“Independent” Men with Massive Platforms: Jon Stewart, Dave Chappelle & Joe Rogan.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s installment of how to lose friends and disappoint people, we’re talking about the independent platform media culture, mostly of the male persuasion. So, yes. Much of this will drip with irony as I, a white male with a small platform, attempt to mansplain how to think about other men with platforms. Our three main subjects today have been in the news for various reasons. Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart and Joe Rogan. These three have a combined audience reach that rivals any major network, which should challenge our assumptions of what defines the “mainstream media” these days. In this Quickie we dissect the changing media landscape, the nature of punditry and who has the power and responsibility in the relationship between platform and audience.
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| 0:26.3 | in New York. |
| 0:27.6 | A note to our listeners who might be sensitive to irony or distraught by an apparent and profound |
| 0:32.5 | lack of self-awareness on the part of the white male host with a teeny tiny... |
| 0:37.2 | Uh, whoa! |
| 0:38.3 | Uh, hold up. |
| 0:40.0 | Platform. |
| 0:41.5 | Oh. |
| 0:42.2 | Well, um, yeah. |
| 0:44.2 | So, for the record, it's not that tiny. |
| 0:46.7 | We're huge in Lebanon. |
| 0:48.8 | When the world is a mean and nasty little place, Finding the truth can be a little tricky. |
| 0:55.5 | Don't go punch yourself in the face. |
| 0:58.1 | Just listen to it unplugging quickie. |
| 1:02.2 | People that talk about cancel culture never seem to shut the fuck up about. |
| 1:08.7 | Like, there's more speech now than ever before it's not you can't say it's that |
| 1:15.3 | when you say it look the internet has democratized criticism what do we do for a living we talk |
| 1:23.9 | shit we criticize we postulate. We opine. We make jokes. And now other people are having their say. |
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