Rogan promoted the conspiracy theory that Epps was an “agent provocateur” for the feds, a baseless claim that has led to a defamation suit against Fox News.
Rogan promoted the conspiracy theory that Epps was an “agent provocateur” for the feds, a baseless claim that has led to a defamation suit against Fox News.
I wonder sometimes if he is actually stupid and actually believes some of this stuff or if he just says outrageous shit to get people to listen to his show.
So he’s either a fucking moron or a fucking troll, neither of which I’d wanna listen to.
From every story I have heard about him over the years (and a few from friends in the entertainment industry):
He really is that stupid. Someone like tucker carlson or even trump know they are running a grift. rogan is that damned stupid.
A lot of it is people around him manipulating and brainwashing him. But he is genuinely that friend from high school who never "grew up" and is still smoking pot all day and has always had those weird stories and conspiracy theories. And then you look away for five minutes and he stops talking about cars that run on water or that JFK is actually alive and instead is talking about how Sandy Hook was crisis actors.
I've always believed they were serious about learning. I remember being frustrated that people are often abusive instead of explaining why dumb thoughts are dumb but after like 10 years of multi-hour interviews with smart people they don't seem to be making much progress. Maybe there is a constant inflow of new dumb listeners, and most last a few years and kind of graduate out of listening, but he has to stay the same for the whole thing to work.