#2269 - Bret Weinstein

**Joe Rogan** (0:01)
Joe Rogan Podcast, checking out The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Jamie** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. What's up?

**Joe Rogan** (0:13)
Good to see you, my friend.

**Bret Weinstein** (0:13)
Great to see you, Joe.

**Joe Rogan** (0:15)
Wild times.

**Bret Weinstein** (0:17)
Almost unbelievable.

**Joe Rogan** (0:18)
Yeah. The last time you were here, we were really worried about what was going to happen. And now it seems like we're in a completely different timeline.

**Bret Weinstein** (0:27)
Yeah. I have to say, in addition to being just over-archingly worried about what was going to happen to the Republic and to the globe, I was personally worried about what would happen to people like you and me if we lost.

**Joe Rogan** (0:42)
Yeah. Probably wouldn't be so good for business. They probably would have cracked down.

**Bret Weinstein** (0:47)
There's that. But I must say, on my darker days, I had concerns even beyond that.

**Joe Rogan** (0:53)
And it probably should.

**Bret Weinstein** (0:54)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (0:55)
Yeah. In light of what we now know.
This USAID thing that's going on, Mike Benz has been on that like a pit bull. And I've been following him on X and he's going to come back on here and kind of explain everything. But he explained it the last time he was here. And I don't think I really grasped it until Elon's six wizards, they brought in some young wizards to go in there and go over the books. And they're just finding crazy shit. It's great and it's so interesting. I was listening to a left wing podcast today. I like to mix it up. You know, I listen to all kinds of different stuff. And it was like I was listening to a different world. Like they weren't even talking about all of this corruption and all this obvious buying of influence. Instead, they were talking about aid overseas and how people are going to starve and like...

**Bret Weinstein** (1:46)
It's mind boggling and there's also... I have to say I'm just... I'm upset at the general pattern of a failure to recognize how right those of us who hypothesized that there was a racket that had overtaken our entire governance structure. We turn out to be absolutely right about this and no one's going to mention it. That's mind blowing.

**Joe Rogan** (2:12)
It's very strange that the media is ignoring it, especially the left wing media. It's just too big of a win for the right and so they're just ignoring it. And then they're just highlighting the good things that USA did, which I'm sure it probably did, probably had to do some good things to at least justify its existence while...

**Bret Weinstein** (2:29)
As a cover story, I'm not even sure. Maybe it doesn't change anything. Obviously, this was a mechanism used to funnel money to all sorts of things that we didn't vote on, that don't make sense in light of our constitutional structure. And I'm, you know, I obviously have concerns like everybody else about where this train takes us. But seeing that structure broken up is... It's a huge relief.

**Joe Rogan** (3:01)
They gave $27 million to the George Soros Prosecutor Fund. So, our own government is funding this left-wing lunatic who is hiring the most insane prosecutors who are letting people out of jail who commit violent crimes.

**Bret Weinstein** (3:20)
And that's exactly how this racket worked, is that the ability to tax the American public and then effectively get us to pay for being propagandized, for being surveilled, that's the game. And I don't know what era we currently live in. Obviously, there's a lot that's confusing about what the Trump administration is up to, but I don't think any reasonable person could be unhappy that we are exiting that era.

**Joe Rogan** (3:53)
I'm going to read off some of the things that this guy Ken Dakota the Great on Twitter listed. And this is off the Jesse Water Show. USAID, $20 million for Iraqi Sesame Street. $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes. $11 million to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash. $27 million to give gift bags to illegals. $27 million.
$330 million to help Afghans grow crops. Crops. I wonder what those crops are. What's their biggest crop, Bret?

**Bret Weinstein** (4:28)
It's going to be the poppy seeds for bagels, I'm thinking.

**Joe Rogan** (4:31)
It's opium! $200 million on an unused Afghani dam. $250 million on an unused Afghani road. This is wild.
I mean, some of this stuff is really, really crazy.

**Bret Weinstein** (4:51)
Well, yes, and USAID is, of course, riddled through whatever international madness it is that caused us to open our southern border and facilitate an invasion through the Darien Gap. So, you know, seeing that structure laid bare is, it almost feels like it can't be real. Like, it can't have been this close to the surface, and yet here we are.