<story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t even have to go deep into the archives to feel uncomfortable with this whole world&amp;#x27;s treatment of gender issues. Directly from this article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;At a long desk in the big main room sits an attractive nurse. She offers us an enhancer of B12 or NAD+, through a shot or an IV.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;I get a shot of NAD+, which is supposed to be good for energy and metabolism. NAD stands for Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, and I don’t know what the + is. (Actually, I don’t know what any of it is, but the nurse said she takes it, and if you saw this woman, you too would ask for a shot of whatever she’s on.)&lt;p&gt;What are we supposed to take away from this?  Is this nurse actually trained for this?  If so, isn&amp;#x27;t the author completely dismissing that training because the nurse is attractive?  If not, isn&amp;#x27;t Rogan basically just hiring a model to pump his guests full of unknown drugs? Neither option is great. And this was written by the VP of Communication for Substack and is approved by Rogan. This isn&amp;#x27;t some unauthorized look behind the scenes.  This is what they want to advertise. It just gives me the creeps.</text></item><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not going to bother digging up the clip cuz it&amp;#x27;s easy to find, but it pretty much tells you what you need to know about Rogan.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s him talking to Joe Diaz, where Diaz is bragging about how when he was the manager at Laugh Factory he wouldn&amp;#x27;t book female comics unless they sucked his dick. Rogan asks him how many women he did this to and Diaz says a dozen or something, and Rogan starts hyena laughing like it&amp;#x27;s the funniest thing he&amp;#x27;s ever heard.&lt;p&gt;Rogan gets some great guests on, but don&amp;#x27;t be fooled by his &amp;quot;aw schucks I&amp;#x27;m just a bro asking questions&amp;quot; act. He knows exactly what he&amp;#x27;s doing and he&amp;#x27;s a lot more predatory than his on camera character.&lt;p&gt;Something to consider before you associate your brand with him. Probably better to find an up and rising podcast.&lt;p&gt;Edit: freetime2 dug up the clip below and it&amp;#x27;s even worse than I recalled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterisP</author><text>Well no, the way I read is quite literal without anything misogynistic - if a person is saying that they personally take X to affect their body, then the appearance of their body is some (weak but still) evidence about what effect X has, and the decision of whether you want to imitate their actions is influenced by whether you want to look like they do, whether the results they&amp;#x27;re getting seem worth imitating. The author was apparently considering that personal experience as a user of that product (and the visible outcome) was more relevant than whatever some specialist would have read about it.&lt;p&gt;Like, for an example of the opposite gender, if someone you trust says they did a particular treatment to fix male pattern baldness, then it seems reasonable to put some weight in their personal experience and how their hair looks after the treatment, especially if you don&amp;#x27;t trust the official descriptions&amp;#x2F;PR&amp;#x2F;advertising claims, then even small amounts of anecdotal but real evidence might seem more valuable.</text></comment>
<story><title>Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience</title><url>https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>slg</author><text>You don&amp;#x27;t even have to go deep into the archives to feel uncomfortable with this whole world&amp;#x27;s treatment of gender issues. Directly from this article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;At a long desk in the big main room sits an attractive nurse. She offers us an enhancer of B12 or NAD+, through a shot or an IV.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;I get a shot of NAD+, which is supposed to be good for energy and metabolism. NAD stands for Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, and I don’t know what the + is. (Actually, I don’t know what any of it is, but the nurse said she takes it, and if you saw this woman, you too would ask for a shot of whatever she’s on.)&lt;p&gt;What are we supposed to take away from this?  Is this nurse actually trained for this?  If so, isn&amp;#x27;t the author completely dismissing that training because the nurse is attractive?  If not, isn&amp;#x27;t Rogan basically just hiring a model to pump his guests full of unknown drugs? Neither option is great. And this was written by the VP of Communication for Substack and is approved by Rogan. This isn&amp;#x27;t some unauthorized look behind the scenes.  This is what they want to advertise. It just gives me the creeps.</text></item><item><author>jasonwatkinspdx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not going to bother digging up the clip cuz it&amp;#x27;s easy to find, but it pretty much tells you what you need to know about Rogan.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s him talking to Joe Diaz, where Diaz is bragging about how when he was the manager at Laugh Factory he wouldn&amp;#x27;t book female comics unless they sucked his dick. Rogan asks him how many women he did this to and Diaz says a dozen or something, and Rogan starts hyena laughing like it&amp;#x27;s the funniest thing he&amp;#x27;s ever heard.&lt;p&gt;Rogan gets some great guests on, but don&amp;#x27;t be fooled by his &amp;quot;aw schucks I&amp;#x27;m just a bro asking questions&amp;quot; act. He knows exactly what he&amp;#x27;s doing and he&amp;#x27;s a lot more predatory than his on camera character.&lt;p&gt;Something to consider before you associate your brand with him. Probably better to find an up and rising podcast.&lt;p&gt;Edit: freetime2 dug up the clip below and it&amp;#x27;s even worse than I recalled.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Shank</author><text>&amp;gt;  If not, isn&amp;#x27;t Rogan basically just hiring a model to pump his guests full of unknown drugs?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is a coenzyme central to metabolism. Found in all living cells, NAD is called a dinucleotide because it consists of two nucleotides joined through their phosphate groups...NAD exists in two forms: an oxidized and reduced form, abbreviated as NAD+ and NADH (H for hydrogen), respectively. [0]&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s worth noting that NAD+ is well-known. Artificial supplementation I&amp;#x27;m not so sure about, but it&amp;#x27;s inside you already. I...somehow doubt they&amp;#x27;re just injecting raw NAD+ but I suppose it could be?&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleotide&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Nicotinamide_adenine_dinucleot...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>