He used to be interesting, for about 6 months. Now he’s just grifting the idiots at $10 a month on Spotify. The reason I joined Apple Music lol
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Maybe this is my chance to bring a nuanced answer to this.
First of all, these are all speculations, because you can never diminish a person down to what content they consume.
That said, let's have a look at Joe Rogan: he is a podcaster who started out with a solid baseline viewership and with a positive perception. His views were very moderate. Because of a lot of circumstances he became very popular fairly quickly (one of them is probably that people found his laugh funny). He then changed his topics a bit, got more prestigious guests on the show and also changed his views from what he let shine through in the podcast. He got very much more libertarian / conservative and his topics got a bit more bizarre sometimes. Nowadays a lot of people don't identify with him anymore and he has had some very controversial situations and takes.
So if someone watches such a person there's different reasons: maybe they do it for entertainment and don't take it seriously, maybe they take it very seriously and agree with him a lot. Either way, It's like watching trash TV: it's not inherently wrong, but it looks kind of weird to support it, if even just by watching.
Ok this is my little summary. Hope it helps. Also everything else old correct me if I got things wrong.
I used to like joe Rogan as a comedian. His entire set was basically the first thing my brain thinks of - an easy crack joke with some wit. But one cannot live one’s life according to the fastest, easiest joke you can conceive of. Deeper thought reveals most of these impulse thoughts as stupid, over simplified and with surface interpretation only. But he seems to just run with it, and has made that his public and political personality. My smart ass should not be making any meaningful decisions.
It's an incredibly popular podcast. There's every possibility the connotations are wrong about this specific individual. I wouldn't try to dig too deep into it.
Well, Joe Rogan is stupid.
So, it doesn't take much to presume that people who find what he has to say interesting are also stupid.
I saw this video recently and honestly Hasan puts it best.
I'd love to know what he said but I'm not going to sit through an hour long reaction video.
Play it at 2x speed? 😉
My friend, you’ve asked this question in a very left-leaning forum. As you can see, most or all of these answers are gonna be from people who generally disagree with Rogan. If you want to get an idea of what his podcast is about there’s lots of short clips from his podcast on YouTube. I think we need more context as to why your acquaintance is saying this to answer questions you might have about connotations or meaning.
Doesn't matter which side of politics you're on, Joe Rogan is batshit insane these days. Well maybe that is the side you're on, in which case I retract the former statement.
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He's a wrestler that became a podcaster. At the time his podcasts gained popularity because he was able to get very high echelon guests and he would have a very simple conversation with them. It was new at the time.
As time goes on things got muddy. He's a bit of a doofis who likes to say things without thinking, and some people claim that he is irresponsible with what he says because he has a large platform . Two people having a poorly thought out natural conversation becomes something different when it's being broadcast to millions of people.
In the US he has become associated with the "right wing". He has a bit of a cult of personality following him. People lable his fans as "dude-bros" who think they're smart, but aren't.
Personally I think that just like Howard Stern's interviews, they shouldn't be taken as informational, but can be entertaining. He does have a lot of interesting guests. I treat podcasts like these like I'm going to the zoo. The animals are interesting, but that's about it.
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The best thing would be to listen to some of what he has to say and make up your own mind.
Don't let the mob tell you how to think because the mob doesn't think.
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You won't get an objective response on this website, unfortunately.
Where can you? Every platform has a bias, this is just one of the rare ones that have a left one. You can still listen to what people have to say and use your brain to figure out what part is objective and what is subjective.
Another nice thing here compared to other platforms is that most people here offer some more serious input and care more about politics and the world, compared to normie platforms where every dumbass mindlessly repeat their propaganda.
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Joe does long form interviews with lots of different types of people. All you could really assume is that they like listening to people with different perspectives.
Joe mostly talks to Western people, so maybe this person likes to hear about western society through Joe's podcast.