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Joe Rogan returns from his elk-hunting trip just in time to miss one of the biggest free speech controversies of the year, and somehow still finds a way to make it about himself. In this video I break down Rogan’s latest culture war monologue, his obsession with bot farms, his delusional social media takes, and the increasingly fragile echo chamber surrounding him. From Andrew Santino getting steamrolled to the Jimmy Kimmel hypocrisy, enjoy the meltdown.
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00:00People need to see this every time it comes across my feed. I'm just going to send it to them.
00:04What you see when you see a bot farm, so there's bot farms that have essentially an unlimited number
00:11of social media profiles, and they just go after whatever subject it is. And all they're trying to
00:16do is get people to hate each other. And this is a bot farm. And this is another creepy aspect of
00:22AI that was exposed fairly recently. Some accounts got suspended because they realized that the CCP
00:27was using chat GPT to run these kind of bot farms. A few moments later. He needs energy.
00:34Now, this may or may not be true, because this is someone whiz of, what is it? Whiz of Dow?
00:40Whiz, whiz of fi. Whiz of fi. No, whiz of AI. Whiz of AI. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh my God, I'm
00:47regarded. Is this AI then? Slow Joe's back on the air after taking a week off from getting duped by
00:53the internet to go elk hunting, armed with the most powerful bullshit detector known to mankind.
00:59As luck would have it, though, while he was off camping in a five-star hotel and getting
01:04chopped into the mountains to meet his buddies, Rogan was absent for one of the biggest free
01:08speech controversies since the Biden administration directed Twitter to silence some of their biggest
01:14public health critics. However, this time it was his own team committing the cardinal cancel
01:19culture sin by forcing Disney's ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel and then openly bragging about how they just
01:26wiped their asses with the First Amendment. It was only for the intense backlash against Disney that
01:32forced their hand into reinstating Kimmel days later, which then led to the president threatening
01:37to sue them for not doing what he wanted. And the whole time this was going down, the free speech
01:43warrior-in-chief was on the front lines of a different war, rugged up in a private hunting lodge telling
01:48his pals war stories from the green room. And as followers of this channel will know,
01:53tall and funny scientist Joe Rogan has a habit of being absent during crucial social and political
01:59moments. Just recently he was seen on a kid's side slip and slide while the whole Epstein file
02:05cover-up unfolded, feeding us banked episodes with comedians no one's ever heard of. But now after
02:11declaring via Instagram that he had limited reception during his hunting trip, the little man was back in
02:16the studio on Monday with Bobby Marm to give us his thoughts on the current state of the culture wars.
02:23And this is the problem is that Hollywood in particular is there in a fever pitch of if we
02:31don't get our eyes, our ideas across, if we don't promote our ideas, then the other side wins.
02:38Like everyone is in this f***ing fever of war, of like a culture war. And a giant percentage
02:47of it is being manipulated by these overseas bots. Like I tweeted this thing. People need to see this
02:53every time it comes across my feed. I'm just going to send it to them. What you see when you see a bot
02:58farm. So there's bot farms that have essentially an unlimited number of social media profiles and they
03:05just go after whatever subject it is, whether it's climate change or an election or even sports.
03:11And all they're trying to do is get people to hate each other. And this is, this is a bot farm. China's
03:16doing this for sure. Russia's doing this for sure. But Iran is probably doing this for sure. Israel's
03:20probably doing this for sure. We're probably doing this as well. We're doing it to them. And this is
03:24another creepy aspect of AI that was exposed fairly recently. You could tell it how to behave. And I want
03:29you to pretend that you are an unhinged leftist that wants to kill all white men and then get in there and
03:35argue. And then people, and then the right wing people like, Oh my God, he's left this one is
03:40dead. Right. And then you have like this Charlie Kirk incident and then everybody starts to really
03:45believe it now. Having Andrew Santino on the podcast for the first day back after everything
03:51that went down last week is so ironic given that his podcast with small Asian boy Bobby Lee is so
03:59successful due to their refusal to engage with politics and the culture wars. Bad Friends is one of
04:04the few comedy podcasts left that hasn't been dragged into the culture wars except for when
04:10Mark Maron went on there recently and shit on Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe. But I'll come back to that
04:14towards the end because Mark is clearly living rent-free in Rogan's shiny bald head. He can't
04:20help but throw strays at Mark mid-sentence whenever he gets the opportunity to these days. But Santino was
04:26there to promote his new comedy special on Hulu and instead of talking about it and having a laugh with
04:31his old buddy, Rogan ended up unloading the latest iterations of his talking points, barely letting
04:38Santino get a word in and proving yet again that the only war Rogan's on the front lines of is the
04:45culture war. And the thing is, Joe is probably right about the bot farms and how they're being used to
04:50create political and social division around the world. We've all seen them in the comment sections
04:55across different social media platforms. But the funny thing about our boy Joe is that he doesn't
05:00realize that he's still being duped day in and day out by online bots.
05:06If you want people to lose all faith that anyone is going to solve anything, you add a bunch of,
05:14you're going to kill a guy, you add a bunch of other wacky shit that doesn't make any sense and
05:19you spam it out there at the same time. You leave a gun that didn't do it out in the woods. You get
05:25some kid who has a boyfriend who's a furry and you talk to him on Discord. I think he's a furry. I don't
05:33want to disrespect him. I don't know if that's a real thing. His boyfriend's definitely a guy who became a girl.
05:38And wears furry stuff. I think they do furry sex. They, I think, or furry games, excuse me. My apologies.
05:44Shout out to the furries because me and Duncan Trussell, we did a podcast once with the mascot outfits.
05:49Yeah. And we took the masks off after like five minutes. We're like, bro, shout out to the furries. Like, this is fucking hard.
05:55It's tough. We had this big, you have this big chipmunk head on all day. They're heavy. You're hot in there. We couldn't breathe. Like, oh, dude.
06:03We took it off and we're like, shout out to the furries because these guys are out there rocking that all day long. Like that is a commitment to being weird.
06:12We're at 330 plus. Who knows how many people snuck in during the last four years. How many terrorist cells and everything's ready to spring to trick you into adopting some sort of a digital ID.
06:27Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. At the same time, they're making so much AI that they're not even going to be able to power it. We have to substantially improve the power grid and power output.
06:38How do we do that?
06:39The fuck knows. You're asking the wrong guy. You have to power the new God, Santino. You got to power the new God. The new God requires a lot of electricity.
06:49Yeah. God, he's hungry. He needs energy.
06:52Now, this may or may not be true because this is someone whiz of, what is it? Whiz of Dow? Whiz, whiz of fi. Whiz of fi on Instagram.
07:01No, whiz of AI. Whiz of AI. Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh my God. Is this AI then?
07:07Damn it. Why does it lie? Joe Rogan is easily the most terminally online celebrity in existence, yet he's the one preaching the loudest about the dangers of AI bot farms, fooling us into hating each other, while frothing at the mouth over kitty litter in schools, fake videos from Twitter, and the dangers of relying too much on AI.
07:27The guy has completely lost his mind over the last few years. He is so far removed from reality that it's become comical to watch him recycle his social media feeds on the podcast.
07:39Who knew that the funniest thing he'd ever do is lose his mind in slow motion for the world to see?
07:44And just when you get a glimpse of the old Joe, you think he's finally snapped out of it, and you breathe a sigh of relief, but then he'll somehow find a way to compare mountain lions to a political assassination.
07:57The point is, these mountain lions, you gotta let them know who's boss. Like, I'm not for killing mountain lions. I think they're awesome. I love them. But I'm for killing some mountain lions.
08:10You know, I'm not for killing them all. Just a few. I'm not, like, killing them all. I'm like, no, you need a balance out there. Otherwise, you've got an overpopulation of animals.
08:17But what you don't need is them killing your f***ing kids. Okay? Because they will kill your kids.
08:24And then I told him, you have to f***ing respect me. I've been in this office for, and you hear it with a thump, and your kids, the back of your kid's f***ing head is caved in now, and this cat's running over a fence with him.
08:35And you turn around, and your kid's gone. Like, yeah, that's real.
08:38That's real, dude.
08:38That's real. That's a cat. It decides it's gonna kill you. You're helpless.
08:42So shut the f*** up with all this Narnia nonsense. You gotta let them know who's the boss. You can't come in my f***ing neighborhood, s***head.
08:50You don't put a collar on them and take pictures. So cute that they're in our neighborhood. Look, they're camping in front of my house.
08:58Yeah, they're waiting for your kid to go get his ball. Are you f***ing crazy? You just ate your neighbor's dog, and now they're waiting for your kid to get his ball.
09:06It's like these people, they don't know what animals are. They think they're living in a movie. They don't.
09:12With the Charlie Kirk thing. They don't know what an assassination is. You're cheering that someone got killed with gun violence.
09:18You're supposed to be the anti-gun violence people.
09:20Right.
09:20You're cheering for gun violence. Do you know how f***ing crazy this makes you look?
09:25You're cheering for gun violence against a guy who deplored violence.
09:29Right. Yeah, adamantly. He was pretty loud about it, too.
09:31Hang on. I thought we were getting duped into hating each other by the AI bot farms. Damn it, Joe. Now I'm falsely confused.
09:41And just when you thought the hypocrisy couldn't get any worse, Rogan went on one of the most unhinged and delusional rants about how social media is breaking people's brains.
09:50When I heard this the first time, I had to re-watch it several times because I could not believe what he was saying.
09:57This is Brendan Schaub and Bert Kreischer levels of delusion.
10:01This is what happens when you're constantly surrounded by yes-men who nod their heads and laugh at everything you say because none of them have the balls to call you out.
10:11Except for Brian Callen. And we all saw how that went down.
10:14Joe Rogan doesn't realize it, but in this next clip, he perfectly describes Joe Rogan.
10:19Joe Rogan. This is one of the reasons why I've been off social media for like the last seven, eight months, mostly.
10:25Like, I'll look at it occasionally, but I don't read anything about me at all.
10:30I know guys that have lost their minds. They're in that all day long.
10:34Having conversations with people on Twitter all day long.
10:38Debating points. Arguing stuff all day long.
10:41Making response videos. Making other videos.
10:44Going and talking about it on a podcast. Like, what are you doing with your life, man?
10:47Yeah, it's weird.
10:48This is nuts.
10:50Okay, okay. Having watched that again, it's actually worse than I thought.
10:54Joe doesn't argue with people online. I'll give him that. He posts and ghosts.
10:58But instead, he'll see a fake headline or video, do absolutely zero research, and then come out on his podcast ranting about how crazy the world has become and how we're on the verge of civil war.
11:10That is so much worse. Like, holy shit.
11:14And the worst part is, even when Jamie pulls him up and tells him the video or article is fake, he'll quickly dismiss it and say something like, yeah, but it could be real.
11:23Or, I'd believe it if it was real.
11:25That has to be the most delusional thing Rogan's said all year.
11:29And there's some stiff competition out there for that title.
11:32Claiming he never posts online while his Instagram stories are full of fake news and videos is wild.
11:38And look, I get it. Joe thinks he's just asking questions.
11:42But when your entire show is built on reacting to shit you saw on Twitter and Facebook, maybe it's time to stop preaching from your ivory tower about how doomed our society is when you're responsible for spreading bullshit around the world while cosplaying as a comedian.
11:57And that's the problem. I've finally managed to hit the nail on the head as to why Rogan's downfall has accelerated recently.
12:04It all goes back to the comedy mothership.
12:08We can have differences of opinions.
12:10Like, when we're in the mothership green room, my politics are so different than Ron White's.
12:17And Ron White's are so different than Brian Simpson's and Ahsan's somewhere in the middle.
12:21His is different. And Tony's Tony.
12:23He's got his, like, we're all sitting here having conversations about things, but we're never like, hey, you, you fascist, you don't know, like, we're not calling people names.
12:34We don't have enough power for AI, not enough to run trillion parameter models, not enough to power hyperscale data centers, not enough to meet the chip demand that doubles every nine months.
12:45The media spun it as historic pledges for AI innovation, but behind closed doors, the conversation was blunt.
12:50This might be just like an article they write about behind closed doors, the mothership, behind closed doors, the mothership, they're handing out Nazi part of Finalea and Sieg Heil and each other.
13:00This is the number one most ridiculous song that for some reason or another, the guy didn't become famous.
13:06This is from 1969. It's a guy named Johnny Thunder.
13:10And he made this song called I'm Alive.
13:12And Brian Simpson brought it into the green room with the mothership.
13:16He's like, this is going to be one of your new favorite songs.
13:18Like, you got to listen to the song.
13:20And I played it in the green room and I was like, oh, my God.
13:24I'm alive.
13:25Stanhope said this famously once.
13:27He said, I could quit comedy, but I could never quit comics.
13:30Hmm.
13:32Yeah, like that is more fun even than doing stand up is hanging out with comics.
13:38Yeah.
13:38And we're all just being silly together.
13:40It's fun.
13:41Last night I was at your club having a fun time with all the boys.
13:43Gillis came down and, you know, when he comes down and has to, you know, that's when he starts it up, dude.
13:49Yeah, I know.
13:50He's the best.
13:51That club's got a great vibe, man.
13:53It really does.
13:54It's got a great vibe.
13:55And that's the thing.
13:56It's like if you're on the outside, you look at it and you go, oh, those people.
13:59That's a completely normal way to react.
14:02Sure.
14:02It's completely normal.
14:03Yeah.
14:04But we're not saying you.
14:06No.
14:07Trust me.
14:07Imagine being a 60-year-old man and still acting like you're in middle school.
14:13Joe, nobody wants to hang out with you in the green room and listen to your boomer tunes.
14:17They're all there because they're getting paid.
14:20That's when it hit me.
14:22Everyone that Joe talks to on a daily basis is on his payroll.
14:25He gets escorted by SEAL Team 6 from his house to the podcast studio and then to the comedy club.
14:31Everyone around him works for him, including all the comedians that hang out in the mothership green room.
14:37Every guest that goes on JRE is there to promote something, so they're not going to push back on him.
14:43Anyone in that position would lose their mind and become completely delusional.
14:48It's like Taylor Swift or The Rock.
14:50Everyone around them is getting paid.
14:52They have completely lost any semblance of a normal social interaction.
14:56That's why they become so delusional.
14:58It's actually kind of sad when you think about it, and every now and then we see glimpses of what Joe's really like.
15:04I mentioned earlier about how on a recent Fight Companion, Brian Callen called him out for thinking he's smart enough to read and understand scientific literature,
15:13when he has absolutely zero scientific education and he's never stepped foot in a lab.
15:19And in that moment, we saw Rogan go full domestic violence on Callen, saying,
15:24I'm not going to talk about this with you because you're making me angry.
15:27But then they all laughed it off and went back to the usual programming.
15:31Joe's not used to people talking to him like that, so when they do, he doesn't know how to react.
15:36He just shuts down and starts glitching.
15:39Remember that audio recording from years ago when that PhD lady called up a radio show he was on and he full-on lost his shit?
15:47That's the real Joe Rogan.
15:49When he's challenged, he starts glitching and crashes out.
15:52And that's why I think the Marc Maron situation has got him by the balls.
15:55Joe can't let it go.
15:57He claims to never read anything about himself and completely ignores the criticism, yet he keeps bringing it up at every opportunity.
16:05Finally, Santino managed to get a word in about the whole Jimmy Kimmel situation while Rogan was catching his breath.
16:11But then Joe just couldn't help himself.
16:15And I think my beef with that world is, I think they got so political and they had to ground themselves in it so much that it took away from how fun those shows could be.
16:27Yeah.
16:27That's just the system that started to take place.
16:29It's everybody's fault.
16:30Yeah.
16:30It's the president's fault, too.
16:31Well, yeah.
16:32Because he's doing it back and forth with them.
16:33Egg them on.
16:33But meanwhile, he got together in that dinner with Bill Maher, who's been talking shit about him for decades.
16:38And apparently Bill Maher liked him.
16:40Yeah, I think I saw that.
16:41Do you know how crazy that is?
16:42Just talk to him.
16:43Talk to him.
16:43Like how many times do you have a little beef with a comedian, you get in front of him and you have a conversation with him.
16:47And then 20 minutes later, Marc Maron, 20 minutes later, you're hugging each other.
16:50Right, because most people in person are cool, but you get lost in whatever the f**k is in your head.
17:00You're arguing with yourself.
17:02And with Trump, it's all about disrespect.
17:05Hey, Joe, you know who else Trump used to be friends with?
17:08Ah, never mind.
17:09But this goes back to what I was saying before.
17:12Rogan's hypocrisy is out of control at this point.
17:15He'll spread a bunch of bullsh**, speculate about the wildest shit you can imagine,
17:18go balls deep into the culture wars, and then he'll finish it off with,
17:22why can't we all just get along?
17:24Is it that hard to just have a conversation?
17:27Meanwhile, he's having a conversation with himself,
17:30surrounded by a bunch of yes-men who'll nod and agree with everything he says
17:33because they want to get that Rogan bump.
17:36And it's so sad to see someone publicly humiliate themselves like this,
17:40acting like they're surrounded by genuine friendships,
17:43when the reality is their whole life is completely transactional.
17:46I don't think Joe would last a whole week in a world
17:49where nobody he interacts with is on his payroll.
17:52That is such a wild concept to get your head around.
17:55I just can't imagine what that would be like.
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18:17I'll catch you in the next one.
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