 Joe Rogan is going to provide us inadvertently so with a really important lesson and this is how Misinformation spreads at least one of the ways that it spreads Usually I think it's probably a game of telephone of sorts between podcast hosts Where they'll hear one of them say something then they'll repeat what they've heard and then you know before you know But it spreads but Joe Rogan is going to see over a story coming out of Australia Ostensibly and basically this is a story about how they're going to ban people in a certain area From growing their own food the story on its face sounds absurd and if I saw this headline I would think twice and maybe question I think a lot of people with BS detectors would maybe think twice before just accepting this but not Joe Rogan So he's going to talk about why this is so bad How absurd it is that the government would take away so much rights from people and then he's gonna find out the story is Completely bogus take a look, you know, I want to find out what this is But I read something briefly and I didn't get into the article But they were saying that they were trying to pass a bill that would outlaw you growing your own food in Australia Oh my god, did you read that? No, there's a part of Australia. I think it was New South Wales Someone's trying to pass a law that won't allow you to grow your own food And they were saying well, you could grow your own food and what else does this leave us from your food? It infects the population kills us all We can have that they pulled that that car I want to know what what their justification was, but I'm pretty sure it had to do with like agricultural contamination or you know like I mean you could justify it if you're a real piece of shit you could say well You know most pandemics have come from agriculture my animal agriculture. We can have Unchecked pig ownership That's not fair. We can you be growing vegetables one of your vegetables ever got in a moment disease Fucking creeps man. He's fucking creeps. They they got a good grip on people during the pandemic They locked it right down. I'll show you know what we're gonna stop these motherfuckers from raw on their own food Because that's how you fucking smoke out an anti-vaxxer Make you can't even grow there go to the grocery store anymore and you can't grow your food Dependent take that shot bitch Do you find anything you are now dependent upon? Passes bill What to look for I'm just it's not nothing is coming up the closest thing I could find was something like this I don't that's not food. No, it's not it's not in New Zealand. It's in it's in Australia I know but this is close New Zealand is like right around the corner could have There's got it's got to be a real thing. It seems too good to not be it's obviously Titan outlaw growing food in Australia and nothing not a single thing comes up Hold on except for that which was a false thing Growing they want they want us completely dependent Yeah, I can't find it either. Oh, damn it Better not be fake It might be fake But even if it's fake right like the fake is usually the warning Sir, I don't know who you are, but please for the love of God stop being so stupid I could create a story about anything There were flying demonic monsters with horns and wings spotted off the coast of Astoria Is that some sort of a warning because it's out there What are you even saying like this is the problem with Rogan's guests He'll bring on somebody who has no unique thoughts of their own most of the time and they'll just be a yes, man Just affirm everything that he's saying yes, they want you completely dependent government is bad Well, you know, even though this story is fake. Maybe it's a warning. Is it though? Do you really believe that do you really believe that this is a warning this fake story? I just Jesus Christ I feel like as a society There's so many people who just proudly wear the fact that they have no common sense on their sleeves There should be more like self-awareness here I mean, especially if you're going on this podcast where you're gonna be Broadcasted to millions and millions of people. I don't know. Maybe that's just me now I've got to say before I talk about what Joe Rogan was discussing here That impression that he did of the supposedly authoritarian Australian politician trying to ban people from growing their own food That was so cringe-worthy. It made me want to jump out of my skin But I mean, he's the comedian and I'm not so maybe my little non-comedian brain can't fathom the inherent hilarity of That impression where he makes himself look like a fool But he starts to really go down this path as to why the government would possibly want to implement this law That's how you smoke out an anti-vaxxer. You can't even go to the grocery store anymore And you can't grow your own food boom, then they have to get the shot, right? except how many anti-vaxxers were Basically sustaining themselves for months years during COVID lockdowns by growing their own food and raising their own livestock How many people actually like Functionally lived off the grid. I mean, do you really think that this would be a ploy to get people to take the vaccine? Isn't there more effective methods to get people to get vaccinated like going through employers? I mean when you think about these types of things for more than a few seconds you begin to realize Okay, this really doesn't make a lot of sense But he's convincing himself like he's not thinking it through He's getting more amped up as he speaks about this because of how absurd this is and sure like it this were true This would be absurd. He'd be right to be angry, but it's not true and it's absurd, but thankfully He got fact-checked by his producer Who I believe is named Jamie and it almost seemed like he was irritated that Jamie couldn't find this bullshit article Like Jamie was trying to find what he was talking about, but it didn't exist Because it's not real now the question is where did Joe get this idea and My initial thought was well, of course, it's got to be somewhere on Facebook This is how a lot of boomers come to political Conclusions they saw it on Facebook and sure enough this image has been circulating around Facebook And it's about the Agriculture Legislation Amendment Bill of 2022 which will supposedly ban people from growing their own food Of course, this is not true I mean, we all have to have conversations with our loved ones who are older who are new to the internets and Explain to them why everything that you see on Facebook Isn't necessarily true and you need to be diligent and think about whether or not what you're seeing is real Find a different source try to you know question the reasoning of what's going on Like we have to have this conversation. I've had conversations with people in my family about this And I feel like it's it's landing like I feel like it's helping them to figure out what is and isn't Bullshit on the internet like people need to know how to decipher these things So we all I feel like have to find some way to talk with our loved ones older one specifically about this thing Joe Rogan Someone near him needs to have this conversation with him, but there's more details about this So NBC News reporter Brandi Zandrosi gives us some more information about where this myth originated She says Twitter search shows lots of folks claiming the same a lot of the videos and tweets include a screenshot From something called apex world news. So who is apex world news? The account is a typical breaking news type of miss info account. No ownership listed spammy and unverified content It does list the website but expired to the way back site looks junky serves ads and much of the content is authored by a Grace Sawalli there is a person on Twitter with this name not linking and she shares a lot of apex world news links She's also deeply religious and a fan of one particular preacher uber angel a British Zimbabwean who preaches the prosperity gospel God wants you to be rich and he'll make it. So if you give me money I don't know just go with it and a little googling shows us that angel founded apex in 2020 Just for good measure We can take a look at the website and domain tools and see that apex shares a male server IP with other sites Including those that clearly belong to the preacher So I wouldn't get my news from a so-called profits junk news site But you know who might rogan fan vaccine critic I've remeft an loving friend of the intellectual dark web Chris is a self-described financial analyst and founder of a self-help Slash Actualization thingy. That's definitely not an MLM. So it's a junk news website created by the founder of a pyramid Now there's a lot of these junk news websites that exist they form to essentially Get clicks and it's all about the ads. They don't even really need to put content there Sometimes if you go to a legit news website, there'll be an ad that pops up with fake headlines If you don't have ads disabled and it'll show like these weird bombastic headlines just insane things just untrue They're essentially tabloids and all they want is free to click on them. So that way they get ad revenue It's not even about generating news. It's just about getting clicks. So you get to see their ads That's all that it's about. So the goal isn't necessarily even Disinformation, it's just about making money. So these things are out there. They exist and so Joe Rogan was duped by it And you know, I'm glad he caught himself here. I'm glad that he was fact-checked But imagine if he just spread this lie to his audience of 11 plus million people How quickly other people would be parroting this how quickly this would devolve into a gigantic conspiracy theory This is why I hope that this triggers some level of self-awareness and Joe Rogan thinks okay I really need to think more about the things that I say to my 11 million followers. I need to be more introspective myself I need to maybe vet these sources that I find and if I see a headline on Facebook or a meme on Facebook Perhaps I seek out, you know a source find out what this is really about before I talk about it On my massive massive platform, but I mean, maybe that's too much to expect from the number one podcast in the world But I mean it's like, you know for me I have a much much smaller audience than Joe Rogan, but I feel an absolute sense of responsibility I want to make sure that whatever I say is Accurate it's verifiable and that you can Google what I'm saying in fact check me yourself, right? But he just doesn't seem to have that responsibility But nevertheless, I'm glad that he caught himself But just let this be a lesson Joe Rogan that you can't just pick up every single stupid fucking thing that you see on the internet you actually Have to do a little bit more than just reading a headline or seeing a meme on Facebook