Pizzagate: The Emails, the Code Words, and the Unanswered Questions They Buried

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You’ve probably heard the word “Pizzagate” before.

In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience (#2284), host Joe Rogan and guest Ian Carroll revisited the Pizzagate controversy, discussing the alleged use of coded language in John Podesta's emails and questioning the mainstream media's dismissal of the theory.

Maybe you were told it was a debunked conspiracy theory. Maybe you saw it mocked in the media as some fringe internet fantasy about a basement in a pizza parlor. Maybe you dismissed it—or maybe you looked into it and couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right.

What most people don’t know is this: Pizzagate wasn’t born out of wild speculation—it came from the actual words written in the emails of one of the most powerful political operatives in America, John Podesta. Those emails, published by WikiLeaks in 2016, contain strange, out-of-context references to food—pizza, pasta, hotdogs, cheese, ice cream, walnut sauce—terms that, according to FBI documents, match code words used by child predators in trafficking circles.