Yeah, and back then, he had hair and hadn’t abused anabolic steroids so was like 40% of the size he is today.
No, I think he was juicing even before that.
Someone should do an expose on all these people and talk about who they were and what they did before going full MAGA.
Rogan just went full covid brainrot. I used to listen regularly during his early podcasts and especially the redban era when it was mostly just the wasteland feeling after Occupy Wall Street failed. Jamie curbed to show down the alt right pipeline and it felt less like comedians hanging out.
It’s been weird where it’s been about a decade since I listened and it feels so remarkably different when I see a clip after he hits the news with some nonsense guest.
Rogan claims Jaime was a lefty when he started the show, and Rogan pulled him right I believe. Unless that was a shitty joke he was making when I heard him say it one time.
He’s pushed conservative talking points with made up stories, like litter boxes in schools for furries, you don’t do that because you really believed a teacher allegedly, you don’t say all that without choosing to lie.
Clearly full MAGA then. Litter boxes are a definite give-away. Luckily the rest of us never fall for fake news.
I’m sure you can come up with a proper example?
He claims to not support Trump, but seems to defend him all the time:
He recently defended Trump regarding the trial verdict: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-barack-obama-joe-rogan-tony-hinchcliffe-podcast-1909438
He defended Trump to Bill Maher on his podcast: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/joe-rogan-bill-maher-trump-biden-1235581529/
Said Joe Biden is mentally unfit while citing something that Trump actually said: https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/joe-rogan-fact-checked-biden-trump-revolutionary-war-airports-1235849684/
He even said he would vote for Trump over Biden in 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/joe-rogan-donald-trump-joe-biden-bernie-sanders
Nothing in that indicates he has gone “full MAGA” Even the article about him rather voting for Trump seems to focus more on Joe’s praise of Bernie Sanders.
He’s basically saying that old age is affecting the mental capabilities of Biden more that Trump and given only these two options he’d rather vote for Trump who he then also called “crazy and a sociopath”. I don’t agree with the conclusion but I agree with the claim he’s making; Biden’s mental capabilities are clearly deteriorating at much faster pace that Trump. Neither of those two are fit for the job in my opinion.
I just find it hilarious that people treat Joe as if he is some full blood concervative when he has voted democrat or independent his whole life and by most of his values would be labeled as liberal.
If you take the word of a Hollywood comedian for facts, you have gone full fucking stupid.
No one that listens to him takes what he or his guests say seriously, unless he rarely features a scientist talking uninterrupted for three hours, which I cannot find anyone else who does this.
Then he lost all respect people had for him
He was kind of funny on the show News Radio before even that. That was a good show with a lot of good actors but seems like a lot of people never heard of it.
RIP Phil Hartman. After he died the show wasn’t the same and it just kinda faded away. So it wasn’t a cult classic that got cancelled too soon kind of thing. But also not a show that ran more a long time.
But one of favourite shows of all time. The cane episode was one the best half hours of TV of all time.
What sort of respect are you referring to when you say stuff like this? It feels like people these days judge everyone by the same standards they would a politician and that seems really odd to me. Comedians are supposed to say edgy stupid shit. That’s quite literally their job.
Comedians are supposed to say edgy stupid shit.
Aiming for the lowest common denominator every day of your life does not make you a comedian, even if it does make you very, very rich.
You’re certainly entitled to your own opinion on the artistic merit of that kind of comedy but I don’t think there’s any denying that’s what it is. Nevertheless, why would you look to any artist, especially comedians, for balanced political discussion? That’s not what they do. Even the ones that talk about politics are doing it more for the laughs than the nuanced discussion. If any comes from their jokes that is a side benefit, not the primary purpose.
He also was a moronic maintenance man for a radio station.
Trying to explain News Radio to a Zoomer and they just keep waving a can of pepper spray at me and calling for help.
That used to be more innocent before those people could find one another and begin to organize on the internet
