At least Joe ended his independent reign with one of the dumbest episodes he's ever put out. You put dense (who thinks he's S-M-R-T) with incredibly stupid space case, and you get the Rogan-Trussell episode. I made it about 50 minutes in (with tons of skipping) before I bailed from that thick stew of derpness those two were cooking. Woof!
A lot of this is early adoption issues and transition issues. I doubt we'll care as much this same time next year. Give it time.
It's $100 million, man. I'd take that deal even if they told me I could only have Tucker Carlson on as a guest.
i'll def care and keep the bolts screwed wherever possible (especially if content isn't re upped)
That's important, otherwise there's no pressure to maintain quality control.
Fears? Jordan? I don't see it. There are bigger boogeymen out there than Peterson.
Joe is the most popular podcaster in the world he could have gotten that deal from anyone. Spotify needs Joe more than Joe needs them. They’re the platform trying to make a name for themselves.
Oh, i agree. That's not how the left sees him. The Ree types literally want him dead.
"Ree types", sure, but people like Bret Weinstein and Sam Harris are left, and they're his pals.
Yes, and? I'm not sure what you're getting at. Are there threads wishing for the death of either of those two?
Which means that there are leftists who actually get along with him too.
That's not what I'm addressing.
My bad. Oh definitely. There are plenty of people even on the left who get along great with him. Why wouldn't any sane person? He just seems to be more specifically targeted than those names you mentioned by the more extreme types.
He could've gotten the deal from anyone, yet he didn't. He got it from Spotify. They had to have offered him way more than anyone else for him to take his shit off Youtube and Apple Podcasts. And because they offered an exorbitant amount that now has him financially secure for the rest of his life, he was probably willing to make some concessions such as not having certain guests. And again, I would absolutely do the same thing if I was him.
My greater underlying point is that if "normal" people don't like being overgeneralized that anything to the right of Marx is "alt-right" or "Nazi", then overgeneralizing about the paranoia and neuroticism of a certain group and making a blanket statement about "the left" doesn't help your case either. Peterson takes great pains to elaborate on his thoughts quite extensively to suss out every last bit of nuance, and is very specific when he calls out the failings of movements like post-modernism without overgeneralizing (usually). For the sake of proper discourse and accuracy, specificity is important.
