That's the look on Joe's face when he's falling into a trance from his latest guest....
-I'll start by saying, I like Joe Rogan's standup comedy...And I did like his podcast for awhile...Rogan always put a variety of people on with a wide range of topics getting covered on the podcast...He loved going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes, and bought into many...But then will bash certain people for buying into certain conspiracy theories...But as he does this, in the back of your mind you have to remember, he has repeatedly defended Alex Jones...The leader in pumping out conspiracy theories...Jones who screamed that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, and his minions then taunted families of the victims...The victims being 6-7 year old children...While Rogan has repeatedly tried to say he didn't believe this and Jones shouldn't have said it, he still defended Jones and would say, "But look at all the stuff he was right about."
We're still looking and haven't found anything Joe!
-Joe Rogan has also defended Roseanne Barr for her racist, Trump-like tweets...Before she was even on his podcast Rogan was doing damage control for her on nearly every episode, saying "She's been working hard on her show, not sleeping well, on Ambien and drinking".....When she did the podcast he continued to give his full-throated support...
Not surprisingly, he has a soft spot for fellow comics...Yes, he defended Louis CK...He'll say what CK did was gross and inappropriate, but will hammer home how "Louis asked the women first," before he pulled his dick out and jacked off in front of them...He tries to ignore the story of CK jerking off while on the phone with a female comic...
Recently Comedian Chris D'Elia was outed for being a creep and trying to bang and groom underage girls...He's been on Rogan's podcast a number of times, and many shitty comedians who are in Rogan's circle, Brendan Schaub, Bryan Callen, Andrew Santino, Theo Vonn, have all made comments saying they didn't know anything like this was going on with D'Elia and they "hope he gets the help he needs"...Never mind the young ladies...The problem is, this fucking idiots, like Trump, don't seem to realize there is a permanent record of the shit they say...Because they all record podcasts and there are clips of all of them joking about D'Elia fucking young girls...So far Rogan has been quiet about it...I expect him to wait until it dies down and then he'll be defending his pals right to do standup and acting again, and he'll attack the "cancel culture" because people being pissed at a guy for creeping on young girls are far worse then the creep in his eyes...
-Joe Rogan has always prided himself on being in the middle Politically...You can see it in his comedy...There are things that lean left, and there are things that lean right, and to be fair, comedy is comedy and you go where the joke is...But on the podcast he often let both sides on issues get heard....And I felt his "I'm in the middle" thing was legit when he had put Tulsi Gabbard on the show multiple times, and vocally supported her...Of everyone that was in the massive field she was hands down, the most centrist...
But it seemed like there was switch...Rogan made a very strong stand against the Trump administration policy of taking illegal immigrant children away from their parents and sticking them in cages...There are a couple of powerful clips from his podcast on and it's great...But really, let's be honest...That topic seems to be an easy one to take a stand on and not get much backlash on...Anyone giving you shit about that one is an asshole...
Then, as it was clear that Tulsi Gabbard didn't have a shot, Rogan started talking about liking things Bernie Sanders was saying...Liberals, myself included loved this...You can't get much lefty then Sanders...Then he had Sanders on the Podcast and he ate it up....And then on a podcast after Sanders was on, Rogan said he'll "Probably vote for Bernie"...
The Right was pissed and went nuts and attacked...And the Anti-Sanders left went nuts and attacked....What did Rogan do...He hid in the corner...Mr. Tough Guy whined about the backlash he was getting...He had finally taken a political stance and didn't like that idiotic and misogynists things he had said were being dug up...He didn't like jokes were being picked apart...Honestly, I hate when people try to attack comedians over jokes, I think it's ridiculous...But instead of standing up like he did for Roseanne Barr, Louis CK and Alex Jones, he sulked...Then ran right and said he'd "rather vote for Trump over Biden"....
-How far right has Joe Rogan run? Well folks he is the leader in promoting anit- ANTIFA bullshit...Not Donald Trump, but Joe Rogan...I know that's shocking, but Rogan is in the lead because he's been spewing his bullshit against ANTIFA for a couple more years then Trump, thanks to his good buddy Alex Jones...What all three of these fucking idiots (and many others) don't get, is ANTIFA means Anti-Fascism...Here's the definition....Antifa is an anti-fascist political movement in the United States comprising a diverse array of autonomous groups....
So if I'm Anti-Fascist and you oppose Anti-Fascists, that makes you Pro-Fascist...You remember the most popular Fascists the world ever saw...Those would be the Nazi's...Joe, Alex, Donny, you guys are all fucking idiots!
The biggest problem with Joe Rogan is, he falls under a trance with any guests he perceives to be smarter than him...When it's idiot comics like Schaub, Callen and Vonn, he knows he's the smart one in the room, plus he's higher on the comedy food chain...He commands the room and speaks with authority...When it's a doctor, scientist, an author, a reporter, he lets them say what they want, and absorbs it, trying to grab onto a talking point he can use to make himself look smarter later down the road...
The worst cases are when he fan-boys out, like he does with Elon Musk...Recently, Musk, always try to make more money as he promises the world, but rarely delivers, and a Trump lover, was on Rogan's podcast stating his case on why his facilities should be allowed to reopen during the COVID pandemic...Musk informed the world that people, doctors, scientists weren't reading the numbers right...Only he reads them right and it's not that bad...This gave Rogan the firepower to play the percentage game...
Rogan and Musk and too many others like to give the percentage of COVID cases and deaths compared to the the population...It's easy to make it not sound as bad that way...But the facts are, globally there are now over 10 million cases...Over 500,000 deaths and of those deaths, the United States alone are about to hit 130,000...And the cases are surging, because of people like Rogan who have a huge microphone...It's shocking and sad because early on in this COVID mess Rogan took it seriously and repeatedly talked about his friend, comic, Michael Yo who had a very serious case of COVID...But as it often happens, Rogan's view changes when a guest shows up with a different take...Especially if it's his buddy Elon...So Musk spews his bullshit, Rogan eats it up and starts saying COVID isn't that bad and you don't need to wear masks...He has even, said people wearing masks are "bitches"...
Exactly what we should have expected from the true meathead he is, deep down inside...130,000 dead Americans and the numbers are growing every day, because you're afraid to look like a "bitch"....
Here's a clip, a rare time a guest calls Rogan out on his nonsense...Bill Burr tries to shut Rogan's bullshit down...Now they're friends and Burr went easier then I think he would have on a regular idiot, but you hear Rogan saying people wearing masks are bitches and Burr smacks him for it...It's one of the few times Rogan can't Alpha Male another comic...
-Rogan's podcast is a monster...He had a doctor on who said "take Vitamin D," it will help you beat COVID...Rogan repeated it...In two days Vitamin D was sold out everywhere...And hey, Vitamin D is good for you...But for all the times he promotes Vitamin D or says we shouldn't take kids away from their families and lock them in cages, there are for more moments of misinformation...Lies and cluelessness about ANTIFA, Elon Musk's skewed numbers, defenses of Alex Jones, masks are for bitches...He does as much harm than good...
And now he has signed a multi-year deal for his podcast to be exclusively on Spotify...It is rumored to be a $100 million deal...So as much as fans want to make him out to be a maverick and not part of the establishment, he's just like John McCain...He's no maverick, he is the establishment...They guy made his early big bucks hosting Fear Factor...Now he's to Spotify, what Howard Stern was/is to Sirius Satellite Radio...The Spotify deal solidified my growing unhappiness with Rogan...
Spotify is an evil corporation...They built the company on streaming music and now have moved hard into the Podcast game...I have never had a Spotify account and refuse to do so...Why? They made their name and money streaming music, but they don't pay the artists...Spotify does not pay the musicians/writers/artist...They pay the labels...Which is you know anything about the music business, they religiously fuck over the artist...Many artists have tried to fight against this system...They keep running into a brick wall...Rogan's wasn't the first podcast that I have walked away from because of an exclusive deal with Spotify...I'm sure it won't be the last...
At one time, Joe Rogan was good for us...He was great for the Podcast industry...Now, he's become a buffoon...He has started playing down to the lowest common denominator...And at this time, in this country that is the last thing we need.
