My 27 yr old sibling is a hard core follower of Joe Rogan 💩
What are some progressive channels/people/content that I could have my sibling start watching instead?
Preferably something that has a similar flavor - example: male host, muscular, easy to digest. I think that will make the transition easier.
My personal preferences are Seth Meyers and John Oliver, but Last Week Tonight (John Oliver) is even a heavy watch for me sometimes!
[No Andrew Hubbard. He’s another fake.]
Thank you!
Behind the Bastards
In the same CoolZone Media vein, Hood Politics might fit the bill as well.
Preferably something that has a similar flavor - example: male host, muscular, easy to digest. I think that will make the transition easier.
You don’t think much of your sibling do you?
I mean if they listen to Joe Rogan, they don’t seem to think much of themselves either tbh. That counts as self-harm.
Their sibling might be young. Young people are gullible idiots.
Their sibling is 27 in this case, I think well past the age of “gullible young”.
You’ll find that folks can be gullible at any age. My step-kids, who live with their dad in Texas, are in their early 20s and get about 99% of their information from either YouTube or TikTok. For the youngest, church plays a big part. Generally speaking, they are good kids, but they are both gullible AF. I’m betting OP’s sibling has a similar diet of media consumption.
Yeah, the unbiased style of debate/news reporting is very dangerous.
What are you gullible about?
I’m sure there’s something, and I try to remind myself when talking to the kids that they’re figuring out the world around them all the time just like i did when I was their age. It’s really hard getting them to look outside of YT and TikTok for information. Awhile back, the younger one got into the Atlantis mythology and started talking about it a lot. Theories of Atlantean origin are pretty common in white supremacist circles, so that was kind of stressful!
Not to mention the entire premise of the post being, essentially, “I don’t approve of the entertainment my sibling chooses to consume. Please make suggestions for me as to other entertainment that I can then use to regulate said adult sibling, removing their entertainment that I don’t like and forcing them to consume something I find more acceptable.”
Like…I think Rogan’s whole thing is stupid and most I’ve talked to who like his stuff are similarly ridiculous…but to go from that to full out “I plan to take it away from them and force them to do something I find more acceptable” is really quite a leap.
Or maybe it’s “I love my sibling and don’t want to see them slip further into this conspiracy rabbit hole. How can I offer them similar content that isn’t as harmful?”
“Could it be loving and listening to my sibling? No it’s the media that’s the problem!”
The Hasan Abi Broadcast
This comes off a little negative but totally get the desire to show a sibling something different,as someone who uses to listen to rogan regularly…
Find whatever guests he liked and nail down what it is he’s actually interested in. For me it was history and comedy.
History of Rome with Mike Duncan then lead to youtubers like sandrhomanhistory and the operations room. If he’s into more military and masculine show him forgotten weapons also on YouTube.
If you go as left mainstream as John Oliver it’s gonna be an uphill battle. Even though I more than likely agree with what he would say have 0 desire to watch it.
Comedy wise the early cumtown episodes are goofy classics.
Before COVID Rogan’s show was fantastic. As soon as the end of 2019 ramped up it was all down hill from there.
He went full Alex Jones.
Yeah it’s easy to hate Joe Rogan now but there’s a reason why he was the #1 most downloaded podcast for years. Huge range of guests and Joe’s, “Jack of all trades master of absolutely nothing besides MMA” knowledge base of questions got some good stories out of people.
He went full meth addict. All he does is talk at his guests. He doesn’t listen any more he just rants at them.
Or he has a comedian on, and they spend two hours mentioning names from back in the day.
I think you’ll be hard pressed to find someone progressive enough for lemmy to like that will also be interesting to a Joe Rogan fan. I would recommend Destiny though. I wouldn’t say he’s like Joe Rogan, but he frequently does debates with commentators of all politcal positions including those with similar beliefs to Joe. He has an aggressive, confrontational style that would be your best bet at trying to demonstrate the weaknesses of the views Joe would advocate for.
If you’re not familiar with his views, Destiny could probably be described as a left-leaning liberal institutionalist moderate. His community can attract a variety of viewpoints and is relatively accepting of criticism for Destiny so your brother would have an easier time interacting with them than someone like Hasan.
It’s nice you are trying to look out for your brother like this. Good luck!
You recommended a right wing pedophile… he said left wing content not borderline nazi propaganda
It’s interesting that he seems to get a lot of accusations of being far-right by the far-left and far-left by the far-right. I don’t know if there was some controversy I missed that inspired the pedophile comment, but calling him a borderline nazi is frankly ridiculous.
Here’s the introduction to his wikipedia page for anyone curious:
Steven Kenneth Bonnell II (born December 12, 1988), known online as Destiny, is an American live-streamer and political commentator. He was among the first people to stream video games online full-time and received attention as a pioneer of the industry.[4] Since 2016, he has garnered further attention for streaming political debates with other online personalities, in which he advocates for progressivism and liberal politics.[5][6] The New York Times has described Bonnell as a liberal,[2] while Bonnell has described himself as “a very big social democrat”.[6]
He accidentally leaked his porn folder and it was full of animated child porn.
He’s also permanently banned on Twitch for saying all the black people protesting during BLM should be shot.
So child porn and calling for the death of peaceful black protesters sound like a fucking nazi to me
I still can’t find anything about him being a pedophile. If you have something you can link about it I would genuinely like to know.
He was never given a reason for his permanent ban, but it is thought to be for for his view on trans athletes. He was temporarily banned earlier for saying “the rioting needs to fucking stop, and if that means like white redneck fucking militia dudes out there mowing down dipshit protesters that think that they can torch buildings at ten p.m., then at this point they have my fucking blessing…” in regards to a BLM protest, which was considered inciting violence. Not saying that’s a great statement but it’s pretty clear he’s talking about rioters specifically.
But neither of these thing make him a nazi. That label shouldn’t just be thrown around casually.
Modern Wisdom
Edit: Going through all the suggestions now - thank you! I hadn’t heard of these before. I appreciate it!
J Aubrey is a very entertaining long format YTer that explains many of the internet’s worst villains. His take down of grifters don’t target Joe himself, but help inoculate people from the “natural” hierarchies that dominate conservative thought.
Good God, he has some of the most cringey clickbait thumbnails I’ve ever seen.
And just watching the first 5 minutes of the Steven Crowder episode, he’s for sure not someone the Joe Rogan crowd would be interested in watching.
most cringey clickbait thumbnails I’ve ever seen.
My man, is this the first YT thumbnail you’ve ever seen?
he’s for sure not someone the Joe Rogan crowd would be interested in watching.
Why, because popular YT formats are something the millions of normie Joe Rogan viewers all despise? I don’t know man, you do you. But popular formats by definition are something the masses are comfortable with.
Tom Segura
Destiny
The same Destiny that has alienated his personal relationships with everyone who’s ever cared about him?
The same Destiny threw a debate with shithead Ben Shapiro because he wanted to get invited back?
At least Joe Rogan believes the shit he shovels, Destiny is a pure grifter searching for more and more fame.
is that what happened? we’ve had very different experience of reality
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1786481491939058131
Did you see the cookie rocket debate? Very entertaining stuff.
yep. those debates seem to be trapped in an endless cycle where one or both sides can’t handle certain realities. they all start off vaguely informative and end up as just entertainment.
Preferably something that has a similar flavor - example: male host, muscular, easy to digest. I think that will make the transition easier
Tell me you think your brother is superficial without saying you think he is superficial…
Agreed, my sibling is superficial. They see muscular males as authority figures (for learned reasons I won’t get into) which is a problem when Rogan (+guests) is spouting nonsense.
That’s why I’m trying to find similar content that they’ll enjoy, and help break old habits. They are capable of growth and improvement.
