When Donald Trump swept the 2024 election, a wave of podcasters and stand-up comedians openly backed his campaign. Since then, most of them have walked it back. Joe Rogan hasn’t. Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk made that point recently, calling out Rogan for what he described as a long pattern of convenient fence-sitting. “He’ll have … Read more
A deeply unsettling video has gone viral showing a self-described prophet named Kevin Leal tearing a page from the Bible and compelling a teenage boy to eat it during a live church service. In the footage, Leal instructs the teen to turn to the Book of Proverbs before ripping out a page and handing it … Read more
During Chris Williamson’s recent podcast episode featuring neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, comedian Tom Segura, and comedian Matt McCusker, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen became a major topic of discussion when the group turned to the online trend known as “r*tardmaxxing.” Huberman introduced Andreessen while explaining the origins of the trend. “There’s looksmaxxing, then there’s a guy who … Read more
At a time when virtually every transaction, movement, and communication is logged by some platform or another, David Anthony Burke (popularly known as d4vd) allegedly left a paper trail so thorough that prosecutors now have approximately 40 terabytes of digital evidence to work with. From food delivery apps to Amazon orders placed under a fake … Read more
The hosts of the podcast Decoding the Gurus recently criticized what they see as one of the defining contradictions of the current political moment: figures like Joe Rogan and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being elevated as voices on health and science within the Trump administration while, at the same time, the administration cuts away at … Read more
Eric Weinstein made headlines during a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience after comparing himself to convicted trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, claiming the two were drawn to the same intellectual pursuits. During a lengthy and often meandering discussion, Weinstein told Rogan that Epstein had essentially been “mirroring” his life for decades. “Jeff Epstein has been … Read more
A Turkish YouTuber and former rapper has been sentenced to 45,376 years and 6 months in prison after convincing over 100,000 people to invest real money into virtual livestock inside a mobile game. Mehmet Aydın, who uploaded rap music online under the name “Ego Man,” launched a platform called Farm Bank in 2016. The app … Read more
The Make America Healthy Again movement appears to be collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. The Trump administration has authorized the continued use of atrazine, a cancer-causing pesticide banned in more than 60 countries. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man appointed to lead the nation’s health agenda, has said absolutely nothing about it. … Read more
Comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon did not hold back when he sat down with Piers Morgan in London, delivering a criticism of Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions and what they mean for the political movement that helped put him back in the White House. Dillon, who hosts one of the most widely followed podcasts in … Read more
During a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, host Joe Rogan and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen pushed back against what Rogan described as a “weird” narrative surrounding billionaires and wealth creation in America. The discussion became more pointed when Rogan referenced comments from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about wealth inequality and billionaires. “I literally heard AOC … Read more
