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Joe Rogan blasted a former podcast guest who tried to connect him with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — nearly a decade after the disgraced financier’s conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
The mega-popular podcaster ripped Canadian theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss on Tuesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” after it was revealed he talked to Epstein about Rogan in a 2017 email included in the Justice Department’s massive file dump on the late sex offender.
In the exchange, Epstein told Krauss he’d seen his guest spot on Rogan’s podcast and found the host “funny,” asking the cosmologist to introduce him — an offer the comedian said he instantly rebuffed.
“I’m in the files for not going because Jeffrey Epstein was trying to meet with me,” Rogan told actress Cheryl Hines, who is married to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress asked Rogan if he was “glad” he never met with Epstein.
“Yeah, but I never would’ve went anyway,” said the UFC commentator, who never mentioned Krauss by name during the episode.
“It’s like, it’s not even a possibility that I would’ve ever went, especially after I Googled him.”
The billionaire predator was arrested in Florida and convicted in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
In the Sept. 25, 2017 email, Krauss told Epstein he would reach out to Rogan — or “at least his producers” — to try to set up a meeting, but days later replied with the podcaster’s rejection, calling him more “timid that I would have thought,” the DOJ documents revealed.
“I was like, b—h, are you high?” Rogan recalled when Krauss asked if he wanted to meet Epstein.
“Like what the f–k are you talking about?”
Rogan added that only those “interested in sucking up to the rich and powerful” wanted to be in the well-connected financier’s orbit.
The trove of documents released by the Justice Department revealed shocking, never-before-seen photos of Epstein with numerous high-profile politicians and A-List stars, such as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew), Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, and more — including a half-naked Bill Clinton.
Public interest in the Epstein case intensified after the FBI and DOJ released a joint memo in July concluding that he committed suicide in jail and did not keep a “client list” of rich and powerful men to whom he trafficked girls as young as 14, contrary to widespread speculation.
Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
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