Joe Rogan Clarifies His Vaccine Comments

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. Yeah. 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. 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'd you get, a Johnson & Johnson? No, dude, I'm a Dernamama. 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. Well, it's not being a sheep. I mean, there's some legitimate science behind this. This is like the thing about this whole thing, this people being upset at me. I didn't say I'm not an anti-vax person. 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. I'm a young, not so healthy person. You're not that young. Okay, Joe, thanks, man. You're not. If you were a hot chick, then you'd say I was young. I'd be like, you're on the ropes. My back up a little bit. How old are you? 37. Yeah, you're on the ropes, bro. What do you mean, that's not a young? 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 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 50-year-old, 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 going through all that stuff. I was like, what are we going to do? 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 palette of vitamins. 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 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. I don't have an off air and on air voice. I don't. I have me. This is it. Yeah. I got through the fucking net and I'm swimming in open waters. And that's just how I live. 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 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? And then we'd have a different conversation. The problem is today, everything's all headlines and highlights and it's all clickbait, which is fine. That's the business. 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? Yes. No. Dave Smith? I don't know. I don't think so. No. I don't think we drink. It's unusual. Yeah. A lot of times we're drinking or we're high. And I say stupid shit. I get it. And if you mind that and you make money off of that, more power to you. I don't care. I'm happy for you. But just don't lie. Just don't lie. 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 and Johnson vaccine. The UFC had allocated a certain amount of vaccines for all their employees. 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 a vaccine. 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. Like right afterwards, the Johnson and 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 stand up 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. I do that all the time. But I at least try to be honest about what I'm saying. Or what you feel. Yes. Yeah, that's what it is.