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This is a good analysis of one of his more controversial podcasts. It’s not him presenting “both sides”. He has an agenda and his guests push flat out lies that go unchecked: https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-joe-rogan-spotify-thou...

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Trust me, I know enough to not listen to the guy. I saw clips of his Bill Burr episode where tried to make wearing masks 'gay' in the bad way, and it kinda pissed me off.

I don't like the guy, but I just do what any other reasonable person does and don't listen to him.

Oh I liked the Rogaine + Burr episode where he shouted down a primatologist for being stupid and not checking the internet for wisdom first. He closed by mocking her for having a vagina. He's really an impressively free thinker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__CvmS6uw7E&t=342s

"You're a fucking idiot go online and look it up."

"Go online and look it up."

"Yeah you've learned from shit from college. When was the last time you got online and researched primates."

"Stupid"

…

"I have a vagina."

That wasin't a podcast episode, it was a radio talk show called opie and anthony that ran from 1995 to 2014, this call was likely from around 2005. The whole point of the radio talk show was to bring on funny comedians like burr and rogan, have them talk shit and be funny, do over the top studio stunts, bring in wacky guests off the street, etc. The two hosts were at the top of the "shock jock" business in America for over a decade, and this hilarious 8 minute video is a golden slice of that kind of content. If you take anything in that vid seriously you have a weak sense of humour and are easily missled, rogan killed in the vid and so did burr.

I don't see the relevance of this comment. Free speech people don't think that agendas are anti-freefom-of-speech. Agendas are allowed. Lies are allowed.

There is always a limit to commercially sponsored free speech. Each company has to set their boundaries. I raised this because too many folks who don’t listen to his program think it’s just a salon where folks are given a platform to debate.

If active lies are being pushed, it’s a different manner.

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