#2272 - Mike Benz

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Mike Benz is a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, is a free speech watchdog organization dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet. www.foundationforfreedomonline.com For a FREE trial and 10% off your first Squarespace website or domain, visit www.squarespace.com/ROGAN This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Get working on a better you with therapy. Visit BetterHelp.com/JRE today to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
0:13.4	Good to see you.
0:14.4	I've been looking forward to this one.
0:15.9	Me too.
0:17.4	All night, I was like, ooh, tomorrow's going to be a good one.
0:20.4	For you, it must have been
0:22.4	very exciting to have the vault opened and to get a peek into the machine because you've been
0:28.5	describing this. The last time you're on the podcast, you went into depth about USAID. And it's
0:34.3	very curious why they chose USAID is the first organization for Doge to investigate
0:39.8	because it seems like they were the ones that resisted the most.
0:42.5	Yeah.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:43.8	Well, you know, the joke that I tell here is it's like what they tell you to do, your first day of prison is you go in,
0:49.5	you walk up to the meanest, baddest SOB, and you punch them right in the mouth.
0:53.5	I mean, that's basically what's happened here
0:55.3	with the White House's first target being USAID,
0:58.5	because USAID opens up the entire world of the blob,
1:02.8	the foreign policy establishment,
1:04.2	and it's weaponization of what are supposed to be foreign-facing
1:08.0	Department of Dirty Tricks operations against domestic opponents.
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