Podcast host Joe Rogan said on Tuesday that he chose to never meet the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years ago “after I Googled him.”
On his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan said the investigation into Epstein has been an “eye-opener,” and many high-profile people met with Epstein “after he was arrested” in 2008. The podcast host added that he is in the Epstein files “for not going” to meet with Epstein, responding, “What?” when he learned that Epstein had tried to meet with him.
“Yeah, but I would have never went anyway, it’s like it’s not even a possibility that I would’ve went. Especially after I Googled him. I was like, ‘What the f*** are you talking about?’” Rogan told actress Cheryl Hines.
“This was, like, 2017, one of my guests was trying to get me to meet him. I was like, ‘B****, are you high? Like, what the f*** are you talking about?’” he continued.
Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., asked, “For what reason” would Rogan meet with Epstein? Rogan said if he had been “a guy who was sucking up to the rich and powerful,” adding that some people get “intoxicated” by being around these types of people, even if they don’t have any “ambition” to become rich or powerful.
Rogan also read recent news about how the FBI concluded that Epstein was not running a sex trafficking ring for “powerful men.” Rogan deemed this “the gaslightiest gaslighting s*** I’ve ever heard in my life.”
In December 2023, Kennedy said he flew on Epstein’s plane twice in the 1990s: The first time to visit Kennedy’s mother in Florida with his family in 1993, and another time to go “fossil hunting” with his family in South Dakota. He said he was “never on his [Epstein’s] jet alone.”
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A 2019 FBI report revealed that President Donald Trump allegedly called a Palm Beach, Florida, police chief in 2006 to express gratitude for “stopping” Epstein, after the convicted sex offender’s crimes became public. The report was based on a phone conversation Trump allegedly had in October 2019 with a police chief, whose name was redacted, according to the Miami Herald.
The Trump administration has recently stood by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick amid calls for him to resign due to his ties to Epstein. Lutnick defended himself during a Tuesday morning testimony to the Senate committee on appropriations, saying he met with Epstein “three times over 14 years with a wide spread in between.”