he's not
a news person.
I know that he doesn't want that
responsibility, but I'm sorry.
If you have an audience that large,
whether you like it or
not, there's a responsibility that
comes along with it, period.
>> So just please, just, if you're
going to comment on these kinds of
things, please make sure that
you're vetting your information.
That's all I'm saying.
People get things wrong time to
time, but something like this,
where it's been discussed and
debated over and over again and
the information is right there at
your fingertips, there's no excuse.
Stop pushing ivermectin.
>> Have a doctor on, not a vet.
>> A real doctor.
>> Not a vet.
>> A real doctor. >> A doctor.
>> Yeah, exactly.