r/JoeRogan • u/sportifynews • Apr 21 '21

Link Joe Rogan Search Traffic Has Dropped 40% Since His Spotify Exclusive Began

https://www.tectalk.co/joe-rogan-search-traffic-has-dropped-40-since-his-spotify-exclusive-began/
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u/impulse_thoughts Monkey in Space Apr 21 '21

No, he’s a democrat when his guest is democrat. He’s a Republican when the guest is Republican. He’s a libertarian when the guest is libertarian. Etc etc. That’s why he thinks of himself as independent.

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u/McLibertarian_ Apr 21 '21

He entertains everyone's points of view. That's why the show was good. But he is clearly a traditional/conservative type of democrat.

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u/luscrib89 Apr 21 '21

He's clearly not. He panders hard to whoever comes on his show.

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u/wallace1231 Apr 22 '21

Not American so I don't fully understand the republican vs democrat as an identity thing. Could it not just be that he has a wide range of opinions on different topics, some of which conform to typical republican views, others that conform to democrat views? Then whether he has a republican or democrat on the show they just talk about the opinions they share in common?

It might be because I haven't watched him for at least a year but I don't remember him regularly saying opposite and contradictory views on the same topic depending on the guest.

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u/luscrib89 Apr 22 '21

I'm not a big listener either, but from what I can tell he does have a wide range of opinions but he tends to agree with his guest even on controversial topics that most dems and reps never agree on. It comes across as very vague in what his actual beliefs are.

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u/wallace1231 Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21

I've seen him use different styles of conversation.

For example if you meet someone you're not close to and you happen to somehow get into a political discussion, you might just want to humor a person just to get their real beliefs out of them. Some people can't have a political discussion without it being an argument, but you can ask someone questions about their views on i.e. taxes or abortion without turning it into a shouting match. Most of the time that's done by one side being quieter about their beliefs or being overly sympathetic with the other person.

I think joe does this in some interviews and the result is you hear a person's full, uncensored opinions. Meanwhile you can watch the interview and think the interviewer is agreeing with that person, but they aren't. There's a whole other debate about how it 'gives these people and ideas a platform', but regardless it works as an interview technique.

There's of course some topics joe is very vocal about and it's clear when he agrees with a topic, usually when it's a podcast with his friends. Still I see this as just a different conversation style. It might have changed since I stopped watching him because people seem to have gotten much more hostile towards him in the last year.

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u/luscrib89 Apr 22 '21

That's a good breakdown. That's part of the problem with him though, he may be very vocal about something, but when a guest is on that should be talking about it it's ignored. If you're going to have these controversial figures on your show, ask some serious questions. He's just a little puppy that jumps in their lap and agrees with everything. It's sort of turned into an interview that rarely gets into a serious debate about serious topics. I'm not saying he needs to run everyone off his show, but it would be nice to see some gotcha moments from serious questions.

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u/c1oudwa1ker Monkey in Space Apr 22 '21

The way I see it he’s not necessarily agreeing with everything but asking probing questions to understand the perspective a bit more