@Archie Moses
I had actually watched a different Rogan podcast about this. So I just got done watching this one.
Starting at around 17:45 I think he says something that I can confirm. First, this was a topic of conversation on the ship, but it was in casual conversation. My Senior Chief I think talked to the guy in the video, and he was the biggest gossip (scuttlebutt if we want to use Navy terms) about this that I had direct contact with. As I've said a bunch of times here on Jazzfanz (and I think the first time I mentioned it was at least 5 years ago) they were not calling it a "tic tac" when I heard the story, they were calling it a "twinkie." I know that's not an important detail, as both those things are shaped roughly the same, but I'm just saying, the day this event happen I never heard the term "tic tac," the story I heard was about a flying twinkie.
But the thing I want to say is that, as he says in the video, this info was never controlled or contained. It was all over the ship (over 5000 people) and there was never any kind of effort to stop anyone from saying anything they knew, heard, whatever. There was also not any acknowledgement of it from the captain or anything in any official capacity that had any contact with me. It was a peculiar thing that happened that people talked to each other about and it created a buzz and that lasted about a day, then it was back to the daily routine of being on a ship.