Name: Joe Rogan Clarifies His Vaccine Comments
Uploaded: 2021-04-29T20:18:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Clarifies His Vaccine Comments' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Clarifies His Vaccine Comments' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-29. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
Well, the White House commented on what I said about vaccines.
It's so funny. Fauci hit you up.
Well, he didn't hit me up necessarily. He disagreed with me.
Right. I got vaxxed up, baby.
Did you?
I got one shot in the arm.
But didn't you already get COVID?
Yeah, I had Rona. I had it in October.
So why did you get a vaccination?
I'm a sheeple, dude. I'm part of the sheep, dude. I wanted it.
Because my antibodies, I think, were gone.
The last time we got tested for antibodies was three months after.
And they said they were there, but they weren't super strong.
So you're scared.
Yeah.
What did you get? The Johnson & Johnson?
No, dude. I'm a Derna mama.
You only got one, though.
Yeah.
Why didn't you get two?
Because my second one is in like two weeks or a week.
They just have to spread you out a month.
Yeah, 21 days.
I got it. Nothing, no, I don't know, man.
The whole thing, like Corona for me was weird already.
So I was like, I don't know. I'll just do that thing to not have it again.
I bought into the system. I'm a sheep.
Well, it's not being a sheep.
I mean, there's some legitimate science behind this.
It's not.
This is like the thing about this whole thing, people being upset at me.
I didn't say I'm not an anti-vax person.
Right.
In fact, I said, I believe they're safe and I encourage many people to take
them.
My parents were vaccinated.
I just said, I don't think that if you're a young, healthy person that you need
it.
Their argument was you need it for other people.
So you don't transmit the virus.
That makes more sense.
So I'm a young...
But that's a different argument.
That's a different conversation.
I'm a young, not so healthy person.
You're not that young.
Okay, Joe.
Thanks, man.
You're not.
Okay.
If you were a hot chick...
Then you'd say I was young.
I'd be like, you're on the ropes.
Am I backed up a little bit?
How old are you?
37.
Yeah, you're on the ropes, bro.
What do you mean?
That's still young?
Children, if you had no children and you're a hot chick, let's be honest.
I'm older now.
You're on the ropes.
Okay, fine.
It's not bad.
I'm getting older.
I'm old as fuck.
Yeah, you are.
Okay, I'm 53.
I'm old as fuck.
I'm almost 20 years older than you.
When we celebrated your 50th birthday, we were in Detroit.
Where were we?
I forget.
And it hit me hard that you were 50.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, my friend is 50.
And I was starting to plan your funeral.
I was like, I was going through all that stuff.
I was like, what are we going to do?
But honestly, it doesn't bother me.
No, because why?
Because you're in such a great stride of your life.
Because I'm on fucking steroids.
Give them to me, bro.
I'm on testosterone replacement therapy and every vitamin known to man.
I take a giant athletic greens every day.
I take a fucking pallet of vitamins.
What do I need to take?
I feel fantastic.
What do I need to take?
I'm in the sauna every day.
Here's the thing.
All these people that are saying, in many ways, listen.
Here's the thing.
These are not like planned statements.
Let's be real clear.
When I say something stupid, I'm not thinking about what I'm going to say
before I say it.
I'm just saying it.
Right?
I don't have an off-air and on-air voice.
I don't.
No.
I have me.
This is us.
This is it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I got through the fucking net and I'm swimming in open waters.
Okay?
And that's just how I live.
Yeah.
I don't like if you say you disagree with me.
I probably disagree with me too.
I disagree with me all the time.
If you said, if someone said, yeah, young, healthy 21-year-old people who eat
well and exercise are not at high risk for coronavirus, but you should think
about other people.
I would say, well, that's a different argument and yes, that makes sense.
But I would say, aren't those people vaccinated?
And shouldn't we vaccinate the vulnerable people?
Yeah.
And then we'd have a different conversation.
Right.
The problem is today, everything is all headlines and highlights and it's all
clickbait, which is fine.
That's the business.
Yeah.
And I, listen, I have a deep respect for real journalism.
I love Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and people that stick their fucking neck
out and do real journalism.
But there's a lot of people out there that have to make a fucking living.
And what's the best way to make a living?
Well, here's one way.
Take a jackass like me.
Go over their podcast, go over this three hour drunken, ridiculous podcast.
Do we drink with Dave?
Yeah.
No.
Dave Smith?
I don't know.
I don't think so.
No.
I don't think we drink.
I'd say no.
Probably not.
But that's unusual.
Yeah.
A lot of times we're drinking.
Every time I'm here.
Or we're high.
Yeah.
You know, and I say stupid shit.
I get it.
And if you mine that and you make money off of that, more power to you.
Sure.
I don't care.
Yeah.
I'm happy for you.
Right.
But just don't lie.
Just don't lie.
Right.
Get a little clickbaity.
We're good.
That's okay.
But I'm not going to lie.
Let me say one other thing.
I was going to get the vaccine.
I was scheduled to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The UFC had allocated a certain amount of vaccines for all their employees.
Right.
And so Dana said, do you want to come in and get the vaccine?
I said, sure.
What day?
And he said, we'll set one aside when you come in for the fights.
Come get vaccinated.
I said, okay, great.
I went in there.
I spoke to Dr. Davidson.
He said, the way the CDC has the vaccines allocated, we really have to do you
at the clinic.
So can you come to the hospital?
And I said, I can't.
I don't have time.
He said, you'd have to come back on Monday.
I said, I'll work this out.
And then it got pulled.
Right.
Like right afterwards, the Johnson & Johnson thing got pulled, which now here's
the thing.
Any medication, again, I'm not a doctor.
I'm a fucking moron.
And I'm a cage fighting commentator who's a dirty standup comedian who just
told you I'm drunk most of the time.
And I do testosterone and I smoke a lot of weed.
But I'm not a respected source of information, even for me.
If I say things, I'm always going, check on that, Jamie.
I don't know if that's true.
Right.
I do that all the time.
Right.
But I at least try to be honest about what I'm saying.
Or what you feel.
Yes.
Yeah, that's what it is.