Did Nick Shirley tell Joe Rogan he was going to investigate the "Clinton body bags" list? No, that's not true: The story originated from a network of Facebook pages with satire labels. Shirley, a conservative influencer, has never been a guest on "The Joe Rogan Experience."
The claim appeared in an Aug. 16, 2026, post on X account @PetsRescues (archived here). It opened:
Citizen Journalist Nick Shirlay announced on the Joe Rogan Experience that he's assembling a team of forensic experts to join him while he gets to the truth behind the 'Clinton Body Bags' list.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @PetsRescues on X.)
The post misspelled Shirley as "Shirlay." It continued:
If you're unfamiliar, the list is a compilation of more than 200 names that have died mysteriously, suspiciously, or unexpectedly with direct ties to the Clintons. Many of them had evidence against the family. Shirley expects the investigation to take some time, but he says he'll start with the more well-known names and update the public regularly. His first cases will be Seth Rich and Vince Foster.
Shirley has never been a guest on Rogan's podcast (archived here). Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) using the search terms "nick shirley joe rogan clinton body bags investigation." We did not find any credible news reports about Shirley telling Rogan he was going to conduct an investigation into "Clinton body bags."
The claim originated from an Aug. 16, 2026, post on Facebook account @ReaganWasRight. This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @ReaganWasRight on Facebook.)
The site is labeled as satire, as the bio states:
An authorized dumping ground for certified trollery and right-wing propaganda courtesy of America's Last Line of Defense. Nothing on this page is real.
The image used in the post on X has two tags that read "Nothing on this page is real," which is a tagline for America's Last Line of Defense (ALLOD) websites. This is a screenshot of the image posted on X with red circles added by Lead Stories:
(Image source: post by @PetsRescues on X.)
ALLOD, or "America's Last Line of Defense" (archived here), is a network of satire websites run by self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair from Maine along with a loose confederation of friends and allies. He runs several websites and Facebook pages with visible satire disclaimers everywhere. They mostly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
The majority of his sites in the network have an about page that reads (in part):
An authorized dumping ground for certified trollery and right-wing propaganda courtesy of America's Last Line of Defense. Nothing on this page is real.
Articles from Blair's sites frequently get copied by "real" fake news sites that omit the satire disclaimer and other hints the stories are fake.
