Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1865 - Aaron Rodgers
Uploaded: 2022-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1865 - Aaron Rodgers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-27. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1865 - Aaron Rodgers' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-08-27. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1865 - Aaron Rodgers

so it's good to see you man good to see you man thank you my pleasure how you
doing i'm doing
great yeah it's been an interesting uh year or so but man it's been it's been a
good year
what was the the craziness like like when all the people were calling you a
plague rat and
i mean it's you and the how do you say the guy's name the tennis player
novak djokovic yeah djokovic i mean we talk about the healthiest human beings
on earth
professional playing in the u.s open now yeah i know because of this which is
bananas the guy's
already had covid recovered from it i think he had it twice yeah and he's one
of the best athletes
in the world i mean the guy's body's in tip-top condition players are
incredible fitness
incredible yeah yeah and no you can't come you didn't follow the rules like it's
it defies
science defies logic it doesn't make any sense none of it makes sense
especially at this stage of the
the pandemic air quotes i mean what the fuck man what was it like for you it
was it was really
difficult for sure and a lot of different reasons i think i knew that this was
coming down that at some
point i was going to talk about my status because i'd chosen to not get vaxxed
for reasons that you
talked about uh on your show and i talked about on we should just say it
because uh it's kind of
important you you're allergic to a medication or a part of the vaccine right
what is it called
peg polyethylene glycol and uh so i did my research uh i know i think typically
speaking because i'm
healthy and i take care of myself um getting vaccinated was not on the top of
my list but
you know i wanted to look into it because everybody was doing it and talking
about it and and trying to
be safe and i wanted to make sure i was you know doing my part if that's what
was necessary
to keep myself safe and my loved ones safe and my teammates safe then i looked
into it and at the time
i went on the cdc website and they specifically said you know if if you're
allergic to pegs we do we do
not recommend you get vaccinated with the mrna vaccinations so the only other
one available was johnson
johnson and it had just got pulled at the time for blood clots so i looked into
other options which
included uh an immunization process through a holistic doctor and i researched
and talked to
probably a dozen different mds and found a protocol that i felt like was was
the best available and what
what is that what what's involved in that part it involved um basically uh a
couple month process
of taking a diluted um strand of the virus so i was doing basically what the
vaccine is supposed to
do without how do they do that i don't know the the the exact way that they did
that but um but it
was by injection no no it was it was um it was oral and how are they even
getting a diluted strand of
the virus i don't i don't know that exactly or want to get into that exactly i
don't think but um but
there was uh hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people that i knew in
this circle that that we're
using that had been doing this to protect ourselves because we were thinking
hey look uh you know for
me i didn't want to risk anaphylactic shock uh or any type of clotting with you
know associated with
the vaccine so um so my that was my only option either do nothing or do this
process and i felt like that
this was the best way to protect myself and my teammates and that the nfl would
understand you know and
maybe grant me a waiver because one of the most difficult parts about the whole
process was that
there was clearly two classes of player at the facility there was the vaxxed
and the unvaxxed
and the vaxxed had full privileges they tested once every two weeks they had
full privileges on the road
they could go out to dinner on the road they could go to a concert in town they
could go to a comedy show
that was it was in town they could be at any place they wanted to right and
live life normally non-vaxxed
fully masked zero privileges on the road could not go into establishments more
than 15 people
you cannot be around more than uh three uh the three individuals from the team
outside the facility
all these different what i think now we all realize were crazy uh policies and
that's what actually got
me in into into into trouble was that i attended a halloween party in a 10 000
square foot warehouse
with 18 other individuals all fully vaccinated and myself not vaxxed and was
eventually fined for that
ended up getting covid from uh a vaccinated teammate of mine who contracted
covid
and spread it and that's where it gets a little bit crazy and i told this story
i think on the mcafee show but i said
when i came to camp they knew i was not vaccinated right so you had to you had
to submit a vaccination card
that went to the system with the nfl and obviously didn't have one so i was
given we were given wristbands
too so everybody in the facility knew who was vaxxed and who wasn't vaxxed vaxxed
was green
non-vaxxed was yellow so already it's weird yeah you know like wearing your
colors out there
and i think you know to to do an aside here there was a lot of shaming involved
in it
there was a lot of public shaming
that was attempted
to coerce people to get vaccinated because not only you're wearing a yellow
wristband
you're the only ones wearing masks
and you're you you have to work out by yourself
can't work out with your teammates
so no drills nothing well you could at practice
but weight room stuff or our weight room every day
we're working out on the side just the seven of us not vaxxed
is it because practice is outside and the weight room is inside
supposedly yeah
but so they knew my vaccination status from the start
um as did all my teammates there was a lot of talk about i endangered my
teammates and
you know i lied to my teammates or my team from day one that i returned which
was july 25th probably
of 2021 they knew where i was at everybody did
also on the side i had an appeal going with the nfl
because i said look here's my uh health issues
here's the protocol i went through
here's the research behind it gave them 500 pages of research
from a number of people that put together
uh case reviewed studies around homeopathy and uh
and immunizations and the safety in them and also the efficacy of them
and then i had a conversation with the league and the league said
in this conversation this one i knew that my appeal was definitely not going to
happen
was they said it's not possible for a vaccinated player
person sorry to contract or transmit covid if they've been vaccinated
and i said you got to be kidding me because i showed up
and five people non-players five people fully vaxxed
are out with covid so what are you talking about
and he said you're a conspiracy theorist
oh boy and i said
no i just think i'm a realist i'm just looking at the facts here
like what point in the pandemic was this
this was like beginning of august 2021
so by then they had already known that breakthrough infections were real
by then it had already i mean the the vaccines started being rolled out
um was it when what was the first year
it was january of 2020 where they started getting them to older people right
no no that's when it started
right i'm sorry january 2021 rather sorry
yeah january 2021 they started giving out to older people wasn't that
they started rolling out in march and april because that's when i was
going through the process of researching and looking into what i could do
right to protect myself having the you know the allergy of that
and by august people were still they were already getting it
vaccinated even though they had been vaccinated
so this was not you know it wasn't talked about i don't think a whole lot
right but it was four months it was definitely happening so it was definitely
happening yeah yeah i had only known one person
at that time somewhere around april that had
been vaccinated and also got covet and i just thought it was an aberration
i didn't based on what i saw in the first few weeks at the facility and that's
why
i thought there was an opportunity um but it was difficult because we were
separated there's a
whole other situation that was going on that uh you know also was going on in
in the rest of
society is that uh my non-vax teammates who were on the bubble right so 53 guys
make the active
roster 16 on the practice squad so 69 guys on the squad there's 90 in camp
right so of the i said seven i think it was about 10 guys not vaxxed
only a few of us were guaranteed roster spots like we're going to be on the
team and there's a lot
of bubble guys the general managers and there was there was talk around the
league of general managers
we're not going to keep bubble non-vax players right so they're already up
against it not only
did did non-vax players have a harder chance of making the squad but they also
had an almost zero percent opportunity to get a workout afterwards so if you
get cut
right and the season starts every tuesday during the football season most teams
will bring in anywhere
from five to 15 guys for workouts just to see who's out there is there any
players that can add to the
roster so if you weren't vaxxed you had a very low percentage not just of
keeping a job but even
getting a job opportunity like a you know a workout which is wild and so after
this conversation with
the league i knew that my appeal was going away and they were doing this i call
it a witch hunt you
know where they were asking every single player are you vaccinated you know
they're asking a bunch
of big quarterbacks and some guys were saying you know it's you know you know
it's personal or whatever
you know i didn't want to talk about their status and that almost guaranteed
you weren't vaccinated
right so then they were getting ripped and certain guys said yes i'm vaccinated
and you know then they
tried to get them to say shit about their teammates you know who weren't
vaccinated like dogged their
teammates out so i've been ready the entire time for this question and had
thought about how i wanted
to answer it and i had come to conclusion i'm going to say i've been immunized
and if there's a follow-up
then talk about my process but thought there's a possibility that i say i'm
immunized maybe they
understand what that means maybe they don't maybe they follow up they didn't
follow up so then i go
the season them thinking some of them that i was vaccinated right because they
felt the only follow-up
they asked was basically asking me to rip on my teammates like what do you say
to your teammates
who aren't vaccinated like what kind of example do you feel like you're setting
you know to your
teammates who aren't vaccinated i said hey it's everybody's own decision with
their body and we're
super healthy individuals we take care of ourselves we understand what goes in
our bodies and i don't
have any judgment on any decision that a guy makes with their own body right
but i knew at some point
if i can track the covet or if word got out because it's the nfl and there's
leaks everywhere it was
possible i'd have to answer the questions and then sure enough i can track
covet in uh
with the beginning of november end of october um and that's when the shit storm
hit because
now i'm a liar i'm in you know endangering uh you know the community my
teammates all these people
and that you know you know that the attempted takedown of me and you know my
word and my integrity
uh began but um so that was that was difficult but i will say and i'm thankful
to be on this show like
i really appreciate you and you helping me out during that time i reached out
to you
uh i think the end of the season i feel like and just said hey because you had
talked about in your
podcast a little bit you'd had some uh you know controversial maybe less
controversial now um people
on there talking a bit less controversial now talking about their uh you know
their people experts in
the field talking about you know their own uh ideas about covet and and uh and
you know you helped me
