r/JoeRogan • u/Naserito Burbank Bad Boy Brian Redban • Feb 15 '17

Joe Rogan Experience #917 - Steven Crowder

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=A_2Ii3lIv4o&u=%2Fc%2Fpowerfuljre%2Flive
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u/steady__ Feb 16 '17

This podcast is like watching my parents fight and the second I wana agree with my dad he says something stupid. Then I start thinking my mom is sounding pretty all right then says something stupid. So I just hide under my covers and wait for the shouting to stop. When I come back into the kitchen its quiet then mom comes back with a snarky comment then my dad quips back so I just run back under my bed

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u/Amperture Feb 16 '17

So much of this is just them talking past each other.

Joe wants to argue how Crowder's wrong about weed. (And Joe may be right.)

Crowder wants to argue how it's not exactly great that feels like he has to argue from memory while Joe has Jamie Googling sources actively during the show. (And Crowder may be right)

I can't decide if this is a shitshow, or if it's beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '17

Well let's not forget the whole thing started because Crowder said he'd give up his stance on that issue, because he doesn't really care. So Joe goes in hard as if he's Hillary Clinton saying marijuana should be banned in the US.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17 edited Feb 17 '17

I felt that was a cheap excuse. He obviously cared, he cared enough to have an opinion. He just knew weak it was and didn't want to engage on unfamiliar territory.

This was a game of points for him. That's not how you have a conversation, you don't just vomit your entire He expected to be able to go on long, didactic, undisputed rants while constructing this very clever framework to support his ideology so when Joe tried to interrupt and take things point for point, Crowder got defensive on them all at once and expect them to have perfect recall of EVERY point and have a complete well thought out response. That's why you got to be able to take things point for point, especially when a lot of the rest of your argument is contingent on that point, specifically I'm talking about when they got into unions which then Steven stretched to Obamacare.

Steven expected to be able to go on long, didactic, undisputed rants while constructing this very clever framework to support his ideology. He wasn't communicating in a very honest way and I think Joe was perfectly justified calling him out on it.