On Friday’s episode of the wildly popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” the comedian delved into the realm of the conspiratorial as he pondered who was really behind Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious exploits and what their motivations were.
Joined by fellow standup performer Whitney Cummings who was promoting her new comedy special “Jokes,” the conversation turned away from the business of making people laugh to speculation when his guest noted Harvard University’s connection to the deceased financier.
“Didn’t Harvard have Epstein money?” she asked prompting Rogan to share a story about the influences that the accused sex trafficker had been exerting.
“Well, he definitely donated some money to science,” the host said of Epstein. “You know, but I had a conversation with a scientist who didn’t buy into that Epstein stuff and wouldn’t go to the meetings and stuff like that. And he said that he was really shocked at how little money he actually donated.”
“He goes, ‘It wasn’t that much money.’ He goes, it was really like, ‘He was more than that. He was bringing them to parties.’ Like it was an intelligence operation,” Rogan went on before presenting his belief on who was behind the operation said to imperil the reputations of politicians, celebrities and executives alike.
“Whoever was running it, whether it was the Mossad or whether it was the CIA or whether it was a combination of both — it was an intelligence operation,” he asserted. “They were bringing in people and compromising them.”
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“And then when they would compromise them, they would use, you know, whatever they had on them to influence their opinions and the way they expressed those opinions. And I don’t know why they would want to do that with scientists, which is really strange to me,” Rogan noted before later indicating that the specific scientists he was said to be aware of were physicists studying string theory and, therefore, not necessarily an area of potential profit.
As the conversation continued, Rogan presented an article that discussed the specific financial contributions that Epstein made to the Ivy League university and the fact that even after his first arrest and incarceration for sex charges, the alleged blackmailer maintained an office on campus until 2018. It was previously reported that he had donated $9 million to the prestigious school.
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“Epstein’s like, ‘I need you to do a study about how 15-year-old girls are adults. They’re more mature than we thought,'” Cummings offered as she tried to make light of the serious topic before posing a question on the influence a financier might have over a grant recipient. “But if a scientist donates, I’m sorry, if a rich person donates to a scientist, do they have any ability to weigh in or they’re just like I get no decisions about how this money’s spent?”
“I don’t know. I mean, I would imagine money goes — like if you have a research grant and say like, you’re working on a cure for leukemia or something like that, you know, you find established scientists that are working on this thing,” Rogan expressed, “and then you allocate money so that they can work on projects. Whether or not the person who donates the money has any influence on how that money is spent — I doubt it. I highly doubt I don’t, I don’t think legitimate scientists would adhere to that.”
His guest then tried to make a comparison to the film industry and stated, “I know that just my, you know, if you’re shooting an independent movie that has investors, Russian investors, Saudi investors, like you have to hang out with them.”
“Oh really?” Rogan replied appearing somewhat surprised.
“Oh yeah. They’re at video village. Like it’s kind of the — it’s like you have to flirt with them,” she added before they later lamented the fact that despite Epstein’s associate and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell being sentenced to 20 years in prison, the list that would confirm who may have been exposed to the speculated “intelligence operation” had not been released. Meanwhile, she had just been relocated to the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution considered a “club fed” style, cushy, low-security prison.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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