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Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
- realce 4y agoWow, JRE makes this site lose their minds. That's odd.
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- realce 4y agosomeone call the burn ward!
- doliveira 4y agoYou're not really helping his image if the comeback you come up with is "they're jealous of Joe Rogan's testosterone". God, I certainly hope you're a teenager.
- realce 4y agogasp gulp and gnash
- mattwilsonn888 4y agoWasn't really interested in convincing the "I watched two episodes and he is clearly stupid" crowd to come any closer. He cheats anyways, he injects it! If that makes you feel any better. And besides, it was not my intention to make anyone envious - it is a well known fact that people who increase their testosterone are more honest and care more for their community then those that do not. I think the science is clear on who to place trust in in this situation!
- doliveira 4y agoAs someone who doesn't get hero worship at all, your comment history just to defend him baffles me. It's so weird to see a grown man talking about how his idol is so much more manly and deserves trust for that. For the record, I have basically nothing to say about Joe Rogan himself, I haven't watched anything from him and I probably never will. I'm just reacting to the fans' (as in the unshortened adjective) behavior.
- hericium 4y ago"Depressed? Just get over it". This guy is (edit: in my opinion) an idiot. He's a successful showman but (edit: in my opinion) a moron nonetheless. I've watched a few of his interviews and it always seemed like he's lacking personality - he always tried to copy the behavior of his guests and lacked own viewpoint.
- seper8 4y ago>"Depressed? Just get over it". Looks like someone doesn't actually listen to JRE but parrots some talking head viewpoints instead.
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoNothing in this article is particularity unexpected, but this line had me chuckling. "To paraphrase Rule 34: if it exists, Joe Rogan’s studio has jerky of it."
- danpalmer 4y agoWhat concerns me about Joe Rogan, and what this article helped solidify, is not necessarily his views, but the power he has as one person. In my opinion he has taken some problematic view points, but others would agree with him more, and many would say he just plays devil's advocate and likes to talk hypotheticals and dig into interesting topics. I don't think any of this really matters. The issue is that the views come from one guy, get amplified in some man-cave banter with a few guys paid by him, and then broadcast to an audience "larger than Belgium". This isn't normal. Media companies have layers of editors, they have at least some diversity, a woman will hopefully look at a story or script before it goes out, sometimes even a lawyer might tell them to tone it down a bit. Even celebrities with big followings on social media are likely to have more input on many of their postings than Rogan does on his broadcasts. A bit of a filter is a good thing for everyone, whether it's trusted friends who can and do tell you when you're wrong, an editor at work, a legal team, whatever. It's also honest. I think Joe Rogan could use a filter.
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- mistermann 4y agoHow is a filter (a sort of censorship or constraint) more honest than nothing one? I can see it being more thruthful (and also less), but honest seems off.
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- kranke155 4y agoThe size of his man cave is awe inspiring. Anything that we build is an extension of our mind, and oh lord is that an interesting choice of props, pictures and workout machines.
- desindol 4y agoInspiring? In what form or sense is excess spending for signaling purposes inspiring. Do you really believe he uses more than 20% of the stuff that’s in there?
- kranke155 4y agoAh yes? It looks to me like a personal gym and it has all the machines you’d want in a good circuit. I myself must use 10-12 machines in my regular weekly routine. I don’t see why he wouldn’t do the same.
- desindol 4y ago„all the stuff“ not the gym…
- towaway15463 4y agoThe rest of the stuff was aptly described by the author as a museum and it is mostly art or collectibles. How do you propose he make use of it? Considering the volume of guests he has it probably has better attendance than most small museums.
- kranke155 4y agoLooking at it again it literally looks like he has 6-7 machines, mostly cardio, then lots and lots of weights. Nothing too crazy to me.
- desindol 4y ago„all the stuff“ not the gym…
- Entinel 4y agoI've listened to a few episodes of JRE at the request of some friends and I kind of get it but I also don't get it. Joe ask the "dumb questions." The questions you would ask if you as a laymen were sitting in front of a Nobel Prize winning scientist like if Star Wars lightsabers are actually possible and a lot of people find that entertaining and I get it. But people have this weird way of taking things they like and not only rejecting criticism but making it their whole identity. Joe can do no wrong and if people dislike him it's because they don't "get it" and they are just being soft. Joe also likes to deflect by saying "I'm an idiot don't listen to me" which hey that's fine but if you're going to ramble about how the moon is made of cheese then say "don't listen to me" but then bring on a guest who is going to talk about how the moon is made of cheese; the line that is being pushed is pretty clear even if it is unintentional.
- acadapter 4y agoIn other words, he's a glorified talk show host?
- hackerbrother 4y agotalk, show, host… yes, that is exactly what he is!
- Jhjjjjjjjjrte 4y agoWhat guest are you specifically talking about?
- axg11 4y ago> Joe ask the "dumb questions." The questions you would ask if you as a laymen were sitting in front of a Nobel Prize winning scientist This is exactly why he’s so popular. Most people are laymen. Joe doesn’t have a research team coming up with optimal talking points. He’s a regular minded guy asking regular questions. He achieves depth through the sheer length of interviews.
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- acatton 4y ago> At a long desk in the big main room sits an attractive nurse. She offers us an enhancer of B12 or NAD+, through a shot or an IV. > I get a shot of NAD+, which is supposed to be good for energy and metabolism. NAD stands for Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, and I don’t know what the + is. (Actually, I don’t know what any of it is, but the nurse said she takes it, and if you saw this woman, you too would ask for a shot of whatever she’s on.) Am I the only one cringing at people taking random injections from random strangers claiming they have a semi-medical degree?
- faebi 4y agoAbsolutely, also I wonder if it was NMN instead.
- seper8 4y ago"from random strangers claiming they have a semi-medical degree?" Who is claiming this exactly?
- acatton 4y agoWell she says this person is a nurse. So this person most likely introduced themselves as a nurse. So they are claiming they are a nurse until it's proven true, right?
- seper8 4y agoWho else do you get injections/supplements from other than "people claiming to have medical degrees"...
- acatton 4y agoI'm not well verse in the US medical system. But in Germany, I get my injections from my doctor for which I can look up their license online. If I were to take supplements, which I don't, since I consider it to be pseudo-science[1][2], I would get them from my local drug store which has the german equivalent of a FDA license and regular audits. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29v6rNFjlLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29v6rNFjlLI [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitamin-myth-why-we-think-we-need-supplements/277947/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitam...
- candiddevmike 4y agoI blame JRE for the ridiculous amount of "I'm a famous person interviewing other famous people" podcasts everywhere.
- Biganon 4y agoWhen I reached the NFTs and Elon Musk bit, I was convinced this was satire
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- kwertyoowiyop 4y ago“Chris gave a great interview by being unscripted, authentic, and interesting.” /eyeroll
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoIt was boring. To an outsider it looked like Chris was there for the opportunity not the conversation.
- kwertyoowiyop 4y agoIsn’t every guest though…really?
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoNo. Some guests are willing to give something in return for the opportunity. He seemed unwilling to express himself which is strange because the company he founded is centred around doing exactly that.
- purple_ferret 4y agoWhen your comms director chauffeurs you to an interview, outlines how they went over talking points with you, and then in the writeup gives that assessment...
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- thenerdhead 4y agoWhether or not you like Joe Rogan, I think there’s something significant about how far they’ve come with so little. They don’t have many employees. They don’t take much time to produce shows. They don’t have countless assistants to schedule logistics. They keep their operating costs modest. And yet their shows reach a mass audience. I respect how a small team has kept onto their autonomy and continues to grow and be in the headlines constantly depending on what was discussed. They just push content into the world and the world reacts to it.
- koheripbal 4y agoThe real question is how he got such good guests in the beginning.
- mattwilsonn888 4y agoReread what you responded to. I'm sure it is a large component.
- hammock 4y agoUnless you consider Joey Diaz to be a “such good guest,” he didn’t
- notdarkyet 4y agoIt should be pretty clear if you look at Joes career outside of the podcast. For 30 years he has been in the entertainment industry with stand up comedy, television (News Radio and Fear Factor), to announcing UFC fights. He was one of the fist big podcasts and livestreamers before others started doing the same. Most of his initial (and repeat) guests are simply friends from these various industries.
- jjulius 4y agoHe was already a celebrity before he started his podcast.
- nomel 4y agoAnother question being, since those same guests have been present on many other podcasts (most do rounds for promotions), why does his podcast seem to be preferred?
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- koheripbal 4y agoPeople listen to the JRE because he gets great guests. Almost all of us know Joe is a moron. Don't assume that just because we subscribe that we are being indoctrinated to every stupid comment he makes. That assumption infantilizes is all. The overreaction to filter content based on that assumption is a much more problematic issue than the content itself.
- mattwilsonn888 4y agoYou are telling people not to make assumptions about how Joe Rogan listeners think, right after speaking for "all of us": > Almost all of us know Joe is a moron. I'm quite certain Joe Rogan is above average intelligence, and that people who doubt that are usually abusing Joe's public and unforgiving curiosity which will sometimes lead to basic questions or ridiculous statements - that is the price of curiosity, which clearly we fans are not only willing to pay, but look forward to.
- gadders 4y agoYeah, I wouldn't say Joe is unintelligent. He's an autodidact, and as a result he has gaps in his knowledge because he's followed his interests, rather than a formal curriculum.
- stoplying1 4y agoI'm having flashes of the episode where he spent 20 minutes being obstinate and then crushed about the idea that hot sauna air wasnt going to magically protect him from or cure COVID. It was hard to listen to.
- nvahalik 4y ago> Almost all of us know Joe is a moron. I said this in another comment as well—but a lot can be said that he actually lets his guests talk rather than talking over them as is the habit of some.
- npc54321 4y ago> Almost all of us know Joe is a moron. A moron with a hundred million podcast, after having fairly successful careers in both comedy/acting and fighting. And you're here in an online forum calling him a moron. He might be a myriad of things, but a moron he isn't.
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- duxup 4y agoYears ago I listened to JRE for a while. I enjoyed the approach that I would sum up as "I don't know, let's hear what some folks think." It felt fair and open and interesting. But at some point it occurred, "Shouldn't at some point, if we're listening to all this that, we stop being a dumb guy who doesn't know anything and actually have opinion / challenge some of these things with some facts / solid ideas?" But I never saw that happen, and as time went on the "I don't know" excuses just felt ... more and more insufficient, dumb by choice, or just excuses. At some point just being "dumb" and listening to every rando person makes you susceptible to / a target of a bunch of horrible randos with bad ideas ... An open approach is admirable, but not learning along the way is not.
- deebosong 4y agoNot sure if this is what you're pointing at, but I feel similarly about those who very much enjoy talking about new and different ideas/ perspectives, but are loathe to test out, live out, and integrate new and challenging ideas into their belief systems. It's more like, there's a relegated space in their minds for "ideas to consider and discuss, even agree with and champion," but that relegated space is removed from their core value system, which has no intention to be challenged, tinkered with, examined, and open to replacing faulty mechanisms and functions. Seems like talking about ideas for some is more a form of amusement/ entertainment/ mental stimulation (in the same way recreational or escapist drugs can be mentally stimulating), especially if there are no outward signs & indications that a person is committed to testing out, applying, integrating, and even replacing formerly held and inferior ideas – a process which involves a lot of trial end error, failures, humility, perseverance, and delayed gratification. It might seem open-minded and intellectual, but if across time, there's no change in belief via deeper understanding from considering new and different perspectives, that then results in outward action, then all the talk in the world about ideas and perspectives is just hot air. Maybe that's not Joe Rogan and his loyal audience? I dunno!
- golemotron 4y ago> Not sure if this is what you're pointing at, but I feel similarly about those who very much enjoy talking about new and different ideas/ perspectives, but are loathe to test out, live out, and integrate new and challenging ideas into their belief systems. This sounds very much like philosophy. In general, readers of philosophy enjoy looking at many frames without privileging any particular one.
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- purple_ferret 4y agothis is the woman who chided twitter employees for concerns about Elon Musk[0] and told them not to come to Substack a couple months it was revealed they are essentially broke[1] [0]https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?lang=en https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?... [1]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/media/substack-layoffs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/media/substack-l...
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- hatware 4y agoJoe Rogan is more of a journalist than any major news organization, and that is the most worrying thing about it all. The major organizations know this.
- greenhearth 4y agoHow so? Real investigative journalism is a discipline and a craft. There are methodologies, techniques, field history and degrees of masterhood, just like any other profession. This guy has a talk show on the internet.
- cwkoss 4y agoMost major news organizations are driven more by ad sales than seeking truth. They say what their patrons want them to. I don't know if I agree with GP, but I understand where the sentiment is coming from. It's not that Rogan is a paragon, it's that the average quality of MSM journalism is low enough he may be able to crawl over the bar.
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- conorcleary 4y agoBecause of comments like this.
- user00012-ab 4y agohave you seen the comments in this thread? I think mine actually was actually pretty good. I was serious, are there any tech news sites out there?
- conorcleary 4y agoGo back to Digg for a bit and you'll find that HN is a great tech news site.
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- pookha 4y agoRogan's sort of like an unfiltered Oprah for men. Some of Rogan's content is hilarious, some of it's interesting and some of it's boring. But I've never listened to a Rogan podcast and felt the urge to be an angry dude behind a keyboard and rage over moron's, a "dumb guy", "misinformation" etc. It's just a long form conversation with a comedian and martial arts analyst. The people that feel that much hate over some casual bro having long talks should switch their Chai Lattes to decaf.
- SilverBirch 4y agoI think you do actually feel the urge to be an angry dude behind a keyboard, because whilst explaining to us just how cool and unbothered you were you couldn't get through half a paragraph without resorting to personally insulting people you disagreed with about Rogan.
- pookha 4y agoWhat made you think I wasn't bothered by this? The entire reason I posted that was to show that I'm bothered by angry people behind keyboards attacking people's mental capabilities over simple disagreements. I try not to be angry though. Life can be very short and you only have so much energy and focus (finite resource) and the world already has enough suffering. My message is to lighten up and avoid feeding into mobs. I know that sounds corny and I'm probably an angry-dude to you but that's where I'm at in life. My apologies if the snarky coffee quip pissed you off.
- remote_phone 4y agoLulu Cheng Meservey’s twitter account is one of the best ever. Her mastery of tweets is on par with Donald Trump, but in a good way.
- nvahalik 4y agoOne of the things I appreciate about Joe Rogan is that, unlike other podcasts I've listened to, he actually lets the person on the other side talk. There are several podcasts that I will occasionally listen to where the host of the show repeatedly talks over whoever else is on the podcast with him. Usually the brunt of it is a "sidekick" or co-host. I get it, it's your show, but like, if someone is talking, let them talk! Maybe it's the longer format that gives that "breathing room." No matter: I can listen stress-free without getting upset that someone is saying something and he keeps barging in.
- subsubzero 4y agoI think this is why he is so popular, 90% of the media is all saying the exact same message and if you deviate from it you get cancelled or your show/platform dropped. Americans are not dumb, they don't like being preached to and talked down to which is why Rogan's show and guests are so popular as many of them are saying things which are not heard on any of the other media outlets. That being said having watched a few JRE podcasts he definitely has his dogma that comes out in many episodes, here are a few: "hallucinogenics are good for expanding consciousness", "Most social media is a bad echo chamber", "tribalism is bad(and is the cause of most of todays issues)", "censorship is happening at a mass level", "medical solutions are not a one size fits all fix", "ufo's are most probably real" etc.. He definitely comes across as someone with a open mind and seems to be a life long learner but I think some of his ideas are somewhat out there. I would not classify him as someone who is dumb, which is strange as alot of HN folks seem to peg that on him.
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago> I think this is why he is so popular, 90% of the media is all saying the exact same message and if you deviate from it you get cancelled or your show/platform dropped. Americans are not dumb, they don't like being preached to and talked down to which is why Rogan's show and guests are so popular as many of them are saying things which are not heard on any of the other media outlets. I'm really confused by this stance, because the top podcasts are never swarmed by one specific perspective. On my apple podcast the podcasts on "top episodes" lists for me both the nyt daily and ben shapiro in the same top 5. If I filter to news podcasts only, they're the top 2.
- originalvichy 4y agoI will disagree with things he says and not personally like that he gives some people access to a huge audience, but I will never discredit the fact that he (and others behind the scenes) have made it this far by being sort of podcasting purists. There might be only two major changes JRE has gone through content wise during the hundreds of episodes: no more co-host and no live broadcast. That's remarkably good and he had good enough taste to not ever take part in things like mid-show ads (as in stopping the chat in its tracks and starting to read ads). It's rare that someone can land it so early on and keep that magic recipe going. I bet touring radio shows for his entertainment business helped him gauge what kinds of radio shows were nice vs. the ones that were cumbersome.
- kyleee 4y agothere are mid show ads now on spotify
- originalvichy 4y agoTrue but they are different from ad reads that hosts do during the show. From what I understand they are pre/post-recorded ads that are added in digitally. Not live reads.
- O__________O 4y agoCurious, beside interview below, are there any other notable breakdowns by JRE directly of the show style, process, etc? YouTube: Joe Rogan Explains His Interview Style https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uP62FNQTI-o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uP62FNQTI-o
- kashunstva 4y ago> At a long desk in the big main room sits an attractive nurse. She offers us an enhancer of B12 or NAD+, through a shot or an IV. There is one and only one indication for parenteral cyancobalamin (B12) administration and that is deficiency thereof due to inadequate production of gastric intrinsic factor or a disease of the terminal ileum. Period. It's hard to take anyone seriously who would encourage podcast guests to receive vitamin B12 injections without documenting deficiency. The evidence on this subject is widely available; so if Mr. Rogan gets this so wrong, where else are his impaired reasoning processes taking his 11M followers?
- robbiep 4y agoWhilst I agree unreservedly about the indications for b12 and it’s complete lack of medical benefit in any other situation, I’ve also experienced sections of the population that definitively require (… not medically, but like present to their GP) injections on a quarterly basis. Specifically Australia’s elderly Hungarian and Eastern European population, it seems to be literally something inbuilt in them to come in and demand it. They swear by it. And as much as I absolutely hate tipping the hat to rubbish complementary and alternative treatments, or which vitamin supplementation has to be amongst the definitively most wasteful, it is simply not possible to convince some people
- rtev 4y agoWhile it is kind of absurd, to be fair, B12 has documented useful benefits for people that aren’t deficient. Also, your body eliminates any B12 it doesn’t use in urine, so not really any risk of overdose.
- darawk 4y ago> There is one and only one indication for parenteral cyancobalamin (B12) administration and that is deficiency thereof due to inadequate production of gastric intrinsic factor or a disease of the terminal ileum. Period. You are aware of a study of B12 injections in non-deficient individuals indicating no benefit? "No evidence" is not the same thing as "evidence against".
- robocat 4y ago> It's hard to take anyone seriously So you want an authority, rather than to make your mind up yourself? Watching an interview where both participants are less than perfect challenges you to think for yourself. > where else are his impaired reasoning processes taking his 11M followers? The same place everyone is being taken by all the media we consume. It is ironic, but watching someone like Alex Jones forces one to think. The real problem is how do we learn to filter when an “authority” is speaking or writing?
- motohagiography 4y agoThe zoolander reference was brilliant. A lot of the criticism of Rogan reduces to "the wrong kind of people" getting wealthy, asking questions, having opinions, leading conversations. The Zuckerberg interview he did was probably the most important interview of the last few years, and to go 3hrs with anyone with a calm and consistent interest and disposition is a direct result of his level of physical fitness and world class expertise as both a comedian and martial artist. There is a mind required for comedy that is transferrable where instead of making people laugh, you can use it to disarm people and get them to open up and share what they believe. Rogan's interview style is very closely related to comedy but just slowed down to a Tai Chi level, where there is an arc in the discussion where most people run out of neurotic energy after about an hour, and then instead of gotcha'ing them, he is just accepting, and then nudges them toward challenges, but not to catch them out, but to get them to be honest. The effect is beautiful. There is a lot of middlebrow anxiety about him, but I don't think it has standing unless it's from someone who is also pro-level funny, fit, and competent in their discipline.
- adammarples 4y agoI like Joe Rogan but calling him a world class comedian and martial artist is not right. He doesn't compete in BJJ and he always was a middling comedian.
- Happos 4y agoYou’re not wrong, but Georges St-Pierre says Joe has the best turning side kick he has ever seen, and that’s gotta count for something.
- motohagiography 4y agoIndeed, and they hand out Netflix specials to anyone who can fog a mirror these days so it's probably not a useful measure... Maybe I should just do one.
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- Bhilai 4y agoI have never a podcast from Joe Rogan but I have definitely heard him mentioned around a lot of controversial topics - vaccines, Ivermectin and pushing a certain political ideology. Lets say I want to start on a clean slate, what episode in your opinion truly reflects the best of Joe Rogan?
- wppick 4y ago#1169 - First interview with Elon Musk Episodes with Rhonda Patrick #1555 - Interview with Alex Jones First couple interviews with Jordan Peterson Mike Tyson Episodes Jack Dorsey and Vijayya Gadde – #1258 Paul Stamets – #1035
- nixonpjoshua1 4y agoAlso #1309 Naval Ravikant
- arwhatever 4y agoThis episode was phenomenal and I don’t even recall anything Joe said or whether he even spoke at all. I could say this episode alone hooked me on the whole world of podcasting in general.
- Melatonic 4y agoThe problem I have with his stuff is that he used to be a lot more self deprecating in his humour. It made the show more casual - he took him self less seriously - and there was more comedy overall. Now that he seems to take himself so much more seriously it seems like he is just following the money in terms of what content he knows will be popular vs just having interesting guests on his show to have a discussion.
- ksec 4y agoI thought his was cancelled by the woke. But simply judging from comments on HN he is alive and kicking. Edit: And it is funny this is getting downvoted. A thread with 400 comments but only 160 points.
- ctf1er 4y agoI think Neil Young tried to cancel him right? Young is from a different generation than me, but I had the notion he'd be more free-speak/free-thought/don't trust the man minded. Maybe that is what happens when a pharma exec buys your catalog? Or was that misinformation?
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoI'm not going to bother digging up the clip cuz it's easy to find, but it pretty much tells you what you need to know about Rogan. It's him talking to Joe Diaz, where Diaz is bragging about how when he was the manager at Laugh Factory he wouldn't book female comics unless they sucked his dick. Rogan asks him how many women he did this to and Diaz says a dozen or something, and Rogan starts hyena laughing like it's the funniest thing he's ever heard. Rogan gets some great guests on, but don't be fooled by his "aw schucks I'm just a bro asking questions" act. He knows exactly what he's doing and he's a lot more predatory than his on camera character. Something to consider before you associate your brand with him. Probably better to find an up and rising podcast. Edit: freetime2 dug up the clip below and it's even worse than I recalled.
- gsatic 4y agoThis gens Charlie Rose I guess.
- Keyframe 4y agoAnd both of them have daughters (only). There's a possibility it's a schtick from Diaz, he has this absurd persona, but still in bad taste if so.
- lossolo 4y ago> And both of them have daughters (only) I don't think this is really relevant, I know plenty of people that will joke in the same way about other women besides their daughters and mothers.
- jjulius 4y agoMaybe I'm getting off on a tangent here, but I have two daughters and I truly don't understand the idea that it's completely fine for sexually-degrading jokes to be made about every single woman except my wife/daughter/mother. If I feel that I'm free to make those kinds of jokes about every woman except the few closest to me, then I am essentially granting that same agency to every other guy, leaving my own kids open for those same degrading jokes from others. It's a double-standard, and our wives/daughters/mothers are going to see that. To me, that's a really shitty thing to do as a parent; we should be leading by example. And that's without addressing the fact that Diaz' comment is potentially rooted in truth...
- jimmydddd 4y agoThere are many good/great podcasts out now that don't hesitate to conduct 1-3 hour meandering interviews with interesting people on a regular basis. I don't recall seeing that before JRE. So even if you never listen to his show, I think he has improved the media landscape.
- PeterStuer 4y agoScrolled through the comments here for a bit. Polarization at its prime. Good job HN.
- fleddr 4y agoJoe Rogan is a perfect mirror for the US's ultra polarized society, which is humorless, performative, ultra correct, and politically intolerant.
- tomasaugustus 4y agoA profoundly narcissistic people hence: no humor lest someone laugh at them, only pretending to project an image, taking threats to that image violently as seen by your downvotes
- fleddr 4y agoNot downvotes, I call them California votes :) A people so detached from reality, common sense and common people that they might as well be considered a separate species.
- sha256sum 4y agoThis comment is toxic and generalizes millions of people. I encourage you to look at yourself and decide if this is the correct place to spread your judgements. > Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- fleddr 4y agoKeep managing optics, which was exactly my point.
- ggm 4y agoAnyone here remember a page or three in "the glass bead game" about feuilletonism and the rise of interviewing roller skating boxers about politics and politicians about art history?
- raarts 4y agoAnd even on HN Joe Rogan succeeds in achieving lots of engagement... Regardless, I like his interviews and his guests are often very interesting especially when their views go against the grain. Take his recent interview with Alex Berenson for example, the only person ever to litigate himself back into Twitter after a lifelong ban, great interview.
- t6jvcereio 4y ago> Joe is a warm and humble guy Someone get that clip when he's talking about monkeys and a woman with a PhD in monkeys calls in.
- xkfm 4y agoThe one thing I like about Joe Rogan is he doesn't really promote the show that much, so the show is easy to avoid if you don't like it anymore. I used to listen to the podcast very early on, but it got somewhat boring to me, so I stopped listening to it unless there's a guest that interests me. It is somewhat interesting how he's made it so long with no major scandals. There was the covid stuff, but it was pretty tame to me compared with even run of the mill Twitter drama. I get the sense that he's very good at staying out of situations that are sketchy.
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- goldenchrome 4y agoHoly hell the pearl clutching in this thread. Wokeness is truly the new religion and HN is consistently filled with insecure unmasculine men.