Joe rogan roger reaves12/8/2023 ![]() ![]() He later founded the Proud Boys in 2016.) He left the company in 2008 and has had no involvement since then. (Disclosure: Gavin McInnes was a co-founder of VICE. Those shows included episodes featuring Alex Jones, general shitlord Milo Yiannopoulos, Pizzagate promoter David Seaman, and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. When Spotify made a nine-figure deal to become the exclusive home of The Joe Rogan Experience in May 2020, the company quietly removed about 42 shows from his back catalog, as Digital Music News reported at the time. And no one making money from the latter half of the equation seems to mind a bit. (“This is something governments have done forever,” he breezily told technology ethicist Tristan Harris, suggesting that “one particular individual” encouraged thousands of people to storm the Capitol.) Rogan’s increasingly prominent role in extremist spaces-and as a major promoter of ivermectin, an unproven treatment for COVID-19-is coming into direct confrontation with his role as a mainstream sports commentator and linchpin of Spotify’s podcast empire. Earlier this month, Rogan also returned from a four-month hiatus to begin working as on-air talent at UFC events again, when he wasn’t busy giving Aaron Rodgers terrible pseudo-medical advice while the quarterback dealt with COVID-19, or suggesting, on his own program, that the January 6 rioters were led by a government-backed agent provocateur. On November 16, he appeared on far-right YouTuber Tim Pool’s show, sitting alongside conspiracy king Alex Jones extremely red-pilled self proclaimed “anarchist” author and podcaster Michael Malice Drew Hernandez, a right-wing commentator most recently seen testifying at Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial and Blaire White, another far-right YouTuber. As November wears on, Joe Rogan has begun to inhabit, more fully than ever, what can best be described as a double life. ![]()
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