I have actually heard of this Joe Rogan and knew he had some sort of podcast, but I have never listened to a podcast and figured he must be some kind of guy like that idiot Alex Jones.
Now I read that Rogan has 14.5 million followers, gets paid an estimated $350 million bucks by Spotify (?) and has hosted both Alex Jones and Donald Trump. His audience is overwhelmingly young white males, one of the groups that supported Trump in the recent election. This must be about the dumbest cohort in the U.S. According to a Pew Research survey, about 37% of 18 to 29-year-olds regularly get their news from social media.
I am so tired of hearing that the older generation has messed things up; the younger generation will fix things. Fat chance. To be fair, perhaps young women will fix things. The “bros” will be on Fanduel or investing in bitcoins and vape stores.
Incidentally, don’t you think that a guy who is getting $350 million for spouting nonsense wants to keep his taxes low? As Karl Marx said, “Follow the money.”
Some information for this post is from “The Week”, (Dec. 13, 2024), p. 11
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