On a recent episode of his online show, Tucker Carlson interviewed NFL quarterback and anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers. The interview was broadcast on both YouTube and X (formerly Twitter). However, Carlson surreptitiously cut several portions out of the YouTube version in which the pair push conspiracies about vaccines and population control.

At the 4:28 mark of the X version, for example, Carlson tells Rodgers that “most people took the vax” and suggests that if he took the vaccine he would be “worried.” Rodgers agreed, saying that if he had been “staunchly for it,” he might feel as if he “endangered” himself or his loved ones.

He added that “The studies just came out about the pregnant women where 44% of the women in the study had miscarriages who were given the vaccine. You know, like — it’s like, there’s a lot of crazy research that’s out right now that would make people feel a lot of shame, I think, and guilt.”

The claim that 44% of pregnant women who took the vaccine miscarried originated with conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf, and was debunked multiple times by fact checkers.

Another part that was cut for YouTube appears around 21 minutes in — after Rodgers and Carlson compared the NFL to the Nazis for their COVID protocols. Rodgers, unprompted, claimed that there were “many batches” of the vaccine that were “super toxic and deadly,” and others that were “perhaps saline.”

This claim, that people were given saline injections to cover up the lethality of the COVID-19 vaccine, is likewise false. But Carlson treated it with the utmost seriousness. “Do you think that the drug makers knew that they were giving out saline vaccines?” he asked.

“Oh, I don’t know, I mean that’s, uh, pure conjecture,” Rodgers replied. “I think there’s — I have read things about the amount of — the amount of vaccines that went out wouldn’t have been possible to produce that, to that level. So there may have been some knowledge around that.”

“But again, that’s just conjecture, and I don’t have any specific evidence on that,” he added. “I’m not an expert at that. But I am an expert at my body and what goes in it. And how I feel about that.”

At around 45 minutes and 22 seconds, Carlson complains that “COVID was used like race questions have been used, like the trans stuff is being used, to divide people and to make them hate each other.” Afterward, in a portion excised from the YouTube version, Carlson wondered if the contents of the vaccine might “change your DNA.” (It won’t.)

Rodgers also falsely claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine is actually “experimental gene therapy,” but was labeled a vaccine in order to encourage people to take it.

“So they called it a vaccine and changed the definition of vaccine,” he said. “Like that’s not — that’s not bullshit. That’s not conspiracy. That’s actually what happened. They literally talked about this, I believe it was somebody at the WHO or CDC, one of those two, you can — somebody can fact check me on that.”

The final portion of the interview that was removed was a conversation about depopulation conspiracies. Around 47 minutes and 30 seconds into the interview, Carlson asks Rodgers what the purpose of the vaccine is, floating the idea that the goal is depopulating the earth.

“Like what is the point of this? Is it depopulation?” he asked. “‘Cause that’s — it’s a fact, of course, the lockdowns and the vax depopulate by definition — what you said, massive miscarriage rate, but also just keeping people inside for a year and a half destroys their ability to find a mate, destroys their souls.”

Rodgers told Carlson that there are some people who “want depopulation,” including billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Gates has been the target of conspiracy theories about vaccines and population control, often based on out of context clips and his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Rodgers acknowledged that “people think” his comments were “taken out of context,” but said that “if you look at his track record and what he’s done around the world, I don’t know that he’s a proponent of, like, all life and, you know, people having more kids and more population on this earth.”

Carlson agreed, calling Gates “strongly pro-death.”

“I think he’s not the only one,” Rodgers said. “I think there’s a lot of other people. I don’t understand what that motivation is — why. But I think those are some of the evils that we’re up against.”