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The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.
by hersko 5y ago
The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.
- walrus01 5y ago
- kspacewalk2 5y agoMost of his guests are nothing like that. His interview with Brian Cox (the physicist) is one of my personal favourites, to give one of many examples. Sure, sometimes he's got relatively kooky people on, but often it's people whose ideas are unusual but still rationally debatable. The downside of stranding outside your own echo chamber is that often it'll be a waste of time. But the upside is that occasionally it'll change your mind, and that's certainly what I'm after.
- burner556 5y agoWell he’s the most popular media source in the country now. I think your opinion is a minority one. I find his content entertaining, engaging, and well worth it. I don’t find it any of the things that you claim it is. He’s probably anti vaccine, people are entitled to their opinions.
- walrus01 5y ago> Most popular media source in the country right now [citation needed]
- akprasad 5y agoI was curious and gave it a search. It's hardly a high quality source, but: https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seemingly-millions-listeners-tucker-carlson-fox-news-cnn https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ufc-news-joe-rogan-seem... Per the chart, Rogan has 11m viewers per episode compared to 3.24m for Tucker Carlson Tonight, which was the highest-viewed primetime cable news show as of 2020 per [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight#Ratings
- walrus01 5y ago
- methusala8 5y agoWhat shall we use as a baseline for Comparison? Joy Reid from MSNBC? Would you be ok with that?
- amznbyebyebye 5y agoNaw they’re only going to be satisfied with no less than her excellency Rachel Maddow
- headsoup 5y agoSo who is your news source then? Who is the beacon of truth and reason we must move to? Not saying I like Tucker, I think he's terrible.
- throwawayboise 5y agoGP was just making a popularity comparison, in terms of viewer/listenership, not making any kind of endorsement.
- brandonmenc 5y ago> If your baseline for comparison is another "news" source such as Carlson, I suppose anything is possible. Well, you questioned whether or not Joe Rogan was the most popular media source, not "news" source.
- redisman 5y agoTo be fair, the most popular media is very unlikely to be some dry unproduced show.
- timrice 5y agoDidn't Rogan emphatically endorse Bernie last election cycle? Have the alt right become socialists when I wasn't looking?
- throwawayboise 5y agoYeah Rogan is an independent thinker. He doesn't fall neatly into a left/right categorization.
- redisman 5y agoIt’s hard to see outside of your bubble when you’re so deeply integrated within it. I recommend anyone here turning off any news and media for a few months and see the world a little bit more clearly afterwards. I’m not a huge fan of Rogan myself but at least he’s not bound by the secret rules of what you can talk about in mainstream media
- jlcoff 5y agoFYI, Joe is openly a Bernie Sanders supporter.
- headsoup 5y ago
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- throwawayboise 5y ago> NPR, the CBC and BBC You may enjoy the content from those outlets, and that's fine, but they are certainly not unbiased.
- vorpalhex 5y agoIvermectin is actually standard hospital protocol (not just for covid) in large parts of the world where parasites are relatively common. Giving someone a dewormer is low cost and high benefit. One of the reasons the research struggled to figure out whether it helps covid is that it is just a generally helpful drug for big parts of the population. It doesn't do anything special re covid, but it's still a good and useful drug.
- kfrzcode 5y agoYou may be misinformed..... here's your "actual medical science," from what I imagine is a team of people with "doctorates in epidemiology and virology" > A five-day course of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 may reduce the duration of illness https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/
- headsoup 5y ago
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- pygar 5y agoWhat do you think of the signal to noise ratio of the JRE podcast? It seems like he does minimal prep and just wings it with the idea that his natural curiosity will make up for it. yes, they are 2.5hrs+ long, but IMO at least half of it is chit-chat and irrelevant to the guests knowledge often about fitness/hunting/deer/monkeys. I prefer much more focused podcasts, where the interview has prepared a series of well targeted questions.
- zarzavat 5y agoI feel like he intentionally does no research. It would be so easy for him to pull up the Wikipedia page for his guests and read it before interviewing them. I think that he believes that by not researching before the interview, he will be better able to represent and empathize with his viewers, who also won’t have done any research before watching. I’m not sure if this is good interviewing technique, but it certainly gives the interviews their characteristic disorganized feel.
- amznbyebyebye 5y agoThe magic is that it’s like you’re listening to two friends have an interesting conversation and you’re the third person listening in.. particularly in this pandemic when so many suffered severe social isolation, this form of podcast is almost therapeutic.
- wnolens 5y agoIt's certainly 'long-form' and certainly 'content'.
- throwawayboise 5y agoFunny that I interpreted the original "long-form content" as being writing. Rogan's podcasts are certainly long, multi-hour sessions, but tend to wander fairly aimlessly and don't really have a central thesis or topic that they stick to. This is unlike most traditional "long form" writing that I assumed OP was looking for. Try some of William F. Buckley's old Firing Line episodes, available on YouTube.
- tambeb 5y agoI really only listen to Rogan for two types of guests: comedians I like and physicists. The episodes for the latter are always fantastic. Brian Cox, Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, Neil deGrasse Tyson, plus a couple more. He's even had Roger Penrose on.
- veidelis 5y agoRoger Penrose is a legend. Some of the episodes of JRE with Bill Burr I've watched more than once.