Joe Rogan Experience Review podcast - The JRE Review of Episode 1242 with Tim Pool

Episode Date: February 11, 2019

Tim Pool is a journalist and you tuber of news and current events. He’s a super knowledgeable guy who works 7 days a week to stay on top of the news cycle. His conversation with Joe is very fast paced and interesting. Lot’s more discussion of the Jack Dorsey podcast. Enjoy my review folks! Please email me with any suggestions and questions for future Reviews: [e-mail]

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Los enbases del verano Siempre van a la amarillo Hello there and welcome to another episode of the JRE review. Today I'm reviewing Joe Rogan's conversation with Tim Poole on podcast 1242. Temple is a journalist. He has a YouTube channel where he does like news updates and things and does a lot of videos all the time. I think he said that he does like multiple a day. Seven days a week, the guy is obsessed with what he does. And he is certainly a very smart guy. He has a ton of information and in this podcast with Joe, you're here that he almost has too much information to keep up with. It's very impressive kind of like his knowledge base

for news and information. It really is. And it was a great conversation. So let's start the review. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Welcome to the Joe Rogan Experience Review! Where each week I review every single episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. What more do you want? [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

So Tim was quite critical of Joe at the beginning of the episode and it was something that Joe discussed just that he didn't really like Rogan's conversation with Jack Dorsey. So once again, this is popping up. This conversation with the guy on Twitter is just gone crazy. And at first I thought Look, people calm down. It's just a podcast. But at the end of the day, a lot of people online, a lot of people in Joe's community of kind of like social media people, they really want to know what it takes to get people banned. And I guess it's hard to talk to the right people about this. So Joe had a unique opportunity because of kind of his platform

and how big his podcast is to talk to Jack and people just didn't feel like he grilled him and Tim was one of them. So this is fascinating and it's great that Joe again was able to recognize this and want to remedy it. Tim makes a good case for this on this podcast. So if you're interested, this is definitely the type of podcast you want to listen to. He makes the case that people look, people make a lot of money or some money or maybe

this is their job creating content online, possibly even, you know, having a Twitter account with a ton of followers. I mean, it's part of their brand and what they do. So in a sense, you can see it as somebody's job or a part of somebody's job, especially if you've got a lot of followers. But then you say a certain thing and all of a sudden you're banned. So what conversations can you get into? What dialogue can you start?

What's controversial? What isn't? What gets you banned bound what doesn't there needs to be some specific guidelines drawn out or at least this is how a Big group of those online users see it right um and and now I through these podcasts and these conversations that I'm hearing more and more about it's starting to make a a lot more sense to me. And I know that if I was in that position to where, let's say, most of my career was dictated by what YouTube and Twitter deem acceptable behaviors,

but, you know, I certainly want to know how this whole process of de-platforming was working, right? It makes sense. So Tim puts a good case forward for that, which I find very interesting. He said that Joe just really didn't push himself hard enough on that podcast with Jack. Joe was cool enough to kind of say, look, I blame myself in a lot of ways that didn't prepare well enough and he didn't realize what people were gonna think about this so much. So the real question is why people getting banned, you know, Alex Jones, that Milo, Gennopoulopagus, whatever the guy's name is, you know, people are getting banned and it seems like there's a bit of a left wing bias to this getting banned. I obviously prefer that to be a neither of bias with anything. News, newspaper, news channel or even like social media stuff but

there's gonna be one way or another to some degree, right? I mean, it just is. And, you know, how bad is it? So these guys try to point out over and over that conservatives are getting banned more than liberal sides of things, and that's kind of the dialogue. And, you know, it seems concerning. It just depends on how biased it is and over time, I guess, we'll figure that out. But some of these people especially look at Alex Jones or even... I don't really know what that Milo guy did, but the Alex Jones especially said some really offensive things. I mean, that's not so much partisan at all, it's like just disturbing. So, something needs to be done, you know? I mean, that's what I think.

Tim laid down an idea that I thought was quite interesting and it was kind of related to the pay gap and then the tax situation for income tax on the wealthy. And it was just kind of a newer idea that I'd not really considered or sold a side of but he gave basically like the two arguments so you have a more liberal argument when it comes to taxation so taxate the wealthy as much as you can and let people that don't make his much money not get his taxed as much so it kind of evens out across the board, right? To some degree, the wealthy will always make more.

But then there was the idea of even taxing over like 70% for the very wealthy. I mean, really bringing them down more, and to some idea, it's like getting to the point, well, you know, what is the end game of that? How far does that go before that stops? And the idea kind of is that it's insisting that everyone make the same thing, the same amount. So it's obviously a spectrum and this is like the worst, the very worst version of it. It's kind of like communist in thought,

is almost what he was laying out. Like the idea that everyone's gonna make the exact same amount of money no matter what effort you put it in. Then on the other end of the spectrum it's like okay well take the more republican less tax viewpoint and that is saying we don't tax the people that make a lot more money more. And you've probably heard that saying, where if you make over like 75,000 a year, any more money doesn't necessarily make you any happier. And it's kind of along the lines of like, that's a middle class. You raise a family, it's middle class,

you could live a good life going vacation, those sorts of things with that much money. But anything over that, if you say you made a hundred grand, you got twenty five thousand dollars a year to invest. And Tim was saying that extra money, that investment, is what you can constantly always put away, therefore getting richer and richer and richer and eventually being able to live off just that money and not in a sense having to work, like that's your retirement. So the other end of the spectrum creates a system where a lot of people don't have to work at all and they have most of the money, right?

So there's like the two worst ends of that spectrum and you've got to find somewhere in the middle for something that works for a society. I found that really fascinating. I've never really heard it in that way and was quite enlightening. Joe talks a little bit about problems with within this country, issues that we have in poor areas. Like he said, with more than willing to nation build, you know, after wars and things you know, things like cereal or just like helping other countries with things. But at the same time, I don't think Joe is saying we shouldn't help over there, but he's saying that's a lot of money.

Why don't we pump that into the poor neighborhoods and poor areas to help them? Because what's the best way to make America great is less losers, right? It just that alone sounds like Donald Trump, which cracks me up. But yeah, it's to make less losers. And the best way to stop them being losers is to give them opportunities that to succeed in tough areas and tough neighborhoods. So they need money for that, and they need help to get that done. And it's always like a dialogue that pops up in Joe's conversation and podcasts, which I really appreciate. I like the fact that he thinks about those sorts of things. I mean, let's be fair, we know this guy has a lot of money.

And it's easy just to think about all the next shit you're going to buy when you're super rich. But to take the time and think about people that struggle is never a bad thing to do. Joe talks a little bit about keeping up with current events and how difficult it is. I think the reason he brought it up on this podcast, I would say, is because Tim was so full of knowledge that Joe at times probably was like, shit, I didn't know that. But at the same time, he can't sit around, you know, 10 hours a day like Tim Cam, just

looking at current events and news and politics and things that are happening. He has the kind of, you know, outsource that in a way. And in fact, he kind of mentioned about Tim kind of, you know, teaching him or tutoring him on what's happening with current events. And that's probably a smart move for Joe. And Joe seems to do that. He kind of outsources his knowledge to the experts and goes to them when he needs it. That's a really good filtering system. If you thought of like a computer working hard, smart

computer is gonna do that. It's gonna just go and get the information it needs when it needs it and the exact answer. Now obviously he needs to trust these individuals that he goes to to know that they are gathering information in the right way but think of the people that Joe Rogan knows. So many smart people he doesn't need to really specialize in any area. He can just be like you know hey Tim what the hell is going on with this or hey Jordan Peterson what's happening here. Yeah it's really cool. Again they get back to Twitter and some of the problems with Twitter. One of the big ones is just how much hate is on that. I don't use Twitter

much I have before. I don't know how negative the comments get. I see it on YouTube and they're kind of out of control for things like that, but I don't know why all these people bother. Maybe it's like night good therapy. I've never tried talking a lot of shit online, maybe it feels good, I don't know. But it seems exhausting and it seems like it's gonna spill over into your regular life and then you start being a negative asshole there too, but I don't know, I haven't tried it. Maybe I'll try it today. But yeah, you have to kind of ignore those comments as what these guys are saying and just kind of work through the information But then on top of that, these slips, you know, that people have, whether it be a verbal slip, like someone's reading the news or maybe even doing a podcast and they say something fucked up

Or it be one online, you know, like Twitter or whatever social media that gets somebody banned. Again, what is the road to redemption? What is the path? Should there be a committee of people that analyze what happened and then decide whether someone's kind of guilty or innocent or whatever? I mean, it's the idea of giving people a chance. And then one thing that really hit me home is Tim's story at the end of the podcast.

Listen to the conversation with Joe to hear it all. I mean, I wouldn't want to, you know, I can't really do it justice, but it was just about meeting a homeless man that had been down on his luck. And then to follow up like once you know the story all I'll say about it is, you know, sometimes you get an, I live in L.A. area near Santa Monica

and there are a lot of homeless people there. And it's easy to just look at them all and say, well, you know, they drug abusers or all this and that, or, you know, but, you know, and to think, well, there's resources for them, they don't have to be out here. And if they really wanted to get jobs, you could be, these stories, like this dialogue, needs to constantly be evaluated, because you don't know why someone is in that situation.

You don't know how these people get out there. And it's entirely possible that some of them just had really awful luck, and they've even worked to try and remedy it it and it's just tough to get out of that. And I don't know, it's just a sad thing to think about. I didn't want to end the podcast on such a sad note, but it's a good part of their conversation and it made me think so, pay attention to it and see what you get out of it. But anyway, thanks a lot for listening guys.

I appreciate it. See you soon