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People who were born or have lived in Austin the majority of your life..what is your opinion on the "Rogansphere" influx & comedy scene?


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I don't live in Austin, just wondering what the general opinion is on Joe Rogan, his club, & the 5 year mass migration he sparked of open micers, podcasters, bootlickers, & fans moving to ATX? His standup is terrible & I used to listen if he had an interesting guest on up until a few years ago. 

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34 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

I’ve been here since 1959. 
I wouldn’t walk across the street to see LBJ, so no political clowns interest me.

For the record, Rogan is not overtly political.

And that's why he's toxic.  He's a dumb, okey doke, get-along guy that has political guests that are essentially manipulating him and his audience.  He's not smart enough to challenge them and by just nodding along with them, implicitly endorses them and makes them acceptable to his audience.  On occasion, his endorsement rises above implicit to explicit, but I still don't consider him political.

He seems to appeal to the sort of youth that are susceptible to the manosphere because of their impotence (not sexually, but that too) and that's a profitable but bad place to be, really.

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42 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

He's a rat.  His whole family, rats.

Seriously, those guys are pathetic - they try so hard to be edgy, but the comedy is total one-note shit and the place is poison.  

I mean at some point the cringe edgelord comedy has to run its course, right? 

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17 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

For the record, Rogan is not overtly political.

And that's why he's toxic.  He's a dumb, okey doke, get-along guy that has political guests that are essentially manipulating him and his audience.  He's not smart enough to challenge them and by just nodding along with them, implicitly endorses them and makes them acceptable to his audience.  On occasion, his endorsement rises above implicit to explicit, but I still don't consider him political.

He seems to appeal to the sort of youth that are susceptible to the manosphere because of their impotence (not sexually, but that too) and that's a profitable but bad place to be, really.

Here is a guy that sniffs his own farts. 

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2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Just looked up the meaning of edgelord. I think I was one during my college days. Geez what a fucking awful way to live.

I looked it up too.  I assumed it was about edging.  guess not.

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18 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

but I still don't consider him political.

he endorsed trump and then was present at the inauguration.

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3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Just looked up the meaning of edgelord. I think I was one during my college days. Geez what a fucking awful way to live.

Ehh, lot of overlap with the incel losers, which hopefully you weren’t.  

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The influence is terrible. Comics and culture in Austin used to punch up- especially the libertarian types. Now they kiss up and kick down. Nowadays it’s the equivalent of comics like Jerry Lewis in the 1950’s doing ching chong Chinese laundry routines. Talented people playing it safe, hanging out with big shots and drawing no blood. 

Rogan did that. 

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joe giving a platform to people like brendan schaub, bert kreischer, bryan callen, tony hichcliffe, etc, has been terrible. super unfunny people with nothing to offer but trans jokes and anger. or in bert’s case just a human train wreck who will do anything for attention. none of these people are funny, at all, and yet there is somehow an audience for all of these chodes, right here in austin. it’s fucking nauseating knowing how many racist idiots love here and are willing to pay money to go watch these people.

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Rohan and the people who listen to him can be summed up succinctly:

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
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3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Ehh, lot of overlap with the incel losers, which hopefully you weren’t.  

No. I was geting laid. A lot.

At the time before the internet, being an edgy douchebag brought the ladies.

Seriously guys! You gotta believe me!

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17 hours ago, Derka said:

joe giving a platform to people like brendan schaub, bert kreischer, bryan callen, tony hichcliffe, etc, has been terrible. super unfunny people with nothing to offer but trans jokes and anger. or in bert’s case just a human train wreck who will do anything for attention. none of these people are funny, at all, and yet there is somehow an audience for all of these chodes, right here in austin. it’s fucking nauseating knowing how many racist idiots love here and are willing to pay money to go watch these people.

I don't get the serious online hate for Bert. His schtick is he's a frat boy alcoholic in his 50s, but he doesn't do anything polarizing like political hot takes & endorsements. His standup is also terrible, but he manages to sell out arenas & stadiums. I don't think his irl fan base that skews older even listens to podcasts or has any idea how hated he is online. 

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17 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

Rohan and the people who listen to him can be summed up succinctly:

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain

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