The guest
Aaron Rodgers: Four-time NFL MVP quarterback, then with the New York Jets, recovering from an Achilles tendon tear suffered four plays into the 2023 season.
What this episode covers
Aaron Rodgers opens by describing the aggressive protocol he used to attack his Achilles rehab, including hyperbaric chambers, stem cells, bone broth, and up to eight hours of daily rehab, aiming for an unprecedented mid-season return. The conversation then pivots into a wide-ranging discussion of distrust in mainstream media, big pharma, and government, centered heavily on the COVID vaccine and Rodgers' experience being attacked for not getting vaccinated. They cover RFK Jr., food and chronic disease, climate-change politics, and the capture of media by pharmaceutical advertising. The back half drifts into deep conspiracy territory: ancient advanced civilizations, Egypt, tartaria, MK Ultra, the Kennedy and Epstein cases, and UFOs read against the biblical vision of Ezekiel. It closes on religion, hope, and Rodgers feeding his dog raw food.
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Big reveals from this episode
- Rodgers reveals he targeted Christmas Eve, roughly 14 weeks post-surgery, to return from an Achilles tear that normally ends a season.
- He details an unconventional rehab: a newer surgical anchor technique, hyperbaric chambers, stem cells, bone broth for collagen, and up to 8 hours of rehab a day.
- Rodgers says he was initially set to take the vaccine through the UFC until it got pulled, and became hesitant after two people he knew had strokes.
- He says many people, including celebrities, privately reached out about vaccine injuries, and that two friends now have pacemakers, one in his 30s.
- Rodgers frames his public stance as a moral responsibility to give others permission to speak up, accepting the career cost.
- Rodgers explains the Jimmy Kimmel feud, saying his Epstein-list comment was taken out of context and he never said Kimmel was on the list.
Worth remembering
- Rogan cites an Israeli study where a 90-day hyperbaric protocol of 60 sessions reportedly lengthened telomeres consistent with a 20-year biological age reduction.
- Rogan retells how UFC doctors found Yoel Romero's eye tendons were three times larger than normal and his neck was completely fused from a Cuba injury.
- They mock a fact-check claiming growing your own food produces five times more carbon than store-bought.
- A doctor friend told Rogan a surgeon gets about $70,000 per gender-transition surgery versus far less for arthroscopic surgery.
- Rogan claims Aaron Rodgers' wife's mother attended the Haight-Ashbury free clinic, which he asserts was CIA-run.
- Rogan says Ted Kaczynski was a subject in a Harvard MK Ultra-linked LSD and psychological-torture program.
- Rogan recounts that Louis Jolyon West, the CIA doctor who diagnosed Jack Ruby, allegedly once killed an elephant with LSD.
- They read Ezekiel's vision of wheels within wheels and four-faced creatures and compare it to a modern UFO sighting.
- Rodgers says switching his dog Marshall to Maev frozen raw food caused weight loss and reversed gray hairs on his face.
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