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Aussies are turning against Joe Rogan after the controversial podcast host falsely claimed Australians are about to be banned from growing their own food.
During an episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian claimed a Bill was being passed to prevent Australians from growing their own food.
"They are trying to pass a bill that would outlaw you growing your own food in Australia," Rogan said in the clip that is now going viral.
"It was a part of Australia, I think it was New South Wales, someone was trying to pass a law that won't allow to grow your own food."
He said the justification for the bill was due to agricultural contamination, and proceeded to call Australians "f***ing creeps" and said the government had a good grip on people during the pandemic.
"We gonna stop these motherf***ers from growing their own food because that's how you f***ing smoke out an anti-vaxxer because you can't go to a grocery store anymore and you can't grow your own food."
Rogan also put a mockery voice on to impersonate Australians - but it was him that ended up looking like a fool.
The producer of the show Jamie Vernon who regularly googles topics live interrupted to tell Rogan he couldn't verify the claim, saying nothing could be found except a similar article about New Zealand, which they did not elaborate on.
"Damn it, better not be fake... It might be fake," Rogan said.
Australians were not happy with Rogan's mistake, taking to social media to express their anger.
"I live in Australia. Do you know how absolutely bats**t ridiculous it would be for the government to even try to pull off something like that. Most of the country is rural. We have free elections. This is insane," one Aussie tweeted.
"There is nothing worse than people non-Australians [have] an opinion about anything here. Between this and the conspiracies about the dictatorship we were apparently in they've been consistently wrong, yet continue to give commentary on a country that they couldn't point to on a map," another said.
"I'm going to grow my own food here in Australia and I'll use bulls**t from @joerogan
to fertilise it," a third said.
This isn't the first time Rogan has been caught out spreading false information online.
Rogan has previously received a lot of backlash for spreading COVID-19 misinformation on his show which was the most-listened-to podcast on Spotify.
More than 300 medical professionals and scientists demanded Spotify take action against the podcast.
Spotify said it would add a content advisory to any episode with discussion of COVID to try to quell the controversy.
