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Joe Rogan Experience #2284 - Ian Carroll

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The Joe Rogan experience.
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Welcome.
Dude.
Very nice to meet you.
Yeah, good to be here, man.
So, let's take, first of all, why do we love conspiracy so much?
Because I fucking love them.
Dude.
I love them.
I love finding out the dirty little tactics and secrets and how the government
does things
and what the fuck's really going on.
Why is it so exciting?
I think it's something like deep down in humanity is like, we love storytelling.
Yeah.
And these days, conspiracy theories are like, I mean, 10 years ago, conspiracy
theories
were fringe and they were problematic.
Tell me about it.
Right?
I was a conspiracy theorist way back in the day when you were a fucking nut.
Dude, you were a conspiracy theorist when I was not even here yet.
I was arguing with people about the moon landing on the radio before there was
any podcasts.
I mean, maybe there's some of the mystery element, but the thing is that so
many of them are,
it's a knowledge, it's a thirst for knowledge because some of them are total
bullshit.
Yes.
But some of them are clearly, there's something there.
Clearly.
Right?
Yeah.
And realistically, if you had like the journalists of integrity from 1960s era
alive today and
they hadn't been bought out and shot in the head and whatever else happened,
they would
be conspiracy theorists.
They were compromised.
Well, they were getting bought out.
The big one is Woodward with the Watergate story.
Oh, yeah.
Did you see Bill Murray when I had Bill Murray in here?
I haven't watched it yet.
No.
Bob Woodward wrote Wired, which is about John Belushi.
Bill Murray read five pages of it and he said, holy shit, they framed Nixon.
He said, the Bob Woodward story about Belushi was so full of shit.
It was so exaggerated and fake and just filled with nonsense.
He's like, John Belushi was a lightweight.
He goes, John Belushi would drink three beers and he'd be drunk.
He goes, he was probably the first speedball he ever took and he died from it.
Like this whole thing about him being this raving drug-fueled maniac was
totally fabricated.
Like it's a good example of how the mainstream narrative had Nixon as a crook.
Yeah.
And he's just one of many examples, right?
And when you really start to look into it, you realize, I mean, probably not
the greatest
guy, but what was the real story there?
What were they framing?
Why were they trying to get him out?
Yeah.
No, this is not a defense of Nixon.
Nixon was not a great guy.
But Tucker thinks that Nixon knew about too much about the JFK assassination
and wanted
to talk about it.
And he started saying, I know who killed JFK.
Yeah.
And he started, he started yapping and they were like, let's get this
motherfucker out
of here.
And also one of the terms that he had agreed to, to run for president was
Gerald Ford, who
was on the fucking Warren commission.
Bingo.
Gerald Ford as his VP.
Yeah.
So Gerald Ford becomes the first ever non-elected president.
He slips in, he becomes president for kind of a bullshit term.
Yep.
And does a whole bunch of war party things and just a whole bunch of bullshit.
And we decide that Nixon was the real problem with the country.
I mean, how often is it that they're allowing someone that they aren't sure
about to get
to president and they're putting, they're sticking them with a VP that is their
guy, right?
Like LBJ with JFK.
Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney.
Everybody.
Mike Pence.
It was the hidden secret that, well, Pence was, I don't think.
I don't know what the hell to think about Mike Pence.
Pence is like a preacher.
I think he was good to get the fucking, the religious people.
Super rhino, super like, yeah.
Weird guy.
Yeah.
But I mean, Trump is a weird guy too.
Like who knows what's going on with Trump right now?
He's an animal.
Yeah.
He's the most fun ever.
I love Trump conspiracy theories because people get so riled up and it's so
partisan and political,
but within it, there's all this like juicy, like meat for, for thinking about,
it's like
not even conspiracy theories.
It's just like his history.
Right.
And especially with the Epstein stuff now and his history with Epstein, it just
gets me
so interested in, you'll never know the real story.
But here's the thing about theories and stuff.
There's so many things that are so weird that you would think, wait a minute,
well, this
can't be real.
This is fake.
Yup.
And, and then it's connected to real life events in some sort of a way that you
would
think there's a conspiracy.
Like here's the, one of my favorites is little Baron Trump's.
Yeah, dude.
I just got the book.
It just came in the mail.
Insane.
Have you read it?
No.
Dude, I'm going to read it.
I just got it.
I should buy it.
I should buy the book before it gets bought out.
I got it in a three part series that has the, the Baron Trump one.
And then the last president and there's one other one.
And then how about the Wernher von Braun one about a guy named Elon that takes
us to Mars?
He wrote, Wernher von Braun, the fucking Nazi who ran, you know, Operation
Paperclip and
became the head of NASA.
Super occultist kind of stuff in there.
Writes a novel about a guy named Elon that takes us to Mars.
And even Elon saw that and he's like, is this real?
Like, like you would think there's no way.
Simultaneous to us kind of getting like some version of UAP disclosure that
implies time
travel.
Yeah.
Which is like, Lord knows what that is.
Right.
But it's just so fun to speculate because it's like, how would we know?
Yeah.
How would we know?
And the whole UAP thing, boy, you want to find a cauldron of bullshit.
Yeah.
That's the cauldron.
Do you know who's got the best take on it?
Is Jacques Vallée.
I'm in the middle of-
I've not seen a lot of his stuff.
My third book of his right now.
And it's, I'll tell you what it's called.
Yeah, I should read some.
He's the best.
Why do you say he's the best?
Like, what's your qualifier then?
Because he's, I'm on this one, Confrontations, which is one of a three-part
series of human
interactions that have been documented with some sort of an invader from some
other dimension
or planet or whatever the fuck it is.
He is the most rational.
He's the most analytical.
He's the least likely to buy into horseshit, but not dismissive.
That's like the critical balance, right?
Yes.
Well, he's the guy that they modeled the French scientist in Close Encounters
of the Third Kind
after.
So he's been in this game since the 60s, investigating these things.
And time in the game counts for a ton.
It counts for so much.
And that's my greatest weakness in a lot of ways, among several, is that I'm
just really
new to the game.
And so I'm constantly like catching up on shit and his stuff breaks.
Right.
Like, like Pam Bondi, for example, I have no history on who Pam Bondi is
because I wasn't
paying attention when Pam Bondi was in Florida.
And so I'm having to like play catch up on what was going on.
Right.
And the people that have been here for forever, like the Alex Joneses of this
world, the
Jacques Vallée's, the people that like watch things break live, you just get a
different
level of context.
And then you get like the David Icke's that are like, it's fucking reptiles,
dude.
They're all reptiles.
David, have you seen David Icke coming after me on Twitter recently?
He came after me too.
Dude, it's so good.
I love him.
I make fun of the reptile thing.
And it's like, why won't you have me on?
I genuinely really appreciate it.
It's like a good time.
But it's like, maybe there are reptiles.
I don't know, man.
He went too far in time where there was no internet.
Yeah.
You know, he went too far.
It's so you get too certain of yourself, right?
You think you have the answers and you just keep going.
A little bit of a grift with some of these folks.
I'm not saying necessarily him, but it's a little bit of a grift.
Well, it's an easy temptation to fall into, especially with the internet.
Like every single day, people in my position, I mean, people in your position
too.
Like we have the ability to just like, I'm going to get views and money if I
drop deep
down this grift.
But a lot of them are not like a lot of them, when you look into them, you
realize, oh, there's
like literally nothing there.
There's a bunch of stuff that's clickbait horseshit for sure.
Or at least there's probably nothing there.
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The one that I just recently kind of was reminded of is, you know, the story
that Disney sent kids
to Epstein Island?
Yeah, I did hear that.
That's like a perfect, like, oh, such a money conspiracy theory.
It's not true.
That's not true.
It's when you look it up, you realize that, I mean, a lot of the information is
kind of gone.
It's hard to even tell if it's legitimate websites and information, which is
already a red flag.
But the ones that are still up, they just sent them into, like, they were going
on cruises
that happened to be in the vicinity of the island.
That's totally different than sending kids to the island.
Which is a very popular vacation destination.
And so it becomes this, like, and that's kind of the, I think that's the fun
part of the game.
We thought about buying the island.
Dude.
When the island was for sale, we talked about it for a second.
Like, let's put some of that Spotify money to use.
That would be funny.
I think they would have stopped you, dude.
I think someone would have stopped you.
Oh, yeah.
100%.
Me?
Yeah.
I can't shut the fuck up.
Because there's shit underneath that island.
No doubt.
For sure.
There's got to be something on that island that's incriminating.
Yeah, under that temple.
And also, what's in the walls?
What's in the walls of the buildings?
Like, I would get into the wiring.
I'd bring in pros.
Oh, yeah.
I'd be like, tell me what the fuck's going on.
What's under the dirt?
I'd scan the fucking floors.
Yeah, LIDAR, the ocean floor, and the surrounding miles.
Also, he's dead.
So if he ever fucking hid some shit in there, no one knows where it is.
Yep.
Well, he's probably dead.
I assume he's dead.
But there was so much shit around it that I don't feel 100% sure.
I feel like 95% sure that he's dead, 98% sure that he's dead.
Right.
I wouldn't go 100% either.
Yeah, right?
You know what I'm saying?
It's like, there's very few things I feel 100% sure about.
But they did do an autopsy.
But they did an autopsy on JFK, too.
And it was not his body.
Well, sort of.
They did two autopsies.
Right.
They, well, they did, the initial examination of the body was in Dallas, and
then they flew
it to Bethesda.
Yeah.
The thing a