2xer is at a low point in her life. Divorced, moving towns with her young son, when her son makes a new friend. The 2xer is semi-cool with the Mom . There' is just one ick...the other Mom...likes the most popular podcast in the world

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Several months ago I moved to a new town with my young son. I met a woman with a son about the same age. I wouldn't say we "hit it off" in terms of being friends, but we got along well enough, as did our sons. We were also both going through separation/divorce. Therefore we had enough in common to keep our friendship going.

We've talked a lot about relationships and motherhood, but not much about politics or religion. Our sons are almost always with us too, so we also have our attention divided between them as well. Well today she was telling me how much she enjoys the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

I'm torn on how I feel about this. I'm surprised honestly, and I don't want to judge her or end a friendship over 1 thing. Except it feels much bigger than just 1 thing. She was a person whose advice I was really beginning to value. What are your thoughts?

Nah frick that.

Joe Rogan is the worst kind of meathead far right bro.

He's historically tried to hide his promotion of far right stuff as "just asking questions" but in the past few years he's dropped any pretense. He endorses Trump and brings the who's who of far right scumbags on his show.

He's also always been a raging misogynist and racist. He was beating women and calling black people apes back in the 90s.

E: This thread really brought the Rogan roaches out of the woodwork. Not surprised.

I remember when Rogan signed his deal with Spotify for $100 million dollars, there was a video circulating of all of the times he said N----r on his show. The video was like 4 minutes long.

That's when I quit Spotify. Rogan is a shitstain, and anyone who pays to platform him can frick right off.

Your right he changed after Covid I couldn't stand him, he used to touch on pretty neat topics like archeology, aliens, tech, science and health related subjects.

now he is just an agitator of the social fabric of our society, my current view is that he is a paid Russian shill like most alt right and some alt left commentators he is simply a tool used to divide us he appears to always play both sides he gaslights his followers into believing whatever is the current agenda. He says things like "who really knows who started the Ukraine war" or "maybe they were right maybe we are wrong" all this does is erode the confidence in our governments and poison the mind of men.

He has had some interesting guests - but he has allowed a lot of irresponsible propaganda on his show and allowed nuttos to push way too much right wing nuttery for my taste. He's a Trump supporter - that says all I need to know frankly.

Joe Rogan has also had racist misogynist Tim Pool on his show multiple times and they frequently tweet and retweet each other. After Pool admitted to being paid by the Russians, how close behind is a revelation Joe Rogan directly benefitted from Russian influence.

What is her stance on vaccinations? That's one tell.

Haha nope.

We had a woman join our book club. She had some strange hot takes that were kinda racist/sexist. One evening we wandered into a discussion about podcasts and she blurted out, "I listen to Joe Rogan like every week!" and suddenly all of her takes made sense in that context.

It was like she's dropped a big stinky fart. No one knew how to respond, but I guess our faces spoke for us.

The next week she didn't show up for book club. She did make a long Facebook post about how she was upset that some people didn't respect her opinions and it wasn't fair.

I felt kind of bad that I didn't reach out to smooth it over. Until Joe dropped his latest standup special on Netflix and I watched it out of morbid curiosity, thinking I could use it to reach out to her.

Nope. It was so racist and homophobic that I gave up halfway through. Younger me might have tried harder, but now I'm old and I don't have the fricks to give.

Joe Rogan is trash. I just can't respect anyone who listens to him for hours every week.

Giant red flag. Joe Rogan has gone off the deep end and is circling the drain at the moment due to his various comments made over the past few months.