I'm curious what people here think. I'm sure everyone here has seen the salt about Joe Rogan and how Kamala should have gone on his podcast (her team kept her off so she wouldn't show off how retarded she is to even more people) or how the left needs its "own Joe Rogan" (not possible because they would cancel it the minute it deviated from leftist orthodoxy). A lot of that is the left blaming everyone but themselves like they do every time they lose an election, but I kind of wonder if there's something to the theory. I don't listen to Rogan, but my understanding of his podcast is that politics isn't really the main focus and his listening base contains a lot of largely apolitical young men who are drawn it him because he talks about things they're interested in and doesn't shit on them like the legacy media does. If I'm a Joe Rogan listener who's not plugged into political stuff and I see Trump do a 3 hour interview for the podcast and see Kamala make excuses not to do the same, that's gonna leave me with a favorable impression towards Trump and make me more likely to vote for him. Since Rogan has 50 million listeners even a tiny percentage of them being moved from Kamala to Trump or not voting to Trump could move the needle.
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I'm probably projecting because of my own personal tastes (listened to Rogan's 1st 1000 episodes in order, then never listened to another full episode again when he left YT for Spotify), but I feel like Rogan's peak as a cultural icon peaked many years ago.
Leaving YT for dumptrucks full of Spotify money really took him out of the cultural zeitgeist at a key time.
It's not necessarily Rogan's fault. He's a repetitive arrogant meathead elite LARPing as an everyman.
Listeners reach a saturation point where they've heard all his anecdotes and hot takes so many times that they become grating memes. So the only thing keeping one interested is the quality of his guests and the hope that Joe's input is to a minimum.
Agree.