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The Joe Rogan Experience

JRE MMA Show #180 with Daniel Rodriguez

02 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What led Daniel Rodriguez to get arrested in Mexico?

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What a fucking crazy story. So let's fill people in. So you were a top contender in the UFC's welterweight division and then somehow or another you wound up getting arrested in Mexico.

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27.554 - 45.361 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah, man, right after the Kevin Holland fight, actually. I was celebrating, I was over in San Diego, had some drinks, and decided, you know what, let's go to TJ. Oh, always a phrase that is regretted.

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When you're in San Diego and you're drinking, you can walk there, shit.

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48.967 - 73.258 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah, yeah, literally, so... Decided to go to TJ for the night, you know, go celebrate my win. I was obviously in celebration mode. And I had an ounce of weed in the car, you know, and I've been across the border a hundred times, bro. Never had no issues, never had no problems, never got stopped, pulled over. That's the last thing I would even think is that- I thought weed was legal in Mexico.

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73.639 - 94.534 Daniel Rodriguez

I thought so too. I thought everything's decriminalized down there. uh apparently not man the the laws are like crazy crazy strict over there you know and i've been in situations before where i could like just offer some money and get out the situation you know like 500 bucks at at the most you know they'll just let me on my way

94.514 - 116.871 Daniel Rodriguez

but got pulled over at the border, and the border inspection found the weed in my backpack, and I was thinking I was gonna be in that situation where I could bribe my way out of it, because it's Mexico, I've been there before, and I've been in these situations. And nah, man, I thought, you know, they took me to jail that night.

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And I was thinking, all right, I'm just going to be here for the weekend. I'll get out Monday, you know, go to court. And they're like, nah, we'll see you in a month. I'm like, a month? You know, like, why? It's just weed, you know what I mean? And, yeah, eight months later. Holy shit.

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Yeah, dude. Jimmy, can you please look up what the laws are in Mexico for marijuana? Because, man, I was reading something just a few years ago. How are they... Here it goes. Marijuana is decriminalized for personal recreational use in Mexico, but there's no legal commercial market, and buying it or selling it remains illegal. For tourists and visitors, possession is strictly prohibited.

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Wait, what the hell? It's tourists and visitors. So for everybody else, you would be good. Like, if you were a Mexican resident, you would have been good. It looks like, according to this. personal limits can possess up to 5 grams and up to 28 grams is decriminalized. How many grams are in an ounce? That's one ounce? 28?

Chapter 2: What are the marijuana laws in Mexico?

503.733 - 524.562 Daniel Rodriguez

And the guards had tried to charge me seven grand, bro, to get me out of that cell and to move me into a better place. Because over there, if you got some money, you'll be all right. And so right before that happened, the dude was like, yo, I'm going to come back for you, bro. Don't even worry about it.

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So how does this work? Does the guard come up to you and go, hey, I can get you in a cell, but it'll cost you $7,000?

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530.15 - 530.37 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah.

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They come up to you and tell you that?

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531.492 - 561.499 Daniel Rodriguez

yeah so the dude that that was that was that i got to the the prison with he comes back down and he's like yeah he's like hey um the guards came they pulled me out and they pulled me they bring me to a whole different like section of of um of the prison third the third floor and the second building and i go up there and i'm escorted by the guards and there's like a curtain there's like a curtain covering like the tear

561.479 - 581.792 Daniel Rodriguez

And I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Like, why is there a curtain? And I get in there and they pull me to this dude and this dude's like, oh, you're a UFC fighter? You know, it turns out dude's like head of the cartel, you know, like a cartel leader. And he's like, oh, he's like, I want to just show you around a little bit, let you know how we're running things over here, you know?

582.093 - 606.977 Daniel Rodriguez

Kind of just gave me the rundown. And this dude had it made. You know, I get there and there's TVs in the fucking cell. Dude has a PlayStation. He has like a whole bunch of just all the amenities you can think of. You know, he's like, yeah, he's like showing me around and shit. Kind of kind of showing me off. Hey, guys, look, look at this guy. This guy is a UFC fighter.

606.957 - 638.33 Daniel Rodriguez

And I'm like, all right, what's going on here? Because it's jail, dog. I'm like, if anything happens, I'm gonna fucking use all my experience to survive this motherfucker. Right, right. So he's like, just pretty much give me the rundown. He's like, yo, he's like, I run it here. This is like pretty much, you know, our our this is our home, you know. So that dude was facing some charges.

638.39 - 667.422 Daniel Rodriguez

He got released and he was facing some charges of. Him and his, like, 13 dudes, he got arrested with his whole crew. Him and 13 dudes were all on that tier. So he had all his whole squad with him, and they had got arrested for dressing up as, like, government officials or, like, military dudes. And they would go, like, raid dope houses and take their drugs, whatever.

Chapter 3: How did Daniel Rodriguez experience the Mexican judicial system?

803.778 - 806.244 Daniel Rodriguez

No, no, no. No, no.

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That's how it goes south. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you're smart. You know what I'm saying? As soon as you said boxing gloves, I'm like, oh, please tell me this doesn't end the way I think it ends.

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817.848 - 828.006 Daniel Rodriguez

No, no. Yeah, we ended up actually being really cool. And yeah, dude, I ended up pretty much spending this whole time like in a boxing fight camp, you know?

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Oh, wow.

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828.667 - 855.478 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah, I remember I even made a makeshift double-end bag. What I did was I balled up a bunch of plastic bags, really made it real tight so it's hard, threw it in a sock. I was able to buy from the guards a bungee cord. Yeah, a bungee cord, and then set that up. Oh, nice. Yeah, and I made a heavy bag because it had these big gallons of water.

855.458 - 878.419 Daniel Rodriguez

And I got the gallon of water and I wrapped it with like the mat from the bed. And I just threw it in a bag. And we had like a pull-up bar in our cell. And I made a heavy bag out of that. And then whenever we would go to yard, I would just spend the whole time running that yard. And I was just trying to do everything I could do to try and stay in shape, man.

878.479 - 882.342 Daniel Rodriguez

And just time went on and time went on and time went on.

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What kind of food did they get you in his cell? It was all junk food, dude. Still?

887.649 - 897.786 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah. Yeah. It was all junk food like chips, noodles. Damn. Soda, you know, water, condiments.

Chapter 4: What challenges did he face while in jail?

969.938 - 998.375 Daniel Rodriguez

Man, I've made 155 one time in my career. You're a big dude. You made 55? That must have been hell. Yeah, it was the worst fight camp ever. It was all based on just losing the weight, losing the weight. And then I was just so, I remember after I made 155, I didn't even want to go to the gym for like a month, bro. I was like, dude, I need to, like my body was just done, bro.

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998.395 - 999.938 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah, you're killing your body. Yeah.

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What is this?

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1002.101 - 1005.225 Daniel Rodriguez

Oh, yeah, that's some of the workouts I was doing while I was in prison.

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But no protein, unfortunately.

1007.108 - 1030.591 Daniel Rodriguez

Yeah, but no protein. So I was getting pretty shredded, like, in that, like, period in time. That was when we had, like, a lot of, like, we had food and everything was cool. And if you notice... Oh, look at that, the double M bag. That's nice, dude. Yeah, dude. And, like, you can see the TV in the back. Right. With the PlayStation, but... I mean, it wasn't... Dude, you're looking good. Yeah.

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Tighten those hands up.

1032.137 - 1054.368 Daniel Rodriguez

Nice, I bet. Yeah, man. It was just like a whole experience. And it was crazy because this guy, he'd be like, you know, the guards would come in and be like, hey, leave my door open, yeah? And the guards will actually leave this door open. So we were able to like walk around the tier and go talk to other people like me. I kept to myself a lot. Like I've been in jail like a ton of times before.

1054.428 - 1085.312 Daniel Rodriguez

And I learned, I learned easily that, you know, you'll, You'll go, like, a long... You'll get by if you just mind your own business and not get involved in shit and not get involved in things. So, like, I would just stick to myself, you know, and just, you know, just get my workout on and... Avoid trouble. Avoid trouble. But it was crazy to see firsthand how the cartel operates.

Chapter 5: What recent events are discussed regarding Brittany Griner?

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It's very recently that I saw it. I didn't check the date on it, though. I could send it to you. Yeah, I got it. I think it's good. Yeah. It's from February 16th. Yes, that's it. That's the one. It's not showing up right here, though. Want me to send it to you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The thing I just had was like a Russian website. Click this. No problems. Definitely.

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There's another one, like Brittany Griner. That poor lady. Oh, yeah. She did nine months.

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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Palantir's alleged activities?

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They wanted to put her away forever. Yeah.

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4196.015 - 4199.981 Daniel Rodriguez

Didn't they have to exchange some Russian arms dealer or something like that?

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Yeah, a merchant of death. A guy who's responsible for thousands of people being dead. So this is from Kim.com. Palantir was allegedly hacked. An AI agent was used to gain super user access, and here's what the hackers allegedly found. Peter Thiel and Alice Karp... commit mass surveillance of world leaders and titans of industry on a mass scale, massive scale.

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Chapter 7: How does Kim Dotcom's story relate to the discussion?

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They have thousands of hours of transcribed and searchable conversations of Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Elon Musk. They have backdoored the devices, cars, and jets of world leaders and accumulated the biggest archive of blackmail material. Palantir is creating nuclear and bioweapon capabilities for Ukraine and is working closely with the CIA to defeat Russia. They believe they're one year away.

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They plan to achieve this by... keeping Russia busy with meaningless peace negotiations. Palantir is responsible. Of the majority of Palestinian deaths in Gaza, they've developed the AI targeting for Israel. Palantir is an arm of the CIA, and all data from international clients is copied into a CD. So the problem is this is, like, alleged. Is there community notes on this at all? No. Really?

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Just Kurt Metzger. He's the number one post. When can we see these hacked materials, though? What are the hackers doing with it? If they aren't exposing the whole thing, then fuck them. how does he know community he posts a lot of things that sometimes are true and sometimes are not true do you know his background do you know the story behind that guy

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Chapter 8: What insights are shared about the impact of GLP-1 medications?

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Me or in general? Yeah. So his – I first found out about him a long time ago. He's a very wealthy guy. He lives in New Zealand. And he ran a site. Was it a – It was like Super Upload or – Yeah, like one of those uploads, Mega Upload. Yeah, I think that's what it was. Was that it? Yeah. And they targeted him because they said that people were uploading things that were copyrighted material.

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And I think they were trying to – They were trying to get him out of the country. Extradited on... I think they still want him to come back. Yeah, fraud charges related to... It's on the screen to make an upload. He denies wrongdoing. Cues U.S. authorities are pursuing a vendetta against him on behalf of politically influential Hollywood studios.

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2018 New Zealand Court of Appeal upheld the lower court's ruling Dotcom appealed to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, which ruled in 2020 that Dotcom could be extradited to the United States, but that he could challenge the decision through judicial review. His extradition order was eventually signed on August of 2024.

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He's remained free in New Zealand while continuing to pursue judicial review of his extradition order. He launched another cloud storage service called Mega, although he severed all ties with the service in 2015. He also started and funded the Internet Party.

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The party contested in the 2014 New Zealand general election under an electoral alliance with the Mana movement and contested the 2017 general election independently, but failed to win any seats at either election. He... was a famous guy in the early days of the Internet. Did you ever see those videos that he made, like these cartoons?

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Yeah, I'm trying to remember some things that I remember, but I don't, yeah. Yeah, there was, like, cartoons that he did where he was, like, killing dictators in the cartoons. What did he call it? Internet Party, Moment of Truth, Extradition. See if you can find Kim.com early animated videos. He's big on the Seth Rich conspiracy here. He should be. The Seth Rich one is wild.

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The Seth Rich one is one of the ones where I don't understand why anybody doesn't think that that's crazy. This guy gets assassinated after he... supposedly gave WikiLeaks all sorts of inside information on the Democratic Party about how they kept people out of the election, how they were running things, and then he winds up getting whacked.

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And they're like, no, it was a robbery attempt at 3 in the morning. They left his watch. They left his wallet. They left everything, his phone. They just killed him. See if you can find his videos. He has some crazy videos. I want to say these are from like the 90s, like late 90s or early 2000s. He was, I don't even know what he was doing, but he was very wealthy.

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He had this crazy house and his hot wife and he would show videos of it and shit. And I think this guy's just been persecuted because of that site that he had. And he's fucked now. They just keep going after him. I don't know if he's right about this Palantir stuff, so I probably shouldn't have been saying it.

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