Joe Rogan Offers $100,000 To Vaccine Expert For A Debate, MJ Sells NC Hornets For Billions & More

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
You want to know what I am pro?
A freak show.
I love a good freak show. When people start fighting in the middle of the street or there's a car wreck, I'm stopping. I'm gonna ask them to pull that wreck a little closer so I could see. Hey, police, can you fill me in on the backstory? What's going on? I love this.

**Shaan Puri** (0:17)
What's going on, fellas? What do we got here?

**Sam Parr** (0:29)
What's going on? How are you? What do you think? I guess, is this the first time we've talked since Dyrdek?

**Shaan Puri** (0:35)
Since you moved into a small woman's bedroom or something. What is this? Where are you?

**Sam Parr** (0:41)
I'm visiting family for a month in Brooklyn and I've had to rent a place. It's impossible finding monthly rent, like a three month rental, very hard to find. So we used Airbnb and it's the best I can do.

**Shaan Puri** (0:55)
All right.

**Sam Parr** (0:55)
How's it look? Does it look like Victorian or something?

**Shaan Puri** (0:57)
Yeah, it looks like, I feel like my sister had this little princess bed growing up. So it reminds me of that.
What you got today? You got a, I could see you're eager for something. What do you have?

**Sam Parr** (1:08)
I'm eager for something. And let me preface this by saying, I'm not a political guy. I'm not really conservative. I'm not really liberal.
I'm not pro-vaccine. I'm not anti-vaccine.

**Shaan Puri** (1:22)
Like I'm not liberal, I'm not conservative. I'm best described as aggressive.

**Sam Parr** (1:28)
I'm really, I like, not only do I, I just don't care.
But you want to know what I am pro?
A freak show. I love a good freak show. Like when people start fighting in the middle of the street or there's a car wreck, you know, I'm stopping. I'm gonna ask them to pull that wreck a little closer so I could see like, hey, police, can you fill me in on the backstory? What's going on? Like, I love this.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:50)
Going on, fellas, what do we got here?

**Sam Parr** (1:55)
When I flew here, I flew here, you know, and I download TV on my YouTube app, it was three episodes of cops. That's the kind of guy I am.

**Shaan Puri** (2:05)
So what's got your eye? What's the freak show that's got your eye?

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
So basically this Joe Rogan, Kennedy thing. So here's the background. Robert F. Kennedy, you know, he's Kennedy Jr. I don't know what his acronym is. He needs a good like. RFK Jr. RFKJ, is that it?
So basically this guy, he, I actually saw him talk a couple of times cause I like went through an obsession with the Kennedy family, but he's Robert Kennedy's who's JFK's brother. So he's JFK's nephew.
He's running for president now and he's been doing the pod circuit. He went on All In and then he recently went on Joe Rogan. And I don't even know all the things that he said cause I don't really care that much, but he said a lot of things that could be categorized as anti-vaccine. So, but, and here's what happened. This is the cool part. There's this famous professor and kind of famous vaccine guy who's been tweeting all of his opinions and everything. He tweeted out that he says, Spotify has stopped even sort of trying to stem Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation. It's really awful. And from all the online attacks I'm receiving after this podcast, it's just absurd and it's clear many people believe this nonsense.
Now, here's where it gets interesting. Joe Rogan is a type of guy who doesn't normally respond to this type of stuff. He kind of, he seems like he's got thick skin. He doesn't really get bothered by this, but on the same day he replied and he goes, Peter, if you claim what RFJ Jr. said is misinformation, I'm offering you $100,000 to the charity of your choice if you're willing to come onto the pod and debate him on my show with no time limit.
From there, it snowballed. So now it's up to $2.6 million of other people. So Bill Ackman put up 150K, Dave Rubin 100K, Patrick Bette David 100K. I think even like Andrew Tate is now offering 500K. So now there's two point-

**Shaan Puri** (4:05)
Don't forget, Jason Calacanis coming in with a hard 10K, trying to slip that in and say, I'm with you, put me down for a buck.

**Sam Parr** (4:17)
Yeah. Well, here's the thing. I was like thinking about this. I'm like, should I hop in on this and just like say some number? Who's going to collect?