Anti-Trump MeidasTouch dethrones mighty Joe Rogan as top podcast in US

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Anti-Trump MeidasTouch dethrones mighty Joe Rogan as top podcast in US - Lemmy.World

After months of sharply criticizing President Donald Trump’s actions, decisions and rhetoric, the left-leaning MeidasTouch Podcast overtook the Joe Rogan Experience for the first time last week, according to YouTube’s weekly ranking of top podcast shows. While Rogan’s 20.1 million YouTube followers dwarf MeidasTouch’s 5.2 million, the podcasting giant’s show finished in second place. Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen and conservative-leaning Sean Ryan’s shows also made the top ten. The MeidasTouch Podcast saw its rankings climb in July as Trump attempted to appease Congress, the media, and voters over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, with episodes zeroing in on the president’s past ties to and comments about the disgraced financier.

I have no fucking idea why people watch Rogan, he’s not particularly well versed in anything other than martial arts, he’s not brilliant or even well spoken or educated by any stretch of the imagination… it feels to me as if he became popular because the average idiot finds this interesting but in reality he’s just talking about nonsensical themes with some guests that, surprisingly, are quite well educated themselves.

I’ll always remember this man as the crazed idiot who screamed bloody murder at a zoologist because her findings, research and experience contradicted what he wanted to showcase so at that moment he truly showed who he was.

Before he sold his soul to Spotify for 100m he had a few kinds of guests that were interesting. Fringe stuff like Grant Hancock who’s got some real archeology content mixed with some more wild hippity dippity stuff. Bob Lazar and UFOs which mostly stopped after Spotify. Random authors. UFC fighters and comedians(not as many of them now either).

Joe was a good listener and competent conversationalist when he’s interested, like his interviews with Neil Degrass Tyson. Problem is his interests are mostly money now.

Yeah, I listened to earlier stuff, the ones you mentioned, even when he had Tom DeLonge on. Hamilton Morris was good. When he has guests on that talk about drugs, and the paranormal, and outer space, or just weird shit, it was interesting, and like him or not he can talk about anything with anyone.

It’s when it comes to the politicking that his agenda is very clear, and whether it’s his own agenda or just the money talking, doesn’t matter.

Probably a big impact changing social circles moving to Texas too.
I just read an article about his social circles moving again out of Texas saying that Texas sucked shit compared to LA or New York.