Joe Rogan: Just an average Joe?

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 187 minutes

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Summary

Joe Rogan is a world famous podcaster, a martial artist, a stand-up comedian, a MMA commentator, co-founder of the Onnit supplement company, the ex-host of Fear Factor, a long term friend of Alex Jones, and recently a major outlet for promoting 'alternative' Covid facts.

And yet despite all these 'achievements' and his recent multi million dollar deal with Spotify many argue that a large part of Joe's appeal is that he is just a 'regular Joe'. Joe himself has said he's just a 'f**king moron' and that people should not take his opinion seriously... but does he mean it?

Join Matt & Chris as they break out their dusty gym bags and enter the house of pain that is long form podcasting to try and imbibe the full Joe Rogan Experience. To aid in this glorious quest, the guys sought out the most testosterone laced JRE episode they could find and inevitable landed on a recent episode with ex-navy seal & motivational author, Jocko Willink. This is a man who everyday posts black and white photographs of his wristwatch at 4.30am with captions like 'Ready. Set. GET SOME' & 'Default: AGGRESSIVE'.

If you think this means the episode will be covering the sexually arousing nature of armoured cars, the beauty of handcrafted knives, and how to revive the American manufacturing industry... you would be right. But that's not all.

You will also discover surprising non-partisan 'facts' like how Tulsi Gabbad is the centrist messiah, George Soros is responsible for recent US crime waves, Nancy Pelosi is an assassin, and the Hunter Biden laptop story is the biggest story of the modern era. Oh and, of course, that Covid vaccines are dangerous and effective alternative treatments are being hushed up.

Wait... what?

So rev your engines, sharpen your handcrafted knives, and get ready to smash headfirst through brick walls of ignorance and faux expertise in this testosterone soaked episode as Matt & Chris refuse to acquiesce to the 'burden of civility'.

P.S. Did Matt mention that he had to listen to 6hrs this week?!?

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0:00.0	So a little warning for everybody that the and an apology that the audio quality for this episode is not up to our usual standards we had a bit of a settings malfunction this week that we weren't aware of.
0:14.0	So I sound like a demented robot.
0:16.4	Sorry.
0:17.4	Chris doesn't sound great either, even worse than usual.
0:20.0	We'll return to our normal sound quality standards from next episode. Oh, yeah. Hello and welcome again to Decoding the Guru'surs the podcast we're an anthropologist and a psychologist
0:55.5	listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try our best to understand what they're talking about
1:00.5	I'm Professor Matt Brown and with me is the bad boy of academic
1:05.1	podcasting, the terror of reply guys everywhere. Associate Professor Chris
1:10.0	Cavanagh and who Chris., he needs the best. Now I also don't think I'm the terror of reply guys.
1:17.2	I'm the wet dreamer because I actually respond to them. That's your mistake. Yeah, it is. This is the problem. This is why nobody should
1:27.2	ever tweet. Tweets just lead to replies and then it's all downhill from there. It's a
1:31.5	losing proposition. That's right. We should all just be journaling again.
1:37.8	Write it and read it back to yourself at night. I was so annoyed by Tim on the radio grenade.
1:44.0	I was so vexing.
1:46.0	I will write a letter to express my disagreement.
1:50.0	That would make it all better.
1:52.0	People actually had to sit down and write letters instead of just scratch out there 280 character missives and just enter it.
2:02.0	There we go. See that's the problem now, the bar for entry is too low.
2:06.0	You just need an opposable thumb, whereas before you had to obtain stamps and an envelope,
2:10.0	a pen, it was quite difficult, I think, filtered out a lot of the dross yes indeed speaking
2:17.3	of filtering at the dross how are you doing?
2:21.1	That's good. It's not really.
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