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Joe Rogan is the funniest stand-up comedian of all time.
The greatest game show host. Shout out to Fear Factor.
And obviously, the most important and talented podcaster to ever unbox a microphone from Amazon.
But this week, Rogan mentioned that Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asked to come on the podcast and Rogan refused.
Joe Rogan states that he rejected a Zelensky request to appear on his show to discuss Ukraine pic.twitter.com/FILc7IXhy9
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) November 29, 2024
“Zelensky tried to come on. They tried to get Zelensky on. I was like, what are you talking about?”
Rogan, Ari Shaffir, Mark Normand and Shane Gillis??
Man, I thought I was going to get a fun 6 hours of 3 guys less funny than Shane Gillis all talking more than him about political issues they are fully informed on based on several headlines from websites that give you HIV if you click on anything that they’ve scrolled past on their phones waiting for their planes to arrive at the gate.
And at one point, Rogan casually mentions that Zelensky’s team reached out wanting to come and speak to him which comes a week after Joe told his audience of millions of impressionable, easily influenced free thinkers that he believes Ukraine—the country defending itself from a Russian invasion—along with Joe Biden—the man who hasn’t had an organized thought since Christian Bale was Batman—are attempting to start World War III.
Feels important to note he also sourced Alex Jones during his anti-Ukraine rant.
At some point, the thoughts and opinions of Alex Jones need to be treated the same way we treat the views of say, Jennifer Coolidge or Flava Flav.
Joe Rogan has said he’ll have anyone on his podcast for an open discussion about any issue, even if they disagree—but I’m starting to think that maybe Joe only wants to hang out with conservative-leaning content creators who are obsessed with cancel culture and stand-up comics who pretend to think he’s funny so they can use his show to promote their tour dates.
A couple months ago, it was revealed that Russia was paying several conservative Youtubers to read their talking points on their shows.
Like Tim Pool—a grown man who has a vague idea of what a boob feels like, seen here SCREAMING about Ukraine being the biggest threat to the world.
Tim Pool hysterically banging table shouting UKRAINE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE WORLD.
He didn’t know he was working for a company that took $10 million USD in black bag payments from Russia guys. Horrible coincidence. We’ve all been there pic.twitter.com/bGz0jHrOnD
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) September 5, 2024
Yeaaa, he was like, literally reading off an email from whatever foreign translator sent him his script for the day.
It’s interesting how much venom these podcasters have for Ukraine—a country they believe is draining America’s financial resources to escalate a global conflict yet that’s not at all the way they would describe what Israel is doing as this country sends billions for them to turn Gaza into a skate park.
I thought Joe Rogan was the last man left with integrity. He works out, you know. That’s a leader if I ever did see one.
But after he admitted to not wanting to speak with someone who may see the world differently from him, I’m starting to believe that perhaps Joe Rogan is some sort of hypocrite.
Whatever. I’ll still be tuned in every week for 7 straight hours of middle-aged men gossiping about which female athletes they think have Adam’s apples and strategizing how to win international wars in regions they’ve never even seen.
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