The REAL Reason Joe Rogan is So Popular
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0:00 Intro
1:24 Ad read
3:38 The Rise of Joe Rogan
6:26 Early Days of JRE
10:49 Joe Hates Boxes
14:47 Joe Sells Contrarianism
16:23 Joe Lets People Talk
30:11 Joe Models Curiosity and Openness
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@Remi-Caussin Says:
He did use the mégaphone to change the course of history
@liviusss Says:
This is the danger with the podcasts, you can give a platform to anyone, let them speak whatever they want, and have no responsibility whatsoever... It's really baffling to me people don't see the danger in this, the podcasts get all the popularity, money etc. with no responsibility, while real responsible journalism is dying.
@lmt9856 Says:
Johnny H is a sell out. A lot of his videos are really ads for other things. Joe R works because everyone is allowed to talk. Left right and center. Even if the ideas bother people. It’s the ultimate freedom of speech. Some people go an act fools and other just blow out minds. Johnny H is not. A lot of JH’s videos are clearly biased
@davidklotz11 Says:
I’d love to know if your feelings have changed now as Rogan and the show have changed significantly over the past year. I know mine have.
@123Handbuch Says:
The reason Alex Johnes is on is because he's funny. You said it yourself, it's all ridiculous and he's entertaining. Simple. People watch it, bunch of idiots gonna go "he right" but 99% gonna go "haha funny angry dude" and then go back to work. It's not a big deal.
@123Handbuch Says:
Trusted voices are an illusion.
@xxitz_pr0gxx631 Says:
You deeply disagree with a Black woman about her take on BLM? You're just as brain washed as the people that believe the main stream media. BLM and ANTIFA are terr0r1st organizations and should be classified as such to the US federal government.
I used to hold your opinion in pretty high regard on many topics, but after this video, it seems as though you believe that freedom of speech should only be for a select few people. I have lost some respect for you in regards to some of the subject matter of this video.
@xxitz_pr0gxx631 Says:
Bro, your bias is showing big time in this video. Alex Jones has predicted MANY things that has happened since he has had a platform. Did he fvck up with the whole Sandy Hook thing? Yes. Should he be absolutely demonized for it? No. It's really saddening to see people talk to badly about him, when there are people like George and Alex Soros that exist. They just want to watch the world burn, and want to see the death of many people. Alex Jones has nothing but good intentions.
@slicethepieswiftley8019 Says:
Dude quit being so insensitive... Alex has been a long time friend of his... Alex knows that Joe thinks he's a quirky oddball... Joe isn't being fooled... If he wants Alex on to laugh at him and gain the rare gem of truth occasionally let him.... Gees
@MeaHeaR Says:
Omg he's Unrecognisable yunngêr
@Miguel-f8m7u Says:
Joe Rogan just doesn’t take sides he doesn’t try to brain wash people like the news and other podcasts do same with Theo von
@hhunstad2011 Says:
Little man joe is a menace and is treated like a god by unintelligent and insecure people miserable about how their lives turned out. They have to focus on nonsense to distract from their personal embarrassment over their shortcomings.
@jasongray797 Says:
Human Nature is complicated, absurd, and absurdly complicated. Dealing in good faith is comparatively straightforward. Both Rogan and Harris tred this line well. What more can one ask of any human, destined for such a short time in this world?
1 + 1= 2. Shared facts are essential for any free society.. but finding them is a surprising mess.
@sassysaucyposse3783 Says:
Being devil's advocate here. Maybe Joe is having those people on to dig their own graves?
@bilalmbaka9969 Says:
🤦
@LamNguyen-nr1pb Says:
you should do a video on British Columbia Canada and the bio terrorist organization they started where they use chemicals and drugs to take advantage of people and harm and torture the victim. Law enforcement involved in child sex trafficking and facilitate bio terrorist crimes being committed.
@stevenmattson3164 Says:
Worthy of an update. Now that he’s super rich his “openness” to his democratic socialist roots has vanished. He endorsed Trump right after his 3 hour open-mic interview with Trump and his endless stream of lies. With .05% push back or questioning of him —and then endorsement. It’s like JR fell for the trump victimization story and demonstrated how gullible he really is. And all that weed smoking isn’t helping with his openness.
@gcs2907 Says:
This is a year old video and I came across it today and while watching it, I saw this clip @26:57 where Joe says that he has had numerous chances to interview trump on his show but he has said no everytime cuz he does not support trump and one year later he did this podcast with him right before the election which lasted for almost 3hrs. 😅
@a.c.p.7312 Says:
I remember Joe from Newsradio sitcom, but other than that, I can careless of him or what he has to say, I hear the name, but that's it, next!
@mjmc6785 Says:
Awesome Lee, I believe what he’s doing is a good thing. Including giving a voice to the people whose messages you find abhorrence. You yourself said it’s humanizes them. Well I want to ask you is that a bad thing? I personally believe that we are all human and I believe we are all deserving of love and we all deserve to be heard and we’re all allowed to be crazy if we want to be or if we just are. just because you don’t like what someone says does not mean it should not be allowed. Just because what somebody says is a lie doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be allowed. People should use their brain. People are not going to fact, check like you do, of course, however, the second we start censoring anything then everything is up for debate. Do you want to live in a world where you can’t say I dislike this leader ship without fear of prosecution or execution? I know I don’t. I’ll deal with the liars and the psychos thank you.
@mjmc6785 Says:
I am wondering why the “clips” are being used to define Joe. He never claims to be someone to follow…. I’m curious where you’re going with this
@willyoung6891 Says:
The maker of this video does not know if Alex Jones and Candace Owens are lying. It’s simply his poor and misconstrued opinion that they are.
@MartinZiegert Says:
When I saw Trump, 2024 on Rogan, I saw a man speaking, complex thoughts, with sideways, but back to the point. So not unhinged or anything, and that's what that format produces. And Alex Jones? Well, he screams, fully out of reason, in the presence of an extreme relaxed and calm guy like Rogan. Would you like to have such a guy around you? Certainly not, you can see his hate, his soul, and he lies, Rogan said that and due to this out of time format, listeners understand that.
@laney1975able Says:
Joe listens has empathy and is real with no agenda. The show is organic
@Archyski Says:
The ideas that you see as sensible may be experienced as "wild" by others. Therefore, having a dialogue with those we disagree with is the best remedy in a democracy. That means letting them TALK.
I have huge respect of your work, but in this video you were a bit off.
@kimberlypayetta3476 Says:
What do you think now? Would love an update.
@northernchugger2895 Says:
Womp womp Joe let’s people exercise their first admendent right. Nah you just don’t like free speech bud
@nstv23 Says:
Follow the money
@EGSBiographies-om1wb Says:
Mr Beat recommended this channel.
@tabby7189 Says:
If you don't understand that free speech means people need to do their homework and their own fact checking, you don't understand deeply enough the difference between democracy and authoritarianism at the most basic level.
@Traderxau2000 Says:
Says Rohan has these topics and people for attention
Obviously everyone does
You yourself is only talking about Joe Rogan
@under_ground_ Says:
disappointed.
@WatchHead Says:
Well, Joe speaks his own truth (at the momemt of filming) and you script, analize, think and work your ass of until your agendas and biases become most of what you communicate... You lose your own truth in preparation and lost the proper argumentation being triggered... Another Johnny Harris common-place mainstream-intelect-official-narative-with-Brooklyn-hipster background-vibes pill for us to swallow... Joe Rogan podcasts makes me think, with my own head and YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE YOU WANT ME TO THINK LIKE YOU DO. And I don't.
@santiagonunez6294 Says:
Your too liberal lol. Its pretty bad when JRE was leftwing but the left has went too crazy and he endorsed trump.
@octavian8b Says:
I think it's good to let all people talk. First of all is regarding the freedom of speech and second of all it's the same as banning books... This won't stop people reading them... Better to let the wrong people be themselves and unveil themselves than to ban them and make a martyr out of them...
@Mik3yLow Says:
It's so unfortunate that Johnny is one of our many confused and misinformed peers. He's extremely smart and he's criticizing other's for their 'fact checking habits' so I know he understands the importance of proper research. But, like all the others, he places more value in public opinion than in common sense. It's why he gives a pass to the inherently racist BLM movement while ignoring the race bating fear mongering that they've pushed since their inception. Almost as if the things that they do and say actually is their agenda.
What hes looking for doesn't require jumping through all these hoops. The best indicator of the truth lies in the hate. And Johnny stated very clearly that he hated Candace Owens for her political views. But Candace Owens, she doesn't hate Johnny. Because those of us with real truths only wish that they would know it too. We're not debating your beliefs in the same way, we're speaking up for you too.
MAGA
@NateMoody-g3n Says:
This is the problem with the media. You act like people are too stupid to think for themselves. Joe lets everyone tell their side of the story which is free speech. It's up to us to interpret that. People still hate Alex Jones even after this podcast because they know he's a piece of garbage. But that's our decision to make. Not your decision to make by fact checking
@imaxinebrown694 Says:
Very Marxist stance!
@SB-fc8fw Says:
So you want to be the arbiter of mis-information. I appreciate that Joe Rogan lets him speak. All of us, like you, can find the truth. It is interesting to see all kinds of people and know who we are sharing this world with. Even Alex Jones .
@Inspire_To_Evolve Says:
Joe Rogan is an easy target. Your attempt to balance it was not great. He pioneered the idea of podcasting. Jus sitting their and talking bs with his comedian friends for many years. The more he did it the more he understood it and the more did innovated the whole genre.
For your so called morality of JOURNALIS,
1. 2016, 2020 and 2024 US Presidential election main stream media which is normally run by people like you did election campaign for DEMOCRATS candidate.
2. How main stream media played the role of opposition in Donald Trump first term and its impact will be be taught in the coming years in Political and History classes worldwide. You don't like Macho Man it is very clear and certainly you don't like macho man who are successful. But these Mach Man take Donald Trump doesn't drink and smoke. He is a family man, married and raised five children. He has his vices but it is the same main stream media who treats certified pervert Clinton with Red Tape. No one question them......
3. How main stream media treated drug whiffing sex addict Hunter Biden story world knows so that Joe Biden could win the election/
4. How US mainstream media peddled the Russian Gate for whole term of Donald Trump and were in bed with DEMOCRATS in last 8 years......
5. IRAQ war remember. One of the biggest media house from US having 186 news paper world wide peddled a story. All of these newspaper editorial lied in same tone and it was IRAQ has WMD and middle east was destroyed. Millions of families destroyed and radical elements were allowed to take space in the social fabric of the MIDDLE EAST......and we know where we are...
6. I don't need to lecture you on main stream fact checking truth spilling media went on rabid war mongering rant to support UKRIANE. You know the impact and like this lecture of on fact checking truth pedaling journalism BULL SHIT is going on and world knows.
You are a human being just like Joe Rogan and you have your biasedness and judgements about world, society, economy and person. The best you can do is to know those biased and keep it aside and create a work which is closer to reality. That's it.
@baramundi__88__ Says:
Would rather listen to 6000 hours of JR than one hour of Johnny boy Harris.. unsubscribe to Woke Johnny or suck it
@jontalkasquan8487 Says:
Alex Jones tells more truth than you have ever in your silly little life, Johnny-boy.
@tannertjarks1364 Says:
would really love if you did a video like this on rfk
@samwise6444 Says:
YOU CAN'T TELL THAT EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS EVERYTHING. BIG BANG IS NONSENSE. MAYBE THINK?
@victorlahti1353 Says:
Oh Johnny lol
@_Feyd-Rautha Says:
Joe Rogan is one of the most important people in America. An arbiter of information for all
@TheJulijefe Says:
This was disgusting to watch, Joe Rogan promotes free specch thats it. And you just showed excerpts of the people that you dont like, leaving aside 90% of the truth that is behind. Dissapointed at this channel. However, Trump won,and so did RFK, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Ben Shappiro and surprise! Joe Rogan. Disgusting video bro.
@sventer198 Says:
Exactly why I won’t give Joe Rogan the light of day. Not all opinions are equal.
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