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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-cancel-this
This podcast includes a discussion of Joe Rogan, the stand-up comedian
and guru to millions of alienated American men whose endorsement of
Bernie Sanders has antagonized gay supporters. I only knew Rogan as
someone who offered commentary on mixed-martial-arts matches. The
podcast is mostly an interview with an Atlantic Monthly journalist who
wrote an article titled "Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/08/my-joe-rogan-experience/594802/
Here's an excerpt:
There’s a tendency right now to make every single thing about Donald
Trump, but if you don’t see the dotted line connecting the president to
a wave of men who feel thwarted and besieged and sentenced to an endless
apology tour, then you’re not paying attention. Lots of these panicked
men, as it happens, despise Trump every bit as much as they love Joe
Rogan. But that’s just a healthier response to the same core stimulus: a
plunging sense of self-worth caused by a rapidly changing society. In
2019, men feeling thwarted and besieged is a bipartisan experience. This
is the era of the Angry White Man, and it’s not just the MAGA army. It’s
a description that also matches your garden-variety “Bernie bro,” the
Biden guy who just wants to change the subject, and that walking man bun
who charged the stage at a Kamala Harris campaign event and showed his
“profound respect” for all the women present—for a conversation about
equal pay—by grabbing the microphone to lecture her about animal rights.
All kinds of men out there are pissed off and looking for someone to blame.
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