Joe Rogan Experience #2298 - Kurt Metzger

This is a sprawling, free-associating conversation with almost no central topic. Metzger and Rogan jump from meme-coin scams and Social Security to CIA regime-change operations, the JFK assassination, and the history of eugenics. Long stretches cover supposedly paid/organized anti-Tesla protests, USAID and Taliban payments, deported pro-Palestinian students, and the idea that gangs, crack, and the school system were engineered. Lighter tangents include the history of court dwarfs, the Nazi-killed Wizard of Oz dwarves, a giant French butt-plug sculpture, Neanderthals, and ancient-alien lore. It closes on fluoride, soda companies funding health organizations, and welfare myths.

• Kurt wears 'Shirts for Kurts' tees naming classified ops like Timber Sycamore, the CIA program to arm Syrian rebels against Assad.
  00:14:54
• Claims Oliver Stone says NBC is sitting on a hidden secondary copy of JFK assassination film footage.
  00:48:07
• Plays audio of Florida GOP candidate William Braddock allegedly threatening a Russian-Ukrainian hit squad against rival Anna Paulina Luna.
  00:49:08
• Kurt details his Jehovah's Witness upbringing and the church's record sex-abuse settlement, comparing in-house cover-ups to the Catholic Church and Epstein.
  01:03:53
• Both assert the CIA helped create American street gangs and flooded inner cities with crack and guns to fuel private prisons.
  01:36:16
• Extended argument that anti-Tesla protests are paid and centrally organized, citing chant sheets and protesters leaving exactly at noon.
  02:09:26
• Discusses drone whistleblower Daniel Hale, jailed 45 months for leaking that ~90% of drone-strike casualties were civilians.
  02:21:49
• Reagan's famous 'welfare queen' story is shown to be a gross exaggeration of a minor fraud case.
  02:28:32

• Eugenics originated in America and England before the Nazis adopted it.
  00:27:53
• Some Wizard of Oz Munchkins were European little-person actors brought to the US, escaping Nazi persecution.
  00:30:32
• Court dwarf Jeffrey Hudson (1619-1682) was served to a queen baked inside a giant pie and later killed a man in a duel.
  00:31:34
• Cecil Rhodes founded both apartheid policy and took over the De Beers diamond name.
  01:02:34
• Claim that the modern school system descends from a Prussian effort to condition soldiers who would kill in war.
  01:16:30
• Audi's predecessor, Auto Union, used concentration-camp labor and built seven labor camps for the SS.
  02:05:47
• Theory that the 1982 Tylenol cyanide poisonings may have been corporate sabotage by a Bayer-linked competitor.
  02:07:53
• The original US Pledge of Allegiance used the straight-arm 'Bellamy salute,' changed to hand-over-heart during WWII; 'under God' added in the 1950s.
  02:16:38
• Coca-Cola sponsored 95 national health organizations and PepsiCo sponsored 13 before several dropped the contracts around 2015.
  02:30:38

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