He is a generous listener who seems to share every half-thought aloud. Rogan does can be difficult to categorize neatly, his standing as audio’s zeitgeist-iest voice sustained by a heap of surface contradictions. “I would do anything to do what he does.” Rogan, ticking off favorite episodes after joining a friend to see him perform stand-up in Houston in May. “We worship this guy,” Kristian Khoury, a 20-year-old student at Oklahoma State University, said of Mr.
The most popular host in cable news, Tucker Carlson of Fox News, might expect about three million live viewers per night. Some single episodes have reached tens of millions, including interviews with Elon Musk, the Tesla chief executive whose rollicking, joint-smoking appearance coincided with a discernible slip in the company stock price, and Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist with whom Mr. Rogan said his podcast was downloaded about 190 million times in a month. “I got through the net,” he said in one recent episode, cursing before “net” in what felt like a statement of purpose, “and I’m swimming in open waters.” Rogan would surely be chastened, “canceled,” reeled in. And if the establishment had its way, Mr. He should probably not be taken at face value, except when he should, and the discerning listener should be trusted to tell the difference. The show was licensed to Spotify last year in an estimated $100 million deal, boosted by a conceit that can at times seem self-fulfilling: The host is dangerous, at least in the way that comedians like to be dangerous.
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His podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is effectively a series of wandering conversations, often over whiskey and weed, on topics including but not limited to: comedy, cage-fighting, psychedelics, quantum mechanics and the political excesses of the left. Rogan, 53, is one of the most consumed media products on the planet - with the power to shape tastes, politics, medical decisions - a fact well-known to legions of men under 40, nonsensical to the many Rogan-unaware over 50 and befuddling, by his own admission, to the man himself.
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