The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Joe Rogan Is a Classic Case of Fringe-Meets-Mainstream

Episode Date: February 26, 2022

As podcast host Joe Rogan's Spotify controversy continues, Trevor talks about Rogan's journey from niche entertainer to mainstream juggernaut and the problems that come along with it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Do you know it's actually happening to Joe Rogan? This is a classic case of fringe meets mainstream. That's what's happening to Joe Rogan. Because what happened here was, Joe Rogan was fringe. So he was like in his corner of the world doing his own thing, doing the, does it mean, like, I know this is like a weird concept, but like, okay, Jorogan was fringe. He was in the corner of the world doing his own thing,

with his friends, by the way, saying whatever shit they want to, yeah, blah, blah, then the podcast got bigger, got bigger, and it's still, blah, blah, blah, then it's, it's, it's still like, and even like, when it was huge of the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th of th of of of of of of of of of thrown of thronge of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of th... th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the world. the world. the world. the the world. the world. the the the the the throooooooooo thrown. throwne. And the thing with fringe is like you can do fringe as much as you want in your fringe corners, but then as soon as like people go like, we want to make you mainstream, now you get exposed to people who are like where most of society resides and most of society has like rules. I'll give an example, nudist colony, fringe. You can kill it in the nudest colonies.

Can have a great time? They'd be like, ah, Big Dave, my man, doing his thing. We love Big Dave. Big Dave, the greatest. And you can do your nudist colony, can get bigger, you can do all this shit. But like most of society is not existing in the nudist colony. We have like, the ist colony, you can get so caught up in the fact, because the other nudists are like, this is totally normal. This is great, do you know what I mean?

In fact, the day you even like grow a bush, they might be like, whoa, getting a little sensitive there, buddy. What's happening? They'll tell you that this going on with you. And then you now go, ah, shit, ah, man, Spotify paid me to walk down the streets. Because Spotify just looked at the numbers. They didn't consider whether or not the person was mainstream or not.

They just went, this person has a lot of people who listened to them. Then Spotify was like, we'll give you the money. Come and they didn't tho. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to to the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. the. the. the. the to. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the te. top. the the. the. top. top, come and do this thing, and then they didn't consider that the person was a rock star at a nudist camp, and then he came, and then now everyone else in the streets is like, yo, this person's dick is flying around. And then they're going back and be like, this person's been flying around with his dick, and now people don't know how to deal with it. It's the curse in the mainstream. Do you understand what I'm saying?

That's the curse of mainstream. It doesn't matter if you're a musician, doesn't matter if your person doesn't matter for your thing. It's like be careful. You make your thing in a corner and then when you come to the rest of society, the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their I've shed some lights on this situation. That's the funniest thing, by the way, with Spotify, is like, they're like, we don't want to silence Joe Rogan. We don't believe in silencing him. Take down those podcasts. Get rid of them. Just delete the episodes.

We don't believe in silence that shit. to silence cut it out. Shit, we don't believe that you should ever edit anything. Did you get that shit more? Do more of them. It's like 100. Do them all. It's almost going to get to the point where it's like, all the podcasts of Joe Rogan will be gone,

but Joe Rogan will still be on Spotify. And then people will be likethat the podcasts were the problem, but we do not believe in silencing Jorogan. We will be keeping Jorogan. But there's no podcast, yes, and that's not the point. We've decided it is safer to have Jorogin, but not have the podcast of Jorogne. And I think we can all agree that this is the optimal solution. But what about the artists? Hold on, I think I have a quarter in my pocket. Here you go, music artists. Don't go spend it all at once. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ears Edition. Subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and stream full episodes anytime

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