 A couple of weeks ago, Joe Rogan said this on his podcast. My friend, his wife, is a school teacher and she works at a school that had to install a litter box in the girl's room because there is a girl who's a furry who identifies as an animal. Now at the time that he made that claim, this hoax had already been debunked again and again However, he had inside knowledge because his friend has a wife who works at the school. Therefore, perhaps this isn't just a hoax. Perhaps there's some real legs to this story, except he's going to admit in a podcast episode with Michael Sherman, who's an author, that there was zero evidence for that hoax that he spread on his podcast to millions and millions of listeners. Let's watch. Spread around is a meme because it kind of fit the conservative view of, you know, liberals and their confusion about gender and sex. But the kitty litter box is a weird one. It is weird. It's more like an urban legend. I fed into that and let me, I should probably clarify that a little bit. I have a friend and my friend's wife is a school teacher and she told him that there was discussions in the school that a mother wanted to put a litter box in one of the bathrooms. And he told me this and I talked about it on here and then people were saying that's not true. It's an internet rumor. So I contacted him again and I said, tell me exactly what she said and contact her and find out. She no longer works at that school. She works for another school. She contacted the other school. She didn't get a response. I don't think they actually did it. I think there was discussions about doing it because there was one particularly wacky mother, but there is, it doesn't seem that there's any proof that they put a litter box in there. The reason why I was interested in it and willing to entertain it was there was about 10 years or so ago, we went to, there was a UFC in Pittsburgh. And when we went there, as we landed where we're driving from the airport to the hotel, we see all these people with mascot outfits on. We're like, what is going on? And we talked to this guy and he said, there's a furry convention in town. And I said, wow, this is crazy. So they all decided to get together. So they were at bars and on the streets and it was like a get together. They used to do it in San Diego, but at the time San Diego was a little bit more conservative and they were having a hard time doing it. So they moved it to Pittsburgh and this was the year they moved it to Pittsburgh. This is according to him. So we check into the hotel. The hotel, the guy who was working the front desk was saying how crazy it was that these folks were asking for their food to be delivered in bowls on the ground so they could eat it like animals. And I was like, that is crazy. And then he said they asked for a litter box in the lobby. Now they didn't put a litter box into the lobby, but someone, according to this man, asked him for a litter box. I'm like, that is crazy. So I went and did a deep dive online. I went to forums where furries go because I was trying to find like, is this a thing? Do they like to use litter boxes out of all of my searching? I could only find one poster, one guy who said he had used a litter box. So this one person who was saying that he thought it was kinky and he'd like to use it. He they it them, whatever, like to use a litter box. So that was all I could find. So is that something that people do? Or is it something that people talk about doing because it's fun? I don't know. But one of the things that I found about these furries is like, it's sexual in some sort of weird way. They like to get together and have sex with their furry outfits on. And they don't want people to know who they are or what they want to keep the outfits on. So it's a cosplay kind of thing. Yeah, it's like a cosplay kink thing that some people engage in. Like how that got connected to gender, I do not understand. It got connected to gender by right wing propagandists who want to fear monger about the existence of trans people. Because if you think that being trans is bad and that it's going to lead to people identifying as kooky things like an attack helicopter as the joke goes, well, then it also logically follows that this craziness will lead to other craziness. And soon students who identify as cats will have litter boxes in classrooms as these woke schools try to accommodate them. I mean, it's the same fear mongering and hysteria that we saw over gay marriage. Oh, well, what's next? If a man can marry a man, can I marry a dog? Can somebody marry a toaster? We're seeing the same thing. Well, if I can identify as a woman when I'm a man, can I identify as an Apache attack helicopter or a cat? I mean, it's crazy that we're seeing the same line of argumentation against trans people as we just saw against gay people, even right down to the ex-gays. Remember that? Where, oh, we'll see it's a choice and gay people shouldn't have rights because ex-gays prove that it's a choice. And we even have detransitioners, which I guess disproves the legitimacy of gender dysphoria and the existence of trans people. It's just it's the same line of logic and the rubes are falling for it again. It's so frustrating to me. So I'm glad that he admitted there that this story was bullshit. I just wish that he would have done what he did after he spread it first, right? So he call up his friend, perhaps after he got pushed back to have him have his wife verify she heard nothing back. And he essentially fact checked this story. Why didn't you do that before you spread this hoax to millions of your listeners, Joe Rogan? And furthermore, if Michael Sherman hadn't brought that up, would Joe Rogan have even admitted that that was wrong? I mean, does he even feel guilty or responsible about the things that he says? I mean, on my program, if I make a small error, I feel like I have to correct it immediately. If I catch it during editing, I rerecord. If I say something incorrect, I'll pin a comment to the top of my video just making sure that people know I'm trying to be as accurate as possible. But Joe Rogan, he seemingly just doesn't care because he doesn't learn. That's the problem. If he made a mistake, then that's fine. We're all humans. We all make mistakes. But we learn from those mistakes and he just doesn't learn. He continues to follow for these dumbass stories again and again and again. And what he says, it reverberates around the country. He's not just bullshitting with his friends anymore as much as that's what he wants his podcast formula to be. He is speaking to millions of people. So when you come up with this bullshit theory about students shitting in litter boxes in schools, you have to fact check it before you say it, especially if something like that on its face is pretty stupid. I feel like you have to be dumb to not hear that story and immediately think, hmm, that's a little bit weird. Sounds a little bit sus. Like if you don't even have a little bit of skepticism in you, your bullshit detector is broken, my friends. It's broken. And he speculates that his friend's wife could have heard about this through just one wacky mother who wanted a litter box in the school for her furry identified kid. But that wacky mother, I'm guessing, is the original mother who spread this conspiracy theory in the first place because she heard that they were putting litter boxes in bathrooms to accommodate furry identified students. So it's just really frustrating that this has been a hoax that has spread again and again and again. And after months, there hasn't been a single shred of evidence produced by anyone who continues to propagate this hoax. And this isn't just one of those goofy stories where people are bringing it up and you know, the result is they laugh about this. This is something that Republicans are basing their campaigns off of their campaigning on this. And they're trying to throw trans people under the bus showing to everyone, see this is what happens when you accept trans people. For example, look at how Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc responded when a reporter confronted him about this lie that he's been spreading as well. As you're going to see, he refuses to back down despite not having any evidence made at a recent event about children using litter boxes in schools. That's not what I said. Okay, well then tell me what you said. I heard the audio. So what I was talking about is all the craziness going on in our schools. And this is just one of them. And I had a parent and a student in that audience who came up to me and told me all about it. I've had that all across the state. So I'm only articulating what I heard from granted status parents and children. Craziness is going on in our schools. Senator Hassen is responsible for it. She's doubled down on all the bad education policies out there. So you should be asking her why our children can't read and write the grade level, why we have the lowest scores, why we can't compete in the world, why our children require remedial courses to go to college because she has took her eye off the ball on the future of our nation. And that's our children and our children. You had a parent tell you that this parent and student happening in the schools. The school has come out and said that that's completely false. Well, you know, they came out and said they didn't mass kill them. They came out and said they didn't do a lot of things, right? They don't teach CRT, which they do. They don't teach transgender, which they do. I'm not backing down. Okay, you got the wrong guy. Just because they say it, they need to prove it, prove it. I got parents and kids telling me they need to prove it to us. I don't need to prove it to them. Okay, that's not how that works. You're asking the school to prove a negative when the burden of proof is on you. You're the one who's making the claim. You're the individual who has to supply us with evidence to prove the claim that you're making. But the evidence that he has is that somebody said that they heard that this was happening. So he heard it from somebody who heard it from somewhere else. How many of you want to guess that the person he's referring to heard this from Joe Rogan? I mean, he has the biggest platform, so it's not unreasonable to think that Joe Rogan is where they got this information from. Although, to be fair to Joe Rogan, this myth has been circulating now for almost a year and it's come from a plethora of politicians as well, high profile figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene. So maybe not Joe Rogan, but I think that he just amplified this to a level that it hadn't been amplified before. Now, what's interesting is that Don Bolduc there, he was endorsed by Tulsi Gabbard, who was on Joe Rogan's podcast when he originally made this hoax claim. So all these people, they shit in the same circles. They shit in the same litter boxes, if you will. And it's just frustrating that a myth so idiotic has so much steam. Something this unbelievable has got to at least get your bullshit detector up a little bit if you have any common sense. But in America, people just accept information at face value and they don't question it. They don't even try to think about it logically. They just assume that it's correct because they heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from someone else. I mean, Jesus Christ, we can't actually have a functioning society if people are this goable, if people will believe anything without a shred of evidence. Do you not think that the students would be spreading pictures of litter boxes if their peers were shitting in them in bathrooms? I mean, and I love how there's this myth that's circulating as if the students would be cool about this because they've been indoctrinated by the woke teachers. Students, especially high schoolers, would be laughing at this. They'd be sharing photographs of this. There would be evidence if this were happening, but the fact that there hasn't been a single shred of evidence produced shows you how stupid this myth is, but yet people keep spreading it. And so look, I'm glad that Joe Rogan is finally admitting that he spread this hoax to his podcast of 11 million listeners, but maybe do the verification and fact checking before you say something next time, Joe Rogan.