The Current Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan is the new Howard Stern where listeners are shamed. Different host same condemnation.

The criticism category somebody uses with Stern often and instantly disqualifies their opinion because it’s dated. It makes it clear the person is reading things online and worse accepting them at face value.

You don’t hafta agree just be informed.

Rogan’s stand up is so-so; I struggled through his 2018 Netflix special Strange Times so I’m reluctant to devote 2 hours to his podcast unless the guest is captivating.

Still the longer format Joe presents facilitates a better reveal of the individual: most interviews now are 20-45 minutes so people can still present their best PR self to the world. After an hour it’s hard to maintain that. In general, our pop culture would benefit from more longer format podcasts or tv shows etc.

Also, the broad range of Joe’s guests is essential. NPR is great but plays it safe. Bill Maher books different types of guests; sometimes the Daily Show does and every so often Colbert screws up his courage and invites an off the grid guest.

We used to go online because we were curious and wanted to learn. Now we just go online to be right and say see I told you so. The media adjusted accordingly and that’s why most of it is bland; uninformative or flat our idiotic.

However this is fascinating: Joe Rogan Experience #1368 – Edward Snowden.

And Snowden I dunno what to make of him. I’m not at all comfortable signing up for the established narrative; not with our awful track record for hysteria. I wanna hear what he has to say and not a worthless 10 second clip. This is almost 3 hours: the whole unedited thing.

(Similarily I wanna check out his Edward Snowden’s memoir Permanent Record. I wanna hear from him not from you; you know?)

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