by Rod Williams, Oct. 28, 2024- I watched the Joe Rogan interview of Donald Trump, so you don't have to. I have watched Joe Rogan a few times, or more accurately I have watched him a time or two and listened to him on my headphone while walking a few more times. I walk almost every day, and usually listen to interviews or lecture when I do.
I won't say I like Joe Rogan, but he is generally not terribly offensive. He sometimes has interesting guest. Rogan, I think, has the largest audience of any podcaster, with something like 31 million subscribers. Rogan is in the same vein as Andrew Tate and some other podcasters popular with young men but not near as crazy. He is more laid back and does not rant and is a pretty good interviewer.
Rogan, from what I gather from my limited exposure, is one of the people that young men like. I have not heard him be misogynistic, but he has that reputation, and he is a "manly" man. He is into sports and bodybuilding and against vaccines and talks of living a healthy lifestyle among other interest.
The interview was three hours long! I watched parts of it in 1.25- or 1.5-time speed and did some skipping ahead. I thought that being in front of a friendly interviewer and trying to motivate young men who often don't vote, Trump might really let his freak flag fly and get these young men living in their mom's basement excited to get off the couch and go vote. He didn't.
Trump was just boring. He wasn't very scary. He seemed almost normal. He wasn't even very entertaining. He repeated the case he makes that the 2020 election was stolen and repeated the normal case about the danger of the out-of-control border and made his case for isolationism some other policy positions, but without a lot of passion. Rogan asked Trump for specifics about how the election was stolen, and Trump didn't offer any. Rogan seemed disappointed with the answer but didn't push. Of course, Trump told a lot of lies as normal and if you want to see CNN's factcheck of the interview you can at this link.
Most of the time, they talked about stuff that is not even political. They talked about boxers and who was best and talked about sports injuries. Trump talked about how fit he was. They talked about whether or not there was life on other planets. Trump says he believes there might be life on Mars. He talked about how the people on The View use to love him before they turned against him, and other stuff of no consequence.
Trump came across as somewhat of a blowhard but mostly just boring and harmless. It was snoozefest. I can't imagine many people watched the full three hours. If you missed it, you didn't miss much.
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