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Your evening longread: The fans who think Joe Rogan is an underground star

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Joe Rogan

He’s one of Spotify’s biggest stars – and makes a handsome paycheck – so why do his fans think Joe Rogan is underground?

(Read on the New York Times, approx 21 mins reading time)

His podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is effectively a series of wandering conversations, often over whiskey and weed, on topics including but not limited to: comedy, cage-fighting, psychedelics, quantum mechanics and the political excesses of the left. The show was licensed to Spotify last year in an estimated $100 million deal, boosted by a conceit that can at times seem self-fulfilling: The host is dangerous, at least in the way that comedians like to be dangerous. He should probably not be taken at face value, except when he should, and the discerning listener should be trusted to tell the difference.

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