Joe Rogan Experience #2462 - Aaron Siri

1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

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4. JRJoe Rogan0:13

   So you had a pile of notes, and then you just folded them up. Like did you commit them to memory?

5. ASAaron Siri0:17

   No, just these two things. I have the links I sent you guys, and then-

6. JRJoe Rogan0:19

   Oh, okay

7. ASAaron Siri0:20

   ... and just some stuff there, just-

8. JRJoe Rogan0:21

   I just saw the pieces-

9. ASAaron Siri0:22

   ... just in case

10. JRJoe Rogan0:22

    ... of paper that you folded. I was like, "What's in there?"

11. ASAaron Siri0:24

    It's just... That's just-

12. JRJoe Rogan0:25

    [laughs] How did... First of all, I wanna, I wanna talk you through, like when you were a younger man, before you had looked into this, what was your opinions on medical science? What was your opinions on vaccines? Were you skeptical, or did you just kind of assume that everything that we're told is exactly how it is, and the experts have only the best interests of human beings in mind and not, not money?

13. ASAaron Siri0:49

    I had what you would effectively call the mainstream view.

14. JRJoe Rogan0:52

    Yeah.

15. ASAaron Siri0:52

    Vaccines saved humanity.

16. JRJoe Rogan0:53

    Me too.

17. ASAaron Siri0:53

    We'd all be dead without them.

18. JRJoe Rogan0:55

    Yep. [laughs]

19. ASAaron Siri0:56

    Um, you know, they are the, uh, um, there was the Bible given to, to Moses at Sinai, and then there were vaccines.

20. JRJoe Rogan1:02

    Yeah.

21. ASAaron Siri1:02

    That's basically, you know?

22. JRJoe Rogan1:05

    I think it's anybody that didn't consider themselves a fool. You know? If y- you would c- you would have to be a fool, like a real fool-

23. ASAaron Siri1:12

    Right

24. JRJoe Rogan1:12

    ... to ignore all this medical science, which is the reason why there's so many people alive today that would've died. And a lot of that's true, with penicillin, antibiotics. There's a lot of stuff that has saved a lot of people's lives. Um, b- but the vaccine one, until this COVID epidemic, I would've never questioned it. I mocked anti-vaxxers. I was like, "These people are silly. Don't they know all the good things that vaccines have done?" And the, just the blatant propaganda that we were force-fed, like one of those ducks they're trying to make foie gras with-

25. ASAaron Siri1:44

    Mm-hmm

26. JRJoe Rogan1:44

    ... th- it just made me stop and pause and go, "Is the whole thing like this? Is this whole thing just a dirty money-laundering operation?" Because it kind of seems like that's at least part of the reason why they were telling people to get boosted when they knew it wasn't working, and, and telling young people that didn't need it to... They wanted to make a lot of money. That's the only reason why you would do any of those things, after a certain amount of information is out. And so it just made me stop and think about the whole thing, and go, "Well, wh- why would I assume that this is the one area where pharmaceutical drug companies, doctor- everybody's been totally honest in this one area," when it's like a religious thing i- if you question it. And one of... that's the... Well, I love the title of your book.

27. ASAaron Siri2:32

    Yes. Vaccines Amen: The Religion of Vaccines.

28. JRJoe Rogan2:36

    Yeah. You... It's, that's what it is.

29. ASAaron Siri2:38

    It-

30. JRJoe Rogan2:38

    It's a religion for secular, intelligent people with a higher education. [laughs]

Episode duration: 2:36:32