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Joe Rogan Experience #2284 - Ian Carroll

Ian Carroll is an independent researcher, entrepreneur, and host of "The Ian Carroll Show" on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/@Iancarrollshow http://www.cancelthisclothingcompany.com Go to http://ExpressVPN.com/ROGAN to get 4 months free! Don’t miss out on all the action - Download the DraftKings app today! Sign-up using http://dkng.co/rogan or with my promo code ROGAN. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, (800) 327-5050 or visit http://gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit http://ccpg.org (CT), or visit http://www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD).21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS).1 per new customer. $5+ first-time bet req. Max. $150 issued as non-withdrawable Bonus Bets that expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: http://sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 3/16/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK.

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  1. 0:000:15

    Cold open and the thrill of conspiracies as modern storytelling

    1. NA

      (drumbeats) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

    2. JR

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music) Welcome.

    3. IC

      Dude.

    4. JR

      Very nice to meet you.

    5. IC

      Yeah, good to be here, man.

  2. 0:151:22

    How narratives get manufactured: Watergate, Woodward, and “framing” Nixon

    1. JR

      So, uh, let's take... First of all, why do we love conspiracy so much? 'Cause I fucking love them.

    2. IC

      Dude.

    3. JR

      I love them. I love finding out the dirty little tactics-

    4. IC

      Right.

    5. JR

      ... and secrets and how the government does things and what the fuck's really going on.

    6. IC

      (laughs)

    7. JR

      Why is it so exciting?

    8. IC

      I think it's something, like, deep down in humanity, is, like, we love storytelling.

    9. JR

      Yeah.

    10. IC

      And, and these days, conspiracy theories are, like... We, we... I mean, 10 years ago, conspiracy theories were fringe and they were problematic.

    11. JR

      Tell me about it.

    12. IC

      Right? Like, yeah.

    13. JR

      I was a conspiracy theorist way back in the day-

    14. IC

      You're the hard head.

    15. JR

      ... when you were a fucking nut.

    16. IC

      Dude, you were-

    17. JR

      (laughs)

    18. IC

      ... a conspiracy theorist when I was not even here yet.

    19. JR

      I was arguing with people about the moon landing-

    20. IC

      Right?

    21. JR

      ... on the radio before the fucking, before there was any podcasts.

    22. IC

      I mean, I, maybe there's some of the mystery element, ma- but the thing is that so many of them are, it- it's, it's a knowledge, it's a thirst for knowledge because some of them are total bullshit.

    23. JR

      Yes.

    24. IC

      But some of them are, clearly there's something there.

    25. JR

      Clearly.

    26. IC

      Right?

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. IC

      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-

    29. JR

      Dude, I think even in the '60s-

    30. IC

      ... they would be conspiracy theorists.

  3. 1:224:12

    VPs, power management, and why Trump conspiracies never go away

    1. JR

      The big one, the big one, um, is Woodward with the Watergate story.

    2. IC

      Oh, yeah.

    3. JR

      Did you see Bill Murray when I had Bill Murray in here the other day?

    4. IC

      I haven't watched it yet, no.

    5. JR

      Bob Woodward wrote Wired, which is about-

    6. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      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-

    8. IC

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... 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 is the... Probably the first speed ball he ever took and he died from it. Like this whole thing about him-

    10. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    11. JR

      ... being this raving, drug-fueled maniac was totally fabricated.

    12. IC

      I just... It, like, it's a good example of how the mainstream narrative had Nixon as a, as a crook-

    13. JR

      Yeah.

    14. IC

      ... a- a- and he's just one of many examples, right? And-

    15. JR

      Yes.

    16. IC

      ... 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-

    17. JR

      Right.

    18. IC

      ... framing? Who are, why were they trying to get him out?

    19. JR

      Yeah. No, this is not a defense of Nixon.

    20. IC

      Yeah, exactly.

    21. JR

      Nixon was not a great guy. But Tucker thinks that Nixon knew about, too much about the JFK assassination and wouldn't talk about it.

    22. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    23. JR

      And he started saying, "I know who killed JFK."

    24. IC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      And he started, he started yapping-

    26. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      ... and they were like, "Let's get this motherfucker out of here."

    28. IC

      Yeah.

    29. JR

      And also one of the, uh, terms that he had agreed to to run for president was G- Gerald Ford, who was on the fucking Warren Commission.

    30. IC

      Bingo.

  4. 4:125:12

    Bizarre “synchronicities”: Baron Trump books, von Braun’s “Elon,” and UAP time-travel talk

    1. JR

      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 Trumps-

    2. IC

      Yeah, dude, I just got the book.

    3. JR

      ... the fucking book.

    4. IC

      It just came in the mail.

    5. JR

      Insane.

    6. IC

      Have you read it?

    7. JR

      No.

    8. IC

      Dude, I'm gonna read it.

    9. JR

      I-

    10. IC

      I just got it.

    11. JR

      I should buy it.

    12. IC

      That's dope.

    13. JR

      I should buy the book before it gets bought out.

    14. IC

      It's, it, 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.

    15. JR

      And then how about the Wernher von Braun one about a guy named Elon that takes us to Mars? He wr- Wernher von Braun-

    16. IC

      I haven't read that one yet.

    17. JR

      ... the fucking Nazi who ran, you know-

    18. IC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      ... Operation Paperclip and became the head of NASA.

    20. IC

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      That-

    22. IC

      Super occultist kind of stuff in there, like-

    23. JR

      Written, writes a novel about a guy named Elon that takes us to Mars, and even Elon saw that and he's like-

    24. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    25. JR

      ... "Is this real?" Like, like you would think there's no way.

    26. IC

      I mean, simultaneous to us kinda getting, like, some version of UAP disclosure that implies time travel-

    27. JR

      Yeah.

    28. IC

      ... which is like Lord knows what that is.

    29. JR

      Right.

    30. IC

      But it's just so fun to speculate-

  5. 5:126:36

    UAP ‘cauldron of bullshit’: why Jacques Vallée stands out

    1. JR

      Yeah. How would we know? And the, the whole UAP thing, boy, you wanna find a cauldron of bullshit-

    2. IC

      Yeah.

    3. JR

      ... that's the cauldron.

    4. IC

      Oh, yeah.

    5. JR

      Do you know who's got the best take on it? Is Jacques Vallée. I'm in the middle of-

    6. IC

      I've not seen a lot of his stuff.

    7. JR

      ... my third book of his right now and it's, uh, I'll tell you what it's called. He's got-

    8. IC

      Yeah, I should read some.

    9. JR

      I- he's the best. I mean-

    10. IC

      Why, why do you say he's the best? Like what's your qualifier then?

    11. JR

      He, because he's, uh, this, I'm on, uh, this one, Confrontations-

    12. IC

      Word.

    13. JR

      ... which is one of a three-part series of, uh, human interactions that have been documented with some sort of, uh, an in- 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 horse shit, but not dismissive-

    14. IC

      That's like the critical balance, right?

    15. JR

      ... of strange since... Yes. Well, he's the guy that they modeled the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind after.

    16. IC

      Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

    17. JR

      So, he's been in this game since the '60s-

    18. IC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      ... investigating these things.

    20. IC

      And time in the game counts for a ton. It counts for so-

    21. JR

      Oh, yeah.

    22. IC

      ... m- 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 as stuff breaks-

    23. JR

      Right.

    24. IC

      ... 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.

    25. JR

      Right.

  6. 6:367:42

    Grift incentives and ‘controlled opposition’: David Icke, Alex Jones, and credibility tests

    1. IC

      And the people that have been here for forever, like the Alex Joneses of this world, the Jacques Vallées, the people that, like, watch things break live, you just get a different level of context. And then you get, like, the David Ikes that are like, "It's fucking reptiles, dude."

    2. JR

      (laughs)

    3. IC

      "They're all reptiles." David, have you seen David Ike coming after me on Twitter recently?

    4. JR

      He came after you, me too-

    5. IC

      Dude, it's so good. I love him.

    6. JR

      ... 'cause I, I make fun of the reptile thing. And he's like, "Why won't you have me on?"

    7. IC

      I genuinely really appreciate it.

    8. JR

      "Why won't..."

    9. IC

      It's, like, a good time.

    10. JR

      But he's d-

    11. IC

      And it's, like, maybe there are reptiles.

    12. JR

      I think-

    13. IC

      I don't know, man.

    14. JR

      ... he went too far in time where there was no internet.

    15. IC

      Yeah.

    16. JR

      You know, he went too far.

    17. IC

      It's, you get too certain of yourself, right? You think you have the answers-

    18. JR

      It's a l-

    19. IC

      ... and you just keep going.

    20. JR

      ... a little bit of a grift-

    21. IC

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      ... with some of these folks.

    23. IC

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      I'm not saying necessarily him, but it's a little bit of a grift.

    25. IC

      Yeah. Well, it's, it's an easy temptation to fall into, especially-

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. IC

      ... 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 gonna get views and money if I drop deep down this grift."

    28. JR

      Yes.

    29. IC

      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."

    30. JR

      R- there's a bunch of stuff that's clickbait horse shit, for sure.

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  8. 9:2711:00

    Epstein Island myths, what’s provable, and the ‘buy the island’ thought experiment

    1. IC

      The one that I just recently kind of was reminded of is, you know the, the story that they, that, uh, Disney sent kids to Epstein Island?

    2. JR

      Yeah, I did hear that.

    3. IC

      That's, like, a perfect, like, "Oh, it's not."

    4. JR

      But it's not.

    5. IC

      Such a money conspiracy theory.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. IC

      It's not true.

    8. JR

      That's not true.

    9. IC

      It's when you look it up, you realize that, that, I mean, a lot of the information is kinda 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, the ocea- like, they were going on cruises that happened to be in the vicinity of the island.

    10. JR

      Right.

    11. IC

      That's totally different than sending kids to the island.

    12. JR

      Which is a very popular vacation destination.

    13. IC

      Exactly.

    14. JR

      Yeah.

    15. IC

      And so, it's, uh, it becomes this, like... And, and that's kind of the, I think that's the fun part of the game.

    16. JR

      We, we thought about buying the island.

    17. IC

      Dude.

    18. JR

      (laughs) When the island was for sale, we talked about it for a second. We were like, "Let's put some of that Spotify money-"

    19. IC

      Why not?

    20. JR

      "... money to use. That would be funny."

    21. IC

      I think they would've stopped you.

    22. JR

      But it's just too evil. Oh, yeah.

    23. IC

      Dude, I think someone would have stopped you.

    24. JR

      100%.

    25. IC

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      Me?

    27. IC

      Yeah.

    28. JR

      I can't shut the fuck up.

    29. IC

      'Cause there's shit underneath that island-

    30. JR

      No doubt.

  9. 11:0019:21

    JFK assassination deep dive: autopsies, missing evidence, Zapruder frames, and witness deaths

    1. IC

      But they did an autopsy on JFK too, and it was not his body.

    2. JR

      Well-

    3. IC

      Probably.

    4. JR

      ... sort of. They did two autopsies.

    5. IC

      Right?

    6. JR

      They, they, well, they did, uh, th- the initial examination of the body-

    7. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    8. JR

      ... was in Dallas, and then they flew it to Bethesda.

    9. IC

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      The thing about that is, and this is, uh, part of David Lifton's book, Best Evidence, which b- made, made me become a conspiracy theorist.

    11. IC

      Mm-hmm. I've never read it.

    12. JR

      It's fucking great. And, uh, David Lifton, who was an accountant, they gave him, uh, I forget what the project was, but it was something to do with the Warren Commission report. So, this guy's, like, a serious bookworm. He read the entire Warren Commission-

    13. IC

      He did.

    14. JR

      ... which fucking nobody does.

    15. IC

      Yep.

    16. JR

      And it's, like, m- 9,000 pages or something like that.

    17. IC

      That's a superpower-

    18. JR

      Yeah.

    19. IC

      ... being able to read like that.

    20. JR

      Exactly, and find contradictions over and over-

    21. IC

      Yeah.

    22. JR

      ... and over again. He's like, "This is horse shit. This whole thing's horse shit."

    23. IC

      Yeah.

    24. JR

      And then he found out that Kennedy's brain was missing when it got all the way to-

    25. IC

      Yep.

    26. JR

      ... Bethesda. He found out that the Dallas doctors said that the neck wound was an entry wound, and then the ones in Bethesda-

    27. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    28. JR

      ... turned it in a tracheotomy hole. It was a bullet hole. He got shot.

    29. IC

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      You could see him go like that.

  10. 19:2133:02

    MKUltra, Manson, Jolly West, and the mechanics of mind control

    1. IC

      Jolly West is crazy. Have you read Chaos yet?

    2. JR

      Yes.

    3. IC

      Dude.

    4. JR

      So I had Tom O'Neil on the podcast.

    5. IC

      I didn't know about Jolly until I read Chaos.

    6. JR

      Yeah.

    7. IC

      And then I started digging in... 'cause I knew about MKUltra. I'm like, I've been learning about MKUltra when I was a kid, like doing psychedelics. But I didn't really understand anything about that history or anything around the CIA back then.

    8. JR

      They ran the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic.

    9. IC

      Oh, yeah.

    10. JR

      And they closed it down after Chaos came out.

    11. IC

      No way.

    12. JR

      Yes way.

    13. IC

      So just recently, huh?

    14. JR

      The entire time they had been running-

    15. IC

      Wow.

    16. JR

      ... this clinic. It's not like they were running the clinic and they said, "You know what, let's not run the clinic anymore."

    17. IC

      Yeah.

    18. JR

      "Let's just give it to regular doctors."

    19. IC

      '70s are over, like whatever.

    20. JR

      It's over. The peace and war bullshit or peace and love bullshit, that's over.

    21. IC

      Yeah, one of the conspiracy theories- ... that comes out this week.

    22. JR

      Yes. It's coming out this week. Yeah.

    23. IC

      Really? This week?

    24. JR

      Yes. Tom O'Neil-

    25. IC

      Finally.

    26. JR

      ... is my friend Greg's, uh, longtime friend and former neigh- b- well, I think they're still neighbors, but they were neighbors in New York and then they were neighbors in, in California.

    27. IC

      That's a pretty cool neighbor.

    28. JR

      This guy been... Yeah, very cool neighbor. But this guy's been working on this one fucking story-

    29. IC

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      ... for 20 years. You imagine just like-

  11. 33:0253:52

    Surveillance-era politics: leaks, burner-phone culture, Patriot Front, and narrative coordination

    1. IC

      Yeah, but the way I look at it is, so I intentionally do all of my stuff, I basically do open source j- investigations. I don't try to, like, break news stories-

    2. JR

      Right.

    3. IC

      ... because it's way safer and it's way more interesting. And I don't, my goal is not to, like, to like, know everything or to be some great journalist. My goal is to inspire everybody el- like to inspire the world to think a little more and to be more critical and to look it up for yourself.

    4. JR

      Well, you're also serving a function, uh, the, like, a service for people because what you're doing is you're taking all the time-

    5. IC

      Yeah.

    6. JR

      ... to find all this open source stuff and then putting it out there.

    7. IC

      Yeah.

    8. JR

      And you're really thorough about it. You say, "This is what I know." This is what-

    9. IC

      I try to be.

    10. JR

      Yeah.

    11. IC

      Yeah.

    12. JR

      You've also done-

    13. IC

      I mean, I get shit wrong all the time, but-

    14. JR

      ... you started doing this thing with your hand above your head. People steal that now.

    15. IC

      Yeah, they take this act-

    16. JR

      Have you noticed that?

    17. IC

      Well, it's because TikTok's green screen-

    18. JR

      Well, y- it's your hand, the way you do it though with your hand-

    19. IC

      ... the one finger gets taken away. TikTok will delete one finger if I'm pointing with one finger-

    20. JR

      Why?

    21. IC

      ... because it's a green screen app, and so I'm like using the camera and it's got, in- in my camera it's putting the thing behind me-

    22. JR

      Uh-huh.

    23. IC

      ... but it's cutting out me, and if I only use one finger it cuts my whole hand away, so I started doing this, so-

    24. JR

      Why is it a-

    25. IC

      Just because the green screen, when it's like trying to AI analyze what is a body and what is the background-

    26. JR

      Oh.

    27. IC

      ... it'll take away my hand as though it's the background.

    28. JR

      Oh, how weird.

    29. IC

      Yeah.

    30. JR

      So you started pointing out doing this at the screen yet, but- (laughs)

  12. 53:521:05:13

    Epstein as an intelligence-style structure: Wexner, Whitney Webb, blackmail logic, and obfuscation layers

    1. JR

      I'm glad, I'm glad you brought up Epstein 'cause there was a point that I was gonna make earlier that I forgot. The Epstein situation is identical to the Manson situation.

    2. IC

      You think so?

    3. JR

      Yeah.

    4. IC

      Explain, explain what you mean.

    5. JR

      This is why-

    6. IC

      I mean-

    7. JR

      ... if, if-

    8. IC

      ... I think you don't mean that literally.

    9. JR

      No, no, no.

    10. IC

      I think you mean that in a more-

    11. JR

      I mean-

    12. IC

      ... metaphorical way, right?

    13. JR

      ... the structure. The structure of how you would pu- ... Like, if you were gonna use an intelligence asset to do something evil, to do something where you can get dirt on people or compromise people or, or accomplish an objective, you would get someone who's already fucked up.

    14. IC

      Oh, 100%.

    15. JR

      And then you get that fucked-up person and you help them, you know, run this cult, or you help them get girls and you-

    16. IC

      But you intentionally keep them separate.

    17. JR

      Yeah.

    18. IC

      You don't ... You're, you're not hiring them. They don't work for you.

    19. JR

      Right.

    20. IC

      They're a private entity.

    21. JR

      If he wasn't-

    22. IC

      It's like layers of obfuscation.

    23. JR

      Like, if he wasn't personally a pervert, it wouldn't work.

    24. IC

      Oh, not a chance. No.

    25. JR

      Like, think about, like, the guy gets arrested for having sex with underage girls, or getting them to do-

    26. IC

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JR

      ... happy endings or whatever he, wherever he did. So, he gets arrested and then the real weird thing is that he just get, gets out and gets, like, house arrest.

    28. IC

      Yep.

    29. JR

      And he gets, like, a little slap on the wrist and then he's back in action with all these rich people again.

    30. IC

      Yep.

  13. 1:05:131:18:39

    The ‘Deep State’ model: intel + organized crime + corporate power, from WWII ports to coups

    1. IC

      Yeah. But like, the f- so the files getting released, I am not expecting them to come out in any complete form because the, the mainstream understanding is that Jeffrey Epstein was the guy. Jeffrey Epstein was just an employee of these organized crime rings that work on behalf of, like, the CIA and Israeli Mossad and British Intelligence and the whole... 'Cause organized crime is the black markets, the dark things, the sex, the drugs, the rock and roll, the child trafficking. And intelligence agencies were designed to be legitimate governments', uh, point of access to organized crime. I mean, theoretically, intelligence agencies were supposed to be, Truman wanted the intelligence agencies to be a newspaper about what's going on in the world, for the president to know, right? But Allen Dulles was not about that. Allen Dulles, founder of the CIA, was like, "I wanna do covert operations." And very, immediately, covert operations were, like, overthrowing the government of Guatemala, Iran, uh, buying the elections in Italy. They bought the elections in Italy by just passing giant bags of cash to the mafia so they would just go buy the election, right, after World War II, because they needed to not let Italy fall to the communists. It's where the Vatican is. So the, the CIA, though Truman okayed it, hoping that it would be a newspaper, the CIA has been covert operations from the start. And covert operations is all about public/private partnerships so that you can't have it traced back to you, right? 'Cause if you get caught doing MKUltra shit, the government's fucked, right?

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