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On 7/8/2025 at 1:38 PM, Pancho said:

Sounds like Talarico is going on Rogan 

Good for him. I was worried he was going to try to a jump to a higher office too soon, but with the attention he got this session I think it's time for him to take a shot. I just don't know where. Would be fun to watch him scold Danny Goeb like a school teacher with scripture and a preacher's cadence, but I don't know if that might be biting off too much. Is Lloyd Doggett planning to die in office? He's 78, would be 80 at his next swearing in. 

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I'm worried Talarico is not mean enough. Good orators aren't gonna get the job done.

Correct. He appeals to people with intelligence and human decency.
In other words, the most irrelevant constituency of the current era. He might as well appeal to left-handed Slovenian pearl merchants.
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I'm about 20 minutes into the Rogan/Talarico interview.  Impossible not to like Talarico.

Question:  I'm also about 20 minutes into the first Rogan interview I've ever listened to, and I have to admit that while he doesn't commit any cardinal errors, I'm pretty much surprised by  his interviewing technique.  I was expecting something in between a Marc Maron let's be buddies and a Peter Attia I'm smarter than you approach.   He's kind of sounds like a UNT radio and television communications intern.

What is the superpower that got him to having the biggest podcast that anyone's every heard of?

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1 hour ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I'm about 20 minutes into the Rogan/Talarico interview.  Impossible not to like Talarico.

Question:  I'm also about 20 minutes into the first Rogan interview I've ever listened to, and I have to admit that while he doesn't commit any cardinal errors, I'm pretty much surprised by  his interviewing technique.  I was expecting something in between a Marc Maron let's be buddies and a Peter Attia I'm smarter than you approach.   He's kind of sounds like a UNT radio and television communications intern.

What is the superpower that got him to having the biggest podcast that anyone's every heard of?

His podcast was a combination of mma discussion, comedians, and interesting experts interspersed with absurd conspiracy theorists. It was at times pretty entertaining. 

His opinions on pretty much everything except weed and standup comedy seem to be extremely malleable. He takes on the opinions of his guests. Early in the 2016 Dem primary he was an Andrew yang supporter and then Bernie. How he went from that to endorsing Trump is pretty crazy.

Something related that I’ve spent some time thinking about is: how did the young male YouTube space become so right leaning in the run up to the 2024 election. 

I saw so many previously apolitical channels, across a wide spectrum, start espousing right wing talking points. And I found myself wondering what caused that shift and how much did it influence the election. Were they captured by the right wing propaganda machine? Did they sense that was what their audience wanted to hear? Was it a collective group think? Did it stem from a collective rejection of Covid policies they saw as government control? Were they all already right leaning and now just talking about it because it was an election cycle? Was it just YouTube’s algorithm feeding me right leaning political content?

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16 minutes ago, heso said:

His podcast was a combination of mma discussion, comedians, and interesting experts interspersed with absurd conspiracy theorists. It was at times pretty entertaining. 

His opinions on pretty much everything except weed and standup comedy seem to be extremely malleable. He takes on the opinions of his guests. Early in the 2016 Dem primary he was an Andrew yang supporter and then Bernie. How he went from that to endorsing Trump is pretty crazy.

Something related that I’ve spent some time thinking about is: how did the young male YouTube space become so right leaning in the run up to the 2024 election. 

I saw so many previously apolitical channels, across a wide spectrum, start espousing right wing talking points. And I found myself wondering what caused that shift and how much did it influence the election. Were they captured by the right wing propaganda machine? Did they sense that was what their audience wanted to hear? Was it a collective group think? Did it stem from a collective rejection of Covid policies they saw as government control? Were they all already right leaning and now just talking about it because it was an election cycle? Was it just YouTube’s algorithm feeding me right leaning political content?

 

Those are all interesting questions, and I think you're right to consider them. Also, remember that a lot of those folks on YouTube are basically whores for attention and only making fractions of a penny per view, so for most, it's probably not a super lucrative gig. One thing we do know, for sure, is that the Kremlin paid some influencers.

Now, I'm not saying that Russia paid others, but we kind of have to assume that it's not out of the question. Nor is it unthinkable that other countries or organizations (PACs, rich fuckers...dark money in general) might have been doing the same thing, and, in general, we know conservatives have been targeting ALL of social media since the 2016 election, at least (Cambridge Analytica's Facebook stuff).

I guess what I'm saying is that the seemingly organic turn toward the dark side by young influencers might not have so organic after all. Or, on the other hand, maybe they all went crazy during Covid. Tough to say.

 

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

 

Those are all interesting questions, and I think you're right to consider them. Also, remember that a lot of those folks on YouTube are basically whores for attention and only making fractions of a penny per view, so for most, it's probably not a super lucrative gig. One thing we do know, for sure, is that the Kremlin paid some influencers.

Now, I'm not saying that Russia paid others, but we kind of have to assume that it's not out of the question. Nor is it unthinkable that other countries or organizations (PACs, rich fuckers...dark money in general) might have been doing the same thing, and, in general, we know conservatives have been targeting ALL of social media since the 2016 election, at least (Cambridge Analytica's Facebook stuff).

I guess what I'm saying is that the seemingly organic turn toward the dark side by young influencers might not have so organic after all. Or, on the other hand, maybe they all went crazy during Covid. Tough to say.

 


I meant to add “were they bought by the right wing and/or right wing friendly propagandists?” and then forgot it. 

I expect it’s probably a combination of all of them. 

It was really bizarre. It started out as one that stuck out as “oh, I didn’t see him as having those views”. And then it kept happening to a point that there was obviously some level of coordination, be it algorithmic or on the content generation. 



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