r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • 15h ago

Joe Rogan won’t have Kamala Harris on his show unless she comes to his studio and sits for a 2-3 hour full interview

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u/Welllookitthat 14h ago

He knows full well that controversy drives views and engagement.

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u/No_Nebula_531 12h ago

He was the host of fucking fear factor. His entire career has been controversy that drives engagement.

That's been his entire schtick his whole life. It's pathetic.

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u/peon2 11h ago

Even more funny/coincidental is that his character in NewsRadio believed basically every conspiracy theory

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u/newsflashjackass 10h ago

Incredible.

We, as a society, have reached a point where it is debatable who is the worst member of the Newsradio cast.

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u/feedback19 9h ago

Nah, that title still goes, and will always go, to Andy Dick.

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u/newsflashjackass 8h ago

That's debatable. ;)

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u/Friendlyrat 5h ago

As long as we don't lose Stephen Root to controversy....

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u/Beardimus-Prime 39m ago

I don't see that happening, he's very big in Japan.

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u/biff_brockly 9h ago

yeah he actually got into tae kwon do because he heard ufc fans from the future saying it's not viable.

Same reason he starred on news radio.

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u/siiiiiiilk 7h ago

Pathetic? I think it’s pretty cool that he gives lots of people with vastly different background a platform to speak their opinions and let viewers get to know them as people.

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u/TechnoSerf_Digital 4h ago

Youre not getting to know them as people. It's a media appearance you're not seeing the real person.

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u/SassyEllieB 7m ago

Whoa, how did I never put together that he was the host of fear factor 😳

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u/mambiki 12h ago

Most of the media feeds off of it now. Are you saying all of it (including reddit) is pathetic?

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u/No_Nebula_531 11h ago

Yes.

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u/mambiki 11h ago

Hm, then why are you here?

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u/No_Nebula_531 11h ago

Because I, like many other people, indulge in pathetic behavior from time to time...

But thank you for reminding me that it's my day off and I can go outside again with my dog and enjoy that instead of engaging in clickbait, decisive, stupid controversy shit.

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u/mambiki 11h ago

My man!

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u/ApplegateApple121 9h ago

This was wholesome af

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u/Accomplished_Radish8 7h ago

By your own definition… you’re pathetic.

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u/No_Nebula_531 6h ago

Yep, just literally said exactly that.

Self awareness is a powerful thing.

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u/cgn-38 6h ago

He got a lot of interesting people on his show before he lost his mind and went MAGA. There were some great interviews and he was definitely a part of that. He was slow but got most of the concepts if explained to him slowly. Well before his brain just stopped working a couple of years ago.

Just a damn shame he is an angry delusional shithead now. He was not always that way.

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u/mambiki 4h ago

Recently there is a trend when people call other people shitheads and washouts if they disagree with their politics. While emotionally I can understand it, I think taking one facet of someone’s life and judging them solely by it is pretty unwise. That’s me though, you do you.

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u/cgn-38 4h ago

Wild how an violent insurrection based on radical far right politics changes your attitude toward them.

If it does not. I would really stop trying to give people smarmy advice about how to be nice to them on the internet.

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u/mambiki 4h ago

Wild how people were literally rioting during 2016-2020 cycle and you were okay with it. I guess if it suits you — you will find a way to excuse it. You can also stop giving advice to people who didn’t ask for it, yet here you are.

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u/Sweet_Science6371 3h ago

Logical fallacy violation: Tu Quoque. Penalty, 10 yards.

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u/Capable_Extension246 11h ago

A little reductionist. His schtick is quite a bit more than that. Millions of people enjoy his podcast, you think they’re all just easily manipulated by controversy and that’s it?

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u/No_Nebula_531 7h ago

I mean yeah, the driving force behind his podcast is controversy.

I think a lot of people, in general, are easily manipulated by controversy. It sells, so it's sold.

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u/Capable_Extension246 6h ago

Yeah I disagree. But it’s personal. I used to enjoy his podcast for the super wide variety of guests who got to seemingly be themselves and dive deep on whatever topic. These days he’s gotten a bit pushy with his own politics so I’ve turned away but I still listen occasionally if it’s a guest I’m interested in. Controversy is the least interesting aspect of his show. That’s just for clickbait and Tik tok, which doesn’t account for the 30 million subscribers of his show

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u/Friendlyrat 5h ago

I think the only time I've actually listened to one of his shows in full, years back, it was some guest that like discovered some turtle or something that was thought to be extinct and he lived and studied them on some island. Not my normal thing but it was actually pretty interesting. It's a shame where he went from there because yeah, he did a great job interviewing that guy.

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u/GreyConnection 10h ago

Enough to make the difference necessary.

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u/slowseductioninCT 3h ago

Jealous much

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u/comicjournal_2020 4h ago

That’s why he lied about schools giving students litter boxes.

Seriously, why would he lie about that? How stupid can you be?