Enduring Impact of the Joe Rogan Experience
Dr. McCullough Interview on COVID-19 an Inflection Point for the Counter-Narrative
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
For the last three years I have noted that those “awake” to the government false narrative on COVID-19 tend to be in the 40-80 year age range and far more women than men. Perhaps women have a vestigial alarm system that is activated when there is a threat to the clan and certainly when a child’s life is in danger. It is also notable there is a relative lack of interest among younger people who have seen their educational experiences diminish and have accepted COVID-19 vaccine mandates with a paucity of resistance. When the next high school athlete dies of vaccine-induced myocarditis, why doesn’t the whole team publicly weep and then demand change as they would with a shooting? Recently after giving an interview outside of a hotel in Washington, a young African American woman in her twenties asked me what that was all about. I said I am concerned the vaccines are causing heart damage and blood clots. Her jaw dropped and she said this is the first she has heard of any danger with the shots. This was a wake up call for me that younger people are far separated from older individuals based on peer-group, social media, and their choices of informational media.
It was about a year ago, in December, 2021, that I sat down for an interview with legendary podcaster Joe Rogan in his Austin studio. Rogan is breaking through to younger people with a peak listening age of 20-30 years for his 3 hour show. A transcript is generated and ~10 million young, educated, and engaged people listen to the long program and pour over the transcript. I found Rogan to be intelligent, genuinely interested, and “listening to learn.” His voice is pleasant and he never interrupts. I brought my computer and showed numerous slides from a CME approved base deck on early therapies for COVID-19 illness and safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
Within a few weeks, the number of downloads and listens, excerpts, and replays had exceeded all records for the show. The total number of people impacted by the interview was in the many tens of millions or even more. None of the studies presented were challenged by anyone with medical authority. I think what caught the attention of young people was not the scientific material, but Rogan’s reaction to it. He was also surprised on the popularity of public programs bringing truth about the pandemic to cities all across America.
After this and other interviews, Joe felt the bite of censorship and reprisal experienced by many dissident doctors with allegations of “spreading misinformation” and threats to his Spotify contract. Commentary went all the way up to the White House and the British Royal family. I know even Rogan was surprised about how much attention pandemic truth would garner from those advancing the false narrative.
Pandemic Grand Rounds for the Public, Dr. McCullough with Joe Rogan
Many young people have told me this interview changed the calculus of the pandemic. There was light out of darkness and signs that truth would prevail over the web of lies spun for two years. Below is the entire interview which is even more relevant today as you can find my inferences and predictions were on point with more data that has been published over the past year.
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Joe Rogan Experience: Dr. McCullough with Joe Rogan December 8, 2021 Full Interview
Thank you Dr. McCullough for being that light. I knew that things were off. My own layman research signaled things did not add up.
It was this time last year my mother fell ill due to a vaccine adverse reaction, first a cardiac reaction and then sudden onset of Myasethenia Gravis (never diagnosed with MG before) that became a full blown MG crisis at the age of 82. It was my desperate research in VAERS that led me to suspect what was happening and also yours and Dr. Malone’s interviews. I made the doctors get a neurologist in to see her and it turns out my diagnosis was right, but by then she had been suffering for a week and a half with little hydration and food. Her system had weakened to the point that when they went to vent her to be able to treat the MG, she went into cardiac arrest due to dehydration and then died. I later read your paper about the impacts of the vaccine on the innate immune system and within it was further confirmation of what my mother had endured. The spike proteins going to her spleen, traveling up the vagus nerve to the neural junction, impacting swallowing and speech as well as a host of other symptoms associated with MG. All this occurred in the few months following her having the booster and flu shot. She had them at the same time and was already on immunosuppressive drugs for psoriasis, which her doctor did not direct her to discontinue briefly at the time of vaccination. She received the shots on or about October 6. Her hospitalizations (first for cardiac issues, erratic and elevated blood pressure and elevated triponins, then for speech and swallowing difficulties—along with one trip to the ER for passing out) began on or about November 6th. She died on January 6th.
And while MG is listed on her death certificate, I have no doubt that her death was never reported to VAERS. It haunts me to think of how many elderly have passed with misdiagnosis of “stroke” or “n-stemi cardiac arrest” and nobody is the wiser. My mom even has a scan o her spleen that was abnormal.
I was able to recognize the signs and diagnose her because I had questions about this mRNA vaccine from the outset and had sought answers to those questions from the first days it rolled out. I had been regularly reviewing VAERS and even I saw trends relative to deaths of elderly and immunocompromised as early as April/May 2021.
People and our public health systems officials do not see the carnage and vicious problems for one simple reason at this point….THEY REFUSE TO LOOK, debate or investigate what is becoming increasingly obvious—and has been for sometime for those of us looking critically at things from the start.
I will be forever grateful for your voice in the darkness which has illuminated the truth for me and thankfully I was able to acquire an exemption for my two teen daughters. This would not have been possible without your courage and knowledge. I am forever grateful. Thank you.
Blessings to you and yours this holiday season. Peace to you in the year ahead.
Laura Garcia, a mother and attorney from Maine who tries to find and speak the truth of this nightmare and forwards your research to family and friends as much as possible.
En route to care for a dying friend in Dunakeszi, Hungary earlier this year, I was detained by Border Police in Amsterdam for failing to have received the jabs. The experience turned out to be a good one. I was held for about 45 minutes in a room and questioned by a young (20-something) officer. The interrogation provided me an opportunity to share scientific data Dr McCullough had published or cited over the course of the last year. The young officer listened attentively and expressed interest in what I was telling her. At all events, I was eventually released and able to catch my flight into Budapest. This is an excellent article, and it reminds that those of us who are in the 40-80 year range need to take time to share with young people what TRULY great minds like Dr McCullough are discovering and courageously publishing. Some are listening. Well done!