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Hello and welcome to Serious inquiries only. This is episode 291. I'm Thomas and with me as always, I want to say with me as always is Lindsay.

But then sometimes I just go off the rails and do some solo episodes. But anyway, Lindsay, how are you doing? Oh, man. I am incredibly full of rage. I have my mint tea. I'm ready to yell. Very angry. Maybe this is your problem. You're using mint tea as your rage tea.

You're like, I've got my camera on my tea and my sedative and I'm ready to be mad. Maybe that's your problem. I need you to do a line of coke. Oh, no, there's an idea.

New Patreon goal. We'll talk about it later. Which substances can get Lindsay to actually sound mad and we'll find out. No, but I'm also really just off a high of our first Q&A together that we did on Patreon and we released everybody. That was a ton of fun.

That was so fun.

I bring it up because I've got the question thread for it's going to be May. It's going to be May Patreon because I have the bright idea to put that up like early in the month. And so as the episodes come out, if you've got questions for us at the for our end of the month Q&A threat.

Go to patreon.com slash series pod and pop the questions in there all month, you know, and then at the end of the month, we'll have stuff from each of the episodes. It seems like a good way to do it. And I can imagine this episode could raise some questions. We'll see.

Yeah, I bet so. So I wanted to set up a little bit, a little bit of the context. And then I'm hoping that Lindsay is going to just science us good, you know, good and hard. I cannot wait.

So where do we start? Joe Rogan is like the most popular podcast in maybe the world, which is the most depressing thing in the world. It might be. It might be. I've seen various metrics.

You know, it's certainly with a with a certain crowd, I think with obviously with like white men. It's the most popular podcast by far.

But it's got an estimated 11 million listeners per episode.

Jesus Christ.

Which if you're if you know anything about podcasting, that that means he has a very large audience that has at least listened to him from time to time.

You know, like if 11 million people listen to each episode, that means there's probably a crowd of like, I don't know, 50 million people that check in here and there.

Just because most people don't listen to, especially with a podcast like his that's four, five hours long every single day.

I don't know who would listen to all of that. But anyway, it's got a massive reach. We'll just say.

It's got it says I've got a Washington Post article open that says Rogan reaches nearly four times as many people as prime time,

prime time cable hosts such as Sean Hannity, a Fox News and Rachel Maddo of MSNBC.

So if we're talking about like who we should be worried about and misinformation and where people are getting their information.

I have so much rage for Tucker Carlson, for example, and I'm just in disbelief at how bad he is and all that's a.

But like we're talking someone here with four times the reach who might be honestly just as bad in some ways.

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