• @[email protected]
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    329 months ago

    He’s like the unfortunate result of Jerry Springer, Rush Limbaugh and Morton Downey Jr spreading idiocy and bullshit everywhere, setting the stage

    • @derf82
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      149 months ago

      Even before that, Rogan’s show is modeled off Coast to Coast AM, a show well known for pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.

      • @NOPper
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        189 months ago

        Coast to Coast at least made it fun.

        • Flying Squid
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          79 months ago

          Yeah, Art Bell was a kook, but he was also a legitimately nice guy. Rogan is an arrogant prick.

          • @postmateDumbass
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            39 months ago

            legitimately nice guy

            If only we could ask his ex wives.

            • Flying Squid
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              19 months ago

              Marriages can not work out even if you’re a nice person.

              • @postmateDumbass
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                19 months ago

                Just look into the circumstances

                I loved C2C, mostly in reruns sadly.

                And Art was awesome as a host and did a ton of good stuff in his life.

                But damn if how the wives died is not suspicious as fuck.

    • @raynethackery
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      99 months ago

      Morton Downey Jr

      I completely forgot about him.

        • Flying Squid
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          59 months ago

          I will give him credit for one thing- when he got lung cancer, he went on a huge apology tour for his promoting smoking, which is more than pretty much any conservative would do today.

          • @[email protected]
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            29 months ago

            I thought about that then I got mad all over again because of the “Now that it affects me, it’s important!” angle. But yeah, at least he was apologetic about that one thing and it would def be unthinkable any regressive would apologise about anything today.

            Rush Limbaugh (who coincidentally replaced Downey when Downey got fired from his job) took the “smoking is a-ok!” to his lung-cancerous grave

            • Flying Squid
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              29 months ago

              Oh yeah, it’s a very small amount of credit, but I will give it where it’s due. He was otherwise a colossal piece of shit.

      • @Mango
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        19 months ago

        Be a comedian.