Supplementary Material 27: Joe Rogan vs. Douglas Murray vs. Sam Harris vs. DTG

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We immerse ourselves in the dark waves of the discourse to bring you treasures beyond mere mortal ken.

Supplementary Material 27

00:00 Introduction & Australian Holidays

03:53 James Lindsay's New Revelations

07:20 Michael O'Fallon's Conspiracy Hipsterism

09:41 Trump, Bukele, and Transparent Conspiracies

11:53 The Whitehouse declares the Lab Leak is a FACT

14:42 The conspiracy leak treadmill: UFOs, RFK assassination, and lableak

21:26 The Rise of the Idiots: Grimes on Transformers Cinematography

29:17 Lex vs. Flint: The mask slips

33:21 The Iron Curtain falls on Lex's Subreddit

35:18 Subreddit Moderation Choices

41:46 Douglas Murray on Joe Rogan

46:36 Darryl Cooper's Nazi Apologetics, the Role of Experts and JAQs

57:25 Strategic Disclaimers & Convincing Apologetics

01:03:28 The Rogansphere and Media Power

01:07:30 Murray on the Lab Leak

01:12:19 Murray's Anti-Establishment Hypocrisy

01:19:10 Standards in Journalism

01:22:42 Alternative Media's Double Standards

01:28:33 Douglas Murray joins Sam Harris

01:29:26 The Psychology of Religious Extremism

01:36:04 Radicalisation and Extremism

01:41:24 Murray's 'Criticism' of MAGA

01:44:32 What is even the Right Wing?

01:55:11 What about Elon Musk?

02:05:40 AfD isn't that bad, and Elon has promoted Douglas too!

02:16:10 Rogan and the Moon Landing

02:17:16 Sam is still a bad judge of character

02:19:29 Isn't everyone a hypocrite?

02:23:16 Free Speech Debates

02:26:58 The role of Moderation

02:31:37 Outro

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary materials.
0:32.5	The anthropologist, Chris Katna, me, psychologist, Matthew Brown over there, him. Gidey Matt. Gide. How's it going?
0:43.5	Good afternoon, Chris. It's going well. It's going well. It's the fourth day of an ultra long weekend.
0:51.1	What is it? No, it's Easter. That was the Queen's birthday.
0:55.0	It doesn't matter.
0:55.7	Either way, we get the days off, which is fine, even though I don't really have the day off.
1:01.3	Because what am I doing, Chris?
1:02.9	I'm writing books about gurus and recording with you.
1:08.0	But, you know, I'm not complaining.
1:09.7	I love it.
1:10.6	The battle never ends, Matt.
1:11.9	You're there. And the queen, queen's birthday. So I granted the queen and Jesus, you know,
1:18.2	both daddies in their own respects. Do you still get to celebrate the queen's birthday,
1:22.5	no she's dead? No, no, I misspoke. It's not the Queen's birthday anymore. It's the King's birthday.
1:29.2	It's a King's. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So give that up. Stop celebrating the Queen's birthday.
1:36.1	You need to change the calendar. When is King Charles's birthday?
1:40.6	You know the funny thing about that is that, so whatever, this is one of the public holidays.
1:45.9	And Australia's like love public holidays, right?
1:48.4	We got a lot of them and we cherish them.
1:51.3	But what happens is there were all these random public holidays accruing and no one's going to give any of them up.
1:57.1	But also we don't actually care about the thing that the holiday is for. So nobody actually
2:03.1	cares about the birthdays of monarchs. So the holiday has long been shifted to a day which is
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