Roe vs Jogan

When I first heard of Joe Rogan he was a stand up comic who would do a Woman Voice when he did jokes about women. A true crime against ears. A manly man affecting an aggravating shriek. He gave the impression of an ordinary person who preferred to hang out with idiots.

Joe Rogan was on a good sitcom, then he was the host of Fear Factor, introducing people to putting their heads in containers full of spiders. The show was successful, he was paid a lot of money. He made lots of dough as a fight commentator.

He got into podcasting. He advocates the use of psychedelics. He’s used them a lot. Any information that floats through that head risks being bizarrely linked to another factoid that he sort of heard once, which is probably why ideas try to avoid him. Precisely because of a lack of critical thinking he's wildly popular. Thanks to his podcast he has weaponised a brain that is very far from being a weapon.

Thought leaders who have no useful thoughts are everywhere now. Joe Rogan tells his audience that it's smart to have no real point of view other than a kind of free floating cynicism. Joe has no real beliefs or ideas or opinions other than “Hey, what if everyone took psychedelics.” Yeah, Joe, just imagine, but it's not going to happen is it and anyway, no one needs a glowing third eye to understand that we live in a world overpopulated by Chatty Cathys with nothing to say.

Joe Rogan is a rich man with an audience of millions and he fills their heads with shit, the most addictive drug going. Joe Rogan isn’t going to get people on his show who’ll tell you how it really is. He's not connected to anything real and that's fine, that's a lot of people, but most people don't have an audience of millions and most people abide by the sensible advice of doctors during a pandemic.

Anyone can be misled. Anyone can be conned. We're all open to being tricked, fooled and led astray. The responsibility of people with a voice is to not do that. But that’s podcasting, where any blockhead can flap their gums and never face the music.

I couldn’t take him in a fight, but I can tiptoe and I do know how to hold a brick, but let's face it, more head injuries would just make him stronger. Joe Rogan, king of the dummies. Debate me Joe. Fly me to the USA, put me up at your house, give me a go in your flotation tank, let me at your stash of drugs, let's party bro. You can teach me how to have a headneck and I'll teach you how to read a book all the way through. You can read them on your phone now, it's awesome. There's all sorts of interesting things going on, you just need to stop talking to fuckwits for one second and find out about them, you big sandwich.