Special: Joe Rogan 'Sorry, not Sorry'

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

To cap off our impromptu mini-series focusing on the Rogan-verse we take a critical look at Joe's short (non) apology video responding to the Spotify controversy surrounding his recent episodes with Robert Malone & Peter McCullough.

In it we get to see a charming Joe Rogan being humble and compromising, while standing firm to explain why his critics have got him all wrong. He's not some hardline anti-vaccine advocate with an agenda to spread covid misinformation, he's just a normal guy who likes to have interesting conversations and hear from both sides(tm) on controversial topics.

Joe's certainly on the charm offensive and he's already won plaudits from the heterodox for doing the right thing but are these really deserved? And how well does what Joe says hold up when you look at it critically? We do what few will bother and compare & contrast how Joe describes what he does vs. what he actually does and says in his content. And we find a few discrepancies that seem worth mentioning.

This will be our last dip into the Rogan-verse for the next while but we would encourage anyone who wants more to go back to our episodes on Rogan & Jocko Willink or the combined episode on Robert Malone & Peter McCullough.

Whether you are a fan of Rogan or a critic, we hope you can find something useful in our critical evaluation and we will back soon with a full length decoding.

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0:00.0	And the Special report Chris.
0:25.0	Chris. It's a special report from Dakota the gurus.
0:28.0	Oh my God, the red phone. that's why it was ringing I just ignored it and went on this
0:37.4	internet con's dead but something's a foot in the guru's fear what's happening
0:41.7	Matt the red phone was ringing and I jumped up. I'm in my pajamas.
0:45.3	Apparently there's something about an apology video by Joe Rogan that needs to be dealt with and
0:51.8	commented on by the commentariat i.e us.
0:55.4	Well it's in our purview and Joe Rogan has released a video responding to the criticism he's received for
1:04.5	platforming vocal anti-vax figures and promoting misinformation.
1:09.9	He's been credibly accused by people such as ourselves.
1:14.0	Very credibly, very credibly, I thought, Chris.
1:17.0	Yeah, you know, we're biased in this respect, but Joe wants to say,
1:21.0	look, look, look, look, look, you guys have got me wrong.
1:25.1	You've made a mistake.
1:26.3	The mainstream media, they've all got this wrong.
1:29.0	You know, it's been referred to as an apology video.
1:31.9	I think there's definitely elements of it which are apologetic and the
1:37.0	tone struck is one of, you know, let's just all come down a minute and try and get our heads around you know what's going on here but it is also
1:46.2	fair to say that it is not our recantation of his views or a kind of mea culpa it's more a kind of mea culpa. It's more a kind of explanation for why Joe has done what he's done
1:58.7	and why he'll continue to do it but let me make some concessions.
2:02.1	Now Chris when I heard that this
2:04.3	apology video had been released you and others mentioned that this isn't the first
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