I have not followed Joe Rogan really. I heard about his podcast when a friend kept babbling about me doing an ayahuasca trip with him and Rogan had been doing shows about this and so I listened to a couple of them.
Basically, I knew he was a comedian and so just thought he was a sort of a Howard Stern type talk show host, except Rogan seemed to go on and on about oddball topics. Aliens, UFOS, drug trips, celebrity nonsense, MMA, whatever. It was not really a show that drew me in.
I guess the question I would have is why would anybody be looking to Joe Rogan for information about dealing with Covid? Who would take anything the guy says seriously? From what I have heard of his show he is a clown and he is just goofing around and babbling about stuff.
So, I just am confused as to why people would be surprised that he said dumb shit about Covid or why that would be a big deal. He seems to be trying to yank people's chains, he comes across like he does not know a damn thing, and his conversations remind of sitting next to a drunk conspiracy theorist in a VFW. It might be fun for a few minutes as entertainment but you eventually get up and walk away shaking your head.
I was surprised to hear he was a huge deal and he has a $100 million contract or whatever. I mean I am doing the wrong thing if they will pay you that much money to talk shit on a podcast. What the hell?
I guess Russell Brand is the Brit version of Joe Rogan so there seems a great market for comedians talking shit on podcasts or youtube or whatever.
I guess the thing that troubles me about this kind of thing is sure, Rogan is likely saying dumb things daily on his show but I would think/hope that would be obvious to people. What some people will turn this kind of thing into is a freedom of speech thing. They will start screaming that Rogan is getting cancelled or whatever and all the right wing media nitwits will suddenly love and promote Rogan as a "victim."
Really, he is just a victim of his own goddamn stupidity and that is not about freedom of speech.
I think if you say dumb shit you should be called out for it and he was. Cheers to Neil and Joni for that.
