Brian “The Liver King” Johnson has been launched from jail in Austin and has uploaded new movies that after once more seemingly reveal his intent to combat Joe Rogan.
Johnson was arrested Tuesday for making a terroristic menace following two days of weird movies the place he repeatedly mentioned that he needed to have interaction in fisticuffs with the comic podcaster.
In a single new video (beneath), Johnson discusses his arrest and doesn’t say Rogan’s title, however does reference the podcaster’s Comedy Mothership membership to make it clear who he’s speaking about. In different movies he refers to “someone whose title rhymes with Rogan” and even “Seth Rogen.” He continues to recommend a combat in his future and that “the movies won’t ever cease.”
Johnson additionally reveals off an ankle monitor and says Rogan took out a restraining order towards him that stops him from coming inside 200 yards.
Johnson’s movies function among the identical rambling syntax that marked his earlier movies and are a bit troublesome to observe. However he says, partly: “Some man thought in case you simply put him in jail, have the Violent Crimes Division come arrest him for a terroristic menace, the entire time that terroristic menace you thought was a bomb or one thing, inside that field, it’s really a gift for you and your Mothership colleagues.”
Johnson implies the terroristic menace cost was diminished, and continues: “However I don’t need to give any particulars, nor any names. That’s the way you prepare for a combat. And also you thought the movies would cease. However they may by no means cease … you’ve obtained an infinite quantity of venom, after which we’ll hug and unite … in some unspecified time in the future you must capitulate one thing. Actual pressure, actual combat.”
He then provides, “No legal guidelines might be damaged, I can guarantee you.”
Johnson says he has been ordered to get a psychiatric analysis this week that may proceed on a month-to-month foundation.
The fuzzy-bearded Johnson is a controversial and bombastic social media influencer who promotes a “primal, ancestral life-style” that features consuming uncooked organ meats and utilizing his line of dietary supplements.
In an announcement early Wednesday, the Austin Police Division mentioned, “Detectives reviewed the posts and noticed that Johnson was touring to Austin whereas persevering with to make threatening statements. Detectives contacted Mr. Rogan, who said he had by no means had any interplay with Johnson and thought of the posts to be threatening. Based mostly on this data, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Johnson on a cost of terroristic menace.” The cost was a Class B misdemeanor.
Johnson’s authentic movies included statements resembling, “Joe Rogan, I’m choosing a combat with you!” and “Disgrace on you, I’m going to make you pay … I’m going to combat, and I’m not going to cease.”
Johnson and Rogan have a historical past. Rogan mocked Johnson on his podcast, calling him “preposterous,” as a result of influencer insisting that his bulked-out physique was achieved attributable to his “pure” life-style and that he didn’t use steroids. In 2022, Johnson was compelled to confess he did, actually, use steroids and human development hormone after emails between himself and a physician have been leaked on-line that confirmed he was spending $11,000 monthly on the substances. Rogan has since mentioned that Johnson has requested to return on The Joe Rogan Expertise podcast and that the host refused, explaining, “You ran a con recreation and you bought busted.”
The duo’s contentious historical past was chronicled in Netflix‘s current documentary Untold: The Liver King, which depicted Johnson’s rise and fall. Johnson appears to partially blame Rogan for the scandal’s influence on his complement empire.