Einstein find me the Leafs hockey game as he retrieve his remote from his mouth
- dmnted

LOL

You have never dealt with old people and technology, have you?
- Atomic Wedgie

God bless r/oldpeoplefacebook

Yup, but he tainted it all and stole Hank's title.
Sad part is, he was really good before the steroids, he may not have beating Hank's record but I think he would still made a good case for the HOF.

Ah well.
- Fakepartofme

The hypocritical parts of that are that McGwire beating Maris or Bonds beating McGwire gave baseball back some legitimacy. People _cared_ while that stuff was happening. Baseball had lost a lot of fans and a lot of driving interest after that lockout in the . . .mid-90s, right? - but those stories drew people back in. I'm not saying baseball wouldn't eventually have recovered, but I honestly believe that those stories brought a lot more people back to the game and had them watching and paying attention.

Flagged.
- Scabeh

you were flagging it eh and now you are done.

nice

The hypocritical parts of that are that McGwire beating Maris or Bonds beating McGwire gave baseball back some legitimacy. People _cared_ while that stuff was happening. Baseball had lost a lot of fans and a lot of driving interest after that lockout in the . . .mid-90s, right? - but those stories drew people back in. I'm not saying baseball wouldn't eventually have recovered, but I honestly believe that those stories brought a lot more people back to the game and had them watching and paying attention.
- Monkeypunk

they ruined the game by striking, then they saved the game by cheating. Hooray!!

i have a Twitter ID. Havent logged in and looked at my feed, or whatever, in years. 8m followers on twitter does not equate to the people actively listening to his podcast.

of those 8m followers, Id bet a very small portion saw any correction he put on twitter. nearly every person that tuned into that podcast heard what he had to say there.
- prock

You think more people listened to the Josh Zepps JRE podcast than read Rogan's tweets? Ridiculous.

Joe Rogan has 8M followers on Twitter. That's orders of magnitude more viewers than Joe had for that interview with Josh. Your assertion that the damage done by that particular podcast dwarfs that single tweet is unfalsifiable and likely total nonsense.

Joe corrected his views based on new information. He pivoted in front of 8M followers and however many countless retweets that were spawned off of that. This should be celebrated: he changed his (frank)ing mind, sucked up his ego, and tweeted about it.

Having said that, whenever I hear someone start a sentence with "the problem with
- mjones242[so and so]" I know exactly the type of narrative that is being pushed: "this speech is too dangerous!!!". Yeah, that's not how the principles of free speech work, bro.

The ACLU defended neo-Nazis in Skokie years ago. Doesn't mean they supported those neo-Nazis and it sure as hell didn't result in a spike of neo-Nazi support after the fact. Censoring "problematic" speech and expression is problematic in and of itself.

I don't agree with a lot of what Joe says but I also don't agree lockstep with anyone. Doesn't mean I think that person, whom I disagree with, should be censored or deplatformed.

Let's be perfectly clear here:

Neither I, nor anyone else here, ever said that Joe Rogan needs to be censored or deplatformed.

So you can take your "Wedgie is pro-censorship" argument and cram it up your ass.

I clearly stated that Rogan is unethical, dangerous, and more interested in money than in doing the right thing.

You want to argue the bolded statement above, come at me, bro.

And by the way, nowhere in the Twitter thread you linked does Rogan actually say that he was wrong, and that not getting the vax poses a greater risk of myocarditis for children than getting covid.

It's just so funny as time goes on and billions of people have had the vaccine and we're all fine, as we all have been our entire lives taking many vaccines for many generations.
- Zezel

*had a stroke from the Moderna vax*

We have all sorts of devices set up. I love it. I can be chopping chicken and say, "Hey Google, play my music." and it will play from a list of songs I like. I can be doing the same and it starts to get dark and ask it to turn on the kitchen lights, to dim to the family room to 40%, to dim the dining room, to turn off all lights as I'm going to bed. We had the Christmas tree and all the lights setup as a device, so we could say, "Hey Google, turn on Christmas." and all the lights would come on.

Some of these things are very useful. Some aren't. They show in the commercials people cooking from a recipe on a screen, but that's stupid and useless. Most of the time the good recipes aren't found through a verbal search and have to be manually found. I have used the Google Assistant to stream NHL.com and watch hockey if I'm doing something in another room without a TV.

The point is that there are a lot of reasons to use these things; they are convenient.
- Monkeypunk

Im sure it has its conveniences, no doubt. I guess I dont mind simply walking to the light switch, pushing a button to turn on music or tv. I gotta get my steps in LOL.
Searching for show or specific channel would be convenient though. I believe Rogers/bell has a remote you talk into or something...ive seen some tv's with it as well.

Heck I still like to read from books and not a kindle. Although a kindle (or similar device) would save so much space. lol

When the release of a compressor is set poorly and there's audible unnatural changes in the level of the audio as a result
- TheMussel

I'm a huge music fan and love spotify but my ear doesn't taste the difference. Audiophile level sound is lost on me, and I'm kind of grateful for that.

The hypocritical parts of that are that McGwire beating Maris or Bonds beating McGwire gave baseball back some legitimacy. People _cared_ while that stuff was happening. Baseball had lost a lot of fans and a lot of driving interest after that lockout in the . . .mid-90s, right? - but those stories drew people back in. I'm not saying baseball wouldn't eventually have recovered, but I honestly believe that those stories brought a lot more people back to the game and had them watching and paying attention.
- Monkeypunk

Oh for sure, the homerun race was all people talked about at the time.

*had a stroke from the Moderna vax*
- AdamFrench

The point about vaccine risk stands though, by far. Glad you're okay.

The hypocritical parts of that are that McGwire beating Maris or Bonds beating McGwire gave baseball back some legitimacy. People _cared_ while that stuff was happening. Baseball had lost a lot of fans and a lot of driving interest after that lockout in the . . .mid-90s, right? - but those stories drew people back in. I'm not saying baseball wouldn't eventually have recovered, but I honestly believe that those stories brought a lot more people back to the game and had them watching and paying attention.
- Monkeypunk

What drove me absolutely nuts, immediately post-strike, was how baseball hyped the Cal Ripken Jr. ironman streak, and the media happily echoed that crap.

"He saved baseball."

It was a meaningless record, and Ripken was a douchebag.

*had a stroke from the Moderna vax*
- AdamFrench

I'm guessing that 3rd dose is not coming eh?

Let's be perfectly clear here:

Neither I, nor anyone else here, ever said that Joe Rogan needs to be censored or deplatformed.

So you can take your "Wedgie is pro-censorship" argument and cram it up your ass.

I clearly stated that Rogan is unethical, dangerous, and more interested in money than in doing the right thing.

You want to argue the bolded statement above, come at me, bro.

And by the way, nowhere in the Twitter thread you linked does Rogan actually say that he was wrong, and that not getting the vax poses a greater risk of myocarditis for children than getting covid.
- Atomic Wedgie

The initial topic was very specifically about Neil Young putting an ultimatum to cancel him or Joe Rogan from Spotify.

The constant narrative about someone being "dangerous" and "spreading misinformation" tacitly reeks of the need for censorship. You can argue that you're not about censorship or cancel culture but I've read enough of your posts to know what you are about, Wedgie. Which is why I'm "coming at you, bro". Also, I'll make my arguments based on whatever I want to -- it's up to you whether you want to respond, or not.

And btw, Joe did admit he was wrong and "confused" and that he "stumbled":

If anyone was going to make me look dumb on the podcast I’m glad it’s Josh Zepps, because I love him, and he’s awesome.
- Joe Rogan

And:

That video is cringey, but it’s what happens when you stumble in a long form podcast when you didn’t know a subject was going to come up and you wing it."

Obviously I have no idea what is right, but the article I posted was what I was referring to. I’m sure I’ll stumble again in the future, but I honestly do my best to get things correct.
- Joe Rogan

That's an admission of fault.

so that would eliminate Chariot if its accurate..since he is a UFA and not good
- senstroll

Thank (frank)

The initial topic was very specifically about Neil Young putting an ultimatum to cancel him or Joe Rogan from Spotify.

The constant narrative about someone being "dangerous" and "spreading misinformation" tacitly reeks of the need for censorship. You can argue that you're not about censorship or cancel culture but I've read enough of your posts to know what you are about, Wedgie. Which is why I'm "coming at you, bro". Also, I'll make my arguments based on whatever I want to -- it's up to you whether you want to respond, or not.

And btw, Joe did admit he was wrong and "confused" and that he "stumbled":

And:


That's an admission of fault.
- mjones242

the one thing I will say is that I am on twitter (a lot) and I did not see these admissions... I have never watched his podcast ...but I have seen lots and lots of clips from him on twitter.

so you dont have to watch his podcast to be hit with lots of his cringy moments..they get around many other ways

I'm guessing that 3rd dose is not coming eh?
- Scabeh

Medical exemption.

The initial topic was very specifically about Neil Young putting an ultimatum to cancel him or Joe Rogan from Spotify.

The constant narrative about someone being "dangerous" and "spreading misinformation" tacitly reeks of the need for censorship. You can argue that you're not about censorship or cancel culture but I've read enough of your posts to know what you are about, Wedgie. Which is why I'm "coming at you, bro". Also, I'll make my arguments based on whatever I want to -- it's up to you whether you want to respond, or not.

And btw, Joe did admit he was wrong and "confused" and that he "stumbled":

And:


That's an admission of fault.
- mjones242

The only person who is arguing for curtailing of free speech here is you.

Neil Young is perfectly within his rights to decide what he wants to do with his intellectual property, and you seem to have a problem with it.

As for your statement that Joe Rogan has admitted he was wrong, you're simply incorrect here.

Of all the people to worship as a false idol, why would you pick a former co-star of Talk Radio?

It's true what people say: Joe Rogan is the Gwenyth Paltrow for bros.

the one thing I will say is that I am on twitter (a lot) and I did not see these admissions... I have never watched his podcast ...but I have seen lots and lots of clips from him on twitter.

so you dont have to watch his podcast to be hit with lots of his cringy moments..they get around many other ways
- senstroll

Cringy moments from uncensored 3 hour conversations with different people of all different stripes every day. Weird. I thought he would be flawless and kill any and everybody I hate with a sword.

the one thing I will say is that I am on twitter (a lot) and I did not see these admissions... I have never watched his podcast ...but I have seen lots and lots of clips from him on twitter.

so you dont have to watch his podcast to be hit with lots of his cringy moments..they get around many other ways
- senstroll

Sure, and lots and lots of those clips disparage him for his controversial takes. You think champions of Joe Rogan were parading that Josh Zepps moment on Twitter?

FFS, he (Joe Rogan) retweeted a tweet from an anti-vaxx nutjob on Jan 23rd about bullpoop, factually incorrect risks of myocarditis and kids, and he has left it up on his Twitter feed.

Cringy moments from uncensored 3 hour conversations with different people of all different stripes every day. Weird. I thought he would be flawless and kill any and everybody I hate with a sword.
- AdamFrench

not sure what that matters to this... his nonsense gets around to many many millions more than his podcast followers is the point.

Sure, and lots and lots of those clips disparage him for his controversial takes. You think champions of Joe Rogan were parading that Josh Zepps moment on Twitter?
- mjones242

there are just as many clips of him put out there that are using it to further the nonsense and false poop not just disparage.

The only person who is arguing for curtailing of free speech here is you.

Neil Young is perfectly within his rights to decide what he wants to do with his intellectual property, and you seem to have a problem with it.

As for your statement that Joe Rogan has admitted he was wrong, you're simply incorrect here.

Of all the people to worship as a false idol, why would you pick a former co-star of Talk Radio?

It's true what people say: Joe Rogan is the Gwenyth Paltrow for bros.
- Atomic Wedgie

I mean, yeah, youre right, but honestly, if liberal minded and conservative minded people end up dividing and putting their content on different platforms, that, in my opinion, only makes things worse.

Quite a bit of where they are in the US, I think traces back to removing the Fairness Doctrine. Its what really led to the rise of Faux being hardcore right wing, and CNN being hardcore left wing. When you put conservative people in a completely conservative echo chamber, and vice versa with liberals, it really serves to further divide them, and completely surround people with "news", true or not, with a completely biased slant.

I get that he might not want to be associated with Rogans podcast, but boycotting may end up causing more harm than good.

definitely his choice though.