The Joe Rogan Experience Podcasts

Met Shane in th epub after his Libery Hall show a few years ago. Absolute gent of a guy.

One of the takedown channels said last week that he was on stage with Rogan in Austin and was pushing back against his trans jokes. When Rogan made an anti-trans comment, Gillis apparently asked him why it was funny. After Rogan repeated the joke, Gillis again asked why it was funny before Rogan changed the subject.

These guys spent so long thinking they were under siege from the left for "cancelling" comedy that now they've become edgelords who think being edgy is funny. Personally, I think there is no subject that is off limits with comedy. Gay jokes, straight jokes, jokes about horrible stuff in history…… whatever it is.

But it has to be a joke and it has to be funny. Just throwing out abuse to other people who hate those same people as you is not funny.

Probably quite similar to someone negatively questioning the viewing habits of someone who watches said videos.

When someone like Rogan has the biggest platform in the world and he then takes a very polarised stance politically, it's quite normal to question his claims and the claims of those whose opinions he is amplifying. If he continuously has guests on who are anti-vaxxers, right-wing mouthpieces and, in some cases, outright holocaust revisionists/deniers, then it's natural to question that publically.

If he also spouts anti-vax bile himself, right-wing touchpoints himself and, in the case of Douglas Murray's episode on Darryl Cooper, dedicates entire podcasts to defending the position of a holocaust revisionist/denier, then it is also normal and natural to question that publically and not leave it unchecked.

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