There won’t ever be a “liberal” joe rogan coz the algorithms don’t boost that type of content. In fact, as a long ago listener and fan of joes, i could see his trajectory into a right wing hack over time. Whether it be audience capture, a thin skin unable to take criticism, or being motivated by greed: chasing algorithm clicks, he went from someone who used to critique empire to promoting agent orange. He never had any guests with genuine counter arguements to jordan peterson or ben shapiro etc etc. The only two trans guests were republicans (where did he even find those !!). He only ever represented “the left” as blue haired liberals switching off jordan petersons speakers. No mention of crack head petetsons 50k speaking fees of course. He really was in on the ground to the culture wars before they became a thing. Allowing alex jones on who could present himself as a lovable rogue rather than the piece of shit money grubbing toe rag that he truly is. And if u look at how the liberal media criticise him they also inadvertently boost the arguement “none of joes critics actually listen to his show”. When he caught covid he got the whole “kitchen sink” from a dr which included a steroid treatment. The liberal media thought it was plausable that a guy earning 200 million dollars a year, with access to the UFC official doctor - would get prescribed horse medicine. They even changed his colour tone on his IG video he posted. Utterly pathetic. Why not ask how much the treatment cost ? Could the average joe rogan user afford the kithcen sink ? Information his viewers could benefit from imo. He went from quoting peter dale scott to quoting ben shapiro. Remember the ben shapiro interview with andrew neil ? Rogan had bens back then. “Oh he knows he made a mistake”. How about the wet ass p-word video ?? Only the mildest pushback from the angry little hobbit joe rogan. Not like the school shooter portable toilets put in a new york school which joe “allegedly” thought were play pens for some liberal who identifies as a cat. Don’t get it wrong. Rogan is an incredibly astute operator who goes to the governer of texas birthday party. He has friends in very high places and benefits enormously. A guy who sits on his ass and gets millions of dollars talking about “tough men lead to good times” or whatever bullshit he’s on. And there’s no one online to take him down a peg or two. Thats the real tragedy imo.
He's not even primarily a political actor, Rogan. He mostly has on comedians and assorted science people and the like.
Ezra Klein made the observation that zoomers don't have the memory of Don Imus, 90s Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh, who were infinitely more conservative or outrageously offensive than Rogan. Rogan is orders of magnitude better.
social influencers influencing politics go back at least as far as Frank Sinatra endorsing JFK and helping his campaign (official JFK campaign song: Sinatra singing “High Hopes.”) And then it went on from there. The Internet era is merely an amplifying technology.
I’m hoping that the political clout of social influencers is now declining, personally. I don’t think anyone should base their own voting decisions on what someone else thinks.
Also - contrapoints endorsed hillary clinton and got deservedly criticised for it.
yea that line stuck out
There won’t ever be a “liberal” joe rogan coz the algorithms don’t boost that type of content. In fact, as a long ago listener and fan of joes, i could see his trajectory into a right wing hack over time. Whether it be audience capture, a thin skin unable to take criticism, or being motivated by greed: chasing algorithm clicks, he went from someone who used to critique empire to promoting agent orange. He never had any guests with genuine counter arguements to jordan peterson or ben shapiro etc etc. The only two trans guests were republicans (where did he even find those !!). He only ever represented “the left” as blue haired liberals switching off jordan petersons speakers. No mention of crack head petetsons 50k speaking fees of course. He really was in on the ground to the culture wars before they became a thing. Allowing alex jones on who could present himself as a lovable rogue rather than the piece of shit money grubbing toe rag that he truly is. And if u look at how the liberal media criticise him they also inadvertently boost the arguement “none of joes critics actually listen to his show”. When he caught covid he got the whole “kitchen sink” from a dr which included a steroid treatment. The liberal media thought it was plausable that a guy earning 200 million dollars a year, with access to the UFC official doctor - would get prescribed horse medicine. They even changed his colour tone on his IG video he posted. Utterly pathetic. Why not ask how much the treatment cost ? Could the average joe rogan user afford the kithcen sink ? Information his viewers could benefit from imo. He went from quoting peter dale scott to quoting ben shapiro. Remember the ben shapiro interview with andrew neil ? Rogan had bens back then. “Oh he knows he made a mistake”. How about the wet ass p-word video ?? Only the mildest pushback from the angry little hobbit joe rogan. Not like the school shooter portable toilets put in a new york school which joe “allegedly” thought were play pens for some liberal who identifies as a cat. Don’t get it wrong. Rogan is an incredibly astute operator who goes to the governer of texas birthday party. He has friends in very high places and benefits enormously. A guy who sits on his ass and gets millions of dollars talking about “tough men lead to good times” or whatever bullshit he’s on. And there’s no one online to take him down a peg or two. Thats the real tragedy imo.
He's not even primarily a political actor, Rogan. He mostly has on comedians and assorted science people and the like.
Ezra Klein made the observation that zoomers don't have the memory of Don Imus, 90s Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh, who were infinitely more conservative or outrageously offensive than Rogan. Rogan is orders of magnitude better.
He’s more subtle and more sophisticated. But he absolutely is political make no mistake.
And what of Lex Fridman?
https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/in-bed-with-the-russians/id1498390709?i=1000683237185
No…but they’re gonna.
great post mate!
social influencers influencing politics go back at least as far as Frank Sinatra endorsing JFK and helping his campaign (official JFK campaign song: Sinatra singing “High Hopes.”) And then it went on from there. The Internet era is merely an amplifying technology.
I’m hoping that the political clout of social influencers is now declining, personally. I don’t think anyone should base their own voting decisions on what someone else thinks.