Eating Their Own

 A little backstory: Back in the day, I really enjoyed NewsRadio. It was a great ensemble cast, and featured one of the earliest appearances of one Joe Rogan. You may have heard of Mister Rogan. He of the hyper-popular podcast that bears his name. The hyper-popular podcast that was the reason for Neil Young and a number of his musician friends to pack up their tunes and flee Spotify. Back when COVID was raging and they hyper-popular podcast was sowing seeds of doubt about vaccines. 

Some might argue that they hyper-popular podcast was killing people. 

Joe Rogan and his font of disinformation was killing people. 

Who would say such a thing? Well, I suppose for the sake of this argument, I am.

Now Joe Rogan has pushed his conservative libertarian views into a corner with Smokey Bear's least favorite human, Robert Kennedy Jr. If ever two humans deserved one another, this is a match made in (checks notes) a rest stop on the Taconic State Parkway. One cannot help but imagine that Roseanne Barr was also involved. Two of these people got their start in standup comedy. I leave it to you to decide among yourselves which two. 

But, of course now that this mild bit of endorsement has passed, the Emperor who thankfully has remained clothed is not pleased. The adjudicated rapist and convicted felon who insists on continuing to run for president just to make things "interesting" is displeased. He was certain that he had Joe Rogan and his pointy-headed followers squarely in his camp. It would seem that they were looking for a guy who can not only spout made-up nonsense about the evils of vaccines but also carry a dead bear around in his van after a day of falconry. Which means that the most orange of those mentioned so far in this bizarre soap opera has the MAGAt in Chief wondering, “It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring??? MAGA2024.”

See, besides all that podcast silliness and a widely panned new "comedy special" on Netflix, Joe Rogan is a fixture behind the microphone announcing Ultimate Fighting Championship matches. And the head of the UFC, Dana White, happens to be the guy who introduced the twice impeached former "president" at the Republican National Convention. 

Which begs the question: Will this most recent Joe Rogan imbroglio split the UFC fanbase vote? 

Follow-up: Will anyone care? 

Stay tuned.