Name: Joe Rogan Experience #668 - Jon Ronson
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #668 - Jon Ronson' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2015-07-07. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #668 - Jon Ronson

nobody knows all right we're live john ronson how are you hey how are you
thanks for doing this man
appreciate it i'm glad i can't tell you the number of people who said you
should do joe rogan
the number of people who said oh my god joe rogan's talking about bohemian grove
or
rogan's talking about psychopaths you have to come on well i'm friends with alex
jones and
alex jones told me many many many years ago uh that they're burning effigies in
bohemian grove
they're worshiping molek the owl god well i went to bohemian grove with alex jones
oh that's
that's about that's like going to disneyland with mickey mouse yeah it was kind
of my it was kind
of my idea i sometimes feel like the kind of sim like i mean this isn't
strictly speaking true but
i kind of sometimes feel a little bit like alex jones's simon cowell because
before because this
is like way back in the mid mid to late 90s when he was like really famous in
in austin but kind of
not that well known outside right and i was working with this producer john
sergeant basically
we we noticed something which was that a lot of people on on the fringes um
that islamic
fundamentalists and neo-nazis and militia people were all had this one thing in
common which is they
were all conspiracy theorists they all believed in you know the evil power of
bilderberg and bohemian
grove um so i thought it'd be good to try and infiltrate those places um but i
didn't want to
infiltrate bohemian grove alone because frankly i was scared so we met alex jones
when he was
rebuilding david koresh's church at waco and he seemed kind of gung-ho he was
rebuilding david
koresh's church yeah that was the first time i met alex jones i went there with
randy weaver
uh i i became friends with the weaver family um who are the weavers again they're
ruby ridge you know
oh right yeah yeah the family white separatists and so i got really friendly
with randy's daughter
rachel and then i went with randy to to waco and alex jones there was this kind
of crazy
man at waco and i was like who the fuck is that what year was this this was
about nine probably
98 maybe that's when i met him yeah yeah i met him in 98 uh yeah he was yeah he
was amazing
i mean i could tell like i drove through austin with him like he went to buy a
new suit because
he was like you know giving a big talk at waco and like everybody in the
everybody in the clothing
store was like excited because alex jones had walked in and so i knew it was
like a big deal
in in the neighborhood but but then um but then i wanted somebody to sneak into
bohemian grove with
and i asked david ike first i said can we go into bohemian grove and he was
like no that's where
they transform themselves back into giant lizards oh did he tell you that for
real yeah he said he
really did yeah he said that's where they transform themselves back into he's
kind of abandoned all
that hasn't he yeah he gets mad if you bring it up does he yeah which you can't
you can't get mad
man yeah you you you get a lot of speeches yeah saying that people transform
into lizards yeah you
got to own up to that shit god i hope he said those exact words i mean this is
going back a long
time he said words he certainly strongly implied that he believed that that it
was at bohemian
grove that they transformed themselves well i think you're in the clear because
he gave many many
interviews where he talked about that that was a a big what was kind of in the
early days of the
internet when you can get away with saying stupid shit like that and you didn't
have a bunch of
people on reddit that immediately could debunk your twitter or facebook where
they just knew
something that you didn't know and like what the fuck are you talking about
yeah they transformed
into lizards get the fuck out of here dude well one of his his big uh like
piece of evidence at
bohemian grove was where they transformed themselves into lizards was because
of this woman
called kathy o'brien who who said that she was a kidnapped sex slave uh and
that she would be like
let loose into the gardens of the white house and george bush senior would like
hunt her
and that was like his sex game and so she wrote this book about this called um
it was called something
like the crisis of democracy it was called the transformation of america and
she said it was
at bohemian grove she was a kidnapped sex slave at bohemian grove and you know
that's where it all
happened and and she was like and bohemian grove was all based around this um
this this river and the
russian river and and so and so that's where the bohemian grove rumors first
started with with with
kathy o'brien that's hilarious yeah and um so i thought like it can't be true
that like george bush
and henry christinger all go to this club and on the saturday night they all
put on robes
and have a mock human sacrifice in front of a giant stone owl i thought that
can't be true
so i phoned up david ike and i said do you want to come do you want to come
with me he's like no
and then i thought well remember that crazy that you know a guy we met at waco
alex jones maybe we
should ask him so i called up alex jones and i said do you fancy trying to get
into bohemian grove
and he was like he was like yeah i'm gonna get a camera we'll get a hidden
camera we'll get in there
we'll get up running their faces those devil worshipers and we'll confront them
going about
their globalist devil worshiping evil so that was the video he made a video
about this so you were in
involved in that yeah i was in this video okay now i remember you okay yeah i
remember you in that
this was a long time ago long time ago um we so we all went there we all went
to bohemian grove it
was me and my producer and my cameraman and then alex and alex's wife violet
and and his friend mike
there was like six of us and we were like strange bedfellows because i just
thought oh this will be
fun and alex and alex was like you know well at one point i said to alex like
have you got like a
contingency plan like if we manage to get in and and like you're you know you're
uncovered have you got
a contingency plan and alex said yes and i said what is it he said i'll say to
them don't get any
closer and i'm like that's your contingency plan don't get any that's like a
threat and i was just
going yep so his he was just gonna scare them yeah he's gonna get any closer
that's it don't get any
closer that was alex's plan i don't think he thinks that far ahead oh shit that's
a problem
but they really did put on robes yeah and they really do have like a bundle of
sticks that's
supposed to represent a human being and they carried it out there and light it
on fire i saw it all with
my own eyes but do they say that it represents a human being like no what what
they say um is that
it represents dull care like all the troubles in the world like all these men
of wealth and power
have all these troubles in the world i've got to say it was weird white people
problems
boy that's real first world problems yeah one percent of first world problems
yeah exactly
we you know how funny is that though ruling the world is a pain in the ass for
two weeks a year
you guys have so much stress we need to burn a fake person to make you feel
better god you guys
it's so hard being a billionaire god how do you do it how do you run the world
until it was weird
though so alex alex's plan and this is how we were going to get him we were
going to rent a boat
and like sail it along the river and then get out and then climb up the
mountain and then get down the
other side and i get in that way and i was thinking this is a this is an ill-conceived
plan
and then we met this local lawyer called rick he was that this preppy lawyer
who lived in the town
uh monte rio or occidental and rick had had been in he'd infiltrated bohemian
grove just because like
like everybody in the town wants to know what's going on in beaming grove so we
met rick to get
some tips on how to break in and alex told rick his plan and rick said look if
you're going that
way you're going to get yourself killed and alex wrote down this was my
favorite one of my favorite
bits of the whole weekend alex wrote down on his notepad going in that way dash
killed
so rick said that what you need to do is like go to eddie bauer and get
yourself some preppy clothes
and just walk up the drive just walk up the drive that's a smart move yeah so alex
was like really
torn because part of him he admitted this to me afterwards part of him was
worried that like in
the wicker man me and rick and all these other people that we met were all part
of this kind of
elaborate plan to lure alex into the forest and like he would be the one
sacrificing that's so rich yeah
it had crossed his mind so the upshot was that alex and mike decided to go in
separately to me and rick
oh yeah so he didn't trust you that much no he didn't trust me i mean he didn't
they didn't have
wikipedia back then he couldn't just google you or anything right couldn't
google me um did he know
of your work did he know who you were not really i i wasn't particularly well
known back then i i
wasn't really well known is it safe to say that alex jones helped launch you we
kind of helped launch
each other that night and so you guys went in there and alex gave me this on vhs
tape by the way back in
99 or whatever the hell you got you guys actually made a tape out of it yeah
yeah alex and i did this
thing i did a special in austin um my first dvd i filmed in austin and alex and
i dressed up as the
bushes i was george bush uh jr and he was senior and we ran around the the
state capital with like
these uh bush masks on and we i've seen that video did i have a big bullhorn
saying that they're all
like satanist globalists um at one point in time definitely but i don't know if
that made it into the
video but we he actually sang a song there's actually a song i don't know if we've
ever played the song
it's so ridiculous alex jones wrote a song about like the uh the elite and it
had it was on the video
it was on the video and we're all like dancing around to alex's jones song in
the in this is 99. right
99 or maybe two there it is yeah
i oh yeah what does he say put the headphones on you hear what he's saying put
it back to the
beginning so we can hear oh that's me doing bong hits but we sure as hell don't
live ladies and
gentlemen from the belly of the beast crashing through the lies and disinformation
no compromise
one day closer to victory it's joe rogan baby oh i broke the mask
yeah this is his song moloch and friends oh my god so this is all this is the
same time right yeah
you know i i feel like i nurtured alex's interest in moloch by suggesting bohemian
growth yeah
location i was wearing a style project t-shirt you remember style project right
styleproject.com
so stupid that's alex jones singing
he wrote it all too by the way it had nothing to do with this
oh my god that's so stupid 666 on bush's head
so this is it was the only time i ever met alex though that that weekend in um
that's the only time you've ever met him well that and waco you know waco first
and then that i
lost touch with him after that he he he recon he liked me again actually after
i wrote the minister
goats like he didn't like me after i wrote my book them which includes all the
stuff about being
sneaking into bohemian grove because he thought i was too much of a debunker of
bohemian grove
but then when i wrote the minister at goats he liked me again because he felt
that i was like
oh it's kind of like a bit of a the minister goes it's kind of like a
conspiracy book in a way right
yeah so um how much different is it than should we keep going with this bohemian
grove yeah yeah yeah
yeah i feel there's more to say okay uh so alex and mike decided to go in via
the undergrowth
like i i saw them um so they went in through the bushes they went through the
bushes and there was a lot of
poison ochre around there i wouldn't be at all you guys just walked in yeah me