COVID-19 pandemic response
Subject in Politics
COVID-19 pandemic response has come up in 13 episodes across 6 podcasts in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience, REAL AF with Andy Frisella, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett. 9 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan asserts that the COVID-19 vaccine did not prevent infection or transmission.
“Even let's assume the vaccine worked, which didn't, which assumed that it prevented infection, which it didn't, prevented transmission, which it didn't”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2563 - Dan Richards (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 14:43
Rogan recounts stopping live shows after one early pandemic weekend out of concern about spreading COVID.
“And then I decided after I did it that I'm not doing it anymore because I felt bad”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2559 - Sam Morril (Sep 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:40:31
Rogan asserts that the debate over COVID-19's origins is settled in favor of a lab leak.
“The fight's over. It's a fucking lab leak”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:02:53
Rogan claims sitting and former presidents contacted Spotify seeking his removal over vaccine misinformation.
“But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2515 - Chase Hughes (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 2:14:12
Andy FrisellaShow intro voiceover by host Andy Frisella
Frisella argues the largest fraud was COVID-era closures that transferred wealth from small businesses to big retailers.
“The largest fraud was transferring all of the wealth and putting out of business all of the middle class, mom and pop, retail, restaurants”
REAL AF with Andy Frisella: 1029. Andy & DJ CTI: Trump Targets Massie, Henry Nowak Defendant Claims Racial Abuse & Mom in $250M Somali Fraud Scheme Sentenced (May 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:52
Frisella claims COVID vaccines are driving overall mortality to record highs, a contested assertion.
“billions of people taking an unproven medication that is now causing the overall mortality rate to be at the highest rate that it's ever been”
REAL AF with Andy Frisella: 1023. Andy & DJ CTI: Spirit Airlines shutdown, Hantavirus Infections on Cruise Ship & High school student exposes classmates' (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 45:33
Frisella claims COVID case counts were inflated by PCR tests run at maximum cycle thresholds that produced false positives.
“the case counter was driven by... by test, the PCR test, the cycle rate turned to the maximum, which will actually throw a false positive”
REAL AF with Andy Frisella: 1023. Andy & DJ CTI: Spirit Airlines shutdown, Hantavirus Infections on Cruise Ship & High school student exposes classmates' (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 43:40
Frisella argues societal change must come through bottom-up cultural change and personal excellence rather than revolt.
“It's gonna be done through cultural change, working from the bottom up, local government, personal standards, personal excellence”
REAL AF with Andy Frisella: 1023. Andy & DJ CTI: Spirit Airlines shutdown, Hantavirus Infections on Cruise Ship & High school student exposes classmates' (May 5, 2026) · Listen from 37:13
Dan RichardsIndependent researcher and host of the YouTube channel DeDunking the Past, focused on lost civilizations and alternative history
Richards rejects the label science denier, describing himself as a gatekeeper of the scientific method.
“I get called a science denier a lot. Fuck that. I'm a science gatekeeper”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2563 - Dan Richards (Oct 8, 2026) · Listen from 12:12
Dana WhitePresident and CEO of the UFC
White argues a CEO's duty in hard times like COVID is to protect employees rather than lay them off.
“It is your job as the CEO to take care of these people and figure out how to make money”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Dana White: This Generation Thinks You Can Build A Business From Home, It's Impossible! (Oct 5, 2026) · Listen from 23:09
Danny MeyerAmerican restaurateur, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack
Meyer distinguishes nice from kind and says the kind approach to pandemic layoffs was speaking with each of several hundred employees individually.
“No one got laid off by tweet. No one got laid off by a big mass email. Everyone got spoken to by their boss”
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk: 708: Danny Meyer - How You Make People Feel: The Founder of Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group on Culture as Soil, the 49/51 Hiring Formula, and Leading With Generosity (Sep 27, 2026) · Listen from 42:01
Megyn KellyConservative broadcaster and podcaster
Kelly argued that government falsehoods during COVID fueled widespread distrust of official narratives.
“COVID in particular was an experience in which Conspiracy theories wound up all being true and the real nutcases were the ones in government power lying to us”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Platner Allegation EXPOSES the Media, and the Tyler Robinson Defense REVEALED, with Bevan, Halperin, Aronberg, Holloway, Geragos, Eiglarsh, and Spilbor | Ep. 1354 (Jul 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:54:30
Eric WeinsteinAmerican mathematician, former managing director of Thiel Capital and creator of Geometric Unity
Weinstein says leading COVID-era officials and researchers damaged the credibility of science.
“Collins and Fauci and Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak are menaces to the credit of science”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2503 - Eric Weinstein (May 21, 2026) · Listen from 2:47:46
Sean KellyHost of the Digital Social Hour podcast
Kelly said he did not expect anyone to be arrested over COVID, nor over the Epstein files.
“I don't think there ever will be honestly. Same with the files”
Digital Social Hour: Charlie Kirked Turned Down $1 Billion, Now He's Dead & TPUSA Has the Money | DSH #1966 (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 4:57
Stew PetersAmerican far-right online broadcaster and documentary filmmaker, former bounty hunter
Peters argued the medical system is designed to keep people chronically sick as lifelong customers.
“So it's my opinion that this system is designed to keep you a lifetime subscriber where you are never really healthy”
Digital Social Hour: Charlie Kirked Turned Down $1 Billion, Now He's Dead & TPUSA Has the Money | DSH #1966 (May 15, 2026) · Listen from 0:47
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 6 episodes
- REAL AF with Andy Frisella · 3 episodes
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
- The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk · 1 episode
- The Megyn Kelly Show · 1 episode
- Digital Social Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
#2563 - Dan RichardsThe Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 h 55 min
Joe Rogan and independent researcher Dan Richards discuss elongated skulls, Neanderthal and Denisovan interbreeding, Paracas, alleged archaeological cover-ups, and whether archaeology is a science.
Dana White: This Generation Thinks You Can Build A Business From Home, It's Impossible!The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 5, 2026 · 1 h 28 min
UFC chief Dana White tells Steven Bartlett about his childhood, building the UFC, hiring 'killers', health turnaround, his estranged mother, risk-taking and his boxing ambitions.
#2559 - Sam MorrilThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 29, 2026 · 2 h 53 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Sam Morril discuss the stand-up grind, AI's threat to art, the JFK assassination, notorious killers, classic films and comedy legends.
708: Danny Meyer - How You Make People Feel: The Founder of Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group on Culture as Soil, the 49/51 Hiring Formula, and Leading With GenerosityThe Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk · Sep 27, 2026 · 54 min
Ryan Hawk interviews restaurateur Danny Meyer about enlightened hospitality, scaling culture, the 49/51 hiring formula, and how a hot dog cart became Shake Shack.
Platner Allegation EXPOSES the Media, and the Tyler Robinson Defense REVEALED, with Bevan, Halperin, Aronberg, Holloway, Geragos, Eiglarsh, and Spilbor | Ep. 1354The Megyn Kelly Show · Jul 7, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Megyn Kelly discusses the Graham Platner rape allegation with Tom Bevan and Mark Halperin, then analyzes Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing with five legal commentators.
#2517 - Taylor SheridanThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 23, 2026 · 2 h 50 min
Joe Rogan and Taylor Sheridan discuss ranching, his TV production methods, politics, COVID, fraud, ibogaine, espionage, and his new prison survival guide.
#2515 - Chase HughesThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 17, 2026 · 2 h 38 min
Joe Rogan and behavioral profiler Chase Hughes discuss intravenous DMT, the UFC White House event, psychedelic therapy, memory editing, methylene blue, psyops, COVID-era media and elicitation tactics.
1029. Andy & DJ CTI: Trump Targets Massie, Henry Nowak Defendant Claims Racial Abuse & Mom in $250M Somali Fraud Scheme SentencedREAL AF with Andy Frisella · May 22, 2026 · 1 h 39 min
Andy Frisella and DJ discuss Thomas Massie's Trump-backed primary defeat, the Henry Nowak stabbing trial in Britain, the Feeding Our Future sentencing, and a Florida teacher's firing.
#2503 - Eric WeinsteinThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 21, 2026 · 2 h 60 min
Joe Rogan and mathematician Eric Weinstein discuss string theory's dominance in physics, Jeffrey Epstein as an intelligence construct, UFO secrecy, the El Paso airspace closure, and rock music's decline.
Charlie Kirked Turned Down $1 Billion, Now He's Dead & TPUSA Has the Money | DSH #1966Digital Social Hour · May 15, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Sean Kelly interviews broadcaster Stew Peters, who advanced unsubstantiated conspiracy claims about Charlie Kirk's assassination, Turning Point USA, Israel, the Iran war, COVID and media censorship.