Time travel

It's entirely possible

“What if we gave a renaissance man DMT? Imagine being a renaissance man seeing machine elves. Did they have DMT in the renaissance? Jamie, pull that up”

Somewhere, there is a compilation video of Theo Von entertaining himself by seeing what level of transparent ridiculous nonsense he can spout and still have Joe Rogan go along with it, and it generally works every single time.

In general I don't agree with Rogan hate. He has all kinds of people on, and sometimes they say some nonsense which he then gets blamed for, but he's mostly just letting them air out whatever they want to say. He even pushed back a little on Trump, told him that he didn't think that people in Europe rake their forests to prevent forest fires, that kind of thing. But if you're deliberately trying to lie to him, it's not hard to do.

Edit: Found a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SasSXNjgWhI

I greatly enjoy Theo's subtle nod of victory when he says everyone thinks owls can read, and Joe Rogan says, "Yeah..."

Rogan hate is on point. You think he did a good job pushing back on obvious Trump nonsense? LOL. He ended up endorsing the guy because Joe thought he was more honest than Tim Walz! What the fuck is that? Even good ol' Joe ain't really that dumb. He's a paid off hack.
- What? No, he definitely didn't do a good job pushing back on Trump. I said he pushed back a little.
  It's like you guys only have two characters in your internal mental puppet-show, and if I'm not the good puppet, I've got to go as the bad puppet. Just read the message, I said what I said the way I said it for a reason.
When your platform is as massive as rogan's, you have a responsibility not to cause harm through misinfo. He's worth hundreds of millions. He could have a full time fact-checking team instead of poor Jamie having to debunk the bullshit his guests spew. Even when he does push back, it's lukewarm and wishy washy. Like when he had crowder on and interviewed him about his anti-trans documentary, and the fucker claimed there were millions of children under 18 on hormone blockers. Jamie looked out up and the number was less than 1000 per year in the US. To which crowder replied that it was at least hundreds of thousands.
Also on the original topic, this lives rent free in my head:
- Joe's audience isn't there for fact finding. Hiring fact finders would cost more in ratings than it would in salaries. Joe's entire purpose in existing is to make facts seem boring and irrelevant.
- Like when he had crowder on and interviewed him about his anti-trans documentary, and the fucker claimed there were millions of children under 18 on hormone blockers. Jamie looked out up and the number was less than 1000 per year in the US.
  See, this is what I'm talking about. It sounds like you wanted him to get into an extended argument with Crowder, or kick him out of the studio, or something. I think it's okay if someone makes a claim, you on-the-spot look up the truth and tell your audience what the actual truth is, and then move on. I think people are capable to determine for themselves that it's an indication that Crowder is full of shit when that happens and start to incorporate it into their mental picture. He's chill enough about it that Crowder is willing to go on the show, but he's also not trying to be impartial about what the actual truth is. I can't off the top of my head think of any other place that would interview Crowder from a "neutral" point of view, but also, not let him get away with bullshit and fact-check him to his face in real time about it, not from an "opposing" guest, but from the official editorial voice.
  He could have a full time fact-checking team instead of poor Jamie having to debunk the bullshit his guests spew.
  This part, and the greentext about it, I'll pretty much agree with. It is damaging that Joe's wading into these complex topics and bringing no qualification whatsoever, which sometimes leads to awful fuck-ups like the Trump endorsement.
Honestly my favorite thing is watching Theo spew absolute bs and people believing him. My only experience with Rogan is select clips like that with Theo making him believe total nonsense, if only for a moment
- I think it's Theo's way of entertaining himself, and also checking whether the person he's talking to has a functioning brain in the conversation. He's been doing it to Rogan for years and as far as I know, Rogan has never passed the test.

I got five on it

I'd bet a tenner